Theatre
WHO KILLED MR DRUM?
By Fraser Grace & Sylvester Stein
A True Story Based on the book by Sylvester Stein
IN 1950S JO’BURG NOTHING STIRS…IT JUMPS!
Sophiatown, ‘the South African Harlem’
Drum Magazine’s team of brilliant young journalists are bringing black fashion ‘n’ fun to the streets of Jo’burg. And its star writers are having more fun than most.
Can ‘Shakespeare of the Shebeens’ Themba is flaunting the law by loving a white girl, and Chief reporter Henry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo is steadily exposing apartheid’s cruelties.
But now Sophiatown is being destroyed, crushed by bulldozers. And Henry lies dead, stabbed in the street…
Based on Sylvester Stein’s searing memoir, Who Killed Mr Drum? is the gripping new production from Treatment Theatre.
Director Paul Robinson, Creative Producer Andrew Fishwick
Designer Francisco Rodriquez-Weil, Lighting Designer Ben Omerod
Sound Designer Paul Groothius, Original Score Juwon Ogungbe
Running Time: 2hrs plus interval
Age suitability: 14yrs+
STUDIO 2
26 AUGUST - 8 OCTOBER
TUE – SAT AT 7.45PM, SUNDAYS AT 4PM
MATINEES AT 3PM (8, 17 & 29 Sep & 8 Oct)
POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONS - WED 14, 21 SEPT & 5 OCT
TICKETS £20 (£15 CONCESSIONS)
Cheap Tuesdays: £12.50 (First 70 tickets)
Groups: £17.50 (groups of 10+)
Concession Groups: £13.50 (groups of 10+ excl. Saturdays)
Matinees: £12.50 (First 70 tickets)
Gala Night – SUN 4 SEP, Tickets £50 (Canon Collins Educational Trust for South Africa)
Amnesty Wednesdays - £1 from each top price ticket sold will be donated to Amnesty International
Theatre
THE LIFEBLOOD
By Glyn Maxwell
Directed by Guy Retallack
A woman on trial for her life. Four men watch her every move. As her prison becomes smaller, her hope becomes greater; a hope that will ultimately betray her.
The Lifeblood is a compelling study of a contemporary world where religion is politics and intolerance prevails. With razor sharp wit, Glyn Maxwell articulates the final days of Mary Stuart, plausibly the first modern political prisoner, into a taut and beguiling thriller.
Voted Best Performance (Sue Scott Davison) and Best Play by the British Theatre Guide at Edinburgh 2004.
‘Brilliant writing, intelligent acting, elegant direction…A THRILLING AFFIRMATION OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A SEARING IMAGINATION SEIZES A DRAMA, AND IT ARRIVES IN THE HANDS OF PRACTITIONERS WHO INTERPRET WITH UNCOMPROMISING VIGOUR’ ***** The Scotsman
‘DON’T MISS’ The Independent
Running Time: 90mins no interval
Age suitability: 14yrs +
STUDIO 3
7 SEPTEMBER – 2 OCTOBER
Tuesday – Saturday AT 8pm
Sundays at 6pm
Matinees – thu 22 at 2pm & sat 1 oct at 3pm
(No Monday performances or SAT 10 SEP)
TiCKETS £14 (£9 CONCESSIONS)
EARLY BIRD OFFER - £7.50 when booked by 1 Sep (applies to 7-11 Sept shows)
CHEAP TUESDAYS & MATINEES - first 30 tickets £5, maximum 5 per booking
SCHOOL GROUPS - £7.50 for groups of ten or more
Theatre
CIRCLE X ARTS
IF CASSANDRA
A sweet & sour sequence
Three women meet, wanting to spend a pleasant evening together. Despite their best efforts, noise, music and unexpected events repeatedly disturb the meal and the women are forced make repeated new beginnings: a process full of frustrations but also fresh possibilities.
A poetic and tragi-comic composition of sounds, images and situations created and performed by a superb trio from Italy, Sweden and Spain in collaboration with a multi national creative team.
‘**** CHALLENGING, DYNAMIC, THOUGHT PROVOKING - THE STUFF THE FRINGE SHOULD BE MADE OF’ Colette Meacher Brighton Fringe Festival.
STUDIO 3
4 - 8 Oct 8pm, 9 Oct 3pm, 19 - 21 Oct 8pm, 22 Oct 3 pm
TICKETS £14 (£9 CONCESSIONS)
EARLY BIRD OFFER - £7.50 when booked by 15 September (applies to 4-9 Oct shows)
CHEAP TUESDAYS & MATINEES – first 30 tickets £5 (maximum of 5 per booking)
STUDENT GROUPS - £6 a ticket for groups of 10+ (excluding Saturdays)
STEINER GRAFFITI
a performance encountering Rudolf Steiner
by Christopher Marcus and Klaus Jensen
Rudolf Steiner was one of the most fascinating thinkers, writers and teachers of the early twentieth century, attracting thousands of fervent followers to his lectures. His key message was the freedom of the human spirit and this inspired his ideas on physics, economics and religion. Steiner was a clairvoyant, the founder of Anthroposophy, and the inspiration behind Waldorf schools, Steiner academies, bio-dynamic farms and the artform of Eurythmics.Steiner Graffiti is intellectual and physical theatre of great charm and humour. It penetrates the complex layers of Steiner’s life and builds up a story that shows us the extraordinary nature of our own. www.circlexarts.com
STUDIO 3
6 Oct 6pm, 8 Oct 3pm, 9 Oct 8pm, 11 - 15 Oct 8pm, 16 Oct 3 & 8pm, 22 Oct 8pm
TICKETS £14 (£9 CONCESSIONS)
EARLY BIRD OFFER - £7.50 when booked by 15 September (applies to 5-9 Oct shows)
CHEAP TUESDAYS & MATINEES (not 6 Oct 6pm show) – first 30 tickets £5 (maximum of 5 per booking)
STUDENT GROUPS - £6 a ticket for groups of 10+ (excluding Saturdays)
Theatre
FORKBEARD FANTASY
The Fall of the House of Usherettes
Eye-bulging cine magic, hilarious horror and wild mechanical sets...the legendary tale of Liquid Film.
Loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe’s gothic horror of a not dissimilar title, this is the eye-goggling tale of a crumbling old cinema called the Empire.
It’s the tale of LIQUID FILM, a long defunct celluloid mixture once sprayed from specialized projectors, whose leaked ghosts still flicker in the old fleapit’s labyrinthine archives. It’s the tale of the doomy Usherettes who guard it against tomb-robbers from The National Archive. It’s the story, in glorious Technicolor, both live and on film, of the House of Usherettes and of its Fall.
Enter Forkbeard’s bizarre and hilarious world of film spliced into live action, of cobwebbed Wurlitzers, crumbling caryatids and monstrous shark-infested developing tanks. A revival of their hugely popular 1995 show celebrating 100 years of Cinema.
‘Brilliant inventiveness and ingenious technical wizardry’
The GUARDIAN
‘A consummate side-splitting treat’
The SUNDAY TIMES
‘A magnificent excess of inventiveness’
TIME OUT (5 X Critics Choice)
(1995/96 Tour)
STUDIO 2
10-15 OCTOBER AT 7.45PM
MATNEE AT 3PM ON THURSDAY13 OCTOBER
TICKETS £17 (£13.50 CONCESSIONS)
EARLY BIRD OFFER £12 when booked by 15 Sep (applies to 10th -12th shows)
CHEAP TUESDAY & MATINEE £12 (first 70 tickets)
Theatre
Hans Christian Andersen’s
THE LITTLE MERMAID
Adapted by Pam Gems
Journey beneath the ocean with The Little Mermaid on her quest to capture the heart of a handsome prince…
Sphinx Theatre Company takes a fresh new look at this much-loved fairytale, transforming the stage into a feast of light, movement and colour. Aerial acrobatics, biting wit and wonderfully evocative music combine to bring Hans Christian Andersen’s characters vividly to life. Theatregoers of all ages will be captivated by this production’s charm and innovation.
"Ravishingly beautiful….intelligent and witty"
The Times
"Magical" The Independent
“Graceful aerial gymnastics” The Stage
Suitable for children aged 8yrs upwards and Adults alike
Directed by Sue Parrish Designed by Liz Cooke Music by Howard Davidson
Lighting by Chris Davey Choreography by Dominic Leclerc Sound design by Fergus O’Hare
STUDIO 2
20-23 OCTOBER
THURSDAY – SATURDAY AT 7.30PM
SUNDAY AT 2PM & 6PM
TICKETS £14 (£9 CONCESSIONS)
UNDER 16s £7.50
EARLY BIRD OFFER £7.50 when booked by 1 OCT (applies to 20th & 21st Oct shows)
SUNDAY 2PM - £7.50 (first 70 tickets)
Theatre
OPEN HOUSE
Nominated for a fringe first at Edinburgh 2004 and winner of the festival highlight award ‘Open House’ is a bedtime story by Helena Thompson about old and eccentric Charlie, a man so open minded, he turns his house into a drop in centre for his daughters drop out friends. When a stranger knocks on the door one night, his home is thrown into jeopardy, sparking a city tale of love, loss and nostalgia for what never was.
A site specific rendering of this award-winning new play will be staged in the listed rooms of Kensal House, Ladbroke Grove, London W10 5BQ.
'Thompson is an interesting, complicated talent, who takes admirable risks in this darkly humorous depiction' Time Out
a tightly scripted and well-acted drama' Sunday Times
17 SEPTEMBER–30 OCTOBER
Thursday – Saturday at 8pm
Sunday at 5pm
no shows Mon- Wed
TICKETS £8 (£6 concessions)
Theatre
VEGA$M
SIN CITY SHOWLOUNGE PSYCH-OUT!
Welcome to the fabulous VEGA$M Casino Lounge, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Join your hosts FELONY FATALE, STACK SALAMAMBA and 'kids' entertainer'
HOOTERS THE CLOWN as they present the most freaked-out
variety bill Sin City has ever seen! Featuring Strip-ripping
jackpot star-turns from a cavalcade of bizarre Vegas headliners, including keyboard-cyborg 'LiberArnie', evillusionist 'Dennis Hopperfield', 'Frankenstinatra' and the Rot Pack, 'Norma Guntz and her Tom Jones celebrity tumour' and the ultimate in Elvis weddingchapel weird.
An eyepopping, vaudevillian comic-book blend of 2 & 3D puppetry, caricature masks and quick-change costumes from Brand X / Gawkagogo, the creators of 2004's cult comedy 'DIE'.
’Marvellously tasteless mayhem, Combines the brutality of South Park with the puppetry of Spitting Image" TIME OUT
"The mighty Brand X/GawkaGoGo, the half-cartoon, half-freak show act thatare spoken of with awe by other comics. Breathtakingly imaginative" METRO
www.gawkagogo.com
STUDIO 3
25 OCTOBER - 13 NOVEMBER
Tuesday – Saturday AT 8pm (No Monday performances)
SUNDAYS at 6pm
LATE SHOWS AT 9.45PM ON SATURDAY 5 &12 NOV
TiCKETS £14 (£9 CONCESSIONS)
EARLY BIRD OFFER - £7.50 when booked by 15 Sep (applies to 25-28 Oct shows)
CHEAP TUESDAYS & LATE SHOWS– first 30 tickets £5, maximum 5 per booking
Standbys and Equity/Bectu discounts are on the information page
THEATRE
Forced Entertainment London Season 2005
Following the success of Indoor Fireworks last year, "Britain’s most brilliant experimental theatre company” (The Guardian) return to Riverside Studios again this autumn with two decidedly different theatre pieces. Alongside another chance to see the chaotic spectacle of last year’s sell out success, Bloody Mess, the company present the London premiere of their newest work, Exquisite Pain, a starkly simple and moving piece for two performers based on a text by French conceptual artist Sophie Calle.
BLOODY MESS
Last year’s sell-out success Bloody Mess, returns this autumn, creating a startling and hilarious new logic from the collisions of disconnected characters and ideas. Fiercely energetic and spectacularly visual, Bloody Mess is Forced Entertainment’s most ambitious work to date, drawing on everything from rocktacular videos, high melodrama and quirky science lectures. Created in 2004 to mark the company’s 20th Birthday, Bloody Mess is Forced Entertainment at their boldest and loudest, weaving together its disparate elements to create a whole that is intelligent, darkly comic and unexpectedly poignant. The mess this time is big, bloody and beautiful.
‘A wonderfully playful theatrical game on the nature of illusion, narrative and laughter… It is ridiculously good.’ The Guardian éééé
‘This is theatre turned inside out.’ Sunday Times éééé
25 - 29 OCTOBER AT 7.45PM
30 OCTOBER AT 7PM
Post-show discussions 25, 26, 27, 28 October
Exquisite Pain
From a text by Sophie Calle
London Premiere
A man and a woman tell stories of ordinary and not-so-ordinary heart-break, each story accompanied by a single iconic image. A red telephone on a hotel bed. A subway station. The view from a window. A green Mercedes.
Based on a project by the renowned French conceptual artist Sophie Calle, Exquisite Pain marks the first time that Forced Entertainment have worked from ‘a text’ – in this case not a play from the theatrical cannon but rather words and images from an artist whose extraordinary work has long attempted to blur the boundaries between visual art, performance and real life itself. In this simple and intimate performance Forced Entertainment explore how language, memory and forgetting move to contain, preserve or erase events; how people come to terms with trauma. Exquisite Pain is about love, loss, and the stories we tell ourselves when things have gone wrong.
‘This is theatre turned inside out.’ Sunday Times éééé
1 – 5 NOVEMBER AT 7.45PM
6 NOVEMBER AT 7pm
Post-show discussions 2 & 3 November
STUDIO 2
TICKETS (either show) £17 (£13.50 CONCESSIONS)
COMBO TICKET – see both shows for £30 (£25 CONCESSIONS)
EARLY BIRD OFFER £12 when booked by 15 Sep (applies to 25, 26 Oct & 1, 2 Nov)
CHEAP TUESDAYS £12 (first 70 tickets on both Tuesdays)
Standbys and Equity/Bectu discounts are on the information page FORTHCOMING EVENTS
THE UKULELE ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN / ANARCHY IN THE UKULELE
15 – 26 November
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain is a seven strong group of singing, strumming and plucking ukulele players. Using the traditional arts of simplicity and mockery they re-work rock, punk, classical and more, believing that all genres of music are available for reinterpretation, as long as they are played on the ukulele. UOGB, fresh from ten days at the Edinburgh festival present the best of the material from 2005’s full houses at The Barbican, Purcell Rooms and Glastonbury.
‘The best musical entertainment in the country’ The Independent
"Subversive, rare and very precious. Catch them before the Government slaps an injunction on them in the name of anti-terrorism. Frighteningly talented and awesome: classics of the genre" Time Out
ALMOST BLUE
20 November – 11 December
A fast-paced, disturbing thriller which will have you on the edge or your seats. Or under them…
Simon is a blind man with synathesia - he hears sound in colour. He becomes the only witness to a series of murders. He knows the killer by his voice – a green one. A darkly comic tale of loneliness, death and desire Almost Blue is a told through a fusion of dance, text and sound. A collaboration between sound-designer Gareth Fry, director Lu Kemp and choreographer Dominic Leclerc Almost Blue is the winner of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Award 2005.
RIFCO / THE DERANGED MARRIAGE
29 November – 24 December
The sell out hit is back! You are invited as a guest of honour to the marriage of two families; with more dancing, more family drama, singing, ladoos and laughter, take your seat to congratulate, commiserate and celebrate the wedding of the year! Steeped in the vibrant colours and history of wedding traditions The Deranged Marriage celebrates the British Asian arranged marriage system in all its toe tapping, sari-swirling and heart-wrenching glory.
‘Sparkling comic life!...The singing, performed live is stunning, the audience participation works spectacularly well… a decidedly heart-warming theatrical experience,’’ Lucy Powell, Time Out
RICHARD ADAMS’ WATERSHIP DOWN
14 December – 14 January
Stray Dog Theatre returns with their vibrant adaptation of Richard Adams’ classic novel. Twelve weary travellers, fleeing an uncertain danger, scared and fighting amongst themselves, begin to tell each other a story – a story that seems to mirror their own predicament – that of a young rabbit named Hazel, his small band of wanderers and their flight from the property developers who destroy their home, towards a peaceful life on Watership Down. However, when an oppressive new enemy hovers into view, the rabbits must risk everything to secure their new home, a risk not entirely alien to their human counterparts.
Suitable for children aged 8yrs upwards and adults alike
Tickets on sale 19 September
TAMASHA THEATRE COMPANY
25 January – 19 February 2006
A new production based on ‘A Fine Balance’, the award-winning novel by Rohinton Mistry, sees ‘the irresistible rise of Tamasha…’ continue (Evening Standard).
This is the story of a unique friendship between a widow, two tailors and a young student in 1975 India. Against a backdrop of political turmoil, soon after the government, under Indira Gandhi, declares a “State of Internal Emergency”, the four become an unlikely ‘family’ unexpectedly crossing the lines of caste, class and religion. Despite this national crisis, including inhumane sterilization and “beautification” (slum clearance) policies, what prevails is exceptional human spirit, optimism
EXHIBITIONS
DRUM DAYS BY JURGEN SCHADEBERG
Schadeberg ranks among the great world photographers and one of the few white photographers to document black life. Coming from Berlin to South Africa in 1950, he has captured the rise of the Freedom Movement, Apartheid repression and the vibrancy of township life. He also created a vibrant photographic department for Drum Magazine training many successful black photographers. Jurgen covered the Defiance Campaign of 1953, the Sophiatown removals of 1958, the Sharpeville Funeral of 1960, images of Robben Island, personalities; Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo, as well as jazz legends Dolly Rathebe and Miriam Makeba. His subsequent work includes 1970s England. In association with The Print Room & Treatment Theatre.
16 AUGUST – 8 OCTOBER
12 NOON – 10.30PM DAILY
FREE ENTRY
PAINTINGS FROM RUSSIA AND BRITAIN
From the timeless beauty of the steppe to the snowy confines of Novodevichy
Convent in Moscow, this is a stunning exhibition of evocative paintings
which capture the spirit of Russia. Complemented by a series of bold and
sunlit British landscapes, this work is executed with refreshing clarity of
style. Prize-winning artist SV Montgomery trained in Kazan, Russia. This
exhibition is presented in association with Amnesty International.
11-23 OCTOBER
12 noon- 10.30PM DAILY
FREE ENTRY
EMPTY STAGES
Tim Etchells and Hugo Glendinning
A series of photographs of empty stages from a variety of contexts. These temporarily uninhabited stages, in pubs, conference centres, amateur theatres and working men’s clubs, invite the viewer to imagine the events which might take place on them. Through these deserted, atmospheric and at the same time banal locations for performance Tim Etchells and Hugo Glendinning explore stages as spaces of immanence and the architecture of expectation.
25 October – 6 November
12 NOON – 10.30PM DAILY
FREE ENTRY
CINEMA – SEPTEMBER 2005
Thursday 1 September 6.30pm
Double Bill
Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings: Part 1
The Happiest People in the World 15
(Edgar Reitz, Germany, 1989) 109m
With Henry Arnold, Salome Kammer, Michael Kausch
Hermann and Clarissa run across one another again after many years on the historic evening of 9 November 1989 and the collapse of the Berlin Wall. The film explores their heady days of love.
Plus at 8.40pm
Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings: Part 2
The Champions 15
(Edgar Reitz, Germany, 1990) 100m
With Henry Arnold, Salome Kammer, Michael Kausch
8 June 1990. Hermann and Clarissa have moved in together. The film features the soccer World Cup which everyone wants to watch on TV. The games and final unite all of Germany but also bring unexpected consequences.
Friday 2 and Saturday 3 September 6.45pm
Kim Ki-Duk Double Bill
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter ... and Spring 15
(Kim Ki-duk, South Korea/Germany, 2003) 103m sub-titles
With Oh Yeong-su, Kim Ki-duk, Kim Young-min
“A Buddhist monk living alone on a floating temple takes in a male child as an apprentice, but can’t protect him from his destiny. An exquisitely Zen-like meditation on fate.“ – Roger Clarke, The Independent
Plus at 8.50pm
3-Iron 15
(Kim Ki-Duk, Korea, 2004) 87m sub-titles
A drifter enters strangers’ houses and lives while they are away. In return, he does the laundry or small repairs. His life changes when he runs into a beautiful woman in an affluent mansion who is ready to escape an abusive marriage.
Sunday 4 September 1.30pm
Afternoon - Ealing Comedies Double Bill
Whisky Galore PG
(Alexander Mackendrick, UK, 1948) 82m
“During World War II a ship full of whisky is wrecked on a small Hebridean island, and the local customs and excise man has his hands full. Marvellously detailed, fast moving, well-played and attractively photographed comedy.” – Halliwell’s Film Guide
Plus at 3.15pm
Kind Hearts and Coronets U
(Robert Hamer, UK, 1949) 106m black and white
With Dennis Price, Alex Guinness, Joan Greenwood
“The gentle English art of murder with Price in perfect form as the ignoble Louis, killing off a family tree in order to take the cherished d’Ascoyne family title ... a cynically brilliant film.“ – Time Out
Sunday 4 September 5.30pm
Evening – Emir Kusturica Double Bill
Black Cat, White Cat 15
(Emir Kusturica, France/Germany, 1998) 129m sub-titles
This is a wild comedy of gypsy life which parallels the exploits of two young people and their elderly grandfathers. Weddings, funerals, music and fake deaths form the lively background.
Plus at 8.00pm
Life is a Miracle 15
(Emir Kusturica, France/Serbia/Montenegro, 2004) 154m sub-titles
With Slavko Stimac, Natasa Solak, Vesna Trivalic
Bosnia, 1992. Railway engineer Luka has escaped Belgrade with his family to work on the railway near the Serbian border. War descends bringing with it dramatic changes. Luka finds himself in an extraordinary romance.
Monday 5 September 7.00pm
Double Bill
Napoleon Dynamite PG
(Jared Hess, USA, 2004) 89m
With Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell
Preston, Idaho’s most curious resident, Napoleon Dynamite (Heder), who lives with his grandma and eccentric older brother, works to help his best friend snatch the student Body President title from mean teen Summer Wheatley.
Plus at 8.50pm
Tarnation 15
(Jonathan Caouette, USA, 2004) 88m documentary
Part documentary, part narrative fiction, part home movie. A psychedelic whirlwind of snapshots creates an epic portrait of an American family travesty. Filmmaker Caouette looks at growing up with his schizophrenic mother.
Tuesday 6 September 6.30pm
Double Bill
Football Days 15
(Dias de Futbol)
(David Serrano, Spain, 2003) 118m sub-titles
With Alberto San Juan, Ernesto Alterio, Natalia Verbeke
Six friends, talentless and unfit form a seven-a-side football team. They call themselves Brazil and plan to play football until they win. An entertaining comedy.
Plus at 8.50pm
Torremolinos 73 15
(Pablo Berger, Spain, 2004) 91m sub-titles
With Javier Camara, Candela Pena, Juan Diego
A comedy set in Franco’s puritanical Spain of the early 1970s. An encyclopaedia salesman’s life changes dramatically when he is given the proposition to make amateur Super 8 erotic movies.
Wednesday 7 September 6.45pm
Double Bill
Coffee and Cigarettes 15
(Jim Jarmusch, USA, 2003) 96m
With Roberto Benigni, Cate Blanchett, Iggy Pop
Short stories from Jim Jarmusch that all have coffee and cigarettes in common and are shot in black and white. “Another deliciously, droll, deadpan comic delight.” – Time Out
Plus at 8.40pm
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing 15
(Jill Sprecher, USA, 2004) 103m sub-titles
With Matthew McConaughey, David Connelly, Joseph Siraro
The lives of a lawyer, a housekeeper, a professor and the people around them intersect in a meditation on happiness and how to achieve it. A terrific ensemble piece.
Thursday 8 September 6.00pm
Double Bill
Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings: Part 3
The Russians Are Coming 15
(Edgar Reitz, Germany, 1992-1993) 125m sub-titles
September 1992. The cards of world history are being reshuffled again in the Hunsruck. The American troops begin to move out while the Russians move back. The upheavals disrupt Clarissa and Hermann’s happy abode.
Plus at 8.25pm
Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings: Part 4
Everyone’s Doing Well 15
(Edgar Reitz, Germany, 1995) 131m sub-titles
Autumn 1995. Clarissa and Hermann begin to drift apart, but the tragic death of a mutual friend brings them together again.
Friday 9 and Saturday 10 September 6.40pm
Double Bill
House of Flying Daggers 15
(Shi mian mai fu)
(Zhang Yimou, Hong Kong/China, 2004) 119m sub-titles
With Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Zhang Ziyi
Zhang Yimou’s beautiful film is a tale of tangled and tragic love combining martial arts, dazzling aesthetics and an evocative romantic heart.
Plus at 9.00pm
Kung Fu Hustle 15
(Stephen Chow, China/Hong Kong, 2004) 99m sub-titles
With Stephen Chow, Chan Kwok Kwan, Dong Zhi Hua
In 1940s Shanghai a wannabe gangster aspires to join a notorious gang, while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf. “Top notch action adventure from Hong Kong’s finest.” – Time Out
Sunday 11 September 1.00pm
Afternoon – Double Bill
The Postman Always Rings Twice PG
(Tay Garnett, USA, 1946) 113m black and white
With John Garfield, Lana Turner, Cecil Kellaway
The original and best. A drifter takes up the ‘man wanted’ position at an out-of-the-way restaurant/gas station in a Californian backwater and finds himself pulled into a cesspit of lust, betrayal and murder.
Plus at 3.15pm
Mildred Pierce PG
(Michael Curtiz, USA, 1945) 113m
with Joan Crawford, Jack Carson
The ‘woman’s picture’ par excellence! This is the story of a housewife who breaks with her husband, becomes a restaurant owner to support the most ungrateful daughter in cinema history and becomes involved in a murder case.
Sunday 11 September 6.15pm
Evening – Ealing Comedies Double Bill
The Man in the White Suit U
(Alexander Mackendrick, UK, 1951) 85m
With Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker
“A scientist produces a fabric that never gets dirty and never wears out. Brilliant satirical comedy played as a farce and put together with meticulous cinematic counterpoint.” – Halliwell’s Film Guide
Plus at 8.00pm
The Lavender Hill Mob PG
(Charles Crichton, UK, 1951) 78m
with Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway
“A timid bank clerk conceives and executes a bullion robbery. Superbly characterised and inventively detailed comedy, one of the best ever made at Ealing, or in Britain.” – Halliwell’s Film Guide
Monday 12 September 6.30pm
London Double Bill
Performance 18
(Donald Cammell/Nicholas Roeg, UK, 1970) 106m
With James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg
“James Fox plays Chas, a brutal, Krays-type gangster on the run both from the police and his own associates. While waiting to escape abroad, he seeks refuge in the Notting Hill mansion.” – BFI
Plus at 8.35pm
Blow Up 15
(Michelangelo Antonioni, UK, 1966) 111m
With David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles
Hemmings plays an aimless, trendy photographer who discovers a purpose to his life when he enlarges a photograph that may or may not prove a murder has taken place in a swinging 60s London.
Tuesday 13 September 6.30pm
Double Bill
The Motorcycle Diaries 15
(Walter Salles, South America, 2004) 125m sub-titles
With Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mia Maestro
The film is based on the journals of Che Guevara in which he recounts adventures he and Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.
Plus at 8.55pm
Maria Full of Grace 15
(Joshua Marston, USA/Colombia, 2003) 101m sub-titles
With Catalina Sandino Moreno, Yenny Paola Vega, Guilied Lopez
The film follows Maria’s journey from a dead-end job as an assembly-line worker in a Colombian flower factory into the drug-smuggling underworld. This gripping tale will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Wednesday 14 September 7.00pm
Double Bill
Point Blank 15
(John Boorman, USA, 1967) 92m
With Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
“A true cult movie of the 60s. Marvin, an old-style gangster, more sinned against than sinning, takes violent revenge on those who betrayed him.” – BFI
Plus at 8.50pm
Stander 15
(Bronwen Hughes, South Africa, 2003) 112m
With Thomas Jane, Dexter Fletcher, Deborah Unger
The gripping true story of the life of Andre Stander, the youngest captain in the Johannesburg police force and South Africa’s most notorious bank robber.
Thursday 15 September 6.45pm
Double Bill
Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings: Part 5
Follow Me 15
(Edgar Reitz, Germany, 1997) 105m sub-titles
1997. Seven years have passed since the fall of the Wall. Hermann and Clarissa seem to have found each other again, but they have had to pay a very high price for being together. Clarissa has a terminal illness.
Plus at 8.50pm
Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings: Part 6
Goodbye to Schabbach 15
(Edgar Reitz, Germany, 1999-2000) 108m sub-titles
It’s August 1999, the day of the solar eclipse. Herman and Clarissa are in Munich on a joint tour bringing with it many reunions and reconciliations.
Friday 16 September 6.45pm
Wong Kar-Wai Double Bill
In the Mood for Love 18
(Wong Kar-Wai, Hong Kong, 2000) 97m sub-titles
Hong Kong, 1962. The editor of a newspaper moves with his wife into an apartment at the same time as a woman with a businessman husband. When they realise their partners are having an affair, they comfort each other. A languorous, dream-like film.
Plus at 8.45pm
2046 12A
(Wong Kar-Wai, Hong Kong/France, 2004) 119m sub-titles
With Tony Leung, Li Gong, Maggie Cheung
The follow-up to In the Mood for Love. Writer Leung’s novel takes place in 2046 where people time travel to recapture lost memories. It‘s his lament to a previous relationship which affects all his new ones.
Saturday 17 September 6.15pm
Polish Solidarity Weekend
Workmen ’80 18
(Andrzej Chodakowski/Andrzej Zajączkowski, Poland, 1980) 93m sub-titles
The film follows the events that initiated the Polish governing system transformation and the course of the strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk in August 1980.
Plus at 8.15pm
The Man of Iron 18
(Andrzej Wajda, Poland, 1981) 147m sub-titles
With Jerzy Radziwiłłowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania
The film refers to Polish history in the 1970s and 1980s and follows a blue collar worker, who is an active member of a Strike Committee in the Gdańsk Shipyards, and a journalist.
Sunday 18 September 2.30pm
Afternoon – Buster Keaton Double Bill
Spite Marriage U
(Edward Sedgwick, USA, 1929) 80m
Buster Keaton’s last silent feature. A tailor’s assistant loves an actress who marries him to spite someone else. There are sublime comic moments, particularly in the scenes at sea.
Plus at 4.10pm
The Cameraman U
(Edward Sedgwick, USA, 1928) 80m
Keaton plays a newsreel cameraman who, whilst learning his craft and trying to get the girl, becomes involved in Tang wars in Chinatown. Keaton’s comic and cinematic invention are at their zenith in these two films.
With live piano accompaniment.
Sunday 18 September 6.15pm
Evening - Polish Solidarity Weekend
The Interrogation 18
(Ryszard Bugajski, Poland, 1982) 111m sub-titles
With Krystyna Janda, Adam Ferency, Janusz Gajos
The film shows the cruelty of the Communist regime in Poland in the beginning of the 1950s. Antonia Dziwisz, a singer, gets arrested and is being interrogated. Her stay in jail turns into horror.
Plus at 8.25pm
The Escape from the Liberty Cinema 18
(Wojciech Marczewski, Poland, 1990) 110m sub-titles
With Janusz Gajos, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Teresa Marczewska
In the Liberty Cinema the film ‘Daybreak’ is being shown. The performance is suddenly interrupted when the actors become alive on the screen and start to have conversations with the audience.
Monday 19 September 6.45pm
Double Bill
Les Choristes 12A
(Christophe Baratier, France, 2003) 95m sub-titles
An unemployed music teacher is hired as a supervisor in a young offenders’ institution where he uses music to both tame his unruly students and defeat the brutal methods of its headmaster. Comic Gerard Jugnot shines in the lead role.
Plus at 8.40pm
Bombon – El Perro 15
(Carlos Sorin, Spain, 2004) 97m sub-titles
With Juan Villegas, Walter Donado, Gregorio the Dog
An unemployed mechanic adopts a large, white dog. Luckily for him, the dog turns out to be a prize pure bred and they set out on a wonderful road trip through Patagonia.
Tuesday 20 September 7.00pm
Double Bill
The Consequences of Love 15
(Paolo Sorrentino, Italy, 2004) 100m sub-titles
With Toni Servillo, Olivia Magnani, Adriano Giannini
An ice cool, gripping psychological thriller centring around the character of Titta di Girolamo (Servillo) who lives in a hotel room in an anonymous town in Switzerland.
Plus at 9.00pm
Private 15
(Saverio Costanzo, Italy, 2004) 95m sub-titles
With Lior Miller, Tomer Russo, Mohammad Bakri
A Palestinian family find themselves trapped inside a house commandeered by Israeli soldiers.
Wednesday 21 September 6.30pm
Pedro Almodovar Double Bill
Live Flesh 18
(Pedro Almodovar, Spain, 1997) 110m sub-titles
Based on a novel by Ruth Rendell. This is a remarkable tale of coincidence. A young man on a first date becomes involved in the shooting of a policeman. Years later, he is released from prison and begins an obsessive search for the woman involved.
Plus at 8.50pm
Bad Education 15
(La Mala Educacion)
(Pedro Almodovar, Spain, 2004) 105m sub-titles
With Gael Garcia Bernal, Fele Martinez, Daniel Gimenez
“A film director is approached by a man who claims to be his school friend from the 1960s. He’s now an actor and wants to talk about the Catholic priest who abused him. A return to the lurid themes that made Almodovar famous.“ – Roger Clarke, The Independent
Thursday 22 September 6.15pm
John Sayles Double Bill
Men with Guns 15
(Hombres Armados)
(John Sayles, USA, 1997) 128m
“In an un-named Latin American country, an eminent doctor decides to spend his vacation visiting students. His travels reveal that the medics have vanished.” – Time Out
Plus at 8.45pm
Silver City 15
(John Sayles, USA, 2004) 128m
With Maria Bello, Chris Cooper, Richard Dreyfus
Set against the backdrop of a mythic New West. The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician’s campaign for the Governor of Colorado.
Friday 23 and Saturday 24 September 6.30pm
Double Bill
Agata and the Storm 12A
(Agata e la tempesta)
(Silvio Soldini, Italy, 2004) 123m sub-titles
With Licia Maglietta, Giuseppe Battiston, Emilio Solfrizzi
Agata runs a bookshop in Genoa. Her brother, Gustavo, is a high-powered architect whose yuppie self-assurance begins to crumble when he discovers that he is the adopted son of a peasant family.
Plus at 8.55pm
Bread and Tulips 18
(Pane e Tulipani)
(Silvio Soldini, Italy, 2000) 110m sub-titles
With Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz
Overlooked by her family while on a coach holiday, a housewife hitches a ride to Venice and discovers a new world of possibilities.
Sunday 25 September 1.30pm
Afternoon – Vincente Minnelli Double Bill
The Bad and the Beautiful PG
(Vincente Minnelli, USA, 1952) 116m black and white
With Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon
Hollywood on Hollywood: the ambitions, the dreams, the successes, the heartbreaks. Vincente Minnelli’s quintessential movie about movie making.
Plus at 3.45pm
Lust for Life PG
(Vincente Minnelli, USA, 1956) 122m
With Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn
Kirk Douglas’ brilliant portrayal of Van Gogh, a man forever on a knife’s edge. The film neither explains Van Gogh’s art in terms of life or vice versa, but celebrates both.
Sunday 25 September 6.05pm
Evening - Federico Fellini Double Bill
La Strada PG
(Federico Fellini, Italy, 1954) 105m sub-titles
One of cinema’s enduring masterpieces. The film is the story of a travelling strongman and the peasant girl who assists him.
Plus at 8.10pm
8½ 15
(Otto e mezzo)
(Federico Fellini, Italy, 1963) 139m sub-titles
With Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimee
Guido (Mastroianni) is a film director who has lost all inspiration for his up-coming movie. He retreats into his dreams and all the memories of women he has loved and left, thus finding new-found inspiration.
Monday 26 September 7.00pm
Double Bill
Brazilian Film Festival
Baile Perfumado 15
(Perfumed Ball)
(Paulo Caldas/Lirio Ferreira, Brazil, 1997) 93m sub-titles
A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the 30s manages to take pictures of Lampiao, a legendary Brazilian outlaw in a kind of tropical Robin Hood.
Plus at 8.55pm
De Passagem 15
(Passing By)
(Ricardo Elias, Brazil, 2003) 87m sub-titles
Brothers Jefferson and Washington, and their friend Kennedy, made a trek across Sao Paulo on a reluctant drug run which proves seminal in dictating where their futures lie.
Tuesday 27 September 7.00pm
Double Bill
Brazilian Film Festival
Atraves da Janela 15
(Through the Window)
(Tata Amaral, Brazil, 2000) 83m sub-titles
Selma is an extremely loving mother to her son Raimundo. One day she becomes aware of some changes in her son’s behaviour. At first, she thinks it may be some girlfriend, but soon learns it’s something else.
Plus at 8.50pm
Cronicamente Inviavel 15
(Chronically Unfeasible)
(Sergio Biancchi, Brazil, 2001) 101m sub-titles
A portrait of Brazil made before Lula’s historic election success which used six people eating dinner in a restaurant as a starting point for a dissection of the country’s political and social mores.
Wednesday 28 September 7.00pm
Double Bill
Brazilian Film Festival
Um Ceu de Estrelas 15
(A Starry Sky)
(Tata Amaral, Brazil, 1996) 70m sub-titles
Dalva is packing her suitcase to leave for Miami in search of a better life. She is abandoning her nagging mother, a passionate but chauvinistic ex-boyfriend and a life in the doldrums, but things don’t quite go to plan.
Plus at 8.30pm
Prisioneiro da grade de Ferro 15
(The Prisoner of the Iron Bars)
(Paulo Sacramento, Brazil, 2004) 123m
Documentary about Carandiru Penitentiary with scenes filmed by the prisoners themselves.
Thursday 29 September 6.30pm
Double Bill
Floating Weeds PG
(Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1959) 119m sub-titles
A kabuki acting group visit a small coastal town. Poor audiences create a strain on the company and defect attention to the actors' private lives. Beautifully composed and telling character studies from the director of "Tokyo Story".
Plus at 8.50pm
Café Lumiere U
(Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Japan, 2004) 107m sub-titles
With Yo Hitoto, Tadanobu Asano, Masato Hagiwara
Yoko is an independent career woman, but an unexpected pregnancy forces her to rethink her life. Hsia-Hsien’s homage to Yasujiro Ozu to make the centenary of his birth.
Friday 30 September and Saturday 1 October 6.30pm
Double Bill
In My Father’s Den 18
(Brad McGann, New Zealand, 2004) 126m
With Matthew MacFadyen, Emily Barclay, Miranda Otto
A disillusioned war photographer rediscovers hope in a surprising friendship with a teenage girl after returning home to an isolated New Zealand town.
Plus at 8.55pm
Me You and Everyone We Know 15
(Miranda July, USA, 2005) 90m
With Miranda July, John Hawkes, Miles Thompson
A lonely shoe salesman and an eccentric performance artist struggle to connect in this unique tale on contemporary life. A fresh indie and an emerging directorial talent. Recommended.
Sunday 2 October 1.00pm
Afternoon – Powell & Pressburger Double Bill
The Red Shoes U
(Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, UK, 1948) 136m
With Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer, Marius Goring
The ballet world of the late 40s. An impresario discovers a dancer and makes her a slave to her art, until a young composer turns up to offer her a lifeline back to reality.
Plus at 3.55pm
A Matter of Life and Death U
(Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, UK, 1946) 104m
with David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey
An RAF pilot bales out of his blazing plane without a parachute. He should have died, but hasn’t – heaven investigates. The cinematography is sublime, as is the imagination.
Sunday 2 October 7.00pm
Evening - Jean Vigo Double Bill
Zero de Conduite PG
(Jean Vigo, France, 1933) 45m sub-titles
Vigo's much-banned autobiographical classic of school life in which four schoolboys organise an uprising. This is pure anarchic cinema poetry.
Plus at 8.05pm
L'Atalante PG
(Jean Vigo, France, 1934) 88m sub-titles
Vigo's only feature film and one of the romantic classics of cinema. A young barge captain takes his bride on to his boat that plies the canals around Paris.
Monday 3 October 6.45pm
Double Bill
American Movie: The Making of Northwestern 15
(Chris Smith, UK, 1999) 104m documentary
With Mark Borchardt, Tim Schimmels, Monica Borchardt
A hapless amateur filmmaker struggles to produce his latest horror film ‘Coven’.
Plus at 8.50pm
Overnight 15
(Tony Montana/Mark Brian Smith, USA, 2003) 82m documentary
From rags to riches and back again barman Troy Duffy wins and loses a deal with Miramax in a compulsive, cautionary Hollywood tale.
Tuesday 4 October 7.00pm
Black History Month Double Bill
Black Joy 15
(Antony Simmons, UK, 1977) 89m
With Norman Beaton, Trevor Thomas, Floella Benjamin
An innocent and unsophisticated Guyanan immigrant is exposed to hustlin’ in Brixton. “A comedy of social manners which penetrates Brixton’s realities in an astute portrayal of community life.” – BFI
Plus at 8.50pm
One Love 12A
(Rick Elgood/Don Letts, Jamaica, 2003) 100m
With Ky-Mani Marley, Cherine Anderson, Vas Blackwood
A rasta musician meets a gospel singer when they both enter a music contest in Kingston, Jamaica. They fall for each other against the wishes of the girl’s pastor father. A real feel good movie.
Wednesday 5 October 6.45pm
Double Bill
Albanian Film Season
Dasma e Sakos 15
(Sako’s Wedding)
(Vladimir Prifti, Albania, 1998) 100m sub-titles
Under stone roofs of houses with walls like castles Sako’s wedding is about to come to a halt. The story takes place at the beginning of the last century but for many Albanians the end of the 20th century rings some bells.
Plus at 8.50pm
Nate pa Hene 18
(Moonless Night)
(Artan Minarolli, Albania/France, 2004) 80m sub-titles
Rudina and her grandfather leave their village to emigrate to the West. On the train full of would-be emigrants, Rudina meets Gjergj. On the beach, under a moonless night, they are about to choose their future.
Thursday 6 October 7.00pm
Double Bill
Albanian Film Season
Tirana – Viti Zero 18
(Tirana – Year Zero)
(Fatmir Koci, Albania/France/Belgium, 2001) 90m sub-titles
Niku and Klara are very much in love. Both youngsters have different directions to pursue against a backdrop of highly emotional people living on the edge of despair. A film celebrating the maverick spirit of filmmaking.
Plus at 8.50pm
Proka U
(Isa Qosja, Kosove, 1985) 89m sub-titles
Proka is different from others in his village. Working hard to overcome the drought he remains uninterested in the surrounding petty gossip, and the other villagers distrust him. From here starts his existentialist affliction. Great picture with surprising authenticity.
Friday 7 October 7.00pm
Quadruple Bill
Albanian Film Season
Letra ne Ere 15
(Letters in the Wind)
(Edmond Budina, Albania/Italy, 2002) 90m sub-titles
This is a story of Niko who goes to Italy in search of his son. With a mix of fantasy and realistic portrayal of everyday sagas, Budina portrays life on the other side of the Adriatic at the end of the 90s.
Plus at 8.30pm
Kolibja e Qenit U
(The Kennel)
(Bujar Alimani, Albania/Greece, 2002) 14m sub-titles
Some time animals can remind us to be more human. This film is an unusual approach to the migration.
Plus at 8.45pm
Edeni i braktisur U
(The Deserted Eden)
(Eno Milkani, Albania, 2002) 20m sub-titles
In this film you will see what is left behind in the beautiful south Albania after the mass scale emigration has taken place. The old faithful people who still remain are thirsty for life.
Plus at 9.05pm
Kosova 9/11 U
(Burbuqe Berisha, Kosove, 2003) 13m sub-titles
This film tells with a local wit what happened in rural Kosova on 9/11 when America was under attack and the news gets distorted.
Saturday 8 October 6.55pm
Double Bill
Albanian Film Season
Lule te Zeza (18)
(Black Flowers)
(Mevlan Shanaj, Albania, 2003) 105m sub-titles
Liliana, a free spirited woman, is abandoned by her husband and so is her newly wed daughter Ana. As the village becomes emptier, foreign religion missionaries keep arriving.
Plus at 8.55pm
Vallezim me Henen U
(Dance with the Moon)
(Ismet Sijarina, Kosove, 2002) 14m sub-titles
Nita and Mrika are two twins in a suburb of Prishtina. Like every child they too have their dreams. For Nita everything changes after the dramatic events in New York on 9/11.
Sunday 8 October 2.30pm
Albanian Film Season
Shorts Showcase with Young Film Directors
Young film makers from Kosova and Albania living and working in London will get a chance to come together and exchange the experiences and ideas. After the projections of short films there will be a workshop followed by a lecturer to talk about the UK experience on the post production issues and challenges for young directors on the distribution and copyrights issues. Films include:
Night Club 15
(Bekim Mala, UK, 2005) 15m
A film about a man contemplating his life.
Plus
Sheer Coincidence PG
(Astrit Hyka, UK, 2005) 9m
This is a story of a taxi driver in a London’s suburban life with a satisfying twist in the end.
Sunday 9 October 5.30pm
Evening – Frank Sinatra Double Bill
The Manchurian Candidate 15
(John Frankenheimer, USA, 1962) 126m
with Frank Sinatra, Lawrence Harvey
A Korean War veteran becomes obsessed by the idea that a hero is being brainwashed to become a political assassin. Cold War paranoia at its most intelligent in this adaptation of a novel by Richard Conden.
Plus at 8.20pm
Sweet Smell of Success PG
(Alexander Mackendrick, USA, 1957) 96m
with Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis
“A crooked press agent helps a megalomania New York columnist break up his sister’s marriage. Moody, brilliant, Wellesian melodrama put together with great artificial style.” – Halliwell’s Film Guide
Monday 10 October 7.00pm
Sally Potter Double Bill
Orlando PG
(Sally Potter, UK, 1992) 92m
A sumptuous adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel tells the story of a charmed individual whose life is an extraordinary journey of self-discovery, spanning four centuries. A tour-de-force performance by Tilda Swinton.
Plus at 8.55pm
Yes 15
(Sally Potter, USA/UK, 2004) 100m
With Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam Neill
An Irish-American scientist finds herself trapped by her marriage and begins an affair with a Lebanese surgeon exiled in London. This affair takes them on a journey and forces them to evaluate their beliefs and each other.
Tuesday 11 October 6.40pm
Double Bill
Machuca 15
(Andres Wood, Chile/Spain, 2005) 120m sub-titles
With Marias Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli
Chile in 1973 during the last days of President Allende and the first days of Pinochet. Two boys get caught up in the revolutionary fervour and learn to respect each other.
Plus at 9.00pm
Whisky 15
(Juan Pablo Rebella, Spain, 2005) 98m sub-titles
With Jorge Bolami, Daniel Hendler, Ana Katz
When his long-lost brother resurfaces Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something persuades Marta, an employee at his sock factory, to ‘play’ his wife, with unlikely consequences.
Wednesday 12 October 7.00pm
DocHouse Double Bill
Devil's Minor
(Kief Davidson/Richard Ladkani, Germany/USA, 2005) 82m
The story of the Bolivian silver miners told through the captivating Basilio who estimates his age at 14, and his younger brother. The brothers work in the mine while dreaming of finding enough silver so allow them to escape to school.
Plus a second film to be announced.
Please check www.dochouse.org for updates.
Thursday 13 October 7.00pm
Black History Month Double Bill
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song 15
(Melvin Van Peebles, USA, 1971) 97m
With Melvin Van Peebles, Rhetta Hughes, John Amos
“Arguably the most important black American film of its age. The story concerns Sweetback (Van Peebles) who is moved to fight back when two white cops casually beat up a political activist in front of him.” – Time Out
Plus at 9.00pm
Baddass 15
(Mario Van Peebles, USA, 2002) 108m
With Mario Van Peebles, Ossie Davis, Nia Long
Mario Van Peebles’ half documentary/homage to his father. Melvin’s film, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song. An insightful and moving take on the movie business.
Friday 14 October 6.45pm
Across the Border: Documentaries from Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia
Organised by the Austrian Cultural Forum, Czech Centre, Hungarian Cultural Centre, Polish Institute and Slovenian Embassy. Initiated by Platform Culture Central Europe in collaboration with Oxdox. Please pick up our dedicated brochure from the reception desk at Riverside Studios.
Double Bill
Across the Border 15
(P. Lozinski/J. Gogola/P. Kerkes/R. Lakatos/B. Cakic-Veselic, Austria, 2004) 131m sub-titles
An episidoc journey from north to south, a polyglot portrait of ideas about borders in central Europe at the dawn of the 21st century.
Plus at 9.20pm
Panel Discussion
With Markus Glaser, Jan Gogola and Petr Kerekes
Saturday 15 October 6.30pm
Triple Bill
Across the Border
For a While/Nursery 15
(Wojciech Staron, Poland, 2004) 26m sub-titles
The heart-warming story of a couple of filmmakers and their four-year-old son who goes to observe the life of the village. With no money and no hope for a better life, the only thing which keeps them together is love.
Plus at 7.00pm
Here We Are 15
(Jaroslav Vojtek, Slovakia, 2005) 76m sub-titles
After living more than forty years in Kazakhstan a Slovakian family decides to return to their original homeland, which they know only through their parents’ stories.
Plus at 8.35pm
New Eldorado 15
(Tibor Kocsis, Hungary, 2004) 75m sub-titles
The story of a modern day fight of David and Goliath: the villagers of Rosia Montana, a picture-postcard village in the mountains of Romania, and a Canadian mining company eager to turn their homes into Europe’s largest gold mine.
Q & A with Tibor Kocsis
Sunday 16 October 3.30pm
Afternoon - Triple Bill
Across the Border
Under Preseren’s Head 15
(Maja Weiss, Slovenia, 2004) 25m sub-titles
A week in the life of four people: a cleaner, a model, a journalist and a musician/rapper, with each day of the week being focused on one topic, with an epilogue about the national anthem.
Plus at 3.55pm
Land Without Qualities
(Harald Friedl, Austria, 2000) 75m sub-titles documentary
Friedl’s documentary perceives a sharp and critical image of recent Austrian identity or better ‘non-identity’ through the eyes and voices of artists and intellectuals.
Plus at 5.10pm
A Prefab Building is a Friend 15
(Jan Gogola, Czech Republic, 2000) 20m sub-titles
A satirical take on prefab housing estates and its inhabitants – those who hate them as well as those who find an inspiration in them.
Q & A with Jan Gogola tbc
Sunday 16 October 6.15pm
Evening - Double Bill
Across the Border
Pure Heart 15
(Daniela Rusnokova, Slovakia, 2004) 11m sub-titles
An ironic self-portrait of an ordinary girl who leaves Slovakia for Finland to find out more about the world but returns to ‘New Europe’ knowing more about herself.
Plus at 6.30pm
A Bar at Victoria Station 15
(Leszek Dawid, Poland, 2003) 55m sub-titles
The story of two Polish friends who decide to go to London looking for a better life. They work hard and try hard to make their dreams come true.
Sunday 16 October 7.25pm
Evening - Triple Bill
Across the Border
The Hero Who Wasn’t There 15
(Petr Kerekes, Slovakia, 2004) 25m sub-titles
Six intertwined chapters follow the memories of two girls, the history of one grave and its effect on the two couples, but also the lives of the whole community.
Plus at 8.10pm
Poor Land 15
(Filip Marczewski, Poland, 2004) 5m sub-titles
‘Poor Land’ shows the most ecologically destroyed region of Poland, which also has the highest levels of unemployment. In illegal coalmines over 5,000 workers mine the coal in perilous conditions.
Plus at 8.15pm
God’s Stone Quarry 15
(Bretislav Rychlik, Czech Republic, 2004) 88m sub-titles
One year in Northern Bohemia marked by the past fifty years – the deportation of Germans, the era of socialism and coal mining. A destroyed landscape is a starting point for the meeting of natural, human energy and very different characters.
Q & A with Bretislav Rychlik
Monday 17 October 6.30pm
Double Bill
Across the Border
1.35 15
(Milan Balog, Slovakia, 2003) 8m sub-titles
Experimental docu-drama about two separated lovers – for him the only way to keep contact with her is to send packs of photocopies from his private life.
Plus at 6.40pm
I am from Nowhere 15
(Georg Misch, Austria, 2002) 80m sub-titles
A documentary about the small East-Slovakian village of Mikova which Andy Warhol’s family left in 1921 when they emigrated to the USA. Some of his relatives still live there; the film visits them and reflects on the media’s obsession with the village.
Monday 17 October 8.20pm
Double Bill
Across the Border
Ill Fated Child 15
(Lucie Kralova, Czech Republic, 2003) 37m sub-titles
Portrait of a twenty-year-old joiner and author of ‘Predator in Holocaust’, who dedicated his life to former extermination camps in Europe. The film questions how can the tragedy of Holocaust be so deeply connected with our predestinations.
Plus at 9.00pm
March of Living 15
(Grzegorz Linkowski, Poland, 2003) 50m sub-titles
The meeting between Jakub Weksler-Waszkinel, a catholic priest, who learnt that he was a Jew and saved from the ghetto, and Martin Bormann Jr., son of Hitler’s closest collaborator.
Q & A with Grzegorz Linkowski
Tuesday 18 October 6.30pm
Double Bill
Across the Border
Children – Kosovo 2000 15
(Ferenc Moldovanyi, Hungary, 2001) 90m sub-titles
The two words deca and femijet mean the same thing: one is Serb, the other is Albanian, for children. The suffering caused by ethnic hatred and intolerance will leave an indelible mark on their young lives.
Plus at 8.15pm
The Road of Fraternity and Unity 15
(Maja Weiss, Slovenia, 1999) 104m sub-titles
A journey on the road, which once united Yugoslavia, and then turned into the road of war and hell. Talking to people now in separated countries, the director presents views and feelings about fraternity and unity in the past and today.
Q & A with Maja Weiss
Wednesday 19 October 5.55pm
Double Bill
Downfall 12A
(Oliver Hirschbiegel, Germany, 2004) 155m sub-titles
With Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch
Traudl Junge (Lara), the last secretary to Adolf Hitler (Ganz) describes the Nazi dictator’s final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
Plus at 8.50pm
The Last Mitterand PG
(Le Promeneur du Champs de Mars)
(Robert Guediguian, France, 2005) 117m sub-titles
With Michel Bouquet, Jalil Lespert, Philippe Fretun
A fictionalised account of the last days of French president Francois Mitterand, viewed from the perspective of a young journalist invited to work on Mitterand’s memoirs.
Thursday 20 October 6.45pm
Richard Linklater Double Bill
Before Sunrise 15
(Richard Linklater, USA, 1995) 101m
With Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
A French graduate student, Celine (Delpy), meets a young American, Jesse (Hawke), on the Budapest-Vienna train. The two seize the moment and spend the next fourteen hours together in Vienna where they discover a powerful meeting of hearts and minds.
Plus at 8.45pm
Before Sunset 15
(Richard Linklater, USA, 2004) 81m
The two meet again in Paris nine years later. They only have a few hours together to re-evaluate longing and lost time. “A romantic gem.” – Time Out
Friday 21 October 6.30pm
Double Bill
Finding Neverland PG
(Marc Forster/Damion Dietz, UK/USA, 2004) 101m
With Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Dustin Hoffman, Julie Christie
“A tale of magic and fantasy inspired by the life of James Barrie, the real-life author of the children’s classic Peter Pan”. – Miramax Films
Plus at 8.40pm
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory PG
(Tim Burton, USA/UK, 2005) 115m
With Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Freddie Highmore
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world’s most unusual candy maker. Faithful to Roald Dahl’s book and with another stellar performance from Depp.
Saturday 22 October 6.30pm
Double Bill
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory PG
(Tim Burton, USA/UK, 2005) 115m
With Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Freddie Highmore
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world’s most unusual candy maker. Faithful to Roald Dahl’s book and with another stellar performance from Depp.
Plus at 8.50pm
Finding Neverland PG
(Marc Forster/Damion Dietz, UK/USA, 2004) 101m
With Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Dustin Hoffman, Julie Christie
“A tale of magic and fantasy inspired by the life of James Barrie, the real-life author of the children’s classic Peter Pan”. – Miramax Films
Sunday 23 October 1.00pm
Afternoon – Double Bill
A Day at the Races U
(Sam Wood, USA, 1937) 109m
with Marx Brothers, Maureen O’Sullivan, Alan Jones
“Groucho, as a horse doctor in charge of a sanatorium for wealthy neurasthenics, wise cracks, dances and passionately insults the incomparable Margaret Dumont.” – The Spectator, 1937
Plus at 3.10pm
A Night at the Opera U
(Sam Wood, USA, 1935) 94m
Its level of invention is high from the moment Harpo fences with the starchy opera house conductor, misleading the orchestra until the overture to Il Travatore turns into a rousing rendition of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”.
Sunday 23 October 2.00pm
Evening - Ealing Comedies Double Bill
Passport to Pimlico PG
(Henry Cornelius, UK, 1949) 84m
with Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford
“Part of a London district is discovered to belong to Burgundy and the inhabitants themselves free of rationing restrictions. A cleverly detailed little comedy, which inaugurated the best period of Ealing.” – Halliwell’s Film Guide
Plus at 3.45pm
The Ladykillers U
(Alexander Mackendrick, UK, 1955) 97m
With Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Katie Johnson
An older lady takes in a sinister lodger who, with his four friends, commits a robbery. When she finds out, they plot to kill her.
Monday 24 October 7.00pm
New York Double Bill
Radio Days PG
(Woody Allen, USA, 1987) 88m
With Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
A nostalgic reminiscence about gorwing up in 1940s Queens, New York (in the days prior to WW1), mixing family vignettes with incidents about radio performers’ golden age.
Plus at 8.50pm
Manhattan 15
(Woody Allen, USA, 1979) 96m
A lyrical hymn to one of the world's great cities. This is one of Allen's most mature films, perfect in the beauty of cinematographer Gordon Willis' New York skyline and the Gershwin score.
Tuesday 25 October 6.00pm
Double Bill
Breaking the Waves 18
(Lars von Trier, UK, 1996) 158m
A naïve young woman from a remote community in Scotland marries an oil rigger. Her life is joyfully transformed until her husband is paralysed in an accident.
Plus at 9.00pm
Dear Wendy 15
(Thomas Vinterberg, USA, 2005) 101m
With Jamie Bell, Bill Pullman, Michael Angarano
A young boy establishes a gang of youthful misfits in their love of guns and their code of honour. “An overt political assault, brilliantly cloaked in a boyish adventure story.” – Screen International
Wednesday 26 October 5.30pm
Double Bill
Magnolia 18
(Paul Thomas Anderson, USA, 1999) 188m
While a TV mogul lies dying, we experience a series of broken lives of interwoven characters across a rainy day and night in the San Fernando Valley. Time Out described it as “a dark portrait of loss, loveless-ness and fear of failure in contemporary America”.
Plus at 9.00pm
Crash 15
(Paul Haggis, USA, 2004) 113m
A car crash sets in motion a chain of events bringing a group of strangers together in this tense drama about race relations in Los Angeles. From the screenwriter of Million Dollar Baby.
Thursday 27 October 8.30pm
Bosnian Cinema: War and Peace
Since the war ended in 1995 Bosnian cinema has undergone a remarkable resurgence, regaining its reputation for creative film-making. Inevitably, a major preoccupation is war and its aftermath. This season sets the New Bosnian Cinema in context with an accompanying selection of pre-war films on the same theme. The season is organised by The Bosnian Institute in association with Riverside Studios and the London Film Academy. For more information visit www.bosnia.org.uk and with support from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Double Bill
Deset minuta 15
(Ten Minutes)
(Ahmed Imamovic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2002) 10m sub-titles
1994: Imamovic contrasts ten minutes in the life of a Japanese tourist in Rome with the bloody drama of a Bosnian family taking place at the same time less than an hour away in the besieged city of Sarajevo.
Plus at 8.40pm
Kod amidze Idriza 15
(Days and Hours)
(Pjer Zalica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2004) 96m sub-titles
Fuke pays a visit to his Uncle Idriz and Aunt Sabira to fix their hot water heater. He finds them consumed with grief over the loss of their son in the war and nursing long-held grudges against each other.
Friday 28 October 6.00pm
Triple Bill
Bosnian Cinema: War and Peace
Povratak 15
(Return)
(Namik Kabil, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2004) 5m sub-titles
Can we really ever return from the war? How much stays with us forever? Poet Faruk Sehic questions whether the pain of war can ever go away.
Plus at 6.05pm
Sarajevski atentat 15
(The Day that Shook the World)
(Veljko Bulajic, Yugoslavia, 1975) 136m
A blockbuster starring Christopher Plummer on the events surrounding the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip in 1914, setting in motion the chain of events that precipitated WW1.
Plus at 8.20pm
Gori vatra 15
(Fuse)
(Pjer Zalica, Bosnia-Herzegovina/Austria/Turkey/France, 2003) 111m sub-titles
A tragi-comedy of post-war Bosnia. The town of Tesanj is expecting a visit from President Clinton and its citizens have one week to prepare. But one explosive mixture of crime, corruption, ethnic intolerance and pain is bubbling to the surface.
Followed by a Q & A with director Pjer Zalica.
Saturday 29 October 10.00am
Bosnian Cinema: War and Peace
Master class with filmmaker Pjer Zalica (in collaboration with London Film Academy). Please contact the Box Office for details.
Saturday 29 October 2.00pm
Bosnian Cinema: War and Peace
Panel discussion with Miro Purivatra, director of Sarajevo Film Festival, and other guests.
Saturday 29 October 5.45pm
Double Bill
Bosnian Cinema: War and Peace
Prvo smrtno iskustvo 15
(First Death Experience)
(Aida Begic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2002) 35m sub-titles
Dado can’t replace his lost documents because records show he was killed during the war. He writes comic strips and soon the reality of the strips seems preferable to the reality of post-war Bosnia.
Plus at 6.20pm
Gluvni barut 15
(Silent Gunpowder)
(Bato Cengic, Yugoslavia, 1990) 112m sub-titles
Set in a Bosnian Serb mountain village in WW2, this is a dark tale of neighbours divided in their support for the Communist Partisans and the royalist Chetniks.
Saturday 29 October 8.30pm
Double Bill
Bosnian Cinema: War and Peace
Linije 15
(Lines)
(Dejan Strika, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2003) 29m sub-titles
The central characters’ desire for a better, or at least a normal, life is frustrated by the corrupt society they live in, drawing them into a world of crime and drugs.
Plus at 8.50pm
Ljeto u zlatnoj dolini 15
(Summer in Golden Valley)
(Srdjan Vuletic, Bosnia-Herzegovina/France/UK, 2003) 104m sub-titles
16-year-old Fikret seems quite ordinary until his father dies and the funeral ceremony is disrupted by the arrival of Hamid, who claims the dead man owes him a large sum of money.
Sunday 30 October 12.30pm
Double Bill
Bosnian Cinema: War and Peace
Djecak iz ratnog filma 15
(Boy From a War Movie)
(Semsudin Gegic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2004) 27m sub-titles
The story of 10-year-old Alen, born and abandoned in the Bosnian war, the child of a woman who was raped by a Serb soldier.
Plus at 1.00pm
Most 15
(The Bridge)
(Hajrudin Krvavac, Yugoslavia, 1969) 105m sub-titles
To stop a German offensive in WW2 the Partisans send an elite team of explosive experts to blow up a strategically important bridge.
Sunday 30 October 3.05pm
Double Bill
Bosnian Cinema: War and Peace
The Way We Played 15
(Samir Mehanovic, UK, 2005) 17m
On the eve of war in Bosnia Stevo and Ramiz search for treasure in an ancient fortress; that night they witness events that will change their lives forever.
Plus at 3.25pm
Bitka na Neretvi 15
(The Battle of Neretva)
(Veljko Bulajic, Yugoslavia, 1969) 106m sub-titles
In 1943 Hitler orders the final destruction of the Yugoslav Partisans. The Partisans begin to trek northward to the relative safety of the Bosnian mountains – their goal to cross the treacherous Neretva gorge over one remaining bridge.
Sunday 30 October 6.30pm
Double Bill
Bosnian Cinema: War and Peace
Slike sa ugla 15
(Images from the Corner)
(Jasmila Zbanic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2003) 22m sub-titles
Zbanic narrates the experience of a friend who was seriously wounded during the Bosnian war while a foreign photographer stood by snapping pictures.
Plus at 6.55pm
Nicija zemlja 15
(No Man’s Land)
(Danis Tanovic, Bosnia-Herzegovina/Slovenia/Italy/France/UK/Belgium, 2001) 98m sub-titles
Three Bosnian soldiers, divided by politics and war, find themselves united in a battle for survival in a trench in no man’s land. A darkly comic satire that won the 2002 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Sunday 30 October 8.55pm
Double Bill
Bosnian Cinema: War and Peace
Kontrapunkt za nju 15
(Counterpoint for Her)
(Danijela Majstorovic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2004) 30m sub-titles
A young Bosnian woman is sold into prostitution in Italy by her brother’s best friend in 1992, prefiguring the post-war expansion of sex trafficking in Bosnia.
Plus at 9.25pm
Kajmak i marmelada 15
(Cheese and Jam)
(Branko Djuric, Slovenia, 2003) 90m sub-titles
The film traces the story of a Bosnian dumped by his hardworking Slovenian girlfriend who finds there are only two jobs open to him – dressing up as Mickey Mouse and people-smuggling across the Italian border. A witty, cross-cultural black comedy that was a smash hit in Slovenia by Bosnian director/actor Branko Djuric.
Monday 31 October 5.30pm
Emir Kusturica Double Bill
Arizona Dream 15
Sunday 15 August 5.30pm
(Emir Kusturica, USA, 1992) 135m
Johnny Depp plays a fish inspector summoned to the desert for his uncle’s wedding. A strange, but magnificent film of mystical vision.
Plus at 8.05pm
Time of the Gypsies 15
(Emir Kusturica, Yugoslavia, 1989) 142m sub-titles
A remarkable and overwhelming tragi-comic drama of gypsy life, brimming with vitality and magic.
CINEMA DIARY – SEPTEMBER 2005
Thur 1 Heimat 3 Parts 1 & 2: The Happiest People in the World (15) 6.30pm +
The Champions (15) 8.40pm
Fri 2 Kim Ki-Duk’s: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter … and Spring (15) 6.45pm +
3- Iron (15) 8.50pm
Sat 3 Kim Ki-Duk’s: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter … and Spring (15) 6.45pm +
3- Iron (15) 8.55pm
Sun 4 Whisky Galore (PG) 1.30pm +
Kind Hearts and Coronets (U) 3.15pm
Kusturica’s: Black Cat, White Cat (15) 5.30pm +
Life is a Miracle (15) 8.00pm
Mon 5 Napoleon Dynamite (PG) 7.00pm +
Tarnation (15) 8.50pm
Tue 6 Football Days (15) 6.30pm +
Torremolinos 73 (15) 8.50pm
Wed 7 Coffee and Cigarettes (15) 6.45pm +
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (15) 8.40pm
Thur 8 Heimat 3 Parts 3 & 4: The Russians Are Coming (15) 6.00pm +
Everyone’s Doing Well (15) 8.25pm
Fri 9 House of Flying Daggers (15) 6.40pm +
Kung Fu Hustle (15) 9.00pm
Sat 10 House of Flying Daggers (15) 6.40pm +
Kung Fu Hustle (15) 9.00pm
Sun 11 The Postman Always Rings Twice (PG) 1.00pm +
Mildred Pierce (PG) 3.15pm
The Man in the White Suit (U) 6.15pm +
The Lavender Hill Mob (PG) 8.00pm
Mon 12 Performance (18) 6.30pm +
Blow Up (15) 8.35pm
Tue 13 The Motorcycle Diaries (15) 6.30pm +
Maria Full of Grace (15) 8.55pm
Wed 14 Point Blank (15) 7.00pm +
Stander (15) 8.50pm
Thur 15 Heimat 3 Parts 5 & 6: Follow Me (15) 6.45pm +
Goodbye to Schabbach (15) 8.50pm
Fri 16 Wong Kar-Wai’s: In the Mood for Love (18) 6.45pm +
2046 (12A) 8.45pm
Sat 17 Workmen ’80 (18) 6.15pm +
The Man of Iron (18) 8.15pm
Sun 18 Keaton’s: Spite Marriage (U) 2.30pm +
The Cameraman (U) 4.10pm
The Interrogation (18) 6.15pm +
The Escape from the Liberty Cinema (18) 8.25pm
Mon 19 Les Choristes (12A) 6.45pm +
Bombon – El Perro (15) 8.40pm
Tue 20 The Consequences of Love (15) 7.00pm +
Private (15) 9.00pm
Wed 21 Almodovar’s: Live Flesh (18) 6.30pm +
Bad Education (15) 8.50pm
Thur 22 Sayles’: Men with Guns (15) 6.15pm +
Silver City (15) 8.45pm
Fri 23 Agata and the Storm (12A) 6.30pm +
Bread and Tulips (18) 8.55pm
Sat 24 Agata and the Storm (12A) 6.30pm +
Bread and Tulips (18) 8.55pm
Sun 25 Minnelli’s: The Bad and the Beautiful (PG) 1.30pm +
Lust for Life (PG) 3.45pm
Fellini’s: La Strada (PG) 6.05pm +
8½ (15) 8.10pm
Mon 26 Baile Perfumado/Perfumed Ball (15) 7.00pm +
De Passagem/Passing By (15) 8.55pm
Tue 27 Atraves de Janela/Through the Window (15) 7.00pm +
Cronicamente Inviavel/Chronically Unfeasible (15) 8.50pm
Wed 28 Um Ceu de Estrelas/A Starry Sky (15) 7.00pm +
Prisioneiro da grade de Ferro/The Prisoner of the Iron Bars (15) 8.30pm
Thur 29 Floating Weeds (PG) 6.30pm +
Café Lumiere (U) 8.50pm
Fri 30 In My Father’s Den (18) 6.30pm +
Me You and Everyone We Know (15) 8.55pm
CINEMA – OCTOBER 2004
Sat 1 In My Father’s Den (18) 6.30pm +
Me You and Everyone We Know (15) 8.55pm
Sun 2 Powell & Pressburger’s: The Red Shoes (U) 1.00pm +
A Matter of Life and Death (U) 3.55pm
Vigo’s: Zero de Conduite (PG) 7.00pm +
L’Atalante (PG) 8.05pm
Mon 3 American Movie: The Making of Northwestern (15) 6.45pm +
Overnight (15) 8.50pm
Tue 4 Black History Month: Black Joy (15) 7.00pm +
One Love (12A) 8.50pm
Wed 5 Dasma e Sakos/Sako’s Wedding (15) 6.45pm +
Nate pa Hene/Moonless Night (18) 8.50pm
Thur 6 Tirana –Viti Zero/Tirana – Year Zero (18) 7.00pm +
Proka (U) 8.50pm
Fri 7 Letra ne Ere/Letters in the Wind (15) 7.00pm +
Kolibja e Qenit/The Kennel (U) 8.30pm +
Edeni i braktisur/The Deserted Eden (U) 8.45pm +
Kosova 9/11 (U) 9.05pm
Sat 8 Lule te Zeza/Black Flowers (18) 6.55pm +
Vallezim me Henen (U) 8.55pm
Sun 9 Shorts Showcase with Young Film Directors 2.30pm
The Manchurian Candidate (15) 5.30pm +
Sweet Smell of Success (PG) 8.20pm
Mon 10 Potter’s: Orlando (PG) 7.00pm + Yes (15) 8.55pm
Tue 11 Machuca (15) 6.40pm + Whisky (15) 9.00pm
Wed 12 DocHouse: Devil’s Minor 7.00pm + film to be announced
Thur 13 Black History Month: Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (15) 7.00pm + Baddass (15) 9.00pm
Fri 14 Across the Border (15) 6.45pm + Panel Discussion 9.20pm
Sat 15 For a While/Nursery (15) 6.30pm + Here We Are (15) 7.00pm +
New Eldorado (15) 8.35pm
Sun 16 Under Preseren’s Head (15) 3.30pm +
Land Without Qualities (15) 3.55pm +
A Prefab Building is a Friend (15) 5.10pm
Pure Heart (15) 6.15pm + A Bar at Victoria Station (15) 6.30pm
The Hero Who Wasn’t There (15) 7.25pm +
Poor Land (15) 8.10pm + God’s Stone Quarry (15) 8.15pm
Mon 17 1.35 (15) 6.30pm + I am from Nowhere (15) 6.40pm
Ill Fated Child (15) 8.20pm + March of Living (15) 9.00pm
Tue 18 Children – Kosovo 2000 (15) 6.30pm +
The Road to Fraternity and Unity (15) 8.15pm
Wed 19 Downfall (12A) 5.55pm + The Last Mitterand (PG) 8.50pm
Thur 20 Linklater’s: Before Sunrise (15) 6.45pm +
Before Sunset (15) 8.45pm
Fri 21 Finding Neverland (PG) 6.30pm +
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (PG) 8.40pm
Sat 22 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (PG) 6.30pm +
Finding Neverland (PG) 8.50pm
Sun 23 A Day at the Races (U) 1.00pm +
A Night at the Opera (U) 3.10pm
Passport to Pimlico (PG) 2.00pm + The Ladykillers (U) 3.45pm
Mon 24 Radio Days (PG) 7.00pm + Manhattan (15) 8.50pm
Tue 25 Breaking the Waves (18) 6.00pm + Dear Wendy (15) 9.00pm
Wed 26 Magnolia (18) 5.30pm + Crash (15) 9.00pm
Thur 27 Deset minuta/Ten Minutes (15) 8.30pm +
Kod amidze Idriza/Days and Hours (15) 8.40pm
Fri 28 Povratak/Return (15) 6.00pm +
Sarajevski atentat/The Day that Shook the World (15) 6.05pm +
Gori vatra/Fuse (15) 8.20pm
Sat 29 Master class with Pjer Zalica 10.00am
Panel Discussion 2.00pm
Prvo smrtno iskustvo/First Death Experience (15) 5.45pm +
Gluvni barut/Silent Gunpowder (15) 6.20pm
Linije/Lines (15) 8.30pm +
Ljeto u zlatnoj dolini/Summer in Golden Valley (15) 8.50pm
Sun 30 Djecak iz ratnog filma/Boy From a War Zone (15) 12.30pm +
Most/The Bridge (15) 1.00pm
The Way We Played (15) 3.05pm +
Bitka na Neretvi/The Battle of Neretva (15) 3.25pm
Slike sa ugla/Images from the Corner (15) 6.30pm +
Nicija zemlja/No Man’s Land (15) 6.55pm
Kontrapunkt za nju/Counterpoint for Her (15) 8.55pm +
Kajmak i marmelada/Cheese and Jam (15) 9.25pm
Mon 31 Kusturica’s: Arizona Dream (15) 5.30pm +
Time of the Gypsies (15) 8.05pm
Sarah Mallett
Marketing Manager, Riverside Studios
www.riversidestudios.co.uk
DDI: 020 8237 1010 FAX: 020 8237 1001
BOX OFFICE: 020 8237 1111
Theatre
WHO KILLED MR DRUM?
By Fraser Grace & Sylvester Stein
A True Story Based on the book by Sylvester Stein
IN 1950S JO’BURG NOTHING STIRS…IT JUMPS!
Sophiatown, ‘the South African Harlem’
Drum Magazine’s team of brilliant young journalists are bringing black fashion ‘n’ fun to the streets of Jo’burg. And its star writers are having more fun than most.
Can ‘Shakespeare of the Shebeens’ Themba is flaunting the law by loving a white girl, and Chief reporter Henry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo is steadily exposing apartheid’s cruelties.
But now Sophiatown is being destroyed, crushed by bulldozers. And Henry lies dead, stabbed in the street…
Based on Sylvester Stein’s searing memoir, Who Killed Mr Drum? is the gripping new production from Treatment Theatre.
Director Paul Robinson, Creative Producer Andrew Fishwick
Designer Francisco Rodriquez-Weil, Lighting Designer Ben Omerod
Sound Designer Paul Groothius, Original Score Juwon Ogungbe
Running Time: 2hrs plus interval
Age suitability: 14yrs+
STUDIO 2
26 AUGUST - 8 OCTOBER
TUE – SAT AT 7.45PM, SUNDAYS AT 4PM
MATINEES AT 3PM (8, 17 & 29 Sep & 8 Oct)
POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONS - WED 14, 21 SEPT & 5 OCT
TICKETS £20 (£15 CONCESSIONS)
Cheap Tuesdays: £12.50 (First 70 tickets)
Groups: £17.50 (groups of 10+)
Concession Groups: £13.50 (groups of 10+ excl. Saturdays)
Matinees: £12.50 (First 70 tickets)
Gala Night – SUN 4 SEP, Tickets £50 (Canon Collins Educational Trust for South Africa)
Amnesty Wednesdays - £1 from each top price ticket sold will be donated to Amnesty International
Theatre
THE LIFEBLOOD
By Glyn Maxwell
Directed by Guy Retallack
A woman on trial for her life. Four men watch her every move. As her prison becomes smaller, her hope becomes greater; a hope that will ultimately betray her.
The Lifeblood is a compelling study of a contemporary world where religion is politics and intolerance prevails. With razor sharp wit, Glyn Maxwell articulates the final days of Mary Stuart, plausibly the first modern political prisoner, into a taut and beguiling thriller.
Voted Best Performance (Sue Scott Davison) and Best Play by the British Theatre Guide at Edinburgh 2004.
‘Brilliant writing, intelligent acting, elegant direction…A THRILLING AFFIRMATION OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A SEARING IMAGINATION SEIZES A DRAMA, AND IT ARRIVES IN THE HANDS OF PRACTITIONERS WHO INTERPRET WITH UNCOMPROMISING VIGOUR’ ***** The Scotsman
‘DON’T MISS’ The Independent
Running Time: 90mins no interval
Age suitability: 14yrs +
STUDIO 3
7 SEPTEMBER – 2 OCTOBER
Tuesday – Saturday AT 8pm
Sundays at 6pm
Matinees – thu 22 at 2pm & sat 1 oct at 3pm
(No Monday performances or SAT 10 SEP)
TiCKETS £14 (£9 CONCESSIONS)
EARLY BIRD OFFER - £7.50 when booked by 1 Sep (applies to 7-11 Sept shows)
CHEAP TUESDAYS & MATINEES - first 30 tickets £5, maximum 5 per booking
SCHOOL GROUPS - £7.50 for groups of ten or more
Theatre
CIRCLE X ARTS
IF CASSANDRA
A sweet & sour sequence
Three women meet, wanting to spend a pleasant evening together. Despite their best efforts, noise, music and unexpected events repeatedly disturb the meal and the women are forced make repeated new beginnings: a process full of frustrations but also fresh possibilities.
A poetic and tragi-comic composition of sounds, images and situations created and performed by a superb trio from Italy, Sweden and Spain in collaboration with a multi national creative team.
‘**** CHALLENGING, DYNAMIC, THOUGHT PROVOKING - THE STUFF THE FRINGE SHOULD BE MADE OF’ Colette Meacher Brighton Fringe Festival.
STUDIO 3
4 - 8 Oct 8pm, 9 Oct 3pm, 19 - 21 Oct 8pm, 22 Oct 3 pm
TICKETS £14 (£9 CONCESSIONS)
EARLY BIRD OFFER - £7.50 when booked by 15 September (applies to 4-9 Oct shows)
CHEAP TUESDAYS & MATINEES – first 30 tickets £5 (maximum of 5 per booking)
STUDENT GROUPS - £6 a ticket for groups of 10+ (excluding Saturdays)
STEINER GRAFFITI
a performance encountering Rudolf Steiner
by Christopher Marcus and Klaus Jensen
Rudolf Steiner was one of the most fascinating thinkers, writers and teachers of the early twentieth century, attracting thousands of fervent followers to his lectures. His key message was the freedom of the human spirit and this inspired his ideas on physics, economics and religion. Steiner was a clairvoyant, the founder of Anthroposophy, and the inspiration behind Waldorf schools, Steiner academies, bio-dynamic farms and the artform of Eurythmics.Steiner Graffiti is intellectual and physical theatre of great charm and humour. It penetrates the complex layers of Steiner’s life and builds up a story that shows us the extraordinary nature of our own. www.circlexarts.com
STUDIO 3
6 Oct 6pm, 8 Oct 3pm, 9 Oct 8pm, 11 - 15 Oct 8pm, 16 Oct 3 & 8pm, 22 Oct 8pm
TICKETS £14 (£9 CONCESSIONS)
EARLY BIRD OFFER - £7.50 when booked by 15 September (applies to 5-9 Oct shows)
CHEAP TUESDAYS & MATINEES (not 6 Oct 6pm show) – first 30 tickets £5 (maximum of 5 per booking)
STUDENT GROUPS - £6 a ticket for groups of 10+ (excluding Saturdays)
Theatre
FORKBEARD FANTASY
The Fall of the House of Usherettes
Eye-bulging cine magic, hilarious horror and wild mechanical sets...the legendary tale of Liquid Film.
Loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe’s gothic horror of a not dissimilar title, this is the eye-goggling tale of a crumbling old cinema called the Empire.
It’s the tale of LIQUID FILM, a long defunct celluloid mixture once sprayed from specialized projectors, whose leaked ghosts still flicker in the old fleapit’s labyrinthine archives. It’s the tale of the doomy Usherettes who guard it against tomb-robbers from The National Archive. It’s the story, in glorious Technicolor, both live and on film, of the House of Usherettes and of its Fall.
Enter Forkbeard’s bizarre and hilarious world of film spliced into live action, of cobwebbed Wurlitzers, crumbling caryatids and monstrous shark-infested developing tanks. A revival of their hugely popular 1995 show celebrating 100 years of Cinema.
‘Brilliant inventiveness and ingenious technical wizardry’
The GUARDIAN
‘A consummate side-splitting treat’
The SUNDAY TIMES
‘A magnificent excess of inventiveness’
TIME OUT (5 X Critics Choice)
(1995/96 Tour)
STUDIO 2
10-15 OCTOBER AT 7.45PM
MATNEE AT 3PM ON THURSDAY13 OCTOBER
TICKETS £17 (£13.50 CONCESSIONS)
EARLY BIRD OFFER £12 when booked by 15 Sep (applies to 10th -12th shows)
CHEAP TUESDAY & MATINEE £12 (first 70 tickets)
Theatre
Hans Christian Andersen’s
THE LITTLE MERMAID
Adapted by Pam Gems
Journey beneath the ocean with The Little Mermaid on her quest to capture the heart of a handsome prince…
Sphinx Theatre Company takes a fresh new look at this much-loved fairytale, transforming the stage into a feast of light, movement and colour. Aerial acrobatics, biting wit and wonderfully evocative music combine to bring Hans Christian Andersen’s characters vividly to life. Theatregoers of all ages will be captivated by this production’s charm and innovation.
"Ravishingly beautiful….intelligent and witty"
The Times
"Magical" The Independent
“Graceful aerial gymnastics” The Stage
Suitable for children aged 8yrs upwards and Adults alike
Directed by Sue Parrish Designed by Liz Cooke Music by Howard Davidson
Lighting by Chris Davey Choreography by Dominic Leclerc Sound design by Fergus O’Hare
STUDIO 2
20-23 OCTOBER
THURSDAY – SATURDAY AT 7.30PM
SUNDAY AT 2PM & 6PM
TICKETS £14 (£9 CONCESSIONS)
UNDER 16s £7.50
EARLY BIRD OFFER £7.50 when booked by 1 OCT (applies to 20th & 21st Oct shows)
SUNDAY 2PM - £7.50 (first 70 tickets)
Theatre
OPEN HOUSE
Nominated for a fringe first at Edinburgh 2004 and winner of the festival highlight award ‘Open House’ is a bedtime story by Helena Thompson about old and eccentric Charlie, a man so open minded, he turns his house into a drop in centre for his daughters drop out friends. When a stranger knocks on the door one night, his home is thrown into jeopardy, sparking a city tale of love, loss and nostalgia for what never was.
A site specific rendering of this award-winning new play will be staged in the listed rooms of Kensal House, Ladbroke Grove, London W10 5BQ.
'Thompson is an interesting, complicated talent, who takes admirable risks in this darkly humorous depiction' Time Out
a tightly scripted and well-acted drama' Sunday Times
17 SEPTEMBER–30 OCTOBER
Thursday – Saturday at 8pm
Sunday at 5pm
no shows Mon- Wed
TICKETS £8 (£6 concessions)
Theatre
VEGA$M
SIN CITY SHOWLOUNGE PSYCH-OUT!
Welcome to the fabulous VEGA$M Casino Lounge, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Join your hosts FELONY FATALE, STACK SALAMAMBA and 'kids' entertainer'
HOOTERS THE CLOWN as they present the most freaked-out
variety bill Sin City has ever seen! Featuring Strip-ripping
jackpot star-turns from a cavalcade of bizarre Vegas headliners, including keyboard-cyborg 'LiberArnie', evillusionist 'Dennis Hopperfield', 'Frankenstinatra' and the Rot Pack, 'Norma Guntz and her Tom Jones celebrity tumour' and the ultimate in Elvis weddingchapel weird.
An eyepopping, vaudevillian comic-book blend of 2 & 3D puppetry, caricature masks and quick-change costumes from Brand X / Gawkagogo, the creators of 2004's cult comedy 'DIE'.
’Marvellously tasteless mayhem, Combines the brutality of South Park with the puppetry of Spitting Image" TIME OUT
"The mighty Brand X/GawkaGoGo, the half-cartoon, half-freak show act thatare spoken of with awe by other comics. Breathtakingly imaginative" METRO
www.gawkagogo.com
STUDIO 3
25 OCTOBER - 13 NOVEMBER
Tuesday – Saturday AT 8pm (No Monday performances)
SUNDAYS at 6pm
LATE SHOWS AT 9.45PM ON SATURDAY 5 &12 NOV
TiCKETS £14 (£9 CONCESSIONS)
EARLY BIRD OFFER - £7.50 when booked by 15 Sep (applies to 25-28 Oct shows)
CHEAP TUESDAYS & LATE SHOWS– first 30 tickets £5, maximum 5 per booking
Standbys and Equity/Bectu discounts are on the information page
THEATRE
Forced Entertainment London Season 2005
Following the success of Indoor Fireworks last year, "Britain’s most brilliant experimental theatre company” (The Guardian) return to Riverside Studios again this autumn with two decidedly different theatre pieces. Alongside another chance to see the chaotic spectacle of last year’s sell out success, Bloody Mess, the company present the London premiere of their newest work, Exquisite Pain, a starkly simple and moving piece for two performers based on a text by French conceptual artist Sophie Calle.
BLOODY MESS
Last year’s sell-out success Bloody Mess, returns this autumn, creating a startling and hilarious new logic from the collisions of disconnected characters and ideas. Fiercely energetic and spectacularly visual, Bloody Mess is Forced Entertainment’s most ambitious work to date, drawing on everything from rocktacular videos, high melodrama and quirky science lectures. Created in 2004 to mark the company’s 20th Birthday, Bloody Mess is Forced Entertainment at their boldest and loudest, weaving together its disparate elements to create a whole that is intelligent, darkly comic and unexpectedly poignant. The mess this time is big, bloody and beautiful.
‘A wonderfully playful theatrical game on the nature of illusion, narrative and laughter… It is ridiculously good.’ The Guardian éééé
‘This is theatre turned inside out.’ Sunday Times éééé
25 - 29 OCTOBER AT 7.45PM
30 OCTOBER AT 7PM
Post-show discussions 25, 26, 27, 28 October
Exquisite Pain
From a text by Sophie Calle
London Premiere
A man and a woman tell stories of ordinary and not-so-ordinary heart-break, each story accompanied by a single iconic image. A red telephone on a hotel bed. A subway station. The view from a window. A green Mercedes.
Based on a project by the renowned French conceptual artist Sophie Calle, Exquisite Pain marks the first time that Forced Entertainment have worked from ‘a text’ – in this case not a play from the theatrical cannon but rather words and images from an artist whose extraordinary work has long attempted to blur the boundaries between visual art, performance and real life itself. In this simple and intimate performance Forced Entertainment explore how language, memory and forgetting move to contain, preserve or erase events; how people come to terms with trauma. Exquisite Pain is about love, loss, and the stories we tell ourselves when things have gone wrong.
‘This is theatre turned inside out.’ Sunday Times éééé
1 – 5 NOVEMBER AT 7.45PM
6 NOVEMBER AT 7pm
Post-show discussions 2 & 3 November
STUDIO 2
TICKETS (either show) £17 (£13.50 CONCESSIONS)
COMBO TICKET – see both shows for £30 (£25 CONCESSIONS)
EARLY BIRD OFFER £12 when booked by 15 Sep (applies to 25, 26 Oct & 1, 2 Nov)
CHEAP TUESDAYS £12 (first 70 tickets on both Tuesdays)
Standbys and Equity/Bectu discounts are on the information page FORTHCOMING EVENTS
THE UKULELE ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN / ANARCHY IN THE UKULELE
15 – 26 November
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain is a seven strong group of singing, strumming and plucking ukulele players. Using the traditional arts of simplicity and mockery they re-work rock, punk, classical and more, believing that all genres of music are available for reinterpretation, as long as they are played on the ukulele. UOGB, fresh from ten days at the Edinburgh festival present the best of the material from 2005’s full houses at The Barbican, Purcell Rooms and Glastonbury.
‘The best musical entertainment in the country’ The Independent
"Subversive, rare and very precious. Catch them before the Government slaps an injunction on them in the name of anti-terrorism. Frighteningly talented and awesome: classics of the genre" Time Out
ALMOST BLUE
20 November – 11 December
A fast-paced, disturbing thriller which will have you on the edge or your seats. Or under them…
Simon is a blind man with synathesia - he hears sound in colour. He becomes the only witness to a series of murders. He knows the killer by his voice – a green one. A darkly comic tale of loneliness, death and desire Almost Blue is a told through a fusion of dance, text and sound. A collaboration between sound-designer Gareth Fry, director Lu Kemp and choreographer Dominic Leclerc Almost Blue is the winner of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Award 2005.
RIFCO / THE DERANGED MARRIAGE
29 November – 24 December
The sell out hit is back! You are invited as a guest of honour to the marriage of two families; with more dancing, more family drama, singing, ladoos and laughter, take your seat to congratulate, commiserate and celebrate the wedding of the year! Steeped in the vibrant colours and history of wedding traditions The Deranged Marriage celebrates the British Asian arranged marriage system in all its toe tapping, sari-swirling and heart-wrenching glory.
‘Sparkling comic life!...The singing, performed live is stunning, the audience participation works spectacularly well… a decidedly heart-warming theatrical experience,’’ Lucy Powell, Time Out
RICHARD ADAMS’ WATERSHIP DOWN
14 December – 14 January
Stray Dog Theatre returns with their vibrant adaptation of Richard Adams’ classic novel. Twelve weary travellers, fleeing an uncertain danger, scared and fighting amongst themselves, begin to tell each other a story – a story that seems to mirror their own predicament – that of a young rabbit named Hazel, his small band of wanderers and their flight from the property developers who destroy their home, towards a peaceful life on Watership Down. However, when an oppressive new enemy hovers into view, the rabbits must risk everything to secure their new home, a risk not entirely alien to their human counterparts.
Suitable for children aged 8yrs upwards and adults alike
Tickets on sale 19 September
TAMASHA THEATRE COMPANY
25 January – 19 February 2006
A new production based on ‘A Fine Balance’, the award-winning novel by Rohinton Mistry, sees ‘the irresistible rise of Tamasha…’ continue (Evening Standard).
This is the story of a unique friendship between a widow, two tailors and a young student in 1975 India. Against a backdrop of political turmoil, soon after the government, under Indira Gandhi, declares a “State of Internal Emergency”, the four become an unlikely ‘family’ unexpectedly crossing the lines of caste, class and religion. Despite this national crisis, including inhumane sterilization and “beautification” (slum clearance) policies, what prevails is exceptional human spirit, optimism
EXHIBITIONS
DRUM DAYS BY JURGEN SCHADEBERG
Schadeberg ranks among the great world photographers and one of the few white photographers to document black life. Coming from Berlin to South Africa in 1950, he has captured the rise of the Freedom Movement, Apartheid repression and the vibrancy of township life. He also created a vibrant photographic department for Drum Magazine training many successful black photographers. Jurgen covered the Defiance Campaign of 1953, the Sophiatown removals of 1958, the Sharpeville Funeral of 1960, images of Robben Island, personalities; Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo, as well as jazz legends Dolly Rathebe and Miriam Makeba. His subsequent work includes 1970s England. In association with The Print Room & Treatment Theatre.
16 AUGUST – 8 OCTOBER
12 NOON – 10.30PM DAILY
FREE ENTRY
PAINTINGS FROM RUSSIA AND BRITAIN
From the timeless beauty of the steppe to the snowy confines of Novodevichy
Convent in Moscow, this is a stunning exhibition of evocative paintings
which capture the spirit of Russia. Complemented by a series of bold and
sunlit British landscapes, this work is executed with refreshing clarity of
style. Prize-winning artist SV Montgomery trained in Kazan, Russia. This
exhibition is presented in association with Amnesty International.
11-23 OCTOBER
12 noon- 10.30PM DAILY
FREE ENTRY
EMPTY STAGES
Tim Etchells and Hugo Glendinning
A series of photographs of empty stages from a variety of contexts. These temporarily uninhabited stages, in pubs, conference centres, amateur theatres and working men’s clubs, invite the viewer to imagine the events which might take place on them. Through these deserted, atmospheric and at the same time banal locations for performance Tim Etchells and Hugo Glendinning explore stages as spaces of immanence and the architecture of expectation.
25 October – 6 November
12 NOON – 10.30PM DAILY
FREE ENTRY
CINEMA – SEPTEMBER 2005
Thursday 1 September 6.30pm
Double Bill
Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings: Part 1
The Happiest People in the World 15
(Edgar Reitz, Germany, 1989) 109m
With Henry Arnold, Salome Kammer, Michael Kausch
Hermann and Clarissa run across one another again after many years on the historic evening of 9 November 1989 and the collapse of the Berlin Wall. The film explores their heady days of love.
Plus at 8.40pm
Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings: Part 2
The Champions 15
(Edgar Reitz, Germany, 1990) 100m
With Henry Arnold, Salome Kammer, Michael Kausch
8 June 1990. Hermann and Clarissa have moved in together. The film features the soccer World Cup which everyone wants to watch on TV. The games and final unite all of Germany but also bring unexpected consequences.
Friday 2 and Saturday 3 September 6.45pm
Kim Ki-Duk Double Bill
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter ... and Spring 15
(Kim Ki-duk, South Korea/Germany, 2003) 103m sub-titles
With Oh Yeong-su, Kim Ki-duk, Kim Young-min
“A Buddhist monk living alone on a floating temple takes in a male child as an apprentice, but can’t protect him from his destiny. An exquisitely Zen-like meditation on fate.“ – Roger Clarke, The Independent
Plus at 8.50pm
3-Iron 15
(Kim Ki-Duk, Korea, 2004) 87m sub-titles
A drifter enters strangers’ houses and lives while they are away. In return, he does the laundry or small repairs. His life changes when he runs into a beautiful woman in an affluent mansion who is ready to escape an abusive marriage.
Sunday 4 September 1.30pm
Afternoon - Ealing Comedies Double Bill
Whisky Galore PG
(Alexander Mackendrick, UK, 1948) 82m
“During World War II a ship full of whisky is wrecked on a small Hebridean island, and the local customs and excise man has his hands full. Marvellously detailed, fast moving, well-played and attractively photographed comedy.” – Halliwell’s Film Guide
Plus at 3.15pm
Kind Hearts and Coronets U
(Robert Hamer, UK, 1949) 106m black and white
With Dennis Price, Alex Guinness, Joan Greenwood
“The gentle English art of murder with Price in perfect form as the ignoble Louis, killing off a family tree in order to take the cherished d’Ascoyne family title ... a cynically brilliant film.“ – Time Out
Sunday 4 September 5.30pm
Evening – Emir Kusturica Double Bill
Black Cat, White Cat 15
(Emir Kusturica, France/Germany, 1998) 129m sub-titles
This is a wild comedy of gypsy life which parallels the exploits of two young people and their elderly grandfathers. Weddings, funerals, music and fake deaths form the lively background.
Plus at 8.00pm
Life is a Miracle 15
(Emir Kusturica, France/Serbia/Montenegro, 2004) 154m sub-titles
With Slavko Stimac, Natasa Solak, Vesna Trivalic
Bosnia, 1992. Railway engineer Luka has escaped Belgrade with his family to work on the railway near the Serbian border. War descends bringing with it dramatic changes. Luka finds himself in an extraordinary romance.
Monday 5 September 7.00pm
Double Bill
Napoleon Dynamite PG
(Jared Hess, USA, 2004) 89m
With Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell
Preston, Idaho’s most curious resident, Napoleon Dynamite (Heder), who lives with his grandma and eccentric older brother, works to help his best friend snatch the student Body President title from mean teen Summer Wheatley.
Plus at 8.50pm
Tarnation 15
(Jonathan Caouette, USA, 2004) 88m documentary
Part documentary, part narrative fiction, part home movie. A psychedelic whirlwind of snapshots creates an epic portrait of an American family travesty. Filmmaker Caouette looks at growing up with his schizophrenic mother.
Tuesday 6 September 6.30pm
Double Bill
Football Days 15
(Dias de Futbol)
(David Serrano, Spain, 2003) 118m sub-titles
With Alberto San Juan, Ernesto Alterio, Natalia Verbeke
Six friends, talentless and unfit form a seven-a-side football team. They call themselves Brazil and plan to play football until they win. An entertaining comedy.
Plus at 8.50pm
Torremolinos 73 15
(Pablo Berger, Spain, 2004) 91m sub-titles
With Javier Camara, Candela Pena, Juan Diego
A comedy set in Franco’s puritanical Spain of the early 1970s. An encyclopaedia salesman’s life changes dramatically when he is given the proposition to make amateur Super 8 erotic movies.
Wednesday 7 September 6.45pm
Double Bill
Coffee and Cigarettes 15
(Jim Jarmusch, USA, 2003) 96m
With Roberto Benigni, Cate Blanchett, Iggy Pop
Short stories from Jim Jarmusch that all have coffee and cigarettes in common and are shot in black and white. “Another deliciously, droll, deadpan comic delight.” – Time Out
Plus at 8.40pm
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing 15
(Jill Sprecher, USA, 2004) 103m sub-titles
With Matthew McConaughey, David Connelly, Joseph Siraro
The lives of a lawyer, a housekeeper, a professor and the people around them intersect in a meditation on happiness and how to achieve it. A terrific ensemble piece.
Thursday 8 September 6.00pm
Double Bill
Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings: Part 3
The Russians Are Coming 15
(Edgar Reitz, Germany, 1992-1993) 125m sub-titles
September 1992. The cards of world history are being reshuffled again in the Hunsruck. The American troops begin to move out while the Russians move back. The upheavals disrupt Clarissa and Hermann’s happy abode.
Plus at 8.25pm
Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings: Part 4
Everyone’s Doing Well 15
(Edgar Reitz, Germany, 1995) 131m sub-titles
Autumn 1995. Clarissa and Hermann begin to drift apart, but the tragic death of a mutual friend brings them together again.
Friday 9 and Saturday 10 September 6.40pm
Double Bill
House of Flying Daggers 15
(Shi mian mai fu)
(Zhang Yimou, Hong Kong/China, 2004) 119m sub-titles
With Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Zhang Ziyi
Zhang Yimou’s beautiful film is a tale of tangled and tragic love combining martial arts, dazzling aesthetics and an evocative romantic heart.
Plus at 9.00pm
Kung Fu Hustle 15
(Stephen Chow, China/Hong Kong, 2004) 99m sub-titles
With Stephen Chow, Chan Kwok Kwan, Dong Zhi Hua
In 1940s Shanghai a wannabe gangster aspires to join a notorious gang, while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf. “Top notch action adventure from Hong Kong’s finest.” – Time Out
Sunday 11 September 1.00pm
Afternoon – Double Bill
The Postman Always Rings Twice PG
(Tay Garnett, USA, 1946) 113m black and white
With John Garfield, Lana Turner, Cecil Kellaway
The original and best. A drifter takes up the ‘man wanted’ position at an out-of-the-way restaurant/gas station in a Californian backwater and finds himself pulled into a cesspit of lust, betrayal and murder.
Plus at 3.15pm
Mildred Pierce PG
(Michael Curtiz, USA, 1945) 113m
with Joan Crawford, Jack Carson
The ‘woman’s picture’ par excellence! This is the story of a housewife who breaks with her husband, becomes a restaurant owner to support the most ungrateful daughter in cinema history and becomes involved in a murder case.
Sunday 11 September 6.15pm
Evening – Ealing Comedies Double Bill
The Man in the White Suit U
(Alexander Mackendrick, UK, 1951) 85m
With Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker
“A scientist produces a fabric that never gets dirty and never wears out. Brilliant satirical comedy played as a farce and put together with meticulous cinematic counterpoint.” – Halliwell’s Film Guide
Plus at 8.00pm
The Lavender Hill Mob PG
(Charles Crichton, UK, 1951) 78m
with Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway
“A timid bank clerk conceives and executes a bullion robbery. Superbly characterised and inventively detailed comedy, one of the best ever made at Ealing, or in Britain.” – Halliwell’s Film Guide
Monday 12 September 6.30pm
London Double Bill
Performance 18
(Donald Cammell/Nicholas Roeg, UK, 1970) 106m
With James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg
“James Fox plays Chas, a brutal, Krays-type gangster on the run both from the police and his own associates. While waiting to escape abroad, he seeks refuge in the Notting Hill mansion.” – BFI
Plus at 8.35pm
Blow Up 15
(Michelangelo Antonioni, UK, 1966) 111m
With David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles
Hemmings plays an aimless, trendy photographer who discovers a purpose to his life when he enlarges a photograph that may or may not prove a murder has taken place in a swinging 60s London.
Tuesday 13 September 6.30pm
Double Bill
The Motorcycle Diaries 15
(Walter Salles, South America, 2004) 125m sub-titles
With Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mia Maestro
The film is based on the journals of Che Guevara in which he recounts adventures he and Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.
Plus at 8.55pm
Maria Full of Grace 15
(Joshua Marston, USA/Colombia, 2003) 101m sub-titles
With Catalina Sandino Moreno, Yenny Paola Vega, Guilied Lopez
The film follows Maria’s journey from a dead-end job as an assembly-line worker in a Colombian flower factory into the drug-smuggling underworld. This gripping tale will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Wednesday 14 September 7.00pm
Double Bill
Point Blank 15
(John Boorman, USA, 1967) 92m
With Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
“A true cult movie of the 60s. Marvin, an old-style gangster, more sinned against than sinning, takes violent revenge on those who betrayed him.” – BFI
Plus at 8.50pm
Stander 15
(Bronwen Hughes, South Africa, 2003) 112m
With Thomas Jane, Dexter Fletcher, Deborah Unger
The gripping true story of the life of Andre Stander, the youngest captain in the Johannesburg police force and South Africa’s most notorious bank robber.
Thursday 15 September 6.45pm
Double Bill
Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings: Part 5
Follow Me 15
(Edgar Reitz, Germany, 1997) 105m sub-titles
1997. Seven years have passed since the fall of the Wall. Hermann and Clarissa seem to have found each other again, but they have had to pay a very high price for being together. Clarissa has a terminal illness.
Plus at 8.50pm
Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings: Part 6
Goodbye to Schabbach 15
(Edgar Reitz, Germany, 1999-2000) 108m sub-titles
It’s August 1999, the day of the solar eclipse. Herman and Clarissa are in Munich on a joint tour bringing with it many reunions and reconciliations.
Friday 16 September 6.45pm
Wong Kar-Wai Double Bill
In the Mood for Love 18
(Wong Kar-Wai, Hong Kong, 2000) 97m sub-titles
Hong Kong, 1962. The editor of a newspaper moves with his wife into an apartment at the same time as a woman with a businessman husband. When they realise their partners are having an affair, they comfort each other. A languorous, dream-like film.
Plus at 8.45pm
2046 12A
(Wong Kar-Wai, Hong Kong/France, 2004) 119m sub-titles
With Tony Leung, Li Gong, Maggie Cheung
The follow-up to In the Mood for Love. Writer Leung’s novel takes place in 2046 where people time travel to recapture lost memories. It‘s his lament to a previous relationship which affects all his new ones.
Saturday 17 September 6.15pm
Polish Solidarity Weekend
Workmen ’80 18
(Andrzej Chodakowski/Andrzej Zajączkowski, Poland, 1980) 93m sub-titles
The film follows the events that initiated the Polish governing system transformation and the course of the strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk in August 1980.
Plus at 8.15pm
The Man of Iron 18
(Andrzej Wajda, Poland, 1981) 147m sub-titles
With Jerzy Radziwiłłowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania
The film refers to Polish history in the 1970s and 1980s and follows a blue collar worker, who is an active member of a Strike Committee in the Gdańsk Shipyards, and a journalist.
Sunday 18 September 2.30pm
Afternoon – Buster Keaton Double Bill
Spite Marriage U
(Edward Sedgwick, USA, 1929) 80m
Buster Keaton’s last silent feature. A tailor’s assistant loves an actress who marries him to spite someone else. There are sublime comic moments, particularly in the scenes at sea.
Plus at 4.10pm
The Cameraman U
(Edward Sedgwick, USA, 1928) 80m
Keaton plays a newsreel cameraman who, whilst learning his craft and trying to get the girl, becomes involved in Tang wars in Chinatown. Keaton’s comic and cinematic invention are at their zenith in these two films.
With live piano accompaniment.
Sunday 18 September 6.15pm
Evening - Polish Solidarity Weekend
The Interrogation 18
(Ryszard Bugajski, Poland, 1982) 111m sub-titles
With Krystyna Janda, Adam Ferency, Janusz Gajos
The film shows the cruelty of the Communist regime in Poland in the beginning of the 1950s. Antonia Dziwisz, a singer, gets arrested and is being interrogated. Her stay in jail turns into horror.
Plus at 8.25pm
The Escape from the Liberty Cinema 18
(Wojciech Marczewski, Poland, 1990) 110m sub-titles
With Janusz Gajos, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Teresa Marczewska
In the Liberty Cinema the film ‘Daybreak’ is being shown. The performance is suddenly interrupted when the actors become alive on the screen and start to have conversations with the audience.
Monday 19 September 6.45pm
Double Bill
Les Choristes 12A
(Christophe Baratier, France, 2003) 95m sub-titles
An unemployed music teacher is hired as a supervisor in a young offenders’ institution where he uses music to both tame his unruly students and defeat the brutal methods of its headmaster. Comic Gerard Jugnot shines in the lead role.
Plus at 8.40pm
Bombon – El Perro 15
(Carlos Sorin, Spain, 2004) 97m sub-titles
With Juan Villegas, Walter Donado, Gregorio the Dog
An unemployed mechanic adopts a large, white dog. Luckily for him, the dog turns out to be a prize pure bred and they set out on a wonderful road trip through Patagonia.
Tuesday 20 September 7.00pm
Double Bill
The Consequences of Love 15
(Paolo Sorrentino, Italy, 2004) 100m sub-titles
With Toni Servillo, Olivia Magnani, Adriano Giannini
An ice cool, gripping psychological thriller centring around the character of Titta di Girolamo (Servillo) who lives in a hotel room in an anonymous town in Switzerland.
Plus at 9.00pm
Private 15
(Saverio Costanzo, Italy, 2004) 95m sub-titles
With Lior Miller, Tomer Russo, Mohammad Bakri
A Palestinian family find themselves trapped inside a house commandeered by Israeli soldiers.
Wednesday 21 September 6.30pm
Pedro Almodovar Double Bill
Live Flesh 18
(Pedro Almodovar, Spain, 1997) 110m sub-titles
Based on a novel by Ruth Rendell. This is a remarkable tale of coincidence. A young man on a first date becomes involved in the shooting of a policeman. Years later, he is released from prison and begins an obsessive search for the woman involved.
Plus at 8.50pm
Bad Education 15
(La Mala Educacion)
(Pedro Almodovar, Spain, 2004) 105m sub-titles
With Gael Garcia Bernal, Fele Martinez, Daniel Gimenez
“A film director is approached by a man who claims to be his school friend from the 1960s. He’s now an actor and wants to talk about the Catholic priest who abused him. A return to the lurid themes that made Almodovar famous.“ – Roger Clarke, The Independent
Thursday 22 September 6.15pm
John Sayles Double Bill
Men with Guns 15
(Hombres Armados)
(John Sayles, USA, 1997) 128m
“In an un-named Latin American country, an eminent doctor decides to spend his vacation visiting students. His travels reveal that the medics have vanished.” – Time Out
Plus at 8.45pm
Silver City 15
(John Sayles, USA, 2004) 128m
With Maria Bello, Chris Cooper, Richard Dreyfus
Set against the backdrop of a mythic New West. The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician’s campaign for the Governor of Colorado.
Friday 23 and Saturday 24 September 6.30pm
Double Bill
Agata and the Storm 12A
(Agata e la tempesta)
(Silvio Soldini, Italy, 2004) 123m sub-titles
With Licia Maglietta, Giuseppe Battiston, Emilio Solfrizzi
Agata runs a bookshop in Genoa. Her brother, Gustavo, is a high-powered architect whose yuppie self-assurance begins to crumble when he discovers that he is the adopted son of a peasant family.
Plus at 8.55pm
Bread and Tulips 18
(Pane e Tulipani)
(Silvio Soldini, Italy, 2000) 110m sub-titles
With Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz
Overlooked by her family while on a coach holiday, a housewife hitches a ride to Venice and discovers a new world of possibilities.
Sunday 25 September 1.30pm
Afternoon – Vincente Minnelli Double Bill
The Bad and the Beautiful PG
(Vincente Minnelli, USA, 1952) 116m black and white
With Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon
Hollywood on Hollywood: the ambitions, the dreams, the successes, the heartbreaks. Vincente Minnelli’s quintessential movie about movie making.
Plus at 3.45pm
Lust for Life PG
(Vincente Minnelli, USA, 1956) 122m
With Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn
Kirk Douglas’ brilliant portrayal of Van Gogh, a man forever on a knife’s edge. The film neither explains Van Gogh’s art in terms of life or vice versa, but celebrates both.
Sunday 25 September 6.05pm
Evening - Federico Fellini Double Bill
La Strada PG
(Federico Fellini, Italy, 1954) 105m sub-titles
One of cinema’s enduring masterpieces. The film is the story of a travelling strongman and the peasant girl who assists him.
Plus at 8.10pm
8½ 15
(Otto e mezzo)
(Federico Fellini, Italy, 1963) 139m sub-titles
With Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimee
Guido (Mastroianni) is a film director who has lost all inspiration for his up-coming movie. He retreats into his dreams and all the memories of women he has loved and left, thus finding new-found inspiration.
Monday 26 September 7.00pm
Double Bill
Brazilian Film Festival
Baile Perfumado 15
(Perfumed Ball)
(Paulo Caldas/Lirio Ferreira, Brazil, 1997) 93m sub-titles
A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the 30s manages to take pictures of Lampiao, a legendary Brazilian outlaw in a kind of tropical Robin Hood.
Plus at 8.55pm
De Passagem 15
(Passing By)
(Ricardo Elias, Brazil, 2003) 87m sub-titles
Brothers Jefferson and Washington, and their friend Kennedy, made a trek across Sao Paulo on a reluctant drug run which proves seminal in dictating where their futures lie.
Tuesday 27 September 7.00pm
Double Bill
Brazilian Film Festival
Atraves da Janela 15
(Through the Window)
(Tata Amaral, Brazil, 2000) 83m sub-titles
Selma is an extremely loving mother to her son Raimundo. One day she becomes aware of some changes in her son’s behaviour. At first, she thinks it may be some girlfriend, but soon learns it’s something else.
Plus at 8.50pm
Cronicamente Inviavel 15
(Chronically Unfeasible)
(Sergio Biancchi, Brazil, 2001) 101m sub-titles
A portrait of Brazil made before Lula’s historic election success which used six people eating dinner in a restaurant as a starting point for a dissection of the country’s political and social mores.
Wednesday 28 September 7.00pm
Double Bill
Brazilian Film Festival
Um Ceu de Estrelas 15
(A Starry Sky)
(Tata Amaral, Brazil, 1996) 70m sub-titles
Dalva is packing her suitcase to leave for Miami in search of a better life. She is abandoning her nagging mother, a passionate but chauvinistic ex-boyfriend and a life in the doldrums, but things don’t quite go to plan.
Plus at 8.30pm
Prisioneiro da grade de Ferro 15
(The Prisoner of the Iron Bars)
(Paulo Sacramento, Brazil, 2004) 123m
Documentary about Carandiru Penitentiary with scenes filmed by the prisoners themselves.
Thursday 29 September 6.30pm
Double Bill
Floating Weeds PG
(Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1959) 119m sub-titles
A kabuki acting group visit a small coastal town. Poor audiences create a strain on the company and defect attention to the actors' private lives. Beautifully composed and telling character studies from the director of "Tokyo Story".
Plus at 8.50pm
Café Lumiere U
(Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Japan, 2004) 107m sub-titles
With Yo Hitoto, Tadanobu Asano, Masato Hagiwara
Yoko is an independent career woman, but an unexpected pregnancy forces her to rethink her life. Hsia-Hsien’s homage to Yasujiro Ozu to make the centenary of his birth.
Friday 30 September and Saturday 1 October 6.30pm
Double Bill
In My Father’s Den 18
(Brad McGann, New Zealand, 2004) 126m
With Matthew MacFadyen, Emily Barclay, Miranda Otto
A disillusioned war photographer rediscovers hope in a surprising friendship with a teenage girl after returning home to an isolated New Zealand town.
Plus at 8.55pm
Me You and Everyone We Know 15
(Miranda July, USA, 2005) 90m
With Miranda July, John Hawkes, Miles Thompson
A lonely shoe salesman and an eccentric performance artist struggle to connect in this unique tale on contemporary life. A fresh indie and an emerging directorial talent. Recommended.
Sunday 2 October 1.00pm
Afternoon – Powell & Pressburger Double Bill
The Red Shoes U
(Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, UK, 1948) 136m
With Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer, Marius Goring
The ballet world of the late 40s. An impresario discovers a dancer and makes her a slave to her art, until a young composer turns up to offer her a lifeline back to reality.
Plus at 3.55pm
A Matter of Life and Death U
(Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, UK, 1946) 104m
with David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey
An RAF pilot bales out of his blazing plane without a parachute. He should have died, but hasn’t – heaven investigates. The cinematography is sublime, as is the imagination.
Sunday 2 October 7.00pm
Evening - Jean Vigo Double Bill
Zero de Conduite PG
(Jean Vigo, France, 1933) 45m sub-titles
Vigo's much-banned autobiographical classic of school life in which four schoolboys organise an uprising. This is pure anarchic cinema poetry.
Plus at 8.05pm
L'Atalante PG
(Jean Vigo, France, 1934) 88m sub-titles
Vigo's only feature film and one of the romantic classics of cinema. A young barge captain takes his bride on to his boat that plies the canals around Paris.
Monday 3 October 6.45pm
Double Bill
American Movie: The Making of Northwestern 15
(Chris Smith, UK, 1999) 104m documentary
With Mark Borchardt, Tim Schimmels, Monica Borchardt
A hapless amateur filmmaker struggles to produce his latest horror film ‘Coven’.
Plus at 8.50pm
Overnight 15
(Tony Montana/Mark Brian Smith, USA, 2003) 82m documentary
From rags to riches and back again barman Troy Duffy wins and loses a deal with Miramax in a compulsive, cautionary Hollywood tale.
Tuesday 4 October 7.00pm
Black History Month Double Bill
Black Joy 15
(Antony Simmons, UK, 1977) 89m
With Norman Beaton, Trevor Thomas, Floella Benjamin
An innocent and unsophisticated Guyanan immigrant is exposed to hustlin’ in Brixton. “A comedy of social manners which penetrates Brixton’s realities in an astute portrayal of community life.” – BFI
Plus at 8.50pm
One Love 12A
(Rick Elgood/Don Letts, Jamaica, 2003) 100m
With Ky-Mani Marley, Cherine Anderson, Vas Blackwood
A rasta musician meets a gospel singer when they both enter a music contest in Kingston, Jamaica. They fall for each other against the wishes of the girl’s pastor father. A real feel good movie.
Wednesday 5 October 6.45pm
Double Bill
Albanian Film Season
Dasma e Sakos 15
(Sako’s Wedding)
(Vladimir Prifti, Albania, 1998) 100m sub-titles
Under stone roofs of houses with walls like castles Sako’s wedding is about to come to a halt. The story takes place at the beginning of the last century but for many Albanians the end of the 20th century rings some bells.
Plus at 8.50pm
Nate pa Hene 18
(Moonless Night)
(Artan Minarolli, Albania/France, 2004) 80m sub-titles
Rudina and her grandfather leave their village to emigrate to the West. On the train full of would-be emigrants, Rudina meets Gjergj. On the beach, under a moonless night, they are about to choose their future.
Thursday 6 October 7.00pm
Double Bill
Albanian Film Season
Tirana – Viti Zero 18
(Tirana – Year Zero)
(Fatmir Koci, Albania/France/Belgium, 2001) 90m sub-titles
Niku and Klara are very much in love. Both youngsters have different directions to pursue against a backdrop of highly emotional people living on the edge of despair. A film celebrating the maverick spirit of filmmaking.
Plus at 8.50pm
Proka U
(Isa Qosja, Kosove, 1985) 89m sub-titles
Proka is different from others in his village. Working hard to overcome the drought he remains uninterested in the surrounding petty gossip, and the other villagers distrust him. From here starts his existentialist affliction. Great picture with surprising authenticity.
Friday 7 October 7.00pm
Quadruple Bill
Albanian Film Season
Letra ne Ere 15
(Letters in the Wind)
(Edmond Budina, Albania/Italy, 2002) 90m sub-titles
This is a story of Niko who goes to Italy in search of his son. With a mix of fantasy and realistic portrayal of everyday sagas, Budina portrays life on the other side of the Adriatic at the end of the 90s.
Plus at 8.30pm
Kolibja e Qenit U
(The Kennel)
(Bujar Alimani, Albania/Greece, 2002) 14m sub-titles
Some time animals can remind us to be more human. This film is an unusual approach to the migration.
Plus at 8.45pm
Edeni i braktisur U
(The Deserted Eden)
(Eno Milkani, Albania, 2002) 20m sub-titles
In this film you will see what is left behind in the beautiful south Albania after the mass scale emigration has taken place. The old faithful people who still remain are thirsty for life.
Plus at 9.05pm
Kosova 9/11 U
(Burbuqe Berisha, Kosove, 2003) 13m sub-titles
This film tells with a local wit what happened in rural Kosova on 9/11 when America was under attack and the news gets distorted.
Saturday 8 October 6.55pm
Double Bill
Albanian Film Season
Lule te Zeza (18)
(Black Flowers)
(Mevlan Shanaj, Albania, 2003) 105m sub-titles
Liliana, a free spirited woman, is abandoned by her husband and so is her newly wed daughter Ana. As the village becomes emptier, foreign religion missionaries keep arriving.
Plus at 8.55pm
Vallezim me Henen U
(Dance with the Moon)
(Ismet Sijarina, Kosove, 2002) 14m sub-titles
Nita and Mrika are two twins in a suburb of Prishtina. Like every child they too have their dreams. For Nita everything changes after the dramatic events in New York on 9/11.
Sunday 8 October 2.30pm
Albanian Film Season
Shorts Showcase with Young Film Directors
Young film makers from Kosova and Albania living and working in London will get a chance to come together and exchange the experiences and ideas. After the projections of short films there will be a workshop followed by a lecturer to talk about the UK experience on the post production issues and challenges for young directors on the distribution and copyrights issues. Films include:
Night Club 15
(Bekim Mala, UK, 2005) 15m
A film about a man contemplating his life.
Plus
Sheer Coincidence PG
(Astrit Hyka, UK, 2005) 9m
This is a story of a taxi driver in a London’s suburban life with a satisfying twist in the end.
Sunday 9 October 5.30pm
Evening – Frank Sinatra Double Bill
The Manchurian Candidate 15
(John Frankenheimer, USA, 1962) 126m
with Frank Sinatra, Lawrence Harvey
A Korean War veteran becomes obsessed by the idea that a hero is being brainwashed to become a political assassin. Cold War paranoia at its most intelligent in this adaptation of a novel by Richard Conden.
Plus at 8.20pm
Sweet Smell of Success PG
(Alexander Mackendrick, USA, 1957) 96m
with Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis
“A crooked press agent helps a megalomania New York columnist break up his sister’s marriage. Moody, brilliant, Wellesian melodrama put together with great artificial style.” – Halliwell’s Film Guide
Monday 10 October 7.00pm
Sally Potter Double Bill
Orlando PG
(Sally Potter, UK, 1992) 92m
A sumptuous adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel tells the story of a charmed individual whose life is an extraordinary journey of self-discovery, spanning four centuries. A tour-de-force performance by Tilda Swinton.
Plus at 8.55pm
Yes 15
(Sally Potter, USA/UK, 2004) 100m
With Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam Neill
An Irish-American scientist finds herself trapped by her marriage and begins an affair with a Lebanese surgeon exiled in London. This affair takes them on a journey and forces them to evaluate their beliefs and each other.
Tuesday 11 October 6.40pm
Double Bill
Machuca 15
(Andres Wood, Chile/Spain, 2005) 120m sub-titles
With Marias Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli
Chile in 1973 during the last days of President Allende and the first days of Pinochet. Two boys get caught up in the revolutionary fervour and learn to respect each other.
Plus at 9.00pm
Whisky 15
(Juan Pablo Rebella, Spain, 2005) 98m sub-titles
With Jorge Bolami, Daniel Hendler, Ana Katz
When his long-lost brother resurfaces Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something persuades Marta, an employee at his sock factory, to ‘play’ his wife, with unlikely consequences.
Wednesday 12 October 7.00pm
DocHouse Double Bill
Devil's Minor
(Kief Davidson/Richard Ladkani, Germany/USA, 2005) 82m
The story of the Bolivian silver miners told through the captivating Basilio who estimates his age at 14, and his younger brother. The brothers work in the mine while dreaming of finding enough silver so allow them to escape to school.
Plus a second film to be announced.
Please check www.dochouse.org for updates.
Thursday 13 October 7.00pm
Black History Month Double Bill
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song 15
(Melvin Van Peebles, USA, 1971) 97m
With Melvin Van Peebles, Rhetta Hughes, John Amos
“Arguably the most important black American film of its age. The story concerns Sweetback (Van Peebles) who is moved to fight back when two white cops casually beat up a political activist in front of him.” – Time Out
Plus at 9.00pm
Baddass 15
(Mario Van Peebles, USA, 2002) 108m
With Mario Van Peebles, Ossie Davis, Nia Long
Mario Van Peebles’ half documentary/homage to his father. Melvin’s film, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song. An insightful and moving take on the movie business.
Friday 14 October 6.45pm
Across the Border: Documentaries from Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia
Organised by the Austrian Cultural Forum, Czech Centre, Hungarian Cultural Centre, Polish Institute and Slovenian Embassy. Initiated by Platform Culture Central Europe in collaboration with Oxdox. Please pick up our dedicated brochure from the reception desk at Riverside Studios.
Double Bill
Across the Border 15
(P. Lozinski/J. Gogola/P. Kerkes/R. Lakatos/B. Cakic-Veselic, Austria, 2004) 131m sub-titles
An episidoc journey from north to south, a polyglot portrait of ideas about borders in central Europe at the dawn of the 21st century.
Plus at 9.20pm
Panel Discussion
With Markus Glaser, Jan Gogola and Petr Kerekes
Saturday 15 October 6.30pm
Triple Bill
Across the Border
For a While/Nursery 15
(Wojciech Staron, Poland, 2004) 26m sub-titles
The heart-warming story of a couple of filmmakers and their four-year-old son who goes to observe the life of the village. With no money and no hope for a better life, the only thing which keeps them together is love.
Plus at 7.00pm
Here We Are 15
(Jaroslav Vojtek, Slovakia, 2005) 76m sub-titles
After living more than forty years in Kazakhstan a Slovakian family decides to return to their original homeland, which they know only through their parents’ stories.
Plus at 8.35pm
New Eldorado 15
(Tibor Kocsis, Hungary, 2004) 75m sub-titles
The story of a modern day fight of David and Goliath: the villagers of Rosia Montana, a picture-postcard village in the mountains of Romania, and a Canadian mining company eager to turn their homes into Europe’s largest gold mine.
Q & A with Tibor Kocsis
Sunday 16 October 3.30pm
Afternoon - Triple Bill
Across the Border
Under Preseren’s Head 15
(Maja Weiss, Slovenia, 2004) 25m sub-titles
A week in the life of four people: a cleaner, a model, a journalist and a musician/rapper, with each day of the week being focused on one topic, with an epilogue about the national anthem.
Plus at 3.55pm
Land Without Qualities
(Harald Friedl, Austria, 2000) 75m sub-titles documentary
Friedl’s documentary perceives a sharp and critical image of recent Austrian identity or better ‘non-identity’ through the eyes and voices of artists and intellectuals.
Plus at 5.10pm
A Prefab Building is a Friend 15
(Jan Gogola, Czech Republic, 2000) 20m sub-titles
A satirical take on prefab housing estates and its inhabitants – those who hate them as well as those who find an inspiration in them.
Q & A with Jan Gogola tbc
Sunday 16 October 6.15pm
Evening - Double Bill
Across the Border
Pure Heart 15
(Daniela Rusnokova, Slovakia, 2004) 11m sub-titles
An ironic self-portrait of an ordinary girl who leaves Slovakia for Finland to find out more about the world but returns to ‘New Europe’ knowing more about herself.
Plus at 6.30pm
A Bar at Victoria Station 15
(Leszek Dawid, Poland, 2003) 55m sub-titles
The story of two Polish friends who decide to go to London looking for a better life. They work hard and try hard to make their dreams come true.
Sunday 16 October 7.25pm
Evening - Triple Bill
Across the Border
The Hero Who Wasn’t There 15
(Petr Kerekes, Slovakia, 2004) 25m sub-titles
Six intertwined chapters follow the memories of two girls, the history of one grave and its effect on the two couples, but also the lives of the whole community.
Plus at 8.10pm
Poor Land 15
(Filip Marczewski, Poland, 2004) 5m sub-titles
‘Poor Land’ shows the most ecologically destroyed region of Poland, which also has the highest levels of unemployment. In illegal coalmines over 5,000 workers mine the coal in perilous conditions.
Plus at 8.15pm
God’s Stone Quarry 15
(Bretislav Rychlik, Czech Republic, 2004) 88m sub-titles
One year in Northern Bohemia marked by the past fifty years – the deportation of Germans, the era of socialism and coal mining. A destroyed landscape is a starting point for the meeting of natural, human energy and very different characters.
Q & A with Bretislav Rychlik
Monday 17 October 6.30pm
Double Bill
Across the Border
1.35 15
(Milan Balog, Slovakia, 2003) 8m sub-titles
Experimental docu-drama about two separated lovers – for him the only way to keep contact with her is to send packs of photocopies from his private life.
Plus at 6.40pm
I am from Nowhere 15
(Georg Misch, Austria, 2002) 80m sub-titles
A documentary about the small East-Slovakian village of Mikova which Andy Warhol’s family left in 1921 when they emigrated to the USA. Some of his relatives still live there; the film visits them and reflects on the media’s obsession with the village.
Monday 17 October 8.20pm
Double Bill
Across the Border
Ill Fated Child 15
(Lucie Kralova, Czech Republic, 2003) 37m sub-titles
Portrait of a twenty-year-old joiner and author of ‘Predator in Holocaust’, who dedicated his life to former extermination camps in Europe. The film questions how can the tragedy of Holocaust be so deeply connected with our predestinations.
Plus at 9.00pm
March of Living 15
(Grzegorz Linkowski, Poland, 2003) 50m sub-titles
The meeting between Jakub Weksler-Waszkinel, a catholic priest, who learnt that he was a Jew and saved from the ghetto, and Martin Bormann Jr., son of Hitler’s closest collaborator.
Q & A with Grzegorz Linkowski
Tuesday 18 October 6.30pm
Double Bill
Across the Border
Children – Kosovo 2000 15
(Ferenc Moldovanyi, Hungary, 2001) 90m sub-titles
The two words deca and femijet mean the same thing: one is Serb, the other is Albanian, for children. The suffering caused by ethnic hatred and intolerance will leave an indelible mark on their young lives.
Plus at 8.15pm
The Road of Fraternity and Unity 15
(Maja Weiss, Slovenia, 1999) 104m sub-titles
A journey on the road, which once united Yugoslavia, and then turned into the road of war and hell. Talking to people now in separated countries, the director presents views and feelings about fraternity and unity in the past and today.
Q & A with Maja Weiss
Wednesday 19 October 5.55pm
Double Bill
Downfall 12A
(Oliver Hirschbiegel, Germany, 2004) 155m sub-titles
With Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch
Traudl Junge (Lara), the last secretary to Adolf Hitler (Ganz) describes the Nazi dictator’s final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
Plus at 8.50pm
The Last Mitterand PG
(Le Promeneur du Champs de Mars)
(Robert Guediguian, France, 2005) 117m sub-titles
With Michel Bouquet, Jalil Lespert, Philippe Fretun
A fictionalised account of the last days of French president Francois Mitterand, viewed from the perspective of a young journalist invited to work on Mitterand’s memoirs.
Thursday 20 October 6.45pm
Richard Linklater Double Bill
Before Sunrise 15
(Richard Linklater, USA, 1995) 101m
With Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
A French graduate student, Celine (Delpy), meets a young American, Jesse (Hawke), on the Budapest-Vienna train. The two seize the moment and spend the next fourteen hours together in Vienna where they discover a powerful meeting of hearts and minds.
Plus at 8.45pm
Before Sunset 15
(Richard Linklater, USA, 2004) 81m
The two meet again in Paris nine years later. They only have a few hours together to re-evaluate longing and lost time. “A romantic gem.” – Time Out
Friday 21 October 6.30pm
Double Bill
Finding Neverland PG
(Marc Forster/Damion Dietz, UK/USA, 2004) 101m
With Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Dustin Hoffman, Julie Christie
“A tale of magic and fantasy inspired by the life of James Barrie, the real-life author of the children’s classic Peter Pan”. – Miramax Films
Plus at 8.40pm
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory PG
(Tim Burton, USA/UK, 2005) 115m
With Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Freddie Highmore
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world’s most unusual candy maker. Faithful to Roald Dahl’s book and with another stellar performance from Depp.
Saturday 22 October 6.30pm
Double Bill
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory PG
(Tim Burton, USA/UK, 2005) 115m
With Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Freddie Highmore
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world’s most unusual candy maker. Faithful to Roald Dahl’s book and with another stellar performance from Depp.
Plus at 8.50pm
Finding Neverland PG
(Marc Forster/Damion Dietz, UK/USA, 2004) 101m
With Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Dustin Hoffman, Julie Christie
“A tale of magic and fantasy inspired by the life of James Barrie, the real-life author of the children’s classic Peter Pan”. – Miramax Films
Sunday 23 October 1.00pm
Afternoon – Double Bill
A Day at the Races U
(Sam Wood, USA, 1937) 109m
with Marx Brothers, Maureen O’Sullivan, Alan Jones
“Groucho, as a horse doctor in charge of a sanatorium for wealthy neurasthenics, wise cracks, dances and passionately insults the incomparable Margaret Dumont.” – The Spectator, 1937
Plus at 3.10pm
A Night at the Opera U
(Sam Wood, USA, 1935) 94m
Its level of invention is high from the moment Harpo fences with the starchy opera house conductor, misleading the orchestra until the overture to Il Travatore turns into a rousing rendition of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”.
Sunday 23 October 2.00pm
Evening - Ealing Comedies Double Bill
Passport to Pimlico PG
(Henry Cornelius, UK, 1949) 84m
with Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford
“Part of a London district is discovered to belong to Burgundy and the inhabitants themselves free of rationing restrictions. A cleverly detailed little comedy, which inaugurated the best period of Ealing.” – Halliwell’s Film Guide
Plus at 3.45pm
The Ladykillers U
(Alexander Mackendrick, UK, 1955) 97m
With Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Katie Johnson
An older lady takes in a sinister lodger who, with his four friends, commits a robbery. When she finds out, they plot to kill her.
Monday 24 October 7.00pm
New York Double Bill
Radio Days PG
(Woody Allen, USA, 1987) 88m
With Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
A nostalgic reminiscence about gorwing up in 1940s Queens, New York (in the days prior to WW1), mixing family vignettes with incidents about radio performers’ golden age.
Plus at 8.50pm
Manhattan 15
(Woody Allen, USA, 1979) 96m
A lyrical hymn to one of the world's great cities. This is one of Allen's most mature films, perfect in the beauty of cinematographer Gordon Willis' New York skyline and the Gershwin score.
Tuesday 25 October 6.00pm
Double Bill
Breaking the Waves 18
(Lars von Trier, UK, 1996) 158m
A naïve young woman from a remote community in Scotland marries an oil rigger. Her life is joyfully transformed until her husband is paralysed in an accident.
Plus at 9.00pm
Dear Wendy 15
(Thomas Vinterberg, USA, 2005) 101m
With Jamie Bell, Bill Pullman, Michael Angarano
A young boy establishes a gang of youthful misfits in their love of guns and their code of honour. “An overt political assault, brilliantly cloaked in a boyish adventure story.” – Screen International
Wednesday 26 October 5.30pm
Double Bill
Magnolia 18
(Paul Thomas Anderson, USA, 1999) 188m
While a TV mogul lies dying, we experience a series of broken lives of interwoven characters across a rainy day and night in the San Fernando Valley. Time Out described it as “a dark portrait of loss, loveless-ness and fear of failure in contemporary America”.
Plus at 9.00pm
Crash 15
(Paul Haggis, USA, 2004) 113m
A car crash sets in motion a chain of events bringing a group of strangers together in this tense drama about race relations in Los Angeles. From the screenwriter of Million Dollar Baby.
Thursday 27 October 8.30pm
Bosnian Cinema: War and Peace
Since the war ended in 1995 Bosnian cinema has undergone a remarkable resurgence, regaining its reputation for creative film-making. Inevitably, a major preoccupation is war and its aftermath. This season sets the New Bosnian Cinema in context with an accompanying selection of pre-war films on the same theme. The season is organised by The Bosnian Institute in association with Riverside Studios and the London Film Academy. For more information visit www.bosnia.org.uk and with support from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Double Bill
Deset minuta 15
(Ten Minutes)
(Ahmed Imamovic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2002) 10m sub-titles
1994: Imamovic contrasts ten minutes in the life of a Japanese tourist in Rome with the bloody drama of a Bosnian family taking place at the same time less than an hour away in the besieged city of Sarajevo.
Plus at 8.40pm
Kod amidze Idriza 15
(Days and Hours)
(Pjer Zalica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2004) 96m sub-titles
Fuke pays a visit to his Uncle Idriz and Aunt Sabira to fix their hot water heater. He finds them consumed with grief over the loss of their son in the war and nursing long-held grudges against each other.
Friday 28 October 6.00pm
Triple Bill
Bosnian Cinema: War and Peace
Povratak 15
(Return)
(Namik Kabil, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2004) 5m sub-titles
Can we really ever return from the war? How much stays with us forever? Poet Faruk Sehic questions whether the pain of war can ever go away.
Plus at 6.05pm
Sarajevski atentat 15
(The Day that Shook the World)
(Veljko Bulajic, Yugoslavia, 1975) 136m
A blockbuster starring Christopher Plummer on the events surrounding the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip in 1914, setting in motion the chain of events that precipitated WW1.
Plus at 8.20pm
Gori vatra 15
(Fuse)
(Pjer Zalica, Bosnia-Herzegovina/Austria/Turkey/France, 2003) 111m sub-titles
A tragi-comedy of post-war Bosnia. The town of Tesanj is expecting a visit from President Clinton and its citizens have one week to prepare. But one explosive mixture of crime, corruption, ethnic intolerance and pain is bubbling to the surface.
Followed by a Q & A with director Pjer Zalica.
Saturday 29 October 10.00am
Bosnian Cinema: War and Peace
Master class with filmmaker Pjer Zalica (in collaboration with London Film Academy). Please contact the Box Office for details.
Saturday 29 October 2.00pm
Bosnian Cinema: War and Peace
Panel discussion with Miro Purivatra, director of Sarajevo Film Festival, and other guests.
Saturday 29 October 5.45pm
Double Bill
Bosnian Cinema: War and Peace
Prvo smrtno iskustvo 15
(First Death Experience)
(Aida Begic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2002) 35m sub-titles
Dado can’t replace his lost documents because records show he was killed during the war. He writes comic strips and soon the reality of the strips seems preferable to the reality of post-war Bosnia.
Plus at 6.20pm
Gluvni barut 15
(Silent Gunpowder)
(Bato Cengic, Yugoslavia, 1990) 112m sub-titles
Set in a Bosnian Serb mountain village in WW2, this is a dark tale of neighbours divided in their support for the Communist Partisans and the royalist Chetniks.
Saturday 29 October 8.30pm
Double Bill
Bosnian Cinema: War and Peace
Linije 15
(Lines)
(Dejan Strika, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2003) 29m sub-titles
The central characters’ desire for a better, or at least a normal, life is frustrated by the corrupt society they live in, drawing them into a world of crime and drugs.
Plus at 8.50pm
Ljeto u zlatnoj dolini 15
(Summer in Golden Valley)
(Srdjan Vuletic, Bosnia-Herzegovina/France/UK, 2003) 104m sub-titles
16-year-old Fikret seems quite ordinary until his father dies and the funeral ceremony is disrupted by the arrival of Hamid, who claims the dead man owes him a large sum of money.
Sunday 30 October 12.30pm
Double Bill
Bosnian Cinema: War and Peace
Djecak iz ratnog filma 15
(Boy From a War Movie)
(Semsudin Gegic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2004) 27m sub-titles
The story of 10-year-old Alen, born and abandoned in the Bosnian war, the child of a woman who was raped by a Serb soldier.
Plus at 1.00pm
Most 15
(The Bridge)
(Hajrudin Krvavac, Yugoslavia, 1969) 105m sub-titles
To stop a German offensive in WW2 the Partisans send an elite team of explosive experts to blow up a strategically important bridge.
Sunday 30 October 3.05pm
Double Bill
Bosnian Cinema: War and Peace
The Way We Played 15
(Samir Mehanovic, UK, 2005) 17m
On the eve of war in Bosnia Stevo and Ramiz search for treasure in an ancient fortress; that night they witness events that will change their lives forever.
Plus at 3.25pm
Bitka na Neretvi 15
(The Battle of Neretva)
(Veljko Bulajic, Yugoslavia, 1969) 106m sub-titles
In 1943 Hitler orders the final destruction of the Yugoslav Partisans. The Partisans begin to trek northward to the relative safety of the Bosnian mountains – their goal to cross the treacherous Neretva gorge over one remaining bridge.
Sunday 30 October 6.30pm
Double Bill
Bosnian Cinema: War and Peace
Slike sa ugla 15
(Images from the Corner)
(Jasmila Zbanic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2003) 22m sub-titles
Zbanic narrates the experience of a friend who was seriously wounded during the Bosnian war while a foreign photographer stood by snapping pictures.
Plus at 6.55pm
Nicija zemlja 15
(No Man’s Land)
(Danis Tanovic, Bosnia-Herzegovina/Slovenia/Italy/France/UK/Belgium, 2001) 98m sub-titles
Three Bosnian soldiers, divided by politics and war, find themselves united in a battle for survival in a trench in no man’s land. A darkly comic satire that won the 2002 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Sunday 30 October 8.55pm
Double Bill
Bosnian Cinema: War and Peace
Kontrapunkt za nju 15
(Counterpoint for Her)
(Danijela Majstorovic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2004) 30m sub-titles
A young Bosnian woman is sold into prostitution in Italy by her brother’s best friend in 1992, prefiguring the post-war expansion of sex trafficking in Bosnia.
Plus at 9.25pm
Kajmak i marmelada 15
(Cheese and Jam)
(Branko Djuric, Slovenia, 2003) 90m sub-titles
The film traces the story of a Bosnian dumped by his hardworking Slovenian girlfriend who finds there are only two jobs open to him – dressing up as Mickey Mouse and people-smuggling across the Italian border. A witty, cross-cultural black comedy that was a smash hit in Slovenia by Bosnian director/actor Branko Djuric.
Monday 31 October 5.30pm
Emir Kusturica Double Bill
Arizona Dream 15
Sunday 15 August 5.30pm
(Emir Kusturica, USA, 1992) 135m
Johnny Depp plays a fish inspector summoned to the desert for his uncle’s wedding. A strange, but magnificent film of mystical vision.
Plus at 8.05pm
Time of the Gypsies 15
(Emir Kusturica, Yugoslavia, 1989) 142m sub-titles
A remarkable and overwhelming tragi-comic drama of gypsy life, brimming with vitality and magic.
CINEMA DIARY – SEPTEMBER 2005
Thur 1 Heimat 3 Parts 1 & 2: The Happiest People in the World (15) 6.30pm +
The Champions (15) 8.40pm
Fri 2 Kim Ki-Duk’s: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter … and Spring (15) 6.45pm +
3- Iron (15) 8.50pm
Sat 3 Kim Ki-Duk’s: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter … and Spring (15) 6.45pm +
3- Iron (15) 8.55pm
Sun 4 Whisky Galore (PG) 1.30pm +
Kind Hearts and Coronets (U) 3.15pm
Kusturica’s: Black Cat, White Cat (15) 5.30pm +
Life is a Miracle (15) 8.00pm
Mon 5 Napoleon Dynamite (PG) 7.00pm +
Tarnation (15) 8.50pm
Tue 6 Football Days (15) 6.30pm +
Torremolinos 73 (15) 8.50pm
Wed 7 Coffee and Cigarettes (15) 6.45pm +
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (15) 8.40pm
Thur 8 Heimat 3 Parts 3 & 4: The Russians Are Coming (15) 6.00pm +
Everyone’s Doing Well (15) 8.25pm
Fri 9 House of Flying Daggers (15) 6.40pm +
Kung Fu Hustle (15) 9.00pm
Sat 10 House of Flying Daggers (15) 6.40pm +
Kung Fu Hustle (15) 9.00pm
Sun 11 The Postman Always Rings Twice (PG) 1.00pm +
Mildred Pierce (PG) 3.15pm
The Man in the White Suit (U) 6.15pm +
The Lavender Hill Mob (PG) 8.00pm
Mon 12 Performance (18) 6.30pm +
Blow Up (15) 8.35pm
Tue 13 The Motorcycle Diaries (15) 6.30pm +
Maria Full of Grace (15) 8.55pm
Wed 14 Point Blank (15) 7.00pm +
Stander (15) 8.50pm
Thur 15 Heimat 3 Parts 5 & 6: Follow Me (15) 6.45pm +
Goodbye to Schabbach (15) 8.50pm
Fri 16 Wong Kar-Wai’s: In the Mood for Love (18) 6.45pm +
2046 (12A) 8.45pm
Sat 17 Workmen ’80 (18) 6.15pm +
The Man of Iron (18) 8.15pm
Sun 18 Keaton’s: Spite Marriage (U) 2.30pm +
The Cameraman (U) 4.10pm
The Interrogation (18) 6.15pm +
The Escape from the Liberty Cinema (18) 8.25pm
Mon 19 Les Choristes (12A) 6.45pm +
Bombon – El Perro (15) 8.40pm
Tue 20 The Consequences of Love (15) 7.00pm +
Private (15) 9.00pm
Wed 21 Almodovar’s: Live Flesh (18) 6.30pm +
Bad Education (15) 8.50pm
Thur 22 Sayles’: Men with Guns (15) 6.15pm +
Silver City (15) 8.45pm
Fri 23 Agata and the Storm (12A) 6.30pm +
Bread and Tulips (18) 8.55pm
Sat 24 Agata and the Storm (12A) 6.30pm +
Bread and Tulips (18) 8.55pm
Sun 25 Minnelli’s: The Bad and the Beautiful (PG) 1.30pm +
Lust for Life (PG) 3.45pm
Fellini’s: La Strada (PG) 6.05pm +
8½ (15) 8.10pm
Mon 26 Baile Perfumado/Perfumed Ball (15) 7.00pm +
De Passagem/Passing By (15) 8.55pm
Tue 27 Atraves de Janela/Through the Window (15) 7.00pm +
Cronicamente Inviavel/Chronically Unfeasible (15) 8.50pm
Wed 28 Um Ceu de Estrelas/A Starry Sky (15) 7.00pm +
Prisioneiro da grade de Ferro/The Prisoner of the Iron Bars (15) 8.30pm
Thur 29 Floating Weeds (PG) 6.30pm +
Café Lumiere (U) 8.50pm
Fri 30 In My Father’s Den (18) 6.30pm +
Me You and Everyone We Know (15) 8.55pm
CINEMA – OCTOBER 2004
Sat 1 In My Father’s Den (18) 6.30pm +
Me You and Everyone We Know (15) 8.55pm
Sun 2 Powell & Pressburger’s: The Red Shoes (U) 1.00pm +
A Matter of Life and Death (U) 3.55pm
Vigo’s: Zero de Conduite (PG) 7.00pm +
L’Atalante (PG) 8.05pm
Mon 3 American Movie: The Making of Northwestern (15) 6.45pm +
Overnight (15) 8.50pm
Tue 4 Black History Month: Black Joy (15) 7.00pm +
One Love (12A) 8.50pm
Wed 5 Dasma e Sakos/Sako’s Wedding (15) 6.45pm +
Nate pa Hene/Moonless Night (18) 8.50pm
Thur 6 Tirana –Viti Zero/Tirana – Year Zero (18) 7.00pm +
Proka (U) 8.50pm
Fri 7 Letra ne Ere/Letters in the Wind (15) 7.00pm +
Kolibja e Qenit/The Kennel (U) 8.30pm +
Edeni i braktisur/The Deserted Eden (U) 8.45pm +
Kosova 9/11 (U) 9.05pm
Sat 8 Lule te Zeza/Black Flowers (18) 6.55pm +
Vallezim me Henen (U) 8.55pm
Sun 9 Shorts Showcase with Young Film Directors 2.30pm
The Manchurian Candidate (15) 5.30pm +
Sweet Smell of Success (PG) 8.20pm
Mon 10 Potter’s: Orlando (PG) 7.00pm + Yes (15) 8.55pm
Tue 11 Machuca (15) 6.40pm + Whisky (15) 9.00pm
Wed 12 DocHouse: Devil’s Minor 7.00pm + film to be announced
Thur 13 Black History Month: Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (15) 7.00pm + Baddass (15) 9.00pm
Fri 14 Across the Border (15) 6.45pm + Panel Discussion 9.20pm
Sat 15 For a While/Nursery (15) 6.30pm + Here We Are (15) 7.00pm +
New Eldorado (15) 8.35pm
Sun 16 Under Preseren’s Head (15) 3.30pm +
Land Without Qualities (15) 3.55pm +
A Prefab Building is a Friend (15) 5.10pm
Pure Heart (15) 6.15pm + A Bar at Victoria Station (15) 6.30pm
The Hero Who Wasn’t There (15) 7.25pm +
Poor Land (15) 8.10pm + God’s Stone Quarry (15) 8.15pm
Mon 17 1.35 (15) 6.30pm + I am from Nowhere (15) 6.40pm
Ill Fated Child (15) 8.20pm + March of Living (15) 9.00pm
Tue 18 Children – Kosovo 2000 (15) 6.30pm +
The Road to Fraternity and Unity (15) 8.15pm
Wed 19 Downfall (12A) 5.55pm + The Last Mitterand (PG) 8.50pm
Thur 20 Linklater’s: Before Sunrise (15) 6.45pm +
Before Sunset (15) 8.45pm
Fri 21 Finding Neverland (PG) 6.30pm +
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (PG) 8.40pm
Sat 22 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (PG) 6.30pm +
Finding Neverland (PG) 8.50pm
Sun 23 A Day at the Races (U) 1.00pm +
A Night at the Opera (U) 3.10pm
Passport to Pimlico (PG) 2.00pm + The Ladykillers (U) 3.45pm
Mon 24 Radio Days (PG) 7.00pm + Manhattan (15) 8.50pm
Tue 25 Breaking the Waves (18) 6.00pm + Dear Wendy (15) 9.00pm
Wed 26 Magnolia (18) 5.30pm + Crash (15) 9.00pm
Thur 27 Deset minuta/Ten Minutes (15) 8.30pm +
Kod amidze Idriza/Days and Hours (15) 8.40pm
Fri 28 Povratak/Return (15) 6.00pm +
Sarajevski atentat/The Day that Shook the World (15) 6.05pm +
Gori vatra/Fuse (15) 8.20pm
Sat 29 Master class with Pjer Zalica 10.00am
Panel Discussion 2.00pm
Prvo smrtno iskustvo/First Death Experience (15) 5.45pm +
Gluvni barut/Silent Gunpowder (15) 6.20pm
Linije/Lines (15) 8.30pm +
Ljeto u zlatnoj dolini/Summer in Golden Valley (15) 8.50pm
Sun 30 Djecak iz ratnog filma/Boy From a War Zone (15) 12.30pm +
Most/The Bridge (15) 1.00pm
The Way We Played (15) 3.05pm +
Bitka na Neretvi/The Battle of Neretva (15) 3.25pm
Slike sa ugla/Images from the Corner (15) 6.30pm +
Nicija zemlja/No Man’s Land (15) 6.55pm
Kontrapunkt za nju/Counterpoint for Her (15) 8.55pm +
Kajmak i marmelada/Cheese and Jam (15) 9.25pm
Mon 31 Kusturica’s: Arizona Dream (15) 5.30pm +
Time of the Gypsies (15) 8.05pm
August 14, 2005
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