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All About Eve U @ Depot Cinema

Depot Film quiz no rating @ Depot Cinema

East of Eden PG @ Depot Cinema

Rear Window PG @ Depot Cinema

The Great Gatsby 12A @ Depot Cinema

The Outsiders PG @ Depot Cinema

TOM's Film Club: First Love (15) @ The Old Market

TOM's Film Club: Kusama - Infinity (12A) @ The Old Market

TOM's Film Club: Long Days Journey Into Night (12A) @ The Old Market

TOM's Film Club: Parasite - Black and White Version (15) @ The Old Market

TOM's Film Club: Shoplifters (15) @ The Old Market

TOM's Film Club: Weathering With You (12A) @ The Old Market

Film

Film Mon 10 Aug 8:00 PM - 10:15 PM

TOM's Film Club: Parasite - Black and White Version (15)

@ The Old Market

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“Nobody is all black or all white”

Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes and historically the first foreign-language film ever to win the Best Picture Oscar at the Academy Awards, South Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho’s superb blackly comic satirical masterpiece Parasite returns, but this time as the latest to undergo a modern monochrome makeover à la George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road - Black and Chrome and James Mangold’s Logan Noir.

A downtrodden family eke out a hand-to-mouth existence in a basement apartment. Struggling to earn enough for basic survival, their luck changes when the son, Ki-woo (Choi Woo-Shik) is employed to teach English to the daughter of the wealthy Park family in their suburban home. Slowly, daughter, father and mother (Park So-dam, Song Kang-ho and Jang Hye-jin, respectively) bluff their way into roles for the wealthy Seoul household and cunningly infiltrate every aspect of the Parks’ daily life. But when an interloper threatens their newfound comfort, things quickly spiral out of control.

Full of energy, verve and a transgressive visual wit, Parasite is incredibly watchable but also brims with rage at the inequalities of contemporary capitalism, with a real focus on the desperation, misery and immorality of poverty. A masterful creation, brilliantly designed, shot and performed, and now presented here in this new colour palette, the film becomes more intimate, with emotions colder and faces sterner – it provides an illuminating counterpoint to a film that has taken audiences by storm, while also fulfilling a long-held dream of Director Bong’s to make a Black & White movie inspired in the style of one of his favourite films, FW Murnau’s Nosferatu.

“At the risk of adding to the hype, Parasite really is the kind of remarkable experience that makes modern movie-going such a joy. I saw it for the fourth time last week and I’m now desperate to view the black-and-white version that Bong recently unveiled at the Rotterdam film festival” - Mark Kermode, Guardian

Seated (unreserved)

In Korean with English subtitles

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Rated: 15, under 16s must be accompanied by an adult

Duration: 132 mins

The Old Market - BN3 1AS
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Film Tue 11 Aug 8:00 PM - 10:15 PM

TOM's Film Club: Long Days Journey Into Night (12A)

@ The Old Market
Admn: £6.00

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At only thirty years old and heavily influenced by Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker to make films different from the mainstream, Bi Gan’s second feature is a breathless and audacious neo-noir like nothing you’ve ever seen before, culminating in a sweeping and dream-like one-hour-long climatic shot, unbroken and unedited.

Luo Hongwu (Huang Jue) is a former casino manager who returns to his hometown after being away for a long time for the funeral of his father. Upon finding an old photo in a broken electronic clock (one of many of the film’s signifiers on the themes of memory and time), he begins to search obsessively for Wan Qiwen (Tang Wei), a woman he once loved, who disappeared mysteriously and whom he has never been able to forget, as seen through frequent flashbacks of her in a green dress. Fearing her disappearance might be connected with her attachment to a gangster who also murdered Lou’s friend many years previously (known only in the film as “Wildcat”), Luo’s return and subsequent search for Wan leads him on a path that interweaves both past and present, as well as dream and reality.

Told in two parts: the first an achronological mosaic of a detective story, the second a nocturnal dream comprised impressively in a hallucinatory hour-long shot which seems to span a longer field of memory and time (plus table tennis, pool and karaoke!). Long Day’s Journey Into Night is a technical tour-de-force that demands to be seen on a big screen and will restore your faith in the power and mystery of cinema.

“It's a vanishingly rare occurrence to see something on screen and be unable to wrap your head around how it was achieved. But in Long Day's Journey Into Night... some kind of sorcery is at work” - Wendy Ide, Guardian

Seated (unreserved)

In Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles

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Rated: 12A, under 16s must be accompanied by an adult

Duration: 138 mins

Please note: This is the 2D version of this film

The Old Market - BN3 1AS
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Film Sun 16 Aug 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

TOM's Film Club: Weathering With You (12A)

@ The Old Market
Admn: £6.00

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The highest-grossing Japanese film of 2019 and the much-anticipated follow-up to the highest-grossing anime of all time, Your Name, Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering With You is a magical modern-day fantasy and a perfect antidote to a rainy day.

Hodaka has run away from home and is eking out a meagre living in Tokyo. He's immediately broke from the move and lives his life in isolation, made especially more draining as it is the wettest rainy season on record in Tokyo. However, he soon meets a young woman named Hina, who has the power to control and manipulate the weather. Both low on money, they see a way to profit from her ability as a “sun girl,” charging people money for her to pray the rain away, initially unaware of the consequences of Hina’s gift.

Beautifully and breathtakingly animated using traditional hand-drawing (a style of animation sadly absent in the West with the rise of computer animation), with a fittingly upbeat soundtrack, Shinkai continues his impressive reputation as a master director, writer and animator, and it’s little wonder that he’s being hailed in some circles as the heir-apparent to Hayao Miyazaki.

“Japanese, apparently, has at least 50 words for rain. The film gives us the cinematic equivalent. It’s everywhere: raindrops bouncing off umbrellas, ploshing into puddles on grey streets or shining like diamonds on electricity cables. Each instance is a miracle of loveliness” - Cath Clarke, Guardian

Seated (unreserved)

In Japanese with English subtitles

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Rated: 12A, under 16s must be accompanied by an adult

Duration: 112 mins

The Old Market - BN3 1AS
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Film Mon 17 Aug 8:00 PM - 9:45 PM

TOM's Film Club: First Love (15)

@ The Old Market
Admn: £6.00

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Blood, gore, severed heads, but with a tender love story at its heart - Takashi Miike is back with his 103rd film, First Love, which will be the launch night and preview for this year’s Scalarama Sussex, a month-long celebration of cinema every September across Brighton and beyond.

One night in Tokyo, Leo, a young boxer down on his luck and faced with a life-threatening illness, meets his ‘first love’ Yuri, who also goes by “Monica,” a sex worker and an addict, though still an innocent. Unwittingly caught up and embroiled in a drug-smuggling heist, Leo and Monica find themselves pursued through the night by a corrupt cop, a Yakuza, his nemesis, and a female assassin hired by the Chinese Triads, who are all baying for blood.

The latest film from the director of Ichi the Killer, Audition and 13 Assassins is a madcap chase thriller, with more than its fair share of violence, unadulterated mayhem, carnage and a wicked sense of humour, reminiscent of the great Tarantino films of the 90s.

“The Looney Tunes mayhem never unbalances the film. Miike somehow manages to find a poignant port of call on the other side of First Love’s giddy turbulence, delivering the perfect showcase for what this former enfant terrible does best. It’s so good, it might just inspire a deeper dive into the preceding 100-plus pictures” - Michael Leader, Guardian

About Scalarama
Scalarama is a national cinematic movement that celebrates film every September, inviting everybody who screens films to others to unite for a month of marvellous movies. Inspired by the legendary Scala Cinema and with DIY in its veins, Scalarama is marking its 10th edition in 2020 with SCALARAMA X.

Seated (unreserved)

In Japanese with English subtitles

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Rated: 12A, under 16s must be accompanied by an adult

Duration: 108 mins

The Old Market - BN3 1AS
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Film Tue 18 Aug 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM

TOM's Film Club: Kusama - Infinity (12A)

@ The Old Market
Admn: £6.00

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Before you experience Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Rooms at the Tate Modern, join WO50FF for the launch night of Women Over Fifty Film Festival 2020 with the immersive and illuminating Kusama – Infinity, a documentary 17 years in the making with a legendary artist over fifty as the focus, plus a couple of short films still to be confirmed for the night.

Exploring Yayoi Kusama’s fierce determination to become a world-renowned artist, the film documents her entire life-story, from her early years in a conservative family in rural Japan to how she found her way to America on the heels of WWII – without any connections and speaking only broken English, she devoted herself to her one true love, making art. From the 1960s onwards, her radical artistic vision rivalled those of contemporaries such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, with a legacy of artwork that spans the disciplines of painting, sculpture, installation art, performance art, poetry, and novels. After working as an artist for over six decades, people around the globe are experiencing her Infinity Mirrored Rooms in record numbers, which is a major focus of this film, and two such rooms will be on display at Tate Modern from 11th May 2020 – 9th May 2021, among some of her other prominent works.

An infinitely amazing, thoughtful, compassionate and deeply profound look at one of the most influential and unsung artists of the modern era. Director Heather Lenz captures the eccentric essence of this fascinating figure, while also making a bigger statement about overlooked female artists and artists of colour.

“In many ways, this is a story of a woman who had to fight her way to the top all over again, having battled depression, the complacent sexism and bland bigotry of the New York scene, and then finally the aghast conservatism of Japan [...] the film is a respectful and valuable tribute” - Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

About Women Over Fifty Film Festival
Women Over 50 Film Festival (WOFFF) champions and showcases the work of older women on screen and behind the camera with an annual short film festival and year round events and film screenings. This year’s festival will be taking place at the Depot in Lewes on 26th and 27th September.

Seated (unreserved)

In English and Japanese with English subtitles

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Rated: 12A, under 16s must be accompanied by an adult

Duration: Feature - 77 mins, Shorts - TBC

The Old Market - BN3 1AS
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Film Thu 6 Aug 11:00

Rear Window PG

@ Depot Cinema
Admn: See website

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

Depot Cinema - Pinwell Road, Lewes, BN72JS
t: 01273 525354 | Website | Email

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Film Sun 9 Aug 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

TOM's Film Club: Shoplifters (15)

@ The Old Market
Admn: £6.00

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Winner of the 2018 Cannes Palme d’Or, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s (After Life, Still Walking) Shoplifters is a complex, profoundly moving drama about the forces holding a struggling family together, which has garnered thematic comparisons to last year’s Palme d’Or winner Parasite in regards to issues of family, class and equality, though stylistically the two couldn’t be any more different in terms of genre and tone (Catch Parasite here!)

Osamu (Lily Franky), his wife Nobuyu (Sakura Andô) and grandma Hatsue (played by the late great veteran Japanese character actress Kirin Kiki who was a regular in the films of Kore-eda) head the Shibatas; a poverty-stricken family living in a ramshackle Tokyo bungalow who routinely turn to petty thieving to make ends meet. After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and son Shota (Kairi Jyo) happen upon Yuri (Miyu Sasaki), a little girl sheltering from the cold, and take her in. Despite the continued hardships of their existence, this newly modified family lives happily – until an unforeseen incident begins to test their bond.

By shining the spotlight on an unconventional domestic unit with insight, compassion and humour, Kore-eda gives rare prominence to Japanese society’s urban underclass and questions the possibilities of survival on the margins. An incredibly satisfying film made up of delicate brushstrokes, Shoplifters charms while eschewing overt sentimentality and is full of the director’s trademark subtlety and nuanced moral inquiry.

“This is a brilliant and audacious film, one of his very best, a study of family trauma and fear of poverty, reviving themes from earlier films such as Nobody Knows (2004) and Like Father Like Son (2013)” - Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

Seated (unreserved)

In Japanese with English subtitles

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Rated: 15, under 16s must be accompanied by an adult

Duration: 121 mins

The Old Market - BN3 1AS
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Film Thu 3 Sep 11:00

All About Eve U

@ Depot Cinema
Admn: See website

An ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an established but ageing stage actress and her circle of theatre friends.

Depot Cinema - Pinwell Road, Lewes, BN72JS
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