Viva Lewes Issue #126 March 2017

ON THIS MONTH: CINEMA
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN 15 116mins
Friday 10th 5.30pm and Sunday 12th March 7.30pm
Nominated for Best Actress 2017 BAFTA’s. A divorcee becomes
entangled in a missing persons investigation that promises
to send shockwaves throughout her life.
HELL OR HIGH WATER 15 102mins
Friday 10th 8pm and Saturday 11th March 5.30pm
Nominated at the 2017 BAFTA’s, Golden Globes & Academy Awards
including Best Film & Best Supporting Actor. A divorced
father and his ex-con older brother resort to a desperate scheme in
order to save their family's ranch.
CAPTAIN FANTASTIC 15 116mins
Saturday 11th 7.45pm and Sunday 12th March 5pm
Nominated for Best Actor at the 2017 BAFTA’s, Golden Globes &
Academy Awards. A father devoted to raising his six
kids away from the ideals of society is forced to leave his paradise,
challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent.
TROLLS U 89mins
Sunday 12th March 3pm
Nominated for Best Original Song at the 2017 BAFTA’s & Academy
Awards. Poppy, the happiest Troll ever born, and the curmudgeonly
Branch set off on a journey to rescue her friends.
A STREET CAT NAMED BOB 12A 103mins
Friday 24th 5.45pm and Sunday 26th March 8pm
The true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and
recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray
ginger cat.
THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS 12A 130mins
Friday 24th 8pm and Saturday 25th March 5.30pm
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western
Australia raise a baby they rescue from a drifting rowing boat.
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS 15 117mins
Saturday 25th 8pm and Sunday 26th March 5.30pm
Winner Best Supporting Actor 2017 Golden Globes. Nominated at
the 2017 BAFTA’s & Academy Awards incl. Best Director & Best
Actor. A wealthy art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband's
novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a symbolic revenge tale.
QUEEN OF KATWE PG 121mins
Sunday 26th March 3pm
A Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being
introduced to the game of chess.
Info & advance tickets from the All Saints Centre Office,
the Town Hall, High Street, or www.filmatallsaints.com
All Saints Centre, Friars Walk, Lewes, BN7 2LE
01273 486391
Women on the edge
Lewes Film Club round-up
A film has to pass three stages to pass the Bechdel
Test. Are there at least two women in it? Do
they talk to each other? If so, do they talk about
anything other than men? Sadly, it has been
estimated that as many as half Academy Awardnominated
films fail the test, and most directors
- from Woody Allen to Martin Scorsese - fail it in
a significant proportion of their films.
One director who has never come close to failing
the test, in a 20-film career, is Pedro Almodovar,
who just loves giving female actors powerful
roles. His latest, Julieta (March 31st, 8pm) is no
exception. Almodovar weaves together three Alice
Munro stories, to come up with the single tale
of Julieta, a middle-aged woman who discovers,
from a chance meeting, not only that her longdisappeared
daughter is still alive, but that she has
three children, too. The film skips between two
time frames, providing powerful roles for three
female actors, Emma Suarez, Adriana Iguarte,
and Rossy de Palma. It’s the most Almodovarian
Almodovar for ages.
All Jane Austen’s female characters seem to think
about is men, so despite boasting the likes of Kate
Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny in the cast, Love
and Friendship (March 17th, 8pm) barely scrapes
through the test. This Whit Stillman adaptation
of early Austen novella Lady Susan, unpublished
in her lifetime, was a big hit with the critics, but
less so with audiences; I’d side with the latter, for
once; it seemed a slight, hurried affair to me. (For
more movie releases see Diary Dates; apply your
own Bechdel Test). Dexter Lee
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