KESWICK FILM FESTIVAL 22–25 FEBRUARY 2018

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Welcome to the 19th Keswick Film Festival

For the average film-goer, the next few weeks will be a time of waiting for some brilliant new releases. As an anything but 02 average film-goer, you will get a chance WELCOME to see many of those films this weekend and thereby claim bragging rights. 04 OUR GUESTS This weekend, for example, Dark River opens in the UK making Keswick one of the first public screenings 08 FILMS & EVENTS for this gritty northern drama, with stand-out performances from Ruth Wilson and Mark Stanley.

In March, A Fantastic Woman is released, a heart-rending Chilean drama which I am tipping to be the surprise hit of the Festival. April sees the opening of The Rider, our modern CONTENTS day western and those average Joes 20 PROGRAMME will have to wait months (enjoy that feeling!) to see Edie, Sicilian Ghost Story, L’Amant Double and That Good Night. 39 TICKETS & TRAVEL Ticket costs, discounts Coupled with some of the best and booking information. from 2017, some remarkable Directions and public documentaries, a few choices from transport details years gone by and complemented by contributions from writers and academics, KFF once again promises to be an incredible weekend of film.

Ian Payne Festival Director 4 5 OUR

Lewis MacDougall Anwen Hurt GUESTS Lewis MacDougall made his film We are so pleased to welcome After graduating from Film school in debut in 2015 as Nibs in Pan, Anwen back to Keswick, albeit in 1993 Simon went on to write and after attending an open audition in such poignant circumstances. direct a handful of short films - one Morningside and in 2016, he starred of which, Wired, impressed British in A Monster Calls opposite Felicity Anwen first came to Keswick in 2012 Screen so much that they invested Jones and . In the in her role as Producer, when she in Lighthouse, a $2.5m feature film. film, a dark fantasy drama, he plays brought In Love with Alma Cogan At the Cannes advertising festival a boy whose mother is dying of a to the Festival as its opening film. in 2001 Lighthouse attracted the terminal illness, and who begins She also brought her husband John eye of Bob Isherwood, the creative communicating with a tree monster and Keswick fell in love with the pair director of Saatchi and Saatchi, who seemingly living outside his house. of them. Since then she has had selected Simon for the New Directors a credit on a number of films that Showcase. This prestigious honour His talent as an actor has been we have enjoyed at KFF such as is awarded to the twenty-five most recognised with a host of award Peace and Conflict and Chick Lit. promising directors in the world. nominations. in 2016, the London When the opportunity arose to Isherwood admired Lighthouse, Critics’ Circle gave him the award screen That Good Night, John saying, “few films demonstrate so for Young British/Irish Performer Simon Hunter Hurt’s last lead role, we were clearly how tension gets attention. of the Year and in 2017 he won delighted that she accepted our Simon Hunter made his first film, The tension is dynamic”. the Entertainment Award in Spaceman, at seven years old. Starring the Young Scot Awards. invitation to introduce the film. his parents and his dog, the 3 minute In 2016 Simon completed his third film told the story of a spaceman feature film, his passion project, Edie Next, he will co-star in the road flying down to earth and wreaking which tells the tale of an old lady trip drama Boundaries, opposite havoc on a remote cottage in the who heads to Scotland to climb a and Christopher Scottish Highlands. Simon then went mountain. The movie was an official Plummer, set for release in 2017. on to make nearly 50 short films, selection in the International whilst growing up in Dumfriesshire. Film Festival in June 2016. 6 7

Neil Sinyard Lisi Tribble Dr Patrick Glen Neil Sinyard is Emeritus Professor Lisi Tribble was born in the USA Patrick Glen is a Postdoctoral David Banning of Film Studies at the University of and was previously married to Research Associate working at UCL David is the author of An A-Z of Hull. He is the author of 25 books on Ken Russell. She is an actress History on the Arts and Humanities Cumbria & the Lake District on Film film, including studies of directors and musician, known for The Fall Research Council-funded project published by Hayloft in late 2016. such as William Wyler, Billy Wilder, of the Louse of Usher: A Gothic ‘Remembering 1960s British Cinema- After being shortlisted for the 2017 Fred Zinnemann, Woody Allen, Tale for the 21st Century, Boudica going’. Extensive interviews with Lakeland Book of the Year Awards, Steven Spielberg, Richard Lester Bites Back and Puzzleface. cinema-goers from the period it received a Runner-Up prize in the and Jack Clayton. He has also reveal much about the importance ‘Striding Edge Productions Award As with Anwen Hurt, Lisi has a written and provided commentaries of film on social attitudes and for Guides and Places’. His strong previous connection with Keswick, and interviews for a number of behaviours at a time when ‘smoking interest in film developed during a BA having accompanied Ken to the dvd and Blu-ray releases, including in the Odeon’ was the norm. History of Art course at Goldsmiths Alhambra in 2009, as part of the being interviewed for the recent College, University of London, where Film Club’s Ken Russell Weekend. He is the ideal person to set Blu-ray release of Shane. His book he graduated in 2007. He then went It is thanks to Lisi that we are the scene for our screening of on the films of George Stevens is on to study Lake District Landscape able to screen Clouds of Glory Night of the Living Dead. due to be published this year. Studies at postgraduate level at showcasing the best of the county Lancaster University in 2011. All of We are pleased to welcome Neil back – its landscape, our literary heritage these subjects combined when to Keswick. Neil was a speaker at and the amazing characters that researching the films and pieces the very first KFF in 2000, where he make Cumbria their home. of social history that were spliced spoke about Shakespeare in Film. His together throughout the A-Z. talk on George Stevens’ career is set to be a highlight for cineastes in 2018. He currently lives and works in Cumbria. 9 Best of the Fests World Cinema The 2017 Festival Season. As the When you think of French cinema or reports came back from Cannes, Japanese cinema some stereotypes Venice, Sundance and Toronto immediately jump into your head. our antennae started to twitch – How then could, say, A Woman’s what will play well at Keswick? Life and L’Amant Double (France) be bracketed together, or for that Three Billboards Outside Ebbing matter Blade of the Immortal and Missouri for a start – winner of The Third Murder (Japan)? Vastly the audience award at Toronto, it different and hugely entertaining. also won awards at Venice and San Diego. Gook won the Next Audience Our two Scandinavian screenings, Award at Sundance, A Fantastic Sami Blood and Heartstone Woman won the Teddy Award at again offer different perspectives Berlin plus the Silver Bear for Best about growing up. Screenplay and of course, The Square was winner of the Palme d’Or. Not all good things come in pairs though. Directions (Bulgaria), Mountains May Depart (China) and FILMS & Sicilian Ghost Story (Italy) are brilliant in their own way and certainly merit your time while La Isla (Morocco) is one of those quirky films that you EVENTS would only ever see at a festival.

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are trying to make the world a David Miller, our programmer, Documentaries better, greener, more sustainable Neil Sinyard on has managed to track down a place and Open Bethlehem spans rare copy of Clouds of Glory, After a thin year for documentaries seven momentous years in the George Stevens Ken Russell’s two-part film about at KFF2017, we are redressing the Sunday 15.30 life of Bethlehem, revealing a Wordsworth and Coleridge. Thought balance with some challenging city of astonishing beauty and to have been lost, our thanks go screenings that will make you If you were asked to make a list political strife under occupation. to Lisi Tribble, Ken’s widow, for think about the world we live in of the greatest ever film directors, unearthing this lost treasure. would George Stevens even be in and our own place within it. In Tawai – a Voice from the Forest, your thoughts? Yet with films such explorer Bruce Parry (The Tribe) travels Saturday sees Ai Weiwei’s remarkable as Giant, Shane, The Diary of Anne the world living with indigenous Human Flow and the visual Frank and A Place in the Sun to his peoples, delving deeper than ever Family Film Screening spectacle of Our Last Tango, both credit, Stevens must surely rank as A Monster Calls (12A) on a journey into the heart of our making best use of Rheged’s big one of the best. Neil Sinyard will tell Saturday 10.00 collective human conscience. screen. The Work (suggested by more of his story, from working on Chosen by boarders from Keswick Matt Glasby from last year’s Critical Possibly our most challenging Laurel and Hardy films to the impact School, our family screening this Acclaim) takes us to Folsom Prison documentary of all is Trophy, a of World War ll on his film making. year is A Monster Calls, which will and a new take on rehabilitation. startling exploration of the evolving Neil’s illustrated talk on Sunday is complemented by screenings of be introduced by its young star, relationship between big-game Our link with Keswick Peace and Woman of the Year and Shane. Lewis MacDougall. Throughout hunting and wildlife conservation Human Rights Group continues. the weekend, Keswick School that will leave you debating what Demain looks at ways in which boarders will be acting as volunteers is right, what is wrong and what is activists and everyday citizens at the Festival and there will be necessary in order to save the great Cumbria on Film a collection for Sport Relief, their Friday 17.00 species of the world from extinction. chosen charity, after the screening. When we heard that David Banning Entry at the door – 10p had written a book on Cumbrian film locations, we invited him to give us an illustrated talk to show just what he had found out and The Ospreys which parts of our glorious county Saturday 13.00 made it on to the big screen. Our annual short film competition Which film could complement such returns for its 10th year, showcasing a talk? Ken Russell was the obvious films with a Cumbrian connection. choice for Director, but which film? The skill and ingenuity of local film-makers is to be admired. 12 Exhibition Theatre by the Lake

‘Aperture’ is an exhibition of posters designed around the films in this year’s Keswick Film Festival. Under the influence of designers like Olly Moss, Joe Boyd and Czech and Polish posters of the 60s and 70s, each of the images attempts to distil the themes and atmosphere of the films into single, stand-alone equivalents. All the artists are current students on the Visual Communication pathway of the UAL Foundation Diploma Art and Design course at Carlisle College of the Arts.

The exhibition this year is in the galleries on two floors at the Theatre THURSDAY by the Lake. Please take some time to look at these remarkable artworks. 22.2.18

EDIE 19.00, ALHAMBRA 14 THURSDAY 22

18.30 – 19.00, Alhambra Reception

We will be there to welcome you to Keswick with our usual glass of wine before Simon Hunter introduces the opening film, Edie.

21.30, Golden Lion 19.00, Alhambra Pass Holders’ Party Edie

Once again, we will take our 102 minutes, Simon Hunter, après-screen at The Golden Lion UK 2017 (12A) while we try to plan our schedule for the rest of the weekend. At the age of 84, Edie (Sheila Hancock) is finally free of the ties that bound her to an invalid and domineering husband – and it is the moment to start making up for lost FRIDAY time. Her goal is to climb a mountain, Suilven, in the Scottish Highlands.

Local guide Jonny (Kevin Guthrie - Dunkirk) is the man to help her do it. Movie Review World said that the relationship between the two is the key to the movie’s success and 23.2.18 rates it as ‘one of the most tender on screen friendships of the year’.

“Sheila Hancock delivers the performance of a lifetime, she’s an absolute legend, who at 84 offers a strong reminder that age is but a number. Her delivery of humour, emotion and duress is impeccable.” Mike McGrail HEARTSTONE

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12.00, Main House 12.00, Alhambra 14.30, Main House 14.30, Studio La Isla The Rider A Woman’s Life Trophy

119 minutes, Stéphane Brizé, 108 minutes, Christina Clusiau, 89 minutes, Ahmed Boulane, 104 minutes, Chloé Zhao, France 2017 (12) Shaul Schwarz, UK, 2017 (15) Morocco, 2016 (NC) USA 2017 (15) A Woman’s Life is a tale of tormented A hard hitting documentary, Trophy is Based on a true story this north This authentic and heart-rending love embedded in the restrictive a startling exploration of the evolving African comedy is the tale of film is the story of Brady, a rodeo social and moral codes of marriage relationship between big-game Ibrahim, a Moroccan soldier, who rider who has just emerged from and family in 19th century Normandy. hunting and wildlife conservation is sent to a deserted island off the a coma. Brady is told not to ride Upon finishing her schooling in a that will leave you debating what Mediterranean coast of Morocco again. “Play the cards you are convent, young aristocrat Jeanne is right, what is wrong and what is to monitor the movements of dealt,” says his father “let it go.” Yet marries local Viscount Julien de necessary in order to save the great smugglers and illegal immigrants. Brady’s purpose in life is hitched Lamare, who soon reveals himself to species of the world from extinction. One day, Ibrahim finds a Sub- to riding horses. Also, living in a be a miserly and unfaithful husband. Saharan man, Mamadou, washed trailer and eating rabbit soup is As she navigates his chronic infidelity, Be prepared to have your up on the beach. While the unlikely not the stuff of champions. In the pressure from her family and preconceptions challenged. pair try to survive on the miniscule starlight, around a campfire with community, and the alternating joys “Trophy presents the very island they inadvertently trigger a friends, listening to his little sister and burdens of motherhood, Jeanne’s definition of making a deal diplomatic incident that crescendos sing simple yet beautiful songs, rosy illusions about her privileged with the devil.” Toronto Star into a regional military crisis. Brady ponders his next moves. world are slowly stripped away. “Schwarz and Clusiau’s disturbing Thanks to Ahmed Boulane “Heavy-hearted cowboys, wild “The power of Mr. Brizé’s film - and documentary digs into the horses and broken dreams: The Rider of Ms. Chemla’s quietly volcanic murk of the African big-game is a great film about what it means performance - lies partly in the trade with candour and even- to be a man.” Little White Lies way ordinary disasters erupt in handedness.” The Times Jeanne’s life, at once challenging Thanks to Altitude Films her passivity and emphasizing her Thanks to Munro Films helplessness.” New York Times

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14.30, Alhambra 17.00, Main House 17.00, Studio 17.00, Alhambra Directions Heartstone Cumbria on Film Sami Blood

103 minutes, Stephan Komanderev, 129 minutes, Guðmundur Arnar An illustrated talk by David Banning 110 minutes, Amanda Kernell, Bulgaria, 2017 (15) Guðmundsson, Iceland 2016 (12) Norway/Denmark/Sweden, 2017 (12) We all know just how dramatic and A road movie set in present day A remote fishing village in Iceland. beautiful the Cumbrian landscape A 14-year-old girl belonging to Bulgaria, a country that remains Teenage boys Thor and Christian is but less well recognised is its the Sami people, a Scandinavian optimistic, mainly because all the experience a turbulent summer starring role in numerous films ethnic minority, is subjected to realists and pessimists have left. At as one tries to win the heart of a over the past 70 years. From the racism and eugenic scrutiny in the a meeting with his banker, a small girl while the other discovers new latest Star Wars movie to gems 1930s when she is removed from business owner, who drives a cab feelings toward his best friend. like Swallows and Amazons or her family and sent to a state-run to make ends meet, discovers the When summer ends and the black comedy Withnail & I, school that aims to re-educate bribe he will have to pay to get a harsh nature of Iceland takes back film-makers have braved every her into Swedish culture. She loan has doubled. The ethics board its rights, it’s time to leave the adversity that Cumbrian weather must soon choose between new that reviewed his complaint about playground and face adulthood. can produce, weaving its academic opportunities or staying true to her cultural identity. extortion now wants its share “In all such tales of the growing spectacular scenery into a wide of the action. At his wit’s end, self-awareness of youth, the quality variety of genres incorporating: “A beautiful, haunting film, anchored he takes drastic action sparking of the playing from the young cast adventure, comedy and romance by a startlingly accomplished lead a national debate on talk radio is crucial, and Guðmundsson has to thrillers, sci-fi, and horror. performance. It has the feeling about how despair has taken over drawn hugely sensitive performances David Banning, author of An A-Z of a distant memory - one that is civil society. Meanwhile, six taxi from his two leads. The landscapes of Cumbria and the Lake District neither entirely pleasant nor painful, drivers and their passengers move that surround them may be on Film, will let us in on some of but persistent.” Washington Post through the night, each in hope of monumental and memorable, but the secrets he has discovered. finding a brighter way forward. the sincerity and naturalness of Thanks to Swedish Film Institute “Komandarev’s empathy for these two performances is almost people struggling to survive as microscopically exact.” The Arts Desk best they can is palpable and admirable.” Hollywood Reporter Thanks to Matchbox

Thanks to Arri Media Theatre By The Lake, Main House Theatre By The Lake, Studio The Alhambra Rheged (Imax), Penrith Thu 19 19 Thu 20 19:00 Edie (12A) 20 12 12 13 12:00 La Isla (NC) 12:00 The Rider (15) 13 14 14 15 14:30 A Woman’s Life (12) 14:30 Trophy (15) 14:30 Directions (15) 15 16 16 17 17 17:00 Cumbria on Film 18 17:00 Heartstone (12) 17:00 Sami Blood (12) 18

19 Time to eat 19 20 20 21 20:00 Blade of the Immortal (18) 20:00 Clouds of Glory (15) 20:00 Sicilian Ghost Story (15) 21 22 22 23 23 Sat 10 10 Sat 11 10:00 Demain (PG) 10:00 A Monster Calls (12A) 11 12 11:30 The Work (15) 11:15  Our Last Tango (12) 12 13 13 14 13:00 Osprey Film Awards 14 15 14:00 Mountains May Depart (NC) 13:45  Human Flow (12A) 15 16 15:00 A Fantastic Woman (15) 16 17 17 17:00 Tawai – a Voice from the Forest 18 17:00 Woman of the Year (U) 17:30 Dark River (15) 18 19 Time to eat 19 20 20 21 20:00 That Good Night 20:00 L’Amant Double (18) 21 22 22 23 22:30 Scared Stiff in the 1960s! 23 00 23:30 Night of the Living Dead (15) 00 Sun 10 10 Sun 11 10:00 Open Bethlehem (NC) 11 12 12 11:45 Gook (15) 13 13 14 14 15 13:45 The Square (15) 13:45  Human Flow (12A) 15 16 15:30 Neil Sinyard on George Stevens 16 17 17 18 17:00 Shane (PG) 17:00 The Third Murder (15) 18 19 19 20 Time to eat 20 21 20:00 Three Billboards Outside 21 Ebbing Missouri (15) 22 22

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Based on a manga series it stars Takuya Kimura as Manji, a Shogunate era samurai, granted by a witch the dubious gift of eternal life.

After meeting a young girl, orphaned by a group of master swordsmen, Manji wreaks vengeance on them through a series of stylised showdowns 20.00, Alhambra 20.00, Studio 20.00, Main House – brilliantly choreographed, outlandishly violent and sometimes Sicilian Ghost Story Clouds of Glory Blade of the Immortal brutally comic to boot. Introduced by Lisi Tribble 122 minutes, Fabio Grassadonia, 141 minutes, Takashi Miike, ‘Blade goes for the carotid Antonio Piazza, Italy 2017 (15) 105 minutes, Ken Russell, 1978 (15) Japan 2017 (18) while offering a classic look and Based on the true story of the Inspired by David Banning’s talk on No film festival would be complete a comic-book story. It’s part kidnapping of a 12-year-old boy held Cumbrian film locations we wanted without a samurai sword epic and Kurosawa, part “X-Men,” part “Ichi by the Mafia for 779 days in the to screen a companion piece to Blade of the Immortal, Takashi Miike’s the Killer” Washington Post hopes of silencing his informant showcase our fantastic landscape. 100th film, fits the bill perfectly. father, Sicilian Ghost Story focuses Thanks to Arrow Films on Luna, a classmate with a Ken Russell was the obvious crush, who refuses to sweep his choice of Director and after much disappearance under the rug and searching we are thrilled to be able challenges the code of silence to screen Clouds of Glory, thought that prevails amongst the adults. for many years to have been lost.

This search for the missing Commissioned by Melvyn Bragg boy seen through a child’s eye for Granada TV, Clouds of Glory is takes us through the Sicilian Ken Russell’s interpretation of the countryside evoking stories and lives and loves of Coleridge and fables that are familiar to us all. Wordsworth. David Warner, David Hemmings, Felicity Kendal and Kika “Ghost Story deserves a Markham vie for the lead against conspicuous place on international the landscape of Borrowdale. art-house screens.” Variety Thanks to Lisi Tribble Pick up a brochure from our Keswick office, Thanks to Altitude across the road from the Alhambra Cinema •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• www.sallyscottages.co.uk 017687 80571 | [email protected] NOW SCREENING THE LATEST FILMS ON OUR GIANT CINEMA SCREEN. EVERY DAY & EVENING. Sign up to our enewsletter to receive our weekly listings © F. Warne & Co., 2002 SATURDAY

ANDY KIRKPATRICK: ERIC ROBSON: AN IN OUR GALLERY PSYCHOVERTICAL A HISTORICAL TOUR OF PETER RABBIT: HIGHER EDUCATION CUMBRIA WITH THE MISCHIEF AND MAYHEM 24.2.18 MAD, THE BAD AND THE Monday 05 March Wed 28 Feb – Sun 3 Jun DANGEROUS TO KNOW Top British mountaineer, Cumbria’s most famous big-wall climber and winter Friday 23 March literary character, Peter Rabbit expedition specialist, Andy Hosted by the Cumbria jumps right off the page in this looks back at forty years of County History Trust, Eric interactive exhibition about climbing and adventures, Robson talks us through his Beatrix Potter’s fi rst creation. It from the Alps to Patagonia, search through the footnotes includes original artworks and Yosemite to Greenland. of Cumbrian history. manuscripts as well as early toys and games. Entry £3.50 A FANTASTIC WOMAN The NEW Peter Rabbit fi lm 15.00, ALHAMBRA will be shown at Rheged Rheged Centre | M6 | J40 | Penrith | CA11 0DQ from mid March. 26 SATURDAY 24 SATURDAY 24 27

10.00, Studio 10.00, Alhambra 11.15, Rheged 11.30, Main House Demain A Monster Calls Our Last Tango The Work

118 minutes, Cyril Dion, 108 minutes, J.A.Bayona,UK, 85 minutes, German Kral, 87 minutes, Jairus McLeary, France, 2015 (PG) 2016 (12A) Argentina 2015 (12) Gethin Aldous, USA, 2017 (15)

Keswick Peace and Human 12-year-old Conor (Lewis MacDougall), Our Last Tango is a story of love Suggested to us by Matt Glasby, The Rights Group Screening dealing with his mother’s illness, a between the two most famous Work is set inside a single room in less-than-sympathetic grandmother dancers in tango’s history. María Folsom Prison, it follows three men A globetrotting documentary that’s and bullying classmates, finds a Nieves Rego (81) and Juan Carlos from outside as they participate more focused on solutions than most unlikely ally when a monster Copes (84) who met when they in a four-day group therapy retreat problems, Demain provides a appears at his bedroom window. were 14 and 17, danced together with level-four convicts. Over the comprehensive look at ways in which Ancient, wild, and relentless, the for nearly fifty years. In all those four days, each man in the room activists, organizers and everyday Monster guides Conor on a journey years they loved and hated each takes his turn at delving deep into citizens are trying to make the world of courage, faith and truth. Liam other and went through several his past. The raw and revealing a better, greener, more sustainable Neeson stars in performance-capture painful separations, but always got process that the incarcerated men place. Co-directed by ecological rights and voiceover as the nocturnally back together. In Our Last Tango undertake exceeds the expectations advocate Cyril Dion and Melanie visiting Monster of the title. Juan and María tell their story to a of the free men, ripping them out Laurent, this playfully made exposé group of young tango dancers and of their comfort zones and forcing should be required viewing for We are thrilled that Lewis choreographers from Buenos Aires, them to see themselves and the anyone wondering what they could MacDougall will be here to introduce who transform the most beautiful, prisoners in unexpected ways. do to pitch in and save the planet. the film and host a Q&A afterwards moving and dramatic moments “Fascinating and deeply moving, of Juan and Maria’s lives into “Demain wastes little time trying to “Part fairy tale/creature feature/ this fly-on-the-wall doc about incredible tango-choreographies. convince us that that world is ending. domestic melodrama, this adds Folsom Prison’s unconventional It takes that as a known fact, and up to far more than a ‘one boy “With its theatrical approach, group therapy program packs a then highlights the people who are and his monster’ story - and fascinating archive material and powerful punch.” Matthew Turner fighting in small but appreciable ways is a tougher emotional journey numerous dance sequences, this is to stop that from happening.” Variety Thanks to Cinema for All as a result.” Empire Magazine. a treat for tango fans.” Wendy Ide Thanks to Entertainment One Thanks to Elle Driver Thanks to Celluloid Circus Chosen by pupils of Keswick School 28 SATURDAY 24 SATURDAY 24 29

13.00, Alhambra 14.00, Main House 13.45, Rheged 15.00, Alhambra The Ospreys Mountains May Depart Human Flow A Fantastic Woman

KFF’s unique film prize, The Ospreys, 131 minutes, Jia Zhangke, 140 minutes, Ai Weiwei, 104 minutes, Sebastián Leilo, are awarded to all the films that China 2017 (NC) Germany, 2017 (12A) Chile, 2017 (15) are selected for screening in the Festival from the entries to our Mountains May Depart is a film by Jia Over 65 million people around the In what may be the film of short film competition. Other prizes Zhangke, who has spent most of his world have been forced from their the Festival, Chilean director may be awarded by the judges and 20-year career sounding off on the homes to escape famine, climate Sebastián Leilo (Gloria) has created an Audience Award goes to the downside of what he considers his change and war in the greatest an exquisitely compassionate most popular film at the screening. country’s too-enthusiastic embrace human displacement since World portrait of the everyday obstacles Films entered for the competition, of globalization, and the influence of War II. Human Flow, an epic film of transgender existence. which can be up to ten minutes Western capitalism. Set in 1999, 2014 journey led by the internationally Marina is a young waitress and long, must have a Cumbrian and 2025, Mountains May Depart renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives aspiring singer. When her (older) connection either on or off screen. revolves mostly around its everyday a powerful visual expression to heroine, Tao, a woman caught this massive human migration. partner dies after an accident somewhere between the dream The documentary elucidates Marina comes under suspicion. and the reality of modern China. both the staggering scale of the By virtue of her gender identity refugee crisis and its profoundly she is treated like a criminal, with “Jia’s languid style and exquisite personal human impact and was everyone seeing not a grieving framing complement his understated filmed over the course of an woman but an aberration. approach to the material, which eventful year in 23 countries. opts for depth over melodrama. Winner of the Silver Bear for Best ...’Mountains’ is grounded in “A stunning, provocative Screenplay and Teddy Award Zhao’s delicate performance, a meditation on the state of a “It may be a timely film but it is character caught between progress world” Laura DeMarco its timelessness as well as the and tradition, her life running in depths of compassion that qualify place, each day blending into the Thanks to Altitude Films it as a great one” The Guardian next.” San Francisco Chronicle Additional screening Sunday Thanks to Curzon/Artificial Eye Thanks to Arrow Films 14.00 at Rheged 30 SATURDAY 24 SATURDAY 24 31

17.00, Main House 17.00, Studio 17.30, Alhambra 20.00, Main House Tawai – a Voice Woman of the Year Dark River That Good Night

from the Forest 114 minutes, George Stevens, 89 minutes, Clio Introduced by Anwen Hurt 101 minutes, Bruce Parry, USA, 1942 (U) Barnard,UK, 2017 (15) 90 minutes, Eric Styles, UK (15) UK, 2017 (U) The first on screen pairing of Following the death of her father, In his final leading role, the late Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Alice (Ruth Wilson) returns to her Sir John Hurt plays a terminally ill Explorer Bruce Parry (The Tribe) Tracy is set in the offices of a busy home village for the first time in 15 writer struggling to come to terms travels the world living with newspaper, where they work on years, to claim the tenancy to the with his own mortality (and with indigenous peoples, delving deeper the foreign and sports desks – and family farm she believes is rightfully no intentions of going gentle into than ever on a journey into the heart don’t have a lot in common. hers. Her brother Joe (Mark Stanley that good night), to rebuild the of our collective human conscience. – Game of Thrones, Love Lies and wreckage of his family and to die Tawai is the word the nomadic This review from the New Records) who has worked the farm with some semblance of dignity. hunter gatherers of Borneo use York Times in 1942 – all these years understandably has to describe their inner feeling Superbly supported by Charles “a cheering, delightful combination other ideas. Then there is the spectre of connection to nature. In Dance and Sofia Helin (The of tongue-tip wit and smooth of their father, Richard (Sean Bean) this dreamy, philosophical and Bridge) That Good Night will be romance, a picture of surface which looms over the pair of them. sociological look at life, Bruce screened as a tribute to our much- brilliance designed unreservedly Parry seeks to learn from people “There’s scarcely room here for missed and much-loved Patron. “pour le sport” but with enough of living lives very different to our improvement at the level of craft a homely little moral to make it quite own. From the jungles of Malaysia or performance; in particular, “Hurt and Dance are great, between comforting in these times. It’s as to the tributaries of the Amazon, it’s gratifying to see leading them they have some fabulous warming as a Manhattan cocktail and Tawai is a quest for reconnection, lady Ruth Wilson headlining a dialogue – conversations which are as juicy as a porterhouse steak.” providing a powerful voice from big-screen vehicle worthy of incredibly timely given the continued the heart of the forest itself. euthanasia debates in Australia and Thanks to Filmbank her flinty brilliance.” Variety globally. Hurt has some wonderful “It’s sincere, thought-provoking Thanks to Arrow Films soliloquies, not surprising given this is and gives you space to meditate adapted from a stage play, and Dance on its message.” Time Out is his perfect counterpart.” Film Blerg Thanks to Munro Filmsin Thanks to Goldfinch Studios 32 SATURDAY 24 33

Patrick Glen will have set the mood as our late-night frightener marks the 50th Anniversary of the release of the granddaddy of the genre, The Original and the Best according to Empire Magazine

Night of the Living Dead really needs no introduction. Brilliantly edited and with an underlying 20.00, Alhambra 22.30, Alhambra 23.30, Alhambra racial tension (we are talking Scared Stiff in the 1960s! 1960s USA) the film proved L’Amant Double Night of the Living Dead to be a game changer.

107 minutes, François A talk by Patrick Glen 96 minutes, George Ozon, France (18) Romero, USA, 1968 (15) “Up until 1968, horror had The 1960s was a turbulent decade; been escapist. But Night of François Ozon (Swimming massive social change and global the Living Dead made horror Pool, 8 Women, and the tensions. It was a great era for serious business.” Village Voice recent Frantz) dabbles in a lot cinema, so what scared us back in of different genres to the point the day? Patrick Glen of University Thanks to Cinema for All where you never quite know what College London, has been running to expect when he returns with a project called Smoking at the a new project. His latest offering, Odeon: Memories of British L’Amant Double, is a ‘deliciously Cinema-Going of the 1960s. The Please support our regular sponsors twisted’ erotic thriller, starring project has captured people’s Jérémie Renier (Silence of Lorna) memories from that era such as as the psychiatrist treating Chloé, queuing for tickets, usherettes, SQUARE ORANGE CAFE BAR Serving speciality coffee, soft drinks, a vulnerable Parisienne model who priced seats, smoking in the cinema continental beers, local ales and gradually finds out more about his – and what scared them stiff! wines. Specialising in authentic past as their relationship develops. “If every generation gets the Neapolitan pizzas, tapas and ciabattas “L’Amant Double nostalgically evokes monsters it deserves, then the and other tasty food. Located just such naïve psychological thrillers horror movie goers of the 1960s down the road from the Alhambra as Spellbound suggesting some got... themselves. Going to the Cinema on St Johns’ Street. kind of mutant love child hatched cinema to be scared at this time 017687 73888 | thesquareorange.co.uk between Alfred Hitchcock and Paul was the equivalent of gazing in the Verhoeven, though its fingerprints mirror, and noticing, for the first are undeniably Ozon’s.” Variety time, that there was something a little... strange about your own Thanks to Curzon/Artificial Eye face.” Horror Film History SUNDAY 25 35

10.00, Studio 11.45, Alhambra Open Bethlehem Gook

90 minutes, Leila Sansour, 94 minutes, Justin Chon, UK, 2014 (NC) 2017, USA (15)

Keswick Peace and Human The fall out from the ‘Rodney Rights Group Screening King’ riots in Los Angeles in 1992 forms the backdrop to this Film director Leila Sansour returns to heartfelt film exploring families and Bethlehem to make a film about her relationships between Korean and SUNDAY home town, soon to be encircled by a African American communities. wall. The film spans seven momentous years in the life of Bethlehem, Eli and Daniel, two Korean American revealing a city of astonishing beauty brothers, own a struggling shoe and political strife under occupation. store and have an unlikely friendship with Kamilla, a street wise 11-year- “One of the most remarkable and old African American girl. It’s just moving documentaries I have another typical day at the store 25.2.18 seen, about this unreported story. until the Rodney King verdict is The tragedy of the Palestinians read and riots break out. With the encapsulated in the life of one chaos moving towards them, the family and one town- Bethlehem. trio is forced to defend the store. See the film, then go to Bethlehem and see for yourself.” Jon Snow “Justin Chon looks at bigotry through the eyes of two Korean Q&A led by Nicholas Blincoe, brothers in L.A.’s South Central (husband to Director Leila in 1992. The result is hardass yet Sansour) after the screening THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING MISSOURI hypnotically beautiful.” Rolling Stone 20.00, ALHAMBRA Thanks to Open Thanks to Kaleidoscope Bethlehem Organisation 36 SUNDAY 25 37

13.45, Alhambra 15.30, Studio 17.00, Studio 17.00, Alhambra The Square Neil Sinyard on Shane The Third Murder

142 mins, Sweden/Germany/France/ George Stevens 118 minutes, George Stevens, 125 minutes, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Denmark Ruben Östlund (15) George Stevens was one of USA, 1953 (PG) Japan, 2017 (15) the greatest movie makers of It would not be KFF without The Square is described as ‘a Hollywood’s Golden Age. In a career The story of a Wyoming range a Kore-eda film. In The Third brilliantly funny, bracingly surreal art- spanning fifty years until his death in war is elevated to near-mythical Murder Maasharu Fukuyama world satire’ and stars Claes Bang, 1975, he brought distinction to every status in George Stevens’ Western (Like Father, Like Son) plays a Elisabeth Moss and Dominic West. kind of picture, whether it be an classic Shane. Alan Ladd plays a famous defence attorney named Astaire and Rogers’ musical (Swing mysterious drifter who rides into a The curator of a modern art Shigemori, who willingly takes Time), a Tracy and Hepburn romantic tiny homesteading community and gallery conceives an installation the tough case of Misumi, a man comedy (Woman of the Year) or Cary accepts the hospitality of a farming to encourage passers-by to who murdered his boss. We Grant at his most adventurously family. Under threat from a land engage their social consciences know he did it. He’s confessed rumbustious (Gunga Din). baron, the family turn to Shane for – a hostage to fortune if there protection and perhaps more. to doing it. There’s little mystery ever was, leading to an inevitable The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) there. But the reason why he did downward spiral of events. movingly commemorated the war “Shane isn’t just one of the best it is important to his sentence. dead, but his greatest post-war movies of its genre or decade Elisabeth Moss shines in this Did he kill for money? But what achievement was to be his trilogy -- it’s one of the finest films ever audacious and provocative film. motive might the victim’s wife of films, A Place in the Sun, Shane made.” Richard Luck, Film 4 have had? Or his daughter.... “Moments of pure showstopping and Giant, which constitute an epic Thanks to Filmbank freakiness [...] this is high wire reassessment of the American “The Third Murder offers cinema” Peter Bradshaw Dream. In this talk, which will the satisfactions of a well- be illustrated with film extracts, constructed suspense story, Winner of the 2016 Palme d’Or Neil Sinyard will explore some with twists that come from the recurrent preoccupations and Thanks to Curzon/Artificial Eye characters of its principals, not characteristics of Stevens’s work plot contrivances” Japan Times – perhaps the greatest director you’ve probably never heard of. Thanks to Arrow Films 38 SUNDAY 25 KEEP IN TOUCH Next year will be the 20th TICKETS Keswick Film Festival, which must be cause for celebration. Festival passes (on sale now): To keep informed of the exciting Members: £50 programme of films, guests and Non members: £55 special events, please go to Student: £25 keswickfilmfestival.org and sign up for our mailing list. Day pass Or you could follow us: Students & U16s only: £12 @keswickfilm Individual tickets: Members: £5.50 Non members: £6.50 20.00, Alhambra Mildred Hayes is angry that months Students & U16s only: £4 after the murder of her daughter, no Three Billboards Outside culprit has been found. She sets up Available in advance from Theatre by the TRAVEL Ebbing Missouri the 3 Billboards outside the town to Lake, Keswick or on the day at the venue Buses from Keswick to Rheged Tel: 017687 74411 leave at 20 minutes past the hour 115 minutes, Martin McDonagh, draw attention to the Police Chief’s Visit: theatrebythelake.com (arriving at 57 minutes past the hour) UK/USA 2017 (15) (Woody Harrelson) lack of progress. Purchase of a Festival Pass does not with the return leaving Rheged at After winning the People’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, guarantee entry to a screening. In 27 minutes past the hour (arriving Choice Award at Toronto, Martin Missouri is a character study, particular, Pass Holders are requested to at 2 minutes past the hour) McDonagh’s darkly comic follow even though the parts never book a seat for screenings in the Theatre up to In Bruges and 7 Psychopaths stop moving -- it’s wildly violent, Studio from the Theatre Box Office. brilliantly funny and deeply moving. has acquired 4 Golden Globes Keswick Film Festival takes place at And so smart.” Toronto Sun and is tipped for further glory the Alhambra Cinema, The Theatre by at the BAFTAs and beyond. “This is the best movie I’ve seen the Lake and at the Rheged Centre, ACCOMMODATION Parallels have been drawn with this year.” Chicago Sun-Times Redhills, Penrith For details of accommodation the Coen Brothers at their and special festival offers please best, not just because Frances Thanks to 20th Century Fox visit the Keswick page of our McDormand heads the cast list. website: keswickfilmfestival.org

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