Hull Independent Cinema: GREEN BOOK

Hull Independent Cinema: GREEN BOOK

Synopsis
When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighbourhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on “The Green Book” to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger-as well as unexpected humanity and humour-they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime.

Featuring Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini

Awards and Reviews
Winner, Audience Award – Toronto Intl Film Festival
Winner, Chairman’s Vanguard Award – Palm Springs Film Festival
Nominee, Best Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor – 2019 Golden Globes

“The acting is better than the dialogue, which is better than the plotting. And I have to confess that in the current, insanely divisive political climate, I enjoyed Green Book’s spoon-feeding mightily.” – Vulture

“Thanks to the dream team of Mortensen and Ali, both giving Oscar calibre performances, audiences will be rightly cheering this hilarious and heartfelt true story of a black musician and his racist driver on a 1960’s tour of the Deep South.” – Rolling Stone

Certificate
GREEN BOOK is rated 12A. Visit the BBFC website for full details (may include plot spoilers).

Hull Independent Cinema: EL ANGEL

See the Jan – Mar 2019 Leeds Audience Favourite Season at a discounted price! See all three films and save. £15 Standard, £12 HIC Member, £9 Students and Under 25s for all three films in the season.

Co-produced by Pedro Almodóvar, this stylish crime caper is based on the early years of Argentina’s most infamous serial killer, Carlos Robledo Puch, dubbed by the press as ‘The Angel of Death’ for his angelic good looks. Lorenzo Ferro gives a hypnotic performance as the teenage sociopath with movie star swagger and a penchant for stealing. After meeting delinquent Ramon, the pair embarks on a crime spree propelled by raging hormones and a palpable sexual tension, vividly brought to life by a colourful 1970’s aesthetic and a tongue-in-cheek disco soundtrack.

Starring Lorenzo Ferro, Chino Darín, Daniel Fanego

Awards & Reviews
Winner, Best Actor – Fenix Film Awards
Cannes Film Festival, San Sebastian Intl Film Festival, CPH:PIX, Leeds Intl Film Festival Official Selections

“A nonchalant, sexy “Goodfellas”; a “Bonnie & Clyde” featuring two young men in a love story of sorts, one that defies categorization or labels, and is entirely driven by the taboo thrills of criminality.” – Los Angeles Times

“Ortega has a real eye for flashy, chaotic set pieces and a real ear for excellent Latin rock needle drops on the film’s killer Scorsese-inspired soundtrack.” – Entertainment Weekly

Certificate
EL ANGEL is unrated – 18+ only will be allowed in the theatre.

Hull Independent Cinema: DISOBEDIENCE

Hull Independent Cinema presents: DISOBEDIENCE
Sebastián Lelio | 2017 | UK/Ireland/USA | Cert 15 | 115 mins

From Sebastián Lelio, writer-director of the Academy Award-winning A FANTASTIC WOMAN, DISOBEDIENCE is a timely and emotionally powerful tale set at the crossroads of tradition and modernity, of personal desires and the demands of faith. When her estranged rabbi father suddenly passes away, Ronit (played by Oscar-winner and co-producer Rachel Weisz) returns from New York to the north London Orthodox Jewish community that rejected her years previously after a scandalous transgression. Ronit’s presence immediately courts further controversy when she runs into Esti (Rachel McAdams), the wife of her strictly religious cousin Dovid (Alessandro Nivola) and the woman for whom she shared an illicit attraction in their childhood. This happy reunion soon reignites the two women’s burning, long-unrequited passions, an act of defiance that could alter the course of their lives forever.

Based on the provocative novel by bestselling author Naomi Alderman and co-written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, DISOBEDIENCE is a critically acclaimed romantic drama that explores the fraught boundaries between spiritual devotion and sexuality.

Featuring Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Alessandro Nivola, Anton Lesser

Awards and Reviews
Nominee, Best British Film, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay – British Independent Film Awards
Tribeca Film Festival, Toronto Intl Film Festival, Seattle Intl Film Festival Official Selections

“This is richly satisfying and powerfully acted work” – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

“A beautiful, fraught, and emotionally nuanced drama that wrestles with hard questions about the tension between the life we’re born into and the one we choose for ourselves” – David Ehrlich, Indiewire

Certificate: DISOBEDIENCE is rated 15. Visit the BBFC website for full details (may include plot spoilers).

Hull Independent Cinema: SHOPLIFTERS

The winner of this year’s top prize at Cannes, SHOPLIFTERS follows a small band of marginalized misfits struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Tokyo. Shoplifting to get by, they decide to secretly adopt a little girl foraging for scraps in the freezing cold – before an unforeseen incident begins to test their bond… It’s a welcome return by the renowned Japanese director, Kore-ada (Still Walking, Like Father Like Son) who shines a spotlight on the struggling classes with his usual insight, compassion and humour. A triumph of subtlety over spectacle, Shoplifters is sure to steal your heart.

Featuring Kriin Kiki, Lily Franky, Sosuke Ikematsu, Sakura Ando, Moemi Katayama, Mayu Matsuoka

Awards and Reviews
Winner, Palme d’Or – Cannes Film Festival

“Hirokazu Kore-eda is now an established Cannes heavyweight and he shows why with this complex and nuanced family drama. ” ★★★★ – The Guardian

“Kore-eda’s Palme d’Or winner is a thrilling, beautiful tale of Toyko’s down-and-outs ” ★★★★★ – The Telegraph

Certificate
SHOPLIFTERS is rated 18. Visit the BBFC website for full details (may include plot spoilers).

Hull Independent Cinema: ASSASSINATION NATION

Hull Independent Cinema presents: ASSASSINATION NATION
Sam Levinson | 2018 | USA | Cert 18 | 108 mins

Set in modern-day Salem, high school senior Lily and her crew of besties live in a haze of texts, posts, selfies, and chats. So when a provocateur starts posting details from the private digital lives of everyone in their small town of Salem, the result is Category 5 chaos. People get angry… very angry. And Lily finds herself right in the middle.

Featuring Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Suki Waterhouse, Abra, Colman Domingo, Bill Skarsgård

Sundance Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Toronto Intl Film Festival Official Selections

“This gleefully gory exploitation film sets out to shock, but smartly dissects our online-obsessed society along the way” – The Guardian

“ASSASSINATION NATION works well both as a stylish thriller with tense, horrific moments and as a feminist parable for the modern social media age.” – Screen Rant

ASSASSINATION NATION is rated 18. Visit the BBFC website for full details (may include plot spoilers).

Tyrus by Pamela Tom

Tyrus is the moving, inspirational story of Tyrus Wong (1910-2016), who was, at various points in his long life, a Disney studio artist (where he worked on Bambi, 1942), a Film Production Illustrator at Warner Brothers (working on such films as Calamity Jane, 1953, Rebel Without a Cause, 1955, and The Wild Bunch, 1969), a fine art painter, a greeting card designer, a ceramics artist, and a kite designer.

But beyond his enormous contributions to Hollywood Cinema and American art, Wong’s story is also one of Chinese-American immigration during the 20th Century. Immigrating with his father to the USA in 1920 via Angel Island (the West Coast equivalent of Ellis Island), Wong had to find his way in a land where anti-Asian prejudice was rife. Yet he found love, family, and success, becoming one of the most influential Chinese-American artists in the USA. Tyrus, his life story, will be introduced by its director, writer, and producer, Pamela Tom.

Hull Independent Cinema: SORRY TO BOTHER YOU

Hull Independent Cinema presents: SORRY TO BOTHER YOU
Boots Riley | 2018 | USA | Cert 15 | 112 mins

Synopsis
In an alternate reality of present-day Oakland, Calif., telemarketer Cassius Green finds himself in a macabre universe after he discovers a magical key that leads to material glory. As Green’s career begins to take off, his friends and co-workers organize a protest against corporate oppression. Cassius soon falls under the spell of Steve Lift, a cocaine-snorting CEO who offers him a salary beyond his wildest dreams.

Starring Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Terry Crews, Danny Glover, Armie Hammer, David Cross

Awards and Reviews
Nominee, Best First Feature, Best Screenplay – Film Independent Spirit Awards
Sundance Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival Official Selections

“This bold new film not only shatters comedy’s cold streak but also serves as a powerful reminder of the vitality of the genre as both social commentary and shared experience.” – The Observer

“Boots Riley’s SORRY TO BOTHER YOU ambitiously pushes the envelope of the sci-fi and comedy genres for a wholly unique, refreshing and hilarious film.” – Screen Rant

Certificate
SORRY TO BOTHER YOU is rated 15. Visit the BBFC website for full details (may include plot spoilers).

Wildlife – Hull Independent Cinema – Vue

Synopsis

Sensitive 16-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and golf pro in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job and his sense of purpose he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves. Suddenly forced into the role of an adult, Joe witnesses his mother embark on her own adventure, as she transgresses into an affair with an older man.

Featuring Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Bill Camp

Peterloo – Hull Independent Cinema – Vue

Hull Independent Cinema presents: PETERLOO Mike Leigh | 2018 | UK | Cert 12A| 154 mins At Vue Cinema Hull: BUY TICKETS The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester. PETERLOO | Mike Leigh | 2018 | UK | Cert 12A| 154 mins Synopsis An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history.

We Watch Films: WILLOW Hull Independent Cinema

WeWatchFilms presents: WILLOW Ron Howard | 1988 | USA | Cert PG | 126 mins At Cineworld Hull: BUY TICKETS Tickets are £9.70 (£8.80 with a My Cineworld account), £4.70 for seniors and students or FREE for Unlimited Card holders. We’re closing this year’s classic movies with one of our favourite fantasy movies – WILLOW, from the incredible Ron Howard and George Lucas, starring Warwick Davies as the farmer-come-sorcerer and Val Kilmer as the reluctant hero.

NT Live: Anthony & Cleopatra

Broadcast live from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power.

Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war.

Director Simon Godwin returns to National Theatre Live screens with this hotly anticipated production, following broadcasts of Twelfth Night, Man and Superman and The Beaux’ Stratagem.

This is an encore screening.

NT Live: The Madness of George III

Multi-award-winning drama The Madness of George III will be broadcast live to cinemas, in National Theatre Live’s first ever broadcast from Nottingham Playhouse.

Written by one of Britain’s best-loved playwrights Alan Bennett (The History Boys, The Lady in the Van), this epic play was also adapted into a BAFTA Award-winning film following its premiere on stage in 1991.

The cast of this new production includes Olivier Award-winners Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Wolf Hall, NT Live Coriolanus) in the title role, and Adrian Scarborough (Gavin and Stacey, Upstairs Downstairs, After the Dance).

It’s 1786 and King George III is the most powerful man in the world. But his behaviour is becoming increasingly erratic as he succumbs to fits of lunacy. With the King’s mind unravelling at a dramatic pace, ambitious politicians and the scheming Prince of Wales threaten to undermine the power of the Crown, and expose the fine line between a King and a man.

Show image photograph (Mark Gatiss) by Creative by Wren

NT Live: The Tragedy of King Richard The Second

Simon Russell Beale plays William Shakespeare’s Richard II, broadcast live from the stage of the Almeida Theatre in London to cinemas.

This visceral new production about the limits of power will be directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins, whose previous plays include Little Revolution at the Almeida and Absolute Hell at the National Theatre

Richard II, King of England, is irresponsible, foolish and vain. His weak leadership sends his kingdom into disarray and his court into uproar. Seeing no other option but to seize power, the ambitious Bolingbroke challenges the throne and the king’s divine right to rule.

Simon Russell Beale returns to National Theatre Live screens following broadcasts of Timon of Athens and King Lear, and his recent role in the National Theatre’s critically acclaimed production of The Lehman Trilogy.

This is a live screening.

Hull Independent Cinema: Dogman

Italian with English subtitles

Marcello is a small and gentle dog groomer who wants two things, to look after his dogs and take his daughter on exotic holidays. But to fund this lifestyle he runs a side business which has more unsavoury clientele and he soon finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who terrorises the entire neighbourhood. When Simone exploits him too much Marcello must make a crucial and potentially dangerous decision in order to regain his dignity.

Matteo Garrone, the master filmmaker behind Gomorrah returns to the crime thriller genre with the tension filled and relentlessly captivating DOGMAN.”

Love Actually In Concert

Following on from a triumphant sold out 2017 premiere tour, Love Actually will once again be screened live across the UK with a full orchestra performing its enchanting score – just in time for Christmas.

The live concert will be coming to Bonus Arena on 10 December.

Directed by Richard Curtis and originally released in cinemas in 2003, Love Actually tells 10 separate yet interweaving stories of love around Christmas time. A full, live orchestra will perform Craig Armstrong’s evocative score at these shows, with the film being projected onto a huge screen.

Make sure you kick off the holiday season and get into the Christmas spirit.

Dead of Night: Hull Horror Film Festival

Dead of Night: Hull Horror Film Festival is back for a third year of chills and thrills,organised by Hull Independent Cinema and screening exclusively at Vue Cinema Hull. Dead of Night brings the very best new, classic and cult horror to Hull, opening with the musical zombie comedy ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE, the programme also includes a big screen showing of classic 80s gore-fest THE EVIL DEAD.

Sponsored by Greasy Fingers Rock ‘n’ Roll Barbershop , Dead of Night features four nights of the best cinematic scares new and old, from Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 October 2018. Highlights are the Hull Premiere of ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE, as part of a high-school double-bill with 70s classic CARRIE; and a screening of the new horror film starring the legendary Nicholas Cage, the mesmerising, delirious and deranged MANDY.

Other brand new acclaimed films in the festival receiving their Hull Premieres include nightmarish UK psychological horror POSSUM. Closing the festival is ONE CUT OF THE DEAD, a marvellously inventive Japanese horror-comedy featuring an epic, 37-minute opening continuous single take and already a big audience favourite on the festival circuit.

Complementing the new material in the festival are some iconic classics and restorations, with big screen showings of cult classic THE EVIL DEAD, supernatural 70s shocker THE OMEN and Jeff Goldblum-starring creature-feature THE FLY.

Dead of Night Festival Director Damien Greco said, “Just when you thought the nightmare was over, we’re back from the grave and ready to party! Dead of Night is a brilliant opportunity to experience horror films how they should be seen, in the dark, with like-minded fans on a huge screen with great sound. Do not miss the exclusive chance to see fantastic new horror films alongside the very best classics of the genre. With great value ticket prices and passes we’re making the best scares available to more people to enjoy, so hold on to your popcorn and enjoy the ride, if you dare…”

Programme Summary