MAGAZINE BRIDESHEAD REVISITED NOVEMBER... “possibly Britain’s most beautiful cinema...” (BBC) NOVEMBER 2008 Issue 44 www.therexcinema.com 01442 877759 Mon-Sat 10.30-6pm Sun 4.30-6.30pm To advertise email [email protected] INTRODUCTION Obituary 4-5 November Evenings 9 Coming Soon 23 November Films at a glance 23 November Matinees 25 Dear Mrs Trellis 35, 37 SEAT PRICES: Circle £8.00 Concessions £6.50 At Table £10.00 Concessions £8.50 Royal Box (seats 6) £12.00 or for the Box £66.00 All matinees £5, £6.50, £10 (box) BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 Mon to Sat 10.30 – 6.00 Sun 4.30 – 6.30 Disabled and flat access: through the gate on High Street (right of apartments) Some of the girls and boys you see at the Box Office and Bar: Rosie Abbott Linda Moss Henry Beardshaw Louise Ormiston Julia Childs Liz Parkin “The picture shows Mr & Mrs Pearson – landlord/lady Lindsey Davies Izzi Robinson of “The Compasses”in New Road, Northchurch Holly Gilbert Georgia Rose 1961/62? Next door was the small grocery shop Becky Ginn Diya Sagar Tom Glasser Miranda Samson called “London House”. This has long been Beth Hannaway Tina Thorpe demolished and sheltered housing built in its place.” Luke Karmali Olivia Wilson Thanks to Bert Hosier the local Northchurch historian Amelia Kellett Ashley Wood fondly known as Hedgehog and to Sarah Casserley & Jo Littlejohn Calum Wood Mary-Mary (Casserley) Murray for bringing it in. Bethany McKay Keymea Yazdanian Malcolm More From the placard, one of the films on that week was “The Greengage Summer” starring Kenneth More, Sally Thorpe In charge Alun Rees Chief projectionist (Original) Susannah York and Jane Asher. Jon Waugh 1st assistant projectionist Martin Coffill Part-time assistant projectionist Jacquie Rose Chief Box Office & Bar Oliver Hicks Best Boy Jemma Gask Key Grip elcome to a packed November with Michael Glasheen Gaffer two visiting directors, a Val & Lisa Williams Set Wwriter/producer, an international Jane Clucas & Lynn Hendry PR/Marketing/FoH premiere and a comedy evening. Ian Muirhead Accountant On Mon 3rd, JOANNA HOGG will be here to talk Darren Flindall, Michael Glasheen about her much praised new film Unrelated. Resident creative builders On Sun 23rd, writer and producer MAMOUN Andrew Dixon, Paul Rowbottom HASSAN will introduce a premier of his Chilean Artists film La Buena Vida. On Thursday 27th the Paul Fullagar, Alan Clooney celebrated TERENCE DAVIES returns to our stage to Advisors and Investors talk about his new award winning Of Time And Ed Mauger Genius The City. Demiurge Design Designers 01296 632366 Finally, on Friday 14th we will stage our first live Allison Nunn Publisher 07786 540418 stand-up comedy night, with MARCUS BRIGSTOCK, James Hannaway CEO 01442 877999 HOWARD READ, MILTON JONES and ROBIN INCE. Betty Patterson Company Secretary and THE ORIGINAL It is being said lately that in times of war and VISIONARY of The Rex. depression people seek comfort at the pictures. The Rex So, we’ve included lots of depressing war films. High Street (Three Close Lane) Apparently in hard times people go to the Berkhamsted HP4 2FG www.therexcinema.com cobblers as well. 4 Box Office: 01442 877759 OBITUARY PAUL NEWMAN… 1925 - 2008 appily our obituary column has been quiet for most of the looked as we ‘knew’ them till the day Hsummer. Hope it goes quiet they died. again. Paul Newman started out beautiful for This is my generation’s first great loss all to see. Getting old and palid was of a real Hollywood legend. Paul never going to be a good move. Newman was another one we thought Curiously, Clint Eastwood has done it, would live forever. ‘Living’ on the as has Bruce Willis. He looks better or screen, has a different dimension at least the same in each new movie. when you know the face is no longer lint on the other hand has grown there. into a face that has stayed To learn that he was 83 turned out to Cfamiliar. He just stayed as he was be an even greater shock. It’s funny and we grew old with him. We’ve how, when you take your eye off the known him since RowdyYates and the ball for what you thought were five Spaghetti man since his twenties. Sean minutes, suddenly there’s an old man. Connery too has lived several lives in I remember being surprised by his the same changing face and only ten appearance in Sam Mendes’ Road to years ago in his late sixties was still Perdition in 2002. being touted as the sexiest man in the Every commentary and obituary has world! As for Jack Nicholson and talked about his good looks on equal Michael Caine… even Dennis Hopper terms with his talent. “For a good for chrissakes! He was in Rebel Without looking man he was rarely cast as a a Cause with James Dean in 1955. romantic lead. No sweaty love scenes, Now look at him in all the glossies. usually the small guy getting on with At 72 he’s had at least forty years on it.” (Barry Norman) His contemporary borrowed time, and still bright-eyed! and rival for ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ Another surprise, he is eleven years James Dean, died too young to fade. younger than Newman and we thought The beauty about not being known they were all contemporaries. until you’re older is that nobody In fact Newman was considered for believes you were ever young. Dean’s role in Rebel’ and Brando’s part Take Humphrey Bogart, Edward G in On The Waterfront a year earlier in Robinson and Orson Welles, they each 1954. OBITUARY www.therexcinema.com 5 He was lucky that MGM were making Hollywood worked with ease alongside Somebody Up There Likes Me and not each other seemingly without egos… Columbia, or Brando might have you couldn’t help but believe in them as snatched the big role of boxer, Rocky friends.” (BN) Graziano. In 1958 he played opposite There was talk a year or two ago of a Elizabeth Taylor in Cat On a Hot Tin reunion project but sadly it came to Roof, where he was nominated for an nothing. Oscar and a BAFTA in the ‘Best Foreign Harvey: “When its all over and he’s dead Actor’ category, which he would go on you can stay Sundance” Butch: “Look, I to win for The Hustler in 1961. Good don’t mean to be a sore loser but when old colonial Britain of the 1950s. its all over and I’m dead – kill him” ‘Damned yankee foreigners coming over (pause: looks up at the giant Harv) here and taking our awards’! The Hustler “…you should bet on him.” Sundance: set him up as an intelligent and subtle “I would but who’d bet on you?” force, shaking off the pretty face thing, ow with his passing and we which in fact he was never truly able to learn new things about him, it is do. Even as the hapless Cool Hand Neasier to see how it all fits. Luke, he looked the part and still looked In 1962 with his new family he moved great. He was the anti heroic hero if you away from Hollywood and all its like; the unlikely individual against the trappings to Connecticut. A bold move, awful system. As ‘Luke’ he is in the especially just after the Hustler. If you wrong and ugliest place by accident. Yet weren’t on or ‘in’ the scene you were he doesn’t complain, just overcomes it in invisible, forgotten. He described a non-heroic way. Connecticut as “not important, its It wasn’t until 1969 and Butch Cassidy geography.” Immensely private and that he would become loved the world wary of fans, he kept out of it all, stayed over. It was this film that made me want in the shade, until a part came along to see all his others. You begin to notice worth the ride. his voice here. It’s cool never A true quiet rebel, ……Right to the overemphasised or false, not an acting end he claimed his proudest voice. With Redford their comic jibes achievement was being 19th on the list bounced off each other effortlessly. of Richard Nixon’s enemies. “He and Redford had a chemistry so 'The Hustler' is on Monday 17 easy, Oddly the two best looking men in November 7.30 “…For a moment there I thought we were in trouble” (the closing line from Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid: 1969) NOVEMBER EVENINGS 10 Box Office: 01442 877759 NOVEMBER EVENINGS Tropic Thunder Unrelated Sat 1 7.00, Sun 2 6.00 Q&A with Joanna Hogg after the film Mon 3 7.30 Director: Joanna Hogg Starring: Kathryn Worth, Mary Roscoe, Tom Hiddleston Certificate: 15 Duration: 100 mins Origin: UK 2008 “It gives us exactly what we expect. By: New Wave Lashings of easy fun, no-expense- “This heralds the long overdue arrival spared action and a dig at the of a serious new talent in British absurdity of Hollywood. The stars cinema.” delightedly push the boat out in grotesque Joanna Hogg’s debut is a brilliantly parody. Subtle it is not, even though it uncomfortable study of a forty year old clearly thinks it is.” (Standard) woman who takes time out from her In this gleefully below-the-belt jab at the deteriorating, childless marriage to join a film world, Stiller creates the friend’s family holiday in Italy. Anna’s preposterous. His character is Tugg world is subtly unravelled to reveal the Speedman, a former A-list action star rest of a deep and bitterly cold iceberg.