CINEMA INFORMATION ADMISSION AND FILM TIMES Unless stated otherwise, our doors open 15 minutes prior to the advertised start time. Sadly, we have no internal waiting area within the Picture House. Film start times may vary, particularly with special screenings, which may not be preceded by adverts or trailers. Please arrive on time. RE HE RE EA W BURLEY RAIL STATION 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. 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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. WB20JANUARY Page WB27JANUARY Page 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 WB03FEBRUARY Page WB10FEBRUARY Page 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 Page WB17FEBRUARY Page 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 WB09MARCH Page WB02MARCH Page 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: info@hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk 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 EMAIL PLEASE TICK IF YOU WOULD BE INTERESTED IN RECEIVING OUR WEEKLY LISTINGS EMAIL £15 FULL IS THIS A RENEWAL? £10 CONCESSION* £18 CONCESSION JOINT* *PROOF REQUIRED UP (2D) £25 FULL JOINT 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 info@hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk 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. 16 NEW RELEASES 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 NEW RELEASES 17 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. 18 NEW RELEASES 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. NEW RELEASES 19
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