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Cinema
July – August 2016
hello
Summer is well and truly here, signaled by the
fact that the blockbusters and family films have
arrived. And my goodness are we being spoiled
on that front this year – from the return of
everyone’s favourite forgetful fish Dory to a
Stephen Spielberg adaptation of the classic
Roald Dahl novel The BFG, there’s plenty to
enjoy. For the grown up kids, Jason Bourne is
also back on our screens and luckily as fit as
ever, because he still seems to be on the run.
In partnership with our friends at Filmhouse, we
are taking part in an extensive retrospective of
films adapted from the work of writer Patricia
Highsmith. Highsmith is one of the most
adapted-for-cinema authors of the 20th
century, so we can’t wait to bring you this
wonderful selection of cinematic adaptations
of this truly great writer. We’re also looking
forward to welcoming Adrian Wootton, CEO
of Film London, for Highsmith and the Screen,
a chance to hear more about Highsmith’s
singular vision and the films her work inspired.
In-between all the BIG films and classic ones,
there are also wonderful European cinematic
gems to savour. Take a nostalgic trip back to
France in the 1970s when feminism was still a
new word, explore the glossy but deadly world
of LA high-fashion, or go on a Greek island
cruise as a group of friends compete to prove
they are the ‘Best in General’ with hilarious
results. For me, without a doubt the most
thought-provoking film in this guide is the
wonderful documentary Notes on Blindness
in which academic and theologian John Hull's
thoughts about the process of losing his sight
are brought to life in an imaginative and moving
way using actors, sound, light and of course,
darkness.
Alice Black
Head of Cinema
Additional contributors:
Brian Hoyle, Chloe Milne, Christopher O’Neill,
Adam Smart, Mike Tait
Contents
New Films
Elvis & Nixon
ma ma
Notes on Blindness
The Keeping Room
Les Cowboys
Maggie’s Plan
The Neon Demon
Men & Chicken
Summertime
Chevalier
Jason Bourne
The Commune
The Carer
Born to Be Blue
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Vintage
Sacrifice
Barry Lyndon
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Experimental cinema
Cemetery of Splendour
No Home Movie
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Documentary
Firefighters Under Occupation
Weiner
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DUNDEAD
Highlander
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Diary
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Cine Sundays
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Adapting Miss Highsmith
Strangers on a Train
Deep Water
Highsmith and the Screen
This Sweet Sickness
Purple Noon
The American Friend
The Glass Cell
Enough Rope
The Cry of the Owl
The Talented Mr Ripley
Carol
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Studio Ghibli Forever
Ponyo
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Discovery Holiday Films
Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants
The Secret Life of Pets
The BFG
Finding Dory
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Opera and theatre
Glyndebourne: Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Almedia Live: Richard III
Glyndebourne: Beatrice et Benedict
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On sale now
One More Time With Feeling
Live from The Met
Bolshoi Ballet
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DCA Film Quiz
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Artists Cinema 2016
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New Films
ma ma
Fri 8 – Thu 14 July
Spanish filmmaker Julio Medem first burst onto the
international scene with the film Sex and Lucia. Now back
after an absence of almost 15 years, he returns with ma ma,
an unashamed tearjerker about a mother’s love and
determination to survive.
Elvis & Nixon
The most requested photograph in the American
National Archives is not a powerful statement of
national unity, of US Marines raising the flag atop
Mount Suribachi, nor of Martin Luther King Jr.
marching to campaign for civil rights. The most
requested image is quintessentially American:
President Nixon shaking hands with Elvis at the
White House in 1970. This photograph of the most
powerful man in the world meeting with the most
famous is the subject of director Liza Johnson’s
hilarious Elvis & Nixon.
Elvis (Michael Shannon) arrives at the White House
with his entourage, unannounced, to request that
President Nixon (Kevin Spacey) declare him an
honorary undercover agent with the DEA.
Dumbfounded by the rock star’s request, the
President humours the King because a rare photo
opportunity with one of the most beloved stars on
the planet could boost his own popularity.
Much like Frost/Nixon, this character-driven film’s
success relies heavily on the rapport between the
two lead actors. Spacey is at the top of his game
as usual; fresh from the set of political thriller series
House of Cards he is already in full presidential
mode. Shannon drops the intense stare and
menacing aura that he is best known for and
instead shows off his comic timing as Elvis,
obviously having a lot of fun with the character
and the change of pace from his usual roles.
Dir: Liza Johnson
USA 2016 / 1h26m / 15
4 www.dca.org.uk
At the heart of the film is Magda (Penelope Cruz), an
unemployed teacher who receives the diagnosis that she
has breast cancer just as she is abandoned by her husband.
Life has dealt her a cruel set of cards but she is determined
to survive and see her son Dani grow up. At his soccer game
she encounters talent scout Arturo (Luis Tosar) who receives
a phone call with his own awful news: a car accident has killed
his daughter and left his wife in a coma. Now brought together
in the hospital where Magda is receiving treatment and Arturo
spends time with his wife, the two develop a friendship which
gives them the strength to face the future. Also supporting
Magda throughout is her trusted surgeon Julian (Asier
Etxeandia), a relationship that becomes even more crucial
as Magda learns that the time she has left might be more
limited than expected.
If this film had been made in the 1940s it would have been
called a ‘woman’s weepie’, and certainly, it will pull at your
heartstrings. Cruz and Tosar are at the top of their games and
they – as well as some well-chosen power ballads – ensure
you’ll need more than a few tissues by the closing credits.
Dir: Julio Medem
Spain 2015 / 1h51m / 12A
Spanish with English subtitles
Ciné Sundays Sun 10 July, 11:00
Notes on Blindness
In a beautifully cinematic way, this extraordinary documentary asks and then answers the question, how does it feel to
go blind? Our guide on this journey is the academic and theologian, John Hull, who started to lose his sight in 1983.
The deterioration was a gradual process and as his other senses began to sharpen, so did his appetite to understand
and articulate the effect it was having on all aspects of his life: his work, family, relationships, emotions and faith.
Although coping initially by pragmatically forming strategies to continue with his independent daily routine, it was the
quieter drama of family life, that became a real struggle. There also came a point where Hull knew he would have to
come to terms with his blindness: “If I didn’t understand it, it would defeat me.”
“Evocative and inspirational...
a wonderful tribute to a man of
astonishing insight and honesty.”
Over three years, Hull recorded his observations about
his condition. This audio diary forms the spine of the
film and he candidly describes (sometimes with
philosophical distance and sometimes in a deeply
personal way) how his life has changed. Conversations
with his wife Marilyn and their children, alongside
letters to his parents are recreated with actors (Dan Renton Skinner, Simone Kirby) miming to the original recordings.
The visuals, beautiful in their domestic simplicity and dreamlike quality, are as poetic and lyrical as Hull’s spoken
thoughts, while Joakim Sundström’s subtle but extremely effective sound design adds another layer of meaning to the
words and imagery.
Hull was closely involved in the making of the film but sadly passed away at the age of 80 in July 2015, before the
project was completed. This evocative and inspirational film is a wonderful tribute to a man of astonishing insight
and honesty.
Dirs: Peter Middleton, James Spinney
UK 2016 / 1h27m / U
Senior Citizen Kane Club Thu 14 July, 10:30
Tickets 01382 909 900 5
Les Cowboys
A powerful directorial debut from accomplished
screenwriter Thomas Bidegain (A Prophet, Rust
and Bone and Dheepan), this intimate drama
about the aftershock of a teen’s disappearance is
part thriller, part socio-political drama.
The Keeping Room
After years of hardly a look in, the Western genre has lately
been focusing on stories about frontierswomen. Films like Kelly
Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff, Tommy Lee Jones’ The Homesman
and the recent Natalie Portman vehicle Jane Got a Gun are
now joined by Daniel Barber’s tense thriller, The Keeping Room.
Beautifully scripted by Julia Hart, this is the gothic story of three
women living alone on an isolated South Carolina farmstead
during the final days of the American Civil War. Augusta (indie
darling Brit Marling), her teenage sister Louise (True Grit’s Hailee
Steinfeld) and their slave Mad (Muna Otaru) have been eking
out an existence on what little food they can grow while the
men are off soldiering. When Louise is bitten by an animal
and develops a dangerous fever, Augusta heads off to town for
medicine and encounters two bloodthirsty and lustful Yankee
scouts (Sam Worthington and Kyle Soller) who are out to
wreak havoc before the Union Army troops arrive. The two
men soon set their sights on the lonely farmhouse and a tense
standoff ensues. With only one rifle with which to defend
themselves; the women must use all their skills and
determination to survive.
Tough and at times unrelenting, The Keeping Room is a tense
watch, but its elegant style, intelligent screenplay and solid
performances make it more than just a psychological thriller.
Through the three central female characters it also explores
issues of gender, class and race which definitely raise it far
above its B-movie roots.
Dir: Daniel Barber
USA 2014 / 1h35m / 15
6 www.dca.org.uk
The Balland family have travelled to an Americana
fair ready to have some good old fashioned fun.
Dressed in their Western gear, they enjoy all the
festivities, eating hot dogs and singing along to
Country tunes. Alain (comedian François Damiens
in a rare serious role) dances joyfully with his
teenage daughter Kelly (Illiana Zabeth) and jokes
around with his wife and son Kid. When the time
comes to go home, Kelly is nowhere to be seen.
Frantic, Alain soon learns that there is a lot his
daughter has been hiding from him, including a
boyfriend named Ahmed and a bedroom full of
fundamentalist literature. For the traditional and
conservative Alain, this comes as a shock, and
Ahmed’s family are equally worried about their
son, who has also disappeared. As years pass,
Alain continues to search for his daughter,
following leads to Belgium, Holland, Yemen and
beyond. His career and marriage in tatters, the
only one who follows him on this obsessive
search is Kid (Finnegan Oldfield), now an aid
worker in Afghanistan who might have stumbled
upon a new lead.
Despite all the twists and turns, Les Cowboys is
beautifully told, reinforcing the theme that no
matter their beliefs, all parents only want their
children to grow up safely.
Dir: Thomas Bidegain
France / Belgium 2015 / 1h45m / 12A
French with English subtitles
Maggie’s Plan
With its New York setting and quick-witted dialogue, comparisons between director Rebecca Miller’s latest film and
the work of Woody Allen or Noah Baumbach will be swift. But Miller brings a different perspective to this familiar
world and Maggie’s Plan stands on its own two feet as a smart, very funny film about adult relationships. With terrific
performances from its ensemble cast, it has an easy charm and a high quota of laugh-out-loud moments that make it
one of the best films of the summer.
“Has an easy charm and a
high quota of laugh-out-loud
moments that make it one of
the best films of the summer.”
Maggie (Greta Gerwig) is determined that she will make a
good mother and she isn’t going to let the lack of a suitable
life partner put her off her goal. Not long after choosing a
sperm donor, she meets married literature professor and
novelist John (Ethan Hawke), and the two embark on a
passionate affair. Flash forward three years and the couple
are now married but the relationship is no longer working,
so Maggie comes up with a new plan: to reunite her husband
with his ex, the formidable European intellectual Georgette (Julianne Moore). An unlikely duo, the two women concoct
a plan to try and shift John’s feelings from his new partner to his old one, culminating in a hilarious lockdown at an
academic conference.
While all the characters are flawed, it is their weaknesses that make spending time with them so much fun. Gerwig’s
Maggie is knowingly naïve and Hawke’s John is so self-absorbed you won’t feel any guilt watching him get what he
deserves. The biggest revelation here though is Moore: a gifted comedic actress, her fierce but vulnerable Georgette
is pure wicked delight.
Dir: Rebecca Miller
USA 2015 / 1h38m / 15
Bring a Baby Thu 21 July, 10:30
Senior Citizen Kane Club Thu 21 July, 10:30
Tickets 01382 909 900 7
Men & Chicken
A huge hit in Denmark, Men & Chicken features a
lot of familiar Scandinavian faces (including star
Mads Mikkelsen), many of whom you’ll know
from Borgen or The Killing. But this absurdist tale
couldn’t be further from the quality drama we’ve
come to love watching on television – this is a
knockabout comedy in the extreme, especially if
you like your laughs broad and surreal.
The Neon Demon
After the near perfection of Drive, only Nicolas Winding Refn’s
most die-hard fans were as enthusiastic about his follow up
Only God Forgives. His latest film might be missing his muse,
Ryan Gosling, but although it signals a shift with a central
female protagonist, the trademarks we’ve come to love
from Refn are all still there: sumptuous visuals, over-the-top
stylised violence, and a cool electronic soundtrack by Cliff
Martinez.
“This is definitely one of the darkest
fairytales we’ve ever seen.”
Turning his sardonic gaze on the fashion industry, Refn
introduces us to Jesse (Elle Fanning), a wide-eyed, innocent
teen who has just arrived in Los Angeles to make her fortune.
Wise enough to know the only thing she has to sell is her
beauty, Jesse soon makes her mark, becoming a rising star
in the modelling world. Befriended by wiser-than-her-years
makeup artist/mortician Ruby (Jena Malone), Jesse is
introduced into a shiny world of glamour, parties, excess
and deadly competition. Out to bring the new girl down are
veteran models Gigi (Bella Heathcote) and Sarah (Abbey Lee)
who will stop at nothing to make sure their limelight isn’t
stolen.
Using movie magic and plenty of mirrors (hmmm, could that
be a theme?), The Neon Demon is nothing if not stylish. It is
also surprisingly funny, as Jesse turns out not to be quite
the wallflower she at first appears. The Grimm Brothers
have nothing on Refn, as this is definitely one of the darkest
fairytales we’ve ever seen.
Dir: Nicolas Winding Refn
USA / France / Denmark 2016 / 1h47m / 18
8 www.dca.org.uk
Gabriel (David Dencik) is an introverted academic
who couldn’t be more different to his endearing,
exuberant older brother Elias (Mikkelsen). When
their father dies, leaving a video tape which
reveals that he was not their biological father, the
two brothers set out to track down their birth
family on the small island of Ork. They find their
family’s home, which turns out to be a crumbling
sanatorium where their three other brothers,
Franz, Gregor and Joseph, now live. It is a long
way from a happy reunion however, as the new
brothers first attack Gabriel and Elias and then
physically prevent them from leaving. As the truth
about their father slowly comes out, so does the
reason why all the men are the way they are, and
why exactly there are so many animals on the
property.
Much of the humour comes from the clash
between the (relatively) well-adjusted Gabriel and
his siblings who have grown up in a world that
has a mad logic all of its own. Like a horror
infused episode of The Three Stooges, Men &
Chicken explores some interesting philosophical
dilemmas and is without a doubt unlike anything
else you will have seen before, or are likely to see
again.
Dir: Anders Thomas Jensen
Denmark 2015 / 1h42m / 15
Danish with English subtitles
Chevalier
Fri 29 July – Thu 4 August
Along with The Lobster’s Yorgos Lanthimos,
Athina Rachel Tsangari is considered one
of the leading lights in Greece’s ’new wave’ of
filmmaking. Her own feature Attenberg proved
she too had an interest in exploring contemporary
culture through a singularly quirky lens.
Summertime
La belle saison
Drawing on her own personal experiences, filmmaker
Catherine Corsini brings us a touching love story set against
a backdrop of social change in 1970s France.
When country girl Delphine (Izia Higelin) leaves her rural home
for the big city, there’s more than just the bright light drawing
her away. Her family expect that she will marry and continue
with the family farm, but Delphine desperately yearns for
something more. In Paris she meets dynamic Spanish teacher
Carole (Cecile de France) and joins forces with a group of
militant activists involved in the feminist movement. As her
narrow world starts to widen, Delphine also begins to fall
passionately in love with her new friend. When a family crisis
calls her home to the countryside, Carole follows, and the
two desperately try to find a way to make their relationship
work under the watchful eye of Delphine’s no-nonsense
mother Monique (Noémie Lvovsky). It isn’t just prejudice that
the couple will have to overcome for their love to survive, but
also their very different class backgrounds and family ties.
Shot entirely on board a luxury cruise boat,
Chevalier focuses on the lives of six male friends
on holiday in the Greek islands. With some
downtime ahead of them, the men decide to play
a game they’ve galled ‘The Best in General’,
where each must prove that they are the best, not
just in their chosen field, but at everything. Each
man must rate the others for the mundane and
everyday tasks that define them as men. They
will be judged for the way they sleep and eat, for
washing the windows, for their morning erections,
their sexual fertility, relations with their family, for
polishing the silver and for putting together an
IKEA set of rafts in record time. The highest rated
will win the Chevalier ring, signifying he is the best
of them all.
Exactly what point Tsangari is trying to make
with her characters and their behaviour is up
for interpretation, and this is part of the joy of
the film – is it a critique of current Greek political
systems, or about the insecurity of contemporary
men, or simply our innate human obsession with
competition? Whatever the answer, watching
the group play out their own insecurities whilst
desperately trying to sabotage each other and
make alliances is painfully funny.
Dir: Athina Rachel Tsangari
Greece 2015 / 1h41m / 18
Greek with English subtitles
Corsini creates a world that is entirely believable – from the
joy of first love, to the simple but solid farming community
that Delphine comes from. Characters are nuanced, and
the choices the women have to make are all the more
complicated because of it. At the end of the day, there’s
nothing ground-breaking in Summertime, but it is a wonderful
evocation of a time when the very personal impact of social
change was affecting the lives of women everywhere.
Dir: Catherine Corsini
France / Belgium 2015 / 1h45m / 15
Senior Citizen Kane Club Thu 4 August, 10:30
Tickets 01382 909 900 9
The Commune
Fri 5 – Thu 11 August
After tackling Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd,
filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg returns to his native Denmark
and his own childhood experiences in a 1970s commune.
Co-written by his regular collaborator Tobias Lindholm (they
also worked on The Hunt together), this truly is an ensemble
film, with a cast of characters trying to realise the utopia of
collective living.
Jason Bourne
Nearly a decade has passed since we last saw
Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) executing his unique
brand of action. There can be no denying that
the Bourne franchise heavily influenced the most
recent Bond movies (more believable action,
more realistic gadgets) and this is testament to
the success of the saga.
Presumed dead following the conclusion of The
Bourne Ultimatum, the former amnesiac spy is
in hiding. Having fully remembered who he is,
Bourne sets out to uncover the truth about his
shadowy past. When he establishes contact with
former ally Nicky (Julia Stiles) he is thrust back on
the US Government’s ‘Most Wanted’ list, pursued
by CIA agents (Alicia Vikander and Tommy Lee
Jones) who want to take him into custody, and
a dangerous hitman (Vincent Cassel) seeking to
take him out.
Jason Bourne is gritty and believable both in its
story and its action sequences. Damon and
Greengrass have eased effortlessly back into
their roles in front of and behind the camera and
the result is a hugely enjoyable blockbuster that is
sure to impress and entertain in equal measure.
Dir: Paul Greengrass
USA 2016 / time tbc / cert tbc
Bring a Baby Thu 18 August, 10:30
10 www.dca.org.uk
TV presenter Anna (Trine Dyrholm) and lecturer Erik (Ulrich
Thomsen) are a happily married couple who, upon inheriting
a large house in Copenhagen, decide to start a commune.
Along with their 14 year-old daughter Freja (Martha Sofie
Wallstrøm Hansen), they invite some of their closest friends to
join them. Initially, all goes well. But while Anna feels liberated
by the new social scene, Erik struggles with the lack of control
over his environment. When an attractive student offers him
the attention he seems to be lacking at home, Erik moves his
new love into the household (initially with Anna’s blessing) and
cracks appear in the idyllic community. As the adults flounder
around with their freedom, it is Freja who sees that the current
living arrangement is destructive and ultimately untenable.
Watching Anna’s unravelling from a strong idealistic woman
to one broken by the ending of her marriage is acutely painful
but beautifully realised by Dyrholm. It is no surprise then that
she was awarded with Best Actress prize at the Berlin Film
Festival earlier this year for her powerful performance.
Dir: Thomas Vinterberg
Denmark / Sweden / Netherlands 2015 / 1h51m / 15
Danish with English subtitles
Ciné Sundays Sun 7 August, 11:00
Born to Be Blue
Following closely on the heels of Miles Ahead and I Saw the
Light, it’s the turn of jazz legend Chet Baker to have his musical
journey appear on our screens. Written and directed by
Canadian Robert Budreau, Born to Be Blue sees Ethan Hawke
take on the mantel of the tortured performer whose drug
addiction had as much a part to play in his tumultuous life as
his immense musical talent.
The Carer
Dundee’s very own Brian Cox returns to the
big screen in The Carer, a charming comedy
drama from Hungarian director Janos Edelenyi.
“there’s a real charm to the film.”
Retired Shakespearean actor Sir Michael Glifford
(Cox) suffers from a form of Parkinson’s that has
left him flailing and cantankerous at his country
estate. After alienating a host of caregivers the
foul-mouthed and impossible to live with
curmudgeon is forced by his daughter to take
a chance on yet another new companion,
Hungarian refugee Dorottya who has acting
aspirations of her own. After a rather rocky
start the pair discovers their mutual love of
Shakespeare and an unlikely friendship develops.
Dark and brooding from the get-go, Hawke seems born to play
the role of the trumpeter who pioneered West Coast Swing and
lurched from success to failure more than once in his career.
Having never written his own music, Baker’s insecurity leads him
to repeatedly turn to heroin for relief and the film opens with the
musician at rock bottom, locked up in an Italian jail for his latest
drug offence. With everyone, including loyal manager Dick Block
(Calum Keith Rennie) giving up on him, things change when film
producer Dino de Laurentiis approaches him to star in a movie
about his life. Striking up a romance with actress Jane (Carmen
Ejogo), Baker seems on the path towards redemption, but fate
has other ideas and after a brutal bar brawl, the film is shelved
and his mouth is so badly damaged he might never play again.
Mixing fact and fiction, Budreau fashions a film which is
atmospheric and mimics the free-form of Baker’s musical riffs,
and his own talent for slippery deception (Baker rarely told the
truth about his own story). Hawke, who also does all the vocal
work in the film, effectively channels the musician’s intensity
putting his heart and soul into this compelling performance.
Dir: Robert Budreau
USA / Canada 2015 / 1h36m / cert tbc
Ciné Sundays Sun 14 August, 11:00
Although it might tread familiar boards, the
cinematography means the backdrop of the
country estate is wonderful to look at, and there’s
a real charm to the film mostly thanks to the lead
performances, including newcomer Coco Konig
as the caregiver, Emilia Fox as Sir Michael’s
strong-willed daughter, and of course Cox, playing
the part of the self-absorbed actor who remains
sharp as ever despite his illness to perfection.
Dir: Janos Edelenyi
UK / Hungary 2016 / 1h28m / 12A
Tickets 01382 909 900 11
Vintage
Barry Lyndon
Sat 13 August, 13:00
Flawless in historical detail and breath-taking in cinematic
invention, Barry Lyndon is one of the few near-perfect
films. Keeping the picaresque structure of William
Makepeace Thackeray’s little-read comic novel about a
roguish Irishman who marries his way into the English
aristocracy, Stanley Kubrick’s extraordinary film tightens
the focus on the title character’s precipitous rise and fall.
Discarding the unreliable first-person narration in favour of
a delightfully detached third-person voiceover (easily one
of the best in cinema), this masterpiece of adaptation
opts for a darkly ironic, tragic tone.
Andre Tarkovsky:
Sculpting Time
The Sacrifice
Sun 10 July, 15:00
Sculpting Time, our season of all seven of Andrei
Tarkovsky’s films, comes to a close with the visionary
director’s final feature, The Sacrifice.
In one of cinema’s few genuine testaments, the director
contemplates his own life, work, faith and mortality. Shot in
Sweden using Ingmar Bergman’s regular cameraman,
Sven Nykvist, The Sacrifice stars Erland Josephson as a
middle-aged intellectual who makes a bargain with God to
avert a nuclear catastrophe. Despite the apocalyptic subject this is perhaps Tarkovsky’s most transcendent and
serene work, and its aesthetic
reflects his growing interest in the concept of zen. The
final shot, simply of a boy and a tree, is one of the most
affecting in all of cinema. Moreover, in its deliberate echo
of the opening image of his debut, Ivan’s Childhood, this
shot brings Tarkovsky’s remarkable career full circle.
Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky
Sweden / UK / France 1986 / 2h29m 12A
Swedish and French with English subtitles
12 www.dca.org.uk
As literate as the film is, what also sets it apart from 99%
of costume dramas is the visual nature of the storytelling.
There are images here as memorable and striking as
any in cinema. Using lenses borrowed by NASA to
shoot scenes entirely by candle-light, Kubrick and
cinematographer John Alcott’s composition echoes
canvases by the likes of Hogarth, Gainsborough,
Constable, Füssli and Joshua Reynolds. The use of music,
which ranges from Handel and Schubert to the Chieftains
is also every bit as memorable as it was in Kubrick’s
earlier 2001: A Space Odyssey and acts as a perfect
counterpoint to the action. If the film has an Achilles’
heel it may be Ryan O’Neal’s slightly impassive central
performance, which cannot compete with a wonderful
supporting cast of British and continental character actors,
but this is minor blight on what is otherwise a complete
tour de force.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick
UK / USA 1975 / 2h57m / PG
Experimental Cinema
Rak ti Khon Kaen
Fri 15 – Sun 17 July
2010’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong
Weerasethakul brings us another haunting,
supernatural dreamscape of cinematic wonder.
Soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are
transferred to a temporary clinic in a former school,
a memory-filled space which becomes a revelatory
world for housewife and volunteer Jenjira (Jen), as
she watches over Itt, a handsome soldier with no
family visitors. Jen befriends young medium Keng who uses her psychic powers to help loved ones communicate with the
comatose men. Doctors explore ways to ease the patients’ troubled dreams, while Jen discovers Itt’s cryptic notebook of
strange writings and blueprint sketches. Magic, healing, romance and dreams are all part of Jen’s tender path to a deeper
awareness of herself and the world around her.
In addition to Jen’s story, the film also addresses the rift between the country’s provincial society and its government.
Willing to shine a light on dangerous subjects, Weerasethakul is a filmmaker who continually tries to challenge with the most
astonishing results.
Dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Thailand / UK / Germany / France / Malaysia / South Korea / Mexico / USA / Norway 2015 / 2h2m / 12A
Thai with English subtitles
No Home Movie
Wed 27 & Thu 28 July
Shuttling between fiction, adaptation, documentary
and essay film, the late Chantal Akerman created
one of the most original, daring and influential
oeuvres in film history. No Home Movie is a sober,
profoundly moving portrait of the filmmaker's mother
Natalia in the months leading up to her death, when
she was mostly confined to her Brussels apartment.
A Polish Jew who survived Auschwitz, Natalia
suffered from chronic anxiety throughout her life,
an affliction that fuelled much of her daughter's
creative output and helped shape Akerman's
thematic preoccupations with gender, sex, cultural identity, existential ennui, solitude, and mania. Deceptively radical, the
film gradually reveals the torrents of emotion beneath the seemingly everyday exchanges between Akerman and Natalia,
as the filmmaker tries to extract her mother’s harrowing life story before the memories become irretrievable. This final
testament from one of our greatest filmmakers is both a masterful treatise on space and time and an immensely moving
chronicle of a fraught but deeply loving mother-daughter relationship.
Dir: Chantal Akerman
Belgium 2015 / 1h53m / cert tbc
Tickets 01382 909 900 13
Documentary
Weiner
Fri 22 – Mon 25 July
Firefighters Under
Occupation
Sat 16 July, 15:00
Firefighters Under Occupation offers a firefighter’s
perspective on occupation, struggle, fear and hope,
taking you on a journey from Dundee to Palestine. The
military occupation of Palestine by the State of Israel is
a subject that has resulted in many commentaries, films
and artworks depicting the plight of Palestinians. This
new film sensitively documents the lives and work
of the Palestinian firefighters who work in the occupied
West Bank.
An inherently dangerous job in any country, those
tasked with firefighting in Palestine face two challenges:
fire and the Israeli Occupation Forces. Directed by
Welsh Firefighter and Fire Brigades Union (FBU)
member Ciaran Gibbons, Firefighters Under Occupation
documents the humanitarian support given to Palestinian
firefighters by The FBU as well as the facilitation of
training here in Scotland and the long standing bond
between Dundee and its twin town of Nablus.
Accompanied by Dundee-based FBU facilitator Jim
Malone, Gibbons travelled to Palestine and Israel in
2015 to document the upsurge in violence in the
country, visiting Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem and
flashpoint Hebron, interviewing and meeting Palestinian
firefighters and their families and discussing how
Israeli firefighters found a mutual respect with the FBU
in Scotland.
This event is free and has been organised by the
Dundee/Nablus Twinning Association. Donations to
The Fire Brigades Union Scotland will be welcomed
on the door.
Dir: Ciaran Gibbons
UK 2016 / 1h40m / 15
Arabic with English subtitles
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With unprecedented access to American politician
Anthony Weiner, his family, and his campaign team as
they mount his New York City mayoral campaign, this
film documents a political meltdown of epic proportions.
What begins as the story of an unexpected comeback
from a disgraced ex-congressman takes a sharp turn
once Weiner is forced to admit to new sexting
allegations. As the media descends and rips apart his
every move, Weiner tries desperately to forge ahead,
but the increasing pressure and crippling 24-hour news
cycle halts his political aspirations dead in their tracks.
Weiner deftly walks the line between political farce
and personal tragedy, exposing the ex-congressman’s
arrogance while highlighting the sheer ugliness of the
media’s takedown of his family. With the city of New
York as a loud and bustling backdrop, the film charges
through an increasingly baffling political campaign with
unflinching clarity, humour, and pathos.
Dirs: Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg
USA 2016 / 1h36m / 15
Tickets 01382 909 900 15
Key
Bring a Baby
Senior Citizen Kane Club
Performance Screening
Discovery Family Film Club
Subtitled
Ciné Sunday
Day / Film
Times
Fri 8 July
Minuscule
Elvis & Nixon
Notes on Blindness
Ma Ma
The Keeping Room
12:00
13:15/18:00
14:00/18:15
15:30/20:00
16:00/20:30
Sat 9 July
Minuscule
Elvis & Nixon
Notes on Blindness
Ma Ma
The Keeping Room
12:00
13:15/18:00
14:00/18:15
15:30/20:00
16:00/20:30
Sun 10 July
Ponyo
Ma Ma
Elvis & Nixon
Minuscule
Sacrifice
The Keeping Room
Notes on Blindness
10:30
11:00/20:00
13:15/18:00
13:00
15:00
15:30/20:30
18:15
Mon 11 July
Minuscule
Elvis & Nixon
Notes on Blindness
Ma Ma
The Keeping Room
12:00
13:15/18:00
14:00/18:15
15:30/20:00
16:00/20:30
Tue 12 July
Elvis & Nixon
Ma ma
Minuscule
Notes on Blindness
The Keeping Room
Glyndebourne: Meistersinger von Nurnberg
13:15/18:00
15:30/20:00
12:00
13:50
15:40
17:30
Wed 13 July
Minuscule
Elvis & Nixon
Notes on Blindness
Ma Ma
The Keeping Room
12:00
13:15/18:00
14:00/18:15
15:30/20:00
16:00/20:30
Thu 14 July
Notes on Blindness
Minuscule
Elvis & Nixon
Ma Ma
The Keeping Room
10:30/14:00/18:15
12:00
13:15/18:00
15:30/20:00
16:00/20:30
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Day / Film
Times
Fri 15 July
Maggie’s Plan
The Neon Demon
Les Cowboys
13:00
13:15/18:30
15:00
15:45/20:45
18:00/20:30
Sat 16 July
Maggie’s Plan
Firefighters Under Occupation
The Neon Demon
Les Cowboys
13:00
13:15/18:30
15:00
15:45/20:45
18:00
20:30
Sun 17 July
Les Cowboys
Maggie’s Plan
The Neon Demon
11:00/18:00
13:30
13:15/18:30
15:30
15:45/20:45
20:30
Mon 18 July
Maggie’s Plan
The Neon Demon
Les Cowboys
13:00
13:15/15:00/18:30
15:45/20:45
18:00/20:30
Tue 19 July
Maggie’s Plan
The Neon Demon
Les Cowboys
13:00
13:15/15:00/18:30
15:45/20:45
18:00/20:30
Wed 20 July
Maggie’s Plan
The Neon Demon
Les Cowboys
13:00
13:15/15:00/18:30
15:45/20:45
18:00/20:30
Thu 21 July
Maggie’s Plan
Les Cowboys
The Neon Demon
Almedia Live: Richard III
10:30/10:30/13:15
18:00
13:00
15:00
15:45/20:30
18:45
Day / Film
Fri 22 July
The BFG
Weiner
Men & Chicken
Sat 23 July
The BFG
Men & Chicken
Weiner
Sun 24 July
The BFG
Men & Chicken
Deep Water
Weiner
Mon 25 July
The BFG
Weiner
Men & Chicken
Tue 26 July
The BFG
Highsmith and the Screen
with Adrian Wootton
Men & Chicken
Wed 27 July
The BFG
No Home Movie
Men & Chicken
Thu 28 July
The BFG
No Home Movie
Men & Chicken
DCA Film Quiz
Fri 29 July
The BFG
Summertime
Chevalier
Times
13:00/15:30/18:00 3D
20:30
13:15/18:30
15:45/20:45
13:00/15:30/18:00 3D
20:30
13:15/20:45
15:45/18:30
13:00/15:45 3D
18:00 3D/20:30
13:15/18:30
15:30
11:00/20:45
Day / Film
Sat 30 July
The BFG
Summertime
Chevalier
Sun 31 July
The BFG
Summertime
Chevalier
This Sweet Sickness
Mon 1 August
The BFG
Summertime
Chevalier
Tue 2 August
The BFG
13:00 3D/15:30 3D
18:00 3D/20:30
18:30
20:45
13:00/15:30/18:30 3D
20:30
18:00
20:45
13:00/15:30/18:00 3D
20:30
13:15/18:00
15:45/20:45
10:30 3D/10:30/13:00
15:30/18:00 3D/20:30
13:15/18:00
15:45/20:45
19:00
13:00/15:30/18:00 3D
20:30
13:15/18:00
15:30/20:30
Summertime
Chevalier
Wed 3 August
The BFG
Summertime
Chevalier
Thu 4 August
The BFG
Times
13:00/15:30/18:00 3D
20:30
13:15/18:00
15:30/20:30
11:00/13:00/18:00 3D
20:30
13:15/18:00
15:30/20:30
15:30
13:00/15:30/18:00 3D
20:30
13:15/18:00
15:30/20:30
13:00/15:30/18:00 3D
20:30
13:15/18:00
15:30/20:30
13:00/15:30/18:00 3D
20:30
13:15/18:00
15:30/20:30
Summertime
Chevalier
10:30/13:00/15:30
18:00 3D/20:30
10:30/13:15/18:00
15:30/20:30
Fri 5 August
Finding Dory
The Commune
Jason Bourne
DUNDEAD: Highlander
13:00/15:30/18:00 3D
13:15/18:15
15:45/20:45
20:30
Sat 6 August
Finding Dory
The Commune
Jason Bourne
13:00/15:30/18:00 3D
13:15/18:15/20:30
15:45/20:45
Sun 7 August
The Commune
Finding Dory
Jason Bourne
Plein Soleil
My American Friend
11:00/20:30
13:00/16:00 3D/18:15 3D
13:30/20:45
15:30
18:00
Tickets 01382 909 900 17
Day / Film
Times
Day / Film
Times
Mon 8 August
Finding Dory
The Commune
Jason Bourne
13:00/15:30/18:00 3D
13:15/18:15/20:30
15:45/20:45
Tue 9 August
Finding Dory
The Commune
Jason Bourne
Glyndebourne: Beatrice et Benedict
Sun 14 August
Finding Dory
Born to Be Blue
The Carer
The Glass Cell
Jason Bourne
13:00/15:45/18:00
11:00/20:30
13:15/18:00
15:30
20:30
13:00/15:30/18:15 3D
13:15/21:15
15:45/20:45
18:30
Wed 10 August
Finding Dory
The Commune
Jason Bourne
Mon 15 August
Finding Dory
The Carer
Jason Bourne
Born to Be Blue
13:00/15:303D/17:45
13:15
15:30/20:30
18:00/20:30
13:00/15:30/18:00 3D
13:15/18:15/20:30
15:45/20:45
Tue 16 August
Finding Dory
Born to Be Blue
Jason Bourne
The Carer
13:00/15:30 3D/17:45
13:15/20:30
15:30/20:30
18:00
Wed 17 August
Finding Dory
Born to Be Blue
Jason Bourne
The Carer
13:00/15:30 3D/17:45
13:15/20:30
15:30/20:30
18:00
Thu 18 August
Jason Bourne
The Carer
Finding Dory
Born to Be Blue
10:30/15:30/20:30
10:30/18:00
13:00/15:30 3D/17:45
13:15/20:30
Thu 11 August
The Commune
Jason Bourne
10:30/13:15/18:15
20:30
10:30/13:00/15:30
18:00 3D
15:45/20:45
Fri 12 August
Finding Dory
Born to Be Blue
Jason Bourne
The Carer
13:00/15:30 3D/17:45
13:15/20:30
15:30/20:30
18:00
Sat 13 August
Finding Dory
Barry Lyndon
Jason Bourne
The Carer
Born to Be Blue
13:00/15:30 3D/17:45
13:00
16:30/20:30
19:00
21:00
Finding Dory
Accessible Screenings
Audio description is available on all screenings of Notes on Blindness, The BFG, The Secret
Life of Pets, Finding Dory and Jason Bourne. The following screenings will also be subtitles:
Notes on Blindness Mon 11 July, 18:15
The BFG Tue 26 July, 20:30
The BFG Mon 1 August, 15:30
Finding Dory Mon 8 August, 15:30
Finding Dory Tue 16 August, 17:45
Jason Bourne Wed 17 August, 20:30
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Tickets 01382 909 900 19
Adapting Miss Highsmith
Described by Graham Greene as the ‘poet of apprehension’, Patricia Highsmith specialised in tightly
plotted thrillers exploring the fear, jealousy, guilt and violence bubbling under the surface of outwardly
civilised characters. Neurotic men dominate her fiction, antiheroes with a plethora of dark secrets and
obsessions, though she was equally capable of studies of great sensitivity and tenderness, as evidenced
by one of her few forays outside the thriller genre, Carol. The artistry and intelligence of her work is
widely considered to have transcended the thriller genre and rival that of mainstream literature, and has
made for much compelling cinema. This season showcases the very best of them and you can see any
three for £12.
Sun 17 July, 15:30
Robert Walker and Farley Granger play Bruno and
Guy, two young men whose chance meeting on a
train journey leads to a supposedly fool-proof
murder swap: Bruno agrees to kill Guy’s wife if
Guy disposes of Bruno’s father. Often referred to
as Alfred Hitchcock’s return to form after a series
of critical and commercial disappointments,
Strangers on a Train was adapted by Hitchcock
and co-writer Raymond Chandler from Highsmith’s
debut novel, published just a couple of months
after the author’s 29th birthday in 1950.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
USA 1951 / 1h43m / 35mm / PG
Deep Water
Eaux Profondes
Sun 24 July, 15:30
Middle-aged perfumer Vic Allen (Jean-Louis
Trintignant) lives on the island of Jersey with his
young wife Mélanie (Isabelle Huppert) and their
daughter Marion (Sandrine Kljajic). Mélanie
embarks on a string of extramarital flirtations,
all with her husband’s apparent approval, but
mild-mannered, chess-playing Vic soon has
murder on his mind. Directed by Michel Deville
(Death in a French Garden, La Lectrice), this
version of Highsmith’s 1957 novel has a dark
humour poised mischievously between Luis
Buñuel and Claude Chabrol.
Deep Water is accompanied by short film, A Mighty Nice Man (Dir: Jonathan Dee / USA 2014 / 12m), adapted from
the eponymous story in Patricia Highsmith’s short story collection Nothing that Meets the Eye.
Dir: Michel Deville
France 1981 / 1h33m
Adapting Miss Highsmith is presented by Filmhouse, in partnership with
Waterstones, and supported by the BFI, awarding funds from the National
Lottery. For more information, visit: www.adaptingmisshighsmith.com
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Purple Noon
Highsmith and the Screen with Adrian Wootton
Tue 26 July, 18:00
Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995) was one of the greatest crime and suspense writers of the 20th century. Her novels
from Strangers on The Train, This Sweet Sickness and Carol through to her Ripley series, were critically and commercially
acclaimed. Her work also inspired major filmmakers past and present from Hitchcock to Todd Haynes. Adrian Wootton
CEO of Film London, explores Highsmith’s colourful life, her extraordinary career and the films of her stories with
slides and film clips. Tickets £5
This Sweet Sickness Dites-lui que je l’aime
Sun 31 July, 15:30
Highsmith’s seventh novel This Sweet Sickness was first adapted for TV in 1962 as part of The Alfred Hitchcock
Hour. Fifteen years later came the first film version by director Claude Miller (Garde à Vue, The Little Thief). It features
a boyish Gérard Depardieu – still fresh from acting opposite Robert De Niro in Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900 – as David,
an accountant hopelessly obsessed with a woman he has carried a torch for since his youth but who’s now married
to another man.
Dir: Claude Miller
France 1977 / 1h47m
Purple Noon Plein Soleil
Sun 7 August, 15:30
In the same year he starred in Luchino Visconti’s family drama Rocco and His Brothers, Alain Delon took on the role
of Highsmith’s most famous character: the eponymous, ice-cold sociopath Tom Ripley in this sun-soaked adaptation
of The Talented Mr Ripley. Although she felt that certain compromises had been made in order to reach as wide an
audience as possible, Highsmith deemed René Clément’s picture – co-written by regular Claude Chabrol collaborator
Paul Gégauff – to be ”very beautiful to the eye and interesting for the intellect”.
Dir: René Clément
France / Italy 1960 / 1h59m
French, Italian and English with English subtitles
Tickets 01382 909 900 21
The Glass Cell
The American Friend Der Amerikanische Freund
Sun 7 August, 18:00
German Cinema auteur Wim Wenders followed up his acclaimed road movie trilogy (Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move,
Kings of the Road) with an adaptation of Ripley’s Game, the third of Highsmith’s five Ripley novels. Also incorporating
strands of her earlier book Ripley Under Ground, The American Friend sees the protagonist (broodingly played by
counter-culture icon Dennis Hopper) involve terminally ill picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman (Bruno Ganz) in an
underworld murder plot.
Dir: Wim Wenders
West Germany / France 1977 / 2h5m / 15
German and English with English subtitles
The Glass Cell Die Gläserne Zelle
Sun 14 August, 15:30
Director Hans W. Geissendörfer is perhaps best known as the creator of Lindenstrasse, Germany’s longest-running
soap opera. In 1978, he adapted Highsmith’s The Glass Cell, shifting the action to Frankfurt. Philip (Helmut Griem) is
an architect who’s released from prison after serving time for a crime he didn’t commit. Struggling to find work and
troubled by his wife’s relationship with his lawyer, he soon finds that – like many a Highsmithian protagonist – his life
is tumbling dangerously out of control.
Dir: Hans W. Geissendörfer
West Germany / Portugal 1978 / 1h33m
German with English subtitles
Enough Rope Le meurtrier
Sun 21 August, 15:30
Shot in glorious monochrome ‘scope, this big screen version of Highsmith’s The Blunderer from director Claude
Autant-Lara and his regular screenwriters Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost stars a pre-Goldfinger Gert Fröbe as
boorish bookseller Melchior Kimmel. After seeming to escape justice for killing his wife, Kimmel comes to the
attention of philandering husband Walter Saccard (Maurice Ronet). When Saccard’s own spouse Clara (Yvonne
Furneaux) comes to a tragic end, the police are quick to link the two deaths.
Dir: Claude Autant-Lara
France / West Germany / Italy 1963 / 1h44m
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The Cry of the Owl Le cri du hibou
Sun 28 August 15:30
Highsmith and Claude Chabrol seemed to be made for each other so it’s surprising that the prolific French director
(La Femme Infidèle, Le Boucher) didn’t turn to the writer’s work more regularly. Although Highsmith herself considered
The Cry of the Owl a lesser novel, Chabrol recognised its great power. The film centres on the unusual relationship
between Robert (Christophe Malavoy) and Juliette (Mathilda May), which develops after Robert, a draughtsman and
part-time artist, admits to having spied on her for several months.
Dir: Claude Chabrol
France / Italy 1987 / 1h42m
Sun 4 September 15:30
After the Oscar-laden success of his Michael Ondaatje adaptation The English Patient, Anglo-Italian filmmaker
Anthony Minghella tackled a very different literary source – the book that first introduced the character of Tom Ripley.
“I loved the tone of the novel,” Minghella said, “airless, alienated, uncomfortable, claustrophobic, lonely and also
quite harsh”. Casting Matt Damon as the protagonist opposite Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow, Minghella sought to
be more faithful to the original text than Clément’s Plein Soleil, a film he nonetheless keenly admired.
Dir: Anthony Minghella
USA 1999 / 2h19m / 15
Carol
Sun 11 September 15:30
An adaptation of one of Highsmith’s most intensely personal works – her pseudonymously published second novel
The Price of Salt – Todd Haynes’ film recently came top in a BFI poll of the Best LGBT Films of All Time. It tells of the
affair between an elegant middle-class woman called Carol (Cate Blanchett) and Therese, (Rooney Mara), a young
photographer who works in a NYC department store. Evocatively shot on Super 16mm, the film is also a masterclass
in costume and production design.
Dir: Todd Haynes
UK / USA / France 2015 / 1h58m / 15
Tickets 01382 909 900 23
Studio
Ghibli
Forever
DISCOVERY HOLIDAY FILMS
Tickets are £5 for under 21s / £5.70 for 21 and overs, or a family
ticket for four costs £16. Children under the age of 12 must be
accompanied by a parent or guardian. Discovery family workshops
will return with new films after the summer holidays.
Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants
Whilst it can be hard to miss family films that have the marketing budgets of
Disney and Pixar (The BFG and Finding Dory – we’re talking about you!),
there are occasionally little cinematic gems that are released into the big,
wide world which people are often unaware of, simply because they aren’t
on billboards or TV adverts. Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants is one such
absolute delight, and we’re thrilled to bring it to our screens for you to enjoy.
Ponyo
Sun 10 July, 10:30
Hayao Miyazaki delivers another
Studio Ghibli marvel with Ponyo,
a charming story of friendship,
ecology, and the power of
persistence. Loosely based on
Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale
The Little Mermaid, the film begins
at the seaside where Ponyo, a
goldfish princess, meets Sosuke,
a lonely five year-old human who
lives on an isolated cliff with his
mother and frequently absent
father. When she tastes his blood,
Ponyo becomes a mermaid, and
spends the rest of the film trying to
become fully human. Her father, the
ruler of the sea, has other ideas,
and desperately tries to bring
Ponyo home while little Sosuke
valiantly braves an approaching
hurricane in order to reunite with
his new friend.
Dir: Hayao Miyazaki
Japan 2008 / 1h43m / U
Japanese with English subtitles
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Blending spectacular live action backdrops with computer-generated bugs
and cute creatures from the undergrowth, this is a truly epic tale of friendship
between a ladybird and a team of black ants. When they discover a tin of
sugar lumps left over from a deserted picnic, it will take all their cunning to
get the treasure back to their anthill, all the while under attack from an army
of rival red ants who want the sugary prize for themselves.
With a wonderful musical score and a wide array of sound effects, this is a
film entirely without words. The characters are expressively drawn, with their
chirrups, peeps and gaseous emissions, and the story – which blends
elements of A Bug’s Life, Looney Tunes and The Lord of the Rings trilogy –
is a hugely entertaining extravaganza that’s fit for the whole family.
Dirs: Thomas Szabo, Hélène Giraud
France / Belgium 2016 / 1h29m / U
Have you ever wondered what your pets get up to each day while the house is empty? This brand new computer
animated comedy claims to have the answers – though we’re not entirely sure this is based on clearly documented
actual evidence. Can our pets’ lives really be so exciting?
Set in an upscale apartment in New York, we meet terrier Max (voiced by Louis CK) whose status as the favourite
pet is under threat from the newly arrived rescue mongrel Duke (Eric Stonestreet). Early tensions between the two
of them have to be set aside however, when they learn of a white rabbit called Snowball (Kevin Hart) who is plotting
with an army of abandoned pets to take revenge on all the happily-owned pets and their owners. Together with his
band – The Flushed Pets – this cute-looking but deeply troubled bunny looks to hold all the cards, until an equally
cute-looking Pomeranian pooch named Gidget (Jenny Slate) assembles her own ragtag band of household animals
to put things right.
Following its world premiere at the prestigious Annecy International Animation Film Festival, some have described this
as ‘Toy Story with pets’. Which is a fine pedigree to have. Though most of us might not be too happy with this kind
of animal behaviour in our living rooms and kitchens if we knew this was indeed what our little furry friends are getting
up to…
Dirs: Chris Renaud, Yarrow Cheney
USA 2016 / 1h31m / U
Tickets 01382 909 900 25
The BFG
In this, the centenary year of the birth of master wordsmith Roald Dahl, it’s thrilling to be able to bring you one of his
most popular works, directed by master filmmaker Steven Spielberg. Previous adaptations have included an animated
TV film and a stage production by our friends at Dundee Rep, but the recent massive steps forward in motion capture
technology have finally made this live action version possible.
Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) befriends a big friendly giant, the BFG (Mark Rylance), a 24-foot-tall individual who has
superhuman hearing abilities and immense speed. Although his appearance is scary, he is a kindhearted soul whose
primary occupation is the collection and distribution of good dreams to children. Considered an outcast by the other
giants because he refuses to eat children, the BFG and Sophie must set out on a mission to capture the far less
friendly, man-eating giants who have been invading the human world.
The first full-length feature to be directed by Steven Spielberg for Walt Disney Studios, it reunites him with the late
screenwriter Melissa Mathison for the first time since their 1982 collaboration on the family classic E.T. The ExtraTerrestrial. In addition to the heavyweight casting of Oscar-winner Mark Rylance, the film offers wealth of starry talent,
including Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) as Fleshlumpeater, and Dame Penelope Wilton (The Best Exotic
Marigold Hotel) as the Queen of England. With its world premiere at Cannes earlier this year, this is an experience that
will delight both children and adults.
Dir: Steven Spielberg
UK / Canada / USA 2016 / 1h55m / 2D and 3D / PG
Senior Citizen Kane Club Thu 28 July, 10:30 3D
Bring a Baby Thu 28 July, 10:30 & Thu 4 August, 10:30
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Finding Dory
For those who can remember the 2003 maritime adventure Finding Nemo it feels as though this sequel has taken its
time in getting here. Rather than following Hollywood’s sometimes indecent haste to extend winning franchises with
follow ups and sequels, in this case it has been some 13 years before the next chapter finally reaches us.
In this new episode, set six months after the previous adventure, we once again meet Nemo (a clownfish) and his
father Marlin, together with Dory, the amnesiac Pacific regal blue tang. Out of the blue, Dory suddenly recalls
something of her childhood memories, and in particular, "the jewel of Morro Bay, California". The three set out to find
Dory’s long-lost family, and find themselves at the Monterey Marine Life Institute. Along the way, they encounter a
whole range of characterful denizens of the deep, including Bailey (a white beluga whale), Destiny (a whale shark)
and Hank (an octopus – well, technically a septopus, as he has lost one of his tentacles). Can it be described as a
road movie, if the journey takes place at sea? It’s certainly a trip in which many discoveries are made.
With its combination of terrific characterisation and state of the art computer based animation, Finding Dory returns
us to the beautiful briny for an unforgettable journey. Just one that Dory probably won’t remember!
Dirs: Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane
USA 2016 / 1h43m / 2D and 3D / U
Bring a Baby Thu 11 August, 10:30
Tickets 01382 909 900 27
Opera and Theatre
Almeida Live: Richard III
Glyndebourne:
Die Meistersinger
von Nurnberg
Tue 12 July, 17:30
Grippingly original, Wagner puts
singing and songwriting centre
stage in Glyndebourne’s biggest
production ever, captured live in
2011.
“Made my heart swell
and my spine tingle.”
The Telegraph
Hans Sachs is the most celebrated
of the Mastersingers, a group of
poets and musicians who have
created complex rules for
composing and performing their
songs. Their world is turned upside
down by free-thinking Walther who
enters their singing competition to
win his beloved Eva. But can this
inspired rule-breaker win the hand
of the woman he loves?
Almeida Live:
Richard III
Thu 21 July, 18:45
Tue 9 August, 18:30
The Almeida Theatre makes its live
screening debut with an explosive
new adaptation of Richard III
directed by Almeida Artistic Director
Rupert Goold, with Ralph Fiennes
as Shakespeare’s most notorious
villain and Vanessa Redgrave as
Queen Margaret.
Love conquers all in Berlioz’s
sparkling take on Shakespeare’s
Much Ado About Nothing.
War-torn England is reeling after
years of bitter conflict. King Edward
is ailing, and as political unrest
begins to stir once more, Edward’s
brother Richard – vicious in war,
despised in peacetime – awaits the
opportunity to seize his brother’s
crown.
Sung in German with English
subtitles.
Through the malevolent Richard,
Shakespeare examines the allconsuming nature of the desire for
power amid a society riddled by
conflict. Olivier-winning director
Rupert Goold’s (Macbeth, King
Charles III) searing new production
hones a microscopic focus on the
mythology surrounding a monarch
whose machinations are inextricably
woven into the fabric of British
history.
Tickets £18
(£13 students & under 21s)
Tickets £17.50
With the London Philharmonic
Orchestra and the Glyndebourne
Chorus.
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Glyndebourne:
Beatrice et Benedict
From Elizabeth and Darcy in Pride
and Prejudice, to Hermione and Ron
in the Harry Potter series, the ageold premise of verbal sparring to
mask true feelings of love or passion
is employed to magnificent effect in
Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict.
Berlioz selected the sunniest and
funniest elements of Shakespeare’s
Much Ado About Nothing and set
them to ravishing music to create
this witty love-hate duel. The opera’s
overture explodes with a buoyant
sense of fun and elegant wit and
there are several splendid numbers
for the female characters, especially
the sublime Act I duet-nocturne,
described by one critic as a ‘marvel
of indescribable lyrical beauty’.
With the London Philharmonic
Orchestra and the Glyndebourne
Chorus.
Sung in French with English subtitles.
Tickets £18
On sale now
One More Time
With Feeling
Thu 8 September, 21:00
A unique one night only cinema
event directed by Andrew Dominik
(Chopper, The Assassination of
Jesse James by the Coward Robert
Ford, Killing Them Softly), One More
Time With Feeling will be the first
chance to hear Skeleton Tree, the
sixteenth studio album from Nick
Cave & the Bad Seeds.
Originally a performance based
concept, One More Time With
Feeling evolved into something
much more significant as Dominik
delved into the tragic backdrop of
the writing and recording of the
album. Interwoven throughout the
Bad Seeds’ filmed performance
of the new album are interviews
and footage shot by Dominik,
accompanied by Cave’s narration
and improvised rumination.
Filmed in black-and-white and
colour, in both 3D and 2D, the result
is fragile, raw and a true testament
to an artist trying to find his way
through the darkness.
Live from the Met
Bolshoi Ballet
From Sat 8 October
From Sun 16 October
Bringing you 10 productions live
from the Metropolitan Opera in New
York, the 2016-17 season is set to
be the company’s best yet.
With seven productions from the
Russian stage, the Bolshoi Ballet
opens its doors to cinemas
worldwide for a new season
boasting impeccable classicism
and daring performances.
Featuring their 100th broadcast,
and the first of Kaija Saariaho’s 2000
opera L’Amour de Loin, the season
also includes Verdi’s early Biblical
epic Nabucco and Mozart’s
Idomeneo. In addition to the new
productions of Tristan und Isolde
and L’Amour de Loin, you can also
see the Met’s new stagings of
Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette;
Dvořák’s Rusalka; and Strauss’s
Der Rosenkavalier. The company
will also feature Mozart’s Don
Giovanni; Verdi’s La Traviata; and
Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.
Tickets £20 (£10 under 21s and
students)
Full Season Package (10 operas):
£155Five opera package: £85
Pre-Opera Talks: £5
With timeless classics including
The Nutcracker, The Sleeping
Beauty and Swan Lake; productions
signature to the Bolshoi in The
Golden Age, The Bright Stream
and A Hero of Our Time; plus, an
evening dedicated to modern
choreography with A Contemporary
Evening, the Bolshoi proves yet
again that it is one of the world’s
foremost ballet companies.
Tickets £15 (£12 under 21s and
students)
Four ballet package: £45
Tickets £10
The Met: Tristan und Isolde
Tickets 01382 909 900 29
The Artists Cinema 2016:
Abu Ammar is Coming
We are delighted to be taking part in The Artists Cinema 2016. This unique project, brought to us by ICO and LUX, brings
leading visual artists' work onto our screens in a subversive and playful way, before films within our main programme.
Running from April to September, the latest in the series, Abu Ammar is Coming, will screen before all screenings of
Jason Bourne (p10) from Fri 5 to Thu 18 August.
A photograph circulates, showing five men staring
out of a window. Actually, only four look out; the
last man breaks protocol and looks at the camera.
The light has a soft glow and the stage is a
bombed building with the men wearing military
fatigues. Snapped by a Magnum photographer
in 1982, the image is a teasing enigma. Arabic
newspapers claim it as evidence of Bangladeshi
fighters in the PLO (Fatah faction). Go a little
deeper and sediments will darken the third world
international.
Abu Ammar is Coming continues The Young Man
Was (2006 – now) project's exploration of the
1970s revolutionary left as a form of tragic utopia.
Previous chapters have shown at the 2015 Venice
Biennale, the Museum of Modern Art (New York),
and the 2011 Sharjah Biennial.
Dir: Naeem Mohaiemen
Bangladesh / Lebanon / UK 2016 / 6m / PG
DCA Film Quiz
Thu 28 July, 19:00
Ah, summer, that time of year when the air is hot and the
sky is blue and the sun is shining bright... if you live in
Los Angeles! But you don’t. You live in Dundee. So, as it
will inevitably be raining, we’d like to extend an invitation
to you for the next DCA Film Quiz.
Do you know what Jennifer Love Hewitt did last summer?
Or how many days of summer Joseph Gordon-Levitt
enjoyed? Maybe you know in which film Summer Glau
played a ninja on a space ship? If you know your stuff,
or even if you don’t, join us for an evening of films, fun
and plenty of prizes!
Please note, our actual quiz questions may have
absolutely nothing to do with summer.
£2 per person for teams up to five people. Advance
booking highly recommended.
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Access
DCA welcomes everyone and we are committed to making our programme
and facilities accessible. We accept the CEA card. Application forms and further
details are available from Box Office as well as large print copies of DCA print
material. Guide Dogs are welcome in our cinemas. Details of audio-described
and subtitled screenings are listed in our print and online at our website.
For further information on access please contact us on 01382 909 900.
DCA Cinema is supported by:
DCA follows BBFC recommendations. For further details about film classification or for extended film
information, please refer to www.bbfc.co.uk
01382 909 900
www.dca.org.uk
DCA Box Office is open daily from 10:00 until 15 minutes after
the start of the final film.
All week
£6.20 before 17:00
£7.20 from 17:00*
£1.50 additional fee for all 3D films*
Special Prices**
Seniors
Mon £5 all day
Tue – Fri £5 before 17:00
Students
Mon – Sun £5 all day
Un-waged
Mon £5 all day
Tue – Fri £5 before 17:00
Under 15s
Sun £5 all day
Mon – Fri £5 before 17:00
Disability
Free carer’s ticket on production of valid CEA card
* There are some pricing exceptions, please see film information for further information.
**Please bring proof of your status to DCA when purchasing or picking up reduced tickets.
Special Screenings:
Senior Citizen Kane Club
Over 60? Join us for a film with tea/coffee and biscuit – £5
Bring a Baby Screenings
For those with babies under 12 months old, includes tea/coffee
and biscuit – £5
Discovery Family Film Club
£5 under 21s
£5.70 over 21s
Family ticket for four people £16
Ciné Sundays
Film, breakfast roll and tea/coffee – £7
Tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase except in the case of a cancelled performance.
Ticket offers are subject to availability and may not be used in conjunction with any other offer.
All tickets must be paid for at point of booking.
Whilst every effort is taken to ensure the accuracy of information within this guide, mistakes do happen.
DCA reserves the right to make changes to the programme as necessary.
DCA reserves the right to refuse admission.
DCA asks all customers to refrain from using mobile phones in the cinema.
Customers are welcome to take their drinks into our Cinemas, but are asked to refrain from going back
to the bar during the screening.
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152 Nethergate
Dundee DD1 4DY
Registered Charity no: SC026631
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