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PROGRAMME THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM... “possibly Britain’s most beautiful cinema..” (BBC) Britain’s Best Cinema – Guardian Film Awards OCTOBER 2017 • ISSUE 151 www.therexberkhamsted.com 01442 877759 Mon-Sat 10.30-6.30pm Sun 4.30-5.30pm REX ADVANCED BOOKING LIST (ABL 2018) The Advanced Booking List Already there are ever more (ABL) entitles you to the strong films on release with following: many more due out next ALL YOU WANT l A confirmed listing posted to year. We will select the best, for you monthly, first class or by alongside those choices we CHRISTMAS email. think you’ll love but might l At least one week’s not get to see. Old classics advanced booking, ahead of too, including the odd general release. turkey, alongside Rex requests CONTENTS l £1.50 off your ticket. and the best we can find from l Films At A Glance 16-17 Up to six seats per show, across the world. including your own. (Five at Even on the ABL, if you miss Rants & Pants 26-27 usual Box Office price). your time slot, you can come l Up to half the House. No on any night and try the raffle. titles will be sold beyond half BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 We will always try to squeeze capacity (150 seats). This is to Mon to Sat 10.30-6.30 you in. Thank you for continuing ensure that nothing sells out to come and see everything Sun 4.30-5.30 before General Release. from the obscure to the banal, We work to make sure nothing the beautiful to the blockbuster SEAT PRICES sells out too early or at least not and that odd turkey. Circle £9.50 before everybody has had a All renewals should be made Concessions/ABL £8.00 good chance. As you know and support it as such, The Rex is by phone on 01442 877759 or Back Row £8.00 not an exclusive club. in person at the Box Office. Table £11.50 Concessions/ABL £10.00 THIS IS YOUR REMINDER Royal Box Seat (Seats 6) £13.00 l It is open to only 500 individual names. Whole Royal Box £73.00 l Current ABL members can renew from Sat 28th Matinees - Upstairs £5, Downstairs £6.50, Royal Box £10 October. l New ABL members are then welcome from Sat 11th Step inside and let us take the reigns this Christmas. We have a selection Disabled and flat access: through November until all remaining places are taken. of perfectly tailored packages to suit your every festive occasion. the gate on High Street (right of l The Fee for 2018 (Jan-Dec) stays at £150. With an apartments) opportunity to donate to The Rex’s well-being and Your favourite Christmas nibbles to accompany drinks in the bar, or a upkeep (please ask the box office). Director: James Hannaway Your first advanced booking list will be forJANUARY 2018. delicious 3 course party meal – we really do offer something for everyone 01442 877999 hence a full listing will reach you early in December, with in our exciting menus which will leave your tastebuds tingling. Advertising: Chloe Butler plenty of time to book before it goes on General Release. 01442 877999 Huge thanks as always, James Artwork: Demiurge Design Christmas Day is all wrapped up, sumptuous flavours with all the 01296 668739 trimmings and a selection of real ales and delicate bubbles to finish. The Rex High Street (Three Close Lane) Berkhamsted, Herts HP4 2FG www.kingsarmsberkhamstedchristmas.co.uk www.therexberkhamsted.com “ Unhesitatingly The Rex WWW.KINGSARMSBERKHAMSTED.CO.UK is the best cinema I have 147 HIGH STREET, BERKHAMSTED, HP4 3HL ever..” (STimes Culture) Still around the block... TEL. 01442 866595 OCTOBER FILMS 8 THE REX - OCTOBER BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 Final Portrait Back To Burgundy Geoffrey Rush’s buoyant performance, and Klapisch charms his audience by offering a uncanny resemblance to mid 20th Century artist, relatable and bittersweet familial melodrama Alberto Giacometti, brings colour to Stanley Tucci’s accompanied by gallons of wine. Amidst the delightfully playful look at the life of the Swiss exquisite vineyards of Burgundy, domestic troubles painter. Set in Paris of 1964, and seen through the arise when a brooding Jean (Pio Marmai) returns eyes of American writer James Lord (Armie Hammer). to the family winery where his father is fatally Hours turn to days as the faultlessly polite Lord has ill; an arrival that follows a mysterious decade of the fortune and then the misfortune of posing for absence. Awaiting with resentment and a barrage Giacometti’s latest portrait. of questions about Jean’s failure to return despite Becoming slave to the whims of a creator wracked the death of his mother, are his siblings Juliette with self-doubt, Lord is also witness to Giacometti’s and Jérémie. The rivalry is not unrelenting however, turbulent personal life, befriending his hard-done- by wife Annette, his devoted brother Diego and moments of camarederie among the trio bring his manic mistress Caroline (Clémence Poésy). heatwarming testimony to the strength at the core Optimistic and patient at first, he eventually of the family. To rekindle bonds, the siblings must concedes, taking to other means to relieve the be willing to cast aside grudges and get to know physical and psychological strain. each other as the adults they have become, not the An entertaining examination of the shifting dynamic children they remember. The result of the narrative between artist and subject, Final Portrait plays like is an atonal undercurrent of nostalgia that runs a farce, beautifully shot but drained of colour to fit throughout the feature. ‘Back to Burgundy’ offers a Giacometti’s sombre visual style. Constant wit and a sentimental reminder of the importance of family, jaunty score also keep this more than afloat, acting the fleeting nature of childhood, and the rediscovery as a breath of fresh air in quagmire of artist biopics. of lost innocence. “All crumbly rustic quaintness and “There’s a lot to dig into here - and Geoffrey Rush buttery sunsets, it’s the kind of movie you’ll want to hasn’t had a showcase this good in years.” (Empire) slather on a baguette.” (Times) (research Grace Atkins) (research Chris Coetsee) Awards...? Gathering, renewing and pressing… Come and sip. Director: Stanley Tucci Director: Cédric Klapisch Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Cast: Pio Marmaï, Ana Girardot, François Clémence Poésy Civil, Jean-Marc Roulot Duration: 90mins Duration: 113 mins Origin: UK 2017 Origin: France 2017 Certificate: 15 Certificate: 15 Company: Vertigo Releasing Company: Studiocanal When... Sun 1 6.00 When... Mon 2 2.00 Mon 2 7.30 www.therexberkhamsted.com THE REX - OCTOBER 9 Dunkirk The Big Sick Christopher Nolan’s meticulous masterpiece is The ‘doomed romance by way of illness’ sub- an exercise in clock-work tension and staggering genre receives a welcome entry in this largely visual spectacle. Save for an opening paragraph, the improvised comedy. politics of war are all but jettisoned as we cut right Starring Kumail Nanjiani, and based on his true-life to the chase, telling a lean tale of survival against experiences with writer Emily Gordon (whom he all odds. Told from three perspectives (air, sea, land) is now married to). The Big Sick sees Kumail, a and intertwining timeframes (one hour, one day, version of his younger self – a part-time Uber driver one week) Nolan drops you in the heat of battle and wannabe standup star, cracking gags from his and never lets up. It means that the story itself is perch somewhere along the spectrum of comedy a little light, making it difficult to connect with our geekiness. Emily (Zoe Kazan) starts off by heckling heroes on an emotional level (the Germans, too, Kumail during his standup and winds up having a are reduced to an intimidating, spectral presence) romance with him. Kazan combines her doe-eyed but that’s because Dunkirk is going for a tangible and rather cherubic beauty with a plausible mix of experience; the sea air, sand and shrapnel can all intelligence and vulnerability. The film takes a sharp be felt. It helps ground the film in a reality not many turn when Emily succumbs to an unknown illness others have matched. and spends the second act in a coma. Kumail then It’s frighteningly immersive from the very first has the unenviable task of bonding with her oddball frame; no 3D required here, just ambitious shooting parents Holly Hunter and Ray Romano. techniques (high-tech cameras strapped to real Audiences have grown (I hope) smarter to the ways Spitfires!) and a score by Hans Zimmer that’s so of the traditional rom-com (overly twee scenarios, intense, so relentless, it will cause genuine shell forced and unrealistic exchanges) so it’s up to these shock that’ll linger for days. (research Jack Whiting) It more natural stories to fly the flag. Thank goodness might be over hyped, over starry and over here, but then that this one is heartfelt and genuine. (Jack it looks and sounds and feels very real. Whiting) Improvised and autobiographical, but transcends method and cliché, and it’s funny. Come. Director: Christopher Nolan Cast: Fionn Whitehead, Harry Styles, Cillian Director: Michael Showalter Murphy, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy Cast: Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Duration: 106 mins Hunter, Ray Romano Origin: Netherlands/UK/France/USA 2017 Duration: 120 mins Certificate: 12A Origin: USA 2016 Company: Warner Bros. Certificate: 15 Company: Studiocanal When... When... Tue 3 2.00 Tue 17 7.30 Tue 3 7.30 Thu 12 2.00 Wed 18 2.00 Wed 4 2.00 10 THE REX - OCTOBER BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 Detroit I’m not sure rave reviews or awards talk are enough to express the amplitude Kathryn Bigelow achieves in this combustible recreation of one-of America’s darkest chapters.