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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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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)
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18th November 2011 - 19th January 2012
WB18NOVEMBER
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WB25NOVEMBER
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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
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WB09DECEMBER
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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
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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
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WB06JANUARY
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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
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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:
info@hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk
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 info@hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk
BYOB Screenings feature:
Raised lighting levels
Lowered film volume levels
Subtitles where available
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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