Welcome to the August edition of the kinokulture newsletter. We hope you will find lots to entertain you over the summer holidays at our cinema.
Our family friendly screenings continue with 'Toy Story 4', 'The Queen's Corgi' and Disney's brand new 'The Lion King'. Within our mainstream programme we have Emma Thompson in 'Late Night', Danny Boyle's latest film 'Yesterday' and Ethan Hawke in 'The Captor'.
Our BEACON Season exploring British & World cinema has some great offerings too starting off with a chance to meet Declan The Guide Dog at our screening of 'Pick Of The Litter', the wonderful coming of age drama 'We The Animals' which will be introduced by Geoff & Pete from The Shropshire Rainbow Film Festival, 'Of Fish And Foe' exploring the clash between traditional Atlantic Salmon Fishermen and animal activists, 'Vita & Virginia' and the launch of our Canada Now screenings with the winner of the best canadian feature film at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival 'The Fireflies are Gone' and the acclaimed thriller 'Through Black Spruce'.
Our Young Film Programmers are busily planning the programme for their take over of the cinema for our first BEACON Film Festival in October. There is still time for anyone aged between 16-30 to get involved in our BEACON Young film Programmers Forum just come along and let us know at one of BEACON screenings. All our events during August are on sale and can be viewed & booked online via our website: http://www.kinokulture.org.uk
Ticket prices for regular screenings are ú8.00 Adult, ú7.00 16-30, Student, Jobseekers and ú5.00 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. | | | | | August Film Screenings & Events at kinokulture cinema
9 Arthur Street, Oswestry. SY11 1JN | | |  | The Secret Life Of Pets 2 (U) Thursday 1st August 1:30pm Tickets: ú8.00 Adult
ú7.00 16-30's, Students, Jobseekers
ú5.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/kinokulture/e-bjgard Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 The Secret Life of Pets 2 will follow summer 2016's blockbuster about the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day. Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and his longtime collaborator Janet Healy will produce the sequel to the comedy that had the best opening ever for an original film, animated or otherwise. The Secret Life of Pets 2 will see the return of writer Brian Lynch (Minions) and once again be directed by Chris Renaud (Despicable Me series, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax).
Cast: Lake Bell, Hannibal Buress, Dana Carvey, Harrison Ford, Tiffany Haddish, Kevin Hart, Pete Holmes, Garth Jennings, Ellie Kemper, Nick Kroll, Bobby Moynihan, Patton Oswalt, Jenny Slate, Eric Stonestreet.
Dir: Chris Renaud
Run Time: 88mins
USA
2019 | |  | Pick Of The Litter (PG) Thursday 1st August 7:30pm
Tickets:
ú8.00 Adult
ú7.00 16-30's, Students, Jobseekers
ú5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/kinokulture/t-zjelva
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167
Meet Patriot, Potomac, Primrose, Poppet, and Phil - five determined puppies who, from the moment they're born, begin an incredible journey to become guide dogs for the blind. It's a rigorous two-year process that will take them from the care of selfless foster volunteers to specialised trainers to, if they make the cut, a lifelong human companion.
At every step of the way, the puppies will be tested, challenged, and evaluated. But not just any dog makes it all the way to graduation, and only the best of the best will make the cut - who has what it takes to be the pick of the litter?
With deft storytelling skill, directors Dana Nachman and Don Hardy (the two previously co-directed the feature docs The Human Experiment, Witch Hunt, and Love Hate Love) introduce us to a group of unique canine characters along with their human counterparts. Pick of the Litter is a wonderful reminder of the extraordinary relationships we have with our dogs, especially those that we work beside each day.
Come and meet Lin Stapley and her Guide Dog Declan alongside Denise Pope, our local Guide Dog trainer prior to the screening. Doors open at 7:00pm.
Director: Dana Nachman, Don Hardy Jr.
Run time: 80 mins | |  | Toy Story 4 (U) Friday 2nd August 7:30pm
Saturday 3rd August 7:30pm
Monday 5th August 7:30pm
Wednesday 7th August 1:30pm
Thursday 8th August 1:30pm
Tickets: ú8.00 Adult
ú7.00 16-30's, Students, Jobseekers
ú5.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/kinokulture/e-kaqvzd Or call the Box Office: 01691 Woody (voice of Tom Hanks) has always been confident about his place in the world, and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that's Andy or Bonnie. So when Bonnie's beloved new craft-project-turned-toy, Forky (voice of Tony Hale), declares himself as 'trash' and not a toy, Woody takes it upon himself to show Forky why he should embrace being a toy. But when Bonnie takes the whole gang on her family's road trip excursion, Woody ends up on an unexpected detour that includes a reunion with his long-lost friend Bo Peep (voice of Annie Potts). After years of being on her own, Bo's adventurous spirit and life on the road belie her delicate porcelain exterior. As Woody and Bo realize they're worlds apart when it comes to life as a toy, they soon come to find that's the least of their worries.
Director: Josh Cooley
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Maddie McGraw, Christina Hendricks, Jordan Peele, Keanu Reeves, Ally Maki, Jay Hernandez, Lori Alan, Joan Cusack, Bonnie Hunt, Kristen Schaal, Emily Davis, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Blake Clark, June Squibb, Carl Weathers, Lila Sage, Don Rickles, Jeff Garlin, Maliah Bargas-Good, Jack McGraw, Juliana Hansen, Estelle Harris
Run time: 100 mins | |  | Disobedience (15)
Oswestry Film Society Screening
Tuesday 6th August 7:30pm Tickets: ú7.00 Adult/ú4.00 Under 16's 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
New York photographer Ronit flies to London after learning of her estranged fatherÆs death. Ronit is returning to the same Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her decades earlier for her childhood attraction to Esti, a female friend. Their reunion soon reignites their burning passion as the two women explore boundaries of faith and sexuality. Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams star in Oscar winner director Sebastißn LelioÆs latest.
ôAn understated yet profound examination of identity and self-sacrifice, this honest depiction of repressed romance will unashamedly tug at every heart string.ö Empire Magazine
Winner British Independent Film Award: Best Supporting Actor, Alessandro Nivola.
(UK. 2017 / 114mins / Cert 15) | |  | We The Animals (15)
Wednesday 7th August 7:30pm
Thursday 8th August 7:30pm
Tickets:
ú8.00 Adult
ú7.00 16-30's, students, Jobseekers
ú5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/kinokulture/e-jazqld
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167.
Documentarian Jeremiah Zagar (In a Dream, Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart) moves into narrative features with this fluid, dream-like adaptation of Justin TorresÆ autobiographical novel about a mixed-race family with three inseparable young sons in upstate New York, that screened to acclaim at Sundance 2018.
Manny (Isaiah Kristian), Joel (Josiah Gabriel), and Jonah (Evan Rosado) are tearing their way through childhood. Their mother (Sheila Vand) and father (Ra·l Castillo) have a volatile relationship that makes and unmakes the family many times over, often leaving the boys fending for themselves; and as their parents fight, Manny and Joel begin to grow into versions of their father while their mother seeks to shelter her youngest, Jonah, within the cocoon of home. Distanced from his brothers, Jonah becomes increasingly aware of his desperate need to escape and begins to embrace an imagined world all his own.
Lyrical, impressionistic, arrestingly beautiful and strongly performed (with the boys all played by non-professional actors), ZagarÆs heartbreaking film û part coming of age story, part sexual exploration, part magical realism û explores the animalism of young children alongside that of violent, warring adults.
"There is a diaphanous beauty to this striking US indie; an impressionistic, free-spirited, skittish quality that belies the weight of the themes that it explores. One of the discoveries of the year." **** The Guardian
Director: Jeremiah Zagar
Cast: Sheila Vand, Ra·l Castillo, Evan Rosado
USA 2018
Run time: 94 mins | |  | Late Night (15) Friday 9th August 7:30pm
Saturday 10th August 7:30pm
Monday 12th August 7:30pm
Thursday 15th August 1:30pm Tickets: ú8.00 Adult
ú7.00 16-30's, Students, Jobseekers
ú5.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/kinokulture/e-ydzrxq Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 LATE NIGHT is the story of legendary late-night talk show host Katherine Newbury (Thompson) who, after years of complacency and declining ratings, finds her show is on the network's chopping block. Katherine's world is turned upside down when she hires her first ever female staff writer, Molly Patel (Kaling) who brings fresh eyes and an honest perspective. Katherine's decision has unexpectedly hilarious consequences, as her show is upended by Molly's passionate, unapologetic, at times outright bizarre approach to comedy and to life. By finally opening up to Molly and to her audience, with warmth, vulnerability (and the occasional menopause joke) Katherine reconnects with both the public and those closest to her.
"Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling are a thoroughly engaging double act in this caustic satirical comedy that turns into an unlikely tearjerker." **** The Independent
Director: Nisha Ganatra
Cast: Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling
Run time: 102 mins | |  | The Queens Corgi (PG)
Tuesday 13th August 1:30pm
Wednesday 14th August 1:30pm
Tickets: ú8.00 Adult
ú7.00 16-30's, Students, Jobseekers
ú5.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/kinokulture/e-vyrgmm Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 'The Queen's Corgi' is about the adventure of Rex, the British monarch's most beloved dog, who loses track of his mistress and stumbles across a clan with dogs of all kinds confronting and fighting each other. During his epic journey to return to the Queen, Rex falls in love and discovers his true self.
Director: Ben Stassen and Vincent Kesteloot
Cast: Jack Whitehall, Ray Winstone, Julie Walters, Sheridan Smith, Matt Lucas and Tom Courtenay
Run time: 90 mins | |  | Of Fish And Foe (15) Tuesday 13th August 7:30pm Tickets: ú8.00 Adult
ú7.00 16-30's, Students, Jobseekers
ú5.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/kinokulture/t-zdzpvr Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Following his look at farming the land in The Moo Man Andy Heathcote's new film journeys to the Atlantic coast off Scotland to witness a clash between two tribes û fisherman and animal activists.
The Pullars are one of the last families using traditional methods to fish for wild Atlantic salmon. When these methods involve killing seals, the salmonÆs natural predators, conflict erupts.
Animal activist groups Sea Shepherd and Hunt Saboteurs oppose the Pullars at every turn, despite the legality of the fishermanÆs actions and the consequences to their livelihood.
Challenging preconceptions with a balanced observation of the battle, this ambiguous, stirring documentary is a gripping exploration of modern environmentalism.
"Succeeds in capturing a disappearing lifestyle at a critical point in history. It's a film whose value is likely to increase with time and an intriguing point of a little-observed community." *** Eye For Film
Screening as part of our BEACON Season
Directors: HEIKE BACHELIER, ANDY HEATHCOTE
Run time: 92 mins | |  | Vita And Virginia (12A) Wednesday 14th August 7:30pm Thursday 15th August 7:30pm Tickets: ú8.00 Adult
ú7.00 16-30's, Students, Jobseekers
ú5.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/kinokulture/e-ydjejm Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Adapted from Dame Eileen AtkinsÆ stage play of the same name, this is the fascinating story of the affair and friendship between two authors uncompromising in their insistence to live, love and create to the fullest.
Socialite Vita Sackville-West (Gemma Arterton, THEIR FINEST, THE ESCAPE) and literary icon Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki, THE NIGHT MANAGER, WIDOWS) run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the magnetic Vita and the beguiling Virginia forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly contemporary marriages. Their relationship would inspire one of WoolfÆs most iconic novels, æOrlandoÆ.
Director: Chanya Button
Cast: Isabella Rossellini, Elizabeth Debicki, Gemma Arterton
Run time: 110 mins | |  | Yesterday (12A) Friday 16th August 7:30pm
Saturday 17th August 7:30pm
Monday 19th August 7:30pm
Thursday 22nd August 1:30pm Tickets: ú8.00 Adult
ú7.00 16-30's, Students, Jobseekers
ú5.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/kinokulture/e-aldrkg Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 What if you were the only man on Earth able to remember the iconic music of The Beatles?
A collaboration up there with Lennon-McCartney, Yesterday is the brain child of director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting) and screenwriter Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually). As full of soul and heart as any of the Liverpool lads best tracks, this is an hilarious story of finding your own voice.
Jack's (Himesh Patel) career as a singer-songwriter is not going well. His friend Ellie (Lily James) thinks heÆs got talent, but no one else agrees. But after a mysterious blackout, it turns out heÆs the only one who can recall the Fab FourÆs back catalogue. With the iconic songs in his arsenal, he becomes world famous, but at what cost?
"A glowing tribute to The Beatles and their music, this is both a toe-tapping pleasure to watch and a smart, occasionally scathing look at how we get things wrong." **** Empire Online
"Although this film can be a bit hokey and uncertain on narrative development, the puppyish zest and fun summoned up by Curtis and Boyle carry it along." **** The Guardian
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Himesh Patel, Lily James, Kate McKinnon
Run time: 116 mins | |  | Waitress (12A)
Oswestry Film Society Screening
Tuesday 20th July 7:30pm Tickets: ú7.00 Adult/ú4.00 Under 16's 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
Jenna works in a diner in a small Southern town and is a genius at creating luscious desserts, but her marriage to an overbearing lout makes happiness impossible. When she discovers she is pregnant, she makes plans to skip town before her condition is obvious. However, she begins an affair with the new town doctor who is the only one who knows her secret. Just opened as a musical in London, your ticket fee includes free film related pie and tea/coffee!
? ôThis is a good-natured, whimsical comedy, as American as mom's apple pie, though there are some cloves baked in to temper the sweetness.ö The Observer
Nominee: Independent Spirit Award, Best Screenplay, Adrienne Shelly.
(US / 2007 / 103mins / Cert 12A) | |  | Canada Now 2019 The Fireflies Are Gone (15) Wednesday 21st August 7:30pm
Thursday 22nd August 7:30pm Tickets: ú8.00 Adult
ú7.00 16-30's, Students, Jobseekers
ú5.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/kinokulture/e-bjgpvv Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Canada Now 2019 is a showcase of New Canadian Cinema in the UK, we are screening three outstanding new pieces of filmmaking as part of our BEACON Season.
The Fireflies Are Gone:
On the verge of her high school graduation, a brilliant, high-spirited young 18 year-old woman named LÚo canÆt wait to get out of her drab small town in QuebecÆs hinterland.
Tired of her motherÆs nagging, her stepfatherÆs relentless and reactionary right wing opinions, and her absent father who lives and works far, far away, LÚo is restless, alienated and bored. SheÆs also weary of adults telling her what is best for her future.
All of LÚoÆs ennui and frustration changes, however, when she meets Steve, a quietly charismatic 30-something guitar teacher who still lives in town in his motherÆs basement. Taking guitar lessons from Steve proves to be a catalyst for change for LÚo, and their growing, unlikely friendship will transform them both forever.
Winner of Best Canadian Feature Film, 2018 Toronto International Film Festival; CanadaÆs Top Ten 2018; Official Competition at Karlovy Vary; Chicago International Film Festival; Palm Springs International Film Festival 2019.
ôThis is a satisfying, slightly mournful seriocomedy thatÆs equal parts cynical, hopeful, and ambivalent.ö
û Dennis Harvey, Variety
ôàPilote delivers the requisite insights and atmosphere in an engaging way, and his two leads are simply terrific: Karelle Tremblay, the remarkable co-star of Anne ╔mondÆs Our Loved Ones and Franþois GirardÆs Hochelaga, Land Of Souls, holds the screen as confidently as Ellen Page in Juno or Saoirse Ronan in Lady Birdàö û Norman Wilner, Now Magazine
ôLike his characters, full of their own contradictions, Pilote's writing resists singular interpretation. Instead, in thoughtful and nuanced turns, he breaks open a story of burgeoning adulthood and changing small-town Quebec with style and care.öû Sarah Melton, Exclaim!
Director: SÚbastien Pilote
Run time: 96 mins
French with English subtitles | |  | The Captor (15) Friday 23rd August 7:30pm
Saturday 24th August 7:30pm Tickets: ú8.00 Adult
ú7.00 16-30's, Students, Jobseekers
ú5.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/kinokulture/e-mkvgox Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Based on the absurd but true 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm that was documented in the New Yorker as the origins of the 'Stockholm Syndrome'.
Lars Nystrom (Ethan Hawke) dons a disguise to raid a central Stockholm bank, then takes hostages in order to spring his pal Gunnar (Mark Strong) from prison. Negotiations hit a wall, and as hours turn into days, Lars alternates between threatening the hostages and making them feel comfortable and secure.
The hostages develop an uneasy relationship with their captor, which is particularly complex for one of the hostages Bianca (Noomi Rapace), who develops a strong bond with Lars as she witnesses his caring nature.
This connection gave rise to the psychological phenomenon known as "Stockholm syndrome". A light touch and well-chosen cast keep this film consistently entertaining.
"The Captor (also known as Stockholm) is a stylishly absorbing and original comedy thriller. The ending may be a little abrupt for some but this is without doubt a fraught, funny and fast-paced film reporting one of the most momentous bank raids in history." **** Laura Jordan - The Upcoming
Director: Robert Budreau
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Mark Strong, Noomi Rapace
Run time: 92 mins | |  | The Lion King (PG) Wednesday 28th August 1:30pm Thursday 29th August 1:30pm
Friday 30th August 1:30pm
Friday 30th August 7:30pm
Saturday 31st August 7:30pm Tickets: ú8.00 Adult
ú7.00 16-30's, Students, Jobseekers
ú5.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/kinokulture/e-elvagg Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Disney's 'The Lion King', directed by Jon Favreau, journeys to the African savannah where a future king is born. Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother, and former heir to the throne, has plans of his own.
The battle for Pride Rock is rife with betrayal, tragedy and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba's exile. With help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba will have to figure out how to grow up and take back what is rightfully his. The all-star cast includes Donald Glover as Simba, Beyonce Knowles-Carter as Nala, James Earl Jones as Mufasa, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar, Seth Rogen as Pumbaa and Billy Eichner as Timon.
Utilizing pioneering filmmaking techniques to bring treasured characters to life in a whole new way, Disney's 'The Lion King' is a perfect family friendly cinema treat to round up the summer holidays.
Director: Jon Favreau
Cast: Donald Glover, Seth Rogen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Alfre Woodard, Billy Eichner, John Kani, John Oliver, Florence Kasumba, Eric Andre, Keegan-Michael Key, JD McCrary, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Beyonce Knowles-Carter, James Earl Jones
Run time: 120 mins | |  | Canada Now 2019 Through Black Spruce (15) Wednesday 28th August 7:30pm
Thursday 29th August 7:30pm Tickets: ú8.00 Adult
ú7.00 16-30's, Students, Jobseekers
ú5.00 Under 16's Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/kinokulture/e-daljdb Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Canada Now 2019 is a showcase of New Canadian Cinema in the UK, we are screening three outstanding new pieces of filmmaking as part of our BEACON Season.
Through Black Spruce:
Based on the Giller-Award-winning novel, Through Black Spruce is the story of a young Cree woman whose disappearance triggers events in two worlds: in Moosonee, the remote Northern Ontario community she fled years ago, and Toronto, where she modelled before vanishing.
Her twin sister, at home hunting moose in the North but a fish out of water in the city, reluctantly heads south to retrace her sisterÆs steps.
The two worlds collide when the fallout from the missing woman's troubled life comes to a violent head, back in Moosonee.
"McKellar provides ample space for Brandon Oakes and Tanaya Beatty to deliver career-making performances." - Barry Hertz, Globe & Mail
Director: Don McKellar
Run time: 111 mins | | September has a wonderful selection of films coming to our screen including 'Apollo 11', the new 4K restoration of Park Chan Wook's cult classic 'Old Boy', Quentin Tarantino's 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood', 'Margaret Atwood: Live In Cinemas' is a one off event broadcast on the publication day of her new book 'The Testaments' and our free Heritage Open Day screenings return with the marvellous selection of archive films 'Britain On film: Coast And Sea'. Coming up in October we have some very special Event Cinema broadcasts: 'Fleabag' from NT Live, 'Angela Carter's WISE CHILDREN', 'Gauguin From The National Gallery' and 'Billy Connolly: The Sex Life Of Bandages'. All of our September films and our October Event Cinema Broadcasts can be viewed and booked on line via our website: http://www.kinokulture.org.uk | | | |
