The Oscar season coming up at the Rye Kino from Friday March 4 includes:
Winner of 3 Oscars, 5 BAFTAs and 3 Golden Globes including Best Actor and Best Director – The Revenant [15] 156 mins  In an expedition of the uncharted American wilderness, legendary explorer Hugh Glass is brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead. Guided by sheer will and the love of his family, Glass must navigate a vicious winter in a relentless pursuit to live and find redemption. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Paul Anderson and Lukas Haas.
Nominated for three Oscars and winner of the Outstanding British Film BAFTA award – Brooklyn [12A] 112 mins. The profoundly moving story of Eilis Lacey, a young Irish immigrant navigating her way through 1950s Brooklyn. Lured by the promise of America, Eilis departs Ireland and the comfort of her mother’s home for the shores of New York City. The initial shackles of homesickness quickly diminish as a fresh romance sweeps Eilis into the intoxicating charm of love. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Jim Broadbent and Julie Walters.
Nominated for six Oscars including Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards – Carol [15] 119 mins. Set in 1950s New York, a young woman working in a department store falls for an older woman trapped in a loveless but convenient marriage. What follows is a beautiful love story with complicated consequences. Based on the novella by Patricia Highsmith, this highly-acclaimed film stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara with Sarah Paulson and Kyle Chandler.
Nominated for four Oscars including Best Actor and Best Actress – The Danish Girl [15] 120 mins The remarkable love story inspired by the lives of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener (portrayed by Golden Globe nominees Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander), who’s marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili’s ground-breaking journey as a transgender pioneer. Directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech, Les Misérables).
Nominated for six Oscars and winner of the Best Supporting Actor BAFTA award for Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies [12A] 141 mins A dramatic thriller set against the backdrop of a series of historic events, James Donovan is a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the centre of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot. Directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Matt Charman and Ethan and Joel Coen and starring Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Scott Shepherd, Sebastian Koch, Alan Alda and Amy Ryan.
Nominated for five Oscars and winner of the Best Special Visual Effects BAFTA and EE Rising Star Award for John Boyega – Star Wars: the Force Awakens (3D) [12A] 135 mins The eagerly anticipated continuation of the epic saga created by George Lucas. Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers. Directed by JJ Abrams and starring the original cast of Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher with Domhnall Gleeson, Adam Driver, Andy Serkis and Lupita Nyong’o.
Nominated for three BAFTAs and three Oscars including Best Original Score – The Hateful Eight [18] 168 mins Set a few years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. As the storm escalates, our eight travellers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all. Directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason, Tim Roth, Bruce Dern and Channing Tatum, with a score by Ennio Morricone.
Nominated for four Oscars and winner of the Best Actress BAFTA award for Brie Larson – Room [15] 118 mins  This film is an unparalleled celebration of the bond between parent and child. Ma has created a whole universe in ‘Room’ for five year old Jack, where they have both lived for Jack’s whole life. But when Ma decides they have to escape, she risks everything. Based on the best-selling book by Emma Donoghue, directed by Lenny Abrahamson and starring Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen and William H. Macy.
Nominated for two Oscars and winner of the Golden Globes and BAFTA Best Supporting Actress Awards for Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs [15] 122 mins. Michael Fassbender gives an electrifying performance as the legendary Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Set backstage at three iconic product launches, director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorking (The Social Network, The West Wing) take us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicentre.
Nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for Bryan Cranston – Trumbo [15] 124 mins In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood’s top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs. Trumbo recounts how Dalton used words and wit to win two Academy Awards and expose the absurdity and injustice of the blacklist, which entangled everyone from gossip columnist Hedda Hopper to John Wayne, Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger. Directed by Jay Roach and starring Bryan Cranston, Helen Mirren, Diane Lane, Elle Fanning and John Goodman.
Nominated for six Oscars and winner of the Best Original Screenplay BAFTA – Spotlight [15] 129 mins  Spotlight tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world’s oldest and most trusted institutions. Directed by Academy Award-nominee Tom McCarthy, Spotlight is a tense investigative thriller, tracing the steps to one of the biggest cover-ups in modern times. Starring Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Stanley Tucci, Liev Schreiber and Brian d’Arcy James.
Also at the Rye Kino from Friday March 4:
A Bigger Splash [15] 124 mins Rock legend Marianne Lane is recuperating on the volcanic island of Pantelleria with her partner Paul when iconoclast record producer and old flame Harry unexpectedly arrives with his daughter Penelope and interrupts their holiday, bringing with him an A-bomb blast of nostalgia from which there can be no rescue. Directed by Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love) and starring Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts and Dakota Johnson
The Finest Hours (2D) & (3D) [12A] 117 mins  In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel. Directed by Craig Gillespie and starring Chris Pine, Holliday Grainger, Eric Bana, Ben Foster, Casey Affleck, Graham McTavish, Rachel Brosnahan, John Magaro and Matthew Maher.
Chronic [15] 93 mins  Michel Franco’s Cannes Best Screenplay winning drama starring Oscar nominee Tim Roth (The Hateful Eight, Selma). David is a British nurse who works with terminally ill patients in Los Angeles. Efficient and dedicated, he develops strong and intimate relationships with each person he cares for. But outside of his work, David is struggling with an ongoing burden of guilt and remorse. As the weight becomes unbearable, David must face his past in order to heal. Chronic is an enigmatic and deeply moving character study. Poignant and reflective, but also unsentimental and challenging in its intriguing moral dimensions, it features a career-best performance from Roth as a man at the end of his emotional tether.
Bone Tomahawk [18] 132 mins  When a group of cannibal savages kidnaps settlers from the small town of Bright Hope, an unlikely team of gunslingers, led by Sheriff Franklin Hunt, sets out to bring them home. But their enemy is more ruthless than anyone could have imagined, putting their mission – and survival itself – in serious jeopardy. This is a gritty action-packed thriller chronicling a terrifying rescue mission in the Old West starring Kurt Russell, Lili Simmons, Richard Jenkins, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox and David Arquette.
Kids Club
Capture the Flag (2D) [PG] 94 mins  Inspired by the 1960s space race, 12-year-old Mike rallies his friends, his grandfather and a small lizard with delusions of Godzilla-like grandeur and travels to the moon to stop a billionaire from exploiting the clean energy of the future.
Special events at Rye Kino to look forward to include:
Boris Godunov LIVE: Monday March 21 at 7:15pm Richard Jones and Antonio Pappano renew their creative collaboration with this new production of Musorgsky’s historical masterpiece, here seen in its compact 1869 first version in seven scenes. The composer’s vision of Pushkin’s play about Tsar Boris Godunov – who reigned over Russia between 1598 and 1605 – sees Bryn Terfel’s assumption of the title role – one of the most complex characters in opera – while John Graham-Hall appears as the crafty Prince Shuisky and John Tomlinson as the vagabond monk Varlaam.
The Railway Children Easter Bank Holiday Monday March 28 at 4pm Filmed at the National Railway Museum in Yorkshire, this is York Theatre Royal’s Olivier award-winning production of E Nesbit’s classic family drama featuring the original locomotive from the much-loved 1970 film. Bobbie, Peter and Phyllis are three children whose lives change dramatically when their father is mysteriously taken away. They move from London to a cottage in rural Yorkshire with their mother, where they befriend the local railway porter, Perks, and embark on a magical journey of discovery, friendship and adventure. But the mystery remains – where is Father, and is he ever coming back? – Booking at Rye Kino from 11am Friday February 26 Running time approximately 125 minutes including a 15 minute interval.
Giselle LIVE BALLET: Wednesday April 6 at 7:15pm Giselle is the quintessential Romantic classic, a love affair that begins in the real world and continues beyond the grave. The ballet’s title role also offers one of the great challenges of the ballet repertory, as Giselle transforms from an innocent peasant girl, duped into love, to a forgiving spirit who saves her lover from death. For the ballerina this is a role of two contrasting halves: in Act I she must appear naïve and artless, her dancing alive with an earthy enthusiasm; in Act II she transforms into light and air, her dancing so ethereal as to seem weightless. In Peter Wright’s production, the dual aspect of the ballet is perfectly achieved: the first act dramatized in rich, naturalistic detail and the second with a spectral, moonlit beauty. Starring Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov. Composed by Adolphe Adam, revised by Joseph Horovitz and choreographed by Marius Petipa after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot
Please note that Kino member free tickets cannot be used for Live, NT, RSC, opera, ballet or special events
More details of upcoming features are available from the Kino and Rye Community Centre Film Club websites.