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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
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 Thursday 29 April Michael Moore Double Bill Sicko (12A) 6.15pm Capitalism: A Love Story (12A) 8.35pm Please see Wednesday 28 April for details. Friday 30 April 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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