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Thu 1 Aug 11am & 8pm Can You Ever Forgive Me?

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EP JULY/AUG/SEPT 2019.indd 1 13/06/2019 08:33 Sun 8 Sept - 7.30pm pm JULY WINTERLONG 15 David Jackson, 2018, 90mins, UK – Hastings! Thu 4 July - 11am & 8pm, Fri 5 July, Sat 6 July - 8pm Q&A with Director and Actors SOMETIMES, ALWAYS, NEVER 15 When his estranged son is left on the doorstep of his caravan, a poacher Carl Hunter, 2018, 91mins, UK living on the margins of society An elegant, offbeat comedy-drama, terrifi cally written by Frank must change his feral lifestyle or Cottrell-Boyce. Bill Nighy brings a droll sprightliness and deadpan wit risk losing his son forever. Shot to Alan, a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent in and around Hastings, the fi lm years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed stars Francis Magee (Game of Thrones, Britannia) and Hastings out over a game of scrabble. With a body to identify and his family glitterati Doon Mackichan (Smack the Pony, Plebs). torn apart, Alan must repair the relationship with his youngest son "Like a hurricane, this fi lm hits you...Truly has a heart of gold." Peter (Sam Riley). This fi lm is a distinct, articulate pleasure. - The Hollywood Reporter.

Sun 7 July - 8pm Thu 12 Sept - 11am & 8pm, Fri 13 Sept - 8pm JOHNNY FRENCHMAN U RED JOAN 15 Charles Frend, 1945, 112mins, UK Trevor Nunn, 2018, 110mins, UK Sat 27 July - 10.30am & 1.30pm LIVE MAGIC SHOW! Thu 22 Aug - 11am & 8pm In this heartwarming Ealing Studio fi lm, Tom Walls plays Nat This thriller from renowned British 15 Pomeroy, harbour master of a Cornwall fi shing village, who is MAGIC MOMENTS RAY & LIZ theatre director Trevor Nunn, casts continually outsmarted by clever French fi sh poacher Lannec Laurie Temple, 75mins plus interval, Richard Billingham, 2018, 108mins, UK Judi Dench as a retired physicist Florrie. Pomeroy is further aggravated by the fact that Florrie's who late in life is revealed to be Family Event On the outskirts of Birmingham son Yan is busily romancing his daughter Sue. But when the a long-serving spy for the KGB. A magical show from Hastings-based, and the margins of society, the Nazis rear their ugly heads, the fi sherman and the French Inspired by the life of Melita Norwood (known as the ‘granny international entertainer, Laurie Temple. Brim fi lled with magic, Billingham family break cultural taboos as they muddle through a miscreants band together. Many of the cast are actual Cornish spy’), the fi lm follows Joan Stanley, a seemingly unremarkable music, mime, juggling, comedy puppets and lots of audience life decided by factors beyond their control in Thatcher’s Britain. In villagers and members of the Free French resistance movement. and inconspicuous retiree who, in 2000, is arrested and charged. participation - there will also be some special surprises! this astonishingly personal fi lm, Billingham delves into his Black Red Joan explores both the intimate strangeness of espionage Suitable for all ages and not to be missed! Country upbringing with his parents Ray and Liz, their relationship, at large and its fascinating effects on an individual life. Thu 11 July - 11am & 8pm, Fri 12 July, Sun 14 July - 8pm “Laurie’s hilarious show wowed both children and adults. We have and its impact on Richard and his younger brother Jason. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS 15 already booked him again, for next year!” Tess Daly (Strictly Come Dancing) All tickets £6. Sat 14 Sept - 7.30pm Josie Rourke, 2018, 119mins, UK/USA Fri 23 Aug - 8pm MUSIC SEASON THE MOON AND SLEDGEHAMMER U Queen of France at 16, widowed at 18, Mary Sun 28 July - 8pm UNRATED Philip Trevelyan, 65mins Plus shorts and Q&A, 1971, UK (Saoirse Ronan) returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her FRIDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT UNRATED rightful throne. By birth, she has a rival claim to the throne of GODZILLA VS. DESTOROYAH Glenn Veness, 2019, 90mins approx, Hastings Andrew Kötting presents Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie), who rules as the Queen of England. The Moon and the Sledgehammer, Takao Okawara 1995, 143mins, Japan, Subtitles Live Music! Rivals in power and in love, the two Queens make very different Philip Trevelyan’s cult fi lm that B-Movie Fan Club After two sell out shows Glenn Veness and Mike Willis return choices about marriage and children. Betrayal, rebellion and celebrates the unique lifestyle and Is this the end for Godzilla? In the aftermath of the Oxygen for another night of fi lm and music. Glenn promises some conspiracies within each court imperil both Queens–driving philosophies of a real family living in Destroyer comes the Destoroyah, a beast intent on killing surprises with his fi lms, and Mike has lined up more sparkling them apart, as each woman experiences the bitter cost of power. West Sussex. This event celebrates Godzilla, who is already on the verge of a nuclear meltdown. guests to play alongside Blair and Siddy! - you’re guaranteed an 50 years since the fi lm’s release and unforgettable evening! All tickets £15 Sat 13 July, 8pm the impact that it has had on numerous actors and fi lm-makers including Maxine Peake and Kötting himself. As well as talking 15 CAPERNAÜM Sat 24 Aug - 8pm about the fi lm Kötting will show a couple of his own short fi lms Nadine Labaki, 2019, 126mins, AUGUST JT LEROY 15 and excerpts from his forthcoming feature The Whalebone Box. Lebanon | France | USA, Subtitles Justin Kelly, 2019, 108mins, USA Rebecca’s Staff Pick Thu 1 Aug - 11am & 8pm, Fri 2 Aug - 8pm, Sat 3 Aug - 8pm Sun 15 Sept - 8pm Presented by Hastings Pride Capernaüm tells the story of Zain, a Lebanese boy who sues his 15 UNRATED CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? A notorious true life literary scandal GOLDEN KINGDOM parents for the ‘crime’ of giving him life. Zain journeys from gutsy, Marielle Heller, 2018, 107mins, USA where one woman wrote under a pseudonym with a salacious Brian Perkins, 2015, 104mins, USA | streetwise child to hardened 12-year-old ‘adult’, surviving on the life and another posed as the fi ctional fi gure with a legion of Myanmar, Subtitles streets. He meets Ethiopian migrant worker Rahil, who provides In this true story, Oscar nominee Melissa fans. This is the story of JT LeRoy starring Laura Dern as Laura him with shelter and food, as Zein takes care of her baby son Yonas McCarthy delivers some of her best work Presented by Hastings Triratna Buddhist Group Albert, the Brooklyn writer behind the pseudonym, and Kristen in return. The extended, improvised scenes of the boy and the baby yet as struggling biographer (and cat lover) The story of four young monks left alone in their remote Stewart as Savannah Knoop, who plays LeRoy in public. Albert on the streets are wonderfully performed. There is passion and Lee Israel, who made her living in the 1970s and 80s profi ling monastery in Myanmar. Shot entirely in newly-opened Myanmar wrote multiple books under the JT name, crafting the story of compassion here, and Labaki’s fi lm brings home what poverty and the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estée with non-actors, the fi lm bridges spirit, cinema, and traditional a teenage boy working as a sex worker. The fi lm chronicles the desperation mean, and conversely what love and humanity mean. Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee found herself Burmese storytelling to open a view onto an unseen world. unable to get published because she had fallen out of step with beginnings of the deception Albert and Knoop orchestrated, and the glamour, adventure, and chaos that ensued. Thu 18 July - 11am & 8pm, Fri 19 July - 8pm the marketplace, she turned her art form to deception, abetted Thu 19 Sept - 11am & 8pm, Fri 20 Sept, Sat 21 Sept - 8pm by her loyal friend Jack (Richard E. Grant). THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN 12 Sun 25 Aug - 8pm WOMAN AT WAR 12A David Lowery, 2018, 93mins, USA Sun 4 Aug - 8pm THE GIANT CLAW 12 Benedik Erlingsson, 2018, 101mins, Iceland, Subtitles Based on the mostly true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? PG Fred F. Sears 1957, 75mins, USA Rachel’s Staff Pick! Redford), from his daring prison escape aged 70 years old to What can one person do to combat Presented by Hastings Triratna Buddhist Group B-Movie Fan Club a string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the forces of climate change and For more than 30 years, Fred Rogers spoke Global panic ensues when a mysterious UFO is revealed as being the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt globalized industry? Quite a bit, as directly to young children about some of life's a giant bird that fl ies at supersonic speed and has no regard for (Casey Affl eck), who is captivated by Forrest’s commitment to this quirky Icelandic drama comedy weightiest issues in a simple, kind, and direct life or architecture. Yeah – it doesn't care about architecture!!! shows us! Halla is a fi fty-year-old his craft, and the woman (Sissy Spacek) who loves him despite fashion. His landmark television program Mister independent woman. But behind the scenes, she leads a double his criminal ways. “Crucial to the fi lm’s craggy appeal is the Rogers' Neighbourhood provided comfort and encouragement Thu 29 Aug - 11am & 8pm, Fri 30 Aug, Sat 31 Aug - 8pm life as a passionate environmental activist. Halla secretly wages easy comradeship between Forrest and his gang. Tom Waits is a to millions. Academy Award-winning fi lmmaker Morgan Neville 15 a one-woman-war on the local aluminum industry. But as she particular delight” – The Guardian, 4 stars (Twenty Feet from Stardom) presents a touching, insightful look THE SISTERS BROTHERS begins planning her boldest operation yet, she receives an at America's favourite neighbour. Jacques Audiard, 2018, 121mins, France | Spain | Romania | Belgium | USA Sat 20 July - 8pm unexpected letter that changes everything. Annie’s Staff Pick UNRATED Thu 8 Aug - 11am & 8pm, Sun 11 Aug - 8pm MOONBUG A reimagining of the cinematic Sun 22 Sept - 8pm 15 Western as a dangerous, witty, and Nichola Bruce, 2009, 45mins, Plus Q&A with director, UK GLORIA BELL PG emotionally cathartic exploration LA POINT COURT 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing Sebastián Lelio, 2018, 102mins, Chile | USA of what it means to be a man. It is Agnes Varda, 1955, 86mins, France, Subtitles Bitten by the 'Moon-bug', photographer Steve Pyke sets out on a Gloria Bell, played by a transcendent 1851, and Charlie and Eli Sisters journey across America to meet and photograph the Apollo space Introduced by Nicholas Johnson of Etruscan Books Julianne Moore, is a restless life force as a are brothers and assassins. pioneers. A journey in which he was to meet the adventurers, risk In Agnes Varda's intoxicating directorial debut she faithfully free-spirited divorcee, who spends her nights on the dance fl oor, The older of the two, introspective Eli (John C Reilly) rides hard takers and dreamers who were behind one of the most historic portrays the complicated relationship between a married couple joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. She soon fi nds with his younger sibling yet dares to dream of a normal life. endeavours of our time. From living rooms and moonscape deserts, (exceptionally played by Sylvia Monfort and Philippe Noiret) set herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, fi lled with the The younger, hard-drinking Charlie (Joaquin Phoenix) has taken to Cape Canaveral, Steve captures these pioneers in frank, revealing against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean town. Shot with joys of budding love and the complications of dating. charge with gusto as lead man on the duo's assignments. portraits, while unravelling their very personal and divergent a documentary feel, this stunningly beautiful fi lm also focuses “Moore is just phenomenal as this mother of two adult children who The Sisters brothers fi nd themselves on a journey that will test memories. Followed by a conversation with director Nichola Bruce. on the daily struggles of the locals. mostly ignore her.” – Rolling Stone the deadly family ties that bind. But, can it also be the path to It has deservedly achieved a cult rediscovering what remains of their humanity? status in fi lm history as, in the words Sun 21 July - 7.30pm Fri 9 Aug - 8pm SUMMER MUSIC SEASON of historian Georges Sadoul, “truly SUMMER MUSIC SEASON the fi rst fi lm of the nouvelle vague.” ALL MY LIFE’S BURIED HERE - NEW YORK DOLL 12A UNRATED THE STORY OF GEORGE BUTTERWORTH Greg Whiteley 2005, 75mins, USA SEPTEMBER Thu 26 Sept - 11am & 8pm, Sat 28 Sept - 8pm Stewart Morgan Hajdukiewicz, 2018, 97mins, UK MUSIC SEASON Presented by Trash Cannes Sun 1 Sept - 8pm Plus Q&A with director This fascinating music documentary uncovers AMAZING GRACE U PG This documentary tells the story of George the strange post-fame career of Arthur Kane, LADY IN THE LAKE Sydney Pollack, 2018, 87mins, USA Butterworth's life and music. We follow him collecting one of the founder members of the hugely infl uential New York Robert Montgomery 1947, 105mins, USA Amazing Grace is two days of Baptist folk songs to discover how they informed his music and learn why he Dolls. After the band imploded, Kane became a librarian for the Presented by Mel Byron church condensed to 90 minutes and injected directly into your once described himself as a 'professional morris dancer'. We explore Mormons, disappearing completely from the music scene until Private eye Phillip Marlowe (Robert Montgomery) wants to get soul. Shot in 1972 in Watts’ New Temple Missionary Baptist what led him to destroy so many of his own compositions before he celebrity fan Morrissey offers him the opportunity to revisit the out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when Church, this stirring document captured the live recording of died. Featuring exclusive live performances by Roderick Williams rock 'n' roll life he has left behind… he's called to the offi ce of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to the most successful gospel album in history, Aretha Franklin’s OBE, folk singer Peta Webb and archive recordings of English talk about his story ideas - she wants him to locate the missing Amazing Grace. At the height of her powers, with 11 number folk singers, this is a powerful portrait documentary revealing the Sat 10 Aug - 8pm wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes one singles and fi ve Grammys to her credit, she returned to emotional heart of George Butterworth's remarkable story. CLOSED FOR OLD TOWN CARNIVAL complicated when bodies start turning up. This Raymond the environment and the music that honed her voice and Chandler adaptation is notable for being fi lmed entirely from nurtured her soul. Thu 25 July - 11am & 8pm Marlowe's fi rst-person perspective. Comedy writer and Thu 15 Aug - 11am & 8pm, Fri 16 Aug - 8pm, Sat 17 Aug - 8pm ALL IS TRUE 12 performer Mel Byron will introduce the fi lm - her show ‘Old Fri 27 Sept - 8pm THE WHITE CROW 12 Movies Saved My Life’ was a hit at the Electric Palace last year! Kenneth Branagh, 2019, 101mins, UK UNRATED Ralph Fiennes 2019, 122mins, UK | France, Subtitles NINE NIGHTS Ben Elton writes this fi lm about the fi nal days of Shakespeare, Thu 5 Sept - 11am & 8pm, Fri 6 Sept, Sat 7 Sept - 8pm Veronica McKenzie, 99mins, Plus, Q&A, 2019, UK starring Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench and Ian McKellen. The Dance perfection meets political defection 12 Presented by Afrikaba year is 1613, Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest in this intoxicating account of the young FISHERMAN’S FRIENDS Nine nights is a Caribbean term for a Wake. writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe life of Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, Chris Foggin, 2018, 112mins, UK After a death people gather together to eat, Theatre burns to the ground, and devastated, Shakespeare whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of A fast-living, cynical London music executive heads to a remote drink, dance and talk about the person who returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a the Cold War. World-class ballet performer Oleg Ivenko is a Cornish village on a stag weekend where he s pranked by his died. This funny, poignant, and healing fi lm neglected family. His very personal search for the truth uncov- magnetic presence as Nureyev, and Fiennes brings texture and boss into trying to sign a group of shanty singing fi shermen. examines the relationship between 3 siblings. ers secrets and lies within a family at war. emotional shading to this portrait of a brilliant, inscrutable man whose talent and temperament saw him rock the worlds of He becomes the ultimate fi sh out of water as he struggles to It recently won an award at the Pan African Film gain the respect or enthusiasm of the unlikely boy band and Festival in LA. Plus Q&A + short from fi lmmaker Fri 26 July - 8pm, Sat 27 July - 8pm ballet and international relations. their families who value friendship and community over fame and musician HKBFiNN. See NEWS for full details. SUMMER MUSIC SEASON and fortune. As he is drawn deeper into the traditional way of Sun 18 Aug - 8pm VOX LUX 15 life he is forced to re-evaluate his own integrity and ultimately Sun 29 Sept - 8pm ARCADIA 15 question what success really means. Brady Corbet, 2019, 114mins, USA 15 Paul Wright, 2018, 78mins, UK THE REPTILE Natalie Portman delivers a sensational performance as pop John Gilling, 90mins, 1966, USA diva Celeste, a 13-year-old music prodigy who survives a school Introduced by Nicholas Johnson B-Movie Fan Club shooting in 1999. Her talent shines through during the memo- of Etruscan Books In a Cornish village (they rial service when she sings a song that touches the hearts of A brilliant exploration of our complex connection to the land we are odd down there), locals the mourners. Guided by her sister and a talent manager, the live in with an archival remix drawn from more than 100 years are dying from mysterious young girl transforms into a rising pop star with a promising of Britain on fi lm. With a new score by Adrian Utley (Portishead) snake bites, but the future. Eighteen years later, Celeste now fi nds herself on the and Will Gregory (Goldfrapp). Arcadia embarks on a visceral sensory journey through the seasons, exploring the beauty, coroner rules the deaths comeback trail when a scandal, personal struggles and the brutality, magic and madness of our changing relationship with as heart attacks. That is, pitfalls of fame threaten her career. Featuring a magnifi cent both the land and each other. This fresh new work crafted from until a family of newcomers score from Scott Walker and songs by Sia, plus arch narration the past is a folk horror wrapped in an archive fi lm; get ready for (trouble starters) begin an from Willem Dafoe. a very strange trip indeed... investigation…

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