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New FilmsUnder The SkinFri 14 March – Thu 27 MarchThe Grand Budapest HotelFri 7 March – Thur 20 MarchSelected to open this year’s Berlin Film Festival, TheGrand Budapest Hotel is auteur Wes Anderson’s firstfilm since his critically acclaimed and Oscar-nominatedgem Moonrise Kingdom. Written by Anderson and newscreenwriting partner Hugo Guinness, this new film bearsall the hallmark style we’ve come to know and love fromthis quirky filmmaker – lush and detailed productiondesign, a soundtrack to die for, dry wit and of course,proper actors in silly roles.The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures ofGustave H (Ralph Fiennes), a legendary concierge at afamous European hotel between the wars, and ZeroMoustafa (Tony Revolori), the lobby boy who becomeshis most trusted protégé. When the wealthy but very oldMadame D is murdered, Gustave, her servant, friend andoccasional lover, becomes the number one suspect. Ourtwo heroes must go on the run, in this exciting adventurestory which soon involves the theft and recovery of apriceless Renaissance painting, the battle for anenormous family fortune, and the slow, then suddenupheavals that transformed Europe during the first halfof the 20th century.Fans of Jonathan Glazer’s work either in film (Sexy Beast)or landmark music videos (for Radiohead and MassiveAttack) have been waiting a long time for a new featurefilm from this cult director. When it was announced thathis newest project was a cinematic adaptation of MichelFaber’s critically acclaimed novel Under The Skin,anticipation reached fever pitch. The results will enrapturesome and perplex others, but it will certainly rattle aroundin your brain for a long time to come. We saw this inToronto back in September and can still rememberimages, sounds and sequences as if it were yesterday.The film opens with a beautiful but unidentified woman(Scarlet Johansson) driving around the Scottishcountryside and luring unsuspecting men into her whitetransit van. With her come hither eyes, ruby red lips anddisarming chat, it is clear that she is on a mission of sorts,but her motives remain unclear. All is not what it seems onthe surface and the tables are soon turned when thehunter becomes the prey.Using professional and non-professional actors andshot on location all around Scotland (often guerrilla style),Glazer infuses this other-worldly film with a sense of grimreality, which will be all too familiar to many of us. Cooland detached, Under The Skin is a lot like its centralcharacters – an enigma, but a beautiful, seductive andultimately disturbing one at that.Dir: Jonathan GlazerUK 2013 / 1h48m / Digital / cert tbcWith a suitably grand cast of characters Anderson’snew film has an ensemble cast like no other includingF. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody,Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law,Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, JasonSchwartzman, Lea Seydoux, Tilda Swinton, TomWilkinson and Owen Wilson.Dir: Wes AndersonUSA / Germany 2014 / time tbc / Digital / cert tbcSoft Subtitled screening Tue 18 March, 18:00Senior Citizen Kane Club screening Thu 20 March, 10:30Bring a Baby Screening Thu 20 March, 10:308 www.dca.org.uk