CINEMA COMPETITION

Coinciding with our Ryan Gosling double bill on 16 June, you can win one of three copies of Half Nelson on DVD, kindly offered by Axiom Films. To stand a chance to win, answer the following question:

What is a 'half Nelson'?

A) A tank top for men fashionable in the 1930s
B) A knot used in shipping
C) A wrestling move
D) A Canadian colloquialism meaning 'double pint'

Please send your answer with your name and a contact phone number to JohannaDamm@riversidestudios.co.uk by Wed 21 May, 5pm.

Wednesdays throughout May and June Bette Davis Centenary Tour A Bette Davis Centenary Tour with eleven of her most memorable dramas to coincide with the centenary of her birth on 5 April 2008.

Wednesdays 18 and 25 June DocHouse presents Pawel Pawlikowski DocHouse presents a major retrospective of Pawel Pawlikowski’s earlier ground breaking documentaries.

Friday 20 to Sunday 22 June Irish Film Season 2008 A celebration of some of the very best new and classic feature films, documentaries and short films.

Thursday 26 to Sunday 29 June Contemporary Croatian Cinema In this selection recent Croatian films, we see a critical approach to some social aspects of contemporary life in Croatia.

Thu 15 May Ang Lee Double Bill: Brokeback Mountain (15) 5.45pm Based on the Annie Proulx short story about a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys and their lives over the years.

Lust, Caution (18) 8.20pm An espionage thriller set in WWII Shanghai where a young woman gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure.

Fri 16 May Ryan Gosling Double Bill: Half Nelson (15) 6.40pm A young high school teacher's inspired brilliance in the classroom conflicts with a serious drug habit outside of it.

Lars and the Real Girl (12A) 8.45pm Lars finally brings the girl of his dreams to his brother and sister-in-law’s home. The only problem is that she’s not real – she's a sex doll.

Sat 17 May Special Multiple Screening: Ryan Gosling Double Bill: Half Nelson (15) 2.25pm and 6.40pm A young high school teacher's inspired brilliance in the classroom conflicts with a serious drug habit outside of it.

Lars and the Real Girl (12A) 4.30pm and 8.45pm Lars finally brings the girl of his dreams to his brother and sister-in-law’s home. The only problem is that she’s not real – she's a sex doll.

Sun 18 May Afternoon - Single Bill: The Saragossa Manuscript (15) 2.30pm In the Napoleonic Wars an officer finds an old book that relates his grandfather’s story of romance, courage and bravery.

Evening - Double Bill: Brick Lane (15) 6.00pm At the age of 17 Nazneen unwillingly marries an older man. Refusing the life that’s been assigned to her she begins an affair.

The Kite Runner (12A) 8.00pm After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.

Mon 19 May Double Bill: War and Peace: Parts 1 and 2 (12) Voina I Mir 6.15pm and 9.00pm Parts 1 and 2 of a unique cinematic experience which is based on Leo Tolstoy’s famous novel.

Tue 20 May Double Bill: War and Peace: Parts 3 and 4 (12) Voina I Mir 7.00pm and 8.50pm Parts 3 and 4 of a unique cinematic experience which is based on Leo Tolstoy’s famous novel.

Wed 21 May Bette Davis Single Bill: The Little Foxes (PG) 6.30pm Davis is in her element as a powerful Southern matriarch who will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

Bette Davis Single Bill: Now, Voyager (PG) 8.45pm A spinster suffers a nervous breakdown. To recover, her psychiatrist recommends she goes on a cruise.

Thu 22 May Viva Tour Single Bill: El Bano del Papa (15) The Pope's Toilet 7.00pm This award-winning, bitter-sweet comedy is a tale of honesty, friendship and family values based on the true events surrounding the Pope’s 1988 visit to a small Uruguayan border town.

Viva Tour Single Bill: Deficit (15) 9.00pm Cristobal is the spoilt son of wealthy parents and their country home is perfect for a hedonistic weekend.

Fri 23 May Double Bill: Pan's Labyrinth (15) 6.30pm A fanciful and chilling story set against the backdrop of a Fascist regime in 1944 rural Spain.

The Orphanage (15) 8.50pm A woman brings her family back to her childhood home where she opens an orphanage for handicapped children.

Sat 24 May Special Multiple Screening Double Bill: Pan's Labyrinth (15) 2.00pm and 6.30pm A fanciful and chilling story set against the backdrop of a Fascist regime in 1944 rural Spain.

The Orphanage (15) 4.20pm and 8.50pm A woman brings her family back to her childhood home where she opens an orphanage for handicapped children.

Sun 25 May Afternoon - Double Bill: Mildred Pierce (PG) 2.00pm A housewife becomes a restaurant owner and becomes involved in a murder case.

The Postman Always Rings Twice (PG) 4.15pm A drifter takes up the ‘man wanted’ position at an out-of-the-way restaurant/gas station.

Evening - Double Bill: What Have I Done To Deserve This? (18) 6.30pm Almodovar's black comedy in which the pressures on working-class women lead to a wild, murderous farce.

Summer Rain (15) El camino de los ingelses 8.30pm Miguelito is fresh out of hospital and has decided to become a poet. He hooks up with his mates for a relaxed summer.

Tue 27 May Ken Loach Double Bill: Poor Cow (15) 6.45pm A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices and when her son goes missing she is forced to re-evaluate.

Kes (PG) 8.45pm The film tells the story of a young schoolboy who trains a kestrel as a way of escaping the poverty and the lack of hope which surrounds him.

Wed 28 May Bette Davis Single Bill: Mr. Skeffington (U) 6.10pm Davis plays a rich society beauty who is obliged to marry a devoted but dull businessman. She treats him with contempt until diphtheria changes her.

Bette Davis Single Bill: All About Eve (PG) 8.25pm An ageing Broadway star suffers from the hidden menace of a rising star. A witty, cruel and wildly funny film with superb performances.

Thu 29 May Coen Brothers Double Bill: The Big Lebowski (18) 6.30pm The Coen Brothers' comedy thriller of mistaken identity.

No Country for Old Men (15) 8.45pm Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million.

Fri 30 May Double Bill: The Lives of Others (15) 6.10pm This year’s Oscar winning Best Foreign Film focuses on the system of observation in the nightmare years of the German Democratic Republic.

Children of Glory (15) 8.45pm Hungary's water polo team is in the final of the Olympic Games, but the team is thinking about the revolution breaking out in Budapest.

Sat 31 May Special Multiple Screening Double Bill: The Lives of Others (15) 1.15pm and 6.10pm This year’s Oscar winning Best Foreign Film focuses on the system of observation in the nightmare years of the German Democratic Republic.

Children of Glory (15) 3.50pm and 8.45pm Hungary's water polo team is in the final of the Olympic Games, but the team is thinking about the revolution breaking out in Budapest.

Sun 01 Jun Afternoon - Complicated Women: Julie Christie Double Bill: Darling (18) 2.00pm A powerful but amoral model sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene.

McCabe and Mrs. Miller (15) 4.30pm A kind of anti-Western, exposing the myth of the heroic frontiersman.

Evening - Single Bill: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (PG) 7.30pm This cinematic dream of passion is a masterpiece of the silent area.

Mon 02 Jun Double Bill: My Nikifor (12A) 6.45pm The story of the last eight years in the life of artist Nikifor Krynicki. One of Poland’s most famous films.

Extras (12A) 8.45pm Some Chinese filmmakers perceive the Poles as a nation of sad people and want to employ them as extras. Events on the set lead them to revise the stereotype.

Tue 03 Jun Milos Forman Double Bill: Ragtime (PG) 6.05pm A courageous black musician exacts spectacular retribution after his car is vandalised by envious whites.

A Blonde in Love (15) 9.00pm A delightful story about a small-town girl’s infatuation with a travelling jazz pianist and her unexpected visit to his parent’s house.

Wed 04 Jun Bette Davis Single Bill: Pocketful of Miracles (U) 5.55pm Davis plays an ageing apple seller who passes herself off as a woman of wealth in order to impress her daughter who hopes to marry into a society family.

Bette Davis Single Bill: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (18) 8.30pm A faded child star terrorises a faded matinee star in a decaying Hollywood mansion.

Thu 05 Jun Orson Welles Double Bill: Citizen Kane (PG) 6.30pm Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.

The Third Man (PG) 8.50pm Vienna and a writer arrives seeking his friend, Harry Lime. An irrestible, romantic thriller.

Fri 06 Jun Double Bill: Bread and Tulips (18)Pane e Tulipani 6.35pm Overlooked by her family whilst on holiday, a housewife discovers a whole new world in Venice.

Night Bus (12A) Notturno Bus 8.45pm The dark beauty of night-time Rome provides the atmospheric backdrop to this spirited film noir romp.

Sat 07 Jun Special Multiple Screening Double Bill: Bread and Tulips (18)Pane e Tulipani 2.00pm and 6.35pm Overlooked by her family whilst on holiday, a housewife discovers a whole new world in Venice.

Night Bus (12A) Notturno Bus 4.10pm and 8.45pm The dark beauty of night-time Rome provides the atmospheric backdrop to this spirited film noir romp.

Sun 08 Jun Afternoon - Daniel Day-Lewis Double Bill: The Age of Innocence (U) 12.50pm A lawyer's plans to wed the impeccably connected May Welland are upset by his love for her unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska.

There Will Be Blood (15) 3.30pm A story which takes place between 1898 and 1927 and explores the opening of the Western Frontier, told from the perspective of an oil wildcat.

Evening - Juliette Binoche Double Bill: Hidden (15) Cache 6.30pm Georges starts receiving videotapes suggesting his wife and son are being watched. He sets out to find out who is behind it and unearths some secrets.

Flight of the Red Balloon (PG) 8.30pm An over-worked, single parent is caught up in a whirlwind of conflicting emotions in her decision to employ a Taiwanese student to take care of her son.

Mon 09 Jun Juliette Binoche Double Bill: Hidden (15) Cache 6.30pm Georges starts receiving videotapes suggesting his wife and son are being watched. He sets out to find out who is behind it and unearths some secrets.

Flight of the Red Balloon (PG) 8.30pm An over-worked, single parent is caught up in a whirlwind of conflicting emotions in her decision to employ a Taiwanese student to take care of her son.

Tue 10 Jun Double Bill: Los Olivados (12A) The Young and the Damned 6.55pm A cruel, unflinching look at the lives of delinquent kids in the slums of Mexico City.

La Zona (15) The Zone 8.45pm A taut, social thriller that brutally reveals the dangers of growing polarization between have and have-nots.

Wed 11 Jun Double Bill: The Whales of August (U) 7.00pm Bette Davis gave her last great performance in this touching tale of the fragile bonds between two aged sisters.

If ... (15) 8.50pm David Sherwin's poison pen letter to England and its public school system. This is the spirit of May '68 - English style.

Thu 12 Jun Double Bill: This is England (18) 6.50pm Meadows’ brilliant coming-of-age drama based on his own experiences of growing up.

Son of Rambow (12A) 8.50pm Will Proudfoot, raised in isolation among a puritanical religious sect, encounters something beyond his wildest fantasies – a pirated copy of “Rambo: First Blood”.

Fri 13 Jun Mike Leigh Double Bill: Topsy Turvy (15) 5.45pm Mike Leigh’s film concerns the troubled period in the relationship of Gilbert and Sullivan.

Happy Go Lucky (15) 8.45pm Poppy has time for everybody and whoever she meets falls in love with her. She is not, however, prepared for the affection of two very different men.

Sat 14 Jun Special Multiple Screening: Mike Leigh Double Bill: Topsy Turvy (15) 12.30pm and 5.50pm Mike Leigh’s film concerns the troubled period in the relationship of Gilbert and Sullivan.

Happy Go Lucky (15) 3.30pm and 8.50pm Poppy has time for everybody and whoever she meets falls in love with her. She is not, however, prepared for the affection of two very different men.

Sun 15 Jun Afternoon - Burt Lancaster Double Bill: From Here to Eternity (PG) 1.45pm Whilst the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbour looms, a private is punished while his captain’s wife and the sergeant fall in love.

Sweet Smell of Success (PG) 4.05pm A crooked press agent helps a megalomania New York columnist break up his sister’s marriage.

Evening - Naomi Watts Double Bill: Mulholland Drive (18) 6.00pm A thriller set in Hollywood. A woman is involved in a car crash. She escapes from two men and hides in an empty apartment.

Funny Games (18) 8.45pm A vacationing family get an unexpected visit from two deeply disturbed young men. Over one long night their idyll turns nightmarish.

Mon 16 Jun Naomi Watts Double Bill: Mulholland Drive (18) 6.00pm A thriller set in Hollywood. A woman is involved in a car crash. She escapes from two men and hides in an empty apartment.

Funny Games (18) 8.45pm A vacationing family get an unexpected visit from two deeply disturbed young men. Over one long night their idyll turns nightmarish.

Tue 17 Jun Double Bill: My Own Private Idaho (18) 6.50pm Mike and Scott journey to search for Mike’s long lost mother takes them first to Idaho and then to Italy.

Lonesome Jim (15) 8.55pm Jim returns to his small Indiana town having failed to make it as a writer in New York, but a chance meeting with a nurse begins a process of re-evaluation.

Wed 18 Jun DocHouse presents Pawel Pawlikowski Double Bill: From Moscow to Pietushki (12A) 7.00pm Russian writer Vyenedict Yerefeyev, a rising star of 60s Soviet literature, recalls his cult work Moscow Pietuska.

Serbian Epics (12A) 8.05pm Radovan Karadzic muses on the Serbian poetic tradition and nationalism in this unique perspective on war.

Thu 19 Jun Double Bill: In This World (15) 7.00pm The film follows the journey of two migrants a camp on the Palestine-Afghanistan border to London.

Persepolis (12A) 8.50pm The story of a young girl coming-of-age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution and her later escape to an education in Vienna.

Fri 20 Jun Irish Film Season 2008 Single Bill: The Man Who Shot Beckett: A Profile of Photographer John Minihan (U) 6.30pm Bickley’s documentary explores the relationship of acclaimed Irish photographer John Minihan and nobel laureate Samuel Beckett.

Irish Film Season 2008 Single Bill: Kings (15) 8.00pm In the mid 1970s, six young men left their homes in the West of Ireland, took the boat out of Dublin Bay and sailed to England in the hope of making their fortunes and returning home.

Sat 21 Jun Irish Film Season 2008 Single Bill: Juno and the Paycock (12A) 1.30pm Hitchcock’s powerful film of Sean O Casey’s classic play follows the ups and downs of a family living in the Dublin tenement slums.

Irish Film Season 2008 Single Bill: Sean O Casey - Under a Coloured Cap (U) 3.30pm This film explores the life and work of the great Irish playwright Sean O Casey.

Irish Film Season 2008 Single Bill: Small Engine Repair (15) 5.30pm A comedy drama about a man who goes from small town zero to country and western musical hero.

Irish Film Season 2008 Double Bill: Power in the Blood (12A) 7.30pm Preacher Vernon Oxford, a missionary from Nashville, Tennessee tries to bring Jesus Christ to back the people living in ‘the troubles’ of Northern Ireland.

Dust on the Bible (12A) 9.05pm The film shows Ulster through the eyes of the street preachers and follows a man who seeks out Jesus and salvation.

Sun 22 Jun Afternoon - Irish Film Season 2008 Single Bill: Poitín (15) 1.00pm Poitín is the story of an elderly Poteen maker who takes on two outcasts to sell his potent liquor.

Afternoon - Irish Film Season 2008 Single Bill: O Donoghues Opera (U) 2.30pm A unique and hilarious film starring Ronnie Drew and his band of bohemian merrymakers.

Afternoon - Irish Film Season 2008 Double Bill: The Cat and the Moon (U) 4.00pm In Yeat’s fable “The Cat and the Moon” a blind man and a lame man go to a holy well to find a cure.

Calvry (U) 4.30pm Calvry tells the powerful tale of Jesus as he goes to his crucifixion and the characters he meets on the way.

Afternoon - Irish Film Season 2008 Single Bill: Photos to Send: Retracing Dorothea Lange's Travels Through Ireland (U) 5.30pm Nearly half a century after Dorothea Lange took her photographs of the people of County Clare Dierdre Lynch travels there to seek out many of the same people Lange had photographed.

Evening - Irish Film Season 2008 Special Preview Screening: Strength and Honour (15) 7.30pm Set in contemporary Cork, Strength and Honour tells the story of a young Irish boxer who accidentally kills his friend in the ring.

Mon 23 Jun Double Bill: I Vitelloni (PG) 6.30pm A sensitive character study of five stay-at-home young men in a small town on the Adriatic.

My Brother is an Only Child (15) 8.35pm Two brothers come of age against differing political views in a small Italian town.

Tue 24 Jun Preview Screening: This is Our Country Too (15) 7.15pm The film takes a look at the recent political changes in Australia and the Indigenous peoples demands for sovereignty, human rights and equality.

Wed 25 Jun DocHouse presents Pawel Pawlikowski Double Bill: Dostoevsky's Travels (12A) 7.30pm Being the great-grandson of Dostoevsky has brought little luck to Dimitri. But an invitation to speak to a Dostoevsky society offers him the chance to realise his dream.

Tripping with Zhirinovsky (12A) 8.30pm A revealing portrait of Vladimir Zhirinovsky as he elicits support for his extreme nationalist policies through his Hitler-inspired speeches.

Thu 26 Jun Contemporary Croatian Cinema Single Bill: Play Me a Love Song (15) Pjevajte nesto Ijubavno 8.30pm Struja, a rock musician in the demo band When Dirty Harry Met Dirty Sally, is prepared to do anything to earn money to publish their album, except compromise his rocker’s beliefs.

Fri 27 Jun Contemporary Croatian Cinema Single Bill: Sorry for Kung Fu (15) Oprosti za kung fu 7.00pm During the war a young girl lived in exile in Western Europe. After the war she is returned to her conservative family in a village in the Dalmatian hinterland.

Contemporary Croatian Cinema Single Bill: 100 Minutes of Slava (15) Sto minta Slave 8.30pm Slava Raskaj, born in 1877 in Ozalj, Croatia, was one of the finest painters at the turn of the 20th century.

Sat 28 Jun Contemporary Croatian Cinema Single Bill: Slow Days (15) Ajde, dan prodji 6.30pm Following the lives of over twenty characters, the multiple narratives are bound by relationships that introduce us to a variety of characters.

Contemporary Croatian Cinema Single Bill: Here (15) 8.30pm Intertwining scenes from the different lives of people on the margins of society.

Sun 29 Jun Afternoon - Contemporary Croatian Cinema Double Bill: The Other Side of Welles (U) Druga strana Wellesa 4.45pm This film illustrates different periods in the life and work of Orson Welles and his legacy in Croatia.

Sleep Sweet, My Darling (15) Snivaj zlato moje 6.15pm The film is a both a love story and a story about growing up in a suburb of Zagreb in the decade post WW2.

Evening - Contemporary Croatian Cinema Double Bill: From Morning to the Evening (15) Od jutra do mraka 8.30pm A day in the life of the performance artist Tomislav Gotovac.

Facing the Day (15) Sto sa sobom preko dana 9.00pm In Lepoglava, the most notorious prison in Croatia, several prisoners decide to stage a performance of Shakespeare plays.

Mon 30 Jun Emir Kusturica Double Bill: Black Cat, White Cat (15) 6.00pm A wild comedy of gypsy life - weddings, funerals, music and fake deaths.

Time of the Gypsies (15) 8.30pm A remarkable and overwhelming tragi-comic drama of gypsy life, brimming with vitality and magic.

Wed 02 Jul DocHouse presents Pawel Pawlikowski Double Bill: Twockers (12A) 7.00pm Trevor, a teenage petty criminal with a sideline in poetry, needs to go straight if he’s to win the heart of his neighbour.

Last Resort (15) 8.00pm The film follows Tanya’s bureaucratic nightmare of seeking asylum. Her plight leads her to local arcade manager Archie and the promise of a new relationship.

LATECOMERS
Latecomers are admitted strictly at the House Manager's discretion but only within the first 15 minutes of the film.

SATURDAY MATINEES
We are continuing our new, popular Saturday afternoon matinee programmes. See full details above.

AGE RESTRICTIONS
Most films are screened as double bills. Where a programme contains films with different age ratings, the highest rating governs all films in the programme as the films are sold on a single ticket. Patrons younger than the highest rating will not be admitted to the Cinema. Riverside Studios reserves the right to ask for proof of age.

COATS AND BAGS
For the comfort, safety and security of all visitors and staff, backpacks and other large bags are not allowed into the auditorium. All items brought into Riverside Studios may be subject to a search.