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UNLOCKED
FILM FESTIVAL
FROM 17TH – 30TH MAY 2021
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FILM FESTIVAL
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MON 17TH MAY – SUN 30TH MAY advantage of this offer. FREE FESTIVAL
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WELCOME BACK! As we put together this
Sunday 16th May.
CLUB MEMBERS
programme guide (in April) for the Unlocked Film Festival, To all of our hundreds of regular
the resumption of BIG SCREEN viewing enjoyment is just on customers who have loyally
the horizon. This fact, quite literally, signifies a very bright light, maintained their membership
at the end of what has seemed like an interminably long tunnel! in The Station Cinema Club this
past year, we want to say
What better way to
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
celebrate this auspicious
occasion than with a As a means of showing our
scintillating selection appreciation, we want to give you
of films from around two FREE TICKETS to see any of
the world, many that the films we’ll be showing during
we are proud to be able the Film Festival.
to show prior to their
We will happily process all of These tickets can be booked
general cinematic
your requests in person over this online, simply by using your
release dates.
weekend. Alternatively, you can Club Membership number.
purchase 4 tickets ‘online’ and Visit the Station Cinema website
We have carefully selected 12 films simply bring your receipt to for details of how to claim your
that represent a broad cross- the cinema once we reopen on tickets and thank you, once again.
section of drama, comedy, thrillers the 17th. Just present the receipt
and documentaries. Many of the We are looking forward to
for your festival ticket purchase
films in our programme have won welcoming you back.
and we’ll issue you with an extra
international awards and bucketloads FREE ticket for another festival Rob Younger DIRECTOR
of praise from audiences and critics. film you want to see. THE STATION CINEMA
2 3
Nomadland ten-million Americans who lost
their homes in the 2008 banking Luxor
crash that hit the UK too.
DRAMA
CERT 12 UK
When British aid worker Hana
***** “…without the burdens
of a house and possessions (Andrea Riseborough) returns
you can have a glorious and to the ancient city of Luxor,
very American freedom in the she comes across Sultan (Karim
lost tradition of Emerson and Saleh), an archaeologist and
Twain. But what happens if former lover. As she wanders, “deeply rewarding ... reveals its
your van – or your body – shows haunted by the familiar place, purpose slowly, in fragments of
signs of collapse? …a gentle, she struggles to reconcile her growing significance”
compassionate, questioning film past choices with the uncertainty – SIGHT & SOUND
DRAMATIZED- of the present.
about the American soul.”
DOCUMENTARY
CERT 12A USA
– THE GUARDIAN **** “standout film ...
extraordinary” and “so
Following the economic collapse **** “Overflowing with humanity mesmerising it will make you
of a company town in rural and tenderness” – BBC want to pack your suitcase”
Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) – THE TIMES
packs her van and sets off on the
***** “McDormand’s performance
here is one of the very finest of
road exploring a life outside of ”Durra depicts Luxor as a living,
a career that’s hardly been short
conventional society as a modern- breathing metropolis … and
on striking work.” – THE TELEGRAPH
day nomad. builds sexual tension with her
Nomadland won Best Film, Best WINNER – Best Film 2021 characters … in this celebration
Female Actor & Best Director in – THE GOLDEN GLOBES of resilience [that} couldn’t be
this year’s BAFTAs. It is based on
**** “The Writer-Director, Zeina more inspiring”
SHORT-LISTED – Best Film 2021 Durra’s film, about a woman
the non-fiction account of the – HARPER’S BAZAAR
– ACADEMY AWARDS returning to Egypt — and her
past — is a subtle study of
emotional scar tissue.”
– FINANCIAL TIMES
**** ”quietly seductive tale”
– THE GUARDIAN
”elliptical, shimmery … mature and
mysterious” – THE OBSERVER
4 5
The Painter Liam Macleod, writing in
HeyUGuys observes… ’As their Minari
and the Thief
dynamic evolves the story
becomes riddled with the kinds
DRAMA
CERT 12 KOREA / US
of twists and turns that rival
most mystery fiction.’ Minari, is a tender and sweeping
story about what roots us.
It follows a Korean-American
“Astonishing and engrossing”… couple, Jacob and Monica,
”The year’s most moving who in the 1980s decide to
documentary” – THE GUARDIAN move their family to an Arkansas
“Astonishing. Unbelievable. farm to make a fresh start by
The cinematic equivalent of growing vegetables for other **** …a gentle restoration of
a cubist portrait” – VARIETY immigrant families. faith in the American Dream
– THE TELEGRAPH
DOCUMENTARY ‘Fascinating, confounding
CERT 15 NORWAY / USA and continually surprising...’ **** …an encouraging
The painter, in this touching story – THE OBSERVER and engaging view of the
of forgiveness over judgment, immigrant experience while
‘The Painter and the Thief has
is Czech-born artist, Barbora also recognising the hardships
more human interest, more
Kysilkova. She lives in Oslo. that go alongside.
narrative urgency, than most
In 2015 during a major exhibition – THE GUARDIAN
feature films.’ – THE SUNDAY TIMES
of her work, the gallery staging
her show is broken into and two ‘The beauty of the film is that What looks promising on paper The most efficient review
of her prized paintings are stolen. this is life lived, in all its infinite turns-out to be a pretty bare-bones of “Minari” would be
The police almost immediately strangeness - a grand tableau of existence in a dilapidated trailer something along the lines of
suspect a well-known drug inter-crossed destinies, friendship home plunked in the middle of a “It’s wonderful. See it.
addict and career criminal, Karl and disaster, fjords and gangsters.’ muddy field. When Monica’s sly You’ll love it.”
Bertil-Nordland. For reasons that – THE FINANCIAL TIMES and foul-mouthed Mother turns – THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
become obvious, they are not up to help with childcare, the fun
wrong. However, although the really gets started. Minari is a gentle, lovely
perpetrator(s) might have been picture, one that acknowledges
Minari shows the undeniable
caught, the paintings have not there really is no “immigrant
resilience of family and what
been recovered. experience,” beyond the pure
qualities really make a home.
human experience of finding
This is the start of what becomes Minari won the Best Foreign
yourself adjusting to a new
the most unlikely of friendships Picture Award at this year’s
environment. – TIME
between the artist and the thief. Golden Globes and the Grand
6 Jury Prize at Sundance in 2020. 7
Falling to change his way of life
in the slightest. Rocks
This is Viggo Mortensen’s COMING OF AGE
Directorial debut and he’s set the BRITISH DRAMA
bar pretty damn high for himself, CERT 12
when the next offers arrive.
This wonderfully acted
independent British film was
“Henriksen is astonishing … released last year to great critical
Falling is visually lush [and] acclaim but because of COVID
will resonate with anyone with lockdowns it had very limited
a complicated parent, or with BIG SCREEN exposure. The
knowledge of someone suffering Unlocked Film Festival is going
from dementia. It will, most of to put that right….at least in
DRAMA all, stay with the viewer long Richmond anyway! The film
Sarah Gavron and the cast,
CERT 15 USA after the credits roll.” is set in Hackney and stars
Bukky Bakray as Olushola, including being nominated for
John (Viggo Mortensen) lives – THE ECONOMIST 7 BAFTAS in 2021 & winning
nicknamed ‘Rocks’,
with his partner, Eric (Terry Chen), a British Black Teenage girl. Best Casting.
“quietly assured cinema …”
and their daughter, Mónica
– THE TELEGRAPH
(Gabby Velis), in California, far
from the traditional rural life “Henriksen is very good and very
he left behind years ago. John’s hard to watch … he’s unpleasant, **** “The most authentic film
father, Willis (Lance Henriksen), about British teens in years.”
he’s rude, he’s not funny … I found
a headstrong man from a bygone – THE INDEPENDENT
him stellar.”
era, lives alone on the isolated – MARK KERMODE, BBC FILM REVIEW
farm where John grew up. ***** “This tough but hopeful
London-set coming-of-age story
Willis is in the early stages of
will fill your heart.” – TIME OUT
dementia, making running the
farm on his own increasingly You quickly realise that besides
difficult, so John brings him the normal adolescent stresses, ***** “A wildly charming
celebration of teen potential.”
to stay at his California home Olushola and her younger brother
– THE TELEGRAPH
so that he and his sister Sarah have been abandoned by their
might help him find a place troubled single mother and
are trying to avoid being taken
***** “It’s so simple and so
near them to relocate to. wrenching — why can’t all films
Unfortunately, their best into care. be this good?” – THE TIMES
intentions ultimately run up
The film has picked up a clutch
against Willis’s adamant refusal
8 of awards for its Director, 9
UNLOCKED FILM FESTIVAL
WEEK ONE WEEK TWO
Monday 17th May – Sunday 23rd MAY Monday 24th May – Sunday 30th MAY
DAY FILM START FINISH PAGE DAY FILM START FINISH PAGE
Mon 17th May Luxor 2.00 3.40 5 Mon 24th May Dear Comrades 1.45 4.00 13
Mon 17th May The Painter and the Thief 4.45 6.45 6 Mon 24th May Luxor 5.00 6.40 5
Mon 17th May Nomadland 7.45 9.50 4 Mon 24th May Minari 7.45 9.55 7
Tues 18th May Martin Eden 1.15 3.40 12 Tues 25th May The Painter and the Thief 1.45 3.45 6
Tues 18th May Minari 4.45 6.55 7 Tues 25th May Nomadland 4.45 6.50 4
Tues 18th May Dear Comrades 7.45 10.00 13 Tues 25th May Ammonite 7.45 10.00 16
Wed 19th May Ammonite 1.30 3.45 16 Wed 26th May Les Misérables 2.00 3.55 17
Wed 19th May Limbo 5.00 7.00 15 Wed 26th May Falling 5.00 7.05 8
Wed 19th May Les Misérables 8.00 9.55 17 Wed 26th May Luxor 8.00 9.40 5
Thurs 20th May Nomadland 2.00 4.05 4 Thurs 27th May Minari 1.00 3.10 7
Thurs 20th May Falling 5.00 7.05 8 Thurs 27th May Martin Eden 4.15 6.40 12
Thurs 20th May Rocks 8.00 9.45 9 Thurs 27th May First Cow 7.45 10.00 14
Fri 21st May First Cow 1.15 3.30 14 Fri 28th May Nomadland 2.00 4.05 4
Fri 21st May Ammonite 4.30 6.45 16 Fri 28th May Falling 5.00 7.05 8
Fri 21st May Martin Eden 7.30 9.55 12 Fri 29th May Limbo 8.00 9.55 15
Sat 22nd May Minari 1.30 3.40 7 Sat 29th May Rocks 2.00 3.45 9
Sat 22nd May Limbo 4.45 6.45 15 Sat 29th May Les Misérables 4.45 6.40 17
Sat 22nd May Nomadland 7.45 9.50 4 Sat 29th May Ammonite 7.45 10.00 16
Sun 23rd May Rocks 1.30 3.15 9 Sun 30th May The Painter and the Thief 1.00 3.00 6
Sun 23rd May First Cow 4.15 6.30 14 Sun 30th May Dear Comrades 4.00 6.45 13
10 Sun 23rd May The Painter and the Thief 7.30 9.30 6 Sun 30th May Rocks 7.45 9.30 9 11
Martin Eden enormous efforts and overcoming
the obstacles represented by his Dear
Comrades
humble origin, Martin pursues
the dream of becoming a writer.
Under the influence of the elderly
intellectual Russ Brissenden, he DRAMA
gets involved in socialist circles, CERT 15 RUSSIA
bringing him into conflict with Dear Comrades won the Special
Elena and her bourgeois world. Jury Prize at the Venice Film
‘W’ – WRITING FOR IMDB Festival last year and has been
nominated in the Best Foreign This episode in Soviet history,
Film category in this year’s where 26 people were killed, was
BAFTAs. expunged from the history books
DRAMA for over 30 years.
The film recounts an event
CERT 15 ITALY
that took place in the Russian
**** Italian Director Pietro provincial city of Novocherkassk
Marcello’s take on Jack London’s in 1962, when members of a public ***** (the Director), Andrei
novel is the kind of movie that demonstration of striking workers Konchalovsky’s account of the
restores your faith in an art form were massacred by the local day Red Army soldiers and KGB
— and the craft of turning words No film could replicate the tragic authorities. snipers opened fire on strikers is a
on a page into sound and vision. weight of London’s work, but this rage-filled triumph – THE GUARDIAN
A cinematic knock out. comes awfully close. – IRISH TIMES
– ROLLING STONE **** The massacre of unarmed
The entirety of the 20th century protestors in the Russian city
— its promises, illusions and of Novocherkassk in 1962 is the
traumas — sweeps through subject of this initially wry and
After saving Arturo, a young scion
the audacious and thrilling seemingly satirical Russian-
of the industrial middle class,
“Martin Eden.” – NEW YORK TIMES language drama from the
from a beating, the sailor Martin
award-winning director Andrey
Eden is invited to the boy’s family
The lead character, Lyudmila is Konchalovskiy – THE TIMES
home. Here he meets Elena,
a party worker who sits on the
Arturo’s beautiful sister, and falls
local city committee, a staunch
in love with her at first sight.
communist. During the protest
The cultured and refined young
she witnesses the shooting and
woman becomes not only the
becomes personally involved when
object of Martin’s affections but
she realises that her daughter
also a symbol of the social status
has disappeared from the square
he aspires to achieve. At the cost of
12 where the incident has taken place. 13
First Cow ***** First Cow’ - dairy-poaching
Limbo
drama is the creme de la crème COMEDY / DRAMA
– THE TELEGRAPH CERT N/A (PRE-RELEASE) UK
Recently nominated for two
**** Kelly Reichardt, the film’s
Director, summons glorious earthy BAFTA awards for Best British
poetry from the raw materials of Film and Best Debut by a British
early American life. – TIME OUT Writer, Director or Producer,
of people across borders has been
Limbo is a wry and poignant
a long-held passion for director
observation of the refugee
and writer Ben Sharrock, who
experience, set on a fictional
spent time working for an NGO in
remote Scottish island where a
refugee camps in southern Algeria
and living in Damascus in 2009
shortly before the outbreak of the
DRAMA Syrian civil war. There, he formed
CERT N/A (PRE-RELEASE) US a network of friends whose
personal stories inspired the film.
Set in Oregon in 1820, First Cow ***** It is a tremendously – SYNOPSIS FROM ROTTEN TOMATOES
engaging story which does
immediately draws you into a
something that very few movies
highly atmospheric tale of two
do: mention money. Something group of new arrivals await the
put-upon workers (call them
drifters if you like) with similar
very palpable is at stake, the results of their asylum claims. ***** … one of the best films
jeopardy is real and it’s a question It centres on Omar, a young ever made about the refugee
aspirations to get ahead in the
of survival. – THE GUARDIAN Syrian musician who is burdened experience. – RADIO TIMES
exceptionally rough, chaotic and
by his grandfather’s oud, which
lawless environment that typifies
the old West.
It’s a small, understated movie, but he has carried all the way from ***** … witty, poignant,
it’s also one of the best of the year his homeland. Reflecting the marvellously composed and shot,
A growing bond of friendship so far. – THE ATLANTIC complexity of the movement moving and even weirdly gripping.
between the two lead characters, Limbo a is heart-rending portrait
Cookie and Lu, plus their natural of refugees stranded in Scotland
ingenuity, start to pay dividends. – GUARDIAN
However, not unexpectedly,
this causes their neighbours, ***** … Limbo is one of the year’s
including ‘Chief Factor’, a wealthy most audacious, surprising films,
Englishman played by Toby Jones, and it is also one of its best.
to become rather curious about – UK FILM REVIEW
14 them… but not in a good way.
Comic Gold – INDIEWIRE 15
Ammonite down but, proud and relentlessly
passionate about her work, she Les Misérables
clashes with her unwanted
guest. Yet despite the chasm
DRAMA / SUSPENSE /
between their social spheres and THRILLER
personalities, Mary and Charlotte CERT 15 FRANCE
discover they can each offer what Although there are some remote
the other has been searching for. links to Victor Hugo’s novel, the
world-beating musical and an
adapted film with the same title,
***** Winslet, Saoirse Ronan this Les Misérables is set in 2018 **** the most incendiary French
and a gorgeous, forbidden affair. in the aftermath of the FIFA crime film since La Haine
This 19th-century romance, set World Cup. The story follows – THE TIMES
DRAMA / ROMANCE on the wild Jurassic Coast, is a several characters within the Paris
CERT 15 UK tale of women struggling to find commune of Montfermeil, as a **** blood, rage and barricades on
The Station Cinema participated in themselves – and love – in a man’s theft from a teenager spirals into the streets of Paris – THE TELEGRAPH
a very successful live ‘UK Premiere world – THE TELEGRAPH the threat of a large crisis. It is a
Screening’ of Ammonite at the wonderfully paced and beautifully
London Film Festival last Autumn. **** Kate Winslet and Saoirse shot (figuratively and literally)
Ronan find love among the fossils
We are pleased to bring it back delight that won the Best Film
– THE GUARDIAN
during the Unlocked Film Festival. accolade in the César’s, the French
Oscars in 2020. Apparently, after
Ammonite takes place in the
President Emmanuel Macron
1840s on the coastline near Lyme
saw it he commented how, “upset
Regis. Acclaimed self-taught
(he was) by the accuracy”.
palaeontologist Mary Anning (Kate
Winslet) works alone hunting
for common fossils to sell to rich
**** a streetwise tale of France’s
dispossessed masses, brought
tourists to support herself and her once again to the brink of
ailing widowed mother. When one rebellion. A simmering tale of two
such tourist, Roderick Murchison, cities – THE GUARDIAN
arrives in Lyme on the first leg
of a European tour, he entrusts
Mary (Saoirse Ronan) with the **** A tense, pulpy cop procedural
from France drops a street-crime
care of his young wife Charlotte, An enthralling, edifying,
unit into a precarious situation
who is recuperating from a terrifying, sometimes funny and
— and indicts a system of social
personal tragedy. Mary, whose life improbably stirring portrait
oppression – ROLLING STONE
is a daily struggle on the poverty of a multiethnic, polycultural
16 line, cannot afford to turn him cauldron. – THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 17
COME BACK
SAFELY
The Station Cinema has taken
every precaution to ensure that
What if…
your visits are safe.
Besides government recognised safe-seating arrangements and
thorough cleaning and sanitising measures, we want to remind
you that The Station Cinema has the most modern FRESH AIR
VENTILATION EQUIPMENT which means that there is a constant
input of fresh air from outside and extraction of stale air. PLUS, our
screens are air-conditioned too.
It won’t feel like a wind-tunnel, but be assured that we do comply
with what the scientific community recommends for fresh-air-flow What if we’re not
in all indoor spaces.
allowed to be normal?
The gift of our ‘reopening plans’ rests with the
government. If for any reason the stated ‘start date’
of Monday, 17th has to be postponed, we will move
the entire Unlocked Film Festival back until it is
deemed safe to reopen.
Any tickets you’ve bought will be honoured to cover the
rescheduled festival programme when we’re able to begin
welcoming you back.
If the new dates conflict with other things you’d planned to do,
we will of course refund your purchase.
18 19The Station Cinema is celebrating the return to
BIG SCREEN entertainment with a programme
of 12 Award-winning Films
from MON 17th MAY – SUN 30th MAY
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FILM FESTIVAL
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LIMBO • AMMON
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FIRST COW • DEA
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COMRADES • FA
MINARI • LUXOR
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LES MISÉRABLE
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