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Dundead, Dundee’s only horror and cult film festival Contents has always been an audience favourite at DCA and New Films it is fantastic to see the excitement mounting every Amazing Grace 9 year as we prepare to announce the line-up. It Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock & Roll 12 o started in response to a loyal customer’s request Ash Is Purest White 9 Avengers: Endgame 4 l and now, eight years on, is a firm fixture in our Beats 10 programme. We share your enthusiasm for films
l Beth Gibbons and the 12 that scare and delight, and this year’s Dundead Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra selection includes sneak previews, Scottish premieres, Birds of Passage 10 world cinema and our special DCA birthday gift – Eighth Grade 8 High Life 8
e a focus on films made in 1999. There must have Out of Blue 5 been something in the water that year we opened Rafiki 5 because there were so many great titles to choose Red Joan 5 from! For those of you looking for something less Rocketman 11 Styx 6 h nerve-jangling, don’t worry, there are lots of other great films on offer in this guide. Tolkien 11 Vox Lux 6 Wild Rose 4 Luminate returns to our screens having moved Woman at War 7 from its previous autumn slot to May. This year’s programme includes the delicate and beautiful Ága , Doc’n Roll About A Badly Drawn Boy: 13 which follows an older Inuit couple in the wilds of The Story of The Hour of Bewilderbeast Siberia, David Lynch’s classic (tractor) road movie Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records 13 The Straight Story , and a special collection of shorts selected by DCA, which share stories and ideas Art films Artist’s Choice: Fahrenheit 451 14 about what growing older means to all of us. Have You Seen My Movie? 14 The Italian Film Festival is also back, organised Vintage Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to 15 once again by our friends at Filmhouse in Edinburgh. Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Curated by Dr Pasquale Iannone, this year’s selection Saving Private Ryan 15 includes the very best new releases from Italy Diary Pages 16 alongside a classic restoration. Accessible Screenings 18
And finally, documentary filmmaking continues Scottish Encounters to become one of the mainstays of our cinema Final Ascent: The Legend of Hamish MacInnes 19
programme and this edition is no exception. We Performance are delighted to have two opportunities for our Bolshoi: Carmen Suite/Petrushka 20 audience to engage with the creative teams behind Live from the Met: Dialogues des Carmélites 20 these exciting new films with Q&A events taking Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake 20 place throughout the month of May. It is always NT Live: All My Sons 20 a pleasure to see how active and engaged our Discovery Family Film Club audiences are here in Dundee – so please do join Avengers: Endgame 21 us and have your say! The Best of LIAF 2018 21 Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun 21 Alice Black Italian Film Festival 2019 22 –23 Head of Cinema Luminate Ága 24 Additional contributors: Luminate Shorts 25 The Straight Story 25 Michael Coull, Caley McGillvary, Chris O’Neill, Jennifer Phin, Mike Tait Right Now Film Festival 26 Dundead 2019 27 –30
#helloDCA20 3 New Films Wild Rose
Fri 19 April – Thu 2 May
This heart-warming story sees Jessie Buckley ( Beast ) deliver a fierce performance as Rose-Lynn, a young Glaswegian desperate to make it as a country star in Nashville.
Rose-Lynn Harlan (Buckley) has wanted to be a country music star for as long as anyone can remember. But Glasgow isn't exactly Nashville, and as a convicted criminal and single mother, Rose-Lynn’s life is more like a heartbreaking country song than a hit single. Just released from prison, Avengers: Endgame Rose-Lynn lands a new job as a housekeeper for the lovely, and very posh, Susannah (Sophie Okonedo). Fri 26 April – Thu 9 May After catching her singing, Susannah's kids quickly Avengers: Infinity War was a huge hit at DCA last year and become Rose-Lynn's biggest fans and Susannah seemingly did the impossible, bringing together a vast gallery her enthusiastic patron, determined to help her get of superheroes while interweaving storylines that had been in the to Nashville. But Rose-Lynn's dreams come at a making for ten years. Of course, that film was only the first half of cost. Her mother (Julie Walters) has always done Marvel’s blockbuster plan, and after what has felt like an endless what she can to help her daughter realise hers, but wait, the conclusion is finally here. As Doctor Strange intoned she also wants her to take responsibility and act like moments before his (and half the known universe’s) demise, the grownup that her family need her to be. “We’re in the Endgame now.” With a confident hand, director Tom Harper ( War Shot back-to-back with Infinity War, Endgame picks up where the and Peace ) brings Nicole Taylor's beautiful, textured last film left off, with the handful of remaining Avengers licking their script to life. There is so much to enjoy in terms of wounds following their devastating defeat at the bejewelled hand Glasgow locations, toe-tapping tunes and of course, of intergalactic warrior Thanos. With Captain America and team a story that reminds us that taking responsibility assessing the casualties of their terrible battle on Earth, Tony Stark doesn't have to mean giving up hope or our ambitions. is stranded, floating in an abandoned spacecraft with food, water and oxygen running dangerously low. The man who seems to Dir: Tom Harper have an answer (or quip) for every situation looks very much out UK 2018 / 1h40m / 15 of luck. Scrambling to put back together a world that has been left cataclysmically changed, what’s left of Earth’s Mightiest Ciné Sunday Sun 28 April, 11:00 Heroes hatch a last-ditch plan to avenge their fallen friends. Subtitled screening Mon 29 April, 18:45 Bring a Baby Thu 2 May, 10:30 Exactly what fate awaits Thor, Black Widow, Rocket Raccoon et al is anyone’s guess at this point, after Marvel proved with Infinity War that no character is safe from Thanos’ devotion to his cause. Marvel super-producer Kevin Feige has talked about Endgame as drawing a line under the current era of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and with veteran directors the Russo Brothers returning to the directors’ chairs, this is spectacular big-screen entertainment of the highest order.
Dirs: Joe and Anthony Russo USA 2019 / 3h2m / cert tbc Discovery Family Film Club Sat 27 April, 13:00 Relaxed screening Sun 28 April, 10:30 Subtitled screenings Sun 28 April, 19:30 & Mon 6 May, 16:30 Bring a Baby Thu 9 May, 10:30
4 www.dca.org.uk Rafiki Out of Blue Red Joan
Fri 26 – Sun 28 April Mon 29 April – Thu 2 May Fri 3 – Thu 9 May
“Good Kenyan girls become good A homicide detective’s (Patricia Clarkson) The new thriller from renowned British Kenyan wives,” but Kena and Ziki investigation into the shooting of a theatre director Trevor Nunn, Red Joan long for something more. Despite leading astrophysicist destabilizes her casts Judi Dench in a rewardingly the political rivalry between their view of the universe and herself, in the complex role as a retired physicist who families, the girls resist and remain third fiction feature from Carol Morley is revealed to be a long-serving spy for close friends, supporting each other (Dreams of a Life ). Led by Patricia the former Russian KGB. to pursue dreams in a conservative Clarkson, who plays cool-headed society. When love blossoms between detective Mike Hoolihan, the film Adapted by Lindsay Shapero from the them, the two girls are forced to choose draws us into its strange world through bestselling novel by Jennie Rooney between happiness and safety. the musings of its central character. and inspired by the life of British KGB agent Melita Norwood, Red Joan Rafiki made international news after Basing her script on Martin Amis's follows Joan Stanley (Dench), a being banned by the Kenya Film 1997 novel Night Train , Morley delivers seemingly unremarkable retiree who, Classification Board for its promotion a brainy and emotionally satisfying in 2000, is living in a London suburb of lesbianism. Director Wanuri Kahiu crime story driven by an unorthodox - when she is arrested and charged with sued the Kenyan government and character whose investigations mirror providing intelligence to Russia during the ban was lifted for a short time, those of great philosophers. the Cold War. Flashing back to 1938, screening to sell-out crowds in Nairobi. we revisit Joan’s younger self (Sophie In its opening scenes, Out of Blue Cookson) as she takes the first steps We are delighted to bring Rafiki back appears to be a standard police towards becoming a Soviet agent. to DCA for a longer run after its SQIFF procedural, but as it proceeds it (Scottish Queer International Film becomes clear that Morley's film is Bolstered by excellent performances Festival) outing earlier last year. something more. Behind the mystery from both Dench and Cookson, this presented by the murder is the puzzle well-crafted historical thriller seamlessly Dir: Wanuri Kahiu that is human nature itself. transports the viewer into the past and feels especially topical in this time. Kenya 2018 / 1h23m / 12A Dir: Carol Morley Swahili and English with English Dir: UK 2018 / 1h50m / 15 Trevor Nunn subtitles Senior Citizen Kane Club UK 2018 / 1h41m / 12A Thu 2 May, 10:30 Subtitled Thu 9 April, 16:45
#helloDCA20 5 Styx
Fri 10 – Thu 16 May
An unusual and provocative allegory of personal responsibility in the face of the migrant crisis, Styx received glowing reviews from audiences and critics alike at film festivals around the globe including Berlin, where it was awarded the Europa Cinemas Label Prize. Tense from the get go, this film starts out as an absorbing story of endeavour and emerges as a compelling tale of morality and survival.
Successful emergency doctor Rieke (Susanne Wolff) embodies a Western ideal of happiness and achievement. Whilst on holiday, she attempts to fulfil a long-held dream of sailing alone from Gibraltar Vox Lux to Ascension Island in the Atlantic. A very competent sailor, all goes well until she encounters a damaged Fri 10 – Thu 16 May boat overloaded with desperate refugees. Stricken There are those who think Brady Corbet ( The Childhood of a by their plight, she tries her best to help them, but Leader ) is a genuine new cinematic voice and there are those as the situation worsens, she is forced to make a life who wonder if this one-time actor made the right choice to or death decision. move behind the camera. Whichever camp you’re in, there’s no denying that he is talented, with a unique vision to present to the The film’s immersive sound design places the world and the panache to pull it off. Natalie Portman delivers a audience at the centre of the action, with Benedict sensational performance as a pop diva in Vox Lux , an audacious, Beuenfel’s precise photography imbuing even the jaggedly cynical commentary on celebrity culture in America and vast ocean with a sense of claustrophobia. Bolstered a whistlestop tour of two decades of the country’s recent history. by director Wolfgang Fischer’s masterful storytelling and encompassing themes of racism and empathy, In 1999: teenager Celeste (Raffey Cassidy), a survivor of a high Styx is one of this year’s most provocative and school shooting, performs a song composed with her sister gripping dramas. (Stacy Martin) at a memorial for her murdered classmates and in so doing, captures the attention of a manager (Jude Law), who Dir: Wolfgang Fischer sets her on the path to fame. Years later, the now adult Celeste German / Austria 2018 / 1h38m / 12A (Portman, with her own daughter now played by Cassidy) is a Gaga-esque global superstar; but so wounded and jaded by the German and English with English subtitles corporate machinery of the music business that she has become an entirely different animal – a hard-nosed 21st century brand. Burying her neuroses in the toxic excesses of her increasingly artificial world, she is struggling to stage a career rebirth despite personal problems and a scandal that refuses to die.
Corbet is exploring fame as a type of violence, one of many he depicts, and there is rich enjoyment to be had in his study of the contrasts between celebrity and isolation, artifice and art, the nihilistic and the humane. Featuring a magnificent score from the late Scott Walker and songs by Sia, plus arch narration from Willem Dafoe that sets the action at a cool remove, Vox Lux reveals him anew as one of the most dynamic contemporary American filmmakers and offers a stunning showcase for Portman, who evinces a jaw-dropping confidence and élan as Celeste. This is a film that demands the big sound, big screen, immersive experience that only a cinema outing can offer.
Dir: Brady Corbet USA 2018 / 1h58 / 15
6 www.dca.org.uk Woman at War Kona fer í stríð Fri 10 May – Thu 23 May
From Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson, who scored an arthouse hit with 2013’s triumphant Of Horses and Men , comes another pleasingly off-the-wall story that winningly combines an absurdist comedy with a tense thriller. This is an absolute gem of a film – a funny, warm, and moving story about a middle aged woman who has decided to take the global big business threat to her small local community into her own hands with hilarious results. Halla (Halldóra Geirhardsdóttir) seems to lead a quiet and “An absolute gem of a film...” routine existence. But her upbeat exterior hides a secret double life, wherein she also operates as a committed environmental activist. Known to others and in the media only by her alias ‘The Woman of the Mountain’, she is a Joan of Arc-esque figure, armed with an elaborate bow and arrow, dashing across the countryside to vanquish offenders. But as she begins to plan her boldest operation yet, she receives unexpected news – forcing her to choose between her environmental crusade and the chance of fulfilling another, more personal dream.
Playful, touching and funny, Woman at War is confidently and stylishly made, soundtracked by Icelandic folk music (played quirkily by musicians on-screen) as it follows its fierce and appealing heroine as she ponders whether to continue directing her substantial energies out into the world. Many of you will already be aware of the droll sense of humour that infuses the cinema of this small Nordic nation, but if you haven’t experienced it yet, this is the perfect way to find out what you’ve been missing.
Dir: Benedikt Erlingsson France / Iceland / Ukraine 2018 / 1h41m / 12A Icelandic with English subtitles Ciné Sunday Sun 12 May, 11:00 Senior Citizen Kane Club Thu 16 May, 10:30
#helloDCA20 7 High Life
Fri 17 – Thu 23 May
French auteur Claire Denis’s ( Beau Travail , 35 Shots of Rum ) breathlessly-awaited English language debut stars Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche and OutKast’s André Benjamin in a tale of criminals flung into deep space. It’s an idea Denis has been considering for fifteen years, with a screenplay at one time worked on by British novelist Zadie Smith and her husband, poet Nick Laird, and more latterly by Denis’s long-time collaborator Jean-Pol Fargeau.
Pattinson is Monte, a criminal who volunteers for a mysterious Eighth Grade space mission investigating black holes to avoid imprisonment. In a spaceship light years from Earth, accompanied by his baby Fri 10 – Thu 16 May daughter, he’s joined by a gang of fellow crooks, including Boyse In receipt of both substantial buzz and delighted (Mia Goth) and Tch er ny (Benjamin) and the ship’s doctor, Dibs critical acclaim following its Sundance premiere, (Binoche) – who has her own motivations for being aboard, US comedian, actor and writer Bo Burnham’s including carrying out strange sexual experiments amongst coming-of-age comedy-drama Eighth Grade is a the captives as they float through space, further and further heartfelt, painfully funny and unusually clear-eyed from home. look at the trials and tribulations of adolescence. Currently holding an impressive 99% fresh rating Fearless, daring and visually arresting, confounding but richly on Rotten Tomatoes, it has marked the first-time rewarding, High Life is another spectacular artistic achievement director Burnham as a name to watch. from this most versatile of filmmakers, reconfiguring the tropes of sci-fi to create a startlingly fresh and curious take on human The story revolves around 13-year-old Kayla fragility. Rapturously received by critics following its premiere at (brilliantly played by Elsie Fisher) as she struggles Toronto and prompting comparisons to Kubrick and Tarkovsky, through the last week of middle school. A loner, propelled by its soulful stars, this is a masterful sci-fi by Denis, plagued by social anxiety, she channels her creativity who continues to surprise us with each addition to her filmography. and longing for friendship into her online persona, confidently dispensing advice via video blogs. But Dir: Claire Denis nobody watches them, and during her last days of UK / USA / Poland / France / Germany 2018 / 1h53m / 18 eighth grade she becomes determined to connect in real life with the girls who look down on her and the boys who don’t even look at her.
Fisher’s exceptional (and Golden Globe-nominated) performance powers the film, which also benefits from a refreshing lack of artifice: the dialogue is sometimes inane, words are sometimes stumbled over, and the actors evince physical flaws – much as in real life. There is also considerable nuance, with Kayla experiencing moments of joy as well as awkwardness, and an awareness of the different roles teenagers play. Funny, distinctive and touchingly sincere, Eighth Grade is a film for anyone, at any age, who has ever felt a moment of awkwardness while navigating life’s social pitfalls. You are not alone!
Dir: Bo Burnham USA 2018 / 1h34m / 15 Subtitled screening Sun 12 May, 20:30 Bring a Baby Thu 16 May, 10:30
8 www.dca.org.uk Ash Is Purest White
Sun 26 – Thu 30 May
Jia Zhangke’s ( Still Life , A Touch of Sin , Mountains May Depart ) latest is a superb gangster drama that competed for the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2018 and picks up on many of his favourite themes – globalisation, consumerism and their alienating effects on Chinese society – all with an urgent and empathetic eye.
In a bleak industrial city, young dancer Qiao (played by Zhangke’s long-time collaborator and wife Zhao Tao) falls in love with mobster Bin (Liao Fan). When Bin’s ballroom dancing-obsessed boss is killed, he Amazing Grace takes on leadership of the ‘Jianghu’, a brotherhood of honourable criminals. But the old codes of honour Fri 17 – Thu 23 May are out of fashion, and when Bin is attacked by a new generation of gangsters, Qiao is forced to make After years of languishing in rights limbo, this spine tingling a seismic choice. documentary (originally shot by director Sydney Pollack in 1972) that captured the Aretha Franklin recording her gospel album, As with his previous films, Zhangke uses his finally sees the light of day. Despite the decades that have characters as a starting point for what gradually passed, this extraordinary footage, lovingly re-assembled by becomes an incredibly rich, almost novelistic Allan Elliot, shines more brightly than ever. They say that music filmic universe, exploring the past, present and has the power to soothe the soul but Amazing Grace , with its future of a global superpower coming into being raw energy and power, will do that and more – it will make you at unprecedented speed and how these abstract glad to be alive. forces poignantly shape individual lives. Ravishingly photographed by Eric Gautier, Ash Is Purest White Miss Franklin, already a star, recorded her first collection of is utterly transporting and a magisterial work of epic gospel songs live in the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, scope, a fitting addition to Zhangke’s record of 21st accompanied by her band of guitar, bass, and drums (the Atlantic century China and its continuing transformations. Records rhythm section), a church pianist and organist, and the Southern California Community Choir. Over two performances in Dir: Jia Zhangke front of an audience that included celebrities like Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts alongside ordinary folk, the album was created. China / France / Japan 2018 / 2h1m / 15 Dressed in flowing robes, Franklin barely says a word when she’s Mandarin with English subtitles not singing. What words there are come from the charismatic Rev. James Cleveland, a bear of a man with a voice to match, and her father Rev. C.L. Franklin. There are no interviews, no small talk, no testimonials – the focus here is on Franklin and her songs, drawn from the canon of gospel.
Amazing Grace will be a revelation for newcomers to gospel music or Aretha Franklin, the late great goddess of soul. Shot with handheld cameras, there is an intimacy to this archival footage, allowing you to bear witness to the extraordinary spiritual power of music. Transcendent and joyful, we fully understand if you are moved to get out of your seat, stand up and give thanks or shout praise, because that’s exactly how we felt too.
Realised by: Alan Elliot USA 2019 / 1h27m / U Ciné Sunday Sun 19 May, 11:00 Senior Citizen Kane Club Thu 23 May, 10:30 Bring a Baby Thu 23 May, 10:30
#helloDCA20 9 Birds of Passage
Fri 31 May – Thu 6 June
Exploring the rise and fall of rival Wayuu clans in northern Colombia, the latest film by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra ( Embrace of the Serpent ) is an unexpected take on the cartel genre. Blending professional and non-professional actors, trappings of Western influence, and exquisite, colourful Wayuu attire, this is a fascinating tale of Shakespearean proportions.
In the late 1960s, the Wayuu tribe observe a strict code of familial tradition and sacred ritual. Outsider Rapayet (José Acosta) has his sights set on marrying Zaida (Natalia Reyes), the daughter of the clan’s formidable matriarch, Ursula (Carmiña Martínez). Unable to afford Zaida’s extravagant dowry, Rapayet and his friend Moisés (Jhon Narváez) meet up with some hippie Peace Corps volunteers who want to buy marijuana. Upgrading from selling coffee to Beats dealing drugs allows Rapayet to afford the dowry, and his new criminal path is set. Ursula becomes Fri 24 – Thu 30 May complicit in her son-in-law’s shady dealings and the humble tribe gradually builds a ruthless empire in the A universal story of friendship, rebellion and the irresistible power desert. But as everyone’s wealth increases, so too of gathered youth set to an eclectic and electrifying 1990s rave does Moisés’ ego and when he targets Raphayet’s soundtrack, Beats is a bittersweet coming-of-age story from cousin’s clan, a rapid downward spiral ensues. Scottish director Brian Welsh ( In Our Name ), executive produced by Steven Soderbergh and selected to screen at Rotterdam A far cry from the familiar South American gangster International Film Festival. Developed from Kieran Hurley’s thrillers, co-directors Guerra and Gallego boldy original one-man stage play, Welsh has turned the material into sidestep traditional genre storytelling, opting instead a film about a time, a place and a friendship that manages to for a sprawling exploration of family conflict and be universal and yet delightfully Scottish. tribal warfare. Having worked beautifully with a steely black-and-white palette on their previous collaboration, The year is 1994 and as the Tory government’s Criminal Justice this mystical meditation on colonialism, tribalism and Bill cracks down on rave culture , we meet our heroes: two gawky modernism positively explodes with colour. West Lothian teenagers, techno-head Jonno (Cristian Ortega) and Spanner (Lorn Macdonald). Best pals at school but from Dirs: Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra two very different social backgrounds, their paths in life look set to diverge. As tension between them grows, both young men Colombia / Denmark / Mexico / France know that this is probably the end of an era and possibly their 2018 / 2h / 15 friendship. When word travels of an upcoming underground protest rave, it seems like an ideal chance for one last hurrah and celebration of all they’ve been through together.
Comparisons with Trainspotting are inevitable, but shot in luminous black-and-white, counterpointing the grittiness of the inner city with the vivid delights of club culture, Beats is a rollicking buddy movie with its own unique spirit – both exuberant and nihilistic – that will definitely give Generation X-ers a vivid trip down memory lane.
Dir: Brian Welsh UK 2018 / 1h36 / 18 Ciné Sunday Sun 26 May, 11:00
10 www.dca.org.uk Tolkien Fri 31 May – Thu 6 June
The much anticipated biopic about J.R.R. Tolkien was first rumoured of being in production back in 2013. Finally realised by director Dome Karukoski (Tom of Finland ) Tolkien explores the circumstances that shaped a young man into becoming the author of the world's most famous fantasy novels.
The film begins with young orphans John Ronald Reuel (J.R.R.) Tolkien (Nicholas Hoult) and his brother Hilary, who are taken under the wing of Father Francis Xavier Morgan (Colm Meaney). Clearly very Rocketman bright, J.R.R. wins a place at a local grammar school, where he forms a life-long ‘fellowship’ with a group Fri 24 May – Thu 6 June of fellow outcasts, the secret Tea Club and Barrovian The recent Oscar-winning success of Bohemian Rhapsody , Society. Tolkien’s devotion to his friends is matched the biopic of rock legend Freddie Mercury, sets the bar high for only by his love of languages and his growing Rocketman , a similar tale of mould-breaking musical success attachment to Edith Bratt (Lily Collins), the beautiful against the odds, this time spotlighting the early years in the girl who distracts him from his studies. But like career of Elton John. But the omens are good – the unforgettable so many of their generation, all their lives would music, an outstanding star turn by Taron Egerton as Elton and be irrevocably changed by the onset of the First the safe directorial hands of Dexter Fletcher, who brought us World War. The Proclaimers’ musical Sunshine On Leith and served as uncredited director for Bohemian Rhapsody after the original Much like Goodbye Christopher Robin (the recent director stepped down. film about A.A. Milne and his son) Tolkien doesn’t shy away from the writer’s dark wartime experiences Claiming to be ‘based on a true fantasy’, the key moments in the and how this trauma played a role in his creative transformation of Reginald Kenneth Dwight into Elton Hercules work, inspiring 1937’s The Hobbit ; a mythology John are all here. The 1970 residency at the Troubadour club in expanded exponentially with 195 4–1955’s The LA, the 1975 Dodger Stadium appearances, the duet with Kiki Lord of the Rings novel trilogy, along with several Dee, the footwear, the drugs, the flamboyance, the hidden supplemental stories. relationships, the marriage to Renate... The film promises to be more uncompromising than Bohemian Rhapsody – Elton John Dir: Dome Karukoski is reported to have said that nothing should be off-limits – with USA 2019 / 1h52m / 12A personal lows presented alongside career highs. Ciné Sunday Sun 2 June, 11:00 Having previously performed Elton John’s I’m Still Standing in Subtitled screenings Sun 2 June, 18:15 and the animated musical Sing , in this film Taron Egerton effortlessly Mon 3 June, 15:30 provides all the vocals – a remarkable achievement in itself, and Senior Citizen Kane Club Thu 6 June, 10:30 one that has already received rapturous applause from Elton Bring a Baby Thu 6 June, 10:30 John (and over two million views of their performance of Tiny Dancer on YouTube). Egerton is given outstanding support throughout by a cast including Jamie Bell ( Billy Elliot , Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool ) as Bernie Taupin, Elton’s lyricist and writing partner, and Richard Madden ( Bodyguard , Game Of Thrones ) as John Reid, Elton’s manager and lover. In what is a very busy time for Elton – his farewell tour, his autobiography, the live-action version of The Lion King – Rocketman could provide more glitter for his sparkling career to date.
Dir: Dexter Fletcher UK / USA 2019 / duration tbc / cert tbc Senior Citizen Kane Club Thu 30 May, 10:30 Bring a Baby Thu 30 May, 10:30
#helloDCA20 11 Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock & Roll
Wed 22 May, 20:30
This is the story of the long troubled town of Asbury Park and how the power of music can unite a people divided. A once storied seaside resort, Asbury Park suffered a race riot on Independence Day, 1970, crippling the town for the next 45 years and reducing it to a state of urban blight. A town literally divided by a set of railroad tracks, the riot destroyed the fabled Westside jazz and blues scene but from the flames of the burning city emerged Bruce Springsteen and the fabled Jersey sound.
Asbury Park returns Asbury denizens Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt and Southside Johnny Lyon to the legendary Upstage, the psychedelic after hours club where they got their start. Shuttered for four and a half decades, the Upstage remains a perfect time capsule of the Club which united both sides of the tracks in Asbury and acted as a crucible for young talent. Beth Gibbons and the As part of the event, Springsteen, Van Zandt and Polish National Radio Southside Johnny play a now legendary concert to a sold out Paramount Theater and trade guitar Symphony Orchestra licks with the future of music in Asbury, a group of Fri 31 May, 20:45 11-year-old rockers who prove the best days for the town may just lie ahead. We’re thrilled to bring you Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) performed by Beth Gibbons Dir: Tom Jones (Portishead) and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, USA / 2h10m / cert tbc conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki.
The performance took place at The National Opera Grand Theatre in Warsaw on November 29th 2014, and was part of an evening of programming that also featured Jonny Greenwood's (Radiohead) 48 Responses To Polymorphia and the world premiere of Bryce Dessner's (The National) Réponse Lutosławski . Following an invitation to collaborate at the concert, Beth Gibbons undertook an intense preparation process, including tackling the challenge of learning the original text (and the emotional weight it carries) without speaking the mother language. Typical to Beth though - the elusive yet iconic frontwoman of one of the most important British bands of the last two decades - the challenge was met and exceeded. Her performance alongside the maestro Penderecki has been hailed as triumphant, as you can see on this concert film. The film was produced by the National Audiovisual Institute, Poland and directed by Michał Merczy ski. ń Dir: Michał Merczyński 2018 / 51m / recommended cert U
12 www.dca.org.uk Lights, camera, music! We’re thrilled to be screening two films from Doc'n Roll Scotland, the Music Documentary Film Festival entertaining music lovers and documentary aficionados alike.
About A Badly Drawn Boy: The Story of The Hour of Bewilderbeast Sat 18 May, 20:15
An in-depth feature film all about the boy himself, Damon Gough, and the legacy of his Mercury Prize winning album The Hour of Bewilderbeast , 19 years after its original release in 2000. Damon talks about his musical upbringing, the mix tape cassettes his mother made him, the first record he bought and the first concert he attended. The story continues with Damon meeting his future creative collaborator and business partner Andy Votel and how together they founded the Twisted Nerve record label in Manchester in the late 1990s.
Dir: Craig McNeil UK 2018 / 1h35m / cert tbc
DCA is excited to welcome director Craig McNeil to present his film and take questions from the audience after the screening. The Q&A will be hosted by journalist and broadcaster Jim Gellatly.
Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records Fri 17 May, 20:15
Rudeboy is a film about the love affair between Jamaican and British youth culture told through the prism of one of the most iconic labels in the history of black music, Trojan Records. Combining compelling dramatisations of key chapters in the story, along with archive and interview footage, it tells the story of the label by placing it at the heart of a cultural revolution that unfolded on the council estates and dancefloors of late 60s and early 70s Britain, as immigration and innovation transformed popular music and culture.
Dir: Nicolas Jack Davies UK 2018 / 1h25m / cert tbc
#helloDCA20 13 Collage Film Artist’s Choice Fahrenheit 451 Sun 19 May, 15:30
François Truffaut’s grossly underrated adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 suffered from a fraught production. The director didn’t speak English and clashed badly with his leading man, Oscar Werner. Yet the end result is still remarkably compelling.
Ironically, in his defence of the written word, Truffaut and his cinematographer, Nicolas Roeg, produced some of the most memorable visuals of the director’s career. These combine with the slightly stilted line delivery and detached performances to create a terrifyingly sterile future, in which all books are destroyed and the imagination is fettered by a constant barrage of televised information.
This film was chosen by artist David Austen to coincide with his exhibition Underworld , at DCA Galleries until Sun 9 June.
Dir: François Truffaut UK 1966 / 1h42m / 12A
Have You Seen My Movie? Sun 5 and Mon 6 May
Paul Anton Smith, who worked with Christian Marclay on The Clock , has crafted a beguiling feast for all film fans, lovingly compiling from scenes in which characters go to the cinema in classic films.
Have You Seen My Movie? is an enthralling montage of magical moments of cinema-going extracted from movie history exploring the entire film-going experience: underage boys attempting to get into a cinema to see some bare flesh; pretentious debates in the queues; loading choc ices into trays, and of course the trailers and the main feature. Films from every genre play as lovers meet, criminals hide in the dark, and rapt audiences watch on. Witness how the industry works, with red carpet premieres and stars appearing in iconic scenes. Selected from titles too numerous to mention, there are favourites from the Golden Age of Hollywood, Italian Neorealism, British cinema classics and much more, all seamlessly brought together to resonate with our own emotional memories of the cinema.
Dir: Paul Anton Smith UK 2016 / 2h16m / 15
14 www.dca.org.uk Vintage Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Mon 27 and Thu 30 May
Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (to give it its magnificent full title) is the blackest of black comedies. A hysterical (in both senses of the word) examination of Cold War paranoia, the film satirises the idea that Mutually Assured Destruction (which is not called MAD for nothing) would deter the prospect of nuclear war.
Peter Sellers stars in a trio of roles as RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, President of the United States Merkin Muffley and the eponymous Dr Strangelove; three men who can possibly save the world. The planet is under threat from total thermonuclear annihilation, unleashed when Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper launches a covert nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. Dr. Strangelove is a political satire with a serious message: when a situation is this terrifying and ridiculous, all you can do is laugh in the Saving Private Ryan f a c e o f a p o c a l y p s e .
Fri 31 May, 20:45 The film will be preceded by a special new short film commissioned for this re-release: Stanley Kubrick 6th June 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the Considers The Bomb , which takes us inside the mind of date when more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along one of the greatest film directors of all time. Produced and a 50-mile stretch of French coastline to fight back against directed by Matt Wells with contributions from those who Nazi Germany in the Second World War. To coincide with knew Kubrick best, including Katharina Kubrick, Jan this significant anniversary, we are presenting a new 4K Harlan (Kubrick’s Executive Producer and brother-in-law) remastered edition of Saving Private Ryan . and journalist and author Eric Schlosser, the film considers Released in 1998, Saving Private Ryan earned five how he responded to society’s widespread concern Academy Awards – including Best Cinematography for about nuclear war and transformed it into his irreverent Kami ski and Best Director for Spielberg – and quickly comic masterpiece Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to becamńe regarded as one of history’s greatest and most Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb . influential historical dramas. Featuring an all-star cast led by Tom Hanks and Matt Damon with Bryan Cranston, Dir: Stanley Kubrick Tom Sizemore and Ted Danson, it depicts the gripping USA 1971 / 1h49m / 15 story of American soldiers battling their way across German-occupied France to find a soldier whose brothers have all been killed in combat – earning him a ticket home. Their quest starts after surviving the harrowing D-Day invasion of Normandy. This stunning opening sequence – the storming of Omaha Beach seen in graphic, brutal detail – instantly set the tone for a gritty, realistic drama that also succeeds as an intimate character study.
Saving Private Ryan will never look better thanks to this 4K digital remaster, giving you the chance to commemorate this special anniversary in our cinema.
Dir: Steven Spielberg USA 1998 / 2h49m / 15
#helloDCA20 15 Key Bring a Baby Senior Citizen Kane Club Performance Screening Discovery Family Film Club Subtitled Ciné Sunday Relaxed Screening
Day / Film Times Day / Film Times Fri 26 April Sat 4 May Wild Rose 13:00/18:30 Avengers: Endgame 13:00/16:30/20:15 Avengers: Endgame 13:00/15:30/19:30 Red Joan 13:00 Rafiki 16:30/20:45 The Hole in the Ground 15:30 Far From the Apple Tree 18:00 Sat 27 April Knife + Heart 20:00 Wild Rose 13:00/18:30 The Blair Witch Project 22:15 Avengers: Endgame 13:00 /15:30/19:30 Rafiki 16:30/20:45 Sun 5 May A Clockwork Orange 11:00 Sun 28 April Avengers: Endgame 13:00/16:30/20:15 Wild Rose 11:00 /13:15/18:00 Phantasm 13:45 Avengers: Endgame 10:30 /14:00/15:30/ 19:30 Have You Seen My Movie? 15:45 Rafiki 20:30 Level 16 18:30 Those Who Deserve To Die 20:45 Mon 29 April Wild Rose 13:00/ 18:45 Mon 6 May Avengers: Endgame 13:00/15:30/19:30 Avengers: Endgame 13:00/ 16:30 /20:15 Out Of Blue 16:30/21:00 Red Joan 13:00/15:30/20:45 Have You Seen My Movie? 18:00 Tue 30 April Wild Rose 13:00/18:45 Tue 7 May Avengers: Endgame 13:00/15:30/19:30 Avengers: Endgame 13:00/16:30/20:15 Out Of Blue 16:30/21:00 Red Joan 13:00/15:30/18:00 This is Home 20:30 Wed 1 May Wild Rose 13:00/18:45 Wed 8 May Avengers: Endgame 13:00/15:30/19:30 Avengers: Endgame 13:00/16:30/20:15 Out Of Blue 16:30/21:00 Red Joan 13:00/15:30/18:00 Crime + Punishment 20:30 Thu 2 May Out of Blue 10:30 Thu 9 May Wild Rose 10:30 /13:00/16:30 Luminate Shorts 10:30 /19:15 Avengers: Endgame 13:00/15:30/19:00 Avengers: Endgame 10:30 /13:00/16:45/20:15 Extremely Wicked, 20:30 Red Joan 14:30/ 16:45 Shockingly Evil and Vile The Lonely Ballad of Thomas Reid 20:45 Ring 22:45
Fri 10 May Fri 3 May Styx 12:45/17:00 Avengers: Endgame 13:00/16:30/20:15 Woman at War 13:00/18:00 Red Joan 13:00/15:30 Eighth Grade 15:00/19:00 The Dead Center 18:00 Vox Lux 15:15/20:30 Werewolf 20:15 The Truth About Killer Robots 21:00 eXistenZ 22:15
16 www.dca.org.uk Day / Film Times Day / Film Times Sat 11 May Sun 19 May Woman at War 12:45/18:00 Amazing Grace 11:00 /18:00 Peppa Pig Festival of Fun 13:00 High Life 13:00/20:45 Styx 15:00 Woman at War 13:00/18:45 Eighth Grade 15:30/20:30 Artist’s Choice: Fahrenheit 451 15:30 Live from the Met: 17:00 Bolshoi: Carmen Suite/Petrushka 16:00 Dialogues des Carmélites Extremely Wicked, 21:00 Vox Lux 21:00 Shockingly, Evil and Vile
Sun 12 May Mon 20 May Peppa Pig Festival of Fun 10:30 Woman at War 13:00/18:00 Woman at War 11:00 /13:15/18:00 Amazing Grace 13:00/20:30 Styx 13:00/18:00 Extremely Wicked, 15:30/18:00 Shockingly, Evil and Vile Vox Lux 15:30/20:30 Ága 15:30 High Life 15:45/20:45 Eighth Grade 20:30 Tue 21 May Woman at War 13:00/18:00 Mon 13 May Woman at War 13:00/18:00 Amazing Grace 13:00/15:30/20:45 Eighth Grade 13:00/18:00 High Life 15:45/20:45 Vox Lux 15:15/20:30 Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake 18:00 Styx 15:30/20:30 Wed 22 May Tue 14 May Woman at War 13:00/18:00 Woman at War 13:00 Amazing Grace 13:00/15:30/18:00 Eighth Grade 13:00/20:30 High Life 15:45/20:45 Vox Lux 15:15 Asbury Park: 20:30 Riot, Redemption, Rock & Roll Styx 15:30/18:00 NT Live: All My Sons 19:00 Thu 23 May Amazing Grace 10:30 /10:30 /13:00 Wed 15 May 15:30/18:00 Woman at War 13:00/18:00 Woman at War 13:00/18:00 Vox Lux 15:15/20:30 High Life 15:45/20:45 Eighth Grade 13:00/18:00 Extremely Wicked, 20:30 Styx 15:30/20:30 Shockingly, Evil and Vile
Thu 16 May Fri 24 May Woman at War 10:30 /13:00/18:00 Rocketman 13:00/15:30/18:00/20:30 Eighth Grade 10:30 /13:00/20:45 Beats 13:00/15:30/20:30 Vox Lux 15:15/21:00 Daughter of Mine 18:00 Styx 15:30 Final Ascent: 18:00 Sat 25 May The Legend of Hamish MacInnes Rocketman 13:00/15:30/18:00/20:30 London International 13:00 Fri 17 May Animation Festival Woman at War 13:00/18:00 Beats 15:30/20:30 Amazing Grace 13:00/15:30/18:00 Lucia’s Grace 18:00 High Life 15:30/20:30 Rudeboy: 20:15 Sun 26 May The Story of Trojan Records London International 10:30 Animation Festival Beats 11:00 /16:00/20:30 Sat 18 May Rocketman 13:00/18:15/20:45 Woman at War 13:00/15:30 Ash Is Purest White 13:15 High Life 13:00/20:30 The Straight Story 15:30 Amazing Grace 15:30/18:00 The Vice of Hope 18:00 Extremely Wicked, 18:00 Shockingly Evil and Vile About A Badly Drawn Boy 20:15 #helloDCA20 17 Day / Film Times Day / Film Times Mon 27 May Sat 1 June Rocketman 13:00/15:30/18:00 Rocketman 13:00/18:00/20:30 Beats 13:00/15:30/20:30 Birds of Passage 13:00/20:30 Magical Nights 18:00 Tolkien 15:30/18:00 Dr. Strangelove 20:30 The Conformist 15:30
Tue 28 May Sun 2 June Rocketman 13:00/15:30/20:45 Tolkien 11:00 /15:45/ 18:15 Beats 13:00/15:30/20:30 Birds of Passage 13:00/15:30/20:30 Euphoria 18:00 Rocketman 13:15/18:15/20:45 Ash Is Purest White 18:00 Mon 3 June Wed 29 May Rocketman 13:00/18:00/20:30 Rocketman 13:00/15:30/18:00/20:30 Birds of Passage 13:00/15:30/20:30 Beats 13:00/15:30/18:00 Tolkien 15:30 /18:15 Ash Is Purest White 20:15 Tue 4 June Thu 30 May Rocketman 13:00/18:00/20:30 Rocketman 10:30 /10:30 /13:00 Birds of Passage 13:00/15:30/20:30 15:30/20:30 Tolkien 15:30/18:15 Beats 13:00/18:00/20:30 Ash Is Purest White 15:00 Wed 5 June Dr. Strangelove 18:00 Rocketman 13:00/18:00/20:30 Birds of Passage 13:00/15:30/20:30 Fri 31 May Tolkien 15:30/18:15 Rocketman 13:00/18:00 Birds of Passage 13:00/15:45 Thu 6 June Tolkien 15:30/18:00 Tolkien 10:30 /10:30 /15:30/18:15 Saving Private Ryan 20:45 Rocketman 13:00/18:00/20:30 Beth Gibbons and the 20:45 Birds of Passage 13:00/15:30/20:30 Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Accessible Screenings Relaxed Screenings Audio description is available on all screenings of We’re pleased to bring you three Relaxed Screenings Wild Rose , Red Joan , Avengers: Endgame , in this Guide: Eighth Grade and Tolkien. Avengers: Endgame The following films are subtitled: Sun 28 April, 10:30
Avengers: Endgame Peppa Pig Festival of Fun Sun 28 April, 19:30 and Mon 6 May, 16:30 Sun 12 May, 10:30
Wild Rose London International Animation Festival Mon 29 April, 18:45 Sun 26 May, 10:30
Red Joan Tickets: £4 Thu 9 May, 16:45
Eighth Grade Sun 12 May, 20:30
Tolkien Sun 2 June, 18:15 and Mon 3 June, 15:30
18 www.dca.org.uk Scottish Encounters
Scottish Encounters is a strand in our programme that gives local audiences the opportunity to see new work from emerging Scottish screen talent, from shorts to features and from documentary to fiction. Each screening will also provide a chance to meet the people behind the work. Final Ascent: The Legend of Hamish MacInnes Thu 16 May, 18:00
The legend of Hamish MacInnes began early. At 16 he climbed the Matterhorn. At 17 he built his first motor car – from scratch. He attempted Everest in 1953 with his friend Johnny Cunningham, and almost stole the peak before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. As an explorer, expedition leader and engineer he achieved world fame. As inventor of the all metal ice axe, author of the International Mountain Rescue Handbook and founder of Glencoe Mountain Rescue he has been responsible for saving hundreds of lives, if not thousands.
But at the age of 84, MacInnes’ accomplishments could not save him from being institutionalised against his will, suffering from delirium. After a spell in psychogeriatric detainment in a hospital in the Highlands of Scotland, during which he made many escape attempts – he emerged to find his memory gone. This film tells the story of his life by mirroring his greatest challenge: to recover his memories and rescue himself.
Dir: Robbie Fraser UK 2018 / 1h23m / cert tbc
We’re delighted to welcome director Robbie Fraser to DCA cinema to present his film and answer questions from the audience afterwards.
Screened in partnership with Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival.
#helloDCA20 19 Performance
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake
Live from the Met: NT Live: All My Sons Dialogues des Carmélites T u e 14 May, 19:00 Sat 11 May, 17:00 Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field ( Steel Magnolias , Brothers & Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads Sisters ) and Bill Pullman ( The Sinner , Independence Day ) Poulenc’s masterpiece. As the French Revolution star in Arthur Miller’s blistering drama All My Sons . begins, shy Blanche, sung by mezzo-soprano Isabel America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder Leonard, becomes a novice nun under an elderly knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. They prioress – Met legend Karita Mattila. Blanche’s have built a home, raised two sons and established a aristocratic family flees the Terror, but she remains thriving business. But nothing lasts forever and their behind, struggling between her fear of the guillotine contented lives, already shadowed by the loss of their and her duty to the convent. When the nuns are eldest boy to war, are about to shatter. With the return expelled from the convent and threatened with death, of a figure from the past, long buried truths are forced Blanche must make an agonising decision. to the surface and the price of their American dream is laid bare. Tickets £20 Students and under 21s £12 Tickets £17.50 Students and under 21s £15
Bolshoi: Matthew Bourne's Carmen Suite/Petrushka S wan Lake Sun 19 May, 16:00 Tue 21 May, 18:00
Carmen is as passionate and free-spirited as ever as she Matthew Bourne’s thrilling, audacious and witty Swan finds herself caught in a love triangle... The passionate Lake is perhaps still best known for replacing the female one act ballet by Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso corps-de-ballet with a menacing male ensemble, which was originally conceived for legendary Bolshoi prima shattered convention, turned tradition upside down and ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, and will captivate audiences took the dance world by storm. Retaining the iconic alongside Petrushka , a new creation for the Bolshoi by elements of the original staging loved by millions around contemporary choreographer Edward Clug, in an the world, Matthew Bourne and award-winning designers evening encapsulating the soul of Russian Ballet. Lez Brotherston (Set & Costumes) and Paule Constable (Lighting) have created a spellbinding re-imagining of Tickets £17.50 this classic production, filmed live at Sadler’s Wells Theatre. Students and under 21s £15 Full Bolshoi season package £98 Tickets £17.50 Four ballet package £58 £15 students and under 21s
20 www.dca.org.uk DISCOVERY FAMILY FILM CLUB Tickets are £5 for under 21 s/ £6 for 21 and overs, and a family ticket for four costs £19. Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Avengers: Peppa Pig: London International Endgame F e stival of Fun A n i m a t i on Festival – Sat 27 April, 13:00 Sat 11 May, 13:00 The Best of LIAF 2018
Picking up where last year’s Avengers: It’s hard to believe, but this is the Sat 25 May, 13:00 Infinity War left off, we finally now 15th year we have been jumping in have the conclusion to that story, as muddy puddles with Peppa Pig and The London International Animation the Avengers try to regroup and save all her friends. To celebrate we have Festival is an annual animation the day after their crippling defeat this brand-new collection of ten festival founded in 2003 that takes by the mighty Thanos. With Captain ‘never before seen’ episodes in an place at the Barbican Centre in America and co. assessing the hour-long special of piggy hilarity... London in November and December. casualties of their terrible battle For the past few years we have been on Earth, Tony Stark is stranded, We’ll see all our favourite characters fortunate to be able to screen their floating around the cosmos in an dance in the mud at a children’s annual collection of the best abandoned spacecraft with his food, festival, help Grandpa Pig celebrate animations for younger audiences, water and oxygen supplies running his birthday with a trip out to a and once again there are some dangerously low. Scrambling to put restaurant and go to the cinema to absolute treasures to be found! back together a world which has see Super Potato’s brand new film. been left cataclysmically changed, Along the way we’ll be invited to There’ll be talking animals, seriously what’s left of Earth’s Mightiest join in to play and sing along with fun adventures and wondrous tales Heroes hatch a last-ditch plan to the onscreen antics. to spark those little imaginations. confront Thanos once again and Meet charismatic characters and The newest release of Peppa’s avenge their fallen friends. encounter amazing tales such as cinema adventures offers an hour the man whose job it is to make Exactly what fate awaits Thor, Black of snorts and giggles, with songs sure each new day starts on time, Widow, Rocket Raccoon et al is to sing along to and games to join a Japanese boy who unexpectedly very much anyone’s guess at this in with. It’s perfect for pre-schoolers catches cat flu and how you should point, after Marvel proved with and all the family to have fun with never take gravity for granted. Infinity War that no character is safe Peppa and all her friends! from Thanos’ dogged devotion to And who says animation is just for his cause. This is spectacular, Dirs: Neville Astley, Mark Baker, children, anyway? These films will unmissable big-screen entertainment Joris van Hulzen, Sarah Roper appeal to the whole family! of the highest order. UK 2019 / 1h8m / U Dirs: Various Relaxed Screening Dirs: Joe and Anthony Russo Various countries 2017 –2018 / Sun 12 May, 10:30 USA 2019 / 3h2m / cert tbc 60m / Age 8+ Relaxed Screening Relaxed Screening Sun 26 May, Sun 28 April, 10:30 10:30 #helloDCA20 21 Italian Film Festival
Daughter of Mine Lucia’s Grace The Vice of Hope Figlia mia Troppa grazia Il Vizio della Speranza Fri 24 May, 18:00 Sat 25 May, 18:00 Sun 26 May, 18:00
Laura Bispuri’s transgender-themed In Gianni Zanasi’s sun-kissed, Edoardo De Angelis’ fourth feature 2015 feature Sworn Virgin was one Viterbo-set comedy, acclaimed unfolds in the infamous, eerily of the most groundbreaking Italian Tuscan actress Alba Rohrwacher dilapidated coastal town of Castel debuts of the past decade and the plays Lucia, a mild-mannered land Volturno (around 20 miles north of director makes an eagerly-awaited surveyor in her mid-30s and single Naples) which has for several years return with a Sardinian-set story of mother to a teenage daughter. While been the site of violent clashes a 10-year-old girl’s relationship with out working one day, Lucia is visited between Italian and migrant crime her biological and adoptive mothers. by a remarkable vision that makes gangs. The story centres on Maria Bispuri elicits fully committed her question both her profession (Pina Turco), a young woman performances from Valeria Golino and her beliefs. involved in the trafficking of and Alba Rohrwacher (the latter surrogate mothers. Built around in particular fully embracing the Zanasi is known for his keen eye a powerful performance by Turco, unbridled physicality of her role) for the quirks of provincial life and De Angelis’ film also features an and the idyllic, wind-swept Sardinian in Troppa grazia , this is combined evocative soundtrack by acclaimed locations are captured with earthy, effortlessly with an unmistakably Neapolitan singer and multi- hand-held immediacy by Director of dream-like air. instrumentalist Enzo Avitabile. Photography, Vladan Radovic. Dir: Gianni Zanasi Dir: Edoardo De Angelis Dir: Laura Bispuri Italy 2018 / 1h50m / 15 Italy 2018 / 1h36m / 18 Italy Germany Switzerland 2018 Italian with English subtitles Italian with English subtitles 1h37m / 15 Italian with English subtitles
Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI¹s Film Audience Network, and funded by Creative Scotland and Lottery funding from the BFI.
22 www.dca.org.uk Scotland’s annual celebration of the best in Italian cinema returns with an exciting, wide-ranging selection from the past 12 months. This year’s programme blends a variety of genres and styles, spanning the length and breadth of the peninsula. The Italian Film Festival is programmed by Dr Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh).
Magical Nights Euphoria The Conformist Notti magiche Euforia Il conformista Mon 27 May, 18:00 Tue 28 May, 18:00 Sat 1 June, 15:30
After his first foray into English- One of Italy’s biggest international Set in the 1930s, Bernardo language filmmaking with 2017’s stars, Valeria Golino has been a Bertolucci’s adaptation of Alberto The Leisure Seeker , director Paolo familiar face in both Italian and Moravia’s 1951 novel tells the story Virzì returns to Italy for a delightfully Hollywood cinema since the early of Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis cinephilic, fast-paced comedy- 1980s, with roles in films ranging Trintignant), a Fascist agent tasked drama set during one of the most from Barry Levinson’s Rain Man to with murdering his old University stirring moments in the country’s Sean Penn’s The Indian Runner professor, Luca Quadri (Enzo recent history – its hosting of the and Mike Figgis’ Leaving Las Vegas . Tarascio), an anti-fascist living in 1990 World Cup Finals. After noted In her sleek, Rome-set second exile in Paris. Characteristically film producer Leandro Saponaro feature film as director, Golino daring in its approach to both (Giancarlo Giannini) is found dead in explores the fraught relationship sexuality and politics, the film’s the Tiber the night Italy are knocked between two very different brothers, non-linear narrative, combined with out of the competition by Argentina, the wealthy, flamboyant Matteo its supremely elegant and often a trio of young aspiring screenwriters (Riccardo Scamarcio) and Ettore expressionist audio-visual style, are rounded up as suspects. (Valerio Mastandrea), an unassuming has influenced generations of teacher from the provinces. filmmakers, from Francis Ford Dir: Paolo Virzì Coppola and Martin Scorsese to Italy 2018 / 2h5m / 15 Dir: Valeria Golino the Coen Brothers. Italy 2018 / 1h55m / 15 Italian with English subtitles Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci Italian with English subtitles Italy France West Germany 1970 1h53m / 15 Italian with English subtitles
#helloDCA20 23 Luminate Scotland’s creative ageing festival Luminate is Scotland’s creative ageing festival, with a range of events scheduled at arts venues all over the country throughout May. Learn more online at luminatescotland.org Ága Sun 12 May, 15:30
In this visually spectacular love story, set in the Arctic, an isolated couple must deal with a changing way of life while yearning for their estranged daughter.
In the snowy Northern wilderness, one of the coldest places on Earth, couple Nanook and Sedna live isolated from the rest of humanity. Each day for them is a difficult one, as their traditional way of life erodes, and the environment becomes more and more unpredictable with the ice melting earlier each year. Around them animals die inexplicable deaths, and reindeer, once plentiful, are barely seen. Despite these tough circumstances, Nanook and Sedna take pleasure in telling each other stories of legend, in sharing their dream encounters, and in recalling the exploits of their ancestors. Their only connection to the outside world is Chena, who visits them regularly, and updates them on their estranged daughter, Ága, who left to work in a diamond mine. Sedna longs to see her daughter again, despite Nanook’s stubborn refusal. Eventually, a long journey ensues in the hope of a reunion.
Lazarov and his superb cinematographer Kaloyan Bozhilov take full advantage of the dramatic snowy landscape in this captivating tale of a disappearing way of life, generational conflict and an enduring love
Dir: Milko Lazarov Bulgaria / Germany / France 2018 / 1h36m / Recommended 15+ In Yakut with English subtitles
24 www.dca.org.uk Luminate Shorts Thu 9 May, 19:15
We have gone all around the world to bring you these short but perfectly formed films which touch on the issues we all face as we grow older. This collection includes films which beautifully explore the theme of an 'ordinary' life lived well including the Oscar nominated animation Late Afternoon and the Australian home movie memoir The Life I’ve Lived . Two documentaries explore the importance of community, one in a unique retirement community for LGBTQ+ in Spain ( Visibles ) and the other, a group of extraordinary quilters in a small rural town in Alabama ( While I Yet Live ). Rounding out this programme, you will meet two women (in Outdoors and What’s A Bloody Terabyte ) who irreverently challenge our stereotypes of growing older and might just inspire you to look at the world in a different way.
Dir: Various USA 1953 / 1h58m / 12+ Senior Citizen Kane Club Thu 9 May, 10:30
The Straight Story Sun 26 May, 15:30
Based on the true story of Alvin Straight, a 73 year-old man who drove 240 miles across Iowa and Wisconsin on a lawnmower to visit his ailing estranged brother, The Straight Story offers a genuinely charming and quirky variation on the formula of the great American road movie. Anchored by a flawless, Oscar-nominated performance by 79 year-old character actor Richard Farnsworth, The Straight Story also offers one of cinema’s most extraordinary portraits of older age. Alvin may be thoroughly independent, decent and dignified, but he is also stubborn, flawed, and haunted by the past; and it is this refusal to sentimentalise its main character that makes The Straight Story so beautiful.
Dir: David Lynch USA / 1999 / 1h47m / U
#helloDCA20 25 The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid
Right Now Film Festival
Right Now Film Festival returns to independent cinemas across the UK from 6 –12 May with a programme of five feature-length documentaries. These films explore the motives and truths behind global systems and address the unjust balances of power happening in the world right now. Find out more at www.rightnowfilmfestival.org
This Is Home Crime + Punishment Tue 7 May, 20:30 Wed 8 May, 20:30
Only twenty-one thousand Syrian refugees out of five Amidst a landmark class action lawsuit over illegal million have been accepted into the United States since policing quotas, Crime + Punishment chronicles the 2011. This is Home follows four families sent to resettle remarkable efforts and struggles of a group of black and in Baltimore in 2016. They have just eight months to find Latino whistleblower cops and the young minorities they jobs, learn English, and become self-sufficient. The are pressured to arrest and summons in New York City. clock starts right when they land. Halfway through the process, President Trump issues a travel ban on all Dir: Stephen Maing refugees from Muslim-majority countries, and suddenly their lives, and the safety of loved ones still trapped in USA 2018 / 1h52m / cert tbc Syria, become all the more perilous...
Dir: Alexandra Shiva USA 2018 / 1h31m / cert tbc
The Lonely Battle of The Truth About Killer Robots Thomas Reid Fri 10 May, 21:00
Thu 9 May, 20:45 As technology develops even beyond the imagination of science-fiction writers, filmmaker Maxim Pozdorovkin Irish farmer Thomas Reid lives a solitary life on the (Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer ) considers three recent robot - fringes of mainstream society. But beyond the walls of inflicted deaths and asks, when a robot kills a human, his 18th century farm looms a vast American factory who takes the blame? The multinational companies that owned the giant US microchip manufacturer Intel – create and own this new workforce want us to believe and now they want his land. When government agents the robots are here to help – but the threat to humanity seek to forcibly purchase his home in the name of is deeper than simply the future of work. pro-business economic progress, he vows to resist. Dir: Dir: Feargal Ward Maxim Pozdorovkin Ireland 2017 / 1h16m / cert tbc USA 2018 / 1h25m / cert tbc
26 www.dca.org.uk Sensational scares await at Dundead, Dundee’s Horror Film Festival, returning with fresh previews, a world premiere, and some creepy classics from 1999 for DCA’s 20th Birthday. See everything (all 13 films and our film quiz) and get yourself a Dundead t-shirt, limited edition print, and Ciné Sunday breakfast to sustain you through the terror, all for £80. A little afraid to see it all? Choose a six-film pass for £42 and take home a t-shirt too!
Extremely Wicked, The Dead Center Werewolf (Preview) Shockingly Evil (Preview) Fri 3 May, 20:15 And Vile (Preview) F r i 3 M ay, 18:00 During the chaotic aftermath of the Second World War, eight children are Thu 2 May, 20:30 A ‘John Doe’ is declared dead and liberated from a concentration camp his body stored in the morgue, but he Ted is a handsome, smart, charismatic and placed in a makeshift orphanage, disappears. While a medical examiner it is an abandoned palace surrounded and affectionate man. Liz is a single begins his search for the missing mother, cautious, but smitten with by forestry. As the youngsters begin cadaver, the unidentified man is to adjust to this new life it becomes Ted. A picture of domestic bliss, the discovered alive in a catatonic state two seem to have it all figured out. apparent that they are once again in and sent to a psychiatric ward. danger: Several guard dogs from the That is until Ted is arrested and Dr. Daniel Forrester (Shane Carruth, charged with a series of increasingly camp are roaming the forests looking Upstream Color ) is called to keep for food and have become feral out grisly murders. As concern turns to him under surveillance in an attempt paranoia, Liz is forced to consider of starvation. The children find to get some answers. The man themselves under siege but will do how well she knows the man she eventually starts talking, telling Daniel shares a life with and, as the evidence what needs to be done to survive. that he has come back from the dead Due to the sensitive yet unflinching piles up, decide if Ted is truly a victim, and believes he's brought something or actually guilty as charged. Based direction and the strong performances evil with him. The Dead Center takes of the young actors, Werewolf is on the shocking true story of one its time to build its suspense and of America’s most notorious serial never as gruelling nor as distasteful there is a credible realism to the as one might expect. This film packs killers, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly hospital setting which makes the Evil and Vile is a gripping and an emotional punch that resonates otherworldly qualities seem even for a long time afterwards. fascinating film which is anchored more outlandish. The results are a by an excellent central performance thoughtful, compelling and rewarding Dir: Adrian Panek by Zac Efron as Ted Bundy. horror film. Poland The Netherlands Germany Dir: Joe Berlinger Dir: Billy Senese 2018 / 1m28m / cert tbc USA 2019 / 1h48m / 15 USA 2018 / 1h33m / cert tbc Polish, German and Russian with English subtitles
#helloDCA20 27 The Hole In Far From Knife + Heart The Ground The Apple Tree (Preview) Sat 4 May, 15:30 (Preview) Sat 4 May, 20:00 Sarah wants to build a new life on Sat 4 May, 18:00 In the summer of 1979, Parisian the fringes of a backwood rural town filmmaker Anne (Vanessa Paradis) with her young son Chris. A terrifying Sorcha Groundsell plays Judith, a makes third-rate gay porn movies encounter with a mysterious neighbour budding young artist who has been featuring her motley crew of actors. shatters her fragile security, throwing given the offer of a life time – the After her editor and lover Lois leaves Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of opportunity to live and learn from her, she tries to win her back by paranoia and mistrust, as she tries renowned occult artist, Roberta shooting her most ambitious film to uncover if the disturbing changes Roslin (Victoria Liddelle). In exchange yet. But when Anna’s cast are being in her little boy are connected to an for cataloguing and archiving Roberta's targeted by a masked killer, she finds ominous sinkhole buried deep in visual archive Judith will be trained, herself drawn into an investigation the forest that borders their home. moulded and prepared for her first that turns her life upside-down. Met with overwhelmingly positive solo exhibition. Judith soon realises Following the acclaimed You and reactions from critics and audiences however that there is more to the Night , the latest film by Yann alike after its world premiere at this Roberta's offer than she initially Gonzalez is a deliriously crazy, ultra- year’s Sundance Film Festival, The thought as she discovers a mysterious stylish and blood-soaked riffing on Hole In The Ground is the assured woman hidden within the archive – the Italian Giallo genre with influences debut of Irish filmmaker Lee Cronin. Roberta's missing daughter who from Brian De Palma ( Dressed To Kill ) With strong performances by Seána bears a striking resemblance to and William Friedkin ( Cruising ). Shot Kerslake, James Quinn Markey and herself. Far From The Apple Tree is on 35mm film and featuring a music James Cosmo, it is a film worthy of a modest and creepy psychological score by M83, Knife + Heart is a the hype. thriller, using a mixture of digital, unique cinematic experience. 16mm film and analogue video formats to startling effect while Dir: Lee Cronin Dir: Yann Gonzalez backed by an atmospheric score Ireland 2019 / 1h30m / 15 by Rose McDowall and Shawn France Mexico Switzerland 2018 Pinchbeck. 1h50m / 18 French and Spanish with English Dir: Grant McPhee subtitles UK 2019 / 1h30m / cert tbc
28 www.dca.org.uk Level 16 (Preview) Those Who Deserve To Die Sun 5 May, 18:30 (World Premiere) The latest feature film from director Danishka Esterhazy is Sun 5 May, 20:45 a dystopian prison drama with a feminist slant which has been compared to The Handmaid’s Tale and Black Mirror . Back in 2014 the Dundead Film Festival hosted the British 16-year-old Vivien (a notable performance from Katie premiere of The Unwanted , a Southern Gothic retelling of Douglas) is trapped in The Vestalis Academy, a prison-like Sheridan Le Fanu's vampire story Carmilla . We are now boarding school, keeping to herself, until she is reunited delighted to present the International premiere of Bret with Sophia (Celina Martin), the former friend who Wood’s latest feature, which is based on a novella by betrayed her. Together the girls embark on a dangerous Thomas de Quincey. Those Who Deserve To Die is an search to uncover the horrifying truth behind their unhinged and unconventional tale of revenge: a series imprisonment. Soon running for their lives, the girls of vicious murders are taking place, each performed with must save themselves or die trying. Through a slow- military precision, yet the killer is reluctant. It is the ghost burning and calculated build up, Esterhazy confidently of a vengeful 10-year-old guiding him to act, and she will creates and sustains suspense throughout. not be denied. This violent and nihilistic thriller is not for the faint hearted. Dir: Danishka Esterhazy Dir: Bret Wood Canada 2018 / 1h42m / 15 USA 2019 / 1h39m / cert tbc Classics
Ciné Sunday: Phantasm A Clockwork Orange Sun 5 May, 13:45 Sun 5 May, 11:00 “If this one doesn't scare you – YOU'RE ALREADY DEAD!” warned the posters for Phantasm , a runaway A Clockwork Orange is a harrowing journey through a independent success back in 1979 that has gone on to near-future world of decaying cities, murderous punks garner a huge cult following and four sequels. In a small and nightmarish technologies. It centres on a young thug American town a teenage boy, his older brother, and their called Alex who undergoes an experimental treatment to friend Reggie get sucked into investigating the weird condition him against violence, to make him 'safe' to activities taking place at the Morningside Mortuary. There wider society. Stanley Kubrick’s depiction of a dystopian is a silver sphere draining blood from its victims' heads, Britain was hugely controversial, with tabloid newspapers a demon with an evil energy of its own and the sinister and court cases citing the film as the inspiration for force of the Tall Man. The results are a film of spine- several crimes, which led to the film being suppressed tingling entertainment! in the United Kingdom for almost 30 years. Dir: Don Coscarelli Dir: Stanley Kubrick USA 1979 / 1h29m / 15 UK USA 1971 / 2h17m / 18 #helloDCA 29 DCA20 Horror of 1999
Ring Existenz The Blair Witch Thu 2 May, 22:45 Fri 3 May, 22:15 Project An international box office smash when The near future: eXistenZ is the Sat 4 May, 22:15 originally released, Ring was one of ultimate game, brainchild of Allegra the leading films in the J-Horror Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Once Three budding film students hiked movement of the late nineties which downloaded via a bioport implanted into Maryland’s Black Hills Forest to spawned numerous sequels and, into the players spine, eXistenZ shoot a documentary on the local inevitably, an American remake promises an experience that will legend, The Blair Witch. They were series. Dundead presents the film that shatter forever the line between never heard from again. One year started it all, which has been digitally fantasy and reality. But during a later, their footage was found, remastered from the original negative. closed-door demonstration a crazed documenting the trio’s five day A mysterious video has been linked assassin attempts to kill Allegra, journey through the forest and to a number of inexplicable, near- forcing her to run for her life. Her sole capturing the terrifying events that simultaneous deaths. It is rumoured ally is a young public relations agent led to their disappearance. A cultural that the tape is supernaturally cursed: (Jude Law) and together they seek phenomenon when it was originally as soon as anyone has watched it, refuge in the only place the gaming released, with a marketing campaign the telephone rings and the viewer goddess feels safe – the world where that convinced millions that the has exactly a week to live. When an existence ends and eXistenZ begins. events depicted in the film were true, inquisitive journalist finds the video eXistenZ sees David Cronenberg The Blair Witch Project was the 10th and views it herself, she sets in doing for gaming and virtual reality highest grossing film of 1999 and motion a chain of events that puts what he did with sex, violence and single-handedly spawned the found her own life in danger. Prepare for video cassettes in Videodrome and footage horror genre. Dundead will an unforgettable experience! the results are surreal, humorous be screening it from an original 35mm and undeniably fun. print, preserving the gaudy video- transferred-to-celluloid imagery as Dir: Hideo Nakata audience experienced it on opening Dir: David Cronenberg Japan 1999 / 1h36m / 15 night. Canada 1999 / 1h37m / 15 Japanese with English subtitles Dirs: Eduardo Sanchez, Daniel Myrick USA 1999 / 1h21m / 35mm / 15
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