The Station Film Festival Friday October 11th to 2013 Thursday October 24th 15 films across 14 days Special early An intoxicating cocktail of worldwide cinema excellence booking offer buy 4 tickets and get one FREE The Station Film Festival is sponsored by Zetland Offices with kind support from The Darlington & Stockton Times | | T T h h It’s Film Festival e e S S t t a a time at The Station! t t i i o o n n F F i i Friday 11th ~ Thursday 24th October 2013 l l m m F F e e s s t t ello and welcome to the festival audiences. From the script writer of Harrigan , will be 2 Catch Two Jacks , a comical i i v v H Fifth Annual Station German law courts of Hannah at the festival to discuss their a a Tolstoy adaptation charting the l l Film Festival. Once again we Arendt to the Saudi Arabian film and answer audience Hollywood successes and 2 2 0 0 are proud to present a diverse streets of Wadjda , from the questions. 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Be part of the very into the mix, this wide array of first UK audiences to experience features provides a truly the glitz and glamour of this international experience for film | | generational tale! 2 3 | | T T w Two Jacks The h e o S J e a s c Sessions s k i s o | n T s h 15 | Romantic comedy 15 | Drama | e English English T S h t e a S t i t o The release date for Two “Virginity – losing it, trying to lose it, trying to hang on to it – has a n t i Jacks isn't until December or early in 2014. However, because been a constant subject of drama, literature and the movies, and o F n i l Station Cinema audiences are deemed to be extra special , the handled variously as comedy, tragedy and complicated m F producers have allowed us to show this charming film during embarrassment. The Sessions is the remarkable true story of Mark i l F m e The Station's annual film festival in October. O'Brien (John Hawkes), a poet who decides at the age of 38 that he s F t wants to experience sex for the first time in his life. e i v Two Jacks is a comical adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s short story Two s a t i l Hussars , comparing the generational change from father to son The problem is that since an attack of polio at the age of six he’s v 2 a 0 within the same business. been confined to an iron lung except for four hours a day when he l 1 2 3 can be wheeled around, stretched out on a gurney. 0 The fast-paced Hollywood lifestyle, with romance and glamour, | 1 comes alive in Two Jacks ; a now-and-then look at the renowned way Fortunately Mark, a practising Catholic, has a sympathetic, 3 | of living. Legendary film director Jack Hussar (Danny Huston), unorthodox priest (the quirkily likable William H Macy), who helps notorious gambler and womanizer, returns to the LA scene to raise him overcome his religious objections and urges him to “Go for it!” money for his next feature film. Back in LA, Jack walks himself into when sexual therapy is offered as a solution.” an eventful night. Doing what he does best, Jack seduces the Philip French, The Observer stunning Diana (Sienna Miller), attends some wild industry parties, “What might so easily have been embarrassing, titillating or and narrowly escapes a brush with the law, all before playing a patronising is instead tender, nicely life-affirming and wryly, high-stakes poker game at dawn. drily humorous.” As years pass, Jack Hussar Jr. (Jack Huston) later arrives in Angie Errigo, Empire Magazine Hollywood to follow his father’s career path for his directorial debut. “Handled with rare delicacy and blunt, bubbling humour... just see Soon after arriving, Diana (now played by Jacqueline Bisset) notices it. This movie will take a piece out of you.” her daughter falling for her former lover’s son. Within this film Peter Travers, Rolling Stone we see the struggle of a son trying to step out of his father’s Hollywood shadow. "There aren’t many films with this amount of tenderness, gentle humour and – there’s no other word for it – grace." Two Jacks is the fourth Tolstoy short story which has been adapted Chris Tookey, Daily Mail for the big screen by British director and writer, Bernard Rose. It has been chosen by the London Raindance Festival as the closing | | film in this year's programme. 4 5 | | N H a Hannah Arendt No o n | n T h a e h S A t r a e t n 15 | Drama / Biopic 15 | Poignant political drama - but not without humour! i o d n t English and German with subtitles Spanish with English subtitles | F T i l h m e “In the award-winning Hannah “Pablo Larraín’s No S F e t Arendt , the sublime Barbara Sukowa dramatises Chile's Berlin a s t t i reteams with director Margarethe Wall moment in 1988. Under i o v n von Trotta ( Vision, Rosa Luxemburg ) international pressure to a l F for a brilliant new biopic of the legitimise his government, 2 i 0 l m influential German-Jewish but bathing in the support 1 3 F philosopher and political theorist. of a newly prosperous | e s Arendt’s reporting on the 1961 trial of middle and upper-middle t i v ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in The New Yorker – controversial both for class and hugely confident a l her portrayal of Eichmann and the Jewish councils – introduced her of success, General 2 0 now-famous concept of the “Banality of Evil.” Using footage from the Pinochet allowed a 1 3 actual Eichmann trial and weaving a narrative that spans three referendum on whether he | countries, von Trotta beautifully turns the often invisible passion would be allowed another eight years in office. This film dramatises for thought into immersive, dramatic cinema.” the “No” campaign devised by young advertising executive René Zeitgeist Films Saavedra (Gael García Bernal), who decided to stay away from angry political images and instead emphasise an upbeat, almost apolitical “Hannah Arendt conveys the glamour, charisma and difficulty of a vision of happiness and the future. For the dispossessed Chilean certain kind of German thought. Ms. Sukowa, compact and energetic left, merely participating in the Pinochet plebiscite was already a and not overly concerned with impersonation, captures Arendt’s sellout; now this young media type apparently proposed to take fearsome cerebral power, as well as her warmth and, above all, the their resistance to tyranny and sell it like some Pepsi alternative to essential, unappeasable curiosity that drove her... A stirring Pinochet's Coke. The campaign triggers a serious debate about how reminder that the labour of figuring out the world is necessary, much to remember, and how much to forgive.” difficult and sometimes genuinely heroic.” **** Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian A.O. Scott, The New York Times “Funny and rousing, both intellectually and emotionally.” "In an era of sleepwalking surrender, Hannah Arendt is a welcome Manohla Dargis, The New York Times wake-up call, a ringing reminder that warring forces first assemble on the battlefield of conscience.” “A stinging, brutally funny satire of modern politics... that adds up Joe Williams, St Louis Post Dispatch to a lesson on how to defeat a despot with a smile button.” | | **** Peter Travers, Rolling Stone 6 7 | | B W l a Wadjda Blackfish a d c j k d f a i s | h T h | T e h PG | Charming drama with an 15 | Documentary S e t a 11 year-old leading lady | Arabic with English Subtitles English S t t i a o t n i o “Wadjda is the first full-length feature film shot entirely inside “This documentary by F n i l Saudi Arabia, a conservative Islamic country where women are Gabriela Cowperthwaite is as F m i l denied civic freedoms or any public role.