Cinema

Cinema 

March – April 2013

welcome 

We criss-cross the globe with this guide, taking in the 

Chilean desert, a Brazilian high-rise complex, a remote 

Moldovian nunnery and a war-torn Pacific Island before 

ending up (somewhat surprisingly) on a Miami beach for 

spring break. The sheer variety of stories and filmmaking 

styles is staggering; from austere and challenging to 

downright outrageous and fun. This period, post-Oscars 

and pre-summer blockbusters, is often the best time of 

year to discover unexpected cinematic gems. 

This guide also sees the welcome return of some great 

filmmaking talents including Steven Soderbergh (rumoured 

to be heading into retirement), documentary genius Alex 

Gibney, the cheeky François Ozon and American indie 

favourite Derek Cianfrance. And who could forget 

everyone's favourite clownfish? That little guy called 

Nemo celebrates his tenth birthday this year. One of the 

milestones in Pixar's long history of quality storytelling for 

children, Finding Nemo deserves to be seen again on the 

big screen. Keep swimming... 

Alice Black 

Head of Cinema 

Contributors: Brian Hoyle, Christopher O’Neill, James Mulvey, 

Jamie Neish, Mike Tait, Simon Lewis 

Contents 

New Films 

Beyond the Hills 5 

Finding Nemo 3D 4 

Good Vibrations 7 

In the House 6 

A Late Quartet 8 

Love Is All You Need 11 

Mea Maxima Culpa 5 

Neighbouring Sounds 8 

The Place Beyond the Pines 9 

Post Tenebras Lux 7 

Side Effects 4 

Spring Breakers 10 

Thursday Till Sunday 11 

Trance 6 

Reality 9 

Rebellion 10 

Documentary 

First Position 14 

The Road 14 

Side by Side 14 

The Spirit of ’45 14 

Discovery Family Film Club 

Finding Nemo 3D 15 

Oz the Great and Powerful 3D 15 

The Wizard of Oz 15 

Performance Screenings 

Live from the Met: Giulio Cesare 16 

Manet: Portraying Life 16 

Vintage Film 

The Gospel According to St. Matthew 17 

Point Blank 17 

Theorem 17 

Italian Film Festival 

Dormant Beauty 18 

Every Blessed Day 18 

Me and You 18 

Nina 19 

The Son Did It 19 

Stromboli 19 

2013 BAFTA Shorts 20 

Dundee Comics Expo 

Judge Minty 20 

Lose Your Head at DeeCAP! 20 

Cinema Republic 

Shallow Grave 21 

Artists Film and Video 

9 Intervals 21 

Babeldom 21 

Dundead 

Maniac 22 

3

New Films 

Finding Nemo 

Fri 29 March – Thu 11 April 

While the words ‘3D retrofit’ might strike terror into the hearts of 

most purists, we can’t think of a better film to get this special 

treatment than Finding Nemo. Celebrating its tenth birthday this 

year, this classic animation never gets old. It will be wonderful to 

see a new generation of children introduced to its charms. 

Little Nemo is clownfish who is starting his first day of school. 

Despite his over-protective dad Marlin watching cautiously 

nearby, Nemo is kidnapped and forced on an unexpected 

journey of survival. He is helped along the way by some 

unexpected friends, including a nosy pelican and Bruce the 

shark. Meanwhile Marlin teams up with the scatterbrained Dory 

to search desperately for his son across Australia’s Great Barrier 

Reef. 

You’ll be entranced by the beautiful sea colours and creatures as 

much as the heart-warming story at the heart of Finding Nemo. 

Told with action and excitement and suitable for the whole 

family, the film also features some of the best voice work since 

Toy Story with a cast including Albert Brooks, Geoffrey Rush, 

Barry Humphries (aka Dame Edna Everage), Ellen DeGeneres 

and Willem Dafoe. 

Dirs: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich 

USA 2003 / 1h40m / Digital 3D / U 

Bring a Baby screening Thu 11 April, 10:30 

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Side Effects 


Steven Soderbergh has announced that Side 

Effects is the last film he plans to direct before 

turning his creative talents to painting, writing, 

theatre and television. Fans of his astute social 

commentary and taut filmmaking style won’t be 

disappointed by his swan song, a gripping film 

about the complex relationship between 

doctors, patients and the industry built up 

around anti-depressants in the United States. 

The enigmatic Rooney Mara (star of the English 

language version of The Girl with the Dragon 

Tattoo) plays Emily, a young woman with 

anxiety issues. Her husband has just been 

released from prison after a stint for insider 

trading. Emily has lost everything: a baby, the 

life of luxury her husband promised her and her 

joy for life. A failed suicide attempt brings her 

into the care of psychiatrist Jonathan Banks 

(Jude Law), who quickly prescribes a new drug 

which initially seems to have a miraculous 

effect. But when Emily commits a violent act 

while sleepwalking, it is Doctor Banks’ world 

that begins to fall apart. 

A well crafted psychological thriller which 

poses some provocative questions about our 

drug-dependent society, Side Effects is full of 

surprises, including Catherine Zeta-Jones in a 

dramatic role. We certainly hope this isn’t the 

last we see of Soderbergh’s storytelling talents. 

Dir: Steven Soderbergh 

USA 2013 / 1h46m / Digital / 15

Beyond the Hills 

Dupa dealuri 


Cristian Mungiu put Romanian filmmaking on the map with the 

gruelling 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. He makes a welcome 

return to our screens with Beyond the Hills, an astonishing 

portrait of a young nun whose life is thrown into turmoil by the 

appearance of an old childhood friend, disrupting the cloistered 

community she lives in. Slowly and methodically, Mungiu uses 

the daily life of the religious order to explore the schism which 

exists between the spiritual and the secular as well as the 

tension between individual freedom and group mentality. 

Situated in a remote Moldavian landscape, the monastery where 

the action takes place consists of a simple chapel and a few 

huts without electricity or running water. The nuns are supervised 

by a stern priest whom they refer to as ‘Papa’. Voichita 

(Cosmina Stratan) is one of the most devoted of the group, but 

her faith is tested by the arrival of Alina (Cristina Flutur) who has 

returned from Germany and tries to convince her to leave the 

order. The girls, who grew up together in an orphanage, have a 

deep and complicated bond. Alina refuses to submit to the 

order’s request for piety and penance, and the judgement and 

punishment handed down to her by those in power is shocking. 

The film’s visual look, attention to detail, pacing and naturalistic 

performances all combine to create a very real sense of the lives 

led by these religious women. Based on a real-life incident, 

Beyond the Hills is as gripping as any horror film and as 

rewarding as any drama you will see this year. The two lead 

actresses (both in their debut performances) deservedly shared 

the Best Actress prize at Cannes last year. 

Dir: Cristian Mungiu 

Romania / France / Belgium 2012 / 2h17m / Digital / 12A 

Romanian with English subtitles 

Mea Maxima Culpa: 

Silence in the House Of God 


Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex 

Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) tackles the 

uncompromising, silent facade of the Vatican 

and its response to claims of sexual abuse in 

this powerful new work. The film opens with the 

case of Father Lawrence Murphy, the director 

of St John’s School for the Deaf in Milwaukee. 

Four of his ex-pupils recall their numerous 

attempts to notify the Church and local 

authorities of the abuse they suffered at his 

hands while attending the school. Their early 

attempts to expose clerical abuse to local law 

agencies were met with scepticism and 

disregarded. Their repeated efforts to highlight 

their plight to Vatican authorities were met with 

a universal response of silence, secrecy and 

suppression. 

Gibney deftly moves from the microcosm of 

Milwaukee to explore a macrocosm of global 

clerical abuse, all serving to reveal a familiar 

pattern of concealment, vehement denial and 

on occasion reluctant admission. Through a 

number of interviews Gibney shows how the 

church conducts itself in the wake of 

accusations, tracing responses damningly 

upwards through the Vatican’s hierarchy of 

offices. 

This is a poignant, shocking film that 

demonstrates the power of the documentary 

form. Following the retirement of Pope 

Benedict XVI, Mea Maxima Culpa reveals the 

challenges his successor will face if he is to 

tackle the culture of silence and complicity 

within the Vatican. 

Dir: Alex Gibney 

USA 2012 / 1h46m / Digital / 15 

Senior Citizen Kane Club screening 

Thu 4 April, 10:30 

Tickets 01382 909 900 5

New Films 

Trance 

Fri 5 – Thu 18 April 

Danny Boyle has been busy since his last film 

127 Hours was released in 2010. He directed 

Frankenstein for the National Theatre as well as 

a small event you might have seen last summer: 

the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. 

We’re glad to see him return to filmmaking with 

Trance, a slick thriller co-written by his long-time 

collaborator John Hodge (Shallow Grave, 

Trainspotting). 

Fine art auctioneer Simon (James McAvoy), in 

league with a gang led by underworld boss 

Franck (Vincent Cassel), plots the audacious theft 

of a masterpiece by Goya from a major public 

auction. When Simon double-crosses the gang 

during the robbery, Franck retaliates violently and 

knocks him unconscious. In the aftermath of the 

heist, Simon sticks sticks stubbornly to his claim 

that the violent trauma has left him with no 

memory of where he stashed the artwork. Unable 

to coerce the painting’s location from Simon, 

Franck and his associates reluctantly join forces 

with a charismatic hypnotherapist (Rosario 

Dawson) in a bid to get him to talk. 

Boyle doesn’t often put female characters at the 

heart of his films, so it’s refreshing to see such an 

important role for Rosario Dawson. Boyle’s 

trademark style – frenetic camera work, great 

soundtrack and sheer excitement – are all still 

there in abundance. A slick, elegant thriller, Trance 

is the perfect way to start the spring blockbuster 

season. 

Dir: Danny Boyle 

UK 2013 / 1h41m / Digital / 15 

Bring a Baby screening Thu 18 April, 10:30 

Soft subtitled screenings Mon 8 April, 20:30 & 

Tue 15 April, 15:15 


In the House 

Dans la maison 


After the runaway success of Potiche two years ago, François 

Ozon (France’s answer to Pedro Almodóvar) is back with an 

intriguing new film about storytelling based on a play by Juan 

Mayorga (The Boy in the Back Row). 

World-weary literature professor Germain (The Women on the 

6th Floor’s Fabrice Luchini) discovers a wonderful pupil in his 

class. A routine ‘how I spent my weekend’ assignment by 

student Claude turns out to be a fascinating glimpse into the 

private life of one of Germain’s old school chums. When the 

story ends with the words ‘to be continued…’, Germain and 

his wife Jeanne (Kristin Scott Thomas), who has also read the 

story, are hooked. Hilarity ensues as the tales Claude spins 

become as addictive to the viewer as they do to the couple 

reading them. 

Filled with film references (amongst them Pasolini’s Theorum, 

which we’re showing on Sun 20 April – see p17 for details) 

and literary nods, In the House cleverly treads the dangerous 

line between fiction and reality. Buzzing with wit and 

intelligence, this is really something special and absolutely 

one of Ozon’s finest works to date. 

Dir: François Ozon 

France 2012 / 1h45m / Digital / 15 

French with English subtitles 

Senior Citizen Kane Club screening Thu 11 April, 10:30

Post Tenebras Lux 


This new film from director Carlos Reygadas 

(Battle in Heaven, Silent Light) won him the 

award for Best Director in Cannes last year. It’s 

a gorgeous, allusive masterpiece that examines 

marriage, poverty, class, gender, our place in 

nature and how evil lives with us in the most 

intimate and ordinary of places. 

The film is largely non-linear in its structure, 

showing instead a series of striking images 

from the past, present and possible futures, but 

it still has a clear centre. Juan (Adolfo Jiménez 

Castro) is a wealthy industrialist who has 

chosen to live with his wife and two children 

away from the trappings of wealth and the city. 

Yet isolation in this superficially idyllic rural 

landscape seems to have brought little peace 

to his world. Juan’s marriage to Natalia 

(Nathalia Acevedo) is suffering under the strain 

of sexual ennui, the banal routine of bringing up 

young children and living in a community where 

he is clearly an outsider. 

Post Tenebras Lux’s central theme, signposted 

quite literally in an audacious manner very early 

on, is Juan’s struggle to morally navigate the 

welter of everyday decisions we are all forced 

to make in life. However, what lingers long after 

this dense mood piece is not only its striking, 

much-discussed images, but also its take on 

the subtler aspects of family life, the tender 

fragility of childhood and marriage, and some 

of the most beautifully haunting representations 

of nature ever committed to film. 

Dir: Carlos Reygadas 

Mexico / France / Netherlands / Germany 

2012 / 2h / Digital / 18 

Spanish with English subtitles 

Good Vibrations 


Good Vibrations, an entertaining biopic of the ‘Godfather of 

Belfast Punk’ Terri Hooley, might tread some familiar territory for 

a music film – but it what it lacks in subtlety it more than makes 

up for in energy and enthusiasm. Fancy a feel-good night out at 

the pictures with some belly laughs and terrific tunes? This film is 

for you. 

The scene is 1970s Belfast at the height of the Troubles. Hooley 

(the charismatic Richard Dormer) is working as a pub DJ for a 

very uninterested audience. When he meets Ruth (Jodie 

Whittaker) and opens up his first record shop (the titular Good 

Vibrations) his life begins to improve. He becomes the manager 

of local punk band The Outcasts, whose success quickly leads 

to him managing another unknown group, The Undertones: the 

rest is history. 

Despite its subject matter of missed opportunities and gallons of 

cheap lager, this rags-to-riches-back-to-rags tale is wonderfully 

evocative of a period of music history which was ripe for 

cinematic treatment. The power of music in the middle of a war 

zone is nothing new, but Good Vibrations shines a light on the 

men and women who made life bearable during a period of 

extended conflict and depression. Without wanting to overplay 

the metaphors, you’ll leave with a smile on your face and a song 

in your heart. 

Dirs: Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn 

UK / Ireland 2012 / 1h43m / Digital / 15 

Senior Citizen Kane Club screening Thu 18 April, 10:30 

Tickets 01382 909 900 7

New Films 

Neighbouring Sounds 

O som ao redor 

Fri 12 – Tue 16 April 

From the moment Neighbouring Sounds’ 

opening credits start to roll, you’ll be aware 

that this is no ordinary feature film debut. 

Critic-turned-filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho 

is an audacious and extraordinary new voice in 

the cinema world. 

Accompanied by a cacophony of city sounds, 

the film opens with a montage of Brazil’s divided 

society, setting the stage for this epic, energetic, 

terrifying drama. The action takes place in the 

middle-class suburb of Recife, where rich and 

poor live and work side by side. Most of the 

area’s real estate is owned by Seu Francisco 

(W.J. Solha) who acts, along with his son João 

(Gustavo Jahn) as a powerful, but largely benign 

local ruler. When a series of burglaries start to 

spook the tenants, Francisco brings in security 

expert Clodoaldo (Irandhir Santos) and his gang 

of henchmen to calm the situation down. As we 

meet various residents, it soon becomes clear 

that these tower blocks are anything but normal 

and the colourful cast of characters who live in 

them are as idiosyncratic as the film itself. 

Utilising techniques learned from horror movies 

including rumbling low-level noise and effective, 

unexpected shocks, Filho’s anxiety-inducing style 

is perfectly suited to Neighbouring Sounds’ 

desire to explore socio-political issues through a 

unique cinematic vision. This film truly is like 

nothing you’ve ever seen before. 

Dir: Kleber Mendonça Filho 

Brazil 2012 / 2h11m / Digital / 15 

Portuguese with English subtitles 


A Late Quartet 


Director Yaron Zilberman has assembled a top calibre cast to 

tell this story about a group of classical musicians struggling 

with the onset of middle age. Zilberman skillfully dramatises a 

rarified world more often seen in documentary, set in New 

York during a snowy winter. 

An accomplished string quartet finds itself in jeopardy when 

the eldest of its number (Christopher Walken) is diagnosed 

with Parkinson’s disease. The discovery turns out to be a 

catalyst for the group to question their relationships, their 

hopes and their future. As roles within the group are 

challenged, so too are the personal choices of the characters. 

Unspoken conflicts come to the fore, the positions of first 

and second violin are contested, tempers are raised and 

passions (not just of the musical variety) are pursued. 

The tension that exists between the musicians is well 

observed and masterfully played. Philip Seymour Hoffman 

and Catherine Keener, as the married couple at the heart of 

the quartet, believably communicate the commitment and 

temperament needed to be first class performers, while 

Imogen Poots’ turn as the couple’s daughter signposts her as 

an actress to look out for in future. Christopher Walken’s 

honest performance in the film’s quiet crescendo is poignant 

and touching. 

Dir: Yaron Zilberman 

USA 2012 / 1h45m / Digital / 15 

Soft subtitled screening Tue 23 April, 15:45 

Bring a Baby Screening Thu 25 April, 10:30

Reality 

Mon 22 – Thu 25 April 

In 2008 Matteo Garrone burst onto the scene 

with Gommorah, his reinvention of the Sicilian 

gangster film as a naturalistic, almost 

documentary-style drama. With Reality he 

changes register completely and adopts an 

over-the-top style that seems to be channelling 

Fellini to look at the way an obsession with 

celebrity culture has shaped contemporary 

Italy. 

At the heart of Naples lives Luciano (Aniello 

Arena), a larger-than-life fishmonger whose 

exuberant personality has given him some 

special status in the community. Encouraged 

by his children, he auditions for the Italian 

version of Big Brother and in an instant becomes 

fixated on winning. Convinced that 

giving away his possessions (and those of his 

family) might give him a chance of winning, 

Luciano soon divorces himself from reality, 

losing sight of his friends, family and work in his 

desire to shape his fate and find fame and 

fortune. 

Arena, a semi-professional actor currently 

serving a life sentence for murder who was let 

out of prison for filming, is incredibly watchable 

as the man whose life is overturned by a 

chance at stardom. But as much as the film is a 

treatise on empty dreams, its real charm lies in 

the colourful community of family and friends 

who inhabit Luciano’s real world. 

Dir: Matteo Garrone 

Italy / France 2012 / 1h56m / Digital / 15 

Italian with English subtitles 



The Place Beyond The Pines 

Fri 19 April – Thu 2 May 

Reuniting with star Ryan Gosling after his emotionally crippling 

directorial debut Blue Valentine, director Derek Cianfrance ups 

the ante with The Place Beyond the Pines. This crime thriller 

stretches over multiple generations and co-stars Eva Mendes, 

Bradley Cooper, Rose Byrne and Dane DeHaan. 

Luke (Gosling) is a motorcycle stunt rider whose life is 

immediately changed when he re-connects with former flame 

Romina (Mendes) and discovers an infant son he didn’t know he 

had. Determined to provide for his newfound family, Luke 

ditches the stunts and instead turns to robbing banks, which 

puts him on a collision course with ambitious cop Avery Cross 

(Cooper). 

With a narrative that stretches over three acts, The Place Beyond 

the Pines is far more ambitious in scope that Blue Valentine, yet 

equally as gripping and wrought with emotion. Much of this is to 

do with its central theme of relationships and how sins are 

passed from generation to generation, providing a connection 

between each of the characters. 

Gosling, as usual, is on top form as Luke, while Cooper plays the 

ambiguous Avery with a subtle finesse that continues his growth 

as an actor. But the real skill lies with Cianfrance, who not only 

directs with flair, but also carves a narrative with depth, heart 

and some truly unexpected twists and turns. 

Dir: Derek Cianfrance 

USA 2012 / 2h16m / Digital / 15 

Bring a Baby screening Thu 2 May, 10:30 

Tickets 01382 909 900 9

New Films 

Spring Breakers 


Boundary-pushing American writer and director 

Harmony Korine (Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy) 

returns with Spring Breakers. In it he not only taps 

into the undercurrent of modern day society’s 

idea of the American Dream, but also lets his 

audience experience the wildest, most extreme 

spring break of their fantasies. 

Four experimental college girls – Brit (Ashley 

Benson), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Cotty 

(Rachel Korine) and Faith (Selena Gomez, former 

Disney sweetheart) – steal from their local 

chicken shop and embark on the ultimate spring 

break in Florida. After a heavy night of alcohol 

and drugs sends them to prison, they’re bailed 

out by local gangster-cum-rapper Alien (James 

Franco), who promises them a trip they’ll never 

forget. 

Light on narrative but full of visual excess and 

substance abuse (there’s no wonder it’s an 18 

certificate), Spring Breakers finds Korine 

constantly pushing and pulling his audience into 

uncomfortable areas by blurring the boundaries 

between what’s fun and what’s damaging. It’s an 

insight into the dark side of a party-hard, sex 

obsessed youth generation. 

Yet it’s not to be taken too seriously, and 

continually mocks itself. If you’re willing to throw 

caution to the wind and put yourself under 

Korine’s hypnotic spell, then Spring Breakers 

is ludicrously entertaining 94 minute party. 

It’s one not to be missed. 

Dir: Harmony Korine 

USA 2012 / 1h34m / Digital / 18 


Rebellion 

L’ordre et la morale 


Just as he did with his debut film La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz 

has once again produced a strong, hard-hitting film which 

sheds light on a controversial subject in France today. This 

time his focus is on the role and responsibilities of the military 

in former colonial states. Rebellion is based on a book by 

one of the soldiers at the heart of the story: its French title 

translates as Order and Morality and makes ironic reference 

to the part played by powerful nations in unknown wars. 

In 1988, a group of indigenous Kanaks storms a police station 

on Ouvea, one of the Pacific islands that make up New 

Caledonia, officially a French territory. They kill four gendarmes 

and take 20 hostages. A team of elite police from the GIGN 

Intervention Group, led by specialist negotiator Capitaine 

Legorjus (Kassovitz), flies to the islands. However, by the time 

they arrive the mission has been given to the army, who 

have orders to end the uprising quickly, using any means 

necessary. The French presidential elections are underway 

and neither of the competing candidates, Jaques Chirac 

and Francois Mitterand, wants to look weak. 

A deeply personal project for Kassovitz, who spent years 

gaining consent from the families of those killed in the 

operation, Rebellion is a superb film. Thought-provoking and 

unforgettable, it exposes the lack of respect and concern 

shown by those in power for the lives affected by political 

decisions made on distant shores. 

Dir: Mathieu Kassovitz 

France 2013 / 2h16m / Digital / 15 

French with English subtitles

Love Is All You Need 

Den skaldede frisør 


On paper Susanne Bier's new film sounds like it might be a 

euro pudding mess (a Danish romantic comedy starring 

Pierce Brosnan) but in fact it is a very likeable, warm and funny 

film about love and starting over. 

Hairdresser Ida (Trine Dyrholm) returns home after being 

given the all clear from her recent battle with cancer to find 

her husband Leif (The Bridge’s Kim Bodnia) engaged in a 

non-work related activity with a colleague on the living room 

sofa. Devastated, she sets out to attend her daughter’s 

wedding in Italy alone. When she runs (literally) into her 

soon-to-be-son-in-law’s father Phillip (Brosnan) at the airport, 

things seem to go from bad to worse. But despite his gruff 

exterior, Phillip turns out to be just the friend she might need. 

In turn, Ida’s strength and compassion spark something in him 

which has been dormant for many years. 

While the plot might seem predictable and the initial sight of 

Brosnan in a Danish-speaking environment somewhat hilarious, 

Love Is All You Need is also multi-layered and unexpectedly 

moving. If you fancy a life-affirming film set against the beautiful 

backdrop of Sorrento which doesn't condescend to its 

audience, this bittersweet comedy is just the ticket. 

Dir: Susanne Bier 

Denmark / Sweden / Italy / France / Germany 2012 / 1h56m / 

Digital / 15 

Danish & Italian with English subtitles 

Senior Citizen Kane Club screening Thu 2 May, 10:30 

Thursday Till Sunday 

De jueves a domingo 

Mon 29 April – Thu 2 May 

The Chilean film industry is going from strength 

to strength at the moment: following closely on 

the heels of Pablo Larraín’s No, which featured 

in our last guide, we are delighted to bring you 

this understated gem. Writer-director Dominga 

Sotomayor’s debut feature is very different in 

tone to No and uses an ordinary camping 

holiday to explore the drama of family life. 

Set almost entirely within the confines of the 

family car, the film focuses on ten year-old 

Lucia (Santi Ahumada), our witness as we 

travel through the Chilean landscape from 

Santiago to her family’s vacation spot in the 

north. As tensions mount between her parents 

in the front seats, Lucia's intelligent and 

sensitive response devastatingly captures the 

effect a marital breakup can have on children. 

Sotomayor’s quietly poignant coming-of-age 

story is a universal one anchored by an 

astonishing performance by the young 

Ahumada. Stunningly shot by cinematographer 

Bárbara Álvarez (The Headless Woman), the 

deserted landscape is the perfect backdrop 

for this beautifully measured story exploring 

the turmoil of family relationships. 

Dir: Dominga Sotomayor Castillo 

Chile / Netherlands 2012 / 1h36m / Digital / 

cert tbc 

Spanish & French with English subtitles 

Tickets 01382 909 900 11

diary 

Day / Film 

Fri 29 March 

Times 

Finding Nemo 3D 12:00/14:15/16:30/18:00 

Beyond the Hills 12:30/20:15 

Mea Maxima Culpa 15:30 

Side Effects 18:30/20:45 

Sat 30 March 


Finding Nemo 3D 13:00/15:15/18:00 


Judge Minty 18:00 

DeeCAP! 19:00 

Side Effects 20:45 

Sun 31 March 

Finding Nemo 3D 10:30/12:00/14:15/16:30 


The Gospel According to St. Matthew 15:00 



Mon 1 April 

Finding Nemo 3D 12:00/14:15/15:30/16:30 

Mea Maxima Culpa 12:30/18:00 


Beyond the Hills 20:15 

Tue 2 April 

Finding Nemo 3D 12:00/14:15/15:30/16:30 




Wed 3 April 

Finding Nemo 3D 12:00/14:15/15:30/16:30 

Mea Maxima Culpa 13:00/18:00 



Thu 4 April 

Mea Maxima Culpa 10:30/13:00/18:00 

Finding Nemo 3D 12:00/14:15/15:30/16:30 



Fri 5 April 

Finding Nemo 3D 12:00/15:45 

In the House 13:15/18:00 

Trance 14:15/18:30/20:45 

The Spirit of ’45 16:15 

Post Tenebras Lux 20:15 

Sat 6 April 

Finding Nemo 3D 12:00/15:45 

Post Tenebras Lux 13:15/20:15 

Trance 14:15/20:45 


The Spirit of ’45 18:00 


Key 

Bring a Baby screening 


Performance Screening 


Soft Subtitled screening 

Day / Film 

Sun 7 April 

Times 

Finding Nemo 3D 10:30/12:30/15:30 

Trance 10:30/14:45/18:00 

The Spirit of ‘45 13:00 


Cinema Republic: Shallow Grave 20:15 

In the House 20:30 

Mon 8 April 

Finding Nemo 3D 12:00/15:30/18:15 

Post Tenebras Lux 13:00/20:15 

Trance 14:15/20:30 


Tue 9 April 

Finding Nemo 3D 12:00/15:30/18:15 


Trance 14:15/20:30 

Side by Side 18:00 


Wed 10 April 

Finding Nemo 3D 12:00/15:30/18:15 


Trance 14:15/20:30 


Babeldom 18:00 

Thu 11 April 


Finding Nemo 3D 10:30/12:30/15:30/17:00 


Trance 14:30/21:00 


Manet: Portraying Life 19:00 

Fri 12 April 


Neighbouring Sounds 13:15/20:15 

Trance 15:15/20:30 


Good Vibrations 18:00 

Sat 13 April 


The Wizard of Oz 13:00 

Trance 15:15/20:30 


Good Vibrations 18:00 

Sun 14 April 



Trance 15:15/20:30 

Point Blank 16:00 

Good Vibrations 18:00

Day / Film 

Mon 15 April 

Times 



Trance 15:15/20:30 

Good Vibrations 15:45/20:45 

Tue 16 April 


The Road: A Story of Life and Death 13:00/19:30 

Good Vibrations 14:45/21:15 

Trance 15:15/20:30 

Neighbouring Sounds 17:00 

Wed 17 April 


Good Vibrations 13:15/15:30/20:15 

Trance 15:15/20:30 

Dormant Beauty 18:00 

Thu 18 April 

Good Vibrations 10:30/13:15/15:30/20:15 

Trance 10:30/15:15/20:30 


Me and You 18:00 

Fri 19 April 

A Late Quartet 13:00/18:00 

Spring Breakers 13:00/15:15/20:30 

The Place Beyond the Pines 15:15/20:15 

Every Blessed Day 18:00 

Sat 20 April 


Stromboli 13:15 


Theorum 15:30 

Nina 18:00 

Spring Breakers 19:45 

Maniac 21:45 

Sun 21 April 

A Late Quartet 10:30/15:45/18:00 

The Place Beyond the Pines 10:30/13:00/15:15/20:15 

Spring Breakers 13:15/20:00 

The Son Did It 18:00 

Mon 22 April 


Reality 13:15/18:00 



Tue 23 April 


Reality 13:15/18:00 



Wed 24 April 


Reality 13:15/18:00 



Day / Film 

Thu 25 April 

Times 

A Late Quartet 10:30/13:00/18:00 

Reality 10:30/14:45/17:00 

2013 Bafta Shorts 12:45/19:15 


Spring Breakers 21:15 

Fri 26 April 


First Position 13:00/18:00 

Rebellion 15:15/20:45 

Love Is All You Need 15:30/20:00 

Sat 27 April 


Oz the Great and Powerful 13:00 

First Position 14:45 


Live from the Met: Giulio Cesare 17:00 

Love Is All You Need 21:00 

Sun 28 April 

First Position 10:30/13:15/18:00 

Rebellion 10:30/15:15/20:45 



Mon 29 April 


Thursday Till Sunday 13:00/18:00 



Tue 30 April 





Wed 1 May 





Thu 2 May 

Love Is All You Need 10:30/13:15/18:00 

The Place Beyond the Pines 10:30/12:30/18:00 



Tickets 01382 909 900 13

Documentary 

The Spirit of ‘45 

Fri 5 – Sun 7 April 

Ken Loach’s touching documentary about a unique moment 

in Britain’s history returns to DCA by popular demand. Using 

film from Britain’s regional and national archives, alongside 

sound recordings and contemporary interviews, Loach 

creates a rich political and social narrative about the 

unprecedented period of social change after the Second 

World War. The Spirit of ‘45 illuminates and celebrates a 

period of unprecedented community spirit in the UK, the 

impact of which endured for many years and which may 

yet be rediscovered today. 

Dir: Ken Loach 

USA 2012 / 1h30m / Digital / U 

The Road: A Story of Life 

and Death 

Tue 16 April 

The latest film from acclaimed documentarian Marc Isaacs 

offers a fascinating and intimate insight into the lives of 

people who have come to London from afar and struggled to 

make the city their home. Isaacs introduces a diverse group 

of characters who have made their way to London from all 

over the world in order to seek a better life. A highly affecting 

study of immigration, The Road: A Story of Life and Death is 

infused with wonderful flashes of humour and equally 

heartbreaking moments where broken dreams are revealed. 

Dir: Marc Isaacs 

UK 2012 / 1h28m / Digital / PG 


Join us for a free tour of DCA’s Projection Room 

before or after Side by Side to see how the Cinema’s 

magic happens. Find out more on our website. 

Side by Side 

Tue 9 April, 18:00 

Movies used to be shot, edited and projected using 

photochemical film. But over the last two decades a digital 

process has emerged to challenge photochemical 

filmmaking. Side by Side, a new documentary produced by 

Keanu Reeves, takes an in-depth look at this revolution. 

Through interviews with leading directors (including Martin 

Scorsese and George Lucas), cinematographers, film 

students, producers, technologists and editors, the film 

examines all aspects of filmmaking to explore what has 

been gained, what is lost, and what the future might bring. 

Dir: Christopher Kenneally 

USA 2012 / 1h39m / Digital / 15 

First Position 

Fri 26 – Sun 28 April 

Every year, thousands of aspiring dancers enter one of the 

world’s most prestigious ballet competitions: the Youth 

America Grand Prix, where lifelong dreams are at stake. In 

the final round, with hundreds competing for only a handful 

of elite scholarships and contracts, nothing short of 

perfection is acceptable. Bess Kargman’s award-winning, 

box office hit documentary First Position follows six 

extraordinary dancers as they prepare for the chance to 

enter the world of professional ballet, struggling through 

bloodied feet, near exhaustion and debilitating injuries, all 

while navigating the drama of adolescence. 

Dir: Bess Kargman 

USA 2011 / 1h34m / Digital / U


Tickets are £4.50 for under 21s / £5.50 for adults, or a family ticket for four costs £15. Workshops are free 

with your cinema ticket, but places are limited so please book in advance on 01382 909 900. Children under 

the age of 12 must be accompanied in the Cinema by a parent or guardian. 

Finding Nemo 3D 

Sat 30 March, 13:00 

Little Nemo is a clownfish who is 

starting his first day of school. 

Despite his over-protective dad Marlin 

watching cautiously nearby, Nemo 

is kidnapped and forced on an 

unexpected journey of survival. 

He is helped along the way by some 

unexpected friends, including a nosy 

pelican and Bruce, a very large shark. 

Marlin teams up with the 

scatterbrained Dory as he desperately 

searches for his son across Australia’s 

Great Barrier Reef. 

You’ll be entranced by the beautiful 

sea colours and creatures as much as 

the heart-warming story at the core of 

Finding Nemo. Told with action and 

excitement suitable for the whole 

family, the film also features some of 

the best voice work since Toy Story 

with a cast including Albert Brooks, 

Geoffrey Rush, Barry Humphries (aka 

Dame Edna Everage), Ellen DeGeneres 

and Willem Dafoe. 

Dirs: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich 

USA 2003 / 1h40m / Digital 3D / U 

Workshop: 12:00 

Help create an underwater mural 

filled with creatures of your own 

design, then help yourself in our 

very own fishy takeaway! 

The Wizard Of Oz 

Sat 13 April, 13:00 

Although it’s over 70 years old, The 

Wizard of Oz remains one of the great 

family films of all time, and returns to 

DCA in a sparkling, digitally restored 

version that puts the ruby well and 

truly back into those famous slippers. 

Based on L. Frank Baum’s fantastical 

novel, the film sees Dorothy whirled 

up by a terrifying tornado from a 

colourless farm in Kansas and 

transported to the magical world of 

Oz. During her travels, Dorothy meets 

scatterbrained scarecrows, heartless 

tin men and cowardly lions (as well as 

a very green witch) and learns the 

important lesson that there is indeed 

“no place like home”. 

Winner of a recent Discovery Film 

Festival poll for Dundee’s favourite 

family film, The Wizard of Oz is a great 

opportunity to refresh some memories 

ahead of our forthcoming screening of 

the new Disney film Oz the Great and 

Powerful. 

Dir: Victor Fleming 

USA 1939 / 1h41m / Digital / U 


Who will you take with you down 

the Yellow Brick Road? Create and 

design your own group of brave 

friends to travel with you to the 

magical land of Oz. 

Oz the Great and 

Powerful 3D 


Audiences are now very familiar with 

Dorothy’s arrival and adventures in the 

land of Oz – but how did the Wizard get 

there? 

Director Sam Raimi (Spider-Man) goes 

back to the original L. Frank Baum 

stories to show how Oscar Diggs 

(James Franco), a small time-circus 

magician, suffers a similar twist of fate 

to Dorothy, taking him from Kansas to 

Oz. He soon finds plenty of 

opportunities for fame and fortune as 

everyone thinks he is a famous wizard 

whose arrival had been foretold. But 

three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), 

Evanora (Rachel Weisz), and Glinda 

(Michelle Williams), are suspicious and 

it will take all his magician’s skills to 

survive in this new world. 

Using the best of modern technology, 

Raimi creates a fantasy land full of 

towering waterfalls, lush forests and a 

truly Emerald City, whilst not forgetting 

the magic of the earlier film. It’s not a 

remake but a prequel – and following 

the yellow brick road is still a journey 

worth making! 

Dir: Sam Raimi 

USA 2013 / 2h10m / Digital 3D / PG 


Create a wonderful world of magic 

and make your own wizard effects 

by transforming tiny puppets into 

huge shadow creatures on the big 

screen! 

Tickets 01382 909 900 15

Performance Screenings 

Live from the Met: 

Giulio Cesare 

Manet: Portraying Life 


This acclaimed exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts 

is the first ever major exhibition in the UK devoted to 

the portraiture of Edouard Manet. Spanning the entire 

career of this enigmatic, sometimes controversial artist, 

Manet: Portraying Life brings together great works from 

across Europe, Asia and the USA. 

The exhibition consists of more than 50 works; 

including masterpices like Music in the Tuileries, 

Olympia, Luncheon on the Grass and The Railway. Also 

featured are portraits of Manet’s most frequent sitter, 

his wife Suzanne Leenhoff, luminaries of the period and 

scenes from everyday life revealing Manet’s forwardthinking, 

modern approach to portraiture. Host Tim 

Marlow, along with expert guests, will explore the 

exhibition and reveal exclusive behind-the-scenes 

moments from the run-up to the show. This footage 

will be interweaved with a detailed, superbly crafted 

biography of Manet and 19th century Paris. 

Approximate running time: 2h 



Manet: Portraying Life £12 (£10 under 15s) Met Opera £20 (£10 under 21s) 

David McVicar’s second new production of the season 

is this dynamic staging of Giulio Cesare, a hit at the 

Glyndebourne Festival in 2005, which incorporates 

elements of Baroque theatre and 19th century British 

imperialism to illuminate the opera’s themes of love, war 

and empire building. 

“Giulio Cesare is a kaleidoscope of an opera – a semicomic, 

semi-tragic adventure story. You get romance, you 

get drama, you get moments of political wheeling-anddealing, 

complex family relationships – as well as real 

emotion and tragedy,” McVicar says. “It’s a miracle, and it 

has enabled me to express everything I feel is important 

about opera.” David Daniels stars as the title character, 

opposite Natalie Dessay in her Met role debut as the 

bewitching Cleopatra, Alice Coote as Sesto, Patricia 

Bardon as Cornelia, Christophe Dumaux as Tolomeo, 

and Guido Loconsolo in his Met debut as Achilla. 

Approximate running time: 4h45m 

New Live from the Met Season Announced 

From timeless classics of the romantic repertoire to fairytale adventures 

and a satirical story about literally cutting off your nose to spite your face, 

the 2013–14 season of Live from the Met promises to be another 

glittering showcase of world-class opera. Starting in October with a new 

production of Russian classic Eugene Onegin by acclaimed director 

Deborah Warner, the ten performances include a chance to see an 

innovative production of Shostakovich’s The Nose; Renée Fleming in 

Rusalka, one of her greatest roles; a new production of Werther by British 

director Richard Eyre starring Jonas Kauffman; and Franco Zefirelli’s 

much-loved production of La Boheme. Tickets for the season will go on 

sale in April; keep an eye on our website for news and updates.

Vintage film 

The Gospel According 

to St. Matthew 

Il vangelo secondo Matteo 

Sun 31 March, 15:00 

Pasolini remains one of the most 

controversial figures in post-war Italian 

culture, and an artist of fascinating 

contradictions. He was a Marxist 

atheist who was thrown out of the 

Communist party and attacked more 

than once by the Catholic Church. Yet 

he is also responsible for The Gospel 

According to St. Matthew, which even 

the Vatican has named the greatest of 

all films about Christ. Shooting on 

location in Southern Italy, using nonprofessional 

actors and eschewing 

special effects, Pasolini strips the story 

down to its essentials, avoids the false 

piety of Hollywood biblical epics, and 

presents Christ as an angry, 

revolutionary figure. But this is also a 

film about 2,000 years of artistic 

representations of Christ, and it is 

saturated in references to religious 

paintings, from Giotto to Georges 

Rouault, and features a stunning score 

of spiritual music, from Bach to 

African-American spirituals. One of the 

great achievements of Italian film. 

Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini 

Italy / France 1964 / 2h17m / Digital / 

PG 


Point Blank 

Sun 14 April, 16:00 

It is hard to imagine that Point Blank 

was dismissed by many upon its 

initial release as a straightforward 

crime film. The story – which was later 

filmed as Payback and the upcoming 

Jason Statham vehicle, Parker – is 

admittedly the stuff of hardboiled pulp: 

a thief is double crossed and left to die 

but returns to regain his lost money. 

However, the telling of the tale is 

anything but conventional. Director 

John Boorman presents us with a kind 

of surreal dream (with hints that the 

protagonist may in fact be dead), 

complete with experimental use of 

flashbacks, extraordinary sets and 

otherworldly LA locations. And then 

there is Lee Marvin’s monumental 

central performance, which neither Mel 

Gibson or the Stath can come within a 

million miles of replicating. There’s no 

doubt about it: Point Blank is a 

masterpiece. 

Dir: John Boorman 

USA 1967 / 1h34m / 35mm / 15 

Theorum 


The dark flip-side to The Gospel 

According to St. Matthew, Theorum 

sees Terrence Stamp on tremendous 

form as a messianic (or demonic) 

figure who mysteriously ingratiates 

himself with a wealthy Italian family, 

seduces everyone under the roof and 

then leaves as quickly as he came. 

Pasolini was a uniquely divisive 

filmmaker and this sees him at his 

most provocative. The film was 

derided in some circles as 

blasphemous, while others have 

viewed it as a highly moral 

commentary on the decadence of the 

1960s. Similarly, some have seen the 

film as being wilfully obscure and even 

incomprehensible; yet the film, with its 

often surreal imagery, was also 

embraced by the hippy generation as 

a prime example of expanded 

consciousness cinema. However you 

read it, Pasolini’s allegorical fable 

remains a uniquely strange and 

enigmatic experience, but it is never 

less than compelling, and it will leave 

you thinking about it for days. 

Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini 

Italy 1968 / 1h45m / Digital / 15 

English and Italian with 

English subtitles 

Tickets 01382 909 900 17

Benvenuti to the 20th edition of the Italian Film Festival, curated by Allan Hunter and Richard Mowe: this 

year we bring you six screenings covering everything from contemporary romance to timeless classics. 

Throughout the festival Jute Café Bar are offering special bruschetta sharing boards for £10 or for £15 

with two glasses of Pinot Grigio. 

Dormant Beauty 

Bella addormentata 

Wed 17 April, 18:00 

The case of Eluana Englaro became 

a lightning rod for the debate about 

euthanasia in Italy. Englaro was 

injured in a car accident and spent 

17 years in a vegetative state as her 

father fought a legal battle to end her 

life. Marco Bellocchio's complex, 

compelling feature 

explores the case and its 

implications through three fictional 

stories: a senator grapples with his 

conscience before a crucial 

parliamentary vote on the right to life; 

a devoutly Catholic actress 

abandons her career to care for her 

stricken child and a methadone 

addict begs to end her life as a 

doctor strives to sustain it. A chilly 

Isabelle Huppert, Toni Servillo and a 

wonderfully lugubrious Roberto 

Herlitzka head an impressive cast in 

a powerful, thought-provoking 

reflection on matters of life and 

death. 

Dir: Marco Bellocchio 




Me and You 

Io e te 


It has been almost a decade since 

Bernardo Bertolucci’s last film, but 

Me and You shows that the great 

Italian auteur has lost none of his 

mastery. Lorenzo (Jacopo Olmo 

Antinori) is a 14 year-old wrestling 

with his self-consciousness through 

sessions with his therapist and 

mother. In a striking show of 

independence, he decides to skip a 

week-long class ski trip and hole up 

alone in the family’s storage 

basement. However, Lorenzo’s 

dream of a week of solitary escape 

is interrupted by the unexpected 

appearance of his half-sister Olivia 

(Tea Falco), who discovers his 

hideout while rummaging around in 

the cellar. Though Olivia vows to 

keep Lorenzo’s secret safe, she also 

brings a new set of complications 

into this strange situation: she is a 

junkie who has decided it’s time to 

go cold turkey. 

Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci 



Every Blessed Day 

Tutti i santi giorni 

Fri 19 April, 18:00 

Paulo Virzi's delightful romantic 

comedy has been a huge box office 

hit in Italy and helped to establish 

Luca Marinelli as one of the country's 

rising stars. Marinelli plays Guido, a 

shy, unassuming intellectual who 

works as a night porter in Rome. He 

is besotted with Antonia, a restless, 

unpredictable young woman who 

dreams of becoming a singer and 

works for a car rental company. Jobs 

and lifestyles mean they only see 

each other early in the morning as 

Guido returns from work and 

prepares breakfast. They are a 

perfectly happy couple until they 

decide that the one thing that would 

make their lives complete is a baby. 

A tender, touching comedy unfolds, 

made all the more appealing by its 

fairytale feel and talented cast. 

Dir: Paolo Virzi 


Italian with English subtitles

Stromboli 


Sadly, Stromboli is best known as 

the film which lured Ingrid Bergman 

from Hollywood and marked the 

beginning of her tempestuous affair 

with director Roberto Rossellini. The 

perceived immorality of the couple 

prompted the American distributors 

to mutilate the film. However, shown 

in its original form as it is here, this is 

clearly a major work which is ripe for 

rediscovery. The plot is simple: a 

wartime refugee marries an Italian 

fisherman but finds life with him on a 

volcanic island difficult. However, the 

film’s brilliance lies in its naturalistic 

details, including a superb sequence 

depicting the fishermen at work; the 

unadorned dialogue, which often 

grew out of improvisation; the 

superb performances, with Bergman 

working brilliantly with a cast of nonprofessionals; 

and the potent 

symbolism of the volcano, which 

towers over the film. Moreover, far 

from being immoral, this is one of the 

great films about the spiritual quests 

of ordinary people. 

Dir: Roberto Rossellini 



Nina 


Elisa Fuksas' much-admired debut 

feature provides a plum role for 

Diane Fleri as Nina, a lost soul 

drifting through life in a sun-bleached 

Rome that everyone else has 

abandoned for the summer. Nina 

has agreed to spend the sweltering 

months house-sitting a friend's 

apartment and caring for his 

hamster, aquarium and depressed 

dog. She has no plans, no 

relationship and no great ambitions 

other than a desire to visit China. As 

she strolls the streets, whizzes 

around on a vespa and satisfies her 

sweet tooth, Nina's niggling 

existential angst makes her the 

modern equivalent of a character in 

an Antonioni film. Her friendship with 

10 year-old Ettore and the 

acquisition of an admirer in shaggyhaired 

cellist Fabrizio set her on the 

road to a summer she will never 

forget. 

Dir: Elisa Fuksas 



The Son Did It 

È stato il figlio 


Daniele Cipri's rowdy, bittersweet 

comedy is like a cross between 

Shameless and exuberant grand 

opera as it charts the life of the 

spectacularly dysfunctional Ciraulo 

family. Toni Servillo is on top form as 

the head of a clan struggling to 

survive in the crumbling ruins of a 

housing estate on the outskirts of 

Palermo. They scrape by even as the 

water runs out and the television 

goes on the blink. A family tragedy 

threatens to make them rich with 

compensation money but merely 

sows the seeds for further woes. A 

vulgar, scathing satire on the cruel 

ironies of life in the Mafia-dominated 

Italian South, Cipri's first solo feature 

was one of the prime Italian prizewinners 

at the most recent Venice 

Film Festival. 

Dir: Daniele Cipri 



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Dundee Comics Expo 

Dundee Comics Expo takes place on Sat 30 March 2013 at the University of Dundee and features a range 

of talks, signings and workshops from up-and-coming and well-known comics creators, including David 

Lloyd (V for Vendetta) and Bryan Talbot (Alice in Sunderland). We’re pleased to be hosting two special 

events as part of the Expo. To find out more about what’s happening on the day, visit the Dundee Comics 

Expo page on Facebook. 

Judge Minty 


Judge William Minty (Edmund Dehn) has spent his entire 

adult life policing the violent streets of Mega-City One – and 

now he's slowing down. When a lapse of judgement almost 

ends his life he knows that it's time to quit. He can choose 

to teach in the Academy or he can leave the city and walk 

alone out into the anarchy of the cursed earth, taking law to 

the lawless. 

Judge Minty is a not-for-profit fan film, directed by Steven 

Sterlacchini and shown with the kind permission of 2000 AD 

and Rebellion. Judge Dredd ® is a registered trademark, 

© Rebellion A/S ® , all rights reserved. Judge Dredd is the 

creation of John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra. 

Tickets to Judge Minty are free, but please book in advance 

on 01382 909 900. 

Dir: Steven Stelacchini 

UK 2012 / 27m / Digital / ages 15 + 

2013 BAFTA Shorts 



Lose your head at DeeCAP! 


Join us for a chance to see a feature length selection of short live action and animated films 

from this year’s EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA). The selection includes Here to 

Fall, about a journey through a chaotic world; a Moroccan tale about a woman who is 

captured by a small boy; and a look at the lives of two teenage girls living in London. 

There’s also another chance to see Swimmer, Lynne Ramsay’s journey through Britain’s 

waterways, which we first showed as part of the London 2012 Festival. You can read blogs 

from the directors of the BAFTA nominated shorts at www.guru.bafta.org/blog. 

Dir: Various 

Various countries 2012 / 1h48m / Digital / cert tbc 

DeeCAP (Dundee Comics/Art/Performance) is a new 

evening of comics and zine-based entertainment. Artists 

and writers will bring their strips to life by interacting 

alongside a visual slideshow. They might be interpreting 

dialogue or adding sound effects and music to the visuals, 

in an exciting cross between comics and theatre. DeeCAP 

is inspired by Robert Sikoryak’s popular evenings of 

‘Cartoon Slide Shows and Other Projected Pictures’ 

in New York. 

Tickets to DeeCAP are free, but please book in advance 

on 01382 909 900. 

Dirs: Nick Higgins with 121 Co-Directors 

Scotland 2013 / 1h38m / Digital / cert tbc

Cinema Republic 

Cinema Republic is DCA’s wild card slot which 

is by the people, for the people. Look out for our 

call-outs on Facebook and Twitter and let us 

know what you’d like to see! 

To coincide with the release of Danny Boyle’s 

Trance (see p6) we asked you to tell us your 

favourite of his films. It was a very close contest, 

but Shallow Grave was the winner! 

Shallow Grave 


Danny Boyle’s debut feature Shallow Grave is a 

dark, hip, Generation X comedy about a trio of 

Edinburgh roommates whose narcissistic greed 

fuels murder and betrayal. Boisterous journalist Alex 

(Ewan McGregor), flirtatious doctor Juliet (Kerry Fox), 

and meek accountant David (Christopher Eccleston) 

are very different, but share a mutual, self-absorbed 

cynicism. Seeking a fourth flatmate, they cruelly 

dismiss several candidates before settling on Hugo 

(Keith Allen), whose air of detachment meets their 

standard of coolness. Hugo's reserve masks 

criminal involvement, as they discover when he’s 

found dead in bed with a suitcase containing 

enormous amounts of cash. Faced with a moral 

quandary over what to do with the body and the 

money, the group’s friendship is pushed to the limits. 

Dir: Danny Boyle 

UK 1994 / 1h32m / Digital / 18 

Artists Film 

and Video 

Babeldom 

Wed 10 – Fri 12 April 

Babeldom is a city so massive, growing at such a speed 

that soon, it is said, light itself will not escape its 

gravitational pull. How can two lovers communicate, one 

from inside the city and one from outside? In his debut 

feature film, award-winning British experimental animator 

and filmmaker Paul Bush presents an elegy to urban life. 

Against the backdrop of a city of the future, a portrait is 

assembled from film shot in modern cities all around the 

world and collected from the most recent research in 

science, technology and architecture. 

Dir: Paul Bush 

UK 2012 / 1h20m / Digital / 15 

9 Intervals 

March – May 2013 

9 Intervals is a new multi-episode digital film work designed 

for the cinema auditorium by Dublin-based contemporary 

artist Aurelien Froment. The work takes the seated position 

of the cinema viewer as its starting point, meditating upon 

the relationship between design and body, viewer and 

image. Nine short episodes will be shown before a selected 

film each Monday, intervening in the conventional role 

played by the cinema spectator to ask “are you sitting 

comfortably?” Each week a new episode will appear 

between the trailers before specific films, with an omnibus 

screening of all nine parts on Mon 6 May at 18:00. For more 

details of individual screenings please check our website. 

Dir: Aurelien Froment 

Dirs: Nick Higgins with 121 Co-Directors 

Scotland 2013 / 1h38m / Digital / cert tbc 

Tickets 01382 909 900 21

Maniac 


For his feature-length directorial debut Franck Khalfoun pulls off 

the impossible – a remake that not only equals the original, but 

tells the same tale in a unique and original way. William Lustig’s 

notorious 1980 picture, which followed an emotionally-scarred 

serial killer with a fixation on scalping and mannequins, took 

place on the grimy streets of New York City. The setting has 

been effectively relocated to downtown Los Angeles for the 2012 

picture, and almost the entire film’s camera imagery is from the 

point of view of the killer. In a career re-defining role, Elijah Wood plays Frank, the maniac of the title. He prowls the streets 

at night looking for potential victims, but his violent impulses are torn between this and the sensitive feelings he has for a 

young photographer (Nora Arnezeder). Both savage and beautiful in its imagery, Maniac is backed by an eerie electronic 

score by Rob (reminiscent of both 80s Giorgio Moroder and Cliff Martinez's soundtrack to Drive) to produce a disturbingly 

visceral experience. 

Dir: Franck Khalfoun 

France / USA 2012 / 1h29m / Digital / English / 18 

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Access 

DCA welcomes everyone and we are committed to making our programme 

and facilities accessible. We accept the CEA card. Application forms and further 

details are available from Box Office as well as large print copies of DCA print 

material. Guide Dogs are welcome in our cinemas. Details of audio-described 

and subtitled screenings are listed in our print and online at our website. 

For further information on access please contact us on 01382 909 900. 

DCA Cinema is supported by: 

DCA follows BBFC recommendations. For further details about film classification or for extended film 

information, please refer to www.bbfc.co.uk 

Tickets 01382 909 900 23

Bookings: 

01382 909 900 

www.dca.org.uk 

DCA Box Office is open Mon – Sat from 10:00 and Sun from 

12:00 until 15 minutes after the start of the final film. 

All week 

£5.50 before 17:00 

£6.50 from 17:00* 

£1.50 additional fee for all 3D films* 

Special Prices** 

Seniors 

Mon £4.50 all day 

Tue – Fri £4.50 before 17:00 

Students & Under 15s 

Sun £4.50 all day 

Mon – Fri £4.50 before 17:00 

Un-waged 

Mon £4.50 all day 

Mon – Fri £4.50 before 17:00 

Disability 

Free carer’s ticket on production of valid CEA card 

* There are some pricing exceptions, please see film information for further information 

**Please bring proof of your status to DCA when purchasing or picking up reduced tickets. 

Special Screenings: 

Senior Citizen Kane Club 

A chance for older cinema-goers to gather and enjoy film together – £4.50 

Bring a Baby Screenings 

For those with babies under 12 months old – £4.50 


£4.50 under 21s 

£5.50 over 21s 

Family ticket for four people £15.00 

Tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase except in the case 

of a cancelled performance. 

Ticket offers are subject to availability and may not be used in conjunction with any other offer. 

All tickets must be paid for at point of booking. 

Whilst every effort is taken to ensure the accuracy of information within this guide, mistakes 

do happen. DCA reserves the right to make changes to the programme as necessary. 

DCA reserves the right to refuse admission. 

DCA asks all customers to refrain from using mobile phones in the cinema. 

Customers are welcome to take their drinks into our Cinemas, but are asked to refrain from going 

back to the bar during the screening. 

Dundee Contemporary Arts 

152 Nethergate 

Dundee DD1 4DY 

Tel 01382 909 900 

Email dca@dca.org.uk 

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