Labyrinth

Teenager Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) has to baby-sit her infant half-brother Toby. Frustrated, Sarah wishes for Toby to be taken away by the goblins from her fantasy book The Labyrinth. When this wish is unexpectedly granted by Jareth, the King of the Goblins (David Bowie), she is given 13 hours to solve the dangerous Labyrinth from the book to save Toby. Will Sarah be able to right her wrong and save her brother from the goblins?

“So, the Labyrinth is a piece of cake, is it? Well, let’s see how you deal with this little slice…” A threatening David Bowie, with iconic blonde mullet and intense eye make-up, and his puppet army of goblins make it hard for Jennifer Connelly’s heroine in her quest to save her little brother from Jareth’s castle. Director Jim Henson was a famous puppeteer (Sesame Street, The Muppet Show) created an imaginative, visually sumptuous adventure that gave us characters such as jousting fox terrier Sir Didymus and Ludo, the gentle horned beast. “This is one of the most beguilingly eccentric and charming family movies imaginable. Jim Henson’s fantasy adventure mixes human actors, unmistakably Hensonian puppet creatures, and one authentic legend who goes beyond either category: David Bowie as Jareth, the spikily coiffured king of the goblins, towering over the diminutive figures the way he might if he’d been a guest on The Muppet Show. He carries off this wacky role with absolute commitment and good humour.” We can’t summarise it better than film critic Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian. With these screenings of LABYRINTH we commemorate the tenth anniversary of legendary David Bowie’s passing.