New Park Winter 2013 Programme

SEASON 2013/14 30 Nov - 21 Feb

AT NEW PARK

Marius

Daniel Auteuil presents the Marcel Pagnol ‘Marseilles Trilogy’

Gravity

12 Years a Slave

August: Osage County

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With the changing of the season, we present to you a new format programme brochure, starting with this Winter 2013/14 edition. I hope you like it.

American Hustle 41 Any Day Now 11 August: Osage County 42 Beauty and the Beast 30 Cinema Paradiso 18 Becoming Traviata 29 Big Bad Wolves 37 The Bishop’s Wife 25 Blue is the Warmest Colour 16 Blue Jasmine 33 The Broken Circle Breakdown 24 The Butler 27 Captain Phillips 33 Carols, Film & Mulled Wine 19 Casablanca 44 The Christmas Candle 19 Child’s Pose 20 Computer Chess 9 Coriolanus 38 The Counsellor 16 Dom Hemingway 31 Don Giovanni 45 Emulsion 13 Enough Said 15 Epic of Everest 41 Fanny 21 Fill the Void 32 For Those in Peril 13 Frozen 46 Giselle 38 Gravity 15 The Great Beauty 26

Chichester Cinema Following helpful suggestions from our valued patrons, we hope you will find the text clearer and user friendly, and we have also tried to get a more consistent feel to the individual film entries, making every page more pleasing to the eye. Remember that you can get more film details on our website: www.chichestercinema.org.

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With the new layout, we are able to have a page number at the bottom of every double page spread, and as is often requested, we have included a seating plan (see inside back cover).

You will see a ‘Booking Reference’ grid under each film, so that you will have a convenient place to record the reference given to you when booking your films in advance. Gone are the days of scribbling those 5 digits on the corner of an electricity bill, and then frantically trying to find it whilst at the front of the Box Office queue!

I hope to use this page as an avenue of information from the Cinema to you. It will enable me to share further insights on what we are trying to do here at Chichester Cinema at New Park - in short, bringing you the best in Cinema from the UK and abroad in a welcoming environment.

We look forward to welcoming you soon.

Walter Francisco

Winter 2013-14 contents Half Term Family Films 46 Hannah Arendt 39 Happiness: Promised Land 8 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 46 The Innocents 37 InRealLife 12 Inside Llewyn Davis 43 It’s a Wonderful Life 24 Janapar: Love on a Bike 13 Jeune et Jolie 31 Jewels 34 Kill Your Darlings 28 La Traviata 29 Letters to Sofija 9 Leviathan 43 Le Week-End 17 Lost Illusions 40 A Long Way From Home 10 Love is In the Air 46 Love Tomorrow 12 Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom 36 Marius 21 Mary Poppins 22 Modigliani 8 Nebraska 27 New Year’s Eve Concert LIVE 25 Nocturne 11 Not Another Happy Ending 9 The Nun 17 The Nutcracker 19

Page to Screen Film Course

The Well Digger’s Daughter

Three important films tackling the issue of race

Palme D’Or 16

Xmas Carol & Film 19

Private Lives 44

Parsifal

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The Patience Stone 36 Performance: Coming Soon (2014) 47 Performance Index 14 Philomena

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Prisoners

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Private Lives

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Project Wild Thing 10 The Railway Man

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Saving Mr Banks

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Seating Plan

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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Shady Lady 12 Short Term 12

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Simon Rattle Conducts the Berlin Philharmonic with Lang Lang 25 Skylab

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Sleeping Beauty

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A Streetcar Named Desire

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Studio Season

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12 Years a Slave

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Valentine Days Screenings

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Walesa: Man of Hope 26 20

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Film Listings Tue 10 Dec Sat 30 Nov

12.45 Happiness: Promised Land 95m 14.45 Modigliani (15) 122m 17.00 Letters to Sofija (12A) 130m 19.30 Not Another Happy Ending (15) 102m

Sun 1 Dec

13.00 Computer Chess (15) 92m 15.00 A Long Way From Home (12A) 85m 17.00 Project Wild Things (12A) 85m 18.45 Nocturne (15) 140m

Mon 2 Dec

12.00 Love Tomorrow (PG) 80m 13.30 A Long Way From Home 17.00 InRealLife (15tbc) 86m 19.15 Any Day Now (15) 97m

Tue 3 Dec

13.00 InRealLife 14.45 Shady Lady (PG) 90m

Wed 4 Dec

13.15 Any Day Now 15.15 Janapar: Love on a Bike (15) 79m 17.00 A Long Way From Home 18.45 Letters to Sofija

Thu 5 Dec

15.00 A Long Way From Home 17.00 Emulsion (15) 90m + Q&A

Wed 11 Dec 12.30 Gravity 14.30 The Counsellor 17.00 Enough Said

Thu 12 Dec 12.30 Blue is the Warmest Colour 16.00 Enough Said 18.15 The Counsellor 21.00 Gravity

Fri 13 Dec 12.15 The Nun (15) 114m 15.00 Cinema Paradiso (PG) 117m 17.30 Blue is the Warmest Colour 21.00 Marius (PG) 93m

Sat 14 Dec 13.15 Cinema Paradiso 16.00 ROH: The Nutcracker 130m 18.30 Marius 20.45 The Nun

Sun 15 Dec 10.30 Xmas Carols, Film & Mulled Wine: The Christmas Candle 100m 13.15 The Well-Digger’s Daughter 130m 15.15 Marius 17.15 The Nun 19.45 Blue is the Warmest Colour

Mon 16 Dec

Fri 6 Dec

13.30 Marius 15.45 The Nun 18.30 Cinema Paradiso 20.45 Le Week-End (15) 93m

Sat 7 Dec

13.45 The Christmas Candle 16.00 Le Week-End 18.15 Marius 20.30 Child’s Pose (15) 112m

12.45 Modigliani 15.15 For Those in Peril (18) 82m 17.15 Computer Chess 19.15 Janapar: Love on a Bike 12.30 Nocturne 15.15 Project Wild Things 17.30 Love Tomorrow 19.15 For Those in Peril

Sun 8 Dec 15.00 Enough Said (15) 93m 17.15 Gravity (12A) 90m 19.30 Blue is the Warmest Colour (18) 179m

Mon 9 Dec 12.45 Enough Said 15.00 Blue is the Warmest Colour 18.30 Gravity 20.45 The Counsellor (18) 117m

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12.45 The Counsellor 15.15 Gravity 17.30 Enough Said 19.45 Blue is the Warmest Colour

Tue 17 Dec

Wed 18 Dec 13.45 The Christmas Candle 16.00 Child’s Pose 18.30 Le Week-End 20.45 Marius

Thu 19 Dec 13.45 The Christmas Candle 16.00 Le Week-End 18.15 Marius 20.30 Child’s Pose

Fri 20 Dec 13.00 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) 126m 15.30 Broken Circle Breakdown (15) 111m

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18.00 Saving Mr. Banks 20.45 Fanny (PG) 103m

13.00 Walesa: Man of Hope 15.30 Skylab 18.00 The Butler 20.30 Saving Mr. Banks

Sat 21 Dec

Fri 3 Jan

13.00 ROH: Parsifal 330m inc. 2 Intervals 18.45 Fanny 20.45 Saving Mr. Banks

12:30 The Great Beauty (15) 142m 15:30 Short Term 12 (12A) 96m 18:00 Nebraska (15) 114m 20:45 Kill Your Darlings (15)

Sun 22 Dec 13.00 It’s a Wonderful Life (U) 130m 15.30 Bolshoi: Sleeping Beauty 155m 18.30 Fanny 20.45 Saving Mr. Banks

Mon 23 Dec 13.00 Saving Mr. Banks 15.45 Fanny 18.00 Saving Mr. Banks 20.45 Broken Circle Breakdown

Tue 24 Dec 12.30 Fanny 15.15 The Bishop’s Wife (U) 109m 17.45 Saving Mr. Banks

Wed 25 Dec CLOSED: Merry Christmas to All Our Patrons!

Thu 26 Dec CLOSED:

Fri 27 Dec 13.15 The Butler (12A) 126m 16.00 Marius (PG) 93m 18.15 Fanny (PG) 103m 20.30 Saving Mr. Banks

Sat 28 Dec 13.00 Marius 15.15 Fanny 17.45 Saving Mr. Banks 20.30 The Butler

Sun 29 Dec 12.30 Saving Mr. Banks 15.00 Mary Poppins (U) 139m 18.00 The Butler 20.45 Skylab (15) 114m

Mon 30 Dec 12.45 Skylab 15.00 The Butler 17.45 Walesa: Man of Hope (12A) 127m 20.30 Saving Mr. Banks

Tue 31 Dec 13.45 Saving Mr. Banks 16.30 LIVE: New Year’s Eve Live Concert – Simon Rattle Conducts Berlin Philharmonic 90m 18.30 The Butler

Wed 1 Jan 13.00 The Butler 15.30 Skylab 18.00 Saving Mr. Banks 20.45 Walesa: Man of Hope

Sat 4 Jan 12:30 Becoming La Traviata (12A) 112m 15:15 The Great Beauty 18:15 Short Term 12 20:30 Nebraska

Sun 5 Jan 12:30 Beauty and the Beast (PG) 93m 14:30 La Traviata 160m 17:45 Nebraska 20:15 The Great Beauty

Mon 6 Jan 12:45 Nebraska 15:15 Short Term 12 17:30 Kill Your Darlings 20:00 Prisoners (15) 153m

Tue 7 Jan 13:00 Kill Your Darlings 15:30 Beauty and the Beast 17:45 The Great Beauty 20:45 Nebraska

Wed 8 Jan 12:00 Nebraska 14:15 Kill Your Darlings 16:15 Prisoners

Thu 9 Jan 12:30 Prisoners 15:45 Nebraska 18:15 Nebraska 20:45 Kill Your Darlings

Fri 10 Jan 13:15 Philomena (15) 98m 15:45 Blue Jasmine (15) 98m 18:15 Jeune et Jolie (18) 94m 20:30 Dom Hemingway (18) 93m

Sat 11 Jan 13:15 Captain Phillips (12A) 134m 16:15 Philomena 18:30 Fill the Void (PG) 90m 20:45 Blue Jasmine

Sun 12 Jan 12:45 Philomena 15:00 A Streetcar Named Desire (12A) 17:45 Captain Phillips 20:45 Jeune et Jolie

Mon 13 Jan 13:15 Fill the Void 15:30 Captain Phillips

18:30 Dom Hemingway 20:45 Philomena

Tue 14 Jan 13:15 Jeune et Jolie 15:30 Philomena 18:00 Blue Jasmine 20:30 Captain Phillips

Wed 15 Jan 13:15 15:30 18:30 21:00

Dom Hemingway Captain Phillips Philomena Fill the Void

Thu 16 Jan 13:15 15:30 18:30 21:00

Philomena Captain Phillips Jeune et Jolie Blue Jasmine

Fri 17 Jan 12:45 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (cert tbc) 125m 15:30 The Railway Man (15) 116m 18:00 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 20:45 The Railway Man

Sat 18 Jan 12:45 The Railway Man 15:15 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 18:00 The Railway Man 20:30 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Sun 19 Jan 12:30 The Railway Man 15:00 Bolshoi: Jewels 18:00 The Railway Man 20:30 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Mon 20 Jan

Sat 25 Jan 13:00 Mandela 16:00 The Patience Stone 102m 18:15 Mandela 21:15 Gravity

Sun 26 Jan 12:45 The Innocents (PG) 95m 15:00 Mandela 18:00 Gravity 20:15 Mandela

Mon 27 Jan 12:30 Mandela 15:30 The Patience Stone 17:45 Big Bad Wolves 20:15 Mandela

Tue 28 Jan 12:30 15:00 18:00 21:00

The Railway Man Mandela Mandela The Patience Stone

Wed 29 Jan 12:30 Mandela 15.30 The Railway Man 18.15 ROH: Giselle 130m 20:45 Mandela

Thu 30 Jan 13:00 Mandela 16:15 The Railway Man 19:00 NT Live: Coriolanus 180m

Fri 31 Jan 12:15 American Hustle (15) 129m 15:00 Hannah Arendt (12A) 113m 17:30 American Hustle 20:15 Mandela

12:45 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 15:30 The Railway Man 18:00 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 20:45 The Railway Man

Sat 1 Feb

Tue 21 Jan

Sun 2 Feb

12:45 The Railway Man 15:15 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 18:00 The Railway Man 20:30 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Wed 22 Jan 12:15 The Railway Man 14:30 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 17:00 The Railway Man

Thu 23 Jan 12:45 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 15:30 The Railway Man 18:00 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 20:45 The Railway Man

Fri 24 Jan 12:45 Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom (12A) 146m 15:45 Gravity (12A) 90m 18:00 Mandela 21:00 Big Bad Wolves (15) 110m

12:00 American Hustle 14:30 NT Live: Coriolanus (Encore) 17:45 Mandela 20:45 American Hustle 12:15 American Hustle 15:00 Bolshoi: Lost Illusions 180m LIVE 18:30 Epic of Everest (U) 85m 20:30 American Hustle

Mon 3 Feb 12:15 American Hustle 15:15 Hannah Arendt 18:00 American Hustle 20:45 The Butler (12A) 126m

Tue 4 Feb 12:45 Epic of Everest 14:45 American Hustle 17:45 The Butler 20:30 American Hustle

Wed 5 Feb 12:30 American Hustle 15:00 Mandela 18:00 American Hustle 20:45 Hannah Arendt

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Film Listings Continued Thu 6 Feb

Tue 11 Feb

Sun 16 Feb

12:30 The Butler 15:00 American Hustle 17:45 Mandela 20:45 American Hustle

12:45 Inside Llewyn Davis 15:15 August: Osage County 18:00 Inside Llewyn Davis 20:30 August: Osage County

12:00 12 Years a Slave 14:30 ROH: Don Giovanni 220m 18:30 12 Years a Slave 21:15 Leviathan 87m

Wed 12 Feb

12:00 Frozen 102m 14:00 12 Years a Slave 16:30 12 Years a Slave

Fri 7 Feb 12:45 August: Osage County (15) 130m 15:30 Inside Llewyn Davis (15) 115m 18:00 August: Osage County 20:45 Inside Llewyn Davis

12:00 August: Osage County 14:30 Inside Llewyn Davis 16:45 August: Osage County

Sat 8 Feb

Thu 13 Feb

12:30 August: Osage County 15:00 NT: Private Lives 160m 18:00 Inside Llewyn Davis 20:30 August: Osage County

12:45 August: Osage County 15:30 Inside Llewyn Davis 18:00 August: Osage County 20:45 Inside Llewyn Davis

Sun 9 Feb 12:45 Inside Llewyn Davis 15:15 August: Osage County 18:00 Inside Llewyn Davis 20:30 August: Osage County

12:30 12 Years a Slave 133m 15:00 Love is in the Air 96m 17:15 12 Years a Slave 20:15 Private Lives (Valentine’s Day Screening)

Mon 10 Feb

Sat 15 Feb

12:45 August: Osage County 15:30 Inside Llewyn Davis 18:00 August: Osage County 20:45 Inside Llewyn Davis

13:00 Love is in the Air 15:15 12 Years a Slave 18:15 Casablanca (U) (Valentine’s screening) 20:30 12 Years a Slave

Tue 18 Feb 12:15 The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug 165m 15:15 12 Years a Slave 18:00 Love is in the Air 20:15 12 Years a Slave

Wed 19 Feb 12:00 12 Years a Slave 14:30 The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug 18:00 12 Years a Slave 21:00 Leviathan

Thu 20 Feb 12:00 The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug 15:00 12 Years a Slave 18:00 12 Years a Slave 21:00 Love is in the Air

Fri 21 Feb 12:30 Frozen 102m

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The Winter ‘Page to Screen’ course focuses on Award Winners and The Sixties. After a brief interlude, the course will end with three more classes to link with the 2014 Chichester Festival Theatre Summer Festival (see details in next cinema programme).

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All 6 Classes

Award Winners A Beautiful Mind ............. Fri 10 Jan 13:30 (Author: Sylvia Nasar) The English Patient ........ Fri 17 Jan 13:30 (Author: Michael Ondaatje) Midnight Cowboy ............ Fri 24 Jan 13:30 (Author: James Herlity)

The Sixties A Kind of Loving .............. Fri 31 Jan 13:30 (Author: Stan Barstow) The Ipcress File ................ Fri 7 Feb 13:30 (Author: Len Deighton) The Graduate...................... Fri 14 Feb 13:30 (Author: Charles Webb) The course is led by Rosemary Coxon and provides an insight into how novels and plays are translated into film by looking at extracts and reviews of the book and the film. If you have a copy of the book, please bring it with you.

Individual Classes: £5 6

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Letters to Sofija Laiskai Sofijai We are pleased to present a selection of some of the best films shown at this year’s 22nd Chichester international film Festival, including the 2 films given the Audience Award for Best Film (Any Day Now) and Best Documentary (Tony Palmer’s Benjamin Britten documentary: Nocturne). In addition the other films are new releases of indie feature films and outstanding new documentaries, and we hope to welcome some of the film makers to introduce their work.

Tickets:

Adults £6 / Seniors £5.50 / Friends £5 Students & Unemployed £4.50

Sat 30 Nov 17:00 Wed 4 Dec 18:45

Russia /Lithuania 2012 Robert Mullan 130m

Booking Ref

Not Another Happy Ending

Focus on the Documentary

Happiness: Promised Land

New Release

This French documentary was both a surprise and a delight - 2nd in the Festival’s documentary section.

The initial idea is simple. Without any preparation, cross France along the Méridienne Verte, a symbolic line from South to North, motivated by one notion: does the perception we have about happiness and the meaning of life change depending the journey? (subtitles) Sat 30 Nov 12:45

France 2011 Laurant Hasse 95m

Booking Ref

Sat 30 Nov 14:45 Fri 6 Dec 12:45 Booking Ref

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Deeply moving drama about an artistic genius and the woman and country he adored.

Lithuanian genius Mikalojus Ciurlionis soon revealed himself to be a child prodigy able to both paint and compose music of startling and frightening intensity. During his short lifetime, Ciurlionis produced over 300 paintings and 300 compositions, supported by his beloved wife, Sofija, a journalist and political activist. Shot in St. Petersburg Lithuania, and with music by Ciurlionis himself. (subtitles)

Sat 30 Nov 19:30

A struggling publisher discovers his only successful author has writer’s block. Closed the Edinburgh Film Festival.

With her debut novel, Jane (Karen Gillan) pulled off that rare double ­critical acclaim and mainstream success, but on her follow-up, she encounters crippling writer’s block. Everyone knows you have to be miserable to write well, so her publisher Tom makes her life a misery. The only trouble is, the worse he makes her feel, the more he falls in love with her.

UK 2013 John McKay 102m

Booking Ref

Modigliani

Computer Chess

The story of Modigliani’s bitter rivalry with Picasso, and his tragic romance with Jeanne Hebuterne.

Paris 1919, Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani (Andy Garcia), a Jew, has fallen in love with Catholic Jeanne Hebuterne (Elsa Zlyberstein). Modigliani needs money to raise their child and enters Paris’ annual art competition. His dearest friend and rival Picasso (Omid Djalili) follows suit and all of Paris is aflutter with excitement at who will win. A rare screening of a film never given a UK theatrical release.

New Release

USA/France/UK 2004 Mick Davis 122m

Sun 1 Dec Fri 6 Dec

13:00 17:15

An inventive comedy set at a 1980s computer conference, back when ‘geek’ was still a dirty word.

It’s the early 80s and a conference to discover a winning Chess Programme is being held in a cheap hotel. Things start to get increasingly tense and strange, particularly as a self-discovery group has been booked into the same hotel. Shot on black-andwhite video from the time, with a smart and funny script, and committed performances from the ensemble cast.

USA 2013 Andrew Bujalski 92m

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A Long Way From Home

Nocturne Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary

After retiring to the South of France, a couple’s life changes dramatically when they meet another, younger couple.

Joseph and Brenda (James Fox and Brenda Fricker) have been married for 50 years, and are retired to France’s Nimes region.

It was meant to feel like a neverending holiday, but their routine ­ eating at the same restaurant every night, crosswords, letterposting and BBC Radio 4 ­now feels mundane and oppressive to Joseph. An encounter with young tourist couple Suzanne and Mark (Natalie Dormer and Paul Nicholls) breaks the banality for the elder man and the vitality they display reminds him of his own younger days.

Tony Palmer’s new 100th Anniversary film about Benjamin Britten.

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UK/France 2013 Virginia Gilbert 85m

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This extraordinary new film explores Britten’s uneasy relationship to the wider world. The bloodiest century in history profoundly affected Britten, not just because he was a committed pacifist, but on a much deeper level. What is the role of the artist in such a troubled world? What are his responsibilities? What is the nature of creativity itself?

Man’s inhumanity to Man ­now, and always. This is the subject matter which preoccupied Britten, and that is the subject of this film. Warning: the film contains documentary images of war that some may find disturbing.

UK 2013 Tony Palmer 2hrs 20m

Sun 1 Dec 18:45 Sat 7 Dec 12:30

Booking Ref

Booking Ref

Any Day Now New release - Festival

Sun 1 Dec 17:00 Sat 7 Dec 15:15 We hope to welcome one of the film makers at the Saturday screening.

Focus on the Documentary

Booking Ref

Project Wild Thing New Release Reconnecting Kids and Nature N D IE C U

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David Bond investigates British children’s current disconnection from the natural world.

David’s kids’ waking hours are dominated by a cacophony of marketing, and a screen dependence threatening to turn them into glassy-eyed zombies. He decides it’s time to get back to nature literally. In an attempt to compete, he appoints himself Marketing Director for Nature, and sets about developing a campaign and logo.

With the help of a number of bemused professionals, he is soon selling Nature to British families. His humorous journey unearths some painful truths about modern family life and the shocking disconnection between children and the natural world. Premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest in June.

Audience Award for Best Film A gay couple fights a biased legal system to keep custody of an abandoned mentally handicapped teenager.

Alan Cumming has rarely been better than he is here as Rudy, a drag queen on the mime-track to nowhere, whose outrageous exterior hides a lonely but loveable soul. His junkie neighbour is arrested and her 14 year old Down’s syndrome son Marco (Isaac Leyva) hands temporary custody to Rudy and Paul, who quickly become a loving family. But it doesn’t take long for the authorities to take Marco away, with his newfound parents forced to embark on a battle to get him back in a legal system marked by anti-gay prejudice. The superb performances add immeasurably to the film’s impact. Both laugh out loud funny and heart-breaking.

USA 2012 Travis Fine 97m

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Love Tomorrow

Focus on the Documentary

Janapar: Love on a Bike

New Release

Mon 2 Dec Sat 7 Dec

12:00 17:30

A chance encounter between 2 dancers blossoms in a film that delighted our Festival audience.

A story about two people who happen to be dancers - one has had her hopes broken by injury (Cindy Jourdain), the other, Oriel (Arionel Vargas), by the natural transience of existence for the young dancer for hire.

The manner in which Chris Payne manages to move from story line to dance and back again is masterly. Jourdain was a former Royal Ballet soloist and Vargas was an English National Ballet principal at the time of production.

UK 2013 Christopher Payne 80m

Booking Ref

New Release

Wed 4 Dec 15:15 Fri 6 Dec 19:15 We hope to welcome some of the film makers to introduce their film on Fri 6 Dec 19.15.

Booking Ref

UK 2013 James Newton 80m

Emulsion

Focus on the Documentary

InRealLife

New Release

New Release

Mon 2 Dec 17:00 Tue 3 Dec 13:00

From the bedrooms of British teenagers to the world of Silicon Valley, we find out what exactly the internet is doing to our children.

Filmmaker Beeban Kidron suggests that rather than the promise of free and open connectivity, young people are increasingly ensnared in a commercial world. Beguiling and glittering on the outside, it can be alienating and addictive.

Can afford to stand by while our children, trapped in their 24/7 connectivity, are being outsourced to the net?

UK 2013 Beeban Kidron 86m

Booking Ref

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17:00

We hope to welcome the director Suki Singh to introduce the film.

Booking Ref

A powerful and haunting psychological Film Noir.

Ronny (Sam Heughan) is searching for his missing Wife, Isabella (Claudia Bassols). One night, after another woman is attacked, Ronny follows the mysterious stranger deep into the forest, where he finds a roll of 16mm film that changes his life and perception forever.

‘Emulsion’ recalls elements from David Lynch’s late-80s and early90s output. The whole movie is one very elaborate puzzle, and all of the pieces are there if you know where to look - a remarkable feature film debut.

UK 2011 Suki Singh 90m

Shady Lady

For Those in Peril

This local independent film was a favourite with our Festival audience.

The epic story of a B-24 bomber called ‘Shady Lady’ that took off from Darwin in 1943, but never made it back to base.

Surviving tropical thunderstorms, turbulence, enemy fire and chased by Japanese fighters, she ran out of fuel and crash-landed in the remotest part of Northern Australia. Local support from the Aborigines and a massive rescue mission amazingly saw ‘Shady Lady’ - fly again.

New Release

UK 2013 Tristan Loraine 90m Tue 3 Dec

A true love-story, filmed over four years in 32 countries by one man on a bike.

23-year-old Tom is all set for a 9­to5 career in IT, but he can’t help wondering whether there’s more to life. He sets off on the ultimate adventure: cycling around the world. But the journey takes an unlikely detour when he falls in love with Tenny. ‘Janapar’ named after the Armenian word for journey ­is an honest and life-affirming tale of finding what you’re looking for when you least expect it.

Fri 6 Dec 15:15 Sat 7 Dec 19:15

In a remote Scottish fishing community, we find a lone survivor of a strange accident.

Six went away and only one came home. His name is Aaron (George MacKay), and he is... unwell. His mother told him a story of a town cursed, and he clutches to the story like a man who should have drowned.

Beautifully filmed, with a textured feel, experimental looking shots of black and white seascapes and home footage style shots mixed in. Full of ideas, and uniquely stylish.

UK 2013 Paul Wright 93m

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Enough Said

Winter sees another 12 exciting Performance Events, including 4 Live transmissions. To clarify the various types of Performance screenings, here is a key: Live: Transmitted Live by Satellite, and delivered to the cinema during the actual performance.

Encore: Follow ups that have been recorded Live by Satellite, and transmitted within one month of the live event.

Delayed Live: Recorded live by satellite and transmitted within a week of the event.

Recorded: Live performances, but pre-recorded and delivered to the cinema on DCP (digital hard drive).

Royal Opera House Cinema Season 2013/14 The Nutcracker (Delayed Live) Parsifal ROH (Delayed Live) Giselle ROH Ballet (Recorded) Don Giovanni (Delayed Live)

Sat 14 Dec Sat 21 Dec Wed 29 Jan Sun 16 Feb

16:00 13:00 18:15 14:30

P.19 P.23 P.38 P.45

Bolshoi Ballet Cinema Season 2013/14 Sleeping Beauty (Recorded) Jewels (Live) Lost Illusions (Live)

Sun 22 Dec 15:30 Pg.23 Sun 19 Jan 15:00 Pg.34 Sun 2 Feb 15:00 Pg.40

Sun 8 Dec Mon 9 Dec Tue 10 Dec Wed 11 Dec Thu 12 Dec

15:00 12:45 17:30 17:00 16:00

Sun 8 Dec Mon 9 Dec Tue 10 Dec Wed 11 Dec Thu 12 Dec

Coriolanus National Theatre (Live) Thu 30 Jan 19:00 Pg.38

(Encore) Sat 1 Feb 14:30 Pg.38

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Fri 24 Jan 15:45 Sat 25 Jan 21:15 Sun 26 Jan 18:00

Tue 31 Dec 16:30 Pg.25 Sun 5 Jan 14:30 Pg.29 Sat 8 Feb 15:30 Pg.44 Fri 14 Feb 20:15 Pg.44

February War Horse NT Live 27 Feb - Plus 4 Encores (8, 19, 22 & 28 Mar) Simon Rattle conducts Berlin Philharmonic

Bach St John’s Passion (Fri 28 Feb 18:30) – see pg47.

2014 The Golden Age Bolshoi (Sun 6 Apr); The Winter’s Tale ROH Ballet (Apr); Henry IV Part 1 RSC (May) plus Henry IV Part 2 RSC (Jun); Simon Rattle conducts Berlin Philharmonic with Daniel Barenboim (Jun); Manon Lescaut ROH (Jun)… and many more.

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Also screening:

Sun 15 Dec 10:30 Pg.19 Rattle

Coming Soon winter 2013-14

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USA 2013 Nicole Holofcener 93m

Booking Ref

National Theatre Live

The Christmas Candle Film, Carols & Mulled Wine New Years Eve Concert Live: Simon Conducts Berlin Philharmonic With Lang Lang La Traviata Opening LA SCALA Milan Season Private Lives

CFT Production Recorded

Valentine’s Day

A divorced woman who decides to pursue the man she’s interested in learns he’s her new friend’s ex-husband.

Divorced, single parent Eva (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), spends her days enjoying work as a masseuse.

She meets Albert (James Gandolfini) - a sweet, funny man also facing an empty nest. Eva befriends Marianne (Catherine Keener), a beautiful poet who seems “almost perfect” except for ‘ragging’ on her ex-husband way too much. Suddenly, Eva finds herself doubting her own relationship with Albert.

Delves intelligently into a trend rarely seen in film: a sensitive man paired with a somewhat crass woman. A charming, funny, indelibly poignant last appearance of Gandolfini, who was never this good in any role other than Tony Soprano. A posthumous Oscar is a necessity.

A gem not to missed.

Gravity

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A routine space mission turns into a fight for survival in Alfonso Cuarón’s nerve-shredding thrill ride.

Gravity is awesome in the dictionary-definition sense: ‘inspiring an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration or fear.’ Medical engineer Dr Stone (Sandra Bullock) is on her first space mission under the command of astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney), making his final flight before retirement. Debris crashes into their shuttle, leaving the craft severely damaged and their challenge is not only how to survive and return home, but how to do so before the debris returns on its ferocious orbit. Cuarón’s vision is superbly realised to create a totally realistic experience (the best since ‘2001’). Whilst being propelled on a nerve-shredding thrill-ride, the effect of total immersion is such that the very idea of fiction is suspended.

This is space: fact. Terrific!

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International Panorama: France

Blue is the Warmest Colour

The Nun La Religieuse

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This year’s Palme D’Or winner is a strikingly uninhibited exploration of the messy, mesmerising and turbulent nature of love.

We first meet Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) as a student increasingly fascinated by Emma (Léa Seydoux). Before long they are an item, Adèle becoming the muse for Emma’s art while she pursues her own path into adulthood. The lesbian sex scenes earned headlines in Cannes, but these are strikingly new in their uninhibited nature, and how female pleasure is presented in a direct way. The film’s compelling grip is down to Kechiche’s eye as a social observer, and because of its two lead actors. Seydoux depicts Emma with genial wit and toughness, while Exarchopoulos is a revelation, offering a fearless, deeply affecting performance of remarkable intensity.

Warning: Explicit and extended lesbian sex scenes. (subtitles) France 2013 Abdellatif Kechiche 179m

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France/Germany/Belgium 2012 Guillaume Nicloux 114m

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The Counsellor Ridley Scott and Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy have joined forces in this unpredictable thriller.

McCarthy (his screenwriting debut), and Scott interweave the author’s characteristic wit and dark humour with a nightmarish scenario. Against the advice of associates Reiner (Javier Bardem) and Westray (Brad Pitt), the Counsellor (Fassbender), has somehow got himself involved in the drug trafficking business.

Motivated by the love of a beautiful woman (Penelope Cruz) and the desire to maintain the lifestyle he’s enjoyed for so long, he never takes into account the consequences he may be subjected to, should things not go according to plan. McCarthy’s penchant for cipher-like monologues is in full play here with deep soliloquies and terse warnings, and at times his caustic wit comes across brilliantly, giving every line a wry twist.

Diderot’s once controversial 18th century novel is adapted for the screen in a visually sumptuous style.

This classic of French literature is a labour of love from a director hitherto associated with more worldly pursuits. The film is visually elegant and has a terrific central performance

by Pauline Etienne. She plays Suzanne, who finds herself sent to a convent school and told she must become a nun. After initially thriving, she falls foul of Sister Christine (Bourgoin), before coming under the care of a more benign Mother Superior (Isabelle Huppert) - only to find herself unwillingly on the receiving end of her amorous attentions. Huppert is dryly witty and poignant as the older woman whose forbidden desires make her as much a victim of the convent system as Suzanne. (subtitles)

Back by Popular Demand

Le Week-End

British couple return to Paris many years after their honeymoon there in an attempt to rejuvenate their marriage.

Roger Michell’s (Notting Hill) comedy stars Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan and Jeff Goldblum with Michell’s longtime collaborator Hanif Kureishi who wrote the screenplay. The story centres on a long-married British couple (Broadbent and Duncan) who revisit Paris for the first time since their honeymoon in an attempt to revitalize their marriage. While there they run into an old colleague (Goldblum), and the encounter provides the couple with a new vision of what life and marriage might be.

Returning after 10 mostly sold out screenings in the Autumn.

UK 2013 Roger Michell 93m

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International Panorama: Italy

Cinema Paradiso

Fri 13 Dec 15:00 Sat 14 Dec 13:15 Mon 16 Dec 18:30 Classics digitally restored and re-issued Booking Ref

Giuseppe Tornatore’s beautiful 1988 film about a little boy’s love affair with the movies deservedly won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film and a Special Jury Prize at Cannes.

Director Guiseppe Tornatore’s bittersweet, Oscar-winning film focuses on the effect that cinema had on the inhabitants of a small Sicilian village during World War Two. After receiving news of the death of his old friend Alfredo (Phillipe Noirot), a famous movie director returns to his home village after spending 30 years away. In flashback, he recalls his fatherless childhood, his fascination with the films he saw at the local cinema, and his adventures with Alfredo, the cinema’s projectionist. One of the best loved films of all time, this is the shorter theatrical version especially restored digitally to its former glory. (subtitles) Italy 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 117m

CAROLS, FILM AND MULLED WINE! You are invited to come and sing Carols in the Auditorium accompanied by live musicians, enjoy a new Christmas film, rounded off with mulled wine.

SPECIAL EVENT: Sun 15 Dec 10.30 Christmas Carols, Mulled Wine & Film: Tickets £10 (Concessions £9, Children £5) Also screening (film only – standard prices): Tue 17 Dec 13:45 Wed 18 Dec 13:45 Thu 19 Dec 13:45 Booking Ref

The Christmas Candle Carols, Film & Mulled Wine

A timeless and inspirational story based on the novel by bestselling author, Max Lucado.

Nothing out of the ordinary ever happens in the small village of Gladbury - except at Christmas. Every 25 years an angel visits the village candle maker and touches a single candle. Whoever lights it receives a miracle on Christmas Eve. But when the Candle goes missing, the miraculous and the human collide in the most astonishing Christmas the town of Gladbury has ever seen.

UK 2013 John Stephenson

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The Nutcracker

Delayed live from the Royal Opera House

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14 Dec 16:00

Tickets £15 (£12.50 Friends/Students £10 Children) Inc. Complimentary interval wine/soft drink.

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Peter Wright’s classic production, first seen at Covent Garden in 1984, is an essential part of Christmas for audiences of all ages.

From the very first notes of Tchaikovsky’s overture, a sense of mystery and magic pervades as Herr Drosselmeyer sets in train the events that will see his beloved nephew, Hans Peter, freed from the enchantment of the evil Mouse King by the resourceful Clara. For Act I it is Christmas Eve and we are brought to a party at which Drosselmeyer gives young Clara, a nutcracker doll. Act II whisks the young pair off to the Kingdom of Sweets, where they are entertained by the Sugar Plum Fairy in a series of dazzling dances. This is the first of two Seasonal Ballets for the whole family, with ‘The Nutcracker’ being especially suitable for younger children with its short running time. Conductor - Tom Seligman; Choreographer - Peter Wright after Lev Ivanov. Ballet in 2 Acts by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky.

Running time 130m including 1 interval.

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International Panorama: Romania

Child’s Pose

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Pozitia Copilului

Tue 17 Dec 20:30 Wed 18 Dec 16:00 Thu 19 Dec 20:30 Booking Ref

Utterly engrossing, Golden Bear-winning study of bourgeois Romanian morality.

The deserving winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlinale, this sharply scripted Romanian feature centres on a characteristically excellent performance by Luminiţa Gheorghiu as Cornelia, a welloff, middle-aged architect determined to prevent her lazy, disaffected son Barbu going to jail after his reckless driving kills a child. A splendid blend of psychological realism and social commentary, this acerbic look at the none-toodiscreet moral turpitude of the Romanian bourgeoisie grows into a pleasingly ambiguous study of obsessive maternal love; eventually neither we nor the characters can tell if Cornelia’s emotional outbursts are sincere, an act or whether she’s come to believe her own lies. Savagely witty, surprisingly compassionate and utterly engrossing. (subtitles) Romania 2012 Călin Peter Netzer 112m

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Autuiel’s 2nd directorial project is Pagnol again, of course: a version of the famous Marius-Fanny-César trilogy.

The actor has now turned to the Marseille-born playwright’s acclaimed trilogy, the first two of which make wonderful companionpieces showing over a 2 week period (including double bills). Set and shot in Marseille’s historic Old Port, the films revolve around the eponymous triumvirate of ageing bar-owner César (Daniel Auteuil), his itchy-footed seafaring son Marius (Raphaël Personnaz), and the beautiful young Fanny (Victoire Bélézy). Friends since childhood, Marius and Fanny soon discover that their feelings for each other run deeper. But after Fanny becomes pregnant with Marius’ child, his desire for a life at sea overrides his familial responsibility. Left behind, Fanny is forced to turn to kindly, elderly suitor Panisse. (subtitles) France 2013 Daniel Auteuil 93m

The Well Digger’s Daughter

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Auteuil makes the jump from in front of the camera to behind, choosing to adapt Marcel Pagnol’s story for the big screen.

Pagnol also penned the source material to ‘Jean De Florette’ and ‘Manon Des Sources’, two of the most acclaimed and popular French films of the past few decades. Unashamedly old fashioned in its style, ‘The Well Digger’s Daughter’ is set around WWII, with Auteuil himself playing the well digger of the film’s title. One of his daughters, meanwhile, is Patricia, and it’s she who begins a short relationship with the son of a wealthy family. He soon disappears, she discovers that she’s pregnant, and from there, the film’s core drama ensues as the family will have to deal with this out-of-wedlock pregnancy. (subtitles)

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Fanny

Daniel Auteuil continues his update of Pagnol’s ‘Marseilles Trilogy’.

Fanny tries to survive back home while her lover sails the seven seas.

Like its predecessor, this handsomely mounted production is marked by glowing performances from Auteuil, Victoire Belezy and especially Jean-Pierre Darroussin as Panisse, a kind-hearted widower looking to cash in on Fanny’s predicament. Lucky - or not - for both of them, Fanny is carrying Marius’ baby, so they work out a deal whereby Fanny will marry Panisse, thus ensuring financial security for her and her son, while avoiding the shame of raising a fatherless child. At its very best moments, ‘Fanny’ reveals to what extent Pagnol really was one of France’s great 20th century dramatists, creating fervent yet extremely light-hearted scenarios, and setting them in a sun-baked southern city where passions are forever confronted with the realities of daily life. (subtitles) France 2013 Daniel Auteuil 103m BOX OFFICE 01243 786 650

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Fri 20 Dec 13:00 & 18:00 Sat 21 Dec 20:45 Sun 22 Dec 20:45 Mon 23 Dec 13:00 & 18:00 Tue 24 Dec 17:45 Fri 27 Dec 20:30 Sat 28 Dec 17:45 Sun 29 Dec 12:30 Mon 30 Dec 20:30 Tue 31 Dec 13:45 Wed 1 Jan 18:00 Thu 2 Jan 20:30

Saving Mr Banks

Wagner 200 Centenary

Parsifal Delayed live from The Royal Opera House (Recorded 18 Dec)

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The true story of Mary Poppins’ journey to the big screen is imaginatively brought to life, with terrific performances from Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks.

PL Travers (Thompson) travels from London to Hollywood to develop the screenplay for ‘Mary Poppins’ after 20 years of resisting Walt Disney’s (Tom Hanks) overtures to buy the rights. She is fiercely protective of her characters, wary of sentimentality and unsettled by Los Angeles and the ways of the Studio. Precisely paced and fulsome in character development, effortlessly mining the comic potential of the cultural clash between Travers and Disney, while giving full emotional depth to the formative childhood scenes. Sharply funny toe-tapping sequences alternate with dramatically darker scenes in which a young girl’s imagination is fuelled by stories from her father, a troubled, irresponsible man who is impossible not to love.

Overflowing with terrific performances by Thompson and Hanks (add Paul Giamatti, Ruth Wilson and Rachel Griffiths), ‘Saving Mr. Banks’ is also a finely honed ode to the brilliance and volatility of two very different creative forces, and makes you want to revisit the film! (For which you have the opportunity).

Sat 21 Dec 13:00-18:30 Tickets £15 (£12.50 Friends/Students) Inc. Complimentary interval wine.

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Bolshoi Ballet

Sleeping Beauty Recorded 20 Oct 2011 at the Bolshoi

USA/UK 2013 John Lee Hancock 126m

Mary Poppins A pioneering film within Animation, Musicals and Fantasy - one of the warmest and dearest films ever made.

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Stuffy parents in Victorian London are looking for a nanny, but the children write their own ad which is thrown into the fire. Miraculously, the paper floats up the chimney flue, and along comes Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews). She brings fun, magic and a guiding hand to the children’s lives. Based upon Travis’ book, won Oscars for Best Actress, Editing, Score, Song and Visual Effects. Showing in conjunction with ‘Saving Mr Banks’.

USA 1964 Robert Stevenson 139m

Wagner’s profound meditation on guilt, death and possible redemption, is always a remarkable event and concludes our tribute to his 200th centenary.

Directed by Stephen Langridge and conducted by Antonio Pappano, the creative team who brought Birtwistle’s brutal, beautiful Minotaur to the stage, this is especially exciting. An extraordinary cast of Wagnerian singers come together: Heldentenor Simon O’Neill, recently acclaimed for his Siegmund, sings Parsifal; the magnificent bass René Pape is Gurnemanz; Gerald Finley makes his role debut as Amfortas, Willard White sings the sorcerer Klingsor, and versatile Angela Denoke is Kundry. A Music Drama in 3 Acts in German with English subtiltles.

Running time 330m including 2 intervals.

Sun 22 Dec 15:30 Tickets £15 (£12.50 Friends/Students £10 Children) Inc. Complimentary interval wine/soft drink.

Cursed at birth by the evil fairy Carabosse, Princess Aurora descends into a deep slumber on the day of her 16th birthday.

Only the kiss of a prince will awaken her.

Based on Charles Perrault’s classic fairy tale, ‘Sleeping Beauty’ has been hugely successful since its premiere in 1890. Marius Petipa’s masterpiece is one of the most popular and accomplished choreographic works in the classical repertoire. The new version by Yuri Grigorovich will captivate fairy-tale lovers and the whole family during the Christmas season. With Svetlana Zakharova (Princess Aurora), David Hallberg (Prince Desiré).

A ballet in 3 acts by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky with original choreography by Marius Petipa.

Running time 155m with one interval.

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New Year’s Eve Concert LIVE

Simon Rattle Conducts

The Berlin Philharmonic with Lang Lang

Fri 20 Dec 15:30 Mon 23 Dec 20:45 International Panorama: Belgium

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The Broken Circle Breakdown

Tue 31 Dec 16:30 – 18:15 Approx

In Belgium’s official entry for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars, Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight, in spite of their differences.

He talks, she listens. He’s a romantic atheist, she’s a religious realist.

When their daughter becomes seriously ill, their love is put on trial.

In this big love story between bluegrass-playing cowboy Didier and lovely blonde tattoo artist Elise, Belgian director Groeningen manages to cram in some surprisingly accomplished traditional American music, an immensely funny children’s birthday-party scene and one of the sexiest seductions ever. All this and more in your basic boymeets-girl, boy-and-girl-find-perfect-love, boy-and-girl-face-greattragedy-together, perfect-love-cannot-endure-plotline. An oddly uplifting yet desperately sad movie which was the official Belgium submission for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars. (subtitles)

Tickets £12.50 (with complementary post event wine-it is New Year’s Eve!!)

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Classics digitally restored and re-issued

The Bishop’s Wife In this classic comedy fantasy, a bishop (David Niven) trying to get a new cathedral built prays for guidance when an angel (Cary Grant) arrives.

Bishop Brougham (David Niven) has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for by a wealthy, stubborn widow. Enter Dudley (Cary Grant), an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family’s affections, as Christmas approaches. From the novel by Robert Nathan, adapted

by Robert E. Sherwood this Christmas treat has a wonderful cast including Loretta Young, Elsa Lancaster, Gladys Cooper.

Belgium/Netherland 2012 Felix van Groeningen 111m

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It’s a Wonderful Life

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An angel helps a businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.

What would Christmas be without this classic?

George (James Stewart) grows up dreaming dreams of adventure and travel, but circumstances conspire to keep him enslaved to his home turf.

Frustrated by his life, he prepares to commit suicide on Christmas Eve. A heavenly messenger (Henry Travers) arrives to show him a vision: what the world would have been like if George had never been born.

USA 1946 Frank Capra 130m

Hungarian Dances and Lang Lang for New Year´s Eve 2013.

For fans of classical music, dance rhythms are just as much a part of New Year’s Eve as the sound of corks popping and fireworks.

Two of the most popular Hungarian Dances by Brahms, as well as three of the Slavonic Dances by Dvořák, both primitive and elegant rhythms from the geographical centre of Europe, so rich in musical tradition. From the ballet Gayaneh by Khachaturian, the famous ‘Sabre Dance’ is familiar to any music fan.

An exciting counterpoint is the third movement of Paul Hindemith’s ‘Symphonic Dances’. The programme will be complemented with Prokofiev’s ‘Piano Concerto No.3’ with the exciting and incomparable Lang Lang as soloist.

105m approx.

USA 1947 Henry Koster 109m Tue 24 Dec 15:15 Booking Ref

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The Butler

International Panorama: Poland

Walesa: Man of Hope Walesa: Czlowiekz Nadziei

Mon 30 Dec 17:45 Wed 1 Jan 20:45 Thu 2 Jan 13:00 Booking Ref

The life of Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Poland’s Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa.

Final part of Wajda’s trilogy (‘Man of Marble’ & ‘Man of Iron’), his new film tells the story of Lech Walesa (Robert Czlowiekz), the electrician who became leader of the Solidarity union, won the Nobel Prize and become President of Poland. Archive footage meshes with jostling strike scenes, while Walesa’s tense family life is juxtaposed with his dangerous career with the Solidarity movement. Surprisingly a great deal of humour emerges from Walesa’s characterisation. (subtitles) Poland 2013 Andrzej Wajda 127m International Panorama: France

Skylab

Sun 29 Dec 20:45 Mon 30 Dec 12:45 Wed 1 Jan 15:30 Thu 2 Jan 15:30 Booking Ref

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Le Skylab

Also Screening:

During the Summer holidays in Brittany, a whole family are gathered to celebrate Granny Amandine’s 67th birthday.

Delpy’s fourth feature centres upon a 1979 family get together, disrupted by the falling to earth of the Skylab space station.

Delpy drew upon her own childhood experiences, admitting that “a lot of the lines are literally out of my memory”, with many of the characters inspired by family members. The dialogue is natural and well-crafted - she has also always had a Woody Allen style way with her characters. (subtitles) France 2011 Julia Delpy 114m

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USA 2013 Lee Daniels 126m

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Nebraska

International Panorama: Italy

The Great Beauty La Grande Bellezza

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An aging writer recollects his passionate lost youth. A contemporary ‘La Dolca Vita’.

After his 65th birthday, Jep (Toni Servillo) decides to dedicate his life to the search of a meaning. On the background of a mysterious and wonderful Rome, he slowly rediscovers beauty. Sorrentino has returned with a gorgeous movie, the film equivalent of a magnificent banquet composed of 78 sweet courses. Fabulous – the best film shown at Cannes. (subtitles) Italy 2013 Paolo Sorrentino 142m

As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents as a White House butler, civil rights, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man’s life, family and society.

Gaines (Forest Whitaker) grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. He later serves as a hotel valet of such efficiency, that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous Presidents as a passive witness of history. As his wife (Oprah Winfrey) struggles with her addictions, and his eldest son strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness - only light can.” This quote by Martin Luther King, placed at the start of the film is the question at the heart of this compelling film, with a cast including Robin Williams, John Cussack, James Marsden, Alan Rickman, Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave. The first of a recent crop of films examining black issues (‘Mandela’, ‘12 Years A Slave’) that will be sure to have a presence in the Awards Season.

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Alexander Payne’s poignant road movie is a gem featuring a fantastic performance from Bruce Dern.

Payne’s (‘Sideways’) latest charts a trip taken from Montana to Nebraska by David (Will Forte) with his father Woody (Bruce Dern), an irascible, forgetful old boozer. Inevitably, as in ‘Sideways’, the journey proves a sentimental education: as the pair encounter Woody’s estranged family, friends and foes, David starts to see how dad managed to turn into such a grouch. Shot in lovely black-and-white, the film paints an affectionate but never sentimentalised portrait of the smalltown midwest. Sweet and sour, bitingly funny and undeniably sad, the movie is a model of tonal delicacy and precision. And in Dern’s performance (which rightly won Dern the Best Actor award in Cannes), Payne has a pitchperfect instrument through which to voice his rich, mixed feelings about the world he grew up in.

USA 2013 Anthony Payne 114m

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Kill Your Darlings

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Daniel Radcliffe shines as the young Allen Ginsberg in this fresh and vibrant take on the early days of the Beat Generation.

The story of the Beat Generation is well documented in cinema, but rarely has it been rendered with such originality and fervour as in John Krokidas’ striking debut, ‘Kill Your Darlings’. Following the trails of a young Allen Ginsberg as he navigates his way through freshman year at Columbia in 1944, the film recounts his burgeoning friendships with William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, and his increasingly noxious relationship with the volatile Lucien Carr; to whom Ginsberg would later dedicate his celebrated poem ‘Howl’. In the lead role, Daniel Radcliffe shines as the infamous young poet desperate to escape from his academic prison and figure out the man he wants to be. If Radcliffe is a revelation, then so too is director Krokidas, who infuses each scene with an urgency and sense of discovery that makes it so visually distinctive without ever overshadowing the emotional authenticity that exists at its core.

USA 2013 John Krokidas 104m

La Traviata Opening night of Milan’s new La Scala Season (recorded) Join us for one of the most prominent arts events of the season – Teatro alla Scala’s opening night.

Taking place annually on December 7, the feast day of Saint Ambrose, the patron saint of Milan, this year, La Scala has chosen the Verdi favourite ‘La Traviata’ to kick off the calendar, with celebrated soprano Diana Damrau as Violetta Valery. Piotr Beczala and Zeljko Lucic round out the cast as Alfredo and Giorgio Germont, respectively.

This new and exciting production will be a must-see event for any opera fan. ‘La Traviata’ will be directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov.

160m approx (includes interval) Sun 5 Jan

15:30

Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) with complimentary interval wine.

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Prisoners

Becoming Traviata

When two girls go missing, a father takes matters into his own hands. But just how far will he go to protect his family?

Two little girls are kidnapped. As the days pass, tensions mount, especially since the prime suspect, the strange Alex Jones, has already been released. Faced with the police dragging their heels and his wife falling apart, Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman), the father of one of the girls, decides to take charge. He kidnaps Jones and beats him in the hope he’ll talk. Meanwhile the detective assigned to the case (Jake Gyllenhaal) is led to another disturbed man with a passion for labyrinths and snakes. Thanks to the talents of cinematographer Richard Deakins (a Coen Brothers regular), ‘Prisoners’ is in league with ‘Mystic River’, ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ and ‘Gone Baby Gone’, guaranteed to cause shivers!

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Traviata et Nous

USA 2013 Denis Villeneuve 153m Sun 5 Jan Booking Ref

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A fascinating insight into the creation of the main role in ‘La Traviata’.

Being a medium that exists in the fourth dimension, cinema is particularly well-suited to detailing process. Béziat reveals the process of rehearsing Verdi’s ‘Traviata’, and in focusing on the energy, commitment and passion of individuals, he shows us not only how an opera staging is assembled but how it is art.

Focussing almost exclusively on the production’s director, Jean-François Sivadier, and its star, Natalie Dessay, we see their rehearsals at various points, but never the completed, public performance. The journey trumps the destination for Béziat’s purposes. Dessay’s achievements feel like the announcement of a great talent. Her determination to get the voice, the choreography and the character right is inspiring and endearing. It is powerful stuff and it allows us to see that art is not just the finished product but the process of creating it as well. (subtitles) France 2013 Philippe Béziat’s 112m BOX OFFICE 01243 786 650

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Destin Daniel Cretton’s semiautobiographical tale of a foster-home worker discovering her own hidden pain.

Grace (Brie Larson) is a young supervisor at a foster-care home for at-risk teenagers.

She’s devoted to her job and to the kids in her charge – so much so that her relationship with long-term boyfriend and co-worker Mason (John Gallagher Jr) appears to be a secondary concern. Grace presents herself as a tough, no-nonsense figure but when troubled Jayden (Kaitlyn Dever) comes into her care, she starts to see her own problems reflected back at herself. This is a deeply affecting work based on her own experiences. Larson gives a breakthrough central performance alongside a superb ensemble cast and, while the film deals with serious issues, Cretton allows moments of lightness and humour that serve to highlight the film’s emotional honesty.

USA 2013 Destin Daniel Cretton 96m

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International Panorama: France

Jeune et Jolie

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Beauty and the Beast La Belle et la Bête

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Marking the 50th anniversary of Cocteau’s death, his muchloved Gothic fantasy has been digitally restored.

With its enchanted castle featuring fantastic living statuary, and Cocteau’s lover Jean Marais starring as a Beast who is at once brutal and gentle, rapacious and vulnerable, shamed and repelled by his own bloodlust, this remains a pinnacle of the cinematic Gothic imagination.

The film unfolds to a perfectly poised tempo in surreal settings that gain intensity from the fabulous decor and costumes, the glittering lighting and the many moments of magic effects. The candle-lit shadowplay deepens the gothic atmosphere, harking back to early expressionist classics of the genre. This new restoration uses the notes and reference prints made by cinematographer Henri Alekan, as well as the diary kept

by Cocteau during filming, which has provided valuable evidence of his ambitions for the look and sound of the film. (subtitles) France 1946 Jean Cocteau 93m

François Ozon returns with the provocative story a 17-yearold student on an unexpected journey of sexual self-discovery.

With a sly nod to Buñuel’s ‘Belle de Jour’, François Ozon returns with the story of Isabelle, a 17-year-old student on an unexpected journey of sexual self-discovery. After losing her virginity during a brief holiday romance, Isabelle returns home and, over the course of the following year, embarks on a secret life of prostitution. In many ways, an extension of his mischievous ‘In The House’, ‘Jeune et Jolie’ continues to explore the effects of rebellious teenage behaviour on the moral ideologies of the bourgeois family. Aided by a star-making turn from model Marine Vacth as the adolescent and sexy provocateur, Ozon’s unsensational approach perfectly complements the youthful irreverence of his main character, while leaving audiences to come to their own moral conclusions. (subtitles) France 2013 François Ozon 94m

Dom Hemingway

Fri 10 Jan 20:30 Mon 13 Jan 18:30 Wed 15 Jan 13:15

After spending 12 years in prison, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway (Jude Law) is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he’s owed.

Jude Law delivers the best performance of his career as a loutish, foul mouthed, London safe cracker. The career criminal hangs out with his one-handed best friend (Richard E. Grant at his most deadpan) trying to get compensated for taking the fall on a botched job from a crazed Russian (Demian Bichir).

When that fails, he tries to find a way back into the safecracking game and looks to make up for lost time with the daughter he never got to see grow up.

Having Richard E. Grant (stealing all the scenes) present for wry commentary makes it impossible not to frame this movie as something of a ‘Withnail & I’ meets ‘The Mafia’, and “Dom Hemingway” is interested in having vulgar, violent and hilarious fun along the way.

UK 2013 Richard Shepard 93m

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International Panorama: Israel

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Lemale et Ha’halal

The true story of the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of an American cargo ship.

Simultaneously a pulsepounding thriller and a complex portrait of the myriad effects of globalization. The film focuses on the relationship between Captain Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks), and his Somali counterpart, Muse (Barkhad Abdi). Set on an incontrovertible collision course off the coast of Somalia, both men will find themselves paying the human toll for economic forces outside of their control.

Fill the Void

Sat 11 Jan 18:30 Mon 13 Jan 13:15 Wed 15 Jan 21:00

A young Jewish woman is pressured into an arranged marriage to an older widower in this look into the world of the Orthodox.

Israel’s official entry to the Oscars last year, is one of the best films so far to emerge from the growing Israeli cinema. It is of particular interest because it’s a rare window into the very closed-community lifestyle of the Orthodox Jews, made by an Orthodox director but with a secular audience in mind. It is a fascinating glimpse into a religious community that hardly ever opens itself up. The focus is the upper middle class Hasidic Mendelman family from Tel Aviv.

The father is a kindly man, Rabbi Aharon, who’s married to Rifka.

The break occurs when their 28 year old daughter, Esther, dies in childbirth. Affectionately portrayed. (subtitles)

Captain Phillips

Sat 11 Jan 13:15 Sun 12 Jan 17:45 Mon 13 Jan 15:30 Tue 14 Jan 20:30 Wed 15 Jan 15:30 Thu 16 Jan 15:30 Booking Ref

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Philomena

Philomena (Judi Dench) searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago.

Israel 2012 Rama Burshstein 90m

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A Streetcar Named Desire As Woody Allen’s hugely successful ‘Blue Jasmine’ was loosely based upon ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, we offer this opportunity to review the original film version.

Elia Kazan’s screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ successful Broadway play. Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) travels to New Orleans to visit her pregnant sister, Stella (Kim Hunter). Stella’s husband, Stanley (Marlon Brando), resents Blanche’s presence, and is unhappy when she begins seeing his friend, Mitch (Karl Malden).

The tension between Blanche and Stanley builds, reaching its climax when Stella is taken into hospital and the pair are left alone together. This extraordinarily fine adaptation won acting Oscars for Leigh, Kim Hunter (as Stella) and Karl Malden (as Blanche’s clueless suitor), but not for Brando’s electrifying performance, but maybe Cate Blanchett’s equally amazing performance as Jasmine will win her an Oscar?

Sun 12 Jan

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USA 1951 Elia Kazan 118m

USA 2013 Paul Greengrass 134m

Fri 10 Jan Sat 11 Jan Sun 12 Jan Mon 13 Jan Tue 14 Jan Wed 15 Jan Thu 16 Jan

13:15 16:15 12:45 20:45 15:30 18:30 13:15

This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of Philomena Lee who, after pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, was sent to a convent and had her child whisked away by the nuns to America for adoption. She spent the next 50 years searching for him in vain before meeting journalist Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan), who embarked on a quest with her to find her son.

UK/USA/France 2013 Stephen Frears 98m

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Blue Jasmine

Cate Blanchett shines in Woody Allen’s brilliant tragi-comedy.

Fri Sat Tue Thu

10 Jan 11 Jan 14 Jan 16 Jan

15:45 20:45 18:00 21:00

After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal (Alec Baldwin), elegant New York socialite Jasmine (Blanchett) moves into her sister Ginger’s (Sally Hawkins) modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again. Loosely echoing ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ (screening this week), Woody Allen’s latest is a stunning achievement.

USA 2013 Woody Allen 98m

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Fri 17 Jan Sat 18 Jan Sun 19 Jan Mon 20 Jan Tue 21 Jan Wed 22 Jan Thu 23 Jan

12:45 & 18:00 15:15 & 20:30 20:30 12:45 & 18:00 15:15 & 20:30 14:30 12:45 & 18:00

An office worker who lives inside fantasy worlds where he gets to live an adventurous life while romancing his co-worker, sets off on a global journey to fix things when both of their jobs are threatened.

Ben Stiller directs and stars in James Thurber’s classic story of a day-dreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. When his job along with that of his co-worker (Kristen Wiig) are threatened, Walter takes action in the real world embarking on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined. The cast also includes Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott & Sean Penn.

USA 2014 Ben Stiller

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Jewels Bolshoi Ballet A triptych of ballets with music

by Gabriel Fauré (Emeralds), Igor Stravinsky (Rubies), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Diamonds) and choreographed by George Balanchine.

Sun 19 Jan

15:00

Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) with complimentary interval wine.

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Inspired by the famous jewellers of New York’s Fifth Avenue, this triptych is a tribute to women, and to the cities of Paris, New York and St Petersburg.

Choreographed in 1967 in New York City, this ballet, with its jewel-like costumes, celebrates the three cities and three dance schools that forged the elegance, aesthetic and style of choreographer George Balanchine. ‘Emeralds’ was conceived as a poetic tribute to the French romantic school and ‘Rubies’ to the American tradition of Broadway musicals, while ‘Diamonds’ honours the virtuosity of classical Russian dancers. With the Bolshoi Principals including Karim Abdullin, Dmitry Gudanov, Nina Kaptsova, Ekaterina Shipulina and Corps de Ballet.

150m approx inc. 2 intervals.

Fri 17 Jan Sat 18 Jan Sun 19 Jan Mon 20 Jan Tue 21 Jan Wed 22 Jan Thu 23 Jan Tue 28 Jan Wed 29 Jan Thu 30 Jan

The Railway Man

15:30 & 20:45 12:45 & 18:00 12:30 & 18:00 15:30 & 20:45 12:45 & 18:00 12:15 & 17:00 15:30 & 20:45 12:30 15:30 16:15

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A victim from WWII’s “Death Railway”, Eric (Colin Firth) sets out to find those responsible for his torture. Based upon a true story.

Eric Lomax was one of thousands of Allied prisoners forced to work on the construction of the Thai/Burma railway during WW2. His experiences, after the secret radio he built to bring news and hope to his colleagues was discovered, left him traumatised and shut off from the world.

Years later, he met Patti (Nicole Kidman) on a train and fell in love and married. Discovering that the young Japanese officer who haunted her husband was still alive, she faced a terrible decision. Should Eric be given a chance to confront his tormentor? Firth gives an excellent performance in the lead role - his meticulously detailed performance does for post-traumatic stress disorder what his performance as the King George did for confidence and leadership in ‘The King’s Speech’. It’s ‘Brief Encounter’ meets ‘Bridge on the River Kwai’.

UK 2013 Jonathan Teplitzky 116m

Gravity A routine space mission turns into a fight for survival for Sandra Bullock and George Clooney in Alfonso Cuarón’s nerve-shredding thrill ride.

USA 2013 Alfonso Cuarón 90m See Pg15 for Full Film Details.

Fri 24 Jan 15:45 Sat 25 Jan 21:15 Sun 26 Jan 18:00 Booking Ref

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The Innocents

International Panorama: South Africa

Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom

Fri 24 Jan Sat 25 Jan Sun 26 Jan Mon 27 Jan Tue 28 Jan Wed 29 Jan Thu 30 Jan Fri 31 Jan Sat 1 Feb Wed 5 Feb Thu 6 Feb

12:45 & 18:00 13:00 & 18:15 15:00 & 20:15 12:30 & 20:15 15:00 & 18:00 12:30 & 20:45 13:00 20:15 17:45 15:00 17:45

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Compelling portrait celebrating Nelson Mandela’s extraordinary life.

Mandela (Idris Elba) was unknown to most of the world - lover of fancy cars, ladies’ man, boxing enthusiast, playboy, skilful lawyer and freedom fighter. The film is an intimate portrait of the making of a modern icon. Based on his autobiography, this is the first film to tell his whole story, with a screenplay penned by acclaimed screenwriter William Nicholson (‘Shadowlands’ & ‘Gladiator’).

Dashing and physically imposing as the younger Mandela, Idras Elba’s body language relaxes as Mandela ages; he seems to acquire wisdom and gravitas along with whitening hair and a shuffling gait. There are lots of events to pack in, and the screenplay is laudably comprehensive; yet he has a gift for conveying milestone moments briskly.

UK/South Africa 2013 Justin Chadwick 146m

Sun 26 Jan 12:45 Classics digitally restored and re-issued Booking Ref

International Panorama: Afghanistan

International Panorama: Israel

Big Bad Wolves

The Patience Stone Syngué Sabour

Sat 25 Jan 16:00 Mon 27 Jan 15:30 Tue 28 Jan 21:00 Booking Ref

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A paralyzed husband unconsciously assumes the role of a magical force which shields his wife from the sorrows of life.

In a country torn apart by a war, a young woman watches over her older husband who is reduced to the state of a vegetable because of a bullet in the neck. One day, she decides to tell him the truth about her feelings. She talks about her childhood, her suffering, her dreams, her desires... she says things she could never have done before. This paralyzed man unconsciously becomes ‘syngué sabour’, a magic stone which according to Persian mythology, shields her from unhappiness, suffering, pains and miseries.

Writer/director Rahimi has much to say about war, women and oppressive societies. The illusion of power and control persist on some level, but does anyone really win in the end? (subtitles) Afghanistan/ France/ Germany/ UK 2012 Atiq Rahimi 102m

This celebrated 1961 adaptation of Henry James’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ (1898) is re-issued and digitally restored starring Deborah Kerr.

Scripted by William Archibald and Truman Capote, with additional scenes and dialogue by John Mortimer, this is a brilliant exercise in psychological horror.

It tells of an impressionable and repressed governess, Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr), who agrees to tutor two orphaned children, Miles (Martin Stephens) and Flora (Pamela Franklin). On arrival at Bly House, she becomes convinced that the children are possessed by the perverse spirits of former governess Miss Jessel (Clytie Jessop) and her Heathcliff-like lover Quint (Peter Wyngarde), who both met with mysterious deaths. The sinister atmosphere of ‘The Innocents’ is carefully created – not through shock tactics – but through its cinematography (Freddie Francis), soundtrack (Georges Auric) and decor. But it is Deborah Kerr in the performance of her career that makes this such an intensely unsettling experience.

UK 1961 Jack Clayton 95m

Fri 24 Jan 21:00 Mon 27 Jan 17:45

A series of brutal murders puts the lives of three men on a collision course: the vengeful father of the latest victim, a vigilante detective operating outside the law, and the main suspect in the killings - a religious studies teacher.

This is an extremely well-made work that cleverly toys with genres (blending horror, crime thriller, revenge drama, and black comedy) and with the audience’s emotions, making them unsure of what to believe and feel throughout. It’s the story of a child-killer, whom an early scene may or may not be introducing as a group of cops attempt to bully their suspect, a wimpy-looking schoolteacher, into admitting his guilt. After they fail, one of the cops (Lior Ashkenazi), now on suspension, teams up (in a sense) with the father of a girl who’s been brutally murdered and employs even harsher tactics to break the guy down. (subtitles) Israel 2013 Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado 110m

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Back by Popular Demand

Giselle ROH Ballet

Hannah Arendt

Delayed Live Recorded 27 Jan at the Royal Opera House

Wed 29 Jan 18:15 Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) with complimentary interval wine.

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Sir Peter Wright’s superlative production of the quintessential romantic ballet.

Giselle is a lonely peasant girl with a love of dancing. She falls for Count Albrecht, who has led her to believe that he is a villager named Loys. But Giselle’s discovery of this deception has tragic consequences. From the moment it was first staged in Paris in 1841, ‘Giselle’ transformed the world of dance. It is an intoxicating blend of human passions, supernatural forces, and the transcendent power of self-sacrificing love. Drawing on Marius Petipa’s classic version, first staged in St Petersburg in 1884, it is particularly admired for the breath-taking beauty of its ethereal White Act, during which vengeful spirits of young brides who died before their wedding day float through the mist of a moonlit forest. Ballet in 2 acts. Music by Adolphe Adam, conducted by Boris Gruzin with Natalia Osipova (Giselle), Carlos Acosta (Albrecht) and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. 130m inc. interval.

NT LIVE

Coriolanus

Thu 30 Jan 19:00 (Live) Sat 1 Feb 14:30 (Encore) Tickets £15.00 (Friends/Students £12.50) inc. complimentary interval wine

National Theatre Live broadcasts the Donmar Warehouse’s production of Shakespeare’s searing tragedy of political manipulation and revenge.

When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But he has enemies at home too. Famine threatens the city, the citizens’ hunger swells to an appetite for change, and on returning from the field Coriolanus must confront the march of realpolitik and the voice of an angry people. With Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers, War Horse, BBC’s The Hollow Crown) in the title role and Mark Gatiss (Season’s Greetings at the National Theatre, BBC’s Sherlock) as Menenius, and directed by the Donmar’s Artistic Director Josie Rourke.

A look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for The New Yorker on the war crimes trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann.

Hannah Arendt (Barbara Sukowa) is a renowned writer and celebrated political theorist living in America when she accepts an offer from The New Yorker to cover the Jerusalem war trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann.

Defiant, Eichmann refuses to take responsibility for his actions, an act of self-preservation that challenges Hannah to consider the true source of evil. Returning home, the writer assembles her story but is hit with immediate controversy, fielding death threats from those who refuse to understand her meaning. The film is refreshingly dry and crisp, and it’s as pragmatic as its hero.

It is gratifying to see a film that actively courts the mind rather than the heart. (Subtitles).

Fri 31 Jan 15:00 Mon 3 Feb 15:15 Wed 5 Feb 20:45

Germany 2012 Margarethe von Trotta 113m

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American Hustle

Bolshoi Ballet

Lost Illusions

Recorded on 11 March 2012

Sun 2 Feb

Inspired by Lord Byron’s poem, Marius Petipa’s version of the ballet was part of the Bolshoi’s repertoire until the beginning of the 20th century.

In the marketplace of Adrianople, the beautiful Medora is sold to Pasha by a slave dealer. But a pirate, hidden among the crowd with his companions, decides to kidnap her. In 2007 Alexei Ratmansky and Yuri Burlaka presented a new choreographic version, which stands out as the most sumptuous of all. Thrilling suspense is at the core of this lavish exotic fable, an amazing production complete with pirates, kidnapping, a shipwreck, and a record 120 dancers on stage. Music: Adolphe Adam.

Original choreography: Marius Petipa. Revival and new version: Alexei Ratmansky and Yuri Burlaka. With Svetlana Lunkina (Medora), Ruslan Skvortsov (Conrad) and Nina Kaptsova (Gulnara).

180m inc. 2 intervals.

15:00

Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) with complimentary interval wine.

Fri 31 Jan Sat 1 Feb Sun 2 Feb Mon 3 Feb Tue 4 Feb Wed 5 Feb Thu 6 Feb

12:15 & 17:30 12:00 & 20:45 12:15 & 20:30 12:15 & 18:00 14:45 & 20:30 12:30 & 18:00 15:00 & 20:45

A con man (Christian Bale) and his seductive British partner (Amy Adams), are forced to work for a wild FBI agent.

A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock a nation, ‘American Hustle’ tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld, who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser, are forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that’s as dangerous as it is enchanting.

Jeremy Renner is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving’s unpredictable wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down.

USA 2013 David O. Russell 129m

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Epic of Everest

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Sun 2 Feb 18:30 Tue 4 Feb 12:45 Back by Popular Demand Booking Ref

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The official film record of the legendary Everest expedition of 1924 is one of the most remarkable films in the BFI National Archive. Its restoration and release coincides with the 60th anniversary of the final conquest of Everest in 1953 by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.

Filming in brutally harsh conditions with a hand-cranked camera, Captain John Noel captured images of breathtaking beauty and considerable historic significance. The film is also among the earliest filmed records of life in Tibet and features astounding monastery sequences. But what resonates so deeply is Noel’s ability to frame the vulnerability, isolation and courage of people persevering in one of the world’s harshest landscapes. The restoration has transformed the quality of the surviving elements of the film and reintroduced the original coloured tints. Few images in cinema are as epic – or moving – as the final shots of a blood red sunset over the Himalayas.

UK 1924 Captain John Noel 85m BOX OFFICE 01243 786 650

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The Butler

Fri 7 Feb Sat 8 Feb Sun 9 Feb Mon 10 Feb Tue 11 Feb Wed 12 Feb Thu 13 Feb

As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man’s life, family, and American society.

15:30 & 20:45 18:00 12:45 & 18:00 15:30 & 20:45 12:45 & 18:00 14:30 15:30 & 20:45

USA 2013 Lee Daniels 126m See pg27 for Full Film Details

Mon 3 Feb 20:45 Tue 4 Feb 17:45 Thu 6 Feb 12:30

Inside Llewyn Davis

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The Coen brothers’ funny, melancholic elegy to early 1960s folk music is as cinematically nimble as it is musically rich.

Shambolic and self-absorbed, Llewyn (Oscar Isaac) is a penniless musician trying to make it as a solo artist, but struggling to break through. Things go from hapless to hopeless when Llewyn loses the beloved marmalade cat of a couple he crashes with, and discovers that his fling with married songstress Jean (Carey Mulligan) has resulted in a very unwanted pregnancy. Deliciously playful, this is the Coens working on the intimate scale of ‘A Serious Man’, in the thematic territory of ‘Barton Fink’ and with the musical veracity and inventiveness of ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ Punctuated throughout with terrifically memorable characters (John Goodman and Justin Timberlake), it plays on the traditional biopic, creating a fictional reality that is coherent and honest in its portrayal of creative vulnerability and hubris, and that is heartfelt in its love for the era and its sounds. It was the hottest ticket at Cannes this year.

USA 2013 Joel Coen & Ethan Coen 115m

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Leviathan Fri 7 Feb Sat 8 Feb Sun 9 Feb Mon 10 Feb Tue 11 Feb Wed 12 Feb Thu 13 Feb

August: Osage County

12:45 & 18:00 12:30 & 20:30 15:15 & 20:30 12:45 & 18:00 15:15 & 20:30 12:00 & 16:45 12:45 & 18:00

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Splendid film version of playwright Tracy Letts’ acid-tongued Broadway triumph, about three generations in a large and highly dysfunctional Oklahoma family.

We are introduced to the Weston clan by way of patriarch Beverly, a melancholic poet (an excellent Sam Shepard), who quotes T.S. Eliot’s immortal maxim that “life is very long” just before turning up drowned in a local lake. The funeral serves as a family reunion, the previously empty house filling to the rafters with Beverly’s three grown daughters, their significant others and assorted relations.

None will leave without incurring the wrath of the widow Weston, Violet (Meryl Streep), a cancer-stricken, pill-popping martinet. From all points they converge: Barbara (Julia Roberts), the eldest, with her estranged husband Bill (Ewan McGregor) and moody teen daughter Jean (Abigail Breslin); Karen (Juliette Lewis), the youngest, who shows up on the arm of her sleazy supposed fiancé; and middle child Ivy (Julianne Nicholson), sweet on her first cousin “Little” Charles (Benedict Cumberbatch). The film (and play) is in the tradition of Great American Plays (Edward Albee, Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams) set in just such environs.

USA 2013 John Wells 130m

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An experimental documentary shot in the North Atlantic and focused on the commercial fishing industry.

An interestingly filmed documentary that suggests a sensory experience rather than just capturing the conventional “beauty” of the sea. The camera seeks to document fish, birds, nets, man, sea with the same curiosity and intensity. The extreme camera movement captures the essence of this world where everything moves constantly. Throughout the film there is an insistent mixing and blurring between the sea and the sky, up and down. Beautifully recorded sound avoiding a commentary produces an interesting and genuine experience. To understand what the film is going for, it’s helpful to know that it was made by French anthropologist Verana Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, the latter a professor at Harvard University’s acclaimed Sensory Ethnography Lab. UK/USA/France 2013 Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel 87m BOX OFFICE 01243 786 650

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Valentine’s Day Screenings 12 Years a Slave Nöel Coward’s

Private Lives Valentine Days Special

Sat 8 Feb 15:00 Fri 14 Feb 18:00 (Valentine’s Day Special)

A Chichester Festival Theatre production captured live in London at the Gielgud Theatre.

Elyot (Toby Stephens) and Amanda (Anna Chancellor) are glamorous, reckless . . . and divorced. Five years later, their love for one another is unexpectedly rekindled when they take adjoining suites of a French hotel while honeymooning with their new spouses. This chance encounter instantly reignites their passion, without a thought for partners present or turbulences past. This explosive production proves Coward still has the power to thrill, provoke and delight.

Directed by Jonathan Church.

160m including interval.

Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) with complimentary interval wine.

Fri 14 Feb Sat 15 Feb Sun 16 Feb Mon 17 Feb Tue 18 Feb Wed 19 Feb Thu 20 Feb

12:30 & 17:15 15:15 & 20:30 12:00 & 18:30 14:00 & 16:30 15:15 & 20:15 12:00 & 18:00 15:00 & 18:00

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Steve McQueen confirms his directorial prowess with this hugely important and beautifully cinematic account of slavery in pre-Civil War America.

McQueen (‘Hunger’, ‘Shame’) tackles the long-untouchable subject of slavery. Solomon (an extraordinary performance from Chiwetel Ejiofor) is an accomplished violinist living as a free man in New York who is conned into joining a travelling show then brutally abducted and sold as a slave. When his benevolent first owner (Benedict Cumberbatch) sells him to an abusive plantation (Michael Fassbender), any chance to prove the illegitimacy of his situation seems lost. Solomon and his fellow slaves are subjected to escalating bouts of violence and their struggle to maintain dignity becomes increasingly desperate. Based on Solomon Northup’s confronting memoir, this unrelenting, indelible work of cinema is timely as both an expansion of, and antidote to, the very different ventures of ‘Django Unchained’ and ‘Lincoln’.

Featuring stellar cinematography and editing plus a resounding score from Hans Zimmer.

USA 2013 Steve McQueen 133m

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Casablanca Valentine’s Day Special

Sat 15 Feb 18:15 Classics Digitally Restored and Re-issued Booking Ref

A truly perfect movie for Valentine’s Day (well one day late!), the 1942 Casablanca still wows viewers today, and for good reason.

Its unique story of a love triangle set against terribly high stakes in the war against a monster is sophisticated instead of outlandish, intriguing instead of garish. Humphrey Bogart plays the allegedly apolitical club owner in unoccupied French territory that is nevertheless crawling with Nazis; Ingrid Bergman is the lover who mysteriously deserted him in Paris; and Paul Heinreid is her heroic, slightly bewildered husband. Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Conrad Veidt are among what may be the best supporting cast in the history of Hollywood films.

This is certainly among the most spirited and ennobling movies ever made.

USA 1942 Michael Curtiz 102m

Don Giovanni

Delayed Live - Recorded live by satellite at Royal Opera House on 12 Feb.

Sun 16 Feb 14:30 Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) inc. complimentary interval wine.

A new production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera in 2 acts, sung in Italian with English subtitles.

Mozart’s sublime tragic comedy offers boundless scope for directors, and Kasper Holten has chosen it to follow his directorial debut of Eugene Onegin. He wants to shift the emphasis from Don Giovanni’s sex life into a darker place, showing Giovanni’s womanizing as an attempt to stave off his own mortality. Each woman he seduces represents a life he could have had. Though it is a dark piece, Holten intends to handle it with a light touch and he is working with a superb cast – Mariusz Kwiecien, one of the world’s leading Don Giovannis, Alex Esposito, a fresh, vigorous Leporello and acclaimed French soprano Véronique Gens under the baton of Antonio Pappano.

220m including one interval.

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International Panorama: France

Love is In the Air

LIVE

Simon Rattle Conducts

Amour & Turbulences

Fri Sat Tue Thu

14 Feb 15 Feb 18 Feb 20 Feb

15:00 13:00 18:00 21:00

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The Berlin Philharmonic

On a flight from NY to Paris, Antoine finds himself sitting right next to his ex-girlfriend Julie. A delightful, very French comedy.

Antoine (Nicolas Bedos) and Julie (Ludivine Sagnier) broke up three years ago, then chance puts them beside each other on a plane from NY to Paris. He has seven hours to plead his case, but soon to be married Julie, argues that his seduction won’t work. Under the rapt attention of other passengers thrilled by the live soap opera, Antoine has only one chance to prove his powers of persuasion, a plea that could change their lives. (subtitles) France 2013 Alexendre Castagnetti 96m

Bach’s St Johns Passion Experience the magical collaboration of Sir Simon Rattle, Peter Sellars and a topclass cast of singers.

Having staged Bach’s ‘St Matthew Passion’ at the Salzburg Easter Festival, Peter Sellars presents ‘St John Passion’ and comments: “It is not theatre. It is a prayer, a meditation.” He promises it be an equally memorable, theatrically-enhanced performance of this towering work of musical devotion. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Rundfunkchor Berlin and an international cast of magnificent vocal soloists for what promises to be a deeply moving musical experience. Camilla Tilling Soprano; Magdalena Kožená - Mezzosoprano; Topi Lehtipuu - Tenor (Arien); Mark Padmore - Tenor (Evangelist); Roderick Williams - Baritone (Christus); Christian Gerhaher - Baritone (Pilatus, Petrus). 180m.

The Hobbit:

The Desolation of Smaug

Tue 18 Feb 12:15 Wed 19 Feb 14:30 Thu 20 Feb 12:00

The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf continue their journey to get their gold back from the Dragon, Smaug.

After crossing the Misty Mountains, the party attempt to reach the human settlement of Laketown, where Bilbo will have to fulfil his contract with the dwarves. They must complete the journey to Lonely Mountain and burglar Baggins must seek out the Secret Door that will give them access to the hoard of the dragon Smaug.

New Zealand/USA 2013 Peter Jackson 165m approx

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Frozen Fearless optimist Anna teams up with Kristoff in an epic journey to find Anna’s sister Elsa.

In this animated Disney odyssey, Anna (Kristen Bell) teams up with rugged mountain man Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) and his loyal reindeer Sven in an epic journey, encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf in a race to find Anna’s sister Elsa (voice of Idina Menzel), whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter.

Mon 17 Feb 12:00 Fri 21 Feb 12:30 Booking Ref

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USA 2013 Chris Buck

Fri

28 Feb 18:30

Tickets £12.50 Booking Ref

Seating plan M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 L3

L4

L5

L6

M9

L1

L2

K1

K2 K3 K4 K5 K6

K7 K8 K9 K10

L7

L8

L9 L10

J1

J2

J3

J4

J5

J6

J7

J8

J9 J10

i1

i2

i3

i4

i5

i6

i7

i8

i9

i10

H1

H2 H3 H4 H5 H6

H7 H8 H9 H10

G1

G2 G3 G4 G5 G6

G7 G8 G9 G10

F1

F2

F3 F4 F5

F6

F7

F8 F9 F10

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E3 E4 E5 E6

E7

E8 E9

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ENTRANCE D2 D3

C1

D4 D5 D6

C2 C3

B1 A1

C4 C5 C6

B2 B3

B4 B5 B6

A2 A3

E1 & E10 Usher Seats

A4 A5 A6 SCREEN

E4 -E6 Wheelchairs

BOX OFFICE 01243 786 650

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Ticket prices Winter 2013

AT NEW PARK

Full price Senior citizens

£8.00 £7.50

(For first two matinees everyday)

Friends Full time Students / Unemployed Children under 15 Student Gold

£7.00 £5.50 £3.50 £1.00

Special Events as listed Valid cards must be shown to obtain concessions.

Credit Vouchers can be issued if you cancel a minimum of 24 hours prior to the film.

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Chichester Cinema at New Park Ltd. New Park Road, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 7XY

Vice Presidents: Dame Maggie Smith and Kenneth Branagh Artistic Consultant: Roger Gibson

General Manager: Walter Francisco Registered Charity No. 1099780

The cinema gratefully acknowledges the generous support of: Design: The Graphic Design House www.tgdh.co.uk • 023 9233 4971

BOX OFFICE 01243 786 650

chichestercinema.org Advance booking by Phone, Online or at the Box Office is reccommended.

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