CinemaJan 2012Jan Matinees Early Evening Main Evening

Sun 1 Hugo (2pm)Mon 2 Hugo (2pm) Hugo (5.50pm) Drive (8.30pm)

Tues 3 Resistance (2pm) Hugo (6pm) Resistance (8.35pm)

Wed 4 Hugo (2pm) Resistance (7pm)Thu 5 Hugo (6pm) Resistance (8.35pm)

Fri 6 Cinema Bambino: Hugo (11am) An African Election (6pm) Surviving Life (8pm)Sat 7 My Neighbour Totoro (12pm) Surviving Life (6pm) Surviving Life (8.20pm)

Sun 8 Spirit of the Beehive (3pm) An African Election (6pm) We Have a Pope (8pm)

Mon 9 We Have a Pope (2pm) Surviving Life (7pm)

Tues 10 Las Acacias (2pm) We Have a Pope (6pm) Las Acacias (8.15pm)

Wed 11 Las Acacias (6pm) We Have a Pope (8pm)

Thu 12 We Have a Pope (6pm) Las Acacias (8.15pm)

Fri 13 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2pm) Tabloid (6pm) Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (8pm)

Sat 14 Tabloid (5pm) Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (7pm)

Sun 15 Where the Wild Things Are (3pm) Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (5pm) Tabloid (8.15pm)

Mon 16 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (7pm)

Tue 17 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2pm) Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (5pm) Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (8pm)

Wed 18 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2pm) Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (7pm)

Thu 19 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2pm) Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (7pm)

Fri 20 That Girl in Yellow Boots (6pm) The Iron Lady (8.20pm)

Sat 21 That Girl in Yellow Boots (6pm) The Iron Lady (8.20pm)

Sun 22 The Iron Lady (5pm) That Girl in Yellow Boots (8pm)

Mon 23 Another Earth (6pm) The Iron Lady (8.05pm)

Tue 24 The Iron lady (2pm) Another Earth (6pm) The Iron Lady (8.05pm)

Wed 25 Another Earth (2pm) The Iron Lady (6pm) The Iron Lady (8.15pm)

Thu 26 Junkhearts Q & A (6pm) The Iron Lady (8.15pm)

Fri 27 The Lady (5.50pm) Shame (8.30pm)

Sat 28 The Lady (5pm) Shame (8pm)

Sun 29 The Lady (5pm) Shame (8pm)

Mon 30 The Lady (2pm) Shame (7pm)

Tue 31 The Lady (2pm) Shame (6pm) The Lady (8.10pm)

Timetable Jan

HugoU (127mins)

Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Asa Butterfield, Chloe Moritz, Ben Kingsley USA (2011)

Family adventure from Scorsese. An orphan who lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father.

Drive18 (100mins)

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn Cast: Ryan Gosling, Carey MulliganUSA (2011)

A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a getaway driver discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist goes wrong.

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ResistancePG (91mins)

Director: Amit Gupta Cast: Michael Sheen, Andrea Riseborough, Kimberley Nixon, Iwan Rheon UK | Germany (2011)

In 1944 a group of women in an isolated Welsh village wake up to discover all of their husbands have mysteriously vanished.

An African ElectionPG (90mins)

Director: Jarreth J. Merz, Kevin Merz Cast: Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, John Evans Atta Mills, John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor, Jerry John Rawlings Ghana | Switzerland | USA (2011)

Taking the 2008 Ghana presidential elections as its backdrop, this feature documentary looks behind-the-scenes at the complex, political machinery of a third world democracy struggling to legitimise itself to its first world contemporaries.

Surviving Life 15 (109mins)

Director: Jan Svankmajer Cast: Václav Helsus, Klára Issová, Zuzana Krónerová Czech Republic | Slovakia (2010) Subtitled

Cleverly using a mixture of cut-out animation and live-action segments, Surviving Life tells the story of a married man, who leads a double life in his dreams, where he has a young girlfriend. A unique, offbeat, psychoanalytical comedy.

Shame18 (101mins)

Director: Steve McQueen Cast: Carey Mulligan, Michael Fassbender Country: UK (2011)

New Yorker Brandon shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his way-ward younger sister moves into his apartment Brandon’s insular life spirals out of control.

We Have a PopePG (105mins) Subtitled

Director: Nanni Moretti Cast: Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti Italy (2011)

The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is due to appear on St Peter’s balcony. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, seek help from a renowned psychoanalyst (and atheist) in this Italian comedy/drama.

Las Acacias12A (86mins) Subtitled

Director: Pablo Giorgelli Cast: Germán de Silva, Hebe Duarte, Nayra Calle Mamani Argentina | Spain (2011)

A long distance lorry driver agrees to drive a woman and her 5-month old child from Paraguay to Buenos Aires. A subtle and tender road movie exploring loneliness and the pain of loss, Las Acacias depicts an unlikely bond developing between two strangers.

Tabloid15 (87mins)

Director: Errol Morris Cast: Kent Gavin, Dr. Hong and Joyce McKinney USA (2010)

Documentary by award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris about Joyce McKinney, former Miss Wyoming, who was accused of kidnapping an American Mormon missionary and whose fantastic exploits were constant headlines through the seventies.

That Girl in Yellow Boots18 (108mins) Subtitled

Director: Anurag Kashyap Cast: Kalki Koechlin, Prashant Prakash India (2010)

Dark thriller following a British woman’s search to find her father, a man she hardly knew but cannot forget. Her search leads her to Mumbai, where she finds herself sucked into the drug culture of the city’s underworld.

The Iron Lady12A (105mins)

Director: Phyllida Lloyd Cast: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Richard E. Grant UK (2011)

In this intimate portrait of the extraordinary and complex Margaret Thatcher, Meryl Streep plays ‘The Iron Lady’, a woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and class to be heard in a maledominated world. A fantastic story concerning power and the price that is paid for it.

Projectionist’s Pick

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo18 (152 mins)

Director: David Fincher Cast: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara USA | Sweden | UK Germany (2011)

Adaptation of the first novel in Stieg Larssoon’s literary blockbust-er, The Millennium Trilogy. Daniel Craig plays a journalist aided in a missing person search by Lisbeth Salander (Mara), a young computer hacker, in this dramatic thriller.

Another Earth12A (92mins)

Director: Mike Cahill Cast: Brit Marling, William Mapother USA (2011)

On the night of the discovery of a duplicate planet in the solar system, an ambitious young student and an accom-plished composer cross paths in a tragic accident, and the lives of these strangers become irrevocably intertwined.

Departure Lounge at mac birmingham Showcasing films and filmmakers ‘taking off’.

Junkhearts (Plus Q&A) Thu 26 Jan15 (95mins)

Director: Tinge Krishnan Cast: Eddie Marson, Romola Garai, Tom Sturridge UK (2011)

The long-awaited debutfeature from Bafta winning filmmaker Tinge Krishnan, is a multi-stranded psychological thriller set in inner city London. Eddie Marsan plays a vulnera-ble ex-soldier who finds himself manipulated by a young drug-taking couple.

The LadyTBC (135mins)

Director: Luc Besson Cast: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis France | UK (2011)

Luc Besson presents the extraordinary story of pro-democracy activist and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who has spent more than a decade under house arrest.

Colour Box is Flatpack festival’s family strand - a brilliant jumble of screenings and activities for all ages featuring films from all over the world. In the build-up to Flatpack 6 (13-18 March 2012) we’ll be hosting regular Colour Box screenings on the first Saturday of every month.

My Neighbour TotoroU (86 mins)

Director: Hayao Miyazaki Cast: Hitoshi Takagi, Noriko Hidaka and Chika Sakamoto Japan (1988)

One of the first and best-loved features from Tokyo’s Studio Ghibli (Ponyo, Arrietty), My Neighbour Totoro is the delightful tale of two young girls who move to the countryside and discover a hidden world of big furry beasts and flying cat-buses.

Tickets: £4 for adults, £2 under-16s. There will also be some special giveaways on the day!

Spirit of the Beehive15 (97 mins)

Director: Víctor Erice Cast: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent Spain (1973) Subtitled

This masterpiece of Spanish cinema focuses on a young girl in 1940 rural Spain who, drifts into her own fantasy world after becoming fascinated with James Whale’s 1931 film Frank-enstein.

Where the Wild Things Are PG (101mins)

Director: Spike Jonze Cast: Max Records, Catherine O’Hara, Forest Whitaker USA | Australia | Germany (2009)

Adaptation of Maice Sendak’s classic children’s story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world, a magical forest inhabited by fero-cious wild creatures that crown Max their king.

Their Wonderlands Film Programme: Child’s Eye View curated by They Are Here

As part of the Their Wonderlands exhibition, They Are Here curate a film programme that encourages us to re-imagine the world through the magic and vulnerability of a child’s point of view.