March - April 2017 Film Guide

MARCH - APRIL 2017 LIVE EVENTS LIVE SCREENINGS FILM CAFÉ BAR EXHIBITIONS EDUCATION BUSINESS MEMBERSHIP PARTICIPATION

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MONDAY 20 6.00, WEDNESDAY 22 2.30

BEST (12A)

DIRECTOR: Daniel Gordon STARRING: George Best, Angie Best, Paddy Crerand,

Mike Summerbee UK, 2017, 1 hour 32 minutes

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Though he was little more than a teenager, George Best’s skill and exuberance inspired Manchester United to win league titles and lift the European Cup for the first time. Dubbed ‘El Beatle’ at the height of Beatle-mania, George, a shy kid from Belfast, became one of football’s first global celebrities.

MONDAY 13 6.00, TUESDAY 14 8.15, WEDNESDAY 15 11.00

GOLD (15)

DIRECTOR: Stephen Gaghan STARRING: Matthew McConaughey, Edgar Ramirez, Bryce Dallas Howard USA, 2017, 2 hours

Down-on-his-luck Kenny has been a miner all his life, his company is failing, he’s drinking, but he’s determined to have one last shot at the big time.

Pawning his long-suffering wife’s jewellery Kenny heads off to Indonesia to find a once famous, now equally desperate geologist. Together they trek deep into the jungle in search of gold.

MONDAY 20 8.00 MONDAY 13 8.30, TUESDAY 14 6.00, WEDNESDAY 15 2.30

T2 TRAINSPOTTING (18) DIRECTOR: Danny Boyle STARRING: Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner UK, 2017, 1 hour 57 minutes

Renton returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him - Spud, Sick Boy, and Begbie. Other old friends are waiting too sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger.

THE YOUNG OFFENDERS (15) DIRECTOR: Paul Foott

Winner Best Irish Feature Film Galway Film Festival 2016

STARRING: Alex Murphy, Chris Walley, Hilary Rose

Ireland, 2016, 1 hour 23 minutes

Two Cork teenagers, Conor & Jock decide to cycle to the coast to make their fortune. Their plan should be idiot-proof, but... On stolen bikes with the obsessional Sergeant Healy in hot pursuit these two lovable eejits fall into all sorts of trouble. A raucous riot of deadpan dopiness and knockabout slapstick from start to finish.

SATURDAY 25 2.30, MONDAY 27 6.00, TUESDAY 28 8.15, WEDNESDAY 29 6.00

20TH CENTURY WOMEN (15) DIRECTOR: Mike Mills STARRING: Elle Fanning, Annette Bening,

Billy Crudup, Greta Gerwig USA, 2017, 1 hour 58 minutes

Nominated at Golden Globes for Best Actress and Best Film

California, 1979, feminist single mum Dorothea decides to enlist her young tenants - a quirky punk photographer, a mellow handyman and her son’s shrewd best friend – to teach her teenage son, Jamie how to become a man.

APRIL SATURDAY 1 11.00

THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE (U) DIRECTOR: Chris McKayi

WITH THE VOICES OF: Ralph Fiennes, Jenny Slate,

Rosario Dawson, Mariah Carey USA, 2017, 1 hour 44 minutes

While Batman sulks in his Batcave his disappointed butler, Alfred, tries to get him to take a greater interest in raising his adopted son, Robin. Meanwhile there are big changes brewing in Gotham, and if he wants to save the city from The Joker’s hostile takeover, Batman may have to drop the lone vigilante thing, try to work with others and maybe, just maybe, learn to lighten up.

COURTYARD FAMILY SATURDAYS Free pre-film activity - Create your own superhero AD MONDAY 27 8.30, TUESDAY 28 6.00 WEDNESDAY 29 8.30

BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK (15)

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DIRECTOR: Ang Lee STARRING: Joe Alwyn, Garrett Hedlund,

Arturo Castro, Kristen Stewart USA, 2017, 1 hour 53 minutes

19-year-old private, Billy Lynn becomes a hero after a harrowing Iraq battle. Along with his fellow soldiers in Bravo Squad, Billy Lynn is brought home temporarily for a victory tour. Through flashbacks, culminating at the spectacular halftime show of the Thanksgiving Day football game, we see what really happened to the boys in Bravo Squad. “a highly original, heartfelt, and engrossing story.” Variety

SATURDAY 8 5.30, MONDAY 10 11.00, 7.15, TUESDAY 11 2.30

HIDDEN FIGURES (PG) DIRECTOR: Theodore Melfi STARRING: Octavia Spencer, Taraji P. Henson, Janelle Monáe

USA, 2016, 2 hours 7 minutes

APRIL SATURDAY 1 2.30 WEDNESDAY 5 7.45

FENCES (12A)

Nominated for Golden Globes for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actor

DIRECTOR: Denzel Washington STARRING: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Mykelti Williamson USA, 2016, 2 hours 19 minutes

Nominated at Golden Globes for Best Supporting Actress and Best Music

The incredible true story of three brilliant African-American women who provided the brains needed to launch America’s first successful space mission.

Their talent and determination triumphs over an unfair system that looks down on them for being both black and female. Feel-good history set against 1960s America at a time of change, this is an intriguing tale told through bold strokes, sparkling performances, and an infectiously buoyant vibe.

Frustrated father Troy is not a particularly likeable man struggling through hard times and everyday racism while strictly laying down the law to his family. All the while his long-suffering wife, Rose remains ever loyal. Based on a Pulitzer Prize winning play this is an actor’s showcase above all else. Full of lively, funny dialogue, Washington gives a powerhouse performance as an ageing patriarch undone by his pride, stupidity and bitterness. While Davis is stunningly good as bullied, heart-broken Rose whose strength holds the family together. “an aching, lyrical, performance-driven masterpiece” Village Voice

SATURDAY 8 8.00, TUESDAY 11 11.00 WEDNESDAY 5 2.30, 6.00

KRISHA (15)

DIRECTOR: Trey Edward Shults STARRING: Krisha Fairchild, Robyn Fairchild, Bill Wise USA, 2016, 1 hour 20 minutes

A recovering addict Krisha returns for Thanksgiving dinner after ten years away from her family who greet her with a mixture of warmth and wariness.

A palpable unease permeates the air as Krisha’s attempts at reconciliation are re-buffed and past demons threaten to ruin the festivities.

THE INNOCENTS (15) DIRECTOR: Anne Fontaine STARRING: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza France/Poland, 2016, 1 hour 55 minutes, subtitles

1945, Poland, deep mid-winter, young French nurse Mathilde is brought to an isolated convent where seven nuns are pregnant. Obliged to keep the whole affair secret Mathilde risks her position to help them in an act of female solidarity. What follows is a struggle between belief, shattered faith, trust in God’s love and the ‘realities of life’ in a brutal world. “ fervently and strongly performed.” Guardian

APRIL SATURDAY 15 11.00, TUESDAY 18 2.30, WEDNESDAY 19 11.00, THURSDAY 20 11.00

SING (U)

DIRECTOR: Garth Jennings WITH THE VOICES OF: Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson USA, 2016, 1 hour 48 minutes

Nominated at Golden Globes for Best Animated Film and Best Song

Buster Moon, a dapper koala presides over a once-grand theatre that has fallen on hard times. An eternal, some might even say delusional optimist Buster will do anything to save his theatre.

So he decides to produce the world’s greatest singing competition. Cue cute wacky animals revealing their reality-style quirky life stories

b efore belting COURTYARD FAMILY SATURDAYS their hearts out.

Saturday 15 @11am Free pre-film activity - Make a Microphone

SATURDAY 15 2.30, 8.15, TUESDAY 18 6.00, THURSDAY 20 2.30

VICEROY’S HOUSE (12A)

DIRECTOR: Gurinder Chadha STARRING: Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon, Simon Callow, Om Puri UK/India, 2016, 1 hour 46 minutes

In 1947, after 300 years, that rule was coming to an end. Lord Mountbatten, great grandson of Queen Victoria, assumes the post of the last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people. Like Downton Abbey and Gosford Park, upstairs lives Mountbatten and his family. Downstairs live their 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants. Conflict erupts as India’s political elite - Nehru, Jinnah and Gandhi wrangle over the birth of independent India.

SATURDAY 15 6.00, TUESDAY 18 11.00, WEDNESDAY 19 8.15

THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES (12A TBC) DIRECTOR: Roger Goldby STARRING: Joan Collins, Pauline Collins, Franco Nero UK, 2017, 1 hour 52 minutes tbc

Determined to gate crash her ex-lover’s funeral former Hollywood siren Helen escapes her London retirement home with the help of Priscilla, a repressed English housewife stuck in a bad marriage.

In a race to get to the funeral on time, they pool their limited resources and hit the road to glamorous French hideaway Ile-de-Re. Travelling by coach, ferry, car and foot they become entangled in a love triangle with a reclusive Italian painter (Nero) along the way.

TUESDAY 18 8.15

TAXI DRIVER (18)

DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese STARRING: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel USA, 1976, 1 hour 54 minutes

Haunted, insomniac Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle prowls the seedy streets of nighttime New York, a taxi driver with ample opportunity to reflect on the wickedness of the world. The lonely Bickle becomes a man on a mission to save twelve-year-old prostitute, Iris and do whatever it takes to make the world a better place “Taxi Driver is as powerful and painful as ever.” Time Out “One of the best and most powerful of all films.”

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-TimesOut

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Winner Palme d’Or Cannes Film Festival 1976

MONDAY 24 6.00, TUESDAY 25 8.15

ELLE (15 TBC) DIRECTOR: Paul Verhoeven STARRING: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny France/Germany/Belgium, 2016, 2 hours 10 minutes, subtitles

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A QUIET PASSION (12A) DB

DIRECTOR: Terence Davies

Nominated for Golden Globes for Best Actress and Best Foreign Language Film

When Michele resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious, thrilling game of cat and mouse. Venturing where few filmmakers dare, Verhoeven (Basic Instinct) explores his recurrent themes of power and domination afresh, threading sexual intrigue with knife-edged danger, punctuated by occasional unexpected, uneasy humour.

STARRING: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine

UK/Belgium, 2016, 2 hours 5 minutes

A series of carefully poised dramatic tableaux illuminate the life of the independent-minded, overly sensitive poet from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist. Outwardly, she may have seemed prim and self-effacing. But she was in fact a fiery, passionate figure who questioned every aspect of the patriarchal society in which she lived.

HEREFORDSHIRE CULTRAL PARTNERSHIP NETWORKING EVENT: MONDAY 20 FEBRUARY 6.00pm MONDAY 24 11.00, TUESDAY 25 2.30, 6.00

THE SENSE OF AN ENDING (15 TBC) DIRECTOR: Ritesh Batra

STARRING: Charlotte Rampling, Jim Broadbent,

Emily Mortimer UK, 2017, 1 hour 48 minutes

Ordinary bloke Tony Webster leads a quiet, reclusive existence until he is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his entire life. Long buried secrets from his past force him to face the flawed memories of his younger self, the truth about his first love and the devastating consequences of decisions he made a lifetime ago. A mature reflection on life, love, ageing, memory and regret superbly realised by an all-star British cast.

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MICHELANGELO: LOVE AND DEATH

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BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL FRIDAY 24 FEBRUARY TO SUNDAY 12 MARCH Borderlines, now one of Britain’s largest film festivals, and as resolutely rural as ever, is 15 years-old. Come join the celebrations and revel in cinema to sharpen the wit and quicken the senses. Among many highlights are a focus on women directors in world cinema, and two new Cannes prize-winners where drama takes centre stage: The Salesman from Iranian director, Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Past) and Xavier’s Dolan’s (Mommy) It’s Only the End of the World.

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