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March Films at kinokulture cinema

View this email in your browser Welcome to the March edition of the kinokulture cinema newsletter. March is well and truly our Film Festival month with Borderlines film Festival at the beginning of the month and the WOW Wales One World at the end of the month. Both these festivals offer a great opportunity to explore new films from around the World as well as major award nominated & winning films. Alongside we have our regular film programme running with 'The Post' (due to popular demand we have added in an extra screening date for this on Monday 19th March 7:30pm) 'All The Money In The World' and 'The Shape Of Water' and some fantastic Event Cinema broadcasts including Royal Opera House: Carmen, Lady Windemere's Fan from the Oscar Wilde Season, NT Live: Julius Ceasar from The Bridge Theatre and The Bernstein Centenary from The Royal Ballet. All our films for March & April are on sale via our website : http://www.kinokulture.org.uk Ticket prices for regular screenings are £7.00 Adult & £5.00 Under 16's Prices for the Borderlines Film Festival screenings are: £7.50 Adults/£5.50 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. 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. The cinema has a loop system and is also  installed with 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'. We look forward to seeing you this month March Film Screenings & Events kinokulture cinema 9 Arthur Street, Oswestry, SY11 1JN Borderlines Film Festival 2018 Friday 23rd February - Sunday 11th March We are now exactly mid way through Borderlines Film Festival and despite the snowy weather we remain open bringing a host of screenings including previews, Top Award winning & nominated films and World Cinema to our audiences in Oswestry. To support the festival there is a 50p subsidy on  Borderlines Film Festival tickets. "Easily rural UK's most impressive film festival" The Independent To find out full festival screenings across all venues please visit the festival website: https://www.borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk Scroll down for our festival screenings at kinokulture cinema    Journey's End (12A) Borderlines Film Festival Friday 2nd March  7:30pm Saturday 3rd March  7:30pm Tuesday 6th March  1:30pm Tickets: £7.50 Adult/£5.50 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/222102 Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 From director Saul Dibb (Bullet Boy, The Duchess) comes this piercing new adaptation of R.C. Sheriff's seminal 1928 anti-war play, following James Whale's enormously successful 1930 screen adaptation and others. Selected to premiere at TIFF 2017 it features a vast array of British talent led by Sam Claflin, Asa Butterfield, Paul Bettany, Tom Sturridge and Toby Jones. In the trenches of World War I, youthful new recruit Lieutenant Raleigh (Butterfield) has pulled strings to join his childhood hero Captain Stanhope (Claflin) on the front line. But Stanhope is horrified by Raleigh's arrival into the tension and claustrophobia of the officers' dugout, where they are anticipating a massive German advance. Altered almost beyond recognition by his years at the front, Stanhope is sustained only by one thought: that when the war is over he can return to his beloved, Raleigh's sister Margaret. A towering classic, Sheriff's play is adapted with ambition and sensitivity in this extremely moving film, which – set for release in the centenary year of the Armistice, and informed by modern psychological insights – focuses its gaze above all on the pathos and harrowing emotional costs of war. "wonderfully acted First World War drama goes deep into the trenches." *** The Telegraph Director: Saul Dibb UK 2017 Cast: Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany, Asa Butterfield Run time: 107 mins Dark River (15) Borderlines Film Festival Monday 5th March  7:30pm Wednesday 7th March  1:30pm Thursday 8th March  1:30pm Tickets: £7.50 Adult/£5.50 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/222125 Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 One of contemporary British cinema's most distinctive filmmakers, Clio Barnard follows The Selfish Giant and The Arbor with this searing and eloquent Yorkshire set drama exploring the fragility of familial relationships. Inspired by Rose Tremain's novel Trespass, Dark River follows two siblings as they struggle to come to terms with their inheritance, following the death of their Father. Fiercely holding on to a promise made long-ago, independently-minded Alice (Ruth Wilson) returns home for the first time in 15 years to claim family farm. Her grieving brother Joe (Mark Stanley) has spent years looking after their father (Sean Bean) and has scarcely kept the property afloat. Estranged for so long they can barely communicate, Alice soon incurs her brother's wrath when she claims legal tenancy. As tensions mount, troubling memories surface and the real reason for her prolonged absence is revealed.  Barnard's expressive use of landscape and Adriano Goldman's haunting camerawork amplify two commanding performances, Wilson's displaying all the power and vulnerability so evident in her recent TV (The Affair) and stage work (Hedda Gabler) , with Stanley (Game of Thrones) equally compelling as a man who has squandered his life in denial of the past. Clare Stewart - BFI "A fine Ruth Wilson headlines Clio Barnard's third feature, a stirring battle-for-the-land drama combining classicism with a nervous edge." Variety Director: Clio Barnard UK 2017 Cast: Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley, Esmé Creed-Miles, Joe Dempsie, Sean Bean Run time: 89 mins Loving Vincent (12A) Borderlines Film Festival Tuesday 6th March  7:30pm (i ticket available at the point of publication but please check the Oswestry Film Society website) Tickets: £6.50 Adult/£4.50 Under 16's Please note that tickets for Oswestry Film Society screenings cannot be booked through kinokulture. Please book online through the Oswestry Film Society website: https://www.oswestryfilmsociety.com/current-season Or email: oswestryfilmsociety@gmail.com A young man comes to the last home town of Vincent van Gough to deliver the artist's final letter to his brother Theo, and ends up investigating Vincent's final days there. Loving Vincent has generated a significant amount of interest not only for its subject matter but for the extraordinary way in which the story has been brought to the screen. Each of the film's 65,000 animated frames are oil paintings, painstakingly created by a team of 100 painters. The finished product is an extraordinary work that demands to be seen on the big screen.  'It is a phenomenal technical accomplishment.' Film Inquiry UK / 2017 / 94mins  Sweet Country (15) Borderlines Film Festival PREVIEW Screening Wednesday 7th March  7:30pm Tickets: £7.50 Adult/£5,50 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/449070 Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Another opportunity to be one of the first to see this film ahead of it's UK release  at our special Borderlines Film Festival PREVIEW screening. Australian director Warwick Thornton (Samson and Delilah) brings a vital Indigenous perspective and great cinematic vision to this powerful, revisionist epic. An Aboriginal stockman is accused of murdering a white man in Warwick Thornton's searing Australian Western. Thornton follows up his uncompromising Camera d'Or winning debut Samson & Delilah (LFF2009) with an expansive film of great cinematic scope and vision.  It's 1929 and segregationist policies weigh heavy in Australia's Northern Territory. Cattle-herder Sam (Hamilton Morris) is sent with his wife and niece to work for newly-arrived station owner Harry March (Ewen Leslie). But where Sam's religious boss (Sam Neill) treats them respectfully, March is institutionally racist, unhinged and abusive. When March goes on a booze-fuelled rampage, an altercation occurs and Sam shoots him in self-defence. Anticipating that frontier 'justice' will prevail, Sam and wife Lizzie (Natassia Gorey-Furber) go on the run. The local sergeant (Bryan Brown) sets off in hot pursuit, leading a posse of landowners and aided by Aboriginal tracker Archie (Gibson John). Traversing the stunning MacDonnell Ranges outside Alice Springs, the chase takes them onto country where Sam, a seasoned bushman, has the upper hand.  Heightening the overall sense of dread and unease with a series of hallucinatory flash-forwards that reveal horrors yet to come, Thornton brings a vital Indigenous perspective and a striking visual imagination to this potent, revisionist epic. Clare Stewart - BFI "Old Testament cinema, with an almost biblical starkness in its cruelty and mysterious beauty, set in a burning plain where it looks as if the sun-bleached jawbone of an ass could at any moment be picked up and used as a murder weapon." ***** The Guardian "Thornton wrings from this fable of rough frontier justice a statement from the heart. Australia now has its High Noon." ***** Time Out Director: Warwick Thornton Australia 2017 Cast: Sam Neill, Ewen Leslie, Thomas M Wright Run time: 110 min Preview courtesy of Thunderbird Releasing Faces Places (PG) Borderlines Film Festival PREVIEW Screening Thursday 8th March  7:30pm Tickets: £7.50 Adult/£5.50 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/449103 Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Our final PREVIEW screening for Borderlines Film Festival is this beautiful, heartwarming documentary by 89-year old Agnès Varda, one of the leading figures of the French New Wave, and acclaimed 33 year-old French photographer and muralist JR. Agnès Varda teams up with artist JR for a road-trip across France, in this moving meditation on friendship, cinema and the power of art on people's lives. Arriving in town in a van that doubles up as a giant camera, Agnès Varda and JR make quite an impression. For all the initial odd-couple thrills of seeing the revered French filmmaker rolling her eyes at the younger artist's exuberance, a deep connection is quickly forged between two creative souls, who are fuelled by the desire to see their imaginations realised on a grand scale. Photographing people at home or work and pasting the huge images in public spaces, the pair use this art practice as a pretext to listen to working class French people reflect upon their lives. Deceptively simple in structure, the film's socialist feminist politics are expertly folded into a moving humanism, exemplified in a moment where JR recreates the world as viewed through Varda's blurring vision. And the film's final act? A pilgrimage to visit old friend and notorious recluse – Jean-Luc Godard. Kate Taylor - BFI Winner of The Best Documentary at The New York Film critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association and San Francisco Film Critics Circle Directors: Agnès Varda, JR France 2017 Run time: 89 mins French with English subtitles PREVIEW Courtesy of Curzon/Artificial Eye The Mercy (12A) Borderlines Film Festival Friday 9th March  7:30pm Saturday 10th March  1:30pm & 7:30pm Tickets: £7.50 Adult/£5.50 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/222189 Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 There is an additional screening of The Mercy outside of the festival with subtitles for The Hard Of Hearing on Monday 12th March. Tickets for this can be booked here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/459827 Our closing film for this year's Borderlines Film Festival is The Mercy. Oscar winners Colin Firth (The King's Speech), Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener) and James Marsh (Man on Wire, The Theory of Everything) team up for The Mercy, a maritime biopic based on the haunting true story of British businessman and amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst. 1968: Crowhurst (Firth) enters the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, the first non-stop, single-handed, round-the-world yacht race. Hoping to publicise a new navigation device he's created, he also needs the cash prize to salve his ailing business. So, leaving his wife Clare (Rachel Weisz) and children behind, he takes to his untested trimaran and sets off on a mission to circumnavigate the globe. But his inexperience and the intense loneliness of the experience make for disastrous and dramatic struggles on the high seas, and press him to consider falsifying his progress; while back in England, his family eagerly awaits his return. Marsh's biopic promises complex, expressive performances from Firth and Weisz, ably supported by the likes of Ken Stott and David Thewlis. It's a tale of ambition, adventure, madness and tragedy elucidating the life of a man who remains a quixotic and mysterious figure in British history – his deepest motivations still unknown. Director: James Marsh UK 2017 Cast: Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, David Thewlis, Ken Stott Run time: 110 mins Royal Opera House Encore: Carmen (12A) Tuesday 13th March  7:15pm Tickets: £15.00 Adult/£10.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/453914 Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 The young soldier Don José intends to marry Micaëla, a girl from his home village. But when he meets the sensual and fiercely independent Carmen, he sacrifices everything to be with her.  Carmen grows bored of Don José and falls in love with Escamillo. Unable to bear her leaving him, Don José tracks Carmen down and murders her.    Carmen is the best-known work by French composer Georges Bizet, and one of the most famous operas in the entire art form – numbers such as the Habanera and the Toreador Song have permeated the popular consciousness as little else has. The opera's heady combination of passion, sensuality and violence initially proved too much for the stage, and it was a critical failure on its 1875 premiere. Bizet died shortly after, and never learned of the spectacular success his Carmen would achieve: the opera has been performed more than five hundred times at Covent Garden alone.  This ever-popular opera is given a fresh point of view in Barrie Kosky's highly physical production, originally created for Frankfurt Opera. The Australian director is one of the world's most sought-after opera directors, whose Royal Opera debut with Shostakovich's The Nose in 2016 was greeted with delight. For Carmen he has devised a far-from-traditional version, incorporating music written by Bizet for the score but not usually heard, and giving a new voice to the opera's endlessly fascinating central character. Music: Georges Bizet Libretto: Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy Director: Barrie Kosky Designer: Katrin Lea Tag Lighting designer: Joachim Klein Choreographer: Otto Pichler Dramaturg: Zsolt Horpácsy   Conductor: Jakub Hrůša Carmen: Anna Goryachova Don José: Francesco Meli Escamillo: Kostas Smoriginas Micaëla: Kristina Mkhitaryan Zuniga: David Soar Frasquita: Jacquelyn Stucker Mercédès: Aigul Akhmetshina Le Dancaïre: Pierre Doyen Le Remendado: Jean-Paul Fouchécourt Moralès: Gyula Nagy Chorus: Royal Opera Chorus Concert Master: Sergey Levitin Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House This is a recording of the live performance at The Royal Opera House on 6th March.   Run time: 3 hours 20 mins including one interval Doc Of The Month: 4 + Director's Q&A (12A) Wednesday 14th March  7:30pm Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/449913 Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167   We are very pleased to welcome film director Daniel Kutschinski who will be taking part in after screening Q&A hosted by Lawrence Mortimer, founder of The Whittington International Chamber Music Festival. A tale of creation and destruction, struggles and friendship, as told by the Quatuor Ebène, one of the world's most exciting string quartets. Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival 2015 | Best Documentary Award 4 is an independent cinema documentary on one of the world's most exciting string quartets - the Quatuor Ebène. The film takes viewers along on the quartet's tour of Italy, gradually drawing them into the ambivalent interactions that have come to characterise the four musicians' long-standing relationship. Bolzano, Perugia, Florence and Siena, Salzburg and Berlin, form the involuntary backdrop to a piece about relationships and the antagonism between ambition and reality. Rather than focusing on the stage performances of the multiple award-winning French Quatuor Ebène, 4 takes us behind the scenes to observe the musical and human processes usually hidden from the eyes of the concert audience: the string quartet's struggle with scores and interpretational details, with colleague-friends – and with themselves. The Quatuor Ebène allowed themselves to be observed at close quarters, wherever they were and whatever they were doing. Never putting on a front for the camera, they embraced the opportunity to rediscover themselves through the filming. The compellingly intimate view that emerges was made possible thanks to the trust that evolved between the musicians and the film crew. As a result, we now have not only a unique testimony of the conflicting desires, sufferings and joys of music making, but also an interpersonal story of a quartet rich in exquisite intuition and subject to bizarre misunderstandings that cannot help but make us think. "Never before have we revealed so much about our relationships among ourselves for a project, film or interview." - Raphaël Merlin, Quatuor Ebène "The best movie about classical music I have ever seen. True art." - Nicolas Altstaedt, cellist and conductor Director: Daniel Kutschinski  Germany 2015 Cast: Quatuor Ebène Run time: 94 mins + Q&A WOW: Wales One World Film Festival We are incredibly pleased to have been invited as a partner venue for WOW: Wales One World Film Festival this year. A celebration of the wonderful diversity of global flmmaking, WOW Film Festival brings the very best of world cinema to your local cinema screen. WOW's special focus for 2018 is 'Tales from the Silk Road'. A cinematic journey following the ancient trade networks from China through Mongolia and Central Asia to the Mediterranean. Get to see all three of our WOW: Wales One World Film Festival screenings at a reduced price with this limited edition Festival Pass. The kinokulture WOW Passport will give you entry to 'The Square', 'Heavenly Nomadic' and 'The Gulls'. Festival Passport £18.00 Adult/£12.00 Under 16's: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/459529 Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167   The Square (15) WOW: Wales One World Film Festival Thursday 15th March  7:30pm Tickets:7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/449948 Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 This wickedly funny, bracingly surreal satire is a masterly dissection of the pretensions of high art. A respected curator of a contemporary art museum, Christian is desperate to make a splash. He devises the idea of 'The Square', an installation inviting the public into a space where they are encouraged to behave responsibly. A few days before the opening Christian has a disturbing experience he cannot shake off. Seeking revenge, he soon finds himself in meltdown. A daring, provocative, riveting film, The Square also contains more humane notes as Ostlund's eye for the subtleties of human behaviour never fails. "Moments of pure showstopping freakiness [...] This is high wire cinema" **** Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian Winner Palme d'Or Cannes Film Festival 2017 Director: Ruben Ostland Sweden/Germany/France/Denmark 2017 Cast: Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West Run time: 144 mins English/Swedish/Danish with English subtitles The Post (12A) Friday 16th March  7:30pm  SOLD OUT Saturday 17th March  7:30pm SOLD OUT Monday 19th March  7:30pm Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/223049 Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Steven Spielberg directs Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in The Post, a thrilling drama about the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post's Katharine Graham (Streep), the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks), as they race to catch up with The New York Times to expose a massive cover-up of government secrets that spanned three decades and four U.S. Presidents. The two must overcome their differences as they risk their careers - and their very freedom - to help bring long-buried truths to light. The Post marks the first time Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg have collaborated on a project. In addition to directing, Spielberg produces along with Amy Pascal and Kristie Macosko Krieger. The script was written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer, and the film features an acclaimed ensemble cast including Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, Jesse Plemons, Matthew Rhys, Michael Stuhlbarg, Bradley Whitford and Zach Woods. "It's a stirring drama of principle. In its way, a call to arms." Guardian **** "Ever the master storyteller, Spielberg has no trouble drawing you in. Independent **** USA 2018 Dir: Steven Spielberg Starring: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarha Paulson Run time:116mins Adult Life Skills (15) Oswestry Film Society screening Tuesday 20th March  7:30pm Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's Please note that tickets for Oswestry Film Society screenings cannot be booked through kinokulture. Please book online through the Oswestry Film Society website: https://www.oswestryfilmsociety.com/current-season Or email: oswestryfilmsociety@gmail.com   Actress Jodie Whittaker (Broadchurch) is about to become a huge household name as she steps into the role of the very first female Doctor Who this autumn. Her lead role in Adult Life Skills is a great primer of the talents of this enormously gifted actor. In it Whittaker plays Anna; approaching 30 and living like a hermit in her mum's garden shed – where she spends her time making videos using her thumbs as actors. She's stuck, unable to move forward with her life following a past trauma, until her mother gives her an ultimatum.  'Witty and moving, this is a low-budget Brit triumph that marks its director as a talent to watch.' Empire Magazine UK / 2016 / 96mins Oscar Wilde Season: Lady Windemere's Fan (Encore) 12A) Wednesday 21st March  7:15pm Tickets: £15.00 Adult/£10.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/420844 Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167   A new production of Oscar Wilde's social comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan, directed by award-winning writer, actor and director Kathy Burke, will be broadcast live to cinemas from the Vaudeville Theatre in London's West End. Kathy Burke brings together a talented comedic cast including the Olivier Award winning actress Samantha Spiro as Mrs Erlynne, Kevin Bishop as Lord Darlington, and guest starring Jennifer Saunders as the Duchess of Berwick, marking her return to the West End stage for the first time in over twenty years. This is the second play from the Oscar Wilde Season, a year-long celebration of the brilliant Victorian playwright being staged by Classic Spring, a new theatre company led by Dominic Dromgoole, former Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe. The day of Lady Windermere's birthday party, and all is perfectly in order. Until her friend Lord Darlington plants a seed of suspicion. Is her husband having an affair? And will the other woman really attend the party? First performed in 1892, Lady Windermere's Fan explores the ambiguity of upper class morality and the fragile position of women in society in the late Victorian era in one of Wilde's most popular and witty plays.  Director: Kathy Burke  CAST (As confirmed to 02/10/17 Mrs Erlynne: Samantha Spiro Lord Darlington: Kevin Bishop Duchess of Berwick:  Jennifer Saunders Run time: 150 mins  This is a recording of the live Broadcast from the Vaudeville Theatre, London on Tuesday 20 March 2018.   NT Live: Julius Ceasar (15) Thursday 22nd March  7:00pm Tickets: £12.00 Adult/£10.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/379290 Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Ben Whishaw (The Danish Girl, Skyfall, Hamlet) and Michelle Fairley (Fortitude, Game of Thrones) play Brutus and Cassius, David Calder (The Lost City of Z, The Hatton Garden Job) plays Caesar and David Morrissey (The Missing, Hangmen, The Walking Dead) is Mark Antony. Broadcast live from The Bridge Theatre, London.  Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat's popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital.  Nicholas Hytner's production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar's return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral and the chaos that explodes in its wake.  Please note that Julius Caesar will contain strobe lighting. Run time: 2 hours, 15 mins (No interval) All The Money In The World (15) Friday 23rd March  7:30pm Saturday 24th March  7:30pm Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/224173 Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD follows the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer) and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother Gail (Michelle Williams) to convince his billionaire grandfather (Christopher Plummer) to pay the ransom. When Getty Sr. refuses, Gail attempts to sway him as her son's captors become increasingly volatile and brutal. With her son's life in the balance, Gail and Getty's advisor (Mark Wahlberg) become unlikely allies in the race against time that ultimately reveals the true and lasting value of love over money. The film is inspired by true events. Some scenes, characters and dialogue have been fictionalized for dramatic purposes. "As a thriller it's consistently gripping, if sometimes a smidge reliant on cliché. As a study of how cold, hard cash can make a man's heart cold and hard itself, it's terrific. Scott and Plummer, meanwhile, deserve plaudits for their 11th-hour gambit. Who knows, the latter may even end up getting all the awards in the world." **** Empire Magazine Director: Ridley Scott USA 2018 Cast: Charlie Plummer, Christopher Plummer, Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Williams, Romain Duris, Timothy Hutton Run time: 133 mins Royal Opera house Live: Bernstein Centenary (12A) Tuesday 27th March  7:15pm Tickets: £15.00 Adult/£10.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/453940 Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Royal Ballet: Bernstein Centenary The Royal Ballet celebrates the centenary of Leonard Bernstein's birth with an all-Bernstein programme from choreographers Wayne McGregor, Liam Scarlett and Christopher Wheeldon. Leonard Bernstein was one of the first classical composers in America to achieve both popular and critical acclaim. He was eclectic in his sources – drawing on jazz and modernism, the traditions of Jewish music and the Broadway musical – and many of Bernstein's scores are remarkably well suited to dance. He was particularly associated with Jerome Robbins, their credits together including Fancy Free and West Side Story. To celebrate the centenary year of the composer's birth, The Royal Ballet has united all three of its associate choreographers to celebrate the dynamic range and danceability of Bernstein's music. The programme includes two world premieres by Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor and Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon, marking each artist's first foray into Bernstein. At the heart of the programme is the first revival of Artist in Residence Liam Scarlett's The Age of Anxiety, created in 2014 to Bernstein's soul-searching Second Symphony. Both symphony and ballet are inspired by W.H. Auden's masterful modernist poem, itself written in response to the atmosphere of disillusionment and uncertainty that followed the end of World War II.   This mixed programme is part of Leonard Bernstein at 100, the world-wide celebration of the 100th birthday of Leonard Bernstein, the composer, conductor, educator, musician, cultural ambassador and humanitarian. These works are performed together: New Wayne McGregor Wayne McGregor and The Royal Ballet celebrate Leonard Bernstein's centenary with the world premiere of a new work. Credits Choreography Wayne McGregor Music Leonard Bernstein Designer Edmund de Waal Costume designer Shirin Guild Lighting designer Lucy Carter Performers Conductor Koen Kessels Concert Master Peter Schulmeister Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House The Age of Anxiety Liam Scarlett sets Leonard Bernstein's Symphony no.2, 'The Age of Anxiety', inspired by W.H. Auden's epic poem. Credits Choreography Liam Scarlett Music Leonard Bernstein Designer John Macfarlane Lighting Jennifer Tipton Performers Conductor Barry Wordsworth Rosetta Laura Morera Emble Steven McRae Quant Bennet Gartside Malin Tristan Dyer Piano Robert Clark Concert Master Peter Schulmeister Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House New Christopher Wheeldon To mark the centenary of Leonard Bernstein's birth, Christopher Wheeldon creates a new work for The Royal Ballet. Credits Choreography Christopher Wheeldon Music Leonard Bernstein Set designer Jean-Marc Puissant Costume designer Erdem Moralioglu Lighting designer Peter Mumford Performers Conductors Koen Kessels Paul Murphy Concert Master Peter Schulmeister Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Approximate running time 3 hours, including 2 intervals. Cast and running time subject to change Heavenly Nomadic (PG) WOW: Wales One World Film Festival Wednesday 28th March  7:30pm Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/449986 Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 A family of nomads live in the high, remote mountains of Kyrgyzstan breeding horses. There is wise old Grandfather Tabyldy, his wife Karachach, their dutiful daughter-in-law Shaiyr and their sweet granddaughter Umsunai. But their apparently idyllic life has been tough since Umsunai's father drowned. After listening to her grandfather's stories she's now convinced her father has been reborn as a bird that's watching over them. With its wistful humour, this is a warm, atmospheric, sweet natured tale about nomadic traditions that are slowly disappearing from the magnificent mountains of Central Asia. "a visually majestic debut" Variety Winner FEDEORA Award Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2015 Kyrgyzstan's Entry For the Oscars in 2016 Director: Mirlan Abdykalykov Kyrgyzstan 2016 Cast: Tabyldy Aktanov, Jibek Baktybekova, Taalaikan Abazova Run time: 81 mins Kyrgyz with English subtitles Afternoon Classic: It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (12A) Thursday 29th March  1:30pm Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/454226 Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Stanley Kramer followed his Oscar-winning Judgment at Nuremberg with this sobering investigation of American greed. Ah, who are we kidding? It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, about a group of strangers fighting tooth and nail over buried treasure, is the most grandly harebrained movie ever made, a pileup of slapstick and borscht-belt-y one-liners performed by a nonpareil cast, including Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy, Jonathan Winters, and a boatload of other playing-to-the-rafters comedy legends. For sheer scale of silliness, Kramer's wildly uncharacteristic film is unlike any other, an exhilarating epic of tomfoolery. "It is wild and hilarious all the way, and action follows action in an excess of energy. So many excellent actors and stunt men do so much in this film that it is beyond my space allowance to begin to credit them." New York Times "What can I say? It's an epic adventure and comedy rolled into one! It's been my #1 all-time favorite film since childhood, which says a lot. I was surprised to find out how underrated it is. Critics always talk about how it stars so many famous comedians. The novelty overshadows the movie itself. Like I said, I saw this at a very young age, and didn't know who all these actors were. This is the movie that introduced me to them." Cinema Massacre We offer Free Tea/Coffee & Cake at our Afternoon Classic Screenings Director: Stanley Kramer USA 1963 Cast: Captain T. G. Culpeper Spencer Tracy J. Russell Finch Milton Berle Melville Crump Sid Caesar Benjy Benjamin Buddy Hackett Mrs. Marcus Ethel Merman Ding Bell Mickey Rooney Sylvester Marcus Dick Shawn Otto Meyer Phil Silvers J. Algernon Hawthorne Terry-Thomas And many more! Run time: 159 mins The Gulls (15) WOW: Wales One World Film Festival Thursday 29th March  7:30pm Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/449968 Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Set against the background of modern Kalmykia (the only country in Europe where Buddhism is the national religion), the haunting story of Elza, a fragile, beautiful fisherman's wife who yearns to escape, unfolds in a small town squeezed between the sparse steppes the shores of the freezing Caspian Sea. A mysterious, misunderstood woman, Elza seems to have drifted in to this patriarchal world from elsewhere, unsuited to the harsh life and her brutal husband. With her keen eye for an image, sure control of her material set among a fascinating mix of people and cultural traditions, Ella Manzheeva creates a mesmerising blend of minimalist realism and tense noir-ish drama reminiscent of the Dardennes Brothers. "a haunting character study with strong visual appeal." Hollywood Reporter Winner Best Debut Sochi Open Russian Film Festival 2015 Director: Ella Manzheeva Russia-Kalmykia 2015 Cast: Evgeniya Mandzhieva, Sergey Adianov, Evgeny Sangadzhiev Run time: 87 mins English subtitles The Shape Of Water (15) Friday 30th March  7:30pm Saturday 31st March  7:30pm Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/224351 Or call the box Office: 01691 238167 'The Shape Of Water' is a modern-day fairy tale that chronicles the unlikely romance between a mute cleaning lady and the mysterious creature imprisoned at the laboratory where she works.  Both Elisa and the amphibian man are terribly lonely, and find happiness in the brief times they're able to spend together. But the people running the lab see the creature as something sub-human, and Elisa hatches a desperate plan to set him free.  The latest film from Guillermo del Toro, 'The Shape Of Water' has received overwhelming critical acclaim and stars Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon and Octavia Spencer. "Magical, thrilling and romantic to the core, a sensual and fantastical fairy tale with moral overtones, it's a film that plays by all the rules and none of them, going its own way with fierce abandon." Los Angeles Times "Guillermo del Toro's beautiful blood-curdler is as timeless as a fairy tale." ***** The Telegraph Golden Globes: 7 Nominations + 2 Winners: Best Director, Best Original Score.  Bafta: 12 Nominations including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress.  Director: Guillermo Del Toro 2018 Cast: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Octavia Spencer Run time: 123 mins Early Man (PG) Saturday 31st March  1:30pm Monday 2nd April  7:30pm Tuesday 3rd April  1:30pm Wednesday 4th April  1:30pm Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/226717 Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 EARLY MAN is the new prehistoric comedy adventure from four-time Academy Award -winning director Nick Park and AARDMAN, the creators of WALLACE AND GROMIT and SHAUN THE SHEEP. Shot in Aardman's own distinctive style, the film will take audiences on an extraordinary journey into an exciting new world unleashing an unforgettable tribe of unique and funny new characters voiced by an all-star British cast. Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures roamed the earth, EARLY MAN tells the story of courageous caveman hero Dug (Eddie Redmayne) and his best friend Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth (Tom Hiddleston) and his Bronze Age City to save their home. "A gloriously funny tale of stone-age stragglers" **** The Telegraph "An outstanding family comedy, an underdog sports movie set in the prehistoric age, all about football." **** Peter Bradshaw The Guardian Director: Nick Park Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams Run time: 89 mins April Highlights April sees another great selection of films coming to our screen including 'Lady Bird', 'I, Tonya', 'Phantom Thread' and 'The Greatest showman'. We also have some wonderful event cinema lined up with Royal Opera House Live: Macbeth, English National Ballet's Giselle choreographed by Akram Khan and Royal Opera House Ballet: Manon as well as some wonderful documentaries and world cinema titles. All our films for April are now on sale so please visit our website to find out more and book online:  http://www.kinokulture.org.uk Share Tweet Forward Copyright © 2018 kinokulture, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted to join our mailing list or have shown an interest in our previous screenings and activities Our mailing address is: kinokulture 9 Arthur St OSWESTRY, Shropshire SY11 1JN United Kingdom Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.