Welcome to the June edition of the kinokulture cinema newsletter As we head into the summer months June sees the final three screenings of our Best Of British & World Cinema Season but rest assured we will still be screening a varied selection of brilliant British & World cinema films in our regular programme. We also have our final two Globe On Screen events in the current season and the live broadcast of the final night of Take That On Tour from the O2 Arena and booking information on a very special one off live broadcast in July Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years Grateful Dead. Please scroll down for full information & booking details for the June programme. All screenings and events currently on sale can be booked online here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/kinokulture Important Customer Notice:
As of 1st July 2015 all phone calls to 08 numbers will be charged an access charge and a service charge.
We are advising our customers to call our new Box Office number : 01691 238167
instead of the 0845 number. 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.
We look forward to seeing you this month. | | | June
Screenings & Events
kinokulture cinema
9 Arthur Street, Oswestry, SY11 1JN | | |  | Globe On Screen: Antony And Cleopatra (12A)
Thursday 4th June 7:00pm
Saturday 6th June 1:30pm
Tickets: £12.00 Adult/£10.00 Under 16's
Book online: http://www.kinokulture.org.uk/antony-cleopatra/4589462305
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Globe On Screen presents a stunning new interpretation of Shakespeare's iconic play, set against the sweeping backdrop of Ancient Egypt.
Cleopatra, the alluring and fascinatingly ambiguous Queen of Egypt, has bewitched the great Mark Antony, soldier, campaigner and now one of the three rulers of the Roman Empire. When Antony quarrels with his fellow leaders and throws in his lot with Cleopatra, his infatuation threatens to split the Empire in two.
The third of our Roman Tragedies, Antony & Cleopatra picks up Antony's story many years after Julius Caesar. Virtue and vice, transcendent love and realpolitik combine in Shakespeare's greatest exploration of the conflicting claims of sex and power, all expressed in a tragic poetry of breath-taking beauty and magnificence.
The Globe's 2014 envisioning of this iconic play encapsulates these themes whilst deftly threading a sense of comedy throughout, and Olivier Award-winner Eve Best's Cleopatra 'kisses the audience' (Guardian) with her 'magnetically humorous' (Evening Standard) performance.
Directed by: Jonathan Munby
Designer: Colin Richmond
Composer: Jules Maxwell
Starring: Ignatius Anthony, Peter Bankole, Eve Best, Jonathan Bonnici, Philip Correia
Run time: 179 mins (including 15 minute interval) | |  | SAMBA (15)
The Best Of British & World Cinema Season
Friday 5th June 7:30pm
Saturday 6th June 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
(Season Loyalty Cards apply)
Book online: http://www.kinokulture.org.uk/samba/4589212652
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 The filmmakers behind the smash hit Untouchable reunite with breakout star Omar Sy for another fantastic comedy drama.
Samba migrated to France ten years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burn-out. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.
"a highly polished, widely appealing big-budget French movie" Variety. Run time: 119 mins
French with English subtitles | |  | The Dark Horse (15)
The Best Of British & World Cinema Season
Thursday 11th June 7:30pm
Friday 12th June 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
(Season Loyalty Cards apply)
Book online: http://www.kinokulture.org.uk/the-dark-horse/4589475695
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 An inspiring and multi award winning New Zealand drama based on the incredible life of chess player Genesis Potini. Down-at-heel New Zealander Genesis Potini (Cliff Curtis) is a former chess prodigy who's fallen on hard times. But he has a shot at redemption when he decides to coach an impoverished local kids' chess team with the aim of getting them to the national championships.
In the process, Potini hopes to inspire them and prevent the youngsters from slipping into a life of crime. A box office hit when released in its native New Zealand, this stirring drama is based on a remarkable true story and features a rousing performance from actor Cliff Curtis.
"The heartfelt telling of a truly extraordinary true story with a mesmerising central performance" **** Empire Magazine
"At the centre of it is Cliff Curtis, best known internationally for his supporting role in Whale Rider, who dominates the screen as the mercurial Gen. It's a breathtaking performance, note perfect in every gesture, mesmerising in its conviction." **** Mark Kermode
Director: James Napier Robertson
Starring: Cliff Curtis, James Rolleston, Kirk Torrence, Miriama McDowell
Run time: 124 mins | |  | Far From The Madding Crowd (U)
(Full Digital Restoration)
The Best Of British & World Cinema Season
Saturday 13th June 7:30pm
Wednesday 17th June 1:30pm
Tickets £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
(Season loyalty Cards apply)
Book online: http://www.kinokulture.org.uk/far-from-the-madding-crowd/4589004361
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 1967 saw Julie Christie and Terence Stamp immortalised by The Kinks in 'Waterloo Sunset' and cast as lovers in Thomas Hardy's epic love story. Almost 50 years on, this restoration reveals the film as an immersive piece of cinema with Hardy's cruel ironies and bleak lyricism fully intact.
- Robin Baker, BFI
Headstrong and independent, farmer Bathsheba Everdene is among the most modern of 19th century heroines and Christie's performance beautifully underlines her as a woman at odds with the conventions of the time.
Bathsheba unexpectedly inherits a large farm in rural Dorset. Struggling to manage it herself, she captivates the hearts and minds of three very different men: an honest and hardworking sheep farmer, a wealthy but tortured landowner, and a reckless and violent swordsman. But as emotions become entangled, free spirited and innocent folly soon leads to devastating tragedy.
The film contains a number of stand-out set-pieces, such as Stamp's seductive, almost Freudian display of swordsmanship. But what resonates so deeply is the way in which Schlesinger and cinematographer Nicolas Roeg frame the passions and tragedy at the film's heart against the patterns of rural life and the harsh, sodden beauty of the Dorset landscape.
"Gorgeous, one of the most entrancing and elemental landscape films ever shot in these isles" ***** Tom Huddleston, Time Out
"Seductive swordplay, psychedelic cows [...] Julie Christie is luminous and Terence Stamp a blade-twirling dazzler in John Schlesinger's classic adaptation of Thomas Hardy" ***** Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
This glorious new digital restoration is scanned at 4K and restored at 2K from the original 35mm negative.
Dir: John Schlesinger|UK|1967|168 mins | |  | Force Majeure (15)
Wednesday 17th June 7:30pm
Thursday 18th June 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: http://www.kinokulture.org.uk/force-majeure/4589462458
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167
A model Swedish family - handsome businessman Tomas, his wife Ebba and their two beautiful children - are on a skiing holiday in the French Alps. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular, but during lunch at a mountainside restaurant an avalanche suddenly bears down on the happy diners. With people fleeing in all directions and his wife and children in a state of panic, Tomas makes a decision that will shake his marriage to its core and leave him struggling to reclaim his role as family patriarch.
A critical favourite at this year's Cannes Film Festival, where it took the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard category, Force Majeure is a wickedly funny and precisely observed black comedy that marks Ruben Östlund as one of Europe's most stingingly intelligent filmmakers.
Swedish with English subtitles
Run time: 119 mins
"compelling, intelligent and grimly entertaining" **** The Guardian
"It's a very clever film with a barbed ending." **** The Independent | |  | Take That (Cert TBC)
Live Broadcast From The O2 Arena
Friday 19th June 8:00pm
Tickets: £15.00
Book online: http://www.kinokulture.org.uk/take-that-live/4589548289
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Gary, Mark and Howard are beamed live into kinokulture cinema as music legends Take That celebrate 25 years at the top.
For 25 years, Take That have been one of the world's most successful bands. And to celebrate their quarter century anniversary, band members Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald have embarked on their biggest tour yet. Now, from the comfort of your local Cinema, you'll be able to experience the full splendour of Take That on tour as we broadcast their concert live from the O2.
You'll see everything from dancing jellyfish, beautifully choreographed puppetry and a contemporary dance routine performed by Mark and Howard to a flying tandem sidecar that soars out over the crowd.
Captured in stunning HD and broadcast in immersive surround sound, there's no better way of seeing this most beloved of bands rattle through their amazing back catalogue. Here's to the next 25 years!
Starring: Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Mark Owen
Run time: 2 hours (TBC)
*** Please note the start time of 8:00pm is to be confirmed | |  | Two By Two .... Ooops The Ark Has Gone (U)
Saturday Morning Kino Kids Club
Saturday 20th June 11:30am
Tickets: £4.00 Adult/£2.00 Under 16's
Book online: http://www.kinokulture.org.uk/two-by-two/4589462891
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167
'Two By Two Ooops ... The Ark Has Gone' is our Saturday morning Kino Kids Club screening for June.
The Biblical story of Noah's Ark gets a family-friendly spin in this madcap animated adventure. The Bible says that Noah built an ark and populated it with species of every animal to save them from the Great Flood. But what about those hapless critters that were left behind? Meet Dave and his son Finny, species of a clumsy, brightly coloured creature called the Nestrian.
They're thrilled to hear that Noah is building his Ark to save all the animals, but then they find out that Nestrians aren't allowed on board. Nevertheless, they decide to sneak on board with the help of two Grymps, Hazel and her daughter Leah. But disaster strikes when Finny and Leah fall off the Ark, and have to make their own way to the only bit of land not yet engulfed by water.
It's then up to Dave and Hazel to put aside their differences, turn the Ark around and go and save their children.
Run time: 86 mins | |  | Mad Max: Fury Road (2D) (15)
Saturday 20th June 7:30pm
Wednesday 24th June 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: http://www.kinokulture.org.uk/mad-max-fury-road/4589462585
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167
Action man Tom Hardy plays the iconic Road Warrior in the fourth adrenaline-driven Mad Max thriller.
In a stark and parched post-apocalyptic landscape, taciturn anti-hero Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) meets his shaven-headed female counterpart Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) who needs to cross the desert to get home.
Writer/director George Miller revives the Mad Max series after 30 years with this hyper-kinetic chase movie. Boasting amazing visuals and an intense performance from Tom Hardy, Mad Max: Fury Road promises to be a worthy sequel to one of the all-time great action franchises.
Charlize Theron (Young Adult), Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: Days of Future Past), Zoë Kravitz (The Divergent Series), Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (Transformers: Dark of the Moon) and Elvis Presley's granddaughter Riley Keough also star.
Run time: 120 mins
"Charlize Theron joins Hardy's lone wolf ex-cop in George Miller's deliriously strange action adventure, a rollicking Grand Theft Auto revamped by Hieronymus Bosch" ***** Peter Bradshaw The Guardian | |  | A Royal Night Out (12A)
Tuesday 23rd June 7:30pm
Wednesday 24th June 1:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: http://www.kinokulture.org.uk/a-royal-night-out/4589462946
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167
A charming, spirited, speculative account of the night spent by Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret during the VE Day celebrations.
Following the end of World War II, while Britain was celebrating VE Day on 8 May 1945, two members of the Royal Family were permitted to leave Buckingham Palace and enjoy a night on the town - properly chaperoned of course!
They were Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. Now, a charming new historical drama from director Julian Jarrold imagines what the two Royals might possibly have got up to during their night spent mingling with 'ordinary' folk. Sarah Gadon plays Elizabeth and Bel Powley plays Margaret in this humorous yet thoughtful depiction of a country on the cusp of great change.
It's also the story of two sisters who in the course of one night discover more about life than they ever could have imagined. Emily Watson, Rupert Everett and Jack Reynor round out the starry cast.
Director: Julian Jarrold
Starring: Sarah Gadon, Bel Powley, Emily Watson, Rupert Everett, Jack Reynor
Run time: 96 mins
"A poignant and entertaining affair, with enough of a satirical edge not just to seem like an exercise in cosy British nostalgia. Gadon is exceptional as the cocooned young princess who adjusts with surprising pragmatism to life beyond the palace gates." **** The Independent | |  | Globe On Screen: The Comedy Of Errors (PG)
Thursday 25th June 7:00pm
Saturday 27th June 1:30pm
Tickets: £12.00 Adult/£10.00 Under 16's
Book online: http://www.kinokulture.org.uk/comedy-of-errors/4589472831
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167
Take one pair of estranged twin brothers (both called Antipholus), and one pair of estranged twin servants (both called Dromio), keep them in ignorance of each other and throw them into a city with a reputation for sorcery, and you have all the ingredients for theatrical chaos. One Antipholus is astonished by his foreign hospitality; the other enraged by the hostility of his home town. The Dromios, caught between the two, are soundly beaten for obeying all the wrong orders.
Basing his plot on a farce by Plautus, Shakespeare caps the mayhem of his Roman original to build up a hectic tale of violent cross-purposes, furious slapstick and social nightmare.
The final Globe On Screen film for 2015 brings the perfect light relief to close an epic season of war and tragedy. This sell-out production employed authentic Renaissance costumes and staging and will have cinema audiences roaring with laughter as it crams in "more hilarious anarchy than you can shake a fish, cat or identity-confused servant at." (London Theatre Guide).
Directed by: Blanche McIntyre
Designer: James Cotterill
Composer: Olly Fox
Cast: Stefan Adegbola, Andy Apollo, Paul Brendan, Linda Broughton, Gershwyn Eustache Jr, Becci Gemmell, Peter Hamilton Dyer, Simon Harrison, Emma Jerrold, Hattie Ladbury, James Laurenson, Matthew Needham, Anne Odeke, Brodie Ross, Jamie Wilkes
Running time: 147mins (including 15min interval) | |  | The Connection (15)
Friday 26th June 7:30pm
Saturday 27th June 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: http://www.kinokulture.org.uk/the-connection/4589472832
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167
William Friedkin's Oscar-winning 1971 crime classic, The French Connection is retold from a stylish European perspective.
In the 1970s, magistrate Pierre Michel (Jean Dujardin) is determined to dismantle the most notorious drug smuggling operation in history. The man in charge of the smuggling is the charismatic and wealthy Gatean "Tany" Zampa (Gilles Lellouche) who runs the heroin trade into the States. But despite Michel's taskforce of elite cops and the blizzard of arrests and interrogations, it seems that Zampa is always one step ahead... Based on true events, The Connection tells the same story as the classic 70s thriller The French Connection, only from a European perspective.
Academy Award-winning actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist) headlines, alongside Gilles Lellouche (Mesrine: Killer Instinct) in this gritty and thrilling drama. Cédric Jimenez, director of the innovative science-fiction movie Aux Yeux de Tous is behind the camera.
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, Céline Sallette, Mélanie Doutey, Benoît Magimel, Guillaume Gouix
French with English sub titles
Run time: 135 mins | | | Bookings now open for this very special one off
live broadcast
Monday 6th July 6:30pm
Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years Of Grateful Dead
| | |  | Tickets: £12.00 Flat Rate
Book online:http://www.kinokulture.org.uk/greatful-dead-live/4589591247
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 | FARE THEE WELL: GRATEFUL DEAD LIVE (12A) | | CinemaLive, Peter Shapiro, and Madison House are thrilled to bring Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead to the big screen for an unprecedented cinema event on Monday 6th July.
This epic event, broadcast from Soldier Field in Chicago on Sunday 5th July*, will take place nearly 20 years to the day of the last Grateful Dead concert with Jerry Garcia. The four original members — Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir — will be joined by renowned musicians Trey Anastasio (Phish and the Trey Anastasio Band), Jeff Chimenti (RatDog, The Dead and Furthur), and multiple GRAMMY®-winner Bruce Hornsby.
For one night only, this final concert will be broadcast via satellite across the UK and will be the last time the band will ever play together. The concerts received an overwhelming fan response with more than 500,000 ticket requests received.
Get your front row seats to this once-in-a-lifetime reunion in cinemas on Monday 6th July only!
*The satellite delivered concert is time shifted several hours for patrons convenience. | Run time: 4 hours (TBC) | | | |
