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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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11th January - 07th March 2013
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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 or
speak to a member of staff.
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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.
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PRICES
Stalls
Balcony
Adult
£6.00
£6.50
HOW TO BUY TICKETS
Concession
£4.80
£5.80
Friends/Children -14
£4.50
£4.50
IN PERSON
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20 minutes after the start of the last show. We accept all major credit and debit cards.
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(excluding bank holidays)
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What’s On
11th January - 07th March 2013
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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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Midnight's Children
11
Django Unchained
11
Neil Young Journeys
11
Indie Game: The Movie - Sun 2.40pm
12
Fanomenon Special Preview:
8
Wild Combination plus Directors Intro
8
Race to Witch Mountain
6
American Mary - Tue 9pm
Fear and Desire - Thu 8.30pm
8
Ratatouille
6
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Django Unchained
11
The Sessions
12
1913: The Shape of Time: Film Screenings,
5
1913: The Shape of Time: Film Screenings,
5
Part 1 - Sun 2pm
Part 2 - Sun 2pm
Double Bill: Robocop & Total Recall
9
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
9
Amazing Animations - London International
Animation Festival
6
Tinkerbell: The Secret of the Wings
6
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Bullhead
12
No
13
Punk Syndrome plus Q&A - Sat
13
Zero Dark Thirty
14
Roman Holiday - Sun 3pm
5
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
14
What is this Film Called Love? - Tue 6.30pm
13
Underground - Tue
5
Valentines Special: Wings of Desire - Thu 8.30pm
4
Valentines Special: Punch Drunk Love
9
Road House
9
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
6
The Secret of the Kells
6
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Lore
14
Stoker
15
Jiro Dreams of Sushi - Sun 3.30pm
14
The Bruce Lacey Experience - Tue 6.30pm
15
The House I Live In
15
Even Dwarfs Started Small
9
The Shining
9
Monsters, Inc.
6
Princess Lillifee
6
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
Screenings in conjunction with the
1913: The Shape of Time:
Film Screenings, Part 1
Sunday 27th Jan - 2pm
95mins
Valentines SPECIAL
Wings of Desire
Der Himmel über Berlin
Thu 14th Feb Doors 8pm for film at 8.30pm
12A
Dir: Wim Wenders
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Solveig
Dommartin, Otto Sander
DE/FR 1987, 128mins
German with English subtitles
35mm
04
NON CURRENT RELEASES
Every day, the Guardian Angel
Damiel listens to the thoughts of
mortals as their lives play out on
the streets of West Berlin. One day
he stumbles on, and becomes
entranced by, a trapeze artist
whose eloquent expression of
her doubts and fears make him
yearn for a life where he can feel
happiness and love.
Like Michael Powell's A MATTER
OF LIFE AND DEATH, the afterlife
in WINGS OF DESIRE is a world
in monochrome. Only the living
can see in full colour and it is
their lives, with their moments of
sorrow and joy, that Wim Wenders
captures so eloquently in this
singularly original and vital film.
Our Valentines film is always a
hard one to pick. Film history is
littered with great romantic tales.
WINGS OF DESIRE is a cinematic
love letter to the city of Berlin,
to the earthly pleasures of a
human existence and to the act
of yearning in itself. It reminds
us of the wondrous thrill of true
desire. For these reasons it is our
Valentines special of 2013 and
we hope you can join us.
In this programme two artists
return to two events that took
place in 1913, respectively a
visit by Marcel Duchamp to
Herne Bay in Kent and the Paris
première of Stravinsky and
Diaghilev's ballet The Rite of
Spring. Screening introduced by
Jeremy Millar.
ZUGSWANG (ALMOST COMPLETE)
(UK, 2006, dir. Jeremy Millar,
50mins)
RoS INDEXICAL (US, 2008, dir.
Yvonne Rainer, 42mins)
1913: The Shape of Time:
Film Screenings, Part 2
Sunday 03rd Feb - 2pm
167mins
In the second programme,
two films made in 1913 show
the year's fascination with the
unknown and otherworldly. Both
depart from eponymous novels:
FANTÔMAS from crime-dramas
recounting a master criminal's
hold power over Paris; the Danish
film Atlantis is based on a 1912
novel by Gerhart Hauptmann
anticipating the Titanic disaster
by four weeks.
FANTÔMAS (FR, 1913,
dir. Louis Feuillade, 54mins)
ATLANTIS (DK, 1913, dir. August
Blom, silent, 113mins)
Roman Holiday
Sun 10th Feb - 3pm
U
Underground
Tues 19th Feb - 6pm
U
Dir: William Wyler
Starring: Gregory Peck,
Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert
US 1953, 113mins
New Digital Print
Dir: Anthony Asquith
Starring: Brian Aherne, Elissa
Landi, Cyril McLaglen
UK 1929, 84mins
New Digital Print
Whilst undertaking a highlypublicised tour of Europe, a
cloistered and naive princess
decides to rebel against her
restrictive and regimented
schedule.
To celebrate the 150th
anniversary of the London
Underground, the BFI is releasing
its newly restored version of one
of the great British silent features
of the 1920s - Anthony Asquith’s
UNDERGROUND. With a new
score composed by Neil Brand
and performed by the BBC
Symphony Orchestra Asquith’s
subterranean tale of love,
jealousy, treachery and murder is
a real theatrical treat.
One night she escapes her
luxurious confinement and
stumbles upon an American
journalist stationed in Rome. As
she starts to enjoy her newfound
freedom and he realises the
potential of his newfound
companion the two embark on
a delightful escapade across the
beautiful streets of Rome.
Peck and Hepburn (in her
breakthrough role) make for
one of cinema's most charming
couples in this whimsical fantasy
with a bittersweet finale.
The story begins when two men,
the gentle Bill and brash Bert,
both meet and fall in love with
the beautiful Nell. Unfortunately
it’s Bill that catches Nell’s eye and
Bert doesn’t take the news well.
NON CURRENT RELEASES
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HYDE & SEEK
Join us every Saturday at 12noon and
discover a world of family friendly films
right on your doorstep
Annual Membership Name
Entitlements
£1 for Kids and £4.50 for Adults.
Ratatouille
US 2007, 111mins, U
Saturday 12th Jan
Race To Witch Mountain
US 2009, 98mins, PG
Saturday 19th Jan
Tinkerbell: The Secret
of the Wings
US 2012, 75mins, U
Saturday 02nd Feb
The Secret of Kells
FR/BE/IE 2009, 79mins, PG
Saturday 09th Feb
Amazing Animations
(London International
Harry Potter and
Animation Festival on Tour) the Philosopher's
Various Countries 2012, 65mins, U Stone
Saturday 26th Jan
FRIENDS
OF HYDE
PARK
Princess Lillifee
(Prinzessin Lillifee)
DE 2009, 70mins, U
Saturday 23rd Feb
*Please note we will be screening the
DUBBED version of this title
Monsters, Inc.
US 2001, 95mins, U
Saturday 02nd Mar
UK/US 2001, 152mins, PG
Saturday 16th Feb
• Reduced admission of
£4.50 in the stalls and balcony
• 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 275 6256. 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:
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£15 Full
Is this a
Renewal?
£10 Concession*
£18 Concession
Joint*
£25 Full
Joint
*Proof required
Bring Your Own Baby
Parent/carer and baby friendly screenings at the
Picture House. £4.50 for adults (inc. a free hot drink)
and baby goes free!
Midnight’s Children
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.
Some use of Urdu and Hindi with
English subtitles
If you would like to make a suggestion for a BYOB title or you’d like to join the BYOB
mailing list email info@hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk
UK/CA 2012, 145mins, 12A
Wednesday 16th Jan - 11am
The Sessions
US 2012, 95mins, 15
Wednesday 06th Feb - 11am
BYOB Screenings feature:
Roman Holiday
— Raised lighting levels
— Lowered film volume levels
— Subtitles where available (please check nearer the time for details on this one)
— A relaxed and friendly atmosphere
The Hobbit:
An Unexpected Journey
06
FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY
US 1953, 118mins, U
Thursday 14th Feb - 11am
US/NZ 2013, 169mins, 12A
Wednesday 20th Feb - 11am
FRIENDS OF HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE
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Cult-classics, celluloid
oddities, forgotten
masterpieces, weirdo
documentaries and
blood-splattered horror,
Creatures of the Night
is the Picture House’s
bizarro-world alter-ego.
Late night screenings
every Saturday at
11pm of completely
unforgettable films.
Join us...
18
Verhoeven Double Bill:
Robocop / Total Recall
Saturday 26th Jan - 11pm
Dir: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone
US 1987/1990, 215mins
Tickets: £8.50 adults, £7.50 conc,
£6.50 members
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford
hag it up as former child stars
grown old in this creepy and
histrionic thriller from 1960,
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY
JANE is vivid, freakish, and
genuinely unsettling, with Davis
in particularly terrifying form as
one of the most depraved and
memorable villains Hollywood
has ever produced.
Punch-Drunk Love
Saturday 16th Feb - 11pm
The Shining
Saturday 23rd Feb - 11pm
/HPPHCreatures
FrightFest American
Mary Tour
Tuesday 15th Jan - 9pm
Dirs: Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska
Starring: Katharine Isabelle,
Julia Maxwell, Antonio Cupo
CA 2012 , 102mins plus Q&A
Tickets: £7 adults, £5.50 conc.
One of the year's most horrific
highlights, AMERICAN MARY tells
the story of student Mary Mason
(Katharine Isabelle, GINGER
SNAPS) who grows increasingly
disenchanted with medical
school and the doctors she once
idolised. The lure of easy money
sends a desperate Mary to the
gruesome world of underground
surgeries, but she soon finds it
leaves more marks on her than
the freakish clientele.
This special screening is
presented by FrightFest in
conjunction with Leeds
International Film Festival.
08
Specials/Creatures of the Night
Dir: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Bette Davis,
Joan Crawford,Victor Buono,
Anna Lee
US 1962, 132mins
Gloriously violent, smart, and
a hell of a lot of fun - this is
mainstream science-fiction at its
best.The original ROBOCOP and
TOTAL RECALL back-to-back on
the big screen in newly restored
digital versions. What more do
you need to know?
@HPPHCreatures
18
Whatever Happened
12A
to Baby Jane?
Saturday 02nd Feb - 11pm
Road House
Saturday 09th Feb - 11pm
18
Dir: Rowdy Herrington
Starring: Patrick Swayze,
Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott,
Ben Gazzara
US 1989, 114mins
Like a redneck smashing up a
table in a bar room brawl ROAD
HOUSE doesn’t just straddle the
line between good and bad
movie - it obliterates it. Patrick
Swayze stars as a bouncer with a
philosophy degree from NYU hired
to tame a rough Missouri bar, and
just as that description suggests
ROAD HOUSE is ridiculous, idiotic
and brilliant all at once - probably
the most fun you’ll have at the
cinema all year.
12A
Fear and Desire plus Shorts
Thursday 17th Jan - 8.30pm
Dir: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Frank Silvera,
Kenneth Harp, Paul Mazursky
US 1953, 72mins (feature)
plus 55mins (shorts)
Kubrick's debut film has for
decades been nearly impossible
to see. At last it’s back, restored
and presented here with three
of his early shorts (DAY OF
FLIGHT, FLYING PADRE and THE
SEAFARERS).
FEAR AND DESIRE tells the story
of a war waged between two
forces. In the midst of the conflict,
a plane carrying four soldiers
crashes behind enemy lines.
From here out it is kill or be killed:
a female hostage is taken, an
enemy general and his aide are
discovered, and a perilous river
blocks their escape. So begins
Kubrick's precocious entry into
feature filmmaking.
15
Wild Combination:
A Portrait of Arthur Russell
+ video Q&A
Saturday 19th Jan - 11pm
Dir: Matt Wolf
Documentary feat: Arthur Russell,
Tom Lee, Allen Ginsberg
US 2008, 86mins
Combining rare archive footage
and commentary from family,
friends and collaborators WILD
COMBINATION is a beautiful and
moving portrait of avant-garde
composer, singer-songwriter, cellist
and disco producer Arthur Russell.
Screening will be followed by an
exclusive video Q&A with director
Matt Wolf (pre-recorded at the Picture
House).
15
15
Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Adam Sandler, Emily
Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman
US 2002, 95mins
Dir: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Jack Nicholson,
Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd,
Scatman Crothers
UK/US 1980, 144mins
Paul Thomas Anderson's PUNCHDRUNK LOVE is one of the
strangest films we've ever seen.
By turns dark, violent, hilarious,
bewildering, beautiful, and
achingly romantic - it’s the Adam
Sandler romantic comedy for
people who hate Adam Sandler
AND romantic comedies.Trust us
on this - you need to see this film.
A film that really needs no
introduction, Stanley Kubrick's
THE SHINING stands monolith
like in the canon of truly great
20th century horror films. Seeing
THE SHINING at the cinema is
an experience not to be missed,
and it’s presented here from a
newly restored digital print with
an extra 24 minutes of footage. A
mesmerising, singular and truly
scary movie.
PG
Even Dwarfs Started
Small - Auch Zwerge
haben klein angefangen
Saturday 02nd Mar - 11pm
Dir: Werner Herzog
Starring: Helmut Doring,
Gerd Gickel, Paul Glancer
DE 1970, 92mins
German with English subtitles
Herzog’s second feature film is a
bizarre and disturbing descent
into madness and anarchy.The
inmates of a mental institution,
- midgets, dwarfs and other
"oddities" - sick of being tormented
by the so-called normal people
of the world, stage a coup, taking
over the asylum and utterly
reversing the status quo.
Creatures of the Night
09
Midnight’s Children
11th - 17th Jan
12A
PG
Django Unchained
18th - 31st Jan
Dir: Deepa Mehta
Starring: Satya Bhabha, Shahana
Goswami, Rajat Kapoor
UK/CA 2012, 146mins
Urdu and Hindi with English
subtitles
Dir: Jonathan Demme
Documentary feat: Neil Young
US 2011, 87mins
Dir: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Christoph
Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio,
Samuel L. Jackson
US 2012, Dur: TBC
Those familiar with Rushdie’s huge,
sprawling novel - which marries
the political conflicts of the Indian
subcontinent’s recent history with
childish fantasy and romantic
drama - will be happily surprised
that Deepa Mehta (WATER) has
successfully filmed the unfilmable.
After 2006’s HEART OF GOLD and
2009’s TRUNK SHOW, for their third
outing together Demme follows
legendary singer-songwriter
Young to the small Canadian
township of Omemee, where
Young grew up, and then on
to a solo concert at Toronto’s
iconic Massey Hall.Young ruefully
acknowledges that much has
changed in Omemee since his
teens - but no matter, because
“it’s still in my head.”
Set in the South two years
before the Civil War, DJANGO
UNCHAINED stars Jamie Foxx as
Django, a slave whose brutal
history with his former owners
lands him face-to-face with
bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz.
Schultz is on the trail of the
murderous Brittle brothers, and
only Django can lead him to his
bounty. The unorthodox Schultz
acquires Django with a promise
to free him upon the capture
of the Brittles - dead or alive.
Success leads Schultz to free
Django, though the two men
choose not to go their separate
ways. Instead, Schultz seeks
out the South’s most wanted
criminals with Django by his side.
The well-bred Shiva and Saleem,
a beggar’s child, are swopped
at birth by a politically motivated
but naive nurse; the plot
follows the two boys’ separate
but overlapping destinies,
complicated by Saleem’s
telepathic powers. In Metha’s
hands MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN is a
feast for the eyes told in a pareddown storytelling style which gives
the tale an uplifting coherence.
10
Neil Young Journeys
Sunday 13th Jan
With Talking Heads’ STOP MAKING
SENSE, Demme brought fresh
force and creative innovation to
the filming of live acts: here the
camerawork and, in particular,
the sound, exert great potency. A
must for Young fans.
NEW RELEASES
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Indie Game: The Movie 15
Sunday 20th Jan - 2.40pm
The Sessions
01st - 07th Feb
Dirs: Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky
Documentary feat: Jonathan
Blow, Phil Fish, Edmund McMillen
CA 2012, 94mins
Dir: Ben Lewin
Starring: John Hawkes,
Helen Hunt, William H. Macy
US 2012, 95mins
With the twenty-first century
comes a new breed of
struggling independent artist:
the indie game designer.
Refusing to toil for major
developers, these innovators
independently conceive, design,
and program their distinctly
personal games in the hope
that they too may find success.
Based on the poignantly
optimistic autobiographical
writings of California-based
journalist and poet Mark O’Brien,
THE SESSIONS tells the story of a
man (played brilliant by John
Hawkes of WINTER’S BONE) who
spends most of his time in an
iron lung and - at age 38 - is
determined to lose his virginity.
With the help of his therapists
and the guidance of his priest,
he sets out to make his dream
a reality. An unlikely subject for
a film perhaps but THE SESSIONS
provides fascinating insights
into the mind of a man unable
to translate his emotions into
physical responses.
First-time filmmaking duo Lisanne
Pajot and James Swirsky capture
the emotional journey of these
meticulously obsessive artists
who devote their lives to their
interactive art. Four developers,
three games, and one ultimate
goal— to express oneself
through a video game.
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NEW RELEASES
15
Bullhead
08th - 14th Feb
18
Dir: Michael Roskam
Starring: Matthias Schoenaerts,
Jeroen Perceval, Jeanne Dandoy
BE 2011, 124mins
Dutch and French with English
subtitles
Completed before his breakout
success as the morally
ambiguous drifter in RUST AND
BONE, Schoenaerts’ performance
in this movie emphatically proves
that that was no one-off with his
portrayal of a young cattle farmer
who makes a Faustian pact with
the underground meat trade.
Writer-director Roskam’s debut
feature is an assured, deftly
paced piece which begins as a
murky if relatively straightforward
thriller, shifts up a gear to become
an essay in angst-ridden selfrecrimination, and finally climaxes
with a meditation on the grip of
past behaviour on present fate.
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What Is This Film
Called Love?
Tuesday 12th Feb - 6.30pm
The Punk Syndrome
+ Q&A
Saturday 09th Feb
Dir: Mark Cousins
Documentary feat: Mark Cousins
UK 2012, 75mins
Dirs: Jukka Kärkkäinen, JP Passi
Documentary feat: Pertti Kurikka,
Kari Aalto, Sami Helle,
Kalle Pajamaa
FI/NO/SE 2012, 85mins
Finnish with English subtitles
WHAT IS THIS FILM CALLED
LOVE? is a passionate, poetic
documentary about the nature
of happiness. Filmed in Mexico
over three days for just £10, it
begins as a film about the Soviet
director Sergei Eisenstein, and
then, using his ideas, opens up to
look at memory, landscape and
the pleasures of walking.
THE PUNK SYNDROME is a film
about Finland’s most kick ass
punk rock band, Pertti Kurikan
Nimipäivät.The band’s four
members, Pertti, Kari,Toni and
Sami, each have learning
difficulties.They play their music
with a lot of attitude and pride.
Kärkkäinen and Passi’s insightful
documentary follows these four
musicians on their journey from
obscurity to popularity. We see
them fight, fall in love and witness
long days in the recording studio
and on tour. It’s a film about the
essence of punk - it’s a story
about rebellion against the norm.
It is a personal film which aspires
to be very cinematic, using three
visual dream sequences, and
the music of PJ Harvey, Simon
Fisher Turner, Johnny Cash and
Bernard Hermann to explore
notions such as where joy comes
from, the emotions involved with
travel and homecoming, and
the nature of solitude.
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No
15th - 21st Feb
15
Dir: Pablo Larraín
Starring: Gael García Bernal,
Christopher Reeve (archive
footage), Richard Dreyfuss
(archive footage)
CL/FR/US 2012, 115mins
Spanish with English subtitles
Distinctively shot on oldfashioned three-strip video to
evoke television reportage of
the time, NO is a thoroughly
engrossing drama from Chilean
auteur Pablo Larraín (POST
MORTEM, TONY MANERO).
It explores the final days of
the Pinochet regime through
the eyes of two competing
television companies
canvassing for the ‘Yes’ and ‘No’
campaigns respectively in the
crucial referendum that toppled
the dictator. NO is a riveting
dramatisation of a crucial
moment in South American
history and the deserving
winner of Director’s Fortnight,
Cannes 2012.
NEW RELEASES
13
Zero Dark Thirty
15th - 21st Feb
15
Dir: Kathryn Bigelow
Starring: Chris Pratt, Jessica
Chastain, Joel Edgerton
US 2012, 157mins
For a decade, an elite team
of intelligence and military
operatives, working in secret
across the globe, devoted
themselves to a single goal:
to find and eliminate Osama
bin Laden. ZERO DARK THIRTY
reunites the Oscar winning team
of director-producer Kathryn
Bigelow and writer-producer
Mark Boal (THE HURT LOCKER)
for the story of history’s greatest
manhunt for the world’s most
dangerous man.
Lore
22nd - 28th Feb
15
Dir: Cate Shortland
Starring: Saskia Rosendahl
DE/AU/UK 2012 , 109mins
German with English subtitles
12A
The Hobbit:
An Unexpected Journey
17th Feb
Dir: Peter Jackson
Starring: Martin Freeman,
Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage,
Benedict Cumberbatch
NZ/US 2012, 169mins
In his prequel to THE LORD OF THE
RINGS, director Jackson brings
back several Tolkien regulars
plus his signature breathtaking
special effects for the fantastical
tale of Frodo’s uncle, Bilbo
Baggins, and his quest to
reclaim the lost treasure of the
Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor.
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When their Schutzstaffel parents
are taken into Allied custody,
five siblings are left to fend for
themselves, with teenager Lore
taking charge of the journey
to join their grandmother in
Hamburg 500 miles away. A
young Jewish refugee might prove
their only hope of survival, in this
sensual and complex comingof-age story that explores the
tribulations faced by Germany’s
young people in the wake of
World War II. With a compelling
performance from Saskia
Rosendahl as Lore, this is a tense
and gripping adaptation of one
of the three stories from The Dark
Room by Rachel Seiffert.
Jiro Dreams of Sushi PG
Sunday 24th Feb - 3.30pm
Dir: David Gelb
Documentary feat: Jiro Ono,
Yoshikazu Ono
US 2011, 81mins
Japanese with English Subtitles
85 year-old Jiro Ono is widely
praised as the world’s greatest
sushi chef. His tiny restaurant,
Sukiyabashi Jiro, is tucked away
in a Tokyo subway station and
only seats ten, yet bears three
Michelin stars and has a monthlong reservation waiting list. Jiro
runs this culinary gem with a will
of iron, deft fingers and his eldest
son Yoshikazu. Their fascinating
relationship lies at the heart
of this tale, as the apprentice
struggles with the sometimes
overbearing aura of the master.
David Gelb’s feature film debut
nimbly explores every facet
of Jiro’s daily life, making our
mouths water along the way.
The House I Live In
Tuesday 26th Feb - 6pm
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01st - 07th Mar
Dir: Eugene Jarecki
Documentary feat: Nannie Jeter,
David Simon
NL/UK/DE 2012, 109mins
Dir: Park Chan-wook
Starring: Mia Wasikowska,
Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode
UK/US 2013, Dur: TBC
For over 40 years, America’s “War
on Drugs” has accounted for 45
million arrests, made America
the world’s largest jailer, and
damaged poor communities at
home and abroad. Yet for all that,
drugs in America are cheaper,
purer, and more available today
than ever. Filmed in more than
twenty U.S. states, THE HOUSE I
LIVE IN captures heart-wrenching
stories at all levels of America’s
drug war and asks the urgent
questions: What caused the war?
What perpetuates it? And what
can be done to stop it?
India Stoker was not prepared to
lose her father and best friend
Richard in a tragic car accident.
The solitude of her woodsy
family estate, the peace of her
tranquil town, and the unspoken
somberness of her home life are
suddenly upended by not only
this mysterious accident, but by
the sudden arrival of her Uncle
Charlie, whom she never knew
existed. When Charlie moves in
with her and her emotionally
unstable mother India comes
to suspect that this mysterious,
charming man has ulterior
motives.Yet instead of feeling
outrage or horror, this friendless
young woman becomes
increasingly infatuated with him.
“A must-see documentary that
combines hard facts and
emotion."
The Times
The Bruce Lacey
Experience
Tuesday 05th Mar - 6.30pm
Dirs: Nicholas Abrahams,
Jeremy Deller
Documentary feat: Bruce Lacey,
Kevin Lacey
UK 2012, 72mins
The production of THE BRUCE
LACEY EXPERIENCE was
embarked upon by Turner
Prize winner Jeremy Deller and
his regular collaborator Nick
Abrahams in an attempt to
document the magnificence of
one of Britain’s most interesting,
un-categorisable and productive
artists, Bruce Lacey.
In their own mind they failed. As
soon as they started they realised
he was an impossible man to
immortalise in such a way as he
was quite simply bigger than any
film could ever be. Nevertheless
they had a darn good try and
the result is a wonderful glimpse
into the world of a true original.
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