24 MAY 19 4 JUL 19 1 | 24 MAY 19 - 4 JUL 19 49 BELMONT STREET | BELMONTFILMHOUSE.COM In Yesterday, Richard Curtis imagines a world without The Beatles. Ed Sheeran exists. James Corden exists. And Richard Curtis would have to exist. Go figure. It becomes impossible to conclude what might not exist without Lennon/McCartney. Can you draw a line through the entire lineage of British pop-rock from that point on? Does Pet Sounds ever get written, without Rubber Soul pushing Brian Wilson in the back? What does Jimi Hendrix cover in the Savile Theatre to wow a London audience, three days after Sgt Pepper isn’t released? What version of a Beatles-less Britain is there that encourages a young Richard Curtis to write or not write Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, never mind Yesterday, a film which is actually about the bloody Beatles - a band that no longer exists. What it really boils down to is this - imagining a world without The Beatles would be much like imagining a world without Belmont Filmhouse. It just wouldn’t be as good. Where else in Aberdeen could you see Freedom Fields - a documentary about the Libyan women’s football team? Ciro Guerra’s follow up to Embrace of the Serpent? Or 7 films from Scotland’s Italian Film Festival? Even if you could, a rose by any other name may not smell as sweet – ask Reg Dwight in Rocketman. Our comprehensive Kubrick season continues with special focus on a remastered Dr Strangelove. We also host a richly rewarding Hirokazu Kore-eda mini-retrospective, with some of the Japanese director’s most renowned early films. There’s a special presentation of Dark Highlands from Hats on Sticks productions, who gave us One Day Removals a few years back. You’ll remember the Doric - and likely the swearing. Aberdeen’s Steven Lewis Simpson will also be present for a Q&A following a screening of his film Neither Wolf Nor Dog, which had its World Premiere at EIFF. Vox Lux sees Natalie Portman return to her Black Swan-esque best, and the film features the final musical output of the late, great Scott Walker. Elsewhere, Claire Denis blasts Juliet Binoche and Robert Pattinson into space in High Life, Bill Nighy scrabbles to reconnect with his estranged son in Sometimes Always Never and László Nemes (Son of Saul) returns with the incredible Sunset. Look out for Julianne Moore in Sebastián Lelio’s Gloria Bell, Emma Thompson in Late Night and three different Bruce Waynes in all four Burton and Schumacher Batman films. We’re certainly not The Beatles, but it would likely take at least a double album to mention everything showing - I count 63 films in this brochure. Read on for the rest of the new releases, retrospectives and reissues... Colin Farquhar, Head of Cinema Operations Belmont Filmhouse Explorer Deal BELMONT FILMHOUSE MEMBERS CAN BOOK £5 TICKETS TO: Birds of Passage (Page 5) Balloon (Page 7) Apollo 11 (Page 8) Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Page 25) Tickets subject to availability. Belmont Filmhouse Explorer ticket deal cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. Offer available to Members, Joint Members, Student Members and 16-25 Members. TICKET PRICES Young people under the age of 16 can get ELEVENSES (Mon-Fri, 11am-12noon) £5.00 tickets to any screening (age restrictions apply) All tickets £7.00. ONLINE DISCOUNT (NEW!) MATINEES (shows starting before 5pm) Book online to get 50p off each ticket (excludes occasional select screenings) Mon - Fri: £9.00 full price, £7.00 concessions Sat - Sun: £10.50 full price, £8.50 concessions CONCESSIONS EVENINGS (shows starting after 5pm) Students (with matric. card), 16-25 year olds, Young £10.50 full price, £8.50 concessions Scot card, Senior Citizens (60+), Disability (carers go FILMHOUSE JUNIOR All tickets £5.00 free), Claimants (Jobseekers Allowance, Disability Living BABY & CARER All tickets £5.00 Allowance, Housing Benefit), NHS employees (with proof of employment). Members get £1.50 off tickets (Some restrictions apply) I ndex BOX OFFICE 01224 343 500 24 MAY 19 - 4 JUL 19 | 3 Kino Bar 12-13 ACCESS/CAPTIONED 31 Labyrinth 29 BABY & CARER SCREENINGS 31 Late Night 5 ‘RELAXED’ SCREENINGS 31 Leave No Trace 13 Lucia’s Grace 22 SCREENING DATES AND TIMES 16-18 Maborosi 26 Magical Nights 23 2001: A Space Odyssey 24 Mandy 12 After Life 26 Medea 22 Annie - ‘relaxed’ screening 28 Memoir of War 6 Apollo 11 8 Neither Wolf Nor Dog 11 Arctic 5 Nobody Knows 27 Balloon 7 NT Live: The Lehman Trilogy 14 Barry Lyndon 25 NT Live: Small Island 14 Batman at Belmont 20-21 Of Flesh and Blood... Hirokazu Kore-eda 26 Batman 20 Ralph Breaks the Internet 28 Batman Forever 21 Rocketman 4 Batman Returns 20 ROH Live: Romeo and Juliet 14 Batman & Robin 21 RSC Live: The Taming of the Shrew 14 Beats 4 Saving Private Ryan 11 Beth Gibbons - Henryk Gorecki... 10 The Shining 24 Birds of Passage 5 Sometimes Always Never 8 Black Panther 13 Spank the Banker 10 The Blue Angel 9 Stanley Kubrick 24-25 Bolt 29 Still Walking 27 Booksmart 7 Sunset 7 Cold War 12 The Vice of Hope 23 Coming Soon 11 Vox Lux 4 The Conformist 23 XY Chelsea 7 Daughter of Mine 22 Yesterday 8 Dark Highlands 10 Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned... 25 Dumbo 29 Education & Learning 30 Euphoria 23 Eyes Wide Shut 25 Filmhouse Junior 28-29 Final Ascent: The Legend of Hamish... 5 Freedom Fields 6 Full Metal Jacket 25 Gloria Bell 6 Halston 8 Hereditary 12 Italian Film Festival 22-23 The Kid Who Would Be King 28 Kind Hearts and Coronets 9 4 | 24 MAY 19 - 4 JUL 19 49 BELMONT STREET | BELMONTFILMHOUSE.COM eleases R ew N NEW RELEASE Rocketman Fri 24 May to Thu 6 Jun Dexter Fletcher • UK/USA 2019 • 2h5m • Digital • cert tbc • Cast: Taron Egerton, Richard Madden, Bryce Dallas Howard, Stephen Graham, Jamie Bell. Years before the peak of his fame, music superstar Elton John was just Reg Dwight (Taron Egerton) - a notably talented musician at the Royal Academy of Music, with mountainous potential... but missing something from his life. The spark of inspiration, aided by collaborator Bernie Taupin (Jamie Bell), would lead him on the journey of a lifetime - through fame, fortune, mental health, sexuality, substance abuse and beyond. Fresh from taking over the reins to complete the production of Bohemian Rhapsody, director Dexter Fletcher injects this Elton John biopic with a highly appropriate (and much welcome) dose of fantastical magic. With humour, warmth and spectacular musical performances - Rocketman could well be one of the big-screen hits of the summer. NEW RELEASE NEW RELEASE Beats Vox Lux Fri 17 to Thu 30 May Sun 26 to Thu 30 May Brian Welsh • UK 2019 • 1h42m • Digital • 18 - Contains very strong Brady Corbet • USA 2018 • 1h55m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language. • Cast: Cristian Ortega, Lorn Macdonald, Amy Manson. violence, language, drug misuse. • Cast: Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Jennifer Ehle, Christopher Abbott, Raffey Cassidy. A bittersweet coming-of-age story adapted from his own stage play by Kieran Hurley. Set in East Lothian In 1999: teen Celeste (Raffey Cassidy), a survivor of a in 1994, the story hinges on the Tory government’s high school shooting, performs a song composed crackdown on rave culture. Our heroes are two with her sister (Stacy Martin) at a memorial for her gawky techno-head teenagers - Johnno (Cristian murdered classmates and in so doing, captures the Ortega) and Spanner (Lorn Macdonald). Best friends attention of a manager (Jude Law), who sets her at school, their paths now look set to diverge - but on the path to fame. Years later, Celeste (Natalie when word travels of an upcoming underground Portman) is a Gaga-esque global superstar - trying protest rave, it seems like an ideal chance for one to breathe new life into an ailing career. Portman last big night... Contains a sustained sequence of delivers a sensational performance in Brady Corbet’s flashing light which might affect customers who jaggedly cynical follow-up to The Childhood of a are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy. Leader, with music from Sia and the late Scott Walker. N ew BOX OFFICE 01224 343 500 24 MAY 19 - 4 JUL 19 | 5 R eleases NEW RELEASE NEW RELEASE BIRDS OF Passage Arctic Fri 31 May to Thu 6 Jun Fri 31 May to Thu 6 Jun Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra • Colombia 2018 • 2h6m • Digital Joe Penna • Iceland 2018 • 1h36m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent Wayuu, Spanish and English with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, moderate threat, injury detail. • Cast: Mads strong violence, bloody images, sex. • Cast: Carmiña Martínez, José Mikkelsen, Maria Thelma Smáradóttir. Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Jhon Narváez, Greider Meza, José Vicente Cote. Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal, The Hunt) gives a riveting A tale of blind ambition, terrible choices and ‘wild performance as Overgård - a pilot whose plane has grass’. In the arid northern region of Colombia, home crashed in a remote corner of the Arctic. Stranded in to the Wayúu people, we are thrust into an sweeping the wilderness, he must use every scrap of ingenuity drama that sows the seeds of the Colombian drug to stay alive. When a rescue mission goes disastrously trade and recalls the complexities and politics of wrong, he finds himself responsible for the survival of classic gangster films. From the producer and director an injured survivor (Maria Thelma Smáradóttir) - a dire of the Academy Award-nominated Embrace of the situation that forces him to make a perilous choice Serpent, Birds of Passage is a beautifully shot and truly between the relative safety of camp and a deadly trek gripping story about indigenous traditions and the into the unknown.