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.
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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 or
speak to a member of staff.
THE MASTER R U S T A N D B O N E
WHERE TO FIND US
73 BRUDENELL ROAD, LEEDS, WEST YORKSHIRE, LS6 1JD
The Hyde Park Picture House is situated 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.
S I G H T S E E R S Love (Amour)
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What’s On
16TH NOVEMBER 2012 - 10TH JANUARY 2013
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The Master
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Barbara - Sunday 2.50pm
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see www.leedsfilm.com for details
Jörg Buttgereit Double Bill
Our film programme changes every Friday. Below
is a rough guide to the titles we have coming up.
Based on audience requests, popular demand and
other exciting things we often add in extra titles or
extend the screening run for certain films. If there's
a film we've missed that you're desperate to see, do
let us know! Our main film times are published every
Monday for the following Friday. You can find these
by calling us, visiting us in person, visiting our website
or signing up to our free weekly listings email.
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Call Me Kuchu - Tuesday 6.15pm
7
The Hunger
11
Beauty and the Beast
8
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Sightseers
12
Sightseers
12
Love (Amour)
13
Rust And Bone
13
Turning plus Q&A - Saturday 4.10pm
4
Ginger & Rosa
14
Alps
13
Planes,Trains and Automobiles
11
Rififi
11
Big Miracle
8
Top Cat - The Movie
8
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It's A Wonderful Life - Friday 8pm,
The Hunt
14
To Rome With Love
14
About Elly - Saturday & Sunday
14
Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day - Saturday 8pm
5
Keep The Lights On - Tuesday 6.30pm
15
Babette's Feast - Thursday 7.30pm
5
Comfort and Joy - Wednesday 8.30pm
4
The Muppet Christmas Carol
8
Winnie The Pooh
8
4
Saturday/Sunday 5pm & Monday 3pm
WB28DECEMBER
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WB04JANUARY
Jaws - Sunday 3pm
5
Quartet TBC
15
The Artist - Monday 2.30pm & Tuesday 8pm
5
Boxing Day
15
Lawrence of Arabia - Monday 5pm
6
Baraka - Tuesday 6pm
6
Tangled
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Family friendly films every Saturday at 12 noon
Creatures of the Night, Saturday late night showings
Non continuous run (this means that this film won’t be showing every day this week)
CALENDAR
03
Turning plus Q&A
with Charles Atlas
Saturday 01st Dec - 4.10pm
Dir: Charles Atlas
Documentary feat: Antony
Hegarty, Thomas Bartlett,
Honey Dijon
DK/US 2011, 108mins
TURNING is based on the
critically acclaimed European
tour by Mercury Music Prize
winning Antony and the
Johnsons and video artist and
film pioneer Charles Atlas. A
music documentary designed
to explore the very heart of
that performance. Through its
synthesis of Antony's songs and
the unfurling video portraiture of
the 13 remarkable women who
performed on stage as part of the
tour, TURNING creates an intimate
and cinematic experience
exploring themes of identity,
transcendence and the revelation
of essence.
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SEASONAL SPECIALS
Friends of Hyde Park
Christmas Special:
PG
Comfort and Joy
Wednesday 19th Dec
- 8pm Doors, 8.30pm Film
Dir: Bill Forsythe
Starring: Bill Patterson, C. P. Grogan,
Eleanor David, Alex Norton
UK 1984, 106mins, 35mm
Mark Kermode calls COMFORT
AND JOY one of his top ten
alternative Christmas films of
all time. Its screenplay was
nominated for a BAFTA in 1985
and having never had a DVD
release it really is a difficult film to
track down.
Forsythe’s follow up to GREGORY’S
GIRL and LOCAL HERO sees
Glaswegian radio disc jockey
Allan “Dicky” Bird thrown into
turmoil when his girlfriend
suddenly leaves him a few days
before Christmas. His heartache
is interrupted when he witnesses
a violent attack on an ice-cream
van and gets embroiled in a turf
war between two rival families over
the ice-cream market of Glasgow.
It's a Wonderful Life
21st - 24th Dec
U
Dir: Frank Capra
Starring: James Stewart,
Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
US 1946, 130mins
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 here at the Hyde Park
Picture House. For the uninitiated
the film opens with angels
discussing George Bailey, a
man so beset with problems
that he contemplates ending
his life. As George prepares to
jump from a bridge his guardian
angel Clarence Oddbody
intervenes and shows him the
true effect of his good deeds.
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.
PG
Led Zeppelin:
Celebration Day
Saturday 22nd Dec - 8pm
Babette's Feast
U
(Babettes gæstebud)
Thursday 27th Dec - 7.30pm
Jaws NEW DIGITAL PRINT
Sunday 30th Dec - 3pm
12A
Dir: Dick Carruthers
Documentary feat: John Paul
Jones, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant,
Jason Bonham
UK 2012, 125mins
Dir: Gabriel Axel
Starring: Stéphane Audran,
Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel
DK/SE/FR 1987, 103mins
Danish with English subtitles
Dir: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Roy Scheider,
Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
US 1975, 124mins
On 10 December 2007, Led
Zeppelin took to the stage at
London’s O2 Arena to headline
a tribute concert for Atlantic
Records founder Ahmet Ertegun.
What followed was a tour de
force of the legendary band’s
blues-infused rock ’n’ roll in which
founding members John Paul
Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert
Plant were joined by Jason
Bonham, the son of the late John
Bonham, to perform 16 songs
from their celebrated catalogue,
including landmark tracks
Whole Lotta Love, Rock and Roll,
Kashmir, and Stairway to Heaven.
The show was seen only by the
18,000 people who were fortunate
enough to secure tickets on the
night. Until now that is.
Axel’s adaptation of a short
story by Isak Dinesen is without
a doubt one of the greatest
films ever made about food.
Axel’s Academy Award Winner
(1988 Best Foreign Language
Film) simultaneously captures
the passion and joy associated
with the act of cooking and the
incredible restorative power of
sitting down and sharing a meal
with loved ones.
DON’T GO IN THE WATER! The
peaceful resort town of Amity,
Massachusetts has always
depended on its thriving summer
tourist trade to get through the
lean winter months. So when a
swimmer is killed by a great white
shark, Sheriff Brody faces much
opposition to his suggestion of
closing the beaches just before
the 4th of July weekend...
Based on the novel by Peter
Benchley, this is the film that really
In 19th century Denmark two
put Spielberg on the map.
sisters live a life of quiet devotion
in an isolated village where their
“This is a suspense classic that
father is the honoured pastor.
When they offer refuge to political leaves teeth-marks.”
The Guardian
refugee Babette the boundaries
of their life of quiet servitude are
well and truly challenged.
SEASONAL SPECIALS
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Sheffield Doc/Fest brings the international
documentary family together to celebrate the art
and business of documentary making for five intense
days in June. Sheffield Doc/Fest on tour takes some
of that documentary love and shares it around.
We’ll be screening a small selection of films in conjunction with
the festival through December and January kicking off with CALL
ME KUCHU on Tuesday 27th November. Keep your eyes peeled for
information on other titles.
www.sheffdocfest.com
facebook.com/sheffdocfest
@sheffdocfest
PG
The Artist
Monday 31st Dec - 2.30pm
& Tuesday 01st Jan - 8pm
50th Anniversary Re-Release:
Lawrence of Arabia
Monday 31st Dec - 5pm
PG
20th Anniversary Re-Release:
In Uganda, a new bill threatens to
make homosexuality punishable
by death. David Kato - Uganda's
first openly gay man - and his
fellow activists work against the
clock to defeat the legislation
while combating vicious
persecution in their daily lives.
PG
Dir: David Lean
Starring: Peter O'Toole,
Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
UK/US 1962, 216mins
Dir: Ron Fricke
Documentary
US 1992, 97mins
Michel Hazanavicius' impossibly
charming film won seven BAFTAs
and five Oscars in 2012 making
it one of our films of the year.
The story takes us back to 1920s
Hollywood, where movie icon
George Valentin faces a career
crisis as the advent of the talkies
signals the end of the silent era.
To make matters worse, the girl
he helped make into a star is
about to become the It girl of
her generation. Shot in black
and white and virtually without
dialogue, THE ARTIST might
sound like little more than a cute
homage, but its wonderfully
imaginative script and heartfelt
performances won us over.
Director David Lean and
screenwriters Robert Bolt and
Michael Wilson’s expansive
account of the Arab revolt and
the duplicity of the imperial
powers in the latter stages
of World War One is not an
attempt to elucidate the truth
about the part played by a still
mysterious and controversial
figure. Rather, it is a grandiose,
Fordian celebration of the
myth the real T. E. Lawrence
did so much to create. Peter
O’Toole’s charismatic (and
best) performance presents a
character of fascinatingly halfhidden complexities and flaws.
BARAKA is a documentary
in the tradition of Godfrey
Reggio's KOYAANISQATSI: a film
without words shot in 70mm
that attempts to transcend
the boundaries of language,
nationality and religion to relate
"the only myth worth thinking",
the story of Earth and human
interaction. More recently
director Fricke was responsible
for bringing the epic SAMSARA to
the silver screen.
SEASONAL SPECIALS
Dir: Katherine Fairfax Wright,
Malika Zouhali-Worrall
US/UG 2012, 87mins,
English subtitles, Documentary
Baraka
Tuesday 08th Jan - 6pm
Dir: Michel Hazanavicius
Starring: Jean Dujardin,
John Goodman, Berenice Bejo
FR/BE/US 2012, 100mins
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12A
Call Me Kuchu
Tuesday 27th Nov - 6.15pm
The making of the film involved
a 14-month odyssey, including
three complete journeys around
the globe with location filming
on all latitudes and detours to
remote and inaccessible places.
SHEFFIELD DOC/FEST
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Saturday
Matinees
Every Saturday at 12noon
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FRIENDS
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PARK
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Entitlements
Beauty and the Beast
Winnie the Pooh
US 1991, 90mins, U
Saturday 24th Nov
US 2011, 73mins, U
Saturday 15th Dec
2012, 104mins, 15
Thursday 22nd Nov - 11am
Top Cat - The Movie
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Ginger & Rosa
MX/AR/UK 2011, 90mins, U
Saturday 01st Dec
US 1992, 86mins, U
Saturday 22nd Dec
Big Miracle
Tangled
US/UK 2012, PG, 107mins
Saturday 08th Dec
US 2010, 100mins, PG
Saturday 29th Dec
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Ruby Sparks
2012, 90mins, 12A
Wednesday 12th Dec - 11am
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To Rome with Love
2012, 112mins, 12A
Wednesday 19th Dec - 11am
Quartet
2012, 93mins, 12A
Wednesday 09th Jan - 11am tbc.
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Jörg Buttgereit
Double Bill - Nekromantik
& The Death King
Saturday 17th Nov - 11pm
Dir: Jörg Buttgereit
DE 1987 & 1990, 180mins, 35mm
German with English subtitles
Jörg Buttgereit courted
controversy in his early career
in the 80s with his underground
films NEKROMANTIK and THE
DEATH KING, neither of which
have screened in the UK since
1990. To celebrate the 25th
anniversary of NEKROMANTIK
we are thrilled to present both
these films in a partnership
with Fanomenon at Leeds
International Film Festival. We’ll
also be welcoming Jörg himself
to this special double bill so it
really is unmissable!
www.leedsfilm.com
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The Hunger
Saturday 24th Nov - 11pm
Dir: Tony Scott
Starring: Catherine Deneuve,
David Bowie, Susan Sarandon
UK 2012, 96mins, 35mm
She came out of Egypt more
than 2,000 years ago. En
route to the present day, she
picked him up in England in
the 18th century. Today they
live on Manhattan's East Side.
They are Miriam and John
Blaylock - young, beautiful
and permanently engaged in
a search for new blood. That
is until one morning when
John awakens to discover
his sustained youth is not
as permanent as it once
seemed. 'The timeless beauty of
Catherine Deneuve, the cruel
elegance of David Bowie and
the open sensuality of Susan
Sarandon' combine in this stylish
and stylized horror from the late
Tony Scott.
10
LEEDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Rififi
Saturday 01st Dec 11.20pm
12A
Dir: Jules Dassin
Starring: Jean Servais,
Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel
FR 1955, 118mins, 35mm,
French with English Subtitles
Ex-con Tony le Stephanois, out
on the street and down on his
luck, engineers the perfect caper
gathering a group of specialists
to make a big score at a swanky
English jewellery shop in the Rue
de Rivoli.
Blacklisted by Hollywood’s antiCommunist witch-hunt, American
director Jules Dassin constructed
his masterpiece in exile against
the gorgeous backdrop of
Parisian streets. A dazzlingly
suspenseful hardboiled crime
thriller several shades darker than
your average noir, featuring a
near silent half hour heist which
became a blueprint for all tales
of ingenious thievery to follow.
15
Seasonal Special Planes, Trains
and Automobiles
Saturday 08th Dec - 11pm
Dir: John Hughes
Starring: Steve Martin,
John Candy, Laila Robins
US 1987, 92mins, 35mm
December is a month of
harrowing journeys with heavy
bags and horrendous seating
buddies (eat with your mouth
closed you lunatic!) so what
better way for our Creatures
strand to sign off for 2012 than
with John Hughes screwball
classic, PLANES, TRAINS AND
AUTOMOBILES.
Steve Martin and John Candy
star as the odd couple
advertising executive and
obnoxious but loveable shower
ring salesman who must band
together to make it home for
the holidays by whatever
means possible.
CREATURES OF THE NIGHT
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The Master
16th - 29th Nov
15
Barbara
25th Nov - 2.50pm
12A
Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams
US 2012, 144mins
Dir: Christian Petzold
Starring: Nina Hoss,
Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock,
Christina Hecke
DE 2012, 105mins, German with
English subtitles
Deservedly collecting the
top prizes at this year’s
Venice Festival, THE MASTER
is Anderson’s latest essay on
complex, troubled individuals
and their insidious power. But
unlike THERE WILL BE BLOOD and
MAGNOLIA, here we have not
one but two such protagonists:
war-damaged sailor Freddie
Quell and charismatic cult
leader Lancaster Dodd, under
whose influence Freddie falls.
It is the summer of 1980 in the
German Democratic Republic
and Barbara is confined to
living and working as a doctor
in a small provincial town - her
punishment for attempting to
emigrate to the West. She has
only one focus; to escape and
for this she has to wait patiently.
Until Andre, her supervisor in
the hospital shifts her off course.
Are his motives of love or duty
to the authorities? The day-today pretence and constant
supervision slowly take their toll
as the tension builds in Petzold’s
accomplished drama.
Scientology founder L. Ron
Hubbard is the thinly disguised
model for Dodd, whose The Cause
employs brainwashing methods
masquerading as soul-cleansing.
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NEW RELEASES
Sightseers
30th Nov - 13th Dec
15
Dir: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram
UK 2012, 88mins
Having quickly established himself
as an innovative voice in British
cinema with DOWN TERRACE and
KILL LIST, director Ben Wheatley
returns with this hilarious new
black comedy. SIGHTSEERS invites
favourable comparison to Mike
Leigh’s NUTS IN MAY, though it
is far, far darker, and Terrence
Malick’s BADLANDS, though it is far,
far funnier.
Escaping from her overbearing
mother Brummie dog-walker Tina
eagerly embarks on a caravan
holiday with creepily considerate
new boyfriend Chris, whose
exacting schedule embraces
such cultural enticements as the
Derwent Pencil Museum and
Crich Tramway Village.
Love
12A
(Amour)
30th Nov - 06th Dec
Dir: Michael Haneke
Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant,
Emmanuelle Riva,
Isabelle Huppert
AT/FR/DE 2012, 127mins,
French with English subtitles
Elderly couple Georges and
Anne, retired music teachers,
live a contented life enjoying
one another’s company in Paris,
dividing their time between
reading, playing music and
concerts in the evenings. But
when Anne suffers a stroke,
Georges must learn to care
for her in an entirely new way,
calling on their daughter Eva
to help him cope with a wife
and mother almost entirely
transformed by illness.
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the
2012 Cannes Film Festival, this
exquisite, beautifully acted film
is an absolute must-see for fans
of Haneke (HIDDEN,THE WHITE
RIBBON) as well as newcomers to
his devastating filmmaking style.
Alps
15
(Alpeis)
Rust and Bone
15
(De rouille et d'os)
02nd & 05th Dec
07th - 13th Dec
Dir: Giorgos Lanthimos
Starring: Stavros Psyllakis,
Aris Servetalis, Johnny Vekris,
Ariane Labed
GR 2012, 94mins,
Greek with English subtitles
Dir: Jacques Audiard
Starring: Marion Cotillard, Matthias
Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure,
Céline Sallette
FR/BE 2012, 123mins,
French with English subtitles
Following on from the multiaward-winning DOGTOOTH
comes another beguilingly
strange excursion into the outer
reaches of social values from
writer/director Giorgos Lanthimos.
His subject here is a shadowy
quartet named after various
alpine peaks who are hired
to impersonate the recently
deceased in order to ease
the grieving process. With his
characteristic ability to make the
bizarre appear languidly routine
and then infuse it with the darkest
humour, Lanthimos chronicles
how the Alps’ strictly maintained
discipline is threatened when
Mount Rosa does a little business
on the side.
The casual hand of fate and
its terrifying power to overturn
lives is a theme much favoured
by writer-director Audiard (A
PROPHET), and one he returns to
again for RUST AND BONE.
Taciturn Ali and his young son
Sam hitchhike from unexplained
failures in northern France in
hope of a better life with Ali's
sister Louise in Antibes. The
three initially endure a meagre
existence funded by Louise's job
as a supermarket cashier, but
things take a dramatic turn when
Ali gets a new job as a bouncer
and rescues the glamorous,
self-assured Stéphanie from a
nightclub brawl.
NEW RELEASES
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About Elly
12A
(Darbareye Elly)
15th & 16th Dec
Dir: Asghar Farhadi
Starring: Golshifteh Farahani,
Shahab Hosseini,
Taraneh Alidoosti
IR/FR 2009, 118mins,
Persian with English subtitles
After the success of director
Farhadi's Oscar-winning A
SEPARATION, here is a chance
see his stunning drama ABOUT
ELLY. Similarly concerned with
dissecting contemporary Iranian
social mores and class structures,
ABOUT ELLY centres on a group of
middle class friends, gripped by
panic when one of their number
disappears during an illicit
beachside vacation.
Ginger & Rosa
08th, 09th & 12th Dec
12A
The Hunt
15
(Jagten)
Dir: Sally Potter
Starring: Elle Fanning,
Christina Hendricks,
Annette Bening, Jodhi May
UK/DK/HR/CA 2012, 90mins
14th - 20th Dec
Unfolding in early-60s London
under the shadow of the
Cuban missile crisis, this striking
coming-of-age drama is a
triumphant return to form
for Sally Potter (ORLANDO).
Nostalgic and emotionally raw
in equal measure, GINGER
& ROSA captures the angst
of adolescence, as 17-yearold Ginger experiments with
political activism while her
longstanding soul mate Rosa
pursues romance. As they
grapple with the complexities of
dawning adulthood, freedom
and responsibility, cracks begin
to open in their friendship,
and halcyon days give way to
betrayal and regret.
The rich seam of contemporary
Scandinavian drama is rivetingly
sustained by Vinterberg’s (FESTEN)
disturbing account of a teacher
falsely accused of sexual abuse
by his best friend’s daughter, fiveyear-old Klara, and the mounting
hysteria that ensues.
To Rome with Love
15th, 16th & 19th Dec
Mikkelsen won Best Actor at
Cannes for his performance
as the initially incredulous but
ultimately enraged Lucas, a newly
divorced supply teacher who,
despite Klara’s retraction, is vilified,
ostracised and then arrested.The
evidence against him is eventually
exposed as patently phony, but
that isn’t the end of his ordeal
when, as if in denial of their own
guilt, the community continue to
punish him.
Woody Allen’s latest European
jaunt sees him returning to a
lead role, this time as a neurotic
retired opera director visiting a
suitably photogenic Rome to vet
his daughter’s fiancé. Trading
some of the movie’s wittiest lines
with his long-suffering wife, he
inadvertently sets out to promote
a singing undertaker. Cue several
great comedic essays resulting in
a delightful meditation on fame,
nostalgia and, inevitably, love.
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NEW RELEASES
Dir: Thomas Vinterberg
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen,
Thomas Bo Larsen
DK 2012 , 84mins,
Danish with English subtitles
12A
Dir: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen,
Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni,
Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis
US/IT/ES 201, 112mins
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Keep the Lights On
Quartet
Tuesday 18th Dec - 6.30pm 04th - 10th Jan - TBC
Boxing Day
05th, 06th & 09th Jan
Dir: Ira Sachs
Starring: Thure Lindhardt, Zachary
Booth, Julianne Nicholson
US 2012, 102mins
Dir: Dustin Hoffman
Starring: Maggie Smith,
Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly
UK 2012, 95mins
Dir: Bernard Rose
Starring: Lisa Enos, Jo Farkas,
Danny Huston
UK 2012,TBCmins
Erik is a documentary filmmaker
whose appetite for casual sex
brings a chance encounter with
closeted lawyer Paul, with whom
the attraction is much more than
purely sexual. Casual sex leads to
cohabitation and cohabitation
leads to complications: drug
addiction, the needs of straight
friends and the loss of trust all
take their toll, but also intensify
the symbiosis.
Lifelong friends Wilf and Reggie,
together with former colleague
Cissy, are residents of Beecham
House, a home for retired opera
singers. Every year on Giuseppe
Verdi’s birthday, the residents
unite to give a concert to raise
funds for their home. But when
Jean Horton, a former grande
dame of the opera fallen on hard
times, also Reggie’s ex-wife and
the fourth and most celebrated
member of their former quartet,
moves into the home to
everyone’s surprise, the plans for
this year’s concert start to unravel.
Based on MASTER AND MAN by
Leo Tolstoy, BOXING DAY follows
IVANS XTC and THE KREUTZER
SONATA as the third film in Rose’s
fascinating trilogy of modern day
interpretations of Tolstoy stories.
Shot with a grainy realism which
reflects New York City in the late
1990s, KEEP THE LIGHTS ON is a
moving meditation on lives that
are lived close to the edge but
are all the richer for it.
“Hoffman has delivered a love
letter to the elderly thesps of his
adoptive country.”
The Guardian
Ruthless property agent Basil
heads into the heart of the Rocky
Mountains in the midst of perilous
weather conditions with a weary
and somewhat unpleasant taxi
driver, Nick, as his guide. When
the journey becomes potentially
fatal, Basil must decide whether
he's prepared to sacrifice his own
life for the life of another.
“Another arresting adaptation
from Bernard Rose.”
The Guardian
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