Thursday 4 May 2017

May screenings at Kinokulture

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May Film Screenings & Events at kinokulture cinema, Oswestry
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Welcome to the May edition of the kinokulture cinema newsletter and we apologise for the delay in sending this month's edition out.

We are very pleased to announce that we have recently received  funding through the BFI Neighbourhood Cinema Fund to install Mobile Connect - Sennheiser's WiFi based system that enables low-latency transmission of audio content to mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.  We can now easily provide assistive listening, audio description and interpretation channels to your own mobile phone. all you need to do is download the 'Sennheiser  Mobileconnect' App for free from the Android or ITunes app store and listen through headphones connected to your mobile phone. This service can be used by anyone needing hearing assistance but is also very useful for people who can not understand the indecipherable mumbling of certain actors when they are 'In character'.

Coming up this month we have two exciting new live broadcasts by the National Theatre: 'Obsession' based on Luchino Visconti's 1943 film and starring Jude Law and the critically acclaimed five star production of Edward Albee's 'Who's afraid Of Virginia Woolf?' starring Imelda Staunton.

Oswestry Film Society launch their fifth Season, a great programme of films based on true stories with 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot', 'Lion', 'Denial' and 'All the Presidents Men' all coming up in this new season.

We launch our new Doc Of The Month strand with a brand new digital restoration of Jonathan Demme's classic concert film of The Talking Heads 'Stop Making Sense' and we launch a new year round season celebrating the best of World and British Cinema.

Within our regular film programme we have a new restoration of 'One flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' screening as part of Mental Health Awareness Week, a new restoration of David Lynch's classic 'Mulholland Drive', 'Free Fire' the latest film by Ben Wheatley and over the half term we have plenty to entertain the family with 'The Boss Baby', 'The Lost City Of Z', 'Beauty And The Beast' and 'Peppa Pig My First Cinema Experience'.


The Oswestry Inc Print exhibition is a wonderful selection of print works by local artists currently on display in our downstairs Gallery Space. The exhibition is open Wednesdays - Fridays 11:30am - 3:00pm until Friday 12th May.

All our films for this month are now on sale and can be viewed on our website: http://www.kinokulture.org.uk

Ticket prices for regular screenings are £7.00 Adult & £5.00 Under 16's

Prices for Event Cinema & Live broadcasts vary depending on the distributor.

Please scroll down to see full information & booking links for all of this month's films &  for highlights coming in June.

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.


 
May Film Screenings & Events
at kinokulture cinema

9 Arthur Street, Oswestry, SY11 1JN
The Fits (12A)
Thursday 4th May  7:30pm

Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/340907
Or call the box Office: 01691 238167

 

Eleven-year-old tomboy Toni (a showstopping Royalty Hightower) is bewitched by the tight-knit dance team she sees practicing in the same Cincinnati gymnasium where she boxes.Enamored by the power and confidence of the strong community of girls, Toni spends less and less time boxing with her older brother, and instead eagerly absorbs the dance routines, masters drills, and even pierces her own ears in an effort to fit in. But when a mysterious outbreak of fainting spells plagues the team, Toni's desire for acceptance becomes more complicated. Gorgeously shot and with a mesmerizing score, The Fits is a transformative experience and a marvellous portrait of adolescence.

"An extraordinary debut" ★★★★ - Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post

"The Fits is a dreamy, beautifully syncopated coming-of-age tale." - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

"'The Fits' inspires conversation. We need more films like it." RogerEbert.com

Director:  Anna Rose Holmer

Starring: Royalty Hightower as Toni

 Featuring: The Q-Kidz Dance Team as The Lionesses

Run time: 72 mins

This film is Supported by the BFI FAN New Release Strategy

All'Opera: Don Carlo
live from 'Maggio Musicale Fiorentino', Florence

Friday 5th May 7:00pm

Tickets: £12.00 Adult/£10.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/282365
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167

 

Zubin Mehta conducts a cast led by Fabio Sartori and Julianna Di Giacomo in the acclaimed Don Carlo, Verdi's opera about love, ambition and intrigue in 16th-century Spain, based upon the life of Carlos, Prince of Asturias (1545-1568). Carlos was betrothed to Elizabeth of Valois (1545-1568), the daughter of France's King Henry II but for political reasons, Elizabeth was ultimately married to Carlos' father Philip II of Spain.

Based on the 1787 dramatic poem by Friedrich Schiller, Don Carlo was first performed at the Paris Opéra in 1867 where politics and religion were dangerously entwined. Verdi made extensive revisions to the opera over the following 20 years, and this production follows the four-act 1886 version performed at one of the newest Opera Houses in the world, the Opera di Firenze. The Opera di Firenze has pioneered the perception of opera worldwide, demonstrating it can be both traditional and innovative. Their blend of the classic and contemporary puts Opera di Firenze at the centre of opera, guiding its future for years to come.

Conductor: Zubin Mehta

Run time: 3 hours 55 mins

Trespass Against Us (15)
British Cinema Season
Saturday 6th May  7:30pm
Tuesday 9th May  7:30pm


Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/171588
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167

Brendan Gleason and Michael Fassbender butt heads as father and son in a West Country crime family, to a thrilling soundtrack from The Chemical Brothers.

A car full to the brim with men and kids hurtles across a field in pursuit of a speeding hare. This is the Cutler brood, a gang of thieves with a thing for fast motors. Pa (a glowering Brendan Gleeson) may be the king of the caravan-dwelling clan, but his heir Chad (Michael Fassbender on sparkling form) now has a family of his own and is torn between two life paths: the outlaw way, where his tightly-honed criminal skills are valued, and something else that might offer a different set of opportunities for his kids. Meanwhile, the cops (led by a weasely Rory Kinnear) are closing in. Director Adam Smith (Don't Think: The Chemical Brothers) has an excellent music-video pedigree, evident here as he injects thrills into full-throttle set pieces, whilst detailing the pull of familial bonds and the power games that men play with each other. The Chemical Brothers themselves provide the fresh and adrenalised soundtrack.

Kate Taylor - BFI

Director: Adam Smith

Cast: Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Lyndsey Marshal, Rory Kinnear

UK 2016

Run time: 100 mins

"This project is supported by Film Hub North West Central, proud to be a member of the BFI Film Audience Network" 

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest R/I (15)
Monday 8th May  7:30pm

Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/344010
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167

In celebration of Jack Nicholson's 80th birthday, the BFI will re-release the legendary, multi-Oscar-winning drama One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest in cinemas UK-wide.

Nicholson's unforgettable performance as the ingenious, heroic free spirit RP 'Mac' McMurphy, who leads an uprising in the men's ward of a mental hospital run by callous Nurse Rached (Louise Fletcher), won him his first best actor Oscar.

Adapted from Ken Kesey's bestselling 1962 novel, directed by Milos Forman (Amadeus, Man on the Moon) and produced by Saul Zaentz (Amadeus, The English Patient) and Michael Douglas (his first producer role), One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest was only the second film ever to win the 'big five' Oscars. It also won six BAFTAs and six Golden Globes.

The brilliant supporting cast of hospital patients, who interacted together throughout the story, were selected from over 100 actors after multiple auditions. Mostly unknown at the time, they included Danny DeVito – in his first major role – as Martini, Brad Dourif (Billy Bibbit), who has had a hugely successful stage and screen career ever since, Christopher Lloyd (future star of the Back to the Future trilogy) in his first film role and the Native American painter Will Sampson as Chief Bromden.

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest is considered to be one of the greatest American films of all time. In 1993 it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress, since it was deemed to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

This screening is taking place as part of Mental Health Awareness Week.

Director: Milos Foreman

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield

USA 1975

Run time: 133 mins

"This project is supported by Film Hub North West Central, proud to be a member of the BFI Film Audience Network" 

The Happiest Day In the Life Of Olli Mäki (12A)

World Cinema Season
Wednesday 10th May  7:30pm


Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/342989
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167

 

This delightful low-key drama, shot in gorgeous 16mm black-and-white, tells the story of Olli Mäki, Finland's hope for the 1962 World Featherweight boxing title. Known as the Baker from Kokkola, Mäki's small-town life expands quickly when he's thrust into the media spotlight. At the same time, he falls in love with a local girl. 

It's an effective sports biopic, exploring the origins of personal motivation and ramping up a sense of dread as the big match approaches. But rather than offering up a clichéd account of the virtues of small town pleasures versus big city life, the film becomes a charming portrait of an introverted underdog who, though exceptionally gifted at boxing, doesn't see it as the most important thing in the world. 

Winning the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes, debut director Juho Kuosmanen confidently orchestrates a mood of swooning melancholy that makes the ending even sweeter.

Kate Taylor - BFI

"Juho Kuosmanen's tender, melancholic boxing biopic beguiles from start to FinnishGuy Lodge, Variety

Director: Juho Kuosmanen

Cast: Jarkko Lahti, Oona Airola, Eero Milonoff

Finland-Germany-Sweden 2016

Run time: 92 mins

Finnish 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: Obsession (15)
Thursday 11th May  7:00pm

Tickets: £12.00 Adult/£10.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/347659
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167

Jude Law (The Young PopeCloserThe Talented Mr Ripley) stars in the stage production of Obsession, broadcast live from the Barbican Theatre in London. Ivo van Hove (NT Live: A View from the BridgeHedda Gabler) directs this new stage adaptation of Luchino Visconti's 1943 film.

Gino is a drifter, down-at-heel and magnetically handsome. At a road side restaurant he encounters husband and wife, Giuseppe and Giovanna. Irresistibly attracted to each other, Gino and Giovanna begin a fiery affair and plot to murder her husband. But, in this chilling tale of passion and destruction, the crime only serves to tear them apart.

The stage production of Obsession is produced by Barbican Theatre Productions Limited, London and Toneelgroep Amsterdam; co-commissioned by Wiener Festwochen and Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg; co-produced by Holland Festival and David Binder Productions; and supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Run time: 120 mins (with no interval)

A Quiet Passion (12A)
British Cinema Season
Friday 12th May  7:30pm
Saturday 13th May  7:30pm
Thursday 18th May  1:30pm


Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/176563
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167

Terence Davies returns with an elegant and deeply moving biopic of poet Emily Dickinson, played with sensitivity and rebellious spirit by Cynthia Nixon.

Emily Dickinson is a nonconformist who cannot smooth her own sharp edges. Whether as poet, daughter or woman of faith, she finds herself at odds with the diktats of religion and society. Retreating into the bosom of her Massachusetts family, relief comes in the form of a new neighbour, Vryling Buffam, who offers Emily an equal of the mind, as well as some excellent sassy badinage. But Dickinson's longings for romance, and insecurities about her own attractiveness, are at odds with the amount of love she has to give. Featuring a finely curated selection of her poems in voiceover, A Quiet Passion details many facets of Dickinson's character: her wit and linguistic command; an inescapable melancholy, and her poetry's transcendent ability to connect with other people in ways she cannot.

Cynthia Nixon is superb in a role spanning Dickinson's adult life, making vivid the notion that the parts of our personality that harden over time are rarely the ones we'd choose. As a biopic, its reach extends well beyond existing lovers of her poetry (although you'll be challenged not to be a fan by the end) and Terence Davies once again proves himself to be astonishingly sensitive to the nature, dreams and disappointments of women.

Kate Taylor - BFI

"The film is not only a compelling and finally very affecting portrait of the poet as an ageing woman, but another entirely fresh variation on the themes that have preoccupied Davies since his earliest work. To put it simply, there are moments here that are utterly and gloriously Davies: no other filmmaker would have dreamed them up, let alone have executed them with such exquisite delicacy." Sight & Sound Magazine

Director: Terence Davies

Cast: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Duncan Duff

UK/Belgium 2016

Run time: 125 mins

"This project is supported by Film Hub North West Central, proud to be a member of the BFI Film Audience Network" 

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (15)
Oswestry Film Society Screening
Tuesday 16th May  7:30pm


Season Tickets £24.00
Single Screening Tickets:
£6.00 Adults/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online through Oswestry Film Society: https://www.oswestryfilmsociety.com/coming-soon
Or buy tickets on the door

Please note Tickets for Oswestry Film Society screenings cannot be purchased through kinokulture

Brilliant comedian Tina Fey heads for more serious territory in the story of New York news copywriter Kim Baker, who in 2003 decided to take a three month assignment covering the conflict in Afghanistan. Upon her arrival, she realised that she was ill-prepared emotionally, not only to endure the dangers of the war itself, but also the conditions of everyday life -  including being held in low regard by the men she must work amongst. Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina and Billy Bob Thornton are amongst the impressive supporting cast of this comedy drama. 

The critics say "Comedy for grown-ups that sometimes struggles with its ambitious brief, but always remembers that the best laughs contain the odd shard of shrapnel."  Empire Magazine​

"Spiked with gallows humour, it has tonal similarities to MASH, and as such it is an entertaining watch." The Observer.​

We say "From MASH to 'Good Morning Vietnam', there is a place for looking at the absurdity of war, plus we love Tina Fey, we really really love Tina Fey"

US / 2016 / 112 minutes

It's Only The End Of The World (15)
World Cinema Season
Wednesday 17th May  7:30pm


Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/342997
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167

 

Another emotionally rich and visually sumptuous melodrama from Xavier Dolan, which picked up the Grand Prix at this year's Cannes.

The deserving recipient of the Grand Prix at this year's Cannes Film Festival, visionary director Xavier Dolan (Mommy, Heartbeats) adds a thrilling new addition to his string of emotionally volatile, visually sumptuous melodramas. Based on Jean-Luc Lagarce's play Juste la fin du monde, this taut chamber piece follows terminally ill writer Louis (an arresting Gaspard Ulliel), who returns home to break the news of his debilitating condition to his estranged family (a powerhouse cast including Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux and Vincent Cassel). 

Once there, old wounds and deep seated frustrations surface as Louis struggles to rekindle relationships and articulate the real reason for his unexpected visit. 

Continuing to prove himself a master visual craftsman, Dolan's bold artistic choices effectively strip the film of its theatrical roots. Shot almost entirely in uncomfortable, claustrophobic close-ups, this may be his most aesthetically divisive film yet, although such showmanship never threatens to overshadow the aching sadness that permeates every scene. Although based on another man's work, the overarching themes of isolation, miscommunication and the queer experience which form the backbone of this arduous family reunion feel decidedly Dolan, albeit a more mature and intimate version than we have seen before.

Michael Blyth - BFI

"A BRILLIANT, STYLISED AND HALLUCINATORY EVOCATION OF FAMILY DYSFUNCTION"

**** PETER BRADSHAW, THE GUARDIAN

Director: Xavier Dolan

Cast: Gaspard Ulliel, Nathalie Baye, Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux

Canada/France 2016

Run time: 95 mins

French with English subtitles

NT Live: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (12A)
Thursday 18th May  7:00pm

Tickets: £12.00 Adult/£10.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/353474
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167

 

Sonia Friedman Productions present Imelda Staunton (GypsyVera Drake, the Harry Potter films), Conleth Hill (Game Of ThronesThe Producers), Luke Treadaway (A Street Cat Named Bob, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-TimeThe Hollow Crown) and Imogen Poots (A Long Way DownJane Eyre) in James Macdonald's critically acclaimed, 5 star production of Edward Albee's landmark play, broadcast live to cinemas from the Harold Pinter Theatre, London.

In the early hours of the morning on the campus of an American college, Martha, much to her husband George's displeasure, has invited the new professor and his wife to their home for some after-party drinks. As the alcohol flows and dawn approaches, the young couple are drawn into George and Martha's toxic games until the evening reaches its climax in a moment of devastating truth-telling. 

"Imelda Staunton at her magnificent best." ***** The Guardian

"Flawless. A superlative production." ***** Daily Telegraph

"Exquisite. Conleth Hill is superb." ***** Evening Standard

"One of the greatest feats of acting I have witnessed." ***** Independent

Director: James Macdonald

Cast: Imelda Staunton, Conleth Hill, Imogen Poots, Luke Treadaway

Run time: 210 mins (including interval)

Free Fire (15)
British Cinema Season
Friday 19th May  7:30pm
Saturday 20th May  7:30pm


Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/176862
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167

Ben Wheatley (High-Rise, Sightseers) returns with this all-guns-blazing bullet opera, starring Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy and Armie Hammer.

Ben Wheatley's ascent as one of the UK's most dazzling and prolific cinematic talents continues with this ballsy, high-octane action thriller filmed hot-on-the-heels of last year's Festival Gala, High-Rise. Sharp-witted Justine (Brie Larson) brokers a deal on behalf of two Irishmen (Cillian Murphy, Michael Smiley), setting them up to buy a stash of guns from seedy gangsters Vernon (Sharlto Copley) and Ord (Armie Hammer). But the meet-up in a deserted warehouse derails when stoner side-kick Stevo (Sam Riley) recognises one of the two handover guys (Jack Reynor, Noah Taylor) and shots are fired. Dripping with blood, sweat and irony, Free Fire's bravura filmmaking pays knowing tribute to the kinetic cinema of directors such as Sam Peckinpah and Ringo Lam. Wheatley and writing/editing partner Amy Jump's relentlessly playful riff on the shoot-em-up is as fascinated with the slowness of destruction as it is with speed and action. The virtuosic editing and complex staging (it was shot on location in a warehouse outside Brighton) serve not only to propel the mayhem, but also to emphasise just how bloody long it takes, and how messy it is, to obliterate everything.

Notionally set in Boston and steeped in 1970s Americana (with threads and hairdos to die for… literally), the crackling script and knockout cast have as much fun with character and dialogue as we do with the fact that there are no mobile phones to save the day. Wheatley fan and supporter Martin Scorsese is one of the executive producers and the film's intermittent, pulsating score is by Geoff Barrow (Portishead) and Ben Salisbury.

Clare stewart - BFI

"Free Fire is a mad contraption, bristling with bravado and black, sardonic wit." **** The Telegraph

"Wheatley continues an unbroken run of quality, helped by a great cast and a startlingly effective premise. This is seriously cool, stuffed with great dialogue and riddled with bullets." **** Empire Magazine

Director: Bean Wheatley

UK 2016

Cast: Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Jack Reynor

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: Antony And Cleopatra (12A)
The Rome Season
Wednesday 24th May  7:00pm


Tickets: £12.00 Adult/£10.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/311338
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167

Iqbal Khan directs Shakespeare's tragedy of love and duty, picking up the story where Julius Caesar ends.

Following Caesar's assassination, Mark Antony has reached the heights of power. Now he has neglected his empire for a life of decadent seduction with his mistress, Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Torn between love and duty, Antony's military brilliance deserts him, and his passion leads the lovers to their tragic end. 

Iqbal Khan returns to the RSC to direct, following his critically acclaimed productions of Othello (2015) and Much Ado About Nothing (2012).

Run time: 210 mins

Afternoon Classics: The Lavender Hill Mob (U)
Thursday 25th May  1:30pm

Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/365400
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) was the second of three Ealing collaborations between director Charles Crichton and writer T.E.B. Clarke, the team responsible for Hue and Cry (1947) and The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953). Like those films, and Clarke's previous comedy, Passport to Pimlico (d. Henry Cornelius, 1949), it is a piece of thoroughly good-natured escapism.

The fantasy here is the perfect robbery - £1 million in gold bullion stolen from the Bank of England and smuggled to France in the form of Eiffel Tower paperweights - and it barely matters that, in the end, the meek master-criminals Holland (Alec Guinness) and Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway) are both captured.

Theirs is a harmless daydream, an ultimately mild gesture of defiance against conformity. For all the brilliance of their initial plan, they are finally undone by a very English failing, a lack of competence in foreign languages - Pendlebury's instruction to his French assistant not to sell paperweights from the boxes marked 'R' is misunderstood, because the English 'R' sounds like the French 'A'.

Holland and Pendlebury - both nice, gentle and unthreatening in their non-conformity (this is a crime without victims) - are light years away from the more menacing (though no more successful) gang of The Ladykillers (d. Alexander Mackendrick, 1955). Even their partners-in-crime, the Cockney professional thieves Lackery (Sidney James) and Shorty (Alfie Bass) carry not a grain of ruthlessness: they are so trustful of Holland and Pendlebury that they even risk losing their share of the profits (and presumably do).

"Both a joyous comedy and a tense thriller. Indeed, its climactic car-chase sequence is easily as dramatic as any of those found in today's summer blockbusters." ***** Telegraph

"Charles Crichton's direction is subtle but inventive - check out the snaking, near-single-take opening in a Rio cabana - and the performances, writing and plotting are faultless." ***** Time Out

Director: Charle Chrichton

Starring: Alec  Guinees, Sid James, Stanley Holloway, 

UK 1951

Run Time 78 mins

A free hot drink and piece of cake will be included in the admission price

"This project is supported by Film Hub North West Central, proud to be a member of the BFI Film Audience Network" 

Mulholland Drive R/I (15)
Thursday 25th May  7:30pm

Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/347667
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167

Consistently hailed the best film of the 21st century (not least in a recent BBC Culture poll of 177 international film critics), David Lynch's quintessential neo-noir is now available in a new 4K digital transfer, the restoration of which was supervised by Lynch himself. 

Naomi Watts (BirdmanFunny Games) gives a career-making performance as aspiring actress Betty, who after arriving in Hollywood, befriends an amnesiac woman (Laura Harring) and tries to help her recover her memory. The film establishes these characters but then proceeds to subvert any certainty about them, instead offering a swirling atmosphere of increasing surrealism. 

This beautiful, weird and entrancing film was categorised on its original release as a psychological thriller, but holds far stranger depths than this would suggest. As twisting and turning as the Hollywood road it takes its name from, the film plays as if it arose as a series of images directly from Lynch's subconscious. 

A story about Hollywood - what it is and how it operates, its powers of myth, illusion and delusion - these ideas and many others swarm out of this cryptic, seductive and disruptive film: a monumental classic by one of the masters of contemporary cinema.

Director: David Lynch

USA 2001

Cast: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux

Run time: 146 mins

The Lost City Of Z (15)
Friday 26th May  7:30pm
Saturday 27th May  7:30pm


Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/177692
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167

Based on author David Grann's nonfiction bestseller, THE LOST CITY OF Z tells the incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the 20th century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region. 

Despite being ridiculed by the scientific establishment who regard indigenous populations as "savages", the determined Fawcett – supported by his devoted wife (Sienna Miller), son (Tom Holland) and aide de camp (Robert Pattinson) – returns time and again to his beloved jungle in an attempt to prove his case, culminating in his mysterious disappearance in 1925.

"The grandeur of this movie is off the charts. For a certain kind of old-school film fan, someone who believes in shapely, classical proportions and an epic yarn told over time, it will be the revelation of the year." ***** Time Out

"A film as transporting, profound and staggering in its emotional power as anything I've seen in the cinema in years." ***** The Daily Telegraph

Director: James Gray

Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, Tom Holland

Run time: 141 mins

The Boss Baby (U)
Saturday 27th May  1:30pm
Tuesday 30th May  1:30pm
Wednesday 31st May  1:30pm


Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/175510
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167

Tim isn't happy to give up his only-child status – but it's not your typical case of sibling rivalry…

In the Templeton family, it's always just been Tim (Miles Bakshi), his mum (Lisa Kudrow) and his dad (Jimmy Kimmel) – and that's always been enough.

And so one day, when this parents suddenly show up with his new baby brother, seven-year-old Tim isn't happy, to say the least.

But it's not for the reasons you might think…

He doesn't get the same amount of attention that he used to, and his parents are constantly preoccupied with his little brother, but Tim is hung up on more than just the fact that he has a new sibling on the scene.

There's something strange about his little brother. And he's determined to get to the bottom of it.

But even Tim's imagination couldn't have predicted what he finds out…

Baby Templeton can walk… and talk… and run a corporation.

So, when Tim uncovers a secret plot to tear down his baby brother and threaten the happiness of his family, there's only one thing to do – team up with the Boss Baby and prove that teamwork really does make the dream work.

Directed by Tom McGrath (Madagascar), Boss Baby is a hilarious family comedy that features the vocal talents of Alec Baldwin (Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa) as the fast-talking baby, alongside Miles Bakshi (Shrek the Halls) as his heroic big brother.

Director: Tom McGrath

Cast: Alec Baldwin, Miles Bakshi, Steve Buscemi, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow

Run time: 97 mins

Screening in 2D

Doc Of The Month: Stop Making Sense R/I (PG)
Thursday 31st May  7:30pm

Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/351906
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167

Back on the Big Screen as part of the Leeds International Film Festival On Tour and our own Doc Of The Month strand. Stop Making Sense in its full digital restoration is still the best concert film experience of all time. 

Talking Heads designed an unforgettable stage show, building famously from the opening Psycho Killer, with David Byrne and ghetto blaster, to the rapturous version of Al Green's Take Me to the River with full band and backing choir, taking in classics along the way like Once in a Lifetime and Girlfriend is Better, complete with gigantic business suit.

"Stop Making Sense is a concert film with a narrative, bursting at the seams with bits of invention and passion." Slant Magazine

Director: Jonathan Demme

Run time: 88 mins

USA 1984
"This project is supported by Film Hub North West Central, proud to be a member of the BFI Film Audience Network" 
More Half Term Holiday Screenings
Harmonium (12A)
World Cinema Season
Thursday 1st June  7:30pm


Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/359141
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167

 

After making a mark in Japanese cinema with Human Comedy in TokyoHospitalité and Sayonara, Fukada centres his sixth film, Harmonium - which won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes 2016 - on the damaging effects of a mysterious stranger.  

Toshio (Kanji Furutachi) is a hardworking family man who takes great pride in the metal work he practices in his workshop and enjoys a quiet life with his wife Akié (Mariko Tsutsui) and their daughter Hotaru (Momone Shinokawa). 

But their comfortable existence is interrupted when tall, thin Mr. Yazaka (Tadanobu Asano) shows up at their door: just out of prison after serving a long sentence, he has ties to Toshio's past. Hiring him as an assistant, Toshio also allows him to stay in the family home, where he tutors Hotaru on the harmonium. 

But as Yasaka's relationship with the family develops, it begins to highlight the loneliness and divisions within it; and soon his presence twists into something oppressive and frightening.

Seeking to challenge the stereotypical image of the 'ideal family' and to explore the nature of violence and often its inexplicability, Fukada's film is a dark, subtle and emotionally powerful tale with gut-wrenching performances from all the cast - focused as much on physicality as dialogue - that provide great texture to the characters, allowing us to see to the heart of how fractured they have become.

Director: Koji Fukada

Japan 2016

Run time: 120 mins

Japanese with English subtitles

"This project is supported by Film Hub North West Central, proud to be a member of the BFI Film Audience Network" 

Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience (U)
Friday 2nd June  11:00am
Saturday 3rd June 11:00am

Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/177864
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167

Join Peppa in this exciting new preschool cinema experience, with plenty of snorts, giggles and jumping up and down in muddy puddles! Leading with Peppa Visits London, the first of the never-before-seen episodes, Peppa and her friends hop on board a double-decker red bus as the Queen takes them on an unforgettable tour of iconic London landmarks including Big Ben, Tower Bridge and Trafalgar Square. The other new 'oink-tastic' episodes include 'The Police, 'Canal Boat', 'The Zoo', 'Move to the Music' and a four-part story in which viewers will join Peppa on an Australian holiday to visit her old friend, Kylie Kangaroo.

Run time: 60 mins

Beauty And The Beast (PG)
Friday 2nd June  1:30pm
Saturday 3rd June  1:30pm


Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/177884
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167

Disney's animated classic gets a sumptuous live-action reboot with Emma Watson and Dan Stevens in the lead roles.

Belle (Emma Watson) is a bookish young woman and keen inventor who goes in search of her father Maurice (Kevin Kline) when he disappears after visiting a mysterious castle. When she gets there, she is shocked to learn that he is the prisoner of the monstrous Beast (Dan Stevens) and volunteers to take his place. Initially terrified of her captive, she soon learns about how he was transformed from a handsome prince into his current state by a magical curse, and a tender love story soon develops.

Twilight director Bill Condon promises to bring a lavish sense of magic to this all-star remake of the celebrated 1991 animation. Anchored by Watson and Stevens, the movie also features Luke Evans as Gaston, Ewan McGregor as Lumiere, Ian McKellen as Cogsworth, Emma Thompson as Mrs Potts and Josh Gad as LeFou.

"What Beauty and the Beast rises or falls on is the love story, and here, allowed to slow down to let in intimate moments, the movie catches fire. It's an exhilarating gift." *** Rolling Stone

Director: Bill Condon

Cast: Emma Watson, Luke Evans, Dan Stevens

Run time: 129 mins

Personal Shopper (15)
Friday 2nd June  7:30pm
Saturday 3rd June  7:30pm


Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/177962
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167

Kristen Stewart continues to impress in this enigmatic fashionista ghost story from acclaimed director Olivier Assayas.

Following their previous collaboration on the acclaimed Clouds Of Sils Maria, Kristen Stewart reunites with director Olivier Assayas to play Maureen, a medium working in Paris as a personal shopper for a megalomaniacal A-list celebrity. Bored and frustrated by her job, Maureen only remains in France in an attempt to reach the spirit of her recently deceased twin brother. As time goes by, contact looks increasingly unlikely, until Maureen begins to receive strange text messages from an unknown source. Continuing to prove herself one of contemporary cinema's most dextrous and daring young actors, Kristen Stewart is luminous in the central role; enigmatic, effortless and endlessly watchable. Part sleek fashionista drama, part chilly murder mystery, part bewitching supernatural horror story, this elegant arthouse head-scratcher is hard to define and an absolute pleasure to watch. Give yourself over to its secrets and prepare to be hypnotised.

Michael Blyth - BFI

Director: Olivier Assayas

Cast: Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz

France 2016

Run time: 105 mins

More June Highlights
Amongst our June Highlights we have:

'The Sense Of An Ending'  on the 9th, 10th & 15th June


'Rules Don't Apply' on the 16th & 17th June

'Letters From Baghdad' is our Doc Of The Month on the 21st June

'Mindhorn' on the 23rd & 24th June

Please visit our website to find out more and book online: http://www.kinokulture.org.uk
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