Quad brings cutting edge films back to the city
The £11m arts complex opens its two cinema screens today and will be looking to bring to the city the kind of cutting-edge, alternative titles that struggle to find space at the multiplexes.
That means that this week we get the first chance in Derby to see the new Shane Meadows film Somers Town (Cert 12A) and on Sunday evening a special, advance screening of the Derbyshire-filmed Summer, written by Matlock screenwriter Hugh Ellis. A question and answer session with Hugh will take place before the screening at 8.40pm.
The film programme in screen one opens today with a two-week run of How To Lose Friends And Alienate People (Cert 15), a new comedy starring Simon Pegg, Jeff Bridges, Gillian Anderson and Kirsten Dunst.
Sharing the second screen with Somers Town is Summer Hours (Cert 12A) a French drama starring Juliette Binoche. Also screening in the first week are the Brazilian thriller Elite Squad (Cert 18) and the documentary Man On Wire (Cert 12A).
On Sunday there is a also a one-off screening of Love Letters And High Wires (Cert U) a screening of archive avant-garde films from the General Post Office made in the 1930s.
Quad cinema programmer Sally Griffith says: "I think Cinema De Lux in Westfield has done a good job in bringing cinema back to the city centre but we are going to expand people's choices and offer them something a bit different."
Films to look forward to in the rest of the month include the Icelandic offering Jar City (Cert 15) – a dark-edged murder thriller that is one of the year's best films and the latest Coen brothers outing Burn After Reading (Cert 15), which starts a two-week run from Friday, October 17.
Also opening on October 17 is Derbyshire-shot period costume drama The Duchess (Cert 12A). French drama I've Loved You So Long (Cert 12A) and a poignant comedy The Visitor Cert (15) can also be seen.
In the week commencing October 24 there's a chance to see Linha Da Passe (Cert 15) by the director of The Motorcycle Diaries and The Banishment (Cert 12A), a dark film from Russia.
From October 31 there is a chance to see Gomorrah (Cert 15), a gritty Italian gangland drama and Hunger (Cert 15), a dramatisation of the events from 1981 surrounding hunger striker Bobby Sands.
There is a special season of music documentaries shown as the weekly Cinema Expose screenings which will be held every Wednesday evening. They include Chet Baker: Let's Get Lost (Cert 15) and Shine A Light (Cert 12A), Martin Scorsese's look at the Rolling Stones.
Quad will also be holding weekend Cine Kids screenings and, on Wednesdays at 2pm, there are Midweek Treat screenings introduced by Qt's film critic Nigel Powlson.
Call 01332 290606 or go to www.derbyquad.co.uk.
How to Lose Friends and Influence People is also showing this week at the Odeon, Showcase and Cinema De Lux in Derby, Cineworld Burton and Cinebowl Uttoxeter.
LOSING FRIENDS: Simon Pegg in his new film, How to Lose Friends and Influence People.
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