ARC Cinema - Tees Valley's Independent Cinema
Cinema in style…
The best independent and blockbuster films in a unique setting. Settle in and enjoy a drink in a comfort of our intimate, stylish cinema and watch the best films from around the globe.
FULL: £5.50
CONCESSIONS: £4.50
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Synecdoche, New York (15)
Running Times - 2hrs 4mins
Tues 30 June - 7.30pm
Wed 1 - 2pm (Silver Screen) // 7.30pm (Orange Wednesdays)
Thur 2 July - 7.30pm (Student Night)
F:£5.50 C:£4.50 Silver Screen: Over 60s: £2.50 Student Night: Students: £3
Directed by Charlie Kaufmann and starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener and Michelle Williams.
Visionary award winning writer, Charlie Kaufmann (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich), presents his directorial debut in style.
Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel has prematurely run aground. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one.
Worried about the transience of his life, he leaves his home behind. He gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, hoping to create a work of brutal honesty. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing mockup of the city outside.
The years rapidly fold into each other, and Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece. As he pushes the limits of his relationships, both personally and professionally, a change in creative direction arrives in Millicent Weems, a celebrated theater actress who may offer Caden the break he needs.
“To say that Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York" is one of the best films of the year or even one closest to my heart is such a pathetic response to its soaring ambition that I might as well pack it in right now.” New York Times
"Astonishing. Kaufman has surpassed himself with a film that will delight and confound. You will want to see it again. And again." Empire
Genre - Comedy
See it if you liked... Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Image courtesy of Revolver Entertainment
Waveriders (PG)
Running Time - 1hr 20mins
Fri 3 - 7.30pm
Sat 4 July - 2pm // 7.30pm
F:£5.50 C:£4.50
Directed by Joel Conroy.
Waveriders is the untold story of the unlikely Irish roots of the surfing phenomenon and today's pioneers of Irish big wave surfing.
The story unfolds via the inspirational yet tragic history of Irish/Hawaiian legendary waterman, George Freeth, who was responsible for the rebirth of this sport of Hawaiian kings in the early twentieth century.
With its distinguished cast of world-renowned surfers, Waveriders then journeys full-circle from Hawaii to California and back to Irish shores following Freeth's wave of influence.
This journey reaches a spectacular climax when the surfers conquer the biggest swell ever to have been ridden in Ireland, catching monster waves of over fifty feet.
“Gripping… Awe inspiring.” Total Film
Genre - Documentary
See it if you liked... Touching the Void, Deep Water
Image courtesy of
Is There Anybody There? (12A)
Running Time - 1hr 32mins
Tues 7 - 7.30pm
Wed 8 - 2pm (Silver Screen) // 7.30pm (Orange Wednesdays)
Thur 9 July - 7.30pm (Student Night)
F:£5.50 C:£4.50 Silver Screen: Over 60's £2.50 Student Night: Students £3
Directed by John Crowley and starring Michael Caine, David Morrissey, Bill Milner and Anne-Marie Duff.
Sir Michael Caine gives one of the finest performances of his career as a retired magician who reluctantly enters a family-run old age home in John Crowley’s Is Anybody There?
Set in a seaside English town circa 1987, the film charts the unlikely friendship that develops between Caine’s proud, acerbic old performer and the death-obsessed young son of the home’s overwhelmed owners.
Written by Peter Harness, who draws from his own experience growing up in a retirement home, Is Anybody There? brings a rich humor as well as a rigorous honesty to its portrait of different lives colliding under one roof.
Is Anybody There? tells a charming story about growing up and growing old, and the unpredictable adventures that happen along the way.
“A story that is as touching as it is funny.” Empire
Genre - Drama
See it if you liked... Venus, The Bucket List
Film Trailers from Filmtrailer.com
Image courtesy of Optimum Releasing.
The Friday Classic: The 39 Steps (PG)
Running Time - 1hr 26mins
Fri 10 July - 2pm // 7.30pm
F:£5.50 C:£4.50
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll.
The original version of the classic comedy thriller, starring legendary British heart-throb, Robert Donat, was a highlight of Hitchcock’s career.
While sitting in a London theatre watching a man perform dazzling memory tricks, Richard Hannay and the rest of the audience flee after hearing a gunshot. As he leaves, he encounters a young woman who asks if she can accompany him. Fascinated by her apparent terror, he agrees. During the night, however, she is murdered in his flat, and he must avoid the police long enough to find the real killers and clear his name.
“Witty, daring and exuberant.” The Guardian
Genre - Crime/Thriller
See it if you liked... Vertigo, Rear Window
Image courtesy of Park Circus.
Cheri (15)
Running Time - 1hr 40mins
Sat 11 - 2pm // 7.30pm
Tues 14 - 7.30pm
Wed 15 - 2pm (Silver Screen) // 7.30pm (Orange Wednesdays)
Thurs 16 July - 7.30pm (Student Night)
F:£5.50 C:£4.50 Silver Screen: Over 60's £2.50 Student Night: Students £3
Directed by Stephen Frears and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates and Rupert Friend.
Director Stephen Frears (The Queen) and Michelle Pfeiffer reunite for the first time since Dangerous Liaisons with this sumptuous romantic drama.
It is turn of the century in Belle Epoque Paris and a scandalous romp is underfoot. The sensational tale begins as the ravishing Lea contemplates retirement from her renowned stature as Paris’s most envied seductress to the rich and famous.
Her plans are cut short when she is approached by a former courtesan and arch rival, the barb-throwing gossip Charlotte Peloux, who encourages Lea to teach her disaffected 19 year-old son — a bon vivant nicknamed “Chéri” — a thing or two about women.
The resulting escapades involve power struggles over sex, money, age and society – and unexpectedly, love itself — as a boy who refuses to grow up collides with a woman who realizes she cannot stay young forever. Director Stephen Frears and screenwriter Christopher Hampton (Atonement) reunite (Dangerous Liaisons) to playfully bring Colette’s unconventional romance, to the screen.
Genre - Romance
See it if you liked... The Young Victoria, Lady Chatterley, Dangerous Liaisons
Film Trailers from Filmtrailer.com
Image courtesy of Pathe Distribution.
Star Trek (12A)
Running Time - 2hrs 6mins
Fri 17 - 7.30pm
Sat 18 July - 2pm // 7.30pm
F:£5.50 C:£4.50
Directed by J.J. Abrams and starring Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto.
The Star Trek origin story gets a reboot as we go back to the days before the Enterprise crew had formed. James Kirk is a young rebel with no intention of following in the footsteps of his father, a well respected Starfleet captain who died in service. But all that changes when the world is threatened by an alien force and he meets Spock, Scotty and the rest of his future crew at the Starfleet Academy.
“Buoyant, buffed and with the promise of even better to come.” Total Film
Genre - Sci-Fi
See it if you liked... Star Trek, Star Wars
Film Trailers from Filmtrailer.com
Image courtesy of Paramount Distribution
Pour elle (Anything For Her) (15)
Running Time - 1hr 36mins. In French with English subtitles.
Tues 21 - 7.30pm
Wed 22 - 2pm (Silver Screen) // 7.30pm (Orange Wednesdays)
Thurs 23 July - 7.30pm (Student Night)
F:£5.50 C:£4.50 Silver Screen: Over 60s £2.50 Student Night: Students £3
Directed by Fred Cavayé and starring Vincent Lindon and Diane Kruger.
Lisa and Julien are a happily married couple, still passionately in love, who lead a normal life together with their young son Oscar. But their lives are turned upside down when one morning and completely out of the blue the police come round and arrest Lisa for a brutal murder. She is found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison which threatens to break the family apart. Julien makes it his mission to prove his wife's innocence and will stop at nothing to get her out of prison. But is Lisa innocent and how far will Julien go for her?
Genre - Drama
See it if you liked... Tell No One
Film Trailers from Filmtrailer.com
Image courtesy of Metrodome Distribution
Last Chance Harvey (12A)
Running Time - 1hr 32mins
Fri 24 - 7.30pm
Sat 25 July - 2pm // 7.30pm
F:£5.50 C:£4.50
Directed by Joel Hopkins and starring Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson.
Academy Award winners Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson reunite in Last Chance Harvey, a hopeful romance that celebrates new beginnings—at any age.
New Yorker Harvey Shine is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss that he has just one more chance to deliver, Harvey goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter’s wedding but promises to be back on Monday morning to make an important meeting—or else.
Harvey arrives in London only to learn his daughter has chosen to have her stepfather walk her down the aisle instead of him. Doing his best to hide his devastation, he leaves the wedding before the reception in hopes of getting to the airport on time, but misses his plane anyway.
When he calls his boss to explain, he is fired on the spot. Drowning his sorrows at the airport bar, Harvey strikes up a conversation with Kate, a slightly prickly, 40-something employee of the Office of National Statistics.
Kate, whose life is limited to work, the occasional humiliating blind date and endless phone calls from her smothering mother, is touched by Harvey, who finds himself energized by her intelligence and compassion. The growing connection between the pair inspires both as they unexpectedly transform one another’s lives.
Nominated for Best Actress and Best Actor at 2009 Golden Globe Awards.
Genre - Romantic Drama
See it if you liked... The Visitor, The Terminal
Image courtesy of Momentum Pictures.
O'Horten (12A)
Running Time - 1hr 30mins. In Norwegian with English subtitles.
Tues 28 - 7.30pm
Wed 29 July - 2pm (Silver Screen) // 7.30pm (Orange Wednesdays)
F:£5.50 C:£4.50 Silver Screen: Over 60s £2.50
Directed by Bent Hamer and starring Baard Owe.
The moment the train leaves the station without engineer Odd Horten aboard, he realizes that the path ahead is a journey without printed timetables and well-known stations.
Horten has been forced to retire after 40 years of traveling a very stable rail, and the platform does not feel like a safe place anymore. His orderly, solitary existence is about to give way to a future of unlikely adventures and puzzling dilemmas: will Horten ever travel by plane? Will he finally sell his prized boat? How does Horten end up in a pair of women’s red high-heeled shoes? Will he survive a nighttime drive with a blindfolded man at the wheel?
Proof positive that there is humor to be found in aging, and we don’t have to be elderly Norwegians to identify, laugh and embrace life in all its idiosyncratic splendor. O’HORTEN is Bent Hamer’s wonderfully skewed view of the human condition and gives us that somewhat absurdist vision.
Genre - Drama
See it if you liked... The Chorus,
Film Trailers from Filmtrailer.com
Image courtesy of Artificial Eye.
Sunshine Cleaning (15)
Running Time - 1hr 31mins
Fri 31 July - 7.30pm
Sat 1 Aug - 2pm // 7.30pm
F:£5.50 C:£4.50
Directed by Christine Jeffs and starring Amy Adams, Emily Blunt and Alan Arkin.
Starring Academy Award® nominee Amy Adams, Golden Globe® winner Emily Blunt and Academy Award® winner Alan Arkin, this tale of two sisters trying to make good with by starting a crime scene cleaning company is incredibly touching and hilarious.
Once the high school cheerleading captain who dated the quarterback, Rose Lorkowski now finds herself a thirty-something single mother working as a maid. Her sister Norah is still living at home with their dad Joe, a salesman with a lifelong history of ill-fated get rich quick schemes.
Desperate to get her son into a better school, Rose persuades Norah to go into the crime scene clean-up business with her to make some quick cash. In no time, the girls are up to their elbows in murders, suicides and other…specialised situations.
As they climb the ranks in a very dirty job, the sisters find new respect for one another and the closeness they have always craved finally blossoms. By building their own improbable business, Rose and Norah open the door to the joys and challenges of being there for one another, no matter what, while discovering personal healing in the most unexpected way.
“Adams and Blunt are a winning combo” Total Film
Official Website
Genre - Comedy
See it if you liked... Little Miss Sunshine
Film Trailers from Filmtrailer.com
Image courtesy of Delanic Films.
Coraline (PG)
Running Time - 1hr 40mins
Tues 4 - 7.30pm
Wed 5 - 2pm (Silver Screen) // 7.30pm (Orange Wednesdays)
Thur 6 Aug - 7.30pm (Student Night)
F:£5.50 C:£4.50 Silver Screen: Over 60s £2.50 Student Night: Students £3
Directed by Henry Selick and starring Dakota Fanning and Teri Hatcher.
From the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas comes this new fantastical animation. A young girl walks through a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life. On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to her real life - only much better. But when this wondrously off-kilter, fantastical adventure turns dangerous, and her counterfeit other mother tries to keep her forever, Coraline must count on her stubborn determination, bravery, the aid of her neighbours and a talking black cat to save her real parents and some ghost children and to get back home.
“Destined to be a classic.” The Times
Genre - Adventure
See it if you liked... The Nightmare Before Christmas, Pans Labrynth
Film Trailers from Filmtrailer.com
Image courtesy of Universal Pictures Distribution.
Friday Classic: Stand By Me (15)
Running Time - 1hr 25mins
Fri 7 Aug - 2pm // 7.30pm
F:£5.50 C:£4.50
Directed by Rob Reiner and starring River Phoenix and Richard Dreyfuss.
Augusts’ Friday Classic, to many people, is the ultimate summer movie.
In a small woodsy Oregon town, a group of friends--sensitive Gordie (Wil Wheaton), tough guy Chris (River Phoenix), flamboyant Teddy (Corey Feldman), and scaredy-cat Vern (Jerry O'Connell)--are in search of a missing teenager's body. Wanting to be heroes in each other's and their hometown's eyes, they set out on an unforgettable two-day trek that turns into an odyssey of self-discovery. They sneak smokes, tell tall tales, cuss 'cause it's cool and band together when the going gets tough. When they encounter the town's knife-wielding hoods who are also after the body, the boys discover a strength they never knew they had.
Stand By Me is a rare and special film about friendship and the indelible experiences of growing up. Filled with humor and suspense, Stand By Me is based on the novella The Body by Stephen King.
“This is as fresh and moving as it was when it was first released. Superbly acted...the classic of its genre” Empire
Genre - Drama
See it if you liked... Goonies,
Image courtesy of Sony Pictures Releasing.
Looking for Eric (15)
Running Time - 1hr 56mins
Sat 8 - 2pm // 7.30pm
Tues 11 - 7.30pm
Wed 12 - 2pm (Silver Screen) // 7.30pm (Orange Wednesdays)
Thur 13 Aug - 7.30pm (Student Night)
F:£5.50 C:£4.50 Silver Screen: Over 60s £2.50 Student Night: Students £3
Directed by Ken Loach and starring Steve Evets and Eric Cantona.
Director Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes The Barley and Kes) returns with his latest film.
Eric the postman just can't get a grip on his life. A chaotic family, wild stepsons and a cement mixer in his front garden don't help, but it's a deeper secret that sends him to the brink.
In desperate times it takes a spliff and a special friend to challenge Eric to journey into the most perilous territory of all - the past. As a certain Frenchman says, "He who is afraid to throw the dice, will never throw a six."
“A real crowd-pleaser with both heart and soul” Time Out
Genre - Comedy
See it if you liked... Kes, The Full Monty
Film Trailers from Filmtrailer.com
Image courtesy of Icon Film Distribution UK
Rudo & Cursi (Rudo y Cursi) (15)
Running Time - 1hr 42mins. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Fri 14 - 7.30pm
Sat 15 Aug - 2pm // 7.30pm
F:£5.50 C:£4.50
Directed by Carlos Cuarón and starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna.
Tato and Beto, two brothers who have a simple dream of saving enough money to build their mother her dream house. But fate has other plans; a friendly game of soccer leads to first one, then the other being taken on by the nation's top talent scout, Batuta, and gives rise to the first of many emotional head to heads between brothers.
Suddenly, they find themselves living the high life of star athletes - fame, riches, fast cars, and beautiful women. But every dream has a dark side, and when they are forced to compete on rival teams, bitterness brews between them.
In a Mexican all-star dream team, Rudo y Cursi reunites Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna and Carlos Cuaron (Y Tu Mama Tambien), in the first project from Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Guillermo Del Toro's groundbreaking new company, CHA CHA CHA.
“A winning measure of swagger and style.” New York Times
In Spanish with English subtitles.
Genre - Comedy
See it if you liked... Y Tu Mama Tambien, Frieda
Film Trailers from Filmtrailer.com
Image courtesy of Optimum Releasing.
Public Enemies (15)
Running Time - 2hrs 23mins
Tues 18 - 7.30pm
Wed 19 - 2pm (Silver Screen) // 7.30pm (Orange Wednesdays)
Thur 20 July - 7.30pm (Student Night)
F:£5.50 C:£4.50 Silver Screen: Over 60s £2.50 Student Night: Students £3
Directed by Michael Mann and starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale.
In the action-thriller Public Enemies, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, and Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard in the incredible and true story of legendary Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger (Depp), the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover's fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Bale), and a folk hero to much of the downtrodden public.
No one could stop Dillinger. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone, from his girlfriend Billie Frechette (Cotillard), to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression.
But while the adventures of Dillinger's gang (later including the sociopathic Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham) thrilled many, Hoover (Billy Crudup) hit on the idea of exploiting the outlaw's capture as a way to elevate his Bureau of Investigation into the national police force that became the FBI. He made Dillinger America's first Public Enemy Number One and sent in Purvis, the dashing "Clark Gable of the FBI".
However, Dillinger and his gang outwitted and outgunned Purvis' men in wild chases and shootouts. Only after importing a crew of Western ex-lawmen (newly baptized as agents), who were real gunfighters, and orchestrating epic betrayals, from the infamous "Lady in Red" to the Chicago crime boss Frank Nitti, were Purvis and the FBI able to close in on Dillinger.
Official Website
Genre - Crime Drama
See it if you liked... Bonnie and Clyde, Heat
Film Trailers from Filmtrailer.com
Image courtesy of Universal Pictures Distribution
Kisses (15)
Running Time - 1hr 12mins
Fri 21 - 7.30pm
Sat 22 Aug - 2pm // 7.30pm
F:£5.50 C:£4.50
Directed by Lance Daly and starring Kelly O’Neill and Shane Curry.
On the fringes of Dublin two kids, Kylie and Dylan, live in a suburban housing estate devoid of life, colour and the prospect of escape. Kylie lives with five other siblings and her overworked mother. Next door, Dylan lives in the shadow of an alcoholic father and the memory of an elder brother who ran away from home two years earlier.
After a violent altercation with his father, Dylan runs away from home and Kylie decides to run away with him. Together they make their way to the magical night time lights of inner city Dublin, to search for Dylan's brother in the hope of finding the possibility of a new life.
“Captivating and poignant portrayal of life on the edge for the disregarded of our societies.” Empire
Genre - Drama
See it if you liked... In America, Once
Film Trailers from Filmtrailer.com
Image courtesy of Optimum Releasing.
Coco Before Chanel (Coco avant Chanel) (12A)
Running Time - 1hr 50mins. In French with English subtitles.
Tues 25 - 7.30pm
Wed 26 - 2pm (Silver Screen) // 7.30pm (Orange Wednesdays)
Thur 27 - 7.30pm (Student Night)
Fri 28 Aug - 7.30pm
F:£5.50 C:£4.50 Silver Screen: Over 60s £2.50 Student Night: Students £3
Directed by and starring Anne Fontaine and starring Audrey Tautou and Benoît Poelvoorde.
Audrey Tautou (Amelie, Priceless) plays the legendary Coco Chanel in an enthralling exploration of her early life before she rose to worldwide fame as the most celebrated fashion designer of the 20th Century. We meet the young Gabrielle Chanel, illegitimate daughter of a travelling salesman who learns to sew in a Catholic orphanage before following her singing ambitions lead her to a cabaret club. It is here where Chanel earns the nickname Coco and also where she catches the eye of several high society gentlemen who would ignite her passion and become instrumental in the development of her remarkable career.
From director Anne Fontaine (Nathalie), Coco Before Chanel is the fascinating untold story of how one woman rose from humble beginnings to become one of couture's most important icons.
In French with English subtitles.
Genre - Biopic
See it if you liked... La Vie En Rose, Priceless
Film Trailers from Filmtrailer.com
Image courtesy of Optimum Releasing.
Sugar (15)
Running Time - 1hr 54mins
Sat 29 Aug - 2pm // 7.30pm
F:£5.50 C:£4.50
Directed by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden and starring Algenis Perez Soto and Alina Vargas.
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's (Half Nelson) account of a young Dominican pitcher's experiences in the competitive world of US baseball is a powerful and ambitious follow-up to their startlingly assured feature debut. But just as their first film was not your average high school drama, nor is Sugar even close to being just another American sports movie.
Chosen to enter a mid-western rookie academy and with a chance of playing in the Major League, Dominican Miguel 'Sugar' Santos (Algenis Perez Soto) desire to achieve the American Dream of success, fame and celebrity seems assured. However, as he tries to integrate himself into his new home, Sugar feels increasingly isolated. He is eventually faced with the choice of pleasing those around him at the expense of personal happiness, or making his own way in the world in order to discover what it is he wants from it.
Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival.
“Sugar is a revelation.” The Guardian
Genre - Drama
See it if you liked... Half Nelson
Film Trailers from Filmtrailer.com
Image courtesy of Axiom Films.
Moon (15)
Running Time - 1hr 37mins
Tues 1 - 7.30pm
Wed 2 - 2pm (Silver Screen) // 7.30pm (Orange Wednesday's)
Thur 3 Sept - 7.30pm (Student Night)
F:£5.50 C:£4.50 Silver Screen: Over 60s: £2.50 Student Night: Students: £3
Directed by Duncan Jones and starring Sam Rockwell and Kevin Spacey.
Moon follows Sam Bell, an astronaut serving out a three-year solitary stint on the moon mining a resource vital to power Earth's civilisation. With only a computer called GERTY for company, Bell is entering the last two weeks of his stay when things start to take their toll…
“One of the most original sci-fi films in years.” The Independent on Sunday
Genre - Sci Fi
See it if you liked.... Sunshine, Solaris
Image courtesy of Sony Pictures Releasing
