Viva Lewes Issue #122 November 2016

ON THIS MONTH: FILM
Cinema round-up
The latest Linklater, and Studio Ghibli
The date for the opening of the Depot cinema, we hear
from its organiser Carmen Slijpen, has been put back to
May, but don’t forget that while we’re waiting we have two
groups putting on regular films at the All Saints, and there’s
a good selection in November.
Film at All Saints, which shows second-release films (a few
weeks after their general release) are putting on four films over a single weekend. Our highlight is the latest
offering by Richard ‘Boyhood’ Linklater, Everybody Wants Some!!, which has been hailed as ‘the spiritual
successor to [1993 breakout hit] Dazed and Confused’. It’s a campus movie that’s full of humour, without relying
on the gross-out shenanigans driving many US frat-pack comedies (details on ad opposite). Also look out for
three adaptations from novels: Me Before You, from the best-selling feelgood novel by JoJo Moyes, about
a relationship between a provincial caretaker and her wealthy paralysed employer; Our Kind of Traitor,
from John Le Carre’s 2010 political thriller, starring Ewan McGregor and directed by Suzanne White; and
When Marnie Was There, a Studio Ghibli Japanese anime film transposed from the Norfolk setting of the
original, written by Joan G Robinson, to Sapporo. There has been some speculation, following the retirement
of founding director Hayao Miyazaki, that this would be the last film produced by the studio (responsible for
anime classics such as Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke) but it seems as though there will, after all, be more.
And hurrah, to that. DL
Emilia Clarke in 'Me Before You'