Welcome to the January 2017 edition of the kinokulture cinema newsletter. We would like to thank all of our customers, volunteers and colleagues for your tremendous support over the past year and are looking forward to bringing another great range of films and live theatre broadcasts to you throughout 2017. We would also like to congratulate Oswestry Film Society on such a successful third Season and look forward to their fourth season packed full of 'Winter Warmers' all with a feel good factor to banish those winter blues. Our highlights this month include the heartwarming 'A Street Cat Named Bob' based on the best selling novel, the psychological thriller 'Nocturnal Animals' starring Amy Adams & Jake Gyllenhaal, 'Sully Miracle On The Hudson', an extra screening of 'I, Daniel Blake', 'Rogue One: A star Wars Story' and for World cinema fans we have the Nepalese film 'The Black Hen' and the beautiful documentary 'The Eagle Huntress' from Mongolia. For those of you who enjoy taking a journey with the masters of cinema we launch our next director's Mini Season highlighting the films of Stanley Kubrick with 'The Shining'.
You can view all our film screenings and events currently on sale with full information and booking links here: http://www.kinokulture.org.uk | Please note that due to increased costs we have had to make the decision to increase our regular ticket prices by £1.00 from 6th January 2017. We still feel that this offers great value for money and hope that you will continue to visit us.
Prices for Event Cinema & Live broadcasts vary depending on the distributor.
Please scroll down to see full information & booking links for this month's films & for highlights coming in February.
Doors open 30 minutes before the screening time and parking is available in The Horse Market car park just a short walk from the cinema.
Our cafe/bar space sells a range of light refreshments and is licensed in the evenings and on Saturdays. | | | | | January Film Screenings & Events
kinokulture cinema, 9 Arthur Street, Oswestry, SY11 1JN | | |  | | Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them (12A)
Thursday 5th January 7:30pm
SOLD OUT | |  | | A Street Cat Named Bob (12A)
Friday 6th January 7:30pm SOLD OUT
Saturday 7th January 7:30pm SOLD OUT | |  | Drop Into Shakespeare: The Tempest Unwrapped
A Talk by Pam Johnson
Monday 9th January 7:30pm
Tickets: £3.00
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/323704
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Drop into Shakespeare …Come and find out more about Shakespeare's plays with this regular programme of talks by Pam Johnson… The Tempest Unwrapped One of Shakespeare's later plays, The Tempest is a tale of revenge, reconciliation, forgiveness, magic and power. In advance of the live screening from the RSC come and explore this wonderful play. Run time: 1 hour | |  | The Black Hen (12A) World Cinema Season
Tuesday 10th January 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/322530
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 The Black Hen is a wistful, deeply touching drama and the feature debut of emerging Nepali director Min Bahadur Bham, whose short The Flute (2012) made history as the first Nepali film presented at Venice International Film Festival. It's set in 2001, wherein a temporary ceasefire gives a much-needed break to a small village in northern Nepal that's been ravaged by the ongoing conflict between the government and insurgent Maoists. The village chief's grandson Kiran and Prakash, son of a servant, become inseparable best friends despite being divided by caste and social creed. While the adults are relieved by the ceasefire, their only concern is to retrieve the hen they've been raising in order to sell its eggs. But when they set out to find it, they're unaware of the fragility of the ceasefire - and that they may soon be caught between fighting forces. Bolstered by excellent performances, and offsetting humour against tragedy and a pleasing realism against ethereal dream sequences, this is an outstanding debut from an exciting new voice in contemporary world cinema. Director: Min Bahadur Bham Nepal, France, Germany, Switzerland 2015 English subtitles Run time: 90 mins "This project is supported by Film Hub North West Central, proud to be a member of the BFI Film Audience Network" | |  | | RSC Live: The Tempest
Wednesday 11th January 7:00pm
SOLD OUT | |  | In Focus: Eat That Question
Frank Zappa In His Own Words (15)
Thursday 12th January 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/318011
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 A dazzling documentary portrait of brilliant musical maverick Frank Zappa.
The late, great Frank Zappa might have looked like a hippy, with his distinctive mop of hair and moustache, but there was no more trenchant critic of the '60s and '70s counter-culture. A genuine iconoclast, whose non-conformist political and social views were as provocative as his genre-shattering music, the charismatic composer left an extraordinary legacy when he died in 1993. Now filmmaker Thorsten Schutte has trawled the archives to uncover and weave together a wealth of performance and interview material spanning Zappa's productive 30 year career.
Told in Zappa's own words, 'Eat That Question' showcases his bravura musicianship, rapier wit, coruscating intelligence and ability to turn the tables on interviewers. A hugely entertaining celebration of one of the great musical geniuses of the 20th century, this is a real treat for long-term fans and the perfect introduction for newcomers. Cast: Frank Zappa Director:Thorsten Schutte Run time: 93 mins "This project is supported by Film Hub North West Central, proud to be a member of the BFI Film Audience Network" | |  | Nocturnal Animals (15)
Friday 13th January 7:30pm
Saturday 14th January 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/157652
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 The past comes back to haunt Amy Adams in this stylish and absorbing psychological noir thriller
LA art gallery owner Susan (Amy Adams) is prosperous and successful but deeply unhappy in her faltering marriage to emotionally distant Walker (Armie Hammer). Out of the blue, she receives the manuscript of a novel by her ex-husband Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal), who she dumped 19 years earlier. As she starts to read, the story springs to life on screen. It's a gruesome, symbolism-laden West Texan revenge tale, beginning with a man named Tony (Gyllenhaal), his wife Susan (Isla Fisher) and their daughter being terorrised by a gang of good ol' boys led by the sinister Ray Marcus (Aaron Taylor-Johnson).
A multi-layered story unfolding in different time frames, this sumptuous and sophisticated, malice-laden pitch-black thriller is fashion designer-turned-director Tom Ford's follow-up to his Oscar-nominated 'A Single Man'. It won the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Venice Film Festival. "A pitch-black thriller to make you queasy with tension and regret" ***** The Guardian "Tom Ford brilliantly converts a complex literary thriller into pure cinema" ***** Evening Standard Cast: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Armie Hammer, Laura Linney Director: Tom Ford Run time: 117 mins | |  | Next Goal Wins (15) Oswestry Film Society Screening
Tuesday 17th January 7:30pm
Membership (All 8 films in Season Four) £24.00
Single screenings tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
available on the door or through the Oswestry Film Society website: http://www.oswestryfilmsociety.org.uk
Please note that tickets for Oswestry Film society cannot be booked through kinokulture. UK / 2014 / 97 mins / Cert 15 The American Samoa football team had lost every competitive game they had ever played. Since a stunning 31-0 defeat against Australia in 2001 they gained the reputation as the world's worst team. Facing the daunting prospect of a qualification campaign for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil they enlisted the help of maverick Dutch coach Thomas Rongen, who describe them as having "by far the lowest standard" of football skill he'd ever seen.
Critic Mark Kermode, who has no love of football said, "Watching this was the first time I have ever punched the air because a football sailed into the back of a net." | |  | In Focus: Francofonia (12A)
Wednesday 18th January 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/318027
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Following his mesmerising exploration of the Hermitage Museum in Russian Ark, visionary director Alexander Sokurov turns his attentions to the turbulent history of the Louvre in this poetic, complex and captivating new film. Focusing particularly on the museum's occupation by Nazi forces following the summer of 1940, Francofonia tells the story of two remarkable men, Louvre director Jacques Jaujard and Nazi officer Franz Wolff-Metternich. First enemies, then collaborators, their alliance would be the driving force behind the preservation of the museum's treasures in the face of untold destruction throughout the rest of the world. Exploring the relationship between art and power, the film brilliantly blurs the lines of fiction, documentary, memoir and video-essay. Punctuated by Sokurov's own thoughtful musings and philosophies, Francofonia is a timely and poignant film, posing questions about the ownership and value of art during conflict while addressing notions of what it means to be European in times of division. "In praise of art, but also a reminder that we need to treasure what we have." **** Little White Lies "This is graceful and provocative filmmaking. It works both as art history and as an account of wartime Paris under German occupation." **** The Independent Director: Alexander Sokurov France/Germany/Netherlands 2015 Run time: 87mins. "This project is supported by Film Hub North West Central, proud to be a member of the BFI Film Audience Network" | |  | The Shining (15)
Stanley Kubrick Mini Season
Thursday 19th January 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/322541
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 With this new digital restoration showing in its longer US cut, Stanley Kubrick's remarkable 1980 horror film has lost none of its power to shock. When a troubled writer takes his wife and son to a remote hotel, the ghosts of the Overlook's bloody past come back to haunt them. Kubrick's spine-tingling adaptation of Stephen King's bestseller (which itself drew inspiration from Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House) has been voted one of the greatest horror movies of all time, with Jack Nicholson's portrayal of the increasingly deranged Jack Torrance becoming an icon of psychotic screen terror. Yet it is Shelley Duvall's all-too-real portrayal of an anguished wife that really lends the drama such a gut-wrenchingly visceral punch – her utterly credible performance having been provoked by the director with a ruthlessness that perhaps borders on cruelty.
Criticised by King devotees for straying from the details of the author's logically linear text, The Shining was recut by its notoriously perfectionist director after its initial US release, making the film even more elliptical and enigmatic. Decide for yourself whether this longer US cut – never released in UK cinemas – was superior to the slimmed-down international version.
– Mark Kermode Director: stanley Kubrick UK, USA 1980 Cast: Jack Nicholson / Shelley Duvall / Danny Lloyd Run time: 144 mins "This project is supported by Film Hub North West Central, proud to be a member of the BFI Film Audience Network" | |  | Sully: Miracle On The Hudson (12A)
Friday 20th January 7:30pm
Saturday 21st January 7:30pm
Monday 23rd January 7:30pm (subtitled for The Hard Of Hearing)
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/161493
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Tom Hanks stars as a modern American hero in this riveting true life drama.
On 15 January 2009, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger became a national hero when the world witnessed him pilot his disabled plane onto the waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being championed for his bravery and skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy both his reputation and his career.
Tom Hanks stars as Captain Sullenberger in this amazing true-life story directed by the great Clint Eastwood. Many are calling this Hanks' finest role to date, with talk of an Oscar nomination. "This is Hanks' show, and he delivers a typically strong performance, quickly allowing us to forget that we're watching an actor," says Variety magazine, with The Hollywood Reporter calling the movie "a vigorous and involving salute to professionalism and being good at your job". " superb drama, suits Hanks and Eastwood down to the ground" ***** The Telegraph Cast:Tom Hanks Director:Clint Eastwood Run time: 96 mins "This project is supported by Film Hub North West Central, proud to be a member of the BFI Film Audience Network" *** Please note that the screening on Monday 23rd January will be subtitled for the Hard Of Hearing | |  | Exhibition On Screen:
The Curious World Of Hieronymus Bosch (12A)
Tuesday 24th January 7:00pm
Tickets: £12.00 Adult/£10.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/318082
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Delve into the vivid imagination of a true visionary. Who was Hieronymus Bosch? Why do his strange and fantastical paintings resonate with art lovers now more than ever? How does he bridge the medieval and Renaissance worlds? Where did his unconventional and timeless creations come from? Discover the answers to these questions and more with this remarkable new film from EXHIBITION ON SCREEN. The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch features the critically acclaimed exhibition 'Visions of a Genius' at the Noordbrabants Museum in the southern Netherlands, which brought the majority of Bosch's paintings and drawings together for the first time to his home town of Den Bosch and attracted almost half a million art lovers from all over the world. With his fascinating life revealed plus the details and stories within his works seen like never before, don't miss this cinematic exploration of a great creative genius. Run time: 120 mins | |  | I, Daniel Blake (15) Wednesday 25th January 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/321083
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167
Due to popular demand I, Daniel Blake returns to our screen for one last time. The triumphant winner of this year's Cannes Palme d'Or, Ken Loach's fierce, emphatic drama I, Daniel Blake is purportedly his last film. It's pure Loach, with a script by his regular screenwriter Paul Laverty, and follows the Daniel Blake (Dave Johns) of the title, a fifty-something carpenter living in Newcastle who, after suffering a heart attack, seeks to claim state benefits. Told by his NHS consultant that he's unfit for work, he applies for disability benefit. However, after a 'healthcare professional' appointed by the Department for Work and Pensions interviews him over the phone for just ten minutes, it's decided that he's ineligible. Humiliatingly labelled a scrounger when he is anything but, Daniel is forced to apply instead for jobseeker's allowance and comes up against further absurdities of the welfare state. Meanwhile, he befriends Katie (Hayley Squires) - a single mother to two children, and new to Newcastle - who's also suffering on the breadline. Overwhelmingly moving, I, Daniel Blake is a stark reminder of the profound injustices of life in contemporary Britain and the brutal inhumanity of the system, making it painfully clear that issues so often invoked theoretically in the media in fact result in real human suffering, which exists in plain sight. "A spare film, muted in colour - and all the more powerful and urgent for it." **** Time Out "I, Daniel Blake" is one of Loach's finest films, a drama of tender devastation that tells its story with an unblinking neorealist simplicity that goes right back to the plain spoken purity of Vittorio De Sica." Variety Director: Ken Loach UK 2016 Run time: 100 mins | |  | Afternoon Classics: Casablanca (U)
Thursday 26th January 1:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/322660
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 "Casablanca is as much about movies as about romantic adventure. It taps our love of movies, our involvement with them, our dreamy bondage by them."
Jay Carr, The A List: The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films, 2002 Set in Vichy-controlled Morocco during WWII, Casablanca revolves around a nightclub run by cynical American expat Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), where resistance fighters, immigrants and Nazis converge to police or partake in an illicit economy. In this colourfully exotic setting, created entirely on the Warner Bros studio lot, an affair is rekindled between Rick and Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), the latter now the wife of a resistance leader. Directed by Hungarian refugee Michael Curtiz, Casablanca exemplifies the consummately crafted Hollywood drama, in which all the elements seem to have fallen alchemically into place. The screenplay sparkles with memorable lines, the supporting cast overflows with indelible performances, and the whole is given an urgent, topical edge by being made on the cusp of America's involvement in the war. Ostensibly an adaptation of Hemingway's novel, Howard Hawks' To Have and Have Not (1945), also starring Bogart, is effectively a remake of Casablanca transplanted to Martinique. "Curtiz's film is a classic for a reason -- it's crafted with the precision, detail and beauty of a Fabergé egg; the dialogue is hauntingly memorable and, in Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, it has one of the most magnetic screen pairings in history." ***** The Times We serve free Tea/Coffee and cake at our Afternoon Classics screenings. Director: Michael Curtiz USA 1942 Cast: Lou Marcelle, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains Run time: 102 mins "This project is supported by Film Hub North West Central, proud to be a member of the BFI Film Audience Network" | |  | The Eagle Huntress (U)
World Cinema Season Thursday 26th January 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/322662
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 In the remote Mongolian landscape, the nomadic Kazakh people have for generations perfected fox hunting, using trained eagles. It was traditionally an exclusively male sport, but Aisholpan, the 13-year-old daughter of a much-garlanded eagle hunter, calmly decided to change all that. Documentarian Otto Bell's film follows her progress, including pivotal events such as the plucking of a young eagle from its cliff-side nest, all leading up to the annual Golden Eagle Festival, where Aisholpan is not only the first ever female contestant, but also the youngest. Disapproval if not downright chauvinism from some Kazakh traditionalists is offset by Aisholpan's good-hearted determination, the fascinating business of training these huge, powerful birds, and breathtaking footage of the Altai mountains. A suitably impressed Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) narrates. " There's a spirit that soars in this nature doc about a 13-year-old who becomes Mongolia's first female eagle hunter in 12 generations. You'll be hooked." Rolling Stone Magazine Director: Otto Bell Featuring: Daisy Ridley USA, UK, Mongolia 2016 English & Kazakh with English subtitles Run time: 87 mins "This project is supported by Film Hub North West Central, proud to be a member of the BFI Film Audience Network" | |  | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (12A)
Friday 27th January 7:30pm
Saturday 28th January 7:30pm
Tuesday 31st January 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/159462
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Felicity Jones takes the lead in the first Star Wars spin-off movie.
It is a period of civil war. The Galactic Empire rules the galaxy, and are putting the finishing touches to their ultimate super-weapon, the Death Star. The Rebellion plan to steal the its plans in order to detect a weak spot in which to destroy it. They recruit Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) to work with Rebel fighter Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) and a team to undertake the deadly mission.
Taking place shortly before the events of the original 1977 classic Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Rogue One charts the desperate resistance mission to seize plans for the terrifying Death Star. It's the first in a thrilling new series of stand-alone spin-off films. Under the visually stunning direction of Godzilla and Monsters filmmaker Gareth Edwards, a terrific international cast prepares to launch into a whole-new galaxy of excitement. Cast: Felicity Jones, Mads Mikkelsen, Diego Luna, Riz Ahmed, Forest Whitaker, Donnie Yen, Jiang Wen, Alan Tudyk, Ben Mendelsohn Director: Gareth Edwards Run time: 135 mins Showing in 2D | |  | From 24th February - 11th March our screen will be taken over by the Borderlines Film Festival. 2017 is the year that Borderlines turns 15. Come join the celebrations and revel in cinema to sharpen the wit and quicken the senses.
This year we have a great programme with a focus on women directors, special preview screenings of the Cannes prize-winner where drama takes centre stage: 'The Salesman' from Iranian director, Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Past) and 'The Odyssey' about the life of Jaques Cousteau and Oscar contenders Jackie, Toni Erdmann, Manchester By The Sea and La La Land.
The full festival programme across all venues will be announced in mid-January with tickets going on sale on 17th January.
Keep up to date by visiting the Borderlines Film Festival website: https://www.borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/about | | Understanding Our Audiences Over the next few months we are working alongside FlatPack: Assemble and our colleagues and partner venues across the region to gain a better understanding of our audiences.
our aim is to help build and support the film community across the West Midlands. We're working with a range of partners to run a region-wide survey to help us better understand what WM film audiences want and enjoy.
This is where you come in! We would be grateful if you would take a couple of minutes to complete the survey below. Completed entries will be entered into a prize draw for £100 worth of Love2shop gift vouchers which can be used in 20,000 stores and attractions nationwide.
Thank you for your time,
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