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IN CINEMAS JANUARY 1 CONTENTS STORIES LIVE FOREVER PEOPLE DON’T CINEMAS 6 MEMBERSHIP 8 WELCOME CURZON ON DEMAND 12 CURZON SELECTOR 14 As the dark nights draw in, join us to see out what has been a terrific year in film. We have a programme of awards prospects, A FILM BERTHA DOCHOUSE 16 family favourites, exciting exclusives and some of the world’s NEW RELEASES 18 greatest directors lighting up Curzon cinema screens. EVENTS 42 From the glitz of the Film Festival’s opening night film, Widows sees Steve McQueen follow up the Oscar- FEATURES 48 winningsuccess of 12 Years A Slave with an explosive modern thriller that transposes Lynda La Plante’s 1980s crime series to a Chicago blighted by political corruption and violent Editor crime. It’s a celebration of the women usually wallpapered Ian Haydn Smith into the background of mainstream genre movies, with Viola Designer Davis leading a cast of bank robbers’ wives whose shared Hannah Attwell circumstances force them to embark on their deceased Contributors husbands’ next job. Kate Gerova | Wendy Ide | Other LFF festival galas on release include ’s Irene Musumeci | Philip Kemp timely Peterloo, the dramatic retelling of the infamous 1819 democratic protest on St Peter’s Field, , which curzon.cinemas came under brutal attack from armed militia. There’s also

CurzonCinemas Alfonso Cuaron’s (Gravity) Venice -winner Roma and the ’ anthology Western, The Ballad Of curzon.cinemas Buster Scruggs. Delve deep into a wealth of new films featuring award- winning talent, available in our cinemas and on Curzon Home Operated by CURZON CINEMAS Cinema. They include ’s The House That Jack 2nd Floor, 20-22 Stukeley Street, London WC2B 5LR Built and ’s () Disobedience, in the Europa Cinemas/ starring the Rachels, Weisz and McAdams, in a searing drama European Union Media Programme of forbidden attraction. Must-see titles also include Luca At the time of going to print every Call Me By Your Name Guadagnino’s Suspiria and Koreeda effort was made to ensure the information contained in this Hirokazu’s Cannes Palme d’Or-winner Shoplifters. programme was correct. However, There’s for the family too. November sees J.K. Rowling where circumstances dictate, we reserve the right to make changes. return with Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald. CURZON CINEMAS Limited 1934. And there are two big budget Disney productions. The Nutcracker Registered in London: and the Four Realms is a reimagining of the story that inspired Company no:283280. Est.1934. WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CURZON and CURZON CINEMAS Tchaikovsky’s ballet – a must for fans of last year’s Beauty are registered trade marks, no:2291124 and no.2424017 and The Beast. And Christmas sees Returns, JOEL COEN & ETHAN COEN with reprising the much-loved role. CURZON is taking action against climate change. Winner of Best Creative Group at the Creative Green Awards 2018. Damian Spandley | Director of Programme | @damospandley CURZON is proud to be a Living IN SELECT CINEMAS AND ON Wage employer.

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THE OUTLAW KING TBC To make sure you have access to exclusive members Date: Sat 3 Nov | 11:00 previews, priority event Where: Canterbury Colchester Sheffield cinema booking, free tickets Date: Sun 4 Nov | 11:00 and much more join Curzon Where: Aldgate Knutsford Mayfair Oxford Soho membership. And prices Victoria Wimbledon start from only £40. See page 22 for synopsis Our standard member benefits are: THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS TBC 4 FREE TICKETS Date: Sat 10 Nov | 11:00 Where: Soho Date: Sun 11 Nov | 11:00 DISCOUNTED TICKETS Where: Aldgate Canterbury Colchester Mayfair NO BOOKING FEES Sheffield DISCOUNTED FOOD + DRINK Date: Mon 12 Nov | 20:30 Where: Knutsford

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You can now sign up for FREE START STREAMING cinema membership. Join Curzon Student at your If you’re a Curzon cinema member and you’ve collected local venue or online at your card, you can access all the titles on Curzon12 for free by adding your membership number to your CURZON.COM/STUDENT Shoplifters, 2018 Curzon Home Cinema account. The collection of 12 films refreshes on the 12th of every month. LOOKING FOR A FESTIVE TREAT FOR FILM LOVERS? WE HAVE GIFT CARDS AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE Find out more at CURZONCINEMAS.COM/CURZON12 IN OUR CINEMAS WHICH CAN BE USED TOWARDS MEMBERSHIPS & ALSO TICKETS, FOOD & DRINK MEMBERS

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Films that appear on Curzon Home Cinema the same day that they are released in cinemas – allowing you to watch RECOMMENDED them your way. THE WORKSHOP 16 NOV THE ESCAPE 23 NOV Laurent Cantet, the director of the Cannes-winning The Class, Gemma Arterton excels as directs this compelling drama. Co-written with his regular Tara, a mother of two screenwriter and director of 120 BPM, it tells the story of the desperate to find happiness dynamic between a novelist and her students in Marseilles, in her life. Her husband developing into a finely-tuned psychological drama. Mark (Dominic Cooper) sees nothing wrong with their life, ALSO ON DEMAND: which only adds to the sense DISOBEDIENCE 30 NOV | See page 28 for synopsis of claustrophobia Tara feels.

COMING SOON: RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA 26 NOV BOOM FOR REAL 26 NOV MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A. 10 DEC THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST 28 DEC THE CHILDREN ACT 7 JAN

The House That Jack Built, 2018 THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT

Director: Lars von Trier The Workshop, 2018 Starring: , , , , Sofie Gråbøl, ,

DISCOVER Gems not to be missed The controversial director of , , Antichrist and Melancholia has never been one to shy away COLUMBUS 19 NOV from the darker aspects of humanity. He returns with a disturbing journey into the mind of a serial killer. Matt Dillon Jin (John Cho) is forced to return to the US from South Korea is mesmerising as the titular killer and with Von Trier he offers when his architect father is hospitalised whilst on a visit to up a chilling portrait and all too real portrait. Columbus. Wandering the city Jin encounters Casey (Haley Lu Rich) and together they embark on a tour of its architectural monuments. Kogonada’s indie explores the way we interact with the world that surrounds us. 14 DECEMBER ON CURZONHOMECINEMA.COM The Escape, 2017 ON DEMAND

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THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR THE BALLAD OF BUSTER REALMS TBC SCRUGGS TBC

Disney have channelled E.T.A. Hoffman’s Originally starting out as the Coen brothers’ The Nutcracker and the Mouse King and first attempt at a series, it soon became Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet for this fantasy clear that the themes of each individual adventure. It’s directed by seasoned veterans story made a powerful whole. So here are Lasse Hallström (Chocolat) and Joe Johnston six vignettes, each imbued with the (Jumanji). And if that’s not enough to tempt iconography of the Western and exploring you, it features Keira Knightley as Sugar Plum lives on the precipice of existence. And the Fairy, as Mother Ginger and filmmakers’ trademark jet-black humour is Jack Whitehall as Harlequin. ever-present. See page 18 See page 23

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The ultimate cautionary fable for the social media age finds a town descending into medieval-era carnage when a hacker exposes their fellow citizens’ data. Mind you, this is no ordinary town. It’s Salem, home to witch hunts and public burnings. So, it’s perhaps no surprise that four young girls find themselves better equipped than most to battle small minds and side arms. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, 2018 See page 26

THE WILD PEAR TREE TBC THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT TBC

The director of Once Upon a Time in Like Marmite, Lars von Trier has a somewhat Anatolia and the Cannes-winning Winter divisive effect on audiences. Take the premiere Sleep returns with another extraordinary of this film at Cannes, which witnessed as study in human relations. The Turkish many walkouts as it did ardent supporters. filmmaker’s beautifully rendered drama Not one to shy away from controversy, Von finds a writer returning home to face up to Trier’s portrait of a serial killer, played by his past in an attempt to figure out his future. Matt Dillon, is as unsettling and compelling It’s an unhurried, mesmerising work of art. as you would expect. See page 28 See page 36

15 The UK’s first cinema BERTHA screen dedicated to documentaries, Bertha THE HOME OF DOCUMENTARY DOCHOUSE DocHouse is a platform AT CURZON BLOOMSBURY for powerful human stories. We screen a mix of new releases and THE JUDGE Kholoud Al-Faqih is the first woman judge to be classics, alongside Q&As appointed to the Middle East’s Shari’a courts. The and special events. Judge offers a unique portrait of her brave journey as a lawyer and tireless fight for women’s justice. Opens Friday 23 November

PUTIN’S WITNESSES Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin are the protagonists in this eerie fly-on-the-wall documentary, tracing Putin’s rise to power with hours of behind-the-scenes footage from his first election. Opens Friday 2 November THEATRE OF WAR Argentinian artist Lola Arias continues to explore the legacy of the Falklands with veterans from each side in this new, hybrid film, which navigates the spaces between authenticity and artificiality, politics and art. Opens Friday 7 December THE OTHER SIDE OF EVERYTHING Moving back and forth between the personal and the political, Mila Turajlic paints an arresting portrait of her mother, an activist and professor, to explore the lasting effects of upheaval in Serbia’s recent history. Opens Friday 9 November 306 HOLLYWOOD Using archive footage of their late grandmother, siblings Elan and Jonathan Bogarín document an archaeological excavation of her house and discover what life remains in the objects we leave behind. www.dochouse.org Opens Friday 14 December @BerthaDocHouse

THE NUTCRACKER AND PETERLOO 12A THE FOUR REALMS TBC

Director: Mike Leigh Directors: Lasse Hallström, Starring: , Joe Johnston , Neil Bell, Starring: Keira Knightley, Pearce Quigley, David Moorst, Mackenzie Foy, Morgan Rachel Finnegan, Tom Meredith Freeman, Matthew MacFadyen, UK 2018 | 154 mins Helen Mirren, Ellie Bamber, US 2018 | TBC mins Mike Leigh’s powerful and moving drama details a key Christmas is near, but with moment in British history, the loss of her mother Clara when Manchester’s working (Mackenzie Foy) has no desire class stood up for their to celebrate. However, a rights and ended up victims stranger () of a state-orchestrated introduces her to the worlds massacre. Action shifts her mother created and Clara’s between factory workers adventures begin. Aided by and their families, the core Sugar Plum Fairy (Keira Knightley), activists and rich burghers she must battle the wicked determined to crush any Mother Ginger (Helen Mirren) threat to their power. in this Disney delight.

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Director: David Mackenzie Director: Steve McQueen Director: Paul Dano Directors: Ethan Coen, Director: Laurent Cantet Director: Starring: , Aaron Starring: , Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Joel Coen Starring: Marina Foïs, Matthieu Starring: Dakota Johnson, Taylor-Johnson, Florence Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth , Ed Oxenbould, Starring: Tim Blake Nelson, Lucci, Florian Beaujean, , Chloë Grace Pugh, Matt Stokoe, Stephen Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Bill Camp, Zoe Margaret James Franco, David Krumholtz, Mamadou Doumbia, Mélissa Moretz, , Angela Dillane, Callan Mulvey, Liam Neeson, , Colletti, Cate Jones Liam Neeson, Clancy Brown, Guilbert, Warda Rammach Winkler, Ingrid Caven, Elena Fokina James Cosmo Robert Duvall US 2018 | 105 mins Zoe Kazan, Brendan Gleeson, France 2018 | 114 mins US/UK 2018 | 137 mins US/UK 2018 | 128 mins Tom Waits French with English subtitles /US 2018 | 152 mins Jeanette (Carey Mulligan) US 2018 | 132 mins + CURZON ON DEMAND This is Robert the Bruce Steve McQueen’s updating and Jerry (Jake Gyllenhaal) Call Me By Your name as you’ve never seen him of the classic 1980s British seem the perfect couple. The Coens return once again In a town near Marseilles, a director Luca Guadagnino before. Following their TV crime drama transplants But their son Joe (Ed to the Western, but this time writing workshop is created was always going to offer successful collaboration on the story to the US and ups Oxenbould) has long their vision of the Frontier to help a group of young something special with his Hell or High Water, Chris the ante, but the story noticed the fissures in the is divided into six delicious people integrate into the re-envisioning of Dario Pine and maverick Scottish remains the same. Following relationship, which are vignettes, each dealing with workplace. But novelist Olivia Argento’s classic 1977 giallo director David Mackenzie a botched job, the widows gradually tearing death. Sound depressing? (Marina Foïs) becomes horror. Less operatic and team up to tell the story of of a criminal gang decide the family apart. Paul Far from it, what originally disturbed by one young man’s gory, but more nuanced, what happened to the to follow their husbands’ Dano’s directorial debut is began as a TV series has (Matthieu Lucci) story. Cannes his Suspiria places more Scottish laird following footsteps into crime. It’s a a nuanced adaptation of developed into this perfect winner Laurent Cantet (The focus on gender identity the death of ‘Braveheart’ starry affair, but everyone Richard Ford’s novel and portmanteau film that Class) offer up yet another as he details the horrific William Wallace. It’s a is eclipsed by the great features outstanding highlight’s the Coen’s incisive and impassioned take goings on at an all-female full-blooded affair. Viola Davis. performances by its leads.. mordantly funny sensibility.. on modern life. dance company.

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22 23 NEW RELEASES MARIE BÄUMER BIRGIT MINICHMAYR CHARLY HÜBNER ROBERT GWISDEK DENIS LAVANT FANTASTIC BEASTS: WINNER THE CRIMES OF 7 GERMAN INCLUDING 3 DAYS IN QUIBERON TBC GRINDELWALD TBC SHOPLIFTERS TBC BEST FILM • BEST DIRECTOR • BEST ACTRESS

Directors: Director: Director: Hirokazu Koreeda Starring: Marie Bäumer, Birgit Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Starring: Kirin Kiki, Lily Franky, Minichmayr, Charly Hübner, Katherine Waterston, Dan Sôsuke Ikematsu, Sakura Robert Gwisdek, Denis Lavant, Fogler, Johnny Depp, Jude Andô, Moemi Katayama, Mayu Germany//France 2018 Law, Ezra Miller, Alison Sudol, Matsuoka, Yôko Moriguchi | 115 mins Zoë Kravitz, Carmen Ejogo Japan 2018 | 121 mins German, French and English UK/US 2018 | TBC mins Japanese with English subtitles with English subtitles The first instalment of The unexpected but Romy Schneider was one J.K. Rowling’s rip-roaring deserving winner of the of the most striking and adventure saw Gellert Palme d’Or at this year’s charismatic stars to emerge Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) , Hirokazu from the halcyon days of unmasked and unrepentant. Koreeda’s new film is a European cinema. Emily Atef’s Here, he aims to tear the typically understated compelling monochrome fabric of the magic world family drama whose drama recounts a moment apart, with only Newt emotional power gradually before her untimely death, Scamander (Eddie builds towards a devastating when she gave an interview Redmayne) and his friends dénouement. A re-working whilst staying at a spa. It’s standing in his way. David of the ‘Oliver Twist’ tale, a fascinating drama, with Yates directs again. And Shoplifters is a powerful Marie Bäumer outstanding expect a Niffler to steal social drama about Japan’s as Schneider.. the show. social undesirables.

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ASSASSINATION THE GIRL IN THE NATION 18 SPIDER’S WEB TBC CREED II 15

Directors: Sam Levinson Director: Fede Alvarez Director: Steven Caple Jr Starring: Odessa Young, Hari Starring: , Sylvia Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Nef, Suki Waterhouse, Abra, Hoeks, Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Sylvester Coman Domingo, Bill Skarsgård, Stephen Merchant, Sverrir Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Joel McHale, Bella Thorne Gudnason, Mikael Persbrandt, Florian Munteanu, Wood US 2018 | 108 mins UK/Germany// Harris, Phylicia Rashad Canada/US 2018 | TBC mins US 2018 | TBC mins A hacker has laid bare the secrets and petty rivalries Wisely moving beyond Stieg Creed breathed new life into of a small American town. Larsson’s original Millennium Sylvester Stallone’s long- Unfortunately, it happens to trilogy and on to the novels running boxing drama, with be Salem, where persecution inspired by them, Fede the Italian Stallion taking on has a long legacy. As the Alvarez finds the role of coach to the son world around them and First Man star Claire (Michael B. Jordan) of former descends into chaos, four Foy stepping into shoes ringside opponent Apollo girls decide to fight back. previously occupied by Noomi Creed. In this sequel, Rocky A smart, slick and ferocious Rapace and , IV’s Victor Drago appears satire, Sam Levinson’s film playing the mercurial Lisbeth on the scene with his own could be this generation’s Salander in this labyrinthine progeny (Florian Munteanu) Heathers. conspiracy thriller. ready to wreak havoc.

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DISOBEDIENCE 15 THE WILD PEAR TREE TBC

Director: Sebastián Lelio Director: Starring: Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Starring: Dogu Demirkol, Murat Cemcir, Bennu Alessandro Nivola, Anton Lesser, , Yildirimlar, Hazar Ergüçlü, Serkan Keskin Nicholas Woodeson Turkey/Republic of Macedonia/France/ UK/Ireland/US 2018 | 114 mins Germany/Bosnia and Herzegovina/Bulgaria/ + CURZON ON DEMAND Sweden 2018 | 188 mins Turkish with English subtitles When her father, a Rabbi in a north London Synagogue, passes away, Ronit (Rachel Over the course of two decades, Turkish Weisz) returns from New York to her auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan has forged a body childhood home to pay her respects. She of work that deconstructs masculinity and encounters old friends Dovid (Alessandro patriarchal attitudes. Continuing in the style Nivola) and Esti (Rachel McAdams), now of his previous, Cannes-winning Winter married, but her presence soon disrupts the Sleep, The Wild Pear Tree finds the filmmaker equilibrium. Disobedience is a compassionate charting an aspiring novelist’s return to his portrait of repressed love from the brilliant small home town at a time of crisis in his director of Gloria and A Fantastic Woman. life. The result is a chamber drama of incredible power and beauty. OPENS: FRI 30 NOVEMBER OPENS: FRI 30 NOVEMBER

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RALPH BREAKS THE SORRY TO BOTHER INTERNET TBC ROMA TBC YOU 15

Directors: Phil Johnston, Director: Alfonso Cuarón Director: Rich Moore Featuring: Yalitza Aparicio, Starring: Lakeith Stanfield, Voices: John C. Reilly, Kristen , Diego Tessa Thompson, Jermaine Bell, Gal Gadot, , Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta, Fowler, Omari Harwick, Terry , Taraji P. Marco Graf, Daniela Demesa, Crews, , Kate Henson, Alan Tudyk, Ed O’Neill, Nancy García García, Berlant, Verónica García US 2018 | 111 mins # SORRYTOBOTHERYOU SORRYTOBOTHERYOU.CO.UK US 2018 | TBC mins US/Mexico 2018 | 135 mins Boots Riley’s feature debut He’s previously been known Children of Men and Gravity is a wild, surreal tale of IN CINEMAS DECEMBER 7 as Wreck-it Ralph, so it’s no director Alfonso Cuarón’s Cassius Green (Lakeith surprise that the animated monochrome portrait of the Stanfield). An unremarkable meathead is going to destroy women in his youth couldn’t employee of a telesales all in his path, even if it places be any further from his company, he discovers his him and his friends in danger. previous Oscar-winning inner ‘white voice’ and soon John C. Reilly once again space adventure. Set in rises to an executive position, plays the eponymous hero, Mexico City, his drama with the world at his feet. while a cast of well-known is a richly detailed account Riley’s energy rages names add their voices to of domestic life, dominated unabated as he explores this enjoyable, Day-Glo by Yalitza Aparicio’s stunning issues around race in animated adventure.. central performance. contemporary America..

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IT’S A WONDERFUL WHITE BOY RICK 15 LIZZIE TBC LIFE U

Director: Yann Demange Director: Craig William Macneill Director: Starring: Matthew Starring: Chloë Sevigny, Starring: James Stewart, McConaughey, Richie Merritt, , , , Lionel Barrymore, Bel Powley, Jennifer Jason Kim Dickens, Denis O’Hare, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Leigh, Brian Tyree Henry, Jeff Perry, Jamey Sheridan, Beulah Bondi, Frank Faylen, Rory Cochrane, RJ Cyler, Tara Ochs, Jay Huguley Ward Bond, US 2018 | 106 mins US 1946 | 131 mins US 2018 | TBC mins Lizzie Borden has been Returning once again for Based on a true story, Yann immortalised by the the holiday season, Frank Demange’s (’71) US debut skipping-rope rhyme. But Capra’s timeless slice of charts the journey taken by there’s far more to the story Hollywood magic remains a Richard Wershe Jr., a young than the ‘forty whacks’ she surprisingly dark drama. It’s player in the 1980s Detroit gave her mother. Chloë leavened by James Stewart’s drug world who eventually Sevigny plays Lizzie in winning boy-next-door became the FBI’s youngest Craig William Macneill’s performance, as well as informant. Richie Merritt is understated drama, which a wealth of supporting excellent as the eponymous features an excellent Fiona actors. A tale of corporate turncoat, with Matthew Shaw as her mother and greed destroying ordinary McConaughey typically solid Kristen Stewart as the lives, it feels unnervingly as his errant father. object of Lizzie’s desire. prescient.

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THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN TBC

Director: After a stellar career in Hollywood, has Featuring: Robert Redford, announced that he is to retire from acting. What better way Casey Affleck, , for the star to leave us than with this affectionate portrait Danny Glover, Tom Waits, of an ageing, modern-day gunslinger of a bank robber , John David who decides to carry out one more job. Sissy Spacek is his Washington, Ari Elizabeth charismatic love interest and Casey Affleck the cop in pursuit. Johnson It’s a rapturous tale from the director of , Pete’s Dragon and Ain’t Them Bodies Saints. US 2018 | 93 mins OPENS: FRI 7 DECEMBER

32 33 “ A beautiful swansong Robert Redford to Redford’s career” Casey Affleck Total Film Danny Glover Tika Sumpter “ Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek’s withTo m Wa i t s and Sissy Spacek chemistry is absolute magic” New York Observer

“Pure, irresistible pleasure”

This Story is Mostly True.

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THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT TBC MORTAL ENGINES TBC

Director: Lars von Trier Director: Christian Rivers Starring: Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman, Starring: Hugo Weaving, Stephen Lang, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Sofie Gråbøl, Jeremy Robert Sheehan, Frankie Adams, Hera Hilmar, Davies, , David Bailie Colin Salmon, Caren Pistorius, Joel Tobeck US 2018 | 155 mins + CURZON ON DEMAND New Zealand/ US 2018 | TBC mins

Lars von Trier’s tale of a serial killer’s mounting In a world where cities have become mobile crimes is not an easy watch. As befitting a behemoths, the major metropolises director for whom controversy is a given, it’s a dominating over more provincial dark, deeply disturbing journey. But Von Trier municipalities, a young woman holds is also an exceptional filmmaker – a virtuoso a secret that could change the future. director with an eye for startling visuals and The screenwriting and producing team who brings out the best of his cast. Here, behind the Tolkien epics return for this Matt Dillon gives a chilling performance in a post-apocalyptic fantasy based on Philip film that will haunt and unsettle you.. Reeve’s popular novels.

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Director: James Wan Directors: Valérie Müller, Angelin Preljocaj Starring: Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Starring: Anastasia Shevtsova, Veronika , Dolph Lundgren, Patrick Zhovnytska, , Aleksey Guskov, Wilson, , Djimon Hounsou, Niels Schneider, Jérémie Belingard Leigh Whannell France 2018 | 108 mins US 2018 | TBC mins French and Russian with English subtitles

The DC Universe continues to expand, with Imagine Flashdance or Step-Up in reverse. this origin story of the aquatic superhero. This is the tale of a young dancer whose Jason Momoa first appeared as Aquaman in closeted life within the rarefied world of the less-than-impressive Batman v Superman: ballet is upended by the discovery of more Dawn of Justice and Justice League. But contemporary dance forms. Co-directed by here, director James Wan seems to be renowned choreographer Angelin Preljocaj, edging more towards the camp pleasures of Valérie Müller’s film is a riveting look into the Wonder Woman. If so, this should be fun.. world of dance..

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Director: SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER Starring: Emily Blunt, , , , Emily Mortimer, Ben Whishaw, Side-splitting film & TV , Lin-Manuel Miranda, US 2018 | TBC mins BFI SOUTHBANK Who better to follow in the footsteps of CINEMAS | BFI SHOP | BFI REUBEN LIBRARY | CAFÉS Julie Andrews’ magical nanny than Emily Blunt, an actor who exudes charisma and ALSO SHOWING IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER charm. This much-anticipated return to the world of P.L. Travers finds the Banks children ANIMATION 2018 (Ben Whishaw and Emily Mortimer) all grown COMING OF AGE RICHARD WILLIAMS FRAMED up, but still in need of Mary Poppins’ brand ROGER RABBIT of eternal optimism. SIGHT & SOUND CLOSE UP: SEBASTIÁN LELIO PRESENTS FANTASTIQUE: SoupDuck IN CONVERSATION OPENS: FRI 21 DECEMBER THE DREAM WORLDS

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Director: For his first period film, and The Killing of a Starring: , Rachel Sacred Deer director Yorgos Lanthimos enters the court of Weisz, , Emma Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), the 18th century British monarch Delves, Faye Daveney, Paul whose sense of paranoia is exacerbated by the competing Swaine, Jennifer White, voices of two subjects (Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone) vying LillyRose Stevens, Mark Gatiss for her attention, affection and favour. As one would expect US 2018 | 120 mins from a Lanthimos film, the film is razor-sharp in its satire, but also utterly, hilariously enjoyable.

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INVISIBLE BRITAIN ADVISED 15 + Q&A & BOOK LAUNCH Date: Thu 1 Nov | 18:25 UK 2015 | 83 mins Director: Paul Sng & Nathan Hannawin This is a riveting portrait of the band Sleaford Mods and a bleak look at contemporary Britain, which accompanies the publication ‘Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience’. With thanks to Velvet Joy Productions.

MAGIC MEDICINE ADVISED 15 + Q&A WITH MONTY WATES Date: Thu 8 Nov | 18:45 UK 2018 | 77 mins Director: Monty Wates Could magic mushrooms cure depression? This documentary charts a fascinating medical trial. With thanks to Dartmouth Films.

ABOUT A WAR ADVISED 15 + Q&A DANIELE RUGO & ABI WEAVER HOSTED BY WILL SELF Date: Wed 28 Nov | 18:30 Lebanon/UK 2018 | 84 mins Director: Daniele Rugo & Abi Weaver This compelling documentary unravels the complex history of the Lebanese Civil War. With thanks to Iterations Films.

1000 LONDONERS: WINDRUSH GENERATIONS 12A + Q&A WITH DIRECTOR RACHEL WANG Date: Wed 5 Dec | 18:45 UK 2018 | 70 mins Director: Rachel Wang CURZON Q&As This is the culmination of a project to record the lives and stories of Londoners with Caribbean heritage. With thanks to Chocolate Films. DISOBEDIENCE 15 + INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR SEBASTIÁN LELIO & STAR RACHEL WEISZ AMÁ ADVISED 15 Date: Wed 28 Nov | 18:15 Where: Mayfair INTRODUCED BY COLIN FIRTH + Q&A WITH LORNA TUCKER Go to page 28 for synopsis. Date: Thu 6 Dec | 19:00 UK 2018 | 73 mins Director: Lorna Tucker Lorna Tucker (Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist) details the dark history of the US government’s officially sponsored destruction of Native American families. FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO BOOK With thanks to Dartmouth Films. GO TO CURZON.COM EVENTS EVENTS EVENTS

DOC N’ ROLL SPECIAL EVENT FESTIVALS FILM FESTIVAL JAMES IVORY AT CURZON OXFORD LONDON PALESTINE FILM FESTIVAL Dates: Sat 3 Nov - Sun 18 Nov Where: Soho To coincide with the Ashmolean Museum exhibition Dates: Sat 17 Nov - Wed 21 Nov No Offence: Exploring LGBTQ+ Histories, we are delighted Where: Soho to welcome Oxford University’s 2018-19 TORCH Visiting SOME OTHER GUYS: THE STORY Professor James Ivory. This programme of his work also MAHDI FLEIFEL: SHORT FILMS ADVISED 15: OF THE BIG THREE ADVISED 15: includes a discussion exploring his career as a director, + Q&A WITH MAHDI FLEIFEL AND KALEEM AFTAB + Q&A WITH DIRECTOR TODD KIPP screenwriter and key member of the acclaimed, Date: Sat 17 Nov | 16:00 Duration: 76 mins Date: Sat 3 Nov | 15:00 Oscar-winning production company Merchant Ivory. ONE MINUTE + THE TOWER ADVISED 15: SILVANA ADVISED 15 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PRINCESS PG + Q&A WITH DIRECTOR MATS GRORUD AND ACADEMIC & + Q&A WITH JAMES IVORY, PROF RICHARD PARKINSON AUTHOR DR. DINA MATA + Q&A WITH DIRECTORS MIKA GUSTAFSON, OLIVIA AND PROF LAURA MARCUS Date: Mon 19 Nov | 18:30 Date: Tue 6 Nov | 18:30 UK 1975 | 60 mins KASTEBRING, CHRISTINA Duration: 10 mins + 76 mins TSIOBANELIS & STAR SILVANA and James Mason excel in this chamber Date: Sat 10 Nov | 18:00 drama, a sensitive examination of memory and the past. 3000 NIGHTS ADVISED 15: + Q&A WITH MAI MASRI & PG AUTHOR AND ACADEMIC THE LIBRARY MUSIC ADVISED 15 Date: Thu 8 Nov | 18:30 UK/US 1984 | 122 mins DR. ADANIA SHIBLI + Q&A WITH DIRECTOR PAUL 3000 Nights ELLIOTT & SEAN LAMBERTH The second part of Merchant Ivory’s Henry James diptych, Date: Wed 21 Nov | 18:30 which began with The Europeans, finds three individuals Date: Sun 11 Nov | 17:00 The Bostonians caught in a love triangle. RUSSIAN FILM WEEK ETHIOPIQUES: REVOLT OF THE SOUL ADVISED 15 CALL ME BY YOUR NAME 15 + Q&A WITH DIRECTOR MACIEK Date: Sat 17 Nov | 15:00 Dates: Tue 27 Nov - Mon 3 Dec Italy/France/Brazil/US 2017 | 132 mins Where: Oxford Mayfair BOCHNIAK (TBC) Date: Sun 18 Nov | 17:30 Director: Luca Guadagnino For more information, go James Ivory deservedly received an Oscar for his adapted to curzoncinemas.com/rfw screenplay of André Aciman sensitive portrait of a blooming summer romance. EXHIBITION ON SCREEN DEGAS: PASSION FOR PERFECTION Call me by your Name 15 Date: Sun 18 Nov | 15:00 UK 1987 | 134 mins Date: Tue 6 Nov | 18:00 Where: Oxford E.M. Forster’s novel of illicit love between two men was Date: Tue 6 Nov | 18:30 Where: Bloomsbury Canterbury Colchester Knutsford never published in his lifetime. This moving film is the second Richmond Ripon Sheffield Victoria Wimbledon of four acclaimed adaptations of the author’s work by Date: Sun 11 Nov | 11:00 Where: Mayfair Merchant Ivory. This fascinating portrait of the French painter coincides with an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge.

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Where: Bloomsbury Canterbury Colchester Knutsford A CHRISTMAS CAROL Where: Bloomsbury Canterbury Colchester Mayfair Oxford Richmond Ripon Sheffield Victoria Where: Aldgate Bloomsbury Canterbury Knutsford Mayfair Oxford Richmond Wimbledon Colchester Knutsford Oxford Richmond Ripon Sheffield Victoria Wimbledon Ripon Sheffield Victoria Wimbledon NICO MUHLY’S La Sylphide Date: Tue 11 Dec | 18:40 ALAN BENNETT’S MARNIE Acclaimed actor teams ALLELUJAH! 15 Date: Sat 10 Nov | 17:55 2018 - 2019 up with director-designer Tom Cairns to Date: Thu 1 Nov | 19:00 Acclaimed contemporary composer Nico Muhly explores BOLSHOI BALLET present Charles Dickens’ own performance Also showing: Aldgate a woman’s dark obsessions, prompted by her past, in adaptation of his beloved Christmas tale. Alan Bennett’s latest play is a biting satire his riveting adaptation of the novel that also inspired set in a hospital that faces closure. It’s witty, Where: Knutsford Oxford Hitchcock’s classic 1964 film. compassionate and even features song and Ripon Victoria dance numbers...with zimmers! VERDI’S HERMAN SEVERIN LA TRAVIATA ALAN BENNETT’S LØVENSKIOLD’S Date: Sat 15 Dec | 17:55 THE MADNESS OF GEORGE III 15 LA SYLPHIDE New Met Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin begins his tenure Date: Tue 20 Nov | 19:00 Date: Sun 11 | Nov 15:00 with Verdi’s swooning opera. Alan Bennett’s classic play is a fascinating Composer Løvenskiold may portrait of a monarch in a moment of not be so well known, but his weakness and features Mark Gatiss. 2017 - 2018 SEASON ballet is one of the oldest in Red ROYAL OPERA HOUSE the Danish Bournoville style SHAKESPEARE’S and a treasure to savour. MGC PRESENTS RED ANTONY & CLEOPATRA 15 Date: Thu 6 December | 19:00 Where: Bloomsbury Canterbury Colchester Knutsford LEON MINKUS’ Where: Aldgate Bloomsbury Canterbury Mayfair Oxford Richmond Ripon Sheffield Victoria DON QUIXOTE Knutsford Oxford Ripon Sheffield Wimbledon Sparks will fly! Two of our finest actors, Wimbledon Date: Wed 7 Nov | 19:00 and take on Date: Sun 2 Dec | 15:00 Where: Victoria Date: Thu 8 Nov | 19:00 the legendary characters in Shakespeare’s The Nutcracker LIDWIG MINKUS’ The errant knight comes to thrilling exploration of passion and duty. LA BAYADÈRE life in this adventurous and John Logan’s powerful portrait of the great Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko Date: Tue 13 Nov | 19:15 rousing ballet that also highlight’s the humour of features blistering performances by Alfred Naralia Makarova brings this ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY Cervantes’ classic novel. Molina and Alfred Enoch. classic 19th century ballet thrillingly to life. Where: Bloomsbury Canterbury Colchester TCHAIKOVSKY’S THE KING & I Knutsford Oxford Richmond Ripon TCHAIKOVSKY’S THE NUTCRACKER Where: Aldgate Canterbury Colchester Sheffield Victoria Wimbledon THE NUTCRACKER Date: Sun 23 Dec | 15:00 Knutsford Richmond Ripon Sheffield SHAKESPEARE’S Date: Mon 3 Dec | 19:15 This is a chance to see a Victoria Wimbledon TROILUS AND CRESSIDA There’s no better way to start glorious, contrasting version of Date: Thu 29 Nov | 18:30 Date: Wed 14 Nov | 19:00 the Christmas season than Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet to Following its sell-out season on Broadway, with Peter Wright’s sterling the one that played earlier in comes this critically acclaimed version of the Ancient myth is the basis of Shakespeare’s production of Tchaikovsky’s the month at the Royal Opera Rogers and Hammerstein classic featuring dark play, directed here by Gregory Doran beloved ballet. House. Kelli O’Hara and Ken Watanabee. and with a percussive score by Evelyn Glennie.

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LIVEFEATURE EVENTS STEALING THE SCENE Steve McQueen’s Widows features yet another riveting performance by Viola Davis, one of contemporary American cinema’s most compelling actors

By Wendy Ide

If there is one thing that Viola Davis has learned, over the course of a career that has thrown up more than its fair share of obstacles, it is how to make the most of every second of screen time. Because, despite three Oscar nominations and one win for her powerful turn in Fences (2016), and despite an industry- wide acknowledgement that she is one of the finest actors currently working, screen time has never been a given for her. She has been candid in the past both about her underprivileged upbringing – she lived, in Centre Falls, Rhode Island, in apartments she described as ‘rat infested’ and ‘condemned’ – and about the challenges facing women of colour in the film business. “I know the ropes,” she has stated. “I’ve been in the casting offices, I’ve felt the discrimination, I’ve felt ‘the line’... so when someone gives me a stage to be able to say something, it’s already in there.” Hence the scalding, gravitational intensity that she brings to what, in other hands, might just be a cameo or supporting role. Take the first of those Oscar-nominations, for, essentially, a single scene in Doubt (2008). She plays Mrs Miller, the mother of a boy who may or may not be the target of untoward attention from ’s Father Flynn. In an extended conversation with Meryl Streep, Davis takes us on a journey furnished with a mother’s anguished hopes and fears for a child who finds himself targeted by everyone, from school bullies to his own father. It’s hard to say which is more wrenching – the tears she sheds, or the tiny flicker of a smile when she allows herself to hope that Sister Aloysius won’t Widows, 2018 throw her child to the wolves in pursuit of her own agenda. FEATURES

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If she can shift the balance of a movie with just one scene, there was never any question that Davis could carry a whole film, given the opportunity. (And she has a TV show, playing the brilliant criminal defence professor Annalise Keating in How to Get Away with Murder.) She has previously noted as much. “I have had so many wonderful film roles where I wasn’t the show. It’s like being invited to a really fabulous party, only to hold up the wall. I wanted to be the show.” Now, with a blistering performance in the lead role of Steve McQueen’s Widows, Davis finally takes centre stage. Playing Veronica, the widow of a career criminal (Liam Neeson), Davis explores every nuance of her tricky, difficult character. Doubly bereaved – she also lost her son – Veronica has learned to construct a protective tough-talking barrier. And given the kind of men circling her, demanding that she repay the debt her late husband left behind, this strength – Fences, 2016 or at least the appearance of it – is essential. But Davis also allows us to see Veronica’s vulnerability. The actor has paid tribute to McQueen for creating “an atmosphere where WIDOWS opens 9 November you just want to take risks”. For his part, McQueen wanted Veronica to be relatable – a recognisable woman rather than 100s more available in-store an idealised Hollywood image. It’s a role that took Davis out of her comfort zone, certainly, but as much for the fact that fopp stores it confounded other people’s expectations of her. It’s a college green • cambridge sidney st • edinburgh rose st challenge that she noted in an interview following the glasgow union st & byres rd • london covent garden • manchester brown st Widows premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, “All of my nottingham broadmarsh shopping centre • oxford gloucester green characters cost me something. I feel like if they don’t cost me anything, then I’m not doing my job.”

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FREEDOM OF CHOICE

Sebastián Lelio directs an impressive cast in his English-language debut

By Ian Haydn Smith

Adapted from ’s Orange Woman (2017) and Gloria (2013), Sebastián (1927 & 1980) and Yentl (1983) and comedies could ever achieve, whilst giving us the Prize-winning 2006 literary debut, Lelio possesses an extraordinary ability to A Serious Man (2009) and The Infidel (2010), distance of a perceived apostate. Disobedience is set within an Orthodox unpeel the veneer of his character’s lives, to more recent films such as Joshua Z. If A Fantastic Woman highlights Jewish community in north London. Ronit articulating their feelings and desires with Weinstein’s Menashe (2017) and the films prejudice in a world that, some claim, (Rachel Weisz), the estranged daughter of a subtlety and intelligence. He never judges his of , Fill the Void (2012) and embraces difference, Disobedience explores much-loved and recently deceased Rabbi, protagonists (the compassion he shows Dovid The Wedding Plan (2016). Disobedience the nature of acceptance in an environment returns home to pay her respects, only to recalls ’ treatment of Harge, resonates thematically with Haim Tabakman’s whose dogma is rigidly enforced. The film is discover that her two childhood best friends Kyle Chandler’s distraught husband, in the 2009 gay Israeli drama Eyes Wide Open bookended by two sermons that explore are now married. Matters are complicated by similarly nuanced 2015 drama Carol), but has in the way it balances the intensity of its the nature of free will. It is something that an attraction between Ronit and Esti (Rachel no tolerance for outsiders who, intimate moments with a wider social god bestowed on us, the speakers claim. McAdams) that dates back to their youth and with little understanding of a situation, perspective. There are also similarities with Free will is an intrinsic component in Lelio’s which Dovid (Alessandro Nivola) is aware of feel righteous in their indignation. Daniel Kokotajlo’s Jehovah’s Witness drama three internationally released features. but for years has tried to ignore. The details The orthodox Jewish community has Apostasy (2017) in the way that Lelio, with And in each, the filmmaker acknowledges of Ronit’s departure from the community are been a presence in countless films, from co-screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz (who although some of us can do what we want, never revealed, but how she returned is key to austere dramas such as Hester Street (1975) also penned the exquisite Ida) presents this it is no guarantee that the road to happiness understanding the depths of Esti’s feelings. and Song of Songs (2005), the musicals world through the eyes of a former member, is any easier. The director of the acclaimed A Fantastic Fiddler on the Roof (1971), The Jazz Singer allowing us more access than an outsider DISOBEDIENCE opens 30 November

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Certain actors never wholly escape the Offsetting this, though, was the succession shadow of their first major screen role. One of private tragedies that dogged her all-too thinks of Anthony Perkins (Psycho, 1960) or short life. The relationship with Delon ended Peter Lorre (M, 1931). In the case of the abruptly when he left her a note saying -born actor Romy Schneider, that goodbye. She responded by trying to slash looming success came even earlier. She was her wrists. Her first marriage, to director 17 when she starred in Sissi (1955), the first Harry Meyen, the father of her son David, of a trilogy about Empress Elisabeth, the collapsed in bitter divorce proceedings. teenage bride of Emperor Franz Josef of Meyen later hanged himself. Schneider’s Austria. This saccharine ‘nice girl’ role, she second marriage, to her private secretary later wryly commented, stuck to her “just Daniel Biasini, also ended in divorce. like oatmeal”. Increasingly dependent on cigarettes, Her mother Magda, herself a screen alcohol and medication, Schneider was still actress, closely stage-managed her able to channel her personal pain into deeply- daughter’s career; Schneider remembered felt performances, as in Costa-Gavras’ her “standing behind me whispering ‘Smile Womanlight (1979) and ’s now, smile’”. Only in 1958, when she co-starred Death Watch (1980). It’s this late period of with the young Alain Delon in Christine and fell her life that’s depicted in Emily Atef’s in love with him, was she able to escape her engaging 3 Days in Quiberon, with Marie stifling family. Moving to with Delon, she Bäumer giving an inspired performance set about re-inventing herself as a French as the fragile, vulnerable actress taking actress, saying “I want to be completely a health-cure in the Breton resort and French in the way I live, love, sleep and dress”. granting a rare interview to two journalists Acclaimed for her luminous grace and from Stern magazine. innate talent, she explored an international The culminating blow came in July 1981 career, making films with Luchino Visconti when her son David, then 14, fatally impaled A HAUNTED (Boccaccio ’70 [1962], Ludwig [1970]), Orson himself while climbing some railings. Less Welles (The Trial, 1962) and Otto Preminger than a year later Schneider herself was dead (The Cardinal, 1963) – along with that now at age 43, from an overdose of barbiturates. sadly-dated acme of 60’s wackiness, Clive There was speculation that it might have Donner’s What’s New Pussycat? (1965). But been suicide. But 60-plus films enshrining her STAR it was the French who took her to their hearts, striking presence and vitality leave us with a awarding her the first-ever Best Actress worthier epitaph. Emily Atef’s film movingly portrays the beauty and tragedy César and, after her death, creating the Prix by Philip Kemp of actress Romy Schneider Romy Schneider, to be awarded to the most THREE DAYS IN QUIBERON opens 16 November promising young French actresses. FEATURE

CAPTURING THE PAST Mike Leigh’s visually dazzling recounting of a fateful moment in British history is his most ambitious film to date

For his fourth period drama, after Topsy-Turvy (1999), (2004) and Mr. Turner (2014), Leigh has directed a powerful re-enactment of the events leading up to the attack on peaceful protestors in St. Peter’s Fields, Manchester on 16 August 1819. Thousands had attended to hear radical reformer speak about universal suffrage (which at that time only applied to men) and the repeal of the catastrophic corn laws that were so damaging to the livelihoods of the working class. The charge, first by local Yeomanry and later the 15th Hussars, resulted in the deaths of and injuries to innocent men, women and children. Peterloo – the name that was given to the massacre as an ironic counterpoint to the recent Battle of Waterloo – finds Leigh working once again with cinematographer Dick Pope. Their partnership now stretches back across 11 features to Life is Sweet (1990). But it’s the four period films that they have collaborated on that Pope’s images have not only helped embellish the emotional tone of Leigh’s narratives, they are in themselves extraordinary examples of someone at the pinnacle of their craft. PETERLOO opens 9 November

56 57 FEATURE FEATURE DRESSED TO KILL Two very different new films highlight the brilliance By Ian Haydn Smith of British costume designer Sandy Powell Sandy Powell

In a career spanning three decades, Sandy subsequently worked on – their bold colours a Powell has created a cinematic wardrobe of stark contrast to the film’s minimalist production visually striking costumes. Along the way, design. In the same period, Powell designed she has won three Oscars, two BAFTAs and costumes across the ages for Sally Potter’s cultivated a series of fruitful collaborations stunning take on Virginia Woolf’s Orlando with some of the finest filmmakers in (1992) and began a five film collaboration contemporary cinema, from Derek Jarman with , beginning with The Crying and Neil Jordan to and Todd Game (1993). If her work on his Interview Haynes. Her most recent work can soon be with a Vampire (1994) showcased Powell at seen in Rob Marshall’s Disney Christmas her most expressive when it comes to period spectacular and Yorgos design, The End of the Affair (1999), her final Lanthimos’ darkly funny period pageant The collaboration to date with Jordan, highlighted Favourite. The films couldn’t be more different, her attention to detail. but such startling changes in gear have been Powell’s work with Haynes and Scorsese a hallmark across Powell’s career. has showcased her versatility. Playing up the A student at London’s Central School of 1970s Glam era of Velvet Goldmine (1998) Art, Powell left before graduating to work with and charting the increasing dandiness of Derek Jarman on Caravaggio (1986), her Bill ‘The Butcher’ Cutting in Gangs of New designs contributing to a series of tableaux York (2002) found Powell in thrall to the that mirrored the Italian artist’s paintings. flamboyance of her characters. What stands They progressed from there to The Last of out in the collaborations with these filmmakers (1988), Jarman’s radical polemic on are the moments where a costume, item of life in Thatcher’s Britain, an adaptation clothing or accessory speaks louder than of Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II (1991) words. There’s Michelle William’s floral dress, and a striking portrait of the philosopher slowly succumbing to flames, in Shutter Island Wittgenstein (1993). Powell’s costumes here (2010); the red scarf and beautifully-stitched, , 2018 Mary Poppins Returns, 2018 are as outrageous as any project she has misplaced glove in Carol; the outlandish blue

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Mary Poppins Returns, 2018 The Favourite, 2018

A Ghostly presence A modern-day Western with a sense of ,wonder at the American landscape, and evoking comparisons with Malick’s Badlands (1973) and (1978), Ain’t Them Bodies Saints tells the story of Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara’s young criminal couple on the run in Texas. Inspired by the story of Bonnie and Clyde, it possesses a dreamy quality, which was taken further in Lowery’s subsequent collaboration with his MEET THE two leads, A Ghost Story (2017). A study in of ’s policeman’s jacket Lanthimos’ film is a far stranger grieving, told primarily from the perspective in Hugo (2011) and lilac of a young Jordan proposition. It’s the director’s first period of Affleck’s ill-fated husband, it is a moving Belfort’s badly fitting double-breasted suit drama. Although costume design played and beguiling tale. in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Then there a role in his two previous English language FILMMAKER Coming up is every detail of (2002), features, The Lobster (2015) and The Killing Lowery had previously worked with Robert a drama whose heightened emotions are of a Sacred Deer (2017) – either denoting DAVID LOWERY Redford on his wonderful live-action accentuated by the clothing that characters his characters’ strangeness or emphasising reinvention of the Disney animation Pete’s don’t so much wear as model in a way that is their privilege – The Favourite will lean more Dragon (2016). But in The Old Man & the Gun, intended to hide the cracks in their seemingly heavily on the outfits characters wear to What to know also written by Lowery and based on a perfect existence. define its place in history. In a similar vein to David Lowery (b. 1980, Milwaukee) has New Yorker article by David Grann, the Powell’s work on ’s equally irreverent Barry gradually moved to the front rank of American octogenarian star is given one of his finest (2009) won her a third Oscar and second Lyndon (1975), Powell’s costumes play a filmmakers with a body of work that that roles and turns in a memorable, career-best BAFTA. Along with her work on Disney’s subversive role in drawing out subtext. It’s has been compared to both Terence Malick and reportedly final performance. Casey Cinderella (2015), it makes her the perfect here that Powell’s grasp of detail, her use and . St. Nick (2009), his first Affleck stars once again, alongside Sissy choice to help realise a world in which Mary of contrasting colours and shades, and the feature as writer, director and editor, telling Spacek, Danny Glover and Tom Waits. Poppins exists, with its combination of fantasy obvious relish with which she helps create the story of young siblings hiding out in rural Another play on the Western myth and and the everyday. In the 1963 original, it was these worlds, will add depth to the struggles Texas, attracted praise at the South by its outlaw characters, it is a nostalgic, Bill Thomas’ costumes as much as anything of embattled and embittered subjects in a Southwest film festival. He then took on the visually sumptuous paean to the spirit of that defined the era in which the film was set. conflict-strewn court. role of editor for ’s Sun Don’t the American heartland that cements The new film unfolds in mid-1930s London Shine (2012) and Shane Carruth’s strange, Lowery’s reputation as a singular voice and it will be interesting to see how Powell intoxicating (2013), before MARY POPPINS RETURNS opens 21 December in contemporary cinema. balances that era with the story’s more THE FAVOURITE opens 1 January 2019 returning to the director’s chair for Ain’t wondrous elements. Them Bodies Saints (2013). THE OLD MAN & THE GUN opens 7 December

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OF FILMS TO COME Joel Edgerton’s The Gift revealed the actor to be an intelligent director working under 2019 MOVIE PREVIEW the radar. His new film looks set to cement his reputation. Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman and Lucas Hedges star as a religious family, whose As we near a new year in cinema, talk is already abuzz of major awards Baptist preacher father cannot reconcile his contenders. We’ll see many of the frontrunners wending their way to our faith with his son’s sexual orientation. screens in the early months of 2019, but we thought we would give you just a taster of what to look forward to.

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER Lovers of James Baldwin’s elegant prose won’t The supremely talented Maggie Gyllenhaal be disappointed by ’ (Moonlight) plays a kindergarten teacher who thinks one adaptation of the great American author’s of her pupils is a gifted young prodigy, but her late novel. It’s a beautiful love story concerning intentions soon go awry. If you prefer your a young black couple and the hardships they films wracked with tension, keeping you glued face. Deeply humane and lushly realised, this to the screen and holding your breath, this is filmmaking of the highest calibre. is definitely for you.

BEAUTIFUL BOY THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING Let us count the ways we love thee, Timothée Little is known about Attack the Block director Chalamet. Call Me By Your Name was no Joe Cornish’s new film, beyond it being a fluke, as the charismatic star takes on the reinvention of the Excalibur myth in which challenging role of a crack addict in this the legendary sword falls into the hands of a understated drama that details the troubled powerless schoolboy named Alex. But that’s relationship between a young man and his fine for the director, who believes “movies are father (Steve Carrell). better the less you know going in”.

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COLETTE MISS BALA Keira Knightley gives a career-best performance You might have seen the 2011 original, about as the renowned French writer who initially a beauty contest queen forced to work for a ceded authorship of her work to her husband, crime boss after witnessing a hit. The remake before emerging as a radical voice in Parisian is by Thirteen and Twilight director Catherine society. Wash Westmoreland’s (Still Alice) film Hardwicke, and promises to offer an unflinching avoids the pitfalls of the dull biopic, instead portrait of a woman trapped in a world beyond offering up a celebration of creativity and their control. individualty.

CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? BURNING Loosely inspired by the Haruki Murakami short In every comedy performer there is a serious story ‘Barn Burning’, the latest drama by the actor eager to break free. It’s proven here director of Peppermint Candy and Poetry by Melissa McCarthy, giving a stunning was one of the most critically acclaimed performance as Lee Israel, a down-at-heels films in the main competition at Cannes. writer who found a new career as a forger. Chang-dong Lee is an expert at creating Featuring comic support from Richard haunting worlds and his latest is also his E. Grant, it’s a bizarre real-life tale. most ambitious.

GREEN BOOK CAPERNAUM Heavyweight actors Marhershala Ali and We’re a world away from the setting of Nadine play a musician and his Labaki’s crowd-pleasing debut Caramel. This chauffeur in this engaging study of race and powerful slice of neo-realist drama finds a masculinity in America’s Deep South during young Lebanese ruffian (an extraordinary the 1960s. Directed with surprising subtlety Ghida Majzoub) suing his parents for bringing by former frat boy comedy filmmaker Peter him into the world. It’s powerful stuff and a Farrelly, it’s a timely and moving account of huge leap forward for Labaki. racial division in the US.

WILD ROSE THE FAVOURITE Olivia Coleman, Rachel Weisz and Emma was a contestant on the Stone. Do you need any more enticement to Andrew Lloyd Webber reality show I’d Do see this new film from The Lobster’s Yorgos Anything, then trained at RADA and went on Lanthimos? This tale of jealousy, power and to make a huge impression in Beast. Now she is set in the court of Queen Anne, a has the chance to use her acting and singing place of lusty ambitions, fruity dialogue, rich skills in this tale of a Scot who wants to make period detail and more rabbits than your it big in Nashville. It’s a star-making role. average lettuce patch.

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CURZON STAFF MEMBERS AND FRIENDS WRITE ABOUT THE FILMS THAT INSPIRE THEM

Long before I became a British citizen, I came test and purchased a small terraced house, I to know England through Merchant-Ivory understand what an essential guide to British films. Travelling to London for the first time, life E.M. Forster’s novel and James Ivory’s I pictured mansion block flats, garden pitch-perfect film adaptation are. squares, and a handsome stranger who is the story of three families would chase me in the pouring rain as, upon from different backgrounds, set against leaving a lunchtime concert, I mistakenly the backdrop of a housing crisis, circa 1910. made off with his umbrella. Period dramas are, by definition, removed and James Ivory’s films from the contemporary; as a genre they are show their great passion for Italy; I should often reactionary, nostalgic riffs on idealised have known from their romanticised depiction pasts. This film is different. In 1910, Forster of my native country that perhaps their image was already protesting the commercialisation of England would be equally sublimated in of property and the iniquities of the British fantasy: my host family lived in a suburban class system. James Ivory’s film was made semi-detached, my student friends in bedsits; shortly after the Poll Tax riots. The cruelty of a eventually I would move into a dingy flatshare. society that teases advancement but denies Except now, having passed my Life in the UK opportunity is what still makes Howards End so fiercely relevant. ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ Whether it is a film that personally CineVue “A compassionate & complicated Culture Whisper resonates with you depends on the relationship ★★★★ love letter to family” ★★★★ you have with the words ‘house’ and ‘home’, The Guardian HeyUGuys Time Out and the value you place on either. It’s one of the key themes of this tale, as it ponders the ★★★★★ “A masterful ensemble piece” ★★★★★ The Telegraph The Upcoming tensions between capitalism and idealism. Where you can make your house a home, there will be your place, the place where you can, in the words of Forster himself, ‘only connect’.

Irene Musumeci is Curzon’s Film Marketing Shoplifters manager Listen to Sam West talk about Howards End a film by Kore-eda Hirokazu on Curzon podcast #79 – available on Apple podcasts, Acast and the Curzon blog Sometimes you choose your family Go to page 44 for details of the James Ivory events at Curzon Oxford IN CINEMAS NOVEMBER 23 66 TBIRDRELEASING THUNDERBIRDRELEASING.COM