2014 Summer Screenings

2014 Summer Screenings
Art at the Heart @ Nuffield Playing Field

A taste of Art at the Heart's thrilling programme of events, from plays to music, from films to poetry, not to mention dance and soundwork along the way. 16 exciting days of events at Nuffield Playing Field the stunning pop up venue which has been created in Southampton's Guildhall Square.

Sunday
3
August

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Dir: Mel Stuart | USA | 1971 | 100 mins | U
3PM

Sunday
10
August

The King and the Mockingbird
Dir: Paul Grimault | France | 1980 | 83 mins | U
11AM
We are hoping that this film will be rescheduled later in the festival. Please check back for details.

Monday
11
August

Brazil
Dir: Terry Gilliam | UK | 1985 | 132 mins | 15
9.30PM

Friday
15
August

Jaws
Dir: Steven Spielberg | USA | 1975 | 124 mins | 12A
9.30PM

Film Screening Programme

Tickets to all films: £5 / £4 Concessions

Gather your friends and family, picnics, cushions and rugs to enjoy film screenings from the Playing Field pitch.

With morning and late night films as well as a special Sunday afternoon family screening – join us for a fun and unique way to enjoy film in the city!

The City Eye film screenings are part of Art at the Heart @ Nuffield Playing Field - a summer festival of events at a unique pop-up venue located in Guildhall Square, at the heart of our Cultural Quarter.

This project is supported by Film Hub South East with National Lottery funds distributed by the BFI Film Audience Network (FAN)

About the Films

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Dir: Mel Stuart | USA | 1971 | 100 mins | U

The world is astounded when Willy Wonka, for years a recluse in his factory, announces that five lucky people will be given a tour of the factory, shown all the secrets of his amazing candy, and one will win a lifetime supply of Wonka chocolate. Nobody wants the prize more than young Charlie, but as his family is so poor that buying even one bar of chocolate is a treat, buying enough bars to find one of the five golden tickets is unlikely in the extreme. But in movieland, magic can happen.

Charlie, along with four somewhat odious other children, get the chance of a lifetime and a tour of the factory. Along the way, mild disasters befall each of the odious children, but can Charlie beat the odds and grab the brass ring?

"Delightful, funny, scary, exciting, and, most of all, a genuine work of imagination." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Screening Details

Date: Sunday 03 August
Time: 3PM
Venue: Nuffield Playing Field, Guildhall Square, Southampton
Price: £5 / £4 Concessions

>> Seating is available to each side of the screen or bring your rug, cushion or small chair to enjoy this timeless family film from the Playing Field floor. Picnic lunchers welcome!

The King and
the Mockingbird

Dir: Paul Grimault | France | 1980 | 83 mins | U

A collaboration between director Paul Grimault and French poet and screenwriter Jacques Prévert, The King and the Mockingbird (Le Roi et l’Oiseau). The award-winning film has been cited by Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata as a profound influence on their work.

The story is adapted from a fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson about a tyrannical King ruling over the kingdom of Takicardia. Viewed with fear by his subjects, it’s only the spirited, brightly feathered Mr Bird who, from his nest near the King’s secret chambers in his gigantic palace, dares to make fun of him. The King is in love with a beautiful shepherdess in
a painting on his wall, but she is in love with a chimneysweep from another artwork. At night the paintings come to life, and together they attempt to flee. Hiding at the top of the palace, they help Mr Bird who’s become caught up in one of the King’s cruel traps, before leading the police on a wild chase...

It’s a story told with wit, imagination and a piquant charm, with quite beautifully realised animation, and rich with cultural
references (to Parisian and Venetian architecture, surrealist artists such as di Chirico and Magritte,Metropolis, King
Kong and Tintin amongst countless others). The result is a perfect union of narrative and imagery which fully explains its
inspiration for Studio Ghibli.

"A masterpiece of animation and imagination [...] Hayao Miyazaki cites it as a major influence, and fans of Studio Ghibli will thrill to the tenderly explored themes - class, nature, love, grief - and poetic, witty visuals" - Jamie Graham, Total Film

Screening Details

Date: Sunday 10 August
Time: 11AM
Venue: Nuffield Playing Field, Guildhall Square, Southampton
Price: £5 / £4 Concessions

>> Seating is available to each side of the screen or bring your rug, cushion or small chair to enjoy this beautiful animation from the Playing Field floor. Picnic brunchers welcome!

Brazil

Dir: Terry Gilliam | UK | 1985 | 132 mins | 15

Somewhere in the 20th Century most people contentedly put their faith in the security forces and institutionalised plumbing. But the human element, bled dry by technological and political oppression, still has a dreamer in Sam Lowry, a diligent but unambitious civil servant, who pursues the girl of his dreams through the corridors of paperwork and the blind malvolence of computerised bureaucracy aided on occasions by Harry Tuttle, the freelance lone-ranger of the heating and ventilation world. But Sam becomes a victim of his own romantic delusions and his dreams turn into nightmarish reality.

Terry Gilliam's Orwellian black comedy fantasy speaks for all the victimised multitudes who had their simplest needs denied and their tenderest dreams frustrated by bloody minded officialdom.

"Gilliam's dystopian epic remains among his best, blending his trademark visual inventiveness with a vicious brand of social satire. Unique and essential." - Adam Smith, Empire

Screening Details

Date: Monday 11 August
Time: 9.30 PM
Venue: Nuffield Playing Field, Guildhall Square, Southampton
Price: £5 / £4 Concessions

>> Seating is available to each side of the screen or bring your rug, cushion or small chair to enjoy this cult classic from the Playing Field floor.

Jaws

Dir: Steven Spielberg | USA | 1975 | 124 mins | 12A

When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police (Roy Scheider), a young marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a grizzled shark hunter (Robert Shaw) embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again. Featuring an unforgettable score that evokes pure terror, Jaws remains one of the most influential and gripping adventures in motion picture history.

Directed by Academy Award® winner Steven Spielberg, Jaws set the standard for edge-of-your-seat suspense quickly becoming a cultural phenomenon and forever changing the movie industry.

"Delivers an astonishingly effective thriller built on a very primal level: fear... On a sheer cause and effect basis, it could be Spielberg's finest." - Empire

Screening Details

Date: Friday 15 August
Time: 9.30 PM
Venue: Nuffield Playing Field, Guildhall Square, Southampton
Price: £5 / £4 Concessions

>> Seating is available to each side of the screen or bring your rug, cushion or small chair to enjoy this classic thriller from the Playing Field floor.