Tomboy (U)

Director: Celine SciammaStarring: Zoe Heran, Malonn Levana, Jeanne Disson France, 2011, 1 hour 22 minutes, subtitles

Laure is a tomboy who has moved to a new town and passes herself off as a boy, Mickael. Through the long summer holidays she/he keeps up the pretence while running with the local gang in the woods, swimming, playing football, and handling her friend Lisa’s growing attraction. The chance her true identity will be uncovered seems inevitable.

“One of the great films made by adults for adults about children” Little White Lies

DECEMBER

Wed 77.45pm

Thurs 811am6pm

MAE

Jack Goes Boating (15)

Director: Philip Seymour HoffmanStarring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Ryan, John OrtizUSA, 2011, 1 hour 29 minutes

Jack, a solitary limo driver, is edging towards a relationship with the similarly hesitant Connie with the help of his best friend, Clyde. As Jack patiently learns the skills to convince Connie of his honest intentions he unintentionally sets in train a tale of love, betrayal, jealousy and, most importantly, friendship. Philip Seymour Hoffman’s funny, sometimes painfully honest directorial debut is a quietly optimistic little gem.

“Philip Seymour Hoffman directs like he acts, with a sharp eye for the small details that cut to the soul of a character.” Rolling Stone

Post Mortem (15)

Director: Pablo LarrainStarring: Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Amparo NogueraChile/Germany/Mexico, 2010, 1 hour 38 minutes, subtitles

Chile, 1973. Mario a kind, gentle, man works as an anonymous functionary in the Santiago city morgue. He falls in love with his neighbour, Nancy, a burlesque dancer who briefly responds to his advances. Pinochet’s coup brings down Allende and the bodies start to pile up at the morgue. In the chaos Nancy betrays Mario’s love, so he, like the military who feel the country they serve has betrayed them, exercises his new found power. This is a disquieting, forensic examination of the motives of a little man caught in the wheel of history that asks ‘What would you do?’

DECEMBER

Tues 136pm

Wed 148.30pm

MAEDECEMBER

Tues 138.15pm

Wed 146pm

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This season we have expanded our range of live broadcasts to include screenings from the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow alongside our current links to The Met Opera in New York and The National Theatre in London. Now you can enjoy the best ballet, opera and theatre without leaving Hereford!

Monday 7 November at 6pmMet Opera

Siegfried£17.50

Saturday 19 November 6pmMet Opera

Satyagraha £17.50

Sunday 20 November 3pmBolshoi Ballet

Sleeping Beauty£15

Saturday 3 December at 5.30pmMet Opera

Rodelinda£17.50

Monday 5 December 7pmNT Live

Collaborators£12.50

Monday 12 December 6pmMet Opera

Faust£17.50

Sunday 18 December 3pmBolshoi Ballet

The Nutcracker£15

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NOvEMBER

31(Oct) 1,2Sarah’s Key (12A)

2Concrete Circus (12A)

2District 13 (15)

6Captain America: The First Avenger (12A)

7, 8, 9,10The Guard (15)

9Anyone Can Play Guitar (tbc)

10Restrepo (15)

11,12,14,15,16,17 Tinker Sailor Soldier Spy (15)

13A Christmas Carol (PG)

21, 22, 23, 24,The Debt (15)

22, 23, 24We Need To Talk About Kevin (15)

25, 29, 30Mademoiselle Chambon (12A)

25, 28, 29, 30Wuthering Heights (15 tbc)

DECEMBER 2011Box Office: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk

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DECEMBER

3, 4, 6The Three Musketeers (12A)

6, 8Senna (12A)

6The Man on The Train (12A)

7, 8Tomboy (U)

13, 14Jack Goes Boating (15)

13, 14Post Mortem (15)

17, 19, 20, 21, 22Crazy, Stupid, Love (12A)

17, 19, 20, 21, 22Resistance (tbc)

23, 26, 27, 28, 29 Adventures of Tin Tin: Secret of the Unicorn (PG tbc)

23,26, 27, 28,29Another Earth (12A)

30, 31, 2, 3, 4Puss in Boots (U tbc)

Captain America Sunday 6 November

Resistance (15 tbc)

Director: Amit GuptaStarring: Michael Sheen, Andrea Riseborough, Iwan RheonUK, 2011, 1 hour 32 minutes

Set in 1944 in German-occupied Britain, this is the story of the women of an isolated village who wake up to discover that their husbands have all mysteriously vanished to become part of the secret British resistance. With their sudden absence the women regroup as an isolated, all-female community and wait, hoping for news. When a German patrol arrives in the valley the severe winter forces the women to co-operate with them and a fragile mutual dependency develops.

The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn (PG tbc)

Director: Steven SpielbergStarring: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Simon PeggUSA, 2011, 1 hour 49 minutes tbc

The intrepid young reporter Tintin, his loyal dog Snowy and foolish friend Captain Haddock discover a riddle left by Haddock’s ancestor, the 17th century Sir Francis Haddock, which might lead them to the hidden treasure of the notorious pirate Red Rackham. The first of Steven Spielberg’s animated versions of the legendary Tintin comic strip delivers his usual blend of high adventure and great excitement.

Another Earth (12A)

Director: Mike CahillStarring: Brit Marling, William Mapother, Matthew Lee-EribachUSA, 2011, 1 hour 32 minutes

A genuinely intriguing treat that weaves sci-fi imaginings and theories of parallel universes into a provocative exploration of the prospect of rewriting your life history. The discovery of a mirror image Earth above our own sparks a chain of events that leads bright, young astrophysics student Rhonda into an unlikely love affair and then, reawakened to life’s possibilities, on a surreal, existential journey.

“one of the most low-tech, low-budget, scaled-down and engrossing sci-fi movies ever” USA Today

DECEMBER

Sat 178.30pm

Mon 196pm

Tues 20 / Wed 218.30pm

Thurs 226pm

MAE

DECEMBER

Fri 236pm

Mon 26-Thurs 292.30pm5.30pm

MAE

DECEMBER

Fri 238.30pm

Mon 26 - Thurs 29

8pm

MAE

Crazy, Stupid, Love (12A)Directors: John Requa, Glenn FicarraStarring: Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell,

Emma Stone, Julianne MooreUSA, 2011, 1 hour 58 minutes

When Cal (Carell) learns that his wife, Emily wants a divorce, his ‘perfect’ life quickly unravels and he soon finds himself all at sea in today’s singles scene. In steps handsome pickup artist Jacob (Gosling) to lend a hand. Soon Cal is scoring sensationally with Kate, an energetic, recovering alcoholic and sexual virtuoso. There’s a dream cast that keeps springing playful surprises, but it’s Gosling who steals the show as the ladykiller with all the smooth moves who has to try and change his ways when he falls for a “game-changer”.

Tues 20 6pm Subtitles

DECEMBER

Sat 176pm

Mon 198.15pm

Tues 20 6pm

Wed 216pm

Thurs 228.15pm

MAE

DECEMBER

Fri 302.30pm7.30pm

Sat 312.30pm

JANUARy

Mon 2 - Wed 4

2.30pm7.30pm

MA

Puss in Boots (U tbc)Director: Chris Miller

With the voices of: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galiflinakis

USA, 2011, 1 hour 40 minutes

In this animated adventure comedy Shrek’s mischievous feline friend, the notorious sword fighter, lover, Zorro-like outlaw and all-round hero, Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) has his own adventures with characters both new and familiar - including Humpty Dumpty and love interest Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek).

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DECEMBER

Sat 3 2.30pm

Sun 4 2.30pm

Tues 6 2.30pm

M A E

NOvEMBER

Fri 25 8.30pm

Mon 28 7.45pm

Tues 29 11am 8.30pm

Weds 30 2.30pm 8.30pm

M A E

Wuthering Heights (15 tbc)

Director: Andrea ArnoldStarring: Kaya Scodelario, Nichola Burley, James HowsonUK, 2011, 2 hours 7 minutes

In this audacious, elemental version of Emily’s tragic tale of star-crossed lovers Arnold explores their early, tentative romance with tenderness and a visceral sense of where pain meets pleasure. Nature, as in the book, plays a strong part in every aspect of their story which plays out in a harsh rustic world from which there is no escape.

Winner of Best Cinematography Prize Venice International Film Festival 2011

The Three Musketeers (12A)

Director: Paul WS AndersonStarring: Orlando Bloom, Milla Jovovich,

Logan LermanUK, 2011, 1 hour 50 minutes

The hot-headed, ever-loyal D’Artagnan along with three legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite to foil the dastardly plans of the wicked Cardinal Richelieu who is determined to seize the French throne and engulf Europe in war. First they must tackle M’lady de Winter, the most dangerous woman in France, whose swordplay can give them all a run for their money. A swashbuckling tale that is full of glorious locations, fabulous costumes and cool looking fight sequences, this has plenty of bangs for your buck!

Senna (12A)

Director: Asif Kapadia Starring: Aryton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Jackie Stewart UK/France/USA, 2011, 1 hour 45 minutes

This brilliantly captures the life and times of arguably the greatest F1 driver of all time. Spanning his years as a Formula One driver from 1984 to his untimely death a decade later, Senna explores the life and work of the legendary Brazilian world champion, his quest for perfection, his spiritual side and the mythical status he has since attained. Told solely through the use of archival footage, Senna is bursting with awesome racing sequences, but what makes this film so riveting is the remarkable personality of the man himself. This is your last chance to see this where it should be seen - on the big screen.

DECEMBER

Tues 6 8.15pm

Thurs 8 2.30pm 8pm

M A E

The Debt (15)Director: John Madden

Starring: Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Ciaran Hinds

USA, 2010, 1 hour 44 minutes

Helen Mirren stars as an ex-Mossad agent torn between her duty to her country, to her ex-husband, to her daughter and to her ex-colleague and love of her life. Based on the real life story of three Mossad agents who kidnapped a Nazi torturer in East Berlin in 1965. But when their plan to whisk him out of the country unravels they’re left holding him captive while the police close in. Mirren is in top form in this tense, thoughtful thriller which like all good thrillers has one more twist in the final reel than expected.

NOvEMBER

Mon 21 7.45pm

Tues 22 11am 6pm

Wed 23 2.30pm 8.30pm

Thurs 24 2.30pm 6pm

M A E

NOvEMBER

Sun 13 2.30pm

M A E

A Christmas Carol (PG)

Director: Robert ZemeckisStarring: Jim Carrey, Colin Firth, Gary OldmanUSA, 2009, 1 hour 38 minutes

Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come take Old Scrooge on an eye-opening journey that reveals truths he’s reluctant to face, he must open his heart and mend his ways if he’s to undo years of ill will before it’s too late. Influenced by silent cinema, the spirit of Tim Burton and – in Scrooge’s moment of torment in the dockside murk and mist – David Lean, this version of Dickens ever-popular Christmas tale is full of attractive festive flourishes, but is told more creepily than usual.

We Need To Talk About Kevin (15)

Director: Lynne RamsayStarring: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra MillerUK/USA, 2011, 1 hour 52 minutes

This mesmerising, provocative adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s best-selling novel tells the story of Eva, a mother haunted by the horrific actions of her teenage son who commits a high-school massacre. Eva tries to deal with her grief and feelings of responsibility by looking back over her son’s upbringing to understand how this could have happened. Ramsay daringly uses the haunting power of image and sound to great effect.

NOvEMBER

Tues 22 2.30pm 8.30pm

Wed 23 6pm

Thurs 24 8.30pm

M A E

Anyone Can Play Guitar (tbc)

Director: Jon SpiraStarring: Radiohead, Foals, Supergrass, Swervedriver, Ride, Talulah Gosh UK, 2011, 1 hour 40 minutes

With a soundtrack full of great music this is the intimate story of Oxford’s music scene that gave the world genre-defining acts such as Radiohead, Foals, Supergrass, Ride, Swervedriver and Talulah Gosh. An epic, colourful saga that documents success and failure, good intentions and bad outcomes, the camraderie of a tight music scene and the harsh realities of the music industry over thirty years.

Cabaret-style so you can take drinks in! Includes a post-screening Q&A session with director Jon Spira & legendary Ride lead-singer Mark Gardener. All tickets £8.

NOvEMBER

Wed 9 8pm

M A E

NOvEMBER

Thurs 10 8.30pm

M A E

Restrepo (15)

Directors: Sebastian Junger, Tim HetheringtonStarring: Dan Kearney, Lamonta Caldwell, Kevin Rice USA, 2009, 1 hour 33 minutesAn intimate, unflinching account of life on the front line in Afghanistan, this documentary keeps tightly focused on the soldiers that survived as they tell their story. Given the unenviable task of holding a forward base that comes under daily attack from the Taliban 173rd Airborne Brigade tell their tale unadorned and straight to camera creating a powerful unblinking story of the futility of our war. A direct, authentic and heartrending film by the late Tim Hetherington.

Winner Best Documentary prize at Sundance Film Festival 2010

This film is being screen as part of Hereford Photography Festival

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (15)

Director: Tomas AlfredsonStarring: Gary Oldman, John Hurt, Colin Firth, Benedict CumberbatchUK/France, 2011, 2 hours 7 minutes

Gary Oldman steps into Alec Guiness’s brogues as taciturn spymaster George Smiley who is brought out of retirement to track down a mole within MI6. He moves quietly through a looking glass world where spies spy on spies and nothing is quite as it seems. With a taut script and fabulous cast expertly handled by Tomas ‘Let The Right One In’ Alfredson, this fine adaptation of the classic spy thriller has been described by Le Carré himself as nothing less than a triumph.

Mon 14 7.45pm Subtitles

NOvEMBER

Fri 11 7.45pm

Sat 12 7.45pm

Mon14-Thurs 17 7.45pm

M A E

Sarah’s Key (12A)

Director: Gilles Paquet-BrennerStarring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels ArestrupFrance, 2011, 1 hour 50 minutes, subtitles

Based on a best-selling novel, this tense, compelling story plunges into the chaos of wartime Paris to mull over the touchy subject of French wartime guilt and how many families hide their dark past. Employing her trademark understated delicacy, Kristin Scott Thomas keeps the melodrama in check as she comes to understand the ‘what-else-could-I have-done?’ complicity in horror of neighbours and friends. Scott Thomas is in the prime of her career in this heartbreaking, wonderfully acted, French drama.

“One of the most moving films you’ll ever see . . . inspirational” Daily Mirror

Concrete Circus (12A)

Director: Mike Christie Starring: Danny McAskill, Kilian Martin, Phil Doyle, Keelan Phillips UK, 2011, Running Time 1 hour 13 minutes

Concrete Circus brings together the world’s hottest names in urban sports with viral film-makers and Mike Christie, the director of extreme sport documentary Jump London, to capture unique portraits of the urban sports scene. These five stunning films have it all: beauty, danger, and jaw-dropping action. They feature urban trial-rider phenomenon Danny McAskill; skateboarding virtuoso Kilian Martin; Storm Freerun’s Blue with extraordinary 19-year-old parkouriste Phil Doyle, and, last but not least, BMX flatlander Keelan Phillips.

This film is being screened as part of Hereford Photography Festival

District 13 (15)

Director: Pierre Morel Starring: Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle, Dany verissimo France, 2006, 1 hour 25 minutes

Set in a bricked off slum, into which a rogue cop and the vigilante prince of the ghetto must venture to retrieve a bomb, and rescue a damsel in distress. The cast hurls itself into the comic-book violence of the Parisian future hell with sufficient gusto to make the fights looks like they really hurt, and so prove that knuckle-headed heroics do have a peculiar charm!

This film is being screened as part of Hereford Photography Festival

OCTOBER

Mon 31 7.45pm

Tues 111am

6pm

8.30pm

Wed 2 2.30pm

M A E NOvEMBER

Wed 2 8.30pm

M A E NOvEMBER

Wed 2 6pm

M A E

Tickets £6.50

Concessions £5.50

Children U16 £4.50 Kids’ Club Members £4

Student Damage Members £3

£4.50 Matinee Screenings

£6.50 Breakfast Movie (inc. hot drink and pastry

- no concessions)

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Sun 6 2.30pm

M A E

Captain America - The First Avenger (12A)

Director: Joe Johnston Starring: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Natalie Dormer USA, 2011, 2 hours 4 minutes

This is a boy’s-own Second World War story, full of derring-do, knockout dames and dastardly Nazis that pits Captain America against a wicked scientist.

Charming, handsome, old-style comic book heroics create

a pacy, punchy, highly entertaining slice of comic-book action.

Mademoiselle Chambon (12A)

Director: Stephane BrizeStarring: vincent Landon, Sandrine Kiberlain, Aure AtikaFrance, 2009, 1 hour 41 minutes, subtitles

Jean’s simple, happy, family life is thrown into disarray when he falls for his son’s teacher and their sexual attraction becomes impossible to ignore. Built on the tiniest moments and pregnant silences of the small every-day tragedies of ordinary lives, this is a touching, chaste portrait of two people fighting to contain their passion from spilling over into a full blown affair.

“An emotionally incandescent love story” New York Post

NOvEMBER

Fri 25 11am 6pm

Tues 29 2.30pm 6pm

Wed 30 11am 6pm

M A E

NOvEMBER 2011 Box Office: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk

L’Homme du Train/The Man on The Train (12A)

Director: Patrice LeconteStarring: Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday, Charlie NelsonFrance, 2002, 1 hour 30 minutes, subtitles

Witty and wistful, this sly, funny ‘odd-couple’ movie is an example of the value of small-scale cinema. Arriving in a small French town with the intention of robing a bank, taciturn thief Milan is befriended by a garrulous former schoolteacher who is about to undergo bypass surgery. Johnny Hallyday (the ‘French Elvis’) surpasses himself in conveying the inner sensitivity of a hardened criminal whose edgy existence has left little room for comfort or trust. But it’s Hallyday’s unexpected chemistry with the rueful, charming Rochefort that binds this melancomic tale into a credible, intimate whole.

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NOvEMBER

Mon 7 2.30pm

Tues 82.30pm

6pm

8.30pm

Wed 9 2.30pm

Thurs 10 6.30pm

M A E

The Guard (15)Director: John Michael McDonagh

Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong

Ireland, 2011, 1 hour 36 minutes

DECEMBER

Tues 6 6pm

M EA

FBI agent Wendell Everett arrives in Galway to break up a drug-smuggling ring and soon finds himself at odds with Gerry, the local cop who polices his patch in his own weird way, acting like a cross between Father Ted and

the Bad Lieutenant.

“Among the most purely entertaining films of the year”

Empire

DECEMBER

Sat 3 2.30pm

Sun 4 2.30pm

Tues 6 2.30pm

M A E

NOvEMBER

Fri 25 8.30pm

Mon 28 7.45pm

Tues 29 11am 8.30pm

Weds 30 2.30pm 8.30pm

M A E

Wuthering Heights (15 tbc)

Director: Andrea ArnoldStarring: Kaya Scodelario, Nichola Burley, James HowsonUK, 2011, 2 hours 7 minutes

In this audacious, elemental version of Emily’s tragic tale of star-crossed lovers Arnold explores their early, tentative romance with tenderness and a visceral sense of where pain meets pleasure. Nature, as in the book, plays a strong part in every aspect of their story which plays out in a harsh rustic world from which there is no escape.

Winner of Best Cinematography Prize Venice International Film Festival 2011

The Three Musketeers (12A)

Director: Paul WS AndersonStarring: Orlando Bloom, Milla Jovovich,

Logan LermanUK, 2011, 1 hour 50 minutes

The hot-headed, ever-loyal D’Artagnan along with three legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite to foil the dastardly plans of the wicked Cardinal Richelieu who is determined to seize the French throne and engulf Europe in war. First they must tackle M’lady de Winter, the most dangerous woman in France, whose swordplay can give them all a run for their money. A swashbuckling tale that is full of glorious locations, fabulous costumes and cool looking fight sequences, this has plenty of bangs for your buck!

Senna (12A)

Director: Asif Kapadia Starring: Aryton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Jackie Stewart UK/France/USA, 2011, 1 hour 45 minutes

This brilliantly captures the life and times of arguably the greatest F1 driver of all time. Spanning his years as a Formula One driver from 1984 to his untimely death a decade later, Senna explores the life and work of the legendary Brazilian world champion, his quest for perfection, his spiritual side and the mythical status he has since attained. Told solely through the use of archival footage, Senna is bursting with awesome racing sequences, but what makes this film so riveting is the remarkable personality of the man himself. This is your last chance to see this where it should be seen - on the big screen.

DECEMBER

Tues 6 8.15pm

Thurs 8 2.30pm 8pm

M A E

The Debt (15)Director: John Madden

Starring: Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Ciaran Hinds

USA, 2010, 1 hour 44 minutes

Helen Mirren stars as an ex-Mossad agent torn between her duty to her country, to her ex-husband, to her daughter and to her ex-colleague and love of her life. Based on the real life story of three Mossad agents who kidnapped a Nazi torturer in East Berlin in 1965. But when their plan to whisk him out of the country unravels they’re left holding him captive while the police close in. Mirren is in top form in this tense, thoughtful thriller which like all good thrillers has one more twist in the final reel than expected.

NOvEMBER

Mon 21 7.45pm

Tues 22 11am 6pm

Wed 23 2.30pm 8.30pm

Thurs 24 2.30pm 6pm

M A E

NOvEMBER

Sun 13 2.30pm

M A E

A Christmas Carol (PG)

Director: Robert ZemeckisStarring: Jim Carrey, Colin Firth, Gary OldmanUSA, 2009, 1 hour 38 minutes

Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come take Old Scrooge on an eye-opening journey that reveals truths he’s reluctant to face, he must open his heart and mend his ways if he’s to undo years of ill will before it’s too late. Influenced by silent cinema, the spirit of Tim Burton and – in Scrooge’s moment of torment in the dockside murk and mist – David Lean, this version of Dickens ever-popular Christmas tale is full of attractive festive flourishes, but is told more creepily than usual.

We Need To Talk About Kevin (15)

Director: Lynne RamsayStarring: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra MillerUK/USA, 2011, 1 hour 52 minutes

This mesmerising, provocative adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s best-selling novel tells the story of Eva, a mother haunted by the horrific actions of her teenage son who commits a high-school massacre. Eva tries to deal with her grief and feelings of responsibility by looking back over her son’s upbringing to understand how this could have happened. Ramsay daringly uses the haunting power of image and sound to great effect.

NOvEMBER

Tues 22 2.30pm 8.30pm

Wed 23 6pm

Thurs 24 8.30pm

M A E

Anyone Can Play Guitar (tbc)

Director: Jon SpiraStarring: Radiohead, Foals, Supergrass, Swervedriver, Ride, Talulah Gosh UK, 2011, 1 hour 40 minutes

With a soundtrack full of great music this is the intimate story of Oxford’s music scene that gave the world genre-defining acts such as Radiohead, Foals, Supergrass, Ride, Swervedriver and Talulah Gosh. An epic, colourful saga that documents success and failure, good intentions and bad outcomes, the camraderie of a tight music scene and the harsh realities of the music industry over thirty years.

Cabaret-style so you can take drinks in! Includes a post-screening Q&A session with director Jon Spira & legendary Ride lead-singer Mark Gardener. All tickets £8.

NOvEMBER

Wed 9 8pm

M A E

NOvEMBER

Thurs 10 8.30pm

M A E

Restrepo (15)

Directors: Sebastian Junger, Tim HetheringtonStarring: Dan Kearney, Lamonta Caldwell, Kevin Rice USA, 2009, 1 hour 33 minutesAn intimate, unflinching account of life on the front line in Afghanistan, this documentary keeps tightly focused on the soldiers that survived as they tell their story. Given the unenviable task of holding a forward base that comes under daily attack from the Taliban 173rd Airborne Brigade tell their tale unadorned and straight to camera creating a powerful unblinking story of the futility of our war. A direct, authentic and heartrending film by the late Tim Hetherington.

Winner Best Documentary prize at Sundance Film Festival 2010

This film is being screen as part of Hereford Photography Festival

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (15)

Director: Tomas AlfredsonStarring: Gary Oldman, John Hurt, Colin Firth, Benedict CumberbatchUK/France, 2011, 2 hours 7 minutes

Gary Oldman steps into Alec Guiness’s brogues as taciturn spymaster George Smiley who is brought out of retirement to track down a mole within MI6. He moves quietly through a looking glass world where spies spy on spies and nothing is quite as it seems. With a taut script and fabulous cast expertly handled by Tomas ‘Let The Right One In’ Alfredson, this fine adaptation of the classic spy thriller has been described by Le Carré himself as nothing less than a triumph.

Mon 14 7.45pm Subtitles

NOvEMBER

Fri 11 7.45pm

Sat 12 7.45pm

Mon14-Thurs 17 7.45pm

M A E

Sarah’s Key (12A)

Director: Gilles Paquet-BrennerStarring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels ArestrupFrance, 2011, 1 hour 50 minutes, subtitles

Based on a best-selling novel, this tense, compelling story plunges into the chaos of wartime Paris to mull over the touchy subject of French wartime guilt and how many families hide their dark past. Employing her trademark understated delicacy, Kristin Scott Thomas keeps the melodrama in check as she comes to understand the ‘what-else-could-I have-done?’ complicity in horror of neighbours and friends. Scott Thomas is in the prime of her career in this heartbreaking, wonderfully acted, French drama.

“One of the most moving films you’ll ever see . . . inspirational” Daily Mirror

Concrete Circus (12A)

Director: Mike Christie Starring: Danny McAskill, Kilian Martin, Phil Doyle, Keelan Phillips UK, 2011, Running Time 1 hour 13 minutes

Concrete Circus brings together the world’s hottest names in urban sports with viral film-makers and Mike Christie, the director of extreme sport documentary Jump London, to capture unique portraits of the urban sports scene. These five stunning films have it all: beauty, danger, and jaw-dropping action. They feature urban trial-rider phenomenon Danny McAskill; skateboarding virtuoso Kilian Martin; Storm Freerun’s Blue with extraordinary 19-year-old parkouriste Phil Doyle, and, last but not least, BMX flatlander Keelan Phillips.

This film is being screened as part of Hereford Photography Festival

District 13 (15)

Director: Pierre Morel Starring: Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle, Dany verissimo France, 2006, 1 hour 25 minutes

Set in a bricked off slum, into which a rogue cop and the vigilante prince of the ghetto must venture to retrieve a bomb, and rescue a damsel in distress. The cast hurls itself into the comic-book violence of the Parisian future hell with sufficient gusto to make the fights looks like they really hurt, and so prove that knuckle-headed heroics do have a peculiar charm!

This film is being screened as part of Hereford Photography Festival

OCTOBER

Mon 31 7.45pm

Tues 111am

6pm

8.30pm

Wed 2 2.30pm

M A E NOvEMBER

Wed 2 8.30pm

M A E NOvEMBER

Wed 2 6pm

M A E

Tickets £6.50

Concessions £5.50

Children U16 £4.50 Kids’ Club Members £4

Student Damage Members £3

£4.50 Matinee Screenings

£6.50 Breakfast Movie (inc. hot drink and pastry

- no concessions)

Main House

Subtitles

The Courtyard will be providing subtitles for selected film screenings,

look out for this logo.

Morning Screening

Afternoon Screening

Evening Screening

Audio Description Call Box Office

and select option 5

All Information contained in this guide is correct at the time of going to print, but may be subject to change.

Box Office opening times: 10am to 8pm Mon to Sat, 11am to 2.30pm Sun Box Office: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk

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NOvEMBER 2011 Box Office: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk

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NOvEMBER

Sun 6 2.30pm

M A E

Captain America - The First Avenger (12A)

Director: Joe Johnston Starring: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Natalie Dormer USA, 2011, 2 hours 4 minutes

This is a boy’s-own Second World War story, full of derring-do, knockout dames and dastardly Nazis that pits Captain America against a wicked scientist.

Charming, handsome, old-style comic book heroics create

a pacy, punchy, highly entertaining slice of comic-book action.

Mademoiselle Chambon (12A)

Director: Stephane BrizeStarring: vincent Landon, Sandrine Kiberlain, Aure AtikaFrance, 2009, 1 hour 41 minutes, subtitles

Jean’s simple, happy, family life is thrown into disarray when he falls for his son’s teacher and their sexual attraction becomes impossible to ignore. Built on the tiniest moments and pregnant silences of the small every-day tragedies of ordinary lives, this is a touching, chaste portrait of two people fighting to contain their passion from spilling over into a full blown affair.

“An emotionally incandescent love story” New York Post

NOvEMBER

Fri 25 11am 6pm

Tues 29 2.30pm 6pm

Wed 30 11am 6pm

M A E

NOvEMBER 2011 Box Office: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk

L’Homme du Train/The Man on The Train (12A)

Director: Patrice LeconteStarring: Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday, Charlie NelsonFrance, 2002, 1 hour 30 minutes, subtitles

Witty and wistful, this sly, funny ‘odd-couple’ movie is an example of the value of small-scale cinema. Arriving in a small French town with the intention of robing a bank, taciturn thief Milan is befriended by a garrulous former schoolteacher who is about to undergo bypass surgery. Johnny Hallyday (the ‘French Elvis’) surpasses himself in conveying the inner sensitivity of a hardened criminal whose edgy existence has left little room for comfort or trust. But it’s Hallyday’s unexpected chemistry with the rueful, charming Rochefort that binds this melancomic tale into a credible, intimate whole.

Captain America

Subtitles

Subtitles

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NOvEMBER

Mon 7 2.30pm

Tues 82.30pm

6pm

8.30pm

Wed 9 2.30pm

Thurs 10 6.30pm

M A E

The Guard (15)Director: John Michael McDonagh

Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong

Ireland, 2011, 1 hour 36 minutes

DECEMBER

Tues 6 6pm

M EA

FBI agent Wendell Everett arrives in Galway to break up a drug-smuggling ring and soon finds himself at odds with Gerry, the local cop who polices his patch in his own weird way, acting like a cross between Father Ted and

the Bad Lieutenant.

“Among the most purely entertaining films of the year”

Empire

DECEMBER

Sat 3 2.30pm

Sun 4 2.30pm

Tues 6 2.30pm

M A E

NOvEMBER

Fri 25 8.30pm

Mon 28 7.45pm

Tues 29 11am 8.30pm

Weds 30 2.30pm 8.30pm

M A E

Wuthering Heights (15 tbc)

Director: Andrea ArnoldStarring: Kaya Scodelario, Nichola Burley, James HowsonUK, 2011, 2 hours 7 minutes

In this audacious, elemental version of Emily’s tragic tale of star-crossed lovers Arnold explores their early, tentative romance with tenderness and a visceral sense of where pain meets pleasure. Nature, as in the book, plays a strong part in every aspect of their story which plays out in a harsh rustic world from which there is no escape.

Winner of Best Cinematography Prize Venice International Film Festival 2011

The Three Musketeers (12A)

Director: Paul WS AndersonStarring: Orlando Bloom, Milla Jovovich,

Logan LermanUK, 2011, 1 hour 50 minutes

The hot-headed, ever-loyal D’Artagnan along with three legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite to foil the dastardly plans of the wicked Cardinal Richelieu who is determined to seize the French throne and engulf Europe in war. First they must tackle M’lady de Winter, the most dangerous woman in France, whose swordplay can give them all a run for their money. A swashbuckling tale that is full of glorious locations, fabulous costumes and cool looking fight sequences, this has plenty of bangs for your buck!

Senna (12A)

Director: Asif Kapadia Starring: Aryton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Jackie Stewart UK/France/USA, 2011, 1 hour 45 minutes

This brilliantly captures the life and times of arguably the greatest F1 driver of all time. Spanning his years as a Formula One driver from 1984 to his untimely death a decade later, Senna explores the life and work of the legendary Brazilian world champion, his quest for perfection, his spiritual side and the mythical status he has since attained. Told solely through the use of archival footage, Senna is bursting with awesome racing sequences, but what makes this film so riveting is the remarkable personality of the man himself. This is your last chance to see this where it should be seen - on the big screen.

DECEMBER

Tues 6 8.15pm

Thurs 8 2.30pm 8pm

M A E

The Debt (15)Director: John Madden

Starring: Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Ciaran Hinds

USA, 2010, 1 hour 44 minutes

Helen Mirren stars as an ex-Mossad agent torn between her duty to her country, to her ex-husband, to her daughter and to her ex-colleague and love of her life. Based on the real life story of three Mossad agents who kidnapped a Nazi torturer in East Berlin in 1965. But when their plan to whisk him out of the country unravels they’re left holding him captive while the police close in. Mirren is in top form in this tense, thoughtful thriller which like all good thrillers has one more twist in the final reel than expected.

NOvEMBER

Mon 21 7.45pm

Tues 22 11am 6pm

Wed 23 2.30pm 8.30pm

Thurs 24 2.30pm 6pm

M A E

NOvEMBER

Sun 13 2.30pm

M A E

A Christmas Carol (PG)

Director: Robert ZemeckisStarring: Jim Carrey, Colin Firth, Gary OldmanUSA, 2009, 1 hour 38 minutes

Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come take Old Scrooge on an eye-opening journey that reveals truths he’s reluctant to face, he must open his heart and mend his ways if he’s to undo years of ill will before it’s too late. Influenced by silent cinema, the spirit of Tim Burton and – in Scrooge’s moment of torment in the dockside murk and mist – David Lean, this version of Dickens ever-popular Christmas tale is full of attractive festive flourishes, but is told more creepily than usual.

We Need To Talk About Kevin (15)

Director: Lynne RamsayStarring: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra MillerUK/USA, 2011, 1 hour 52 minutes

This mesmerising, provocative adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s best-selling novel tells the story of Eva, a mother haunted by the horrific actions of her teenage son who commits a high-school massacre. Eva tries to deal with her grief and feelings of responsibility by looking back over her son’s upbringing to understand how this could have happened. Ramsay daringly uses the haunting power of image and sound to great effect.

NOvEMBER

Tues 22 2.30pm 8.30pm

Wed 23 6pm

Thurs 24 8.30pm

M A E

Anyone Can Play Guitar (tbc)

Director: Jon SpiraStarring: Radiohead, Foals, Supergrass, Swervedriver, Ride, Talulah Gosh UK, 2011, 1 hour 40 minutes

With a soundtrack full of great music this is the intimate story of Oxford’s music scene that gave the world genre-defining acts such as Radiohead, Foals, Supergrass, Ride, Swervedriver and Talulah Gosh. An epic, colourful saga that documents success and failure, good intentions and bad outcomes, the camraderie of a tight music scene and the harsh realities of the music industry over thirty years.

Cabaret-style so you can take drinks in! Includes a post-screening Q&A session with director Jon Spira & legendary Ride lead-singer Mark Gardener. All tickets £8.

NOvEMBER

Wed 9 8pm

M A E

NOvEMBER

Thurs 10 8.30pm

M A E

Restrepo (15)

Directors: Sebastian Junger, Tim HetheringtonStarring: Dan Kearney, Lamonta Caldwell, Kevin Rice USA, 2009, 1 hour 33 minutesAn intimate, unflinching account of life on the front line in Afghanistan, this documentary keeps tightly focused on the soldiers that survived as they tell their story. Given the unenviable task of holding a forward base that comes under daily attack from the Taliban 173rd Airborne Brigade tell their tale unadorned and straight to camera creating a powerful unblinking story of the futility of our war. A direct, authentic and heartrending film by the late Tim Hetherington.

Winner Best Documentary prize at Sundance Film Festival 2010

This film is being screen as part of Hereford Photography Festival

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (15)

Director: Tomas AlfredsonStarring: Gary Oldman, John Hurt, Colin Firth, Benedict CumberbatchUK/France, 2011, 2 hours 7 minutes

Gary Oldman steps into Alec Guiness’s brogues as taciturn spymaster George Smiley who is brought out of retirement to track down a mole within MI6. He moves quietly through a looking glass world where spies spy on spies and nothing is quite as it seems. With a taut script and fabulous cast expertly handled by Tomas ‘Let The Right One In’ Alfredson, this fine adaptation of the classic spy thriller has been described by Le Carré himself as nothing less than a triumph.

Mon 14 7.45pm Subtitles

NOvEMBER

Fri 11 7.45pm

Sat 12 7.45pm

Mon14-Thurs 17 7.45pm

M A E

Sarah’s Key (12A)

Director: Gilles Paquet-BrennerStarring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels ArestrupFrance, 2011, 1 hour 50 minutes, subtitles

Based on a best-selling novel, this tense, compelling story plunges into the chaos of wartime Paris to mull over the touchy subject of French wartime guilt and how many families hide their dark past. Employing her trademark understated delicacy, Kristin Scott Thomas keeps the melodrama in check as she comes to understand the ‘what-else-could-I have-done?’ complicity in horror of neighbours and friends. Scott Thomas is in the prime of her career in this heartbreaking, wonderfully acted, French drama.

“One of the most moving films you’ll ever see . . . inspirational” Daily Mirror

Concrete Circus (12A)

Director: Mike Christie Starring: Danny McAskill, Kilian Martin, Phil Doyle, Keelan Phillips UK, 2011, Running Time 1 hour 13 minutes

Concrete Circus brings together the world’s hottest names in urban sports with viral film-makers and Mike Christie, the director of extreme sport documentary Jump London, to capture unique portraits of the urban sports scene. These five stunning films have it all: beauty, danger, and jaw-dropping action. They feature urban trial-rider phenomenon Danny McAskill; skateboarding virtuoso Kilian Martin; Storm Freerun’s Blue with extraordinary 19-year-old parkouriste Phil Doyle, and, last but not least, BMX flatlander Keelan Phillips.

This film is being screened as part of Hereford Photography Festival

District 13 (15)

Director: Pierre Morel Starring: Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle, Dany verissimo France, 2006, 1 hour 25 minutes

Set in a bricked off slum, into which a rogue cop and the vigilante prince of the ghetto must venture to retrieve a bomb, and rescue a damsel in distress. The cast hurls itself into the comic-book violence of the Parisian future hell with sufficient gusto to make the fights looks like they really hurt, and so prove that knuckle-headed heroics do have a peculiar charm!

This film is being screened as part of Hereford Photography Festival

OCTOBER

Mon 31 7.45pm

Tues 111am

6pm

8.30pm

Wed 2 2.30pm

M A E NOvEMBER

Wed 2 8.30pm

M A E NOvEMBER

Wed 2 6pm

M A E

Tickets £6.50

Concessions £5.50

Children U16 £4.50 Kids’ Club Members £4

Student Damage Members £3

£4.50 Matinee Screenings

£6.50 Breakfast Movie (inc. hot drink and pastry

- no concessions)

Main House

Subtitles

The Courtyard will be providing subtitles for selected film screenings,

look out for this logo.

Morning Screening

Afternoon Screening

Evening Screening

Audio Description Call Box Office

and select option 5

All Information contained in this guide is correct at the time of going to print, but may be subject to change.

Box Office opening times: 10am to 8pm Mon to Sat, 11am to 2.30pm Sun Box Office: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk

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NOvEMBER 2011 Box Office: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk

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5

NOvEMBER/DECEMBER 2011 Box Office: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk

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NOvEMBER

Sun 6 2.30pm

M A E

Captain America - The First Avenger (12A)

Director: Joe Johnston Starring: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Natalie Dormer USA, 2011, 2 hours 4 minutes

This is a boy’s-own Second World War story, full of derring-do, knockout dames and dastardly Nazis that pits Captain America against a wicked scientist.

Charming, handsome, old-style comic book heroics create

a pacy, punchy, highly entertaining slice of comic-book action.

Mademoiselle Chambon (12A)

Director: Stephane BrizeStarring: vincent Landon, Sandrine Kiberlain, Aure AtikaFrance, 2009, 1 hour 41 minutes, subtitles

Jean’s simple, happy, family life is thrown into disarray when he falls for his son’s teacher and their sexual attraction becomes impossible to ignore. Built on the tiniest moments and pregnant silences of the small every-day tragedies of ordinary lives, this is a touching, chaste portrait of two people fighting to contain their passion from spilling over into a full blown affair.

“An emotionally incandescent love story” New York Post

NOvEMBER

Fri 25 11am 6pm

Tues 29 2.30pm 6pm

Wed 30 11am 6pm

M A E

NOvEMBER 2011 Box Office: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk

L’Homme du Train/The Man on The Train (12A)

Director: Patrice LeconteStarring: Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday, Charlie NelsonFrance, 2002, 1 hour 30 minutes, subtitles

Witty and wistful, this sly, funny ‘odd-couple’ movie is an example of the value of small-scale cinema. Arriving in a small French town with the intention of robing a bank, taciturn thief Milan is befriended by a garrulous former schoolteacher who is about to undergo bypass surgery. Johnny Hallyday (the ‘French Elvis’) surpasses himself in conveying the inner sensitivity of a hardened criminal whose edgy existence has left little room for comfort or trust. But it’s Hallyday’s unexpected chemistry with the rueful, charming Rochefort that binds this melancomic tale into a credible, intimate whole.

Captain America

Subtitles

Subtitles

Follow us on

NOvEMBER

Mon 7 2.30pm

Tues 82.30pm

6pm

8.30pm

Wed 9 2.30pm

Thurs 10 6.30pm

M A E

The Guard (15)Director: John Michael McDonagh

Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong

Ireland, 2011, 1 hour 36 minutes

DECEMBER

Tues 6 6pm

M EA

FBI agent Wendell Everett arrives in Galway to break up a drug-smuggling ring and soon finds himself at odds with Gerry, the local cop who polices his patch in his own weird way, acting like a cross between Father Ted and

the Bad Lieutenant.

“Among the most purely entertaining films of the year”

Empire

DECEMBER

Sat 3 2.30pm

Sun 4 2.30pm

Tues 6 2.30pm

M A E

NOvEMBER

Fri 25 8.30pm

Mon 28 7.45pm

Tues 29 11am 8.30pm

Weds 30 2.30pm 8.30pm

M A E

Wuthering Heights (15 tbc)

Director: Andrea ArnoldStarring: Kaya Scodelario, Nichola Burley, James HowsonUK, 2011, 2 hours 7 minutes

In this audacious, elemental version of Emily’s tragic tale of star-crossed lovers Arnold explores their early, tentative romance with tenderness and a visceral sense of where pain meets pleasure. Nature, as in the book, plays a strong part in every aspect of their story which plays out in a harsh rustic world from which there is no escape.

Winner of Best Cinematography Prize Venice International Film Festival 2011

The Three Musketeers (12A)

Director: Paul WS AndersonStarring: Orlando Bloom, Milla Jovovich,

Logan LermanUK, 2011, 1 hour 50 minutes

The hot-headed, ever-loyal D’Artagnan along with three legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite to foil the dastardly plans of the wicked Cardinal Richelieu who is determined to seize the French throne and engulf Europe in war. First they must tackle M’lady de Winter, the most dangerous woman in France, whose swordplay can give them all a run for their money. A swashbuckling tale that is full of glorious locations, fabulous costumes and cool looking fight sequences, this has plenty of bangs for your buck!

Senna (12A)

Director: Asif Kapadia Starring: Aryton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Jackie Stewart UK/France/USA, 2011, 1 hour 45 minutes

This brilliantly captures the life and times of arguably the greatest F1 driver of all time. Spanning his years as a Formula One driver from 1984 to his untimely death a decade later, Senna explores the life and work of the legendary Brazilian world champion, his quest for perfection, his spiritual side and the mythical status he has since attained. Told solely through the use of archival footage, Senna is bursting with awesome racing sequences, but what makes this film so riveting is the remarkable personality of the man himself. This is your last chance to see this where it should be seen - on the big screen.

DECEMBER

Tues 6 8.15pm

Thurs 8 2.30pm 8pm

M A E

The Debt (15)Director: John Madden

Starring: Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Ciaran Hinds

USA, 2010, 1 hour 44 minutes

Helen Mirren stars as an ex-Mossad agent torn between her duty to her country, to her ex-husband, to her daughter and to her ex-colleague and love of her life. Based on the real life story of three Mossad agents who kidnapped a Nazi torturer in East Berlin in 1965. But when their plan to whisk him out of the country unravels they’re left holding him captive while the police close in. Mirren is in top form in this tense, thoughtful thriller which like all good thrillers has one more twist in the final reel than expected.

NOvEMBER

Mon 21 7.45pm

Tues 22 11am 6pm

Wed 23 2.30pm 8.30pm

Thurs 24 2.30pm 6pm

M A E

NOvEMBER

Sun 13 2.30pm

M A E

A Christmas Carol (PG)

Director: Robert ZemeckisStarring: Jim Carrey, Colin Firth, Gary OldmanUSA, 2009, 1 hour 38 minutes

Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come take Old Scrooge on an eye-opening journey that reveals truths he’s reluctant to face, he must open his heart and mend his ways if he’s to undo years of ill will before it’s too late. Influenced by silent cinema, the spirit of Tim Burton and – in Scrooge’s moment of torment in the dockside murk and mist – David Lean, this version of Dickens ever-popular Christmas tale is full of attractive festive flourishes, but is told more creepily than usual.

We Need To Talk About Kevin (15)

Director: Lynne RamsayStarring: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra MillerUK/USA, 2011, 1 hour 52 minutes

This mesmerising, provocative adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s best-selling novel tells the story of Eva, a mother haunted by the horrific actions of her teenage son who commits a high-school massacre. Eva tries to deal with her grief and feelings of responsibility by looking back over her son’s upbringing to understand how this could have happened. Ramsay daringly uses the haunting power of image and sound to great effect.

NOvEMBER

Tues 22 2.30pm 8.30pm

Wed 23 6pm

Thurs 24 8.30pm

M A E

Anyone Can Play Guitar (tbc)

Director: Jon SpiraStarring: Radiohead, Foals, Supergrass, Swervedriver, Ride, Talulah Gosh UK, 2011, 1 hour 40 minutes

With a soundtrack full of great music this is the intimate story of Oxford’s music scene that gave the world genre-defining acts such as Radiohead, Foals, Supergrass, Ride, Swervedriver and Talulah Gosh. An epic, colourful saga that documents success and failure, good intentions and bad outcomes, the camraderie of a tight music scene and the harsh realities of the music industry over thirty years.

Cabaret-style so you can take drinks in! Includes a post-screening Q&A session with director Jon Spira & legendary Ride lead-singer Mark Gardener. All tickets £8.

NOvEMBER

Wed 9 8pm

M A E

NOvEMBER

Thurs 10 8.30pm

M A E

Restrepo (15)

Directors: Sebastian Junger, Tim HetheringtonStarring: Dan Kearney, Lamonta Caldwell, Kevin Rice USA, 2009, 1 hour 33 minutesAn intimate, unflinching account of life on the front line in Afghanistan, this documentary keeps tightly focused on the soldiers that survived as they tell their story. Given the unenviable task of holding a forward base that comes under daily attack from the Taliban 173rd Airborne Brigade tell their tale unadorned and straight to camera creating a powerful unblinking story of the futility of our war. A direct, authentic and heartrending film by the late Tim Hetherington.

Winner Best Documentary prize at Sundance Film Festival 2010

This film is being screen as part of Hereford Photography Festival

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (15)

Director: Tomas AlfredsonStarring: Gary Oldman, John Hurt, Colin Firth, Benedict CumberbatchUK/France, 2011, 2 hours 7 minutes

Gary Oldman steps into Alec Guiness’s brogues as taciturn spymaster George Smiley who is brought out of retirement to track down a mole within MI6. He moves quietly through a looking glass world where spies spy on spies and nothing is quite as it seems. With a taut script and fabulous cast expertly handled by Tomas ‘Let The Right One In’ Alfredson, this fine adaptation of the classic spy thriller has been described by Le Carré himself as nothing less than a triumph.

Mon 14 7.45pm Subtitles

NOvEMBER

Fri 11 7.45pm

Sat 12 7.45pm

Mon14-Thurs 17 7.45pm

M A E

Sarah’s Key (12A)

Director: Gilles Paquet-BrennerStarring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels ArestrupFrance, 2011, 1 hour 50 minutes, subtitles

Based on a best-selling novel, this tense, compelling story plunges into the chaos of wartime Paris to mull over the touchy subject of French wartime guilt and how many families hide their dark past. Employing her trademark understated delicacy, Kristin Scott Thomas keeps the melodrama in check as she comes to understand the ‘what-else-could-I have-done?’ complicity in horror of neighbours and friends. Scott Thomas is in the prime of her career in this heartbreaking, wonderfully acted, French drama.

“One of the most moving films you’ll ever see . . . inspirational” Daily Mirror

Concrete Circus (12A)

Director: Mike Christie Starring: Danny McAskill, Kilian Martin, Phil Doyle, Keelan Phillips UK, 2011, Running Time 1 hour 13 minutes

Concrete Circus brings together the world’s hottest names in urban sports with viral film-makers and Mike Christie, the director of extreme sport documentary Jump London, to capture unique portraits of the urban sports scene. These five stunning films have it all: beauty, danger, and jaw-dropping action. They feature urban trial-rider phenomenon Danny McAskill; skateboarding virtuoso Kilian Martin; Storm Freerun’s Blue with extraordinary 19-year-old parkouriste Phil Doyle, and, last but not least, BMX flatlander Keelan Phillips.

This film is being screened as part of Hereford Photography Festival

District 13 (15)

Director: Pierre Morel Starring: Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle, Dany verissimo France, 2006, 1 hour 25 minutes

Set in a bricked off slum, into which a rogue cop and the vigilante prince of the ghetto must venture to retrieve a bomb, and rescue a damsel in distress. The cast hurls itself into the comic-book violence of the Parisian future hell with sufficient gusto to make the fights looks like they really hurt, and so prove that knuckle-headed heroics do have a peculiar charm!

This film is being screened as part of Hereford Photography Festival

OCTOBER

Mon 31 7.45pm

Tues 111am

6pm

8.30pm

Wed 2 2.30pm

M A E NOvEMBER

Wed 2 8.30pm

M A E NOvEMBER

Wed 2 6pm

M A E

Tickets £6.50

Concessions £5.50

Children U16 £4.50 Kids’ Club Members £4

Student Damage Members £3

£4.50 Matinee Screenings

£6.50 Breakfast Movie (inc. hot drink and pastry

- no concessions)

Main House

Subtitles

The Courtyard will be providing subtitles for selected film screenings,

look out for this logo.

Morning Screening

Afternoon Screening

Evening Screening

Audio Description Call Box Office

and select option 5

All Information contained in this guide is correct at the time of going to print, but may be subject to change.

Box Office opening times: 10am to 8pm Mon to Sat, 11am to 2.30pm Sun Box Office: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk

2

3

NOvEMBER 2011 Box Office: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk

4

5

NOvEMBER/DECEMBER 2011 Box Office: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk

E

A

M

NOvEMBER

Sun 6 2.30pm

M A E

Captain America - The First Avenger (12A)

Director: Joe Johnston Starring: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Natalie Dormer USA, 2011, 2 hours 4 minutes

This is a boy’s-own Second World War story, full of derring-do, knockout dames and dastardly Nazis that pits Captain America against a wicked scientist.

Charming, handsome, old-style comic book heroics create

a pacy, punchy, highly entertaining slice of comic-book action.

Mademoiselle Chambon (12A)

Director: Stephane BrizeStarring: vincent Landon, Sandrine Kiberlain, Aure AtikaFrance, 2009, 1 hour 41 minutes, subtitles

Jean’s simple, happy, family life is thrown into disarray when he falls for his son’s teacher and their sexual attraction becomes impossible to ignore. Built on the tiniest moments and pregnant silences of the small every-day tragedies of ordinary lives, this is a touching, chaste portrait of two people fighting to contain their passion from spilling over into a full blown affair.

“An emotionally incandescent love story” New York Post

NOvEMBER

Fri 25 11am 6pm

Tues 29 2.30pm 6pm

Wed 30 11am 6pm

M A E

NOvEMBER 2011 Box Office: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk

L’Homme du Train/The Man on The Train (12A)

Director: Patrice LeconteStarring: Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday, Charlie NelsonFrance, 2002, 1 hour 30 minutes, subtitles

Witty and wistful, this sly, funny ‘odd-couple’ movie is an example of the value of small-scale cinema. Arriving in a small French town with the intention of robing a bank, taciturn thief Milan is befriended by a garrulous former schoolteacher who is about to undergo bypass surgery. Johnny Hallyday (the ‘French Elvis’) surpasses himself in conveying the inner sensitivity of a hardened criminal whose edgy existence has left little room for comfort or trust. But it’s Hallyday’s unexpected chemistry with the rueful, charming Rochefort that binds this melancomic tale into a credible, intimate whole.

Captain America

Subtitles

Subtitles

Follow us on

NOvEMBER

Mon 7 2.30pm

Tues 82.30pm

6pm

8.30pm

Wed 9 2.30pm

Thurs 10 6.30pm

M A E

The Guard (15)Director: John Michael McDonagh

Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong

Ireland, 2011, 1 hour 36 minutes

DECEMBER

Tues 6 6pm

M EA

FBI agent Wendell Everett arrives in Galway to break up a drug-smuggling ring and soon finds himself at odds with Gerry, the local cop who polices his patch in his own weird way, acting like a cross between Father Ted and

the Bad Lieutenant.

“Among the most purely entertaining films of the year”

Empire

Tomboy (U)

Director: Celine SciammaStarring: Zoe Heran, Malonn Levana, Jeanne Disson France, 2011, 1 hour 22 minutes, subtitles

Laure is a tomboy who has moved to a new town and passes herself off as a boy, Mickael. Through the long summer holidays she/he keeps up the pretence while running with the local gang in the woods, swimming, playing football, and handling her friend Lisa’s growing attraction. The chance her true identity will be uncovered seems inevitable.

“One of the great films made by adults for adults about children” Little White Lies

DECEMBER

Wed 7 7.45pm

Thurs 8 11am 6pm

M A E

Jack Goes Boating (15)

Director: Philip Seymour HoffmanStarring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Ryan, John OrtizUSA, 2011, 1 hour 29 minutes

Jack, a solitary limo driver, is edging towards a relationship with the similarly hesitant Connie with the help of his best friend, Clyde. As Jack patiently learns the skills to convince Connie of his honest intentions he unintentionally sets in train a tale of love, betrayal, jealousy and, most importantly, friendship. Philip Seymour Hoffman’s funny, sometimes painfully honest directorial debut is a quietly optimistic little gem.

“Philip Seymour Hoffman directs like he acts, with a sharp eye for the small details that cut to the soul of a character.” Rolling Stone

Post Mortem (15)

Director: Pablo LarrainStarring: Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Amparo NogueraChile/Germany/Mexico, 2010, 1 hour 38 minutes, subtitles

Chile, 1973. Mario a kind, gentle, man works as an anonymous functionary in the Santiago city morgue. He falls in love with his neighbour, Nancy, a burlesque dancer who briefly responds to his advances. Pinochet’s coup brings down Allende and the bodies start to pile up at the morgue. In the chaos Nancy betrays Mario’s love, so he, like the military who feel the country they serve has betrayed them, exercises his new found power. This is a disquieting, forensic examination of the motives of a little man caught in the wheel of history that asks ‘What would you do?’

DECEMBER

Tues 13 6pm

Wed 14 8.30pm

M A E DECEMBER

Tues 13 8.15pm

Wed 14 6pm

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Also showing on our cinema screen…

This season we have expanded our range of live broadcasts to include screenings from the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow alongside our current links to The Met Opera in New York and The National Theatre in London. Now you can enjoy the best ballet, opera and theatre without leaving Hereford!

Monday 7 November at 6pmMet Opera

Siegfried£17.50

Saturday 19 November 6pmMet Opera

Satyagraha £17.50

Sunday 20 November 3pmBolshoi Ballet

Sleeping Beauty£15

Saturday 3 December at 5.30pmMet Opera

Rodelinda£17.50

Monday 5 December 7pmNT Live

Collaborators£12.50

Monday 12 December 6pmMet Opera

Faust£17.50

Sunday 18 December 3pmBolshoi Ballet

The Nutcracker£15

For details of future screenings go to www.courtyard.org.uk

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31(Oct) 1,2 Sarah’s Key (12A)

2 Concrete Circus (12A)

2 District 13 (15)

6 Captain America: The First Avenger (12A)

7, 8, 9,10 The Guard (15)

9 Anyone Can Play Guitar (tbc)

10 Restrepo (15)

11,12,14,15,16,17 Tinker Sailor Soldier Spy (15)

13 A Christmas Carol (PG)

21, 22, 23, 24, The Debt (15)

22, 23, 24 We Need To Talk About Kevin (15)

25, 29, 30 Mademoiselle Chambon (12A)

25, 28, 29, 30 Wuthering Heights (15 tbc)

DECEMBER 2011 Box Office: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk

Also Showing… Box Office: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk

DECEMBER

3, 4, 6 The Three Musketeers (12A)

6, 8 Senna (12A)

6 The Man on The Train (12A)

7, 8 Tomboy (U)

13, 14 Jack Goes Boating (15)

13, 14 Post Mortem (15)

17, 19, 20, 21, 22 Crazy, Stupid, Love (12A)

17, 19, 20, 21, 22 Resistance (tbc)

23, 26, 27, 28, 29 Adventures of Tin Tin: Secret of the Unicorn (PG tbc)

23,26, 27, 28,29 Another Earth (12A)

30, 31, 2, 3, 4 Puss in Boots (U tbc)

Captain America Sunday 6 November

Resistance (15 tbc)

Director: Amit GuptaStarring: Michael Sheen, Andrea Riseborough, Iwan RheonUK, 2011, 1 hour 32 minutes

Set in 1944 in German-occupied Britain, this is the story of the women of an isolated village who wake up to discover that their husbands have all mysteriously vanished to become part of the secret British resistance. With their sudden absence the women regroup as an isolated, all-female community and wait, hoping for news. When a German patrol arrives in the valley the severe winter forces the women to co-operate with them and a fragile mutual dependency develops.

The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn (PG tbc)

Director: Steven SpielbergStarring: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Simon PeggUSA, 2011, 1 hour 49 minutes tbc

The intrepid young reporter Tintin, his loyal dog Snowy and foolish friend Captain Haddock discover a riddle left by Haddock’s ancestor, the 17th century Sir Francis Haddock, which might lead them to the hidden treasure of the notorious pirate Red Rackham. The first of Steven Spielberg’s animated versions of the legendary Tintin comic strip delivers his usual blend of high adventure and great excitement.

Another Earth (12A)

Director: Mike CahillStarring: Brit Marling, William Mapother, Matthew Lee-EribachUSA, 2011, 1 hour 32 minutes

A genuinely intriguing treat that weaves sci-fi imaginings and theories of parallel universes into a provocative exploration of the prospect of rewriting your life history. The discovery of a mirror image Earth above our own sparks a chain of events that leads bright, young astrophysics student Rhonda into an unlikely love affair and then, reawakened to life’s possibilities, on a surreal, existential journey.

“one of the most low-tech, low-budget, scaled-down and engrossing sci-fi movies ever” USA Today

DECEMBER

Sat 17 8.30pm

Mon 19 6pm

Tues 20 / Wed 21 8.30pm

Thurs 22 6pm

M A E

DECEMBER

Fri 23 6pm

Mon 26-Thurs 29 2.30pm 5.30pm

M A E

DECEMBER

Fri 23 8.30pm

Mon 26 - Thurs 29

8pm

M A E

Crazy, Stupid, Love (12A)Directors: John Requa, Glenn FicarraStarring: Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell,

Emma Stone, Julianne MooreUSA, 2011, 1 hour 58 minutes

When Cal (Carell) learns that his wife, Emily wants a divorce, his ‘perfect’ life quickly unravels and he soon finds himself all at sea in today’s singles scene. In steps handsome pickup artist Jacob (Gosling) to lend a hand. Soon Cal is scoring sensationally with Kate, an energetic, recovering alcoholic and sexual virtuoso. There’s a dream cast that keeps springing playful surprises, but it’s Gosling who steals the show as the ladykiller with all the smooth moves who has to try and change his ways when he falls for a “game-changer”.

Tues 20 6pm Subtitles

DECEMBER

Sat 17 6pm

Mon 19 8.15pm

Tues 20 6pm

Wed 21 6pm

Thurs 22 8.15pm

M A E

DECEMBER

Fri 30 2.30pm 7.30pm

Sat 31 2.30pm

JANUARy

Mon 2 - Wed 4

2.30pm 7.30pm

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Puss in Boots (U tbc)Director: Chris Miller

With the voices of: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galiflinakis

USA, 2011, 1 hour 40 minutes

In this animated adventure comedy Shrek’s mischievous feline friend, the notorious sword fighter, lover, Zorro-like outlaw and all-round hero, Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) has his own adventures with characters both new and familiar - including Humpty Dumpty and love interest Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek).

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Tomboy (U)

Director: Celine SciammaStarring: Zoe Heran, Malonn Levana, Jeanne Disson France, 2011, 1 hour 22 minutes, subtitles

Laure is a tomboy who has moved to a new town and passes herself off as a boy, Mickael. Through the long summer holidays she/he keeps up the pretence while running with the local gang in the woods, swimming, playing football, and handling her friend Lisa’s growing attraction. The chance her true identity will be uncovered seems inevitable.

“One of the great films made by adults for adults about children” Little White Lies

DECEMBER

Wed 7 7.45pm

Thurs 8 11am 6pm

M A E

Jack Goes Boating (15)

Director: Philip Seymour HoffmanStarring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Ryan, John OrtizUSA, 2011, 1 hour 29 minutes

Jack, a solitary limo driver, is edging towards a relationship with the similarly hesitant Connie with the help of his best friend, Clyde. As Jack patiently learns the skills to convince Connie of his honest intentions he unintentionally sets in train a tale of love, betrayal, jealousy and, most importantly, friendship. Philip Seymour Hoffman’s funny, sometimes painfully honest directorial debut is a quietly optimistic little gem.

“Philip Seymour Hoffman directs like he acts, with a sharp eye for the small details that cut to the soul of a character.” Rolling Stone

Post Mortem (15)

Director: Pablo LarrainStarring: Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Amparo NogueraChile/Germany/Mexico, 2010, 1 hour 38 minutes, subtitles

Chile, 1973. Mario a kind, gentle, man works as an anonymous functionary in the Santiago city morgue. He falls in love with his neighbour, Nancy, a burlesque dancer who briefly responds to his advances. Pinochet’s coup brings down Allende and the bodies start to pile up at the morgue. In the chaos Nancy betrays Mario’s love, so he, like the military who feel the country they serve has betrayed them, exercises his new found power. This is a disquieting, forensic examination of the motives of a little man caught in the wheel of history that asks ‘What would you do?’

DECEMBER

Tues 13 6pm

Wed 14 8.30pm

M A E DECEMBER

Tues 13 8.15pm

Wed 14 6pm

M

Also showing on our cinema screen…

This season we have expanded our range of live broadcasts to include screenings from the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow alongside our current links to The Met Opera in New York and The National Theatre in London. Now you can enjoy the best ballet, opera and theatre without leaving Hereford!

Monday 7 November at 6pmMet Opera

Siegfried£17.50

Saturday 19 November 6pmMet Opera

Satyagraha £17.50

Sunday 20 November 3pmBolshoi Ballet

Sleeping Beauty£15

Saturday 3 December at 5.30pmMet Opera

Rodelinda£17.50

Monday 5 December 7pmNT Live

Collaborators£12.50

Monday 12 December 6pmMet Opera

Faust£17.50

Sunday 18 December 3pmBolshoi Ballet

The Nutcracker£15

For details of future screenings go to www.courtyard.org.uk

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NOvEMBER

31(Oct) 1,2 Sarah’s Key (12A)

2 Concrete Circus (12A)

2 District 13 (15)

6 Captain America: The First Avenger (12A)

7, 8, 9,10 The Guard (15)

9 Anyone Can Play Guitar (tbc)

10 Restrepo (15)

11,12,14,15,16,17 Tinker Sailor Soldier Spy (15)

13 A Christmas Carol (PG)

21, 22, 23, 24, The Debt (15)

22, 23, 24 We Need To Talk About Kevin (15)

25, 29, 30 Mademoiselle Chambon (12A)

25, 28, 29, 30 Wuthering Heights (15 tbc)

DECEMBER 2011 Box Office: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk

Also Showing… Box Office: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk

DECEMBER

3, 4, 6 The Three Musketeers (12A)

6, 8 Senna (12A)

6 The Man on The Train (12A)

7, 8 Tomboy (U)

13, 14 Jack Goes Boating (15)

13, 14 Post Mortem (15)

17, 19, 20, 21, 22 Crazy, Stupid, Love (12A)

17, 19, 20, 21, 22 Resistance (tbc)

23, 26, 27, 28, 29 Adventures of Tin Tin: Secret of the Unicorn (PG tbc)

23,26, 27, 28,29 Another Earth (12A)

30, 31, 2, 3, 4 Puss in Boots (U tbc)

Captain America Sunday 6 November

Resistance (15 tbc)

Director: Amit GuptaStarring: Michael Sheen, Andrea Riseborough, Iwan RheonUK, 2011, 1 hour 32 minutes

Set in 1944 in German-occupied Britain, this is the story of the women of an isolated village who wake up to discover that their husbands have all mysteriously vanished to become part of the secret British resistance. With their sudden absence the women regroup as an isolated, all-female community and wait, hoping for news. When a German patrol arrives in the valley the severe winter forces the women to co-operate with them and a fragile mutual dependency develops.

The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn (PG tbc)

Director: Steven SpielbergStarring: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Simon PeggUSA, 2011, 1 hour 49 minutes tbc

The intrepid young reporter Tintin, his loyal dog Snowy and foolish friend Captain Haddock discover a riddle left by Haddock’s ancestor, the 17th century Sir Francis Haddock, which might lead them to the hidden treasure of the notorious pirate Red Rackham. The first of Steven Spielberg’s animated versions of the legendary Tintin comic strip delivers his usual blend of high adventure and great excitement.

Another Earth (12A)

Director: Mike CahillStarring: Brit Marling, William Mapother, Matthew Lee-EribachUSA, 2011, 1 hour 32 minutes

A genuinely intriguing treat that weaves sci-fi imaginings and theories of parallel universes into a provocative exploration of the prospect of rewriting your life history. The discovery of a mirror image Earth above our own sparks a chain of events that leads bright, young astrophysics student Rhonda into an unlikely love affair and then, reawakened to life’s possibilities, on a surreal, existential journey.

“one of the most low-tech, low-budget, scaled-down and engrossing sci-fi movies ever” USA Today

DECEMBER

Sat 17 8.30pm

Mon 19 6pm

Tues 20 / Wed 21 8.30pm

Thurs 22 6pm

M A E

DECEMBER

Fri 23 6pm

Mon 26-Thurs 29 2.30pm 5.30pm

M A E

DECEMBER

Fri 23 8.30pm

Mon 26 - Thurs 29

8pm

M A E

Crazy, Stupid, Love (12A)Directors: John Requa, Glenn FicarraStarring: Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell,

Emma Stone, Julianne MooreUSA, 2011, 1 hour 58 minutes

When Cal (Carell) learns that his wife, Emily wants a divorce, his ‘perfect’ life quickly unravels and he soon finds himself all at sea in today’s singles scene. In steps handsome pickup artist Jacob (Gosling) to lend a hand. Soon Cal is scoring sensationally with Kate, an energetic, recovering alcoholic and sexual virtuoso. There’s a dream cast that keeps springing playful surprises, but it’s Gosling who steals the show as the ladykiller with all the smooth moves who has to try and change his ways when he falls for a “game-changer”.

Tues 20 6pm Subtitles

DECEMBER

Sat 17 6pm

Mon 19 8.15pm

Tues 20 6pm

Wed 21 6pm

Thurs 22 8.15pm

M A E

DECEMBER

Fri 30 2.30pm 7.30pm

Sat 31 2.30pm

JANUARy

Mon 2 - Wed 4

2.30pm 7.30pm

M A

Puss in Boots (U tbc)Director: Chris Miller

With the voices of: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galiflinakis

USA, 2011, 1 hour 40 minutes

In this animated adventure comedy Shrek’s mischievous feline friend, the notorious sword fighter, lover, Zorro-like outlaw and all-round hero, Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) has his own adventures with characters both new and familiar - including Humpty Dumpty and love interest Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek).

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Tomboy (U)

Director: Celine SciammaStarring: Zoe Heran, Malonn Levana, Jeanne Disson France, 2011, 1 hour 22 minutes, subtitles

Laure is a tomboy who has moved to a new town and passes herself off as a boy, Mickael. Through the long summer holidays she/he keeps up the pretence while running with the local gang in the woods, swimming, playing football, and handling her friend Lisa’s growing attraction. The chance her true identity will be uncovered seems inevitable.

“One of the great films made by adults for adults about children” Little White Lies

DECEMBER

Wed 7 7.45pm

Thurs 8 11am 6pm

M A E

Jack Goes Boating (15)

Director: Philip Seymour HoffmanStarring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Ryan, John OrtizUSA, 2011, 1 hour 29 minutes

Jack, a solitary limo driver, is edging towards a relationship with the similarly hesitant Connie with the help of his best friend, Clyde. As Jack patiently learns the skills to convince Connie of his honest intentions he unintentionally sets in train a tale of love, betrayal, jealousy and, most importantly, friendship. Philip Seymour Hoffman’s funny, sometimes painfully honest directorial debut is a quietly optimistic little gem.

“Philip Seymour Hoffman directs like he acts, with a sharp eye for the small details that cut to the soul of a character.” Rolling Stone

Post Mortem (15)

Director: Pablo LarrainStarring: Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Amparo NogueraChile/Germany/Mexico, 2010, 1 hour 38 minutes, subtitles

Chile, 1973. Mario a kind, gentle, man works as an anonymous functionary in the Santiago city morgue. He falls in love with his neighbour, Nancy, a burlesque dancer who briefly responds to his advances. Pinochet’s coup brings down Allende and the bodies start to pile up at the morgue. In the chaos Nancy betrays Mario’s love, so he, like the military who feel the country they serve has betrayed them, exercises his new found power. This is a disquieting, forensic examination of the motives of a little man caught in the wheel of history that asks ‘What would you do?’

DECEMBER

Tues 13 6pm

Wed 14 8.30pm

M A E DECEMBER

Tues 13 8.15pm

Wed 14 6pm

M

Also showing on our cinema screen…

This season we have expanded our range of live broadcasts to include screenings from the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow alongside our current links to The Met Opera in New York and The National Theatre in London. Now you can enjoy the best ballet, opera and theatre without leaving Hereford!

Monday 7 November at 6pmMet Opera

Siegfried£17.50

Saturday 19 November 6pmMet Opera

Satyagraha £17.50

Sunday 20 November 3pmBolshoi Ballet

Sleeping Beauty£15

Saturday 3 December at 5.30pmMet Opera

Rodelinda£17.50

Monday 5 December 7pmNT Live

Collaborators£12.50

Monday 12 December 6pmMet Opera

Faust£17.50

Sunday 18 December 3pmBolshoi Ballet

The Nutcracker£15

For details of future screenings go to www.courtyard.org.uk

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Date Film Title

NOvEMBER

31(Oct) 1,2 Sarah’s Key (12A)

2 Concrete Circus (12A)

2 District 13 (15)

6 Captain America: The First Avenger (12A)

7, 8, 9,10 The Guard (15)

9 Anyone Can Play Guitar (tbc)

10 Restrepo (15)

11,12,14,15,16,17 Tinker Sailor Soldier Spy (15)

13 A Christmas Carol (PG)

21, 22, 23, 24, The Debt (15)

22, 23, 24 We Need To Talk About Kevin (15)

25, 29, 30 Mademoiselle Chambon (12A)

25, 28, 29, 30 Wuthering Heights (15 tbc)

DECEMBER 2011 Box Office: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk

Also Showing… Box Office: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk

DECEMBER

3, 4, 6 The Three Musketeers (12A)

6, 8 Senna (12A)

6 The Man on The Train (12A)

7, 8 Tomboy (U)

13, 14 Jack Goes Boating (15)

13, 14 Post Mortem (15)

17, 19, 20, 21, 22 Crazy, Stupid, Love (12A)

17, 19, 20, 21, 22 Resistance (tbc)

23, 26, 27, 28, 29 Adventures of Tin Tin: Secret of the Unicorn (PG tbc)

23,26, 27, 28,29 Another Earth (12A)

30, 31, 2, 3, 4 Puss in Boots (U tbc)

Captain America Sunday 6 November

Resistance (15 tbc)

Director: Amit GuptaStarring: Michael Sheen, Andrea Riseborough, Iwan RheonUK, 2011, 1 hour 32 minutes

Set in 1944 in German-occupied Britain, this is the story of the women of an isolated village who wake up to discover that their husbands have all mysteriously vanished to become part of the secret British resistance. With their sudden absence the women regroup as an isolated, all-female community and wait, hoping for news. When a German patrol arrives in the valley the severe winter forces the women to co-operate with them and a fragile mutual dependency develops.

The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn (PG tbc)

Director: Steven SpielbergStarring: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Simon PeggUSA, 2011, 1 hour 49 minutes tbc

The intrepid young reporter Tintin, his loyal dog Snowy and foolish friend Captain Haddock discover a riddle left by Haddock’s ancestor, the 17th century Sir Francis Haddock, which might lead them to the hidden treasure of the notorious pirate Red Rackham. The first of Steven Spielberg’s animated versions of the legendary Tintin comic strip delivers his usual blend of high adventure and great excitement.

Another Earth (12A)

Director: Mike CahillStarring: Brit Marling, William Mapother, Matthew Lee-EribachUSA, 2011, 1 hour 32 minutes

A genuinely intriguing treat that weaves sci-fi imaginings and theories of parallel universes into a provocative exploration of the prospect of rewriting your life history. The discovery of a mirror image Earth above our own sparks a chain of events that leads bright, young astrophysics student Rhonda into an unlikely love affair and then, reawakened to life’s possibilities, on a surreal, existential journey.

“one of the most low-tech, low-budget, scaled-down and engrossing sci-fi movies ever” USA Today

DECEMBER

Sat 17 8.30pm

Mon 19 6pm

Tues 20 / Wed 21 8.30pm

Thurs 22 6pm

M A E

DECEMBER

Fri 23 6pm

Mon 26-Thurs 29 2.30pm 5.30pm

M A E

DECEMBER

Fri 23 8.30pm

Mon 26 - Thurs 29

8pm

M A E

Crazy, Stupid, Love (12A)Directors: John Requa, Glenn FicarraStarring: Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell,

Emma Stone, Julianne MooreUSA, 2011, 1 hour 58 minutes

When Cal (Carell) learns that his wife, Emily wants a divorce, his ‘perfect’ life quickly unravels and he soon finds himself all at sea in today’s singles scene. In steps handsome pickup artist Jacob (Gosling) to lend a hand. Soon Cal is scoring sensationally with Kate, an energetic, recovering alcoholic and sexual virtuoso. There’s a dream cast that keeps springing playful surprises, but it’s Gosling who steals the show as the ladykiller with all the smooth moves who has to try and change his ways when he falls for a “game-changer”.

Tues 20 6pm Subtitles

DECEMBER

Sat 17 6pm

Mon 19 8.15pm

Tues 20 6pm

Wed 21 6pm

Thurs 22 8.15pm

M A E

DECEMBER

Fri 30 2.30pm 7.30pm

Sat 31 2.30pm

JANUARy

Mon 2 - Wed 4

2.30pm 7.30pm

M A

Puss in Boots (U tbc)Director: Chris Miller

With the voices of: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galiflinakis

USA, 2011, 1 hour 40 minutes

In this animated adventure comedy Shrek’s mischievous feline friend, the notorious sword fighter, lover, Zorro-like outlaw and all-round hero, Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) has his own adventures with characters both new and familiar - including Humpty Dumpty and love interest Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek).

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