Hull Independent Cinema: Decision To Leave

Hull Independent Cinema presents: Emily at Vue Cinema.

This romantic crime mystery follows Hae-jun, a detective investigating the discovery of a man’s body in the mountains, a death that has the authorities baffled. Soon, Hae-jun meets the dead man’s enigmatic wife, Seo-rae, and becomes fascinated by her. Will his suspicions about the role she may have played in her husband’s death be enough to stop him pursuing his romantic curiosity in her? An edgy, beautifully shot noirish thriller from the maker of The Handmaiden and Oldboy.

Starring Tang Wei, Park Hae-il, Go Kyung-Pyo

Dir Park Chan-wook | 2022 | South Korea | 138 min | 15 | Korean with English language subtitles

Hull Independent Cinema: Triangle Of Sadness

Hull Independent Cinema presents: Triangle Of Sadness at Vue Cinema.

In Ruben Östlund’s wickedly funny Palme d’Or winner, social hierarchy is turned upside down, revealing the tawdry relationship between power and beauty. Celebrity model couple Carl and Yaya are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged boat captain. What first appeared instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island and fighting for survival. An outrageous, blackly humorous swipe at the obscenely affluent, full of sharp social observations.

Starring Harris Dickinson, Woody Harrelson, Charlbi Dean

Dir Ruben Östlund | 2022 | Sweden / France / UK / Germany / Turkey / Greece | 147 min | English language

Hull Independent Cinema: Emily

Hull Independent Cinema presents: Emily at Vue Cinema.

A partly historic, partly speculative look at the life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Follows her transformative journey to womanhood and explores the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love; and her care for the maverick brother she idolises. This boldly atmospheric, psychologically incisive film from Frances O’Connor (GOD’S OWN COUNTRY) helps us celebrate a life lived all too briefly.

Starring
Emma Mackey, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Fionn Whitehead

Hull Independent Cinema: Girl Picture

Hull Independent Cinema presents: Girl Picture at Vue Cinema.

Cheeky and unfiltered best friends Mimmi and Rönkkö experience a series of firsts while navigating the rocky road from adolescence to womanhood. Seeking adventure outside their humdrum work selling smoothies, Mimmi encounters Emma, an ambitious figure skater. Emma’s training for the competition gets mixed up in her new relationship with Mimmi. In the meantime, while Mimmi is looking for love, Rönkkö is on the search for pleasure as the three young women defy the persistent winter darkness in this refreshingly original Sundance award winner.

Starring Aamu Milonoff, Eleonoora Kauhanen, Linnea Leino

Dir Alli Haapasalo | 2022 | Finland | 100 min | 15 | Finnish, French with English subtitles

Hull Independent Cinema: Moonage Daydream

Hull Independent Cinema presents: Moonage Dreams at Vue Cinema.

Documentarist Brett Morgen spent five years going through David Bowie’s personal libraries, master recordings, and archives, as sanctioned by the late musician’s estate, in the hope of understanding and deconstructing the musical artistry and spiritual journey of the English global icon. The resulting film features narration in Bowie’s own voice as the story presents how he crafted his multidisciplinary artistry and newly remastered music. An immersive, mysterious, life-affirming and risk-taking cinematic experience that illuminates Bowie’s life and work.

Starring David Bowie

Dir Brett Morgan | 2022 | USA | 140 min | 15 | English language

Hull Independent Cinema: Funny Pages

Hull Independent Cinema presents: Funny Pages at Vue Cinema.

A teenage cartoonist, Robert, rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for something more. Seeking a life of no-holds-barred adventure, acerbic wit and outlandish scenarios, he announces to his parents that he is leaving school and the family home. He finds an unwilling teacher and unwitting friend in Wallace, a former comic artist. A bitingly funny coming-of-age story, packed with cringe and awkwardness by director Owen Kline in a terrific, tonally flawless debut feature.

Starring Daniel Zolghadri, Matthew Maher, Miles Emanuel

Dir Owen Kline | 2022 | USA | 86 mins | 18 | English

Hull Independent Cinema: Flux Gormet

Hull Independent Cinema presents: Flux Gormet at Vue Cinema.

A “sonic collective” takes up a residency at an Institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance. The members are caught up in their own power struggles, and their dysfunctional dynamic is exacerbated when they have to answer to the institute’s head. With the various rivalries unfolding, the Institute’s concierge, Stones, has to endure increasingly fraught stomach problems whilst documenting the collective’s activities, and ends up being coerced into their performances. An off-kilter, absurdist satire of the arts, imbued with Strickland’s distinctly sumptuous visual and aural style.

Starring Gwendoline Christie, Asa Butterfield, Fatma Mohamed

Dir Peter Strickland | 2022 | UK / Hungary / USA | 111 mins | UK | English, Greek and German with English subtitles

Hull Independent Cinema: She Will

Hull Independent Cinema presents: She Will at Hull Truck Theatre.

Recovering from surgery, ageing film star Veronica travels to a healing retreat in the Scottish countryside. While there, she begins to deal with past traumas brought to light by the surgery. When mysterious forces emerge from the remote landscape, she discovers that they give her the power to enact revenge in her dreams. This strikingly poetic and haunting vision of feminist retribution is powered by a startling performance from Alice Krige as Veronica.

Starring Alice Krige, Malcolm McDowell, Rupert Everett

Hull Independent Cinema: Hit The Road

Hull Independent Cinema presents: Hit The Road at Hull Truck Theatre.

Two parents and their sons – one a taciturn adult, the other an ebullient six-year-old – drive across the Iranian countryside. Over the course of the trip, they bond over memories of the past, grapple with fears of the unknown, and fuss over their sick dog. Tensions arise as the family get closer to the unspoken goal of their journey. The result is a humanist drama that offers an authentic, funny, and sincere look at a family preparing to part with one of their own.

Panah Panahi – son of the master of Iranian cinema, Jafar Panahi – makes a striking debut with this charming, sharp-witted and deeply moving comic drama, which takes the traditions of the Iranian road-trip film and adds unexpected twists alongside pointed social commentary.

Starring Pantea Panahiha, Mohammad Hassan Madjooni, Rayan Sarlak, Amin Simiar

Hull Independent Cinema: Fire Of Love

Hull Independent Cinema presents: Fire Of Love at Vue Cinema.

The story of two French scientists, Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unravelling the mysteries of our planet, while simultaneously capturing the most stunning volcano imagery ever recorded. Along the way, they changed our understanding of the natural world, and saved tens of thousands of lives. Previously unseen archive material reveals the birth of modern volcanology through an unlikely lens — the love of its two pioneers.

Featuring Katia Krafft, Maurice Krafft, Miranda July

Dir Sara Dosa | 2022 | Canada / USA | 98 min | PG | English and French with English language subtitles

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Cult Cinema Sunday: Home Alone 2

More brutal boobytraps, higher stakes, better characters (Tim Bloody Curry) superior setting in NYC, makes HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK better than the original …(?)

Doors Open 6pm

Quiz 6:30pm

Film 8pm

£5 Entry

The Vinyl Revival and the Shops That Made it Happen

Graham Jones, the man who has visited more record shops than any other human, will be screening the film based on his third record shop book as well as telling comic tales from his life in music.

One of the founders of Proper Music Distribution, Graham should be in the Guinness World Records for visiting more record shops than any other person.

The true story of Graham’s time spent working in and around the world of independent record retailing is every bit as colourful, funny, strange, and occasionally sad as any fictional yarn.

Over the years Graham has collected a vast number of funny stories and anecdotes, which appear in his books Last Shop Standing and Strange Requests and Comic Tales from Record Shops.

Last Shop Standing was turned in to a successful film and featured Paul Weller, Johnnie Marr, Richard Hawley and lots of record shops.

His new book The Vinyl Revival and the Shops That Made it Happen, a guide to independent record shops in the UK that sell new vinyl and has also just been turned in to a film.

Graham has given more than 100 talks at music and book shops and festivals and is guaranteed to have an audience in hysterics with his tales from the crazy world of record retailing. He has appeared on many TV shows and BBC radio stations talking about record shops.

The screening of The Vinyl Revival and the Shops That Made it Happen will be followed by comic tales from the crazy world of record retailing, a Q&A, quiz, a vinyl and CD giveaway and a book signing.

Open Air Cinema – Hocus Pocus

After moving to Salem, teenager Max Dennison (Omri Katz) explores an abandoned house with his sister Dani (Thora Birch) and their new friend, Allison (Vinessa Shaw).

After dismissing a story Allison tells as superstitious, Max accidentally frees a coven of evil witches (Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy) who used to live in the house. Now, with the help of a magical cat, the kids must steal the witches’ book of spells to stop them from becoming immortal.

Gates open at Burto Constable at 5:00pm, film starts at 6:30pm and finishes at 8pm

Cert PG

Plus music to enjoy before the movie with a soundtrack of specially curated songs.

Bring a blanket or camping chair and watch Hocus Pocus on a giant cinema screen under the stars!

LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE SO MAKE SURE TO BOOK YOURS TODAY!

Open Air Cinema: Lost Boys

Teenage brothers Michael and Sam move with their mother to a small town in northern California. While the younger Sam meets a pair of kindred spirits in geeky comic-book nerds Edward and Alan, Michael is bullied into joining the dark side by a gang of vampires and Sam and his new friends must try to save Michael from the undead.

Gates open 6:30pm, film starts at 8pm and finishes at 9:30pm

Plus music to enjoy before the movie with a soundtrack of specially curated songs.

Bring a blanket or camping chair and watch The Lost Boys on a giant cinema screen under the stars!

Cert 15

LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE SO MAKE SURE TO BOOK YOURS TODAY!

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Cult Cinema Sunday: Halloween Mystery Movie

Cult Cinema Sunday: Halloween Mystery Movie

Cert 18

18:00 doors, 18:30 free film quiz, 20:00 film start

£5.00 advance tickets / £6.00 on the door (if tickets remain)

Seat choice is unallocated, first-come, first-served when you arrive at the venue.

Cult Cinema Sunday picks a classic Cult horror movie they love and screen it… the only catch is, that they don’t tell anyone in advance what it is and you will find out once they hit play on the night. Enjoy the anticipation of the unknown…

Come dressed as your favourite horror character, with a prize for the best dressed!

Some of the past mystery films have included The Return of the Living Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Evil Dead and The Monster Squad – we’d like to think you’re in safe hands…

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Cult Cinema Sunday: Scott Pilgrim Vs The World

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

Meet charming and jobless Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera). A bass guitarist for totally average garage band Sex Bob-omb, the 22 year old has just met the girl of his dreams…literally. The only catch to winning Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead)? Her seven evil exes are coming to kill him. Genre-smashing filmmaker Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz,Shaun of the Dead) tells the amazing story of one romantic slacker’s quest to power up with love.

Scott Pilgrim has never had a problem getting a girlfriend. It’s getting rid of them that proves difficult. From the girl who kicked his heart’s ass—and now is back in town—to the teenage distraction he’s trying to shake when Ramona rollerblades into his world, love hasn’t been easy. He soon discovers, however, his new crush has the most unusual baggage of all: a nefarious league of exes controls her love life and will do whatever it takes to eliminate him as a suitor.

As Scott gets closer to Ramona, he must face an increasingly vicious rogues’ gallery from her past—from infamous skateboarders to vegan rock stars and fearsomely identical twins. And if he hopes to win his true love, he must vanquish them all before it really is game over.