Dundee Contemporary Arts
- Telephone 01382 909900
- Opening times Tue–Sat 11am–6pm (Thu until 8pm); Sun noon–6pm.
- Website www.dca.org.uk
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The DCA cinema hosts two screens and is complemented by a shop and café bar.
£5.40 (£4.30 before 5pm). Family Ticket £17.60. Student Sundays: £3.20. Senior Mondays: £3.20. Movie Kids: Adults £2.50; Child £2 (children's tickets are buy one get one free). Bring a baby: Adults £2.50; babies go free.
Event times
There are 28 events at this location
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Ana
- 2013
- 135 min
A live screening of the Scottish-Canadian theatrical co-production about a cursed woman who multiplies herself to escape her own terror.
Sat 8 Jun
BBC Radio Scotland: Brian Taylor's Big Debate
Air your views on the week's goings-on as BBC Scotland's Political Editor brings his debate to town. To book a seat or contribute a question, email brian@bbc.co.uk. Booking is essential.
Fri 14 Jun
Free / 0141 422 7776
Beware of Mr Baker
- 2012
- US
- 100 min
- 15
- Directed by: Jay Bulger
- Written by: Jay Bulger
- UK release: 17 May 2013
Warts-and-all portrayal of the excess of former Cream drummer Ginger Baker, considered by some to be the world's best drummer.
Fri 7 Jun
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Discovery Film Festival
Scotland's international film festival for young audiences (3+) taking place annually over three weekends at DCA. It combines the best youth cinema from around the world with a series of creative workshops and events. A specially programmed exhibition by Japanese artist Hiraki Sawa runs in DCA Galleries from 5 Oct – 12…
Sat 19 Oct
Times vary / £0–£5.50 / 01382 909900
Sun 20 Oct
Times vary / £0–£5.50 / 01382 909900
Mon 21 Oct
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Duncan of Jordanstone Showcase
- 2009
- UK
- 90 min
- E
- Directed by: Various
Screening of digital film work by graduating students of various disciplines at Duncan of Jordanston College of Art and Design.
Fri 24 May
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Explorers
- 1985
- US
- 109 min
- U
- Directed by: Joe Dante
- Cast: Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Bobby Fite
Marking the feature débuts of Hawke and the late Phoenix, this Dante-helmed fantasy sci-fi sees a trio of children construct their own spaceship. Their earth-bound shenanigans are clumsily amusing but things really fall apart when they land on an alien spacecraft and begin to communicate with the extraterrestrials.
Sat 25 May
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From Here To Eternity

- 1953
- US
- 118 min
- PG
- Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
- Written by: James Jones (novel), Daniel Taradash
- Cast: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Borgnine, Philip Ober, Jack Warden
Restoration and reissue of Fred Zinneman's iconic adaptation of James Jones' epic multi-character tale of love in a time of war. Stars Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed and a beach.
Sun 2 Jun
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Glyndebourne: Ariadne auf Naxos
A live screening direct from the Glyndebourne Festival of Opera of Richard Strauss' comedic 1912 opera Ariadne auf Naxos.
Tue 4 Jun
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The Great Gatsby

- 2013
- US/Australia
- 143 min
- 12A
- Directed by: Baz Luhrmann
- Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton
- UK release: 16 May 2013
Luhrmann's typically exuberant take on the novel by F Scott Fitzgerald features DiCaprio as the titular millionaire.
Fri 24 May
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Sun 26 May
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A Hijacking

- 2012
- Denmark
- 99 min
- 15
- Directed by: Tobias Lindholm
- Written by: Tobias Lindholm
- Cast: Pilou Asbæk, Roland Møller, Søren
- UK release: 10 May 2013
Thriller about the hijacking of a freighter in the Indian Ocean, as experienced by both the desperate ship's cook (Asbæk) and the ice-cool CEO (Malling), who negotiates with the pirates from his boardroom. Negotiations drag on for months, making for commendable realism and fine performances but also slowing the pace to a…
Fri 31 May
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Hiraki Sawa
Hiraki Sawa is a Japan-born artist now based in London, who has gained a following for his haunting, dream-like video works, in which the artist's bedroom is transformed into a busy airport or tiny figures walk across the top of a washing machine.
Sat 5 Oct
Free / 01382 909900
- 11:00 – 18:00 Dundee Contemporary Arts Hiraki Sawa
Sun 6 Oct
Free / 01382 909900
- 12:00 – 18:00 Dundee Contemporary Arts Hiraki Sawa
Tue 8 Oct
Free / 01382 909900
- 11:00 – 18:00 Dundee Contemporary Arts Hiraki Sawa
The Illusionist

- 2010
- UK/France
- 83 min
- 12A
- Directed by: Sylvain Chomet
- Cast: Jean-Claude Donda, Eilidh Rankin
The product of five years' work in an animation studio that Chomet (Belleville Rendezvous) set up in Edinburgh when he fell in love with the capital after attending its International Film Festival, this is an uncannily accurate portrayal of Edinburgh and Scotland. The story is an unfilmed script from Jacques Tati and the…
Sat 1 Jun
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I'm So Excited (Los amantes pasajeros)

- 2013
- Spain
- 90 min
- 15
- Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
- Cast: Javier Cámara, Pepa Charro, Cecilia Roth
- UK release: 3 May 2013
In Almodovar's oddball comedy, a passenger plane suffers technical failure threatening mortal danger to all onboard. As the cockpit crew try to put things right, the cabin crew decide to make the rest of the journey as enjoyable as possible.
Thu 23 May
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- 13:00 Dundee Contemporary Arts I'm So Excited (Los amantes pasajeros)
- 18:00 Dundee Contemporary Arts I'm So Excited (Los amantes pasajeros)
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Johanna Basford: Wonderlands
In Wonderlands, Aberdeen-based artist Johanna Basford shows new works which transform her intricate, signature-style ink drawings to a much larger scale.
Thu 23 May
Free / 01382 909900
- 11:00 – 20:00 Dundee Contemporary Arts Johanna Basford: Wonderlands
Fri 24 May
Free / 01382 909900
- 11:00 – 18:00 Dundee Contemporary Arts Johanna Basford: Wonderlands
Sat 25 May
Free / 01382 909900
- 11:00 – 18:00 Dundee Contemporary Arts Johanna Basford: Wonderlands
Sat 8 Jun
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Lost Dundee
You may think you know all the nooks and crannies of Dundee, but Scotia Heritage puts a new spin on the forgotten closes and streets of what was once Scotland's second city, uncovering visual markers of its thriving medieval and Renaissance past. Meet outside the DCA in weather-appropriate clothing.
Sun 9 Jun
£10 (£8) / 01334 654833
Sun 7 Jul
£10 (£8) / 01334 654833
Sun 4 Aug
£10 (£8) / 01334 654833
Sun 1 Sep
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Metropolitan Opera: The Nose
A live screening of Shostakovich's classic opera.
Sat 26 Oct
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Moby Dick
- 1956
- US
- 116 min
- U
- Directed by: John Huston
- Cast: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn
Huston and Ray Bradbury adapt Melville's classic tale of visionary folly.
Sun 9 Jun
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Mud
- 2012
- US
- 130 min
- 12A
- Directed by: Jeff Nichols
- Written by: Jeff Nichols (screenplay)
- Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Shannon
- UK release: 10 May 2013
McConaughey stars as a fugitive who enlists the help of two teenage boys to escape his pursuers.
Thu 23 May
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- 15:00 Dundee Contemporary Arts Mud
- 20:00 Dundee Contemporary Arts Mud
Fri 24 May
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- 18:00 Dundee Contemporary Arts Mud
- 20:30 Dundee Contemporary Arts Mud
Sat 25 May
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- 18:00 Dundee Contemporary Arts Mud
- 20:30 Dundee Contemporary Arts Mud
National Theatre Live: The Audience
- 2013
- UK
- Directed by: Stephen Daldry
- Written by: Peter Morgan
- Cast: Helen Mirren
Mirren puts on a crown once more to play at being the Queen. Broadcast live from London's West End, The Audience finds HRH taking audiences with each of the twelve Prime Ministers of her reign in a play written by The Queen screenwriter Morgan.
Thu 13 Jun
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Populaire

- 2012
- FR
- 111 min
- 12A
- Directed by: Regis Roinsard
- Written by: Regis Roinsard, Daniel Presley, Romain Compingt
- Cast: Deborah Francois, Romain Duris, Berenice Bejo
- UK release: 31 May 2013
France, 1959: insurance company secretary Rose (Francois) is hopeless at her job except for an uncanny gift for speed-typing. Her boss (Duris) enters her in a competition and romance strikes up. A kooky romcom, heavy on period style and references to vintage Hollywood cinema but low on content.
Fri 31 May
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Sat 1 Jun
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Sun 2 Jun
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Serenity
- 2005
- US
- 119 min
- 15
- Directed by: Joss Whedon
- Cast: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk
Feature length cap to Whedon's short lived TV series sees the crew of the ship try to evade an assassin sent to recapture one of them.
Mon 27 May
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Something in the Air (Après mai)

- 2012
- France
- 122 min
- 15
- Directed by: Olivier Assayas
- Cast: Clément Métayer, Lola Créton, Felix Armand
- UK release: 24 May 2013
In early 70s France, teenager Gilles (Métayer), a lycée student, is in love with bohemian Laure (Combes), but then he becomes involved with politically committed Christine (Créton). Assayas' bittersweet portrait of countercultural youth is credible because of its detail and its refusal of either nostalgia or cynicism.
Fri 7 Jun
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Sun 9 Jun
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Star Trek: Into Darkness

- 2013
- US
- 129 min
- 12A
- Directed by: JJ Abrams
- Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana
- UK release: 9 May 2013
When ex-Starfleet commander John Harrison (Cumberbatch) attacks Earth, the Enterprise crew pursues him. It's more of the same: funny, dramatic and exciting, and if it's not as fresh as the 2009 film, Pine and Quinto's squabbling bromance gives it heart, Pegg and Urban are excellent and Cumberbatch is thrillingly cold.
Thu 23 May
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- 12:45 Dundee Contemporary Arts Star Trek: Into Darkness
- 18:15 Dundee Contemporary Arts Star Trek: Into Darkness
- 21:00 Dundee Contemporary Arts Star Trek: Into Darkness
3D
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Parent & baby
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Fri 24 May
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3D
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Sat 25 May
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The Stone Roses: Made of Stone

- 2013
- UK
- Directed by: Shane Meadows
- UK release: 5 June 2013
Meadows' documentary charts the eagerly anticipated return of the seminal Madchester band.
Thu 30 May
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There Will Be New Rules Next Week
Prints by the celebrated American nun-turned-artist-and-activist Sister Corita Kent, whose bold screenprints both drew on and helped to inspire pop art. Also works by contemporary artists for whom Kent is an inspiration: Peter Davies, Ruth Ewan, Emily Floyd, Scott Myles and Ciara Phillips.
Sat 20 Jul
Free / 01382 909900
- 11:00 – 18:00 Dundee Contemporary Arts There Will Be New Rules Next Week
Sun 21 Jul
Free / 01382 909900
- 12:00 – 18:00 Dundee Contemporary Arts There Will Be New Rules Next Week
Tue 23 Jul
Free / 01382 909900
- 11:00 – 18:00 Dundee Contemporary Arts There Will Be New Rules Next Week
To Kill A Mockingbird

- 1962
- US
- 129 min
- PG
- Directed by: Robert Mulligan
- Cast: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton
Sturdy film adaptation of the classic Harper Lee novel which won an Oscar for Peck as a liberal lawyer in the Deep South defending a black man accused of rape. The material is delicately handled as Peck attempts to explain the situation to his children, and Duvall makes his screen debut as their friend, a man with…
Sun 26 May
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Village at the End of the World

- 2012
- Denmark/UK/Greenland
- 80 min
- 12A
- Directed by: Sarah Gavron/David Katznelson
- UK release: 10 May 2013
Documentary about the tiny settlement of Niaqornat in Greenland, home to just over 50 people. Director Gavron focuses on the inhabitants, creating a sensitive portrait of a disappearing culture, and while it isn't revelatory in content or style, it's considered and thoughtful.
Tue 28 May
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Betty Lyle – 4 Jun 2012, 8:36pm
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Great menu with a wide variety of dishes at a good price. Fab cocktails too! Lovely seating area outside too.
Average rating /5 from 1 review of Dundee Contemporary Arts.
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