welcome to the December issue of the kinokulture cinema newsletter. As we head into the festive season we would like to thank all our customers, volunteers and colleagues for helping to make this such a great year at
kinokulture cinema. On November 5th we were overwhelmed to be presented with the Community Award at The 70th Anniversary Cinema For All Film Society Of The Year Awards at The Showroom in Sheffield. This award acknowledges not just our diverse range of programming but how we engage with our wider community with educational film screenings, practical filming projects and working with other local and regional organisations, festivals and community groups.
Thank you cinema For All! December is another packed month with our BFI Black Star Season, Oswestry Film Society's final two screenings of season 3, the first of our live opera broadcasts from La Scala Milan, an encore screening of the 25th anniversary broadcast of Miss Saigon and a fantastic range of films throughout the month. If you are looking for that perfect present for a lover then don't forget the cinema Gift Vouchers can be ordered by calling our box Office: 01691 238167 In our ground floor gallery space we have an exhibition of the original art works from The A To Z Alphabet Of Oswestry. This exhibition runs through until 23rd December.
Viewing times: 11:30am - 3:00pm Tuesdays - Fridays. All our film screenings and events going through to the end of the Christmas holidays are now on sale with full information and booking links here: http://www.kinokulture.org.uk
Ticket prices for regular screenings are £6.00 Adult & £4.00 Under 16's
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 December.
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.
Please note that the Box Office will be closed on the following dates: 25th, 26th & 31st December and 1st January
We wish you all a wonderful Festive Season
and look forward to seeing you this month. | | | | | December Film screenings & Events
kinokulture cinema, 9 Arthur Street, Oswestry, SY11 1JN | | |  | Queen Of Katwe (PG) An inspirational true-life drama about a girl from an African slum who dreams of becoming a chess champion. Phiona Mutesi (Madina Nalwanga) lives in impoverished rural Katwe, Uganda, where she scratches a living by selling corn on the streets. Her life changes dramatically when football player-turned-missionary Robert Katende (David Oyelowo) introduces her to chess. Phiona displays a remarkable aptitude for the game, prompting Katende to become her mentor. As she advances through local competitions, she draws on support from her mother Harriet (Lupita Nyong'o) and the wider community on the way to fulfilling her dream of becoming a champion. Based on an extraordinary true story, 'Monsoon Wedding' director Mira Nair's uplifting underdog drama is a heart-warming celebration of family, commitment and self-belief. It boasts superb performances from 'Selma' star David Oyelowo and '12 Years a Slave' Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong'o, alongside a luminous one by talented newcomer Madina Nalwanga.' "This Disney drama manages to avoid patronising sentimentality with an uplifting and punchy look at the conflicts faced by 14-year-old Phiona." **** The Times Director: Mira Nair Cast: Madina Nalwanga, Lupita Nyong'o, David Oyelowo Run time: 124 mins | |  | BFI Black Star Season: In The Heat Of The Night (12A) + DJ Set by The Vinylistas
Monday 5th December 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book Online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/318168
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 BFI Black Star is the UK's biggest ever season of film dedicated to celebrating the range, versatility and power of black actors in some of the finest performances ever committed to film. (This screening is re scheduled from 23rd November) They call him MR Tibbs! Sidney Poitier excels as a detective who faces racism while working on a murder case. Jewison's hard-hitting murder mystery is entertaining, atmospheric and insightful. In the Heat of the Night won five Oscars® in 1968, including Best Picture, Best Actor (for Rod Steiger), Best Screenplay and Best Editing. But one of the key reasons for the film's success was Sidney Poitier, who is devastatingly cool and charismatic as Philadelphia homicide detective Virgil Tibbs. Tibbs arrives in a small Southern backwater to visit his mother but becomes embroiled in a murder investigation when he's picked up by the local police simply for the 'crime' of being black. When Tibbs' profession is confirmed, he's teamed with a racist redneck sheriff (Steiger) to help with the investigation – a riveting partnership that reflects the era's desperately strained race relations. Ashley Clark, BFI Black Star programmer Director: Dir Norman Jewison USA 1967
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant
Run time: 110min Full digital restoration courtesy of Park Circus In The Heat Of The Night is part of the BFI's BLACK STAR season, taking place UK-wide, supported by the Independent Cinema Office and Film Hub North West Central, part of the Film Audience Network, awarding funds from the National Lottery. The BFI Black Star Season is Supported by:
BFI Film Audience Network
The National Lottery
#BFIBLACKSTAR | |  | Midnight Cowboy (18) Oswestry Film Society Screening
Tuesday 6th December 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adults
Available on the door or through Oswestry Film Society: http://www.oswestryfilmsociety.org.uk/membership/4589660644
Please note that kinokulture cannot take bookings for Oswestry Film Society Screenings. USA / 1969 / 113mins / Cert 18 Director John Schlesinger's powerhouse sixties drama follows young Texan Joe Buck as he attempts to make a life for himself in New York as a hustler. Naïve as he is, he soon finds he is the one being hustled, until he strikes up an unlikely friendship with street hardened Ratso Rizzo. Midnight Cowboy marked the big screen debut of John Voight as Buck and co-stared Dustin Hoffman in an early career defining role as Rizzo. "We can identify with them without false sentimentality and it is impossible not to do so." The Guardian | |  | All' Opera: Giacomo Puccini's Madam Butterfly
Live From
La Scala Milan (12A)
Wednesday 7th December 5:00pm
Tickets: £12.00 Adult/£10.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/282334
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167
Welcome to All' Opera our new season of opera & ballet broadcast live from La Scala Milan.
Madame Butterfly first saw the light of day in La Scala in February 1904, and was hotly contested. It was certainly the victim of an ambush organised by enemies of the composer and his editor, but perhaps also to the surprise of the audience faced with a crude and innovative opera, they were witnessing the very latest developments in European musical theatre. That very same year, Puccini revised and restaged the opera for performances at the Teatro Grande in Brescia to great acclaim. Madame Butterfly quickly became a hugely popular opera with performers and audiences alike, and remains one of Puccini's most performed works to date.
Riccardo Chailly will conduct the original version of Madame Butterfly, marking this the first time the performance has returned to La Scala since it's debut. This signifies an act of contribution towards Puccini but above all, alongside the subsequent variations, an opportunity to rediscover the opera that is more audacious in its dramaturgical design. The performance will be directed by Alvis Hermanis, who has already been hailed at La Scala for his new productions of Zimmermann's Die Soldaten and Verdi's I due Foscari, and the cast orbits around Cio-Cio-San played by Maria José Siri, an emerging soprano on the greatest international stages. "I will bring to the stage something new which, in truth, is a return to the origin: Madame Butterfly will be staged not in the version that opera lovers know, but in its first version, which debuted here at La Scala in 1904 but was a resounding opera. Puccini re wrote it and it became a success. I won't be conducting the successful Madame Butterfly, but the version that was booed and, since then, has never been performed." -Riccardo Chailly Runtime: 160 mins Conductor: Riccardo Chailly La Scala Chorus and Orchestra | |  | Afternoon Classic: Sunset Boulevard (PG) Thursday 8th December 1:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/317941
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Our final screening in this 'Noir' Mini season of Afternoon Classics is 'Sunset Boulevard'. (Re scheduled from Thursday 24th November) The story, set in '50s Hollywood, focuses on Norma Desmond, a silent-screen goddess whose pathetic belief in her own indestructibility has turned her into a demented recluse. The crumbling Sunset Boulevard mansion where she lives with only her butler, Max who was once her director and husband has become her self-contained world. Norma dreams of a comeback to pictures and she begins a relationship with Joe Gillis, a small-time writer who becomes her lover, that will soon end with murder and total madness. "Norma Desmond, a fictional former queen of the silent era is at the heart of Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, and she is played with mesmerising intensity by Gloria Swanson, near perfect" ***** The Telegraph We offer Free Tea/coffee & Cake with every ticket at our Afternoon Classic screenings. Director: Billy Wilder Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olsen USA 1950 Run time: 110 mins "This project is supported by Film Hub North West Central, proud to be a member of the BFI Film Audience Network" | |  | BFI Black Star Season: The Harder They Come (15)
+ DJ Set by The Vinylistas
Thursday 8th December 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/303171
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 BFI Black Star is the UK's biggest ever season of film dedicated to celebrating the range, versatility and power of black actors in some of the finest performances ever committed to film. 'The definitive postcolonial cult-movie musical.' Village Voice The Harder They Come is the classic story of the high price paid for a rise to fame. Ivan (reggae legend Jimmy Cliff) is a wannabe singer who leaves his rural village to go to Jamaica's capital Kingston in pursuit of everything that glitters. But he comes a cropper, first mugged of all he owns, then beset by unscrupulous record producers. Undeterred, Ivan shifts into the world of marijuana dealing. Set against a backdrop of real Jamaican locations, this story of success by any means necessary ranks alongside Scarface as one of the best crime films about urban living. But it is also a genuine social document, for many the first time that they tasted the true delights of the Caribbean on screen or heard characters talking in Patois. The quintessential reggae movie, with a soundtrack every bit as famous as the film itself (said to have brought reggae to the world), featuring tracks by Jimmy Cliff, Desmond Dekker, The Slickers and Toots and the Maytals. The Harder They Come is a deserved cult classic with a gritty, authentic edge. Director: Perry Henzell Jamaica 1972 Starring Jimmy Cliff Run time: 120 mins The Harder They Come is part of the BFI's BLACK STAR season, taking place UK-wide, supported by the Independent Cinema Office and Film Hub North West Central, part of the Film Audience Network, awarding funds from the National Lottery. The BFI Black Star Season is Supported by:
BFI Film Audience Network
The National Lottery
#BFIBLACKSTAR | |  | The Girl With All The Gifts (15)
Friday 9th December 7:30pm
Saturday 10th December 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/155233
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 One girl holds the key to survival in this strikingly original post-apocalyptic zombie horror. In a dystopian near future, humanity has been ravaged by a mysterious fungal disease. The afflicted are robbed of all free will and turned into flesh-eating 'hungries'. Mankind's only hope is a small group of hybrid children who crave human flesh but retain the ability to think and feel. The kids go to school at an army base in rural England, where they're subjected to cruel experiments by Dr. Cauldwell (Glenn Close). Teacher Helen (Gemma Arterton) grows particularly close to an exceptional girl named Melanie (Sennia Nanua). When the base is invaded, the trio escape with guard Sergeant Parks (Paddy Considine) and embark on a perilous journey of survival, during which Melanie must come to terms with who she is. Filmed on location in the West Midlands, M.R. Carey's adaptation of his much-acclaimed, bestselling novel puts a fresh, provocative spin on the zombie movie. "Exactly the kind of genre picture the UK should be making: provocative, imaginative and unafraid to sink its teeth into complex and challenging material. Bravo!" **** The Guardian Director: Colm McCarthy Cast: Sennia Nanua, Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close, Paddy Considine Run time: 111 mins | |  | The Sacrifice (12A) Sculpting Time: Andrei Tarkovsky Season
Monday 12th December 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/317661
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Our final screening in the Sculpting Time: Andrei Tarkovsky Season (re scheduled from 22nd November) One of world's most visionary, celebrated and influential filmmakers, Andrei Tarkovsky made just seven features before his tragically early death at the age of 54. Characterised by metaphysical and spiritual explorations of the human condition, each film is an artistic masterpiece of extraordinary visual beauty and stand as enduring classics of world cinema. Screening from pristine new digital prints, the Russian auteur's seven features will be showing at selected cinemas across the UK and Ireland. To celebrate our final film in the Sculpting Time - Andrei Tarkovsky Retrospective there will be a free glass of vodka on arrival and the bar will be open after the screening for an informal chat on this season of films from one of the world's master film makers. Andrei Tarkovsky's visionary final film unfolds in the hours before a nuclear holocaust. Erland Josephson, in an award-winning role, plays retired actor Alexander who is celebrating his birthday with family and friends when a crackly TV announcement warns of an imminent nuclear catastrophe. Alexander makes a promise to God that he will sacrifice all he holds dear, if the disaster can be averted. The next day dawns and, as if in a dream, everything is restored to normality. But Alexander must keep his vow. Among many other awards, The Sacrifice won the Cannes Grand Prix in 1986, the same year that Tarkovsky died of cancer in Paris at the age of 54. Winner of the 1988 Best Foreign Language Film BAFTA Winner of the 1986 Cannes FIPRESCI Prize
Winner of the 1986 Cannes Grand Prize of the Jury
Winner of the 1986 Cannes Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
Winner of the 1986 Cannes Best Artistic Contribution award - cinematography (Sven Nykvist) " It is brilliant and audacious with one of the most extraordinary final film sequences in modern cinema" ***** Peter Bradshaw - The Guardian "Tarkovsky's finest work, a culmination of all that has preoccupied him throughout his films" Los Angeles Times "Profoundly satisfying ... A rewarding display of filmmaking mastery that forms a mystical and enigmatic coda to a legendary career" ***** Jonathan Trout - BBC Director: Andrei Tarkovsky France/Sweden 1986 Languages: English, French Swedish Run time: 149 mins This season of films is courtesy of Curzon/Artifial Eye "This project is supported by Film Hub North West Central, proud to be a member of the BFI Film Audience Network" | |  | BFI Black Star Season: Ghost Dog Way Of The Samurai (15) Tuesday 13th December 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/303989
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 BFI Black Star is the UK's biggest ever season of film dedicated to celebrating the range, versatility and power of black actors in some of the finest performances ever committed to film. This surreal and stylish fable stars the imposing Forest Whitaker, a genuinely unique screen presence, as a self-taught samurai hitman who finds himself marked for death by the mafia. Ghost Dog is a meditative, alienated presence, deploying violence only according to the strict codes of the samurai. When a hit goes wrong, he must avenge himself by tackling the mafia's worst men. Blessed with stunning cinematography from Robby Müller and a brilliant original score from Wu-Tang Clan's RZA (who also cameos), this is an intoxicating and strangely moving fusion of gangsta, gangster and ninja worlds. Jim Jarmusch, taking a major leap in his filmmaking, riffs on Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï as well as the classics of the gangster genre and many of the martial arts classics beloved by hip-hop artists. With thanks to BFI and Ashley Clarke. 'Amusing, melancholy, and meditative, Ghost Dog is a modern classic of the hit man genre.' Empire 'At once a tribute to traditional notions of honour, loyalty, friendship and professionalism, and a stylish, ironic pastiche inspired by the likes of Melville and Suzuki, it's very funny, insightful, and highly original.' Time Out Director: Jim Jarmusch USA 1999 Run time: 116 mins Ghost Dog Way Of The Samurai is part of the BFI's BLACK STAR season, taking place UK-wide, supported by the Independent Cinema Office and Film Hub North West Central, part of the Film Audience Network, awarding funds from the National Lottery. The BFI Black Star Season is Supported by:
BFI Film Audience Network
The National Lottery
#BFIBLACKSTAR | |  | In Focus: The Vanquishing Of The Witch Baba Yaga (U)
Wednesday 14th December 7:30pm
tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/286477
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Our third season of In Focus screenings opens with 'The Vanquishing Of The Witch Baba Yaga' the latest film by Jessica Oreck (Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo). Following fairy-tales and personal memories like a trail of breadcrumbs, THE VANQUISHING OF THE WITCH BABA YAGA descends into Eastern Europe's haunted woodlands to uncover the secrets and bloody histories that shape our understanding of man's place in nature. Within a dense forest there lingers a sense of sinister foreboding, remnants of a nearly forgotten story, where the fairy-tales of childhood persist within the subconscious. For generations of Slavic peoples, this fear manifested itself in the form of the mythical witch Baba Yaga - to roam too near her hut perched on chicken legs was to risk being roasted for her dinner. In spite of this culturally ingrained dream, the turbulence of war, famine, and destruction that stains the pages of Eastern European history led to the witch's figurative vanquishing. Refugees fled to her woods for shelter, nourishment and sanctuary, and in so doing reshaped an entire culture's perception of nature. Intertwining fairy-tales with an anthropological exploration of modern day, post-conflict Eastern Europe. THE VANQUISHING is about more than a single moment in history. It is about the accumulation of history, the accumulation of repetitive action, the retelling of stories retold, the retention of belief, and the unconscious osmosis of ideas. It is a study of collective memory and the sociology of fear, imagination and survival. "Poetic, mesmerizing" - Ronnie Scheib, Variety "original and unforgettable... an altogether new kind of art" - Jordan Cronk, Fandor "something to wish that more films dared to strive for" - Danny King, Village Voice Director: Jessica Oreck USA 2014 Run time: 73 mins Russian & Polish with English subtitles "This project is supported by Film Hub North West Central, proud to be a member of the BFI Film Audience Network" | |  | NT Live: No Man's Land (15)
Thursday 15th December 7:00pm
Tickets: £12.00 Adult/£10.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/290271
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167
*** Advance Booking Advised Following their hit run on Broadway, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart return to the West End stage in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land, broadcast live to cinemas from Wyndham's Theatre, London. One summer's evening, two ageing writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hirst's stately house nearby. As the pair become increasingly inebriated, and their stories increasingly unbelievable, the lively conversation soon turns into a revealing power game, further complicated by the return home of two sinister younger men. Also starring Owen Teale and Damien Molony, don't miss this glorious revival of Pinter's comic classic. The broadcast will be followed by an exclusive Q&A with the cast and director Sean Mathias. Run time: 150 mins approx | |  | Paterson (15)
Friday 16th December 7:30pm
Saturday 17th December 7:30pm
Thursday 22nd December 7:30pm
tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/153670
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Jarmuschians rejoice! Jim's got a new joint and this one is for all you lovers out there.
Adam Driver is a bus driver named Paterson who lives in the town of Paterson, New Jersey. Golshifteh Farahani is Laura, a freelance artist, baker and homemaker. They live together in a small house with their bulldog Marvin. Married life has its rhythms and routines, with Paterson's days taken up crisscrossing the city, overhearing snippets of passengers' conversations, while evenings find him enjoying a post-dinner walk with his dog and a trip to the neighbourhood bar.
Throughout, Paterson mulls over words, observing fragments of life and constructing verse for a series of poems he writes in a notebook. Meanwhile, Laura's artistic impulses spark her to make everything monochrome and groovy. Her talents span every kind of DIY, cupcakes and a newfound propensity with electric guitar.
Adam Driver (Girls, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) hits a career high as our quiet everyman with a military past whose journeys are both physical and existential. Paterson is constantly attuned to the extraordinary and poetic, even in the smallest of gestures, offering a charming depiction of how lovers can co-exist and support each other's creativity. The poems, by real-life poet Ron Padgett, are damn fine too. Kate Taylor - BFI London Film Festival "Another wise, wonderful Jarmusch movie about the importance, in this sad and beautiful world, of friendship and love. " **** Time Out "Adam Driver's Paterson will be treasured for years" ***** The Telegraph Director: Jim Jarmusch USA 2016 Cast: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani Run time: 113 mins | |  | TROLLS (U)
Saturday 17th December 3:00pm
Tuesday 20th December 1:30pm
Wednesday 21st December 1:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adults/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/153848
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 The iconic troll dolls star in a delightfully irreverent animated musical comedy from the people behind 'Shrek'. Meet the lovable, wild-haired Trolls. They're a happy, optimistic bunch, who live in a fantastic, colourful fantasy world. Led by the irrepressible Poppy (Anna Kendrick), the Trolls are always ready for a song and a hug. Except, that is, for Branch (Justin Timberlake). He's a colourless grump who fears the return of the dastardly Bergens. They're big, ugly, pessimistic giants who are only happy when they're gobbling up Trolls. When the Bergens kidnap all of Poppy's friends, she must convince Branch to join her on a quest to rescue them. This brilliantly witty, fun-filled family adventure brings to life the popular '90s Troll dolls for an unforgettable quest in a land filled with amazing creatures. It boasts a fabulous voice cast, reunites the brilliant creative team behind 'Shrek', and features toe-tapping new songs by Justin Timberlake and Gwen Stefani. "Anna Kendrick voices princess Poppy, the heroine of the resilient frizzy-haired toys, in this funny, kidult animation that will rival Shrek" *** The Guardian Directors: Mike Mitchell, Walt Dohrn Cast: Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, Zooey Deschanel, Russell Brand, James Corden, Gwen Stefani, John Cleese, Christopher Mintz-Plasse Run time: 92 mins | |  | Money Monster (15)
Oswestry Film Society Screening
Tuesday 20th December 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Available on the door or through Oswestry Film Society:
http://www.oswestryfilmsociety.org.uk/membership/4589660644 Please note that kinokulture cannot take bookings for Oswestry Film Society screenings
USA / 2016 / 98mins / Cert 15
The final film of Season 3 George Clooney and Julia Roberts star in this tense thriller for our times. Clooney plays Lee Gates, host of a financial TV show and Roberts his producer, Patty Fenn. During a live broadcast their show is hijacked by an irate gunman protesting about the corruption of the financial markets. Directed by Jodie Foster, Money Monster ups its tension factor by playing out in real time as it builds to its riveting climax. "A fast-paced, entertaining.. thriller, satire, and drama, this is Jodie Foster's best movie as a director." Empire Magazine | |  | BFI Black Star Season: Do The Right Thing (15)
+ DJ Set by The Vinylistas
Wednesday 21st December
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/303177
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167
BFI Black Star is the UK's biggest ever season of film dedicated to celebrating the range, versatility and power of black actors in some of the finest performances ever committed to film.
'A pulsating homage to life on New York's streets, achieved thanks to Lee's sleepless eye, but a passionate-yet-dignified study of racism, too.' Empire
Heat and tension are in the air in Spike Lee's career-making Do the Right Thing. Starring the man himself, as well as an incredible ensemble cast (John Turturro, Ossie Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Martin Lawrence, Bill Nunn and introducing the world to Rosie Perez!) the film was the recipient of two Oscars®. Set on a single day in the life of a Brooklyn street, we watch as the inhabitants argue, flirt, joke and debate. Tensions escalate in the hot sun as an act of thoughtless violence unleashes terrible consequences, breaking the generational and racial accord. Told with humour, colour, music and exuberance, this honest and searching film is as vibrant, pertinent and searching as it was when it was made. 'It comes closer to reflecting the current state of race relations in America than any other movie of our time.' Roger Ebert Director: Spike Lee USA 1989 Run time: 120 mins Do The Right Thing is part of the BFI's BLACK STAR season, taking place UK-wide, supported by the Independent Cinema Office and Film Hub North West Central, part of the Film Audience Network, awarding funds from the National Lottery. The BFI Black Star Season is Supported by:
BFI Film Audience Network
The National Lottery
#BFIBLACKSTAR | |  | Phantom Boy (PG) Friday 23rd December 1:30pm
Wednesday 28th December 1:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/155409
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Christmas is traditionally a time for ghost stories and we have a very special one for ages 6+ with the highly anticipated new film from the Academy Award®-nominated writers and directors of A CAT IN PARIS is a stylish noir caper, set in the shadowy streets and alleyways of New York. Leo has a secret. A mysterious illness has transformed him into a phantom boy, able to leave the confines of his body and explore the city as a ghostly apparition. While in the hospital, he befriends Alex, a New York City cop injured while attempting to capture a nefarious gangster who has taken control of the city's power supply, throwing the metropolis into chaos. Now they must form an extraordinary duo, using Leo's phantom powers and Alex's detective work to foil the plot and save New York from destruction. PHANTOM BOY continues Gagnol and Felicioli's fascination with animated film noir, in a heart-thumping adventure that pushes their trademark visual style to literal new heights, as Leo swoops and soars above the greatest skyline in the world. "An entertaining romp" **** The Guardian Directors: Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol Belgium/France 2016 English Language Run time: 84 mins | |  | BFI Black Star Season: A United Kingdom (12A)
Friday 23rd December 7:30pm
Saturday 24th December 1:30pm
Wednesday 28th December 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/153136
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Our BFI Black Star Season comes to a close with 'A United Kingdom' Amma Asante's impassioned drama depicting an interracial romance that changed the world. BFI Black Star is the UK's biggest ever season of film dedicated to celebrating the range, versatility and power of black actors in some of the finest performances ever committed to film. A United Kingdom is a powerful testament to the defiant and enduring love story of Seretse Khama, King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana) and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the government of the time. Director Amma Asante follows her previous film Belle with another elegant, impassioned drama that also reveals a painful episode in the history of British race relations and imperial politics. At a London dance, there is an immediate spark of attraction when the erudite and dashing Seretse (David Oyelowo) meets the independent-minded Ruth (Rosamund Pike). Ignoring the opposition of friends and family, they plunge into a whirlwind romance that leads rapidly to marriage. Reality sets in when, having completed his studies, Seretse has to return to Africa to assume his duties as King. Their interracial union is seen as a slap in the face both to Malan's apartheid-riven South Africa and to the royal traditions of Seretse's own people. As the international diplomatic crisis escalates, the British Government sets out to do everything in its power to drive the couple apart. Anchored by commanding performances from Oyelowo and Pike, Asante's filmmaking relishes the contrasts between the cool, subdued tones of London and the colour-saturated heat of Botswana, employing cinematography and design to heighten the emotional register of Guy Hibbert's (Eye in the Sky) acutely observant screenplay. We are proud to be opening the 60th BFI London Film Festival with a film of great contemporary relevance, one that celebrates the triumph of love and intelligence over intolerance and oppression, and which confirms Asante as one of the UK's most distinctive and important filmmakers. Clare Stewart - BFI Director: Amma Asante UK 2016 Cast: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Jack Davenport, Terry Pheto, Tom Felton, Laura Carmichael, Arnold Oceng Run time: 110 mins A United Kingdom is part of the BFI's BLACK STAR season, taking place UK-wide, supported by the Independent Cinema Office and Film Hub North West Central, part of the Film Audience Network, awarding funds from the National Lottery. The BFI Black Star Season is Supported by:
BFI Film Audience Network
The National Lottery
#BFIBLACKSTAR | |  | Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Encore Performance (15)
Tuesday 27th December 7:00pm
Tickets: £12.00 Adult/£10.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/306052
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 The legendary 'Miss Saigon', returns to cinemas for a one night only encore in this spectacular, sell-out 25th Anniversary Gala Performance of the global stage sensation. The epic love story tells the tragic tale of young bar girl Kim, orphaned by war, who falls in love with American GI Chris – but their lives are torn apart by the fall of Saigon. 'Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversay Performance', featuring appearances by the original cast including Jonathan Pryce and Lea Salonga, was described as "the greatest musical of all time" by the Daily Mail. Stage Director: Laurence Connor Film directed by: Brett Sullivan Producer: Cameron Mackintosh Cast Members: Jonathan Pryce, Lea Salonga, Simon Bowman Run time: 3 hours including intermissions & a 35 minute Gala Finale with special guests. | |  | Afternoon Classic: Doctor Zhivago (PG)
Thursday 29th December 1:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/308938
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Our Christmas Afternoon Classic is Doctor Zhivago Winner of five Academy Awards, and the eighth most successful film ever at the US box office, Doctor Zhivago returns to cinemas in a beautiful new 4K digital restoration. An epic romance set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution, David Lean's Doctor Zhivago is one of cinema's great love stories. In Moscow on the eve of the First World War, medical student Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) meets the beautiful Lara (Julie Christie), setting in train a fateful romance that turns their lives upside down. Featuring excellent supporting performances by Alec Guinness, Rod Steiger, Geraldine Chaplin and Tom Courtenay (45 Years), Doctor Zhivago portrays at its heart an intensely human and passionate relationship, challenged by the monumental politics of tradition and war. "Maurice Jarre's music is as beguiling as ever and Lean squeezes all the pathos that he can out of the romance between Sharif's Yuri Zhivago and Julie Christie's febrile and gorgeous Lara Antipova." **** The Independent Join us for a celebratory Free glass of mulled wine & Christmas Cake at this festive Afternoon Classic screening. Director: David Lean Cast: Julie Christie, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Alec Guinness USA/UK 1965 Run time 200 mins + interval "This project is supported by Film Hub North West Central, proud to be a member of the BFI Film Audience Network" | |  | Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them (12A)
Friday 30th December 1:30pm
Monday 2nd January 1:30pm
Wednesday 4th January 1:30pm
Thursday 5th January 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/155412
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Eddie Redmayne seeks magical creatures in the first part of an amazing new Harry Potter spin-off series. It's 1926, and 'Magizoologist' Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) arrives in New York City for a meeting with the Magical Congress of the United States of America. He doesn't arrive alone, however – in his magical suitcase live a menagerie of dangerous creatures. But when the beasts escape, officials from the Magical Congress send the wizarding authorities after Newt, as the peaceful relationship between magic people and Muggles comes under threat. David Yates, director of four Harry Potter movies, is at the helm of this hotly-anticipated spin-off movie, written by Harry Potter creator JK Rowling (her first ever screenwriting credit!). A host of famous faces join the Academy Award-winning Redmayne, including Colin Farrell (Saving Mr Banks), Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice) and Samantha Morton (Minority Report). Fantastic Beasts is the first of a planned trilogy of magical adventures! Director: David Yates Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton, Colin Farrell Run time: 150 mins | |  | Arrival (12A)
Friday 30th December 7:30pm
Monday 2nd January 7:30pm
Tuesday 3rd January 1:30pm
Wednesday 4th January 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/155734
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Amy Adams stars as a linguist recruited to communicate with aliens in this smart, emotional sci-fi drama. When twelve spacecraft land at seemingly random locations all over Earth, US Army Colonel Weber (Forest Whitaker) recruits two experts to handle the 'first contact'. Military scientist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) is teamed with Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams) - a linguist whose mission is to determine the aliens' intentions. This is an urgent task. Although the craft appear to pose no immediate threat, their arrival sparks widespread public alarm and heightens international tensions between old foes. What Louise doesn't anticipate is that the work will illuminate a tragedy in her own past. Adapted from Ted Chiang's award-winning novella 'Story of Your Life', this thoughtful, provocative, strikingly original sci-fi drama poses big questions in the tradition of '2001: A Space Odyssey' and 'Interstellar'. The director is Denis Villeneuve, whose impressive list of credits includes 'Sicario' and 'Prisoners'. "It's heartening to encounter a science fiction thriller that is ready to deal with abstract ideas." **** The Independent "Less Close Encounters of the Third Kind and more Linguistic Encounters of the Academic Kind, this is a sci-fi movie with intelligence, cerebral and emotional." **** The Times Director: Denis Villeneuve Cast: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker Run time: 116 mins | |  | We have some fantastic films & Live event broadcasts coming up in January including 'A street Cat Named Bob',
'Nocturnal Animals', the Frank Zappa documentary 'Eat That Question', a new season of Stanley Kubrick films starting with 'The Shining', 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story', 'RSC Live: The Tempest', 'NT Live: Amadeus' plus an additional screening of 'I, Daniel Blake' on 25th January and much much more!
Many of these are already on sale and others will be soon so do keep checking our web site for updated events: http://www.kinokulture.org.uk | | |
