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The Wind RisesFilm & Music Season
Boyhood
CINEMA MEAL DEAL
See any film at The Dukes and enjoy a two course meal at The Borough all for just £11.00
To take advantage of this great offer all you need to do is book your combined ticket at The Dukes Box Office in person or call 01524 598500.
Rushed for time?
Use your meal voucher at The Borough another day, any time The Borough School Dinners menu is being served (Monday to Sunday 12noon to 6.30pm)
Booking ahead is preferred but not always essential.
To book your table contact The Borough on 01524 64170
Index
Restored Classics 3
Film & Music Season 4 - 5
UK Green Film Festival 6
Transition City Festival 7
Special Events 8 - 9
New Releases 9 - 14
How to Get Here 15
Calendar 16
Ticket PricesIn person, by telephone or e-mail
£6.00 Full Price
£5.00 Concessions
£4.00 Under 18’s
(Concessions apply to those in full time education, senior citizens, those receiving income support, people with disabilities and Friends & Film Friends members)
Box Office: 01524 598500
www.dukes-lancaster.orgFacebook: The Dukes, LancasterTwitter: @TheDukesTheatre
Welcome to The Dukes June and July
Cinema Guide
MOVIE MORNINGS11am screenings with free tea or coffee and a pastry included with your ticket. The screenings in this brochure are Jersey Boys (Thursday 17 July) and Bright Days Ahead (Thursday 24 July).
After the Movie Morning screening why not stay in the cafe-bar and get 10% off selected items with your ticket?
Bright Days Ahead
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Tuesday 24 June, 6.15pm
ROME, OPEN CITY (12A)
(Roma città aperta) Dir: Roberto Rossellini
1945 Italy 103mins Subtitles
With: Anna Magnani
Roberto Rossellini’s portrait of life
under the Nazi Occupation is a
landmark of Italian neo-realism often
cited as one of the greatest films ever
made. Produced in extraordinarily
straitened circumstances immediately
after the liberation of Rome, the
film follows engineer Giorgio in his
attempts to evade the Germans and
the collaborating Italian authorities by
seeking help from a fellow member
of the underground resistance and a
sympathetic priest.
Tuesday 1 July, 6.30pm
PATHS OF GLORY (PG) Dir: Stanley Kubrick
1957 USA 88mins
With: Kirk Douglas
Arguably Stanley Kubrick’s first
masterpiece - Paths of Glory is a
searing anti-war drama. France 1916:
the French and German armies are dug
into trenches in a stalemate. Impatient
French generals order a suicidal
assault on a strategic hill but when the
operation ends in an inevitable retreat
the same generals demand that three
men are executed for cowardice as an
example to others.
Tuesday 8 July, 6.10pm
EAST OF EDEN (PG) Dir: Elia Kazan
1955 USA 115mins
With: James Dean, Julie Harris
James Dean plays a troubled
youth with good intentions in this
newly restored adaptation of John
Steinbeck’s family fable. Set in
California on the eve of America
entering World War One, Dean plays
Cal, who feels he must compete with
his brother for the love of their father.
With good intentions, he borrows
money to invest in his father’s failing
business, but at the same time he falls
for the wrong girl.
Tuesday 15 July, 6.30pm
A FAREWELL TO ARMS (PG) Dir: Frank Borzage
1932 USA 88mins
With: Gary Cooper
An Oscar-winning adaptation of Ernest
Hemingway’s classic novel. Gary
Cooper stars as an ambulance driver
on the Italian front in World War I, who
is injured and while in hospital meets
and falls in love with a British nurse.
Keep a look out for a new stage
adaptation of A Farewell to Arms
which will start at The Dukes this
October.
Restored Classics
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Friday 6 June, 8pm
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (15) Dir: Joel & Ethan Coen
2014 USA 105mins
With: Oscar Isaac, Cary Mulligan
A beautifully shot film from The
Coen Brothers, following a folk singer
struggling to get his big break in 1960s
Greenwich Village.
Join us after the film when Lancaster’s
Folk Club will be infusing the Dukes
Bar with the spellbinding sounds of
another time and place. Soak up the
Greenwich Village atmosphere post
film, with the best local folk acts and
performers.
This is a Lancaster Arts City First Friday event.
Saturday 14 June, 6.30pm
MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS and LIVE SATELLITE Q&A (Cert-TBC) Dir: Tom Berninger
2014 USA Film: 80mins
With: Matt Berninger, Tom Berninger
In 2010, rock band The National were
about to embark on the biggest
tour of their career. Lead singer Matt
Berninger decided to invite his younger
brother Tom along too. A budding
horror filmmaker, Tom brought his
camera with him capturing not only
the band’s tour but also his own
struggles living in his brother’s shadow. The screening will be followed by a live by satellite Q&A with Matt and Tom Berninger
Monday 23 June, 8.35pm
AMERICAN INTERIOR
(12A) Dir: Gruff Rhys
2014 UK 90mins
With: Gruff Rhys
Fiction, fantasy, myth and music collide
in this playful documentary from Super
Furry Animals front man Gruff Rhys. The
film follows Rhys as he retraces the steps
of a fabled Welsh explorer John Evans,
who left his homeland in 1792 to search
for a lost tribe of Welsh-speaking Native
Americans. Playing a concert tour on the
trail, Rhys seeks to uncover Evans’ legacy
and the true circumstances of his death.
Friday 11 to Thursday 17 July
JERSEY BOYS (Cert-TBC) Dir: Clint Eastwood
2014 USA 135mins
With: John Lloyd Young, Christopher
Walken
Clint Eastwood brings to the big screen
the worldwide hit stage musical about
the iconic 1960s band The Four Seasons.
Frankie, Gaudio, Tommy and Nick were
four young men from the wrong parts
of New York. They became famous
thanks to their hard work, unique sound
and tightly-drilled performances, but
behind the scenes the four struggled
with the transition from their blue collar
neighbourhood to national stardom.
Film and Music Season
Friday 11 & Saturday 12 July
PULP (Cert-TBC) Dir: Florian Habicht
2014 UK 90mins
With: Jarvis Cocker
An inventive documentary which
follows Pulp on their comeback tour
in 2012, and tells the story of how
they found fame on the world stage
in the 1990s. Alongside the usual
performance footage, behind-the-
scenes glimpses and archival clips,
director Florian Habicht also weaves
in ordinary people recruited off the
streets of Sheffield for interviews and
staged scenes which examine the
city’s’ relationship with the band.
Saturday 1 to Thursday 5 June & Monday 21 July
FRANK (15) Dir: Lenny Abrahamson
2014 UK Ireland 95mins
With: Michael Fassbender,
Maggie Gyllenhaal
A weird and wonderful musical
comedy very loosely inspired by
North-West icon Frank Sidebottom.
Frank follows Jon, a young musician
who joins an oddball band named
Soronprfbs, whose eccentric lead
singer wears a papier-mâché giant
head – both onstage and off. Together
they uneasily retreat to record an
album with the aim of making it big at
the South by Southwest Festival.
Monday 21 July, 8.30pm
JON RONSON’S FRANK STORYFor three years, in the late 1980s,
Jon Ronson was the keyboard player
with the iconic Frank Sidebottom Oh
Blimey Big Band. Now Jon presents
a one-man show – Frank – telling
the true story behind the new
fictionalized movie that he co-wrote.
Part funny memoir, part movie diary,
this is a tribute to outsider artists too
wonderfully strange to ever make it in
the mainstream.
Tickets: £13 (Full) £12 (Conc) £10 (Friends)
Friday 18 & Tuesday 22 July
A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (U) Dir: Richard Lester
1964 UK 87mins
With: John Lennon, Paul McCartney
To celebrate its 50th Anniversary, The
Beatles’ seminal film debut has been
digitally restored. The year is 1964 and
The Beatles - the world’s most famous
rock and roll band- travel from their
home town of Liverpool to London
to perform on a television broadcast.
Along the way they must rescue Paul’s
unconventional grandfather from
various misadventures and drummer
Ringo goes missing just before the
crucial concert.
Film & Music Season
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Saturday 7 June, 2.00pm
PLANET OCEAN (Cert-TBC) Dir: Yann Arthus-Bertrand
2014 France 95mins
Award winning photographers and
directors Yann Arthus-Bertrand and
Michael Pitiot present this remarkably
beautiful documentary that seeks
to change the way we view our
oceans. Using the most advanced
photographic equipment available,
and facing extreme geographical
conditions, the director and his team
set out on a journey of discovery to
explore the most inaccessible and least
known areas of our planet.
Saturday 7 June, 6.15pm
A RIVER CHANGES COURSE (Cert-TBC) Dir: Kalyanee Mam
2014 Cambodia USA 90mins
A River Changes Course tells the story
of three families living in Cambodia as
they face hard choices forced by rapid
development and struggle to maintain
their traditional ways of life. From a
remote northern jungle, down along
the Tonle Sap, to the rice fields in the
country’s centre and the pulsing heart of
urban Phnom Penh, this documentary
showcases the radical transformation of
contemporary Cambodia.
Saturday 7 June, 8.30pm
EXPEDITION TO THE END OF THE WORLD (Cert-TBC) Dir: Daniel Dencik
2014 Denmark Sweden 90mins
Expedition to the End of the World
follows a three-mast schooner packed
with artists and scientists, on a journey
to North East Greenland. On the way
the diverse crew encounter polar bear
nightmares, Stone Age playgrounds
and entirely new species. But in their
encounter with new, unknown parts
of the world, they also discuss the
existential questions of life.
UK Green Film Festival
In June The Dukes will be presenting films as part of two environmental festivals.
The UK Green Film Festival is a national touring festival which will be coming to The Dukes for the first time.
More information can be found here at
www.ukgreenfilmfestival.org
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Tuesday 10 June, 5.30pm & 8.10pm
GASLAND PART II (Cert-TBC) Dir: Josh Fox
2013 USA 125mins
With: Josh Fox
A follow-up to the Oscar-nominated
Gasland which sees filmmaker Josh Fox
use his trademark dark humour to take
a deeper look at the dangers of fracking
– a controversial method of extracting
natural gas and oil. The documentary
disputes the gas industry’s portrayal
of natural gas as clean and argues that
fracked wells inevitably leak over time,
contaminating the environment.
Screening in The Dukes Gallery
All Tickets: Free
Wednesday 11 & Friday 13 June
SYMPHONY OF THE SOIL (Cert-TBC) Dir: Deborah Koons
2012 USA 104mins
A documentary, featuring beautiful time-
lapse photography and animated
watercolours, which investigates the
advantages of healthy soil. Filmed on
four continents and with contributions
from impassioned scientists, farmers
and food experts, the film explores how
dead dirt is transformed into living soil,
and how the opposite can occur due to
some farming practises.
Screening in The Dukes Gallery
All Tickets: £3
Friday 13 June, 6.30pm
SILENT RUNNING (PG) Dir: Douglas Trumbull
2014 USA 90mins
With: Bruce Dern
A science fiction classic which marked
the directorial debut of Douglas
Trumbull, best known for his visual
effects work on films such as 2001: A
Space Odyssey. Long after earth has
been left barren of all fauna, Lowell
Freeman looks after plants in giant space
greenhouses. When orders are received
to destroy the greenhouses, Lowell tries
to persuade his three colleagues to help
him save them.
Transition City Film Festival
Transition City Lancaster’s Festival is returning with a selection of films that explore some of contemporary society’s most pressing environmental issues. More information can be found here at www.transitioncitylancaster.org
Monday 2 June, 2pm
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (U)
Dir: Vincente Minnelli
1951 USA 113mins With: Gene Kelly
Journey Cafe is a series of arts events,
presented in association with Age UK
Lancashire, for people with memory
problems and their families – though
everyone is welcome. For June we will
be screening Vincente Minnelli’s musical
about a struggling American painter in
Paris who becomes entangled in a love
triangle.
All Tickets:
£4 includes tea or coffee and a pastry
Thursday 19 June, 7.30pm
THE FIRST WORLD WAR: LIFE ON THE HOME FRONT IN NORTH WEST ENGLAND
In this unique event to mark the
centenary of the First World War, the
North West Film Archive opens their
vaults to share compelling footage of
life on the home front in North West
England. The screening includes footage
of the Accrington Pals, the Lancashire
Fusiliers and the Cheshire Regiment as
they prepare for active service on the
Western Front.
Tickets:
£8 (Full) £7 (Concs) £5 (Friends)
Saturday 19 July, 6.10pm
ROAR-A-LONG THE LION KING (U)
Dir: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
1994 USA 90mins
With: Matthew Broderick
On Friday 18 and Saturday 19 July The
Dukes Youth Forum will be taking over the
building and presenting a programme of
events. As part of the takeover they will be
hosting a fun filled screening of Disney’s
classic The Lion King, featuring sing-a-long
subtitles. Lion cub and future king Simba
searches for his identity. His eagerness to
please others and penchant for testing
his boundaries sometimes gets him into
trouble.
Sunday 22 June & Sunday 13 July, 8.00pm
FILM QUIZ (Cert-TBC)
Know your Truffaut from your Tarantino?
If you’re mad about film, come and test
your knowledge against our questions,
ranging from the plainly obvious to the
devilishly difficult.
Sunday 29 June & Sunday 27 July,
8pm
PUT UP YER DUKES MUSIC QUIZ
The Dukes music quiz, where the bearded
folksters front the schmindie beatniks and
the jazz nodders collide with the freeform
freaksters for cerebral fisticuffs.
Quiz entry is £1 per person with a maximum team size of 6 people.
Special Events
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Journey Café
Sunday 20 July (Live) Wednesday 23 & Thursday 24 July (Encores)
MONTY PYTHON LIVE (Mostly)
With: John Cleese, Michael Palin
For the first time in more than three
decades, comedy legends Monty Python
will perform live on stage together this
year. While the performances sold out in
minutes, it will be broadcast live by satellite
to cinemas across the globe, including The
Dukes. The troupe will once again perform
some of their greatest hits, with modern,
topical, Pythonesque twists.
Tickets:
£13 (Full) £12 (Concs) £10 (Friends)
Monday 2 to Thursday 5 June
THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY (12A) Dir: Hossein Amini
2014 UK USA 95mins
With: Kirsten Dunst, Oscar Issac
Hossein Amini, the screenwriter behind
Drive, makes his directorial debut
with this Hitchcock inspired Patricia
Highsmith adaptation. Set in 1962, the
film follows glamorous American couple
Chester and Collette on a sight-seeing
trip to Greece. There they meet Rydal,
a young American working as a tour
guide and scamming tourists on the side.
Drawn to Chester’s wealth and Collette’s
beauty, Rydal becomes increasingly
tangled into the couple’s sinister web.
Friday 6 & Wednesday 11 June
BLUE RUIN (15) Dir: Jeremy Saulnier
2014 USA 95mins
With: Macon Blair
A stark revenge thriller that has drawn
comparisons with the films of the Coen
Brothers, in particular Blood Simple. A
mysterious outsider’s quiet life is turned
upside down when he returns to his
childhood home to carry out an act of
vengeance. Proving himself an amateur
assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight to
protect his estranged family.
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New ReleasesLIVE BY SATELLITE EVENTS
National Theatre Live
Thursday 12 June, 7pm (Live)Sunday 15 & Sunday 29 June, 7pm (Encores)
A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS
Glyndebourne Opera
Sunday 8 June, 4.30pmDER ROSENKAVALIER Sunday 6 July, 6.00pmDON GIOVANNI (Recorded)
Royal Shakespeare Company
Saturday 21 June, 2.00pm (Recorded) HENRY IV PART ONE
Wednesday 18 June, 7.00pm (Live)Saturday 21 June, 7.00pm (Recorded) HENRY IV PART TWO
More information about Live by Satellite events can be found on our website
www.dukes-lancaster.org/satellite
Tickets:
£13 (Full) £12 (Concs) £10 (Friends)
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Monday 9 & Tuesday 10 June
A THOUSAND TIMES GOOD NIGHT (12A)
(Tusen ganger god natt) Dir: Erik Poppe
2014 Norway Sweden 117mins Subtitles
With: Juliette Binoche
A compelling drama starring Juliette
Binoche as Rebecca, a world renowned
war photographer who becomes torn
between her family and sense of duty.
After an assignment leaves her badly
hurt, she resolves to concentrate on
her family. However she is tempted
by one last trip, a seemingly ‘safe’
assignment documenting a refugee
camp for a charity, and takes her
daughter with her.
Monday 9 & Tuesday 10 June
TRACKS (12A) Dir: John Curran
2014 Australia 112mins
With: Mia Wasikowska
A vivid adaptation of Robyn
Davidson’s bestselling account of
her 1,700-mile camel trek across the
Australian desert to the Indian Ocean
in 1977. Mia Wasikowska stars as
fiercely independent loner Davidson
who decides to trek across the
outback with only her four camels,
and an irksome National Geographic
photographer for company. John
Curran and his cinematographer
Mandy Walker brilliantly evoke the
cruel beauty of the Australian desert.
Friday 13 & Monday 16 June
THE WIND RISES (PG) (Kaze tachinu) Dir: Hayao Miyazaki
2014 Japan 126mins Subtitles
With: Hideaki Anno
Spirited Away director Hayao Miyazaki
brings a close to his spectacular career
with one of his most adult films. Young
Jiro Horikoshi is fascinated by flight
from a young age and dedicates his life
to building flying machines. He joins a
major Japanese engineering company in
1927 and becomes one of the country’s
most accomplished airplane designers,
but as World War II looms he must face
the moral dilemma over the use of his
creations.
Wednesday 11 & Tuesday 17 June
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (15) Dir: Wes Anderson
2014 USA 100mins
With: Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton
The latest film from Wes Anderson
is full of all the wit and invention that
you would expect from the director
of Moonrise Kingdom and The Royal
Tenenbaums. Ralph Fiennes delivers a
masterful comic performance as Gustave
H – a legendary concierge at the Grand
Budapest Hotel. Along with his new
lobby boy, Gustave finds himself on the
run after a favoured guest bequeaths
him a priceless painting, thereby
arousing the suspicions of the police.
New Releases
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Monday 16 & Tuesday 17 June
BEFORE THE WINTER CHILL (15)
(Avant l’hiver) Dir: Philippe Claudel
2014 France 103mins Subtitles
With: Daniel Auteuil, Kristen Scott
Thomas
Daniel Auteuil stars as Paul, an eminent
surgeon who is increasingly tetchy with
his socially adept wife Lucie, their friends
and his colleagues. Then a brush with
a beautiful young Moroccan woman
who may or may not be an ex-patient
becomes a strange obsession; Lucie,
already trying to cope with her disturbed
sister, begins to suspect that Paul is also
losing his mind.
Friday 20 & Thursday 26 June
UNDER THE SKIN (15) Dir: Jonathan Glazer
2014 UK 108mins
With: Scarlett Johansson
Drawing on Michel Faber’s novel,
Jonathan Glazer has created an eerie,
dreamlike and visually compelling film
quite unlike any other. A striking brunette
drives a battered van around Scotland
picking men up off the street whom
she then despatches in a nightmarish
manner. With sequences shot on the
streets of Glasgow using interactions
with real passers-by, and a unique
otherworldly score, Under the Skin is a
future cult classic in the making.
Friday 20, Sunday 22 & Monday 23 June
GODZILLA (12A) Dir: Gareth Edwards
2014 USA 125mins
With: Bryan Cranston, Juliette Binoche
The ultimate movie monster returns to
the screens with a new all-star film. In
this version, it’s not radiation that spawns
the monster, but the other way around:
the so-called atomic tests of the 1950s
were in reality early attempts to kill
the 600-foot tall beast. Now Godzilla
is leaving its ocean home, creating
a tsunami in its wake and wreaking
terrifying devastation wherever it goes.
Tuesday 24 & Wednesday 25 June
BEYOND THE EDGE (PG) Dir: Leanne Pooley
2014 New Zealand 90mins
With: Sonam Sherpa
Beyond the Edge documents the heroic
journey to the top of Everest by Edmund
Hilary in 1953. Original colour footage
and photographs are seamlessly woven
into interviews and dramatic recreations
to recount the historic triumph of the
modest mountaineer from New Zealand
and his expert Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay.
New Releases
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Wednesday 25 & Thursday 26 June
A TOUCH OF SIN (15)
(Tian zhu ding) Dir: Zhangke Jia
2014 China 130mins Subtitles
With: Wu Jiang
Four stories interweave in this
acclaimed exploration of corruption
and violence in contemporary China.
An angry miner revolts against the
corruption of his village leaders. A
migrant worker at home for the New
Year discovers the infinite possibilities a
firearm can offer. A pretty receptionist
at a sauna is pushed to the limit when
a rich client assaults her and a young
factory worker goes from job to job
trying to improve his lot in life.
Friday 27 June to Thursday 3 July (Excluding Sunday 29)
JIMMY’S HALL (12A) Dir: Ken Loach
2014 UK 120mins
With: Barry Ward, Andrew Scott
The latest film from Ken Loach tells
the true story of Irish activist Jimmy
Gralton. In 1932, Jimmy returns home
to Ireland to help his mother run the
family farm. He decides to reopen
the ‘Hall’, a young people’s centre,
free and open to all to dance, study
or talk. Success comes quickly, but
the growing influence of Jimmy and
his radical ideas is not to the taste of
everyone in the village.
Friday 27 June, 8.30pm
THE DOUBLE (15) Dir: Richard Ayoade
2014 UK 93mins
With: Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska
Richard Ayoade marked himself out as
a filmmaker to watch with his inventive
directorial debut Submarine and now he
returns with the equalling dazzling The
Double. Jesse Eisenberg is meek office
worker Simon James whose life is turned
upside down by the arrival of a confident
and ambitious doppelganger. Based on a
short story by Dostoyevsky, Ayoade also
weaves in the influences of Terry Gilliam,
Lynch and Kafka alongside his own unique
visual style.
Saturday 28, Monday 30 June & Wednesday 2 July
FADING GIGOLO (15) Dir: John Turturro
2014 USA 90mins
With: John Turturro, Woody Allen
A wry comedy from actor-director
John Turturro, featuring Woody Allen
in a rare appearance outside of his own
films. Verging on insolvency, Fioravante
decides to become a professional Don
Juan as a way of making money to help
his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With
Murray acting as his ‘manager’, the duo
quickly find themselves caught up in the
crosscurrents of love and money.
New Releases
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Double Bill Tickets Available:
£10 (Full Price) £8 (Concs) £6 (Friends)
Or films priced individually as usual
Thursday 3 July, 8.30pm
PANTANI: THE ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF A CYCLIST (15) Dir: James Erskine
2014 UK 95mins
In 1998 Marco Pantani, the most
flamboyant cyclist of his era, won both
the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia, a
titanic feat that no rider has repeated
since. He was a hero to millions
however less than six years later, aged
just 34, he died alone, from cocaine
poisoning. He had been an addict for
five years. This is the story of the tragic
battles fought by the most important
Italian cyclist of his generation.
Friday 4, Saturday 5 & Tuesday 8 to Thursday 10 July
BELLE (12A) Dir: Amma Asante
2014 UK 104mins
With: Gugu Mbatha-Raw,
Tom Wilkinson
An elegantly made period drama telling
the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle,
the illegitimate mixed race daughter
of a Royal Navy Admiral. Raised by
her aristocratic great-uncle and his
wife, Belle’s lineage affords her certain
privileges yet the colour of her skin
prevents her from fully participating in
society. She falls for an idealistic young
vicar’s son bent on change and an end
to slavery in England.
Friday 4 & Saturday 5 July
VENUS IN FUR (15)
(La Vénus à la fourrure) Dir: Roman Polanski
2014 France 96mins Subtitles
With: Emmanuelle Seigner,
Mathieu Amalric
Set in modern-day Paris, Venus in
Fur follows theatre director Thomas
and a pushy, foul-mouthed actress
named Vanda who bursts into
auditions in a whirlwind of erratic
energy. Vanda’s emotionally charged
audition for the gifted but demanding
playwright becomes an electrifying
game of cat and mouse that blurs
the lines between fantasy and reality,
seduction and power, and ultimately,
attraction and obsession.
Wednesday 9 July, 8.30pm
OMAR (Cert-TBC) Dir: Hany Abu-Assad
2014 Palestine 96mins Subtitles
With: Adam Bakri
The latest film from the director of
the Oscar-winning Paradise Now, is a
gripping drama about three childhood
friends who attempt to protest the
occupation of Palestine. Omar is a
baker who in secret is planning an act
of violent resistance. His friend Tarek
comes up with a plan to assassinate a
Palestinian guard, and each friend must
play a pivotal role in the scheme, so they
all share in its success or its failure.
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Thursday 10 July, 6.30pm
OF HORSES AND MEN (Cert-TBC) Dir: Benedikt Erlingsson
2014 Iceland 81mins Subtitles With: Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson
A playful comedy set in a quirky horse-
riding community in the Icelandic
countryside. The film ponders the
relationship between man and horse
through a series of short segments.
Director Benedikt Erlingsson depicts
the struggles, romances and jealousies
of key members of this small and very
horsey Icelandic hamlet, inflected with
a bone-dry humour, and set against a
memorably beautiful landscape.
Monday 14 & Wednesday 16 July
GRACE OF MONACO (PG) Dir: Gregory Doran
2014 USA France 103mins
With: Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth
A portrait of Hollywood star turned
princess Grace Kelly, from the director
of La Vie En Rose. The film follows
Kelly as she struggles with her
marriage and new royal identity. In the
backdrop a political dispute begins to
brew between Monaco’s Prince Rainier
III and France’s Charles De Gaulle, and
a potential French invasion looms.
Friday 18, Saturday 19, Tuesday 22 & Thursday 24 July
BRIGHT DAYS AHEAD (15) (Les beaux jours) Dir: Marion Vernoux
2014 France 94mins Subtitles
With: Fanny Ardant
For recent retiree Caroline a new life
of opportunity lies before her, but she
soon comes to realise that this new
freedom is synonymous with boredom.
Spurred on by her daughters she
becomes a reluctant member of her
neighbourhood’s senior club. Despite
the activities and potential friends
available she shows little enthusiasm
for the club till an incidental
rendezvous with her young IT tutor
soon reignites her passion.
Friday 25 to Thursday 31 July
BOYHOOD (Cert-TBC) Dir: Richard Linklater
USA 2014 164mins
With: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette
Twelve years in the making, Richard
Linklater’s coming-of-age tale is a
unique and extraordinarily ambitious
piece of filmmaking. Shot at regular
intervals from 2002 and 2013, Boyhood
follows a young boy, Mason, on his
journey from infancy to adulthood.
As he matures, he must deal with the
pressures of growing up and the stress
of his parents’ divorce.
New Releases
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PUBLIC TRANSPORTThe Dukes is just a few minutes walk from both Lancaster Train Station
and Bus Station.
PARKINGAmple pay and display parking is available within two minutes walk of The Dukes
– a flat evening rate applies after 6pm. Bike racks are located on Moor Lane, close
to The Dukes.
CAR PARKING SPACES for blue badge holders can usually be reserved in
advance by contacting our Box Office.
ACCESSWheelchair spaces are available and access to the auditorium, Box Office and bar
is via the alley to the left of the main entrance. Please note that the surface of the
alley is cobbled. There is a doorbell by the ramp if the door is not open.
FACILITIES FOR DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING PATRONS Infra red sound systems are available to amplify sound via a personal headset.
Headsets can be booked in advance from Box Office. Guide dogs and Hearing
Dogs are welcome.
THIS PUBLICATION IS AVAILABLE IN LARGE PRINT BY REQUESTThe Dukes Is Supported By:
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Registered Charity: 50193515
