Hull Screen programme | July 2008

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FLASHBACKS OF A FOOL (15)

Dir: Baillie Walsh UK 2008 1hr 53mins
Joe Scot (Daniel Craig) is a washed-up Hollywood star whose hedonistic lifestyle of sex, drugs and celebrity has taken its toll. Flashback to his childhood and small town English sea-side life set to the beat of Roxy Music and Bowie. Joe’s rites of passage as a young man lay the foundation for the Hollywood dream he goes on to experience. Confronted by tragedy, he is forced to flee in search of a new life, and only now does he finally face up to the ghosts of the past.
Links: Cinema Blend.com | The Guardian | Wikipedia »
Friday 4th July - 2.00pm

CARAMEL (PG) (subtitles)

Dir: Nadine Labaki Fr/Lebanon 2007 1hr 35mins
In Beirut, five women meet regularly in a beauty salon, a colourful and sensual microcosm of the city where several generations come into contact, talk and confide in each other. In the salon, their intimate and liberated conversations revolve around men, sex and motherhood, between haircuts and sugar waxing with caramel.
Links: The Guardian | The Independent | Wikipedia | »
Friday 4th July - 7.30pm | Saturday 5th July - 7.30pm

HORTON HEARS A WHO (U)

Dirs: Jimmy Hayward/Steve Martino USA 2008 1hr 26mins
“One day Horton the elephant (Jim Carrey) hears a voice coming from a tiny floating speck. Somewhere down there in the microcosm is a miniature planet occupied by the Whos, an eternally optimistic race now facing disaster. Horton, being a kind-hearted soul, lodges the speck in a flower and resolves to carry them to safety. Along the way he's mocked and opposed by the other animals who believe that if you can't see something, it doesn't exist.” – bbc.co.uk
Links: Wikipedia | Yahoo! Movies | BBC »
Saturday 5th July - 2.00pm

YOU, THE LIVING (15) (subtitles)

Dir: Roy Andersson Sweden 2007 1hr 35mins
“YOU, THE LIVING follows a similar approach to Andersson's previous Songs from the Second Floor, but takes a slightly lighter tone in presenting a series of tragi-comic vignettes from modern life. An assortment of washed out interiors provide the backdrop for a motley crew of characters: a stout depressive and her long-suffering husband; a young girl with an unrequited crush on a rock musician; an Arab barber taking sweet revenge on a racist customer; couples with too much to say, or too little; a diligent tuba player...If none of these sounds intrinsically funny, they certainly become so when filtered through Andersson's unique world view, both specifically Nordic, but strangely universal. His skill lies in revealing the absurd details of what people around us do every day, the precision in his filmmaking giving added comic impact to the sheer randomness of much of what we see.” - Sandra Hebron
Links: The Guardian | Channel 4 | BFI | Wikipedia »
Monday 7th July - 7.30pm

GONE BABY GONE (15)

Dir: Ben Affleck USA 2007 1 hr 54mins
Each day in America, 2000 children are reported missing. The sinuously provocative, edge of your seat thriller GONE BABY GONE. adapted from Dennis Lehane's best-selling novel and featuring the directorial debut of Ben Affleck, follows the explosive case of just one missing girl. But inside this investigation lie secrets and a labyrinthine maze of class and corruption, evil and innocence ... all leading up to one man's extraordinary choice in a world where right and wrong have become blurred.
Links: The Independent | Channel 4 | New York Times | Wikipedia »
Friday 11 July - 2.00pm / 7.30pm | Saturday 12 July - 2.15 pm / 7.30pm

PRIVATE PROPERTY (15) (subtitles)

Dir: Joachim Lafosse France/Bel/Lux 2006 1hr 32mins
An old, but beautiful farm in Belgium is home to Pascale (Isabelle Huppert) and her twin sons Thierry and François (Jérémie and Yannick Renier). Although loving and ostensibly supportive of one another, each is still reeling from the divorce that divided the family some years earlier. Pascale's ex. remarried and with a newborn baby, remains close to Thierry and François, but the bitterness behind his break-up with Pascale still lingers amongst all of them.
Links: The Observer | BFI | Time Out New York | Channel 4 »
Monday 14 July - 7.30pm

THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL (12A)

Dir: Justin Chadwick UK/USA 2008 1hr 55mins
Based on the best selling novel by Philippa Gregory, THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL is an engrossing and sensual tale of intrigue, romance, and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in history. Two sisters, Anne (Natalie Portman) and Mary (Scarlett Johansson) Boleyn, are driven by their ambitious father and uncle to advance the family's power and status by courting the affections of the King of England, Henry VIII (Eric Bana).
Links: BBC | BBC History | Yahoo Movies | Time Out London | Wikipedia »
Friday 18 - 2.00pm

JOY DIVISION (15)

Dir: Grant Gee UK 2008 1hr 33mins
Featuring the unprecedented participation of all the surviving band members (now known as New Order), 'Joy Division' examines the band's story as depicted through never-before-seen live performance footage, personal photos, period films and newly discovered audiotapes. With poignant narratives from Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris, as well as accounts from Throbbing Gristle musician Genesis P. Orridge, late legendary Factory Records owner Tony Wilson, iconic Factory Records graphic artist Peter Saville, photographer/filmmaker Anton Corbijn, Belgian journalist Annik Honoré (speaking for the first time about her relationship with Ian Curtis) and others, the film is a fresh visual account of a unique time and place.
Links: BBC | Channel 4 | The Independent | Joy Division - the band: Wikipedia »
Friday 18 - 7.30pm | Saturday 19 - 7.30pm

NIM'S ISLAND (U)

Dir: Grant Gee UK 2008 1hr 33mins
A precocious and naive 11-year-old girl, (Abigail Breslin) and her father, a marine biologist, are the only inhabitants of an idyllic Pacific island. When Dad goes missing in a storm, she uses the web to contact her favourite author for help, believing that 'Alex Rover' is a male explorer, also stars Jodie Foster and Gerard Butler.
Links: The Guardian | BFI | BBC | Wikipedia »
Saturday 19 - 2.00pm

MONGOL (15) (Subtitles)

Dir: Sergei Bodrov Russia/Germany 2007 2hrs 6mins
MONGOL is made by an award-winning Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov (PRISIONER OF THE MOUNTAINS). Here Sergei illuminates the life and legend of Genghis Khan in this stunning historical epic. Based on leading scholarly accounts and written by Bodrov and Arif Aliyev, Mongol delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of the ruler who was born as Temudgin in 1162.
Links: Official site | Yahoo Movies | Picture House | The Independent | Genghis Kahn: Wikipedia »
Monday 21 - 7.30pm

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THE EDGE OF LOVE (15)

Dir: John Maybury UK 2008 1hr 50mins
Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by a brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys) is told through the lives of two extraordinary women. Vera Phillips (Keira Knightley) and Dylan were each other's first loves who feel the thunderbolt once more when they unexpectedly meet in London ten years later. Caitlin (Sienna Miller) is his adventurous wife, wily at using her beauty and always up for a bit of fun. Despite their love-rival status, the women form a surprising friendship - and though bombs rain down on London, the trio indulge in the glory of being young, and alive. When Vera meets and marries handsome Officer William Killick (Cillian Murphy), Dylan resents his trio becoming a foursome - and Caitlin notes it.
Links: Official site | The Observer | The Independent | BBC Wales | Channel 4: Interviews | Dylan Thomas Official Site | Dylan Thomas »
Friday 25th – 2.00pm/7.30pm | Saturday 26th – 7.30pm

XXY (15) (Subtitles)

Dir: Lucía Puenzo Argentina/Fr/Sp 2007 1hr 26mins
Alex is not like other girls. She is a 15-year-old with a secret, one that no other can claim. Her parents keep her hidden away at a coastal town in amongst the dunes of the shoreline, buying time before they must decide on a life-threatening operation. When old family friend and plastic surgeon Ramiro arrives with his teenage son Álvaro, Alex begins to realise that his visit could change her life forever. As the parents wrestle with the complications that will arise as Alex reaches adulthood, Alex and Alvaro become close, their relationship causing tensions amongst the locals. However, as the parents battle it out to instill a sense of open-mindedness amongst their society, it is the children who prove themselves to be flexible in understanding the sexual leanings and complexities of others.
Links: Official site | New York Times | Channel 4 | Wikipedia | BFI »
Saturday 26th – 2.15pm | Monday 28th – 7.30pm

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Programme subject to late change

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About Hull Screen

The cinema can be found in the University of Lincoln building on George Street. It has been fitted with the latest Dolby Digital sound system along with a ‘state of the art’ digital projector in order to become part of the Film Council’s Digital Screen Network.

The university’s café is open until 4pm Monday – Friday (serving hot food until 1.30pm). Vending machines are available outside these hours.

Tickets for the cinema can be bought at the Carr Lane booking office which is open Monday-Saturday 10am - 5.30pm (tel 01482 226655) or at Hull Screen (01482 616872) an hour before each screening.

British Board of Film Classification certificates

U    - Universal, film should be suitable for persons aged four years and over.

PG  - Unaccompanied children of any age may watch. Parents are advised to consider whether content may upset sensitive children or those under eight years of age.

12A - No one younger than 12 may see a 12A film unless accompanied by a person over the age of 18, who must stay with the child.

15  - No person under the age of fifteen.

18  - No person under the age of eighteen.

Hull Screen front of house manager: Mark Ogden

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