fIlM GUIDe MAY-JUNE 2012BOx OFFICE: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk

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whaT Does IT CosT?Box Office Opening Times:10am to 8pm - Monday to Saturday, 11am to 2.30pm - Sunday

v Tickets £6.80

v Concessions £5.80

v Children Under 16 £4.80

vMatinee Screenings £4.80*

v Breakfast Movie (including a hot drink and pastry) £6.80*

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how To re-esTaBlIsh a voDka eMPIre PG (TBC)A delightful mesh of stories that combines an investigation of the Director, Dan edelstyn’s family history, with a journey to ukraine that leads Dan to enter the alcohol industry.DIRECTOR: Dan Edelstyn STARRING: Hilary Powell, Anthony Styles, Conrad Asquith & Dan EdelstynUK, 2011, 1 hour 15 minutes

Tue 1 6pm

Wed 2 2.30pm & 6pm

MAY

we BoUGhT a Zoo PGA true story about a single dad who decides his family is in need of a fresh start, so he decides to move his two children into the most unlikely of places: a zoo. DIRECTOR: Cameron Crowe STARRING: Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson & Thomas Haden ChurchUSA, 2011, 2 hours 4 minutes

The arTIsT PGthis smash hit is back at the Courtyard by popular demand. Winner of eight BAFtAs and five Oscars, the Artist captures and re-creates a 1920s Hollywood somewhere between legend and reality.DIRECTOR: Michel Hazanavicius STARRING: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman & James CromwellFrance, 2011, 1 hour 41 minutes (Black and White)

Sun 6 2.30pm

MAY

Tue 1 2.30pm & 8pm

Wed 2 11am & 8pm

Tue 8 11am

Wed 9 11am

Thu 10 11am

MAY

* - Applies weekdays and term times onlyAll Information contained in this guide is correct at the time of going to print, but may be subject to change.

Director, Dan Edelstyn will present a Q&A session following

the screening on 1 May

MeeT Me In sT loUIs Uthis musical masterpiece is a slice of Hollywood romanticism that will leave you swooning. Brilliantly shot in technicolor Judy Garland is pretty as a picture in one of the best hits from MGM.DIRECTOR: Vincente Minnelli STARRING: Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor & Leon Ames USA, 1944, 1 hour 53 minutes

Fri 11 6pm

Sat 12 6pm

MAY

Bel aMI 15Georges, a caddish seducer of influential and wealthy women rises from a humble background to become the toast of Paris society. Based on Guy de Maupassant’s classic, the film follows Georges as a likeable rogue in a world of scoundrels. DIRECTORS: Declan Donnellan & Nick Ormerod STARRING: Robert Pattinson, Christina Ricci, Uma Thurman & Kristen Scott ThomasUK/France/Italy, 2012, 1 hour 43 minutes

Tue 8 2.30pm & 8.15pm

Wed 9 2.30pm & 6pm

Thu 10 2.30pm & 8.15pm

MAY

BIG MIraCle PGthis film tells the incredible true story of Operation Breakthrough, an international effort to try and save three grey whales entrapped by a rapid winter ice freeze. DIRECTOR: Ken KwapisSTARRING: Drew Barrymore, John Krasinski & Kristen BellUSA, 2012, 1 hour 46 minutes

Sat 12 2.30pm

Sun 13 2.30pm

MAY

The kID wITh a BIke 12aA young boy searches for his father on his bike, in another excellent feature film from the Dardennes. Raw but compassionate, naturalistic but compelling. DIRECTORS: Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc DardenneSTARRING: Thomas Doret, Cécile de France, Jérémie Renier & Fabrizio RongioneBelgium/France/Italy, 2011, 1 hour 27 minutes, Subtitles

Tue 8 6pm

Wed 9 8.30pm

Thu 10 6pm

MAY

MAYFri 11 2.30pm & 8.30pm

Mon 14 6.30pm

Tue 15, 11am, 2.30pm & Wed 16, 6pm Thu 17

Based on the satirical novel, an uptight government fisheries scientist, Dr Alfred Jones, thinks the idea of introducing salmon to Yemen is ludicrous. His arm is twisted and his head is turned by Harriet, a business woman who represents Yemeni sheikh.DIRECTOR: Lasse HallströmSTARRING: Ewan McGregor, Kristen Scott Thomas & Emily Blunt USA, 2011, 1 hour 52 minutes

salMon fIshInG In The yeMen 12a

BeaUTy 18 (skoonheID)

A devoted husband and father, François constantly battles with the repressed desires that threaten to rip apart his carefully maintained respectability. DIRECTOR: Oliver Hermanus STARRING: Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan & Sue DiepeveenFrance/South Africa, 2011, 1 hour 49 minutes, Subtitles

CloUDBUrsT 15Butch stella and blind Dotty have been together for 31 years. When Dotty is put in an old people’s home it doesn’t take stella long to break her woman out of there.DIRECTOR: Thom FitzgeraldSTARRING: Olympia Dukakis, Brenda Fricker & Ryan Doucette Canada, 2012, 1 hour 33 minutes

The BesT exoTICMarIGolD hoTel 12a

Foregoing conventional retirement, a disparate bunch of pensioners head off to a crumbling hotel in Jaipur that isn't quite as advertised.DIRECTOR: John Madden STARRING: Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith & Tom WilkinsonUK, 2011, 1 hour 58 minutes

kInky BooTs 12aAn uplifting story about Charlie, who inherits his father’s ailing shoe factory, then he meets Lola, a London transvestite who inspires him to make glamorous boots for cross dressing men.DIRECTOR: Julian Jarrold STARRING: Joel Edgerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor & Sarah Jane PottsUK, 2005, 1 hour 47 minutes

Mon 14 8.45pm

MAYTue 15 8.30pm

MAY

she Monkeys (TBC)emma is a girl who likes to be in control. When she meets Cassandra, a strong, attractive and vivacious woman with a wicked sense of fun, their feelings of jealousy, competitiveness and sexual attraction soon have them pushing each other to their limits.DIRECTOR: Lisa AschanSTARRING: Mathilda Paradeiser, Linda Molin & Isabella LindquistSweden, 2011, 1 hour 24 minutes, Subtitles

Fri 18 6pm

MAY

Wed 16 8.30pm

MAYThu 17 8.30pm

MAY

Sat 19 6pm

MAY

norTh sea Texas 15 (TBC)

Pim lives in a small town on the Belgian coast with his single mother. A humdrum existence which Pim brightens up by dreaming of Princesses, beauty queens and the handsome boy next door, Gino, until a hunky traveller arrives in town.DIRECTOR: Bavo DefurneSTARRING: Jelle Florizoone, Eva Van Der Gucht & Mathias VergelsBelgium, 2011, 1 hour 33 minutes

heaDhUnTers 15 (TBC)

BreaThInG 15A searching examination of a young man’s troubled passage into adulthood. With the prospect of parole coming up young offender, Roman takes a job in an undertakers, and tries to track down the mother who abandoned him.DIRECTOR: Karl Markovics STARRING: Thomas Schubert, Karin Lischka & Gerhard LiebmannAustria, 2011, 1 hour 30 minutes, Subtitles

CasaBlanCa Uset in Morocco during World War II in a viper’s nest where the good the bad and the ugly hang out, including Rick, an expatriate nightclub owner, then one day Rick’s long lost love, Ilsa walks in...Casablanca is still the greatest love story ever told.DIRECTOR: Michael CurtizSTARRING: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman & Claude RainsUSA, 1942, 1 hour 42 minutes

Tue 22 2.30pm

Wed 23 2.30pm & 8.30pm

MAY

Fri 18 11am & 2.30pm

Tue 22 11am & 6pm

Wed 23 11am

MAY

Sat 19 2.30pm

Sun 20 2.30pm

Mon 21 11am & 8.30pm

MAYhUGo UWinner of five Oscars and set in 1930s Paris a boy called Hugo lives in the walls of a train station but gets caught up in a magical, mysterious adventure when he encounters a broken machine.DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese STARRING: Asa Butterfield, Jude Law, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley & Ray WinstoneUK, 2011, 1 hour 57 minutes

Tue 22 8.30pm

Wed 23 6pm

MAY

Fri 18 8.30pm

Sat 19 8.30pm

Mon 21 6.30pm

MAY

Roger Brown is a small man with expensive taste and something to prove. He supplements his regular income with a side helping of art theft. But when a job goes wrong he finds himself way out of his depth.DIRECTOR: Morten TyldumSTARRING: Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau & SynnǿMacody LundNorway, 2011, 1 hour 41 minutes, Subtitles

norTh sea Texas 15 (TBC)

Pim lives in a small town on the Belgian coast with his single mother. A humdrum existence which Pim brightens up by dreaming of Princesses, beauty queens and the handsome boy next door, Gino, until a hunky traveller arrives in town.DIRECTOR: Bavo DefurneSTARRING: Jelle Florizoone, Eva Van Der Gucht & Mathias VergelsBelgium, 2011, 1 hour 33 minutes

The well DIGGer’sDaUGhTer PGthis is a sun-soaked portrait of life in 1940s rural France. When a Catholic well digger's favourite daughter becomes pregnant he faces some hard choices about how best to help her.DIRECTOR: Daniel Auteuil STARRING: Daniel Auteuil, Kad Merad & Sabine Azéma France, 2011, 1 hour 49 minutes

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In Darkness 15Inspired by a true incident in Nazi-occupied Poland, during the liquidation of the ghetto a sewer worker and thief risks his life by hiding Jewish refugees in the sewers of Lvov.DIRECTOR: Agnieszka Holland STARRING: Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann & Agnieszka GrochowskaPoland, 2011, 2 hours 25 minutes, Subtitles

Mon 28 11am

Tue 29 2.30pm & 8.30pm

Wed 30 11am & 6pm

Thu 31 11am & 8.30pm

MAY

The PIraTes! U (TBC)

In an aDvenTUre wITh sCIenTIsTsGideon Defoe’s popular Pirates! books hit the big screen promising a certain old fashioned Britishness. Hugh Grant is the endearingly incompetent Pirate Captain while Jeremy Piven voices Black Bellamy his evil nemesis.DIRECTOR: Peter LordSTARRING: Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, David Tennant, Salma Hayek & Jeremy Piven UK, 2012, duration of the film tbc

Fri 1 6pm

Sat 2 2.30pm & 6pm

Sun 3 2.30pm

Wed 6 11am, 2.30pm & 6pm

Thu 7 11am

Sat 9 2.30pm

Sun 10 11.30am suBtItLes

JUNE

alBerT noBBs (TBC)

Albert Nobbs is a desperate and destitute woman posing to be a male butler in 19th century Ireland. After 17 years working in Dublin’s most prestigious hotel whilst maintaining the presence of masculinity has eroded Albert’s sense of identity.DIRECTOR: Rodrigo Garcia STARRING: Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska & Brendan GleesonUSA, 2011, 1 hour 53 minutes

Sat 9 6pm

Mon 11 8.30pm

Tue 12 11am & 6pm

Wed 13 2.30pm & 8.30pm

Thu 14 11am

JUNE

Mon 28 7.30pm

Tue 29 11am & 6pm

Wed 30 2.30pm & 8.30pm

Thu 31 6pm

MAYThIs MUsT Be The PlaCe 15 (TBC)sean Penn plays an oddball retired rock star, Cheyenne, who sets off on an offbeat, cross-country road trip across the usA in search of someone and something of purpose in his stalled life.DIRECTOR: Paolo SorrentinoSTARRING: Sean Penn, Judd Hirsch, Frances McDormand & Harry Dean Stanton Italy/France/Ireland/USA, 2011, 1 hour 58 minutes

Fri 1 8.30pm

Sat 2 8.30pm

Wed 6 8.30pm

JUNEMIrror MIrror PG (TBC)

The UnTolD aDvenTUres of snow whITeJulia Roberts stars as the evil Witch in the latest interpretation of the classic Brothers Grimm tale. Bollywood roots of the film flourish with a feast of colour, awe inspiring locations and incredible costumes.DIRECTOR: Tarsem SinghSTARRING: Julia Roberts, Sean Bean & Armie HammerUSA, 2012, 1 hour 51 minutes

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le havre PGArtist turned shoe shiner, Marcel stumbles upon young African refugee Idrissa whilst eating his lunch on the Le Havre sea front, and is determined to help the lad out.DIRECTOR: Aki Kaurismäki STARRING: André Wilms, Blondin Miguel & Jean-Pierre Darroussin Finland/France/Germany, 2011, 1 hour 33 minutes, Subtitles

a CaT In ParIs (TBC)Dino the cat leads a double existence, by day snuggling up to seven year old owner Zoe, by night following local burglar Nico scrambling across the Parisian skyline.DIRECTOR: Jean-Loup Felicioli & Alain Gagnol STARRING: Dominique Blanc, Bruno Salomone and Jean Benguigui France, 2010, 1 hour 10 minutes

GosPel of Us (TBC)

Written by Owen sheers (Resistance), Gospel of us is a film version of the Passion Play which was created for the National theatre of Wales. DIRECTOR: Dave McKean STARRING: Michael Sheen, Kyle Rees & Di Botcher UK, 2012, 1 hours 55 minutes

Sat 16 7.45pm

Mon 18 11am & 7.45pm

JUNE

a seParaTIon PGsimin asks her husband, Nader, for a divorce. Nader insists that she must stay and help him look after his old Dad. small decisions have big repercussions in this suspenseful drama.DIRECTOR: Asghar FarhadiSTARRING: Leila Hatami, Peyman Moaadi & Shahab Hosseini Iran, 2011, 2 hours 3 minutes, Subtitles

Tue 19 11am & 6pm

Wed 20 11am & 2.30pm

JUNE

Mon 11 6.30pm

Tue 12 8.30pm

Wed 13 11am & 6pm

JUNE

Fri 15 2.30pm

Sat 16 2.30pm & 5.30pm

Sun 17 2.30pm

JUNE

Thu 14 7pm

JUNE

Thu 12 7pm

JULY

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frankensTeInChildlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal.DIRECTOR: Danny BoyleSTARRING: Johnny Lee Miller & Benedict Cumberbatch Running time 2 hours

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Sat 9 8.30pm

Tue 12 2.30pm

JUNE

Marley 15Featuring rare footage, incredible performances and revelatory interviews about Bob Marley’s life, music and legacy with the people that knew him best.DIRECTOR: Kevin MacdonaldSTARRING: Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, Jimmy Cliff & Lee ‘Scratch’ PerryUK, 2011, 2 hours 24 minutes

Fri 29 7.45pm

Mon 2 7.45pm

Tue 3 7.45pm

Wed 4 7.45pm

JUNE/JULY

raMParT (TBC)Dave ‘date rape’ Brown is an old-school cop in the corruption-riven Rampart Division of the LAPD in 1999. After his car is rammed he’s caught on video assaulting the culprit, but digs his heels in and refuses to be forced into retirement.DIRECTOR: Oren Moverman STARRING: Woody Harrelson, Robin Wright & Sigourney WeaverUSA, 2012, 1 hour 42 minutes

Tue 19 8.30pm

Wed 20 8.30pm

Thu 21 2.30pm & 8.30pm

JUNE

Mon 25 11am & 7.45pm

Thu 28 11am & 2.30pm

JUNE

Tue 19 2.30pm

Wed 20 6pm

Thu 21 11am & 6pm

Sat 23 2.30pm suBtItLes 6pm & 8.30pm

JUNEThe BesT exoTICMarIGolD hoTel 12aForegoing conventional retirement, a disparate bunch of pensioners head off to a crumbling hotel in Jaipur that isn't quite as advertised.DIRECTOR: John Madden STARRING: Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith & Tom WilkinsonUK, 2011, 1 hour 58 minutes

orDeT 12aA witty exploration of pride and prejudice which examines the clash between orthodoxy and true faith in a devout Jutland farming family.DIRECTOR: Carl Theodor DreyerSTARRING: Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen & Preben Lerdorff Rye Denmark, 1955, 2 hours 6 minutes, Subtitles

CorPo CelesTe 15 (TBC)After moving from switzerland young, rebellious teenager Marta is struggling to settle in her new home in the poor south of Italy. this is a genuinely distinctive coming-of-age tale that sensitively conjures the emotional landscapes that Marta inhabits.DIRECTOR: Alice RohrwacherSTARRING: Yle Vianello, Salvatore Cantalupo, Pasquanlina Scuncia & Anita Caprioli Italy/France/Switzerland, 2011, 1 hour 40 minutes, Subtitles

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