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Cinema
July – September 2014
welcome
Thanks to the BFI Film Audience Network initiative, a new
organisation called Film Hub Scotland has been launched
which supports film exhibition across the country. We’ve
already seen the benefit of the scheme with events like
Scotland Loves Anime and the live music screening of
Dragnet Girl. Their most ambitious project to date is
included in this guide – To See Oursels – a series of
screenings curated by Dr Johnny Murray which examines
Scottish identity on screen. We’ve got some amazing
guests who will be joining us for some of these events
including filmmaker Bill Forsyth (Local Hero), musician
King Creosote (From Scotland With Love) and artist
John Byrne (Your Cheatin’ Heart).
This guide is also full of familiar names that we are so
glad to see back on our screens including some of the
most exciting filmmakers working today: David Gordon
Green (Joe), Michel Gondry (Mood Indigo), Ari Folman
(The Congress), David Michôd (The Rover) and the
Dardenne brothers (Two Days, One Night). And while
we’ve collected together the best of contemporary
cinema, it’s been a great summer for restored classics
as well. We just couldn’t choose between the vintage
films on offer so we decided to show them all. Kudos
to the lovely people at Park Circus in Glasgow and
Scalarama who have bravely decided to re-release John
Water’s classic cult film Polyester complete with Odorama
scratch-and-sniff cards. Who could resist showing that?
Not us.
Alice Black
Head of Cinema
Additional contributors: Brian Hoyle, Christopher O’Neill,
Simon Lewis
Contents
New Films
Boyhood
Begin Again
Grand Central
Joe
Guardians of the Galaxy
Jealousy
All this Mayhem
Blood Ties
Mood Indigo
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
The Rover
The Congress
God’s Pocket
Two Days, One Night
Sin City 2
God Help the Girl
The Grand Seduction
Bicycle
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Dundead Double Bill
Patrick
Dead Kids
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Vintage
A Night at the Cinema 1914
Springtime in a Small Town
A Hard Day’s Night
Some Like it Hot
Zabriskie Point
The Lady from Shanghai
The Deer Hunter
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DJCAD
MSc in Animation & Visualisation Screening
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To See Oursels
Local Hero
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Trainspotting
From Scotland With Love
(with live appearance by King Creosote)
Your Cheatin’ Heart
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Performance Screening
Glyndebourne Opera: La Traviata
Stellar Quines: The List
RSC Live: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
NT Live: Medea
Hermitage Revealed
Nick Cave: 20,000 Days on Earth
Al Pacino: Salome and Wildé Salomé
Billy Elliot the Musical Live
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Discovery Summer Holiday Films
Believe
The House of Magic
The Unbeatables
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Cinema of Childhood
Willow and Wind
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Documentary
Seve
Finding Vivian Maier
I Am Divine
Polyester
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New Films
Begin Again
Fri 25 – Thu 31 July
Boyhood
A decade in the making, Richard Linklater's
Boyhood is an epic achievement of filmmaking
and an entirely engrossing watch. Shot on 35mm
between 2002 and 2013, it follows an ordinary
kid, Mason (Ellar Coltrane) in Texas, from the age
of six to 18.
Although Mason is the focus of the film, Linklater
puts his entire extended family in the frame as
we get to know and care about his divorced
parents (Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke)
and older sister (Lorelei Linklater). Through tiny
observational details, they come to life and then,
with the blink of an eye, another year has passed.
Using clever markers like songs on the radio,
tech gadgets that people use or US Presidential
election debates, Linklater gives us a clear time
map. Watching the actors age is incredibly
moving and Linklater makes each character fully
rounded, meaning you'll feel like a proud parent
when the children become teenagers and then
young adults. When the film ends with Mason
leaving for university, it is hard not to feel as sad
as his mother to see him go.
At almost three hours, Boyhood’s length
might understandably be a challenge, but
the film is never boring or self-indulgent.
Linklater's project was an ambitious one that
could have been derailed at any time in its
decade-long production, or simply become a
dry technical exercise. Instead, the result is
something very special. Go on a journey with
this unremarkable family, because this truly is
remarkable filmmaking.
Although he’s graduated to the big leagues in terms of casting
and location, Once director John Carney still believes in the
power of music as a way of bringing people together, healing
wounds, and transforming lives. Mark Ruffalo is Dan, a
washed up New York music producer heading straight
towards a mid-life crisis. Divorced, jaded and fired from his
job, he ends up in an open mic night in a local bar. Greta
(Kiera Knightley), a Brit who has just been dumped by her
more successful boyfriend, takes the stage and pours her
heartbreak into her acoustic set. Impressed, Dan convinces
Greta that they should work together and they set out to
record an album on the streets of Manhattan. As the project
takes shape, Dan and Greta start to find inspiration in their
shared love of music and in each other.
Originally titled Can A Song Save Your Life? when it premiered
at the Toronto Film Festival last year, Begin Again has a lot of
the same charms as Carney’s previous much-loved musical.
Although the songs featured in this the film aren’t likely to win
any Oscars, Knightley proves herself a very competent singer
and Ruffalo’s easy charisma more than makes up for any
reservations you might have about their slightly odd pairing.
Dir: John Carney
USA 2013 / 1h44m / Digital / 15
Bring a Baby screening Thu 31 July 10:30
Grand Central
Unskilled labourer Gary Manda (A Prophet’s Tahar Rahim) takes the only job he can find and it is a dangerous one,
maintaining nuclear power plants. Ferried from site to site around France, he joins the hundreds of men who put their
lives at risk every day, sheeted in layers of protective latex and plastic with radiation monitors strapped to their chests.
He learns the trade from his gruff supervisor Gilles (Dardenne brothers regular Olivier Gourmet) and is taken under the
wing of veteran worker Toni (Denis Ménochet). However, when the undeniable attraction between Gary and Toni’s
fiancée Karole (Blue is the Warmest Colour’s Léa Seydoux) develops into a full-blown illicit affair, everything is put in
jeopardy: his friendships, his job and even his safety.
Smouldering with intensity, filmmaker Zlotwski’s Grand Central is also steeped in the detailed reality of this little-known
profession. Facing a toxic work environment everyday means the relationships within the crew are naturally intense
both inside and outside the plant. Director Zlotowski creates an atmosphere of tension that runs throughout Gary’s
world not just with visuals but a masterful soundscape as well – beeps and sirens have never sounded so menacing.
Rahim and Seydoux have terrific chemistry and are well supported by the always solid Gourmet and Ménochet.
Dir: Rebecca Zlotowski
Austria / France 2013 / 1h34m / Digital / French with English subtitles / 15
Dir: Richard Linklater
USA 2014 / 2h43m / Digital / 15
4 www.dca.org.uk
Tickets 01382 909 900 5
New Films
Fri 8 – Thu 21 August
Jealousy
La jalousie
Joe
If Mud signaled the revitalization of Matthew McConaughey's career after decades of throw away films, Joe may very
well do the same for Nicholas Cage. The similarities don't end there. Both films focus on the friendship that develops
between a mysterious older man and a troubled teenager played by the same young actor (Tye Sheridan).
Joe Ransom (Cage) is a tough ex-con in a small Southern town. He has a violent past and likes to work hard and play
hard, but he is also a fair boss and well-respected member of the community. He runs a 'tree poisoning' business for
a local lumber company and reluctantly takes on young teenager Gary Jones (Sheridan), who is desperate for a job.
Gary's dad Wade (Gary Poulter) is a violent drunk who is more interested in finding his next drink than in finding a job
and the young man must work to support his mother and sister. Polite and hardworking, Gary quickly endears himself
to Joe, who finds himself reluctantly drawn into the youngster’s problems. It isn't as if he hasn't enough trouble of his
own, as someone Joe humiliated in a recent brawl is back in town and looking for blood.
Beautifully shot by Green's regular cinematographer Tim Orr and with an atmospheric soundtrack, the film is darkly
brooding from beginning to end. Cage brings a weight to Joe that no other performer possibly could, and young
Sheridan (who made his debut in Terrence Malick's Tree of Life) is fast becoming one of the best actors of his
generation. But it is the non-professional Poulter, who was living on the streets when he was cast in the film and
sadly passed away not long after the shooting wrapped, who absolutely steals every scene he appears in.
Dir: David Gordon Green
USA 2013 / 1h57m / Digital / 15
Bring a Baby screening Thu 7 August 10:30
Senior Citizen Kane Club screening Thu 14 August 10:30
6 www.dca.org.uk
Philippe Garrel is a true child of French cinema. His father
was the great actor Maurice Garrel, he made a second
home for himself in the Cinémathèque Française, he shot
his first film at the age of 16 and he rode through the streets
of Paris shooting newsreels of May ’68 with Godard in his
red Ferrari. His work has an intimate, handcrafted feel and
a preoccupation often with deeply personal themes of loss,
mourning and rejuvenation through love. With Jealousy, he
continues to keep it in the family by casting both his son,
Louis, and his daughter Esther Garrel. And the inspiration
for the screenplay was his childhood experiences of his
parent’s separation.
The film begins with a torrid fight between Louis (Garrel) and
his wife Clothilde (Rebecca Covenant), in which Louis leaves
his family, as their young daughter Charlotte (Olga Milshtein)
watches helplessly through a keyhole. It is established in the
next scene, a blissfully romantic walk through the streets of
Paris, that he has left them to be with the husky-voiced
Claudia (Anna Mouglalis). The relationship begins with
promise: the couple share a picturesquely cramped
apartment, Charlotte has taken a liking to Claudia, and the
two are given to impulsive romantic acts. However, Claudia’s
frustration with her lack of work and Louis’ jealousy eventually
cause the relationship to implode, leaving Louis to pick up
the pieces.
Guardians is a new Space Opera that beats Star
Wars VII out of the trap with a knowing wink to
other science fiction franchises. Peter Quill is
taken from Earth as a young boy and finds himself
the only human in the far flung reaches of the
galaxy. He hasn’t quite gained the infamy he feels
he deserves; whilst Quill is not a superhero he
certainly has gadgets and gizmos a plenty, as well
as knockabout charm that helps him evade the
bad guys. His path crosses a band of renegades;
this might be the opportunity for Quill to earn his
self-appointed name, Starlord.
When Marvel announced Guardians of the Galaxy
the film looked set to be a risk-taking departure
from their superhero formula. The Usual Suspects
riff of the first trailer reveals a film with a gleeful
sense of humour. Marvel shows it has its finger
on the pulse of blockbuster cinema by serving
up another exciting slice of big budget spectacle.
With a lineup of exceptional characters the
filmmakers have brought together a great
ensemble cast.
Chris Pratt who voiced Emmet in The LEGO
Movie takes the role of Quill. He’s an ideal choice.
Look out for Scottish actress Karen Gillan as a
villainous Cyborg. Discover the mighty double act
of Rocket Raccoon, a machine gun toting animal,
and half man half tree Groot. You’ll understand
why we have “more than a feeling” that this could
be the wild and fun sci-fi adventure you’ve been
waiting for.
Dir: James Gunn
USA 2014 / 2h02m / Digital 3D
Bring a Baby screening Thu 21 August 10:30
Shot in glorious black and white by veteran cinematographer
Willy Kurant, who worked on Jean Luc Godard’s Masculin
feminin in 1966, Jealousy is infused with a New Wave feel
without ever being nostalgic. Louis Garrel clearly responds
well to being directed by his dad and the interaction between
him and the young Milshtein are some of the best work he
has done recently.
Dir: Phillip Garrell
France 2013 / 1h27m / Digital / 12A
Tickets 01382 909 900 7
New Films
Blood Ties
Supermensch: The Legend
of Shep Gordon
Mon 18 – Thu 21 August
Guillaume Canet (Tell No One) makes his English-language
directorial debut with this love-poem to 1970s New York, a
Cain and Abel story of two brothers living on either side of the
law. A faithful remake of the French film Les liens du sangs, the
film’s plot, production design, costumes, soundtrack and even
casting (including iconic veteran actor James Caan) captures
the era perfectly.
All This Mayhem
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, filmmaker
Eddie Martin used to skate with Tas and
Ben Pappas, two prodigious Australian
skateboarders. They were just kids at the time
but the two brothers would go on to compete
at the very highest level, eventually knocking
Tony Hawk off the No.1 spot as World Champion.
Martin’s film reveals Tas and Ben might have
been blessed with talent and drive but were
ill-equipped to cope with fame and fortune.
Their eventual fall from grace was as spectacular
as their meteoric rise to the top of the podium.
Martin traces the brothers lives from the workingclass Greek immigrant family they were brought
up in, to their solo journeys to America where
drugs and money ultimately brought their lives
crashing down. All This Mayhem is an evenhanded portrait of a sport that was at that time
fuelled by more than just adrenaline. It captures
the escape and freedom which skateboarding
offered Tas and Ben as much as the crippling
drug addictions which brought them down.
Interviews conducted with Tas in prison where
he was serving time following a conviction of
drug smuggling are sobering, honest and at
times heartbreaking. Juxtaposing his own
words with remarkable archive footage of the
two Pappas in action, gleaned from the garages
and basements of veteran skaters, results in
a story which turns out to be a cautionary tale.
Dir: Eddie Martin
UK / Australia 2013 / 1h36m / Digital /12A
8 www.dca.org.uk
Straight-laced Frank (Billy Crudup) has always had a difficult
relationship with his older, volatile brother Chris (Clive Owen).
Now a cop, Frank is reluctant to get involved with helping
ex-con Chris get back on his feet after a stint in prison.
Pressure from sister (Lili Taylor) and ailing father (Caan) makes
him reconsider and for a while it seems as if Chris really has
changed. But despite trying to make a new start with the
beautiful young Nathalie (Mila Kunis), Chris finds it hard to
live the straight life: meanwhile Frank has his own problems
after rekindling a relationship with the love-of-his-life Vanessa
(Zoe Saldana) despite her links to jealous local gangster
Scarfo (Rust And Bone’s Matthias Schoenaerts).
Blood Ties is a sprawling tale held together with a terrific
soundtrack (The Velvet Underground, Sam Cooke, Little
Richard, The Rubettes, Ace Frehley, Lee Moses, Al Wilson
and more, much more ) and strong performances. Owen
and Crudup do a fine job but it is the ancillary characters who
steal the show – Marion Cotillard’s heartbreaking turn as Chris’
discarded heroin-addicted ex-wife and Schoenaearts (whose
English is astonishingly flawless) as the brutal ex-boyfriend out
for revenge.
Dir: Guillaume Canet
France / USA 2013 / 2h07m / Digital / 15
Comedian Mike Meyers steps behind the camera for the
first time (with Beth Aala) to chronicle the life and times
of Hollywood insider, Shep Gordon. Unknown to most
of us, the tall and lanky Gordon was a key player in the
music and movie scene of the 1970s and has some
incredible stories to tell.
Mood Indigo
L'écume des jours
Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
The Science of Sleep) brings his trademark quirky
imagination to this adaptation of the 1947 French novel
L'écume des jours (Froth on the Daydream). The original
source material by philosopher, inventor, jazz musician
and novelist Boris Vian was full of verbal puns and
spoonerisms, which are the perfect springboard for
Gondry's visual aesthetic.
Independently wealthy playboy Colin (Romain Duris)
lives in a magical house where tiny mice-men do all the
housework, gourmet meals are prepared by his lawyer
Nicolas (The Untouchables' Omar Sy) and drinks are
concocted by a "pianocoktail" according to the music
that it plays (cue Duke Ellington's signature tune). When
Colin meets and falls in love with Chloé (Audrey Tautou),
their romance is almost perfect, until tragedy strikes;
while on their honeymoon, a floating water lily spore
takes root in the bride's lung. An expensive and
extensive treatment begins and eventually the money
begins to run out and their perfect world
starts to fall apart.
A manager by trade, his career began with a chance
encounter with Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix who
suggested he get in touch with Alice Cooper. Initially
Shep was merely a drug dealer moonlighting as a
manager, hired by Cooper because he provided the
band with marijuana, but he eventually decided to
take the job seriously. Shep was instrumental in Alice
Cooper’s big breakthrough at the Toronto Rock
Revival, providing the chicken which ended up being
torn to pieces when Alice threw it into the crowd. He
went on to look after (and party with) Blondie and
Raquel Welsh among others. Personal friends with the
Dalai Lama, Gordon also shared custody of his cat with
Cary Grant and was the man who masterminded the
“celebrity chef” phenomenon.
An extremely likable character who spent his life helping
others bolster their careers, his story is told through
interviews with the people who knew him best including
Cooper, Michael Douglas, Sly Stallone, Willie Nelson
and many more. Although clearly a big fan of its subject,
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon is an
entertaining watch and at times a surprisingly moving
portrait of a man who lived his life without compromise
and with a lot of care and love for other people.
Dir: Beth Aala, Mike Myers
USA 2013 / 1h23m / Digital / 15
Although Vian's novel has been brought to the big
screen twice already, its heady mix of whimsy and
darkness are perfect fodder for Gondry's signature
homemade style. And with any luck, this film will bring
a brand new audience to Vian's unique vision in the
same way as The Grand Budapest Hotel put Stefan
Zwieg back on bestseller lists.
Dir: Michel Gondry
France / Belgium 2013 / 1h34m / Digital / French
with English subtitles / 12A
Tickets 01382 909 900 9
New Films
God's Pocket
Best known as Roger Sterling in the TV series Mad
Men, actor John Slattery makes his directorial
debut with this character study of a fictional
Philadelphia neighbourhood (nicknamed ‘God’s
Pocket’) and the down and outs who live there.
The Congress
Fri 29 August – Thu 4 September
Ari Folman follows up his strong Academy-Award winning
Waltz With Bashir with another dazzlingly unique film that
blends animation and live action into a kaleidoscope and a
damning treatise on Hollywood, youth-obessesed culture,
cinema and memory.
The Rover
Following up his astonishing debut film Animal Kingdom was never going to be easy for Australian director David
Michôd and he took his time putting this next project together but the wait was well worth it.
The Rover is set in a dystopian future where the Australian economy has been decimated and society has descended
into a brutal chaos. Eric (Guy Pearce), an enigmatic loner, stops off at a karaoke bar on a stretch of deserted highway.
Coming down the road is a gang of thieves on the run having just bungled a robbery, shot a soldier and left one of their
own for dead. When they flip their car in front of the bar, they steal Eric's and speed off. What they hadn't reckoned on
was how much Eric wants his car back as he hops into their wreck and gives chase, eventually joining forces with their
wounded comrade Rey (Robert Pattinson). Along the way there is much mayhem and madness as the film explores
the strange ways that people cope with crisis, Eric slowly hints at his own tragic past and Rey turns out to be not quite
the stupid little brother his gang always assumed he was.
Playing out a bit like The Road meets The Proposition, this film is very much Michôd's own vision of an uncaring
society fixated on survival. Pearce is frightening in his intense remoteness and Pattinson proves he is more than
just a pretty face. Brutal and unrelenting, the big reveal as to why Eric wants his car back is more startling than you
can imagine.
Dir: David Michôd
Australia / USA 2013 / 1h42m / Digital / 15
Using Solaris author Stanislav Lem’s 1971 novel The
Futurological Congress as his inspiration, Folman’s film
centres on actress Robin Wright who plays a version of
herself: a successful Hollywood actress now facing middle
age. Encouraged by her agent, Wright enters into a pact
with a ruthless Miramount Studio boss (Danny Huston) who
offers her a chance to be digitally recreated and look forever
youthful. She will be paid handsomely for the privilege but she
must disappear and never be seen again. With an ailing son,
the offer is too good to refuse and for the next twenty years,
Wright moves between the two worlds – one of animated
fantasy and a harsh reality.
The year is 1978 and petty criminal Mickey
(Phillip Seymour Hoffman in his last lead role)
has just learned that his erratic son Leon (Caleb
Landry Jones) has been killed “accidentally”
on a building site. Mickey enlists the help of his
business partner Burt (John Tuturro) to cover up
the truth of his death. But when local newspaper
man and professional alcoholic Richard Shelburn
(Richard Jenkins) starts sniffing around, Mickey
finds himself in a difficult corner with a job gone
wrong, a wife he can’t satisfy and a funeral he
can’t pay for.
Based on the novel by Pete Dexter (who also
wrote The Paperboy) this film has a lot of
affection for the rough world of big schemes
and busted dreams. Slattery doesn’t shy away
from the absurd cruelty of life in this blue collar
community and the humour here is as dark as
the dim lighting of the local bar. God’s Pocket
is a notable debut for a new filmmaker and a
sad goodbye to one of American’s greatest
character actors.
Dir: John Slattery
USA 2013 / 1h28m / Digital / 15
Bring a Baby Screening Thu 28 August 10:30
The animation in Folman’s previous film was, like its subject
matter, stark and sombre. The Congress is the polar opposite
– where he and animation director Yoni Goodman have
created a brash, beautiful universe where Michael Jackson
and Mickey Mouse mix with Elvis and Groucho Marx. Think
Yellow Submarine meets Fantastic Planet and you’ll have a
fair idea of what to expect. Through stunning imagery, Folman
explores how the internet and the plethora of online personae
which affect us all now shape our identities and have become
an essential part of being human in the 21st century.
Dir: Ari Folman
Israel / Germany / Poland / Luxembourg / France /
Belgium 2013 / 1h2m / Digital / 15
Senior Citizen Kane Club screening Thu 4 September 10:30
10 www.dca.org.uk
Tickets 01382 909 900 11
New Films
The Grand Seduction
Sin City 2
Fri 5 – Thu 11 September
It’s pretty rare that we get two English-language
remakes of French-language films but The Grand
Seduction takes as its source not a novel but
another popular hit Jean-François Pouliot’s 2003
La Grande Seduction or its UK release title
Seducing Doctor Lewis.
Co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller
reunite to bring the visually stunning Sin City
graphic novels back to the screen in Sin City 2.
Weaving together two of Miller’s classic stories
with new tales, the town's most hard-boiled
citizens cross paths with some of its more
notorious inhabitants. The list of returning
players includes Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba,
Bruce Willis and Rosario Dawson while the roster
of newcomers to Basin City counts Eva Green,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (who turned down several
plum roles to take the part) and Josh Brolin
among its ranks.
Two Days, One Night
Deux jours, une nuit
The Dardenne brothers shine a spotlight on the dwindling
power of the unions, the uncertainty of zero hour contracts
and the desperate situations workers are placed in with
corporate downsizing in their new film Two Days, One Night.
What might seem like a dry and worthy topic, in their capable
hands, and with Marion Cotillard at its centre, becomes
a complex and thought-provoking drama.
Cotillard plays Sandra, a woman recently recovering from
depression, who is told by her bosses she has two days to
try and convince her sixteen co-workers to give up their
bonus payments in order for her to keep her job. She spends
the next two days and one night visiting each and every one
of them with the simple request. Each encounter tells a
different story about contemporary society as she is in turn
ignored, berated, threatened, apologised to and eventually
supported. As Sandra vacillates between self-loathing and
fragile hope, her constant husband cajoles her into action
each time she threatens to give up the fight.
Refusing to make any judgements about what is the right or
wrong decision for the workers, the Dardennes let the story
unfold in its own time. Never pendantic or preachy, Two
Days, One Night still manages to touch on so many current
issues – immigration, integration and gender politics – that
will resonate with us all.
Dir: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Belgium / Italy / France 2013 / 1h35m / Digital / cert tbc
Divided into four separate sequences, Sin City 2
takes place before, during and after the events
depicted in its 2005 predecessor. Miller’s graphic
novel A Dame to Kill For is the main source
material for the central storyline here, while the
plot featuring Rourke’s Marv – “Just Another
Saturday Night” – was adapted from Miller’s
Booze, Broads & Bullets short comic story
collection. Finally, Miller wrote two original stories
for the the film’s two additional plot threads, titled
“The Long Bad Night” (the Levitt segment) and
“The Fat Loss” (the Alba segment).
The prospect of having Miller’s violently splashy
black and white ink illustrations converted into
3D for the big screen will have fans quivering
with excitement. Bound to be beautiful and
brutal, Sin City 2 most definitely won’t be for
the faint of heart.
Dirs: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
USA 2014 / 2h / Digital 2D & 3D / cert tbc
God Help the Girl
Fri 5 – Thu 11 September
The long-awaited film realisation of Belle and Sebastian
frontman Stuart Murdoch’s song narrative God Help The Girl
is finally here. Debuted at Sundance and then at Berlin, the
film is as whimsical as you’d expect from the source material,
full of pretty Glasgow locations, vintage clothing and girls and
boys with “issues” they need to work out through song.
Petite Eve (Emily Browning) has just escaped from the
hospital where she is being treated for depression and an
eating disorder. She’s a songwriter and desperate to get her
work to the local radio DJ. At a concert she spies James
(Olly Alexander) who seems as lost as she is and makes fast
friends with the confident wealthy but dim Cassie (Hannah
Murrah). The trio decide to form a band and in the process
discover true friendship and their own paths to happiness.
The small coastal town of Tickle Head is in
desperate need of employment. With the fishing
industry decimated, the local population are
living off benefits or leaving for opportunities on
the mainland. The only hope to save the harbour
and their way of life is if they can secure the
contract for a new waste reprocessing plant.
There’s only one hitch, they have to have a
doctor in permanent residence. So when a
young cocky plastic surgeon (Taylor Kitsch) turns
up for a month’s residency, local Mayor Murray
(Brendan Gleeson) concocts an eloborate plan
to ensure that the doctor will fall in love with the
place and want to stay. The entire community
is engaged in the exercise – pretending to love
cricket instead of ice hockey, leaving dollar bills
for the doctor to find on the ground, trying to
cater for his every whim.
Originally set in Northern Quebec, Don McKellar
relocates the action to Newfoundland (where the
accent is a mixture of Irish, Scottish and Swedish
lilts) but leaves pretty much everything else intact
including plot, humour and charm. This is not a
groundbreaking film but it is absolutely charming
and laugh-out-loud funny.
Dir: Don McKellar
Canada 2013 / 1h53m / Digital / 12A
Senior Citizen Kane Club screening
Thu 11 September 10:30
Belle and Sebastian fans won’t be disappointed with this
gentle, yes, slightly twee coming-of-age story. Murdoch is
clearly a lover of cinema history and there are plenty of nods
to other films for you to spot along the way. The soundtrack
isn’t as memorable as it might have been, but it’s a very
pleasant way to spend an afternoon.
Dir: Stuart Murdoch
UK 2013 / 1h51m / Digital / 15
Bring a Baby Screening Thu 11 September 10:30
12 www.dca.org.uk
Tickets 01382 909 900 13
New Films
Dundead Double Bill
Two terrifying films for one
shockingly low price – £7.
A Night at the Cinema 1914
Fri 1 August, 18:00
Cinema a century ago was a new, exciting and highly
democratic form of entertainment. Picture houses
nationwide offered a sociable, lively environment in
which to relax and escape from the daily grind.
With feature films still rare, the programme was an
entertaining, ever-changing roster of short items with
live musical accompaniment. One hundred years on,
this special compilation from the BFI National Archive
recreates the glorious miscellany of comedies, dramas,
travelogues and newsreels which would have
constituted a typical night out in 1914, including a
comic short about a face-pulling competition, a
sensational episode of The Perils of Pauline, scenes
of Allied troops celebrating Christmas at the Front
and an early sighting of one of cinema’s greatest icons.
Dirs: Various
UK / USA 1914 / 1h25m / Digital / U
Bicycle
Sun 24 – Mon 25 August
In 2012, the British Cycling team won seven gold
medals out of ten events at the Olympics. In the same
year, Bradley Wiggins became the first Briton to win
cycling’s ultimate prize – The Tour de France. In 2013
that success continued with Chris Froome winning the
100th edition of the Tour De France. Meanwhile, on the
streets, more and more people are taking to their bikes
and braving a transport infrastructure that has long
forgotten self-propulsion on two wheels. Cycling in
Britain, it would appear, has never been so popular.
Bicycle tells the story of cycling in the land that
invented the modern bicycle, its birth, decline and
rebirth from Victorian origins to today. Featuring the
finest components from archive to contributors and live
action from cycling culture now, Bicycle is a humorous,
lyrical and a warm reflection on cycling and its place
in the national psyche. It also asks if our green and
pleasant land could be re-turfed, at least in part, for
those who wish to make their way under their own
steam? The dream starts here.
Patrick
Dead Kids
Sun 3 August, 20:00
“One of the best horror movies you've never seen,” is how
Fangoria describes Dead Kids, also known as Strange
Behaviour. When a young woman is attacked by a
knife-wielding maniac and her date murdered before her
eyes, the sleepy town of Galesburg is shaken to its very
core. When another body is discovered horribly mutilated,
panic spreads throughout the community. Sheriff Brady
believes it has something to do with the local university,
which years previously was scandalised by the strange
experiments of the late Dr. Le Sange. What Brady does
not know is his son Pete has agreed to be a paid research
subject. One of the experiments involves mind control,
which turns the subject into a programmed killer. Dead
Kids features a hypnotic music score by Tangerine Dream
and is co-written by Bill Condon, who went on to become
the Oscar-winning director of God and Monsters.
Dundead presents an Ozploitation Double Bill! In
conjunction with the UK release of Patrick – Evil Awakens
remake this month, here is the 1978 original which is
considered a classic of the horror genre. Taking up a nursing
position at a private hospital, Kathy becomes particularly
interested in a clinically comatose patient named Patrick.
This mysterious young man has been in this state since
causing the death of his abusive mother. While her
colleagues consider Patrick to be completely brain dead,
Kathy starts to believe otherwise. A series of strange and
unexplained incidents begin happening to people in
Kathy's life, and it soon becomes apparent that Patrick
has telepathic powers as well as an obsessive affection
for her. As a recent review in DVD Drive-In put it, Patrick is
“the king of Ozploitation films” and is “stylistically indebted
to Alfred Hitchcock” in its clever staging of shock and
suspense sequences.
Dir: Richard Franklin
Dir: Michael Laughlin
New Zealand 1981 / 1h41m / Digital / English / 18
Australia 1978 / 1h52m / Digital / English / 15
Dir: Michael B Clifford
UK 2014 / 1h30m / Digital / cert tbc
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diary
Day / Film
Times
Day / Film
Times
Sun 3 August
Seve
The House of Magic 2D
Joe
Jealousy
OZploitation Double Bill
10:30/15:30
11:00
13:00
13:00/18:00/20:30
15:00
18:00
20:00
Mon 4 August
Joe
Jealousy
13:00
13:00/18:00/20:30
15:00
15:30/20:30
18:00
Tue 5 August
Joe
The List
Jealousy
13:00
13:00/18:00/20:30
15:00
15:30
18:00
20:30
Wed 6 August
Joe
Jealousy
13:00
13:00/18:00/20:30
15:00
15:30/20:30
18:00
Thu 7 August
Joe
Jealousy
10:30/15:30/20:30
10:30 /13:00/18:00/20:30
13:00
15:00
18:00
10:30/13:00/15:00
10:30/13:15/18:00
15:45/20:30
17:00/20:15
Fri 8 August
Guardians of the Galaxy 3D
The Unbeatables 2D
The Unbeatables 3D
Joe
All This Mayhem
13:00/18:00
13:00
15:30/20:30
15:30
18:00
20:30
13:00
13:00/18:00/20:30
15:00
15:30
18:00
20:30
Sat 9 August
The Unbeatables 2D
The Unbeatables 3D
Local Hero
All This Mayhem
Fri 25 July
Believe
Begin Again
Grand Central
Boyhood
13:00/15:00
13:15/18:00
15:45/20:30
17:00/20:15
Sat 26 July
Believe
Begin Again
Grand Central
Springtime in a Small Town
Boyhood
13:00
13:15/18:00
15:45/20:30
15:00
17:00/20:15
Sun 27 July
Willow and Wind
Believe
Begin Again
Grand Central
Boyhood
A Hard Days Night
11:00
13:00/15:00
13:15/18:00
15:45/20:30
17:00
20:30
Mon 28 July
Believe
Begin Again
Grand Central
Boyhood
13:00/15:00
13:15/18:00
15:45/20:30
17:00/20:15
Tue 29 July
Believe
Begin Again
Grand Central
Boyhood
13:00/15:00
13:15/18:00
15:45/20:30
17:00/20:15
Wed 30 July
Believe
Begin Again
Grand Central
Boyhood
13:00/15:00
13:15/18:00
15:45/20:30
17:00/20:15
Thu 31 July
Believe
Begin Again
Grand Central
Boyhood
Fri 1 August
Joe
A Night at the Cinema
Jealousy
Sat 2 August
Joe
House of Magic 3D
Some Like it Hot
Jealousy
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Key
Bring a Baby screening
Senior Citizen Kane Club screening
Performance Screening
Discovery Family Film Club
Subtitled screening
13:00
13:00/18:00/20:30
15:00
15:30
18:00
20:30
Sun 10 August
All This Mayhem
The Unbeatables 2D
The Unbeatables 3D
Glyndebourne: La Traviata
Joe
13:00/18:00
13:00
15:30/20:30
15:30
18:00
20:30
10:30/18:00
10:30/15:30
13:00/20:30
13:00
15:15
17:30
21:00
Day / Film
Times
Mon 11 August
The Unbeatables 2D
The Unbeatables 3D
Joe
All This Mayhem
13:00/18:00
13:00
15:30/20:30
15:30
18:00
20:30
Tue 12 August
The Unbeatables 2D
The Unbeatables 3D
Joe
All This Mayhem
13:00/18:00
13:00
15:30/20:30
15:30
18:00
20:30
Wed 13 August
The Unbeatables 2D
The Unbeatables 3D
Joe
All This Mayhem
13:00/18:00
13:00
15:30/20:30
15:30
18:00
20:30
Thu 14 August
Joe
The Unbeatables 2D
The Unbeatables 3D
All This Mayhem
Zabriskie Point
10:30/17:00
10:30/13:00
13:00/18:00
15:00
15:30/20:30
19:30
21:45
Fri 15 August
The Unbeatables 2D
The Unbeatables 3D
Blood Ties
Mood Indigo
13:00
13:15
15:30
15:30/20:30
18:00
18:00/20:45
Sat 16 August
The Unbeatables 2D
Blood Ties
The Unbeatables 3D
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Mood Indigo
13:00
13:15
15:30/20:30
15:30
18:00
18:00
20:45
Sun 17 August
The Lady From Shanghai
The Unbeatables 2D
Blood Ties
The Unbeatables 3D
Mood Indigo
11:00
13:00
13:15
15:30/20:30
15:30
18:00
18:00/20:45
Mon 18 August
Mood Indigo
Blood Ties
Supermensch
13:00
13:00/18:00
15:30/20:30
15:45/20:45
18:00 (tbc)
Day / Film
Times
Tue 19 August
Mood Indigo
Blood Ties
Supermensch
13:00
13:00/18:00
15:30/20:30
15:45/20:45
18:00
Wed 20 August
Mood Indigo
Blood Ties
Supermensch
13:00
13:00/18:00
15:30/20:30
15:45/20:45
18:00
Thu 21 August
Mood Indigo
Blood Ties
Supermensch
10:30/18:00
10:30/13:00/18:00
13:00
15:30/20:30
15:45/20:45
Fri 22 August
The Rover
Two Days, One Night
God’s Pocket
13:00/20:45
14:00/16:00/18:30/20:30
15:30/18:15
Sat 23 August
Two Days, One Night
The Deer Hunter
DJCAD MSc Animation
God’s Pocket
The Rover
13:00/18:30/20:30
13:00
15:00
16:30/18:30
20:45
Sun 24 August
Two Days, One Night
Bicycle
The Rover
God’s Pocket
Trainspotting
10:30/13:00/15:45/18:30
11:00/ 15:30
13:00/ 20:45
18:00
20:00
Mon 25 Aug
Two Days, One Night
The Rover
God’s Pocket
Bicycle
13:00/15:45/18:30/20:30
13:00/ 20:45
15:30
18:15
Tue 26 August
The Rover
Two Days, One Night
God’s Pocket
13:00/ 20:45
13:00/15:45/18:30/20:30
15:30/18:15
Wed 27 August
The Rover
Two Days, One Night
God’s Pocket
13:00/ 20:45
13:00/18:30/20:30
15:30/18:15
Thu 28 August
Two Days, One Night
God’s Pocket
The Rover
10:30/13:00/15:45
18:30/20:30
10:30/15:30/18:15
13:00/ 20:45
Fri 29 August
Two Days, One Night
The Rover
The Congress
Sin City 2 3D
13:15/18:00
15:30/20:30
15:45/18:15
20:45
Tickets 01382 909 900 17
Day / Film
Times
Sat 30 August
Two Days, One Night
The Congress
The Rover
Sin City 2 2D
From Scotland with Love
Sin City 2 3D
13:15/18:00
13:15/18:15
15:30
15:45
20:30
20:45
Sun 31 August
The Congress
Two Days, One Night
The Rover
Sin City 2 2D
Sin City 2 3D
10:30/13:15/18:15
11:00/13:15/18:00
15:30/20:30
15:45
20:45
Day / Film
Times
Sat 6 September
The Grand Seduction
God Help the Girl
Your Cheatin’ Heart with Q&A
I am Divine
Sin City 2 2D
Sin City 2 3D
12:30/20:30
13:15/18:15
15:00
18:15
15:45
20:45
Sun 7 September
God Help the Girl
The Grand Seduction
Your Cheatin’ Heart
Sin City 2 2D
Polyester
Sin City 2 3D
10:30/13:15/18:15
11:00/18:15
15:00
15:45
20:30
20:45
Mon 1 September
The Congress
Two Days, One Night
The Rover
Sin City 2 2D
Sin City 2 3D
13:15/18:15
13:15/18:00
15:30/20:30
15:45
20:45
Mon 8 September
The Grand Seduction
God Help the Girl
Sin City 2 2D
Hermitage Revealed
Sin City 2 3D
13:00/15:30/20:30
13:15/18:15
15:45
18:00
20:45
Tue 2 September
The Congress
Two Days, One Night
The Rover
Sin City 2 2D
Sin City 2 3D
13:15/18:15
13:15/18:00
15:30/20:30
15:45
20:45
Tue 9 September
The Grand Seduction
Sin City 2 3D
God Help the Girl
Sin City 2
13:00/15:30/18:00/20:30
13:15
15:45/20:45
18:00
Wed 3 September
The Congress
Two Days, One Night
The Rover
Sin City 2 2D
RSC Live: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Sin City 2 3D
13:15/18:00
13:15
15:30/20:30
15:45
19:00
22:15
The Grand Seduction
Sin City 2 2D
God Help the Girl
Sin City 2 3D
Thu 4 September
The Congress
The Rover
Sin City 2 2D
Two Days, One Night
NT Live: Medea
Sin City 2 3D
10:30/13:15/15:30/22:00
13:15/20:00
15:45
18:00
19:00
22:00
Fri 5 September
The Grand Seduction
God Help the Girl
I am Divine
Sin City 2 2D
Sin City 2 3D
13:00/18:00/20:30
13:15/18:15
15:30
15:45
20:45
God Help the Girl
Sin City 2 2D
Sin City 2 3D
Sat 23 August, 15:00
Join us for a special screening of the work from this
year’s MSc in Animation & Visualisation course as part
of the 2014 Masters Show at Duncan of Jordanstone
College of Art & Design. The MSc in Animation &
Visualisation at DJCAD is an exciting masters
course which allows a much broader interpretation
of traditional animation. The short films are the
culmination of the year-long course, and showcases
a wide variety of styles and genres including 2D/3D
animation, live action, compositing, VFX and
visualisation. The screening also includes the Going
Live project, Concerning Dragons, which was run in
conjunction with Axis Animation in Glasgow. Staff
and students from the course will be on hand after
the screening for a short Q&A session.
Dir: Various
Wed 10 September
Thu 11 September
The Grand Seduction
DJCAD MSc in Animation &
Visualisation Screening
13:00/15:30/18:00/20:30
13:15
15:45/20:45
18:00
10:30/13:00/15:30
18:00/20:30
10:30/13:15/18:15
15:45
20:45
Accessible Screenings
Audio description is available for all screenings of Sin City 2 and Guardians of The Galaxy (tbc).
The following screenings will also have subtitles:
Guardians of The Galaxy Mon 18 August, 18:00 (tbc) Sin City 2 Tue 9 September, 18:00
UK 2014 / 1h / Digital / 15
Calling All Young Film Fans!
Plans are in place for this year’s Discovery Film School
Dundee (DFSD). Open to young people aged 16 to 19,
DFSD offers film enthusiasts the chance to work with
professional artists over three months to learn the film
process, from generating ideas right through to shooting,
editing and screening a finished film at DCA.
Created in partnership with the BFI, the film academy offers
a hands-on opportunity to develop practical knowledge
and skills, as well as explore your own creativity and
passions in a supportive and dynamic environment. Using
state of the art industry equipment, guided by highly skilled
and experienced practitioners, participants will benefit from
over 100 hours of training and guidance.
The course will run over 14 weeks including Thursday
evenings and weekends, between Thu 2 October 2014
and Thu 29 January 2015.
This opportunity is open to any young person in the region aged between 16 and 19 who is passionate about the
world of film. No experience of practical filmmaking is required, but applicants are expected to be able to demonstrate
their interest in film and a commitment to the project.
The cost to participate in the BFI Film Academy delivered by Discovery Film School Dundee is £25, with bursaries
available for anyone in need of assistance.
Have a look at what last year’s participants experienced here: http://bit.ly/discoveryfsd
Register your interest now by e-mailing [email protected] and we will send you the full information pack.
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Tickets 01382 909 900 19
To See Oursels
2014 is a big year for Scotland: To See Oursels offers you an opportunity tae think again about
questions of Scottish history, culture and identity through film. A diverse range of classic Scottish
film and TV drama screenings, programme notes, expert introductions and panel discussions shine
a spotlight on some of the key ways in which Scotland has understood itself. Supported by Film Hub
Scotland, part of the BFI's Film Audience Network.
The Cheviot, the Stag and
the Black, Black Oil
A dazzling (and enduring topical) reminder that politics
can be entertaining – and entertainment can be political.
Capitalising on the remarkable popular success of
playwright John McGrath’s touring production of the
same name, this 1974 television film (broadcast as a
BBC Play for Today) surveys two centuries of Scottish
history from the Battle of Culloden to the coming of
North Sea oil. Questions about a small nation’s ability
to resist wholesale exploitation at the hands of
multinational capital and age-old seats of political
privilege have rarely been asked with such passion,
historical insight and dramatic skill.
Dir: John Mackenzie
UK 1974/ 1h30m / Digital / 12A
Local Hero
Sat 9 August, 18:00
Writer/director Bill Forsyth’s third feature is one of
the funniest culture-clash comedies in cinema history.
Described by its maker as “Apocalypse Now meets
Brigadoon”, Local Hero both celebrates and
subverts a laundry list of Scottish stereotypes. When
a materialistic American corporate executive arrives
in Scotland with the aim of turning a huge stretch of
unspoilt northern coastline into a gigantic petrochemical
refinery, the economics of oil go head to head against
the enchantment of Highland culture and mythology.
A movie warm enough to melt the heart of Donald Trump.
Followed by a Q&A with director Bill Forsyth
exploring the film’s comic subversion of
Scottish stereotypes.
Dir: Bill Forsyth
UK 1983 / 1h49m / 35mm / PG
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Trainspotting
The film that made an entire generation
of local cinemagoers dare to think it
was alright (not sh*te) being Scottish.
A motley crew of Edinburgh junkies
trade heroin and low blows in Irvine
Welsh’s exuberantly unreliable memoir
of 1980s and early-’90s drug culture in
working-class Edinburgh. Rarely can
one movie have launched so many
top-flight filmmaking careers: some
twenty years on, Trainspotting remains
a notable high point on the cinematic
CVs of director Danny Boyle and
actors Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald,
Ewan McGregor, Kevin McKidd and
Peter Mullan.
Introduced by Dr Jonny Murray,
Senior Lecturer in Film and Visual
Culture at Edinburgh College of Art,
who will explore the film’s assertion
that ‘It’s sh*te being Scottish’.
Dir: James Erskine
UK 2013 / 1h34m / 35mm / 15
From Scotland
With Love: With
live appearance
by King Creosote
Made entirely of Scottish film archive
footage, From Scotland With Love is a
feature film by award-winning director
Virginia Heath with a transcendent
score by Scottish musician and
composer King Creosote. A journey
into our collective past, the film
explores universal themes of love,
loss, resistance, migration, work and
play. Ordinary people, some long since
dead, their names and identities largely
forgotten, appear shimmering from the
depth of the vaults to take a starring
role. Brilliantly edited together, these
silent individuals become composite
characters, who emerge to tell us their
stories, given voice by King Creosote’s
poetic music and lyrics.
This screening will be followed by
a Q&A with director Virginia Heath
and composer King Creosote. King
Creosote will also perform music
from the soundtrack.
Your Cheatin’
Heart
Sat 6 & Sun 7 September
Hardly seen since its first (and to date,
only) television broadcast in 1990, and
still commercially unavailable on DVD,
writer John Byrne’s six-part follow-up
to the much-lauded Tutti Frutti (1987)
is the great lost treasure in the history
of Scottish television drama. Tilda
Swinton, Eddi Reader, Ken Stott and
John Gordon Sinclair star in an acutely
observed tale of love and criminality in
Country-and-Western-obsessed
Glasgow, a Western frontier town
overrun by Johnstone (as opposed to
rhinestone) cowboys.
The screening on Sat 6 September
will be followed by a Q&A with writer
and artist John Byrne.
Dir: Michael Whyte
UK 1990 / 6 x 50m episodes
Digital / 15
Dir: Virginia Heath
UK 2014 / 1h15m / Digital / cert tbc
Tickets 01382 909 900 21
Performance Screenings
Stellar Quines: The List
Tue 5 August, 18:00
In 2013 Stellar Quines set out to discover how a mid-scale theatre
company can reach a larger audience in the cinema.
Restaging their award-winning Edinburgh Festival Fringe
production The List Stellar Quines commissioned BAFTA-winning
film director Morag McKinnon to work alongside the company’s
Artistic Director Muriel Romanes to produce a cinema version of
the play. Their aim was to create a filmed experience that didn’t
compromise the live-ness and intimacy of the actor’s relationship
with an audience.
The List film, produced in association with Screen Academy
Scotland at Edinburgh Napier University, transforms the intimacy
of live theatre directly onto the big screen.
Approximate running time: 50m
Tickets £5
RSC Live:
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Wed 3 September, 19:00
Valentine and Proteus are best friends, until they fall in love with
the same girl. Having travelled to Milan in search of adventure,
they both fall for the Duke’s daughter Silvia. With friendship
forgotten, the rivals’ affections quickly get out of hand as the
young lovers find themselves on a wild chase through the woods,
confused by mistaken identity and threatened by fierce outlaws
before they find a path to reconciliation.
Simon Godwin makes his RSC debut to direct Shakespeare’s
exuberant romantic comedy. This is the first time in 45 years The
Two Gentlemen of Verona has been performed in full production
on the Royal Shakespeare Theatre stage.
Approximate running time: 3h
Tickets £15 (£12 under 15s)
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Glyndebourne Opera:
La Traviata (Live)
Sun 10 August, 17:30
At one of her brilliant parties, the beautiful but frail Violetta Valéry
meets the well-born Alfredo Germont. Falling deeply in love, she
abandons her life of pleasure for one with Alfredo. But their idyllic
existence is forever shattered when his father arrives to demand
that the relationship comes to an end.
In La Traviata, we hear Verdi’s music naturally evolving to
accommodate the growing realism of his characters and
settings. This live performance features Russian soprano Venera
Gimadieva opposite American tenor Michael Fabiano in their
Glyndebourne debut.
Approximate running time: 2h30m
National Theatre Live: Medea
Thu 4 September, 19:00
Helen McCrory (The Last of the Haussmans) returns to the
National Theatre to take the title role in Euripides’ powerful tragedy,
in a new version by Ben Power, directed by Carrie Cracknell.
Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband,
Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when
he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment
and separation from her children. She exacts an appalling revenge
and destroys everything she holds dear.
Hermitage Revealed
Mon 8 September 18:00
In 2014 the Hermitage celebrates its 250th anniversary. To mark
this momentous occasion, Hermitage Revealed takes audiences
on a thrilling journey through the Museum’s tumultuous history,
from imperial palace to state museum.
Nick Cave:
20,000 Days On Earth
Wed 17 September, 19:00
20,000 Days On Earth is a bold vision of one of music’s most
mysterious and charismatic figures: Nick Cave. In their debut
feature directors Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard fuse drama and
documentary by weaving a cinematically staged day in Cave’s
life with never-before-seen footage of his full creative cycle.
Offering unprecedented access to special collections and
exclusive areas of the museum, Hermitage Revealed brings
together the world’s finest treasures and their unique stories
with an intimacy and immediacy no museum or gallery can match.
It also reveals the human stories behind this great art institution
and the stories of Russia herself – stories of dedication, politics,
hardship and ultimate sacrifice.
Avowedly neither a music documentary nor a concert film, 20,000
Days On Earth contains electrifying performances alongside
interviews from Warren Ellis, Ray Winstone and Kylie Minogue,
celebrating the transformative power of the creative spirit.
Tickets £12 (£9 under 21s & students)
Tickets £12.50 (£9 under 21s & students)
Salomé & Wilde Salomé with
Live Al Pacino Q&A
Billy Elliot the Musical Live
Sun 21 September, 16:00
Al Pacino directs and stars in Oscar Wilde's once banned and
most controversial work Salomé, a scintillating tale of lust, greed
and one woman's scorn. At a birthday feast for King Herod (Al
Pacino), his stepdaughter, princess Salome (Jessica Chastain)
discovers the imprisoned John the Baptist and is immediately
infatuated with him. Rebuffed by the prisoner, she entices her
lecherous stepfather with the promise of completing the erotic
Dance of the Seven Veils, if the King will grant her one wish.
The performance will be followed by a screening of the
documentary Wilde Salomé, in which Al Pacino takes us on a
personal journey as he unravels and re-interprets the play. Using
a mix of documentary, fiction and improvisation, the viewer gets
a rare look inside the mind of one our greatest actors.
Following the presentation of both films, Stephen Fry will host a
question and answer session with Pacino at BFI Southbank.
Sun 28 September, 14:00
Live from London’s West End this special performance brings
multi award-winning Billy Elliot the Musical to cinemas for the first
time. Set in a northern mining town, against the background of the
1984/‘85 miners’ strike, this is the inspirational story of a young
boy’s struggle against the odds to make his dream come true.
Follow Billy as he stumbles out of the boxing ring and into a ballet
class, discovering a passion for dance that inspires his family and
whole community and changes his life forever.
With the film’s original creative team, writer Lee Hall (book and
lyrics), director Stephen Daldry, and choreographer Peter Darling,
with music by legend Elton John, this is a must see musical.
Funny, uplifting and a spectacular theatrical experience, Billy
Elliot the Musical will stay with you forever.
Tickets 01382 909 900 23
DISCOVERY SUMMER FAMILY FILMS
Tickets for under 21s are £4.50 and a family ticket for four costs £15. Children under the age of 12 must
be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
The House of Magic
Thunder, an abandoned young cat seeking shelter from a
storm, stumbles into the strangest house imaginable, owned
by an old magician and inhabited by a dazzling array of
automatons and gizmos. Not everyone welcomes the new
addition to the troupe as Jack Rabbit and Maggie Mouse plot
to evict Thunder. The situation gets worse when the magician
lands in hospital and his scheming nephew sees his chance to
cash in by selling the mansion. Our young hero is determined
to earn his place and so he enlists the help of some wacky
magician’s assistants to protect his magical new home.
Dirs: Jeremy Degruson, Ben Stassen
Believe
Although it isn’t a new idea in terms of family films (a group
of motley underdogs in search of victory brings to mind such
classics as The Bad News Bears and The Mighty Ducks), this
football inspired film is a charming and welcome addition to
the canon, and you don’t need to be interested in the sport
to enjoy it.
Inspired by true events, Believe opens in Manchester circa
1984. Young scamp Georgie (Jack Smith) is always getting
into trouble, but he’s pretty good with a football and his fancy
footwork and clever pickpocketing skills catch the eye of former Manchester United coach Sir Matt Busby (Dundee’s own
Brian Cox). Atlhough he could hand him over to the police,
Busby takes a shine to Georgie and makes a deal with him to
coach the local team of under-12 players. Unaware that their
new manager is a footballing legend, the lads start to improve.
But Georgie’s footballing passion is getting in the way of his
chance at a scholarship to a first rate school and pretty soon
he’s going to have to make a choice between the chance to
better himself and the game he loves.
Newcomer Smith is a terrific find (from an open casting call)
and Cox is as solid as ever, giving Busby a quiet authority
without sweeping the melancholy of a man who has suffered
great tragedy under the carpet. In the spirit of classic Disney,
this is an old fashioned film with real heart which is a breath of
fresh air in our summer schedule.
Dir: David Scheinmann
UK 2013 / 1h36m / Digital / PG
Bring a Baby Screening Thu 31 July 10:30
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Belgium 2013 / 1h25m / Digital 2D & 3D / U
The Unbeatables
Fri 8 – Sun 17 August
Amadeo (voiced by Rupert Grint) is a shy but talented boy who loves nothing more than playing foosball in his dad’s cafe. When he
beats the town bully called The Champ at a match, he finds to his cost that he has made an enemy for life. Ten years on, his rival
returns for revenge and Amadeo finds himself battling not only for his beloved foosbal table but for the affections of his childhood
sweetheart the fate of his hometown. Help comes from an unlikely source though, as the tiny foosball players come to life in his
moment of need. Guided by the charismatic Right Winger, the foosball players and Amadeo will set off on a great adventure
together, like a true team, to get back the dignity that the Champ stole from them. Football is the stage on which this story of love,
respect, friendship and passion is played out.
Dir: Juan José Campanella
Argentina / Spain / India / USA 2013 / 1h46m / Digital 2D & 3D / U
Bring a Baby Screening Thu 14 August 10:30
Cinema of Childhood
Willow and Wind
Beed-o baad
Sun 27 July, 11:00
A school window is broken, and kids can’t concentrate
because the rain is getting in. The culprit isn’t allowed back
into class until he mends it. So he carries a large pane of
glass by hand across the countryside in a gale. The wind
blows; but will he crack? In the hands of writer Abbas
Kiarostami and director Mohammad Ali Talebi, this simplest
of stories becomes an epic quest, poetic and breathtakingly
beautiful. It has big-hearted humanism, but Hitchcockian
tension too. An edge-of-seat masterpiece. Unmissable.
Dir: Mohammad Ali Talebi
Iran / Japan 1999 / 1h17m / Digital / Persian with
English subtitles / cert tbc
Tickets 01382 909 900 25
Vintage film
Springtime in
a Small Town
A Hard Day’s
Night
Sat 26 July, 15:00
Sun 27 July, 20:30
Fei Mu’s Springtime in a Small Town is
often touted as the greatest Chinese
film ever made, but it has rarely been
shown outside China until Tian
Zhuangzhuang’s extraordinary 2002
remake began to stir up interest. The
result is a film that is as great as its
reputation suggests. Set in an
undisclosed provincial town in the
immediate aftermath of World War II,
the film is narrated by Yuwen, (played
by the always wonderful Wei Wei), a
dutiful housewife whose arranged
marriage to a sickly doctor has left her
lonely and unfulfilled. However, when
her husband’s charismatic best friend,
who also happens to be Yuwen’s old
flame, arrives for a visit, her repressed
passions start to bubble to the surface.
Brilliantly acted and with stunning
direction pitched somewhere between
Italian Neo-Realism and early Bergman,
this is an overlooked masterpiece of
world cinema that no cineaste will want
to miss.
The first of two collaborations between
director Richard Lester and The
Beatles, A Hard Day’s Night was in
many ways the first true meeting of
pop music and cinema and it is almost
certainly still the best. The plot, which
effectively charts the band’s
preparations for a televised concert,
may seem like an excuse to string
together a series of musical
numbers and comic interludes but
there is a lot more going on here than
first meets the eye. The songs are
great, but part of what makes the
film so masterful is the way in which
Lester’s virtuoso editing and
camerawork matches the music in
both energy and invention. Moreover,
the comic scenes, which feature great
work from Wilfrid Brambell and Victor
Spinetti as well as the four witty and
charismatic Mop-Tops, are far more
surreal and satirical than they are given
credit for. Still fresh fifty years on!
Dir: Fei Mu
UK 1964 / 1h27m / Digital / U
China 1948 / 1h38m / Digital
Mandarin with English subtitles / U
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Dir: Richard Lester
Some Like it Hot
Zabriskie Point
Sat 2 August, 15:30
Thu 14 August, 21:45
Some Like it Hot simply gets better
every time you see it. The story, in
which two musicians who accidently
witness a mob execution go on the
run in drag is utterly ridiculous but
Billy Wilder's flawless direction and
a razor-sharp script by Wilder and
IAL Diamond ensure that the film never
degenerates into a camp farce. On the
contrary, Some Like it Hot is still easily
one of the fastest, funniest and finest
comedies ever made. It is aided
immeasurably by a roster of noteperfect comic performances. Jack
Lemmon and Tony Curtis excel as the
two musicians, Marilyn Monroe gives
the performance of her career as the
band's singer, George Raft does a
great self-parody as the mob-boss
and the wonderful Joe E Brown,
playing an ageing millionaire who
falls for Lemmon's "Daphne", may
get the finest curtain line in all of
cinema. This film is pretty near perfect.
A commercial and critical failure upon
its initial release, Zabriskie Point,
Michelangelo Antonioni’s only
American film, is ripe for rediscovery.
Antonioni was accused of not
understanding either his youthful
characters or the 1960s counter-culture
they embodied. However, the film may
simply have been ahead of its time
in realising that, for many, 1960s
radicalism was more about fashion
than genuine commitment. Moreover,
critics failed to realise that Antonioni
was less interested in politics than in
the look of the counter-culture and
the American landscape in which he
situates his student radicals. The end
result is visually stunning and the final
image of an exploding house is
amongst the most memorable in all
of cinema. The brilliant soundtrack,
featuring music by Pink Floyd, Jerry
Garcia and The Rolling Stones,
amongst others, has also ensured
that this underrated film by a cinematic
genius has at least gained a cult
following. Happy Birthday Tom!
Dir: Billy Wilder
USA 1959 / 2h / Digital / U
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni
The Lady from
Shanghai
Sun 17 August, 11:00
The Deer Hunter
Often left off top ten lists in favour of
Citizen Kane or Touch of Evil, Orson
Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai may
in fact be the director’s most enjoyable
movie and his most extraordinary
contribution to film noir. The plot may
make little sense but Welles knew all
too well that hardly matters if the
audience is swept away on a tidal
wave of glamour, sex and death
and enough visual invention for a
dozen normal movies. Indeed, the
expressionist finale in a hall of mirrors
is worth the price of a ticket alone! But
there are many other pleasures: the
performances are a treat; Welles’
voiceover offers a masterclass in
mordant wit; and the casting of his
then wife, Rita Hayworth, as a
merciless (and blonde) femme fatale
adds yet another layer of playfulness
and complexity to this already denselypacked and infinitely watchable film.
A year after the restoration of Michael
Cimino's extraordinary Heaven's Gate
here's a chance to see the new digital
print of the director's other, far betterknown masterpiece: The Deer Hunter.
Although many cite Apocalypse Now
as the great American film about the
Vietnam War, The Deer Hunter is in
many ways the better work. Indeed,
despite its epic length, it is free from
the self-indulgence of Coppola's film
and, in detailing the experiences of the
civilians on the home front alongside
those of combatants before, during
and after battle, it has more complex
things to say about a nation at war.
According to the film's star, Robert
DeNiro, this was the most emotionally
and physically exhausting film of his
career, and it shows. The Deer Hunter
remains a film of rare poignancy and
intensity, brilliantly acted, not least
by DeNiro and an Oscar-winning
Christopher Walker, and masterfully
directed by Cimino.
Dir: Orson Welles
Dir: Michael Cimino
USA 1947 / 1h27m Digital / PG
UK / USA 1978 / 3h2m / Digital / 18
USA 1970 / 1h50m / Digital / 18
Tickets 01382 909 900 27
Documentary
Seve
Polyester
Sun 3 August, 10:30 & 15:30
Sun 7 September
Seve combines dramatic recreations with electrifying
archive footage to tell his incredible rags to riches story;
from humble beginnings on the beaches of Spain –
where age six Severiano Ballesteros taught himself the
game with a broken three iron strapped to a stick – to
becoming world number one. Despite being blocked
at almost every turn in pursuit of the sport he loved,
Ballesteros fought against adversity to become the
most spectacular and charismatic golfer to ever play
the game.
Still fresh with the sweet smell of success after a
triumphant return to Cannes, John Waters' cult hit,
Polyester, will be screening at DCA in a special
Odorama version complete with souvenir scratch
'n' sniff cards for every audience member. Endlessly
inventive in his quest to shock, here Waters has
produced an outrageous visual, aural and olfactory
assault on both sense and sensibility.
Meet Francine Fishpaw, tortured suburban housewife.
With a pornographer husband, a pregnant teenage
daughter and a son with a foot-stomping fetish, Francine
smells trouble around every corner. That is, until she
meets and falls madly in love with Todd Tomorrow.
Dir: John-Paul Davidson
UK / Spain 2013 / 2h4m / Digital / PG
Dir: John Waters
USA 1981 / 1h26m / Digital Odorama / 15
Finding Vivian Maier is the critically acclaimed
documentary about a mysterious nanny, who secretly
took over 100,000 photographs that were hidden in
storage lockers and discovered decades later, and
who is now among the 20th century’s greatest
photographers. Strange and riveting, her life and art are
revealed through never before seen photographs, films
and interviews with dozens who thought they knew her.
Maier’s massive body of work would come to light when
in 2007 her photographs were discovered at a local thrift
auction house on Chicago’s Northwest Side. From there,
it would eventually impact the world over and change
the life of the man who championed her work, filmmaker
John Maloof.
Dirs: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
USA 2013 / 1h24m / Digital / 12A
Senior Citizen Kane Club Screening Thu 7 August 10:30
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I Am Divine
Fri 5 & Sat 6 September
I Am Divine is the definitive biographical portrait of Harris
Glenn Milstead, a.k.a. Divine, and honours him in just the
way he always craved – as a serious artist and immortal
star. Like the characters he portrayed in numerous films,
Divine was the ultimate outsider. He transformed himself
from a bullied schoolyard fat kid to a larger-than-life
personality and underdog royalty as his alter-ego Divine.
Divine stood up for millions of gay men and women,
female impersonators, punk rockers, the ample figured
and countless other socially ostracized people. With a
completely committed in-your-face style, he blurred
the line between performer and personality and
revolutionized pop culture.
Dir: Jeffrey Schwarz
USA 2013 / 1h30m / Digital / 15
Tickets 01382 909 900 29
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
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Tickets 01382 909 900 31
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 before 17:00
£7 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
Sun £5 all day
Mon – Fri £5 before 17:00
Un-waged
Mon £5 all day
Mon – Fri £5 before 17:00
Under 15s
Sun £4.50 all day
Mon – Fri £4.50 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
A chance for cinema-goers over 60 to gather and enjoy film together – £4.50
Bring a Baby Screenings
For those with babies under 12 months old – £4.50
Discovery Family Film Club
£4.50 under 21s
£5.50 over 21s
Family ticket for four people £15.00
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.
Dundee Contemporary Arts
152 Nethergate
Dundee DD1 4DY
Tel 01382 909 900
Email [email protected]
Web www.dca.org.uk
Registered Charity no: SC026631
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