CINE-CITY.CO.UK 16 NOVEMBER - 03 DECEMBER 2006 16 NOVEMBER - 03 DECEMBER 2006 1 CINE-CITY.CO.UK 16 NOVEMBER - 03 DECEMBER 2006 Welcome to the 4th edition of CINECITY and our biggest festival We open and close the festival with two previews of major and programme yet. CINECITY presents the very best in international eagerly anticipated titles: BABEL directed by Alejandro Gonzalez cinema and features a global mix of premieres and previews, Inarritu starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Gael Garcia Bernal treasures from the archive, artists’ moving image and installations, and BLACK BOOK, Paul Verhoeven’s World War Two drama. the latest digital adventures, education events and much more. At the core of its programme each year, CINECITY CINECITY screens right across Brighton & Hove in all the city’s dedicates a strand to one celluloid city. In 2006 we explore cinemas – Duke of York’s, Cineworld, Odeon and Gardner Arts Shanghai, the first great city of the 21st Century, through Centre - and in a host of other venues. We have also again created a a diverse selection of moving images including artists’ temporary ‘micro-cinema’ to further extend the number of screens installations, features, documentaries and shorts. available during the festival. The Brighton Fringe Basement in the heart of the North Laine is home to a range of screenings We do hope you enjoy the selection of films on offer. To and events and is the centrepiece of the artists’ moving image help you see more of this year’s CINECITY there are a programme. For the first time CINECITY expands beyond the number of free screenings and events plus special ticket borders of Brighton & Hove with a weekend of screenings at the offers. We are also pleased to welcome Mojo’s bar and modernist masterpiece the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, restaurant as the official CINECITY Festival Club. the first time films have been seen there on the big screen. To keep fully up to date with this year’s programme and In the NEW FEATURES strand we present a selection of 30 for exclusive festival podcasts visit www.cine-city.co.uk new titles all screening in Brighton for the first time. This is your chance to catch these films before they go on national CINECITY is presented in partnership with Duke of York’s release and to see others in one-off UK screenings. Several Picturehouse and Screen Archive South East at the University of of the screenings will be followed by Q&A’s with the film- Brighton. We acknowledge the invaluable and continuing support makers so please check with the venues for full details. we receive from Arts Council England South East, Brighton & Hove City Council, Screen South and the University of Brighton. NEW FEATURES CINECITY GHOSTS adv 15 SHORTBUS 18 BUGSY MALONE U LONDON TO BRIGHTON 18 BLACK GOLD adv 15 NEW FEATURES NEW PRINT YOUR ChanCE to CatCH the latest titles BEfore they go on NATIONAL release OPENING NIGHT FILM BABEL 15 Director Alejandro González Iñárritu and FRI 17 NOV 6.30PM FRI 17 NOV 11PM screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga’s third film BABEL, DUKE OF YORK’S DUKE OF YORK’S is part of a loose trilogy folllowing AMORES PERROS Documentarist Nick Broomfield’s This new feature from the THU 16 NOV 6.15PM and 21 GRAMS. They all deal with the consequences second fiction feature is amongst the director, creator and star of DUKE OF YORKS of random fateful acts, this time on a global level. most poignant and impressive of his glorious musical HEDWIG AND In Morocco two farm boys test out a rifle given SAT 18 NOV 11AM SUN 19 NOV 6.30PM TUE 21 NOV 6.30PM long career. Imbued with his trademark THE ANGRY INCH is a candid DUKE OF YORK’S DUKE OF YORKS DUKE OF YORK’S them to protect the family’s goats. The bullet they interest in human rights issues, the and sexually explicit dramatic fire hits a tourist bus travelling down a dusty road film is a dramatized account of the exploration of the intimate side Re-issued on a new 35mm print in time for The debut feature from Williams, LONDON An exploration of the global coffee industry from in the distance. Inside are two American tourists events leading up to February 2004, of hip New Yorkers’ lives. Among Christmas, CINECITY are offering a sneak TO BRIGHTON depicts 24 hours in the life of directors Marc and Nick Francis. Multinational (Pitt and Blanchett) on holiday whilst they try to when 21 Chinese workers lost their other characters, the film offers a preview of this timeless classic to all budding a prostitute (Stanley) and a young runaway coffee companies now rule our shopping come to terms with the loss of a child. Back in lives after being cut off by tides while sex therapist who fakes orgasms, film fans. Mini-gangsters shake-up New York, (Groome), fleeing to Brighton in a desperate malls and supermarkets and dominate the America their two children are being looked after by picking cockles in Morecambe Bay. a dominatrix with connection covering each other with ‘splurge-gun’ cream. attempt to save their own lives after they fall industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee a Mexican nanny. After failing to make alternative Filming only began after exhaustive problems and a gay couple debating Great fun with plenty of unforgettable songs to foul of a London crime lord. A film of remarkable the most valuable trading commodity in the assurance, it makes astonishing use of little- child care arrangements the nanny decides to research (including visits to the making their relationship more hum along to. world after oil. But while we continue to pay take the children across the border with her in known actors, drawing performances of utter for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid province in China from where many open. Despite both its overall Please note this is a Duke Of York’s Kids’ Club conviction. Perhaps most impressively, it order to attend a family wedding, accompanied by of the workers originated) and the focus on the carnal, there is an to coffee farmers remains so low that many her hot-headed nephew (Gael Garcia Bernal). special event, all adults must be accompanied manages to avoid the clichés of the British crime have been forced to abandon their coffee Guardian articles by journalist Hsiao- underlying investigation of the real thriller, creating a chilling realistic world of petty In Tokyo a rebellious deaf-mute teenager is by a child (sorry!). fields. Nowhere is this paradox more evident Hung Pai formed the inspiration for emotional issues at risk within the crime, sexual depravity and violence. In this struggling to come to terms with the loss of her DIRECTOR: ALAN PARKER, STARRING JODY FOSTER, SCOTT a film which directly addresses the characters’ lives, giving the film BAIO, FLORRIE DUGGER, JOHN CASSISI. USA 1976. 93 MINS. portrait that is never squalid, viewers will draw than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. DIRECTOR: ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ mother and her failing relationship with her father. warmth and a strong core. With Tadesse Meskela is one man on a mission to IÑÁRRITU. STARRING: BRAD PITT, circumstances that put these workers inspiration from the two young heroines clinging CATE BLANCHETT, GAEL GARCIA in a position where they risked their some formidable performances, together. Williams is undoubtedly a talent to save his 74,000 struggling coffee farmers from BERNAL, KOJI YAKUSHO, RINKO BABEL deals with the personal, social and political KIKUCHI, ADRIANNA BARRAZA, lives for pennies. An authentic, vital as well as nice touches like an watch. bankruptcy and travels the world in an attempt SAID TARCHANI. USA/MEXICO 2006. effects of the inability to communicate. Strong and and timely work, GHOSTS bristles with animated 3-D cityscape plus a to find buyers willing to pay a fair price. 142 MINS. naturalistic performances from both the known Broomfield’s trademark conviction. cool soundtrack, SHORTBUS is Followed by Q & A with director Paul Andrew Williams. Followed by Q&A with the directors. and unknown cast allows the film to carry the DIRECTOR: NICK BROOMFIELD STARRING: AI QIN inventive, different and fun. DIRECTOR: PAUL ANDREW WILLIAMS. STARRING: LORRAINE STANLEY, GEORGIA weight of its message, whilst cinematographer LIN, ZHAN YU, ZHE WEI. UK 2006. 96 MINS. GROOME, JOHNNY HARRIS, SAM SPRUELL, NATHAN CONSTANCE, ALEXANDER MORTON, DIRECTOR: MARC AND NICK FRANCIS.UK 2006. 78MINS. DIRECTOR: JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL. STARRING: DAVID KEELING, JAMIE KENNA. UK 2006. 85 MINS. Roberto Prieto who worked previously with SOOK-YIN LEE, PAUL DAWSON, LINDSAY BEAMISH, Inarritu on AMORES PEROS and 21 GRAMS PJ DEBOY, RAPHAEL BARKER. USA 2006. 101 MINS. gives the film its distinctive look and feel. 4 CINE-CITY.CO.UK CINECITY THE BRIGHTON FILM FESTIVAL 16 NOVEMBER - 03 DECEMBER 2006 5 LUNACY adv 18 SKETCHES OF BUENOS AIRES 77 adv 15 SNOW CAKE 15 PRIDE AND JOY adv 15 EDMOND 18 FRANK GEHRY ADV 12 CRONICA DE UNA FUGA WED 22 NOV 6.30PM THURS 23 NOV 6.30 PM FRI 24 NOV 6.30PM FRI 24 NOV 7.30PM SAT 25 NOV 6PM MON 27 NOV 8.45PM DUKE OF YORK’S DUKE OF YORKS DUKE OF YORK’S GARDNER ARTS CENTRE BRIGHTON FRINGE BASEMENT CINEWORLD Veteran Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer Acclaimed portrait of the renowned architect Selected for competition at this year’s Cannes Set in a beautiful snowy landscape on the shores Ex-Brighton residents Ronan Glennane and Director Stuart Gordon makes an impressive (LITTLE OTIK, FAUST) returns with a black whose designs dramatically blur the line Film Festival, BUENOS AIRES 77 is an intense and of Canada’s Lake Superior, SNOW CAKE is a Nell Greenwood left the South Coast in order move from the cult horror of RE-ANIMATOR comedy exploring madness, sanity and taboo, between art and architecture.