Awards Programme 2014

season 2014

at new park

21 Feb - 1 May

The Book Thief

The Invisible Woman

Monuments Men

Grand Budapest Hotel

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Chichester Cinema This is always an exciting time of year for lovers of film, as The Golden Globes (12 Jan) are quickly followed by the BAFTAs (16 Feb) and the Oscars (2 Mar).

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Here at New Park, we always celebrate with this special season that has added focus on the nominees. So until the 1st May, we give you a chance to see (or re-see) many nominated films, with the usual support of the best in cinema, both new releases and digitally re-mastered classics, from the UK and abroad.

You will notice that nominated films have icons such as these below, denoting how many nominations from the various major Awards they have received.

Keep the 22nd March free in your diary, as our annual fundraising Film Quiz, ‘A Mind for Movies’ returns to The Minerva Theatre Upstairs Brasserie. Film lecturer Richard Cupidi and I will prepare our video, Image and audio multiple choice questions, and teams of 6 (named after iconic Film Characters) vie for the coveted trophy and prizes. It is always one of the most anticipated and exciting evenings of our Cinema calendar, so we hope you can make it. The Quiz raffle returns with over 20 wonderful prizes and you can find full details in the centre pages of this programme.

Speaking of raffles, huge congratulations go out to Chris Sheaff for winning our recent Winter Raffle. We hope you enjoy your iPad Mini and your tickets to every film in this Awards Season. I hope the runners up, Mrs Jolly and Ms English, also make great use of their film ticket prizes.

See you at the Cinema

Walter Francisco

Glyn Edmunds

General Manager - Chichester Cinema

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Awards 2014 contents Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas 11 American Hustle 14 The Armstrong Lie 17 BAFTA Shorts 28 Bastards 17 25 The Book Thief Blue Jasmine 8 Calvary 41 Rene Fleming Sings: Capriccio 34 Captain Phillips 26 Consequences of Love 30 Coriolanus 15 Cuban Fury 24 Dallas Buyers Club 18 The Double 37 Elgar & Stravinsky on Easter Sunday (Simon Rattle & Berlin Phil.) 38 Fill the Void 27 22 Film Quiz Fireworks Wednesday 28 Focus on Film 6 Funny Face 16 The Godfather Part 2 34

12 Years a Slave 8

War Horse 10

The Grand Budapest Hotel 35 Gravity 14 31 Her The Great Beauty 26 30 The Innocents The Invisible Woman 11 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit 16 Journal de France 29 King Lear 43 35 Labor Day Le Week-End 27 The Lego Movie 36 Lift to the Scaffold 26 A Long Way Down 42 Renee Fleming Sings: Lucrezia Borgia 15 31 Marco Spada A Mind for Movies Film Quiz 22 The Missing Picture 30 The Monuments Men 18 Mr Peabody & Sherman 32 Performance 7 Nebraska 14 Night of the Hunter 13 Nymphomaniac (Vol. I&II) 9

Out of the Furnace 13 Peter Grimes 9 Philomena 20 Non-Stop 33 Otello 38 The Past 33 The Pirate Fairy 36 The Railway Man 8 The Rocket 28 Saving Mr. Banks 32 The Sea 40 The Secret Sharer 20 The Selfish Giant 29 Simon Rattle Conducts the Berlin Philharmonic (Bach) 10 Sleeping Beauty 24 The Stag 40 Starred Up 42 Stranger by the Lake 19 Tim’s Vermeer 19 12 Years a Slave 8 41 Under the Skin Vikings 39 Exhibition Live Wadjda 27 29 Wake in Fright War Horse 10 Yves Saint Laurent 39

Coriolanus 15

Dallas Buyers Club 18

Starred Up 42

Gravity 14

QUIZ 22

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Film Listings Fri 21 Feb 12:30 Frozen (PG) 102m 15:00 12 Years a Slave (15) 133m 18:00 Blue Jasmine (15) 98m 20:15 12 Years a Slave

Sat 22 Feb 12:30 12 Years a Slave 15:30 The Railway Man (15) 116m 18:15 Nymphomaniac Vol.1&2 (18) + LIVE Q&A 280m

Mon 10 Mar

Mon 3 Mar

Tue 11 Mar

12:30 The Invisible Woman 15:00 Gravity (12A) 90m 16:45 The Invisible Woman

Tue 4 Mar

12:15 12 Years a Slave 15:00 Peter Grimes (ENO LIVE) 190m 18:15 12 Years a Slave 21:00 Blue Jasmine

12:15 The Invisible Woman 14:30 Coriolanus (NT Encore) 18:00 Out of the Furnace 20:30 The Invisible Woman

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Wed 5 Mar

Sun 23 Feb

12:00 12 Years a Slave 14:30 Blue Jasmine 16:30 12 Years a Slave

Tue 25 Feb 12:30 The Railway Man 15:00 12 Years a Slave 17:45 The Railway Man 20:15 12 Years a Slave

Wed 26 Feb 12:00 12 Years a Slave 14:30 12 Years a Slave 17:00 Blue Jasmine

Thu 27 Feb 13:00 12 Years a Slave 16:00 The Railway Man 19:00 War Horse (NT LIVE) 180m

Fri 28 Feb 13:15 The Railway Man 15:45 The Invisible Woman (12A) 111m 18:30 Simon Rattle Conducts Berlin Philharmonic Bach St John’s Passion

Sat 1 Mar 13:00 The Invisible Woman 15:30 Age of Uprising: Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (15) 122m 18:15 The Invisible Woman 20:45 Out of the Furnace (15) 116m

Sun 2 Mar 13:00 The Invisible Woman

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15:30 Night of the Hunter (12A) 93 18:00 Age of Uprising: Michael Kohlhaas 20:45 The Invisible Woman

13:15 Out of the Furnace 15:45 The Invisible Woman 18:15 The Invisible Woman 21:00 Gravity

Thu 6 Mar 13:15 The Invisible Woman 15:45 The Invisible Woman 18:15 Gravity 20:30 Night of the Hunter

Fri 7 Mar 13:00 Nebraska (15) 115m 15:30 The Invisible Woman (12A) 111m 18:00 American Hustle (15) 129m 20:45 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (12A) 105m

Sat 8 Mar 12:30 Funny Face (U) 103m 15:00 War Horse (NT Encore) 18:30 The Invisible Woman 21:00 Bastards (18) 100m

Sun 9 Mar 12:30 The Armstrong Lie (15) 124m 15:00 Rene Fleming Sings: Lucrezia Borgia 18:00 American Hustle 20:45 The Invisible Woman

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12:45 The Invisible Woman 15:00 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit 17:00 Funny Face 12:30 Bastards 14:30 The Invisible Woman 16:45 American Hustle 19:30 Coriolanus (NT Encore)

Wed 12 Mar 12:30 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit 14:30 The Invisible Woman 16:45 The Armstrong Lie

Thu 13 Mar 13:15 The Invisible Woman 15:45 Bastards 18:00 Nebraska 20:30 The Invisible Woman

Fri 14 Mar 13:15 The Monuments Men (12A) 118m 15:45 Philomena (12A) 98m 18:00 The Monuments Men 20:30 Dallas Buyers Club (15) 117m

Sat 15 Mar 13:00 The Monuments Men 15:30 The Monuments Men 18:15 Dallas Buyers Club 20:45 Stranger by the Lake (18) 100m

Sun 16 Mar 12:15 The Monuments Men 15:00 The Secret Sharer (12A) + Q&A 18:00 Tim’s Vermeer (PG) 80m 20:15 The Monuments Men

Mon 17 Mar 12:15 Dallas Buyers Club 14:30 The Monuments Men 16:45 The Monuments Men

Tue 18 Mar 13:15 Philomena 15:30 The Monuments Men 18:15 Stranger by the Lake

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20:30 The Monuments Men

Wed 19 Mar 12:30 The Monuments Men 15:00 The Monuments Men 17:30 Tim’s Vermeer 19:30 War Horse

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Thu 20 Mar 13:00 The Monuments Men 15:30 Dallas Buyers Club 18:15 Philomena 20:30 The Monuments Men

Fri 21 Mar 12:30 Philomena (12A) 98m 14:45 The Book Thief (12A) 129m 17:30 The Book Thief 20:15 The Great Beauty (15) 142m

Sat 22 Mar 12:15 The Book Thief 15:00 War Horse (NT Encore) 18:15 The Book Thief 18:30 A Mind for Movies Film Quiz 21:00 Cuban Fury (15) 98m

Sun 23 Mar 12:30 Lift to the Scaffold (PG) 88m 14:30 Sleeping Beauty (ROH) 180m 17:45 The Book Thief 20:30 The Book Thief

Mon 24 Mar 12:15 The Book Thief 14:45 Cuban Fury 16:45 The Book Thief

Tue 25 Mar 12:45 Cuban Fury 15:00 The Book Thief 17:45 The Book Thief 20:30 Captain Phillips (12A) 134m

Wed 26 Mar 12:15 The Book Thief 14:45 Lift to the Scaffold 16:30 The Book Thief

Thu 27 Mar 12:30 Captain Phillips 15:00 The Great Beauty 17:45 The Book Thief 20:30 The Book Thief

Fri 28 Mar 13:15 The Book Thief 13:30 Focus on Film: Page to Screen 16:15 Captain Phillips 19:30 War Horse (NT Encore)

Sat 29 Mar 14:00 Wadjda (PG) 96m 16:15 Fill the Void (15) 90m 18:30 BAFTA Shorts (15) 124m

Sun 30 Mar 14:00 BAFTA Shorts 16:30 Le Week-End (15) 93m 18:30 The Rocket (12A) 96m

Mon 31 Mar 14:00 Journal de France (12A) 100m 16:15 The Rocket 18:30 Le Week-End

Tue 1 Apr 14:00 Wake in Fright (18) 94m 16:15 Wadjda 18:30 Fireworks Wednesday (12A) 102m

15:15 Marco Spada (Bolshoi Ballet) 180m 18:30 Non-Stop (15) 106m 20:45 Her (15) 126m

Mon 7 Apr 12:45 Mr. Peabody & Sherman (U) 92m 14:45 The Book Thief 17:45 Her 20:30 The Book Thief

Tue 8 Apr 12:00 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) 125m 14:15 Her 16:45 The Book Thief 19:30 Private University Screening 20:45 Non-Stop

Wed 9 Apr 12:15 Mr. Peabody & Sherman 14:00 Her 16:30 The Book Thief

Thu 10 Apr 12:45 Saving Mr. Banks 15:15 The Book Thief 18:00 Non-Stop 20:30 Her

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Wed 2 Apr 14:00 Le Week-End 16:15 Fireworks Wednesday 18:30 Wake in Fright

Thu 3 Apr 14:00 Fill the Void 16:15 The Selfish Giant (15) 91m 18:30 The Missing Picture (12A) 96m

Fri 4 Apr 13:30 Focus on Film: Page to Screen 16:00 The Missing Picture 17:45 Consequences of Love (15) 102m 20:15 The Selfish Giant

Sat 5 Apr 14:00 Le Week-End 16:15 Journal de France 18:30 Consequences of Love

Sun 6 Apr 13:15 The Innocents (PG) 95m

13:15 The Lego Movie (U) 100m 13:30 Focus on Film: Page to Screen 15:30 The Grand Budapest Hotel (cert & time tbc) 18:00 The Grand Budapest Hotel 20:15 The Past (PG) 130m

Sat 12 Apr 13:15 The Grand Budapest Hotel 15:30 The Past 18:15 The Grand Budapest Hotel 20:30 Saving Mr. Banks

Sun 13 Apr 12:30 The Grand Budapest Hotel 15:00 Renee Fleming Sings: Capriccio 155m 18:00 The Past 20:45 The Grand Budapest Hotel

Mon 14 Apr 13:00 The Past 15:45 The Grand Budapest Hotel 18:00 Saving Mr. Banks 20:45 The Grand Budapest Hotel

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Film Listings Continued Tue 15 Apr

17:00 LIVE Easter Sunday Concert (Simon Rattle & Berlin Philharmonic) 120m plus interval 20:00 Labor Day

13:00 The Lego Movie 15:15 The Grand Budapest Hotel 18:00 The Grand Budapest Hotel 20:15 The Past

Wed 16 Apr

Mon 21 Apr

12:15 The Grand Budapest Hotel 14:15 The Past 17:00 The Grand Budapest Hotel 19:15 The Godfather: Part 2 (18) 200m

13:30 The Pirate Fairy 15:45 Labor Day 18:15 Yves Saint Laurent 20:30 The Double

Tue 22 Apr 12:15 Labor Day 14:45 Yves Saint Laurent 17:00 The Double 19:30 Otello LIVE Verdi Opera from Naples

Thu 17 Apr 13:15 The Lego Movie 15:30 The Grand Budapest Hotel 18:00 The Past 20:45 The Grand Budapest Hotel

Wed 23 Apr 12:15 Yves Saint Laurent 14:30 The Double 16:45 Labor Day

Fri 18 Apr 13:45 The Pirate Fairy (U) 78m 16:00 Labor Day (12A) 111m 18:30 Yves Saint Laurent (cert tbc) 101m 20:45 The Double (cert tbc) 93m

Thu 24 Apr 14:15 The Double 16:30 Yves Saint Laurent 19:00 Vikings (British Museum) 90m 20:45 Labor Day

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Sat 19 Apr 13:30 Yves Saint Laurent 16:00 The Double 18:15 Labor Day 20:45 Yves Saint Laurent

Sun 20 Apr

13:30 Calvary 15:45 A Long Way Down (15) 96m 18:15 The Sea 20:30 Under the Skin

Sun 27 Apr 13:30 A Long Way Down 15:45 The Sea 18:00 Calvary 20:30 The Stag.

Mon 28 Apr 13:30 Under the Skin 15:45 Calvary 18:00 The Sea 20:30 Starred Up (18) 106m

Tue 29 Apr 13:30 Calvary 16:00 Starred Up 18:30 The Stag 21:00 The Sea

Wed 30 Apr 13:30 The Sea 15:30 Under the Skin 18:00 Calvary 20:30 A Long Way Down

Thu 1 May 12:30 Vikings (British Museum - Encore) 14:15 The Stag 16:30 The Sea 19:00 King Lear (NT LIVE) 220m

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13:45 The Sea (12A) 86m 15:45 The Stag (15) 94m 18:00 Under the Skin (cert tbc) 108m 20:30 Calvary (15) 100m

Sat 26 Apr

All 4 Sessions

Chichester Festival Theatre Connections Four bonus sessions of this popular course linked to this year’s reopening programme at the Chichester Festival Theatre.

Full details to be announced shortly.

Session 1: Session 2: Session 3: Session 4:

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We are proud to present 14 exciting Performance Events in this Awards Season. From the English National Opera to the Bolshoi Ballet, National Theatre Live to the Berlin Philharmonic, and a couple of Special film screenings accompanied by Q&A’s Live by satellite.

Lars von Trier’s NYMPHOMANIAC + live satellite Q&A

Sat 22 Feb 18.15 Pg.9

PETER GRIMES ENO LIVE

Sun 23 Feb 15.00 Pg.9

WAR HORSE NT LIVE (sold out) + 4 Encores

Thu 27 Feb 19.00 Pg.10

SIMON RATTLE conducts BERLIN PHILHARMONIC LIVE

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CORIOLANUS NT (Encore)

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14.30 & 19.30 Pg.15

Rene Fleming sings: LUCREZIA BORGIA (Recorded)

Sun 9 Mar

15.00 Pg.15

Sneak Preview Joseph Conrad’s THE SECRET SHARER + Q&A

28 Feb 18.30 Pg.10

Sun 16 Mar 15.00 Pg.20

SLEEPING BEAUTY ROH (Delayed live)

Sun 23 Mar 14.30 Pg.24

MARCO SPADA Bolshoi Ballet (Delayed live)

Sun 6 Apr

Rene Fleming sings: CAPRICCIO (Recorded)

Sun 13 Apr 15.00 Pg.34

ELGAR & STRAVINSKY (Simon Rattle & Berlin Phil) LIVE

Sun 20 Apr 17.00 Pg.38

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OTELLO LIVE from NAPLES

Tues 22 Apr 19.30 Pg.38

VIKINGS LIVE from British Museum

Thu 24 Apr 19.00 + Encore Thu 1 May 12.30 Pg.39

Bolshoi Ballet 31

War Horse 10

KEY 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.

Please note that dates, times and productions are subject to change due to the nature of live/delayed live evets.

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Steve McQueen confirms his directorial prowess with this beautifully cinematic account of slavery.

Solomon (the extraordinary Chiwetel Ejiofor) is an accomplished violinist living free in NY when conned into joining a show then brutally abducted and sold as a slave.

When his benevolent owner (Benedict Cumberbatch) sells him to an abusive plantation owner (Michael Fassbender), any chance to prove the illegitimacy of his situation seems lost. Based on Solomon Northup’s memoir, this is an Oscar & BAFTA favourite.

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A victim from WWII’s “Death Railway”, Eric (Colin Firth) sets out to find those responsible for his torture.

Eric was one of thousands of Allied prisoners forced to work on the construction of the Thai/ Burma railway. His experiences left him traumatised and shut off from the world. Years later, his wife Patti (Nicole Kidman) discovers that the young Japanese officer who haunted her husband was still alive.

Should Eric be given a chance to confront his tormentor?

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Cate Blanchett shines in Woody Allen’s brilliant tragi-comedy.

After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal (Alec Baldwin), elegant New York socialite Jasmine (Blanchett) moves into her sister Ginger’s (Sally Hawkins) modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again. Loosely echoing ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ (screening this week), Woody Allen’s latest is a stunning achievement.

USA 2013 Woody Allen 98m

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Lars Von Trier’s

Nymphomaniac (Vol. I&II) Plus Live via Satellite Q&A’s with Cast

Sat 22 Feb 18:15 – 23:00 approx Tickets £10 (Students Over 18: £8) includes interval wine.

WARNING - the film contains sexually graphic scenes.

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‘One Night Stand‘: The highly anticipated film from the legendary and controversial director, Lars von Trier.

The wild and poetic story of self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg).

When bachelor Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), finds Joe beaten up in an alley, he cares for her wounds whilst listening intently as she recounts the multifaceted story of her life, rich in associations and interjecting incidents. This is an epic, ground-breaking cinema experience with a jaw-dropping all-star cast, including Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman and Willem Dafoe. Transmitted via Satellite from the Curzon Chelsea, selected members of the cast will introduce the two volumes, and take part in an on-stage interview following the film.

Denmark/Germany 2014 Lars Von Trier (Vol. 1: 124m, Vol. 2: 123m)

Peter Grimes

Sun 23 Feb 15:00 – 18:15 approx Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) including interval wine.

LIVE from the English National Opera (ENO) This is the first opera production to be shown live from the London Coliseum, an exciting searing psychological drama of Benjamin Britten’s most popular opera.

This is the first revival of David Alden’s 2009 five-star sell-out production. In a small coastal fishing village in Suffolk, fisherman Peter Grimes’s apprentice disappears at sea.

What really happened? Was Grimes involved? Despite the villagers’ suspicions he is released without charge.

Subjected to a hate campaign, Grimes’s state of mind becomes increasingly unstable. He takes on another apprentice, with tragic consequences. ‘Peter Grimes’ contains some of the most evocative music ever written. The wildness of the sea and the instability of Grimes’s mind are superbly reflected in Britten’s music. Stuart Skelton in the title role has been described as the ‘definitive’ Peter Grimes.

Conducted by Edward Gardiner.

190m approx. including interval.

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War Horse NT LIVE

Thu 27 Feb Sat 8 Mar Wed 19 Mar Sat 22 Mar Fri 28 Mar

19:00 (Live) 15:00 (Encore) 19:30 (Encore) 15:00 (Encore) 19:30 (Encore)

Tickets £17.50 (Friends/ Students £15) to include interval glass of wine.

The National Theatre’s internationally acclaimed production of ‘War Horse’, will be broadcast live from London’s West End. Since its first performance at the National Theatre in 2007, ‘War Horse’ has become an international smash hit. Based on Michael Morpurgo’s novel and adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford, ‘War Horse’ takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon to the trenches of First World War France. Filled with stirring music and songs, this powerfully moving and imaginative drama is a show of phenomenal inventiveness. At its heart are astonishing lifesized puppets by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, who bring breathing, galloping, charging horses to thrilling life on stage. Don’t miss your chance to experience this landmark production in a cinema near you next year.

165m including interval.

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Simon Rattle Conducts

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Bach’s St Johns Passion Experience the magical collaboration of Sir Simon Rattle, Peter Sellars and a top-class cast of singers.

Having staged Bach’s ‘St Matthew Passion’ at the Salzburg Easter Festival, Peter Sellars presents ‘St John Passion’ and comments: “It is not theatre. It is a prayer, a meditation.” He promises it to be an equally memorable, theatricallyenhanced performance of this towering work of musical devotion.

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Rundfunkchor Berlin and an international cast of magnificent vocal soloists for what promises to be a deeply moving musical experience. Camilla Tilling Soprano; Magdalena Kožená - Mezzosoprano; Topi Lehtipuu - Tenor (Arien); Mark Padmore - Tenor (Evangelist); Roderick Williams - Baritone (Christus); Christian Gerhaher - Baritone (Pilatus, Petrus). 180m.

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Ralph Fiennes’ intimate period romance on the affair between Charles Dickens and actress Nelly Ternan.

Visually striking and dramatically refined, Fiennes’ (Coriolanus) impeccably directed second feature centres on the secret affair between Dickens (Fiennes) and young actress Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones) which commenced at the height of his career, when she was 18, and lasted until his death. Their love story unfolds from the perspective of Nelly years later as she directs a stage rendition of ‘The Frozen Deep’, the production on which she first met Dickens. Her intimate knowledge of the text brings back a flood of disquieting memories, threatening to disrupt the stability of her new life. Fiennes’ nuanced direction of Abi Morgan’s screenplay illuminates the exquisite pain of their affair: the moral dilemma for Dickens, whose marriage and family life unravels; and the sense of entrapment for Nelly as she is forced to live her love in secret. Based on the biographical book by Claire Tomalin, and featuring a terrific cast (including Kristin Scott Thomas as Nelly’s mother), this intimate period romance gracefully lays bare the gender politics of the era.

UK 2013 Ralph Fiennes 111m International Panorama: France

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas

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An epic drama set in 16th century France against a backdrop of feudalism in decline.

Mads Mikkelsen stars as a horse merchant who resorts to fanatical extremes to obtain justice after a nobleman openly and illegally humiliates him. Adapted from a classic of German Romanticism, Kohlhaas is a man who has fallen into nihilism after great losses and the film’s landscape reflects this cold and meaningless temperament. With Denis Lavant. (subtitles) France 2013 Arnaud des Pallières 122m Box Office 01243 786 650

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Remembering WW1 & WW2 Re-enactments, parades and demonstrations commemorating the centenary of the First World War and 70 years since the D-Day Landings. Celebrating the courage of horses in war, on the battleďŹ eld and the home front.

7 - 8 June 2014

Weald & Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton, Chichester, PO18 OEU Telephone 01243 811348 www.wealddown.co.uk

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Out of the Furnace

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When Rodney Baze mysteriously disappears and law enforcement doesn’t follow through fast enough, his older brother takes matters into his own hands.

From Scott Cooper (‘Crazy Heart’), comes a gripping and gritty drama about family, fate, circumstance and justice. Russell Baze (Christian Bale) has a rough life: he works a dead-end blue collar job by day, and cares for his terminally ill father by night. When Russell’s brother Rodney (Casey Affleck) returns home from Iraq, he gets lured into one of the most ruthless crime rings in the Northeast and mysteriously disappears. The police fail to crack the case, so - with nothing left to lose - Russell takes matters into his own hands, putting his life on the line. With Woody Harrelson, Zoe Saldena, Sam Shepard, Willem Dafoe and Forest Whitaker.

USA 2013 Scott Cooper 116m

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Night of the Hunter

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Robert Mitchum stars in Charles Laughton’s masterpiece, a thriller set in the 1930s in the rural American South.

Psychopathic preacher Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum, in a tremendous performance) is arrested for a minor offence. His death row cell mate, Ben Harper (Peter Graves), confides that he has hidden $10,000 from a bank robbery, so when the preacher is released, he tracks down Harper’s widow in an attempt to get his hands on the loot. The only movie directed by flamboyant actor Charles Laughton.

The truth is, nobody has ever made anything approaching its phantasmagoric, overheated style in which German expressionism, religious hysteria, fairy-tale fantasy (of the Grimm-est variety), and stalker movie are brought together in a furious boil. Also starring the wonderful Lilain Gish.

USA 1955 Charles Laughton 93m

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A routine space mission turns into a fight for survival in Alfonso Cuarón’s thrill ride.

Dr Stone (Sandra Bullock) is on her first space mission under the command of Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney), making his final flight. Debris crashes into their shuttle, leaving the craft severely damaged and their challenge is not only to survive, but to face the debris on its ferocious orbit. The effect of total immersion is such that the idea of fiction is suspended.

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Poignant gem of a road movie, with a fantastic performance from Bruce Dern.

Alexander Payne’s (‘Sideways’) latest charts a trip taken from Montana to Nebraska

by David (Will Forte) with his father Woody (Bruce Dern), an irascible, forgetful old boozer who believes he’s won a million dollars and must travel the 700 miles to collect it. Inevitably, the journey proves a sentimental education. Shot in lovely blackand-white widescreen. Rightly won Dern the Best Actor award in Cannes.

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A con man (Christian Bale) and his British partner (Amy Adams) are forced to work for a wild FBI agent.

Brilliant con man Irving, who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney, are forced to work for FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). DiMaso pushes them into a world of powerbrokers and mafia that’s as dangerous as it is enchanting. Irving’s unpredictable wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down.

USA 2013 David O. Russell 129m

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Coriolanus

Tue 4 Mar Tue 11 Mar

14:30 (Encore) 19:30 (Encore)

National Theatre Live broadcasts the Donmar Warehouse’s production of Shakespeare’s searing tragedy of political manipulation and revenge.

When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But he has enemies at home too. Famine threatens the city, the citizens’ hunger swells to an appetite for change, and on returning from the field Coriolanus must confront the march of realpolitik and the voice of an angry people. With Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers, War Horse, BBC’s The Hollow Crown) in the title role and Mark Gatiss (Season’s Greetings at the National Theatre, BBC’s Sherlock) as Menenius, and directed by the Donmar’s Artistic Director Josie Rourke.

180m including Interval.

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Renee Fleming Sings:

Lucrezia Borgia San Francisco Opera (Recorded Oct 2011)

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First of two operas featuring Renee Fleming, “America’s most-loved and most-lauded opera singer” (The Times), in the title role of Donizetti’s melodically rich bel canto masterpiece.

A power-hungry femme fatale reveals poignant vulnerability when she comes face to face with her long-lost son. The silken-voiced soprano sings with raw intensity and earthy richness, utterly inhabiting the character. Joined by American tenor Michael Fabiano with his warm lyric tone, and bass Vitalij Kowaljow, who sings with a potent blend of vocal weight and emotional transparency. Opera in a prologue and 2 acts, sung in Italian with English subtitles.

Music - Gaetano Donizetti; Libretto - Felice Romani; Conductor - Riccardo Frizza.

CAST: Lucrezia Borgia - Renee Fleming; Maffio Orsini - Elizabeth Deshong; Gennaro - Michael Fabiano; Alfonso D’este - Vitalij Kowaljo. 156 m including interval

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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Fri 7 Mar 20:45 Mon 10 Mar 15:00 Wed 12 Mar 12:30

Jack Ryan, a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.

Ryan (Chris Pine) enlists in the Marines after seeing news coverage of the 9/11 attacks. After getting injured in Afghanistan, He is recruited into the CIA by William Harper (Kevin Costner), who admires his Boy Scout forthrightness. Ten years later, Ryan works covertly at a Wall Street firm and sees a potential economic disaster in the form of a shady Russian company headed by Viktor Cherevin (Kenneth Branagh, a wonderful Russian baddy who also spiritedly directs). Ryan juggles this threat with a more personal one, as his long-time girlfriend (Keira Knightley) becomes impossible to shake off even as he travels to Moscow.

It’s a wonderfully old fashioned throwback rooted in a Cold War-style conflict.

USA/Russia/UK 2013 Kenneth Branagh 105m

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Funny Face

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Fred Astaire plays a fashion photographer based on real-life cameraman Richard Avedon, in this entertaining musical with Audrey Hepburn, directed by Stanley Donen (‘Singin’ in the Rain’).

The story finds Dick Avery (Astaire) turning bookshop worker Jo Stockton (Hepburn) into a chic Paris model - not a tough premise to buy, especially within this film’s air of enchantment and fabulous Gershwin score. She is discovered by fashion magazine editor Maggie (Kay Thompson), and asked to become the figurehead of a new collection, only taking the job after learning that it would involve a trip to Paris, and a chance to attend a lecture by her idol, philosopher Emile Flostre. As she and Dick embark on a series of photo shoots around the city, they begin to develop romantic feelings for one another.

Beautifully newly restored digital print.

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Bastards Les Salauds

Marco returns to Paris after a suicide, where he targets the man his sister believes caused the tragedy - though he is ill-prepared for her secrets.

Supertanker captain Marco Silvestri (Vincent Lindon) is called back urgently to Paris. His sister Sandra (Julie Bataille) is desperate - her husband has committed suicide and the family business has gone under. Sandra holds businessman Edouard Laporte (Michel Subor) responsible, so Marco moves into the building where Laporte has installed his mistress and her son. but he hasn’t planned for Sandra’s secrets. Masterfully directed by French filmmaker Claire Denis, this finely paced fictional tale is narrated from multiple viewpoints.

Themes of sexual exploitation, monetary manipulation and class indifference slowly emerge from Denis’ masterful play of image and sound until a stunning final sequence. (subtitles) France 2013 Claire Denis 100m

The Armstrong Lie

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Shooting as Armstrong’s doping scandal broke, this offers a complex picture of a sporting enigma.

Academy Award-winning documentarist Alex Gibney (‘Mea Maxima Culpa’) began recording cycling superstar Lance Armstrong back in 2009, until filming was unexpectedly halted following the much publicised doping scandal.

Gibney’s documentary took an unexpectedly dark and complex turn when he resumed his study of the athlete in 2013, following Armstrong’s public confessions on ‘The Oprah Show’. In this unflinching account of a sport ruled by money and power, Gibney’s unprecedented access to Armstrong, his exteammates and the infamous Doctor Ferrari, combined with exhilarating archive footage of cycling races, draws an intricate portrait of an extraordinarily ambitious man who would stop at nothing to win.

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Fri 14 Mar Sat 15 Mar Sun 16 Mar Mon 17 Mar Tue 18 Mar Wed 19 Mar Thu 20 Mar

The Monuments Men

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An unlikely WWII platoon (including George Clooney and Matt Damon) are tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves.

Based on a true story, this is an action-thriller focusing on a World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Nazi Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces and returning them to their owners. An impossible mission, with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the Germans ordered to destroy everything as the Reich fell.

How could these museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 machine-gun - possibly hope to succeed? But as the ‘Monuments Men’ found themselves in a race against time, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind’s greatest cultural achievements.

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Matthew McConaughey gives the performance of his career in this multi nominated film as an ordinary man who found himself in a life-or-death battle.

McConaughey portrays real-life Texas electrician Ron Woodroof, an ordinary man who found himself battling the medical establishment and pharmaceutical companies. In 1986, he was blindsided by being diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. With the U.S. still restricting medications, Ron grabbed hold of non-toxic alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal.

Seeking to avoid government sanctions against selling non-approved medicines and supplements, he established a “buyers club”, which fellow HIV-positive people could join for access to his supplies.

Woodruff was a simple man, whose unfortunate condition brought forth an incredible man whose zest for life inspires others. Gritty, raw and compelling!

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Stranger by the Lake L’Inconnu du Lac

Sat 15 Mar 20:45 Tue 18 Mar 18:15 WARNING - the film contains sexually graphic scenes.

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Enigmatic meditation on love, sex and murderous desire set in a gay cruising ground in picturesque Southern France.

A handsome romantic named Franck frequents his local cruising spot each day; sunbathing, swimming in the lake and admiring the bronzed male bodies of the other visitors. He strikes up a conversation with lonely divorcé Henri and, as an unexpected friendship blossoms, Franck’s sexual interest is piqued by the mysterious Michel.

Franck’s desire turns to unease when he witnesses an act of violence and finds himself drawn into an enticing web of danger.

Winner of Best Director at the 2013 Cannes Festival, Guiraudie’s unconventional thriller is distinguished by a deceptive and hypnotic tranquillity. Presenting sexual activity with hard-core abandon, he transforms his cruising ground into a verdant labyrinth of perilous possibility. (subtitles) France 2013 Alain Guiraudie 100m

Tim’s Vermeer

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Inventor Tim Jenison seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer with David Hockney.

Magician duo Penn and Teller specialise in illusion, so there is a logic of sorts to them dedicating their documentary to a Texas inventor’s quest to make a copy of a Johannes Vermeer painting.

The film follows Tim’s work on his recreation of Vermeer’s ‘The Piano lesson’, and is extremely insightful, especially for anyone who has any knowledge of the history of art, or for anyone who enjoys conspiracy theories. Using mirrors, a camera obscura and hundreds of meticulous manhours, Jenison does indeed craft his own personal simulacrum of ‘The Piano Lesson’ that has our own David Hockney aghast.

Penn Jillette’s ebullient onscreen presence goes some way towards energising a movie in which we are asked to watch paint dry.

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Philomena (Judi Dench) searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago.

This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of Philomena Lee who, after pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, was sent to a convent and had her child whisked away by the nuns to America for adoption. She spent the next 50 years searching for him in vain before meeting journalist Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan), who embarked on a quest with her to find her son.

UK/USA/France 2013 Stephen Frears 98m

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Sun 16 Mar 15:00 Tickets £10

The Secret Sharer

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Sneak Preview of this Joseph Conrad Adaptation We are delighted to present a sneak preview (before its June release) of this Joseph Conrad adaptation with a Q&A by the director Peter Fudakowski following the screening.

This is a contemporary fable about human relationships at sea. Set on a rusting cargo ship in the South China Sea, it’s the Polish captain’s first command. His mutinous Chinese crew suspect he and their unscrupulous Boss want to scuttle the ship for an insurance scam.

When the crew abandon ship, the young captain is left alone on board, helpless, anchored in a bay. That night while waiting anxiously on deck, he finds a naked body floating in the sea below, tangled up in the ship’s rope ladder. Pulling the ladder, the captain discovers a Chinese woman in distress. She climbs on board, saying only “Hide me”. Dawn comes a few hours later and so does a search party, looking for a murderer... Inspired by Joseph Conrad’s ‘The Secret Sharer’. (In English & Mandarin) UK/Poland 2014 Peter Fudakowski 103m

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Cuban Fury

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A former salsa prodigy attempts a comeback years after his career was ruined.

1987: A 13 year old natural born dancer with fire in his heels and snakes in his hips is working himself up for the UK Junior Salsa Championships. But a bullying incident in London robs him of confidence, and our young hero finds his life diverted down a very different path. 22 years later, an adult Bruce Garrett (Nick Frost) finds himself out-of-shape and unloved - trapped in a downward spiral of self-pity and Nando’s take-outs. Only Julia (Rashida Jones), his smart, funny, gorgeous new American boss, gives him reason to live, but she’s untouchable - out of his league. A great romantic comedy with a real U.K. sensibility rooted in reality. Also starring Ian McShane, Olivia Colman and Rory Kinnear.

UK 2014 James Griffiths 98m

Sleeping Beauty

Sun 23 Mar 14:30 Tickets £17.50 (Friends/ Students £15) to include interval glass of wine.

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ROH Ballet (Delayed live) First staged in St Petersburg (1890), this is the pinnacle of classical ballet: a perfect marriage of Petipa’s choreography, Tchaikovsky’s music and a glorious challenge for every dancer.

This is The Royal Ballet’s signature work, and to mark their 75th birthday (2006), Monica Mason and Christopher Newton revitalized its landmark 1946 production, which re-established Petipa’s choreography as recorded by Imperial Ballet régisseur Nicholas Sergeyev, to a scenario developed by Ninette de Valois herself, founder of The Royal Ballet. Today’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ shows that this is a living work, growing and changing with the Company while celebrating its past, making this fuller version an interesting complimentary production to the Bolshoi version we presented in December.

Recorded live at ROH (19 Mar).

Conductor: Valeriy Ovsyanikov.

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Based on the beloved bestselling book, ‘The Book Thief’ tells the story of a spirited and courageous young girl who transforms the lives of everyone around her, when she is sent to live with a foster family in World War II Germany.

Liesel (Sophie Nelisse) is an extraordinary and courageous young girl sent to live with a foster family in WWII Germany. She learns to read with encouragement from her new family, Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson as her adoptive parents, and Ben Schnetzer as Max, a Jewish refugee who they are hiding under the stairs. For Liesel and Max, the power of words and imagination become the only escape from the tumultuous events happening around them. By following her life we get to view war on the home front for Germany. Nazi rallies, anti-Jewish pogroms, Hitler Youth groups, conscription, book burning, daylight bombing, propaganda films and posters, and the whole gamut of events are seen from her perspective. This is a life-affirming story of survival and the resilience of the human spirit. It is a warm, moving film, nuanced and thoughtful in a traditional style.

USA 2013 Brian Percival 131m

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Classics Digitally Restored: France

Lift to the Scaffold

Sun 23 Mar 12:30 Wed 26 Mar 14:45 Hugo Frey (Author of ‘Louis Malle’) will introduce our Sunday Screening and offer a short Q&A after the film.

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Ascenseur pour L’échafaud War veteran (Maurice Ronet) and his lover (Jeanne Moreau) plan the murder of her arms-manufacturer husband in one of the seminal French films of the 50.

Returning from the crime scene, he’s trapped in a lift, while she anxiously walks the night streets of Paris waiting for him. Influenced by Hitchcock and Bresson, this triumphant Louis Malle debut helped turn Moreau into an iconic star and can be seen as the first movie of the Nouvelle Vague. Miles Davis provided a superb score improvised in one night.

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The Great Beauty La Grande Bellezza

An aging writer recollects his passionate lost youth. A contemporary ‘La Dolca Vita’.

After his 65th birthday, Jep (Toni Servillo) decides to dedicate his life to the search of a meaning. On the background of a mysterious and wonderful Rome, he slowly rediscovers beauty. Sorrentino has returned with a gorgeous movie, the film equivalent of a magnificent banquet composed of 78 sweet courses. Fabulous – the best film shown at Cannes. (subtitles)

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The true story of the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of an American cargo ship.

The film focuses on the relationship between Captain Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks), and his Somali counterpart, Muse (Barkhad Abdi). Set on an incontrovertible collision course off the coast of Somalia, both men will find themselves paying the human toll for economic forces outside of their control.

USA 2013 Paul Greengrass 134m

Whilst the Chichester Players perform ‘Make Way For Lucia’ in the Main Auditorium, we present a season of New Releases and recent popular films in the Studio.

Tickets £6 / Seniors £5.50 / Friends £5 Students & Unemployed £4.50

International Panorama: Israel

Fill the Void Lemale et Ha’halal

Sat 29 Mar 16:15 Thu 3 Apr 14:00 Booking Ref

A young Jewish woman is pressured into an arranged marriage to an older widower.

Israel’s entry to the 2013 Oscars, is one of the best films to emerge from the growing Israeli cinema. It is of particular interest because it’s a rare window into the closed-community lifestyle of the Orthodox Jews. The hidden gem from our Winter Season. (subtitles) Israel 2012 Rama Burshstein 90m

Wadjda

Sat 29 Mar 14:00 Tue 1 Apr 16:15 Booking Ref

Charming tale of a Saudi girl who will stop at nothing to buy the bicycle she craves.

To shoot a film in a country where cinemas have been banned for over thirty years is some kind achievement. When that filmmaker also happens to be a woman, in a country where it is illegal for women to drive let alone direct, makes this accomplishment all the more impressive. (subtitles) Saudi Arabia-Germany 2012 Haifaa Al Mansour 97m

Le Week-End

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British couple return to Paris many years after their honeymoon there in an attempt to rejuvenate their marriage.

The story centres on a long-married British couple who revisit Paris to revitalize their marriage. While there they run into an old colleague who provides the couple with a new vision of what life and marriage might be. With Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan and Jeff Goldblum.

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BAFTA Shorts

Sat 29 Mar 18:30 Sun 30 Mar 14:00

A superb new programme of short films from this year’s British Academy Film Awards.

The 2014 selection comprises 8 outstanding live-action and animated shorts nominated in this year’s BAFTAs. Films: Everything I Can See From Here; Sleeping With the Fishes; I Am Tom Moody; Keeping Up With the Joneses; Orbit Ever After; Island Queen; Room 8; Sea View.

Full film details can be found online (www.chichestercinema.org) 118m

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Fireworks Wednesday

Chaharshanbe-soori

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On the last Wednesday before the spring solstice ushers in the Persian New Year, people set off fireworks following an ancient Zoroastrian tradition.

This intimate, powerful film focuses on the rarely considered personal lives of average Iranian citizens. The class and genderrelated tensions at the heart of the story reveal much about the strictures of modern Iranian culture, but director Farhadi’s (‘A Separation’, ‘About Ely’) humanist viewpoint and his actors’ vivid characterizations also make this tale feel achingly familiar and borderless. (Subtitles) Iran 2006 Asghar Farhadi 102m New Release

The Rocket

Sun 30 Mar 18:30 Mon 31 Mar 16:15 Booking Ref

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In Laos, young Ahlo sets about winning a dangerous competition in order to win back his family’s affection.

Ahlo is deemed as cursed and bad luck seems to follow him around. He befriends Kia and her eccentric Uncle Purple, and sets about trying to prove to the world that he can break the stigma of being so unlucky by entering a dangerous rocket-building competition. Using mainly nonprofessional actors, Mordaunt’s beautifully shot and moving story is never sentimental but perfectly encapsulates the resilient Laotians as they strive for a better life. (subtitles) Australia-Laos-Thailand 2013 Kim Mordaunt 96m

Focus on the documentary: France

Journal de France

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Documentary following filmmaker and photographer Raymond Depardon’s journey around France over the course of six years.

Travelling through the Gallic countryside, Depardon takes landscape photographs using a large-format camera, while collaborator Claudine Nougaret trails through some of the film-maker’s previously unseen work including striking footage in Venezuela, Soviet occupied Prague and Chad. Featuring cameos from Jean-luc-Godard and Eric Rohmer. (subtitles) France 2012 Raymond Depardon /Claudine Nougaret 100m

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International Panorama: Australia

Wake in Fright

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WARNING - contains graphic Kangaroo shoot.

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Aka ‘Outback’ One of the greatest of all Australian films. Restored for the first time uncut, it looks fantastic with amazing landscapes.

A naive Australian teacher is sent to a community populated almost exclusively by primitive toughs, more interested in slaughtering kangaroos than such niceties as education or propriety.

Viscerally intense, with Donald Pleasence giving one of his finest performances, supported magnificently by Australian legend Chips Rafferty. Screened (and awarded) at Cannes.

Australia 1971/2014 Ted Kotcheff 93m

The Selfish Giant Focussing on the sweet, yet dysfunctional, friendship of two 13-year-old boys.

The pair form a friendship when excluded from school, they become entranced by the world of a scrap dealer, whose den of inequity holds the promise of money which so eludes their families. Although this is a tale of woe, it has a vein of humour which is impossible to deny. Based upon the short story by Oscar Wilde. Highly recommended.

UK 2013 Clio Barnard 93m Thu 3 Apr 16:15 Fri 4 Apr 20:15 Booking Ref

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The Missing Picture

Thu 3 Apr 18:30 Fri 4 Apr 16:00 Booking Ref

A visually astonishing, harrowing account of Pol Pot’s Cambodia using miniature clay figures and archive footage.

Having previously chronicled the horrors of Pol Pot’s regime, director Panh returns to the subject that haunts his work with this deeply felt account of his childhood endured in Khmer Rouge labour camps.

Panh recreates his experiences with miniature clay figures against stylised backdrops and archive footage. A searching rumination on the relationship between memory and trauma, demanding we reflect on near-unimaginable suffering with a sombre urgency and quiet insistence.

France-Cambodia 2013 Rithy Panh 90m

Consequences of Love

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Le Conseguenze dell’Amore With ‘The Great Beauty’s’ success as best foreign film, here is an opportunity to revisit Paolo Sorrentino’s earlier masterpiece.

Sorrentino’s gripping psychological thriller probes the dark secret harboured by a middle-aged Italian loner (Tony Servillo). Elegantly dressed, he impassively spends his days in his hotel bar, but his icy demeanour cracks when he begins to talk to barmaid Sofia. Featuring masterfully restrained performances from Servillo and Olivia Magnani, this is a tightly plotted, stylishly executed thriller that marks Sorrentino as an exciting and original filmmaker. (subtitles) Italy 2004 Paolo Sorrentino 100m Classics digitally restored and re-issued

The Innocents

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This celebrated 1961 adaptation of Henry James’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ starring Deborah Kerr.

This is a brilliant exercise in psychological horror, telling the story of an impressionable governess (Kerr), who agrees to tutor two orphaned children.

On arrival at Bly House, she becomes convinced that the children are possessed by the perverse spirits of the former governess and her Heathcliff-like lover. Returns after our February cancelled screening.

UK 1961 Jack Clayton 95m

Marco Spada Bolshoi Ballet

Sun 6 Apr

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(Delayed Live) The first ballet premiere from Bolshoi’s ‘Historic Stage’, in a production by the illustrious French choreographer Pierre Lacotte.

Originally produced in 1857 at the Academie Royale de Danse et Musique (today’s Paris Opera) by choreographer Joseph Mazilier and to music

by Auber. In 1981 Pierre Lacotte did a reconstruction for Rudolf Nureyev in Rome. Lacotte has created a new version of the ballet for the Bolshoi, distinguished from the version created for Nureyev by a greater number of personages, the scale of its corps de ballet scenes and also by changes in the choreography of the roles of the main characters. As per its agreement with Lacotte, the Theatre will have exclusive rights to the production.

(Recorded live on 30 March).

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A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system that’s designed to meet his every need.

Set in a future where technology has advanced while fashion has regressed (high-waisted trousers abound), recently divorced Theo (Joaquin Phoenix) gradually falls for Samantha (Scarlett Johansson), an artificially intelligent operating system. The pain, joy and fear that Spike Jonze (‘Being John Malkovich’, ‘Adaptation’) depicts, feels universal. The shifting power dynamic between Theo and Samantha as she begins to dream and hope and move beyond her programming feels painfully authentic. For all its techno-focus, this is a very human love story about our need for connection. Strange, witty, honest and curiously comforting.

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True story of Mary Poppins’ journey to the big screen, imaginatively brought to life.

PL Travers (Emma Thompson) travels from London to Hollywood to develop the screenplay for ‘Mary Poppins’ after 20 years of resisting Walt Disney’s (Tom Hanks) overtures to buy the rights. She is fiercely protective of her characters, wary of sentimentality and unsettled

by LA and the ways of the Studio. Precisely paced and fulsome in character development, effortlessly mining the comic potential of the cultural clash between Travers and Disney, while giving full emotional depth to the formative childhood scenes. Overflowing with terrific performances (Thompson, Hanks, Paul Giamatti, Ruth Wilson and Rachel Griffiths), this is also a finely honed ode to the brilliance and volatility of two very different creative forces.

USA/UK 2013 John Lee Hancock 126m

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Mr Peabody & Sherman

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Mr. Peabody, the most accomplished dog in the world, and his mischievous boy Sherman, use their time machine to go on the most outrageous adventures known to man or dog.

When Sherman takes the time machine out for a joyride to impress his friend Penny, they accidentally rip a hole in the universe, wreaking havoc on the most important events in world history. Before they forever alter the past, present and future, Mr. Peabody must come to their rescue, ultimately facing the most daunting challenge of any era: figuring out how to be a parent. Together, the time traveling trio will make their mark on history.

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Non-Stop An air marshal springs into action during a transatlantic flight after receiving text messages that put his fellow passengers at risk.

Global action star Liam Neeson stars in a suspense thriller played out at 40,000 feet in the air.

During a transatlantic flight from NY to London, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks (Neeson) receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the government to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account.

Until he secures the money, a passenger on his flight will be killed every 20 minutes. There’s a hijacker on board, and he or she is soon framing our hero for the murders and the money.

Julianne More is also on board in this suspenseful entertaining action thriller.

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The Past Le Passé

Iranian writer/director Asghar Farhadi (‘A Separation’, ‘About Elly’, and ‘Fireworks Wednesday’ - screening 1 & 2 April) has realised another amazing piece of novelistic cinema.

Ahmad, an Iranian man, arrives in Paris after four years to meet his ex-wife and her daughters. She is in a relationship with an Arab named Samir who has a wife in a coma. The affairs get more complicated when the older daughter discloses something heinous she has done. Much like ‘A Separation’, the story spirals, whodunit style, around the blame of the “suicide”. As each character attempts to offload their sense of guilt onto someone else, Farhadi further elucidates the elusive nature of truth itself forcing his characters into moral grey zones. (subtitles) France/Italy/Iran 2013 Asghar Farhadi 130m Box Office 01243 786 650

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Rene Fleming Sings:

Capriccio

From the Wiener Staatsoper

Sun 13 Apr 15:00 Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) includes interval wine.

(Recorded June 2013) ‘Richard Strauss 150’ - Renee Fleming returns in our 2nd opera, ‘Capriccio’, and is our first tribute to the 150th Anniversary of Richard Stauss.

‘Capriccio’ is the final opera

by German composer Strauss, subtitled “A Conversation Piece for Music”, and received its premiere at the Nationaltheater München in 1942. The opera originally consisted of a single act lasting close to two and a half hours, however, at Hamburg in 1957, Rudolf Hartmann, who had directed the opera at its premiere in Munich, inserted an interval, and other directors have often followed suit. Sung in German with English subtitles. Conductor - Christoph Eschenbach; Director - Marco Arturo Marelli. CAST: The Countess - Renee Fleming; The Count - Bo Skovhus; Flamand Michael Schade.

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The Godfather: Part 2 Francis Ford Coppola directed this Oscar-winning crime drama starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in 1972, one of the greatest American films ever made.

It is 1958 and Michael Corleone (Pacino) has now fully embraced the trappings of a Mafia boss, leading to conflict with his wife, Kay (Diane Keaton). As he attempts to expand his crime empire, he thinks of his late father Vito’s (De Niro) rise to power in New York during the 1920s, but all of Michael’s attempts to emulate Vito and do the best for his family only pulls them further apart. Both a prequel and sequel to ‘The Godfather’ (1972), the film was nominated for eleven Oscars, winning five awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor (De Niro).

USA 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 200m

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The Grand Budapest Hotel

Fri 11 Apr Sat 12 Apr Sun 13 Apr Mon 14 Apr Tue 15 Apr Wed 16 Apr Thu 17 Apr

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The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.

The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune - all against the back-drop of a dramatically changing continent. If you are a fan, nothing gets us going more than the promise of a new Wes Anderson film. Will it be as funny and inventive as ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’? As ambitious as ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’? Expect an amalgam of Anderson’s predilection for jewel-box environments and giant majorname casts (features Anderson regulars Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody plus Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Jude Law and Tilda Swinton). Expect the hilariously unexpected!

USA 2014 Wes Anderson 100m

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Elements of thriller, melodrama and coming of age tale, creates this sumptuous and romantic study of emotional isolation.

Jason Reitman (‘Juno’, ‘Up in the Air’) switches into a deeper, darker exploration of emotional isolation to create this unexpectedly sumptuous and romantic film. Henry (Gattlin Griffith) is a sensitive teenager preoccupied with caring for his reclusive mother Adele (Kate Winslet) who has retreated from the world after the breakdown of her marriage. On a rare shopping trip they encounter Frank (Josh Brolin), who uses charm and intimidation to inveigle his way into the family home. Over the course of the Labor Day long weekend, this encounter changes all their lives irrevocably. The moody atmosphere oscillates between dark and light, drawing on both the lurking menace of ‘Night of the Hunter’ and redemptive magic of ‘Beauty and the Beast’.

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Easter Family Matinee

Fri 11 Apr 13:15 Tue 15 Apr 13:00

The Lego Movie

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An ordinary Lego mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary Master Builder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from gluing the universe together.

A lowly Lego figure (voiced by Chris Pratt) joins a group intent on battling an evil force after a case of mistaken identity in this computer generated comedy from the filmmakers behind ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’. Watch out for many mini-figures from your childhood including Batman, Superman, C3PO, R2D2, Dumbledore and Gandalf.

Elizabeth Banks, Morgan Freeman, Will Ferrell and Liam Neeson head up the rest of the voice cast.

USA 2014 P. Lord & C. Miller 101m

Easter Family Matinee

Fri 18 Apr 13:45 Mon 21 Apr 13:30

The Pirate Fairy

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Lovable fairy Tinker bell and friends tussle with pirates to retrieve their pixie dust in this fun-packed family animation.

When a misunderstood dust-keeper fairy named Zarina steals Pixie Hollow’s all-important Blue Pixie Dust, and flies away to join forces with the pirates of Skull Rock, Tinker Bell and her fairy friends must embark on the adventure of a lifetime to return it to its rightful place. However, in the midst of their pursuit of Zarina, Tink’s world is turned upside down.

Voice cast includes Tom Hiddlestone, Christina Hendricks and Mae Whitman.

USA 2014 Peggy Holmes 78m

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Fri 18 Apr Sat 19 Apr Sun 20 Apr Mon 21 Apr Tue 22 Apr Wed 23 Apr Thu 24 Apr

20:45 16:00 14:30 20:30 17:00 14:30 14:15

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The Double

Simon finds his world turned upside down by the arrival of a confident and ambitious doppelganger in Richard Ayoade’s quirky adaptation of Dostoevsky’s novella.

Simon (Jesse Eisenberg) is a browbeaten office clerk working in an ominous government organisation. With his colleagues failing to recognise him, Simon fills his empty days with dreams of colleague Hannah (Mia Wasikowska), but any encounter with her leaves him tongue-tied and mortified. His life couldn’t get any worse, until one day his exact double gets a job at his company. As his confident and ambitious doppelganger climbs the corporate ladder, attracting the attention of Hannah on his way, our hero sinks further into mediocrity, and even madness. Transposing the action from 19th century Russia to a surrealist modern-day America, this quirky adaptation of Dostoevsky’s celebrated novella is a distinctly contemporary update of a literary classic.

UK 2013 Richard Ayoade 93m

DATES FOR THE DIARY

COMING SOON KING LEAR NT LIVE Encore A WINTER’S TALE ROH Ballet (Delayed live) CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT TIME NT (Encore) HENRY 1V PART 1 RSC (Delayed live) DER ROSENKAVALIER LIVE From Glyndebourne A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS NT LIVE LA TRAVIATA LIVE from Glyndebourne

Mon 30 Jun 19.30 Sun 4 May 15.00 Thu 22 May 19.00 Fri 16 May 19.30 Sun 8 Jun 16.30 Tue 12 Jun 19.00 Sun 10 Aug 15.30

FESTIVAL OF CHICHESTER – Summer 2014 HENRY IV PART 1 RSC (Encore) HENRY IV PART 2 RSC (Delayed live) MANON LESCAUT ROH (Delayed Live) DON GIOVANNI from GLYNDEBOURNE (Recorded) A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS NT (Encore) Terry Gillian’s CELLINI (Berlioz) ENO (Delayed Live)

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Mon 7 July

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Sun 13 Jul

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Elgar & Stravinsky on Easter Sunday LIVE Berlin Philharmonic & Simon Rattle LIVE from the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle (Conductor) and Star Guest Sol Gabetta (Cello).

Elgar’s warm and melodically charged ‘Cello Concerto’ sounds modern and fresh. Sol Gabetta recently released a highly praised recording of the work and the cellist will make her debut with the Berlin Philharmonic. The concert climaxes with the whole mighty forces of the Berlin Philharmonic unleashing one of the greatest masterpieces of the 20th century ‘Le Sacre du Printemps’ (The Rite of Spring).

Sun 20 Apr 17:00 Tickets £12 to include interval wine.

120m approx.

Programme: György Ligeti – ‘Atmosphères’; Richard Wagner – Prelude to Act 1 of the opera ‘Lohengrin’; Edward Elgar – ‘Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85’; Igor Stravinsky – ‘Le Sacre du Printemps’;du Printemps’;

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Otello

Tue 22 Apr 19.30 Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) to include interval wine Booking Ref

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LIVE From Naples, Teatro di San Carlo Verdi composed Otello after a long period of silence. Fifteen years after Aida (1871) he came back to work on the opera inspired by Shakespeare’s masterpiece, at the invitation of Boito and Ricordi.

The season 2013/14 at San Carlo offers a unique occasion to rediscover this masterpiece, bringing light to the changes of Verdi’s style in that decade.

The author acted attuned to the sensitivity of the end of the century, choosing one of the most disturbing psychological dramas to plumb the depths of the man’s soul. (New production) Conductor - Nicola Luisotti; Director - Henning Brockhaus; Singers include Marco Berti, Lianna Haroutounian, Roberto Frontali, Alessandro Liberatore, Dario Russo. An Opera in 4 Acts

by Guiseppi Verdi , sung in Italian with English subtitles.

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Fri 18 Apr Sat 19 Apr Sun 20 Apr Mon 21 Apr Tue 22 Apr Wed 23 Apr Thu 24 Apr

International Panorama: France

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

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Yves Saint Laurent A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Berge.

A visually sumptuous film which totally captures the dying days of the elite formal couture houses before bursting into the hedonism of modern global fashion brands, giving an insight into the tempestuous relationship between YSL and Pierre Bergé through the pitch perfect acting of Pierre Niney (Yves) and Guillaume Gallienne (Pierre). The film charts YSL’s career from his early years at Dior through to his iconic Ballet Russes collection of 1976. The world of the late 1950s is perfectly captured with elegant Dior designs, stylish models and a jazz score that matched the chic Parisian apartments the characters inhabit. (subtitles) France 2014 Jalil Lespert 101m

Vikings Exhibition Live

From the British Museum

Thu 24 Apr 19:00 (Live) Thu 1 May 12:30 (Encore) Tickets £10 (Friends/Students £8) Booking Ref

This special event offers an exclusive private view of the exhibition ‘Vikings: Life and Legend’ in the company of world experts.

Introduced by British Museum Director Neil MacGregor and presented by historian and broadcaster Michael Wood, the exhibition will be brought to life by curators Gareth Williams and Tom Williams, alongside experts on Viking ships and swords, burial and beliefs, language and legacy.

The exhibition is the first on the Viking world at the British Museum for over 30 years. Swords and axes, coins and jewellery, hoards, amulets and religious images show how Vikings created an international network connecting cultures over four continents. At the centre of the exhibition will be the surviving timbers of a 37-metre-long warship, the longest ever found. A replica sailing ship will be installed in front of the Museum and a dramatic Viking burial will be staged as night falls.

90m approx.

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The Sea

13:45 18:15 15:45 18:00 21:00 13:30 16:30

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Based on the 2005 Booker Prize-winning novel by John Banville, where a grieving man returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers. Starring Ciaran Hinds and Charlotte Rampling.

Grieving after the death of his wife, art historian Max (Hinds) returns to the sleepy seaside resort where he spent summers as a child. He lodges at a boarding house where frosty proprietor Miss Vavasour (Rampling), and eccentric resident Blunden, now reside. Before long, Max revisits the ghosts of his past. ‘The Sea’ is a haunting, uplifting meditation on the human condition, at times elegiac, poetic and nostalgic. A story of memory, love, regret... and the persistent possibility of rebirth. Also starring Sinead Cusack, Natascha McElhone, Rufus Sewell and Bonnie Wright.

UK 2013 Stephen Brown 86m

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25 Apr 27 Apr 29 Apr 1 May

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The Stag

A bachelor party weekend in the great outdoors takes some unexpected detours.

‘The Stag’ is a laugh-out-loud comedy that’s also big on heart – a hilarious take on modern male friendship, bonding and brotherhood, set in rural Ireland. We’re mere days away from Fionan’s (Hugh O’Conor) wedding, and his fiancée Ruth (Amy Huberman) wants his best man Davin (Andrew Scott) to throw him a stag weekend, but the groom would rather focus on wedding details like the floral arrangements. Davin agrees to set up a camping trip for Fionan and their friends, but he’s nursing a painful secret: he’s still in love with Ruth, who broke up with him right before Fionan started seeing her. Consistently, ‘The Stag’ finds potential comic set pieces but doesn’t go for the jugular, preferring a milder, more pleasantly amusing execution. The first of 2 outstanding Irish films sharing this week’s programme. Ireland 2013 John Butler 94m

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Under the Skin

Fri 25 Apr Sat 26 Apr Mon 28 Apr Wed 30 Apr

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Scarlett Johansson is extraordinary as a voracious alien in human form in Jonathan Glazer’s existential kitchen-sink sci-fi.

Visually and aurally audacious, and as slippery in form as its central character, Glazer’s (‘Sexy Beast’, ‘Birth’) elliptical sci-fi about an alien creature (Johansson) who stalks down human prey, is a brilliant amalgam of fantasy and reality. In a stunning early sequence of metamorphosis, the naked femme fatale dons the attire of her predecessor and goes out on the prowl, effortlessly procuring not-so gullible lads from the backstreets of Glasgow and luring them into an unimaginable void. Through alien eyes, the world appears desolate. Through human eyes, her insatiable drive feels strangely vindicated. Filmed on location in Scotland, where not all the male victims were knowing participants, the filmmaking recalls the realism of Ken Loach as much as the surrealism of David Lynch. An entirely distinctive film, both creepy and luminous in its metaphysical precision.

UK/USA 2013Jonathan Glazer 107m

Fri 25 Apr Sat 26 Apr Sun 27 Apr Mon 28 Apr Tue 29 Apr Wed 30 Apr International Panorama: Ireland

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

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Calvary

After he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest (Brendan Gleeson) must battle the dark forces closing in around him.

Father James (Brendan Gleeson) sitting in his confessional, hears a calm voice from the other side telling him he’s going to be killed in a week’s time. He makes his way around the small Irish sea town, engaging with the colourful collection of locals. The local coroner (Aidan Gillen) with some intense perversions; the local wife (MarieJosee Croze) married to the local butcher (Chris O’Dowd) and having an affair with the local barfly (Isaach De Bankole). Truths are revealed and consequences are had, all of it soaked in the tone of dark comedy.

McDonagh’s (‘The Guard’) writing and directing talent is without question, and the themes throughout are powerful and intriguing.

Ireland 2013 John Michael McDonagh 100m

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Sat 26 Apr 15:45 Sun 27 Apr 13:30 Wed 30 Apr 20:30

A Long Way Down

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Four people meet on New Year’s Eve and form a surrogate family to help one another weather the difficulties of their lives, in this most recent Nick Hornby adaptation.

New Year’s Eve on the top of a London skyscraper. Martin (Pierce Brosnan) is literally on the edge. A once-beloved TV personality, he’s now desperate to jump. But he’s not alone. Single mother Maureen (Toni Collette), sassy teen Jess (Imogen Poots), and musician turned pizza-delivery boy JJ (Aaron Paul), have all turned up on the same roof with the same plan. Instead of jumping, these complete strangers make a pact to stay alive and stay together until Valentine’s Day at least. Both funny and poignant, this follows this unlikely group of friends as they try to pull back from the brink.

2014 UK Pascal Chaumeil 96m

Mon 28 Apr 20:30 Tue 29 Apr 16:00

Starred Up

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David Mackenzie blends beauty and brutality in this tale of a young offender relocated to the adult prison where his father is locked up.

Taking its name from when a young offender is transferred to an adult prison, ‘Starred Up’ introduces us to explosive teenager Eric. His time inside looks set to become even more challenging when he is relocated to the same prison where his estranged father is also locked up. Inspired by his first-hand experience working in Wandsworth prison, Jonathan Asser’s script exudes authenticity. ‘Starred Up’ rises above the familiar traits of the prison film, presenting a fresh and urgent take on the genre. Shining at the film’s heart are two extraordinary performances from Jack O’Connell and Ben Mendelsohn, who bring life to the physical and emotional struggles of this troubled father and son.

UK 2013 David Mackenzie 100m

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King Lear

Thu 1 May 19:00 (Live) Fri 30 Jun 19.30 (Encore) Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) to include interval wine.

National Theatre Live Oscar-winning ‘American Beauty’ and ‘Skyfall’ director Sam Mendes returns to the National Theatre for this new production of Shakespeare’s masterpiece.

Aging, weary King Lear (Simon Russell Beale) plans to divide his realm between his three daughters. He tells them that the one who declares the greatest love for him will win the lion’s share. Goneril (Kate Fleetwood) and Regan (Anna Maxwell Martin) attempt to outdo one another with extravagant praise.

Disgusted by their behaviour, the youngest daughter, Cordelia (Olivia Vinall), refuses to say anything. Enraged, Lear banishes her forever, even though she is his favourite. So begins a series of events that lead to tragedy.

It reunites him with frequent collaborator and two-time Olivier Award winner Simon Russell Beale. Book early to avoid disappointment.

210m with interval.

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

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Vice Presidents: Dame Maggie Smith and Kenneth Branagh Artistic Consultant: Roger Gibson

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