Gulbenkian
Film
Mar-Apr
2017
2 / Gulbenkian Film
Wed 1 – Thu 2 Mar, times vary
Denial (12A)
Rachel Weisz is superb as Jewish
American historian Deborah Lipstadt,
based on the true story of her legal
conflict with notorious Holocaust
denier David Irving (Timothy Spall) in
1996. The film depicts the libel case
brought by Irving against her, forcing
her to prove the essential truth that
the Holocaust occurred and so
create a landmark legal precedent.
AD
Sat 4 – Mon 6 & Wed 8 Mar,
times vary
Lion (PG)
Oscar-nominated adaptation of
Saroo Brierley’s memoir A Long
Way Home. Adopted from a Kolkata
orphanage as a young boy by
Australian couple, Saroo uses
Google Earth to search for his
biological family.
CAP
AD
Captioned subtitles
screening Mon 6 Mar
Fri 3, Sat 4 & Tue 7 Mar, times
vary
Fri 10 – Sun 12 & Thu 16 Mar,
times vary
T2 Trainspotting (18)
20th Century Women
(15)
Twenty years after Danny Boyle’s
propulsive, provocative
Trainspotting, Boyle and the original
cast return to pick up the story in
this already acclaimed sequel.
AD
Annette Bening gives a standout
performance in Mike Mills’s
(Beginners) acclaimed, Oscarnominated and immensely
pleasurable drama about three
women exploring love and freedom
in the late 1970s.
Gulbenkian Film / 3
Fri 10 – Tue 14 Mar, times vary
Fri 17 – Sun 19 Mar, times vary
Fences (12A)
Loving (12A)
An immeasurably powerful drama
about a working class father trying
to raise a family in the 1950s,
while coming to terms with missing
out on his dream of becoming a
baseball player.
CAP
AD
Captioned subtitles
screening Mon 13 Mar
Ruth Negga is rightly Oscar
nominated for her breathtaking
performance in this understated,
timely and incredibly moving
historical drama that teases out the
remarkable story of Richard and
Mildred Loving. An interracial couple
whose marriage went all the way to
the US Supreme Court where it
became a landmark ruling in the
fight for civil rights.
AD
Wed 15 Mar, 6.30pm
Fri 17 Mar, 6.15pm
Christine (15)
I, Daniel Blake (15)
In 1974 California, news anchor
Christine Chubbuck committed
suicide during a live television
broadcast; an unprecedented
and shockingly public act that
stunned a nation. Antonio Campos’s
searing drama explores the reasons
behind it.
Winner of the BAFTA for Outstanding
British Film, Ken Loach’s fierce,
emphatic drama I, Daniel Blake is
purportedly his last film. A fiftysomething carpenter seeking to
claim benefits after suffering health
problems, befriends a single mother
who’s also on the breadline.
AD
4 / Gulbenkian Film
Sat 18 – Tue 21 Mar, times vary
Moonlight (15)
The multi Oscar-nominated Moonlight
chronicles the life of a young AfricanAmerican man growing up in a rough
neighbourhood of Miami. Stunningly
beautiful, it is a breathtaking
achievement and a landmark in the
portrayal of blackness (especially
black gay masculinity) onscreen.
CAP
AD
Captioned subtitles
screening Mon 20 Mar
Fri 24 & Sun 26 – Tue 28 Mar,
times vary
Hidden Figures (PG)
Superb drama which tells the
astonishing story of 3 brilliant
African-American women who
worked at NASA in the ‘60s whose
intelligence enabled the launch of
astronaut John Glenn into orbit.
AD
FilmTalk: Follows Mon 27 Mar
screening
Thu 23 Mar, 6.30pm
Fri 24 & Sat 25 Mar, times vary
The Perks of Being a
Wallflower (12A)
Hacksaw Ridge (15)
Sam and her half-brother Patrick
become friends with high school
newcomer Charlie, who is suffering
the recent suicide of his brother. A
sparky and sweet coming of age
story with excellent performances
from its three young stars.
Part of University of Kent Wellbeing
Festival
Oscar-nominated, bruising World
War II epic based on an extraordinary
true story, of a combat medic and
conscientious objector whose bravery
made him the first man in American
history to receive the Medal of Honor
without firing a shot.
AD
Gulbenkian Film / 5
Sat 25 & Sun 26 Mar, times vary
Wed 29 Mar, 7pm
KTV Film Festival
BANFF Mountain Film
Festival World Tour
Created by students and hosted by
KTV, this exciting mix of dramatic
films promises to be unlike any other.
Focussing on the effect different
relationships have both in everyday
life and extreme circumstances,
these are not to be missed!
T: Day pass £3 / Weekend pass £5 /
VIP pass £10
(12A)
Ignite your passion for adventure,
action and travel through an
exhilarating collection of the latest
films from the most talented
adventure film makers of today
T: SOLD OUT – phone 01227
769075 to be added to the waitlist.
Now on sale:
Kendal Mountain Film Festival
on Sat 6 May
Sat 25 Mar, 5.15pm
Toni Erdmann (15)
Nominated for Best Foreign Film at
the Oscars, it’s an outrageously funny
comedy about a truly dysfunctional
father-daughter relationship. A father
with a penchant for wacky humour
tries to reconnect with his daughter
by showing up at her offices in a
new guise: that of ‘Toni Erdmann’.
SUB
German w/Eng ST
Fri 31 Mar – Sun 2 Apr & Tue 4
Apr, times vary
The LEGO Batman
Movie (U)
In this hilarious sequel to The LEGO
Movie, the self-described leading
man of that ensemble – LEGO
Batman – now gets his own bigscreen adventure.
Family screening – see page 11
AD
6 / Gulbenkian Film
Fri 31 Mar – Mon 3 & Wed 5 Apr,
times vary
Viceroy’s House (12A)
Fri 7 – Mon 10 Apr, times vary
Certain Women (12A)
Released to mark the 70th
anniversary of Indian independence,
this is a rapturously moving drama
about the wrenching violence of the
moment when, after decades of
British rule, the British Indian Empire
split to form India and Pakistan.
Winner of ‘Best Film’ at the London
Film Festival, Kelly Reichardt’s
meditation on the lives of women in
rural Montana is based on short
stories by American writer Maile
Meloy. Envisioning her heroines as
pioneers, Reichardt elicits luminous
performances in this slow-burning,
melancholic, austerely beautiful film.
CAP
CAP
AD
Captioned subtitles
screening Mon 3 Apr
AD
Captioned subtitles
screening Mon 10 Apr
Sun 2 Apr, 3.45pm
Fri 7 & Sat 8 Apr, times vary
The Fits (12A)
The Great Wall (12A)
Beguilingly atmospheric debut that
follows an 11-year-old tomboy
entranced by a dance troupe. As
struggles to fit in, she finds herself
caught up in a mysterious outbreak
of fainting spells and other violent fits.
Inspired by the Chinese legend of
the Taotie – flesh-eating monsters
said to scale the Great Wall of China
every 60 years to feed. Matt Damon
plays a foreign mercenary who
unwittingly disturbs the monsters
and must defeat them alongside a
Chinese army, the Nameless Order.
Part of the BFI New Release
Strategy
SUB
AD
English / Mandarin
w/Eng ST
Gulbenkian Film / 7
Sun 9 Apr, 6.30pm
Sat 15 & Sun 16 Apr, times vary
The Founder (12A)
Elle (18)
Ray Kroc, a struggling travelling
salesman in 1950s America spots
an opportunity when he visits a
successful diner owned and run by
hardworking brothers Mac and Dick
McDonald. Dreaming of building an
empire way beyond the brothers’
ambitions, this film is a fascinating,
immensely entertaining fable
portraying one of American 20th
century capitalism’s most
extraordinary stories.
Oscar-nominated Isabelle Huppert
stars in this an outrageously
provocative, exhilarating and
suspenseful psychological thriller.
A successful businesswoman gets
caught up in a game of cat and
mouse as she tracks down her
rapist.
Wed 12 Apr, 6.30pm
Sat 15 & Sun 16 Apr, times vary
BAFTA Shorts 2017
Trespass Against Us
(15)
(15)
See the best of British short
filmmaking in action! This year’s
feature-length programme of all the
short films – animated and feature –
nominated for the upcoming
BAFTAs includes stories that
traverse the globe. This collection
showcases the scope of skill,
imagination and storytelling of new
British talent in action.
SUB
French w/Eng ST
Anarchic, West Country-set crime
drama scored by The Chemical
Brothers. An Irish traveller becomes
locked in a battle with his criminal
father for the future of his young
family when his son comes of age.
AD
8 / Gulbenkian Film
Tue 18 Apr, 7pm
Logan (15 tbc)
James Mangold | USA | 2017 |
125mins | Hugh Jackman, Boyd
Holbrook, Doris Morgado, Patrick
Stewart, Stephen Merchant, Dafne
Keen
A weary, past-his-prime Logan cares
for an ailing Professor X in a hide
out on the Mexican border. But
Logan’s attempts to hide from the
world and his legacy are up-ended
when a young mutant arrives,
pursued by dark forces and in need
of Logan’s protection.
AD
Fri 21 – Sun 23, Tue 25 & Thu
27 Apr, times vary
Beauty and the Beast
(12A tbc)
Emma Watson is brilliantly cast as
Belle in this gorgeous, sweeping live
action remake of one of Disney’s
greatest classics.
CAP
AD
Captioned subtitles
screening Thu 27 Apr
Family screening – see page 11
Wed 19 Apr, 6.30pm
Fri 21 & Sun 23 Apr, times vary
It’s Only The End Of
The World (15)
Dancer (12A)
Adapted from Jean-Luc Lagarde’s
play, a writer returns to the troubled
family home with a secret to share.
Their reunion is something like a
volcanic eruption, as Dolan exploits
dramatic power and claustrophobic
nature of a dysfunctional family.
This captivating documentary
examines the life and career of ballet
dancer Sergei Polunin, the ‘bad boy
of ballet’, from his childhood in the
Ukraine to his performances across
the globe as the Royal Ballet’s
youngest ever principal. But at age
25 and the peak of his success he
walked away, driven to the brink of
self-destruction.
SUB
SUB
French w/Eng ST
AD
English/Russian/
Ukrainian w/Eng ST
Gulbenkian Film / 9
Sat 22 & Mon 24 Apr, times vary
The Salesman (12A)
Oscar nominated for Best Foreign
Film, celebrated Iranian auteur
Asghar Farhadi (A Separation)
examines the strained relationship
of a middle-class married couple,
who are staging Arthur Miller’s
‘Death of a Salesman’. Preparations
are going well until they suffer a
disturbing domestic incident; which
triggers emotional fault lines across
their marriage.
SUB
Fri 28 Apr & Tue 2 May, times
vary
The Lost City of Z (15)
Based on the 2009 book by David
Grann, about a British explorer’s
attempts to find the remains of an
ancient lost city in the Amazon.
At the dawn of the 20th century,
Percy Fawcett journeys into the
rainforest where he discovers
evidence of a previously unknown
civilisation but facing ridicule he
must prove his case.
Persian w/Eng ST
Sun 23 Apr, 6.15pm
Wed 3 & Thu 4 May, times vary
La La Land (12A)
Aquarius (15 tbc)
Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone give
Oscar nominated performances in
Whiplash director Damien Chazelle’s
beguiling musical romance. The
setting is contemporary Hollywood,
pianist Seb and wannabe movie star
Mia, both hobbled by frustrated
ambition when they meet and fall in
love; but success – when it finally
arrives – comes at a personal cost.
AD
A 65 year old Brazilian widow
clashes with real estate developers
who attempt to force the sale of her
apartment to put up luxury condos.
The ensuing tension forces her to
reflect on her loved ones, her past
and her future.
SUB
Portuguese w/Eng ST
10 / Gulbenkian Family Films
Sun 5 Mar, 5.30pm
Sun 19 Mar, 11.15am
Trolls (U)
Moana Sing-A-Long
(PG)
From the creators of Shrek comes
the smart, funny and irreverent
Trolls! Enter the wondrous world of
these overly optimistic Trolls,
constantly singing and enjoying life
while avoiding the comically
pessimistic Bergens.
AD
Disney’s latest animation is a
thrilling, colourful adventure
following a teenage Polynesian
princess, Moana from Motunui
Island, who must set out on a daring
mission to save her people from a
dire threat.
AD
Sun 12 Mar, 1.30pm
Sun 26 Mar, 4.30pm
Ballerina (U)
Fantastic Beasts and
Where to Find Them
(12A)
Spirited animation about a young
orphan girl who dreams of
becoming a ballerina, but lacks any
formal training. Leaving rural Brittany
for Paris, she assumes a different
identity to become a dance student
at the Paris Opera.
AD
J K Rowling’s Harry Potter spin-off
novel series (and adapted by
Rowling herself), is full of wizardry.
It follows the adventures of writer
Newt Scamander after he attends
the 1926 US Magical Congress
where dangerous creatures
accidentally escape from a
magically expanded briefcase.
AD
Gulbenkian Family Films / 11
Sun 2 Apr, 1.30pm
Sun 23 Apr, 1.30pm
The LEGO Batman
Movie (U)
Beauty and the Beast
Big changes are brewing in
Gotham, and if Batman wants to
save the city from The Joker’s hostile
takeover, he may have to drop the
lone vigilante thing, try to work with
others and maybe, just maybe,
learn to lighten up.
Additional screenings – see page 5
AD
(12A tbc)
Gorgeous, sweeping live action
remake of one of Disney’s greatest
classics. A young prince imprisoned
in the form of a terrifying beast, can
be freed only by true love. What may
be his only opportunity arrives when
he meets Belle.
Additional screenings – see page 8
AD
Birthday
Parties!
Sun 9 Apr, 1.30pm
Sing (U)
Dapper koala Buster Moon presides
over a dilapidated theatre that has
fallen on hard times. An eternal
optimist, he’ll do anything to
preserve it and takes one final
chance to raise funds by producing
the world’s greatest singing
competition.
AD
Have an unforgettable
party at Gulbenkian.
Party food, films and
theatre performances
for all ages.
Call 01227 769075
to find out more.
12 / Gulbenkian Live & Recorded
Sun 5 Mar, 2pm (recorded)
Wed 22 Mar, 7pm
ROH: The Sleeping
Beauty
Exhibition on Screen:
The Artist’s Garden –
American
Impressionism
Celebrate 70 years of the Royal
Ballet’s landmark productions and
enter an enchanted world of
princesses, fairy godmothers and
magical spells.
T: Full £16 / Student £13
Travelling to studios, gardens and
iconic locations throughout the
United States, UK and France, this
mesmerising film is a feast for the
eyes.
T: Full £12 / GulbCard £11 / Student
£10
Thu 9 Mar, 7pm
Thu 30 Mar, 7.15pm
NT Live: Hedda
Gabler
ROH: Madama
Butterfly (live)
Tony Award-winning director Ivo van
Hove (A View from the Bridge at the
Young Vic Theatre) returns to
National Theatre Live screens with a
modern production of Ibsen’s
masterpiece.
T: Full £16 / GulbCard £15 / Student
£14
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is one of
the most popular of all operas, with
ravishing music and a heartbreaking
story of a loving geisha deserted by
a callous American husband.
T: Full £16 / Student £13
Gulbenkian Live & Recorded / 13
Thu 6 Apr, 7pm
Thu 20 Apr, 7pm
NT Live: Twelfth Night
NT Live: Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern are
Dead (12A)
Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in a new
twist on Shakespeare’s classic
comedy of mistaken identity.
T: Full £16 / GulbCard £15 / Student
£14
Daniel Radcliffe, Joshua McGuire
and David Haig star in Tom
Stoppard’s brilliantly funny situation
comedy, broadcast live from The Old
Vic theatre in London.
T: Full £16 / GulbCard £15 / Student
£14
Now booking:
Tue 26 Apr, 7pm
RSC Live: Julius
Caesar
T: Full £16 / Student £13
Tue 11 Apr, 7.15pm
Wed 24 May, 7pm
ROH: Jewels (live)
RSC Live: Antony
and Cleopatra
George Balanchine’s evocation of
the sparkle of emeralds, rubies and
diamonds is a brilliant ballet classic.
T: Full £16 / Student £13
Wed 7 Jun, 7pm
T: Full £16 / Student £13
ROH: Three Ballets
T: Full £16 / Student £13
Sat 10 & Sun 11 Jun, 2pm
NT Encore: Peter
Pan (cert tbc)
T: Full £16 / GulbCard £15 /
Student £14
For more upcoming Live &
Recorded listings please visit
www.thegulbenkian.co.uk
14 / Gulbenkian Film
Sat 29 & Sun 30 Apr
Autism Arts Festival
Image: Life, Animated
A two-day event that aims to develop the idea
of a relaxed screening further to create an
entirely autism-friendly festival.
Screenings include Splash, Adam, Inside Out and Life, Animated.
In addition, there will be a range of panel discussions,
performances, workshops and installations.
For more information visit
www.autismartsfestival.org
Look out for the
2ForTuesday
logo showing the
films featured in
this offer.
Students get two
tickets for the
price of one on
selected Tuesday
screenings.
Tickets & Information
Ticket prices (unless otherwise stated)
Full £8.50 / Concession £7.50 / GulbCard £6.50 / Student £5.30 (3D +£1)
Family Screenings £3 / 3D £4 / Baby on lap (0-18months) £1
Students get 2 tickets for the price of 1 on selected Tuesdays.
SUB
AD
Foreign language subtitles
CAP
Captioned subtitles
Audio description available
University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NB
All information and dates correct at time of printing, but due to the nature
of our programme we strongly recommend checking website for amendments
or phoning 01227 769075 for the latest information before attending.
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Denial
Denial
T2 Trainspotting
T2 Trainspotting
Lion
ROH: The Sleeping Beauty
(recorded)
Trolls
Lion
Lion (Cap)
T2 Trainspotting
Lion
NT Live: Hedda Gabler
20th Century Women
Fences
Fences
20th Century Women
Ballerina
20th Century Women
Fences
Fences (Cap)
Fences
Christine
20th Century Women
I, Daniel Blake
Loving
Loving
Moonlight
Moana Sing-A-Long
Loving
Moonlight
Moonlight (Cap)
Moonlight
Exhibition on Screen: An
Artists Garden: American
Impressionism
The Perks of Being a
Wallflower
Hidden Figures
Hacksaw Ridge
KTV Film Festival
Toni Erdmann
Hacksaw Ridge
KTV Film Festival
Fantastic Beasts and
Where To Find Them
Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures
BANFF Mountain Film
Festival World Tour
ROH: Madama Butterfly
(live)
The LEGO Batman Movie
Viceroy’s House
Programming
Partner
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The LEGO Batman Movie
Viceroy’s House
The LEGO Batman Movie
The Fits
Viceroy’s House
Viceroy’s House (Cap)
The LEGO Batman Movie
Viceroy’s House
NT Live: Twelfth Night
Certain Women
The Great Wall
Certain Women
The Great Wall
Sing
Certain Women
The Founder
Certain Women (Cap)
ROH: Jewels (Live)
BAFTA Shorts 2017
Closed for Good Friday
Elle
Trespass Against Us
Trespass Against Us
Elle
Closed for Easter Monday
Logan
It’s Only The End Of The
World
NT Live: Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern are Dead
Beauty and the Beast
Dancer
Beauty and the Beast
The Salesman
Beauty and the Beast
Dancer
La La Land
The Salesman
Beauty and the Beast
RSC Live: Julius Caesar
Beauty and the Beast (Cap)
The Lost City of Z
Autism Arts Festival
Closed for Bank Holiday
The Lost City of Z
Aquarius
Aquarius
Key:
Family Screening
Live & Recorded Screening
Tickets & Information
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