September - October 2016 Film Guide

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Chilling Challenge Buy tickets to all three horror movies on the lead up to Halloween for just £15

SEPTEMBER Friday 2 11.00, 2.30, 5.00, Saturday 3 7.15, Monday 5 6.00, Tuesday 6 11.00, 6.00, Wednesday 7 2.30, 6.00, Thursday 8 2.30, Saturday 10 11.00*

Swallows & Amazons (PG TBC) Director: Philippa Lowthorpe

(The Shallows, Lights Out, The Woods) *tickets must be booked in one transaction

Friday 2 7.15, Monday 5 8.00, Tuesday 6 2.30, 8.00, Wednesday 7 8.00

Starring: Kelly Macdonald, Rafe Spall, Andrew Scott

Jason Bourne (12a)

UK, 2015, 1 hour 38 minutes tbc

Director: Paul Greengrass

Based on the classic, best selling book by Arthur Ransome. The four Walker children take over an island during their summer holidays, but find unexpected rivals in the shape of the Blackett sisters. As a battle for ownership of the island ensues, the real dangers of an adult world on the brink of war encroach on their paradise in the form of a mysterious pair of Russian spies.

Starring: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander USA, 2016, 2 hours 3 minutes

Sponsored by *Courtyard Family Saturdays Free pre-activity from 10.30am

Super-spy Jason Bourne is back with Matt Damon returning as the former CIA agent with a hazy past, now remembering who he truly is and trying to uncover hidden truths about his past.

Monday 12 2.30, 8.00, Tuesday 13 6.00, Wednesday 14 2.30, 6.00

Me Before You (12A) Director: Thea Sharrock

STARRING: Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Charles Dance UK, 2016, 1 hour 50 minutes

SEPTEMBER

Based on the best-selling novel, Me Before You follows Lou, a poor but cheerful small town waitress who is hired as a carer/companion to a rich, wheelchair-bound Will, who was paralysed in an accident. Plagued by physiological depression can Lou help him cure his mental demons about life.

Plagued by physiological depression, can Lou help him cure his mental demons about life?

Friday 9 2.30, 8.15, Saturday 10 6.00

Maggie’s Plan (15) Director: Rebecca Miller

Starring: Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore USA, 2015, 1 hour 39 minutes

Maggie is a single lady, conscious of her biological clock ticking. Her plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, an unhappily married man. Three years later, she realises that, while everything has worked out more or less according to her plan, she isn’t happy.

“A perfectly cast comedy of manners that couches complex emotional questions in joyous farce” Empire

Monday 12 6.00, Tuesday 13 8.15

The Hard Stop (15)

Friday 9 6.00, Saturday 10 8.00, Wednesday 14 8.15

Director: George Amponsah Starring: Marcus Knox-Hooke, Kurtis Henville UK, 2016, 1 hour 25 minutes

The Commune (15)

In August 2011 Mark Duggan was killed on a police operation known in the trade as a ‘hard stop’ which, in turn sparked the worst riots Britain has seen in a Denmark, 2016, 1 hour 51 minutes, subtitles century. This film shows just how it feels to grow up From the Director of the Far From the Madding black in North London. Humane, thought-provoking Crowd remake, Thomas Vinterberg’s latest film is fluid, and topical, this gives a voice to those who are rarely confident and hugely entertaining. When they inherit a heard, capturing their visceral antipathy against a large house, idealistic Erik and Anna set up a commune system of perennial injustice and alienation. in bohemian 1970s Copenhagen. What follows is a compelling clash between people’s desires and their dream of communal solidarity.

Director: Thomas Vinterberg

Starring: Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, Fares Fares

Winner Best Actress Berlin International Film Festival

Monday 19 6.00, Tuesday 20 8.00

Chevalier (18)

september

Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari Starring: Yorgos Kentros, Panos Koronis, Vangelis Mourikis

Greece, 2015, 1 hour 45 minutes, subtitles

A comedy about six men on a boat who set themselves the challenge of discovering who is the ‘best’? The competition becomes addictive, pushing the men further in conforming to received ideals of taste, sexuality, class and personal achievement.

Yet in these cries for external validation, each man’s flaws are writ large and the interpersonal relationships amongst the men warp in strange ways.

“With evident glee, the female director subverts gender stereotypes from the get-go.” Hollywood Reporter

Tuesday 20 11.00, Wednesday 21 2.30, Thursday 22 2.30

Love & Friendship (U) Director: Whit Stillman Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Stephen Fry USA, 2016, 1 hour 33 minutes

A deliciously sharp comedy of matchmaking and heartbreaking, based on the Jane Austen novella ‘Lady Susan’. A beautiful young widow, Lady Susan Vernon tries to secure a husband for herself and a future for her eligible but reluctant daughter, Frederica.

Monday 19 8.00, Wednesday 21 6.00

Tuesday 20 2.30, 6.00, Wednesday 21 8.15, Thursday 22 11.00

Where To Invade Next (15)

The Carer (15)

Director: Michael Moore

Director: János Edelényi

USA, 2016, 1 hour 58 minutes

Suggesting a fair and just society is not an unattainable Utopia, Michael Moore travels around Europe to reveal all the great, progressive social ideas he thinks the USA should adopt. Moore’s lost none of his power as a popular polemicist, making strong points that stick about what we need for a better world.

“A bracing and optimistic and doggedly idealistic film” Guardian

Starring: Brian Cox, Coco König, Emilia Fox UK/Hungary, 2016, 1 hour 29 minutes

Sir Michael Gifford is a retired Shakespearean actor suffering from Parkinson’s that has left him frustrated and gloriously grumpy, at his country manor. He has alienated a host of carers, but his daughter forces a new companion on him, Dorottya, a Hungarian refugee who has acting aspirations of her own.

september

Friday 23 6.00, Tuesday 27 8.15, Thursday 29 8.15

Winner Best Director Venice Film Festival 2015

The Childhood of a Leader (12A) Director: Brady Corbet

STARRING: Liam Cunningham, Berenice Bejo,

Robert Pattinson, Tom Sweet UK/Hungary/France, 2015, 1 hour 55 minutes

A dark coming-of-age story in which a Hitler-esque dictator is born amid the rising tide of fascism. An ominous portrait of emerging evil, loosely inspired by the early childhood experiences of many of the great dictators of the 20th Century.

Winner Annecy International Animation Festival Audience Award 2015

Saturday 24 11.00*

Long Way North (PG) Director: Rémi Chayé With the voices of: Christa Théret, Féodor Atkine, Antony Hickling UK, 2015, 1 hour 22 minutes

Young Sasha heads off on an epic adventure to the Arctic in search of her grandfather, Oloukine.

A renowned explorer, Oloukine designed a magnificent arctic ship, but he hasn’t returned from his last expedition to the North Pole. “the charm of the picture lies in its fearless young female protagonist and, of course, those ravishing visuals.” Observer *Courtyard Family Saturdays Free pre-activity from 10.30am

Friday 23 8.15

The Shallows (15)

Tuesday 27 6.00, Thursday 29 6.00

Starring: Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada, Brett Cullen

Summertime (15)

USA, 2016, 1 hour 26 minutes

Director: Catherine Corsini

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra

Nancy is a medical student surfing on a remote Mexican beach when she is attacked by a great white shark and forced to retreat to a rock in the middle of the ocean to prevent herself from becoming the beast’s next meal.

STARRING: Cécile de France, Izïa Higelin, Noémie Lvovsky France, 2015, 1 hour 45 minutes, subtitles

1971, farmer’s daughter Delphine, moves to Paris to break free from the shackles of her family. There she meets carefree bohemian Carole, an active feminist.

Their encounter turns their lives upside down. But their lives get really tricky when Delphine has to return to the country.

“Radiant, heartfelt . . . an irresistible energy” Screen Daily

Chilling Challenge Buy tickets to all three horror movies on the lead up to Halloween for just £15 (The Shallows, Lights Out, The Woods)

Monday 3 8.00

Lights Out (15)

OCtoBER

Directors: David F. Sandberg

STARRING: Teresa Palmer, Mario Bello, Alicia Vela-Bailey USA, 2016, 1 hour 21 minutes

Haunted by a creature that only appears when the light’s go out, Rebecca thought she’d left it all behind until her little brother, Martin, starts to experience the same terrifying events that had once tested her sanity.

Saturday 1 11.00*

Pete’s Dragon (PG) Director: David Lowery STARRING: Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, Karl Urban

Chilling Challenge

Buy tickets to all three horror movies on the lead up to Halloween for just £15 (The Shallows, Lights Out, The Woods)

USA, 2015, 1 hour 35 minutes

A delightful remake of the 1977 film of the same name; follow the adventures of an orphaned boy named Pete and his best friend Elliot, who just so happens to be a dragon. *Courtyard Family Saturdays Free pre-activity from 10.30am Tuesday 4 11.00, 2.30, Wednesday 5 6.00, Thursday 6 8.00

Café Society (12A) Directors: Woody Allen

Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell USA, 2016, 1 hour 25 minutes tbc

Monday 3 6.00, Tuesday 4 7.45, Wednesday 5 2.30, 7.45, Thursday 6 6.00

Julieta (15)

A comic romance set in the 1930s, a young Bobby moves to Hollywood where he falls in love with the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars. After returning to New York he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life of the jazz age.

Director: Pedro Almodovar STARRING: Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Michelle Jenner, Spain, 2015, 1 hour 36 minutes, subtitles

After a casual encounter with a friend of her daughter she hasn’t seen in years, a brokenhearted Julieta decides it’s time to confront her painful past.

Almodovar returns to what he does best - the emotional terrain and interior lives of women.

Tuesday 4 6.00, Wednesday 5 11.00, Thursday 6 2.30

Golden Fire

Herefordshire, 2016, 60 minutes Introduced by Rich Matthews from Rural Media.

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Rural Media’s brand-new 30-minute film Golden Fire: The Guide to Herefordshire Cider since 1945, plus a selection of short films from the Bulmers Archive Collection and rural archive footage.

Come and enjoy this unique county-wide arts project.

Monday 10 8.15, Tuesday 11 6.00

october

Born to Be Blue (15)

Friday 7 6.00 h.energy evening

Directors: Robert Budreau

The Truth Behind The Dash for Gas

STARRING: Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo UK/USA/Canada, 2016, 1 hour 35 minutes

Directors: Marco Jackson

UK, 2014, 60 minutes

Made by local activists in Somerset when the Mendips were threatened with fracking, this lays out the problems the fracking industry brings in terms of health impacts, seismic activity, radioactive waste treatment, air and water pollution, and poisonous methane leaks. Plus panel discussion with those on the front line of the fracking struggle.

Friday 7 8.15

Second Nature As part of h.Energy’s 2016 launch, stay for an evening of films, music and performance to celebrate art as activism.

Based on the tragic life of the jazz legend, Chet Baker, who after years of heroin abuse, financial loss and public disgrace stages a comeback, his tumultuous life is thrillingly reimagined with wit, verve, and style to burn.

“feels as improvised and authentic as its music.”

Chicago Reader

h.Energy Evening Tickets £7, Concessions £5 Saturday 15 6.00 Monday 10 11.00, Tuesday 11 2.30, Wednesday 12 11.00

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (15) Director: Mandie Fletcher STARRING: Joanna Lumley,

Jennifer Saunders, Joan Collins, Celia Imrie UK/USA, 2015, 1 hour 31 minutes

After attracting both media and police attention for accidentally knocking Kate Moss into the River Thames, Edina and Patsy hide out in the south of France.

Sponsored by Monday 10 6.00, Tuesday 11 8.00

Les Cowboys (12A)

Yarn

(PG tbc)

Knitting Social Bring your own knitting for a knit-a-long film!

Director: Una Lorenzen

USA/UK, 2015, 1 hour 16 minutes

Meet the artists who are redefining the tradition of knit and crochet, bringing yarn out of the house and into the world. Appealingly packaged, with cut-out animations, a pleasant score and many colourful sights this doc trots around the globe looking at the many extraordinary ways that knitting has been reinvented from sculptures that kids can play on to an ocean expedition.

Saturday 15 7.45, Thursday 20 6.00

Captain Fantastic (15)

Director: Thomas Bidegain

Director: Matt Ross

STARRING: François Damiens,

STARRING: Viggo Mortensen, Frank Langella, Kathryn Hahn UK, 2015, 1 hour 58 minutes

Finnegan Oldfield, John C Reilly France/Belgium, 2015, 1 hour 45 minutes, subtitles

This is a story of Alain, a huge country and western fan, who is determined to find his disappeared daughter whatever the impact on his family. As time passes and we move into the shifting sands of the 21st-century the increasingly obsessed Alain is forced to confront his own prejudices about Islam and its transformation of his world.

Winner Best Director Un Certain Regard Cannes Film Festival 2016

The family of self-sufficient, yurt dwellers celebrate Chomsky’s birthday like its Christmas. But it’s when they meet the outside world that awkward questions are asked and things start to unravel.

“Finely wrought and inventive,” Guardian

october

Bridget Jones’s Baby (12A tbc)

wednesday 19 8.00, Thursday 20 2.30, 8.15

Directors: Sharon Maguire

The Man Who Fell to Earth (18) Directors: Nicolas Roeg STARRING: David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark UK, 1976, 2 hours 13 minutes

A chance to see this 1976 British cult-classic on the big screen once again. Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet, but becomes increasingly frustrated by human emotions such as love and greed.

“The most intellectually provocative genre film of the 1970s.” Time Out

Friday 21 11.00, 2.30, 7.45, Monday 24 6.00, Tuesday 25 7.45

Come dressed as the icon himself for a chance to win 2 tickets to your next film.

Friday 21 6.00, Monday 24 8.15, Tuesday 25 6.00

The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years (12A tbc) Directors: Ron Howard STARRING: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr UK/USA, 2015, 1 hour 25 minutes

With archive footage of the Beatles’ early performances at Liverpool’s legendary Cavern Club, through to their last concert in San Francisco in 1966, this covers the all-too-brief period that the Fab Four played live. But it’s the rare live footage that really captures the excitement of seeing an ambitious band determined to conquer Liverpool, London and then the world.

STARRING: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth,

Patrick Dempsey, Emma Thompson UK, 2016, 1 hour 48 minutes tbc

Breaking up with Mark Darcy leaves Bridget Jones single again. Feeling that she has everything under control, Jones decides to focus on her career. But her love life comes back from the dead when she meets Jack, a dashing and handsome American. When Bridget discovers that she is pregnant the befuddled mom-to-be must figure out if the proud papa is Mark or Jack!

Saturday 29 11.00*, Monday 31 6.00

Kubo & The Two Strings (PG tbc)

Directors: Travis Knight WITH THE VOICES OF:

Matthew McConaughey, Charlize Theron, Ralph Fiennes, Art Parkinson USA, 2015, 1 hour 38 minutes tbc

*Courtyard Family Saturdays Free preactivity from 10.30am

Clever, kind-hearted Kubo lives a quiet life in a small seaside village until he accidentally summons a spirit from the past that turns his life upside down by reigniting an age-old vendetta. With the help of his shamisen, a magical musical instrument, Kubo must battle the vengeful Moon King to unlock the secret of his legacy, reunite his family, and fulfill his heroic destiny.

Monday 31 8.00

The Woods (15 tbc) Directors: Adam Wingard WITH THE VOICES OF: Valorie Curry, Callie Hernandez, James Allen McCune USA, 2015, 1 hour 30 minutes tbc

Join us on Halloween for one of the scariest horror films in decades. A group of college students on a camping trip discover they are not alone. The Woods reinvents horror with a completely fresh and terrifying take on the genre.

Chilling Challenge Buy tickets to all three horror movies on the lead up to Halloween for just £15 (The Shallows, Lights Out, The Woods)