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Pick up your copy of the 2017 Saffron Directory now at the Tourist Information Centre its where people click www.saffrondirectory.co.uk YOUR LOCAL CINEMA A cut above SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER 2017 Your local award winning financial advisers. T. 01799 521 900 W. kmdpwm.co.uk RICHMOND’S COACHES Theatre Trips from Saffron Walden & Newport Stalls or Dress Circle Seats including return coach fare 20 Sep Les Miserables - Matinee £67.50 20 Sep Matilda – Matinee £65.00 27 Sep Crazy For You – Matinee Southend Theatre £52.00 28 Sep Cilla – Matinee Milton Keynes Theatre £55.00 3 Oct Brick Lane Music Hall inc Afternoon Tea £55.00 4 Oct An American in Paris – Matinee £65.00 4 Oct Labour of Love – Matinee (Martin Freeman) £79.00 4 Oct Blood Brothers – Matinee Milton Keynes £50.00 18 Oct Dreamgirls – Matinee £65.00 18 Oct Young Frankenstein – Matinee £55.00 2 Nov Cabaret – Milton Keynes Matinee (Will Young) £55.00 8 Nov 42nd Street – Matinee £59.50 12 Nov Last Night of the Proms – Southend inc meal £66.00 15 Nov Tango Moderno – Milton Keynes Matinee £55.00 16 Nov Motown – Matinee £65.00 19 Nov Classical Spectacular – RAH inc Lunch £89.00 26 Nov Birmingham International Tattoo £49.50 VICTORIA 28 Nov Wicksteed Park Christmas Show inc Lunch £45.00 22 Dec The Nutcracker – London Coliseum £69.00 AND ABDUL 01763 848226 or visit our website www.richmonds-coaches.co.uk BOOK NOW AT THE CINEMA BOX OFFICE, TIC OR ONLINE TO ADVERTISE HERE (CIRC. 22,000) CONTACT: [email protected] www.saffronscreen.com CINEMA INFORMATION TICKETS FOR ALL FILMS ARE NOW ON SALE DAYTIME Full £6.90; 65 & over £6.00; other adult concessions £5.30; 18 & under £4.50; family tickets (2 adults + 2 children or 1 adult + 3 children) £20.00 EVENINGS (films at or after 5pm) Full £7.90; 65 & over £7.10; other adult concessions £6.10; 18 & under £5.70 (£4.30 on Monday nights) CINEMA FOR TINIES Adults £4.00; Children £3.00; under 2s free GOD’S OWN COUNTRY NAPPING PRINCESS THE GRADUATE EVENT CINEMA Please see ticket price information for each event. See our website for information about eligibility for concession price tickets. Group bookings 11 cinema tickets for the price of 10 (not available online). WELCOME Tickets are available: ● online at www.saffronscreen.com (booking fee applies) ● in person from the Box Office (opens 30 mins before each screening) As the nights begin to draw in, we have ● in person from the Tourist Information Centre, Saffron Walden plenty of thrills, fun and fascination to share (booking fee applies) (telephone: 01799 524002, enquiries only). with you, so join us at the cinema. RECEIVE THE LATEST INFORMATION VIA EMAIL We are celebrating many anniversaries: India at 70 with For weekly film updates, Monday night film notes or information about a duet of Indian films – a classic Bollywood drama and foreign language films, Cinema for Tinies screenings, audio-described films, a contemporary study – plus the 50th birthdays of The films with subtitles or Event Cinema, email with the relevant heading to: Graduate and Belle de Jour and Howard’s End at 25. We [email protected] hope you enjoy all of these fine films on the big screen. FOLLOW US Our desire to make the cinema accessible to everyone Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn & Instagram in our community continues with our Dementia-friendly FIND US screenings. These are open to all but particularly aim to Saffron Walden County High School, Audley End Road, welcome people living with dementia and their family, Saffron Walden, Essex CB11 4UH friends and carers. The lights will remain on low and Doors open 30 minutes before screenings. moving around and noise are accepted (particularly Please use the main school entrance and car parks (not the sports hall during the musical numbers!). There will be an interval, car park). See our website for detailed information. tea and biscuits. Please let us know what you think. ACCESSIBILITY We have some keen fans of Japanese anime and are The cinema is wheelchair friendly and has induction loop facilities. With delighted to bring you two fabulous new films in this some films, we are able to offer audio description and subtitles. A large print programme: Napping Princess and The Boy and the Beast. version of this programme can be supplied on request. Please contact the We’ll only be showing these films once so please tell office for further details. your friends – we wouldn’t want anyone to miss them! CONTACT US Email: [email protected] Telephone: 01799 500238 But we start the programme with a celebration of Postal address: c/o Saffron Walden Tourist Information Centre, celluloid and a screening of Dunkirk on 35mm, and the 1 Market Place, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1HR Charity no 1113259 following weekend we will host a very special screening in Saffron Walden’s Town Hall where we will be www.saffronscreen.com recreating Seb’s bar, listening to Joanna Eden sing and screening La La Land. Long live all aspects of cinema! Printed on certified and sustainable paper Design: www.design-mill.co.uk Subtitled (hard of hearing) Recommended film Cinema for Tinies Print: Harts Design & Print SEPTEMBER 2017 SEPTEMBER 2017 FIRE AT SEA THE BEGUILED CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS CITY OF GHOSTS DUNKIRK THE MIDWIFE MAUDIE THE BEGUILED (15) Fri 1st & Sat 2nd 8pm JOHN LE CARRÉ – AN EVENING WITH GEORGE SMILEY th DIRECTOR Sofia Coppola Thurs 7 7.45pm CAST Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning reading and Q&A from the royal festival Hall – see Event Cinema SCREEN TEST The arrival of a handsome and mysterious wounded soldier (Farrell) pages for details. creates ripples of excitement – and danger – among a group of young women living in a boarding school on the edge of an American Civil War battlefield. This atmospheric DUNKIRK (12A) feminist take on the Southern Gothic revenge tale with its superb cast won Coppola (Lost in Fri 8th & Sat 9th 8pm Sun 10th 5pm & 8pm Sat 16th & Sun 17th 5pm Translation) the Best Director prize at Cannes this year. (2017 USA 94 mins) DIRECTOR Christopher Nolan CAST Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Harry Styles CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS: THE FIRST EPIC MOVIE (U) SCREEN TEST In May 1940, Germany advanced into France, trapping Allied troops on nd rd th th rd Sat 2 , Sun 3 & Sat 9 3pm Sun 10 & Sat 23 2pm the beaches of Dunkirk. Under air and ground cover from British and French forces, troops DIRECTOR David Soren were evacuated from the beach using every serviceable naval and civilian vessel. Nolan’s VOICES Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Thomas Middleditch, Nick Kroll gripping film tells this story, interweaving the action on the beach, in the air and at sea, set SCREEN TEST An unexpected treat! This raucously funny animation, based on the to a brilliant score from Hans Zimmer – this has to be seen on the big screen. bestselling book, tells the story of two schoolboy pranksters who hypnotise their headmaster (2017 UK/Neth/Fr/USA 106 mins) into thinking he is a ridiculously enthusiastic, dim-witted superhero, Captain Underpants. Screening in 35mm on Friday 8th September. Chaos ensues. Of course there are plenty of fart jokes, but the film is also a celebration of th friendship and the boundless creativity of children’s minds. Silly, subversive and enormous THE MIDWIFE (Sage femme) (12A) Mon 11 8pm fun for all ages. (2017 USA 89 mins) DIRECTOR Martin Provost Drop in workshop before the screenings on Sat 9th and Sat 23rd. CAST Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Frot, Olivier Gourmet, Quentin Dolmaire SCREEN TEST In this sparkling French drama, Frot plays a sensible midwife whose THE GRADUATE (12A) Sun 3rd 8pm orderly life is thrown into disarray when her late father’s flighty lover (Deneuve) gets in DIRECTOR Mike Nichols touch, thirty years after disappearing without a trace. Despite being opposites in every way, CAST Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, William Daniels the pair develop a friendship. Humour and mischief combine in this enjoyable portrait of two SCREEN TEST Back in cinemas with a new digital restoration, this glorious portrait of women who embrace the need for change. (2017 Fr 117 mins Subtitled) 1960s America still delights half a century on. Directionless graduate Benjamin (Hoffman) DAVID GILMOUR LIVE AT POMPEII Weds 13th 8pm becomes romantically entangled with both the predatory Mrs Robinson (Bancroft) and her daughter Elaine (Ross). This film earned Nichols a Best Director Oscar, introduced the music Concert film from the roman amphitheatre at Pompeii – see Event of Simon & Garfunkel to a wider audience, and featured one of the most famous seductions Cinema pages for details. in movie history. (1967 USA 101 mins) MAUDIE (12A) Fri 15th & Sat 16th 8pm th CITY OF GHOSTS (18) Mon 4 8pm DIRECTOR Aisling Walsh DIRECTOR Matthew Heineman CAST Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Kari Matchett, Zachary Bennett SCREEN TEST When their city was taken over by ISIS in 2014, a group of anonymous SCREEN TEST Hawkins gives a wonderfully heartfelt performance as Maud Lewis who, Syrian activists banded together under the name ‘Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently’ despite crippling rheumatoid arthritis, became one of Canada’s most celebrated artists. and dedicated themselves to informing the world through social media. Award-winning Living with her unsympathetic aunt, she answers an ad for a housekeeper from a local fish filmmaker Heineman (Cartel Land) follows these citizen journalists as they face the realities pedlar (Hawke) and, two social outcasts together, they form a bond. Set against stunning of life undercover, on the run and in exile, risking their lives to expose the horrors of life scenery, this film is an inspiring story of an artist and a moving exploration of the human under ISIS rule.