View
219
Download
2
Category
Tags:
Preview:
DESCRIPTION
This seasons film highlights at The Courtyard in Hereford
Citation preview
fIlM GUIDe MAY-JUNE 2012BOx OFFICE: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk
Mirror,
Mirror
whaT Does IT CosT?Box Office Opening Times:10am to 8pm - Monday to Saturday, 11am to 2.30pm - Sunday
v Tickets £6.80
v Concessions £5.80
v Children Under 16 £4.80
vMatinee Screenings £4.80*
v Breakfast Movie (including a hot drink and pastry) £6.80*
v Tales' Kids Club Members £4v vvvvv vvvvv vvvv v vv
v vvvvv vvvvv vvvv v vv
sUBTITlesThe Courtyard will be providing subtitles for selected film screenings, look out for this logo.
Subtitles Audio Description Call the Box office for more information
Audio Described films are correct at time of going to press. For further information please call Box Office
how To re-esTaBlIsh a voDka eMPIre PG (TBC)A delightful mesh of stories that combines an investigation of the Director, Dan edelstyn’s family history, with a journey to ukraine that leads Dan to enter the alcohol industry.DIRECTOR: Dan Edelstyn STARRING: Hilary Powell, Anthony Styles, Conrad Asquith & Dan EdelstynUK, 2011, 1 hour 15 minutes
Tue 1 6pm
Wed 2 2.30pm & 6pm
MAY
we BoUGhT a Zoo PGA true story about a single dad who decides his family is in need of a fresh start, so he decides to move his two children into the most unlikely of places: a zoo. DIRECTOR: Cameron Crowe STARRING: Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson & Thomas Haden ChurchUSA, 2011, 2 hours 4 minutes
The arTIsT PGthis smash hit is back at the Courtyard by popular demand. Winner of eight BAFtAs and five Oscars, the Artist captures and re-creates a 1920s Hollywood somewhere between legend and reality.DIRECTOR: Michel Hazanavicius STARRING: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman & James CromwellFrance, 2011, 1 hour 41 minutes (Black and White)
Sun 6 2.30pm
MAY
Tue 1 2.30pm & 8pm
Wed 2 11am & 8pm
Tue 8 11am
Wed 9 11am
Thu 10 11am
MAY
* - Applies weekdays and term times onlyAll Information contained in this guide is correct at the time of going to print, but may be subject to change.
Director, Dan Edelstyn will present a Q&A session following
the screening on 1 May
MeeT Me In sT loUIs Uthis musical masterpiece is a slice of Hollywood romanticism that will leave you swooning. Brilliantly shot in technicolor Judy Garland is pretty as a picture in one of the best hits from MGM.DIRECTOR: Vincente Minnelli STARRING: Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor & Leon Ames USA, 1944, 1 hour 53 minutes
Fri 11 6pm
Sat 12 6pm
MAY
Bel aMI 15Georges, a caddish seducer of influential and wealthy women rises from a humble background to become the toast of Paris society. Based on Guy de Maupassant’s classic, the film follows Georges as a likeable rogue in a world of scoundrels. DIRECTORS: Declan Donnellan & Nick Ormerod STARRING: Robert Pattinson, Christina Ricci, Uma Thurman & Kristen Scott ThomasUK/France/Italy, 2012, 1 hour 43 minutes
Tue 8 2.30pm & 8.15pm
Wed 9 2.30pm & 6pm
Thu 10 2.30pm & 8.15pm
MAY
BIG MIraCle PGthis film tells the incredible true story of Operation Breakthrough, an international effort to try and save three grey whales entrapped by a rapid winter ice freeze. DIRECTOR: Ken KwapisSTARRING: Drew Barrymore, John Krasinski & Kristen BellUSA, 2012, 1 hour 46 minutes
Sat 12 2.30pm
Sun 13 2.30pm
MAY
The kID wITh a BIke 12aA young boy searches for his father on his bike, in another excellent feature film from the Dardennes. Raw but compassionate, naturalistic but compelling. DIRECTORS: Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc DardenneSTARRING: Thomas Doret, Cécile de France, Jérémie Renier & Fabrizio RongioneBelgium/France/Italy, 2011, 1 hour 27 minutes, Subtitles
Tue 8 6pm
Wed 9 8.30pm
Thu 10 6pm
MAY
MAYFri 11 2.30pm & 8.30pm
Mon 14 6.30pm
Tue 15, 11am, 2.30pm & Wed 16, 6pm Thu 17
Based on the satirical novel, an uptight government fisheries scientist, Dr Alfred Jones, thinks the idea of introducing salmon to Yemen is ludicrous. His arm is twisted and his head is turned by Harriet, a business woman who represents Yemeni sheikh.DIRECTOR: Lasse HallströmSTARRING: Ewan McGregor, Kristen Scott Thomas & Emily Blunt USA, 2011, 1 hour 52 minutes
salMon fIshInG In The yeMen 12a
BeaUTy 18 (skoonheID)
A devoted husband and father, François constantly battles with the repressed desires that threaten to rip apart his carefully maintained respectability. DIRECTOR: Oliver Hermanus STARRING: Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan & Sue DiepeveenFrance/South Africa, 2011, 1 hour 49 minutes, Subtitles
CloUDBUrsT 15Butch stella and blind Dotty have been together for 31 years. When Dotty is put in an old people’s home it doesn’t take stella long to break her woman out of there.DIRECTOR: Thom FitzgeraldSTARRING: Olympia Dukakis, Brenda Fricker & Ryan Doucette Canada, 2012, 1 hour 33 minutes
The BesT exoTICMarIGolD hoTel 12a
Foregoing conventional retirement, a disparate bunch of pensioners head off to a crumbling hotel in Jaipur that isn't quite as advertised.DIRECTOR: John Madden STARRING: Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith & Tom WilkinsonUK, 2011, 1 hour 58 minutes
kInky BooTs 12aAn uplifting story about Charlie, who inherits his father’s ailing shoe factory, then he meets Lola, a London transvestite who inspires him to make glamorous boots for cross dressing men.DIRECTOR: Julian Jarrold STARRING: Joel Edgerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor & Sarah Jane PottsUK, 2005, 1 hour 47 minutes
Mon 14 8.45pm
MAYTue 15 8.30pm
MAY
she Monkeys (TBC)emma is a girl who likes to be in control. When she meets Cassandra, a strong, attractive and vivacious woman with a wicked sense of fun, their feelings of jealousy, competitiveness and sexual attraction soon have them pushing each other to their limits.DIRECTOR: Lisa AschanSTARRING: Mathilda Paradeiser, Linda Molin & Isabella LindquistSweden, 2011, 1 hour 24 minutes, Subtitles
Fri 18 6pm
MAY
Wed 16 8.30pm
MAYThu 17 8.30pm
MAY
Sat 19 6pm
MAY
norTh sea Texas 15 (TBC)
Pim lives in a small town on the Belgian coast with his single mother. A humdrum existence which Pim brightens up by dreaming of Princesses, beauty queens and the handsome boy next door, Gino, until a hunky traveller arrives in town.DIRECTOR: Bavo DefurneSTARRING: Jelle Florizoone, Eva Van Der Gucht & Mathias VergelsBelgium, 2011, 1 hour 33 minutes
heaDhUnTers 15 (TBC)
BreaThInG 15A searching examination of a young man’s troubled passage into adulthood. With the prospect of parole coming up young offender, Roman takes a job in an undertakers, and tries to track down the mother who abandoned him.DIRECTOR: Karl Markovics STARRING: Thomas Schubert, Karin Lischka & Gerhard LiebmannAustria, 2011, 1 hour 30 minutes, Subtitles
CasaBlanCa Uset in Morocco during World War II in a viper’s nest where the good the bad and the ugly hang out, including Rick, an expatriate nightclub owner, then one day Rick’s long lost love, Ilsa walks in...Casablanca is still the greatest love story ever told.DIRECTOR: Michael CurtizSTARRING: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman & Claude RainsUSA, 1942, 1 hour 42 minutes
Tue 22 2.30pm
Wed 23 2.30pm & 8.30pm
MAY
Fri 18 11am & 2.30pm
Tue 22 11am & 6pm
Wed 23 11am
MAY
Sat 19 2.30pm
Sun 20 2.30pm
Mon 21 11am & 8.30pm
MAYhUGo UWinner of five Oscars and set in 1930s Paris a boy called Hugo lives in the walls of a train station but gets caught up in a magical, mysterious adventure when he encounters a broken machine.DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese STARRING: Asa Butterfield, Jude Law, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley & Ray WinstoneUK, 2011, 1 hour 57 minutes
Tue 22 8.30pm
Wed 23 6pm
MAY
Fri 18 8.30pm
Sat 19 8.30pm
Mon 21 6.30pm
MAY
Roger Brown is a small man with expensive taste and something to prove. He supplements his regular income with a side helping of art theft. But when a job goes wrong he finds himself way out of his depth.DIRECTOR: Morten TyldumSTARRING: Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau & SynnǿMacody LundNorway, 2011, 1 hour 41 minutes, Subtitles
norTh sea Texas 15 (TBC)
Pim lives in a small town on the Belgian coast with his single mother. A humdrum existence which Pim brightens up by dreaming of Princesses, beauty queens and the handsome boy next door, Gino, until a hunky traveller arrives in town.DIRECTOR: Bavo DefurneSTARRING: Jelle Florizoone, Eva Van Der Gucht & Mathias VergelsBelgium, 2011, 1 hour 33 minutes
The well DIGGer’sDaUGhTer PGthis is a sun-soaked portrait of life in 1940s rural France. When a Catholic well digger's favourite daughter becomes pregnant he faces some hard choices about how best to help her.DIRECTOR: Daniel Auteuil STARRING: Daniel Auteuil, Kad Merad & Sabine Azéma France, 2011, 1 hour 49 minutes
rESTorED For iTS 70TH BirTHDAY
In Darkness 15Inspired by a true incident in Nazi-occupied Poland, during the liquidation of the ghetto a sewer worker and thief risks his life by hiding Jewish refugees in the sewers of Lvov.DIRECTOR: Agnieszka Holland STARRING: Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann & Agnieszka GrochowskaPoland, 2011, 2 hours 25 minutes, Subtitles
Mon 28 11am
Tue 29 2.30pm & 8.30pm
Wed 30 11am & 6pm
Thu 31 11am & 8.30pm
MAY
The PIraTes! U (TBC)
In an aDvenTUre wITh sCIenTIsTsGideon Defoe’s popular Pirates! books hit the big screen promising a certain old fashioned Britishness. Hugh Grant is the endearingly incompetent Pirate Captain while Jeremy Piven voices Black Bellamy his evil nemesis.DIRECTOR: Peter LordSTARRING: Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, David Tennant, Salma Hayek & Jeremy Piven UK, 2012, duration of the film tbc
Fri 1 6pm
Sat 2 2.30pm & 6pm
Sun 3 2.30pm
Wed 6 11am, 2.30pm & 6pm
Thu 7 11am
Sat 9 2.30pm
Sun 10 11.30am suBtItLes
JUNE
alBerT noBBs (TBC)
Albert Nobbs is a desperate and destitute woman posing to be a male butler in 19th century Ireland. After 17 years working in Dublin’s most prestigious hotel whilst maintaining the presence of masculinity has eroded Albert’s sense of identity.DIRECTOR: Rodrigo Garcia STARRING: Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska & Brendan GleesonUSA, 2011, 1 hour 53 minutes
Sat 9 6pm
Mon 11 8.30pm
Tue 12 11am & 6pm
Wed 13 2.30pm & 8.30pm
Thu 14 11am
JUNE
Mon 28 7.30pm
Tue 29 11am & 6pm
Wed 30 2.30pm & 8.30pm
Thu 31 6pm
MAYThIs MUsT Be The PlaCe 15 (TBC)sean Penn plays an oddball retired rock star, Cheyenne, who sets off on an offbeat, cross-country road trip across the usA in search of someone and something of purpose in his stalled life.DIRECTOR: Paolo SorrentinoSTARRING: Sean Penn, Judd Hirsch, Frances McDormand & Harry Dean Stanton Italy/France/Ireland/USA, 2011, 1 hour 58 minutes
Fri 1 8.30pm
Sat 2 8.30pm
Wed 6 8.30pm
JUNEMIrror MIrror PG (TBC)
The UnTolD aDvenTUres of snow whITeJulia Roberts stars as the evil Witch in the latest interpretation of the classic Brothers Grimm tale. Bollywood roots of the film flourish with a feast of colour, awe inspiring locations and incredible costumes.DIRECTOR: Tarsem SinghSTARRING: Julia Roberts, Sean Bean & Armie HammerUSA, 2012, 1 hour 51 minutes
Subtitles
le havre PGArtist turned shoe shiner, Marcel stumbles upon young African refugee Idrissa whilst eating his lunch on the Le Havre sea front, and is determined to help the lad out.DIRECTOR: Aki Kaurismäki STARRING: André Wilms, Blondin Miguel & Jean-Pierre Darroussin Finland/France/Germany, 2011, 1 hour 33 minutes, Subtitles
a CaT In ParIs (TBC)Dino the cat leads a double existence, by day snuggling up to seven year old owner Zoe, by night following local burglar Nico scrambling across the Parisian skyline.DIRECTOR: Jean-Loup Felicioli & Alain Gagnol STARRING: Dominique Blanc, Bruno Salomone and Jean Benguigui France, 2010, 1 hour 10 minutes
GosPel of Us (TBC)
Written by Owen sheers (Resistance), Gospel of us is a film version of the Passion Play which was created for the National theatre of Wales. DIRECTOR: Dave McKean STARRING: Michael Sheen, Kyle Rees & Di Botcher UK, 2012, 1 hours 55 minutes
Sat 16 7.45pm
Mon 18 11am & 7.45pm
JUNE
a seParaTIon PGsimin asks her husband, Nader, for a divorce. Nader insists that she must stay and help him look after his old Dad. small decisions have big repercussions in this suspenseful drama.DIRECTOR: Asghar FarhadiSTARRING: Leila Hatami, Peyman Moaadi & Shahab Hosseini Iran, 2011, 2 hours 3 minutes, Subtitles
Tue 19 11am & 6pm
Wed 20 11am & 2.30pm
JUNE
Mon 11 6.30pm
Tue 12 8.30pm
Wed 13 11am & 6pm
JUNE
Fri 15 2.30pm
Sat 16 2.30pm & 5.30pm
Sun 17 2.30pm
JUNE
Thu 14 7pm
JUNE
Thu 12 7pm
JULY
nT lIve sCreenInG
frankensTeInChildlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal.DIRECTOR: Danny BoyleSTARRING: Johnny Lee Miller & Benedict Cumberbatch Running time 2 hours
Benedict Cumberbatch as Frankenstein
Johnny Lee Miller as Frankenstein
supported by
Sat 9 8.30pm
Tue 12 2.30pm
JUNE
Marley 15Featuring rare footage, incredible performances and revelatory interviews about Bob Marley’s life, music and legacy with the people that knew him best.DIRECTOR: Kevin MacdonaldSTARRING: Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, Jimmy Cliff & Lee ‘Scratch’ PerryUK, 2011, 2 hours 24 minutes
Fri 29 7.45pm
Mon 2 7.45pm
Tue 3 7.45pm
Wed 4 7.45pm
JUNE/JULY
raMParT (TBC)Dave ‘date rape’ Brown is an old-school cop in the corruption-riven Rampart Division of the LAPD in 1999. After his car is rammed he’s caught on video assaulting the culprit, but digs his heels in and refuses to be forced into retirement.DIRECTOR: Oren Moverman STARRING: Woody Harrelson, Robin Wright & Sigourney WeaverUSA, 2012, 1 hour 42 minutes
Tue 19 8.30pm
Wed 20 8.30pm
Thu 21 2.30pm & 8.30pm
JUNE
Mon 25 11am & 7.45pm
Thu 28 11am & 2.30pm
JUNE
Tue 19 2.30pm
Wed 20 6pm
Thu 21 11am & 6pm
Sat 23 2.30pm suBtItLes 6pm & 8.30pm
JUNEThe BesT exoTICMarIGolD hoTel 12aForegoing conventional retirement, a disparate bunch of pensioners head off to a crumbling hotel in Jaipur that isn't quite as advertised.DIRECTOR: John Madden STARRING: Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith & Tom WilkinsonUK, 2011, 1 hour 58 minutes
orDeT 12aA witty exploration of pride and prejudice which examines the clash between orthodoxy and true faith in a devout Jutland farming family.DIRECTOR: Carl Theodor DreyerSTARRING: Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen & Preben Lerdorff Rye Denmark, 1955, 2 hours 6 minutes, Subtitles
CorPo CelesTe 15 (TBC)After moving from switzerland young, rebellious teenager Marta is struggling to settle in her new home in the poor south of Italy. this is a genuinely distinctive coming-of-age tale that sensitively conjures the emotional landscapes that Marta inhabits.DIRECTOR: Alice RohrwacherSTARRING: Yle Vianello, Salvatore Cantalupo, Pasquanlina Scuncia & Anita Caprioli Italy/France/Switzerland, 2011, 1 hour 40 minutes, Subtitles
Subtitles
Recommended