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MAGAZINE WOMEN WITHOUT MEN SEPTEMBER... “possiblyBritain’smost beautifulcinema...”(BBC) SEPTEMBER 2010 Issue 66 01442 877759 www.therexberkhamsted.com Mon-Sat 10.30-6pm Sun 4.30-6.30pm To advertise email [email protected] INTRODUCTION Gallery 4-7 BEST IN SEPTEMBER September Evenings 9 Coming Soon 23 September Films at a glance 23 September Matinees 25 Rants and Pants 42-45 SEAT PRICES: Circle £8.00 Concessions £6.50 At Table £10.00 Concessions £8.50 Royal Box (seats 6) £12.00 A gay Peruvian fisherman ghost story! or for the Box £66.00 Colombia, France, Germany, Peru 2010. All matinees £5, £6.50, £10 (box) Undertow Tue 7 7.30 BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 Mon to Sat 10.30 – 6.00 FILMS OF THE MONTH Sun 4.30 – 6.30 Disabled and flat access: through the gate on High Street (right of apartments) Some of the girls and boys you see at the Box Office and Bar: Rosie Abbott Helen Miller Julia Childs Malcolm More Nicola Darvell Liam Parker Lindsey Davies Hannah Pedder Holly Gilbert Izzi Robinson Katie Golder Amberly Rose Ollie Gower Georgia Rose A cool, vulnerable, searing Kristen S T Beth Hannaway Diya Sagar France 2009. Lucy Hood Alice Spooner Leaving Sun 5 6.00 / Mon 6 7.30 Natalie Jones Liam Stephenson Amelia Kellett Tina Thorpe Abbie Knight Jack Whiting Bethany McKay Olivia Wilson Simon Messenger Keymea Yazdanian Ushers: Abigail K, Ally, Billie, Charlotte, Ellie, Emma, James, Kitty, Lucy, Luisa, Lydia K, Romy, Roz, Sid Sally Thorpe In charge Alun Rees Chief projectionist (Original) Jon Waugh 1st assistant projectionist Martin Coffill Part-time assistant projectionist Jacquie Rose Chief Box Office & Bar Oliver Hicks Best Boy Becca Ross Best Girl Back by demand: Fabulous French Fun Jemma Gask Key Grip France 2010. Michael Glasheen Gaffer Heartbreaker Wed 15 / Thu 16 7.30 Jane Clucas & Lynn Hendry PR/Marketing/FoH Andrew Dixon Resident Artist Darren Flindall Maintenance Paul Fullagar, Alan Clooney Advisors and Investors Ed Mauger Genius Demiurge Design Designers 01296 632366 Lynn Hendry Advertising 01442 877999 James Hannaway CEO 01442 877999 Betty Patterson Company Secretary and THE ORIGINAL VISIONARY of The Rex. The Rex Zesty, engaging, frisky. Je Taime… High Street (Three Close Lane) France, USA 2010. Gainsbourg Berkhamsted HP4 2FG www.therexberkhamsted.com Sun 12 6.00 / Tue 14 7.30 4 Box Office: 01442 877759 GALLERY ICE CREAM, YOU SCREAM, WE ALL SCREAM...WOW! Sad to see the Bloc go…Wed 28th July The BLOC was a fabulous café on the best corner of Berkhamsted. Ten years on it spawned more sandwich shops than you can shake a bread van at. Long before that Mick ‘Mills’ had a running ad in the Gazette with two mugshots, asking in bold print “would you buy a tin of paint from these men?” I remember it well as one of the best reasons never to paint again, preferring the squalor of peeling wallpaper and kids with rickets. It was a piece of ironic genius. You knew immediately they were the kind to sell you two left shoe laces. Now he’s opened an ice-cream parlour in the wet dog-days of late summer in an English market town furthest from the sea. Another stroke of ironic genius? No doubt! Then chief executive of Mills Decorating Supplies in Apsley and long before he t Ice cream, you scream, we all scream… Wow! Fri 13 August. GALLERY www.therexberkhamsted.com 5 ‘retired’ into ice cream, Mick supplied all the paint and every brush and tool to go with it, during the restoration of The Rex. Without a second thought he gave us everything we needed to make the Rex the black and gold palace it is now. He saved us tens of £thousands and never asked anything in return. He’s only been twice and fell asleep both times due to toxic fumes coming off the ceiling. He is one of the seven unsung heroes of the Rex restoration - a true gem. Paint – ice cream: what’s the difference? His SCOOPS is a breath of fresh (inland) air. But would you buy a…? Check your laces on the way out and don’t lean against the walls in your best suit. Colour blind 21st July Well, would you buy an ice cream… 13th Aug Nearly there. Chrissy and Becky’s smiles say the rest… 10th Aug 6 Box Office: 01442 877759 GALLERY WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY...? e haven’t done our best, we again on the ‘advice’ of an haven’t even done enough. INDEPENDENT INSPECTOR! Who WBut it seems there’s nothing can trust these spineless petty politicians anyone’s best can do when pitted against and their ambitious advisors. The Town determined developers who know the Hall was quoted as saying it was “very planning game inside out. The rules are disappointed” at what will become a so easy to manipulate, they don’t even “mini estate” of five three-storey blocks have to break them. All they have to do of flats, 11 houses with parking for 100 is be patient as one objection after cars. “Disappointed”! Well done to all another is eroded. Until finally the you guardians of the welfare and best planning inspectorate based in Bristol, interests of the town, Green Belts, therefore knows nothing about this or Conservation Areas and Areas of any other area outside Avon, comes to Outstanding Natural Beauty. We’d do overturn objections within the law. They better with Shrek. You shouldn’t stand if don’t have to know. Theirs is cold you don’t know how to beat them. No is paperwork. Dacorum Development the first thing. The next is sticking to it. Control rejected all these proposals in Slap preservation orders on every tree in June 2009. But a year later Inspector the area then bring everything into the Martin Pike arrived to overrule the conservation area and uphold it. Tell your Council, stating “there would be no great paid officers to get up and get on with it. harm and the development would be And while you haven’t been able to stop positive for the area” (Gazette 4th Aug) all this new development at green end of Bank Mill Lane and across the canal to town, you have left these solidly built Sunnyside and that whole water meadow flats boarded up for some years and left and all its hedgerows stretching to to rot…? Is there a reason us ordinary Bullbeggars Lane will not only be people might understand? If Network destroyed but ruin the lives of everybody Rail is the rural vandal and social who lives there. So know great harm terrorist, what does that make you? Bristol man? It was all Green Belt until Rural Terrorists I suppose. This doesn’t Dacorum removed its status in 2004, stop here. GALLERY www.therexberkhamsted.com 7 The entrance to New Lodge, Bank Mill Lane 1997 SEPTEMBEREVENINGS 10 Box Office: 01442 877759 SEPTEMBER EVENINGS Inception Toy Story 3 Wed 1 7.30, Thu 2 7.30 Fri 3 7.30, Sat 4 7.00 Director: Lee Unkrich Starring: Michael Keaton, Tim Allen, Timothy Dalton, Tom Hanks Certificate: U Duration: 108 mins Origin: USA 2010 By: Buena Vista International All the best children’s stories, have an element of something seriously scary! Back by serious demand. Cobb This remarkable studio (Pixar), which has (DiCaprio) is a futuristic industrial already given us Wall-E, The Incredibles espionage specialist. He and his stellar and Up, has surpassed itself yet again team of hackers infiltrate the subconscious with Toy Story 3, in which Woody (voiced minds of sleeping subjects in order to by Tom Hanks) and his chums face the extract information. Japanese businessman prospect of being thrown out when their Saito (Watanabe) wants Cobb to go one owner leaves home for college. further; to plant an idea in the mind of “It is a masterpiece of animation: a sweet, Robert Fischer (Murphy) the son of an moving, humane story with heartfelt ideas energy tycoon. Saito wants Fischer’s about the importance of imagination, company to collapse. Can Cobb and his loyalty and responsibility.” (Times) team successfully negotiate the lucid and “Toy story 3 could be the most grown up dangerous world of Fischer’s unconscious? film of the year!” (Guardian) Visually, like those sci-fi thrillers that offer a As well as being ‘a dizzyingly funny complete re-imagining of the world, this romp’ Lee Unkrich’s film is ‘a mediation film is brilliant. Nolan folds the streets of on aging, impermanence and mortality’. Paris, and effortlessly up-ends hotel It has reduced many a grown man to tears corridors, adding a superbly playful (The Week) dimension to what is a heavy-going, “There are also many witty novelties, complex narrative. Nolan made sense of the from a when-Barbie-met-Ken subplot to a impossibly complicated Momento from start 2D makeover for Mr Potato Head and to finish. So you can trust him to keep you gags about toys as Method actors”. with the story. (Time Out) Sounds like even dad’s will “Visually beautiful, ingenious in parts...” need hankies. Don’t miss it in wonderous (Telegraph) 2-D at the Rex. Nolan uses limited CGI in favour of heartstopping live stunts in real locations. “Technically brilliant and ingenious; I can’t suppress the suspicion that something more interesting might be happening in ordinary waking reality.” (Guardian) “Perhaps like a kaleidoscope, it doesn’t have to make complete sense to be beautiful.” (S M) Don’t miss. Watch carefully or come for a rewarding second look.