Hebden Bridge Picture House

WALL-E (U)

Friday 22nd - Saturday 30th August 1.30pm
Sunday 31st August 12.20pm
Also showing 4.30pm Sunday 24th August
This film is shown with audio description. See Audio described cinema|.

This post-apocalyptic romance is another beautifully animated outing from Pixar. In the ruins of a city WALL-E is the only thing moving, a small robot following his programming to collect rubbish and turn it into cubes. His fellow robots stopped working a long time ago and WALL-E is lonely, although his cockroach friend and his imagination manage to keep him going. When a probe droid named EVE arrives the two robots begin to form a friendship, until a small plant is discovered and EVE's programme takes over.

'Storytelling of such charm and visual wit that it can stand proudly alongside the studio's best. Absolute heaven.' - Olly Richards, Empire *****

Dir. Andrew Stanton, USA, 2008, 97 mins
Voices: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Sigourney Weaver, Fred Willard

I Served The King Of England (15)

Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th August 7.45pm

A stunning, unexpected return to the limelight for the legendary Czech New Wave pioneer Menzel, about the life of an ambitious hotel maitre d' before and during the Second World War. This barnstorming epic is a gripping tale of war, love and money, audaciously sprinkled with that inimitably dry Czech humour.

Dir: Jiri Menzel, Czech republic, 2006, 117 mins, subtitles
Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch

City Of Men (15)

Thursday 28th August 10.45am
This film is shown with audio description. See Audio described cinema|.

At 17 and 18, Ace and Wallace have little interest in gang squabbles apart from avoiding them as best they can. Neither has ever known their fathers, and now Ace is facing fatherhood with uncertainty. Wallace wants to track down his own missing father, not least because he needs his help to acquire some ID. Meanwhile, the influence of the local gang threatens to divide the two friends on opposite sides of a violent feud.

'The superheated, rat-a-tat-tat style of Fernando Meirelles' epic City of God gives way to a lighter but also more emotionally satisfying take on the lives of favela gangstas in companion piece City of Men.' - Variety

Dir. Paulo Morelli, Brazil, 2007, 107 mins, subtitles
Douglas Silva, Cunha, Jonathan Haagensen, Rodrigo dos Santos, Camila Monteiro

The Dark Knight (12A)

Friday 29th August - Sunday 31st August 7.30pm
Also showing 3.30pm Sunday 31st August
This film is shown with audio description. See Audio described cinema|.
The 7.30pm Sunday 31st screening is soft subtitled. See Accessible cinema|  

British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) Advice - Contains moderate violence and sustained threat
Parents: British Board of Film Classification|

The follow-up to the action hit Batman Begins, The Dark Knight reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who reprises the role of Batman / Bruce Wayne. In the new film, Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as The Joker (played by the late Heath Ledger).

'The haunting and visionary Dark Knight soars on the wings of untamed imagination' - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Dir. Christopher Nolan, USA, 2008, 152 mins
Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman