ORDINARY LOVE Thursday 6 February 2020 at 2.30pmand 7.30pm
Liam Neeson, Lesley Manville, Amit Shah
Joan and Tom have been married for many years. There is an ease to their relationship that only comes from spending a life time together and a depth of love which expresses itself through tenderness and humour in equal part. When Joan is unexpectedly diagnosed with breast cancer, the course of her treatment shines a light on their relationship as they are faced with the challenges that lie ahead and the prospect of what might happen if something were to happen to her.
2019 | Dir Lisa Barros D’sa, Glenn Leyburn | 92min | UK
The programme will also include our current BRIT School Showcase film Dementia: The Personal Element (PG, 6 min) a Year 13 documentary directed by Morgan Quashie.
Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Lewis MacDougall, Liam Neeson
Scripted by Patrick Ness from his own novel, “A Monster Calls” tells the tale of young Conor (MacDougall), who is struggling to cope with the realisation that his mother (Felicity Jones) has terminal cancer.
Bullied at school and with little sympathy from his brusque, icy grandmother (Sigourney Weaver), Conor relies on his imagination to survive, confessing his deepest fears to the tree-shaped monster he has sketched in his notepad.
His torment mysteriously awakens an unlikely ally in the ancient yew tree, just beyond his bedroom window.
As Conor, MacDougall is remarkable in his first leading role, while Neeson delivers compelling vocal and motion capture performances as the monster.
A selection of Reviews from:The Telegraph; The Independent; and The Huddersfield Daily Examiner here, trumpeting the film as a local production (it wasn’t, Denshaw is nearer to Oldham than to Huddersfield).
All these reviews contain links to a Trailer – the US version can be seen here:
David Lean Cinema, Croydon on Thursday 16th February 2017
Show starts at 7.30PM, Ticket prices: £8.00 & £6.50 (concessions)
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* note early start for the evening screening owing to the length of the film
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson
In 17th century Japan, Christians are hunted down and persecuted unless they renounce their faith.
Despite this grave danger, two Portuguese Jesuit missionaries (Driver and Garfield) travel to Japan to search for their missing colleague (Neeson).
Depicting the harrowing trials that they witness and experience, “Silence” raises questions of faith, doubt and morality with “passionate ferocity” (Financial Times).
It is a film that has been a long time in the making, an interview with the director in The New York Times indicating that Scorsese first read Shusake Endo’s (1966) novel in 1989, at a time when his “The Last Temptation of Christ” had been vilified by some reviewers.
After over 25 years of wondering ‘how’ and overcoming studio and financial backer reluctance, here is the result. (In contrast, it only took Otto Preminger 2 years to persuade the movie industry that the Broadway musical “Carmen Jones” could translate to the big screen…)
Here is a Review from The Guardian and links to deeper discussions of the film within: the context of Scorsese’s career – New York Times, cited above; and the genre of faith focused films – The Atlantic
The Guardian review includes a link to a Trailer, the ‘official’ version can be seen below [fvplayer src=”https://youtu.be/A0KUWzfugg4″]
David Lean Cinema, Croydon on Thursday 23rd February 2017
Shows start at 2.30PM or 7.00PM, Ticket prices: £8.00 & £6.50 (concessions)
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Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Lewis MacDougall, Liam Neeson
Scripted by Patrick Ness from his own novel, “A Monster Calls” tells the tale of young Conor (MacDougall), who is struggling to cope with the realisation that his mother (Felicity Jones) has terminal cancer.
Bullied at school and with little sympathy from his brusque, icy grandmother (Sigourney Weaver), Conor relies on his imagination to survive, confessing his deepest fears to the tree-shaped monster he has sketched in his notepad.
His torment mysteriously awakens an unlikely ally in the ancient yew tree, just beyond his bedroom window.
As Conor, MacDougall is remarkable in his first leading role, while Neeson delivers compelling vocal and motion capture performances as the monster.
A selection of Reviews from:The Telegraph; The Independent; and The Huddersfield Daily Examiner here, trumpeting the film as a local production (it wasn’t, Denshaw is nearer to Oldham than to Huddersfield).
All these reviews contain links to a Trailer – the US version can be seen here:
David Lean Cinema, Croydon on Tuesday 14th February 2017
Show starts at 2.30PM, Ticket prices: £8.00 & £6.50 (concessions)
– click on the time to make a booking. Cookie Error? See here…….
UK
The programme will also include our current BRIT School Showcase film Dementia: The Personal Element (PG, 6 min) a Year 13 documentary directed by Morgan Quashie.
