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WAR HORSE FEBRUARY 2012... “possiblyBritain’smostbeautifulcinema...”(BBC) FEBRUARY 2012 Issue 83 www.therexberkhamsted.com 01442 877759 Mon-Sat 10.30-6pm Sun 4.30-5.30pm To advertise email [email protected] INTRODUCTION Gallery 4-7 BEST IN FEBRUARY February Evenings 11 Coming Soon 23 February Films at a glance 23 February Matinees 25 Rants and Pants 38-40 SEAT PRICES (+ REX DONATION £1.00) Circle £8.00+1 Concessions £6.50+1 At Table £10.00+1 Concessions £8.50+1 Royal Box (seats 6) £12.00+1 or for the Box £66.00+1 A masterpiece of invention, boldness & joy All matinees £5, £6.50, £10 (box) +1 The Artist BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 Fri 17 7.30 / Sat 18 7.00 / Sun 19 6.00 / Mon to Sat 10.30 – 6.00 Wed 22 / Mon 27 7.30. France 2011 Sun 4.30 – 6.30 FILMS OF THE MONTH Disabled and flat access: through the gate on High Street (right of apartments) Some of the girls and boys you see at the Box Office and Bar: Dayna Archer Lydia Kellett Ella Boyd Helen Miller Julia Childs Liam Parker Ally Clifton Amberly Rose Nicola Darvell Georgia Rose Romy Davis Sid Sagar Karina Gale Liam Stephenson Rosa Gilbert Tina Thorpe Ollie Gower Beth Wallman A different kind of masterpiece, Elizabeth Hannaway Jack Whiting but one all the same Billie Hendry-Hughes Olivia Wilson Lucy Hood Roz Wilson Margin Call Mon 13/Tue 21 7.30. USA 2012 Abigail Kellett Yalda Yazdanian Amelia Kellett Ushers: Amy, Amy P, Annabel, Ella, Ellie, Ellen W, Hannah, India, James, Kitty, Luke, Meg, Tyree Sally Thorpe In charge Alun Rees Chief projectionist (Original) Jon Waugh 1st assistant projectionist Martin Coffill Part-time assistant projectionist Anna Shepherd Part-time assistant projectionist Jacquie Rose Chief Admin Oliver Hicks Best Boy Becca Ross Best Girl Michael Glasheen Gaffer A Shakespearean & Fiennesian masterstroke Jane Clucas & Lynn Hendry PR/Sales/FoH Coriolanus Thu 23 7.30. UK 2011 Andrew Dixon Resident Artist Darren Flindall Maintenance Paul Fullagar, Alan Clooney Advisors and Investors Ed Mauger Genius Demiurge Design Programme Design 01442 864904 Lynn Hendry Advertising 01442 877999 James Hannaway CEO 01442 877999 Betty Patterson Company Secretary and THE ORIGINAL VISIONARY of The Rex. The Rex High Street (Three Close Lane) Another Clint Eastwood masterpiece. Berkhamsted HP4 2FG May he last forever... www.therexberkhamsted.com J Edgar Tue 28/Wed 29 7.30. USA 2012 4 Box Office: 01442 877759 GALLERY BAFTAS OSCARS & GLOBES who cares…? am suspicious of directors as an time to time. Acting’s main job is to make ambitious breed. They can be ego- us believe in a character without seeing Iheads at worst, decent storytellers at the actor or acting. The best or most best. I don’t like actors much either or at watchable actors are those who disappear least when they’re acting, and I can’t completely, so all you can see is the stand crowds. This might make one character in the story. wonder if I’m in the wrong job? hen you’re constantly At Boxmoor Arts Centre, I would reject congratulating a performance the one who claimed to “love working W(even as you sit there) it is lost, with kids.” you are no longer engaged. The actor I’d give it to someone who didn’t like them becomes bigger than the character, who much. They were usually the best. Kids on has no choice but to disappear. (think the holiday workshops would have to Brian Blessed) follow them around to learn. They did and Impressionists are contenders for village they did. Besides I wouldn’t have got green/seaside awards for contortionists and anywhere near an interview for the Rex. ventriloquists at the end of the pier. It would probably have gone to an earnest Helen Mirren should have been given a young enthusiast from Hull or a Redcoat prize for impersonating the gay/lesbian film student from Wales or Queen, as should Meryl Streep for Mrs both. As for the programme, it would be Thatcher. Call it Best Leading Caricature? selected in group therapy. It is unlikely you So why did Colin Firth deserve gongs for would be here every night. the Kings Speech, or Michelle Williams Paralysed by the need to do the right thing, for Marilyn (which of course she wont committees/boards/panels often get it get). They each pulled the audience wrong. Their decisions are skewed by instantly into the story. That’s why. It is the some reason other than the right one. only reason for actors and audience to be Almost all of those appointed to there. You see the character not the star. management or senior roles, shouldn’t be It is a subtle interpretation over gross there. You know one don’t you? impersonation. Besides, to give another Luckily there were no interviews. There award to English royalty or ‘political was no job, and this 55yr old (at the time) royalty’ would be creepy. with no hobbies, no film background and at the mercy of ridicule and ‘good’ advice, took it on against all odds and won the last HERE’S THE REX LIST OF WHO SHOULD seven years as Britain’s most successful WIN BUT WONT. (and beautiful) cinema etc etc… Why now for such a chippy boast? It is BEST ACTRESSES/SUPPORT: Awards time; that’s why. So welcome to Michelle Williams – Marilyn bad decisions. What is already lined up in Olivia Colman – Tyrannosaur the Emperor’s new clothes dept? At the Carey Mulligan – Drive time of editing (17th Jan) The Iron Lady Rachel Weisz – Deep Blue Sea has already taken a Golden Globe and is Tilda Swinton – Kevin up for four Baftas, including Ms Streep Judi Dench – for anything again. t is easy to despise the process, yet find the prurience of its glitzy circus, BEST ACTOR/SUPPORT: Iirresistible. Brendan Gleeson – The Guard Awards should go only to directors with a Ryan Gosling – Drive/Ides Of March passion for story telling, nothing Brad Pitt – Moneyball autobiographical or indulgent and who Philip Seymour Hoffman – Ides of never forget there is an audience; and to March actors who don’t (seem to) act. Mimicry and impersonation isn’t acting it BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: is mimicry and impersonation. I suppose The Guard all acting is guilty of a little of each from Midnight In Paris GALLERY www.therexberkhamsted.com 5 BEST FILM: The Secret In Their Eyes – Drive Soledad Villamil & Ricardo Darin The Guard BEST DIRECTOR: John Michael McDonagh – The Guard Martin Scorsese – Hugo Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive One thing The Academy (not Bafta) has often got right is Best Foreign Language film. Many have become big favourites here. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009) The Counterfeiters (2007) The Sea Inside (2004) with Marion Cotillard Best Actress for LaVie en Rose (2007) And this year, I’m hoping it is THE KID WITH THE BIKE, but A SEPARATION is so worthy and Iranian, little else stands a chance. We’ll see. The Iron Lady – Meryl Streep The Sea Inside – Javier Bardem The Counterfeiters – Karl Markovics The Queen – Helen Mirren My Week With Marilyn La Vie En Rose – – Michelle Williams Marion Cotillard Drive – Carey Mulligan 6 Box Office: 01442 877759 GALLERY GUESTS WHO HAVE COME TO THE REX FOR THE REX… ut of the blue in January, James Film..................................................Let Me In Palmer posted the following on Date.................................................. OThe Odyssey St Albans facebook Thu 30th Dec Time ................................................ wall… 7.30pm “I’m in Birmingham but I’ve made the Seat No. .......................................... effort to visit The Rex down in Berko a G18 + 19 couple of times, and I shall most Non definitely make the trip to St Albans!” Thank you James, this straightforward message, brings hope to accompany our wishes. The Rex enjoys extraordinary goodwill BERKHAMSTED together with overwhelming support and unflagging optimism for St Albans. So A new Everyman in Maida Vale. that somebody comes all the way from Tickets:£28 a two seater settee. A ‘three- Birmingham to The Rex is extraordinary. seater- berth’: £37.50. Pizzas £4.50. While it might say more about Odeon Whiteleys with reclining leather Birmingham than the Rex, it would also seats charge £18 each.” make a positive case for the HS2 if it stopped at Berkhamsted and/or St “Tickets might be expensive, but a Albans. As it doesn’t, it is further growing number of filmgoers feel that’s evidence of high-speed futility. cheap compared with a top West End On top of this The Evening Standard ran stage show. Andrew Myers chief a centre spread about ‘boutique screens’ executive, Everyman Group, says ‘it’s on Monday 9th Jan. It concluded with a about offering a personalised, grown-up surprising decency that the Rex is experience.’ Steve Wiener, boss of “acclaimed”. Considering we are 26 Cineworld, sells elderflower cordial and miles out of London (we can get to Soho Italian olives in Cheltenham: tickets £15. quicker than you can from Clapham Neh Wiener says: “Now we’ve brought in Nah) it is heady praise. Here are some extra people to find new locations in edited highlights... London. The trend is going to grow.” “A date at the movies has never been so “There are many other examples of enticing. Britain’s biggest cinema chain, cinemas offering drink and food in a Odeon, boss Rupert Gavin is luxury setting. They range from the particularly proud of the ‘in-cinema acclaimed Rex cinema in Berkhamsted, tables which incorporate a layer of Hertfordshire, which has tables and rubber in their design, to ensure that the chairs in its lovingly restored Art Deco dishes don’t make a sound when they are auditorium, to…” (Standard 9.1.12) placed down’.