Sat 14 & Sun 15 Aug • Matinee

MODEL BEHAVIOUR (PG) 1.30

(Australia/Norway 2004) dirs.Adam Elliott & Pjotr Sapegin 75m. Claymation.

“A collection of animated shorts by claymation specialist Pjotr Sapegin and 2004 Academy Award-winner Adam Elliot, who creates a bittersweet universe out of plasticine...These touching little movies, apparently semi-autobiographical, are about lonely and damaged souls. Humour and heartbreak in spades.”
(Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian)

£6/£5 Concs/£4 Under 15’s

Tue 17 Aug • Parents & Babies Club

MODEL BEHAVIOUR (PG) 11.00am

(Australia/Norway 2004) dirs.Adam Elliott & Pjotr Sapegin 75m. Claymation.

An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs.

Adm £5/£4 Concessions

Tue 24 Aug • Parents & Babies Club

THE STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL (U) 11.30am

(Germany 2003) dirs.Byambasuren Davaa & Luigi Falorni 91m. Documentary. Subtitles

An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs.

Adm £5/£4 Concessions

Thur 26 Aug • Parents & Babies Club

BEFORE SUNSET (15) 11.45am

(US 2004) dir.Richard Linklater 80m.
Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff, Louise Lemoine Torres.

An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs.

Adm £5/£4 Concessions

Sun 29 Aug • Double bill

SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (El espíritu de la colmena) (PG) 1.45

(Spain 1973) dir.Victor Erice 98m. Subtitles.
Fernando Fernan-Gomez, Terésa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Telleria, Laly Soldevilla.

“Erice’s remarkable one-off sees rural Spain soon after Franco’s victory as a wasteland of inactivity. The single, fragile spark of ‘liberation’ exists in the mind of little Ana, who dreams of meeting the gentle monster from James Whale’s FRANKENSTEIN, and befriends a fugitive soldier. A haunting mood-piece that works its spells through intricate patterns of sound and image.”
(Time Out)

+ I’M NOT SCARED (Io non ho paura) (15) 3.45

(Italy/Spain 2003) dir.Gabriele Salvatores 108m. Subtitles.
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Dino Abbrescia, Giorgio Careccia, Giuseppe Cristiano.

“It’s an idyllic picture: ten-year-old Michele and his sister Maria cycle through the thick blanket of the cornfields of their Southern Italian home. But as Salvatores’ intriguing and sympathetic rites-of-passage drama soon shows, it is a deceptive image. The scene also establishes Michele’s character, his galantry and independence. This imaginative boy (Cristiano) finds a hole beneath a farm and thinks it’s a ‘cave filled with gold and gems‘. In reality, it is a prison for a rich, terrified captive his own age. Thus is triggered a series of challenging events which force him to grow up in a hurry. This likeable adaptation of a novel by Niccoló Ammantini makes for an atmospheric, cinematic rendering of a certain place in childhood.”
(Wally Hammond, Time Out)

Tue 31 Aug • Parents & Babies Club

THE MOTORCYLE DIARIES (15) 10.15am

(US/Argentina/Chile/Peru 2004) dir.Walter Salles 126m. Subtitles.
Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mia Maestro, Gustavo Bueno, Jorge Chiarella.

An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs.

Adm £5/£4 Concessions

Thur 2 Sep • Parents & Babies Club

THE MOTORCYLE DIARIES (15) 12.00

(US/Argentina/Chile/Peru 2004) dir.Walter Salles 126m. Subtitles.
Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mia Maestro, Gustavo Bueno, Jorge Chiarella.

An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs.

Adm £5/£4 Concessions

Sat 4 Sep • Matinee

DEEP BLUE (PG) 1.15

(Br 2003) dirs.Andy Byatt & Alastair Fothergill 90m.
Documentary narrated by Michael Gambon.

“You won't find Nemo but you will meet most of his relatives in Deep Blue, a feature-length selection of highlights from the BBC documentary series The Blue Planet. Taking us from God's-eye-views of the sparkling surface to the darkest depths, this ocean odyssey conveys a riveting sense of nature's infinite variety. Backed by a colourful orchestral score performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, it features narration by Michael Gambon, sporadically used to let viewers immerse themselves in the stunning imagery.”
(Matthew Leyland, BBCi)

Adm £5/£4 Concs/£4 Under 15’s

Sun 5 Sep • Double bill

JAPANESE STORY (15) 1.45

(Australia 2003) dir.Sue Brooks 105m.
Toni Collette, Gotaro Tsunashima, Matthew Dyktynski, Lynette Curran.

“Tender, original and moving, Japanese Story boasts an exceptional performance from Toni Collette. The star of MURIEL’S WEDDING plays sparky geologist Sandy Edwards, reluctantly guiding Japanese businessman Tachibana Hiromitsu through the Australian outback: a vista of spartan natural beauty captured through expert photography. Intimacy beckons in the expanse, as the outgoing Aussie and reserved Easterner clash and then connect, while getting lost in the desert.”
(Nev Pierce, BBCi)

+ ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (15) 3.45

(US 2003) dir.Michel Gondry 108m.
Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Gerry Robert Byrne, Elijah Wood, Kirsten Dunst.

“Joel is a shy fellow. Waiting for the overland to work one wintry day, Joel feels an uncontrollable urge to hop a train in the opposite direction, and only encounters Clementine, a blue-dyed boho who makes little distinction between her every thought and the word she speaks. Counter-intuitively, they click. It’s almost as if they’ve met before...”
(Time Out)

Tue 7 Sep • Parents & Babies Club

JAPANESE STORY (15) 12.45

(Australia 2003) dir.Sue Brooks 105m.
Toni Collette, Gotaro Tsunashima, Matthew Dyktynski, Lynette Curran.

An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs.

Adm £5/£4 Concessions

Wed 8 Sep • Classic Matinee

MONA LISA SMILE (12A) 2.30

(US 2003) dir.Mike Newell 117m.
Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dominic West, Marcia Gay Harden.

“Julia Roberts takes on the Robin Williams role in this engaging female variation on DEAD POETS SOCIETY. Mona Lisa Smile is set in Wellesley, "the most conservative college in the nation" in the 1950's. The privileged students are taught invaluable rules of etiquette and propriety, like how to cross and uncross their legs, as a means to attract a suitable husband. Wellesley openly prepares its pupils not for careers but for lives of domesticity and subservience. Thrust into this staid arena, as Wellesley's new history of art teacher, is the freethinking and liberal Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts).”
(Tiscali UK)

NB. With a 15 minute interval

Thur 9 Sep • Parents & Babies Club

THE MOTORCYLE DIARIES (15) 12.00

(US/Argentina/Chile/Peru 2004) dir.Walter Salles 126m. Subtitles.
Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mia Maestro, Gustavo Bueno, Jorge Chiarella.

An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs.

Adm £5/£4 Concessions

Sat 11 Sep • Matinee

EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM EVENT 1.30

Screening of RUMBLE IN MUMBAI (52m.), a documentary about the last World Social Forum which took place in Mumbai. Speakers and discussion will follow. Event sponsored by Hackney NUT and Day-mer.

£5/£3 Concs

Sat 11 Sep • Matinee

ECHOES OF WAR (12A) 4.15

(Br 2003) dir.Obi Emelonye. 95m.
Judi Shekoni, Anthony Beselle, Anthony Akposheri.

The war in Sierra Leone forces Fatima and Abdul to separate. Fatima finds her way to the UK, and after several years of searching for Abdul, remarries. At the christening of her new baby, she finds out that Abdul is alive and also living in London. Their eventual meeting shatters the brittle peace in their respective new families and sets in motion a series of events that will force them to make difficult choices about their futures.

£6/£5 Concs/£4 Under 15’s

Sun 12 Sep • Double bill

DR STRANGELOVE (PG) 2.15

(Br 1963) dir.Stanley Kubrick 94m.
Peter Sellers, George C Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Peter Bull.

“Perhaps Kubrick’s most perfectly realised film, simply because his cynical vision of the progress of technology and human stupidity is wedded with comedy, in this case Terry Southern’s sparkling script in which the world comes to an end thanks to a mad US general’s paranoia about women and commies.”
(Geoff Andrew, Time Out Film Guide)

+ FOG OF WAR (PG) 4.15

(US 2003) dir.Errol Morris 107m. Documentary.

“Was Robert McNamara, as Secretary of Defense for JFK and LBJ, one of the world’s most despised men? This typically compelling Morris montage of imaginatively assembled archive material and straight-to-camera interviews with the octogenarian McNamara paints a complex, haunting, thought provoking portrait of an intelligent idealist who at least tried to think things through as he involved himself in or oversaw US military strategy against Japan, Cuba and (infamously) Vietnam. The film’s probably more astute philosophically than politically, but is essential viewing anyway.”
(Geoff Andrew, Time Out)

Mon 13 Sep • Hackney Festival for Older People

MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING (PG) 11.00am

(US 2002) dir.Joel Zwick 95m.
Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine.

“According to our heroine, ‘Nice Greek girls are supposed to do three things in life: marry Greek boys, make Greek babies and feed everyone until the day theu die.’ Well, Toula Portokalos is now 30 and has watched countless Portokalos weddings from the sidelines. The title’s a bit of a giveaway, but the route to the inevitable is so wittily written and exuberantly played that the journey is pure celluloid nectar. The result is a film that brims over with warmth. Don’t miss it.”
(Film Review)

This is a free screening for older people and their carers. For tickets, please contact London Borough of Hackney Community Resource Team on 7275 7092.

Tue 14 Sep • Parents & Babies Club

FOG OF WAR (PG) 12.45

(US 2003) dir.Errol Morris 107m. Documentary.

An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs.

Adm £5/£4 Concessions

Thur 16 Sep • Parents & Babies Club

SUPER SIZE ME (12A) 1.00
(US 2003) dir.Morgan Spurlock 100m. Documentary.
An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs.

Adm £5/£4 Concessions

Sat 18 & Mon 20 Sep • Matinee

THE BEST OF YOUTH, Part 1 (15) 2.30

(Italy 2003) dir.Marco Tullio Giordana 188m. Subtitles.
Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Sonia Bergamasco, Adriana Asti.

This very fine six-hour drama charts the fortunes of a family from the mid-60’s to the present, with the political dimensions clearly delineated: while Nicola, for instance, tries to overcome early disappointment by falling for a leftie who ends up in the Red Brigade, and working for the improvement of his country’s psychiatric practices, his brother Matteo treats the same sense of failure as an excuse to end up in the army and then in the police. Such oppositions might have made for schematic contrivance, but the sure sense of time and place in the complex but beautifully lucid script and the visceral depth and subtlety of the performances result in classical storytelling of the highest order.”
(Geoff Andrew Time Out)

Sun 19 & Wed 22 Sep • Matinee

THE BEST OF YOUTH, Part 2 (15) 2.30

(Italy 2003) dir.Marco Tullio Giordana 186m. Subtitles.
Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Sonia Bergamasco, Adriana Asti.

Tue 21 Sep • Parents & Babies Club

SUPER SIZE ME (12A) 1.00

(US 2003) dir.Morgan Spurlock 100m. Documentary.

An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs.

Adm £5/£4 Concessions

Thur 22 Sep • Parents & Babies Club

SUPER SIZE ME (12A) 1.00

(US 2003) dir.Morgan Spurlock 100m. Documentary.

An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs.

Adm £5/£4 Concessions

Sun 26 Sep • Double bill

SINCE OTAR LEFT (Depuis qu’Otar est parti) (15) 2.00

France/Belgium 2003) dir.Julie Bertuccelli 102m. Subtitles.
Esther Gorintin, Nino Khomasuridze, Dinara Drukarova, Temur Kalandadze.

“Life’s no breeze in post-Soviet Tbilisi, but there’s camaraderie behind the daily bickering in the apartment shared by grandma Eska (Gorintin), daughter Marina (Khomasuridze) and granddaughter Ada (Droukarova). Their lives, however, seem to revolve aroud the absent Otar, Eska’s beloved son, a qualified doctor who left for Paris. Bad news filtering through from the French capital may may be about to change everything, but not perhaps if the doting grandmother remains happily in the dark... First-time director Julie Bertucelli’s documentary experience shows in the way she lets us soak in people and places before a plot emerges to shape bitter truth and familial affection into serio-deception. One of the year’s hands-down loveliest films.”
(Trevor Johnston, Time Out)

+ UZAK (Distant) (15) 4.00

(Turkey 2002) dir.Nuri Bilge Ceylan 110m. Subtitles.
Muzafer Ozdemir, Mhemet Emin Toprak, Zuhal Gencer Erkaya, Nazan Kirilmis.

“Ceylan’s 3rd feature is a marvellously astute account of a friendship disintegrating under pressure from time, place and social difference. Mahmut lives in Istanbul. Barely concealing his reluctance, he agrees to put up Yusuf, a cousin from his Anatolian village, while he looks for work. Unfortunately for both, Yusuf begins to outstay his welcome.”
(Geoff Andrews, Time Out)

Tue 28 Sep • Parents & Babies Club

SINCE OTAR LEFT (15) 1.00

(France/Belgium 2003) dir.Julie Bertuccelli 102m. Subtitles.
Esther Gorintin, Nino Khomasuridze, Dinara Drukarova, Temur Kalandadze.

An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs.

Adm £5/£4 Concessions

Thur 30 Sep • Parents & Babies Club

HERO (12A) 1.00

(China 2002) dir.Zhang Yimou 99m. Subtitles.
Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, Donnie Yen, Daoming Chen.

An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs.

Adm £5/£4 Concessions

Sun 3 Oct • Pedro Almodóvar double bill

TALK TO HER (15) 1.45

(Spain, 2002) dir.Pedro Almodóvar 113m. Subtitles.
Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores, Geraldine Chaplin.

“What at first might appear a beautiful but insubstantial confection steadily grows to become Almodóvar’s most mature and richly rewarding film to date. Light, magisterial and extraordinarily fresh – do treat yourself.”
(Time Out)

+ BAD EDUCATION (La Mala Educación) (15) 4.00

(Spain 2004) dir.Pedro Almodóvar 105m. Subtitles.
Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho.

“A tortuous love triangle refracted through three time-periods and myriad layers of make-believe, Almodóvar’s latest is full of autobiographical flourishes and teases, starting in 1980 with the character of a new-wave film director, Enrique Goded (Martínez) rummaging through the tabloids for inspiration. Into his office steps a young man (Bernal) who claims to be his old school friend and first love Ignácio Rodriguez, bearing a screenplay which riffs on their abuse and separation at the hands of the predatory Father Manolo (Cacho) at Catholic school during the repressive 60’s. Enrique is tantalised, but finds that the priest’s seeds of perfidy have born strange and terrible fruit... This teeming tragedy is Almodóvar’s most ambitious film.
(Nick Bradshaw, Time Out)

Tue 5 Oct • Parents & Babies Club

HERO (12A) 1.00

(China 2002) dir.Zhang Yimou 99m. Subtitles.
Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, Donnie Yen, Daoming Chen.

An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs.

Adm £5/£4 Concessions

Thur 7 Oct • Parents & Babies Club

THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES (15) 1.00

(US/Argentina/Chile/Peru 2004) dir.Walter Salles 126m. Subtitles.
Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mia Maestro, Gustavo Bueno, Jorge Chiarella.

An opportunity for parents with babies to visit the cinema without having to find a baby sitter or worry about their babies causing disturbance. A secure space is provided for pushchairs.

Adm £5/£4 Concessions