jan / feb 2019 Welcome to towner cinema
From Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda’s WIDOWS 5, 6, 10 Jan criminal family of misfits inShoplifters to Yorgos Steve McQueen, 2018 (15) 130m Lanthimos’ vision of the court of Queen Anne in Turner Prize-winning artist turned Academy The Favourite, our new release dramas offer a Award-winning director, Steve McQueen, returns wealth of captivating stories this season. with this heist caper starring Viola Davis.
We also bring you brand new documentaries – RBG explores Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s rise to fame as a pop culture icon; while Bergman: A Year in a Life charts the work of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman over the course of 1957, a landmark year in his career. To coincide with this, we will screen the two films he produced that year, Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal.
February means LGBT History Month, and we’re RBG 12, 17 Jan proud to partner once again with our friends at Betsy West & Julie Cohen, 2018 (PG) 98m Eastbourne Rainbow and Bourne Out to bring At 84, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has forged a legal legacy while you a very special screening of Before Stonewall, becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York.
Further special events this season include a screening of Jacques Demy’s Les Demoiselles de Rochefort in partnership with the Overnight Film Festival, and the recent restoration of Jean Cocteau’s Orphée, a film which demands to be seen on the big screen.
We’re delighted to see so many of you embracing Towner’s new space and hope you DISOBEDIENCE 13, 17 Jan enjoy this season’s films. Sebastián Lelio, 2018 (15) 114m Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams star in Kate Wood this romance set against the backdrop of an Towner Cinema Programmer Orthodox Jewish community in North London. THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN 19, 20, 24 Jan STAN AND OLLIE 9, 10, 14 Feb David Lowery, 2018 (12A) 93m Jon S. Baird, 2019 (TBC) 97m Robert Redford stars as Forrest Tucker, real-life Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly take on the career criminal and prison escape artist, who, at world's most famous comedy double act, Stan age 70, made an escape from San Quentin. Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
SHOPLIFTERS subtitled 26, 31 Jan COLETTE 16, 17, 21 Feb Kore-eda Hirokazu, 2018 (15) 121m Wash Westmoreland, 2019 (15) 112m Japanese master Kore-eda (Our Little Sister) won Keira Knightley shines as author Sidonie- the top prize at Cannes this year with this tale of Gabrielle Colette, best known simply as Colette, a misfit family living on the outskirts of Tokyo. fighting for creative ownership of her work.
THE FAVOURITE 2, 3, 7 Feb BEAUTIFUL BOY 23, 24, 28 Feb Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018 (15) 119m Felix van Groeningen, 2019 (15) 120m Olivia Colman stars as Queen Anne, with Emma Based on the best-selling memoirs of father and Stone and Rachel Weisz as two cousins vying for son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy tells the her attention in 18th Century England. story of one family's struggle with addiction. The Seventh Seal, dir: Ingmar Bergman Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, dir: Jacques Demy
ingmar Bergman special events
BERGMAN: A YEAR IN A LIFE subtitled THE DEAD 16, 17 Feb | Jane Magnusson, 2019 (15) 117m 6 Jan | John Huston, 1987 (U) 83m Focusing on 1957, a landmark year in which Anjelica Huston (directed by her father) shines acclaimed Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman in this adaptation of James Joyce’s short story, directed two films and four plays, director Jane which takes place at a family gathering in Dublin Magnusson explores not only the director’s on the feast day of the Epiphany, 6 Jan 1904. filmography but also his at times complex and turbulent personal life. To accompany this new LES DEMOISELLES DE ROCHEFORT subtitled documentary, we present the two films made by in association with Overnight Film Festival Bergman in ’57. 12 Jan | Jacques Demy, 1967 (PG) 126m WILD STRAWBERRIES subtitled We've partnered with the fabulous Overnight 19 Jan | Ingmar Bergman, 1957 (PG) 87m Film Festival, which takes place at the Queen's Hotel in Eastbourne every February, to present a A father and daughter travel from Stockholm special screening of the Jacques Demy classic. to Lund, Sweden, encountering a series of hitchhikers along the way. In 2019, the festival takes place 1-3 February. For more information, visit overnightfilmfestival.com THE SEVENTH SEAL subtitled 9 Feb | Ingmar Bergman, 1957 (PG) 92m ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS After Swedish knight Antonious Block returns 27 Jan | Gabrielle Brady, 2018 (12A) 98m home from the Crusades, he challenges Death to Blending fact and fiction, this documentary a chess match for his life. hybrid follows detainees from the detention centre on Christmas Island, who recount their stories to a trauma therapist.
the cinema bar ORPHÉE subtitled Our Cinema Bar opens 45 minutes before the 2 Feb | Jean Cocteau, 1949 (PG) 95m first screening of the day. Meet up for a drink A brand new restoration of Jean Cocteau's before the film, or enjoy one in the comfort dreamlike masterpiece, which demands to be of the auditorium. Serving a selection of teas, seen on the big screen. A magical retelling of the Orpheus myth, it turns the lyre-playing singer coffees, beer, wine and soft drinks. of Greek legend into a famous left-bank poet in post-war Paris. My Neighbour Totoro, dir: Hayao Miyazaki A Fantastic Woman, dir: Sebastián Lelio
family screenings queer film
JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH A FANTASTIC WOMAN subtitled 12 Jan | Henry Selick, 1996 (U) 76m 27 Jan | Sebastián Lelio, 2017 (15) 102m Based on the book by children's favourite Roald To celebrate the release of Sebastián Lelio's new Dahl, beautifully blending live action and stop release, Disobedience, for this month's Queer motion animation. Film screening we revisit Lelio's triumphant A SONG OF THE SEA Fantastic Woman, winner of the Best Foreign 17 Feb | Tomm Moore, 2014 (PG) 92m Langauge Film at last year's Academy Awards. Ben, a young Irish boy, discovers that his sister BEFORE STONEWALL Saoirse is a selkie who must free faerie creatures in association with local LGBTQ+ groups from the Celtic goddess Macha. From the Eastbourne Rainbow and Bourne Out production company behind The Secret of Kells. 23 Feb | Robert Rosenberg & Greta Schiller, 1985 (15) 86m half-term We are proud to host our second LGBT History MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO Month screening in association with local community groups Eastbourne Rainbow and 21 Feb | Hayao Miyazaki, 1988 (U) 87m Bourne Out. This year, to coincide with the 50th This critically-acclaimed Studio Ghibli title follows anniversary of the Stonewall riots, we present the story of schoolgirl Satsuje and her younger the documentary Before Stonewall, which sister Mei as they settle into a new home, where explores the activism that came before the riots they encounter and befriend playful sprits. which we now consider so fundamental to the development of LGBT rights in America. THE MARVELLOUS MABEL NORMAND 26, 31 Jan | Dir: Various (U) 78m valentine's day Everyone knows Charlie Chaplin and Buster CASABLANCA Keaton, but where are the women in silent film 14 Feb | Michael Curtiz, 1942 (U) 98m comedy? Mabel Normand was the irrepressible Fall in love with Humphrey Bogart and spirit of early Hollywood; directing her own films, Ingrid Bergman all over again in one of and working with the best. Here we round up the most romantic films of all time. four of her finest short films, ripe for rediscovery. VISITOR INFORMATION @townergallery
Towner Art Gallery, Devonshire Park, College Road, Eastbourne, BN21 4JJ Ticket prices: £8.50 full price / £7 concession & members / £5 under 18s (ID checked for conc. rates) / £4 family screenings / Thursday matinee, all tickets £6 Advance booking is recommended. Book tickets online at townereastbourne.org.uk, over the phone on +44 (0)1323 434670 or in person at the Welcome Desk Where possible, Thursday screenings will have open captions for the hard of hearing, please see website for further details JANUARY feburary
Sat 5 1.30pm Widows Sat 2 2.00pm Orphée 4.30pm Widows 4.30pm The Favourite Sun 6 2.00pm The Dead Sun 3 2.00pm The Favourite 4.30pm Widows 4.30pm The Favourite Thu 10 4.30pm Widows Thu 7 4.30pm The Favourite 7.00pm Widows 7.00pm The Favourite Sat 12 10.30am James and the Giant ... Sat 9 2.00pm Stan and Ollie 2.00pm Les Demoiselles ... 4.30pm The Seventh Seal 5.00pm RBG Sun 10 2.00pm Stan and Ollie Sun 13 2.00pm Disobedience 4.30pm Stan and Ollie 4.30pm Disobedience Thu 14 4.30pm Stan and Ollie Thu 17 4.30pm Disobedience 7.00pm Casablanca 7.00pm RBG Sat 16 12.00pm Bergman: A Year in a ... Sat 19 2.00pm The Old Man and the ... 2.30pm Colette 4.30pm Wild Strawberries Sun 17 10.30am Song of the Sea Sun 20 2.00pm The Old Man and the ... 2.00pm Colette 4.30pm The Old Man and the ... 4.30pm Bergman: A Year in a ... Thu 24 4.30pm The Old Man and the ... Thu 21 2.00pm My Neighbour Totoro 7.00pm The Old Man and the ... 4.30pm Colette Sat 26 2.00pm The Marvellous Mabel ... 7.00pm Colette 4.30pm Shoplifters Sat 23 2.00pm Beautiful Boy Sun 27 2.00pm Island of the Hungry ... 4.30pm Before Stonewall 4.30pm A Fantastic Woman Sun 24 2.00pm Beautiful Boy Thu 31 4.30pm The Marvellous Mabel ... 4.30pm Beautiful Boy 7.00pm Shoplifters Thu 28 4.30pm Beautiful Boy 7.00pm Beautiful Boy New Releases Queer Films Special Events Family Screenings Ingmar Bergman
Cover image – The Favourite, dir: Yorgos Lanthimos