MAGAMAGA MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS APRIL… “possibly Britain’s most beautiful cinema...” (BBC) APRIL 2008 Issue 37 www.therexcinema.com 01442 877759 Mon-Sat 10.30-6pm Sun 4.30-6.30pm To advertise email [email protected] WELCOME Gallery 5 April Evenings 9-18 Coming Soon 19 April Films at a glance 19 April Matinees 20-27 Dear Mrs Trellis 29, 31 SEAT PRICES: Circle £7.00 Concessions £5.50 At Table £9.00 Concessions £7.50 Royal Box (seats 6) £11.00 or for the Box £60.00 BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 Mon to Sat 10.30 – 6.00 Sun 4.30 – 6.30 (Credit/Debit card booking fee 50p) Disabled and flat access: through the gate Brad Pitt - Las Vegas, 1994. Photo credit: Photographs (c) 2007 by Annie on High Street (right of apartments) Leibovitz from the documentary Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens, Barbara Some of the girls and boys you see at the Box Leibovitz, Director. Mon 28th 7.30. Don't miss. Office and Bar: Rosie Abbott Bethany McKay END OF CREDITS FOR CANCELLATIONS… Henry Beardshaw Linda Moss n 1st April the 48 hr rule ends. Instead there will be no more credit Julia Childs Louise Ormiston Lindsey Davies Izzi Robinson vouchers at all or refunds on any cancellations. For over two years Holly Gilbert Georgia Rose Othe box office has been advising me of difficulties arising from Becky Ginn Diya Sagar this. The girls and boys are well tuned to casual abuses of our generous Tom Glasser Miranda Samson Beth Hannaway Tina Thorpe system. Luke Karmali Olivia Wilson So it is my decision to stop this quaint practice of giving credit on an Jo Littlejohn Calum Wood unused ticket. Keymea Yazdanian At the outset, I didn’t care that no other theatre, cinema, concert venue or football ground in the country (or the world) would dream of it - under any Sally Thorpe In charge Alun Rees Chief projectionist (Original) circumstances. Imagine approaching the turnstile at White Hart Lane with a Jon Waugh 1st assistant projectionist note from your mum! Martin Coffill Part-time assistant projectionist I enjoyed offering this odd courtesy you can’t get, nor dare ask for, Jacquie Rose Chief Box Office & Bar Oliver Hicks Best Boy anywhere else. Jemma Gask Key Grip Now, sadly you can’t get it here either. Michael Glasheen Gaffer Val & Lisa Williams Set t’s all down to sly little tricks; one such is when tables are booked by Jane Clucas & Lynn Hendry PR/Marketing/FoH the same person for every screening during a sell-out run. When the unwanted tables are cancelled just ahead of the 48 hours… You got it? Ian Muirhead Accountant I I don’t care about the money. I want people to have the same chance to see Resident creative builders Darren Flindall, Michael Glasheen the film! It seems that these hedgers/seat blockers have been hanging on to their Artists Andrew Dixon, Paul Rowbottom extra tickets until the last minute, making it too late for anyone else. A very mean and ugly strategy, no doubt applauded as smart thinking in ‘good- Advisors and Investors Paul Fullagar, Alan Clooney business’ circles. Perhaps we should be flattered by the lengths to which Ed Mauger Genius people will go? Being taken for fools by people who are just as likely to hoard toilet paper at Christmas, is neither flattering nor good business. Demiurge Design Designers 01296 632366 Allison Nunn Publisher 07786 540418 On top of this I am a little bored with: “you’re always sold out, we can never get in”. Hence no more credits or refunds. That’s it, so plan carefully. James Hannaway CEO 01442 877999 When you buy a ticket, it is yours. Betty Patterson Company Secretary and THE On this note let me acknowledge those who never ask for a credit, but ORIGINAL VISIONARY of The Rex. cheerfully throw their spare tickets back into the raffle. Thank you. The Rex High Street (Three Close Lane) Of course, from time to time, there will be exceptional circumstances – Berkhamsted HP4 2FG which will be judged by what the note from your mum says… www.therexcinema.com GALLERY www.therexcinema.com 5 THE VAT MAN COMETH… Motor Cycle Diaries. There are a hile we’re here, in few more but I can’t think of them February we had our sitting here. Apart from two, the Wfirst VAT inspection. rest have won nothing. He was an amiable man, probably Some were even panned, but we in his 50s with a very nice round have found them to be hidden smile and pleasant manner. treasures in a world of glistering I only met him briefly and asked if trinkets. I hope it is right, that The he had come because it was all a Diving Bell & The Butterfly will huge mistake and they owed us be next. thousands. In a polite exchange he pril is a bit of a jumble chortled: “Afraid not, you’re sale. The same happened paying what you should and Ain our first September and everything is in order”. There was in the early summer of last year. no hint of sarcasm or ‘seems’ to be I’ve learned to be fooled less by in order. It could hardly be the trick of reading about a film anything else. Our accountant is and wanting it there and then, only Hitler’s brother Clive who would to find it won’t be available for happily pay VAT on VAT. two years. Shut up and Sing, On Saturday 26th April the gorgeous That aside, our man from Customs Goodnight and Good Luck, The Attic café will open in the evening and Excise was very pleased to Three Burials, The Diving Bell… for the first time. The menu will be stay for the matinee. Though and No Country…, are a few. small but exquisite. In fact don’t ask, tempted to charge him just to give The best thing about this April have what you’re given and love it. him his VAT back there and then jumble is a deliberate lightening of Opens at 7.00 for those who aren’t in very loose change, honour took spirit after all the death, natural and going to the Rex and will stay open its better place. Thus he was otherwise, abortion and blood of for those who are. Pop in to The treated to proper Rex hospitality March. Home & Colonial to book. You’ll reserved for special guests – a cup There’s Passport to Pimlico, Be Kind Rewind, St Trinians (by need to book now! of Michael’s tea, a bap rub down from the girls and gala pie fit for a request, believe it) and Play it king. Hope this doesn’t get him Again Sam. The musts are Children TICKET PRICE + VAT… into too much deep trouble… of Glory, Annie Liebowitz and nlikely as it is, you may Don’t Touch The Axe. have read in our March APRIL’S JUMBLE FILMS… The rest you know about. Sorry, Rambo is bloody (but allegedly, Uprogramme that as from t is funny how some months NOT bloody awful), but if you’ve 1st April we would be passing on fall with everything to choose read this far you won’t be coming. to you the VAT on tickets. from and others with not so I It would nice to publish a list of We’ve been carrying it all since we much. April follows an Rex ‘award’ winners. So we’ll opened three years ago. However, unprecedented glut of new releases think up some kind of poll, where after doing the arithmetic, it would over the last six months, climaxing you can vote for your gems and nudge a table seat towards eleven in that mass orgy in the run up to stinkers each month – winners and pounds and balcony seats inevitably all the toy-parties for the best this’s sinners (Swinners???). towards nine. and thats. Nevertheless we have As if VAT isn’t criminal enough, collected a list of beautiful films No Pavement for Old Men...page 29 we can’t even pass it on to get it from our first three years - back! So we’re NOT doing it. The Sea Inside, Everything is Instead, all seats will go up by 80p Illuminated, Breakfast on Pluto, on 1st September. This way we Little Miss Sunshine, Not Here to share the bastard child of ugly Be Loved, The World’s fastest 1970s legislators. They’re far from Indian, Sideways, Bon-Bon El pretty now and remain complete Perro, Leonard Cohen, Pan’s and utter twats but worse, none Labryinth, Andy Goldsworthy, from any party has attempted to Molierie, The Band’s Visit and The abolish it. APRIL EVENINGS 10 Box Office: 01442 877759 APRIL EVENINGS Be Kind, Rewind The Diving Bell Once Tue 1 7.30 and The Butterfly Thu 3 7.30 Wed 2 7.30 Director: Michel Gondry Director: John Carney Starring: Jack Black, Mia Farrow, Starring: Markéta Irglová, Gerard Danny Glover, Mos Def Hendrick, Hugh Walsh, Glen Hansard Certificate: 12A Certificate: 15 Duration: 100 mins Duration: 87 mins Origin: USA 2008 Origin: Ireland 2007 By: Pathe Distribution By: Entertainment Film Distribution This is a tale of two friends who From nothing and nowhere it has find themselves rewriting film Schnabel’s third feature recounts won this year’s Oscar for Best Song. history to save their beloved video the remarkable true story of Jean- A rock-bottom budget, nil to start but store from extinction. Dominique Bauby (Amalric), eventually made for £80,000 with no Heart-warming and absurd, as they charismatic editor of French Elle pay for anyone, this Irish charmer attempt to remake their ‘lost’ shelves magazine, who at the age of 43 stole the heart of the Audience with glue and string! The shop’s suffered a stroke that rendered his Award at Sundance 2007.