FILM MAR – APR 2017
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WELCOME Now that the Oscars’ Parade has gone by we can reflect on winners and losers, see those that we have missed and lament the fortunes of the also-rans. Chief among the contenders is Moonlight, Ben Jenkins’ subtle, sensitive coming-of-age tale of sexual awakening in Miami. With outstanding performances throughout, it is one of the most impressive debut indie films in years.
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Hidden Figures is the untold story of a trio of black women who overcame segregation and underestimation in the 1960s to collaborate on the NASA space projects, taking several small steps to a more enlightened future. Gurinder Chada’s Viceroy’s House is another slice of history revisited, exploring partition in 1940s India from a fresh perspective. Warren Beatty considers the latter days of Howard Hughes in Rules Don’t Apply and Terence Davies takes a witty view of poet Emily Dickinson, startlingly played by Cynthia Nixon, in A Quiet Passion. Paul Verhoeven has never shied away from controversy, as Basic Instinct and Robocop show. His latest film, Elle, is no less challenging and boasts an exceptional performance by Isabelle Huppert, earning her a Golden Globe in January. Director Ben Wheatley (High Rise, Sightseers) returns with Free Fire, a witty and tense Reservoir Dogs-style standoff, and Coventry’s own Alice Lowe writes, directs and starts in the deliciously dark horror-comedy Prevenge. Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson take on challenging roles as father and son in the unconventional family drama Trespass Against Us, while Jim Broadbent tries to resolve the issues of his past in an adaptation of Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending. Finally, we are featuring some remarkable foreign films this season with the sublime German comedy Toni Erdmann, Marco Bellocchio’s Sweet Dreams from Italy, Pablo Larrain’s biography of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and Asghar Farhadi’s mesmeric The Salesman from Iran. So much choice, so little time!
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Loving 12a Wed 1 & Tue 2 Mar Dir: Jeff Nichols UK/USA 2016 123mins Cast: Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton In 1958, Richard Loving (Joel Edgerton) married his pregnant girlfriend Mildred Jeter (Ruth Negga) in Washington DC and the couple returned to their homestate of Virginia. As a white man and a black woman their marriage was not only controversial, it was illegal under the state’s anti-miscegenation laws. Fighting imprisonment and exile, they fought to take their civil rights case all the way to the Supreme Court. Featuring beautifully nuanced performances, earning Ethiopian-Irish Ruth Negga best actress nominations at both the Golden Globes and the Oscars, Loving takes an understated approach to telling this painful, and still relevant, true story.
Toni Erdmann 15
Neruda 15
Wed 1 Mar Dir: Maren Ade Germany/Austria 2017 162mins German with subtitles Cast: Peter Simonischek, Sandra Hüller, Michael Wittenborn
Thu 2 Mar, Tue 2 May – Thu 4 May Dir: Pablo Larraín Chile/Argentina/France/USA/Spain 2016 107mins Spanish with subtitles Cast: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco
Austrian actor Peter Simonichek plays a divorced German schoolteacher who baffles and exasperates his friends with a fondness for wacky humour, practical jokes and funny wigs. He tries to reconnect with his careerdriven adult daughter but the pranks they enjoyed when she was a little girl become increasingly irritating and confrontational.
In the early days of the Cold War, as Chile aligned itself with America, Neruda’s (Luis Gnecco) Communist convictions saw him branded an enemy of the state and he was obliged to go into hiding with his wife Delia (Mercedes Morán). He is obsessively pursued by a detective, offering a beautifully performed, shadowy cat-and-mouse thriller, where the celebrated poet forever eludes those trying to pin him down.
An uproarious unpredictable movie with a lot of big laughs. “THIS LONG GERMAN COMEDY IS A SLIGHT, BITING, LITTLE MIRACLE”
The Guardian
This bold, inventive film offers an electrifying and playful contemplation of Neruda’s life on the run in the late 1940s. La La Land
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La La Land 12a Fri 3 & Sat 4 Mar, Fri 10 Mar, Sun 12 Mar, Fri 14 – Mon 17 Apr Dir: Damien Chazelle USA 2016 128mins Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone The director of Whiplash delivers an all singing, all dancing award winner. A musical romance set in modernday Los Angeles that rushes from first love to heartache via showtunes, love songs and moody jazz. An unapologetically romantic homage to classic movie musicals, La La Land splashes its energy and dream-chasing optimism all over the screen and is full of bounce and a vitamin-D boost of sunshine. “LA LA LAND IS THE LATEST GREAT MUSICAL FOR PEOPLE WHO DON’T LIKE MUSICALS – AND WILL SLAP A MILE-WIDE SMILE ACROSS THE MOST MISERABLE OF FACES.” Empire 03
Hidden Figures PG Fri 3 – Thu 9 Mar Dir: Theodore Melfi USA 2016 127mins Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Janelle Monáe, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Costner 1961 and the USA and Russia are locked in the Space Race. Spurred on by the launch of the Russian Spy Satellite, President Kennedy was determined that the first man in space would be an American. This is the untold, true story of the brilliant black women at NASA who made that happen and changed history in the process. Battling segregation and sexism, Katherine Johnson (Taraji Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) crossed race and gender lines to launch astronaut John Glenn (Glen Powell) into orbit, restoring the nation’s confidence and inspiring future generations of scientists. Jackie
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Jackie 15 Sat 4 – Wed 8 Mar Dir: Pablo Larraín USA 2016 100mins Cast: Natalie Portman, Greta Gerwig, Peter Sarsgaard, Max Casella See Natalie Portman transformed brilliantly into Jacqueline Kennedy. Boasting an impressive cast, Jackie reunites Portman with Black Swan director, Darren Aronofsky. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady following one of the most shocking moments in American history, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Share her journey as she fights through grief to regain her faith, console her children, and struggle to define her husband’s historic legacy.
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Moonlight
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars PG Tue 7 Mar Tickets: £12.50 (£10) Dir: D.A. Pennebaker UK 1973 120mins Cast: David Bowie, Mick Woodmansey Directed by rock filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker, this documentary captures Bowie performing at London’s Hammersmith Odeon on 3 July 1973. It was at this now-infamous concert that Bowie made a shock announcement and retired Ziggy. The screening will include a new film featuring MOJO’s Phil Alexander in conversation with Spiders From Mars’ drummer Woody Woodmansey.
Every booker will receive a free souvenir copy of MOJO, dedicated to the life and times of Ziggy Stardust.
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Prevenge 15
Fri 10 – Thu 16 Mar Dir: Barry Jenkins USA 2016 111mins Cast: Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, Trevante Rhodes, Naomie Harris
Mon 13 – Wed 15 Mar Dir: Alice Lowe UK 2016 87mins Cast: Alice Lowe, Jo Hartley, Katie Dickie, Gemma Whelan
Moonlight follows a young black man, Chiron, from his early childhood in a depressed Miami neighbourhood to adulthood in Atlanta, experiencing the formation of his masculinity and his developing homosexuality.
A pitch black British comedy from the mind of Alice Lowe, Prevenge follows Ruth, a pregnant woman on a killing spree. It’s her misanthropic unborn baby dictating Ruth’s actions, holding society responsible for the absence of a father. The child speaks to Ruth from the womb, coaching her to lure and ultimately kill her unsuspecting victims.
Based on the play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, this profoundly moving and ground breaking Oscar nominated film explores what it means to be gay and black, and is a timeless story of human connection and selfdiscovery. “A THRILLING, DEEPLY NECESSARY WORK THAT OPENS UP A MUCH-NEEDED AND RARELY APPROACHED ON-SCREEN CONVERSATION ABOUT THE NATURE OF GAY MASCULINITY.” The Guardian Ziggy Stardust
Struggling with her conscience, loneliness, and a strange strain of prepartum madness, Ruth must ultimately choose between redemption and destruction at the moment of motherhood. “A FEMINIST, SCORE-SETTLING SLASHER WITH A SATIRICAL EDGE” Sight & Sound
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Botticelli Inferno PG
Tue 14 & Thu 16 Mar Dir: Ken Loach UK 2016 100mins Cast: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Dylan McKiernan, Briana Shann
Thu 16 Mar Tickets: £12.50 (£10) Dir: Ralph Loop Germany/Italy 2016 96mins
Ken Loach marks his 50 years as a filmmaker with a drama that is impassioned and heartfelt – a stark reminder of the injustices of life in modern Britain. Following a heart attack, Daniel (Johns), a fifty-something carpenter, seeks to claim disability benefit. But after an unqualified government healthcare advisor interviews him over the phone, it’s decided that he’s ineligible. Labelled a scrounger when he is anything but, Daniel is forced to apply for jobseeker’s allowance and comes up against further absurdities of the welfare state.
One of Italy’s greatest artists, Botticelli brought the descriptions of hell in Dante’s Inferno to life in a total of 102 meticulous drawings. Written and directed by Ralph Loop, Botticelli Inferno is a journey to places often left unexplored, and brings us much closer to both the man and the artist. Shot at a number of locations, including those inaccessible to the public, such as the Vatican, Florence, London, Berlin and Scotland. Botticelli’s infamous ‘Map of Hell’ was digitised especially for the film with a high-powered scanner, bringing to light details that had previously been invisible to the naked eye. I, Daniel Blake
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Manchester by the Sea 15 Fri 17 – Sun 19 Mar Dir: Kenneth Lonergan USA 2016 137mins Cast: Casey Affleck, Kyle Chandler, Michelle Williams
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When the death of his brother places his nephew in his care, Lee (Casey Affleck) reluctantly returns to his home town, Manchester-by-theSea. There, he is forced to deal with the events that separated him from his wife, Randi (Michelle Williams), and the community where he was born and raised. Featuring Affleck’s poignant Oscarnominated performance, this is an unexpectedly funny exploration of the power of familial love, community, sacrifice and hope. “MASTERFULLY TOLD AND BEAUTIFULLY ACTED, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA IS A SHATTERING YET GRACEFUL ELEGY OF LOSS AND GRIEF.” Empire
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Viceroy’s House 12a Fri 17 – Thu 23 Mar Dir: Gurinder Chadha UK/India 2017 106mins Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi, Om Puri India, 1947. 300 years of British rule is coming to an end and Lord Mountbatten (Hugh Bonneville), great grandson of Queen Victoria, is appointed as the last Viceroy to supervise the peaceful transition of power back to the Indian people. As the political elite argue over the future of the country, Mountbatten takes the decision to split the country on religious grounds and create a new Muslim homeland – Pakistan.
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Directed by Gurinder Chadha, whose own family was caught up in the tragic events that ensued, Viceroy’s House explores the devastating impact of partition on communities and the struggles of migrants fleeing violence.
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Mon 20 – Thu 23 Mar Dir: John Lee Hancock USA 2016 115mins Cast: Michael Keaton, Linda Cardellini, Patrick Wilson, Nick Offerman, Laura Dern, B.J. Novak After receiving an order for his milkshake mixer machines, travelling salesman Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton) meets brothers Dick and Maurice McDonald and sees the potential to turn their single, revolutionary fast food restaurant into a franchised empire. Based on the true story, The Founder follows Kroc as he first forms a partnership with the McDonald brothers before rising to own one of the most famous empires in the world. “[KEATON’S] KINETIC PERFORMANCE DOESN’T ENHANCE THE MOVIE; IT IS THE MOVIE.” The New York Times 07
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Fri 24 – Sun 26 Mar Dir: Mick Jackson UK/USA 2016 110mins Cast: Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott
Fri 24 Mar, Sun 26 – Tue 28 Mar Dir: Denzel Washington USA 2016 139mins Cast: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis
When American university professor Deborah E. Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) labels English military historian David Irving (Timothy Spall) a Holocaust denier, he sues for libel on the grounds that the accusation has ruined his career. It is then up to Lipstadt and her lawyer (Tom Wilkinson) to prove that the Holocaust happened. “HARE’S PREVIOUS SCREENPLAYS FOR THE READER AND THE HOURS DEALT NOT JUST WITH HISTORICAL EVENTS BUT WITH THE VERY IDEA OF HISTORY ITSELF. DENIAL IS NO DIFFERENT. HE ZEROES IN ON THE FASCINATING SPECIFICS OF THE COURT CASE WHILE PRESENTING A WIDER PERSPECTIVE ON THE DANGERS OF REVISIONISM.” Toronto International
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Denzel Washington directs and stars in this adaptation of the Pulitzer and Tony prize-winning August Wilson play. Fences follows Troy Maxson, a Pittsburgh sanitation worker in the 1950’s who was an aspiring baseball player but was too old when the major leagues began admitting black players. Eaten away by his unattained dreams, and struggling as a husband and father, Maxson makes a decision that threatens to tear his family apart. Featuring an incredible, emotional performance from Viola Davis as Rose Maxon, which won her the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk 15 Mon 27 – Thu 30 Mar Dir: Ang Lee USA/UK/China 2016 115mins Cast: Joe Alwyn, Kristen Stewart, Vin Diesel, Steve Martin After mobile phone footage of a harrowing battle in Iraq is shared, Billy Lynn (Joe Alwyn) becomes a national hero and Bravo squad is temporarily brought home to the USA for a victory tour. Through flashbacks, culminating at the halftime show of the Thanksgiving Day football game, it is revealed what really happened on the frontline. Directed by Ang Lee and based on the award-winning novel by Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk explores the struggles of post-combat America and the contrasting realities of the war with America’s perceptions.
Sweet Dreams 12a Fai Bei Sogni Wed 29 & Thu 30 Mar Dir: Marco Bellocchio Italy/France 2016 134mins Cast: Valerio Mastandrea, Bérénice Bejo Haunted by the sudden, mysterious death of his mother when he was a child, Sweet Dreams examines how successful war reporter Massimo Gramellini (Valerio Mastandrea) confronts the truth of his past in order to move on with his life. Switching between Massimo’s adulthood, his childhood in 1960s Turin and his formative years, he and compassionate French doctor Elisa (Bérénice Bejo) address his childhood wounds and put old ghosts to rest. Based on the autobiographical novel Sweet Dreams, Little One by Massimo Gramellini this is a film about family, memory and loss. Sweet Dreams
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Rules Don’t Apply 12a
Fri 31 Mar – Mon 3 Apr, Wed 5 Apr Dir: Paul Verhoeven France/Germany 2016 130mins Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Anna Consigny, Christian Berkel, Jonas Bloquet
Fri 31 Mar – Thu 6 Apr Dir: Warren Beatty USA 2016 127mins Cast: Warren Beatty, Lily Collins, Alden Ehrenreich
After the director of a video games company Michèle Leblanc (Isabelle Huppert) is raped in her apartment by a masked assailant, she clears up the broken glass, has a bath and carries on. But when her attacker threatens her with indications that he may strike again she begins to plot her revenge.
Small town devout Baptist Marla Mabrey (Lily Collins) is brought to Hollywood in 1958 under contract as an actress for the infamous Howard Hughes (Warren Beatty). There she meets her driver Frank Forbes (Alden Ehrenreich) a deeply religious Methodist who is engaged to his high school sweetheart.
With an outstanding performance from Isabelle Huppert, winning her a Best Actress Golden Globe, director Paul Verhoeven’s first film in ten years is a knowingly provocative and outrageous black comedy.
Their instant attraction not only puts their religious beliefs to the test, but also defies Hughes’ primary rule: no employee may have a relationship with a contract actress. As they struggle with Hughes’ eccentric behaviour, and their feelings towards each other, they are pulled ever deeper into his bizarre world.
“ELLE FORCES YOU TO CRITICALLY CONFRONT EVERY MYTH IT INDULGES, EVERY CLICHÉ IT EMBRACES AND SUBVERTS.” The Telegraph Elle
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Time of Their Lives 12a (tbc)
George Best: All By Himself 12a (tbc)
Sat 1 & Tue 4 Apr Dir: Roger Goldby UK 2017 TBCmins Cast: Joan Collins, Pauline Collins, Franco Nero
Thu 6 Apr Dir: Daniel Gordon UK 2016 90mins Cast: George Best, Angela Best, Alex Best, Jackie Glass
Deciding to attend her ex-lover’s funeral in the glamourous French Ilede-Re without an invitation, former Hollywood star Helen (Joan Collins) breaks out of her London retirement home with the help of repressed housewife Priscilla (Pauline Collins). Pooling their meagre resources, they travel by coach, ferry, car and foot in a race to get to the funeral on time, meeting reclusive French millionaire (Franco Nero) along the way. A feelgood film about true friendship, this comedy proves that the importance of a journey doesn’t always lie in the destination.
A boy from Belfast who was arguably one of the most naturally gifted footballers ever, George Best was to become the game’s first superstar. Handsome and charismatic, Best was as flawed as he was talented and ultimately succumbed to his addictions, ending his professional career at only 29. In this new documentary director Daniel Gordon uses evocative footage – including a match against Coventry City – and testimony by those who knew him at his best and worst. Time of Their Lives
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20th Century Women 15 Fri 7 – Sun 9 Apr Dir: Mike Mills USA 2016 119mins Cast: Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig
20th Century Women
Realising that her impressionable 15-year-old son Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann) needs more than just her to raise him, single mother Dorothea (Annette Bening) enlists the help of photographer Abbey (Greta Gerwig) and 17-year-old Julie (Elle Fanning). Set in California at the end of the 1970s, this coming-of-age tale tackles family and generational divides as writer-director Mike Mills demonstrates a sharp, sensitive eye for the ways in which people learn to make peace with lives they didn’t quite anticipate or want.
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Trespass Against Us 15 Fri 7 – Mon 10 Apr, Wed 12 Apr Dir: Adam Smith UK 2016 100mins Cast: Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Lyndsey Marshall, Rory Kinnear
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Mon 10, Wed 12 – Thu 13 Apr Dir: Garth Davis Australia 2016 120mins Cast: Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, David Wenham, Rooney Mara
Thu 13 Apr Tickets: £12.50 (£10) Dir: Phil Grabsky UK 2017 87mins
After five-year-old Indian boy Saroo gets separated from his family and lost in Calcutta, he is left lost and alone, unable to explain where he came from. Shunted from the streets to an orphanage, he is eventually adopted by foster parents in Tasmania (Nicole Kidman and David Wenham). 25 years later a grown Saroo (Dev Patel), consumed with the need to find out where he came from and with only a handful of memories and Google Earth, embarks upon a seemingly impossible quest to find his family.
Chad Cutler (Michael Fassbender) is a second generation Irish traveller living in the west country. Notorious and violent lawbreakers, led by Chad’s father Colby (Brendan Gleeson), the family spend their time looting the lands around them. Caught between loyalty for his father and the wish for a better life and education for his children, Chad must decide on the direction in which to take his young family. The police, meanwhile, are closing in on the Cutlers after their latest robbery and threatening to take the decision out of Chad’s hands altogether. I, Claude Monet
A fresh and revealing biography about one of the most loved painters of all time, Claude Monet. Hailed as the man who gave birth to impressionism, this film gives new insight into the artist using his letters and other writings. Despite being the leading French Impressionist landscape painter, Monet suffered from feelings of depression and loneliness before his talents in both art and gardening developed and his love of life was revealed. Shot on location in Paris, London, Normandy and Venice I, Claude Monet is a cinematic immersion into some of the most loved and iconic scenes in Western Art. 11
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A Quiet Passion
A Quiet Passion 12a Fri 14 – Wed 19 Apr Dir: Terence Davies UK/Belgium 2016 125mins Cast: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine Acclaimed British director Terence Davies presents a beautiful biopic about the ground-breaking American poet, Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon). Following her from youth through to adulthood, A Quiet Passion demonstrates Dickinson’s wit, intelligence and deep connection to her family, but also how at odds she felt with the expectations bestowed on her by society and religion, and how this translated into her poetry. As her life is touched by tragedy and her frustration grows at her lack of recognition, we see how loneliness and reclusiveness begin to dominate Dickinson’s life. 12
It’s Only the End of the World
Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience U Fri 14 – Sun 23 Apr Dir: Mark Baker USA 2017 69mins Cast: TBC Join Peppa in this exciting cinema experience with nine brand new, exclusive and never before seen episodes and plenty of interactive fun. The film features a special fourpart story where Peppa travels to Australia to visit Kylie Kangaroo, learns to surf and even throws a boomerang. We will also hop on board a double-decker bus with the Queen to see the city’s most famous landmarks in Peppa Visits London, visit the zoo, journey along the canal and much more. With plenty of singing and dancing, this is an ideal first cinema experience for little ones.
It’s Only the End of the World 15 Juste la Fin du Monde Tue 18 – Wed 19 Apr Dir: Xavier Dolan Canada/France 2016 97mins French with subtitles Cast: Gaspard Ulliel, Marion Cotillard After a twelve-year absence, successful writer Louis (Gaspard Ulliel) returns home with the intention of telling his hostile family that he is dying. Winner of the Grand Prix award at Cannes and based on Jean-Luc Lagarce’s play, this is an intense and divisive family drama. Featuring an A-list of French stars and shot almost entirely in claustrophobic close-ups, this is not a happy family reunion. “IT’S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD IS CONFRONTATIONAL ABSURDISM: A FASCINATING, SUSTAINED ASSAULT.”
The Guardian
Free Fire 15 Fri 21 – Thu 27 Apr Dir: Ben Wheatley France/UK 2016 90mins Cast: Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy 1978. Boston, Massachusetts. An abandoned warehouse. Justine (Brie Larson) has set up a deal with psychotic Ord (Armie Hammer) so that Irishmen Chris (Cillian Murphy) and Frank (Michael Smiley) can buy guns from South African arms dealer Vernon (Sharlto Copley). All is going fairly well until hired muscle Stevo (Sam Riley) recognises Vernon’s henchman Harry (Jack Reynor) as the guy who jumped him the night before... Full of bullet-flying mayhem, Free Fire is relentlessly violent and hugely entertaining. “THIS IS SERIOUSLY COOL, STUFFED WITH GREAT DIALOGUE AND RIDDLED WITH BULLETS.” Empire
The Olive Tree PG (tbc)
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Fri 21 & Sun 23 Apr Dir: Icíar Bollaín Spain/Germany 2016 100mins Spanish with subtitles Cast: Anna Castillo, Manuel Cucala
Mon 24 & Tue 25 Apr Dir: Asghar Farhadi Iran/France 2016 124mins Persian with subtitles Cast: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti
Alma’s (Anna Castillo) family have been producing olive oil from their grove of olive trees in Spain’s Castellon province for centuries. A downturn in the economy has seen them move into poultry farming and force the sale of their 2000 year old olive tree. Devastated at the sale, Alma’s elderly and ailing grandfather Ramon (Manuel Cucala) refuses to speak. Determined that he sees his beloved olive tree again, Alma tracks it down to a bank’s headquarters in Dusseldorf and begins her quest to bring it home. “GENTLE COMEDY, BRISTLING SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND A SALTY-TEARED STREAK OF FAMILY TRAGEDY” Variety Free Fire
As they prepare for roles in Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman, actor couple Emad (Hosseini) and Rana (Alidoosti) are forced to leave their apartment. Set up in temporary accommodation, they find out too late that it has a chequered past – with disastrous consequences. With Rana traumatized and a rift developing between them, Emad begins his search for those responsible. Winning Best Actor and Best Screenplay awards at Cannes, this is a tense and compelling thriller that explores the uncontrollable thirst for revenge and the consequences it brings.
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Personal Shopper 15 Thu 27 & Sat 29 Apr Dir: Olivier Assayas France/Germany 2016 105mins Cast: Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Nora Von Waltstätten, Sigrid Bouaziz Maureen (Kristen Stewart) is a young American working as a personal shopper in Paris for demanding megalomaniac supermodel/designer Kyra (Nora Von Waltstätten). Frustrated by the job she hates, Maureen only stays in Paris in the attempt to contact the spirit of her dead twin, Lewis. Contact is seemingly increasingly unlikely, until she starts to receive mysterious text messages from an unknown source...
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Tense, mysterious and scary, Personal Shopper features a stunning performance from Kristen Stewart and once again establishes her as one of Hollywood’s most watchable actors. The Sense of an Ending
Fri 28 & Sun 30 Apr Dir: David Lynch France/USA 2001 143mins Cast: Laura Herring, Naomi Watts Quickly achieving cult status, this mind-bending mystery-drama from revolutionary director David Lynch was named as the best film of the century so far in the BBC Culture’s critics’ poll. After a brutal car accident on LA’s Mullholland Drive, Rita (Laura Herring) wanders into aspiring actress Betty’s (Naomi Watts) apartment suffering from amnesia. As Betty vows to help solve the mystery of Rita’s true identity, they both quickly discover that nothing is as it seems in Tinseltown. “IT IS LESS A DEMONSTRATION OF HOW GREAT CINEMA IS ACHIEVED THAN WHAT GREAT CINEMA CAN ACHIEVE, ITS CAPACITY FOR IDEAS SEEMINGLY ENDLESS.” BBC 14
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The Sense of an Ending 15 Fri 28 Apr – Thu 4 May Dir: Ritesh Batra UK 2017 108mins Cast: Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter Based on the award-winning novel by Julian Barnes, Tony Webster (Broadbent) lives a relatively quiet life until the mother of his university girlfriend, Veronica (Rampling), unexpectedly leaves him a diary in her will. However, the diary, written by Tony’s estranged friend and Veronica’s subsequent boyfriend, is in Veronica’s possession but she refuses to relinquish it. In trying to recover the diary and retelling the story to his ex-wife Margaret (Walter), Tony is forced to face the truth behind the constructed, selective memories of his past.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 15 Mon 1 & Wed 3 May Dir: Milos Forman USA 1975 134mins Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Christopher Lloyd, Danny De Vito
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Sat 11 Mar Dir: Lee Unkrich USA 2010 103mins Voice Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Michael Keaton
Livewire Randle P McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) unwisely cons his way out of prison, where he has been incarcerated for statutory rape, and into a mental institution. After witnessing the degrading treatment of the inmates (including Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd) he leads them in a revolt against the cold and terrifying Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher). The acclaimed Oscar winning adaption of Ken Kesey’s famous novel, this is arguably Jack Nicholson’s finest performance and features a stellar cast who went on to become stars in their own right.
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The Eagle Huntress U Sat 18 Mar Dir: Otto Bell UK/Mongolia/USA 2016 87mins Cast: Aisholpan Nurgaiv, Daisy Ridley This empowering and inspirational docu-drama follows 13-year-old Aisholpan, the first female in twelve generations to enter the respected annual Golden Eagle competition.
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FernGully: The Last Rainforest U Sat 22 Apr Dir: Bill Kroyer Australia/USA 1992 76mins Voice Cast: Samantha Mathis, Tim Curry, Robin Williams, Christian Slater
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Fairy Crysta (Samantha Mathis) and human Zak fight to save spectacular rainforest FernGully from deforestation. However, the evil Hexxus (Tim Curry) has been released and is determined to destroy everything. 15
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SATURDAY FILM TALKS £12.50 (£10) Film Club Members £10.50 (£8.25) Spend the day exploring particular themes in film guided by a specialist in the field.
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Independents’ Day 15 Sat 4 Mar 11am – 3.30pm (inc. lunch break)
Includes a complete screening of Lone Star What is an American Indie? Since the 1980s it has defined a specific style of filmmaking. But does it constitute a genre, a style of filmmaking or even a mode of production outside of the Hollywood studios?
Lone Star
In this illustrated talk, Ian Haydn Smith will look back through the history of American cinema since 1960 when John Cassavetes made Shadows to identify what Indie cinema was, is and might look like in the future. The day includes a complete screening of John Sayles’ magnificent Lone Star from 1996.
Neil Brand puts Music to Work PG Sat 29 Apr 11am – 3.30pm (inc. lunch break)
Includes a complete screening of The Railway Children The star of BBC4 series Sound of Musicals, Neil Brand embraces film, music, live performance and comedy, to investigate how music helps to tell stories. From iconic film scores to the great songs of 20th Century pop, from music that sets mood and character to music that makes us laugh, this talk demonstrates the magic formula that makes music act on our senses, memories and emotions to trigger greater understanding about stories and a deeper emotional connection to the world around us.
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QUICK GUIDE FILMS A–Z 20th Century Women A Quiet Passion Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Botticelli Inferno Denial Elle Fences Ferngully: The Last Rainforest Free Fire George Best: All By Himself Hidden Figures I, Claude Monet I, Daniel Blake It’s Only the End of the World Jackie La La Land Lion Loving Manchester by the Sea Moonlight Mulholland Drive Neruda One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience Personal Shopper Prevenge Rules Don’t Apply Sweet Dreams The Eagle Huntress The Founder The Olive Tree The Salesman The Sense of an Ending The Time of Their Lives Toni Erdmann Toy Story 3 Trespass Against Us Viceroy’s House Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
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FILM EVENTS Saturday Film Talk: Independents’ Day Saturday Film Talk: Music at Work with Neil Brand
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DIGITAL SCREENINGS Met Opera: Eugene Onegin Met Opera: Idomeneo Met Opera: La Traviata NT Live: Hedda Gabler NT Live: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead NT Live: Twelfth Night ROH: Jewels ROH: The Sleeping Beauty (Encore) RSC Live: Julius Caesar
MARCH
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Toni Erdmann BACKCHAT Loving Neruda Loving La La Land Hidden Figures Saturday Film Talk: Independents’ Day Jackie Hidden Figures La La Land ROH: The Sleeping Beauty (Encore) Jackie Hidden Figures S/HOH Hidden Figures Jackie Jackie PSD Hidden Figures Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Hidden Figures Jackie Hidden Figures Hidden Figures NT Live: Hedda Gabler Moonlight La La Land Toy Story 3 Moonlight Met Opera: La Traviata La La Land Moonlight BACKCHAT Moonlight Prevenge I, Daniel Blake Prevenge Moonlight Moonlight Moonlight Prevenge I, Daniel Blake Botticelli Inferno Moonlight Viceroy’s House Manchester by the Sea The Eagle Huntress Viceroy’s House Manchester by the Sea Viceroy’s House Manchester by the Sea Viceroy’s House S/HOH Viceroy’s House The Founder The Founder Viceroy’s House Viceroy’s House The Founder The Founder Viceroy’s House Denial Fences
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Denial Met Opera: Idomeneo Denial Fences Fences Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk BACKCHAT Fences Sweet Dreams Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Sweet Dreams Elle Rules Don’t Apply
2pm 4.55pm 4pm 7.30pm 6pm 8.50pm 6.05pm 8.30pm 6pm 8.50pm 6.05pm 8.30pm 6.05pm 8.50pm
APRIL Sat 1 Sun 2 Mon 3 Tue 4 Wed 5 Thu 6 Fri 7 Sat 8 Sun 9 Mon 10 Tue 11 Wed 12 Thu 13 Fri 14
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Sun 23 The Time of Their Lives Rules Don’t Apply Elle Elle Rules Don’t Apply Rules Don’t Apply Elle The Time of Their Lives Rules Don’t Apply Rules Don’t Apply Elle George Best: All By Himself Rules Don’t Apply Trespass Against Us 20th Century Women 20th Century Women 20th Century Women Trespass Against Us Trespass Against Us 20th Century Women Lion Trespass Against Us ROH: Jewels Lion Trespass Against Us I, Claude Monet Lion Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience La La Land A Quiet Passion Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience A Quiet Passion La La Land Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience La La Land A Quiet Passion Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience A Quiet Passion La La Land
4pm 6pm 8.40pm 4pm 7.30pm 6pm 8.40pm 6.15pm 8.30pm 6pm 8.40pm 6.30pm 8.50pm 6.15pm 8.30pm 3.30pm 6pm 8.30pm 4pm 7.30pm 6.10pm 8.40pm 7.15pm 6.10pm 8.40pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 1pm 2.30pm 4pm 7.30pm 10.30am 1.30pm 4pm 7.30pm 11.30am 1.30pm 4pm 7.30pm 1pm 2.30pm 4pm 7.30pm
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Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience TBC It’s Only the End of the World 6.15pm A Quiet Passion 8.30pm Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience TBC S/HOH 6.10pm A Quiet Passion It’s Only the End of the World 8.50pm Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience TBC NT Live: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 7pm Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience 10.30am The Olive Tree 6.15pm Free Fire 8.30pm Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience 10.30am Ferngully 1.30pm Free Fire 3.30pm Met Opera: Eugene Onegin 5.55pm NT Live: Twelfth Night 2pm Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience 2.30pm The Olive Tree 4pm Free Fire 7.30pm Free Fire 6.30pm The Salesman 8.30pm The Salesman 6pm Free Fire 8.40pm Free Fire 3.30pm RSC Live: Julius Caesar 7pm Free Fire 6.30pm Personal Shopper 8.30pm The Sense of an Ending 6.10pm Mulholland Drive 8.30pm Saturday Film Talk: Music at Work with Neil Brand 11am The Sense of an Ending 4pm The Sense of an Ending 6.10pm Personal Shopper 8.30pm Mulholland Drive 4pm The Sense of an Ending 7.30pm
MAY Mon 1 Tue 2 Wed 3 Thu 4
The Sense of an Ending One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Neruda The Sense of an Ending One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest The Sense of an Ending S/HOH BACKCHAT Neruda Neruda The Sense of an Ending
S/HOH BACKCHAT
Subtitled for hard of hearing.
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Post-show discussion.
4pm 7pm 6.10pm 8.30pm 3.15pm 6.10pm 8.30pm 6.10pm 8.30pm
A chance to talk about what you have seen with Julia Jones in a series of informal discussions on key new films.
NB. Where certificates show TBC the information was unavailable at the time of going to print. Please check website for updated information. Warwick Arts Centre reserves the right to change the film programme without notice. Please check our website or contact Box Office for updated information.
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