Tuesday 10 January
9.30 - 12.00

War Horse (12a)

Director: Steven Spielberg. Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, Davis Thewlis, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Marsan, Peter Mullan.
USA/India 2011. 146 mins.

Based on Michael Morpurgo’s book, WAR HORSE follows the remarkable friendship between a wild steed, Joey, and the young man, Albert who trains him. Joey is sold to the British Cavalry and shipped to the frontline during the First World War. Albert then sets off on a perilous mission to bring him home.

BOOKINGS: Film Education 020 7292 736

Thursday 12 January
10.00 - 12.30

Writing a Screenplay

An Introduction for Students

This presentation, led by EON screenwriter Rick Harvey, will explore writing a narrative for the screen, key components of a screenplay, such as THEME, CHARACTER, STORY / PLOT, STRUCTURE / FORM and DIALOGUE, and how to generate ideas and develop them from PREMISE through to FINAL DRAFT. Participants will also be encouraged to generate and test their ideas for short screenplays / sequences.

Cost: £4.00 (accompanying teachers free)

BOOKINGS: 01223 579127 trish.s@picturehouses.co.uk

24 January - 27 March, Tuesdays
6.00 - 8.00, 10wks

Into Film 1:

An Introduction to

Understanding Film

Cinema Paradiso, The Lodger, Sunrise, Psycho, The Maltese Falcon, Billy Elliot, I Know Where I’m Going, Goodfellas, The Red Shoes.

Start 2012 with this ever-popular, relaxed and informative course on exploring how to read film as a distinct contemporary art form. Watch a range of film clips to explore the history of silent and sound cinema, film editing patterns, construction of film narrative, avant-garde practices and the adaptation of literature to screen. Watch full-length films and participate in post-screening discussions.

"I started to look at films in a completely different way. Not just... enjoying the story, but noticing how it is all put together..."
Comment from previous courses

Cost: £95; Members £90; Concs £75 (includes two cinema screenings and a comprehensive study pack).

BOOKINGS: 0871 902 5720 / www.picturehouses.co.uk

26 January - 22 March, Thursdays
6.00 - 8.00, 9wks

How To Write An Industry-Standard

Feature Screenplay

This new course led by professional screenwriter Rick Harvey is for beginners with no experience of screenwriting, or scriptwriters who would like inspiration on how to develop unshaped material. With sessions on theme, genre, character, form, plot and story, the course will focus on the tools of the trade and basic structural principles. With recent UK fi lms such as AN EDUCATION, THE KING’S SPEECH and CONTROL to illustrate good practice, a free screening at the cinema, teaching, discussions and practical exercises, participants will be encouraged to produce a 6-10 page treatment for workshopping at the end of the course.

"Very practical and encouraging, well-structured, teacher knowledgable about the business, a great starting point"
Workshop Feedback Word Fest 2011

Tutor: Rick Harvey, screenwriter for EON Studios (Bond films) and part-time lecturer in screenwriting, Anglia Ruskin University.
Cost: £120; Members £115; Conc. £100 (includes a cinema screening and a comprehensive study pack).

BOOKINGS: 0871 902 5720 / www.picturehouses.co.uk

Friday 27 January
9.30 - 1.00

Holocaust Memorial

Day 2012:

Stand Up, Speak Out

 

Defiance (15)

Director: Edward Zwick. Starring: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell.
USA 2008. 137 mins.

Tulvia Bielski (Craig) and his Jewish brothers escape into the Polish forests to fl ee the Nazis. Joined by Russian resistance fighters, they take refugees under their protection and leadership. But their struggles raise important questions about the price paid for vengeance and resistance.

 

Introduction and discussion with Dr Sean Lang (Anglia Ruskin University).
Cost: £1.00 (accompanying teachers free).
A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium event in association with Keystage Company and Cambridge City Council’s Holocaust Memorial Day Steering Committee.

BOOKINGS: 01223 579127 / trish.s@picturehouses.co.uk

1 February - 26 March, Mondays
6.00 - 8.00, 8 wks

Hollywood Europeans

The Shop Around the Corner; Sunset Boulevard; French Cancan; An American in Paris; Chinatown

Explore the long and rich influence of Europe and Europeans on Hollywood filmmaking, from the heyday of the studio system to the present day. As well as looking at many of the key European directors who brought their distinctive styles to American cinema, the course will also focus on those other artists – actors and screenwriters, composers and designers – who left their mark on many well-known movies.

"...gained a new insight in some cinema topics I wasn’t familiar with."
Comment from previous courses

Tutor: Dr Neil Archer, Anglia Ruskin University.
Cost: £80; Members £75; Concs £60 (includes comprehensive study pack).

BOOKINGS: 0871 902 5720 / www.picturehouses.co.uk

Tuesday 7 February
9.00 - 1.00

Censorship, Film

And The BBFC

Who really banned ‘A Clockwork Orange’? Why did audiences live in fear of ‘Snow White’? And just what made Austin Powers a hate fi gure for so many people? Explore the work of the British Board of Film Classification with BBFC Education Offi cer James Blatch in this interactive workshop event for Media and Film Studies students. By watching challenging fi lm clips, students will be encouraged to discuss the issues involved.


Check out the BBFC’s student website: www.sbbfc.co.uk

A Clockwork Orange (18)

Director: Stanley Kubrick. Writers: Stanley Kubrick and Antony Burgess. Starring: Malcom McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates.
UK 1971. 136 mins

This highly controversial film is set in a futuristic Britain where charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed. He volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society’s crime problem... but not all goes to plan.

Cost: £3.50 (accompanying teachers free).

BOOKINGS: 01223 579127 / trish.s@picturehouses.co.uk

Thursday 9 February
9.00 - 11.45

Little Caesar (PG)

Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Screenwriters: Francis Edward Farogah, Robert N.Lee, Robert Lord, Darryl F Zanuck (uncredited). Novel: W.R Burnett.
Starring: Edward G Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell.
USA 1931. 79 mins

In this Warner Bros. pre-Code crime film set during the 1920’s American Depression, ambitious small-time criminals Rico Bandello and Joe Massara move to Chicago where Joe finds love and Rico changes his name to Little Caesar as he becomes a gangster’s ruthless leader. A murder during a night-club robbery causes split loyalties and deadly decisions between the friends. Introduction and post screen discussion on 1920’s depression and the rise of the gangster film.

Suitable for GCSE/A/AS/Undergraduate History/Film Media studies
Cost: £3.50 (accompanying teachers free)

BOOKINGS: 01223 579127 / trish.s@picturehouses.co.uk

Wednesday 22 February
1.00 - 2.15

The Miners' Hymns

Director: Bill Morrison

The Miners’ Hymns celebrates the sense of vibrant community, rich, self-organised culture and the forbearance that characterised the dangerous lives of those who worked underground, and the places in which they lived, whilst marking the demise of the mining industry not only as the end of a way of life, but as the last gasp of the Industrial Revolution. Offering a timely reminder of how we used to live and work in Britain’s industrial age, the music provides an elegiac and atmospheric soundtrack to Morrison’s cinematic images.

A Bfi Mediatheque on Tour event

BOOKINGS: 0871 902 5720 / www.picturehouses.co.uk

10, 11,17, 19 & 24 March*
11.00 - 4.00

Jump Cuts

DOC/SHOOT/EDIT

Calling young filmmakers aged 14 to 18! Interested in learning more about documentary filmmaking? Jump Cuts is a film club aimed to train you to plan, shoot, and edit films. Then watch your films on the big screen at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse.

Tutor: Ryd Cook. Cost: £85. Max 12 places. Ages 14-18 yrs.*Includes film screening on Sat 25 Mar, 10.30.

BOOKINGS: 0871 902 5720 / www.picturehouses.co.uk

Tuesday 13 March
9.00 - 1.00

Events for

Schools and Colleges

Vertigo (PG)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes.
USA 1958. 128 mins

Classic cinema and a Hitchcock masterpiece, VERTIGO follows John ‘Scottie’ Ferguson (James Stewart), a retired and acrophobic detective, as he is hired to follow his friend’s beautiful wife, Madeleine (Kim Novak). Will Scottie be able to determine the cause of Madeleine’s odd behaviour?

Introduction: Dr Tim Dalgleish on the neuroscience and psychology of phobia. Plus presentation on "Hitchcock as Filmmaker". Suitable for GCSE/A/AS/Undergraduate Film/Media studies. Cost: £3.50 (accompanying teachers free).

SCHOOL/COLLEGES: 01223 579127 / trish.s@picturehouses.co.uk
GENERAL PUBLIC: 0871 902 5720 / www.picturehouses.co.uk

Thursday 15 March
10.00 - 12.00

National Science &

Engineering Week

Dayglo

Learning and Participation, invites you to its highly acclaimed Theatre of Debate production, which looks at the debate around the ethical questions posed by advances in neuroscience and the future of brain research. It provides schools with a tried and tested resource specially designed to support the achievement of attainment targets outlined in Key Stage 3 and 4 in Science, English, Drama, Citizenship, PSHE and RS and is supported by online resources available at: www.theatreofdebate.com.

Cost: £2.50.

BOOKINGS: 0871 902 5720 / www.picturehouses.co.uk

Thursday 15 March
6.00

Black Swan (15)

Director: Darren Aronofsky. Starring: Nathalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel.
USA 2010. 108 min

Natalie Portman plays Nina Sayers, a talented ballerina who pushes herself into dangerous physical and mental territory with a quest for balletic perfection. Black Swan portrays the fine line between intense discipline and psycho obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) inspired eating disorders

Introduction: Dr. Sigal Spigel on the complex causes of anorexia

BOOKINGS: 0871 902 5720 / www.picturehouses.co.uk

Saturday 17 March & Sunday 18 March
9.30 - 4.30

Film Noir Weekend

Study film noirs of the Forties such as The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity with their Expressionist stylistics, low-key lighting, alienated anti-heroes and seductive femme fatales. Look also at contemporary neo-noirs such as Blade Runner, Kill Me Again and Croupier.
Join us for a relaxed and informal course.

Tutor: Trish Sheil. Cost: £80; Members £75; Concs £60 (includes comprehensive study pack, complimentary tea/coffee on arrival each day and discounted food in the Arts Picturehouse café bar).
Also includes FREE screening of CROUPIER on 18 March at 2.30 - see previous page.

BOOKINGS: 0871 902 5720 / www.picturehouses.co.uk

Sunday 17 March
2.30

Croupier (15)

Director: Mike Hodges. Starring: Clive Owen, Nick Reding and Nicholas Ball.
France/UK 1999. 94 mins.

Jack Mansfield (Clive Owen) is an aspiring writer who takes a job as a croupier to make ends meet. As the job begins to take over his life, Jack realises that he may have found the subject of his novel

Introductions: Dr Luke Clark on the science behind pathological gambling; Trish Sheil on Croupier as a British Neo-Noir film.

BOOKINGS: 0871 902 5720 / www.picturehouses.co.uk

A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium event at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse in association with the Cambridgeshire branch of the British Science Association and Psy-Fi and is part of the 2012 Science Festival. Usual Box Office prices apply.

Wednesday 21 March
1.00 - 2.15

The Fens (1935-1965)

A Lost Way of Life

Enjoy scenes of old Fen life and see how the face of East Anglia’s landscape, farming and traditional skills changed between 1935 and 1965. These films from the collection of the East Anglian Film Archive show the life of the farmer and the skills of fl int mining and knapping, mole-trapping, sowing, ploughing, ditch clearing and drainage of the Fens.

An East Anglian Film Archive event.

BOOKINGS: Arts Picturehouse 0871 902 5720

10 - 13 April*
9.00 - 12.00

Short Cuts

Easter Holiday Film Shoot: Adventures in the 8th Dimension

Using cameras and microphones, experiment with green screen and act from a script as you join time-travelers, Dr. Versachi Hetachi and his assistant, on their intrepid adventures in the 8th Dimension. Who or what will you meet along the way? Find out when you watch your fi lms on the big screen at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse.

Tutor: Ryd Cook. Cost: £60. Max 12 places. Ages 10-13 yrs. *Includes film screening on Mon 23 Apr, 6.00 (time tbc)

BOOKINGS: 0871 902 5720 / www.picturehouses.co.uk

Tuesday 17 April
6.00pm

RMS "Titanic Evening"

PRESENTED BY THE CAMBRIDGE BRANCH OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

A Night to Remember (U)

Director: Roy Ward Baker. Starring: Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres.
123 mins. UK 1958

Based on the best-selling book by Walter Lord, this docudrama, generally considered to be the most accurate, recounts the fi nal night of the RMS Titanic through the point of view of her passengers and crew, principally Second Offi cer Charles Lightoller (Kenneth More)

 

Introduction on ‘Film and the Titanic”: Dr. Rohan McWilliam (Senior Lecturer Dept of History, Anglia Ruskin University).

BOOKINGS: 0871 902 5720 / www.picturehouses.co.uk

Wednesday 18 April
1.00 - 2.00

Fish & Clips

Be it the herring fleets setting sail from Great Yarmouth or the French cod ships from Fécamp bound for the icy waters of Newfoundland, the rivers, estuaries and coastal waters of East Anglia and Upper Normandy have been the focus of many films charting our progress over the last century. Fish & Clips is a charming collection of amateur and professional archive films showing life in our busy harbours and tranquil waterways from the 1920’s to the 60’s.
A Norwich HEART event.

 

BOOKINGS: Arts Picturehouse 0871 902 5720