CINEMA INFORMATION ADMISSION AND FILM TIMES Unless stated otherwise, our doors open 15 minutes prior to the advertised start time. Sadly, we have no internal waiting area within the Picture House. Film start times may vary, particularly with special screenings, which may not be preceded by adverts or trailers. Please arrive on time. RE HE RE EA W BURLEY RAIL STATION 18th November 2011 - 19th January 2012 WWW.HYDEPARKPICTUREHOUSE.CO.UK TEL: 0113 275 2045 Latecomers can spoil the enjoyment of others and are admitted at the discretion of the management. All screening information is correct at the time of going to press, however the management reserve the right to make alterations under extreme circumstances. Please refer to our website or call the cinema for the most up to date information. REFRESHMENTS While the cinema does not have a bar, we do have a kiosk serving hot and cold drinks and a selection of snacks including Fairtrade products. ACCESS Access to the stalls is available via the Brudenell Road fire exit (full assistance provided). Our toilets are sadly inaccessible by wheelchair. Audio Description and subtitles are available for certain films. Check our website for the most up to date film info. The Artist Another Earth Wuthering Heights It’s A Wonderful Life Take Shelter AND MUCH MUCH MORE... WHERE TO FIND US 73 Brudenell Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6 1JD The Hyde Park Picture House is between vibrant Headingley and Leeds city centre. It is readily accessible by major bus routes to Brudenell Road (56), Hyde Park Corner (1, 6, 28, 95) and Cardigan Road (19, 19A). On street parking is available around the cinema. Please consult our website for further details. ADMISSION PRICES Stalls Balcony Adult £5.80 £6.30 HOW TO BUY TICKETS Concession £4.50 £5.50 Friends/Children –14 £4.00 £4.00 IN PERSON Unemployed, Student, Leeds Card, Senior Citizen, Disabled, (proof required) BY TELEPHONE 0113 275 2045 SPECIAL TICKET OFFERS The box office opens 15 minutes prior to our first performance of the day and closes 20 minutes after the start of the last show. We accept all major credit and debit cards (min payment £5). ONLINE WWW.HYDEPARKPICTUREHOUSE.CO.UK A booking fee of 50p per ticket is applicable to phone and internet bookings. Access ICONS Weekdays before 5pm (excluding bank holidays) Audio Description available on all performances Saturday Matinees @ 12pm £4.00 £1.00 kids £4.00 adults We’re also happy to offer discounts for group bookings. Speak to a member of staff for more details. Subtitles with foreign language film Some subtitled performances available for English Language films Presented with a 5 minute interval by Aurélien Froment (see page 11) PLEASE RECYCLE ME WHEN YOU’RE FINISHED Orange Wednesdays 2- 4-1 (excluding performances before 5pm) Why not come find us on Facebook or Twitter! @HydeParkPH Design www.wonderassociates.com © Copyright 2011. All rights reserved. 18th November 2011 - 19th January 2012 WB18NOVEMBER Page WB25NOVEMBER Page 11 Wuthering Heights 12 Black Pond + Q&A (Mon - 8:30pm) 11 The Rum Diary 12 Andy Kirkpatrick: Cold Wars (Wed - 6:30pm) 04 Anyone Can Play Guitar (Fri - 9pm) 04 Inni (Wed & Thurs) 12 We Love Anime! (Sat) 07 Spy Kids 4 08 The Future WB02DECEMBER Page WB09DECEMBER Page 13 50/50 14 Glasgow Mountain Biking Film festival on Tour (Fri - 8:45pm) 05 Doc/Fest Tour: Give up Tomorrow 14 Oslo, August 31st (Sun) 15 Batman Returns (Sat 11pm) 07 The Story of Lovers Rock (Tue) 05 Sleeping Beauty (Sat & Sun) 13 Blithe Spirit (Wed - 6:30pm) 06 The British Guide To Showing Off (Tue) 14 Eleanor’s Secret 08 The Mighty Uke (Wed) 05 The Shaggy Dog 08 WB16DECEMBER Page WB23DECEMBER Page Take Shelter Romantics Anonymous 15 Kind Hearts and Coronets (Fri & Wed) Another Earth 15 It’s A Wonderful life (Fri 8pm ) 06 It’s A Wonderful Life (Sat & Sun) 06 The Adventures of Tin Tin (Tue & Thu) 16 Agent Cody Banks 2 08 The Awakening (Tue & Thu) 16 06 CINEMA CLOSED - 24th, 25th & 26th December WB30DECEMBER Page WB06JANUARY Page Ghostbusters (Fri & Sun) 06 The Well Diggers Daughter 17 Midnight in Paris (Fri & Sun) 16 My Week with Marilyn 18 Les Enfants Du Paradis (Sat) 06 The Ides of March 18 Las Acasias 17 Anonymous 18 The Deep Bue Sea (Tue & Thu) 17 The Help 19 Last Year in Marienbad (TBC) 06 Prom 08 WB13JANUARY Page The Artist (TBC) 19 The Silence 19 Family friendly films every Saturday at 12 noon Creatures of the Night, Saturday late night showings Parent/carer and baby screenings Non continuous run CALENDAR 03 Andy Kirkpatrick Cold Wars Wednesday 23rd November 6:30pm Tickets: £12 Full / £11 Conc / £10 Members (No Orange Wednesdays tonight I’m afraid!) 110mins British mountaineer Andy Kirkpatrick has a reputation for being extreme. He has a compulsive obsession with climbing the most difficult winter routes he can find, often completely alone. Described by Climbing magazine as having “a strange penchant for the long, the cold and the difficult”, he is one of the world’s most driven and accomplished mountaineers. In the last 5 years Andy has also carved himself a niche as the UK’s only “stand-up” mountaineer, funding his dangerous trips through his outrageously funny theatre shows. 04 SPECIAL EVENTS Ways of Seeing: 6:30pm 18th Nov (episodes 1 & 2) 05th Dec (episodes 3 & 4) Anyone Can Play Guitar Friday 25th Nov - 9:00pm Dirs: John Berger & Mike Gibb Documentary Feat: John Berger Tickets: £5.80/£4.50 (includes admission to the feature film that follows this event) 16mm UK 1972, 4 episodes of 30mins Dir: Jon Spira Documentary Feat: Stewart Lee (narrator), Gareth Coombes, Andy Bell, Mark Gardener Tickets: £10 Full / £9 Conc / £8 Members UK 2011, 102mins plus Q&A and performance To coincide with 9 INTERVALS, Pavilion will present WAYS OF SEEING, John Berger’s seminal four-episode television series, made in 1972 for the BBC with producer Mike Dibb. The series revolutionized how art and advertising were perceived and read. Recorded introductions by contemporary artists and thinkers will accompany each episode. Ticket price includes admission to the main feature film that follows the event, during which an episode of 9 INTERVALS will be shown. ANYONE CAN PLAY GUITAR is not like most music docs. Spira has craftily used a combination of unfamiliar stories from some of the greatest bands you’ve ever heard of and the greatest stories from some of the best bands you’ve never heard of as the backdrop to a truly unique and epic saga of success and failure in the microcosm of the Oxford music scene. ACPG avoids mythologising and instead explores what can be achieved with community and the harsh realities of the music industry. Further details: www.pavilion.org.uk Followed by: Q&A with Jon Spira and a performance by Mark Gardener of RIDE. Glasgow International Moutain Biking Film Festival on Tour Friday 02nd Dec - 8:45pm UK Premiere Event – for one night only Tickets: £8.00 Full / £6.50 Conc 105mins. Blu ray. FROM THE INSIDE OUT – A FREERIDE MOUNTAIN BIKE FILM is the highly anticipated latest release from Anthill Films, the guys behind FOLLOW ME and THE COLLECTIVE. Combining stunning cinematography, a cracking soundtrack and the world’s best freeride mountain bikers, INSIDE OUT captures the lifestyle of these riders set against the backdrop of British Colombia and filming the riders who are at the very top of their game doing what they do best. Followed by: FOLLOW ME – From Baja to New Zealand, Anthill Films travelled the globe to capture the world’s best freeriders pushing each other to their limits and sometimes beyond. The Mighty Uke plus Q&A and Strumalong with James Hill Wednesday 07th December Dir: Tony Coleman Documentary Tickets: £10 Full / £9 Conc / £8 Members US 2011, 150mins. Blu ray. Born in Hawaii in the 1880s, the ukulele was so easy to play that by the 20s it was the most popular instrument in the American home. Sadly the the rise of the rock and roll guitar pushed the uke into nerdy obscurity... UNTIL NOW! In the Internet age the instrument is making a comeback and a new generation is rediscovering a unique musical voice. Following the screening, British ukulele virtuoso James Hill will take to the stage, bringing the ukulele experience to where it has never been before and eventually evolving into a giant ukulele strum along. Don’t forget to bring your uke! The Story of Lovers Rock Tuesday 13th December 12A Dir: Menelik Shabazz Documentary Feat: Levi Roots, Maxi Priest, Janet Kay, UB40, Aswad, Tippa Irie UK 2011, 101mins Lovers Rock, often dubbed ‘romantic reggae’, is a uniquely black British sound that developed in the late 70s and 80s against a backdrop of riots, racial tension and sound systems. Lovers Rock allowed young people to experience intimacy and healing through dance, providing a coping mechanism for what was happening on the streets. In THE STORY OF LOVERS ROCK, Menelik Shabazz (BURNING AN ILLUSION) deftly uses live performance, comedy sketches, dance, interviews and archive footage to shed light on the music and the generation that embraced it. SPECIAL EVENTS 05 The Friends of Hyde Park Picture House Present: Blithe Spirit 14th December - 6:40pm (Doors 6pm) U It’s a Wonderful Life 17th, 18th & 23rd Dec U Dir: Frank Capra Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell Dir: David Lean Starring: Rex Harrison, Constance US 1946, 130mins. Digital. Cummings, Kay Hammond UK 1946, 96mins David Lean’s first comedy, scripted by Noël Coward from his Broadway hit, stars Rex Harrison as a successful and cheerfully cynical novelist whose marital bliss is interrupted by the mischievous ghost of his first wife, visible to him but invisible to everyone else. The simple but effective special effects, all the more impressive in Technicolor, won an Oscar. Frank Capra’s IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE is without a doubt one of the most popular and enduring films ever made and an annual fixture at the Picture House. Capra’s gloriously sentimental testament to homely small-town values is made truly masterful by its darker moments wherein Stewart delivers one of the key performances of his career. NEW PRINT - Kind Hearts and Coronets 23rd & 28th December U Dir: Robert Hamer Starring: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson UK 1949, 106mins Set in the Edwardian era, KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS is black comedy at is best, with the most articulate and literate of all Ealing screenplays. Sir Alec Guinness gives a virtuoso performance playing all eight victims standing between a mass-murderer and his family fortune. Creatures of the Night Presents Tekken Blood Vengeance - 2D NEW PRINT Ghostbusters 30th Dec & 01st Jan 12A Dir: Ivan Reitman Starring: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis US 1984, 105mins A team of down-on-their-luck parapsychology professors get their break when a series of ghoulish gatecr A team of downon-their-luck parapsychology professors get their break when a series of ghoulish gatecrashers descend on New York City.You know the rest. Whether it’s your first time or your 50th we hope this old favourite of ours will make you grin. 06 CLASSIC FILMS NEW PRINT - L’Annee Derniere a Marienbad U (Last Year in Marienbad) Re-release 04th January (TBC) Dir: Alain Resnais Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sascha Pitoëff, Françoise Bertin FR/IT 1961, 93mins A man meets a woman in a rambling hotel and believes he may have had an affair with her the previous year at Marienbad - but did he? Chronology quickly tumbles to the point where past, present and future become meaningless as Resnais creates an atmosphere that is vaguely unsettling and unforgettable. NEW PRINT - Les Enfants Du Paradis PG (The Children of Paradise) 31st December - 4:40pm Dir: Marcel Carne Starring: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Marcel Herrand FR 1945, 190mins Shot in difficult conditions in the final years of the Nazi occupation, LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS is a lavish, intensely romantic evocation of an epoch with a cast of fictitious and historical characters thronging along the ‘Boulevard du Crime’ in the theatre district of 1840s Paris. Creatures of the Night Presents 12A Mardock Scramble: 01st Compression and 02nd Combustion Saturday 26th November 18 Every October Scotland Loves Anime shows the latest and greatest anime releases to packedout audience across Edinburgh and Glasgow.This year our friends at Picturehouse cinemas have partnered up with the organisers to provide a taste of the hottest films in the festival - with something for people of all ages and interests. Join us on the 26 November as we hop onboard with the fun for the day! We Love Anime has been made possible thanks to the support of Kaze, Manga Entertainment, The Japan Foundation, Creative Scotland and many others. Batman Returns: A Creatures Christmas Special Saturday 03rd Dec - 11pm 12A Dir: Tim Burton Starring: Michael Keaton, Danny De Vito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken US 1992, 126mins Who needs Santa Claus when you’ve got Batman to decide if you’ve been naughty or nice? It’s holiday season in Gotham City and there’s something Danny DeVito shaped lurking underneath the streets. Burton’s endlessly inventive and campy yet sinister take on the dark knight is the perfect yuletide flick for those who like their Christmas films to come with claws. Olsen Sunday 04th December Tickets: £5 Food (for small donation) from 12pm, films from 12.30–2.30pm www.olsenorsen.org Operating on an occasional basis since 2005, Olsen returns this December with a more regular series of screenings. Olsen events are about people being in the same place watching new and old work from the depths of underground and avant-garde cinema, experimental film, and video art. In this new series, part of each event will be handed over to an invited artist/curator to programme.Tea and homemade food will be served between films and there will be the occasional expanded performance and live musical interlude. Guest programmer for December is Andrew Lampert and the event will also feature a live performance by musician Mike Flower. SPECIAL EVENTS 07 Saturday Matinees Every Saturday at 12 noon £4 for adults and £1 for kids! (OWLS) presents... Spy Kids 4 - All The Time in the World 2011, 89mins, PG Saturday 26th November The Shaggy Dog 2006, 95mins, U Saturday 03rd December FRIENDS OF HYDE PARK Older Wiser Local Seniors Christmas Eve Cinema Closed Saturday 24th Decemebr Prom 2011, 104mins, U Saturday 31st December Eleanor’s Secret Bollywood at the Hyde Park Picture House. Doors will open at 11am with the actual film starting between 11:15am and 11:30am. Tickets are £3 for adults and £2 for children. Upcoming screenings: 2011, 74mins, U Saturday 10th December Rascals Agent Cody Banks 2 Destination London Ra. One Thursday 24th November Thursday 22nd December Membership Entitlements • Reduced admission of £4 • Programme mailed directly to your door • Weekly listings email (optional) • Invitations to meetings/free screenings • 15% off orders over £5 at Pitza Cano, Queens Road, Leeds. 0113 2756256. www.pitzacano.co.uk • Reduced rate of admission on selected film screenings at the Howard Assembly Room www.operanorth.co.uk/howard-assembly-room Post to FHPPH, c/o Hyde Park Picture House, Brudenell Road, Leeds, LS6 1JD. Further information please call: 0113 275 2045 (6pm - 10pm) or email: [email protected] Please make cheques payable to ‘FHPPH’ 2004, 100mins, PG Saturday 17th December Bring Your Own Baby Parent/carer and baby friendly screenings at the Picture House £4 for adults (inc. a free hot drink) and baby goes free! These are the upcoming screenings we’ve currently got planned for our parent and baby friendly slots BUT we often add in extra screenings that we think you’d like so this is just the beginning really. If you would like to make a suggestion for a BYOB title or you’d like to join the BYOB mailing list [email protected] BYOB Screenings feature: Raised lighting levels Lowered film volume levels Subtitles where available ADDRESS POSTCODE TEL EMAIL PLEASE TICK IF YOU WOULD BE INTERESTED IN RECEIVING OUR WEEKLY LISTINGS EMAIL £15 FULL IS THIS A RENEWAL? £10 CONCESSION* £18 CONCESSION JOINT* £25 FULL JOINT *PROOF REQUIRED coffee bar perfect place to relax, work away on your laptop, look over the newspapers or browse the great selection of books and magazines. our food is always freshly prepared/locally sourced and our homebaked cakes are simply delicious. The Future ‘one of the top 10 coffee shops in britain’ THE TIMES 2011, 91mins, 12A Wednesday 23rd November - 11am gallery and retail 50/50 the upstairs gallery operates a rolling programme showcasing the work of emerging artists throughout the region. downstairs you can buy affordable handmade goodies by talented local makers. 2011, 100mins, 15 Wednesday 14th December - 11am It’s A Wonderful Life our newly designed gift vouchers are now available for both retail and workshops, for that extra special christmas pressie. 1946, 129mins, U Wednesday 21st December - 11am workshops The Help why not try your hand at learning a new skill or revive an old one? our art and craft workshops include jewellery making, sewing and photography. planning an event? we’ll help you make yours extra-special, whether you’re organising a hen party, birthday celebration, baby shower or a creative business get together. 2011, 146mins, 12A Thursday 12th January - 11am (please check nearer the time for details on this one) A relaxed and friendly atmosphere. 54 otley road/headingley/ls62al 08 families at hyde parK NAME t/01132242284 e/[email protected] w/thebowery.org FRIENDS OF HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE 09 AdriAn Edmondson & ThE BAd shEphErds The FirsT Farwell Tour Friday 18 Nov 8pm red ladder & Chumbawamba presenT Big sociETy! lighTning sEEds A music hAll comEdy + speCial guesTs mr phill JupiTus Fri 10 Feb 2012 8pm sTarring Wed 18 Jan – Sat 4 Feb 2012 The Future 18th - 24th November Dir: Miranda July Starring: Miranda July, Hamish Linklater, David Washofsky US 2011, 91mins grEg dAviEs Firing Cheeseballs aT a dog richArd hErring whaT is love anyway? Sat 10 Mar 2012 8pm Wed 8 Feb 2012 8pm Andy pArsons grunTled Tues 22 & Wed 23 Nov 8pm King crEosoTE simon AmsTEll & Jon hopKins numb Thur 1 Dec – Sun 8 Jan 2012 Thur 9 Feb 2012 8pm Wed 30 May 2012 8pm 12A Black Pond Monday 21st Nov - 8:30pm 15 Dirs: Tom Kingsley & Will Sharpe Starring: Simon Amstell, Will Sharpe, Chris Langham UK 2011, 82mins In her debut feature (ME AND The Thompson family is accused YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW) of murder when a stranger dies and her short stories alike July has at their dinner table. Six months announced her fascination with later family friend,Tim, visits offbeat, stranded individuals and freelance therapist Dr. Eric Sacks their efforts to connect with each (Simon Amstell) and the story other, a thread she extends here, finds its way into the press.The looking at whether and how love facts are bent and the details can endure.THE FUTURE tells the spun as the Thompsons become story of a thirty-something couple known to the public as ‘the family who, on deciding to adopt sickly of killers’. stray cat Paw Paw, change their perspective on life, literally altering “A total delight. Chris Langham’s performance is comical and the course of time and testing heartbreaking, utterly absorbing their faith in each other and and unnervingly naturalistic, like themselves. the best of Alan Rickman and “Devastatingly sad and Steve Coogan fused into one.” hilarious...THE FUTURE tests the The Guardian limits of what narrative cinema Followed by a Q&A with the can be and do.” LA Weekly filmmakers and Chris Langham. U 9 Intervals From 18 Nov 2011- Feb 2012 Dir: Aurélien Froment Starring: David Annett, Nichi Green, Will Holder, Keith Withall UK 2011, 45mins (9 x 5mins) 9 INTERVALS is a new nine-episode digital film by Aurélien Froment, commissioned and produced by Pavilion.Taking the seated position of the cinema viewer as its starting point, the films address the relationship between design and body, viewer and image. Featuring a yoga instructor, film enthusiast, furniture designer, chair factory workers and an osteopath. 9 INTERVALS stands between genres and is encyclopedic in content, parodic in tone and minimalist in form. Episodes will precede feature films marked with Special event: 08th Dec, 6-8 pm; See all nine episodes of 9 INTERVALS within the frame of a single screening. Tickets FREE: www.nineintervals.eventbrite.com Further details: www.pavilion.org.uk NEW RELEASES 11 Inni 23rd & 24th November U Dir: Vincent Morisset Documentary Feat: Jon Thor Birgisson, Oiri P. Dyrason, Georg Holm, Kjartan Sveinsson IS/UK/CA 2011, 81mins INNI is Sigur Rós’ second film following 2007’s stunningly beautiful tour documentary HEIMA. Whereas that film positioned the group in the context of their Icelandic homeland, providing geographical, social and historical perspectives on their music, INNI focuses purely on the band’s performance, and stands as a stark counterpoint to HEIMA’S kaleidoscopic richness. Filmed in a manner that invites both intimacy and claustrophobia, INNI cocoons the viewer in a one-on-one relationship with the band, depicting how it feels for both band and fan to experience Sigur Rós live. WARNING – Contains some strobe lighting 12 NEW RELEASES The Rum Diary 25th Nov - 01st Dec 15 Wuthering Heights 25th Nov - 01st Dec 15 Take Shelter 02nd - 08th December 15 Dir: Bruce Robinson Starring: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart US 2011, 120mins Dir: Andrea Arnold Starring: Kaya Scodelario, James Howson UK 2011, 129mins Dir: Jeff Nichols Starring: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Tova Stewart UK 2011, 121mins Based on the debut novel by Hunter S.Thompson,THE RUM DIARY tells the increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp.Tiring of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper. Adopting the rumsoaked life of the late 50’s version of Hemmingway’s lost generation, Paul soon becomes increasingly obsessed with the wildly attractive and unavailable Chenault. Arnold has been picking up awards and admirers with each of her works to date (FISH TANK, RED ROAD, WASP) so it’s unsurprising her bold new adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic British novel was widely applauded by critics on its premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Centred on the exploits of an impoverished young boy named Heathcliff (Leeds newcomer Howson) who is adopted by the well-to-do Earnshaw family, the film follows the relationship that blossoms between our protagonist and the family’s youngest daughter, Cathy. Curtis lives in a small Ohio town with his wife Samantha and six-year-old daughter Hannah. Curtis makes a modest living and Samantha is a stay-at-home mother and part-time seamstress. Money is tight but despite that, Curtis’ family is a happy one until he starts experiencing apocalyptic visions. Curtis must now question whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself. “[Shannon] gives himself over completely to a complex role and leaves you shattered. Director Jeff Nichols (SHOTGUN STORIES) throws curveballs, but his film is unique and unforgettable.” Rolling Stone Sleeping Beauty 03rd & 04th December 18 Dir: Julia Leigh Starring: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie AU 2011, 92mins In a science lab on an Australian university campus we meet Lucy, a porcelain-skinned young woman gagging on a length of hose that she has consented to being fed down her throat. It’s a startling opening scene, and it sets the tone for first-time writer/ director Julia Leigh’s dark and elegant drama.That Palme d’Or contender SLEEPING BEAUTY is ‘presented by’ Jane Campion (THE PIANO, BRIGHT STAR) reveals something of its intent; this is a delicate, de-saturated portrait of youthful desire colliding head on with adult manipulation. The Lightbulb Conspiracy 15 Sunday 04th Dec - 8:40pm UK Green Film Festival Dir: Cosima Dannoritz Documentary ES/FR 2010, 75mins Once upon a time products were made to last.Then, at the beginning of the 1920s, a group of businessmen were struck by the following insight: a product that refuses to wear out is a tragedy of business.Thus Planned Obsolescence was born. Shortly after, the first worldwide cartel was set up expressly to reduce the life span of the incandescent light bulb, a symbol for innovation and bright new ideas, and the first official victim of Planned Obsolescence. Showing as part of the UK Green Film Festival. www.ukgreenfilmfestival.org NEW RELEASES 13 Give Up Tomorrow Saturday 10th December International Human Rights Day Sheffield Doc/Fest On Tour Dir: Michael Collins Documentary US/UK 2011, 95mins When the Chiong sisters were raped and murdered on an island in the Philippines in 1997, the police were under pressure to act fast. Soon they had arrested and charged seven young men with the horrendous crime. Amongst them was Paco Larranaga, a Filipino-Spanish student training to be a chef. In fact, he sat his exams on the very day the girls were abducted, 350 miles away. Despite 42 witnesses signing affidavits as to his whereabouts Paco was sentenced to death. Director Michael Collins skilfully captures the many twists and turns of Paco’s story, in the process exposing the farcical sham that constitutes the Filipino justice system. 14 NEW RELEASES The British Guide to Showing Off Tuesday 06th December Dir: Jes Benstock Documentary feat: Andrew Logan UK 2011, 97mins 15 50/50 09th - 15th December 15 Dir: Jonathan Levine Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Anjelica Huston US 2011, 100mins In THE BRITISH GUIDE TO SHOWING Inspired by a true story, 50/50 OFF legendary British artist is a surprising and original tale and champion of misfits, of friendship, love, survival and Andrew Logan, invites us on finding humour in unlikely places. an eye-opening trip through Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth the glamorous and at times Rogen star as best friends whose outrageous world of his costume lives are changed when one of pageant: the Alternative Miss them is diagnosed with cancer. World Show. As its master of Scripted by Will Reisner’s and ceremonies, Logan reveals based on his own experience the history of the show’s 40with the disease 50/50 stands year run, the archive footage head and shoulders above many complemented by the animation comparable US Indies thanks to that director Jes Benstock applies. its emotional authenticity and THE BRITISH GUIDE TO SHOWING warm spirit. OFF is a heartfelt and humorous “Refusing to hide from pain or documentary that puts one bow to it, 50/50 makes its own man’s uncompromising passion rules. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and centre stage. Seth Rogen are a dream team.” Rolling Stone Another Earth 16th - 22nd Dec ( TBC) 12A Dir: Mike Cahill Starring: William Mapother, Brit Marling, Jordan Baker US 2011, 92mins In Sundance Film Festival award winner ANOTHER EARTH Rhoda Williams, a bright young woman accepted into MIT’s astrophysics programme, aspires to explore the cosmos. A brilliant composer, John Burroughs, has just reached the pinnacle of his profession and is about to have his second child. On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth tragedy strikes and the lives of these strangers become irrevocably intertwined. “A metaphysical treat, with influences that range from Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Double Life of Veronique and Blue to Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris.” Time Magazine Oslo, August 31st 15 Sunday 11th December Dir: Joachim Trier Starring: Anders Borchgrevink, Andreas Braaten, Hans Olav Brenner NO 2011, 94mins Anders is about to complete his drug rehabilitation. As part of the program he is allowed to go into the city for a job interview so he decides to take advantage of the freedom and stay on for a day or two, walking around, meeting old friends. For Anders every corner of the city holds reminders of wasted opportunities and the people he has let down. At the tender age of 34 he feels his life is, in many ways, already over. For the remainder of the day and long into the night, the ghosts of past mistakes will wrestle with th e chance of love, of a new life and with the hope to see some future by morning. Les Emotifs Anonymes (Romantics Anonymous) 12A 16th - 22nd December Dir: Jean-Pierre Ameris Starring: Benoit Poelvoorde, Isabelle Carre, Lorella Cravotta, Swann Arlaud FR 2011, 78mins With his beloved chocolate business turning sour, socially awkward boss Jean-René decides to enlist an extra pair hands. Enter Angélique, a chronically shy young woman who shares Jean- René’s passion for all things sugary and sweet. She is the answer to his prayers in ways he didn’t realise.You see, despite Angélique’s quiet exterior she is in fact a gifted, albeit covert, chocolatière extraordinaire whose treats are legendary. As the pair become more and more acquainted it is not long before chocolate is not the only sensual element in the air. NEW RELEASES 15 The Adventures of Tin Tin: The Secret of the Unicorn 27th & 29th December PG Dir: Steven Spielberg Starring: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig US/NZ 2011, 105mins Everyone’s favourite Belgian boy-detective kicks off his big screen debut with the discovery (by Tintin and his trusty pup sidekick Snowy) of a map giving directions to a ship that sank under the helm of one of Captain Haddock’s ancestors. Setting off on an exciting treasure hunt,Tintin soon encounters a series of perilous obstacles. Scripted by Brit trio Steven Moffat (Doctor Who), Edgar Wright (SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD) and Joe Cornish (ATTACK THE BLOCK),THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN promises to be a swashbuckling performancecapture ride for the whole family. 16 NEW RELEASES Midnight in Paris 30th Dec & 01st Jan 12A Dir: Woody Allen Starring: Marion Cotillard, Michael Sheen, Owen Wilson EU/US 2011, 94mins Following the sun-kissed VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA, Woody Allen’s European trip continues in more fantastical fashion with the delightful MIDNIGHT IN PARIS. Owen Wilson (THE DARJEELING LIMITED) stars as Gil, a novelist with a bad case of writer’s block, who is on a pre-wedding shopping/ business trip with his fiancée Inez and meddlesome in-lawsto-be. With Inez more interested in hunting for bargains than soaking up culture, Gil sets off on an intoxicated stroll through the French capital. So begins a transformative rendezvous with his literary idols which takes him ever further from the real world and the woman he is soon to marry. The Awakening From Friday 27th & 29th December 15 Dir: Lars Von Trier Starring: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton UK 2011,107mins Haunted by the death of her fiancé, Florence spends her time debunking supernatural claims, using methodical and rational explanations to disprove the chilling notion that the dead can, and do, cling to the living. It is this mission that compels her to visit Rookwood, a boarding school in the countryside that is gripped by fear following the death of a young boy and rumours of a dark and ghostly presence. Florence sets to work immediately to unravel the mystery but is it her world which will become undone? Las Acacias 02nd - 05th January 12A Dir: Pablo Giorgelli Starring: German De Silva, Hebe Duarte, Nayra Calle Mamani ES/AR 2011, 86mins Winner of several awards at Cannes this year, including the prestigious Camera D’Or, Pablo Giorgelli’s critically acclaimed road movie LAS ACACIAS stood out as a true festival favourite, and Giorgelli was ‘one to watch’. With pitch-perfect performances from character actor German de Silva and newcomer Hebe Duarte, LAS ACACIAS tells the story of a long distance lorry driver who agrees to drive a woman and her five month old child en route from Paraguay to Buenos Aires. A subtle and tender road movie exploring loneliness and the pain of loss, LAS ACACIAS grows into a searingly poignant tale about a passing encounter between two strangers and an unlikely bond. The Deep Blue Sea 03rd & 05th January 12A Dir: Terence Davies Starring: Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddlestone, Simon Russell Beale UK 2011, 98mins Hester Collyer leads a privileged life in 1950s London as the beautiful wife of high court judge Sir William Collyer.To the shock of those around her, she walks out on her marriage to move in with young ex-RAF pilot, Freddie Page, with whom she has fallen passionately in love. Set in post-war Britain, Davies’ (OF TIME AND THE CITY) latest film is a deeply moving story adapted from Terence Rattigan’s classic play.THE DEEP BLUE SEA is a study of forbidden love, suppressed desire, and the fear of loneliness. Stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea, what – or whom – should Hester choose? La Fille du Puisatier (The Well Diggers Daughter) PG 06th, 07th & 11th January Dir: Daniel Auteuil Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Kad Merad, Sabine Azema, Jean-Pierre Darroussin FR 2011, 109mins As she cuts across the fields to take her father his lunch Patricia meets Jacques. She is eighteen, he is twenty-six. She is pretty and elegant: he is a dashing fighter pilot. A full moon will do the rest on their second meeting. Sadly as Jacques is called to the front there won’t be a third for them. However when Patricia ends up pregnant Jacques’ wealthy parents are full of mistrust and find no joy at the news, leaving it up to Patricia and her father, the well-digger (Auteuil, HIDDEN, THE WIDOW OF SAINT-PIERRE) to celebrate the new arrival. NEW RELEASES 17 My Week With Marilyn TBC 07th, 08th & 11th January The Ides of March 05th - 11th January 15 Dir: Simon Curtis Starring: Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh UK 2011, TBC Dir: George Clooney Starring: George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman US 2011, 101mins In the early Summer of 1956 23 year old Colin Clark worked as a lowly assistant on the set of THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL. The film united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe who, whilst shooting, was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. Nearly 40 years on his diary account,THE PRINCE, THE SHOWGIRL AND ME was published minus one key week. This is the story of that week, an idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of working. Stephen Myers (Gosling, DRIVE) believes in Mike Morris (Clooney). As the most media-savvy staffer on the governor’s campaign trail towards winning the Democrats’ primary election (and by extension the United States presidency) Myers is the top pupil. But the charismatic young upstart is about to get a hard lesson in dirty politics from two feuding old hands (Giamatti and Hoffman) who will do anything to get their candidate (and themselves) into the White House. 18 NEW RELEASES George Clooney’s fourth directorial feature,THE IDES OF MARCH is a gripping, tightly scripted, downright electrifying political drama. Anonymous 07th & 08th January 12A The Help 02nd & 05th January 12A The Artist From Friday 13th Jan PG Dir: Roland Emmerich Starring: Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewliss UK 2011,130mins Dir: Tate Taylor Starring: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain US 2011, 146mins Set in the political snake-pit of Elizabethan England, ANONYMOUS speculates on a century old question: who was the author of the plays credited to William Shakespeare? Based on the 2009 New York Times bestseller by Kathryn Stockett, Emma Stone is Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan, a plucky young writer who interviews her best friend’s African-American housekeeper about her experiences working for a wellheeled white family and ends up shaking the Deep South establishment to its very core. Hollywood 1927. George Valentin is a silent movie superstar.The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky’s the limit - major movie stardom awaits. Cannes favourite, THE ARTIST, uses stunning black and white photography to tell the story of their interlinked destinies. This being the 1960s, segregation is still the norm, but in breaking taboo and speaking out against her employers Aibileen has finally given her long-suppressed people a voice. “Endlessly inventive…[THE ARTIST] is a pastiche and a passionate love letter to the silent age.” The Guardian Experts have debated, books have been written, and scholars have devoted their lives to protecting or debunking theories surrounding the authorship of the most renowned works in English literature. ANONYMOUS poses one possible answer, focusing on a time when cloak-and-dagger political intrigue, illicit romances in the royal court, and the schemes of greedy nobles hungry for the power of the throne were all exposed in the most unlikely of places: the London stage. Dir: Michel Hazanavicius Starring: Jean Dujardin, John Goodman, Berenice Bejo, James Cromwell UK/FR 2011, 100mins Cannes International Film Festival 2011, Winner (Best Actor), Nominated (Palm D’Or) Das Letzte Schweigen (The Silence) 15 14th, 15th & 18th January Dir: Baran bo Odar Starring: Ulrich Thomsen, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Katrin Saß DE 2010, 119mins On a hot summer day, a bicycle is found in a wheat field and, nearby, the body of a young girl. The killer is never found. 23 years later, 13-year-old Sinikka is missing and the police are presented with a crime scene identical to the past. Convinced that history is repeating itself, a retired detective is determined that with the help of his young colleague he will track down the perpetrator. Spanning a week in the investigation, as the days grow hotter and once intact worlds fall apart, the strain of the case casts its shadow on all involved. A striking debut from Bo Odar, THE SILENCE sits well with other European crime thrillers such as THE KILLING and WALLANDER. NEW RELEASES 19
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