THE 18 NOV - 5 DEC BRIGHTON CINE-CITY.CO.UK FILM FESTIVAL 2010 SPONSORED BY THU FRI SAT SUN MON WELCOME 18 19 20 21 22 THURS 18 NOV 6.30PM FRI 19 NOV 6.30PM SAT 20 NOV 6.30PM SUN 21 NOV 11AM SUN 21 NOV 11.45AM MON 22 NOV 6.30PM Welcome to the 8th edition of CINECITY The Brighton Film Festival. DUKE OF YORK’S DUKE OF YORK’S DUKE OF YORK’S DUKE OF YORK’S DUKE OF YORK’S DUKE OF YORK’S We present a host of premieres and previews of highly anticipated major releases giving you first sight of films hotly tipped for success LE QUATTRO VOLTE in the awards season. We also showcase a number of titles brought Director: Michelangelo Frammartino. to CINECITY from around the world that are unlikely to screen again in Italy / Germany / Switzerland. 2010. 86mins. the city plus many special one-off events. One of the real highlights of this year’s Cannes Film festivals can form something of an alternative distribution network Film Festival was this almost wordless film of striking beauty and originality. Set in remote, offering audiences their only chance to see a range of films on the big rural Calabria in southern Italy it is a delicate screen. It is this element of discovery combined with the opportunity and wryly funny meditation on rural life. to meet, discuss and share a passion with other members of the Quasi-documentary in form and with a pace audience and to talk to visiting film-makers that lies at the heart of the 15 exquisitely matched to that of the village itself 15 film festival experience. THE AMERICAN MASKA the main subjects are an elderly goatherd, FLEURS DU MAL baby goat, dog, fir tree and smoking charcoal Director: Anton Corbijn. Starring: George Director: Quay Brothers. UK/Poland 2009. 24mins. kiln. There is no dialogue as such but a rich Director: David Dusa. Starring: Rachid Youcef, The Duke of York’s Picturehouse recently celebrated its 100th birthday, Clooney, Violante Placido, Johan Leysen, Paolo soundscape of goat bells and howling winds, Alice Belaidi. France 2010. 100 mins. French & the UK’s oldest purpose built cinema. CINECITY has been working Bonacelli, Thekla Reuten. USA 2010. 104 mins. church bells and burning wood. The film’s title Persian with English subtitles. A welcome return for the Quay Brothers, translates as ‘The Four Times’ derived from with the Dukes throughout the year to present a programme of subject of a CINECITY exhibition and a Pythagorean text identifying man’s nature special events and a community history project collecting memories, George Clooney is Jack, a methodical hitman retrospective two years ago. as mineral, vegetable, animal and rational; An imaginative and original drama exploring in the latest feature from Anton Corbijn, the overall feel is of something elemental, the powerful voice the internet provided in photographs and ephemera relating to this very special century of director of the Joy Division biopic, CONTROL. Their latest animated film is an adaptation of primordial even. Iran after the 2009 presidential elections. cinema. To round off the centenary year CINECITY 2010 presents a 12A 12A a collection of writings by Stanisław Lem, best Outraged at the rigging of the election Iranian selection of screenings and special events: Brighton & Hove’s own After a messy shootout in Sweden, Jack known as the author of Solaris and features In LE QUATTRO VOLTE one can find echoes citizens took to the streets to demonstrate retreats to the Italian countryside and begins NEVER LET ME GO a soundtrack from renowned Polish classical of the poetry of SLEEP FURIOUSLY or the dry their anger. The government arrested film pioneers from over a century ago, Smith and Williamson are to foster relationships with a priest called composer Krzysztof Penderecki. humour of HUKKLE (2003) but this is a rare and journalists and retaliated with shocking celebrated with a special screening with live music; a new programme THE KING’S SPEECH Benedetto, who urges him toward absolution, Director: Mark Romanek. Starring: Carey wondrous work. violence and the people organised movements and local prostitute, Clara. Jack initially Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, A dark tale of love emerges out of a horror through Twitter and revealed the horrific of archive treasures highlights the magical world of silent colour; and struggles with his inherent distrust of others, Charlotte Rampling, Sally Hawkins. story as a creature created limb by limb – an reality with mobile ‘phone footage. we screen new films from Gustav Deutsch and Peter Tscherkassky Director: Tom Hooper. Starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, UK/ USA 2010. 103mins. automaton disguised as a female - embarks Michael Gambon, Timothy Spall, Jennifer Ehle, Derek Jacobi. US-Australia 2010. 118mins. but begins to realise that companionship - who both presented films in person at CINECITY 2007 - exploring is what he needs most. He has, however, on a mission to find and destroy a prince. A Anahita, a young woman from an affluent committed to one last assignment for his boss conflict between the machine and the soul family, is sent from Tehran to Paris for her elements of early cinema. Based on the true story of George VI’s struggle Pavel; to build a gun for another assassin, Based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s unsettling intensifies as ‘she’ comes to realise she has safety. She meets Rachid, a bellhop at her to overcome a stammer, this is an outstanding Mathilde. bestseller, NEVER LET ME GO features an been created to kill the person she falls in hotel and a tender relationship develops We also welcome back two more previous CINECITY contributors period drama combining a brilliant, witty script impressive fusion of British talent amid much love with. between them. Technology brings them and powerful and compelling performances THE AMERICAN’s distinctive pace and talk of potential awards success. together yet alienates at the same time; to give an intriguing glimpse of their works in progress; Grant Gee from a stellar cast. style and Corbijn’s ability to sensitively Anahita lives her life vicariously through (JOY DIVISION) is making the first film in English about the highly express isolation sets this observation of a Alex Garland (28 DAYS LATER, THE BEACH) FREE Twitter and anxiously awaits updates from her The film opens in 1925 as Prince Albert, the clinical cold-blooded occupation apart from wrote the screenplay which is vividly brought friends in Tehran, while Rachid’s comparative acclaimed and influential writer WG Sebald and Andrew Kötting Duke of York (Colin Firth) attempts to deliver conventional Hollywood action films. THE to life by the three leads: Carey Mulligan, freedom is expressed through his fluid leaps (IVUL) returns to Brighton with the writer Iain Sinclair to present a speech at the British Empire Exhibition AMERICAN is minimalist and unsettling with Andrew Garfield (the new Spider-Man) and 17 NOv – 1st DEC (CLOSED MON, TUES) through the streets and rooftops of Paris as his SWANDOWN, an exhibition and perambulation at The Regency Town and address the nation through the new an understated and focused performance Keira Knightley. Narrated by Kathy (Mulligan) 12 NOOn – 5pM parkour online-persona Gecko. With YouTube medium of radio. His lack of confidence and from Clooney as the inscrutable and solitary who is now in her thirties, she recalls the SUN 21 NOV 6.30PM THE REGENCY TOWN HOUSE videos, blogs and Twitter updates, Dusa’s film House. The Quay Brothers were the subject of the festival’s 2008 ability to communicate causes him acute assassin. friendship she shared with Tommy and Ruth at captures the fragmented experiences flooding retrospective and exhibition and we are delighted to screen their embarrassment and so with the support of a seemingly idyllic boarding school. Sheltered DUKE OF YORK’S the internet and how it is changing our latest animation, MASKA. his wife Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter) from the outside world, as they grew older relationships and perception of the world. he starts to see a line of various ineffectual they learn of the dark secret that hangs ‘experts’ before visiting Australian speech over their lives while deep feelings of love, To complement CAPTURING COLOUR a major exhibition at Brighton therapist Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush). Initially jealousy and betrayal threaten to pull them FRI 19 NOV 11PM apart. Museum & Art Gallery, DREAMING IN COLOUR is a special strand flummoxed by Logue’s progressive techniques, DUKE OF YORK’S Albert’s stiff and troubled persona begins to MON 22 NOV 6.15PM celebrating film-makers’ use of colour to explore the fantastic, poetic loosen with Logue’s firm guidance and warmth The superb cast also features Charlotte THE REGENCY TOWN HOUSE and dreamlike. A highlight is a special live remix of Derek Jarman’s – although flashbacks reveal the depth of the Rampling as the headmistress and Sally psychological problems behind the stammer. Hawkins who co-starred with Mulligan in AN BLUE performed by composer Simon Fisher Turner. EDUcation, has a supporting role as teacher After the death of his father and abdication Miss Lucy. Beautifully shot, the exceptional We do hope you enjoy the selection of films on offer. As usual there of his brother Edward (Guy Pearce) to marry English countryside locations provide a stark American socialite Wallis Simpson, Albert contrast to this haunting and other-wordly are a number of free events and screenings and special ticket offers to is forced to become King. But when a king story of love and loss. help you see more films for less. speaks he must command attention and with the country hurtling towards war he is faced EXHIBITION with his greatest challenge.