http://www.filmdates.co.uk UK Cinema Releases - This Week en-us rss@filmdates.co.uk phil@filmdates.co.uk http://www.filmdates.co.uk/images/header.png http://www.filmdates.co.uk/ 100 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5408-benjamin-britten-peace-and-conflict/ Benjamin Britten - Peace and Conflict, is a feature length drama documentary which explores the way in which Britten's pacifist beliefs developed from a young man's curiosity about communism and its links with pacifism, to a gradual realisation that politicising the peace movement, at the time a reaction to the fascist threat, was for him, not the answer. This led to Britten's adoption of what might be called a pure' pacifism, which informed so many of his compositions from the mid-nineteen forties onwards, culminating in the War Requiem.]]> Movie Sun, 19 May 2013 19:23:55 BST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5618-emergency-room-china/ Emergency Room China is the latest film from Zhou Hao, part of his series of documentaries focusing on public spaces and institutions in China. The film saw Zhou spending 10 months in a hospital emergency room and following ambulances day and night. Capturing a stream of accidents and incidents the film tells stories that range from the bizarre and absurd to the shocking and tragic, showing both the ways in which people sometimes fail to respect their own lives, and the necessity of having a more effective health care system. With accelerated urbanisation and industrialisation, conflicts between the backward Chinese health care and welfare system and economic development grow more and more intense. In depicting the experiences of hospital workers and everyday Chinese people, Zhou Hao makes a compassionate argument for a society where everyone lives with dignity and dies with dignity.]]> Movie Fri, 10 May 2013 07:50:28 BST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3217-epic/ Release Date: Wednesday 22nd May 2013. A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world -- and ours.]]> Movie Wed, 22 May 2013 19:27:30 BST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/e19ynxaxzr.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3217-epic/ 94 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5560-grave-of-the-fireflies/ Release Date: Friday 24th May 2013. Setsuko and Seita are brother and sister living in wartime Japan. After their mother is killed in an air raid they find a temporary home with relatives. Having quarreled with their aunt they leave the city and make their home in an abandoned shelter. While their soldier father's destiny is unknown, the two must depend on each other to somehow keep a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs. When everything is in short supply, they gradually succumb to hunger and their only entertainment is the light of the fireflies.]]> Movie Wed, 22 May 2013 19:27:03 BST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/e44eadeq9o.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5560-grave-of-the-fireflies/ 94 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5621-happy-or-not/ Release Date: Sunday 26th May 2013. ]]> Movie Fri, 10 May 2013 08:05:38 BST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/e4f6ylz6az.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5621-happy-or-not/ 105 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5481-joshua-tree-1951-a-portrait-of-james-dean/ Release Date: Thursday 23rd May 2013. A look at the life of James Dean as he was on the cusp of achieving fame.]]> Movie Tue, 16 April 2013 20:29:17 BST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/e3o1wie7f4.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5481-joshua-tree-1951-a-portrait-of-james-dean/ 94 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5619-lets-fall-in-love/ Movie Fri, 10 May 2013 08:04:56 BST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5620-lost-wall/ Lost Wall Pan Zhiqi continues to explore the changing face of relationships in modern China, and the meaning of "love" in an urban existence characterized by mutual distrust. Here, Pan's camera serves as a confession booth for blind masseur, Xiao Zhang, who, despite being deeply in love with his colleague Zhao Rong, constantly suspects or even fantasizes that she is having a private affair with their boss. In many ways, Zhang's anxieties are symptomatic of those social, familial and historical traumas that left their indelible traces to his personal confidence in himself and in the everyday. Lost Wall presents an often startlingly intimate look at a turbulent relationship that during the course of the film ranges back and forth between tenderness and unbalanced dependency. Though it also frankly depicts the experiences of the disabled in China, the highly engaging film is first and foremost the story of the bond between Xiao Zhang and Zhao Rong, and of his struggle to overcome his insecurities and achieve his desperately-sought goals of love and marriage.]]> Movie Fri, 10 May 2013 08:05:01 BST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5674-my-neighbour-totoro/ Release Date: Friday 24th May 2013. Two young girls, Satsuke and her younger sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuke and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). They soon befriend these Totoros, and have several magical adventures.]]> Movie Wed, 22 May 2013 19:26:54 BST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/e4mowxv2gv.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5674-my-neighbour-totoro/ 106 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5685-people-out-there/ Release Date: Thursday 23rd May 2013. Jan, a guy in his twenties, and his friend Cracker are involved in several crimes in their neglected suburb of the city. After meeting the beautiful Sabina, Jan looks for a fresh start in downtown circles, but only finds contempt. His hopes for love, compassion and opportunity are dashed by the even more ruthless rules of the bourgeoisie, and he comes to realise that the only one he can count on is himself.]]> Movie Mon, 20 May 2013 19:02:32 BST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/e4ragc0tz6.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5685-people-out-there/ 94 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5154-something-in-the-air/ Release Date: Friday 24th May 2013. An 18-year-old man reacts to the social changes of late 1960's Europe.]]> Movie Wed, 22 May 2013 19:27:25 BST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/e19yp212t5.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5154-something-in-the-air/ 101 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5635-the-eschatrilogy-book-of-the-dead/ Release Date: Tuesday 21st May 2013. A dark figure appears in the night, bringing with him a virus that turns people into monsters. Hoping to gather stories to take back with him to the other side, he meets his opposite, a light figure prepared to do battle with the dark man in order to save the human race.]]> Movie Wed, 22 May 2013 19:27:39 BST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/e4i1nfsurw.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5635-the-eschatrilogy-book-of-the-dead/ 98 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/2893-the-hangover-part-iii/ Release Date: Thursday 23rd May 2013. This time, there's no wedding. No bachelor party. What could go wrong, right? But when the Wolfpack hits the road, all bets are off.]]> Movie Sat, 27 April 2013 19:37:45 BST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/e2u1tuk1w8.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/2893-the-hangover-part-iii/ 94 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5172-the-king-of-marvin-gardens/ Release Date: Friday 24th May 2013. 'It's Monopoly out there'. Jason Staebler, The King of Marvin Gardens, has gone directly to jail, lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is also a dreamer who asks his brother, David, a radio personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island - asking him to believe in yet another of his dreams, yet another of his get-rich-quick schemes. But luck is against them both and the game ends badly - real life reduced to radio drama.]]> Movie Wed, 22 May 2013 19:27:18 BST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/e19yppbfkt.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5172-the-king-of-marvin-gardens/ 91 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5615-the-moth-diaries/ Release Date: Friday 24th May 2013. Rebecca is suspicious of Ernessa, the new arrival at her boarding school. But is Rebecca just jealous of Ernessa's bond with Lucie, or does the new girl truly possess a dark secret.]]> Movie Wed, 22 May 2013 19:27:00 BST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/e4cd8jbj4n.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5615-the-moth-diaries/ 94 140