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1 | 5 JAN 18 - 15 FEB 18 49 Belmont Street | belmontfilmhouse.COM Did you know that The NeverEnding Story is only 94 minutes long?

You can sympathise then at my disbelief that a film called Song of Granite isn’t in fact about our fair city, recently singing and shining in the December frost.

There’s always eagerness when introducing the film programme to attempt to find something that makes it relevant to our sense of place and self. This of course is true across all artistic endeavours and it feels particularly true in Aberdeen at the moment, a space where a burgeoning group of creative individuals, businesses and festivals are discovering their identity.

Film can often present a challenge however, especially within the context of a select group of often very international films, strung across a singular six-week period. Occasionally a local angle presents itself and you grab the string and reel it in (Sunset Song, For Those In Peril, Local Hero). On other occasions you simply have to rely on the quality of what you present - brilliant films; strong characters; bloody good stories.

So this month we are showing Song of Granite. It is a beautifully shot biopic about Irish folk musician Joe Heaney which is not about Aberdeen.

We are plentiful with films not about Aberdeen through this period, but I assure you, they don’t suffer for it. Belmont-conquering Joe Wright (Atonement, Hanna) is back with Darkest Hour, featuring a stirring portrait of Winston Churchill by Gary Oldman. Meanwhile, Colin Firth stars in James (Man On Wire) Marsh’s The Mercy as Donald Crowhurst, who disastrously attempted to sail around the world in the late 1960s. In Bruges’ Martin McDonagh helms Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, with a stellar cast and superb early reviews too. Also, Steven Spielberg returns to political thriller territory - which he often handles deftly - with The Post.

You can, of course, find out precisely how long The NeverEnding Story is with Filmhouse Junior, where we also have shows of Paddington 2, Young Frankenstein and Wonder.

Colin Farquhar, Cinema Manager

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ACCESS/AUDIO DESC./CAPTIONED 23 Moana 21 BABY & CARER SCREENINGS 23 Molly’s Game 4 SCREENING DATES AND TIMES 12-15 The NeverEnding Story 21 NT Live: Julius Caesar 16 500 Days of Summer 19 Over the Rainbow 10 Akong: A Remarkable Life 10 Paddington 2 20 American Psycho 19 Phantom Thread 7 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New... 19 The Post 6 Belle and Sebastian 21 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 19 Belonging: The Truth Behind the... 9 ROH Live: Bernstein Centenary 16 The Big Clock 17 ROH Live: Carmen 11 The Big Easy 17 ROH Live: Macbeth 16 Brokeback Mountain 10 ROH Live: Rigoletto 10 Culture Cafe: Douglas Dunn 10 ROH Live: Tosca 11 Darkest Hour 5 ROH Live: The Winter’s Tale 11 Destination Unknown 9 RSC Live: Macbeth 16 Double Indemnity 17 RSC Live: Twelfth Night 11 Education and Learning 22 Sarah’s Key 9 Filmhouse Junior 20-21 Song of Granite 5 Glory 6 Suggs: My Life Story 9 Granite Noir 17 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing... 5 The Greatest Showman 4 Trophy 4 Highlander 18 Wonder 20 Holocaust Memorial Day 9 Young Frankenstein 20 Hostiles 6 Young Programmers Group 22 Journey’s End 7 Kino Bar 18-19 Krull 18

Lost in Paris 5 A Matter of Life and Death 8

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NEW RELEASE NEW RELEASE The Greatest Showman Molly’s Game Tue 26 Dec to Thu 11 Jan Tue 2 to Thu 18 Jan

Michael Gracey • USA 2017 • 1h45m • Digital • PG • Cast: Hugh Aaron Sorkin • USA 2017 • 2h20m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, language, drug misuse, brief violence. • Cast: Jessica Chastain, Idris Gayle Rankin. Elba, Kevin Costner, Chris O’Dowd, Joe Keery, Michael Cera.

The Greatest Showman is a bold and original musical Directed by award-winning writer Aaron Sorkin that celebrates the birth of show business and the (The Social Network, The West Wing), Molly’s Game sense of wonder we feel when dreams come to life. is based on the true story of an Olympic-class skier Inspired by the ambition and imagination of circus (Jessica Chastain) who ran the world’s most exclusive impresario P.T. Barnum, it tells the story of a visionary high-stakes poker game for a decade before being who rose from nothing to create a worldwide arrested in the middle of the night by 17 armed FBI sensation. With songs by Oscar® winners Benj Pasek agents. Players included Hollywood royalty, business and Justin Paul (La La Land) and a star lineup, this is titans and, unbeknownst to her, the Russian mob. sure to be a cinema spectacle to kick off 2018 in style. Her only ally was her defence lawyer Charlie Jaffey (Idris Elba), who learned that there was much more to Molly Bloom than the tabloids led us to believe...

NEW RELEASE NEW RELEASE Trophy Maze Fri 5 to Mon 8 Jan Mon 8 to Thu 11 Jan

Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz • UK/Namibia/South Africa/ Stephen Burke • UK/Ireland/Sweden/Germany 2017 • 1h32m • Digital Zimbabwe/USA 2017 • 1h48m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong 15 - Contains strong language. • Cast: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Barry language. • Documentary. Ward, Martin McCann, Eileen Walsh, Aaron Monaghan.

Trophy explores the complex heart of contemporary A riveting drama based on the true story of the 1983 issues of animal conservation and commodification mass breakout of 38 prisoners from HMP Maze high- at a time when endangered African species march security prison in Northern Ireland. As Larry Marley closer to extinction. As Africa’s most iconic animals (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor), chief architect of the escape, continue to vanish in droves, can the controversial lays out his plan, he comes into close contact with practices of hunting and breeding actually help the prison warder, Gordon Close (Barry Ward). Confirmed numbers thrive? Can assigning a value to an animal enemies, born on opposite sides of the political possibly help conserve it? What gives humans the divide, there’s little common ground to be found right to own animals and to decide whether they live between them. As Marley tries to manipulate Close or die? And is there any real future for a ‘natural’ world for his own ends, however, an unlikely relationship is in our rapidly developing, capitalist world? forged that will have far reaching consequences... New R

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NEW RELEASE NEW RELEASE Song of Granite Darkest Hour Tue 9 to Thu 11 Jan Fri 12 Jan to Thu 1 Feb

Pat Collins • Ireland/Canada 2017 • 1h44m • Digital • Irish Gaelic and Joe Wright • UK 2017 • 2h5m • Digital • PG - Contains mild bad English with English subtitles • cert tbc • Cast: Michael O’Chonfhlaola, language. • Cast: Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Ben Macdara Ó Fátharta, Leni Parker, Alain Goulem. Mendelsohn, Stephen Dillane, Anna Burnett.

Enigmatic and complex, Joe Heaney (1919-1984) was Despite his reputation as an actor who truly inhabits one of the greats of traditional Irish singing (sean a role, Gary Oldman still has the capacity to surprise nós). Steeped in the myths, fables, and songs of his and astound. Here he’s at his charismatic best as upbringing in the west of Ireland, his emergence as a newly-elected British PM, Winston Churchill. Faced gifted artist came at a personal cost. This soulful biopic with the decision on whether to negotiate with Nazi from acclaimed filmmaker Pat Collins Silence( ) charts Germany or stand his ground, and contending with his rise and explores how these songs helped shape an unprepared nation, a sceptical King and political his complex character. Combining traditional narrative schemers, what he does next will change the course episodes with documentary footage, it’s an audacious of history. With a fine script by Anthony McCarten and celebratory music film that also presents an (The Theory of Everything), Joe Wright (Atonement) unflinching portrait of Heaney, the man. returns with this rousing portrait of an iconic leader.

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Three Billboards Lost in Paris Paris pieds nus Outside Ebbing, Missouri Fri 12 to Thu 18 Jan Fri 12 Jan to Thu 1 Feb Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon • France/Belgium 2017 • 1h23m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 12A - Contains infrequent Martin McDonagh • UK/USA 2017 • 1h55m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, moderate sex references. • Cast: Fiona Gordon, very strong language, strong violence, sex references. • Cast: Frances Dominique Abel, Emmanuelle Riva, Pierre Richard. McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish. A fun and hectic tale of peculiar people finding love Months after her daughter’s murder, with no culprit while lost in the City of Light. In Abel and Gordon’s found, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) takes signature whimsical style, Lost in Paris features matters into her own hands - booking three billboards the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian to send a clear, direct message to local police chief and a strangely seductive vagabond. When Fiona’s William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson). When his orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her ignorant deputy Dixon (Sam Rockwell) gets involved, 88-year-old Aunt Martha (Emmanuelle Riva) who is this smalltown feud really escalates... Martin (In living in Paris, she hops on the first plane she can. She Bruges) McDonagh’s much-anticipated return is full of arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared the crackling dialogue, gallows humour and depth of and encounters Dom (Abel), the affable, but character that have become the director’s hallmarks. annoying tramp who just won’t leave her alone. 6 | 5 JAN 18 - 15 FEB 18 49 Belmont Street | belmontfilmhouse.COM eleases New R

NEW RELEASE The Post Fri 19 Jan to Thu 8 Feb

Steven Spielberg • USA 2017 • 1h56m • Digital • 12A - Contains strong language, brief battle violence. • Cast: Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Alison Brie.

Steven Spielberg directs Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in this thriller based on the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post’s Katharine Graham (Streep), the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks), as they race to catch up with The New York Times to expose a massive cover-up of government secrets that spanned three decades and four U.S. Presidents. The two must overcome their differences as they risk their careers - and their very freedom - to help bring long-buried truths to light...

“Set nearly half a century ago, but remarkably prescient in these “fake news” times, The Post is an engaging and masterfully acted tale sure to be in the running come the Oscars.” - Empire Magazine

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Hostiles Glory Slava Fri 26 Jan to Thu 1 Feb Fri 2 to Thu 8 Feb

Scott Cooper • USA 2017 • 2h7m • Digital • English and Cheyenne Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov • Bulgaria/Greece 2016 • 1h41m with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong violence, language. • Digital • Bulgarian with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Stefan Cast: Christian Bale, Wes Studi, Rosamund Pike, Ben Foster. Denolyubov, Margita Gosheva, Todorov Milko Lazarov.

New Mexico in 1892. Army Captain Joseph J. Blocker When shambling, unassuming linesman Tzanko (Christian Bale), famous for his brutality in battle, is (Stefan Denolyubov) stumbles across a pile of tasked with escorting a dying Cheyenne chief (Wes money on the railway tracks, he immediately notifies Studi) back to his family in Montana. Encountering the authorities, inadvertently becoming a pawn in a young widow Rosalie (Rosamund Pike) along cynical government game. Julia (Margita Gosheva), the way, their journey is one of punishing terrain, the PR executive for the Ministry of Transport, uses belligerent encounters and introspection. Based on the reticent Tzanko as a political diversion and sets an idea originally conceived by the late Donald E. in motion a chain of events fuelled by bureaucratic Stewart (The Hunt for Red October) and adapted indifference and avoidable consequences. for the screen by director Scott Cooper, this violent, Convincing, naturalistic and rooted in social handsome western is equal parts thoughtful and realism, this is a robust human drama that packs an ferocious. emotional punch. New R

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NEW RELEASE Phantom Thread Showing from Fri 2 Feb

Paul Thomas Anderson • USA 2017 • 1h55m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language. Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps, Lesley Manville, Sue Clark.

Set in the glamour of 1950s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis, in his second collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson - also rumoured to be his final performance) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the centre of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock.

Women come and go through his life, providing inspiration and companionship, until he comes across Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love...

NEW RELEASE Journey’s End Showing from Fri 2 Feb

Saul Dibb • UK 2017 • 1h47m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate violence, infrequent strong language. • Cast: Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany, Asa Butterfield,T oby Jones, Stephen Graham, Tom Sturridge.

From director Saul Dibb (Bullet Boy) comes this piercing new adaptation of R.C. Sheriff’s 1928 anti-war play, which was also adapted to screen in 1930 by James Whale.

In the trenches of World War I, new recruit Lieutenant Raleigh (Asa Butterfield) has pulled strings to join his childhood hero Captain Stanhope (Sam Claflin) on the front line. However, in the dugout they are anticipating a massive German advance, and Stanhope is horrified by Raleigh’s arrival. Altered almost beyond recognition by his years at the front, Stanhope is sustained only by one thought: that when the war is over he can return to his beloved, Raleigh’s sister Margaret. 8 | 5 JAN 18 - 15 FEB 18 49 Belmont Street | belmontfilmhouse.COM e-release eleases/Classic R New R

NEW RELEASE The Mercy Showing from Fri 9 Feb

James Marsh • UK 2017 • 1h42m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language. • Cast: Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, David Thewlis, Andrew Buchan, Jonathan Bailey.

James (Man on Wire) Marsh directs this drama, based on the incredible true story of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst, and his attempt to win the first single-handed round-the-world yacht race in 1968.

Crowhurst (Colin Firth) entered the Sunday Times Golden Globe race, partly as an opportunity to publicise a new navigation device he had been working on. Leaving his family behind, his inexperience and loneliness found him confronted with dramatic struggles and acute isolation alone on the high seas. A haunting tale of a man going to sea and the family he leaves behind, with a fine supporting cast that includes Rachel Weisz, Andrew Buchan and David Thewlis.

CLASSIC RE-RELEASE A Matter of Life and Death Fri 5 to Thu 11 Jan

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger • UK 1946 • 1h40m • Digital • U - Contains mild war horror • Cast: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Marius Goring, Raymond Massey.

In this delightful, delirious fantasy from Powell and Pressburger, David Niven plays an RAF pilot whose plane is shot down over the English coast. Ejecting, he leaps to safety - without a parachute. Or does he? Before long, he finds himself standing in a celestial court, where a jury will decide his fate: to go to Heaven, or remain on Earth. And all the while, he yearns for the American radio operator (Kim Hunter) with whom he fell in love, mere minutes before...

Beautifully shot, artfully designed, this was Powell’s personal favourite of all his films, and the one, according to his widow, legendary editor Thelma Schoonmaker, which most expresses his own personality: intensely romantic, utterly fearless. Suggs/Belonging/ H olocaust M

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SATELLITE Q&A FREE SCREENING Dayemorial Suggs: My Life Story Belonging: The Truth Wed 17 Jan at 8.30pm Behind the Headlines Julien Temple, Owen Lewis • UK 2017 • 1h35m • Satellite • 15 Fri 26 Jan at 5.30pm

Morag Livingstone • UK 2017 • 2h10m • Digital • 12A - Contains Is it a Drama? A Comedy? Or Music Hall dream? infrequent strong language, injury detail. Director Julien Temple (Absolute Beginners) takes a stage show, adds some drama, archive, animation An award-winning investigative documentary and music, then shakes it all up for My Life Story. The that looks again at the events around 3 industrial death of Suggs’ beloved cat on his 50th birthday disputes, 3 governments and over 3 decades. triggers a personal quest to discover what happened Free screening followed by a Q&A panel including to the father he never knew. Stunned by what director Morag Livingstone, Stevie Deans (Vice he learns Suggs is taken back through his life to a Convenor at the centre of the Grangemouth childhood on the streets of Soho featuring music dispute), Pat Rafferty (Unite) and Mark Lyon, written by The Kinks, Ian Drury and, of course, his author. Hosted by Aberdeen Unite Area Activists beloved Madness. Followed by a live satellite Q&A Committee as part of Aberdeen Trades Union with Suggs and Julien Temple. Council 150th Anniversary celebrations.

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY

Destination Unknown Sarah’s Key Elle s’appelait Sarah Sat 27 Jan at 4.00pm Sun 28 Jan at 1.00pm

Claire Ferguson • UK/Austria/Poland/USA 2017 • 1h21m • Digital Gilles Paquet-Brenner • France 2010 • 1h50m • Digital • French, 12A - Contains images of dead bodies, Holocaust theme. English, Italian and German with English subtitles • 12A - Contains Documentary. emotionally intense scenes and a Holocaust theme • Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot. Twelve survivors, twelve families torn apart by the Holocaust, twelve people striving to build a Paris, July 1942: 10-year-old Sarah is taken with her new future after the war. Destination Unknown parents to the Vel’ d’Hiv’ stadium, one of thousands foregrounds the candid testimonies of twelve men of Jewish families rounded up and sent to the and women who survived. Tracing their narrow camps. To protect her younger brother, she hides and perilous paths to survival, it goes beyond the him in a secret cupboard at home. Sixty years later, conventional historical narrative and explores the a journalist stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden years after the war, and their attempts to build new secrets. This free screening is presented for lives. A deeply moving documentary that tacitly Holocaust Memorial Day with partners including corrects the idea that the horrors ended after GREC, Unite, Four Pillars and Polish Association liberation or escape. Aberdeen, facilitated by Aberdeen City Council, and preceded by a reception/remembrances from 12 noon in the Café Bar. 10 | 5 JAN 18 - 15 FEB 18 49 Belmont Street | belmontfilmhouse.COM

OVer the rainbow SPECIAL EVENT Brokeback Mountain Akong: A Remarkable Life Sun 28 Jan at 5.50pm Thu 1 Feb at 5.45pm ainbow/Akong/Culture Cafe/Arts on Screen ainbow/Akong/Culture Ang Lee • USA/Canada 2005 • 2h14m • Digital • English and Spanish Chico Dall’Inha • UK 2017 • 1h36m • Digital • Tibetan and English with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, moderate sex with English subtitles • U - Contains references to violence and and violence • Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger. conflict. • Documentary. ver the R ver O In 1963, Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Akong - A Remarkable Life tells the story of Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) take a job guarding a flock of Akong Tulku Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist master, sheep on Brokeback Mountain. Isolated in the lush, who was compelled to flee his homeland at the remote, Wyoming wilderness, the taciturn Ennis and height of Sino-Tibetan tensions and forced into the effusive Jack form an unlikely friendship that exile in unknown lands. As one of only 13 (of 300) blossoms, after a powerful sexual encounter, into a compatriots to survive the arduous ten month dreamlike, heart-pounding romance, albeit one they journey to India, he made a promise that, if he agree can’t continue. But suppressed desires have a survived, he would devote his life to helping others. habit of resurfacing... Later he would become one of the key pioneers of Tibetan Buddhism in the West. Followed by a Q&A with one of the film’s participants, Diana Dodd.

CULTURE CAFE ARTS ON SCREEN Douglas Dunn ROH Live: Rigoletto Wed 7 Feb at 1.30pm Tue 16 Jan at 7.15pm

1h • Book at aberdeenperformingarts.com • £8 (plus booking fee) David McVicar • UK 2018 • 2h45m • Satellite • Italian with English subtitles • 12A Douglas Dunn is a major Scottish poet and an influential editor, teacher and critic. He has been The corruption of innocence is at the heart of Verdi’s Professor in the School of English at the University of potent tragedy in David McVicar’s production for The St Andrews since 1991, overseeing the University’s Royal Opera. Rigoletto, court jester to the libertine exceptional Creative Writing programme. Duke of Mantua, is cursed by the father of one of the His own collections include the deeply moving Duke’s victims for his irreverent laughter. When the Elegies, and many other award-winning volumes, Duke seduces Rigoletto’s daughter Gilda, it seems including Terry Street, Barbarians, The Year’s the curse is taking effect... Afternoon and New Selected Poems. Anthologies David McVicar’s impressive production of one of the edited include The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century most popular operas highlights the cruelty at the Scottish Poetry and The Oxford Book of Scottish heart of the court of Mantua. Short Stories. He was awarded an OBE in 2003. £20/£17/£15 Arts on Screen Arts BOX OFFICE 01224 343 500 5 JAN 18 - 15 FEB 18 | 11

ARTS ON SCREEN ARTS ON SCREEN ROH Live: Tosca RSC Live: Twelfth Night Wed 7 Feb at 7.15pm Wed 14 Feb at 7.00pm

Jonathan Kent • UK 2018 • 3h • Satellite • Italian with English Christopher Luscombe • UK 2018 • 3h30m • Satellite • 12A subtitles • 12A Twelfth Night is a tale of unrequited love - hilarious Tosca is one of the great evenings of opera, and and heartbreaking. Two twins are separated in a from its strident opening chords conjures up a shipwreck, and forced to fend for themselves in a world of political instability and menace. Jonathan strange land. The first twin, Viola, falls in love with Kent’s production for The Royal Opera captures Orsino, who dotes on OIivia, who falls for Viola but the dangerous political turbulence of Rome in is idolised by Malvolio. Enter Sebastian, who is the 1800. The Chief of Police, Scarpia - one of the most spitting image of his twin sister... malevolent villains in opera - ruthlessly pursues and Christopher Luscombe, Director of Love’s Labour’s tortures enemies of the state. His dark, demonic Lost and Much Ado About Nothing, returns to the music contrasts with the expansive melodies of the Royal Shakespeare Company to tackle Shakespeare’s idealistic lovers, Tosca and Cavaradossi, who express greatest comedy, a brilliantly bittersweet account of their passion in sublime arias, including ‘Vissi d’arte’ “the whirligig of time”. £20/£17/£15 and ‘E lucevan le stelle’. £20/£17/£15

ARTS ON SCREEN ARTS ON SCREEN ROH Live: The Winter’s Tale ROH Live: Carmen Wed 28 Feb at 7.15pm Tue 6 Mar at 6.45pm

Christopher Wheeldon • UK 2018 • 3h • Satellite • 12A Barrie Kosky • UK 2018 • 3h20m • Satellite • French with English subtitles • 12A Christopher Wheeldon created his adaptation of Shakespeare’s late great romance The Winter’s Tale Carmen is the best-known work by Georges Bizet, for The Royal Ballet in 2014. It received ecstatic praise and one of the most famous operas in the entire art at its premiere for its intelligent, distinctive and form. Its heady combination of passion, sensuality emotionally powerful story, told through exquisite and violence initially proved too much for the stage, dance. It is now widely judged to be a modern and it was a critical failure. Bizet died shortly after, ballet classic. The story follows the destruction and never learned of the success it would achieve. of a marriage through consuming jealousy, the It’s given a fresh point of view in Barrie Kosky’s abandonment of a child and a seemingly hopeless production, originally created for Frankfurt Opera, love. Yet, through remorse and regret - and after a with music written by Bizet for the score but not seemingly miraculous return to life - the ending is usually heard, and gives a new voice to the opera’s one of forgiveness and reconciliation. £20/£17/£15 endlessly fascinating central character. £20/£17/£15 12 | 5 JAN 18 - 15 FEB 18 49 Belmont Street | belmontfilmhouse.COM imes

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Screenings Screenings and T DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE SCREENING TIMES DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE SCREENING TIMES Fri 1 The Greatest Showman 11.00am/1.25 Thu 1 The Greatest Showman 11.00am/1.25 5 1 The Greatest Showman 3.45/6.10/8.30 11 1 The Greatest Showman 3.45/6.10/8.30 Jan 2 A Matter of Life and Death 11.10am/3.55/6.15 Jan 2 A Matter of Life and Death 11.10am 2 Trophy 1.30/8.35 2 Maze 1.30/6.00 3 Molly’s Game 11.15am/2.30 2 Song of Granite 3.35/8.15 3 Molly’s Game 5.25/8.20 3 Molly’s Game 11.15am/2.30 3 Molly’s Game 5.25/8.20 Sat 1 The Greatest Showman 11.05am/1.25 6 1 The Greatest Showman 3.45/6.10/8.30 Fri 1 Darkest Hour 11.00am/2.30 Jan 2 Paddington 2 (FJ) 11.00am 12 1 Darkest Hour 5.45/8.25 2 A Matter of Life and Death 1.30/6.15 Jan 2 Three Billboards Outside... 11.15am/2.00 2 Trophy 3.50/8.35 2 Three Billboards Outside... 6.00/8.30 3 Molly’s Game 11.15am/2.30 3 Lost in Paris 11.05am/1.15/6.20 3 Molly’s Game 5.25/8.20 3 Molly’s Game 3.20/8.20 CB Kino Bar: Krull (KB) 7.30 (£5/£4) Sun 1 The Greatest Showman 1.25/3.45 7 1 The Greatest Showman 6.10/8.30 Sat 1 Darkest Hour 11.15am/2.30 Jan 2 A Matter of Life and Death 1.30/8.40 13 1 Darkest Hour 5.45/8.25 2 Trophy 3.50/6.15 Jan 2 Young Frankenstein (FJ) 11.00am 3 Molly’s Game 2.30/5.25/8.20 2 Three Billboards Outside... 1.10/3.40/6.10/8.40 3 Lost in Paris 11.05am/1.15/6.20 Mon 1 The Greatest Showman 1.25/3.45/6.10/8.30 3 Molly’s Game 3.20/8.20 8 2 A Matter of Life and Death 11.10am/8.25 Jan 2 Trophy 1.30 Sun 1 Darkest Hour 2.30/5.45/8.25 2 Maze 3.55/6.15 14 2 Three Billboards Outside... 1.10/3.40/6.10/8.40 3 Molly’s Game 11.15am/2.30 Jan 3 Lost in Paris 11.05am/1.15/6.20 3 Molly’s Game 5.25/8.20 3 Molly’s Game 3.20/8.20 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 23 Mon 1 Darkest Hour 11.00am/2.30 Tue 1 The Greatest Showman 11.00am/1.25 15 1 Darkest Hour 5.45/8.25 9 1 The Greatest Showman 3.45/6.10/8.30 Jan 2 Three Billboards Outside... 11.15am/2.00 Jan 2 Maze 11.10am/8.25 2 Three Billboards Outside... 6.00/8.30 2 A Matter of Life and Death 1.20 3 Molly’s Game 1.10/8.20 2 Song of Granite 3.35/6.00 3 Lost in Paris 4.05/6.20 3 Molly’s Game 11.15am/2.30 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 23 3 Molly’s Game 5.25/8.20 Tue 1 Darkest Hour 11.00am/2.30 Wed 1 The Greatest Showman 11.00am/1.25 16 1 ROH Live: Rigoletto (A) 7.15 (£20/£17/£15) 10 1 The Greatest Showman 3.45/6.10/8.30 Jan 2 Three Billboards Outside... 11.15am/2.00/8.30 Jan 2 Song of Granite 11.10am/6.00 2 Darkest Hour 5.45 2 Maze 1.30/8.25 3 Lost in Paris 11.05am/4.05 2 A Matter of Life and Death 3.35 3 Molly’s Game 1.10 3 Molly’s Game 11.15am/2.30 3 Three Billboards Outside... 6.05 3 Molly’s Game 5.25/8.20 3 Darkest Hour 8.35 Screenings and T Screenings BOX OFFICE 01224 343 500 5 JAN 18 - 15 FEB 18 | 13

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DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE SCREENING TIMES DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE SCREENING TIMES Wed 1 Darkest Hour 11.00am/2.30/5.45 Mon 1 The Post 11.00am/2.00 17 1 Suggs: My Life Story 8.30 +Satellite Q&A 22 1 The Post 6.00/8.30 Jan 2 Three Billboards Outside... 11.15am/2.00 Jan 2 Darkest Hour 2.30/5.45/8.25 2 Three Billboards Outside... (C) 6.00 (captioned) 3 Three Billboards Outside... 11.15am/2.15 2 Darkest Hour 8.35 3 Three Billboards Outside... 6.05/8.35 3 Lost in Paris 12.30 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 23 3 Molly’s Game 2.30/5.40 3 Three Billboards Outside... 8.40 Tue 1 The Post 11.00am/2.00 23 1 The Post 6.00/8.30 Thu 1 Darkest Hour 11.00am/2.30 Jan 2 Darkest Hour 11.10am/2.30 18 1 Darkest Hour 5.45/8.25 2 Darkest Hour 5.45/8.25 Jan 2 Three Billboards Outside... 11.15am/2.00 3 Three Billboards Outside... 11.15am/2.15 2 Three Billboards Outside... 6.00/8.30 3 Three Billboards Outside.. 6.05/8.35 3 Lost in Paris 12.30 3 Molly’s Game 2.30/5.25/8.20 Wed 1 The Post 11.00am/2.00 24 1 The Post 6.00/8.30 Fri 1 The Post 11.00am/2.00 Jan 2 Darkest Hour 11.10am/2.30 19 1 The Post 6.00/8.30 2 Darkest Hour 5.45/8.25 Jan 2 Darkest Hour 11.10am/2.30 3 Three Billboards Outside... 11.15am/2.15 2 Darkest Hour 5.45/8.25 3 Three Billboards Outside... 6.05/8.35 3 Three Billboards Outside... 11.15am/2.15 3 Three Billboards Outside.. 6.05/8.35 Thu 1 The Post 11.00am/2.00 25 1 The Post 6.00/8.30 Sat 1 The Post 11.00am/2.00 Jan 2 Darkest Hour 11.10am/2.30 20 1 The Post 6.00/8.30 2 Darkest Hour 5.45/8.25 Jan 2 Wonder (FJ) 11.10am 3 Three Billboards Outside... 11.15am/2.15/8.35 2 Darkest Hour (C) 2.30 (captioned) 3 Three Billboards Outside... (C) 6.05 (captioned) 2 Darkest Hour 5.45/8.25 CB Kino Bar: Highlander (KB) 7.30 (£5/£4) 3 Three Billboards Outside... 11.15am/2.15 3 Three Billboards Outside... 6.05/8.35 Fri 1 The Post 12.50/3.25 CB Kino Bar: In Bruges (KB) 7.30 (£5/£4) 26 1 The Post 6.00/8.35 Jan 2 Hostiles 11.10am/2.15/8.00 Sun 1 The Post 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 2 Belonging: The Truth Behind... 5.30 (Free & Ticketed) 21 2 Darkest Hour 2.30/5.45/8.25 3 Darkest Hour 11.15am/6.05 Jan 3 Three Billboards Outside... 1.00/3.30/6.05/8.35 3 Three Billboards Outside... 2.30/8.45

Sat 1 The Post 11.00am/1.30 27 1 The Post 6.00/8.35 Jan 1 Destination Unknown 4.00 2 Moana (FJ) 11.00am 2 Hostiles 2.15/5.45/8.30 3 Three Billboards Outside... 11.15am/8.45 3 Darkest Hour 2.30/6.05 14 | 5 JAN 18 - 15 FEB 18 49 Belmont Street | belmontfilmhouse.COM imes

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE SCREENING TIMES DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE SCREENING TIMES

Sun 1 The Post 12.40/6.00/8.35 Sat 1 Phantom Thread 11.15am/2.30 28 1 Hostiles 3.15 3 1 Phantom Thread 5.45/8.30

Screenings Screenings and T Jan 2 Sarah’s Key 1.00 (Free & Ticketed) Feb 2 The NeverEnding Story (FJ) 11.00am 2 The Post (C) 3.30 (captioned) 2 Journey’s End 1.30/3.55/6.20/8.45 2 Brokeback Mountain (OR) 5.55 3 The Post 11.00am/3.50/6.20 2 Hostiles 8.40 3 Glory 1.35/8.50 3 Darkest Hour 2.30/6.05 3 Three Billboards Outside... 8.45 Sun 1 Phantom Thread 2.30/5.45/8.30 4 2 Journey’s End 1.30/3.55/6.20/8.45 Mon 1 The Post 11.00am/2.00 Feb 3 Glory 1.35/8.50 29 1 The Post 6.00/8.35 3 The Post 3.50/6.20 Jan 2 Hostiles 11.10am/2.15 CB Kino Bar: Bad Lieutenant... (KB) 7.30 (£5/£4) 2 Hostiles 5.45/8.30 3 Darkest Hour 11.15am Mon 1 Phantom Thread 11.10am/2.30 3 Darkest Hour (C) 6.05 (captioned) 5 1 Phantom Thread 5.45/8.30 3 Three Billboards Outside... 2.30/8.45 Feb 2 Journey’s End 11.05am/1.30 2 Journey’s End 3.55/6.20/8.45 Tue 1 The Post 11.00am/2.00 3 The Post 11.00am/3.50/8.40 30 1 The Post 6.00/8.35 3 Glory 1.35/6.20 Jan 2 Hostiles 11.10am/2.15 2 Hostiles 5.45/8.30 Tue 1 Phantom Thread 11.10am/2.30 3 Three Billboards Outside... 11.15am/8.45 6 1 Phantom Thread 5.45/8.30 3 Darkest Hour 2.30/6.05 Feb 2 Journey’s End 11.05am/1.30 2 Journey’s End 3.55/6.20/8.45 Wed 1 The Post 11.00am/2.00 3 The Post 11.00am/3.50/8.40 31 1 The Post 6.00/8.35 3 Glory 1.35/6.20 Jan 2 Hostiles 11.10am/2.15 2 Hostiles 5.45/8.30 Wed 1 Phantom Thread 11.10am/2.30 3 Three Billboards Outside... 11.15am/8.45 7 1 ROH Live: Tosca (A) 7.15 (£20/£17/£15) 3 Darkest Hour 2.30/6.05 Feb 2 Journey’s End 11.05am/3.20 CB Kino Bar: American Psycho (KB) 7.30 (£5/£4) 2 Culture Cafe: Douglas Dunn (CC) 1.30 (£8 + booking) 2 Phantom Thread 5.45/8.30 Thu 1 The Post 11.00am/2.00 3 Glory 11.00am/3.50 1 1 The Post 6.00/8.35 3 The Post 1.20/8.40 Feb 2 Hostiles 11.10am/2.15/8.30 3 Journey’s End 6.15 2 Akong: A Remarkable Life 5.45 +Q&A 3 Darkest Hour 11.15am/6.05 Thu 1 Phantom Thread 11.10am/2.30 3 Three Billboards Outside... 2.30/8.45 8 1 Phantom Thread 5.45/8.30 Feb 2 Journey’s End 11.05am/1.30 Fri 1 Phantom Thread 11.10am/2.30 2 Journey’s End 3.55/6.20/8.45 2 1 Phantom Thread 5.45/8.30 3 Glory 11.00am/3.50 Feb 2 Journey’s End 11.05am/1.30/3.55 3 The Post 1.20/8.40 2 Journey’s End 6.20/8.45 3 The Post (C) 6.05 (captioned) 3 Glory 11.00am/3.50/8.40 3 The Post 1.20/6.10 Screenings and T Screenings BOX OFFICE 01224 343 500 5 JAN 18 - 15 FEB 18 | 15

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE SCREENING TIMES DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE SCREENING TIMES

Fri 1 The Mercy 11.00am/1.25 Tue 1 The Mercy 11.00am/1.25 9 1 The Mercy 3.45/6.05/8.25 13 1 The Mercy 3.45/6.05/8.25 imes Feb 2 Phantom Thread 11.10am/2.30 Feb 2 Phantom Thread 11.10am/2.30 2 Phantom Thread 5.45/8.30 2 Phantom Thread 5.45/8.30 3 Journey’s End 11.05am/1.30 3 Journey’s End 11.05am/1.30 3 Journey’s End 3.55/6.20/8.45 3 Journey’s End 3.55/6.20/8.45 CB Kino Bar: Rocky Horror...(KB) 7.30 (£5/£4) Wed 1 The Mercy 11.00am/1.25/3.45 Sat 1 The Mercy 11.10am/1.25 14 1 RSC Live: Twelfth Night (A) 7.00 (£20/£17/£15) 10 1 The Mercy 3.45/6.05/8.25 Feb 2 Phantom Thread 11.10am/2.30/8.30 Feb 2 Belle and Sebastian (FJ) 11.00am 2 Journey’s End 6.00 2 Phantom Thread 2.30/5.45/8.30 3 Journey’s End 11.05am/1.30/3.55 3 Journey’s End 11.05am/1.30 3 The Mercy 6.20/8.45 3 Journey’s End 3.55/6.20/8.45 CB Kino Bar: 500 Days of... (KB) 7.30 (£5/£4)

Sun 1 The Mercy 1.25/3.45/6.05/8.25 Thu 1 The Mercy 11.00am/1.25 11 2 Phantom Thread 2.30/5.45/8.30 15 1 The Mercy 3.45/6.05/8.25 Feb 3 Journey’s End 1.30/3.55/6.20/8.45 Feb 2 Phantom Thread 11.10am/2.30 2 Phantom Thread 5.45/8.30 Mon 1 The Mercy 11.00am/1.25 3 Journey’s End 11.05am/1.30 12 1 The Mercy 3.45/6.05/8.25 3 Journey’s End 3.55/8.45 Feb 2 Phantom Thread 11.10am/2.30 3 Journey’s End (C) 6.20 (captioned) 2 Phantom Thread 5.45/8.30 3 Journey’s End 11.05am/1.30 3 Journey’s End 3.55/6.20/8.45

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ARTS ON SCREEN ARTS ON SCREEN NT Live: Julius Caesar ROH Live: Bernstein Centenary Thu 22 Mar at 7.00pm Tue 27 Mar at 7.15pm

Nicholas Hytner • UK 2017 • 3h • Satellite • 12A UK 2018 • 3h • Satellite • 12A

Ben Whishaw (Skyfall) and Michelle Fairley (Game The Royal Ballet celebrates the centenary of Leonard of Thrones) play Brutus and Cassius, David Calder Bernstein’s birth with an all-Bernstein programme (The Lost City of Z) plays Caesar and David Morrissey from choreographers Wayne McGregor, Liam Scarlett (The Walking Dead) is Mark Antony. Broadcast live and Christopher Wheeldon. Leonard Bernstein from The Bridge Theatre, London. Caesar returns was one of the first classical composers in America in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of to achieve both popular and critical acclaim. To their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s celebrate the centenary year of the composer’s birth, popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him The Royal Ballet has united all three of its associate down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the choreographers to celebrate the dynamic range and streets of the capital. Nicholas Hytner’s production danceability of Bernstein’s music. At the heart of the will thrust the audience into the street party that programme is the first revival of Artist in Residence greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses Liam Scarlett’s The Age of Anxiety, created in 2014 to his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral Bernstein’s soul-searching Second Symphony. and the chaos that explodes. £20/£17/£15 £20/£17/£15

ARTS ON SCREEN ARTS ON SCREEN ROH Live: Macbeth RSC Live: Macbeth Wed 4 Apr at 7.15pm Wed 11 Apr at 7.00pm

UK 2018 • 3h20m • Satellite • Italian with English subtitles • 12A • . Polly Findlay • UK 2017 • 3h30m • Satellite • 12A

Verdi’s life-long love affair with Shakespeare’s works ‘Something wicked this way comes’ began with Macbeth, a play he considered to be ‘one of the greatest creations of man’. With his Returning home from battle, the victorious Macbeth librettist, Francesco Maria Piave, Verdi set out to meets three witches on the heath. Driven by create ‘something out of the ordinary’. Their success their disturbing prophecies, he sets out on the is borne out in every bar of a score that sees Verdi at path to murder. Our contemporary production of his most theatrical: it bristles with demonic energy. Shakespeare’s darkest psychological thriller marks Phyllida Lloyd’s 2002 production for The Royal Opera both Christopher Eccleston’s RSC debut and the is richly hued, shot through with black, red and gold. return of Niamh Cusack to the Company. The Royal Opera’s production uses Verdi’s 1865 Paris revision of the opera, which includes Lady Macbeth’s £20/£17/£15 riveting aria ‘La luce langue’. £20/£17/£15 Granite Noir BOX OFFICE 01224 343 500 5 JAN 18 - 15 FEB 18 | 17

Granite Noir is back in the Granite City. Belmont Filmhouse is delighted to host three screenings of film noir classics, each one chosen by a featured Double Indemnity crime novelist: Fri 23 Feb at at 6.00pm

Double Indemnity - Robert Daws Billy Wilder • USA 1944 • 1h47m • Digital • PG - Contains mild violence. The Big Easy - Christopher Brookmyre Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G Robinson, Porter The Big Clock - Val McDermid Hall, Jean Heather.

From 23-25 February, the second festival will “’How could I have known that murder can explore the enduring appeal of stories that plunge sometimes smell like honeysuckle?’ The great Billy us into the heart of darkness - where morality is Wilder directing and co-writing with Raymond ambiguous, motives complicated, and even heroes Chandler, from the novel by James M Cain. The harbour devastating secrets... inspired casting of Stanwyck and MacMurray. Plus my personal favourite, the magnetic Edward G Robinson. Find out more about author conversations, A classic tale where the fool falls for the psychopath, workships, walking tours and exhibitions here: it’s as fresh and as terrifying today as it was on first aberdeenperformingarts.com/granitenoir release. Film Noir at its best.” - Robert Daws

The Big Easy The Big Clock Sat 24 Feb at 8.45pm Sun 25 Feb at 3.30pm

Jim McBride • USA 1986 • 1h42m • Digital • 15 - Contains moderate John Farrow • USA 1948 • 1h35m • Digital • PG - Contains mild sex and violence. • Cast: Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, Ned Beatty. violence, sex references. • Cast: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan, George Macready, Rita Johnson, Elsa Lanchester. “In a decade synonymous with morally simplistic, big-budget action thrillers, here was a gem of a crime “When I read Kenneth Flaxner Fearing’s novel, The Big movie in which all the lines are blurred. Dennis Quaid Clock, I was blown away by the cleverness and the plays Remy McSwain, a cop sliding into corruption originality of the plot. And because he was primarily who finds himself entangled with Ellen Barkin’s a poet, the language was taut and vibrant too. I was straight-laced DA Anne Osborne. Through each other, nervous about watching the film adaptation because Remy comes to learn that he’s not the good guy any so often that can be a disappointment. But the more, while Anne learns that in the Big Easy, the law opposite was the case here. The film ratchets up the doesn’t work quite the same as elsewhere because suspense, the performances are edgy, and because ‘down here folks have a certain way of doing things’. it’s told in flashback, it’s real edge-of-the-seat stuff. I’ve You will love the characters, you will love the music, never understood why it doesn’t usually make the lists you will love the food, and you will even love the bad of ‘10 best noir films.” - Val McDermid guys.” - Christopher Brookmyre 18 | 5 JAN 18 - 15 FEB 18 49 Belmont Street | belmontfilmhouse.COM Kino Bar

Welcome to Kino Bar! We are delighted to unveil a brand new screen we launched in November 2017, located in the basement bar and dedicated to bringing you films which we have lovingly hand- picked for your viewing pleasure. Krull Fri 12 Jan at 7.30pm Whether it be cult classics, nostalgic sci-fi, cheesy action flicks, comedy masterpieces or films we Peter Yates • UK/USA 1983 • 1h57m • Digital • PG • Cast: Ken Marshall, Freddie Jones, Lysette Anthony, Liam Neeson, Robbie Coltrane. just love, grab a sofa or bean bag and kick back with some of the best loved and unique pieces of cinematic history. But wait there’s more! We will also At a time that belongs to neither the past nor the be serving a wide selection of carefully selected future, the planet of Krull...a world peopled by beers, wines and spirits from the bar to enjoy creatures of myth and magic...faces annihilation. throughout. Don’t say we’re not good to you! Slayers, alien beings commanded by the seemingly omnipotent Beast, are everywhere, and only one man All Kino Bar tickets are can oppose them. Prince Colwyn must journey to a faraway cavern to recover the mystical Glaive, a key £5/£4 Members to extraordinary powers required to defend his world. On his quest, he gathers about him an unlikely army, with which he travels witnessing sights and events beyond his wildest imagination...

In Bruges Highlander Sat 20 Jan at 7.30pm Thu 25 Jan at 7.30pm

Martin McDonagh • UK/USA 107 • 1h47m • Digital • 18 - Contains Russell Mulcahy • UK 1986 • 1h56m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong strong bloody violence, very strong language and hard drug use. • violence and moderate sex. • Cast: Christophe Lambert, Sean Cast: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Clémence Poésy. Connery, Clancy Brown.

When a job goes wrong for fledgling hitman Ray Highlander is a true cult favourite packed with (Colin Farrell), he and weary colleague Ken (Brendan quotable lines, stylish sword-fighting moments and Gleeson) are packed off to Bruges to lie low and memorable songs from Queen. Its interweaving await the wrath of their boss Harry (Ralph Fiennes). storyline flits around from 1980s New York to World Once there, Ray wrestles with guilt over his actions, War II, but it has its dramatic origins in the 16th but also makes the time to find fault in the medieval century Scottish Highlands where Connor MacLeod architecture, overweight Americans, sniffy Canadians (Christophe Lambert) first discovers he is not like and a racially obsessed dwarf. This story gets weirder other men... Trained by the charismatic Juan Sanchez and weirder, but is never short on intrigue or laugh Villa-Lobos Ramirez (Sean Connery), he finds out he is out loud moments. part of a group of immortals who must do battle until there is only one left alive... Kino Bar Kino BOX OFFICE 01224 343 500 5 JAN 18 - 15 FEB 18 | 19

American Psycho Bad Lieutenant: Port of Wed 31 Jan at 7.30pm Call New Orleans Mary Harron • USA 2000 • 1h41m • Digital • English, Spanish and Sun 4 Feb at 7.30pm Cantonese with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Reese Witherspoon, Jared Leto, Chloë Sevigny. Werner Herzog • USA 2009 • 2h2m • Digital • English and Spanish with English subtitles • 18 - Contains frequent hard drug use, sex and very strong language • Cast: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer. Based on Bret Easton Ellis’ controversial novel, Mary Harron’s psychological slasher oozes style and Nicolas Cage is on electrifying form as Terence provides a rather sardonic social commentary on the McDonagh, one of the few cops left in town after yuppie lifestyle in the late 1980s. Patrick Bateman a post-Katrina exodus. Crippled by a back injury, (Christian Bale) is a wealthy executive on Wall Street. prescription drugs do little to ease his pain, so he Obsessed with success and his own appearance, he turns to the hard stuff. When McDonagh is put in spends his days mingling over fine dining, devouring charge of the investigation into the brutal murder of a hard drugs and inner monologuing his detest for the family, his moral compass gets lost and his behaviour bourgeois crowd around him and the ‘filth’ walking becomes ever more erratic. Is he out of his depth or the streets... out of his mind?

The Rocky Horror 500 Days of Summer Picture Show Wed 14 Feb at 7.30pm

Fri 9 Feb at 7.30pm Marc Webb • USA 2009 • 1h35m • Digital • English, French and Swedish with English subtitles • 12A - Contains infrequent strong Jim Sharman • UK/USA 1975 • 1h40m • Digital • 12A - Contains language, moderate sex references. • Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, moderate sex and one use of strong language • Cast: Tim Curry, Zooey Deschanel, Chloë Grace Moretz, Geoffrey Arend, Matthew Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O’Brien, Patricia Quinn. Gray Gubler.

Let’s the do the Time Warp again. All-American couple Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) works for a greetings Brad Majors and Janet Weiss decide to visit their card company and immediately falls head-over-heels old professor. Unfortunately, their car breaks down for new employee Summer (Zooey Deschanel). outside a sinister-looking house, and they are forced Only trouble is, she’s opposed to the ideas of love to stay the night. Inside, Brad and Janet find a world and relationships - life always gets in the way. A wry, filled with subversive sexuality... non-linear romantic comedy from Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man). 49 belmont street | BELMONTFILMHOUSE.COM 20 | 5 JAN 18 - 15 FEB 18 Filmhouse Junior Filmhouse JUN IOR

Films for a younger audience, weekly on Saturdays at 11am. Paddington 2 Tickets cost £4.50 per person, Sat 6 Jan at 11.00am big or small! Paul King • UK/France 2017 • 1h35m • Digital • PG - Contains For these shows we choose to screen dubbed mild threat. versions where these are available, but some films will be in their original language with Paddington is happily settled with the Browns subtitles – these are marked on individual film in Windsor Gardens, where he has become descriptions. a popular member of the community. While Please note: although we normally disapprove searching for the perfect present for Aunt Lucy’s of people talking during screenings, these 100th birthday, he spots a unique pop-up book in shows are primarily for kids, so grown-ups Mr. Gruber’s shop, and embarks upon a series of should expect some noise! odd jobs to buy it. But when it’s stolen, it’s up to Paddington and the Browns to unmask the thief...

Young Frankenstein Wonder Sat 13 Jan at 11.00am Sat 20 Jan at 11.10am

Mel Brooks • USA 1974 • 1h46m • Digital • English and German Stephen Chbosky • USA/Hong Kong 2017 • 1h53m • Digital • with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild language and sex PG - Contains mild bad language, violence, scenes of emotional references, and comic horror. upset.

Dr Frederick Frankenstein (that’s “fron-ken-steen”) Wonder is the stirring and heart-warming story of - grandson of Victor - has spent his entire life in August ‘Auggie’ Pullman, a young boy born with the shadow of his grandfather’s legend. But when facial differences that have stopped him from he finds his old diary, his curiosity gets the better being able to go to mainstream school - until of him and he travels to the family castle to try a now. Enrolled in fifth grade at Beecher Prep, he few experiments... Packed with gags, this comedy embarks on a journey of new friendships, battling classic sends up the Frankenstein tale with just prejudice and inspiring change - a story that the right amount of silly! holds a few lessons for us all. Filmhouse Junior BOX OFFICE 01224 343 500 5 JAN 18 - 15 FEB 18 | 21

Moana The NeverEnding Story Sat 27 Jan at 11.00am Sat 3 Feb at 11.00am Wolfgang Petersen • West Germany/USA 1984 • 1h34m • Digital • John Musker, Ron Clements • USA 2016 • 1h43m • Digital U - Contains mild scary and emotional scenes. PG - Contains mild threat.

Moana is a spirited South Pacific teenager who A classic enchanting fantasy in which bullied sails out on a daring mission to prove herself young Bastian wanders into a shop and a master wayfinder and fulfill her ancestors’ encounters a magical story-book that can unfinished quest. During her journey, she meets transport him away to the land of Fantasia. Only the once-mighty demi-god Maui (Dwayne trouble is, Fantasia is in danger. With the help of Johnson), and together, they traverse the open young warrior Atreyu and an array of fantastical ocean on an action-packed voyage, encountering creatures, Bastian must use every last drop of his enormous fiery creatures and catchy songs! imagination to save the kingdom.

Belle and Sebastian Sat 10 Feb at 11.00am

Nicolas Vanier • France 2013 • 1h39m • Digital • French and German with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild bad language, injury detail

World War II is underway and life is on hold in a small village in the Alps: the German army has taken over the region and the villagers are understandably dejected. Then Belle, a beautiful sheepdog, arrives and chooses Sebastian, a plucky little boy, as her master. Together, they defy the Nazis and offer help to those who are deserving. An exciting adventure for everyone to enjoy! 22 | 5 JAN 18 - 15 FEB 18 49 Belmont Street | belmontfilmhouse.COM earning Education and Learning Schools Screening: Inside Hana’s Suitcase Education and L Education A special screening for Holocaust Memorial Day

Friday 26 January, 10am • 1h28min, £3/free for teachers, English, Czech and Japanese with English subtitles, recommended cert PG, Suitable for P6-S3 upwards, Religious and Moral Education, History

Hana Brady was just a little girl when she and her brother George were singled out as Jews and sent away from home by the Nazis. Seventy years later, a class of Japanese children received a package from the Holocaust museum in Germany. It contained what appears to be Hana’s suitcase, and from this starting point the children and their teacher begin to unravel her story. This moving film sensitively deals with the difficult subject of the holocaust, and a wider theme of tolerance.

Tickets cost £3 per pupil/free for teachers. To book please contact Nicola Whyte on 01224 343 513 or email [email protected]

Belmont Filmhouse Young Programmers 2018

Are you aged 15 – 19 and passionate about cinema? Belmont Filmhouse are excited to announce our new Young Programmers group starting in February 2018!

We will programme a series of films to watch, discuss and review as a group and get a feel of what it is like to organise a film festival by curating, writing about and presenting films here at Belmont Filmhouse.

You will also have a chance to visit the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June, meet the Edinburgh Filmhouse Young Programmers, see some amazing films and get exclusive behind the scenes access to one of the most prestigious film festivals in Europe!

Our initial meeting will be on 18 January, email nicola.whyte@belmontfilmhouse. com for more information or to register, or find the ‘Belmont Filmhouse Young Programmers 2018’ group page on Facebook. Access/Captioned/Baby & Carer BOX OFFICE 01224 343 500 5 JAN 18 - 15 FEB 18 | 23

Access We have three screens, seating 272, 146 and 65 people. All areas of the building are accessible to customers with limited mobility, including wheelchair users. There is a lift in the main foyer that serves all floors.

Booking is strongly advised for wheelchair spaces. If you require any extra assistance during your visit please let us know and we’ll be happy to help in any way we possibly can. Email [email protected] or call the Box Office on01224 343 500 if you require further information or assistance.

Hires Our screens and cafe bar are available for private hire. We also offer a range of conferencing facilities. For details or to book call 01224 343 500 or email [email protected] Captioned Screenings For Crying Out Loud Captions display dialogue on-screen and also describe Screenings for carers and their babies! Tickets the audio or sound portion of a film, allowing viewers £4.50/£3.50 concessions per adult. Screenings who are deaf or hard of hearing to follow the script and are strictly limited to babies under 12 months the action of a film at the same time. accompanied by no more than two adults. Babychanging and buggy parking facilities are Wed 17 Jan at 6.00pm Three Billboards Outside... available.

Sat 20 Jan at 2.30pm Darkest Hour Mon 8 Jan at 11.00am The Greatest Showman

Thu 25 Jan at 6.05pm Three Billboards Outside... Mon 15 Jan at 11.05am Lost in Paris

Sun 28 Jan at 3.30pm The Post Mon 22 Jan at 11.15am Darkest Hour

Mon 29 Jan at 6.05pm Darkest Hour

Thu 8 Feb at 6.05pm The Post Belmont Filmhouse, 49 Belmont Street, Aberdeen AB10 1JS Thu 15 Feb at 6.20pm Journey’s End www.belmontfilmhouse.com Box Office 01224 343 500 (from 10.30am Mon-Sat, 12.30pm on Sun) email: [email protected] @BelmontFh Funding Belmont Filmhouse facebook.com/BelmontFilmhouse

Belmont Filmhouse Limited is a company limited by guarantee, registered in Scotland No. SC468620. Scottish Charity No. SC044786. VAT Reg. No. 181 279689. Registered office, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ. It is a subsidiary of the Centre for the Moving Image with Scottish Charity No. SC006793.