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The Danish Girl February 2016 THE DANISH GIRL FEBRUARY 2016 “possibly Britain’s most beautiful cinema..” (BBC) Britain’s Best Cinema – Guardian Film Awards 2014 FEBRUARY 2016 • ISSUE 131 www.therexberkhamsted.com 01442 877759 Mon-Sat 10.30-6.30pm Sun 4.30-5.30pm Try ourWe’re delicious HERE new for menu a perfect designed pre-theatre by supper BEST IN FEBRUARY chef . Jane’s credits include the DeliciousJane Collins dishes freshly prepared, and featuring local, Waterside Inn, Bray, Marco Pierre White’s seasonal produce Belvedere and, most recently, The Clarendon. FeaturingBring along local yourduck, ticketfine Hertfordshirefor a 15% discount steaks on our à la and home-madecarte breads. menu between 5pm & 7pm As ever, we’re open from morning till late from CONTENTS Monday to Saturday and Films At A Glance 16-17 for an expanded Obits 23 Awards 24-25 Brunch and roast lunch on Sundays. BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 Le Mépris Mon to Sat 10.30-6.30 Brigitte Bardot: the template for every future dirty pout Sun 4.30-5.30 Page 12 SEAT PRICES FILMS OF THE MONTH Circle £9.00 Concessions £7.50 Table £11.00 Concessions £9.50 Royal Box Seat (Seats 6) £13.00 Whole Royal Box £73.00 All matinees £5, £6.50, £10 (box) Disabled and flat access: through the gate on High Street (right of apartments) Grandma When Harry Met Sally Lily Tomlin storms the screen Valentines: fabulous one liners, Director: James Hannaway without a single dirty pout fake org, no pouts 01442 877999 Page 12 Page 13 Advertising: Lynn Hendry 01442 877999 Artwork: Demiurge Design 01296 668739 The Rex High Street (Three Close Lane) Berkhamsted, Herts HP4 2FG BERKHAMSTED www.therexberkhamsted.com To book a table call 01442 300870 The Assassin The Sea Inside HERE Café Bar, 28-30 Lower Kings Road, Berkhamsted HP42AB Beautiful, stunning, fast and Exquisite, timeless, heart lifting/ “ Unhesitatingly The Rex furious. Don’t miss breaking. Unforgettable. Don’t miss is the best cinema I have Page 14 Page 20 www.here.co.uk ever..” (STimes Culture) FEBRUARYOCTOBER FILMSFILMS 8 THE REX - FEBRUARY BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 The Lady In The Van As with The History Boys, Nicholas Hytner has adapted a stage hit for the big screen from his time as the artistic director of the National Theatre. The Lady in the Van sees Maggie Smith reprise the role she first played in the 1999 stage production of the Alan Bennett play. She is Miss Shepherd, who lived in a van on the driveway of Alan Bennett’s north London home between 1974 and 1989. If the set looks authentic, that’s because the film is shot on location on the same Camden Town road in Director: Nicholas Hytner Bennett’s real house. Cast: Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings Bennett is simultaneously irritated, kindly and Duration: 104 mins secretly delighted to have such a rich and pungent Origin: UK 2015 source of material on his doorstep. Miss Shepherd’s Certificate: 12A mysterious past, her fear of policemen and the Company: Columbia Pictures Corporation Ltd rumour that she was a pianist or a nun, all fascinate him. The excellent Alex Jennings plays two versions of Bennett the literary observer and the participant. When... “I live, you write, that’s how it works,” says Bennett to Bennett. Mon 1 2.00 “This is a lavish gift of a role for Ms Smith. She makes this hardy troglodyte a tottering, staggering Sun 7 6.00 force of nature, determined to owe nothing to Tue 9 2.00 anybody.” (Telegraph) www.therexberkhamsted.com THE REX - FEBRUARY 9 Star Wars: The Force Awakens ‘In JJ we trust’ has become a well-known motto since Abrams, together with Disney, took on the responsibility of bringing back Star Wars from the burnt wreckage left by George Lucas. The Empire may have fallen, but from its ashes rises a new threat in the form of the First Order (think space Nazis), led by the mysterious Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) a man obsessed with continuing Darth Vader’s legacy. Fin, a startrooper (John Boyega) abandons his post, hoping there’s more to life than Director: J. J. Abrams a white plastic suit and flees to a desert wasteland Cast: Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, John where he meets young scavenger Rey (Daisy Ridley). Boyega, Andy Serkis, Max von Sydow Together with a fabulously greyer Han Solo (Harrison Duration: 135 mins Ford) and Chewie they uncover a secret war that is Origin: USA 2015 brewing between this sinister order, and a band of Certificate: 12A resistance fighters, led by General (Princess) Leia Company: Walt Disney Studios (Carrie Fisher). This JJ Abrams’ The Force Awakens brings balance to Lucas’s preposterous prequels. No one was When... expecting to see another Star Wars film, let alone one that reunites Luke, Han, and Leia. It is a good Mon 1 7.30 Sat 13 2.00 time to be alive. (research Jack Whiting) The Rex’s Tue 2 2.00 Mon 15 2.00 own Lisa Tomblin, is JJ’s chosen Head of Hair dept. Alongside everyone’s, she is responsible for Princess Tue 2 7.30 Wed 17 2.00 Leia’s classic, edgy new look. Sat 6 2.00 Sat 27 2.00 10 THE REX - FEBRUARY BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 Bridge Of Spies Joy In 1957, the US and Soviet Union were in the David O Russell’s (Silver Linings Playbook) spin height of the Cold War. Not a war of bloodshed and on the rags-to-riches biopic opens with the line: trenches; this was a war of spies. Both sides needed ‘Inspired by stories of brave women.’ Joy is loosely to know the nuclear capabilities of the other… based on the life of Joy Mangano (Jennifer Lawrence) We meet Jim Donovan (Tom Hanks) a lawyer who is the Long Island single mum who in the early 1990s recruited by the CIA to defend a Soviet spy, Rudolf invented the self-wringing Miracle Mop and became a Abel (Mark Rylance) much to the dismay of his shopping channel superstar. family and disdain of his country. Just as the case Joy has a supremely dysfunctional family. Her mother turns, and by a twist of fate, it becomes irrelevant, Mimi (Virginia Madsen) is bed-bound and spends her but not so the verdict. Suddenly, it is international days watching soap operas on TV. Her divorced father, spy exchange time. The Soviet Abel for a US spy- Rudy (Robert De Niro) shares the basement with her plane pilot, Gary Powers, recently shot down over own ex-husband Tony (Edgar Ramirez) a would-be Russia. This is the latest in a run of collaborations nightclub singer whose career has never amounted between Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, beginning to anything. with Saving Private Ryan in 1998. This Bridge does Joy’s moment of inspiration comes when she shreds not disappoint, with some saying it is their best her hands while trying to clean up shards of broken partnership yet. glass on the deck of the yacht belonging to her “Bridge of Spies connects Cold War paranoia to father’s wealthy new girlfriend (Isabella Rossellini). today’s terror. A bridge worth building.” (LA Weekly) Her revolutionary cleaner-upper leads her to QVC, a With the Coen Brothers in charge of the screenplay, burgeoning home-shopping channel run by Bradley the dialogue is more true and exciting than any Bond Cooper’s hard-but-fair businessman. How can she sell chase. Rylance manages to keep his eyebrows-acting herself in a live television environment where power- under control and Hanks is the embodiment of the dressing prevails? And will her mop shift 50,000 units understated Everyman. Extraordinary. before all is lost? “Joy is the best film you will ever see about the manufacture of mops.” (Independent) Director: Steven Spielberg Do many (English) in the SE know what a mop is…? Cast: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance Duration: 141 mins Origin: USA 2015 Director: David O. Russell Certificate: 12A Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper Company: Twentieth Century Fox Duration: 124 mins Origin: USA 2015 Certificate: 12A When... Company: Twentieth Century Fox Wed 3 2.00, 7.30 Thu 4 2.00, 7.30 When... Fri 12 7.30 Fri 5 7.30 Tue 16 7.30 Sat 6 7.00 www.therexberkhamsted.com THE REX - FEBRUARY 11 The Danish Girl Eddie Redmayne is right in the thick of it with this fictionalised biopic of the pioneering transgender painter Lili Elbe. When we are first introduced to young artists Einar (Redmayne) and Gerda (Alicia Vikander) they are enjoying a happy and wholesome marriage. Events are turned on their heads as Einar begins to embody the persona of Lili, driving a wedge between the marriage and pursuing a lifestyle that would eventually see him becoming one of the first people to undergo sex reassignment surgery. Adapted from David Ebershoff’s 2000 novel, The Danish Girl is full of the flair and elegance you would expect to find Director: Tom Hooper in Hooper’s film. His 2010 Best Picture winner The Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, King’s Speech contained little else. Could it be two Ben Whishaw years in a row for Eddie at the Oscars? Duration: 120 mins “Redmayne’s fine bone-china features are prime Origin: UK/Germany/USA 2015 movers in all of this being convincing but so is Certificate: 15 his performance, reticent, vulnerable and acutely Company: Universal Pictures observed.” (Empire) “This is a handsomely made picture, intelligent and sympathetic, with something of the uninsistent manner of Jan Morris’s memoir Conundrum” (Guardian) “Eddie Redmayne makes another astounding When..
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