Chichester International Film Festival 2015

13 - 30 August 2015

TWO WOMEN Closing Gala

• Premieres, Previews & New Releases • Orson Welles Centenary • Focus on Russian, Polish and Czech Cinema • Julianne Moore Retrospective

CARL DAVIS Scoring Chaplin’s ‘The Mutuals’

45 YEARS Opening Gala

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• Six Films with Live Music Performances inc. William Alwyn, Bobby Wellins & Battleship Potemkin

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Index 45 Years Around the World with Orson Welles Ashes and Diamonds The Banishment Battleship Potemkin Because I Was a Painter Blood Cells Bobby Wellins Jazz Gig Buttercup Bill The Card Carl Davis Presents Chaplin Cartel Land Chagall-Malevich Challat of Tunis The Chekhov Brothers Chico and Rita Chimes at Midnight Citizen Kane Closed Curtain Closely Observed Trains The Cremator Cry of the City Daisies Dark Blue World The Dawn Diary of a Teenage Girl This Dim Little Island The Don Juans The Ear Elena Empties The End of the Affair Eugene Onegin Fabergé: A Life of its Own Fair Play The Fallen Idol Far From Heaven Fatal Sin Fever The Film Music of William Alwyn The Fireman’s Ball Flytrap The Fool

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Open Air Screenings Galas UK Film Releases USA Film Releases Western European Film Releases New Russian Cinema World Cinema Releases Focus on the Documentary Grid Listings Treasures from the Archives

The Forgotten Kingdom 30 Freaks 47 The Garden 81 Gemma Bovery 18 Girl at my Door 33 Green for Danger 53 The Grump 21 Güeros 32 Gypsy 68 Harvest 37 Hilda 30 History of Mr. Polly 53 The Ipcress File 45 I Forgot to Tell You 19 I Served the King of England 69 Inside Out 5 Jazz and Film 59 Journey to Italy 80 The Julianne Moore Retrospective 71 Junk Girl 81 The Knife in the Water 64 Knights of the Teutonic Order 61 Kolya 67 L’Eclisse 48 La Grande Bouffe 46 The Lady from Shanghai 75 The Legend of Barney Thomson 11 Leslie Howard: The Man Who Did Give a Damn 36 Leviathan 28 The Long Good Friday 44 The Magic Box 52 Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles 77 The Magnificent Ambersons 75 Man of Iron 62 Man With a Movie Camera 47 Manglehorn 16 Maps to the Stars 73 Marshland 19 Me and Earl and the Dying Girl 13 Meeting Phuntsok Lhamo 35 The Misfits 49 Miss Julie 12

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Mother Joan of the Angels 62 My Accomplice 9 My Mother 22 The Naked Edge 54 Odd Man Out 51 Onegin 26 Only Angels Have Wings 49 The Orson Welles Centenary 77 Othello 60 Our Country 54 Passage into History 38 Pimpernel Smith 36 The President 31 The Promised Land 63 The Pursuit of Happiness 35 The Return 27 Russian Cinema Talk 29 Savage Grace 71 A Short Film About Killing 63 The Smallest Show on Earth 54 Son of Trauco 31 Sonata for Cello 18 The Sound of Music 5 Still Alice 73 Summer 21 Tangerines 22 Taste the Blood of Dracula 80 Tasting my Future 8 The Third Man 75 Touch of Evil 76 The Trial 76 Two Women 7 Unity 34 View on a Marriage 81 We Will Sing 24 What Maisie Knew 71 What’s the Score?

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Focus on Film Music Jazz, Opera & Theatre Masterpieces of Polish Cinema Czech Cinema: New Wave & Recent Films Julianne Moore Retrospective Orson Welles Centenary Talks & Q&A’s Tributes to Ingrid Bergman, Christopher Lee & Omar Sharif Short Film Programme Ticket Prices & Booking Form

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welcome to the

24th Chichester International Film Festival!

Our 18 day feast of over 120 films will hopefully engage and delight, offering a myriad of avenues to explore and enjoy.

Two major strands focus on Film Music, with special Live Performances, and New Russian Cinema. Our most ambitious music-led events to date will explore William Alywn’s film music (‘The Odd Man Out’, ‘The Fallen Idol’) with over 200 film scores to his name plus Live Performances

by Park Lane Group musicians.

We welcome Carl Davis, distinguished composer, who will present a programme of Chaplin Shorts; continuing the tradition of Silent Film in the atmospheric St. John’s Chapel, this year’s is Eisenstein’s remarkable Battleship Potemkin with live piano by John Sweeney; and the fabulous tenor sax player Bobby Wellins and his quintet will play Latin jazz concert preceded by ‘Chico and Rita’, which features many jazz greats.

Thanks to a visit to St. Petersburg’s film market, I’ve programmed seven new films (all UK premieres), covering a wide range of Russian society and culture, reflecting Putin’s Russia today, and classic subjects of Russian Culture. The Closing Gala, ‘Two Women’ stars Ralph Fiennes who learnt Russian especially for this film. Onegin also stars Fiennes and is directed by his sister Martha Fiennes, whom we hope to welcome. Tchaikovsky’s Eugène Onegin, a Salzburg production conducted by Daniel Barenboim is joined by four Andrey Zvyagintsev masterpieces including Oscar winner ‘Leviathan’. We also include a Russian Cinema talk by film historian Ian Christie.

After last year’s successful ‘East meets West’, we’re again in Eastern Europe with restored Classic Polish films, Czech New Wave, and Recent Czech films. Many were made “Behind the Iron Curtain” and reflect subtle critiques of the political systems, including four masterworks by the Polish director Andre Wajda, and outstanding films from Czech masters Milos Forman and Jiri Menzel.

Our main retrospective, Orson Welles’ Centenary, features seven of his greatest works and two new fascinating

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documentaries. With Julianne Moore’s much deserved Oscar for ‘Still Alice’, we thought it timely to examine some of her films, supported by an illustrated talk of her work by the excellent Philip Kemp. An increasing number of films dealing with mourning, memory loss and dementia is reflected in our Festival with Moretti’s ‘Mia Madre’, Still Alice, and ‘I Forgot to Tell You’, starring the late Omar Sharif, all life-enhancing, often with humour and compassion.

Our strong documentary selection includes Ancient Greek Architecture, Wine Making, Drug Cartels, Art from Concentration Camps, Leslie Howard, Tibet, and in ‘Tasting my Future’, women awaiting asylum in Brighton, with the director and one of the protagonists attending the screening. Great restored classics of the past is one of the advantages of the digital age with 13 films, from the Silent Era to the most recent: Antonioni ‘s L’Eclisse (1962).

With 120 films, talks and visiting film makers programmed during our festival – your festival - over half are Premieres, Previews or New Releases, a quarter directed/written by women, reflecting a promising trend. In an international Festival such as ours, the opportunity to experience many films from countries that will never have a UK release, we hope you can take a chance and explore some works that may never be seen here again.

This ambitious Festival could not be staged without the support of our partners and Film Distributors.

My thanks to Walter Francisco, the Projectionists, Box Office Staff, volunteers, Carol Godsmark and the New Park Centre.

Good viewing!

Roger Gibson Artistic Director

Open Air Screenings at Priory Park Bring a picnic blanket or chair and join us for what will certainly be one of the highlights of the Festival. Music from 19:30; Film from dusk.

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Inside Out

Fri 7 Aug 19:30 (Film at dusk)

Pixar's most ambitious, imaginative and adult film takes a look at the emotions that control our wellbeing.

Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control centre inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to her new life, turmoil ensues in Headquarters. Although Joy, Riley's main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school. A huge hit at Cannes 2015.

2015 USA Pete Docter & Ronnie del Carmen 102m

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The Sound of Music A unique chance to see one of the most cherished films ever made (celebrating its 50th anniversary), on the big screen in Chichester's beautiful Priory Park.

Julie Andrews stars as Maria, a young Austrian nun who regularly misses her morning prayers because she enjoys singing in the hills. Deciding that Maria needs to learn something about the real world before she can take her vows, the Mother Superior sends her off to be governess for the children of the cold Captain Von Trapp (Christopher Plummer). Maria soon ingratiates herself with the children, and begins to fall in love with the Captain, so rushes back to the Abbey so as not to complicate his impending marriage to a glamorous baroness. Re-mastered and digitised to bring you the brightest and best presentation of this wonderful story.

Sat 8 Aug 19:30 (Film at dusk)

USA 1965 Robert Wise 174m

HOME MADE PIZZAS AT PRIORY PARK: To add another layer of pleasure at these yearly Open Air screenings, Stansted Park's Farm Shop will be at the park on both nights creating delicious hot pizzas.

PIZZAS: Marguerita - with Nutbourne Tomatoes; Pepperoni - Farm shop smoked and made with local beef; Pesto and Goats Cheese - homemade pesto, Sussex Goats cheese, local peppers.

Film Only Advance Ticket (up to day before screening): £8.00 (£5 child) Advance Ticket with Pizza: £14.50 (£11.50 child) Film Only Ticket on the day: £10.00 (£6 child) Pizza on the day: £8.00

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With thanks to Curzon Film Distributors for this Preview Opening Gala: Thu 13 Aug 18:30 (Food 18:30 / Film 20:30 - Tickets £28) Plus: Fri 14 Aug 21:00 (Film Only) bv

45 Years

OPENING & CLOSING GALA FOOD Hosted by BRASSERIE BLANC Thu 13 Aug 18:30 & Sun 30 Aug 18:30 The cinema is proud to have forged an excellent relationship with Brasserie Blanc over the last five years, and for the two Gala Dinners, the restaurant will be taken over by the Film Festival.

The chefs, under the direction of executive head chef Clive Fretwell, are preparing two special set meals for each Gala dinner with a glass of wine included in the price, the menu highlighting chefowner Raymond Blanc’s classic dishes with the strong French regional influences of his youth.

Roger Gibson, Artistic Director and Walter Francisco, General Manager of the cinema, are grateful for the generous support of Brasserie Blanc and also extend a warm welcome. They look forward to sharing the evenings with you.

Dinner will be from 18:30, followed by the film at 20:30.

Book your place early to avoid disappointment. Tickets £28.

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We are delighted to open this year’s Festival with this Special Preview of Andrew Haigh's Berlin Film Festival winner - a quietly powerful study of a long-term marriage shaken by shock revelations and jealousy towards a long-dead love rival.

There is just one week until Kate Mercer's (Charlotte Rampling) 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband Geoff (Tom Courtenay)… the body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate. The film’s point of view sticks principally with Geoff’s wife, Kate, who experiences the dramatic developments with a blend of intrigue, jealousy and escalating concern. She had known about Katya, but not about the engagement, and now she must reassess her long marriage in the shadow of

her husband’s past love. One major revelation, arriving after Kate goes foraging among Geoff’s old photographs, adds an extra dramatic kick. Courtenay is so apt as the soft-spoken and rather private Geoff that even modest changes in his aspect, including his discombobulated return to cigarette smoking, register vividly. A wiry Rampling, youthful in her trim physique and sleek wardrobe choices, brings Kate’s whirling emotions to the screen with similar economy. Haigh’s direction is composed with rigour and exactitude and performed with a repressed, heartfelt passion (shades of ‘Brief Encounter’). A moving and absorbing drama, featuring two performers offering a lifetime’s wisdom and technique in their performances. The is suppor supporting cast includes m te fil Geraldine James, Dolly Wells, Glyn David Sibley, Sam Alexander Edmunds and Richard Cunningham.

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With thanks to Media Luna for this special UK Premiere We hope to welcome Ralph Fiennes, Producer Natalia Ivanova and Director Vera Glagoleva to this Closing Gala.

Closing Gala: Sun 30 Aug 18:30 (Food 18:30 / Film 20:30 - Tickets £28) Plus: Sun 30 Aug 11:00 (Film Only)

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Mesyats v Derevne We are delighted to close our Festival with the UK Premiere of this sumptuous Russian production, based on a play by Russian writer Ivan Turgenev.

Set in the Russian countryside at the end of the 19th century, the drama turns on the wife of a rich landowner who falls in love with her son’s tutor. And it stars Ralph Fiennes speaking Russian! The setting is the Islaev country estate in the 1840s. Natalya (Anna Astrakhantseva), a headstrong 29-year-old, is married to Arkadi (Aleksandr Baluev), a rich landowner seven years her senior. Bored with life, she welcomes the attentions of Mikhail (Ralph Fiennes) as her devoted but resentful admirer, without ever letting their friendship develop into a love affair. The arrival of the

handsome 21-year-old student Aleksei (Nikita Volkov) as tutor to her son Kolya ends her boredom. Natalya falls in love with him, but so does her ward Verochka (Anna Levanova), the Islaevs’ 17-year-old foster daughter. What follows is a series of mental games and power plays, which, through confusion and misunderstanding, eventually also draw Mikhail, Natalya’s husband Arkady (Aleksandr Baluev) and various family acquaintances into the mire.

The film is stunningly beautiful and authentic in period. Director Vera Glagoleva comments “We really strived to transmit the spirit of the time and selected Glinka’s is suppor m te estate as the location. It is very fil pretty there. The museum Millie Brown management and department of culture of the Smolensk region were very accommodating and we received a lot of help”.

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Tasting My Future

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There will be a Q&A after the screening with director Sylvie Collier, producer Cathy Maxwell, and Reem Abushawareb from Iraq, who has a lead role in the film.

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Sylvie Collier’s new and very timely documentary features women who fled conflict in their home countries and wound up in Brighton seeking safety.

Reem survived a Baghdad bomb that killed her friends and nearly severed her arm. Zainab walked for two days and nights in Africa to escape men who murdered her father. Genet hid among animals on a truck. Where are they now? Filmed around Brighton & Hove, women from Iraq, Syria, Ethiopia, Kurdistan, Turkey and Egypt, are re-building shattered lives.

They share one tradition in common: Cooking.

“When you are removed from your country you can communicate with people through food, no matter what culture you come from,” says Reem. "Men are fighting and women are cooking, that's what I think." Women from different backgrounds, beliefs and national languages gather in Brighton to cook an international feast is suppor m te and celebrate the language fil of food. They cross cultural Millie Brown boundaries to share traditional dishes at a noisy and exuberant party, a feast like no other.

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Opening Gala - Preview

45 Years

A quietly powerful study of a long-term marriage shaken by shock revelations and jealousy towards a long-dead love rival, starring Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay who won the Best Actor & Actress awards at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival.

UK 2015 Andrew Haigh 93m See Galas on Pg6 for full details Thu 13 Aug 18:30 (Opening Gala) Plus: Fri 14 Aug 21:00 (Film Only)

The Pursuit of Happiness These 4 early films by Tony Palmer, one of Britain’s greatest arts documentary makers, were shown in 1972 on London Weekend Television’s Aquarius, and reflect a remarkable album of contemporary images and attitudes of the period.

UK 1972 Tony Palmer 122m See Focus on the Documentary on Pg35 for full details Sun 16 Aug 18:00 (Studio)

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We hope to welcome Director Charlie Weaver Rolfe to introduce his film (plus Q&A) Sat 15 Aug 18:15 (Studio) New Release

My Accomplice An off-beat comedy about falling in love, set in Brighton, featuring songs and live performances from local bands.

An ill-starred search for the village of Wivelsfield, the personal politics of perestroika in the wider context of David Hasselhoff, apricot flapjacks, abruptly unpredictable weather, gathering evidence of a seagull conspiracy, and a small cast of everyday eccentrics that usually don't make it into films:

Bulgarians, adults with learning disabilities, very tall women and elective mutes. In a city of this many vulnerable adults, Frank and Ilse might never have met. This is chirpy, quirky, raising a wry smile or two from some but gales of laughter from others in the premiere at last year’s Edinburgh Film Festival. With the production assisted by crowd funding, this is a project that already has fans and will garner others. Local bands include ‘Transformer’, ‘Bob Wants His Head Back’ and ‘The Mountain Firework Company’.

UK 2014 Charlie Weaver Rolfe 93m

The Long Good Friday We present the first restoration of this now classic and influential London gangland thriller on its 35th anniversary, starring the late lamented Bob Hoskins with Helen Mirren.

UK 1980 John Mackenzie 114m See Treasures from the Archives on Pg44 for full details Tue 18 Aug 21:00

Chico & Rita Plus Bobby Wellins Jazz Gig The love story between two Afro-Cuban jazz musicians contains a fabulous jazz soundtrack in this Oscar nominated animation feature, with an original score by legendary Cuban pianist Bebe Valdes and various jazz giants.

UK 2010 Fernando Trueba / Javier Mariscal 94m See Jazz, Opera & Theatre on Pg59 for full details Wed 19 Aug 19:30 (+ Live Jazz Gig 21:45)

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UK FILM RELEASES: PREMIERES, PREVIEWS & NEW RELEASES

The Third Man The remastered version of director Carol Reed's 1949 film noir classic starring Welles as a black marketeer in post-war Vienna is newly released for the Welles Centenary.

UK 1949 Carol Reed 101m See Orson Welles Centenary on Pg74 for full details Mon 17 Aug 16:15

Leslie Howard: The Man Who Did Give a Damn An intimate and compelling documentary on the life and career of Leslie Howard (1893-1943). We are delighted to welcome the director Thomas Hamilton to introduce his film.

UK 2015 Thomas Hamilton 84m See Focus on the Documentary on Pg36 for full details Tue 18 Aug 14:00 (Studio)

The Ipcress File On its 50th anniversary, this especially restored British classic will be introduced by Len Deighton’s official biographer Edward Milward-Oliver, and co-writer of the recent James Bond films, Robert Wade. (Followed by a Q&A).

UK 1965 SidneyJ. Furie 103m See Treasures from the Archives on Pg45 (and Special Events) for full details Fri 21 Aug 18:00

The Film Music of William Alwyn We proudly present a selection of nine British classic films scored by Alwyn, with four films preceded by one of his chamber pieces, performed live by the young musicians of ‘The Park Lane Group’, and an illustrated talk

by Andrew Palmer.

See Focus on Film Music on Pg50 for full details

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The Legend of Barney Thomson

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Robert Carlyle launches his big-screen directorial career with a grisly, flavoursome black comedy set in his native Glasgow – and gifts Emma Thompson a standout role alongside Ray Winstone.

Carlyle’s directorial debut is based on Douglas Lindsay’s book ‘The Long Midnight’ of Barney Thomson, and centres on a socially awkward hairdresser who lives a life of humdrum mediocrity until he cheerfully embarks on a new career as a serial killer. The demon barber’s macabre new life is complicated

when he discovers his mother (Thompson) has her own secret which leads to another bloody chain of events. Winstone plays the local police inspector attempting to uncover the crime of the century while battling with his own hilariously inept colleagues including Tom Courtenay as his idiotic is suppor m te superior. Stylish visuals, ripe fil John & language, gruesome, and very Paddy black humour, the film spirals VincentTownend to an extraordinary climax that has to be seen to be believed.

Opened this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival to great success.

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Blood Cells

We hope to welcome some of the film makers for a Q&A after the screening.

Wed 26 Aug 14:00 (Studio)

Beautifully shot independent film successfully premiered at Edinburgh, following the perilous journey home of a young man whose life fell apart when an epidemic hit his family's farm.

It is 2001 and foot-and-mouth disease has decimated the UK’s farming community. Life changes abruptly for farmer’s son Adam (Barry Ward), whose status switches from inheritor of the family farm to lonely itinerant – wandering the countryside, picking up casual work where he can. When his brother contacts him with some family news, he is also served an ultimatum - come home now, or don’t come back at all. Suddenly Adam must decide if he is ready to end his nomadic lifestyle and return to the life he left behind.

UK 2014 Joseph Bull /Luke Seomore 86m

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Miss Julie Liv Ullmann’s adaptation of the classic Strindberg play. Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter (Jessica Chastain) of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet (Colin Farrell) to seduce her.

Ullmann's adaptation of Strindberg's script stays very close to the original, but eliminates some of the minor roles; the main change being that it now takes place on an estate in Ireland. Ullmann opens up the action only slightly, with the revelling Midsummer Night's Eve crowds always offstage, heard but never seen. She fills the score with mournful Schubert and Bach, familiar pieces of music that become thematic, as opposed to mere pretty background. The incredible depth of human psychology, the love hate relationships with each other, their own lives, the class system, is explored both in action, dialogue, and in the settings chosen for each part of the play. The three characters in the play are played by Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton, and each actor has to deliver some of the most challenging monologues ever written, with no cinematic tricks. These performances are impressive, with Chastain and Farrell delivering fevered performances - unabashedly theatrical!

UK/Ireland/Norway 2014 Liv Ullmann 129m Fri 28 Aug 18:15 Sun 30 Aug 17:30

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USA Film Releases Premieres, Previews & New Releases

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Tue 18 Aug 20:45 (Studio) Wed 19 Aug 15:15 (Studio) UK Premiere

Flytrap Flytrap mixes sci-fi with dark humour to tell the story of a reserved English Astronomer who becomes ensnared by the mysterious Mary Ann and her creepy and dangerous comrades.

Paranoia is at the root of this story. James (Jeremy Crutchley) is a reserved Englishman who is seduced and then trapped in a suburban Los Angeles house by a sexy

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woman named Mary Ann (Ina-Alice Kopp) and her equally strange housemates. Are these people in a doomsday cult? What do they want? It turns out they’re not people at all but aliens from another world. This impressive USA indie film is crisply made, inventive, well directed and performed, producing moods of comedy and menace.

With a score by Simon Boswell, ‘Flytrap’ won awards at The European Independent Film Festival and at Worldfest Houston.

USA 2014 David Stephen Brooks 81m

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With thanks to 20th Century Fox Sat 22 Aug 20:45 Sun 23 Aug 13:15 South Coast Premiere

Me and Earl and The Dying Girl Beautifully scripted and perfectly cast, this is a coming-of-age movie with uncommon charm and insight, and winner at Sundance.

Greg spends most of his time making parodies of classic movies with his co-worker Earl, but finds his outlook forever altered after befriending a classmate just diagnosed with cancer. Despite the subject matter, the film

is full of humour without the guilt-inducing mawkishness of this genre. It has received critical accolades and standing ovations and this rousing adaptation of Jesse Andrews’ novel is destined to endure as a touchstone for its generation and likely to be as popular as ‘The Way to the Stars’. Parent/child relationships, peer relationships, teacher/student relationships all are captured in this thoroughly accessible and very funny film. Premiered at Sundance 2015 and took top dramatic honours with the U.S. Grand Jury Prize.

USA 2014 Alfonso Gomez-Rejon 105m

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Diary Of A Teenage Girl A teen artist living in 1970’s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend. Another Sundance winner that had its successful UK Premiere at Edinburgh.

In 1970’s San Francisco, precocious young cartoonist Minnie (Bel Powley) can’t wait to grow up. Her mother’s (Kristen Wiig) no‑holds‑barred approach to partying colours her adolescent judgement, encouraging

her to seek grown-up thrills anywhere she can. Instigating a liaison with her mother’s boyfriend, Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård), she begins a passionate affair with a man two decades her senior, and despite the age gap remains utterly in control. Expertly handled and light-hearted in tone, the film boasts great performances, including a truly accomplished central performance from star‑in‑the‑ascendant Bel Powley.

USA 2014 Marielle Heller 103m

Cry Of The City Classic film noir starring Victor Mature and Richard Conte. A vivid depiction of life in New York’s Little Italy, Siodmak’s fast-paced crime thriller anticipates the films of Martin Scorsese.

USA 1948 Robert Siodmark 96m See Treasures of the Archives on Pg46 for full details Sun 23 Aug 11:00

Freaks Tod Browning’s ‘Freaks’ is widely considered of great cinematic importance, reflecting the macabre historical fascination of travelling freak shows.

USA 1932 Tod Browning 62m See Treasures of the Archives on Pg47 for full details Wed 26 Aug 11:30

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With thanks to Trinity films for this preview Tue 25 Aug 21:15 Preview

Buttercup Bill Rémy Bennett (granddaughter of singer Tony Bennett) directs, co-writes and stars in her debut film, where Pernilla and Patrick express their love through sexual games.

The psychosexual drama follows Pernilla as she dares to reconnect with Patrick, with whom she shared a tainted childhood. As the pair collide after years of separation, we are hauled through images of their past and present. Drug-fuelled hazes and dream-

like memories control their every moment together. It is clear that their deepest desires are one another; yet a dark and brutal secret dictates why they should forever remain apart. A Lynchian ‘Badlands’, it is a disturbing love story of two long-lost soulmates and their surreal relationship with a mischievous imaginary childhood friend. Fantastically led by the captivating Bennett, as her portrayal of Pernilla is refreshingly honest, and beautifully captures the complexities of a damaged and desperate soul.

USA 2014 Remy Bennet/Émilie Richard-Froozan 96m

I am delighted that the University of Chichester has become the headline sponsor for the 24th Chichester International Film Festival at the New Park Cinema. The University has worked in partnership with New Park Cinema for many years and we have always been a huge admirer of the Film Festival. This has now become a premier event in the world of cinema – acclaimed internationally, vaunted nationally and hugely enjoyed locally.

The University has a very active and growing filmmaking department and we have great plans to expand this through our new Engineering and Digital Technology Park, which will open in 2017. Chichester Cinema at New Park has regularly provided facilities to show the short films made in our Department of Film & Media and this is greatly appreciated by our student filmmakers and the staff who teach them. Our sponsorship enables us to recognise the huge contribution that the Cinema at New Park plays in our community and the encouragement that it gives to the filmmakers of tomorrow.

My congratulations go to Roger, Walter, Carol and the team at New Park for such a rich and varied Festival programme of films. I hope everyone who loves film will come and find their own favourite piece of cinema.

Clive Behagg Vice-Chancellor, University of Chichester

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Manglehorn Left heartbroken by the woman he loved and lost many years ago, an eccentric smalltown locksmith (Al Pacino) tries to start his life over again with the help of a new friend (Holly Hunter).

The reclusive A.J. Manglehorn has never quite recovered from losing the love of his life, Clara.

Fixated on her memory, he feels closer to his beloved cat than the people around him and prefers to find comfort in his work and daily routine. Still, he forges on with his tenuous human connections, maintaining intermittent contact with his son (Chris Messina), taking misplaced pride in a former protégé gone

astray (filmmaker Harmony Korine), and establishing a cautious friendship with a kind hearted woman from the local bank (Hunter). As this solitary man approaches the possibility of new love, he finds himself at a crossroads between staying mired in the past and embracing the present. Instilled with director David Gordon Green's unique brand of eccentricity and anchored by a remarkably rich, understated performance from Pacino, ‘Manglehorn’ is a movingly humanist portrait of a man rendered with unsentimental simplicity and idiosyncratic humour. A gentle and sweet film, premiered at the Venice Film Festival. "The finest performance Pacino has delivered in years" - Xan Brooks, The Guardian.

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The Misfits Scripted by Arthur Miller, this was Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable’s last film (also starring Montgomery Clift), and brilliantly directed by John Huston.

USA 1961 John Huston 122m See Treasures of the Archives on Pg49 for full details Fri 28 Aug 11:00

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The Orson Welles Centenary

The Julianne Moore Retrospective

A chance to review and revaluate the Orson Welles masterworks in his centenary year, again on the big screen and some in restored prints.

We present six films plus an illustrated talk on an actress at the top of her game – current holder of the Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA for Best Actress.

See Orson Welles Centenary on Pg74 for full details

See Julianne Moore Retrospective on Pg71 for full details

Only Angels Have Wings Tremendous Howard Hawks romantic adventure starring Cary Grant and the two women in his life: Jean Arthur and Rita Hayworth.

See Treasures of the Archives on Pg49 for full details Sat 29 Aug 11:00

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Gemma Bovery Martin, an ex-Parisian hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a village as a baker, is enthralled by a newly arrived English couple.

‘Gemma Bovery' is a clever contemporary re-invention of 'Madame Bovary', Flaubert's literary masterpiece about the love affairs of a provincial 19th century doctor's wife. This version begins with an erudite baker Martin (the wonderful Fabrice Luchini) observing the arrival of a London couple in his Normandy town. He immediately becomes infatuated with the vivacious young Gemma (Gemma Arterton), and starts seeing parallels to his favourite novel. Village life is gorgeously portrayed and most importantly the film succeeds in making you care about what is essentially a silly woman making bad decisions; like many French films it's all about the gloriousness of women, which Arterton more than lives up to. Finely balanced between comedy and drama this is a real French charmer. (Subtitles) France 2014 Anne Fontaine 99m Sat 15 Aug 21:00 Sun 16 Aug 18:30

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A cellist struggles against a physical disorder in attempting to prepare for concerts.

Julia, an attractive and elegant woman, is a renowned cellist devoted to her music. After years of intermittent pain in different parts of her body, she is finally given the diagnosis: fibromyalgia, a chronic medical disorder that has no known cause or cure. She soon finds herself submerged in a personal state of hell, struggling against her own body. The film includes music by Bach, Dvorak and Faure. Anna M. Bofarull, the director, treads known terrain as her mother suffers from fibromyalgia for years, and as a result of this personal involvement she had decided to explain this disorder, and make it through film.

The film echoes similar situations suffered by Jacqueline du Pré and Julian is suppor m te Lloyd Weber. Starring actress fil Susan Montse Germán, Marina Salas, Piquemal veteran Juanjo Puigcorbé, and Jan Cornet (who received the Goya for Best Actor in 2012 for the film ‘The Skin I Live In’, Pedro Almodóvar). (Subtitles)

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Marshland La Isla Minima

In the Marshland in southern Spain, a killer is on the loose. Two homicide detectives who appear to be poles apart must settle their differences and bring the murderer to justice before more young women lose their lives.

The Spanish ‘deep south’, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters - both detectives in the homicide division - to investigate the cases. With deep divisions in their ideology, detectives Juan and Pedro must put aside their differences if they are to successfully hunt down a killer who for years has terrorized a community in the shadow of a general disregard for women rooted in a misogynistic past. Marshland is noirishly tense (similar to Nordic noir) on different levels, its tight focus on character, its realism, its sense of place and its social critique adding up to a grippingly intense whole - and that’s not to mention it’s satisfyingly twisting plot-line. The exceptional cinematography looks fantastic and every detail is captured in beautifully placed shots of the Catalan landscape. The marshlands are bathed in vivid colours, especially during the sunset and several scenes will have you on the edge of your seat. Highly engaging murder mystery which garnered all the Spanish Goya awards (the Spanish Oscars) including Best Picture. (Subtitles)

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Lovingly shot in the Pyrenees, we follow a lost girl and an elderly painter, beautifully performed by Emilie Dequenne and Omar Sharif.

24 year old Maria encounters Jaume (Sharif), a grumpy elderly former champion cyclist who has become a painter and slowly a great friendship is born. Maria is attempting to discover a new identity, while Jaume is in the process of coming to final phase of his life, compounded by suffering from memory loss. Jaume is beginning to lose what built his identity, while Marie starts to build her own.

Beautifully shot in the director’s native region of the Pyrenees, this is a gentle beguiling sweet film of the “odd couple” despite the serious nature of the illness as the film progresses. The film has only had selective festival appearances, and this is its first public screening in the UK. Adding is suppor m te fil poignancy to Omar Sharif’s Susan character and performance, Piquemal after making this film he developed memory loss himself. (Subtitles) France 2010 Laurent Vinas-Raymond 100m

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Fatal Sin Pecado Fatal

After a complicated first night together, a couple are faced with life’s mysteries, passionate love and the weight of lies.

After being surprised in the middle of the night by a friend looking for a room to sleep with a girl he had met that night (Lila played

by Sara Leitão), our protagonist Nuno (Miguel Meira) also ends up sleeping with her… although Lila was too drunk to realize that this was not the same man who she had first met. This complicated first meeting initiates a relationship that not only has that first night to deal with, but also a mystery that Lila has been trying to solve for years before.

Sara Leitão is exceptional as Lila, feeling at ease in both the lighter comic scenes, as well as during some of the more emotional moments. Also stars João Guimarães as the so called “friend” who sets the mysterious complications in motion. Premiered at last year’s FantasPorto, Portugal’s leading Film Festival. (Subtitles) Portugal 2013 Luis Diogo 90m

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Fever

French drama with some echoes of ‘Rope’ exploring two wealthy students who murder without an apparent motive.

Damien (Martin Loizillon) and Pierre (Pierre Moure), two high school students coming from a wealthy background decide to murder an unknown woman who they previously spotted in the street. The police are lost,

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confused by this murder without a motive.

Meanwhile, Zoé (Julie-Marie Parmentier), an optician in the neighbourhood, is feeling more and more moved by the event. Bumping into the teenage murderers is going to reveal inside her a growing and mysterious desire.

While the sordid murder of an unknown woman is going to free Zoé from herself, Damien and Pierre are going to experience the opposite outcome: they will turn back into themselves and into their past. (Subtitles) France 2014 Raphael Neal 81m

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Preview: Finland

The Grump Mielensäpahoittaja The Grump is a man from the past. A man who knows that everything used to be so much better in the old days, and pretty much everything that's been done after1953 has always managed to ruin his day.

After a fall, The Grump has to spend a weekend in Helsinki to attend physiotherapy.

He doesn't like this for four reasons: 1) He has to take a taxi; 2) He can't take daily care of his wife, an Alzheimer's patient; 3) He can't drive, which means he might have to sit in a car with a female driver; 4) He has to move in with his family in the city. He must not only deal with a useless son, but the daughter-in-law is a career woman, and not keen to spend time with The Grump. This is a well-crafted comedy focused on the clash between past and present. Droll Finnish humour, ‘The Grump’ is a delightful film which will have viewers laughing out loud. (Subtitles) Finland 2014 Dome Karukoski 104m

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Summer Zommer Set over the course of a sweltering summer, this charming drama focuses on a quiet teen who yearns to escape the confines of her small town.

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to be different. The film does a fine job contextualizing a god-forsaken village in the Netherlands, characteristic of many peripheral places around the world. It is plagued with violence borne out of boredom, small-mindedness and hopelessness. It also highlights some stereotypical 'Dutch' attitudes of older generations in the midst of this difficult context, such as hypocrisy, sexism and obliviousness. A love story emerges and the power of the feelings Anne develops touch you deeply. (Subtitles) Netherlands 2014 Colette Bothof 85m

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Preview: Italy

My Mother Mia Madre

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Oscar & Golden Globe nominated, this is a beautifully eloquent statement for peace and the futility of bloodshed over ethnic division.

An Estonian man has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines in war-torn Georgia.

Set in 1992, during the growing conflict between Georgia and Abkhazian separatists in the wake of the Soviet Union’s dissolution, this compassionate story focuses on two Estonian immigrant farmers who decide to remain in Georgia long enough to harvest their tangerine crop. When the fighting arrives at their doorsteps, Ivo (legendary Estonian actor Lembit Ulfsak) along with friend Margus (Elmo Nüganen), treat two wounded soldiers from opposite sides, Ahmed (Giorgi Nakhashidze) and Niko (Mikheil Meskhi). During their extended period of convalescence under the administration of Ivo, they are forced not only to confront the reasons that fuel their hatred for each other but also the conflict which rages around them. A hit on the festival circuit, winning numerous international awards and critical praise, this seriocomic miniature won the audience award and a directing prize at the Warsaw Film Festival, and is a late addition to the Festival. (Subtitles) Georgia 2013 Zaza Urushadze 87m

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As almost always, the story is based on Moretti’s personal experience, this time, about the recent loss of his mother, frequently mentioned, and once, even featured in his works. The story is about a director (Margherita) trying to complete a movie focused on the loss of jobs in an Italian factory after its purchase from a USA investor (John Turturro as an American star who fluffs all of his lines is very funny). Margherita’s brother Giovanni (Moretti) is so preoccupied by the prospect of losing his mother that he’s taken a couple of months leave from his job. Giulia Lazzarini portrays the sick mother (a really moving performance) and is the emotional centrepiece of the whole movie. Moretti is at his best when dealing with the question of how best to deal with is suppor the inevitable mortality of m te fil ourselves and our loved ones; Mercia & Geoff certainly ‘My Mother’ is his Last finest since ‘The Son’s Room’.

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New Russian Cinema Premieres, Previews & New Releases

This section embraces a broad range of subjects including classic Russian Literature, Art and Culture, Contemporary Russian society today, and classic Soviet silent cinema. We are proud to include UK premieres of six outstanding new Russian films.

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A highly imaginative attempt to re-create the world of Marc Chagall and his myth within the genre of a folklore ballad, reflecting the style of his art.

The film does not exploit Chagall's images, but attempts to create a dramatized projection of his creativity onto the movie screen, relying on both facts and fantasy (as Chagall himself would). The story is based on real events during a time which he creates the Academy of Modern Art, inspired by his dreams of a bright and beautiful future. The stylised approach is flamboyant and colourful, reminiscent of Ken Russell, and many pictures

by Chagall and Malevich are used in the film. Director Alexander Mitta literally brings Chagall’s hyper-real, modernistic paintings to life on screen: couples float, heads flip, houses turn blue, and horses are depicted in brilliant is suppor m te shades of carmine before the fil Graham audience’s eyes. Be warned, & Sybil this is far from a conventional Papworth bio-pic, but an imaginative flight into the world of Chagall Russia 2014 Aleksandr Mitta 119m

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A White White Night Belaya Belaya Noch Set against St Petersburg, this drama concerns a retired private eye looking for a missing teenager.

After a student from Moscow goes to St. Petersburg to attend a rock concert and disappears, his mother hires private investigator Igor, who had lived in the city a long time ago. A seemingly simple case leads him into the mysteries of the city, where corruption and crime flourish. We meet many eccentric droll and typical Russian characters in Igor’s encounters in what is a piercing portrait of contemporary Russian city life.

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White Moss Reindeer Belyy Yagel Love and betrayal play out in the strikingly beautiful, snow-infused (and vodka-infused) setting of the Nenets in far North Russia.

Aloysha is a young Nenet man with an overbearing mother who is as anxious for him to be married. She takes matters into her own hands and selects for him a wife from another camp, the beautiful Savane. Savane is initially excited to be married and meet her new husband, but Aloysha silently rejects her as he has long ago promised himself to a girl named Aniko from his tribe, though she now lives in the city. In spite of challenging technical difficulties, the cinematography is truly mesmerizing, combining realism with a poetic approach: on dollies, on cranes and helicopters, the camera tracks and swoops in and out of the stark, monumental landscape.

Over the huge deer herds, or in close-up all aspects of daily life are served in rich colour, with viewers finding themselves living inside this completely alien culture and landscape.

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We are proud to be presenting the European premiere of this film portraying the defence of the Lithuanian people for independence against the Soviet troops in 1991, and delighted to welcome the writer-director Robert Mullan to introduce his film.

Lithuania 1991. A group of people - students, an elderly couple, a violinist, anxious parents, a priest - find themselves in the same place, on the evening of January 12, 1991. They are defending their newly-established freedom against the Soviet occupiers. They position themselves at the Television Tower where the Soviet troops are trying to take control of communications (under the orders of Mikhail Gorbachev). The protesters are unarmed.

New friendships are formed. But soon the tanks and troops advance and threaten the singing protesters. ‘We Will Sing’ is a feature loosely based on the events at the TV Tower in Vilnius, incorporating archive footage, which is weaved into the narrative. The first part builds tension, introducing some history and characters (old and young), is suppor m te and then in the second half the fil conflict with the Soviets begins.

Glyn Edmunds This film is particularly relevant today with the Russia-UkraineUSA stand-off. (Subtitles)

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The Fool Durak

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The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber.

He is an honest man that is up against an entire system of corrupt bureaucrats. The lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dormitory that is at risk of collapsing during the night are at stake.

Yuri Bykov's ‘Durak’ looks at the current state of affairs in Russia. This story of a plumber facing an intractable bureaucracy when he tries to draw people's attention to a precarious apartment building is merely one look into an oligarchic society that's seen little infrastructural and political advancement since the Soviet collapse. Indeed, the city government seems as hopeless as the private citizens. The truth is, none of this should come as a surprise. Boris Yeltsin turned Russia into a kleptocracy. Vladimir Putin stabilized the economy but restored the Soviet-era authoritarianism. Corruption has dominated the country ever since the USSR collapsed (and was certainly widespread in Soviet times).

Although ‘The Fool’ is mostly an indictment of Putin's Russia, it can be seen as an indictment of any society in which corruption is so ingrained that the citizens practically accept it. Stars Nina Antyukhova, Sergey Artsybashev and Pyotr Barancheev. (Subtitles) Russia 2014 Yuriy Bykov 116m

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Set in the Chekhov’s country estate near Moscow in the 1880's, Anton Chekhov is just beginning to be aware of his own talent.

Based on the play of the same title, the script uses Anton and Alexander Chekhov’s letters, Alexander and Mikhail Chekhov's memoirs, Pavel Chekhov's diary, and also themes from Anton Chekhov's works (including ‘Ivanov’, ‘Uncle Vanya’ and ‘The Seagull’). The film's plot is the story of success, the story of how a man, world famous writer Anton Chekhov, managed to break off with the family and find himself, his vocation. He faced a crucial choice - whether to devote himself totally to the family and to bury his outstanding gift as a writer; whether to take the responsibility for his relatives upon himself while he was constantly dreaming to quit all this; or to get out of the family troubles and live his own way. Beautifully shot in the Summer at the Tolstoy ancestral estate of NikolskoyeVyazemskoye. Audience Award winner at the Andrey Tarkovsky IFF. Appropriately this complements the 3 Chekhov plays being presented at the Chichester Festival Theatre in new translations by David Hare in the Autumn.

(Subtitles) Russia 2014 Mikhail Ugarov 106m

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This adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's classic novel stars Ralph Fiennes in the title role and is directed by Fiennes' sister Martha.

Disillusioned with life in St. Petersburg, Onegin (Fiennes) moves to a country estate he has inherited. As he attempts to fit in with the rural community, he is surprised by a beautiful neighbour's (Liv Tyler) declaration of love for him. His decision to spurn her advances is one that comes back to haunt him, as a tragic scenario unfolds. Martha Fiennes outstanding direction and visual style gives this film light and dark; the white of the Russian winter and wide expanses of countryside compared with

the claustrophobic darkness of many of the interiors. However the subtext of the main story of unrequited love is distinctly in shades of grey. Russian melancholy suits Fiennes' brooding brow and dark eyes to a T; as Onegin, he is cool and detached, but there is a spark inside struggling to get out. Liv Tyler is a beautiful young Tatyana and manages the transition to a woman well, and Toby Stephens is good is suppor m te support as Lensky. fil Th is

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We are also presenting Tchaikovsky’s wonderful opera of the same subject to complement this film.

Eugene Onegin Salzburg Festival Opera The Salzburg Festival (2007) production of Tchaikovsky’s opera conducted by Daniel Barenboim.

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Two Women Mesyats v Derevne

We are delighted to close our Festival with the UK Premiere of this sumptuous Russian production, based on a play by Russian writer Ivan Turgenev.

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FOUR FILMS BY ANDREY ZVYAGINSTEV With the recent accolades and Oscar winner for ‘Leviathan’, we offer a survey of the work of this outstanding new young Russian director.

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The Return 2003 Vozvrashchenie

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In 2003 Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev made his feature debut with this haunting, poignant family drama.

Teenage brothers Andrei and Ivan have lived with their mother and grandmother for as long as they can remember when their longlost father suddenly turns up after a twelveyear absence. While Andrei seems happy to see him, the younger Ivan is reluctant and suspicious of his father's motives. The three take a boat to a deserted island in a remote lake - a trip which turns into an endurance test as the boys struggle to come to terms with their father's presence and cruel, mysterious ways. Golden Lion winner at the 2003 Venice Film Festival. A gem! (Subtitles) Russia 2003 Andrey Zvyagintsev 105m

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The Banishment 2007

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Low-key, sumptuously photographed, rural family drama from Andrei Zvyagintsev.

Set in an unnamed location and time, the story follows Alex (Konstantin Lavronenko), Vera (Maria Bonnevie), their young son and daughter, and Alex's brother Mark (Alexander Baluyev), as they relocate from the city to Alex and Mark's father's old house in the country.

Once there, Vera tells Alex that she is pregnant by another man, causing Alex to face huge personal dilemmas, wondering whether to forgive her or exact revenge. Acting on advice from his malevolent brother, Alex demands that Vera terminate the pregnancy. But when complications suddenly arise, Alex's weakening grasp on reality threatens to place events beyond his control. (Subtitles) Russia 2007 Andrey Zvyagintsev 157m

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Elena 2011

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When a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten dutiful housewife Elena's potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan.

Elena is a former nurse who lives with her wealthy husband Vladimir. The middle-aged couple have a good marriage and when Elena's unemployed son Sergey and his wife, who live nearby, need financial support, Elena asks her husband to help them. Vladimir is not willing to help her son and when he makes his daughter Katya his sole heiress, their relationship turns cold. A witty, life-affirming and distinctly directed film with prominent and understated acting performances by Nadezhda Markina, Yelena Lyadova and Andrey Smirnov. (Subtitles) Russia 2011 Andrey Zvyagintsev 109m

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ALSO BY ANDREY ZVYAGINSTEV:

Leviathan 2014 Andrey Zvyagintsev’s latest film was the Oscar winner for best foreign film of 2014, and many other awards from around the world.

On the outskirts of a small coastal town in the Barents Sea, where whales sometimes come to its bay, lives an ordinary family: Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov), his wife Lilya (Elena Lyadova) and their teenage son Romka. The family is haunted by a local corrupted mayor (Roman Madyanov), who is trying to take away the land, a house and a small auto repair shop from Kolya. To save their homes Kolya calls his old Army friend in Moscow (Vladimir Vdovichenkov), who has now become an authoritative attorney. Together they decide to fight back and collect dirt on the mayor.

Leviathan takes a long, immersive look at the machinations of corrupted power in the lives of the powerless, who desperately struggle to stay the course, hoping against hope to win a losing battle. Although dealing with a devastating portrayal of contemporary Russian corruption, this superb film also reflects a universal theme. (Subtitles) Russia 2014 Andrey Zvyagintsev 140m

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AND TWO RUSSIAN SILENT CLASSICS:

Man With a Movie Camera Chelovek s Kino-Apparatom No. 1 in Sight & Sound’s Poll of the Greatest Documentaries of All Time (2014), No. 8 in the Greatest Films of All Time (2012). Released by the BFI in a restored digital print.

USSR 1929 Dziga Vertov 68m See Treasures from the Archives on Pg47 for full details Wed 26 Aug 13:00

Battleship Potemkin Bronenosets Potemkin Special Event in St. John’s Chapel – The classic Silent Film with Live Piano Accompaniment.

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Whatever Happened To Russian Cinema?

Illustrated Talk by Ian Christie What do we know about Russian filmmaking today, apart from perhaps the work of Sokurov and now Zvyagintsev? For nearly half a century, Russian cinema commanded the attention of everyone interested in the art – as well as the politics - of cinema. In the mid-20s Eisenstein’s ‘Battleship Potemkin’ seemed the most important film in the world; then in the 70s and 80s Tarkovsky became an emblem of resistance; and in the mid-80s, Soviet filmmakers anticipated Gorbachev’s revolution of ‘openness’ or glasnost – which would eventually trigger the collapse of the Soviet Union. There is still much to discover in the rich heritage of Russian cinema, but what can we expect from Russia’s filmmakers in the era of Putin?

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The Forgotten Kingdom

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Atang leaves the slums of the big city to bury his estranged father in the remote, mountainous village where he was born.

Atang (Zenzo Ngqobe) is a young man who lives amongst the hustle and bustle of Johannesburg in South Africa. When his estranged father becomes seriously ill, he goes to visit him and by the time he arrives he learns his father has passed away. It is now his task to bury him in the remote and mountainous region of Lesotho where Atang was born and where his father had contracted HIV. Stirred by memories of his youth, Atang falls in love with his childhood friend, Dineo (Nozipho Nkelemba), now a radiant teacher.

Through Dineo, Atang becomes deeply in touch with the mystical beauty of the land and people he had long ago left behind. There is a reverence and a sincerity, and a sense of spirituality that permeates every frame of ‘The Forgotten Kingdom’. A funny, surprising, heartfelt, and beautiful journey that has experienced quite a bit of success on the film festival circuit with many Audience Award wins. (Subtitles) South Africa 2013 Andrew Mudge 96m

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Hilda

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When the new housemaid Hilda arrives, Mrs. Lemarchand's obsessions are irreversibly triggered, offering a mix of political satire, social commentary and psychological study.

Mrs. Lemarchand (Verónica Langer) was an activist in her youth, but she became a housewife when she married wealthy Mr. Lemarchand. With the arrival of the new maid, Hilda (Adriana Paz ), and her participation in a documentary about the events of Tlatelolco in 1968, Mrs. Lemarchand's identity crisis is intensified to the verge of madness.

“Being part of a country stricken by so many inequalities and home to millions of poor people, the Mexican upper class is a mixture of waste and guilt, of acts of charity, classism and exclusion, and a walking contradiction,” said director Clariond. “Mrs. LeMarchand represents the frustration faced by so many women in their senior age, caused by their comparison of the goals of their youth and their actual life achievements,” he added.

Turning on racism, class and power abuse, in its soaring neurosis, huis-clos set-up, Mexican setting, and class ironies, ‘Hilda’ also tips its hat to Luis Bunuel. (Subtitles) Mexico 2014 Andres Clariond Rangel 88m

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UK Premiere: Chile

Son Of Trauco Hijo de Trauco This is the story about the adventures of a boy to discover the truth about his father, his past, and about himself.

‘Hijo de Trauc’o is the story of Jaime; a 14-year-old sceptical young man who one day discovers that everything he knows about his father is a lie. Together with Violeta, they thrust themselves into a journey to find out the truth. The film revolves around the abundant local mythology from Chiloé, an island in the south of Chile. Jaime has always been bullied at school for being the ‘son of Trauco’, because no one really knows for sure who his father was. On the other hand, Violeta swears she is the daughter of La Pincoya.

And her stepdad, Alejo, is a mythomaniac who has a tattoo on his left shoulder of El Basilisco Chilote. Sometimes blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, the visual style is quite stunning, and is a nice introduction to mythology, especially in the way that it works nowadays in modern times, as an excuse, as a myth that is used by liars to support their fantastic tales as explored in this captivating film. (Subtitles) Chile 2014 Alan Fisher 93m With thanks to M-appeal Sales Sat 15 Aug 15:15 (Studio) Sun 16 Aug 16:00 (Studio)

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The old dictator of a hypothetical unnamed country (shot in Georgia) faces the last days of his iron-fist rule, with the revolt building within nation and fully blowing up in one day.

Moments before the revolution, the dictator dispatches his family out of the country, but his 6-year old grandson stays with him and their destinies become inseparable. They are forced to flee, disguising themselves as street musicians, blending in with the common people, desperately trying to avoid numerous military patrols. It is also a trip of discovery the discovery of the horrors that the nation experienced during the years of tyranny.

For Iranian director Mohsen is suppor Makhmalbaf, ‘The President’ is m te fil a modern fable about power, Mercia reconciliation and the hope for & Geoff Last breaking a never ending circle of violence. (Subtitles) Georgia/France/UK/Germany 2014 Mohsen Makhmalbaf 115m

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in a state of fear and confusion, and he is importuned to take them in. Panahi himself shows up (playing himself), acting out his most melancholy fantasies as both neighbours and strangers appear and disappear with eerie regularity. With films such as ‘The White Balloon’, ‘The Circle’ and is suppor m te fil ‘Crimson Gold’ to his credit, June Panahi was one of Iran’s most King successful and internationally lauded filmmakers, Winner of the Silver Bear (Berlin) for Best Screenplay in 2013.

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A screenwriter (Kambozia Partovi) goes into hiding with his dog after the regime declares dogs "impure" and bans them from walking in public. (This is an actual law.) The man shaves his head, methodically darkens all the windows in his three-story seaside villa (Panahi's beach house), and settles in to write in relative peace with his beloved pet.

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The quirky ‘Güeros’ has a breakneck, devilmay-care attitude. It won the best debut film award at Berlin in February and a Special Jury Mention for best new narrative filmmaker at this festival.

Director Alonso Ruiz Palacios self-consciously and self-effacingly paints a polyglot portrayal of Mexico in glowing black and white. It’s alive with personality and humour to spare.

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without coming off as an intellectualized imitation. Characters address the camera about what type of movie they are stuck in, the tone shifts from scene to scene, and the focus jumps from one idea to the next. It’s playful in the spirit of Truffaut’s ‘Shoot the Piano Player’, and had more Ariel nominations than any other film in Mexico this year, taking home 5 Ariel awards at the ceremony (Best Picture, Best First Work, Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Sound). Not to be missed. (Subtitles) Mexico 2014 Alonso Ruiz Palacios 105m

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Girl at my Door Dohee-Ya A promising police academy graduate with a drink problem is re-assigned to a small backwater town only to discover that the main problem there is alcoholism.

Expelled from her Seoul job for excessive drinking, Young-Nam soon finds that her new role involves corralling a community of drunks. When sympathy impels Young-Nam to protect a young girl from a drunken father, a new raft of problems arises. Doona Bae (‘Cloud Atlas’) gives a wonderful performance as Young-Nam, a woman who knows that any lapse of judgement will put everything she holds dear at risk. In exploring the way that abuse can spawn its own monstrous behaviour, the film is fearless in travelling into uncomfortable terrain and the emotionally explosive finale will spark many a postscreening debate. (Subtitles)

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Backward attitudes toward women are sharply sent up in Kaouther Ben Hania's audacious mockumentary.

This mockumentary shines a discomforting light on Tunisia’s attitudes toward women.

A man on a motorbike, razor blade in hand, prowls the streets of Tunis slashing women’s buttocks. They call him the ‘Challat’ (‘Slasher’), and the mere mention of his name provokes fascination and terror. Ten years later, a stubborn young female director sets out on an investigation to unravel the mystery and discover the true Challat of Tunis. Though shot in a rough indie-docu style, complete with inelegant focal adjustments and handheld lensing, it’s obvious Ben Hania and her D.P. know exactly what they’re doing. Editing, too, is spot-on, cleverly negotiating the right balance of absurdity and emotional weight.

Hilarious and acerbic. (Subtitles) Tunisia/France/Canada 2013 Kaouther Ben Hania 90m

Cartel Land A physician in Michoacán, Mexico leads a citizen uprising against the drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years.

Mexico/USA 2015 Matthew Heineman 98m See Focus on the Documentary on Pg39 for full details Wed 26 Aug 18:30 (Pic. Palace) Thu 27 Aug 15:30 (Studio)

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A documentary about why we can't seem to get along with each other, even after thousands and thousands of years.

Seven years in the making, ‘Unity’ is a new documentary that explores humanity’s hopeful transformation from living by killing into living by loving. It is a unique film about compassion for all beings, or all “expressions of life,” and going beyond all “separation based on form,” and beyond perceiving opposites. Writer/Director Shaun Monson,

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collaborating with an astounding cast of 100 celebrity narrators (never before gathered in the history of film-making), presents a message of love, tragedy and hope, all set against the backdrop of some of the most compelling 20th and 21st Century footage imaginable. Narrators include Kevin Spacey, Dame Helen Mirren, Geoffrey Rush, Marion Cotillard, Jennifer Aniston, Sir Ben Kingsley, Anjelica Huston, Moby, Dr Dre, Catherine Tate, Joaquin Phoenix, Ellen DeGeneres, Tony Hawk, Aaron Paul, Susan Sarandon… A recorded Q&A follows after the screening.

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Tasting my Future Sylvie Collier’s new and very timely documentary features women who fled conflict in their home countries and wound up in Brighton seeking safety.

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The Pursuit Of Happiness These 4 early films by Tony Palmer, one of Britain’s greatest arts documentary makers, were shown in 1972 on London Weekend Television’s Aquarius, and reflect a remarkable album of contemporary images and attitudes of the period.

In the first film ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’ (47m) looks sympathetically upon the artists who combine cultural endeavour with political activism: the actors rehearsing a musical entitled ‘The Selling of the President’ or the innovators of the Liquid Theatre Company.

The film’s hero is the ex-Beatle and peace-activist John Lennon, who proposes

a tour of America whose profits will flow to the poor and imprisoned. The short segment that follows, Shirley MacLaine (8m), features the American star after the success of her first autobiography ‘Don’t Fall off the Mountain’. Her interview is followed by ‘Brighton Breezy (35m), a breath of salty fresh air, with Geoffrey Winn on the piers, the dining carriage of the Brighton Belle, the vehicle of choice for Sir Roy Strong, and the Brighton Pavilion. In ‘Birmingham, City of the Future?’

(32m), a sociologist deplores the city’s reliance on the motor car as an agent of a soulless prosperity. There will be a 15m interval after the first film.

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Meeting Phuntsok Lhamo Two people who live thousands of miles apart exchange lots of letters, getting to know each other better and better, before finally getting to meet each other.

The Austrian Pia Pedersen has been supporting the Tibetan refugee girl Phuntsok Lhamo for

more than ten years. In 2003 the nurse from Salzburg travelled to holy Mount Kailash in the west of Tibet. In the same year the Tibetan girl, at the age of 7, fled from her own country into exile. A god-parenthood between the two was arranged by Irmtraut Wäger, then head of the “German Aid to Tibetans”. In 2005 godmother and child met shortly for the first time in the Tibetan Children´s Village, Upper Dharamsala, Northern India. (Subtitles) Austria 2013 Sina Moser/ Pia Pedersen 62m

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Leslie Howard: The Man Who Did Give A Damn An intimate and compelling documentary on the life and career of Leslie Howard (1893-1943).

Turning a spotlight on an actor who is sometimes eclipsed by his role in ‘Gone with the Wind’. The irony of Howard's involvement in the ultimate Hollywood blockbuster is that in his time, Leslie carved one of the most unique careers in 1930's Hollywood, taking control of his films in a way few of his contemporaries would dream of. A man of strong principals despite an outward appearance of vagueness, he took a stand for other actors, most famously Humphrey Bogart in ‘The Petrified Forest’, less famously William Gargan and Ilka Chase on ‘The Animal Kingdom’. Later he insisted on returning to England as World War 2 began, so he could contribute to the war effort - a role which made him an enemy and possible target of the Nazis.

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Pimpernel Smith Leslie Howard’s directorial debut is an unashamed, patriotic flag-waver for the war effort in this updated account of a Scarlet Pimpernel character, who rescues 28 scientists, statesmen and musicians from the clutches of the Nazis.

It is mid-1939 and both Germany and England are preparing for an inevitable conflict.

Professor Horatio Smith (Leslie Howard), an effete academic, asks his students to come with him to the continent to engage in an archaeological dig. When his students discover that the professor is the man responsible for smuggling a number of enemies of the Nazi state out of Germany, they enthusiastically join him in his fight.

But things are complicated when one of his students brings a mysterious woman into their circle, a woman who is secretly working for the Gestapo. ‘Pimpernel Smith’ was one of the great British WWII films designed to strengthen the morale of the British people, and while doing so, to ridicule the Nazis and emphasize their ruthlessness.

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Because I Was A Painter: Art that Survived the Nazi Camps This film conducts an unprecedented investigation of secretly created artworks in Nazi concentration and death camps.

It converses with the rare handful of living artists who survived the camps and with those who curate their art: about the emotions the works conjure, their marginalization, their signatures or anonymity, their style, as well as the representation of horror and extermination.

But perhaps above all, it takes a long look at the drawings, wash drawings and paintings held in collections in France, Germany, Israel, Poland, Czech Republic, Belgium and Switzerland.

While transiting among these fragments of clandestine images and the vestiges of the camps, the film offers a sensitive quest amid faces, bodies and landscapes to explore the notion of artwork. (Subtitles)

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‘Harvest’ is a beautiful social documentary exploring the making of wine, shot in one of the oldest wine-making region of France.

During the harvest, twenty grape-pickers will endure heatwaves, sticky hands, clipperinduced blisters, waged grape battles and experienced short-lived friendships. They will face the October storms and will have passionate discussions - a kind of a utopic community will emerge. All of a sudden, a school trip turns up to visit the wine cellar during the harvest. These small human beings are crossing the vineyards and, with their wide-open future ahead of them, look at these men and women in a merciless way, and reminds them of their precarious situation, chained to their task and to their present, past and future life. Shot in a Depardon-style, between ‘Modern Life’ and ‘Mondovino’, ‘Harvest’ is a social documentary throughout the making of wine, shot in one of the oldest wine-making region of France. (Subtitles) France 2014 Paul Lacoste 76m

Magician: The Astonishing Life & Work Of Orson Welles A wonderfully entertaining, illuminating and finally very touching portrait of Orson Welles.

USA 2014 Chuck Workman 93m See Orson Welles Centenary on Pg77 for full details Fri 21 Aug 14:00

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In 1973, three ancient columns, standing in the middle of an insignificant and longforgotten valley in Greece, welcomed a young American archaeologist. Since then, Dr. Miller gave this valley 40 years of his life, and it has unlocked its secrets to him. This 'labour of love' has brought to light almost the entire athletics complex of Ancient Nemea and has offered to all of us the unique opportunity of participating in Ancient Games. In 2012, we found ourselves in the Nemean Valley, explored the archaeological site with Dr. Miller, experienced the 5th Revival of the Nemean Games and made the "Passage into History".

In a very personal way one is suppor m picks up the thread of history, te fil and losing all sense of age, Graham & Sybil nationality, race and colour, Papworth gets swept into something which is both an instant and eternal. (Subtitles) Greece 2014 Yiannis V Lapatas 67m Wed 19 Aug 20:15 (Pic. Palace) Sat 22 Aug 13:30 (Studio)

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Fabergé: A Life Of Its Own This feature-doc tells the epic story of the Fabergé name, from Imperial Russia until the present-day, spanning one hundred and fifty years of turbulent history, romance, artistic development and commercial exploitation.

From the bejewel led Easter eggs of the Romanov Tsarinas to the 1970s allure of 'Brut by Fabergé' aftershave, and from the Russian revolution to today's high-fashion glitz in New York and London, the film explores a multi-faceted world that began with one man: the prodigiously talented Peter Carl Fabergé, Court Jeweller of St Petersburg.

Shot at locations across Russia, Europe and USA (including the collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II), the film features interview contributions from the world's foremost Fabergé authorities, as well as personal reminiscences from Fabergé family members.

It also features the exclusive unveiling of two historical pieces - the first 'Imperial Class' Egg produced for over 99 years, and the long-lost 1887 Imperial Egg, rediscovered last year and sold for a reported $30 million.

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Cartel Land With unprecedented access, this is a riveting look at the journeys of two modern-day vigilante groups and their shared enemy the murderous Mexican drug cartels.

In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," leads the Autodefensas, a citizen uprising against the violent Knights Templar drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years. Meanwhile, in Arizona's Altar Valley - a narrow, 52-mile-long desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley - Tim "Nailer" Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to stop Mexico's drug wars from seeping across our border.

Filmmaker Matthew Heineman embeds himself in the heart of darkness as Nailer, El Doctor, and the cartel each vie to bring their own brand of justice to a society where institutions have failed. ‘Cartel Land’ is a chilling, visceral meditation on the breakdown of order and the blurry line between good and evil. It's one thing to invent a vigilante drama as darkly perfect as this, it's another to capture it as it actually unfolds.

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Man With The Movie Camera Chelovek s Kino-Apparatom No. 1 in Sight & Sound’s Poll of the Greatest Documentaries of All Time (2014), No. 8 in the Greatest Films of All Time (2012). Released by the BFI in a restored digital print.

USSR 1929 Dziga Vertov 68m See Treasures from the Archives on Pg47 for full details Wed 26 Aug 13:00

Around The World With Orson Welles Six documentary episodes (26 minutes each) made for the BBC in 1955.

UK 1950’s Orson Welles 156m See Orson Welles Centenary on Pg77 for full details Episodes 1-3: Thu 27 Aug 16:00 (Pic. Palace) Episodes 4-6: Fri 28 Aug 16:30 (Pic. Palace)

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Open Air Screening at Priory Park 19:30 Inside Out (U) 102m

Music From 19:30 - Film at Dusk (21:00 approx)

Main Auditorium 11:00 Mother Joan of the Angels (PG) 111m 13:30 The Magnificent Ambersons (U 35mm) 88m 15:30 The Fallen Idol (PG) + Live Music 121m 18:30 Gemma Bovery (12A) 99m 20:45 The President (15) 115m

Sat 8 Aug Open Air Screening at Priory Park 19:30 The Sound of Music (U) 174m

Music From 19:30 - Film at Dusk (20:50 approx)

Thu 13 Aug Main Auditorium Opening Gala: 18:30 45 Years (15) 93m

Food from 18:30 - Film at 20:30

Fri 14 Aug Main Auditorium 10:30 Knights of the Teutonic Order (PG) 173m 14:00 Tasting My Future + Q&A 100m 16:15 Citizen Kane (U) 119m 18:45 The Forgotten Kingdom (12A) 96m 21:00 45 Years (15) 93m In the Studio 13:45 Journey to Italy (PG) 81m 16:00 The Ear (12A) 91m 19:00 Daisies (15) 76m 20:45 Hilda (15) 88m (20.45) Picture Palace 14:30 Green for Danger (PG) 85m

Sat 15 Aug Main Auditorium 11:00 Ashes and Diamonds (12A) 104m 13:00 The Forgotten Kingdom (12A) 96m 15:30 Odd Man Out (PG) + Live Music 146m 18:30 Unity (12A) + Recorded Q&A 120m 21:00 Gemma Bovery (12A) 99m In the Studio 13:15 Talk: William Alwyn: Composing for The Screen 100m 15:15 Son of Trauco (15) 93m 18:15 My Accomplice (15) 93m + Q&A 20:45 Taste the Blood of Dracula (15) 82m Picture Palace 16:00 Journey to Italy (PG) 81m

In The Studio 13:15 Sonata for Cello (15) 107m 16:00 Son of Trauco (15) 93m 18:00 The Pursuit of Happiness 135m inc.

Interval 20:30 The Cremator (15) 95m Picture Palace 16:15 Taste the Blood of Dracula (15) 82m

Mon 17 Aug Main Auditorium 11:00 Man of Iron (12A) 154m 14:00 The President (15) 115m 16:15 The Third Man (PG) 101m 18:30 Carl Davis Presents Chaplin + Q&A 120m 21:00 Marshland (15) 105m In The Studio 13:30 Green for Danger (PG) 85m 15:45 Kolya (12A) 101m 18:00 Chagall-Malevich (15) 119m 20:30 The Ear (12A) 91m Picture Palace 16:30 Meeting Phuntsok Lhamo (PG) 62m

Tue 18 Aug Main Auditorium 11:00 The Promised Land (15) 173m 14:30 Marshland (15) 105m 16:45 The Lady From Shanghai (PG) 87m 18:45 Empties (15) 104m 21:00 The Long Good Friday (18) 114m In The Studio 14:00 Leslie Howard: The Man Who Did Give a Damn + Intro/Q&A (PG) 114m 16:15 Pimpernel Smith (U) 120m 19:00 History of Mr. Polly (PG) 92m 20:45 Flytrap (15) 81m Picture Palace 16:30 Because I Was a Painter (12A) 104m

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Main Auditorium 10:30 Knife in the Water (15) 93m 12:30 Kolya (12A) 101m 14:45 A White White Night (15) 122m 17:15 Closed Curtain (15) 106m 19:30 Film & Jazz: Chico & Rita plus Georgia Mancio/Bobby Wellins Quintet Jazz Gig

Main Auditorium 11:00 Closely Observed Trains (15) 92m 13:00 A Girl at My Door (15) 119m + Intro 15:30 The Magic Box + Live Music (U) 130m 18:30 I Forgot to Tell You (12A) 100m 20:45 Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (12A) 105m

In The Studio 13:00 The Winslow Boy (U) 113m 15:15 Flytrap (15) 81m 17:30 Sonata for Cello (15) 107m 20:00 Dark Blue World (12A) 108m Picture Palace 20:15 Passage Into History (PG) 67m

Picture Palace 18:30 Short Films Programme + Q&A (15) 90m

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Main Auditorium 11:00 A Short Film About Killing (18) 86m 13:30 Gypsy (15) 105m 15:45 Touch of Evil (12A) 110m 18:00 We Will Sing + Q&A (12A) 105m 21:00 Güeros (15) 105m

Main Auditorium 11:00 Cry of the City (PG) 96m 13:15 Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (12A) 105m 15:30 The Card + Live Music (U) 120m 18:30 Diary of a Teenage Girl (12A) 103m 20:45 La Grande Bouffe (18) 130m

In the Studio 13:45 The Smallest Show on Earth (PG) 82m 15:30 Because I Was a Painter (12A) 104m 18:00 The End of the Affair (18) 97m 21:00 The Fireman’s Ball (U) 73m

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In the Studio 13:30 Passage Into History (PG) 67m 16:00 The Cremator (15) 95m 18:15 White Moss Reindeer (15) 100m 20:30 Savage Grace (15) 97m

In the Studio 13:30 Challat of Tunis (15) 90m 16:00 Closely Observed Trains (15) 92m 18:15 What Maisie Knew (15) 99m 20:30 A White White Night (15) 122m

Picture Palace 16:00 The Winslow Boy (U) 113m

Picture Palace 16:45 Harvest (PG) 76m

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Main Auditorium 11:30 Dark Blue World (12A) 108m 14:00 Magician: The Astonishing Life & Work of Orson Welles (PG) 93m 16:15 The Fireman’s Ball (U) 73m 18:00 The Ipcress File + Q&A (15) 130m 20:45 Girl at my Door (15) 119m

Main Auditorium 11:30 Still Alice (12A) 102m 14:15 Fabergé: A Life of its Own (PG) 87m 16:15 Diary of a Teenage Girl (12A) 103m 18:30 Manglehorn (12A) 97m 21:00 The Legend of Barney Thomson (15) 100m

In the Studio 13:30 The Naked Edge (15)m 99m 16:30 Harvest (PG) 76m 18:15 Far From Heaven (15) 105m 20:30 The Trial (PG) 118m

In the Studio 14:00 Talk: Julianne Moor: Risk-Taker 90m 16:00 Meeting Phuntsok Lhamo (PG) 62m 18:00 Empties (15) 104m 20:30 Chimes at Midnight (PG) 113m

Picture Palace 16:45 The Smallest Show on Earth (PG) 82m

Picture Palace 16:45 Our Country plus This Dim Little Island (PG) 60m

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Main Auditorium 10:30 Maps to the Stars (18) 111m 13:15 The Legend of Barney Thomson (15) 100m 15:30 White Moss Reindeer (15) 100m 18:00 Opera: Eugene Onegin 177m inc Interval 21:15 Buttercup Bill (18) 96m

Main Auditorium 11:00 The Misfits (15) 122m 13:45 The Grump (12A) 104m 16:00 The Chekhov Brothers (12A) 103m 18:15 Miss Julie (12A) 129m 21:00 My Mother (15) 103m

In the Studio 13:30 Talk: What’s the Score? 85m 15:15 Fatal Sin (15) 90m 18:15 The Return (15) 105m 20:30 I Served the King of England (15) 114m Picture Palace 18:30 The Naked Edge (15)m 99m

Wed 26 Aug Main Auditorium 11:30 Freaks (12A) 62m 13:00 Man with a Movie Camera (U) 68m 14:30 Manglehorn (12A) 97m 16:30 Chagall-Malevich (15) 119m 19:00 Live Theatre: Othello 180m inc Interval In the Studio 14:00 Blood Cells + Q&A (15) 86m 16:15 Gypsy (15) 105m 18:15 Fever (12A) 82m 20:00 The Banishment (15) 157m Picture Palace 18:30 Cartel Land (15) 93m

Thu 27 Aug Main Auditorium 11:00 L’Eclisse (15) 125m 13:45 Daisies (15) 76m 15:45 Fair Play (15) 100m 18:00 Tangerines (Adv. 15) 87m 20:30 The Fool (15) 116m In the Studio 13:30 tbc 15:30 Cartel Land (15) 93m 17:45 Elena (15) 109m 20:00 Fatal Sin (15) 90m Picture Palace 16:00 Around the World with Orson Welles (Ep 1-3) 78m

St John’s Chapel 21:15 Battleship Potemkin (PG) with Live Piano Accompaniment In the Studio 13:30 Summer (15) 85m 15.45 The Don Juans (15) 102m 18.00 Leviathan (15) 140m 20.30 Fair Play (15) 100m Picture Palace 16:30 Around the World with Orson Welles (Ep 4-6) 78m

Sat 29 Aug Main Auditorium 11:00 Only Angels Have Wings (PG) 122m 13:30 I Forgot to Tell You (12A) 100m 15:45 My Mother (15) 103m 18:00 Onegin + Q&A (12A) 133m 21:00 The Grump (12A) 104m In the Studio 13:15 The Fool (15) 116m 16:00 Talk: Whatever Happened to Russian Cinema 90m 18:15 Hilda (15) 88m 20:30 Challat of Tunis (15) 90m Picture Palace 18:30 The Don Juans (15) 102m

Sun 30 Aug Main Auditorium 11:00 Two Women (12A) 100m 13:00 The Chekhov Brothers (15) 106m 15:15 tbc 17:30 Miss Julie (12A) 129m Closing Gala: 18:30 Two Women (12A) 100m

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Treasures From The Archives All the following 12 films (what a mouth-watering selection!) have all been re-released in beautifully restored digital prints allowing us to appreciate these classic films in greatly improved sound and vision.

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In his breakthrough role Bob Hoskins is the fierce, muscular gangland boss Harry Shand, while Helen Mirren is every inch his equal as his moll. In an eerily premonitory narrative, Shand devises a plan to transform London’s Docklands into a global capital for business,

one that might one day host the Olympics, but his world comes crashing down as the IRA takes an interest. With its sharp Barry Keeffe script, a gritty realism is suppor m te to the cinematography of Phil fil Méheux (who supervised this Pat Bowman restoration), and a pulsating score by Francis Monkman, there’s much to enjoy in this crime classic.

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The Sound Of Music 1965 A unique chance to see one of the most cherished films ever made (celebrating its 50th anniversary), on the big screen in Chichester's beautiful Priory Park.

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The Ipcress File 1965 On the 50th anniversary of ‘The Ipcress File’, this especially restored British classic will be introduced by Len Deighton’s official biographer Edward Milward-Oliver, and co-writer of the recent James Bond films, Robert Wade, followed by a Q&A. Michael Caine made his first appearance as novelist Len Deighton's bespectacled Britishspy Harry Palmer in ‘The Ipcress File’. Palmer has no real love of espionage, but he doesn't really know any other life. With studied insolence, he takes on the case of locating missing doctor Radcliffe (Aubrey Richards), who has in his possession a valuable file that would prove injurious to the Free

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World should it fall in the wrong hands. The government also fears that Radcliffe will be brainwashed by the enemy, as has happened to two previous British scientists. While Palmer is off doing everyone else's dirty work, his superior, Nigel Green, is making a deal with duplicitous information 'broker' Frank Gatliff to win Radcliffe's release. Advertised as 'The Thinking Man's Goldfinger’, ‘The Ipcress File’ offered a far more realistic view of the morally ambivalent world of espionage than did the vintage-like James Bond films. A superb twangy score by John Barry, sets by Ken Adam and perfect casting and performance of Michael Caine. Awarded a BAFTA and Cannes Film Festival prize.

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The Third Man The remastered version of director Carol Reed's 1949 film noir classic starring Welles as a black marketeer in post-war Vienna, is newly released for the Welles Centenary.

See Orson Welles Centenary on Pg75 for full details Mon 17 Aug 16:15

Touch Of Evil 1958 Celebrating the centenary of Orson Welles (1915–1985), the BFI is re-releasing his last Hollywood feature, the deliciously dark and sleazy ‘Touch of Evil’, in a newly digitally remastered full version.

See Orson Welles Centenary on Pg76 for full details Thu 20 Aug 15:45

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Cry Of The City 1948 Classic film noir starring Victor Mature and Richard Conte. A vivid depiction of life in New York’s Little Italy, Siodmak’s fast-paced crime thriller anticipates the films of Martin Scorsese.

An electrifying variation on the theme of a hoodlum (Richard Conte) and a cop (Victor Mature) who knew one another as kids, it opens with the former seriously wounded in hospital but determined to escape the police watching over him; he needs to clear the name of his fiancée, who’s suspected of a jewel robbery. While Conte, all insolent, menacing charm, is especially magnificent, and Mature invests the detective’s pursuit with unsettling hints of obsession, the movie fields a glorious gallery of shady figures, from a lawyer oozing corruption to a memorably sadistic masseuse. The steely realism is enhanced by Robert Siodmark’s flourishes of noir stylisation. A classic awaiting rediscovery.

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Released theatrically for the first time ever, 42 years later. A group of men hire some prostitutes, engage in group sex and resolve to eat themselves to death.

A pilot, a cook, a choreographer, and a judge.

Every key aspect of the western culture is present in this brilliant, surreal farce. The only ideology the men and the poor Andréa hold is one of hedonistic consumption of food and sex. The prostitutes are the sensible ones, leaving out of the game in time. So what is this Bunuelian film about? Is it an allegory - a group of fairly representative French bourgeois gathered in a knackered mansion with a sparse, dying garden. But an allegory of what? The decline of French masculinity, patriarchy, capitalism? ‘La Grande Bouffe’ is intelligent, disturbing, sad, unrelenting, but very funny. Ferreri has gathered together a who's who of European cinema: Marcello Mastroianni and Ugo Tognazzi combine brilliantly with French heavyweights Michael Piccoli and Phillipe Noiret. One critic stated “This film reaffirms my faith that it is still is suppor m te possible to be offended by a fil film.” You have been warned!

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Man With a Movie Camera 1929 Chelovek s Kino-Apparatom

Wed 26 Aug 13:00

Sight & Sound’s Greatest Documentary of All Time (2014 Poll) and eighth Greatest Film of All Time (2012). Released by the BFI in a restored digital print.

This best known work of Soviet visionary film pioneer Dziga Vertov (1896-1954), is one of the most inventive and influential films ever made. A strikingly modern look at urban life in 1920’s Russia, Vertov’s extraordinary montage depicts a city at work and at play a high-octane metropolis invigorated by an increasingly industrialised economy. Vertov shot this over the course of three years, mostly in Odessa, Ukraine, but also in Moscow, Kiev and Kharkiv. Narrative-free and stripped of many of the conventions of silent cinema (no actors, no inter-titles), it exhibits a technical confidence remarkable in a first feature. Wittily transforming the world caught by his lens with a dazzling array of experimental camera and editing techniques, Vertov investigates the properties of film itself and creates a truly exhilarating ode to Bolshevik Russia. A major inspiration to Jean-Luc Godard and others, this remains as mesmerising and mind-blowing as ever. The chance to experience its creative energy on a big screen will be one of the key highlights of the 2015 Festival.

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Freaks 1932 Tod Browning’s ‘Freaks’ is widely considered of great cinematic importance, reflecting the macabre historical fascination of travelling freak shows.

Now regarded as a landmark film but virtually disowned by MGM when it was first produced, Tod Browning's film, set in a travelling circus, works as an old-fashioned morality play against avarice. Browning used a collection of handicapped actors and performers for the circus community, which initially welcomes the beautiful trapeze artist Cleopatra into their group when she marries midget circus owner, Hans. However, as it becomes clear that Cleopatra is only after Hans' money, and is conducting an affair with the strongman, the close-knit clan of 'freaks' plan a revenge.

Through her undisguised horror at this and her gruesome punishment by the freaks, the film bluntly confronts viewers about our awkwardness about different bodies while simultaneously stirring up fear and alarm in familiar horror-movie style.

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L'Eclisse 1962 The Eclipse Screened in Cannes Classics this year, this release is a new digital restoration of Italian auteur Michelangelo Antonioni’s languorous, beguiling ‘L'Eclisse’.

It was the final film in Antonioni's informal trilogy on contemporary malaise (following ‘L’Avventura’ and ‘La Notte’), a series of films that redefined the concept of narrative cinema. Filmed in sumptuous black and white, and full of scenes of lush, strange beauty, it tells the story of Vittoria (the beautiful Monica Vitti, Antonioni's partner at the time), a young

woman who leaves her older lover (Francisco Rabal), and then drifts into a relationship with a confident, ambitious young stockbroker (Alain Delon). But this base narrative is the starting point for much, much more including an analysis of the city as a place of estrangement and alienation and an implicit critique of colonialism. Using the architecture of Rome - old and new - as a backdrop for this doomed affair, Antonioni achieves the apotheosis of his style in this return to the theme that preoccupied him the most: the difficulty of forming true connections amidst the meaninglessness of the modern world.

The final shot remains one of the greatest endings in cinema. (Subtitles) Italy 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 125m

Closely Observed Trains Ostre Sledované Vlaky Winning the 1967 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this is one of the fondest remembered gem from the Czech New Wave.

See Czech New Wave on Pg66 for full details Sat 22 Aug 11:00 (Auditorium) Sun 23 Aug 16:00 (Studio)

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by Pulitzer Prize winner Miller, ‘The Misfits’ is a probing, exciting drama of honesty, intensity and sheer poetic brilliance. Divorced and disillusioned Roslyn (Monroe) befriends a group of “misfits,” including an aging cowboy (Gable), a heartbroken mechanic (Eli Wallach) and a worn-out rodeo rider (Clift). Through their live-for-the-moment lifestyle, Roslyn experiences her first taste of freedom, exhilaration and passion. But when her innocent idealism clashes with their hardedged practicality, Roslyn must is suppor risk losing their friendship... m te fil and the only true love she’s Mercia & Geoff ever known. Superb black Last and white cinematography (stunning in this restoration)

by Russell Metty and a music score by Alex North.

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Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Tremendous Howard Hawks romantic adventure starring Cary Grant and the two women in his life: Jean Arthur and Rita Hayworth.

Somewhere on the coast of South America there's a ramshackle, fog-bound port and a landing strip from where mail pilots risk their lives over mountain passes to win a lucrative delivery contract. Into the life of an ace pilot (Cary Grant) and despatcher arrive two women: one a sassy nightclub pianist, the other his ex-lover. This is one of Hawks' most enjoyable explorations of his favourite themes: the connections between strongwilled women and stoical men, and the love and loyalty between men. Jean Arthur is obliged, like later Hawks heroines, to declare 'I'm hard to get – all you have to do is ask me', while Rita Hayworth, in an early role, is devastatingly lovely as the wife of a disgraced pilot seeking redemption. Restored in 4K from the Original Nitrate Picture Negative and Composite Duplicate Negative by Sony Pictures Entertainment at Colorworks.

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Film Music This year’s Festival has a strong emphasis on Music scored for Films, with some ambitious and exciting special presentations of live performances.

William Alwyn and His Film Music – An Introduction

Special offer: all 4 films plus Andrew Palmer Talk £45.00

William Alwyn (1905-1985) was a contemporary of Britten, Tippett and Walton.

He composed symphonies, concertos, chamber music and operas, but during his lifetime he was just as well known for film music – from 1936 to 1963 he wrote the scores for more than two hundred films.

During the Second World War he worked for the Ministry of Information, composing music for documentaries designed to boost public morale - these included ‘Fires Were Started’, ‘The True Glory’, ‘The Way Ahead’ and ‘Desert Victory’. His subsequent feature films included ‘The Fallen Idol’, ‘Odd Man Out’ and ‘A Night To Remember’. He served on the Councils of the British Film Academy (to which he was awarded a Fellowship) and the Edinburgh Film Festival, and he lectured for the British Film Institute.

He viewed each new commission as an opportunity to experiment with techniques that he could develop in his concert music.

He insisted that film music is most effective when used sparingly and when conceived at the beginning of the film’s production rather than being added later. Nowhere is this more evident than in his score for ‘Odd Man Out’, generally acknowledged as one of the finest that he wrote. Andrew Turner.

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THE FILM MUSIC OF WILLIAM ALWYN In partnership with ‘The Park Lane Group’ and generously supported by the William Alwyn Trust, we proudly present a selection of nine British classic films scored by Alwyn, with four films preceded by one of his chamber pieces, performed live by the young musicians of ‘The Park Lane Group’, and an illustrated talk by Andrew Palmer.

THE PARK LANE GROUP The offer of free use of Park Lane House, (London W1) led to the founding of the Park Lane Group (PLG) in 1956 with the principal aims of providing a prominent central London platform for highly talented young artists and for presenting events of special interest. Over 1,750 young artists have been presented over the years, a substantial proportion achieving international and national careers. These performances are a fine example of their work and are excellent to launch the PLG 60th Diamond Jubilee Season 2015/16. John Woolf, Director.

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Odd Man Out

Tickets £12.50 Special offer: all 4 films plus Andrew Palmer Talk £45.00 Sat 15 Aug 15:30

Outstandingly directed by Carol Reed, and starring James Mason as a terrorist on the run in post-war Belfast.

Mason is Johnny McQueen, the idealistic leader of an illegal organisation in Northern Ireland. Shot and wounded during a raid, he tries to find a place to hide as his friends, enemies and police begin to close in. Giving what is undeniably his finest performance, Mason gets exemplary support from Robert Newton, a crazed artist who desires to paint the death in McQueen's eyes, and Kathleen Ryan as the woman who loves him more than life itself. This High Definition digital restoration showcases the film's stark and beautiful imagery, ably complemented by the exceptional score by William Alwyn, which continually drives the story forward to its shocking conclusion.

UK1947 Carol Reed 116m

Preceded by a live performance of William Alwyn’s ‘String Quartet No. 3’ (1984) played by the Alke String Quartet. Works for string quartets range across Alwyn’s entire composing career, and 1984's ‘Third Quartet’ was his last completed work. In this, his music is colourful and conservative and yet always wholly passionate.

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The Fallen Idol

Tickets £12.50 Special offer: all 4 films plus Andrew Palmer Talk £45.00 Sun 16 Aug 15:30

Carol Reed's award-winning adaptation of Graham Greene's short story told primarily from a child's perspective.

Philippe (Bobby Henrey) is the young son of a diplomat who idolises his father's butler, Baines (Ralph Richardson). When Baines' is implicated in the murder of his wife, Philippe tries everything to point the investigation away from him. In doing so he makes matters worse and also discovers that his hero is not the man he thought he was. Alwyn’s music contributes to the stark ambience of the film.

It has echoes of ‘The Third Man’ in terms of style and photography. A marvellous film, full of irony and subtlety and one of the ten best British movies ever made.

UK 1948 Carol Reed 91m

Preceded by a live performance of William Alwyn’s String Quartet No. 2 ‘Spring Leaves’ (1976) played by the Gildas Quartet. A mastery of string writing, the quartet is in three movements with the fantastic scherzo placed second. The work is tense, restless and sardonic with a big unison at the end of the third movement.

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The Magic Box

Tickets £12.50 Special offer: all 4 films plus Andrew Palmer Talk £45.00 Sat 22 Aug 15:30

With a who’s who of over 50 British stars, this film is devoted to the life of William Friese-Greene.

The story of William Friese-Greene (Robert Donat) shows his struggle to bring recognition to his invention, the motion picture camera.

After the credit goes to other men, notably Thomas Edison, he continues to perfect the instrument, working on the development of colour film till the day of his death. The Technicolor work of Jack Cardiff is a treat.

The massive supporting cast includes Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Rutherford, Peter Ustinov, Leo Genn, Kay Walsh, Robert Beatty, Stanley Holloway and many more.

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Preceded by live performances of William Alwyn’s ‘Divertimento’ for solo flute (1941), a classical contrapuntal work in four movements; ‘Crépuscule’ for solo harp (1955), the piece suggesting a cold, clear winter's night with frosted snow (written for the great harpist Sidonie Goosens); and ‘Naiades: Fantasy Sonata’ for flute and harp, the title referring to the beautiful water-nymphs of Greek myth, who would drown those with whom they fell in love. Played by Rosanna Ter-berg (flute) and Anne Denholm (harp).

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Preceded by live performances of Alwyn’s ‘Sonata Impromptu’ for violin & viola and String Trio played by the Eblana String Trio. The Sonata Impromptu (1939) is in three movements: the first a Prelude with a forthright opening leading to a fugal section. The second is a theme and seven variations, leading directly into the Finale alla Capriccio. ‘The String Trio’ (1959) is a strong and darker work.

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A young man (Alec Guinness) who hasn't a bean in the world, turns fate around to find fame, fortune, love and success.

An acutely observed comedy of social manners set in the Midlands at the beginning of the last century. The plot centres on Denry Machin (Alec Guinness), who from an early age, discovers guile, wits, and personality will lead to success. The beautiful Valerie Hobson is enchanting, as is Petula Clark, who puts in a stalwart performance. William is suppor m te Alwyn's music is perfect, with fil Graham a jaunty theme-tune that will & Sybil linger in the memory. One of Papworth the greatest comedies of the 50s, and one of Guinness' most satisfying roles.

A forgotten jewel.

The following 5 classic films all feature outstanding film scores by William Alwyn (without any live music presentations) and to be shown in ‘The Studio’.

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Green For Danger

Fri 14 Aug 14:30 (Pic. Palace) Mon 17 Aug 13:30 (Studio)

Classic British murder-mystery, starring Alastair Sim and Trevor Howard, set during WW2.

In August 1944, German flying bombs are raining down on London. Directly under their flight path is a small cottage hospital, where the tension is becoming unbearable for the dedicated team of surgeons and nurses. Their close-knit community is torn apart by jealousy and terrible secrets, and when the local postman is brought in, delirious but trying to impart an urgent message - the murders begin. The eccentric and irreverent Inspector Cockrill (Sim) of the Kent County Police is called in to investigate a truly baffling case where everyone has secrets, but where no-one appears to have a motive.

UK 1946 Sydney Gilliat 85m

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The History of Mr. Polly

Tue 18 Aug 19:00 (Studio)

Sensitive adaptation of H.G. Wells’ novel: gentle, comical, charming and witty, telling the story of a dreamer who really just craves the peaceful, uncomplicated life. As ever, John Mills makes the film a pleasure to watch.

Recently sacked Alfred Polly (Mills) inherits some money, enabling him to take a bike tour of the country. He falls in love, but it all goes wrong and ends up marrying his cousin, Miriam. They face bankruptcy and boredom and Mr Polly comes to hate his life. Polly is a very sensible Edwardian character, who takes very insensible Reggie Perrin type action when trapped in a life he is unhappy with.

A vanished England is beautifully conveyed, John Mills is perfectly cast as Mister Polly and Megs Jenkins is the welcoming innkeeper at the heavenly Potwell Inn. UK 1948 Anthony Pelissier 92m

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The Winslow Boy Anthony Asquith's film adapted from Terence Rattigan's play (by himself) is based on real events that took place in 1912.

When young Ronnie Winslow (Neil North) is expelled from Naval College after being accused of stealing a postal order, his bankerfather (Cedric Hardwicke) remains convinced of his innocence and risks everything to press for a re-trial with the assistance of a highprofile barrister (Robert Donat). By doing so the trial becomes a cause celebre and the family's social standing becomes precarious.

The film drew wide acclaim for the quality of its performances, and is still considered the best filmed version.

Wed 19 Aug 13:00 (Studio) Thu 20 Aug 16:00 (Pic. Palace)

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The Smallest Show On Earth

Thu 20 Aug 13:45 (Studio) Fri 21 Aug 16:45 (Pic. Palace)

A young couple inherits a debt-ridden old movie theater, appropriately nicknamed "The Flea Pit," and the three eccentric senior citizens who work there.

Jean and Bill (Virginia McKenna & Bill Travers) are a struggling married couple trying to scrape. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them that Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business - a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. They pack their bags and travel to Sloughborough expecting to sell the cinema to gain a huge inheritance, however, they discover the cinema is falling apart and is run by a comically incompetent staff who seem to have worked there forever.

(Peter Sellers, Margaret Rutherford). Things don't quite go to plan…

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The Naked Edge Gary Cooper’s last film is a suspense thriller that also stars Deborah Kerr.

There is nothing like suspecting your husband of murder to add suspense to a marriage, at least that is the case in this whodunit. George Radcliffe (Cooper) testifies in court against a man suspected of murdering George's business partner, absconding with a lot of cash in the process. Several years later, when his wife (Deborah Kerr) is confronted by a blackmailer (Eric Portman), she gets suspicious. The final selection of our survey of the film music of William Alwyn, this underrated film is rarely screened, and was Cooper's last feature film.

Fri 21 Aug 13:30 (Studio) Tue 25 Aug 18:30 (Pic. Palace) (Film TBC at time of print)

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Our Country A sailor finds wartime Britain in good spirits in this experiment with narrative poetry.

With the words of Dylan Thomas and the music of William Alwyn.

A panorama of Britain as seen through eyes of a merchant seaman returning after two years; blitzed London streets, harvest fields of Kent, Welsh mining valleys, steel factories and foundries of Midlands. Alwyn’s score for this documentary is considered one of his finest.

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This Dim Little Island Mon 24 Aug 16:45 (Pic. Palace)

Humphrey Jennings dispels the myth of the British being a dull insular race as it explores the achievements of Britain and its people.

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Carl Davis tells the story of Charlie's early years thorough a selection of clips from ‘The Mutuals’ as well as a significant complete one, ‘The Adventurer’. The score will be drawn from Davis’ recording of the British Film Institute's complete ‘Mutuals’. In 1916 Charlie Chaplin signed a contract to write, direct and star in 12 two-reelers for the Mutual Film Corporation. For the first time he had complete artistic control. These shorts, known forever as ‘The Mutuals’, drew for their themes on Chaplin's own life experiences; a destitute childhood, the lure of the theatre, crossing the Atlantic as an immigrant, life in a silent film studio and dealing with fame and high society.

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William Alwyn: Composing for The Screen William Alwyn was a pioneer of film music composition who went on to write music for more than 200 movies, many of which are recognised as classics of British cinema. In this talk, illustrated with video and audio clips, Andrew Palmer describes Alwyn’s unexpected entry into the world of film music, his beliefs about how music should be used in film, and the impact of being labelled a ‘film composer’.

Illustrated talk by Andrew Palmer Sat 15 Aug 13:15 (Studio)

Writer and photographer Andrew Palmer is the editor of Composing in Words: William Alwyn on His Art (Toccata Press).

His ‘Encounters With British Composers’ will be published by Boydell Press in November 2015.

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Whats The Score?

Illustrated talk by Stephen Baysted An illustrated talk exploring the process behind composing music to picture.

This talk by Stephen Baysted will explore the artistic, technical and commercial processes involved in writing music to a brief for film and all forms of the moving image. Discussion will revolve around the composer’s relationship with the director, spotting sessions, film edits, synchronisation, and the processes involved in

post-production. Examples on video will be drawn from a wide range of real projects. Recently, Stephen composed/ arranged the music for 2 Exhibition on Screen presentations: ‘Matisse’ and ‘The Impressionists’, Award-winning British Film, TV and Video Game composer Stephen Baysted is well known for his versatility and for his emotionally charged and expressively powerful music. Stephen’s recent scores for film include the surrealist psychological drama Strange Factories; Tim Pope’s ‘Brandy and Pep’ and the international award-winning documentary ‘Life Lines’.

Jazz and Film An evening of live Latin American Jazz with the Bobby Wellins Quintet followed by the Jazz film ‘Chico and Rita’.

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Battleship Potemkin 1925 Special Event: Presented in St John’s Chapel Following our tradition of presenting the best of silent films with live accompaniment in St Johns Chapel, this year we present the great 1925 Soviet Eisenstein classic as part of our Russian strand. With live piano played by John Sweeney - distinguished practitioner of accompanying silent cinema.

Based on historical events, the movie tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin.

What started as a protest strike when the crew was given rotten meat for dinner, ended in a riot. The sailors raised the red flag and tried to ignite the revolution in their home port Odessa. The film once had such power that it was banned in many nations, including its native Soviet Union. Governments actually believed it could incite audiences to action.

Its famous massacre on the Odessa Steps is one of the fundamental landmarks of cinema and Eisenstein’s use of montage creates a powerful effect. Always a highlight of the Festival, this is an event not to be missed.

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Jazz & Film: An Evening of Latin American Jazz The Georgia Mancio/Bobby Wellins Quintet: Georgia Mancio - vocals Bobby Wellins - tenor sax Kate Williams - piano Dave Whitford - double bass Spike Wells - drums The quintet will perform an eclectic selection of Latin jazz tunes from Brazil, Cuba, Chile and Italy, including several songs by the legendary Antonio Carlos Jobim (‘Desafinado’ etc).

Tenor saxophonist Bobby Wellins is considered to be one of the icons of British modern jazz. Originally from Glasgow, Bobby was on one of the biggest selling jazz albums ever produced in this country, Stan Tracey’s ‘Under Milk Wood’, recorded in the 1960s. In 2012, he won Jazz Musician of The Year at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards.

Award-winning jazz vocalist/lyricist, Georgia Mancio, has proved herself one of the UK’s most original and multi-faceted new artists.

With boundless and bold imagination, Georgia produces music of beauty, bite and unfailing integrity. Georgia has worked with jazz luminaries including Bobby McFerrin and double Grammy award-winning jazz pianist and composer, Alan Broadbent.

Jazz pianist/composer Kate Williams was born in London into a musical family (her father is the guitarist John Williams, her mother a classical pianist). A recipient of the John Dankworth Award for Talent Deserving Wider Recognition, she has gained a distinctive reputation as both a writer and performer.

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Chico And Rita

Film 19:30/ Interval Live Jazz Gig 21:45 Wed 19 Aug 19:30 Tickets £15

The love story between two jazz musicians contains a fabulous soundtrack, with an original score by legendary Cuban pianist Bebe Valdes and various jazz giants.

This rhapsody of love and heartache spanning Havana and New York in the 1940s and ‘50s is a musical tour of two culturally tied but politically divided cities. Chico, a former pianist in modern Havana, revisits the memory of the impossibly sexy singer Rita. Their music blossoms into love - but when a slick impresario lays New York at Rita's feet, their romance turns into a lovelorn odyssey. Oscarnominated for Best Animated Feature, and features animated cameo appearances from a number of legendary jazz artists, including Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Chano Pozo. You will love the little hints and accurate details about the jazz giants of that era.

UK 2010 Fernando Trueba / Javier Mariscal 94m

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Eugene Onegin

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Recorded Live from the Salzburg Festival As part of the Russian focus of the Festival we include Tchaikovsky’s greatest Opera.

Tchaikovsky is best known for his symphonic scores and ballets, yet two of his operas, ‘Eugene Onegin’ and ‘The Queen of Spades’, both based on novels by Pushkin, are among his very finest works. On a Russian country estate, young Tatyana is seized by a sudden passion for the handsome neighbour Eugene Onegin. She writes him a love letter, but he makes it clear that he is not interested. Later, Tatyana‘s sister flirts with Onegin and her fiancé challenges him to a duel. The title role is a tour de force for any baritone, who must walk a tightrope between cynical, insufferable snob and sympathetic, broken-hearted lover.

This is carried off superbly by Peter Mattei, but the true hero of the opera is Tatyana, a multi-layered, driven heroine portrayed by the dazzling Russian soprano Anna Samuil.

Daniel Barenboim conducts the is suppor Vienna Philharmonic, sung in m te fil Russian with English subtitles.

Martha Fiennes’ film ‘Onegin’ also based upon Pushkin, is showing on Sat 29 Aug 18:00.

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Othello

LIVE From Stratford Shakespeare's timeless classic of love, jealousy and revenge is broadcast live as part of the 24th Chichester International Film Festival from Stratford-upon-Avon.

The greatest general of his age, Othello is both a fearsome warrior and a loving husband, as equally devoted to his beloved Desdemona as he is to defending Venice from its enemies.

However, the treacherous Iago lurks in the shadows, driven by prejudice and hatred to destroy Othello, who realises too late that the greatest danger lies not in the hatred of others, but his own fragile and destructive pride. ‘Holby City’ actor Hugh Quarshie returns to the RSC to play the iconic Othello, following his roles in 'Faust' and 'Julius Caesar', whilst film and theatre actor Lucian Msamati plays the scheming Iago. Broadcast live from Stratford-upon-Avon, this riveting new production is directed by Iqbal Khan, who directed the Bard's ‘Much Ado about Nothing’ to great success back in 2012. Approx running time 210m including interval.

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Masterpieces of

Polish Cinema A national touring programme - supported by the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery.

Martin Scorsese, one of the most recognised, respected and influential filmmakers in the world, has personally selected 21 films from the history of Polish cinema that he considers to have been an inspiration and an influence on him. This series of films - represents the largest presentation of (restored) Polish cinema ever to have been undertaken: We have selected seven superb films of this world tour, including three masterpieces by Poland’s greatest director Andre Wajda, and this is a wonderful and rare opportunity to see these films in beautifully restored digital prints on the big screen which will not return as they leave the UK for touring other countries after September.

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Knights of the Teutonic Order Krzyzacy This three hour epic was the first Polish historical blockbuster and the most viewed Polish movie of all time.

‘Knights of the Teutonic Order’ features battles galore, political manoeuvring, and tragic love all set against a stunning medieval backdrop. Based on a novel by Nobel Laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz, it depicts the heroic Polish campaign led by King Władysław II Jagiełło (Emil Karewicz) against an invading horde of Teutonic Knights. Devoid of anachronisms, Aleksander Ford's creation was masterfully produced as a grand and immensely popular historical epic, garnering 14 million viewers in the four years following its release. (Subtitles) Poland 1960 Aleksander Ford 173m Fri

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Ashes and Diamonds Popiół i Diament

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‘Ashes and Diamonds’ is set on the last night of the Second World War and the first morning of peace.

The old is rapidly mixing with the new, as seen through the eyes of young Polish resistance soldier Maciek Chełmicki (Zbigniew Cybulski). In a few hours, the Nazi slavery of the country will end, but in its place a new Communist regime will begin. This is not the independence the idealistic young man and his brothers-in-arms have been fighting and dying for, and Maciek is led to question whether he should is suppor m te continue his combat or try fil to regain a normal, peaceful Susan Piquemal life – a dilemma perfectly encapsulating that of the entire post-war generation in Poland.

(Subtitles) Poland 1958 Andre Wajda 104m

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Mother Joan Of The Angels Matka Joanna od Aniołów This is the same dramatic subject material that Ken Russell used in his ‘The Devils’.

Young, virtuous exorcist Father Suryn is assigned the task of investigating a case of demonic possession after a local priest is burnt for tempting the nuns of a convent.

Upon meeting their abbess, he finds himself suddenly thrust into a struggle to save her soul from the forces of darkness, and forced to choose between sacrificing his own purity and saving the convent from evil. A beautiful and visually sophisticated film, featuring a truly breath-taking central performance from Lucyna Winnicka, this is an intense and enthralling study of faith, sin and redemption. (Subtitles) Poland 1961 Jerzy Kawalerowicz 111m

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Man Of Iron Człowiek z Żelaza A masterful story about the limitations of the press, ‘Man of Iron’ expands dramatically on director Andrzej Wajda's earlier film, ‘Man of Marble’.

Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, the film examines the events leading to one of the most significant moments of the 20th century: the series of shipyard strikes masterminded by Poland's Solidarity movement. Produced in haste at the express wish of the shipyard workers to support their strike, the film features, amongst others, the movement's iconic leader, Lech Wałęsa (later the subject of Wajda's ‘Man of Hope’). Featuring extensive documentary footage from the workers' own archives, ‘Man of Iron’ vividly captures the passion, tragedy and anxiety of the last decade of Communist rule in Poland. (Subtitles) Poland 1981 Andrzej Wajda 154m

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The Promised Land Ziemia Obiecana

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Wajda's drama paints an absorbing portrait of late 19th century Poland, caught in the vice-like grip of commercialism.

It has been sixty years since the release of Andrzej Wajda's first film, ‘Generation’ (1955), and in that time he has directed over fifty more. 1975's ‘The Promised Land’, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 42nd Academy Awards, is one of his very best. The film sets its gaze on an ebullient triumvirate of young industrialists in the manufacturing hornet's nest that is the city of Lodz. The troika consists of a Polish nobleman, Karol (Daniel Olbrychski), German immigrant, Maks (Andrzej Seweryn) and Jewish businessman Moryc (Wojciech Pszoniak). With barely two pennies to rub together, they set about their plan to build a cotton factory and with their neatly weighted ethnic and social diversity, ongoing examination of race and class accompanies the trials and tribulations of their campaign. ‘The Promised Land’ gives a bleak view of this tumultuous and vital period in the formation of modern Poland with its scathing presentation of the wealthy's squalid excess and the worker's excessive squalor. (Subtitles) Poland 1975 Andre Wajda 173m

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A Short Film About Killing Krótki Film o Zabijaniu The paths of three unrelated men cross one sombre March day in this powerful film, expanded from the fifth part of Krzysztof Kieślowski's masterpiece, ‘Dekalog’.

As cabbie Waldemar Rekowski (Jan Tesarz) cleans his car, lawyer Piotr Balicki (Krzysztof Globisz) celebrates passing his bar exam.

Meanwhile, in the same café, 20-year-old Jacek Łazar (Mirosław Baka) prepares his murder weapon. What results from the interaction between them proves to be a deeply resonant study of murder as explored from both a psychological and ethical point of view, and one which paved the way for Kieślowski's tragically all-too-brief international career. (Subtitles) Poland 1988 Krzysztof Kieślowski 86m

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The Knife In The Water Nóz w Wodzie This is Roman Polanski’s first feature length film, and his only Polish film.

Andrzej and Krystyna are a married couple driving to the marina to spend a Sunday sailing. On their way, a hitchhiking student causes them to veer off the road. Andrzej confronts the lad, who only wants a ride.

They give him a lift and invite him on-board.

Soon a more sinister tone starts to creep in and the youth is carrying a large switchblade.

Andrzej torments the young man, he even tosses the boy's beloved knife overboard.

After a confrontation, the youth accidentally falls overboard and disappears. Krystyna reacts badly, claiming her husband is a killer.

She goes off looking for the boy, but cannot find him while Andrzej swims to shore for help. But the young man may not be dead…

(Subtitles) Poland 1962 Roman Polanski 93m

Martin Scorsese presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema is currently organised by DI Factory, all DOTS, Propaganda Foundation and The Film Foundation, in cooperation with Tor, Zebra and Kadr film studios, in partnership with the National AudioVisual Institute of Poland, and with the support of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland and the Polish Film Institute.

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Czech Cinema New Wave & Recent Films

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Daisies Sedmikrásky

With thanks to the Czech National Archives, Prague Fri 14 Aug 19:00 (Studio) Thu 27 Aug 13:45 (Auditorium)

This classic of surrealist cinema is a satirical, wild and irreverent story of teenage rebellion.

Two young women rebel against a degenerate and oppressive society, attacking symbols of bourgeois culture. A riotous, punk-rock poem of a film that is hilarious and mind-warpingly innovative, it was banned in Czechoslovakia and director Chytilová was forbidden to work until 1975. An expertly-fashioned film displaying a remarkable control of filmic language, special effects, rhythm and sight gags. A key film in the Czech New Wave movement, this is an all new director-approved digital transfer from original negative materials with restored picture and sound.

Czechoslovakia 1966 Vera Chytilová 76m

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The Ear Ucho

Fri 14 Aug 16:00 (Studio) Mon 17 Aug 20:30 (Studio)

Banned by the Czech authorities and remained unseen for twenty years, but finally released after the Velvet Revolution took place in Czechoslovakia.

This landmark film highlights a house under watch during a totalitarian regime, and is a fascinating insight into a disintegrating marriage. The couple are constantly in fear of being over heard, being careful not to discuss certain matters in various rooms. Always referring to recording devices as "The Ear", they lower their voices and close doors before speaking. As devastating as the more recent ‘The Lives of Others’, “By far the best of the Czech movies banned after Dubcek was toppled in 1969" - Time Out. (Subtitles) Czechoslovakia 1970 Karel Kachyna 91m

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The Cremator Spalovaè Mrtvol

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A brilliant, unnerving… and very black comedy.

Herz’s film has been described in many ways - as surrealist-inspired horror, as expressionist fantasy and as a dark and disturbing tale of terror. Combining horror with humour, this brilliant black comedy, set in Prague during the Nazi occupation, tells the story of an increasingly deranged cremator for whom the period offers great possibilities. This unnerving Czech movie is not for the faint of heart. ‘Sharp, radical and politically incorrect’...

‘An enjoyably strange, undoubtedly original and occasionally terrifying film". The film was selected as the Czechoslovakian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 42nd Academy Awards. (Subtitles) Czechoslovakia 1968 Juraj Herz 95m

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The Fireman’s Ball Horí, Má Panenko

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Milos Forman’s greatest Czech film is an excellent satire. Ingeniously hilarious from the first to the last minute with every sequence is a little masterpiece.

In their small-town meeting hall, a maladroit committee of volunteer firefighters holds a ball to celebrate the retirement of one of their own, but thanks to poor planning and lack of leadership, the evening quickly devolves into a catastrophe. Nobody can prevent the lottery prizes from being stolen out from under the very noses of those guarding them. A beauty contest turns into an embarrassing farce, and the brigade can't even respond properly to a real fire next door. This is a is suppor delightful, gently but ruthlessly m te fil hilarious movie about human Jo Gibson incompetence, which is not limited to any country in any decade, or to any political or economic system. (Subtitles) Czechoslovakia 1967 Milos Forman 73m With thanks to the Czech National Archives, Prague Thu 20 Aug 21:00 (Studio) Fri 21 Aug 16:15 (Auditorium)

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Closely Observed Trains Ostre Sledované Vlaky Winning the 1967 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this is one of the fondest remembered gem from the Czech New Wave.

Milos Hrma, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice at a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, he embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism and adventure within this sleepy backwater depot. Milos becomes involved in a plot to blow up a German ammunition train, but when the plan backfires, he is forced to commit the ultimate act of courage. Humorous, erotic, tragic but above all human. (Subtitles) Czechoslovakia 1966 Jirí Menzel 92m

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RECENT CZECH CINEMA (1996-2014) This includes three wonderful films by Jan Sverak and two recent films by Jiri Menzel.

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Kolya Heart-warming and heart-breaking in equal measure, this delightful film is the first of three great films by Jan Sverak that should not be missed.

Middle-aged philandering musician Louka is forced into a marriage of convenience because he needs the money. When his Russian wife runs out on him, he is left to care for her five-year-old son, Kolya. Neither Kolya nor Louka are happy with this state of affairs, as they do not even speak the same language. However, they gradually overcome this setback to establish a bond of friendship. Avoiding sentimentality, this is funny, heart-warming and at times poignant, also providing some excellent insights into life in communist Czechoslovakia. Winner of an Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film. (Subtitles) Czech Rep. 1996 Jan Sverak 101m

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A comic love story about a man who refuses to accept that old age is empty of love, meaning and value to society.

Frustrated with the apathy of his unruly students, Joseph (Zdendik Sverak, father of the director) suddenly retires from his job as a school teacher. But as a man full of humour and playful energy, he is not content to spend the autumn of his life in relatively uneventful peace. The sub-theme of changes in Czech life since the 1989 revolution may be harder for non-Czech viewers to catch entirely. The local library, for example, has been replaced by a new teeth-whitening business called "Happy Smile." In this one little touch, Czechs will recognize the loss of their public library, the introduction of a strange, expensive, and hitherto unnecessary business, and the current vogue for abandoning Czech for the snobbier, more chic English name. is suppor ‘Empties’ is an intelligent, m te fil emotionally engaging comedy, Sarah & Robin and everyone will leave the Axford screening with a great smile on the face, filled with pleasant thoughts. (Subtitles) Czech Rep 2007 Jan Sverak 104m

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RECENT CZECH CINEMA (1996-2014)

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Dark Blue World Tmavomodrý Svet

With thanks to Sverak Archives Wed 19 Aug 20:00 (Studio) Fri 21 Aug 11:30 (Auditorium)

Czech Rep 2007 Jan Sverak 108m

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Gypsy Cigan

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A story about love, comradeship and sacrifice told with the nostalgic sentiment of classic Hollywood movies and the romance and historical backdrop of World War II. Having flown for the British Royal Air Force, Czech pilot Franta Sláma (Ondrej Vetchy´) finds himself imprisoned in a post-WWII totalitarian Communist labour camp for "betraying" his country. Rewinding this story, award-winning director Jan Sverák takes us back to when Franta and his young protégé Karel Vojtisek (Krystof Hádek) escape Nazioccupied Czechoslovakia to join the RAF in fighting the Germans. Frustrated at not being allowed to fly against the enemy until they can speak English and their RAF re-training is complete, a strong father/son bond between Franta and Karel quickly develops. After three months of training they are finally sent into combat, but the stress of the war, plus their mutual love for a married English woman, tests their strong friendship. Convincingly presented Czech perspective on the Battle of Britain Tara Fitzgerald (Susan), Charles Dance (Commander Bentley), and Linda Rybova (Hanicka), and Anna Massey are in supporting roles. In English and Czech. (Subtitles)

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Roma teen (Jan Mizigar) faces a hard road after his father dies and his mother marries his shady uncle, who then tries to involve the boy and his brother in illegal schemes.

‘Gypsy’ tells the story of Adam, (Jan Mizigar) a boy who, after his father dies, tries to cross the boundary of his Roma shantytown and to improve the lives of his brothers and sisters. He encounters racial, social and cultural prejudices and comes into conflict with the unwritten laws of his own community. Circumstances turn against him and his situation drives him to commit a tragic act: murder. That plot comes from Hamlet, of course. Set in a small mountain hamlet in eastern Slovakia, ‘Gypsy’ has a documentary-style naturalism; the location is real and most of the actors non-professional.

Only the periodic appearance of that ghost - or a purloined ostrich - adds a note of the fantastic. As in the films of Franco-Roma director Tony Gatlif (‘Latcho Drom’, ‘Gadjo Dilo’), music is central; When Roma music isn't playing, composer Vladimir Godar provides Renaissance-style chamber music. ‘Gypsy’ won three jury prizes at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic, a country that also has a marginalized Roma community.

(Subtitles) Czech Rep./Slovakia 2011 Martin Šulík 105m

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I Served The King Of England Obsluhoval Jsem Anglického Krále Humorous wartime film, adapted from the novel by Bohumil Hrabal, following Jan Dite (Ivan Barnev), a waiter fixated on his dream of becoming a hotel owner and millionaire.

In 1930s Prague, hotel waiter Jan longs for the life of the rich and famous guests he has to serve. Exploiting every opportunity he can find, especially if it involves a beautiful woman, Jan slowly but surely begins to achieve his heart's desire. But just when things seem to be working out for the upwardly mobile servant, the Nazi occupation threatens to scupper his best laid plans. Chancing on another route by taking up with Aryan amazon Liz (Julia Jentsch), Jan believes he's managed to stave off disaster, only for fate to deal him another decisive blow. A witty, offbeat and gentle satire which pricks pretension with a subtle twist of the wrist. (Subtitles) Czech Rep 2006 Jiri Menzel 114m

Tue 25 Aug 20:30 (Studio)

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The Don Juans Opera is the subject, medium and language of Jiri Menzel's latest film – an inventive comedy, revolving around a production of ‘Don Giovanni’ by a Czech small-town troupe.

The opera director Vitek (Jan Hartl) functions obviously as a likably sardonic, mockingly modest version of Menzel himself, as partly confirmed by his direct addresses to the camera; he attributes his success to the fact that he never took opera very seriously and doesn’t want to do anything original. A quick montage of would-be “modernist” Don Giovannis - from a long-haired, leather-clad motorcyclist baring his chest as he pours out his soul to a baritone on a toilet, pulling the chain to signal the end of his aria - illustrates his point. Vitek claims not to like opera, but loves sopranos, as attested to by the large number of high-note hitters bedded in rapid succession, vocalizing their rapture through Vitek’s open bedroom window. The Mozart remains a source of real vitality bursting with energy from the get-go, pirouetting through a blizzard of inventive gags spun at a terrific pace. Quite delightful. (Subtitles) Czech Rep 2013 Jiri Menzel 102m

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Fair Play Young talented sprinter Anna (Judit Bárdos) is selected for the national team and starts training to qualify for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

Anna’s father lives in exile, unsuspecting victim of a secret ‘medical programme’ in Andrea Sedláčková’s compelling sports drama set in Communist Czechoslovakia, while her mother, Irena (Anna Geislerová), a former tennis champion, is banned from playing due to her support for the Prague Spring of 1968.

When Anna is forced to take steroids without consent, Irena agrees to the plan in order to encourage her to seek a new life in the West.

At the same time, Irena becomes involved with a dissident writer and types samizdat documents for private circulation. However, when her flat is bugged by state security, she refuses to become an informer. Beautifully acted by the two main protagonists, relations between mother and daughter are particularly well conveyed. Dramatic and engaging, ‘Fair Play’ is an intelligent and chilling exposure of the way in which the state can infiltrate all aspects of life. (Subtitles)

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Julianne Moore: A Selective Retrospective

Born in North Carolina in 1960 to an American father and a Scottish mother, Julianne Moore had the peripatetic childhood common to army kids: her father was a colonel and military judge in the US Army. After studying Performing Arts at Boston University, she moved to New York in 1983 and worked in off-Broadway theatre while securing roles in TV soaps and mini-series.

She made her screen debut in 1990, but not until Robert Altman saw her in André Gregory’s theatre workshop production of ‘Uncle Vanya’ (later filmed by Louis Malle) did she come to critical attention for her small but crucial role in Altman’s ‘Short Cuts’ (1993). Since then she’s worked with film-makers as talented and varied as Todd Haynes, Steven Spielberg, Paul Thomas Anderson, Neil Jordan, the Coen brothers, Alfonso Cuaron, Lisa Chodolenko and David Cronenberg, and has been acclaimed for the power, intensity and audacity of her performances.

In her last film released in the UK ‘Still Alice’, she made a clean sweep of the major awards ceremonies, winning Best Actress at the Oscars, Golden Globes & BAFTAs. Together with ‘Stlll Aliice’ we have selected five more films that demonstrate some of her most challenging roles from the past 20 years.

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Savage Grace 2007 This year’s two Oscar winners for best actress and actor (Julianne Moore and Eddie Redmayne) star in this earlier 2007 production.

The true story of the beautiful and charismatic, but mentally unstable, Barbara Daly (Moore), who married the heir to the Bakelite fortune. The discovery that their son Anthony (Redmayne) was gay caused great concern in his mother and outright hostility in his father (Stephen Dillane). In a bizarre relationship, with no boundaries or privacy, and with every experience shared, Barbara tried unsuccessfully to 'cure' her son. Lips ablaze with crimson petulance, cheekbones that could cut glass – Julianne Moore smoulders. Gripping and tremendously acted movie not for the faint-hearted.

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USA/France/Spain 2007 Tom Kalin 97m

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What Maisie Knew 2012

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Julianne Moore is quietly chilling as the self-obsessed, child-as-an-accessory mother.

Based on a contemporary interpretation of the classic Henry James novel, and set in present day New York, the story centres on Maisie, an unwitting six-year-old enmeshed in the bitter divorce of her mother, a rock and roll icon, and her father (a restrained performance by Steve Coogan), a charming but distracted art dealer. Darkly comic and emotionally compelling, this is an evocative portrayal of the chaos and complexity of a modern marriage. Throughout this disturbing silent tragedy, it is Maisie’s innocent resilience which shines through and Onata Aprile’s performance as the vulnerable child is magnificent. Despite the callous behaviour displayed by her parents, there is an underlying optimism to the film.

USA 2012 Scott McGehee/David Siegel 99m

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JULIANNE MOORE: A SELECTIVE RETROSPECTIVE

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Far From Heaven 2002

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In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions.

Cathy (Moore) is the perfect housewife, living the perfect 50’s life: healthy kids, successful husband and social prominence. She surprises her husband Frank kissing another man, and her tidy world spins out of control. She finds consolation in their African-American gardener, a socially taboo relationship that leads to further disintegration of life as she knew it. Part homage to the style of 50’s Douglas Sirk, Haynes' powerful study of racial and sexual bigotry is heart-breaking and uncannily accurate, repeated in his highly regarded Cannes premiere ‘Carol’ this year.

Fabulous score (Elmer Bernstein), superb set design, marvellous direction, spot on performances and costumes to die for.

USA 2002 Todd Haynes 105m

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The End Of The Affair 1997

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Based on Graham Greene's most autobiographical novel, ‘The End of the Affair’ offers an autopsy of the adulterous love affair between glacial Sarah (Julianne Moore) and intense writer (Ralph Fiennes).

Set in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix (Fiennes) has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, (Stephen Rea) husband of his ex-mistress Sarah (Moore), who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix’s obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his own jealousy and arranges to have her followed.

As the investigation progresses, we learn the reason for their separation. During a bombing raid, Sarah struck a bargain with God to sacrifice their relationship-in exchange for Bendrix's life. When Bendrix reappears in her life, Sarah realizes that her promise to God has become impossible for her to keep.

UK 1997 Neil Jordan 97m

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Julianne Moore: Risk-Taker An illustrated talk by Philip Kemp

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Julianne Moore doesn’t play it safe. In her first big film, ‘Short Cuts’ (1993), she played an entire scene naked from the waist down while arguing with her husband. Since then she’s portrayed a porn star (‘Boogie Nights’), an erotic artist in a leather harness (‘The Big Lebowski’), an ageing self-obsessed Tinseltown diva (‘Maps to the Stars’) – and countless adulterous wives. Unconventionally beautiful, flame-red hair, pale freckled skin and cheek-bones that could cleave ice, Moore seems equally at home in action-movie blockbusters and off-beat indie fare. But when it comes to conveying anguished emotional vulnerability, she has few equals. This talk aims to give some idea of her range, and of her exceptional screen presence.

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Still Alice 2014 A linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.

Alice Howland (Oscar & BAFTA nominee Julianne Moore), happily married with three grown children (Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth and Hunter Parrish), is a renowned linguistics professor. When she receives a devastating diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested. Her struggle to stay connected to who she once was is frightening, heart-breaking and inspiring.

Julianne Moore deserves her Oscar in showing Alice in a succession of emotions from disbelief and rising anxiety, through fear and frustration to a kind of ultimate acceptance.

The film is realistic in showing the differing reactions of her children, both to her and each other as regards how best to treat her.

Her changing relationship with her husband is also convincing: he promises to be there for her, but to what extent can he be expected to give up his own intellectual activities and career prospects.

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Maps To The Stars 2013 David Cronenberg’s grotesquely beautiful examination of Hollywood.

It concerns a "typical" Hollywood family, comprising of a manic depressive, a spiritual healer, a child star and a schizophrenic, whilst Julianne Moore supports with a powerful portrayal of a washed up star desperately trying to cast off her (possibly) abusive mothers' iconic shadow. The Weiss family are an archetypical Hollywood dynasty - Dr Stafford Weiss (John Cusack) is a psychotherapist whose self-help books have made him a fortune. His wife Cristina (Olivia Williams) is the overbearing mom-ager of their thirteen-year old son, Benjie, a prodigious child star fresh out of drug rehab, and their estranged daughter Agatha (Mia Wasikowska) has recently been released from a psychiatric hospital. Agatha is now back in Hollywood making friends with a wannabe actor named Jerome (Robert Pattinson), and has landed a new job as PA to one of Stafford’s clients - the neurotic and tempestuous actress Havana Segrand (Julianne Moore), whose dream of reprising her dead mother’s starring role from the 1960s is beginning to haunt her.

Gruesome, grotesque, cringe-worthy, shocking - but totally compelling.

USA 2014 David Cronenberg 111m Tue 25 Aug 10:30

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Orson Welles

Centenary (1915-2015) “We will never see his like again” Most of us will have seen these masterworks before, but here is a chance to review and revaluate them in his centenary year again on the big screen and some in restored prints.

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Citizen Kane 1940 Rightly regarded as a ground-breaking masterpiece, Orson Welles’ debut remains a monumental achievement, its imaginative scope amply repaying countless viewings.

Seldom seen on the big screen in recent years, Welles’ witty, gripping film famously views the controversial life of the late Charles Foster Kane (Welles) – a media tycoon partly inspired by William Randolph Hearst – from the sometimes contradictory perspectives of his friends, employees and mistress. It’s an extraordinary work, not just technically

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(Gregg Toland’s cinematography, Bernard Herrmann’s score, the editing, design and quietly bravura direction are all superb); but in its dramatic sophistication and thematic richness. An affecting meditation on memory, self-knowledge, solitude and mortality; a wry reflection on fame, fortune and the spirit of America; an exhilarating exploration of the artistic possibilities of the film medium – ‘Citizen Kane’ is all this… and so very much more. With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore and Agnes Moorehead.

(Rare 35mm print) USA 1941 Orson Welles 119m

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The Magnificent Ambersons 1942

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Welles takes an ambivalent view of the way the quality of life would change under the impact of a new industrial age.

Welles’ second film is astounding for its almost magical recreation of a gentler age when cars were still a nightmare of the future and the Ambersons felt safe in their mansion on the edge of town. Right from the wryly comic opening, detailing changes in fashions and the family’s exalted status, Welles takes an ambivalent view of the way life would soon change. With immaculate period reconstruction and virtuoso acting shot in long, elegant takes, it remains the director’s most moving film. With Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Agnes Moorhead and Geoff Andrew. (A rare 35mm screening) USA 1942 Orson Welles 88m

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The remastered version of Carol Reed's film noir classic is newly released for the Welles Centenary.

Graham Greene’s ‘The Third Man’ tells the story of a writer (Joseph Cotton) who travels to Allied-occupied Vienna to follow up a job offer from a childhood friend (Orson Welles).

Once there, he becomes entangled in a web of murder and deception. Widely regarded as one of the finest films of all time, this was a critical and commercial hit that won the is suppor m te fil Palme D'Or at Cannes, the British Glyn Film Academy's British Film Edmunds prize and the Oscar for Robert Krasker's expressionistic blackand-white cinematography which often feels like a Welles film.

UK 1949 Carol Reed 101m

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This is one of Welles' most fascinating works, now released in a stunningly restored digital version.

Baffling murders, fascinating plot twists and remarkable camera work all contribute to this spellbinding, time-honoured film noir written, directed by and starring Orson Welles. Hired to work on a yacht belonging to the disabled husband of femme fatale Rita Hayworth, Welles plays an innocent man drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue and murder. Over 50 years later ‘The Lady From Shanghai’ is considered vintage Welles, his famous hall of mirrors climax hailed as one of the greatest scenes in cinematic history.

USA 1947 Orson Welles 87m

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ORSON WELLES CENTENARY

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Touch Of Evil 1958

Thu 20 Aug 15:45

The BFI is re-releasing Welles’ deliciously dark and sleazy last Hollywood feature, in a newly remastered version.

Detective Vargas (Charlton Heston) and his wife Susie (Janet Leigh) become embroiled in a web of crime and corruption, as his investigations into a narcotics ring bring him into conflict with a local law-enforcer (Orson Welles). A virtuoso foray into film noir, Welles showed an extraordinary sense of cinematic style, a gift for vivid characterisation and almost Shakespearian flair for tragedy.

The film’s influence has spanned decades, influencing directors such as Truffaut and Godard, and discernible in more recent films such as ‘L.A. Confidential’. Today – almost 60 years after it was made, it remains as vital and gripping as ever.

USA 1958 Orson Welles 110m

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The Trial 1962 Welles’ claimed that ‘The Trial’ was the best film he ever made (although not his favourite!).

Based on the influential Kafka novel, this is a paranoid masterpiece. Josef K (Anthony Perkins) is arrested, but has no idea what crime he is accused of. In order to find out what offence he is meant to have committed, he must go through the machinations of the judicial system, but soon finds himself trapped in a nightmare. A visual feast, the icy black and white photography strikingly depicts the spider-and-fly games of an ineffectual man struggling against his inescapable fate. Using the cracked labyrinthine corridors of Paris’ ruined Gare D’Orsay as his set, Welles perfectly captures Kafka’s terrifying skewed world.

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France/Italy/Germany 1962 Orson Welles 118m

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Chimes at Midnight 1966

Mon 24 Aug 20:30 (Studio)

Welles considered ‘Chimes’ his personal favourite of all his films.

On the brink of Civil War, King Henry IV (John Gielgud) attempts to consolidate his reign while fretting with unease over his son’s seeming neglect of his royal duties. Hal (Keith Baxter), the young Prince, openly consorts with Sir John Falstaff (Orson Welles) and his company of “Diana’s Foresters, Gentlemen of the shade, Minions of the moon". Perhaps the most radical and ground-breaking of all Shakespeare adaptations, the film condenses the Bard’s Henriad cycle into a single focused narrative. Its international cast includes Jeanne Moreau and Ralph Richardson as the narrator. The film’s harrowing war scenes have proven especially influential, cited in Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Henry V’ as well as Mel Gibson’s Braveheart.

France/Spain/Italy 1965 Orson Welles 113m

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Magician: The Astonishing Life & Work Of Orson Welles 2014

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A wonderfully entertaining, illuminating and finally very touching portrait of Orson Welles.

A child prodigy who went on to make extraordinary, often game-changing contributions to whatever medium he chose to be involved in – radio, theatre, film and television – Welles quickly came to be regarded as a ‘genius’: a double-edged acclamation, with its hints of profligacy and arrogance. The truth was more complex, as shown by Workman’s use of clips from works both familiar and unreleased; testimonies from family, friends and fans, collaborators and critics (from Simon Callow to Steven Spielberg, Charlton Heston is suppor to Jonathan Rosenbaum); m te fil and, best of all, anecdotes, John admissions and insights galore Coldstream from the great man himself.

As Peter Brook says, we shall never see his like again.

– Geoff Andrew USA 2014 Chuck Workman 93m Fri

21 Aug 14:00

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Around The World With Orson Welles Six documentary episodes (26 minutes each) made for the BBC in 1955.

While based in London in the early 1950s, Welles fell in love with TV. Having recorded a series of to-camera monologues for the BBC, called Orson Welles’ Sketch Book, he embarked on a more ambitious series of travelogues for independent television.

Taking in locations ranging from Paris, Vienna and Madrid to the Basque country and London itself, this series allowed Welles to develop his distinctive televisual language, combining a wry narratorial voice and self-reflexive use of technology with a voracious, romantic curiosity about the world around him. The series provoked its share of controversy thanks to one episode featuring a bullfight and another – unfinished but later reconstructed – in which Welles investigated the notorious murder of a British family holidaying in France. - Ben Walters.

Shown in 2 parts: Episode 1-3 (78m) & Episodes 4-6 (78m) Episodes 1-3: Thu 27 Aug 16:00 (Pic. Palace) Episodes 4-6: Fri 28 Aug 16:30 (Pic. Palace)

Special Offer: £8.00 for Both Parts (£6.00 Each)

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Talks & Q&A’s ILLUSTRATED TALKS

William Alwyn:

Carl Davis

Composing for the Screen

Scoring Chaplin's 'The Mutuals'

Illustrated talk by Andrew Turner See Focus on Film Music on pg55 for details Sat 15 Aug 13:15

See Focus on Film Music on pg55 for details Mon 17 Aug 18:30

What's The Score?

Julianne Moore:

Exploring the process behind composing music to picture

Risk-Taker

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An illustrated talk by Philip Kemp

See Focus on Film Music on pg56 for details Tue 25 Aug 13:30 (Studio)

See Julianne Moore Retrospective on pg72 for details Mon 24 Aug 14:00 (Studio)

Whatever Happened To Russian Cinema?

Illustrated talk on Polish and Czech Cinema

An Illustrated talk by Ian Christie

Behind the Iron Curtain

See Modern Russian Cinema on pg29 for details Sat 29 Aug 16:00

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Q&A’S WITH FILMS The following films will also have Introductions and/or post screening Q&A’s with directors and guests. Please note that some film makers may have last- minute work commitments and are unable to attend.

Tasting My Future

My Accomplice

with Director Sylvie Collier

with Martyn Holmes and Charlie Weaver Rolfe

See UK Releases on pg8 for details Fri 14 Aug 14:00

See UK Releases on pg9 for details Sat 15 Aug 18:15

Leslie Howard:

We Will Sing

The Man Who Gave a Damn with Director Tom Hamilton

with Director Robert Mullan

See Focus on the Documentary on pg36 for details Tue 18 Aug 14:00 (Studio)

The Ipcress File with Edward Milward-Oliver and Robert Wade See Treasures from the Archives on pg45 for details Fri 21 Aug 18:00

See Modern Russian Cinema on pg24 for details Thu 20 Aug 18:00

Blood Cells with Directors Joseph Bull and Luke Seomore See UK Releases on pg11 for details Wed 26 Aug 14:00 (Studio)

Onegin

Short Films

with Director Martha Fiennes

with Director Tom Van Den Broek

See Modern Russian Cinema on pg26 for details Sat 29 Aug 18:00

See Short Film Programme on pg81 for details Sat 22 Aug 18:30 (Pic. Palace)

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Tributes to Ingrid Bergman, Christopher Lee & Omar Sharif

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INGRID BERGMAN 1915-1983

Journey to Italy

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14 Aug 13:45 (Studio) 15 Aug 16:00 (Pic. Palace)

In marking Ingrid Bergman’s Centenary, we screen this classic 1953 film which was directed by her husband Roberto Rossellini.

A well-to-do married English couple travel to Naples after inheriting a villa, Alex (George Sanders) is a workaholic businessman and Katherine (Ingrid Bergman) a more sensitive character. With a loveless relationship, the couple are on the verge of a divorce and decide to spend the remainder of their trip separately. Katherine visits museums and historical sites, while Alexander goes to Capri to relax with drinks. Their separation allows them to grow and revisit the past and ultimately begin to become intrigued again with one another, a delayed anti-honeymoon.

Poorly received on its initial release, it has now reached classic status.

Italy 1953 Roberto Rossellini 81m

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CHRISTOPHER LEE 1922-2015

Taste the Blood of Dracula

Sat 15 Aug 20:45 (Studio) Sun 16 Aug 16:15 (Pic. Palace)

Despite the huge range of roles and films he made, Christopher Lee is still remembered as the best Dracula.

This is one of the best of Lee's Dracula series for Hammer. Set in Victorian London, a group of businessmen who like nothing more than to frequent brothels and generally behave in sensation-seeking ways, are persuaded by Dracula's servant (a splendidly manic Ralph Bates) that summoning up the aristocrat would be the ultimate thrill. They warily agree, purchasing relics from a shifty dealer (Roy Kinnear - who else?), but panic and kill their initiator instead. Dracula materialises as they make good their escape, swearing to avenge the murder of his servant.

UK 1970 Peter Sadsky 87m OMAR SHARIF 1932-2015

I Forgot To Tell You J'ai OubliĂŠ de te Dire Lovingly shot in the Pyrenees Orientals, Laurent Vinas-Raymond debut film concerns the growing relationship between a lost girl and an elderly painter, beautifully performed

by Emilie Dequenne and Omar Sharif.

France/Catalan 2010 Laurent Vinas-Raymond 100m See West European Films on Pg19 for full details Sat 22 Aug 18:30 Sat 29 Aug 13:30

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Short Films Four outstanding short films from 3 different countries: UK, Iran and Holland.

Sat 22 Aug 18:30 (Pic. Palace)

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The Garden

Cathy, a young and troubled city girl, makes a break for the coast after an emotional catastrophe. At the coast two religious men see her plight, and offer her another way. The film is written in a loosely iambic and Shakespearean style, using an original script around two or three of Shakespeare's most famous lines. The film won High Commendation Award at the 2014 Shakespeare On Film Festival (Patron Sir Kenneth Branagh).

Old and alone, Simeon takes his life at last. As his body is discovered, his spirit wanders free through the garden of the afterlife 'Jannah'.

Finding his long dead and tempestuous lover Celestina in the garden, he is plagued by memories of his dark acts. Can Simeon find redemption in the garden?

UK 2014 Tom Van Den Broek 10m

UK 2013 Tom Van Den Broek 15m We are pleased to welcome the writer-director Tom Van Den Broek to introduce both of his films.

A successful businessman leads a comfortable life with his wife of 25 years, a celebrated pianist. But listening to her give a recital, he recalls the moment when he discovered an abandoned house at the bottom of their garden. The empty house rewards him with a secret view of his house and his wife. He becomes a spectator on his own life…

Inspired by the short story ‘Wakefield’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne and the images of Edward Hopper, the film s are s up film explores themes of loneliness, rt miscommunication and John & Paddy isolation, mirrored in the Vincenthaunting landscape of the Townend Dutch coastline where the film is set. (Subtitles) es

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An animated film from Iran based upon a poem by Tim Burton: “There once was a girl who was made up of junk. She looked really dirty, and she smelled like a skunk. She was always unhappy, or in one of her slumps, perhaps ‘cause she spent so much time down in the dumps. The only bright moment was from a guy named Stan.

He was from the neighbourhood garbage man. He loved her a lot and made a marriage proposal, but she already thrown herself in the garbage disposal.”

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Netherlands 2014 Klaartje Quirjins 28m

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Staff and Trustees of Chichester Cinema at New Park acknowledge and thank the outstanding team of Cinema and Bar Volunteers both during the 2015 International Film Festival and throughout the cinematic year.

A very special thank you also goes out to the Friends of the Cinema whose support makes this Cinema and Festival what it is today, and the New Park Centre for providing a wonderful venue for the Festival.

Chairman Debbie Ford

Front of House Manager Henry Beltran

Trustees David Brown, Michael Cox, John Fitzpatrick, Mike Jennings,Richard Wilde and Michael Woolley.

Box Office Ninian McGuffie, Tom Clear, Nina Hebden and Chyan Francisco

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