November/December 2009 - Riverside Studios

November/December 2009 

Box Office 020 8237 1111 

riversidestudios.co.uk 

WHAT'S ON CINEMA / THEATRE / EXHIBITIONS / BAR & KITCHEN 

Simon Callow 

Dr Marigold & Mr Chops

THEATRE 

Theatre 

Riverside Studios presents 

Simon Callow 

in 

Dr Marigold & Mr Chops 

“Callow is an absolute master... 

at once touching, painful, 

tearful and heart-warming.” 

The Daily Mirror 

“Callow (...) holds the audience 

spellbound... the classic story-teller 

is at his best here... a hot ticket.” 

The Independent 

The List 

The Metro 

2 one-man plays by Charles Dickens 

Two delightful stories that have everything required for the perfect 

Callow show: dwarves, giants, toffs... even a walk-on appearance by 

the Prince of Wales. This is pure Dickensian gold from this celebrated 

British actor who recently starred as Pozzo in the Theatre Royal’s 

production of Waiting for Godot, and in Oscar winning films 

A Room with a View, Howard's End and Shakespeare in Love. 

Dates + Times 

9 December – 31 January, 

Tue – Sat 8pm, 

Sat Mats 2pm, Suns 6pm, 

Mon 21 & 28 Dec 8pm, 

Thu 24 Dec 2.30pm only 

No show 25, 26, 31 Dec, 1 Jan 

Studio 2 

Tickets 

£18 – £22.50 (£16 – £20 concs.) 

Groups 8+ £15 

Previews 

9 –13 Dec £15 (£12.50 concs.) 

Groups 8+ £12.50

PERFORMANCE 

Tête à Tête presents 

Salad Days 

By Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds 

Cast includes Richard Stuart 

In one of the happiest and best-loved classic musicals 

ever, Timothy and Jane leave university to enter an 

enchanted, sunny, happy 1954 where a street piano 

makes everyone dance, uncorks our inner glee and 

turns all of our lives around for the better. 

With its celebrated theatrical flair, Tête à Tête creates 

a magical park where you can absorb this delicious 

comedy, delectable singing and breathtaking dancing 

from a Café table, a theatre seat or lolling on the 

stepped grassy banks. 

Dates + Times 

12 – 14, 17 – 21 November 

7.45pm 

Matinées 

14, 15, 21, 22 November 

3pm 

Studio 2 

Tickets 

£15 – £35 

(£10 – £15 concs.) 

Preview 12 November 

pay what you can 

(please be generous) 

Michelle Francis (Jane), 

Sam Harrison (Timothy), 

photo by Hugo Glendinning 

Yellow Earth presents 

Boom 

By Jay Tay. Director Philippe Cherbonnier 

Singapore 2008. With the economy booming and the demand for land 

intense, the young, the old – and the dead – are forced to jostle for a 

space to call their own. 

A charmingly off-beat and very funny exploration of what makes us so 

attached to a home once we’ve made the perfect one. 

Boom was created by Singapore Repertory Theatre in 2008. Boom was developed through 

the Royal Court Theatre’s International Programme in London. 

Dates + Times 

12, 13 & 15 November at 7.30pm 

Studio 3 

Tickets for Boom & wAve 

£15 (£12.50 concs.) 

Groups 10+ £10 each 

Yellow Earth presents 

wAve 

By Sung Rno. Director Jonathan Man 

Loosely inspired by the Medea myth and with a chorus of comic 

characters, this dysfunctional love story veers from madcap farce to 

tragedy as an isolated Korean immigrant’s dream of a perfect life as 

an American housewife turns sour. 

A passionate and satirical play exploring the collision of cultures from 

an award-winning American playwright. 

“generously inventive” New York Times 

wAve was commissioned by Center 

Theater Group / Mark Taper Forum’s 

Asian Theater Project and premiered at 

Ma-Yi Theater Company 

Dates + Times 

10, 11 & 14 November at 7.30pm 

Studio 3

THEATRE 

Kidbrooke School in association with Greenwich Theatre presents 

Romeo and Juliet by 

William Shakespeare 

Directed by Lucy Cuthbertson. Lighting by Natasha Chivers 

Verona 1595. Knife-crime. Gang violence. Stabbings. Social 

disorder. Celebrity politicians. Disaffected youth. Teenage 

suicide... and love. 

Fresh from a sell-out run at Greenwich Theatre, this is a fast 

moving, physical production from one of the most talented school 

companies in the country. Winners of the Fringe Report Award for 

Best Play for their world premiere adaptation of Hotel World. 

“Remarkable, moving and powerful” 

Julia Potts, ATG 

Dates + Times 

17 – 21 November at 7.30pm 

Wed – Sat Mats 2pm 

Studio 3 

Tickets 

£15 (£12.50 concs.) 

School groups £8 

Preview 17 Nov £10 

Prague Chamber Theatre and the Czech Centre London present 

Heroes Like Us 

World Premiere 

Klaus Uhltzscht, the son of a secret police officer was never expected 

to make a significant contribution to the fall of socialism. An adaptable 

supporter of the State, he follows in his father’s footsteps until the Wall 

comes along. Now his past is haunting him and he wants to talk about it. 

Part of FeEast 09 and 

Velvet ®Evolution 1989 – 2009 season. 

Thomas Brussig’s award winning novel adapted and directed by 

Kamila Polivkova. With Jiri Strebl and Tereza Hofova. 

In Czech with English surtitles. 

Dates + Times 

24 November at 7.30 pm 

Studio 3 

Tickets 

£12 (£9 concs.)

THEATRE 

The Outside Edge presents 

Thriving at The Edge 

10th year Birthday Celebration and Fundraiser 

A great night to mark to the day when The Outside Edge Theatre 

company was formed 10 years ago. Special guest performances from 

the world of music and theatre introduced by The Outside Edge 

Theatre Company patron Jimmy Page. 

The Outside Edge, founded by director/writer Phil Fox, is the only 

professional theatre company in the UK working with people affected 

by drug and alcohol addiction. 

Dates + Times 

25 November at 7.30pm 

Studio 3 

Tickets 

£35 

OutWest present 

Rent 

Dates + Times 

26 – 28 November at 8pm 

Studio 3 

Tickets 

£10 

Book, Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson. Directed by Daniel Cox 

Based on Puccini’s La Bohème, Rent follows the lives of eight friends living 

under the shadow of AIDS in New York’s Lower East Side in the 1990s 

and their struggles with love, poverty, drugs, life and death under their 

mantra of “no day but today”. 

OutWest are very proud to be staging Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize 

winning work as part of its annual marking of World AIDS Day. 

An amateur production by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Limited on behalf 

of Music Theater International of New York.

PERFORMANCE 

Opera 

W11 Opera for Young People presents 

The Whale Savers 

Music by Martin Ward, 

Libretto by Phil Porter 

Smell the salt spray! Hear the crash of the 

waves on the rocks! Listen to the sea shanties 

of the fishermen and the song of the whale… 

A stranded whale brings excitement to the forgotten 

fishing village of Farnaway, turning it into the centre 

of a frenzied media circus. The bored youngsters of 

the village gain a new sense of purpose from the 

mission to save the whale, but their elders are 

tempted by greed to take a deadlier path. Unless 

Farnaway can heal its generation divide, the whale 

will die. 

Dates + Times 

5 - 6 December 

3.30pm & 7pm 

Studio 2 

Tickets 

£15 (£10 under 12s) 

Sun 7pm £15 

Circus 

Riverside Studios and 

Albert & Friends Instant Circus present 

Babes in the Bayou 

An Albert & Friends Instant Circus Pantomime 

London’s famous youth circus presents the 

cream of West London’s acrobats and clowns 

in an hilarious New Year's panto. 

Dates + Times 

8 – 10 January 2010 

Fri 7pm, Sat 3pm & 7pm 

Sun 3pm 

Studio 3 

Tickets 

£10 (£8 children & concs.) 

£30 Family Ticket (max 2 adults)

EXHIBITIONS 

Illustration by Peter Sís 

Peter Sís 

The Wall; Growing Up Behind 

the Iron Curtain 

9 – 29 November 

An exhibition of illustrations from an award-winning book by Peter Sís, 

a Czech illustrator based in New York, providing a highly personal and 

imaginative account of life behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. 

Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter 

Sís shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore 

the red scarf of a Young Pioneer and believed whatever he was told 

to believe. 

Part of Velvet ®Evolution 1989 – 2009 season 

presented by the Czech Centre. 

See www.czechcentre.org.uk for details. 

“I was born at the 

beginning of it all, on 

the Red side – the 

Communist side – of 

the Iron Curtain.” 

Peter Sís 

Heidi Adnum 

Wildlife Photography 

30 November 2009 – 3 January 2010 

Local photographer and semi-finalist in The Natural 

History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year 

Competition 2008, Heidi Adnum presents a selection 

of her limited-edition prints. The prints showcase some 

of the captivating wildlife and breathtaking landscapes 

of Kenya. 10% of the proceeds go to a selected charity. 

www.heidiadnum.com 

Morning Feed

CINEMA 

Cinema 

November 

Sunday 1 November 

DocHouse Presents Double Bill 

The Gleaners and I (U) 1.30pm 

(Les glaneurs et la glaneuse) 

Agnès Varda, France, 2000, 90m subtitles 

Bodan Litnanski, Agnès Varda, François Wertheimer 

A delightful and personal diary/ 

documentary of people who exist by 

utilising the things others regard as 

useless in modern society. This is a 

witty and gently humanist film from a 

veteran of the 60s French new wave. 

The Beaches of Agnès (18) 3.20pm 

(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. 

www.dochouse.org. 

The Beaches 

of Agnès 





Please see above for details. 

Monday 2 November 




Please see Sunday 1 November for details. 

Tuesday 3 November 

Riverside Classic Double Bill 

Jean de Florette (PG) 6.15pm 

Claude Berri, France, 1986, 122m subtitles 

Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Gerard Depardieu 

The first of two parts of the classic 

Marcel Papnol story set in South 

East France in the mid-1920s which 

begins when hunchback tax collector 

(Depardieu) inherits a farm in Provence. 

Manon des Sources (PG) 8.40pm 

Claude Berri, France, 1987, 120m subtitles 

Yves Montand, Emmanuelle Beart, Daniel Auteuil 

A sequel to “Jean de Florette” which 

begins ten years after Jean’s death and 

centres around his eighteen-year-old 

daughter, Manon (Beart). 

Wednesday 4 November 

Polish Double Bill 

Katyn (15) 6.30pm 

Andrzej Wajda, Poland, 2007, 118m subtitles 

Artur Zmijewski, Maja Ostaszewska, Andrzej Chyra 

This devastating film addresses one 

of the last major World War II crimes 

to be acknowledged – the secret 

massacre of thousands of Polish 

officers by Soviet forces in the forests 

of Katyn. Wajda’s own father was 

murdered here. 

Tricks (12A) 8.50pm 

(Sztuczki) 

Andrzej Jakimowski, Poland, 2008, 95m subtitles 

Damian Ul, Ewelina Walendziak, Rafal Guzniczak 

Set in a sleepy provincial town 

at the height of summer the film 

revolves around a boy, Stefek, his 

sister, Elka, their mother who has a 

grocers, a photo of their father and a 

train station. From this the director 

manages to create a personal universe 

and a bittersweet and comic film. 

Thursday 5 November Double Bill 

Ten Canoes (15) 7.00pm 

Rolf de Heer/Peter Djigirr, Australia, 2006, 90m 

Crusoe Kurddal, Peter Minygululu, 

Richard Birrinbirrin 

“A unique collaboration between filmmaker 

de Heer and the Aboriginal community 

of Ramingining in Australia’s Northern 

Territory. It is at once a wry fable about 

jealousy, a fascinating ethnographic 

document and a highly enjoyable nudge-inthe-ribs 

shaggy dog story.” Time Out 

Birdwatchers (15) 8.50pm 

(La terra degli uomini rossi) 

Marco Bechis, Brazil/Italy, 2008, 103m subtitles 

Claudio Santamaria, Alicélia Batista Cabreira, Chiara Caselli 

A tribe of indigenous Guarani Indians 

attempts to re-inhabit their ancestral 

land, which lies on the border of 

a wealthy landowner’s. Tensions 

escalate. “Emotionally engaging, 

thought-provoking and informed.” 

Time Out 

Friday 6 November Latin American 

Film Festival 2009 Double Bill 

Escorbo (15) 6.30pm 

Diego Rougier, Chile, 2009, 14m subtitles 

Carolina Varleta, Inigo Urrutia, Gustavo Becerra 

An achingly funny and brilliantly 

choreographed dance between characters 

and camera, in which the complex 

relationships of an extended family are 

laid bare through their reactions to the 

mysterious ‘Escorbo’. Witty and inspired 

filmmaking, cleverly exploiting the full 

potential of digital production. 

Children of the Amazon (15) 6.45pm 

Denise Zmekhol, Brazil/USA, 2008, 72m subtitles 

documentary 

The overwhelming sensuality of the 

Amazonian rainforest is vividly evoked 

as award-winning Brazilian filmmaker 

Denise Zmekhol returns to visit the 

tribes she photographed fifteen years 

ago. She is shocked to see the destruction 

which has ensued, as foretold by the late 

Chico Mendes many years before. 

Birdwatchers 

Friday 6 November Latin American 

Film Festival 2009 Single Bill 

Crossing (15) 8.30pm 

(Cruzando) 

Mando Alvarado/Michael Ray Escamilla, 

Mexico/USA, 2009, 94m subtitles 

Mando Alvarado, Michael Ray Escamilla, David Barrera 

Manuel needs to cross into the USA, 

but not for economic reasons. This 

clever, stylish feature portrays a delicately 

shaded rites of passage and a deeply 

moving exploration of the relationship 

between place and personal identity. 

The film will be followed by a 

Q & A with Pete Miller, Executive 

Producer, and David Barrera. 

Saturday 7 November 

Latin American Film Festival 2009 

Double Bill 

Crossing Borders (15) 2.00pm 

(Cruzando Fronteras) 

Sofia Buchuck, UK, 2007, 20m 

The complex experience of being a 

Latin American in the UK is explored 

in a kaleidoscope of words and music, 

evoking the sense of joy and cultural 

pride, tinged with the pain of separation, 

common to this great, diverse diaspora. 

The film will be followed by a Q & A 

with the director, Sofia Buchuck.

Dilettante (15) 2.20pm 

Kris Niklison, Argentina, 2009, 75m subtitles 

Cesar Gonzalez, Bela Jordan, Cata Pereira 

An outstanding film-poem capturing 

the essence of a remarkable woman, 

Bela, who embodies the wild beauty 

of her homeland, the Argentinean 

Litoral. She is the epicentre of an 

inspiring story of life and motherhood 

spanning eighty years. 



Single Bill 

Our Disappeared (15) 4.00pm 

Juan Mandelbaum, USA, 2008, 99m documentary 

Argentinean documentary maker Juan 

Mandelbaum returns from exile after 

he discovers that his former girlfriend 

was among the thousands murdered by 

the junta in the 1970s. In a painfully 

personal exposé, he uncovers her story 

and that of a whole lost generation. 

This month 

19th London Latin 

American Film Festival 


This year’s edition celebrates the 50th 

anniversary of the Cuban revolution 

of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, et al, 

as well as 200 years of independence 

for Ecuador. We’re looking forward to 

new films from Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, 

Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil 

as well as the UK and USA. Plus plenty 

of unmissable parties, special events, 

talks and Q & As with directors to get 

involved in. 

Bella 



Single Bill 

Amor en Transito (15) 6.15pm 

Lucas Blanco, Argentina, 2009, 91m subtitles 

Sabina Garciarena, Veronica Palaccini, Lucas Crespi 

Time twists and turns as the individual 

paths of Mercedes, Ariel, Juan and 

Micaela cross in the seething city of 

Buenos Aires. Music and image form 

an iridescent hall of mirrors in which 

the preconceptions of the characters 

are transformed. 



Single Bill 

Bella (15) 8.15pm 

Alejandro Gomez Monteverde, Mexico/USA, 2006, 

91m subtitles 

Eduardo Verastegui, Tammy Blanchard, Manny Perez 

An international football star faces an 

abrupt end to his career. A beautiful 

waitress in New York City discovers 

something unexpected about herself. 

Their lives are turned upside down 

until a simple gesture leads to an 

unforgettable conclusion. Magical. 

The film will be followed by a 

Q & A with actor Eduardo 

Verastegui (tbc). 

Crossing 



Shorts Programme 

Through the Fear (15) 2.00pm 

Joaquim Haickel, Brazil, 2008, 18m subtitles 

Amanda Acosta, Eucir de Souza, Gustavo Brandao 

Charlie, deprived of his senses in an 

accident, retains a primordial bond 

of love with Katie which keeps her 

hopes alive: but, something is still 

missing until passion re-emerges in 

an extraordinary way. An exquisitely 

crafted fable of survival and rebirth. 

It’s Popular (15) 

(Es Popular) 

Carlos Osuna, Colombia, 2009, 3m subtitles 

Youthful, vibrant and witty animation to 

an original soundtrack, combining great 

visual panache with brilliant technique. 

Stop! Father 

Stop! Father (15) 

(Padre…Pare!) 

Jose Andres Nieto Galvis, Colombia, 2009, 9m subtitles 

Juan Fernando Galindo, Lorena Bueno, 

Esperanza Cifuentes Ruiz 

A young priest faces perils, as well as 

temptations, during his bus journey 

through bandit country in Colombia, 

unaware that one passenger harbours 

a dangerous secret. A charming, funny 

and sexy short drama with an ending 

that will surprise everyone. 

Debut and Farewell (15) 

Diego Rougier, Chile, 2008, 19m subtitles 

Javiera Contador, Francisco Perez Bannen, 

Carmen Gloria Bresky 

Where does performance end and life 

begin? Theatre, cinema and relationships 

become entangled in this intriguing and 

exquisitely crafted short drama. 

Quiroga (15) 

Amilcar Machado, Argentina, 2008, 13m subtitles 

Angel Angelucci, Edith Frydman, Luis Carlos Echeverry 

A lyrical and sonorous lament for the 

passing of a way of life, told through a 

portrait of Don Jaime, one of the last 

remaining inhabitants of the hamlet of 

Quiroga in rural Argentina. A gem of 

social realist filmmaking. 

Crossing Borders (15) 


Sofia Buchuck, UK, 2007, 20m 

See Saturday 7 November for details. 

Approximate running time: 80m 



Double Bill 

Santiago Tiene una Pena (15) 4.15pm 

Diego Riquelme Davidson/Felipe Orellana Pena, 

Chile, 2008, 40m subtitles documentary 

The unparalleled power of music to 

touch the soul amidst the alienation 

of city life is brilliantly delineated 

in this documentary which follows 

three young musicians, Claudio, 

Angelina and Esteban who make ends 

meet busking on Santiago’s gigantic 

transport system.

CINEMA 

I am Happy (15) 4.55pm 

Soraya Umewaka, Brazil/USA, 2008 

66m subtitles documentary 

Far from just another example of 

‘poverty porn’, this beautiful 

documentary reveals the vivacious 

culture of Rio’s slum communities 

in the face of the prejudice and 

deprivation suffered by the poor. 

A joyous celebration of the power 

of human creativity. 

I am Happy 



Single Bill 

The Beginning was in Warisata (15) 

6.30pm 

David Busto Izquierdo, Bolivia/Spain/Venezuela, 

2008, 75m subtitles documentary 

A unique and moving oral history 

document of the Grand Chaco war 

of the 30s against Paraguay in the 

words of the few surviving indigenous 

agricultural workers forced to fight 

for Bolivia by the unbending feudal 

system of the time. 



Single Bill 

Viva Mexico! (15) 8.15pm 

Nicolas Defosee, Mexico, 2009, 120m subtitles 

documentary 

A devastating indictment of 

globalisation which is marginalising the 

indigenous peoples of Mexico, their 

culture destroyed or commoditised 

by central government. Through this 

documentary the people cry out for 

peaceful resistance to the racism and 

poverty being imposed on them. 



Single Bill 


(Cruzando) 

Mando Alvarado/Michael Ray Escamilla, Mexico/ 

USA, 2009, 94m subtitles 

Please see Friday 6 November for details. 



Single Bill 

The Gift of the Pachamama (15) 

8.30pm 

Toshifumi Matsushita, Bolivia/Japan, 2009, 102m 

subtitles 

Christian Huaygua, Fanny Mosques, Francisco Gutierrz 

Kunturi, from the Quechua people of 

Bolivia, travels the ancient salt trail 

with a llama caravan, imbibing the 

spirit of the Andes (the life affirming 

gift of Pachamama, the Earth Goddess) 

in this spectacularly photographed 

tribute to the ancient culture. 



Single Bill 


Lucas Blanco, Argentina, 2009, 91m subtitles 

Please see Saturday 7 November for details. 



Single Bill 

Bella (15) 8.30pm 

Alejandro Gomez Monteverde, Mexico/USA, 2006, 

91m subtitles 

Please see Saturday 7 November for details. 



Five Shorts 

It’s Popular (15) 6.30pm 

(Es Popular) 

Stop! Father (15) 

(Padre…Pare!) 

Debut and Farewell (15) 

Quiroga (15) 

Crossing Borders (15) 


Please see Sunday 8 November for details. 

Approximate running time: 60m 



Single Bill 

Sons of Cuba (15) 8.00pm 

(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. 

Thursday 12 November 

Velvet ®Evolution 

Single Bill 

Loners (15) 6.25pm 

(Samotari) 

David Ondricek, Czech Republic/Slovenia, 2000, 

104m subtitles 

Mikulas Kren, Jiri Machacek, Labina Mitevska 

Seven Prague-based characters looking 

for love find themselves alone in this 

offbeat, engaging tragi-comedy. A very 

fresh and spontaneous film focussing 

on an absurd world is enhanced by 

the haze of marijuana and supported 

by stylised music. A Czech cult movie. 



Single Bill 

Country Teacher (15) 8.30pm 

(Venkovsky ucitel) 

Bohdan Slama, Czech Republic/France/Germany, 

2008, 120m subtitles 

Pavel Liska, Zuzana Bydzovska, Ladislav Sedy 

A young teacher looking for love 

takes a job in a village. He befriends 

a woman but falls in love with her 

seventeen-year old son and chooses 

not to tell her. Then, his jealous 

ex-boyfriend turns up. 


with the director, Bohdan Slama. 

If you buy a ticket for this screening, 

you are entitled to a free beer 

provided by Bernard. 

Country Teacher 

Friday 13 November 


Single Bill 

Buttoners (15) 6.25pm 

(Knoflikari) 

Petr Zelenka, Czech Republic, 1998, 104m subtitles 

Jiri Kodet, Rudolf Hrusinsky, Eva Holubova 

A black comedy about spitting on 

trains, bad weather, the atom bomb, 

shooting human sperm into space 

and people who have killed other 

people. This picture of a world where 

everything is connected and events 

repeat themselves is a Czech classic.


Velvet ®Evolution Single Bill 

Something Like Happiness (15) 

8.30pm 

(Stesti) 

Bohdan Slama, Czech Republic, 2005, 102m subtitles 

Anna Geislerova, Tatiana Vilhelmova, Pavel Liska 

Intertwining stories of three friends 

trying to find their place in life. 

Monika plans to emigrate to the USA, 

Tonik lives on a rundown farm and 

Dasa has two children. 


with the director, Bohdan Slama. 



Bohemia Docta or The Labyrinth 

of the World and the Paradise of 

the Heart (Divine Comedy) (18) 

1.30pm 

(Bohemia Docta aneb Labyrint 

sveta a lusthauz srdce (Bozska 

komedie) 

Karel Vachek, Czech Republic, 2000, 254m subtitles 

Egon Bondy, Vratislav Brabenec, Ivan Martin Jirous 

The fringes of politics and mushrooms 

feature in this portrait of ‘national 

character and soul’ reflecting the 

shifts in Czech democracy after 1989. 

Handheld cinema vérité is combined 

with staged sections. The third part of 

an extraordinary philosophical tetralogy. 



Bored in Brno (15) 6.30pm 

(Nuda v Brne) 

Vladimir Moravek, Czech Republic, 2003, 104m 

subtitles 

Jan Budar, Miroslav Donutil, Katerina Holanova 

Four couples plan to make love on 

Saturday night. Standa prepares to 

lose his virginity while a middle-aged 

psychologist meets an actor no longer 

in his sexual prime. Honza secretly 

loves his friend Pavel and there is 

also unlucky Jaroslava. Hilarious. 



Return of the Idiot (15) 8.35pm 

(Navrat idiota) 

Sasa Gedeon, Czech Republic, 1999, 99m subtitles 

Pavel Liska, Anna Geislerova, Tatiana Vilhelmova 

Frantisek (loosely based on 

Dostoyevsky’s character) has been 

released from a mental hospital 

to live with distant relatives. He 

soon becomes entangled in conflicts 

and revelations between lovers, 

siblings and parents and lands in 

many awkward, funny and 

embarrassing situations. 

This month 


The Best of Czech Cinema 1989 – 2009 


To mark the 20th anniversary of Velvet 

Revolution, the 13th annual Czech Film 

Festival presents an overview of the last 

twenty years of Czech cinematography 

cherry-picking the best films from the 

‘Velvet Generation’ of filmmakers as well 

as the older generation of filmmakers. 

We’re excited to be welcoming film 

directors for Q & As after some of the 

screenings. Part of Velvet ®Evolution 

season presented by the Czech Centre 

London. See www.czechcentre.org.uk 

One film £7.50 (£6.50 concs), two 

films £10 (£8 concs). Except “Hell 

with the Princess”. 



Hell with the Princess (U) 2.00pm 

(Peklo s princeznou) 

Miloslav Smidmajer, Czech Republic, 2009, 96m 

In Czech only 

Tereza Voriskova, Jiri Madl, Petr Narozny 

To prevent a war with the kingdom of a 

rejected suitor, King Leopold claims his 

daughter is being courted by Lucifer. 

All hell breaks loose but Prince Jeronym 

gets a chance to show his mettle. 

Fancy dress event and workshop 

for children. All tickets: £3.50 

Little Otik 



Autumn Spring (15) 3.55pm 

(Babi leto) 

Vladimir Michalek, Czech Republic, 2001, 98m 

subtitles 

Vlastimil Brodsky, Stella Zazvorkova, Stanislav Zindulka 

Retired Fanda plays practical jokes and 

enjoys life while Emily thinks of a 

retirement home saving for their funerals. 

When Fanda robs their funeral fund to 

pay off his debts, a clash is inevitable. 

An uplifting comedy with brilliant 

central performances. 

Divided We Fall 



Divided We Fall (PG) 6.00pm 

(Musime si pomahat) 

Jan Hrebejk, Czech Republic, 2000, 117m subtitles 

Bolek Polivka, Anna Siskova, Jaroslav Dusek 

A Czech couple tries to survive WWII 

but a Jew in hiding, and visits from 

a collaborator friend complicate 

matters. When they try to conform 

they are accused of collaborating. 

A black comedy based on a true story. 

Nominated for an Oscar. 



Little Otik (15) 8.20pm 

(Otesanek) 

Jan Svankmajer, Czech Republic/UK/Japan, 2000, 


Kristina Adamcova, Jan Hartl, Veronika Zilkova 

A desperate, childless couple adopt a 

tree stump as their baby. When ‘Otik’ 

comes to life he develops a lethal 

appetite. A deliciously dark satire 

on parental love by surrealist Jan 

Svankmajer based on a Czech fairytale 

and full of nightmare visions. 


Forbidden Love Double Bill 

The End of the Affair (18) 6.00pm 

Neil Jordan, USA, 1999, 108m 

Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea 

A writer conducts a passionate affair 

with the wife of a civil servant, who 

cravenly looks on. She is stricken 

with Catholic guilt and the writer 

remains a horrified sceptic throughout 

the affair.

CINEMA 

Lust, Caution (18) 8.10pm 

Ang Lee, USA/China/Taiwan/Hong Kong, 2007, 158m 

Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Wei Tang, Joan Chen 

An espionage thriller set in WWII 

Shanghai where a young woman gets 

swept up in a dangerous game of 

emotional intrigue with a powerful 

political figure. 

Tuesday 17 November Double Bill 

Shine (15) 6.45pm 

Scott Hicks, Australia, 1996, 106m 

Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Lynn Redgrave 

This acclaimed film paints a wrenching 

portrait of the life of Australian piano 

virtuoso David Helfgott. It follows his 

struggle with his demanding father, 

mental illness and Rachmaninoff. 

Geoffrey Rush won an Oscar for Best 

Actor for his performance. 

The Soloist 

The Soloist (12A) 8.50pm 

Joe Wright, USA/UK/France, 2009, 116m 

Robert Downey Jr., Jamie Foxx, Tom Hollander 

Los Angeles Times columnist Steve 

Lopez (Downey Jr.) discovers 

Nathaniel Ayers (Foxx), a homeless, 

schizophrenic street musician with 

an extraordinary talent and begins 

a series of articles about him in an 

attempt to help him. 



In the Mood for Love (18) 6.45pm 

(Fa yeung nin wa) 

Wong Kar-Wai, Hong Kong, 2000, 97m subtitles 

Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, Ping Lam Siu 

The editor of a newspaper moves with 

his wife into an apartment at the same 

time as a woman with a businessman 

husband. When they realise their 

partners are having an affair, they 

comfort each other. 

2046 (12A) 8.45pm 

Wong Kar-Wai, Hong Kong/France, 2004, 119m subtitles 

Tony Leung, Li Gong, Maggie Cheung 

The follow-up to “In the Mood for 

Love”. Writer Leung’s novel takes 

place in 2046 where people time 

travel to recapture lost memories. It’s 

his lament to a previous relationship 

which affects all his new ones. 


Mesrine Double Bill 

Mesrine: Killer Instinct (15) 6.15pm 

(L’instinct de mort) 

Jean-Francois Richet, France, 2009, 113m subtitles 

Vincent Cassel, Gérard Depardieu, Ludivine Sagnier 

Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1 

(15) 8.30pm (L’ennemi public no.1) 

Jean-Francois Richet, France, 2009, 133m subtitles 

Vincent Cassell, Gérard Depardieu, Ludivine Sagnier 

Inspired by the life of France’s most 

notorious criminals, the films chart the 

rise and fall of the often marvelled, 

yet utterly ruthless, gangster Jacques 

Mesrine. The films follow the 

incredible series of hold-ups, prison 

breaks and kidnappings throughout 

the 60 and 70s. Not to be missed. 


Oscar Wilde Double Bill 

The Importance of Being Earnest 

(U) 6.45pm 

Anthony Asquith, UK, 1952, 95m 

Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison, Edith Evans, 

Margaret Rutherford 

A fine technicolour record of Oscar 

Wilde’s famous play. Two wealthy 

bachelors encounter problems with 

their prospects of marriage. 

Dorian Gray (15) 8.40pm 

Oliver Parker, UK, 2009, 112m 

Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall 

Based on Oscar Wilde’s novel. A young 

Dorian Gray arrives in London to the 

house he has inherited and falls under 

the influence of the calculating Lord 

Henry Woton, who leads him into a 

life of debauchery. Over the years 

Gray looks as young as ever while a 

portrait of him painted as he arrived 

in London shows him getting older. 

A striking piece of vintage horror. 

Dorian Gray 


Death and the Devil Single Bill 

FAB Fest 5 – Death and the Devil is an 

all day film festival, live performance 

and book launch event to celebrate 

the publication of “The Gospel of 

Filth”, written by Gavin Baddeley 

and Dani Filth. 

Race with the Devil (18) 12.30pm 

Jack Starrett, USA, 1975, 88m 

Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit 

Two couples far from home witness 

a witches Sabbath during which a 

young girl is sacrificed. The Satanists 

spot the intruders and proceed to 

hunt them down remorselessly in this 

classic chase film that is part road 

movie and part occult horror flick. 


Death and the Devil Triple Bill: 

Doug Bradley 

On Edge (18) 2.30pm 

Frazer Lee, UK, 2001, 15m 

Doug Bradley, Charley Boorman 

An angry businessman arrives at the dentist 

without an appointment. He gets more 

than he bargained for in the surgery when 

he encounters the mysterious Dr. Matthews. 

Red Lines (18) 

Frazer Lee, UK, 2002, 7m 

Doug Bradley, Kirsty Levett 

A schoolgirl is kept in detention and is 

forced to write lines by her teacher. 

All alone in the eerily quiet classroom, 

Emily’s night becomes a nightmare 

when she discovers the mystery of 

the “Red Lines”. 

The Tell Tale Heart (18) 

Doug Bradley, UK, 2009, 18m 

Doug Bradley 

Following last year’s award-winning 

adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The 

Outsider”, the second film in Doug 

Bradley’s Spine Chillers Series is 

Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale of murder 

and madness. 

Total running time: 40m 



The Devil’s Rain (18) 4.15pm 

Robert Fuest, USA, 1975, 86m 

Ernest Borgnine, Tom Skeritt, William Shatner 

This incredible Satanic curse movie 

is famed for its scenes of melting cult 

members and for its intriguing cast, 

including established thesps such as 

John Travolta and William Shatner. Best 

of all, Church of Satan founder Anton 

LaVey appears as the Devil himself! 

The Devil’s Rain

Death and the Devil: Live Performance 

An Evening with Death 7.00pm 

Death. Shakespeare called it: “the 

undiscovere’d country, from those bourn 

no traveller returns”... but then he never 

saw “Night of the Living Dead”. 

For the first time ever in London horror 

star Doug Bradley, famous for his portrayal 

of Pinhead from the “Hellraiser” films 

and as the narrator on the four most 

recent albums from Cradle of Filth, 

will be performing his one-man live 

show, “An Evening with Death”. 

Running time: 75m 



Black Sabbath (15) 9.20pm 

Mario Bava, Italy, 1964, 95m subtitles 

Boris Karloff, Michele Mercier, Lidia Alfonsi 

A stunning anthology of supernatural 

chills, Bava’s classic is not only one of 

the greatest Gothic horror movies ever 

made, but also the film that inspired the 

name of the first heavy metal band! 

Otherwise only available on DVD in 

Italian, this is a very rare chance to see the 

English language version, complete with 

Boris Karloff’s voice on the soundtrack. 

Tickets are priced at £30 in advance, 

and are available to over-18s only 

on a strictly first-come-first-served 

basis, initially on sale only from 

the FAB Press website: 

www.fabpress.com 


Double Bill 

Far From Heaven (12A) 2.30pm 

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 another 

man. Her world begins to unravel. 

Suture (15) 4.40pm 

Scott McGehee/David Siegel, USA, 1993, 96m 

Dennis Haysbert, Mel Harris, Sab Shimono 

In this whip smart, post-modernist thriller 

in which nothing is what it seems “Suture” 

examines the relationship between two 

recently re-united brothers. Utterly 

intoxicating, the film is rarely screened 

in the UK and has been presented 

courtesy of the filmmakers themselves. 


Oscar Wilde Double Bill 


(U) 6.45pm 

Dorian Gray (15) 8.40pm 


This month 

Music & Film Geoff Dyer 

and Talvin Singh: From 

Venice to Varanasi 

26 November 

Acclaimed writer Geoff Dyer 

reads from his latest novel, 

“Jeff in Venice, Death in 

Varanasi” as virtuoso multiinstrumentalist 

Talvin Singh 

improvises live on the tabla 

to a rare screening of the epic 

ambient documentary “Forest 

of Bliss”. Plus Visconti’s 

masterful adaptation of 

Thomas Mann’s novella on 

the big screen. Tickets £15 

(£12 concs.). 

Monday 23 November Double Bill 

The Hurt Locker (15) 6.30pm 

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. 

Heart of Fire (15) 9.00pm 

(Feuerherz) 

Luigi Falorni, Germany/Italy/Austria/France, 2008, 

92m subtitles 

Based on the autobiography of Senait 

Mehari, the film is the true story of a 

young female soldier who comes of 

age during the Eritrean Civil War. 

Tuesday 24 November Double Bill 

28 Days Later (18) 6.30pm 

Danny Boyle, UK, 2002, 113m 

Gillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston 

Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable 

virus spreads throughout the UK, a 

handful of survivors try to find sanctuary. 

District 9 (15) 8.45pm 

Neill Blomkamp, South Africa/New Zealand, 

2009, 112m 

Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt 

An extraterrestrial race forced to 

live in slum-like conditions on Earth 

suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a 

government agent that is exposed 

to their biotechnology. “A stunningly 

impressive debut.” Time Out 

Photo courtesy of Documentary 

Educational Resources 

The Lost World of Tibet 


We the Peoples Festival Single Bill 

The Lost World of Tibet (PG) 7.00pm 

Emma Hindley, India/Tibet/China, 2006, 60m 

subtitles documentary 

A recently restored treasure-trove of 

colour films from the 1940s and 1950s 

provides the core of this astonishing 

film, which allows us to see what 

Tibet was like before its brutal 

occupation by China. 

The screening will be followed 

by a Q & A with the director, 

Emma Hindley. 


Special Event Double Bill 

Geoff Dyer and Talvin Singh: 

From Venice to Varanasi 

Death in Venice (12) 6.30pm 

(Morte a Venezia) 

Luchino Visconti, Italy, 1971, 130m subtitles 

Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns 

Mahler, Mann, Visconti – an A-list 

trinity for this often under-rated 

take on the classic tale of impossible 

attraction. Here, Bogarde’s obsession 

with a beautiful young boy in a 

funereal Venice hotel is set against 

a city of sickness and decay.

CINEMA 

Forest of Bliss 9.15pm 

Robert Gardner, USA, 1986, 90m documentary 

An unsparing yet redemptive 

account of the griefs, passions and 

frequent joys that punctuate daily 

life in Varanasi, India’s holiest Hindu 

city, from one sunrise to the next, 

creating a wholly authentic sense 

of participation in the experiences 

examined by the film. 

Presented in association with 

Canongate Books. Thanks to 

Sukhdev Sandhu, Gareth Evans 

and Vinod Gadher. 


Double Bill 

Female Agents (15) 6.00pm 

(Les Femmes de l’ombre) 

Jean-Paul Salome, France, 2008, 120m subtitles 

Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Marie Gillain 

It’s May 1944. A fire-woman commando 

unit parachutes into occupied France 

on a daring and dangerous mission 

to protect the secret of the D-Day 

landings and eliminate the head of 

Germany counter-intelligence. An 

action-packed tribute to the real-life 

espionage operatives whose exploits 

inspired the film. 

Army of Crime 

Army of Crime (15) 8.20pm 

(L'armee du crime) 

Robert Guediguian, France, 2009, 138m subtitles 

Simon Abkarian, Virginie Ledoyen, Robinson Stevenin 

Set in Paris in 1941. The film follows 

poet Missak Manouchian as he leads 

a group of youngsters and immigrants 

in a clandestine battle against the 

Nazi occupation. 


Double Bill 







6th London Kurdish Film Festival 

Short Film Programme (PG) 12 noon 

A selection of short films by Kurdish 

directors from around the world will 

open the event. For the complete list 

of films please check www.lkff.co.uk 

and look for the Riverside link. 



Single Bill 

Hope (PG) 1.00pm 

(Hevî) 

Petter Næss, Sweden/Norway/Germany, 2007, 

88m subtitles 

Ali Abdulsalam, Mehmet Aras, Kajsa Bergqvist 

A young Kurdish boy, Azad, mistakenly 

arrives in Sweden on his way to 

Germany. Surrounded by a strange 

new culture and a language he cannot 

understand he is isolated and lonely. 

However, with help from a spaced-out 

hot dog vendor, the coolest guy in 

school and world athletics champion 

Kajsa Bergqvist, he sets out to be 

reunited with his family. 


6th Kurdish Film Festival Single Bill 

The Legend of Kawa the 

Blacksmith (PG) 2.50pm 

(Efsaneya Kawayê Hesinkar) 

Havi Ibrahim/Stuart Palmer, UK, 2008, 54m 

with Kurdish subtitles, animation 

This film is one of the most famous 

Kurdish legends and tells the story of 

the Kurdish New Year (Newroz) and 

the birth of a nation. King Zohak, ruler 

of Mesopotamia, is tricked by the evil 

demon Ahriman and cursed. Two large 

black snakes grow from his shoulders 

and he is wracked with terrible pain, 

a pain that will only go away if the 

snakes are fed the brains of children. 



No One Knows About the Persian 

Cats (PG) 4.10pm 

(Haya tu kesî ji Pisikên Iranî nîn e) 

Bahman Ghobadi, Iran, 2009, 106m subtitles 

Negar Shaghaghi, Ashkan Koushanejad, 

Hamed Behdad Babak Mirzakhani 

Winner of the Cannes Film Festival 

Special Jury Prize in 2009, this film 

by internationally renowned Kurdish 

director Bahman Ghobadi was shot 

in just seventeen days. It follows two 

teenage underground band members 

as they attempt to leave Iran to 

perform in Europe. 



Whisper with the Wind (15) 6.20pm 

(Pisepiskirina digel ba) 

Shahram Alidi, Kurdistan/Iraq, 2009, 77m subtitles 

Fakher Mohammad Barzani, Maryam Boubani, 

Omer Chawshin 

This film won numerous awards at 

Cannes in 2009. It tells the story 

of an old man, Mam Baldar, who for 

many years travelled between the 

mountainous villages in Kurdish Iraq, 

recording and delivering people’s 

messages. One day he gets a request 

from a high-ranking commander and 

his journey to a far-off valley begins. 



Storm (12) 7.40pm 

(Bahoz) 

Kazım Öz, Turkey, 2008, 156m subtitles 

Cahit Gök, Havin Funda Saç, Selim Akgül 

Cemal passes his university entrance 

exam and moves from his remote village 

to the bustle of Istanbul. Here, his 

experiences allow him to realize his own 

identity and he becomes involved with a 

Kurdish youth group. These young Kurdish 

people begin to dream of huge changes 

within the world around them. When the 

seeds of “revolution” appear, this youthful 

and dynamic energy turns into action. 

Monday 30 November Single Bill 

Katalin Varga (15) 9.00pm 

Peter Strickland, Romania/UK/Hungary, 54m subtitles 

Hilda Péter, Tibor Pálffy, Norbert Tankó 

Banished by her husband and her 

village after being raped, Katalin Varga 

is left with no other choice but to set 

out on a quest to find the real father of 

her son. “The atmosphere and execution is 

nothing short of remarkable.” Little White Lies 

December 

Tuesday 1 December Double Bill 

Inherit the Wind (PG) 6.30pm 

Stanley Kramer, USA, 1960, 128m 

Spencer Tracy, Frederick March, Gene Kelly 

Based on a real life case in 1925; two 

great lawyers argue the case for and 

against a science teacher accused of the 

crime of teaching evolution. A classic. 

Creation (PG) 9.00pm 

Jon Amiel, UK, 2009, 108m 

Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Northam 

A screen adaptation of Randal Keyne’s 

book “Alice’s Box”. The film focuses on 

the Charles Darwin moral dilemmas as he 

forms his ideas to his book “The Origin of 

Species”. He tries to find a balance between 

his revolutionary theories on evolution and 

the relationship with his religious wife.

Wednesday 2 December 

Shane Meadows Double Bill 

A Room for Romeo Brass (15) 7.15pm 

Shane Meadows, UK, 1999, 90m 

Andrew Shim, Ben Marshall, Paddy Considine 

Romeo (Shim) is a jolly lad who lives 

next door to his best friend Knocks 

(Marshall). The boys are inseparable 

until the dynamics are upset by 

Morrell (Considine) who takes Romeo 

under his wing. 

Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (15) 9.05pm 

Shane Meadows, UK, 2009, 71m 

Paddy Considine, Scor-zay-zee, The Arctic Monkeys 

Fifteen years ago a roadie named Donk 

seemed to have it all. Now his life is 

shit so he decides to take rapper Scorzay-zee 

with him on a road trip that he 

hopes will change their lives forever. 

“A monumental mockumentary from Brit 

cinema’s premier director/actor double act. 

True, daft, emotional, hilarious.” Empire 

Thursday 3 December 

Bulgarian Double Bill 

Wagner (15) 6.45pm 

Andrei Slabakov, Bulgaria, 1998, 100m subtitles 

Ernestina Shinova, Naum Shopov, Julia Ognjanova 

Elena’s job is working on the percussion 

press Wagner built in 1933. This is a tragic 

comedy about the absurdity of one day in 

her life, in which her dream comes true. 

Wagner 

This month 

6th London 

Kurdish Film Festival 

29 November 

Launched in 2001 by a group of volunteers, this first ever Kurdish 

Film Festival to be established worldwide showcases a selection of 

the best Kurdish films of all genres from Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria 

and the rest of the world. Between 2001 and 2009 the Festival 

has been attended by thousands of people from extremely diverse 

ethnic and social backgrounds. This year the Festival has grown 

significantly and will now 

take place in six venues 

across London in order to 

reach a wider audience. 

Thirst (18) 8.30pm 

(Bakjwi) 

Chan-wook Park, Korea, 2009, 133m subtitles 

Kang-ho Song, Ok-vin Kim, Hae-sook Kim 

A devoted priest from a small town 

volunteers for a medical experiment 

which fails and turns him into a vampire. 

Struggling with his newfound carnal 

desire for blood he begins an affair with 

the wife of a childhood friend. 

Thirst 

Whisper with the Wind 

It’s A Wonderful Life (U) 3.45pm 

Frank Capra, USA, 1946, 129m 

James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore 

The Christmas classic. A man is 

prevented from committing suicide by 

an elderly angel who takes him back 

through his life to show him what 

good he has done. 

Meet Me in St. Louis (U) 6.15pm 



Hindemith (15) 8.45pm 

Andrei Slabakov, Bulgaria, 2006, 100m subtitles 

Ernestina Shinova, Dejan Dejanov, Peter Slabakov 

Two very similar families are settling in 

two identical houses in a new fashionable 

neighbourhood built near a complex of 

panel-apartment buildings. Step by step 

they find out how similar they are and 

step by step they come to hate each other. 

Friday 4 December 

Chan-wook Park Double Bill 

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (18) 

6.15pm 

(Chinjeolhan geumjassi) 

Chan-wook Park, Korea, 2005, 112m subtitles 

Lee Young-ae, Choi Min-sik, Anne Cordiner 

Lee Geum-ja goes to prison for the 

murder and abduction of a child on behalf 

of her accomplice, only to find out that 

he has betrayed her. Upon her release she 

finally sets out to seek revenge. 

Saturday 5 December 

Chan-wook Park Double Bill 

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance 

(18) 1.15pm 


Sympathy for Lady Vengeance 

(18) 6.15pm 


Please see Friday 4 December for details. 

Sunday 6 December 



Vincente Minnelli, USA, 1944, 113m 

Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor 

A story of family life set in turn-of-the 

century America when society was 

about to change. This is one of cinema’s 

most delightful exercises in nostalgia 

and one of the greatest musicals. 

Monday 7 December 




Please see Sunday 6 December for details. 

Tuesday 8 December Single Bill 

Born in 68 (15) 7.30pm 

(Nés en 68) 

Jacques Martineau/Olivier Ducastel, France, 2008, 


Laetitia Casta, Yannick Renier, Yann Trégouët 

The film follows a band of young 

Parisians from the May 68 student 

riots. Over the years we see their Left 

Wing ideals slowly chipped away. 



The Third Man (15) 6.45pm 

Carol Reed, UK, 1949, 103m 

Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Alida Valli 

War-torn Vienna and an American writer 

arrives looking for his friend Harry 

Lime. An irresistible romantic thriller.

CINEMA 

Citizen Kane (PG) 8.50pm 

Orson Welles, USA, 119m black and white 

Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Dorothy Camingore 

A meditation on power. Welles’ 

groundbreaking studio film is a 

recreation of the activities of a press 

baron and a search for the clues to his 

life and actions. Fresher than ever on 

the big screen. Revived in a new print. 


Che Double Bill 

Che: Part 1 (15) 6.15pm 

Steven Soderbergh, France/Spain/USA, 126m 

some subtitles 

Benico Del Toro, Édgar Ramírez, Julia Ormond 

A chronicle of the successful uprising 

in Cuba tracking Che’s rise from doctor 

to commander to revolutionary hero. 

It follows Fidel Castro, Che and their 

comrades during the years 1956 to 1959. 

Che: Part 2 (15) 8.40pm 

Steven Soderbergh, Spain/France/USA, 2008, 131m 

some subtitles 

Benicio Del Toro, Franka Potente, Carlos Bardem 

Ernesto “Che” Guevara (Del Toro) has 

abandoned his post as a bureaucrat in 

Cuba in order to start an even more 

daunting revolution in the Bolivian jungle. 

This time around, however, the odds are 

stacked much higher against him. 


Terry Gilliam Double Bill 

Brazil (15) 6.00pm 

Terry Gilliam, UK, 1984, 142m 

Bob Hoskins, Robert De Niro, Jonathan Pryce 

Gilliam’s version of the bureaucratic 

future. Comic and nasty by turns, 

it’s an extraordinary vision of a 

world overcome by paper, ducts and 

plumbing. Bob Hoskins and Robert 

De Niro steal the film as two versions 

of the plumbing trade – one state and 

the other freelance. 

The Imaginarium of Doctor 

Parnassus (12A) 8.45pm 

Terry Gilliam, UK/France/Canada, 2009, 122m 

Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Lily Cole 

A fantastical morality tale set in the 

present day which tells the story of 

Dr. Parnassus and his travelling show 

where members of the audience get an 

irresistible opportunity to choose between 

light and joy, or darkness and gloom. 


Terry Gilliam Double Bill 

Brazil (15) 12 noon 



Brazil (15) 6.00pm 





Riverside Classic Triple Bill 

The Lord of the Rings: 

The Fellowship of the Ring 

(PG) 12.30pm 

Peter Jackson, USA/New Zealand, 2001, 178m 

Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler 

“The first instalment of the film based on 

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth trilogy. A 

young hobbit, Frodo Baggins, comes into 

possession of the ring of power.” 

Time Out Film Guide 

The Two Towers (12A) 4.00pm 

Peter Jackson, USA, 2002, 179m 

Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Elijah Wood 

Picking up where “The Fellowship 

of the Ring” ended, Frodo and his 

companion Sam continue their 

quest in this, the centrepiece of 

the Tolkien trilogy. 

Return of the King (12A) 7.30pm 

Peter Jackson, USA/New Zealand, 2003, 200m 

Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen 

With this final instalment of the 

fantasy trilogy ends one of the 

cinematic achievements of 

movie history. 



Before Sunrise (15) 6.45pm 

Richard Linklater, USA, 1995, 101m 

Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Andrea Eckert 

A French graduate student, Celine 

(Delpy), meets a young American, 

Jesse (Hawke) on the Budapest-Vienna 

train. The two seize the moment 

and spend the next fourteen hours 

together in Vienna where they 

discover a powerful meeting of 

hearts and minds. 

Before Sunset (15) 8.45pm 

Richard Linklater, USA, 2004, 81m 

Julie Delpy.Ethan Hawke, Vernon Dobtcheff 

The two meet again in Paris nine years 

later. They only have a few hours together 

to re-evaluate longing and lost time. 

“A romantic gem.” Time Out 

Tuesday 15 December Double Bill 

Goodbye Lenin! (15) 6.15pm 

Wolfgang Becker, Germany, 2003, 121m subtitles 

Daniel Bruhl, Katrin Sass, Maria Simon 

A communist mother goes into a coma 

days before the Berlin Wall comes down. 

When she awakens eight months 

later the world has changed beyond 

recognition and her son tries to convince 

her communist Germany is still alive. 

Tales from the Golden Age 

(12A) 8.35pm 

Christian Mungiu/Hanno Höfer/Razvan 

Marculescu, Romania, 2009, 158m subtitles 

Tania Popa, Lilianne Mocanu, Alexandru Potocean 

“A fine example of the recent trend for 

East European directors to re-explore the 

Communist histories of their countries. It 

is made by five Romanian directors. Each 

segment is based around an urban legend. 

Funny, sharp-eyed and hugely revealing.” 

Daily Telegraph 


Penélope Cruz Double Bill 

Volver (15) 6.30pm 

Pedro Almodóvar, Spain, 2006, 120m subtitles 

Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Duenas 

After her death a mother (Maura) 

returns to her home town in order to 

fix the situations she couldn’t resolve 

during her life. Of her family left 

in the town, her ghost slowly 

becomes a comfort to her daughters 

(Cruz, Duenas). 

Broken Embraces (15) 8.50pm 

(Los abrazos rotos) 

Pedro Almodóvar, Spain, 2009, 127m subtitles 

Penélope Cruz, Lluis Homar, Blanca Portillo 

A man (Homar) with dual identities 

tries to compartmentalise his life after 

he loses his love (Cruz) and his sight 

in a car crash. “I defy anybody to watch 

it without a tingle of pure movie-going 

pleasure.” The Guardian 

Broken Embraces 

Thursday 17 December Double Bill 

March of the Penguins (U) 7.00pm 

Luc Jacquet, France/USA, 2005, 80m documentary 

Voiceover: Morgan Freeman 

The worldwide hit following the 

remarkable journey of a group of 

emperor penguins as they travel 

100 miles from home to breed. Part 

survival story, part love story, this is an 

epic tale of triumph against the odds.

The Cove (12A) 8.40pm 

Louie Psihoyos, USA, 2002, 90m 

Louie Psihoyos, Hayden Panettiere, Joe Chisholm 

A group of activists, led by the respected 

dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry, infiltrate 

a cove near Taiji, Japan to expose a 

shocking instance of animal abuse. 

Compelling and convincing viewing. 


Lone Scherfig Double Bill 

Italian for Beginners (18) 7.00pm 

(Italienski for begyndere) 

Lone Scherfig, Denmark, 2001, 99m subtitles 

Anders W. Berthelsen, Anette Støvelbæk, 

Ann Eleonora Jørgensen 

Small-town Denmark. The story of a 

group of lonely students who meet for 

Italian lessons trying to master this 

warm language in order to thaw their 

love lives. 

An Education (12A) 9.00pm 

Lone Scherfig, UK, 2009, 99m 

Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina 

Based on writer Lynn Barber’s memoirs 

and a screenplay by Nick Hornby the 

film is a coming-of-age story about a 

teenage academic girl in the 60s 

whose life changes with the arrival 

of a playboy nearly twice her age. 

An Education 

This month 

Riverside Classic Triple Bill: 

The Lord of the Rings 

13 December 

Middle Earth at Riverside Studios as we screen the three 3-hour 

epics in one day. If you want to spend the entire day in Frodoland 

with Aragorn, Gandalf, Arwen Evenstar and the rest, the 

restaurant will serve up Hobbit potatoes and drinks between 

the screenings. Tickets: £15 (£12 concs.) Hobbit Ticket 

(inc. snacks & drinks); £10 (£8 concs.) films only. 

Riverside Christmas Films 

6, 7, 21, 22, 23 December 

As always, we’re screening old time 

favourites to conjure up festive vibes 

in the run up to Christmas. We hope 

you’ll come and enjoy the classic 

double bills “Meet Me in St. Louis” 

and “It’s A Wonderful Life” (6 & 7 

Dec) “White Christmas”, and “The 

Bishop’s Wife” (21 Dec). For the 

children of West London, we’ve got 

“Fantastic Mr. Fox” coming to the big 

screen on 22 and 23 December. 

It’s A Wonderful Life 


Lone Scherfig Double Bill 






The Bishop's Wife 


War and Peace Double Bill 

War and Peace: Parts 1 and 2 (12) 

1.45pm and 4.30pm 

(Voina I Mir) 

Sergei Bondarchuk, USSR, 1967, 146m and 99m 

subtitles 

Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, 

Gennadi Ivanov 


7.10pm and 8.55pm 

(Voina I Mir) 

Sergei Bondarchuk, USSR, 1967, 84m and 100m 

subtitles 

A unique cinematic experience which 

is based on Leo Tolstoy’s famous 

novel. Originally filmed in 70mm and 

made in four parts, the film cost $100 

million and received the Best Foreign 

Film Oscar in 1968. The story centres 

around the lives of two families and 

the effect on their lives of Napoleon’s 

1812 invasion of Russia. The spectacle 

is breathtaking, particularly in the 

battle sequences, and uses overhead 

tracking shots, split screen and 

subjective camera to bring this epic 

love story to life. 

White Christmas 

Monday 21 December Single Bill 

White Christmas (U) 6.30pm 

Michael Curtiz, USA, 1954, 120m 

Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Vera Ellen 

The film houses a treasury of Irving 

Berlin classics, among them “Count 

Your Blessings” and “Blue Skies”. Two 

talented song-and-dance men team up 

with a sister-act and trek to Vermont 

for a white Christmas. Things don’t go 

according to plan. 

Monday 21 December Single Bill 

The Bishop’s Wife (U) 8.50pm 

Henry Koster, USA, 1947, 108m 

Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven 

A Christmas fantasy about a debonair 

angel who comes to earth to help a 

bishop and his wife in their quest to 

raise money for a new church.

INFO 

Fantastic Mr. Fox 


Fantastic Mr. Fox (PG) 7.00pm 

Wes Anderson, USA, 2009, 87m 

Voices: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray 

Anderson’s animated adaptation of the 

Roald Dahl classic. Angry farmers, tired 

of sharing their chickens with a sly fox, 

look to get rid of him and his family. 


The Men Who Stare at Goats (15) 

8.50pm 

Grant Heslov, USA/UK, 2009, 90m 

George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Ewan McGregor 

A reporter in Iraq thinks he has the 

story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn 

Cassady (Clooney) who claims to be a 

former member of the US Army’s First 

Earth Battalion, a unit that employs 

paranormal power in their missions. 

“Light-hearted and highly entertaining.” 

Screen International 

Wednesday 23 December Single Bills 



8.50pm 

Please see Tuesday 22 December 

for details. 

Thursday 24 – Saturday 26 

December 

Cinema Closed 


Jane Campion Double Bill 

Sweetie (15) 2.30pm 

Jane Campion, Australia, 1989, 100m 

Geneviève Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos 

The story of two sisters, one introspective 

and hypersensitive, the other extrovert, 

insensitive, child-like and garrulous. Its 

off-beat sense of humour makes for a 

film of some originality. The director’s 

first feature film. 

Bright Star (PG) 4.30pm 

Jane Campion, UK/Australia/France, 2009, 118m 

Abbie Cornish, Ben Wishaw, Paul Schneider 

London 1818: a secret love affair 

begins between 23-year-old English 

poet John Keats and the girl next door, 

Fanny Brawne, which is to have 

a significant impact on their lives. 

“An affecting and deeply considered 

study of the last years in the short life 

of John Keats.” The Guardian 








Please see Sunday 27 December 

for details. 

Tuesday 29 December 




Please see Sunday 27 December 

for details. 

Bright Star 


Double Bill 

Milk (15) 6.20pm 

Gus van Sant, USA, 2008, 128m 

Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin 

The powerful and inspiring story of 

California’s first openly gay elected 

official, Harvey Milk. The film charts 

the last eight years of Harvey’s life. 

“A briskly-told, warmly humanistic and 

stirring portrait.” Screen International 

Taking Woodstock (15) 8.50pm 

Ang Lee, USA, 2009, 120m 

Demetri Martin, Imelda Staunton, Emile Hirsh 

A comedy inspired by the true story 

of Elliot Tiber (Martin) and his family 

who inadvertently played a pivotal role 

in the making of Woodstock Music 

and Arts Festival into the happening 

that it was. 


Cinema Closed 

Info 

Riverside Bar 

and Kitchen 

Riverside Bar and Kitchen 

The atmospheric space at the 

heart of the building is a vibrant 

and contemporary setting for 

lunch, pre-show dinner and 

drinks. The Riverside Terrace is 

a stunning spot for entertaining. 

Bookings and enquiries 

020 8237 1009 

Riverside Kitchen 

Seasonal daily specials with an 

emphasis on freshly prepared 

ingredients available for lunch 

and dinner every day. 

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 – Saturday 

Sunday 

Midday – 3pm 

4pm – 9pm 

11am – 3pm Brunch 

4pm – 9pm

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 

Closed from 4pm 24 Dec until 26 Dec & 31 Dec. 

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 

November 2009 

Sun 1 

Mon 2 

Tue 3 

Wed 4 

Thu 5 

DocHouse Presents 


+ The Beaches of Agnès (18) 3.20pm 







Jean de Florette (PG) 6.15pm 

+ Manon des Sources (PG) 8.40pm 

Katyn (15) 6.30pm 

+ Tricks (12A) 8.50pm 

Ten Canoes (15) 7.00pm 

+ Birdwatchers (15) 8.50pm 

Fri 6 Latin American Film Festival 2009 

Escorbo (15) 6.30pm 

+ Children of the Amazon (15) 6.45pm 


Sat 7 Latin American Film Festival 2009 

Crossing Borders (15) 2.00pm 

+ Dilettante (15) 2.20pm 

Our Disappeared (15) 4.00pm 


Bella (15) 8.15pm 

Sun 8 Latin American Film Festival 2009 

Shorts Programme (15) 2.00pm 

Santiago Tiene una Pena (15) 4.15pm 

+ I am Happy (15) 4.55pm 

The Beginning was in Warisata (15) 

6.30pm 

Viva Mexico! (15) 8.15pm 

Mon 9 Latin American Film Festival 2009 


The Gift of Pachamama (15) 8.30pm 

Tue 10 Latin American Film Festival 2009 


Bella (15) 8.30pm 

Wed 11 Latin American Film Festival 2009 

Shorts Programme (15) 6.30pm 

Sons of Cuba (15) 8.00pm 

Thu 12 

Fri 13 

Sat 14 

Sun 15 


Loners (15) 6.25pm 

Country Teacher (15) 8.30pm 


Buttoners (15) 6.25pm 

Something Like Happiness (15) 8.30pm 


Bohemia Docta or The Labyrinth 

of the World and the Paradise of the 

Heart (Divine Comedy) (18) 1.30pm 

Bored in Brno (15) 6.30pm 

Return of the Idiot (15) 8.35pm 


Hell with the Princess (U) 2.00pm 

Autumn Spring (15) 3.55pm 

Divided We Fall (PG) 6.00pm 

Little Otik (15) 8.20pm 

Mon 16 The End of the Affair (18) 6.00pm 

+ Lust, Caution (18) 8.10pm 

Tue 17 

Shine (15) 6.45pm 

+ The Soloist (12A) 8.50pm 

Wed 18 In the Mood for Love (18) 6.45pm 

+ 2046 (12A) 8.45pm 

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Thu 19 

Fri 20 

Sat 21 

Sun 22 

Mesrine Killer Instinct (15) 6.15pm 

+ Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (15) 

8.30pm 


(U) 6.45pm 

+ Dorian Gray (15) 8.40pm 

Death and the Devil 

Race with the Devil (18) 12.30pm 

Doug Bradley Triple Bill (18) 2.30pm 

The Devil’s Rain (18) 4.15pm 

An Evening with Death 7.00pm 

Black Sabbath (15) 9.20pm 

Far From Heaven (12A) 2.30pm 

+ Suture (15) 4.40pm 


(U) 6.45pm 

+ Dorian Gray (15) 8.40pm 

Mon 23 The Hurt Locker (15) 6.30pm 

+ Heart of Fire (15) 9.00pm 

Tue 24 

28 Days Later (18) 6.30pm 

+ District 9 (15) 8.45pm 

Wed 25 We the Peoples Festival 

The Lost World of Tibet (PG) 7.00pm 

Thu 26 

Fri 27 

Sat 28 

Sun 29 

Death in Venice (12) 6.30pm 

+ Forest of Bliss 9.15pm 


+ Army of Crime (15) 8.20pm 






Short Film Programme (PG) 12 noon 

Hope (PG) 1.00pm 

The Legend of Kawa the Blacksmith 

(PG) 2.50pm 

No One Knows About the Persian 

Cats (PG) 4.10pm 

Whisper with the Wind (15) 6.20pm 

Storm (12) 7.40pm 

Mon 30 Katalin Varga (15) 9.00pm 

December 2009 

Tue 1 

Wed 2 

Thu 3 

Fri 4 

Sat 5 

Sun 6 

Mon 7 

Tue 8 

Wed 9 

Thu 10 

Inherit the Wind (PG) 6.30pm 

+ Creation (PG) 9.00pm 

Shane Meadows’ 

A Room for Romeo Brass (15) 7.15pm 

+ Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (15) 9.05pm 

Bulgarian Double Bill 

Wagner (15) 6.45pm 

+ Hindemith (15) 8.45pm 

Chan-wook Park’s 


6.15pm 

+ Thirst (18) 8.30pm 



1.15pm 

+ Thirst (18) 3.30pm 



6.15pm 

+ Thirst (18) 8.30pm 


+ It’s A Wonderful Life (U) 3.45pm 





Born in 68 (15) 7.30pm 

The Third Man (15) 6.45pm 

+ Citizen Kane (PG) 8.50pm 

Che: Part 1 (15) 6.15pm 

+ Che: Part 2 (15) 8.40pm 

Fri 11 

Sat 12 

Sun 13 

Terry Gilliam’s Brazil (15) 6.00pm 

+ The Imaginarium of Doctor 


Terry Gilliam’s Brazil (15) 12 noon 



Terry Gilliam’s Brazil (15) 6.00pm 



The Lord of the Rings 

The Fellowship of the Ring (PG) 

12.30pm 

+ The Two Towers (12A) 4.00pm 

+ Return of the King (12A) 7.30pm 

Mon 14 Richard Linklater’s 

Before Sunrise (15) 6.45pm 

+ Before Sunset (15) 8.45pm 

Tue 15 

Goodbye Lenin! (15) 6.15pm 

+ Tales from the Golden Age (12A) 

8.35pm 

Wed 16 Penélope Cruz 

Volver (15) 6.30pm 

+ Broken Embraces (15) 8.50pm 

Thu 17 

Fri 18 

Sat 19 

March of the Penguins (U) 7.00pm 

+ The Cove (12A) 8.40pm 

Lone Scherfig’s 


+ An Education (12A) 9.00pm 







Sun 20 War and Peace: Parts 1 and 2 (12) 

1.45pm and 4.30pm 


7.10pm and 8.55pm 

Mon 21 White Christmas (U) 6.30pm 

The Bishop’s Wife (U) 8.50pm 

Tue 22 



8.50pm 

Wed 23 Fantastic Mr. Fox (PG) 7.00pm 


8.50pm 

Thu 24 

Fri 25 

Sat 26 

Sun 27 

CINEMA CLOSED 

CINEMA CLOSED 

CINEMA CLOSED 

Jane Campion’s 


+ Bright Star (PG) 4.30pm 



Mon 28 Jane Campion’s 



Tue 29 

Jane Campion’s 



Wed 30 Milk (15) 6.20pm 

+ Taking Woodstock (15) 8.50pm 

Thu 31 

CINEMA CLOSED 

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.

November/December 2009 - Riverside Studios

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