Deaf Today: UK: The Weekly Subtitled Cinema Listings! April 15th, 2004.

April 15, 2004

UK: The Weekly Subtitled Cinema Listings! April 15th, 2004.

From: Subtitles @ your local cinema - Apr 15, 2004

Subtitled 50 First Dates, Cat in the Hat, Scooby Doo Too and more below...

It's Thursday, around teatime, so it must be...
The Weekly Subtitled Cinema Listings!
April 15th, 2004.

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Subtitled Cinema Listings:
Never miss a subtitled show - cut & paste & print shows in your area.
Or visit the website and bookmark your local area:
http://www.yourlocalcinema.com

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50 First Dates subtitled (12a)

Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore
Only at 'digital' subtitle cinemas.

Basingstoke Ster Century Wed 21st April at 5.50pm and 8.15pm
Colchester Odeon Thurs 22nd Apr at 6.15pm
London - Uxbridge Odeon Sat 17th April at 1.25pm Wed 21st April at 6.15pm
Manchester UCI filmworks Sun 18th Apr at 1.20pm Mon 19th Apr at 6.20pm
Newcastle Odeon Tues 20th April at 12.20pm, 2.35pm, 4.50pm, 7pm, 9.25pm

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Cat in the Hat subtitled (PG)

Only at 'digital' subtitle cinemas.
Cardiff UCI Sun 18th Apr at 11.20am Mon 19th Apr at 6.30pm
Kingston Surrey Odeon Mon 19th Apr at 3pm Tues 20th Apr at 5pm
Leicester Odeon Fri 16th - Wed 21st Apr at 11.30am daily

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Starsky & Hutch subtitled (15)

Only at 'digital' subtitle cinemas.
Leicester Odeon Fri 16th - Wed 21st Apr at 5.15pm daily
London - West End Odeon Thu 15th April at 3.50pm

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Gothika subtitled (15)

Only at 'digital' subtitle cinemas.
Halle Berry, Penelope Cruz, Robert Downey Jr.
Guildford Surrey Odeon Thu 15th April at 6.35pm

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Along Came Polly subtitled (12a)

Only at 'digital' subtitle cinemas.
Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston
Kingston Surrey Odeon Wed 21st April at 6.45pm

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School of Rock subtitled (PG)

Only at 'digital' subtitle cinemas.
Edinburgh Filmhouse Sat 15th May at 3.45pm

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Bright Young Things subtitled (15)

Only at 'digital' subtitle cinemas.
Edinburgh Filmhouse Sat 8th May at 3.30pm

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Scooby Doo Too subtitled (PG)

April shows below. Hundreds of shows nationwide - please visit the website for May shows.

Odeon cinemas.
Times announced on the website, as soon as they are known.

Brighton East Sussex. Thu 15 Apr at 11.30am, 1.45pm, 4pm, 6.15pm
Bromborough Merseyside. Tue 20 Apr at 2pm, 4.15pm, 6.30pm, 8.30pm
Beckenham Kent. Thu 22 Apr at 12 noon, 2.15pm, 4.30pm, 7pm
Blackpool Lancashire. Tue 27 Apr
Colchester Odeon Thu 15th April at 8pm
Chester Cheshire. Sat 17 Apr at 12.30pm, 2.25pm, 5.15pm
Epsom Surrey. Sat 17 Apr at 12.35pm, 3pm, 5.15pm
Kingston Surrey Odeon Thu 15th April at 7.55pm. Fri 16th Apr at 6pm
Sat 17th Apr at 6pm Sun 18th Apr at 8.10pm

London - Holloway. Thu 29 Apr
London - Marble Arch. Tue 27 Apr
London - Streatham. Sat 24 Apr
London - Uxbridge Odeon Sat 17th April at 7.00pm. Wed 21st April at 1.45pm
London - Wimbledon Odeon Fri 16th Apr at 1pm. Sun 18th Apr at 8pm
Mon 19th Apr at 3.15pm. Tues 20th Apr at 5.45pm. Wed 21st Apr at 8pm

Leicester Thurs 15th April at 11.45am, 6.45pm
Lincoln. Thu 29 Apr
Liverpool Switch Island, Merseyside. Thu 22 Apr at 12.15pm, 2.30pm, 4.45pm, 7pm, 9.15pm
Maidstone Kent. Tue 20 Apr at 11.30am, 1.45pm, 4pm
Manchester. Sat 24 Apr
Newcastle Odeon Thurs 15th April at 11.05am
Wrexham, North Wales. Thu 15 Apr at 11.15am, 6.30pm

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UCI cinemas.
Times announced on the website, as soon as they are known.

Derby. Fri 23rd Apr at 7pm, Sat 24th Apr at 11.30am, Sun 25th Apr at 11.30am
Dudley Midlands. Wed 21st Apr at 7pm
Hatfield Herts. Sat 17th Apr at 11.30am
Hull Humberside. Thurs 29th Apr at 7pm
Huddersfield Yorkshire. Tues 27th Apr at 7pm

London - Greenwich thefilmworks. Sat 17th Apr at 11.30am
London - Lee Valley. Thurs 15th Apr at 7pm
London - Surrey Quays. Thurs 15th Apr at 7pm

Portsolent Portsmouth. Mon 19th Apr at 7pm
Poole Dorset. Wed 21st Apr at 7pm
Preston Lancashire. Sun 25th Apr at 11.30am
Solihull Birmingham. Mon 19th Apr at 7pm
Swansea Glamorgan. Fri 23rd Apr at 7pm
Tamworth Staffs. Thurs 29th Apr at 7pm
Telford Shropshire. Tues 27th Apr at 7pm

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Warner Village (Vue) cinemas.
Times announced on the website, as soon as they are known.

Birkenhead. Sat 17th, Sun 18th April at 12.10pm, 7pm
Bristol Longwell Green. Sat 17th, Sun 18th April at 11am, 3.40pm
Bury. *Sat 24th, Sun 25th April    * - please check with cinema - may be cancelled
Carlisle. Thurs 29th April
Edinburgh. *Sat 24th, Sun 25th April    * - please check with cinema - may be cancelled
Hamilton. Thurs 29th April
Inverness. Thurs 22nd April at 7pm
Livingston. *Tue 27th April   * - please check with cinema - may be cancelled
Manchester, Red Cinema. Tue 27th April
Portsmouth. Thurs 15th April at 10am, 2.20pm, 9.10pm
Southport. *Tue 20th April    * - please check with cinema - may be cancelled
York. Thurs 15th April at 1.20pm, 6pm

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Cineworld cinemas.
Times announced on the website, as soon as they are known.

Bishop's Stortford Hertfordshire. Thurs April 15th at 6.45pm
Bradford Yorkshire. Sat April 17th at 2.50pm
Burton on Trent Staffordshire. Sun April 25th
Castleford. Mon April 19th at 1pm, 6pm
Chichester West Sussex. *Fri April 23rd    * - please check with cinema - may be cancelled
Chesterfield Derbyshire. *Fri April 23rd    * - please check with cinema - may be cancelled
Falkirk Scotland. Wed April 28th
Huntingdon Cambridgeshire. Sat April 17th at 2.50pm
Isle of Wight Newport. *Sun April 25th    * - please check with cinema - may be cancelled
Luton Bedfordshire. Wed April 21st at 2.20pm, 7pm
Manchester, Ashton Under Lyne. Thurs April 15th at 1.20pm, 8.45pm
Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire. *Mon April 19th    * - please check with cinema - may be cancelled
Stevenage Cineworld Sun 18th Apr at 2pm Wed 21st Apr at 2pm
Wakefield Yorkshire. *Wed April 21st at 3.50pm, 6.10pm     * - please check with cinema - may be cancelled
Weymouth Dorset. Wed April 28th
Wolverhampton Cineworld Fri 16th - Wed 21st April at 3.40pm daily

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UGC cinemas.
Times announced on the website, as soon as they are known.

Birmingham Great Park. Thur 15th April at 3.10pm, 5.30pm
Didsbury. Tue 20th April
Edinburgh. Tue 27th April
Glasgow Renfrew Str. Thur 29th April
Hull. Thur 22nd April
Middlesbrough. Sat 24th April
Sheffield Yorkshire. Sat 17th April

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PLEASE READ THIS!

Subtitles @ Your Local Cinema receive accessible listings directly from cinema head offices, but we can take NO responsibility for postponed or cancelled shows. If cinemas inform us of changes, we will tell you via the website, which is updated daily. If they don't inform us, we can't inform you.

Many cinemas schedules are "SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTIFICATION". Sometimes a subtitled or described film is not delivered to the cinema on time. The only way to be 100% sure is to check with the ACTUAL cinema before you plan a visit. But DOUBLE check, preferably with a manager. We recommend that you should always request confirmation that a show is definitely on.

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The Passion of the Christ (18) (Ireland 15pg) Subtitled EVERYWHERE.

This film was filmed in the ancient languages of Latin and Aramaic and will be shown with English subtitles wherever it is screened. Click here for dates and times in your area: http://www.yourlocalcinema.com/passion.of.christ.html

WARNING!
This film is EXTREMELY brutal and violent, in its depiction of the torture of Jesus. To date, two people have died from heart attacks whilst watching this film. And one has confessed to a murder!(?) You have been warned...
More info on this controversial film here: http://www.yourlocalcinema.com/passion.of.christ.html

Spooky, but slightly amusing antidote: Jim Caviezel, who plays Jesus, was struck by lightning while filming. Apparently, there was "smoke coming out of Caviezel's ears!"

Click here to find shows in your area:
http://www.yourlocalcinema.com/passion.of.christ.html

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The Barbarian Invasions (18)
This film is French language, and will be shown with English subtitles wherever it is screened.
"A gripping psychological comedy drama touches on love, faith, family and mortality".
Click here to find shows in your area: http://www.yourlocalcinema.com/more.html

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Zatôichi (18)
This film is Japanese language, and will be shown with English subtitles wherever it is screened.
Zatôichi wanders through 19th-century Japan avenging the weak and oppressed with his razor-sharp samurai sword. A walking contradiction, he's a blind man armed with the skill and guile of a master swordsman. Art as action, action as art: it's blood-spattered poetry. With a body count.
"ARTERY-SPURTING VIOLENCE"
Click here to find shows in your area:
http://www.yourlocalcinema.com/more.html

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Subtitled films coming soon:
Bridget Jones 2, Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, Shrek 2, Alexander, Catwoman, Troy, Shark Tale, Thunderbirds, Van Helsing and many more. Full list here:
http://www.yourlocalcinema.com/coming.soon.html

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Note: Subtitled films can come in three formats:

1) Foreign language films, with English subtitles.
These can be screened in any cinema, and have English subtitles at all times, wherever they are screened (Examples: Passion of Christ, Amelie, Crouching Tiger etc).

2) 'Hard captioned' films.
Becoming quite rare nowadays, these can be screened in any cinema. Subtitles are etched onto the actual film print. Only 5 to 10 prints are produced, Cinema chains share the prints, and 'tour' them around their cinema sites. A subtitled show usually only plays for one day, at one time, in each cinema. (Examples: The recent Matrix, Harry Potter, James Bond and Star Wars Films, and Scooby Doo 2).

3) 'Digitally subtitled' films.
Almost every major film is released in this format, but only cinemas with digital subtitle equipment can screen them. There are currently 30 cinemas in the UK with these facilities. There will be over 100 by the end of 2004. Cinemas with this equipment can also provide an audio description service to visually impaired people - a narrator explains what's happening on screen, through personal headphones. (Examples: Lord of the Rings 1, 2 & 3, Along Came Polly, The Last Samurai, Cold Mountain, Master and Commander, Love Actually, Kill Bill, Finding Nemo and many more).

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NOTE:
We cannot 'force' a cinema to become accessible so that everyone can enjoy their services. We can only ask them to. And we do, constantly. It's our job to create awareness of the problem, suggest solutions, and to empower people to do something about it. We recommend that people contact cinemas in their local area and request better access for people with sensory impairments.

Request that your local cinema becomes 'accessible', by installing a digital subtitle & audio description system and then regularly screening the latest 'accessible' releases. Over 150 films have been released in the past few years with digital cinema subtitles and/or audio description. Full information on systems available from DTS and Dolby here:
http://www.yourlocalcinema.com/dts.dolby.systems.html

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100 Free Odeon cinema tickets!
For your chance to win guest passes to any subtitled show at any Odeon cinema, just click here:
http://www.yourlocalcinema.com/competitions.odeon.html
It's easy!

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Have you ever tried to lip-read Spiderman? Or an animated fish? It's not easy. Not everyone has perfect hearing and many people need subtitles to enjoy a film.

Subtitled and audio described cinema enables people with less than perfect hearing or vision to enjoy film presented in its original and best form - the cinema. Digital 'access' equipment enables any cinema to regularly screen almost every popular release with subtitles & audio description. It's available to cinemas now.

Subtitles are usually produced before a film is released in the cinema. The same basic subtitle 'text files' are later used for the DVD, video and TV release. But cinema films are rarely screened with subtitles. In 2004, 1 in 7 UK cinemas will catch up with other film media and become more accessible.

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Know someone who would appreciate this info? Tell them!
Forward this email to them now. If you require audio description listings only, please email us at: ad@yourlocalcinema.com or visit the audio described section at http://www.yourlocalcinema.com/ad

Don't forget to sign the ongoing Online Subtitled Petitions for dvd and video game subtitles - over 16,000 signatures and growing! http://www.yourlocalcinema.com/dvd.games.html

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As soon as cinemas schedules are announced for new films, they will be listed on our website - please DON'T wait for the next weekly email - CHECK the website often! Important reschedules, time changes etc. are posted on there as soon as they are announced. Please bookmark your nearest subtitle equipped cinema listings page.

On the website:
Every subtitled film: previous, now showing and on the way - New films, locations, dates and times added regularly.
View listings by region - more added as they become available.
Video game, Theatre and DVD extra feature subtitles.
http://www.yourlocalcinema.com

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Subtitles @ your local cinema are the only listings service created exclusively for accessible cinema. Our service can be found wherever there is internet access - at home, the workplace, school, a library, an internet cafe, or the numerous wi-fi spots and BT internet kiosks throughout the UK.

To be notified of new subtitled films, dates & times in your area every week, just contact us:
You can enter your text/query/details on the website: http://www.yourlocalcinema.com/contact.html

You can also:
Email us at subtitles@yourlocalcinema.com
Phone us on 0845 056 9824 (24 hrs a day, 7 days a week, local rate)
Text message to 0793 1341 377 (normal mobile rate)
Or fax us on 0702 097 1354

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Engage your Senses! - SEE the dialogue! HEAR the action! FEEL the rumbling!
Subtitles @ your local cinema - the one stop shop for UK subtitled cinema!

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We apologise if someone has signed you up for information that you do not want! (we have a 'tell a friend' box on our website). Simply reply to this email with the word 'UNSUBSCRIBE' and we will remove your name from our files.

The website: http://www.yourlocalcinema.com
Email: subtitles@yourlocalcinema.com

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NEWS! 78 more accessible cinemas on the way!
"When 'silent' movies were replaced by 'talkies' over 70 years ago, people with visual impairments began to enjoy the cinema experience, but for those with hearing impairments, the loss of captions on the screen to explain the plot was the end of their cinema enjoyment. This year, over 100 cinemas nationwide will become fully accessible again for people with sight and hearing problems."

Read the BBC News report HERE:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3487115.stm

And more reports...

BBC Newsround report HERE:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/tv_film/newsid_3492000/3492187.stm

Sky News report HERE:
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,31500-12991473,00.html

RNID report HERE:
http://www.rnid.org.uk/html/news/latest/cinema.htm

BDA report HERE:
http://www.britishdeafassociation.org.uk/bdn/news.php?id=43

NDCS report HERE:
http://www.ndcs.org.uk/news_media/community_news/more_deaffriend.html

BBC News earlier report HERE:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/2549025.stm

The Times Newspaper article HERE:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,581-510522,00.html

RNID earlier report HERE:
http://www.rnid.org.uk/html/support_us/membership/1in7_content/john_wilkinson_questions.htm

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