Film Hub Fortnightly – June

Film Hub’s tour of Here Before (2021), an NI-set and produced psychological thriller, will continue on the 11^th at the Newcastle Community Cinema, before arriving at the Flowerfield Arts Centre in Portstewart on the 23^rd for its final screening. Newcastle Community Cinema’s June programme also includes a screening on the 7^th of Gagarine (2020), a magical realist drama set in a Paris Banlieue. While over in Belfast, in the Black Box on the 10^th, Ghouls on Film will be screening Carrie (1976) and hosting a prom party in a launch of their new zine.

At the Queen’s Film Theatre, you can still catch new releases like Alex Garland’s Men (2022), a folk horror starring Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear, and An Cailín Ciúin (2022), an acclaimed Irish-language coming-of-age drama. Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) is an absurdist, interdimensional action comedy starring Michelle Yeoh, and Bergman Island (2021), a detailed drama about love and the creative process starring Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth. All four titles will show up until the 9^th. And then from the 10^th until the 16^th, you can see All My Friends Hate Me (2021), a dark comedy about a college reunion gone wrong, and Il Buco (2021), a unique depiction of a 1961 spelunking expedition in Italy’s beautiful Calabria region and its director Michelangelo Frammartino’s return to cinema after a decade long absence.

The 17^th until the 20^th will see the return of a classic with Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) showing in its original, theatrical cut. While from the 17^th until the 23^rd, you can see comedic drama, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022), starring Emma Thompson as a widowed, retired schoolteacher who bonds with a young sex worker (Daryl McCormack), and French family drama Everything Went Fine (2021), about a daughter (Sophie Marceau) coming to terms with her estranged, dying father (André Dussollier).

There are a few special screenings coming to the QFT in early June. On the 7^th, there will be a new Exhibition on Screen entry, showcasing the work of the Danish-French impressionist Camille Pissarro. As part of the Belfast Book Festival, there will be a screening on the 15^th of the documentary Saint Etienne: I've Been Trying To Tell You (2021), about the legendary dance-pop band, followed by a Q&A with key member Bob Stanley. Later in the month, there will be a screening of Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing (1993) on the 21^st, the documentary George Michael Freedom Uncut (2022) on the 22^nd and on the 23^rd, The Camera is Ours: Britain's Women Documentary Makers, which will be composed of thirty years of rarely screened, women-directed short documentaries.

At Movie House Cinemas’ four locations, you can see Men and Everything Everywhere All At Once. They’re also showing Tom Cruise’s mega-blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick (2022), from the 10^th, Jurassic World: Dominion (2022) and from the 17^th, Pixar prequel Lightyear (2022).

The Strand Arts Centre are also currently showing Everything Everywhere All At Once and Top Gun: Maverick, and will be show the new Jurassic World and Lightyear from those aforementioned dates. There’s also a lot upcoming from their regular strands. The Minors Club will show Disney’s The Lion King (1994) on the 11^th and Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) on the 18^th. While the Silver Screenings strand will screen the original 1950 Cheaper By The Dozen on the 9^th and 16^th, and the Doris Day comedy Move Over, Darling (1963) on the 23^rd.

By Ruairí McCann