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Marcel Broodthaers short films (15) 1.15 Marcel Broodthaers, who died in 1976, is arguably Belgium's most famous modern artist after Magritte. A key figure in European art of the 1960s and 1970s, and an essentially poetic artist, he pioneered film and slide projection as contemporary art forms. Broodthaers’s films were extremely diverse; he wrote and drew directly onto film, and made films of his works; he made films that may be described as documentaries, melodramas and comedies, constructing action around static objects and static images of moving objects. His films display an enquiry and engagement with the role of art, the artist, and the sites of production and display. This is a rare showing of a large number of these extraordinary films and a must for contemporary artists and students of modern and contemporary art. Adm £6/£3 Concs In conjunction with ‘Marcel Broodthaers: Slide Projections’
exhibition (19 Nov – 9 Jan) at the Fordham Gallery, 11 Princelet
St, London E1 6QH (Fri-Sun 12-6). |
G.O.R.A. – A SPACE MOVIE (15) 12.15 (Turkey 2003) dir.Omer Faruk Sorak 127m. 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 |
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DEAD MAN’S SHOES (18) 1.15 (Br 2004) dir.Shane Meadows 86m. “Something is rotten in a Midlands village, though from
initial appearances it runs no deeper than the petty drug-dealing,
porn and Pot Noodles that characterise the lives of Herbie, Soz,
Tuff and Sonny. Considine busts their chops, steals their stash
and daubs taunts on their walls before they have time to figure
out who it could be; even when they do, they don’t realise
quite how scared they should be. Meadows’ and co-writer Considine’s
stripped-down revenge drama similarly transposes western archetypes
to the modest back-cloth of their local manor, but to much more
serious intent. It’s a fascinating project, in terms of both
its technique and ambition.” £6/£5 Concs |
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The Rio Cinema is a Registered Charity run by a voluntary Board
of Directors. The AGM offers a review of the last year and gives
you the opportunity to question and put forward your views to the
Board about the performance of the Rio and its direction for the
future. Non-Members are welcome as Observers, and can stand for
election to the Board of Management. Under the rules governing the
election of Directors, there will automatically be five places on
the Board open for election. In addition two further places are
vacant. For more information or if you would like to stand for election
to the Board, please contact the Company Secretary, Sean Singh-Marlowe
on 020 7503 9203 or e-mail to sean.marlowe@blueyonder.co.uk. |
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DEAD MAN’S SHOES (18) 1.45 (Br 2004) dir.Shane Meadows 86m. “Something is rotten in a Midlands village, though from
initial appearances it runs no deeper than the petty drug-dealing,
porn and Pot Noodles that characterise the lives of Herbie, Soz,
Tuff and Sonny. Considine busts their chops, steals their stash
and daubs taunts on their walls before they have time to figure
out who it could be; even when they do, they don’t realise
quite how scared they should be. Meadows’ and co-writer Considine’s
stripped-down revenge drama similarly transposes western archetypes
to the modest back-cloth of their local manor, but to much more
serious intent. It’s a fascinating project, in terms of both
its technique and ambition.” (Br 2004) dir.Ken Loach 104m. “When Cassim Kahn (Yaqub), a second-generation Pakistani,
collects his sister Tahara from school and meets her music teacher,
he’s smitten. Roisin (Birthistle) is Irish, pretty, bright.
Things develop apace, and soon Casim’s lying to his mum to
conceal a trip with his lover to Spain; but there he finds he can
no longer hide from Roisin the fact that he’s expected to
marry his cousin, and that, as Muslims, his folks would never accept
a ‘goree‘ into the family... Loach’s Glaswegian
update of the ‘Romeo and Juliet‘ theme offers a typically
astute analysis of how an otherwise healthy relationship can be
torn, twisted and threatened by all kinds of external and internal
pressures.” |
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AE FOND KISS (15) 1.00 (Br 2004) dir.Ken Loach 104m. 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 |
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12th London Turkish Film Festival • Friday 3 – Sunday 12 December This year’s festival moves back to its traditional date and this year will run for 10 days It will once again present an exciting selection of the best new Turkish feature films, documentaries and shorts. New films include: Ahmet Uluçay’s BOATS OUT OF WATERMELON RINDS (Karpuz Kabugundan Gemiler Yapmak), Yavuz Özkan’s DREAMING GAMES (Hayal Kurma Oyunlari), Ömer Kavur’s ENCOUNTER (Karsilasma), Ase Polat’s EN GARDE, Fatih Akin’s HEAD-ON (Duvara Karsi), Yagmur & Durul Taylan’s SCHOOL (Okul), Reis Çelik’s TALES OF INTRANSIGENCE (Inat Hikayeleri), Ömer Vargi’s UNDER CONSTRUCTION (Insaat), Zeki Demirkubuz’s THE WAITING ROOM (Bekleme Odasi), Ezel Akay’s WHERE'S FIRUZE? (Neredesin Firuze?). There will be a Fatih Akin tribute featuring SHORT SHARP SHOCK (Kisa ve Acimasz), IN JULY (Temmuzda) and SOLINO. Two special programmes will feature documentaries and discussion on divided Cyprus and there will also be a panel discussion ‘New Turkish Cinema in Europe’ in partnership with Goldsmiths College which will bring together critics, film directors, academicians, journalists and members of the public. The Festival programme booklet will be available from Wednesday
1 December. To receive a copy by post, e-mail: tff@riocinema.org.uk |
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DE-LOVELY (PG) (US/br 2004) dir.Irvin Winkler 125m. “Intriguing musical biopic of one of America's finest song
writers, Cole Porter. Features lashings of the man's finest music
sung by everyone from Robbie Williams to Alanis Morissette. Cole
Porter wrote the kind of amusing and whimsical songs that delighted
early 20th century America and established themselves as popular
classics. The unconventional marriage of Porter (Kline) to divorced
socialite Linda Lee Thomas (Judd) provides the film's emotional
core. Neither a biopic nor a musical, De-Lovely is a curiously impressionistic
account of Porter's life, structured as one big flashback as witnessed
by Porter's newly dead ghost, playing out for the angel Gabriel
(Pryce). Scenes from Porter's life are presented as a series of
elegant tableaux, some of which are played straight, others featuring
elaborate musical set pieces. Porter's music is ever present and
given a contemporary twist – Robbie Williams singing 'It's
De-Lovely' at the Porters’ wedding, for instance.” |
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LOOK AT ME (Comme une Image) (12A) 12.45 (France 2004) dir.Agnès Jaoui 111m. 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 |
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BUBBA HO-TEP (15) 2.00 (US 2002) dir.Don Coscarelli 92m. “Cult horror classics don't come more instantaneous than
Bubba Ho-Tep, a fiendishly funny comedy horror, in which an ageing
Elvis Presley battles an Egyptian mummy with a little help from
former President John F Kennedy. Brilliant and bonkers in equal
measure, it's a fanboy's dream come true.”
(US 2003) dir.Jim Jarmusch 96m. “Over the last 20 years Jarmusch has been filming short,
comic conversation-pieces, set in cafés, shot in black and
white, and often starring actors from his features. Another deliciously
droll, deadpan comic delight from Jarmusch: small, but strangely
beautiful.” |
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THE INCREDIBLES (U) 12.45 Voices of Craig T Nelson, Holly Hunter Samuel L Jackson, Jason Lee, Elizabeth Peña, Wallace Shawn. 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 |
HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS (15) 12.45 (China 2004) dir.Zhang Yimou 119m. 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 |
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FINDING NEVERLAND (PG) (Br/US 2004) dir.Marc Forster 101m. “Stuck in a functional marriage to a brittle social climber
(Mitchell), Depp’s Barrie is less a tortured artist than a
tethered fantasist, dimmed by the expectation of the theatrical
world and awkward in the company of the fusty society types who
frequent his plays. His chance meeting with Sylvia Llewelyn Davies
(Kate Winslet) and her four sons unshackles not only Barrie’s
creativity as a writer, but also Marc Forster’s own visual
ingenuity. The combination of the quaint Victorian setting and Barrie’s
fertile imagination allows Forster to conjure up a world where fantasy
leaks into the everyday as fleeting moments – a tinkling bell
here, a brandished hook there – thereby sowing the seeds of
Pan. Forster and cinematographer Roberto Schaefer frame everything
with intricate beauty, be it Sylvia sighted through a hole in a
newspaper, a camera darting fairy-like over an enthralled audience,
or the hazy, painterly fantasy sequences. Depp, seemingly unable
to put a foot wrong performance-wise, is both playful and judicious
as Barrie. Winslet, meanwhile, plays Sylvia with an earthy gutsiness
in a performance that’ll wring a tear from even the coldest
eye. Yet, great as the two leads are, both are soundly upstaged
by an actor with a fraction of their experience. Freddie Highmore,
who plays Sylvia’s curmudgeonly son Peter, and shows the potential
to be the finest child actor since Haley Joel Osment. Peter is the
fractured, fluttering heart of the movie, sparking up a tentative
friendship with Barrie that never hits a false note. More than anything,
though, it’s simply a wonderful story, spun from both comedy
and tragedy and told with such elegance and wit that you can’t
fail to be dusted by its magic.” £5/£4 Concs/£4 Under 15’s |
RADIO ON (18) 1.45 (Br/West Germany 1979) dir.Chistopher Petit 104m. “Twenty-five years since Petit made his low-budget black-and-white
British road-movie, its co-producers are re-releasing it on a brand
new print. It stands now as a curious document of London, yet despite
the ephemera of the cars, the clothes and the music, it feels strangely
timeless too.”
(France 2004) dir.Cédric Kahn 106m. Subtitles. “It’s Paris, Summer, Antoine and Hélène
are preparing to head South. As she’s behind schedule, he
consoles himself with a couple of beers; by the time she arrives,
his anxieties over traffic jams are supplanted by irritation at
her lateness, insecurity over her job and doubts about her fidelity...
Kahn’s adaptation of George Simenon’s tale of marital
strife confirms that he’s one of the best French directors
at work today. A marvellously intelligent blend of stylish suspense
and perceptive psychological study.” |
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FINDING NEVERLAND (PG) 1.00 (Br/US 2004) dir.Marc Forster 101m. 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 |
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FINDING NEVERLAND (PG) 2.30 (Br/US 2004) dir.Marc Forster 101m. Free admission for Over 60’s (courtesy of funding support
from the London Borough of Hackney Cultural Forum) |
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VERA DRAKE (12A) 12.30 (Br 2004) dir.Mike Leigh 125m. 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 |
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GOODBYE DRAGON INN (15) 1.15 (Taiwan 2003) dir.Tsai Ming-liang 82m. Subtitles. “Tsai’s deadpan observations of Taiwanese domestic
torpor and urban ennui are an acquired, consistent, and hugely satisfying
taste. His latest ponders a crumbling old cinema on the last night
of its existence, and inches along by languid accretions of situational
pathos, deadpan sight gags, and vaporous grace notes.” £5/£4 Concs |
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SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN, WINTER... AND SPRING (15) 2.00 (South Korea/Germany 2003) dir.Kim Ki-duk 103m. Subtitles. “Five seasons spanning many years; a master and his young
acolyte; a temple in the middle of an idyllic lake... From such
blissfully simple elements, the visually alluring buddhist parable
takes shape...”
(Taiwan 2003) dir.Tsai Ming-liang 82m. Subtitles. “Tsai’s deadpan observations of Taiwanese domestic
torpor and urban ennui are an acquired, consistent, and hugely satisfying
taste. His latest ponders a crumbling old cinema on the last night
of its existence, and inches along by languid accretions of situational
pathos, deadpan sight gags, and vaporous grace notes.” |
VERA DRAKE (12A) 12.30 (Br 2004) dir.Mike Leigh 125m. 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 |
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VERA DRAKE (12A) 12.30 (Br 2004) dir.Mike Leigh 125m. 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
20 Nov • Special screening
Thur
25 Nov • Parents & Babies Club
Sat
27 Nov • Matinee
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AE FOND KISS (15) 3.30
Tue
30 Nov • Parents & Babies Club
Fri
3 – Sun 12 Dec • 12th London Turkish Film Festival
Tue
18 Jan • Parents & Babies Club
Thur
20 Jan • Parents & Babies Club
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