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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20TH JANUARY 2012 - 15TH MARCH 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 L’atalante
WHERE TO FIND US
A DANGEROUS METHOD SHAME
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 05)
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Where Are The Times?
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 titles. If there’s a film you’re
desperate to see which we’ve missed do let us know!
20TH JANUARY 2012 - 15TH MARCH 2012
Our exact film times are published every Monday for
the following Friday.You can find these exact times by
calling us, visiting us in person, visiting our website or
signing up to our free weekly listings email.
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The Artist
13
Shame
14
Surviving Life
14
The Artist
13
A Woman Under The Influence (Sun)
06
Tatsumi
14
9 Intervals (Thu - 5pm)
05
Dreams of A Life (Sun)
15
Two-Lane Blacktop
10
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
10
Tinkerbell & the Great Fairy Rescue
09
Ratatouille
09
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WB10FEBRUARY
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Carnage
15
Young Adult
16
The Chemical Brothers: Don’t Think (Fri)
16
Margin Call
18
Mysteries of Lisbon (Sun - 1:40pm)
15
Valentines Special - L’Atalante (Tue – 7pm)
04
Bombay Beach (Tue - 7pm)
16
Before Sunrise
11
Crumb
10
Ella Enchanted
09
UP (2D)
09
WB24FEBRUARY
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WB17FEBRUARY
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Martha Marcy May Marlene
17
A Dangerous Method
18
Dancer in the Dark (Sun)
06
Vagabond (Tue - 6:30pm TBC)
06
Corman’s World (Tue - 6:30pm)
18
Re-Animator
11
Olsen (Sun)
07
Scooby-Doo
09
The Thing
11
The Cat Returns
09
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The Descendants
19
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
05
Hadewijch
19
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
05
(Musical accompaniment
by A Hawk and A Hacksaw)
The Wild Bunch
Coraline (2D)
19
11
(Musical accompaniment
by Blue Roses)
09
Altered States
11
Mr. Bean’s Holiday
09
Family friendly films every Saturday at 12 noon
Parent/carer and baby screenings
Creatures of the Night, Saturday late night showings
Non continuous run
CALENDAR
03
L’ATALANTE
Tues 14th Feb – 7pm
PG
Dir: Jean Vigo
Starring: Michel Simon, Dita Parlo,
Jean Dasté, Gilles Margaritis,
Louis Lefebvre
FR 1934, 89mins
New Digital Print
04 VALENTINES DAY
A lyrically beautiful film of life and
underwater. In these moments it
love on the Seine, L’ATALANTE
is clear to see why L’ATALANTE is
centres on a young barge
considered by many to be one
captain (Jean Daste) who takes
of the greatest art house films of
his bride (Dita Parlo) from her dull all time.
riverside village to live with him on
his barge, Atalante, as it traverses “...it can be claimed that love
has never been registered in film
the canals of Paris.The marriage
emulsion or on a soundtrack
soon comes under strain: he is
with more eloquence.”
unwilling to indulge her excited
The Guardian
desire to visit the city while she
underestimates his backbreaking
“Stands as one of the most
workload.
beautiful and rich celebrations
of human connection in the
L’ATALANTE unfolds into a simple
story of quarrel and reconciliation history of cinema.”
Slant Magazine
but with Vigo’s expert direction
we are treated to moments of
true poetic delight; an impromptu
waltz to a record played on a
phonograph, a lovelorn Jean
searching frantically for his wife
9 Intervals
Running to Thursday
02nd February
U
Dir: Aurélien Froment
Starring: David Annett,
Nichi Green, Will Holder,
Keith Withall
UK 2011, 45mins (9x 5mins)
www.pavilion.org.uk
Shadows of Forgotten
Ancestors & live score
by A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Monday 05th March – 9pm
Dir: Sergei Paradjanov
Starring: Ivan Mikolajchuk, Larisa
Kadochnikova,Tatyana Bestayeva
Tickets: £12 Advance
USSR 1964, 92mins
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
.
New Mexico’s roving folk
duo A Hawk and A Hacksaw
(accordionist/drummer
Jeremy Barnes and violinist
Heather Trost) present a brand
new rescore of Soviet director
Sergio Paradjanov’s classic
film SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN
ANCESTORS. Set high up in the
Carpathian mountains, the
film tells the age old tale of a
peasant’s love and loss in a
preindustrial age where magic
and ritual are as much a part of
existence as back-breaking work
and violent family feuds.
Special event: 26th Jan. 5pm –
6.15pm; See all nine episodes within
the frame of a single screening.
www.heehawsessions.com
PG
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
& live score by Blue Roses
Friday 09th March – 6.30pm
Dir: John S. Robertson
Starring: John Barrymore, Charles
Lane, Brandon Hurst
Tickets: £12.50 (full),
£11 (conc.) ,£10 (members)
Screening format: PC
US 1920, 67mins
‘In each of us, two natures
are at war...’
Following acclaimed performances
at London’s BFI and the Latitude and
Green Man Festivals, acclaimed
Yorkshire folk act Blue Roses (aka
Laura Groves) reprise their haunting
live score for this classic work of
gothic silent cinema.
In Leeds for one night only, Blue
Roses breathe spellbinding new life
into the canonical story of good
and evil in Victorian London.
Originally commissioned by
the Birds Eye View Film Festival:
celebrating women filmmakers.
www.birds-eye-view.co.uk
SPECIAL EVENTS 05
OLSEN
Sunday 19th February
Food (for small donation) from
12pm, films from12.30–2.30pm
Tickets: £5
www.olsenorsen.org
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. February’s screening marks
the second in a new series
where 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.
Further details of February’s
screening will be available
nearer the time. To find out
more please visit
www.olsenorsen.org.uk
A Woman Under
the Influence
Sunday 22nd January
15
Dir: John Cassavetes
Starring: Gena Rowlands,
Peter Falk, Matthew Cassel,
Matthew Laborteaux
US 1974, 155mins, 35mm
Vagabond - TBC
(Sans Toit Ni Loi)
Dancer in the Dark
Sunday 19th February
Dir: Agnès Varda
Starring: Sandrine Bonnaire,
Setti Ramdane, Francis Balchere
FR 1985, 105mins
Dir: Lars Von Trier
Starring: Björk,
Catherine Deneuve,
David Morse, Peter Stormare
DK/ES/AR 2000, 158mins, 35mm
Tuesday 28th Feb – 6.30pm
Sandrine Bonnaire won a Best
Cassavete’s 1974 classic
Actress César for her portrayal
sees Gena Rowlands give a
of Mona - a young and defiant
devastating performance as a
woman pushed remorselessly to drifter, who meets a tragic end.
breaking point by the man who Using a largely non-professional
cast Varda recollects Mona’s
professes to love her the most.
story through the flashbacks of
Brimming with both pain and
those who encountered her.The
compassion A WOMAN UNDER
result is a splintered portrait of
THE INFLUENCE kicks off a mini
an enigmatic woman, lacking in
series of three titles celebrating
kindness but full of courage while
strong female characters on
wandering in the winter cold.
the silver screen in conjunction
with the installation FIVE TRUTHS
“...[Bonnaire acts] with brilliant
by Katie Mitchell. FIVE TRUTHS
subtlety...Varda has created
is showing at the Howard
a world too painfully real to
Assembly Room from the 05th –
ignore...”
12th February 2012.
The New York Times
For further details:
www.howardassemblyroom.co.uk
06 SCREENING IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE HOWARD ASSEMBLY ROOM
18
While filming DANCER IN THE
DARK Trier famously drove Björk
to near madness as a result
of his ruthless approach to
direction. The end result is a truly
remarkable performance which
won her the Best Actress award
at Cannes in 2000 as well as the
Best Film Award for the film.
1964, America. Czech immigrant
Selma (Björk) is working at a
small pressing plant, trying
to build a life for herself and
her young son. Life is hard but
Selma has a secret passion for
American musicals which keeps
her going in even the darkest of
moments.
SPECIAL EVENTS 07
FRIENDS
OF HYDE
PARK
Annual 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’
Saturday
Matinees
Older
Wiser
Local
Seniors
Every Saturday at 12 noon
£4 for adults and £1 for kids!
(OWLS) presents...
NAME
Tinkerbell & the Great
Fairy Rescue
ADDRESS
2010, 76mins, U
Saturday 21st January
POSTCODE
TEL
Ratatouille
2007, 111mins, U
Saturday 28th January
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2009, 102mins, U
Saturday 04th February
Ella Enchanted
2004, 96mins, PG
Saturday 11th February*
*Please note this screening
will be at the slightly later than
usual time of 12:30
The Cat Returns
2002, 75mins, U
Saturday 18th February
Scooby Doo
2002, 86mins, PG
Saturday 25th February
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.
Coraline (2D)
2009, 100mins, PG
Saturday 03rd March
Mr. Bean’s Holiday
2007, 89mins, PG
Saturday 10th March
Thumbelina
1994, 87mins, U
Saturday 17th March
Upcoming screenings:
No Problem
138mins
Thursday 26th January
Desi Boys
121mins
Thursday 16th February
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
Carnage
2011, 80mins, 12A
Wednesday 08th Feb - 11:00am
Young Adult
2011, 93mins, 15
Wednesday 15th Feb - 11:00am
A Dangerous Method
2011, 99mins, 15
Thursday 01st Mar - 11:00am
The Descendants
2011, 115mins, 15
Wednesday 07th Mar - 11:00am
(please check nearer the time for details on this one)
A relaxed and friendly atmosphere.
08 FRIENDS OF HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE
FAMILIES AT HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE 09
Our Creatures of the Night
strand re-launches this January
with a new run of late night cult
films, forgotten masterpieces,
oddball documentaries and the
best worst movies ever made.
Taking its cue from the BBC’s
much loved Moviedrome strand
which ran from 1988 to 2000
and introduced a generation
of film lovers to a whole world
of previously underexposed
cinematic gems, Creatures of the
Night is dedicated to screening
those utterly unforgettable films
that are guaranteed to become
your next cinematic obsession.
Discover your new favourite
film or revisit a cult-classic after
dark at the Picture House with
Creatures of the Night. Tis the
witching hour...
Two–Lane Blacktop
Saturday 21st Jan – 11pm
15
Dir: Monte Hellman
Starring: James Taylor, Dennis
Wilson, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird
US 1971, 103mins, Blu-ray
James Taylor is the driver, Warren
Oates is GTO, Laurie Bird is the girl,
Dennis Wilson is the mechanic,
TWO-LANE BLACKTOP is the picture.
Receiving a limited theatrical
release for its 40th anniversary
this widescreen road movie
with existential punch is an
absolute classic of American
independent cinema.
The Rocky Horror
Picture Show
Saturday 28th Jan – 11pm
12A
Dir: Jim Sharman
Starring: Tim Curry, Susan, Meat
Loaf, Sarandon, Richard O’Brien
US 1975, 100mins, 35mm
Hailed by many as the original
midnight movie ROCKY HORROR
has it all; young lovers who get
stranded all alone on a dark
and stormy night, a spooky old
house with its own resident alien
transsexual transvestite, lots of
nifty dance moves and Meatloaf.
Crumb
Saturday 04th Feb – 11pm
18
Dir: Terry Zwigoff
Documentary feat: Robert Crumb
US 1994, 119mins
Legendary underground comic
artist R. Crumb is the subject of this
utterly fascinating, weird, hilarious,
depraved and unexpectedly
moving documentary directed by
Terry GHOST WORLD Zwigoff and
produced by David Lynch.
Before Sunrise –
Valentines Special
Saturday 11th Feb – 11pm
15
Dir: Richard Linklater
Starring: Ethan Hawke,
Julie Delpy
US 1995, 105mins, 35mm
The Thing
Saturday 18th Feb – 11pm
18
Dir: John Carpenter
Starring: Kurt Russell
US 1982, 109mins, Digital
Re-Animator
Saturday 24th Feb – 11pm
18
Dir: Stuart Gordon
Starring: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce
Abbott, Barbara Crampton
US 1985, 85mins, DVD
When two strangers got off the
train together in 1995 to spend
a romantic evening aimlessly
walking the streets of Vienna, the
hearts and hopes of anxious
dreamers everywhere went with
them.This one’s for the dreamers.
A film so good they made it
thrice; but John Carpenter’s
1982 version is the winner. Blackly
comedic, relentlessly suspenseful
and filled with mind wrecking
creature effects that still have
the ability to shock. A grossly
enjoyable sci-fi/horror with plenty
of re-watch value.
Utterly demented and seriously
funny, a blood soaked horrorcomedy in which a scientist
perfects a serum with the ability to
‘re-animate’ the dead...The truly
revolting penultimate scene is
worth the entry price alone.
18
The Wild Bunch –
The Directors Cut
Saturday 03rd Mar – 11pm
Altered States
Saturday 10th Mar – 11pm
Pink Flamingos –
30th Anniversary
Saturday 17th Mar – 11pm
Dir: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: William Holden, Ernest
Borgnine, Warren Oates
US 1969, 145mins, 35mm
If they move, kill ‘em!
A group of aging gunmen
do battle on the Mexican
border in the fading days of
the old west. Bleak, bloody
and ruthlessly violent – an
undisputed masterpiece of the
Western genre.
18
Dir : Ken Russell
Starring: William Hurt, Blair Brown,
Bob Balaban
US 1980, 102mins, DVD
William Hurt stars as a
scientist experimenting with
hallucinogenic drugs and
sensory deprivation in this
exhilarating and bizarre
psychedelic sci-fi horror from the
late great Ken Russell.
18
Dir: John Waters
Starring: Divine, David Lochary,
Mary Vivian Pearce
US 1972, 107mins, DVD
The daddy of them all - released
30 years ago to the day, John
Waters’ notorious ‘exercise in poor
taste’ remains a landmark cult
film that has to be seen to be
believed.
THE
ARTIST
PG
Friday 13th Jan onwards
Dir: Michel Hazanavicius
Starring: Jean Dujardin,
John Goodman, Berenice Bejo,
James Cromwell
FR/BE 2011, 100mins
THE ARTIST took the film world
by storm in early 2011 when it
had its premiere at Cannes. In
November of that year it stole
the audience award in the 11th
hour at our very own Leeds
International Film Festival. Now,
at last, Michel Hazanavicius’
impossibly charming film is here
for us all to enjoy.
The story takes us back to 1920s
Hollywood, where movie icon
George Valentin (Dujardin, LITTLE
WHITE LIES) faces a career crisis
as the advent of the talkies
effectively signals the end of the
silent era. To make matters worse,
the girl he helped make into a
star (Bejo) 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 lead performances
will see it rank high on critics’‘best
of’ lists in 2012.
“This witty and moving homage
to the silent movie era is one
of the most purely enjoyable
movies in years…
”
The Guardian
NEW RELEASES 13
Surviving Life:
Theory and Practice
15
(Prezít svuj zivot: teorie a praxe)
From Saturday 21st January
Dir: Jan Švankmajer
Starring: Vaclav Helsus, Klara
Issova, Zuzana Kronerova,
Daniela Bakerova
CZ/SK/JP 2010, 108mins
Using a mix of cut-out animation
from photographs and live-action
segments, SURVIVING LIFE is
another extraordinary offering
from the acclaimed animation
godfather, Jan Švankmajer.
Eugene leads a double life - one
real, the other in his dreams. In
real life he has a wife Milada;
in his dreams he has a young
girlfriend, Eugenia. Sensing
that these dreams have some
deeper meaning, he goes to see
a psychoanalyst, Dr. Holubova,
who interprets them for him (with
the help of some argumentative
psychoanalytical griping from
the animated heads of Freud
and Jung).
14 NEW RELEASES
Shame
From Friday 27th Jan
18
Dir: Steve McQueen
Starring: Michael Fassbender,
James Badger Dale,
Carey Mulligan
UK 2011, 101mins
For Brandon sex is a compulsion,
an obsession which drives
him but which also keeps him
isolated, unable to face any form
of intimacy. He has a successful
career and an expensive
apartment.
His sister, Sissy, is a mess of
another kind. She arrives
uninvited and stays. Unwelcome,
she won’t leave. SHAME is a
haunting and compelling
account of the effects of a
dysfunctional family on the next
generation.
Like HUNGER (McQueen’s 2008
debut feature), SHAME finds
beauty and grace in improbable
situations and people.
Tatsumi
28th Jan & 01st Feb
15
Dreams of a Life
Sunday 31st January
12A
Dir: Eric Khoo
Starring: Tetsuya Bessho (voice),
Motoko Gollent (voice),
Yoshihiro Tatsumi (voice)
JP 2011, 96mins
Dir: Carol Morley
Starring: Zawe Ashton, Jonathan
Harden, Daren Elliot Holmes
UK 2011, 94mins
TATSUMI celebrates the life and
work of Japanese comics artist
Yoshihiro Tatsumi. In post-war
Japan, young Tatsumi’s passion
for comics eventually becomes
a means of supporting his poor
family. Already published as a
teenager, the talented Tatsumi
finds even greater inspiration
after meeting his idol, famous
Disneyesque animator Osamu
Tezuka. Despite his steady
success,Tatsumi comes to
question why Japanese comics
should cater only to children and,
in 1957,Tatsumi coins the term
gekiga (dramatic pictures) and
redefines the manga landscape
by encouraging an alternative
genre for adults.
Nobody noticed when Joyce
Vincent died in her bedsit above
a shopping mall in North London
in 2003. Surrounded by Christmas
presents she had been wrapping,
and with the TV still on, her body
was not discovered for three
years. Newspaper reports of the
discovery offered few details of
her life - not even a photograph.
DREAMS OF A LIFE is an
imaginative, powerful,
multilayered docu-drama, both a
portrait of Joyce and a portrait of
London in the eighties - the City,
music, and race. It is a film about
contemporary urban life, and
how, like Joyce, we are all different
things to different people.
Carnage
15
From Friday 03rd February
Dir: Roman Polanski
Starring: Jodie Foster,
Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz,
John C. Reilly
DE/FR/PL/ES 2011, 80mins
For his latest work Polanski
turns his attention to skewering
the hypocrisies of the middle
classes in this adaptation of
Yasmina Reza’s play,THE GOD OF
CARNAGE.Two New York couples,
Nancy and Allan and Penelope
and Michael, meet to discuss a
fight between their children. In
the ensuing conversation (shot
in real time) the masks slip after
the initial civilised tête–a-tête, and
the behaviour of the grown-ups is
soon far worse than that of their
children.
CARNAGE is a scathingly funny
comedy of manners with a crisp
script and Polanski’s direction is
sharp as a tack.
Mysteries of Lisbon
(Misterios De Lisboa)
PG
Sunday 05th Feb – 1.40pm
Dir: Raoul Ruiz
Starring: Adriano Luz, Maria Joao
Bastos, Ricardo Pereira,
Clothilde Hesme
PT/FR 2011, 266mins
This epic retelling of the novel by
Camilo Castelo Branco has been
widely hailed as the highpoint
of the late Raúl Ruiz’ career.
MYSTERIES OF LISBON thrusts
us into a veritable whirlwind of
escapades, coincidences and
revelations, violent passions and
love affairs, all wrapped up in a
rhapsodic voyage that takes us
from Portugal to France, Italy, and
as far as Brazil. In this world of
intrigue and hidden identities, we
encounter a series of characters
all somewhat linked to the destiny
of Pedro da Silva, an orphan in a
boarding school.
“Storytelling of breathtaking
scale and grandeur”
Empire Magazine
NEW RELEASES 15
The Chemical Brothers:
Don’t Think
Friday 03rd Feb – 10pm
15
Bombay Beach
Young Adult
Tuesday 07th February – 7pm From Friday 10th February
For nearly two decades, the
Chemical Brothers’ mind-bending
audiovisual live shows have
played to packed houses and
festivals across the globe. But it
has never been documented on
film... until now!
The latest film from the director
A rusting relic of a failed 1950s
of UP IN THE AIR (Jason Reitman)
development boom, the Salton
and the writer of JUNO (Diablo
Sea is a barren Californian
Cody) features Academy Award
landscape often seen as a
winner Charlize Theron. Mavis
symbol of the failure of the
Gary (Theron), a writer of teen
American Dream. A sea in the
literature, returns to her small
middle of the Colorado desert.
First-time director Alma Har’el visits hometown to relive her glory
days and attempt to reclaim
this poetically fruitful terrain in her
her happily married high school
distinctive documentary BOMBAY
sweetheart. When returning home
BEACH, and finds there a motley
proves more difficult than she
cast including a bipolar seventhought, Mavis forms an unusual
year-old, a lovelorn high school
football star, and an octogenarian bond with a former classmate
who hasn’t quite gotten over high
poet-prophet.Together they
school either.
make up a triptych of American
manhood in its decisive moments,
populating the Salton Sea’s land “Oswalt’s dark duet with Charlize
Theron is funny, touching and
of thwarted opportunity.
vital. But fair warning: The laughs
in YOUNG ADULT leave bruises.”
Rolling Stone
UK/JP 2012, 90mins
In 2011, at the iconic Fuji Rock
Festival in Japan,The Chemical
Brothers played a headline set
in front of 50,000 fans, and the
performance was filmed on 21
cameras. Immersing us in the
thick of a frenetic crowd, DON’T
THINK captures the synaesthetic
barrage of sound, visuals and
light, and the transforming effect
it has on its audience.
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Dir: Alma Har’el
Documentary
US 2011, 80mins
Dir: Jason Reitman
Starring: Charlize Theron, Patrick
Wilson, Patton Oswalt
US 2011, 93mins
MARTHA MARCY
MAY MARLENE
From Friday 17th Feb
Dir: Sean Durkin
Starring: Elizabeth Olsen,
Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes,
Hugh Dancy
US 2011, 102mins
15
(Olsen) proceeds to piece
A palette of coniferous greens
together her fragmented psyche
and dewy greys set a suitably
existential tone in first-time director in the sanctuary of her sister’s
home. But it’s not long before her
Durkin’s striking psychological
volatile and erratic behaviour
drama. In the woods of upstate
causes old scars to reopen.
New York we meet a young
woman - distressed, clothes
“...it is the mood of the whole,
dirt-smeared, hair limp.
rather than the explosiveness
For two years, she has been
of individual scenes, that
living in an isolated commune
distinguishes this intelligent
led by the charismatic Patrick
slowburner as a truly unique
(Hawkes,YOU ME AND EVERYONE
piece of American indie.”
WE KNOW, WINTER’S BONE). As
Little White Lies
this dream existence becomes
a nightmare, she flees to find a
“Olsen gives a sensational
payphone, where she calls her
performance in a gripping
estranged sister (Paulson) - the
psychological thriller, from A
only person she can turn to for
gifted first-time writer-director.”
help. A pattern of disturbing
Rolling Stone
flashbacks and distorted
self-reflection emerges as Martha
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Margin Call
From 11th February
15
Dir: J.C. Chandor
Starring: Kevin Spacey,
Stanley Tucci, Jeremy Irons,
Paul Bettany
US 2011, 106mins
Set in the high stakes world of
the financial industry, MARGIN
CALL is a gripping thriller involving
the key players at an investment
firm during one perilous 24-hour
period in the early stages of
the 2008 financial crisis. When
an entry-level analyst unlocks
information that could prove to
be the downfall of the firm the
lives of all involved are catapulted
to the brink of disaster. First time
writer/director J.C. Chandor
intelligently uses the downfall of
100 year old American institution,
The Lehman Brothers, as his real
world touch stone to ensure
that MARGIN CALL has more
than a slight feel of disturbing
authenticity.
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Corman’s World:
Exploits of a
Hollywood Rebel
Tuesday 21st Feb – 6:30pm
Dir: Alex Stapleton
Documentary feat: Roger
Corman, Martin Scorsese,
Quentin Tarantino
US 2011, 95mins
The Fifties were America’s age
of innocence. But, stalking
the depths of its post-nuclear
bliss, mass paranoia became
fuel for Joseph McCarthy’s
brand of Red Scare terror
propaganda. Bomb shelters
were a deluxe feature in every
American home, governmentsponsored educational reels
promised imminent threat,
and Hollywood, Babylon of the
western world, hung on the
brink of collapse. It was here,
in the last-ditch machinations
of a dying juggernaut, that a
mild-mannered, civil engineer’s
son would become the most
influential force in modern
moviemaking.
A Dangerous Method
From Friday 24th Feb
15
The Descendants
From Friday 02nd March
15
Dir: David Cronenberg
Starring: Michael Fassbender,
Keira Knightley,Viggo Mortensen,
Vincent Cassel
UK/ DE/ CH/ CA 2011, 99mins
Dir: Alexander Payne
Starring: George Clooney,
Judy Greer, Beau Bridges,
Shailene Woodley
US 2011, 115mins
Cronenberg’s latest feature vividly
brings to life the cities of Zurich
and Vienna on the eve of World
War I as the setting for a dark
tale of sexual and intellectual
discovery. Drawn from true-life
events, A DANGEROUS METHOD
takes a glimpse into the turbulent
relationships between fledgling
psychiatrist Carl Jung, his mentor
Sigmund Freud and Sabina
Spielrein, the troubled but beautiful
young woman who came
between them. A DANGEROUS
METHOD is a bold exploration of
sensuality, ambition and deceit as
they set the scene for the pivotal
moment when Jung, Freud and
Sabina come together and split
apart, forever changing the face
of modern thought.
Middle-aged lawyer Matt King
is, in his own words,“the backup parent”. After a speedboat
accident leaves his wife in a
coma with doctors fearing the
worst, Matt must try to reconnect
with his two young daughters.
But, taking the patriarchal reins is
much harder than he had ever
anticipated.
Based on Hawaiian author
Kaui Hart Hemmings’ punchy
debut novel of the same name,
THE DESCENDANTS is a deeply
poignant and at times riotously
funny story of loss and courage
that marks a welcome return to
the director’s chair for Alexander
Payne (SIDEWAYS, ABOUT
SCHMIDT).
The Best Exotic
12A
Marigold Hotel
From Friday 09th March TBC
Dir: John Madden
Starring: Judi Dench, Bill Nighy,
Maggie Smith
US 2011, 123mins
This is a film for anyone who
has ever doubted whether
life truly begins at 60. Oscarnominated director Madden
(MRS. BROWN, SHAKESPEARE IN
LOVE) has cherry-picked some
of the very best British actors for
this bittersweet but life-affirming
comedy-drama.
We open in downcast Britain
where we are introduced to an
assortment of pensioners each
with their own grudge against
modern living, each whiling
away their golden years in one
way or another. What they need
is a change of scenery. Fate
obliges in the form of the Best
Exotic Marigold Hotel, a majestic
retirement home in India that is
looking for new residents.
Hadewijch
From Saturday 10th March
Dir: Bruno Dumont
Starring: Julie Sokolowski,
Yassine Salime, Karl Sarafidis
FR 2009, 105mins
Named after a thirteenthcentury mystic, HADEWIJCH
presents the spiritual journey
of Céline, a young novice nun
who is expelled because of her
overzealous faith, and sent back
into the world by the mother
superior. After returning to live with
her parents in their sumptuous
Parisian apartment she meets
Yassine who introduces her
to the lights of Paris, and the
cités (the Arab and African
immigrant housing projects).
Céline’s passionate love of God,
her rage, her unease with her
haute-bourgeois parents, and
her encounter with the volatile
Yassine lead her between grace
and madness, further off along
dangerous paths.
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