In a bizarre version of suburbia, soccer moms and best friends Jill and Lisa are locked in a passive-aggressive battle of the wills. Things only get weirder when Jill’s husband develops a taste for pool water and Lisa becomes pregnant with a football.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg in this hilariously demented satire destined to be a cult classic.
In a bizarre version of suburbia, soccer moms and best friends Jill and Lisa are locked in a passive-aggressive battle of the wills. Things only get weirder when Jill’s husband develops a taste for pool water and Lisa becomes pregnant with a football.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg in this hilariously demented satire destined to be a cult classic.
On a remote mountaintop, a rebel group of commandos perform military training exercises while watching over a prisoner (Julianne Nicholson) for a shadowy force known only as ‘The Organization’. After a series of unexpected events drives them deep into the jungle, fracturing their intricate bond, their mission slowly begins to collapse.
Set in a beautiful but dangerous landscape, this awe-inspiring film is a breathtakingly epic vision that will leave you mesmerised and utterly gripped.
Spanish, English with English subtitles.
Dir: Jake Scott| USA / UK | 2019 | 112 min | Drama
In rural Pennsylvania, Deb Callahan’s life is forever changed when her teenage daughter mysteriously disappears. Deb is left to raise her young grandson while navigating the trials and tribulations of subsequent years and ultimately to the long-awaited discovery of the truth.
Sienna Miller gives a career-best performance in this captivating drama that pulls us deep into the lives of these good, flawed, ordinary people.
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DO THE RIGHT THING (Spike Lee, 1989)
Middleton Hall, 1600-1830
Tickets: free
With a short introduction by Dr James Zborowski, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies
Spike Lee’s multi-award-winning masterpiece, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, uses a story of simmering racial tensions in a Brooklyn neighbourhood to examine the ethics of protest, resistance, and violence.
Biopic based on the autobiography of Jimmy Boyle, the notorious former gangster from the Gorbals in Glasgow who was reputed to be Scotland’s most violent man. Boyle turned to art during his incarceration at Barlinnie prison where the Special Unit he was admitted to placed an emphasis on rehabilitation, and after his release Boyle became a sculptor and novelist. Please note attendees must be over 18.
81 mins | certificate 18
Directed by John Mackenzie
Julie is a young film student struggling to find a firm direction in life when she meets the seemingly unwavering and decisive Anthony. The two immediately take to one another and an intense romance blossoms between them. However, as the relationship develops it becomes clear that Anthony is not being honest about all aspects of himself and Julie slowly discovers that they could have potentially devastating consequences for them both.
One of Britain’s most distinctive filmmakers, Joanna Hogg (Archipelago, Unrelated) presents a deeply personal examination of her own youthful experiences in this beautifully crafted portrait of self-discovery.
Starring Honor Swinton Byrne, Neil Young, Tilda Swinton, Richard Ayoade.
Awards and Reviews
Winner – Grand Jury Prize World Cinema, Sundance Film Festival; Nominee – Best British Film, Edinburgh International Film Festival; Sydney Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival Official Selections
“Refrigerated and mysterious, uncompromising, uningratiating; an artefact in the highest auteur register, but a film that creeps up on you – from behind.” – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“Joanna Hogg paints a precise picture of a woman trying to develop her own artistic vision while caught in the slipstream of a toxic relationship. An understated, exquisite gem of a film.” – Empire Magazine
Certificate
THE SOUVENIR is rated 15. Visit the BBFC website for full details (may include plot spoilers).
One of the most beautiful portraits of love, work, and life that you’ll see in nonfiction film this year.
In a deserted Macedonian village, Hatidze, a 50-something woman, trudges up a hillside to check her bee colonies nestled in the rocks. Serenading them with a secret chant, she gently maneuvers the honeycomb without netting or gloves. Back at her homestead, Hatidze tends to her handmade hives and her bedridden mother, occasionally heading to the capital to market her wares.
One day, an itinerant family installs itself next door, and Hatidze’s peaceful kingdom gives way to roaring engines, seven shrieking children, and 150 cows. Yet Hatidze welcomes the camaraderie, and she holds nothing back—not her tried-and-true beekeeping advice, not her affection, not her special brandy. But soon Hussein, the itinerant family’s patriarch, makes a series of decisions that could destroy Hatidze’s way of life forever.
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Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie star in Nicolas Roeg’s brilliantly atmospheric adaptation of the short story by Daphne du Maurier. Following the death of their daughter, John and Laura Baxter travel to Venice where he is to oversee the restoration of an old church. Here they encounter a pair of elderly sisters: one of them a blind psychic who claims to have been in communication with the couple’s dead child. Whilst Laura is intrigued, John resists the idea, despite the possibility that he is having his own visions that threaten to put his life in danger. Genuinely unsettling, DON’T LOOK NOW is widely acknowledged as perhaps Roeg’s finest film and one of the best British films ever made.
Starring Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason .
Awards and Reviews
Winner – Best Cinematography, BAFTA Film Awards 1974; Nominee – Best Actress, Best Directions, Best Film, Best Actor, BAFTA Film Awards 1974
“It’s a ghost story; it’s a meditation on time, memory and the poignancy of married love. And it’s a masterpiece.” – The Guardian
“Every frame is calculated perfection.” – Little White Lies
Certificate
DON’T LOOK NOW is rated 15. Visit the BBFC website for full details (may include plot spoilers).
THE BEACH BUM follows the hilarious misadventures of Moondog, a wasted cosmic poet par excellence who always lives life by his own rules, balancing the demands of a family that includes a fed-up well-to-do wife, while living life in a booze-soaked Margaritaville of the Mind.
Starring Matthew McConaughey, Snoop Dogg, Isla Fisher, Zac Efron, Martin Lawrence, Jimmy Buffett.
Awards and Reviews
SXSW Official Selection (World Premiere)
“With the film, Harmony Korine solidifies his position as the premier cartographer of the Sunshine State as a place of unhurried pursuits.” – Slate
“There is a lot of fun to be had living in Moondog’s world for 95 minutes, and the film goes down suspiciously easy for something so ugly and amoral.” – Associated Press
Certificate
THE BEACH BUM is rated 18. Check the BBFC website for details (may contain plot spoilers).
In a small, blue-collar town in Pennsylvania, a 32-year-old Deb Callaghan’s teenage daughter goes missing and she is left to raise her infant grandson alone. The story is told over the course of 11 years, from the time her daughter vanishes, through the the trials and tribulations of subsequent years looking for closure, leading up the long-awaited discovery of the truth.
Sienna Miller gives a career-best performance in this captivating drama that pulls us deep into the lives of these good, flawed, ordinary people.
Starring Sienna Miller, Christina Hendricks, Aaron Paul
AMERICAN WOMAN is rated 15
A modern Mark Twain style adventure story, THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON tells the story of Zak, a young man with Down syndrome, who runs away from a residential nursing home to follow his dream of attending the professional wrestling school of his idol, The Salt Water Redneck. A strange turn of events pairs him on the road with Tyler, a small time outlaw on the run, who becomes Zak’s unlikely coach and ally. Together they wind through deltas, elude capture, drink whisky, find God, catch fish, and convince Eleanor, a kind nursing home employee charged with Zak’s return, to join them on their journey.
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, Zack Gottsagen, Thomas Hayden Church.
Awards and Reviews
Winner – Winner – Audience Award Narrative Spotlight, SXSW Film Festival; Winner – Audience Award, Best Narrative Feature, Nantucket Film Festival
“LaBeouf brings the soul to “The Peanut Butter Falcon,” while Gottsagen brings the spirit. He has an undeniably charming screen presence, and the actor takes to this starring role with gusto.” – Los Angeles Times
“LaBeouf holds the screen with natural allure, making every twinge of his character’s self-reproach, and every instant of his dawning joy, achingly felt. His nuanced performance propels this journey.” – Hollywood Reporter
Alexandre lives in Lyon with his wife and children. One day he learns by chance that the priest who abused him when he was in scouts is still working with children. He decides to take action and is soon joined by two other victims of the priest, François and Emmanuel. They band together to “lift the burden of silence” surrounding the ordeal. But the repercussions and consequences will leave no one unscathed.
Starring Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud.
Awards and Reviews
Winner – Grand Jury Prize, Berlin International Film Festival, Nominee – Best Film, Berlin International Film Festival
“There’s of-the-moment cinema and then there’s on-the-moment cinema, ripped so freshly from the headlines that the filmmaking still bears a few ink smudges.” – Variety
“This is a social justice film made with purposeful conviction and a quiet, never strident, sense of indignation.” – Hollywood Reporter
Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. As he struggles to reconnect with his family and reconstruct the community he longs for, his hopes blind him to the reality of his situation.
A wistful odyssey populated by skaters, squatters, street preachers, playwrights, and other locals on the margins, The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a poignant and sweeping story of hometowns and how they’re made—and kept alive—by the people who love them.
Starring Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Danny Glover.
Awards and Reviews
Winner – Directing Award Dramatic, Sundance Film Festival; Winner – Special Jury Award, Sundance Film Festival; Nominee – Best Film, Locarno International Film Festival
“The Last Black Man plays like a poetic portrait, part tender ode and part cartography of lived experience, bringing a nuanced and hard-earned perspective to the screen.” – AV Club
“[A] story that doesn’t announce its themes but instead transforms lived-in ideas about friendship, loneliness, artmaking, gentrification and the many faces of black masculinity.” – New York Times
MAKING WAVES reveals the hidden power of sound in cinema – and our lives. Through film clips, interviews and verité footage, the film captures the history, impact and creative process of this overlooked art form through the insights and stories of legendary directors such as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, David Lynch, Barbra Streisand, Ang Lee, Christopher Nolan, Sofia Coppola and Ryan Coogler, and the sound men and women with whom they collaborate.
Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas have both declared that “sound is 50% of the movie” with Spielberg saying “our ears lead our eyes to where the story lives.” In MAKING WAVES, we see and hear from the key players of sound design – including multi-Oscar winners Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now), Ben Burtt (Star Wars) and Gary Rydstrom (Saving Private Ryan) – who, in pursuing their art and desire to push the medium, are the very people who will go down in the history of cinema as developing sound into the immersive storytelling force it is today.
Featuring George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, David Lynch, Barbra Streisand, Ang Lee, Christopher Nolan, Sofia Coppola, Ryan Coogler.
Awards and Reviews
Nominee – Golden Camera, Cannes Film Festival; Tribeca Film Festival Official Selection
“”Making Waves” leaves you eager to go hear a favorite movie for the first time.” – Indiewire
“You’ll likely never hear a film in the same way again after watching this thrilling celebration of the craft.” – HeyUGuys
Ricky, Abby and their two children live in Newcastle. They are a strong family who care for each other. Ricky has skipped from one labouring job to another while Abby, who loves her work, cares for old people. Despite working longer and harder they realise they will never have independence or their own home. It’s now or never; the app revolution offers Ricky a golden opportunity. He and Abby make a bet. She sells her car so Ricky can buy a shiny new van and become a freelance driver, with his own business at last. The modern world impinges on these four souls in the privacy of their kitchen; the future beckons.
Starring Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone.
Awards and Reviews
Nominee – Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival; Toronto International Film Festival, New Zealand International Film Festval, Sydney Film Festival Official Selections
“As a stripped-down, minutely detailed portrait of the daily grind as back-breaking Sisyphean ordeal, “Sorry We Missed You” is engrossing and bluntly persuasive.” – Los Angeles Times
“A revelatory performance from the newcomer Debbie Honeywood.” – The Times
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