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WHAT’S ON / COMING SOON
The Oxford Lieder Festival
Tuesday 20th October
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Sixth Form Open Morning
7 November 2009
1.10pm: Lunch with Schumann
50 minute recital by outstanding students of the
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8.00pm: Schubert – Winterreise
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) & Andreas Haefliger (piano) £20/£17.
Free pre-concert talk (Richard Wigmore), 7.10pm.
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8.00pm: A Mendelssohn Songfest
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THE INVENTION OF LYING [12A]
Ricky Gervais tells the world’s first lie.
UP 2D [U]
daily: 3.30, 6.00, 8.30pm
daily: 3.00, 5.30, 8.00pm
Elderly adventurer pilots his house to South America. Subtitled: Thu 5.30pm
500 DAYS OF SUMMER [12A]
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in love with a girl who just wants to have fun.
FAME [PG]
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Updated version of the 1980 musical.
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR PARNASSUS [12A]
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Elderly adventurer pilots his house to South America.
ZOMBIELAND [15]
SENIOR SCREEN: MY SISTER’S KEEPER [12A] Wed: 10.45am
Anna fights her parents to keep her kidney.
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KATALIN VARGA [15]
daily: 1.15, 6.45pm (except Mon)
Ostracised mother seeks revenge. Romanian and Hungarian with English subtitles.
CREATION [PG]
BEDS TO U
daily: 3.45, 6.15, 9.00pm
Survivors of zombie plague seek safety in an amusement park. Subtitled: Mon 3.45, Tue 9.00
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Darwin’s theory of life meets resistance from wife.
MAURICIO’S DIARY [15]
Mon: 6.15pm
Mauricio assesses the last decade of his life during Cuba’s Special Period.
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THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR PARNASSUS [12A]
daily: 1.30 (except Wed), 4.00, 6.30, 9.00pm
Travelling show goes beyond imagination.
FISH TANK [15]
A girl’s life is turned upside-down by mum’s new boyfriend.
THE GODFATHER: DIGITAL RE-ISSUE [15]
The Godfather, only sharper.
Tue: 8.45pm
Wed: 8.00pm
BIG SCREAM: THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR PARNASSUS [12A]
Wed: 11.30am
Travelling show goes beyond imagination.
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FANTASTIC MR FOX [PG]
Thu: 4.30, 8.45pm
Roald Dahl story animated for the big screen.
Vue Cinema (08712 240 240)
daily: 12.20 (except Thu), 2.45, 5.15, 7.45pm
Updated version of the 1980 musical.
UP 3D [U] daily: 12.30, 3.00, 5.30, 8.00pm, plus Wed: 10.30pm
Elderly adventurer pilots his house to South America.
THE INVENTION OF LYING [12A] daily: 1.30, 4.00, 6.30, 8.45pm
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THE MADNESS OF GEORGE III
Wed 21st: 7.30pm
Thu 22nd, Sat 24th: 2.30pm, 7.30pm, Fri 23rd: 8pm
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Mon - Thu: 2.00, 7.00pm
LOVE HAPPENS [12A]
Self-help guru finds love when he least expects it. Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston.
HALLOWEEN 2 [18]
Mon - Thu: 4.30, 9.30pm
Remake of 1981 horror, by Rob Zombie.
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Travelling show goes beyond imagination.
COUPLES RETREAT [15]
daily: 12.45, 3.40, 6.15, 9.00pm
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Bollywood. Deep-sea diver finds himself under pressure.
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Cop uncovers conspiracy behind robot copies.
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FISH TANK [15]
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DIRECTOR’S CHAIR: ANYTHING FOR HER [15]
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Oxford Uni student company: Alan Bennett’s story of the ‘mad’ king. £14/£11/£9
ROGER MCGOUGH - THAT AWKWARD AGE
Fri 23rd: 5.00pm
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South African musical legends . £25/£23
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Imaginarium is a Gilliam film, no question. But while in Time Bandits, Twelve Monkeys and Fear and
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Nick must race to win five souls, with Valentina the prize. Valentina’s lovelorn suitor (an irritating
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Ledger’s death part way through is a contributing factor. Gilliam subsequently cast Johnny Depp,
Jude Law and Colin Farrell as Ledger’s mirror-world selves and it works to a point. But Ledger’s
leavening influence (London accent and all) is badly missed.
The script didn’t require reworking and the basic ideas remained. So the flaw is Gilliam’s own
– a surfeit of ideas blended like the doozy of a cocktail. Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory interiors
(flowing rivers and glowing colours) collide with a stupendously ill-judged Pythonesque singsong by policemen in tutus scaring off some Russian mobsters.
But some images are inspired. Tony’s hanging body first seems to be a shadow on the water,
waving. Scenes in which justice – or the truth – pursues the criminal – are crackingly done, as
floors collapse, contract and disappear.
Imaginarium is an upended ragbag of every idea Gilliam’s had, from Python to the present. Lacking
the coherence of Baron Munchausen or even Brazil, this is simply a set of surprising, sometimes
breathtaking images chucked together.
Add to this some ill-advised ad-libbing (well done by Ledger, botched by Garfield) and director
Gilliam is like Parnassus himself: an imagination out of control. If you like dazzling images, and offthe-wall humour, it’s a blast. And it’s poignant to see glimpses of the legend that Ledger might
have been. But if you like your flights of fancy more firmly tethered to a funny - if fantastic - plot,
it sells you short.
“I often feel I make a film in order to find out what I’m making” Gilliam has said. This sums up
Imaginarium perfectly.
Glenn Watson
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If these movies bring hope to the average Joes in
the audience, they don’t do much for the average
Janes; but they are, on the whole, plausibly written
and nicely produced and acted, and they do make
you feel good.
This is an amusing example in which Gervais is the
only person in a fictive world who can tell lies. After
a couple of curiously unsatisfying attempts to get
lots of money and sleep with attractive women, he
finds himself having to comfort his dying mother,
and naturally comes up with such an outrageous
whopper (life after death, heaven etc) that he finds
himself on national tv having to pretty much invent
religion and explain God (this movie is not going to
go down well in the Bible belt).
There are some very amusing touches - Gervais’s
character is an unsuccessful screen-writer for
movie production company Lecture Films (imagine
what movies would be like if they only portrayed
the truth!) and his arch-rival for the hand of Jennifer
Garner is the much better looking and more
successful Rob Lowe.
That’s pretty much the whole plot, but the pleasure
comes in the details - mostly the way that people in
this truthful society feel compelled to expose every
thought and deed to others - they not only can’t
lie but they can’t keep a secret either. It is funny
and sharp and biting, and Gervais (whom I always
found rather tiresome on the tv) is actually very
good indeed. So well worth the ticket price.
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