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WHAT’S ON AND WHAT’S<br />
HAPPENING AT WELLINGTON ORBIT.<br />
NOVEMBER 20<strong>19</strong><br />
Introducing<br />
Hannah<br />
DAVISON<br />
& her Royal<br />
connection<br />
DOWNTON<br />
THE PERIOD DRAMA<br />
THAT MADE IT<br />
FROM TV TO THE<br />
BIG SCREEN.
Contents<br />
ORBIT <strong>Magazine</strong> - Issue 01<br />
4<br />
ABBOT’S ANGLE John Abbot takes a look at this months films.<br />
24 FILMS Sorry We Missed You<br />
6 At a glance Your film guide from 30th October to 14th of <strong>Nov</strong>ember<br />
26<br />
FILMS Farmageddon<br />
8 FILMS Downton Abbey and The Art of Racing in the Rain<br />
28<br />
FILMS It’s a Wonderful Life and The Polar Express<br />
10 FOOD<br />
Meet Hannah Davison and see what’s cooking at Wellington <strong>Orbit</strong><br />
30 FILMS<br />
The Aeronauts<br />
12 FILMS Honeyland.<br />
32 FILMS Le Mans 66<br />
14 FILMS Judy<br />
34 FILMS The Good Liar and Sneak Preview for December<br />
16 FILMS Abominable and Paper TIgers<br />
18 FILMS They Shall Not Grow Old<br />
20 AT A GLANCE Your film guide from 15th <strong>Nov</strong>ember to 28th of <strong>Nov</strong>ember<br />
22<br />
FILMS Maleficient and Official Secrets<br />
2 oRBIT magazine 3 ORBIT magazine
“We will<br />
remember them”<br />
abbots angle.<br />
A look at what you can find<br />
at wellington orbit this month...<br />
To some extent Jackson’s “They<br />
“This is not a story of the First World War, it is not a historical story, it<br />
may not even be entirely accurate but it’s the memories of the men who<br />
fought - they’re just giving their impressions of what it was like to be a<br />
soldier.”<br />
Shall Not Grow Old” follows in very<br />
much the same style. Combining<br />
archive footage to tell the story of<br />
everyday participants in the First<br />
World War covering the final days<br />
and BBC vaults to aid in sharing<br />
memories now over a century old.<br />
The Wellington <strong>Orbit</strong> will be<br />
working closely with The Royal<br />
Peter Jackson – 2018<br />
As documentaries go there is certainly no shortage of both film and<br />
television productions that cover the history of human conflict.<br />
Who can forget the legendary 26 episode “World at War”<br />
series that ran between <strong>19</strong>73 and <strong>19</strong>76, narrated by<br />
Laurence Olivier.<br />
of the conflict.<br />
However, Jackson and his<br />
production team team did not have<br />
the luxury of interviewing surviving<br />
veterans, participants or politicians<br />
or most importantly having the<br />
Through modern techniques that<br />
truly trailblaze a new method<br />
of keeping our history alive and<br />
engaging the footage was not<br />
only colourised but the addition<br />
of both sound effects and voice<br />
British Legion to collect for the<br />
Poppy Appeal and there will also<br />
be a unique opportunity to view an<br />
Exhibition by Nick Redshaw from<br />
The Royal Marines Art Society on<br />
Sunday 10th <strong>Nov</strong>ember.<br />
luxury of recorded diegetic sound.<br />
acting brings not only the grainy<br />
The remembrance weekend is<br />
What they did have though was<br />
condition of the film to life but also<br />
a wonderful opportunity for<br />
100hrs of archive footage and<br />
humanises in a very emotional way<br />
Wellington <strong>Orbit</strong> to truly continue<br />
over 600hrs of interviews from<br />
how the everyday men and women<br />
in its purpose by offering the local<br />
the Imperial War Museum (IWM)<br />
conducted their lives on the front.<br />
community a chance to see this<br />
remarkable film either for the first<br />
time or indeed again.<br />
John Abbott.<br />
4 oRBIT magazine 5 ORBIT magazine
What’s ON AT A GLANCE OCT 30 th to <strong>Nov</strong> 14 th<br />
OcTOBeR<br />
NOVeMBeR<br />
WeDs<br />
30th<br />
THuRs<br />
31st<br />
FRI<br />
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sAT<br />
2nd<br />
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4th<br />
Tues<br />
5th<br />
WeDs<br />
6th<br />
THuRs<br />
7th<br />
FRI<br />
8TH<br />
sAT<br />
9th<br />
suN<br />
10th<br />
MON<br />
11th<br />
Tues<br />
12th<br />
WeDs<br />
13th<br />
THuRs<br />
14th<br />
FRI<br />
15th<br />
sAT<br />
16th<br />
The gOLDFINCh<br />
<strong>19</strong>:30 <strong>19</strong>:30<br />
DOWNTON ABBeY<br />
14:30<br />
14:30<br />
14:30<br />
14:30<br />
14:30<br />
<strong>19</strong>:30<br />
<strong>19</strong>:30<br />
<strong>19</strong>:30<br />
<strong>19</strong>:30 <strong>19</strong>:30 <strong>19</strong>:30<br />
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The ART OF RACINg IN The RAIN<br />
10:30<br />
hONeYLAND<br />
14:30<br />
<strong>19</strong>:30<br />
<strong>19</strong>:30<br />
JuDY<br />
14:30<br />
17:00<br />
<strong>19</strong>:30 <strong>19</strong>:30<br />
suBTITLeD<br />
ABOMINABLe<br />
10:30<br />
12:00<br />
TheY ShALL NOT gROW OLD<br />
14:30<br />
<strong>19</strong>:30<br />
6 oRBIT magazine 7 ORBIT magazine
The Art of Racing<br />
in the Rain<br />
A 20<strong>19</strong> American comedy-drama<br />
film directed by Simon Curtis<br />
and written by Mark Bomback,<br />
based on the 2008 novel of the<br />
same name by author Garth Stein.<br />
The film stars Milo Ventimiglia,<br />
Amanda Seyfried and Kevin<br />
Costner as the voice of Enzo.<br />
DOWNTON<br />
ABBEY<br />
Photo by Jaap Buitendijk - © 20<strong>19</strong> Focus Features<br />
“As the Royal staff<br />
descend on Downton,<br />
an assassin has also<br />
arrived and attempts<br />
to kill the monarch ”<br />
Excitement is high at Downton<br />
Abbey when the Crawley family<br />
learns that King George V and<br />
Queen Mary are coming to visit.<br />
Robert and Cora Crawley, the Earl<br />
and Countess of Grantham, that<br />
King George V and Queen Mary<br />
will visit Downton Abbey as part of<br />
“A STUNNING<br />
TRANSFORMATION<br />
FROM TV TO<br />
But trouble soon arises when Mrs.<br />
Patmore, Daisy and the rest of the<br />
servants learn that the king and<br />
queen travel with their own chefs<br />
and attendants -- setting the stage<br />
for an impromptu scheme and<br />
other shenanigans.<br />
The film begins in <strong>19</strong>27, about a<br />
year and a half after the TV series<br />
a royal tour through the country.<br />
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess<br />
of Grantham, is perturbed that<br />
Maud, Lady Bagshaw, Queen Mary’s<br />
lady-in-waiting, is included in the<br />
tour. Robert is Maud’s cousin and<br />
her closest relative. The two families<br />
have fallen out over who should<br />
inherit Maud’s estate.<br />
CINEMA, IT LOOKS<br />
LIKE IT SHOULD<br />
HAVE BEEN HERE<br />
FROM THE START.”<br />
In Seattle, Enzo (voiced by Kevin<br />
Costner), an old Golden Retriever,<br />
is dying. He is waiting for Denny<br />
(Milo Ventimiglia), his master and<br />
best friend to return home. Denny<br />
arrives but finds Enzo unable to<br />
move, as Enzo begins to narrate his<br />
life.<br />
ended. Buckingham Palace informs<br />
8 oRBIT magazine 9 ORBIT magazine
OUR MENU<br />
Carrot Cake<br />
Cappuccino Cake<br />
CAKES – ALL PRCIED AT £2.25<br />
Victoria Sponge<br />
Toasted Tea Cake served with butter and Jam<br />
Having cooked for Prince<br />
Charles and Camilla, and<br />
run a successful gastro pub,<br />
Wellington <strong>Orbit</strong> introduces<br />
new chef Hannah Davison.<br />
We are delighted to announce that<br />
Hannah Davison has joined the team<br />
at Wellington <strong>Orbit</strong> as a chef. Hannah<br />
comes to us with a wealth of knowledge<br />
and experience and has even cooked for<br />
Prince Charles and Camilla! Hannah<br />
told us “yes, I was requested to cook a<br />
Sunday lunch for them and it went down<br />
really well”.<br />
Experienced in a lot of very different<br />
cuisines, Hannah’s favourite is<br />
Moroccan inspired foods, but she also<br />
introducing<br />
HANNAH<br />
DAVISON<br />
likes patés and “there isn’t much I<br />
don’t like, but I do just love cooking!”<br />
Hannah said.<br />
With husband John, a trained chef who<br />
worked at the internationally acclaimed<br />
Savoy Hotel in London for 15 years with<br />
300 chefs beneath him. The couple<br />
bought an Inn and Hotel in Much<br />
Wenlock Called the Fox – which they<br />
ran together for 7 years as a fine dining<br />
and boutique hotel.<br />
“there isn’t much I<br />
don’t like, but I do<br />
just love cooking”<br />
Hannah is what you would call ‘a real<br />
foodie’, no novels and biographies<br />
for her when it comes to reading, its<br />
cookery books all the way. “Cook<br />
books, books about foods and<br />
ingredients – that’s what I love”.<br />
“Wellington <strong>Orbit</strong> is a really exciting<br />
place to work” said Hannah “we are<br />
always talking about new menu items,<br />
suggestions and ideas for weekly<br />
specials and cakes so I really do feel<br />
I’m in my element!”<br />
FOOD<br />
Our Salads Orzo, Tomato and Olive dressed with Olive Oil<br />
Coleslaw<br />
Mixed Leaf and Red Onion<br />
Breads – chose from white, brown or gluten free white or brown bread.<br />
Turkey, Home Made Stuffing and Cranberry Sandwich served with our House Salads (all<br />
three) and Hand Cut Crisps £5.50<br />
Home Made Coronation Chicken served with our House Salads (all three) and Hand Cut<br />
Crisps £5.50<br />
Welsh Rarebit served with our House Salads (all three) and Hand Cut Crisps £5.50<br />
Welsh Rarebit topped off with Bacon Lardons served with our House Salads (all three) and<br />
Hand Cut Crisps £5.50<br />
Home Made French Onion Soup served with Warm bread £4.95<br />
Sweet Potato, Red Pepper and Lentil Soup served with Warm bread £4.95<br />
Children’s Sandwiches (For Under 12’s)<br />
Cheese and Tomato served with Hand Cut Crisps £3.50<br />
Egg Mayonnaise and Cress served with Hand Cut Crisps £3.50<br />
OUR DRINKS SELECTION<br />
Latte £2.00<br />
Cappuccino £2.00<br />
Americano £2.00<br />
Flat White £2.00<br />
Espresso £2.00<br />
Double Espresso £2.40<br />
*Any of our coffee can be made with<br />
decaffeinated coffee and we can also offer<br />
alternatives to cow’s milk.<br />
Hot Chocolate* £2.00<br />
*Add Cream, Marshmallows & Chocolate Flakes £2.60<br />
Pot of House Tea £2.00<br />
Pot of Earl Grey Tea £2.00<br />
Pot of Green Tea/Fruit Tea/Peppermint Tea £2.00<br />
Pot of Decaffeinated Tea £2.00<br />
Tea for Two – any of our tea £3.00<br />
10 oRBIT magazine 11 ORBIT magazine
Honeyland uses life in a remote village to offer an<br />
eye-opening perspective on experiences that should<br />
resonate even for audiences halfway around the world.<br />
‘Honeyland,’<br />
a beekeeper<br />
documentary, is<br />
one of the year’s<br />
best movies”<br />
The last female beehunter in Europe<br />
must save the bees and return the<br />
natural balance in Honeyland, when<br />
a family of nomadic beekeepers<br />
invade her land and threaten her<br />
livelihood. This film which is filmed<br />
in Macedonia is an exploration of<br />
an observational Indigenous visual<br />
narrative that deeply impacts our<br />
behavior towards natural resources<br />
and the human condition.<br />
12 oRBIT magazine 13 ORBIT magazine
Thirty years after starring in “The Wizard of Oz,”<br />
beloved actress and singer Judy Garland arrives in<br />
London to perform sold-out shows at the Talk of<br />
the Town nightclub. While there, she reminisces with<br />
friends and fans and begins a whirlwind romance with<br />
musician Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be fifth husband.<br />
Winter <strong>19</strong>68 and showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives<br />
in Swinging London to perform a five-week sold-out<br />
run at The Talk of the Town. It is 30 years since she shot<br />
to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, but if her voice<br />
has weakened, its dramatic intensity has only grown. As<br />
she prepares for the show, battles with management,<br />
charms musicians and reminisces with friends and<br />
adoring fans, her wit and warmth shine through. Even<br />
her dreams of love seem undimmed as she embarks on<br />
a whirlwind romance with Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be<br />
fifth husband. Featuring some of her best-known songs,<br />
JUDY<br />
Renée Zellweger as<br />
the film celebrates the voice, the capacity for love, and<br />
the sheer pizzazz of “the world’s greatest entertainer.”<br />
14 oRBIT magazine 15 ORBIT magazine
Copyright © 2014 KPRJ Films LLC all rights reserved<br />
-New York Times journalist and author, David Bornstein<br />
Abominable is a 20<strong>19</strong><br />
animated adventure<br />
film<br />
“If you like E.T. and Bumblebee, chance<br />
are you’ll have a good time with this<br />
slightly homogenous but sweet-natured<br />
kids’ adventure.”<br />
Nick de Semlyen - Empire<br />
PAPER TIGERS<br />
One high school’s unlikely success story.<br />
“Absolutely riveting, profoundly important.”<br />
A KPJR Films Production “PAPER TIGERS” Produced by JAMES REDFORD & KAREN PRITZKER<br />
Edited by JEN BRADWELL Music by TODD BOEKELHEIDE Co-Producer DANA SCHWARTZ<br />
Line Producer SHANNON STIRONE-NORWOOD Cinematography by TYLOR NORWOOD<br />
Directed by JAMES REDFORD Executive Producer KAREN PRITZKER<br />
www.papertigersmovie.com<br />
‘The<br />
behavior<br />
isn’t the<br />
kid. The<br />
behavior is<br />
a symptom<br />
of what’s<br />
going on<br />
in their<br />
life.””<br />
A Yeti escapes from a compound<br />
in Shanghai owned by wealthy<br />
businessman Mr Burnish Eddie<br />
Izzard), who intends to use him to<br />
prove the existence of yetis to the<br />
world.<br />
Meanwhile, teenager Yi (Chloe<br />
Bennet) lives with her mother Yi<br />
(Michelle Wong) and Nai Nai (Tsai<br />
Chin) in an apartment building.<br />
She lives a busy life and neglects<br />
to spend time with her family<br />
and her friends, football fan Peng<br />
(Albert Tsai) and the tech-savvy<br />
and popular Jin (Tenzing Norgay<br />
Trainor). Yi is also a violinist who<br />
misses her late father, who was also<br />
a violinist.<br />
or call: 0<strong>19</strong>52 743 377<br />
Paper Tigers follows<br />
six troubled teens over<br />
the course of a year at<br />
Lincoln Alternative High<br />
School in rural Walla<br />
Walla, Washington.<br />
Considered a last chance before dropping<br />
out, many students come to Lincoln<br />
with a history of behavioral problems,<br />
truancy, and substance abuse.<br />
Then, in 2010, Principal Jim Sporleder<br />
learned about the science of what a<br />
rough childhood does to a developing<br />
brain. “Stressed brains can’t learn” was<br />
what he took away from an educational<br />
conference. He returned to his school<br />
convinced that traditional punishments<br />
like suspension were only exacerbating<br />
the problems of the students there.<br />
Sporleder says: “I was hunting everywhere<br />
for the curriculum. It’s not a<br />
curriculum. So it was trying to figure<br />
out, how do you take this theory and<br />
put it into practice?”<br />
Sporleder invited the staff, as well as the<br />
students, to learn about the landmark<br />
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)<br />
Study, which shows that stressful events<br />
during childhood—like divorce,domestic<br />
violence, or living with someone with a<br />
mental illness—massively increases the<br />
risk of problems in adulthood. Problems<br />
like addiction, suicide and even heart<br />
disease have their roots in childhood<br />
experience. Suspension became a last<br />
resort as the school formed an in-school<br />
suspension program, keeping the kids<br />
in contact with the staff and caught up<br />
with their homework. They also established<br />
a health center on campus so the<br />
students would have ready access to<br />
pediatricians and mental health counselors.<br />
The biggest challenge for the<br />
teachers was to consider the source of<br />
the kids’ behavior. Science teacher Erik<br />
Gordon realizes: “The behavior isn’t<br />
the kid. The behavior is a symptom of<br />
what’s going on in their life.”<br />
Told with intimate vérité and diary cam<br />
footage, Paper Tigers is a testament to<br />
what the latest developmental science is<br />
proving: that one caring adult can help<br />
break the cycle of adversity in a young<br />
person’s life. We follow students like<br />
Aron, a senior who avoids eye contact<br />
and barely speaks in class; freshman<br />
Kelsey, who struggles with meth addiction<br />
and abusive relationships; and<br />
Steven, a senior who has been in and<br />
out of juvenile hall since junior high<br />
for fights and threatening teachers. As<br />
the teachers slowly gain their students’<br />
trust, they hear harrowing tales of physically<br />
abusive and negligent parents,<br />
homelessness, sexual abuse… The list<br />
goes on.<br />
Despite the upheaval in their home lives,<br />
the students find the support they need<br />
at Lincoln to make academic progress,<br />
and find less destructive ways of coping.<br />
They also find hope for becoming<br />
healthy and productive adults as they go<br />
out into the world.<br />
16 oRBIT magazine 17 ORBIT magazine
Peter Jackson, best known for directing The<br />
Lord of the Rings trilogy, has created a new<br />
film using original footage from Imperial<br />
War Museums’ extensive archive, much of it<br />
previously unseen, alongside BBC and IWM<br />
interviews with servicemen who fought in<br />
the conflict. Footage has been colourised,<br />
converted to 3D and transformed with<br />
modern production techniques to present<br />
never before seen detail.<br />
They Shall Not Grow Old was given its Royal<br />
World Premiere at the BFI London Film Festival<br />
on 16 October, attended by Peter Jackson and<br />
the Duke of Cambridge. The simulcast included<br />
a special post screening Q&A with Jackson,<br />
hosted by film critic Mark Kermode. The film<br />
was simultaneously screened in 2D and 3D to<br />
cinemas, schools and special venues across the<br />
UK, as well as its TV broadcast premier on BBC<br />
Two on 11 <strong>Nov</strong>ember.<br />
The First World War proved to be a landmark<br />
in cinema history – the first time that the<br />
horrors of war could be caught on camera.<br />
Many hours of dramatic footage were filmed<br />
on the battlefields, capturing the realities of the<br />
conflict in remarkable and unprecedented detail.<br />
This footage provided the public at home with<br />
astonishing access to the frontline: The Battle of<br />
the Somme, a documentary film produced with<br />
the cooperation of the War Office, was seen by<br />
an estimated 20 million Britons in its first six<br />
weeks of release.<br />
A documentary about World<br />
War I with never-before-seen<br />
footage to commemorate the<br />
centennial of Armistice Day, and<br />
the end of the war.<br />
18 oRBIT magazine <strong>19</strong> ORBIT magazine
“Absolutely riveting, profoundly important.”<br />
-New York Times journalist and author, David Bornstein<br />
A KPJR Films Production “PAPER TIGERS” Produced by JAMES REDFORD & KAREN PRITZKER<br />
Edited by JEN BRADWELL Music by TODD BOEKELHEIDE Co-Producer DANA SCHWARTZ<br />
Line Producer SHANNON STIRONE-NORWOOD Cinematography by TYLOR NORWOOD<br />
Directed by JAMES REDFORD Executive Producer KAREN PRITZKER<br />
Copyright © 2014 KPRJ Films LLC all rights reserved<br />
www.papertigersmovie.com<br />
What’s ON AT A GLANCE NOV 15 th to <strong>Nov</strong> 28 th<br />
NOVeMBeR<br />
DeceMBeR<br />
FRI<br />
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OFFICIAL SeCReTS<br />
14:30<br />
<strong>19</strong>:30<br />
14:30<br />
<strong>19</strong>:30<br />
SORRY We MISSeD YOu<br />
14:30<br />
14:30<br />
14:30<br />
<strong>19</strong>:30<br />
<strong>19</strong>:30 <strong>19</strong>:30 <strong>19</strong>:30<br />
PAPER TIGERS<br />
One high school’s unlikely success story.<br />
PAPeR TIgeRS<br />
<strong>19</strong>:30<br />
A ShAuN The SheeP MOVIe: FARMAgeDDON<br />
14:30<br />
13:30<br />
16:30<br />
<strong>19</strong>:30<br />
The AeRONAuTS<br />
14:30<br />
14:30<br />
14:30<br />
<strong>19</strong>:30<br />
<strong>19</strong>:30<br />
<strong>19</strong>:30<br />
<strong>19</strong>:30<br />
<strong>19</strong>:30<br />
IT’S A WONDeRFuL LIFe<br />
10:30<br />
12:00<br />
<strong>19</strong>:00<br />
The POLAR eXPReSS<br />
11:30<br />
20 oRBIT magazine 21 ORBIT magazine
MALEFICIENT<br />
Mistress of Evil<br />
Maleficent and her goddaughter<br />
Aurora begin to question the<br />
complex family ties that bind them<br />
as they are pulled in different<br />
directions by impending nuptials,<br />
unexpected allies, and dark new<br />
forces at play.<br />
In the five years since King Stefan’s<br />
death, Aurora has reigned as Queen<br />
of the Moors and Maleficent as<br />
its protector. Despite her service,<br />
the neighboring kingdom of<br />
Ulstead, home to Prince Phillip,<br />
deems Maleficent a villain. Diaval,<br />
Maleficent’s raven and confidant,<br />
overhears Phillip proposing to<br />
Aurora. When he relays this to<br />
Maleficent, she advises Aurora<br />
against the union, though Aurora<br />
insists she will be proven wrong.<br />
“The true story of<br />
GCHQ employee<br />
Katharine Gun,<br />
who leaked a<br />
secret memo<br />
exposing an<br />
illegal spying<br />
operation by the<br />
United States of<br />
America, “<br />
“Angela jolie<br />
returns to the<br />
big screen ahead<br />
of schedule<br />
A force of British acting talent take on<br />
this intriguing true story.<br />
Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Ralph<br />
Feinnes, Matthew Goode, Rhys<br />
Ifans, Indira Varma and Tamsin<br />
Greig appear in Official Secrets.<br />
United States is enlisting Britain’s<br />
help in collecting compromising<br />
information on United Nations<br />
Security Council members in order<br />
She risked everything to stop<br />
an unjust war. Her government<br />
called her a traitor. Based on<br />
world-shaking true events, Official<br />
Secrets tells the gripping story of<br />
Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), a<br />
British intelligence specialist whose<br />
job involves routine handling of<br />
classified information. One day<br />
in 2003, in the lead up to the Iraq<br />
War, Gun receives a memo from the<br />
NSA with a shocking directive: the<br />
to blackmail them into voting in<br />
favor of an invasion of Iraq. Unable<br />
to stand by and watch the world<br />
be rushed into an illegal war, Gun<br />
makes the gut-wrenching decision<br />
to defy her government and leak<br />
the memo to the press. So begins an<br />
explosive chain of events that will<br />
ignite an international firestorm,<br />
expose a vast political conspiracy,<br />
and put Gun and her family directly<br />
in harm’s way.<br />
...a well-crafted script and<br />
a director who knows how<br />
to compose tension. In the<br />
wrong hands this could<br />
have been stale and dull,<br />
instead, under the watchful<br />
eye of Gavin Hood, it’s a<br />
brilliantly aggravating film<br />
that ignites a revolt within<br />
you, but keeps you calm<br />
and focused.<br />
L R Baldock - The Hollywood News<br />
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SORRY WE<br />
MISSED YOU<br />
Ricky and his family have been fighting<br />
an uphill struggle against debt since the<br />
2008 financial crash. An opportunity to<br />
wrestle back some independence appears<br />
with a shiny new van and the chance to<br />
run a franchise as a self-employed delivery<br />
driver. It’s hard work, and his wife’s job<br />
as a carer is no easier. The family unit<br />
is strong but when both are pulled in<br />
different directions everything comes to<br />
breaking point.<br />
Director Ken Loach is no stranger to<br />
delivering contraversial and high impact<br />
films examining our social bellybutton.<br />
He’s no stranger to Wellington <strong>Orbit</strong><br />
either, having been a member &<br />
shareholder of the project from the early<br />
days.<br />
“As the multiplexes increase and even<br />
take over the art-house cinemas, the<br />
need for independent cinemas, owned<br />
and programmed by people who care<br />
about films, has never been more urgent.<br />
I hope the community ownership scheme<br />
at Clifton Cinema is a great success”<br />
Thanks Ken, we think it is.<br />
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Strange lights over the quiet<br />
town of Mossingham herald<br />
the arrival of a mystery<br />
visitor from far across the<br />
galaxy…<br />
When the intergalactic visitor<br />
– an impish and adorable<br />
alien called LU-LA – crashlands<br />
near Mossy Bottom<br />
Farm, Shaun soon sees<br />
an opportunity for alienpowered<br />
fun and adventure<br />
and sets off on a mission to<br />
shepherd LU-LA home.<br />
Her magical alien powers,<br />
irrepressible mischief and<br />
galactic sized burps soon<br />
have the flock enchanted.<br />
Shaun takes his new extraterrestrial<br />
friend on the road<br />
to Mossingham Forest to find<br />
her lost spaceship, unaware<br />
that a sinister alien-hunting<br />
agency is on their trail.<br />
Can Shaun and the flock<br />
avert Farmageddon on<br />
Mossy Bottom Farm before<br />
it’s too late?<br />
DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN HIRE THE ORBIT FOR<br />
PRIVATE<br />
SCREENINGS?<br />
Did you know you can book the whole cinema for a private screening? We can source a film of your choice or you can see one<br />
of the films we’ll have on at the time in complete privacy, for your guests. The ideal treat for a Christmas Party, Birthday Party<br />
or a thank you to your colleagues.<br />
We can also offer catering, from a bag of popcorn, through to buffet, or a sit down meal.<br />
Without the dedication,<br />
time, and expertise of<br />
the volunteers and staff,<br />
Wellington would not have<br />
a thriving independant<br />
cinema.<br />
CONTACT THE BOX OFFICE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON 0<strong>19</strong>52 743377<br />
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It’s a Wonderful Life<br />
It’s a Wonderful Life is a<br />
<strong>19</strong>46 American Christmas<br />
fantasy drama film produced<br />
and directed by Frank Capra,<br />
based on the short story and<br />
booklet The Greatest Gift,<br />
which Philip Van Doren Stern<br />
wrote in <strong>19</strong>39 and published<br />
privately in <strong>19</strong>43. The film is<br />
one of the most beloved in<br />
American cinema, and has<br />
become traditional viewing<br />
during the Christmas season.<br />
The film stars James Stewart as George<br />
Bailey, a man who has given up his<br />
dreams to help others, and whose<br />
imminent suicide on Christmas Eve<br />
brings about the intervention of his<br />
guardian angel, Clarence Odbody<br />
(Henry Travers). Clarence shows<br />
George all the lives he has touched, and<br />
how different life in his community of<br />
Bedford Falls would be if he had never<br />
been born.<br />
the production cost, a figure it did not<br />
come close to achieving on its initial<br />
release. An appraisal in 2006 reported:<br />
“Although it was not the complete boxoffice<br />
failure that today everyone believes<br />
... it was initially a major disappointment<br />
and confirmed, at least to the studios,<br />
that Capra was no longer capable of<br />
turning out the populist features that<br />
made his films the must-see, moneymaking<br />
events they once were.”<br />
It’s a Wonderful Life is now considered<br />
one of the greatest films of all time.<br />
It was nominated for five Academy<br />
Awards, including Best Picture, and has<br />
been recognized by the American Film<br />
Institute as one of the 100 best American<br />
films ever made,[4] as number 11 on<br />
its initial <strong>19</strong>98 greatest movie list, as<br />
number 20 on its revised 2007 greatest<br />
movie list, and as number one on its list<br />
of the most inspirational American films<br />
of all time. Capra revealed that it was<br />
his personal favorite among the films he<br />
directed and that he screened it for his<br />
family every Christmas season.<br />
Polar Express<br />
A young boy boards a train and<br />
he desires. The boy asks only for a<br />
embarks on an extraordinary bell from the harness of Santa’s<br />
journey to the North Pole to meet reindeer. But on the way home,<br />
Santa Claus. His life takes a turn the bell is lost. Christmas morning,<br />
after he encounters special people the boy finds the bell under the<br />
that make his journey memorable. Christmas tree, and when he shakes<br />
“TOM HANKS. Has<br />
he ever made a<br />
bad movie?”<br />
Despite performing poorly at the box<br />
office due to stiff competition at the<br />
time of its release, the film has become<br />
a classic and is a staple of Christmas<br />
television around the world.<br />
Theatrically, the film’s break-even<br />
point was $6.3 million, about twice<br />
Late on Christmas Eve, after the<br />
town has gone to sleep, a boy<br />
boards the mysterious train that<br />
waits for him--The Polar Express.<br />
When the boy arrives at the North<br />
Pole, Santa Claus offers him any gift<br />
it, the bell makes the most beautiful<br />
sound he’s ever heard. His mother<br />
admires the bell, but she laments<br />
that it is broken ... for, you see, only<br />
a true believer can hear the sound<br />
of the bell.<br />
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AERONAUTS Aeronauts<br />
Amelia Wren (Felicity Jones) and<br />
scientist James Glaisher (Eddie<br />
Redmayne) find themselves in<br />
an epic fight for survival while<br />
attempting to make discoveries in<br />
a gas balloon.<br />
In 1862, pioneering meteorologist<br />
than anyone in history. While<br />
their voyage to the very edge<br />
of existence helps the unlikely<br />
pair find their place in the world,<br />
they face physical and emotional<br />
challenges in the thin air, as the<br />
ascent becomes a fight for survival.<br />
James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne)<br />
teams up with daredevil balloon<br />
pilot Amelia Wren (Felicity Jones)<br />
to advance human knowledge<br />
of the weather and fly higher<br />
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...404.error...<br />
>sense of belonging..not found<br />
SOMETHING<br />
MISSING?<br />
Academy Award®-winners Matt Damon and<br />
Christian Bale star in FORD v FERRARI, based<br />
on the remarkable true story of the visionary<br />
American car designer Carroll Shelby (Damon)<br />
and the fearless British-born driver Ken Miles<br />
(Bale), who together battled corporate interference,<br />
the laws of physics, and their own personal<br />
demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford<br />
Motor Company and take on the dominating race<br />
cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans<br />
in France in <strong>19</strong>66.<br />
Le Mans 66<br />
Wellington <strong>Orbit</strong> relies on<br />
volunteers to keep your local<br />
independant cinema running.<br />
If you would like to help out, even<br />
just a couple of hours at a time, we<br />
would like to talk to you.<br />
From Social Media, to clipping<br />
tickets, selling ice cream to serving<br />
coffee, there is always something<br />
we need help with.<br />
In return, we can offer a sense of<br />
belonging, training, and our eternal<br />
thanks.<br />
Old or young, we’ll value your<br />
contribution.<br />
Email sophie@wellingtonorbit.co.uk<br />
for more info.<br />
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Sneak preview<br />
for December...<br />
“The Good Liar”<br />
was filmed on<br />
location in London<br />
and Berlin.<br />
The New Line Cinema drama “The<br />
Good Liar” pairs Oscar winner Helen<br />
Mirren (“The Queen”) and two-time<br />
Oscar nominee Ian McKellen (“Lord<br />
of the Rings: The Fellowship of the<br />
Ring,” “Gods and Monsters”) on the<br />
big screen for the first time.<br />
Bill Condon, the Oscar-winning screenwriter<br />
of “Gods and Monsters,” directed<br />
and produced the film from a screenplay<br />
by Jeffrey Hatcher (“Mr. Holmes”),<br />
based on the widely acclaimed novel by<br />
Nicholas Searle.<br />
Career con artist Roy Courtnay<br />
(McKellen) can hardly believe his luck<br />
when he meets well-to-do widow Betty<br />
McLeish (Mirren) online. As Betty<br />
opens her home and life to him, Roy is<br />
surprised to find himself caring about<br />
her, turning what should be a cut-anddry<br />
swindle into the most treacherous<br />
tightrope walk of his life.<br />
“The Good Liar” also stars Russell<br />
Tovey (TV’s “Quantico”) and Jim<br />
Carter (TV’s “Downton Abbey”).<br />
Greg Yolen also served as producer,<br />
alongside Condon. The executive producers<br />
were Richard Brener, Andrea<br />
Johnston, Aaron L. Gilbert, Jason<br />
Cloth, Anjay Nagpal, Jack Morrissey,<br />
and Nick O’Hagan.<br />
The creative filmmaking team included<br />
director of photography Tobias<br />
Schliessler (“Beauty and the Beast,”<br />
“Mr. Holmes”), production designer<br />
John Stevenson (BAFTA nominee,<br />
“Burton and Taylor”), editor Virginia<br />
Katz (“Beauty and the Beast,” “Mr.<br />
Holmes”), and costume designer Keith<br />
Madden (miniseries “Patrick Melrose,”<br />
“Mr. Holmes”). The music is composed<br />
by two-time Oscar nominee<br />
Carter Burwell (“Three Billboards<br />
Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” “Carol”).<br />
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