BAFTA NOMINEES, UK NATIONAL FILM WINNER, BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM WINNER
On the 17th Feb at 5pm we have THE BANK OF DAVE. This is followed at 7.30pm by a special preview screening of HOW TO HAVE SEX ahead of the national release on March 7th.
Then on Sunday afternoon THE OLD OAK is on at 4.30pm.
Door sales from 30 mins before session times. You can reserve seats or buy tickets at http://raglanmovies.nz
Feb 17: HOW TO HAVE SEX
BAFTA 2024 nomination for Outstanding British Film and Outstanding Debut by a British Director.
British Independent Film Awards 2023: WINNER Best Lead Performance – Mia McKenna-Bruce, How to Have Sex, WINNER Best Supporting Performance – Shaun Thomas, How to Have Sex
Cannes 2023: WINNER of Un Certain Regard, How to Have Sex
GUARDIAN Wendy Idea 5/5 Stars “How to Have Sex review – two stars are born with this searing study of consent .”
HOW TO HAVE SEX is a vibrant and authentic depiction of the agonies, ecstasies and ride-or-die glory of young female friendship, from rising British filmmaker Molly Manning Walker.
HOW TO HAVE SEX | R16 98 mins | UK
Saturday 17th February 7.30pm – SPECIAL PREVIEW SCREENING AHEAD OF NZ RELEASE ON MARCH 7
Saturday 16th March 5.00pm
Ticket prices: $16 Adults, $14 Concession and $9 Children. RCAC Members $12.
Raglan Movies at the Old School, 5 Stewart St, Raglan 3225.
Book online: raglanmovies.nz, (Office closed until 8th January)
Door sales from 30 mins before session times.
Licensed bar & homemade snacks on sale.
In HOW TO HAVE SEX, three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday, drinking, clubbing and hooking up in what should be the best summer of their lives. As they dance their way across the sun-drenched streets of Malia, they find themselves navigating the complexities of sex, consent and self-discovery.
Captured with luminous visuals and a pitch-perfect soundtrack, Manning Walker’s directorial debut paints a painfully familiar portrait of young adulthood, and how first sexual experiences should – or shouldn’t – play out.
It’s supposed to be the best summer ever. Tara, Skye and Em touch down on the Greek party resort of Malia for the vacation to end all vacations, the girls trip every British teenager ticks off at the cusp of adulthood. Tara, the last remaining virgin, is on a mission to change that: and her best friends are causing chaos right alongside her. The 16-year-old drinks and dances her way through the strip – with all its messy bars and grimy nightclubs – until she meets a couple of boys on the neighbouring hotel balcony who she hopes might give her a summer to remember.
Making her debut feature with a vibrant, compassionate look at sex, friendship and the sweet smell of a boozy sunburned summer holiday, director and cinematographer Molly Manning Walker (Scrapper, Good Thanks, You?) paints an exhilarating, moving, and painfully familiar portrait of young adulthood.
Director: Molly Manning Walker
Producers: Ivana Mackinnon (Beast), Emily Leo (Under The Shadow), Konstantinos Kontovrakis (Triangle of Sadness)
Starring: Mia McKenna Bruce (Vampire Academy), Lara Peake (Born To Kill), Sam Bottomley (Somewhere Boy), Shaun Thomas (Four Lives), Enva Lewis, Laura Ambler
R16 98 mins | UK
Feb 18: THE OLD OAK
2024 Nominee BAFTA Film Award Outstanding British Film of the Year: THE OLD OAK
Cannes Film Festival Ken Loach for THE OLD OAK 2023 Nominee Palme d’Or
Graeme Tuckett Stuff-Waikato Times, 4/5 Stars “Ken Loach’s swansong is gorgeous, flawed, relatable and unmissable as ever.”
THE OLD OAK is a special place. Not only is it the last pub standing, but it’s also the only remaining public space where people can meet in a once thriving community.
THE OLD OAK | M Offensive language 114 mins | Belgium France UK | English Arabic with English subtitles
18th February 4.30pm
Ticket prices: $16 Adults, $14 Concession and $9 Children. RCAC Members $12.
Raglan Movies at the Old School, 5 Stewart St, Raglan 3225.
Book online: raglanmovies.nz, (Office closed until 8th January)
Door sales from 30 mins before session times.
Licensed bar & homemade snacks on sale.
Hard times means that after 30 years of decline. TJ Ballantyne (Dave Turner) the landlord hangs on to The Old Oak by his fingertips.
His predicament is endangered even more when the pub becomes contested territory after the arrival of Syrian refugees who are placed in the village without any notice. In an unlikely friendship TJ meets a curious young Syrian Yara [Ebla Mari] with her camera. Can they find a way for the two communities to understand each other? So unfolds a deeply moving drama about their fragilities and hopes.
Director: Ken Loach
Producer: Rebecca O’Brien
Screen Writer: Paul Laverty
Actors: Trevor Fox, Col Tait, Dave Turner, Ebla Mari, Claire Rodgerson,Chris McGlade, Jordan Louis
M Offensive language 114 mins English and Arabic with English subtitles
Feb 17: THE BANK OF DAVE
Won Feature Film of 2023 at UK National Film Awards in London
Jen Shieff, Rotorua Post. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED “It’s a David-and-Goliath story, in which snooty Oxford-educated bankers get their comeuppance.”
The true underdog story of how Dave Fishwick, a working class man and self-made millionaire, fought to set up a community bank so that he could help the local businesses of Burnley not only survive, but thrive. In his bid to help his beloved community, he has to take on the elitist financial institutions of London and fight to receive the first, new banking license to be issued in over 100 years.
THE BANK OF DAVE |M Sex scenes, offensive language, nudity & suicide 180mins | USA, UK
Saturday 17th February 5pm
Ticket prices: $16 Adults, $14 Concession and $9 Children. RCAC Members $12.
Raglan Movies at the Old School, 5 Stewart St, Raglan 3225.
Book online: raglanmovies.nz, (Office closed until 8th January)
Door sales from 30 mins before session times.
Licensed bar & homemade snacks on sale.
THE BANK OF DAVE
‘Bank of Dave’ tells the story of how a working class Burnley man and self-made millionaire fought to set up a community bank. Dave Fishwick (Rory Kinnear) sells vans in Burnley, Lancashire. Once the world’s most productive and profitable mill town, Burnley is now one of the most deprived and neglected towns in the UK. Dave, however, through a combination of hustle and hard work, has done well for himself — so well that in the wake of the last financial crisis he started lending money at reduced rates to his customers and local businesses.
When some of those businesses start making money they ask Dave to reinvest it for them. This gives Dave an idea. Why not set up a tiny local bank that uses local money to fund local enterprise? He will call it: The Bank of Dave. The elite, London based financial authorities however, haven’t granted a new bank license for over 150 years and they’re not keen to grant one to a van salesmen from Burnley. Dave must enlist the help of London lawyer, Hugh (Joel Fry), junior doctor Alexandra (Phoebe Dynevor) and some local rock legends (Def Leppard) to help fight the good cause.
DIRECTED BY Chris Foggin
CAST Joel Fry, Phoebe Dynevor, Rory Kinnear, Hugh Bonneville, Paul Kaye, Jo Hartley, Cathy Tyson, Florence Hall, Drew Cain, Grant Crookes
BANK OF DAVE M Offensive Language 107 mins | UK