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06 MAR – 09 APR 2020 INFORMATION & ACCESS Fire on a Lady of Portrait image: Cover A full list of our accessible performances can be found Welcome in the timetable on page 26-27. If you have any questions Spring is here and the sun is (hopefully) shining, about a particular show, please contact our Box Office. the days are getting longer and the birds are singing. Throughout the brochure we use the following key: ‘Between the woods and frozen lake, the darkest evening of Cromarty Cinema Sunday Brunch the year’ might have passed, but the cinema is your constant Selected screenings at Cromarty Every Sunday morning, enjoy a friend in the darkness and the sunshine. Cinema, Cromarty, IV11 8YL. hot drink and a breakfast roll (veggie This programme starts with what is shaping up to be one of the /vegan options available) before a feel good films of the year; Military Wives. Kristin Scott Thomas Audio Description select mid-morning film. Arrive early and Sharon Horgan lead a group of army spouses who start a Available via a headset for all to give yourself enough time to choir and become national sensations. From the director of screenings marked with the enjoy the food (no hot food to The Full Monty this should be a lovely start to spring. corresponding symbol. Please be taken into the cinema). ask Box Office for your headset. Ticket price includes brunch. Along with Michael Palin, the late Terry Jones was my favourite Python. This month we’re delighted to be screening two of the Dream and Scream Autism-friendly funniest films ever made as a tribute: Monty Python and the Specially for parents and carers These screenings are especially Holy Grail and Life of Brian. of new babies aged 0-12 months. for people on the autistic spectrum Some films from the 2019 Inverness Film Festival are back: and their families, friends and carers. Terence Malick’s A Hidden Life, Georgian drama And Then Descriptive Subtitles We Danced and (my favourite film from last year’s festival) Silver Linings screenings Check the timetable on page 26-27 Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire. for selected subtitled screenings. Selected screenings for audiences over 60. Ticket cost: £5 One of the greatest games ever made (which I still have, and play) has been turned into a super fun film. I misspent Friends Coffee Morning hours of my youth playing Sonic on the Sega Master System, Prices Film starts 11.30am, so the 13 year-old in me cannot wait to see Sonic the coffee served from 10.30am. Hedgehog this month! UNDER26: £5* We end with what is sure to be one of the biggest films of the FRIENDS: £6 Programmer’s Choice year, the return of James Bond in No Time To Die. Will James STANDARD: £7.50 come out of retirement and save the country from another evil * proof of age may be required of * proof genius? You’ll have to wait and see. EDEN COURT CINEMA COURT EDEN CINEMA COURT EDEN I hope you enjoy the films that you see at Eden Court and Cromarty, please do let me know what you think of them. Paul MacDonald-Taylor Head of Programming, Film + Visual Art 2 3 Cinema Highlights No Time To Die (12A tbc) Portrait of a Lady on Fire THU 02 - THU 23 APR Portrait De La Jeune Fille En Feu (15) UK/USA | 2020 | Runtime tbc FRI 20 – THU 26 MAR Director Cary Joji Fukunaga Starring Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Naomie Harris, Ralph Fiennes, France | 2019 | 122mins | French and Italian with subtitles Rami Malek, Ben Whishaw Director Céline Sciamma In Daniel Craig’s fifth outing as Bond, we find him having Starring Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami left active service and enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. Romance and art entwine in a sumptuous new masterpiece His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from from Céline Sciamma (Tomboy, Girlhood). Set in late 18th the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a century France, painter Marianne (Noémie Merlant) is kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous commissioned by an affluent countess to paint the wedding than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS portrait of her sheltered but headstrong daughter Héloïse villain armed with dangerous new technology. (Adèle Haenel), in the hope it will find her a wealthy husband. While posing as her hired companion, Marianne is instructed EDEN COURT CINEMA COURT EDEN to complete the portrait in secret, observing Héloïse by CINEMA COURT EDEN day and painting her by night. However, as the two women grow closer, their intimacy and attraction begins to blossom, paving the way for a simmering, star-crossed romance. A heartbreaking period piece with a distinctly modern feminist energy unfolds. 4 5 Military Wives (12A) FRI 06 – THU 19 APR True History of the Kelly Gang (18) UK | 2019 | 113mins FRI 20 - THU 26 MAR Director Peter Cattaneo Australia/UK/France | 2019 | 125mins Starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Sharon Horgan, Jason Flemyng Director Justin Kurzel Kate (Kristin Scott Thomas) bears the thankless task of ‘perfect Starring George MacKay, Russell Crowe, Essie Davis, Nicholas Hoult, officer’s wife’ with grace and stoicism. She finds freedom in song; Thomasin Mckenzie, Charlie Hunnam and persuades a disparate group of women on the base to form Based on Peter Carey’s Booker Prize winning novel, Justin the Military Wives Choir. Initially sceptical and embarrassed by Kurzel’s True History of The Kelly Gang shatters the mythology such an amateur bunch, newcomer Lisa (Sharon Horgan), of the notorious icon to reveal the essence behind the life of a rebel and rocker to the core, is quickly transformed by the HIGHLIGHTS Ned Kelly. Hero to some, outlaw to others, Kelly (played by choir’s friendship, humour and courage. Finding their voice 1917’s George MacKay) throws a long shadow over a specific together, Kate, Lisa and the choir put aside their own personal period of Australian history. Spanning the younger years of differences and, by belting out pop hits and rock anthems, EDEN COURT CINEMA COURT EDEN Ned’s life to the time leading up to his death, the film explores this extraordinary group of women sing their hearts out… CINEMA COURT EDEN the story behind this legendary historical figure. Youth and We are delighted to welcome the Inverness tragedy collide in the Kelly Gang, and at the beating heart of Military Wives Choir for a special performance this tale is the fractured and powerful love story between before the 8pm screening on Fri 06 Mar. a mother and son. 6 7 In Memory of Terry Jones Colour Out of Space (15) A Hidden Life (12A) Monty Python and FRI 27, SAT 28 + MON 30 MAR FRI 06 – THU 12 MAR the Holy Grail (12A) Monty Python’s Malaysia/Portugal/USA | 2019 | 111mins Germany/USA | 2019 | 174mins FRI 20 + SAT 21 MAR Life of Brian (12A) Director Richard Stanley Director Terrence Malick UK | 1975 | 92mins FRI 03 + SAT 04 APR Starring Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Starring August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Director Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam Q’orianka Kilcher, Michael Nyqvist, Starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, UK | 1979 | 94mins Tommy Chong Matthias Schoenaerts, Bruno Ganz Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Director Terry Jones Cult director Richard Stanley From visionary writer-director Michael Palin Starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, made his mark with 1990’s post- Terrence Malick comes a King Arthur and his Knights of the Michael Palin apocalyptic sci-fi horror Hardware, compelling historical drama. Based Round Table embark on a surreal, before becoming better known on real events, A Hidden Life is low-budget search for the Holy Grail Terry Jones directed Monty as the maverick director fired the story of an unsung hero, Franz in Monty Python’s medieval second Python’s controversial, anarchic and from the catastrophic The Island Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for cinematic outing, directed by Terrys hysterically funny satire of religion of Dr Moreau in 1996. He now the Nazis in World War II. When the Gilliam and Jones. The knights and Hollywood’s depiction of all makes a late career return with an Austrian peasant farmer is faced with encounter some increasingly silly things biblical in this 1979 epic. H.P. Lovecraft adaptation that is the threat of execution for treason, obstacles on their quest, including Graham Chapman is the titular Brian, bolstered by the unhinged power it is his unwavering faith and his love a persistent Black Knight, a three- who is mistaken for the promised of Nicolas Cage battling a mutant for his wife Fani and children that headed giant, a cadre of shrubbery- messiah through a series of absurd EDEN COURT CINEMA COURT EDEN extra-terrestrial organism. Strap in! keeps his spirit alive. Set against the challenged knights, the perilous circumstances. John Cleese, Terry CINEMA COURT EDEN majestic backdrop of the Austrian Castle Anthrax, a killer rabbit, a Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Alps, critics have hailed A Hidden house of virgins, and a handful Michael Palin play a dazzling array Life as Malick’s finest film in years. of rude Frenchmen. of characters, including ex-lepers, Pontius Pilate, revolutionaries, crazy prophets, religious fanatics and Roman centurions. 8 9 The Japan Foundation Bento Harassment Touring Film 今日も嫌がらせ弁当 (12+) Programme 2020 WED 11 MAR Happiness is a State Japan | 2019 | 106mins of Mind: Joy and Despair Japanese with subtitles in Japanese Cinema Director Renpei Tsukamoto Starring Ryoko Shinohara, Kyoko Yoshine, Rena Matsui Kaori (Ryoko Shinohara) is a Greed (15) single mother whose daughter FRI 20 – THU 26 MAR Futaba (Kyoko Yoshine) is in a UK | 2019 | 104mins rebellious phase.