Warwick Arts Centre Film Diary Jan - Feb 2017

FILM JAN – FEB 2017

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WELCOME Happy New Year!

This is traditionally the time of year that the big companies bring their biggest titles to the screen in the hope of securing coveted awards. We have plenty to enjoy.

Heading the list on all counts will be Damian Chazelle’s La La Land, a technicolor musical of life in LA for aspiring artists and surely the leading contender for Best Director Oscar.

Best Actor will be a contest between Casey Affleck for Manchester by the Sea and Dev Patel for Lion and maybe Joel Edgerton for Loving. Best Actress will probably go to Natalie Portman for her stunning portrayal of Jackie Kennedy in Pablo Laraín’s Jackie but she faces stiff competition from Annette Bening for 20th Century Women and Ruth Negga for Loving.

Best Film will have to beat Martin Scorsese’s Silence, a long time passion project which he has finally realised and carries weight and experience of a master filmmaker.

Elsewhere, we have a couple of very special previews, one of Prevenge, Coventry’s own Alice Lowe’s mischievous tale of pregnancy and mayhem and Neruda, another gem by Pablo Laraín about Chilean poet Pablo Neruda in an event that will also include readings of his poetry

by Julie Christie.

Surely the front runner for the Best Foreign Language awards will be Toni Erdmann, Maren Ade’s funny, moving and illuminating tale of father and daughter trying to rebuild a relationship. This is quite the most magical piece of humanity in cinema that I have seen this year.

David Lynch’s unsettling Blue Velvet is revived with a new print and there are Film Talks on the master of Polish cinema, Andrzej Wajda by Michael Brooke and Ian Haydn Smith returns to lead us through the tangled history of the American Independent film.

Never a dull moment!

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A United Kingdom 12a Mon 2 – Wed 4 Jan Dir: Amma Asante USA/UK 2016 111mins Cast: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton, Laura Carmichael, Jack Davenport, Charlotte Hope London, 1947. Prince Seretse Khama (Oyelowo), later to become the first president of Botswana, falls in love with Ruth Williams (Pike) at a Missionary Society Dance and they impulsively marry. However, their intimate relationship quickly becomes the central focus of the South African Government, who won’t tolerate an interracial couple leading a country.

Two luminous actors, David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike bring to life one of the great forbidden romances of the 20th century.

Amma Asante’s film is a sweeping and intimate illustration of how love can challenge even the harshest constraints.

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Bridget Jones’s Baby 15 American Pastoral 15 Fri 30, Sat 31 Dec & Mon 2 Jan Dir: Sharon Maguire UK 2016 123mins Cast: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey, Emma Thompson, Shirley Henderson, Sarah Solemani After breaking up with Mark Darcy (Firth), Bridget Jones’s (Zellweger) ‘happily ever after’ hasn’t quite gone according to plan.

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Forty-something and single again, she decides to focus on her job as a top news producer and surround herself with old friends and new.

For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. What could possibly go wrong? Then her love life takes a turn and Bridget meets a dashing American named Jack (Dempsey), the suitor who is everything Mr. Darcy is not. In an unlikely twist she finds herself unexpectedly expecting, but with one hitch… she’s not too sure who the father is…

Tue 3 – Thu 5 Jan Dir: Ewan McGregor USA 2016 108mins Cast: Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning Ewan McGregor directs and stars in this thought-provoking intergenerational examination of discord between a concerned father and a radicalised daughter.

In 1968, a hardworking man and a pillar of his quaint community, watches his seemingly perfect middle class life dissolve as his loving daughter (Dakota Fanning) transforms into a sullen, fanatical teenager – capable of a savage act that destroys their family.

“EWAN MCGREGOR’S DIRECTORIAL DEBUT IS A HEARTFELT TAKE ON PHILIP ROTH”

The Independent

Sully: Miracle on the Hudson 12a Wed 4 – Thu 5 Jan Dir: Clint Eastwood USA 2016 96mins Cast: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Anna Gunn On Thursday 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the Miracle on the Hudson when Captain Chesley Sullenberger, nicknamed Sully (Hanks) glided his disabled plane onto the frosty waters of the Hudson River, New York City, saving the lives of all 155 passengers aboard.

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Fri 6 & Sat 7 Jan Dir: John Dower UK 2015 99mins Cast: Rob Alter, Mark Rathburn, Andrew Perez, Paz de la Huerta Following a long fascination with the religion and with much experience in dealing with eccentric, unpalatable and unexpected human behaviour, the beguilingly unassuming Theroux won’t take no for an answer when his request to enter the Church’s headquarters is turned down.

Inspired by the Church’s use of filming techniques, and aided by ex-members of the organisation, Theroux uses actors to replay some incidents people claim they experienced as members in an attempt to better understand the way it operates.

Suffused with a good dose of humour and moments worthy of a Hollywood script, My Scientology Movie is stranger than fiction.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story PG Fri 6 – Thu 12 Jan Dir: Gareth Edwards USA 2016 133mins Cast: Felicity Jones, Mads Mikkelsen, Riz Ahmed, Diego Luna Rogue One: A Star Wars Story takes place before Star Wars: A New Hope (Episode IV). It goes into new territory as it explores the galactic struggle from a groundwar perspective. A group of Rebel spies are on a risky mission to steal plans for the Galactic Empire’s new superweapon, the Death Star, setting up the epic saga to follow.

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Snowden 15 Sun 8 – Tue 10 Jan Dir: Oliver Stone Germany/USA 2016 134mins Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Zachary Quinto, Rhys Ifans Nicolas Cage, Tom Wilkinson Oliver Stone’s new biopic about former CIA agent Edward Snowden is required viewing for anyone interested in learning the truth about the man who copied and leaked thousands of classified documents regarding the National Security Agency’s illegal surveillance techniques. Snowden, who has been living in exile in Russia since 2013 makes a cameo in the film’s closing scenes.

Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the lead role, with Shailene Woodley as his girlfriend and Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto and Tom Wilkinson as the journalists to whom he told his story.

“JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT NAILS SNOWDEN’S MEEK EXTERIOR AND COOL INTELLIGENCE.” Screen International.

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The Curious World of Hieronymous Bosch PG Thu 12 Jan 6.30pm 2016 90mins Dir: David Bickerstaff Based on the critically acclaimed, once-only exhibition, ‘Jheronimus Bosch – Visions of a Genius at the Noordbrabants Museum’, which brought together practically all his paintings and drawings from around the world to his home town of Den Bosch, Netherlands; a powerful exhibition that saw half a million visitors marvelling at Bosch’s quirky creations.

This film asks just who is Hieronymous Bosch? Why are his paintings so popular? How does he bridge the medieval and Renaissance worlds?

“ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EXHIBITIONS OF OUR CENTURY”

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Fri 13 Jan – Sun 15 Jan Dir: Jim Jarmusch USA 2016 118mins Cast: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Helen-Jean Arthur

Sat 14 – Mon 16 Jan Dir: Spike Lee USA 2015 127mins Cast: Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes

Paterson (Adam Driver) happens to live in the city of Paterson, New Jersey, where he drives a bus (number 23) with his surname aptly emblazoned on it.

An explosively colourful, hip hop and R&B musical with a political edge, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago’s south side. The term Chi-Raq is a portmanteau of Chicago and Iraq and is commonly used by some Chicago residents to liken the area to a war zone due to its extremely high crime rates.

Its simple structure unfolds over the course of a single week. The quiet triumphs and defeats of daily life are observed, along with the beauty evident in its smallest details. He drives his daily route, observing the city as it drifts across his windshield and overhearing fragments of conversation swirling around him; he writes poetry into a notebook.

“A DELIGHT: A PROSE-POEM OF GENTLE COMIC HUMILITY AND ACCEPTANCE OF LIFE. IT IS ABOUT THAT RAREST OF THINGS IN ART AS IN LIFE – A COMPLETELY HAPPY MARRIAGE.”  The Guardian

Chi-Raq is a modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata

by Aristophanes. After a child is accidentally killed in a gang shooting, a group of women led

by Lysistrata organise against the ongoing violence in Chicago’s Southside: They will withhold sex from their men until they agree to lay down arms.

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Sat 14 & Sun 15 Jan Dir: Otto Bell UK/Mongolia/USA 2016 87mins Cast: Aisholpan Nurgaiv, Daisy Ridley

Sun 15 Jan Dir: Jane Gull UK 2016 83mins Cast: Suzanna Hamilton, Pixie Le Knot, Darren Kent

Mon 16 Jan Dir: Alexander Sokurov France/Germany/Netherlands 2015 87mins Cast: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Vincent Nemeth, Benjamin Utzerath

The Kazakh community in Mongolia, has a tradition handed down from father to son for centuries; the annual Golden Eagle competition. Despite some raised eyebrows, 13-year-old Aisholpan is competing – the first female in twelve generations to do so. Perched precariously on the side of a mountain, with a gigantic mother eagle circling overhead, the brave girl perseveres in the face of danger to capture her own baby eagle.

Executive producer Daisy Ridley narrates this visually stunning docudrama about an inspiring rite of passage; an incredible journey with an enriching and empowering lesson that will set hearts soaring.

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The terrific central performance from Steven Brandon, a young man with Down’s Syndrome, is the driving force of this heartfelt British independent film.

In a neat reversal of expected roles, Luke (Brandon) has become the care-giver for his prickly but loving mother who passes away.

He then stumbles upon a wild and life-changing friendship when he gets caught sneaking out of his new group home.

“ACHINGLY POIGNANT AND BEAUTIFULLY ACTED.” The Guardian

A quintessentially European masterpiece that is an ode to the value and meaning of art and evokes the history of the Louvre from the Renaissance to the Nazi occupation with playful acting vignettes from historical and mythic figures that are found roaming the museum’s corridors.

A philosophical essay on the relationship between history, war, art and art preservation that offers so many options for interpretation that by the time it is over one realises that any attempt to deal with it in earnest requires a second viewing.

The Birth of a Nation 15 Tue 17 Jan – Thu 19 Jan Dir: Nate Parker USA 2016 120mins Cast: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Penelope Ann Miller Nate Parker writes, directs and stars in this much talked about slavery biopic set against the antebellum South. Nat Turner is a literate slave and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer), accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. As he witnesses countless atrocities – against himself and his fellow slaves – Nat orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom. “...A TIMELY FOCUS ON AMERICA’S HISTORY OF SLAVERY” The Guardian

White Knights 12 Les Chevaliers blancs Wed 18 & Thu 19 Jan Dir: Joachim Lafosse Belgium/France 2015 112mins Cast: Vincent Lindon, Louise Bourgoin, Valérie Donzelli, Reda Kateb Inspired by the events of the Zoé’s Ark controversy in 2007 this film is set in an unnamed African country, where the ‘Move For Kids’ organisation is officially established to rescue orphans and provide them with a new life in France.

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Led by Jacques (Vincent Lindon), it soon becomes apparent that the organisation’s motives behind saving the orphans are not always altruistic. With the line between humanitarian assistance and human trafficking becoming blurred, the stakes and risks get higher. But who is right and who is wrong?

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Blue Velvet 18 Fri 20 & Sat 21 Jan Dir: David Lynch USA 1986 120mins Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper A distinctly 80’s American neo-noir mystery film, written and directed by David Lynch, blending psychological horror with film noir.

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

“STILL AS WEIRD AND MESMERISING AS WHEN I FIRST WATCHED IT OVER 25 YEARS AGO.” The Guardian

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Fri 20 – Sun 29 Jan Dir: Damien Chazelle USA 2016 128mins Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Amiée Conn

Sun 22 & Mon 23 Jan Dir: Ken Loach UK 2016 100mins Cast: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Dylan McKiernan, Briana Shann

The director of Whiplash delivers an all singing, all dancing Oscars front runner. A musical romance set in modern-day Los Angeles that rushes from first love to heartache via showtunes, love songs and moody jazz.

Ken Loach marks his 50 years as a filmmaker with a drama that is impassioned and heartfelt – a stark reminder of the injustices of life in modern Britain.

Jazz pianist (Gosling) falls for an aspiring actress (Stone) in this unapologetically romantic homage to classic movie musical. Propelled by charming performances, La La Land splashes its energy and dream-chasing optimism all over the screen and is full of bounce and a vitamin-D boost of sunshine.

Following a heart attack, Daniel (Johns), a fifty-something carpenter, seeks to claim disability benefit. But after an unqualified government healthcare advisor interviews him over the phone, it’s decided that he’s ineligible. Labelled a scrounger when he is anything but, Daniel is forced to apply for jobseeker’s allowance and comes up against further absurdities of the welfare state.

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Thu 26 Jan Q&A with Alice Lowe

Tue 24 & Wed 25 Jan Poland 2016 106 mins Dir: Tomasz Wasilewski Cast: Julia Kijowska, Magdalena Cielecka, Dorota Kolak A piercingly sad and unnerving film, about a quartet of lives immersed in toxic obsession and thwarted erotic yearning. This film is not here to make you feel good. But it has a soap-operatic watchability.

Sightseers’ Alice Lowe talks about writing, directing and staring in Prevenge, a grisly black comedy that mixes maternity and murder, while being eight months pregnant herself.

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Poland in 1990 is the setting, just as the Soviet empire is collapsing.

Far from experiencing liberation, the characters are only further oppressed by inner desperation.

“A TRULY MOVING CINEMA EXPERIENCE”

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Silence 18 Fri 27 Jan – Thu 2 Feb Dir: Martin Scorsese USA 2016 159mins Cast: Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson, Tadanobu Asano Silence is a ‘passion project’ of Scorsese’s and has been in development since 1990. The screenplay was penned by Jay Cocks, who worked with Scorsese on Gangs of New York and The Age of Innocence.

Set in 1670, it follows two young Portuguese Jesuit priests (Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver) who travel to Japan to locate their mentor (Liam Neeson) and propagate Christianity.

Once there, they endure brutal persecution at the time of the Kakure Kirishitan (Hidden Christians) following the defeat of the Shimabara Rebellion.

The Pearl Button 12 El botón de nácar Tue 31 Jan Dir: Patricio Guzmán Chile 2015 122mins Cast: Patricio Guzmán, Raúl Zurita Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers.

In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, a uniquely marine culture, one that was comprehensively destroyed by the arrival of European settlers and the country’s history of violence.

Some say that water has memory.

This film shows that it also has a voice, which holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor.

“INTELLIGENT, MAGNIFICENT FILMMAKING.”  The Guardian 09

Jackie PG Fri 3 – Thu 9 Feb Dir: Pablo Larraín USA 2016 100mins Cast: Natalie Portman, Greta Gerwig, Peter Sarsgaard, Max Casella See Natalie Portman transformed brilliantly into Jacqueline Kennedy.

Jackie boasts an impressive roster and reunites Portman with her Black Swan director, Darren Aronofsky.

Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady following one of the most shocking moments in American history, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

Share her journey as she fights through grief to regain her faith, console her children, and struggle to define her husband’s historic legacy.

Manchester by the Sea 15 Fri 3 – Mon 6 Feb Dir: Kenneth Lonergan USA 2016 137mins Cast: Casey Affleck, Kyle Chandler, Michelle Williams, Featuring Casey Affleck in a deeply poignant Oscar-calibre performance.

An unexpectedly funny exploration of the power of familial love, community, sacrifice and hope.

Lee is forced to take care of his teenage nephew Patrick after his brother dies. He leaves his job as a janitor in Boston and reluctantly returns to the Massachusetts fishing village Manchester-by-the-Sea where his working-class family has lived for generations. There, he is forced to deal with a past that separated him from his wife, Randi (Michelle Williams), and the community where he was born and raised.

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Denial 12 Fri 10 – Wed 15 Feb Dir: Mick Jackson USA 2016 110mins Cast: Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott When university professor Deborah E. Lipstadt includes World War II historian David Irving in a book about Holocaust deniers, Irving accuses her of libel and sparks a legal battle to prove the truth that the Holocaust occurred.

Based on the book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier, this gripping drama features a stellar cast including Oscar nominee Tom Wilkinson and actor Timothy Spall (Harry Potter, The King’s Speech).

“HARE’S PREVIOUS SCREENPLAYS FOR THE READER AND THE HOURS DEALT NOT JUST WITH HISTORICAL EVENTS BUT WITH THE VERY IDEA OF HISTORY ITSELF. DENIAL IS NO DIFFERENT. HE ZEROES IN ON THE FASCINATING SPECIFICS OF THE COURT CASE WHILE PRESENTING A WIDER PERSPECTIVE ON THE DANGERS OF REVISIONISM.” Toronto wInternational Film Festival

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Fri 10 – Thu 16 Feb Dir: Garth Davis Australia 2016 120mins Cast: Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara, Dev Patel

Fri 17 – Thu 23 Feb Dir: Mike Mills USA 2016 119mins Cast: Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig

A perceptive, sober and profoundly stirring contemplation of family, identity and home. Starring Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionare).

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of miles from home.

He survives, escaping all sorts of close calls, before being adopted by a loving couple in Australia.

Not wanting to hurt his adoptive parents’ feelings, he suppresses his past and his hope of ever finding his lost family. 25 years later, with just a small store of memories, and the help of Google Earth, Saroo embarks on one of the greatest needle-in-a-haystack quests of modern times.

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20th Century Women focuses its attention on a single idyllic summer in Santa Barbara California 1979 and strains to hold on to that one perfect moment when everything felt like it would last forever.

A coming-of-age tale about a kid who’s “different” that tackles love, family and generational divide with unwavering gentleness, looking at how one impressionable 15-year-old is shaped by three impactful women facing their own struggles.

Writer-director Mike Mills demonstrates a sharp, sensitive eye for the ways in which people learn to make peace with lives they didn’t quite anticipate or want. Using poetic observation, craftily constructed vignettes and gorgeous moments to amazing effect.

“20TH CENTURY WOMEN’ CEMENTS ANNETTE BENING AS BEST ACTRESS FRONT-RUNNER” Indiewire 20th Century Women

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Fri 17 – Thu 23 Feb Dir: Danny Boyle UK 2017 Cast: Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller

Tue 21 – Wed 22 Feb Dir: J.A. Bayona UK/Spain 2016 148mins Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Lewis MacDougall

This is a continuation of the 1996 cult phenomina Trainspotting which reunites the original characters.

Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same…

A visually spectacular and emotional drama from director J.A. Bayona (The Impossible).

In January 2009, Danny Boyle declared his wish to make a sequel which would take place nine years after the original film, based on Irvine Welsh’s sequel, Porno. He was reportedly waiting until the original actors themselves aged visibly enough to portray the same characters, ravaged by time; Boyle joked that the natural vanity of actors would make it a long wait...

12-year-old Conor is dealing with far more than other boys his age.

His devoted mother is ill. He has little in common with his imperious grandmother. His father has resettled thousands of miles away. But Conor finds an unlikely ally when the Monster (portrayed by Liam Neeson in motion-capture and voiceover) appears one night. Ancient, wild, and relentless, the Monster guides Conor on a journey of courage, faith and truth that powerfully fuses imagination and reality.

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Loving 12 Fri 24 Feb – Thu 2 Mar Dir: Jeff Nichols UK/USA 2016 123mins Cast: Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton

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The film follows the courtship and marriage of Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man. They are arrested and sentenced to prison in Virginia in 1958, because their interracial marriage violates the state’s antimiscegenation laws.

Loving takes an understated approach to telling a painful – and still relevant – real-life tale, with sensitive performances breathing additional life into a superlative historical drama.

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Fri 13 Jan 8.55pm In preparation for T2 choose from three Danny Boyle classics:

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Sun 26 Feb – Wed 1 Mar Dir: Maren Ade Germany 2017 162mins Cast: Peter Simonischek, Sandra Hüller, Michael Wittenborn

Thu 2 Mar Dir: Pablo Larrain Chile/Argentina/France/USA/Spain 2016 107mins Spanish with subtitles Cast: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco

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The 69-year-old Austrian actor Peter Simonichek plays a divorced German schoolteacher who baffles and exasperates his friends with a fondness for wacky humour, practical jokes and funny wigs.

He tries to reconnect with his career-driven adult daughter but the pranks they enjoyed when she was a little girl become increasingly irritating and confrontational.

In the early days of the Cold War, as Chile aligned itself with America, Neruda’s Communist convictions saw him branded an enemy of the state and he was obliged to go into hiding with his wife Delia (Mercedes Morán). He is obsessively pursued by a detective, offering a beautifully performed, shadowy cat-andmouse thriller, where the celebrated poet forever eludes those trying to pin him down.

28 Days Later

An uproarious unpredictable movie with a lot of big laughs.

“THIS LONG GERMAN COMEDY IS A SLIGHT, BITING, LITTLE MIRACLE”

 The Guardian

This bold, inventive thriller offers an electrifying and playful contemplation of Neruda’s life on the run in the late 1940s.

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Fri 24 Feb 8.40pm Coinciding with Scorsese’s Silence, and new prints of Goodfellas & Taxi Driver :

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SATURDAY FAMILY FILMS £5.50 (Adults) £3.50 (Children)

Aladdin

Aladdin U Sat 7 Jan 1.30pm USA 1992 90mins A street urchin, Aladdin, vies for the love of beautiful princess Jasmine with the help of a genie he frees from a lamp. However, he soon finds that the evil Jafar has other plans for the lamp – and for Princess Jasmine. But can Aladdin save Princess Jasmine and his love for her after she sees that he isn’t quite what he appears to be?

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An epic action-adventure set in a fantastical Japan. Clever, kind-hearted Kubo’s relatively quiet existence is shattered when he accidentally summons a spirit from his past. Now on the run, Kubo joins forces with Monkey and sets out on a quest to save his family and solve the mystery of his fallen father.

Labyrinth U Sat 28 Jan 1.15pm USA 1986 101mins Sarah is forced to babysit her baby brother, and wishes for the goblins to come and take him away. When this wish unexpectedly comes true, Sarah must enter a maze of illusion to bring her brother back from a kingdom inhabited by mystical creatures and governed by the wicked Goblin King (David Bowie).

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Set over an idyllic English summer holiday, the Walker children and their sailing rivals, the Blacketts, run amok in their boats against the impressive backdrop of the Lake District. But when the Blackett’s uncle Jim is revealed to be a spy, all of the children are forced to band together to protect him against his enemies.

LIVE DIGITAL SCREENINGS

The Tempest

Nabucco

Romeo et Juliette

Woolf Works

Amadeus

Saint Joan

Met Opera Live

RSC Live

Met Opera Live

Nabucco Verdi

The Tempest Shakespeare

Romeo et Juliette Gounod

Sat 7 Jan 5.55pm 186mins £26.50 (£21.50), restricted view £11

Wed 11 Jan 7pm 210mins £18, £11 (restricted view)

Sun 22 Jan 1pm Theatre 204mins £26.50 (£21.50), restricted view £11

NT Live Encore Screening

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Sun 5 Feb 1.30pm 210mins £18, £11 (restricted view)

Wed 8 Feb 7.15pm 170mins £18, £11 (restricted view)

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SATURDAY FILM TALKS

Andrzej Wajda TBC Sat 21 Jan 11am – 3.30pm (inc. lunch break)

£12.50 (£10) Film Club Members £10.50 (£8.25)

Includes a complete screening of Ashes and Diamonds.

Spend the day exploring particular themes in film guided by a specialist in the field.

Poland has one of Europe’s stronger film cultures, but there’s surprisingly little argument about its single greatest director, who died last October at the age of ninety.

Andrzej Wajda’s 65-year career spanned the Stalinist 1950s and the post-Communist 2000s (and in the 1980s he filmed the rise of Solidarity first-hand), but he also turned earlier Polish historical events into unforgettably potent and visually muscular drama.

Independents’ Day 15 Sat 11 Feb 11am – 3.30pm (inc. lunch break) Includes a complete screening of Lone Star.

What is an American Indie?

Since the 1980s it has defined a specific style of filmmaking. But does it constitute a genre, a style of filmmaking or even a mode of production outside of the Hollywood studios?

In this illustrated talk, Ian Haydn Smith will look back through the history of American cinema since 1960 when John Cassavetes made Shadows to identify what Indie cinema was, is and might look like in the future.

The day includes a complete screening of John Sayles’ magnificent Lone Star from 1996.

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CINEMA PARTIES

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Everything TED stands for.

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QUICK GUIDE Films A–Z 20th Century Women A Monster Calls A United Kingdom Aladdin American Pastoral Blue Velvet Bridget Jones’s Baby Chi-Raq Denial Francofonia I, Daniel Blake Jackie Kubo and the Two Strings La La Land Labyrinth Lion Loving Manchester by the Sea My Feral Heart My Scientology Movie Neruda Paterson Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Silence Snowden Sully: Miracle on the Hudson Swallows and Amazons T2: Trainspotting The Birth of a Nation The Curious World of Hieronymous Bosch The Eagle Huntress The Pearl Button Toni Erdmann United States of Love White Knights

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Digital Screenings Met Opera Live: Nabucco Met Opera Live: Romeo et Juliette NT Live: Amadeus NT Live: Saint Joan ROH Live: Woolf Works RSC Live: The Tempest

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Film Events Prevenge Preview with Alice Lowe Film Talk: Andrzej Wajda Film Talk: Independents’ Day Off Screen Film Course

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December Fri 30 Sat 31

Bridget Jones’s Baby Bridget Jones’s Baby

4pm 3pm

January Mon 2 A United Kingdom 3.30pm

Bridget Jones’s Baby 6pm Tue 3 American Pastoral 6.15pm

A United Kingdom 8.30pm Wed 4 A United Kingdom 4pm

Sully: Miracle on the Hudson 6.30pm

American Pastoral 8.30pm Thu 5 American Pastoral 6.15pm

Sully: Miracle on the Hudson 8.30pm Fri 6 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 6pm

My Scientology Movie 8.45pm Sat 7 Aladdin 1.30pm

My Scientology Movie 3.30pm

Met Opera: Nabucco (live screening) 5.55pm

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 6pm

My Scientology Movie 8.45pm Sun 8 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 4pm

Snowden 7.30pm Mon 9 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 6pm

Snowden 8.45pm Tue 10 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 3.30pm BACKCHAT 6pm

Snowden

Snowden 8.15pm

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 8.45pm Wed 11 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 3.30pm

RSC Live: The Tempest (live screening) 7pm Thu 12 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 3.30pm

Hieronymus Bosch 6.30pm

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 8.30pm Fri 13 Paterson 6.15pm

Cult Night Screening (Film TBC) 8.55pm Sat 14 Kubo and the Two Strings 1.15pm

The Eagle Huntress 4pm

Paterson 6pm

Chi-Raq 8.30pm Sun 15 My Feral Heart 3pm

The Eagle Huntress 5pm

Paterson 7.30pm Mon 16 Chi-Raq 6pm

Francofonia 8.45pm Tue 17 Francofonia 6.15pm

Birth of a Nation 8.15pm Wed 18 Birth of a Nation 6.15pm

White Knights 8.45pm Thu 19 White Knights 6.15pm

Birth of a Nation 8.45pm Fri 20 La La Land 6pm

Blue Velvet 8.40pm Sat 21 Film Talk: Andrzej Wajda 11am

La La Land 3.30pm

La La Land 6pm

Blue Velvet 8.40pm

Sun 22

Mon 23

Tue 24

Wed 25

Thu 26

Fri 27

Sat 28

Sun 29

Mon 30 Tue 31

Met Opera: Romeo et Juliette (encore screening) 1pm I, Daniel Blake 5pm La La Land 7.30pm La La Land 6pm I, Daniel Blake 8.45pm La La Land 3.30pm United States of Love 6.10pm La La Land 8.30pm La La Land 3.30pm La La Land 6.10pm United States of Love 8.50pm La La Land 3.30pm Q&A BACKCHAT 6.15pm Prevenge preview La La Land 8.40pm La La Land 5pm Silence 7.40pm Labyrinth 1.15pm La La Land 4pm Silence 7.30pm La La Land 4pm Silence 7.30pm Silence 7.30pm The Pearl Button 5.15pm Silence 7.30pm

February Wed 1

Thu 2

Fri 3

Sat 4

Sun 5

Mon 6

Tue 7

Wed 8

Thu 9

Fri 10

Sat 11

Sun 12

Mon 13

Silence 4pm Silence 7.30pm The Coming war with China 6pm Silence 8.15pm Jackie 6.15pm Manchester by the Sea 8.30pm Jackie 4pm Jackie 6.15pm Manchester by the Sea 8.30pm NT Live: Amadeus (Encore Screening) 1.30pm Jackie 5.20pm Manchester by the Sea 7.30pm Jackie 6.15pm BACKCHAT 8.30pm Manchester by the Sea Jackie 4pm Manchester by the Sea 6pm Jackie 8.50pm Jackie 4pm ROH: Woolf Works (Live Screening) 7.15pm Manchester by the Sea 3.30pm Jackie 6.15pm Manchester by the Sea 8.30pm Denial 6.10pm Lion 8.30pm Film Talk: Independents’ Day 11am Denial 3.45pm Lion 6pm Denial 8.30pm Lion 4.15pm Denial 7.30pm BACKCHAT 6.10pm Denial Lion 8.30pm

Tue 14

Wed 15

Thu 16

Fri 17

Sat 18

Sun 19

Mon 20

Tue 21

Wed 22

Thu 23

Fri 24

Sat 25

Sun 26

Mon 27

Tue 28

Lion 3.45pm Lion 6.10pm Denial 8.40pm Denial 4pm Denial 6.10pm Lion 8.30pm Lion 4pm NT Live: Saint Joan (Live Screening) 7pm T2: Trainspotting 6.10pm 20th Century Women 8.40pm Swallows & Amazons 1.30pm 20th Century Women 3.45pm 20th Century Women 6pm T2: Trainspotting 8.30pm 20th Century Women 4pm T2: Trainspotting 7.30pm T2: Trainspotting 6.10pm 20th Century Women 8.40pm A Monster Calls 3.45pm BACKCHAT 6pm 20th Century Women T2: Trainspotting 8.30pm 20th Century Women 3.45pm T2: Trainspotting 6.10pm 20th Century Women 8.40pm A Monster Calls 3.45pm 20th Century Women 6pm T2: Trainspotting 8.30pm Loving 6pm Cult Night Screening (Film TBC) 8.55pm Loving 3pm Met Opera: Rusalka (live screening) 4pm Met Opera: Rusalka (live screening) 5.55pm Loving 4.15pm Toni Erdmann 7.30pm Toni Erdmann 5pm Loving 8.15pm Loving 4pm Toni Erdmann 6.30pm ROH: The Sleeping Beauty (Encore Screening) 7pm

March Mon 1

Thu 2

Toni Erdmann 4pm BACKCHAT 7.30pm Loving Neruda 6pm Loving 8.50pm

S/HOH BACKCHAT

Subtitled for hard of hearing.

Look out for the chance to talk about what you have seen with Julia Jones in a series of informal discussions on key new films.

Q&A

Question & Answer session.

NB. Where certificates show TBC the information was unavailable at the time of going to print. Please check website for updated information.

Warwick Arts Centre reserves the right to change the film programme without notice. Please check our website or contact Box Office for updated information.

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OFF SCREEN FILM COURSE warwickartscentre.co.uk box office 024 7652 4524 Box Office Opening Times Mon to Sat: 10am – 9pm Sun: 2pm – 8pm

Standard Ticket Prices Unless otherwise stated Full price: £9 Concessions: £7.50 (Over 60s in full time retirement, recipients of job seekers allowance, Passport to Leisure holders)

University of Warwick Students: £4.50 Under 18s and Full Time Students: £6.25 Groups of 5+: £6.45 each Other Ticket Prices and Discounts Weekday Matinees: £6 all tickets Saturday Film Talks: £12.50 (£10) Saturday Family Film: £5.50 (£3.50) Join our Film Club for ticket discounts and offers.

Visit Us

Do you love cinema and enjoy talking about films?

Join our Off Screen film course, which runs every Wednesday over a 8 week period.

Facilitator Sue Porter will lead an interactive 90 minute discussion about the forthcoming film, whilst also reflecting on the previous week’s film. After the discussion there will be a short break before the screening begins.

Price: £80 including admission to the film discussed in each session.

Please note the 8 week film course must be purchased as a package and missed sessions cannot be refunded.

Wed 25 Jan La La Land Wed 1 Feb Silence Wed 9 Feb Manchester by the Sea Wed 15 Feb Denial Wed 22 Feb 20th Century Women Wed 1 Mar Toni Erdmann Wed 8 Mar TBC Wed 16 Mar TBC See website for updates

To book your place please call Box Office on 024 7652 4524.

Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, CV4 7AL

Maps, Latest Travel and Parking Updates Go to warwickartscentre.co.uk/your-visit and follow the links to ‘Getting Here’ and ‘Roadworks and Traffic Updates’.

Brochure available in large print on 024 7652 4524 Subtitles for the hard of hearing available on selected film screenings. Look for the S/HOH symbol next to film times in the quick guide.

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Cover image: La La Land p08