September / October 2010 - Riverside Studios

September / October 2010 

Box Office 020 8237 1111 

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WHAT’S ON CINEMA / THEATRE / EXHIBITIONS / BAR & KITCHEN 

Shakespeare. 

The Man from Stratford

PERFORMANCE 

Performance 

Chris Dugdale 

An Evening of Magic and 

Mindreading 

World class magician Chris Dugdale returns to Riverside Studios by popular 

demand with a show that will leave you spellbound. In a journey through 

the mind, Chris fuses close-up magic and recorded video, mind-reading and 

theatrical artistry to create a perplexing, interactive spectacle. The face and 

expert of the new Britain’s Got Talent Stage Magic kit, Chris previously 

performed in venues the world over including the Monte Carlo Casino in 

Las Vegas and a private audience for Her Majesty The Queen. Experiencing 

magic before your eyes is a sensation like no other. Join Chris for a night 

that you will never forget! 

Dates + Times 

31 Aug –19 Sept 

Tue – Sat 7.45pm 

Sun 4pm 

Sat Mat 4, 11, 18 Sept 2.30pm 

Previews 31 Aug, 1 Sep 

Tickets 

£15 (£12 concs.) 

Sat mat £12 

Previews £10 

Studio 3 

Simon Callow 

Shakespeare 

The Man From Stratford 

A New Play by Jonathan Bate. Directed By Tom Cairns. 

Rediscover Shakespeare with one of Britain’s most 

celebrated actors. Simon Callow tracks down the real 

man behind the legend, bringing to life both the Bard 

and his unforgettable characters. Following the worldwide 

success of The Mystery of Charles Dickens (West 

End/Broadway) and his sell-out hit Dr Marigold & Mr 

Chops, Callow fills the stage with Shakespeare’s real and 

imagined worlds. A warm, classy and jovial night 

out not to be missed! 

Image Simon Annand 

Dates + Times 

2 - 12 September 8pm 

Sat mat 2.30pm 

Sun 3pm 

Tickets 

£25 (£20 concs.) 

Sat Mats £20 (£15 concs.) 

Studio 2 

A £30 reserved ticket is available, 

which guarantees you a seat situated 

centrally within the front four rows, 

and includes a complimentary 

programme (phone & counter only). 

“ So fresh... as if those well-trodden words 

were being uttered for the first time” 

Liverpool Echo 

“ A sparkling gemstone... a triumph of 

writing... a masterclass of performance” 

Bristol Evening Post

THEATRE 

The Open Couple 

By Dario Fo and Franca Rame, directed by Keti Dolidze 

The heartbreakingly funny course of a suburban 

marriage gone sour. Antonia has coped with her 

philandering husband for a while when he suggests they 

should have an open marriage. She agrees but will he 

cope when Antonia appears more successful than he 

ever imagined 

“This is what theatre should be” 

British Theatre Guide 

Georgian Theatre 

Season 

14 – 26 September 

Two of the best known companies from Georgia: the 

Tumanishvili Film Actors Theatre and the Marjanishvili 

Drama Theatre present a season that will be a feast of 

laughter, high drama and great acting – come and see it! 

All performances are in Georgian with English surtitles. 

Season kindly supported by Turkish Airlines. 

Tickets 

£15 (£12 concs.) 

£10 Under 18s 

Bakula’s Pigs 

By David Kldiashvili, directed by Mikheil Tumanishvili 

A Gogolesque tale of the little man, his long 

suffering family, nosy neighbours and the disastrous 

consequences of inviting high officials to dine – not to 

mention the pigs of the title! A theatrical experience 

that transcends national boundaries and language. 

Dates & Time 

14 – 16 Sept 8pm 

Camino Real 

By Tennessee Williams, directed by Hilary Wood 

The play depicts Don Quixote’s dream of historical 

and mythical figures trying to escape from Camino Real 

– a town on the edge of civilization. Into this world 

comes Kilroy, an American boxer who fights to stay 

alive among characters who struggle to distinguish 

imagination from reality. 

Dates & Time 

Bakula’s Pigs 

Dates & Time 

21 – 22 Sept 8pm 

The Bald Prima Donna 

By Eugene Ionesco, directed by Zurab Getsadze 

Enter Ionesco’s mysterious and absurd world, where 

reality collapses. Be stunned by the eruptions of 

nonsensical natter, the ludicrous tales and the raving 

routines that are crammed into a very ordinary 

living room. 

Date & Time 

23 Sept 8pm 

Antigone 

By Jean Anouilh, directed by Temur Chkheidze 

With Otar Megvinetukhutsesi as Creon 

Based on Sophocles’ tragedy, Anouilh’s version was 

first performed in Paris during the German occupation 

of France. Here, Antigone’s fight for justice against 

Creon became a fierce commentary on the power 

struggle between the French Resistance and the 

Vichy Government. 

“One of those rare moments when theatre and history come 

together on stage, and leave us shaken and changed.” 

Scotsman 

Dates & Time 

24 – 26 Sept 8pm 

Otar Megvinetukhutsesi 

as Creon in Antigone 

17 – 19 Sept 8pm

PERFORMANCE 

The Sum of it All 

Performance 

Anomic Multimedia Theatre presents 

The Sum of it All... 

Dan Shorten, award-winning director and co-founder of Precarious, stars 

in a heartfelt story, lamenting the journey from banality through love to 

despair. At once witty and melancholic The Sum of it All... explores the 

tragic choices, unsettling circumstances and extreme emotions which lead 

the protagonist to the most profound and disturbing decision of his life. 

A giant wall of video forms a backdrop to live action merging technology, 

physicality and imagination, chock-a-block with ingenuity and originality. 

anomic.co.uk 

Dates + Time 

21 – 25 Sept 

7.45pm 

Tickets 

£12 (£9 concs.) 

Studio 3 

Dance Umbrella presents 

Cristina Caprioli (Sweden) 

cut-outs & trees UK Premiere 

Making her first appearance in the UK, Cristina 

Caprioli has developed cut-outs & trees in collaboration 

with architect and digital artist Panagiotis Michalatos. 

The six dancers deliver an explosive outburst of speed 

and complexity, urge and resistance, but also graceful 

simplicity and clarity. Caprioli references 1960’s and 

70’s minimalism, reconsidering and redesigning these 

ideas using digital technology. Original sound score 

by Carsten Nicolai a.k.a. alva noto. 

Please note this will be a promenade performance. 

Commissioned by Dance Umbrella (London), La Biennale 

di Venezia (Venice) and Dansens Hus (Stockholm) as part of 

European Network of Performing Arts (ENPARTS). 

Co-produced by Dansens Hans and ccap. 

Dates + Time 

20 – 21 Oct 

8pm 

Tickets 

£12 (£10 concs.) 

Studio 2 

After Dark presents 

How to Survive a Zombie 

Apocalypse - Reloaded 

The School of Survival are back! 

Dr. Dale, Judy, Donald and Tristen return to Riverside 

with the second lesson in zombie survival training – 

new hints, tips, techniques and tactics to battle the 

same old problem – The Walking Dead! 

Direct from their return to Edinburgh and following 

the release of Zombie Dictionary there will be a 

special book signing after the show. 

Dates + Time 

cut-outs & trees 

Image Håkan Larsson 

Tickets 

23 Oct 

8pm 

£10 (£7 concs.) 

Studio 3

Image Hugo Glendinning 

Forced Entertainment present 

The Thrill of It All 

It’s bright under the lights, and hot, and frightening. Nine performers 

in grubby tuxedos and tarnished sequins play out a comical and 

disconcerting vaudeville to the strains of Japanese lounge music. 

After the minimalism of Spectacular and the animated graphic novel of 

Void Story, internationally renowned innovators Forced Entertainment 

return with a large cast of deranged dancing girls and derelict comedians. 

Dances turn into fights and jokes end in confusion as the show itself 

slowly starts to unravel. 

“One of Britain’s greatest theatre companies.” The Guardian 

“Theatre turned inside out.” Sunday Times 

Co-producers Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), PACT Zollverein (Essen), 

Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou in collaboration with Festival d’Automne (Paris), Theatre 

Garonne (Toulouse). Forced Entertainment is regularly funded by Arts Council England. This 

production is supported by Sheffield City Council. 

forcedentertainment.com 

Dates + Time 

26 Oct – 6 Nov 

8pm 

Not Sunday and Monday 

Post show discussions 

on 27 & 28 Oct and 

3 & 4 Nov 

Tickets 

£18 (£13 concs.) 

Groups £13 

(buy 10 get 1 free) 

School Groups £13 

(10 students and 

Teacher goes free) 

Studio 2 

How to Survive a Zombie 

Apocalypse - Reloaded

PERFORMANCE 

Forkbeard Fantasy present 

The Colour of Nonsense 

Forkbeard Fantasy, maestros of comic cine theatre, 

present a hilarious cartoon-style comedy about the 

Art World. With Forkbeard’s famed mix of visual 

trickery, film, cartoon, outlandish puppetry and 

mechanized sets, The Colour of Nonsense is an 

exuberant satire on an art and theatre world always 

in search of the New. 

At the studios of Splash, Line & Scuro, Cutting Edge 

Conceptualists, things have been sliding dangerously 

down hill of late. Paralyzed by indecision, they look on 

as all the bright Young Turks queue up, eager to knock 

them off their perch. Then, out of the blue, comes a 

unique and mysterious commission... 

“Brilliantly funny and full of insane invention” 

The Guardian 

Dates + Time 

9 – 21 Nov 7.45pm 

Sun 6pm 

Tickets 

£14 (£10 concs.) 

Studio 3 

Image Maisie Hill 

Sincerely Noël 

With Alistair McGowan 

and Charlotte Page 

A selection of Noël Coward’s lesser known songs and 

verse in an extended version of last year’s hit show 

Cocktails with Coward. Expect a lot of laughter and a few 

tears – proof positive that Coward was an unsurpassed 

observer of language, character and the human heart. 

The songs range from the iconic Mad About the Boy to 

the genial A Room With A View, from the poignant and 

haunting The Dream is Over to the happy Charleston 

of Poor Little Rich Girl. 

If you think you know Coward – or McGowan 

– think again! 

Dates + Times 

7 - 23 Dec 7.45pm 

Sun 4pm 

Matinees 

11, 18 and 22 Dec 3pm 

Previews 7 and 8 Dec 

Tickets 

£18.50 (£15.50 concs.) 

Previews £12 

Studio 3

EXHIBITION 

Exhibition 

John Williams 

Captured Live: 

Music Photography 

by John Williams 


West London-based live music and event 

photographer John Williams presents a selection of 

powerful live shots featuring some of the world’s 

finest contemporary artists and local talent alike. From 

international festival headliners such as Nick Cave and 

Grace Jones to established British venue-fillers Doves, 

John has produced images from across the UK, Europe 

and many of London’s most famous venues. Over the 

past few years his natural eye has developed an acute 

sense of the personal, with an honesty and rawness to 

his work that has the ability to portray a full sensory 

experience from within the frozen split second. 

johnwilliamsphotography.co.uk 

Ingrid Mackay 

Ingrid Mackay 

18 – 29 September & 4 – 9 October 

A recent graduate of the Slade School of Fine 

Art, Ingrid Mackay creates paintings and drawings 

using a wide variety of sources: newspapers, family 

photographs, magazines, fabrics, ancient artefacts, 

religious paintings, patterns and symbols. The source 

of the imagery is of secondary importance; the artist 

intends that all works are treated with the same 

economy of mark and detail to instil an intense, 

personal and precious quality. 

Rhythmic Tales 

Alice Boyle 

11-31 October 

Rhythmic Tales is a new collection of paintings that stimulate 

the viewer’s imagination by creating vignettes of stylised 

distortions of nature. 

The works contain specific symbols and colours to conjure 

up stories, involving the observer in creating the meaning of 

the piece. Combining her memories, dreams and experiences, 

Alice creates vibrant dreamlike worlds, evoking a surreal 

sensibility that gives the essence of a poem or song. 

aliceboyle.co.uk 

Alice Boyle

CINEMA 

Cinema 

September 

Wednesday 1 September 

Yvan Attal Double Bill 

Leaving (15) 6.50pm 

(Partir) 

Catherine Corsini, France, 2009, 85m subtitles 

Kristin Scott Thomas, Sergi López, Yvan Attal 

Suzanne (Scott Thomas) has been 

married to Samuel (Attal) for twenty years 

and has two children. Longing to return 

to work she constantly appears aloof 

and distracted, so when handyman Ivan 

(López) appears it’s only a matter of time 

before an affair begins. 

Rapt (15) 8.40pm 

Lucas Belvaux, France, 2009, 125m subtitles 

Yvan Attal, Anne Consigny, André Marcon 

A rich industrialist is kidnapped. 

The kidnapper, police and the board 

of his company negotiate about the 

requested 50 million Euro ransom while 

the press dredge up the businessman’s 

unpleasant past. 

Thursday 2 September 

Jean-Luc Godard Double Bill 

Pierrot le Fou (15) 6.45pm 

Jean-Luc Godard, France/Italy, 1965, 

110m subtitles 

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, 

Graziella Galvani 

On impulse Ferdinand (Belmondo) 

abandons his wife and child to take off 

with Marianne, an old flame, on a crazy 

and eventually tragic adventure involving 

fast cars, mysterious gangsters and a 

Mediterranean idyll that turns sour. 

Breathless (PG) 9.00pm 

(A bout de souffle) 

Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1959, 89m 

subtitles, black and white 

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seaberg, 

Daniel Boulanger 

Godard’s debut feature is as fresh today 

as when it first dazzled audiences with 

its sly homage to American B-movies. 

Breathless 

Friday 3 September Double Bill 

Hilary and Jackie (15) 6.20pm 

Arnand Tucker, UK, 1998, 122m 

Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths, James Frain 

A film based on the true story of worldrenowned 

classical cellist Jacqueline du 

Pré as told from the point of view of 

her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi. 

A film of brilliant performances and 

lush cinematography. 

The Concert (15) 8.50pm 

Radu Mihaileanu, France/Italy/Romania, 2009, 


Mélanie Laurent, François Berléand, 

Aleksei Guskov 

Thirty years ago Andrei Simoniovich 

Filipov, the renowned conductor of the 

Bolshoi Orchestra, was fired for hiring 

Jewish musicians. When he learns that 

the Chatelet Theatre has invited the 

Bolshoi orchestra to play there he decides 

to gather all of his former musicians and 

go in its place. 

Saturday 4 September Double Bill 





Please see Friday 3 September 

for details. 

Sunday 5 September 

Jacques Tati Double Bill 

Playtime (U) 2.00pm 

Jacques Tati, France, 1967, 119m subtitles 

Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden 

Monsieur Hulot is on the loose in 1960’s 

Paris with a group of American tourists. 

This rarely screened film was originally 

filmed in 70mm. 

Jour de Fete (U) 4.20pm 


Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur 

“The film observes a French village’s 

Bastille Day celebrations during which 

Tati’s pastoral postman, having seen the 

delivery systems of the US postal service 

on film, is enjoined to hasten his own 

mail-run, the American way.” Time Out 


Bernardo Bertolucci Double Bill 

The Conformist (18) 6.00pm 

(Il Conformista) 

Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy, 1968) 115m subtitles 

An ironic and stylist study of pre-war 

Fascist Italy. The film was based on 

a novel by Alberto Moravia and has 

haunting camerawork by Vittorio Storano. 

Last Tango in Paris (18) 8.20pm 

(Ultimo tango a Parigi) 

Bernardo Bertolucci, France, 1972, 126m 

partly subtitled 

Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Jean-Pierre Leaud 

Brando plays a world-hopping American, 

who finally settles into a marriage and 

proprietorship of a hotel in Paris. His 

wife’s suicide sends him into a tailspin. 

Enter Jeanne (Schneider), a young 

Parisian girl with whom he strikes up 

an affair without names. 

Monday 6 September 

New York Single Bill 

Please Give (15) 7.00pm 

Nicole Holofcener, USA, 2010, 90m 

Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet, Rebecca Hall 

In New York City a husband and wife 

butt heads with the granddaughters of the 

elderly woman who lives in the apartment 

the couple own. “A beady-eyed satire.” 

Daily Telegraph 


New York Single Bill 

City Island (12A) 8.55pm 

Raymond De Felitta, USA, 2009, 103m 

Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies, Alan Arkin 

Set in a quaint fishing community on 

the outskirts of New York City, this is 

a hilarious and touching tale about a 

family whose comfortable co-existence 

is suspended by surprising revelations 

of past secrets and present day lies. 

City Island 

Tuesday 7 September 

Cinema closed for private event.


Single Bill 

The Garden 7.00pm 

Scott Hamilton Kennedy, USA, 2008, 80m 

documentary 

This Academy Award nominated 

documentary tells the story of an urban 

garden in south central Los Angeles, 

dealing with issues of environmental 

sustainability, social justice, and race 

relations surrounding the farmers’ 

struggles to hold on to their land. 


Single Bill 

South of the Border 8.45pm 

Oliver Stone, USA, 2009, 78m documentary 

There’s a revolution underway in South 

America, but most of the world doesn’t 

know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road 

trip across five countries to explore the 

social and political movements as well as 

the mainstream media’s misperception of 

South America while interviewing seven 

of its elected presidents. 

South of the Border 

Georgia: Life 

Through Cinema 

The 2nd London BGS 

Georgian Film Festival 2010 


Since 1912, cinema has been at the centre of 

Georgian culture and this festival brings some 

of the best works old and new. There will be 

three UK premieres of recent films by a new 

generation of Georgian directors, features by 

established directors now working abroad 

including Otar Iosseliani and newly restored 

prints of such classics as ‘My Grandmother’ 

(1929), ‘Pirosmani’ (1969) and the original 

1912 documentary ‘Journey of a Georgian 

Poet Akaki Tsereteli in Racha-Lechkhumi’. 

Tickets: Opening and Closing Evenings: £10 (£9 Concessions) 

All other films: £7.50 (£6.50 Concessions) 

britishgeorgiansociety.com 

Life Through Cinema also hopes to present a programme of recent 

video work by Georgian artists curated by Sophio Mediodze and tank.tv 


Double Bill 

Lebanon (15) 6.45pm 

Samuel Maoz, Germany/Israel/France/Lebanon, 

2009, 93m subtitles 

Raymond Amsalem, Ashraff Barhom, Oshri Cohen 

The film is based on the real-life 

experiences of its director centering on 

four soldiers who become trapped in an 

immobilised tank deep in enemy territory 

during the Lebanon War. 

I Am Love (15) 8.45pm 

(lo sono l’amore) 

Luca Guadagnino, Italy, 2009, 120m subtitles 

Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Gabriele Ferzetti 

Emma (Swinton), the matriarch of 

a wealthy Milanese family, lives in a 

carefully ordered world where her duty 

towards husband and children dominate, 

but a chance encounter ignites repressed 

passions and sets her on a journey of 

sexual awakening. 

Inception 

Friday 10 September Single Bill 

Inception (12A) 8.00pm 

Christopher Nolan, USA/UK, 2010, 147m 

Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, 

Ken Watanabe 

Cobb (DiCaprio) is a skilled thief, the 

best in the dangerous art of ‘extraction’, 

stealing valuable secrets from deep within 

the subconscious during the dream state. 

His skill has also cost him everything 

he has ever loved. Now he is being 

offered a chance at redemption: instead 

of stealing an idea he must plant one. 

“Nolan delivers another true original: 

welcome to an undiscovered country.” 

Empire 

Went the Day Well 

Saturday 11 September 

Single Bills 





for details. 


Graham Greene Double Bill 

The Third Man (15) 2.30pm 

Carol Reed, UK, 1949, 103m 

Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Alida Valli 

War-torn Vienna, and an American writer 

arrives looking for his friend Harry Lime. 

An irresistible romantic thriller. 

Went the Day Well (PG) 4.35pm 

Alberto Cavalcanti, UK, 1942, 93m 

Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allan, Frank Lawton 

From the short story “The Lieutenant 

Died Last”. Disguised as British soldiers 

during the Second World War, some 

German soldiers insinuate themselves 

into a pretty English village. Revived in a 

new print. 





Please see above for details.

CINEMA 





Please see Sunday 12 September 

for details. 


Cinema closed for private event. 


Double Bill 

The Band’s Visit (PG) 7.00pm 

(Bikur Ha-Tizmoret) 

Eran Kolirin, Israel, 2007, 90m subtitles 

Sasson Gabai, Ronit Elkabetz, Saleh Bakri 

“An Egyptian band gets stranded in an 

Israeli desert town in this warm and 

delightful tale of cross-cultural relations 

that proves that sometimes a light 

touch is just what’s needed to address 

serious topics.” Variety 

Frontier Blues (15) 8.55pm 

Babak Jalali, Iran/UK/Italy, 2009, 95m subtitles 

Abolfazi Karimi, Mahmoud Kalteh, 

Khajeh Araz Dordi 

The film is set in Golestan, Northern 

Iran. The director says: “The film looks 

at fragments from the everyday existence 

of several characters that reside in this 

region. It’s the story of longing, waiting, 

remembering, desperate men and absent 

women. It’s a film about not quite 

getting there”. 


Catherine Breillat Double Bill 

The Last Mistress (15) 7.00pm 

Catherine Breillat, France, 2007, 104m subtitles 

Asia Argento, Fu-ad Ait Aattou, Roxane Mesquida 

Secrets, rumours and betrayals surround 

the upcoming marriage between a young 

dissolute man and a virtuous woman 

of the French aristocracy. Will he be 

willing to give up his mistress “Breillat’s 

meticulous, eloquent script and direction 

succeeds in relating a rich, complex and 

consistently engrossing story.” 

Time Out 

The Secret in Their Eyes 

Bluebeard (15) 9.10pm 

Catherine Breillat, France, 2009, 80m subtitles 

Dominique Thomas, Lola Créton, Daphné Baiwir 

In France in the mid-50s Catherine enjoys 

toying with her sister reading her the 

story of the murderous and often-married 

Bluebeard. “A fresh and slyly subversive 

reading of Perrault’s fairytale. A funny, 

touching, wholly unsentimental study in 

feminine fear, courage and desire.” 

Time Out 

Friday 17 September Double Bill 

Live Flesh (18) 6.30pm 

Pedro Almodovar, Spain, 1997, 110m subtitles 

Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, Liberto Rabal 

A remarkable tale of coincidence based 

on a novel by Ruth Rendell. A young 

man on a first date becomes involved in 

the shooting of a policeman. Years later, 

he is released from prison and begins an 

obsessive search for the woman involved. 


(18) 8.45pm 

(El secreto de sus ojos) 

Juan José Campanella, Argentina/Spain, 2009, 


Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago 

Benjamín Esposito (Darín), a former 

criminal court employee, sets about 

writing a novel about a case from the 

1970’s in which a woman was raped and 

murdered. An unpredictable crime thriller 

about judicial cover-ups and corruptions 

in Argentina. 


Double Bill 



(18) 4.00pm 



(18) 8.45pm 


for details. 


Family Double Bill 

Wall-E (U) 3.00pm 

Andrew Stanton, USA, 2008, 97m animation 

Voices: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin 

Oscar-winning animation. Wall-E is a hardworking 

robot whose job is to clear up 

the mess that humans have left behind. 

“Wonderfully imagined and lovingly 

presented.” Time Out 

Toy Story 3 (U) 5.00pm 

Lee Unkrich, USA, 2010, 108m animation 

“The gang face the reality of their indifferent 

owner leaving for college. They fear indefinite 

leave in the attic or the trash, the middle 

ground is relocation to a day-care centre.” 

Time Out 

All tickets: £5 

Sunday 19 September Single Bill 

Apocalypse Now – Redux 

(15) 7.15pm 

Francis Ford Coppola, USA, 2001, 202m 

Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall 

Coppola’s extended reworking of his 1979 

film adds new scenes and an improved 

sound mix. The film (based on Joseph 

Conrad’s novel “Heart of Darkness”) 

takes place in Vietnam. An American 

captain is sent up river on a mission to 

assassinate a renegade American colonel. 

Apocalypse Now – Redux 


DocHouse Presents Double Bill 

A Stone’s Throw Away 7.00pm 

Line Halvorsen, Norway, 2003, 52m documentary 

This powerful documentary follows 

the lives of three Palestinian boys from 

the Dheisheh refugee camp after their 

thirteen-year-old friend is shot and killed 

by Israeli soldiers. The children amuse 

themselves by throwing stones at Israeli 

tanks. Told exclusively from their point of 

view, the film provides an intimate insight 

into their thoughts and lives, and to the 

humiliation, hopelessness and anger of 

children growing up under occupation. 

A Stone’s 

Throw Away

Budrus 8.20pm 

Julia Bacha, Israel, 2009, 70m documentary 

Ayar Morrar, an unlikely community 

organiser, unites Palestinians from all 

political factions and Israelis to save 

his village from destruction by Israel’s 

Separation Barrier. Victory seems 

improbable until his fifteen-year-old 

daughter launches a women’s contingent 

that quickly moves to the front lines. 

“Budrus” shines a light on people who 

choose non-violence to confront a 

threat, yet remain virtually unknown 

to the world. 


Cinema closed for private event. 

The Brothers 

Warner 

29 September 

DocHouse presents the UK premiere of a new 

documentary, a family biography and intimate 

portrait of the legendary film producer brothers. 

Directed by Harry Warner’s granddaughter, Cass 

Warner Sperling, the film is based on the book of 

the same title. Four pioneering brothers rose from 

immigrant poverty to create a major film studio 

with a social conscience. 


Australia Double Bill 

Somersault (15) 7.00pm 

Cate Shortland, Australia, 2004, 105m 

Abbie Cornish, Sam Worthington, Lynette Curran 

An award-winning, visually haunting 

film set at the foot of the Australian ski 

fields where a young girl begins a sensory 

journey and learns the difference between 

sex and love. 

Beautiful Kate (15) 9.10pm 

Rachel Ward, Australia, 2009, 90m 

Ben Mendelsohn, Rachel Griffiths, Sophie Lowe 

Based on the novel “Cutter and Bone” 

by Newton Thornburg. A writer returns 

to the family home to say goodbye to 

his father who is dying. Being there 

brings back many childhood memories 

and awakens long-buried family secrets. 

“Visually beautiful and emotionally 

rewarding.” Variety 


Georgia – Life Through Cinema 

Gala Evening Double Bill 

Journey of a Georgian Poet 

Akaki Tsereteli in 

Racha-lechkhumi (U) 6.30pm 

(Qartveli mgosnis akaki ceretlis 

mogzauroba racha lechkhumshi) 

Vasil Amashukeli, Georgia, 1912, 33m subtitles, 

documentary 

The journey of one of Georgia’s most 

famous poets, Akaki Tsereteli, to the 

mountainous region of Racha-Lechkhumi 

became a nationwide event and was 

filmed by cameraman Vasil Amashukeli 

in what is recognized as one of Europe’s 

earliest documentaries. It marked the 

beginning of Georgian cinema. 

Street Days (15) 7.00pm 

(Quchis dgeebi) London Premiere 

Levan Koguashvili, Georgia, 2009, 86m subtitles 

Guga Kotetishvili, Temo Gogidze, Levan Jividze 

From the back streets of Tbilisi comes a 

tough but tender tale of friendship and 

betrayal, redemption and forgiveness, love 

and bullets. “Georgian cinema has a new 

star in director Levan Koguashvili. This 

superb neorealist drama is just the calling 

card the beleaguered country needs.” 

Variety 

Friday 24 September 


UK Premiere 

The Other Bank (15) 6.30pm 

(gagma napiri) 

Giorgi Ovashvili, Georgia/Kazakhstan, 2009, 

90m subtitles. 

Tedo Bekauri, Galoba Gambaria, Nika Alajaev 

Twelve-year-old Tedo, a refugee, journeys 

from Tbilisi to Abkhazia in search of his 

father in a moving tale about the internal 

drama of a boy, his thoughts, feelings and 

passions, and the grim reality of having to 

survive in a divided country by pretending 

to be dumb and focusing on stories he 

has heard from his glue sniffing friends 

back in Tbilisi. The film has won prizes at 

twenty-four international film festivals. 

Friday 24 September 

Georgia – Life through Cinema 

Something About Georgia 8.30pm 

Nino Kirtadze, Georgia/France, 2009, 98m 

subtitles, documentary 

Having won best director for a 

documentary prize at the Sundance 

International Film Festival 2008, Nino 

Kirtadze was shooting a film on Georgia 

and President Saakashvili when the war 

with Russia broke out. The film raises 

questions about political responsibility 

and the morality of international affairs. 

There will be a Q & A with the 

director after the screening. 



Short Films (12A) 12.30pm 

Recent short films by young Georgian 

directors and video artists. 

Details to follow. 

All tickets: £5 



UK Premiere 

Susa (12A) 2.20pm 

(Susa) 

Rusudan Pirveli, Georgia, 2010, 85m subtitles 

Avtandil Tetradze, Ekaterine Kobakhidze, 

Giorgi Gogishvili 

A dreamy twelve-year-old boy is running 

errands for an illegal vodka distillery 

where his mother works. He delivers 

bottles to small cafes, little booths, 

prostitutes and the odd drunk. One day 

his mother tells him that his father will 

return soon and all will change. First prize, 

Jeonju International Festival, Seoul. 



The Wishing Tree (U) 4.20pm 

(Natvris Khe) 

Tengiz Abuladze, Georgia, 1976, 107m subtitles 

Lika Kavjaradze, Sophico Chiaureli, 

Ramaz Chkhikvadze 

Along with Sergo Paradjanov and Otar 

Iosseliani, Tengiz Abuladze is one of 

Georgia’s most important filmmakers. 

“The Wishing Tree” is the second film 

in his renowned trilogy made over three 

decades. A beautifully shot love story 

based on the writings of Giorgi Leonidze, 

the film is a spectacular mosaic of village 

life in pre-revolutionary Georgia.

CINEMA 



UK Premiere 

Three Houses (U) 6.30pm 

(Sami saxli) 

Zaza Urushadze, Georgia, 2008, 96m subtitles 

Zhanri Lolashvili, Zurab Kipshidze, Murman Jinoria 

Three separate short stories about love, 

death and family are set in three different 

centuries, but all linked by the same 

painting. The first takes place at the end 

of the 19th century, the second during the 

Second World War, and the third at the 

beginning of the 21st century. 



Songs of Georgia 8.30pm 

Jason Osborn, Georgia/France/UK, 2009, 

56m documentary 

Robert Parsons first went to Georgia 

in the 1980’s and was amazed that 

nearly every family he visited could sing 

traditional songs in complex harmonies. 

The film is a unique journey capturing 

a cultural tradition thousands of years 

old and still flourishing. All the music is 

recorded on location by the BBC World 

Routes team. 

Tabuni Live performance 9.30pm 

The young Georgian singer Tamta 

Turmanidze leads the wonderful London 

based women’s choir in a set of Georgian 

songs. “...What violence has destroyed, love 

will rebuild again...” Mravalzhamier 

(Long Life) – Georgian folk song 



The Short Films of Mikhail 

Kobakhidze (U) 12.00pm 

Mikhail Kobakhidze, Georgia/France, 

1961-2002, subtitles 

Young Love (61), Carrousel (62), Umbrella (66), 

Musicians (67), On the Road (2002) 

The visionary director leads a lunchtime 

workshop and introduces his catalogue 

of short films banned in Soviet times not 

for any overt political content but, as the 

NY Times wrote, for an anti-Soviet mode 

“in their lightness, sly humor and tragiccomic 

refusal to accept the conventions 

of heroism or social obligation”. 

My Grandmother 



My Grandmother (U) 2.30pm 

(chemi bebia) 

Kote Mikaberidze, Georgia, 1929, 65m subtitles 

Aleksandre Taqaishvili, Bela Chernova, 

Akaki Khorava 

A Georgian tour-de-force from the Soviet 

Eccentric Cinema movement. This 

satirical masterpiece, banned by the 

Soviet regime for forty years and noted 

for its anarchic styles, unspools the foibles 

and follies that abound when the hero, 

based on American silent comic Harold 

Lloyd, loses his job as a paper pusher. 



Gun-shy (18) 4.00pm 

(Schussangst) 

Dito Tsintsadze, Germany, 2003, 105m subtitles 

Fabian Hinrichs, Lavinia Wilson, Lasha Bakradze 

One of Georgia’s leading directors 

who lives and works in Germany. 

Tsintsadze’s “Lost Killers” (2000) was 

one of the hits of the First BGS Georgian 

Film Festival in 2005. “Gun-shy” is a 

black comic thriller, winner of the Golden 

Seashell at Sebastian International Film 

Festival 2003. 



Pirosmani (U) 6.10pm 

Giorgi Shengelaya, Georgia, 1969, 85m subtitles 

Avtandil Varazi, Dodo Abashidze, 

Aleksandre Rekhviashvili 

“Pirosmani” is not only one of Georgia’s 

most well known films but one of the best 

films made about an artist. It tells the 

story of Niko Pirosmani, Georgia’s most 

celebrated painter, who died homeless in 

the early 20th century. His naïve style is 

visually interpreted as the story unfolds in 

the basement taverns of old Tbilisi and in 

front of village landscapes in wonderfully 

faded colour. This is a newly restored 

print supervised by the Georgian National 

Film Centre. 



UK Premiere 

Chantrapas (12A) 8.00pm 

Otar Iosseliani, France/Georgia, 2010, 


Dato Tarielashvili, Tamuna Karumidze, Pierre Etaix 

Nicholas is a filmmaker who merely wants 

to express himself and whom everyone 

wishes to reduce to silence. He leaves his 

homeland Georgia, and heads to France 

hoping to find the land of freedom and 

democracy. Selected for Cannes 2010. 

Otar Iosseliani will be interviewed by 

Maryam d’Abo before the screening 

–TBC 


Single Bill 

Baaria (15) 8.00pm 

Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy, 2009, 150m subtitles 

Francesco Scianna, Margareth Madè, Raoul Bova 

An autobiographical epic of three 

generations set in the Sicilian village 

where the director was born. 

Baaria 

Tuesday 28 September Double Bill 

White Material (15) 7.00pm 

Claire Denis, France/Cameroon, 2009, 


Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, 

Isaach De Bankolé 

A white French family outlawed in its 

home and attempting to save its coffee 

plantation, connects with a black hero 

also embroiled in the tumult. All try to 

survive as their world rapidly crumbles 

around them. 

Le Refuge (15) 9.05pm 

François Ozon, France, 2009, 88m subtitles 

Isabelle Carré, Melvil Poupaud, 

Louis-Ronan Choisy 

Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, 

rich and in love. They are also addicted 

to drugs. As tragedy strikes, Mousse 

runs away to a house in the countryside. 

Several months later she is joined in her 

refuge by Louis’s brother. 

Le Refuge 



The Brothers Warner (U) 7.00pm 

Cass Warner Sperling, USA, 2008, 90m documentary 

Dennis Hopper, Debbie Reynolds, Norman Lear 

Please see highlight on previous page 

for details.

Confessions of a Nazi Spy 

(U) 8.55pm 

Anatole Litvak, USA, 1939, 110m b/w 

Edward G. Robinson, Paul Lukas, George Sanders 

An anti-Nazi propaganda film from 

Warners where Robinson plays a G-Man 

ferreting out Nazi Fifth Columnists 

working in America. The film achieved 

great popular and critical success in 

America, but was banned in many Latin 

American and European countries. 


Documentary Single Bill 

Age of Extremes (12) 7.30pm 

Ishmahil Blagrove, Jr., UK, 60m documentary 

This new documentary focuses on 

the period between 11 September 

2001 and 2009 looking into some of 

the factors that may have led to the 

radicalisation of some young British 

Muslims. 

The screening will be followed by a 

Q & A with Ishmahil Blagrove. 

October 

Friday 1 October Double Bill 

Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday 

(U) 7.00pm 


Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Micheline Rolla 

Tati’s most consistently enjoyable 

comedy, a gentle portrait of the clumsy, 

well-meaning Hulot on vacation in a 

provincial seaside resort. 

The Illusionist (PG) 8.55pm 

Sylvain Chomet, UK/France, 2010, 80m 

some subtitles, animation 

The film was developed from an unmade 

script by Jacques Tati. An account of the 

dying days of music hall entertainment, 

as seen through the eyes of an illusionist 

whose audiences are gradually being taken 

away by a new breed of rock ‘n’ roll bands. 

We travel with him from his home in Paris 

further and further afield in search of 

paid gigs until we meet a young fan who 

changes his life forever. 

The Illusionist 

Age of Extremes 

30 September 

This new film examines the former US’s 

‘War on Terror’ and the implications it has had 

on British Muslims and community cohesion. 

Headline stories are unpacked unveiling 

stereotypes that have alienated British Muslims 

to bolster public support for the wars in Iraq 

and Afghanistan. 

The screening will be followed by 

a Q & A with the producer Ishmahil 

Blagrove, Jr. 


(U) 7.00pm 

The Illusionist (PG) 8.55pm 

Please see Friday 1 October 

for details. 

Sunday 3 October Double Bill 

La Vie en Rose (12A) 1.10pm 

Olivier Dahan, France, 2007, 140m subtitles 

Marion Cotillard, Gerard Depardieu, 

Emmanuelle Seigner 

A biopic on the life and career of Edith 

Piaf which focuses on Piaf’s relationships 

with some of the most eccentric 

personalities of her generation, including 

Marlene Dietrich and Yves Montand. 

Gainsbourg (15) 3.50pm 

(Vie héro que) 

Joann Sfar, France, 2010, 122m subtitles 

Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta 

A glimpse at the life of French singer 

Serge Gainsbourg from growing up in 

1940’s Nazi-occupied Paris, through his 

successful song-writing years in the 1960’s, 

to his death in 1991. “Splendidly cast and 

consistently engaging.” Screen International 

Sunday 3 October Double Bill 



Please see above for details. 

Monday 4 October Double Bill 



Please see Sunday 3 October for details. 

Gainsbourg 

As part of a festival of screenings across 

London celebrating five years of quality 

documentary programming on More4, 

DocHouse is proud to present two 

evening screenings, “Dancing with 

the Devil” and “Albino United”. 

Tuesday 5 October 

DocHouse and More4 

Dancing with the Devil 7.00pm 

Jon Blair, UK/Brazil, 2009, 104m 

A shockingly intimate and visually 

stunning portrait of the drug-related 

gang war that dominates the slums of Rio 

de Janeiro, following three very different 

men through the perilous backstreets. 

The film will be followed by a Q & A 

with the director Jon Blair. 

Wednesday 6 October 


Albino United 7.00pm 

A film by Barney Broomfield, Marc Hoeferlin 

Juan Reina, UK/Tanzania, 2009, 72m 

In Tanzania, where albinos are murdered 

and their body parts used for ‘magic’ 

potions, a brave group of albinos are 

using football to spread the message 

that they too are members of society. 

The film will be followed by a 

Q & A with filmmakers Marc 

Hoeferlin, Juan Reina and 

Barney Broomfield. 

Albino United 

Saturday 2 October Double Bill 


(U) 2.30pm 

The Illusionist (PG) 4.20pm

CINEMA 

Thursday 7 October 

Coco Chanel Double Bill 

Coco Before Chanel (12A) 6.30pm 

(Coco avant Chanel) 

Anne Fontaine, France, 2009, 105m subtitles 

Audrey Tautou, Emmanuelle Devos, 

Alessandro Nivola 

Tautou plays the legendary Coco Chanel 

in an enthralling exploration of her early 

life and humble beginnings before she 

rose to worldwide fame as the most 

celebrated fashion designer of the 

20th century. 

Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky 

(15) 8.40pm 

Jan Kounen, France, 2009, 120m subtitles 

Mads Mikkelsen, Anna Mouglalis, Yelena Morozova 

A film based on Chris Greenhalgh’s 

novel exploring the electric relationship 

between the French fashion icon and the 

radical Russian-born composer, which 

begins at the premiere of Stravinsky’s 

“The Rite of Spring”. 

Coco Before Chanel 

Friday 8 October Single Bill 

The Girl Who Played with Fire 

(15) 8.00pm 

Daniel Alfredson, Sweden/Denmark/Germany, 


Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre 

The second instalment in Stieg Larsson’s 

Millennium Trilogy. As computer 

hacker, Lisbeth, and journalist, Mikael, 

investigate a sex-trafficking ring, Lisbeth 

is accused of three murders, causing her to 

go on the run while Mikael works to clear 

her name. 

Saturday 9 October 

Time and Space 12 noon 

Meet the people behind Doctor Who at 

the Doctor Who Appreciation Society’s 

one day convention “Time and Space”. 

The day will include interviews with 

cast and crew from both the new and 

classic eras of the programme, on screen 

presentations, photo studio, autographs, 

merchandise and more. 

For more details, and to buy 

tickets, please visit our website at 

timeandspace.biz or write to us at 

DWAS Events, Unit 117, 17 Piries 

Place, Horsham RH12 1BF. 

Sunday 10 October Single Bills 


(15) 3.00pm 


(15) 5.30pm 


(15) 8.05pm 

Please see Friday 8 October for details. 


Doctor Who 

Monday 11 October 

Ealing Comedies Double Bill 

Whisky Galore (PG) 7.00pm 

Alexander Mackendrick, UK, 1948, 82m 

Basil Radford, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton 

“During World War II a ship full of whisky 

is wrecked on a small Hebridean island, 

and the local customs and excise man has 

his hands full. Marvellously detailed, 

fast moving, well-played and attractively 

photographed comedy.” 

Halliwell’s Film Guide 

The Ladykillers (U) 8.55pm 

Alexander Mackendrick, UK, 1955, 97m 

Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Katie Johnson 

An older lady takes in a sinister lodger 

who, with his four friends, commits a 

robbery. When she finds out, they plot 

to kill her. 


Kim Ki-Duk Double Bill 

Breathe (15) 7.00pm 

Kim Ki-Duk, South Korea/Japan, 2007, 

84m subtitles 

Chang Chen, Park Ji-A, Gang In-Hyeong 

Death Row inmate Jang Jin attempts 

to commit suicide by using a sharpened 

toothbrush handle to stab himself in the 

neck. Seeing this incident reported on 

the news, something about it captures 

the mind of depressed housewife and 

sculptress Yeon. 

Black Dynamite 

Time (15) 8.50pm 

Kim Ki-Duk, South Korea/Japan, 2006, 

97m subtitles 

Ha Jung-wood, Park Ji-A, Jang Jun-Yeong 

Seh-hee has been dating her boyfriend, 

Ji-woo, for over two years, but is fearful 

that he no longer finds her interesting 

and is consumed with jealousy when 

she catches him fantasising about other 

women. She decides on a radical solution 

and leaves him to go under the knife 

for extensive plastic surgery. “Fearlessly 

honest, attuned to contemporary anxieties 

about sex, love and social status.” 

The New York Times 

Wednesday 13 October Double Bill 

The Harder They Come (15) 7.00pm 

Perry Henzell, Jamaica, 1972, 102m 

Jimmy Cliff, Carl Bradshaw, Basil Keane 

A ground-breaking classic. Cliff plays 

Ivan Martin, a poor country boy who 

goes to the city to make money by 

becoming a street rebel and a pop idol 

overnight. Features an outstanding 

soundtrack which played an important 

part in introducing reggae and its 

Jamaican roots to a worldwide audience. 

Black Dynamite (15) 9.10pm 

Scott Sanders, USA, 2009, 84m 

Michael Jai White, Arsenio Hall, Tommy Davidson 

When “The Man” murders his brothers, 

pumps heroin into local orphanages and 

floods the ghetto with malt liquor, Black 

Dynamite is the one hero willing to fight 

back. Flawless spoof comedy. 

Thursday 14 October Double Bill 

Far From Heaven (12A) 6.30pm 

Todd Haynes, USA, 2002, 107m 

Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert 

Cathy (Moore) is the perfect 50’s 

housewife living the perfect 50’s life: 

healthy kids, successful husband, social 

prominence. Then one night she catches 

her husband (Quaid) kissing a man. Her 

world begins to unravel. 

The Runaways

Undertow (TBC) 8.45pm 

(Contracorriente) 

Javier Fuentes-León, Peru/Austria/France/Germany, 


Christian Mercado, Tatiana Astengo, 

Manolo Cardona 

In a small fishing village on the Northern 

coast of Peru, where religious traditions 

run deep Miguel, a well-respected 

fisherman, and his beautiful bride, Mariela 

are about to welcome their firstborn, but 

Miguel harbours a scandalous secret. 


Nowhere Boy (15) 7.00pm 

Sam Taylor Wood, UK, 2009, 97m 

Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, 

Anne-Marie Duff 

An astute biopic focussing on the teenage 

years of John Lennon. “Rather than 

dwelling on the unique circumstances that 

produced a musical genius, it’s an affecting 

movie about coming of age and leaving 

home and about the radical changes in 

British life since the Second World War.” 

Observer 

The Runaways (15) 9.05pm 

Floria Sigismondi, USA, 2010, 106m 

Dakota Fanning, Kristen Stewart, Michael Shannon 

A coming-of-age biopic about 70s 

teenage band The Runaways based 

on lead singer Cherie Currie’s book 

“Neon Angel”. Beautifully shot with 

electric performances. 







Sunday 17 October 

Abbas Kiarostami Double Bill 

Taste of Cherry (PG) 2.30pm 

Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1997, 99m subtitles 

Homayoun Ershadi, Abdolrahman Bagheri, 

Safar Ali Moradi 

A middle-aged man on the way to his 

own death tries to find someone to bury 

him, but can the memory of “the taste of 

cherries” persuade him to live 

Certified Copy (15) 4.30pm 

Abbas Kiarostami, Fracne/Italy, 2010, 


Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, 

Jean-Claude Carrière 

Kiarostami’s first film outside of his native 

Iran is a philosophical and post-modern 

interpretation of the romantic comedy 

genre set in picturesque Tuscany. French 

gallery owner (Binoche) and British 

author (Shimell) meet for the first time 

and allow the audience to interpret, or 

not, their afternoon together. 

DocHouse presents 

the London 

Premiere of 

Girl with 

Black Balloons 

21 October 

The Chelsea Hotel is a New York City 

icon – ever wondered who lives in it 

‘Girl with Black Balloons’ is no ordinary 

character study but a multi-faceted 

portrait of Bettina – a reclusive artist 

living within the confines of Manhattan’s 

legendary lodgings. 





Please see above for details. 





Please see Sunday 17 October 

for details. 


1968 Inspired - The Ferrari Dino 

Girl + Jachym & Filip Topol 

Double Bill 

The Ferrari Dino Girl (15) 6.45pm 

Jan Nemec, CR, 2009, 68m subtitles 

Karel Roden, Tammy Sundquist, Jan Budar 

Jan Nemec’s ‘auto-documentary’ recounts 

the story of how he filmed the Soviet 

invasion of Czechoslovakia and smuggled 

the footage out of the country with the 

help of ‘the Ferrari Dino Girl’. Includes 

the original unedited 1968 footage. 

Book Launch 

Jachym & Filip Topol 8.20pm 

An evening of literature and live music 

with award-winning writer Jachym Topol 

who will read and discuss his new book 

“Gargling with Tar” (set in 1968), and 

his brother Filip, singer and pianist, leader 

of the Czech rock group Psi vojaci. 

If you buy a ticket for this double 

bill you will receive a free bottle of 

Bernard, Premium Czech Lager. 

“Gargling with Tar” is a Czech Tin Drum 

set during the crushing of the Prague Spring 

of Topol’s boyhood.” – Maya Jaggi, Guardian. 


Memories of Murder (15) 6.00pm 

Bong Joon-Ho, South Korea, 2003, 130m subtitles 

Kang-ho Song, Sang-kyung Kim, Roe-ha Kim 

South Korea in 1986 under military 

dictatorship. Two rural cops and a special 

detective from the capital investigate a 

series of brutal rape murders. Their rude 

measures become more desperate 

with each new corpse found. Based on 

a true case. 

Mother (15) 8.35pm 

Bong Joon-Ho, South Korea, 2009, 130m subtitles 

Kim Hye-ja, Won Bin, Jin Ku 

When Kim Hye-ja’s nameless mother of 

the title discovers her twenty-seven-yearold 

son suffering from learning difficulties 

has been arrested for the murder of a 

young girl, she obsessively sets out to 

track down the real killer and prove her 

son’s innocence at all costs. 

Jachym & Filip Topol 

Thursday 21 October 


The Politician, the Poet, 

the Cook & the Lord 7.30pm 

Corinne van der Borch, 2004, UK, 

12m documentary 

A short film about the life inside of a 

London cabbie shelter.

CINEMA 

Girl with Black 

Balloons 7.45pm 

Corinne van der Borch, 2010, USA, 58m 

The Chelsea Hotel is a New York City 

icon – ever wondered who lives in it 

‘Girl with Black Balloons’ is no ordinary 

character study but a multi-faceted 

portrait of Bettina – a reclusive artist 

living within the confines of Manhattan’s 

legendary lodgings. 


Frozen River (15) 7.00pm 

Courtney Hunt, USA, 2008, 97m 

Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott 

The film tells the story of Ray Eddy (Leo) 

who is about to buy her family the house 

of her dreams. But when her gambleloving 

husband takes off with the money 

Ray finds herself alone with her kids and 

completely broke. While trying to trace 

her husband she meets Lila Littlewolf, a 

Mohawk girl, who provides her with a plan 

to earn easy money. An extraordinary film. 

Winter’s Bone 

Winter’s Bone (15) 9.05pm 

Debra Granik, USA, 2010, 100m 

Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Kevin Breznahan 

Seventeen-year-old Ree (Lawrence) 

embarks on a mission to find her father 

after he uses their family house as a way 

of securing his bail and disappears without 

trace. A tense, naturalistic thriller based 

on a novel by Daniel Woodrell. 







Sunday 24 October Single Bill 

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 

(PG) 3.00pm 

F.W. Murnau, USA, 1927, 95m b/w 

George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston 

A cinematic dream of passion. A heartrending 

tale of love first lost, then found 

again, voted one of the ten greatest films 

of all time. 

The film will be introduced by 

film historian and filmmaker, 

Kevin Brownlow. 


Warner Bros Double Bill 

White Heat (15) 6.30pm 

Raoul Walsh, USA, 1949, 114m 

James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien 

Scarface + Psycho = White Heat. This 

searing melodrama sees Cagney sitting 

on his mother’s lap as they plan their 

heists together. Spellbinding suspense, 

complimented by his vivid and hypnotic 

performance. 

Bonnie and Clyde (15) 8.50pm 

Arthur Penn, USA, 1967, 112m 

Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard 

Bonnie (Dunaway) is bored with life and 

wants a change. She gets her chance when 

she meets young drifter Clyde Barlow. 

He has dreams of a life of crime which 

will free him from the hardships of the 

Depression. The two fall in love and begin 

a crime spree. Based on a true story and 

arguably one of the most influential films 

of the late 60’s. 


Black History Month Double Bill 

Borom Sarret (12A) 7.00pm 

Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 1962, 20m subtitles 

Ly Abdoulay, Albourah 

Sembene’s interest in examining the 

impact of economic exploitation on 

ordinary Senegalese citizens is evocatively 

expressed in this early short film, in 

which a poor cart driver provides us with a 

“guided tour” through modern Dakar and 

his sense of marginality. 

Black Girl (12A) 7.20pm 


Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, 

Robert Fontaine 

Sembene’s first feature film is a 

seminal film in the history of African 

cinema. It tells the tragic story of a 

Senegalese girl employed as a servant to 

a French couple. Her initial enthusiasm 

regarding the colonial motherland and 

employment is quickly transformed into 

a profound sense of despair, as she finds 

herself being treated by the family like an 

object, a non-person, ‘the black girl’. 

Sunrise 


Black History Month Single Bill 

Xala (12) 8.45pm 

(The Curse) 


Fatim Diagne, Makhouredia Gueye, Thierno Leye 

Sembene’s satire of the modern African 

bourgeoisie was heavily censored in 

Senegal, and it remains to this day one 

of the sharpest and most incisive attacks 

on neo-colonialism in post-independence 

Africa made by an African filmmaker. The 

film follows the decline of a self-satisfied, 

westernised Senegalese businessman. 

Tuesday 26 October Double Bill 

An Education (12A) 6.50pm 

Lone Scherfig, UK, 2009, 99m 

Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina 

Based on writer Lynn Barber’s memoirs 

and a screenplay by Nick Hornby the 

film is a coming-of-age story about a 

teenage academic girl in the 60’s whose 

life changes with the arrival of a playboy 

nearly twice her age. 

Tamara Drewe (15) 8.55pm 

Stephen Frears, UK, 2010, 111m 

Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper, Tamsin Greig 

Once a shy and unattractive teenager from 

a small rural idyll, Tamara’s (Arterton) 

past catches up with her when she returns 

to the village as a glamorous newspaper 

columnist and has to face an old flame. 

An entertaining romp based on the 

Posy Simmonds comic strip which was 

serialised in The Guardian. 



Tamara Drewe (15) 8.55pm 

Please see Tuesday 26 October 

for details. 

Thursday 28 October Dare to Stare 

Itty Bitty Titty Committee 

(15) 8.30pm 

Jamie Babbit, USA, 2007, 87m 

Melonie Diaz, Nicole Vicius, Daniela Sea 

This fun and witty tongue-in-cheek drama 

from Jamie “But I’m a Cheerleader” 

Babbit tells the story of Anna, a 

receptionist at a plastic surgeon’s office. 

Her dull life changes radically when she 

meets Sadie, head feminist of the C.I.A. 

(Clits in Action) Collective. Complete 

with smart Riot Grrrl soundtrack, ‘Max’ 

from the L-Word and a pillow fight with a 

giant stuffed vagina – what’s not to like! 

Plus Unskinny Bop Opening 

Night Party

Friday 29 October Dare to Stare 

Unveiled (15) 6.50pm 

(Fremde Haut) 

Angelina Maccarone, Germany/Austria, 2005, 

97m subtitles 

Jasmin Tabatabai, Anneke Kim Sarnau 

This film is a stark reminder of how 

difficult it is to live freely in many 

countries. The striking Jasmin 

Tabatabai stars as Fariba, a lesbian 

fleeing persecution in Iran who arrives 

in Germany seeking asylum. When her 

application is denied Fariba resorts to 

desperate measures. 

Friday 29 October Dare to Stare 

4 Minutes (15) 8.55pm 

(Vier Minuten) 

Chris Kraus, Germany, 2006, 112m subtitles 

Monica Bleibtreu, Hannah Herzsprung 

Winner of twenty-one International Film 

Festival Awards, this stunning drama 

depicts the intense connection between 

two women: Traude, a piano teacher at a 

high-security women’s prison, and Jenny, 

the ferociously talented young prodigy 

whom Traude grooms to compete in a 

prestigious piano competition. Featuring 

extraordinary performances, Hannah 

Herzsprung tears up the screen in a 

sensational finale. Unmissable. 

Saturday 30 October Dare to Stare 

Fucking Amal (15) 7.00pm 

(Show Me Love) 

Lukas Moodysson, Sweden, 1998, 89m subtitles 

Alexandra Dahlstrom, Rebecka Liljeberg 

From the director of “Lilya 4-Ever” this 

classic first love drama tells the story 

of Agnes, a sixteen-year-old misfit who 

is secretly in love with Elin, the most 

beautiful and popular girl in school. 

When Elin ends up at Agnes’ birthday 

party, and fulfils a dare, she unexpectedly 

develops feelings of her own. 

Saturday 30 October 

Afternoon: closed for private event. 

Saturday 30 October Dare to Stare 

Elo se (15) 8.55pm 

Jesus Garay, Spain, 2008, 118m subtitles 

Diana Gomez, Ariadna Cabrol 

Young, beautiful Àsia lies in a coma. 

In flashback we see what led up to her 

accident, her life as an architecture 

student and relationship with her 

overbearing mother. Asia’s world changes 

the day she meets the exotic and 

mysterious Eloïse. A strong erotic tension 

between the two caliente leads hurls them 

towards a tragic climax. 

DARE TO STARE 

A Season of 

Lesbian Cinema 

worth watching 

28 – 31 October 

The films in this season are about choices, 

alternatives and following your heart. We 

believe they are unique films that will stay with 

you. Each illustrates the special connection 

that occurs between two women. From across 

Europe, Asia and the USA, highlights include: 

“4 Minutes”, “Eloïse” and “High Art”. With 

thanks to Lorna Paterson and Simone Tropea 

for programming the season. Be sure to join us 

on our opening night party where Unskinny 

Bop will have you dancing in the aisles and the 

question is, do you DARE TO STARE 

Sunday 31 October Dare to Stare 

Another Way (18) 2.30pm 

(Egymásra nézve) 

Károly Makk, Hungary, 1982, 102m subtitles 

Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Grazyna Szapolowska 

Nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes, 

this outstanding Hungarian feature is 

an important reminder of recent history. 

Set in 1958, against the backdrop of 

totalitarianism and the Stalinist regime, 

two female political journalists’ cautious 

attraction develops into an intense love 

affair. Powerful and beautifully shot. 


Drifting Flowers (12) 4.35pm 

(Piao lang qing chun) 

Zero Chou, Taiwan, 2008, 97m subtitles 

Serena Fang, Chao Yi-lan, Lu Yi-ching 

Three tales of lesbian love are explored 

through the eyes of different generations 

of Taiwanese women. This poetic and 

lyrical film beautifully illustrates how 

lesbianism is perceived in Taiwan. 

Eloïse 


High Art (18) 6.30pm 

Lisa Cholodenko, Canada/USA, 1998, 101m 

Radha Mitchell, Ally Sheedy, Patricia Clarkson 

Syd, newly appointed assistant editor at 

Frame magazine, lives with her boyfriend 

James. After discovering a leak in the 

roof, she heads upstairs to do a bit of DIY, 

only to find that her neighbour is the very 

talented and charismatic photographer 

Lucy Berliner. Patricia Clarkson is 

fabulous in her supporting role as a 

drugged up Fassbinder muse. 


Highly Strung (15) 8.35pm 

(Je te mangerais) 

Sophie Laloy, France, 2009, 96m subtitles 

Judith Davis, Isild Le Besco 

Marie, an attractive young piano 

student, is accepted into the prestigious 

Conservatoire in Lyon. As her family 

cannot afford rent, she is obliged to 

share with a childhood friend she hasn’t 

seen in years. Emma is now a beautiful, 

mysterious and secretive young woman 

and when she puts a ‘no overnight 

guests’ rule into place, an obsessive and 

irrepressible affair begins.

INFO 

Information 

Bar and Kitchen at Riverside 

Riverside Bar and Kitchen 

The atmospheric space at the heart of the building is a vibrant and 

contemporary setting for lunch, pre-show dinner and drinks. 

The Riverside Terrace is a stunning spot for entertaining. 

Bookings and enquiries 020 8237 1009 

Riverside Kitchen 

Seasonal daily specials with an emphasis on freshly prepared 

ingredients available for lunch and dinner every day. 

Sunday Brunch is served from 10.30am. 

Film Café 

Located in the foyer and open throughout the day serving fresh 

sandwiches, smoothies, salads and mozzo organic and fair trade coffee. 

Food served 

Monday – Friday 

Saturday 

Sunday 

Midday – 3pm 

4pm – 9pm 

12pm – 9pm 

10.30am – 9pm 

Riverside Friends 

Live life on the Riverside, become a Friend and enjoy 

our vibrant and inspirational programme of films and 

theatre for less. As a Friend you’ll receive invites to 

exclusive events and private views and you can enjoy 

a discounted ticket rate at BFI Southbank and Ciné 

lumière too. 

For more information and to become a Friend, please 

call 020 8237 1027. You can also join by sending the 

form below in the post; cheques should be made 

payable to Riverside Trust. 

Discounts may be subject to availability, selected events may be 

excluded. Full details online at riversidestudios.co.uk/friends 

Please cut out this page and send it to us: 

Riverside Studios Friends, Crisp Rd 

Hammersmith, London W6 9RL 

Your details 

NAME 

ADDRESS 

EMAIL 

TELEPHONE 

riversidestudios.co.uk 

Being a Riverside Friend entitles you to 

the following... 

Concessions price cinema tickets 

Concessions price theatre tickets 

Discount on coffee and tea 

Discount on food from the kitchen 

Discounted ticket price at Ciné lumière 

£1 off for screenings at BFI Southbank 

Invites to selected press nights and special events 

Email notification of special offers 

Riverside Friends / £30 per year / £20 concs.

This brochure is available in 

large print, please call 020 8237 1010 or 

email marketing@riversidestudios.co.uk 

to receive a copy. 

Visitors to Riverside Studios 

Box Office 

Open daily 

12 – 9pm 

(closed Bank Holidays) 

Telephone 020 8237 1111 

Fax 020 8237 1001 

Web riversidestudios.co.uk 

Ticket discounts 

Concessions are usually available for students, 

unemployed, disabled plus companion, 60+, under 

16s, Ciné lumière, BFI members (cinema). Valid cards 

must be shown. For Friends and Groups discounts 

please check with the Box Office or online at 

riversidestudios.co.uk. 

Payment 

We accept Visa, MasterCard, Switch, Solo, 

Maestro, Delta, cash and cheques made payable 

to Riverside Trust. 

Mailing List 

If you would like to join our mailing list, please call the 

Box Office or email online@riversidestudios.co.uk. 

Refunds and Exchanges 

Riverside is unable to offer refunds or exchanges 

on tickets. 

Age Ratings 

Where a film programme contains films with different 

age ratings, the highest rating applies. Riverside 

Studios reserves the right to ask for proof of age. 

Latecomers 

Cinema: All films start at the advertised time and 

latecomers will only be admitted during the first 

15 minutes of screening. 

Theatre: Latecomers may not be admitted. 

Access 

There are ramps throughout the building and a lift to 

our cinema. 

We advise our wheelchair user patrons to book in 

advance to guarantee their seats. An induction loop is 

available in the cinema only. 

How to get here 

Tube and foot from Hammersmith 

Piccadilly Line, District Line: From Broadway 

Shopping Centre, use south exit, pass Hammersmith 

Apollo, follow Queen Caroline Street and turn left into 

Crisp Road. 

Hammersmith & City Line: walk towards 

Hammersmith Apollo, follow Queen Caroline Street 

and turn left into Crisp Road. 

Public transport info on tfl.gov.uk or 020 7222 1234. 

Bus 

Buses to Hammersmith Broadway station 

9, 10, 27, 33, 72, 190, 209, 211, 220, 266, 267, 283, 295, 

391, 419, H91. 

Road 

From Hammersmith Broadway roundabout turn left 

at Hammersmith Apollo into Queen Caroline Street, 

turn left into Crisp Road. 

Parking 

Pay and Display street parking until 6.30pm. 

Free from 6.30pm and all day Sunday. 

APOLLO 

Riverside Studios 

Crisp Road . Hammersmith . London . W6 9RL

CINEMA 

Cinema Diary 

September 2010 

Wed 1 

Thu 2 

Fri 3 

Sat 4 

Sun 5 

Mon 6 

Tue 7 

Wed 8 

Thu 9 

Fri 10 

Sat 11 

Sun 12 

Yvan Attal in 

Leaving (15) 6.50pm 

+ Rapt (15) 8.40pm 

Jean-Luc Godard’s 

Pierrot le Fou (15) 6.45pm 

+ Breathless (PG) 9.00pm 


+ The Concert (15) 8.50pm 





Jacques Tati’s 

Playtime (U) 2.00pm 

+ Jour de Fete (U) 4.20pm 

Bernardo Bertolucci’s 

The Conformist (18) 6.00pm 

+ Last Tango in Paris (18) 8.20pm 

Please Give (15) 7.00pm 

City Island (12A) 8.55pm 

CINEMA CLOSED 

The Garden 7.00pm 

South of the Border 8.45pm 

Lebanon (15) 6.45pm 

+ I Am Love (15) 8.45pm 





Graham Greene's 


+ Went the Day Well (PG) 4.35pm 



Mon 13 Graham Greene's 



Tue 14 

CINEMA CLOSED 

Wed 15 The Band’s Visit (PG) 7.00pm 

+ Frontier Blues (15) 8.55pm 

Thu 16 

Fri 17 

Sat 18 

Sun 19 

Catherine Breillat’s 

The Last Mistress (15) 7.00pm 

+ Bluebeard (15) 9.10pm 


+ The Secret in Their Eyes 

(18) 8.45pm 



(18) 4.00pm 



(18) 8.45pm 

Wall-E (U) 3.00pm 

+ Toy Story 3 (U) 5.00pm 

Apocalypse Now – Redux (15) 7.15pm 

Mon 20 DocHouse Presents 

A Stone’s Throw Away 7.00pm 

+ Budrus 8.20pm 

Tue 21 

CINEMA CLOSED 

Wed 22 Somersault (15) 7.00pm 

+ Beautiful Kate (15) 9.10pm 

Thu 23 


Journey of a Georgian Poet 

Akaki Tsereteli in Racha-lechkhumi 

(U) 6.30pm 

+ Street Days (15) 7.00pm 

Fri 24 

Sat 25 

Sun 26 


The Other Bank (15) 6.30pm 

Something About Georgia 8.30pm 


Short Films (12A) 12.30pm 

Susa (12A) 2.20pm 

The Wishing Tree (U) 4.20pm 

Three Houses (U) 6.30pm 

Songs of Georgia 8.30pm 

+Tabuni Live Performance 9.30pm 


The Short Films of Mikhail 

Kobakhidze (U) 12.00pm 

My Grandmother (U) 2.30pm 

Gun-shy (18) 4.00pm 

Pirosmani (U) 6.10pm 

Chantrapas (12) 8.00pm 

Mon 27 Baaria (15) 8.00pm 

Tue 28 

White Material (15) 7.00pm 

+ Le Refuge (15) 9.05pm 

Wed 29 DocHouse Presents 

The Brothers Warner (U) 7.00pm 

+ Confessions of a Nazi Spy 

(U) 8.55pm 

Thu 30 

Age of Extremes (12) 7.30pm 

October 2010 

Fri 1 

Sat 2 

Sun 3 

Mon 4 

Tue 5 

Wed 6 

Thu 7 

Fri 8 

Sat 9 

Sun 10 

Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (U) 7.00pm 

+ The Illusionist (PG) 8.55pm 


+ The Illusionist (PG) 4.20pm 


+ The Illusionist (PG) 8.55m 


+ Gainsbourg (15) 3.50pm 






Dancing with the Devil 7.00pm 


Albino United 7.00pm 

Coco Before Chanel (12A) 6.30pm 

+ Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky 

(15) 8.40pm 

The Girl Who Played 

with Fire (15) 8.00pm 

Time and Space 12 noon 







Mon 11 Ealing Comedies 

Whisky Galore (PG) 7.00pm 

+ The Ladykillers (U) 8.55pm 

Tue 12 

Kim Ki-Duk’s 

Breathe (15) 7.00pm 

+ Time (15) 8.50pm 

Wed 13 The Harder They Come (15) 7.00pm 

+ Black Dynamite (15) 9.10pm 

Thu 14 

Fri 15 

Far From Heaven (12A) 6.30pm 

+ Undertow (TBC) 8.45pm 


+ The Runaways (15) 9.05pm 

Sat 16 

Sun 17 





Abbas Kiarostami’s 


+ Certified Copy (15) 4.30pm 



Mon 18 Abbas Kiarostami’s 



Tue 19 

The Ferrari Dino Girl (15) 6.45pm 

+ Book Launch: Jachym 

& Filo Topol 8.20pm 

Wed 20 Memories of Murder (15) 6.00pm 

+ Mother (15) 8.35pm 

Thu 21 

Fri 22 

Sat 23 

Sun 24 

DocHouse Presents 

The Politician, the Poet, the Cook 

and the Lord 7.30pm 

+ The Girl with the 

Black Balloons 7.45pm 


+ Winter’s Bone (15) 9.05pm 





Sunrise: A Song 

of Two Humans (PG) 3.00pm 

White Heat (15) 6.30pm 

+ Bonnie and Clyde (15) 8.50pm 

Mon 25 Black History Month 

Borom Sarret (12A) 7.00pm 

+ Black Girl (12A) 7.20pm 

Xala (12) 8.45pm 

Tue 26 


+ Tamara Drewe (15) 8.55pm 

Wed 27 An Education (12A) 6.50pm 

+ Tamara Drewe (15) 8.55pm 

Thu 28 

Fri 29 

Sat 30 

Sun 31 

Dare to Stare 

Itty Bitty Titty Committee 

(15) 8.30pm 

+ Unskinny Pop Opening Night Party 

Dare to Stare 

Unveiled (15) 6.50pm 

4 Minutes (15) 8.55pm 

Afternoon: closed for private event 

Dare to Stare 

Fucking Amal (25) 7.00pm 

Elo se (15) 8.55pm 

Dare to Stare 

Another Way (18) 2.30pm 

Drifting Flowers (12) 4.35pm 

High Art (18) 6.30pm 

Highly Strung (15) 8.35pm 

Cinema tickets are £7.50 

(£6.50 concs.) unless 

otherwise stated. 

Where a programme contains films with 

different age ratings, the highest rating 

applies. Riverside Studios reserves the 

right to ask for proof of age.

September / October 2010 - Riverside Studios

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