Three years ago, Derek Cianfrance enjoyed success on a big scale with hissmallscale breakthrough movie: Blue Valentine,

the story of a claustrophobically unhappy relationship between a married couple played by Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. Now he has opened things up and let rip with an operatically ambitious picture, starring Ryan Gosling as Luke, a stunt-bike rider, and Bradley Cooper as an ambitious young police officer, Avery. 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. The Place Beyond the Pines is flawed, but the flaws are due to Cianfrances sheer energy and passion. Strangely, the comparison that comes to my mind is Terrence Malick another real film-maker who makes hisown mistakes in his own style in the course of making his own fiercely individual, stunning movies. I am coming to love Derek Cianfrances work in the same way.

DRAMA

The Place Beyond the Pines

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

Director Derek Cianfrance

The Place Beyond the Pines

Three years ago, Derek Cianfrance enjoyed success on a big scale with hissmallscale breakthrough movie: Blue Valentine, the story of a claustrophobically unhappy relationship between a married couple played by Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. Now he has opened things up and let rip with an operatically ambitious picture, starring Ryan Gosling as Luke, a stunt-bike rider, and Bradley Cooper as an ambitious young police officer, Avery. 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. The Place Beyond the Pines is flawed, but the flaws are due to Cianfrances sheer energy and passion. Strangely, the comparison that comes to my mind is Terrence Malick another real film-maker who makes hisown mistakes in his own style in the course of making his own fiercely individual, stunning movies. I am coming to love Derek Cianfrances work in the same way.

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

The Place Beyond the Pines

Three years ago, Derek Cianfrance enjoyed success on a big scale with hissmall-scale breakthrough movie: Blue Valentine, the story of a claustrophobically unhappy relationship between a married couple played by Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. Now he has opened things up and let rip with an operatically ambitious picture, starring Ryan Gosling as Luke, a stunt-bike rider, and Bradley Cooper as an ambitious young police officer, Avery. 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.

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

Three years ago, Derek Cianfrance enjoyed success on a big scale with hissmall-scale breakthrough movie: Blue Valentine, the story of a claustrophobically unhappy relationship between a married couple played by Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. Now he has opened things up and let rip with an operatically ambitious picture, starring Ryan Gosling as Luke, a stunt-bike rider, and Bradley Cooper as an ambitious young police officer, Avery. 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.

The Place Beyond the Pines

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

The Place Beyond the Pines

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.

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

The Place Beyond the Pines

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.

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

Lincoln
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. There is admittedly sometimes a hint of hokum; how you react to the film may depend on how you take the opening sequence in which Lincoln, seated like the famous statue but with an easy smile, listens to two black soldiers telling him how they see the war a slightly Sorkinian scene that ends with one reciting the Gettysburg address while walking away from the president.

Starring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston

Yankee Doodle Dandy

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.

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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.

The Place Beyond The Pines

Starring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Tuesday 21st July 8pm - 10pm

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.

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

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.

Lincoln

Starring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Wednesday 22nd July 12pm - 2pm

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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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.

The Place Beyond The Pines

Starring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Tuesday 21st July 8pm - 10pm

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.

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

Friday 17th July 10pm - 12am

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.

Lincoln

Starring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Tuesday 21st July 8pm - 10pm

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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The Place Beyond the Pines

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

The Godfather
Starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan

Tuesday 21st July 8pm - 10pm

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.

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

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Starring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston

Wednesday 22nd July 12pm - 2pm

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.