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Unaccompanied children: We regret that we’re unable to accept children under the age of 14 who are unaccompanied by an adult to watch movies. This is because we’re unable to provide the supervision and care required under the law.
14th - 20th November
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A Different Man
My Favourite Cake
Thelma
Lee
Gut Instinct
With an optional interactive element and a Q&A with the director afterwards
From the Terror-Fi Film Festival, New Zealand’s premier genre film festival showcasing the best horror, thriller, sci-fi and other fantastically awesome films from around the world, comes Gut Instinct.
New Zealand director Doug Dillaman’s trippy post-apocalyptic sci-fi GUT INSTINCT, where you are an active participant in this one-of-a-kind, epic, eye-popping experiment.
After the alien gut microbe invasion that brought about the collapse of civilisation and the death of 93% of humanity, life has been … less than ideal. But no longer! Interself’s revolutionary Gut Instinct purification programme will free your mind – and your guts – forever!
There will be some sweet treats to enjoy during the film… at the narrator’s command.
The World Premiere of this film occurred only at the end of October, and here we have it in Thames.
Quartet
Billy Connolly, Dame Maggie Smith and Michael Gambon star in this
comedy about a retired group of opera singers who put on a
fund-raising concert to keep their home running. This is the
directorial debut of screen legend Dustin Hoffman, an adaptation of
the stageplay by Ronald Harwood.
Lifelong friends Wilf (Connolly), Reggie (Tom Courtenay) and Cissy
(Pauline Collins) are residents of Beecham House, a home for retired
opera singers. Every year on Giuseppe Verdi’s birthday, the residents
unite to give a concert and raise funds. But things derail when Jean
(Smith) – a former grande dame of opera fallen on hard times, also
Reggie’s ex-wife and the fourth and most celebrated member of their
former quartet – moves in. As old grudges threaten to undermine past
glories and theatrical temperaments play havoc with the rehearsal
schedule, it becomes apparent that having four of the finest singers
in English operatic history under one roof offers no guarantee that
the show will go on.
The Critic
Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton and Mark Strong star in this story of
ambition, blackmail and desire with an anti-hero at its dark heart. A
whodunnit wrapped in a Faustian pact which winds tighter and tighter.
Based on the novel Curtain Call by Anthony Quinn, the film follows an
actress who finds herself in a dark situation involving a theatre
critic and his paper’s editor in 1930s London.
Bookworm
Eleven-year-old Mildred’s life is turned upside down when her stressed
out, strapped-for-cash single mum lands in hospital and her estranged
father, Strawn Wise (Elijah Wood) – a has-been American illusionist –
flies to New Zealand to look after her.
The bookish tween’s lifelong quest has been to capture proof that the
mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther exists, which would
bring with it a cash prize that would pull her and her mother out of
their financial struggles.
Newly introduced father and daughter head to the wilderness on a
camping trip for the ultimate test of family bonding, watched from
afar by a deadly black beast that could be the answer to all their
woes.
Exploring universal themes of fatherhood, survival and overcoming your
fears, and with the rugged Southern New Zealand landscape as its
backdrop, Bookworm will make you laugh, cry and warm your heart as it
takes you on the adventure of a lifetime.
Memoir of a Snail
Lies We Tell
The daunting, rambling estate of Knowl is no home for a young woman on her own, and certainly not for Maud
(Agnes O’Casey, The Miracle Club) – just 18 years old. Freshly burdened with the sudden death of her father,
and granted inheritance to his entire estate when she comes of age at 21, Maud is alone, unschooled in the
ways of society, and vulnerable. The wolves begin to circle…
In a bewildering turn of events, Uncle Silas (David Wilmot, The Guard) is revealed as Maud’s guardian in her
father’s will. A pariah of ‘society’, he is infamous for being a callous and uncaring man.
Silas is furious at being denied his ‘rightful’ inheritance, and in a world designed to constrain women, deploys
society’s most underhand weapons to bend Maud to his will.
As family secrets are uncovered, Maud discovers and reclaims her fledgling independence.
Lies We Tell is a chilling and atmospheric gothic tour de force, featuring a star making turn from Agnes
O’Casey.
Winner of 3 Irish Film & Television awards – Best Director, Best Script and Best Actress.
Starring: Agnes O’Casey, David Wilmot
Directed by: Lisa Mulcahy
Merchant Ivory
Merchant Ivory is the first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the
partnership, both professional and personal, of director James Ivory (Oscar-winning writer of Call Me By Your
Name), and producer Ismail Merchant.
Footage from more than fifty interviews, clips, and archival material gives voice to the family of actors and
technicians who helped define Merchant Ivory’s Academy Award-winning work of consummate quality and
intelligence.
With six Oscar winners among the notable artists participating, these close and often long-term collaborators
intimately detail the transformational cinematic creativity and personal and professional drama of the
wandering company that left an indelible impact on film culture.
As well as watching this fascinating insight into the collaboration behind such classics, don’t miss the chance
to revisit their acclaimed works Howards End and The Remains of the Day.
Starring: James Ivory, Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter
Directed by: Stephen Soucy