April cinema is here! Eden Court's Head of Film Paul MacDonald-Taylor, the man behind the programme, shares his highlights.
Awards season is over, all the statuettes have been given out and, of course, Ryan Gosling stole the show!
To celebrate some of the winners, we are bringing back a few of our favourites as part of a short season - we’ve just screened Oppenheimer (on 35mm) and you can still catch Poor Things,Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest - for a last chance to see them on the big screen.
There is a great international line-up for the rest of the month, with almost every continent represented. From Africa there is Senegal-set Banel & Adama, then to Madagascar - we don’t get the chance to screen many films from this fascinating country - for Red Island (from the director of 120 BPM). Then onto South Africa, celebrating the 30th anniversary of South African Freedom Day, we have a couple of special screenings of Mapantsula from 1988.
In Asia we return to Mongolia to screen If Only I Could Hibernate, which was a favourite at last year’s Inverness Film Festival, where we also showed Japan’s Evil Does Not Exist. From across the Pacific in Argentina we have The Delinquentswhich shows us what capitalism can drive us to before we realise what is really important in life - it has some similarities with Perfect Days. From Europe we have both Disco Boy, starring the excellent Franz Rogowski, and the latest film from great Spanish director Víctor Erice, Close Your Eyes - which also played at IFF last year.
A little closer to home we’re showing the new biopic on the life of Amy Winehouse - Back to Black - which features a stand-out performance from Marisa Abela. It is directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson who made Nowhere Boy about the teenage years of John Lennon, so she has great form in showing iconic British musicians on the big screen (you should also check out her short film Love You More about young love set to the song of the same name by the iconic band The Buzzcocks).
Our next Mystery Movie is on Sat 20 Apr at 8pm. I don’t like giving away too much about what they’re going to be but… it will be on 35mm and it is a rarely screened comedy gem.
See you at the movies!
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