WHAT’S ON / APRIL 2017
THIS ISSUE:
THEIR FINEST
17TH BELFAST FILM FESTIVAL
PERIPHERAL VISIONS: JOHN T.
DAVIS, A RETROSPECTIVE
FREE FIRE
A FILM BY BEN WHEATLEY
FROM EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MARTIN SCORSESE
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any film which:
1. is directed by a woman
2. is written by a woman
3. features significant women on screen in their own right
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We at QFT believe everyone should be able to experience great
films: every month we offer a range of accessible screenings and
activities ensuring everyone can enjoy QFT’s unique programme.
SUPPORTED SCREENINGS
QFT is delighted to be able to offer monthly Autism friendly and
Dementia friendly screenings. All are specially designed to create a
welcoming and supportive environment with trained facilitators and
are eligible for our Community Ticket Scheme (see below). This
month’s Supported Screenings are:
Autism Friendly Screening: Song of the Sea
Tues 18 Apr, 3.00pm
Dementia Friendly Screening: Easter Parade
Sat 22 Apr, 10.30am (Film 11.00am)
For full details of these screenings please see page 11 or visit
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customers are available on request.
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headphones. Audio enhancement is available for all screenings and
audio description for selected screenings (check queensfilmtheatre.
com/whats-on/access-screenings for updates). We also endeavour
to host access screenings with on-screen captioning as often as
possible. This month’s access screenings are:
The Sense of an Ending
Tues 18 Apr, 6.40pm
Their Finest
Tues 25 Apr, 6.10pm
Funded by Department for Communities through Northern Ireland Screen.
COMMUNITY TICKETS SCHEME
QFT operates a Community
Tickets Scheme. There are
complimentary tickets and buses
available to community groups
attending the autism and
dementia friendly screenings.
For more information please go
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For community group ticket
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QFT LEARNING
QFT co-ordinates a year-round
schools and colleges programme
which is designed to support the
national curriculum at KS1 to AS
& A2 level.
Teachers can arrange private
screenings that are tailored for
specific courses of study, or short
film showcase screenings upon
request. For more details please
contact the Learning
Co-ordinator, Marion Campbell,
by email:
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Schools can also book student
groups in advance for selected
films showing in QFT’s public
programme by contacting the
QFT Box Office:
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NEW RELEASES
FREE FIRE
FRI 7 – THURS 20 APR
DIR: BEN WHEATLEY • UK/FRANCE • 2016 • 1 HR 31 MINS
Ben Wheatley’s (Kill List, High Rise, Sightseers)
all-guns-blazing ‘70s crime caper stars Brie
Larson, Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer and
Michael Smiley.
Wheatley’s ascent as one of the UK’s most dazzling
and prolific cinematic talents continues with this
ballsy, high-octane action thriller filmed hot-on-theheels of last year’s High-Rise.
It’s 1978, Boston. Sharp-witted Justine (Brie Larson)
has brokered a gun deal in an abandoned warehouse
between a delegation of IRA men including Chris
(Cillian Murphy) and Frank (Michael Smiley), plus
South African gun-runner Vernon (Sharlto Copley),
cool-as-a-cucumber Ord (Armie Hammer) and their
assortment of seamy associates.
Despite a level of tension that’s thicker than the
accents, everything seems to be going smoothly. That
is until the whole deal derails when stoner side-kick
Stevo (Sam Riley) recognises one of the two handover
guys, shots are fired, and pandemonium ensues,
escalating into a manic 12-way shoot-out where
everyone left alive is either trying to escape with a bag
of money, or making sure that nobody else does.
The crackling script (by Wheatley and regular cowriter Amy Jump) and knockout cast have as much
fun with character and dialogue as we do with the
fact that there are no mobile phones to save the day.
Wheatley fan and supporter Martin Scorsese is one
of the executive producers and the film’s intermittent,
pulsating score is by Geoff Barrow (Portishead) and
Ben Salisbury.
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NERUDA
FRI 7 – THURS 13 APR
DIR: PABLO LARRAÍN • CHILE/
ARGENTINA/FRANCE/SPAIN/USA 2016 • 1 HR 48 MINS • SUBTITLED
•
Pablo Larraín’s follow-up to Jackie
is this superb film, an ‘anti-bio’
of one of Chile’s most vital and
intriguing figures: poet-diplomat
and politician Pablo Neruda.
1948: Neruda finds himself on the
wrong side of an anti-communist
drive and is forced into hiding.
Details of this exile are delivered
in narration by Gael García Bernal,
playing a detective who is partantagonist, part-acolyte, to Luis
Gnecco’s Neruda. Both actors
bring considerable charm to their
mutual pursuit, a beautifully shot
dance in which it’s uncertain who is
chasing whom.
AH-GA-SSI
THE HANDMAIDEN
FRI 14 – THURS 20 APR
DIR: PARK CHAN-WOOK SOUTH KOREA • 2015
2 HRS 25 MINS • SUBTITLED
From the visionary director Park
Chan-wook (Oldboy, Stoker)
comes an epic new thriller
inspired by Sarah Waters’ bestselling novel ‘Fingersmith’.
Relocated to Korea under
Japanese colonial rule in the
1930s, The Handmaiden is a
deliciously twisty tale of revenge,
centring on an heiress, her con
man uncle and the lady-in-waiting
for whom she begins to fall. One of
the year’s most anticipated films –
this is an opulent and labyrinthine
tale of deception, romance and
triple-crossing that marks a career
high for one of modern cinema’s
most thrilling auteurs.
04/05
NEW RELEASES
THEIR FINEST
FRI 21 APR – THURS 4 MAY
DIR: LONE SCHERFIG • 2016 • UK • 1 HR 57 MINS
Continuing her fascination with British manners,
Danish director Lone Scherfig (An Education, The
Riot Club) delivers another evocative study of a
transitional period in our history.
Their Finest once again follows a young woman
finding her way through the changing order of the
nation, this time enjoying the new freedoms afforded
to women during the Second World War, as well as
battling new opposition.
Gemma Arterton stars as Catrin, a talented young
copy-writer enticed to London from Wales by her
self-absorbed artist husband (Jack Huston). She
gets a job as a script editor with the Ministry of
Information, where she’s hired to write convincing
women’s dialogue (or “slop” as it was then known) for
morale-boosting propaganda films. Quickly noticed
for her natural ability, she’s drafted by dashing movie
producer Buckley (Sam Claflin) to work alongside a
colourful crew to produce the cinematic stories the
nation needs during the dark times of the Blitz.
Scherfig plays to the strengths of her sterling British
cast, with Arterton bringing a subtlety to Catrin’s
self-discovery, Bill Nighy brilliant as an ageing movie
star struggling to come to terms with the fact his days
as a romantic-lead are long gone, and Jeremy Irons
offering the perfect cameo.
Based on the novel ‘Their Finest Hour and a Half’
by Lissa Evans, debut screenwriter Gaby Chiappe’s
adaptation blends shrewd wit with a lot of heart,
displaying a keen sense of the mood of the time,
resulting in a charming, nostalgic and spirited
wartime drama.
ACCESS SCREENING
The 6.10pm screening on Tues 25 Apr will include
audio description and on-screen captioning.
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A OUIET PASSION
FRI 7 – THURS 13 APR
DIR: TERENCE DAVIES • UK/
BELGIUM • 2016 • 2 HRS 5 MINS
Terence Davies returns with an
elegant and deeply moving biopic
of poet Emily Dickinson, played
with sensitivity and rebellious spirit
by Cynthia Nixon.
Dickinson never married, spent
most of her life living quietly at
home and was only recognised
as the poetic genius she was
after her death, when the vast
majority of her poems were
posthumously published. But, as
embodied by Nixon, there was both
intensity and a deep intelligence
to her thought and actions, as she
struggled under the yoke of deeply
patriarchal social mores and
conventions.
THE SENSE OF AN ENDING
FRI 14 – THURS 20 APR
DIR: RITESH BATRA • UK • 2015 1 HR 48 MINS
Ritesh Batra - director of 2013’s
acclaimed QFT hit The Lunchbox casts Jim Broadbent and Charlotte
Rampling in this much-anticipated
adaptation of Julian Barnes’s Man
Booker Prize-winning novel.
Tony Webster (Broadbent) leads
a reclusive and quiet existence
until long buried secrets from his
past force him to face the flawed
recollections of his younger
self, the truth about his first love
(Rampling) and the devastating
consequences of decisions made
a lifetime ago. The Sense of an
Ending is a superbly well-crafted,
intelligent and suspenseful
meditation on ageing, memory
and regret.
ACCESS SCREENING
The 6.40pm screening on Tues 18 Apr will include audio description
and on-screen captioning.
NEW RELEASES
DOCUMENTARY
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
FRI 14 – THURS 27 APR (NOT SCREENING
SAT 22, SUN 23 & WED 26 APR)
DIR: RAOUL PECK • FRANCE/USA 2016 • 1 HR 33 MINS
CERT
TBC
A vital portrait of writer and
social critic James Baldwin, this
Oscar-nominated documentary
is a searing exploration of the
history of racism in the United
States.
Using Baldwin’s unfinished
manuscript, Remember This
House, as its basis, I Am Not Your
Negro tackles race relations
through his reminiscences on
the assassinations of three of his
friends – Medgar Evers, Malcolm
X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Director Raoul Peck juxtaposes
Civil Rights era footage with
contemporary footage, highlighting
the continued resonance of
Baldwin’s words – and how racism
still permeates today.
BUNCH OF KUNST: A FILM ABOUT SLEAFORD MODS
FRI 21 – SUN 23 APR
DIR: CHRISTINE FRANZ • 2016 GERMANY • 1HR 43 MINS
CERT
TBC
Nottingham duo Sleaford Mods
have been called “the voice of
Britain” by their fans, “Britain’s
angriest band” by the Guardian and
“The world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll
band” by Iggy Pop.
Jason Williamson, a former
chicken factory worker and father
of two, his band mate, beatmaker
Andrew Fearn, and their manager
Steve Underwood, avant-garde
bedroom label owner and former
bus driver, have won over fans with
their brutally honest lyrics and DIY
ethos. Christine Franz’s official
documentary feature tells the story
of three guys taking on the music
business on their own terms.
SPECIAL EVENTS/SECOND SIGHT
WAKE FESTIVAL
FAR FROM THE TREE
TUES 25 APR, 6.45PM
DIR: JOHN WRIGHT • UK • 2017 1 HR 20 MINS
QFT is delighted to team up with
Wake Festival to present the
NI premiere of this new film by
Belfast-born director John Wright.
After Thanksgiving dinner, Bart
Campolo asked his dad, the wellknown preacher Tony Campolo,
to sit down to talk. Bart wanted
to give his father some unsettling
news: that after a lifetime of work
as a prominent minister himself,
he was no longer a believer in the
Christian faith. It was the beginning
of a painful but warm exchange
between a father and his son about
belief, storytelling and the power of
our relationships.
MULHOLLAND DRIVE
FRI 21 – TUES 25 APR
DIR: DAVID LYNCH • USA/FRANCE 2001 • 2 HRS 27 MINS
Consistently hailed the best film
of the 21st century, David Lynch’s
quintessential neo-noir is reissued
in a new 4K digital transfer,
the restoration of which was
supervised by Lynch himself.
Naomi Watts (Birdman, Funny
Games) gives a career-making
performance as aspiring actress
Betty, who after arriving in
Hollywood, befriends an amnesiac
woman (Laura Harring) and tries
to help her recover her memory.
The film establishes these
characters but then proceeds
to subvert any certainty about
them, instead offering a swirling
atmosphere of increasing
surrealism. Mulholland Drive is
a monumental classic by one of the
masters of contemporary cinema.
08/09
NEW RELEASES/SPECIAL EVENTS
ZIPI Y ZAPE Y EL CLUB DE LA CANICA
ZIP & ZAP AND THE MARBLE GANG
FRI 14 – MON 17 & WED 19 APR
DIR: OSKAR SANTOS • SPAIN • 2013 1 HR 32 MINS • SUBTITLED RECOMMENDED AGE 8+
If you love Harry Potter, The
Goonies and Indiana Jones - or
your kids do - this is a must-see!
Naughty twins Zip and Zap are
sent to a strict boarding school,
run by eye-patch-wearing tyrant
Falconetti. Fun and games are
forbidden, but the boys are
determined and start the secret
Marble Gang as a resistance
movement. When the gang
uncovers a mysterious secret
hidden deep within the school, they
are drawn into the most exciting
adventure of their lives. Based
on Spain’s beloved comic book
characters, this is a rollicking
family adventure. In Spanish with
English subtitles.
CINESEEKERS FILM CLUB
The CineSeekers Film Club host monthly screenings for young people, presenting a diverse and varied
range of international children’s films. Tickets £4.
IVAN TSAREVITCH AND
THE CHANGING PRINCESS
SAT 22 APR, 4.00PM
DIR: MICHEL OCELOT • FRANCE • 2016 55 MINS • RECOMMENDED AGE 8+
CineSeekers Film Club is proud
to present the Irish Premiere
of Michel Ocelot’s (Kirikou and
the Wild Beasts) stunning new
animation. Each night a young girl
and boy meet with the projectionist
of the local cinema to tell tales of
wonder and suspense. From the
depths of secret underground
caves, to adventures on the seven
seas, they use their imagination
and creativity to embody
princesses and adventurers
through four magical tales. In
French with English Subtitles.
10/11
SUPPORTED SCREENINGS
AUTISM FRIENDLY SCREENING
SONG OF THE SEA
TUES 18 APR, 3.00PM
DIR: TOMM MOORE • IRELAND/DENMARK/
BELGIUM/LUXEMBOURG/FRANCE • 2014 1 HR 34 MINS
Our monthly screenings provide
opportunities for people with
autism or sensory sensitivity and
their families, friends and carers
to enjoy great films in a sensory
friendly environment.
This story is based on folklore
about the Selkies who are
seals when they are in the sea,
but humans on land. Includes
activities in the café area half
an hour before the film and an
introduction by Shelley Tracey,
autism coordinator, writer and
community arts facilitator.
DEMENTIA FRIENDLY SCREENING
EASTER PARADE
SAT 22 APR, 10.30AM (FILM 11.00AM)
DIR: CHARLES WALTERS • USA 1948 • 1 HR 43 MINS
We’re continuing our popular
series of Dementia Friendly
screenings with a classic
musical, sure to get you in the
mood for Spring.
Judy Garland and Fred Astaire
star in Irving Berlin’s all-singing,
all-dancing 1948 showstopper,
Easter Parade. Our Dementia
Friendly screenings aim to
make cinema more accessible
by providing a fun and inclusive
experience for people living with
dementia, their families and
carers. Free tea, coffee, biscuits
and interactive themed activities
are available half an hour before
the film. QFT is committed to the
Age-Friendly Belfast Charter.
Funded by Department for Communities through Northern Ireland Screen.
SPECIAL EVENTS
BRITAIN ON FILM: RURAL LIFE
SUN 23 APR, 1.45PM
DIR: VARIOUS • UK • 1904-1981 1 HR 15 MINS
An evocative exploration of the
countryside of the UK, Britain on
Film: Rural Life takes audiences
down the country lanes of the
past, meandering through the
dwindling customs of another era.
Relive the work of the local
blacksmith preparing shoes for
the horses that will plough the
fields, and the shepherd’s trials
as he protects his flock from an
encroaching storm. Be swept up in
the homemade entertainment and
giggles of children at the country
fair and skating on Ballysaggart
Lough in Dungannon.
EXHIBITION ON SCREEN
THE ARTIST’S GARDEN: AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM
THURS 27 APR, 6.30PM
DIR: PHIL GRABSKY • UK • 2017 1 HR 27 MINS
Taking its lead from French
artists, the American
impressionist movement
followed its own path which
reveals as much about America
as a nation as it does about its art
as a creative powerhouse.
It’s a story closely tied to a
love of gardens and a desire
to preserve nature in a rapidly
urbanising nation. This
mesmerising film features
the sell-out exhibition The
Artist’s Garden: American
Impressionism and the Garden
Movement, 1887–1920 that
began at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts and
ended at the Florence Griswold
Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut.
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12/13
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PERIPHERAL
VISIONS
JOHN T. DAVIS, A RETROSPECTIVE
John’s decidedly creative documentaries cover
many subjects, but are drawn together by common
threads: autobiography and self-portraiture through
the lives of others, journeying and the quest for
spiritual meaning, marginal places and outsiders,
and music ranging from punk rock to gospel,
western swing to dance hall reggae.
John T. Davis will be present to introduce each
screening.This season is presented in partnership
with Film Hub NI. Special thanks to Northern Ireland
Screen, the Irish Film Institute, Yellowmoon and
Peter Strain.
Visit johntdavisfilmandmusic.com.
DOCUMENTARY
ROUTE 66
SAT 15 APR, 3.50PM
DIR: JOHN T. DAVIS • UK • 1985 • 1 HR 44 MINS
Route 66 is an epic road film chronicling the
history and closure in 1981 of the iconic highway
that, mythologised in music, film and literature,
spanned 2,500 miles and cut through the heart of
Middle America.
The film features an anonymous sojourner driving
a cherry red Chevy Impala ragtop, who travels
the highway west. Through his eyes and through
Davis’s camera lens we encounter the underbelly
of the US and the shattering of the American
Dream. That Route 66 was made in 1984, when
in Davis’ words, ‘Just like Route 66, America was
grinding and cracking at the seams’, gives the film
a strikingly renewed resonance in the current
political climate.
IMAGE: ROUTE 66
John T. Davis is internationally recognised as
Northern Ireland’s most distinctive documentary
filmmaker and cinematographer. QFT is delighted
to continue this major retrospective of his work,
marking John’s 70th birthday in March, and in
recognition of over 40 years of filmmaking.
SPECIAL EVENTS:
EVENTS PERIPHERAL VISIONS
DOCUMENTARY
TAILWIND
SUN 16 APR, 3.50PM
DOCUMENTARY
A HOUSE DIVIDED
SAT 22 APR, 2.00PM
DIR: JOHN T. DAVIS • UK • 2009 • 1 HR 26 MINS
DIR: JOHN T. DAVIS • UK • 2003 • 1 HR 15 MINS
Tailwind documents the little known history of
Northern Ireland’s crucial part in the war in the
air between 1939 and 1945.
At the outbreak of the Second World War there were
just three airfields in Ulster - within 18 months
there were 26. Aircrew and support staff from every
Allied nation descended on the Province to prepare
themselves, and their aircraft, for the conflict. The
personal accounts of participants - in their eighties
and nineties at the time of filming - are intercut with
archival footage, popular music from the 1930s
and ‘40s, and Adrian Dunbar’s evocative narration.
Eloquent, poignant, dramatic and poetic, Tailwind
pays moving tribute to the courageous airmen and
women who served in Northern Ireland’s
war effort.
Four years after the Good Friday Agreement,
journalist Eamon Mallie was instrumental in
the public commissioning of a portrait of the
108 members of the recently elected Northern
Ireland Assembly.
Noel Murphy’s painting The House Will Divide was
the outcome of that commission, and it now hangs
in the Senate Chamber in Parliament Buildings at
Stormont. The artist’s creation of this painting is
the subject of Davis’ film. Shot with the director’s
unobtrusive objectivity and distinctive camerawork,
the film shadows Mallie as he interviews the sitters
- key players including the Reverend Ian Paisley,
John Hume, David Trimble, Gerry Adams and
Martin McGuinness.
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DOCUMENTARY
HIP TO THE TIP – ATLANTIC, THE
INDEPENDENT YEARS
MON 24 APR, 6.30PM
DIR: JOHN T. DAVIS & URI FRUCHTMAN • USA • 1993 • 1 HR 44 MINS
Hip to the Tip charts the glory years of Atlantic
Records, one of America’s most important
recording labels, from its establishment in 1947
by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson through to
its takeover in 1967 by the Warner Music Group.
This was a time when every Atlantic release was
‘hip to the tip’, when jazz, R&B and soul recordings
by African-American musicians topped the charts,
when every artist wanted to be on the nation’s
coolest label. The film features interviews with
Aretha Franklin, Solomon Burke, Ruth Brown,
Rufus Thomas, Steve Cropper, Keith Richards,
Mick Jagger, and the key Atlantic founders.
DOCUMENTARY
TRAVELLER
SUN 23 APR, 3.30PM
DOCUMENTARY
HEART ON THE LINE
THURS 27 APR, 9.00PM
DIR: JOHN T. DAVIS & ALEN MACWEENEY • IRELAND • 2000 • 1 HR 16 MINS
DIR: JOHN T. DAVIS • UK • 1990 • 1 HR 1 MIN + 22 MINS SHORT FILM
In 1965 the photographer Alen MacWeeney
began a two year project photographing and
recording the songs and stories of Travelling
Communities in Galway and on Dublin’s Cherry
Orchard Halting Site.
Heart on the Line offers a rare insight into the
lyrics, lives, dreams and attitudes of Nashville’s
songwriters.
Over thirty years later, he and John T. Davis teamed
up to co-direct Traveller, a visually exquisite film
which documents MacWeeney’s attempt to find
the Travellers in his photographs. A fascinating
collaboration between two visual artists with
distinctive and differing points of view, Traveller
charts the distance between subject and observer,
between still and moving images, between
personal and social territories.
The film features performances and commentary
by major songwriters such as Harlan Howard,
‘Cowboy’ Jack Clements and Whitey Schafer
as well as unacknowledged but equally gifted
composers like Junior Lee Farrell and Danny
Jackson. All of the songwriters have in common
a will to communicate with powerful honesty - in
their songs and in their lives these are artists
unafraid to lay their hearts on the line.
Screening with mshiikenhmnising (22 mins), a
new work-in-progress by John T. Davis.
SPECIAL EVENTS
17TH BELFAST
FILM FESTIVAL
HIGHLIGHTS
The Belfast Film Festival is back for its 17th festival. Here are a handful of highlights from
a programme stuffed to the gills with incredible new films from around the world. For
details of the full programme, taking place at venues across Belfast, visit
belfastfilmfestival.org. Tickets for selected highlights £6 (except Stockholm My Love £4).
DOCUMENTARY
DOCUMENTARY
ALL THIS PANIC
CONTEMPORARY COLOR
THURS 30 MAR, 8.00PM
SAT 1 APR, 9.00PM
CERT
TBC
DIR: JENNY GAGE • USA • 2016 • 1 HR 20 MINS
DIR: BILL ROSS IV & TURNER ROSS • USA • 2016 • 1 HR 37 MINS
Shot over a three-year period with unparalleled
intimacy and access, All This Panic takes an
intimate look at the interior lives of a group of
teenage girls as they come of age in Brooklyn.
A potent mix of vivid portraiture and vérité, we
follow the girls as they navigate the ephemeral
and fleeting transition between childhood and
adulthood.
In the summer of 2015, legendary musician David
Byrne staged an event in Brooklyn to celebrate the
art of Color Guard: synchronised dance routines
involving flags, rifles, and sabres. Byrne recruited
performers including St Vincent, Nelly Furtado, AdRock, TuneYards and Ira Glass from ‘This American
Life’, to collaborate on original pieces with 10 color
guard teams from across the US and Canada. This
film captures the energy, rhythm, and artistry of the
night itself.
THE ERLPRINCE
WAITING FOR YOU
MON 3 APR, 9.00PM
DIR: KUBA CZEKAJ • POLAND • 2016 • 1 HR 41 MINS • SUBTITLED
TUES 4 APR, 9.00PM
CERT
TBC
What some might call a Polish Donnie Darko, The
Erlprince tells the story of a teen on the cusp of
adulthood who can see the infinitely complex inner
workings of the universe. Threaded with inventive
use of music and sound design, writer/director
Kuba Czekaj subverts coming-of-age stories,
science fiction apocalypses and European arthouse
fare with considerable elegance and just the right
amount of edge.
DIR: CHARLES GARRAD • UK/FRANCE • 2017 • 1 HR 32 MINS
CERT
TBC
A reclusive French musician is visited in her remote
manor house by a young grieving Englishman who
is seeking to uncover secrets about his late father’s
past. A lyrical mystery drama, Charles Garrad’s
spellbinding feature debut stars Northern Irish
actor Colin Morgan (Testament of Youth) and one
of French cinema’s most celebrated performers,
Fanny Ardant (The Woman Next Door). Followed by
a Q&A with director Charles Garrad.
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STOCKHOLM MY LOVE
WED 5 APR, 4.00PM
Neneh Cherry, director Mark Cousins (I Am
Belfast) and cinematographer Christopher Doyle
(In the Mood for Love and Cousins’ own I Am
Belfast) create an inventive docu-style fiction
and a love song to the Swedish city. Cherry’s Alva
is a character whose life mirrors some broad
facts of her own (an artist with an African father
and Swedish mother). Taking in the immigrant
experience, her relationship with her father, and
Stockholm’s recent history, Cherry, Cousins and
Doyle create a visceral, music and poetry-led
exploration of grief. Director Mark Cousins will be
in attendance to introduce the film.
IMAGE: ALL THIS PANIC
DIR: MARK COUSINS • SWEDEN/UK • 2016 • 1 HR 28 MINS
The Train
“The whole show
is a triumph!”
- Irish Independent
19-23 Apr, 7.45pm & 3pm
£12.50 - £25
New musical The Train is a fiery and joyful
retelling of events surrounding the legendary
‘Contraceptive Train’ in 1971. The sell-out hit
of the Dublin Theatre Festival, direct from its
run at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Don’t miss it.
Produced by Rough Magic Theatre Company.
Book and Lyrics by Arthur Riordan (Improbable Frequency).
Music by Bill Whelan (Riverdance).
Directed by Lynne Parker.
On sale at themaclive.com
18/19
SPECIAL EVENTS
LIVE EVENTS
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE
TWELFTH NIGHT
THURS 6 APR, 7.00PM
3 HRS 30 MINS TBC (INCL. INTERVAL)
Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in a new
twist on Shakespeare’s classic
comedy of mistaken identity.
Simon Godwin (NT Live: Man and
Superman, NT Live: The Beaux’
Stratagem) directs this joyous
new production with Tamsin
Greig (Friday Night Dinner) as a
transformed Malvolia. Featuring
an ensemble cast that includes
Daniel Rigby (Flowers), Tamara
Lawrence (Undercover), Doon
Mackichan (Smack the Pony) and
Daniel Ezra (The Missing).
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE
ROSENCRANTZ AND
GUILDENSTERN ARE
DEAD
THURS 20 APR, 7.00PM
3 HRS 20 MINS TBC (INCL. INTERVAL)
Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter,
The Woman in Black), Joshua
McGuire (The Hour) and David
Haig (Four Weddings and
a Funeral, The Witness for
the Prosecution) star in Tom
Stoppard’s brilliantly funny
situation comedy, broadcast
live from The Old Vic theatre in
London. David Leveaux’s new
production marks the 50th
anniversary of the play that made
a young Tom Stoppard’s name
overnight.
TICKETS
Live: £15 (£12.50 concessions and Film Card holders)
Encore: £12.50 (£10 concessions and Film Card holders)
RSC LIVE
JULIUS CAESAR
WED 26 APR, 7.00PM
RUNNING TIME TBC
Angus Jackson directs
Shakespeare’s epic political
tragedy, as the race to claim the
empire spirals out of control.
The Rome season in the Royal
Shakespeare Theatre opens with
the politics of spin and betrayal
turning to violence. Following
his sell-out productions of Tom
Morton-Smith’s Oppenheimer
(2014) and James Fenton’s
adaptation of Don Quixote (2016),
Season Director Angus Jackson
steers the thrilling action.
AT A GLANCE
Times are subject to change. Please check queensfilmtheatre.com for up-to-date information.
MARCH
DATE
EVENT
TIME
Thurs 30 The Secret Scripture
Junun
All This Panic
Elle
6.10pm
6.30pm
8.00pm
8.35pm
Fri 31
1.30pm
4.00pm
6.30pm
6.45pm
9.00pm
9.15pm
Television, Teens and Identity
A Quiet Passion
Heal the Living
Their Finest
By the Time It Gets Dark
Mad to Be Normal
APRIL
DATE
EVENT
TIME
Sat 1
Shorts Competition 1
Shorts Competition 2
Shorts Competition 3
The Levelling
Shorts Competition 4
High Fidelity + John Cusack Q&A
Axolotl Overkill
Contemporary Color
Dude Bro Party Massacre III
10.00am
11.50am
2.30pm
4.00pm
4.25pm
6.30pm
6.45pm
9.00pm
9.30pm
Short Documentary Competition
After the Storm
The World of Us
The Other Side of Hope
Mimosas
Neruda
4.00pm
4.00pm
6.30pm
6.45pm
9.00pm
9.15pm
Mon 3
The Red Turtle
Junction 48
A Man Called Ove
The Erlprince
6.30pm
6.45pm
8.30pm
9.00pm
Tues 4
The Last Bolshevik
Catfight
I Am Not Your Negro
Aquarius
Waiting for You
4.00pm
6.30pm
7.00pm
8.30pm
9.00pm
Wed 5
Stockholm My Love
Handsome Devil
Danger, Men Working
Always Shine
Goldstone
4.00pm
6.30pm
6.30pm
9.00pm
9.15pm
Thurs 6
An Experimental Path
The Giant
NT Live: Twelfth Night
Claire in Motion
4.00pm
6.30pm
7.00pm
9.00pm
Fri 7
A Quiet Passion
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
Free Fire
Neruda
1.30pm/6.20pm
4.00pm
6.40pm/9.00pm
8.40pm
A Quiet Passion
Free Fire
Neruda
6.20pm
6.40pm/9.00pm
8.40pm
Peter Curran’s Some Kind of Man
A Quiet Passion
Free Fire
Neruda
2.30pm
2.50pm/5.20pm
5.40pm/8.00pm
7.40pm
Sun 2
Sat 8
Sun 9
Mon 10 – A Quiet Passion
Thurs 13 Neruda
Free Fire
3.45pm/6.20pm
4.20pm/8.40pm
6.40pm/9.00pm
Fri 14
4.00pm
4.20pm/6.40pm
6.20pm
8.20pm
9.00pm
Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang
The Sense of an Ending
I Am Not Your Negro
The Handmaiden
Free Fire
Sat 15
Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang
The Sense of an Ending
John T. Davis: Route 66 + intro
I Am Not Your Negro
The Handmaiden
Free Fire
1.50pm
2.20pm/6.40pm
3.50pm
4.40pm/6.20pm
8.20pm
9.00pm
Sun 16
Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang
The Sense of an Ending
John T. Davis: Tailwind + intro
I Am Not Your Negro
The Handmaiden
Free Fire
1.50pm
2.00pm/6.20pm
3.50pm
4.20pm/6.00pm
8.00pm
8.40pm
Mon 17
Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang
The Sense of an Ending
I Am Not Your Negro
The Handmaiden
Free Fire
4.00pm
4.20pm/6.40pm
6.20pm
8.20pm
9.00pm
Tues 18
Autism Friendly: Song of the Sea
The Sense of an Ending
I Am Not Your Negro
The Sense of an Ending (Access)
The Handmaiden
Free Fire
3.00pm
4.00pm
6.20pm
6.40pm
8.20pm
9.00pm
Wed 19
Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang
The Sense of an Ending
I Am Not Your Negro
The Handmaiden
Free Fire
4.00pm
4.20pm/6.40pm
6.20pm
8.20pm
9.00pm
Thurs 20 The Handmaiden
The Sense of an Ending
I Am Not Your Negro
NT Live: Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern Are Dead
Free Fire
3.25pm
4.00pm
6.20pm
Fri 21
Their Finest
I Am Not Your Negro
Bunch of Kunst
Mulholland Drive
3.40pm/6.10pm/8.40pm
4.20pm
6.30pm
9.00pm
Sat 22
Dementia Friendly: Easter Parade
From 10.30am
(Film 11am)
John T. Davis: A House Divided
+ intro
Cineseekers: Ivan Tsarevitch
Their Finest
Bunch of Kunst
Mulholland Drive
7.00pm
8.20pm
2.00pm
4.00pm
6.10pm/8.40pm
6.30pm
9.00pm
Sun 23
Britain on Film: Rural Life
Their Finest
John T. Davis: Traveller + intro
Mulholland Drive
Bunch of Kunst
1.45pm
2.40pm/5.10pm/7.40pm
3.30pm
5.30pm
8.25pm
Mon 24
Their Finest
I Am Not Your Negro
John T. Davis: Hip to the Tip + intro
Mulholland Drive
3.40pm/6.10pm/8.40pm
4.20pm
6.30pm
9.00pm
Tues 25
Their Finest
I Am Not Your Negro
Their Finest (Access)
Wake Festival: Far From the
Tree + Q&A
Mulholland Drive
3.40pm/8.50pm
4.00pm
6.10pm
Their Finest
RSC Live: Julius Caesar
3.40pm/6.10pm/8.40pm
7.00pm
Wed 26
Thurs 27 Their Finest
Exhibition on Screen:
The Artist’s Garden
John T. Davis: Heart on the Line
+ intro
6.45pm
8.35pm
3.40pm/6.10pm/8.40pm
6.30pm
9.00pm