May
Thu 2 May 7.45pm
SIDE EFFECTS (15)
Despite
her husband's return from prison, Emily Taylor struggles with anxiety and
suicidal thoughts, becoming ever more dependent on anti-depressants prescribed
by a doctor whose interest may not be entirely professional. Rooney Mara and
Jude Law lead, as Steven Soderbergh takes his final cinematic bow with a
gripping Hitchcockian thriller. When it comes to Side Effects, where do a
physician's allegiances ultimately lie?
USA, 2013, 106 mins
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Fri 3 & Sat 4 May 7.45pm
TRANCE (15)
After
initially abetting art thieves, the auctioneer of a valuable Goya painting
decides to double-cross them. Rendered unconscious and oblivious to the
paintings whereabouts, he turns to a hypnotherapist to unlock his subconscious.
James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassell lead in a twisty, visceral
crime thriller from Danny Boyle.
UK, 2013, 101 mins
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Tue 7 May 7.45pm
REALITY (15)
Gomorrah
director Matteo Garrone adopts a much lighter tone with the comic tale of a
Neopolitan fishmonger obsessed with Grande Fratello, Italy's 'Big Brother'
television programme. As Luciano becomes more involved in the world of reality
television, his own version of reality is called into question. The winner of
the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, Reality is an entertaining satire of
reality television and real values.
Italy/France (subtitled), 2012, 98 mins
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Thu 9 May 7.45pm
GOOD VIBRATIONS (15)
A
fascinating portrait of Terry Hooley, the charismatic music obsessive who became
Northern Ireland's Godfather of punk. Funny, ebullient and immensely likable
comedy, Good Vibrations is an upbeat film about the unifying power of music, set
in Belfast during the 1970s Troubles. The punk scene empowered by Hooley
provides a cracking soundtrack, his protégés The Undertones, included.
UK/Ireland, 2012, 103 mins
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Fri 10 & Sat 11 May 7.45pm
LATE QUARTET (15)
The
future of The Fugue, a world-renowned string quartet, hangs in the balance, when
its cellist receives a life-changing diagnosis. Prompted by the retirement of a
founder member, suppressed emotions and competing egos threaten to derail years
of friendship and collaboration. Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Catherine Keener and Mark Ivanir make up the quartet in a brilliant ensemble
cast. Moving and yet unsentimental, Late Quartet is a intelligent, pitch perfect
drama.
USA, 2012, 106 mins
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Mon 13 May 7.45pm
GONE BABY GONE (15)
Ben
Affleck Season
Private detectives face personal and professional crises in the course of investigating the mysterious disappearance of a four-year-old girl. Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan lead in an admirably dark, ambiguous thriller with the courage of its morally compromised convictions.
USA, 2007, 113 mins
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Tue 14 May 7.45pm
POST TENEBRAS LUX (18)
The
tale of a wealthy industrialist living with his wife and two children in a rural
landscape, sits at the heart of an allusive masterpiece from Silent Light
director Carlos Reygadas. Memoir and observations of Mexican life and landscape
blend in an enigmatic work, forming a rumination on poverty, gender, our place
in nature and how evil lives with us in the most intimate and ordinary of
places.
Mexico/France/Netherlands/Germany (subtitled), 2012, 120 mins
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Thu 16 May 7.45pm
COMPLIANCE (15)
Compliance
is a controversial film which will no doubt provoke fierce debate. A fast food
restaurant manager receives a call from a police officer telling her to detain a
teenage employee for interrogation regarding stolen money. What follows is a
deeply disturbing examining of society's acquiescence to authority. Compliance
is a riveting, horrifying film, shot through with beautifully observed moments
of unwelcome truth.
USA, 2012, 90 mins
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Fri 17 & Sat 18 May 7.45pm
IN THE HOUSE (15)
The
innate desire to be spun a good yarn and pry into others' affairs drives
François Ozon's witty, blackly comic thriller, featuring Fabrice Luchini,
Emmanuelle Seigner and Kristin Scott Thomas. The tale follows Germain, a
disillusioned teacher intrigued by a gifted pupil's stories. His enthusiasm for
work reignited, Germain directs and encourages the literary endeavours, which
begin to blur the boundaries between reality and fiction and take on a more
sinister tone.
France (subtitled), 2012, 105 mins
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Mon 20 May 7.45pm
THE TOWN (15)
Ben
Affleck Season
Ben Affleck's second directorial offering is a confident crime thriller set in Boston's Charlestown district. It centres on Doug MacRay, a career criminal, diverted from his modus operandi by the pretty bank manager incidentally kidnapped in the course of a robbery. Affleck casts himself in the lead role, supported by impressive performances from Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner and Pete Postlethwaite.
USA, 2010, 125 mins
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Tue 21 May 7.45pm
I WISH (PG)
I
Wish is a warming tale of brothers separated by divorce. Keen to reunite and
repair the rift between their parents, the boys pursue an almost mystical
solution. Believing that their wishes will be fulfilled where two bullet trains
will cross for the first time, the boys set off on an adventure. Hirokazu
Koreeda presents an engaging portrait of family life in contemporary Japan,
teasing out the complexities of adult life through his young cast.
Japan (subtitled), 2012, 125mins
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Thu 23 May 7.45pm
SPRING BREAKERS (18)
Brit,
Candy, Cotty, and Faith are college girls looking for adventure and the
hedonistic delights of the spring break holiday. Finding themselves bailed out
of jail by a drug and arms' dealer, with a favour in mind, ensures them of a
spring break they will never forget. US indie filmmaking enfant terrible Harmony
Korine, goes beyond mainstream, casting Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez against
type in a visually arresting, unapologetic and entertaining film.
USA, 2012, 94 mins
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Fri 24 & Sat 25 May 7.45pm
PLACE BEYOND THE PINES (15)
An
epic multi-generational crime drama, unfolding over 15 years, telling
interweaving stories of a motorcycle stunt rider and an ambitious cop struggling
with institutional corruption. Ryan Gosling is the rider, driven to reunite with
his former lover (Eva Mendes) by the birth of his son. In an ill thought out
attempt to provide for his new family, he veers off route to rob a series of
banks in spectacularly violent style. Bradley Cooper is the cop on a collision
course with dramatic implications, and a reminder that the sins of the fathers
have long-lasting reverberations.
USA, 2012, 141 mins
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Tue 28 May 7.45pm
IN THE FOG (12A)
In
the Fog is an intense, slow-burning and haunting parable from My Joy director
Sergei Loznitsa. In Nazi-Occupied Soviet Union in 1942, Sushenya is an innocent
Russian railway worker arrested with a group of rail saboteurs. When he alone is
spared execution, the rumour gets out that he must be a collaborator, who has
cut a shameful deal. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces impossible moral
choice.
Russia (subtitled), 2012, 128 mins
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Thu 30 May 7.45pm
WHITE ELEPHANT (15)
Carancho
director Pablo Trapero returns with a a powerful and gripping story of social
activism, starring Ricardo Darin, Jérémie Renier and Martina Gusman. Julián
and Nicolas are maverick priests, who along with devoted social worker Luciana,
work tirelessly to help the poverty stricken inhabitants of Buenos Aires' Villa
Virgin slum community. When tension and violence between the slum's warring
drug-dealing cartels escalates, their dedication is tested.
Argentina/Spain/France, 2012, 110 mins
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Fri 31 May & Sat 1 Jun 7.45pm
LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED (15)
Ida
is a Danish hairdresser attending her daughter's idyllic Italian villa set
wedding. Emotionally drained and recuperating from chemotherapy she takes an
instant dislike to the groom's taciturn father, but what do the fates have in
mind? A grown up romantic comedy from Oscar winning director Susanne Bier (In A
Better World) starring Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm.
Denmark/Sweden/Italy/France/Germany (part-subtitled), 2012, 116 mins
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