Warner Bros. Pictures is giving moviegoers a final opportunity to see Christopher Nolan’s sweeping epic “Dunkirk” on the big screen.
On December 1, 2017, the film will be re-released in a select limited engagement in 50 IMAX® and 70mm locations in 34 domestic markets, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Dallas, Atlanta, and Toronto, among others.
Following, on January 24, the film’s re-release will be expanded to include more than 250 additional locations. Sue Kroll, President Worldwide Marketing and Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures stated, “With ‘Dunkirk,’ Christopher Nolan broke new ground in the use of large-format cameras to create a theatrical event that demands to be seen on the largest possible canvas. As we head into the holiday season, we are excited to offer audiences another opportunity to be swept up in this truly immersive moviegoing experience…whether for the first time or again.”
Originally released in July, “Dunkirk,” which tells the story of one of the most monumental events in history, was immediately embraced by critics who praised it as a “masterpiece” and “tour-de-force filmmaking.” The film was also a worldwide box office success, earning more than $524 million to date. (review)
From filmmaker Christopher Nolan (“Interstellar,” “Inception,” “The Dark Knight” Trilogy) comes the epic action thriller “Dunkirk.”
“Dunkirk” opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea and home almost within sight, they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in. As the story unfolds on land, sea and air, RAF Spitfires engage the enemy in the skies above the Channel, trying to protect the defenseless men below. Meanwhile, hundreds of small boats, manned by both military and civilians, embark on a desperate rescue effort, risking their lives in a race against time to save even a fraction of their army. When 400,000 men couldn’t get home, home came for them.
“Dunkirk” features an ensemble cast, including Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D’Arcy and Barry Keoghan, with Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance and Tom Hardy.
Nolan directed “Dunkirk” from his own screenplay, utilizing a mixture of IMAX® and 65mm film to bring the story to the screen. The film was produced by Emma Thomas and Nolan, with Jake Myers serving as executive producer.
The behind-the-scenes creative team includes director of photography Hoyte van Hoytema, production designer Nathan Crowley, editor Lee Smith, costume designer Jeffrey Kurland, visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson and special effects supervisor Scott Fisher. The music was composed by Hans Zimmer.
Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Syncopy Production, a film by Christopher Nolan, “Dunkirk.” Presented in conventional theatres and IMAX, the film is being distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
This film has been rated PG-13 for intense war experience and some language.
Sometimes when you have been through hell and back, there isn’t anything you can say to properly convey the emotions and the experience. Without saying much, Christopher Nolan tries to express the raw emotions of war by dropping the viewer into the scenario as opposed to explaining the how and the why of the situation. Because at the end of the day, the brave soldiers at the frontlines aren’t given a suitable reason or explanation to justify possible death. Their instincts kick in and they have to fight to survive.
DUNKIRK is an emotional experiment forcing the viewer to connect with characters with little backstory or dialogue. In fact, the majority of the film is soldiers silently fighting towards a way out. The importance of time is crucial – so much so that the film opens with information placing how long each of the storylines takes place. Nolan and editor Lee Smith (who has worked with the writer/director since BATMAN BEGINS) then intercuts these stories, placing the intensity of a British Spitfire pilot (Tom Hardy) with that of the men he’s trying to protect on the ground who are looking to find a safe ship to get off the beach (newcomer Fionn Whitehead and singer Harry Styles – a decision that shows how no one was immune to the war’s call). All the while, the demand for more ships to rescue 400,000 men makes its way back home. British civilian boats set off to rescue the boys, one of which is led by Oscar nominee Mark Rylance. These three stories make up the by air, land, and sea trifecta.
Nolan is a filmmaker that doesn’t exude style necessarily. He’s not an auteur in the modern sense. He’s a traditionalist who embraces the mechanics of filmmaking with dedicated technical prowess. His use of the IMAX and 70mm format has been revolutionary in combating film piracy, while also delivering on a promise to fans of cinema. He wants you to see his film on the biggest screen possible and backs up his demand with sights that haven’t previously been seen in any other war film.
He’s always been a filmmaker obsessed with spectacle. From a hallway where the laws of gravity don’t exist in INCEPTION; to an 18-wheeler doing a somersault in the middle of the road in THE DARK KNIGHT; to the Batmobile jumping between rooftops in BATMAN BEGINS. Oftentimes, many think of Nolan as leaning heavily on the darker, dramatic side. However, I think of him more as a showman. With each film, he pushes himself to become the greatest showmen on earth. DUNKIRK solidifies this yet again with aerial dogfights unlike any we’ve seen in cinema before. The way the camera captures these planes in motion is breathtaking. The scope, simply put, is unparalleled. The 400,000 soldiers look like ants on this wide open beach while highlighting the magnitude of this impossible feat. To say that DUNKIRK is a technical marvel is an understatement.
The camerawork is punctuated with a sound design and score that lends a pulse to every frame. Hans Zimmer injects a ticking clock motif into the music, ratcheting the tension of each of the three stories and making the 106-minute runtime fly by.
Aside from all the film magic at work, Nolan strives to make it about the people and what they had to endure. As was previously mentioned, he attempts to do this with very little dialogue – apparently the script is only 75 pages. Newcomer Fionn Whitehead delivers on the challenge. It’s not easy to stand out from the herd of almost entirely dark, shaggy-haired boys, but Whitehead shines with a slight twinkle in his emotive eyes. You don’t entirely see the desperation in his eyes, but you see his determination that the physical role demands. Surprisingly, Harry Styles more than holds his own. However, if I wasn’t familiar with his recent pop hits (thanks in large part to SNL), I’m not sure he would stand out among the seemingly identical group of British soldiers that all breathe life into their roles.
Ironically, these identical soldiers are also facing a threat without distinction. These young Brits face off against a faceless enemy. You see, Nolan doesn’t ever show us the “evil Germans” we often see in films of this like. The fear of the enemy is always felt, but their faces are never shown. Large youthful eyes illuminate the desperation and danger they face – not the camera.
Placing an unknown, outside pressure as the enemy adds a level of ambiguity that ultimately makes the film feel less like a WWII and more like a film outside the specific 1940 timeline. This, of course, is interesting since the film is clearly obsessed with the idea of time. Between this and the lack of backstory surrounding the event and the characters, DUNKIRK comes across as an interesting experiment (especially given the summer movie marketing). While some might be hoping for more from the story, perhaps Nolan is actually saying much more amid the cacophony of racing hearts, plane engines, bullet-riddled metal, and silent soldiers looking for hope as the waves and bombs crash against the beach.
Last night London’s Leicester Square hosted the World Premiere of Christopher Nolan’s thriller DUNKIRK.
On the red carpet were stars Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Fionn Whitehead, Harry Styles (One Direction), as well as director Christopher Nolan.
The highly anticipated motion picture opens in cinemas across Europe and around the world beginning July 21, 2017.
Prince Harry joined the cast and crew alongside veterans on the red carpet in support of Contact.
Contact is a group of charities working with the NHS and the MOD, who want to make it simpler for the military community to find support with their mental wellbeing. If you know a Service Person, Veteran or family member who needs support, head to: www.contactarmedforces.org.uk
DUNKIRK features a prestigious cast, including Tom Hardy (“The Revenant,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Inception”), Mark Rylance (“Bridge of Spies,” “Wolf Hall”), Kenneth Branagh (“My Week with Marilyn,” “Hamlet,” “Henry V”) and Cillian Murphy(“Inception,” “The Dark Knight” Trilogy), as well as newcomer Fionn Whitehead. The ensemble cast also includes Harry Styles (One Direction) making his feature film debut.
Christopher Nolan (“Interstellar,” “Inception,” “The Dark Knight” Trilogy) is directing DUNKIRK from his own original screenplay, utilizing a mixture of IMAX® and 65mm film to bring the story to the screen.
DUNKIRK opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in.
From filmmaker Christopher Nolan (“Interstellar,” “Inception,” “The Dark Knight” Trilogy) comes the epic action thriller DUNKIRK.
DUNKIRK opens in theatres and IMAX on July 21, 2017.
Nolan directed DUNKIRK from his own original screenplay, utilizing a mixture of IMAX® and 65mm film to bring the story to the screen. The film was produced by Emma Thomas and Nolan, with Jake Myers serving as executive producer.
DUNKIRK opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in.
DUNKIRK features a multigenerational ensemble cast, including Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D’Arcy and Barry Keoghan, with Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance and Tom Hardy.
The music was composed by Hans Zimmer (“The Dark Knight” Trilogy, “Inception”). Pre-order here.
Watch this candid roundtable conversation between young stars Fionn Whitehead, Harry Styles, Tom Glynn Carney, Jack Lowden for Christopher Nolan’s epic action thriller. In this video interview the young stars discuss their experiences making the film and their excitement for its upcoming release.
WAMG invites you to enter for the chance to win TWO (2) seats to the advance screening of DUNKIRK on July 17 in the St. Louis area.
Answer the following question:
The Dunkirk evacuation, also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was code-named __________ ___________.
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2. No purchase necessary. A pass does not guarantee a seat at a screening. Seating is on a first-come, first served basis. The theater is overbooked to assure a full house.
This film has been rated PG-13 for intense war experience and some language.
THE DUNKIRK PROLOGUE EXPERIENCE will take place in St. Louis at The Saint Louis Science Center (5050 Oakland Avenue) on July 11th from 9:30am to 4:30pm
When 400,000 men couldn’t get home, home came for them. Warner Bros. Pictures will take audiences on a stunning journey into the action of Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film “Dunkirk” with an immersive presentation of the film’s acclaimed prologue. In advance of the film’s July 21st theatrical release, The Dunkirk Prologue Experience will give moviegoers a special preview of the epic action thriller.
In honor of the 77th Anniversary of the extraordinary event that inspired the film—which began on May 26, 1940—the tour kicked off at Phoenix Comicon on May 25th, then embarked on a multi-city tour through the release of the film.
Fans experienced the presentation in a Cinetransformer featuring a Barco cinema projector, 15-foot screen, 87 stadium-style ButtKicker interactive seats, and 5.1 Dolby digital sound, putting audiences in the midst of one of the summer’s most anticipated films.
As a token of gratitude to those who have served or are serving our country, all active and retired military personnel will be granted front-of-the-line access during the special event tour.
The tour is open to the public and will be in St. Louis at the Saint Louis Science Center Tuesday, July 11th, 9:30am – 4:30pm (5050 Oakland Avenue)
Warner Bros. Pictures announced today that tickets for 70MM engagements of director Christopher Nolan’s upcoming epic action thriller DUNKIRK will go on sale at 9:00 a.m. EDT, Wednesday, July 5, two days prior to when tickets go on sale for regular engagements of the film.
The early on-sale date will give moviegoers their first chance to purchase tickets to view the film in 70MM, which offers unparalleled image quality and digital sound. The release of DUNKIRK in 70MM will be the widest in 25 years.
In anticipation of the 70MM release, Christopher Nolan captured much of the film with IMAX’s extremely high-resolution 2D film cameras, which captures the world of the film with greater scope and breathtaking image quality. Audiences will feel they are a part of the race against time to rescue 400,000 British and Allied troops trapped by enemy forces on the beaches of Dunkirk in World War II.
“I have been a longtime proponent of film – particularly the IMAX film format – as a storytelling medium,” said Christopher Nolan. “The immersive quality of the image is second to none, drawing the audience into the action in the most intense way possible.”
In a Fandango survey of more than 10,000 moviegoers, DUNKIRK is one of the top-five most anticipated movies of the summer season.
A full list of 70MM theatres in both US and Canada may be found on the official Dunkirk website at dunkirkmovie.com. Tickets for regular format showings will also be available two days later, starting at 9:00 a.m. EDT, Friday, July 7.
From filmmaker Christopher Nolan (“Interstellar,” “Inception,” “The Dark Knight” Trilogy) comes the epic action thriller “Dunkirk.”
Nolan directed “Dunkirk” from his own original screenplay, utilizing a mixture of IMAX® and 65mm film to bring the story to the screen. The film was produced by Emma Thomas and Nolan, with Jake Myers serving as executive producer.
“Dunkirk” opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in.
“Dunkirk” features a multigenerational ensemble cast, including Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D’Arcy and Barry Keoghan, with Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance and Tom Hardy.
The behind-the-scenes creative team on “Dunkirk” included director of photography Hoyte van Hoytema, production designer Nathan Crowley, editor Lee Smith, costume designer Jeffrey Kurland, visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson and special effects supervisor Scott Fisher. The music was composed by Hans Zimmer.
Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Syncopy Production, a film by Christopher Nolan, “Dunkirk.” Opening in conventional theatres and IMAX on July 21, 2017, the film will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
This film has been rated PG-13 for intense war experience and some language.
WaterTower Music has announced the details of the soundtrack to acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s epic action thriller DUNKIRK. The album features an original score by Academy-, Golden Globe-, and Grammy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer, who previously collaborated with Nolan on the director’s Interstellar, Inception, and The Dark Knight Trilogy.
The soundtrack will be released both digitally and on CD on the same date that the film is in theatres, July 21. It features a powerful and unique score unlike anything produced before by this formidable and inspired artistic pairing.
“Dunkirk is one of the greatest suspense stories of all time, and our film needed a score to reflect that and to propel the audience through a telling of this story that is more thriller than war film,” explained Christopher Nolan. “Hans’s unique score drives the visceral sense of action the film needs to put the audience right into the story, using images, sound and music.”
The Dunkirk: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack will be available July 21, and is now available for pre-order.
The track listing is as follows:
The Mole We Need Our Army Back Shivering Soldier Supermarine The Tide Regimental Brothers Impulse Home The Oil Variation 15 (Dunkirk) End Titles
From filmmaker Christopher Nolan comes the epic action thriller Dunkirk. Nolan directed Dunkirk from his own original screenplay, utilizing a mixture of IMAX and 65mm film to bring the story to the screen.
Dunkirk opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in.
The film’s ensemble cast includes Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D’Arcy and Barry Keoghan, with Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance and Tom Hardy.
The film was produced by Nolan and Emma Thomas, with Jake Myers serving as executive producer.
Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Syncopy Production a film by Christopher Nolan, DUNKIRK. Opening worldwide starting , the film will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
This film has been rated PG-13 for intense war experience and some language.
Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
-Winston Churchill
If ever there was a time to be releasing this film, along with the two CHURCHILL films, it’s DUNKIRK.
Great Britain is once again facing an evil enemy threat, and in true form, the people are defending UK soil. Throughout the centuries, the tenacity of the British people has never wavered – not then not now.
The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between May 26 and June 4, 1940, during World War II.
Yesterday marked the anniversary of D-Day, June 6.
In those early morning hours of 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, to liberate Europe from Hitler’s Germany.
Nine allied nations, consisting of over 150,000 troops, assembled on the beach that day. They were met with heavy resistance from German troops, who were waiting on top of nearby cliffs.
According to the National D-Day Memorial Foundation, 23,000 paratroopers from the U.S. and Great Britain were dropped by aircraft and gliders. More than 5,000 ships were also used to support the invasion, also called “Operation Overlord.”
By daylight, the beach was under Allied control.
Today Warner Bros. Pictures released the new poster for Christopher Nolan’s epic action thriller, DUNKIRK, coming to IMAX and UK cinemas, July 21.
DUNKIRK stars Tom Hardy (“The Revenant,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Inception”), Mark Rylance (“Bridge of Spies,” “Wolf Hall”), Kenneth Branagh (“My Week with Marilyn,” “Hamlet,” “Henry V”) and Cillian Murphy (“Inception,” “The Dark Knight” Trilogy), as well as newcomer Fionn Whitehead. The ensemble cast also includes Harry Styles (One Direction) making his feature film debut.
Christopher Nolan (“Interstellar,” “Inception,” “The Dark Knight” Trilogy) is directing DUNKIRK from his own original screenplay, utilizing a mixture of IMAX® and 65mm film to bring the story to the screen.
DUNKIRK opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in.
On the first day of the evacuation, only 7,669 men were evacuated, but by the end of the eighth day, a total of 338,226 soldiers had been rescued by a hastily assembled fleet of over 800 boats. Many of the troops were able to embark from the harbour’s protective mole onto 39 British destroyers and other large ships, while others had to wade out from the beaches, waiting for hours in the shoulder-deep water. Some were ferried from the beaches to the larger ships by what came to be known as the little ships of Dunkirk, a flotilla of hundreds of merchant marine boats, fishing boats, pleasure craft, and lifeboats called into service for the emergency.
This movie is their story.
In May 2015, HRH Prince Michael of Kent joined veterans and pilgrims at The Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s (CWGC)Dunkirk Memorial to mark the 75th anniversary of the Allied evacuation of Dunkirk.
His Royal Highness is Honorary Admiral for The Association of Dunkirk Little Ships, who returned to Dunkirk to commemorate the significant role they played, alongside the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy, in the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in 1940 – codenamed Operation Dynamo.
Allied forces fighting to defend France against German forces during the early stages of the Second World War were forced back to the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940, where they were then evacuated across the Channel to England.
The film opens in the US in IMAX Theaters on July 21, 2017.
Running from 1-31 July, BFI Southbank are delighted to present a season of films which have inspired director Christopher Nolan’s new feature Dunkirk (2017), released in cinemas across the UK on Friday 21 July.
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN PRESENTS has been personally curated by the award-winning director and will offer audiences unique insight into the films which influenced his hotly anticipated take on one of the key moments of WWII.
The season will include a special preview screening ofDunkirkonThursday 13 July, which will be presented in 70mm and include an introduction from the director himself.
Christopher Nolan is a passionate advocate for the importance of seeing films projected on film, and as one of the few cinemas in the UK that still shows a vast amount of celluloid film, BFI Southbank will screenall the films in the season on 35mm or 70mm.
In 2015 Nolan appeared on stage alongside visual artist Tacita Dean at the BFI London Film Festival to discuss the importance of celluloid as an artistic medium, and he consistently shoots on film despite the industry’s move toward digital. Here, the director sums up his programming choices for this exclusive season:
“You might expect a season of films leading up to a screening ofDunkirk to be a selection of war movies. But I chose to approach Dunkirk more as survival story than war film. One look at James Jones’ essay on ‘Phony War Films’ (in which he takes down several of my old favourites) immediately shows you the perils of taking on real-life combat in a dramatic motion picture. In Jones’ estimation All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone, 1930) said it first and best: war dehumanises. Revisiting that masterpiece it is hard to disagree that the intensity and horror have never been bettered. For me, the film demonstrates the power of resisting the convention of finding meaning and logic in individual fate. Most of the other films in this series fall into two different, but overlapping categories. From established classics of tension like The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953) and Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979) through to the more recent ticking-clock nail-biters Speed (Jan de Bont, 1994) and Tony Scott’s final film, the relentless Unstoppable (2010), our season explores the mechanics and uses of suspense to modulate an audience’s response to narrative.
Other titles explore the possibilities of purely visual storytelling, whether literally, in the case of the silent epics – Stroheim’s Greed (1924) and Murnau’s Sunrise (1927) – or in part, like the thrilling windswept beaches and crashing waves of Ryan’s Daughter (David Lean, 1970). The relationship of geographical spectacle to narrative and thematic drive in these works is extraordinary and inspiring. Pure cinema. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) is a timeless and affecting verité narrative, which forces empathy with its characters in the least theatrical manner imaginable. We care about the people in the film simply because we feel immersed in their reality and the odds they face.
The visual splendour, intertwined narratives and aggressively anachronistic music of Hugh Hudson’s Chariots of Fire (1981) combined to create a masterpiece of British understatement whose popularity rapidly obscured its radical nature. Finally, no examination of cinematic suspense and visual storytelling would be complete without Hitchcock, and his technical virtuosity in Foreign Correspondent’s (1940) portrayal of the downing of a plane at sea provided inspiration for much of what we attempted in Dunkirk. All the films are screened on 35mm or 70mm prints. I hope you will enjoy the rare opportunity of seeing these incredible movies in their original analogue glory, as nature intended.”
SEASON LISTINGS:
Preview: Dunkirk + intro by director Christopher Nolan
Netherlands-UK-France-USA 2017. Dir Christopher Nolan. With Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy,Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh. RT and cert TBC. 70mm. Courtesy of Warner Brothers
Dunkirk opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in. We’re delighted to screen Nolan’s much anticipated vision of an event that shaped our world.
Tickets £24, concs £19.20 (Members pay £2 less)
THU 13 JUL20:15 NFT1
Greed
USA 1924. Dir Erich von Stroheim. With Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt. 132min. 35mm. PG. With live piano accompaniment
Hollywood’s more serious stabs at realist fiction emulate the social and psychological nuances of the 19th-century novel, and no one has taken American film further down that road than Stroheim. Shot on location in San Francisco and Death Valley, the film was cut to less than a third of its original nine hours, but remains extraordinary for its unflinching vision of the corrosive power of money.
SUN 2 JUL 15:10 NFT1 / SUN 9 JUL 14:15 NFT3
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
USA 1927. Dir FW Murnau. With George O’Brien,Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston. 94min.35mm. With score. U
Murnau’s foray into American cinema sees him construct a world free of geographic and social specifics – a dreamlike rural landscape and a brash cityscape that is everywhere and nowhere. Made at the end of the silent era, it pioneered the use of synchronous sound on film, for Reisenfeld’s score as well as such sound effects as traffic, whistles and church bells. Sunrise stands as a haunting fable – a dream of crime, love, loss and redemption.
USA 1930. Dir Lewis Milestone. With Lew Ayres,Louis Wolheim, John Wray. 133min with restoredsoundtrack. 35mm. PG
All Quiet on the Western Front is rightly recognised as one of cinema’s most enduring and emotive portrayals of the tragedy of the Great War. This epic film concerns a generation of German schoolboys who – exhorted by their patriotic teacher – enlist enthusiastically but are ultimately destroyed in the war. Based on Erich Maria Remarque’s classic novel, the film proved highly controversial and was banned in many countries.
SUN 2 JUL 17:20 NFT3 /THU 6 JUL18:00 NFT3
Considering All Quiet onthe Western Front
TRT 90min
During WWI, Lewis Milestone, a recent Russian émigré to the US, made films for the Signal Corp, and this experience undoubtedly informed his 1930 Hollywood masterpiece, All Quiet on the WesternFront. Film historian Kevin Brownlow (who interviewed Milestone about his film career in the 1960s) will be joined by film professional Mamoun Hassan to discuss – alongside film clips and a rare trailer – the history and achievement of what is considered to be the greatest anti-war film of all time.
Tickets £6.50
THU 6 JUL 20:40 NFT3
Foreign Correspondent
USA 1940. Dir Alfred Hitchcock. With LaraineDay, George Sanders, Joel McCrea.119min. 35mm. PG
Made partly to raise the American public’s awareness of the Nazi threat, this picaresque espionage adventure follows a US journalist to London and Holland to cover a mooted peace treaty; instead, with the help of a diplomat’s daughter, he uncovers a conspiracy. Set pieces abound, including one at Westminster Cathedral and a windmill that conceals a sinister secret.
SAT 1 JUL 15:20 NFT1 / SUN 22 JUL15:10 NFT3
The Wages of Fear Le salaire de la peur
France-Italy 1953. Dir Henri-Georges Clouzot. With Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Véra Clouzot. 147min. 35mm. EST. PG
Watched by a hungry vulture, a child plays with cockroaches in the dusty street of a South American shantytown. So begins one of the most nerve-wrackingly suspenseful films ever made, as four desperados take on a suicidal mission to drive two trucks full of nitro-glycerine along precipitous, pot-holed roads. As the tension mounts, this journey to hell is propelled to its misanthropic conclusion by a truly unsettling score.
SAT 15 JUL 18:00 NFT1 / SAT 22 JUL 17:40 NFT3
The Battle of Algiers La battaglia di Algeri
Algeria-Italy 1966. Dir Gillo Pontecorvo. With Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Hadjadj. 121min. 35mm. EST. 15
Algiers functions as both the site and symbol of struggle in this dazzling reconstruction of nationalist opposition to French occupation during the 1950s. The Old City nurtures and shelters the guerrilla fighters who, despite brutal reprisals, repeatedly venture from it to attack the colonial might of the new ‘European’ city. Battle of Algiers is an award-winning masterpiece of political cinema.
TUE 4 JUL 18:15 NFT3 / SUN 9 JUL 20:10 NFT1
Ryan’s Daughter
UK 1970. Dir David Lean. With John Mills, Sarah Miles, Robert Mitchum. 194min (+ interval). 70mm. 15
With a harsh critical response at the time of its release, Ryan’s Daughter is a triumph of sensual storytelling for David Lean. Robert Bolt’s script reworks Hardy-esque formulae into a story about romantic excess and moral cowardice, set during the Troubles of 1916, woven into a vision of damnation. Freddie Young and John Mills won Oscars®, and deservedly so.
SUN 16 JUL 15:15 NFT1 / WED 19 JUL 19:00 NFT1
Alien
UK-USA 1979. Dir Ridley Scott. With Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Ian Holm. 116min. 35mm. 15
The Alien phenomenon began here as the crew of the Nostromo are woken from stasis by the ship’s computer and grudgingly sent to investigate a transmission of unknown origin. They discover a deadly alien species and as the crew are picked off one by one, Ripley takes her place as the ultimate sci-fi heroine. This iconic classic features designs from HR Giger and a brilliant script by Dan O’Bannon.
SUN 23 JUL 20:15 NFT1 / SAT 29 JUL 20:45 NFT1
Chariots of Fire
UK 1981. Dir Hugh Hudson. With Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Ian Holm, Nicholas Farrell. 123min. 35mm. PG
Hugh Hudson’s visually magnificent, emotionally exhilarating account of the struggle by Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell to compete on their own terms at the 1924 Olympics seemed to herald a new highpoint in British cinema and was a hit at the Oscars®. With fine use of slow motion, Chariots of Fire tugged at the heartstrings of a nation.
SAT 15 JUL 15:20 NFT3 / SUN 23 JUL 17:40 NFT1
Speed
USA 1994. Dir Jan de Bont. With Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dennis Hopper. 116min. 35mm. 15
This blockbuster hit has non-stop, edge of the seat thrills and spills. Reeves turns in a strong performance as the hero, a SWAT cop dealing with a crazed bomber who has wired up a bus to explode if the speed drops below 50mph. Bullock shines as the feisty passenger at the steering wheel. A thoroughly enjoyable roller-coaster ride of a movie.
TUE 25 JUL 20:50 NFT1 / SUN 30 JUL 17:20 NFT3
Unstoppable
USA 2010. Dir Tony Scott. With Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson. 98min. 35mm. 12A
With the poster tag line reading ‘1 million tonnes of steel, 100,000 lives at stake, 100 minutes to impact’, Tony Scott’s final film as a director is about a runaway freight train, a retired railroad engineer and a rookie conductor who must figure out a way of trying to avert disaster. It’s a well-made, suspenseful thriller that works as a great companion piece to Speed.
“You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
In 2008, Christopher Nolan did something no other Batman film director could ever do – he made a darker film than Tim Burton. Burton’s over-the-top, circus-like direction in his two Batman films, while albeit dark, isn’t anywhere near as dark and gritty as THE DARK KNIGHT.
Let’s start with the Joker first off. Heath Ledger outclassed Nicholson in this role (see CHINATOWN at the Tivoli Wednesday night for quintessential Jack). This isn’t the prim and proper Joker that Nicholson displayed – this Joker is a force of nature that plays by absolutely no rules except his own twisted moral code. He cares more about chaos and mayhem more than he would ever care about money or fame. He lives off the fear of the populace. Nicholson’s obsession with the Batman had more to do with him creating the Joker, versus a twisted and depraved fascination with Batman being the symbol of hope for a doomed city. Turning the Joker into a bona fide terrorist fit the post-911 world. Nicholson’s Joker was more preoccupied with settling personal vendettas than being a terrorist, which means that his Joker isn’t near as fascinating.
Likewise, Two-Face in this film, as played by Aaron Eckhart, is more in line with Nicholson’s Joker this time around. His existence in this film is purely about personal vendettas, though he’s largely overshadowed by the Joker. Harvey Dent in the film was a good idea to move Batman’s story along, but Two-Face was not the star attraction of THE DARK KNIGHT.
All the stars here seemed to know what was at stake with THE DARK KNIGHT, so they give it their all. Even with Heath Ledger out of the equation, the performances are fine. Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman really do take advantage of their supporting roles in the film, and use the limited screen time they have to make an impact. Christian Bale did another fine job as the freewheeling playboy as well.Too bad the next and final Nolan Batman, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012) failed to live up to this one.
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