March/April 2010 - Riverside Studios

March/April 2010 

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THEATRE 

Theatre 

LOVE&MADNESS Ensemble and Riverside Studios present 

The Desire&Destruction 

Season 

Designed by Annette Sumption, Lighting by Paul Green, Casting by Irene East 

Exploring human desires at their most extreme, the LOVE&MADNESS 

Ensemble has dedicated a season of three plays to investigate how 

throughout history, we have turned Desire for revenge and the wish to 

control into Destruction. 

Fool For Love 

By Sam Shepard. 

Directed by Neil Sheppeck. 

Starring Sadie Frost as May and 

Carl Barat as Eddie 

Set in a desolate motel room on 

the edge of the Mojave Desert, 

May and Eddie's tragic love-hate 

relationship plays out over this 

intense, cathartic play, which looks 

at the desires of one generation 

and the destruction it wreaks in 

the next. A bleak but savagely 

funny drama. 

Dates + Times 

Showing until 21 March 

Tuesday - Sunday 7.30pm 

Matinees 2pm 

Evening Performances: 

Fool for Love 

4-7, 11-14, 18-21 Mar 

Richard III 

3, 10, 16 Mar 

Demi-Monde 

2, 9, 17 Mar 

Matinees: 

Fool for Love 

6, 13, 20 Mar 

Richard III 

3, 10, 16, 21 Mar 

Richard III 

By William Shakespeare. 

Directed by Ben Kidd. 

Starring Carl Prekopp as Richard, 

with Sadie Frost as Lady Anne 

Shakespeare’s celebrated drama 

follows Richard III’s desire for the 

crown which ultimately leads to 

the loss of innocent lives and the 

destruction of the country. 

Demi-Monde: 

The Half World of 

William Morris 

A new piece devised by 

Love&Madness with Associate 

Artist Jack Shepherd. Born of 

the Ensemble's experience of 

the season and the characters of 

Hammersmith's history, comes 

a new work inspired by local 

socialist and designer, 

William Morris. 

loveandmadness.org 

Tickets 

£18.50 (£14 concs.) 

School Groups 10+ £9 

Demi-Monde £12 (£10 concs.) 

School Groups 10+ £9 

Studio 3 

Fool For Love 

Image Luke Varley

PERFORMANCE 

Performance 

Circle of Eleven and Riverside Studios present 

Sexy, funny and dangerous, Soap features aerial 

acrobats performing in, on, and around bathtubs 

in a show that leaves the audience breathless in 

admiration. These awe-inspiring aerial acts are a onceseen, 

never-forgotten experience. Prepare to watch 

something exquisite! 

Straight from Berlin, created by Markus Pabst 

(Bath Boy, Ceasar Twins of La Clique) and produced by 

Gregg Parks (Les 7 doigts de la main / the 7 fingers) Soap is 

a fusion of circus, cabaret and comedy with remarkable 

artists from around the world. 

Dates + Times 

5 March – 25 April 

Tue – Sat 8pm 

Sun 6pm 

Matinees 

Sat 20, 27 Mar, 

3, 10, 17, 24 Apr 

3pm 

Tickets 

Fri & Sat £25 

Groups 10+ £22.50 

Tue -Thu, Sat & Sun Mat 

£20 (£20 concs.) 

Groups 10+ £17.50 

Previews 3-7 Mar £15 

Groups 10+ £12.50 

Studio 2 

A production of

CABARET 

Cabaret 

Riverside Studios presents 

Alistair McGowan 

and Charlotte Page in 

Cocktails With Coward 

Musical arrangements by Warren Wills. 

Directed by Brendan O’Hea. 

BAFTA winner Alistair McGowan (The Big Impression) 

and actress and singer Charlotte Page perform the 

hidden gems among Noël Coward’s songs and poems 

in this 2009 Edinburgh Fringe hit. Expect a lot of 

laughter, and a few tears – proof positive that Coward 

was an unsurpassed observer of language, character 

and the human heart. 

Dates + Times 

26 March - 4 April 7.30pm 

No show 

Mon 29 Mar and Fri 2 Apr 

Tickets 

£16 (£14 concs.)

THEATRE 

Theatre 

Supporting Wall presents the professional world premiere of 

Moonfleece 

“Ridley is the master 

of modern myths” 

The Guardian 

“David Mercatali is 

clearly one to watch” 

Time Out 

By Philip Ridley. Directed by David Mercatali 

In the run up to elections in May and following the 

rise of the BNP, this is a vital and compelling story for 

Britain today by Time Out and Evening Standard 

Award-winner Philip Ridley. Returning to London 

after national tour, the play’s electric ensemble cast 

features Sean Verey (Skins), Beru Tessema 

(The Frontline, Shakespeare's Globe) and Reece Noi 

(Waterloo Road, Paradox). 

moonfleece.co.uk 

Dates + Times 

8-11 April 

Thu – Sat 7.30pm 

Sun 6.30pm 

Post show talk 10 April 

Tickets 

£15 (£12 concs.) 

Theatre Lab Company presents 

Antigone 

By Sophocles. Directed by Anastasia Revi 

In a city devastated by war, two brothers slay each other – one to 

be given a hero’s burial, the other to be left unburied and exposed 

to the vultures. Creon, the king and his young niece, Antigone, 

both wilful and passionate, are determined to be faithful to their 

individual causes; duty to the State for one, duty to love and 

morality for the other. This visual performance transcends all 

boundaries in a tragedy that resonates in contemporary culture 

and politics. 

Dates + Times 

14 April - 2 May 

Tuesday to Sunday 

7.30pm 

Matinees 

Thu 22 Apr 

& Sat 1 May 2pm 

Studio 3 

Tickets 

£15 (£12 concs.) 

Groups of 10+ £10 

Schools groups 

£10 

Post show talks 

Tue 20 Apr 

with director and 

performers 

Tue 27 Apr 

“Aspects of the 

ancient Greek 

tragedy”

THEATRE 

Theatre 

Hurts Given 

And Received 

By Howard Barker. Directed by Gerrard McArthur 

Does the creation of a great masterwork require a 

compulsion to cruelty? 

Inspired cruelties. 

Dazzling compulsions. 

And sexual transgressions. 

Howard Barker re-examines the creative life of the 

artist through one of his most fascinating and appalling 

characters. Provocative ideas, pungent poetic language, 

and savage wit build a thought-provoking allegory 

of the artist and society. The price is not just in the 

metaphorical blood of the poet… 

Slowly 

By Howard Barker. Directed by Hanna Berrigan 

As barbarians approach the palace of a decaying 

culture, four princesses debate their fate. Decorum 

demands suicide. But, for some, the possibility of life 

is all too compelling. In a culture of conformity, it may 

not be up to the individual to decide... 

Dates + Times 

1 – 9 May 

Tue-Sat 6.30pm 

Sun 5pm 

Tickets 

£10 (£8 concs.) 

Double bill with Hurts 

Given £22 (£12 concs.) 

Dates + Times 

29 April – 9 May 

Tue-Sat 8pm 

Sun 6.30pm 

Studio 2 

thewrestlingschool.co.uk 

Image Eduado Houth 

Tickets 

£15 (£10 concs.) 

Preview Thu 29 April 

all tickets £10 

Double bill with Slowly 

£22 (£12 concs.) 

Wonder And Worship 

In The Dying Ward 

A rehearsed reading of Howard Barker’s latest work, 

directed by Howard Barker. Sun 2 May 2.30pm, 

Tickets £5. 

Howard Barker Day 

Sun 2 May 

See all three plays for £24 (£15 concs.)

EXHIBITION 

Kinoteka 

Exhibition 

Kinoteka: 8th Polish 

Film Festiwal 

4 – 27 March 

A retrospective dedicated to Roman Polanski’s early films 

during the festival is accompanied by this fascinating display 

of posters selected from Roman Polanski, Actor, Director, 

an exhibition assembled and presented by the Museum of 

Cinematography in Lodz in 2009. The exhibition will be 

showing film posters from all over the world from Roman 

Polanski’s films, which he directed and in which he 

appeared as an actor. 

Travels with Infra-red 

Photographs by 

Ryszard Szydlo 

Travels with Infra-red 

28 March – 15 April 

Having the opportunity to travel, and to 

photograph, for me to share the experience is an 

extension of the journey. Taking infra-red black 

and white photographs removes the distraction 

of aesthetic beauty that colour provides, 

replacing it with a fantastical interpretation. 

This exhibition thus conjures an alternative 

vision, revealing hidden aspects of some 

European, African and American scenes. 

Sergio Strizzi 

Portraits from the Set 

Sergio Strizzi 

16 – 25 April 

Sergio Strizzi began his career as a photo journalist and moved into the 

film business as a stills photographer in 1952. Since then, he has worked 

with Italy’s finest directors: 

Antonioni, Blasetti, De Sica, Germi, Monicelli, Petri, Rosi and Soldati, 

as well as Benigni, Tornatore, Scola, and Cavani. His work with non- 

Italian directors includes some of the James Bond films and projects 

with directors such as Jospeh Losey, John Huston, Peter Yates and 

Terry Gilliam. Strizzi was Audrey Hepburn’s photographer of choice and 

is considered to be one of still photography’s greatest exponents. The 

exhibition coincides with the Italian Film Festival at Riverside Studios.

CINEMA 

Cinema 

March 

Monday 1 March Double Bill 

The 400 Blows (15) 7.00pm 

(Le Quatre Cents Coups) 

Francois Truffaut, France, 1959, 94m subtitles 

Jean-Pierre Leaud, Albert Remy, Claire Maurier 

Truffaut’s first feature was based on his 

own deprived childhood. A twelve year 

old boy, neglected by his mother and 

stepfather, plays truant and takes to 

crime. The film was awarded the Best 

Director prize at Cannes in 1959 and 

helped launch the “nouvelle vague”. 

Treeless Mountain (PG) 8.55pm 

So Yong Kim, USA/Korea, 89m subtitles 

Kim Hee-yeon, Kim Song-hee, Chae Gil Byung 

When their mother needs to leave in 

order to find their estranged father, 

seven-year-old Jin and her younger 

sister, Bin, are left to live with their 

callous aunt for the summer with only 

a small piggybank and their mother’s 

promise to return when it is full. The 

two girls are forced to adapt. 

Treeless Mountain 

Tuesday 2 March 

Meryl Streep Single Bill 

Julie & Julia (12A) 6.30pm 

Nora Ephron, USA, 2009, 123m 

Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci 

Based on two true stories the film 

focuses on the lives of two women. 

Celebrated chef Julia Child’s (Streep) 

story of her start in the cooking 

profession is intertwined with blogger, 

Julie Powell’s (Adams) 2002 challenge to 

cook all the recipes in Child’s first book. 

Nominated for 2010 BAFTA. 

Winner of Golden Globe for 

Best Actress. 


Meryl Streep Single Bill 

It’s Complicated (15) 8.55pm 

Nancy Meyers, USA, 2007, 120m 

Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin 

Jane (Streep) owns a thriving bakery/ 

restaurant and has three kids. As a 

long time divorcee she has an amicable 

relationship with her ex-husband 

(Baldwin). Things get complicated 

when they both find themselves out of 

town for their son’s college graduation. 

One film: £7.50 (£6.50 concs.) 

Two films: £12 (£10 concs.) 

It’s Complicated 

Wednesday 3 March Double Bill 

The Last King of Scotland (15) 6.30pm 

Kevin Macdonald, UK, 2006, 123m 

Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington 

In an incredible twist of fate a young 

Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan 

(McAvoy), on a Ugandan medical 

mission becomes irreversibly entangled 

with one of the world’s most barbaric 

figures and becomes his closest advisor. 

Mugabe and the White African 

(TBC) 8.55pm 

Lucy Bailey/Andrew Thompson, UK, 2009, 90m 

documentary 

“A very local and often suffocating portrait of 

a disappearing way of life in Zimbabwe filmed 

in secret and under the threat of violence. The 

filmmakers spent time with the Campbells 

who are fighting to keep their property in the 

face of the Zanu PF Government’s decision to 

redistribute land.” Time Out 

Thursday 4 March Kinoteka 8th 

Polish Film Festiwal Double Bill 

Kinematograph (15) 7.00pm 

Tomasz Baginski, Poland, 2009, 12m subtitles 

Francis is an inventor. He hopes his new 

invention will change the world, but he 

has forgotten about one thing: dreams 

always cost too much. He has focused only 

on himself and his work and realizes the 

gravity of the situation when it is too late. 

Reverse (15) 7.15pm 

Borys Lankosz, Poland, 2009, 101m subtitles 

Agata Buzek, Marcin Dorocinski, Krystyna Janda 

A darkly comic story of three 

generations of Polish women and the 

mysterious young man whose presence 

sparks a series of surprising events that 

change all of their lives. 

Followed by a Q & A with director 

Borys Lankosz and producer Jerzy 

Kapuscinski. 

Reverse 

Mugabe and the 

White African 

Friday 5 March Kinoteka 8th Polish 

Film Festiwal Double Bill 

Hanoi-Warsaw (15) 6.15pm 

Katarzyna Klimkiewicz, Poland, 2009, 30m subtitles 

A young Vietnamese woman, Mai Anh, 

illegally enters Poland through the 

border with Ukraine. Now she has to 

reach Warsaw, where she is to join her 

boyfriend and start her dream life. 

My Flesh, My Blood (18) 6.45pm 

Marcin Wrona, Poland, 2009 91m subtitles 

Eryk Lubosz, Luu De Ly 

Igor is a boxer who has quit the ring 

because of serious brain damage from 

repeated blows to the head. Yien Ha 

is a Vietnamese immigrant who works 

in a small ethnic restaurant. He wants 

to have a child so that he can leave 

something of himself behind; she needs 

a work permit to stay in Poland. They 

come to an understanding.

My Flesh, My Blood 

This month 

Kinoteka: 8th Polish 

Film Festiwal 

4 – 21 March 

Zero 

Friday 5 March Kinoteka 8th Polish 

Film Festiwal Double Bill 

A Story of a Missing Car (15) 8.45pm 

Grzegorz Jaroszuk, Poland, 2008, 12m subtitles 

At first it’s loud. Then it’s really quiet. 

This is a film about a strange family. 

Zero (18) 9.00pm 

Pawel Borowski, Poland, 2009, 110m subtitles 

Robert Wieckiewicz, Kamila Baar 

A business man does not suspect that his 

answer to a phone call will set in motion 

a stream of incidents which would affect 

the fate of others. This is the beginning 

of a multi-plot story, where the fortunes 

of several characters are interlaced as a 

consequence of their decisions. 

Saturday 6 March Kinoteka 8th 

Polish Film Festiwal 

Roman Polanski: Shorts (15) 3.00pm 

Break Up the Dance 

Roman Polanski, Poland, 1957, 9m subtitles 

Elaborate party preparations are made 

in time for the arrival of the guests. 

Everyone is having a good time, until a 

group of hooligans decide to enter the 

party uninvited. 

Two Men and a Wardrobe 


Two men come out of the sea carrying 

a large wardrobe. Lugging the furniture 

through town, they find that not only is 

help difficult to come by, but that the 

townspeople are aggressively hostile. 

When Angels Fall 


An old woman works in the men’s 

lavatory in the basement of a public 

building. The sound of footsteps on the 

floor above brings back memories. 

Mammal 


In a barren landscape of ice and snow, 

two men and a sleigh set out on an 

absurd voyage. 

Approximate running time: 55m 

The Festiwal returns to the capital with 

a stellar line up, offering the cream of 

contemporary fiction features as well as 

illuminating documentaries, innovative 

shorts and animation. Special treats 

are a Roman Polanski retrospective – 

accompanied by an exhibition of film 

posters – and live music plus Q & As. 

Organised by the Polish Cultural Institute. 

kinoteka.org.uk 


Polish Film Festiwal - Roman 

Polanski Documentary 

Roman Polanski: Wanted and 

Desired (15) 4.20pm 

Marina Zenovich, Poland, 2008, 99m subtitles 

Thirty years ago, Roman Polanski was 

convicted of unlawful sexual intercourse 

with a minor. After serving forty-two 

days in prison, he fled the US and has 

never returned. Zenovich’s documentary 

reopens this complex and controversial 

case and challenges many of the myths 

which have built up around it. 

Roman Polanski: 

Wanted and Desired 


Polish Film Festiwal Single Bill 

Operation Danube (15) 6.10pm 

Jacek Glomb, Poland, 2009, 104m subtitles 

Zbigniew Zamachowski, Jiri Menzel 

A comic tale of a tank squadron 

separated behind enemy lines from 

its troops during the Russian invasion 

of Czechoslovakia in 1968. A team 

of idealistic, but incompetent, 

soldiers set out proudly in their tank 

“Ladybug” only to end up crashing 

into a beer tavern in a small Czech 

town. A fantastic cast including some 

of Poland’s best actors and the famous 

Czech New Wave director, Jiri Menzel. 



All That I Love (15) 8.20pm 

Jacek Borcuch, Poland, 2009, 95m subtitles 

Mariusz Kosciukiewicz, Olga Frycz, Andrzej Chyra 

Poland 1981. Behind the Iron Curtain, 

Janek forms ATIL (“All That I Love”), 

a punk-rock band whose songs express 

frustration with socialism and a desire 

for freedom. He finds love with Basia, 

whose father is part of the Solidarity 

movement and disapproves of Janek’s 

military family. When growing social 

turmoil leads to martial law, ATIL’s 

music has serious repercussions for his 

family members, lovers, and friends. 

The film will be followed by a Q & A 

with the director Jacek Borcuch. 

All That I Love 

Case Unknown 

Sunday 7 March Kinoteka 8th 


Before Twilight (15) 2.00pm 

Jacek Blawut, Poland, 2008, 100m subtitles 

Jan Nowicki, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Nina Andrycz 

This heartwarming tale follows the 

residents of the Retirement Home for 

Actors as they are awakened by the 

vitality and enthusiasm of actor and 

elderly gallant Jerzy, and his ambitious 

plan to stage Goethe’s “Faust”. It is a 

film about love, the passage of time, and 

actors – their eccentricities and their 

dreams about appearing on the stage for 

one, albeit probably, last time.

CINEMA 


Polish Film Festiwal Double Bill 

Scratch (15) 4.00pm 

Michal Rosa, Poland, 2008, 89m subtitles 

Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Krzysztof Stroinski 

When their forty-year-old marriage is 

threatened by a shocking revelation 

Joanna and Jan find themselves 

suddenly estranged. Torn by the politics, 

secrets and ghosts of the past, their once 

solid relationship gradually begins to fall 

apart. This tender and touching drama 

is frequently compared to the German 

“The Lives of Others” and provides an 

equally moving insight into the personal 

impact of recent history. 

Case Unknown (15) 5.50pm 

Feliks Falk, Poland, 2009, 105m subtitles 

Borys Szyc, Krzysztof Stroinski 

Work is everything to young 

psychiatrist Konstanty Grot – 

something his wife often teases him 

about. But when he brings his patient 

Pawel home for treatment, Konstanty 

discovers hidden secrets in Pawel’s 

past. This thoughtful thriller paints 

a portrait of a man who risks his 

professional and personal life in the 

search for justice. 


with director Feliks Falk. 

Sunday 7 March 

Kinoteka 8th Polish Film Festiwal 

Polish Masters Double Bill 

Poste Restante (15) 8.40pm 

Marcel Lozinski, Poland, 2008, 14m subtitles 

The film tells the story of letters whose 

addresses are impossible to find and so 

end up at the Undeliverable Letters 

Department of the Post Office in 

Koluszki. There are around a million of 

them in Poland each year, among them 

are some addressed to God. 

Sweet Rush (15) 8.55pm 

Andrzej Wajda, Poland, 2009, 83m subtitles 

Krystyna Janda, Pawel Szajda 

Wajda’s film tells the story of Marta 

who searches for happiness in the arms 

of a much younger man, Bogus. Fiction 

is confronted with reality in heartrending 

monologues from the main 

actress Krystyna Janda on the death 

of her real-life husband, acclaimed 

cinematographer Edward Klosinski, to 

whom the film is dedicated. 

Monday 8 March Single Bill 

Up (U) 6.30pm 

Pete Docter/Bob Peterson, USA, 2009, 96m animation 

Voices: Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, 

Christopher Plummer 

By tying thousands of balloons to his 

home seventy-eight-year-old Carl 

(Asner) sets out to fulfil his dream of 

seeing South America. He discovers, 

however, that he has a very young 

stowaway on board. 

Monday 8 March Single Bill 

The Hurt Locker (15) 8.25pm 

Kathryn Bigelow, USA, 2008, 131m 

Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty 

A riveting, suspenseful portrait of the 

courage under fire of the military’s most 

unrecognised heroes: the technicians of 

the bomb squad. Sharply written and 

superbly directed, with a great central 

performance by Renner. 

Tuesday 9 March Single Bill 

A Prophet (18) 8.00pm 

(Un prophète) 

Jacques Audiard, France, 2009, 155m subtitles 

Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif 

When Malik (Rahim), a young French 

Arab, finds himself in prison with no 

friends or allies he attaches himself to a 

dominant Corsican gang and its leader. 

After a rites-of-passage murder of a new 

friend he slowly builds a power base 

of his own. An extraordinary, powerful 

crime drama from the director of “The 

Beat My Heart Skipped”. 


Control (15) 6.45pm 

Anton Corbijn, UK, 2007, 121m 

Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Toby Kebbell 

A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic 

singer of Joy Division, based on 

memoirs written by his wife in the 

book “Touching from a Distance”. 

A profoundly affecting music biopic 

with an outstanding performance from 

newcomer Sam Riley. 

Sweet Rush 

Nowhere Boy (15) 9.05pm 

Sam Taylor Wood, UK, 2009, 97m 

Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, 

Anne-Marie Duff 

An astute biopic focussing on the teenage 

years of John Lennon. “Rather than 

dwelling on the unique circumstances that 

produced a musical genius, it’s an affecting 

movie about coming of age and leaving home 

and about the radical changes in British life 

since the Second World War.” Observer 

Nowhere Boy 

Thursday 11 March Double Bill 


Nowhere Boy (15) 9.05pm 

Please see Wednesday 10 March for details. 

Friday 12 March 

George Clooney Double Bill 

Good Night and Good Luck (PG) 

7.00pm 

George Clooney, USA, 2005, 90m 

David Strathairn, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson 

A skilful reconstruction of the 

confrontation between renowned 

newscaster Edward R. Murrow and 

Senator Joe McCarthy during the 1950s, 

presented in a tense political thriller. 

Up in the Air (15) 8.50pm 

Jason Reitman, USA, 2009, 109m 

George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick 

Ryan Bingham (Clooney) is a 

downsizing expert on the verge of 

reaching his frequent flyer miles target 

when his company decides to cut back 

on travel. This jeopardises his chances 

of seeing a fellow frequent traveller 

(Farmiga) who has caught his eye. 

“One of those rare mainstream Hollywood 

pictures that addresses contemporary issues 

gracefully.” Screen International 

Saturday 13 March 

George Clooney Double Bill 


2.00pm 



7.00pm 


Please see Friday 12 March for details.


Polish Film Festiwal 

Polish Documentaries: 

Part 1 (15) 2.30pm 

Family Man 

Wladyslaw Slesicki, Poland, 1966, 24m subtitles 

A day in the life of a peasant family 

from the lake in Northeast Poland. 

They toil from dusk till dawn but, at 

the same time are very happy. The film 

was inspired by a famous photographic 

exhibition “Family of Man”. Golden 

Lion winner at the Venice Film 

Festival in 1966. 

Portrait of a Conductor 

Ludwik Perski, Poland, 1965, 11m subtitles 

A portrait of Witold Rowicki, the eminent 

conductor who died in 1989, illustrated 

with Franciszek Fuchs’ photographs. 

Flood 

Jerzy Bossak, Poland, 1947, 14m subtitles 

A special edition of the Polish newsreel 

coverage of the Great Flood in Poland 

during the spring of 1947. 

Boys and Waves 


An eighteen-year-old boy lives 

surrounded by nature in the lake district 

near Augustow, north-eastern Poland. He 

works floating timber and falls in love 

for the first time. The story, told without 

commentary, was enthusiastically 

received as a new proposal for 

documentary narration. Golden Lion at 

the 1962 Venice Film Festival. 

People from the Road 

Kazimierz Karabasz, Poland, 1960, 10m subtitles 

A depiction of the life of circus artists 

outside the arena. 

Musicians 

Kazimierz Karabasz, Poland, 1960, 9m subtitles 

A film about a brass band’s rehearsal. 

Portraits of people, for whom close contact 

with music is something so important that 

they devote their spare time to it. 

Reminiscence of Calvary 

Jerzy Hoffman/Edward Skorzynski, Poland, 1958, 

13m subtitles 

Reportage from Kalwaria 

Zebrzydowska – the site of Poland’s 

biggest and oldest Passion. 



Patricia Highsmith Double Bill 

Plein Soleil (15) 6.00pm 

René Clément, France, 1959, 115m subtitles 

Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt 

Based on Patricia Highsmith’s “The 

Talented Mr. Ripley”. An indolent and 

impecunious friend of a rich playboy 

takes his friend’s clothes, yacht, 

girlfriend and life. 

This month 

Taiwan Cinefest 

London 2nd Edition 

17, 18 & 21 March 

Europe’s largest independent Taiwanese 

Film Festival showcases the latest awardwinning 

cinema from around the island. 

From feature length films to documentaries 

and shorts, the Festival provides a rich 

snapshot of Taiwanese storytelling, set 

against the bustling neon glitz of Taipei in 

the north all the way to the stunning harbor 

panoramas of Kaohsiung city in the south. 

The Festival includes UK premiere’s of Lou 

Yi-an’s stunning debut “A Place of One’s 

Own”, award-winning “Sorry, I Love You” by 

rising young filmmaker Yu-Hsien Lin and 

the charming dance comedy Step by Step. 

taiwancinefest.com 

The American Friend (15) 8.15pm 

Wim Wenders, France/Germany, 1977, 123m subtitles 

Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, Lisa Kreuzer 

Adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s 

thriller, “Ripley’s Game”. A terminally 

ill picture framer is lured into 

committing a series of murders. One of 

the key films of the 70s. 

Monday 15 March Double Bill 

The Beaches of Agnès (18) 6.30pm 

(Les plages d’ Agnès) 

Agnès Varda, France, 2008, 110m subtitles 

Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier 

Returning to the beaches which have 

been part of her life Agnès stages 

herself amongst excerpts of her films’ 

images and reportages. She shares 

her story with humour and emotion 

from her early days as an independent 

filmmaker, and her life with Jacques 

Demy through to the present day. 

Crude (TBC) 8.40pm 

Joe Berlinger, USA, 2009, 105m subtitles documentary 

The epic story of one of the largest 

and most controversial environmental 

lawsuits on the planet, known as the 

“Amazon Chernobyl”. “A small-town 

rural advocate and a New York legal eagle 

try to bring class-action lawsuits against oil 

giant Texaco for a series of alleged ecological 

crimes against the land and people of 

Amazonia, Ecuador.” Time Out 

Crude 


Ray Winstone Double Bill 

Nil by Mouth (18) 6.30pm 

Gary Oldman, UK/France, 1997 128m 

Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke, Steve Sweeney 

Raymond, his wife and her drug-addict 

brother Billy try to cope at the bottom of 

the social hierarchy. A rough and violent 

person, Raymond eventually kicks Billy 

out of the house to fend for himself. 

44 Inch Chest (18) 9.00pm 

Malcolm Venville, UK, 2009, 94m 

Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Ian McShane 

A visceral exploration of the masculine ego 

at its breaking point. A jealous husband 

(Winstone) kidnaps his wife’s lover with 

the intention of restoring his wounded ego. 

44 Inch Chest

CINEMA 

Wednesday 17 March 

Taiwanese Film Festival Single Bill 

Sorry, I Love You (12) 8.00pm 

UK Premiere 

Yu-Hsien Lin, Taiwan, 2009, 75m subtitles 

Chie Tanaka, Wu Huai-Chung 

A charming romance set in Taiwan’s 

southern port of Kaohsiung finds Chie 

Tanaka (of last year’s Taiwan hit “Cape 

No. 7”) playing a disillusioned actress 

struggling to find meaning and love. 

Directed by Yu-Hsien Lin, one of the 

region’s most popular ‘new generation’ 

filmmakers. 


with the director – tbc. 

Thursday 18 March 


Island Etude (12) 6.30pm 

En Chen, Taiwan, 2007, 108m subtitles 

Ming-hsiang Tung, Saya, Li-Yin Yang 

Taiwan’s entry for the best foreign 

language Oscar (2008) follows guitar 

playing and hearing-impaired Ming as 

he cycles around Taiwan on a journey 

to discover the Island, and himself. 

Perfectly captured cinematography of 

Taiwan’s tropical landscape adds to this 

uplifting story of one man’s adventure. 

A Place of One’s Own 



A Place of One’s Own (15) 8.40pm 

UK Premiere 

Lou Yi-an, Taiwan, 2009, 123m subtitles 

Mo Tzu-Yi, Jack Kao, Lu Yi-Jing, Lu Jia-Xin 

Dark comedy of struggling musician 

Mozi, once famous – now forgotten 

– and an origami artist (Kao) and his 

family who work frantically to earn 

the money he needs for a lifesaving 

operation. As unexpected events bring 

their lives together they are both forced 

to question their most closely held 

beliefs that, quite literally, will mean 

the difference between life and death. 

Visually stunning and impressive debut 

film from Lou Yi-an. 

Friday 19 March 

Rob Marshall Double Bill 

Chicago (12A) 6.15pm 

Rob Marshall, USA, 2002, 116m 

Richard Gere, Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones 

Oscar-winning musical which celebrates 

the Roaring Twenties. Zellweger 

and Zeta-Jones play antagonistic 

murderesses Roxie Hart and Velna Kelly 

respectively who, through the cunning 

mechanisms of lawyer Gere, literally 

find fame and get away with murder. 

Nine (12A) 8.30pm 

Rob Marshall, USA, 2009, 118m 

Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz 

A famous film director struggles to 

find harmony in his professional and 

personal lives as he engages in dramatic 

relationships with his wife, his mistress, 

his muse, his agent and his mother. 

Enjoyable, light entertainment from a 

screenplay by Anthony Minghella and 

Michael Tolkin. 

DocHouse & The 

Grierson Trust 

present 

Award-winning 

documentaries 


DocHouse Single Bill 

Burma VJ (12A) 12.30pm 

Anders Østergaard, Norway/Sweden/Denmark, 

2009, 84m subtitles 

Going beyond the occasional news clip 

from Burma the acclaimed filmmaker, 

Anders Østergaard, brings us close to 

Burma’s video journalists who insist on 

keeping up the flow of news from their 

closed country despite risking torture 

and life in jail. Armed with small 

handycams they make their undercover 

reportages, smuggle the material out of 

the country, have it broadcast back into 

Burma via satellite and offer it as free 

usage for international media. 

Burma VJ 

Thriller in Manila 



Thriller in Manila (15) 2.15pm 

John Dower, UK, 2008, 91m 

Joe Frazier, now sixty-three, takes 

British filmmaker John Dower back 

thirty-three years to the most hyped 

boxing match in history, and beyond. 

Frazier has never forgiven Ali for the 

racial taunting leading up to the fight 

in which he called Frazier ‘gorilla’ 

and ‘Uncle Tom’. Although Ali beat 

Frazier in Manila in 1975 in their 

third and final fight, Frazier says, “I 

clearly won the fight. The proof is in 

the pudding. I’m walkin’, I’m talkin’, 

I’m still havin’ fun at sixty-three.” His 

meaning is clear. 


with John Dower. 



The Mona Lisa Curse (15) 4.30pm 

Mandy Chang, UK, 2009, 75m 

“The Mona Lisa Curse” is a timely 

polemic by internationally renowned 

art critic Robert Hughes which 

examines how the world’s most 

famous painting came to influence 

the art world. With his trademark 

style Hughes explores how museums, 

the production of art and the way we 

experience it, have radically changed 

in the last fifty years. 


with director Mandy Chang. 

Afghan Star



Afghan Star (15) 7.00pm 

Havana Marking, UK/Afghanistan, 2009, 87m 

“Afghan Star” was watched by a third 

of the population of Afghanistan. Over 

eleven million people, in voting for 

their favourites, experienced a taste 

of democracy. “Afghan Star” is a small 

but significant unifying force for the 

country’s diverse ethnic groups; as the 

programme’s presenter Daod Sediqi 

says: “The aim is to take the people’s hand 

from weapons to music”. 


with Havana Marking. 



The Yes Men: Fix the World (TBC) 

9.00pm 

Andy Bichlbaum/Mike Bonanno, France/USA/UK, 

2009, 87m 

Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are 

two guys who just can’t take “no” for an 

answer. They have an unusual hobby, 

posing as top executives of Corporations 

they hate. Armed with nothing but 

thrift-store suits, they lie their way into 

business conferences and parody their 

corporate nemeses in ever more extreme 

ways – basically doing everything they 

can to wake up their audiences to the 

danger of letting greed run our world. 

The Yes Men: 

Fix the World 




Part 2 (15) 2.00pm 

Before Leaves Fall 


A result of long-term observation, this 

documentary depicting Polish Gypsies 

is also an ethnographic record. Exotic 

life in the caravan and specific genre 

scenes are combined with the picture 

of everyday life. 

The Warsaw Old Town Walk 

Andrzej Munk, 1958, 18m subtitles 

A docu-drama presenting Warsaw 

Old Town from the perspective of a 

ten-year old student of a music school 

located in this part of town. 

This month 

DocHouse & The Grierson 

Trust present 

A day of 

Award-winning 

documentaries 

20 March from 12.30pm 

The most prestigious documentary awards 

in the UK are the Grierson Awards and this 

year was an exceptional and exciting crop. 

We have pleasure in presenting a day of 

the best. In between screenings and Q & 

A’s with filmmakers, you can lunch or chat 

over a coffee in the Café/Bar. It's a unique 

opportunity to see the best award-winning 

2009 documentaries on the big screen. 

Tickets: £5 per film, £18 day pass 

Hospital 

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, 1976, 20m subtitles 

The film deals with Warsaw orthopaedic 

surgeons, portrayed working thirty-twohour 

shifts. The camera follows them in 

the operating theatre, admittance room 

and smoky offices. 

Birth of a Boat 

Jan Lomnicki, Poland, 1961, 9m subtitles 

The film follows the assembly of a boat 

and its launch at the Gdansk Shipyard. 

Competition 

Janusz Majewski, Poland, 1963, 6m subtitles 

Report from the shot-put competition 

between David Davis and Alfred 

Sosgornik. 

This is An Egg 

Andrzej Brzozowski, Poland, 1965, 13m subtitles 

A portrayal of blind children learning 

about the outside world through touch. 




Step by Step (12) 8.30pm 

UK Premiere 

Chen-ti Kuo, Taiwan, 2009, 93m subtitles 

Joseph Chang, Janel Tsai 

An off-the-wall comedy following a group 

of retirees who attempt to overcome age 

by taking part in a tango competition. As 

a dashing male nurse (Chang) oversees 

the effort alongside a beautiful dance 

instructor (Tsai) their plan is threatened 

by the impending closure of the 

retirement home. A moving comedy that 

shows dancing can bring out the best in 

all of us, young and old alike. 

Step by Step 

Burma VJ 

Afghan Star 

Monday 22 March 

Cormac McCarthy Double Bill 

No Country for Old Men (15) 6.30pm 

Ethan Coen/Joel Coen, USA, 2007, 122m 

Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Kelly Macdonald 

Based on a novel by Cormac McCarthy. 

Violence and mayhem ensue after 

a hunter stumbles upon some dead 

bodies, a stash of heroin and more than 

$2m near the Rio Grande. “An intense, 

nihilistic thriller as well as a model of 

implacable storytelling.” Los Angeles Times 

The Road (15) 8.55pm 

John Hillcoat, USA, 2009, 111m 

Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron 

An uncompromising adaptation of Cormac 

McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. 

A post-apocalyptic tale of a family trying 

to survive by any means possible. “One of 

the most chillingly effective visions of the world’s 

end ever put on screen.” Empire 

The Road

CINEMA 


Cormac McCarthy Double Bill 


The Road (15) 8.55pm 

Please see Monday 22 March for details. 

Wednesday 24 March 

Clint Eastwood Double Bill 

Gran Torino (15) 6.00pm 

Clint Eastwood, USA, 2008, 116m 

Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Ahney Her 

The film focuses on a Korean War 

vet’s reluctant friendship with a 

Hmong teenage boy and his immigrant 

family in contemporary Detroit. “An 

unpretentious, often very funny humanist 

drama which is a small jewel in Eastwood’s 

canon of work as a director and a 

highpoint in his career as an actor.” Screen 

International 

Invictus (12A) 8.15pm 

Clint Eastwood, USA, 2009, 133m 

Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgaroge 

Nelson Mandela (Freeman), in his last 

term as the South African President, 

initiates a unique venture to unite 

the apartheid-torn land: enlist the 

national rugby team on a mission to 

win the 1995 Rugby World Cup. Based 

on a true story. “A rousing sports movie 

and a testament to the nobility of Nelson 

Mandela.” Screen International 


Clint Eastwood Double Bill 


Invictus (12A) 8.15pm 

Please see Wednesday 24 March for details. 

Invictus 

Friday 26 March Double Bill 

Killer of Sheep (12A) 7.00pm 

Charles Burnett, USA, 2008, 83m 

Henry G. Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy 

The film examines the Los Angeles 

ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s 

through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive 

dreamer who is increasingly 

disillusioned by his work at the 

slaughterhouse. “A masterpiece of unforced, 

vernacular movie-making.” The Guardian 

Precious: Based on the Novel Push 

by Sapphire (15) 8.45pm 

Lee Daniels, USA, 2009, 110m 

Gabourey Sidibe, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton 

An extraordinary cinema experience. 

The film tells the story of a young black 

teenager’s attempt to escape her abusive 

background. ““Precious” simply cannot be 

missed, for under its tough skin the film is an 

unabashedly inspirational anthem, it offers 

the rare ecstasy of human regeneration and 

the discovery, on Harlem’s mean streets, of a 

precious gem.” Time Magazine 

Precious 

Saturday 27 March Double Bill 







Please see Friday 26 March for details. 


Orson Welles Double Bill 

The Magnificent Ambersons (U) 

2.30pm 

Orson Welles, USA, 1942, 88m 

Joseph Cotton, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter 

Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, 

this is the story of the slow decline 

of the proud and imperious 

Amberson Family. Loving period 

reconstruction, superior performances 

from Welles’ repertory of actors and 

the fine cinematography make this a 

magnificent film. 

Touch of Evil (PG) 4.20pm 

Orson Welles, USA, 1958, 108m 

Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh 

Original 1958 release version of Welles’ 

final masterwork. A Mexican cop goes 

up against a corrupt detective after an 

incident at a border town. 


Rob Marshall Double Bill 


Nine (12A) 8.30pm 

Please see Friday 19 March for details. 

Monday 29 March 

Coen Brothers Double Bill 

Blood Simple (18) 7.00pm 

Joel Coen, USA, 1983, 99m 

John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya 

The Coen Brothers’ assured first 

feature tells the tale of a bar owner 

who hires a seedy private detective to 

kill his wife and her lover. When he 

changes the plan a chain of violent and 

comic misunderstandings ensue. 

A Serious Man (15) 9.00pm 

Ethan Coen/Joel Coen, USA, 2009, 105m 

Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Simon Helberg 

Larry (Stuhlbarg) is a good husband, 

father and a conscientious professor at a 

university. One day everything starts to 

go wrong. The film blends black humour 

with profoundly personal themes. “The 

Coen Brothers may just have made their 

masterpiece with this.” The Guardian 

Tuesday 30 March Double Bill 

I’m Not There (15) 6.00pm 

Todd Haynes, USA, 2007, 135m 

Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger 

“A dazzling, experimental take on the life 

of one of popular music’s greatest enigmas, 

Bob Dylan. Six different actors portray 

several incarnations of the ground-breaking 

troubadour.” Rotten Tomatoes 

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (15) 

8.35pm 

Mat Whitecross, UK, 2010, 115m 

Andy Serkis, Olivia Williams, Naomie Harris 

A fictionalised look at the life of Ian 

Drury who was stricken with polio as a 

child and defied expectations becoming 

a founder member of Britain’s punkrock 

scene. “Gorgeous, celebratory cinema, 

unfettered and courageous.” Time Out 

Sex & Drugs 

& Rock & Roll 


When A Woman Ascends the Stairs 

(PG) 6.30pm 

(Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki) 

Mikio Naruse, Japan, 1960, 111m subtitles 

Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori 

A stunning drama about a ginza bar 

hostess as she approaches thirty. “An 

exquisitely understated study of the plight of 

a young woman in an unforgiving society.” 

The Times

Still Walking (U) 8.40pm 

Hirokazu Koreeda, Japan, 2009, 114m subtitles 

Hiroshi Abe, Yoshio Harada, Yui Natsukawa 

The Yokoyama family come together to 

celebrate the memory of their youngest 

son who died while rescuing a boy from 

drowning some years before. Over the 

course of one beautiful day we follow 

the family as new relatives become 

acquainted and old stories are retold. 

Still Walking 

This month 

Eric Rohmer Tribute 

1 & 8 April 

An arthouse director with a career that spans more than 50 years 

and a string of awards, Rohmer’s poetic films are known and loved 

for their fiercely honest characterisations and long, philosophical 

conversations. He was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice 

Film Festival in 2001 in recognition of his outstanding lifetime 

achievements and contribution to world cinema. We celebrate his 

oeuvre with the four films that make up his Four Seasons cycle. 

Tickets: 

One double bill £7.50 (£ 6.50 concs.) 

Two double bills £12 (£10 concs.) 

April 

Thursday 1 April 

Eric Rohmer Tribute Double Bill 

A Winter’s Tale (12) 6.30pm 

(Conte d’hiver) 

Eric Rohmer, France, 1992, 114m subtitles 

Charlotte Véry, Frédéric van den Driessche, 

Michel Voletti 

Hairdresser, Felicie, has an idyllic 

romance but loses the home address of 

the father of her child. Four years later, 

her love still burning, she finds herself 

with choices to make. 

A Winter’s Tale 

A Tale of Springtime (12) 8.45pm 

(Conte de printemps) 


Anne Teyssèdre, Hugues Quester, Florence Darel 

A young philosophy graduate attends a 

party, meets another young girl and is 

invited to move into her flat. She finds 

herself witnessing recriminatory scenes 

between various associated lovers. As 

ever, Rohmer’s observations of human 

behaviour are spot on. 

Double Bill: £7.50 (£6.50) 

All four films on 1 and 8 April: 

£12 (£10 concs.) 

A Tale of 

Springtime 

Friday 2 April 

Cinema Closed 

Saturday 3 April 

Helen Mirren Double Bill 

The Queen (12A) 2.00pm 

Stephen Frears, UK, 2006, 99m 

Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell 

An intimate glimpse of the interaction 

between HM Queen Elizabeth II and 

Prime Minister Tony Blair during their 

struggle following the death of Princess 

Diana to reach a compromise between 

what was a private tragedy for the 

Royal Family and the public’s demand 

for an overt display of mourning. 

The Last Station (15) 4.00pm 

Michael Hoffman, UK, 2009, 112m 

Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, James McAvoy 

A film based on Jay Parini’s novel 

about Leo Tolstoy. Focussing on the 

marriage between Tolstoy (Plummer) 

and his wife Sofya (Mirren) it illustrates 

Tolstoy’s struggle to balance fame and 

wealth with his commitment to his 

beliefs and a life devoid of material 

things. Helen Mirren gives a tour de 

force performance. 



Please see above for details. 

Sunday 4 April 

Helen Mirren Double Bill 





Please see Saturday 3 April for details. 

The Last Station 

Monday 5 April 

Cinema Closed 

Tuesday 6 April Double Bill 

The End of the Line (PG) 7.00pm 

Rupert Murray, UK, 2009, 86m documentary 

A thought-provoking and insightful 

documentary about the changes of 

commercial fishing which has brought 

about change in restaurants and 

supermarkets. 

Food Inc. (PG) 8.45pm 

Robert Kenner, USA, 2009, 93m documentary 

Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan, Gary Hirschberg 

Filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the 

veil on our food industry, exposing 

the highly mechanised underbelly 

that’s been hidden from the consumer. 

He looks at how our food supply 

is now controlled by a handful of 

corporations who put profit ahead of 

consumer health, the livelihood of the 

farmer, the safety of workers and our 

own environment. The film reveals 

surprising and often shocking truths.

CINEMA 

Food Inc. 

Wednesday 7 April Double Bill 

The Kite Runner (12A) 6.00pm 

Marc Forster, USA, 2007, 127m 

Khalid Abdalla, Ehsan Aman, Vsevolod Bardashev 

After spending years in California, Amir 

returns to his homeland in Afghanistan 

to help his old friend Hassan, whose 

son is in trouble. An epic tale of fathers 

and sons, friendship and betrayal. 

The Lovely Bones (12A) 8.30pm 

Peter Jackson, USA/UK/New Zealand, 2009, 135m 

Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz 

The film is based on the novel by Alice 

Sebold. A young girl (Ronan) who has 

been murdered watches over her family 

and her killer from heaven. She weighs 

up her desire for vengeance against her 

desire for her family to heal. 


Eric Rohmer Tribute Double Bill 

A Summer’s Tale (12) 6.45pm 

(Conte d’ete) 


Melvil Poupard, Amanda Langlet, Gwenaëlle Simon 

A young student is lent an apartment at 

the seaside in Brittany for the summer. 

Here he faces the dilemma of choosing 

between three women. Rohmer uses 

the plot to explore chance, coincidence, 

manipulation, love and friendship. 

An Autumn Tale (12) 9.00pm 

(Conte d’automne) 


Marie Rivière, Béatrice Romand, Alain Libolt 

A middle-aged woman, who grows 

grapes for wine, is lonely. Her two 

female friends try to arrange matters 

for her, but she has her own plans. A 

leisurely comedy of manners. 

Double Bill: £7.50 (£6.50) 

All four films on 1 and 8 April: 

£12 (£10 concs.) 


Julianne Moore Double Bill 

Far From Heaven (12A) 6.30pm 

Todd Haynes, USA, 2002, 107m 

Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert 

Cathy (Moore) is the perfect 50s 

housewife living the perfect 50s life, 

healthy kids, successful husband, 

social prominence. Then one night she 

catches her husband (Quaid) kissing a 

man. Her world begins to unravel. 

A Single Man (12A) 8.40pm 

Tom Ford, USA, 2009, 100m 

Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode 

Set in Los Angeles in 1962 the film 

tells the story of George Falconer 

(Firth), a British college professor, who 

is struggling to find meaning to his life 

after the death of his long-term partner. 

We follow him through a single day 

where a series of events and encounters 

are to have a profound affect. A 

romantic tale of love interrupted. 

“A thing of heart-stopping beauty. Colin 

Firth gives one of the finest, most affecting 

performances of his career.” The Times 

Saturday 10 April 

Julianne Moore Double Bill 





Please see Friday 9 April for details. 

A Single Man 

Sunday 11 April 

Hayao Miyazaki Double Bill 

Spirited Away (PG) 2.30pm 

Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 2000, 125m animation 

Voices: Daveigh Chase, Michael Chiklis, Lauren Holly 

When her parents are transformed into 

pigs a ten-year-old girl takes a job in a 

bath house belonging to a wizened old 

crone and vows to deliver her family 

from its plight. A film that gets you 

dreaming again. 

Ponyo (U) 4.55pm 

Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 2009, 100m animation 

Voices: Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Tina Fey 

“Ponyo places Hans Christian Anderson’s 

“Little Mermaid” in a contemporary 

Japanese setting. It is a tale of childhood 

love and adventure.” Hayao Miyazaki 

All tickets: £5 

Sunday 11 April Double Bill 

Brief Encounter (PG) 7.00pm 

David Lean, UK, 1945, 86m 

Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway 

Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard are 

the respectable middle-class couple 

who fall deeply in love but, ultimately, 

agree not to meet again and to return 

to their real lives. A rightly celebrated 

tear-jerker. 

Letter from an Unknown Woman 

(U) 8.45pm 

Max Ophuls, USA, 1948, 90m 

Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians 

Of all cinema’s fables of doomed 

love, none is more piercing than this. 

Joan Fontaine nurses an undeclared 

childhood crush on a concert pianist 

(Jourdan). Years later, he adds her to 

his long list of conquests and forgets all 

about her. Revived in a new print. 

Letter from an 

Unknown Woman 

Monday 12 April Double Bill 


Ponyo (TBC) 8.25pm 

All tickets: £5 

Please see Sunday 11 April for details. 

Tuesday 13 April Cuba Double Bill 

Memories of Underdevelopment 

(15) 7.00pm 

Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Cuba, 1968, 97m subtitles 

Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados 

An insightful portrait of a bourgeois 

intellectual struggling to define his role 

as a Cuban citizen in the wake of the 

Revolution. This masterpiece of Third 

World cinema mixes documentary footage, 

still photography and narrative action. 

Sons of Cuba (15) 9.00pm 

(Hijos de Cuba) 

Andrew Lang, UK, 2009, 88m documentary 

An utterly extraordinary and 

unflinching documentary insight into 

the lives of young men training for 

Cuba’s national boxing squad, their 

hopes for themselves, the rigours 

of their lives and their unwavering 

patriotism, even after recent defections 

of top fighters. Essential viewing. 

Sons of 

Cuba

Wednesday 14 April 

Clive Owen Double Bill 

Croupier (15) 7.00pm 

Mike Hodges, UK, 1997, 89m 

Clive Owen, Gina McKee, Nick Reding 

The setting is the sleazy world of 

London’s casinos and after-hours 

drinking clubs. Jack wants to be a 

writer, but it is only when he falls back 

on previous skills as a croupier that a 

theme and a plot for his story emerge. 

Played and directed with consummate, 

compelling skill, this is a film to cherish. 

The Boys Are Back (12A) 8.50pm 

Scott Hicks, Australia/UK, 2009, 104m 

Clive Owen, Laura Fraser, George MacKay 

Joe (Owen), a British sports journalist 

living in Australia, finds himself having 

to renew his relationship with his sixyear-old 

son when his wife Katy (Fraser) 

dies suddenly. He also has to repair his 

bond with another son from a previous 

marriage. A moving examination of fatherson 

relations told with much humour. 

Thursday 15 April Double Bill 

Walk the Line (12A) 6.15pm 

James Mangold, USA, 2005, 135m 

Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin 

The Oscar winning chronicle of country 

music legend Johnny Cash’s life, from his 

early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his 

rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis. 

Crazy Heart (15) 8.50pm 

Scott Cooper, USA, 2009, 111m 

Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duval 

Bad Blake (Bridges) is a broken-down, 

hard living country music singer who finds 

himself ready for salvation with the help 

of Jean (Gyllenhaal), a journalist who sees 

the real man behind the musician. The 

path to redemption is not easy, however. 

Crazy Heart 

Friday 16 – Sunday 25 April 

Italian Cinema London 

Please see riversidestudios.co.uk 

for more information 

Monday 26 April 

Max Färberböck Double Bill 

Aimee & Jaguar (15) 6.15pm 

Max Färberböck, Germany, 1999, 125m subtitles 

Maria Schrader, Juliane Köhler, Johanna Wokalek 

Berlin 1943. A Jewish woman hides 

her identity by working for a Nazi 

newspaper. It seems she might survive 

until she falls for a woman who is the 

wife of an army officer. This is the 

record of a fascinating, dangerous 

existence hardly even covered by the 

phrase “amour fou” (mad love). 

Anonyma – A Woman in Berlin (15) 

8.40pm 

(Anonyma – Eine Frau in Berlin) 

Max Färberböck, Germany/Poland, 2008, 131m 

subtitles 

Nina Hoss, Yevgeni Sidikhin, Irm Hermann 

A film based on an anonymously 

written memoir of the same name 

which tells the morally complex tale of 

a group of German women’s endurance 

in WWII when Berlin was invaded by 

Soviet troops. 

Tuesday 27 April Double Bill 

No Man’s Land (15) 6.30pm 

(Nicija zemlja) 

Danis Tanovic, Bosnia-Herzegovina/Slovenia/Italy/ 

France/UK/Belgium, 2001, 98m subtitles 

Three Bosnian soldiers, divided by 

politics and war, find themselves united 

in a battle for survival in a trench in 

no man’s land. The international press 

corps descends on the scene while 

UN forces try to carry out damage 

limitation when the situation threatens 

to spiral out of control. A darkly comic 

satire that won the 2002 Oscar for Best 

Foreign Language Film. 

Storm (15) 8.30pm 

Hans-Christian Schmid, Germany/Denmark/ 

Netherlands, 2009, 105m subtitles 

Kerry Fox, Stephen Dillane, Anamaria Marinca 

A political thriller inspired by the 

Serbian War crimes trials. Hannah 

Maynard (Fox), a prosecutor at the 

Tribunal in The Hague, manages to 

convince a young Bosnian woman to 

testify against an alleged war criminal. 

This is to profoundly affect her life. 

Wednesday 28 April 

Michael Moore Double Bill 

Sicko (12A) 6.15pm 

Michael Moore, USA, 2007, 113m documentary 

Michael Moore, George W. Bush, Richard Nixon 

A devastating, convincing and very 

entertaining documentary about the 

state of America’s health care. Moore 

smartly allows stories of ordinary 

Americans to be told with little or 

no interference. 

Capitalism: A Love Story (12A) 8.35pm 

Michael Moore, USA, 2009, 127m documentary 

Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin 

Moore explores the issue he has been 

examining throughout his career: 

the disastrous impact of corporate 

dominance on the everyday lives of 

Americans and the rest of the world. It 

explores what price Americans pay for 

their love of capitalisation. “Intelligent 

and compulsively entertaining.” 

Screen International 


Michael Moore Double Bill 


Capitalism: A Love Story (12A) 8.35pm 

Please see Wednesday 28 April for details. 


Jean-Pierre Jeunet Double Bill 

Amelie (15) 6.30pm 

(Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain) 

Jean-Pierre Jeunet, France, 2001, 120m subtitles 

Audrey Tautou, Matthieu Kassovitz 

A young woman’s fate changes when 

she attempts to discover the owner of a 

face in a strange photo album. This is 

an inventive, charming and funny film. 

Micmacs (12A) 8.50pm 

(Micmacs à Tire-Larigot) 

Jean-Pierre Jeunet, France, 2009, 104m subtitles 

Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Omar Sy 

Bazil (Boon), whose father was killed 

by a land mine, gets even as he and 

a group of friends come up with an 

intricate and original plan to destroy 

two big weapons manufacturers. 

Storm 

Micmacs

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Seasonal daily specials with an emphasis on freshly prepared 

ingredients available for lunch and dinner every day. 

Sunday Brunch is served from 10.30am. 

Film Café 

Located in the foyer and open throughout the day serving fresh 

sandwiches, smoothies, salads and mozzo organic and fair trade coffee. 

Food served 

Monday – Friday 

Saturday 

Sunday 

Midday – 3pm 

4pm – 9pm 

12pm – 9pm 

10.30am – 9pm 

Riverside Friends 

Live life on the Riverside, become a Friend and enjoy 

our vibrant and inspirational programme of films and 

theatre for less. As a Friend you’ll receive invites to 

exclusive events and private views and you can enjoy 

a discounted ticket rate at BFI Southbank and Ciné 

lumière too. 

For more information and to become a Friend, please 

call 020 8237 1027. You can also join by sending the 

form below in the post; cheques should be made 

payable to Riverside Trust. 

Discounts may be subject to availability, selected events may be 

excluded. Full details online at riversidestudios.co.uk/friends 

Please cut out this page and send it to us: 

Riverside Studios Friends, Crisp Rd 

Hammersmith, London W6 9RL 

Your details 

NAME 

ADDRESS 

EMAIL 

TELEPHONE 

riversidestudios.co.uk 

Being a Riverside Friend entitles you to 

the following... 

Concessions price cinema tickets 

Concessions price theatre tickets 

Discount on coffee and tea 

Discount on food from the kitchen 

Discounted ticket price at Ciné lumière 

£1 off for screenings at BFI Southbank 

Invites to selected press nights and special events 

Email notification of special offers 

Riverside Friends / £30 per year / £20 concs.

This brochure is available in 

large print, please call 020 8237 1010 or 

email marketing@riversidestudios.co.uk 

to receive a copy. 

Visitors to Riverside Studios 

Box Office 

Open daily 

12 – 9pm 

(closed Bank Holidays) 

Telephone 020 8237 1111 

Fax 020 8237 1001 

Web riversidestudios.co.uk 

Ticket discounts 

Concessions are usually available for students, 

unemployed, disabled plus companion, 60+, under 

16s, Ciné lumière, BFI members (cinema). Valid cards 

must be shown. For Friends and Groups discounts 

please check with the Box Office or online at 

riversidestudios.co.uk. 

Payment 

We accept Visa, MasterCard, Switch, Solo, 

Maestro, Delta, cash and cheques made payable 

to Riverside Trust. 

Mailing List 

If you would like to join our mailing list, please call the 

Box Office or email online@riversidestudios.co.uk. 

Refunds and Exchanges 

Riverside is unable to offer refunds or exchanges 

on tickets. 

Age Ratings 

Where a film programme contains films with different 

age ratings, the highest rating applies. Riverside 

Studios reserves the right to ask for proof of age. 

Latecomers 

Cinema: All films start at the advertised time and 

latecomers will only be admitted during the first 15 

minutes of screening. 

Theatre: Latecomers may not be admitted. 

Access 

There are ramps throughout the building and a lift to 

our cinema. 

We advise our wheelchair user patrons to book in 

advance to guarantee their seats. An induction loop is 

available in the cinema only. 

How to get here 

Tube and foot from Hammersmith 

Piccadilly Line, District Line: From Broadway 

Shopping Centre, use south exit, pass Hammersmith 

Apollo, follow Queen Caroline Street and turn left into 

Crisp Road. 

Hammersmith & City Line: walk towards 

Hammersmith Apollo, follow Queen Caroline Street 

and turn left into Crisp Road. 

Public transport info on tfl.gov.uk or 020 7222 1234. 

Bus 

Buses to Hammersmith Broadway station 

9, 10, 27, 33, 72, 190, 209, 211, 220, 266, 267, 283, 295, 

391, 419, H91. 

Road 

From Hammersmith Broadway roundabout turn left 

at Hammersmith Apollo into Queen Caroline Street, 

turn left into Crisp Road. 

Parking 

Pay and Display street parking until 6.30pm. 

Free from 6.30pm and all day Sunday. 

APOLLO 

Riverside Studios 

Crisp Road . Hammersmith . London . W6 9RL

CINEMA 

Cinema Diary 

March 2010 

Mon 1 

Tue 2 

Wed 3 

Thu 4 

Fri 5 

Sat 6 

Sun 7 

Mon 8 

Tue 9 

400 Blows (15) 7.00pm 

+ Treeless Mountain (PG) 8.55pm 

Meryl Streep in 

Julie & Julia (12A) 6.30pm 

It’s Complicated (15) 8.55pm 

The Last King of Scotland (15) 6.30pm 

+ Mugabe and the White African 

(TBC) 8.55pm 


Kinematograph (15) 7.00pm 

+ Reverse (15) 7.15pm 


Hanoi-Warsaw (15) 6.15pm 

+ My Flesh, My Blood (18) 6.45pm 

A Story of a Missing Car (15) 8.45pm 

+ Zero (18) 9.00pm 


Roman Polanski: Shorts (15) 3.00pm 

Roman Polanski: Wanted and 

Desired (15) 4.20pm 

Operation Danube (15) 6.10pm 

All That I Love (15) 8.20pm 


Before Twlight (15) 2.00pm 

Scratch (15) 4.00pm 

+ Case Unknown (15) 5.50pm 

Poste Restante (15) 8.40pm 

+ Sweet Rush (15) 8.55pm 

Up (U) 6.30pm 

The Hurt Locker (15) 8.25pm 

A Prophet (18) 8.00pm 

Wed 10 Control (15) 6.45pm 

+ Nowhere Boy (15) 9.05pm 

Thu 11 

Fri 12 

Sat 13 

Sun 14 


+ Nowhere Boy (15) 9.05pm 

George Clooney in 

Good Night and Good Luck (PG) 7.00pm 

+ Up in the Air (15) 8.50pm 









Part 1 (15) 2.30pm 

Patricia Highsmith’s 

Plein Soleil (15) 6.00pm 

+ The American Friend (15) 8.15pm 

Mon 15 The Beaches of Agnès (18) 6.30pm 

+ Crude (TBC) 8.40pm 

Tue 16 

Ray Winstone in 

Nil by Mouth (18) 6.30pm 

+ 44 Inch Chest (18) 9.00pm 

Wed 17 Taiwanese Film Festival 

Sorry, I Love You (12) 8.00pm 

Thu 18 

Fri 19 

Taiwanese Film Festival 

Island Etude (12) 6.30pm 

A Place of One’s Own (15) 8.40pm 

Rob Marshall’s 


+ Nine (12A) 8.30pm 

Sat 20 

Sun 21 

DocHouse 

Burma VJ (12A) 12.30pm 

Thriller in Manila (15) 2.15pm 

The Mona Lisa Curse (15) 4.30pm 

Afghan Star (15) 7.00pm 

The Yes Men: Fix the World (TBC) 

9.00pm 


Documentaries: Part 2 (15) 2.00pm 

Taiwanese Film Festival 

Step by Step (12) 8.30pm 

Mon 22 No Country for Old Men (15) 6.30pm 

+ The Road (15) 8.55pm 

Tue 23 


+ The Road (15) 8.55pm 

Wed 24 Clint Eastwood’s 


+ Invictus (12A) 8.15pm 

Thu 25 

Fri 26 

Sat 27 

Sun 28 

Clint Eastwood’s 

Gran Troino (15) 6.00pm 

+ Invictus (12A) 8.15pm 


+ Precious: Based on the Novel 

Push by Sapphire (15) 8.45pm 







Orson Welles’ 

The Magnificent Ambersons (U) 2.30pm 

+ Touch of Evil (PG) 4.20pm 

Rob Marshall’s 


+ Nine (12A) 8.30pm 

Mon 29 Coen Brother’s 

Blood Simple (18) 7.00pm 

+ A Serious Man (15) 9.00pm 

Tue 30 

I’m Not There (15) 6.00pm 

+ Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (15) 

8.35pm 

Wed 31 When A Woman Ascends the Stairs 

(PG) 6.30pm 

+ Still Walking (U) 8.40pm 

April 2010 

Thu 1 

Fri 2 

Sat 3 

Sun 4 

Mon 5 

Eric Rohmer’s 

A Winter’s Tale (12) 6.30pm 

+ A Tale of Springtime (12) 8.45pm 

CINEMA CLOSED 

Helen Mirren in 


+ The Last Station (15) 4.00pm 



Helen Mirren in 





CINEMA CLOSED 

Tue 6 

Wed 7 

Thu 8 

Fri 9 

Sat 10 

Sun 11 

End of the Line (PG) 7.00pm 

+ Food Inc. (PG) 8.45pm 

The Kite Runner (12A) 6.00pm 

+ The Lovely Bones (12A) 8.30pm 

Eric Rohmer’s 

A Summer’s Tale (12) 6.45pm 

+ An Autumn Tale (12) 9.00pm 

Julianne Moore in 


+ A Single Man (12A) 8.40pm 

Julianne Moore in 






+ Ponyo (U) 4.55pm 

Brief Encounter (PG) 7.00pm 

+ Letter from an Unknown Woman 

(U) 8.45pm 

Mon 12 Spirited Away (PG) 6.00pm 

+ Ponyo (U) 8.25pm 

Tue 13 Memories of Underdevelopment (15) 

7.00pm 

+ Sons of Cuba (15) 9.00pm 

Wed 14 Clive Owen in 

Croupier (15) 7.00pm 

+ The Boys Are Back (12A) 8.50pm 

Thu 15 

Walk the Line (12A) 6.15pm 

+ Crazy Heart (15) 8.50pm 

Fri 16 – Italian Cinema London 

Sun 25 riversidestudios.co.uk 

Mon 26 Max Färberböck 

Aimee & Jaguar (15) 6.15pm 

+ Anonyma – A Women in Berlin 

(15) 8.40pm 

Tue 27 

No Man’s Land (15) 6.30pm 

+ Storm (15) 8.30pm 

Wed 28 Michael Moore’s 


+ Capitalism: A Love Story (12A) 8.35pm 

Thu 29 

Fri 30 

Michael Moore’s 


+ Capitalism: A Love Story (12A) 

8.35pm 

Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 

Amelie (15) 6.30pm 

+ Micmacs (12A) 8.50pm 

Cinema tickets are £7.50 

(£6.50 concs.) unless 

otherwise stated. 

Where a programme contains films with 

different age ratings, the highest rating 

applies. Riverside Studios reserves the 

right to ask for proof of age.

March/April 2010 - Riverside Studios

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