Friday July 31 to Thursday Aug 6, 2015

FILMS SHOWING Friday July 31 to Thursday Aug 6

Mr. Holmes

"A film more about retirement and regret than questions and answers, it sees McKellen gently, brilliantly expose the frailties of an immortal character." - Total Film

"Director Bill Condon's poignant and witty meditation on memory and ageing dispenses with the usual Holmes trappings. Now 93, retired and living in a ramshackle pile on the cliffs above the English Channel, he spends his time bee-keeping under the increasingly vexed eye of his housekeeper Mrs Munro (Linney) but still finds time to entertain her young son Roger (Parker).

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Amy

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"An extremely powerful and emotionally resonant work; a stirring testimony to the unique talent and unrealized potential of Amy Winehouse." From the director of Senna.

"A masterpiece." - The Guardian
"Unmissable." - Stylist
"Kapadia takes care not to lose sight of the human being behind the mythology." - Village Voice

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Trails in Motion

Trails In Motion is an annual tour of short films about trail running and ultra running. This year is the third edition of Trails In Motion, but the first time that it has played at the Princess. The films represent the most exciting films of the year for and about trail runners, shot in some of the most spectacular locations on the planet.

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Eden

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"Even if you don't care for, or know much about, '90s house music, the Hansen-Løves' collaboration evokes a sense of musical euphoria that I defy you to remain unmoved by." - Film Comment

"Why is it so hard to capture dance music on film? IMDb is littered with phonies, while the music itself is in the middle of its biggest boon.

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Suite Française

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"The politics of sleeping with the enemy make for powerful viewing in this classy big-screen version of Irène Némirovsky's best-selling World War II romance." - Daily Star

“This is a handsome and intelligent adaptation of the writings of Irène Némirovsky – the Russian-born French writer who died in Auschwitz and whose two unpublished novellas emerged in 2004 as one book, ‘Suite Française’.

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Infinitely Polar Bear

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"Ruffalo gives another in a string of great performances, this time as a loving father with bipolar disorder." - Oregonian

“Precocious kids, a dad out of his depth, the overtly funky fabrics of late-'70s furniture and clothing: These are often the stuff of indie nightmares. Yet Maya Forbes's autobiographical directing debut, containing all of the above, avoids these pitfalls, arriving at a comic tale that is movingly heartfelt and fresh.

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Big Game

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"A sparky romp that recalls the children's action movies of the 1980s - The Goonies or Home Alone - this British-Finnish co-production knows what its audience wants: big bangs, big laughs and adults looking silly." - Guardian

"You can't help but warm to the sheer preposterousness of Big Game, a film in which the US President (Samuel L Jackson) ends up stranded in the Finnish wilderness and dependent on 13-year-old local boy Oskari for his survival.

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Iris

"'Iris' serves as a spirited, often dazzling primer in how to fight the dying of the light and feel fabulous while doing it." - Washington Post

"The penultimate film of documentarian Albert Maysles — he also shot In Transit aboard a Chicago-to-Seattle train before passing away in March at the age of 88 — does not feature his most famous subject; few outside the New York fashion scene will know the name Iris Apfel. But it’s a fitting almost-finale, looking at a life lived to the fullest and still going strong.

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Antony and Cleopatra: Stratford HD

In Spectacular HD from the Stratford Festival

Reason and judgement prove no match for the tsunami of mutual passion engulfing Mark Antony, one of the three joint rulers of the Roman republic, and Cleopatra, the seductive queen of Egypt. Surrendering everything to their desires, they open the floodgates to a civil conflict that will shake the very foundations of their world.

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I'll See You in my Dreams

"The best date-night picture of the year." (New York Daily News)

“'I’ll See You in My Dreams' checks all the boxes. It’s smart, funny and lasts an hour and a half.

"The movie is by turns a romance, a chick flick, a coming-of-age film and even a stoner movie. There’s something for everyone, with the possible exception of cretins who don’t appreciate great writing, casting, directing and especially acting.

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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

"One of those clever, energetic, inventive, affecting films that end up becoming the favourite movie of a great many people." - Film Comment

"This film isn't just good, it's amazing. This isn't just a kid-with-cancer movie for film nerds, this is a sublime love letter to the Criterion collection, and the best riff on Harold and Maude since Rushmore.

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Friday July 31 to Thursday Aug 6, 2015