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Need a cheaper mortgage? Call us for your exclusive mortgage offer 01799 521017 BOOK NOW AT THE CINEMA BOX OFFICE, TIC OR ONLINE www.waldencapital.co.uk/mortgages www.saffronscreen.com CINEMA INFORMATION TICKETS FOR ALL FILMS ARE NOW ON SALE DAYTIME Full £6.50; 65 & over £5.60; other adult concessions £5.00; 18 & under £4.20 EVENINGS (films at or after 5pm) Full £7.50; 65 & over £6.70; other adult concessions £5.70; 18 & under £5.40 (£4.00 on Monday nights) CINEMA for TINIES Adults £3.80; Children £2.80; under 2s free THE GOOB SPECIAL EVENTS Please see ticket price information for each event. BLACKMAIL CAPTAIN PHILLIPS See our website for information about eligibility for concession price tickets. Group bookings 11 cinema tickets for the price of 10 (not available online). Tickets are available: WELCOME online at www.saffronscreen.com (booking fee applies) in person from the Box office (opens 30 mins before each screening) We are thrilled to announce four exciting Q&As for the in person from the Tourist Information Centre, Saffron Walden summer months: Barry Ackroyd (one of Britain’s top (booking fee applies) (telephone: 01799 524002, enquiries only). cinematographers) and cameraman Oliver Driscoll telling RECEIVE THE LATEST INFORMATION VIA EMAIL us how they filmedCaptain Phillips, writer-director Guy Myhill with his impressive Norfolk-set debut The Goob, and For weekly film updates, Monday night film notes, or information about actor (and former SWCHS student) Michael Shaeffer with foreign language films, Cinema for Tinies screenings, audio-described films, Road. There will also be a Q&A with composer, films with subtitles, or Special Events, email with the relevant heading to: musician and silent movie guru Neil Brand after the screening [email protected] of Alfred Hitchcock’s silent filmBlackmail with live orchestral FOLLOW US accompaniment in Saffron Hall. We do hope you can join us when we bring the red carpet to Saffron Walden. facebook, , LinkedIn & Instagram twitter.com/Saffronscreen Please note that matinee screenings are at 4pm for the summer months (to allow days in the sun, we hope). Unfortunately we FIND US are not able to offer any midweek matinees this summer as Saffron Walden County High School, Audley End road, there will be substantial, noisy, building work at SWCHS. Saffron Walden, Essex CB11 4UH We have several Special Events in this programme Doors open 30 minutes before screenings. and many more for the Autumn. Check our website Please use the main school entrance and car parks (not the sports hall for full details as we can’t squeeze all the listings into this car park). See our website for detailed information. programme! Details will be coming soon about our ACCESSIBILITY BIG FILM QuIz on Saturday 3 October – so save the date! The cinema is wheelchair friendly and has induction loop facilities. With Subtitled for the hard of hearing Recommended film Cinema for Tinies some films, we are able to offer audio description and subtitles. A large print version of this programme can be supplied on request. Please contact the office for further details. CONTACT US InternatIonal logIstIcs & Email: [email protected] Telephone: 01799 500238 FreIght ForwardIng solutIons Postal address: c/o Saffron Walden Tourist Information Centre, 1 Market Place, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1HR Charity no 1113259 UK, European & Intercontinental Services www.saffronscreen.com Warehousing & Ecommerce Fulfilment Fashion Distribution tel: +44(0)1376 333 000 Printed on certified email: [email protected] and sustainable paper www.delamode-group.com Design: www.design-mill.co.uk Print: Harts Design & Print JULY 2015 JULY 2015

MOOMINS ON MAD MAX: WOMAN IN GOLD THE RIVIERA GIRLHOOD FURY ROAD PITCH PERFECT 2 DANNY COLLINS

CARMEN (12A As Live) Weds 1st 7.20pm MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (15) Fri 10th, Sat 11th & Sun 12th 8pm opera from the ENo – see Special Events pages for details. DIRECTOR George Miller CAST Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne WOMAN IN GOLD (12A) Fri 3rd & Sat 4th 8pm SCREEN TEST Hardy takes the title role in this gloriously bonkers and hugely entertaining post-apocalyptic action adventure which has to be seen on the big screen. DIRECTOR Simon Curtis Max is haunted by his past, without purpose until he stumbles across Furiosa (Theron), CAST , Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Elizabeth McGovern fleeing from Immortan Joe after she rescues his quintet of would-be-brides. Operatic in SCREEN TEST A great performance from Mirren anchors this remarkable and scope and majestic in visual ecstasy, this heralds Miller’s triumphant return to emotional true story, directed by Curtis (My Week with Marilyn). Sixty years after fleeing spectacular cinema. (2015 Aus/USA 120 mins) Vienna as a Jewish refugee, Maria takes the Austrian government to court to recover Gustav Klimt’s iconic painting of her aunt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, plundered by the PITCH PERFECT 2 (12A) Sat 11th & Sun 12th 4pm Nazis. Entertaining and moving. (2015 USA/UK 109 mins) DIRECTOR Elizabeth Banks MOOMINS ON THE RIVIERA (U) CAST , Rebel Wilson, Elizabeth Banks, Hailee Steinfeld th th st nd SCREEN TEST The Barden Bellas are back! Now seniors at college, the a capella group Sat 4 & Sun 5 4pm Sat 1 & Sun 2 Aug 4pm is humiliated by an on-stage mishap in front of the President himself. Desperate to regain DIRECTORS Xavier Picard, Hanna Hemilä their status, they enter the world championships, resulting in a joyfully hilarious set of VOICES Russell Tovey, Tracy Ann Oberman, , Stephanie Winiecki escapades abroad. Elizabeth Banks adds to her credits with the directing duties, showing SCREEN TEST This gorgeous hand-drawn animation will make a new generation great comic timing, and delivering a charming and funny summer hit. (2015 USA 115 mins) fall in love with Tove Jansson’s adorable Moomins. The family decide to leave peaceful Moominvalley for a holiday on the Riviera, where the Snork Maiden and Moominpappa BLACKMAIL (PG) Sun 12th 7pm at Saffron Hall are seduced by their taste of high society. Moominmamma, bewildered by the glitz Experience Alfred Hitchcock’s taut silent thriller on the big screen, perfectly complemented by Neil and glamour, retreats to the beach. A sweet and gentle tale about the simple pleasures Brand’s score, played live by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. (1929 UK 89 mins B&W) of home. (2014 Fin/Fr 77 mins) followed by a Q&A with composer Neil Brand. Tickets: full £10 – £25 18 & under half price www.saffronhall.com CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (12A) Sun 5th 7.30pm DIRECTOR Paul Greengrass PHOENIX (12A) Mon 13th 8pm CAST Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener DIRECTOR Christian Petzold SCREEN TEST We are thrilled to re-screen Greengrass’s pulse-pounding thriller to CAST Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Michael Maertens welcome eminent British cinematographer Barry Ackroyd and first cameraman Oliver SCREEN TEST Writer-director Petzold explores the fragility of identity with this Driscoll to Saffron Screen. This multi-layered dramatisation of the 2009 hijacking of a fascinating story set in post-war Berlin. A beguiling Hoss plays a Jewish singer and US container ship by Somali pirates sets experienced Captain Richard Phillips (Hanks) concentration camp survivor who has undergone facial reconstruction surgery. Suspecting against a young fisherman-turned-pirate. The stunning cinematography and rousing she was betrayed to the Nazis by her husband, she tracks him down – and he no longer score add to the beauty and impact of this impressive film. (2013 USA 131 mins) recognises her. What follows is a tense, layered exploration of impersonation, betrayal followed by a Q&A with Barry Ackroyd and oliver Driscoll. and doubt. (2014 Ger/Pol 98 mins Subtitled) GIRLHOOD (Bande de filles) (15) Mon 6th 8pm EVERYMAN (12A As Live) Thurs 16th 6.50pm DIRECTOR Céline Sciamma Play from the National Theatre – see Special Events pages for details. CAST Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh, Mariétou Touré SCREEN TEST This triumphant third film from French director Sciamma (Waterlilies, DANNY COLLINS (15) Fri 17th & Sat 18th 8pm Tomboy) celebrates the energy and passion of young women and sisterhood. Fed up with DIRECTOR Dan Fogelman her abusive family situation in a grim Parisian tower block, lack of school prospects and CAST Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner, the “boys’ law” in the neighbourhood, 16-year-old Marieme joins a gang of charismatic SCREEN TEST Pacino is on form as ageing 1970s rock icon Danny Collins, who can’t girls with swagger to burn. For better or worse, this empowers her. Smart and defiant, give up his hard-living ways. But when his manager uncovers a 40-year-old undelivered beautifully acted, and with a fabulous soundtrack. (2014 Fr 113 mins Subtitled) letter written to him by John Lennon, he decides to change course and embarks on a journey to rediscover his family, find true love and begin a second act. Irresistibly enjoyable with a top cast and a great Lennon soundtrack. (2015 USA 106 mins) Book online now at: www.saffronscreen.com Full-size screen with the latest digital technology JULY 2015 JULY 2015 TOMORROWLAND: WE ARE MANY SPY A WORLD BEYOND

THE CONNECTION MAN UP JURASSIC WORLD

TOMORROWLAND: A WORLD BEYOND (12A) MAN UP (15) Fri 24th & Sat 25th 8pm Sat 18th & Sun 19th 4pm DIRECTOR Ben Palmer DIRECTOR Brad Bird CAST Simon Pegg, Lake Bell, Ophelia Lovibond, CAST George Clooney, , , Raffey Cassidy SCREEN TEST Nancy (Bell), a chronic singleton, meets Jack (Pegg) at Waterloo SCREEN TEST This energetic retro-futurist adventure from director Bird (The Incredibles) Station on a blind date intended for someone else. They hit it off…but then doubts set kicks off when a bright and curious teenager (an exuberant Robertson), fi nds a badge in. Bell is gloriously charismatic and funny and the fi lm sparks with the couple’s chemistry which can transport her to a futuristic paradise. She meets Frank (Clooney), a former and a snappy script. A , honest London-set rom com. (2015 UK/Fr 88 mins) boy-genius who has also visited the mysterious world, and before long they embark on a (12A) Sat 25th & Sun 26th 4pm danger-fi lled adventure of wonder. Don’t worry about the plot – just enjoy the thrill and JURASSIC WORLD the spectacle! (2015 USA/Sp 130 mins) DIRECTOR Colin Trevorrow CAST Chris Pratt, Vincent D’Onofrio, Bryce Dallas Howard, Judy Greer SHAUN THE SHEEP (U) Sat 18th 4pm SCREEN TEST Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, a new hybrid dinosaur, genetically-engineered in the hope of reversing the decline in visitor numbers, Newport Village Hall – see our website for details. escapes from the dinosaur park with disastrous results. Enjoy action, thrills, envelope- pushing special effects and lots and lots of dinosaurs. (2015 USA 124 mins) RUSH (15) Sat 18th 8pm THE MISFITS (PG) Sun 26th 8pm Newport Village Hall – see our website for details. DIRECTOR John Huston THE JUNGLE BOOK (U) Sun 19th 11am CAST Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach SCREEN TEST In Reno for a quickie divorce, beautiful but troubled Roslyn Taber meets With its fabulous characters, catchy tunes and a big dollop of zaniness, this is the Disney three cowboy drifters who are all drawn to her. The men are the last of a vanishing breed, classic with all the bare necessities! Enjoy the cinema without worrying about noise or like the wild horses they are rounding up to sell for dog food. A perceptive elegy for the wriggling. Generously sponsored by Croucher Needham. (1967 USA 78 mins) Old West: especially poignant because it was the fi nal fi lm appearance of both Gable Cinema for Tinies – Adults £3.80, children £2.80, under 2s free. and Monroe. (1961 USA 122 mins B&W) WE ARE MANY (12A) Sun 19th 8pm THE GOOB (18) Mon 27th 8pm DIRECTOR Amir Amirani DIRECTOR Guy Myhill SCREEN TEST On 15th February 2003, 15 million people took to the streets of CAST Liam Walpole, Sienna Guillory, Sean Harris, Marama Corlett over 800 cities around the world, protesting against the fast-approaching war on Iraq. SCREEN TEST Set over a hot summer in rural Norfolk, this coming-of-age drama Director Amirani talks to everyone from Noam Chomsky to Tony Benn to Colin Powell’s is a confi dent debut for writer-director Myhill. School-leaver Goob is helping in his mum’s aide who now regrets his complicity in the ‘dodgy dossier’. A fascinating and inspiring café and harvesting the local pumpkin fi elds. But tensions simmer with his mother’s documentary about the birth of mass protest in the digital age, both moving and new boyfriend, the aggressive and abusive Gene, and the arrival of transient workers. An important. (2014 UK 110 mins) atmospheric fi lm, contrasting the big skies with the claustrophobia of small-town life. followed by a Q&A with director Guy Myhill. (2014 UK 86 mins) THE CONNECTION (La French) (15) Mon 20th 8pm A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (cert tbc) Thurs 30th 7.30pm DIRECTOR Cédric Jimenez CAST Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, Céline Sallette, Mélanie Doutey Play from the Theatre for a New Audience, Brooklyn – SCREEN TEST A Gallic cousin to William Friedkin’s The French Connection based on the see Special Events pages for details. real-life struggle between police and the gangs smuggling heroin into 1970s Marseilles. st st nd This stylish thriller pits Zampa (Lellouche), the seemingly untouchable crime boss, against SPY (15) Fri 31 , Sat 1 & Sun 2 8pm the newly arrived magistrate Michel (Dujardin, The Artist). His all-consuming obsession DIRECTOR Paul Feig with bringing his quarry to justice brings Michel’s life tumbling around him. Superb CAST Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, Rose Byrne, cinematography and a terrifi c soundtrack. (2014 Fr/Belg 135 mins Subtitled) SCREEN TEST In this hugely entertaining espionage comedy, a frumpy desk-based CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infi ltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer (12A As Live) Weds 22nd 6.50pm and avenge her colleague’s death. The brilliantly funny McCarthy, working again with Bridesmaids director Feig, is terrifi c in this non-stop roller coaster ride of hilarious set pieces Play from the rSC – see Special Events pages for details. and outrageous comedy. (2015 USA 120 mins) Free parking l Wide choice of refreshments Book online now at: www.saffronscreen.com SAFFRON SCREEN DIARY JULY 2015 AUGUST 2015 Wed 1 7.20pm Carmen – ENO Sat 1 4.00pm Moomins on the Riviera (U) Sat 1 8.00pm Spy (15) Fri 3 8.00pm Woman in Gold (12A) Sun 2 4.00pm Moomins on the Riviera (U) Sat 4 4.00pm Moomins on the Riviera (U) Sun 2 8.00pm Spy (15) Sat 4 8.00pm Woman in Gold (12A) Mon 3 8.00pm Timbuktu (12A) Sun 5 4.00pm Moomins on the Riviera (U) Sun 5 Captain Phillips (12A) 7.30pm Fri 7 8.00pm London Road (15) Mon 6 8.00pm Girlhood (15) Sat 8 4.00pm Minions (U tbc) Sat 8 8.00pm London Road (15) Fri 10 8.00pm Mad Max: Fury Road (15) Sat 11 4.00pm Pitch Perfect 2 (12A) Sun 9 4.00pm Minions (U tbc) Sat 11 8.00pm Mad Max: Fury Road (15) Sun 9 8.00pm Queen and Country (15) Sun 12 4.00pm Pitch Perfect 2 (12A) Mon 10 8.00pm Night Train (12A) Sun 12 7.00pm Blackmail (PG) Saffron Hall Sun 12 8.00pm Mad Max: Fury Road (15) Thu 13 7.30pm Fabergé: A Life of Its Own Mon 13 8.00pm Phoenix (12A) Fri 14 8.00pm Mr Holmes (PG) Thu 16 6.50pm Everyman – National Theatre Sat 15 4.00pm Minions (U tbc) Sat 15 8.00pm Mr Holmes (PG) Fri 17 8.00pm Danny Collins (15) Sun 16 4.00pm Minions (U tbc) Sat 18 Tomorrowland (12A) 4.00pm Sun 16 8.00pm Mr Holmes (PG) Sat 18 4.00pm Shaun the Sheep (U) Mon 17 8.00pm The New Girlfriend (15) Sat 18 8.00pm Rush (15) Sat 18 8.00pm Danny Collins (15) Sun 19 11.00am The Jungle Book (U) Fri 21 8.00pm Magic Mike XXL (15) Sun 19 4.00pm Tomorrowland (12A) Sat 22 4.00pm Song of the Sea (PG) Sun 19 8.00pm We Are Many (12A) Sat 22 8.00pm Magic Mike XXL (15) Mon 20 8.00pm The Connection (15) Sun 23 4.00pm Song of the Sea (PG) Sun 23 8.00pm Slow West (15) Wed 22 6.50pm The Merchant of Venice – RSC Mon 24 8.00pm The Salt of the Earth (12A)

Fri 24 8.00pm Man Up (15) Tue 25 8.00pm The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson (15 tbc) Sat 25 4.00pm Jurassic World (12A) Weds 26 6.50pm – RSC Sat 25 8.00pm Man Up (15) Sun 26 4.00pm Jurassic World (12A) Fri 28 8.00pm The Choir (PG) Sun 26 8.00pm The Misfits (PG) Sat 29 4.00pm The Longest Ride (12A) Mon 27 8.00pm The Goob (18) Sat 29 8.00pm The Choir (PG) Thu 30 7.30pm A Midsummer Night’s Dream Sun 30 4.00pm The Longest Ride (12A) Sun 30 8.00pm The Third Man (PG) Fri 31 8.00pm Spy (15) Mon 31 8.00pm Black Coal, Thin Ice (15)

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TIMBUKTU LONDON ROAD QUEEN AND COUNTRY NIGHT TRAIN MAGIC MIKE XXL

MOOMINS ON THE RIVIERA (U) Sat 1st & Sun 2nd Aug 4pm NIGHT TRAIN (Pociag) (12A) Mon 10th 8pm See July for details. DIRECTOR Jerzy Kawalerowicz CAST Leon Niemczyk, Lucyna Winnicka, Teresa Szmigielówna, Zbigniew Cybulski TIMBUKTU (12A) Mon 3rd 8pm SCREEN TEST A sleeper train rockets through the night; among its passengers might DIRECTOR Abderrahmane Sissako be a murderer. Director Kawalerowicz, drawing on his experience of frequent trips to the CAST Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki, Layla Walet Mohamed Baltic to woo his now leading lady Winnicka, uses this set-up to create an intense pressure SCREEN TEST Set in the early days of the jihadist takeover of northern Mali in 2012, cooker of tension. Building to a chilling climax, this is an impressive film which examines with the multicultural city of Timbuktu invaded by militant Islamists, this stunningly shot painful national memories in the guise of a Hitchcockian thriller. film is less interested in violence than in the struggle to rise above it. The local imam (1959 Pol 97 mins Subtitled B&W) calmly argues against the jihadists’ narrow, ultra-orthodox dogma, but he has little (PG) Thurs 13th 7.30pm influence over these religious intruders. A beautiful, tragic portrait of a community FABERGÉ: A LIFE OF ITS OWN under siege. (2014 Fr/Maur 96 mins Subtitled) feature documentary about the famous luxury brand – see Special Events pages for details. LONDON ROAD (15) Fri 7th & Sat 8th 8pm DIRECTOR MR HOLMES (PG) Fri 14th, Sat 15th & Sun 16th 8pm CAST Tom Hardy, Olivia Colman, Kate Fleetwood, Anita Dobson DIRECTOR Bill Condon SCREEN TEST This adaptation of the highly acclaimed National Theatre production, CAST Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Hattie Morahan, featuring the original cast with additional stars, documents the events that shook SCREEN TEST McKellen is superb as a 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes in this new twist Ipswich in 2006 when five sex workers were murdered. Through the words of the on the world’s most famous detective. Retired to the south coast, his intellect and memory inhabitants of London Road, where the women worked, set to an innovative and often have been blunted and he has bitter regrets over events in a case long ago (which we see lighthearted score, we learn how ordinary people came together to cope with the media in flashback). Handsomely shot, this is a gently comic, wise and reflective story. circus that accompanied these events. (2015 UK 92 mins) (2015 UK/USA 104 mins) friday’s screening is followed by a Q&A with actor Michael Shaeffer. THE NEW GIRLFRIEND (Une nouvelle amie) (15) Mon 17th 8pm MINIONS (U tbc) Sat 8th, Sun 9th, Sat 15th & Sun 16th 4pm DIRECTOR François Ozon DIRECTORS Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin CAST Romain Duris, Anaïs Demoustier, Raphaël Personnaz, Isild Le Besco VOICES Chris Renaud, , Jon Hamm, Jennifer Saunders SCREEN TEST Devastated by the sudden death of her best friend, Claire makes a SCREEN TEST The long-awaited animation starring everyone’s favourite yellow promise to watch over Laura’s husband and newborn baby. When she visits the grieving creatures has arrived. Minions like to serve the most despicable of masters. Finding widower, she is shocked to find him dressed in his dead wife’s clothes. A dark comedy themselves without one, three brave Minions embark upon a thrilling journey that based on a Ruth Rendell story that explores issues of love, friendship, gender and sexuality ultimately leads them to their next potential master, Scarlet Overkill, the world’s first-ever with Ozon’s characteristic light touch and subversive wit. (2014 Fr 108 mins Subtitled) female super-villain. (2015 USA 104 mins) MAGIC MIKE XXL (15) Fri 21st & Sat 22nd 8pm QUEEN AND COUNTRY (15) Sun 9th 8pm DIRECTOR Gregory Jacobs DIRECTOR John Boorman CAST Channing Tatum, Amber Heard, Elizabeth Banks, Joe Manganiello CAST Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, Thewlis, Richard E Grant SCREEN TEST Three years after bowing out in unforgettable style as only he could, SCREEN TEST This companion piece to Boorman’s autobiographical 1987 classic Hope Mike returns to stripping for one final tour, joining the Kings of Tampa as they wrap up and Glory follows Bill Rohan, now 19, through the rigours, boredom, petty squabbles and their careers. Relentlessly fun, soaked in sex and showcasing Tatum & co’s tantalising, tiny victories of life in the British Army during compulsory National Service in the 1950s. magic moves, XXL really is bigger and better, and leaves you wanting more. An impressive ensemble cast shine in a funny and moving portrait of post-war . (2015 USA length 115 mins) (2014 Ire/Fr/Rom 115 mins)

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THE SALT OF SONG OF THE SEA THE EARTH THE CHOIR THE LONGEST RIDE

SONG OF THE SEA (PG) Sat 22nd & Sun 23rd 4pm OTHELLO (12A As Live) Weds 26th 6.50pm DIRECTOR Tomm Moore Play from the rSC – see Special Events pages for details. VOICES David Rawle, , Lisa Hannigan, Fionnula Flanagan SCREEN TEST This enchanting and visually stunning hand-drawn animation, steeped THE CHOIR (PG) Fri 28th & Sat 29th 8pm in Irish myth and legend, so adroitly mixes the magical and the everyday that to watch DIRECTOR François Girard it is to be wholly immersed in an enchanted world. It tells the story of Saoirse, the last CAST , Eddie Izzard, Kathy Bates, Garett Wareing seal-child or ‘selkie’, who goes on an epic journey with her brother in order to save the world of magic and discover the secrets of their past. A wonder of breathtakingly gorgeous SCREEN TEST A triumph-over-adversity story in which a troubled and angry 11-year- storytelling. (2014 Ire/Den/Belg/Lux/Fr 93 mins) old from a small Texas town ends up at a boys’ choir school after his alcoholic single mother dies in a car crash. Completely out of his comfort zone, he engages in a battle (15) Sun 23rd 8pm of wills with the demanding choir master (Hoffman) who recognises his unique talent SLOW WEST and pushes him to use his creative genius to the full. An excellent cast and heavenly DIRECTOR John Maclean young voices. (2014 USA 103 mins) CAST Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee, , Caren Pistorius SCREEN TEST In this off-kilter revisionist western, red in tooth and claw and full of THE LONGEST RIDE (12A) Sat 29th & Sun 30th 4pm gallows humour, a woefully unprepared 16-year-old lad from Scotland goes in search of his sweetheart across 1880s Colorado. Fassbender’s bounty hunter offers to help but is DIRECTOR George Tillman Jr not all he seems. Great gunslinging and wide-open spaces stunningly photographed by CAST Britt Robertson, Scott Eastwood, , Jack Huston Robbie Ryan (Wuthering Heights). (2015 UK/NZ 83 mins) SCREEN TEST Art student Sophia is about to embark upon her dream job in New York when she falls for bull-rider Luke. Struggling with their conflicting backgrounds and THE SALT OF THE EARTH (12A) Mon 24th 8pm ambitions, they draw inspiration from a chance encounter with an older man and his memories of a long and happy marriage. A heart-warming story of love, loss and tough DIRECTORS Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado decisions, based on the bestselling novel by . Gorgeous looking, and the SCREEN TEST For over 40 years, Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has cast have real Hollywood pedigree. (2015 USA 128 mins) worked in some of the world’s most hostile and dangerous places. His monumental black and white images are so aesthetically accomplished that they confuse our notion THE THIRD MAN (PG) Sun 30th 8pm of beauty, finding dignity in the most wretched of subjects. Wenders and Salgado’s son tell the life story of this articulate, thoughtful man who has now returned to his family DIRECTOR Carol Reed farm and is helping restore the rainforest. A memorable documentary. CAST Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Alida Valli (2014 Fr/Brazil/It 110 mins Subtitled) SCREEN TEST After extensive restoration this classic atmospheric thriller, once voted the best British film of all time by the British Film Institute, has never looked better. THE ECSTASY OF WILKO JOHNSON (15 tbc) Tues 25th 8pm Arriving in post-war Vienna, pulp-fiction writer Holly Martins learns that the friend who invited him, Harry Lime, has recently died in mysterious circumstances. Fantastic moody DIRECTOR Julien Temple camera work, a by Graham Greene and a show-stealing Orson Welles make SCREEN TEST This inventive and uplifting documentary follows Johnson, formerly this a must-see. (1949 UK 100 mins B&W) guitarist in Dr Feelgood, after he was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer. Given months to live, he chose touring above chemotherapy. The film is full of BLACK COAL, THIN ICE (Bai ri yan huo) (15) Mon 31st 8pm literary, filmic and visual allusions and Johnson is a funny, sharp, literate and honest subject, mostly interviewed in his beloved Canvey Island. A final twist brings him to DIRECTOR Yi’nan Diao Addenbrooke’s for a potentially life-saving operation. (2015 UK 91 mins) CAST Fan Liao, Lun Mei Gwei, Xuebing Wang, Jingchun Wang Live music from 7.30pm. The profits from this screening will be SCREEN TEST This atmospheric neo-noir, which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, presents a stark view of life in early 21st-century provincial China. A donated to Teenage Cancer Trust. divorced ex-cop and his former police partner reopen their investigation into a series of murders that ended their careers in shame five years previously, after identical crimes are committed. Dark humour and moments of visual beauty and inventiveness are weaved into the police procedural. (2014 Ch 110 mins Subtitled)

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CARMEN EVERYMAN OTHELLO

CARMEN (12A As Live) Weds 1st July 7.20pm OTHELLO (12A As Live) Weds 26th Aug 6.50pm Opera broadcast live from . Calixto Bieito’s acclaimed Play broadcast live from the Royal Shakespeare Company. Hugh Quarshie takes production of Bizet’s passionate tale of lust, seduction and betrayal set during the dying the title role opposite Lucian Msamati as . days of Franco’s Spain. Tickets: Full £17.50 Adult conc £15.50 18 & under £9.50 Tickets: Full £20 Adult conc £18 18 & under £12.50 THE BEAUX’ STRATAGEM (12A As Live) Thurs 3rd Sept 6.50pm EVERYMAN (12A As Live) Thurs 16th July 6.50pm Play broadcast live from the National Theatre. George Farquhar’s fi nal play is a Play broadcast live from the National Theatre. stars in this dynamic fabulous carnal comedy about two dissolute young men, seeking to marry for money. new production of one of English drama’s oldest plays, with words by Carol Ann Duffy Tickets: Full £18.00 Adult conc £16.00 18 & under £9.50 and directed by Rufus Norris. ROMEO AND JULIET (12A As Live) Tickets: Full £17.50 Adult conc £15.50 18 & under £9.50 Tues 22nd Sept 7.15pm & Sun 27th Sept 2pm THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (12A As Live) Weds 22nd July 6.50pm Ballet broadcast live (plus encore) from the Royal Opera House. Kenneth MacMillan’s famous version of Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy set to Prokofi ev’s Play broadcast live from the Royal Shakespeare Company. Polly Findlay directs magnifi cent score, starring Sarah Lamb and Rupert Pennefather. Shakespeare’s uncompromising tragedy about a wronged father and despised outsider. Tickets: Full £18.00 Adult conc £16.00 18 & under £9.50 Tickets: Full £17.50 Adult conc £15.50 18 & under £9.50 CORIOLANUS (12A) Thurs 24th Sept 6.50pm A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (cert tbc) Play broadcast from the . Encore broadcast of the compelling Thurs 30th July 7.30pm 2014 production starring , and . Play recorded at The Theatre for a New Audience, Brooklyn in 2014. A visually Tickets: Full £18.00 Adult conc £16.00 18 & under £9.50 breathtaking, funny and sexy production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy from brilliant director Julie Taymor (The Lion King). ROGER WATERS THE WALL (cert tbc) Tues 29th Sept 8pm Tickets: Full £17.50 Adult conc £15.50 18 & under £9.50 Concert fi lm with exclusive ‘in conversation’ with Roger Waters. An immersive concert experience of the classic Pink Floyd album, a road movie of Waters’ reckoning with the FABERGÉ: A LIFE OF ITS OWN (PG) Thurs 13th Aug 7.30pm past and a stirring anti-war fi lm. Feature documentary telling the epic story of the Fabergé name, from Imperial Tickets: Full £15.00 Adult conc £13.00 18 & under £10.00 Russia to the present day, and showcasing the iconic objets d’art, including the fi rst new egg created in almost 100 years. For more information and other events, please see our website Tickets: Full £10.50 Adult conc £9.50 18 & under £5.50 www.saffronscreen.com FILMS COMING SOON MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 45 YEARS – ROGUE NATION

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