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Director: John Waters.
Starring: Ricki Lake, Divine, Debbie Harry, Sonny Bono, Pia Zadora. USA
1988. 92 mins.
Baltimore, 1962. The heyday of hair-dos and hair-don’ts, and teen dance crazes like The Bug, The Roach and The Mashed Potato. Overweight teen Tracy Turnblad (Lake) lands a spot on a local TV dance show, using her newfound fame to champion the cause of racial integration. But in doing so she earns the wrath of the show’s former star, Amber Von Tussle, as well as Amber’s manipulative, pro-segregation parents.
Director: James Cameron.
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Edward Furlong. USA/France 2017. TBC mins.
He’s only gone and done it. James Cameron has talked about converting T2: Judgement Day into 3D for years, and now he’s given his 1991 masterpiece – one of the greatest action films of all time –the 21st century treatment. Digitally restored before conversion to 3D, this re-release brings the battle for tomorrow to life in spectacular fashion.
10 years after the events of The Terminator, Sarah Connor’s ordeal is only just beginning. A new cyborg, the T-1000, has been sent back to eliminate her now ten-year-old son, John, the future leader of the human resistance. The T-1000 is more advanced and powerful than its predecessor, but Sarah and John won’t face this new terror alone…
A forgotten European song contest singer, fading away in a pate factory, falls in love with a young aspiring boxer. Together they decide to attempt her comeback.
18.00Discover Tuesdays: Discover stunning cinema. Whether it's a cult classic, an art-house gem or a riveting documentary, there will always be a chance to see something different and brilliant in our weekly slot.
Director: Dir. Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly. USA. 1952. 102 mins.
Hollywood’s troubled transition from silent to talking pictures at the end of the 1920s provided the inspiration for perhaps the greatest of movie musicals.
“The most enduring film musical to have come out of Hollywood. In all these years not a frame of it has dated; it still retains all its freshness and sparkle.”
Clive Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly: A Biography, 1984
To follow the acclaim for An American in Paris, which won him the 1951 Oscar for best picture, songwriter-turned-producer Arthur Freed charged screenwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green with writing a musical based around some of his own most popular early songs. The result was a nostalgic tribute to the Hollywood of a bygone era starring Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood, the swashbuckling silent star at a film studio grappling with the coming of sound.
From the iconic scene in which Lockwood, smitten with young actress Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds), dances home during a downpour singing the title song, to the extended ballet sequence featuring Cyd Charisse in a parody of the gangster film, Singin’ in the Rain represents the musical genre at its most energetic and ambitious.
The hills are alive with the sound of nuns and lonely goatherds! One of the most successful screen musicals of all time, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s beloved tale is presented here in a gorgeous new digital restoration. Julie Andrews stars as the fun-loving Maria, bringing sunshine into the lives of the Von Trapp family amid the beautiful Bavarian Alps.
Director: Vincente Minnelli.
Starring: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant. USA 1951. 113 mins.
Gene Kelly plays Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter living in Paris
who is discovered by a wealthy heiress on the streets of Montmartre. He soon
meets and falls in love with a beautiful young dancer called Lise (Caron) who
is already engaged to a famous cabaret artist. Jerry’s friend Adam Cook
(Levant), an aspiring pianist/composer, offers a comically cynical take on
matters as complications begin to arise. Winner of six Academy Awards in
1951, including Best Picture, Vincente Minnelli's An American In Paris is
possibly the greatest achievement in movie musicals from the 1950s.
Director: Steven Spielberg. Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon. USA 1977. 137 mins.
For its 40th anniversary, Steven Spielberg’s genre-defining masterpiece returns to cinemas in a dazzling 4K restoration of the director’s cut to win over audiences all over again. This brilliantly paced tale follows two groups of people driven by the prospect that humans are not alone in the universe. The first is a team of scientists on a trail of mind-boggling evidence that leads them to the eventual landing site of alien visitors; the other a group of ordinary people who gravitate to the same spot, plagued by strange visions after close encounters with extra-terrestrial life. The opening sequences masterfully evoke a sense of foreboding, but as the film builds towards its stunning climax, fear gives way to wonder. It’s a tone shift that set Spielberg’s idealistic vision apart from all other big-screen alien encounters at the time, and raised the bar for every first-contact film that would follow.
Audiences will also be treated to a short about the making of the film, which
includes an all-new interview with Steven Spielberg.
Seymour, a shy young man working for a tyrannical florist, finds a vehicle for private and public success in the form of a maneating plant from outer space. The carniverous shrub helps him to become a celebrity, gets rid of his boss and clears the way for him to woo the girl of his dreams. However, its cannibalistic eating habits become insatiable and it's up to Seymour to cut it down to size. This comedy musical is based on the stage version of the cult movie, and features a memorable cameo performance from Steve Martin as a sadistic dentist.
Leaving the world of J-pop behind her, Mima Kirigoe begins life as an actress on a crime drama show called Double Blind. When offered a lead role in the show as a rape victim, Mima accepts in spite of her manager’s reservations. However, the backlash from fans over her career change and a strange website called ‘Mima's Room’, written by a fake Mima, begin to worry her. When a stalker appears and people involved in Double Blind begin turning up dead, with all the evidence pointing to her, Mima is thrown into a state of confusion, madness and paranoia.
