| June Film Screenings & Events
kinokulture cinema
9 Arthur Street, Oswestry, SY11 1JN | | |  | Midnight Special (12A)
Saturday 4th June 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/128555
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 A father discovers his young son possesses extraordinary powers in this dazzling sci-fi adventure. Roy (Michael Shannon) deeply loves his son Alton (Jaeden Lieberher) - but Alton has a secret that soon puts both of them in danger. The child has remarkable abilities that reach beyond human understanding, and soon Roy must go on the run from a dangerous religious sect headed up by Calvin Meyer (Sam Shephard). Scientist Paul Sevier (Adam Driver) is also in pursuit, believing the boy to be a dangerous weapon. Fortunately, both father and son have staunch allies in the form of accomplice Lucas (Joel Edgerton) and the former's ex-wife Sarah (Kirsten Dunst). A thrilling adventure gets underway as the group attempt to get Alton to a safe haven. Having drawn wide-eyed comparisons to the early movies of Steven Spielberg, this emotional and engrossing sci-fi movie is the latest striking work from indie darling Jeff Nichols, director of the acclaimed Mud and Take Shelter. "Soulful sci-fi. A tribute to '80s classics, but with a 21st-century twist: Close Encounters of a new kind." **** Empire Magazine Director: Jeff Nichols Cast: Michael Shannon, Adam Driver, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Sam Shepard, Jaeden Lieberher Run time: 112 mins | |  | RAN R/I (12A)
Monday 6th June 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adults/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/239883
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 A stunning 4K digital restoration of Akira Kurosawa's (Drunken Angel, Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Rashômon) Ran, his famous interpretation of King Lear as a jidaigeki epic; and the most expensive Japanese film ever produced on its original release in 1985. The restoration has been created by Studiocanal and Japanese production company Kadokawa Pictures. 'Ran' stands for chaos, turmoil or fury in Japanese; all befitting Shakespeare's vision of a nihilistic world turned upside down and revolting against its natural order; dramatising the pain and rage of ageing and its inevitable loss of control. Borrowing narrative elements from the legend of Mōri Motonari (a 16th century Japanese warlord) as well as the Shakespearean tragedy, Ran stars Tatsuya Nakadai as the vain, arrogant Great Lord Hidetora Ichimonji, who at seventy decides to abdicate and divide his domain amongst his three sons, with catastrophic results. Spectacularly beautiful, with gorgeous, colour-saturated frames, it is an undoubted masterpiece; the product of a breathtaking artistic vision that works as an historical epic and Shakespearean adaptation as well as a bloody, action-packed war film with a silent central battle scene that must be seen to be believed.
The Japanese film-maker's adaptation of King Lear is still visually and dramatically breathtaking *****
The Guardian Director: Akira Kurosawa Japan/France 1985 Run time: 160 mins 32 seconds Japanese with English subtitles | |  | Sunset Song (12A)
Oswestry Film Society Screening
Tuesday 7th June 7:30pm
Tickets & Membership can be booked online at the Oswestry Film Society website: http://www.oswestryfilmsociety.org.uk/membership/4589660644
Or purchased on the door
Single screening tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Season Membership: £24.00 United Kingdom, 2015, 135mins, cert 15 Renowned British director Terence Davies brings a sumptuous adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 1932 Scottish novel to the screen. Chris Guthrie is born into a farming family and has dreams of becoming a teacher. The film shows us her life through courtship, marriage and motherhood, until her world is turned upside down by the outbreak of war in 1914. "Davies's long-delayed passion project finally reaches our screens. It has been worth the wait." The Observer "shot through with a melancholy lyricism and evanescent twilight splendour." The Big Issue | |  | RSC Live: Hamlet (12A)
Wednesday 8th June 7:00pm
Tickets: £12.00 Adult/£10.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/206020
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Simon Godwin (The Two Gentlemen of Verona 2014) directs Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet in Shakespeare's searing tragedy. Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly changed, his certainties smashed and his home a foreign land. Struggling to understand his place in a new world order he faces a stark choice. Submit, or rage against the injustice of his new reality. As relevant today as when it was written, Hamlet confronts each of us with the mirror of our own mortality in an imperfect world. Run time: 150 mins | |  | NT Live Encore: The Audience (12A)
Thursday 9th June 7:00pm
Tickets: £12.00 adult/£10.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/239841
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Winner of three Tony Awards® and two Olivier Awards, National Theatre Live's smash-hit broadcast of the original West End production of The Audience - featuring Helen Mirren's multi-award-winning performance as Queen Elizabeth II - returns to cinemas in celebration of the monarch's 90th birthday. Written by Peter Morgan (The Queen) and directed by two-time Tony Award® winner and Academy Award®-nominated director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours), these special encore screenings include an exclusive Q&A with Helen Mirren and director Stephen Daldry. For sixty years, Queen Elizabeth II has met with each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a private weekly meeting. This meeting is known as The Audience. No one knows what they discuss, not even their spouses. From the old warrior Winston Churchill, to the Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair right up to today's meetings with the current incumbent David Cameron, the Queen advises her Prime Ministers on all matters both public and personal. Through these private audiences, we see glimpses of the woman behind the crown and witness the moments that shaped a monarch. The Audience was presented in the West End by Matthew Byam Shaw for Playful Productions, Robert Fox and Andy Harries. Run time: 3 hours including 20 minute interval | |  | Where To Invade Next + Live Satellite Q&A With Michael Moore (15)
Friday 10th June 6:30pm
Tickets: £6.00/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/254887
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Michael Moore is invading the UK on June 10 when he will open Sheffield Doc/Fest with his new film Where to Invade Next. There will be a live Q&A event on Friday 10 June at 6:30 that will be broadcast to over 114 cinemasacross the UK so everyone can attend a Michael Moore Q&A! Michael Moore is known by most as an iconoclast film director, brilliant polemicist and one of the most infamous political activists. He presents his latest film, conducting a bold experiment that takes the American trend of 'invasion' outside of war, conflict and economics – and transforms it into his version of a more kind, gentle and humorous appropriation of social and moral values. Director: Michael Moore USA 2015 Run time: 111 mins + Live satellite Q&A with Michael Moore | |  | Eye In The Sky (15)
Saturday 11th June 7:30pm
Monday 13th June 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/132909
Or call the box Office: 01691 238167 Helen Mirren stars in a gripping suspense thriller exploring the morality of modern warfare. For years, Operation Cobra has been tracking the movements of a radicalised British woman who joined the Somali terrorist group Al-Shabab in Kenya. Now she's finally in their sights. In a London Cabinet Office briefing room, officials join Lieutenant General Frank Benson (Alan Rickman) to remotely observe her capture. But everything changes when commanding officer Colonel Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren) learns that an imminent suicide bombing is being planned in the target's house. The 'capture' mission promptly becomes a 'kill' one. But then a US drone pilot (Aaron Paul) spots a little girl in the kill zone. Is she acceptable collateral damage? Helen Mirren is on mesmerising form in Rendition director Gavin Hood's tense and highly relevant drama exploring the ethics of remote warfare. It also features the late Alan Rickman's final live-action screen performance. "A tight thriller played out smoothly but tying the viewer in moral knots. A film to think about for days, with little hope of finding a comfortable answer." **** Empire Magazine Director: Gavin Hood Cast: Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi, Jeremy Northam, Iain Glen Run time: 102 mins | |  | Mustang (15)
Tuesday 14th June 7:30pm
Wednesday 15th June 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/132371
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Nominated for Best Foreign Film at the recent Oscars, actress and director Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang is a heady, emotional and deeply personal story and a paean to female power. It's set at the start of summer in a village in northern Turkey, when Lale (the youngest sister, through whose innocent eyes the film is seen) and her four sisters are spotted playing with boys while at the beach; and the supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences. Forbidden from leaving the house by their strict uncle and grandmother, they are forced to cook and do housework instead of going to school; then, their grandmother decides to start marrying them off. But the sisters - driven by the same insatiable desire and common understanding of their right to freedom - rebel in their own ways. Telling a very particular, character-based story, Ergüven's incendiary film is nonetheless a parable for the more widespread need for female education and independence; brilliantly acted by its affecting young cast. "The Virgin Suicides in Anatolia [...] a sweet, sad Turkish delight" **** Jordan Hoffman, The Guardian Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven Turkey / France / Qatar / Germany|2015 Turkish with English sub titles Run time: 97 mins
Find out more about Mustang on The Time Is Now website: https://ttin.uk This screening is supported by the BFI Film Audience Network New Release Scheme. | |  | Discover Arts: Leonardo Da Vinci - The Genius In Milan (12A)
Thursday 16th June 7:00pm
Tickets: £12.00 Adult/£10.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/236804
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Discover Arts is a new season of unmissable cinema events giving audiences full access to some of the world's most captivating galleries, theatres and works of art. In spring 2015 Milan paid tribute to Leonardo Da Vinci by holding an extraordinary exhibition event at the Palazzo Reale. Leonardo Da Vinci: The Genius In Milan explores his work as never seen before, telling the story of the artist's world and the treasures he left us. Pietro Marani, the curator of the 2015 exhibition, and some of the world's leading experts on Leonardo tell a story that could open new perspectives and reveal extraordinary things about Leonardo Da Vinci the painter, sculptor, scientist, anatomist, botanist and architect. Run time: 90 mins | |  | Florence Foster Jenkins (PG) Friday 17th June 7:30pm
Saturday 18th June 7:30pm
Wednesday 22nd June 1:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/131368
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Meryl Streep stars in this affectionate biopic of the world's worst opera singer. Most of the time, famous people become famous for doing things well. Sometimes though, people become famous for doing things BADLY. Florence Foster Jenkins was one such person. In the late 19th century and first half of the 20th, Florence Foster Jenkins became notorious for her appalling singing voice. A New York heiress, she had grand ambitions to become an opera singer, and never let a lack of talent get in her way. Philomena director Stephen Frears brings Jenkins' moving and hilarious story to the big screen for the first time with Meryl Streep as the woman whom audiences would pay to hear because of her lack of rhythm, pitch, and tone. Starring alongside Streep in this warm-hearted comedy-drama are Hugh Grant as Foster's manager and husband St. Clair Bayfield and Simon Helberg as American pianist and composer Cosmé McMoon. Director: Stephen Frears "Streep is note perfect as a deluded diva" *** The Guardian "A delicious, finger-tingling comedy about the creative instinct that makes your heart want to squawk with joy." The Telegraph Cast: Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Nina Arianda, Rebecca Ferguson Run time: 110 mins | |  | Breakfast At Tiffany's (PG)
Oswestry Film Society Screening
Tuesday 21st June 7:30pm
Tickets can be booked online at the Oswestry Film society website: http://www.oswestryfilmsociety.org.uk/membership/4589660644
Or purchased on the door
Tickets: £6.00 adult/£4.00 Under 16's USA / 1961 / 115mins / Cert PG The return of legend Audrey Hepburn to the big screen, in her iconic role as New York socialite Holly Golightly. Madcap and free-spirited, Holly's charms bewitch young writer Paul after he moves into her apartment building. He's desperate to win her heart; but how can he compete with the South American millionaire she's determined to marry? "Blake Edward's hymn to New York high style and high living, with its charming heroine along with her cat (called 'cat'), has hardly dated since its release." Radio Times "Its charms remain undiminished after five decades" Total Film | | |
