A fantastic week of Film at Pontio in Bangor includes something for everyone. Six times BAFTA nominated Belfast is showing until 25 February.
If you’re looking for some singing, dancing, animated fun for the whole family, Sing 2 is showing all week.
The Godfather, often referred to as the ‘greatest film of all time’ returns to the big screen for its 50th anniversary and is showing at Pontio on 26 and 27 February.
Theatr Bryn Terfel welcomes legends of Irish music & song The Fureys and Clwb Comedi/Comedy Club returns on Thursday 24 February.
Book Here for all events find out more here: https://www.pontio.co.uk/
Belfast (12A)
Kenneth Branagh, 2021, 98m
Cast – Jamie Dornan, Catriona Balfe, Jude Hill, Judy Dench
Friday 11 – Friday 25 February
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
A semi-autobiographical film which chronicles the life of a working class family and their young son during the tumult of the late 1960s in the Northern Ireland capital. Written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, BELFAST is a poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one boy’s childhood. The film introduces 10-year-old Jude Hill as the young boy Buddy. Dornan and Balfe play a passionate working-class couple caught up in the mayhem, with Dench and Hinds as sharp-witted grandparents. Already recognised to be one of the very best films of the year. Branagh’s masterpiece is a definite crowd pleaser.
Sing 2 (U)
Garth Jennings. 2022. 110m
Cast – Reese Witherspoon, Matthew McConaughey, Taron Egerton
Saturday 19 – Saturday 26 February
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Buster Moon and his all-star cast of animal performers prepare to launch their most dazzling stage extravaganza yet… in the glittering entertainment capital of the world. There’s just one hitch: They first have to persuade the world’s most reclusive rock star—played by legendary music icon Bono, making his animated film debut—to join them. Sing 2 combines dozens of classic rock and pop hit songs, electrifying performances, and breathtaking animation to create a feel-good half term treat
The Godfather (15)
Francis Ford Coppola, 1972, 175m
Cast – Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton
Saturday 26 February 7pm, Sunday 27 February 2.00pm & Wednesday 2 March 8.15pm
Tickets: £7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Francis Ford Coppola kick-started the modern movie age in the 1970s with one the greatest family sagas ever made. This 50 year anniversary release is a big screen must and the year zero for the modern world’s fascination with criminal anti-heroes, gangsters and the Mafia. Based on Mario Puzo’s novel, the film focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando). When the don’s youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino), reluctantly joins the Mafia, he becomes involved in the inevitable cycle of violence and betrayal. Although Michael tries to maintain a normal relationship with his wife, Kay (Diane Keaton), he is drawn deeper into the family business.
NT Live: The Book of Dust (La Belle Sauvage) (12A)
Philip Pullman/Nicholas Hytner, 2022, 180m
Cast – Julie Atherton, Holly Atkins, Wendy Mae-Brown
Sunday 20 February, 5.30pm (Encore)
Live Satellite Screening
£13 / £11 / £10
Set twelve years before the epic His Dark Materials trilogy, this gripping adaptation revisits Philip Pullman’s fantastical world in which waters are rising and storms are brewing.
Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt. In their care is a tiny child called Lyra Belacqua, and in that child lies the fate of the future. And as the waters rise around them, powerful adversaries conspire for mastery of Dust: salvation to some, the source of infinite corruption to others.
Eighteen years after his ground-breaking production of His Dark Materials at the National Theatre, director Nicholas Hytner returns to Pullman’s parallel universe. Broadcast live from London’s Bridge Theatre.
AARAATTU (12A)
B.Unnikrishnan, 2022, 170m
Cast – Mohanlal, Neil Vincent, Shraddha Srinath
Malayalan with English subtitles
Sunday 20 February 2.00pm
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Malayalan Superstar Mohanlal is back playing Gopan, a native of Neyyattinkara, a real estate tycoon who buys a large piece of land in Chittur for a construction project. But on his arrival he learns that the residents are being forcefully and unlawfully evicted from their properties by an Andhra-based real estate mafia using illegal land acquisition rules with support from the local authorities and government officials. Big screen action, adventure, drama and music guaranteed.
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Theatr Bryn Terfel
The Fureys
Wednesday
23 February 7.30pm
Theatr Bryn Terfel £20
Having sold out their last visit, legends of Irish music & song The FUREYS, renowned for their hit songs ‘I will love you’, ‘When you were sweet 16’, ‘The Green fields of France’, ‘The old man’, ‘Red rose café’, ‘From Clare to here’, ‘Her father didn’t like me anyway’, ‘Leaving Nancy’, ‘Steal away’ etc return on Wednesday 23rd February.
The FUREYS have been entertaining audiences worldwide for 44 years, audiences that have included former Australian Prime Minister John Howard, Former Irish President Mary McAleese and the late Pope John Paul while Tony Blair has publicly stated his favourite peace song of all time is the FUREYS “Green Fields of France” and President Michael D Higgins attended their last concert in National Concert Hall.
The oldest of the brothers, Eddie Furey left home in 1966 and travelled to Scotland at the time of the great folk revival where he shared accommodation with then unknown folk singers Billy Connolly, Gerry Rafferty and Alex Campbell. In 1969 with his brother Finbar, he was the special guest for the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem throughout the USA and Canada. In 1971 he moved to mainland Europe where he toured for seven years. Dave Stewart from the Eurythmics has credited Eddie with teaching him his first chords on guitar when they met up in the North East of England while Dave was still a teenager.
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Clwb Comedi/Comedy Club
Thursday 24 February 2022 20:00
Studio Theatre
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Events:
Bangor Art Foundation 40+1 Exhibition
Location: Public spaces
Date: 21 January – 2 April 2021
This is an exhibition in collaboration with Storiel and Coleg Menai, celebrating 40 years of the Bangor Art Foundation course. We’ll be showing works by past students from the programme, including a sculpture by Angharad Pearce Jones, a commission by Niki Cotton and film screenings by Bethan Huws, Bedwyr Williams and Russell Owen.
