2015 WORLD CINEMA Duke of York’S the Brighton Film Festival 13-29 Nov 2015 OPENING NIGHT Fri 13 Nov / 8:30Pm
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The Brighton Film Festival ADVENTURES IN 13-29 NOV 2015 WORLD CINEMA www.cine-city.co.uk Duke OF YORK’S The Brighton Film Festival 13-29 Nov 2015 OPENING NIGHT FRI 13 NOV / 8:30PM DIR: TODD Haynes. ADVENTURES IN WITH: Cate BLanchett, ROOney MARA, KYLE CHANDLER. WORLD CINEMA UK / USA 2015. 118 MINS. A stirring and stunningly realised adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s TH novel The Price of Salt, set in Welcome TO THE 13 EDITION OF CINECITY 1950s’ New York. Therese (Rooney Mara) is an aspiring photographer, working in a Manhattan department CINECITY presents the very best store where she first encounters (15) in world cinema with a global mix of Appropriately for our 13th edition, a strong coming-of- Ben Wheatley’s High Rise – both based on acclaimed Carol (Cate Blanchett), an alluring age theme runs right through this year’s selection with novels and with long and complicated paths to the older woman whose marriage is premieres and previews, treasures many titles featuring a young protagonist at their heart, screen - we have produced an updated version of ‘Not breaking down. There is an Carol from the archive, artists’ cinema, navigating their way in the world. Showing at this Cinema’, our programme of unrealised immediate connection between a showcase of films made in this British Cinema, which will be available at venues them but as their connection city and a programme of talks and Highlighted by the screenings of throughout the festival. deepens, a spiralling emotional The Forbidden Room, Hitchcock / intensity has seismic and far-reaching education events. The festival gives Truffaut, Eisenstein in Guanajuato Legendary BBC arts strand Arena is celebrated consequences. Following on you first sight of highly anticipated and many others, cinema itself is with a free exhibition at the University of Brighton from his re-workings of classic titles ahead of release and highlights a recurring theme. Documentary Gallery. Marking its 40th anniversary, Arena: Night Hollywood melodrama with and essay films, dramas and artists’ and Day is a 24 hour visual journey that follows the Far From Heaven and Mildred many others brought to Brighton cinema, illustrated talks and live AV pattern of day and night and is drawn exclusively Pierce, Todd Haynes once again from around the world for one-off performance, all explore aspects of cinema’s from Arena’s rich and varied archive of over 600 films delivers a wondrous film with screenings. past, present and future. Look out for the artists’ films featuring the most significant cultural figures of our time. outstanding performances from such as Phoenix Tapes and The Exquisite Corpus Arena: Night and Day will run for free at the University Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. screening at the Duke of York’s; films re-purposing of Brighton from Saturday 21 November. and re-imagining cinema where they should ideally Bringing a real sense of discovery and be seen, on the big screen. To complement the celebration of Arena, we have made highlighting the new talents that help a selection of the very best, latest arts documentaries Duke OF YORK’S keep cinema fresh and inventive, CINECITY has a long-standing interest in the including Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog and SUN 29 NOV / 6:30PM CINECITY 2015 has a clear focus on idea of an invisible or imaginary cinema and this Innocence of Memories directed by Grant Gee. CLOSING NIGHT first features. In a particularly strong year renowned musician, composer and director line-up, the many notable debuts are (and CINECITY patron) Barry Adamson has created To mark the end of the festival, CINECITY join the BFI’s marked throughout the programme including a trailer for the festival, a series of imagined ‘micro- UK–wide Love season as the Music Room of Brighton’s DIR: JacQUES AUDIARD. Laszlo Nemes’ astonishing Son of Saul, winner of the movies’. Prompted by the forthcoming release of high Royal Pavilion is transformed into a picture palace to WITH: ANTOnythasan Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes. profile titles such as Terence Davies’ Sunset Song and celebrate love on the big screen. Jesuthasan, KALieaswaRI SRINIVasan. FRANCE 2015. ENGLISH, TAMIL & FRench WITH ENGLISH subtitLES. CINECITY would like to thank all our CINECITY is presented in partnership CINECITY: Tim Brown, Frank Gray, Nicky Beaumont, 110 MINS. funders and sponsors, the film-makers with Picturehouse Brighton, Screen Sara Duffy, Tracey Gue. and distributors, venues and volunteers Archive South East and the University DIGitaL MARketinG: Emma Green; Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes who have made this year’s festival of Brighton. We gratefully acknowledge VOLUNTEER CO-ORdinatOR: Catherine O’Sullivan; NEW FeatuRES COPY WRITER: Neil Mitchell. this year, Dheepan, directed by possible. Please visit www.cine-city. the support we receive from Arts PROGRAMME DESIGN: 6970 Design Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust co.uk to keep fully up to date with the Council England, Brighton & Hove City PR: Midnight Communications; Debbie Plentie. and Bone) is intense, immersive film- programme and the latest information Council, British Film Institute and the PatRONS: Barry Adamson, Nick Cave, Paddy Considine, making of the very highest quality. on visiting film-makers. University of Brighton. Steve Coogan, John Hillcoat, Henry Normal, Ben Wheatley. Sri Lankan strangers Yalini (Kalieaswari Srinivasan) and Dheepan IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SUPPORTED BY (Antonythasan Jesuthasan) escaping the conflict in their country, pretend to be a family to seek asylum in France. Dheepan, a veteran Tamil Tiger is attempting to turn his back on violence and return to civilian life but the unconventional family unit end up on a housing estate outside Paris that www.cine-city.co.uk DHeepan is being fought over by rival gangs. 2 3 DUKE’S AT KOMEDIA SALLIS Benney TheatRE CINEMA Sat 14 NOV / 2PM Duke OF YORK’S Sunset SUN 15 NOV / 6:30PM DEBUT SUN 15 NOV / 7PM UNSEEN OPEN COLOUR PRESENTS SONG DIR: YARED ZELeke. FRANCE-ETHIOPIA 2015. A programme of short films offering an AMHARIC WITH ENGLISH subtitLES. 94 MINS. PENDA’S FEN intriguing glimpse into unrealised and alternative big screen visions. When it was scheduled in the Un Certain Regard section this year, Yared Zeleke’s Tickets £5 Lamb became the first Ethiopian film to screen at the Cannes Film Festival. Born and raised in Addis Ababa, Zeleke has been touted as one of Africa’s brightest new directors THE UNSEEN FILMS thanks to this well-received debut feature. A visually stunning and emotionally OF J.G.BALLARD multi-layered film, Lamb centres on nine-year-old Ephraim (Rediat Amare), who is DIR: CHRIS Petit. UK 1990. 12 MINS. placed into the care of his relatives after his mother dies and his poverty stricken DIR: ALAN CLARke / DAVID RUDKIN. UK 1974. 90 MINS. A short essay film from the director father has to seek work away from the family home. Ephraim’s business-minded aunt of Radio On, exploring the fiction of THE GLASS HOUSE and strict, hard-working uncle are frustrated that his only discernible interest is in A rare 16mm screening of Alan Clarke’s remarkable 1974 BBC Play for Today - one J.G.Ballard and asking why, for such DIR: ZOE BELOFF. USA 2014. 21 MINS. cooking, traditionally viewed as ‘woman’s work’. The affection Ephraim has for his pet of the visionary masterworks of British television drama. The film follows Stephen a cinematic writer, so few screen Based on Sergei Eisenstein’s notes and sheep, Chuni, is another cause for concern, especially as it is earmarked for sacrifice at Franklin, the troubled teenage son of a conservative pastor, through a series of adaptations of his writing have been drawings for a science fiction movie that a forthcoming religious feast. Distraught at the news, Ephraim decides to take drastic mystical experiences and encounters with angels, demons and the pagan King Penda. filmed. Made in 1990, it features an he pitched to Paramount in 1930. He action to save his beloved Chuni… David Rudkin’s script explores themes of resistance, nationhood, religion and sexuality, interview with David Cronenberg about imagined a great glass tower in which Duke OF YORK’S evoking a genuine sense of ‘Deep England’ and its radical potential. ‘An unforgettable his then yet-to-be filmed Crash. not only the walls, but also the floors Sat 14 NOV / 6PM hybrid of horror story, rites-of-passage spiritual quest and vision of an alternative and ceilings would be made out of glass, England.’ The Guardian. CRASH! a structure of complete visibility. Glass DIR: TERENCE DAVIES. WITH: AGYNESS Deyn. UK/LuXEMBOURG 2015. 135 MINS. DIR: HARLey COkeLISS. House was to be satire on capitalism in Introduced by writer and curator Gareth Evans. A revised and expanded edition of UK 1971. 17 MINS. which surveillance undermines relations One of British cinema’s most celebrated directors, Terence Davies, follows up 2011’s The Edge is Where the Centre Is - a beautiful small press publication exploring the A rare sight of a small screen precursor between people. The Glass House imagines The Deep Blue Sea, with his long-awaited adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 film with articles by Evans, Rudkin, William Fowler and Sukhdev Sandhu - will be to David Cronenberg’s controversial what Eisenstein’s film might have been. novel, Sunset Song. The film’s release marks the culmination of a project its director available on the night. adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s novel, Crash. During this frustrating six months in had been trying to get financed for more than a decade. Regarded as one of the most This absorbing 1971 BBC film essay on Hollywood pitching various projects, important Scottish books of the last century, Davies does the classic novel full justice in + Live sound piece From EMBla QuicKBean (Rowan Forestier) the death drive urge, stars UFO’s Eisenstein spent much time with Charlie a beautifully rendered early 1900s-set period piece brimming with emotive themes.