May – June 2019 Cine ma 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.