Upcoming Films December 2014

PADDINGTON - FROM FRIDAY 5 DECEMBER

DECEMBER 2014

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WELCOME TO MAREEL CINEMA

TICKET PRICES

This leaflet contains details of most of the films you can expect to see at Mareel this month. Please be aware that, due to the flexible nature of cinema programming, some details may be subject to change.

MATINEES:

CINEMA TICKETS Our prices vary depending on the day and time of the performance, and the type of screening. When booking you will be asked to choose between two different ticket types: adult or concession. Concessions include children aged up to 15 years old (those aged 16 and above must buy adult tickets), students (must produce valid ID), seniors (aged 60+), and people with disabilities.

Tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded once purchased. Customers are responsible for checking that they have booked the correct tickets at time of purchase as mistakes cannot be rectified at a later date. Only in the event of a screening being cancelled will your ticket be refunded.

FESTIVE OPENING HOURS

before 5pm

Price per ticket

Monday to Friday

£5.50 / £4.50

Saturday, Sunday, Holidays*

£7 / £5

EVENINGS:

from 5pm onwards Monday

£7 / £5

Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

£8 / £6

Friday, Saturday, Holidays*

£9 / £7

SPECIAL SCREENINGS: Senior Screening (includes refreshment ) £6

Sun - Thu: 10am - 11pm Fri - Sat: 10am - 1am Christmas Eve: 10am – 8pm

*Holidays include Bank Holidays, Christmas’ Eve, Boxing Day, & New Year’s Eve.

Boxing Day: 1pm – 8pm

• 3D screenings cost an extra £1 on top of ticket prices.

New Year’s Eve: 10am – 1am

• 3D glasses cost an additional £1 and are reusable.

Closed: Christmas Day, New Year’s Day & 2nd Jan Shetland Arts Development Agency manages Mareel, the Garrison Theatre & Bonhoga Gallery. We also develop and promote a year round programme of film, music, theatre, literature, visual arts, & dance events.

We do this because we want to see Shetland celebrated as a place where inspiration & innovation are valued; where people want to live, work & study; and we want the full social & economic potential of the islands to be achieved.

Shetland Arts is supported by Creative Scotland and core funded by the Shetland Charitable Trust. Shetland Arts is a registered charity (SCO37082).

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WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY Showing from: Fri 28 Nov

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1

Tickets on sale: Now

Showing from: Fri 28 Nov

Doug (David Tennant) and Abi (Rosamund Pike) and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug’s father Gordie’s (Billy Connolly) birthday party.

It’s soon clear that when it comes to keeping a secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are their biggest liability... From the creators of the hit BBC comedy series Outnumbered – What We Did On Our Holiday is a heart-warming, uplifting comedy for all the family.

Tickets on sale: Now Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she’s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she’s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what’s worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss’s family, not her friends, not the people of District 12...

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TONY BENN: WILL & TESTAMENT Showing from: Fri 28 Nov Tickets on sale: Now In this moving and informative tribute to Tony Benn, the political firebrand, prolific diarist, charismatic anti-war campaigner, husband and father presents his own personal reflections on his childhood and youth, marriage and family, political career and retirement through intimate, confessional interviews wonderfully illustrated by his personal photographic and film archives.

THE IMITATION GAME

LE JOUR SE LÈVE

Showing from: Fri 28 Nov

Showing from: Fri 28 Nov

Tickets on sale: Now

Tickets on sale: Now

The Imitation Game is a nail-biting race against time following Alan Turing (pioneer of modern-day computing and credited with cracking the German Enigma code) and his brilliant team at Britain’s topsecret code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II. Turing, whose contributions and genius significantly shortened the war, saving thousands of lives, was the eventual victim of an unenlightened British establishment, but his work and legacy live on.

French language film with English subtitles. Marcel Carne and Jacques Prevert’s classic of French poetic realism stars Jean Gabin in one of his most famous roles as Francois, a rough, barrel-chested loner who hides out in his apartment awaiting for the police to arrive. Francois has killed a man in a crime of passion, the slimy lothario Valentin (Jules Berry). As he listens in the darkness of his Normandy apartment to the police sirens closing in and getting louder, he recalls the two women that he loved – Francoise and Clara - and the evil Valentin, who stole both their hearts.

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GHOSTBUSTERS Showing on: Sun 30 Nov Tickets on sale: Now When New York becomes overrun with supernatural forces, the fate of the city hangs on a thread, and only four men can save the day. Enter Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, Winston Zeddemore and Egon Spencer – all hapless parapsychologists, who have a talent for hunting down ghosts and ghouls. After the press gets wind of their operation, they soon become celebrities, and their workload increases significantly as the reports of strange sightings come flooding in. When their ghost containment system is deactivated, New York is plagued by spirits, and the Ghostbusters are faced with the biggest challenge of their career. Can they defeat demigod Zuul, and overcome the attack of a fifty foot Stay Puft Marshmallow Man? Or is this the end for The Big Apple as we know it?

McCULLIN Showing on Tue 2 Dec Tickets on sale: Now Showing in light of the ARTIST ROOMS Don McCullin exhibition, entitled ‘Fallen’, showing at Bonhoga Gallery and Da Gadderie in Shetland Museum & Archives from 29 November 2014 – 22 February 2015.

Granted unprecedented access to the archives of veteran Times war photographer Don McCullin, directors Jacqui and David Morris interweave candid interviews with the man himself, archive footage of the conflicts he covered and a huge range of his devastating photographs. The result is a vivid and moving portrait of one of the most important photojournalists of the 20th century. By turns emotionally demanding and strangely uplifting, this powerful documentary proves a fitting tribute to a truly remarkable man.

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PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR 3D & 2D Showing from: Fri 5 Dec Tickets on sale: Wed 26 Nov The lovably boisterous penguins from the Madagascar films return in this spin-off espionage adventure.

Skipper, Private, Kowalski, and Rico lead double lives as super spies and their latest mission is nothing less than saving the world from the evil ambitions of sinister octopus Dr Octavious Brine (John Malkovich). They must join forces with an elite inter-species task force, North Wind, led by a wolf named Classified (Benedict Cumberbatch) to sabotage Dr Octavious’ villainous plans for world domination. Eric Darnell (Co-director and writer of the other Madagascar films) and Simon J. Smith bring us gasps and laughs aplenty in their latest feature. DreamWorks have pulled out all the visual stops and it promises to be a family favourite this Christmas.

THE SKELETON TWINS Showing from: Fri 5 Dec Tickets on sale: Wed 26 Nov After many years of estrangement, twins Maggie (Kristen Wiig) and Milo (Bill Hader) lead separate lives on opposite sides of the country. When both feel that they’re at the end of their ropes, an unexpected reunion forces them to confront how their lives went so wrong.

For Maggie, that means re-examining her marriage to sweet natured frat boy Lance (Luke Wilson) and her own self-destructive tendencies, while Milo must face the pain of an early heartbreak he never quite got past. As the twins’ reunion reinvigorates them both, they realize the key to fixing their lives just may lie in accepting the past and mending their relationship with each other.

PADDINGTON Showing from: Fri 5 Dec

Tickets on sale: Wed 26 Nov

Adapted from Michael Bond’s beloved books, Paddington follows the comic misadventures of a polite young bear with an endearing talent for comic chaos.

Paddington has grown up deep in the Peruvian jungle with his Aunt Lucy who, inspired by a chance encounter with an English explorer, has raised her nephew to dream of an exciting life in London. When an earthquake destroys their home, Aunt Lucy decides to smuggle her young nephew on board a boat bound for England, in search of a better life.

Arriving alone at Paddington Station, Paddington soon finds that city life is not all he had imagined - until he meets the kindly Brown family, who find him with a label tied around his neck which reads ‘Please look after this bear. Thank you.’ They offer him a temporary home whilst he searches for the explorer who impressed Aunt Lucy all those years before. But when Paddington catches the eye of a sinister, seductive taxidermist, it isn’t long before his home - and very existence - is under threat ...

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Mondays at 11am For parents/guardians with babies up to 18 months old.

1 Dec 8 Dec 15 Dec 22 Dec 29 Dec

WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY p3 PADDINGTON p7 THE HOBBIT 3 p11 NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 3 p13 EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS p15

We are also happy for parents/guardians with babies up to 18 months old to attend any morning or afternoon screening with a U, PG or 12A certification.

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB

BABES IN ARMS

SENIOR SCREENINGS

Wednesdays at 2pm Weekly screenings for our mature guests (60+), offered at a discounted rate with refreshments included in the ticket price.

3 Dec THE IMITATION GAME p4 10 Dec PADDINGTON p7 17 Dec THE HOBBIT 3 p11 24 Dec IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE p12 31 Dec EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS p15

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

(Please retain your ticket to claim your refreshments)

FILM WEDNESDAYS

Wednesdays at 8pm + additional Sunday screenings The best of independent & world cinema, classic films & documentaries, for film lovers.

3 Dec 10 Dec 17 Dec 31 Dec

LE JOUR SE LÈVE p4 CITIZENFOUR p10 LEVIATHAN p12 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY p16

Access to unlimited film at Mareel for just £22.50 a month.

Access to unlimited off-peak film at Mareel for just £18 a month.

A PERFECT GIFT FOR CHRISTMAS

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

PROMOTIONS & SPECIAL SCREENINGS

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SUBTITLED SCREENINGS

1 Dec 8 Dec 15 Dec 22 Dec 29 Dec

THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES

Mondays at 8.15pm And where possible additional week day matinees.

THE IMITATION GAME p4 PADDINGTON p7 THE HOBBIT 3 p11 NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 3 p13 EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS p15

Some screenings may be subject to change.

Please check weekly film flyer for updates.

ASN FRIENDLY SCREENINGS

Twice per month* For people with additional support needs & their families, friends, & carers. It is fine for customers to move around, make noise, or take a break during the film.

GHOSTBUSTERS

30 Nov GHOSTBUSTERS p5 14 Dec PADDINGTON p7

AUTISM FRIENDLY SCREENINGS

7 Dec

PADDINGTON

Monthly screening for people on the autistic spectrum & their families, friends, & carers. Soundtrack volume is reduced & low lights are left on. It is fine for customers to move around, make noise, or take a break during the film.

PADDINGTON p7

FAMILY & FRIENDS

TEN 4 NINE

For groups of 4 including 2+ children & 1+ adult, all pay concession prices for any U, PG, 12A, 12, or 15 film.

Buy 10 tickets in one purchase for any one screening for the cost of 9.

(subject to age restrictions)

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CITIZENFOUR Showing from: Fri 5 Dec Tickets on sale: Wed 26 Nov In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was several years into the making of a film about abuses of national security in post-9/11 America when she started receiving encrypted emails from someone identifying himself as “citizen four”, who was ready to blow the whistle on the massive covert surveillance programmes run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. In June 2013, she and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with the man who turned out to be Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her. The film that resulted from this series of tense encounters is absolutely unique in the history of cinema: a 100 per cent real-life thriller unfolding minute by minute before our eyes.

DIE HARD

BLADE RUNNER

Showing on: Thu 11 Dec

Showing on: Sun 14 Dec

Tickets on sale: Wed 26 Nov

Tickets on sale: Wed 3 Dec

Die Hard is surely the ultimate alternative Christmas flick. New York City cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) travels to LA to spend Christmas with his estranged wife. His first stop is the office Christmas party at Nakatomi Plaza, where his wife works. But terrorist Hans Gruber (an impeccable performance from Alan Rickman) turns up with some hard-core mayhem in mind, leaving McClane alone in a vest, sans shoes, to save the day. What follows is some of the best and most iconic action cinema ever to have come out of Hollywood, and will send you off into the night with a very unique Christmassy feeling. Yippee-ki-yay, Father Christmas!

Ridley Scott’s trail-blazing sci-fi is back on the big screen. Perhaps more than any other film, Scott’s iconic sci-fi classic has gripped audiences and inspired passionate and fierce debate. Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans.

He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 5 “skin jobs”, a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious.

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THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES 3D & 2D

Showing from: Fri 12 Dec

Tickets on sale: Wed 3 Dec

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies brings to an epic conclusion the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield and the Company of Dwarves. Having reclaimed their homeland from the Dragon Smaug, the Company has unwittingly unleashed a deadly force into the world. Enraged, Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women and children of Lake-town. Obsessed above all else with his reclaimed treasure, Thorin sacrifices friendship and honour to hoard it as Bilbo’s frantic attempts to make him see reason drive the Hobbit towards a desperate and dangerous choice.

But there are even greater dangers ahead. Unseen by any but the Wizard Gandalf, the great enemy Sauron has sent forth legions of Orcs in a stealth attack upon the Lonely Mountain. As darkness converges on their escalating conflict, the races of Dwarves, Elves and Men must decide - unite or be destroyed. Bilbo finds himself fighting for his life and the lives of his friends in the epic Battle of the Five Armies, as the future of Middleearth hangs in the balance.

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LEVIATHAN Showing from: Fri 12 Dec

NATIVITY 3 DUDE, WHERE’S MY DONKEY?!

Tickets on sale: Wed 3 Dec

Showing from: Fri 12 Dec

Russian language film with English subtitles. On the outskirts of a small coastal town in the Barents Sea, where whales sometimes come to its bay, lives an ordinary family: Nikolai (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 Nikolai. To save their homes Nikolai 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.

FROZEN SING-ALONG

Tickets on sale: Wed 3 Dec This Christmas the pupils of St Bernadette’s and their much-loved, madcap teacher Mr Poppy (Marc Wootton) are back for their biggest adventure yet involving fantastic flashmobs, excitable elves, Christmas carols and of course Archie the donkey! When their new teacher Mr Shepherd (Martin Clunes) loses his memory and forgets all about Christmas, as well as his fiancee Sophie (Catherine Tate) and the whereabouts of the beloved Archie, it’s up to the pupils of St Bernadette’s to save the day. Led by the ever enthusiastic Mr Poppy, they embark on a Christmas journey like never before!

Tickets on sale: Wed 3 Dec

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

Showing on: Wed 24 Dec (Christmas Eve)

Showing on: Sat 20 & Sun 21 Dec

Join us once more and relive the fun-filled journey to banish the freeze in Disney’s magical animation, and this time you can sing along! The sweet and intrepid Anna is desperately searching for her missing sister Elsa, whose icy powers have thrown the kingdom of Arendelle into eternal winter. But as Anna’s quest gradually reveals, Elsa is not really so villainous, and along the way Anna solicits the help of a comic snowman called Olaf), rugged mountain man Kristoff, and a reindeer called Sven.

Tickets on sale: Wed 3 Dec An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed. It’s a Wonderful Life is a beloved Christmas movie, but it’s so much more. A moving examination of the worth of a single man’s life, it’s dark and bright, full of passion, despair and joy. Very sweet and with moments that can surprise you even after you’ve seen it dozens of times, a great film for the festive season.

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NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB Showing from: Fri 19 Dec

Tickets on sale: Wed 3 Dec

The third instalment of the blockbusting Night at the Museum franchise features an even starrier cast than its predecessors, with Ben Kingsley playing a pharaoh awakened from his tomb by the magical tablet wielded by security guard Larry Daley (Ben Stiller, as energised as ever).

Thus begins a frantic journey to museums the world over to harness the magic before it fades forever, including a hilarious stopover at the British Museum. With old reliables Ricky Gervais, Steve Coogan and Owen Wilson back on board, as well as appearances by the late Robin Williams and Mickey Rooney, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb sees returning director Shawn Levy masterfully melding CGI animation with live action once again, while fresh new screenwriters Michael Handelman and David Guion sharpen up the script.

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TINKER BELL & THE LEGEND OF THE NEVERBEAST 3D & 2D Showing from: Fri 26 Dec Tickets on sale: Wed 3 Dec Fun and talented animal fairy Fawn believes you can’t judge a book by its cover, or an animal by its fangs, so she befriends a huge and mysterious creature known as the NeverBeast. While Tink and her friends aren’t so sure about this scary addition to Pixie Hollow, the elite Scout Fairies set out to capture the monster before he destroys their home. Fawn must trust her heart and take a leap of faith if she hopes to rally the girls to save the NeverBeast.

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE PRESENTS

ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND Showing on Sunday 28 December Tickets on sale: Wed 3 Dec

HOME ALONE Showing on: Sat 27 Dec Tickets on sale: Wed 3 Dec FAMILY FAVOURITE The ultimate festive family comedy... without the family!

Chris Columbus’ much-loved madcap movie caper stars Macaulay Culkin as Kevin, a tough little tyke who’s expecting someone to come down his chimney - but not Santa Claus. When his family rush off for a winter holiday in Paris, Kevin gets left behind on the wrong side of the Atlantic. Now he’s got little to do but decorate the home for Christmas. And not with sprigs of holly, but with a fiendish array of booby-traps that he devises to foil a bumbling pair of burglars (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern), who discover that little Kevin is indeed HOME ALONE when they target the house for a robbery.

Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland arrived on the stage in 2011 with a burst of colour, theatrical magic and inventive choreography. It was The Royal Ballet’s first new full-length work since 1995 and was greeted with delight by audiences. Joby Talbot’s score combines contemporary soundworlds with sweeping melodies that gesture to ballet scores of the 19th century.

Bob Crowley’s wildly imaginative sets and costumes draw on puppetry, projections and masks to make Wonderland wonderfully real.

Alice encounters a cast of extraordinary characters, from the highly-strung Queen of Hearts, who performs a hilarious send-up of The Sleeping Beauty’s famous Rose Adage, to dancing playing cards, a sinuous caterpillar and a tap-dancing Mad Hatter. Alice and the Knave of Hearts dance a tender, loving pas de deux of delicate beauty. But the ballet does not avoid the darker undercurrents of Lewis Carroll’s story – a nightmarish kitchen, an eerily disembodied Cheshire Cat and the unhinged tea party are all created in vivid detail. A perfect event for all the family this festive. £16 / £13

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EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS

3D & 2D

Showing from: Fri 26 Dec

Tickets on sale: Wed 3 Dec

An epic in the grand Hollywood tradition of Spartacus and Cleopatra, Exodus: Gods & Kings portrays the Old Testament story on the vast cinematic scale that Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Prometheus) has made his own. Moses (Christian Bale) and Rhamses (Joel Edgerton) were raised as brothers, but are pitched against each other as warriors when Rhamses becomes pharaoh and Moses becomes the leader of the enslaved Israelites.

Their dramatic struggle is set against a spectacular backdrop of (super)natural disasters – the famous plagues of hail, boils, flies and frogs – and astonishing set pieces, most notably of course the parting of the Red Sea. Timeless themes of loyalty, honour and betrayal, state-of-the-art effects, a stellar cast, gripping storytelling, and thrilling direction by a master of the craft make this an unforgettable movie experience.

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Showing from: Fri 26 Dec

Tickets on sale: Wed 3 Dec

Heralded in 1968 as the most striking sci-fi film ever, Stanley Kubrick’s epic meditation on human evolution shines brilliantly 46 years later in a new BFI restoration. The film opens with the discovery of a mysterious monolith by prehistoric, ape-like hominids. The narrative then jumps to the 21st century, when a scientist (William Sylvester) landing on the moon discovers an identical obelisk. Eighteen months later, a pair of astronauts journey to Jupiter in search of the monoliths with the aid of their omnipresent speaking computer, known as HAL 9000 (eerily voiced by Douglas Rain). The mission is fraught with tension and murderous intent as HAL begins to endanger the astronauts’ lives. Often regarded as a metaphor and moral allegory, Kubrick’s film is a visual tour de force with a stunning soundtrack.