Upcoming Films - February 2013

@ MAREEL & ISLESBURGH COMMUNITY CENTRE

www.shetlandboxoffice.org T: 01595 745555

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FEBRUARY 2013

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Welcome to Mareel Cinema This leaflet includes synopses for most of the films you can expect to see at Mareel this month.* Mareel Cinema is programmed weekly from Friday to Thursday. This allows us to be flexible and continue films which are proving popular with our audiences. Our films for any given week go on sale on Tuesdays.

Cinema Tickets Our prices vary depending on the day and time of the performance. When booking you will be asked to choose between different ticket types (e.g. adult, 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.

Matinees:

before 5pm

Price per ticket

There are many ways to find out which films are showing during the week: pick up a copy of our weekly listings flyer alongside this one from Mareel or Islesburgh, check the Mareel and/ or Shetland Box Office website for listings, call Shetland Box Office on 01595 745 555, or check our various local media advertising.

Monday to Friday

£4 / £3

Saturday and Sunday

£6.50 / £4.50

At Mareel, we aim to offer a variety of films for all tastes. Most of the time we will show films a few weeks after their official UK release dates because this is when distributors are willing to be flexible about how many times a film shows each day. This allows us to put on five or six films a week. With big blockbusters the distributors insist that we show the films virtually exclusively on Screen 1 for one, and sometimes two, full weeks in order to get them on the release date, as is the case with all the other cinemas in the UK. Sometimes we will do this, and sometimes we won’t, depending on audience demand.

Monday

£5.50 / £3.50

Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

£6.50 / £4.50

Friday and Saturday

£7.50 / 5.50

We hope you enjoy this month’s selection of films and we’ll see you in Mareel soon! *Some films may be confirmed at a later date and thus won’t be included in this leaflet.

Evenings:

from 5pm onwards

Special Screenings: Senior Screening

(includes refreshment after film)

£4.50

Saturday Kids Club

£3.00 / £4.00

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

• 3D glasses cost an additional £1 per purchase (they are reusable).

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Babes in Arms

Film Wednesdays

At Babes in Arms every Monday morning we screen films exclusively for parents/guardians with babies up to 18 months old. Enjoy the latest releases from our regular programme accompanied by baby in a safe and comfortable environment. So no need to find a babysitter or worry about causing a disturbance next time you want to catch up on the movies. This is also a great way to meet other parents/guardians.

Film Wednesdays is a weekly series of screenings on Wednesday evenings for film lovers. Film Wednesdays are designed to spotlight the best of independent and world cinema, classic films and documentaries.

We are also happy to admit babies up to 18 months old into any morning or afternoon performance with a U, PG or 12A certification. Our Babes in Arms screenings are aimed at Parents/Guardians with babies. We are, however, happy to allow people without a baby to attend if they are accompanying someone at whom the screenings are aimed.

Senior Screenings at Mareel are weekly screenings for our mature guests (aged 60+) on Wednesday afternoons. Come along and meet friends for a screening of some of the best recent films and some classics from over the years. Enjoy a cup of tea or coffee accompanied by a snack, included in your ticket price.

Nappy changing facilities are available.

Our Senior Screenings are offered at a discounted rate with refreshments included. Refreshments are one cup of tea (everyday brew) or one cup of coffee (filtered) accompanied by some biscuits (diabetic and gluten free option available - please ask staff).

Saturday Kids’ Club Our Saturday Kids’ Club is a weekly Saturday morning screening of a recent hit or an old favourite, programmed specifically to be family-friendly. Parents may leave children over 8 alone in screenings but should be aware that the cinema is not providing any official childcare. We do, though, take special precautions for Saturday Kids’ Club screenings to provide as safe an environment as possible for younger audiences. If you leave your children in the cinema please be there on time to collect them at the end of the film.

At all screenings, including Saturday Kid’s Club, children under 8 should be accompanied by an adult aged 18 years or older. At all other screenings, children under 12 cannot attend a screening unaccompanied after 7pm.

Senior Screenings

Please retain your ticket to claim your refreshments.

Our Senior Screenings are aimed at Seniors (60+).

We are, however, happy to allow non-Seniors to attend if they are accompanying someone at whom the screenings are aimed.

Subtitled Screenings Our weekly Subtitled Screenings are film screenings with caption subtitles. These are similar to English subtitles for foreign language films, but for English language films. They inform the cinemagoer of any significant music, sung speech or sound effects – especially if any of these are taking place off-screen. At Mareel cinema, we are committed to accessibility for all and these screenings represent just a part of that commitment.

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Lincoln

Showing from 1 February Cert: 12A Duration: 150 minutes Steven Spielberg’s thoroughly involving Lincoln is less a biopic and more a political thriller as the soon-tobe-assassinated American president struggles with his adversaries, and indeed his own conscience, to abolish slavery as the Civil War still rages. Daniel DayLewis, well versed in portraying formidable American characters, rises magnificently to the occasion, depicting the president as a cunning, intellectual man operating behind a folksy façade, with Sally Field as his nervously supportive wife and a phalanx of fine actors playing characters ranged both for and against him. These include Tommy Lee Jones as a craggy old Republican doyen, Hal Holbrook, David Strathairn and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Dramatically intense and periodperfect to behold, Lincoln rates as one of Spielberg’s finest achievements.

The Impossible

Showing from 1 February Cert: 12A Duration: 114 minutes Dramatic plots don’t come much more powerful than the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami that devastated Thailand’s coastline. In this visually staggering tour de force, Henry, Maria and their three boys are separated as the mountain of water crushes their hotel. Their eldest son, Lucas, manages to find his badly injured mum. His desperate efforts to get help are matched by Henry’s search for his family, a quest hindered by overstretched authorities trying to cope with the tsunami’s physical and human wreckage. The Impossible is an affecting account of hope overcoming huge adversity, made especially compelling by its basis in fact and its uniformly stirring performances.

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Jack Reacher

Showing from 1 February Cert: 12A Duration: 130 minutes Best known as a screenwriter, and in particular for The Usual Suspects,, McQuarrie makes his second directorial outing with this equally dark and complex tale of mistaken identity, based on Lee Child’s novel One Shot. After five people are killed in an unnamed city, the police think they’ve caught the culprit, exarmy sniper James Barr. But Barr demands that they bring in his old colleague, the morally irreproachable drifter Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise), to help prove his innocence. With their defence lawyer pitted against her DA father, and a subplot involving a vicious Russian gang run by the enigmatic Zec, this is a tense, intriguing movie, with Cruise giving his most nuanced performance since 2004’s Collateral.

Tu Seras Mon Fils

(You Will Be My Son) Showing from 1 February Cert: TBC Duration: 102 minutes.

French language film with English subtitles.

Paul is a wealthy but ageing winemaker, whose son Martin lacks the talent or indeed the will to succeed him. Returning from California’s vineyards comes Philippe who seems to have all the qualities Paul requires, and who soon supplants his son as owner designate. This unsurprisingly inflames passions and provokes a family crisis which is not easily resolved.

Beautifully filmed in the vineyards of southern France, this is a masterclass in subtly developed emotional tension which ultimately proves that blood is thicker than Merlot.

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Amazing Animations

Showing from 1 February Cert: U Duration: 60 minutes We are very pleased to present a special selection of amazing animations from the London International Animation Festival. From tricycle racing penguins, to cats who think they are vampires, the stories in this fantastic selection of short films are bound to delight and entertain the whole family.

Hyde Park on Hudson

Oscar Catch-Up Special Showing from 22 February Cert: Various Duration: Various Mareel celebrates the Academy Awards by revisiting a number of Oscar-winning and Oscar-Nominated films, yet to be revealed…

Showing from 8 February Cert: 12A Duration: 95 minutes King George VI and the young Queen Elizabeth visit the president to try to persuade him to bring America into World War Two. Just as Roosevelt hid a body crippled by polio, George VI at this time was still blighted by the stutter, and the film gradually reveals the two men’s shared strengths and mutual understanding. This wryly amusing film also examines FDR’s relationship with his wife and his nascent romance with his cousin Margaret Suckley.

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False Trail

Showing from 8 February Cert: 15 Duration: 129 minutes Swedish language film with English subtitles. A beautifully shot Scandinavian thriller, this chilling tale of gruesome goings-on follows veteran detective Erik as he returns to his hometown in rural Sweden to investigate a brutal murder. The homecoming stirs up unpleasant memories for the world-weary cop as he struggles with personal demons and small-town corruption to solve one of the trickiest cases in his career. Based on a bestselling novel from cult crime writer Lars Kepler, and featuring seasoned character actor Peter Stormare in a rare Swedish-language role, False Trail is a rip-roaring slice of Scandi noir.

Roman Holiday

Showing from 8 February Cert: U Duration: 118 minutes Princess Anne embarks on a highly publicized tour of European capitals. When she and her royal entourage arrive in Rome, she begins to rebel against her restricted, regimented schedule. One night Anne sneaks out of her room, hops into the back of a delivery truck and escapes her luxurious confinement.

However, a sedative she was forced to take earlier starts to take effect, and the Princess is soon fast asleep on a public bench. She is found by Joe Bradley, an American newspaper reporter stationed in Rome.

He takes her back to his apartment. The next morning Joe dashes off to cover the Princess Anne press conference, unaware that she is sleeping on his couch.

Once he realizes his good fortune, Joe promises his editor an exclusive interview with the Princess.

LGBT History Month - FEBRUARY 2013

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Showing from 1 February Cert: 15 Duration: 103 minutes

The usually menacing British actor Terence Stamp does a complete turnaround as Bernadette, an ageing transsexual who tours the backwaters of Australia with her stage partners, Mitzi (Hugo Weaving) and Adam/ Felicia (Guy Pearce). Their act, well-known in Sydney, involves wearing lots of makeup and gowns and lipsynching to records, but Bernadette is getting a bit tired of it all and is also haunted by the bizarre death of an old loved one. Nevertheless, when Mitzi and Felicia get an offer to perform in the remote town of Alice Springs at a casino, Bernadette decides to tag along.

The threesome ventures into the outback with Priscilla, a lavender-coloured school bus that doubles as dressing room and home on the road. Along the way, the act encounters any number of strange characters as well as incidents of homophobia, while Bernadette becomes increasingly concerned about the path her life has taken.

Hit So Hard

Showing from 8 February Cert: 15 Duration: 103 minutes For fans of Nirvana and Hole, Hit So Hard will be a welcome insight into the lives of some of their heroes.

P. David Ebersole’s documentary is woven around the highs and considerable lows of Hole’s mightily talented drummer Patty Schemel, whose battles with drug addiction outdid anything experienced by Kurt Cobain or Courtney Love. The film uses archive footage to tell Schemel’s story – the lowest point of which finds her stealing drugs from car parks – and candidly explains how she and her pals got into music and then into heroin. Various alumni from the take-noprisoners school of rock (and even perky popsters like The Bangles and The Go-Go’s) also have they say and strut their musical stuff. The film covers some dark territory, but remains wryly entertaining for Hole fans and neophytes alike.

LGBT History Month - FEBRUARY 2013

Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same

Showing from 15 February Cert: 12A Duration: 76 minutes Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same tracks the adventures, misadventures and experiences of three aliens from the planet Zots, sent down to Earth on a mission to rid themselves of romantic emotions, which are considered toxic to their planet’s atmosphere. They are told to have their hearts broken on Earth, thus ridding themselves of their atmospheredestroying emotions. Alighting in downtown Manhattan, two of the Zotsians fall in love with each other, while Zoinx becomes attached to earthling Jane, a mildmannered stationery store employee who lives an uneventful life. Unaware that the sudden object of her affection is an alien (despite her bald head and monotone speech), Jane falls hard for Zoinx. The feeling is mutual. This is an original mash-up of a lo-fi New York City romantic comedy and a sci-fi B-movie spoof, full of extra-terrestrial laughs, loves and a dazzling soundtrack.

Call Me Kuchu Showing from 22 February Cert: 15 Duration: 87 minutes

Documentary. Like all the best documentaries, Call Me Kuchu introduces us to a little-known yet disturbing phenomenon, draws us into the complexities that have created it, and raises our concerns for the future. In this case it’s the shocking homophobia that Uganda’s church, its media and ultimately its government channelled into legislation that threatened the country’s gay citizens with imprisonment or even death. Better known as a writer and producer of shorts, Katherine Fairfax Wright teamed up with journalist Malika ZouhaliWorrall to investigate this injustice as seen through the life of the late David Kato, the first publicly gay Ugandan. His struggle to end a smear campaign – which was backed by American evangelists, among others – is moving, harrowing and beautifully realised, and it also inspires us to believe that right will inevitably triumph over might, no matter how powerful the prejudice.

This screening will be followed by a Skype discussion with Ugandan gay activist John Bosco.

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The Secret of Kells

Showing from 8 February Cert: PG Duration: 79 minutes Nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar at the 2010 Academy Awards, The Secret of Kells is a charming, traditionally animated comedy adventure with an impressive voice cast. The action takes place in ninth-century Ireland, where Viking marauders have forced inhabitants of the Abbey of Kells to erect a huge wall to defend their land. Abbot Cellach expects his nephew Brendan to continue protecting the township, but a mysterious manuscript illuminator rolls into town with unfinished scrolls and urges Brendan to embark on a quest with him. Filled with peril, their trip takes them far and wide to an enchanted forest where mythical creatures dwell, and here Brendan learns that in order to complete the book he must first face his greatest fears.

Zero Dark Thirty

Showing from 15 February Cert: 15 Duration: 157 minutes The heroine of Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal’s follow-up to The Hurt Locker was trying to track down Osama Bin Laden with a steely determination for many years before he was finally assassinated. The CIA agent known only as Maya is the pivotal character in this meticulously researched quest. With little information available on her backstory or personal life, Jessica Chastain faced her most challenging role to date in Maya, and she handles it with tremendous conviction. Despite the sometimes hard-to-watch interrogation scenes and its wisely deliberate lack of either a political dimension or a revenge factor, Zero Dark Thirty is a riveting watch. As the hard-won pieces of the jigsaw gradually fall into place and the Navy SEALs finally embark on their fateful mission, Bigelow ramps up the tension with her characteristic deftness of touch. Simply unmissable.

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McCullin

Showing from 15 February Cert: 15 Duration: 95 minutes Documentary. 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.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D

Showing from 15 February Cert: 18 Duration: 92 minutes After the first massacre in 1974, the townspeople suspected that the Sawyer family were responsible. A vigilante mob of enraged locals surrounded the Sawyer house, burning it to the ground and killing every last member of the family. Decades later a young woman named Heather learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from her grandmother. She decides to bring her friends along on the road trip to investigate her inheritance. On arrival she uncovers she has inherited a mansion but is yet to uncover the terrors that lurk in the basement below it‌

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Hotel Transylvania Showing from 15 February Cert: U Duration: 91 minutes

A chance to return to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula’s lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula has invited some of the world’s most famous monsters - Frankenstein and his wife, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, a family of werewolves, and more - to celebrate his daughter Mavis’ 118th birthday.

For Drac, catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem - but his world could come crashing down when a human stumbles on the hotel for the first time and takes a shine to Mavis…

Les Miserables

Showing from 15 February Cert: 12A Duration: 158 minutes Back in Mareel after the BAFTAs, Victor Hugo’s epic tale of romance and political idealism, set amid the turmoil of the 1832 Paris Uprising, has been filmed many times. But director Tom Hooper daringly adapts Cameron Mackintosh’s mightily successful musical version for the big screen, with a stellar cast – most of whom are not usually known for their singing skills.

Hugh Jackman is the paroled convict Jean Valjean, who is fleeing the obsessive Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe); Anne Hathaway is Fantine, the reluctant, ailing prostitute for whose child Valjean assumes responsibility. The cast sang the stirring melodies live to camera during filming – a huge gamble by Hooper that paid off impressively. With regular cinematographer Danny Cohen on board, and Helena Bonham Carter, Eddie Redmayne and Sacha Baron Cohen in major roles, Les Miserables is an all-round sensual feast.

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Hitchcock

Vertigo

Films about filmmakers are risky territory, but Gervasi pulls it off triumphantly with his affectionate, wryly incisive take on Hitchcock. With arguably his best movies behind him, Hitch was riddled with self-doubt while making what would become one of his greatest works, Psycho, and the film explores both this and his heavy dependence on his wife, Alma Reville. Gervasi’s film reflects both the pressures of 1960s moviemaking – even when you’re a master of your universe – and the secrets of sustaining a working marriage. A wonderful treat, even for non-Hitchcock fans.

A brilliant but despicably cynical view of human obsession and the tendency of those in love to try to manipulate each other. James Stewart is excellent as the neurotic detective employed by an old pal to trail his wandering wife, only to fall for her himself and then crack up when she commits suicide. Then one day he sees a woman in the street who reminds him of the woman who haunts him. Hitchcock gives the game away about halfway throughout the movie, and focuses on Stewart’s strained psychological stability; the result inevitably involves a lessening of suspense, but allows for an altogether deeper investigation of guilt, exploitation, and obsession. The bleakness is perhaps a little hard to swallow, but there’s no denying that this is the director at the very peak of his powers.

Showing from 22 February Cert: 12A Duration: 98 minutes

Showing from 22 February Cert: PG Duration: 128 minutes

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Wreck-It Ralph

Showing from 22 February Cert: PG Duration: 108 minutes Wreck-It Ralph longs to be as beloved as his game’s perfect Good Guy, Fix-It Felix. Problem is, nobody loves a Bad Guy, but they do love heroes. So when a modern, first-person shooter game arrives featuring tough-asnails Sergeant Calhoun, Ralph sees it as his ticket to heroism and happiness. He sneaks into the game with a simple plan - win a medal - but soon wrecks everything, and accidentally unleashes a deadly enemy that threatens every game in the arcade. Ralph’s only hope?

Vanellope von Schweetz, a young troublemaking “glitch” from a candy-coated cart racing game who might just be the one to teach Ralph what it means to be a Good Guy. But will he realize he is good enough to become a hero before it’s Game Over for the entire arcade?

Cape Spin: An American Power Struggle Showing from 22 February Cert: TBC Duration: 90 minutes

Documentary. Cape Spin! An American Power Struggle tells the surreal, fascinating, tragicomic story of the battle over America’s most scandalous clean energy project. Cape Wind would be the U.S.’s first offshore windfarm, but strange alliances formed for and against: Kennedys, Kochs, and everyday folks do battle with the developer and green groups over the future of American power. With full access to both sides, a commitment to impartial storytelling and fuelled by a satiric ‘revolutionary’ soundtrack, Cape Spin! is “a gripping and entertaining study of eco-capitalism and grassroots democracy”. “It proves that environmental films can be crowd pleasers, and not at all just about the environment.”

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Princess Lillifee

Cirque DU Soleil

Join everyone’s favourite princess, Lillifee, on her new feature film adventure. Princess Lillifee’s beautiful kingdom is in jeopardy and she must use the help of all her fairy friends, including Pupsi the Pig and Basil the Hedgehog, to save the day. A delightful animation for children aged 3+, Princess Lillifee is the first in a new series of screenings for parents to bring younger children for their first cinema experience.

Until now, audiences could only experience Cirque du Soleil from their seats at the live performances. With the help of the most advanced filming technology, you will now soar with the aerialists, leap with the acrobats, plunge into the water, and see what the performers see from their points of view. You will be taken through the amazing visuals of the Cirque du Soleil on the big screen as the narrative unfolds - a love story of two aerialists who are separated and must find each other again in the world of Cirque du Soleil.

Showing from 22 February Cert: U Duration: 70 minutes

Special, one-off screening, showing on Sunday 17 February Duration: 91 minutes

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