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Listings: 06.03.09 - 12.03.09
Friday 6th March
Film: Surveillance
Where: Odeon & Cineworld
Ticket Price: Odeon student: £4.60, Cineworld student: £5.10
Rating: 18
Director: Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Starring: Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Pell James, Michael Ironside
Preview: Jennifer Lynch directs this thriller 15 years after the release of her first film Boxing Helena. The film follows the investigation of a murder in which the three eye witnesses are all giving contradicting stories. As the drama unfolds one wonders how much the witnesses know.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPx_fC6Mjqc
Film: Watchmen
Where: Odeon, Cineworld & Vue
Ticket Price: Odeon student: £4.60, Cineworld student: £5.10, Vue student: £4.70
Rating: 18
Director: Zack Snyder
Starring: Carla Gugino, Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman
Preview: Watchmen is the film adaption of Alan Moore’s graphic novel. The film is set in an alternate 1985 America and sees the vigilante Rorschach’s investigation into the murder of one the former heroes uncover a conspiracy.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4blSrZvPhU
Film: The Young Victoria
Where: Odeon, Cineworld, Vue & Showroom
Ticket Price: Odeon student: £4.60, Cineworld student: £5.10, Vue student: £4.70, Showroom student: £4.30
Rating: PG
Director: Jean-Marc VallÈe
Starring: Mark Strong, Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Miranda Richardson
Preview: The Young Victoria, written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes, follows Queen Victoria’s (Emily Blunt) rise to power at the age of just 18 and the early years of her reign centering on her marriage to Prince Albert.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpVazl3Khws
Film: Flame and Citron
Where: Cineworld & Showroom
Ticket Price: Cineworld student: £5.10, Showroom student: £4.30
Rating: 15
Director: Ole Christian Madsen
Starring: Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade, Peter Mygind, Christian Berkel
Preview: Box office hit in Denmark, Flame and Citron is a World War Two drama based on true events. The film depicts the journey of Flame (Thure Lindhardt) and Citron (Mads Mikkelsen) two assassins of the Holger Danske resistance group.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRkb5jlVXDs
Event: Interrogating Okinawa
Where: The Showroom, 12.30 – 19:00
Ticket Price: Free
What: The School of East Asian Studies University of Sheffield presents a free, public conference on the film, music and politics of Okinawa, a southern Japanese island occupied for 27 years after the Second World War by the American military. The day will include a screening of Untamagiru, with director Takamine Go in attendance.
Film: Somers Town
Where: Student Union Auditorium, 19:30
Ticket Price: £2
Rating: 12A
Director: Shane Meadows
Starring: Piotr Jagiello, Thomas Turgoose
Preview: The stars of the 2008 film shared the award for Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film at Tribeca and at the Edinburgh Film Festival it won the Michael Powell Award, the festival's highest award. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose), a runaway teenager, and Marek (Piotr Jagiello), a polish immigrant living with his father, form an unlikely friendship and Marek hides Tomo in his flat unbeknown to his father.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuzqHIshhrk
Saturday 7th March
Film: Changeling
Where: Student Union Auditorium, 19:30
Ticket Price: £2
Rating: 15
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Michael Kelly
Preview: Drama mystery directed by Clint Eastwood, the film is based on a tragic true story. Single mother Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) has her son kidnapped. When the LAPD find him and bring him home, it is revealed that the boy is not her actual son. The film portrays Christine’s subsequent battle against the LAPD and fight to find her true son.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57_t2BFZaK8
Sunday 8th March
Film: Back to the Future II
Where: Student Union Auditorium, 19:30
Ticket Price: £1.80
Rating: PG
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd
Preview: Sequel to the much loved family classic Back to the Future II takes you on a journey... back to the future, only when they go back, again, an alternate 1985 exists.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRrSp6Pqlz4
Film: Surveillance
Where: Odeon & Cineworld
Ticket Price: Odeon student: £4.60, Cineworld student: £5.10
Rating: 18
Director: Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Starring: Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Pell James, Michael Ironside
Preview: Jennifer Lynch directs this thriller 15 years after the release of her first film Boxing Helena. The film follows the investigation of a murder in which the three eye witnesses are all giving contradicting stories. As the drama unfolds one wonders how much the witnesses know.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPx_fC6Mjqc
Film: WatchmenWhere: Odeon, Cineworld & Vue
Ticket Price: Odeon student: £4.60, Cineworld student: £5.10, Vue student: £4.70
Rating: 18
Director: Zack Snyder
Starring: Carla Gugino, Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman
Preview: Watchmen is the film adaption of Alan Moore’s graphic novel. The film is set in an alternate 1985 America and sees the vigilante Rorschach’s investigation into the murder of one the former heroes uncover a conspiracy.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4blSrZvPhU
Film: The Young Victoria
Where: Odeon, Cineworld, Vue & Showroom
Ticket Price: Odeon student: £4.60, Cineworld student: £5.10, Vue student: £4.70, Showroom student: £4.30
Rating: PG
Director: Jean-Marc VallÈe
Starring: Mark Strong, Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Miranda Richardson
Preview: The Young Victoria, written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes, follows Queen Victoria’s (Emily Blunt) rise to power at the age of just 18 and the early years of her reign centering on her marriage to Prince Albert.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpVazl3Khws
Film: Flame and Citron
Where: Cineworld & Showroom
Ticket Price: Cineworld student: £5.10, Showroom student: £4.30
Rating: 15
Director: Ole Christian Madsen
Starring: Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade, Peter Mygind, Christian Berkel
Preview: Box office hit in Denmark, Flame and Citron is a World War Two drama based on true events. The film depicts the journey of Flame (Thure Lindhardt) and Citron (Mads Mikkelsen) two assassins of the Holger Danske resistance group.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRkb5jlVXDs
Event: Interrogating Okinawa
Where: The Showroom, 12.30 – 19:00
Ticket Price: Free
What: The School of East Asian Studies University of Sheffield presents a free, public conference on the film, music and politics of Okinawa, a southern Japanese island occupied for 27 years after the Second World War by the American military. The day will include a screening of Untamagiru, with director Takamine Go in attendance.
Film: Somers TownWhere: Student Union Auditorium, 19:30
Ticket Price: £2
Rating: 12A
Director: Shane Meadows
Starring: Piotr Jagiello, Thomas Turgoose
Preview: The stars of the 2008 film shared the award for Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film at Tribeca and at the Edinburgh Film Festival it won the Michael Powell Award, the festival's highest award. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose), a runaway teenager, and Marek (Piotr Jagiello), a polish immigrant living with his father, form an unlikely friendship and Marek hides Tomo in his flat unbeknown to his father.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuzqHIshhrk
Saturday 7th March
Film: Changeling
Where: Student Union Auditorium, 19:30
Ticket Price: £2
Rating: 15
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Michael Kelly
Preview: Drama mystery directed by Clint Eastwood, the film is based on a tragic true story. Single mother Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) has her son kidnapped. When the LAPD find him and bring him home, it is revealed that the boy is not her actual son. The film portrays Christine’s subsequent battle against the LAPD and fight to find her true son.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57_t2BFZaK8
Sunday 8th March
Film: Back to the Future IIWhere: Student Union Auditorium, 19:30
Ticket Price: £1.80
Rating: PG
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd
Preview: Sequel to the much loved family classic Back to the Future II takes you on a journey... back to the future, only when they go back, again, an alternate 1985 exists.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRrSp6Pqlz4
Monday 9th March
Film: The Man Who Would be King
Where: Showroom, 18:30
Ticket Price: Full Price: £6.50, Student Tickets (Monday & Tuesday): £3.00 (£4.30 all other times)
Rating: PG
Director: John Huston
Starring: Sean Connery, Christopher Plummer, Michael Caine
Preview: The film originally released in 1975 is based on the story by Rudyard Kipling. The film tells the story of two ex-soldiers (Sean Connery & Michael Caine) in search of adventure in India.
Event: Monday Classics
What is it: Cineworld have launched Monday Classics so that you get a second chance to see classic films best seen on the big screen.
This week’s Monday Classics film: The Great Escape
Where: Cineworld
Ticket Price: Cineworld student: £5.10
Rating: PG
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Charles Bronson, Richard Attenborough, Donald Pleasance, Gordon Jackson, James Garner, James Coburn, David McCallum
Preview: A film which truly needs no introduction. Everyone should see this film at least once in theie lifetime.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkwmIDx9RwQ
Wednesday 11th March
Film: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
Where: Student Union Auditorium, 19:30
Ticket Price: £1.80
Rating: 18
Director: Uli Edel
Starring: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu
Preview: Based on the non-fiction book by Stefan Aust the film depicts the early days of one of the most prominent terrorist groups in post-war West Germany, the Red Army Faction (RAF). In particular the film portrays the story of Ulrike Meinhof (Martina Gedeck) a journalist who progresses from following the group to effectively joining them.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaSDiAwuEdc
Film: The Man Who Would be King
Where: Showroom, 18:30
Ticket Price: Full Price: £6.50, Student Tickets (Monday & Tuesday): £3.00 (£4.30 all other times)
Rating: PG
Director: John Huston
Starring: Sean Connery, Christopher Plummer, Michael Caine
Preview: The film originally released in 1975 is based on the story by Rudyard Kipling. The film tells the story of two ex-soldiers (Sean Connery & Michael Caine) in search of adventure in India.
Event: Monday ClassicsWhat is it: Cineworld have launched Monday Classics so that you get a second chance to see classic films best seen on the big screen.
This week’s Monday Classics film: The Great Escape
Where: Cineworld
Ticket Price: Cineworld student: £5.10
Rating: PG
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Charles Bronson, Richard Attenborough, Donald Pleasance, Gordon Jackson, James Garner, James Coburn, David McCallum
Preview: A film which truly needs no introduction. Everyone should see this film at least once in theie lifetime.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkwmIDx9RwQ
Wednesday 11th March
Film: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
Where: Student Union Auditorium, 19:30
Ticket Price: £1.80
Rating: 18
Director: Uli Edel
Starring: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu
Preview: Based on the non-fiction book by Stefan Aust the film depicts the early days of one of the most prominent terrorist groups in post-war West Germany, the Red Army Faction (RAF). In particular the film portrays the story of Ulrike Meinhof (Martina Gedeck) a journalist who progresses from following the group to effectively joining them.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaSDiAwuEdc
