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Fri 29 July • Late Night Shorts FUTURE SHORTS (15) 11.15pm 7.35 IN THE MORNING BAD ANIMALS HUMAN FROM ONE ROOM TO ANOTHER JUSTICE RUNNERS FREE DUB 1 FISH NEVER SLEEP HARVIE KRUMPET Adm £5/£4 Concessions |
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CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (PG) 12.30 (US/Br 2005) dir.Tim Burton 115m. "Like a 21st century Wizard of Oz, this inspired combination of Roald Dahl, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp is sheer magic, with a twisted, involving subtext that keeps it from being merely a goofy kids' movie. So much fun you just want to eat it." An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs. Adm £5/£4 Concessions/£2.50 OAP’s |
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CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (PG) 12.30 (US/Br 2005) dir.Tim Burton 115m. An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs. Adm £5/£4 Concessions/£2.50 OAP’s |
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BLIND SPOT: HITLER’S SECRETARY (PG) 1.15 (Austria 2002) dirs.André Heller & Othmar Schmiderer 91m. Documentary. Subtitles. “A remarkable historical document. Adolf Hitler's private secretary Traudl Junge served him from 1942 until 1945, when the Führer dictated his will to her in the bunker. She remained virtually silent until 2001, when she gave this stunning interview to film-maker André Heller. There is no black-and-white footage, no World at War soundtrack of sirens or machine guns, not even photographs of Junge as a young woman. There is just Junge's testimony, which is crisp, cool and largely dispassionate. There is something fascinating about Junge's confession about her own guilt and the contempt she felt for Hitler's cowardice in committing suicide, leaving his bunker staff to fend for themselves. This is a compelling and authentic new account of Hitler.”
(Ger/It 2004) dir.Oliver Hirschbiegel 155m. Subtitles. “Claustrophobic, tense and often riveting, Downfall traps us in Hitler's bunker during the final days of the Third Reich. As the Allies advance on Berlin and the Führer's empire crumbles, lead actor Bruno Ganz gives the great dictator a human face as he struggles with the onset of Parkinson's disease and prepares to take his own life. Controversial in its native Germany, Oliver Hirschbiegel's meticulous film is no sensational shockfest, but a living, breathing historical recreation of Hitler's downfall.” |
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CRASH (15) 10.45am (US 2004) dir.Paul Haggis 112m. “A District Attorney and his paranoid wife (Brendan Fraser and Sandra Bullock) are carjacked by two black teens (Chris Bridges and Larenz Tate). A pair of very different cops (Matt Dillon and Ryan Phillippe) surprise themselves during tense situations. A wealthy couple (Thandie Newton and Terrence Dashon Howard) endure a horrible incident, then have their worldview challenged even further. Two detectives (Don Cheadle and Jennifer Esposito) find their interracial relationship strained to the breaking point. A Latino locksmith (Michael Peña) copes with slurs and a terrifying assault. And a Middle Eastern family (Shaun Toub, Bahar Soomekh, Marina Sirtis) feels oppressed by everyone around them. Director-cowriter Haggis (MILLION DOLLAR BABY) tackles the race issue from just about every conceivable angle; each scene snaps with life and energy, tapping into the emotions and highlighting the issues in extremely insightful ways.” An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs. Adm £5.50/£4.50 Concessions/£3.00 OAP’s |
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Sat 20 Aug • Leapfrog Entertainment presents Shortseasons Summer Fest 05 (15) 4.30
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CLEAN (15) 1.00 (Fr/Can/Br 2004) Olivier Assayas 111m. Some subtitles. “Oscillating from dynastic period epic in the stately LES DESTINÉES SENTIMENTALES to wireless global dystopia in the self-immolating DEMONLOVER, Assayas narrows his scope to a muted, wintry study of the needle and the damage done. In CLEAN, former VJ Emily Wang arrives in Hamilton, Ontario, where her past-it singer-songwriter husband has a gig; after an argument, he dies of an overdose and she’s jailed for possession. Upon her release, Emily faces a bewildering mountain of challenges: stay away from smack, repair her reputation, place her prison-recorded demo into the right hands and, above all, restore her relationship with her young son, Jay. The film locates its heart muscle in its performances.”
(France 2004) dir.Arnaud Desplechin 153m. “Desplechin’s tumultuous return to the form of MA VIE SEXUELLE teems with life, art, myth and madness; it’s a careening modern relationships melodrama that undercuts the usual routines of French chamber cinema with left turns into ghost story, bedlam burlesque, cornershop shootout and even a madcap rap moonwalk. The film knocks between two ex-lovers, Nora and Ismael, whose lives have taken paths nearly as divergent as their outlooks on them. A jitterbug web of subtly rhyming recriminations, wrong footing revelations and the odd reconciliation, the film is enrapturing to watch, full of appositely grandstanding performances and tumbling improvisatory technique. Magestic movie-making.” |
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CRASH (15) 10.45am (US 2004) dir.Paul Haggis 112m. An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs. Adm £5.50/£4.50 Concessions/£3.00 OAP’s |
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Fri 26 Aug • Late Night Shorts FUTURE SHORTS (15) 11.15pm GET THE PICTURE THE FANCY RAT SHOW FLY PAPER JCB PAPILLON D'AMOUR ON S'EMBRASSE? BLUE MOVIE ARGENT CONTENT MERCI A HEAP OF TROUBLE Adm £5.50/£4.50 Concessions |
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Sat 27 Aug • Late Night Sync 11.30pm Multiple projection, experimental image and sound. Featuring the Rio Cinema Tapeslide project 2004-2005 and special guests. £5/£3 Concessions |
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END OF THE CENTURY – THE STORY OF THE RAMONES (PG) 2.15 (US 2004) dirs.Jim Fields & Michael Gramaglia 108m. Documentary. “The band that kick-started the punk scene is no more. Part tribute, part journalistic exploration, this documentary is a rocket ride through the twisted history of New York's finest rockers. Charting their history from the early days through to the death of Joey and Dee Dee, directors Gramaglia and Fields let the tale speak for itself, collecting interviews, old and new, with all the band members and those they influenced to relate a saga of creative genius, internal strife and immense disappointment.” + DIG! (15) 4.20
Anton Newcombe, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Joel Gion, Matt Hollywood, Peter Holmstrom. “In 1995, Timoner started filming two fledgling West Coast groups who collectively promised to revolutionise the music scene: the Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols. The fruit of seven years’ observation, DIG! is a resonantly structured compare-and-contrast piece, presenting the Dandys’ rise from next-big-thing to all-conquering festival headliners as a relatively smooth ride, while the Jonestown boys, despite their prolific and widely touted talent, emerge as perennial bridesmaids, staggering dysfunctionally from one abortive, squabble-ridden gig to another, constantly on the verge of implosion. It’s a compelling dynamic. As a portrait of a relationship, the film is terrific, tracing the bands’ transition from mutual adulation to wariness, resentment and recrimination.” |
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YES (15) 11.30am (Br/US 2005) dir.Sally Potter 100m. “YES is a post-9/11 love story, set in London, about a passionate adulterous affair between an Irish-American scientist (Joan Allen), who's unhappily married to an English politician, and a Lebanese cook (Simon Abkarian), who used to work as a surgeon in Beirut. All the dialogue, which Potter wrote, is in rhyming iambic pentameter, apart from a few direct declarations with eight syllables. Far from a gimmick, this is the ideal way to convey Potter's poetic intelligence and her feelings about the contemporary world. Potter's brazen movie seems to invite ridicule, though it's more lighthearted in its provocations than heavy-handed or bleak.” An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs. Adm £5.50/£4.50 Concessions/£3.00 OAP’s |
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BOMBÓN EL PERRO (15) 11.30am (Arg/Spain 2004) dir.Carlos Sorin 98m. Subtitles. “Hardship seems innate in Carlos Sorin’s Patagonia, as if it issued from the doleful dusty desert that, under mockingly wide skies, rolls on for mile after mile. Coco (Juan Villegas) is the wrong side of 50. He tries travelling salesmanship, but people only want to barter: a woman at the roadside gives him a great white dog – a pure-bred perro argentino. Coco’s initially unpersuaded, but ‘le chien’ proves a staunch companion, and brings him some fiscal luck. Ostensibly a shaggy-dog story, BOMBÓN traces the pair’s progress through a succession of by-the-way incidents and character encounters. Its bold, crisp compositions, pretty light, lolling landscapes and guitar accompaniment don’t so much sugar the pill as cast it to the winds. A lovely film.” (Nick Bradshaw, Time Out) An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs. Adm £5.50/£4.50 Concessions/£3.00 OAP’s |
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GOOD MORNING, NIGHT (15) 2.00 (Italy 2003) dir.Marco Bellocchio 106m. Subtitles. “A story ripped not from the headlines but from the history books, Marco Bellocchio's GOOD MORNING NIGHT is based on a political kidnapping that shocked Italy a quarter of a century ago. In 1978, a group of Red Brigade members snatched and later executed the country's former Prime Minister Aldo Moro. Recreating events with the help of TV news footage, this thoughtful historical drama focuses on terrorist Chiara as she questions the rightness of her cause.”
(Italy 2004) dir.Paolo Sorrentino 104m. Subtitles. Tonio Servillo, Olivia Magnani, Adriano Giannini. “Sorrentino’s impressively confident second feature manages to be entertaining, pleasingly intelligent and surprisingly substantial. It centres on Titta (Servillo – excellent), a quiet, smart, very serious and very secretive 50-year-old Italian who lives anonymously and pretty joylessly in a Swiss lakeside hotel, close to the border. Expert in shady finance but not in affairs of the heart, he keeps his cards close to his chest, too wary to even speak to beautiful hotel barmaid Sofia... until odd figures from his past start turning up at the hotel. Kicking off as a genuinely skewed character study before taking an agreeable turn into the realms of the romantic crime-thriller, this contrives to blend comedy, suspense and understated sentiment to intriguing and witty effect. A delight.” |
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE (15) 1.00 (Italy 2004) dir.Paolo Sorrentino 104m. Subtitles. Tonio Servillo, Olivia Magnani, Adriano Giannini. An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs. Adm £5.50/£4.50 Concessions/£3.00 OAP’s |
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A GOOD WOMAN (PG) 2.30 (Br/US 2004) dir.Mike Barker 93m. “Recent film versions of ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ and ‘An Ideal Husband’ have faithfully retained Oscar Wilde's view of snobbish 19th-century society. Kudos, then, to A GOOD WOMAN helmer Mike Barker for moving Wilde's play ‘Lady Windermere's Fan’ to 1930s Italy, where the author's pithy aphorisms compete for our attention with gorgeous Mediterranean scenery. The dialogue proves a mouthful for society gals Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson, so Tom Wilkinson shines brightest as an ageing toff with a heart of gold. Hunt plays Mrs Erlynne, a penniless New York socialite who travels to Europe to squeeze cash out of young newlyweds Robert and Meg Windermere (Mark Umbers and Scarlett Johansson) and find herself a new man. The notorious seductress is soon enjoying secret liaisons with Robert while Meg, convinced that her new husband is having an affair, falls into the arms of the caddish Lord Darlington. Wilde's 1892 play was his first stage success and set the template for his other studies of class and human nature. But while Barker keeps faith with the author's classy wit and waspish repartee, he skillfully banishes theatricality by taking the action out of the salon and into the bustling beauty of the Amalfi coast. The result is a classy diversion that evokes a bygone age of deliciously divine decadence.” NB. With a 15 minute interval £5.50/£4.50 Concessions & Under 15’s/free admission for Over 60’s |
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LAST DAYS (15) 1.00 (US 2005) dir.Gus Van Sant 97m. “LAST DAYS, the brilliant concluding chapter in the ‘death’ trilogy that inspired Gus Van Sant's artistic rebirth, wafts through the final 48 or so hours of a Kurt Cobain-like rock star. Like ELEPHANT, LAST DAYS zeroes in on the hallucinatory stillness of a final countdown. LAST DAYS' blurred sense of interior and exterior – its living-death conception of limbo – brings to mind another American masterpiece Jarmusch's DEAD MAN, whose enigmatic hero happens to be called William Blake. Sacred allusions abound. Not unlike William Blake, Van Sant risks religiosity and arrives at spiritual clarity – in a ghostly afterimage that transcends both the Christian notion of Ascension and the rock cliché of the stairway to heaven.” An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs. Adm £5.50/£4.50 Concessions/£3.00 OAP’s |
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500 YEARS LATER (PG) 2.30 (US/Br 2005) dir.Owen ‘Alik Shahadah 106m. Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment plagues people of African decent globally – Why? 500 years after the onset of Slavery and subsequent Colonialism, Africans are still struggling for basic freedom – Why? Filmed in five continents, and over twenty countries, this film engages the authentic retrospective voice of those whom history has sought to silence by examining the collective atrocities that uprooted Africans from their culture and homeland. 500 Years Later is a timeless compelling journey, infused with the spirit and music of liberation that chronicles the struggle of a people who have fought and continue to fight for the most essential human right – freedom. £6/£4 Concessions & Under 15’s |
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Launch of Hackney Peace Week 2005 2.30 As part of the London Week of Peace, the London Borough of Hackney is holding for the second year an annual week long event from 11 to 18 September around the theme of peace, celebrating and promoting initiatives and values that positively impact on community safety in order to improve community cohesion and crime reduction. This event will include speakers, discussion and a series of short films by young Kurdish and Turkish people living in Hackney, produced by Balik Arts. A variety of activities are taking place during the week celebrating our community and its achievements, culminating in a “Peace” march on Sunday 18 Sep noon from the Town Hall to Springfield Park, where more events will take place. Everyone is welcome to attend. Programme: Doors open (tea, coffee and biscuits in Rio Cafe) - 2.00 Introduction and Welcome by Councillor Julius Nkafu (Cabinet Member, London Short films from Balik Arts - 2.45 BACK STREETS Interval (tea, coffee and biscuits will be served) -
For more information, telephone the LBH Community Safety Team on 020 8356 3170 or visit www.peacealliance.org.uk. Admission free |
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ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW (15) 1.15 (US 2005) dir.Miranda July 91m. “ME AND YOU is an intimate little ensemble about a struggling multimedia artist (July) who chauffeurs old folks for a living, a divorced shoe salesman/potential love interest (DEADWOOD's John Hawkes) who's losing touch with his two sons, those two sons, and three precocious neighbourhood girls. There are other characters, too, but these seven make up the film's core, united by their desire to connect with someone beyond themselves. The movie is ultimately about communication in the digital age, but July approaches her theme slyly, dancing around her ‘message’ while filling her story with refreshingly original real-world observations. It's a film full of humour and moments so unexpected they seem almost surreal.” An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs. Adm £5.50/£4.50 Concessions/£3.00 OAP’s |
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ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW (15) 1.15 (US 2005) dir.Miranda July 91m. An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs. Adm £5.50/£4.50 Concessions/£3.00 OAP’s |
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Sun 18 Sep • Antonioni double bill THE RED DESERT (Il deserto rosso) (15) 1.15 (Italy/France 1964) dir.Michelangelo Antonioni 116m. Subtitles. Re-release. “Perhaps the most extraordinary and riveting film of Antonioni’s entire career; and correspondingly impossible to synopsise. Monica Vitti is an electronics engineer’s neurotic wife, wandering in bewilderment through a modern industrial landscape (the film is set in Ravenna) which Antonioni has coloured in the most startling and original way imaginable. The film is an aesthetic feast, but don’t let that distract you from the haunting intricacy of the plot and the performances. Only Richard Harris, as Corrado, the mining engineer who becomes her refuge but who is just passing through, seems uneasy; despite what so many critics said at the time, Vitti’s portrayal of the confused girl, alienated from the stark technological landscape around her, is among her very best.”
(Italy 1962) dir.Michelangelo Antonioni 123m. Subtitles. Re-release. “The spectacular beauty of Antonioni’s images can often take the breath away. The work of cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo in L’ECLISSE is typically superb, whether filming the bourgeois apartments, the Rome stock exchange, the nimbus clouds or the city at dawn and dusk. L’ECLISSE is like a frustrating Su Doku puzzle: a geometric frame with half the entries empty. The director wants you to fill the blanks. The guy with whom Vitti is splitting up at the beginning appears to be some kind of intellectual, not that Antonioni tells you as much. Vitti witnesses her mum lose money on the stock exchange; she drifts into a chance relationship with a broker. This is a symphony of exquisite tedium, a gnomic portrait of a generation privileged to inherit a world miraculously refashioned from the postwar rubble but disconnected and dispossessed of their very place within it.” (Wally Hammond, Time Out) |
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (U) 12.30 (Br 2005) dir.Joe Wright 127m. With this new adaptation of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, the glorious world of Jane Austen is back on the big screen in all its romance, wit and emotional force. This period drama is a classic tale of love and misunderstanding in class-conscious England at the end of the 18th century. Mrs Bennet (Brenda Blethyn) has raised her five daughters in the awareness that marriage is the only way for them to secure their future. The news that wealthy bachelor Mr Charles Bingley (Simon Woods) is taking up residence in a nearby mansion brings hopes for Jane Bennet (Rosamund Pike), the eldest daughter. Accompanying Charles is his sophisticated and handsome friend Mr Darcy (Matthew McFadyen), who catches the eye of Jane’s younger sister Elizabeth (Keira Knightley)... Filmed entirely on location, the film’s romantic tone benefits from dramatic use of the English landscape, majestic mansions and sumptuous costumes, beautifully photographed by Roman Osin. The film’s strength lies in its performances, with Keira Knightley proving she can carry a film and excellent support from Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland and Judi Dench as Darcy's powerful aunt Lady Catherine. A very nice treat indeed. An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs. Adm £5.50/£4.50 Concessions & Under 15’s/£3.00 OAP’s |
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (U) 12.30 (Br 2005) dir.Joe Wright 127m. An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs. Adm £5.50/£4.50 Concessions & Under 15’s/£3.00 OAP’s |
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| Fri 23 Sep • Late Night Shorts
FUTURE SHORTS (15) 11.15pm
ONE MINUTE PAST MIDNIGHT ALIEN SONG FIELD WILL THE SUMMER MAKE GOOD FOR ALL OF OUR SINS? TELLING LIES I JUST WANT TO KISS YOU RED TOY
DANGLE NICE WEATHER FOR DUCKS PORNOGRAPHIC APATHETIC LIAR HAPPY BIRTHDAY Adm £5.50/4.50 Concessions |
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BOMBÓN EL PERRO (15) 1.15 (Arg/Spain 2004) dir.Carlos Sorin 98m. Subtitles. “Hardship seems innate in Carlos Sorin’s Patagonia, as if it issued from the doleful dusty desert that, under mockingly wide skies, rolls on for mile after mile. Coco (Juan Villegas) is the wrong side of 50. He tries travelling salesmanship, but people only want to barter: a woman at the roadside gives him a great white dog – a pure-bred perro argentino. Coco’s initially unpersuaded, but ‘le chien’ proves a staunch companion, and brings him some fiscal luck. Ostensibly a shaggy-dog story, BOMBÓN traces the pair’s progress through a succession of by-the-way incidents and character encounters. Its bold, crisp compositions, pretty light, lolling landscapes and guitar accompaniment don’t so much sugar the pill as cast it to the winds. A lovely film.” Adm £5.50/£4.50 Concessions/£3.00 OAP’s |
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The Rio Cinema is a Registered Charity run by a voluntary Board of Directors. The AGM offers a review of the last year and gives you the opportunity to question and put forward your views to the Board about the performance of the Rio and its direction for the future. Non-Members are welcome as Observers, and can stand for election to the Board of Management. For more information or if you would like to stand for election to the Board, please contact the Company Secretary, Stuart Maxwell on 020 7254 1862 or e-mail to dempcom@hotmail.com. |
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Sun 25 Sep • Carlos Sorin double bill HISTORIAS MINIMAS (Minimal Stories) (15) 2.00 (Argentina 2003) dir.Carlos Sorin 92m. Subtitles. Javier Lombardo, Antonio Benedicti. “HISTORIAS MINIMAS unpretentiously chronicles a trio of separate yet interweaving stories about ordinary people attempting to follow their dreams. The octogenarian Don Justo resolves to hitchhike to the distant town of San Julian, where somebody has spotted his beloved missing dog, Badface. Elsewhere, an obsessive travelling salesman, Roberto, is planning to surprise a young widow with the gift of a birthday cake for her kid. And in the third, the impoverished Maria is heading to the recording of television game show Multicoloured Casino, intent on gaining a prize. Contrasting the epic Patagonian landscapes with the modesty of his characters' aspirations, Sorin has crafted an appealing portrait of this remote region, where television provides the inhabitants with their main link to the wider world. HISTORIAS MINIMAS is further proof of the diversity and strength of contemporary Argentinean cinema.” (Tom Dawson, BBCi Films) + BOMBÓN EL PERRO (15) 3.55 (Arg/Spain 2004) dir.Carlos Sorin 98m. Subtitles. |
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BOMBÓN EL PERRO (15) 1.00 (Arg/Spain 2004) dir.Carlos Sorin 98m. Subtitles. An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs. Adm £5.50/£4.50 Concessions/£3.00 OAP’s |
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (U) 12.30 (Br 2005) dir.Joe Wright 127m. An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs. Adm £5.50/£4.50 Concessions & Under 15’s/£3.00 OAP’s |
+ DOWNFALL (Der Untergang) (15) 3.10
MOONGLOW
PHOTOGRABBER
POPPY
WE HAVE DECIDED NOT TO DIE
IMAGO
+ KINGS AND QUEEN (15) 3.10
(US 2003) dir.Ondi Timoner 107m. Documentary.
+ THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE (15) 4.10
+ BULLET BOY (15) 3.45
+ L'ECLISSE (The Eclipse) (PG) 3.30
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