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1 | 7 DEC 18 - 17 JAN 19 49 Belmont Street | belmontfilmhouse.COM Often at Christmas there can be the tendency to be over-hasty. You’ll have long noticed those adverts for Xmas dinner in your local pub, that invasive jangling of bells at the department store... At Belmont Filmhouse, Christmas usually kicks in an appropriate two weeks before the date itself. The offerings this year begin on Friday 14 December and the Christmas tree will not go up a moment before! (Famous last words...) Join us for firm favourites like It’s a Wonderful Life, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Elf and Die Hard - and the newly-added National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. We’ve also spruced up Home Alone by adding an ultra-festive Learig Orchestra Christmas Concert before the film on 18 December. Don’t worry though; the cinema isn’t booby-tapped. At least not more than usual…
Bringing the curtain down just before the New Year is The Greatest Showman. Please have your voices in fine fettle, as these are verified sing-alongs. You’ll have had fine practice, no doubt, having been to see Mary Poppins Returns, which runs all through the Christmas period. There are a sack-load of other tremendous films too - The Old Man & the Gun is reportedly Robert Redford’s final performance, helmed by the always excellent David Lowery (A Ghost Story). The Favourite sees Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster) lend his distinctive talents to a period drama, and Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Winter Sleep) follows up his Palme d’Or winner with The Wild Pear Tree. Local loon Jon S. Baird directs Stan & Ollie - from Peterhead to directing a film about the great comic duo IS quite a fine mess to have gotten into!
Many folk have recently requested Free Solo - screening 26-31 December. Do join us though for the preview screening on 11 December, with a satellite Q&A with the directors and virtuoso climber Alex Honnold. Talking of ‘popular demand’ , A Star Is Born and They Shall Not Grow Old make their returns too
Scotland Love Anime drops in for more Japanese gems, the Billy Wilder retrospective arrives at last and the classics continue to roll with the side-splitting Comedy Genius tour - featuring 9 to 5, Blazing Saddles, and more! Kino Bar joins in the fun with off-beat Christmas fare before screening some twisted horror classics for those dark January nights. And, thanks to the generosity of Moscow Caledonian Club, we’re delighted to have a special free premiere of Sobibor - Russia’s entry to next year’s Best Foreign Language Oscar. There’s hardly even space to mention the Filmhouse Junior showing of Jurassic Park!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
Colin Farquhar, Head of Cinema Operations Belmont Filmhouse Explorer Buy A TICKET FOR... The Old Man & the Gun (p 4) and get a half price ticket to any Comedy Genius film (p 20-21) Mary Poppins Returns (p 5) and get a half price ticket to Stan & Ollie (p 7) The Favourite (p 6) and get a half price ticket to Colette (p 7) It’s a Wonderful Life (p 18) and get a half price ticket to any Billy Wilder film (p 10-11) Half price ticket purchase must be made within the same transaction - at Box Office, by phone or online.Tickets subject to availability. The half price offer only applies to full price tickets. Belmont Filmhouse Explorer ticket deal cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. TICKET PRICES All tickets to Filmhouse Junior and Carer & Baby screenings are £4.50 ELEVENSES (Mon-Fri between 11am and noon) All tickets £6.50. Young people under the age of 16 can get £4.50 tickets to any screening (age restrictions apply) MATINEES (shows starting before 5pm) Mon - Fri: £8.50 full price, £6.50 concessions CONCESSIONS Sat - Sun: £10.00 full price, £8.00 concessions Students (with matriculation card), 16-25 year olds, EVENINGS (shows starting after 5pm) Young Scot card, Senior Citizens (60+), Disability £10.00 full price, £8.00 concessions (carers go free), Claimants (Jobseekers Allowance, Belmont Members get £1.50 off tickets Disability Living Allowance, Housing Benefit), NHS (Some restrictions apply) employees (with proof of employment). I ndex BOX OFFICE 01224 343 500 7 DEC 18 - 17 JAN 19 | 3
ACCESS/AUDIO DESC./CAPTIONED 27 Jingle All the Way 22 BABY & CARER SCREENINGS 27 ‘RELAXED’ SCREENINGS 27 Jurassic Park 25 SCREENING DATES AND TIMES 14-16 KIki’s Delivery Service 25 9 to 5 20 Kino Bar 22-23 Ace in the Hole 10 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 24 The Apartment 11 Lizzie 6 Arthur Christmas 24 Mary Poppins Returns 5 Audition 23 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 20
Billy Wilder 10-11 The Muppet Christmas Carol 19+24 Blazing Saddles 21 My Hero Academia The Movie: The Two... 12 Christmas at Our House! 18-19 National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 18 Colette 7 The Nightmare Before Christmas 22 Comedy Genius 20-21 NT Live: The Tragedy of King Richard... 8 Cyber City Oedo 808 12 The Old Man & the Gun 4 Demons 23 Papillon 6 Die Hard 19 Penguin Highway 12 Disobedience 5 Planes, Trains and Automobiles 23 Double Indemnity 10 Sabrina 11 Early Man 25 Scotland Loves Anime 12-13 Education and Learning 17+26 The Seven Year Itch 10 Edward Scissorhands 22 Sobibor 7 Elf 18 Stan & Ollie 7 Fate/stay Night - Heaven’s Feel Movie... 13 A Star is Born 4 The Favourite 6 Sunset Boulevard 11 Filmhouse Junior 24-25 They Shall Not Grow Old 8 Free Solo 5 Three Identical Strangers 4 The General 21 White Christmas 19 The Greatest Showman - Sing-Along 8 The Wild Pear Tree 5 Gremlins 18 Women on the Verge of a Nervous... 21 Hellraiser 23
His Girl Friday 21 Home Alone + Concert 19 It’s a Wonderful Life 18 4 | 7 DEC 18 - 17 JAN 19 49 Belmont Street | belmontfilmhouse.COM eleases New R
NEW RELEASE The Old Man & the Gun Fri 7 to Thu 27 Dec (except Tue 25 Dec)
David Lowery • USA 2018 • 1h33m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language. • Cast: Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Tom Waits, Tika Sumpter.
From director David Lowery (A Ghost Story), The Old Man & the Gun is based on the true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford, in his final role). From his audacious escape from San Quentin prison at the age of 70 in a homemade kayak, he went on to to lead a three-man group of elderly bank robbers - dubbed the ‘Over the Hill Gang’ - who carried out an unprecedented string of heists whilst evading the FBI.
Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck), who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman (Sissy Spacek), who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.
NEW RELEASE BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND Three Identical Strangers A Star Is Born Fri 7 to Thu 13 Dec Fri 7 to Thu 13 Dec
Tim Wardle • UK 2018 • 1h37m • Digital • 12A - Contains suicide Bradley Cooper • USA 2018 • 2h15m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong references. • Documentary. language, drug misuse. • Cast: Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott, Dave Chappelle, Anthony Ramos, Bonnie Somerville. In the 1980’s in New York, three complete strangers - Robert Shafran, Eddy Galland and David Kellman - Hard-drinking country star Jackson Maine (Bradley make the astounding discovery that they are identical Cooper) is at the end of his tether when, quite triplets after a chance meeting. Raised by their unexpectedly, he discovers and falls for Ally (Lady respective adoptive families within a hundred-mile Gaga) - a talented young singer. As he uses his radius of each other, their joyous reunion catapulted influence to encourage her to step into the limelight, them to fame but also set in motion a chain of events, however, their blossoming relationship hits rough unearthing an extraordinary and disturbing secret waters, and Jackson’s personal demons threaten to that goes far beyond their own lives - a secret that destroy them both... might one day answer key questions at the heart of all human behaviour. Cooper’s directorial debut is back on our screens by popular demand this month. New R BOX OFFICE 01224 343 500 7 DEC 18 - 17 JAN 19 | 5 eleases
NEW RELEASE NEW RELEASE Disobedience Mary Poppins Returns Fri 14 to Thu 20 Dec Fri 21 Dec to Thu 10 Jan (except 25 Dec & 1 Jan)
Sebastián Lelio • UK/Ireland/USA 2018 • 1h54m • Digital • 15 Rob Marshall • USA 2018 • 2h10m • Digital • U • Cast: Emily Blunt, - Contains strong sex. • Cast: Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Julie Walters, Dick Van Dyke, Ben Whishaw. Alessandro Nivola, Anton Lesser, Allan Corduner, Nicholas Woodeson. After their first adventure with their magical nanny, When her estranged rabbi father suddenly passes Jane (Emily Mortimer) and Michael Banks (Ben away, Ronit (Rachel Weisz) returns to north London to Whishaw) have grown up - and Michael has three attend his funeral in the Orthodox Jewish community children. Afte the family suffer a great personal loss, where she was shunned decades earlier for her the enimatic, charismatic Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) attraction to childhood friend Esti (Rachel McAdams). re-enters their lives. Along with her friend Jack - an Once back, their passions reignite, an act of defiance optimistic lamplighter who helps bring light and that could alter the course of their lives forever. Based life to the streets of London - and using her unique on the novel by bestselling author Naomi Alderman magical skills, she helps the family rediscover the joy and directed by Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman), and magic they once shared. Chicago director Rob this rich love story explores the fraught boundaries of Marshall directs this long-awaited sequel to a Disney faith and sexuality. classic.
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Free Solo The Wild Pear Tree Ahlat Agaci Tue 11 Dec (Preview) & Wed 26 to Mon 31 Dec Fri 28 Dec to Thu 3 Jan
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin • USA 2018 • 1h40m • Digital Nuri Bilge Ceylan • Turkey/Republic of Macedonia/France/Germany/ 12A - Contains infrequent strong language. • Documentary. Bosnia and Herzegovina/Bulgaria/Sweden 2018 • 3h8m • Digital Turkish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, suicide references. • Cast: Doğu Demirkol, Murat Cemci, Bennu Yildirimlar. From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin comes Free Solo, a stunning, Sinan (Aydin Doğu Demirkol) is a recent graduate intimate and unflinching portrait of free soloist set to become a primary school teacher, but his true climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve ambition is to publish his first novel. He returns to his his lifelong dream: climbing Yosemite’s 3,000ft high hometown of Çan, hoping to scrape enough money El Capitan Wall... without a rope. Celebrated as one together, but instead is faced with a complicated of the greatest athletic feats of any kind, Honnold’s family dynamic caused by his father’s gambling climb set the ultimate standard: perfection or death. addiction. The follow-up to his Palme d’Or winner Succeeding in this challenge places his story in the Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan weaves an evocative annals of human achievement. The 11 December tale of creative struggle and familial responsibility, set preview at 6.00pm will be followed by a satellite against a sumptuous backdrop of rolling countryside Q&A with the co-directors and Alex Honnold. and idyllic farmland. 6 | 7 DEC 18 - 17 JAN 19 49 Belmont Street | belmontfilmhouse.COM eleases New R
NEW RELEASE The Favourite Tue 1 to Thu 24 Jan
Yorgos Lanthimos • UK/Ireland/USA 2019 • 1h59m • Digital • 15 - Contains very strong language, strong sex. • Cast: Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult, Mark Gatiss, Joe Alwyn.
The early 18th century; England is fighting the French and a frail, capricious Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) sits on the throne; though due to her poor health she relies on her close friend Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) to govern on her behalf. But as the politics of war begin to consume Sarah’s time, a new servant Abigail (Emma Stone) steps into the breach; beginning a rapidly burgeoning friendship with the Queen that gives Abigail a chance to restore her social status. Soon the balance of power shifts between the women as they jockey for influence with the Queen and the court... Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer) returns with this riotous period tale, brimming with dark comedy and acting brilliance from its central trio.
NEW RELEASE NEW RELEASE Papillon Lizzie Fri 4 to Thu 10 Jan Sun 6 to Thu 10 Jan
Michael Noer • Serbia/Montenegro/Malta/USA 2017 • 2h18m Craig William Macneill • USA 2018 • 1h43m • Digital • 15 - Contains Digital • 15 - Contains strong violence, language. • Cast: Charlie strong violence, bloody injury detail, infrequent very strong Hunnam, Rami Malek, Tommy Flanagan, Eve Hewson, Roland Møller. language. • Cast: Chloë Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Fiona Shaw, Kim Dickens, Denis O’Hare, Jeff Perry. Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek star as prisoners in this gripping and darkly inspirational new adaptation Academy Award® nominee Chloë Sevigny (Boys of Henri Charrière’s acclaimed novel. Condemned for Don’t Cry, Big Love) stars as Lizzie Borden, the life in the notorious penal colony on Devil’s Island, notorious woman at the heart of one of the most the two forge an unlikely friendship and decide to enduring mysteries in American history. After a escape the prison’s harrowing conditions, where lifetime of loneliness under her father’s cold and prisoners are routinely brutalised. No simple remake domineering control, Lizzie finds a kindred spirit in of the 1973 version (which starred Steve McQueen housemaid Bridget Sullivan (Kristen Stewart) and and Dustin Hoffman), this film is powerfully directed their secret intimacy sparks an unthinkable act. by Michael Noer (who made Danish prison drama R) Director Craig William Macneill (The Boy) explores the and offers epic dramatic adventure. days leading up to the savage crimes in a dark tale of repression, exploitation and thwarted dreams. New R
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NEW RELEASE NEW RELEASE Stan & Ollie Colette Fri 11 to Thu 24 Jan Fri 11 to Thu 24 Jan
Jon S. Baird • UK/Canada/USA 2018 • 1h38m • Digital • PG Wash Westmoreland • UK/USA 2018 • 1h51m • Digital • 15 - Contains Cast: John C. Reilly, Steve Coogan, Shirley Henderson, Nina Arianda. sexual scenes, nudity. • Cast: Keira Knightley, Dominic West.
The true story of Hollywood’s greatest comedy At the turn of the 20th century, unconventional double act is brought to the big screen. Starring Steve country girl Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley) Coogan and John C. Reilly as Laurel and Hardy, Stan has married a charismatic publisher 14 years her & Ollie is the heart-warming story of this landmark senior, known simply as Willy (Dominic West). The run. With their golden era long behind them, they opportunistic Willy permits Colette to write novels embarked on a variety hall tour of Britain and only if she does so in his name. The success of her Ireland. Accompanied by their wives Lucille (Shirley Claudine series brings them fame, but no recognition Henderson) and Ida (Nina Arianda) - a formidable of her talents, and so a wedge is driven between double act in their own right - the pair’s love of them as Colette begins to truly discover herself. Based performing, as well as for each other is tested by the on true events, Colette is an absorbing and vibrant rigours of what would become their farewell tour. story of determination and independence.
FREE SCREENING Moscow Caledonian Club presents: Sobibor Sat 8 Dec at 5.30pm
Konstantin Khabenskiy • Russia/Germany/Lithuania/Poland 2018 • 1h58m • Digital • Russian with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Christopher Lambert, Mariya Kozhevnikova, Michaelina Olszanska.
Sobibor is based on the history of the Sobibór extermination camp uprising during WWII, and the life of Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky. When he was a POW in Sobibor, he managed to do the impossible - to organise a revolt and mass escape of the prisoners.
Many of the escapees were later caught and tragically died - the rest, led by Pechersky, managed to join the partisans. With a script based on Ilya Vasiliev’s Alexander Pechersky: Breakthrough to Immortality, Sobibor is Russia’s entry to the Oscars® for Best Foreign Language film.
Thanks to the generosity of Moscow Caledonian Club, this special screening is free and ticketed. 8 | 7 DEC 18 - 17 JAN 19 49 Belmont Street | belmontfilmhouse.COM hey Shall Not Grow O ld/Artshey Shall Not Grow on Screen Sing-Along
The Greatest Showman SING-ALONG SCREENINGS Sat 29 & Sun 30 Dec at 2.00pm
Michael Gracey • USA 2017 • 1h45m • Digital • PG - Contains brief mild threat, violence. • Cast: Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, Gayle Rankin. T Showman/ he Greatest T The Greatest Showman is a bold and original musical that celebrates the birth of show business and the sense of wonder we feel when dreams come to life. Inspired by the ambition and imagination of circus impresario P.T. Barnum, it tells the story of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a worldwide sensation.
With catchy, triumphant songs by Oscar® winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land) and a star lineup, this was one of the biggest cinema hits of 2018 - and these sing-along screenings are the perfect way to finish the year!
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND ARTS ON SCREEN They Shall Not Grow Old NT Live: The Tragedy of King Sat 12 Jan at 1.15pm & Sun 13 Jan at 3.30pm Richard the Second Peter Jackson • UK/New Zealand 2018 • 1h39m • Digital • 15 Tue 15 Jan at 7.00pm - Contains bloody injury detail, images of real dead bodies. Documentary. Joe Hill-Gibbins • UK 2018 • 2h30m • Satellite • 12A
From Peter Jackson comes this extraordinary new Simon Russell Beale plays William Shakespeare’s film showing the Great War as you have never seen it. Richard II, broadcast live from the stage of the Using state of the art technology to restore original Almeida Theatre to Belmont Filmhouse. This visceral archival footage which is more than a 100-years old, new production about the limits of power is directed Jackson brings to life the people who can best tell this by Joe Hill-Gibbins, whose previous plays include story: the men who were there. The transformation Little Revolution at the Almeida and Absolute Hell from black and white to colourised footage can be at the National Theatre. Richard II, King of England, is seen throughout, revealing rare details. Reaching irresponsible, foolish and vain. His weak leadership into the mists of time, Jackson aims to give these sends his kingdom into disarray and his court into men voices, investigate the hopes and fears of the uproar. Seeing no other option but to seize power, veterans, the humility and humanity that represented the ambitious Bolingbroke challenges the throne and a generation changed forever by a global war. the king’s divine right to rule. £20/£17/£15
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Hot on the heels of bringing the comedy classic Some Like it Hot back to our screens last month, we’ve lined up a season of films by the great Billy Wilder - one of the defining voices of the Hollywood ‘Golden Age’.
A distinguished writer in Berlin, he escaped Nazi Ace in the Hole Germany and found his way to Hollywood in the Fri 7 Dec at 6.20pm & Sun 9 Dec at 1.10pm early 1930s, where his career would go on to span the next five decades. Billy Wilder • USA 1951 • 1h51m • Digital • English, Spanish and Latin with English subtitles • PG • Cast: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cody. Featuring the likes of Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Monroe, Edward G. Robinson, Gloria Swanson, Audrey Wilder’s superb Ace in the Hole, so ahead of its time in Hepburn and Jack Lemmon, these Billy Wilder hits the ‘50s with its unflinching examination of journalistic are classic big-screen films and should be seen in values and human ethics, should rightly take its the cinema, where they belong. place alongside his greatest works. Kirk Douglas stars as Chuck Tatum, a reporter who stumbles upon a potentially career-making story when a man TICKET Offer (see Page 13) becomes trapped in a cave in New Mexico. Desperate to prolong the drama in the name of his coverage, Tatum involves himself with local law enforcement, the rescue party and the victim’s family - a dangerous game to play, with the gravest of consequences...
Double Indemnity The Seven Year Itch Fri 14 & Sat 15 Dec Fri 21 & Sat 22 Dec
Billy Wilder • USA 1944 • 1h47m • Digital • PG - Contains mild violence. Billy Wilder • USA 1955 • 1h42m • Digital • PG • Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G Robinson, Porter Tommy Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Sonny Tufts, Robert Strauss, Oskar Hall, Jean Heather. Homolka.
Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), a salesman for Pacific After sending his wife and son to Maine to escape All-Risk Insurance, staggers into the office late one the sweltering summer heat of New York City, book night to record a memo regarding the recent death publisher Richard Sherman (Tommy Ewell) meets the of a policyholder: “I killed Dietrichson... for money, and young television commerical spokesperson (Marilyn a woman. I didn’t get the money, and I didn’t get the Monroe) who’s renting the apartment upstairs. woman...” Though revelling in his temporary bachelor freedom With diamond-hard repartee by Wilder and Raymond of lifestyle, Richard’s resists the urge to be unfaithful Chandler (by way of James M Cain’ originals novel) - the ‘seven year itch’ - but soon becomes infatuated and ghoulish cinematography by the great John Seitz, with the girl upstairs, finding himself fantasising Double Indemnity is the gold standard of ‘40s noir, about her, even though she is blissfully unaware of his straight down the line. desire... Billy Wilder
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Sunset Boulevard Sabrina Sun 23 & Mon 24 Dec Wed 26 & Thu 27 Dec
Billy Wilder • USA 1950 • 1h51m • Digital • U - Contains suicide Billy WIlder • USA 1954 • 1h53m • Digital • English and French with references, mild violence, language and sex references • Cast: Gloria English subtitles • U • Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olsen, Fred William Holden. Clark. The chauffeur for a wealthy family sends his impish Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, an aging silent daughter (Audrey Hepburn) to Paris to broaden her film queen, and William Holden as the struggling horizons and help overcome her longtime crush on writer who is held in thrall by her madness, created the family’s playboy son. She returns an attractive two of the screen’s most memorable characters in young woman and quickly draws the attention of Sunset Boulevard. Winner of three Academy Awards, the son and his more serious older brother, who Wilder’s orchestration of the bizarre tale is a true compete gamely for her favour. The winner of an cinematic classic. From the unforgettable opening Academy Award® for Best Costume, Wilder’s glittering, sequence through the inevitable unfolding of tragic entertaining take on the Cinderella story is a delight, destiny, the film is the definitive statement on the dark and the trio of Bogart, Holden and Hepburn are a joy and desperate side of Hollywood... to watch.
The Apartment Fri 28 to Mon 31 Dec
Billy Wilder • USA 1960 • 2h5m • Digital • PG - Contains mild sex references, violence and suicide attempt. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Jack Kruschen, Ray Walston.
The Apartment succeeds not only as a wonderful romantic comedy but also as sharp satire. Jack Lemmon is brilliant as the clerk who attempts to forge ahead in the rat race by lending his apartment out to philandering senior executives, only to find himself in an intolerable situation when Miss Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), the girl of his dreams, is brought there by his sleazy boss... Wilder’s scathing masterpiece went on to win five Academy Awards®, and was hailed by Newsweek as one of “the finest comedies Hollywood has turned out” .
“No one does the pitchblack flipside of funny like Wilder, and 1960’s The Apartment is the darkest he ever made.” ««««« - Total Film 12 | 7 DEC 18 - 17 JAN 19 49 Belmont Street | belmontfilmhouse.COM oves Anime oves Scotland L
Scotland’s anime fanatics arrive in Aberdeen for Penguin Highway another showcase of excellent new and classic Sat 8 Dec at 2.30pm Japanese animation. Hiroyasu Ishida • Japan 2018 • 2h • Digital • Japanese with English We have four screenings lined up over the course of subtitles • 12A • With the voices of Kana Kita, Yû Aoi. the weekend, including a rare showing of Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s influential Cyber City Oedo 808, the My Aoyama is a serious 10 year-old boy who records all Hero Academia movie and the latest in the Fate/ of his day-to-day experiences in his notebook. One stay night universe. The pick of the bunch, though, day in May, penguins inexplicably appear in his home may well be Hiroyasu Ishida’s charming and original town, despite being located a long way from the Penguin Highway - a dream-like delight. sea. When Aoyama sees “Big Sis” - a young woman who works at a dentist’s office - drop a soft drink can So whether you’re a seasoned anime fan or a total which inexplicably turns into a penguin, he decides beginner, join us and dive in! to investigate and resolve the mystery behind these strange events. Together with his classmates, Aoyama happens upon a strange phenomena which is surely TICKET Offer (see Page 13) the key to these goings-on...
My Hero Academia the Cyber City Oedo 808 Movie: The Two Heroes Saib shiti Oedo 808 Boku no Hero Academia the Movie Sun 9 Dec at 5.00pm
Sat 8 Dec at 8.45pm Yoshiaki Kawajiri • Japan 1990 • 2h7m • Digital • English dub • 15 With the voices of Sean Barrett, Vincent Marzello, Daniel Flynn. Kenji Nagasaki • Japan 2018 • 1h40m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong violence, bloody images. • With the voices of Daiki Yamashita, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Kenta Miyake. In the futuristic Japanese city of Oedo, the police have turned to an unlikely source to combat the The climactic finals are over, and U.A. is getting alarming rise in computerised crime - violent ready for the summer training camp. Deku and All criminals themselves! Sengoku, Gogol and Benten Might receive an invitation to I-Expo, the World’s are put up to this task, with the promise of a Leading Exhibition of Quirk Abilities and Hero Item reduction in their centuries-long prison sentences Innovations. In the midst of all this, Deku meets a girl for each case they close. If they fail, then only death named Melissa who is Quirkless, just like he once was. awaits them at the hands of the exploding collars Suddenly, I-Expo’s top-of-the-line security system gets placed around their necks. This dark, stylish cult hacked by villains, and a sinister plan is set in motion... classic from Yoshiaki Kawajiri returns to the UK at long last! Scotland L
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Fate/stay Night - Heaven’s Feel Movie 1: Presage Flower Gekijouban Fate/Stay Night: Heaven’s Feel - I. Presage Flower Sun 9 Dec at 7.45pm
Tomonori Sudou • Japan 2017 • 2h • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • 15 • With the voices of Ayako Kawasumi, Kana Ueda, Noriaki Sugiyama, Noriko Shitaya.
Ten years after the Holy Grail War - a battle waged by Masters and Servants over the wish-granting container, the Holy Grail - another war breaks out in Fuyuki City. Shirou Emiya - the adopted son of Kiritsugu Emiya, a participant of the previous Holy Grail War - resolves to fight, carrying out Kiritsugu’s dying wish.
Witness a spectacular new path for the hugely popular Fate/stay night universe in this first instalment of Ufotable’s film trilogy. 14 | 7 DEC 18 - 17 JAN 19 49 Belmont Street | belmontfilmhouse.COM imes
(C) Captioned (p 27) (BW) Billy Wilder (p 10-11) (FJ) filmhouse Junior (p 24-25) (Relaxed) - see page 27 (CG) Comedy Genius (p 20-21) (KB) Kino Bar (p 22-23) (A) Arts on Screen (p 8) (CH) Christmas at Our House (p 18-19) (SLA) Scotland Loves Anime (p 12-13)
DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE SCREENING TIMES DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE SCREENING TIMES Screening Screening and T Fri 1 A Star Is Born 2.15/5.30/8.25 Thu 1 A Star Is Born 2.15 7 2 The Old Man & the Gun 11.00am/1.15 13 1 9 to 5 (CG) 5.45 Dec 2 The Old Man & the Gun 3.30/6.05/8.15 Dec 2 The Old Man & the Gun 11.00am/1.10 3 A Star Is Born 11.00am 2 The Old Man & the Gun 6.05/8.15 3 Three Identical Strangers 1.50/4.05/8.45 2 9 to 5 (CG) 3.20 3 Ace in the Hole (BW) 6.20 3 A Star Is Born 11.10am/5.40 3 Three Identical Strangers 2.30/8.35 Sat 1 A Star Is Born 11.10am 8 1 Penguin Highway (SLA) 2.30 Fri 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) 12.30/3.15/6.00 Dec 1 Sobibor - Moscow Caledonian... 5.30 (Free & Ticketed) 14 1 Gremlins (CH) 8.45 1 My Hero Academia... (SLA) 8.45 Dec 2 The Old Man & the Gun 11.00am/1.10 2 The Lion, the Witch and... (FJ) 11.00am 2 The Old Man & the Gun 3.20/6.10/8.20 2 The Old Man & the Gun 2.15/4.25/6.35/8.45 3 Double Indemnity (BW) 11.05am/1.25/6.15 3 A Star Is Born (C) 12.40 (captioned) 3 Disobedience 3.45/8.35 3 A Star Is Born 5.50 3 Three Identical Strangers 3.35/8.45 Sat 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) 12.30/5.45/8.30 15 1 Gremlins (CH) 3.20 Sun 1 A Star Is Born 2.00 Dec 2 Arthur Christmas (FJ) 11.00am 9 1 Cyber City Oedo 808 (SLA) 5.00 2 Disobedience 1.10 Dec 1 Fate/stay Night... (SLA) 7.45 2 The Old Man & the Gun 3.40/6.10/8.20 2 Ace in the Hole (BW) 1.10 3 Disobedience 11.05am/6.10 2 The Old Man & the Gun 3.45/6.05/8.15 3 The Old Man & the Gun 1.35 3 Three Identical Strangers 1.15/3.35/8.20 3 Double Indemnity (BW) 3.45/8.40 3 LUX Scotland Shorts 6.00 (info online) Sun 1 Elf (CH) 1.30/8.30 Mon 1 A Star Is Born 2.15/5.30/8.25 16 1 National Lampoon’s... (CH) 3.40 10 2 Three Identical Strangers 11.05am Dec 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) 5.45 Dec 2 The Old Man & the Gun 1.25/3.45/6.05/8.15 2 The Old Man & the Gun 1.30/3.40/8.20 3 A Star Is Born 11.10am 3 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) 1.00 (Relaxed) 3 Three Identical Strangers 2.30/6.00 3 Disobedience 3.50/8.35 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 27 3 The Old Man & the Gun 6.25
Tue 1 A Star Is Born 2.15 Mon 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) 2.30/5.45 11 1 Free Solo (PREVIEW) 6.00 +Satellite Q&A 17 1 National Lampoon’s... (CH) 8.30 Dec 2 9 to 5 (CG) 11.00am Dec 2 The Old Man & the Gun 11.05am/3.25/8.35 2 The Old Man & the Gun 1.25/3.45/6.05/8.15 2 The Old Man & the Gun (C) 1.15 (captioned) 3 Three Identical Strangers 11.10am/1.25 2 Disobedience 6.00 3 Three Identical Strangers 3.40/6.10 3 Disobedience 11.00am/2.15/8.15 3 A Star Is Born (C) 8.25 (captioned) 3 The Old Man & the Gun 6.05 CB Kino Bar: Jingle All The Way (KB) 7.30 (£5/£4) Wed 1 A Star Is Born 2.15/5.45 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 27 12 1 9 to 5 (CG) 8.40 Dec 2 The Old Man & the Gun 11.00am/3.45 Tue 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) 2.30 2 The Old Man & the Gun 6.05/8.15 18 1 Home Alone (CH) 8.00 +Concert 2 9 to 5 (CG) 1.10 Dec 2 The Old Man & the Gun 11.05am/1.15 3 Three Identical Strangers 1.00/3.15/8.45 2 The Old Man & the Gun 3.25/8.35 2 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) 5.45 3 Disobedience 11.00am/2.15/8.15 3 The Old Man & the Gun 6.05 Screening and T Screening
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Wed 1 White Christmas (CH) 12.30/8.35 Thu 1 Mary Poppins Returns 11.00am/1.45 19 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) 3.05/5.50 27 1 Mary Poppins Returns 4.30/7.15 imes Dec 2 The Old Man & the Gun 11.05am/3.25/6.00 Dec 2 Free Solo 11.10am/3.50/6.05 2 Muppet Christmas Carol (CH) 1.15/8.15 2 Monty Python...Holy Grail (CG) 1.40/8.20 3 Disobedience 11.00am/2.15/6.05 3 Sabrina (BW) 11.05am/6.00 3 The Old Man & the Gun 8.40 3 The Old Man & the Gun 1.35/3.45/8.30
Thu 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) 12.30/8.25 Fri 1 Mary Poppins Returns 11.00am/1.45 20 1 White Christmas (CH) 3.15/5.50 28 1 Mary Poppins Returns 4.30/7.15 Dec 2 The Old Man & the Gun 11.05am/1.15 Dec 2 The Apartment (BW) 12.50/5.45 2 Muppet Christmas Carol (CH) 3.25/6.00 2 Free Solo 3.30/8.25 2 Disobedience 8.10 3 Free Solo 11.15am/5.15 3 Disobedience 11.00am/2.15 3 The Wild Pear Tree 1.30/7.30 3 The Old Man & the Gun (C) 6.05 (captioned) CB Kino Bar: Planes, Trains and... (KB) 7.30 (£5/£4) 3 The Old Man & the Gun 8.15 CB Kino Bar: Edward Scissor... (KB) 7.30 (£5/£4) Sat 1 Mary Poppins Returns 11.00am/4.30/7.15 29 1 The Greatest Showman 2.00 (Sing-Along) Fri 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) 11.00am/5.30 Dec 2 Early Man (FJ) 11.00am 21 1 Mary Poppins Returns 2.00 2 Mary Poppins Returns 2.00 Dec 1 Die Hard (CH) 8.30 2 The Apartment (BW) 5.00 2 Mary Poppins Returns 11.15am/5.45/8.30 2 Free Solo 7.45 3 The Old Man & the Gun 11.15am/4.00/6.15 3 The Apartment (BW) 11.05am 3 The Seven Year Itch (BW) 1.30/8.25 3 The Wild Pear Tree 1.40/7.30 3 Women on the Verge of... (CG) 5.25 Sat 1 Mary Poppins Returns 11.00am 22 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) 1.45/4.45/7.30 Sun 1 The Greatest Showman 2.00 (Sing-Along) Dec 2 Muppet Christmas Carol (FJ) 11.00am (Relaxed) 30 1 Mary Poppins Returns 4.30/7.15 2 Mary Poppins Returns 1.30/4.30/7.15 Dec 2 The General (CG) 1.00/5.45 3 The Seven Year Itch (BW) 11.15am/6.00 2 Mary Poppins Returns 3.00 3 The Old Man & the Gun 1.35/3.45/8.25 2 Free Solo 7.45 3 The Wild Pear Tree 1.05/7.30 Sun 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) 4.45/7.30 3 The Apartment (BW) 4.50 23 2 Mary Poppins Returns 1.30/4.30/7.15 Dec 3 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) 1.00 Mon 1 Mary Poppins Returns 11.00am/3.00/6.00 3 The Old Man & the Gun (C) 3.45 (captioned) 31 2 Mary Poppins Returns (C) 1.30 (captioned) 3 The Old Man & the Gun 8.25 Dec 2 Free Solo 4.15/6.30 3 Sunset Boulevard (BW) 5.55 3 The Wild Pear Tree 11.00am/5.30 CB Kino Bar: Nightmare Before... (KB) 7.30 3 The Apartment (BW) 2.45 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 27 Mon 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) 2.30/6.00 24 2 Mary Poppins Returns 1.00/3.45/6.30 Tue Dec 3 The Old Man & the Gun 11.15am/4.00 1 Happy New Year! 3 Sunset Boulevard (BW) 1.30/6.15 Jan For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 27 Wed 1 The Favourite 11.00am/2.30 Tue 2 1 The Favourite 6.00/8.35 25 Merry Christmas! Jan 2 Mary Poppins Returns 11.15am/2.00/7.45 Dec 2 Mary Poppins Returns (C) 5.00 (captioned) 3 His Girl Friday (CG) 11.10am/5.15 Wed 1 Mary Poppins Returns 1.45/4.30/7.15 3 The Wild Pear Tree 1.30/7.25 26 2 Free Solo 1.30/6.05 Dec 2 Monty Python... Holy Grail (CG) 3.50/8.20 3 Sabrina (BW) 1.15/6.00 3 The Old Man & the Gun 3.45/8.30 16 | 7 DEC 18 - 17 JAN 19 49 Belmont Street | belmontfilmhouse.COM imes
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Thu 1 The Favourite 11.00am/2.30 Fri 1 Stan & Ollie 11.00am/1.15 3 1 The Favourite 6.00/8.35 11 1 Stan & Ollie 3.30/6.05/8.20 Jan 2 Mary Poppins Returns 11.15am/2.00 Jan 2 The Favourite 11.15am/2.30 Screening Screening and T 2 Mary Poppins Returns 5.00/7.45 2 The Favourite 5.50/8.25 3 The Wild Pear Tree 11.10am/7.25 3 Colette 11.10am/2.15 3 His Girl Friday (CG) 3.05/5.15 3 Colette 6.00/8.30 CB Kino Bar: Demons (KB) 7.30 (£5/£4) Fri 1 The Favourite 11.00am/2.30 4 1 The Favourite 6.00/8.35 Sat 1 Stan & Ollie 11.00am/3.30 Jan 2 Mary Poppins Returns 11.10am/2.00 12 1 Stan & Ollie 6.05/8.20 2 Mary Poppins Returns 5.30/8.15 Jan 1 They Shall Not Grow Old 1.15 3 Blazing Saddles (CG) 12.30/5.45 2 Jurassic Park (FJ) 11.00am 3 Papillon 2.50/8.00 2 The Favourite 2.30/5.50/8.25 3 Colette 11.10am/2.15 Sat 1 The Favourite 11.00am/2.30 3 Colette 6.00/8.30 5 1 The Favourite 6.00/8.35 Jan 2 Mary Poppins Returns 1.10/4.00/7.00 Sun 1 Stan & Ollie 1.15/6.05/8.20 3 Papillon 12.30/8.00 13 1 They Shall Not Grow Old 3.30 3 Blazing Saddles (CG) 3.20/5.45 Jan 2 The Favourite 2.30/5.50/8.25 3 Colette 2.15/6.00/8.30 Sun 1 Papillon 2.00 6 1 The Favourite 6.00/8.35 Mon 1 Stan & Ollie 1.15/3.30/6.05/8.20 Jan 2 Mary Poppins Returns (C) 1.00 (captioned) 14 2 The Favourite 11.15am/2.30 2 Mary Poppins Returns 4.00/7.00 Jan 2 The Favourite 5.50/8.25 3 Lizzie 1.05/6.05 3 Colette 11.10am/2.15 3 The Favourite 3.30 3 Colette 6.00/8.30 3 Papillon 8.25 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 27
Mon 1 Mary Poppins Returns 11.00am Tue 1 Stan & Ollie 11.00am/1.15/3.30 7 1 The Favourite (C) 2.30 (captioned) 15 1 NT Live: The Tragedy of King... (A) 7.00 Jan 1 The Favourite 6.00/8.35 Jan 2 The Favourite 11.15am/2.30 2 The Favourite 11.10am 2 Stan & Ollie (C) 6.05 (captioned) 2 Mary Poppins Returns 2.00/5.45/8.30 2 Stan & Ollie 8.20 3 Lizzie 12.30/5.55 3 Colette 11.10am/2.15/6.00 3 Papillon 3.00/8.25 3 The Favourite 8.30
Tue 1 The Favourite 11.00am/2.30 Wed 1 Stan & Ollie 11.00am/1.15/3.30 8 1 The Favourite 6.00/8.35 16 1 Stan & Ollie 6.05/8.20 Jan 2 Mary Poppins Returns 11.10am/2.00/8.30 Jan 2 The Favourite 11.15am/2.30/8.25 2 Mary Poppins Returns (C) 5.45 (captioned) 2 The Favourite (C) 5.50 (captioned) 3 Lizzie 12.30/5.55 3 Colette 11.10am/2.15 3 Papillon 3.00/8.25 3 Colette 6.00/8.30 CB Kino Bar: Hellraiser (KB) 7.30 (£5/£4) Wed 1 The Favourite 11.00am/2.30 9 1 The Favourite 6.00/8.35 Thu 1 Stan & Ollie 11.00am/1.15 Jan 2 Mary Poppins Returns 11.10am/2.00 17 1 Stan & Ollie 3.30/6.05/8.20 2 Mary Poppins Returns 5.45/8.30 Jan 2 The Favourite 11.15am/2.30 3 Papillon 12.30/5.50 2 The Favourite 5.50/8.25 3 Lizzie 3.20/8.45 3 Colette 11.10am/2.15 3 Colette 6.00/8.30 Thu 1 The Favourite 11.00am/2.30 10 1 The Favourite 6.00/8.35 Jan 2 Mary Poppins Returns 11.10am/2.00 2 Mary Poppins Returns 5.45/8.30 3 Papillon 12.30/5.50 3 Lizzie 3.20/8.45 Education and L BOX OFFICE 01224 343 500 7 DEC 18 - 17 JAN 19 | 17 Education and Learning earning
Christmas School Screenings
Bring your class along to Filmhouse for a festive treat! Wear your best Christmas jumpers and Santa hats. There will be music, a joyful atmosphere and prizes!
Arthur Christmas
1h37min • £3/free for teachers • U • suitable for P1-P7 • Tues 11 Dec or Wed 19 Dec at 10.00am It’s Christmas Eve and the unthinkable happens - Santa misses one child out of hundreds of millions of deliveries. It’s up to Arthur, Santa’s youngest son, to deliver the present to the forgotten child before Christmas morning dawns. Simple, right?
The Muppet Christmas Carol 1h25min • £3/free for teachers • PG • suitable for P4+ • Wed12 Dec or Fri 14 Dec at 10am Join the Muppet characters with their zany version of Charles Dickens classic Christmas tale of a cranky old miser’s redemption. Laugh and sing your way through this fantastic film which has become a Christmas classic in its own right!
Elf
1h33min • £3/free for teachers • PG • suitable for P4+ • Fri 7 Dec or Thu 20 Dec at 10.00am When Buddy the Elf discovers he wasn’t born in the North Pole he makes it his mission to find his true identity. Festive fun with the hilarious Will Ferrell in his most famous role.
Incredibles 2 2h05min • £3/free for teachers • PG • suitable for P4+ • Thu 13 Dec or Tue 18 Dec at 10am Pixar’s crime fighting family are back, with a new addition of baby Jack-Jack and a brand new villain to contend with. Will they save the day?
See page 26 for more School Screenings in January 2019. 18 | 7 DEC 18 - 17 JAN 19 49 Belmont Street | belmontfilmhouse.COM ur H ouse! TICKET Offer (see Page 13) Christmas at Our House! Christmas at O Christmas at
It’s a Wonderful Life Gremlins Fri 14 to Mon 24 Dec Fri 14 Dec at 8.45pm & Sat 15 Dec at 3.20pm
Frank Capra • USA 1946 • 2h10m • Digital • U - Contains mild violence Joe Dante • USA 1984 • 1h46m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Henry Travers, Lionel Barrymore, violence and fantasy horror. • Cast: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Thomas Mitchell, Gloria Grahame. Axton, Polly Holliday, Keye Luke.
This heartwarming fantasy begins as angels discuss It starts with a Christmas gift - a cute, cuddly little George Bailey (James Stewart), a small-town resident ‘mogwai’ - but the time of goodwill soon turns so beset with problems that he contemplates suicide. hellish when, splashed with water, the creature starts In flashback, we review George’s life, learning that sprouting little monsters, whose sense of mischief he has always wanted to leave his hometown to see extends to the murderous and beyond... the world, but that circumstances and his own good With a characteristic mix of narrative anarchy, heart have kept him in Bedford Falls. Stewart is the cinephile references, cartoon-style slapstick and black- heart and the soul of the film as the dreamer who tinged comedy, Joe Dante gleefully sinks his teeth sacrifices all for his fellow man. Bring a hanky! into the kind of fluffy, sugary, sickly small town fantasy ‘Relaxed’ screening on Sun 16 Dec - see page 27. beloved of his pal/producer Steven Spielberg.
National Lampoon’s Elf Christmas Vacation Sun 16 Dec at 1.30pm & 8.30pm Sun 16 Dec at 3.40pm & Mon 17 Dec at 8.30pm Jon Favreau • USA/Germany 2003 • 1h33m • Digital • PG - Contains mild bad language. • Cast: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Zooey Deschanel. Jeremiah S. Chechik • USA 1989 • 1h37m • Digital • PG • Cast: Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki. Will Ferrell is at his wide-eyed best in this disarmingly funny and good-natured festive family frolic. Buddy Eagerly awaiting his Christmas bonus, Clark Griswold (Ferrell) is an adult man who has been raised by elves (Chevy Chase) and his nearest/dearest are preparing at the North Pole. Having finally realised that he is not for a festive family celebration. Trouble is, things like the other elves, he sets off to New York to find his never seem to run too smoothly for the patriarch family. Upon discovering that his father (James Caan) of the family, despite his best efforts, and soon this is a cold and greedy man - on Santa’s naughty list - disastrous luck is compounded by an obnoxious array Buddy resolves to help him find his Christmas spirit of guests and well-wishers... A silly ‘80s favourite, this is and change his life... a rare chance to see it back on the big screen. Christmas atChristmas O
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Home Alone + CHRISTMAS CONCERT The Muppet Christmas Carol Tue 18 Dec at 8.00pm Wed 19 to Sat 22 Dec (select dates only)
Chris Columbus • USA 1990 • 1h43m • Digital • PG - Contains Brian Henson • USA 1992 • 1h26m • Digital • U - Contains infrequent moderate slapstick violence and infrequent moderate language. very mild peril • Cast: Michael Caine, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O’Hara. Jerry Nelson, Frank Oz. Concert will last approximately 20-25 minutes. A fun but meaningful adaptation, with Gonzo taking We’re thrilled to welcome the Learig Orchestra to on the role of Dickens and narrating the tale. They Belmont Filmhouse for a special Christmas concert take us on a journey filled with all your favourite before this screening of Home Alone. Chris Columbus’ Muppets and a lot of talking vegetables too! Scrooge seasonal slapstick classic features a number of (Michael Caine) is so miserly he won’t even allow memorable pieces of music, including ‘Carol of his fuzzy employees an extra piece of coal for the the Bells’ and ‘O Holy Night’ - both of which will be fire at Christmas. Such meanness is not tolerated by performed on the night. No ads or trailers. The music his deceased business partners, who appear to him will begin at 8.00pm. Late-comers will be admitted one night and tell him that he must face up to his between the concert and the film. misdeeds... Also a ‘Relaxed’ screening - see page 24
White Christmas Die Hard Wed 19 & Thu 20 Dec Fri 21 Dec at 8.30pm
Michael Curtiz • USA 1954 • 2h • Digital • U - Contains no material John McTiernan • USA 1988 • 2h12m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong likely to offend or harm • Cast: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary violence, language, nudity and hard drug use • Cast: Bruce Willis, Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger. Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman, Alexander Gudonov, Paul Gleason.
Two talented song-and-dance men (Bing Crosby It’s Christmas time in Los Angeles, and there’s a staff and Danny Kaye) team up after the war to become party in progress on the 30th floor of the Nakatomi one of the hottest acts in show business. One winter, Corporation building. The revelry is cut short when they join forces with a sister act (Rosemary Clooney the partygoers are taken hostage by a group of and Vera-Ellen) and head to Vermont for a white terrorists headed by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), Christmas. Upon discovering that the resort is run by who plan to steal the $600 million locked in the their old army general, who’s now in financial trouble, safe. Meanwhile, New York cop John McClane (Bruce they decide to put on a benefit to raise funds. White Willis) has come to LA to visit his estranged wife, Christmas is a treasury of Irving Berlin classics, among Holly (Bonnie Bedelia), who happens to be one of the them ‘Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep’, ‘Sisters’, hostages... Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Die Hard ‘Blue Skies’, and, of course, ‘White Christmas’ itself. has become a firm Xmas favourite - yippee-ki-yay! 20 | 7 DEC 18 - 17 JAN 19 49 Belmont Street | belmontfilmhouse.COM Comedy Genius Comedy
ICO and BFI have teamed up to present Comedy Genius - a film line-up that represents comedy at its all-time best; highlighting early film comedy pioneers, innovators and world cinema classics as 9 to 5 well as blockbuster talent from the ‘80s and beyond. Tue 11 to Thu 13 Dec
Bring your funny bones, these films are definitely a Colin Higgins • USA 1980 • 1h49m • Digital • 15 - Contains scene of drug misuse, infrequent strong sex references. • Cast: Jane Fonda, laughing matter. Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton.
With the support of the Independent Cinema Judy (Jane Fonda), Violet (Lily Tomlin) and Doralee Office and British Film Institute, awarding funds (Dolly Parton) couldn’t be more different from each from The National Lottery. other, but they’ve all got one thing in common - being mistreated by their boss. He yells at Judy on TICKET Offer (see Page 13) her first day, consistently takes credit for Violet’s ideas and sexually harasses Doralee. Fed up with him, the trio dream of his removal. This is a glorious feminist comedy with inspiring female friendship at its heart - as relevant today as it was when it was first released.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail Wed 26 & Thu 27 Dec
Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones • UK 1975 • 1h31m • Digital • English, French and Latin with English subtitles • 15 - Contains moderate sex referenc- es, comic violence • Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin.
The first feature film of the legendary Monty Python group takes us on a medieval quest in England, circa 932 A.D. Wise-cracking, sublimely irreverent and jaw-droppingly hysterical, this comedy will bring laughter (and coconuts!) to our lives when we most need a dose of anarchic Python daring. Monty Python and the Holy Grail follows King Arthur (Graham Chapman) who is accompanied by his trusty servant Patsy (Terry Gilliam) to seek knights to join his round table at Camelot. The quest isn’t, however, as easy as it might sound: constitutional-obsessed peasants, a Three-Headed Knight and singing dancers of Camelot are only a few of the characters that our merry group of knights will come across on their journey. And did we mention the coconuts already...? Comedy Genius
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Women on the Verge of a The General Nervous Breakdown Sun 30 Dec at 1.00pm & 5.45pm Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman • USA 1926 • 1h19m • Digital • Silent Sat 29 Dec at 5.25pm U - Contains mild comic violence • Cast: Buster Keaton, Marian Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley, Frederick Vroom. Pedro Almodóvar • Spain 1988 • 1h29m • Digital • Spanish with English subtitles • 12A - Contains one use of strong language and comic suicide references. • Cast: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Described by Orson Welles as “the greatest comedy Julieta Serrano, María Barranco, Rossy de Palma. ever made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made”, Buster Keaton’s Pedro Almodóvar’s international breakthrough, The General is a comedy adventure classic. It’s based which secured his place at the vanguard of modern on a true incident, the Great Locomotive Chase; European cinema. It’s the story of Pepa (Carmen with the ‘General’ of the title referring not to Keaton’s Maura) who resolves to kill herself with a batch of character, engineer Johnnie Gray, but to his engine. sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Gray has been rejected by both the Confederate Army Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic and by his fiancée Annabelle but when Union spies series of events - and many characters who are all steal the General (and, Annabelle), he gets a chance to possibly on the verge of a full emotional collapse... catch up to the General and rescue his beloved.
His Girl Friday Blazing Saddles Wed 2 & Thu 3 Jan Fri 4 & Sat 5 Jan
Howard Hawks • USA 1940 • 1h32m • Digital • U - Contains mild Mel Brooks • USA 1974 • 1h31m • Digital • English, German and Yiddish innuendo and very mild threat. • Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, with English subtitles • 12A - Contains mouthed strong language, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall. moderate sex references and racist terms. • Cast: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn. One of most quotable films ever made, His Girl Friday stars Rosalind Russell as ace reporter Hildegard “Hildy” Nearly forty-five years after its release, Mel Brooks and Johnson. When adapting Ben Hecht and Charles Richard Pryor’s brilliant blend of social satire, gleeful MacArthur’s smash hit play The Front Page, Howard stupidity and comic Western is still as thrillingly Hawks had the inspired idea of switching the role to a outrageous as ever. Greedy Hedley Lamarr (Harvey woman. The result is an immortal mix of hard-boiled Korman) appoints a black sheriff (Cleavon Little) to newsroom drama and ebullient romantic comedy throw the backward townsfolk of Rock Ridge into that fully exploits its stars Russell and Cary Grant’s chaos. However, with his quick wits and the help of an tangible chemistry and perfect comic timing - truly alcoholic gunslinger (Gene Wilder), the new sheriff is one of the fastest-talking comedies ever made. more than capable of defeating the hapless bad guys and winning the admiration of his community. 22 | 7 DEC 18 - 17 JAN 19 49 Belmont Street | belmontfilmhouse.COM Kinio Bar
Kino Bar is our screen located in the basement bar and is dedicated to bringing you films which we have lovingly hand-picked for your viewing pleasure. Jingle All The Way Two very distinct flavours in this latest Kino Bar line- Mon 17 Dec at 7.30pm up - festive favourites and edgy horror classics. Brian Levant • USA 1996 • 1h35m • Digital • PG - Contains mild comic From Arnie’s one-man mission to save his son’s violence. • Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Rita Wilson, Phil Christmas to the hellish delights of Pinhead and Hartman, Jim Belushi, Jake Lloyd, Paul Wight. co, Kino Bar are bringing offbeat gems aplenty throughout the festive season and into the year Workaholic dad Howard Langston (Arnold 2019. Merry Christmas, you filthy animals... and a Schwarzenegger) can’t quite find enough hours in the Happy New Year! day, much to the disappointment of his wife and son Jamie. When he misses Jamie’s karate event, Howard’s Due to alcohol licensing laws, Kino Bar only hope of making it up to him is to get him his is strictly over-18s only number one Christmas wish - a Turbo Man action figure. Only trouble is - they’re the most popular toy in
All Kino Bar tickets are America, and it’s Christmas Eve... Wacky ‘90s action adventure doesn’t get more £5/£4 Members Christmassy than Jingle All the Way - it’s Turbo Time!
Edward Scissorhands The Nightmare Before Thu 20 Dec at 7.30pm Christmas Tim Burton • USA 1990 • 1h44m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate Sun 23 Dec at 7.30pm violence. • Cast: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker. Henry Selick • USA 1993 • 1h16m • Digital • PG - Contains mild comic horror. • With the voices of Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O’Hara, William Hickey, Paul Reubens. Inspired by his suburban Californian childhood, Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands has become an offbeat Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of festive favourite. It’s the strange story of an artificially Halloweentown, has grown bored with his lot in life created man - Edward (Johnny Depp) - whose and the repetitive nature of giving people a scare inventor died before he could finish his hands, leaving each Halloween. A chance visit to neighbouring him only the use of sharp scissor blades for fingers. Christmastown provides Skellington with a tantalising Discovered by a door-to-door saleswoman and prospect: why not kidnap Santa Claus and hijack all welcomed into the quaint, picket-fence community, his little elf helpers and replace them with his band he trims hedges, cuts hair and grooms pets, all the of ghouls and goblins to deliver his own variation on while falling for Kim (Winona Ryder). This is an unusual Christmas? A wickedly dark and decidedly alternative love story that will prove tragic... look at every child’s favourite day of the year. Kino Bar Kino
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles Audition Fri 28 Dec at 7.30pm Thu 3 Jan at 7.30pm
John Hughes • USA 1987 • 1h33m • Digital • 15 • Cast: John Candy, Takashi Miike • Japan 1999 • 1h55m • Digital • Japanese with English Steve Martin, Laila Robins, Michael McKean, Kevin Bacon. subtitles • 18 - Contains strong gory violence, torture. • Cast: Ishibashi Ryo, Shiina Eihi, Matsuda Miyuki, Ishibashi Renji, Sawaki Tetsu. Frazzled businessman Neal Page (Steve Martin) just wants to get home for Thanksgiving. Forced to Widower Aoyama finally decides it is time to remarry. go cross-country when his flight his cancelled, he Unsure about the dating game, he takes up a inadvertently finds himself saddled with another colleague’s strange offer to sit in on an audition for holiday traveller (John Candy) - a well-meaning but a bogus film production. He soon homes in on the irritating shower curtain ring salesman who just won’t demure, quietly spoken Asame, who tells him she leave him alone. While we’re a little late for American used to be a ballet dancer until she was injured in Thanksgiving, it’s never a bad time to watch John an accident. Soon the charmed Aoyama decides Hughes’ road trip classic, which really showcases the to propose, finally telling his intended about his big-hearted brilliance of the late, great John Candy. late wife. It is at this point in Takahi Miike’s iconic, notorious hororr, that things begin to unravel...
Demons Hellraiser Fri 11 Jan at 7.30pm Wed 16 Jan at 7.30pm
Lamberto Bava • Italy 1985 • 1h25m • Digital • 18 • Cast: Urbano Clive Barker • UK 1987 • 1h34m • Digital • 18 - Contains strong, bloody Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny, Fiore Argento, Paola Cozzo. violence. • Cast: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Sean Chapman, Oliver Smith. Produced by Italian giallo master Dario Argento, Demons is a fast paced gory romp that demands you Ineffectual husband Larry and his wife Julia move into leave your sense of disbelief outside the door and a family home once inhabited by Larry’s hard-living, delivers eye-popping splatter fun in spades. The plot, now-missing brother. Thanks to supernatural forces such as it is, has a screening of an untitled movie take awakened with some of Larry’s blood splashed on the place at the Metropole cinema in the heart of Berlin. floorboards, brother Frank returns, sort of... Released over 30 years ago, Hellraiser became one of the most The invited patrons discover that they’re there to innovative and memorable horror films of the ‘80s, see a gory Italian Scooby Doo-style flick, but bloody a middle ground between mainstream fare and the mayhem ensues as the plot is swiftly thrown out the work of David Cronenberg. window and all hell breaks loose in a visual and aural feast... As Pinhead puts it ”Come, we have such sights to show you...” Filmhouse Junior 24 somewhat haplessbrother,somewhat Arthur... person prepared isSteven’s to putthings right without apresentwhen achildisleft andtheonly lookslesscertain position ofHead Christmas Steven ready over. to take Butthefuture ofthe retirement, but joyless son withhissuper-efficient Wallace andGromit . SantaClausisnearing familyfilm from the team behind A wonderful mild languageandcomic threat. Sarah Smith•UK/USA20111h37mDigital •U-Contains very at11.00am Sat 15Dec Ar should expect somenoise! should expect shows for are sogrown-ups primarily kids, screenings, during these of peopletalking Please note: althoughwe disapprove normally descriptions. onindividualfilm subtitles –theseare marked films willbeintheiroriginal language with versions where these are available, butsome For theseshows we chooseto screen dubbed big orsmall! Tickets cost £4.50perperson, on Saturdays at 11am. Films for ayounger audience, weekly | thur Christmas 7 DEC18-17JAN19 future... ‘R past,present,by the ghostsofChristmas and must faceupto his misdeeds. Andsoheisvisited who appearto him onenightandtell himthathe not tolerated by hisdeceased businesspartners, of coalfor thefire at Christmas. Suchmeannessis felt piece employeeseven anextra allow hisfuzzy hewon’t Caine) issomiserly Scrooge (Michael mildperil.infrequent very Henson•USA19921h26mDigitalBrian •U-Contains at11.00am Sat 22Dec Witch (Tilda Swinton)... Witch (Tilda cursedtoworld winter eternal by theevil White fauns, centaursandgiants thathasbecomea beasts, peaceful landinhabited dwarfs, by talking a magical wardrobe. They discover acharming, England, through whoenter ofNarnia theworld of thefour Pevensie siblingsin World War II CS Lewis’ timelessadventure follows theexploits mild threat, battle andfantasy violence. Andrew Adamson •USA20052h20m •Digital •PG-Contains Sat 8 Dec at11.00am Sat 8Dec Relaxed The The Muppet Lion 49 |belmontstreet elaxed’ screening -seepage27 screening , the Christmas Witc h and the BELMONTFILMHOUSE C arol W
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January School Screenings Inside Hana’s Suitcase
Friday 18 January, 10.00am • 1hr 28 mins • £3/free for teachers • English, Czech and Japanese with some English subtitles • suitable for P6-S3 • Social Studies- History, RMPS Based on the internationally acclaimed book, this film blends documentary and drama to tell the poignant story of two children, Hana and George Brady, who were singled out as Jews and sent away from home by the Nazis. Seventy years later a class of Japanese children receive a package from the Holocaust museum in Germany. It contains what appears to be Hana’s suitcase, and the children and their teacher begin to unravel Hana’s story. A moving film which deals with a difficult subject with sensitivity, and explores the wider theme of tolerance.
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Thursday 24 January, 10.00am • 1hr 28 mins • £3/free for teachers • Hungarian with English subtitles 12A • suitable for S5-S6 • Social Studies: History, RMPS, English : Literacy, Media Studies • Advisory: infrequent strong language, moderate sex, suicide (suggested by dangling feet) In the aftermath of the Holocaust, and just before the start of Communist rule, 1945 tells the story of one day in the lives of a group of Hungarian villagers. As the locals prepare for a wedding, two mysterious strangers arrive at the railway station. Their arrival sends shockwaves through the village, as the townspeople fear the two men are Jews, who have returned to claim back what is rightfully theirs. Shot in exquisite black and white, the film exploits the style of the Western to paint a subtle cinematic portrayal of life post-WWII, and raises interesting questions about guilt, grief, reckoning and redemption.
Both above screenings are supported by resources to continue the learning back in the classroom.
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For more information, additional events or to book places, please contact Nicola Whyte at [email protected] or call 01224 343 513. Access/Captioned/Baby & Carer/ R BOX OFFICE 01224 343 500 7 DEC 18 - 17 JAN 19 | 27 Access We have three screens, seating 272, 146 and 65 people. All areas of the building are accessible to customers with limited mobility, including wheelchair users. There is a lift in the main foyer that serves all floors.
Booking is strongly advised for wheelchair spaces. If you require any extra assistance during your visit please let us know and we’ll be happy to help in any way we possibly can. Email [email protected] or call the Box Office on01224 343 500 if you require further information or assistance.
elaxed Screenings Hires Our screens and cafe bar are available for private hire. We also offer a range of conferencing facilities. For details or to book call 01224 343 500 or email [email protected] Captioned Screenings For Crying Out Loud Captions display dialogue on-screen and also describe the Screenings for carers and their babies! Tickets audio or sound portion of a film, allowing viewers who are £4.50/£3.50 concessions per adult. Screenings deaf or hard of hearing to follow the script and the action of a film at the same time. are strictly limited to babies under 12 months accompanied by no more than two adults. Sat 8 Dec at 12.40pm A Star is Born Babychanging and buggy parking facilities are Tue 11 Dec at 8.25pm A Star is Born available. Mon 17 Dec at 1.15pm The Old Man & the Gun Thu 20 Dec at 6.05pm The Old Man & the Gun Mon 10 Dec at 11.00am The Old Man &... Sun 23 Dec at 3.45pm The Old Man & the Gun Mon 17 Dec at 11.00am It’s a Wonderful... Mon 31 Dec at 1.30pm Mary Poppins Returns Wed 2 Jan at 5.00pm Mary Poppins Returns Mon 24 Dec at 11.00am Mary Poppins... Sun 6 Jan at 1.00pm Mary Poppins Returns Mon 31 Dec at 11.15am Free Solo Mon 7 Jan at 2.30pm The Favourite Tue 8 Jan at 5.45pm Mary Poppins Returns Mon 14 Jan at 11.00am Stan & Ollie Tue 15 Jan at 6.05pm Stan & Ollie Wed 16 Jan at 5.50pm The Favourite Relaxed Screenings Belmont Filmhouse, 49 Belmont Street, Aberdeen AB10 1JS We are pleased to announce a series of screenings tailored towards providing a more accessible www.belmontfilmhouse.com environment for sensitive audiences. Low–level Box Office 01224 343 500 lighting, lower than usual sound levels and increased (from 10.30am Mon-Sat, 12.30pm on Sun) levels of noise and movement accommodated. email: [email protected] All are welcome! @BelmontFh Sun 16 Dec at 1.00pm It’s a Wonderful Life facebook.com/BelmontFilmhouse Sat 22 Dec at 11.00am The Muppet Christmas...
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