The Courtyard Film Guide: July 2023

July 2023

Chevalier

Asteroid City

Indiana Jones

Mission Impossible

welcome!

Summer is finally here and the blockbusters are coming with it! Both the Indiana Jones and Mission Impossible franchises are dominating our screens this July before we make way for Oppenheimer and Barbie in August. First up though we’ve got Asteroid City (cover) starring Tom Hanks and Scarlett Johansson.

We also have a few special events this month with a live performance from Orchestra of the Swan ahead of Chevalier, and a Q&A following Gloucestershire based Inland

“If you prefer your indie flicks, be sure to check out Small, Slow but Steady, Hello, Bookstore and Medusa Deluxe!” - Ethan, Film Programming Assistant

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Tickets £8/£7.50 Concession

Under 16’s £6

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Audio Description Available

Check at Box O ce or online for the latest available Audio Described films.

Subtitles

Films which have either a HOH captioned screening or are in a foreign language with English subtitles.

June

Fri 23 11am, Sat 24 11am (Subs), Mon 26 2.30pm, Tue 27 11am, Wed 28 4.30pm, Thu 29 4.30pm

The Little Mermaid (PG)

USA, 2hr 15min

Director: Rob Marshall

Stars: Halle Bailey, Melissa McCarthy

We’re going ‘Under the Sea’ this June to visit Ariel, Flounder and Sebastian. A young mermaid makes a deal with a sea witch to trade her beautiful voice for human legs.

June

Good News!

We’ve removed the £1.50 transaction fee from our cinema events.

Breakfast Movies

11am films Monday to Friday include a pre-film pastry & tea or co ee.

Tickets £8.

Relaxed Screening

Screenings with raised lighting, lowered volume and a relaxed area.

Film Fanatics

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Sat 24 2.30pm, Mon 26 5.15pm, Tue 27 7.30pm (Subs), Wed 28 2pm, Thu 29 11am & 7.45pm

Air (15)

USA, 1hr 51min

Director: Ben A eck (Argo)

Stars: Matt Damon, Ben A eck, Viola Davis, Jason Bateman, Chris Tucker

Based on true events as Sonny Vaccaro and Nike pursue basketball rookie Michael Jordan, creating a partnership that revolutionizes the world of sports and contemporary culture.

June

Fri 30 2.30pm & 7.45pm

ASteroid City (12A)

USA, 1hr 44min

Director: Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)

Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Je rey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Steve Carell, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie

Following our Wes-terday season, we bring the latest feature from Wes Anderson, with yet another impressive cast list! World-changing events spectacularly disrupt the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention in an American desert town circa 1955. With Anderson’s signature wit and stunning cinematography, Asteroid City is shaping up to be the comedy event of the summer!

If you enjoyed our Wes-terday season and are planning on seeing Asteroid City, why not also check out our screening of Fantastic Mr. Fox, Anderson’s much loved Roald Dahl adaptation. See the back page for more information.

June

July Sat 1 5pm (The Swan), Mon 3 5.15pm, Thu 6 11am, Mon 10 11am & 7.30pm, Tue 11 5.15pm (Subs), Wed 12 5.15pm, Thu 13 5.15pm

Chevalier (12A)

USA, 1hr 47min

Based on the true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, who rises to heights in French society as a composer before an ill-fated love a air.

Why not attend our Saturday 1 July, 5pm performance which will be introduced by a performance from Orchestra of the Swan musicians performing an 18th century ensemble.

June Fri 30 5.30pm

July

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story (12A)

UK, 1hr 31min

Director: Barnaby Thompson

An exploration of Noel Coward’s expansive career which features credits across the stage and screen, including Brief Encounter, Blithe Spirit, and Private Lives.

“Barnaby Thompson’s well-researched documentary highlights the contradictions of the sparkling playwright’s life”

- Wendy Ide, The Guardian

July

Pretty Red Dress (15)

UK, 1hr 50min

Stars: Natey Jones, Alexandra Burke

The story of Travis, Candice and their daughter, Kenisha, a family tested to their limit when Travis, fresh out of jail, is found wearing a dress by his partner. The startling discovery jeopardises the family’s relationships. Starring X-Factor winner Alexandra Burke in her first big-screen appearance.

July

Wed 12 11am, Mon 17 2.30pm, Tue 18 11am

A Clever WOman (15)

UK, 1hr 28min

Director: Jon Sanders

Stars: Josie Lawrence, Bob Goody, Anna Mottram

Sisters Phoebe and Dot return to their family home on the Isle of Wight a year after the death of their mother. Clearing decades of family clutter, they face up to their complex relationship with their mother and her serial infidelities.

- Jennie Kermode, Eye for Film

15 2.30pm (Subs), Mon

Inland (15)

UK, 1hr 22min

Director: Fridtjof Ryder

Following it’s sell out preview in Borderlines Film Festival, we’re proud to bring back this Gloucester based drama. Starring Bridge of Spies star Mark Rylance comes this modern fairy tale filmed in the Forest of Dean. Inland follows a man trying to understand his past as he searches for answers about his mother.

Indiana Jones & the dial of destiny (Cert tbc)

USA, 2hr 34min

Director: James Mangold (Logan, Ford vs Ferrari, Walk the Line)

Stars: Harrison Ford, Pheobe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, John Rhys-Davies, Antonio Banderas, Toby Jones

Experience the return of legendary hero, Indiana Jones, in the fifth instalment of this beloved swashbuckling series of films. Finding himself in a new era, approaching retirement, Indy wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival, Indy must pick up his whip once more to make sure an ancient and powerful artifact doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.

Hello, Bookstore (PG)

USA, 1hr 26min

Director: A. B. Zax

In the shadow of the pandemic, a small-town rallies to protect a beloved local bookstore. A landmark in Lenox, Massachusetts, The Bookstore is a magical, beatnik gem thanks to its owner Matt Tannenbaum, whose passion for stories runs deep. This intimate portrait of The Bookstore and the family at its heart o ers a journey through good times, hard times, and the stories hidden on the shelves.

July Fri 21 4.30pm, Sat 22 2.30pm, Mon 24 4.45pm (Subs), Tue 25 4.45pm, Wed 26 2.30pm (Relaxed), Thu 27 2.30pm

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (PG)

USA, 1hr 30min

Director: Kirk DeMicco, Faryn Pearl

Stars: Annie Murphy, Jane Fonda, Toni Collette

Sixteen-year-old Ruby Gillman learns that she is the next in a legendary line of sea krakens. Despite her lofty destiny, she is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High School. But the sworn enemy of Krakens, a mermaid, disrupts her dream high school life.

July

Sat 22 5.15pm, Mon 24 2.30pm, Tue 25 2.30pm, Wed 26 5.30pm, Thu 27 11am

Small, Slow but Steady (12A)

Jaan, 1hr 39min

Director: Shô Miyake

Stars: Yukino Kishii, Masaki Miura, Shinichirô Matsuura

A hearing-impaired woman dreams of becoming a professional boxer, but with the closure of her boxing club looming and the illness of her ageing mentor, she is pushed to new limits.

Foreign language with English Subtitles

July

Fri 28 11am, Sat 29 11.15am, Mon 31 7pm

La Syndicaliste (15)

France, 2hr 2min

Director: Jean-Paul Salomé

August

Tue 1 4.30pm, Wed 2 7pm, Thu 3 11am

Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Grégory Gadebois

The true story of Maureen Kearney, the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistle-blower, denouncing top-secret deals that shook the French nuclear sector. Alone against the world, she fought government ministers and industry leaders, tooth and nail to bring the scandal to light and to defend more than 50,000 jobs. Foreign language with English subtitles.

July

28 5.30pm, Sat 29 2.30pm

Medusa Deluxe (15)

UK, 1hr 41min

August

Tue 1 2.30pm, Wed 2 11am, Thu 3 7pm

A murder mystery set in a competitive hairdressing contest. Extravagance and excess collide, as the death of a contestant sows seeds of division in a community whose passion for hair verges on obsession.

“A murder-mystery unravelled in spectacular fashion, Medusa Deluxe is an exquisitely composed, meticulously performed, modern feat of ingenuity.”

- The Hollywood News

July

Fri 28 7.30pm, Sat 29 7.30pm, Mon 31 2pm

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 (Cert tbc)

USA, 2hr 39min

Director: Christopher McQuarrie (Top Gun: Maverick, The Usual Suspects)

Stars: Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Simon Pegg, Hayley Atwell

Following the success of Top Gun: Maverick comes the beginning of the end of the Mission Impossible franchise. Ethan Hunt and the IMF team must track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity if it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than the mission, not even the lives of those he cares about most.

Dead Reckoning Part One is sure to be the unmissable big screen experience of the year. We just love to see Tom Cruise throw himself into increasingly more terrifying stunts!

There’s two major films coming in August that are very, VERY di erent... Check out their incredible casts and stories below!

Oppenheimer

Tickets on sale soon! See our website or Box O ce for updates.

Director: Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk, Inception)

Stars: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Gary Oldman, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, Dane DeHaan, Alden Ehrenreich

Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is an epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it. With an all-star cast with shelves full of Academy Awards between them, Oppenheimer is the most anticipated drama of the year, so don’t be surprised if screenings start to fill up quick!

Tickets on sale soon! See our website or Box O ce for updates.

Director: Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird, Little Women)

Stars: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Emma Mackey, Dua Lipa, Kate McKinnon, Will Ferrell, Simu Liu, Michael Cera, John Cena, America Ferrera

Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumback (Marriage Story) have come together to write one of the most talked about films of the decade, and we can’t wait! Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans. Get ready to be wearing pink this August!

Cult classic

July

Sat 29 5pm

Thelma & Louise (15, 1991)

USA, 2hr 10min

Director: Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator)

Stars: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Brad Pitt, Michael Madsen, Harvey Keitel

Revisit Ridley Scott’s Oscar winning, road-trip classic with this month’s Cult Classic. Meek housewife Thelma joins her friend Louise, an independent waitress, on a short fishing trip. However, their trip becomes a flight from the law after an unexpected incident in a bar and the pair decide to flee to Mexico.

Family Saturdays

July

Sat 15 11am (free pre-activity from 10.30am)

Fantastic Mr. Fox (PG)

USA, 1h 27min

Director: Wes Anderson

Voice Cast: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe

This is the story of Mr. Fox and his wild ways of turkey taking, cider sipping, nocturnal, instinctive adventures. He has to put his wild days behind him and do what fathers do best: be responsible. But he is going to try just one more raid on the three nastiest farmers around.

JuLY Family Saturdays!

All with a free pre-activity from 10.30am

Suddenly... (LIVE)

Sat 1 July, 11am

Workshop TBC

Sat 8 July, 11am

Fantastic mr. Fox (PG)

Sat 15 July, 11am

Down to the woods (Live)

Sat 22 July, 11am

Family Rave

Sat 29 July, 11am