Sep - Oct Film Diary 2016

FILM SEP – OCT 2016

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SATURDAY FAMILY SAVERS A selection of child-friendly films that introduce and engage younger audiences to the wonders of film.

Available on selected Saturdays of the month – with a special discounted price of £5.50 (£3.50), saving £3.50 on full price ticket and £2.75 on a child’s ticket.

Zootropolis

Swallows and Amazons PG Fri 26 Aug – Sun 4 Sep Dir: Philippa Lowthorpe UK 2016 97mins Cast: Kelly Macdonald, Andrew Scott, Rafe Spall Arthur Ransome’s classic novel Swallows and Amazons comes to life in this new adaptation, directed

by Philippa Lowthorpe (Call the Midwife).

The film is set over an idyllic English summer holiday where the Walker children and their sailing rivals, the Blacketts, run amok in their boats against the impressive backdrop of the Lake District. When the Blackett’s uncle Jim is revealed to be a spy, all of the children are forced to band together to protect him against his enemies.

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Fantastic Mr. Fox

Zootropolis PG

Fantastic Mr. Fox PG

Sat 1 Oct 1.30pm Dir: Rich Moore & Byron Howard USA 2016 108mins Voice Cast: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Shakira, Idris Elba

Sat 8 Oct 1.30pm Dir: Wes Anderson USA 2009 85mins Voice Cast: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman

From the largest elephant to the smallest shrew, the city of Zootopia is a mammal metropolis where various animals live and thrive. But when optimistic Judy Hopps arrives, she discovers that being a bunny on a police force of big, tough animals isn’t so easy.

Determined to prove herself, she jumps at the opportunity to crack a case, even if it means partnering with a fast-talking fox, Nick Wilde, who makes her job even harder.

Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Zootropolis is a comedy-adventure directed by Tangled’s Byron Howard and Wreck-It Ralph’s Rich Moore.

Mr. and Mrs. Fox (Clooney and Streep) live a happy home life with their eccentric son Ash (Schwartzman) and visiting nephew Kristofferson. That is until Mr. Fox slips into his sneaky, old ways and plots the greatest chicken heist the animal world has ever seen.

Based on the beloved, best-selling book by Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG) and directed by Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Fantastic Mr. Fox is family fun at its very finest.

Up for Love 12a Un homme à la hauteur Thu 1 Sep Dir: Laurent Tirard France 2016 98mins Subtitled Cast: Jean Dujardin, Virginie Efira, Cédric Kahn

Swallows and Amazons

What could get in the way of falling in love? Diane (Efira) is a successful, attractive lawyer who, having put an end to her unhappy marriage, is at last free to meet the right man. When she receives a call from Alexandre (Dujardin) who found her lost phone, there’s an instant connection between them and they agree to meet. But can she overcome society’s prejudice when she discovers he is only 4’ 6” tall?

A charming rom-com from the director of Le Petit Nicolas and Moliere.

Up for Love

The BFG

The BFG PG Sat 15 Oct 1pm Dir: Steven Spielberg USA 2016 115mins Cast: Mark Rylance, Rebecca Hall, Ruby Barnhill, Bill Hader, Jemaine Clement, Rafe Spall When Sophie spots a shadowy figure roaming the streets outside her orphanage, she is kidnapped and taken at high speed to a faraway land. So begins the captivating adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s classic, The BFG. Finding friendship and happiness in each other’s company, Sophie and the Big Friendly Giant set out to stop the other giants causing havoc in the human world, however they may require the assistance of the Queen first.

Spartacus PG

Spartacus

Sun 4 Sep 7pm Dir: Stanley Kubrick USA 1960 197 mins Cast: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons Written by Dalton Trumbo, at the time blacklisted as one of the Hollywood Ten, Spartacus tells the historical life story of the rebellious slave Spartacus who lead a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Empire. The film was awarded four Oscars and stands today as one of the greatest classics of the Sword and Sandal genre, back now on the big screen in a new digital print.

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Wiener-Dog 15 Sat 3 & Mon 5 – Tue 6 Sep Dir: Todd Solondz USA 2016 88mins Cast: Greta Gerwig, Danny DeVito, Kieran Culkin, Julie Delpy Screened to great acclaim at Sundance Film Festival, WienerDog, is a series of interconnecting tales, which centre around a wiener dog (or dachshund) as he travels the country with various owners, including the world’s worst mom, a beleaguered screenwriter, and the grown-up incarnation of Welcome to the Dollhouse’s Dawn Wiener.

Featuring an all-star cast that includes Greta Gerwig, Julie Delpy, Danny DeVito, Ellen Burstyn, and Zosia Mamet, Wiener-Dog is a tragically funny, wondrously warped look at the absurdity of life (and death) from one of contemporary cinema’s most fearless and unique voices.

The Childhood of a Leader 12a Mon 5 & Wed 7 Sep Dir: Brady Corbet USA 2015 116mins Cast: Robert Pattinson, Stacy Martin, Bérénice Bejo, Liam Cunningham Where does evil begin? Not the cruel acts of one person, but the evil that rises up to rule and destroy?

This question is at the heart of this new film, an ambitious study of the development of tyranny, as it examines the roots of fascism.

Born to Be Blue

The Childhood of a Leader

The immensely atmospheric film follows the futile attempts at disciplining young Prescott, by his constantly distracted parents – his American diplomat father (Liam Cunningham), forever away working on the infamous Treaty of Versailles, and melancholic German mother (Berenice Bejo) whose isolation draws her to religious fanaticism.

Wiener-Dog

The Idol PG Ya Tayr El Tayer Tue 6 – Wed 7 Sep Dir: Hany Abu-Assad UK/Qatar/Palestine 2016 99mins Subtitled Cast: Tawfeek Barhom, Ahmed Al Rokh, Hiba Attalah

The Idol

The Idol tells the story of Mohammad Assaf, a Palestinian singer who went on to win Arab Idol in Egypt in 2013 and became an underdog hero for his country and a symbol of hope for millions worldwide.

Director Abu-Assad (Paradise Now, Omar) creates a moving, complex examination of what Assaf had to go through to even enter the competition, from forging passports to sneaking across borders, and what ‘winning’ means for someone faced with daily oppression.

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Born to Be Blue 15 Thu 8 & Fri 9 Sep Dir: Robert Budreau UK/Canada/USA 2015 98mins Cast: Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo, Callum Keith Rennie In this unconventional biopic Ethan Hawke gives an extraordinary performance as legendary trumpeter Chet Baker, the ‘James Dean of jazz’.

In the 1950s, Baker was one of the most famous trumpeters in the world, renowned as both a pioneer of the West Coast jazz scene and an icon of melancholic cool with a languorous mystique. But by the 1960s, his career and personal life were in shambles following years of a profound heroin addiction.

Creatively blending fact with fiction and driven by Hawke’s tender, virtuoso performance the film unfolds with all the improvisatory genius and stylistic brio of great jazz.

Dr. Strangelove

David Brent: Life on the Road 15 Fri 9 – Wed 14 Sep Dir: Ricky Gervais UK 2016 96mins Cast: Ricky Gervais, Jo Hartley, Doc Brown, Thomas Kadman, Michael Keat, Carol Walton Ricky Gervais’ award-winning comic creation David Brent is back.

Twelve years on from his success with The Office, the former reality TV star is now a travelling salesman with Lavichem, a cleaning and ladies’ personal hygiene products company, yet plans to embark on a self-financed tour of the UK as a singer/songwriter.

With an assembly of session musicians who are just in it for the money, and rapper Dom (Ben Bailey Smith), Brent cashes in his pensions and takes unpaid leave in a bid to turn his dream into reality.

David Brent: Life on the Road

or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb PG Sat 10 & Sun 11 Sep Dir: Stanley Kubrick USA 1964 91mins Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens Released on a new digital print is Stanley Kubrick’s political satire, black-comedy-film that focuses on the fears of a nuclear war erupting between the USA and the USSR. The story tells of Jack D. Ripper, an unhinged United States Air Force general, who orders a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union – then barricades his base to prevent any interruption to the mission. What follows is a series of great comic performances, featuring Peter Sellers in four different roles, as the films characters try to prevent a nuclear apocalypse.

Dr. Strangelove

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The Blue Room

The Blue Room 15 La chambre bleu Sat 10 & Mon 12 Sep Dir: Mathieu Amalric France 2014 75mins Subtitled Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Léa Drucker, Stéphanie Cléau, Laurent Poitrenaux Adapted from the 1964 novel by Georges Simenon, this is a tale of a married man who falls foul of the law after an affair with a local femme fatale. Moving between past and present, the film pieces together how Julien has gone from a world of hotel bedrooms to a police cell, implicated in a murder.

Writer, actor and director Mathieu Amalric has constructed a passionate drama that artfully builds tension to breaking point.

“AN IMPRESSIVE AND IMPRESSIONISTIC ROMANTIC THRILLER FROM ONE OF FRANCE’S FINEST WORKING ACTORS.”

The Hollywood Reporter

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years TBC

The Wave

Thu 15 Sep: Live relay including an extra 30mins of material Sat 24 Sep: Encore screening Dir: Ron Howard USA/UK 2016 100mins Cast: Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon Featuring rare and exclusive footage, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week is based on the first part of The Beatles’ career (1962–1966) – the period in which they toured and captured the worlds acclaim.

Ron Howard explores how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr came together and collaborated to become the extraordinary phenomenon, The Beatles.

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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week

The Wave 15 Tue 13 & Wed 14 Sep Dir: Roar Uthaug Norway 2015 103mins Subtitled Cast: Thomas Bo Larsen, Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp The film is set in Geiranger, a small town amidst a fjord in Norway.

Geologist and father of two, Kristian (Kristoffer Joner), is about to move from his job at a local research office to work at an oil company, when seismic analysts in the research unit determine that a major rockslide from the volatile façade of Akerneset mountain above the fjord would be catastrophic, displacing so much water in the narrow bay that a tidal wave would result, wiping out Geiranger.

Although anticipated, no one is really ready, when the 85 meter high wave hits the town, and residents are left with 10 minutes to find protection.

Morgan TBC

Morgan

Fri 16 – Wed 21 Sep Dir: Luke Scott USA 2016 Time TBC Cast: Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy, Toby Jones, Rose Leslie, Jennifer Jason Leigh Kate Mara stars as a riskmanagement consultant sent to check out a remote, top-secret location where she is to investigate and evaluate a terrifying accident.

She learns the event was triggered by a rapidly developing, synthetic girl named Morgan, who may start to pose a danger to the scientists who created her.

Ridley Scott (The Martian) produces the directorial debut by his son Luke Scott, with the title character played by Anya Taylor-Joy, the breakout young star from this year’s acclaimed indie film The Witch.

The Mafia Kills Only in Summer

The Mafia Kills Only in Summer 15 La mafia uccide solo d’estate Fri 16 & Sat 17 Sep Dir: Pierfrancesco Diliberto Italy 2013 89mins Subtitled Cast: Cristiana Capotondi, Pierfrancesco Diliberto, Alex Bisconti Inspired by real events the film follows Arturo from childhood to maturity, wittingly examining the pervasive influence the Cosa Nostra (Mafia) holds over the everyday lives of his family and community as he commences a lifelong romantic pursuit of beautiful classmate and neighbour Flora. The Palermo of the 80s and 90s is vividly depicted as a city where tradition, wilful blindness and complacency allow criminals to flourish, until a series of high-profile murders finally opens the eyes of the public and triggers a push for change.

“A POTENT AND DISTINGUISHED DIRECTORIAL DEBUT – A GENUINELY FUNNY AND SNAPPILY EDITED ROMANTIC COMEDY”

 The Sunday Times

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Two Women U Mesyats v derevne Sat 17 – Mon 19 Sep Dir: Vera Glagoleva Russia/France/UK/Latvia 2014 104mins Subtitled Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Sylvie Testud, Aleksandr Baluev An adaptation of Ivan Turgenev’s 1855 play A Month in the Country, the film is an incisive upper-class romantic comedy of manners.

Starring Ralph Fiennes, speaking perfect Russian in the superbly played pivotal role of Rakitin, and French actress/writer, Sylvie Testud, Two Women is the story of a headstrong young woman married to a land baron, whose feelings for her son’s tutor become a complex web of unrequited love.

The emotions and simplicity of the movie translate to the audience, focusing on the most basic human emotions – true kindness and love.

Two Women

Little Men TBC Fri 23 – Mon 26 Sep Dir: Ira Sachs USA/Greece 2016 85mins Cast: Jennifer Ehle, Alfred Molina, Greg Kinnear Quiet, sensitive Jake meets brash but affable Tony at his grandfather’s funeral and the charming odd couple become inseparable best friends during their school vacation.

Their new bond is tested, though, when Jake’s parents – portrayed by Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine) and Jennifer Ehle (Zero Dark Thirty) – become embroiled in a battle over a dress shop lease with Tony’s mother (Paulina Garcia - Gloria).

It’s a profoundly humane story; a tale of platonic love and the difficulty of maintaining childhood innocence amidst adult troubles, investigating the social divides of race, class and culture.

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Tickled 15 Tue 20 & Wed 21 Sep Dir: Dylan Reeve & David Farrier New Zealand 2015 92mins Cast: David Farrier, Dylan Reeve, David Starr, Hal Karp

Tickled

A story about competitive tickling competitions. This documentary

by New Zealand TV journalist and professional prober of life’s bizarre side David Farrier, and his tech-oriented buddy Dylan Reeve, turns into a surprisingly tense and increasingly weird detective story.

From giggly to grim, the film uncovers the shadowy, threatening and abusive figure that, it turns out, lies behind the seemingly innocent divertissement.

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Captain Fantastic 15 Fri 23 – Tue 27 & Thu 29 Sep Dir: Matt Ross USA 2016 119mins Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Kathryn Hahn, George McKay, Samantha Isler The Cash family may be the most unique you’ve ever met. Living deep in the forest of the American Pacific Northwest, Ben (Viggo Mortensen) trains his six young children to survive in the wilderness, all the while teaching them Noam Chomsky, Dostoevsky and Bach.

Yet when a dramatic turn of events requires the family to relocate to the city, the family’s quirks, lack of societal norms and cleverness come to the fore, and ultimately, tests their beliefs to the core.

Captain Fantastic

Things to Come 12a

Viggo Mortensen’s magnetic lead performance makes the film a heartfelt, comedic and gorgeous film.

Things to Come

L’Avenir Tue 27 & Thu 29 Sep Dir: Mia Hansen-Løve France/Germany 2016 102mins Subtitled Cast: Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka Nathalie (Huppert) teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She’s passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, students and her possessive mother; until one day, her husband Heinz (Andre Marcon) drops a bombshell. With new freedoms unexpectedly thrust upon her late in life, Nathalie is forced to rethink her future.

Mia Hansen-Løve’s fifth feature revolves around questions of happiness, the meaning of vocation, the value of established ways of living, and the worth of our expectations. It depicts not only Nathalie’s search for new avenues, but also asks us to consider to what extent philosophy can be applied to our everyday life.

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Café Society

Café Society 12a

Hell or High Water 15

Bridget Jones’ Baby TBC

Fri 30 Sep – Thu 6 Oct Dir: Woody Allen USA 2016 96mins Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell, Blake Lively, Parker Posey

Fri 30 Sep – Thu 6 Oct Dir: David Mackenzie USA 2016 102mins Cast: Ben Foster, Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges, Katy Mixon

Fri 7 – Tue 11 & Thu 13 – Sun 16 Oct Dir: Sharon Maguire UK 2016 Time TBC Cast: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey, Emma Thompson

British filmmaker David MacKenzie, with Sicario writer Taylor Sheridan, produces a heist picture with a satirical edge.

After breaking up with Mark Darcy (Firth), Bridget Jones’s (Zellweger) ‘happily ever after’ hasn’t quite gone according to plan.

Tanner Howard (Foster) is an unrepentant hell raiser who has somehow managed to stay out of jail for a year. Law-abiding Toby Howard (Pine), estranged from his wife and two teen sons, may lose his family ranch if he can’t raise the cash to pay off the mortgage before the bank forecloses it. The brothers team up to quickly and effectively plan a sequence of bank robberies which puts them on a collision course with a West Texas Ranger (Jeff Bridges) determined to take them down.

Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job as a top news producer and surround herself with old friends and new.

For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. What could possibly go wrong?

The film tells the story of Bobby Dorfman (Eisenberg) who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry.

However, the slightly neurotic east coaster is not a natural fit in Tinsel Town, but his powerhouse uncle Phil (Steve Carell) helps out, giving him a job at his talent agency and introducing him to his beautiful secretary Vonnie (Kristen Stewart).

Bobby falls in love, and despite it being unrequited, he finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.

A comedy tinged with heartbreak, looking at true love and unsatisfactory options with stellar performances by Eisenberg and Stewart.

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Hell or High Water

“ELEGIAC TEXAN WESTERN THAT PACKS A DIZZYING PUNCH”  The Guardian

Then her love life takes a turn and Bridget meets a dashing American named Jack (Dempsey), the suitor who is everything Mr. Darcy is not.

In an unlikely twist she finds herself unexpectedly expecting, but with one hitch... she’s not too sure who the father is...

Julieta 15 Sun 9 & Tue 11 – Thu 13 Oct Dir: Pedro Almodóvar Spain 2016 99mins Subtitled Cast: Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Daniel Grao, Inma Cuesta

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It’s 2015. Julieta is a teacher of 55. She writes a long letter to her daughter Antía, explaining the secrets she has kept from her over the last 30 years. But when she finishes her confession she doesn’t know where to post it to, because they have been estranged since Antía left her at the age of 18.

Based on three short stories by the Nobel Prize-winning writer Alice Munro, Almodóvar creates his best film in a decade. With his own characteristic melodramatic style he creates an eloquent and richly resonant film covering the emotional terrain and interior lives of women.

My Scientology Movie TBC Mon 10 & Tue 25 – Wed 26 Oct Mon 10 Oct followed by a Q&A via satellite with Louis Theroux and special guest Dir: Louis Theroux & John Dower UK/USA 2016 99mins Cast: Rob Alter, Tom Cruise, Paz de la Huerta

My Scientology Movie

Following a long fascination with the religion, and with a lot of experience dealing with eccentric human behaviour, incomparable British broadcaster Louis Theroux won’t take no for an answer when his request to enter the Church of Scientology’s Los Angeles headquarters is turned down.

Theroux’s insatiable curiosity motivates him to understand what life inside the Church is really like, and with the aid of former secondin-command at the Church, Mark ‘Marty’ Rathbun, he uses actors to replay incidents people claim they experienced with high profile members such as Tom Cruise and leader David Miscavige.

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The Girl with All the Gifts 15 Fri 14 – Thu 20 Oct Dir: Colm McCarthy UK 2016 111mins Cast: Glenn Close, Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine, Fisayo Akinade The Girl with All the Gifts marks the debut for Peaky Blinders, Sherlock and Doctor Who director Colm McCarthy, and is based on a recent novel of the same name by Mike Carey.

The story is set in a dystopian future in which most of humanity is wiped out by a fungal infection. Only a few survivors live together in the Beacon, a remote military base dedicated to the study of a specific group of child ‘hungries’. These ‘hungries’, infected humans, quickly lose their mental powers and feed on the flesh of healthy humans. The film centres on Melanie, one such child, who is kept in a cell and is full of questions about the world.

With the help of a scientist and a teacher, she becomes the key to finding a cure. l with

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Room At The Top 12 Mon 17 & Wed 19 Oct Dir: Jack Clayton USA 1958 112mins B&W Cast: Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Houston An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner’s daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.

It poses the question whether in Britain’s brutal class system, getting ahead is worth giving up the love of your life?

Simone Signoret won an Oscar and a BAFTA award for her portrayal of Alice, and the Film received an Oscar for Best Script and a BAFTA for Best British Film.

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This is more than a zombie film, as it asks serious questions about what it is to be human.

El Sur PG The South Tue 18 & Wed 19 Oct Dir: Victor Erice Spain/France 1983 94mins Subtitled Cast: Omero Antonutti, Sonsoles Aranguren, Icíar Bollaín The film tells the story of a little girl (Sonsoles Aranguren) living somewhere in the north of Spain, who is fascinated by the secrets of the south seemingly buried in the traits of her father (Omero Antonutti).

During her childhood, Estrella perceived her father to be from a mysterious, unknown world.

Growing up, she finds out that he once had a sweetheart (Aurore Clément), and that he’s still in love with her.

Embrace of the Serpent 12a El abrazo de la serpiente Thu 20 Oct 6pm Followed by a Q&A with Stephen Hugh-Jones, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge Dir: Ciro Guerra Colombia/Venezuela/Argentina 2015 122mins Subtitled Cast: Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolivar Embrace of the Serpent presents a breathtaking journey through the Colombian Amazon following the interwoven stories of two European explorers; one in the early 1900s, the other 40 years later, who were searching for a sacred healing plant.

Told through the eyes of Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last surviving member of his tribe, the film captures the devastating effect of colonialism on the Amazon’s indigenous people, with a tone that recalls Apocalypse Now. “DREAMLIKE EXPLORATION OF THE AMAZON’S IMPERIALIST POLLUTION”  The Guardian

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The Man Who Fell to Earth 18 Fri 21 Oct 8.30pm Dir: Nicolas Roeg UK 1976 133mins Cast: David Bowie, Candy Clark, Rip Torn, Buck Henry, Bernie Casey

El Sur

Room at The Top

In honour of the 40th anniversary of the film, and in memory of David Bowie in his most iconic screen role, a new 4K restoration of Roeg’s classic sci-fi film is being released.

It tells the story of Newton (Bowie), an alien, who comes down to Earth with the plan to take water back to his drought-stricken planet.

Whilst there, he builds the largest corporate empire in the States, but also becomes increasingly frustrated by humans and their emotions.

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Courted 12a L’Hermine Sun 23 & Mon 24 Oct Dir: Christian Vincent France 2015 98mins Subtitled Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Eva Lallier Borgen actress Sidse Babett Knudsen stars alongside Fabrice Luchini (In The House) in a story of a judge in the twilight of his career who is unexpectedly faced with a trial unlike any other.

When Ditte, the only woman he ever loved, is part of the jury, heart ache and memories arise.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children TBC Fri 21 – Thu 27 & Sat 29 Oct Dir: Tim Burton USA 2016 TIME TBC Cast: Eva Green, Samuel L. Jackson, Judi Dench, Allison Janney, Asa Butterfield, Rupert Everett From visionary director Tim Burton, and based upon Ransom Riggs’ best-selling novel, comes an unforgettable motion picture experience.

When Jake discovers clues to a mystery that spans alternate realities and times, he uncovers a secret refuge known as Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As he learns about the residents and their unusual abilities, Jake realises that safety is an illusion, and danger lurks in the form of powerful, hidden enemies. Jake must figure out who is real, who can be trusted, and who he really is.

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The Clan TBC El Clan Wed 26 & Thu 27 Oct Dir: Pablo Trapero Argentina/Spain 2015 110mins Subtitled Cast: Guillermo Francella, Peter Lanzani, Lili Popovich New from Argentinian auteur Pablo Trapero (Lion’s Den, Carancho, White Elephant) is this disturbing and beautifully controlled drama; based on the astonishing true story of a seemingly normal middle-class family who were pulled into a life of kidnapping, ransom and murder.

Set in 1980s Buenos Aires, a time when Argentina was in the grip of a military dictatorship that specialised in ‘disappearing’ its suspected political opponents, the film centres on patriarch Arquimedes Puccio, who used his links to build the lucrative family business, and his eldest son Alejandro, who used his fame as a national rugby player, to help lure some of the victims.

The Girl on the Train

Free State of Jones TBC The Girl on the Train TBC Fri 28 Oct – Thu 3 Nov Dir: Gary Ross USA 2016 139mins TBC Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali

Fri 28 Oct – Thu 3 Nov Dir: Tate Taylor USA 2016 TIME TBC Cast: Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux, Lisa Kudrow

From the director of The Hunger Games and Seabiscuit comes this historic action drama based on the fascinating true story of Newton Knight (McConaughey), a simple Mississippi farmer working as a medic for the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Rachel (Blunt) is a divorced, ‘barren’, unhappy and increasingly unhinged alcoholic who fears she’s lost control of everything. Every day Rachel rides the train to work and every day she passes her old house, where her ex now lives with his new family.

Disillusioned by the conflict, which he sees as nothing more than a battle to protect the interests of rich Southerners, Newton deserts his regiment, deciding to oppose the Confederacy’s greed and defend his property against the government’s excessive taxation. His one-man rebellion quickly gains followers.

To distract from the pain caused by happy memories, she fixates on the life of an attractive, ‘perfect’ couple that live a few doors down. One day, as the train passes, she sees something shocking, filling her with rage. The next day, she wakes up with a horrible hangover, various wounds and bruises, and no memory of the night before.

Slaves and local white farmers form an unlikely coalition bonded together by their shared desire to live in freedom.

Tate Taylor, director of award-winning The Help adapts Paula Hawkins’ novel into a psychological thriller reminiscent of Gone Girl.

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Debuting in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers in 1946, he came to personify a tough, virile masculinity, most memorably in Spartacus (1960). Julie L. Wright’s illustrated talk will consider the Hollywood icon’s enduring stardom and the type of masculinity he portrayed on-screen.

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Looking for a new way to celebrate a birthday or anniversary? Look no further!

Day of the Dead Sat 5 Nov 11am – 3.30pm Includes a complete screening of The Girl with All the Gifts.

Zombies may be dead but they won’t lie down! Writer and critic Nigel Floyd explores the genesis of the undead through their reinvention by George Romero in the 1970s to the contemporary nightmares portrayed in 28 Days Later and most recently, in The Girl with All the Gifts.

Warwick Arts Centre’s state of the art Cinema is available to hire for parties, celebrations and private screenings. We have fantastic rooms available for use before or after the film and can offer a wide variety of catering options to make your event extra special.

Visit warwickartscentre.co.uk/venue-hire for more information or contact our Event Sales Team on artscentrehires@warwick.ac.uk 17

QUICK GUIDE Films A–Z Born to Be Blue p05 Bridget Jones’ Baby p10 Café Society p10 Captain Fantastic p09 Courted p14 David Brent: Life on the Road p05 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to p05 Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb El Sur p12 Embrace of the Serpent p13 Fantastic Mr. Fox p02 Free State of Jones p15 Hell or High Water p10 Julieta p11 Little Men p08 Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children p14 Morgan p07 My Scientology Movie p11 Room At The Top p12 Spartacus p03 Swallows and Amazons p02 The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years p06 The BFG p03 The Blue Room p06 The Childhood of a Leader p04 The Clan p15 The Girl on the Train p15 The Girl with All the Gifts p12 The Idol p04 The Mafia Kills Only in Summer p07 The Man Who Fell To Earth p13 The Wave p06 Things to Come p09 Tickled p08 Two Women p08 Up For Love p03 Wiener-Dog p04 Zootropolis p02

Digital Screenings Met Opera: Don Giovanni Met Opera: Tristan und Isolde Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: One More Time With Feeling NT Live: The Deep Blue Sea NT Live: The Threepenny Opera RSC Live: Cymbeline RSC Live: King Lear The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years

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Film Events Film Talk: Kirk Douglas Film Talk: Day of the Dead First Friday Cult Night 18

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September

Thu 1 Swallows and Amazons 6pm

Up For Love 8.15pm Fri 2 Swallows and Amazons 6pm

NT Live: The Deep Blue Sea 8pm Sat 3 Swallows and Amazons 2.30pm

Swallows and Amazons 6pm

Wiener-Dog 8.15pm Sun 4 Swallows and Amazons 2.30pm

Swallows and Amazons 4.30pm

Spartacus 7pm Mon 5 Wiener-Dog 6.30pm

The Childhood of a Leader 8.30pm Tue 6 Wiener-Dog 6.30pm

The Idol 8.30pm Wed 7 The Idol 6.15pm

The Childhood of a Leader 8.30pm Thu 8 Born to Be Blue 6.30pm

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:

One More Time With Feeling 9pm Fri 9 Born to Be Blue 6.30pm

David Brent: Life on the Road 8.30pm Sat 10 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to

Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb 4pm

David Brent: Life on the Road 6.20pm

The Blue Room 8.30pm Sun 11 David Brent: Life on the Road 4pm

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to

Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb 7.30pm Mon 12 The Blue Room 6.30pm

David Brent: Life on the Road 8.30pm Tue 13 David Brent: Life on the Road 6.20pm

The Wave 8.30pm Wed 14 The Wave 6.20pm

David Brent: Life on the Road 8.40pm Thu 15 The Beatles: Eight Days a Week -

The Touring Years 6pm Fri 16 The Mafia Kills Only in Summer 6.30pm

Morgan 8.30pm Sat 17 The Mafia Kills Only in Summer 4pm

Two Women 6pm

Morgan 8.30pm Sun 18 Two Women 4pm

Morgan 7.30pm Mon 19 Morgan 6.15pm

Two Women 8.30pm Tue 20 Tickled 6.20pm

Morgan 8.30pm Wed 21 Morgan 6.15pm

Tickled 8.40pm Thu 22 NT Live: The Threepenny Opera 7pm Fri 23 Little Men 6.30pm

Captain Fantastic 8.30pm Sat 24 The Beatles: Eight Days a Week -

The Touring Years 3.30pm

Captain Fantastic 6pm

Little Men 8.30pm

Sun 25

Mon 26

Tue 27

Wed 28 Thu 29

Fri 30

Little Men 4pm Captain Fantastic 7.30pm BACKCHAT 6.15pm Captain Fantastic Little Men 8.45pm Things to Come 6.15pm Captain Fantastic 8.30pm RSC Live: Cymbeline 7pm Captain Fantastic 6.15pm Things to Come 8.45pm Hell or High Water 6.15pm Café Society 8.30pm

October 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

Sat 15

Sun 16

Mon 17

Tue 18

Wed 19

Zootropolis 1.30pm Café Society 4pm Café Society 6.15pm Hell or High Water 8.30pm Café Society 4pm Hell or High Water 7.30pm Hell or High Water 6.15pm Café Society 8.30pm S/HOH 6.15pm Café Society Hell or High Water 8.30pm Café Society 4pm Hell or High Water 6.15pm Café Society 8.30pm Café Society 6.15pm Hell or High Water 8.30pm Bridget Jones’ Baby 6pm First Friday Cult Night 8.30pm Fantastic Mr. Fox 1.30pm Bridget Jones’ Baby 5pm Bridget Jones’ Baby 4pm Julieta 7.30pm Bridget Jones’ Baby 5pm Q&A 7.30pm My Scientology Movie S/HOH 6pm Bridget Jones’ Baby Julieta 8.30pm Julieta 4pm RSC Live: King Lear 7pm Bridget Jones’ Baby 6pm Julieta 8.30pm Bridget Jones’ Baby 6pm The Girl with All the Gifts 8.30pm The BFG 1pm Bridget Jones’ Baby 3.30pm Bridget Jones’ Baby 6pm The Girl with All the Gifts 8.30pm The Girl with All the Gifts 4pm Bridget Jones’ Baby 7.30pm Room At The Top 6pm The Girl with All the Gifts 8.30pm The Girl with All the Gifts 6.15pm El Sur 8.40pm Room At The Top 3.45pm El Sur 6.15pm The Girl with All the Gifts 8.30pm

Thu 20

Fri 21

Sat 22

Sun 23

Mon 24

Tue 25

Wed 26

Thu 27

Fri 28

Sat 29

Sun 30

Mon 31

Embrace of the Serpent 6pm The Girl with All the Gifts 8.50pm Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children 6pm The Man Who Fell To Earth 8.30pm Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children 2pm Met Opera: Don Giovanni 5.55pm Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children 4pm Courted 7.30pm Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children 6pm Courted 8.30pm Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children 6pm My Scientology Movie 8.30pm My Scientology Movie 4pm Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children 6pm The Clan 8.30pm Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children 6pm The Clan 8.30pm The Girl on the Train 6pm Free State of Jones 8.30pm Film Talk: Kirk Douglas 11am Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children 4pm Free State of Jones 6pm The Girl on the Train 8.50pm Free State of Jones 4pm The Girl on the Train 7.30pm S/HOH 6pm The Girl on the Train Free State of Jones 8.30pm

November

Tue 1 Free State of Jones

The Girl on the Train Wed 2 The Girl on the Train

The Girl on the Train

Free State of Jones Thu 3 Free State of Jones

The Girl on the Train Sat 5 Film Talk: Day of the Dead

6pm 8.50pm 3.45pm 6pm 8.30pm 6pm 8.50pm 11am-3.30pm

S/HOH

Subtitled for hard of hearing.

BACKCHAT

Look out for the chance to talk about what you have seen with Julia Jones in a series of informal discussions on key new films.

Q&A

Question & Answer session.

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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OFF SCREEN FILM COURSE Booking

warwickartscentre.co.uk box office 024 7652 4524 Box Office Opening Times Mon to Sat: 10am – 9pm Sun: 2pm – 8pm

Standard Ticket Prices Unless otherwise stated Full price: £9 Concessions: £7.50 (Over 60s in full time retirement, recipients of job seekers allowance, Passport to Leisure holders)

University of Warwick Students: £4.50 Under 18s and Full Time Students: £6.25 Groups of 5+: £6.45 each Other Ticket Prices and Discounts Weekday Matinees: £6 all tickets Saturday Film Talks: £12.50 (£10) Saturday Family Film: £5.50 (£3.50) Join our Film Club for ticket discounts and offers.

Visit Us

Do you love cinema and enjoy talking about films?

Join our Off Screen film course, which runs every Wednesday over a 5 week period.

Facilitator Sue Porter will lead an interactive 90 minute discussion about the forthcoming film, whilst also reflecting on the previous week’s film. After the discussion there will be a short break before the screening begins.

Price: £50 including admission to the film discussed in each session.

Please note the 5 week film course must be purchased as a package and missed sessions cannot be refunded.

Course 1 Wed 5 Oct Wed 12 Oct Wed 19 Oct Wed 26 Oct Wed 2 Nov

Café Society Julieta Room at the Top My Scientology Movie The Girl on the Train

Course 2 Wed 9 Nov Film TBC Wed 16 Nov Film TBC Wed 23 Nov Film TBC Wed 30 Nov Film TBC Wed 7 Dec Film TBC See website for updates

To book your place please call Box Office on 024 7652 4524.

Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, CV4 7AL

Maps, Latest Travel and Parking Updates Go to warwickartscentre.co.uk/your-visit and follow the links to ‘Getting Here’ and ‘Roadworks and Traffic Updates’.

Brochure available in large print on 024 7652 4524 Subtitles for the hard of hearing available on selected film screenings. Look for the S/HOH symbol next to film times in the quick guide.

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Cover image: Hell or High Water p10