NEW EXHIBITION YOUR LOCAL CINEMA NOVEMBER & DECEMBER 2019 EMPOWERING PEOPLE GENETIC COUNSELLING IN FOCUS What is a genetic counsellor, and who gets to see one? Discover more in a new exhibition at the Wellcome Genome Campus Visit the exhibition and more during one of our upcoming Open Saturdays 1 - 4pm on 16th Nov, 21st Dec, 18th Jan, 15th Feb Wellcome Genome Campus | Hinxton | CB10 1SA BOOK YOUR FREE TICKETS: LAST CHRISTMAS wgc.org.uk/engage/events BOOK NOW AT THE CINEMA BOX OFFICE, TIC OR ONLINE www.saffronscreen.com CINEMA INFORMATION VISITS FROM TICKETS FOR ALL FILMS ARE NOW ON SALE SANTA! DAYTIME Full £7.30; 65 & over £6.50; other adult concessions £5.40; 16-30 £5.00; under 16s £4.60; family tickets (2 adults + 2 children or 1 adult + 3 children) £20.50 EVENINGS (films at or after 5pm) Full £8.40; 65 & over £7.80; other adult concessions £6.30; 16-30 £5.50; under 16s £5.20 (30 & under £4.50 Monday nights) A SHAUN THE THE MUPPET CINEMA FOR TINIES Adults £4.00; children £3.00; under 2s free JUDY SHEEP MOVIE CHRISTMAS CAROL ARTS ON SCREEN Please see ticket price information for each event. See our website for information about eligibility for concession price tickets Tickets are available: WELCOME ● online at www.saffronscreen.com (booking fee applies) ● in person from the Box Office (opens 30 mins before each screening) ● in person from the Tourist Information Centre, Saffron Walden As we round off the year with an exciting slate of films and live (booking fee applies) (telephone: 01799 524002, enquiries only). events, I can tell you about some important changes happening at Saffron Screen. RECEIVE THE LATEST INFORMATION VIA EMAIL We are delighted to announce that we will be taking on the Sign up for weekly film updates and select your viewing preferences at: management of Royston Picture Palace this year. Our aim is to www.saffronscreen.com/mailinglist increase the offering to their customers and also to introduce live FOLLOW US events. It is an important stage in Saffron Screen’s development Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn & Instagram and I’m very grateful to the management team here for rising to this new challenge. FIND US Also our Friends membership has been transferred to our main Saffron Walden County High School, Audley End Road, booking system, making it easier to redeem your free tickets and Saffron Walden, Essex CB11 4UH earn extra rewards. So now is a good time to encourage your Doors open 30 minutes before screenings. friends to join and a Friends membership makes an excellent Please use the main school entrance and car parks (not the sports hall Christmas present. car park). See our website for detailed information. Good things come to those who wait this time of year, so reward yourself with a reunion almost as mouth-watering as turkey and ACCESSIBILITY gravy, with Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro back together at The cinema is wheelchair friendly and has induction loop facilities. With last in The Irishman. Anna, Elsa and the gang are also reunited in some films, we are able to offer audio description and subtitles. A large print Frozen II, as are The Theory of Everything’s award-winning duo of version of this programme can be supplied on request. Please contact the Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne in The Aeronauts, also starring office for further details. local lad Himesh Patel, fresh from his breakout leading role in the riotously popular Yesterday. CONTACT US We have a feast of festive treats, with the charming new London- Email: [email protected] Telephone: 01799 500238 set romance Last Christmas, written by and co-starring Emma Postal address: c/o Saffron Walden Tourist Information Centre, Thompson. Backed by the music of George Michael, this is sure to 1 Market Place, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1HR Charity no 1113259 warm even the coldest soul! We also have three Christmas classics: www.saffronscreen.com It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street and The Muppet Christmas Carol – be sure to look out for Father Christmas at those matinee screenings. Andrew Jenkins, Business Manager Printed on certified and sustainable paper Design: www.design-mill.co.uk Subtitled for the hard of hearing Cinema for Tinies Print: Harts Design & Print NOVEMBER 2019 NOVEMBER 2019 FIRE AT SEA ABOMINABLE THE GOLDFINCH THE THIRD MAN THE FAREWELL JOKER DOWNTON ABBEY ABOMINABLE (U) Fri 1st & Sat 2nd 3pm Sun 3rd & Sat 9th 2pm THE FAREWELL (PG) Mon 4th 8pm DIRECTOR Jill Culton DIRECTOR Lulu Wang VOICES Chloe Bennet, Joseph Izzo, Eddie Izzard, Sarah Paulson CAST Awkwafina, Shuzhen Zhao, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin SCREEN TEST After discovering a Yeti on the roof of her Shanghai apartment building, SCREEN TEST When a Chinese-American family discovers their grandmother in China teenager Yi and her two friends embark on an epic quest to reunite the magical creature is terminally ill, they decide not to tell her, instead organising an impromptu wedding as with his family. Their spectacular adventure takes them from the bustling city to the mystical a pretext for one final family gathering before she dies. But New Yorker Billi (Awkwafina) Himalayan mountaintops as they help the charismatic creature evade his captors. A joyous struggles with her family’s decision. A wonderfully handled mix of love, grief and humour, family animation. (2019 Chi/USA 97 mins) this tender story is inspired by a similar event in writer/director Wang’s own life and deftly broaches ideas of familial duty and cultural difference. (2019 USA 100 mins Part subtitled) THE GOLDFINCH (15) Fri 1st & Sat 2nd 7.30pm DIRECTOR John Crowley JOKER (15) Fri 8th 8pm CAST Ansel Elgort, Sarah Paulson, Aneurin Barnard, Nicole Kidman DIRECTOR Todd Phillips SCREEN TEST This adaptation by Crowley (Brooklyn) of Donna Tartt’s extraordinary CAST Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy novel follows Theodore Decker who, aged 13, witnessed his mother’s death in a bombing at SCREEN TEST This standalone story of iconic arch-nemesis The Joker stars Phoenix as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He deals with the tragedy in a succession of Arthur Fleck, a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society. A clown-for- personal secrets, betrayals and friendships. Through it all, he holds on to the one object from hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night ... but finds the joke always seems that terrible day that gives him hope – a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch. to be on him. One bad decision brings about a chain reaction of escalating, violent events (2019 USA 149 mins) in this gritty character study of a villain we all thought we knew. Phoenix gives a brilliant performance in this darkly spectacular film. (2019 Can/USA 122 mins) THE THIRD MAN (PG) Sun 3rd 5pm DIRECTOR Carol Reed DOWNTON ABBEY (PG) Sat 9th & Sun 24th 5pm CAST Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Trevor Howard, Alida Valli DIRECTOR Michael Engler SCREEN TEST One of the best British films of all time marks its 50th anniversary. Holly CAST Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, Matthew Goode Martins (Cotten) comes to post-war Vienna to look for his old friend Harry Lime (Welles), SCREEN TEST Another chance to see this big screen version of the hugely popular TV series. only to find he is tragically mixed up in the black market. Graham Greene’s note-perfect It’s 1927 and the Crawley family have had to cope with changing times by economising on screenplay, the sound of Anton Karas’s zither, Robert Krasker’s expressionist photography, staff. As Downton prepares for an important royal visit, we catch up with some familiar faces Reed’s tight direction and a charismatic turn by the great Welles make this an unmissable and meet some intriguing new ones. A thoroughly enjoyable mix of great writing, top-notch piece of cinema. (1949 UK 104 mins B&W) performances and a story combining humour and emotion. (2019 UK 122 mins) PAIN AND GLORY (Dolor y gloria) (15) Sun 3rd 8pm DIRECTOR Pedro Almodóvar CAST Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia FILM COURSE SCREEN TEST Almodóvar’s best film in years is a semi-autobiographical story about Salvador (Banderas, who won the Best Actor prize at Cannes for this role), a film director in EUROPEAN physical and artistic decline. A 30th-anniversary screening of one of his best-loved works reunites him with the film’s capricious leading man, to whom he has not spoken since they fell out on set. This encounter prompts him to recall the highs and lows of his past – a tumultuous CINEMA AND childhood with his mother (Cruz), his first love affair in 80s Madrid, his early discovery of cinema – and reluctantly to confront his own mortality. (2019 Sp 113 mins Subtitled) ITS LEGACY Following on from her highly successful Study SAT 23 NOV Day on Gothic Cinema earlier this year, Ellen FOLLOW US Cheshire returns to Saffron Screen to discuss 11am – 5.15pm Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn & Instagram three classic European film movements. BOOK ONLINE NOW Book online now at: www.saffronscreen.com Full-size screen with the latest digital technology NOVEMBER 2019 NOVEMBER 2019 A SHAUN THE THE PEANUT MRS MINIVER HONEYLAND SHEEP MOVIE THE DAY SHALL COME BUTTER FALCON TEHRAN: CITY OF LOVE MRS MINIVER (U) Sat 9th 7.30pm A SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE: FARMAGEDDON (U) Fri 15th 5pm th th th th th Clavering Christian Centre – see our website for details. Sat 16 & Sun 17 2pm Dec: Sat 7 3pm Sun 8 5pm Fri 20 2pm DIRECTORS Will Becher, Richard Phelan JUDY (12A) Sat 9th & Sun 10th 8pm Sat 16th 5pm Sun 17th 8pm VOICES Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Kate Harbour, Joe Sugg DIRECTOR Rupert Goold SCREEN TEST Sheep in Space! When a spaceship crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, CAST Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon Shaun and the gang meet Lu-La, a friendly and fun-loving alien with superpowers and SCREEN TEST Winter 1968 and Judy Garland arrives in London to perform a five-week galactic-sized burps.