16–19 FEBRUARY 2017 KESWICK FILM FESTIVAL FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

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02 WELCOME Welcome to the 18th Keswick Film Festival 04 OUR GUESTS

2016 was a vintage year for film – the most difficult decisions have been which to leave 09 FILMS & EVENTS out of the Festival programme rather than 09 – Our films what to include – and 2017 marks some 12 – Film listings significant anniversaries to be celebrated.

It sounds about right that Casablanca was released 75 years ago but can it really be 30 years since we saw White Mischief for the first time and 25 years for The Player?

Our programme includes the pick of the current crop and a celebration of some memorable films in the company of some CONTENTS rather special guests. There is nothing like seeing a favourite film on the big 36 screen and sharing that experience with EVERYONE’S A CRITIC others – indeed sharing experiences and views is central to this year’s Festival. 38 TICKETS & TRAVEL Thanks are due to our marvellous sponsors, Ticket costs, discounts and the small army of volunteers who come booking information. Directions together to make the Festival happen and and public transport details most of all to you, the KFF audience. We are known as the friendly Festival 39 MAP and it’s friends like you that make Film venues, this such a great weekend. refreshment details

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Adam’s presentation on Saturday will Adam Feinstein on first trace Curtiz’s fascinating life: his GUESTS Michael Curtiz mysterious beginnings in Budapest; Sunday at 13.00 the early, formative silents in Europe; Michael Curtiz films over the his arrival in Hollywood and his tangled Festival weekend are: emotional life. Feinstein will go on to Greta Scacchi Yankee Doodle Dandy Friday, 12.00 identify several little-acknowledged, but Captains of the Clouds Friday, 18.00 crucial, themes and styles in Curtiz’s Casablanca Saturday, 17.00 The Browning Version Friday, 15.00 cinema, with illustrative sequences The Breaking Point Sunday, 15.15 The Player Friday, 20.15 from some of his classic films. White Mischief Saturday, 20.00 Adam is an acclaimed British writer, Greta Scacchi is an internationally broadcaster, poet and translator. renowned film, theatre and television His much-praised biography of the actress. She trained at Bristol Old Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Vic Theatre School and has worked Neruda, was re-issued in an updated extensively in Australia, America and edition by Bloomsbury in 2013. He Europe, and most recently has worked is also an internationally recognised on the West End stage with Kenneth authority on autism. His book, A History Branagh’s Theatre Company. of Autism: Conversations with the Her many film credits include: The Pioneers, was lauded worldwide. Falling, Heat and Dust, Presumed Adam will also introduce Neruda and Innocent, Beyond the Sea and Life, Animated at the Festival, having over the course of the Festival we first-hand knowledge of both films. will be screening White Mischief, The Browning Version, and Robert Altman’s The Player. Miss Scacchi will take part in a Q&A at the screening of White Mischief. Adam Feinstein with Julie Christie at a Neruda reading 6 7 Critical Acclaim The Critics Son of Saul Saturday, 14.30 Arrival Saturday, 17.00 Raw Saturday, 22.34 with the final debate on Sunday at 15.00 Matt Glasby We invited film critics, Matt Glasby, Karen (@mattglasby) Krizanovich and Ali Catterall to choose the best film they had seen in 2016 for screening at the Festival and asked them Matt Glasby is a film critic for Nick Barton with Swallow to make the case for their selection to Total Film and GQ among others, and Amazon at Coniston win the Keswick Film Festival’s Critics’ and a member of the London Award. As professional reviewers they Critics’ Circle. He is the author of Swallows and Amazons Nick Barton see dozens of films and for something The A-Z of Great Film Directors. to stand out means that it must be really with Simon Hughes and Nick Barton is the producer of major special. Will their choices, Son of Saul, Nick Barton British films such as Calendar Girls, Arrival and Raw do it for you? Over the course of the Festival they will say Saturday at 11.00 Kinky Boots and most recently Swallows and Amazons. just why they chose those films and on Simon Hughes is a Visual Sunday you will have the chance to hear Karen Krizanovich Effects Supervisor based at He started his film career making them make their final pitch for your vote. (@Krizanovich) Union VFX in London. advertising commercials in the 1970’s with acclaimed photographer Terence Whether you loved or loathed their He began his career at Cinesite in Donovan. He then established Network choice please have your say. Karen Krizanovich is a journalist, London in 1997 and has since worked at Television in the 1980’s creating writer, researcher, public speaker a number of companies in both London major international documentary and broadcaster and is the honorary and Canada, and has supervised onset films for the BBC, Channel 4, Keswick Peace and secretary of the London Film Critics’ around the UK, US, Canada and Africa. and the Discovery Channel. Circle and a jury associate for the Human Rights Group International Film Critics’ Association. He has recently worked on Bridget His entry into feature films came in We Are Many Saturday, 10.00 Jones’s Baby, Swallows and Amazons, 2000 when his new company, Harbour How the Rich Avoid Tax Everest, Suffragette, 71, Safe House Pictures, developed the extraordinary Sunday, 10.00 and has received a Visual Effects true story of the Yorkshire WI ladies Society award for his work on District 9. with their famous nude calendar. Our association with Keswick Peace and Ali Catterall Calendar Girls became one of the most Human Rights Group continues with Before the screening of Swallows and (@AliCatterall) successful British films in history. . . two special screenings in the Theatre Amazons, Simon’s talk will give us brief Studio with post-film discussions on the overview of the VFX industry and what topics raised. We Are Many is the story his role entails along with an insight into of the mass protest against the Iraq Ali Catterall is a film journalist based in how the visual effects were achieved war and How the Rich Avoid Tax sees London, who writes and has written for in the film, which was of course, actor Greg Wise expose the workings a great many journals, some of which filmed right here on Derwentwater. of both tax planners and the HMRC. actually still exist, including The Guardian, Total Film, Q, Time Out and The Word. 8 Remastered – an exhibition Each year at the Festival, students from Carlisle College produce an exhibition of movie posters, inspired by the Festival programme and displayed on the mezzanine floors of the Theatre by the Lake. Please take some time out to look at these stunning artworks.

This year’s exhibition is entitled Remastered:

‘There is a current trend for designers to bypass the usual design-by-committee approach of mainstream film promotion and, influenced by the anarchic approach of Communist-era Eastern European OUR artists who in many cases had no access to the films they were promoting, create visually bold images that stand in an interestingly oblique relation to the film.

These works have been created as alternative film posters for the films in festival by Visual Communication students from the UAL Foundation FILMS Diploma in Art and Design at Carlisle College of the Arts’

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Key to our Films & Events David Miller, our Film Festival Programmer has excelled himself this Special Events year, putting together a wonderfully diverse programme that is both Question & Answer Sessions entertaining and challenging.

He has been helped by the remarkable crop of films that were released in 2016. Our opening film, The Patriarch takes us to New Zealand then we have American Honey , Manchester by the Sea, Toni Erdmann, Life, Animated and La La Land alongside some new releases from some of our favourite Directors – Pablo Larrain (Neruda) , The Dardennes Brothers (The Unknown Girl), Cristian Mungiu (Graduation), HiroKazu Koreeda (After the Storm) and Asghar Farhadi (The Salesman).

What has been less helpful in programming has been the recent trend of producing films well over 2 hours running time. You can expect to be royally entertained but you will certainly need to be sprightly between venues!

There are few overt themes this year, which will delight some of you (we do read your feedback!). Poets and their works feature in a number of titles and that tenuous thread stretches between Reaching for the Moon and Paterson to Neruda and Stevie.

For the first time we have let some film critics add their choices to the programme, with Son of Saul, Arrival and Raw competing for the new Critics’ Award.

The powerful landscapes of Tibet (Paths of the Soul) and Mongolia (Wolf Totem) at Rheged, a look back at the career of our special guest, Greta Scacchi and Top left clockwise: an insight into the works of Michael Curtiz complete American Honey, Neruda, what we hope will be a fascinating weekend of film. Paterson, Tony Erdmann, The Unknown Girl, The Salesman, The Patriarch, Manchester by the Sea. THURSDAY 16 13

18.30, Alhambra Reception

Our usual glass of wine will be there you welcome you to The Alhambra and as an amuse bouche for the delights of the weekend to come, we will have a screening of The Merciless Beauty – a visually stunning film set in the Lakeland 19.00, Alhambra Fells, directed by Michael Groom and Produced by brother David Groom. The Patriarch (NR)

103 mins, Lee Tamahori, New Zealand (2016) 21.00, Golden Lion Pass Holders’ Party In the 1960s on the east coast of New Zealand, two Maori sheep-shearing Our Pass Holders’ Party will return to families - the Mahanas and the Poatas the Golden Lion where we can talk - are longstanding enemies and THURSDAY commercial rivals. 14-year-old Simeon about what we have just seen and start to make those difficult choices Mahana, the youngest son, is in conflict of what to see over the next 3 days. with his traditionalist grandfather, Tamihana. As Simeon unravels the truth behind the longstanding vendetta, he risks his own prospects, and the cohesion of the entire society. 16.2.17 Adapted from a novel by The Whale Rider (KFC, 2004) author Witi Ihimaera this family saga is a return to Maori roots for Once Were Warriors director Lee Tamahori.

“The Patriarch plays like a classic Western as it proudly expands the still-limited canon of essential films about New Zealand’s tribal THE PATRIARCH people” Peter Debruge, Variety 19.00, Alhambra Thanks to Wild Bunch FRIDAY 17 15

12.00, Main House 12.00, Studio

Tanna (12) Yankee Doodle Dandy (U)

100 mins, Martin Butler and Bentley 126 mins, Michael Curtiz, USA (1942) Dean, Australia/Vanuatu (2015) This much-loved musical drama Dain is a chieftain’s grandson and won 3 Oscars and tells of the life Wawa granddaughter of a shaman. of renowned musical composer, The pair are in love, but when rivalry playwright, actor, dancer and singer with a neighbouring tribe erupts George M. Cohen. It stars James into violence, Wawa is promised to a Cagney who demonstrates brilliance FRIDAY warrior of that tribe as part of peace as an actor and song and dance man. negotiations. Forbidden by their “You will find as warm and delightful elders from being together, Wawa and a musical picture as has hit the Dain resolve to defy their families. screen in years, a corking good Shot entirely on location, the film tells entertainment and as affectionate, if a true story and many of the cast not as accurate, a film biography as played characters based on their own has ever - yes, ever - been made.” 17.2.17 roles in society, featuring traditional Bosley Crowther, New York Times tribal dances, pig slaughtering Thanks to Film Bank and penis sheaths. Winner of the audience award at the 72nd Venice Introduced by Adam Feinstein International Film Festival.

“The most interesting interpretation of Romeo and Juliet since Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 version” Vicky TANNA Roach, Daily Telegraph, Australia 12.00, Main House Thanks to Visit Films 16 FRIDAY 17 FRIDAY 17 17

12.00, Alhambra 15.00, Main House 15.00, Studio 14.45, Alhambra Graduation (Bacalaureat) The Browning Version Draw on Sweet Night (NC) Manchester by the Sea (15)

(12A) (15) 86 mins, Tony Britten, UK (2016) 135 mins, Kenneth Lonergan, USA (2016) 127 mins, Cristian Mungiu, 97 mins, Mike Figgis, UK (1994) John Wilbye, the greatest of the Romania (2016) Elizabethan madrigalists, spent his Casey Affleck stars as Lee, a The first of our trilogy of films starring entire working life in the service solitary Boston janitor who after a Cristian Mungiu has followed up Greta Scacchi. Mike Figgis’ remake of Sir Thomas and Lady Elizabeth family tragedy must return to his his Palme d’Or success with 4 of The Browning Version showcases Kytson. After Wilbye’s second book home town, Manchester by the Sea months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days with some of the greatest talents in British of madrigals was published in 1609 to look after his brother’s son. Graduation which won him the acting and screenwriting. Adapted he appears not to have composed Best Director accolade in 2016. from Terence Rattigans’s play by anything else, yet Lady Elizabeth kept It is never good to go back and Ronald Harwood, Miss Scacchi plays Lee has to confront his personal The tale of a doctor in a small him on in the house until her death the young wife of a much-disliked daemons as well as cope with Romanian town and his understandable in 1628, showering him with gifts. classics teacher (Albert Finney) at a his new responsibilities. Slow ambition to do the very best for British public school, who is reaching So why, when Elizabeth died, did and deeply moving, the comedic his daughter. But how far should the end of his career. With Michael Wilbye throw all this up and spend elements emphasise that this is you go to use influence and call in Gambon in the role of the Headmaster, the rest of his days with her daughter, an immensely powerful film that favours to further that ambition? Mike Figgis’ film is a masterful the divorcee Lady Mary Darcy? is rightfully garnering nominations A fascinating tale of contemporary re-telling of a well-known tale. in the 2017 Awards season. Festival favourite, Tony Britten’s Romania, Graduation will challenge “Albert Finney and Greta Scacchi collaboration with the internationally “Manchester by the Sea grounds the moral compass of every parent. have given a fabulous performance. renowned vocal group, I Fagiolini, its feet in the type of social realities “It’s masterful stuff, superbly made Indeed this is a rare gem in this sumptuously photographed and interpersonal dysfunctions that and gives you the rewarding cinema. I give this 9 out of 10. film is a feast for movie fans most Hollywood films would sooner sense of watching a director in The script is tight, the music and music lovers alike. sentimentalize ...” – Gary Shannon complete control of his craft” ICO score good and the performances are amazing”. IMDB Review Thanks to Capriol Films Thanks to Studio Canal Thanks to Artificial Eye/Curzon 18 FRIDAY 17 FRIDAY 17 19

17.30, Main House 18.00, Studio 17.45, Alhambra 20.15, Main House

The Unknown Girl (15) Captains of the Clouds (U) Neruda (15) The Player (15)

113 mins, Jean-Pierre and Luc 114 mins, Michael Curtiz, USA (1942) 108 minutes, Pablo 124 mins, Robert Altman, USA (1992) Dardenne, France (2016) Larrain, Chile, (2016) Directed by Michael Curtiz this was The second of our trilogy of films The Dardenne brothers never fail to James Cagney’s first colour film, Director Pablo Larrain’s follow up featuring Greta Scacchi, The impress and their latest release tells an aviation tale that was Oscar to The Club is an ‘anti-bio’ of one Player sees Robert Altman and the tale of a caring, committed doctor nominated for Cinematography of Chile’s most vital and intriguing lead actors Tim Robbins and in Liège (Adèle Haenel) whose one and Interior Decoration. figures: poet-diplomat and politician, Miss Scacchi at their finest. error of judgement leads her into an Pablo Neruda. Set in 1948, Neruda obsessive journey to find the identity of James Cagney plays an independent, finds himself on the wrong side of an Griffin Mill (Robbins) is a Hollywood the unknown immigrant girl at her door. brash Canadian bush pilot who, inspired anti-communist drive and is forced gatekeeper – anyone wanting to by Churchill’s Dunkirk speech attempts into hiding. Details of this exile are get their movie made needs to get As her search goes on, the service in the Royal Canadian Air delivered in narration by Gael Garcia it past him first. But when Griffin question of blame becomes more Force during World War II but cannot Bernal, playing the detective who starts to receive death threats from complex than it first seems. bend to military ways. Soon, however, is tasked with tracking him down. someone he has ignored, the list of he proves his ability as a civilian. suspects is long. Taking matters into “Adèle Haenel joins the rich tradition “It is a brilliantly ambiguous, his own hands leads to an inevitable of superb lead performances “Although Cagney is much better than insidious portrait of an often venal downward spiral of consequences. in Dardennes-directed dramas” his thankless role, the real heroes of and hypocritical man. Larrain’s Guy Lodge – Variety Captains are director Michael Curtiz skill is to draw him as someone “The Player is a smart movie, and and his five cameramen, who caught who nevertheless deserves his a funny one. It is also absolutely Thanks to artificial Eye/Curzon the matchless greens and browns of heroic status as a key figure of its time. After the savings and Canada’s infinite north-country.” Time in Chile’s struggle” ICO loan scandals, after junk bonds and stolen pension funds, here is Thanks to Warner Brothers Thanks to Network Releasing a movie that uses Hollywood as a metaphor for the avarice of the 1980s. It is the movie The Bonfire of the Vanities wanted to be.” Roger Ebert

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20.30, Studio 20.30, Alhambra Reaching for the Moon American Honey (15) (Flores Raras) (12A) 163 mins, Andrea Arnold, UK (2016)

118 mins, Bruno Barreto, Brazil (2013) The third Cannes Jury Prize winning film by writer/director Arnold to be A sophisticated tale of an unlikely screened at Keswick (Red Road, romance between two extraordinary KFF 2007; Fish Tank, KFC 2009) artists, set against the backdrop American Honey is her first film to of political upheaval and a clash of be set outside the UK. A teenage girl cultures in 1950s Brazil. Legendary with nothing to lose joins a travelling American poet Elizabeth Bishop SATURDAY magazine sales crew, and gets caught travels from New York City to Rio up in a whirlwind of hard partying, de Janeiro to visit her college friend law bending and young love as she Mary. Hoping to find inspiration, criss-crosses the Midwest with a band Elizabeth winds up with much of misfits, under power-agent Jake, more – a tempestuous relationship played by Shia LaBeouf. Otherwise with Mary’s bohemian partner, Arnold ‘street cast’ the film, including architect Lota de Macedo Soares, the lead Sacha Lane, from impromptu designer of Rio’s Flamingo Park. auditions on parking lots, beaches, 18.2.17 “The passionate romance springs to construction sites and state fairs. life thanks to full-bodied performances “A road movie without a map that by Gloria Pires and Miranda Otto.” nonetheless arrives at a worthwhile Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter destination and there’s a wonderful Thanks to Peccadillo intimacy in the way Arnold examines young women in her films” David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter PATHS OF THE SOUL 11.10, Rheged Thanks to Universal 22 SATURDAY 18 SATURDAY 18 23

10.00, Studio 11.00 – 13.30, Main House 11.10, Rheged 12.00, Alhambra We Are Many (12) Paths of the Soul (NR) Ospreys Swallows and Amazons 110 mins, Amir Amirani, UK (2015) 115 mins, Yang Zhang, China, 2015 – with Simon Hughes A presentation of the best entries from The global protest against the Iraq and Nick Barton (PG) For 1200km, the Tibetan pilgrims of both young and older film-makers, War on 15 February 2003 was a Zhang Yang’s extraordinary travelogue this year in a single competition. 97 mins pivotal moment in recent history, the clap, drop face down to the road or The criterion is that there must be a consequences of which have gone Join Visual Effects Supervisor Simon gravel or mud, and then lift themselves Cumbrian connection on or off screen unreported. We Are Many chronicles Hughes and Producer Nick Barton for up to walk a few steps and do it all – be prepared for the best of our local the struggle to shift power from the old a special screening of last summer’s again, on a pilgrimage to Lhasa, the talent and the best of our locality. establishment to the new superpower hit, Swallows and Amazons. holy capital. that is global public opinion, through We see the simplicity of There will be prizes awarded by the the prism of one historic day. Before the film, Simon will be telling human relationships and the Judging Panel plus an opportunity us some of the tricks of the trade nature of family, suffering, and to vote in the Audience Award. “Illuminating, potent, fair and such as how the film managed to extraordinary determination. balanced. Enraging yet hopeful. join together so many different One of the best documentaries locations and afterwards Nick will Zhang shot for more than a year and of the year. It’s important that you be answering questions about the also managed to secure approval watch it for the sake of democracy” reworking of Ransome’s great book from the Chinese government Avi Offer, NYC Movie Guru and the challenges it threw up. to make and distribute this film celebrating Tibetan spirituality. Screened in association with Keswick Thanks to Studio Canal Peace & Human Rights Group. “The film is restful and exhausting, a contemplation of Tibet’s epic-scale Thanks to Amir Amirani natural beauty, filmed with patience and intimacy, as each new horizon is a reward for the pilgrim’s perseverance.” Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice

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14.30, Main House 14.10, Rheged 14.30, Alhambra 17.00, Main House Critic’s Choice: Son Wolf Totem (PG) The Salesman (PG) After the Storm (NR)

of Saul (15) 121 mins, Jean-Jacques Annaud, 125 mins, Asghar Farhadi, 117 mins, HiroKazu Koreeda, China/France (2015) Iran/France (2016) 107 mins, Laszlo Nemes, Japan (2016) Hungary (2016) In 1967, a young Beijing student, Chen Winner of the Best Screenplay and HiroKazu Koreeda, a favourite Zhen, is sent to live among the nomadic Best Actor awards at Cannes, Asghar I Wish Matt Glasby’s choice is one of the of Keswick audiences: , herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught Farhadi (A Separation, About Ellie) Like Father Like Son most powerful films (and Foreign KFF 2013; , between the advance of civilization takes us on another compelling Our Little Sister Language Oscar winner) of 2016. KFF 2014; , KFC from the south and the nomads’ journey in contemporary Iran. Emad 2016; is back with another gentle Two days in the life of Saul Auslander, traditional enemies – the marauding and his wife Rana are playing Willy contemplation on family life. Hungarian prisoner working as a wolves – to the north; humans and Loman and Linda in an am-dram member of the Sonderkommando animals, residents and invaders alike, production of Death of a Salesman. Dwelling on his past glory as a at one of the Auschwitz crematoria struggle to find their true place in the Having had to move out of their prize-winning author, Ryota wastes who, to bury the corpse of a boy he world. Annaud, who has worked with home because of subsidence their the money he makes as a private takes for his son, tries to carry out his animals on other films and whose own relationship starts to crumble detective on gambling. After the impossible deed: salvage the body 1997 film Seven Years in Tibet is after a disturbing domestic incident. death of his father, his mother and and find a rabbi to bury it. While the banned in China, had his personal ban ex-wife seem to be moving on while Sonderkommando is to be liquidated lifted so he could direct Wolf Totem. “Exploring challenging questions Ryota struggles to take back control at any moment, Saul turns away from of morality and retribution, The of his life and to find a lasting place the living and their plans of rebellion “Gorgeous, sweeping Salesman is a beautifully observed, in the future of his young son – until to save the remains of a son he never cinematography that captures the painstakingly crafted drama.” ICO a stormy summer night offers them took care of when he was still alive. landscape in breathtaking aerial a chance to truly bond again. shots and crystal-clear colour” Thanks to Artificial Eye/Curzon “I can only say the film is, by its own Katy Walsh, Tribune News “Even long-standing fans might be measure, a triumph. Engineered taken aback by the supreme subtlety with virtuoso skill, every moment Thanks to Wild Bunch of his latest, achingly beautiful ode screams You Are Here. And to the quiet complexities of family here is hell.” Danny Leigh, FT life.” Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph

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17.00, Studio 17.00, Alhambra 20.00, Main House 20.00, Alhambra Casablanca Critic’s Choice – White Mischief (18) Paterson (15)

102 mins, Michael Curtiz, USA, 1942 Arrival (12A) 107 mins, Michael Radford, UK (1987) 113 mins, Jim Jarmusch, USA (2016)

Bogart plays a world-weary ex- 116 mins, Denis Villeneuve, Released some 46 years after the Described as ‘perhaps the most purely freedom fighter who runs a nightclub USA (2016) true life events of the Happy Valley pleasurable film at Cannes’ Paterson in Casablanca during the early part of murder (still unsolved) of Josslyn Hay, is the eponymous bus driver cum poet, Karen Krizanovich’s choice stars the World War II. It has become a haven for 22nd Earl of Errol, Roger Ebert says who takes his inspiration from the wonderful Amy Adams in Arrival, which refugees wanting to escape to America. “White Mischief is an elegant, almost conversations of his passengers and has received plaudits across the world. Club owner Rick is approached by the luxurious retelling of the story of Jock his day to day life in Paterson, New famed rebel Victor Laszlo and his wife When mysterious spacecraft touch (Joss Ackland) ,his young bride, Jersey. Adam Driver is superb as the Ilsa, Rick’s true love who deserted him down across the globe, an elite Diana (Greta Scacchi) and the Earl poet and he is wonderfully supported when the Nazis invaded Paris. She team – led by expert linguist Louise (Charles Dance). In White Mischief, by Golshifteh Farahani (About Ellie) wants Victor to escape to America, but Banks – is brought together to the period is lovingly restored – as his wife Laura, who has (largely having renewed her love for Rick, she investigate. As humankind teeters the clothes, the cars, the rambling black and white) artistic ideas of wants to stay behind in Casablanca. on the verge of global war, Banks architecture, the lifestyle that could not her own and Winnie the bulldog, “You must do the thinking for both of and the team race against time for conceive that Kenya would ever be rightful winner of the Palme Dog. us,” she says to Rick, and he does. answers – and to find them, she will independent, and was scarcely able “A perfectly constructed, beautifully take a chance that could threaten her to even see racism, much less decry “Curtiz’s film is a classic for a reason acted and utterly charming life, and quite possibly mankind itself. it. Happy Valley is seen as a society – it’s crafted with the precision, detail indie drama that will make you of narcissists, in love with their own and beauty of a Fabergé egg; the see the world around you in a “A magnetic, brilliant and captivating beauty and idle charm and existing dialogue is hauntingly memorable different way. It is, in a word, film where the director knows how primarily to drink and to gossip.” and, in Humphrey Bogart and to tense the threads that unite the unmissable.” Matthew Turner Ingrid Bergman, it has one of the imagination of the spectator with The film will be followed by a Thanks to Soda Pictures most magnetic screen pairings in the imagery of distant worlds.” Q&A with Greta Scacchi. history”. Wendy Ide Times (UK) Luis Martinez, El Mundo Thanks to Filmbank Thanks to Filmbank Thanks to Entertainment One

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forced to eat a raw rabbit liver during her school’s humiliating hazing ritual. After devouring the meat, she starts to crave more flesh. The movie made its premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI Prize and was recently screened at the Toronto Film Festival. After watching the film at TIFF, Joe Lipsett wrote that Raw, “perfectly balances 22.45, Alhambra horrific and comedic elements. Raw Critic’s Choice: Raw (18) is an extremely confident film that DEREK ELAND: will satisfy both gore hounds and 99 mins, Julia Ducournau, purveyors of smart horror. It is one of BEING HUMAN AT France (2017) the most surprising films of the fest BASE CAMP and should be particularly appealing Dare you watch Ali Catterall’s film Saturday 29 April- Sunday 2 July 2017 to audiences who appreciate choice? It may take you out of your France’s brand of extreme horror. It Free Entry comfort zone but this is not your run of is highly, highly recommended.” the mill frightener. This cannibal horror film follows a 16-year-old vegetarian, Thanks to Universal

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10.00, Studio 10.00, Alhambra How the Rich Avoid Life, Animated (PG) Tax (NC) 91 mins, Roger Ross Williams, USA (2016) 30 mins, Paul Murton, UK (2016) The documentary strand at KFF Actor Greg Wise secretly records his 2017 is admittedly a tad thin, but meetings with tax planners for this Life, Animated is a worthy flag- Dispatches documentary for Channel bearer for the genre and is one of the 4. They reveal to him a range of legal ‘must-sees’ at this year’s festival. tax avoidance schemes that are SUNDAY available to the rich and famous and On the face of it, it is the story of he comes to question the priorities of Owen, an autistic teenager who HMRC. Writing in the Guardian, he said finds a meaning in life and a means “HMRC will gather the ‘low-hanging of communication through Disney fruit’ but will turn a blind eye to the animations. It is just as much about serious amounts being aggressively those around Owen who must help avoided. They will trumpet the millions him navigate his way around this they get back from benefit claimants, difficult and confusing world. 19.2.17 but are much less vocal about their inadequate record on offshore tax “This is an unsentimental and schemes. As our Parliamentary Public powerful coming of age tale offering Accounts Committee said “HMRC’s a moving insight into the experience work has led to too few prosecutions of autism and the transformative of individuals for tax evasion... there is... possibilities of cinema” – ICO no credible punishment to deter people Thanks to Dogwoof from breaking the law in this manner.” LA LA LAND Greg Wise will present the screening 20.00, Alhambra and host a Q&A after the film. Keswick Peace & Human Rights Group 32 SUNDAY 19 SUNDAY 19 33

Finally, he will attempt to demonstrate why the reputation of the later, under-valued movies deserves serious reassessment, using clips from, among others, The Breaking Point [1] (one of the finest of all Curtiz’s films); The Proud Rebel [2] and The Hangman (two very different and highly unusual Westerns) and King Creole [3] (Elvis Presley’s best screen performance). 12.30, Alhambra 13.00, Studio 15.00, Alhambra Loving (12) Adam Feinstein on Critics’ Debate

123 mins, Jeff Nichols, US/UK (2016) Michael Curtiz So what did you think of Arrival, Son of Saul and Raw? Loving celebrates the real-life courage 120 mins and commitment of an interracial Michael Curtiz was not just the Were you challenged? entertained? couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, man who directed Casablanca. He scared? Did their recommendations who married and then spent the made some of Hollywood’s greatest make you see something that you next 9 years fighting for the right swashbucklers, gangster films, would not otherwise have seen? to live as a family. Their civil rights musicals and melodramas, including [1] case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the Come and see Karen, Ali and Matt The Adventures of Robin Hood, way to the Supreme Court. Director make their final pitch for your Angels with Dirty Faces, Mystery of Nichols’ (Mud, 2012) had access to vote and hear how your fellow the Wax Museum, Yankee Doodle documentary footage of the Loving’s audience members reacted to Dandy and Mildred Pierce. Yet despite home life from the mid-60s. their hugely different choices. his mastery of so many cinematic Loving received a standing ovation genres, Curtiz remains a neglected at its premiere at the Cannes figure. This presentation by Adam Film Festival in May 2016 Feinstein aims to redress the balance. [2] “Intimate, moving and superbly It will first trace Curtiz’s fascinating life: underplayed, “Loving” is every his mysterious beginnings in Budapest; bit as soft-spoken and subtly the early, formative silents in Europe; implacable as its protagonists.” his arrival in Hollywood and his tangled Ann Hornaday, Washington Post emotional life. Feinstein will go on to identify several little-acknowledged, but Thanks to Universal crucial, themes and styles in Curtiz’s cinema, with illustrative sequences from some of his classic films. [3] 34 SUNDAY 19 SUNDAY 19 35

15.15, Studio 16.30, Alhambra 17.30, Studio 20.00, Alhambra The Breaking Point (U) Toni Erdmann (15) Stevie (15) La La Land (12A)

97 mins, Michael Curtiz, USA (1950) 162 mins, Maren Ade, Austria/ 102 mins, Robert Enders, UK (1978) 128 mins, Damien Chazelle, Germany (2016) USA (2016) Based on the novel To Have and As part of our celebration of poets, their Have Not by Ernest Hemingway, Winner of numerous European works and their lives we are pleased Our closing film is from the director The Breaking Point brings together Film Awards and nominated for to screen Glenda Jackson’s Stevie, of Whiplash, Damien Chazelle. actors John Garfield and Patricia Golden Globes, Maren Ade’s film adapted from Hugh Whitemore’s Wannabe movie star Mia (Emma Stone) Neal in a classic film noir. must surely rank as one of the play about the life of Stevie Smith. most bizarre comedies to have and pianist Seb (Ryan Gosling) are both A captain of a charter boat finds been seen on the Festival circuit. While the print of the film is showing hobbled by frustrated ambition when himself in financial difficulty and is its age, Stevie is nonetheless a classic they meet and fall in love, however drawn into illegal activities so that Ines is a high flying oil company of its time, featuring Mona Wasbourne, success comes at a personal cost. he can keep up the payments on advisor, perpetually in meetings and Alec McCowen and Trevor Howard. the boat. The desperate captain according to her practical joking father, The ICO describes it as “The setting agrees to smuggle Chinese refugees Winfried, is in need of lightening up. “Stevie, in Miss Jackson’s splendid is contemporary Hollywood, into the US but not all is well. performance, is funny, fragile, the tone light and airy, the story Adopting his alter ego, Toni Erdmann, demanding, suicidal, brave and simple but lent immense verve by “Clearly the best movie adaptation he inserts himself forcibly into Ines’ life. never at a loss for the kind of the style of Chazelle’s direction of a Hemingway novel.” Dennis words that light up the conventional and sheer charisma supplied “Maren Ade’s unique study of an Schwartz Ozus’ Word Movie Reviews world she clung to, even as those by Stone and Gosling.” estranged but mutually depressive words turn the world upside down.” Thanks to Warner Brothers father and daughter is a humane, Tipped for many awards, La La Vincent Canby, New York Times hilarious triumph” Guy Lodge – Variety Land will close KFF18 on a high.

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One of the joys of going to the pictures is sharing the experience with the rest of the audience – the collective gasp at the scary bit, seeing the lip of the person next to you starting to tremble and then filling up yourself; wondering why that person two rows ahead laughed at that bit, because it wasn’t funny at all.

Then there’s talking about it in the pub afterwards or in the car home. What on earth was that about? SUDDENLY What did she see in him? That scene in the forest.... This year we would like to share those conversations – not just EVERYONE’S about the 3 Critics’ choices - with the whole KFF audience and there are various ways to do it:

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