JULY - AUGUST 2019 JULY JOANNA HOGG’S THE SOUVENIR ISSUE 75 WITH AND EMILIA SEBASTIAN NICK CRAIG KATE RUPERT ALEX LEELEE WARWICK SANJEEV ALEXANDER CHRIS DEREK KIM JONES CROFT FROST ROBERTS NASH GRAVES MACQUEEN MACK DAVIS BHASKAR ARMSTRONG ADDISON JACOBI CATTRALL BIG SCREEN. TOTAL RIOT. IN CINEMAS JULY 26 NO RATS WERE HARMED IN HORRIBLEHISTORIES.MOVIE HORRIBLEHISTORIESTHEMOVIE THE MAKING OF THIS MOVIE CONTENTS CINEMAS 6 MEMBERSHIP 8 WELCOME CURZON ON DEMAND 12 CURZON SELECTOR 14 At the time of writing, there are 40 cinemas on the Cote BERTHA DOCHOUSE 16 d’Azur with seats that are still warm. The Curzon team are NEW RELEASES 18 back from the feeding frenzy of the Cannes Film Festival, a sleep-deprived fortnight of watching films from around the EVENTS 42 globe. It was a proud festival for our acquisitions team in FEATURES 48 particular, with three upcoming Curzon titles playing in the prestigious main competition, including Romanian thriller The Whistlers and the almost entirely female French period Editor drama Portrait of a Lady on Fire, which won Best Screenplay Ian Haydn Smith for its director Céline Sciamma. And we can’t wait to screen Designer South Korean home invasion black comedy Parasite, which Hannah Attwell won the top prize, the Palme d’Or. More news on their Contributors: Jake Garriock | release later in the year. Wendy Ide | Philip Kemp | Titles from Cannes form the backbone of our summer Kate Gerova | Damian programme. Previous Palme d’Or winner (for Pulp Fiction) Spandley Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood, a curzon.cinemas hedonistic homage to Tinseltown circa 1969, was the festival’s hottest ticket. Spanish maestro Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and CurzonCinemas Glory, which picked up the Best Actor award for Antonio curzoncinemas Banderas, finds an ageing filmmaker contemplating his life. Jim Jarmusch is reunited with Adam Driver, Bill Murray and Tilda Swinton for The Dead Don’t Die, a mischievous zombie Operated by CURZON CINEMAS 2nd Floor, 20-22 Stukeley Street, comedy that is both a love letter to the genre and a London WC2B 5LR consumerist satire of Trump’s America. Participant in the Europa Cinemas/ Through our venues and the digital streaming service European Union Media Programme Curzon Home Cinema, we continue to provide customers At the time of going to print every effort was made to ensure the with new films when, where and how they want them. information contained in this programme was correct. 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Join Curzon Student at your local venue or online at curzon.com/student MEMBERS’ PREVIEWS Members’ preview screenings throughout July and August will include ONLY YOU See page 23 for synopsis PHOTOGRAPH See page 34 for synopsis TRANSIT See page 36 for synopsis THE SOUVENIR See page 40 for synopsis For venues and times, go to: CURZONCINEMAS.COM/MEMBERSPREVIEWS The Hunter START STREAMING Curzon members can access all the titles on Curzon12 for free. Members automatically have a Curzon Home Cinema account, so just sign in and the collection will be yours to enjoy. Find out more at: CURZONCINEMAS.COM/CURZON12 The Souvenir MEMBERS 9 ON DEMAND IN CINEMAS. ON DEMAND Films that appear on Curzon Home Cinema the same day that they are released in cinemas – allowing you to watch them your way. VARDA BY AGNÈS 19 JUL | See page 26 for synopsis PHOTOGRAPH 2 AUG | See page 34 for synopsis THE SOUVENIR 30 AUG | See page 40 for synopsis RECOMMENDED TRANSIT 16 AUG German auteur Christian Petzold brings the past into the present with extraordinary results in this enthralling drama. Adapted from Anna Seghers’ 1942 novel, which explores life for an escapee of a concentration camp as they attempt to seek passage to the US through Nazi-occupied France. But rather than present the action as a period drama, characters wear modern dress. The result is a film that explores past horrors but also questions the rise of the right and treatment of refugees in contemporary times. COMING SOON: DISCOVER FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY 1 JULY Gems not to be missed ONLY YOU DIAMANTINO 15 JULY JOHN MCENROE: IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION 15 JULY FERRANTE FEVER 22 JUL CAPERNAUM 29 JULY Who is Elena Ferrante? Director: Harry Wootliff One of the mysteries of the Starring: Josh O’Connor, Laia Costa, Natalie Arle-Toyne, HAPPY AS LAZZARO 29 JULY Isabelle Barth, Tam Dean Burn, Daniel Campbell, Joe Cassidy RED JOAN 19 AUG modern literary world is not answered by Giacomo Durzi’s immensely entertaining Elena and Jake meet on New Year’s Eve. The electricity documentary. Instead, between them is palpable. Soon, they move from lovers to various contributors, from live-in couple. Their trajectory is furthered by a desire to the author’s translator Ann conceive a child then stalled by problems in doing so. It’s here Goldstein to writers Elizabeth that Harry Wootliff’s breezy romance gains emotional weight, Strout, Jonathan Franzen and aided in no small way by the charismatic performances of Roberto Saviano help offer a Josh O’Connor (God’s Own Country) and Laia Costa (Victoria). comprehensive overview of With cinematographer Shabier Kirchner making the most the writer’s work, why she of Glasgow’s autumnal hues, Wootliff’s debut feature is is so loved and deserving thoughtful and moving drama. of the critical praise her magisterial Neopolitan Transit series has attracted. 12 JULY ON CURZONHOMECINEMA.COM ON DEMAND 13 CURZON SELECTOR MEMBERS OF THE CURZON TEAM PICK THEIR FAVOURITES FROM THE UPCOMING RELEASES MIDSOMMAR TBC THE CURRENT WAR TBC Few recent horror films films attracted as Late 19th-century America lay in the grip of much anticipation as Hereditary. With industrialisation and urban migration. Enter Midsommar, Ari Aster looks set to send pulses two individuals who shared the same dream: racing once again. Florence Pugh plays to light up the streets and homes of every Dani who, following a recent tragedy, joins city and town. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon brings boyfriend Christian (Jack Reynor) on a trip to together an impressive cast, headlined by Sweden and a festival that’s held every 90 Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon, years. What that celebration is has been kept as Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, under wraps. But don’t expect it to be fun for for a charged drama about winning the rights these unsuspecting participants. See page 22 to supply electricity to the country. See page 30 FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS & SHAW TBC Curzon might adore its Vardas, Hanekes, Sciammas and Almodóvars, but there’s always a little love for some Hollywood excess. Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham reprise their Fast & Furious roles, arriving in London to take on Idris Elba’s psycho merc villain. And The Crown’s Vanessa Kirby is on hand to dish Midsommar, 2019 out a right royal ass kickin’. See page 32 TRANSIT 12A THE LEHMAN TRILOGY Christian Petzold has quietly built up a Following the success of his award-winning formidable body of work that encompasses production ‘The Ferryman’, Sam Mendes recent Germany history. His adaptation of returns to the stage for this compelling triptych, Anna Seghers’ 1942 novel, which recounts a detailing the rise of the famous banking family Holocaust survivor’s attempts to reach the and its eventual demise, which marked the United States via Nazi-occupied France, beginning of the 2008 global financial crisis. avoids the trappings of the past by presenting Opening in 1844 and divided into three parts, the drama with minimal period detail.