12 - 19 July

A week-long festival in Leeds of films, talks and events.

Hyde Park Picture House 17th - 24th July

Contents Genre

Reel Film Festival is a celebratory showcase of the best of film. Over the course of this week, a diverse and extensive range of films will be showcased, interspersed with talks and events, all to celebrate the best of what film has to offer.

Drama Page 6

Thriller Page 13

Biopic Page 7

Documentary Page 14

Western Page 8

Action Page 15

Animation Page 9

Adventure Page 16

Horror Page 10

Romance Page 17

Musical Page 11

Comedy Page 18

Sci-Fi Page 12

Fantasy Page 19

Please arrive 20 minutes prior to the indicated start time to ensure a seat. Hyde Park Picture House offer refreshments and snacks which are available to purchase at the front of the cinema.

Friday 17th July The Place Beyond the Pines, The Night of the Living Dead, The Goonies

Tuesday 21st July The Godfather, The Cabin in the Woods, Life of Pi

Saturday 18th July Lincoln, The Sound of Music, The Notebook

Wednesday 22nd July Yankee Doodle Dandy, Les Miserables, Romeo and Juliet

Sunday 19th July Django Unchained, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Imposter, Airplane!

Thursday 23rd July The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Star Trek, Bowling for Columbine, The Hangover

Monday 20th July How to Train your Dragon, Psycho, Taken, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Friday 24th July The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Star Trek, Bowling for Columbine, The Hangover

DRAMA

BIOPIC

The Place Beyond the Pines

Starring Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes, Bradley Cooper, Ray Liotta

Lincoln
Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Tommy Lee Jones

Friday 17th July 10pm - 12am

Its a blue-collar drama-thriller of cops and robbers, fathers and sons; atale of class, fate, biology and destiny, superficially in the manner of Dennis Lehane, and concluding with an explosive coincidence measuring 978 on the Thomas Hardy Richter Scale. Most Hollywood movies stick reassuringly with the one hero, one story, one relationship, kept front andcentre. With some audacity and style, Cianfrance offers us instead a kind of diptych: two panels showing two comparable men. The focusmovesacross from one to the other. We are invited to notice the parallels, but (mostly) given no guidance as to where we make our emotional investment, or what and whom the story is centrally about.

Saturday 18th July 5pm - 7pm

Abraham Lincolns second term, with its momentous choices, has been brought to the screen by Steven Spielberg as a fascinatingly theatrical contest of rhetoric and strategy. It is a nest of high politics for the white ruling class, far from the brutality and chaos of the battlefield. At its centre is a gaunt Shakespearian figure, somewhere between Caesar and Prospero. Spielberg has made a moving and honourably high-minded film about this world-changing moment of American history, his best for many years: I cant imagine anyone not wanting to see it, and to experience the pleasures of something acted with such intelligence and depth.

The Godfather
Starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Starring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston

Tuesday 21st July 6pm - 8pm

Its a blue-collar drama-thriller of cops and robbers, fathers and sons; atale of class, fate, biology and destiny, superficially in the manner of Dennis Lehane, and concluding with an explosive coincidence measuring 978 on the Thomas Hardy Richter Scale. Most Hollywood movies stick reassuringly with the one hero, one story, one relationship, kept front andcentre. With some audacity and style, Cianfrance offers us instead a kind of diptych: two panels showing two comparable men. The focusmovesacross from one to the other. We are invited to notice the parallels, but (mostly) given no guidance as to where we make our emotional investment, or what and whom the story is centrally about.

Wednesday 22nd July 6pm -8pm

There is a story that James Cagney stood on his toes while acting, believing he would project more energy that way. That sounds like a press release, but whatever he did, Cagney came across as one of the most dynamic performers in movie history--a short man with ordinary looks whose coiled tension made him the focus of every scene. Hes best known for the gangster roles he played in the 1930s, a decade when he averaged almost four films a year for Warner Bros. From Public Enemy (1931, with its famous grapefruit-in-the-face scene) to The Roaring Twenties (1939), he was Hollywoods leading crime star--even at the studio that also had Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart under contract. But he didnt win his Oscar until 1942, when he played Broadway showman George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy.

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ANIMATION

Django Unchained
Starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington

How to Train Your Dragon

Voices Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel

Sunday 19th July 9pm - 11pm

Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django Unchained stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago. Django and Schultzs search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), the proprietor of "Candyland," an infamous plantation. Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), Candies trusted house slave

Monday 20th July 12pm - 2pm

The son of a Viking chief must capture a dragon in order to mark his passage into manhood and prove his worthiness to the tribe in directors Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois adaptation of Cressida Cowells popular childrens book. Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse provide voices for the DreamWorks Animation production

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Starring Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett

Bambi
Voices Hardie Albright, Stan Alexander, Bobette Audrey

Thursday 23rd July 6pm - 8pm

John Hustons 1948 treasure-hunt classic begins as drifter Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart), down and out in Tampico, Mexico, impulsively spends his last bit of dough on a lottery ticket. Later on, Dobbs and fellow indigent Curtin (Tim Holt) seek shelter in a cheap flophouse and meet Howard (Walter Huston), a toothless, garrulous old coot who regales them with stories about prospecting for gold. Forcibly collecting their pay from their shifty boss, Dobbs and Curtin combine this money with Dobbss unexpected windfall from a lottery ticket and, together with Howard, buy the tools for a prospecting expedition. Dobbs has pledged that anything they dig up will be split three ways, but Howard, whos heard that song before, doesnt quite swallow this.

Friday 24th July 12am - 2pm

The classic Felix Salter story Bambi provides the basis for this near-perfect Disney animated feature. We follow the male deer Bambi from birth, through his early childhood experiences with woodland pals Thumper the rabbit and Flower the skunk, the traumatic sudden death of Bambis mother at the hands of hunters, his courtship of the lovely doe Faline, and his rescue of his friends during a raging forest fire; we last see the mature, antlered Bambi assuming his proper place as the Prince of the Forest. In the grand Disney tradition, Bambi is brimming with unforgettable sequences, notably the young deers attempts to negotiate an iced-over pond, and most especially the death of Bambis mother--and if this moment doesnt move you to tears, youre made of stone (many subsequent Disney films, including Lion King, have tried, most in vain, to match the horror and pathos of this one scene).

HORROR

MUSICAL

Cabin in the Woods

Starring Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison

Les Miserables
Starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried

Tuesday 21st July 9pm - 11pm

Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard team up for this bloody horror satire that offers an inventive twist on the familiar stranded-in-the-woods sub-genre. As five friends pile into an RV bound for a secluded cabin far from civilization, the operators of a mysterious, high-tech control room monitor their every move while preparing an arcane ritual that dates back to the beginning of time. Shortly after arriving at the rickety cottage, Dana (Kristen Connolly) and her friends venture into the basement and discover a little girls diary from the early 1900s which recounts a series of horrifying events that unfolded precisely where the vacationing teens how stand. Before long, the nightmare comes knocking at the door murder gleaming from its putrid eyes and a rusty saw clenched in rotting hands.

Wednesday 22nd July 12pm - 2pm

Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, Les Miserables travels with prisoner-on-parole, 24601, Jean Valjean, as he runs from the ruthless Inspector Javert on a journey beyond the barricades, at the center of the June Rebellion. Meanwhile, the life of a working class girl with a child is at turning point as she turns to prostitution to pay money to the evil innkeeper and his wife who look after her child, Cosette. Valjean promises to take care of the child, eventually leads to a love triangle between Cosette, Marius who is a student of the rebellion, and Eponine, a girl of the streets. The people sing of their anger and Enjolras leads the students to fight upon the barricades.

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Starring Duane Jones, Judith ODea, Karl Hardman

The Sound of Music

Starring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker

Friday 17th July 7pm - 9pm

Chaos descends upon the world as the brains of the recently deceased become inexplicably reanimated, causing the dead to rise and feed on human flesh. Speculation rests on a radiation-covered NASA satellite returning from Venus, but it only remains a speculation. Anyone who dies during the crisis of causes unrelated to brain trauma will return as a flesh-eating zombie, including anyone who has been bitten by a zombie. The only way to destroy the zombies is to destroy the brain. As the catastrophe unfolds, a young woman visiting her fathers grave takes refuge in a nearby farmhouse, where she is met by a man who protects her and barricades them inside. They both later discover people hiding in the basement, and they each attempt to cope with the situation. When they finally put their plans into action, panic and personal tensions only add to the terror as they try to survive.

Saturday 18th July 12am - 2pm

Captain Baron von Trapp is a widowed ex-naval officer with seven children who serve only to remind him of his deceased wife. The Von Trapp home is thus turned into a gloomy place of order and discipline, until the arrival of a new governess: Frauline Marie who is from a nearby Salzburg abbey. Marie shows the Von Trapp children the miracle of the Sound of Music, and teaches them how to sing. Captain von Trapps heart opens up to feelings he had forgotten and he and Marie fall in love. Marie and Georg von Trapp are married, only to have their world brought down around them by the 1938 Anschluss of Austria, where Nazi Germany takes control of the country and demands that Captain von Trapp assume a position in the German Navy.

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SCI-FI

THRILLER

Star Trek Into Darkness

Starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Benedict Cumberbatch

Shutter Island
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams

Thursday 23rd July 1pm - 3pm

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

Friday 24th July 3pm - 5pm

Its 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Bostons Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. Hes been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasnt been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddys shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester

Psycho
Voices Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Janet Leigh

Sunday 19th July 6pm - 8pm

When a large black monolith is found beneath the surface of the moon, the reaction immediately is that it was intentionally buried. When the point of origin is confirmed as Jupiter, an expedition is sent in hopes of finding the source. When Dr. David Bowman discovers faults in the expeditionary spacecrafts communications system, he discovers more than he ever wanted to know.

Monday 20th July 3pm - 5pm

Phoenix office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sams California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.

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DOCUMENTARY

ACTION

The Imposter
Starring Adam OBrian, Anna Ruben, Cathy Dresbach

Taken
Starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Famke Janssen

Sunday 19th July 1pm - 3pm

Nicholas was 13 the day he disappeared (June 13, 1994). He would have been 16 and 8 months when he was reported found in Spain (October 7, 1997)... In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappears without a trace from San Antonio, Texas. Three and a half years later he is found alive, thousands of miles away in a village in southern Spain with a story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems. The boy bears many of the same distinguishing marks he always had, but why does he now have a strange accent? Why does he look so different? And why doesnt the family seem to notice these glaring inconsistencies? Its only when an investigator starts asking questions that this strange tale takes an even stranger turn.

Monday 20th July 9pm - 11pm

After reluctantly agreeing to let his 17-year-old daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace), go to France with her best friend, Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) is horrified to hear that she is kidnapped by an Albanian gang whose speciality is prostitution rings. With only 96 hours to go before hell never find her again, Bryan rushes to France to save her. As a former CIA agent, he has all the skills necessary to rescue her - if he can only find her.

Bowling for Columbine

Starring Michael Moore, Salvador Allende, Charlton Heston

Die Hard
Voices Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia

Thursday 23rd July 4pm - 6pm

The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humour, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so, he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns, violent national history, violent entertainment and even poverty are inadequate to explain this violence when other cultures share those same factors without the equivalent carnage. In order to arrive at a possible explanation, Michael Moore takes on a deeper examination of Americas culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership. Furthermore, he seeks to investigate and confront the powerful elite political and corporate interests fanning this culture for their own unscrupulous gain.

Friday 24th July 6pm - 8pm

Its Christmas time in L.A., and theres an employee party in progress on the 30th floor of the Nakatomi Corporation building. The revelry comes to a violent end when the partygoers are taken hostage by a group of terrorists who plan to steal the 600 million dollars locked in Nakatomis high-tech safe. In truth, Gruber and his henchmen are only pretending to be politically motivated to throw the authorities off track; also in truth, Gruber has no intention of allowing anyone to get out of the building alive. Meanwhile, New York cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) has come to L.A. to visit his estranged wife, Holly (Bonnie Bedelia), who happens to be one of the hostages. Disregarding the orders of the authorities surrounding the building, McClane, who fears nothing (except heights), takes on the villains, armed with one handgun and plenty of chutzpah.

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ADVENTURE

ROMANCE

Life of Pi
Starring Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khanl, Tabu, Rafe Spall

Romeo and Juliet

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo

Tuesday 21st July 1pm - 3pm

In Canada, a writer visits the Indian storyteller Pi Patel and asks him to tell his life story. Pi tells the story of his childhood in Pondicherry, India, and the origin of his nickname. One day, his father, a zoo owner, explains that the municipality is no longer supporting the zoo and he has hence decided to move to Canada, where the animals the family owns would also be sold. They board on a Japanese cargo ship with the animals and out of the blue, there is a storm, followed by a shipwrecking. Pi survives in a lifeboat with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a male Bengal tiger nicknamed Richard Parker. They are adrift in the Pacific Ocean, with aggressive hyena and Rickard Parker getting hungry. Pi needs to find a way to survive.

Wednesday 22nd July 8pm - 10pm

The classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy is updated by director Baz Luhrmann to a post-modern Verona Beach where swords are merely a brand of gun and bored youths are easily spurred toward violence. Longtime rivals in religion and business, the Montagues and the Capulets share a page from the Jets and Sharks of West Side Story when they form rival gangs. Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio) is aloof toward the goings-on of his Montague cousins, but after he realizes that Juliet (Claire Danes) is a Capulet at the end of one very wild party, the enmity between the two clans becomes the root of his angst.

The Goonies
Starring Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman

The Notebook
Starring Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, Gena Rowlands

Friday 17th July 11am - 1pm

Leonard Maltin wasnt alone when he noticed similarities between Goonies and the 1934 Our Gang comedy Mamas Little Pirate. Adapted by Chris Columbus from a story by Steven Spielberg, the film follows a group of misfit kids (including such second-generation Hollywoodites as Josh Brolin and Sean Astin) as they search for buried treasure in a subterranean cavern. Here they cross the path of lady criminal Mama Fratelli (Anne Ramsey) and her outlaw brood. Fortunately, the kids manage to befriend Fratellis hideously deformed (but soft-hearted) son (John Matuszak), who comes to their rescue. The Spielberg influence is most pronounced in the films prologue and epilogue, when the viewer is advised that the films real villains are a group of "Evil Land Developers."

Saturday 18th July 3pm - 5pm

Directed by Nick Cassavetes, this adaptation of author Nicholas Sparks bestselling novel revolves around Noah Calhouns (James Garner) regular visits to a female patron (Gena Rowlands) of an area nursing home. Rather than bore her with the inanities of everyday life, Calhoun reads from an old, faded notebook containing the sweeping account of a young couple (Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams) whose love affair was tragically put to a halt after their separation in the midst of World War II. Seven years later, the couple was reunited, and, despite having taken radically different paths, they found themselves unable to resist the call of a second chance. The Notebook also features Joan Allen, Sam Shepard, and Kevin Connolly

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COMEDY

FANTASY

The Hangover
Starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha

Pans Labyrinth
Starring Ivana Baquero, Sergi Lpez, Maribel Verd

Thursday 23rd July 9pm - 11pm

Two days before his wedding with the wealthy Tracy Garner, Doug Billings travels to his bachelor party in Las Vegas with his best friends, the school teacher Phil Wenneck and the dentist Stu Price, and Tracys unconventional brother Alan Garner. Tracys father lends his convertible Mercedez Benz that is his pride and joy to Doug with many recommendations. The quartet rents the best suite in the Caesars Palace and they go to the roof to celebrate. Alan proposes a toast to Doug and they drink his booze. On the next morning, Phil, Stu and Alan have a hangover and they do not recall what they did last night; the room is upside down; Doug is missing; there is a baby in the wardrobe; a tiger in the bedroom; a chicken in the room; Stu has a missing tooth; and Doug is missing. The trio tries to track down last night to find what happened.

Friday 24th July 9pm - 11pm

In 1944 fascist Spain, a girl, fascinated with fairy-tales, is sent along with her pregnant mother to live with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old faun in the center of the labyrinth. He tells her shes a princess, but must prove her royalty by surviving three gruesome tasks. If she fails, she will never prove herself to be the true princess and will never see her real father, the king, again.

Airplane!
Starring Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Julie Hagerty, Robert Hays, Leslie Nielsen

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Starring Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum

Sunday 19th July 10am - 12pm

This spoof of the Airport series of disaster movies relies on ridiculous sight gags, groan-inducing dialogue, and deadpan acting -- a comedy style that would be imitated for the next 20 years. Airplane! pulls out all the clichs as alcoholic pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays), whos developed a fear of flying due to wartime trauma, boards a jumbo jet in an attempt to woo back his stewardess girlfriend (Julie Hagerty). Food poisoning decimates the passengers and crew, leaving it up to Striker to land the plane, with the help of a glue-sniffing air traffic controller (Lloyd Bridges) and Strikers vengeful former captain (Robert Stack), who must both talk him down. Along the way, we meet a clutch of stock disaster movie passengers like the guitar-strumming nun, a sick little girl, a frightened old lady, and two African-American travellers whose "jive" has to be subtitled.

Monday 20th July 6pm - 8pm

The world is astounded when Willy Wonka, for years a recluse in his factory, announces that five lucky people will be given a tour of the factory, shown all the secrets of his amazing candy, and one will win a lifetime supply of Wonka chocolate. Nobody wants the prize more than young Charlie, but as his family is so poor that buying even one bar of chocolate is a treat, buying enough bars to find one of the five golden tickets is unlikely in the extreme. But in movieland, magic can happen. Charlie, along with four somewhat odious other children, get the chance of a lifetime and a tour of the factory. Along the way, mild disasters befall each of the odious children, but can Charlie beat the odds and grab the brass ring?

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