Cinema brochure May to Jul 2018 ARC Stockton

Cinema brochure May to Jul 2018
ARC Stockton

Call the Box Office to book on: 01642 525199 or email
box.office@arconline.co.uk
Book online: www.arconline.co.uk
Address: Dovecot Street, Stockton on Tees, TS18 1LL

Standard Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions)
3 Films for: £19.50
Family: £4
ARC YP / Students: £4
Silver Screen (Wed and Thur 2pm - All tickets £4 for over 60s)
No 60 Cinema Meal Deal: £12.50 (£20 with performances on
screen)
Performances on Screen: £14 (£12 concessions)

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The Leasure Seeker (15)

Fri 18 May 5.15pm, Sat 19 May 2pm & 8pm, Wed 23 May 2pm,
Thur 24 May 2pm & 7.30pm
Director: Paolo Virzì
Cast: Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland, Christian McKay

On a summer morning, desperate to escape a destiny of medical care
that would have kept them apart forever, the couple astonish their
meddling adult children by hopping on board their RV, The Leisure
Seeker, and dashing towards Key West for a new adventure.
Their trip through an America they no longer recognize is their chance to
retrace a married life nourished by passion and devotion.

2017        Running Time: 1hr 52mins      Audio Description Available

Love, Simon (12A)

Fri 18 May 8pm, Sat 19 May 5.15pm, Wed 23 May 7.30pm,
Director: Greg Berlanti
Cast: Nick Robinson, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel

Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon
Spier it’s a little more complicated: he’s yet to tell his family or friends
he’s gay and he doesn’t actually know the identity of the anonymous
classmate he’s fallen for online.
Love, Simon is a funny and heartfelt coming-of-age story about the
thrilling ride of finding yourself and falling in love.

2018        Running Time: 1hr 50mins      Audio Description Available

A Quiet Place (15)

Tues 22 May 7.30pm
Director: John Krasinski
Cast: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds

In the modern horror thriller A Quiet Place, a family of four must navigate
their lives in silence after mysterious creatures that hunt by sound
threaten their survival. If they hear you, they hunt you.

2018        Running Time: 1hr 30mins      Audio Description Available

Beast (15)

Fri 25 May 5.15pm, Sat 26 May 8pm, Thur 31 May 2pm
Director: Michael Pearce
Cast: Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, Geraldine James

In a small island community, a troubled young woman falls for a
mysterious outsider who empowers her to escape her oppressive family.
When he comes under suspicion for a series of brutal murders she
defends him at all costs and learns what she is capable of.

2017        Running Time: 1hr 47mins      Audio Description Available

Funny Cow (15)

Fri 25 May 8pm, Sat 26 May 2pm, Tue 29 May 7.30pm, Wed
30 May 2pm & Thur 31 May 7.30pm
Director: Adrian Shergold
Cast: Stephen Graham, Paddy Considine, Alun Armstrong

‘Funny Cow’ charts the rise to stardom of a comedienne (Maxine Peake)
through the 1970s and 1980s. It is set against the backdrop of working
men’s clubs and the stand-up comedy circuit of the North of England.
From her troubled childhood to her turbulent adult relationships, the
Funny Cow uses the raw material of her life experiences to bring her
unique style of comedy to the stage. A stand-up comedienne in an all-
male world, ‘Funny Cow’ delivers tragedy and comedy in equal measure.

2018        Running Time: 1hr 42mins      Audio Description Available

Custody (15)
Jusqu'à la garde
Sat 26 May 5.30pm, Wed 30 May 7.30pm
Director: Xavier Legrand
Cast: Léa Drucker, Denis Ménochet, Thomas Gioria

After a bitter divorce, Miriam and Antoine battle for sole custody of their
son. Miriam claims the father is violent but lacks proof. Antoine accuses
her of manipulating their son for her own ends. Both sides seem to be
hiding something; the truth is buried in deceit and jealousy.
Winner of prestigious awards at the 2017 Venice Film Festival, including
the Silver Lion for best director, Custody is a gripping, tension-filled
drama.

French

2017        Running Time: 1hr 34mins      Not Avaliable

Lean on Pete (15)

Fri 1 June 5pm, Sat 2 June 8pm, Thur 7 June 2pm
Director: Andrew Haigh
Cast: Travis Fimmel, Steve Zahn, Chloë Sevigny

Fifteen-year-old Charley lives with his alcoholic father in a run-down
house. In an effort to help his dad stay afloat, Charley takes a job at a
local racetrack where he befriends a jaded trainer Del and burnt-out
jockey Bonnie while caring for an aging horse named Lean on Pete. But
as things break down at home and Del announces Pete will be sold to
an uncertain fate, the burden becomes too great for Charley to bear and
he heads out into the vast American wilderness with Pete in tow.

2017       Running Time: 2hrs 1min       Audio Description Available

The Wound (15)
Inxeba
Fri 1 June 8pm, Sat 2 June 2pm
Director: John Trengove
Cast: Nakhane Touré, Bongile Mantsai, Niza Jay

Every year, young men from the tribe are brought to the mountains of
the Eastern Cape to participate in an ancient coming-of-age ritual.
Xolani, a quiet and sensitive factory worker is assigned to guide
Kwanda, a city boy from Johannesburg sent by his father to be
toughened up, through this rite of passage into manhood.
As Kwanda defiantly negotiates his queer identity within this masculine
environment, the threat of exposure elevates the tension to breaking
point.

Xhosa

2017       Running Time: 1hr 28mins      Not Avaliable

Tully (15)

Sat 2 June 5.30pm, Wed 6 June 2pm & 7.30pm, Thur 7 June
5.15pm
Director: Jason Reitman
Cast: Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis, Mark Duplass

A new comedy from Oscar-nominated director Jason Reitman (Up in the
Air) and Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno). Marlo (Theron),
a mother of three including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her
brother (Mark Duplass). Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo
comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and
sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully (Mackenzie Davis).

2017         Running Time: 1hr 36mins   Audio Description Available

Guardians (15)

Mon 4 June 7.30pm, Thur 7 June 7.30pm
Director: Mark A.C. Brown
Cast: Matt Prendergast, David Whitney, Hattie Hayridge

Two highly unqualified men are thrown together as Live-in Guardians of
a 200 year old house. What at first seems like a easy job is soon shown
to be anything but, when the house comes under attack from unseen
forces.

2017         Running Time: 1hr 24mins   Not Avaliable

How to Talk to Girls at Parties (15)

Fri 8 June 5.15pm, Sat 9 June 8pm, Tues 12 June 7.30pm
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Cast: Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman, Ruth Wilson

Croydon, 1977. Henry and his two friends John and Vic are in search of
a night to remember.
They hear of a party not far away and decide to gatecrash, but on
arrival, nothing is quite as they expected: the house seems to be full of
teenage students: exotic, foreign, unbelievably gorgeous.
Soon Enn is in way over his head with the beautiful, enigmatic Zan an
outsider just like him. As Enn becomes her ambassador to a brave new
world of punk, partying and music, he learns that Zen has a new world of
her own to share (quite literally) and over the course of twenty four hours
the two will go on an adventure that is truly out of this world.

2017       Running Time: 1hr 42mins      Not Avaliable

That Good Night (12A)

Fri 8 June 8pm, Sat 9 June 2pm, Wed 13 June 2pm
Director: Eric Styles
Cast: John Hurt, Sofia Helin, Max Brown

That Good Night stars award winner, John Hurt in his last leading role as
Ralph, a once-famous film director in his seventies who has two
missions in life; to be reconciled with his son, Michael, and, to ensure
that he is not a burden to his devoted wife, Anna
Ralph hires the services of the mysterious “Visitor” who unexpectedly
guides him to find new meaning in his life.

2017       Running Time: 1hr 32mins      AD TBC

Le Redoutable (15)
Godard Mon Amour
Sat 9 June 5.15pm, Wed 13 June 7.30pm, Thur 14 June 2pm
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Cast: Louis Garrel, Stacy Martin, Bérénice Bejo

In 1960’s Paris, Jean-Luc Godard is the leading filmmaker of his
generation. He’s shooting La Chinoise with the woman he loves, Anne
Wiazemsky 20 years his junior. They are happy, attractive, in love. They
marry. But the film’s reception unleashes a profound self-examination in
Jean-Luc. The events of May ’68 will amplify this process, and the crisis
that shakes the filmmaker.

French

2017       Running Time: 1hr 47mins      AD TBC

Edie (12A)

Fri 15 June 5.15pm, Sat 16 June 2pm & 8pm, Wed 20 June
2pm & 7.30pm, Thur 21 June 7.30pm
Director: Simon Hunter
Cast: Sheila Hancock, Kevin Guthrie, Paul Brannigan

At the tender age of eighty-three, after the death of her controlling
husband, Edie sets out to try and capture a little of the magic she had as
a young girl by climbing a Scottish mountain. Against her daughters
wishes, she heads to Scotland and employs Jonny (Kevin Guthrie -
Dunkirk, Whisky Galore!) to help her prepare for the gruelling climb
ahead –which sparks an unusual friendship.

2017       Running Time: 1hr 42mins      Not Avaliable

On Chesil Beach (15)

Fri 15 June 8pm, Sat 16 June 5.15pm, Tues 19 June 7.30pm,
Thur 21 June 2pm
Director: Dominic Cooke
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff

It is summer 1962, and England is still a year away from huge social
changes: Beatlemania, the sexual revolution and the Swinging Sixties.
Florence (Ronan) and Edward (Howle) are just married and
honeymooning on the dramatic coastline of Chesil Beach in Dorset.
However, the hotel is old fashioned and stifling, and underlying tensions
between the young couple surface and cast unexpected shadows over
their long anticipated wedding night.

2017        Running Time: 1hr 50mins      Audio Description Available

The Breadwinner (12A)

Fri 22 June 5.30pm, Sat 23 June 5.30pm, Wed 27 June 7.30pm
Director: Nora Twomey
Cast: Saara Chaudry, Soma Chhaya, Noorin Gulamgaus

Parvana is an 11-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in
Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana
disguises herself as a boy in order to support her family. With dauntless
perseverance, Parvana draws strength from the stories her father told
her, and ultimately risks her life to discover if he is still alive.
Equal parts thrilling and enchanting, The Breadwinner is a timely and
inspiring tale about the transcendent power of stories, and their potential
to unite and heal us all.

2018        Running Time: 1hr 34mins      AD TBC

Solo: A Star Wars Story (TBC)

 Fri 22 Jun 8pm, Sat 23 Jun 2pm & 8pm (DS), Tues 26 Jun
7.30pm, Wed 27 Jun 2pm & Thur 28 Jun 2pm (DS)
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Alden Ehrenreich, Thandie Newton

Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in
“Solo: A Star Wars Story,” an all-new adventure with the most beloved
scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep
within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo befriends his
mighty future co-pilot Chewbacca and meets the notorious gambler
Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star
Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.

2018       Running Time: 2hrs 15mins Audio Description Available

Book Club (TBC)

Fri 29 June 5pm, Sat 30 June 2pm, Wed 4 June 2pm &
7.30pm, Thur 5 June 2pm
Director: Bill Holderman
Cast: Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen

Diane is recently widowed after 40 years of marriage, Vivian enjoys her
men with no strings attached, Sharon is still working through her
decades-old divorce, and Carol's marriage is in a slump after 35 years.
The lives of these four lifelong friends are turned upside down after
reading the infamous "50 Shades of Grey," catapulting them into a series
of outrageous life choices.

2018       Running Time: TBC       AD TBC

Ismael's Ghosts (15)
Les fantômes d'Ismaël
Fri 29 June 8pm, Sat 30 June 5pm
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Twenty-one years ago, she ran away. And twenty-one years later,
Carlotta is back from the void. But Ismael has been busy rebuilding a life
for himself
As Ismael's trials and tribulations unfurl, so too do those of his film's
protagonist: the idle, funny and reckless diplomat Ivan Dédalus.

French

2018       Running Time: 1hr 54mins      Not Avaliable

Double Lover (18)
L'Amant Double
Sat 30 June 8pm, Tues 3 July 7.30pm
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Marine Vacth, Jérémie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset

François Ozon returns with a sleek but gleefully irreverent erotic thriller
that sees the prolific French auteur ramping up the sexual tension while
keeping his tongue firmly in his cheek.
Chloé is a young woman who falls in love with her psychoanalyst Paul.
Everything seems perfect until a series of discoveries lead her to
suspect that he may be living a double life. As she searches for the truth,
Chloé’s investigations plunge her into a dark and bewildering world of
smoke, mirrors and doppelgangers – where nothing is as it seems, and
no one can be trusted.

French

2017       Running Time: 1hr 47mins      Not Avaliable

The Happy Prince (15)

Fri 6 July 5.15pm, Sat 7 July 2pm & 8pm, Mon 9 July 7.30pm,
Tues 10 July 5.15pm & Wed 11 July 2pm
Director: Rupert Everett
Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson

Director and star Rupert Everett tells the story of the last days of Oscar
Wilde. This great man of letters, once one of the most famous authors in
England, is now a superstar on the skids. As Oscar lies on his death
bed, the past comes flooding back to him, transporting him to other
times and places.

2018       Running Time: 1hr 45mins      Not Avaliable

In The Fade (18)
Aus dem Nichts
Fri 6 July 8pm, Sat 7 July 5.15pm, Wed 11 July 7.30pm, Thur
12 July 2pm
Director: Fatih Akin
Cast: Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto, Numan Acar

Out of nowhere, Katja's life falls apart when her husband Nuri and little
son Rocco are killed in a bomb attack.
The mind-numbing search for the perpetrators and reasons behind the
senseless killing complicate Katja‘s painful mourning - opening wounds
and doubts. Danilo, a lawyer and Nuri's best friend, represents Katja in
the eventual trial against the two suspects: a young couple from the neo-
Nazi scene. The trial pushes Katja to the edge, but there's simply no
alternative for her: she wants justice.

German

2017       Running Time: 1hr 46mins      Not Avaliable

Family Films
Peter Rabbit (PG)

Sat 26 May 11am, Tues 29 May 11am
Director: Will Gluck
Cast: James Corden, Fayssal Bazzi, Domhnall Gleeson

Peter's feud with Mr. McGregor escalates to greater heights than ever
before as they rival for the affections of the warm-hearted animal lover
who lives next door.

2018       Running Time: 1hr 35mins      Audio Description Available

Mary and the Witch's Flower (U)
Meari to majo no hana
Sat 2 June 11am
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Cast: Hana Sugisaki, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Yûki Amami

The new film from the creators of the Studio Ghibli hits Arietty and When
Marnie Was There, based on Mary Stewart’s novel The Magic
Broomstick.
Combining rollicking action, appealing characters and a thrilling story
with the unique richness, art and animation of Studio Ghibli-style
storytelling, MARY AND THE WITCH’S FLOWER reveals a magical
world of a school for witches – but the strangely sinister school is no
Hogwarts, and our heroine is not even a witch!

Japanese

2017       Running Time: 1hr 42mins      Audio Description Available