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Jack Goes Boating ....................................08 Love in a Cruel World: best for British cinema. It Morris and Nick Broomfield, two giants
Oslo, August 31 ........................................08 Wuthering Heights .................................. 32 continues with new films by in the world of documentary, return with
The Future................................................08 What the Papers Say: Terence Davies and Andrea Tabloid and Sarah Palin: You Betcha!.
Weekend...................................................09 Tabloid ...................................................... 36 Arnold, as well as a preview of Steve
Wuthering Heights ..................................09 Live from the Met: McQueen’s remarkable second feature Shame. There are also the regular opera and theatre
The Awakening ........................................09 The New York Met Opera Live ...............40 strands, festivals celebrating Brazilian and
Tabloid ..................................................... 10 Director's Cut: Other great directors feature over the Romanian film, and a wealth of Q&As.
Snowtown................................................. 10 Raoul Ruiz 1941-2011..............................66 forthcoming months. Raoul Ruiz’s epic
Magic Trip ................................................ 10 yet intimate swansong Mysteries of Lisbon Curzon on Demand offers the chance to
The Twighlight Saga: Breaking Dawn – e v ent s is worth savouring, as is Nanni Moretti’s stream some of world cinema’s best titles.
Part 1 .........................................................12 Special previews........................................06 wry papal comedy We Have a Pope. Those And remember, Curzon social media
The Deep Blue Sea....................................12 Curzon Q&As.......................................... 42 interested in something darker may wish to (Facebook and Twitter) updates you on any
My Week with Marilyn .............................12 Curzon DocDays......................................44 catch David Fincher’s take on the bestselling late additions in our cinema programme.
We Have a Pope ....................................... 14 Artists’ Moving Image at Curzon .............46 novel The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo. And in Ian Haydn Smith, Magazine Editor
Las Acacias .............................................. 14 Curzon Screen Salon ................................ 47
Another Earth .......................................... 14 Cinema of Brazi: Travel Stories ................ 48 Chief Operating Officer, Curzon Artificial Eye Director of Programming
Les Enfants du Paradis ............................. 16 8th Romanian Film Festival .....................49 Richard Napper Jason Wood
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Director: Philip Seymour Hoffman • Starring: Philip Seymour
Hoffman, Amy Ryan, John Ortiz, Richard Petrocelli, Thomas Jack Goes Boating [15] Director: Andrew Haigh • Starring: Tom Cullen, Chris New, Weekend [18]
McCarthy • US 2010 • 91 mins The directorial debut of Academy Award Laura Freeman • UK 2011 • 97 mins After spending an evening with his straight
winner Hoffman (Capote), who plays Jack, a friends, Russell (Tom Cullen) goes to a club
solitary limo driver who is convinced by his and picks up Glen (Chris New). The following
friends Clyde and Lucy to go on a blind date morning, Glen asks Russell to narrate the
with Connie (Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone). previous night’s events into a tape recorder.
But just as his life begins anew, cracks begin What follows is a witty exchange between the
to appear in his friends’ marriage. Hoffman two men, which lasts the rest of the weekend.
directs with subtely, drawing out the pathos Andrew Haigh’s film is rare in its avoidance of
and humour of the story with skill and eliciting cliché and convinces in its portrait of the early
excellent performances from his cast. stages of romance.
op e n s 4 n ov ember [m] opens 4 n ov e m b e r [S] [W]
Oslo, August 31 [Cert tbc] Director: Joachim Trier • Starring: Anders Borchgrevink,
Andreas Braaten, Hans Olav Brenner, Malin Crepin • Wuthering Heights [15] Director: Andrea Arnold • Starring: Kaya Scodelario, James
Howson, Shannon Beer, Solomon Glave, Nichola Burley • UK
Loosely based on the novel by French writer Norway 2011 • 95 mins • Norwegian with English subtitles Andrea Arnold (Red Road, Fish Tank) has made 2011 • 129 mins
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Trier’s sophomore one of the most radical adaptations of Emily
feature follows the exploits of Anders Brönte’s novel, whilst remaining utterly faithful
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(Danielsen Lie, who also starred in Trier’s to the text. Eschewing none of the style that
Reprise) who, having been released from rehab, made her early work so unique, she captures
attempts to stay clean as he enters everyday the spirit of life on the Yorkshire moors and
life. But with temptation all around him and the danger of an illicit romance. Beautifully
his attempts to move on thwarted by past shot by Robbie Ryan, who makes the most
behaviour and a society more interested in of the harsh climate and misty landscape,
judging than forgiving, life may not yet be easy this is a refreshing take on a familiar story.
for Anders. opens 4 nov ember [ R] op e n s 1 1 n ov [m] [ S ] [ R ] [ C ] [ r ] [ W ]
Director: Miranda July • Starring: Miranda July, Hamish
Linklater, David Warshofsky, Isabella Acres, Joe Putterlik • US The Future [12A] Director: Nick Murphy • Starring: Rebecca Hall, Dominic
West, Imelda Staunton, Lucy Cohu, John Shrapnel • UK 2011 The Awakening [15]
2011 • 91 mins Miranda July (You, Me and Everyone We • 107 mins England, 1921. The country is still mourning
Know) continues her own unique brand of the immense losses of the Great War and
filmmaking with one of the most original influenza epidemic. Authoress and hoax
American indies of the year. When Sophie exposer Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall,
( July) and Jason (Hamish Linklater) decide Vicky Cristina Barcelona) is invited to Rookford
to adopt a stray cat, the change to their lives School by its headmaster (Dominic West, The
takes on a strange and surreal turn. Small Wire), in order to dispel rumours that the place
changes soon become magnified, leaving is haunted. But the deeper she looks into the
the couple with questions about their lives, dark recesses of the school’s old buildings, the
their relationship and existence in general. more she places her own life at risk.
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Director: Errol Morris • Starring: Joyce McKinney, Peter Tory,
Kent Gavin, Dr. Hong, Jackson Shaw, Troy Williams • USA Tabloid [PG]
2010 • 87 mins From the director of the Oscar-winning
The Fog of War comes a fascinating study in
unreliable narration. Joyce McKinney became
famous in the 1970s when she allegedly
attempted to kidnap a Mormon she once
dated from his mission in the UK. Morris has
produced a riveting portrait of a woman whose
version of her life is at odds with the story the
media presented. A precient account of the
relationship between celebrity and the press.
op e n s 1 1 n ov ember [S]
Snowtown [Cert tbc] Director: Justin Kurzel • Starring: Daniel Henshall, Lucas
Pittaway, Craig Coyne, Louise Harris, Richard Green •
Jamie, an impressionable 16-year-old, forms Australia 2011 • 120 mins
a friendship with his mother’s new boyfriend,
unaware that John Bunting would become
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known as one of Australia’s most notorious
serial killers. A remarkably assured feature
debut by Justin Kurtzel, Snowtown attempts to
understand the backdrop to what took place in
a seemingly ordinary town. The result is a tense
drama, simmering with a dark undercurrent
that surfaces in the film’s shocking final stages.
opens 1 8 nov ember [S]
“An entrancing “Her most elegant and
Director: Alison Ellwood and Alex Gibney • Starring:
Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Jack Kerouac, Magic Trip [15] magical film” affecting work yet”
Neal Cassidy, The Grateful Dead • US 2011 • 108 mins Who were the Merry Panksters and why
does their journey across America represent
one of the last gasps of anarchy in late
Vogue Sight & Sound
60s America? Ellwood and Gibney’s film,
narrated by Stanley Tucci, tells the story of
Ken’s Kesey and Babbs, who take a bus, a
From 4 November
group of friends and a significant amount of
hallucinogenic drugs, then set off across the
US on a journey that has become the stuff of
legend. Along the way, they play host to the
op e n s 1 8 n ov ember [S] who’s who of the counterculture movement. thefuturethefuture.com findanyfilm.com/TheFuture
facebook.com/thefutureuk
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Director: Bill Condon • Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert
Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Anna Kendrick, Dakota Fanning, The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Michael Sheen • US 2011 • 115 mins
Dawn – Part One [Cert tbc]
The end is not quite here yet. Stephanie
Meyer’s phenomenally successful vampire
franchise continues with part one of the
adaptation of ‘Breaking Dawn’. The romantic
triangle between Bella, Edward and Jacob
continues, while unexpected news arouses
the interest and concern of both the Quileute
and the Volturi. Thus the stage is set for an
op e n s 1 8 n ov ember [ W ] explosive finale to this hugely popular series.
The Deep Blue Sea [12A] Director: Terence Davies • Starring: Rachel Weisz, Tom
Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale, Karl Johnson, Anne Mitchell
An exquisite adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s • UK 2011 • 98 mins
play, Davies’ film is a richly rewarding
evocation of life in 50s London, which
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provides the backdrop to an illicit love affair.
Hester (Rachel Weisz) finds a passionate
escape from her bloodless marriage to William
(Simon Russell Beale) in the arms of Freddie
(Tom Hiddleston). But her actions are out of
keeping with the times and her overwhelming
desire for Freddie threatens their relationship.
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Director: Simon Curtis • Starring: Michelle Williams,
Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Dougray Scott, Emma My Week with Marilyn
Watson, Dominic Cooper, Judy Dench • UK 2011 • TBC mins [Cert tbc]
Colin Clark was an assistant to Laurence
Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) during the making
of The Prince and the Showgirl, which also
starred Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams).
This film provides the backdrop to one of the
more precarious on-screen partnerships in
movie history. Simon Curtis’ entertaining film
recreates the period with two excellent lead
performances and a strong supporting cast that
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includes Dominic Cooper and Judi Dench.
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Director: Nanni Moretti • Starring: Michel Piccoli, Jerzy
Stuhr, Nanni Moretti, Renato Scarpa, Franco Graziosi • Italy We Have a Pope [Cert tbc]
France 2011 • 102 mins • English subtitles Nanni Moretti’s comedy of Papal errors sees the
director in a less politically active mode, as he
charts the death of one pope, the closed doors
sessions between the voting cardinals and the
eventual announcement of a disappointingly
reluctant Pontiff. Michel Piccoli is wonderful
as a man whose calling may have been for
the stage and not the Vatican’s highest office.
From the hilarious opening scenes through to
the more charged final moments, Moretti’s
op e n s 2 de c ember [m] film is a delight.
C
Las Acacias [12A] Director: Pablo Giorgelli • Starring: Germán De Silva, Hebe
Duarte, Nayra Calle Mamani • Argentina Spain 2011 • 86
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Rubén (Germán De Silva) is a lonely truck mins • Spanish with English subtitles Y
driver who transports timber from Asunción
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he picks up Jacinta (Hebe Duarte) and her MY
baby. The young woman is hoping for a better CY
life in the Argentinean capital. Initially keen CMY
to while away the time with his new company,
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and also aspires to something better.
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Director: Mike Cahill • Starring: Brit Marling, William
Mapother, Matthew-Lee Erlbach, DJ Flava • US 2011 Another Earth [12A]
• 92 mins On the night that a new planet becomes
visible in the sky, drunken student Rhoda (Brit
Marling) drives her car into oncoming traffic,
killing a woman and her child. Four years later,
the planet is discovered to be an exact replica
of both Earth and its inhabitants. Rhoda is
released from prison and begins to wonder if
her life took a different course on the other
world. An intelligent and moving sci-fi drama.
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Director: Marcel Carné • Starring: Arletty, Jean-Louis
Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, Mariá Casares • Les Enfants du Paradis [PG] Director: Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill • Starring: Sarah
Palin, Nick Broomfield, John McCain, Bill O’Reilly • USA Sarah Palin: You Betcha!
France 1945 • 190 mins Carné’s tribute to the world of theatre has 2011 • 90 mins [Cert tbc]
constantly been voted the greatest French film Nick Broomfield returns to documentary form
ever made. Set in the Parisian theatres of the with a typically insightful and frequently funny
mid-19th century, the film revolves around the portrait of the former Alaskan Governor and
enigmatic actress Garance (a sublime Arletty) once-prospective Presidential candidate.
and the four suitors enamoured with her. Their Amidst the initial charm offensive and
intrigues, constantly outdoing themselves, and subsequent distancing from the filmmaker,
undoing their rivals’ plans, in order to win Palin transforms from the butt of liberal
over the object of their desire, propels this left jokes to representing something more
wonderful story. disturbing at play in the underbelly of
op e n s 9 de c e m ber [m] [ C ] opens 9 de c e m b e r [S] [W] American politics.
Mysteries of Lisbon [Cert tbc] Director: Raoul Ruiz • Starring: Adriano Luz, Maria João
Bastos, Ricardo Pereira, Clotilde Hesme • Portugal, France It’s a Wonderful Life [U] Director: Frank Capra • Starring: James Stewart, Donna
Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers •
The last film by the great Chilean filmmaker 2010 • 272 mins • Portuguese with English subtitles The Christmas classic returns. Frank Capra’s USA 1946 • 130 mins
Raoul Ruiz (Genealogies of a Crime, Time small-town fantasy profits from a central
Regained) is also regarded as one of his best. This performance of quiet dignity by James Stewart,
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majestically paced film, which takes place in who had only recently returned from the
the 19th century, details the travails of a jealous Second World War a hero. The first of his roles
countess, a wealthy businessman and a young to reveal the darker side that would become
boy as they travel through Portugal, France, more prevalent in his later work, Stewart is
Italy and Brazil, encountering a series of often utterly convincing as the businessman whose
mysterious characters. An enigmatic swansong encounter with an angel allows him the chance
from one of cinema’s most lyrical filmmakers. to look at the role he has played in the lives
opens 9 december [S] around him. op e n s 1 6 de c [m] [ S ] [ R ] [ C ] [ r ] [ W ]
Director: Jean-Pierre Ameris • Starring: Benoît Poelvorde,
Isabelle Carré, Lorella Cravotta, Lise Lamétrie, Swann Romantics Anonymous [12A] Director: D.R. Hood • Starring: Claire Foy, Benedict
Cumberbatch, Shaun Evans, Peter Macdonald, Sinead Wreckers [Cert tbc]
Arlaud • France 2011 • 78 mins • French with English subtitles The ultimate chocolate date. Jean-René Matthews • UK 2011 • 86 mins A young married couple move back to the
(Benoît Poelvorde, Coco Before Chanel) is husband’s childhood village in order to start
the owner of a chocolate factory. Angélique a family. But the arrival of his brother ignites
(Isabelle Carré, La Refuge) is a skilled a series of conflicts that lay bare the uneasy
chocolatier. Before long, their passions foundations upon which the relationship was
extend beyond the product they both love so built. With strong performances by Claire Foy
much. As Angélique learns to become less (The Promise, The Nightwatch) and Benedict
timid thanks to her 'romantics anonymous' Cumberbatch (Sherlock, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier,
meetings, so Jean-René’s mean mask begins Spy), this is a strong debut by D.R. Hood.
to slip. Jean-Pierre Ameris’ comedy, is a This film is also available to watch from
op e n s 9 de c ember [r] frothy and beguilingly bittersweet tale. ope n s 1 6 de c e m b e r [S] 16 December on Curzon on Demand.
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Mara, Stellan Skarsgård, Robin Wright, Christopher Plummer, The Girl with the Dragon
Joley Richardson, Embeth Davidz • US 2011 • TBC mins
Tattoo [Cert tbc] 18 TO M C U L L E N CHRIS NEW
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The universal favourite of the competition entries at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Michel
Hazanavicius’ ebullient celebration of early Hollywood tells the story of George Valetin ( Jean
Dujardin), an actor who fears his career may be over with the coming of sound. When he
encounters Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo), he discovers a young starlet who may help re-establish
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the movies of old, often to stunning effect. But at its heart, Hazanavicius’ film is a breathtaking
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Terence Davies talks to Jason Wood about his adaptation
of Terence Rattigan’s stage play The Deep Blue Sea
How did you come to be involved in the film The Deep Blue Sea. I was a little bit worried
adaptation of The Deep Blue Sea? because the way Rattigan works is to put all
the exposition in Act 1. I personally don’t
The opportunity came completely out of the like that but, of course, I respect that this is
blue. I have never adapted a play but Sean Rattigan’s style. I wrote a very tentative first
O’Connor, one of the producers, asked me if draft and, to my complete amazement, Adam
I would like to adapt a Rattigan play. I told Brody of the Rattigan Trust suggested that I
him that I wouldn’t do The Browning Version, be more radical with it.
because I fondly remember the Antony
Asquith version with Michael Redgrave. I had always maintained that the story had
That couldn’t be bettered. Separate Tables to be from Hester’s point of view and if it
with Burt Lancaster is also very good. I was going to be done from Hester’s point of
just wouldn’t be able to do them. I looked view then most of the exposition has to go.
at the whole Rattigan canon and told Sean If she is not privy to a conversation then we
that I might be able to do something with can’t have it. Once everyone agreed on that Terence Davies
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I thought, ‘Yes. I think I can do it’. The fact were wonderful company because they were did not do that. Hester is not aware of that Rachel didn’t actually see it that way initially.
that there was so much talk was a real worry funny. I also grew up with the romantic films so she does it, which makes Freddie even My perception was that he was a very kind
at first. That is one of the major differences of the period, such as All That Heaven Allows, more furious. When that scene came up I man who probably possessed a very small
between theatre and film. With theatre you Love is a Many Splendid Thing, Magnificent explained that it had to be ferocious. It was libido. For William reading poetry and going
have to explain everything. With film you can Obsession. So many were all about women not the done thing to argue in public. Even to concerts together was as important as
just show it. and had women as their central characters. working class people didn’t argue in public. lovemaking, possibly more so, and because
So focusing on female characters always came of her upbringing Hester came to the
There are numerous parallels with your work: the very naturally to me. Rattigan’s play deals with passion and sex but understanding that this is the essence of
notion of outsiders, the position of women in a was of course very much restricted by what it could married life. Shared things are very powerful,
repressed society and 1950s Britain. Why do these What I certainly didn’t want to do with show because of the time in which it was written. and they can be as powerful as sex. Just not in
subjects hold such a fascination for you? Hester was to make her seem either a victim We live in less morally restrictive times so I this case for Hester. Much as she cares very
or clinging in that way that is possessive. wondered how that affected your approach in this deeply for William she now loves Freddie. It’s
I grew up in the 50s and so I know what That kind of possessiveness is repellent. I regard. You show passion, but largely avoid sex. only when you do fall in love that you realise
it was like. I also know what it felt like. knew that we had to show a woman who is the huge difference.
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That is a completely different thing to in many ways extremely conventional, doing
just knowing how it looked. When you are something extraordinarily unconventional. There is something very interesting about What led you to Rachel Weisz?
growing up, and I think this is true of all Hester leaves her husband and women really being sexually repressed. I am homosexual and
children, you absorb a lot. That includes didn’t do that in the 1950s, even if they that was illegal. But even heterosexual sex, you I came to her completely by accident. Thank
the social mores. In the 50s you did as you were in a bad marriage, like my mother’s. just never saw it. You might see a film such as god I switched the television on one evening.
were told. Everybody in authority was Passport To Shame where Odile Versois takes I was bored with reading and fancied a
believed and obeyed without question. Hester finds sex at forty and it overwhelms her blouse off, but that was about it. There is change from Radio 3. There was a film on
her. She is prepared to gamble everything and something about restraint, and not just sexual that had already started. I had no idea what
My mother was an incredible survivor and that’s moving because it’s not characteristic restraint, that we have lost in this country. it was called but then this woman came on
a woman of great love and tenderness. She of someone who is that conventional. with the most fabulous face and wonderful
was strong, not hard. I had sisters too. So, Hester makes a number of social faux I am struck by the relationship between Hester eyes. I thought, ‘God, who is this?’. I watched
quite simply, I grew up with women. I loved pas that people may not know now but I and her husband William. I see it as very loving. the film to the end and discovered that it
my brothers but it was my three sisters and certainly do. For example, she goes into a It just isn’t love of a physical nature. was called Swept from the Sea and directed by
their girlfriends that I grew up with. They pub and gets her man to come outside. You Beeban Kidron. I rang my manager and said
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‘Have you heard of Rachel Weisz?’ and he When I was growing up there was always a
replied, ‘Terence, you must be the only man pub at the end of the road. It was your local.
who hasn’t’. We sent her the script with no At about nine o’clock when everyone had got
idea whether she would say yes or no. I told a bit merry, you began to sing. Everybody did
her that if she said no I had no idea who else it. It was incredibly communal. You could
to ask. Thankfully she said ‘I’ll do it’. walk up the main road where there was a pub
on every corner and it would be a cacophony
The role of Freddie is a difficult one. He has to be of singing. I really did grow up with it.
seductive and charming, but also a little heartless. From the latest release to classics you have yet to encounter,
What drew you to Tom Hiddleston? I just know when something is right. I don’t Curzon on Demand offers you a 24-hour cinema experience from
know where this instinct comes from. Perhaps the comfort of your own sofa!
I didn’t know Tom’s work at all to be it was going to see so many musicals when I
absolutely honest. It was my casting director grew up. There was also, of course, always a Curzon on Demand is pleased to announce four new titles that will be
Jane Amell who suggested I should see him. good tune in the so-called women’s pictures available to watch from mid-November 2011. for more information, or to
I remember our first meeting vividly. I have a I love. I must have imbibed this instinct. see these films, please visit curzonondemand.com
mortal fear of being late because when I was When music is used correctly in film it really
at school you got caned for being late. My is absolutely thrilling. It’s like being bathed in
manager was driving me along High Holborn the most gorgeous joy.
and when the traffic got really bad I insisted
that I get out and walk. I actually ended up When we last spoke you had returned to
running all the way to Soho. Tom was late too, filmmaking with Of Time and the City. Do you
and was just about to go off to Los Angeles. now feel more confident regarding your being able
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There followed a series of apologies. I then to make films on a regular basis? There hasn’t
asked Tom to simply walk around and throw been the long hiatus you previously endured. ReD ROaD Of Time aND The CiTY
himself on the sofa. Many actors are not very 'Wuthering heights' director andrea arnold's from Terence Davies, the director of 'The Deep
good at doing this sort of business. Tom did it I am in a bit of a daze to be truthful. I can’t bold and award-winning debut feature is an blue sea', 'Distant voices, still lives' and 'The
with real ease. He then read and was brilliant. quite believe it. I’m not religious anymore but original and taut drama that unfolds against house of mirth', comes this poetic and moving
We were supposed to be seeing other people I am slightly wary of the sin of pride. I am the backdrop of a Glasgow estate. eulogy to his native city of liverpool.
that day but I cancelled them. I said to Jane, genuinely quite surprised at the response that
‘We’ve found him’. Tom came absolutely has been given to me. Before Of Time and
prepared and knew every scene by heart. He the City I didn’t work for eight years and I
also came dressed impeccably, in the sort of genuinely thought, ‘That’s it. It’s over now’.
clothes Freddie might have worn. He really is I never thought I would get a second chance.
a very intelligent man, and a very gifted one. To have been asked to close the London
Film Festival with The Deep Blue Sea is such
As with all of your work, music plays an an honour. I don’t believe it. I keep thinking
incredibly important role in the film. Can you somebody is going to come up and say, ‘We’re maN WiTh a mOvie CameRa The ameRiCaN fRieND
discuss your use of Samuel Barber and the popular very sorry. We’ve made a mistake. It’s the Dziga vertov's masterpiece, one of the key Dennis hopper and bruno Ganz star in 'Paris,
music and pub songs of the time? other Terence Davies’. • works of soviet cinema and the pre-sound Texas' and 'Pina' director Wim Wenders’
era, is presented here with a mesmerising broody hamburg-set adaptation of Patricia
I have known the Barber Violin Concerto for a The Deep Blue Sea opens 25 November at score by composer michael Nyman. highsmith’s thrilling novel ‘Ripley’s Game’.
long time and I think it is one of the great violin [m] [ R ] [ C ] [ r ] [ W ]
concertos. I knew it was right for this film.
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n the last few months, cinema has Brit Marlin as Rhoda
witnessed both the beginning of the
world and the end of it. Terrence
Malick's pantheistic The Tree of Life
offered an epic vision of creation, while Lars von
Trier's apocalyptic Melancholia saw our planet
consumed by the astral projection of Kirsten
Dunst's depression. Mike Cahill’s engaging
Another Earth also presents a unique vision
of our world, in which a replica of it appears
in the night sky. But rather than launch into
some sci-fi adventure, Cahill's film is more
concerned with matters closer to home.
On the night that the Earth’s doppelganger
is discovered, Rhoda (played by Brit Marlin,
who co-wrote the script with Cahill) a young
student celebrating her acceptance on an
LIFE ON EARTH astrophysics course at MIT, inadvertently
drives her car into oncoming traffic. She kills
a woman and her son and seriously injures the
boy’s father. We then jump forward four years,
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to Rhoda’s release from prison. The planet is
Another Earth is an impressive drama that now recognised as Earth’s celestial sibling
balances a moving examination of the hand fate and a venture capitalist offers a civilian the
chance to visit the new world. Rhoda is torn
deals us with the demands of genre cinema between making amends to the man whose
• By Ian Haydn Smith • life she destroyed and venturing to Earth 2, to
see if her other self made the same mistakes.
Like other recent low-budget sci-fi dramas,
such as Moon, Monsters and Primer, Cahill’s
Sundance-winning debut (it was awarded
the coveted Alfred P. Sloane Prize for its
unique focus “on science or technology as a
theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer or
mathematician as a major character”) steers
clear of the shock and awe effects of bigger
budget extravaganzas. Instead, it hones in on
the human drama of the changing world. As
such, it continues the genre’s rich tradition of
mining incredible scenarios in order to reveal
something about the way we live today.
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This tradition had its heyday in the 50s and from the abyss of effects-driven releases.
early 60s. The genre delighted audiences Andrew Niccol’s body of work, as scriptwriter
with visions of other worlds, or a distortion on The Truman Show and director of Gattacca
of our own, whilst simultaneously meditating and S1m0ne has shown how a simple idea
on important themes. During these early can be transformed into a provocative drama.
days, many films dealt with the threat of And Duncan Jones, with Moon and Source
Communism, or the response to it. Invasion Code, has also revealed the strengths of script-
of the Body Snatchers, Invaders from Mars driven sci-fi. And now Mike Cahill’s feature
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and even the maniacally-charged Dr Seuss debut adds a unique variation to the genre.
adaptation The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. all With its understated visuals and melding of
dealt with the unknown evils posed by ideas and emotions, Cahill's film once again
armies amassing behind the Iron Curtain. shows the potency of the sci-fi genre.
By contrast, The Day the Earth Stood Still
presented a more sobering take on the atomic At the heart of the film lies Rhoda’s conflicted
age and futility of armed aggression. emotions. The guilt she feels prevents her
from moving on with her life. And yet,
The end of the 60s and early 70s saw a paradoxically, unless she moves on, her
revival in the genre, with films such as Planet feelings will never change. Likewise, the man
of the Apes, The Gladiators, Soylent Green, she widowed (William Mapother, in his best
The Omega Man, Solaris and Silent Running performance since In the Bedroom) cannot
offering perspectives on racism, warfare, the leave the house his family lived in as his loss is
environment and the nature of ego. But as too unbearable to endure out in the world. If
audience demand for these visions of future the arrival of a new Earth sparks hope in the
worlds increased, the growth in the budget countless millions around the globe, then the
for sci-fi features was commensurate with the encounter between two lost souls, whose lives
increasing vacuity of what each film had to say. were destroyed in one single moment, might
also return to a life unencumbered by grief,
In more recent times, a number of filmmakers guilt and ghosts from the past. •
have attempted to wrestle the genre back Another Earth opens 9 December at [ S ]
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Love in a Cruel World
Red Road and Fish Tank director Andrea Arnold presents
a radical take on Wuthering Heights
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mily Brontë created an enduring making lots of little decisions, for eighteen
literary classic with Wuthering months,” says Arnold of working with
Heights. Populated with characters the source material. “I’ve never done an
whose harshness reflected the adaptation before. I’m aware that no-one
environment they lived in, her novel focuses can really do justice to a book that feels so
on two obsessive lovers and the fatal trajectory complete, true and individual, and has such
their journey takes. a huge reputation. But I couldn’t help myself
once the idea was in my head. It was almost
It is perhaps fitting that British filmmaker out of my control.”
Andrea Arnold, who is known for the uncom-
promising realism of her films, should direct Arnold’s incarnation of Wuthering Heights
the latest cinematic adaptation. And there is is far removed from the melodramas of past
no doubt that her take on Brontë’s world, in screen incarnations. “A journalist recently told
which she establishes her own voice as much me,” Arnold says with a tone of satisfaction,
as the novelist’s, will likely turn a few heads. “that all previous adaptations he had seen
were mostly romanticised versions made by
“While I was writing, I read the book over male directors, and he found it interesting
and over, carefully seeking the bits I wanted that it had taken a woman to show the novel’s Shannon Beer and Soloman Glave play
to explore and bring out. Every day I was brutality”. Brontë’s novel is marked by its the young Cathy and Heathcliff
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frank and frequently raw portrayal of human One of the many challenging tests for the
nature and avoidance of any manicured unknown cast was portraying the mental
sentimentality. The same characteristic runs and physical cruelty that is central to the
through every fibre of Arnold’s film. story. There are visceral, brutal moments in
Arnold’s film, given an ethereal air thanks
Nature itself is as much a character on to the cinematography of her long-term
screen as Heathcliff and Cathy, with North collaborator Robbie Ryan. And the sparse
Yorkshire’s stunning landscapes influencing soundtrack plays up the aural landscape of
the way Arnold represented 19th century the natural world. “I am fascinated with how
life. “There was a big push to make the film people turn out the way they are. Are they a
quickly, so we had locations and cast before product of nature or their lives? Is anger and
the script was finished. This meant I was able aggression a natural part of being human?
to really weave it into the script,” she says. If so, why do some people express it and
“Nature, for me, was always going to be a big others don’t? Does it only come out if you
part of the film. We are animals. We are not are brutalised yourself, like Heathcliff?” Such
separate from nature but part of it. It’s a major questions are likely to stay with audiences as
reason why I wanted to make this film.” the closing credits roll. •
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Arnold is well known for working with [m] [ S ] [ R ] [ C ] [ r ] [ W ]
young actors and discovering new talent.
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invader, someone who arrives out of nowhere
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WHAT
THE PAPERS
SAY
In Tabloid, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Errol Morris
looks back on a bizarre story that became a press sensation
• By Ian Haydn Smith •
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t’s a story the papers couldn’t make up: merely the beginning of a journey that would
a young, beautiful woman from small- see the media duped by their subject and of
town Americana travels to England to Joyce’s long courtship and eventual battle
rescue a man she loves, who has been with the British media.
wrestled away from her by a religious cult.
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Her testimony in court transforms her into a In lesser hands, the film might make for
celebrity. But the press soon discover there is a diverting late-night documentary on
more to her story than she is letting on. television: the sex and drugs angles are played
to the hilt while the more interesting aspects
In 1977, Joyce McKinney made the of the story are left on the cutting room floor.
front pages when she abducted Mormon But Errol Morris has created a fascinating
missionary Kirk Anderson from outside his portrait of an eccentric whose life became
church in Epsom, Surrey. She claimed she headline news.
was saving him from the church elders who
had poisoned his mind against her. For three On the surface, Tabloid is a lighter affair
days he was held captive in a small cottage than Morris’ previous two films, the Oscar-
in Devon, where he was tied up and Joyce winning The Fog of War and sobering
repeatedly had sex with him. Again, this was Standard Operating Procedure. But what
part of her plan to free him from his religion initially appears to be little more than a A disguised Joyce McKinney (left)
and to recapture the early days of the brief portrait of an individual who lives on the
romance they had in the US, before he was margins of mainstream society allows Morris
despatched on his mission to the UK. an opportunity to explore themes that draw
on wider issues that pertain to us all.
But Anderson saw the events differently,
saying as much to the police, who arrested At the heart of Morris’ filmmaking process
Joyce and her accomplice. However, this was is a unique approach to interviewing. His
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interviews with his subjects. The device he life, Morris raises questions about the way
created to allow him a sense of intimacy we present ourselves to the world – the Lars von Trier
without placing too much pressure on divergence between the real life lived and the
his interviewees is called the Interrotron. one we want others to see. Joyce’s motives Tabloid_1-2_Curzon-1 11/10/11 15:53 Page 1
In practice, the machine is similar to a were not always clear and the obfuscation
teleprompter. The interviewer and subject that clouded her life was murky enough to
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each sit in front of a camera, but instead of have more than one newsroom fooled by
looking into a lens, they face the each other her claims of innocence. Her testimony also
– the face of the other person is projected on reveals that the revisionist view of her life may
to a screen in front of the lens. For Morris, be one that she believes wholeheartedly.
it helps explore the relationship between
“monologue and language, and how people Joyce’s story took yet another strange turn
present themselves to camera and express recently. When everything appeared resolved
themselves to camera”. It also means that the and her life away from the media was mostly
two interlocutors needn’t be in the same room, assured, her interest in recent scientific
again reducing the stress for the interviewee. developments once again saw the gaze of the
press fall upon her.
The approach allows for a degree of candour
on the part of the subject, as was evidenced There is little doubt of Joyce McKinney’s
by Fred A. Leuchter, Jnr. in Mr Death eccentricity, or of the veracity of her account
and Brigadier General Janis Karpinski in of what happened over 30 years ago. But
Standard Operating Procedure. The same Tabloid’s wider perspective is to ask would
effect is achieved with the testimonies of any of us, if the press chose to pore over the
Joyce McKinney and the journalists who minutiae of our lives, ever appear quite as
documented the two opposing narratives of normal as we think we would. •
her life story, Peter Tory of the Express and
Kent Gavin of the Mirror. Tabloid opens 11 November at [ S ] IN CINEMAS
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Bryn Terfel plays the Wanderer in Wagner's Siegfried
LIVE
FROM THE MET
around psychologically complex arias in
During November and December, the New York Met Opera which characters express their thoughts and
will stream live performances of four very different operas into emotions in isolation, can be difficult to stage
for modern audiences used to spectacle and
Curzon Cinemas and venues across the globe variety. But Wadsworth has at his disposal
the radiant voice and impeccable artistry of
• By Anne Hudson •
Renée Fleming, who navigates every nuance
of Rodelinda's changing moods in what is
undoubtedly one of the most challenging
T
he first opera in November is libretto, from the Bhagavad Gita, is sung in roles Handel ever wrote for soprano.
Siegfried, the penultimate opera the original Sanskrit. The story focuses on
in Wagner's Ring tetralogy, the early period of Gandhi's life as a lawyer The final Met screening before Christmas
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which received its premiere in in South Africa, and the visually spectacular is Gounod's Faust. First staged in Paris in
Bayreuth in 1876. Brought controversially to staging by Phelim McDermott and Julian the spring of 1859, and loosely based on
life by Canadian director Robert Lepage, it Crouch features video projections and Goethe's epic philosophical poem, it soon
has a cast led by Gary Lehman, Bryn Terfel puppetry. According to McDermott, each became the world's most performed opera.
and Deborah Voigt. According to the Met's of the scenes functions as a meditation on It was so popular that George Bernard Shaw
General Manager, Peter Gelb, Lepage's a moment in time rather than as part of a referred to its spread as 'Faustitus', and it's
vision – which includes a series of planks that linear narrative, and so a decision was taken easy to see why it caught on so quickly. With
can be manipulated into various formations to not to use surtitles but to incorporate the shades of both grand opera and operetta,
suggest different locales as well as being used as words of the text into the set design itself. it's an old-fashioned 'numbers' opera, full
a canvas for projections – represents “the most of good tunes and not so far removed from
technologically advanced and challenging Handel's Rodelinda, which premiered in what we would think of today as musical
production the Met has ever put on a stage”. London in 1725, tells the story of a deposed theatre, with its lush orchestration and
queen from ancient Lombardy who must resist rousing choruses and ensembles. A first-rate
Philip Glass's Satyagraha, first heard in the amorous advances of her captor whilst cast, led by celebrated German tenor Jonas
Rotterdam in 1980, is an opera in three acts waiting for her husband to return to reclaim Kaufmann, brings this dark, sumptuous
for orchestra, chorus and soloists, and was his throne. Revived this season in Stephen fairytale to life in a production by Tony
inspired by the life of Mahatma Gandhi. Wadsworth’s 2004 production, it was only the Award-winning director Des McAnuff that
The title refers to Gandhi's concept of non- fourth Handel opera ever to be staged at the updates the action to the two World Wars.•
violent resistance to injustice, an approach Met. With 3,700 seats, the house isn't ideally See page 52 for details of each opera
subsequently adopted by Martin Luther suited to the delicacy of Baroque opera; also, The New York Met Opera Live screens at
King, Jr and Nelson Mandela, and the Handel's inherently static works, structured [m] [ R ] [ C ] [ r ] [ W ]
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Curzon Q&As Curzon Q&As
friday 11 november 6.10pm • tickets: £15.00/£12.50 cineastes [ S o h o ] friday 25 november 6.10pm • tickets: £15.00/£12.50 cineastes [ m a y f a i r ]
sunday 13 november 4.30pm • tickets: £15.00/£12.50 cineastes [ r i c h m o n d ] sunday 27 november 5.00pm • tickets: £15.00/£12.50 cineastes [ r i c h m o n d ]
WUTHERING HEIGHTS [15] THE DEEP BLUE SEA [12A]
plus Q&A with director Andrea Arnold plus Q&A with director Terence Davies
Acclaimed British director Andrea Arnold (Red Road, Fish Tank) will join us on stage To celebrate the release of his new film, Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives, The House
to discuss her adaptation of Emily Brönte's classic novel. of Mirth) will join us on stage to discuss his adaptation of Terence Rattigan's stage play.
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See page 9 for synopsis. With thanks to Artificial Eye. See page 12 for synopsis. With thanks to Artificial Eye.
saturday 12 november 5.30pm • tickets: £12.50/£9.50 cineastes [ m a y f a i r ] saturday 17 december 6.30pm • tickets: £12.50/£9.50 cineastes [ S o h o ]
THE AWAKENING [15] WRECKERS [Cert tbc]
plus Q&A with director Nick Murphy plus Q&A with director D.R. Hood and actors Benedict Cumberbatch,
Join us for a Q&A with director Nick Murphy following a screening of his unsettling Claire Foy and Shaun Evans (TBC)
supernatural thriller, which stars Rebecca Hall, Dominic West and Imelda Staunton. Director D.R. Hood and members of the cast of Wreckers (TBC) will join
See page 9 for synopsis. With thanks to Optimum Releasing. us on stage following a screening of the film.
See page 17 for synopsis. With thanks to Artificial Eye.
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Curzon DocDays tuesday 6 december 6.30pm
tickets: £12.50/£9.50 cineastes HOW TO RE-ESTABLISH A
[Soho] VODKA EMPIRE [Advised 16]
plus Q&A with director Dan Edelstyn
Curzon will present four outstanding documentaries with discussions and Q&As
Director: Dan Edelstyn • UK 2011 • 75 mins
as part of our ongoing DocDays strand.
When Daniel Edelstyn discovered his
grandmother's journals in the attic of his
family home, he was stunned. Born into
a wealthy and privileged Jewish family in
the Ukraine, Maroussia Zorokovich was
a writer, dancer and painter before the
Bolshevik revolution rewrote her destiny. The
irresistible romance of her life had Edelstyn
gripped. Delving into his family history, he
attempts to re-launch his great grandfather’s
once glorious vodka empire. Dan Edelstyn
monday 14 november 6.30pm will join us for a post-screening discussion.
In collaboration with the 8th Romanian Film Festival
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CRULIC: THE PATH TO BEYOND [Advised 16] plus Q&A with director Anca Damian
Director: Anca Damian • Romania, Poland 2011 • 73 mins
Crulic: The Path to Beyond tells the story of Crulic, a 33-year-old Romanian who died in
a Polish prison while on hunger strike. With its powerful visual style, combining various
animation techniques, Damian’s film is a striking animated documentary. We welcome
director Anca Damian for a post-screening discussion.
tuesday 29 november 6.20pm
COCAINE UNWRAPPED [Advised 16]
plus Q&A with director Rachel Seifert
Director: Rachel Seifert • UK 2011 • 83 mins friday 9 december 6.15pm
With gripping reportage from the front line in Colombia, Ecuador, SARAH PALIN: YOU BETCHA! [Cert tbc] plus Q&A with director Nick Broomfield
Mexico, Bolivia and the streets of Baltimore, as well as exclusive Director: Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill • UK 2011 • 90 mins
interviews with leading Latin American politicians, Cocaine Award-winning director Nick Broomfield goes in pursuit of Sarah Palin, interviewing her
Unwrapped tells the story of the West’s favourite recreational drug. family and friends, for a decidedly unauthorised perspective on this growing force in American
It details the human, social and economic costs of the trade, and of politics. While Broomfield admits to being briefly charmed upon entering the gaffe-prone
the war that the West wages against it. Director Rachel Seifert will be vice-presidential candidate’s orbit, what ultimately surfaces is an unsettling portrait of a
joining us for a Q&A following the screening. disengaged, self-serving opportunist whose political days are numbered. Nick Broomfield will
join us for a post-screening discussion.
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Artists’ Moving Image at Curzon Curzon Screen Salon
tickets: £10.50/£8.50 cineastes [ R e n o i R ] £9.00/£7.50 cineastes [ W i m b l e d o n ] tickets: £10.50/£8.50 cineastes [ R e n o i R ] £11.50/£9.50 cineastes [ r i c h m o n d ]
Curzon Screen Salons are a series of illustrated talks before our regular screenings. Hosted
by Ian Haydn Smith, Editor of the Curzon Magazine and International Film Guide.
monday 14 november 6.10pm [ R ] tuesday 15 november 6.30pm [ W ]
NEWSREEL 1 [Cert tbc] plus Q&A with director Alex Reuben
Director: Alex Reuben • UK 2011 • Approximately 65 mins • Contains nudity
Curzon is proud to host two special screenings of pioneering filmmaker Alex Reuben’s (Routes:
Dancing to New Orleans) latest film NEWSREEL 1 - recordings of social, cultural and political
events from the streets of London which expertly reveal the beauty of spontaneous natural
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movement. NEWSREEL 1 was commissioned by Sadler's Wells and supported by the National
Lottery through Arts Council England. The screening at the Renoir cinema will feature a
version of the film cut especially for the event. See alexreuben.com for further information. saturday 26 november 6.10pm [ r ] sunday 27 november 2.15pm [ R ]
THE DEEP BLUE SEA [12A]
monday 21 november 6.15pm [ R ] monday 5 december 6.10pm [ W ] and the cinema of Terence Davies
thursday 24 november 6.30pm [ W ] tickets: £7.00/£6.00 cineastes Terence Davies has long been regarded as one of Britain’s greatest living directors. His films
THIS IS OUR STILL LIFE [Cert tbc] MOVING IMAGE SOUTH: JOHN include Distant Voices, Still Lives, The Long Day Closes, The House of Mirth and the critically
plus Q&A with director Andrew Kötting SMITH [Advised 16] acclaimed paean to the city of his birth, Of Time and the City. This Salon will look at the
Director: Andrew Kötting • Starring: Eden Kötting, Leila plus Q&A with John Smith work of this unique filmmaker, as an introduction to a screening of his adaptation of Terence
McMillan • UK 2011 • 57 mins Collaborating for the first time with the CCW Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea.
Kötting’s latest film is a deliciously eccentric Graduate School (Camberwell, Chelsea and
portrait of Eden, the artist's daughter, as a Wimbledon), a collection of student films sunday 18 december 12noon [ r ]
young woman, in their tumbledown Pyrenean will be screened alongside the work of John sunday 18 december 5.00pm [ R ]
farmhouse. We are pleased to welcome Smith who, since 1972, has drawn upon the IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE [12A]
Andrew Kötting for Q&As following the raw material of everyday life to meticulously and Christmas at the movies
film’s screenings. The film will be preceded by re-work and transform reality. The Screen Salon ends the year on a
the short film Portrait of Eden, about Andrew Celebrating the release of the John Smith 3 DVD festive note, with a look at how cinema has
Kötting’s daughter, by Sleep Furiously director Boxset courteous of LUX, London. represented Christmas over the years, prior to
Gideon Koppel. a screening of Frank Capra’s 1946 classic It’s
a Wonderful Life.
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Cinema of Brazil: Travel Stories 8th Romanian Film Feival
3-6 november • tickets £12.50/£9.50 cineastes 10-14 november • tickets £12.50/£9.50 cineastes
[Soho] [may fair] [S oh o ]
Curzon Cinemas is proud to welcome Cinema of Brazil, in its 5th edition, for a season Curzon Cinemas welcomes back the Romanian Film Festival, with a programme of great
of gripping films, exposing the best in Brazilian cinema. Connected by the theme ‘Travel new films and classics from the past. romanianculturalcentre.org.uk
Stories’, the films will tell tales of Brazilians travelling away in foreign lands, or exploring
the limits of their own country. cinemaofbrazil.org
Silver Cliff Pachamama Jean Charles The Midday Sun
thursday 10 november 6.10pm [ m ]
Opening Night Gala: TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMAS [Cert tbc]
thursday 3 november 6.30pm saturday 5 november 4.15pm plus Q&A with director Radu Muntean
UK Premiere: SILVER CLIFF [Advised 16] JEAN CHARLES [Advised 16] Director: Radu Muntean • Starring: Mimi Branescu, Mirela Oprisor • Romania 2010 • 99 mins
plus Q&A with director Karim Aïnouz plus Q&A with director Henrique Goldman Acclaimed director Muntean (Boogie) turns his gaze to the story of a married family man
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Director: Karim Aïnouz • Starring: Alessandra Negrini, Otto Director: Henrique Goldman • Starring: Selton Mello, Vanessa whose affair with a young woman and his wife’s discovery of it forces him to decide what
Jr • Brazil 2011 • 84 mins Giácomo, Luis Miranda • UK, Brazil 2009 • 90 mins direction his life will take.
When Violeta receives a voicemail from her A fictional rendering of the Jean Charles de
husband telling her he is leaving her, she Menezes’ story, the Brazilian shot dead at friday 11 november 6.00pm [ m ]
embarks on a nocturnal odyssey. Part of the Stockwell tube station by the Metropolitan UK Premiere: PHANTOM FATHER [Cert tbc]
official selection at this year’s Quinzaine des Police following the 7 July London Bombings. plus Q&A with director Lucian Georgescu
Realizateurs at the Cannes Film Festival. Director: Lucian Georgescu • Starring: Marcel Iures, Mihaela Sarbu • Romania 2011 • 90 mins
monday 7 november 6.50pm American Professor Robert Traum takes a sabbatical and turns his
friday 4 november 6.50pm UK Premiere: THE MIDDAY SUN [Advised 16] back on a present devoid of surprise, to live an adventure from the
UK Premiere: PACHAMAMA [Advised 16] plus Q&A with lead actor Cláudia Assunção past. Researching his family’s lineage, he discovers a rich and complex
plus Q&A with director Eryk Rocha Director: Eliane Caffé • Starring: Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, history. Preceded by Tudor Giurgiu's short film Superman, Spiderman
Director: Eryk Rocha • Brazil 2010 • 105 mins Chico Diaz, Cláudia Assunção, Ary Frontoura • UK, Brazil Or Batman.
Eryk Rocha, the son of the acclaimed director 2009 • 116 mins
Glauber Rocha, embarks on a visually A love triangle develops between Artur, who saturday 12 november 6.00pm [ m ]
stunning 14,000km journey through Brazil, has committed a crime of passion, Matuim, CARNIVAL SCENES [Cert tbc]
Peru and Bolivia. Along the way he interviews who owns the old boat Artur is escaping in, plus Q&A with director Lucian Pintilie
indigenous tribes and other communities and Ciara, who they meet when forced to Director: Lucian Pintilie • Starring: Victor Rebengiuc • Romania 1979 • 120 mins
about their relationship to their government continue their journey by road. A banned classic from the Communist era, presenting an acerbic portrait
and motherland. of Romanian life. Based on Ion Luca’s acclaimed play, it was banned
for over a decade and is now seen as a key text in Romanian cinema.
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sunday 13 november 5.30pm [ m ]
UK Premiere: LOVERBOY [Cert tbc] Curzon Classics at Chelsea
plus Q&A with director Catalin Mitulescu tickets: £6.00/£5.00 cineastes • pullman seats: £9.00/£8.00 cineastes
Director: Catalin Mitulescu • Starring: George Pistereanu • Romania 2011 • 93 mins [Chelsea]
Luca seduces women only to force them into prostitution. But then A chance to see some of world cinema’s classic films on Sunday afternoons at Curzon
he falls in love with one of his potential victims. The latest film Chelsea. Please check curzoncinemas.com for timings.
by acclaimed writer-director Mitulescu once again highlights the
urgency and brilliance of contemporary Romanian film. Preceded by sunday 6 november
Adrian Sitaru's short film Lord. THE LEOPARD [15]
Director: Luchino Visconti • Staring: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon • Italy 1963 • 187 mins •
monday 14 november 6.30pm [ S ] Italian with English subtitles
8 Romanian Film Festival & Curzon DocDays
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Burt Lancaster plays the aging patriarch of a once great Italian dynasty
UK Premiere: CRULIC [Cert tbc] plus Q&A with director Anca Damian who, through war and the dawn of a new age, accepts that the changes
Director: Anca Damian • Romania, Poland 2011 • 73 mins
afoot will forever change the lives of those around him. One of the
See page 46 for synopsis. classics of Italian cinema, Visconti’s film is a stunningly shot epic that
documents the country’s entry into modernity. The film also features
a rich score by Nino Rota.
sunday 20 november
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DAYS OF HEAVEN [PG]
Special Event: THE DUST OF TIME Director: Terrence Malick • Starring: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz,
sunday 6 november time 2.00pm • tickets: £6.00/£5.00 cineastes Robert J. Wilke • US 1978 • 94 mins
[ RenoiR] Arguably one of the most beautiful films ever made (for which
To celebrate the release on DVD of the films of Greece’s most critically acclaimed auteur, cinematographer Nestor Amendros won an Academy Award),
Theo Angelopoulos, Curzon Cinemas are proud to present a screening of the director’s most Malick’s paean to rural life in the early days of the 20th century centres
recent work The Dust of Time. Also available on Curzon on Demand. on the love triangle between Bill (Gere, rarely better), Abby (Adams)
and the wealthy Farmer (Shepard). Shot mostly at the Magic Hour, it
is a film of rare beauty and grace.
sunday 11 december
LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS [PG]
Director: Marcel Carné • Starring: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir,
Mariá Casares • France 1945 • 190 mins
Carné’s tribute to the world of theatre has constantly been voted the
Director: Theo Angelopoulos • Starring: Willem Dafoe, Bruno Ganz, Michele Piccoli, Irène Jacob • Greece 2008 • 125 mins greatest French film ever made. Set in the Parisian theatres of the mid
Film director A (Willem Dafoe), who first appeared in 1996’s Ulysse’s Gaze (and played by 19th century, the film revolves around the enigmatic actress Garance (a
Harvey Keitel), is making a film about his parents. It is also a history of the lands they lived sublime Arletty) and the four suitors enamoured with her.Their intrigues,
in. Traveling through Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA, fact and constantly outdoing themselves, and undoing their rivals’ plans, in
fiction merges and the toll of the past plays heavily on the present. order to win over the object of their desire propels this wonderful story.
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New York Metropolitan Opera LIVE in HD saturday 21 january 2012 6.00pm
George Frideric Handel, Jean-Philippe
2011-2012 season Rameau, Antonio Vivaldi and others’
[ m a y f a i r ] [ RenoiR] [ C h e l s e a ] [ richmond] [ Wimbledon ] THE ENCHANTED ISLAND
tickets: £30.00/£25.00 cineastes and under 15s Conductor: William Christie • Production: Phelim McDermott
chelsea pullman seats: £40.00/£35.00 cineastes • Cast: Danielle de Niese, Lisette Oropesa, Joyce DiDonato,
royal box seats at curzon mayfair: £37.50/£32.50 cineastes David Daniels, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Plácido Domingo,
Luca Pisaroni • 215 mins with 1 interval
Curzon is proud to bring you the new season of the New York Metropolitan Opera
Live in HD, now also screening at Renoir. saturday 11 february 2012 5.00pm
Richard Wagner’s
saturday 5 november 4.00pm saturday 3 december 5.30pm GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
Richard Wagner’s SIEGFRIED George Frideric Handel’s RODELINDA Conductor: James Levine • Production: Robert Lepage • Cast:
Conductor: Fabio Luisi • Production: Robert Lepage • Cast: Conductor: Harry Bicket • Production: Stephen Wadsworth Debora Voigt, Katarina Dalayman, Wendy Bryn Harmer,
Deborah Voigt, Katarina Dalayman, Patricia Bardon, Gary • Cast: Renee Fleming, Stephanie Blythe, Andreas Scholl, Waltraud Meier, Karen Cargill, Gary Lehman, Stephen
Lehman, Stephen Gould, Gerhard Siegel, Robert Brubaker, Iestyn Davies, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Kobie van Rensburg, Gould, Iain Paterson, Eric Owens, Richard Paul Fink • 384
Bryn Terfel, Richard Paul Fink • 356 mins, with 2 intervals Shenyang • 255 mins with 2 intervals mins with 2 intervals
Part three of Wagner’s epic Ring cycle focuses Renée Fleming reprises the title role in
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on his hero’s early conquests. Robert Lepage’s Stephen Wadsworth’s much-heralded 2004 saturday 25 february 2012 6.00pm
revolutionary stage machine transforms production. She is joined by Stephanie Blythe Giuseppe Verdi’s ERNANI
itself from bewitched forest to mountaintop and countertenor Andreas Scholl. Baroque Conductor: Marco Armiliato • Production: Pier Luigi
love nest. Gary Lehman sings the title role specialist Harry Bicket conducts. Samaritani • Cast: Angela Meade, Salvatore Licitra, Dmitri
and Deborah Voigt’s Brünnhilde is his prize, Hvorostovsky, Ferruccio Furlanetto • 229 mins with 2 intervals
while Bryn Terfel plays the Wanderer. saturday 10 december 6.00pm
Charles Gounod’s FAUST saturday 7 april 2012 5.00pm
saturday 19 november 6.00pm Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin • Production: Des McAnuff Jules Massenet’s MANON
Philip Glass’ SATYAGRAHA • Cast: Marina Poplavskaya, Michele Losier, Jonas Kaufmann, Conductor: Fabio Luisi • Production: Laurent Pelly • Cast:
Conductor: Dante Anzolini • Production: Phelim McDermott Rene Pape, Russell Braun • 260 mins with 2 intervals Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala, Paulo Szot, David Pittsinger
• Cast: Rachelle Durkin, Richard Croft, Kim Josephson, Alfred Gounod’s classic retelling of the Faust legend • 248 mins with 2 intervals
Walker • 248 mins with 2 intervals couldn’t be better served. Tony Award-
The Met’s visually stunning production is back winning director Des McAnuff updates the saturday 14 april 2012 6.00pm
for an encore engagement. Richard Croft once story to the first half of the 20th century, Giuseppe Verdi’s LA TRAVIATA
again is Gandhi in Philip Glass’s unforgettable with Jonas Kaufmann playing Faust, René Conductor: Fabio Luisi • Production: Willy Decker • Cast:
opera, which the Washington Post calls ‘a Pape as the devil and Marina Poplavskaya as Natalie Dessay, Matthew Polenzani, Dmitri Hvorostovsky •
profound and beautiful work of theatre’. Marguerite. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. 187 mins with 1 interval
Faust
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New York Metropolitan Opera NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE
ENCORE third season 2011-2012
tickets: live performances: £15.00/£12.50 cineastes
tickets: £22.50/£20.00 cineastes and under 15s
[ m a y f a i r ] [ richmond] [ Wimbledon ]
[ richmond]
Curzon is proud to be hosting NT Live, now also screening at hmvcurzon Wimbledon. Please
Curzon Cinemas is pleased to announce sunday 17 december xx.xxpm check curzoncinemas.com and hmvcurzon.com for updates on the upcoming productions.
additional, selected screenings of the New Charles Gounod’s FAUST
York Met Opera, which allows you to see the Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin • Production: Des McAnuff
best pre-recorded productions in HD. With • Cast: Marina Poplavskaya, Michele Losier, Jonas Kaufmann,
reduced ticket prices there’s now no excuse Rene Pape, Russell Braun • 260 mins with 2 intervals
not to treat yourself or loved ones to a top- See page 52 for synopsis.
class event.
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thursday 1 december 2011 7.00pm
Live: COLLABORATORS
Director: Nicholas Hytner • approximately 180 mins
NeW WiNTeR
A new play by John Hodge, the acclaimed screenwriter of Trainspotting, Shallow Grave and
The Beach, directed by the National Theatre Artistic Director Nicholas Hytner. Collaborators
centres on an imaginary encounter between Joseph Stalin and the playwright Mikhail
WiNe seleCTiON
Bulgakov, best known for his novel ‘The Master and Margarita’. Alex Jennings (The Habit of
Art) will play Bulgakov and Simon Russell Beale (London Assurance and Terence Davies’ The
Deep Blue Sea) will play Stalin.
thursday 1 march 2012 7.00pm
Coming Soon Live: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
Director: Dominic Cooke • 180mins
Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the same city for one
crazy day, as multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a
grand scale. Dominic Cooke, Director of the celebrated Royal Court
Theatre in London, comes to the National Theatre for the first time
to direct Shakespeare’s play, which stars Lenny Henry.
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ROYAL OPERA HOUSE thursday 15 december 7.30pm
2011-2012 season Tchaikovsky’s THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
The Royal Ballet LIVE from The Royal Opera House
[may fair]
Choreography: Marius Petipa • Production: Christopher
tickets: live performances: £15.00/£12.50 cineastes and under 15s • royal box Newton, Monica Mason, Lauren Cuthbertson, Sergei Polunin
seats: £20.00/£17.50 cineastes • pre-recorded performances: normal ticket prices apply • 175 mins, with 2 intervals
Curzon is proud to bring you the new season from the Royal Opera House. The pinnacle of classical ballet, featuring the
perfect marriage of Tchaikovsky’s music and
Petipa’s choreography, which offers a glorious
challenge to every dancer on stage. The Royal
Court, the panoramic journey of the Prince to
the overgrown castle and the great celebratory
dances of the euphoric finale are all brought to
life by the luscious designs of this celebrated
production, recreated in 2006 to mark the
75th anniversary of the Royal Ballet.
sunday 08 january 11.30am
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Massenet’s CENDRILLON
Pre-recorded from The Royal Opera House 2011
The Sleeping Beauty
Conductor: Bertrand de Billy • Production: Laurent Pelly,
Joyce DiDonato, Alice Coote • 169 mins, including intervals
tuesday 17 april 7.30pm
sunday 05 february 7.30pm Verdi’s RIGOLETTO
Puccini’s IL TRITTICO LIVE from The Royal Opera House 2011
Pre-recorded from The Royal Opera House 2011 Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner • Production: David McVicar,
Conductor: Antonio Pappano • Production: Richard Jones, Dimitri Platanias, Ekaterina Siurina, Vittorio Grigolo • 168
Eva-Maria Westbroek, Anja Harteros, Lucio Gallo • 192 mins, with 1 interval
Tosca
mins, including intervals
sunday 20 november 11.30am wednesday 16 may 7.30pm
Puccini’s TOSCA thursday 22 march 7.30pm Ashton’s LA FILLE MAL GARDéE
Pre-recorded from The Royal Opera House 2011 Prokofiev’s ROMEO AND JULIET The Royal Ballet LIVE from The Royal Opera House
Conductor: Antonio Pappano • Production: Duncan Macfarland, Angela Gheorghiu • 155 mins, including intervals The Royal Ballet LIVE from The Royal Opera House Choreography: Frederick Ashton • Production: TBC • 130
Set in 19th century Rome, a world of political intrigue and suspicion, Tosca is a beautiful diva in Choreography: Kenneth MacMillan • 172 mins, with 2 intervals mins, with 1 interval
love with the idealistic painter Cavaradossi, whose beliefs and loyalties bring him into conflict
with Scarpia, the malevolent Chief of Police. Conducted by Antonio Pappano, the score
includes such great set pieces as ‘Te Deum’ and the arias ‘Vissi d’arte’ and ‘E lucevan le stelle’.
Drama, passion and rich, intoxicating music, Tosca is one of opera’s most magnificent nights out.
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CineKids – family films
tickets: children £3.00, adults £1.00
[ RenoiR] [ Wimbledon ]
Creatively inspiring a new generation of cinema lovers, Curzon CineKids continues
its diverse programme for the whole family. Discover more about film and storytelling in
our workshops after every film. All screenings start at 10.30am.
saturday 5 & sunday 6 november [ W ]
sunday 27 november [ R ]
MR POPPER’S PENGUINS [U]
saturday 12 & sunday 13 november [ W ]
JOHNNY ENGLISH
REBORN [PG]
Dolphin Tale 3D sunday 13 november [ R ] The Gruffalo
PePPa Pig [U]
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saturday 19 & sunday 20 november [ W ]
HUMF [U]
saturday 26 & sunday 27 november [ W ]
sunday 11 december [ R ]
DOLPHIN TALE 3D [U]
Mr Popper's Penguins
saturday 3 & sunday 4 december [ W ]
LITTLE KINGDOM [U]
saturday 10 & sunday 11 december [ W ]
HAPPY FEET [U]
saturday 17 & sunday 18 december [ W ]
CiNeKiDS CHRiSTMaS
SPeCiaL (TBC)
Little Kingdom
Please Note: It is the law that no child under 8 may be left alone in a cinema. No adult unaccompanied
by a child will be admitted to these screenings.
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ADRIANO LUZ MARIA JOÃO BASTOS RICARDO PEREIRA
CLOTILDE HESME AFONSO PIMENTEL LÉA SEYDOUX
di rector’s cut] Raoul Ruiz 1941-2011
“THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT
OF A GREAT DIRECTOR’S CAREER.”
T
he Chilean-born filmmaker NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL 2010
Raoul Ruiz, who died on 19
August 2011, directed over 100
films in a 40-year career. He “AN EPIC ENTERTAINMENT... “YOU WON’T SEE A MORE
was born in Puerto Montt, in the South of RUIZ’S MOST AMBITIOUS BRILLIANT PIECE OF FILM
Chile, and grew up in and around Valparaiso.
WORK SINCE PROUST’S MAKING THIS YEAR...
He began writing early, so that by the time
he entered the University of Chile to study TIME REGAINED.” RAVISHING”
Jonathan Romney, SIGHT AND SOUND John Powers, VOGUE
law, theology and theatre, Ruiz had already
amassed dozens of plays. It was at university
that he became interested in experimental 12 TBC
film. From there, he studied at film school for
a year before working in television. Chilean émigrés’ situation, was inspired by
Brecht’s ‘Refugee Conversations’. Acceptance
Ruiz’s feature debut Three Sad Tigers won by French avant-garde came with the release
the top prize at the Locarno Film Festival of The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978).
in 1969. It was an experimental film that
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adopted an ironic view toward the class The 1980s saw Ruiz’s international reputation
system in contemporary Chile, drawing flourish, with The Three Crowns of the Sailor
heavily on the style of the French New Wave. (1982) and City of Pirates (1983). His standing
As he described it, “all the elements of a story increased as his style matured in the late 1990s,
are there but they are used like a landscape, attracting audiences to his series of beautifully
and the landscape is used like story”. crafted dramas such as Genealogies of Crime
(1997), his remarkable adaptation of Proust,
In 1975 Ruiz directed The Penal Colony, a loose Time Regained, the Hitchcockian Shattered
adaptation of Kafka’s story, which presaged Image and, more recently, Klimt (2006). WINNER WINNER “GLORIOUS...
SILVER SHELL PRIX LOUIS
the overthrow of the Allende government. BEST DIRECTOR DELLUC
ONE OF THE FIRST CINEMATIC
At the time he was the film adviser to the Ruiz’s final completed film, The Mysteries of SAN SEBASTIÁN
FILM FESTIVAL
BEST FILM MASTERPIECES OF THIS CENTURY”
Tony Pipolo, FILM COMMENT
OF THE YEAR
2010 2010
socialist wing of the government and was Lisbon (2010), a rich and visually sumptuous
forced to flee following the coup d’etat. He tapestry of 19th century life, is one of his most PAULO BRANCO presents
would remain in exile, seeking asylum in popular with audiences and critics. Though
France, for most of his life. hardly representative of such a varied body of
work, the film does highlight, as A.O. Scott
In France, he continued to developed an wrote of Ruiz in his review of the film for
intellectually rigorous style. Dialogue of Exiles the New York Times, that “in his universe,
A film by RAÚL RUIZ
(1974), which dealt directly with his and other improbability is the rule”. •
“A BREATHLESS NARRATIVE OF PASSION, “HEAD-SPINNING... RIVETING...
Mysteries of Lisbon opens 9 December
JEALOUSY AND INTRIGUE...” KEEPS THE VIEWER GLUED TO THE SCREEN.”
Nick James, SIGHT AND SOUND Rob Nelson, VARIETY
c u r z o n c i n e m a s . c o m
IN CINEMAS 9 DECEMBER A New Wave Films release www.newwavefilms.co.uk
BFI Southbank
London SE1 Waterloo
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