Pick up your copy of the 2017 Saffron Directory now at the Tourist Information Centre its where people click www.saffrondirectory.co.uk YOUR LOCAL CINEMA A cut above NOVEMBER & DECEMBER 2017 Your local award winning financial advisers. T. 01799 521 900 W. kmdpwm.co.uk RICHMOND’S COACHES Theatre Trips from Saffron Walden & Newport Stalls or Dress Circle Seats including return coach fare 2 Nov Cabaret – Milton Keynes Matinee (Will Young) £55.00 12 Nov Last Night of the Proms – Southend inc meal £66.00 15 Nov Tango Moderno – Milton Keynes Matinee £55.00 16 Nov Motown – Matinee £65.00 19 Nov Classical Spectacular – RAH inc Lunch £89.00 26 Nov Birmingham International Tattoo £49.50 28 Nov Wicksteed Park Christmas Show inc Lunch £45.00 22 Dec The Nutcracker – London Coliseum £69.00 6 Jan Cinderella Panto – Milton Keynes Matinee £49.50 11 Jan Dick Whittington at the Palladium Matinee £59.50 11 Jan The Rat Pack – Live from Las Vegas inc Lunch £69.00 17 Jan Son of a Preacher Man – Southend Matinee £49.00 25 Jan Jersey Boys Milton Keynes Matinee £50.00 28 Jan Cirque Du Soleil – Ovo – Royal Albert Hall £70.00 31 Jan Sunset Boulevard – Southend Matinee £52.00 10 Feb Strictly Live! At the O2 – Lower tier seats £72.00 11 Feb Strictly Live! At the O2 – Lower tier seats £72.00 15 Feb Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella M. Keynes Mat £60.00 21 Feb Beautiful – Milton Keynes Matinee £55.00 01763 848226 or visit our website www.richmonds-coaches.co.uk BOOK NOW AT THE CINEMA BOX OFFICE, TIC OR ONLINE TO ADVERTISE HERE (CIRC. 22,000) CONTACT: [email protected] www.saffronscreen.com CINEMA INFORMATION VISIT FROM SANTA! TICKETS FOR ALL FILMS ARE NOW ON SALE DAYTIME Full £6.90; 65 & over £6.00; other adult concessions £5.30; 18 & under £4.50; family tickets (2 adults + 2 children or 1 adult + 3 children) £20.00 EVENINGS (films at or after 5pm) Full £7.90; 65 & over £7.10; other adult concessions £6.10; 18 & under £5.70 (£4.30 on Monday nights) CALL ME BY CINEMA FOR TINIES Adults £4.00; Children £3.00; under 2s free THE GENERAL YOUR NAME THE STAR EVENT CINEMA Please see ticket price information for each event. See our website for information about eligibility for concession price tickets. Group bookings 11 cinema tickets for the price of 10 (not available online). WELCOME Tickets are available: ● online at www.saffronscreen.com (booking fee applies) ● in person from the Box Office (opens 30 mins before each screening) Welcome to our November and December programme. ● in person from the Tourist Information Centre, Saffron Walden We start by celebrating silent film with live piano (booking fee applies) (telephone: 01799 524002, enquiries only). accompaniment, with Buster Keaton’s glorious The RECEIVE THE LATEST INFORMATION VIA EMAIL General, beautifully complemented by local pianist Gail For weekly film updates, Monday night film notes or information about Ford. This is closely followed by a presentation of Gattaca foreign language films, Cinema for Tinies screenings, audio-described films, by Wellcome Genome Campus Public Engagement films with subtitles or Event Cinema, email with the relevant heading to: as part of the Festival of Social Science, with a panel [email protected] discussion hosted by broadcaster Vivienne Parry, and FOLLOW US a screening of local film Littlebury by Lizzie Sanders to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn & Instagram raise funds for the Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust. FIND US Our Cinema for Tinies selection is Ice Age and we are Saffron Walden County High School, Audley End Road, Saffron Walden, Essex CB11 4UH teaming up with Saffron Walden Museum so young Doors open 30 minutes before screenings. viewers can follow a special trail and see the Ice Age Please use the main school entrance and car parks (not the sports hall characters in the afternoon after the screening. car park). See our website for detailed information. We are celebrating Christmas with The Star (and a ACCESSIBILITY visit from Santa) for children, The Man Who Invented The cinema is wheelchair friendly and has induction loop facilities. With Christmas for an older generation and A Bad Moms some films, we are able to offer audio description and subtitles. A large print version of this programme can be supplied on request. Please contact the Christmas for those who want to party! Then between office for further details. Christmas and the New Year we are open every CONTACT US day with screenings of Paddington 2 and Murder on Email: [email protected] Telephone: 01799 500238 the Orient Express for the whole family to enjoy. Postal address: c/o Saffron Walden Tourist Information Centre, Amongst all these events, we have a host of superb 1 Market Place, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1HR Charity no 1113259 films – including our recommended picks The Party www.saffronscreen.com and Call Me By Your Name – and some excellent operas, plays and ballets. See you at the cinema! Printed on certified and sustainable paper Design: www.design-mill.co.uk Subtitled (hard of hearing) Recommended film Cinema for Tinies Print: Harts Design & Print NOVEMBER 2017 NOVEMBER 2017 FIRE AT SEA GOODBYE KINGSMAN: MOTHER! CHRISTOPHER ROBIN IN BETWEEN GATTACA THE GOLDEN CIRCLE BORG VS McENROE MOTHER! (18) Fri 3rd 8pm GATTACA (15) Weds 8th 7.15pm DIRECTOR Darren Aronofsky DIRECTOR Andrew Niccol CAST Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer CAST Ethan Hawke, Jude Law, Uma Thurman, Loren Dean SCREEN TEST Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Wrestler) is back with this riveting SCREEN TEST In a futuristic society, the wealthy have taken to genetically engineering psychological thriller following Mother (Lawrence) and Him (Bardem). Their apparently their offspring in a search for physical and mental perfection. Vincent (Hawke), a perfect marriage starts to crack when two strangers (Harris and Pfeiffer) come to their traditionally conceived ‘In-Valid’, has always lived in the shadow of his genetically beautiful house uninvited, with seemingly no intention to leave. The film ratchets up the improved ‘Valid’ brother Anton (Dean), but will stop at nothing to fulfill his dream of tension by degrees, employing claustrophobic camerawork in the most dazzling, shocking becoming a space navigator for the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation. Set in a morally and strangely satisfying film you’ll see this year. (2017 USA 121 mins) ambiguous world, this intelligent thriller’s focus on characters and ideas make it as pertinent and engaging as it was 20 years ago. (1997 USA 102 mins) GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN (PG) Presented by Wellcome Genome Campus Public Engagement as part Sat 4th 3pm & 8pm Sun 5th 8pm Sat 11th 2pm of the Festival of Social Science and followed by a panel discussion. DIRECTOR Simon Curtis All tickets £3. CAST Domnhall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, Kelly Macdonald, Will Tilston SCREEN TEST A behind-the-scenes look at the complicated relationship between KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE (15) beloved children’s author AA Milne and his son Christopher Robin, whose toys inspired the Fri 10th & Sat 11th 8pm magical world of Winnie the Pooh. Suffering PTSD after returning from the First World War DIRECTOR Matthew Vaughn and struggling with writer’s block, Milne bonds with his young son and starts work on a CAST Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, Colin Firth, Julianne Moore children’s book. The resulting stories were a worldwide success, but fame came at a cost to SCREEN TEST The original 2014 action comedy introduced Kingsman, an independent, his family. Touching, sad and tender. (2017 UK 107 mins) international intelligence agency operating at the highest level of discretion. In this sequel, THE GENERAL (U) Sun 5th 3pm a Cambodia-based cartel boss (Moore) orchestrates an attack on the Kingsman HQ and our heroes must work with Statesman, an allied spy organisation in America, to beat their DIRECTORS Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton common enemy. Cartoonishly OTT and eye-poppingly outrageous with slick, violent action CAST Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley scenes and gleefully foul-mouthed humour. (2017 UK/USA 141 mins) SCREEN TEST Join us for a celebration of silent film, with live piano accompaniment by local pianist Gail Ford. When a band of Union soldiers steal his locomotive, Keaton’s BORG VS McENROE (15) Sat 11th 5pm Sun 12th 8pm railway engineer sets off in hot pursuit, determined to retrieve his engine – The General – and impress his girlfriend. This is Buster Keaton at his very best with thrills, visual gags and DIRECTOR Janus Metz plenty of action – one of the greatest comedies of all time and perfect for all the family. CAST Shia LaBeouf, Sverrir Gudnason, Stellan Skarsgård, David Bamber (1926 USA 92 mins B&W) SCREEN TEST The story of the exhilarating battle of personalities that culminated in the Silent movie with live piano accompaniment. Wimbledon men’s final of 1980 – widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis matches of all time. The cool and rigorously disciplined champion Björn Borg is up against an abrasive IN BETWEEN (15) Mon 6th 8pm newcomer – the highly talented but volatile John McEnroe. With impressive performances, this is an intriguing character study as well as a thrilling sports film, offering an insight into DIRECTOR Maysaloun Hamoud an epic sporting rivalry. (2017 Swed/Den/Fin 108 mins Part subtitled) CAST Mouna Hawa, Sana Jammelieh, Shaden Kanboura, Mahmud Shalaby SCREEN TEST A lively portrait of Palestinian youth and female friendship in Tel Aviv. WAR HORSE (12A) Sat 11th 7.30pm Nour, a hijabi Muslim grad student, moves in with Laila, a sultry lawyer who’s looking for love, and Salma, a DJ whose conservative Christian family do not know she’s a lesbian.