Welcome to the May edition of the kinokulture cinema newsletter. This month sees the launch of our new midweek season of films 'BEACON' running throughout the year and shining a light on the wonderfully diverse range of stories, characters and cultures brought to the screen from international and British film-makers including preview screenings, special events and Q&A's. The first two screenings of the season are 'Everybody Knows' the latest film from two-time Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film Asghar Farhadi (A Separation and The Salesman) and 'The Vanishing' the latest release from Andy Evans & Celyn Jones production company 'Mad As Birds'. Andy grew up in Oswestry and we are very pleased to welcome both Andy & Cel for an after screening Q&A on Thursday 9th May. Other Beacon screenings this month include the British Comedy 'Eaten By Lions' and the new biopic on Vincent Van Gogh 'At Eternity's Gate'.
Our mainstream programme this month highlights some powerful female roles with 'Wild Rose', 'On The Basis Of Sex' and 'The Kindergarten Teacher' alongside Joachim Phoenix and Jon C. Reilly in 'The Sisters Brothers' and the latest animation from the Laika Studio 'Missing Link' for the half term holiday.
Live broadcasts in May include NT Live: All My Sons starring Sally Field and Bill Pullman and an encore screening of NT Live: All About Eve starring Gillian Anderson and Lily James as well as the new Mixed Triple Bill from The Royal Ballet. all of our May screenings are now on sale and available to book online via our website: http://www.kinokulture.org.uk
Ticket prices for regular screenings are:
£8.00 Adults
£7.00 16-30's, Student, Unwaged (proof of status required)
£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.
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. | | | May Film Screenings & Events
at kinokulture cinema
9 Arthur Street, Oswestry, SY11 1JN | | |  | Everybody Knows (15) Wednesday 1st May 7:30pm
Thursday 2nd May 7:30pm
Tickets: £8.00 Adult
£7.00 16-30s, Students, Unwaged
£5.00 under 16's
Book online:https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/310871 Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 To launch our new 'Beacon Season' showcasing the wonderfully rich diversity of films from British & international film-makers we are pleased to be screening 'Everybody Knows' the latest film from two-time Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film Asghar Farhadi (A Separation and The Salesman).
Laura (Penélope Cruz), a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns with her two children to her hometown outside Madrid to attend her sister's wedding. However, when Laura's teenage wild child daughter Irene goes missing, old secrets and bitter grudges emerge that turn the trip into a psychological nightmare. As you would expect from Farhadi, there is a complex puzzle at the heart of the script involving past entanglements with local vineyard-owner Paco (Javier Bardem). Supremely watchable, much of the pleasure in following how this taut thriller unravels is to observe what it reveals about the motivation of the characters in their own lives.
"...the performances themselves are so intelligent, mature and yet uninhibited. Farhadi's storytelling has overpowering force." Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Cast: Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz
Spain/France/Italy 2018
Run time: 2 hours 12 mins
Spanish with English subtitles | |  | The Kindergarten Teacher (12A)
Thursday 3rd May 7:30pm
Friday 4th May 7:30pm Tickets: £8.00 Adult
£7.00 16-30s, Students, Unwaged
£5.00 under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/311256 Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Maggie Gyllenhaal gives arguably her best performance yet in Sara Colangelo's (Little Accidents) superb new drama. Winner of the Directing Award at Sundance 2018, it adapts Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid's 2014 film of the same name (and features Lapid himself as executive producer), switching the primary protagonist from a student to a teacher, and from a masculine to a feminine viewpoint.
Caring, patient Staten Island kindergarten teacher Lisa Spinelli (Gyllenhaal) spends her days teaching a class of precocious youngsters and her evenings attending poetry classes in Manhattan; while navigating a marriage devoid of chemistry and her own disinterested children at home. When she inadvertently discovers her five-year-old student, Jimmy (Parker Sevak) is a gifted prodigy, she becomes determined to nurture his talent before his dismissive family destroy it – but her desire to do so sets her on a dangerous and desperate path.
Both a nuanced trip into the psyche of a disillusioned woman and a remarkably tense thriller, The Kindergarten Teacher is a fantastically compelling moral drama; an unpredictable, really daring film that benefits immensely from Gyllenhaal's intelligent acting and ripples with psychological depth.
"A brilliantly observed ethical pretzel about a poetically gifted kid" ***** The Guardian
Director: Sara Colangelo
USA 2018
Cast:Maggie Gyllenhaal, Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar, Gael Garcia Bernal
Run time: 99 mins | |  | | Oswestry Film Society Screening
The Escape (15)
Tuesday 7th May 7:30pm
Please note that membership or tickets for Oswestry Film Society screenings cannot be booked through kinokulture.
Please book online through the Oswestry Film Society website:
https://www.oswestryfilmsociety.com/showing-now
Or email: oswestryfilmsociety@gmail.com
Tara is a housewife in suburban London who's raising two young children while married to an overworked, self-absorbed husband. In desperate need of a change, Tara makes the bold decision to leave everything behind and buy a one-way ticket to Paris. Her newfound freedom and journey of self-discovery soon gives way to the realization that walking out on your life isn't so simple.
"Arterton, however, is simply magnificent. The camera cannot get enough of her, and you will hopefully feel the same as she puts her character through the mill with the utmost delicacy." The Herald
Nominated British Independent Film Award: Best Actor, Gemma Arterton.
UK / 2017 / 110mins / Cert 15 | |  | The Vanishing (15) Wednesday 8th May 7:30pm
Tuesday 9th May 7:30pm + Q&A Tickets: £8.00 Adult
£7.00 16-30s, Students, Unwaged
£5.00 under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/311266
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 For our second screening in the BEACON Season we are very pleased to be showing the latest film from Mad As Birds production company 'The Vanishing' which has a limited cinema release.
Producers Andy Evans & Celyn Jones (who also co wrote the screenplay) will be in attendance for an after screening Q&A on Thursday 9th May.
Kristoffer Nyholm is a past master of stylish suspense having directed TV series The Killing and Taboo. Now, he turns his talent to the eerie true events known as the Flannan Isle mystery. Thomas (Peter Mullan), James (Gerard Butler) and Donald (Connor Swindells) are three lighthouse keepers who arrive on an uninhabited island 20 miles off the Scottish coast. It is the start of a six week shift that is anything but routine as they make a discovery that provokes greed, fear, paranoia and a vicious fight for survival. What lies at the heart of the mystery could be the root of all evil...
"a very powerfully performed, intimate piece" *** Peter Bradshaw - The Guardian
"Fine performances and eerie atmospherics enhance this slow burner." The Hollywood Reporter
Director: Kristoffer Nyholm
UK 2018
Cast: Gerard Butler, Connor Swindells, Peter Mullan
Run time: 1 hour 41 mins
| |  | On The Basis Of Sex (12A) Friday 10th May 7:30pm
Saturday 11th May 7:30pm
Monday 13th May 7:30pm
Thursday 16th May 1:30pm
Tickets: £8.00 Adult
£7.00 16-30s, Students, Unwaged
£5.00 under 16's
Bookonline:https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/311268
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167
The true story of a legendary case brought to court by lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Shattering a century of gender discrimination in the US, Ginsburg became a part of history. This is her story, starring Felicity Jones alongside Armie Hammer and Justin Theroux.
Today, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a Supreme Court justice, one of the most powerful figures in the US legal system. Decades ago, in 1975, Ginsburg helped to change the shape of the law, making it more equal for men and women.
Teaming up with her husband, Marty, Ginsburg lead the argument in favour of father's rights, on behalf of a widower who has been denied his wife's survivor benefits. The case served as a catalyst, turning already tense conversations about gender rights and igniting change that we still feel the impact of today.
On The Basis of Sex tells the story of this incredible woman who helped to create a fairer society, at a time when women in the courtroom were in themselves a rarity.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is played by Felicity Jones (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Theory of Everything), alongside Armie Hammer (Call Me by Your Name) as her husband Marty.
Directed by Mimi Leder, who has been at the helm of such classics as Deep Impact and Thick as Theives, On The Basis of Sex celebrates the hard fought battle faced by endless women and men to achieve equality in the USA.
Director: Mimi Leder
Cast: Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux, Kathy Bates, Cailee Spaeny
Run time 2 hours | |  | National Theatre Live:
All My Sons (12A) Tuesday 14 May 7:00pm Tickets: £12.00 Adult
£10.00 under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/592694
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) star in Arthur Miller's blistering drama All My Sons. America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. They have built a home, raised two sons and established a thriving business. But nothing lasts forever and their contented lives, already shadowed by the loss of their eldest boy to war, are about to shatter. With the return of a figure from the past, long buried truths are forced to the surface and the price of their American dream is laid bare. Jeremy Herrin (NT Live: This House) directs the cast, which also includes Jenna Coleman (Victoria), and Colin Morgan (Merlin) alongside Bessie Carter, Oliver Johnstone, Kayla Meikle and Sule Rimi. Run time: 165 mins (TBC) | |  | National Theatre Live:
All About Eve (PG) Encore Screening Wednesday 15th May 7:00pm Tickets: £12.00 Adult
£10.00 under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/637169
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167National Theatre Live ALL ABOUT EVE
BY JOSEPH L MANKIEWICZ
Gillian Anderson (X-Files, NT Live: A Streetcar Named Desire) and Lily James (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) lead in All About Eve.
All About Eve tells the story of Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has been. But now there's Eve. Her biggest fan. Young, beautiful Eve. The golden girl, the girl next door. But you know all about Eve…don't you…?
Lifting the curtain on a world of jealousy and ambition, this new production, from one of the world's most innovative theatre directors, Ivo van Hove (Network, NT Live: A View from the Bridge), asks why our fascination with celebrity, youth and identity never seems to get old.
All About Eve is adapted by Ivo van Hove from the 1950 Twentieth Century Fox film by Joseph L Mankiewicz and the play "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr. Ivo van Hove directs this new stage version with set and lighting design from Jan Versweyveld, costume design by An D'Huys and music from double Mercury Prize-winner PJ Harvey, alongside Tom Gibbons' sound design.
Gillian Anderson has been nominated for Best Actress at The Olivier Awards.
Monica Dolan has been nominated for Best Supporting Actress at The Olivier Awards
This is a recorded encore screening of the live broadcast from The West End, London on 11th April.
Run time: 130 mins (with no interval) | |  | Royal Opera House Live: Mixed Triple Bill:
Within The Golden Hour/ Medusa/ Flight Pattern (12A) Thursday 16th May 7:15pm
Tickets: £15.00 Adult/£10.00 under 16's
Book online:https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/594639
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 WITHIN THE GOLDEN HOUR
MEDUSA
FLIGHT PATTERN THE ROYAL BALLET
THREE BALLETS | ONE WORLD PREMIERE
TWO RECENT WORKS AND ONE WORLD PREMIERE SHOWCASE THE CONTEMPORARY FACE OF THE ROYAL BALLET.
The contemporary face of The Royal Ballet is shown in works from three of today's leading choreographers. Christopher Wheeldon's WITHIN THE GOLDEN HOUR is based around seven couples separating and intermingling, to music by Vivaldi and Bosso and lit with rich colours suggested by sunset.
Crystal Pite's FLIGHT PATTERN, revived for the first time, uses a large dance ensemble and Górecki's familiar music from his Symphony of Sorrowful Songs for a poignant and passionate reflection on migration. Between them, a new work by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui MEDUSA, created on The Royal Ballet has its premiere to bring the contemporary truly up-to-date.
CHOREOGRAPHY: CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON, SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI, CRYSTAL PITE
MUSIC: EZIO BOSSO, TBC, HENRYK MIKOLAJ GÓRECKI PERFORMERS – Within the Golden Hour
Beatriz Stix-Brunell
Lauren Cuthbertson
Sarah Lamb
Vadim Muntagirov
Ryoichi Hirano
Steven McRae
PERFORMERS – Medusa
Natalia Osipova
PERFORMERS – Flight Pattern
Kristen McNally
Marcelino Sambé | |  | Wild Rose (15) Friday 17th May 7:30pm
Saturday 18th May 7:30pm
Monday 20th April 7:30pm Thursday 23th May 1:30pm Tickets: £8.00 Adult
£7.00 16-30s, Students, Unwaged
£5.00 under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/311269
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Directed by Tom Harper (BBC's War & Peace), Wild Rose is an uplifting story with an original soundtrack about family, dreams and those 'three chords and the truth'. Delightful and infectiously joyous, Beast's breakout star Jessie Buckley oozes with charisma as she stars as a young woman balancing her dreams of being a country music star with the responsibilities of motherhood.
Fresh out of jail and with two young kids, Rose-Lynn Harlan (Buckley) is bursting with raw talent, cheek and a dream of getting out of Glasgow to make it as a country singer in Nashville. Her mum Marion (Julie Walters) has had a bellyful of Rose-Lynn's Nashville nonsense and is at odds with her dreamer daughter. Forced to take responsibility, Rose-Lynn gets a cleaning job, only to find an unlikely champion in the middle-class lady of the house (Sophie Okonedo).
With brilliant performances all round, the knockout blow of the film is delivered by the superstar-making performance of the irrepressible Buckley – dazzlingly delivering the songs herself throughout. If your heart don't soar watching this, you just ain't got one.
"Buckley blazes bright as a young Glaswegian ne'er-do-well with a star-bound state of mind in Tom Harper's unblinkered but cheerful wanderlust fable." Sight & Sound
"A beautiful story told with a huge amount of tenderness and love for its unconventional heroine. Jessie Buckley is one of the brightest stars in our sky right now." **** Hey U Guys
"Jessie Buckley gives a stand-out performance in Wild Rose, an identity story about choice, sacrifice, and knowing who you really are." **** Daily Mirror
Director: Tom Harper
Cast: Jessie Buckley, Sophie Okonedo, Julie Walters
Run time: 101 mins | |  | Oswestry Film Society screening
Goldstone (12A)
Tuesday 21st May 7:30pm Please note that membership or tickets for Oswestry Film Society screenings cannot be booked through kinokulture.
Please book online through the Oswestry Film Society website:
https://www.oswestryfilmsociety.com/showing-now
Or email: oswestryfilmsociety@gmail.com Indigenous detective Jay Swan arrives in the town of Goldstone to search for a missing person, his simple duty becomes complicated when he uncovers a web of crime, corruption, and exploitation of land and people. In the face of personal loss, Jay must pull his life together and try and bring justice to Goldstone. Stunning cinematography and superb performances make Goldstone something very special as director Ivan Sen brings beauty and depth to the thriller genre.
"A masterpiece of outback noir that packs a political punch." The Guardian
Winner: Australian Film Critics Association Awards; Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography.
Australia / 2017 / 103mins / Cert 12A | |  | Eaten By Lions (12A) Wednesday 22nd May 7:30pm Thursday 23rd May 7:30pm Tickets: £8.00 Adult
£7.00 16-30s, Students, Unwaged
£5.00 under 16's Book online:https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/311723
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Screening as part of our Beacon Season.
A hilarious British comedy about two teenage half brothers who are each in search of their different roots. While one brother, Pete, gets accustomed to his controlling English family, the other, Omar, travels to Blackpool in search of his real Asian dad.
"A thoroughly likable feelgood film." **** Peter Bradshaw The Guardian
"Making splendid use of its seaside setting and cannily exploring issues of xenophobia, integration, disability and family, this isn't particularly original. But its heart is definitely in the right place." *** Empire Magazine
Director: Jason Wingard
UK 2017
Cast: Antonio Aakeel, Jack Carroll, Asim Chaudhry, Johnny Vegas
Run time: 99 mins | |  | The Sisters Brothers (15) Friday 24th May 7:30pm
Saturday 25th May 7:30pm
Tuesday 28th May 7:30pm
Tickets: £8.00 Adult
£7.00 16-30s, Students, Unwaged
£5.00 under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/311730
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Dheepan) makes his first English-language film with this revisionist Western set in 1851. Eli (John C. Reilly) and Charlie Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix) are brothers and assassins, on the trail of a chemist (Riz Ahmed) who has a formula that can highlight gold in rivers.
A detective (Jake Gyllenhaal) is hot on his trail too, but delivering him to their boss the Commodore (Rutger Hauer) will be less than easy.
Adapting Patrick deWitt's bestseller, Audiard's film glimmers with wry humour, punctuated with bloody reality, echoing the way Robert Altman and the Coen Brothers have put new life into the Old West.
"Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly are frontier hit-men who meet their match int his beautifully odd horse opera" **** Rolling Stone
"often hilarious, and always unpredictable, Jacques Audiard's dark Western is a terrific yarn about two uncivilised men grappling with the onset of civilisation." **** Empire Magazine
Director: Jacques Audiard
Cast: John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed
Run time: 122 mins | |  | Missing Link (PG)
Tuesday 28th May 1:30pm Wednesday 29th May 1:30pm
Thursday 30th May 1:30pm Tickets: £8.00 Adult
£7.00 16-30s, Students, Unwaged
£5.00 under 16's
Book online:https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/311748
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Hugh Jackman, Zoe Saldana and Zach Galifianakis lead a stellar voice cast in this rip-roaring, globetrotting comedy adventure from Laika, the animation studio behind Boxtrolls and Coraline.
Jackman lends his voice to myths and monsters investigator Sir Lionel Frost (Jackman), who sets off on an adventure to the Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature — Mr Link (Galifianakis). Frost, who's also looking for acceptance from his small-minded explorer peers, is accompanied on his journey by Adelina Fortnight (Saldana), a free-spirited, independent adventurer who just so happens to possess the only known map to their secret destination.
Director: Chris Butler
Starring: Zoe Saldana, Hugh Jackman, Emma Thompson
Run time: 91 min | |  | At Eternity's Gate (12A) Wednesday 29th May 7:30pm
Thursday 30th May 7:30pm Tickets: £8.00 Adult
£7.00 16-30s, Students, Unwaged
£5.00 under 16's
Book online:https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/311815
Or call the box Office: 01691 238167 Screening as part of our Beacon Season.
Willem Dafoe gives a magnificent, Oscar nominated performance as Vincent Van Gogh in painter-filmmaker Julian Schnabel's (Before Night Falls, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) portrait of the famously troubled post-Impressionist artist, whose virtuosic talent went largely unrecognised in his lifetime.
Shot on location in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône and Auvers-sur-Oise in the south of France, it follows Van Gogh through the difficult final years of his life as he struggles to make a living, to maintain bonds with the people in his life – including his brother Theo (Rupert Friend) and painter Paul Gauguin (Oscar Isaac), with whom he shares a complex friendship – while completing some of his most important works and dreaming of the longevity his art might have beyond its cool contemporary reception.
Dafoe delivers a performance of great integrity and wisdom as a wildly talented but difficult, profoundly lonely and morally ambiguous man, capable of menacing behaviour and violent acts (including the famous ear episode).
A very heartfelt film, At Eternity's Gate pushes its sympathetic imagination inside the mind of the artist to depict Van Gogh's ecstatic, almost spiritual creative response to the beauty of the natural world alongside his tremendously painful sense of exile and isolation.
"Dafoe adds another masterful performance to his resume; his work here is as deep and as piercing as his performance in "The Last Temptation of Christ" more than 30 years ago." Detroit News
"Willem Dafoe gives a 'magnificent performance' as the troubled Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel's 'gloriously artistic' film." BBC Culture
Director: Juilan Schnabel
UK/USA/France 2018
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Oscar Isaac, Rupert Friend, Mads Mikkelsen
Run time: 110 mins | |  | Fishermans Friends (12A) Friday 31st May 7:30pm
Saturday 1st June 7:30pm
Monday 3rd June 7:30pm
Thursday 6th June 1:30pm
Tickets: £8.00 Adult £7.00 16-30s, Students, Unwaged
£5.00 under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/313378 Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 The real-life heartwarming tale of a group of Cornish fishermen whose sea shanties took them to the top of the charts.
Fisherman's Friends finds music biz type Danny (Daniel Mays) on a stag do in Cornwall. Hearing a local group singing 'the rock & roll of 1752', his friend (Noel Clarke) challenges him to sign the group, but they're not interested in fame or fortune.
An hilarious fish out of water comedy that makes the most of the winning ensemble including James Purefoy, Tuppence Middleton, David Hayman and I, Daniel Blake's Dave Johns.
"This gentle, sweet-natured comedy has warmth and a certain X factor of likability, helped by big-hearted performances from a cast including Daniel Mays and Tuppence Middleton." *** The Guardian
Director: Chris Foggin
Cast: Christian Brassington, Daniel Mays, David Hayman, James Purefoy, Noel Clarke, Sarah Winter, Tuppence Middleton
Run time: 112 mins | | Our 'Beacon' Season continues into June with three wonderfully diverse films' British Indie coming of age drama 'Pond Life', The latest film from Carol Morley 'Out Of Blue' and the stunning documentary 'Five Seasons: The Gardens Of Piet Oudolph'. June also sees the return to our screen for Exhibition On Screen with 'Van Gogh & Japan' alongside a wonderful selection of mainstream films including 'Red Joan', Tolkien', 'Holy Lands' and 'The Keeper' as well as the second live broadcast of the new RSC Live Season with 'The Taming Of The Shrew'. Tickets for our June screenings are all on sale now Don't miss out take a look at all our screenings currently on sale and book online through our website: http://www.kinokulture.org.uk | | | |
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