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MAGAZINE THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY MARCH… “possibly Britain’s most beautiful cinema...” (BBC) MARCH 2008 Issue 36 www.therexcinema.com 01442 877759 Mon-Sat 10.30-6pm Sun 4.30-6.30pm To advertise email [email protected] WELCOME Gallery 5 March Evenings 9-17 Coming Soon 18 March Films at a glance 18 March Matinees 19-26 Dear Mrs Trellis 29, 31 SEAT PRICES: Circle £7.00 Concessions £5.50 At Table £9.00 Concessions £7.50 Royal Box (seats 6) £11.00 or for the Box £60.00 BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 Mon to Sat 10.30 – 6.00 Sun 4.30 – 6.30 (Credit/Debit card booking fee 50p) Disabled and flat access: through the gate on High Street (right of apartments) First moon over Holliday St. Jan 2008 Some of the girls and boys you see at the Box Office and Bar: THE RECEIVING OF CHEESE… ’ve been asked to mention this on behalf of the ushers. If expectant of Rosie Abbott Linda Moss Henry Beardshaw Louise Ormiston cheese, please be alert when you see plates approaching, especially in Julia Childs Izzi Robinson the dark and particularly upstairs. Lindsey Davies I Georgia Rose Of late there have been some tragic incidents of cheese. Some has been Holly Gilbert Diya Sagar Becky Ginn Miranda Samson delivered into the wrong hands, leaving those awaiting the presence of Tom Glasser Tina Thorpe cheese bereft and likely to fidget. Beth Hannaway Olivia Wilson If you are guilty of ‘wrong hands’ cheese please own up immediately and Luke Karmali Calum Wood Jo Littlejohn Keymea Yazdanian report to cheddar monitor Adolf. She will chastise you in the proper Bethany McKay manner, whereupon you will be withdrawn from cheese until we are satisfied. I hope I have made myself clear. Sally Thorpe In charge Alun Rees Chief projectionist (Original) ICE CREAM… Jon Waugh 1st assistant projectionist Martin Coffill Part-time assistant projectionist We have new local ice cream, made front the finest ingredients. No more Jacquie Rose Chief Box Office & Bar Oliver Hicks Best Boy Baileys rage. There will be three flavours only and we will expect you to Jemma Gask Key Grip do as you’re told - and enjoy them. Michael Glasheen Gaffer Val & Lisa Williams Set PRICE ‘ADJUSTMENTS’… Jane Clucas & Lynn Hendry PR/Marketing/FoH From April fools day our ticket prices will rise to accommodate the very silly VAT we’ve been paying for these first three years. Inflation and its Ian Muirhead Accountant various impostors will not be present. It is VAT pure and simple. As VAT Resident creative builders Darren Flindall, Michael Glasheen is like Wilde’s truth: ‘rarely pure and never simple’ we will round it up or down to suit our change, thus avoiding 5ps and arithmetic the children Artists Andrew Dixon, Paul Rowbottom can’t fathom. It won’t hurt much and Matinee prices will stay the same Advisors and Investors until September. Paul Fullagar, Alan Clooney Ed Mauger Genius THEY WERE THERE… Demiurge Design Designers 01296 632366 wo boys in foyer after I’m Not There. They were brothers, the elder Allison Nunn Publisher 07786 540418 no more than fourteen or fifteen, the younger 12ish. When I asked James Hannaway CEO 01442 877999 Twhat they thought, the smaller one said it was really good and looked Betty Patterson Company Secretary and like he’d got it. The elder boy’s critique… “I don’t think it quite knew when THE ORIGINAL VISIONARY of The Rex. it should have stopped… It went on.” Between them they’d grasped it and The Rex his is probably the most astute and succinct description of all. Thousands of High Street (Three Close Lane) words wasted by critics, and all it needed was a couple of kids to see it. Berkhamsted HP4 2FG Not unlike the boy in the Emperor's New Clothes… www.therexcinema.com GALLERY www.therexcinema.com 5 Richard Briers sent us these precious originals of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford dated 1928 and signed by them in proper ink, to thank us. And gave Ollie (our best boy) fabulous Good Life memorabilia for taking them to the station. (Right) Allison Steadman, Richard and Anne Briers, Adrian, his son Jake. Adrian Scarborough 19th January 2008 Our celebrations for Adrian’s birthday to thank him for all the guests and stars he has brought to the Rex in three short years. (left) Ade and Rose. (below) Imelda Staunton, Alison Steadman & friends. MARCH EVENINGS 10 Box Office: 01442 877759 MARCH EVENINGS No Country for An Officer and A The Kite Runner Old Men Gentleman Wed 5 7.30, Thu 6 7.30 7.00, 7.30, Sun 2 6.00 Sat 1 Mon 3 Director: Marc Forster Tue 4 7.30 Starring: Zekeria Ebrahimi, Khalid Abdalla, Ahmad Mahmidzada Director: Coen Brothers Certificate: 12A Starring: Tommy Jones, Woody Duration: 128 mins Harrelson, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin Origin: USA 2007 Certificate: 15 By: Paramount International Pictures Duration: 122 mins Origin: USA 2007 A glorious afternoon in Kabul and By: Paramount International Pictures the skies are filled with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting It’s 1970s small-town Texas. Richard Gere plays Zack Mayo tournament. But in the aftermath of A Vietnam vet stumbles across a bag (why not Ned Dwogg or Arthur the day’s victory, one boy’s fearful act of middle-of-nowhere cash. Bromwich?) an aloof, taciturn man of betrayal will mark two lives Enter Javier Bardem’s bad-hair, coin- who aspires to be a navy pilot. forever and set in motion an epic and tossing killer in cold pursuit… Once at training camp Mayo falls perilous quest for redemption… Coen’s - business as usual. foul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill With much of Kabul destroyed, “Harrelson delivers an icy cameo as sergeant Emil Foley (Louis Gossett Forster used a region of China to the corrupt private dick. Tommy Lee Jr.). Mayo or “Mayonnaise” (ahh stand in for Amir’s childhood Kabul plays weary seen-it-all sheriff who that’s why) as he is dubbed by the “The [Afghan] people felt it was a doesn’t miss a trick.” (Times) Better mean (heart-of-gold – you see that love letter to Afghanistan”? than all weary seen-it-all sheriffs. coming a mile off) Foley is an PS It’s too late. The time to be scared “The beauty is that it is Cormac’s excellent cadet, but a little cold was when the yanks thought they words throughout… A great story around the heart. could play chess! Crushing teller… it doesn’t go in the extemp… Foley rides Mayo mercilessly, sensing ‘communism’ at ALL costs fooled us Faithful to the book plus the highest he is prime officer material if he all (see Charlie Wilson’s War). level of acting… Are we going to weren’t so self-absorbed. We knew nothing of it. Now we’re change Cormac McCarthy??? (No Zack’s affair with working girl Paula alright; we have ‘facebook’. jokes). Its his words, they don’t need to Pokrifi (Debra Winger) is likewise Kabul, beautiful for centuries, is now be changed. Speeches were all taken compromised by his unwillingness to a deliberate wasteland chained to the verbatim from the book as are the ‘commit’ (you know that one girls). Middle Ages. descriptions of the scenes. Only after something happens…! Happily, the beards have chosen not The garrotting-cycling scene is straight Would you believe this creamy to use medieval weaponry, except for from the book…” synopsis has told me the end…? torture of course. The West was/is “Preparations – storyboard most luckily Arthur and Ned got to it first. always happy to supply weapons of important - everything is prepared to Now you can bring your mum and a mass destruction, torture trinkets and the frame… but (serious-ish) always big hanky for this charming little real ale. willing and/open to change on set…? number. Now instantly www’d comfortably The dialogue is right from the book… Hope there’s no bad language but from home, we are more impotent ‘We were just following instructions’” suddenly I’ve got a horrible feeling than when Hitler became vice- (Joel and Ethan one at a time and ones ‘mother’ might be referred to chancellor or when Hannibal crossed interrupting - from a BBC The World from time to time. Sorry I’ve only the fucking Alps. Service interview Jan 2008) just read the storyline… Waited nearly a year for this, so don’t miss. Director: Taylor Hackford Starring: Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith, Robert Loggia Certificate: 15 Duration: 124 mins Origin: USA 1982 By: Paramount MARCH EVENINGS www.therexcinema.com 11 Things We Lost In The Fire American Gangster Sun 9 6.00 Fri 7 7.30, Sat 8 7.00 Director: Susanne Bier Starring: Halle Berry, David Audrey Burke (Berry) had it all: Duchovny, Benicio Del Toro a stunning home in a prosperous Certificate: 15 suburb, two happy children and a Duration: 118 mins devoted husband, Brian Origin: USA 2008 (Duchovny). He was successful and By: Paramount International Pictures unquestioningly committed to his family and friends. So when he is killed in a random incident, the lives of his wife, family and friends are “The loudest (dressed) man in the understandably blown apart. room is the weakest man in the Attempting to come to terms with her room…” grief, Audrey seeks out Brian’s This is the ‘true’ tale of a Harlem childhood friend and favourite lost henchman whose uncompromising cause, the long-term addict Jerry (Del loyalty and loathing of ‘bling’ made Toro).