Friday 24 February to Sunday 11 March 2 / 3 Director’s Dozen Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
Festival Director David Gillam puts a dozen films in the spotlight
The Artist (PG) p.16 L’Atalante (U) p.17 Breathing (15) p.19 Carnage (15) p.20 Absolutely irresistible for anyone who Funny, passionate and gritty, one of the most “this excellent first feature seldom takes the Politeness cracks as Polanski cranks up the loves the cinema romantic films ever made path one expects.” Time Out tension in this savagely comic chamber piece
Les Enfants du Paradis (PG) p.24 Martha Marcy May Marlene (15) p.29 My Week With Marilyn (15) p.33 Once Upon A Time in Anatolia (15) p.34 Life and art intertwine in this once seen, An utterly gripping ride with a sensational Branagh and Williams scintillate as Olivier Master Turkish film-maker takes the scalpel never forgotten tale of unrequited love performance from Olsen and Monroe to provincial life and the human condition
A Separation (PG) p.39 Shame (18) p.40 Tomboy (U) p.45 The Well-Digger’s Daughter (PG) p.49 Divorce Iranian-style reveals hidden truths A superb second feature from Britain’s most The best film about childhood I’ve seen This year’s My Afternoons with Margueritte, and ethical dilemmas talented young director for a long time a sun-soaked evocation of life in rural France 4 / 5 Borderlines Film Festival 2012 Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org Welcome to the tenth Borderlines Film Festival!
We are really celebrating in 2012 with not one, but two Festivals! The first brings 17 days of wonderful cinema and special events to 36 venues HOW TO BOOK throughout Herefordshire and Shropshire, and in May look out for outdoor screenings and amazing events in fantastic locations in rural Herefordshire. ––– Book in person at The Courtyard Hereford We also welcome our new Festival Patrons, Chris Menges, multi-award winning ––– Call our new Central Box Office 01432 340555 cinematographer and director, and Francine Stock, broadcaster, novelist and ––– Book online at www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org presenter of Radio 4’s The Film Programme. ––– Or call individual venues (see p.56) As the UK’s largest rural film festival we have a special focus on life in the countryside, and, this year, look out for our unique audience award for the Director’s Picks 02 best feature film or documentary on rural themes. The 2012 Festivals will be the last for Festival Director David Gillam and Welcome 05 we thank him for all his inspiration, dedication and drive to make Borderlines the success that it is today. David will stay linked to the Festival as our Borderlines in the Villages “Artistic Director in Honourable Retirement”. And we are dedicating this Events 06 year’s Festival to Peter Williamson, Board Member and unflagging Festival Champion, who sadly passed away in May. We shall miss him. Courtyard Events 11 Borderlines would not be possible without the participation of our The Courtyard partner venues: The Courtyard Hereford, Flicks in the Sticks, Shropshire OPERA/THEATRE/BALLET Screen Consortium members and independent film societies and we thank LIVE BY SATELLITE 12 Festival Pass them. This year we are partnering new venues in North Shropshire: Festival Drayton Centre, Kinokulture in Oswestry and The Talbot Theatre A-Z Film Listings 14 Planning to get into the F in Whitchurch. To celebrate our 10th anniversary, we’ve MAY FESTIVAL 51 made the Courtyard F estival spirit? Our funders are also vital in putting on the Festival: Herefordshire Leader programme (part funded by the European Union (EAFRD) and Defra); BFI estival Pass cheaper! Venue Information 56 A pair of tickets to any film at The Courtyard Transition Fund through the National Lottery; Herefordshire Council; Hereford costs £5 per ticket with The Courtyard City Council; Shropshire Screen Consortium (through BFI Rural Cinema Pilot Scheme and Shropshire Council). Lastly we would also like to thank our long Festival Pass £10/ £5 Concs Festival Diary 58 standing sponsors and welcome our new sponsors.
£6.50/ £5.50Courty Concs/ £5.00– Festival Pass Holders/ £4.50 under 16s / Studentard Prices Damage fo Cardr 2012 Holders £3 Enjoy both our 2012 Festivals!
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Meet the Cast and Crew BORDERLINES IN THE VILLAGES of Resistance Feature films shot in Herefordshire are few and Special Events far between, and we are delighted to celebrate the success of Resistance by bringing members Rural Cinema STRAND of the cast and crew to Flicks in the Sticks venues to introduce the screenings and answer questions afterwards.
Olchon valley / Upper Olchon valley Friday 24 February 7.30pm and Black Hill walks Dorstone Village Hall Mossie Smith plays Ruth, one of the wives Thursday 1 March 10.00am (2 .5 hours) £5 left behind in Olchon Valley. Saturday 10 March 9.30am (4 hours) £5 Meeting point: Black Hill picnic site, near Longtown Grid reference – S0 288329 Ordnance Survey map strongly recommended. Guided by British Mountaineering Council qualified Mountain Walking Leader, Nic Howes
Two atmospheric walks through the beautiful and Thursday 1 March 7.30pm Brilley Village Hall remote Olchon Valley, on the borders of England and Wales, and the steep south-west face of the Owen Sheers on Resistance Richard Greatrex, cinematographer, worked on adapting the script and finding locations. Black Hill, taking in locations for film adaptations Wednesday 29 February 8.00pm of Owen Sheers’ novel Resistance and Bruce Escleyside Hall Michaelchurch Escley Chatwin’s On the Black Hill. £5.50 Thursday’s 3.5 mile walk is easy going, mostly along Brought up in Abergavenny, Owen Sheers drew surfaced lanes and across fields which are uneven on his own intimate knowledge of the countryside and may be muddy; there are several stiles and one and community of this part of the English and Friday 2 March 7.30pm steep climb. Welsh borders, in order to write his first novel, Dilwyn Cedar Hall Resistance. The recent film adaptation plays Melanie Walters, well known to TV viewers from Saturday’s 5 mile upland walk is harder, up the at no less than ten venues at Borderlines (see p.37) the comedy series Gavin and Stacey, plays Helen head of a beautiful valley and along a narrow Roberts, one of the local women staving off the mountain ridge. Although relatively short, the walk and at Michaelchurch Escley, close to the shooting Borderlines in the Villages Nazi invasion. is physically challenging, being along paths that location, Owen will be present to talk about the To enhance your festival experience, find out are uneven and may be muddy; there is one stile book and the film and answer questions from the about the rich variety of unusual things to do audience after the screening. and see in 20 of the Herefordshire villages and one long, steady climb. Footwear and clothing and market towns where we screen – from for hillwalking are essential. See www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org for full details one of Britain’s few remaining parlour pubs to llama trekking in the Black Mountains – visit www.borderlinesinthevillages.co.uk Saturday 10 March 8.00pm The Market Theatre, Ledbury Sharon Morgan plays Maggie, the mainstay of the women left behind in the valley.
image: Director Amit Gupta and production still © Resistance Films Image: View from Black Hill ridge author Owen Sheers on set with Olchon Valley on right 8 / 9 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (U) with live performance by Cipher
Saturday 3 March 8.00pm The Market Theatre Ledbury £8 BAFTA Presents: Bruce Robinson
Composed to celebrate the 90th anniversary in Conversation with Francine Stock of the classic silent horror movie, electro jazz duo Saturday 3 March 7.30pm Francine Stock: Cipher (Dave Sturt & Theo Travis) will perform their Moccas Village Hall £7 In Glorious Technicolor new score live alongside the film. In conversation with broadcaster and novelist Francine Stock, Bruce Robinson will take an This early, highly influential and artistically Join BAFTA-winning screenwriter, director, novelist Friday 2 March 7.30pm unflinching look back over his unique career which acclaimed German Expressionist film tells the and actor Bruce Robinson for a very special Lady Emily Hall Tarrington began in London in the 1960s, talk about moving story of the deranged Dr. Caligari, his faithful, masterclass about his amazing career spanning four £7 between the crafts, his most famous collaborations sleepwalking sidekick Cesare, and their connection decades. Best known as the writer and director of and the film industry. How does cinema reflect our world? Why does it to a string of murders. Critics worldwide have the cult classic Withnail & I (1987), the legendary often exercise a physical hold over us? Does it praised the film for its Expressionist style, portrayal of two dishevelled, out-of- work actors This event forms part of BAFTA’s UK-wide learning actually affect how we conduct our lives? complete with wild, distorted set design. who quit their squalid Camden digs for a disastrous and events programme, giving audiences across the outing to the country. The film launched the country access behind the screens of the film, TV Festival Patron, Francine Stock, presenter of Cipher’s score incorporates hypnotic low flutes, careers of Richard E Grant and Paul McGann. and video games industries. For more information Radio 4’s The Film Programme, will take you on an visit www.bafta.org haunting saxophones, dark soundscapes, pulsing Robinson’s first screenwriting credit, the powerful, enthralling personal journey through a century of beats, deep bass and rich textural landscapes. award-winning drama about Pol Pot’s brutal regime cinema as she explores our changing relationship See also p.19 in Cambodia The Killing Fields, won him a BAFTA with the silver screen. and Oscar nomination in 1985. Recently coaxed Part of our special season of B/W classics “Film does yearning best of all” she contends and (L’Atalante, Sunrise, Les Enfants du Paradis) out of retirement by none less than Johnny Depp, this tantalizing peek into the delights cinema has playing alongside The Artist he has written and directed The Rum Diary (see to offer is guaranteed to leave you wanting more. p.38), based on the novel by cult author and Gonzo journalist, Hunter S. Thompson. Francine will be available to sign copies of her new book In Glorious Technicolor after the event
Bruce Robinson © David Black 2011 Francine Stock © Charles Hopkinson 10 / 11 Events Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org PETER WILLIAMSON COMMEMORATION
Behind the Scenes at The Archers
Sunday 4 March 2.00pm Ewyas Harold Memorial Hall £10 Sunday 4 March 7.30pm Conquest Theatre Bromyard £10
Ever wondered how that ewe sounds so authentic giving birth on the radio? Or how Brian got so keen on keeping cows in a big shed? The Archers’ The Man Who Planted Trees (U)
agriculture adviser Steve Peacock and senior sound Director: Frédéric Back supervisor Louise Willcox take you behind the Whisky Galore! at The Sun Inn Canada, 1987, 30 minutes This year’s Festival is dedicated to Peter Williamson, With the voice of: Christopher Plummer scenes of Radio 4’s long-running (61 years) and Tuesday 6 March 7.30pm lifelong Herefordian and Nurseryman who took highly rated (5 million plus listeners) drama serial The Sun Inn Leintwardine Friday 24 February 4.15pm over the management of Wyevale Nurseries from with sounds and pictures. There’ll be history £7.50 The Courtyard Hereford FREE his father, Harry, and was instrumental in the and up-to-the-minute gossip. You might even creation of the Wyevale Garden Centres chain and What better way to enjoy the delights of Alexander Adapted from Jean Giono’s 1953 allegorical tale, get a chance to act out an Ambridge fantasy... its flotation on the stock market in 1987. Peter, MacKendrick’s classic Ealing comedy than in the this is the story of a shepherd who over four a longstanding member of the Festival Board, The event will also include two films about The comfort of The Sun Inn at Leintwardine, one of decades nurtures a forest of thousands of trees, brought remarkable enthusiasm, good-humour, Archers. One was made by BBC1’s Countryfile series Britain’s last remaining parlour bars and voted single-handedly transforming his surroundings. energy and ingenious ideas, along with an unfailing to mark the radio programme’s 60th anniversary Herefordshire Pub of the Year for 2011 by CAMRA A film of great beauty, a remarkable parable and generosity. Initiator of the annual Festival Ball, he last year, the second is Supper with the Archers, members. Enjoy the film in the new eco-friendly a testament to the power of one person, it won also funded our first film competition Under Open a curio made in 1963 for what was then the Milk Banastre Bar extension and visit the unique Parlour an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film Skies through Wyevale Nurseries. Development Council (MDC) to promote milk and Bar and Red-Brick Bar where Flossie Lane, landlady in 1988. dairy products, featuring actors from the cast of for 70 years, held sway as the pub retained the In memory of Peter there will be a tree-planting With readings from Why Willows Weep that time. The film was rescued by the Museum of coveted title of Britain’s most unchanged pub commemoration at 3.30pm at The Courtyard prior with William Fiennes English Rural Life in 1986 and is shown with their for years. to this event. permission and that of the MDC’s successor DairyCo. The ticket price includes whisky sampling by Pure After the film, bestselling author William Fiennes Spirit Drinks based in Ludlow. (The Snow Geese and The Music Room) will read Presented in association with The Woodland Trust from Why Willows Weep, Contemporary Tales from the Woods.
Peter Williamson © Richard Weaver 12 / 13 Events Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
Live theatre, opera and ballet performances are beaming OPERA/THEATRE/BALLET into Shropshire’s rural venues thanks to the BFI’s Rural Cinema Pilot, bringing state of the art digital projection LIVE BY SATELLITE to the county. Enjoy live transmissions at Festival Drayton Centre, Flicks in the Sticks, Ludlow Assembly Rooms and Wem Town Hall.
“We are really excited that Flicks in the Sticks can now bring Live Satellite links to the National Theatre to remote rural areas. It’s the kind of technical development we could only have dreamed of a few years ago” Ian Kerry, Flicks in the Sticks
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The Comedy of Errors Borderlines – National Theatre Live The First Ten Years
Director: Dominic Cooke Wednesday 29 February 7.00pm Starring: Lenny Henry, Lucian Msamati, Chris Jarman, Daniel Poyser 3 hours 15 minutes including 20 minute interval The Courtyard Hereford £10 to include a glass of wine Ernani Thursday 1 March 7.00pm Aston on Clun Village Hall £9.50, Groups £9, Children £6 Retiring festival director David Met Opera Live Thursday 1 March 7.00pm Festival Drayton Centre £12.50, Friends £10 Gillam reflects on the highs 3 hours 25 minutes including interval The Edge Much Wenlock, £10, Friends £9 and lows of the first ten years Thursday 1 March 7.00pm Wem Town Hall £11, Concs £10 Le Corsaire of Borderlines. With clips from Saturday 25 February 6.00pm Monday 5 March 7.00pm The Courtyard Hereford £12.50 The Courtyard Hereford £17.50 Bolshoi Ballet Live some of his best-loved films, and suggestions on what not to miss Shakespeare’s furiously paced comedy is staged in a contemporary Choreographer: Alexei Ratmansky after Marius Petipa Angela Meade takes centre world into which walk three prohibited foreigners who see everything 3 hours 35 minutes including intervals this year, David looks to future stage in Verdi’s thrilling early for the first time. Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the releases and what may be in store Sunday 11 March 3.00pm for your favourite film festival. gem. Marcello Giordani is her same city without meeting for one crazy day, as multiple mistaken The Courtyard Hereford £15 mismatched lover and all-star identities lead to confusion on a grand scale. And for no one more So come along and share your Verdians Dmitri Hvorostovsky so than Antipholus of Syracuse (Lenny Henry) and his servant Dromio The Bolshoi Ballet’s magnificent staging of Le Corsaire by the most vivid memories, tell us and Ferruccio Furlanetto round who, in search of their brothers, arrive in a land entirely foreign to outstanding Russian choreographer, Alexei Ratmansky, has proved which films you’ve particularly out the cast. their distant home. A buzzing metropolis, to the outsiders it appears an extraordinary international success. Set on the banks of the Ionian enjoyed, what you’d like to see in a place of wonderment and terror, where baffling gifts and Sea against a climate of political unrest between the Greeks and the the future and help us celebrate unexplained hostilities abound. Turks, this exotic ballet contains all the ingredients of a traditional Borderlines’ 10th birthday! Russian spectacular – love, intrigue, deception, a splendid shipwreck, ‘Lenny Henry returns to Shakespeare... and once again he impresses.’ a harem and a kidnap. A perfect vehicle for the Bolshoi dancers’ This is a fundraising event for Daily Telegraph exuberant energy. Borderlines; the ticket includes a reception afterwards and a chance to chat with the whole festival team. 14 / 15 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
Rural Rural Cinema Cinema STRAND STRAND
The Adventures of Amigo (15) AnDa Union: From the Arrietty (U)
Tintin: Secret of the Director: John Sayles Steppes to the City (PG) Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi Starring: Garret Dillahunt, With the voices of: Mirai Shida, Unicorn (PG) Joel Torres, Chris Cooper Directors: Tim Pearce, Tomokazu Miura, Ryunosuke Kamiki USA, 2010, 2 hours 8 minutes, subtitles Sophie Lascelles, Marc Tiley Japan, 2011, 1 hour 34 minutes, dubbed Director: Steven Spielberg Starring: Anda Union Las Acacias (12A) Starring: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, UK, 2011, 1 hour 37 minutes, subtitles Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg Friday 9 March 8.15pm Sunday 26 February 2.30pm The Courtyard Hereford The Market Theatre Ledbury Director: Pablo Giorgelli USA, 2011, 1 hour 47 minutes Thursday 8 March 7.30pm Starring: German De Silva, Hebe Duarte, Nayra Calle Mamani The Ironworks Oswestry Argentina/Spain, 2011, 1 hour 26 minutes, subtitles Saturday 25 February 8.00pm Sayles’ typically thought- Friday 9 4.00pm, Inspired by The Borrowers, this Conquest Theatre Bromyard provoking film is set during Saturday 10 5.00pm sees the classic children’s tale Saturday 3 March 6.15pm Friday 2 March 7.00pm The Courtyard Hereford Sunday 4 4.00pm, Tuesday 6 6.15pm SpArC Bishops Castle the Philippine-American War, transported to a sprawling The Courtyard Hereford Friday 9 7.30pm when the US was ‘liberating’ mansion set in a magical, Dorstone Village Hall various countries from Spain. It A fascinating music doc that overgrown garden in Tokyo. This slow-burning story of a chance but potentially life-changing Saturday 10 7.30pm charts the relationships between cuts between AnDa Union’s Beneath the floorboards, tiny encounter has a charm that rewards patience. Gruff truck driver Moccas Village Hall American troops stationed in extraordinary live performances, Arrietty lives with her equally Reuben gives young mother Jacinta a lift from the Paraguayan border a remote village and the local the band members’ lives in tiny parents “borrowing” to Buenos Aires. A man of few words, he clearly had not bargained The intrepid young reporter villagers – be they peasant Hohhat and their family homes everything they need. But only on sharing his cramped cab with a screaming baby for 900 miles! Tintin, his loyal dog Snowy farmers or guerrilla fighters. on the grasslands of Mongolia. a little each time, so the two old But as they amble on down the road and the baby begins to ogle and foolish friend Captain Trying to protect his family, the The haunting sound of their ladies who live upstairs remain adoringly at him, Reuben slowly lets his guard down. The unaffected Haddock discover a riddle left local mayor is caught between the strange throat singing and two absolutely unaware of their warmth and delicate pace wring sweet truth and sexual tension from by Haddock’s ancestor, the 17th demands of the occupying troops string violins make for some existence. Although Arrietty the everyday simply by keeping the shots long and the edits sparse. century Sir Francis Haddock, and those of the freedom fighters rousing tunes. Throw in their has been warned never to let which might lead them to the colourful costumes, the making “Warm, eloquent and delightful” The Times who regard him as a collaborator. humans see her, when a young hidden treasure of the notorious of their instruments, a wedding, pirate Red Rackham. The first Deeply humane in its focus on the boy, Sho, moves in, the two “A warm glow is guaranteed from this understated, horses, much drinking and sheep of Steven Spielberg’s animated innocents caught in the middle, become friends. From the makers sun-dappled romance” Time Out slaughtering and, above all, the versions of the legendary Tintin Sayles paints a picture of conflict of Ponyo, this is an enchanting that’s not only convincing in its wide open steppes and you’re animated tale that has the Winner of the Camera D’Or for Best Debut Feature comic strip delivers his usual complexity, but all too relevant transported to another world. faith in the pure of heart and at Cannes Film Festival blend of high adventure and Not to be missed by anyone great excitement. to our more recent attempts to ravishing visual style of Studio Winner of the Sutherland Prize for Best Debut Feature impose democracy. interested in world music or the Ghibli at its best. at London Film Festival “Action-packed, gorgeous, and awesome Mongolian landscape. Film writer James Clarke will faithfully whimsical: Hergé “an illuminating, still all too pertinent story.” Geoff Andrew “A rare glimpse into the forgotten introduce the screening thought Spielberg the only director land of Inner Mongolia” capable of filming Tintin.” Empire The screening is sponsored by Claire and Simon Scott London Film Festival 16 / 1716 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
L’Atalante (U)
Director: Jean Vigo Starring: Dita Parlo, Jean Daste, Michel Simon France, 1934, 1 hour 29 minutes, subtitles The Barley Mow (U) Monday 27 February 2.00pm The Courtyard Hereford Archive Folk Film Programme
Funny, erotic and heartrending, Various directors, 1 hour 5 minutes this is perhaps the most romantic Sunday 26 February 7.30pm Burton Hotel Kington film ever made. Newly-weds Wednesday 29 February 8.00pm Ludlow Assembly Rooms The Artist (PG) Juliette and barge captain Jean Wednesday 7 March 8.00pm Conquest Theatre Bromyard soon find their relationship Monday 27 February 4.15pm, Tuesday 28 4.15pm Director: Michel Hazanavicius Starring: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell showing signs of strain. Sharing The Courtyard Hereford France, 2011, 1 hour 41 minutes, B/W a cramped boat with an eccentric Brought together by the BFI National Archive and regional film bosun, a cabin boy and a Friday 24 February 8.30pm, Saturday 25 2.30pm, Sunday 26 8.30pm, Monday 27 8.30pm, archives, this delightful programme of 15 short archive films dating clutter of cats doesn’t help; nor Tuesday 28 8.30pm, Wednesday 29 8.15pm, Thursday 1 March 2.30pm The Courtyard Hereford from 1912 to 2003 shows some of our rich tradition of folk music, Monday 5 March 7.30pm, Tuesday 6 7.30pm, Wednesday 7 11.00am & 7.30pm, Thursday 8 2.00pm & 7.30pm does the couple’s reluctance dance, rural customs and sport. Highlights include Oss Oss Wee Oss Ludlow Assembly Rooms to compromise. To this simple (1953) about Padstow’s May Day celebrations and its famous Hobby story Vigo brings a rich array of Horse, Here’s A Health To The Barley Mow (1952) that shows an A joyful romantic comedy that is also a deftly-penned love letter to “A valentine to the glories moods to explore the nuances of evening of song in a Suffolk pub, One Potato Two Potato (1957) filmed a by-gone age, this is an absolute must-see for anyone who loves of silent cinema, a triumph every single emotion they feel. in a London school playground, and the extraordinary Burry Man of the cinema. Set against a backdrop of Tinseltown in transition of artistic teleportation, pure While the lyrical camerawork, South Queensferry (pictured above). from silent film to talkies, aspiring starlet Peppy Miller gets her big effervescence that gives crowd- injections of surrealism and the break when her photo is taken with the world’s biggest movie star, pleasing a good name.” achingly vulnerable intensity See www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org for a full list of all the films George Valentin. As her star soars, his star fades. With its infectious Daily Telegraph of the performances transport charm and good humour, spot-on production design, score and us to a magical place between cinematography, and peppered with seamless winks to films of the Winner Best Actor objective realism and subjective silent era and beyond, this lovingly recreates a 1920s Hollywood Cannes Film Festival 2011 fantasy. No other film matches somewhere between legend and reality. An absolute delight! its mix of playfulness, poetry, sensuality and tenderness.
On Friday the screening On Monday in Ludlow the On Tuesday in Hereford the On Wednesday in Hereford the “the loveliest, least maudlin study is sponsored by screening is sponsored by screening is sponsored by screening is sponsored by of human desire ever committed to film” Geoff Andrew, Time Out 18 / 19 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
Breathing (15) The Cabinet of The Cameraman (U)
Director: Karl Markovics Dr Caligari (U) Director: Edward Sedgewick Starring: Thomas Schubert, Karin Starring: Buster Keaton, Marceline Day Lischka, Gerhard Liebmann Director: Robert Wiene USA, 1928, 1 hour 9 minutes, B/W Austria, 2011, 1 hour 30 minutes, subtitles Starring: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Frederich Feher Wednesday 29 February 2.30pm Germany, 1919, 1 hour 13 minutes, B/W Wednesday 7 March 6.00pm The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford With live performance by Cipher In his last great comedy A searching examination of Saturday 3 March 8.00pm Keaton becomes a newsreel a young man’s troubled passage The Market Theatre Ledbury camera-man in order to get into adulthood, this subtle slice Unique and hugely influential, the girl. Cue a series of gags, Beautiful Lies (12A) of social realism resists spiralling mishaps and deliberate cinematic into bleakness thanks to a with its jagged, stylized sets, Director: Pierre Salvadori evocative shadows, and themes errors that climaxes in him Starring: Audrey Tautou, Nathalie Baye, Sami Bouajila compelling central performance, inadvertently getting involved France, 2010, 1 hour 45 minutes, subtitles of murder, madness, and assured direction and a script with an organ-grinder’s monkey that skewers the off-hand delirium, Caligari remains the Saturday 25 February 7.00pm St Mary’s Church Hall Ross source and essence of German that shoots the greatest newsreel Friday 2 March 7.30pm Bosbury Parish Hall & Cawley Hall Eye indifference of adolescence. film of all time! One of Keaton’s Friday 9 March 7.30pm Playhouse Cinema, The Community Centre Leominster Expressionist Cinema. Fusing With the prospect of parole most impressively self-reflective Sunday 11 March 7.30pm Conquest Theatre Bromyard coming up, surly young offender carnival spectacle with the paranoia of the psychological films and an ode to the elusive Roman takes a job with an lightning-in-a-bottle nature of Not so much a romantic comedy but a funny, sharp comedy about “succeeds thanks to an amusing thriller, it centres on the undertakers, then tries to filmmaking that is both funny love. Anonymous love letters, mistaken identities, and overheard script and winning performances haunting, sexually ambivalent track down the mother who and painful. This delightful piece confessions lead to scenes of acute embarrassment that are both from its three leads.” presence of Cesare (Conrad abandoned him. Don’t be put of film-making within-a-film is agonizing and hilarious to watch. The effervescent Tautou plays View London Veidt), a somnambulist exploited off by its apparently grim both an insight into Keaton’s Emilie, the prickly owner of a hairdressing salon who, trying her best as an instrument of murder subject, this terrific little film own logic and also, alas, a sort to cheer up her jilted mother, forwards her the anonymous love letter by the sinister Dr Caligari. has an emotional honesty of epitaph. she’s received. But Emilie’s well-intentioned efforts lead her from one that raises the spirits and its The first true horror film, this excruciating situation to another. Set in the sunny South, with an constantly surprising story visually stunning classic remains amusing script, a charming soundtrack, and excellent performances unfurls to touch on a wide range hugely watchable and endlessly from all the cast, this is thoroughly enjoyable, frothy French fun. of themes and ideas. fascinating.
“this excellent first feature seldom “Undoubtedly one of the most takes the path one expects.” exciting and inspired horror Time Out movies ever made.” Time Out 20 / 21 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
Cave of Forgotten Classic Cartoons (U)
Dreams (U) Directors: Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera Director: Werner Herzog Starring: Cats & Mice, Dogs, Ducks, Starring: Dominique Baffier, Rabbits, Lions Werner Herzog USA, 1943 – 1953, 58 minutes Carnage (15) Canada/USA/France/Germany/UK, 2010, The Debt (15) 1 hour 35 minutes Director: Roman Polanski Wednesday 29 February 4.30pm, Director: John Madden Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C Reilly, Christoph Waltz Thursday 1 March 4.30pm, Starring: Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Ciaran Hinds, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain Thursday 8 March 7.30pm France/Germany/Spain/Poland, 2011, 1 hour 20 minutes Thursday 8 4.30pm USA, 2010, 1 hour 44 minutes Pudleston Village Hall The Courtyard Hereford FREE Friday 9 March 2.00pm & 6.15pm Saturday 10 4.00pm, Saturday 3 March 7.30pm Lady Emily Hall Tarrington Herzog descends into the Sunday 11 7.30pm The Courtyard Hereford To help you celebrate our 10th Sunday 4 March 7.30pm Bedstone & Hopton Castle Village Hall recently discovered Chauvet Monday 5 7.30pm Church Stretton School birthday with a big grin on Four of cinema’s most accomplished performers have a gloriously caves to reveal the wonders Tuesday 6 March 8.00pm Garway Village Hall your face and tears in your Friday 9 March 7.30pm Bodenham Parish Hall good time savouring every nuance of a fabulously entertaining of the cave drawings, the oldest eyes Borderlines is offering Saturday 10 March 7.30pm Brilley Village Hall script from Yasmina Reza, who wrote the West End hit, Art. Nancy known pictorial creations of you a programme of hilarious Saturday 10 March 7.30pm Playhouse Cinema (Winslet) and Alan (Waltz) have come round to sort out what to do humankind, that date back The Community Centre Leominster cartoon mayhem absolutely free! about their son Zach who has struck Penelope (Foster) and Michael’s 32,000 years. He uses these 7 classic cartoons featuring the (Reilly) son. Their search for an amicable agreement rapidly descends Paleolithic masterpieces to muse Helen Mirren stars as an ex-Mossad agent torn between her duty very best of the legendary Tex into an ugly argument as each character reveals what they’re really in his own imitable style on the to her country, to her ex-husband, to her daughter and to her Avery (The Cat That Hated People, thinking beneath their well-meaning liberal pose. A very funny take immensity and fragility of man’s ex-colleague and love of her life. This is based on the real life story Magical Maestro, Slap Happy on marriage, family, taste, success and much, much more. I haven’t progress. The caves are closed of three Mossad agents who kidnapped a Nazi torturer in East Berlin in Lion, Bad Luck Blackie), a couple laughed so much in a cinema in ages. to the public due to the fragile 1965. But when their plan to whisk him out of the country unravels, of great Tom & Jerrys (A Mouse state of the paintings but they’re left holding him captive while the police close in. Mirren is in “caustic and witty” Time Out In Manhattan, Flirty Birdy), Herzog makes the perfect guide top form in this tense, thoughtful thriller which like all good suspense and Chuck Jones’ famous Duck to one of the greatest discoveries stories has one more twist in the final reel than expected. Amuck in which poor Daffy Duck of our time. is teased & tormented by his “‘The Debt’ tackles themes of humanity, revenge and truth” “Herzog has conjured up creator. So bring along your kids Time Out something magical here” – or parents, or grandparents - Guardian and enjoy some of the funniest (and cleverest) films ever made. 22 / 2322 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
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The Edge of the World (U)
Director: Michael Powell Starring: Finlay Currie, Niall MacGinnis, Belle Chrystall The Eagle Hunter’s Son (PG) UK, 1937, 1 hour 15 minutes, B/W
Director: Rene Bo Hanson Starring: Bazarbai Matei, Serikbai Khulan, Matei Mardan Tuesday 6 March 2.00pm Germany/Sweden/Mongolia, 2009, 1 hour 37 minutes, subtitles The Courtyard Hereford
Thursday 8 March 6.00pm, Saturday 10 2.00pm Set in an isolated island The Courtyard Hereford community sharply divided over whether to abandon their The Descendants (15) The Mongolian Kes, this fine family adventure is set amid the traditional way of life and seek Director: Alexander Payne fabulously beautiful Mongolian wilderness. Twelve-year old nomad, Starring: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Beau Bridges, Judy Greer a new life on the mainland, USA, 2011, 1 hour 55 minutes Bazarbai, is deeply envious when his brother leaves to find work Michael Powell’s first major in the city. When Bazarbai loses his father’s prized eagle he decides film is the story of two friends Friday 9 March 11.15am & 8.30pm, Saturday 10 2.30pm, Sunday 11 8.00pm its time to take off in search of them both. Seizing the opportunity The Courtyard Hereford torn apart by the elements they for an adventure of a lifetime, he crosses the snow-covered struggle against for survival. mountains, falls in with the circus and finds that city life is not Shooting on the remote island Hawaiian lawyer Matt King (Clooney) has always been the backup “A drama of unusual nuance. all that he dreamed it would be. Suitable for 8 years old up, this of Foula 75 years ago, Powell parent, so when his wife falls into a coma, he has to rise to the It lingers, spawns thoughts, glimpse into a totally different world will be enjoyed by parents emphasises the mysterious challenge of looking after his two feisty daughters. With little idea connections, as a great film and children alike. waywardness of nature and the of how to cope, he must also wrestle with the secrets his wife has ought.” Guardian Winner of 5 Awards for Best Children’s Film harshness of life on the edge. kept from him and the expectations of his wider family to cash in at International Film Festivals The film’s beauty and integrity on a huge land deal. While the subject is serious, the touch is light, emerge more clearly than ever and the flawed and funny characters provide plenty of comedy, Regional premiere in this new digital restoration. from bleak humour to sassy dialogue and even slapstick. With his acute observations of human shortcomings Payne (Sideways) moves “a great source of inspiration seamlessly from wry humour to heartbreaking sadness. for a whole new generation of film-makers – myself, Spielberg, Paul Schrader, Coppola, De Palma. His films… were a lifeblood to us.” Martin Scorsese on Michael Powell 24 / 25 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
Les Enfants Enigma Express (U) Four Days Inside The Great White
du Paradis (PG) Director: Michele Holder Guantánamo (PG) Silence (U) UK, 2011, 1 hour 15 minutes Director: Marcel Carne Directors: Luc Cote, Patricio Henriquez Director: Herbert G. Ponting Starring: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Wednesday 7 March 10.30am Starring: Omar Khadr, Starring: Robert Falcon Scott, Maria Casares Moazzam Begg, Richard Belmar Herbert G. Ponting France, 1945, 3 hours 10 minutes, The Courtyard Hereford £3 Canada, 2011, 1 hour 40 minutes UK, 1924, 1 hour 48 minutes The Guard (15) subtitles All Aboard… it’s the 1940s and Thursday 8 March 8.00pm Wednesday 29 February 7.30pm Director: John Michael McDonagh Wednesday 7 March 2.15pm Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong when a boy gets parted from The Courtyard Hereford Ludlow Assembly Rooms Ireland, 2011, 1 hour 36 minutes The Courtyard Hereford his family, in an effort to find The tale of 16 year-old, Omar To mark the centenary of Scott’s Friday 24 February 7.30pm Bodenham Parish Hall them he jumps onto The Enigma This crisp digital restoration Khadr, the youngest Guantánamo death, we’re showing this Thursday 1 March 7.30pm The Talbot Theatre Whitchurch Express. So begins a fantastical of Carné’s sublime romance, detainee, is a story that demands extraordinary documentary about Monday 5 March 7.30pm Playhouse Cinema Leominster quest that pauses in colourful one of the crown jewels of to be told as it epitomises what his doomed mission to reach lands, digital worlds and other Like a 21st century Local Hero, this hilarious Irish black comedy raises French cinema, bulges with is wrong with the ‘war on terror’. the South Pole. Using carefully strange places. Jigsaw is a many a laugh from the rivalry between a country ‘fool’ and the ‘smart’ life, incident, and romantic Based on video taped inside the restored original footage from the biennial integrated dance project city outsider. FBI agent Wendell Everett arrives in Galway to break idealism. Its sparkling, witty prison and the expert testimony expedition’s photographer, the led by Dancefest, the dance up a drug-smuggling ring and soon finds himself at odds with Gerry, script, sumptuous sets and a of fellow prisoners, lawyers and film shows everyday footage of development organisation for the local cop who polices his patch in his own weird way, acting like terrific ensemble of exceptional diplomats, we do not witness Scott and his men hauling their Herefordshire and Worcestershire, a cross between Father Ted and the Bad Lieutenant. Though the plot performers are just some of physical abuse but are party sleighs and pitching their tents in collaboration with The may be standard, the viewpoint is anything but, and shows, as did the enduring pleasures of to a routine interrogation that as well as amazing shots of the Music Pool. This performance In Bruges, that given the right material (reams of barbed, whimsical, this dazzling recreation of borders on psychological torture. killer whales, seals and penguins by dancers with and without brutally funny dialogue) Brendan Gleeson is quite simply one of the the teeming Parisian theatre It’s an appalling tale of injustice they encountered on their way to disabilities was the culmination best actors around. world. At its heart is a tale of but one that should strengthen the Antarctic. Complete with its of 11 weeks working with unrequited love that revolves our resolve to speak out against original vivid tinting and toning “Among the most purely entertaining films of the year” Empire schools and groups throughout around the beautiful but elusive what has been done in our name. and a specially commissioned new Herefordshire and includes Garance with her string of lovers, Never to forget and never to score by Simon Fisher Turner, original live music by local a wealthy Count, a murderous allow it to happen again. this beautiful film captures the musicians, and film and visual dandy, above all the famous most poignant moment in British effects by artist Jaime Jackson. mime, Baptiste. On the big “Worthy of 100 minutes of exploration history. screen this giddying feast for the anyone’s time.” Time Out senses is truly unforgettable. “Gives us a real sense of the The screening is sponsored by Fulmar challenges and hardships of “Once seen it lives in the on behalf of Amnesty International the expedition,” Bryony Dixon, imagination for ever” curator at BFI’s national archive Evening Standard 26 / 27 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
Hunky Dory (15) The Iron Lady (12A) Jack Goes Boating (15) Kind Hearts &
Director: Marc Evans Director: Phyllida Law Director: Philip Seymour Hoffman Coronets (U) Starring: Minnie Driver, Aneurin Barnard, Starring: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Danielle Branch, Robert Pugh Anthony Head, Richard E. Grant Amy Ryan, John Ortiz Director: Robert Hamer UK, 2011, 1 hour 47 minutes UK, 2011, 1 hour 45 minutes USA, 2011, 1 hour 29 minutes Starring: Alec Guinness, Just Do It (12A) Denis Price, Joan Greenwood Monday 27 February 6.15pm Thursday 8 March 5.00pm Saturday 3 March 7.30pm UK, 1948, 1 hour 46 minutes The Courtyard Hereford & 7.30pm Wem Town Hall WRVS Hall Hereford Director: Emily James Wednesday 29 February 3.30pm UK, 2011, 1 hour 30 minutes The Market Theatre Ledbury Marc (Patagonia) Evans’s latest Love her or loathe her, this is A really sweet portrait of Jack, Monday 27 February 7.30pm The Ironworks Oswestry Sunday 11 March 7.30pm is a good-natured, hugely a fascinating, intimate portrait a solitary limo driver, edging Tuesday 28 February 6.15pm, Wednesday 29 2.00pm Leintwardine Community Centre enjoyable musical set in the long of Margaret Thatcher, with towards a relationship with The Courtyard Hereford hot summer of ‘76 when Bowie Meryl Streep as the absolute the similarly hesitant Connie This quintessential British reigned supreme. Idealistic embodiment of Maggie herself. with the help of his best friend, If you’ve ever wondered what goes on behind the ongoing media comedy is celebrated for the drama teacher Vivienne is Mere mention of her name still Clyde. As you’d expect from such theatre of direct action and the hurly-burly of the barricades, then legendary versatility of Alec desperately trying to prove to provokes hugely emotional a great actor Philip Seymour this engaging, eye-opening, and optimistic portrait of dedicated Guinness at his very best her cynical older colleagues that responses so this will no doubt Hoffman’s directorial debut environmental activists is for you. Mostly young, articulate, idealistic playing the entire D’Ascoyne her disaffected sixth formers can inspire furious arguments as is beautifully performed all and funny, these modern day outlaws believe it’s their urgent duty family, young and old, male pull off their musical version of to her legacy. But this isn’t a round, but also benefits from an to challenge our government to take climate change seriously. and female. All victims of Louis The Tempest. Through missed documentary on the Thatcher exquisitely well-observed script How heart-warming it is to spend time with the “domestic extremists” who is determined to become rehearsals, teenage tantrums years but an exploration of one and a subtle appreciation of the who fearlessly put their bodies on the line as they blockade banks the next Duke of Chalfont. and a host of other problems she remarkable woman’s ambition rhythm and space needed to tell and occupy power stations. What would make you cross the line and This dark, offbeat comedy, ploughs doggedly on, believing in and the price she paid as she a good story. As Jack patiently ‘Just Do It’? perhaps Ealing’s finest, strikes a delicate balance between bad the power of music to transform hand-bagged her way to success. learns the skills to convince “An insightful portrait of action on film.” Little White Lies the kid’s lives. With Minnie Driver Whatever your politics, what is Connie of his honest intentions taste and bad manners, while at her captivating best and some undeniable is that Maggie came he unintentionally sets in train Emily James will do a Q&A on Tuesday gently undermining notions of nobility and inherited privilege. hugely talented kids on show, from nowhere (sorry Grantham!) a tale of love, betrayal, jealousy Herefordshire Media Network Workshop this refreshingly optimistic blend to make her mark as one of the and most importantly friendship. Tuesday 28 February 5.00pm The Courtyard Hereford Great fun, if you’ve never seen of musical, comedy and social 20th century’s most famous, A funny, sometimes painfully £5, £3.50 for HMN members it don’t miss a rare chance to see realism will have you rooting for influential and controversial honest tale, this is a quietly it on the big screen. Emily James in conversation with Creative England’s Wendy the kids to succeed. women. optimistic little gem. Bevan-Mogg will discuss the making of Just Do It, how it feels “The most sophisticated and We hope that Marc Evans will be “One of Streep’s finest-ever to be ‘embedded’ with climate change activists for a year, and blackest of the Ealing comedies, present for a Q&A after the film performances.” Empire how she crowd-funded her film. ...gives the splendid Guinness the Regional premiere roles of a lifetime.” Film4 28 / 29 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
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The Last Waltz (U) The Marches
Director: Martin Scorsese Monday 27 February 2.15pm Starring: Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni The Courtyard Hereford Free Mitchell, Van Morrison, The Band USA, 1978, 1 hour 57 minutes Fearless Librarian The Lady (12A) Martha Marcy May Marlene (15) Friday 2 March 2.00pm, Saves the Day Director: Luc Besson Sunday 4 8.30pm Directors: Adrian Lambert, Director: Sean Durkin Starring: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, Jonathan Raggett The Courtyard Hereford Rachel Lambert Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes, Hugh Dancy France, 2011, 2 hours 12 minutes, subtitles UK, 2011, 45 minutes USA, 2011, 1 hour 42 minutes
The greatest rock ‘n’ roll concert Friday 2 March 6.15pm, Saturday 3 2.00pm, Tuesday 6 8.15pm Friday 2 March 7.30pm, Saturday 3 7.30pm Festival Drayton Centre Sitting behind the wheel of a documentary of all time, this Wednesday 7 11.00am, The Courtyard Hereford Friday 9 March 11.00am & 5.45pm, Saturday 10 8.30pm, clapped-out mobile library, Harry captures the final performance Sunday 11 3.00pm The Courtyard Hereford Hayman is the easy rider of of The Band when anybody Martha, a hesitant, fearful young woman escapes a rural commune Herefordshire’s remote country and flees to her sister Lucy’s luxurious home. But Martha’s erratic The inspiring story of Aung San Suu Kyi, the reluctant leader of who was anybody came to join lanes. But when his cherished presence strains Lucy’s relationship with her uptight English husband. the non-violent struggle for democracy in Burma and Nobel Peace the party. While Scorsese (who job is jeopardised, can he pull Beautifully composed images blur the boundaries between past and Prize winner. With its terrific central performances, this is a deeply famously started his career out all the stops? present, memories and dreams, as in neatly interwoven flashback we emotional love story that focuses on the great personal cost of her editing Woodstock) inevitably learn just what Martha has been through. A sense of unease hangs years of house arrest, particularly for her ever-supportive husband, focuses on Dylan and The Band, Tuesday 28 February 2.15pm in the air and the creeping tension builds to the pitch of nail-biting Michael, as their happiness together is sacrificed to her pursuit of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Van The Courtyard Hereford Free psychological thriller. Newcomer Olsen thrills with an astonishing a greater good. One of the most courageous political figures of our Morrison, Dr John, Eric Clapton, Man in a Wheelbarrow performance as the damaged Martha in an unusual film that sidesteps times her story makes an interesting contrast to that of our own Muddy Waters all give career- Director: John Humphreys cliché and asks pertinent questions that challenge Lucy’s comfortable Iron Lady. defining performances. With UK, 2011, 45 minutes the legendary survivors of rock’s materialistic assumptions about life. “Heart-breaking, romantic and poignant” Grazia golden age strutting their stuff Trudy, a young American, looks “Olsen gives a sensational performance in a gripping psychological one last time, this is a chance to more like a visiting rock star thriller” Rolling Stone enjoy a living history of rock ‘n’ than an inhabitant of Kington. roll at its peak. She claims that she’s researching Winner Best Director Award Sundance Film Festival 2011 local history, but her story “the most beautiful of rock doesn’t add up. movies, ...the musical highlights Rural Media & BBC Radio Drama ...still astound.” Time Out worked with the communities of Ewyas Harold & Kington to “for fans of Proper Music, ‘The create an innovative project that Last Waltz’ remains the gold combines the mediums of radio standard.” Time Out and film. Funded by Arts Council England 30 / 31 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
Miss Bala (15) A Monster in Paris (U) Mother & Child (15) The Music Lovers (15)
Director: Gerardo Naranjo Director: Bilbo Bergeron Director: Rodrigo Garcia Director: Ken Russell Starring: Stephanie Sigman, With the voices of: Vanessa Paradis, Starring: Naomi Watts, Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Irene Azuela, Miguel Couturier Danny Huston, Sean Lennon Annette Bening, Samuel L Jackson Jackson, Max Adrian, Bruce Robinson Mexico, 2011, 1 hour 53 minutes, subtitles USA, 2011, 1 hour 30 minutes USA, 2010, 2 hours 6 minutes UK, 1970, 2 hours 3 minutes My Dog Tulip (12A) Sunday 4 March 8.00pm, Saturday 25 February 11.30am, Friday 2 March 5.30pm, Friday 9 March 2.30pm Tuesday 6 5.30pm Sunday 26 2.00pm Saturday 3 6.00pm, The Courtyard Hereford Directors: Paul & Sandra Ferlinger The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford Tuesday 6 11.15am With the voices of: Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave, Isabella Rossellini The Courtyard Hereford UK, 2011, 1 hour 23 minutes Vulgar, excessive, melodramatic A fast-paced thriller that reveals From the director of A Shark’s and self-indulgent: Tchaikovsky’s Friday 24 February 7.30pm Ewyas Harold Memorial Hall the impact of the Mexican Tale comes this beautifully Well-observed, emotionally Saturday 25 February 7.30pm Aston on Clun Village Hall & music is indeed all of these drug wars on a beautiful young animated tale that, with its satisfying and with tremendous Lady Emily Hall Tarrington things, yet gloriously so, and woman who happens to be in the misunderstood villain in love performances all round, this Wednesday 29 February 8.00pm The Market Theatre Ledbury the same goes for Russell at his wrong club at the wrong time. with a beautiful young singer, flawlessly interweaves the Saturday 10 March 7.30pm Cawley Hall Eye freewheeling best. Russell’s first When La Estrella drug cartel has echoes of Phantom of the intriguing stories of three composer biopic – a genre that Not just for dog-lovers, this is a charming treat that’s endearingly shoot it up, Laura escapes, but Opera. Paris, 1910. Shy movie women. Karen (Bening at became his trademark at his peak eccentric, yet universally accessible. A touching, resolutely soon falls into their hands. From projectionist, Emile, and her blistering best) is a bitter – is at fever pitch throughout. unsentimental portrait of the highs and lows of life in 1950s Putney then it’s a nightmarish roller colourful inventor, Raoul, are spinster whose life has been Chamberlain plays Tchaikovsky in the company of fusty Alsatian Tulip. It’s full of witty flights of fancy coaster ride through murder, hunting for a monster who is spent regretting the loss of with bug-eyed intensity, while and ironic insights into the relationship between man and his ‘best mayhem, beauty pageants, terrorizing their fellow citizens. the daughter she gave up for Glenda Jackson is at full throttle friend’ that are pitched somewhere between Alan Bennett and George drug-smuggling, sexual slavery, But then they join forces with adoption. Elizabeth, the grown- as his ill-fated wife, Antonina. Orwell. A delightful, exquisitely animated tale that’s narrated with shoot-outs and recrimination Lucille, the big-hearted star of up daughter Karen’s never met The whirling camera, mercurial phlegmy precision by Christopher Plummer who lends the film before she’s dumped on the the Bird of Paradise cabaret, an is an ambitious lawyer who cutting and fantasy interludes a perfectly pitched old-fashioned, well-worn quality, this is streets, somewhat the wiser. The eccentric scientist and his bad- wants total control over her life. capture the music’s heady mood a complete joy from start to finish. girl’s a beauty, the action comes tempered monkey to save the Meanwhile infertile wife Lucy swings. It’s not subtle, but it is thick and fast, the police, army monster from the city’s ruthless turns to adoption as the key to “an absolute delight… gorgeous…” Mail on Sunday all of a piece. The music of course and cartels are all in it together, police chief. A wild, fun romp a happy relationship with her is brilliant. Famously pitched as and a whole country of innocent with an adorable monster! doubtful husband. When Karen “Is My Dog Tulip the best film ever about a dog? Is it Citizen Canine? “the marriage of a homosexual folk seem caught in the crossfire and Elizabeth reach out and My answer, yes. joyously funny…”, Nigel Andrews, Financial Times to an nymphomaniac”, Russell as the inevitable logic of drugs, suppressed emotions surface, often said that Tchaikovsky dollars and gangs plays itself out. some interesting questions about the joy – and pain – saved his life to which of course “at once an exciting thriller of motherhood arise. Tchaikovsky may well have and angry social comment.” replied ‘But you murdered mine!’ Derek Malcolm, This Is London “Dynamite performances” Rolling Stone 32 / 33 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
Mysteries of Lisbon (PG) My Week With Marilyn (15) Director: Raul Ruiz Director: Simon Curtis Starring: Adriano Luz, Maria Joao Bastos, Miguel Pereira Starring: Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne, Judi Dench Portugal/France, 2011, 4 hours 26 minutes, subtitles UK, 2011, 1 hour 38 minutes
Monday 5 March 1.00pm, Thursday 8 2.30pm Monday 27 February 6.00pm, Tuesday 28 11.30am & 8.15pm, Wednesday 29 11.30am & 8.30pm The Courtyard Hereford Saturday 10 6.00pm The Courtyard Hereford
With breathtaking scale and grandeur, this huge film weaves a “The duration is intimidating, At moments hilarious and others touching, this entertaining ‘no “Williams... lends it a touch spell-binding profusion of stories into a magical tapestry of one but the time flies by” business like show business’ story revolves around the shooting of of magic” Time Out man’s life. Always controlled and compelling, in his final film the Philip French, Observer The Prince and the Showgirl starring Sir Laurence Olivier (Branagh) old master Ruiz maintains the narrative drive throughout as he “For those with open minds, and Marilyn Monroe (Williams) in 1956. Lowly assistant Colin “Michelle Williams is examines the complexities of love and marriage. The production the cinema of Ruiz offers (Redmayne) befriends the emotionally fragile screen goddess and sensationally good as the design and costumes are immaculate, the roving camera glides past enormous and unique pleasure.” so gets to see the clash of titanic egos up close and personal. The wilful, brilliantly gifted, deeply gilded women and handsome men at sumptuously beautiful soirees Peter Bradshaw, Guardian Oscar talk has already started for Williams who nails the troubled disturbed Monroe...” to create a symphony of light and colour. Totally immersing you in Monroe’s combination of needy little girl lost, spontaneous actress The Observer another world, this magnificent, mellifluous melodrama is completely and intoxicating sexpot. But it’s Branagh who steals the show as the absorbing, unlike anything you’ve ever seen. vain Olivier whose desire for Marilyn turns to hot indignation at her The film is in two parts, there will be a 15 minute interval after outrageous behaviour. 2 hours
On Monday the screening On Tuesday the screening is sponsored by is sponsored by 34 / 35 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
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Old Dog (PG) Once Upon a Time One Day (12A)
Director: Pema Tseden in Anatolia (15) Director: Lone Scherfig Starring: Lochey, Drolma Kyab, Starring: Anne Hathaway, Tamdrin Tso Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Jim Sturgess, Romola Garai China (Tibet), 2010, Starring: Muhammet Uzuner, Yilmaz USA, 2011, 1 hour 48 minutes 1 hour 33 minutes, subtitles Erdogan, Taner Birsel, Firat Tanis Turkey/Bosnia/Herzegovina, 2011, Tuesday 28 February 7.30pm 2 hours 37 minutes, subtitles Thursday 1 March 6.00pm, The Talbot Theatre Whitchurch Saturday 3 4.00pm Saturday 10 March 7.30pm Saturday 3 March 7.30pm The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford Playhouse Cinema Leominster Saturday 10 March 5.00pm Beautifully shot in the wilds As dusk falls, a convoy makes its Brilley Village Hall of Tibet, this is a droll tale of way across the remote Anatolian Over The Hill? Based on David ‘Starter for Ten’ conflict between a shepherd and steppes. Searching for a body Nicholls’ brilliant book, Scherfig The Rural Media Company’s media campaign to raise awareness of the his son over their old mastiff. in a vast, empty landscape follows An Education with this challenges of growing older in the countryside When ne’er-do-well Gonpo sells it’s a goose chase of a murder delightful tale of two college the dog to preempt it being investigation. Through the night Director: Anne Cottringer Director: Simon Bovey friends who meet once a year 1 hour, 30 minutes including comments 45 minutes including comments and Q&A Funded by stolen, his old Dad rides in to you get to know the harassed to catch up on each other’s and Q&A town to buy it back. But he police chief, urbane prosecutor, Wednesday 29 February 6.00pm lives. July 15th, 1988, Emma finds to his dismay that these city-educated doctor and the Wednesday 29 February 4.00pm The Courtyard and Dexter spend the night The Courtyard Hereford £2, £5 both sessions traditional Tibetan dogs now prophet-like murderer. Playing of their college graduation £4, £5 both sessions command a high price amongst out in what feels like real time, together. She’s an ambitious Fiction writer and commentator, rich Chinese. After many the shambolic, sometimes comic Aggie MacKenzie, best known working-class girl who dreams of Mavis Cheek, will introduce a Partners: arguments over the dog’s future inquiry unravels the past and as co-presenter of How Clean is making the world a better place. moving short film highlighting the old man finally decides to turns into a richly rewarding Your House, but also a member of He’s a wealthy charmer who some of the perils of rural take matters into his own hands. meditation on the strangeness the influential HAPPI (Housing dreams that the world will be his living. Doreen Mantle (One Foot A direct, deeply authentic tale of love and marriage, life and our Ageing Population: Panel playground. They experience life in the Grave) plays Maisie, an of life in Tibet that is both death. for Innovation) initiative will through laughter and romance, elderly widow who tries to sell humorous and heart-breaking. introduce four inspirational films heartbreak and exhilaration, and her isolated country cottage “A brilliant, masterly film” about best practice in rural older “This is a completely convincing for the next two decades, every to a middle-aged couple from Peter Bradshaw, Guardian people’s services drawn from blend of naturalistic detail and July 15th we see how they are Birmingham. around England. bigger-picture metaphors for Regional premiere faring, as their friendship ebbs WATCH AGAIN AT the strains of life in a changing and flows with the passing of www.overthehillfilm.org.uk Tibet.” London Film Festival the years. 36 / 37 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
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Patience Pina (U) Poetry (12A)
(After Sebald) (12A) Director: Wim Wenders Director: Lee Changdong Starring: Pina Bausch Starring: Yun Junghee, Director: Grant Gee Germany, 2010, 1 hour 44 minutes, David Lee, Kim Hira Starring: Tacita Dean, subtitles South Korea, 2010, 2 hours 19 minutes, Robert Macfarlane, Andrew Motion, subtitles Iain Sinclair, Marina Warner Friday 9 March 8.00pm UK, 2012, 1 hour 23 minutes The Market Theatre Ledbury Friday 2 March 8.00pm Presteigne Film Society Monday 5 March 6.15pm, Tuesday 6 4.00pm A mysterious, submersive and The Courtyard Hereford captivating tribute to German Widely selected by critics dance pioneer Pina Bausch. worldwide as one of the best This is no conventional An intuitive, collaborative artist films of last year, this is the Resistance (PG) documentary about a literary of few words – ‘Dance for love,’ funny, unsentimental story of Mija, an older woman who as a Director: Amit Gupta figure but an imaginative was one of the few instructions Starring: Michael Sheen, Andrea Riseborough, Iwan Rheon interpretation of the hugely a dancer received from Bausch helper for an elderly disabled UK, 2011, 1 hour 32 minutes influential WG Sebald’s in years of working with her. man spends her life looking after others, including her teenage Friday 24 February 7.30pm Dorstone Village Hall extraordinary book, The Rings Her memory is mostly honoured Saturday 25 February 7.30pm Moccas Village Hall of Saturn, his account of a walk here through beautifully filmed grandson, Wook. One day she Sunday 26 February 7.30pm Leintwardine Community Centre along the crumbling coastline performances in which the impulsively joins a poetry class Monday 27 February 7.30pm Bedstone & Hopton Castle Village Hall Wednesday 29 February 8.00pm Escleyside Hall Michaelchurch Escley of East Anglia. Personal and dancers interact with the camera and takes to heart the tutor’s advice to see more intensely Thursday 1 March 7.30pm Brilley Village Hall public histories overlap and as if it’s a performer, not an Friday 2 March 7.30pm Dilwyn Cedar Hall what’s around her. When she interweave in space and time as interloper. The beauty of the film Friday 9 March 7.30pm Cawley Hall Eye award-winning documentary- is that its imagery has the same learns that Wook is implicated in Saturday 10 March 7.30pm Lady Emily Hall Tarrington maker Grant Gee (Joy Division) essential and wryly funny quality a classmate’s suicide she finds Saturday 10 March 8.00pm The Market Theatre Ledbury brings together images and as Bausch’s work itself. Some herself being pressurised into Set in 1944 in German-occupied Britain, this is the story of the “Composed and atmospheric, passages from the book, film will come to this film full of doing something terrible. This women of an isolated village who wake up to discover that their painterly in detail, it draws footage, maps, interviews and knowledge of Bausch. For others, raises questions about what husbands have all mysteriously vanished to become part of the secret you into a forgotten valley” commentary in an acutely it will be as fresh and novel as life is all about in a way that British resistance. With their sudden absence, the women regroup as Francine Stock, BBC Radio 4 melancholic evocation of place. Wenders’s approach to turning reaffirms one’s faith in cinema. an remote, all-female community and wait, hoping for news. When Film Programme dance into cinema. Both will find On Monday producer Gareth “daring in the ways only quiet, a German patrol arrives in the valley, the severe winter forces the it entrancing and truly inspiring. Evans will introduce the film and unhurried but finally haunting women to co-operate with them and a fragile mutual dependency Owen Sheers and members answer questions of the cast and crew will be “an immensely attractive film” films have the courage to be” develops. Based on Owen Sheers’ widely-acclaimed novel, much of present at some screenings, Philip French, Guardian Los Angeles Times the film was shot locally in the Olchon valley and on locations around see p.6/7 for details Herefordshire and Monmouthshire. 38 / 39 A – Z Film Index CentralCentral BoxBox OfficeOffice 0143201432 340555340555 // www.borderlinesfilmfestival.orgwww.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
The Rum Diary (15) Same But Different A Screaming Man (PG)
Director: Bruce Robinson Friday 2 March 10.00am Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Starring: Johnny Depp, The Point4 Hereford FREE Starring: Youssouf Djaoro, Amber Heard, Richard Jenkins Diouc Koma, Emilie Abossolo M’Bo USA, 2011, 2 hours To book, call Rural Media Chad/France/Belgium, 2010, 01432 344039 1 hour 31 minutes, subtitles Friday 2 March 2.30pm, Thursday 8 2.00pm The popular and persistent Wednesday 29 February 8.00pm The Courtyard Hereford myth of the countryside as a Bishops Castle Film Society rural idyll relies largely upon An amusing, from-the-heart A remarkable, beautifully ‘visible communities’. Same But tribute to Hunter S Thompson understated film, with its Different, produced over the last before he invented Gonzo evocative score and striking two years in Herefordshire by The A Separation (PG) journalism. Depp plays imagery, this is made with a Rural Media Company, challenges Director: Asghar Farhadi Thompson’s alter ego (as he quiet assurance that builds to such lazy representations and Starring: Leila Hatami, Peyman Moaadi, Shahab Hosseini did in Fear and Loathing): Paul a well-earned climax. In Chad, Iran, 2011, 2 hours 3 minutes, subtitles reveals a countryside rich in Kemp, a failed 30-year-old Champ, the pool guy at a Western social and cultural diversity. You Friday 24 February 8.00pm The Market Theatre Ledbury novelist who washes up in the hotel, is replaced by his son are invited to watch a selection Wednesday 29 February 7.00pm St Mary’s Church Hall Ross office of a two-bit tourist rag when new Chinese owners take of these powerful short films in Puerto Rico. The story of over. In his rage and resentment which raise pressing questions Superbly acted from an excellent script, this plunges you into life in “You won’t see a more absorbing drunken good times with other he doesn’t pay his dues to the about equality and fairness, Tehran and tricks you into believing it’s unfolding in real time. Even film all year.” Daily Mirror reprobate hacks is stoked by a local District Chief and so allows and to discuss with a panel though what it doesn’t show is as important to its ethically teasing run-in with a corrupt property his son to be drafted into the of experts, including Romany dynamic as what it reveals. Simin wants to divorce Nader so she can Winner of Golden Bear for Best developer and his distractingly army to fight in the civil war. journalist, Damian Le Bas, how leave Iran, while he insists she must stay and help him look after his Film at Berlin Film Festival 2011 gorgeous girlfriend. Robinson A decision he soon regrets but our communities can become old Dad. Small decisions have big repercussions and you’re never sure makes the most of the exotic is powerless to change. Haroun more inclusive. who’s right or wrong as we see the story from various viewpoints. locations, sweaty bars, some offer a wise parable about This lively, suspenseful drama ranges over notions of justice, honour, witty lines and rum-soaked Funded by the Equality and ageing, pride and conflict in truth, duty, the status of wives and the impact of secrets and lies on crazy scrapes to fashion an Human Rights Commission and modern Africa, filtering these their young daughters. A stunning piece of work that beautifully tells affectionate portrait of a writer supported by Herefordshire grand themes into the most Council Diversity Team, this new personal, heartfelt of stories. a raw human story. finding his feet. awareness raising film resource will be launched by the Right “an intelligent, good-looking “funny as hell in places and Worshipful Mayor of Hereford, touchingly warm.” Time Out Councillor Julie Woodward. film... that confirms Haroun as one of Africa’s leading filmmakers.” Time Out 40 / 41 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
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The Skin I Live In (15)
Director: Pedro Almodóvar Starring: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes Spain, 2011, 2 hours, subtitles Stella Days (12A) Monday 27 February 7.30pm The Edge Much Wenlock Director: Thaddeus O’Sullivan Wednesday 7 March 7.30pm Starring: Martin Sheen, Stephen Rea, Marcella Plunkett Leintwardine Community Centre Ireland, 2011, 1 hour 26 minutes Wednesday 7 March 8.00pm Almodóvar exhibits all his usual The Courtyard Hereford playfulness in this dazzling Shame (18) psychosexual thriller. The A sweet tale of Daniel Barry (Sheen), a priest stuck in the depths of Director: Steve McQueen wild events and plot twists are the Irish countryside, whose battle to open a cinema in the parish Starring: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale UK, 2011, 1 hour 41 minutes anchored by both his meticulous hall leads him to question his faith. It’s 1956 and the mean-spirited, direction and a charismatic turn mealy-mouthed local M.P (Rea at his most winningly miserable) is Monday 27 February 8.15pm, Tuesday 28 6.00pm, Wednesday 29 6.15pm from Banderas as a tragic figure determined to prevent the spread of wickedness and immorality. The Courtyard Hereford touched by evil. Banderas plays Daniel, with his passion for the cinema, is the unlikely agent of a plastic surgeon whose skills change in a remote rural community, inward-looking and fearful Like Steve McQueen’s previous film, Hunger, this is a beautifully “This is fluid, rigorous, serious with the knife allow him to take of the modern world outside. This endearing story of the conflict composed, immensely powerful film that will not be to everyone’s cinema; the best kind of adult control of a supremely messy between love and duty, hope and faith, will surely be relished taste. Both also feature extraordinary performances from Michael movie.” Guardian personal life. He lives in a stylish by anyone who enjoys the cinema and the flight from the petty Fassbender that fearlessly explore the outer limits of male behaviour. villa with his loyal housekeeper, frustrations of life it represents. Here he plays Brandon, a slick but angst-ridden corporate exec on a Winner of Best Actor Award but keeps a beautiful young journey of sexual exploration. There’s a barely repressed self-loathing Venice Film Festival 2011 woman, Vera locked in a room. as he incessantly watches internet porn, pays for prostitutes, and Banderas puts in a commanding The screening is sponsored by picks up both men and women for casual sex. His anger explodes performance in a film doubly in his prickly relationship with his vulnerable younger sister who interesting in it’s artful study of crashes into his finely ordered life. This probing portrait of a spirit in masks and identities, sex and free-fall and courageous examination of the nature of desire confirms flesh, bodies and power. McQueen as the UK’s most interesting filmmaker. “a wonderfully strange, oddly Please note this film contains full-frontal male nudity and scenes sexy and attractively perverse of an explicit sexual nature mystery.” Time Out 42 / 43 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
Student Showcase Sunrise: A Song Surviving Life (15) Take Shelter (15)
Short films by Film and of Two Humans (U) Director: Jan Svankmajer Director: Jeff Nichols Starring: Vaclav Helsus, Starring: Michael Shannon, Video students at Hereford Director: F. W. Murnau Klara Issova, Zuzana Stivinova Jessica Chastain, Tova Stewart College of Arts and the Starring: George O’Brien, Czech Republic, 2011, 1 hour 44 minutes, USA, 2011, 2 hours 1 minute The Stonemason’s Tale (U) University of Worcester Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston subtitles USA, 1927, 1 hour 35 minutes, B/W, silent Monday 5 March 8.30pm, Directors: JDA Media Sunday 26 February 6.15pm, Tuesday 6 2.30pm, Thursday 1 March 11.00am Thursday 1 March 11.30am UK, 2011, 45 minutes Tuesday 28 4.00pm Wednesday 7 4.15pm The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford Wednesday 7 March 6.45pm The Courtyard Hereford FREE The undisputed pinnacle of silent £4, Concs £3, Family Ticket £12 Master surrealist animator Curtis is a good man with Special Schools Group Discount £20 for 10 A screening of short films from cinema, this lyrical masterpiece Svankmajer’s most imaginative a good life, loving wife, sweet current students and recent from the director of Nosferatu and subversive film since his kid, but b-a-a-ad dreams. But An imaginative project exploring the historical and spiritual graduates on the BA (Hons) is a study of betrayal, love and fabulous Alice. An office drone are his nightmares the start connections between the Cathedral Close and the people of Hereford Film and Screen Media Course reconciliation. Seduced by a strikes up an affair with a of a psychotic breakdown or culminated in a huge, colourful pageant bringing gargoyles and past at Hereford College of Arts and vamp from the city, a simple gorgeous woman in red. They premonitions of an apocalypse? figures to life. In the build-up to the day of festivities last summer, the BA (Hons) Digital Film man from the country plans to rendezvous in his dreams. He Michael Shannon gives a the majority of Herefordshire’s 11-14 year olds were involved in a Production at the University murder his wife. However, when discovers a way he can play out towering performance as the series of memorable activities and events run by specialist artists of Worcester. This selection they reach town the couple his fantasy but the more he touchingly vulnerable guy, and tutors. This captures the children’s commitment and enthusiasm includes documentary, fiction, rediscover their love for each does so, the more the swarms of determined to protect his family to bringing show-stopping performances of dance, music and drama experimental film, animation other in a dazzling jazz age eccentric erotic symbols (smashed come what may, but unsure that to the Cathedral. and music videos – a wealth sequence. Murnau’s ‘unchaining melons, broken eggs, a teddy he’s not the biggest threat of of films that will stimulate, of the camera’ transformed the bear with a giant phallus) start all. Tackling a central question provoke and entertain. movies. His greatness lies in to take on a life of their own. of our times – who are the real the way he allows audiences Duration 1 hour Dazzling the eye with animation crazies? Those who prepare for to experience reality and that falls somewhere between the worst, or those who carry on imagination simultaneously. With South Park, Yellow Submarine regardless? The tension builds to its dreamlike realism and simple, and Terry Gilliam, Svankmajer a final scene that will no doubt intense images of unequalled humorously harnesses the skewed provoke much debate. beauty, this is an enchanting workings of the subconscious to cinematic experience. create a film like no other. “An impressively sustained slow-burn parable..., shot with “The late silent era was a utopia “Only the fusion of dreams and ominous beauty” Daily Telegraph of a sort – a universal language, reality can make up a complete like painting or music” human life.” Georg Christoph Winner Critics Week Grand Prize Michel Hazanavicius Lichtenberg Cannes Film Festival 2011 44 / 45 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
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Tomboy (U)
Director: Celine Sciamma Starring: Zoe Heran, Malonn Levana, Jeanne Disson France, 2011, 1 hour 22 minutes, subtitles Think Global, Act Rural (PG) Tuesday 28 February 8.00pm Director: Coline Serreau Garway Village Hall Starring: Vandana Shiva, Pierre Rabhi, Ana Primavesi Wednesday 7 March 7.30pm France, 2010, 1 hour 53 minutes, subtitles Playhouse Cinema Leominster Sunday 11 March 5.00pm The Courtyard Hereford Tomboy Laure moves to a Tales of the Night (PG) This radical, exhilarating documentary not only digs into the problems new town and passes herself of industrialized agriculture, quizzing farmers and philosophers alike, of as a boy, Mickael. Through Director: Michel Ocelot the long summer holidays With the voices of: Julien Béramis, Marine Griset, Michel Elias but explores concrete local solutions to the global ecological mess. France, 2011, 1 hour 24 minutes, subtitles We are taken on an illuminating journey around the world from French she/he keeps up the pretence farmers co-ops, via landless Brazilian peasants and experimental farms while running with the local Saturday 3 March 11.30am & 4.15pm, Sunday 4 2.00pm gang in the woods, swimming, The Courtyard Hereford in India, to the world’s biggest organic farm in Ukraine. What they have in common is the goal of agricultural self-sufficiency by making playing football. With her friend Lisa’s growing attraction the This enchanting, strikingly beautiful film from world famous animator “It has an intoxicating, magical better use of limited resources. A wise, funny, optimistic film that chance is her true identity will be Michel Ocelot (Kirikou and the Sorceress, Azur and Asmar: The Prince’s combination of sharp dialogue, concentrates on the people with positive solutions to the ecological, uncovered. Amidst the tension Quest) weaves together six exotic fables set in Tibet, medieval a dry sense of humour and an financial, and political crises that we all face. there’s a tender exploration of Europe, an Aztec kingdom, the African savannah, and the Land of enchanting sense of pleasure that “Films full of warnings and disasters have been made and have served the pleasures and pain of forging the Dead. History blends with fairytale as we are transported to lands will bewitch you from the start” their purpose, but now it is time to show that solutions do exist,” your own identity. Sciamma has inhabited by dragons, a werewolf, captive princesses, sorcerers, and London Film Festival Coline Serreau an exceptional knack of drawing enormous talking bees – each fable ending with its own ironic, dryly Regional premiere assured performances from her comic twist. Indeed, it’s Ocelot’s sly humour, the gorgeously rendered A panel of speakers will discuss the issues raised by the films and young cast. With its absolutely settings, and the diverse and idiosyncratic stories that makes this relate them to the situation in Hereford flawless central performance, this suitable for both children and adults. Regional premiere is the most moving film about childhood I’ve seen in years. Thanks to Film Club, (www.filmclub.org) for their support with our The screening is sponsored by special schools screenings of Tales of The Night (Tuesday 6 March “One of the great films made by 11.00am) and Just Do It (Tuesday 28 February 11.00am). FILMCLUB adults for adults about children” is an educational charity that helps set up after school film clubs for Little White Lies FREE in state funded schools. 46 / 47 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
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A Useful Life (PG)
Director: Federico Veiroj Starring: Jorge Jellinek, Paola Venditto, Manuel Martinez Carril Uruguay/Spain/The Netherlands, 2010, Tune for the Blood (PG) 1 hour 3 minutes, subtitles, B/W
Director: Anne Cottringer Friday 2 March 4.30pm, UK, 2012, 1 hour 40 minutes Saturday 3 2.15pm, Sunday 26 February 7.30pm, Thursday 1 March 8.15pm, Thursday 8 11.30am Wednesday 7 2.00pm The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford
After the sell-out screening of the Young Farmers work-in-progress at A beguiling romantic comedy for War Horse (12A) cinema lovers. Like The Artist, Borderlines 2010, the final feature length documentary is now here! Director: Steven Spielberg With a richly evocative score composed by legendary bassist Danny this droll tale rejoices in the Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Thewlis USA, 2011, 2 hours 26 minutes Thompson, it follows members of Herefordshire Young Farmers Clubs beauty of black and white, and pastiches silent films, musicals, through the dramas and challenges of the farming year. Breeding the Friday 2 March 8.15pm, Saturday 3 11.00am & 8.30pm, Sunday 4 5.00pm, Monday 5 4.00pm, perfect dairy cow, volatile markets, the threat of TB, laying a good Westerns and classical Hollywood Tuesday 6 8.00pm, Wednesday 7 8.30pm, Thursday 8 11.00am & 8.15pm hedge are all part of the rich texture of this exuberant, lyrical and with a score that delights in The Courtyard Hereford often gritty portrait of a new generation whose connection to the the glories of films past. Single, good-natured and proper to a Herefordshire countryside and the rhythms of the seasons chimes Based on the hugely successful play and Michael Morpurgo’s novel “Genuine in its emotion, fault, Jorge is trying to save with the ‘tune for the blood’ celebrated by the poet John Masefield. this is the deeply moving tale of the bond between Albert and his unflinching in its reality... the Montevideo Cinematheque horse, Joey. Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of effective in its performances, and Hereford premiere where he works and start a World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to imaginative in its storytelling.” tentative relationship with one France to rescue his friend. Set against a sweeping canvas of rural Daily Telegraph of its customers. At a loss when England with the best of British acting talent on display, Spielberg’s he loses his job, Jorge reinvents take on this epic tale is a hugely emotional journey of joy and sorrow, “A cinematic masterpiece” himself as the hero of his own passionate friendship and high adventure. Expect Oscar nods and Daily Mail romantic film. Idiosyncratic tears all round. and highly original, this is a glorious (and delightfully short!) celebration of the place of cinema in our lives. On Friday the screening On Saturday the screening On Tuesday the screening is “an ode to... the transformative is sponsored by is sponsored by sponsored by Mrs Christine Evans power of film.” Sight & Sound 48 / 49 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
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We Have a Pope (PG)
Director: Nanni Moretti Starring: Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Stuhr, Margherita Buy Italy, 2011, 1 hour 42 minutes, subtitles W.E. (15) Monday 27 February 7.30pm, Director: Madonna Tuesday 28 7.30pm Starring: Abbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough, James D’Arcy, Oscar Isaac Ludlow Assembly Rooms USA, 2011, 1 hour 59 minutes Sunday 4 March 2.30pm, Friday 2 March 11.00am & 8.30pm, Saturday 3 8.15pm, Monday 5 1.45pm Sunday 4 6.00pm The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford
Edward’s VIII’s abdication of the British throne is recast as the Part farce, part tragedy, this The Well-Digger’s Daughter (PG) ultimate love story in Madonna’s stylish new version of events. is a light-hearted look at the Director: Daniel Auteuil fallibility and self-doubt that Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Kad Merad, Sabine Azéma Critical opinion is divided; some see it as triumph of style over France, 2011, 1 hour 49 minutes, subtitles substance, while others have heaped praise on the handsome, comes with age. When the very cinematic nature of her bold attempt to move away from the newly-elected Pope finds Friday 24 February 2.00pm & 6.00pm, Sunday 26 4.00pm, Monday 27 4.00pm, Tuesday 28 1.45pm, Wednesday 29 11.00am The Courtyard Hereford conventional heritage drama look. Andrea Riseborough pulls out himself unequal to the task, all the stops as Wallis, the fragile but determined woman who took the Vatican calls in a psychiatrist. on the male establishment single-handed to win the man she But before he can help, the If you enjoyed My Afternoons with Margueritte you’ll love this sun- “Leading the cast, Auteuil seasons loved. Her story is interwoven with that of lonely New Yorker, Pope does a runner. Michel soaked portrait of life in 1940s rural France. Auteuil is at his best the film’s sentiment with truthful Wally Winthrop, whose obsession with Wallis Simpson mounts Piccoli gives a wonderfully as the horny-handed man of the soil, Pascal Amoretti, a well-digger humour,” The Arts Desk as her marriage collapses. sympathetic performance with six daughters, determined to raise them as good, honest as the soul-searching Pontiff Catholics. But his hopes for his favourite, the stunningly beautiful “Fans of Jean de Florette and “W.E. is rather better than expected; it’s bold, confident and crumbling under the weight of Patricia, are disappointed when she becomes pregnant just as her Manon des Sources will be in hog not without amusing moments.” Daily Telegraph expectation and responsibility boyfriend Jacques is sent off to war. Proud and stubborn, Pascal heaven with this one” Time Out thrust upon him. He imbues faces some hard choices about how best to help her. Its glorious his Pope with a level of grief, Provencal setting, polished acting, and a sweeping score by Alexandre disappointment and sad- Desplat (Oscar winner for The King’s Speech) give this a romantic and eyed questing that is wholly authentic charm. beguiling.
“a wry, subtle and moving story” London Film Festival 50 / 51 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org Borderlines May Festival
We Need To Talk When a Woman Whisky Galore! (PG)
About Kevin (15) Ascends the Stairs (PG) Director: Alexander MacKendrick Starring: Joan Greenwood, Gordon Director: Lynne Ramsay Director: Mikio Naruse Jackson, Basil Radford Starring: Tilda Swinton, Starring: Hideko Takamine, UK, 1949, 1 hour 21 minutes John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan UK/USA, 2011, 1 hour 52 minutes Japan, 1960, 1 hour 51 minutes, Saturday 3 March 7.00pm subtitles, B/W Ross St Mary’s Church Hall Saturday 25 February 7.30pm Tuesday 6 March 7.30pm The half-timbered Great Barn at the jewel-like Attfield Theatre Oswestry Thursday 1 March 2.00pm The Sun Inn Leintwardine Friday 9 March 8.00pm The Courtyard Hereford Hellens, near Ledbury, will host a live performance Garway Village Hall Friday 4 to Sunday 20 May of a specially composed soundtrack to accompany This classic Ealing comedy is Less widely-known in the West the beautiful and rare Turksib, a unique event not based on a true incident – the This mesmerising adaptation of than his great contemporaries For us at Borderlines, 2012 will be the year we take to be missed by anyone with an interest in cinema. foundering of a cargo ship off Lionel Shriver’s novel tells the (Ozu, Mizoguchi, Kurosawa) off and seek out new and adventurous locations for a Hebridean island with 50,000 And for the final weekend, we’ll take to the skies at story of Eva, a mother haunted Naruse is an unflinching realist our festival fans. Not, you will be pleased to hear, cases of whisky aboard. The Shobdon Airfield, near Leominster, with screenings by the horrific actions of her whose films often portray a huge in the depths of winter, but in May’s balmy spring islanders of the fictional Todday in the historic World War 2 hangar where glider teenage son who commits a high- empathy for women struggling evenings. Thanks to funding from the Herefordshire smuggle cases of the scotch pilots were trained. Casablanca, reissued for its school massacre. Eva tries to to survive in a treacherous world. Leader programme we can offer a double dollop of from the ship before it goes 70th anniversary and with the best airfield finale in deal with her grief and feelings The most poignant and modern of film festival to celebrate our tenth anniversary. of responsibility by looking back his films, this is a heart-breaking under, and the rest of the film cinema, is a hot favourite. You’ll have a chance to over her son’s upbringing to portrait of the widowed Keiko is taken up with their manic As well as a great range of films at Flicks in the fly over the blossoming apple orchards by booking understand how this could have who supports her family running efforts to hide their booty from Sticks venues, we are bringing back by popular trial flights with The Herefordshire Aero Club happened. How did she become a hostess bar. The smiling mask an interfering English officer demand the fantastic Vintage Moviebus (as seen between screenings, and to hang out at the Nissen the helpless mother of a mass she wears keeps her long- and the Customs and Excise. in the BBC series The Reel History of Britain) for film hut cafe and atmospheric bar. murderer? Ramsay daringly uses suppressed emotions in check but This is great fun with wonderful shows at the Big Apple in the Marcle area. We’re really excited by the opportunity to have the haunting power of image she’s faced with a stark choice characters, beautifully barbed Come and join us in the warm pink sandstone some fun outside the normal confines of the and sound to great effect, while – to marry or raise the money to dialogue, and a typically Ealing courtyard of the National Trust’s neo-classical cinema. So look out for our May Festival brochure, Swinton gives a magnetic, open her own bar. Either way the emphasis on a seditious sense Berrington Hall, with its elegant Henry Holland out soon, with all the details to be revealed at performance as a woman in pressure to sell herself to one of of community. interior, Capability Brown vistas, naval connections www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org. Sign up for our torment who can only wonder her customers is unrelenting. “Beguiling, subversive and and below-stairs servants tour, for the first e-newsletters to get the latest updates. if her child was born evil or a complete joy.” Guardian ever Borderlines outdoor screenings. Family fun raised evil. “Moodily cool in its visuals, and heart-breaking in its portrayal of activities and workshops on early cinema too! “thought-provoking, confident silent rage, this is powerful stuff”
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Hobsons Advert.indd 1 02/02/2011 11:45 56 / 57 Information CentralCentral BoxBox OfficeOffice 0143201432 340555340555 // www.borderlinesfilmfestival.orgwww.borderlinesfilmfestival.org www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org Venue Information Films and events at 36 venues 1. Aston on Clun Village Hall 01588 660545 sy7 8EH £4.00 £2.00 p.12, 31 across 2,000 square miles of Here 36 2. Bedstone & Hopton Castle Village Hall 01547 530282 sy7 0BE £4.00 – p.21, 37 29 and Herefordshire Shropshire and 30 25 3. Bishops Castle Film Society, 01588 680445 sy9 5BW £4.00 £2.00** p.38 the Three Tuns the Marches 35 Now 4. Bishops Castle, SpArC 01588 630243 SY9 5AY £4.00 £2.00 p.14 1. Aston on Clun Village Hall 5. Black Hill picnic site SO 288329 01432 340555 £5.00 – p.7 2. BedstoneFriday & Hopton 26 CFebruaryastle Village Hall (Olchon valley walks) 3. Bishops Castle Film Society, The Three Tuns 4. Bishopsto Sunday Castle, SpArC 14 March 6. Bodenham MParish Hall AP01568 797451*** HR1 3LB £4.00 – p.21, 25 5. Black Hill picnic site SO 288329 28 7. Bosbury Parish Hall 01531 640415 HR8 1PX £4.50 £2.50 p.18 (Olchon valley walks) 6. Bodenham Parish Hall 8. Brilley Village Hall 01544 327227 hr3 6JZ £3.50 £2.50 p.21, 34, 37 7. Bosbury Parish Hall 10 9. Bromyard, Conquest Theatre 01885 488575 HR7 4LL £4.50 £4.00 p.10, 14, 17-18 8. Brilley Village Hall 3 4 10. Church Stretton School 01694 724330*** SY6 6EX £4.00 £2.00 p.21 9. Bromyard, Conquest Theatre 10. church Stretton School 1 11. Dilwyn Cedar Hall 01544 318633*** HR4 8HS £3.50 £2.00 p.7, 37 11. dilwyn Cedar Hall 2 12. dorstone Village Hall 21 12. Dorstone Village Hall 01981 550451 hr3 6AN £4.00 £3.00 p.14, 37 24 13. ewyas Harold Memorial Hall 22 13. Ewyas Harold Memorial Hall 01981 240565*** HR2 0EL £4.00 – p.10, 31 14. eye, Cawley Hall 14. Eye, Cawley Hall 01568 615836 hr6 0DS £5.00 – p.18, 31, 37 15. garway Village Hall 31 16. hereford, The Courtyard 14 15. Garway Village Hall 01600 750461*** HR2 8RQ £4.00 – p.21, 45, 50 17. hereford, The Point4, Venns Lane 32 16. Hereford, The Courtyard 01432 340555 hr4 9JR £6.50 £5.50 p.11-17, 19-24, 18. hereford, WRVS Hall 23 see also p.4 p.26-36, 38, 19. kington, Burton Hotel 19 11 20. Ledbury, The Market Theatre, 6 9 p.40-50 8 18 21. Leintwardine Community Centre 16 17. Hereford, The Point4, Venns Lane 01432 344039 hr1 1DT – – p.38 22. Leintwardine, The Sun Inn 17 7 27 18. Hereford, WRVS Hall Tickets on Door hr1 2QN £4.00 – p.26 23. Leominster, Playhouse Cinema 12 34 the Community Centre 26 20 19. Kington, Burton Hotel 01544 231732 hr5 3BQ £4.00 – p.17 24. Ludlow Assembly Rooms 5 20. Ledbury, The Market Theatre 01531 633345*** HR8 2AQ £4.50 £2.50 p.7-8, 15, 19, 27 25. Market Drayton, Festival Drayton Centre 26. Michaelchurch Escley, Escleyside Hall, p.31, 36-37, 39 13 27. Moccas Village Hall 21. Leintwardine Community Centre 07973 746223*** SY7 0LZ £4.50 £3.00 p.27, 37, 41 28. MuchThe Wenlock, finest The Edge 15 33 22. Leintwardine, The Sun Inn 01432 340555 sy7 0LP £7.50 – p.10 29. Oswestry, Attfield Theatre 30. Oswestry,films The Ironworksavailable 23. Leominster, Playhouse Cinema 01568 612583 hr6 8NJ £5.00 – p.18, 25, 21, 31. Presteigne Film Society, Assembly Rooms p. 34, 45 32. Pudlestonto humanity Village Hall 24. Ludlow Assembly Rooms 01584 878141 sy8 1AZ £6.50 £5.50 p.16-17, 25, 48 33. ross, St Mary’s Church Hall, 34. tarrington, Lady Emily Hall, 25. Market Drayton, Festival Drayton Centre 01630 654444 tf9 3AX £5.00 £4.00 p.12, 28 35. Wem Town Hall 26. Michaelchurch Escley, Escleyside Hall 01981 510696*** HR2 0PT £5.50 £2.50 p.6 36. Whitchurch, The Talbot Theatre 27. Moccas Village Hall 07776 121956*** HR2 9LQ £4.00 £2.00* p.9, 14 28. Much Wenlock, The Edge 01952 728911 tf13 6NB £5.00 £4.00 p.12, 41 29. Oswestry, Attfield Theatre 0845 2500517 sy11 1DY £5.00 £3.00 p.50 30. Oswestry, The Ironworks 0845 2500517 sy11 2SP £5.00 £3.00 p.15 The Limits of Control 31. Presteigne Film Society, Assembly Rooms 01544 370202 LD8 2AN £5.00 p.36 32. Pudleston Village Hall 01568 760606*** HR6 0RA £4.00 – p.20 Wem 33. Ross, St Mary’s Church Hall 01989 720341 hr9 5HR £4.00 £3.00 p.18, 39, 50 Town Hall 34. Tarrington, Lady Emily Hall 01432 890720*** HR1 4EX £4.50 – p.8, 21, 31, 37 Wem 35. Wem Town Hall 01939 238279 sy4 5DG £5.00 £4.50 p.12, 26 Town Hall 36. Whitchurch, The Talbot Theatre 01948 660660 sy13 2BY £4.00 £3.00 p.25, 34 Flicks in the Sticks 01588 620883 Prices are for regular film shows, event prices may vary as indicated in listings * family ticket £10 / ** students / *** enquiries/info only – tickets on door 58 / 59 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
Friday 24 FEBRUARY 4.00 1hr 49’ Surviving Life (15) The Courtyard Hereford
4.15 1hr 5’ the Barley Mow (U) The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 49’ the Well-Digger’s Daughter (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 5.00 1hr hMN Workshop: Emily James in Conversation The Courtyard Hereford 4.15 1hr 15’ Peter Williamson Commemoration The Courtyard Hereford 6.00 1hr 41’ Shame (18) The Courtyard Hereford 6.00 1hr 49’ the Well-Digger’s Daughter (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 6.15 1hr 30’ Just Do It (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 36’ the Guard (15) Bodenham Parish Hall 7.30 1hr 42’ We Have a Pope (PG) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 7.30 1hr 32’ resistance (PG) Dorstone Village Hall 7.30 1hr 48’ one Day (12A) Talbot Theatre Whitchurch 7.30 1hr 23’ My Dog Tulip (12A) Ewyas Harold Memorial Hall 8.00 1hr 22’ tomboy (U) Garway Village Hall 8.00 2hrs 3’ a Separation (PG) The Market Theatre Ledbury 8.15 1hr 38’ My Week With Marilyn (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.30 1hr 40’ the Artist (U) The Courtyard Hereford 8.30 1hr 40’ the Artist (U) The Courtyard Hereford
Saturday 25 February Wednesday 29 February
11.30 1hr 30’ a Monster in Paris (U) The Courtyard Hereford 11.00 1hr 49’ the Well-Digger’s Daughter (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 2.30 1hr 40’ the Artist (U) The Courtyard Hereford 11.30 1hr 38’ My Week With Marilyn (15) The Courtyard Hereford 6.00 3hrs 25’ ernani/Met Opera The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 30’ Just Do It (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 7.00 1hr 45’ Beautiful Lies (12A) St Mary’s Church Hall Ross 2.30 1hr 9’ the Cameraman (U) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 23’ My Dog Tulip (12A) Aston on Clun Village Hall 3.30 1hr 46’ kind Hearts & Coronets (U) The Market Theatre Ledbury 7.30 1hr 32’ resistance (PG) Moccas Village Hall 4.00 90’ over The Hill? The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 52’ We Need To Talk About Kevin (15) Attfield Theatre Oswestry 4.30 58’ classic Cartoons (U) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 23’ My Dog Tulip (12A) Lady Emily Hall Tarrington 6.00 45’ over The Hill? The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1hr 47’ the Adventures of Tintin (PG) Conquest Theatre Bromyard 6.15 1hr 41’ Shame (18) The Courtyard Hereford
7.00 45’ Borderlines: The First 10 Years The Courtyard Hereford Sunday 26 February 7.00 2hrs 3’ a Separation (PG) St Mary’s Church Hall Ross 2.00 1hr 30’ a Monster in Paris (U) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 48’ the Great White Silence (U) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 2.30 2hrs 8’ arrietty (U) The Market Theatre Ledbury 8.00 1hr 32’ resistance (PG) + Owen Sheers Michaelchurch Escley 4.00 1hr 49’ the Well-Digger’s Daughter (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1hr 31’ a Screaming Man (PG) Bishops Castle Film Society 6.15 1hr 49’ Surviving Life (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1hr 23’ My Dog Tulip (12A) The Market Theatre Ledbury 7.30 1hr 40’ tune for the Blood (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1hr 5’ the Barley Mow (U) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 7.30 1hr 5’ the Barley Mow (U) Burton Hotel Kington 8.15 1hr 40’ the Artist (U) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 32’ resistance (PG) Leintwardine Comm. Centre 8.30 1hr 38’ My Week With Marilyn (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.30 1hr 40’ the Artist (U) The Courtyard Hereford Thursday 1 March
Monday 27 February 10.00 2hrs 30’ olchon valley walk Black Hill picnic site 2.00 1hr 29’ l’Atalante (U) The Courtyard Hereford 10.00 6hrs 30’ World Book Day The Courtyard Hereford 2.15 1hr the Marches: Fearless Librarian Saves the Day The Courtyard Hereford 11.00 1hr Student Showcase The Courtyard Hereford 4.00 1hr 49’ the Well-Digger’s Daughter (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 11.30 1hr 35’ Sunrise (U) The Courtyard Hereford 4.15 1hr 5’ the Barley Mow (U) The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 51’ When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 6.00 1hr 38’ My Week With Marilyn (15) The Courtyard Hereford 2.30 1hr 40’ the Artist (U) The Courtyard Hereford 6.15 1hr 47’ hunky Dory (15) The Courtyard Hereford 4.30 58’ classic Cartoons (U) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 32’ resistance (PG) Bedstone & Hopton Castle 6.00 1hr 33’ old Dog (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 42’ We Have a Pope (PG) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 7.00 3hrs 15’ the Comedy of Errors/NT Live Aston on Clun Village Hall 7.30 2hrs the Skin I Live In (15) The Edge Much Wenlock 7.00 3hrs 15’ the Comedy of Errors/NT Live Festival Drayton Centre 7.30 1hr 30’ Just Do It (12A) The Ironworks Oswestry 7.00 3hrs 15’ the Comedy of Errors/NT Live The Edge Much Wenlock 8.15 1hr 41’ Shame (18) The Courtyard Hereford 7.00 3hrs 15’ the Comedy of Errors/NT Live Wem Town Hall 8.30 1hr 40’ the Artist (U) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 32’ resistance (PG) Brilley Village Hall 7.30 1hr 36’ the Guard (15) Talbot Theatre Whitchurch Tuesday 28 February 8.15 1hr 40’ tune for the Blood (PG) The Courtyard Hereford
11.00 1hr 30’ Film Club: Just Do It (12A) +EJ Q&A The Courtyard Hereford Friday 2 March 11.30 1hr 38’ My Week With Marilyn (15) The Courtyard Hereford 1.45 1hr 49’ the Well-Digger’s Daughter (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 10.00 6hrs Same But Different The Point4 Hereford 2.15 1hr the Marches: Man in a Wheelbarrow The Courtyard Hereford 11.00 1hr 59’ W.E. (15) The Courtyard Hereford 60 / 61 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
2.00 1hr 57’ the Last Waltz (U) The Courtyard Hereford 6.15 1hr 24’ Patience (After Sebald) (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 2.30 2hrs the Rum Diary (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.00 3hrs 15’ the Comedy of Errors/NT Live The Courtyard Hereford 4.30 1hr 3’ a Useful Life (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 44’ the Debt (15) Church Stretton School 5.30 2hrs 6’ Mother & Child (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 36’ the Guard (15) Playhouse Leominster 6.15 1hr 42’ Martha Marcy May Marlene (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 40’ the Artist (U) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 7.00 1hr 47’ the Adventures of Tintin (PG) SpArC Bishops Castle 8.30 2hrs 1’ take Shelter (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 45’ Beautiful Lies (12A) Bosbury Parish Hall 7.30 1hr 32’ resistance (PG) Dilwyn Cedar Hall Tuesday 6 March
7.30 1hr 45’ Beautiful Lies (12A) Cawley Hall Eye 11.00 1hr 24’ Film Club: Tales of the Night (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 12’ the Lady (12A) Festival Drayton Centre 11.15 2hrs 6’ Mother & Child (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr in Glorious Technicolor – Francine Stock Lady Emily Hall Tarrington 2.00 1hr 15’ the Edge of the World (U) The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 2hrs 19’ Poetry (12A) Presteigne Film Society 2.30 2hrs 1 take Shelter (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.15 2hrs 26’ War Horse (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 4.00 1hr 24’ Patience (After Sebald) (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 8.30 1hr 59’ W.E. (15) The Courtyard Hereford 5.30 1hr 53’ Miss Bala (15) The Courtyard Hereford
6.15 1hr 26’ las Acacias (12A) The Courtyard Hereford Saturday 3 March 7.30 1hr 40’ the Artist (U) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 11.00 2hrs 26’ War Horse (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 21’ Whisky Galore! (PG) The Sun Inn Leintwardine 11.30 1hr 24’ tales of the Night (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 2hrs 26’ War Horse (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 42’ Martha Marcy May Marlene (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1hr 44’ the Debt (15) Garway Village Hall 2.15 1hr 3’ a Useful Life (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 8.15 1hr 42’ Martha Marcy May Marlene (15) The Courtyard Hereford 4.00 1hr 33’ old Dog (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 4.15 1hr 24’ tales of the Night (PG) The Courtyard Hereford Wednesday 7 March
6.00 2hrs 6’ Mother & Child (15) The Courtyard Hereford 10.30 1hr 15’ enigma Express (U) The Courtyard Hereford 6.15 1hr 26’ las Acacias (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 11.00 1hr 40’ the Artist (U) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 7.00 1hr 21’ Whisky Galore! (PG) St Mary’s Church Hall Ross 11.00 1hr 42’ Martha Marcy May Marlene (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 29’ Jack Goes Boating (15) WRVS Hall Hereford 2.00 1hr 40’ tune for the Blood (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 48’ one Day (12A) Playhouse Leominster 2.15 3hrs 10’ les Enfants du Paradis (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 12’ the Lady (12A) Festival Drayton Centre 4.15 2hrs 1’ take Shelter (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 15’ Bruce Robinson in Conversation Moccas Village Hall 6.00 1hr 33’ Breathing (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 44’ the Debt (15) Lady Emily Hall Tarrington 6.45 1hr 15’ the Stonemason’s Tale (U) The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1hr 13’ the Cabinet of Dr Caligari (U) + Cipher The Market Theatre Ledbury 7.30 2hrs the Skin I Live In (15) Leintwardine Comm. Centre 8.15 1hr 59’ W.E. (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 22’ tomboy (U) Playhouse Leominster 8.30 2hrs 26’ War Horse (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 40’ the Artist (U) Ludlow Assembly Rooms
8.00 1hr 5’ the Barley Mow (U) Conquest Theatre Bromyard Sunday 4 March 8.00 1hr 26’ Stella Days (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1 hr 24’ tales of the Night (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 8.30 2hrs 26’ War Horse (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1 hr 30’ Behind the Scenes at The Archers Ewyas Harold Memorial Hall 2.30 1 hr 42’ We Have a Pope (PG) The Courtyard Hereford Thursday 8 March
4.00 1 hr 26’ las Acacias (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 11.00 2hrs 26’ War Horse (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 5.00 2 hrs 26’ War Horse (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 11.30 1hr 3’ a Useful Life (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 6.00 1 hr 59’ W.E. (15) The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 2hrs the Rum Diary (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1 hr 44’ the Debt (15) Bedstone & Hopton Castle 2.00 1hr 40’ the Artist (U) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 7.30 1 hr 30’ Behind the Scenes at The Archers Conquest Theatre Bromyard 2.30 2hrs Mysteries of Lisbon (PG) Part 1 The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1 hr 53’ Miss Bala (15) The Courtyard Hereford 4.30 58’ classic Cartoons (U) The Courtyard Hereford 8.30 1 hr 57’ the Last Waltz (U) The Courtyard Hereford 4.45 2hrs 26’ Mysteries of Lisbon (PG) Part 2 The Courtyard Hereford
5.00 1hr 45’ the Iron Lady (12A) Wem Town Hall Monday 5 March 6.00 1hr 35’ the Eagle Hunter’s Son (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 1.00 2hrs Mysteries of Lisbon (PG) Part 1 The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 40’ the Artist (U) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 1.45 1hr 42’ We Have a Pope (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 37’ anda Union: From the Steppes to the City (PG) The Ironworks Oswestry 3.15 2hrs 26’ Mysteries of Lisbon (PG) Part 2 The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 20’ cave of Forgotten Dreams (U) Pudleston Village Hall 4.00 2hrs 26’ War Horse (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 45’ the Iron Lady (12A) Wem Town Hall 62 / 63 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
8.00 1hr 40’ Four Days Inside Guantánamo (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.15 2hrs 26’ War Horse (12A) The Courtyard Hereford Farewell from Friday 9 March
11.00 2hrs 12’ the Lady (12A) The Courtyard Hereford David Gillam 11.15 1hr 55’ the Descendants (15) The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 20’ carnage (15) The Courtyard Hereford “After 10 years I feel the time has come for me to pass on the 2.30 2hrs 3’ the Music Lovers (15) The Courtyard Hereford immensely rewarding job of programming Borderlines Film Festival 4.00 1hr 37’ anda Union: From the Steppes to the City (PG) The Courtyard Hereford to someone else. I have greatly enjoyed what we have achieved over 5.45 2hrs 12’ the Lady (12A) The Courtyard Hereford the past decade: Borderlines is now established as one of the annual 6.15 1hr 20’ carnage (15) The Courtyard Hereford high points of the arts in Herefordshire and Shropshire. Thanks 7.30 1hr 44’ the Debt (15) Bodenham Parish Hall to the wonderful support of our audiences the festival has grown 7.30 1hr 47’ the Adventures of Tintin (PG) Dorstone Village Hall steadily to a point we could not have imagined back in 2003. 7.30 1hr 32’ resistance (PG) Cawley Hall Eye 7.30 1hr 45’ Beautiful Lies (12A) Playhouse Leominster Borderlines may now be the longest festival in the UK, certainly it 8.00 1hr 52’ We Need To Talk About Kevin (15) Garway Village Hall covers a wider area than any other and could well be the largest 8.00 1hr 44’ Pina (U) The Market Theatre Ledbury rural film festival in Europe. Thanks to the enterprising work of my 8.15 2hrs 8’ amigo (15) The Courtyard Hereford colleagues the future looks promising, even in these uncertain times. 8.30 1hr 55’ the Descendants (15) The Courtyard Hereford It thus seems a good moment to bow out. I look forward to spending more time ‘just watching the river flow’ and perhaps one day sitting Saturday 10 March in a cinema to watch a film without the pressure of needing to judge whether it’s ‘good enough for Borderlines’.” 9.30 4hrs upper Olchon valley and Black Hill walk Black Hill picnic site 2.00 1hr 35’ the Eagle Hunter’s Son (PG) The Courtyard Hereford David Gillam 2.30 1hr 55’ the Descendants (15) The Courtyard Hereford Borderlines ‘Artistic Director 4.00 1hr 20’ carnage (15) The Courtyard Hereford in Honourable Retirement’ 5.00 1hr 37’ anda Union: From the Steppes to the City (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 5.00 1hr 48’ one Day (12A) Brilley Village Hall 6.00 1hr 38’ My Week With Marilyn (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 44’ the Debt (15) Brilley Village Hall 7.30 1hr 23’ My Dog Tulip (12A) Cawley Hall Eye 7.30 2hr 37’ once Upon a Time in Anatolia (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 44’ the Debt (15) Playhouse Leominster 7.30 1hr 47’ the Adventures of Tintin (PG) Moccas Village Hall 7.30 1hr 32’ resistance (PG) Lady Emily Hall Tarrington 8.00 1hr 32’ resistance (PG) The Market Theatre Ledbury 8.30 2hrs 12’ the Lady (12A) The Courtyard Hereford
Sunday 11 March
2.00 2hrs 12’ the Lady (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 3.00 3hrs 35’ le Corsaire/Bolshoi Ballet The Courtyard Hereford 5.00 1hr 53’ think Global, Act Rural (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 45’ Beautiful Lies (12A) Conquest Theatre Bromyard 7.30 1hr 20’ carnage (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 46’ kind Hearts & Coronets (U) Leintwardine Comm. Centre 8.00 1hr 55’ the Descendants (15) The Courtyard Hereford
World Book Day We are teaming up with our sponsor Aardvark Books to celebrate World Book Day at The Courtyard Hereford. Come Thursday 1 March 10.30am – 5.00pm The Courtyard Hereford along to browse and buy books on cinema, childrens books and great literature associated with our Festival films! 64design / 64elfen.co.ukA – Z Film Index
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