March/April 2010 - Riverside Studios

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.
The film will be followed by a Q & A
with the director – tbc.
Thursday 18 March
Taiwanese Film Festival Single Bill
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
Thursday 18 March
Taiwanese Film Festival Single Bill
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
Saturday 20 March
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
Saturday 20 March
DocHouse Single Bill
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.
The film will be followed by a Q & A
with John Dower.
Saturday 20 March
DocHouse Single Bill
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.
The film will be followed by a Q & A
with director Mandy Chang.
Afghan Star