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The Golden Compass January… THE GOLDEN COMPASS JANUARY… “possibly Britain’s most beautiful cinema...” (BBC) JANUARY 2008 Issue 34 www.therexcinema.com 01442 877759 Mon-Sat 10.30-6pm Sun 4.30-6.30pm To advertise email allisonnunn@yahoo.com WELCOME Gallery 5 January Evenings 11-19 Coming Soon 20 January Films at a glance 20 January Matinees 22-27 Dear Mrs Trellis 29, 31 SEAT PRICES: Circle £7.00 Concessions £5.50 At Table £9.00 Concessions £7.50 Royal Box (seats 6) £11.00 or for the Box £60.00 The Band’s Visit (Mon 28 Jan) Another once-in-a-while gem… BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 Mon to Sat 10.30 – 6.00 THE REX AND CITY SCREEN… Sun 4.30 – 6.30 (Credit/Debit card booking fee 50p) ow can we talk about films we haven’t seen, let alone recommend or Disabled and flat access: through the gate on High Street (right of apartments) make fun of them? In December we told you City Screen (CS) sends Hus synopses and outlines. Some of the girls and boys you see at the Box We précis them, add reviews, good and bad then comment about the stars, Office and Bar: director, hype, etc. But here are the other nine-tenths under the surface… Rosie Abbott Linda Moss Six years or so ago City Screen executive, Clare Binns, and a colleague came Karina Gale Louise Ormiston to see the then derelict Rex. They were encouraging and helpful but not Jemma Gask Julian Paredes hopeful, neither for the project nor the notion of a repertory programme on a Holly Gilbert Amberly Rose single screen. Beth Hannaway Tina Thorpe Sarah Holloway Olivia Wilson Three years later in the autumn of 2004 after glancing at various programming Jo Littlejohn Keymea Yazdanian Bethany McKay options, and the sad loss of The Riverside’s Ed Lewis, we asked Clare to help us. By then it was four weeks before opening. The Rex was suddenly real, with freshly laid carpets, projectors being rebuilt, big beautiful curved screen in a Sally Thorpe In charge Alun Rees Chief projectionist (Original) glorious gold proscenium arch, perfect sound system and seats delivered - Jon Waugh 1st assistant projectionist but no films. The short preparation time didn’t bother her. Although she still Martin Coffill Part-time assistant wasn’t sure about our repertory programme – a different film every night. projectionist Clare had twenty five years experience in the business, she could pull a Jacquie Rose Chief Box Office & Bar programme together overnight. We knew nothing. Jane Clucas & Lynn Hendry But I didn’t understand the one title a week routine. It would have meant four PR/Marketing/FoH films only in the whole of our opening December! Oliver Hicks Bar supervisor Ed Mauger our genius engineer joined the discussion but on Clare’s side! Ian Muirhead Accountant Before the afternoon was out it was agreed to try repertory. We requested Resident creative builders Cinema Paradiso, The Motorcycle Diaries and It’s a Wonderful Life; one show Darren Flindall Michael Glasheen a piece. Unhappily, Cinema Paradiso was lost - no 35mm print left in the world! This and some Italian legal stuff meant we couldn’t open with it. Artists Andrew Dixon The other two were made available and three years on they’re still showing Paul Rowbottom here. We have all grown better at the repertory game, with City Screen finding the best new releases from across the world. Advisors and Investors Paul Fullagar Alan Clooney hey view all new releases, offering us the big, the small, the Ed Mauger Genius insignificant and the magical. Hence together, we programme everything you see. Demiurge Design Designers 01296 632366 T Allison Nunn Publisher 07786 540418 City Screen has over twenty cinemas of its own. It also looks after a handful of important independents not part of its ‘Picture House’ chain: The Electric, James Hannaway CEO 01442 Portobello, The Everyman Hampstead, etc. As you can see by the diversity of 877999 our programme, over the last three years, CS’s designated programmer, Jo Betty Patterson Company Secretary and Blair has done a fabulous job. That’s why we don’t need to see anything THE ORIGINAL VISIONARY of The Rex. beforehand... It doesn’t stop the remarks however. The Rex As you can see, to put anything current into context a little history is needed. High Street (Three Close Lane) Berkhamsted HP4 2FG So at long last we are plucking from five and twenty memories, to compile a www.therexcinema.com reliable history from start to finish. It will be completed in a year or so. GALLERY www.therexcinema.com 5 LOOKING BACK - 2007 Meet Howard Guard Esq, the High Sheriff of Hertfordshire. He came with the Mayor of Dacorum and brightened up a dull November day in full regalia. Our first Official visit and a most fabulous and unexpected pleasure. (don’t try this at home, children) The best covers from 2007. Thank you for making it an extraordinary and magical third year. Happy New Year and welcome to 2008… JANUARY EVENINGS JANUARY EVENINGS www.therexcinema.com 11 You Kill Me The Darjeeling Limited Thu 3 7.30 Wed 2 7.30 Free of the slowly-creaking cogs of Director: John Dahl his last movie – The Life Aquatic, Starring: Luke Wilson, Tea Leoni, ‘The Darjeeling Limited’ is more Ben Kingsley energetic. It is a road-movie set on a Certificate: 15 train. Adrien Brody and Jason Duration: 93 mins Schwartzman are brothers cajoled by Origin: USA 2007 their domineering older sibling By: Revolver Film Distribution (Owen Wilson) – an unhappy A return to form for Dahl, You Kill businessman with a mysterious Me achieves the blackest of bandage around his head – to take a romantic comedies, laced with dark trip to India a year after their father’s humour but held together by a death. It’s time for some serious delightfully warm heart. bonding with escapades, snakes, a Frank Falencyzk (Kingsley) is a hit little romance and a dose of straight- man for his Polish mob family in faced tragedy. Buffalo, New York. “It doesn’t matter where Anderson He is also an alcoholic. When his travels; he always brings Americans addiction gets in the way of his with him for company. business his uncle sends him off to And often the same Americans, California to straighten himself out. mostly men, usually Bill Murray, There, Frank takes a job in a sometimes Schwartzman, always mortuary and starts going to AA Wilson…” (Time Out) meetings, where he meets Laurel “Anderson’s stylish approach has (Leoni), a woman dangerously free of earned him praise and opprobrium in boundaries who promises to help him almost equal measure – you either settle old scores. love his hipster credentials or hate his Featuring a nicely judged cameo from whimsy. Bill Pullman, the film belongs to A rambling, episodic road trip, The Director: Wes Anderson Kingsley who is back to his Sexy Darjeeling Limited looks likely to Starring: Adrien Brody, Amara Beast best. polarise its audiences just as Karan, Jason Schwartzman, Owen A small gem. Don’t miss. violently…” (The Knowledge, The Wilson Times) Certificate: 15 As always, you will choose. Duration: 106 mins Origin: USA 2007 By: Twentieth Century Fox 12 Box Office: 01442 877759 JANUARY EVENINGS American Gangster Manhattan Sun 6 6.00 Fri 4 7.30, Sat 5 7.00 Director: Ridley Scott Starring: Cuba Jr, Denzel The tale of a Harlem kid whose Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh loathing of oppression and refusal Brolin to be anybody’s ‘boy’ made him the Certificate: 18 drug kingpin of the early 70’s. Duration: 157 mins The story goes he even smuggled Origin: USA 2007 heroin in the coffins of U.S. soldiers By: Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd killed in Vietnam. Nobody noticed reserved driver Frank Lucas (Washington), but when his This is Woody Allen’s rapturous, underworld boss dies suddenly, he poignant, romantic comedy about seizes the opportunity to build his the fretful life of an obsessive TV own empire. In the following months writer. In those days Allen put Lucas solidifies his status as himself at the centre of all his films. Harlem’s most innovative drug dealer Here we find him worrying over his by delivering a product, purer and current, ex and future women cheaper than that of his competitors. (Hemingway, Streep and Keaton). Enter Russell Crowe’s deshevelled, His hypochondria and his philandering, straight cop (Richie contemplated switch to serious Roberts) and Frank’s empire begins to literature cause no end of inner rattle. turmoil. “A compelling true story of power Above all the film is a declaration of and confrontation with stunning love for the cerebral life and fashion performances from the two leads.” of the gleaming glass Manhattan Though no Scorsese, this ‘true Island, towering over the Hudson, set mobster story’ is safe in Ridley to Gershwin and filmed in silvery Scott’s powerful unflashy direction - widescreen monochrome by Gordon said to be his best for years,. Willis. “A storming return to form for If you can stand Woody you’ll love it. director, Scott” If you can’t, you’ll admit it is a “It has substance aplenty, and the classic, however indulgent… power to entertain, which marks it out as one of the year’s most rewarding pictures…” “A film that deserves attention, if not your full respect.” (mixed crits) As always come and see… Director: Woody Allen Starring: Meryl Streep, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton Certificate: 15 Duration: 96 mins Origin: USA 1979 By: Park Circus Films JANUARY EVENINGS www.therexcinema.com 13 The Elizabeth: The Golden Age Counterfeiters Tue 8 7.30, Wed 9 7.30 Mon 7 7.30 Returning to their roles, Blanchett Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky and Rush play their ruffs off in this Starring: Martin Brambach, August captivating, if unreliable, historical Diehl, Karl Markovics, Devid thriller laced with treachery and Striesow romance.
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