March/April 2010 - Riverside Studios

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.
Thursday 8 April
Eric Rohmer Tribute Double Bill
A Summer’s Tale (12) 6.45pm
(Conte d’ete)
Eric Rohmer, France, 1996, 113m subtitles
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)
Eric Rohmer, France, 1998, 111m subtitles
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.)
Friday 9 April
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
Far From Heaven (12A) 2.30pm
A Single Man (12A) 4.30pm
Far From Heaven (12A) 6.30pm
A Single Man (12A) 8.40pm
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
Spirited Away (PG) 6.00pm
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