Warwick Arts Centre Cinema Diary Sept Oct 2009

cinema

sep & oct 09

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New work from the great auteurs of European cinema is also on offer with Lars von Trier's shocking and macabre Antichrist and Pedro Almodovar in characteristically playful mood with Broken Embraces in which Penelope Cruz illuminates the screen. Terry Gilliam is once more at large with The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, noted for being the last film that Heath Ledger made, it is a fitting testament and, most importantly, a paean to the power of the imagination - there has not been a fantasy film of this power and richness since Pan's Labyrinth.

Last but not least, there is a week of documentaries with a difference at the end of October comprising The September Issue, the real life Devil Wears Prada, which eavesdrops on the production of September Vogue, Big River Man, an eco doc with a difference as Martin Strel swims the Amazon and the inimitable Yes Men return in The Yes Men Fix the World.

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John Gore. Film Programmer Cover image: Broken Embraces

“Charming and irresistibly feel-good.”  Hot Press

Mesrin e: Pub lic Enem y No 1

Moon

Lance Daly’s vision of Dublin, as seen through the innocent eyes of our protagonists, is a kaleidoscope of magic, wonder and mystery. But as the night wears on, and Dublin takes on a darker character, the two kids have to rely on the kindness of strangers, the advice of Bob Dylan and their trust in each other to survive the night.

Vincent Cassel is electrifying in this thriller/biopic of notorious French gangster, Jacques Mesrine. The first of two films studying Mesrine’s life, the film opens with his spectacular death, shot full of holes by police in the middle of Paris, 1979. Far from making a model or a superhero out of Mesrine, the film portrays the character in all its complexity, including the darkest aspects.

“An instant gangster classic. This is in a league with the epics of Scorsese and Coppola” Empire See both Mesrine films for £12 (when booked in one transaction).

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Is Anybody There? 12A

L’ennemi Public No 1 Fri 11 – Tue 15 Sep Dir: Jean-François Richet France/Canada/Italy 2008 113mins subtitled Cast: Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric Part two in Richet’s epic study of the master criminal Jacques Mesrine. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats - from multiple bank robberies to prison breaks - Mesrine was gunned down by the French police in Paris.

Focussing on his later years, this film follows on from Mesrine: Killer Instinct.

"Goodfellas meets The Godfather, Vincent Cassel is electric."  Uncut

Fri 4 – Mon 7 Sep Dir: John Crowley UK 2008 92mins Cast: Michael Caine, Leslie Phillips, David Morrissey, Bill Milner

Instinct

Meryl Streep evolves into larger than life American TV chef Julia Childs, inspiration to 30 something New Yorker Julie Powell who seeks to emulate her achievements in the kitchen, in Nora Ephron's latest big screen comedy.

L’instinct de mort Tue 1 – Thu 3, Fri 11 & Sat 12 Sep Dir: Jean-François Richet France/Canada/Italy 2008 113mins subtitled Cast: Vincent Cassel, Cécile De France, Gérard Depardieu

Mesrin e: Killer

In this the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species, we find Paul Bettany as a Charles Darwin much troubled by the implications of the findings of his research.

On the fringes of Dublin two kids, Kylie and Dylan, live in a suburban housing estate devoid of life, colour and the prospect of escape. Following a violent altercation with his father, Dylan runs away from home and Kylie goes too!

Together they make their way to the magical night time lights of inner city Dublin to search for Dylan’s brother in the hope of finding the possibility of a new life.

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Is Anyb ody Th ere?

Charles Darwin, Don Corleone, American TV chef Julia Childs, it sounds like the contestants for a balloon debate! But lo and behold, they all fit comfortably into this current film programme.

Tue 1 – Thu 3 Sep Dir: Lance Daly Ireland/Sweden 2008 72mins Cast: Kelly O’Neill, Shane Curry

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Set in 1980s seaside England, this is the story of Edward, an unusual ten year old boy growing up in an old people's home run by his parents.

Increasingly obsessed with ghosts and the afterlife, Edward's is a rather lonely existence until he meets Clarence, the latest recruit to the home, a retired magician with a liberating streak of anarchy.

Is Anybody There? tells the surprising, touching story of this odd couple - a boy and an old man - facing life together, with Edward learning to live in the moment and Clarence coming to terms with the past.

"The marvellous Michael Caine gives one of the best performances of his career." Hollywood Life

Moon 15

Fri 4 – Sun 6, Wed 23 & 24 Sep Dir: Robert Schwentke UK 2009 97mins Cast: Sam Rockwell, Matt Berry, Kevin Spacey (voice) It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, nearing the end of a three-year mining contract and desperate to return to his wife and child in a few short weeks. It has been a lonely job, with only taped messages from home and no company other than “Gerty,” the base’s wellintentioned, but rather uncomplicated computer. Suddenly, he begins to suffer 03 from headaches, hallucinations and a lack of focus leading to an almost fatal accident. While recuperating back at the base (with no memory of how he got there), Sam’s world spirals out of control leaving him fighting the clock to discover what’s going on and how he can get safely home.

A Girl Cut in Two 15

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La Fille Coupee en Deux Wed 9 & Thu 10 Sep Dir: Claude Chabrol Germany/France 2007 115mins subtitled Cast: Ludivine Sagnier, Benoît Magimel, François Berléand This new film by New Wave director Chabrol is a seedy love triangle which balances subtle stabs of humour with biting class criticism. Weather girl Gabrielle has two suitors, a married older man with whom she falls in love, and a spoilt young heir, who loves her and whom she eventually marries.

What evolves is a mature sexy thriller as each man becomes a threat to Gabrielle.

Thu 10 & Sun 13 Sep Dir: Alfred Hitchcock US 1959 131mins Cast: Cary Grant, James Mason, Eve Marie Saint We’re celebrating 50 years since the release of this Hitchcock classic thriller with a chance to see it on the big screen. Advertising executive, Roger O Thornbill (Grant) is mistaken for a government agent by a gang of criminals led by Vandamm (Mason).

Thrown into a series of misadventures he becomes tangled in a web of intrigue, complicated not least by a beautiful, mysterious blonde. Host to a series of iconic celluloid thriller moments (think crop spraying planes and Mount Rushmore), this is not to be missed!

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“A pitch-black fusion of dark comedy, icy melodrama and satirical sideswipes at the class system, held together with an absorbing lead performance.” The Scotsman

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Charles Dickens is the UK’s most prominent writer since Shakespeare and is the literary voice of Victorian England. His characters are universally well known, while his style of writing came to define the episodic cliff-hanger. Over 250 different film and television adaptations have been made of these stories - 34 in the last 10 years.

Hosted by Derek Jacobi this documentary, for the very first time, takes the viewer on a journey of all of the most important places, towns and cities that were the inspiration to some of the most famous settings in literature.

Mon 7 & Tue 8 Sep Dir: Joseph Losley UK 1967 105mins Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Jaqueline Sassard, Stanley Baker, Michael York Bogarde stars in what he felt was his best role, in the third collaboration between director Losley and screenwriter Harold Pinter.

Forty something Oxford don, Stephen, finds himself dissatisfied with his wife, family, home and career. In silent competition with his media-star colleague Charley (Baker) and young upper-class student Michael (York), he finds himself vying for the attention of beautiful Austrian student Anna, who is romantically entangled with both men. Strangled emotions and repressed sexual urges send this film spiralling to a tragic and brutal climax.

Sin Nombre 15

Tue 8 & Wed 9 Sep Dir: Cary Fukunaga Mexico/US 2009 96mins subtitled Cast: Paulina Gaitan, Edgar Flores, Kristian Ferrer A social-political thriller in the tradition of American film noir, Sin Nombre is set on the border, where Mexico becomes the crucible and the fearsome gangs of today’s Mexican countryside, the gauntlet, to freedom.

The stories of Sayra, a teenager living in Honduras and hungering for a brighter future, and teen gang members Smiley and Casper, become interlaced on the train to the border, a journey that will determine the future of their lives. At once a love story and a chase film, a thrill ride and a vision of an apocalyptic hell, Sin Nombre envelops us in a nightmare that is all too real for its inhabitants - a portrait of hope and desperation.

Cloud 9 15 Wolke Neun Wed 16 & Thu 17 Sep Dir: Andreas Dresen Germany 2008 98mins subtitled Cast: Ursula Werner, Horst Rehbert, Horst Westphal, Steffi Kühnert

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Sat 5 & Sun 6 Sep Dir: Julian Richards UK 2009 124mins Cast: Derek Jacobi, Roy Hattersley

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After more than three decades of marriage, a respectable seamstress in her 60s begins an affair with a sprightly 76 year old.

Set in East Berlin, this tender drama explores the joy and pain of falling in love at any age. It doesn’t shy away from the physical intimacy between its characters, nor from the profound emotions of all those involved.

“This is a deeply moving film, immaculately acted.” The Observer

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Antichrist 18

Sleep Furiously 15

Lars Von Trier marks his return to the big screen with perhaps the most controversial film of his career. A grieving couple retreat to their isolated cabin in the woods hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse when psychoanalyst Dafoe attempts to “cure” his grieving and troubled wife after the death of their son.

This meditative documentary is set in a small farming community in mid Wales, a place where Koppel's parents - both refugees - found a home.

This is a landscape and population that is changing rapidly as small scale agriculture is disappearing and the generation who inhabited a pre-mechanised world is dying out.

 The Guardian

The Time Traveler’s Wife 12A

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Fri 18 – Thu 24 Sep Dir: Robert Schwentke US 2009 108mins Cast: Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana, Ron Livingstone

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Make up your own mind, but be warned about the extreme imagery of this film. And if you want to share your opinions why not write in our film blog or comment on the Antichrist page on our new look website?

Much influenced by his conversations with the writer Peter Handke, the film maker leads us on a poetic and profound journey into a world of endings and beginnings; a world of stuffed owls, sheep and fire.

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Sumptuous yet imposing imagery clashes with extreme violence and graphic penetrative sex. Nature becomes an enemy, as Von Trier’s recurring theme of female hatred reaches a lurid and grotesque climax. This two-hander landed leading lady Gainsbourg the best actress award at Cannes, whilst the film itself attracted a polarised response from the audience.

Fri 18 & Sat 19 Sep Dir: Gideon Koppel UK 2008 94mins English/ Welsh subtitled

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Mon 14 – Thu 17 Sep Dir: Lars Von Trier Denmark/Germany/France/Sweden/Italy/Poland 2009 109mins subtitled Cast: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Based on the best-selling book, this is a love story that transcends time.

Clare (McAdams) has been in love with Henry (Bana) her entire life.

She believes they are destined to be together, even though she never knows when they will be separated: Henry is a time traveller and is cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline, skipping back and forth through his lifespan with no control.

Despite the fact that Henry’s travels force them apart with no warning, Clare desperately tries to build a life with her one true love.

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Sat 19 & Sun 20 Sep Dir: Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon Belgium/France 2008 77mins subtitled Cast: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Philippe Martz Teachers in a rural school, happy couple Fiona and Dom have a common passion: Latin dancing. One night, after another glorious dance competition victory, they have a car accident and see their lives turn upside down. Whilst she struggles with the loss of a leg, he struggles with the loss of his memory.

Perhaps an unlikely scenario for a whimsical comedy but this little gem was a big hit with this year’s Cannes audience. A modern day film, very much in the style of Jacques Tati, this highly visual comedy is full of charm and whimsy with a few darker bits thrown in for good measure.

Mid August Lunch U Pranzo di Ferragosto Mon 21 & Tue 22 Sep Dir: Gianni Di Gregorio Italy 2008 75mins subtitled Cast: Gianni Di Gregorio, Valeria De Franciscis, Marina Cacciotti Gianni doesn’t have much to smile about. His role as a full time carer for his ageing mother consumes all of his time. And because he can’t work, they are behind with their bills and rent.

But help is on hand when his landlord offers to clear his debts asking Gianni to care for his mother in return, whilst he goes on holiday. Soon the word is out, as more elderly ladies are placed in his care. Running around catering 07 to their every whim is tiring, yet the women are most happy when they can be of use, preparing magnificent meals. Gianni finds his once dull life now sparkling as relationships are made, wine is drunk, food is eaten and memories are shared.

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Fri 25 Sep – Sun 4 Oct Dir: Nora Ephron US 2009 123mins Cast: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci

Julia Child (Streep) was a celebrated American TV Chef. Julie Powell (Adams) was a thirty something New Yorker who blogged about her challenge to make 524 of Julia’s recipes in 365 days.

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Professor Dumbledore persuades bumbling wizard Horace Slughorn (a glorious performance

by Jim Broadbent), back from retirement to become the potions teacher, while Professor Snape receives long awaited news. Harry Potter, together with Dumbledore, must face treacherous tasks to defeat his evil nemesis once again.

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Unless you’ve had your head under a stone for the past decade you’ll know all about the phenomenon that is Harry Potter. This film, filled with Hitchcockian suspense and plenty of raging hormones, finds Harry and friends in their sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In both wizard and muggle worlds Lord Voldemort and his henchmen are increasingly active.

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Fri 25 – Sun 27 Sep Dir: David Yates UK 2009 155mins Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Alan Rickman, Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Jim Broadbent

Writer-director Nora Ephron's adaptation is based on their two bestselling memoirs: Powell's Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme. Based on these two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.

35 Shots of Rum 12A 35 Rhums Mon 28 – Wed 30 Sep Dir: Claire Denis France/Germany 2008 100mins subtitled Cast: Alex Descas, Mati Diop Time and romantic attraction threaten to sour a family relationship in this drama from writer and director Claire Denis. Lionel is a middle-aged widower and train driver who shares an apartment with his twenty-something daughter Josephine. Although often unspoken, Lionel and Josephine have a warm and caring relationship.

When Lionel's close friend and fellow driver announces he's retiring, Lionel becomes painfully aware of his growing age and dependency on his daughter.

NT Live:

All’s Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare Thu 1 Oct 6.45pm Cinema £10 3hrs 25mins (incl. interval) Following the success of Phèdre with Helen Mirren, we’re proud to broadcast another National Theatre production live in our cinema.

Set against a background of sexism, snobbery and a battle between the generations, Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well turns fairytale logic on its head. A wondrous, bittersweet story.  Evening Standard, Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Metro, Sunday Express, thelondonpaper, The Times “Marianne Elliott’s wondrous revival… a fairytale for grown ups.”

The Guardian

Broken Embraces 15 Los Abrazos Rotos Fri 2 – Thu 8 Oct Dir: Pedro Almodóvar Spain 2009 128mins subtitled Cast Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo Broken Embraces is a playful four–way tale of amour–fou, shot in the visually arresting style of ‘50s American film noir.

Writer and film-director, Harry Caine, recounts his life from 14 years previously, when he lived by another name and before he lost his sight and his one true love in a car crash. Switching between the present and 1994, Cruz plays his lost love, Lena, who was involved with millionaire producer Martel before falling under her director's spell. Oscar-winner Almodóvar reunites with cast members from his former celluloid successes: long time muse Cruz, Homar (Bad Education) and Portillo (Volver).

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Give your opinion or pose questions for further debate on the film you have just seen in this series of post-screening discussions.

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vie e Sat 17 Oct 2pm Cinema £4.50 (£2.50) Dir: Niki Caro New Zealand 102mins Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Cliff Curtis A magical and deeply moving story of a young girl's struggle to fulfil her destiny. In a small New Zealand coastal village, a young girl must fight her beloved grandfather and 1000 years of patriarchal rule to take her place as chief of the tribe.

Whale Song Dir: Gerald Conn UK 1989 4mins

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A short film made using sand animation and paint on glass, about the history of the whaling industry and how our view of these animals has changed over time.

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North by Northwest U Sun 13 Sep 4pm

Rumba PG Sat 19 Sep 6.30pm

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The Wizard of Oz

Sat 31 Oct 2pm Cinema £4.50 (£2.50) Ages 8+ Dir: Victor Fleming US 1939 98mins Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton, Frank Morgan Somewhere over the rainbow is a world that’s certainly not Kansas! When Dorothy Gayle hits her head in a tornado she wakes up in a land of munchkins, wizards and witches.

With the help of a scarecrow, tinman and cowardly lion she sets off on an adventure to find her way home.

Mon 28 Sep 6.30pm

Broken Embraces 15 Tue 6 Oct 6.30pm

Away We Go 15 Thu 15 Oct 6.30pm

Pierrot le Fou 15

A little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form.

Warwick Arts Centre and Screen WM have joined forces to create a Film Hub for the West Midlands. Come along to experience, understand, enjoy and even make movies.

Film Talk:

James Dean Another Look at Giant (1956)

French New Wave Cinema

Sat 10 Oct 11am – 3.30pm £7.50 (£5.50)

Mon 19 Oct 6.30pm

by Professor Ginette Vincendeau, Head of Department, Film Studies King's College London Sat 7 Nov 11am – 3.30pm £7.50 (£5.50)

Giant began as a controversial bestselling novel about Texas prejudice against Mexican Americans. In the years since Giant's release, the film has become synonymous with the career of the legendary James Dean.

Exploring rare, behind-the-scenes material, Smyth argues that Dean's performance is at the heart of the film's complex portrait of race and masculinity in the Hollywood Western.

François Truffaut’s Les Coups 400 (The 400 Blows), which took the May 1959 Cannes film festival by storm, is the most exuberant and long-lasting manifesto for the French New Wave cinema. In this illustrated talk, Ginette Vincendeau revisits the excitement and innovation of Truffaut’s moving autobiographical film and of the New Wave, placing them in the social, cultural and cinematic context of France at the turn of the 1960s.

GIANT PG

The 400 Blows PG

Dir: George Stephens US 1956 197mins Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean

Down to the Cellar Do Pivnice Dir: Jan Svankmejer Czech 1983 15mins subtitled

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by Dr Jennifer Smyth, Departments of History and American Culture University of Warwick

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A chance to spend the day exploring a particular theme of film guided by specialists in that field.

This sprawling epic spans the rise and fall in fortunes of two generations of Texan families. Dean plays Jett Rink, a handyman to Hudson’s rich rancher Bick Benedict, who covets both his wealth and beautiful new wife Leslie (Taylor).

Les Quatre Cents Coups Dir: François Truffaut France 1959 99mins subtitled Cast: Jean-Piere Léaud, Claire Maurier As a young boy, Antoine is neglected by his parents and bullied by his teacher. Labelled a delinquent, his budding intellectual curiosity forces him towards an unknowing future.

“Still one of the cinema's most perceptive forays into childhood.” Time Out 09 11

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“Filled with sun-soaked tableaux and lyrical meditations on life, death and family” Time Out, New York

The Bays & Run Lola Run 15 Fri 9 Oct 7.30pm Theatre £15.50 (£12.50)

UK band The Bays make exhilarating live electronic music. Their seamless segues from hip hop and drum ‘n’ bass to ambient grooves and dubby basslines challenge every old-school notion of a live band. A band with no recordings, no rehearsals and no set-list, The Bays live in the moment, giving an unrepeatable, completely improvised performance every single time.

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Isabelle Huppert stars in Meier’s much-lauded debut “eco-comedy”, as a highly-strung mother in a conventional family who, appreciating a little isolation in her life, raises her accepting clan next to a long abandoned, unfinished highway. Each family member has accommodated her nervous need for this isolation. But the sudden completion of the road and the subsequent arrival of traffic brings about an increase in noise, pollution, and a general intrusion to their daily life. As their health and sanity is threatened, can the family, as individuals or a unit, survive this change?

This is the perfect antidote to more “worthy” eco-documentaries, whilst packing the same moral punch.

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Mendes’ latest feature is a warm and humorous look at a close-knit relationship. Longtime “thirty something” couple Burt and Verona are going to have a baby. Six months in, the pair discover that Burt’s eccentric parents are moving out of Colorado – thereby eliminating the expectant couple’s main reason for living there. So, where, and among whom of those closest to them, might Burt and Verona best put down roots to raise their impending bundle of joy? The couple embarks on an ambitious itinerary to visit friends and family, and to evaluate cities. With an all star cast of cameos which include Maggie Gyllenhaal, Alison Janney, Catherine O’Hara and Jeff Daniels.

Mon 5 – Wed 7 Oct Dir: Ursula Meier Switzerland/France/Germany 2009 98mins Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet, Adélaïde Leroux, Madeleine Budd

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Fri 9 - Thu 15 Oct Dir: Sam Mendes US/UK 2009 98mins Cast: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph

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Here, the band takes Tom Twyker’s iconic 1998 film Run Lola Run as inspiration.

A punchy play on fate and choices with a three-way plot that careens through cartoon sequences, bank heists and the urban jungle, it is the perfect fit for The Bays’ fast, loud, dazzling music.

Creation 12A

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Part ghost story, part psychological thriller, part heart-wrenching love story, Creation is the story of Charles Darwin (Bettany) and the single most explosive idea in history detailed in his great and still controversial book ‘The Origin of Species’. Torn between his love for his deeply religious wife (Connolly), grief for a lost child and his own growing belief in a world where God has no place, Darwin finds himself caught in a struggle between faith and reason, love and truth. Told in a collage of scenes from the past and present, this is a film laced with stories of exotic animals and the dark dreams of a troubled mind.

Wilde’s gothic horror novel gets a fresh celluloid outing in this new film featuring an all star cast. This is director Parker’s third adaptation of a Wilde classic, after the critically acclaimed An Ideal Husband starring Cate Blanchett and Jeremy Northam and The Importance of Being Earnest with Colin Firth and Rupert Everett. Having directed the hugely successful St Trinian’s films with both Firth and Everett, he once again assembles a fine ensemble cast to tell the tale of the suspiciously ever-young Dorian Gray, whose sins and vices are seen only on the decaying image of a portrait, locked in the attic.

Fri 9 – Sun 18 Oct Dir: Jon Amiel UK 2009 110mins Cast: Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connolly, Jeremy Northam, Toby Jones

Fri 16 – Sun 25 & Wed 28 Oct Dir: Oliver Parker UK 2009 113mins Cast: Colin Firth, Ben Barnes, Emilia Fox, Ben Chaplin

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French auteur, Godard’s explosive 1960s thriller has become the quintessential example of New Wave cinema which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

Wed 21 – Sat 24 Oct Dir: R J Cutler US 2009 90mins Featuring: Anna Wintour

With unprecedented access, this documentary film tells the story of legendary Vogue editorin-chief Anna Wintour and her larger-than-life team of editors creating the issue and ruling the world of fashion. This is the real life behind The Devil Wears Prada illustrating how Wintour earned her reputation as the hard-ruling Queen of fashion.

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Fish Tank 15

It’s time to “go to the mattresses” in what many list as the greatest film of all time. And if it’s ever second, it’s only behind The Godfather: Part 2. This is a magnificent portrait of the US/ Italian mafia as an ageing patriarch of an organised crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

Andrea Arnold's assured follow-up to Red Road is a taboo-breaking love story about a violent teenaged girl, Mia. She is ostracised by her friends and excluded from school. But when her mother introduces her new boyfriend into their family life, Mia becomes transformed by her desire for him. Fish Tank is the winner of the Jury prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

Sat 24 & Sun 25 Oct Dir: Francis Ford Coppola US 1972 175mins Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton

The September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine weighed nearly five pounds, and was the single largest issue of a magazine ever published.

“It could be argued that Francis Ford Coppola's film of Mario Puzo's bestseller, at once an art movie and a commercial blockbuster, marked the dawn of the age of the mega-movie.“ Empire Magazine

“The fly-on-the-wall camera shows the messy and chaotic way a fashion magazine is produced” Screen International

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After escaping his stale, bourgeois marriage, Ferdinand Griffon (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a man on the run, encounters a captivating woman, Marianne (Godard's then-wife, Anna Karina), who is on also the run from a group of hitmen. Striking up an immediate connection, the two begin a freewheeling affair that leads them to the Mediterranean Sea.

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The Yes Men Fix the World 12A Mon 26 & Tue 27 Oct Dir: Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno US/France 2009 90mins

Mon 26 – Thu 29 Oct Dir: Andrea Arnold UK 2009 124mins Cast: Michael Fassbender, Kate Jarvis, Kierston Wareing

“… a powerful film of betrayed love in a bleak landscape, powered by fizzing performances from Michael Fassbender and newcomer Katie Jarvis” The Guardian

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Mon 19 & Tue 20 Oct Dir: Jean-Luc Godard France/Italy 1965 110mins subtitled Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani

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The Yes Men visit the twisted (and accidentally hilarious) underworld of the free-market think tanks, where they figure out a way to defeat the logic that's destroying our planet.

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Andy, purporting to be a Dow Chemical spokesperson, gets on the BBC news – the biggest TV news programme in the world and announces that after 20 years of denial, Dow will finally clean up the site of the Bhopal Catastrophe, the largest industrial accident in history.

The result: as people worldwide celebrate, Dow's stock value loses two billion dollars.

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The Sep tember Issue

Troublemaking documentary makers Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, expose the people profiting from Hurricane Katrina, the faces behind the environmental disaster in Bhopal, and other shocking events.

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Once Upon A Time Katalin Varga 15 Mon 2 – Thu 5 Nov In The West 15 Dir: Peter Stickland Sat 31 Oct & Sun 1 Nov Dir: Sergio Leone US 1968 165mins Cast: Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale

Romania/UK/Hungary 2009 82mins subtitled Cast: Hilda Péter, Tibor Pálffy, Norbert Tanko, Melinda Kantor

A harmonica-playing stranger joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad in this long frontier epic. Shadowy pasts and loyalties are tested amid fast gun battles and dramatic landscapes.

Set in rural Transylvania, a woman abandoned by her husband and banished from her village sets out on a quest to find the real father of her son.

With revenge in mind, she too is being hunted in this brutal tale of the cycle of violence, where the lines between victim and aggressor become blurred.

“A powerful and elegant debut by the British directorial discovery of the year.“ Edinburgh Film Festival

Tue 3 Nov The latest album of snapshots from the Media Archive of Central England focuses on the changing life and landscape in Coventry and Warwickshire with a couple of recently made documentaries. Local artists Talking Birds explore Coventry's ring road whilst a portrait of the lives of travelling fairground people features in A Way of Life by Alan van Wijgerden. In addition there will be films about Lockheed in Leamington Spa and other insights to local life from the Central TV news archive.

The evening will be introduced with wit and warmth by Peter Walters of CVOne.

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Framed by the crisis ridden, spectacular Amazonian Rain Forest, this documentary is a hilarious and psychological thrill ride that simultaneously surprises and enlightens.

Gilliam’s latest visual feast has been somewhat overshadowed by the death of leading man Heath Ledger during production. Creatively re-worked by Gilliam, the lead role was shared with Ledger by his friends and colleagues Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell.

Accompanied by live music from The Harmonie Band An early sound film shot with the aesthetic of the silent film era, this is a stunningly photographed tale of horror, beautifully capturing an aura of fear and otherworldly menace.

A young man stops at an inn, and discovers the village is rife with strange goings-on... murders, sudden illnesses, and weird skulking creatures. When a doctor asks him to help a desperately sick girl by donating blood, he soon becomes lost in what he assumes to be eerie hallucinations.

“If you've never seen a Carl Dreyer film and wonder why many critics, myself included, regard him as possibly the greatest of all filmmakers, this chilling horror fantasy is the perfect place to begin to understand” Chicago Reader

Southern Softies

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In the present day, immortal 1,000-yearold Doctor Parnassus (Plummer) leads a fantastical travelling theatre troupe that offers audience members a chance to go beyond reality through a magical mirror, a gift from the Devil (Waits), who now comes to collect his fee, the doctor's daughter (Cole). The troupe, joined by mysterious outsider, Tony (Ledger), voyage through parallel worlds to rescue her.

France/Germany 1932 70mins subtitled Cast: Julian West, Maurice Schutz

a documentary film by John Shuttleworth Katalin Varga

Overweight, a heavy drinker, and pushing 53 years old, Strel is an unlikely superman. His hand-picked crew of faith healers, outsiders and drunks watch him battle his many demons over the sixty-six day swim, fuelled by just his will power and every day going slowly more and more mad.

Fri 30 Oct – Thu 5 Nov Dir: Terry Gilliam France/UK/Canada 2009 122mins Cast: Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, Lily Cole

In The

This inspiring documentary follows Martin Strel as he attempts to cover 3,375 miles of what is believed to be the world's longest swim along the hostile and dangerous Amazon River. Strel, who hails from Slovenia, previously completed record swims in the Danube, Mississippi and Yangtze rivers and holds several Guinness World Records.

The Imaginarium Vampyr PG of Dr Parnassus 12A FriDir:30CarlOct Theodor Dreyer

A Time

Wed 28 & Thu 29 Oct Dir: John Maringouin US 2009 100mins

Once U pon

Big River Man tbc

South ern S ofties with

John S huttle worth

“Leone showed with Once Upon A Time In The West that it was possible to honour the Western tradition while raising the artistic bar to such a level that nobody has made a better Western since.” Empire Magazine

MACE PG

plus Q&A with director Graham Fellows Sun 8 Nov 6.30pm Cinema £10 (£8) “Sheffield’s funniest man” (The Independent) travels to Jersey to discover if it’s Soft down South. Hilarious 17 sequel to critically acclaimed spoof documentary It’s Nice Up North.

"A bit of a shambles frankly, and utterly inspired." Daily Telegraph "Eccentric, beautifully inconsequential."

Time Out

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Films A-Z

Sept

35 Shots of Rum p09 Accident p04 A Girl Cut In Two p05 Antichrist p06 Away We Go p12 Big River Man p16 Broken Embraces p09 Charles Dickens's England p04 Cloud 9 p05 Creation p13 Dorian Gray p13 Fish Tank p15 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince p08 Home p12 Is Anybody There? p03 Julie & Julia p08 Katalin Varga p17 Kisses p02 MACE p17 Mesrine: Killer Instinct p02 Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 p02 Mid August Lunch p07 Moon p03 North By North West p05 NT Live: All's Well That Ends Well p09 Once Upon A Time In The West p17 Pierrot Le Fou p14 Rumba p07 Sin Nombre p04 Sleep Furiously p06 Southern Softies p17 The Bays & Run Lola Run p13 The Godfather p15 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus p16 The September Issue p14 The Time Traveler's Wife p07 The Yes Men Fix The World p15 Vampyr p16

Tue 01 Kisses 6.30pm

Mesrine: Killer Instinct 8.30pm Wed 02 Kisses 6.30pm

Mesrine: Killer Instinct 8.30pm Thu 03 Kisses 6.30pm

Mesrine: Killer Instinct 8.30pm Fri 04 Is Anybody There? 6.30pm

Moon 8.30pm Sat 05 Charles Dickens's England 4pm

Moon 6.30pm

Is Anybody There? 8.30pm Sun 06 Charles Dickens's England 4pm

Moon 7.30pm Mon 07 Is Anybody There? 6.30pm

Accident 8.30pm Tue 08 Accident 6.30pm

Sin Nombre 8.45pm Wed 09 Sin Nombre 6.30pm

A Girl Cut in Two 8.30pm Thu 10 A Girl Cut in Two 6.30pm

North By North West 8.50pm Fri 11 Mesrine: Killer Instinct PSD 6.30pm

Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1 8.50pm Sat 12 Mesrine: Killer Instinct 6.30pm

Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1 8.50pm Sun 13 North By North West PSD 4pm

Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1 7.30pm Mon 14 Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1 6.15pm

Antichrist 8.50pm Tue 15 Antichrist 6.30pm

Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1 8.45pm Wed 16 Cloud 9 6.30pm

Antichrist 8.30pm Thu 17 Cloud 9 6.30pm

Antichrist 8.30pm Fri 18 Sleep Furiously 6.30pm

The Time Traveler's Wife 8.30pm Sat 19 Sleep Furiously 4pm

Rumba PSD 6.30pm

The Time Traveler's Wife 8.30pm Sun 20 Rumba 4pm

The Time Traveler's Wife 7.30pm Mon 21 Mid August Lunch 6.30pm

The Time Traveler's Wife 8.30pm Tue 22 The Time Traveler's Wife 6.30pm

Mid August Lunch 8.45pm Wed 23 Moon 6.30pm

The Time Traveler's Wife 8.30pm Thu 24 The Time Traveler's Wife 6.30pm

Moon 8.45pm

Events Close Up Family Films In The Frame

p11 p10 p11

To get the most enjoyment from your visit to the film theatre, we ask that all mobile phones are switched off.

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Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Julie & Julia Julie & Julia Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Julie & Julia Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Julie & Julia Julie & Julia PSD 35 Shots of Rum 35 Shots of Rum Julie & Julia Julie & Julia Julie & Julia 35 Shots of Rum

6pm 9pm 3.30pm 6pm 9pm 4pm 7.30pm 6.30pm 9pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 4pm 6.30pm 9pm

Oct

Thu 01 All's Well That Ends Well 6.45pm Fri 02 Julie & Julia 6.30pm

Broken Embraces 9pm Sat 03 Julie & Julia 6pm

Broken Embraces 8.30pm Sun 04 Julie & Julia 4.30pm

Broken Embraces 7.30pm Mon 05 Home 6.30pm

Broken Embraces 8.30pm Tue 06 Broken Embraces PSD 6.30pm

Home 9pm Wed 07 Home 6.30pm

Broken Embraces 8.30pm Thu 08 Broken Embraces 8.30pm Fri 09 Creation 6.30pm

The Bays & Run Lola Run (Theatre) 7.30pm

Away We Go 8.45pm Sat 10 Film Talk: James Dean 11am

Creation 4.15pm

Away We Go 6.30pm

Creation 8.30pm Sun 11 Away We Go 4pm

Creation 7.30pm Mon 12 Creation 6.30pm

Away We Go 8.45pm Tue 13 Away We Go 6.30pm

Creation 8.30pm Wed 14 Creation 4pm

Creation 6.30pm

Away We Go 8.45pm Thu 15 Away We Go PSD 6.30pm

Creation 8.30pm Fri 16 Creation 6.30pm

Dorian Gray 8.45pm Sat 17 Family Film Club: Whale Rider 2pm

Dorian Gray 4.15pm

Dorian Gray 6.30pm

Creation 8.45pm

Sun 18

Mon 19

Tue 20

Wed 21

Thu 22 Fri 23

Creation Dorian Gray Pierrot Le Fou PSD Dorian Gray Dorian Gray Pierrot Le Fou Dorian Gray The September Issue Dorian Gray Dorian Gray The September Issue Dorian Gray

4pm 7.30pm 6.30pm 8.45pm 6.30pm 8.45pm 4pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 8.30pm

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Sat 31

The September Issue Dorian Gray The Godfather: Part 1 Dorian Gray The Godfather: Part 1 Fish Tank The Yes Men Fix The World The Yes Men Fix The World Fish Tank Dorian Gray Fish Tank Big River Man Big River Man Fish Tank Vampyr The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Family Film Club: The Wizard of Oz Once Upon A Time In The West The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

4pm 6pm 8.15pm 4pm 7pm 6.30pm 9pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 4pm 6.30pm 9pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 6.30pm 8.45pm 2pm 5.45pm 9pm

Nov

Sun 01 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 4pm

Once Upon A Time In The West 7.30pm Mon 02 Katalin Varga 6.30pm

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 8.30pm Tue 03 MACE 6.30pm

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 8.30pm Wed 04 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 4pm

Katalin Varga 6.30pm

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 8.30pm Thu 05 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 6.30pm

Katalin Varga 9pm Sat 07 Film Talk: French New Wave 11am Sun 08 Southern Softies 6.30pm

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how to find us

By Car On approaches to Coventry, simply follow the brown signs for Warwick Arts Centre. Once on the University of Warwick campus, head for car parks 6, 7 or 8. For the latest on the roads around Coventry visit: www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/travel

By Train Services run regularly from Birmingham, Leicester and London to Coventry from where we are a short taxi or bus ride away.

By Bus Regular bus services from Coventry, Leamington Spa and Kenilworth stop outside the Arts Centre. Centro Hotline: 024 7655 9559

booking information Telephone Bookings

CP = Car Park

024 7652 4524

Online Bookings www.warwickartscentre.co.uk

Box Office Opening Times

Warwick Arts Centre is a resource provided by The University of Warwick.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following organisations:

Mon - Sat 9.30am - 9pm Sun - 2.00pm - 8pm

Ticket Prices (unless otherwise stated) Full Price:

£6.50

Discounts:

£5.25*

Groups of 5+:

£4.75 each

Full Time Students, Under 16s, Registered unemployed: £4.25 University of Warwick students: £3.00 Weekday Matinees: £4.25 * 60+ in full-time retirement, Passport to Leisure holders

Cinderella Sat 28 Nov - Sun 3 Jan For everyone 7+

Brochure available in large print on 024 7652 4524

Warwick Arts Centre reserves the right to change the film programme without notice.

Please check our website or contact the Box Office for updated information.

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