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THE SHOW MUST GO ON
BOHEMIAN
RHAPSODY
SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2018 ISSUE 70
BASED ON SARAH WATERS’ BEST-SELLING NOVEL
FROM LENNY ABRAHAMSON, ACADEMY AWARD® NOMINATED
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MICHAEL JIM TOM CHARLIE PAUL
CONTENTS CAINE BROADBENT
WITH
COURTENAY
AND
COX WHITEHOUSE
MICHAEL RAY
GAMBON WINSTONE
CINEMAS
MEMBERSHIP
6
8 WELCOME FROM THE PRODUCERS OF
CURZON ON DEMAND 12 DARKEST HOUR & LEGEND
CURZON SELECTOR 16 While you’ve been sunning yourselves in the English heatwave,
we’ve been busy at work in the dark, upgrading most of our
BERTHA DOCHOUSE 18
venues for you to enjoy this autumn. These include screen
NEW RELEASES 20 refurbishments and a stylish new ground floor cafe-bar at
EVENTS 42 Soho; Screen 2 at Mayfair is being transformed into a luxury
cinema with greater comfort and sightlines, and Knutsford
FEATURES 48
has two additional new screens, with an overhaul of the main
screen in the coming weeks.
September’s cool breezes in a range of Great US indies. THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUE STORY OF THE HATTON GARDEN HEIST
Editor
With his final role, Harry Dean Stanton radiates in the
Ian Haydn Smith
Designer charmingly offbeat Lucky, a poignant and witty meditation on IN CINEMAS
Hannah Attwell old age that also stars David Lynch. We mark the dramatic SEPTEMBER 14
Contributors debuts of two celebrated documentarists, with student heist With the
sup-
port of
Claire Bueno | Kate Gerova | thriller American Animals (Bart Layton, The Imposter) and girl KingOfThieves-Movie.com KingOfThievesFilm
Sam Howlett | Annemarie
skateboard gang drama Skate Kitchen (Crystal Moselle, The
Jacir | Philip Kemp |
Lydia Penke Wolfpack). And Chloë Grace Moretz undergoes gay conversion
Director of Programme therapy in The Miseducation of Cameron Post.
Damian Spandley Look out for early signs that the awards season is coming
with the great Glenn Close’s searing performance as the
curzon.cinemas long-suffering wife of a famous author in The Wife; and
Ryan Gosling teams up with his La La Land director Damien
CurzonCinemas Chazelle on the Neil Armstrong biopic First Man. Having won
curzon.cinemas awards in Cannes for best human and best canine (I’m serious!)
performances, Dogman serves up a powerful David versus
Goliath crime drama from Italian auteur Matteo Garrone
Operated by CURZON CINEMAS (Gomorrah). That film, along with Lucky, and the latest,
2nd Floor, 20-22 Stukeley Street,
London WC2B 5LR wonderful Agnès Varda, Faces Places, is also available at the
Participant in the Europa Cinemas/ same time as their cinema release on Curzon On Demand.
European Union Media Programme
At the time of going to print every
And mainstreamers won’t be disappointed. Marvel’s
effort was made to ensure the Venom promises a dark superhero experience with a bit more
information contained in this
programme was correct. However, bite. And music fans can enjoy Dexter Fletcher’s Queen biopic
where circumstances dictate, we Bohemian Rhapsody and Bradley Cooper’s reimagining of
reserve the right to make changes.
Curzon Cinemas Limited 1934. A Star Is Born. Finally, a compelling programme is completed
Registered in London: by two distinctly different perspectives on the 2011 Norway
Company no:283280. Est.1934.
CURZON and CURZON CINEMAS attacks: Paul Greengrass’ 22 July (exclusive to Curzon
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Damian Spandley | Director of Programme | @damospandley
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THE FILMS YOU WEREN’T GOING UNDERGROUND
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23 The Broadway, SW19 1RE Café Bar THE GODFATHER
FIERCE BACK ON THE BIG SCREEN
Wimbledon Snacks Food THE UNTAMEABLE IN A 4K RESTORATION
Virtual Reality JOAN CRAWFORD
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CUR Z ON MEMBER S
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MEMBERS’ PREVIEWS MEMBERSHIP
LUCKY 15 To make sure you have
access to exclusive members
Date: Sat 8 Sept | 11:00 previews, priority event
Where: Knutsford Ripon cinema booking, free tickets
and much more join Curzon
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Harry Dean Stanton’s elegiac final lead performance is
benefits are:
pitch perfect in this lovingly crafted and occasionally salty
small-town drama, which also features a great cameo 4 FREE TICKETS
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To celebrate the release of French director Agnès Varda’s
CURZON MEMBERS
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21 September), Birds’ Eye View is guest-curating an online
collection of films which champion female representation. Lucky, 2017 CURZON.COM/MEMBERSHIP
Members can discover the ‘Reclaim the Frame’ theme on
streaming service Curzon12 for free from mid September.
The Reclaim the Frame project aims to grow the audience
FACES PLACES 12A
for female directors, and works with influencers around the Date: Sat 15 Sept | 11:00
UK. BEV director-at-large Mia Bays says “Film is such Where: Knutsford Ripon
a powerful medium, and we believe the female gaze offers
Date: Sun 16 Sept | 11:00
the viewer a fresh vital perspective that is frequently
Where: Aldgate Bloomsbury Colchester
under-promoted and under-seen.”
Richmond Victoria Wimbledon
Birds’ Eye View will also be hosting special Faces Places One of cinema’s most treasured directors Agnès Varda
previews and a DocDays event in September. teams up with artist-photographer JR for a delightful trip
Faces Places, 2017
See page 43 for more details or through the French countryside. See page 26 for synopsis
visit the Curzon cinemas website.
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IN CINEMAS. ON DEMAND
LUCKY 14 SEPT
Harry Dean Stanton (Paris, Texas, Seven Psychopaths) turns
in a lovely, understated performance in this character-driven
piece, which also features his friend David Lynch. It’s directed
by actor John Carroll Lynch, who makes the most of the film’s
stunning desert backdrop.
ALSO ON DEMAND:
FACES PLACES 21 SEPT
ON DEMAND
ANCHOR AND HOPE 28 SEPT
DISCOVER
A CIAMBRA 24 SEPT
Pio Amato excels in this low-key drama, set within a small
Romany community in Calabria. He plays the young member On Chesil Beach, 2017
of a family who takes charge when his father is sent to prison.
Reminiscent of the great Italian Neorealist dramas, it’s a
penetrating and moving portrait of everyday life for a RECOMMENDED
group living on the periphery of society.
ON CHESIL BEACH 17 SEPT
Dogman, 2018
Dominic Cooke directs Ian
McEwan’s adaptation of his
DOGMAN acclaimed novel. Saoirse
Ronan and Billy Howle are
excellent as the young couple
Director: Matteo Garrone in 1960s Britain, whose
Starring: Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce, Nunzia Schiano, innocence proves to be more
Adamo Dionisi, Francesco Acquaroli than a burden as they begin
what they hope ill be a life
together.
The director of Gomorrah and Tale of Tales returns with a
crime drama like no other. Set in a small Italian coastal COMING SOON:
town, it details the attempts by a dog parlour owner to THE RAPE OF RECY
avoid a life of crime and the vengeance he enacts when his TAYLOR 3 SEPT
life is torn apart. MARY AND THE WITCH’S
FLOWER 10 SEPT
ENTEBBE 10 SEPT
ISMAEL’S GHOSTS 24 SEPT
A Ciambra, 2017
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CURZON SELECTOR OF UNREQUITED LOVE & HOPE” JASON PALMER, ENTERTAINMENT FOCUS
MEMBERS OF THE CURZON TEAM PICK THEIR FAVOURITES FROM THE UPCOMING RELEASES “A NNETTE B ENING GIVES A PITCH-PERFECT PERFORMANCE”
CINE VUE
KING OF THIEVES TBC THE WIFE 15 “ S AOIRSE R ONAN IS EXQUISITE”
SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
The Hatton Garden robbery was the biggest What happens when, after a lifetime
heist in British criminal history – an audacious
job believed to have been carried out by
sacrificing your own creative instincts at
the altar of your partner, you wake up to
HHHH NEW!
consummate professionals. The truth, as is the fact that you may have made a mistake
often the case, turned out to be far stranger. and life could have been so very different?
What better way to detail the extraordinary This adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s novel
events that took place – in planning, execution couldn’t be any more timely and Glenn
and what followed – than to cast the crème Close’s superb performance will surely
of veteran of British film actors to play the loom large come the awards season.
gang. See page 23 See page 28
FIRST MAN TBC
Neil Armstrong is a conundrum in this age of
celebrity. After the initial round of publicity
following his being the first man to land on
the moon, he withdrew from public life,
refusing almost all interviews, seeing his
achievement as one shared by mankind.
Damian La La Land Chazelle’s new film
aims to paint an all-too-human portrait ANNETTE SAOIRSE COREY ELISABETH MARE JON MICHAEL GLENN BILLY BRIAN
with and
of this extraordinary individual. BENING RONAN STOLL MOSS WINNINGHAM TENNEY ZEGEN FLESHLER HOWLE DENNEHY
First Man, 2018
See page 33
HALLOWEEN TBC FUNNY GIRL - THE MUSICAL 12A
Before Terminator’s Sarah Connor and Alien’s Sheridan Smith took on the role made famous
Ellen Ripley there was Laurie Strode, the by Barbra Streisand and wowed audiences
resilient heroine of the Halloween franchise, with a show-stopping performance.
whose hometown looks set to be terrorised Featuring the classic ‘Don’t Rain on My
once more by a masked Michal Myers. Directed Parade’, as well as ‘People’, ‘Who Are You
by David Gordon Green (George Washington, Now?’ and ‘I’m the Greatest Star’. And with
Joe, Stronger), this entry unfolds exactly four such a stunning performance as Broadway
decades after the original grisly events that icon Fanny Brice, Smith shows she is every
took place on All Hallows’ Eve. Prepare to be inch the star.
terrified. See page 38 See page 45
IN CINEMA S SEPTEMBER 7
BERTHA The UK’s first cinema
F DOC
U M E N TAR Y
DOCHOUSE
screen dedicated to O
documentaries, Bertha E H O ME
DocHouse is a platform TH
AT CURZON BLOOMSBURY for powerful human
stories. We screen a
WEAPON OF CHOICE
mix of new releases and
For the first time, this documentary charts the rise
classics, alongside Q&As of one of the world’s most infamous and fetishised
and special events. weapons: the Glock Pistol. Join the Director Q&A on
Friday 14 September, 6.30pm.
Opens Friday 14 September
UNDER THE WIRE
A moving portrait of acclaimed war-correspondent
Marie Colvin as told by her colleague and friend,
photographer Paul Conroy. Join the Director Q&A on
Monday 3 September, 6.30pm.
Opens Friday 7 September A THOUSAND GIRLS LIKE ME
The awe-inspiring story of 23-year-old Afghan
Khatera and her battle against cultural, familial, and
legal pressures as she forces her father to stand trial
for years of sexual abuse.
Opens Friday 5 October
IN PRAISE OF NOTHING
Narrated in poetic rhyming verse by Iggy Pop, this
satirical storytime parable for adults follows the
personification of Nothing as he travels the world via
crowdsourced documentary footage.
Opens Friday 7 September THE SCHOOL IN THE CLOUD
Discover TED Prize-winner Sugata Mitra’s pioneering
ideas for education and internet-based learning,
seen through the eyes of the children whose lives are
being transformed by his radical approach.
www.dochouse.org Opens Friday 19 October
@BerthaDocHouse“UTTERLY UNMISSABLE”
TOTAL FILM
NEW RELEASES THE MISEDUCATION OF “A POWERFUL LOVE LETTER
CAMERON POST 15 THE SEAGULL 12A TO AN ENDURING SCREEN ICON”
LITTLE WHITE LIES
Director: Desiree Akhavan
Starring: Chloë Grace Moretz,
Director: Michael Mayer
Starring: Elisabeth Moss,
“THE PERFORMANCE OF A LIFETIME”
Jennifer Ehle, Marin Ireland, Saoirse Ronan, Annette Bening, VARIETY
Sasha Lane, John Gallagher Corey Stoll, Brian Dennehy,
Jr., Quinn Shephard, Owen Michael Zegen, Glenn Fleshler, ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★
Campbell, McCabe Slye Jon Tenney, Ben Thompson EMPIRE TIME OUT FLICKERING MYTH CINE VUE
US 2018 | 90 mins US 2018 | 99 mins
Cameron Post (Chloë Grace Anton Chekhov’s acclaimed
Moretz) is shipped off to a play unfolds in a beautiful
Christian conversion camp country estate and revolves
after she is discovered kissing around four key characters:
a female friend. No sooner novelist Boris Trigorin (Corey
there, she realises that Stoll), young Nina (Saoirse
almost all the inductees are Ronan), fading actress Irina
repressing their true feelings Arkadina (Annette Bening)
and the notion of a cure is and her playwright son
absurd. Desiree Akhavan’s Konstantin Tréplev (Billy 15
(Appropriate Behaviour) Howle). Michael Mayer’s DAVID LYNCH RON LIVINGSTON ED BEGLEY JR. TOM SKERRITT
Sundance Grand Jury winner film makes the most of the
is an articulate and funny
Directed by JOHN CARROLL LYNCH
sumptuous country location,
drama that speaks out while the cast revel in
against the current tide of Chekhov’s rich language..
social conservatism in the US.
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IN CINEMAS & ON DEMAND
14 SEPTEMBER
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Director: Bart Layton Director: John Carroll Lynch Director: Chloé Zhao Director: James Marsh Director: Annemarie Jacir Director: Anne Fontaine
Starring: Evan Peters, Blake Voices: Harry Dean Stanton, Starring: Brady Jandreau, Starring: Michael Caine, Starring: Mohammad Bakri, Featuring: Finnegan Oldfield,
Jenner, Ann Dowd, Barry David Lynch, Ron Livingston, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau, Michael Gambon, Charlie Cox, Saleh Bakri, Tarik Kopty Grégory Gadebois, Isabelle
Keoghan, Udo Kier, Jared Ed Begley Jr., Tom Skerritt, Cat Clifford, Terri Dawn Jim Broadbent, Ray Winstone, Palestine, France, Colombia, Huppert
Abrahamson Barry Shabaka Henley Pourier, Lane Scott, Tom Courtenay, Francesca Germany, UAE, Qatar, Norway France 2017 | 96 mins
UK/US 2018 | 116 mins US 2017 | 88 mins Tanner Langdeau Annis, Paul Whitehouse 2017 | 96 mins French and English with
+ CURZON ON DEMAND US 2017 | 104 mins UK 2018 | TBC mins Arabic with English subtitles English subtitles
Based on the extraordinary
story of four young men who Harry Dean Stanton worked Brady Blackburn is a young How did a group of veteran It is the duty of Palestinian Shy and gentle, Marvin stands
attempted to steal one of for seven decades in front rodeo star who, following cons carry out one of the men, when a female in the apart from the rougher boys
the highest valued books in of the camera. In his 90th a brutal fall, is faced with most audacious and biggest family is getting married, to in his rural village. Bullied
America from a university year and final leading role, never riding horseback again. heists in British criminal personally deliver invites. from within his own family,
library, Bart Layton’s (The he turned in a spellbinding Chloé Zhao’s richly evocative history? Director James But for Shadi and his father, Marvin soon realises that
Imposter) film features the performance as an atheist and quietly moving drama Marsh (Man on Wire, The it’s an activity fraught with another, more accepting life
actual participants and facing the great unknown. makes the most of the South Theory of Everything) and simmering resentments. beckons. Anne Fontaine’s
actors playing them to John Carroll Lynch’s film is Dakota landscape and draws writer Joe Penhall (The Long Real-life father and son (Coco Before Chanel) drama
reconstruct the crime and witty, tender, eccentric and out stunning performances Firm, Mindhunter) detail the Mohammad and Saleh Bakri follows Marvin through to
its bizarre aftermath. It’s a wise. And Stanton is every from non-professional actors genesis of the job and its are excellent in Annemarie adulthood and a life on
riveting, hugely entertaining bit the legendary screen icon Brady Jandreau, his father execution, with the aid of a Jacir’s nuanced portrait of stage. It’s an affecting and
thriller. that he’s always been. Tim and sister Lilly. stellar British cast.. family life in Nazareth. impressive journey..
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22 23“A SMART, SUPREMELY ENTERTAINING FILM
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★★★★★ THE GUARDIAN
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THE FILM STAGE
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COSTUME HAIR AND MAKEUP PRODUCTION MUSIC DIRECTOR OF EXECUTIVE EXECUTIVE
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FACES PLACES 12A CLIMAX TBC A SIMPLE FAVOUR 15
Directors: Agnès Varda, JR Director: Gaspar Noé Director: Paul Feig
Featuring: Agnès Varda, JR, Starring: Sofia Boutella, Starring: Linda Cardellini,
Jeannine Carpentier, Clemens Romain Guillermic, Souheila Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick,
Van Dungern, Marie Douvet, Yacoub, Kiddy Smile, Claude Rupert Friend, Henry Golding,
Jean-Paul Beaujon, Nathalie Gajan Maull, Giselle Palmer, Eric Johnson, Jean Smart,
Schleehauf Taylor Kastle, Sharleen Temple Kelly McCormack, Eric Johnson,
France 2017 | 94 mins France 2018 | 95 mins Sarah Baker
French with English subtitles French and English with English US 2018 | 117 mins
+ CURZON ON DEMAND subtitles
Director Paul Feig
The iconoclastic French Few directors possess the (Bridesmaids, Spy) takes
filmmaker, now 90, teams up ability to shock like Gaspar a respite from comedy for
with the artist-photographer Noé. Recalling his earlier this mysterious Hitchcockian
JR for this journey through Enter the Void, Climax begins thriller. A chance encounter
the French countryside, taking in a dance studio with a finds Stephanie (Anna
huge-sized photographs of musical sequence that has Kendrick) and Emily
the populace. From this thin to be seen to be believed. (Blake Lively) becoming
conceit, Varda conjures up a But someone has spiked the acquaintances. And when
gorgeous portrait of everyday drinks with LSD and soon Emily disappears, Stephanie
life. A magical film, this is chaos descends. This is cult decides to investigate. But
one of the cinematic joys cinema with its dial turned up what she uncovers might
of the year... to 11 and no holds barred. put her own life at risk.
OPENS: FRI 21 SEPTEMBER OPENS: FRI 21 SEPTEMBER OPENS: FRI 21 SEPTEMBER
NUREYEV TBC
Directors: David Morris, Jacqui Rudolf Nureyev is regarded as the Lord of the Dance – the
Morris greatest male dancer the ballet world has ever known. His
Featuring: Rudolf Nureyev, artistry was beyond reproach and he was adored by fans and
Marlon Dino, Grace Jabbari, peers alike. This documentary draws together interviews with
Jordan Kennedy, Lucia Lacarra, those who knew and loved Nureyev, extraordinary archive
Isla Malliphant, Maria Fonseca footage and recently filmed danced pieces. It’s the perfect film
UK 2018 | 100 mins for fans and those less familiar with Nureyev’s genius.
ONE NIGHT ONLY 25 SEP (WITH EXCLUSIVE WEEK AT MAYFAIR FROM 21 SEP)
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K I M B E R M Y E R S , T H E P L AY L I S T
“ U N C O M P R O M I S I N G ... R AW A N D R E A L ”
LINDA MARRIC, HEYUGUYS
THE LITTLE THE HOUSE WITH A “ P O W E R F U L A N D J O Y O U S T O W AT C H ”
STRANGER 12A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS TBC THE WIFE 15 CAITLIN QUINLAN, CINEVUE
Director: Lenny Abrahamson Director: Eli Roth Director: Björn Runge
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Voices: Domhnall Gleeson, Starring: Cate Blanchett, Starring: Glenn Close,
Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter, Jack Black, Sunny Suljic, Jonathan Pryce, Alix Wilton
Charlotte Rampling, Kate Colleen Camp, Kyle MacLachlan, Regan, Max Irons, Christian
Phillips, Anna Madeley Lorenza Izzo, Renée Elise Slater, Elizabeth McGovern,
Ireland, UK, France 2018 | Goldsberry Harry Lloyd, Annie Starke
111 mins US 2018 | TBC mins Sweden, US, UK 2017 | 100 mins
In late-1940s England, a Recently orphaned Lewis Joan (Glenn Close) is the wife
young doctor is called out to a Barnavelt arrives in a small of recently announced Nobel
stately home he once visited Michigan town to live with his prize-winner Joe Castleman
as a child. The occupants are eccentric uncle Jonathan. He (Jonathan Pryce). But she
the same, but there is also a soon realises that his uncle was also once a promising
malevolent presence and its is a warlock and neighbour writer and an interview with
threat is increasing. Lenny Florence is a witch. Together, a journalist (Christian Slater)
Abrahamson (Room) directs they work to prevent a draws out bitter resentments
this sterling adaptation of sinister clock from bringing about the sacrifices she
Sarah Waters’ ghost story, about the end of the world. made. Close is outstanding
capturing the eeriness of a Eli Roth’s first YA film is a in this timely examination of
bygone world. wicked pleasure. gender roles.
OPENS: FRI 21 SEPTEMBER OPENS: FRI 21 SEPTEMBER OPENS: FRI 28 SEPTEMBER
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WITH ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ AND JADEN SMITH BY LIZZIE NASTRO IZABELLA TZENKOVA CRYSTAL MOSELLE JULIA NOTTINGHAM RODRIGO TEIXEIRA MICHAEL SHERMAN MATTHEW PERNICIARO PRODUCERS LOURENÇO SANT’ANNA SOPHIE MAS THOMAS BENSKI COMPOSER ASKA MATSUMIYA DESIGNER CAMILLE GARMENDIA
PRODUCED EXECUTIVE COSTUME
DESIGNER FLETCHER CHANCEY BY JESSICA KELLY AND REBECCA DEALY EDITOR NICO LEUNEN PHOTOGRAPHY SHABIER KIRCHNER BY CRYTAL MOSELLE BY ASLIHAN UNALDI CRYSTAL MOSELLE AND JENNIFER SILVERMAN BY CRYSTAL MOSELLE
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SKATE KITCHEN 15 TO ANDRE TBC A STAR IS BORN TBC
Director: Chrystal Moselle Director: Kate Novack Director: Bradley Cooper
Starring: Rachel Vinberg, Featuring: André Leon Talley, Starring: Lady Gaga, Bradley
Dede Lovelace, Nina Moran, Naomi Campbell, Sean Cooper, Sam Elliott, Dave
Kabrina Adams, Ajani Rus- ‘Diddy’ Combs, Divine, Tom Chappelle, Anthony Ramos,
sell,Elizabeth Rodriguez, Ford, Whoopi Goldberg, Marc Bonnie Sommerville, Andrew
Jaden Smith Jacobs, Karl Largerfeld Dice Clay, Michael Harney
US 2018 | 100 mins US 2017 | 93 mins US 2018 | 135 mins
Following her compelling If you don’t recognise the Bradley Cooper’s directorial
documentary The Wolfpack, name André Leon Talley, debut is the fourth version
Crystal Moselle makes her you’ll recognise the face of this classic Hollywood
feature debut with this from countless fashion tale. This time, the story is
authentic account of an documentaries (Including a located at the heart of
all-girl skateboarding gang cameo appearance on Sex Nashville. Cooper plays
in New York. Kicking against and the City). Talley’s story country star Jackson Maine,
stereotypes, the group – his journey from the Deep who is loved by his fans but
prove they can hold their South to Anna Wintour’s haunted by demons. But
own against any inner sanctum – is a then he meets Ally, (Lady
skateboarders, but they fascinating one, as Kate Gaga, in her first major role)
soon find loyalty to be the Novack’s insightful and sees in her a shot
greatest challenge. documentary reveals.. at redemption.
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TEHRAN TABOO TBC PRIVATE LIFE TBC BLINDSPOTTING 15 FIRST MAN TBC
Director: Ali Soozandeh Director: Tamara Jenkins Director: Carlos López Estrada Director: Damien Chazelle
Voices: Farhad Abadinejad, Jasmina Ali, Rozita Starring: Kathryn Hahn, Paul Featuring: Daveed Diggs, Starring: Ryan Gosling, Claire
Assadollahy, Alireza Bayram, Sasan Behroozian, Giamatti, Emily Robinson, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar, Foy, Jason Clarke, Pablo
Zahra Amir Ebrahimi Molly Shannon, Siobahn Fallon Jasmine Cephas Jones, Ethan Schreiber, Christopher Abbott,
Germany, Austria 2017 | 96 mins Hogan, Kayli Carter , Desmin Embry, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Kyle Chandler, Ciarán Hinds,
Persian with English subtitles Borges, Tracee Chimo Utkarsh Ambudkar Corey Stoll
US 2018 | 127 mins US 2018 | 95 mins US 2018 | 138 mins
The plight of women in Iran is the subject of
Ali Soozandeh’s impressive and powerful
Rachel (Kathryn Hahn) Acclaimed as this decade’s Teaming up with his La La
rotoscope-animated feature debut.
and Richard (Paul Giamatti) Do the Right Thing, albeit with Land star Ryan Gosling,
Detailing the life of a sex worker, a musician
are nearing middle age and the action unfolding in director Damien Chazelle
and two young women, Soozandeh’s film
decide to have children. Oakland as opposed to presents an intimate portrait
is a damning indictment of personal and
But with the biological clock Brooklyn, Carlos López of one of America’s most
political freedoms, but always tempered
ticking, conceiving is easier Estrada’s debut, smartly famous, yet incredibly
with compassion for his characters.
said than done. Enter Sadie scripted by stars Daveed private icons, Neil Armstrong.
(Kayli Carter), who may just be Diggs and Rafael Casal, It details the journey up to
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the answer to their paternal presents an all-too-relevant his mission to the Moon
- and marital - problems. appraisal of race relations and features excellent
Tamara Jenkins’s nuanced in contemporary America. performances from Gosling
drama is a smart and incisive It’s a powerful portrait of and Claire Foy as Janet
look at modern relationships. urban life. Armstrong.
VENOM TBC JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN TBC
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Starring: Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Emma Thompson,
Woody Harrelson, Jenny Slate, Riz Ahmed, Olga Kurylenko, Ben Miller, Jake Lacy, Pippa
Marcella Bragio, Reid Scott, Michelle Lee Bennett-Warner, Adam James, Miranda
Hennessy
US 2018 | TBC mins
UK, France, US 2018 | TBC mins
Such is Tom Hardy’s screen persona, it
would be difficult to see the star taking on He’s back and the world is once again a little
the role of a conventional superhero. And less safe for it. Rowan Atkinson’s inept spy is
so Venom finds him taking on the role of ordered by Emma Thompson’s head of
anti-hero, as journalist Eddie Brock is secret services to track down the mastermind
infected with a strange virus that takes hacker who has revealed the identities of
on a life of its own. It’s a darker addition to undercover spies around the world. Cue a
the Marvel superhero movie output. series of action set-pieces and heroic
missions that never quite go to plan.
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Director: Drew Goddard Directors: Karey Kirkpatrick, Director: Paul Greengrass
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Jason Reisig Starring: Thorbjørn Harr,
Jon Hamm, Nick Offerman, Voices: Zendaya, Channing Anders Danielsen Lie, Hang
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It’s a rainy night and the They are rumoured to exist, This is a recounting of the
El Royale, a hotel that has but there’s little more than dreadful events that took
seen better days, plays host the odd sighting on snowy place in 2011, when Anders
to a ragbag of dubious mountaintops. But for one Behring Breivik murdered
characters. As the evening bigfoot, he believes he’s 77 young people on the
wears on, intentions become actually seen a smallfoot. Norwegian island hosting
clear and the chances of Playfully upending the monster a Labour Party Youth
everyone surviving slim. myth, Karey Kirkpatrick and camp. Paul Greengrass
A smart pastiche of film noir Jason Reisig’s animated (United 93, Captain Philips)
tropes dominates this darkly feature is a colourful is a filmmaker of great
funny thriller from the knockabout comedy, as Migo sensitivity, but this is
creator of The Cabin in (Channing Tatum) sets out to nevertheless likely to be a
the Woods. prove humans are real. profoundly unsettling film.
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Director: Gustav Möller Director: Matteo Garrone Director: David Gordon Green
Starring: Jakob Cedergren, Starring: Marcello Fonte, Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,
Jessica Dinnage, Omar Edoardo Pesce, Nunzia Judy Greer, Virginia Gardner,
Shargawi, Johan Olsen, Jacob Schiano, Adamo Dionisi, Miles Robbins, Nick Castle,
Lohmann, Katinka Evers- Francesco Acquaroli Will Patton, Dylan Arnold,
Jahnsen, Jeanette Lindbæk Italy, France 2018 | 103 mins Toby Huss, Jefferson Hall,
Denmark 2018 | 85 mins Italian with English subtitles US 2018 | TBC mins
Danish and English with English + CURZON ON DEMAND
subtitles David Gordon Green (Joe,
Marcello (Marcello Fonte) George Washington) doesn’t
A demoted cop operates an owns a dog-grooming so much deliver a remake
emergency services line. A parlour in a dingy Italian of John Carpenter’s horror
call comes in and it appears coastal town. Life is quiet classic as he does a smart
a young woman has been until a local bruiser involves follow-up, unfolding 40 years
abducted. The cop races Marcello in a heist. It goes after that fateful night, with
against the clock to save her. badly and when he realises Jamie Lee Curtis returning
That’s the set-up of Gustav he alone will suffer, as Laurie Strode and Nick
Møller’s ruthlessly executed Marcello plots his revenge. Castle once again terrifying
single-location thriller. It’s a An excellent central as a masked Michael Myers.
stunning exercise in tension performance dominates Best of all, the score is
and definitely not for those this drama by Gomorrah by Carpenter, as great a
with high blood pressure. director Garrone. composer as he is a filmmaker.
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Starring: Jean Marais, Starring: Andrea Berntzen, Starring: Rami Malek, Lucy
Francois Perier, Maria Aleksander Holmen, Brede Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben
Casares, Marie Dea, Fristad, Elli Rhiannon Müller Hardy, Joseph Mazzello,
Edouard Dermithe, Osbourne, Sorosh Sadat, Tom Hollander, Aidan Gillen,
Juliette Greco Norway 2018 | 92 mins Mike Myers
France 1949 | 95 mins Norwegian with English UK, US 2018 | TBC mins
Subtitles
This is a welcome re-release A biopic years in the making
of Jean Cocteau’s magical Erik Poppe’s uncompromising (and completed by Dexter
journey into a world between drama might be the second Fletcher after director Bryan
life and death, and fantasy recent film to detail the Singer left the project), this
and reality, where nothing is events that unfolded on the is one of this year’s most
what it seems. Bookended island of Utøya in 2011, but in anticipated films. Rami Malek
by the earlier Blood of a style it is significantly pared is impressive as Freddie,
Poet and later Testament back. Here, events play out perfectly capturing the star’s
of Orpheus, Cocteau’s within one single shot. The on-stage persona, while
drama explores the Greek killer is off screen and the Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy and
myth of Orpheus, against the action is seen from the Joseph Mazzello offer
backdrop of contemporary perspective of Katja, a strong support as Bryan,
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NUREYEV director Katie Rice and a number of the couples
+ INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTORS JACQUI MORRIS AND DAVID MORRIS, who appear in this moving and insightful
AND THIERRY FOUQUET AND PRUE SKENE FROM THE documentary about parents who have
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This fascinating documentary explores the work of visionary
artist Yayoi Kusama.
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background, as this production of Puccini’s
Acclaimed playwright Polly Stenham classic shows. Anna Netrebko looks set to shine in her Met debut, in the
(That Face) take’s on Strindberg’s powerful title role of Verdi’s magnificent epic.
Puccini’s La Boheme
exploration of gender and class.
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Date: Thu 27 Sept | 19:00
composer’s take on the tragic Biblical love story in 20 years.
One of our finest living stage actors Ian
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Puccini’s opera, set during the Gold Rush, premiered at
THE AUSTRALIAN BALLET the Met, under the guidance of Arturo Toscanini, in 1910.
Where: Oxford Ripon Victoria
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this version of Franz Lehár’s operetta is a
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charming and visually ravishing production.
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ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY This musical charting the life
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of Broadway star Fanny Brice MAYERLING
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Knutsford Oxford Richmond Ripon Streisand’s performance in the Kenneth Macmillan’s production of Liszt’s ballet is a
Sheffield Victoria Wimbledon 1968 film. But now, it’s the turn sumptuous, emotionally thrilling experience.
of Sheridan Smith to steal the
SHAKESPEARE’S WAGNER’S
role. Having already played to
MERRY WIVES OF WINDS0R packed West End audiences, DIE WALKÜRE
Date: Wed 12 Sept | 19:00 earning awards and critical Date: Sun 28 Oct | 17:00
One of Shakespeare’s most beloved praise, this musical makes its Directed by Keith Warner and conducted by Antonio
creations, John Falstaff, takes centre stage way back into cinemas for one Pappano, this revival brilliantly explores the complexity
The Merry Widow
in this comedy of ill manners. special evening. of Wagner’s epic undertaking.
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If The Imposter detailed how easily people about to see is a fictional account of a true
accept something they desperately want story and that highlighting they’re going to
to believe, American Animals feels like an witness unreliable narrators and be faced
exploration of the notion of truth. What took with the fact that memory itself is unreliable
place at Transylvania University in 2004 is a – we think of it as accurate but it rarely is.
given. It’s the how and why that remain open Adding this layer, with audiences’ aware of it,
to interpretation. in a way makes them more complicit in what
I had a feeling that it might be possible to unfolds. I think we’re often curious about
approach a true story in a way that hadn’t criminal life – living on the other side of that
been done before cinematically; something societal line – although we would never cross
that borrows from what documentary films to it because of the consequences. But with
can do. They possess a specific power that this film you get to cross the line, wanting to
few fiction films can match, in part because be part of this group – rooting for them, even
you’re not suspending disbelief – you’re in though you know it’s going to end badly.
THE
an environment that we all inhabit and so So, yes, it is about truth and how it is
FEATURES
you’re not forced to take a great leap into represented, or manipulated. But it is as
‘movie world’. Even with great actors starring much about the culture we live in, where
in a fiction film, you’re still at one remove there is such emphasis on being somebody.
from reality. So, by drawing on documentary, Success is now very much linked to status
CURZON
the emotional connection is easier to define. and how ‘known’ you are. I spoke to a
I wondered if I could have my cake and journalist in Seattle recently and she told
eat it. I wanted to make a strong connection me that she and her friends believe that if
with these real people, so that the audience they don’t have a Wikipedia page written
is constantly grounded by the reality of what’s about them by the time they hit 40, it means
INTERVIEW
happening. but at the same time, I wanted that they have not been successful. So, the
to find a way of exploring and exposing how idea of leaving a mark, even if it’s not for
stories are fictionalised – welcoming the a particularly good thing, is crucial to the
audience in by accepting that what they’re self-perception of what success is.
Bart Layton talks to Curzon Magazine about
breaking new ground with his thrilling true crime
story American Animals
It’s a rare claim to make that a film attempts something
new. But Bart Layton, the acclaimed filmmaker behind The
Imposter, takes the boundary between fiction and factual
filmmaking to new heights with his visually and narratively
daring American Animals. Detailing the 2004 attempt by
four young men to steal John James Audubon’s prelapsarian
portrait of America’s natural world ‘The Birds of America’
from a library in Lexington, Kentucky, Layton’s film gradually
draws us into his protagonists’ fantasy world whilst also
questioning the accuracy of any attempt to record real events.
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Do you see American Animals as having a What about the film’s moral compass? The ‘messiness’ of the attack on the librarian suburbia. As the fantasy takes hold, we drift
dialogue with a film like Sofia Coppola’s The It’s a cautionary tale. I didn’t want to push contrasts with the slickness of the first half, deeper to a movie world. The camera moves
Bling Ring, albeit with the characters in that judgement, but I think it’s clear where I stand which wades through countless movie in a more controlled way, producing this
film appearing to be obsessed with a more in relation to the boys. I feel that they let a references. slickness in the shooting style – all Steadicam
conventional idea of celebrity? very bad idea go way too far. There was We view the world through the prism of and tracks. And the colour palette changes,
I’m not so sure that it’s celebrity they crave as a victim of a crime and the moment they popular culture – through the movies. And becoming glossier. We sink into movie tropes
it is a desire to be different. The characters in crossed this line we’re left in no doubt that because this is a movie about being in a in the way that they sink into their fantasy.
my film certainly wouldn’t talk about celebrity, what they did was not commendable in any movie, about choosing to try to inhabit a As a result, a detachment from reality occurs
but more the notion of not being a passenger way. That was always clear in the script. movie over reality, so much of the boy’s for them and us, up to the point where that
and allowing your life to ebb away: a fear of The manhandling of the librarian, Betty behaviour is informed by the films they watch. fantasy crashes into reality. I had this idea
being average. It’s not acceptable to be Jean, is where the fantasy becomes hard They literally did go to Blockbuster and hire that when we reach the scene with Betty
average any more. But most of us... Well, that’s reality and everything crashes into an every crime movie they could find to get a Jean, audiences would be saying, “Hold on,
what average means. We make up the uncomfortable, raw and very real moment. sense of how to commit a crime. There’s a this isn’t the movie I signed up for”. American
average. You look at these characters’ parents What I did want to do is slow down that lyric from Daniel Johnston’s ‘Life in Vain’, audiences, who can be so vocal and
and they are successful, but definitely not in millisecond in which they cross that line. where he sings ‘If we were all in the movies / determined to have a good time, reacted
the minds of their children at the time that It was important for Betty Jean to have Maybe we wouldn’t be so bored’. That’s significantly to that shift in tone.
they carried out the crime. They are mediocre. the last word, to talk about the direct exactly the thing that they’re trying to act out.
But that’s what the American Dream used to impact of their actions on her. The idea with the film was to start in a AMERICAN ANIMALS opens 7 September
look like: nice house, nice car and all of that. place of relative naturalism. We see the world Go to page 42 for details of a preview
through their eyes, which is one of a teenage screening of American Animals followed by
wasteland of boredom and small town interview with Bart Layon.
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BACK IN
THE SADDLE
A new drama quietly redefines the territory
By Philip Kemp
of a classic genre
Chloé Zhao’s The Rider may well be the Beijing-born Zhao shot her previous
quietest, gentlest cowboy movie ever made. feature Songs My Brother Taught Me (2015)
No gunplay (apart from a rabbit being shot on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South
for dinner), no fistfights, not even any shouting; Dakota, using largely non-professional actors
the nearest thing to violence is a friendly from the Lakota Sioux tribe. Her second feature
wrestling-bout. Yet this is a film about hurt, was inspired by another member of the Lakota
about loss and grief, and the pain of having tribe, Brady Jandreau, a dedicated rodeo
to renounce what you do best and love most. rider who suffered a serious head injury when
he was thrown during a competition. Zhao shoots much of the action at the
In the film, Brady plays himself – or ‘magic hour’, sunset or dawn, when the spare
rather, a semi-fictionalised version of himself, beauty of the South Dakota landscape is at
Brady Blackburn. We first meet him as he its most appealing. And by cleaving so closely
discharges himself from hospital with an to reality, both with her cast and the events
ugly scalp-wound and heads home where she portrays, she achieves a sense of unforced
his father Wayne (played by Jandreau’s own truth rare in feature films. The plot springs
father Tim) tells him to heed the doctors’ few surprises: we know almost from the start
warnings that he can never ride again. that Brady will feel impelled to disregard the
To Brady this feels like a death-sentence: doctors’ prohibition and get back in the
training horses and riding them are all he saddle, and that this may lead to disaster.
knows, and he’s achieved success and local We never get any sense that Brady is
fame as a rider. A job stacking shelves in ‘acting’, since what he does seems so
the Dakotamart is a sorry comedown. instinctual. And in Zhao he has a director
Also in the cast are Brady’s autistic sister whose command of her craft seems equally
Lilly and his close friend and fellow-rider Lane instinctive: there’s a delicacy and a quiet
Scott – again, effectively playing themselves. sensuality to her work, allied to a respect for
Lane, Brady’s mentor and an acclaimed her cast and their way of life. Subtle and
champion, has suffered an even worse understated, The Rider holds our attention
accident: he’s paraplegic and unable to speak. the way far more flamboyant movies might
The scenes where Brady visits Lane in hospital struggle to do.
are among the most moving in the film. THE RIDER opens 14 September
52 53F E ATURE
HAUNTED
BY THE PAST
Sarah Waters’ bestselling chiller makes for a
By Claire Bueno
successful big screen adaptation
A bestselling and critically acclaimed author, Set in the austere – both economically
Sarah Waters has seen her work successfully and emotionally – landscape of rural England
adapted for both the small and big screen. in 1948, The Little Stranger opens with
Serial versions of Tipping the Velvet (2002), Domhnall Gleeson’s Dr Faraday called out to
Fingersmith (2005) and The Night Watch the crumbling stately pile Hundreds Hall. As
(2011) were produced by the BBC, while a child, Faraday had been awed by the once the ambiguity of her work allowing space for Stylistically The Little Stranger finds
Affinity (2008) was made as a film for ITV. In majestic property. But now, to his dismay, he a film’s visuals to engage with both mood Abrahamson operating in a controlled way
2015, acclaimed South Korean director Park finds it in a state of severe deterioration. and narrative. As for Waters’ naturalistic use that befits the era in which the story is set.
Chan-wook transformed Fingersmith into The It’s the perfect location for the traditional of dialogue, it has always made an effortless Engaging with a classic British genre, which
Handmaiden. And now Lenny Abrahamson, ghost story, but also serves as a metaphor transfer from page to screen. ranges from the astringent worlds of 1940s
the filmmaker behind the Oscar-winning for the country’s dwindling class system. Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden David Lean and Jack Clayton’s The Innocents
Room (2015), as well as Frank (2014) and A significant shift in society, prompted by the highlighted the universality of Waters’ stories. (1961) – a stunning adaptation of Henry
What Richard Did (2012), has directed an election of Clement Attlee’s Labour government Though he moved the action from Victorian James’ The Turn of the Screw – to Merchant
adaptation of Waters’ unsettling post-war in 1945, witnessed widespread reforms, London (so beautifully rendered in the BBC Ivory’s period dramas, Abrahamson draws
supernatural tale The Little Stranger. including plans to implement a massive social production) to 1930s Japanese-occupied out an evocative portrait of British society.
housing project and the creation of a national Korea, director Park’s take on Waters’ novel As shot by cinematographer Ole Bratt
health service. Both feature significantly in remains faithful to both the complex structure Birkeland, the textured visuals and subtle
Waters’ tale. The Ayres, who own and run of the narrative, the richness of the tones are accompanied by complex camera
Hundreds Hall, find adjustment to this new character’s dialogue and the original novel’s movements in and around the country
world difficult. As does Faraday, who exudes thematic concerns: the human condition house. The resulting film is an impressive
the stiff upper lip attitude of an earlier era. remains the same – we all love, we all desire continuation of the tradition of cinematic
Waters’ fiction is intricate in detailing and we can all be easily deceived, no matter ghost stories and another smart move by
the worlds she creates, so it’s natural that where or when we live. Abrahamson’s film Abrahamson, a director as articulate as
her work has proven to be an ideal source emphasises the story’s study in emotional he is eclectic.
for filmmakers. Her subtlety as a writer emasculation, caused by a combination of THE LITTLE STRANGER opens 21 September
preferences inference over the concrete – societal strictures and past events.You can also read
