Dundee Contemporary Arts

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.