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Welcome To Our Late June - Mid July Newsletter Our Lives, Our World, Our Cinema We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has expressed their concerns and given kind words of support to us over the future of kinokulture. We would also like to thank BFI Film Hub Midlands who are continuing to support us in bringing a wide range of British & international films to Oswestry through the BFI with support from the National Lottery. The good news is that we are working with the Independent Cinema Office and our colleagues at the BFI Film Audience Network to build a framework on how we can transfer the cinema over into community ownership. Over the Summer months we will be looking into creating a Community Share Offer which we hope to launch in September  ... so watch this space! Coming Up this Summer! Over the summer months we are looking forward to bringing you a great selection of films from Intimate drama to family friendly films and big blockbuster screen action! In this final week of June we bring you " a rousing tale of love and money" with 'War Pony' set in the Pine Ridge Reservation and made in collaboration with members of the community and  Robert Rodriguez returns to cinemas with the tense thriller 'Hypnotic' starring Ben Affleck. July sees the return of the classic road trip movie 'Thelma & Louise' back on the big screen alongside period drama 'Chevalier', our next Made In Wales film 'Translations', the return of our Summer Of Queer Cinema Season with the tender teen romance 'You Will Live forever', 'Oklahoma! The Musical' starring Hugh Jackman and Maureen Lipman and we dive into the wonderfully weird world of Wes Anderson with his latest film featuring an all star cast 'Asteroid City'. We will be sending out another newsletter in mid July featuring all of our screenings over the summer holidays but many of these are already on sale including family friendly films 'The Little Mermaid', 'Elemental', 'Pinocchio A True Story' and the Ukrainian animation 'Mavka The Forest Song' which will screen in both the Ukrainian language version and the English dubbed version. Also on sale are our summer holiday big screen adventures 'Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny' and 'Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One'. Come along and join us for a deep dive into the wonderful world of cinema! On our website you can view trailers and information on each film by clicking on the image or film title.  If you already know which film & date you want to book just click on the Book Now button. View Our Website Here Our doors and cafe/licensed bar selling a range of hot & cold drinks and pre packaged snacks open 30 minutes before the screening time. Please scroll down to find out more about our June - mid July programme & for our latest news updates & new ticket pricing policy at the bottom of this newsletter.  We look forward to seeing you over the summer  Thank you! COMING TO OUR SCREEN LATE JUNE - MID JULY kinokulture cinema 9 Arthur Street, Oswestry, Shropshire, SY11 1JN   War Pony (15) Wednesday 28th & Thursday 29th June  7:30pm WAR PONY tells the interlocking stories of two Oglala Lakota men coming of age on the Pine Ridge Reservation. At 23, Bill (Jojo BapteiseWhiting) just wants to make something of himself. Whether it's syphoning gas, delivering goods or breeding Poodles, he is determined to carve his way to the "American Dream". Meanwhile, 12-year-old Matho (LaDainian Crazy Thunder) can't wait to become a man. Desperate for approval from his young, unavailable father, a series of destructive decisions turns Matho's life upside down and he finds himself unequipped to deal with the harsh realities of the adult world. A powerful tale of life, hope and belonging on the Reservation. Featuring spellbinding performances from first-time actors Jojo Bapteise Whiting and LaDainian Crazy Thunder, and created over a period of several years, in collaboration with members of the Pine Ridge Reservation. WAR PONY is the directorial debut of Riley Keough (Daisy Jones & The Six, Zola) and Gina Gammell, and written with first-time writers, Franklin Sioux Bob and Bill Reddy. "A rousing tale of love and money" ????-The Guardian "A raw authenticity rarely found in film"????-Time Out Run time: 1 hour 55 mins BOOK TICKETS HERE Hypnotic (15) Friday 30th June & Saturday 1st July  7:30pm Sunday 2nd July 2pm  (subtitled for the Hard Of Hearing) Determined to find his missing daughter, Austin detective Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) instead finds himself spiraling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world. Aided by Diana Cruz (Alice Braga), an unnervingly gifted psychic, Rourke simultaneously pursues and is pursued by a lethal specter (William Fichtner) - the one man he believes holds the key to finding the missing girl – only to discover more than he ever bargained for. Director: Robert Rodriguez Cast: Ben Affleck, Alice Braga, Jeff Fahey, William Fichtner, Dayo Okeniyi, Hala Finley, Jackie Earle Haley, J.D. Pardo US 2023   Run time: 1 hour 34 mins BOOK TICKETS FOR FRIDAY & SATURDAY HERE BOOK TICKETS FOR SUNDAY HERE

Hail Caesar! (12A) Oswestry Film Society Screening Thursday 4th July 7:30pm? The sure-hit Coen brothers conjure up nostalgic joy from this hilarious knockabout homage to the golden age of film. If you missed it when kinokulture screened it back in 2016 be sure to book your tickets! It's 1951, and the motion picture industry is responding to the threat of television with colourful choreography, escapist romances and biblical epics. Hail, Caesar! is a fictional story that follows real-life studfio fixer Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), working in the Hollywood film industry, trying to find out what happened to a star actor (George Clooney) who's been kidnapped during the filming of a blockbuster. This delicious black comedy swings through a series of intertwined stories and sub-plots. You'll wonder just how did the Coens come up with this madcap production and script! Please note the film starts at 7:30pm there are no trailers at OFS screenings Run Time: 1 hour 46 mins FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OSWESTRY FILM SOCIETY & BOOK TICKETS HERE Reality (15) Wednesday 5th & Thursday 6th July 7:30pm In June 3, 2017, 25-year-old former American intelligence specialist Reality Winner is confronted by FBI agents arriving at her home. Based on true events, the film's dialogue is directly from the transcript of their tense, transfixing conversation. Saturday afternoon, June 3, 2017. Twenty-five year old Reality Winner is confronted at her home by the FBI. A cryptic conversation begins and soon Reality's life starts to unravel. With all dialogue taken directly from the FBI's transcript of the interrogation — alternately nail-biting and banal, darkly funny and surreal — we track one woman's experience of the U.S. government at work. And as more details of Reality's life are revealed and more armed men arrive, a complex portrait emerges of an American millennial, yoga teacher, and veteran under siege. REALITY examines truth, power and the U.S. legal system through the lens of one intimate, disconcerting and very real encounter, provoking conversations that endure long after the final frame. "In its elegant simplicity, its formal daring and superbly subtle and controlled performances, Tina Satter's movie is surely one of the best at the Berlin film festival: an eerily gripping true-life drama concerning people who look like elaborately reanimated, hyperreal ghosts from the past." ***** Peter Bradshaw - The Guardian Director: Tine Satter Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Josh Hamilton, Marchánt Davis USA 2023 Run time: 1 hour 23 mins ? BOOK TICKETS HERE Chevalier (12A)  Friday 7th & Saturday 8th July  7:30pm Sunday 9th July  2:00pm (Subtitled for the Hard Of Hearing) Inspired by the incredible true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Bologne (Kelvin Harrison Jr. in a tour de force performance) rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with an ill-fated love affair and a falling out with Marie Antoinette (Lucy Boynton) and her court. "Entertainingly soapy fare with an unabashedly brash and anachronistic approach to its 18th-century tale." *** Mark Kermode - The Observer "It is an enthralling story that few people know about, and proves to be a bold take on a historical figure who does not get the credit he deserves." - ScreenAnarchy Director : Stephen Williams Cast: : Kelvin Harrison Jr., Marton Csokas, Sian Clifford, Minnie Driver, Lucy Boynton, Ronk? Adékolu?jo US 2023 Run time: 1 hour 48 mins BOOK TICKETS FOR FRIDAY & SATURDAY HERE BOOK TICKETS FOR SUNDAY HERE Made In Wales: Translations (15)  Thursday 13th July 7:30pm When an agoraphobic translator reunites with her deceased brother's best friend, secrets and passions are revealed. It's been years since STEF (24) last left her house. The loss of her brother combined with the quiet dread of the unknown conspiring to keep her inside. When her brother Liam's best friend, EVAN (27), arrives to give Liam's journal to Stef, sparks fly. However, when Stef and Evan start to unpack their shared trauma, they question if their relationship can ever break free from its confines? Caught between Evan's images of a world outside that they could inhabit, and astory of lost love that Stef is translating from a previous generation, Stef must choose the kind of future she wants, and whether Evan will be a part of it.   "Emphatically tender, Translations is surprising, warm, intriguing and hopeful." - D&C Film "Translations is an ode to healing... A raw British romantic drama". - That Film Blog UK "Layered and thoughtful." - Mother of Movies ???? "Translations is a moving drama with excellent performances." - Movie Reviews 101 Director: Keith Kopp Cast: Alan Emrys, Kate Morgan Welsh/English with English subtitles Run time: 1 hour 24 mins BOOK TICKETS FOR HERE     Thelma & Louise - Re Release (15)  Friday 14th & Saturday 15th July  7:30pm Fasten your seatbelts! Thelma & Louise is back in cinemas after being digitally restored from a new 4K 16 bit scan, supervised by director Ridley Scott using the original negative. The film has been restored by The Criterion Collection with participation from MGM Studios and Park Circus. A bored housewife and a straight-laced waitress at a coffee shop - are best friends who are sick of what they've settled for. Deciding to escape the tedium of their everyday lives, the pair sneak off in Louise's '66 T-bird convertible for a three-day fishing trip with no husbands, no boyfriends and no problems. But things don't go quite according to plan when an encounter with a drunken, foul-mouthed, would-be rapist transforms their quiet getaway into a cross-country escape that will change their lives forever. "Screenwriter Callie Khouri's desperada road-movie thriller Thelma & Louise is the classic whose Bechdel test credentials go all the way up to the title. Just over 30 years later, it looks punchier, bolder, hotter and sweatier than ever. This is a masterclass in narrative construction and character development and director Ridley Scott puts his pedal to the metal with pure action brio. A warm welcome back to this great popular film."  ***** Peter Bradshaw - The Guardian May 2023   Director: Ridley Scott Cast: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Chris McDonald, Brad Pitt Original release date: 1991 (4K restoration 2023) Run time: 2 hours 10 mins BOOK TICKETS HERE Oklahoma! The Musical (12A)   Sunday 16th July 2:00pm Wednesday 19th July. 7:00pm Oh, what a beautiful day! This July, the magic and energy of live theatre is coming to cinemas around the globe with the National Theatre's acclaimed, Olivier Award-winning production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! Starring then-newcomer Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables, The Greatest Showman) as Curly, alongside Maureen Lipman, Josefina Gabrielle and Shuler Hensley, this riveting stage production was filmed during its record- breaking 1998 run in London.  Directed by theatre legend Trevor Nunn (CATS, Les Misérables) with new choreography by Susan Stroman, Oklahoma! features some of musical theatre's most delightfully hummable songs, including ;Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin,Surrey With The Fringe On Top and the joyous title tune, "Oklahoma". Now one of the most beloved musicals ever to grace the stage is coming to the big screen 80 years after it first premiered on Broadway. Grab yourfriends and ride your surrey to a cinema near you! Run Time 3 hour 12 mins (including interval) BOOK TICKETS HERE   Local Hero (PG) Oswestry Film Society Screening Tuesday 18th July 7:30pm Can you believe that this year marks the 40th anniversary of this truly wonderful British classic? The 1983 Bill Forsyth movie was set in Scotland, but Local Hero had a universal story which won over film fans around the world. An American oil company agent (Peter Riegert) is sent by his boss (Burt Lancaster) to a village on the beautiful Scottish coast in order to purchase it and the surrounding property from the locals - to build an oil refinery. But things don't go as expected... Local Hero also brought fame to a phone box in the Aberdeenshire village of Pennan, which played a key role in the film. MacIntyre updates his boss in America each night from the traditional red phone kiosk on the seafront.  Riegert, now 76, recently told the BBC: "It was clear when we were making it that this was as good as it gets. The script was so magical. Local Hero was filled with whimsy metaphor - everything about it was right." Beautifully shot, it's full of warmth and wit - with the odd tear to be shed too. And after all these years, Riegert added, "I love that the movie still means so much to people." Happy birthday, Local Hero. Do join us for this special screening to mark the anniversary, and celebrate the film - the wonderful tale, the tight-knit cast (Fulton Mackay, Bill Paterson, Peter Capaldi, Denis Lawson etc), the feel, the scenery, even the Northern Lights - in all its glory in the best way possible: on the big screen. Please note the film starts at 7:30pm there are no trailers at OFS screenings Run Time: 1 hour 51 mins FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OSWESTRY FILM SOCIETY & BOOK TICKETS HERE Summer Of Queer Cinema: You Can Live Forever (15)   Thursday 20th June  7:30pm   Set in the early 1990s, the film follows teenage misfit Jaime (Anwen O'Driscoll), who is sent to live with her aunt Beth (Liane Balaban) in Quebec's Saguenay region after her father dies and her mother suffers a nervous breakdown. Considering the circumstances, Jaime seems to adjust to her new life well enough, especially given that Beth and her husband Jean-Francois (Antoine Yared) are members of a tight-knit Jehovah's Witness community that seems to have an intense hold on the area. Forced to trade her Sega Genesis games for interminable church meetings, Jaime keeps to herself with good humour, counting the days until she can be reunited with her mother in Thunder Bay. But then she catches the eye of Marike (June Laporte), whose family attends the same service as her aunt and uncle, and a discrete affection begins to bloom. As the two navigate the treacherous path of going from friends to something more, they are also forced to balance their desires with the watchful, concerned eyes of their family members, including Marike's suspicious and attuned sister Amanda (Deragh Campbell). Delivered with a rare subtlety and grace"???? Eye For Film A welcome addition to the lesbian canon" The Wrap Directors: Mark Slutsky and Sarah Watts Cast: Anwen O'Driscoll, June Laporte, Liane Balaban Canada 2022 Run time: 1 hour 33 minutes BOOK TICKETS FOR HERE Asteroid City (15) Friday 21st & Saturday 22nd July  7:30pm Sunday 23rd July  2:00pm (Subtitled for the Hard Of Hearing)   ASTEROID CITY takes place in a fictional American desert town circa 1955 where the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for fellowship and scholarly competition) is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events. "Wes Anderson returns with one of his most dazzling, rich and playfully self-reflexive films to date, brought to eye-popping life by an all-timer ensemble."  Little White Lies "Asteroid City's eccentricity, its elegance, its gaiety, and its sheer profusion of detail within the tableau frame make it such a pleasure. So, too, does its dapper styling of classic American pop culture." **** Gruaniad Director: Wes Anderson Story: Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Stephen Park, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie, Tony Revolori, Jake Ryan, Jeff Goldblum US 2023 Run time:  1 hour 34 mins BOOK TICKETS FOR FRIDAY & SATURDAY HERE BOOK TICKETS FOR SUNDAY HERE FURTHER SUMMER HIGHLIGHTS There are plenty of big screen treats coming up over the summer holidays and most are already on sale! Our Bumper Summer Holiday Newsletter will come out in mid July with full information and booking links but in the mean time why not hop over to our website to plan your Big screen Summer entertainment? VISIT OUR WEBSITE HERE We are thrilled to be supported by Film Hub Midlands through the BFI Film Audience Network with funds from The National Lottery. The aim of this support is to give everyone in the UK the opportunity to enjoy a diverse range of British & international independent films and without this support we would not be able to offer such a wide range of independent & world cinema. From time to time the BFI ask us to survey a sample of our audience so that they can continue to improve their offer and support for independent cinemas and their audiences. If you have visited kinokulture in June we hope you will spare a few minutes to take this short online survey and help us to continue bringing a diverse film programme to Oswestry audiences.   TAKE THE SURVEY HERE  OTHER NEWS  Journeyman - the Art of Steve Dilworth  A book by Georgina Coburn For those of you who came along to our premiere screening of 'Stuff The World Is Made Of' the beautiful documentary about Harris based sculptor/maker Steve Dilworth we have some exciting news to share. After 5 years of research, Georgina Coburn's book 'Journeyman – The Life and Art of Steve Dilworth' is ready for publication. The plan is to release the book in time for Dilworth's autumn exhibition at the Pangolin Gallery in London.  "When I began my research in 2014, I wanted to answer the question of what makes a Dilworth? His work is powerful and its effect on many people, lasting and profound. In Dilworth's objects, as so often in life, what is most valuable is hidden inside. His art holds nature close, in ways our global consumer culture has too long discarded. I think what Dilworth's art connects us to has increasing urgency. The intention behind it and the way that his work is integrated into peoples' lives is unlike anything else in contemporary art. Dilworth's work is a living example of why art matters and acknowledgement of his importance in the history of Art is long overdue. My intention is to shine a light on his uncompromising, visionary work, opening up a wider conversation about the value of art outside the art world." Georgina Coburn. The book can be pre ordered for £35.00 (including P&P). PRE ORDER THE BOOK HERE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Ticket Pricing Policy To support our sustainability we have taken the difficult decision to increase our ticket prices from April onwards. We have tried to keep the increase as low as possible as we know that the cost of living crisis is impacting on us all and hope that you still feel that we offer great value and will continue to visit us. Regular Screenings Ticket Prices From April Sofa (seating two people): £22.00 Adult: £9.00 16-30/jobseekers/student/NHS: £7.00 Under 16: £5.00 Event Cinema Ticket Prices Sofa (seating two people): £30.00 Adult: £14.00 Under 16's/16-30/jobseekers/student/NHS: £12.00 Please do carefully check your dates before booking as we cannot offer refunds Although we encourage online booking where possible there may be tickets available on the door (doors open 30 minutes before the screening time). Gift Vouchers & CEA Cards To order Gift Vouchers for your cinema loving family & friends please email or call us to place an order. The CEA Card is a national card scheme developed for UK cinemas by the UK Cinema Association (UKCA). The Card enables a disabled cinema guest to receive a complimentary ticket for someone to go with them when they visit a participating cinema. If you have a CEA card and require a complimentary ticket for your carer or if you have been given a kinokulture Gift Voucher please contact us on 01691 238167 to reserve your tickets or email us:  info@kinokulture.org.uk