September 2014 Phoenix Brochure by Jake Harvey

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September Programme New film releases Two Days, One Night The Hundred-Foot Journey The Keeper of Lost Causes

Also this month Scalarama festival – an annual celebration of cult cinema In the gallery – Sites of Collective Memory

Pride Thu 19 Sep – Thu 9 Oct

Nick Cave preview screening and satellite Q&A

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Welcome The Congress p5 It’s hard to believe autumn is already knocking at the door. To ease you into the new season we’ve a fantastic line up of films, Stage on Screen shows and short courses – with some delicious world cinema offerings to reignite those holiday memories.

Guardians of the Galaxy p4

Two Days, One Night p4

A Night at the Cinema 1914 p5

The German Doctor p6

The Hundred-Foot Journey p5

Pride p6

Night Moves p6

The Keeper of Lost Causes p7

Killers p7

2O,OOO Days on Earth p7

With tickets for 25 shows currently on sale (some of them not until April next year!), our Stage on Screen programme is proving hugely popular. Shows can sell out very fast, and we cannot always include everything in this brochure – keep an eye on our website or subscribe to our weekly email newsletter to be amongst the first to know. This month also sees the opening of our major new art exhibition, Sites of Collective Memory, a series of animated artworks offering a rare and powerful insight into the experiences of people who have witnessed terrible events in modern history (p14).

In Order of Disappearance p10

Coming in October

Magic in the Moonlight

National treasure Helen Mirren is back on screen from Fri 5 Sep in The Hundred-Foot Journey, starring alongside Om Puri in this culinary tale of clashing cultures. Later in the month, Pride puts a new slant on the story of the miners’ strike and features a stellar cast including Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton; while in our quest to bring you the weird and the wonderful, on Fridays in September we’re taking part in Scalarama, a nationwide celebration of cult cinema.

Phoenix is a registered charity. Our aim is to bring inspirational film and art to all. Made possible with the support of:

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Two Days, One Night 15

Fri 5 – Thu 18 Sep Dir. Lasse Hallström Cast: Helen Mirren, Om Puri USA/India 2014, 2hrs 2mins, subtitled

Fri 29 Aug – Thu 11 Sep Dir: Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne Cast: Marion Cotillard Belgium/Italy/France 2014, 1hr 35mins, subtitled The Dardenne brothers return after 2011’s The Kid with a Bike with this brilliant drama about Belgian working class life. Mother of two Sandra (Cotillard, Rust and Bone,

Fri 22 Aug – Thu 4 Sep Dir: Hong Khaou Cast: Ben Whishaw, Pei-pei Cheng UK 2014, 1hr 26mins Ben Whishaw (Skyfall, Bright Star) plays Richard – a young Londoner crippled with grief over the death of his boyfriend Kai – trying to communicate through a translator with Kai’s conservative mother Junn.

God’s Pocket

The Hundred-Foot Journey PG

Continued from last month

Lilting

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Fri 29 Aug – Tue 2 Sep Dir: John Slattery Cast: Philip Seymor Hoffman, Christina Hendricks USA 2014, 1hr 29mins The directorial debut of Mad Men’s John Slattery stars Phillip Seymour Hoffman (in one of his last roles) as small-time criminal Mickey trying to find out what caused the death of his stepson.

La Vie en Rose) loses her factory job due to a vote made by her coworkers; forced to choose between keeping her or their annual €1000 bonuses. Demanding a re-vote, Sandra is left with one weekend to convince each worker to choose solidarity over personal gains and keep her career. Sandra’s plight,

and her fellow workers’ various anguished reactions to her plea make for riveting viewing. Cotillard is electric in the lead role and the film thoroughly deserves the awards it has picked up on the festival circuit.

A guaranteed crowd-pleaser from the director of Chocolat and The Cider House Rules, The HundredFoot Journey stars Helen Mirren as Madame Mallory, the austere owner of a prestigious French restaurant who is aghast when

We Gotta Get Out of This Place

Guardians of the Galaxy 12A

A Night at the Cinema 1914 U

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Fri 5 – Sun 7 Sep

Dir: Zeke Hawkins, Simon Hawkins Cast: Mark Pellegrino, Logan Huffman USA 2013, 1hr 32mins

Dir: James Gunn Cast: Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper USA/UK 2014, 2hrs

Documentary Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Emmeline Pankhurst UK 2014, 1hr 24mins

Reminiscent of the Coen’s Blood Simple and Tarantino’s failed heist in Reservoir Dogs, We Gotta Get Out of This Place slots alongside recent films Cold in July and Blue Ruin in a mini-revival of the American indie thriller, and marks a terrific feature debut for director brothers Simon and Zeke. Deciding to rip off their cotton mill boss – but not aware of his links to organised crime – teenage friends BJ and Bobby are drawn into the seedy Texan underworld.

Marvel, the creators of global phenomenon Iron Man, bring you a movie starring Bradley Cooper as a hostile racoon and Vin Diesel as a walking, talking tree. What could possibly go wrong? Well, stealing a weird orb from an evil mastermind intent on destroying the galaxy should do the trick. Guardians follows Peter Quill – AKA ‘Star Lord’ – and his dysfunctional band of rebels as they battle to save the universe. Refusing to take itself too seriously, it’s irreverent and blissful entertainment.

Cinema a century ago was a new, exciting and highly democratic form of entertainment. With feature films still rare, the programme was an entertaining, ever-changing roster of short items; a glorious miscellany of comedies, dramas, travelogues and newsreels. This compilation from the BFI National Archive brings together a typical night out in 1914, including a sensational episode of The Perils of Pauline, scenes of Allied troops celebrating Christmas at the front, and an early sighting of one of cinema’s greatest icons.

an Indian restaurant opens just across the road. Clashing with the Kadam family and in particular the determined patriarch ‘Papa’ (Puri), Madame Mallory sets about sabotaging their restaurant – beginning with buying up the town’s entire supply of ingredients on her competitor’s opening night!

As a grudging respect develops, despite their cold war, a funny and heart warming tale unfolds; whilst the burgeoning romance between Mallory and Papa adds a dash of spice.

The Congress

Le Petit Nicholas

Sun 7 – Thu 11 Sep

Thu 11 Sep, 8pm

Dir. Ari Folman Cast: Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel France/Germany/Belgium 2013, 2hrs 2mins

Dir: Laurent Tirard Cast: Kad Merad, Valerie Lemercier France/Belgium 2009, 1hr 31mins, subtitled

Robin Wright plays a fictionalised version of herself – an aging, out-of-work actress who decides to quit showbiz, but will first sell her image to a movie studio so they can create an animated clone of her younger self to star in CGI blockbuster movies. Bizarre and mesmerising, The Congress is a true one-off, a hypnotic blend of live-action and animation from Waltz with Bashir director Ari Folman.

This showing is offered to all by the Leicester French Circle who extend a warm welcome to all those interested in French culture. For details see leicesterfrenchcircle.co.uk. Nicolas is a young boy living a blissful suburban life with his mother and father, spending time enjoying school and playing with friends. Disaster strikes, however, when he overhears news his mother is pregnant! Thinking the baby will replace him, Nicolas sets out to be the best son he can be.

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are available as Silver Screenings – see page 11

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Pride

Fri 19 – Fri 26 Sep (excl. Sun 21)

Dir: Matthew Warchus Cast: Imelda Staunton, Bill Nighy UK 2014, 2hrs

Dir: Mikkel Nørgaard Cast: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares Denmark/Germany/Sweden 2013, 1hr 36mins, subtitled

Destined to be this year’s The Full Monty, this new British production is a life-affirming and uplifting movie, set during the National Union of Mineworkers’ strike in the summer of 1984. Based on a true story, a group of gay and lesbian activists raise money for the miners, but are faced with suspicion and animosity from the historically macho mining

community. Deciding to take the money directly to a small mining village in the Welsh valleys, the older members of the town must forge an uneasy alliance so the community can survive. Bighearted, moving and very funny, it features stellar performances from Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake),

Night Moves

Wakolda

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Bill Nighy (NT Live’s Skylight), Paddy Considine (The Suspicions of Mr Whicher) and Dominic West (The Wire).

Based on Jussi Alder-Olsen’s bestseller, The Keeper of Lost Causes follows Detective Carl Mørk, an outcast in his unit following a fatal shooting, who is reassigned to Department Q – a cellar full of cold case files. With the help of his new

assistant Assad (and much to the annoyance of their superiors) Mørk reopens an old case concerning the disappearance of a politician believed to have committed suicide. A Scandi nail-biter perfect for fans of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Headhunters.

Dvorˇák in Love?

Killers

2O,OOO Days on Earth 15

Fri 12 – Thu 18 Sep

Sun 14 Sep, 4pm

Fri 12 – Mon 15 Sep

Dir: Kelly Reichardt Cast: Jesse Eisenberg USA 2013, 1hr 52mins

Dir: Lucía Puenzo Cast: Àlex Brendemühl, Argentina/France/Spain 2013, 1hr 33mins, subtitled

Dir: Tony Palmer 1hr 10mins, Documentary

Dir: Kimo Stamboel, Timo Tjahjanto Cast: Kazuki Kitamura, Oka Antara Indonesia/Japan 2014, 2hrs 17mins, subtitled

This new film from Meek's Cutoff director Reichardt is a low-key but utterly absorbing thriller following three radical environmentalists who decide to blow up a hydroelectric dam in rural Oregon. The trio – tightly wound Josh (Eisenberg), his girlfriend Dena (Fanning) and enigmatic former marine Harmon (Sarsgaard) – are obsessed with ‘making a statement’ but their carefully laid plan goes awry. A moral conundrum with no easy answers; it’s bold and intelligent movie making.

The Keeper of Lost Causes 15

Thu 19 Sep – Thu 9 Oct

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This new thriller is based on the true story of a family who unknowingly welcomed Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele ‘The Angel of Death’ into their home following his escape from Germany. Assuming a new identity upon arrival in Patagonia, Wakolda moves into a hotel run by Eva and husband Enzo – but the couple are alarmed when he develops an unhealthy interest in their 12-yearold daughter and Eva’s pregnancy. Filled with raw suspense and lurking tension.

Screening in partnership with the Leicester International Music Festival and introduced by the director. The framework of Tony Palmer’s film is a recording of the Dvorˇ ák Cello Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic and Julian Lloyd Webber. Interwoven is the story of Dvorˇ ák's unrequited love affair with Josefina (the beautiful older sister of his wife), and how her death from cancer caused him to tear up the last pages of the concerto and write the end which we all know.

This savagely-sleek horror thriller follows Nomura, a narcissistic Japanese serial killer who posts videos of his crimes online. When his work inspires failed Indonesian journalist Bayu to commit a murder (although vaguely more principled since he goes after a local crime kingpin), Nomura and Bayu develop a complex relationship that leads to an explosive climax. Exquisitely tense and VERY violent, Killers has drawn comparisons with I Saw the Devil and the early work of Takashi Miike.

Il Divo

Sun 21 Sep, 3pm

Fri 19 – Thu 25 Sep

Dir: Paolo Sorrentino Cast: Toni Servillo, Cristina Serafini Italy/France 2008, 1hr 57mins, subtitled

Dir: Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth Cast: Nick Cave, Ray Winstone UK 2014, 1hr 37mins A bold and fascinating vision of one of music’s most mysterious and charismatic figures. First time directors Forsyth and Pollard fuse drama and documentary to weave a cinematically-staged day in Nick Cave’s life with neverbefore-seen footage of his full creative cycle. A must for fans, the film delves into Cave’s past and present, unpicking what makes him tick. For the preview screening plus satellite performance on Wed 17 Aug, see p11.

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This award-winning film from Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty) is a biopic based on the life of Giulio Andreotti, a seven-time prime minister of Italy notorious for his alleged ties to the Mafia. Screening in partnership with The Leicester Italian Society (formerly Dante Alighieri), a society for those who love Italy and all things Italian: its culture, food and drink, and much more.

are available as Silver Screenings – see page 11

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Guardians of the Galaxy Two Days, One Night The Hundred-Foot Journey A Night at the Cinema 1914 The Hundred-Foot Journey The Hundred-Foot Journey NT Live: Skylight The Hundred-Foot Journey Lazy Sunday: Guardians of the Galaxy The Hundred-Foot Journey The Hundred-Foot Journey A Night at the Cinema 1914 Two Days, One Night The Hundred-Foot Journey The Congress The Hundred-Foot Journey Two Days, One Night The Hundred-Foot Journey The Congress The Hundred-Foot Journey Two Days, One Night The Hundred-Foot Journey Guardians of the Galaxy The Congress The Hundred-Foot Journey Two Days, One Night The Hundred-Foot Journey The Hundred-Foot Journey – subtitled Waves to Noveau: 8 Film Movements RSC – The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Hundred-Foot Journey All Quiet on the Western Front Two Days, One Night The Hundred-Foot Journey The Congress The Hundred-Foot Journey Two Days, One Night The Hundred Foot Journey The Congress Two Days, One Night The Hundred-Foot Journey The Congress The Hundred Foot Journey

Lilting Two Days, One Night God’s Pocket Two Days, One Night God’s Pocket Two Days, One Night We Gotta Get Out of This Place Two Days, One Night God’s Pocket Two Days, One Night Lilting Two Days, One Night We Gotta Get Out of This Place Two Days, One Night Lilting Two Days, One Night Two Days, One Night Lilting Two Days, One Night We Gotta Get Out of This Place Two Days, One Night Lilting RSC: The Two Gentlemen of Verona Two Days, One Night Two Days, One Night We Gotta Get Out of This Place Lilting Two Days, One Night We Gotta Get Out of This Place NT Live: Medea Two Days, One Night The Hundred-Foot Journey A Night at the Cinema 1914 Guardians of the Galaxy The Hundred-Foot Journey Two Days, One Night The Hundred-Foot Journey Tetsuo: The Iron Man Distributing Your Film

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The Hundred-Foot Journey The Hundred-Foot Journey The Hundred-Foot Journey Night Moves The Hundred-Foot Journey Wakolda 20,000 Days on Earth Preview + Satellite Q&A The Hundred-Foot Journey The Hundred-Foot Journey Wakolda The Hundred-Foot Journey The Hundred-Foot Journey Night Moves Pride – Audio Described The Assassination of Jesse James The Keeper of Lost Causes Pride 20,000 Days on Earth Pride Down by Law + intro Step Up: All In Pride Animation workshop 20,000 Days on Earth The Assassination of Jesse James Pride The Keeper of Lost Causes Pride 20,000 Days on Earth Pride Step Up: All In Lazy Sunday: Pride The Assassination of Jesse James Il Divo Pride Pride 20,000 Days on Earth 20,000 Days on Earth Pride The Keeper of Lost Causes Pride 20,000 Days on Earth

Le Petite Nicholas The Hundred-Foot Journey The Hundred-Foot Journey Wakolda The Hundred-Foot Journey Killers The Hundred-Foot Journey Night Moves The Hundred-Foot Journey Phase IV The Nut Job autism friendly screening The Nut Job The Hundred-Foot Journey Wakolda Wakolda The Hundred-Foot Journey Killers The Hundred-Foot Journey Night Moves The Hundred-Foot Journey The Nut Job Lazy Sunday: The Hundred-Foot Journey Night Moves The Hundred-Foot Journey Dvorˇák in Love? Wakolda The Hundred-Foot Journey Killers Wakolda The Hundred-Foot Journey Night Moves The Hundred-Foot Journey Wakolda The Hundred-Foot Journey Killers The Hundred-Foot Journey Wakolda Night Moves The Hundred Foot Journey Night Moves NT Live: A Streetcar Named Desire

NT Live: A Streetcar Named Desire Pride Pinocchio In Order of Disappearance Lazy Sunday: Pride Billy Elliot The Musical Live Pride Pride Billy Elliot the Musical Live A Spell to Ward off the Darkness In Order of Disappearance Pride Welcome to New York Pride A Spell to Ward off the Darkness Pride In Order of Disappearance Welcome to New York Pride In Order of Disappearance Pride In Order of Disappearance Pride Welcome to New York

Pride The Assassination of Jesse James Pride 20,000 Days on Earth Pride The Keeper of Lost Causes Pride 20,000 Days on Earth Pride – subtitled The Keeper of Lost Causes 20,000 Days on Earth Pride Pride Pride The Keeper of Lost Causes Pride 20,000 Days on Earth Artists Talk Pride The Keeper of Lost Causes 20,000 Days on Earth Pride The Keeper of Lost Causes Pride 20,000 Days on Earth Pride The Keeper of Lost Causes Pride 20,000 Days on Earth 10 Movie Icons In Order of Disappearance Pride A Spell to Ward off the Darkness Pride The Keeper of Lost Causes Pride The Visitor Pinocchio In Order of Disappearance Pride A Spell to Ward off the Darkness Pride Pride

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In Order of Disappearance

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Silver Screenings

Fri 26 Sep – Thu 2 Oct

Matinee screenings for just £4.60 including refreshments.

Dir: Hans Petter Moland Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Kristofer Hivju Norway 2014, 1hr 56mins, subtitled

Two Days, One Night Wed 3 Sep, 11am

In this new black comedy, Stellan Skarsgård plays Nils – a snow plower whose work in the wild mountains of Norway has earned him the title ‘Citizen of the Year’. However, on hearing his son has

died from an apparent heroin overdose Nils suspects foul play, and this former nice guy decides to track down the killers using a mix of heavy machinery and beginner’s luck! A hilarious revenge tale pitched somewhere between The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Dirty Harry.

A Spell to Ward off the Darkness

Welcome to New York 18

The Assassination of Jesse James 15

Fri 26 – Mon 29 Sep

Mon 29 Sep – Thu 2 Oct

Fri 19 – Mon 22 Sep

Dir: Ben Russell, Ben Rivers Cast: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe France/Germany/Estonia 2013, 1hr 38mins

Dir: Abel Ferrara Cast: Gérard Depardieu USA 2014, 2hrs 5mins

Dir: Andrew Dominik Cast: Casey Affleck, Brad Pitt USA 2007, 2hrs 40mins

Gérard Depardieu (Cyrano de Bergerac) plays George Devereaux, a fictionalised version of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund. Devereaux lives a hedonistic self-indulgent life of wealth and sex, convinced he is above the law – until he’s arrested for sexually assaulting a maid in his New York hotel room. An explicit, shocking and full-blooded indictment of the super-rich and the modern world’s insatiable culture of greed.

Despite music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Roger Deakins as cinematographer and a cast that includes Brad Pitt, Sam Rockwell, Casey Affleck and Sam Shepard, Andrew Dominik’s film has remained criminally-underrated. A young 19-year-old who idolises Jesse James joins his gang, but becomes resentful of the power his hero wields over him. An epic, elegiac Western presented as it should be – on 35mm, on the big screen, where it can be rightly heralded as a masterpiece.

This new film from artists Ben Rivers (Two Years at Sea) and Ben Russell is a riveting piece of experimental filmmaking. Musician Robert AA Lowe (a.k.a. Lichens) plays a nameless man searching for utopia in the present day, through three loosely-connected chapters: a small commune in Estonia; the hills beneath the northern lights in Finland; and finally in a black metal band in Norway. A spiritual blend of documentary, fiction and breathtaking visuals.

All Quiet on the Western Front PG

Wed 10 Sep, 10.30am Screening in partnership with The University of the Third Age (U3A)

The Hundred-Foot Journey Wed 17 Sep, 11am

ESSENTIAL CINEMA Must-see masterpieces

Pride

Wed 24 Sep, 11am

SCALARAMA

2O,OOO Days on Earth + live via satellite performance Wed 17 Sep, 7pm Tickets: £13 / £11.50 conc. Two days before the nationwide release of the Nick Cave documentary 20,000 Days on

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Springing from the ashes of the legendary London repertory cinema The Scala in King’s Cross, Scalarama is an annual celebration of cult cinema held nationwide in September.

Down by Law + Intro 15

Fri 5 Sep, 9.15pm

Fri 19 Sep, 8pm

Dir: Shin'ya Tsukamoto Japan 1989, 1hr 4mins, subtitled

Dir: Jim Jarmusch USA/West Germany 1986, 2hrs 2mins

As if Lynch and Cronenberg got together to film a nightmare – Tsukamoto's movie is a must for fans of extreme cinema. Friday nights in September All tickets: £5

Earth (see p7), this special preview screening of the film will be followed by a live satellite event featuring Nick Cave performing with special guests. 20,000 Days on Earth is a bold vision of one of music’s most mysterious and charismatic figures, fusing drama and documentary by weaving a cinematically-staged day in Cave’s life with never-before-seen footage of his full creative cycle.

Phase IV

Fri 12 Sep, 9.15pm

Jim Jarmusch's third film, chosen and introduced by Alan Morton, the founder of The Social Cinema.

The Visitor

Fri 26 Sep, 9.15pm Dir: Saul Bass USA 1974, 1hr 22mins The only feature film directed by Hitchcock's favourite title sequence designer Saul Bass, Phase IV is a sci-fi tale of super-intelligent ants at war with humans.

Dir: Michael J. Paradise USA/Italy 1979, 1hr 38mins The ultimate experience in B-movie madness: a young girl with telekinetic powers becomes the prize in a fight between forces of God and the Devil.

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Here’s just a selection of the amazing shows due on screen at Phoenix soon – for the full Stage on Screen programme see our website.

Billy Elliot The Musical Live

S TAG E O N S C R E E N

Sun 28 Sep, 2pm Sun 28 Sep, 7pm Live from London’s West End, the musical that’s won the hearts of millions of theatre-goers, and over 80 theatre awards. In cinemas for the first time.

It’s all about families Tickets £15 / £13 conc.

Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me Wed 1 Oct, 7.15pm (live)

Medea 12A Thu 4 Sep, 7pm (live)

The Two Gentlemen of Verona 12A Tue 9 Sep, 7.30pm

Love’s Labour’s Lost 12A Wed 11 Feb, 7pm (live)

Love’s Labour’s Won, or Much Ado About Nothing 12A

Skylight 12A Sat 6 Sep

A Streetcar Named Desire 12A Sat 27 Sep, 7.15pm

Frankenstein 15 Thu 30 Oct, 7.30pm (recorded) Tue 4 Nov, 7.30pm (recorded)

Wed 4 Mar, 7pm (live)

The Legend of Love

La Traviata Wed 11 Mar, 7.30 (live)

Sun 26 Oct, 3pm (live)

The Pharaoh’s Daughter Sun 23 Nov, 4pm (recorded)

La Bayadere Sun 7 Dec, 4pm (recorded)

Encore screenings are recordings

of the first night’s live performance. Licensing restrictions limit the number of encore screenings we can show.

With great family films every weekend, share a little quality time with your kids at Phoenix.

EXHIBITION ON SCREEN Behind-the-scenes views of major exhibitions which delve into the lives of the artists.

Rembrandt Tue 2 Dec, 7.30pm

Treat your taste buds in our café bar

Workshop – Our Fun Palace

Pinocchio

Whether you fancy dinner and a movie, a light bite or just a coffee while you browse with free wi-fi, there are plenty of reasons to visit our café bar.

Sat 4 Oct, 10am – 4pm, Free

Disney’s timeless classic about a puppet who wants to become a real boy.

We’ve tempting seasonal menus featuring produce from local suppliers, a children’s menu and delicious homemade cakes too. Our bar stocks local ales and ciders, wines, soft drinks and movie-inspired cocktails – and you’re always welcome to take your drinks into the screens. This month, we’re cooking up some French and Indian-inspired dishes to tie-in with the release of The Hundred-Foot Journey – see the daily specials boards for details.

Try your hand at printmaking using special conductive ink and help us create a wall of interactive artworks which are sensitive to movement. Film and Dine For the perfect evening out, combine the film of your choice with a meal from just £13.50 / £12 concs. Lazy Sundays Keep your weekend relaxed with our Lazy Sunday combo – a full English breakfast and a ticket to the 12pm film for just £9.95 / £7.95 concs. Early booking via the box office advised.

Need some nibbles? Popcorn, ice creams, sweets and crisps are available from the kiosk, or try a meze box from the café bar!

Taking place at Phoenix in partnership with Leicester Print Workshop, this free workshop is part of ‘Fun Palaces’, a weekend of locally-curated events across the UK. For more information visit funpalaces.co.uk

Sat 27 & Sun 28 Sep

Guardians of the Galaxy 12A Fri 5 – Mon 8 Sep Hunted down and imprisoned, Peter Quill must join forces with four other galactic misfits to secure his release.

The Nut Job

Sat 13 & Sun 14 Sep A mischievous squirrel and his rat friend plan a nut store heist of outrageous proportions.

Step Up 5

Sat 20 & Sun 21 Sep Stars from previous instalments come together to battle for victory in Las Vegas.

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Sites of Collective Memory

Each work takes the witnesses’ testimony as its starting point, reflecting on personal experiences of iconic and historic moments at places that resonate with individual and shared remembrance. The artists are: Jordan Baseman, Shona Illingworth, Delaine Le Bas and Damian James Le Bas, and Roz Mortimer.

Creating Interactive Lights with Arduino Sat 4 Oct, 1 – 5pm £45 Call box office to book

Learn how to use Arduino – a flexible little computer – to create amazing interactive lights. Price includes an Arduino kit and LED pixel strip to take away.

Sites of Collective Memory is an Animate Projects touring exhibition supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

Access Cinema Subtitled

Artists' Talk

Animation workshop

Wed 24 Sep, 6.15pm Free

Sat 20 Sep, 1 – 5pm Suitable for ages 14 – 18, £10. Booking via the box office

Join Sites of Collective Memory artists Delaine Le Bas, Damian James Le Bas and Roz Mortimer as they talk about their work, and discuss the rewards and challenges of representing a culture from both an insider’s and outsider’s perspective.

Workshops

Cube Gallery Fri 5 Sep – Fri 3 Oct Free An exhibition of four new animated artworks each offering intimate portraits of witnesses to historic events – the bombing of Hiroshima, the massacre of Polish Gypsies in WWII and the 7/7 London bombings – and, in contrast, the private experiences passed down through British Romani families.

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Ever wanted to make your own animated gif and star in it as well? Get to grips with green screen and pixilation techniques with award-winning animator Katerina Athanasopoulou who created the animation for one of the pieces in Sites of Collective Memory. In this workshop young people will learn how to shoot a special version of stop motion using people as living puppets, and how to combine the footage with colourful backgrounds to produce vibrant animated gifs.

Participatory Print Shop Phoenix Café Bar Tue 23 Sep, 3pm – 8pm Free, drop-in

can turn your designs into 3D printed woodblocks inspired by the Leicester’s industrial heritage. Once your designs have been 3D printed, you’ll be able to use the blocks straight away to create artworks, posters and prints.

Help us create a set of unique printing blocks to be used in a major exhibition in Leicester’s Cultural Quarter later this year. Artist collective Juneau Projects will be running a free drop-in workshop in our cafe where you

This workshop is part of the Affective Digital Histories project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and run in partnership with the University of Leicester and Cuttlefish Multimedia.

The Hundred-Foot Journey PG Tue 9 Sep, 6.10pm

Pride 15 Tue 23 Sep, 6.10pm

Audio Described

Short Courses Appreciation

Pride 15

Sat 13 Sep, 10.30am

Waves to Nouveau: 8 Film Movements Tuesdays, 9 Sep – 28 Oct 7pm – 8.30pm Tutor: Blake Goddard Cost: £52 / £44 conc.

TBC screenings – please check our website for confirmation. Our distributors cannot always confirm subtitled and audio described features before this brochure goes to print.

10 Movie Icons Fridays, 26 Sep – 28 Nov (10 sessions) 2pm – 3.30pm Tutor: Alan Seaman Cost: £65 / £55 conc.

Fri 19 Sep, 1pm

Autism Friendly The Nut Job U

Skills Distributing Your Film Sat 6 Sep (1 session) 10.30am – 4pm Tutor: Rhys Davies Cost: £35 / £30 conc. DSLR Film Making Thursdays 9 Oct – 30 Oct (4 sessions) 7pm – 9pm Tutor: Keith Allott Cost: £48 / £44 See website for more details. Booking via the box office.

Box office 0116 242 2800

Lazy Sunday Enjoy a day of rest with a full English breakfast and a film at 12pm every Sunday £9.95 / £7.95 concs (booking required).

Opening Times

Tickets

Mon – Fri

Sat – Sun & bank holidays

Box office

12pm – 9pm

11am – 9pm

Café Bar & DMU Cube Gallery

9am – 11pm

Food Served

11am – 9pm

Full

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Student/U18

After 5pm & Weekends

£7.90

£6.10

£5.00

10am – 11pm

Before 5pm

£7.10

£6.10

£5.00

11am – 9pm (Sat) 10am – 6pm (Sun)

Autistic Friendly / £4.00 Supported Environment one free carer ticket available Screenings for CEA cardholders

Box Office 0116 242 2800

Family tickets

3D films cost an additional £1.50 Art exhibitions are all FREE entry

Book Online www.phoenix.org.uk

Special ticket offers – not available online Orange and EE Wednesdays: 2 for 1 tickets

Phoenix, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, LE1 1TG

You can buy tickets in advance online, by phone or in person at the box office. We do not charge a booking fee.

For office enquires, including corporate space hire, call 0116 242 2821.

*Concessions available for people with proof of status for unemployment, receipt of state pension and disability. One free carer ticket is available for CEA cardholders.

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1 adult + 1 child, £9.50 1 adult + 2 children, £14.25 2 adults + 2 children, £19.00

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Parking is also available around Phoenix. On single yellow lines, parking is free after 6pm. In pay and display bays, parking is free after 6pm and all day on Sundays. Please always check the signs as circumstances may change.

Rutland Street NCP on Halford Street (LE1 1TQ) is a short walk from Phoenix and costs £4.20 all day for Phoenix customers (with tickets stamped at the Phoenix box office).

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