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PROGRAMME MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE ROGUE NATION SEPTEMBER 2015 “possibly Britain’s most beautiful cinema..” (BBC) Britain’s Best Cinema – Guardian Film Awards 2014 SEPTEMBER 2015 • ISSUE 126 www.therexberkhamsted.com 01442 877759 Mon-Sat 10.30-6.30pm Sun 4.30-5.30pm COMING OF AGE IN SEPTEMBER 100% Christmas CONTENTS Films At A Glance 16-17 Eat. Drink. Be merry. Find the mistletoe Rants 27 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 A timeless classic and never ending story… Mon to Sat 10.30-6.30 Page 12 Sun 4.30-5.30 FILMS OF THE MONTH SEAT PRICES Circle £9.00 THE KING’S ARMS Concessions £7.50 Table £11.00 OUR HOUSE RULES Concessions £9.50 Royal Box Seat (Seats 6) £13.00 Eat too much Whole Royal Box £73.00 Drink too much All matinees £5, £6.50, £10 (box) Be very merry Disabled and flat access: through the gate on High Street (right of DIARY OF A THE WONDERS Do not diet apartments) TEENAGE GIRL This is a priceless piece of sincere An [18 cert] for a 15 yr old’s tale…? film making. Enjoy a 100% Christmas Director: James Hannaway So stand up tall. Page 13 Page 15 01442 877999 Put the pots and pans away and join us for a festive feast this season. Advertising: Lynn Hendry 01442 877999 We have put together the perfect packages so you don’t need to worry about a thing. Artwork: Demiurge Design 01296 668739 ALL YOU NEED TO DECIDE IS WHO The Rex YOU WANT TO MEET UNDER THE MISTLETOE High Street (Three Close Lane) Berkhamsted, Herts HP4 2FG www.therexberkhamsted.com www.kingsarmsberkhamsted.co.uk PAPER TOWNS MISTRESS AMERICA T 01442 332603 Transcends the usual caricatures, Sharp, fast, witty. Screwball “ Unhesitatingly The Rex well-acted and genuinely comedy with a cool modern twist. The King’s Arms, 147 High Street, Berkhamsted, HP4 3HL charming. Page 21 Page 24 is the best cinema I have ever..” (STimes Culture) SEPTEMBER FILMS 8 THE REX - SEPTEMBER BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 Inside Out With studio politics and stuff you don’t care about, Pixar missed last year. Thankfully in 2015, they have released this much anticipated – Inside Out. Just five ‘emotions’ were chosen to represent in- mind thinking. Joy leads the little fixers in 11-year- old Riley’s head; keeping Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness, more or less under control. Together they manage Riley’s core. But her world turns upside down when the family moves to San Francisco. Directors: Ronnie Del Carmen, Pete Docter New school, new friends etc. Her feelings go Voices: Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Mindy haywire, to the point where Joy is excluded from Kaling, Bill Hader Riley’s mind’s command centre and can’t get back in. Duration: 102 mins Mind-command decides, to get Riley back on track, Origin: USA 2015 Sadness must play her part. (Hmmm?) Certificate: U Being director Pete Doctor’s first project since Monster’s Inc. and UP, it is really all the quality guarantee you need? Unlike Pixar’s rival animation studios, there is a genuine inventiveness beneath the colours and wide-eyed expressions. Inside Out is the most heartfelt and grown up animation since When... UP, (Toy Story, Finding Nemo). Bring those tissues; Sadness and Joy work overtime. (research Jack Tue 1 2.00, 7.30 Whiting) Be aware, apart from the sweet faces and a few gags, little kids (under 6) wont have a clue. Wed 2 2.00 It is a very grown-ups kids cartoon. You decide, but Sat 5 2.00 don’t miss. www.therexberkhamsted.com THE REX - SEPTEMBER 9 Amy Mr Holmes Asif Kapadia provides and unflinching insight into In 1947, an ageing Sherlock Holmes (Ian McKellan) the life and times of the latest iconic sacrifice to returns from a journey to Japan where, in search of the vacuous, self-obsessed world of Pop music. a rare plant with powerful restorative qualities, he When news broke in 2011 of Amy Winehouse had has witnessed the devastation of nuclear warfare. joined the 27 yr old death club, the world mourned Now, in his remote seaside farmhouse somewhere the loss of not only an exceptional voice but another in coastal England, Holmes faces the end of his of music’s tragically troubled characters. days tending to his bees, with only the company of In his extraordinary effort to interview over 80 of his housekeeper (Laura Linney) and her young son Amy’s reluctant family, friends and peers, Kapadia Roger (MiloParker). Grappling with the diminishing manages to assemble not only a rich understanding powers of his mind while searching for answers to of her and undeniably raw talent but, how some of the mysteries of life, Holmes comes to rely upon the those closest to her contributed to her demise. boy as he revisits the circumstances of the unsolved Both charming and heart-wrenching, Amy cherishes case that forced him into reclusive retirement. the soul behind Soul, the heart behind the music. “What makes it progressively more moving is a “It’s a perceptive examination of her need for love complex, multi-layered script and the performance from all those around her and the ways that need from Ian McKellan, which is reminiscent of Victor went unmet, or was exploited, at the times she Sjöström in Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries as needed it most.” (Telegraph) another man looking back on his life.” (Independent) “Heartbreaking and deeply sympathetic.” (Times) “It’s a film to rummage around in, picking up old “Kapadia’s film is steeped in regret and grief over clues, considering their meaning, and turning them what became of its subject and yet it never loses its in your palm.” (Telegraph) eh? sense of awe about what Amy Winehouse achieved.” “The indirect narrative (flashback/forward) is (Independent) Agreeing to do it, Asif didn’t have interesting and McKellen stylishly inhabits the part the best of times trying to get it made, so please both in extreme old age and earlier, in Holmes’s applaud him for making sense of it for us. sleek professional pomp.” (Guardian) And he thoroughly enjoyed the part, as will you. Don’t miss. Director: Asif Kapadia Cast: Amy Winehouse Director: Bill Condon Duration: 128 mins Cast: Ian McKellen, Laura Linney Origin: UK 2015 Duration: 104 mins Certificate: 15 Origin: UK/USA 2015 Certificate: PG When... When... Wed 2 7.30 Thu 3 2.00, 7.30 10 THE REX - SEPTEMBER BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 Southpaw Southpaw or ‘Not Another Clichéd Boxing Drama’ stars an insanely hench and super serious Jake Gyllenhaal as a light-heavyweight champ in the midst of a personal tragedy. Gyllenhaal is as intense as you might expect playing champion bruiser Billy Hope, who has it all, loses it all, then hits that much-slogged Hollywood highway the road to Redemption. Despite some ferociously Scorsese-esque angles in the big showdowns at either end of the film, Southpaw is closer to Rocky than to Raging Bull, with the script (by Kurt Sutter) warming up a stew of clichés. The orphanage upbringing, the devoted wife (Rachel McAdams) the Director: Antoine Fuqua ascetic guru trainer (Forest Whitaker) and the young Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, daughter Billy (Oona Laurence) he must win back… Forest Whitaker “It’s like a 1930s ring melodrama tarted up with Duration: 124 mins lifestyle bling and hyper-professional whoomph, but Origin: USA 2015 it’s essentially bantamweight.” (Guardian) Certificate: 15 Gyllenhaal’s intensity (and physicality) may be too much for some, but director Antoine Fuqua is no stranger to tough yet damaged characters (he got Denzel Washington an Oscar in Training Day) and the boxing hits hard; both in their visual crunch and dramatic heft. But have we seen this all before? When... Time to throw in the towel? (research Jack Whiting) Boxing and the Western have fascinated Hollywood Fri 4 7.30 from the beginning. Sat 5 7.00 The towel is not getting thrown in Jack. www.therexberkhamsted.com THE REX - SEPTEMBER 11 The Chorus Iris This was among our first foreign language “I don’t give a damn about going to the party… miracles-in-film, first at the Rex in the summer of just getting dressed for the party.” So says Iris 2005. It continued a sell-out into the following Apfel, 93, in this spirited documentary about the year and the next and beyond. It remains a most American fashion icon. An interior decorator, style beautiful piece of French film-making returning consultant and darling of the New York art scene, here as part of this year’s back catalogue, in the late she is more than anything a character: a sharp- summer of 2015. talking eccentric with a fascinating array of opinions As a new teacher arrives at a school for disruptive and outrageous wardrobe options whose anecdotes boys, he awkwardly and quite unwittingly, sets cover more than the fashion world (she worked on about changing their lives. A huge success in its design projects at the White House, for one). native France and its (then) newly adopted home Iris explicitly acknowledges an early influence on The Rex, The Chorus is a heart surging tale of an her lifelong need to accumulate from the owner of inspirational teacher and a rag-tag of abandoned a department store who once told her, “You’ll never and stranded children. be pretty, but it doesn’t matter, you have style.” “With the music of Jean-Phillipe Rameau at its heart, Poignantly, this was the last film for the 87 year it is not only a beautiful and warm film to cherish, old director, Albert Maysles (Gimme Shelter and but a celebration of the universal language of song.