Autumn 2016 Programme

SEASON 2016

2 Sep – 10 Nov

Free State of Jones

ALLOYS

(French Film Season)

CAFÉ SOCIETY

(Woody Allen)

THE GIRL ON A TRAIN

(Best-Seller)

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Chichester Cinema As I write this, the 25th Chichester International Film Festival is going strong.

With the very first Drive-In screening in Chichester (Casablanca), along with the sold out Open Air Screening of ‘Finding Dory’, the Festival was always going to be a success – and I thank everyone involved (Patrons, Staff, Volunteers, Filmmakers, Distributors…) for making it possible.

Film Festival Drive-In

As Autumn arrives, so do the big-hitting films, placing themselves in the spotlight for Award Nominations in the new year. We have a fair few of these this season (some return from their previews in the Festival, some screened for the first time), complementing our usual fayre of cuttingedge Documentaries and eye-opening World Cinema.

The Performance Season also has some very exciting events, including The National Theatre’s ‘The Deep Blue Sea’, Branagh’s ‘The Entertainer’, ‘Turandot’ from Sydney Harbour and ‘Anastasia’ live from the Royal Opera House.

2016 marks one hundred years since The Battle of the Somme, and on the 23rd October 1916, large crowds gathered at Poole’s Picture Palace (Corn Exchange) in Chichester to watch the film ‘The Battle of the Somme’. One Hundred years to the day… we will also screen the film, in an attempt to connect with our fellow citizens, and remember one of the most important periods of our collective history.

See you at the Cinema

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Autumn 2016 contents Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie 11

David Brent: Life on the Road 9

Miss Saigon 34

Aloys 35

The Deep Blue Sea 16

My Scientology Movie 42

Anastasia 40

El Sur 23

Anthropoid 20

The Entertainer 39

The Battle of the Somme 36

Equity 28

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week 13 Belle Époque - French Cinema 12 Ben-Hur 26

Finding Dory 38 The First Monday in May 41 Florence Foster Jenkins 7

Norma 27 Out of this World 45 Performance 8 Richard III 13 Shakespeare 400 and The Autumn of our Years 45

Free State of Jones 31

The Student and Mister Henri 20

French Cuisine 14

Summertime 29

The Girl on the Train 36

Things to Come 22

The Girl with All the Gifts 40

The Threepenny Opera 18

The Golden Age 32

Turandot 16

Hell or High Water 29

Under the Shadow 28

Hunt for the Wilderpeople 32

Up for Love 17

Captain Fantastic 21 The Carer 7

I, Daniel Blake 43

Cartoons and Animation on Film 47

The Idol 19

The BFG 15 The Blue Room 41 Born to be Blue 19 Bridget Jones’s Baby 23 The Bright Stream 44 Café Society 15

Chick Lit 10 The Childhood of a Leader 30

Inferno 42 The Infiltrator 27 Jason Bourne 14

The Clan 33

Julieta 11

Coen Brothers: The Art of Laughter 46

King Lear 43

Così Fan Tutte 34

Kubo and the Two Strings 38

Cosmos 33

Les Cowboys 42

Courted 37

Little Men 31

The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch 44

Macbeth 35

Cymbeline 39 Dare to be Wild 41

Valley of Love 10 The Wait 17 The Wave 24 The Western Hero 46 Wiener-Dog 24 Yarn 30

The Meddler 9 Michael Bublé Tour Stop 148 22

Kubo and the Two Strings

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Film Listings Fri 2 Sep

The Meddler (12A) 100m 16:00 Valley of Love (15) 92m 18:15 The Carer (12A) 89m 20:45 David Brent: Life on the Road (15) 96m 13:30

Sat 3 Sep

Florence Foster Jenkins (PG) 110m 16:00 The Carer 18:15 David Brent: Life on the Road 20:45 Valley of Love 13:30

Sun 4 Sep 13:30 15:45

Valley of Love Florence Foster Jenkins 18:15 The Carer 20:30 David Brent: Life on the Road

Mon 5 Sep 13:30 15:45 18:15

The Carer The Meddler Florence Foster Jenkins 20:45 David Brent: Life on the Road

Tue 6 Sep 13:30

David Brent: Life on the Road 16:00 The Carer 18:15 The Carer 20:30 The Meddler

Wed 7 Sep 13:15 15:30

Valley of Love Florence Foster Jenkins 18:15 The Carer 20:30 David Brent: Life on the Road

Thu 8 Sep 13:15

Florence Foster Jenkins David Brent: Life on the Road 18:15 Valley of Love 20:30 The Carer 15:45

Fri 9 Sep

Absolutely Fabulous (15) 91m 15:45 ChickLit (12A) 93m 18:00 Julieta (15) 96m 20:15 Jason Bourne (12A) 123m 13:30

Sat 10 Sep

13:15 ChickLit 15:45 Absolutely Fabulous 18:00 Jason Bourne 20:45 Julieta

Sun 11 Sep

12:45 Julieta 14:45 Richard III Almeida Encore 190m inc interval 18:15 Julieta

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20:30 ChickLit

Mon 12 Sep

French Cuisine (12A) 81m 15:45 Julieta 18:00 ChickLit 20:15 Julieta 13:30

Tue 13 Sep

13:15 ChickLit 15:30 Jason Bourne 18:15 Julieta 20:45 Julieta

Wed 14 Sep

12:15 Julieta 14:45 Jason Bourne 17:00 Absolutely Fabulous

Thu 15 Sep

13:30 Absolutely Fabulous 16:00 Julieta 18:30 The Beatles: Eight Days a Week 160m 21:30 French Cuisine

Fri 16 Sep

The Wait (15) 100m 16:00 Café Society (12A) 96m 18:15 Born to be Blue (15) 97m 20:45 Café Society 13:30

Sat 17 Sep

12:00 The BFG (PG) 117m 14:30 The Deep Blue Sea NT Encore 180m inc Interval 18:00 Café Society 20:30 The Idol (PG) 100m

Sun 18 Sep

12:15 The BFG 15:00 Turandot Sydney Opera 135m inc Interval 18:00 Up For Love (12A) 97m 18:30 Café Society

Mon 19 Sep 13:15 15:45 18:15 20:45

Up For Love Café Society The Wait Born to be Blue

Tue 20 Sep 13:15 15:30 18:00 20:45

Café Society Up For Love The BFG Café Society

Wed 21 Sep 13:00 15:30 18:15 20:45

The Idol The BFG Café Society Up For Love

Thu 22 Sep

12:45 Born to be Blue 14:45 The Wait 17:00 Café Society

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19:00 The Threepenny Opera NT Live 180m inc Interval

Fri 23 Sep

The Student and Mr Henri (12A) 98m 13:30 Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare 400 Talk) 15:00 Captain Fantastic (15) 119m 17:45 Anthropoid (15) 120m 20:30 Captain Fantastic 12:30

Sat 24 Sep

10:00 Out of this World (Day Course) 12:30 Captain Fantastic 15:15 Anthropoid 18:00 Captain Fantastic 20:45 Anthropoid

Sun 25 Sep

12:30 Captain Fantastic 15:15 Anthropoid 18:00 Michael Buble: Tour Stop 148 105m 20:15 Captain Fantastic

Mon 26 Sep

12:15 Captain Fantastic 14:30 Anthropoid 17:15 Captain Fantastic 20:00 The Deep Blue Sea NT Encore 165m inc Interval

Tue 27 Sep

12:45 Anthropoid 15:30 Captain Fantastic 18:15 The Student and Mr Henri 20:45 Captain Fantastic

Wed 28 Sep

12:15 Captain Fantastic 14:30 Anthropoid 16:45 Captain Fantastic

Thu 29 Sep 12:30 15:30

Captain Fantastic The Student and Mr Henri 18:00 Anthropoid 20:45 Captain Fantastic

Fri 30 Sep

Bridget Jones’s Baby (15) 13:30 Othello (Shakespeare 400 Talk) 15:45 Wiener-Dog (15) 88m 18:00 Things to Come (15) 100m 20:30 Bridget Jones’s Baby 12:15

Sat 1 Oct

13:00 Bridget Jones’s Baby 15:45 El Sur (PG) 95m 18:00 Bridget Jones’s Baby 20:30 Things to Come

Dare to be Wild

Sun 2 Oct

12:00 The Wave (15) 105m 14:00 Norma ROH Encore 180m inc Interval 17:30 Bridget Jones’s Baby 20:15 Bridget Jones’s Baby

Mon 3 Oct

13:30 Things to Come 16:00 Bridget Jones’s Baby 18:30 Wiener-Dog 20:45 Bridget Jones’s Baby

Tue 4 Oct 13:15

Bridget Jones’s Baby The Wave Bridget Jones’s Baby 20:45 El Sur

Sun 9 Oct

13:00 Equity 15:30 Yarn (U) 76m 17:30 The Infiltrator 20:15 Ben-Hur

Mon 10 Oct

13:15 The Infiltrator 16:15 Summertime 18:45 Under the Shadow (PG) 84m 20:45 Hell or High Water

Tue 11 Oct 13:15 15:45

Hell or High Water Under the Shadow 18:00 The Infiltrator 20:45 Equity

Wed 12 Oct

15:45 18:15

12:15 The Infiltrator 14:45 Ben-Hur 17:00 Childhood of a Leader

Wed 5 Oct

Thu 13 Oct

13:00 Things to Come 15:30 Bridget Jones’s Baby 18:00 The Wave 20:30 Bridget Jones’s Baby

13:30 Yarn 15:30 Childhood of a Leader 18:00 Equity 20:30 The Infiltrator

Thu 6 Oct

13:00 Little Men (15) 85m 15:15 Cosmos (15) 103m 17:45 Free State of Jones (15) 139m 18:30 The Western Hero (Talk) 20:45 The Clan (15) 110m

13:00 Things to Come 15:30 Bridget Jones’s Baby 18:00 The Wave 20:30 Bridget Jones’s Baby

Fri 7 Oct 12:45

Ben-Hur (PG) 123m Richard III (Shakespeare 400 Talk) 15:30 The Infiltrator (15) 127m 18:15 Summertime (15) 105m 20:45 Hell or High Water (15) 102m 13:30

Sat 8 Oct

13:15 Equity (15) 100m 15:30 Hell or High Water 18:00 Childhood of a Leader (12A) 116m 20:30 The Infiltrator

Fri 14 Oct

Sat 15 Oct

13:00 Hunt for the Wilderpeople (PG) 101m 15:30 Little Men 17:45 Free State of Jones 20:45 Cosmos

Sun 16 Oct 12:45

Free State of Jones 16:00 The Golden Age Live Bolshoi 140m inc Interval 19:00 Miss Saigon 180m inc Interval

Mon 17 Oct

13:00 Hunt for the Wilderpeople 15:15 Free State of Jones 18:30 Così Fan Tutte ROH Live 195m inc Interval

Tue 18 Oct

13:00 Free State of Jones 16:00 The Clan 18:30 Little Men 20:45 Cosmos

Wed 19 Oct

13:00 Free State of Jones 16:00 Little Men 18:15 Hunt for the Wilderpeople 20:45 The Clan

Thu 20 Oct

12:15 Cosmos 14:15 Little Men 16:00 Free State of Jones 18:45 Macbeth Verdi from Barcelona 220m inc Interval

Fri 21 Oct

The Girl on the Train (15) 110m approx 13:30 Notes on a Scandal / Tatie Danielle (Autumn of our Years Talk) 15:45 Courted (15 tbc) 98m 18:15 The Girl on the Train 20:45 Aloys (15) 91m 13:15

Sat 22 Oct

10:00 Coen Brothers: The Art of Laughter (Day Course) 12:15 The Girl on the Train 14:45 Cymbeline 200m approx inc. interval 18:30 Aloys 20:45 The Girl on the Train

Sun 23 Oct

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Film Listings continued 12:00 The Battle of the Somme (PG) 77m + Intro 14:00 Così Fan Tutte ROH Encore 195m approx inc. interval 17:45 The Girl on the Train 20:15 The Girl on the Train

Mon 24 Oct 12:15

14:15 16:45

Kubo and the Two Strings (PG) 101m The Girl on the Train The Girl on the Train

Tue 25 Oct

13:00 Kubo and the Two Strings 15:30 The Girl on the Train 18:00 Courted 20:30 The Girl on the Train

Wed 26 Oct 12:15

14:15 16:45

Kubo and the Two Strings The Girl on the Train The Girl on the Train

Thu 27 Oct

12:00 Finding Dory (PG) 103m 14:00 The Girl on the Train 16:15 The Girl on the Train 19:00 The Entertainer Branagh Live 180m inc Interval

Fri 28 Oct

Finding Dory (PG) 103m 16:00 The Girl on the Train (15) 105m 18:30 The Girl with All the Gifts (15) 111m 13:30

Cymbeline (RSC)

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Cartoons and Animation on Film (Talk) 21:00 The Blue Room (15) 76m 18:30

Sat 29 Oct 12:30

The Girl on the Train 15:00 The Entertainer Branagh Encore 180m inc Interval 18:30 The Girl with all the Gifts 21:00 The First Monday in May (PG) 90m

Sun 30 Oct

13:00 My Scientology Movie (PG) 99m 15:30 Dare to be Wild (PG) 100m 18:00 Dare to be Wild 20:30 The Girl on the Train

Mon 31 Oct 12:15

14:30 16:45

The Girl on the Train The Girl with all the Gifts Dare to be Wild

Tue 1 Nov

Fri 4 Nov

13:00 I, Daniel Blake (15 TBC) 100m 13:30 About Schmidt / Wild Strawberries (Autumn of our Years Talk) 15:30 The Cowboys (15tbc) 104m 18:00 I, Daniel Blake 20:30 Inferno (12A) 121m

Sat 5 Nov 12:15 14:45

I, Daniel Blake King Lear RSC Encore 200m inc Intervals 18:15 Inferno 21:00 I, Daniel Blake

Sun 6 Nov

12:15 Inferno 15:00 The Bright Stream Bolshoi 200m inc Intervals 18:45 I, Daniel Blake 21:00 I, Daniel Blake

Mon 7 Nov

12:15 I, Daniel Blake 14:15 Inferno 16:45 I, Daniel Blake

13:30 The Blue Room 15:30 Dare to be Wild 18:00 The Girl on the Train 20:30 Dare to be Wild

Tue 8 Nov

Wed 2 Nov

Wed 9 Nov

12:15

14:30 16:45 19:15

The Girl on the Train Dare to be Wild My Scientology Movie Anastasia ROH Live 180m inc Interval

Thu 3 Nov 13:30

The Girl on the Train 16:00 The First Monday in May 18:15 Dare to be Wild 20:45 The Blue Room

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13:15 Inferno 16:00 I, Daniel Blake 18:30 Les Cowboys 21:00 I, Daniel Blake 12:15 I, Daniel Blake 14:15 Inferno 16:45 I, Daniel Blake

Thu 10 Nov

13:30 I, Daniel Blake 16:00 The Curious World of Hiëronymus Bosch 90m 18:15 Inferno 21:00 I, Daniel Blake

Little Men

Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu

The Carer

2 Sep 3 Sep 4 Sep 5 Sep 6 Sep 7 Sep 8 Sep

18:15 16:00 18:15 13:30 16:00 & 18:15 18:15 20:30

Booking Ref

A magnificent Brian Cox stars as an ageing acting legend.

When the question is to be or not to be, there is only one answer.

Cox is at his theatrical best in this enjoyably mannered comedy drama, starring as Sir Michael Gifford, a retired Shakespearean actor suffering from Parkinson’s that has left him frustrated and gloriously grumpy, at his country manor. His family insists he has a carer and he ends up with Hungarian refugee Dorottya (Coco König) who has acting aspirations of her own. But unlike anyone else before her, she quickly bonds with him over their mutual love of Shakespeare. Of course the film mainly rests on Cox’s shoulders, and he has one of his best roles as the maddeningly self-absorbed but shrewdly observant actor. His rage at the deterioration of his body is convincingly rendered, and yet his mental faculties remain sharp as ever. Cox encourages us to care about the character without ever softening his portrayal. Chichester Film Festival’s recent Closing Gala film.

UK/Hungary 2016 János Edelényi 89m

Sat Sun Mon Wed Thu Back by Popular Demand

3 Sep 4 Sep 5 Sep 7 Sep 8 Sep

13:30 15:45 18:15 15:30 13:15

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Florence Foster Jenkins

A wealthy New York heiress attempts to become an opera singer despite having a terrible singing voice.

Born in 1868, Florence (Meryl Streep) was a child prodigy as a pianist, but fell into poverty after an arm injury. Later, she began to dream of becoming an opera singer – despite her lack of natural talent. Hugh Grant co-stars as a British Shakespearean actor in this very funny film directed by Stephen Frears (‘The Queen’, ‘Philomena’).

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This Autumn we bring you LIVE National Theatre with Rattigan’s ‘The Deep Blue Sea’ (starring Helen McCrory) and ‘The Threepenny Opera’, as well as Live Royal Opera House performances in the form of Mozart’s ‘Così Fan Tutte’ and ‘Anastasia’ (Kenneth MacMillan’s full-length ballet). The Bolshoi Season starts with ‘The Golden Age’ (Live in October) followed by ‘The Bright Stream’ in November, and we also present a Beatles Special Event, a Michael Bublé concert and an exhibition of Hiëronymus Bosch.

THEATRE

Richard III (Almeida Theatre Encore) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg13 The Deep Blue See (National Theatre Encore) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg16 The Threepenny Opera (National Theatre Live) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg18 The Entertainer (Live Branagh Theatre) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg39 King Lear (RSC Encore) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg43

OPERA Turandot (Sydney Opera) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg16 Norma (ROH Encore) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg27 Così Fan Tutte (ROH Live) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg34 Macbeth (Live Barcelona Opera) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg35 Cymbeline (ROH Encore) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg39

BALLET

The Golden Age (Live Bolshoi) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg32 The Bright Stream (Bolshoi) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg44 Anastasia (ROH Live) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg40

CONCERT/MUSICAL

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg13 Michael Bublé: Tour Stop 148 (Concert) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg22 Miss Saigon (Musical) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg34

EXHIBITION

The Curious World of Hiëronymus Bosch (Exhibition on Screen) . . pg44

KEY

Pg40 Anastasia

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Live: Transmitted Live by Satellite during the actual performance.

Encore: Follow ups that have been recorded Live by Satellite.

Delayed Live: Recorded live by satellite and transmitted within a week.

Recorded: Live performances, but pre-recorded.

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David Brent: Life on the Road

2 Sep 3 Sep 4 Sep 5 Sep 6 Sep 7 Sep 8 Sep

20:45 18:15 20:30 20:45 13:30 20:30 15:45

Booking Ref

A camera crew catches up with David Brent, the former star of the fictional British series, “The Office” as he now fancies himself a rock star on the road.

Now working as a rep selling cleaning products up and down the country, David Brent hasn’t given up his dream of becoming a rock star - or more specifically, singer/songwriter for fledgling rock band ‘Foregone Conclusion’. As he assembles a group of mercenary session musicians, a talented sidekick for street cred and an overpriced yet underwhelmed tour manager, he embarks upon a self-financed UK tour coming to a venue near every major city near you.

UK 2016 Ricky Gervais 96m

Fri 2 Sep Mon 5 Sep Tue 6 Sep

The Meddler

13:30 15:45 20:30

Booking Ref

An aging widow (Susan Sarandon) from New York City follows her daughter to Los Angeles in hopes of starting a new life after her husband passes away.

With a new iPhone, an apartment near the Grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated to LA to be near her daughter Lori (Rose Byrne), a successful (but still single) screenwriter, and smother her with motherly love. But when the dozens of texts, unexpected visits, and conversations dominated by unsolicited advice force Lori to draw strict personal boundaries, Marnie finds ways to channel her eternal optimism and forceful generosity to change the lives of others - as well as her own - and find a new purpose in life. Much like its main character, ‘The Meddler’ exudes an irresistible charm.

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Valley of Love

2 Sep 3 Sep 4 Sep 7 Sep 8 Sep

16:00 20:45 13:30 13:15 18:15

Booking Ref

Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert) and Gérard (Gerard Depardieu) go to a strange appointment in Death Valley, California.

They have not seen each other for years (as in reality, Huppert and Depardieu had not worked together for over 35 years). The two stars are long-divorced former spouses, brought unhappily together by the suicide of their adult son, Michael. Both have received a letter from Michael - presumably penned before his death, though enigmatically referring to the event in the past tense - instructing them to meet in Death Valley on a specific date, whereupon he claims he will briefly appear to them. There are rewards to be gained from the initially brittle, gradually tender rapport between two actors of contrasting greatness, appropriately cast as estranged partners working toward a shared understanding of the distance between them. (Subtitles) France 2015 Guillaume Nicloux 92m

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Chick Lit

9 Sep 10 Sep 11 Sep 12 Sep 13 Sep

15:45 13:15 20:30 18:00 13:15

Booking Ref

A charming British comedy about four male friends that will try literally anything to save their favourite local pub from closing down.

After brainstorming through ideas, the group decides to write a chick lit, or more specifically, a ‘mummy porn’ novel following the huge success of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’. Soon after, the novel gets picked up! Now, the only problem is that the publisher insists that the young woman ‘author’ does press and publicity. Desperate to keep their involvement a secret, the four guys hire an out of work actress to ‘role play’ the part of the author. The film is funny, witty, charming and above all, entertaining. The impressive star cast is led by Christian McKay as David, alongside David Troughton, Dakota Blue Richards, Caroline Catz and Sir John Hurt.

UK 2016 Tony Britten 93m

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9 Sep 10 Sep 11 Sep 12 Sep 13 Sep 14 Sep 15 Sep

18:00 20:45 12:45 & 18:15 15:45 & 20:15 18:15 & 20:45 12:15 16:00

Booking Ref

Julieta

With strong resonances of ‘All About My Mother’, Almodóvar’s new film sees him back on familiar female territory with his typical striking visual style and remarkable storytelling.

Julieta (played by two actresses - Adriana Ugarte as her younger self and Emma Suárez as the older woman) has a chance meeting in the street with an old friend, who brings her up to speed with various friends and relations, not least her daughter whom it transpires she has not seen since she was 18. The girl, Antia, disappeared while on a mountain retreat but despite Julieta’s considerable efforts to find her, remained elusive. Almodóvar proves again that he is a master of delving deep into the female psyche. His distinctive voice grows in texture and depth with each new production. A beautiful film. (Subtitles) Spain 2016 Pedro Almodóvar 96m

Fri Sat Wed Thu Back by Popular Demand

9 Sep 10 Sep 14 Sep 15 Sep

13:30 15:45 17:00 13:30

Booking Ref

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

Joining our two ‘heroes’ (Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley) are June Whitfield, Julia Sawalha, Jane Horrocks, Rebel Wilson, Joan Collins, Celia Imrie, Dawn French... shall we go on?

Blamed for an incident at an uber fashionable party, our heroes become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forever!

UK 2016 Mandie Fletcher 91m

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An Autumn of French Cinema This season we present eleven French Films in what is a bumper time of year for Cinema from our neighbours across the Channel… et Mon Dieu! They are varied!

Valley of Love pg10 French Cuisine (Pension Compléte)

pg14 Up for Love (Un Homme à la Hauteur)

pg17 The Student and Mister Henri pg20 (L’Étudiante et Monsieur Henri) Things to Come (L’Avenir)

pg22 Summertime (La Belle Saison)

pg29 Cosmos pg33 Aloys pg35 Courted (L’Hermine) pg37 The Blue Room pg41 (La Chambre Bleue) Les Cowboys pg42

24th French Film Festival UK This season is just a teaser, as in our upcoming Winter Season we are delighted to take part for the first time, in the UK’s biggest array of French and francophone cinema with such delights in store as the sumptuous ‘Cézanne et Moi’ with Guillaume Gallienne and Guillaume Canet (only due to open in France next month) as well as Bertrand Tavernier’s fascinating documentary ‘A Journey Through French Cinema’ and Roschdy Zem’s ‘Monsieur Chocolat’.

Watch out for full details in our Winter brochure. www.frenchfilmfestival.org.uk Supported by the British Film Institute and the Institut Français.

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Thu 15 Sep 18:30 Tickets £12.50 (Friends/Students £10) Live by Satellite

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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week

The Touring Years A film by Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard, with the World Premiere Event broadcast live to New Park Cinema.

Based on the first part of The Beatles’ career (1962-1966) – the period in which they toured and captured the world’s acclaim. Howard’s film will explore how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr came together to become this extraordinary phenomenon.

It will explore their inner workings – how they made decisions, created their music and built their collective career – all the while, exploring The Beatles’ unique musical gifts and their complementary personalities. Focusing on the days of The Cavern Club in Liverpool to their last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1966.

UK/USA Ron Howard 160m

Sun 11 Sep

14:45

Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) Almeida Theatre

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Richard III

Encore Directed by Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold with Ralph Fiennes as Shakespeare’s most notorious villain and Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Margaret.

War-torn England is reeling after years of bitter conflict.

King Edward is ailing, and as political unrest begins to stir once more, Edward’s brother Richard – vicious in war, despised in peacetime – awaits the opportunity to seize his brother’s crown. Through the malevolent Richard, Shakespeare examines the all-consuming nature of the desire for power amid a society riddled by conflict.

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Jason Bourne

9 Sep 10 Sep 13 Sep 14 Sep

20:15 18:00 15:30 14:45

Booking Ref

The next ‘Bourne’ chapter finds the CIA’s most lethal former operative drawn out of the shadows.

Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) has most of his memory back, but lacks info on the CIA program that ended with the murder of his father.

Guilt eats at him for what he did as a government-built, $100 million killing machine. He picks up bare-knuckle fights to punish and be punished. But during an austerity riot in Greece, Bourne is contacted by former colleague Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) and learns that new CIA director Robert Dewey (Tommy Lee Jones at his devilish best) is building his own shadow government with the help of compromised tech kingpin Aaron Kalloor (a terrific Riz Ahmed). The result could be something “worse than Snowden.”

USA Paul Greengrass 123m

Mon 12 Sep 13:30 Thu 15 Sep 21:30

French Cuisine

Booking Ref

Pension Compléte François (Franck Dubosc) and Charlotte’s (Pascale Arbillot) marriage faces a crisis when their priorities differ.

François and Charlotte manage a seaside, gastronomic hotelrestaurant together, but their marriage is not in a good state.

François, a relentless obsessive, wants his Michelin Guide star, whereas Charlotte, hitting forty, dreams only of having a first child.

This already complicated situation literally explodes the day that Charlotte’s former husband, Alex, whom everyone thought was killed in the horrendous tsunami in 2004, arrives on the scene. Cheeky, clumsy (in a good way) and full of sass, this is a lively and convivial movie that tickles both appetite and warm feelings. (Subtitles) France/Belgium Florent-Emilio Siri 81m

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Café Society

16 Sep 17 Sep 18 Sep 19 Sep 20 Sep 21 Sep 22 Sep

16:00 18:00 18:30 15:45 13:15 & 20:45 18:15 17:00

Booking Ref

A love story drenched in nostalgia, this bittersweet romance from Woody Allen is a film of rare beauty.

Set in the 1930s, we follow Bronx-born Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) to Hollywood, where he falls in love, and back to New York, where he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life. Centring on events in the lives of Bobby’s colourful Bronx family, the film is a glittering valentine to the movie stars, socialites, playboys, debutantes, politicians, and gangsters who epitomized the excitement and glamour of the age. With a great jazzy soundtrack (what else could we expect from a Woody Allen film?), this is a beautifully-shot film by Allen regular Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro. A blend of comedy and drama that ends in a transcendently wistful final montage.

USA 2016 Woody Allen 96m

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The BFG

17 Sep 18 Sep 20 Sep 21 Sep

12:00 12:15 18:00 15:30

Booking Ref

The tale of a young girl, the Queen of England and a benevolent giant, who set out on an adventure to capture the evil, man-eating giants who have been invading the human world.

The highlight of The BFG is its star - Mark Rylance, Spielberg’s newest muse, who gave a performance of tragic simplicity and economy in last year’s ‘Bridge of Spies’ and collected an Oscar for it.

There, Rylance played a Soviet agent who had long ago sublimated whatever passion he had for his cause. Here, his BFG exudes explosive joy, rambling Dahl’s gleeful nonsense dialogue as he furrows and knits his CGI brow. Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s book (the first big-screen version) takes full advantage of all the fancy technology required to render the eponymous giant in all his big, friendly glory.

UK/Canada Steven Spielberg 117m BOX OFFICE 01243 786 650

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Sat 17 Sep 14.30 Mon 26 Sep 20.00 Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) National Theatre

Booking Ref

The Deep Blue Sea

Recorded live A new National Theatre production of Terence Rattigan’s devastating masterpiece.

Helen McCrory returns to the National Theatre playing one of the greatest female roles in contemporary drama. A flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London. 1952. When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marriage to a High Court judge begins to emerge. With it comes a portrait of need, loneliness and long-repressed passion. Behind the fragile veneer of post-war civility burns a brutal sense of loss and longing.

165m approx inc. interval

Sun 18 Oct

15.00

Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) Sydney Opera

Turandot

Booking Ref

Recorded live Puccini’s last great opera featuring the famous Nessun Dorma aria.

Sung in Italian with English subtitles.

After last year’s hugely successful ‘Aida’ on Sydney Harbour, Handa Opera return with their most exciting opera yet: ‘Turandot’. When the heroic high notes of ‘Nessun Dorma’ ring out, your soul stirs.

Set against the magnificent backdrop of the Sydney Opera House, Puccini’s ‘Turandot’ recounts the Chinese fable of the beautiful and powerful Princess Turandot, who challenges her many suitors to answer three riddles on pain of death. Don’t miss this incredible annual opera event with lavish sets, extraordinary costumes and a spectacular firework display from Sydney’s beautiful harbour.

135m inc. interval

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Fri 16 Sep 13:30 Mon 19 Sep 18:15 Thu 22 Sep 14:45 International Panorama: Italy

Booking Ref

The Wait

L’Attesa A mother (Juliette Binoche) meets her son’s fiancée at a villa in Sicily and gets to know her as she waits for her son to arrive.

Binoche’s Anna, a single mother living in a remote Sicilian villa, mourns the death of her son, Giuseppe, when she is caught off-guard by the arrival of Jeanne (Lou de Laage), who claims to be his lover.

Instead of admitting the truth, Anna decides to hold off “for the right time to tell her”. And so they wait. A clear disciple of Italian master Paolo Sorrentino, the film-school-trained Piero Messina served as assistant director on ‘The Great Beauty’, and he adopts many of his mentor’s stylistic predilections on his first feature. With its beautiful imaginary and haunting score, ‘The Wait’ has the charm of a dark fairy tale and quickly draws you in. (Subtitles) Italy 2015 Piero Messina 100m

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Up for Love

18 Sep 19 Sep 20 Sep 21 Sep

18:00 13:15 15:30 20:45

Booking Ref

Un Homme à la Hauteur Jean Dujardin (‘The Artist’), thanks to digital effects, plays a 4-foot-5 man wooing a “normal-height” woman.

Diane is a well-known lawyer, divorced for three years. She loses her mobile telephone and receives a call from the person who finds it.

That person is Alexandre (Dujardin), a charming man and the perfect gentleman. When they meet, there’s a surprise in store when Diane discovers he is only 4’5” tall. From that moment on, Diane tries to overcome the prejudices of society and her own fears to experience the best time of her life. Dujardin’s tasteful performance gives weight to the script in voicing the pain of lifelong ostracism. Warm, charming, amusing and serious (?). The cast includes Virginie Efira, Cedric Kahn and Manoelle Gaillard. (Subtitles) France 2015 Laurent Tirard 97m BOX OFFICE 01243 786 650

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Thu 22 Sept 19:00 Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15)

The Threepenny Opera

Booking Ref

Live A landmark of twentieth-century musical theatre comes to the National Theatre in a bold new production starring Rory Kinnear.

In this vivid and darkly comic new adaptation by award-winning playwright Simon Stephens, (‘Port’, ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’) Brecht’s book and lyrics meets Kurt Weill’s extraordinary score. Kinnear plays Macheath. London scrubs up for the coronation. The thieves are on the make, the police cutting deals to keep it all out of sight, Mr and Mrs Peachum are looking forward to a bumper day in the beggary business, but their daughter didn’t come home last night… Mack the Knife is back in town.

180m approx inc. interval

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Born to be Blue

Booking Ref

This highly acclaimed biopic is a re-imagining of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker’s (Ethan Hawke) life in the 1960’s.

When Chet stars in a film about himself, a romance heats up with his co-star, the enigmatic Jane (Carmen Ejogo). Production is shelved when Chet’s past comes back to haunt him and it appears he may never play music again, but Jane challenges him to mount a musical comeback. Trumpeter Kevin Turcotte does very clever work to chart Baker’s evolving abilities, suggesting the playing of a man attempting to deliver highly developed musical ideas through an unreliable medium. Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie are briefly referred to and jazz purists may be confused, but this is a real film, not a biographical documentary. Hawke’s performance has been widely described as a career best performance by just about every film critic.

USA 2015 Robert Budreau 97m

Sat 17 Sep 20:30 Wed 21 Sep 13:00

The Idol

Booking Ref

Ya Tayr El Tayer Mohammed Assaf, an aspiring musician living in Gaza, sets a seemingly impossible goal: to compete on the program “Arab Idol.”

Gaza. Synonymous to so many with conflict, destruction and despair but to Mohammed Assaf, and his sister Nour, Gaza is their home and their playground. It’s where they, along with their best friends Ahmad and Omar, play music, football and dare to dream big. Their band might play on second hand, beaten up instruments but their ambitions are sky-high. For Mohammed and Nour, nothing less than playing the world famous Cairo Opera Hall will do. It might take them a lifetime to get there but, as Mohammed will find out, some dreams are worth living for. Beautifully shot, and with a powerful performance from Barhom, this is a biopic at its best. (Subtitles) Netherlands/UK 2015 Hany Abu-Assad 100m BOX OFFICE 01243 786 650

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Fri 23 Sep 12:30 Tue 27 Sep 18:15 Thu 29 Sep 15:30

The Student and Mister Henri

Booking Ref

L’Étudiante et Monsieur Henri Writer-director Ivan Calberac directs veteran Claude Brasseur in a very funny adaptation of a Paris Boulevard stage hit.

An elderly curmudgeon (Claude Brasseur) lets out a room in his large apartment rent-free to a young student (Noémie Schmidt) on condition that she does everything in her power to ruin his son’s marriage. Strapped for cash, she accepts Henri’s offer. Constance deploys her seductive skills and soon enough the forty-something Paul is falling for her, dressing in cool leather jackets, clubbing and sending text messages in (misspelt) suburban slang. If all this sounds like the premise for a farce, it’s because that is precisely how this movie started out in real life.

France 2015 Ivan Calbérac 98m

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Anthropoid

23 Sep 24 Sep 25 Sep 26 Sep 27 Sep 28 Sep 29 Sep

17:45 15:15 & 20:45 15:15 14:30 12:45 14:30 18:00

Booking Ref

Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich.

Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution, was the Reich’s third in command behind Hitler and Himmler and the leader of Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia. The film follows two soldiers from the Czechoslovakian army-in-exile, Josef Gabčík (Cillian Murphy) and Jan Kubi (Jamie Dornan), who are parachuted into their occupied homeland in December 1941. With limited intelligence and little equipment in a city under lock down, they must find a way to assassinate Heydrich, an operation that would change the face of Europe forever. In Hemingway-esque fashion, ‘Anthropoid’ examines the manner in which the true characters of men and women are revealed during what the writer called “the moment of truth,” the instant one comes face to face with death.

UK/Czech Republic 2016 Sean Ellis 120m

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Captain Fantastic

23 Sep 24 Sep 25 Sep 26 Sep 27 Sep 28 Sep 29 Sep

15:00 12:30 & 18:00 12:30 & 20:15 12:15 & 17:15 15:30 & 20:45 12:15 & 16:45 12:30 & 20:45

Booking Ref

In the mould of ‘Little Miss Sunshine’, a super-dad Viggo Mortensen determined to raise his kids on his own terms takes his family on a road trip.

Not to be confused with the plethora of superheroes currently smashing each other to bits on our cinema screens, Matt Ross’ ‘Captain Fantastic’ is an effective, comic road movie. Mortensen plays Ben, a man who has taken his family into the wilds to live the “good life”. However, when their absent mother Leslie (Trin Miller) dies, their world is completely rocked. Although initially reluctant, Ben loads up the family bus (named “Steve”) and the group head off to New Mexico in time to pull off “Operation: Rescue Mother”. The predictable clash of cultures is pulled off with real flair. A trip to a diner, a supermarket and a tussle with a traffic policeman are all managed with wit, and there are some great comic moments. Things become markedly more serious when they arrive at the funeral where they have to confront Leslie’s parents (Frank Langella) and the possible fact that their lifestyle is no longer sustainable as all the forces of reaction line up against them. ‘Captain Fantastic’ is a slickly made comedy with a witty, politically articulate script and some wonderful cinematography by former Jacques Audiard regular Stéphane Fontaine. The children are very funny and Mortensen is wonderful in the title role, showing himself a light hand at comedy. Acclaimed at Sundance and Cannes (in competition).

USA 2016 Matt Ross 119m

Film Courses & Talks at New Park This season, we present five Film Talks and Courses to accompany a typically varied season of films.

You can delve into Shakespeare on Film or enjoy the World of Animation.

You can live your Western Dream or create a Futuristic Fantasy.

Or… all of the above, in a day course on the Coen Brothers.

See pages 45-47 for full details.

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Things to Come

30 Sep 1 Oct 2 Oct 3 Oct 5 Oct 6 Oct

18:00 20:30 12:00 13:30 13:00 20:45

Booking Ref

L’Avenir A philosophy teacher (Isabelle Huppert) soldiers through the death of her mother, getting fired from her job, and dealing with a husband who is cheating on her. A heartfelt portrait of middle age.

One day, Philosophy teacher Nathalie is told by her husband that he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life. Key to the story is the wonderful central performance from Isabelle Huppert, a superb actress, Huppert dominates every scene in this film, her character the catalyst for every turn in the plot, and the person we share every emotion with.

She commands her role from the off and dominates proceedings throughout. Another impressive work by an auteur who manages to transform everyday stories into a singular vision. (Subtitles) France 2016 Mia Hansen-Løve 100m

Sun 25 Sep 18.00 Tickets £12.50 (Friends/Students £10)

Michael Bublé Tour Stop 148

Booking Ref

A front row seat to the superstar’s phenomenally successful sold out ‘To Be Loved’ Tour which concluded in 2015 and was seen globally by over two million fans.

Filmed for the big screen with superb 5.1 surround sound, ‘Michael Bublé – Tour Stop 148’ showcases thrilling live performances of many of the Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter’s biggest hits, including ‘Home’, ‘Haven’t Met You Yet’, ‘Cry Me A River’ and ‘Feelin’ Good’. The performance is intercut with never-before-seen behindthe-scenes footage of Team Bublé bringing this moveable feast from arena to arena for two years. This must-see event includes a special 15 minute introduction with Michael Bublé exclusive to cinemas – don’t miss it!

105m

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Bridget Jones’s Baby

30 Sep 1 Oct 2 Oct 3 Oct 4 Oct 5 Oct 6 Oct

13:15 & 20:30 13:00 &18:00 17:30 & 20:15 16:00 & 20:45 13:15 & 18:15 15:30 & 20:30 13:15 & 18:15

Booking Ref

The continuing adventures of British publishing executive Bridget Jones as she enters her 40s.

Renee Zellweger and Colin Firth are back, this time ably assisted by Emma Thompson as Bridget’s doctor. It’s been over 10 years since we’ve had a run in with Bridget Jones. Our heroine is expecting, and as Bridget will always be Bridget, she is unsure who the father of the baby is. Is it long-term love turned ex Mark Darcy (Firth) or newcomer Jack Qwant (Patrick Dempsey)? Three different endings to the film have been shot, so not even the cast know who it is. The film is directed by Sharon Maguire (who also directed the first movie) and is based on columns written by Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding for ‘The Independent’ between 2005 and 2006.

UK/Ireland 2016 Sharon Maguire

Sat 1 Oct Tue 4 Oct Treasures from the Archives - Spain

15:45 20:45

Booking Ref

El Sur

The South Estrella (Iciar Bollain) is a little girl from Southern Spain who has been uprooted to the North.

She maintains an attachment to the region of her birth, manifested in her love for her father (Omero Antonutti). The girl’s rose-coloured memories are shattered when she learns that her beloved dad once carried on affair with a Southern woman - and that the flames of passion still smoulder within him. Victor Erice’s first film (‘The Spirit of the Beehive’) is a masterpiece – an honour that can be bestowed on very few arthouse directors. Like that film, ‘El Sur’ draws on childhood memories and imagination. Estrella, might well be a grown-up version of Isabel from ‘The Spirit of the Beehive’.

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Fri 30 Sep 15:45 Mon 3 Oct 18:30 Thu 6 Oct 16:00

Wiener-Dog

Booking Ref

A dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch.

Solondz’s film is not only a state-of-the-art movie, it’s a state-of-theworld movie. It cracks open hilarious, jaw-dropping perplexities in modern American life, yet also recognizes everyday tragedies. The eponymous dachshund travels through people’s lives in four linear segments: A dad (Tracy Letts) gives the dog to his son, Remi (Keaton Nigel Cooke), who is recuperating from cancer; Dawn (Indie darling Greta Gerwig) is on a road trip with Wiener-dog; it appears with college film teacher Danny DeVito who is trying to sell a script to Hollywood; and finally, Wiener-dog is as a pet named ‘Cancer’ with Grandmother Nana (Ellen Burstyn). The American Eccentric level of self-conscious filmmaking and social commentary makes ‘WienerDog’, frankly, amazing.

USA 2016 Todd Solondz 88m

Sun 2 Oct Tue 4 Oct Wed 5 Oct International Panorama: Norway

The Wave

12:00 15:45 18:00

Booking Ref

Bølgen Although anticipated, no one is ready when the mountain pass above a scenic Norwegian fjord collapses.

Nestled in Norway’s Sunnmøre region, Geiranger is one of the most spectacular tourist draws on the planet. With the mountain Åkerneset overlooking the village, it is also a place where cataclysm could strike at any moment. The very day geologist Kristian (Kristoffer Joner) is about to drive his family to their new life in the city, he senses something isn’t right. No one wants to believe that this could be the big one. This film is indeed a rarity - without skimping on the spectacle that glues eyeballs to the screen, it takes the time to develop its characters. (Subtitles) Norway 2015 Roar Uthaug 105m

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Fri 7 Oct 12:45 Sun 9 Oct 20:15 Wed 12Oct 14:45

Ben-Hur

Booking Ref

The epic story of Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston), a prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother Messala (Toby Kebbell), an officer in the Roman army.

Stripped of his title, separated from his family and the woman he loves (Nazanin Boniadi), Judah is forced into slavery. He survives years of slavery under the Romans and attempts to get revenge by challenging his adoptive brother in a grand chariot race, while being forever changed after a series of encounters with Jesus of Nazareth (Rodrigo Santoro), who unlike in the original film has a prominent role in this version. Morgan Freeman plays Sheik Ilderim, a wealthy Nubian sheik who trains Ben-Hur to become a charioteer to take revenge on his brother.

USA 2016 Timur Bekmambetov 123m

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Sun 2 Oct

14:00 (Encore)

Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) ROH Opera

Booking Ref

Norma

Encore Antonio Pappano conducts a new production of Bellini’s operatic masterpiece, directed by Àlex Ollé.

This new production of ‘Norma’ for The Royal Opera is distinguished by a superlative cast of internationally renowned singers. Bellini’s classic bel canto opera is full of wonderful melodies and opportunities for star singing. But it is especially known for Norma’s stunning showpiece aria, ‘Casta diva’. Àlex Ollé of innovative Catalan theatre group La Fura dels Baus directs, bringing a modern edge to this timeless tale of love, rivalry and betrayal, set against a backdrop of war driven by the extremes of a fanatically religious society. Sung in Italian with English subtitles. Music - Vincenzo Bellini; Conductor Antonio Pappano; Director - Àlex Ollé.

Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15)

Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu

The Infiltrator

7 Oct 8 Oct 9 Oct 10 Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct

15:30 20:30 17:30 13:15 18:00 12:15 20:30

Booking Ref

Based on a true story, U.S. Agent Bob Mazur (Bryan Cranston) goes undercover to infiltrate Pablo Escobar’s drug trafficking scene.

Teamed with impulsive agent Emir Ebreu (John Leguizamo) and rookie agent Kathy Ertz (Diane Kruger), Mazur befriends Escobar’s top lieutenant Roberto Alcaino (Benjamin Bratt). Navigating a vicious criminal network in which the slightest slip-up could cost him his life, Mazur risks it all building a case that leads to indictments of 85 drug lords along with the collapse of one of the largest money-laundering banks in the world. Cranston (‘Trumbo’) again showcases his versatility with his portrayal of a cunning and hard-nosed investigator who is a better fit among drug traffickers and money launderers than among his own colleagues.

UK 2016 Brad Furman 127m

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Equity

8 Oct 9 Oct 11 Oct 13 Oct

13:15 13:00 20:45 18:00

Booking Ref

An investment banker navigates the cutthroat world of Wall Street when a Stock listing threatens to derail her career.

Set on Wall Street, Meera Menon’s financial thriller proves that female executives can be just as cold-hearted, cut-throat and corrupt as the male majority who surround them. “I like money – I like knowing I have it,” declares hot-shot investment banker Naomi (Anna Gunn). She has once again been passed over for a global position by her boss, and determined to prove her worth, workaholic Naomi goes after a San Francisco-based, billion-dollar social network business. Problem is: Naomi’s equally ruthless, hedge-funder boyfriend Michael (James Purefoy), steals her information so he can do some insider trading.

USA 2016 Meera Menon 100m

Mon 10 Oct 18:45 Tue 11 Oct 15:45 International Panorama: Iran

Under the Shadow

Booking Ref

A thriller from Iran which was a critical success at the Sundance Film Festival, and scores top marks (100%) on the ‘Rotten Tomatoes’ critics review website.

Distrust and paranoia underscore the story of Shideh (Narges Rashidi), an Iranian progressive who finds her path to a medical degree cut off under Sharia law. A missile tears through the upper floor of her building, and while it fails to explode, it leaves deep cracks in Shideh’s ceiling… and perhaps much more. When thriller fans get to have their cake and eat it too - in this case real, developed characters in a harrowing situation coupled with bump-in-the-night thrills - they know they have a great film on their hands. (Subtitles) Iran 2016 Babak Anvari 84m

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Fri 7 Oct 18:15 Mon 10 Oct 16:15

Summertime

Booking Ref

La Belle Saison A country girl falls for Cecile De France in this gently tragic French romance, which welcomes audiences into the powerful glow of their relationship.

1971. Farmers’ daughter Delphine (Izïa Higelin) moves to Paris to gain her financial independence. Carole (Cecile De France) is a Parisian actively involved in the stirrings of the feminist movement.

Their unlikely encounter turns their lives upside down as they passionately in love. It is hard not to judge them by contemporary standards, in part because the film is so modern in its acceptance of their connection, and yet the film does a splendid job of putting events into their historical context. A sweet love story, a peek into feminist history, and a realistic take on the difficulties of coming out.

(Subtitles) France 2015 Cécile De FranceIzïa 105m

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Hell or High Water

7 Oct 8 Oct 10 Oct 11 Oct

20:45 15:30 20:45 13:15

Booking Ref

Texas brothers Toby (Chris Pine), and Tanner (Ben Foster), come together after years divided to rob branches of the bank threatening to foreclose on their family land.

For them, the hold-ups are just part of a last-ditch scheme to take back a future that seemed to have been stolen from under them.

Justice seems to be theirs, until they find themselves on the radar of Texas Ranger, Marcus (Jeff Bridges. As the brothers plot a final bank heist to complete their scheme, and with the Rangers on their heels, a showdown looms. Chris Pine and Jeff Bridges are stand outs in a film directed by Scotsman David Mackenzie (‘Perfect Sense’, ‘Starred Up’), and with a screenplay by Taylor Sheridan, who continues his hot streak here after last year’s ‘Sicario’.

USA 2016 David Mackenzie 102m

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Sat 8 Oct Wed 12 Oct Thu 13 Oct

The Childhood of a Leader

18:00 17:00 15:30

Booking Ref

A look at the childhood life of a post-World War I leader.

A grippingly dispassionate period psychodrama.

Set against the backdrop of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, this is a tautly drawn drama that juxtaposes the rise of fascism in context of an apparently angelic young boy. Robert Pattinson has a series of telling cameos, though at the heart of the film is 10-year-old Tom Sweet as the manipulative boy Prescott, tussling with his parents, played by Berenice Bejo (‘The Artist’) and Liam Cunningham. Based partly upon a story by Sartre and loosely inspired by the early childhood experiences of many of the great dictators of the 20th Century, this is an ominous portrait of emerging evil. Great design and a memorable soundtrack by Scott Walker. (Some subtitles) UK / Hungary / France 2015 Brady Corbet 116m

Sun 9 Oct Thu 13 Oct

Yarn

15:30 13:30

Booking Ref

Garn Every stitch tells a tale. International artists and knitters take a simple skein of yarn to create their extraordinary ideas and stories.

Meet the artists who are redefining the tradition of knit and crochet, bringing yarn out of the house and into the world. Reinventing our relationship with this colourful tradition, ‘Yarn’ weaves together wool graffiti artists, circus performers, and structural designers. In Iceland, Tinna veers political, crocheting “Free Palestine” into textiles that she tacks up in public. In Italy, another artist crochets enormous, spiderweb-like structures for children to climb on. In NY, Olek challenges the stereotype that yarn is inherently feminine. The film offers fascinating insight into what yarn can do in the talented hands of those determined to elevate mere craft to high art.

Netherlands/Cuba 2016 Bórdur Bragi Jónsson 76m

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Free State of Jones

14 Oct 15 Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct

17:45 17:45 12:45 15:15 13:00 13:00 16:00

Booking Ref

An epic action-drama set during the Civil War, and tells the story of defiant Southern farmer, Newton Knight, and his extraordinary armed rebellion against the Confederacy Banding together with other small farmers and local slaves, Knight (Matthew McConaughey) launched an uprising that led Jones County, Mississippi to secede from the Confederacy, creating a Free State of Jones. Knight continued his struggle into Reconstruction, distinguishing him as a compelling, if controversial, figure of defiance long beyond the War. McConaughey pitches his performance right into that sweet spot of feral nobility that marks his best work, and it’s effortless. Everything is framed beautifully: the emerald chamber of the swamp where the rebels hide out; a soldier’s head caved in by a bullet. The camera quietly observes all.

USA 2016 Gary Ross 139m

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Little Men

14 Oct 15 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct

13:00 15:30 18:30 16:00 14:15

Booking Ref

Two New York teens struggle to keep their parents’ personal business from sabotaging their connection.

13-year-old Jake’s (Theo Taplitz) drawing of yellow stars against a green sky is dismissed by a burnt-out middle-school teacher. It may seem like a rather insignificant moment, but just contrast the potential influence that adult comment has on his artistic future with the more overtly encouraging conversations he shares with Tony (Michael Barbieri), the son of the immigrant seamstress who rents his grandfather’s store. The fact is, what these two boys share is beautiful.

Instead of laying on the melodrama, Sachs (‘Love is Strange’) keeps things subtle, telling his story almost exclusively through quiet moments. The performances are impeccable. Sachs cites two Ozu films about children in conflict with their parents as the initial spark.

This is a little gem.

USA 2016 Ira Sachs 85m BOX OFFICE 01243 786 650

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Sun 16 Oct 16:00 (Live) Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) Bolshoi

Booking Ref

The Golden Age

Live This satire on Roaring ’20s Europe makes for an original and dazzling show with its jazzy score by Dimitri Shostakovich.

In a seaside town where business and the Mafia are flourishing, the Golden Age cabaret is the favourite nightly haunt of dancers, bandits and young revellers. The young fisherman Boris falls in love with Rita, a beautiful dancer, but she is also the friend of a local gangster. This ballet – which can only be seen at the Bolshoi – has everything: mad rhythms, vigorous chase scenes and decadent cabaret numbers. The Bolshoi dancers plunge magnificently into every stylised step and gesture. Choreography - Yuri Grigorovich; Libretto: Yuri Grigorovich and Isaak Glikman.

140m approx including interval.

Sat 15 Oct 13:00 Mon 17 Oct 13:00 Wed 19 Oct 18:15 International Panorama: New Zealand

Booking Ref

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

A hilarious, touching crowd-pleaser, which reminds us about the journey of growing up (at any age).

Raised on hip-hop and foster care, Ricky gets a fresh start in the New Zealand countryside with his new foster family: loving Aunt Bella, cantankerous Uncle Hec, and dog Tupac. When a tragedy strikes, he and Hec go on the run creating a national manhunt: should they go out in a blaze of glory or overcome their differences. Equal parts road comedy and rousing adventure story, director Taika Waititi (‘What We Do in the Shadows’) masterfully weaves lively humour with emotionally honest performances by Sam Neill and Julian Dennison.

Pixar would be proud of this if they made live-action films.

New Zealand 2016 Taika Waititi 101m

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Cosmos

Booking Ref

This loopy absurdist comedy is the final work of Andrzej Zulawski, the famed Polish filmmaker who died in February.

Witold who has just failed the bar, and his companion Fuchs, who has recently quit his fashion job, are staying at a guesthouse run by the intermittently paralytic Madame Woytis. Upon discovering a sparrow hanged in the woods near the house, Witold’s reality mutates into a whirlwind of tension, histrionics, foreboding omens, and surrealistic logic as he becomes obsessed with Madame Woytis’s daughter Lena, newly married to Lucien. This literary adaptation suffused with Zulawski’s trademark freneticism, transforms Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz’s novel of the same name into an ominous and manic exploration of desire. It’s a surreal piece of mischief, equal parts breezy fun and maddening confusion. (Subtitles) France/Portugal 2015 Andrzej Zulawski 103m

Fri 14 Oct 20:45 Tue 18 Oct 16:00 Wed 19 Oct 20:45 International Panorama: Argentina

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The Clan

The true and chilling story of the Puccio Clan, a family who kidnapped and killed people in the 80s, delivered with Scorsese-like swagger.

The Puccios... A model family? There are few that could match them.

The father played by Guillermo Francella (‘The Secret in Their Eyes’) appears a dignified man. The mother is a dedicated teacher. The children? Well-educated and promised to a bright future. Except that... all this respectability is nothing but a smokescreen! The truth is that Arquimedes Puccio is also - and mainly - the tyrannical leader of a criminal gang composed of... his wife and children. This audaciously entertaining true-crime saga will put a grin on the face of any ‘Goodfellas’ fan. Acclaimed at both Toronto and Venice Festivals.

(Subtitles) Argentina/Spain 2015 Pablo Trapero 110m BOX OFFICE 01243 786 650

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Sun 16 Oct 19:00 Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) Musical

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Miss Saigon

25th Anniversary Performance The legendary Miss Saigon, in cinemas for one night only. including Jonathan Pryce and Lea Salonga.

This spectacular, sell-out 25th Anniversary Gala Performance of the global stage sensation also features appearances by the original cast including Jonathan Pryce and Lea Salonga. This acclaimed new production was described as “the most thrilling, soaring and emotionally stirring musical with magnificent performances” by the Daily Telegraph. This epic love story tells the tragic tale of the young bar girl Kim, orphaned by war, who falls in love with American GI Chris - but their lives are torn apart by the fall of Saigon.

180m approx inc. interval

Mon 17 Oct Sun 23 Oct

18:30 (Live) 14:00 (Encore)

Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) ROH Opera

Così Fan Tutte

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Live Semyon Bychkov conducts a cast of young and up-and-coming talent including American soprano Corinne Winters in a new production of Mozart and Da Ponte’s opera on the nature of love.

How much do you love and trust your partner? Mozart’s classic opera puts two pairs of lovers to the test – with great music but distinctly unexpected results. Don Alfonso – the puppet master of this experiment in love – is here a theatre director who uses all the sets, props and tricks of his trade to invent new scenes to challenge the lovers’ affections. Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Conductor Semyon Bychkov; Director - Jan Philipp Gloger.

Sung in Italian with English subtitles.

195m inc interval

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Thu 20 Oct 18:45 Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) Barcelona Opera

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Macbeth

Live Giuseppe Verdi felt inspired by Shakespeare’s work and his devotion led to this, his first opera based on one of the writer’s texts.

General of the victorious Scottish armies, Macbeth hears a prophecy from three witches that predict he will be the next King of Scotland.

Believing this premonition, his wife encourages him to kill the King.

His divine right drives Macbeth to be bloodthirsty with friends and opponents alike but alone and racked with guilt, he faces his last battle and death. Verdi’s enthusiasm gave him the will of achieving “something extraordinary” with the iconic writers work. Macbeth Ludovic Tézier; Banquo - Vitalij Kowaljow; Lady Macbeth - Martina Serafin; Macduff - Saimir Pirgu; Malcolm - Albert Casals. Conductor Giampaolo Bisanti.

220m inc. 15m intro and intervals.

Fri Sat

Aloys

21 Oct 20:45 22 Oct 18:30

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A unique noir-like French tale of mystery and private eyes.

Aloys (Georg Friedrich) is a lonely private investigator is contacted by a mysterious woman (Tilde von Overbeck) who pulls him into a mind game known as ‘telephone walking’. Fascinated by her voice, he discovers an imaginary universe that allows him to break out of his isolation. This film was highly acclaimed at festival screenings, with comparisons to filmmaker Michel Gondry (‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’) and writer Charlie Kaufman (‘Being John Malkovich’, ‘Adaptation’). Director Nölle’s greatest achievement is to keep the magic realm firmly anchored to the real so that reality feels touched by imagination rather than smothered by it. This is a showcase for Nölle’s technical prowess, a genre-defying curiosity that marks its director out as a name to watch. (Subtitles) Switzerland/France 2016 Tobias Nölle 91m BOX OFFICE 01243 786 650

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Special Anniversary Event

Sun 23 Oct 12:00 In association with the Chichester in the Great War Project, a Gateways to the First World War initiative with the University of Chichester.

The Battle of the Somme

Screening 100 years to the day, from its first Chichester screening (Corn Exchange).

Booking Ref

On October 23rd 1916, citizens of Chichester gathered in large crowds to watch ‘The Battle of the Somme’ at Poole’s Pictures on East Street (Corn Exchange Building). One hundred years to the day after its first showing in Chichester, we can watch this wartime classic and reflect upon the remembrance of the First World War. This film (a documentary with some re-enacted footage) depicts the terrible and largest WWI battle; it took place in a long front north and south of the River Somme in northern France, and more than a million lives were lost from the various nationalities involved. This classic depiction of warfare on the Western Front that was released to the British public in 1916. The film had a tremendous impact on individuals and communities as it allowed a connection to the war at the front, and records show that 20 million tickets were sold for the film, at a time when the country had a population of 43 million! For Chichester, this film brought the war to life for many people who had family or friends serving on the Western Front. Just as the film allowed a closer connection to what was experienced by individuals during the war, so the film today allows us a closer connection to what wartime life in Chichester was like.

UK 1916 BFI 77m

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21 Oct 22 Oct 23 Oct 24 Oct 25 Oct 26 Oct 27 Oct

13:15 & 18:15 12:15 & 20:45 17:45 & 20:15 14:15 & 16:45 15:30 & 20:30 14:15 & 16:45 14:00 & 16:15

The Girl on the Train

Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu

28 Oct 29 Oct 30 Oct 31 Oct 1 Nov 2 Nov 3 Nov

16:00 12:30 20:30 12:15 18:00 12:15 13:30

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A mystery thriller drama based on Paula Hawkins’ 2015 best-selling debut novel of the same name.

Every day Rachel Watson (Emily Blunt) takes the train in to work in London, and every day the train passes by her old house. The house she lived in with her husband (Justin Theroux), who still lives there, with his new wife and child. As she attempts to not focus on her pain, she starts watching a couple who live a few houses down – Megan (Haley Bennett) and Scott Hipwell (Luke Evans). She creates a wonderful dream life for them in her head, about how they are a perfect happy family. And then one day, as the train passes, she sees something shocking. The next day, she wakes up with a horrible hangover, various wounds and bruises, and no memory of the night before. Then come the TV reports: Megan Hipwell is missing. Rachel becomes invested in the case and trying to find out what happened to Megan, where she is, and what exactly she herself was up to that same night Megan went missing. A gripping film!

USA 2016 Tate Taylor approx 105m

Fri 21 Oct 15:45 Tue 25 Oct 18:00

Courted

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L’Hermine Fabrice Luchini and Sidse Babett Knudsen (‘Borgen’) star as a judge and juror who have a shared past.

Michel Racine (Luchini) is a feared president of Assize Court, as strict with himself as with others. Everything changes when he meets again Ditte (Knudsen) when she’s selected as aw juror in a criminal trial over which he presides. The film begins like a Moliere-style comedy, then moves to a more procedural courtroom drama.

(Subtitles) France 2015 Cristian Vincent 98m BOX OFFICE 01243 786 650

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Kubo and the Two Strings

Mon 24 Oct 12:15 Tue 25 Oct 13:00 Wed 26 Oct 12:15 Booking Ref

A visually stunning actionadventure set in a fantastical Japan from acclaimed animation studio LAIKA. Clever, kind-hearted Kubo (Art Parkinson) ekes out a humble living, telling stories to the people of his seaside town. But his relatively quiet existence is shattered when he accidentally summons a spirit from his past which storms down from the heavens. Kubo joins forces with Monkey (Charlize Theron) and Beetle (Matthew McConaughey), and sets out on a thrilling quest to save his family and solve the mystery of his fallen father, the greatest samurai warrior the world has ever known. With the help of his shamisen - a magical musical instrument - Kubo must battle gods and monsters (including Ralph Fiennes and Rooney Mara), to unlock the secret of his legacy, reunite his family, and fulfil his heroic destiny.

USA 2016 Travis Knight 101m

Finding Dory

Disney/Pixar’s new animated feature is the eagerly awaited follow up to ‘Finding Nemo’.

Disney/Pixar’s ‘Finding Dory’ reunites everyone’s favourite forgetful blue tang, Dory, with her friends Nemo and Marlin on a search for answers about her past. What can she remember?

Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale?

Directed by Andrew Stanton (‘Finding Nemo’, ‘WALL-E’) the film features the voices of Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Ed O’Neill, Kaitlin Olson, Ty Burrell, Eugene Levy and Diane Keaton.

‘Finding Dory’ swims into Priory Park for one special engagement only. Sold out at the Priory Park Open Air Screening which launched this year’s Chichester International Film Festival.

USA 2016 Andrew Stanton 103m

Thu 27 Oct 12:00 Fri 28 Oct 13:30 Booking Ref

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22 Oct 14:45

Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) RSC

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Cymbeline

Encore An ineffectual Queen Cymbeline rules over a divided dystopian Britain.

Consumed with grief at the death of two of her children, her judgement is clouded. When Imogen, her only living heir, marries her sweetheart Posthumus in secret, an enraged Cymbeline banishes him. With echoes of Brexit and questions of national identity, this rarely performed play feels surprisingly contemporary. It mashes up a variety of different Shakespeare stories (Hamlet, Othello, Romeo and Juliet...). Gillian Bevan is in the role of Cymbeline, the first woman to take on the role for the RSC, with Bethan Cullinane as a criticallyacclaimed Imogen.

200m approx inc. interval

Thu 27 Oct 19:00 (Live) Sat 29 Oct 15:00 (Encore) Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) Kenneth Branagh Theatre

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The Entertainer

Live The final production of this season’s Kenneth Branagh Theatre with Kenneth Branagh starring in John Osborne’s modern classic set against the dying days of the music hall.

This has at its centre the memorably sad, middle-aged figure of fading music-hall star Archie Rice, whose failing career is set against the backdrop of post-Colonial decline and personal tragedy. Archie was famously played by Laurence Olivier in the original production at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957 (and on film). Branagh himself has frequently been compared to Olivier, so anticipation will be at fever pitch when he takes on this iconic role in his artistic associate Rob Ashford’s production.

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Fri 28 Oct 18:30 Sat 29 Oct 18:30 Mon 31 Oct 14:30

The Girl with All the Gifts

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A scientist and a teacher living in a dystopian future embark on a journey of survival with a special young girl named Melanie.

Humanity has been all but destroyed by a disease that eradicates free will and turns victims into flesh-eaters - only a small group of children seem immune to its effects. At an army base in rural England, this group of unique children are being studied by cruel biologist Dr. Caldwell (Glenn Close). The children attend school lessons daily, guarded by the ever watchful Sergeant Parks (Paddy Considine).

But one little girl, Melanie (Sennia Nanua), stands out from the rest.

When the base falls, Melanie escapes along with her favourite teacher Miss Justineau (Gemma Arterton), Sergeant Parks and Dr. Caldwell. A smartly compelling, emotionally engaging and stylishly executed film.

UK/USA 2016 Colm McCarthy 111m

Wed 2 Nov

19:15 (Live)

Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) The Royal Ballet

Anastasia

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LIVE Ballet in three acts Kenneth MacMillan’s full-length ballet is a compelling exploration of identity in the turbulent wake of the Russian revolution.

An identity in crisis; a country in revolution. ‘Anastasia’ is a ballet about one of the great historical mysteries of the 20th century. At the height of the Russian Revolution the royal family were executed, but afterwards a young woman appeared – apparently a surviving royal princess, the Grand Duchess Anastasia. One of MacMillan’s first creations on becoming Director of The Royal Ballet in 1970, ‘Anastasia’ is a dramatic and haunting exploration of Anna’s nightmare of memory and identity.

To music by Tchaikovsky and Martinu, this is a powerful, psychological challenge for the principal ballerina, Choreography - Kenneth Macmillan; Music - Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky and Bohuslav Martinu.

180m inc interval

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Dare to be Wild

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu

30 Oct 31 Oct 1 Nov 2 Nov 3 Nov

15:30 & 18:00 16:45 15:30 & 20:30 14:30 18:15

Irishwoman Mary Reynold’s journey from rank outsider to winner of a Gold Medal at the Chelsea Flower Show.

Mary (Emma Greenwell) gets her first opportunity with ‘celebrity garden designer’ Charlotte Heavey (Christine Marzano), which eventually turns sour when she finds herself robbed of original work and out of a job.

Not to be defeated, she bounces back with a determination to take home the winning prize at the esteemed Chelsea Flower Show. A visual feast!

Ireland 2015 Vivienne De Courcy 100m

Booking Ref

The Blue Room

Fri 28 Oct 21:00 Tue 1 Nov 13:30 Thu 3 Nov 20:45 Booking Ref

La Chambre Bleue Two adulterous lovers go from pillow talk to possible murder in this sexy, brain-teasing thriller.

Mathieu Amalric directs and stars as a middle-aged salesman embroiled in a steamy love affair with a married woman (Stéphanie Cléau) who makes a startling suggestion. Suddenly he is caught up in a police investigation - but just what exactly happened? This beguiling cinematic puzzle unfolds in an elliptical style that keeps the audience guessing every step of the way. Turns mystery genre conventions on their heads.

(Subtitles) France 2014 Mathieu Amalric 76m

The First Monday in May

Sat 29 Oct 21:00 Thu 3 Nov 16:00 Booking Ref

We follow the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s most attended fashion exhibition in history, “China: Through The Looking Glass,”.

High fashion and celebrity collide at one of the biggest global fashion events, chaired by Vogue editor Anna Wintour. Featuring a cast of renowned artists in many fields (including filmmaker Wong Kar Wai and fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld and Jean Paul Gaultier) as well as a host of contemporary pop icons like Rihanna, the movie dives into the debate about whether fashion should be viewed as art.

USA 2016 Andrew Rossi 90m

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My Scientology Movie

Sun 30 Oct 13:00 Wed 2 Nov 16:45 Booking Ref

Louis Theroux’s movie about trying to make a movie about Scientology.

The Church of Scientology is an untouchable entity. An organisation that has become known more for its shroud of secrecy, than for its actual religious beliefs. By contrast, documentarian Louis Theroux‘s subjects of his BBC programs are generally an open book. After being prohibited from any level of access, the journalist instead targeted his frustrations towards the ultimate irreverent film, a movie about trying to make a movie about Scientology. Trying and failing miserably.

UK/USA 2015 John Dower 99m

Les Cowboys

Fri 4 Nov Tue 8 Nov

15:30 18:30

When his daughter goes missing from their prairie town east of France, Alain and his young son, Kid, head out to find her.

Alain (François Damiens) is dancing with his daughter Kelly (Iliana Zabeth), 16, before she disappears, and the family falls apart. Dark, unsettling places, where his sole support is Kid, who sacrifices his youth to accompany his father on this seemingly endless quest.

Director Bidegain skilfully entwines what is essentially a 1950’s Western, with a very modern premise. (Subtitles) France 2015 Thomas Bidegain 104m

Booking Ref

Inferno

Fri 4 Nov Sat 5 Nov Sun 6 Nov Mon 7 Nov Tue 8 Nov Wed 9 Nov Thu 10 Nov

20:30 18:15 12:15 14:15 13:15 14:15 18:15

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Tom Hanks reprises his role as Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (‘The Da Vinci Code’ and ‘Angels & Demons’).

In director Ron Howard and screenwriter David Koepp’s adaptation of author Dan Brown’s bestselling novel, Langdon uses Dante’s The Divine Comedy as a tool in the race to prevent a devastating global pandemic. However, there is a problem, Langdon finds himself in Florence, but has no memory or idea of how he got there.

USA 2016 Ron Howard 121m

Fri Sat Sun Mon

4 Nov 5 Nov 6 Nov 7 Nov

13:00 & 18:00 12:15 & 21:00 18:45 & 21:00 12:15 & 16:45

I, Daniel Blake

Tue 8 Nov 16:00 & 21:00 Wed 9 Nov 12:15 & 16:45 Thu 10 Nov 13:30 & 21:00 Continues 11 Nov Booking Ref

Ken Loach’s 2016 Cannes Palme D’Or Winner is not to be missed.

A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

59-year-old Daniel Blake (Dave Johns) has worked as a joiner most of his life, but for the first time ever, he needs help from the State. He crosses paths with single mother Katie (Hayley Squires), and they find themselves caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy. The reason this the rare political drama touches the soul, is that we believe completely in these people standing in front of us, as Loach and the actors have imagined them.

UK/France 2016 Ken Loach 100m

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5 Nov

14:45

Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) RSC

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King Lear

Encore Antony Sher returns to play King Lear, one of the greatest parts written by Shakespeare directed by Artistic Director Gregory Doran.

King Lear has ruled for many years. As age begins to overtake him, he decides to divide his kingdom amongst his children, living out his days without the burden of power. A proud man, he allows vanity to cloud his judgment, believing that he can relinquish the crown, but enjoy the same authority and respect he has always known. Following his performance as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s great 20th century American tragedy Death of a Salesman, Antony Sher returns to play King Lear, one of the greatest parts written by Shakespeare. The production is directed by Artistic Director Gregory Doran.

Approx 200m with intervals.

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Thu 10 Nov 16:00 Sat 12 Nov 16:00 Tickets £12.50 (Friends/Students £10) Exhibition on Screen

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The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch

The first of a new series of Exhibition on Screen from the Netherlands Based on the critically acclaimed, once-only exhibition which brought together practically all his major paintings and drawings from around the world to his home town of Den Bosch, Netherlands; a powerful exhibition that saw almost half a million visitors marvelling at Bosch’s quirky creations. This film asks just who is Hieronymus Bosch? Why are his strange and fantastical paintings so popular? How does he bridge the medieval and Renaissance worlds? Where did his unconventional and timeless visions come from?

UK 2016 90m approx

Sun 6 Nov

15:00

Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) Bolshoi Ballet

The Bright Stream

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Recorded Live Alexei Ratmansky invokes the genius of Shostakovich’s score, creating a laugh-out-loud masterpiece.

During harvest festival on a collective farm, a visiting dance troupe reunites a ballerina with her childhood friend, Zina. In order to teach her unfaithful husband a lesson, Zina, the ballerina and the ballerina’s husband decide to swap roles for the evening. The Bolshoi bursts with vivid life in this brilliantly choreographed smash. Music - Dmitri Shostakovich; Choreography - Alexei Ratmansky; Libretto - Adrian Piotrovsky and Fyodor Lopukhov. Cast: Svetlana Lunkina (Zina), Mikhail Lobukhin (Pyotr), Maria Alexandrova (the Ballerina), Ruslan Skvortsov (the Ballet Dancer). Captured live on 29 Apr 2012.

150m approx including interval.

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Film Courses & Talks at New Park

Fri 23 Sep 13:30 (Romeo and Juliet) Fri 30 Sep 13:30 (Othello) Fri 7 Oct 13:30 (Richard III) Fri 21 Oct 13:30 (Notes on a Scandal & Tatie Danielle)

Fri 4 Nov 13:30 (About Schmidt & Wild Strawberries) Fri 11 Nov 13:30 (Still Alice) Fri 2 Dec 13:30 (King Lear & 1,000 Acres) Tickets £6/Session (£30 for whole course) Booking Ref

Shakespeare 400 and The Autumn of our Years

Film Course by Rosemary Coxon This autumn, we have two courses looking at some of the “Seven Ages of Man”.

The first three sessions look at our journey through life in three Shakespeare plays and their film versions. We then move on to look in detail at the latter time in the lives of men and women in a new course, The Autumn of Our Years. Our finale on brings together Shakespeare’s masterclass on aging in two versions of ‘King Lear’.

It may be helpful, but not essential, to have read or dipped into the plays and novels before you come. Rosemary Coxon is the Education Officer at Chichester Cinema at New Park.

Sat 24 Sep 10.00 - 15.30 (Studio) Tickets £12.00 (Friends/Students £10)

Out of this World

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Hollywood’s Flight from reality in Troubled Times

Day Course by Nick Smedley Hollywood film-makers have always understood the fascination of conjuring up fantasy worlds. Indeed, some might say that Hollywood cinema is a fantasy world in itself.

With ‘Star Wars’ back on the agenda, this one day course looks at American cinema’s preoccupation with imagining a different world from the one we all inhabit. Why do American film-makers have this obsession and what does it tell us about American life and values?

Can we trace a development in these kinds of films over time? Nick Smedley, our presenter, is an independent film historian who has written and lectured on this topic. There will be plenty of scope for discussion and Q and A in this stimulating and lively day course.

Come back to the future with Nick on 24th September at New Park!!

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Fri

14 Oct

18:30 (Studio)

Tickets £6.00

The Western Hero

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Illustrated Talk by Gareth Evans Little in cinema is quite as iconic, instantly identifiable or parodied as the hero of the Western genre.

From a fresh faced, assertive young John Wayne in Stagecoach, to the post-war, grizzled gunslingers of The Wild Bunch, to the damaged and melancholic former soldiers of Open Range, we will look at the definitive films of the genre and the characters that embody them.

This event will take an overview of Western cinema from across the decades and look at to what extent these tales have relevance in the modern film landscape. Gareth Evans is Head of Media Studies at Bishop Luffa School. He has an MA in Film and Cultural Management and writes educational film resources for INTO Film. He has written film reviews and features for Little White Lies, Sorted Magazine and Media Magazine.

Sat 22 Oct (studio)

10.00 - 15.00

Tickets £12.00 (Friends/Students £10)

Coen Brothers: The Art of Laughter

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Day Course by Richard Cupidi Since their debut feature ‘Blood Simple’ (1984), Joel and Ethan Coen have created some of the most original, idiosyncratic and intelligent works anywhere.

Transcending genres, they have produced dramas with surreally funny moments and comedies with seriously dark undertones. Their films remind us that within our collective human condition, tragedy and comedy usually co-exist. In this informal and interactive workshop, we’ll discuss the nature of comedy using short examples drawn from the brothers’ films. And, to help us understand how their humour “works” cinematically, we’ll look closely at a selection of the Coens’ films, along with their scripts, interviews and cultural references. The aim, ultimately, is to answer that most existential of questions about the Coen brothers: They do make comedies, don’t they? Everyone welcome but please remember to bring along your sense of humour.

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Fri 28 Oct 18:30 (Studio) Tickets £6.00

Sufferin’ Succotash

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Cartoons and Animation on Film

Illustrated Talk by Michael Cox The Education Section of Chichester Cinema present a 90 minute illustrated talk led by trustee Michael Cox and projectionist Paul Stanley.

The presentation will cover the output of the major studios from Disney to Pixar (from Pencil to Pixel) and some very interesting independents.

A host of familiar figures from Shorts and Features will make an appearance. Background information on their creators and any technical influences will be highlighted. From Mickey Mouse to Roger Rabbit to Wallace & Gromit. That’s all Folks!

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Ticket prices Autumn 2016 Full price Senior citizens

£8.50 £8.00

(For first two matinees everyday)

Friends Full time Students/Unemployed Children under 15 Student Gold

£7.50 £5.50 £3.50 £1.00

Special Events as listed Valid cards must be shown to obtain concessions.

Credit Vouchers can be issued if you cancel a minimum of 24 hours prior to the film.

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