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Cinderella May 2015 PROGRAMME CINDERELLA MAY 2015 “possibly Britain’s most beautiful cinema..” (BBC) Britain’s Best Cinema – Guardian Film Awards 2014 MAY 2015 • ISSUE 122 www.therexberkhamsted.com 01442 877759 Mon-Sat 10.30-6.30pm Sun 4.30-5.30pm BEST IN MAY CONTENTS Films At A Glance 16-17 Rants and Pants 27 BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 Mon to Sat 10.30-6.30 FORCE MAJEURE Sun 4.30-5.30 An avalanche turns everything upside down SEAT PRICES FILMS OFPage THE 12 MONTH Circle £9.00 Concessions £7.50 Table £11.00 Concessions £9.50 Royal Box Seat (Seats 6) £13.00 Whole Royal Box £73.00 All matinees £5, £6.50, £10 (box) LOVED FAR FROM THE apartments)Disabled and flat access: through LOST RIVER MADDING CROWD the gate on High Street (right of BY 98% OF OUR CLIENTS FOR OUR CURRENCY Director: ever shot in these Isles EXCHANGE EXPERTISE AND EXCELLENT SERVICE. 01442 877999 Ryan G’s first directorial outing. 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Andrew (Miles Teller) is a talented, dedicated 19-year-old drummer at the fictional Schaffer Conservatory of Music in New York City. He’s cherry-picked for a place in the school’s studio jazz band by Terence Fletcher (an astonishing JK Simmons) a conductor who wanders the halls at Insurgent henight, can his hammer footsteps into a brilliance. metronomic clack-clack-clack, listening out for prospective young Gene Krupers Based on the second novel of Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy, Insurgent follows protagonist “Trying to make a thriller about jazz is like trying to Beatrice (Tris) Prior amidst a post-apocalyptic make a horror movie about All Bran (then again…) Chicago dystopia. You are starting with a subject that inspires, in fans, (theEmpire exact) opposite of what feels like an emotion to the rest of us. Damien Chazelle has done just that.” With an impending war looming ominously, Tris must question herself and her surviving friends Writer director, the young Chazelle, responsible for in a story exploring love, death, grief, loyalty and last year’s wonderfully bonkers Grand Piano, infuses forgiveness. his own experiences as a jazz drummer. (uh oh) It’s a fantastic action packed teen flick with the Whiplash fizzes with energy. Simmons nabbed the increasingly believable and watchable Shailene aBAFTA 2015 forOscar. best Well supporting deserved actor, too. SpotJK takes him on in the100 Woodley (Tris) at its centre, and who, with the help roll of Fletcher with such scary power, it won him from her absurdly pretty friends continues her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to films, great as sarcastic cops/baddies/dads. tear society apart. Fabulous, but only for big kids and CGI action junkies. Director: MelissaDamien BenoistChazelle Cast: Miles Teller, J. K. Simmons, Director: MilesRobert Teller, Schwentke Kate Winslet Cast: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Duration: 106 mins Origin: USA 2014 Duration: 119 mins Certificate: 15 Origin: USA 2015 Certificate: 12A When... When... Sat 2 2.00 Fri 1 7.30 Tue 26 2.00 www.therexberkhamsted.com THE REX - MAY 9 Blade Runner: Second Best Exotic The Final Cut Marigold Hotel We’re inching closer to 2019, when Blade Upon its 2012 release, The Best Exotic Marigold Runner is set, and yet flying cars and slave Hotel became a sleeper hit at the UK box office androids are still the stuff of electric dreams. making it the fourth highest grossing film of that year (and caused mayhem at The Rex). So, Harrison Ford is Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter tasked with eliminating a group of replicants unsurprisingly, we now have The SECOND Best (fancy name for androids) who have escaped Exotic Marigold Hotel which sees Sonny (Dev from servitude and are now residing somewhere Patel) finding business tough in preparation of his in a rain drenched, neo-noir Los Angeles. These imminent marriage to the love of his life, Sunaina replicants, led by a sympathetic Rutger Hauer, (Tina Desai). He has his eye on an old closed down have developed their own consciousness, some hotel now that his first has only a single remaining even believing they are human. It’s a theme that vacancy, posing a predicament for fresh arrivals has been explored in many sci-fi stories but Blade Guy (Richard Gere) and Lavinia (Tamsin Greig). Runner delivers it with a mature subtlety. Evelyn and Douglas (Judi Dench and Bill Nighy) have Ridley Scott’s seminal sci-fi opus was unfairly now joined the Jaipur workforce, while Norman ignored upon initial release in 1982 but eventually and Carol (Ronald Pickup and Diana Hardcastle) found its feet on home video. It has since filtered are negotiating the tricky waters of an exclusive through many editions and re-releases until this, relationship, while Madge (Celia Imrie) juggles the ‘final’ and finest cut, which Scott himself edited two eligible and wealthy suitors. Perhaps the only together; removing many unnecessary components one knowing all the answers is newly installed co-manager of the hotel, Muriel (Maggie Smith) the such as the narration, and replacing the original’s keeper of everyone’s secrets. As the demands of a happy ending with an existential one. It is a film traditional Indian wedding threaten to engulf them rich with texture and atmosphere; Scott’s attention all, an unexpected way forward presents itself. to detail and Vangelis’ moody score lift Philip K. Jack Whiting) Delicious stuff, pure unbridled entertainment. Come Dick’s novel to new heights. Oh, and it still looks and escape with us on the big screen. impossibly gorgeous. ( Director: John Madden Director: Ridley Scott Cast: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Duration: 122 mins Daryl Hannah, Sean Young Origin: UK/USA 2015 Duration: 118 mins Certificate: PG Origin: USA 2007 When... Certificate: 15 Sun 3, 10 6.00 Mon 11 2.00 When... Wed 13 2.00, 7.30 Sat 2 7.00 Thu 14 2.00 10 THE REX - MAY BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 Cinderella Disney appears to be on a roll with live-action updates of their beloved classics and this sugary adaptation is no exception. Dumbo and Pinocchio are up next. Lily James (of Downton Abbey) is Cinders, finding herself in a Freudian nightmare when her mother dies and she gets a hateful stepmother and two awful stepsisters Drisella and Anastasia. A fairy godmother steps in (a dotty typecast Helena Bonham Carter looking delicious) and after the ball there’s the glass slipper with all its brutally Director: Kenneth Branagh explicit conjugal symbolism. Richard Madden (of Cast: Cate Blanchett, Lily James, Helena (DirectionsGame of Thrones) to the Ballplays no the doubt?) prince: his court attire Bonham Carter, Hayley Atwell seems to include very tight and revealing trousers. Duration: 113 mins Origin: USA 2015 It doesn’t do anything particularly interesting Certificate: U with its material, but Kenneth Branagh applies a deft touch as director, refraining from the overuse of digital effects where possible. Unlike Alice in When... Wonderland, Maleficent, and Oz the Great and Powerful, Cinderella doesn’t try to subvert the tone Mon 4 7.30 of these stories by going darker, or dipping its toes in Tolkien’s pool, instead it aims the other way, Sat 9 2.00 Mon 25 7.30 allbeing the almost same. (tooresearch faithful, Jack too Whiting pristine – completely Sat 23 2.00 Wed 27 2.00 andinnocent and without irony – but still sumptuous ) Don’t listen don’t miss. www.therexberkhamsted.com THE REX - MAY 11 A Little Chaos French landscape gardening history is reinvented in Alan Rickman’s period romance, played out in Louis XIV’s Palace of Versailles. Set in 1682, A Little Chaos re-imagines the creation of the Rockwork Grove, a unique element of the breathtaking gardens at the Palace of Versailles, where King Louis XIV’s celebrated landscape designer, Andre Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts) expansionis tasked with plans. overseeing the creation of an outdoor ballroom as part of the Sun King’s grand Le Notre turns to talented outsider, Sabine De Director: Alan Rickman Barra (Kate Winslet) to bring a fresh perspective Cast: StanleyAlan Rickman, Tucci Kate Winslet, to the project and is initially unsettled by her free- Matthias Schoenaerts, Helen McCrory, thinking style, but slowly starts to appreciate the Duration: 116 mins Andrevalue of become a little romanticallychaos in her methods.involved and However, her Sabine struggles with class barriers as she and Origin: UK 2015 Certificate: 12A determination to its limits.
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