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This leaflet includes synopses for most of the films you can expect to see at Mareel this month.*

Mareel Cinema is programmed weekly from Friday to Thursday. This allows us to be flexible and continue films which are proving popular with our audiences. Our films for any given week go on sale on Tuesdays.

There are many ways to find out which films are showing during the week: pick up a copy of our weekly listings flyer alongside this one from Mareel or Islesburgh, check the Mareel and/or Shetland Box Office website for listings, call Shetland Box Office on 01595 745 555, or check our various local media advertising.

At Mareel, we aim to offer a variety of films for all tastes. Most of the time we will show films a few weeks after their official UK release dates because this is when distributors are willing to be flexible about how many times a film shows each day. This allows us to put on five or six films a week. With big blockbusters the distributors insist that we show the films virtually exclusively on Screen 1 for one, and sometimes two, full weeks in order to get them on the release date, as is the case with all the other cinemas in the UK. Sometimes we will do this, and sometimes we won’t, depending on audience demand.

We hope you enjoy this month’s selection of films and we’ll see you in Mareel soon!

*Some films may be confirmed at a later date and thus won’t be included in this leaflet.

cINEmA TIckETs

Our prices vary depending on the day and time of the performance. When booking you will be asked to choose between different ticket types (e.g. adult, concession). Concessions include children aged up to 15 years old (those aged 16 and above must buy adult tickets), students (must produce valid ID), seniors (aged 60+), and people with disabilities.

mATINEEs:before 5pm Price per ticket

Monday to Friday £4 / £3

Saturday and Sunday £6.50 / £4.50

EvENINgs:from 5pm onwards

Monday £5.50 / £3.50

Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday £6.50 / £4.50

Friday and Saturday £7.50 / 5.50

sPEcIAL scREENINgs:

Senior Screening (includes refreshment after film) £4.50

Saturday Kids Club £3.00 / £4.00

• 3D screenings cost an extra £1 on top of general ticket prices.

• 3D glasses cost an additional £1 per purchase (they are reusable).

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BABEs IN ARms

At Babes in Arms every Monday morning we screen films exclusively for parents/guardians with babies up to 18 months old. Enjoy the latest releases from our regular programme accompanied by baby in a safe and comfortable environment. So no need to find a babysitter or worry about causing a disturbance next time you want to catch up on the movies. This is also a great way to meet other parents/guardians.

We are also happy to admit babies up to 18 months old into any morning or afternoon performance with a U, PG or 12A certification. Our Babes in Arms screenings are aimed at Parents/Guardians with babies. We are, however, happy to allow people without a baby to attend if they are accompanying someone at whom the screenings are aimed.

Nappy changing facilities are available.

sATURdAY kIds’ cLUB

Our Saturday Kids’ Club is a weekly Saturday morning screening of a recent hit or an old favourite, programmed specifically to be family-friendly. Parents may leave children over 8 alone in screenings but should be aware that the cinema is not providing any official childcare. We do, though, take special precautions for Saturday Kids’ Club screenings to provide as safe an environment as possible for younger audiences. If you leave your children in the cinema please be there on time to collect them at the end of the film.

At all screenings, including Saturday Kid’s Club, children under 8 should be accompanied by an adult aged 18 years or older. At all other screenings, children under 12 cannot attend a screening unaccompanied after 7pm.

FILm WEdNEsdAYs

Film Wednesdays is a weekly series of screenings on Wednesday evenings for film lovers. Film Wednesdays are designed to spotlight the best of independent and world cinema, classic films and documentaries.

sENIOR scREENINgs

Senior Screenings at Mareel are weekly screenings for our mature guests (aged 60+) on Wednesday afternoons. Come along and meet friends for a screening of some of the best recent films and some classics from over the years. Enjoy a cup of tea or coffee accompanied by a snack, included in your ticket price, after the screening and relax in the Cafe Bar.

Our Senior Screenings are offered at a discounted rate with refreshments included. Refreshments are one cup of tea (everyday brew) or one cup of coffee (filtered) accompanied by some biscuits (diabetic and gluten free option available - please ask staff).

Please retain your ticket to claim your refreshments.

Our Senior Screenings are aimed at Seniors (60+). We are, however, happy to allow non-Seniors to attend if they are accompanying someone at whom the screenings are aimed.

sUBTITLEd scREENINgs

Our weekly Subtitled Screenings are film screenings with caption subtitles. These are similar to English subtitles for foreign language films, but for English language films. They inform the cinemagoer of any significant music, sung speech or sound effects – especially if any of these are taking place off-screen. At Mareel cinema, we are committed to accessibility for all and these screenings represent just a part of that commitment.

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ARgOShowing from 4 JanuaryCert: 15Duration: 120 minutes

In his first feature since directing and starring in the dark, Oscar-nominated crime caper The Town, Ben Affleck repeats the feat with a very different drama, this time based on real events. The film follows the Revolutionary Guards’ 1979 attack on the US embassy in Tehran and the subsequent hostage crisis. A thickly bearded Affleck plays Tony Mendez, a CIA ‘ex-filtration’ specialist charged with rescuing six of his countrymen who have been holed up in the Canadian embassy. Argo firmly establishes Ben Affleck as a director of uncompromising commitment who, together with first-time scriptwriter Chris Terrio, has delivered one of this autumn’s most talked-about features, and one of which co-producer George Clooney – another highly principled filmmaker – can be justifiably proud.

AmOURShowing from 18 JanuaryCert: 12ADuration: 127 minutes

French language film with English subtitles. Austrian auteur Michael Haneke returns with this masterful, heartbreaking new film about a marriage tested by the onset of illness. Elderly couple Georges and Anne, retired music teachers, live a contented life enjoying one another’s company in Paris, dividing their time between reading, playing music and concerts in the evenings. But when Anne suffers a stroke, Georges must learn to care for her in an entirely new way, calling on their daughter Eva to help him cope with a wife and mother almost entirely transformed by illness. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, this exquisite, beautifully acted film – arguably one of the year’s finest – is an absolute must-see for fans of Haneke and newcomers to his devastating filmmaking style.

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chAsINg IcEShowing from 4 JanuaryCert: 12ADuration: 76 minutes

Documentary. Winner of the cinematography prize at Sundance 2012 and of numerous other awards, Chasing Ice is an achingly beautiful documentary about a very pressing concern: climate change. The engaging James Balog, a National Geographic photographer, was for a years a global warming sceptic, but shooting a cover story on glaciers forced him to change his mind as he witnessed his subjects quite literally melting away before his eyes. Using time-lapse photography over months, years and three continents, Balog created powerful mini-documentaries of glaciers ‘calving’ – breaking up and falling into the sea – and in some cases simply disappearing into dry land. Director Orlowski has interspersed these images with footage of Balog at work and TV news clips on the consequences of climate change, alongside scientific and political arguments from both sides of the debate. A stunning, captivating work.

BOxINg dAYShowing from 25 JanuaryCert: 15Duration: 94 minutes

Boxing Day is the latest reworking of Tolstoy stories, in this case Master and Man. A ruthless property speculator abandons his wife straight after Christmas to pursue a series of foreclosures in Colorado using money hoodwinked from an elderly church trustee. He’s collected at the snow-girt airport by an incompetent, no-hoper taxi driver who, as the weather worsens and his fare’s obsessive greed escalates, begins sympathising with those who’ve been forced to sell their homes. Each man eventually confronts the unpalatable realities of his life. The film is both touching and morally redemptive.

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IN dARkNEssShowing on 27 JanuaryFor World Holocaust DayCert: 15Duration: 145 minutes

Polish language film with English subtitles. Poland’s official entry to the 2012 Oscars, In Darkness tells the remarkable true story of Leopold Socha, a sewer worker who saved the lives of a dozen people in Nazi-occupied Lvov, Poland. Socha, a part-time petty thief, is initially out for his own means, but after stumbling upon a group of Jews in the town’s sewer system, he agrees to keep them well hidden from danger. During their gruelling 14-month subterranean life the group endured countless perils, but this brilliant film from two-time Academy Award nominee Agnieszka Holland isn’t all gloom and doom. It brims with hope, celebrating the capacity of human endeavour in the face of unimaginable adversity.

dJANgO UNchAINEdDates to be confirmedCert: 15Duration: 165 minutes

Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained is set in the South two years before the Civil War and stars Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz. Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. The unorthodox Schultz acquires Django with a promise to free him upon the capture of the Brittles, dead or alive. An incredible cast including Kerry Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Samuel L Jackson star in this must-see Tarantino film.

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LEs mIsERABLEsShowing from 11 JanuaryCert: 12ADuration: 158 minutes

Victor Hugo’s epic tale of romance and political idealism, set amid the turmoil of the 1832 Paris Uprising, has been filmed many times. But director Tom Hooper daringly adapts Cameron Mackintosh’s mightily successful musical version for the big screen, with a stellar cast – most of whom are not usually known for their singing skills. Hugh Jackman is the paroled convict Jean Valjean, who is fleeing the obsessive Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe); Anne Hathaway is Fantine, the reluctant, ailing prostitute for whose child Valjean assumes responsibility. The cast sang the stirring melodies live to camera during filming – a huge gamble by Hooper that paid off impressively. With regular cinematographer Danny Cohen on board, and Helena Bonham Carter, Eddie Redmayne and Sacha Baron Cohen in major roles, Les Miserables is an all-round sensual feast.

JAWsShowing from 28 DecemberCert: 12ADuration: 124 minutes

“We’re going to need a bigger boat.” The peaceful resort town of Amity, Massachusetts has always depended on its thriving summer tourist trade to get through the lean winter months. So when a swimmer is killed by a great white shark, Sheriff Brody faces much opposition to his suggestion of closing the beaches just before the 4th of July weekend... Based on the novel by Peter Benchley, this is the film that really put Spielberg on the map.

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LITTLE shOP OF hORRORsShowing from 18 JanuaryCert: PGDuration: 94 minutes

This is a story about a boy, a girl and a man-eating plant... Young botanical genius, Seymour Krelborn, lives an uninspiring life, working at Mushnik’s flower shop in Skid Row, Los Angeles. He slaves thanklessly and pines for sales girl Audrey, whose love is mysteriously reserved for sadistic dentist Orin Scrivello.Then, during an eclipse of the sun, Seymour finds fame and misfortune when he becomes the proud owner of a rare species of plant, which he names Audrey II. The plant proves such an attraction that business is soon booming at Mushnik’s. But despite Seymour’s care, the plant wilts, until he accidentally discovers that this hardy perennial has a taste for human flesh!

LIFE OF PIShowing from 4 JanuaryCert: PGDuration: 127 minutes

Ever the innovator, Director Ang Lee takes on a magical story-within-a-story based on Yann Martel’s celebrated novel. As related by The Write, this is the story of Pi, a zoo-owner’s son in 1970s India who emigrates to Canada along with several animals, including a tiger known enigmatically as Richard Parker. After a storm wrecks their ship, the terrified Pi finds himself adrift in a lifeboat with an equally unnerved Richard Parker, and their relationship develops into one of vitally mutual dependence. Reflecting nature’s splendid beauty and merciless power, Lee’s film employs jaw-dropping 3D and a most convincing CGI tiger. Add a remarkable performance from newcomer Sharma as Pi, and we have a film both epic in scope and deeply thought-provoking.

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mIdNIghT’s chILdRENShowing from 18 JanuaryCert: 12ADuration: 146 minutes

Those familiar with Salman Rushdie’s huge, sprawling novel – which marries the political conflicts of the Indian subcontinent’s recent history with childish fantasy and romantic drama – will be happily surprised that Director Deepa Mehta has successfully filmed what was considered unfilmable. The well-bred Shiva and Saleem, a beggar’s child, are swapped in the maternity hospital by a politically motivated but naive nurse; the plot follows the two boys’ separate but overlapping destinies, complicated by Saleem’s telepathic powers. The actors who fulfil the film’s myriad roles – including Charles Dance as an embittered, soon-to-be-redundant British governor – all give exceptional performances. The film is also a feast for the eye, and Mehta’s pared-down storytelling gives the tale an uplifting coherence.

mAdAgAscAR 3Showing from 4 JanuaryCert: PGDuration: 93 minutes

DreamWorks’ third 3D animated Madagascar epic is arguably the most inventive and certainly the funniest so far.Having decamped to Monte Carlo in search of their friends the penguins, regulars Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are pursued by Captain Chantel DuBois - who is determined to add Alex’s head to her trophy room - and the rather friendlier Gia the jaguar and Stefano the sea lion.

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PONYOShowing from 11 JanuaryCert: UDuration: 103 minutes

After running away from the sea she calls home, an effervescent young fish-girl is rescued and befriended by a five-year-old human boy called Sosuke. Naming her Ponyo, Sosuke soon comes to realise the heartbreaking impracticality of their budding romance. Anime maestro Miyazaki’s tenth feature is his eighth under the Ghibli banner, and the fifth to be released theatrically by Disney. Laced with the fantastical exuberance that has become synonymous with the Japanese studio, Ponyo harks back to the thematic timelessness and poetic charms of My Neighbour Totoro (1988). It is as visually alluring a fairytale as you are ever likely to see.

15NEIL YOUNg JOURNEYsShowing from 18 JanuaryCert: PGDuration: 87 minutes

Documentary. This film follows legendary singer-songwriter Neil Young to the small Canadian township of Omemee, where Young grew up, and then on to a solo concert at Toronto’s iconic Massey Hall. Young ruefully acknowledges that much has changed in Omemee since his teens – but no matter, because “it’s still in my head.” The same applies to the sentiments behind many of the songs he performs at Massey Hall, especially 1970’s furious Ohio, which is interspersed with news footage of the Kent State University massacre that prompted it.

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RATATOUILLEShowing from 18 JanuaryCert: UDuration: 111 minutes

It’s hard being a rat with aspirations to be a star chef, but Remy is convinced he can break the stereotype and make it in the world of haute cuisine. He teams up with a chef with little talent named Linguini, who works in the Paris restaurant above Remy’s home in the sewer. Together they create some fabulous dishes, but they live in fear that someone will discover their secret and object to a rat being in the kitchen. When his passion for cooking turns the haughty world of French cuisine upside down, Remy questions whether he should pursue his dream or go back to the sewer. With its abundant verbal and visual wit and Gallic sophistication, Ratatouille contains all the ingredients of a crowd pleaser.

QUARTETShowing from 25 JanuaryCert: 12ADuration: 98 minutes

As the occupants of a retirement home for opera singers prepare for their annual concert celebrating Verdi’s birthday, havoc is wreaked by the arrival of Jean, the ex-wife of one of their number. Still very much the diva, Jean refuses to add her voice – or at least her singing voice – to the party, and Quartet follows the efforts of the variously well-meaning, grumpy and forgetful incumbents to persuade her to get off her high horse and muck in. Scripted by Ronald Harwood from his 1999 play, Quartet radiates much of the gentle drama and grown-up good humour of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, with especially nice turns from Billy Connolly as an ageing roué and Paulie Collins as Jean’s daffy, well-meaning confidante, Cissy.

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sEvENPsYchOPAThsShowing from 4 JanuaryCert: 15Duration: 110 minutes

Reunited with writer-director Martin McDonagh, Colin Farrell plays another eccentric character getting into deep trouble. Here he’s a hard-drinking screenwriter trying to complete a script – inevitably called Seven Psychopaths – who, along with his best pal Billy (Sam Rockwell), inadvertently falls in with a Hollywood lowlife (a wonderfully deadpan Christopher Walken) who ransoms kidnapped dogs. Unfortunately they make the big mistake of stealing a precious shih-tzu belonging to Charlie, a very real gangster (Woody Harrelson, in maximum menace mode), and in the mayhem that ensues as the trio try to avoid Charlie’s vengeance, the script somehow writes itself. Great cameos – some almost too short – from the likes of Tom Waits and Harry Dean Stanton enliven McDonagh’s considerable talent for dark comedy in a film that the Coen brothers would be justly proud of.

sILvER LININgs PLAYBOOkShowing from 28 DecemberCert: 15Duration: 122 minutes

David O. Russell returns to helm this gloriously dark, quirky comedy about a bipolar ex-teacher adapting to life after a stint in a psychiatric hospital. Pat is struggling to rejoin the real world since moving back in with his long-suffering parents, and is desperately trying to rekindle his relationship with his ex-wife after a manic episode landed him in an institution. But when he meets the mysterious Tiffany, a widow with problems of her own, the chance of a brighter future seems possible. Can Pat overcome his demons and start a new life? Boasting winning turns from a great cast and a sharp script with a feel-good twist, this new comedy-drama is a must-see treat from one of America’s top young filmmakers.

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TANgLEdShowing from 25 JanuaryCert: PGDuration: 100 minutes

Disney’s enchanting animated adventure Tangled - the Studio’s 50th animated feature - retells the cherished story of the longhaired Princess Rapunzel, who’s spent her entire life trapped in the confines of an isolated tower, with only her pet chameleon, Pascal, for company. In a twist on the tale, Rapunzel isn’t rescued by a passing Prince Charming, but instead falls for an errant bandit named Flynn Ryder. After escaping from her tower, Rapunzel tracks down Flynn and the pair travel to the magic kingdom to clear his name so that they may live, naturally, happily ever after

ThE hOBBITShowing from 14 DecemberCert: 12ADuration: 170 minutes

In this prequel to The Lord of the Rings, director Jackson brings back several Tolkien regulars for the fantastical tale of Frodo’s uncle, Bilbo Baggins, and his quest to reclaim the lost treasure of the Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor. Once again McKellen’s Gandalf the Grey is the instigator of an epic that involves incalculable danger and wry humour. Benedict Cumberbatch enters Middle Earth for the first time as The Necromancer, while old hands Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Elijah Wood, and especially Andy Serkis’ monstrous Gollum all add to the adventure. Drenched in the most vivid colour, and with Jackson’s signature breathtaking special effects, The Hobbit will delight newcomers as well as die-hard fans of the series.

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TINkERBELL ANd ThE sEcRET OF ThE WINgsShowing from 21 DecemberCert: UDuration: 92 minutes

Perhaps less well known here, Disney’s Tinkerbell franchise is big business in the USA. This is the fifth in the series and crafted with all the twinkle and magic dust we’ve come to expect when Disney addresses its youngest audiences. Under the steady hand of co-writers-directors Gannaway and Holmes, Tinkerbell and the Secret of the Wings is a beguiling tale in which Tink discovers a winter fairyland –which, for an exclusively summertime sprite, offers much fascination and adventure. It’s ideal Christmas fare for youngsters, and has enough intrigue to delight their parents too.

WhATEvER hAPPENEd TO BABY JANE?Showing from 11 JanuaryCert: 12Duration: 132 minutes

Is this the ultimate diva movie? It is certainly the most perverse, and one of the most acerbic takes on Hollywood since Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard. The setting is a decaying Hollywood mansion, where one-time child star ‘Baby Jane’ Hudson (Bette Davis) tends to and mentally tortures her wheelchair-bound sister Blanche (Joan Crawford), resenting her adult success as a film star. Into this seething mix slithers opportunist Victor Buono, who is to help Baby Jane revive her career. The film belongs to Davis, who adopts career-changing make-up and costumes to portray the grotesqueries of a Shirley Temple caricature who can’t cast off her precocious infant past. Restored on its 50th birthday from worn and decomposing materials by Ned Price at Warner Bros, Baby Jane now looks as fresh and authentically musty as Aldrich intended.

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sPEcIAL scREENINgShowing on 29 & 30 December, 3pm30 December SOLD OUT.Duration: 125 minutes, with one intermission

music: Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyLibretto and choreography: Yuri Grigorovichmusic director: Pavel Klinichevsets and costumes: Simon VirsaladzeWith the Orchestra of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of RussiaWith the Bolshoi soloists and the Bolshoi Corps de Ballet

The Nutcracker first opened in 1892 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg. It was Tchaikovsky’s last ballet. Composed in the space of a year, its score today is one of the most popular of all ballet scores. This version, choreographed for the Bolshoi by Yuri Grigorovich, is full of romanticism and philosophical reflections on ideal love. It became one of the great classics of the

20th century and, alongside Spartacus and Ivan the Terrible, is one of Grigorovich’s most famous works. It is Christmas Eve in the home of Mr and Mrs Stahlbaum and their children, Marie and Fritz. Family and friends have gathered for the night’s festivities. Presents are distributed to the children. Marie’s godfather, Drosselmeyer, gives her a strange toy: a wooden nutcracker, carved in the shape of a little man. At midnight, after the celebrations are over, all the toys magically come to life. The nutcracker grows to life size and takes command of the tin soldiers, flying to the rescue of Marie, who is threatened by the Mouse King and his mouse army.

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