An Update on Ticket Pricing
Due to the increasing costs of running a cinema, we are restructuring our pricing so we can continue providing the diverse cinema programmes that you deserve. The key di erence will be a new £9.50/£9 ticket price on a small number of major films, which cost The Courtyard significantly more to screen. Most of our programme will have a ticket price of £8.50/£8, whilst retrospectives and smaller titles will be slightly cheaper at £7.50/£7. This way, if you’re a regular of ours you shouldn’t feel too much di erence over the month. No matter the film, our Breakfast Movies will now be £8.50.
We will still be running special o ers for seasons such as French Film Festival UK or HORROR-FORD, so you’ll still be saving money if you’re attending these.
LEE (15)
UK/USA, 1h 56min
Firebrand (15)
UK, 2h 1min
Back by popular demand
November
Wed 6 11am, Mon 18 11am, Wed 20 11am
The story of photographer Elizabeth ‘Lee’ Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.
October
November
A Different Man (15)
USA, 1h 52min
Director: Aaron Schimberg
Cast: Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson
Back by popular demand
November
Tue 19 11am, Thu 21 11am
Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king returns, increasingly ill and paranoid, Katherine finds herself fighting for her own survival.
Mon 4 5.15pm, Tue 5 11am, Wed 6 2.30pm, Wed 13 2.30pm
UK, 1h 28min
Director: Mark Cousins A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
(PG)
Exploring the pivotal 1949 experience atop Switzerland’s Grindelwald glacier that reshaped British modernist painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham’s artistic perspective for decades to come.
“Cousins’ film is imperative... hopefully, with this documentary’s caring eyes and voice, more will seek out Wilhelmina Barns-Graham’s work and genius.”
- Robert Daniels, rogerebert.com
Tue 5 2.30pm, Thu 7 2.30pm, Fri 8 11am, Thu 14 11am
After undergoing facial-reconstructive surgery, Edward becomes fixated on an actor in a stage production based on his former life.
- Robbie Collin, The Telegraph
- Clarisse Loughrey, Independent
Book 4 or more and get tickets for £5 each! (excluding Breakfast Movies)
Our screenings of Holy Cow [Vingt Dieux] are sponsored by Hereford French Circle. Aimed at anyone with a love of France, its culture and language, Hereford French Circle holds monthly conversation meetings on a Saturday as well as monthly French talks on a Friday evening between September and June. Visit their website www.herefordfrenchcircle.org.uk for more information.
The Tasting [La Dégustation] (15)
France, 1hr 32min
November Fri 1 11am, Mon 4 7.30pm
Director: Ivan Calbérac
A wine business owner is close to bankruptcy when he meets a light-hearted and kind nurse. This could be something wonderful for them both but as they grow closer, their pasts catch up with them.
Holy cow [Vingt Dieux] (15)
France, 1hr 30min
November
Mon 4 2.30pm, Tue 5 7.30pm
Director: Louise Courvoisier
After his father’s tragic accident, a boy will have to support himself and his little sister. To this end, he decides to make the most delicate cheese and to hold his own against tough local competition in Jura.
The Marching Band [En Fanfare] (12A) France, 1hr 43min
November Mon 4 11am, Thu 7 7.30pm
Director: Emmanuel Courcol
A French spin on British comedy-drama Brassed O . Two brothers, one a famous conductor, the other a school cafeteria worker, were seperated by adoption, but reunite and find their common love of music.
Along Came Love [Le Temps d'aimer] (18)
France/Belgium, 2hr 5min
November Tue 5 5pm, Thu 7 11am
Director: Katell Quillévéré
Beginning in the aftermath of the Second World War, director Katell Quillévéré examines a mutually advantageous marriage of convenience that, against the odds, grows into real love.
Coup de chance (12a)
USA/France, 1hr 36min
November
Thu 7 5.45pm, Tue 12 2.30pm
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Lou de Laâge, Melvil Poupaud
Woody Allen features in the French Film Festival UK for the first time with a thriller set in the upper-class echelons of Paris society and written, acted and filmed entirely in French. Here, he deals with a bored wife who cheats on her wealthy and aloof husband with an old high school friend … which triggers fatal consequences.
Boléro (15)
France/Belgium, 2hr
November
Wed 13 11am, Thu 14 5.15pm
Director: Anne Fontaine
Cast: Raphaël Personnaz, Doria Tillier
Inbetween the First and Second World Wars, Maurice Ravel was feted as France’s greatest living composer. His work melded modernism, baroque and neoclassicism, with later compositions also embracing jazz.
You asked, we listened!
Beating Hearts [L'amour Ouf] (15)
France/Belgium, 2hr 46min
November Sat 9 4.30pm
Director: Gilles Lellouche
Cast: François Civil, Adèle Exarchopoulos
Set in the 1980s in northern France, Beating Hearts charts an improbable relationship between Jackie from an upper-middleclass family and Clotaire from a modest background. Whilst she is dedicated to her studies, he becomes involved in a gang. Their paths cross later in life and their relationship develops in a new way.
A Man & A Woman
[Un Homme et une femme] (1966, PG)
France, 1hr 42min
November Thu 14 2.30pm
Director: Claude Lelouch
Cast: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignan
This romantic classic shows a widow and widower who meet by chance at their children’s boarding school and whose budding relationship is complicated by the memories of their deceased spouses.
In recent months we’ve had multiple requests for screenings of the films of Agnès Varda. So, at the end of November we’ll be screening The Gleaners & I (2000) and Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)!
November
Fri 15 2.30pm, 5.15pm & 7.30pm, Sat 16 2.30pm, 5.15pm & 7.30pm, Mon 18 2.30pm (Subs) & 7.30pm, Tue 19 2.30pm (Afternoon Tea) & 7.30pm, Wed 20 2.30pm & 5.15pm (Relaxed), Thu 21 2.30pm, 5.15pm (Subs), Fri 22 2.30pm & 5.15pm, Sat 23 11am, Mon 25 11am & 5.15pm, Tue 26 2.30pm, Wed 27 5.15pm, Thu 28 10.45am (Baby Friendly) & 5.15pm
December
Sun 1 2pm
Paddington in peru (Cert tbc)
USA/UK, 1hr 56min
Director: Dougal Wilson
Cast: Ben Wishaw (voice), Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas, Imelda Staunton, Julie Walters
Paddington returns to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain peaks of Peru. Enjoy a marvellous Afternoon Tea filled with plenty of treats (and more than a few marmalade sandwiches!) before heading into your Paddington in Peru screening.
Tuesday 19 November, 2.30pm
Afternoon tea includes:
Selection of sandwiches
Scones with strawberry jam & clotted cream
Chocolate dipped strawberries
Selection of tray bakes
Victoria sponge
Fruit cake
Selection of artisan teas
French press co ee Marmalade sandwiches
November Fri 8 2.30pm, Sat 9 7.45pm, Mon 11 2.30pm, Tue 12 11am, Wed 13 7.45pm (Subs), Thu 14 7.45pm
The Room next door (12A)
USA/Spain, 1h 47min
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, John Turturro
The legendary Spanish director presents his first English language feature. Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
- Xan Brooks, The Guardian
November
Fri 15 11am, Mon 18 4.45pm, Tue 19 4.45pm (Subs), Wed 20 7.30pm, Thu 21 7.30pm
Anora (18)
USA, 2h 19min
Director: Sean Baker
Cast: Mikey Madison, Paul Weissman
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Palme D’or
November Wed 27 11am
December Mon 2 5.30pm
Classic film club:
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962, PG)
France, 1h 30min
Director: Agnès Varda
November Fri 22 11am, Sat 23 7.30pm, Mon 25 2.30pm, Tue 26 11am, Wed 27 7.30pm, Thu 28 2.30pm (Subs)
Bird (15)
UK, 1h 59min
Director: Andrea Arnold
Cast: Nykiya Adams, Franz Rogowski, Barry Keoghan
Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and her father Bug, who raises them alone in a squat in northern Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time to devote to them. Bailey looks for attention and adventure elsewhere.
- Yasmine Kandil, Discussing Film
Cast: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller
This month’s Classic Film Club screening takes us to 1960s Paris! Often referred to as the godmother of the French New Wave, Agnès Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7 is a beautiful watch for French cinema fans.
Cléo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.
A Young Film Programmers Season Book 3 or more and get tickets for £5 each!
November Fri 22 7.30pm, Sat 23 2.30pm
The Gleaners & i (2000, PG)
France, 1h 22min
Director: Agnès Varda
This season from the Young Film Programmers aims to show how malleable the truth can be under the guise of film. We explore versions of reality, across the boundaries of fiction and non-fiction, the personal and the political. All these films show di erent truths, in the di erent ways, each one a personal declaration:
“this is my truth”
Hollywoodgate (12A) November Mon 11 6.30pm
Radix Film Club presents:
USA/Germay, 1h 31min
Director: Ibrahim Nash’at
“That little devil is filming again”
Following the departure of western forces in 2021, Ibrahim Nash’at’s film documents the inner circles of the Taliban as they rebuild American military equipment and regain power. Made with special permission from the Taliban, Hollywoodgate asks questions of intent, control and personal accountability in documentary filmmaking. Stick around after to chat about the film and get 10% o drinks at the bar! Dari and Pashtu with English subtitles.
An 1867 painting by Jean-Francois Millet inspired septuagenarian documentarian Agnès Varda to cross the French countryside to videotape people who scavenge. Taking everything from surplus in the fields, to rubbish in trashcans, to oysters washed up after a storm, the “gleaners” range from those sadly in need to those hoping to recreate the community activity of centuries past, and still others who use whatever they find to cobble together a rough art. Highlighted by Varda’s amusing narration. French language with English subtitles.
November
Thu 28 7.30pm
close-up (1990, u)
Iran, 1h 33min
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
November Mon 25 7.30pm, Wed 27 2.30pm
Black Box Diaries (15)
Japan, 1h 43min
Director: Shiori Itō
Journalist Shiori Itō investigates her own sexual assault, seeking to prosecute the high-profile o ender. Her quest becomes a landmark case, exposing Japan’s outdated judicial and societal systems. Japanese with English subtitles.
“[Itō is] not just a compelling and sympathetic human subject but a genuinely artful and intuitive filmmaker.”
- Guy Lodge, Variety
The true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film. Persian and Azerbaijani with English subtitles.
Ranked as the BFI’s 17th Greatest Film of All Time back in 2022, this is an extremely rare opportunity to see this film in the cinema. The Young Programmers have worked hard to acquire this film, so we hope to see many of you.
December Mon 2 2.30pm, Tue 3 7.30pm
F for fake (1973, PG)
France/Iran/West Germany, 1h 29min
Director: Orson Welles
Orson Welles’ final film documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Cli ord Irving. De Hory made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.
November
Fri 29 2.30pm Sat 30 2.30pm (Subs)
UK, 2h
December Sun 1 4.30pm, Mon 2 11am, Tue 3 7.45pm, Wed 4 11am & 7.45pm
Director: Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave, Widows)
Blitz (12A) Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson, Stephen Graham
Academy Award winning British Director Steve McQueen returns to narrative filmaking following his documentary Occupied City. In World War II London, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita, to escape the bombings. Defiant and determined to return to his family, George embarks on a journey back home as Rita searches for him.
November Family Saturdays!
All with a free pre-activity from 10.30am
200% Wolf (u)
Sat 2 Nov, 11am
Clare & Cory share a (glorious) Story (Live)
Sat 9 Nov, 11am
Dragonkeeper (pg)
Sat 16 Nov, 11am
Paddington in peru (Cert tbc)
Sat 23 Nov, 11am
The WIld Robot (u)
Sat 30 Nov, 11am
