cinema
may & jun 09
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Helen Mirren plays a supporting but feisty role in State of Play, as Russell Crowe's editor in a superior political thriller which reminded me of Michael Clayton, and Emma Thompson returns to the forefront in Last Chance Harvey, a rom-com for the more mature adult proving that Kate Winslet is not the only British actress who can command the screen. Stephen Frears returns to collaborating with writer Christopher Hampton and Michelle Pfeiffer after Dangerous Liaisons with another French adaptation, Colette's Chéri, set in the sumptuous splendour of fin de siecle Paris.
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There are festival programmes from Spain and Latin America and Australia - always surprising and engaging; an astonishing vampire movie from Sweden, Let The Right One In, which defies description; and Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo, a dazzling work which casts an unblinking eye on recent Italian politics. This has to be one of the richest years for film in a decade. Have fun.
John Gore. Film Programmer Cover image: Chéri
Fri 1 – Sun 3 May Dir: Danny Boyle UK/US 2008 120mins Cast: Irrfan Khan, Anil Kapoor, Dev Patel
Fri 1 – Thu 7 May & Fri 3 – Sun 5 Jul Dir: Tom Hooper UK 2009 93 mins Cast: Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent, Colm Meaney, Timothy Spall
The jumble and hustle of modern-day India provides the steamy, energetic backdrop to Danny Boyle’s electrifying film Slumdog Millionaire, which swept the boards at this year’s Oscar and Bafta ceremonies. This is an eloquent and moving account of a boy who attempts to become a millionaire on a television game show, rediscovering the love of his life in the process. Slumdog Millionaire is a cinematic rollercoaster ride, above all a romance, in a world where social, economic and political issues are never far away. With a superb young cast, Boyle’s feel for the heat, sweat and street life of Mumbai transforms Slumdog Millionaire into a compelling and gripping cinematic experience.
Acclaimed actor Michael Sheen (The Queen, Frost/Nixon) continues his startling run bringing public figures to film as the legendary, opinionated football manager Brian Clough, with Timothy Spall as his right hand man, only friend, and crutch Peter Taylor. Set in 1960s and 1970s England, The Damned United tells the confrontational and darkly humorous story of Brian Clough’s doomed 44 day tenure as manager of the reigning champions of English football, Leeds United. Previously managed by his bitter rival Don Revie (Colm Meaney), Leeds had an aggressive and cynical style of football - an anathema to the principled yet flamboyant Clough.
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No one should be so rash as to declare that ‘the British are coming' but we are enjoying a rather good year in production. Slumdog Millionaire cleaned up at the Oscars and then the talk of the Sundance Festival in January was In The Loop, Armando Ianucci's wickedly funny satire about the start of the Iraq war (or similar). It is a long time since a comedy has made me laugh this much. However, Bill Maher's dry and acute wit that is in evidence in Religulous, his survey of the great religions of the world, did make me smile a lot. He takes a similar approach to Michael Moore but with more subtlety and generosity to his subjects so that no one will be offended but all of us gain some sort of enlightenment!
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Mon 4 – Thu 7 May Dir: Larry Charles US 2008 101mins Cast: Bill Maher
Please say Something The short film experience Tue 12 May Future Shorts are proud to present Please say Something in association with BAFTA. The programme takes its name from David Reilly's winner of the Golden Bear for best short film at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival 2009 which will feature on the night - the story of a troubled relationship between an abusive mouse and his wife, an intensely emotional cat, set in the future. Other films include Heavy Metal Drummer in which a young Arab teenager reconciles his love of heavy metal rock music and Osmert Parker's Film Noir, a dark story of romance and psychological tension that unfolds into a cinematic world never seen before.
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This documentary follows political humorist and author Bill Maher (Real Time with Bill Maher, Politically Incorrect) as he travels around the globe interviewing people about God and religion. Known for his astute analytical skills, irreverent wit and commitment to never pulling a punch, Maher brings his characteristic honesty to an unusual spiritual journey.
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Fri 8 – Sun 10 May Dir: Paolo Sorrentino Italy/France 2008 118mins subtitled Cast: Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Piera Degli Esposti
Fri 8 – Thu 14 May & Fri 3 – Sun 5 Jul Dir: Armando Iannucci UK 2008 109mins Cast: Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini, Chris Addison, Tom Hollander
Italian politics comes under scrutiny in this visually arresting biopic of Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, who was elected to Parliament seven times between 1975 and 1992. From the filmmaker of Consequences of Love, the film examines the power and corruption of the country’s elite, leading to the trial in which Andreotti was accused of collusion with the Mafia.
Britain and America; friends and allies as far back as anyone can remember. Both the US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war but not everyone agrees including US Assistant Secretary for Diplomacy, US Army General (Gandolfini) and a floundering British Minister Simon Foster (Hollander). When Foster accidentally announces on national TV that ‘war is unforeseeable’, the British government is sent into a spiral of chaos and spin propagated by verbosely aggressive Director of Communications, Malcolm Tucker (Capaldi). From Armando Ianucci, the comic-genius behind The Day Today, I’m Alan Partridge and the BAFTA award-winning The Thick Of It and starring Tom Hollander, James Gandolfini, Peter Capaldi and Steve Coogan, comes a hilarious and biting satire on British-US relations and the lunacy of war.
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Corazón Del Tiempo Fri 15 May Dir: Alberto Cortés Mexico 2009 90mins subtitled Cast: Rocío Barrios, Francisco Jiménez, Marisela Rodríguez, Doña Aurelia
Sat 16 May Dir: Alex Rivera Mexico/US 2008 90mins subtitled Cast: Luis Fernando Peña, Jacob Vargas, Leonor Varela, Giovanna Zacarías
In the heart of the Selva Laconda, in a Zapatista village in Chiapas, a young indigenous girl is to be married - but when a chance meeting with a rebel fighter throws the marriage plans into disarray, both the village community and the insurgent army are put at risk. Shot on location with a cast of nonprofessional actors.
Set in a near future in which the resources of the world are directed towards the rich, water has been privatised and the poor have become nothing more than virtual workers, Sleep Dealer is an impressive sci-fi film that combines new technology and global politics as three strangers attempt to connect with each other and begin to resist their continued exploitation. As with the very best examples of the genre, Sleep Dealer uses its future world to offer a stark warning about today. Sitting somewhere between Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 this is a real Spanish gem.
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¡Viva!, the 15th Spanish and Latin American Film Festival arrives at Warwick Arts Centre with a specially selected programme of screenings celebrating the diversity of Spanish language films and documentary.
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Flores De Luna Sun 17 May Dir: Juan Vicente Córdoba Spain 2008 120 mins subtitled
Mon 18 May Dir: Daniel Cebrián Spain 2005 104mins subtitled Cast: Álex González, Darío Grandinetti, Eva Marciel, Laura Aparicio
Tue 19 & Wed 20 May Dir: Pablo Larrain Chile/Brazil 2008 98mins subtitled Cast: Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera
Forced to choose between the familiar environment of the boxing ring, and the seemingly “easy” route offered by Vidal, Ángel is torn in two directions and his sense of stability begins to weaken under this external pressure.
During the late seventies, in the midst of the tough social context of Pinochet’s dictatorship, Raúl Peralta, a man in his fifties, is obsessed with the idea of impersonating Tony Manero, John Travolta’s character in Saturday Night Fever. By day mild-mannered and impotent, he unleashes his passion in the local bars by imitating his idol. His urge to reproduce his idol’s likeness drives him to commit a series of violent crimes and thefts. In the meantime, his dancing partners, who are involved in underground activities against the regime, are persecuted by the government’s secret police.
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Housing economic and social migrants, the ramshackle community soon developed a unique identity, and out of these humble beginnings of mud and tin shacks grew the El Pozo del Tio Raímundo suburb. This moving documentary presents the barrio's development as a reflection of Spanish society, class war and solidarity, assisted in no small way by the work of the ‘Red Priest': Father Llanos.
Ángel is a twenty-year-old loner and an aspiring boxer with extremely poor career prospects. Vidal makes his living from crime and pressures Ángel to join him in participating in a series of bank robberies.
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On the outskirts of Madrid in the 1950s, illegal family homes were built through the night, springing up by daybreak like ‘night flowers'.
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Der Baader Meinhof Komplex Mon 11 – Wed 13 May Dir: Uli Adel Germany/France/Czech Republic 2008 150mins subtitled Cast: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu With films such as Downfall and The Lives of Others, recent German cinema has been celebrated while confronting dark periods in the country’s history. The Baader Meinhof Complex continues that trend as it deals with the Red Army Faction, the left wing militant group formed by radicalised children of the Nazi generation, who fought an international terrorist campaign opposing American imperialism and the West German establishment throughout the 1970s.
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Their aim is to create a more human society but by employing inhuman means they not only spread terror and bloodshed, they also lose their own humanity. The man who understands them is also their hunter: the head of the German police force. And while he succeeds in his relentless pursuit of the young terrorists, he knows he’s only dealing with the tip of the iceberg.
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Bird’s Eye View Tue 21 May
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Bird's Eye View is a programme of film shorts which celebrates and supports international women filmmakers.
One of Those Days Dir Hattie Dalton UK 2008 14mins Bureaucracy can be the bane of your death too in this deliciously dark comedy about the importance of good filing.
Hesitation Dir Virginia Gilbert UK 2007 16mins When his perfect, sunny holiday is slowly sabotaged by someone else’s annoying little angel, Paul discovers his own darker side.
Pop Art Dir Amanda Boyle UK 2008 15mins If you think school is tough when you are twelve, just try being inflatable: a uniquely imaginative take on friendship, loneliness and never quite fitting in.
Like Other People Do Dir Alex Kelly UK 2008 5mins A charming, heart-shaped musical about random acts of kindness.
Top Girl Dir Rebecca Johnson UK 2008 18mins Coming-of-age drama from Brixton about one girl’s love of hip-hop and the power of real friendship.
State of Play 12A Fri 15 – Thu 21 May Dir: Kevin Macdonald UK/US 2009 132mins Cast: Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren Based on the 2003 BBC mini-series of the same title and from the makers of The Last King of Scotland, this film boasts another star turn from Helen Mirren as a fiesty newspaper editor. This political thriller follows Stephen Collins (Affleck), a fast-rising US Congressman whose ambitions are threatened when his mistress (a former research assistant) is found dead in suspicious circumstances. During a probe into a series of seemingly unrelated murders, Cal McCaffrey (Crowe), an investigative journalist and Collins' former campaign manager, finds himself tasked with solving the case, becoming romantically entangled with the Congressman's estranged wife in the process.
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Sat 22 – Mon 25 May Dir: Vincente Amorim UK/Germany 2008 96mins Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker
Fri 22 – Sun 31 May Dir: Stephen Frears UK 2009 100mins Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Rupert Friend, Anita Pallenberg
Tue 26 – Thu 28 May Dir: David Hand US 1942 70mins
Viggo Mortensen (Lord of the Rings/ Eastern Promises) stars in an extraordinary change-of-pace role as John Halder, a good, decent individual with family problems: a neurotic wife, two demanding children and a mother suffering from senile dementia.
Set in the luxurious demi-monde of pre First World War Paris, Chéri is the story of the love affair between the beautiful retired courtesan Léa (Pfeiffer) and Chéri (Friend) the son of her old colleague and rival Mme Peloux (Bates).
A German literature professor in the 1930s, Halder explores his personal circumstances in a novel advocating compassionate euthanasia. When the book is unexpectedly enlisted by powerful political figures in support of government propaganda, Halder finds his career rising in an optimistic current of nationalism and prosperity. Yet with Halder’s change in fortune, his seemingly inconsequential decisions potentially jeopardise the people in his life with devastating effects.
Léa has educated the spoilt and callow boy in the ways of love, but after six years Mme Peloux has secretly arranged a marriage between Chéri and Edmée, daughter of another rich courtesan. As the inevitable moment of parting approaches, Léa and Chéri try to come to terms with their imminent separation, but the roots of their life of ease and pleasure reach deeper than even they imagine and they begin to understand, too late, how much they mean to one another.
This half-term we bring a true classic to the big screen – the animated story of Bambi, a young deer hailed as the ‘Prince of the Forest’ at his birth. As Bambi grows, he makes friends with the other animals of the forest, learns the skills needed to survive, and even finds love. One day, however, the hunters come and Bambi must learn to be as brave as his father if he is to lead the other deer to safety.
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Regular weekend movie events for you to enjoy as a family.
Every Dog Has Its Day! Sat 23 May 2pm Cinema £4.50 (£2.50) Ages 7+
Woof! The very first episode of this long-running children’s TV series, telling the stories and adventures of a young schoolboy who gains the power to transform himself into a dog. Only his best friend knows this and helps him protect the secret from the boy’s parents, their headmaster and their teacher.
Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death Wallace and Gromit have a brand new business… baking. Although business is booming, Gromit is concerned by the news that 12 local bakers have ‘disappeared’ this year. He is forced to turn sleuth and solve the escalating murder mystery in what quickly becomes A Matter of Loaf and Death.
Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf 08
This Oscar-winning film from Poland illustrates the story of Prokofiev’s much loved concert piece. It’s a wolf-eatsduck world. But it’s a world in which little boys can find extraordinary courage.
West Midlands Film Hub
The Greatest Hits of Oliver Postgate Sat 6 Jun 2pm Cinema £4.50 (£2.50) All ages A celebration of the life and creation of animator Oliver Postgate who brought whole new worlds alive to successive generations of young viewers. • • • • • • •
Noggin the Nog (1963) Pogle’s Wood (1966): Pig in the Middle The Clangers (1969): Chicken Mr Benn (1972): The Spaceman Bagpuss (1974): The Ballet Shoe Ivor the Engine (1977): Fire Engine The Wombles (1989)
Time Bandits PG Sat 20 Jun 2pm Cinema £4.50 (£2.50) An extraordinarily inventive fantasy in which schoolboy Kevin is rescued from a dull suburban existence by a band of renegade dwarves, who emerge from his wardrobe and whisk him off on an incredible journey through time and space. Sometime Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam fills the screen with bizarre images and directs with a breathless ingenuity.
Warwick Arts Centre and Screen WM have joined forces to create a Film Hub for the West Midlands. Come along to experience, understand, enjoy and even make movies.
The Age of Stupid 12A Wed 13 May + screening on Thu 14 May Dir: Franny Armstrong UK 2009 89 mins Cast: Pete Postlethwaite Give your opinion or pose questions for further debate on the film you have just seen in this series of post-screening discussions.
The Age of Stupid is an ambitious drama/documentary/animation about climate change. Pete Postlethwaite stars as The Librarian, keeper of human knowledge. He is a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking back at “archive” footage from 2007 and asking: “why didn’t we stop climate change when we had a chance?”
Slumdog Millionaire 15
Wed 13 May: Q&A with Lizzie Gillet, Producer
Thu 7 May 6.30pm
Heart of Time PG
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Religulous 15
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Sat 2 May 6.30pm
Corazon del Tiempo
Fri 15 May 6.30pm
Good 15 Fri 22 May 6.30pm
Chéri tbc Thu 28 May 6.30pm
Shifty 15 Wed 3 Jun 6.30pm
The 400 Blows PG Les Quatre cents coups
Thu 4 Jun 6.30pm
Fifty Dead Men Walking 15 Wed 10 Jun 6.30pm
Bitter and Twisted 15 Mon 15 Jun 6.30pm
Mark of an Angel 12A Sat 20 Jun 6.30pm
Looking for Eric 15 Fri 26 Jun 6.30pm
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Tue 16 Jun + screenings on Mon 8 & Mon 15 Jun Dir: Rupert Murray UK 2008 90mins
Thu 18 Jun + screening on Wed 17 Jun Dir: Werner Herzog US 2007 99mins
The End of the Line, is the world’s first major feature documentary about the devastating impact overfishing has had and is having on our oceans.
There is a hidden society at the end of the world. One thousand men and women live together in unbelievably close quarters in Antarctica, risking their lives and sanity in search of cutting-edge science. Now, for the first time, an outsider has been admitted. In his first documentary since Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog, accompanied only by his cameraman, travelled to Antarctica, with rare access to the raw beauty and raw humanity of the ultimate Down Under. Encounters at the End of the World, Herzog’s latest 09 meditation on nature, explores this land of fire, ice and corrosive solitude.
Based on the book by former Telegraph journalist Charles Clover and filmed over two years, The End of the Line provides a dramatic exposé of those in power who are taking advantage of the seas with catastrophic consequences on the world’s fish supplies.
Tue 16 Jun: Q&A with Claire Lewis, Producer
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona 12A
Tue 26 – Thu 28 May Dir: Tomas Alfredson Sweden 2008 114mins subtitled Cast: Kåre Hedebrandt, Lina Leandersson
Fri 29 May – Mon 1 Jun Dir: Woody Allen Spain/US 2008 96mins Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Rebecca Hall
Two young Americans spend a summer in Spain and meet a flamboyant artist (Bardem) and his beautiful but highly-strung ex-wife (Cruz). Vicky (Hall) is straight-laced and about to be married. Cristina (Johansson) is a sexually adventurous free spirit.
Returning home as a responsible adult 4 years after leaving, Chris (Mays) discovers that old buddy Shifty is dealing hard drugs. Although happy to see him, Shifty hasn't fully forgiven Chris for leaving in the first place, and we soon learn that the circumstances under which Chris left are more complicated than they first seemed.
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When they all become amorously entangled, the results can only be described as chaotic.
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Shifty is a sharply scripted, witty, urban thriller, from writer/director Eran Creevy based on his teenage experiences. Set on the outskirts of London, the film follows themes of friendship and loyalty over the course of 24 hours in the life of a young drug dealer, the charismatic ‘Shifty’, (Ahmed).
Penelope Cruz’s Oscar-winning turn features in Woody Allen’s love letter to the stunning city of Barcelona.
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Based on the best selling novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, Swedish filmmaker Tomas Alfredson weaves friendship, rejection and loyalty into a disturbing, darkly atmospheric, yet unexpectedly tender tableau of adolescence.
Mon 1 – Thu 4 Jun Dir: Eran Creevy UK 2008 86mins subtitled Cast: Riz Ahmed, Daniel Mays, Jason Flemyng
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A fragile, anxious boy, 12-year-old Oskar is regularly bullied but never strikes back. The lonely boy’s wish for a friend seems to come true when he meets Eli, also 12, who moves in next door to him. But Eli’s arrival coincides with a series of gruesome deaths and attacks. Though Oskar realises that she’s a vampire, his friendship with her is stronger than his fear...
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Tue 2 Jun 7pm Conference Room £4 (£2.50) Participating film makers admitted free. Rapid Eye Movement presents the best in new film making from across the Midlands, drawing from student work or emerging professionals to work by some seasoned practitioners, dramas, documentaries, animations and music videos. Come and see what's been happening in your back yard. If you would like to contribute a film to the programme, please send it on DVD, Beta tape or 35 mm to: John Gore, Rapid Eye Movement, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL by Friday 29 May.
The 400 Blows PG Les Quatre Cents Coups Wed 3 & Thu 4 Jun Dir: François Truffaut France 1959 99mins subtitled Cast: Jean-Piere Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy A landmark in modern cinema, Truffaut’s debut feature is the first of five films in his near-autobiographical Antoine Doinel cycle. As a young boy, Antoine is neglected by his parents, bullied by his teacher and becomes a delinquent, although often punished, not for doing what he knows is wrong, but for the things he believes are right. Labelled a delinquent, his budding intellectual curiosity forces him towards an unknowing future.
“Still one of the cinema's most perceptive forays into childhood.” Time Out
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The Young Victoria PG Fri 5 – Mon 8 Jun Dir: Jean-Marc Vallée UK/US 2009 100mins Cast: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, Jim Broadbent From Academy Award winners Graham King and Martin Scorsese comes the story of Queen Victoria’s early rise to power. From an object of a royal power-struggle to her romantic courtship and legendary marriage to Prince Albert, Emily Blunt gives a stunning performance as the young Victoria. Packed with drama, romance, political intrigue, breath-taking cinematography and featuring an outstanding British cast including Jim Broadbent, Mark Strong, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson and Rupert Friend, The Young Victoria is guaranteed to captivate audiences.
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Fri 5 – Thu 11 Jun Dir: John Crowley UK 2008 92mins Cast: Michael Caine, Leslie Phillips, David Morrisey, Anne Marie Duff, Sylvia Sims
Tue 9 – Thu 11 Jun Dir: Kari Skogland UK/Canada 2008 117mins Cast: Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess, Rose McGowan, Kevin Segers
Set in 1980s seaside England, this is the story of Edward (Son of Rambow’s Bill Milner), an unusual ten year old boy growing up in an old people's home run by his parents. Increasingly obsessed with ghosts and the afterlife, Edward's is a rather lonely existence until he meets Clarence (Michael Caine), the latest recruit to the home, a retired magician with a liberating streak of anarchy. Is There Anybody There? tells the surprising, touching story of this odd couple - a boy and an old man - facing life together, with Edward learning to live in the moment and Clarence coming to terms with the past.
Inspired by a true story and highly controversial at its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, this is a gritty account of the Irish civil conflict in the 1980s when it was at its most treacherous. 22-year-old Martin McGartland is recruited by the British police to infiltrate and spy on the IRA. Living his life under constant threat of exposure, he continues in the belief that his information saved many lives. He enjoys the buzz of his double life until he is discovered and becomes a ‘dead man walking’, hunted and tortured by those he spied upon. Forced to escape, the real Martin is still on the run to this day.
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Bitter and Twisted 15 Mon 15 Jun Dir: Christopher Weekes Australia 2008 90mins Cast: Noni Hazlehurst, Christopher Weekes The Lombard family has been steadily disintegrating since the death of eldest son Liam three years before. The bereaved mother mistakes the onset of menopause for a pregnancy, whilst the father overeats to stem his depression. The surviving son, confused about his sexuality, transfers the affection for his dead brother on to his ex-girlfriend. Whilst she, in turn, embarks on a doomed affair with a married man. This extraordinary debut for Christopher Weekes is a beautiful study of each character’s point of crisis set against the stifling backdrop of a sterile suburbia.
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296 Smith Street Dir: John Evagora Australia 2008 15mins
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The London Australian Film Festival 2009 On Tour “One of the finest cinematic showcases in the UK calendar.”
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Tue 16 Jun Dir: Michael Joy Australia 2008 104mins Cast: Grant Dodwell, Don Reid
Wed 17 Jun Dir: Jasmine Yuen-Carrucan Australia 2008 89mins Cast: Travis McMahon, Bryan Brown
Thu 18 Jun Dir: Mathew Newton Australia 2008 94mins Cast: Matthew Newton, Ewen Leslie
Six very different men meet once a week at Paul's home to talk. Beginning as complete strangers, they soon discover that they have something in common: being male. As trust grows between them they gradually begin to share as they learn to listen to each other.
Jasmine Yuen-Carrucan's debut feature is a stylish road-trip thriller. To gain some much needed cash John Kelly accepts a job to kidnap and deliver professional gambler Eli Jones (ER’s David Lyons) to his keepers in the Australian Outback: no questions asked.
Three young Navy officers hit Sydney for one last night on land before being shipped over to the Gulf to fight. Sam has been mistreated at sea and is going AWOL, Dean has a fiancée and the future in-laws to meet, and Harry just loves playing cards.
They discover that they are not quite as alone in their fears as they had presumed. It takes a tragedy for the men to finally understand that they must take responsibilities for their own lives and those of their loved ones.
The kidnapping is meticulously planned, but the road John chooses takes him on a dark journey where every choice has tragic consequences.
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Small Change Dir: Anna McGrath Australia 2007 8mins
Plus Dir: Stuart Parkyn & Julius Avery Australia 2008 14mins
Throughout the night the boys lose each other, find themselves, and along the way discover courage, friendship and redemption. Think Gene Kelly’s On The Town taking a darker twist towards something more like The Last Detail.
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Five New Things Dir: Fiona Tuomy Australia 2008 7mins
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Che – Part 1 & Part 2 15 Fri 12 – Sun 14 Jun Dir: Steven Soderbergh Part 1 is a chronicle of the successful uprising in France/Spain/US 2008 Cuba, tracking Che’s rise from doctor to commander Part 1: 126mins to revolutionary hero. Following Castro, Che and their Part 2: 126mins comrades it shows how their initially tiny army fought its Cast: Benicio Del Toro way down from the mountains and mobilised popular support to overthrow Batista’s corrupt government.
See both films for £10! (when booked in one transaction)
Meticulously researched, the two films are manifestly different both in tone and approach, but taken together they are cinema at its most intelligent and exciting.
A tale of idealism, tenacity and sacrifice, it illustrates why he remains a potent symbol of idealism and heroism around the world.
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Audacious in conception and daring in realisation, Steven Soderburgh’s studies of Che Guevara’s campaigns in Cuba and Bolivia provide us with an outstanding anatomy of the politics and process of revolutionary change.
Part 2 deals with Che’s involvement in the Bolivian campaign of 1966 to 1967 and the attempt to orchestrate the great Latin American revolution. Lacking popular support, and with the Bolivian army and its American advisors waging effective counterinsurgency, the failed revolt brought Che to his death.
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Sat 13 & Wed 17 Jun Dir: Phil Grabsky UK 2009 approx. 130mins Cast: narrated by Juliet Stevenson and David Dawson
L'Empreinte De L'Ange Fri 19 – Sun 21 Jun Dir: Safy Nebbou France 2008 95mins subtitled Cast: Catherine Frot, Sandrine Bonnaire, Wladimir Yordanoff
The makers of In Search of Mozart return with a new feature-length biographical film In Search of Beethoven. The film brings together the world’s leading performers and experts on Beethoven to reveal new insights into 14 this legendary composer. The line-up of performers and interviewees includes Gianandrea Noseda, Sir Roger Norrington, Riccardo Chailly, Claudio Abbado, Fabio Luisi, Vadim Repin, Paul Lewis and Emanuel Ax among others. In Search of Beethoven takes a comprehensive look at the composer’s life through his musical output, documenting each piece of music chronologically marrying it to Beethoven’s biography and letters.
Based on a true story, this film boasts two superb character studies by both Catherine Frot (The Piano Tuner) as Elsa and Sandrine Bonnaire as Claire. A mother caught up in a custody battle over her son, becomes obsessed with another woman’s daughter. With her ex-husband already looking to exploit her mental instability, Elsa’s obsession with the girl, and her use of deceit to get close to the girl’s mother, Claire, are unnerving and a palpable threat. Yet as this subtle thriller unravels, more secrets are revealed avoiding expected clichés.
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Sounds Like Teen Spirit 12A
Fri 19 – Thu 25 Jun Mon 22 & Tue 23 June Dir: Joel Hopkins Dir: Jamie J Johnson US 2008 92mins UK 2008 89mins some subtitles Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Eileen Atkins, James Brolin
Sounds Like Teen Spirit is a feel-good popumentary, following the style of affectionate documentaries like Spellbound and Red Hot Ballroom. Johnson’s touching film follows the agony and ecstasy of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Unlike so many other child talent contests, there are no pushy parents jostling in the sidelines, just children with real ambition, and sometimes even talent. Open to 10 to 15 year olds, each artist must have written their own song.
Having run away from his daughter’s wedding after finding out she has asked her father-in-law to give her away, missed his plane, then lost his job, Harvey finds kindness in his chance meeting with Kate. Energised by her intelligence and compassion, their relationship blossoms against the backdrop of London, unwittingly transforming their lives.
This witty observational study follows several contestants, amongst them a bullied Cypriot balladeer, an inappropriately “sexy” young Ukrainian girl, and a hopeful girl from povertystricken Georgia who feels the weight of a nation’s hopes on her shoulders.
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Described as Before Sunrise for an older generation, this is one of the finest romantic comedies of recent years and is a perfect star vehicle for the charms of Hoffman and Thompson. Rejected former jingle writer, Harvey (Hoffman), is down on his luck and stranded at a London airport, where he meets the prickly but witty Kate (Thompson).
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Wed 24 Jun Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski Poland 1989 56mins subtitled Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Maria Pakulnis
Thu 25 Jun Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski Poland 1989 56mins subtitled Cast: Adrianna Biedrzyska, Janusz Gajos, Artur Barcis
Taxi-driver Janusz, his mother, wife and two kids leave a chair free, in the traditional manner, at their Christmas Eve dinner table. At midnight mass, Janusz spots a familiarlooking woman looking at him, and later meets her in the street. Her husband is missing; he must help find him.
Since her mother died in childbirth Anka has always been close to her architect father. But while he is away she finds a letter from her mother that contains a family secret.
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He reluctantly agrees, and so embarks with the woman - with whom it becomes clear he has had an affair - on a search through the lonely city, its hospitals and railway stations. A film of enormous compassion about the consequences of love, this says more in under an hour about the suffering that results from exclusion, infidelity and the lack of charity than a lifetime of sermons.
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Remember the Sabbath Day to Keep It Holy Dir: Maciej Cuske 2008 44mins subtitled
When her father returns, they drink vodka and she challenges him to a game of Truth or Dare... Kieslowski's masterly film addresses the question of incestuous impulses and their roots - and has all the discomforting compulsion of watching open-heart surgery. The two central performances are simply astounding.
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Till It Hurts Dir: Marcin Koszaka Poland 2008 24mins subtitled In Till It Hurts, Polish director and cinematographer Marcin Koszaka returns to the subject of his first documentary, Such a Nice Boy I Gave Birth To, which dealt with his own relationship with his domineering mother. Again he goes right to the emotional edge with his reinterpretation of the fourth commandment – honour your father and mother.
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In a few months Sta is going to take his First Communion. It is an intensive period of preparations, both spiritual and material, that each person in the family experiences differently. Amusing, insightful observations of the filmmaker and his family.
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Fri 26 – Sun 28 Jun Dir: Charlie Kaufman US 2008 124mins Cast: Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams
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Oscar-winning writer Kaufman both writes and makes his directorial debut with this exploration of the creative mind featuring an all-star cast. Theatre director Caden Cotard (Hoffman) is mounting a new play. Worried about the transience of his life, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, hoping to create a work of brutal honesty.
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He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing mockup of the city outside. However, as the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden's own life veers wildly off the tracks.
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Sat 26 Jun – Thu 2 Jul Dir: Ken Loach UK 2009 117mins Cast: Matthew McNulty, Eric Cantona, Lucy Jo Hudson
Mon 29 Jun – Thu 2 Jul Dir: Andrew Fleming US 2008 92mins Cast: Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, Amy Poehler, David Arquette
A magical, social realist film about a football fanatic postman whose life is in crisis. He finds a very special life coach in the guise of his hero, Eric Cantona. This film came about through a series of conversations between life-long footie fan Loach, writer Paul Laverty, footballer Eric Cantona and producer Rebecca O'Brien. The project is "inspired by the foot-balling genius of Eric Cantona and his very special relationship with all who love football." Loach, Laverty and O’Brien have previously collaborated on the films Ae Fond Kiss and Sweet Sixteen.
One high school drama teacher is about to make a huge number 2 in this wildly irreverent and completely outrageous comedy from the producers of Little Miss Sunshine. When his school theatre department is threatened to be cut, failed-actor-turned-high-school-drama-teacher Dana Marschz writes a play that he hopes will solve everything: a sequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Staging one of the most politically incorrect musical theatre extravaganzas ever seen, Dana and his class will put it all on the line for one controversial, conflicted night of hilarity.
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quick guide Bo www. x Office 02 warw ickart 4 7652 452 scentr e.co.u 4 k
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Films A-Z
May
400 Blows (The) p11 Age of Stupid (The) p09 Baader Meinhof Complex (The) p06 Bambi p07 Bitter and Twisted p12 Cactus p13 Che - Part 1 p14 Che - Part 2 p14 Chéri p07 Damned United (The) p02 Dekalog III p16 Dekalog IV p16 Encounters at the End of the World p09 End of the Line (The) p09 Fifty Dead Men Walking p12 Good p07 Hamlet 2 p17 Heart of Time p04 Il Divo p03 In Search of Beethoven p14 In The Loop p03 Is Anybody There? p12 Last Chance Harvey p15 Let The Right One In p10 Looking for Eric p17 Mark of an Angel p14 Men's Group p13 Night Flowers p05 Religulous p03 Second Round p05 Shifty p10 Sleep Dealer p04 Slumdog Millionaire p02 Sounds Like Teen Spirit p15 State of Play p06 Synecdoche New York p17 Three Blind Mice p13 Tony Manero p05 Vicky Cristina Barcelona p10 Young Victoria (The) p11
Fri 01 Sat 02 Sun 03 Mon 04 Tue 05 Wed 06 Thu 07 Fri 08 Sat 09 Sun 10 Mon 11 Tue 12 Wed 13 Thu 14 Fri 15 Sat 16 Sun 17 Mon 18 Tue 19 Wed 20 Thu 21 Fri 22 Sat 23 Sun 24 Mon 25 Tue 26 Wed 27
Events Bird's Eye View Burning Issues: The Age of Stupid Family Films Future Shorts (Conf Room) In The Frame Rapid Eye Movement
p06 p09 p08 p03 p09 p11
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The Damned United Slumdog Millionaire The Damned United Slumdog Millionaire PSD. The Damned United Slumdog Millionaire The Damned United The Damned United S. Religulous Religulous The Damned United The Damned United S. The Damned United Religulous Religulous PSD. The Damned United Il Divo In The Loop In The Loop In The Loop Il Divo Il Divo In The Loop In The Loop S. The Baader Meinhof Complex The Baader Meinhof Complex Future Shorts (Conference Room) In The Loop The Baader Meinhof Complex In The Loop Burning Issues: The Age of Stupid (Conf. Room) The Baader Meinhof Complex The Age of Stupid In The Loop Heart of Time PSD. State of Play State of Play State of Play Sleep Dealer Night Flowers State of Play State of Play S. Second Round Tony Manero State of Play State of Play State of Play S. Tony Manero Bird's Eye View State of Play Good PSD. Chéri Family Films: Every Dog Has Its Day! Chéri Chéri Good Good Chéri Chéri Good Bambi Chéri S. Let The Right One In Bambi Chéri S. Let The Right One In Chéri
6.30pm 8.30pm 4pm 6.30pm 9pm 4pm 7.30pm 4pm 7.30pm 6.30pm 8.45pm 4pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 6.30pm 8.45pm 6.30pm 8.50pm 4pm 6.30pm 8.45pm 4pm 7.30pm 6.30pm 8.45pm 6.15pm 7pm 9pm 3.30pm 6.30pm 7pm 8.45pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 4pm 6.30pm 8.50pm 4pm 7.30pm 6.30pm 8.50pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 4pm 6.30pm 9pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 2pm 4pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 4pm 7.30pm 4pm 7.30pm 2pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 2pm 4pm 6.30pm 8.45pm
Thu 28 Fri 29 Sat 30 Sun 31
Bambi Chéri PSD. Let The Right One In Vicky Cristina Barcelona Chéri Chéri Chéri Vicky Cristina Barcelona Vicky Cristina Barcelona Chéri
2pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 4pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 4pm 7.30pm
June Mon 01 Vicky Cristina Barcelona 6.30pm Shifty 8.30pm Tue 02 Rapid Eye Movement 6.30pm Shifty 8.45pm Wed 03 Shifty PSD. 6.30pm The 400 Blows 8.30pm Thu 04 The 400 Blows PSD. 6.30pm Shifty 8.30pm Fri 05 Is Anybody There? 6.30pm The Young Victoria 8.30pm Sat 06 Family Films: The Greatest Hits of Oliver Postgate 2pm The Young Victoria 4pm The Young Victoria 6.30pm Is Anybody There? 8.30pm Sun 07 The Young Victoria 4pm Is Anybody There? 7.30pm Mon 08 The End of the Line 4.30pm Is Anybody There? 6.30pm The Young Victoria 8.30pm Tue 09 Is Anybody There? S. 6.30pm Fifty Dead Men Walking 8.30pm Wed 10 Is Anybody There? S. 4pm Fifty Dead Men Walking PSD. 6.30pm Is Anybody There? 8.50pm Thu 11 Is Anybody There? 6.30pm Fifty Dead Men Walking 8.30pm Fri 12 Che - Part 1 6.15pm Che - Part 2 9pm Sat 13 In Search of Beethoven 3.30pm Che - Part 1 6.15pm Che - Part 2 9pm Sun 14 Che - Part 1 4pm Che - Part 2 7pm Mon 15 Bitter and Twisted PSD. 6.30pm The End of the Line 8.45pm Tue 16 Burning Issues: The End of the Line 6.30pm Men's Group 9pm Wed 17 In Search of Beethoven 3.30pm Cactus 6.30pm Encounters at the End of the World 8.45pm Thu 18 Burning Issues: Encounters at the End of the World 6.30pm Three Blind Mice 8.30pm Fri 19 Last Chance Harvey 6.30pm Mark of an Angel 8.30pm Sat 20 Family Films: Time Bandits 2pm Last Chance Harvey 4.30pm Mark of an Angel PSD. 6.30pm Last Chance Harvey 8.30pm Sun 21 Last Chance Harvey 4pm Mark of an Angel 7.30pm Mon 22 Sounds Like Teen Spirit 6.30pm Last Chance Harvey 8.30pm Tue 23 Last Chance Harvey S. 6.30pm Sounds Like Teen Spirit 8.30pm
Wed 24 Last Chance Harvey S. Last Chance Harvey Dekalog III Thu 25 Last Chance Harvey Dekalog IV Fri 26 Looking for Eric PSD. Synecdoche New York Sat 27 Looking for Eric Synecdoche New York Looking for Eric Sun 28 Looking for Eric Synecdoche New York Mon 29 Looking for Eric S. Hamlet 2 Tue 30 Hamlet 2 Looking for Eric
4pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 6.30pm 8.50pm 4pm 6.30pm 9pm 4pm 7.30pm 6.30pm 8.50pm 6.30pm 8.30pm
Wed 01 Thu 02 Fri 03 Sat 04 Sun 05
6.30pm 8.50pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 4pm 6.30pm 8.45pm 4pm 7.30pm
July Looking for Eric Hamlet 2 Hamlet 2 Looking for Eric The Damned United In The Loop In The Loop In The Loop The Damned United The Damned United In The Loop
Subtitled Screenings (S.) We continue our series of films in the English language that are screened with English subtitles to assist our deaf and hard of hearing patrons and those for whom English is not their first language.
May Mon 04 Wed 06 Mon 11 Mon 18 Wed 20 Tue 26 Wed 27
The Damned United The Damned United In The Loop State of Play State of Play Chéri Chéri
4pm 4pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 4pm
June Tue 09 Wed 10 Tue 23 Wed 24 Mon 29
Is Anybody There? Is Anybody There? Last Chance Harvey Last Chance Harvey Looking For Eric
6.30pm 4pm 6.30pm 4pm 6.30pm
Post-Screening Discussions (PSD.) See page 9 for details
Online Booking Please note that due to the installation of a new ticketing system, there will be disruption to online sales between 23 May and 9 June. If you have any queries, please call Box Office on 024 7652 4524.
Online Credit Any credit accrued on events up to 31 March 2009 will expire on 31 May 2009. All customers with £1 or more on their accounts have been notified of this in writing. Any credit added onto accounts for events from 1 April 2009 onwards will expire on 31 July 2010.
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Mon - Sat 9.30am - 9.00pm Sun - 2.00pm - 8.00pm
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Foursight Theatre
Can Any Mother Help Me? Tue 19 - Thu 21 May Based on The Story of the Cooperative Correspondence Club by Jenna Bailey, this is an evocative, dynamic and touching new play bringing to life the funny and often moving storis of a group of early 20th century women.