Curzon Cinemas
SPECIAL PREVIEWS
tickets: £12.00/£9.00 cineastes. With 50 free tickets available for curzon cineastes.
sunday 27 december 2.15pm SOHO
THE ROAD (15)
Director: John Hillcoat. Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce. US 2009. 119 mins
Adapted from Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Road tells th...e story of an unnamed man and his young son travelling alone through a post-apocalyptic landscape, ravaged by an unspecified catastrophe.
P.S: To apply for one of the 50 free tickets for these special previews please email membership@curzoncinemas.com with your name, membership number and choice of film (please note: free tickets are limited to one per member).
With thanks to Icon Film Distributors.
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PLEASE NOTE: Curzon Cinema has another Preview of the ROAD on WED 6 JAN followed by a special Q&A with director John Hillcoat.
CURZON Q&As
THE ROAD (15) Plus Q&A with Director John Hillcoat
wednesday 6 january 6.00pm
tickets: £12.00/£9.00 cineastes
SOHO
Join us for a preview screening of The Road, starring Viggo Mortensen, followed by a Q&A with John Hillcoat (The Proposition).
http://www.curzoncinemas.com/#/whats_on/
Adapted from Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name!
Time:2:15PM Sunday, December 27th
Location:Curzon Soho
Curzon Cinemas
POETRYFILM: MYTHOLOGY & CELEBRATION / Q&A and Live Poetry readings
TICKETS: £10, £8 for members
Wednesday 9th December, Renoir Cinema, 6.15pm
With a theme of Mythology and Celebration, PoetryFilm returns to Renoir with an evening of poetry inspired films, poetry on film, and live poetry readings.
Films include:
- I, Sisyp...hus (Adam Alive) 12m .
- In the Company of Cordwainers (Heather Phillipson). 3m 30
-The Glastonbury Uluru Crystal Bridge (Tor Webster). 6m30.
- Said the Poet to the Analyst (Stephen Sutcliffe) 1m.
-Scouts Are Cancelled (John Stiles and director John Scott). 20m.
Followed by a Q&A and live poetry readings by: Dzifa Benson (live poetry reading, 10m) Dzifa Benson writes, performs, curates and teaches.
She has read and performed her prose and poetry nationally and internationally at venues such as, the London Literature Festival at Southbank Centre, Apples & Snakes, Tate Britain, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, the ICA, Glastonbury, Edinburgh Festival, Southsea Festival, the Houses of Parliament, and the Shakespeare & Company Bookshop, Paris. Her practice embraces cross art forms and she regularly collaborates with visual artists and musicians.
She was artist-in-residence at the Courtauld Institute of Art from 2007 to 2009.
In 2009 she was invited by Southbank Centre to be an ambassador for its Global Poetry System project.
Simon Barraclough (live poetry reading, 10m Simon Barraclough won the poetry section of the London Writers’ Competition in 2000 and his debut book, Los Alamos Mon Amour was nominated for Best First Collection in the Forward Prizes of 2008.
He has also collaborated on two pamphlets: Unfold (2002) and Ask for It by Name (Unfold Press, 2008).
His poems have been published widely in journals and anthologies and he is a regular contributor to Radio 3 and Radio 4, particularly The Film Programme for which he has been commissioned to write several new pieces.
Email PoetryFilm: info@poetryfilm.org for more information on the PoetryFilm events.
Visit our website for information and booking.
Time:6:15PM Wednesday, December 9th
Location:Renoir Cinema
Curzon Cinemas
NOWHERE BOY / Q&A with DIR. SAM TAYLOR-WOOD
TICKETS: £15, £12.50 members
Thursday 10th December, Curzon Mayfair, 6.15pm
Curzon Cinemas is delighted to welcome director Sam Taylor Wood for a post-screening discussion after a preview of her debut feature about John Lennon NOWHERE BOY.
BOOK NOW for a very special preview of t...he acclaimed feature debut of the artist.
The event is sponsored by our good friends Jameson Irish Whiskey with a complimentary cocktail for all ticket holders.
NOWHERE BOY [15]
Director: Sam Taylor Wood |Starring: Anne-Marie Duff, Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas • United Kingdom 2009 • 98 mins
Renowned artist Sam Taylor Wood’s directorial debut, Nowhere Boy follows the turbulent life of a 15 year-old John Lennon (remarkable newcomer Johnson) on the cusp of forming the Beatles, using rock and roll as a form of escape from his troubled and complicated family life. Brilliantly recreating 1950s Liverpool, the film’s witty, acerbic and insightful script – which is also musically attuned – is courtesy of Matt Greenhalgh, who wrote the Ian Curtis biopic, Control.
Taylor Wood’s direction is impressively economical, and she draws fine performances from Scott Thomas (I've Loved You So Long) as Lennon’s domineering Aunt Mimi and Duff (Is Anybody There?) as his mother.
---We urge you to book in advance for one of the most hotly anticipated films of the year either online or via our phone room 0871 703 3989---
With thanks to Icon Film Distribution.
Time:6:15PM Thursday, December 10th
Location:Curzon Mayfair
Curzon Cinemas
UNMADE BEDS / Q&A with Dir. ALEXIS DOS SANTOS
TICKETS: £12, £9 members
Friday 11th December, Curzon Soho, 6.50pm
Curzon Cinemas is delighted to welcome director Alexis dos Santos for a post-screening discussion after the screening of his second feature UNMADE BEDS.
UNMADE BEDS [15]
Starring: Deborah Francois, Michiel Huisma...n, Fernando Tielve • United Kingdom 2009 • 97 mins • English, Spanish, and French with English subtitles
Alexis Dos Santos’ vivid and seductive second feature follows its endearing metropolitan drifters around a wholly persuasive nocturnal landscape of grubby flat shares, hipster warehouse parties and drug-related friendships. Fernando Tielve and Déborah François (The Page Turner) play Axl and Vera, a free-roaming Spanish naïf and a New Wave-y Belgian heartbreaker trying to forge their respective paths to happiness.
With shades of both Michel Gondry and Wong Kar-wai, this is an idiosyncratic, atmospheric and absolutely winning anti-romance that also just happens to be the year’s coolest paean to good music, bad hangovers and lost love.
With thanks to Soda Pictures
Time:6:50PM Friday, December 11th
Location:Curzon Soho
Curzon Cinemas
Tonight go and get a little insight into the world of American maverick Steven Soderberg at our Curzon Screen Salon hosted by Ian Haydn Smith at 6.40pm, at Curzon Soho. See www.curzoncinemas.com/#/whats_on/curzon_
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BUNNY AND THE BULL (15) Plus Q&A with director Paul King and actors Ed Hogg and Simon Farnaby
friday 27 november 6.50pm. tickets: £12.00 / £9.00 cineastes
SOHO
Curzon Cinemas is delighted to welcome first-time feature film director Paul King and actors Ed Hogg and Simon Farnaby for a post-screening discussion after the sc...reening of Bunny And The Bull. Paul King is known for his BBC cult TV series The Mighty Boosh, and his debut-feature stars some of the cast from the series.
***PLEASE NOTE: This event takes place at Curzon Soho, not at Renoir Cinema as previously advertised. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.***
Bunny and the Bull [15]
Director: Paul King • Starring: Verónica Echegui, Simon Farnaby, Edward Hogg • United Kingdom 2009 • 101 mins
The highly anticipated first feature by Mighty Boosh director Paul King (and starring a clutch of Boosh regulars) is unlikely to disappoint fans of their surreal, anarchic comedy. Stephen (Hogg) hasn’t left his house in months, since a disastrous trip around Europe with his best friend Bunny (Farnaby). When an infestation of mice throws Stephen’s obsessive domestic routine into chaos, he starts to reflect on the adventure that his pal concocted, allegedly to help Stephen recover from a broken heart. But Bunny’s idea of a rollicking good time proves at odds with Stephen’s yen for cultural improvement. Sandra Hebron, The Times BFI London Film Festival.
With thanks to Optimum Releasing.
Paul King is known for his BBC cult TV series The Mighty Boosh!
Time:6:50PM Friday, November 27th
Location:Curzon Soho
Curzon Cinemas
Kinēmatheque presents: DIARY FOR MY CHILDREN Plus Q&A with co-writer Éva Pataki
sunday 22 november 12noon
tickets: £10.00/£8.00 cineastes
RENOIR
Kinēmatheque is a strand curated by Curzon Cinemas and Second Run DVD that’s dedicated to celebrating world cinema. For this special event we welcome one of the world’s foremost f...emale directors to discuss the film that earned her the Special Jury Prize at Cannes.
***PLEASE NOTE: Due to unforeseen circumstances Márta Mészáros is unable to attend this screening, as previous advertised. However, we are delighted that Éva Pataki, renowned co-writer of the films in the Diary Trilogy, has kindly agreed to come from Hungary to introduce the screening and take part in the Q&A which will be hosted by broadcaster and writer John Riley. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.***
DIARY FOR MY CHILDREN (12)
Director: Márta Mészáros. Starring: Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Anna Polony, Jan Nowicki. Hungary 1982. 102 mins. Hungarian with subtitles
This deeply personal work portrays the impact of individuals upon history and of historical forces upon individual lives. Neither purely fictional nor entirely autobiographical, the film is a reflection on Mészáros’ own experiences channelled via Juli, a young woman returning home to Budapest from the Soviet Union where her parents were exiled and had died. Scarred by the wounds of the past, she is repulsed to see the very same spectre of Stalinist oppression now rife in her homeland.
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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Curzon Cinemas bring you Diary for... My Children, which won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival!
Time:2:15PM Sunday, November 22nd
Location:Renoir Cinema
Curzon Cinemas
hmvcurzon presents SCREEN SALON: THE WHITE RIBBON & MICHAEL HANEKE
sunday 15 november 5.10pm
hmvcurzon Wimbledon
Tickets: £11.00/£9.00 cineastes
*To celebrate the opening of The White Ribbon, hmvcurzon are offering 2 for 1 tickets for this event. To be eligible for this offer please pick up a voucher at the cinema.*
The ...hmvcurzon Screen Salons are a series of illustrated talks, offering a deeper insight into some of the latest releases. This Salon is a brief guide to the celebrated works of Michael Haneke, who is now a dominant force in European cinema, followed by a screening of his stunning Palme d’Or winning film The White Ribbon. Presented by Ian Haydn Smith, Editor of the International Film Guide.
White Ribbon [15]
Director: Michael Haneke • Austria and Germany • 144 mins • German with English subtitles
Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, The White Ribbon confirms Haneke as one of the most important and consistent filmmakers of his time. His latest masterpiece is an analysis of how a small Protestant village in northern Germany became a ‘petri dish’ for fascism during World War I. Within this microcosm a series of disturbing and distressing incidents take place, which gradually assume the character of a ritual of punishment and torture – yet the identity of the perpetrators becomes a source of mystery.
With thanks to Artificial Eye.
http://www.hmvcurzon.com/movie_details/d
From Michael Haneke (‘Hidden’, ‘The Piano Teacher’) comes this year’s Cannes Film Festival winner!
Time:5:10PM Sunday, November 15th
Location:hmvcurzon Wimbledon
Curzon Cinemas
SPECIAL PREVIEW: A SERIOUS MAN
sunday 15 november 2.45pm
CHELSEA
Tickets: £10.00/£8.00 cineastes
50 free tickets available for curzon cineastes
Curzon Cinemas is proud to present a Special Preview of A Serious Man with 50 free tickets on offer to Curzon Cineastes and Auteurs. To apply for one of the 50 free tickets for th...ese special previews please email membership@curzoncinemas.com with your name, membership number and choice of film (please note: free tickets are limited to one per member).
A SERIOUS MAN (15)
Director: Joel and Ethan Coen. Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Sari Lennick, Richard Kind. US 2009. 105 mins.
The story of one man’s life viciously unspooling, and imbued with their characteristic eye for character and humour, A Serious Man ranks with the Coen brother’s finest work. It’s 1967 and Larry Gopnik (Stuhlbarg, Afterschool), a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife that she is leaving him for one of his colleagues. Larry’s unemployable brother Arthur (Kind) is sleeping on the couch, while his children eschew any sense of responsibility. With these trials of life, Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis but can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous person – a mensch – a serious man?
With thanks to Universal Pictures.
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A Serious Man is the exciting new film by the masters Coen Brothers!
Time:2:45PM Sunday, November 15th
Location:Chelsea Cinema
Curzon Cinemas
Visible Secrets: Hong Kong’s Women Filmmakers presents: CLAUSTROPHOBIA (European Premiere) plus Q&A with director Ivy Ho
monday 2 november 6.15pm
tickets: £12.00/£9.00 cineastes
MAYFAIR
Visible Secrets: Hong Kong’s Women Filmmakers is a unique programme of films, events and special guests designed to celebrate the vibrancy... of Hong Kong’s female directors. This season launches with a gala screening at Curzon Mayfair and a special post-screening discussion with the director.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE CLAUSTROPHOBIA (cert tbc)
Director: Ivy Ho. Starring: Kar Yan Lam, Ekin Cheng, Chucky Woo. Hong Kong 2008. 100 mins. Cantonese with subtitles
An intriguing film that reveals much about the relationship between two ordinary office workers Tom and Pearl and their colleagues with whom they share a ride to work.
Presented by Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, London.
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www.cornerhouse.org/visiblesecrets
Claustrophobia is the Opening Night Film of Visible Secrets: Hong Kong’s Women Filmmakers Season!
Time:6:15PM Monday, November 2nd
Location:Curzon Mayfair
Curzon Cinemas
CURZON Q&As: STARSUCKERS (advised 15) plus Q&A with writer/director Chris Atkins
friday 30 october 6.30pm.
tickets: £12.00/£9.00 cineastes
SOHO
Chris Atkins’s last BAFTA-nominated feature documentary TAKING LIBERTIES was both a critical and commercial hit. STARSUCKERS, his next offering, examines the psychological reasons... behind our irrational obsession with fame and exposes the techniques used by the industries which propagate it. The documentary was made completely independently over two years in secret, and will almost certainly never be screened uncut on British TV.
With thanks to Chris Atkins and Miracle Communications Limited.
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PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL BE DOING FURTHER SCREENINGS OF THE DOCUMENTARY WITHOUT Q&A ON:
SUN 01 NOV - 12NOON - CURZON SOHO
MON 02 NOV - 6.30PM - CURZON SOHO
WED 04 NOV - 9.00PM - CURZON SOHO
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http://www.curzoncinemas.com/#/events/qa
The documentary was made completely independently over two years in secret, and will almost certainly never be screened uncut on British TV!
Time:6:30PM Friday, October 30th
Location:Curzon Soho
Curzon Cinemas
hmvcurzon ANIME SPECIAL
sunday 1 november 1.30pm
tickets: £10.00 / £8.00 cineastes
GHOST IN THE SHELL 2.0 (15) plus Introduction
Director: Mamoru Oshii | Japan | 2008 | 82mins | Japanese with English subtitles
In the year 2029 following the Forth World War, a Japanese-led Asian block dominates world affairs, securing its su...premacy with an elite cybernetic security force. Originally released in 1995, Oshii’s film stunned anime fans by merging traditional animation and CG imagery. This newly enhanced "director's cut" contains over 90 altered and enhanced scenes and an all-new soundtrack.
With thanks to Manga Entertainment.
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This newly enhanced director's cut contains over 90 altered and enhanced scenes and an all-new soundtrack!
Time:1:30PM Sunday, November 1st
Location:hmvcurzon Wimbledon
Curzon Cinemas
PREVIEW OF TALES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE PLUS Q&A WITH CO-DIRECTORS HANNO HOFER AND CONSTANTIN POPESCU
THU 29 OCT at 6.00pm
tickets: £10.00 / £8.00 cineastes
RENOIR
Curzon Cinemas welcomes co-directors Hanno Höfer and Constantin Popescu to the stage to discuss their new film based on five urban legends from Communist Romania. ...We regret that Cristian Mungiu, Razvan Marculescu and Ioana Uricaru are now unable to attend this event, as previously advertised.
TALES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE [12A]
Director: Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Crisitian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru • Romania 2009 • 131 mins • Romanian with English subtitles
From the creators of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days comes an unconventional personal history of the late communist period in Romania, the so-called ‘The Golden Age’, in reality the worse in Romania’s history. Tales From the Golden Age adapts for screen the most popular urban myths of the period. Comic, bizarre, surprising myths abounded, myths that drew on the often-surreal events of everyday life under Ceausescu’s regime.
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From the creators of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days comes an unconventional personal history of the late communist period in Romania!
Time:6:00PM Thursday, October 29th
Location:Renoir Cinema
Curzon Cinemas
Fantastic Mr. Fox plus Intro by Andy Gent
hmvcurzon Wimbledon
tickets: £10.00 / £8.00 cineastes
Wes Anderson’s ('The Royal Tenenbaums') first animated film uses classic stop-motion techniques to tell Roald Dahl’s best-selling children’s story. Mr and Mrs Fox (voiced by George Clooney and Meryl Streep, alongside cast inclu...ding Bill Murray and Jarvis Cocker) live an idyllic domestic life…until Mr Fox’s animal instincts incur the wrath of three mean farmers.
We welcome Andy Gent, the models supervisor from 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' to introduce the 6.30pm screening on Friday 23 October and talk about his work on the film.
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Adapted from Roald Dahl's novel of the same name, Fantastic Mr. Fox is the new film by Wes Anderson ...(Darjeeling Limited, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, etc.)!
Time:6:30PM Friday, October 23rd
Location:hmvcurzon
