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Belmont Filmhouse Explorer

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I had a friend at school who used to say that Harry Dean Stanton had never been in a bad film. Even 15 years ago, that is quite the claim. Harry Dean Stanton has been in a lot of films. I’m not sure if it truly stands up to scrutiny. Firstly, I haven’t seen every film that Harry Dean Stanton has been in. Secondly, he was in Steven Seagal vehicle Fire Down Below, which I have seen – unfortunately. There are certainly lots of greats in there. The Godfather: Part II, Alien, Escape From L.A, Paris, Texas. As filmographies go it’s pretty strong. So to an extent I’m willing to buy into the mythology of Harry Dean Stanton as a slightly crumbly, mumbly purveyor of all good taste, identifying scripts at source and moving mechanisms to bring them to the fore. Not unlike the old Belmont, some might say. We’ll see if new release Lucky, with former crewmate Tom Skerritt and David Lynch, joins the true elite roles on his CV; or if it’s just not a bad film.

Lucky joins a smashing brochure for September and October. Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce dazzle in The Wife, which has picked up super reviews since premiering in Toronto. Desiree Akhavan returns with her second feature with The Miseducation of Cameron Post. Ryan Gosling takes a voyage to the moon as Neil Armstrong in Damien (La La Land, Whiplash) Chazelle’s First Man. The great Agnès Varda, at 90, releases Faces Places. We’ve packaged it with a short season of her best work so far, too.

Park Circus have done us a considerable service by re-issuing The Godfather, and we’ll also show The Godfather Part II so you can decide if it truly is the best sequel of all time (and if it is better than the first!). Both are still an utter pleasure and if you haven’t seen either on the big screen now is the time. Another unmissable re-issue is the one-night-only 20th anniversary showing of The Big Lebowski.

Speaking of Coppolas, Nic Cage returns with the outrageous Mandy (think Drive meets Kill List meets The Wicker Man) and if that doesn’t give you your monthly fill of electro-tinged jawdroppers, Gaspar Noé is back with ‘musical horror’ Climax. We’ve also hooked up with two great local festivals, True North and Aberdeen Comedy Festival - laying on screenings to complement their excellent programmes. Lastly, we’ve bumped up the Kino Bar to an hearty eleven screenings through this brochure, which kicks off with a Freshers’ week weekender (non-students welcome!) and is followed by an amazing collection that includes Alien, Predator, The Royal Tenenbaums , The Silence Of The Lambs and Tim Burton’s Batman. Colin Farquhar, Head of Cinema Operations

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Index

ACCESS/AUDIO DESC./CAPTIONED 23

BABY & CARER SCREENINGS 23

SCREENING DATES AND TIMES 12-14

1945 7

Aberdeen Comedy Festival 10

Agnès Varda 19

Alien 17

American Animals 5

Batman 18

The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales 20

The Big Lebowski 10

Black 47 8

Bridesmaids 10

Christopher Robin 21

Cleo from 5 to 7 19

Climax 6

Columbus 8

Culture Cafes 15

Dogman 8

Education and Learning 22

Faces Places 6

Fantasia (Relaxed Screening) 20

Filmhouse Junior 20-21

First Man 7

Ghost World 17

The Giant Pear 20

The Godfather 9

The Godfather: Part II 9

King of Thieves 4

Kino Bar 16-18

Le bonheur 19

The Little Stranger 5

Lucky 4

Mandy 8

The Man Who Fell to Earth 9

The Miseducation of Cameron Post 4

NAE PASARAN! 9

Napoleon Dynamite 16

NT Live: King Lear 11

One Sings, the Other Doesn’t 19

The Perks of Being a Wallflower 16

Paddington 21

Peterloo 10

Predator 17

Pulp Fiction 16

Puzzle 4

The Rider 5

ROH Live: Mayerling 11

The Royal Tenenbaums 18

The Silence of the Lambs 18

Spice World 10

A Star is Born 7

There’s Something About Mary 18

True North 9

Under the Wire 6

Vagabond 19

The Wife 6

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 21

Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait 17


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KING OF THIEVESFri 14 to Thu 27 Sep

James Marsh • UK 2018 • 1h48m • Digital • 15 - Contains very strong language. Cast: Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, Charlie Cox, Jim Broadbent, Ray Winstone, Paul Whitehouse.

When the Hatton Garden heist took place in 2015, authorities initially thought it was the work of a crack team of ‘super-thieves’. In this entertaining re-telling of the extraordinary story, James Marsh (The Theory of Everything, Shadowdancer) has assembled a cast of some of the most venerable, awards-laden actors available (Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Michael Gambon, Tom Courtenay and Ray Winstone) to play the real thieves - a ragtag bunch of retired crooks who set their sights on one last score...

LUCKYFri 14 to Thu 20 Sep

John Carroll Lynch • USA 2018 • 1h28m • Digital • English and Spanish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains very strong language. Cast: Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston, Ed Begley Jr., Tom Skerritt, Barry Shabaka Henley.

Lucky follows the spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town. Having out lived and out smoked all of his contemporaries, the fiercely independent Lucky finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self exploration, leading towards that which is so often unattainable: enlightenment. John Carroll Lynch’s directorial debut is at once a love letter to the life and career of Harry Dean Stanton as well as a meditation on morality, loneliness, spirituality, and human connection.

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PUZZLEFri 14 to Thu 20 Sep

Marc Turtletaub • USA 2018 • 1h43m • Digital • 12A - Contains strong language. • Cast: Kelly Macdonald, Irrfan Khan, David Denman, Daniel Sherman, Austin Abrams, Bubba Weiler.

Kelly Macdonald stars as Agnes, a suburban mother who has reached her early 40s without ever venturing far from home, family or the tight-knit community in which she was raised. After receiving one as a birthday present, Agnes discovers she is has a natural talent for jigsaw puzzles, and heads to New York in pursuit of a bigger challenge. Upon arrival she meets Robert (Irrfan Khan), a champion puzzler who needs a new partner for a competition. Charming, funny, delicate and brimming with a heart-warming sense of honesty, Puzzle is a gentle gem of a film.

THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POSTFri 14 to Thu 20 Sep

Desiree Akhavan • USA 2018 • 1h31m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, sex, drug misuse • Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz, Jennifer Ehle, Marin Ireland, Sasha Lane.

When teenage Cameron (Chloë Grace Moretz) is caught with another girl on prom night, she is shipped off to God’s Promise, a middle-of-nowhere treatment centre, where she is subjected to dubious ‘conversion therapies’. Despite these “treatments,” Cameron forges a community with her fellow teens, Jane Fonda (Sasha Lane) and Adam Red Eagle (Forrest Goodluck). Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, this is a coming-of-age drama overflowing with standout performances and great characters.

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AMERICAN ANIMALSFri 21 to Thu 27 Sep

Bart Layton • UK/USA 2018 • 1h56m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, threat, drug misuse. • Cast: Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson, Ann Dowd, Udo Kier, Lara Grice.

In 2004, Kentucky university student Spencer (Barry Keoghan) and his friend Warren (Evan Peters) recruit childhood friends Erik (Jared Abrahamson) and Chas (Blake Jenner) to plan the theft of an array of valuable books - including a rare edition of The Birds of America - from the university collections. A haul worth millions. This stranger-than-fiction tale from The Imposter director Bart Layton uses interviews with the real people involved to cleverly and dynamically tell the story of four young men who attempted one of the most audacious art robberies in US history...

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THE LITTLE STRANGERFri 21 Sep to Thu 11 Oct

Lenny Abrahamson • Ireland/UK/France 2018 • 1h51m • Digital 12A - Contains moderate threat, bloody images, infrequent strong language. • Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Charlotte Rampling, Will Poulter, Josh Dylan, Anna Madeley.

Dr. Faraday (Domhnall Gleeson) is the son of a housemaid and has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During the long hot summer of 1948, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. The Hall has been home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries. But it is now in decline and its inhabitants are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. Lenny Abrahamson (Room) directs a stellar cast in this atmospheric adaptation of Sarah Waters’ novel.

THE RIDERFri 28 Sep to Thu 4 Oct

Chloé Zhao • USA 2017 • 1h44m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language. • Cast: Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lily Jandreau, Lane Scott.

After suffering a near fatal head injury, young South Dakota cowboy Brady (played by Brady Jandreau, a rodeo star on whose real-life story the narrative is based) is told he must give up the sport. Without it, he must seek a new identity, exploring what it means to be a man in the heartland. Chloé Zhao’s film blends docudrama, narrative and stunning Terrence Malick-esque cinematography, further enhanced by non-professional, familial casting (Jandreau’s real-life sister and father play Brady’s, and injured rodeo rider Lane Scott plays himself ) in a way that continually integrates the lives of the actors into the film, so they seem to be not so much performing as movingly investigating alternative versions of themselves.

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THE WIFEFri 28 Sep to Thu 11 Oct

Björn Runge • Sweden/USA/UK 2017 • 1h40m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, sex references. • Cast: Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Alix Wilton Regan, Max Irons, Christian Slater, Elizabeth McGovern.

Joan (Glenn Close) has spent forty years sacrificing her own talent and ambitions to support her husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his stellar literary career. Ignoring infidelities and excuses made in the cause of his art, she has put up with his behaviour with grace and humour. On the eve of Joe’s Nobel Prize for Literature, Joan will confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and some long-buried secrets. Based on Meg Wolitzer’s best-seller, The Wife is a poignant, funny and emotional journey, a celebration of womanhood, self-discovery and liberation...

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CLIMAXFri 5 to Mon 8 Oct

Gaspar Noé • France 2018 • 1h36m • Digital • French and English with English subtitles • 18 - Contains strong threat, violence, sex references, drug misuse, very strong language. • Cast: Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile, Giselle Palmer.

As they prepare for a US tour, a huge and diverse troupe of dancers retreat to a grungy rehearsal space to hone their craft, a performance that inevitably leads to a huge after-party - as DJ Daddy takes control of the decks and sangria is served up. What soon becomes apparent, however, is that someone has spiked the punch-bowl with strong hallucinogens, and so reality begins to melt away... Provocateur extraordinaire Gaspar Noé returns with this dizzyingly choreographed and spectacularly shot microcosm of a society in total collapse.

FACES PLACES VISAGES VILLAGESFri 5 to Thu 11 Oct

Agnès Varda, JR • France 2017 • 1h34m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 12A - Contains brief moderate injury detail. • Documentary.

Much as with Varda’s much-loved classic The Gleaners and I, this whimsical road trip through the countryside offers a beautiful meditation on the journey through life and the kindred spirits you meet along the way. 88-year-old Agnès Varda, with her companion, 33-year-old visual artist JR, travel through rural France, meeting different groups of people and creating large-scale portraits plastered across unconventional locations, giving a heartwarming insight into hitherto unnamed communities. A joyous, inspiring ode to humanity and the power of art to capture its essence. See page 19 for more films by Agnès Varda.

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UNDER THE WIREMon 1 & Tue 2 Oct

Christopher Martin • UK 2018 • 1h35m • Digital • 15 - Contains images of real dead bodies and injuries, strong threat, strong language. Documentary.

On 12 February 2012, two journalists entered war-ravaged Syria. One of them was celebrated Sunday Times war correspondent, Marie Colvin. The other was photographer, Paul Conroy. Their aim was to cover the plight of Syrian civilians trapped in Homs, a city under siege and relentless military attack from the Syrian army. Only one of them returned...The testimonies of those involved, woven together with never-before-seen archive footage and in the moment filming, goes deep into the intense, tragic drama of Conroy and Colvin’s journey into Homs.

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FIRST MANFri 12 Oct to Thu 1 Nov

Damien Chazelle • USA 2018 • 2h18m • Digital • cert tbc • Cast: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Christopher Abbott, Ciarán Hinds, Kyle Chandler.

Adapted by Josh Singer (The Post, Spotlight) directly from James R. Hansen’s official biography of the same name, First Man focuses on the years 1961-1969 in the life of Neil A. Armstrong (Ryan Gosling), who walked on the lunar surface before anyone else. Re-teaming Gosling with La La Land collaborator Damien Chazelle, this is a riveting first-person account of the sacrifices, pitfalls and triumphs of one of the most dangerous missions in human history. The 2.30pm showing on Sun 21 October will be a ‘relaxed’ screening, see page 23 for details.

A STAR IS BORNFri 5 to Thu 18 Oct

Bradley Cooper • USA 2018 • 2h15m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, drug misuse. • Cast: Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott, Dave Chappelle, Anthony Ramos, Bonnie Somerville.

Hard-drinking country star Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) is at the end of his tether when, quite unexpectedly, he discovers and falls for Ally (Lady Gaga) - a talented young singer. As he uses his influence to encourage her to step into the limelight, however, their blossoming relationship hits rough waters, and Jackson’s personal demons threaten to destroy them both... Cooper’s directorial debut is in fact the third time A Star is Born has been remade for the screen, over 80 years since the 1937 original version.

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1945Fri 12 to Thu 18 Oct

Ferenc Török • Hungary 2017 • 1h31m • Digital • Hungarian and Russian with English subtitles • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language, moderate sex. • Cast: Peter Rudolf, Bence Tasnadi, Tamas Szabo Kimmel, Dora Sztarenki, Agi Szirtes.

12 August 1945. The inhabitants of a village in rural Soviet-occupied Hungary are preparing for the town clerk’s son’s wedding, when two Orthodox Jewish men arrive at the railway station with two large trunks. As they silently make their way to town, a growing panic spreads amongst some of the more prominent townsfolk... Ferenc Török’s striking monochrome drama - reminiscent of Fred Zinnemann’s masterful High Noon, no less, is a tense, chilling and beautifully nuanced take on a difficult, transitional period in Hungarian history. “A fresh, intelligent cinematic approach to a difficult topic that takes on a transitional time in Hungarian history with subtlety and nuance” - Variety

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BLACK 47Fri 19 to Thu 25 Oct

Lance Daly • Ireland/Luxembourg 2018 • 1h36m • Digital • English and Irish Gaelic with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong violence. Cast: James Frecheville, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Freddie Fox, Barry Keoghan, Sarah Greene, Jim Broadbent.

It’s 1847 and Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine. Feeney (James Frecheville), a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British abroad, abandons his post to return and reunite with his family - only to discover his mother starved to death and his brother hanged by the brutal hand of the occupying English. With little else to live for, he sets on a destructive path to avenge them. Hannah (Hugo Weaving), an ageing soldier and tracker of deserters, is sent to stop Feeney before he can further stoke the fires of revolution...

COLUMBUSFri 19 to Thu 25 Oct

Kogonada • USA 2017 • 1h44m • Digital • English and Korean with English subtitles • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language. Cast: John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker Posey, Rory Culkin.

When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin (John Cho) finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey (Haley Lu Richardson), a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library. As their intimacy develops, Jin and Casey explore both the town and their conflicted emotions: Jin’s estranged relationship with his father, and Casey’s reluctance to leave Columbus and her mother...


MANDYFri 12 to Thu 18 Oct

Panos Cosmatos • USA 2018 • 2h1m • Digital • cert tbc • Cast: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, Bill Duke, Richard Brake.

Somewhere in the primal wilderness in the year 1983, Red Miller (Nicolas Cage) has fallen deeply for the beguiling Mandy Bloom (Andrea Riseborough). But the life he has made for himself comes suddenly and horrifyingly crashing down when a vile band of ravaging idolaters and supernatural creatures penetrate his idyllic paradise with vicious fury. A broken man, Red now lives for one thing only - to hunt down these maniacal villains and exact swift, violent retribution... Panos Cosmatos directs this ecstatic horror/revenge story with aplomb, and Cage is the only one who could have filled the lead role.

DOGMANSun 14 Oct at 6.00pm

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Matteo Garrone • Italy/France 2018 • 1h43m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 - Contains drug misuse and references, strong violence, language. • Cast: Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce.

Dubbed an ‘urban Western’, Dogman takes place in an Italian suburb somewhere between metropolis and wild nature. Marcello (Marcello Fonte), a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone (Edoardo Pesce), a former violent boxer who terrorises the entire neighbourhood. In an effort to reaffirm his dignity, Marcello will submit to an unexpected act of vengeance... The preview on Sun 14 October will screen to celebrate European Art Cinema Day 2018.



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THE GODFATHERFri 21 to Thu 27 Sep

Francis Ford Coppola • USA 1972 • 2h55m • Digital • English and Italian with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong violence. Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton.

Based on the novel by Mario Puzo, The Godfather tells an epic tale of Mafia life in ‘40s/’50s America. Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) is the family patriarch, balancing a love of his family with an ambitious criminal instinct. At the wedding of the Don’s daughter Connie (Talia Shire), youngest son Michael (Al Pacino) is reunited with his family. A subsequent assassination attempt on Vito forces Michael and Sonny (James Caan), with the help of lawyer Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall), to lead the Corleones into a vendetta-filled war with the other families...

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THE GODFATHER: PART IIFri 28 to Sun 30 Sep

Francis Ford Coppola • USA 1974 • 3h22m • Digital • English, Italian, Spanish, Latin and Sicilian with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong violence. • Cast: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Talia Shire.

The masterful follow-up to 1972’s first instalment, breathtaking in its scope, scale, and tragic grandeur. Fleeing Sicily to build a new life in New York, young Vito Corleone (Robert De Niro) quickly learns the best route to the top is to be even more ruthless than the next guy. Meanwhile, half a century later, Vito’s son Michael (an icy and fiery Al Pacino) seeks to consolidate his empire by making dodgy business deals in Cuba, only to find betrayal in the hearts of those he trusts the most.

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THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTHSat 22 Sep at 1.35pm

Nicolas Roeg • UK 1976 • 2h19m • Digital • 18 - Contains strong sex, nudity. • Cast: David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark, Buck Henry.

An alien (David Bowie) crash lands on Earth, seeking help for his drought-stricken planet. By securing patents to advanced technology, he becomes a fabulously wealthy industrialist. However, money and its attendant decadence ultimately exert a stronger gravitational pull. The otherworldly Bowie was perfectly cast as the space traveller, and the film further cemented director Nicolas Roeg’s status as one of the most unique filmmakers of the 1970s.Screening in partnership with True North Music Festival - truenorthfestival.co.uk

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NAE PASARAN!Sat 15 Sep at 6.10pm

Felipe Bustos Sierra • UK 2017 • 1h34m • Digital • English and Spanish with English subtitles • cert tbc • Documentary.

In 1974, factory workers in East Kilbride refuse to repair jet engines from Chilean Air Force in protest against Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship. Four years later, the engines mysteriously disappear, ending the longest single action of international solidarity in the UK. The workers never found out the scale of their impact. Until now. Supported by Creative Scotland, Unite the union, Unison, National Union of Journalists and Amnesty UK. This Aberdeen preview will be followed by a Q&A featuring director Felipe Bustos Sierra and special guests from the film in attendance.

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BRIDESMAIDSTue 9 Oct at 8.20pm

Paul Feig • USA 2011 • 2h5m • Digital • 15 - Contains very strong language, strong sex references and crude humour • Cast: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Ellie Kemper.

Annie (Kristen Wiig) is single, unhappily employed at a jewellers and living with two people she can’t stand. When her best friend Lillian (Maya Rudolph) announces she’s tying the knot, Annie finds it hard to keep her feelings of inadequacy in check. Especially when she meets Lillian’s new pal, the groom’s beautiful, poised and wealthy sister, Helen (Rose Byrne). A stiletto-sharp, raunchy, no-holds-barred comedy with an all-star cast who have gone on to even greater fame.

SPICE WORLDWed 10 Oct at 8.30pm

Bob Spiers • UK 1997 • 1h33m • Digital • PG - Contains mild bad language, mild sex references. • Cast: Scary Spice, Baby Spice, Sporty Spice, Posh Spice, Ginger Spice, Richard E. Grant, Alan Cumming.

At the peak of their pop-tastic powers and inspired by The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night (1964), The Spice Girls starred in Spice World - The Movie - which is now a time capsule of late-90s kitsch. Hang onto your knickers, pump up your platforms and climb aboard the double decker Spice Bus for this very nostalgic, very silly and truly unique movie starring the fab five and a host of cameos from Elton John, Hugh Laurie, Jennifer Saunders, Roger Moore and more... Aberdeen Comedy Festival also comes to Kino Bar with There’s Something About Mary (see page 18).

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PETERLOOWed 17 Oct at 6.35pm

Mike Leigh • UK 2018 • 2h35m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate violence, language. • Cast: Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley, Rachel Finnegan, David Moorst, Tom Meredith.

Mike Leigh (Mr Turner) directs this much-anticipated drama based on events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where British forces fired on a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester. The notorious incident saw British government forces charge into a crowd of 60,000 that had demanded political reform. The forces killed an estimated 18 protesters and injured hundreds, sparking outcry but also further government crackdowns. This screening will be followed by a satellite Q&A with director Mike Leigh, broadcast live from the UK Premiere at HOME, Manchester.

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THE BIG LEBOWSKIMon 24 Sep at 8.30pm

Joel Coen • USA/UK 1998 • 1h57m • Digital • 18 - Contains occasional violence, frequent strong language and coarse sexual references Cast: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Turturro.

A case of mistaken identity leads a couple of thugs to the home of Jeff ‘The Dude’ Lebowski (Jeff Bridges), where they rough him up and relieve themselves on his cherished floor rug. Seeking compensation from their intended victim, The Dude’s cantankerous namesake Jeffrey Lebowksi, he and his Vietnam-vet associate Walter (John Goodman) are soon entangled in a complex kidnapping plot involving German nihilists, the art world and the porn industry. If there is a philosophy to be gleaned from the Coens’ work, then The Dude might well be the embodiment of it.

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Arts on Screen

ROH LIVE: MAYERLINGMon 15 Oct at 7.15pm

Kenneth MacMillan • UK 2018 • 3h15m • Satellite • 12A

Mayerling is a classic of the Royal Ballet repertory, with its emotional depth, haunting imagery, and one of the most demanding roles ever created for a male dancer. Kenneth MacMillan choreographed a complex work around the psychologically tormented heir to the Habsburg Empire, Crown Prince Rudolf. From the ballet’s start, the glamour of the Austro-Hungarian court is contrasted with undercurrents of sexual and political intrigue that drive the story to its violent climax in a double suicide. This ballet, bursting with intensity, madness and passion, proves that sometimes the truth is more scandalous than fiction. £20/£17/£15

NT LIVE: KING LEARThu 27 Sep at 7.00pm

Jonathan Munby • UK 2018 • 3h40m • Satellite • 12A

See Ian McKellen’s, ‘extraordinarily moving portrayal’ (Independent) of King Lear in cinemas. Chichester Festival Theatre’s production received five-star reviews for its sell-out run, and transfers to the West End for a limited season. Jonathan Munby directs this contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s tender, violent, moving and shocking play. Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two ageing fathers - one a King, one his courtier - reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle. £20/£17/£15

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(ACF) Aberdeen Comedy Fest (p 10+18) (AV) Agnès Varda (p 19) (FJ) Filmhouse Junior (p 20-21)

(KB) Kino Bar (p 16-18)(TN) True North (p 9 + 17)

SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE SCREENING TIMES DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE SCREENING TIMESDATE

Fri 1 King of Thieves 11.00am/1.20 14 1 King of Thieves 3.45/6.15/8.35 Sep 2 Puzzle 11.10am/1.30 2 Puzzle 3.50/6.10/8.30 3 The Miseducation of... 11.15am/3.40/8.15 3 Lucky 1.25/6.05 CB Kino Bar: Pulp Fiction (KB) 7.30

Sat 1 King of Thieves 11.00am/1.20 15 1 King of Thieves 3.45/8.50 Sep 1 NAE PASARAN! (PREVIEW) 6.10 +Q&A 2 The Giant Pear (FJ) 11.00am 2 Puzzle 1.30/3.50/8.35 2 King of Thieves 6.15 3 The Miseducation of... 11.15am/3.40/8.15 3 Lucky 1.25/6.05 CB Kino Bar: The Perks of... (KB) 7.30

Sun 1 King of Thieves 1.20/3.45/6.15/8.35 16 2 Puzzle 1.30/3.50/6.10/8.30 Sep 3 Lucky 1.25/6.05 3 The Miseducation of... 3.40/8.15 CB Kino Bar: Napoleon Dyn... (KB) 7.30

Mon 1 King of Thieves 3.45/6.15/8.35 17 2 Puzzle 3.50/8.30 Sep 2 Puzzle (C) 6.10 (captioned) 3 Lucky 3.40/8.15 3 The Miseducation of... 6.05

Tue 1 King of Thieves 3.45/6.15/8.35 18 2 Puzzle 3.50/6.10/8.30 Sep 3 Lucky 3.40/8.15 3 The Miseducation of... 6.05

Wed 1 King of Thieves 11.00am/1.20 19 1 King of Thieves 3.45/6.15/8.35 Sep 2 Puzzle 11.05am 2 Culture Cafe: William Letford 1.30 2 Puzzle 3.15/6.10/8.30 3 Lucky 11.15am/3.40/8.15 3 The Miseducation of... 1.25 3 The Miseducation of... (C) 6.05 (captioned) CB Kino Bar: Zidane... (KB)(TN) 7.30

Thu 1 King of Thieves 11.00am/1.20 20 1 King of Thieves 3.45/6.15/8.35 Sep 2 Puzzle 11.10am/1.30 2 Puzzle 3.50/6.10/8.30 3 The Miseducation of... 11.15am/3.40/8.15 3 Lucky 1.25/6.05

Fri 1 The Little Stranger 11.10am/2.30 21 1 The Little Stranger 6.00/8.30 Sep 2 American Animals 11.15am/2.00/8.45 2 The Godfather 5.15 3 King of Thieves 11.00am/1.20 3 King of Thieves 3.40/6.05/8.25

Sat 1 The Little Stranger 11.10am/2.30 22 1 The Little Stranger 6.00/8.30 Sep 2 Fantasia (FJ) (Relaxed) 11.00am 2 The Man Who Fell To Earth (TN) 1.35 2 The Godfather 5.15 2 American Animals 8.45 3 King of Thieves 11.00am/1.20 3 King of Thieves 3.40/6.05/8.25

Sun 1 The Little Stranger 2.30/6.00/8.30 23 2 American Animals 2.00/8.45 Sep 2 The Godfather 5.15 3 King of Thieves 1.20/3.40/6.05/8.25 CB Kino Bar: Alien (KB) 7.30

Mon 1 The Little Stranger 2.30/6.00 24 1 The Big Lebowski 8.30 Sep 2 American Animals 11.15am/5.50 2 The Godfather 2.00 2 The Little Stranger 8.35 3 King of Thieves 11.00am/1.20 3 King of Thieves 3.40/6.05/8.25For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 23

Tue 1 The Little Stranger 11.10am/2.30 25 1 The Little Stranger 6.00/8.30 Sep 2 American Animals 11.15am/2.00 2 American Animals (C) 5.10 (captioned) 2 The Godfather 7.45 3 King of Thieves 11.00am/1.20 3 King of Thieves 3.40/6.05/8.25

Wed 1 The Little Stranger 11.10am/2.30 26 1 The Little Stranger 6.00/8.30 Sep 2 American Animals 11.15am/2.00/8.45 2 The Godfather 5.15 3 King of Thieves 11.00am/1.20 3 King of Thieves 3.40/6.05/8.25

Thu 1 The Little Stranger 11.10am/1.40 27 1 The Little Stranger (C) 4.10 (captioned) Sep 1 NT Live: King Lear (A) 7.00 (£20/£17/£15) 2 American Animals (C) 11.15am (captioned) 2 The Godfather 2.00 2 American Animals 5.50 2 The Little Stranger 8.30 3 King of Thieves 11.00am/1.20 3 King of Thieves 3.40/6.05/8.25 CB Kino Bar: Predator (KB) 7.30


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Fri 1 The Little Stranger 11.05am/6.00/8.40 28 1 The Godfather: Part II 1.45 Sep 2 The Wife 11.10am/1.25 2 The Wife 3.40/6.05/8.20 3 The Rider 11.00am/3.50 3 The Rider 6.10/8.45 3 The Little Stranger 1.20

Sat 1 The Little Stranger 11.05am/6.00/8.30 29 1 The Godfather: Part II 1.45 Sep 2 The Big Bad Fox and Other... (FJ) 11.00am 2 The Wife 1.25/3.40/6.05/8.20 3 The Rider 11.00am/3.50/8.15 3 The Little Stranger 1.20 3 Cleo from 5 to 7 (AV) 6.10

Sun 1 The Godfather: Part II 1.45 30 1 The Little Stranger 6.00/8.30 Sep 2 The Wife 1.15/6.05/8.20 2 The Little Stranger 3.30 3 Cleo from 5 to 7 (AV) 1.30/6.10 3 The Rider 3.50/8.15

Mon 1 The Little Stranger 2.30/8.30 1 1 The Little Stranger (C) 6.00 (captioned) Oct 2 The Wife 11.10am/1.25 2 The Wife 3.40/6.05/8.20 3 The Rider 11.00am/3.45/6.10 3 Under the Wire 1.30/8.35For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 23

Tue 1 The Little Stranger 11.15am/2.30 2 1 The Little Stranger 6.00/8.30 Oct 2 The Wife 11.10am/1.25 2 The Wife 3.40/8.20 2 The Wife (C) 6.05 (captioned) 3 Under the Wire 11.00am/3.35/6.10 3 The Rider 1.15/8.25

Wed 1 The Little Stranger 11.15am/2.30/8.30 3 1 The Little Stranger (C) 6.00 (captioned) Oct 2 The Wife 11.10am/1.25 2 The Wife 3.40/6.05/8.20 3 The Rider 11.00am/3.45/6.10 3 Le bonheur (AV) 1.30/8.35

Thu 1 The Little Stranger 11.15am/2.30 4 1 The Little Stranger 6.00/8.30 Oct 2 The Wife 11.10am/1.25 2 The Wife 3.40/6.05/8.20 3 The Rider 11.00am/1.15/8.25 3 Le bonheur (AV) 3.45/6.15 CB Kino Bar: Ghost World (KB) 7.30

Fri 1 A Star Is Born 11.00am/2.30 5 1 A Star Is Born 5.35/8.25 Oct 2 Faces Places (AV) 11.05am/3.45/6.00 2 The Little Stranger 1.15 2 Climax 8.15 3 The Wife 11.10am/1.25 3 The Wife 3.40/6.05/8.20

Sat 1 A Star Is Born 11.00am/2.30 6 1 A Star Is Born 5.35/8.25 Oct 2 Christopher Robin (FJ) 11.00am 2 Faces Places (AV) 1.15/6.00 2 Climax 3.25/8.15 3 The Wife 11.10am/3.50 3 The Wife 6.05/8.20 3 The Little Stranger 1.25

Sun 1 A Star Is Born 2.30/5.35/8.25 7 2 Faces Places (AV) 1.15/6.00 Oct 2 Climax 3.25/8.15 3 The Little Stranger 1.25 3 The Wife 3.50/6.05/8.20

Mon 1 A Star Is Born 11.00am/2.30 8 1 A Star Is Born 5.35/8.25 Oct 2 The Little Stranger 11.05am/3.45 2 Faces Places (AV) 1.30/6.15 2 Climax 8.30 3 The Wife 11.10am/1.25 3 The Wife (C) 3.40 (captioned) 3 The Wife 6.05/8.20 CB Kino Bar: There’s...Mary (ACF) 7.30

Tue 1 A Star Is Born 11.00am/2.30/8.25 9 1 A Star Is Born (C) 5.35 (captioned) Oct 2 The Little Stranger 11.05am/3.45 2 Faces Places (AV) 1.30/6.10 2 Bridesmaids (ACF) 8.20 3 The Wife 11.10am/1.25 3 The Wife 3.40/6.05/8.20

Wed 1 A Star Is Born 11.00am/2.30 10 1 A Star Is Born 5.35/8.25 Oct 2 Faces Places (AV) 11.05am/3.45/6.10 2 The Little Stranger 1.15 2 Spice World - The Movie (ACF) 8.30 3 The Wife 11.10am/1.25 3 The Wife 3.40/6.05/8.20

Thu 1 A Star Is Born 11.00am/2.30 11 1 A Star Is Born 5.35/8.25 Oct 2 Faces Places (AV) 11.05am/3.45 2 Faces Places (AV) 6.10/8.30 2 The Little Stranger 1.15 3 The Wife 11.10am/1.25 3 The Wife 3.40/6.05/8.20


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Fri 1 First Man 11.00am/2.30 12 1 First Man 5.25/8.20 Oct 2 1945 11.15am/1.25/6.15 2 Mandy 3.35/8.30 3 A Star Is Born 11.10am/2.15 3 A Star Is Born 5.35/8.25

Sat 1 First Man 11.10am/2.30 13 1 First Man 5.25/8.20 Oct 2 Paddington (FJ) 11.00am 2 1945 1.25/6.15 2 Mandy 3.35/8.30 3 A Star Is Born 11.10am/2.15 3 A Star Is Born 5.35/8.25 CB Kino Bar: The Royal... (KB) 7.30

Sun 1 First Man 2.30/5.25/8.20 14 2 Mandy 1.00/8.30 Oct 2 1945 3.45 2 Dogman (PREVIEW) 6.00 3 A Star Is Born (C) 2.15 (captioned) 3 A Star Is Born 5.35/8.25

Mon 1 First Man 11.00am 15 1 First Man (C) 4.00 (captioned) Oct 1 1945 1.55 1 ROH Live: Mayerling (A) 7.15 (£20/£17/£15) 2 Mandy 2.45 2 First Man 5.30/8.20 3 A Star Is Born 11.10am/2.15 3 A Star Is Born 5.35/8.25For Crying Out Baby & Carer screening - see page 23

Tue 1 First Man 11.00am/2.30 16 1 First Man 5.25/8.20 Oct 2 1945 11.15am/1.25/6.15 2 Mandy 3.35/8.30 3 A Star Is Born 11.10am/2.15 3 A Star Is Born 5.35/8.25

Wed 1 First Man 11.00am/2.30 17 1 Peterloo (PREVIEW) 6.35 +Q&A Oct 2 1945 12.45 2 Mandy 2.50 2 First Man 5.25/8.20 3 A Star Is Born 11.10am/2.15 3 A Star Is Born 5.35/8.25

Thu 1 First Man 11.00am/2.30 18 1 First Man 5.25/8.20 Oct 2 1945 11.15am/1.25/6.15 2 Mandy 3.35/8.30 3 A Star Is Born 11.10am/2.15 3 A Star Is Born 5.35/8.25 CB Kino Bar: The Silence of... (KB) 7.30

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE SCREENING TIMES

Fri 1 First Man 11.00am/2.30 19 1 First Man 5.30/8.25 Oct 2 Dogman 11.10am/1.30 2 Dogman 3.50/6.10/8.30 3 Black 47 11.05am/3.40/8.20 3 Columbus 1.20/6.00

Sat 1 First Man 11.00am/2.30 20 1 First Man 5.30/8.25 Oct 2 Willy Wonka & the... (FJ) 11.00am 2 Dogman 1.30/3.50/6.10/8.30 3 Columbus 11.05am/3.40/8.15 3 Black 47 1.25/6.00

Sun 1 First Man (Relaxed) 2.30 21 1 First Man 5.30/8.25 Oct 2 Dogman 1.30/3.50/6.10/8.30 3 Black 47 1.25/6.00 3 Columbus 3.40/8.15

Mon 1 First Man 2.30/5.30/8.25 22 2 Dogman 11.10am/1.30 Oct 2 Dogman 3.50/6.10/8.30 3 Black 47 11.05am/3.40 3 Columbus 1.20/8.30 3 One Sings, the Other... (AV) 5.50For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 23

Tue 1 First Man 11.00am/2.30/8.25 23 1 First Man (C) 5.30 (captioned) Oct 2 Dogman 11.10am/1.30 2 Dogman 3.50/6.10/8.30 3 Columbus 11.05am 3 One Sings, the Other... (AV) 1.25/8.25 3 Black 47 4.00/6.10

Wed 1 First Man 11.00am/2.30 24 1 First Man 5.30/8.25 Oct 2 Dogman 11.10am/3.50/8.30 2 Vagabond (AV) 1.30/6.10 3 Columbus 11.05am/3.40/6.00 3 Black 47 1.25/8.20 CB Kino Bar: Batman (KB) 7.30

Thu 1 First Man 11.00am/2.30 25 1 First Man 5.30/8.25 Oct 2 Dogman 11.10am/1.30/6.10 2 Vagabond (AV) 3.50/8.30 3 Black 47 11.05am/3.40/6.00 3 Columbus 1.20/8.20


ROBIN ROBERTSONWed 21 Nov at 1.30pm

1h • Book at aberdeenperformingarts.com • £8 (plus booking fee)

Robin Robertson is from the north-east of Scotland and is one of the finest and most influential of contemporary poets. He has published six books of poetry and received a number of accolades, including the Petrarca-Preis, the E.M. Forster Award, the Roehampton Prize, a Cholmondeley Award and all three Forward Prizes. His selected poems, Sailing the Forest, came out in 2014 in Britain and America. His most recent work - The Long Take - has rightly been hailed as a masterpiece. A long narrative poem, or a novel in verse form, it stakes out new literary territory, referencing film noir and the music of the times. Brilliant and unforgettable.

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WILLIAM LETFORDWed 19 Sep at 1.30pm

1h • Book at aberdeenperformingarts.com • £8 (plus booking fee)

William Letford is one of Scotland’s brightest young talents and a wonderfully entertaining reader of his own work - praised by the likes of Liz Lochhead and Jackie Kay. Born in Dundee, he worked for many years as a roofer before taking an MLitt in Creative Writing from Glasgow University. He has travelled to India with Commonwealth Poets United, to Iraq with Reel Festivals, and, with an Edwin Morgan Travel Bursary, to northern Italy. He has also received a New Writing Award from Creative Scotland. He has published two collections (both with Carcanet) - Bevel and Dirt. An exciting new voice on the poetry scene. Not to be missed!

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Kino Bar is our screen located in the basement bar and is dedicated to bringing you films which we have lovingly hand-picked for your viewing pleasure.

With a bumper eleven screenings in this brochure, it’s a great time to join us down in Kino Bar. Our trio of films on the 14-16 September weekend is the perfect way to round off the Freshers festivities if you’re a student, and a superb way to spend a weekend if you’re not! True North and Aberdeen Comedy Festival are represented too with Zidane (featuring a Mogwai score) and There’s Something About Mary lined up alongside a host of other classics. Dive in!

Due to alcohol licensing laws Kino Bar is over 18s only

All Kino Bar tickets are £5/£4 Members

PULP FICTIONFri 14 Sep at 7.30pm

Quentin Tarantino • USA 1994 • 2h34m • Digital • English, Spanish and French with English subtitles • 18 - Contains drug use, sexual violence Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L Jackson, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Ving Rhames, Harvey Keitel.

Violent, time-twisting, and in love with language, Pulp Fiction is one of the most influential American movies of the 90s. The Oscar-winning script intertwines three stories, featuring Samuel L Jackson and John Travolta as hit men who have philosophical interchanges; Bruce Willis as a beleaguered boxer; and such other stalwarts as Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Christopher Walken, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman, whose dance with Travolta proved an instant classic...

NAPOLEON DYNAMITESun 16 Sep at 7.30pm

Jared Hess • USA 2004 • 1h35m • Digital • PG - Contains mild language. • Cast: Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell, Efren Ramirez, Diedrich Bader, Tina Majorino.

If David Lynch decided to make an American high school comedy, the result might be something like Napoleon Dynamite. Debut director Jared Hess’ wonderfully offbeat movie revels in its own kookiness and was the most engaging teen movie to emerge from the States for many a year. Curly-haired, bespectacled, and every lanky inch a geek, Napoleon (Jon Heder) is a hero only in his own mind. That is, until he hooks up with school newcomer Pedro (Efren Ramirez), a quiet kid who wants to become School President...

THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWERSat 15 Sep at 7.30pm

Stephen Chbosky • USA 2012 • 1h42m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate sex references, drug use and one use of strong language Cast: Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Dylan McDermott.

Based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a tale that captures the dizzying highs and crushing lows of growing up. Painfully shy Charlie (Logan Lerman) begins his first year of high school in 1991 Pittsburgh. Still fragile following a period of mental turmoil after the suicide of his best friend, Charlie shrinks back from school life until he is befriended by a pair of nonconformist seniors, step-siblings Sam (Emma Watson) and Patrick (Ezra Miller), and unexpectedly begins to bloom...


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ALIENSun 23 Sep at 7.30pm

Ridley Scott • USA/UK 1979 • 1h56m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, moderate violence and horror • Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, John Hurt, Harry Dean Stanton.

Ridley Scott’s breakthrough film, an immensely successful blend of horror and science fiction, is a classic in both genres. Alien centres around the crew of the space cargo ship Nostromo, which lands on a moribund planet in response to a faint SOS. Inside a crashed ship, the crew members come upon strange pods, one of which spews forth a repellently fleshy creature that locks on to the face of the unlucky Kane. Despite Ripley’s advice, science officer Ash allows Kane to return to the ship...

ZIDANE: A 21ST CENTURY PORTRAITWed 19 Sep at 7.30pm

Douglas Gordon & Philippe Parreno • France 2006 • 1h35m • Digital French with English subtitles • PG - Contains infrequent mild language • Documentary.

Turner Prize-winning filmmaker Douglas Gordon teamed up with French artist Philippe Parreno to create a work glorious in its simplicity: training 17 cameras solely on Zinedine Zidane, over the course of a single match between Real Madrid and Villarreal. With a perfectly judged Mogwai score and Zidane providing brooding voiceover, we observe him as he drifts in and out of the action over the 90 minutes...

GHOST WORLDThu 4 Oct at 7.30pm

Terry Zwigoff • USA/UK/Germany 2000 • 1h47m • Digital • 15 • Cast: Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi, Brad Renfro, Illeana Douglas, Bob Balaban.

Best friends Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) are high school graduates with razor-sharp wits but no direction in life. Their plans to live together are foiled when Enid is forced to attend summer school, while Rebecca’s interest in boys, especially in the girls’ mutual crush, Josh, drives a wedge between their friendship. More complications arise when they answer a desperate lonely hearts newspaper ad as a joke... A wry, yet compassionate, take on teenage friendship in small-town America.

PREDATORThu 27 Sep at 7.30pm

John McTiernan • USA 1987 • 1h47m • Digital • English, Spanish and Russian with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong bloody violence, sex references, language. • Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura, Elphidia Carrillo, Bill Duke, Shane Black.

In one of the high-water marks of the 1980s action movie genre, a crack team of special forces commandos, led by Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger), are dispatched to an area of remote South American jungle to help the CIA’s Dillon (Carl Weathers) on a rescue mission to find survivors of a helicopter crash. Before too long, they find themselves stalked by an other-worldly killing machine with superior hunting skills - The Predator. Watch out for one of the most sublimely macho handshakes in cinema history.


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THE ROYAL TENENBAUMSSat 13 Oct at 7.30pm

Wes Anderson • USA 2001 • 1h50m • Digital • English and Italian with English subtitles • 15 - Contains bloody images. • Cast: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson.

The Tenenbaums are New York high society gone to seed. Scandalous Royal (Gene Hackman) separated from wife Etheline (Anjelica Huston) two decades ago, and kept his distance as his once prodigious offspring’s fortunes slumped: business whizz Chas (Ben Stiller) has become a paranoid father; Richie (Luke Wilson) is a tennis star whose career has been lost to love; Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) is a closed book of a playwright. Meticulously framed and lovingly soundtracked, the director’s third feature is in many ways the quintessential Wes Anderson film.

THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARYMon 8 Oct at 7.30pm

Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly • USA 1998 • 1h59m • Digital • 15 Cast: Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller, Matt Dillon, Lee Evans, Lin Shaye.

Following the early ‘90s comedy smashes of Dumb and Dumber and Kingpin, the Farrelly Brothers struck daft gold once again with this endlessly imitated story of former high school loser Ted (Ben Stiller) who wants another chance to impress Mary (Cameron Diaz) - the girl of his dreams. Hiring a private detective (Matt Dillon) to track her down, Ted learns that she’s living in Miami and so joins the throng of potential suitors trying to win her favour... Often crass, objectionable by almost every standard, but very much representative of late ‘90s mainstream comedy.

BATMANWed 24 Oct at 7.30pm

Tim Burton • USA/UK 1989 • 2h6m • Digital • 15 - Contains moderate violence • Cast: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger.

Tim Burton’s first outing with the Caped Crusader remains one of the finest. In crime-ridden Gotham City, stories circulate about a vigilante who’s cleaning up the town on his own. Photographer Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger) is determined to get some pictures of this mysterious ‘Bat Man’, but in the meantime falls for enigmatic millionaire Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton). Meanwhile Jack Napier (Jack Nicholson), the loose cannon henchman of a local crime boss, has plans to take over, but an ill-fated night at a chemicals plant will send his story down a more sinister route...

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBSThu 18 Oct at 7.30pm

Jonathan Demme • USA 1991 • 1h58m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong violence, gore, sex references, very strong language. • Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Frankie Faison, Ted Levine.

Adapting Thomas Harris’ novel, The Silence of the Lambs is a blood-chilling, iconic thriller that featured the second screen appearance of the cannibalistic Dr Hannibal Lecter (after Manhunter) - this time played by the impeccable Anthony Hopkins. FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) is assigned to interview the imprisoned Dr Lecter, in the hope that he can shed some light on the serial killer named “Buffalo Bill”. As they engage in negotiations, Clarice finds herself more and more entangled in his web of lies, half-truths and mind-games...

LE BONHEURWed 3 & Thu 4 Oct

Agnès Varda • France 1965 • 1h20m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Marie-France Boyer, Olivier Drouot, Sandrine Drouot.

The blissfully married François (French television star Jean-Claude Drouot, acting with his own wife and children) starts an affair with Émilie (Marie-France Boyer) which will ultimately end with major repercussions for all parties involved. Varda’s provocative third feature film trenchantly explores the myth of romance and the underside of the ‘perfect’ family in 1960s France, with its unthinking misogyny.

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Agnès Varda • France/Italy 1962 • 1h30m • Digital • French with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild language and infrequent natural nudity • Cast: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller.

Agnès Varda’s second feature skilfully captures Paris at the height of the ‘60s in this intriguing tale expertly presented in real time about a singer whose life is in turmoil as she awaits a test result from a biopsy, and grapples with her idea of her own mortality. A subtle, innovative character study which also succeeds brilliantly as a stylish, vivid, documentary-style portrait of a wondrously vibrant city.

VAGABOND SANS TOIT NI LOIWed 24 & Thu 25 Oct

Agnès Varda • France 1985 • 1h46m • Digital • French, Arabic and English with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Setti Ramdane, Francis Balchère, Jean-Louis Perletti.

Deservedly one of Varda’s best known films, Vagabond is among the most powerful portraits of a woman in modern cinema. Mosaic-like, the film reconstructs the last weeks of rebellious and nihilistic vagrant Mona (the young Sandrine Bonnaire), inspired by a real case. Mona’s identity emerges from her impact on others, many played by non-professionals. Set in a bleak, wintry South of France, Vagabond embeds Mona’s fate in the region’s landscape and customs.

ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN’TL’UNE CHANTE, L’AUTRE PASMon 22 & Tue 23 Oct

Agnes Varda • France/Venezuela/Belgium 1977 • 2h2m • Digital French with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadiès.

Varda focuses on the intertwined lives of two women brought together during the struggle of the women’s movement in 1970s France, a subject very close to her heart. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion. They lose contact but meet again ten years later, both having taken different paths - Pomme now an unconventional singer, and Suzanne now a serious community worker.


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Films for a younger audience, weekly on Saturdays at 11am. Tickets cost £4.50 per person, big or small!

For these shows we choose to screen dubbed versions where these are available, but some films will be in their original language with subtitles – these are marked on individual film descriptions.

Please note: although we normally disapprove of people talking during screenings, these shows are primarily for kids, so grown-ups should expect some noise!

FANTASIA RELAXED SCREENINGSat 22 Sep at 11.00am

Norm Ferguson • USA 1940 • 2h5m • Digital • U - Contains mild violence, scary scenes.

One of Disney’s most iconic and wondrous cinematic achievements - a series of animated films set to some of the most famous classical music in the Western world. From a cast of animal ballerinas, to the fall of the dinosaurs, to the iconic ‘Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ story - in which Mickey Mouse tries his hand at magic - this is an unmissable cinema experience. This is a ‘relaxed’ screening - see page 23 for details.

THE BIG BAD FOX AND OTHER TALESSat 29 Sep at 11.00am

Patrick Imbert, Benjamin Renner • France/Belgium 2017 • 1h23m Digital • U - Contains very mild comic violence, threat, brief dangerous behaviour.

From the creators of the Academy Award®-nominated Ernest & Celestine comes another hilarious, heartwarming tale of animal misfits. The countryside isn’t always as peaceful as it’s made out to be, and the animals on this farm are particularly agitated - including a fox who mothers a family of chicks and a duck who wants to be Santa Claus...

THE GIANT PEARSat 15 Sep at 11.00am

Amalie Næsby Fick, Jørgen Lerdam • Denmark 2017 • 1h18m Digital • U - Contains very mild threat, language.

Life in Sunnytown hasn’t been the same ever since the mayor went missing. This is especially true for close friends Mitcho and Sebastian, who don’t believe that their mayor simply disappeared. One evening they find a message in a bottle... They embark on a great journey to save the Mayor and bring him home; in the process they uncover something unusual - a Giant Pear!

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PADDINGTONSat 13 Oct at 11.00am

Paul King • UK/France 2014 • 1h35m • Digital • PG - Contains dangerous behaviour, mild threat, innuendo, infrequent mild bad language.

A surprisingly excellent reimagining of a childhood favourite. A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Lost and alone, he meets the kindly Brown family and it looks as though his luck has changed. Until, of course, this rarest of bears catches the eye of a museum taxidermist...

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CHRISTOPHER ROBINSat 6 Oct at 11.00am

Marc Forster • USA 2018 • 1h44m • Digital • PG - Contains mild threat, brief war violence.

In this heartwarming new live action adventure from Disney, the young boy who loved embarking on adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood with a band of spirited and lovable stuffed animals - Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) - has grown up and lost his way. Now it is up to his childhood friends - Pooh, Tigger and co - to help him remember the boy he once was...

WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORYSat 20 Oct at 11.00am

Mel Stuart • USA 1971 • 1h40m • Digital • U

The unforgettable musical version of perhaps the most famous Roald Dahl book of them all. Enigmatic candy manufacturer Willy Wonka stages a contest by hiding five golden tickets in five of his scrumptious chocolate bars. Whoever finds these tickets will win a free tour of the Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of sweets. And so down-on-his-luck young Charlie Bucket buys a Wonka bar...

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Education and Learning School Screenings We have a host of school screenings coming to Belmont Filmhouse in Autumn 2018 – brought to us by French Film Festival, Spanish Film Festival, Into Film Festival and Take One Action Film Festival. With films to suit primary and secondary pupils across a wide range of subjects and languages, this is a fantastic opportunity to bring your pupils to the cinema for a fun, informative learning experience! All screenings are accompanied by learning resource packs to use back in the classroom. For full details of our festival education screenings, please contact [email protected] Newsletter Teachers, have you signed up to the Belmont Filmhouse Education Newsletter? This is the best way to keep up to date with Belmont’s education programme. Sent monthly via email, the newsletter provides details of all our school screenings, workshops and teacher CLPL sessions. To sign up and start receiving the newsletter, please contact [email protected] Kino Schools After a number of successful end of term screenings, we are pleased to offer hire of our popular Kino screen for private school screenings all year round! This relaxed viewing space is perfect for groups of up to 50, with sofas and beanbags for ultimate comfort. If you have a film in mind that you would like your pupils to see, why not come and see it in Kino? Prices start from £150 (including film hire). Send any enquiries to [email protected]


Funding Belmont Filmhouse

Belmont Filmhouse, 49 Belmont Street, Aberdeen AB10 1JS

www.belmontfilmhouse.comBox Office 01224 343 500 (from 10.30am Mon-Sat, 12.30pm on Sun) email: [email protected]

@BelmontFh

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Belmont Filmhouse Limited is a company limited by guarantee, registered in Scotland No. SC468620. Scottish Charity No. SC044786. VAT Reg. No. 181 279689. Registered office, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ. It is a subsidiary of the Centre for the Moving Image with Scottish Charity No. SC006793.

AccessWe have three screens, seating 272, 146 and 65 people. All areas of the building are accessible to customers with limited mobility, including wheelchair users. There is a lift in the main foyer that serves all floors. Booking is strongly advised for wheelchair spaces. If you require any extra assistance during your visit please let us know and we’ll be happy to help in any way we possibly can. Email [email protected] or call the Box Office on 01224 343 500 if you require further information or assistance.

Hires Our screens and cafe bar are available for private hire. We also offer a range of conferencing facilities. For details or to book call 01224 343 500 or email [email protected]

Captioned ScreeningsCaptions display dialogue on-screen and also describe the audio or sound portion of a film, allowing viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing to follow the script and the action of a film at the same time.

Mon 17 Sep at 6.10pm Puzzle Wed 19 Sep at 6.05pm The Miseducation...Tue 25 Sep at 5.10pm American AnimalsThu 27 Sep at 11.15am American AnimalsThu 27 Sep at 4.10pm The Little StrangerMon 1 Oct at 6.00pm The Little StrangerTue 2 Oct at 6.05pm The WifeWed 3 Oct at 6.00pm The Little Stranger Mon 8 Oct at 3.40pm The WifeTue 9 Oct at 5.35pm A Star is BornSun 14 Oct at 2.15pm A Star is Born Mon 15 Oct at 4.00pm First Man Tue 23 Oct at 5.30pm First Man

For Crying Out LoudScreenings for carers and their babies! Tickets £4.50/£3.50 concessions per adult. Screenings are strictly limited to babies under 12 months accompanied by no more than two adults. Babychanging and buggy parking facilities are available.

Mon 24 Sep at 11.10am The Little Stranger

Mon 1 Oct at 11.05am The Little Stranger

Mon 14 Oct at 11.15am 1945

Mon 22 Oct at 11.00am First Man

Relaxed ScreeningsWe are pleased to announce a series of screenings tailored towards providing a more accessible environment for sensitive audiences. Low–level lighting, lower than usual sound levels and increased levels of noise and movement accommodated. All are welcome!

Sat 22 Sep at 11.00am Fantasia

Sun 21 Oct at 2.30pm First Man

Access/Captioned/Baby & Carer/Relaxed Screenings

MORE THAN JUST GREAT FILMS

£40 + SUGGESTED DONATION

OF £10Get your Membership at Box Office or online at www.belmontfilmhouse.com/membership

• Support independent cinema and your local film charity • Free ticket on sign up• Collect loyalty points

• Discounts on food, snacks, drinks and merchandising

• Discounted tickets

• Brochure to your door

• Priority booking for Edinburgh International Film Festival

14 sep 18 25 oct 18 - belmont filmhouse, aberdeen€¦ · ryan gosling takes a voyage to the moon...

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