This fascinating thriller won the year’s Oscar for Best Foreign
Language Film. In Buenos Aires in 2000, ex-criminal court investigator
Benjamin Espósito is still preoccupied by an unresolved murder
which happened twenty-five years earlier. What follows is a gripping
mystery and an absorbing back-andforth journey through time, between
Buenos Aires in 1974 and 2000, with flashes of intense violence,
dark humour and a love story at its heart.
FRI
20 AUG - THU 2 SEP
With English Subtitles
Dir: Juan José Campanella.
Argentina 2009
2hrs 9mins
With: Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil
The Illusionist (pg)
As cheeky, boisterous and witty as it is beauteous to behold,
Sylvain Chomet’s (Belleville Rendez-vous) second feature
film is a winner on every level. Our hero is an over-the-hill
magician, complete with less-than-friendly white rabbit and their
adventures are based upon an unrealized script by Jacques Tati,
the action of which Chomet has transposed to Scotland. Rich with
visual jokes, seductive 1950s period detail and breathtaking views
of city and wilderness alike, this is the work of a master. Edinburgh
Film Festival
Marguerite Muir is robbed of her purse, which is discovered by
happily married father Georges. His wife Suzanne suggests he leaves
the bag at the local police station where Marguerite can collect
it. However, Georges prefers to make contact in person, sparking
strange and sometimes violent fantasies about Marguerite and her
beautiful, soft red hair. A darkly humorous stalker farce, bright,
funny and enchantingly odd.
FRI
27 AUG - THU 2 SEP
With English Subtitles
Dir: Alain Resnais
France 2009
1hr 43mins
With: André Dussollier, Sabine Azéma, Emmanuelle Devos
The Girl Who Played with Fire (15)
Race-against-the-clock chase scenes, secret bank accounts and
police files, a woman dragged to a barn by a thug who powers up
a chain saw, blackmail by sex DVD… welcome back to ‘The Millennium
Trilogy’ and the thrilling sequel to The Girl with the Dragon
Tattoo. When two journalists working on a story about the
sex-trafficking trade are brutally murdered, Lisbeth Salander
becomes the number one suspect. The girl with the dragon tattoo
must fight to prove her innocence, reluctantly relying on support
from some old friends.
FRI
27 AUG - THU 16 SEP
With English Subtitles
Dir: Daniel Alfredson
Sweden 2010
2hrs 9mins
With: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist
Certified Copy (12a)
Kiarostami’s first film to be made outside Iran was shot in Tuscany
and stars Juliette Binoche and acclaimed British baritone William
Shimell. The film follows a French gallery owner in a Tuscan town
as she spends the day with visiting author James Miller, whose
latest book, ‘The Certified Copy,’ about the contrasting power
exerted by original works of art versus replicas, has found an
audience in Italian translation. Imagine (if you can!) a middle-aged
Before Sunrise rolled up with Under the Tuscan Sun
but spiked with elements of The Game.
TUE 14, FROM 6PM
An Italian food night to complement the Tuscan-set Certified
Copy.
FRI
3 - THU 16 Sep
With English Subtitles
Dir: Abbas Kiarostami
France 2010
106m
With: William Shimell, Juliette Binoche
Beautiful Kate (15)
Actor Rachel Ward makes a stunningly assured feature debut with
this emotional drama about a self-hating writer who returns to
his childhood home in the Australian Outback in search of answers
about his family’s dysfunctional past. An intense, devastating
love story about sexual awakening, taboo family secrets and forgiveness.
FRI
3 - THU 9 Sep
Dir: Rachel Ward
Australia 2009
101m
With: Rachel Griffiths, Bryan Brown, Ben Mendelsohn
Good Hair (12a)
The comedian Chris Rock fronts this informative rummage through
the $9 billion US black hair industry in a style much like his
stand-up comedy: hilarious, insightful and charming enough to
let him get away with the flammable stuff. Time
Out
FRI
3 - THU 9 Sep
Dir: Jeff Stilson
US 2009
96m
Broadway
& The D.H. Lawrence Festival 2010 Present:
The Virgin & The Gypsy (15)
An adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence novella about two sisters who
return from finishing school to their father’s country rectory
where one is content to settle down and the other falls in love
with a gypsy.
Tickets: Buy individually, or see both this film and 'Priest
of Love' for £8 full / £6.50 concs + members
SAT
4 Sep - 6pm
Dir: Christopher Miles
UK 1970
91m
With: Honor Blackman, Joanna Shimkus
Broadway
& The D.H. Lawrence Festival 2010 Present:
Priest of Love (15)
The dramatic love story of D.H. Lawrence and his remarkable, turbulent
life from 1912-1930 when Lawrence, his wife Frieda and assorted
friends and supporters, travelled to America, Mexico and Europe
in search of peace and inspiration.
Tickets: Buy individually, or see both this film and 'The
Virgin & The Gypsy' for £8 full / £6.50 concs + members
SAT
4 Sep - 8.30pm
Dir: Christopher Miles
UK 1981
95m
With: Ian McKellen, Janet Suzman, Ava Gardner
Blue Velvet (18)
David Lynch’s peek behind the not-sowhite picket fences of small-town
America reveals a world of pure malevolence and psycho-sexual
brutality. If madness had a face on celluloid, it would resemble
Hopper’s character, Frank Booth, the Nitrous oxide inhaling sadist
who moans in ecstasy to Roy Orbison.
Dennis Hopper R.I.P.
A small tribute to a screen legend
SUN
5 Sep - 8.30pm
Dir: David Lynch
United States 1986
120m
With: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper
TAMARA DREWE 15
A
bright and amusing comedy about the foibles and loves of writers
in the West Country, inspired by Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel
(itself, loosely based on Thomas Hardy’s ‘Far from the Madding
Crowd’). Gemma Arterton plays Tamara Drewe, an ugly duckling who
ruffles the feathers of a handful of suitors after returning home
a sexy swan.
SCREENLIT,
EM MEDIA & BAFTA PRESENT: TUE
7 SEP - 7.45pm PREVIEW
+ DIRECTOR Q&A
We are pleased to welcome director Stephen Frears and author Posy
Simmonds to discuss the film after the screening. With thanks
to Momentum Pictures.
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monthly e-bulletin on bafta.org
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FRI
10 - THU 30 Sep
Preview + Director Q&A
TUE 7 SEP - 7.45pm
Dir: Stephen Frears
UK 2010
111m
With: Dominic Cooper, Gemma Arterton, Roger Allam
POSY SIMMONDS IN CONVERSATION
IN ASSOCIATION WITH WATERSTONE’S NOTTINGHAM BRIDLESMITH GATE
Oscar nominated animator Joanna Quinn will join Posy Simmonds
in a discussion of her career as an author of graphic novels and
newspaper serials that slyly skewer literary lives.
BOOK SIGNING
Meet the author and get your book signed. Following the talk,
Waterstone’s will be at Broadway selling copies of ‘Tamara Drewe’
and other books by Posy Simmonds.
Click here
to hear what Posy Simmonds said about her graphic novel 'Tamara
Drewe' in 2008.
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TUE
7 SEP - 5pm
Metropolis (pg)
It’s been called the most important find in cinema history. In
2008, a 16mm print of the complete, 150-minute version of Metropolis
- unseen since distributors cut Fritz Lang’s science fiction classic
by about 45 minutes shortly after its 1927 premiere - was unearthed
in a cinema archive in Buenos Aires. That spurred more than a
year of restoration efforts and now this “Holy Grail” among film
finds can finally be seen as the director originally intended
and as seen by German cinema-goers in 1927.
FRI
10 - THU 23
Sep
With English Subtitles
Dir: Fritz Lang
Germany 1927
150m
With: Gustav Frohlich, Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm
Easy Rider (18)
Two dudes - bikers Captain America (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis
Hopper, who also directs) get their motors runnin’ and head out
on the highway in this legendary road movie.
Dennis Hopper R.I.P.
A small tribute to a screen legend
THU
16 Sep - 8.45pm
Dir: Dennis Hopper
United States 1969
95m
With: Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper
Soulboy (cert tbc)
Joe is a goalless teen living in Stoke, it’s 1974. The moment
he spots gorgeous hairdresser Jane, he’s desperate to win her
over, which leads him to the legendary Wigan Casino and the burgeoning
Northern Soul subculture within... Director Shimmy Marcus does
a fine job of evoking the era whilst Martin Compston holds the
screen as Joe and proves to be one heck of a dancer. And of course
the soundtrack is magnificent.
FRI
17 - THU 23
Sep
Dir: Shimmy Marcus
UK 2010
82m
With: Martin Compston, Alfie Allen, Felicity Jones
Winter's Bone (15)
A graceful movie about gritty people. Jennifer Lawrence, in an
Oscar-worthy performance, plays Ree Dolly, a teen trying to save
her family amid the drug culture of Missouri’s stark backwoods.
Featuring naturalistic performances and a stellar script (based
on the Southern gothic noir novel by Daniel Woodrell), Granik’s
film creates a sense of place that transports the audience and
holds us in its thrall from the opening sequence to the unsettling
conclusion.
FRI
17 - THU 30
Sep
Dir: Debra Granik
US 2010
100m
With: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes
Rashomon (12a)
A nobleman and his wife, travelling through a wood, are set upon
by a bandit who kills the man and rapes the woman - or at least,
so it seems. But the story becomes less clear-cut as we’re shown
the incident from four angles... Who can be believed - if anyone?
The film’s dominated by Toshiro Mifune as the bandit, giving a
performance of such boundless, gleefully savage energy that he
makes every other action star of the silver screen seem flatfooted
by comparison.
One of the last great masterpieces of madness the American cinema
produced, Coppola’s epic was a perfect stage for Hopper. His characterization
of the “Unnamed Photojournalist”, high on everything and chattering
like a monkey on Speed was incendiary - or was he just being himself?
Dennis Hopper R.I.P.
A small tribute to a screen legend
SUN
19 Sep - 7pm
Dir: Francis Coppola
United States 1979
202m
With: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Dennis Hopper
SCREENLIT
PRESENTS:
BILLY IVORY ON SCREENWRITING
As Made in Dagenham is poised to take UK and US screens
by storm and his television adaptation of Women in Love is
waiting in the wings, Billy’s star is on the rise. During this
discussion he’ll share his experiences and tips on screenwriting.
All Tickets: £3
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WED
22 SEP - 5pm
SCREENLIT
PRESENTS:
MADE IN DAGENHAM 15
PREVIEW
+ SCREENWRITER Q&A Will Made in Dagenham be the next Full Monty? In 1968,
women machinists at Ford’s Dagenham plant downed tools in protest
against sexual discrimination. With humour, common sense and courage,
they took on their corporate paymasters and ultimately the government
itself.
Nottingham screenwriter Billy Ivory turned the true story into
a suitably sassy script, directed by Nigel Cole (Calendar Girls).
Following the screening, Billy will discuss his work on this film.
Made in Dagenham opens on 1 October. With thanks to Paramount
Pictures UK.
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WED
22 SEP - 6.45pm
PREVIEW & SCREENWRITER Q&A
Dir: Nigel Cole
UK 2010
112m
With: Sally Hawkins, Miranda Richardson, Bob Hoskins
Eat Pray Love (pg)
Didn’t get to Bali this year? Here’s your chance! It's easy to
see why author Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir became an international
phenomenon. Everyone's looking for something - for answers, for
their true and higher purpose - and Gilbert had the fortitude
(and the cash) to take off alone on a journey around the world
to find herself after her divorce. The movie adaptation is a gorgeous
escape, exquisitely photographed and full of female wish fulfillment.
Yet it also offers sufficient emotional heft and self-discovery
to make you feel as if you've actually learned something too.
TUE 28 Sep, FROM 6PM
We’re taking a trip to Indonesia (via our menu!) tonight to get
you in the mood for Eat Pray Love.
FRI
24 Sep - THU 7
Oct
Dir: Ryan Murphy
US 2010
140m
Starring: Julia Roberts, Billy Crudup, Javier Bardem
The Wildest Dream (pg)
George Mallory famously replied to the question “Why do you want
to climb Mount Everest?” with the retort: “Because it’s there”.
In 1924, Mallory perished during his attempt to scale this most
treacherous of peaks. The Wildest Dream follows mountaineer
Conrad Anker, the man who found Mallory’s frozen remains 75 years
after his death, as he attempts to explore the mystery of whether
Mallory may have succeeded in his assault on Everest long before
any other.
FRI
24 Sep - THU 7
Oct
Dir: Anthony Geffen
US 2010
94m
Enter the Void (18)
Gaspar Noé pushes the needles further into the red with Enter
the Void, a postmortem hallucination likely to induce seizures
even in the nonepileptic. Shot almost entirely from the P.O.V.
of an American killed in a drug bust, the film floats through
the neon miasma of Tokyo like a woozy ghost, seeking out the seedy
milieux Noé loves so much. Arguments over visionary psychedelia
versus exploitation are sure to ensue, and it’s worth seeing just
for the chance to take sides.
FRI
24 Sep - THU 7
Oct
With English Subtitles
Dir: Gaspar Noé
France 2010
135m
With: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta
The
Tibet Film Festival 2010 Presents:
When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun (12a)
With its use of art, music and film, When the Dragon Swallowed
the Sun is a powerful representation of the Tibetan movement
and its current contexts. With an original soundtrack by Thom
Yorke, Damien Rice and Philip Glass, this is a compelling film,
presenting the complexity of the struggle with great emotional
impact.
