The Courtyard Film Guide September 2023

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We’ve got a record 24 films screening in September, and you can see each one for just £5 per ticket! Take a risk on a film this month, whether you want to laugh along with Theater Camp, revisit classics with our Hitchcock season, or experience the power of independent cinema with Past Lives and Passages

We’re also excited to bring a one night only screening of Pedro Almodóvar’s latest short film starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal, including a pre-recorded Q&A!

“If you missed out on Oppenheimer last month, be sure to come along to our final screening. It’s worthy of the big screen!” - Ethan, Film Programming Assistant

Film Prices

Tickets £8/£7.50 Concession

Under 16’s £6

Front 2 rows minus £1

Member Prices

Courtyard Club & Card £3 Friends & Patrons 10% o courtyard.org.uk/membership

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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.

August

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.

Relaxed Screening

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

All film tickets are £5 this September!

(excludes event cinema and live screenings)

September

Fri 25 2.30pm, Sat 26 7.30pm, Mon 28 7.30pm (Subs), Tue 29 5.15pm, Wed 30 5.15pm, Thu 31 7.45pm

Haunted Mansion (12A) USA, 2hr 2min

Director: Justin Simien

Fri 1 2.30pm, Sat 2 2pm, Mon 4 5pm

Stars: LaKeith Stanfield, Jamie Lee Curtis, Danny DeVito

A single mother and her son move into a mansion, only to find it’s haunted. To combat the spirits, they hire a former paranormal investigator, a priest, a psychic and a college history professor. Together, they must unravel the mysteries of the mansion and lay the spirits to rest.

August

Fri 18 2pm, Sat 19 7.30pm, Mon 21 2pm, Tue 22 11am & 7pm (Subs), Wed 23 2.30pm, Thu 24 7pm

Oppenheimer (15)

USA, 3hr 1min

Director: Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk)

September Sat 2 7pm

Stars: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Gary Oldman, Kenneth Branagh, Benny Safdie, Alden Ehrenreich, Jason Clarke, Josh Hartnett

Legendary British filmmaker, and Dunkirk director, Christopher Nolan returns with the story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

Shark twooth double bill

September

Fri 1 5.45pm

Jaws 2 (1978, PG)

USA, 1hr 51min

Director: Jeannot Szwarc

Stars: Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton

Four years after the traumatic episodes at Amity Island that was terrorized by a great white shark. Days after the opening, beachgoers start to disappear, along with a beached, half-eaten killer whale. Chief Brody fears that another Great White Shark is on the loose.

Don’t forget to order a hot dog and soft drink combo for between the films for just £5!

September

Fri 1 8pm

The Meg 2: The Trench (12A)

USA, 1hr 56min

Director: Ben Wheatley (Free Fire)

Stars: Jason Statham, Jing Wu, Sienna Guillory

Dive into uncharted waters with a daring research team on an exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean. Their voyage spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a battle for survival.

hitchcock

There’s never a bad time to do a retrospective season on ‘The Master of Suspense’, but with the release of Mark Cousins’ documentary My Name is Alfred Hitchcock, we just couldn’t resist! With a career spanning the silent era through to the ‘The New Hollywood’, there are too many iconic films to choose from, but we landed on one film from the 50s, 60s and 70s.

My name is alfred hitchcock (15) UK, 2hr

September Mon 4 7.30pm, Tue 5 11am & 5pm, Wed 6 5pm, Thu 7 2.30pm

Director: Mark Cousins

A fictional Alfred Hitchcock narrates an explanation of some of the lesser known cinematic techniques he used in his movies, richly illustrated with clips from his entire 50 year career.

The Birds (1963, 15) USA, 1hr 59min

September Wed 6 7.30pm, Thu 7 5pm

Stars: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy

A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people. You’ll never look at those Herefordian pigeons the same again!

Rear Window (1954, PG) USA, 1hr 54min

September Mon 4 2.30pm, Tue 5 7.30pm

Stars: James Stewart, Grace Kelly

A photographer in a wheelchair spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window, and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder, despite the scepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend.

Frenzy (1972, 18) UK, 1hr 56min

September Wed 6 2.30pm, Thu 7 7.30pm

Stars: Jon Finch, Barry Foster

London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-onhis-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.

September Fri 1 11am, Sat 9 5.45pm, Mon 11 7.30pm

Joy Ride (15)

USA, 1hr 34min

Director: Adele Lim

Stars: Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu

When Audrey’s business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the help of Lolo, her childhood best friend, Kat, a college friend, and Deadeye, Lolo’s eccentric cousin. Their epic, no-holds-barred experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are.

Back By popular demand!

After fantastic responses from audiences last month, we thought we’d bring back these independent documentaries one last time in case anyone missed them.

Hello, Bookstore (PG)

A slice-of-life documentary based in a small American bookshop that is struggling to keep its doors open.

September: Sat 2 5pm, Wed 7 11am, Thu 7 11am

Mad About the boy (12A)

An exploration of Noel Coward’s expansive career which features credits across the stage and screen.

September: Mon 4 11am, Tue 5 2.30pm, Mon 11 11am

September Tue 12 2.30pm, Wed 13 5.15pm, Thu 14 11am, Mon 18 2pm

L'immensità (12A)

Italy, 1hr 38min

Director: Emanuele Crialese

Stars: Penélope Cruz, Vincenzo Amato, Luana Giuliani

In 1970s Rome, Adriana, a preteen girl, moves into a new apartment with her family. While her parents struggle in their unhappy marriage, she rejects her name and identity, ultimately deciding to convince everyone that she is a boy. Foreign language with English subtitles.

“Trans director Crialese indulges in child-like methods of world-making with a sensitive eye.” - LA Times

Theater camp (12A)

USA, 1hr 33min

Director: Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman

Stars: Ben Platt, Molly Gordon, Noah Galvin, Ayo Edebiri, Jimmy Tatro

As summer rolls around again, kids are gathering from all over to attend AdirondACTS, a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York that’s a haven for budding performers. After its indomitable founder Joan falls into a coma, her clueless son Troy is tasked with keeping the thespian paradise running. With financial ruin looming, Troy must join forces with a band of eccentric teachers to come up with a solution before the curtain rises on opening night.

September

Smoking Causes Coughing (15)

France, 1hr 17min

Director: Quentin Dupieux

Stars: Gilles Lellouche, Vincent Lacoste

A group of vigilantes called the “tobacco-forces” is falling apart. To rebuild team spirit, their leader suggests that they meet for a week-long retreat, before returning to save the world. Foreign language with English subtitles.

“One of the funniest films of the year” - The Guardian

"You'll walk out with a smile"

September

Passages (18)

France/Germany, 1hr 32min

Director: Ira Sachs

Stars: Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw

A gay couple’s marriage of 15 years is thrown into crisis when one of them, a popluar French Director, impulsively begins a passionate a air with a young woman (Adèle Exarchopoulos).

“It’s the intimacy of Passages that makes Sachs’ characters so compelling and so insistently alive.” - NPR

September

And then come the nightjars (15)

UK, 1hr 21min

Director: Paul Robinson

Stars: Nigel Hastings, David Fielder

Adapted for the screen from Bea Roberts’ multi-award-winning stage play, And Then Come the Nightjars tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a Devon farmer and the vet who is assigned to cull his precious herd following the foot-and-mouth outbreak in 2001.

During our run of And Then Come the Nightjars we will be helping raise awareness and donations for We Are Farming Minds, a charity dedicated to providing mental health support for farmers across the county. For more information visit: https://www.wearefarmingminds.co.uk/

September

Fri 15 11am, Sat 16 5.45pm, Mon 18 4pm, Tue 19 11am & 5.45pm, Wed 20 2.30pm, Thu 21 5.45pm, Fri 22 11am, Wed 27 7.30pm, Thu 28 11am

Bolan's Shoes (Cert TBC)

UK, 1hr 35min

Director: Ian Puleston-Davies

Stars: Timothy Spall, Leanne Best, Mark Lewis Jones

This story takes us on a tumultuous journey from the height of T. Rex mania in 1970s Liverpool to the present-day poignancy of what would have been Marc Bolan’s 75th birthday. It captures the heady exhilaration of glam rock mania through the experiences of a group of over-excited kids from a local children’s home before a devastating road accident changes their lives for ever. Years later, and still clinging to the adoration of her childhood idol, survivor Penny takes best friend and fellow Marc Bolan fan to visit his shrine in London but a chance encounter there catapults her back to times she had tried so hard to forget.

September

Fri 22 2.30pm, Mon 25 11am, Wed 27 2.30pm, Thu 28 7.30pm

Maigret (15)

France, 1hr 29min

Director: Patrice Leconte

Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Jade Labeste

In Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify her and then understand what happened to the victim. Foreign language with English subtitles.

Starring the iconic French lead and Academy Award nominee, Gérard Depardieu (Cyrano de Bergerac).

September

Past Lives (12A)

USA/South Korea, 1hr 46min

Director: Celine Song

Stars: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for a week as they confront notions of love and destiny. Some foreign language dialogue with English subtitles.

“In Past Lives, distance and quiet are key to understanding a soaring intimacy.” - The Atlantic

Almodóvar - One night only!

STRANGE WAY OF LIFE (Cert TBC) - MONDAY 25 SEPTEMBER, 7.30PM

Spain/France, 31min (82min including Q&A)

Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Stars: Pedro Pascal, Ethan Hawke

From the legendary Director of Pain and Glory, Parallel Mothers, Julieta, Volver, All About My Mother, Talk to Her and many more, comes a one night only event for his new short film! The film will be followed by a pre-recorded Q&A with Pedro Almodóvar, exclusive to cinemas.

After twenty-five years Silva rides a horse across the desert to visit his friend Sheri Jake. They celebrate the meeting, but the next morning Jake tells him the reason for his trip is not to go down the memory lane of their friendship.

Coming Soon

A Haunting in Venice

October will see the return of Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot in this Agatha Christie adaptation. With an all-star cast including Jamie Dornan (Belfast), Kelly Reilly (Pride & Prejudice) , Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) and Tina Fey (Mean Girls).

On Sale Soon!

To mark 100 years of Disney we’re bringing four classic animated features back for our Family Saturday screenings! All with a free pre-activity from 10.30am.

Peter Pan (1953, U)

Sat 2 Sep, 11am

Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick...

One Hundred & One Dalmatians (1961, U)

Sat 9 Sep, 11am

She wants to do what to those dogs?!

The Jungle Book (1967, U)

Sat 16 Sep, 11am

Awoobi-doop I wanna be like you-oo-oo!

Beauty & the Beast (1991, U)

Sat 23 Sep, 11am

Definitely not better than The Courtyard’s pantomime...