Spring season 2016

SEASON 2016 2 Apr – 9 Jun

A Hologram for the King

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Son of Saul

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Chichester Cinema This year marks 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare, and to help commemorate his great contribution to our culture, we present a year of Films, Talks and Special Events.

This season alone we give you a Live Special from Stratford‑Upon-Avon hosted by David Tennant (‘Shakespeare Live!’), a series of talks (‘Shakespeare 400’), ‘Richard III’ which includes a new Documentary plus Q&A with Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine (Director), Zeffirelli’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’, and a Live Opera from Barcelona (‘I Capuletti e I Montecchi’).

Also this season, we bring back some of the big Award Winners (‘Bridge of Spies’, ‘Spotlight’, ‘The Revenant’, ‘The Danish Girl’ ‘and ‘Room’) to sit alongside one of the most diverse range of European and World Cinema that we have ever offered. Look out for the Palme D’Or Winner ‘Dheepan’ (France), Foreign Language Oscar Winner ‘Son of Saul’ (Hungary), plus other gems such as ‘The Brand New Testament’ (Belgium), multi award nominated ‘Mustang’ (Turkey/France), ‘Our Little Sister (Japan), ‘Suburra’ (Italy) and ‘The Pearl Button’ (Chile).

Preparations are well on the way for our 25th Film Festival this Summer, and it looks as though it will be the best one yet, with many Previews, Premieres and Special Events.

If you would like to become a Festival Patron and sponsor a film, contact me on walter@chichestercinema.org to register your interest.

See you at the Cinema

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what’s on

Spring 2016 contents Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 24

Goodnight Mommy 17 The Grump

27

Hangmen

16

10

High-Rise

30

The Audience

45

Ballet Hispanico

24

A Hologram for the King

Anomalisa The Artist and the Model

16

43

25

Hollywood Cinema and Fantasy Films: Imagining Paradise 45

32

I Capuletti e I Montecchi

44

Bridge of Spies

15

Jane Got a Gun

35

The Car Man

33

The Jungle Book

42

Chronic

19

Kipling and Film

47

Clouds of Sils Maria 12

Labyrinth of Lies

23

Best of Enemies 9 Boulevard The Brand New Testament

37

The Lady in the Van 13

Couple in a Hole

30

The Lobster

The Danish Girl

18

Departure

40

Dheepan

21

Disorder

17

Papusza

39

The Pearl Button

29

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict 9 Performance

8 10

The Revenant

27

Richard III + Q&A

20

Rigoletto

26

Romeo and Juliet

44

Room

28 46

Louder than Bombs 32

Shakespeare Live!

20

Love and Friendship 43

Son of Saul

35

Lucia Di Lammermoor

Spotlight

33

Suburra

36

11

26

The Man Who Knew Infinity 23

11

Don Quixote

14

Eddie the Eagle

18

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures 29

Eye in the Sky

31

Marguerite

15

Mia Madre

13

Midnight Special

36

Florence Foster Jenkins

39

Miles Ahead

37

Focus on Film

45

Mustang

41

Frankenstein

38

The Ones Below

25

Gemma Bovary

12

Our Kind of Traitor 40

Giselle

19

Our Little Sister

Papusza

10

Shakespeare 400 Talk

Dogtooth

13

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Palio

Renoir

The Club

Fabergé: A Life of Its Own

Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse

Marguerite

34

Teatro Alla Scala: The Temple of Wonders 38 Three Authors in Search of Films!

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3 Hearts

41

Time out of Mind

21

To Kill a Mockingbird 28 31

Victoria A View from the Bridge

33

The Witch

34

Zootropolis

42

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

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Film Listings (S) = Studio (P) = Picture Palace

Sat 2 Apr 13:00 Fabergé: A Life of Its Own (PG) 87m (S) 15:00 Renoir (15) 113m (S) 17:00 The Artist and the Model (15) 105m (S) 19:00 The Lobster (15) 118m (S)

Sun 3 Apr 12:00 The Lady in the Van (12A) 104m (S) 14:00 Best of Enemies (15) 88m (S) 17:30 The Lady in the Van (S) 20:15 Dogtooth (15) 94m (S)

Sun 10 Apr 14:00 Disorder (15) 98m 16:00 Don Quixote (Live Bolshoi) 190m inc interval 19:45 Bridge of Spies (15) 141m

Mon 11 Apr Anomalisa (15) 90m 14:30 Disorder 16:45 Marguerite (15) 129m 19:45 Hangmen (NT Encore) 165m inc interval 12:15

Tue 12 Apr 13:00 Marguerite 16:00 Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse 85m 17:45 Bridge of Spies 20:45 Disorder

Wed 13 Apr 12:15 Marguerite 15:00 Disorder 17:15 Anomalisa

Thu 14 Apr 12:30 14:45 18:00 21:00

Disorder Bridge of Spies Marguerite Anomalisa

Fri 15 Apr Eddie the Eagle (PG) 105m 15:45 The Danish Girl (15) 120m 13:15

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Mon 4 Apr

Thu 7 Apr

15:00 Dogtooth (P) 17:00 The Lobster (P) 19:15 Mia Madre (15) 103m (S)

15:15 Mia Madre (P) 17:30 Gemma Bovary (15) 99m (P) 20:00 Best of Enemies (S)

Tue 5 Apr 12:45 The Artist and the Model (P) 14:45 Renoir (S) 17:00 Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (15) 97m (S) 19:00 Palio (12A) 90m (P)

Wed 6 Apr 12:45 Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (P) 14:45 Clouds of Sils Maria (15) 124m (S) 17:15 Palio (S) 19:15 The Artist and the Model (P)

18:30 Eddie the Eagle 21:00 Goodnight Mommy (15) 92m

Sat 16 Apr 13:15 Eddie the Eagle 16:00 Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse 85m 18:30 Marguerite 21:00 Eddie the Eagle

Sun 17 Apr 12:00 Eddie the Eagle 14:00 Giselle (ROH Ballet) 135m inc interval 17:00 Eddie the Eagle 19:45 Marguerite

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

Chronic (15) 93m Eddie the Eagle The Danish Girl Eddie the Eagle

Tue 19 Apr 13:00 15:30 18:30 21:00

Eddie the Eagle Marguerite Eddie the Eagle Chronic

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

The Danish Girl Eddie the Eagle Chronic Eddie the Eagle

Thu 21 Apr 13:00 Eddie the Eagle 15:30 Goodnight Mommy 17:45 Eddie the Eagle 20:15 Marguerite

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Fri 8 Apr 13:00 Clouds of Sils Maria (P) 13:30 Shakespeare 400: Hamlet (Film Course) 15:30 Fabergé: A Life of Its Own (P) 17:15 Mia Madre (S) 19:15 Gemma Bovary (S)

Sat 9 Apr 13:00 The Lady in the Van 15:00 The Lobster 17:15 Clouds of Sils Maria 19:45 The Lady in the Van

Fri 22 Apr The Man Who Knew Infinity (12A) 108m 15:45 The Ones Below (15) 87m 18:00 Dheepan (15) 115m 20:45 Time out of Mind (15) 117m 13:15

Sat 23 Apr 12:45 Dheepan 15:00 Labyrinth of Lies (15) 124m 17:45 The Man Who Knew Infinity 20:15 Shakespeare Live! 135m

Sun 24 Apr 13:00 The Man Who Knew Infinity 15:30 Great American Dance Series: Alvin Ailey 110m 18:00 Dheepan 20:45 The Ones Below

Mon 25 Apr 12:45 Dheepan 15:15 The Man Who Knew Infinity 17:45 Time Out of Mind 20:30 Labyrinth of Lies

Tue 26 Apr 13:00 The Man Who Knew Infinity 15:45 Dheepan 18:15 Rigoletto (Live Paris Opera) 170m inc interval 21:15 The Ones Below

Wed 27 Apr

Mon 2 May

Sun 8 May

12:15 Dheepan 14:30 Time Out of Mind 16:45 The Man Who Knew Infinity

12:30 15:30 18:15 21:00

Thu 28 Apr

Tue 3 May

12:00 The Man Who Knew Infinity 14:30 Dheepan 16:45 Labyrinth of Lies 19:30 Richard III (plus satellite Q&A with Ian McKellen) (15) 145m

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

13:00 Louder Than Bombs 15:30 Great American Dance Series: Ballet Hispanico 110m inc interval 17:45 Eye in the Sky 20:15 Victoria

Fri 29 Apr 12:30 Room (15) 118m 15:15 The Revenant (15) 156m 18:30 Boulevard (15) 78m 20:30 High-Rise (15) 119m

Sat 30 Apr 10:00 Hollywood Cinema & Fantasy Films Talk 12:15 The Pearl Button 82m 14:15 To Kill a Mockingbird (PG) 129m 17:15 The Revenant 20:30 Room

Sun 1 May 12:00 The Grump (12A) 104m 14:00 Lucia di Lammermoor (ROH Opera) 170m inc interval 17:30 Room 20:15 Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (18) 108m

Richard III

The Revenant Room High-Rise The Grump Boulevard High-Rise The Pearl Button To Kill a Mockingbird

Wed 4 May 12:45 15:30 17:45 18:30

High-Rise Boulevard The Grump Three Authors Talk: Daphne Du Maurier 20:15 The Revenant

Thu 5 May 12:45 Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures 15:15 The Pearl Button 17:30 The Revenant 20:30 High-Rise

Fri 6 May 13:00 Louder Than Bombs (15) 109m 15:15 Couple in a Hole (12A) 105m 17:45 The Brand New Testament (15) 113m 20:30 Eye in the Sky (15) 102m

Sat 7 May 13:00 Eye in the Sky 15:15 The Brand New Testament 18:00 Louder Than Bombs 20:45 Victoria (15) 140m

Disorder

Mon 9 May 12:15

The Brand New Testament 15:00 Victoria 18:15 Eye in the Sky 20:45 Louder Than Bombs

Tue 10 May 13:00 The Brand New Testament 15:45 Eye in the Sky 18:15 Louder Than Bombs 20:45 Couple in a Hole

Wed 11 May 12:15

Louder Than Bombs 14:15 Victoria 17:00 Eye in the Sky 18:30 Three Authors Talk: Graham Greene

Thu 12 May 13:00 Eye in the Sky 15:30 Louder Than Bombs 18:00 The Brand New Testament 20:30 View from the Bridge (NT Encore) 150m

Fri 13 May Spotlight (15) 127m 15:45 Midnight Special (12A) 111m 18:30 Son of Saul (15) 107m 21:00 The Witch (15) 92m 13:15

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Film Listings continued Sat 14 May

Tue 24 May

Thu 2 Jun

12:45 Midnight Special 15:15 Son of Saul 18:00 Uni Graduation Screening 20:45 Spotlight

12:30 Florence Foster Jenkins 15:15 Florence Foster Jenkins 18:00 Suburra 21:00 The Club

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

13:15 Son of Saul 15:45 The Car Man Ballet 98m 18:00 Jane Got a Gun (15) 98m 20:30 The Witch

Wed 25 May

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Mon 16 May

Thu 26 May

12:15 Midnight Special 14:30 Son of Saul 16:45 Spotlight

13:00 Florence Foster Jenkins 15:45 Miles Ahead 18:15 Teatro All Scala: Temple of Wonders (U) 95m 20:30 Florence Foster Jenkins

Sun 15 May

Tue 17 May 12:30 Our Little Sister (PG) 128m 15:00 Spotlight 17:45 Midnight Special 20:15 Son of Saul

Wed 18 May 12:30 15:15 18:15 18:30

Son of Saul The Witch Our Little Sister Three Authors Talk: John Le CarrĂŠ 20:45 Midnight Special

Thu 19 May 12:45 15:15 17:45 20:30

Jane Got a Gun Midnight Special Son of Saul Spotlight

Fri 20 May 12:30 Florence Foster Jenkins (Time & Cert tbc) 15:15 Suburra (15) 130m 18:15 Florence Foster Jenkins 21:00 Miles Ahead (15) 100m

Sat 21 May 12:30 Florence Foster Jenkins 15:15 The Club (18) 98m 17:45 Florence Foster Jenkins 20:30 Papusza (15) 132m

Sun 22 May 12:00 Miles Ahead 14:00 Frankenstein (ROH Ballet) 170m inc interval 17:30 Florence Foster Jenkins 20:15 Florence Foster Jenkins

Mon 23 May 12:00 Florence Foster Jenkins 14:15 The Club 16:30 Florence Foster Jenkins

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12:00 Papusza 14:30 Florence Foster Jenkins 16:45 Florence Foster Jenkins

Fri 27 May Our Kind of Traitor (15) 107m 15:45 Departure (15) 109m 18:15 Mustang (12A) 97m 20:45 3 Hearts (12A) 106m 13:15

Sat 28 May 13:15 Mustang 15:45 3 Hearts 18:15 Our Kind of Traitor 20:45 Departure

Sun 29 May 13:00 Our Kind of Traitor 15:30 Departure 18:00 Our Kind of Traitor 20:30 Mustang

Mon 30 May 12:30 The Jungle Book (PG) 14:30 Mustang 16:45 Our Kind of Traitor

Tue 31 May 13:00 The Jungle Book 15:30 Our Kind of Traitor 18:00 Departure 20:30 3 Hearts

Wed 1 Jun 12:45 Zootropolis (PG) 108m 15:00 Our Kind of Traitor 17:30 3 Hearts 20:00 I Capuleti e I Montecchi (Live Barcelona Opera)

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Fri 3 Jun Zootropolis (PG) 108m 15:45 Love and Friendship 93m 18:15 A Hologram for the King (97m) 20:45 Love and Friendship

Sat 4 Jun 13:30 Love and Friendship 16:00 Teatro All Scala: Temple of Wonders (U) 95m 18:15 Love and Friendship 20:45 A Hologram for the King

Sun 5 Jun 13:00 A Hologram for the King 15:30 Romeo and Juliet (PG) 138m 18:30 Love and Friendship 20:45 Love and Friendship

Mon 6 Jun 12:15

Love and Friendship 14:30 A Hologram for the King 17:00 Love and Friendship

Tue 7 Jun 13:15

Love and Friendship 15:45 Love and Friendship 18:00 Romeo and Juliet 21:00 A Hologram for the King

Wed 8 Jun 12:30 Love and Friendship 14:45 A Hologram for the King 17:00 Love and Friendship 19:00 Kipling and Film (Studio Talk)

Thu 9 Jun 13:00 Love and Friendship 15:15 A Hologram for the King 17:45 Love and Friendship 20:00 The Audience (NT Encore) 180m

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Another diverse season of Performance Events with highlights including a tribute to Shakespeare; three examples of the best in modern dance; Live Opera from Paris and Barcelona; plus brilliant offerings from the National Theatre.

SPECIAL EVENT SHAKESPEARE LIVE! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sat 23 Apr 20.15 RICHARD III (+ Intro/Q&A) . . . . . . . . . . . Thu 28 Apr 19.30

pg20 pg20

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE GISELLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sun 17 Apr 14.00 LUCIA DE LAMMERMOOR . . . . . . . . . . . Sun 1 May 14.00 FRANKENSTEIN Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 May 14.00

pg19 pg26 pg38

OPERA RIGOLETTO LIVE Paris Opera . . . . . . . . Tue 26 Apr 18.15 (LIVE) pg26 I CAPULETI E I MONTECCHI LIVE Barcelona Opera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wed 1 Jun 20:00 (LIVE) pg44

BALLET DON QUIXOTE (LIVE) Sun 10 Apr 16.00 pg14 Great American Dance Series (from the Lincoln Centre NY): ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sun 24 Apr 15:30 BALLET HISPANICO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sun 8 May 15:30 THE CAR MAN (Carmen) Matthew Bourne Ballet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sun 15 May 15.45

pg24 pg24 pg33

THEATRE HANGMEN NT LIVE Encore (Wyndam Theatre) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mon 11 Apr 19:45 VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE NT LIVE Encore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thu 12 May 20:30 THE AUDIENCE NT LIVE Encore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thu 9 June 20:00

pg16 pg33 pg45

EXHIBITION PAINTING THE MODERN GARDEN: MONET TO MATISSE (Royal Academy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tues 12 April 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . & Sat 16 April 16.00 TEATRO ALLA SCALA (Discover Arts). . Thu 26 May 18:15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . & Sat 4 Jun 16:00

16.00 pg14 pg38

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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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We present screenings in the Studio and Picture Palace.

More details on each film can be found on our website: www.chichestercinema.org. Tickets £6 (Friends £5; Seniors £5.50)

Tue 5 Apr 17:00 (Studio) Wed 6 Apr 12:45 (Pic. Palace) New Release - Documentary

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Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict A feature documentary about the life of art icon Peggy Guggenheim, based on her sole authorized biography.

Peggy was an heiress to the Guggenheim family who would become a central figure in the modern art movement. As she moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th century, she collected not only art, but artists. Her colourful personal history included trysts, affairs and marriages with such figures as Samuel Beckett and Jackson Pollock.

The film is a compendium of the greatest 20th century art mixed with the wild and iconoclastic life of one of the most powerful women in the history of the art world.

USA/Italy/UK 2013 Lisa Imordino Vreeland 97m

Sun 3 Apr 14:00 (Studio) Thu 7 Apr 20:00 (Studio) New Release - Documentary

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Best of Enemies A behind-the-scenes account of the explosive debates between the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr, during the 1968 Democratic and Republican conventions.

Live and unscripted, they kept viewers riveted with their rancorous disagreements about politics, God and sex. They bring the best and the worst of both sides in this documentary, as these two men discussed their views, threw cryptic insults at one another and almost came to blows, making a fascinating comparison with the recent Trump “debates”. The whole thing is brilliantly structured, wonderfully cut together, incredibly funny, and far-reaching in its ambition.

USA 2015 Robert Gordon & Morgan Neville 88m BOX OFFICE 01243 786 650

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Focus on the Documentary: Italy

Palio

Tue 5 Apr 19:00 (Pic. Palace) Wed 6 Apr 17:15 (Studio)

Twice a year the Italian city of Siena goes crazy for the oldest horse race in the world: the Palio.

Not your average race: strategy, bribery and corruption play as much a part as the skill of the riders. Horses are allocated by lot four days prior to the race. This is when the madness truly begins. The contenders’ passionate and dramatic battle is an epic and cinematic tale of Italian life in microcosm.

UK/Italy 2015 Cosima Spender 90m

Booking Ref

International Panorama: France

Renoir

Sat 2 Apr 15:00 (Studio) Tue 5 Apr 14:45 (Studio)

Summer 1915, French Riviera: Jean Renoir – son of the Impressionist painter, Pierre‑Auguste – returns home to convalesce after being wounded in WW1.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Michel Bouquet) is tormented by the loss of his wife, arthritis and the terrible news that his son Jean (Vincent Rottiers) has been wounded in action. But when a young girl (Christa Theretwill) miraculously enters his world, the old painter is filled with a new, wholly unexpected energy.

A sensory delight! (Subtitles) France 2012 Gilles Bourdos 113m

Booking Ref

International Panorama: France

The Artist and the Model

Sat 2 Apr 17:00 (Studio) Tue 5 Apr 12:45 (Pic. Palace) Wed 6 Apr 19:15 (Pic. Palace) Booking Ref

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El Artista y Su Modelo Elderly sculptor Marc (Jean Rochefort) lives with his wife Lea in the south of France, safe from the War that rages in the distance.

He may have reached the end of his life and of his art, but when he finds a new muse in the form of a young Spanish refugee (Aida Folch) he undertakes the last (and certainly the most important) work of his life. This is one of the best films made on the theme of artists at work.

(Subtitles) France/Spain 2012 Fernando Trueba 105m

Sat 2 Apr 19:00 (Studio) Mon 4 Apr 17:00 (Pic. Palace) Sat 9 Apr 15:00 (Studio)

The Lobster

Booking Ref

A satire on the subject of our universal obsession with relationships, and our conviction that ‘couplehood’ is the supreme expression of human happiness.

In a dystopian future, or strange alternative present, adults who are single (either through failure to find a partner or bereavement), must check into a hotel with other singles and find a genuinely compatible partner within 45 days, or they are transformed into an animal of their choice and released into the forest. But they can gain extra time for this “search” period with hunting trips into the forest to bring down rebellious singles who have escaped into the wild there, living as singleton outlaws. Lanthimos premiered this macabre adventure in black-comic absurdism at Cannes - his first English-language feature.

Lanthimos (‘Dogtooth’) premiered this adventure in black-comic absurdism at Cannes 2015.

Ireland/UK/Greece 2015 Yorgos Lanthimos 118m

Sun 3 Apr 20:15 (Studio) Mon 4 Apr 15:00 (Pic. Palace) International Panorama: Greece

Booking Ref

Dogtooth Yorgos Lanthimos’ (‘The Lobster’) arrived on our radars in 2009 with this unique Cannes Winner and Oscar nominated film.

Three teenagers live isolated, without leaving their house, because their over-protective parents say they can only leave when their dogtooth falls out. The brilliance here is that, without any clues to the family’s past, you easily understand what has been happening.

Lanthimos skilfully doles out tantalizing pieces of information, keeping the viewer in a constant state of suspense and wonder (in 2009 he won the Prix Un Certain Regard recognizing emerging talent and daring work). We are presented with a uniquely unsettling scenario open to interpretation, and the film will stick around long after you are released from its grip. (Subtitles) Greece 2009 Yorgos Lanthimos 94m BOX OFFICE 01243 786 650

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International Panorama: France

Clouds of Sils Maria

Wed 6 Apr 14:45 (Studio) Fri 8 Apr 13:00 (Pic. Palace) Sat 9 Apr 17:15 (Studio) Booking Ref

A playful and captivating hybrid of Bergman’s ‘Persona’ and Mankiewicz’s ‘All About Eve’ with three wondrous female lead performances.

An actress (Juliette Binoche) is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years earlier, but this time, as the older character Helena. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal (Chloë Grace Moretz) is to take on the role of Sigrid, and Maria finds herself on the other side of the mirror. Also stars Kristen Stewart.

France/Switz./Germany 2015 Olivier Assayas 124m International Panorama: France

Gemma Bovary

Thu 7 Apr 17:30 (Pic. Palace) Fri 8 Apr 19:15 (Studio)

Ex-Parisian hipster Martin is passionate about Gustave Flaubert and has re-settled into a village as a baker.

This clever contemporary reinvention of ‘Madame Bovary’, Flaubert’s literary masterpiece sees erudite baker Martin (the wonderful Fabrice Luchini) observing the arrival of a London couple in his Normandy town. He immediately becomes infatuated with the vivacious young Gemma (Gemma Arteton).

Finely balanced between comedy and drama this is a real French charmer. (Subtitles) France 2014 Anne Fontaine 99m

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Focus on the Documentary

Fabergé: A Life of Its Own

Sat 2 Apr 13:00 (Studio) Fri 8 Apr 15:30 (Pic. Palace)

This feature-doc tells the epic story of the Fabergé name, from Imperial Russia until the present-day.

From the bejewel led Easter eggs of the Romanov Tsarinas to the 1970s allure of ‘Brut by Fabergé’ aftershave, and from the Russian revolution to today’s high-fashion glitz in New York and London, the film explores a multi-faceted world that began with one man: the prodigiously talented Peter Carl Fabergé, Court Jeweller of St Petersburg.

UK/USA 2015 Patrick Mark 87m

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International Panorama: Italy

Mia Madre

Mon 4 Apr 19:15 (Studio) Thu 7 Apr 15:15 (Pic. Palace) Fri 8 Apr 17:15 (Studio)

A film director has to deal with the inevitable loss of her mother in Nanni Moretti’s finest film to date.

As almost always, the story is based on Moretti’s personal experience. This story is about a director (Margherita Buy) trying to complete a movie (John Turturro as an American star who fluffs all of his lines brings humour to the situation) who is in denial about her parent’s demise, but is kept informed by her brother Giovanni (Moretti).

(Subtitles) Italy/France 2015 Nina Moretti 103m

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Back by Popular Demand

The Lady in the Van

Sun 3 Apr 12:00 (Studio) Sun 3 Apr 17:30 (Studio) Sat 9 Apr 13:00 (Studio) Sat 9 Apr 19:45 (Studio)

The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd.

Maggie Smith reprises the role she first played in the 1999 Nicholas Hytner stage production of the Alan Bennett play. She plays a homeless woman who parked her van in the drive of Bennett’s (Alex Jennings) Camden townhouse… and stayed for 15 years. Look out for great cameos from Jim Broadbent, Dominic Cooper and James Corden.

UK 2015 Nicholas Hytner 104m

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Tue 12 April 16:00 Sat 16 April 16:00 Tickets £12.50 (Friends/Students £10) Exhibitions on Screen:

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Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse From The Royal Academy, London & Cleveland Museum of Art Using the work of Monet as a starting point, this landmark exhibition examines the role gardens played in the evolution of art from the early 1860s through to the 1920s.

Trace the emergence of the modern garden in its many forms and glories as we take you through a period of great social change and innovation in the arts. Discover the paintings of some of the most important Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Avant-Garde artists of the early twentieth century as they explore this theme. Monet was far from alone in his fascination with the horticultural world, which is why we will also be bringing you masterpieces by Renoir, Cezanne, Pissarro, Manet, Sargent, Kandinsky, Van Gogh, Matisse, Klimt and Klee.

UK 2016 Phil Grabsky 85m

Sun 10 Apr 16:00 Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15)

Don Quixote

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Live from Boshoi Ballet Cervantes’ eccentric hero Don Quixote leaves on a journey full of adventures with his loyal squire Sancho Panza in search of his perfect woman.

On the way he meets Kitri, the dazzling daughter of an innkeeper who he thinks might be his ideal love. The Bolshoi’s panache and excellence are combined in Fadeyechev’s critically acclaimed staging of this exalting performance with Leon Minkus’ famous score.

Featuring brand new sets and costumes to accompany this colourful and technically challenging production, ‘Don Quixote’ is quintessential Bolshoi, abounding with life and not to be missed! Music - Leon Minkus; Choreography - Alexei Fadeyechev (after Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky).

Running time 190m including 2 intervals.

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16:45 13:00 12:15 18:00 18:30 19:45 15:30 20:15

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Marguerite Based on a true story of the American singer Florence Foster Jenkins, this French film adapts her story to 1920s France, and illustrates the absurdity of delusion.

Marguerite Dumont (Catherine Frot) has a whole entourage of people allowing her to believe she is a great singer. Her husband Georges (Andre Marcon) is just being nice, but her butler Madelbos (Denis Mpunga) has an agenda. He takes photographs of Marguerite and thinks they will be valuable once she is famous, or infamous. They send a roomful of flowers from “admirers,” shelter her from any negative reviews, and hire “experts” to keep the ruse going, including a bearded lady reading her tarot predicting success… the deception gets bigger and bigger. Like any good underdog story, ‘Marguerite’ has a training montage. It is a bittersweet comedy that borders on tragic, because ultimately the enablers are doing more harm than good, and any short term “good” is at her expense. We will also screen the American version of this film (‘Florence Foster Jenkins’) starring Meryl Streep later in the season (see pg39). (Subtitles) France/Czech/Bel 2015 Xavier Giannoli 129m Back by Popular Demand

Bridge of Spies

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An American lawyer (Tom Hanks) is recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to help rescue a pilot detained in the Soviet Union.

A final opportunity to see Spielberg and Hanks combine in this Coen Brothers written film. Hanks stars as the Brooklyn lawyer who bravely risks his life to negotiate the release of an American pilot captured after his plane was shot down over the USSR in 1960. Mark Rylance (Winner of the 2016 Best Supporting Actor Oscar) steals every scene as the Soviet Spy. USA 2015 Steven Spielberg 141m

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Mon 11 Apr

19:45

Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15.00) NT Live Encore

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Hangmen Recorded at Wyndam’s Theatre The five-star hit, described by the Daily Telegraph as “The best new play of the year”, tells the story of Harry, a local celebrity in Oldham - on account of him being the second-best hangman in England.

On the day hanging is abolished his small pub is filled with regulars and reporters eager to hear his reaction, but among the crowds his old assistant Syd and the peculiar Mooney harbour very different motives.

Penned by ‘The Lieutenant of Inishmore’ and ‘In Bruges’ writer Martin McDonagh, the dark comedy was first seen at the Royal Court, receiving such critical and public success that it transferred to the West End’s Wyndham’s Theatre. The play stars David Morrissey as Harry, with ‘Peaky Blinders’ star Andy Nyman as Syd and ‘Jerusalem’s Johnny Flynn as Mooney. Recorded on April 1st as part of National Theatre Live.

165m including interval.

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Anomalisa

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Charlie Kaufman (‘Being John Malkovich’, ‘Adaptation’, ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’) returns with a uniquely beautiful love story, uniquely presented in stop-motion animation.

Michael Stone (David Thewlis), husband, father and respected author is a man crippled by the mundanity of his life. On a business trip, he is amazed to discover a possible escape from his desperation in the form of baked goods sales rep, Lisa (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who may or may not be the love of his life. ‘Anomalisa’ is a staggeringly inventive Trojan horse of a film. It dazzles our senses with a shock of the new. And while we’re trying to process what we’re witnessing, Kaufman is subversively getting us to grapple with life’s bigger and thornier questions. Not to be missed!

USA 2015 Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman 90m

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Disorder

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(aka Maryland) Matthias Schoenaerts is perfectly cast as the troubled ex-soldier hired to protect the wife and child of a shady businessman.

Vincent (Schoenaerts), a French Special Forces soldier just back from Afghanistan, is suffering from a post-traumatic stress disorder.

He is hired to ensure the security of Jessie (Diane Kruger), the wife of a rich Lebanese businessman at their luxurious villa. As he starts experiencing a strange fascination for the woman he has to protect, Vincent increasingly seems to fall into paranoia. But what if he is right, and the danger is very real indeed? Winocour’s grasp of sound design is masterful, she utilises a gripping soundtrack, accompanied by a myriad of sinister noise, to ensure that we’re fearing whatever comes next. (Subtitles) France/Belgium 2015 Alice Winocour 98m

Fri 15 Apr Thu 21 Apr

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International Panorama: Austria

Goodnight Mommy Ich Seh Ich Seh This unsettling Austrian thriller with impeccable pacing was Austria’s submission for the Academy Awards’ Best Foreign Language Film.

In a secluded woodland house, ten-year-old twin brothers Lukas and Elias (played by real twins Lukas and Elias Schwartz) are waiting for their mother (Susanne Wuest). When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before, and the children start to doubt her identity. Shot with ominous precision, the setting makes for an unnerving playground for the twins, who spend their days swimming in the lake, running through the woods, exploring the piles of skulls stacked inside local catacombs, and getting ever closer to the final climactic reveal. (Subtitles) Austria 2014 Severin Fiala/Veronika Franz 99m BOX OFFICE 01243 786 650

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Eddie the Eagle

15 Apr 16 Apr 17 Apr 18 Apr 19 Apr 20 Apr 21 Apr

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The story of Eddie Edwards, the notoriously tenacious British underdog ski jumper who charmed the world at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Michael “Eddie” Edwards (Taron Egerton) was to the Olympic Games what Don Quixote was to windmills. His never-say-die attitude leads to his discovery of an oversight in the GB Olympic team - since no one else is representing Great Britain as a ski jumper, all he needs to do is achieve some modest qualifications and they will have to accept him. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach (Hugh Jackman), Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. Also starring Christopher Walken, Tim McInnerny and a Jim Broadbent cameo.

UK 2016 Dexter Fletcher 105m

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The Danish Girl

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Tom Hooper (‘King’s Speech’, Les Miserables’) brings us the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Einar/Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener.

Einar (Eddie Redmayne) is a successful painter in 1920’s Copenhagen who is happily married to fellow artist, Gerda (2016 Oscar Winner Alicia Vikander). At this time, Einar is beginning to explore gender identity and with Gerda’s help, he creates a new character, Lili. At first, he simply wears dresses but gradually Lili takes over Einar’s personality. She is the one Einar wants to be. Einar is played with extraordinary sensitivity and dignity by Eddie Redmayne, who may well be in the running for another Oscar. He is a quiet and seemingly passive character, but one who notices and feels everything.

Vikander is excellent as this devoted and fiery wife whose husband is disappearing in front of her, metamorphosing into a new personality.

UK/Ger/USA 2015 Tom Hooper 120m

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Chronic

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Tim Roth gives possibly the performance of his career in this transgressive and candid film, playing a home care nurse who confronts our mortality head on.

Caregiver, David (Roth) works with the terminally ill. Meticulous, effective and passionate about his job, he builds relationships that go beyond the medical setting and creates true intimacy with his patients. In his private life, David is inefficient, awkward and reserved.

He needs his patients as much as they need him. Franco’s script and Roth’s ineffably restrained performance show great skill in blurring David’s boundaries between morbid fixation and selfless immersion in his work, providing comfort that immediate family often cannot. This sad, deeply intelligent film, was the winner of the Best Screenplay at 2015’s Cannes Film Festival.

Mexico/France 2016 Michel Franco 93m

Sun 17 Apr

14:00

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

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Giselle This is the quintessential Romantic classic, a love affair that begins in the real world and continues beyond the grave.

The ballet’s title role also offers one of the great challenges of the ballet repertory, as Giselle transforms from an innocent peasant girl, duped into love, to a forgiving spirit who saves her lover from death.

For the ballerina this is a role of two contrasting halves: in Act I she must appear naïve and artless, her dancing alive with an earthy enthusiasm; in Act II she transforms into light and air, her dancing so ethereal as to seem weightless. Composed by Adolphe Adam revised

by Joseph Horovitz; Dancers include Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov. Encore by satellite from the Royal Opera House.

135m approx including interval.

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23 Apr 20:15

Tickets £12.50 (Friends/Students £10)

Shakespeare Live!

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Screened live from Stratford-upon-Avon, this star-studded show celebrates Shakespeare’s plays and their enduring influence on music, dance, opera, musical theatre and comedy.

The Royal Shakespeare Company and its Artistic Director Gregory Doran have assembled a once-in-a-lifetime cast to perform in a unique tribute to the genius and influence of the world’s greatest playwright and storyteller.

Guests including Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen, Joseph Fiennes, Meera Syal, Al Murray, Alison Moyet, Noma Dumezweni, Ian Bostridge, English National Opera (ENO), Birmingham Royal Ballet and Akala (Hip Hop Shakespeare). This unique two-hour event is hosted by David Tennant on Shakespeare’s birthday.

135m

Thu 28 Apr 19:30 Tickets £10 (Friends/Students £8) Special Event:

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Richard III (plus Intro & Satellite Q&A) This highlight of the BFI’s ‘Shakespeare on Film’ programme features a new documentary, the restored 1995 film and a Q&A with Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine.

Documentary: A newly created short documentary featuring Sir Ian McKellen visiting locations involved in the film and the play, discussing the process of adapting the play for the screen and reflecting on his process as an actor. 10m Film: Combining his Shakespearean background with Loncraine’s visual dynamism McKellen produces a striking interpretation of Richard III - transferring the action to an imagined war-wracked Europe of the 1930s and transforming Shakespeare’s most notorious villain into a fascistic despot. Cast includes Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr, Nigel Hawthorne, Kristin Scott Thomas and Maggie Smith. UK 1995 Richard Loncraine 104m.

Q&A: A post-film discussion between Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine, broadcast live from the BFI Southbank. Approx 30m.

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Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu International Panorama: France

22 Apr 23 Apr 24 Apr 25 Apr 26 Apr 27 Apr 28 Apr

18:00 12:45 18:00 12:45 15:45 12:15 14:30

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Dheepan 2015 Palme D’Or Winner This 2015 Cannes Palme D’Or winner is terrifically immersing and a snapshot of the immigration issues of the moment.

Dheepan is a defeated Tamil Tiger fighter, played by former Tiger Antonythasan Jesuthasan (now an acclaimed writer in France). Fleeing the war in Sri Lanka, in which his family has been killed, Dheepan takes up with a woman he doesn’t know and a nine-year-old orphan girl selected at random in a refugee camp, so they can masquerade as a family and get to Europe. They end up in a housing estate in northern France dominated by a threatening drugs gang. Filmed in the terrific immersive manner that made Audiard’s 2010 film ‘A Prophet’ such an exciting watch, this is passionate, intensely focused, first-rate film-making, going straight to the heart of the immigrant crisis affecting all Europe. (Subtitles) France 2015 Jacques Audiard 115m

Fri 22 Apr 20:45 Mon 25 Apr 17:45 Wed 27 Apr 14:30

Time out of Mind

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Richard Gere stars as an elderly man forced out on the streets of New York City.

Oren Moverman’s drama stars Gere as George, a homeless man who has been unable to hold a job for years, and has just been kicked out of his apartment. He drifts through the city looking for food, alcohol, and shelter, before seeking refuge at a Manhattan intake centre for homeless men, where his friendship with a fellow client helps him try to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter. The movie was a passion project for Gere, who has had a rough time in Hollywood since aging out of the silver-haired-romance parts; here, he delivers a subdued, resolutely unglamorous performance. Ben Vereen shines as George’s cagey street buddy of necessity, and there are cameos from Steve Buscemi, Kyra Sedgwick and Michael Kenneth Williams.

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Growing up poor in India, Ramanujan earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.

Written and directed by Matthew Brown, this is the true story of friendship that forever changed mathematics. In 1913, Ramanujan (Dev Patel), a self-taught Indian mathematics genius travelled to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he forged a bond with his mentor, the eccentric professor Hardy (Jeremy Irons), and fought against prejudice to reveal his mathematic genius to the world. In his meatiest role since he burst on the scene in ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, Patel expresses Ramanujan’s nobility of soul; it would make him stand out from the other students even without his great gift. Irons also rises to the role. Not quite an absent-minded professor, he portrays Hardy as a loyal and upright eccentric, whose defences break down before the plight of the unfortunate genius he has come to love.

UK 2016 Matt Brown 108m

Sat 23 Apr 15:00 Mon 25 Apr 20:30 Thu 28 Apr 16:45 International Panorama: Germany

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Labyrinth of Lies Im Labyrinth des Schweigens A story that exposes the conspiracy of prominent German institutions, to cover up the crimes of Nazis during World War II. 20 years after WWII, most Germans are sick of the war and prefer to push their guilt to the back of their mind. When a journalist (André Szymanski) identifies a teacher in the playground as a former guard from Auschwitz, no one wants to take notice, except for a young prosecutor (Alexander Fehling) who takes on the case.

As the resolute prosecutor does not give up, Attorney General Bauer (Gert Voss) retains him to take charge of the investigations.

Struggling with an overload of information, the young attorney blunders into a labyrinth of guilt and lies where he almost gets lost. This is a precision-tuned thriller full of small, deft touches and beautiful cinematography. (Subtitles) Germany 2014 Giulio Ricciarelli 124m

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Sun 24 Apr 15:30 Tickets £15 (Friends/Students £12.50) Great American Dance Series

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Revelations / Chroma / Grace / Takademe Lincoln Centre at the Movies - Featuring the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s signature piece ‘Revelations’, this sensational mixed bill of four pieces brings the very best of modern dance to cinema.

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has performed to more than 25 million people in 71 countries.

This is your chance to witness an iconic masterpiece of American dance, Alvin Ailey’s ‘Revelations’, described by The New York Times as “one of the great works of the human spirit.” This stunning, soulful tour de force draws on African-American spirituals, song-sermons, gospel songs and holy blues. The programme features Wayne McGregor’s sumptuous ‘Chroma’, set to a score by Joby Talbot with orchestrations of songs by The White Stripes; Ronald K. Brown’s ‘Grace’, a powerful meeting of modern and West African dance with a soundtrack by Duke Ellington, Roy Davis and Fela Kuti; and Robert Battle’s humorous, high-flying ‘Takademe’. 110m

Sun 8 May

15:30

Tickets £15 (Friends/Students £12.50) Great American Dance Series

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Ballet Hispanico Carmen.Maquia / Club Havana Lincoln Centre at the Movies - This sensational mixed bill of Ballet Hispanico showcases the very best of Latin modern dance to the cinema.

Ballet Hispanico will “whisk us away to contemporary dance’s hottest spot” (Washington Post) in this imaginative and theatrical showcase of Latin-inspired dancing at its best. Hailed as a “masterpiece” by the Chicago Sun-Times, Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s ‘Carmen.Maquia’ is a Picasso-inspired, contemporary take on Bizet’s classic opera about a passionate gypsy. Riveting from start to finish, the physically charged and sensual choreography fuses contemporary dance with nods to the Spanish paso doble and flamenco. In ‘Club Havana’, the intoxicating rhythms of the conga, rumba, mambo and cha cha are brought to life by choreographer Pedro Ruiz, himself a native of Cuba.

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The Ones Below

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An intimately disturbing nightmare of the upper middle classes where two similar couples discover unnerving differences between them.

Two professional couples find themselves living in close proximity.

Justin (Stephen Campbell Moore) and Kate (Clémence Poésy) live in the upper half of a converted Edwardian terrace house in Islington.

They are an amiable, laidback couple expecting a baby. They are initially relieved when a new couple moves in downstairs. They are the sexy young Teresa (Laura Birn) and her fiercely uptight older husband Jon (David Morrissey), a wealthy banker - Teresa is pregnant as well.

The north London setting has an interesting and rather retro look a world where milk gets delivered in glass bottles, the kind of London that Roman Polanski showed us in his 1965 film ‘Repulsion’. There is a delicious and elegant nastiness in this thoroughly gripping and absorbing psychological thriller.

UK 2015 David Farr 87m

Fri 29 Apr 18:30 Tue 3 May 13:15 Wed 4 May 15:30

Boulevard

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Robin Williams plays a devoted husband in a marriage of convenience who is forced to confront his secret life.

Williams, in one of his most subdued roles ever, plays Nolan, a loan officer who hardly knows how to answer when his boss asks him if he is happy. He flinches, so conditioned to the denial of joy that he does not know what to do when confronted with its possibility. Everything changes during one late-night drive when a distracted Nolan, almost runs over a young sex worker named Leo (Roberto Aguire). The film’s subtext of a life lived in secret pain cannot be read without an added pang, given the circumstances of the actor’s suicide in 2015. Shot in Nashville barely a year before his death, ‘Boulevard’ is suffused with a sadness that feels heartbreakingly real.

USA 2014 Dito Montiel 78m

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Tue 26 Apr 18.15 (Live) Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15.00) This is a rare live relay which is not being transmitted in most UK locations.

Giuseppe Verdi’s

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Rigoletto LIVE Opera De Paris The exciting new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto under the baton of Nicola Luisotti.

Between the frivolous, licentious Duke, and Gilda, a victim of the ignorance which holds her captive, stands the double-faceted character of the hunchback, both buffoon and curse-obsessed father. Monstrous and heartrending, grotesque and sublime, the title role reaches its apogee in the aria “Cortigiani, vil razza dannata”, whose descending movement, from the explosion of rage to the moment of entreaty, confirms the composer’s ability to adapt a form inherited from bel canto to theatrical realism. Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano after the play by Antonio García Gutiérrez and novel by Victor Hugo. In Italian with English subtitles.

170m including interval.

Sun 1 May

14:00

Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15)

Lucia Di Lammermoor

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Donizetti’s dramatic opera from the Royal Opera House (Encore).

‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ tells the story of an ongoing feud between two families in 17th-century Scotland that has terrible consequences for two young lovers. It contains what is undoubtedly one of opera’s most poignant and gripping mad scenes, and is regarded as one of Donizetti’s finest works. The opera has not been seen at the Royal Opera House in more than a decade, so this new production by Katie Mitchell will be a particularly important and exciting event. The title role will be sung by Diana Damrau, an expert in the coloratura repertory, while American tenor Charles Castronovo takes on that of her secret lover, the reckless and passionate Edgardo. Conductor: Daniel Oren.

Please note that there are scenes of sex and violence in this production.

Running time 170m approx including interval.

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The Grump Mielensäpahoittaja The Grump is a man from the past. Everything used to be so much better in the old days, and anything done after 1953 has always managed to ruin his day.

After a fall, The Grump has to spend a weekend in Helsinki, but he doesn’t like this because: 1) He has to take a taxi; 2) He can’t take daily care of his wife, an Alzheimer’s patient; 3) He can’t drive, which means he might have to be driven by a female; 4) He has to move in with his family. His daughter-in-law is a career woman who resents his presence, and he has to teach his useless son to take care of his loved ones – a thing he was never been able to do. Well-crafted with much going on below the surface, full of droll Finnish humour, and will have viewers laughing out loud. (Subtitles) Finland 2014 Dome Karukoski 104m

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The Revenant

29 Apr 30 Apr 2 May 4 May 5 May

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Leonardo DiCaprio’s multi award-winning role as the 1820s frontiersman on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead.

In an expedition of the uncharted American wilderness, legendary explorer Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) is attacked by a bear and left for dead by his own hunting team. In a quest to survive, he endures unimaginable grief as well as the betrayal of his confidant John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy). From the director of ‘Amores Peros’, ‘Babel’ and ‘Birdman’, the film also benefits from the constantly gobsmacking cinematography of Emmanuel Lubezki, who has now won an amazing three Oscars in a row (‘Gravity’, ‘Birdman’, ‘The Revenant’). Listen out too, for the beautifully sparse soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

USA 2015 Alejandro González Iñárritu 156m

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Sat 30 Apr 14:15 Tue 3 May 20:30 In Memoriam: Harper Lee

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To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel was translated to film in 1962 by Horton Foote and director Robert Mulligan.

Set a small Alabama town in the 1930s, the story focuses on scrupulously honest, highly respected lawyer Atticus Finch, magnificently embodied by Gregory Peck. Finch puts his career on the line when he agrees to represent Tom Robinson (Brock Peters), a black man accused of rape. The trial and the events surrounding it are seen through the eyes of Finch’s six-year-old daughter Scout (Mary Badham). Look out for Robert Duvall in his movie debut, as the reclusive “village idiot” who turns out to be Scout’s salvation. This is one of those rare instances when a movie perfectly captures the essence of its source material without compromising it in any way.

Winner of the Academy Awards for Best Actor (Peck), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Art Direction.

USA 1962 Robert Mulligan 129m

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Room

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The incredibly talented Brie Larson won every Best Actress award available for her role here as a captive mother.

Larson plays Ma, who has created a whole universe in ‘Room’ for 5 year-old Jack (Jacob Tremblay), where they have both lived for Jack’s whole life. She was just 17 when the man they call “Old Nick” (Sean Bridgers) lured her in to his world, but seven years later, Ma risks everything to give Jack the chance to make a thrilling discovery.

This is an unparalleled celebration of the bond between parent and child, and will be remembered long after you leave your cinema seat.

Brie Larson deserved all her awards, and little Jacob Tremblay (8 years old at time of filming) is astounding as Jack.

Ireland/Canada 2015 Lenny Abrahamson 118m

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Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures An examination of the life and work of the revered and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

Twenty-seven years ago, when Senator Jesse Helms took to the floor of the US Congress to denounce an exhibition of photographs

by Robert Mapplethorpe, the dividing line in the culture war was clear. Those on the right found Mapplethorpe’s transgressive, S&M-flavoured imagery to be obscene. Those on the left viewed it to be the cutting edge of free expression: a valid form of art.

The documentary, while it makes the case for Mapplethorpe as a fearless and important artist, never denies that a number of his photographs were scandalous, shocking, and illicit, with elements of pornography. In fact, one of Mapplethorpe’s central inspirations was to turn obscenity into art.

Please note, this documentary contains graphic sexual images.

USA 2016 Fenton Bailey/Randy Barbato 108m

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The Pearl Button El Botón de Nácar From the maker of ‘Nostalgia for the Light’ comes this wondrous exploration of the Chilean people and their connection to the water.

With a backdrop of the vast, stunning expanse of the Chilean Patagonia – a supernatural landscape of volcanoes, mountains and glaciers; its 2,670 mile coastline is the largest archipelago in the world – ‘The Pearl Button’ goes back over 3,000 years to delve into the history of the Kawéskars, the indigenous people who once paddled its waters. The film recovers and reclaims Chile’s forgotten people, and retells their remarkable, individual stories and folklore. Beautiful, haunting and tinged with melancholy, Patricio Guzmán’s captivating documentary follows his highly acclaimed award-winning ‘Nostalgia for the Light’. (Subtitles) Chile/France/Spain 2015 Patricio Guzmán 82m BOX OFFICE 01243 786 650

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High-Rise

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Ben Wheatley’s (‘Sightseers’, ‘A Field in England’) new film about a young doctor, who joins a community in a luxury building who exile themselves and gradually divide into violent tribes.

Tom Hiddleston is in top form as Dr. Robert Laing, the golden-boy who skirts the social scene of both the working class and the upper crust in their shared tower block in Thatcher’s England. Laing tries to keep his head down when the groups begin taking out their frustrations on each other with increasing violence, but he can only maintain his sanity for so long. This is a class warfare allegory with a 70’s chic aesthetic, simultaneously a period piece and heightened variation of our present - or more accurately - future. This smart adaptation of J.G. Ballard‘s 1975 novel, is dense, wild, hilarious and a feast for eyes and ears.

UK 2016 Ben Wheatley 119m

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Couple in a Hole

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A middle-aged couple forgoes the comforts of civilization to live isolated inside a cave in the woods, but become involved with a mysterious local farmer.

Scottish couple John (Paul Higgins) and Karen (Kate Dickie) live in a hole in the middle of the beautiful French Pyrenees. Their lifestyle is devoid of modernity and they need no one else to survive, but when Karen suffers a spider bite, John is forced to find help from a farmer at the nearby village. This small gesture opens up a dialogue and starts to reveal the reason why John and Karen are living in this bizarre manner.

The lead couple’s convincing interplay and heart-breaking steeliness work together to deliver a deeply felt portrait of a couple dealing with sadness.

Director Geens is carefully restrained, refusing to stuff flashy surrealism or nightmarish flourishes in his film, realising that the sounds of nature can be terrifying enough. This is a left-field, occasionally hilarious thriller.

UK 2015 Tom Geens 105m

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Eye in the Sky

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A military officer (Helen Mirren) in command of a drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya sees her mission escalate from “capture” to “kill” just as a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone.

Colonel Katherine Powell (Mirren), is a UK-based military officer in command of a top-secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya. Through remote surveillance and on-the-ground intelligence, Powell discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” But as American pilot Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute, reaching the highest levels of US and British government. This taut film, photographed in real time, supplements vivid action sequences with a delicate moral debate, and features Alan Rickman in his last feature film.

UK 2016 Gavin Hood 102m

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Victoria A movie shot in a single take about Victoria, a runaway party girl, who’s asked by three friendly men to join them as they hit the town.

Victoria (Laia Costa) is a young woman from Madrid who meets a fun-loving quartet of men at an underground German nightclub in the wee hours. They are “real Berliners,” they tell her. What they are not are daylight bank robbers, but that is what they are pressured into being, with the collegial Victoria deciding to help her newfound friends at dawn. With no cutaways, the film’s story and the momentum of the unlikely robbers seems as unstoppable as the camera. The characters are confused, adrenalized and breathless, as are you. (Some subtitles) Germany 2015 Sebastian Schipper 140m

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The Brand New Testament Le Tout Nouveau Testament When Ea gets fed up with her overbearing father (who happens to be God), she decides to leave the house, gather her own apostles, and write her own testament.

So, God exists. He (Benoit Poelvoorde) lives in Brussels in a cramped, tatty apartment, and behaves like a petty tyrant toward his wife… who we later learn – is a Goddess. With apple-cheeked but deadpan precociousness, Ea (delightful newcomer Pili Groyne) leaves home and begins by recounting the Genesis story, but from this uniquely skewed, Belgian-centric perspective. She also decides to find six extra disciples (including Catherine Deneuve) which in her mind will shift the balance of power to her mother – which can only be better for all creation. Not as heretic as it sounds, this is a whimsical, mischievous treat. (Subtitles) Belgium/France 2015 Jaco Van Dormael 113m

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Louder than Bombs

6 May 7 May 8 May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May

13:00 18:00 13:00 20:45 18:15 12:15 15:30

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Two brothers and their father struggle to communicate while coping with new details about their mother and wife on the three‑year anniversary of her death.

An empty space exists between suburban father Gene (Gabriel Byrne), his adult son Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg), and baby of the family Conrad (Devin Druid). Isabelle (French icon Isabelle Huppert) has been dead for years, and the specific relationships she shared with her husband and sons greatly affects how they have been able to cope. Through dreams, memory, and imagination, all woven into a few unspectacular Autumn days, Isabelle becomes as much a part of ‘Louder than Bombs’ as the three men approaching different stages in their lives and recovery. A beautiful portrait of grief and perspective.

(Some subtitles) Norway/France/Denmark 2015 Joachim Trier 109m

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A View from the Bridge

Thu 12 May 20:30 Tickets £15.00 (Friends/Students £12.50)

NT Encore ‘A View from the Bridge’ transfers to the West End with a stellar cast led by Mark Strong (The Imitation Game, Before I Go to Sleep).

In Brooklyn, longshoreman Eddie Carbone welcomes his Sicilian cousins to the land of freedom. But when one of them falls for his beautiful niece, they discover that freedom comes at a price. The visionary Ivo van Hove directs this stunning production of Arthur Miller’s tragic masterpiece.

150m (no interval).

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Matthew Bourne’s (Encore)

The Car Man

Sun 15 May 15:45 Tickets £15 (Friends/Students £12.50)

(Carmen) Loosely based on Bizet’s ‘Carmen’, beautifully arranged

by Terry Davies and brilliantly choreographed by Matthew Bourne.

The familiar 19th Century Spanish cigarette factory becomes a garage-diner in 60’s America where the dreams and passions of a small-town are shattered by the arrival of a handsome stranger. Marcelo Gomes stars as ‘Luca’ and Will Kemp deserves a special mention for his sensitive portrayal of Angelo. The Car Man was first seen in 2000, winning the Evening Standard Award for “Musical Event of the Year”.

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2016 Best Film Oscar Winner

Spotlight

Fri Sat Mon Tue Thu

13 May 14 May 16 May 17 May 19 May

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

Winner of the 2016 Best Film Oscar, you could not ask for a better ensemble cast to be in this important, well-researched, well-written and well-made film.

This tense investigative dramatic-thriller traces the steps to one of the biggest coverups in modern times. It tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and the Catholic Church.

Starring Mark Ruffalo, Stanley Tucci, Rachel McAdams and Live Schreiber.

USA 2016 Tom McCarthy 127m

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Fri 13 May 21:00 Sun 15 May 20:30 Wed 18 May 15:15

The Witch

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A New England Folktale Mesmerizing camera work and a powerful musical score, combine in this chilling and ground-breaking new take on the genre.

New England, 1630. Upon threat of banishment by the church, an English farmer leaves his colonial plantation, relocating his wife and five children to a remote plot of land on the edge of an ominous forest. Strange and unsettling things begin to happen almost immediately, and with suspicion and paranoia mounting, family members accuse teenage daughter Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy) of witchcraft, charges she adamantly denies. As circumstances grow more treacherous, each family member’s faith, loyalty and love become tested. Sparing in its use of special effects, ‘The Witch’ generates suspense and foreboding through what is suggested rather than what is seen. Writer/director Robert Eggers’ debut feature premiered to great acclaim at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.

USA/UK 2015 Robert Eggers 92m

Tue 17 May 12:30 Wed 18 May 18:15 International Panorama: Japan

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Our Little Sister Umimachi Diary A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother’s home, and the arrival of their thirteen-year-old half‑sister.

The three sisters Sachi, Yoshino and Chika live together in a large house in the city of Kamakura. When their father absent from the family home for the last 15 years dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral and meet their shy teenage half-sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live with them. Suzu eagerly agrees, and a new life of joyful discovery begins for the four siblings.

Very popular at Cannes 2015, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s (‘Like Father, Like Son’) lovingly crafted small-scale family drama is full of characters you will not want to leave behind. (Subtitles) Japan 2015 Hirokazu Kore-eda 128m

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13 May 14 May 15 May 16 May 17 May 18 May 19 May

18:30 15:15 13:15 14:30 20:15 12:30 17:45

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Son of Saul Saul Fia The 2016 Best Film in a Foreign Language Oscar and Golden Globe winner, this is an experience not to be missed.

Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes has created what feels like a new cinematic language to tell this hyper-focused story of a Jewish prisoner working for the Nazis (aka a Sonderkommando) called Saul (Géza Röhrig), at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in October 1944. We rarely leave Saul’s point of view, creating the feel of one long tracking shot. Early on, Saul spots a dying boy surrounded by Nazi doctors who he believes to be his son. Finding a Rabbi to arrange a proper burial becomes Saul’s obsession, and perhaps a way to keep his mind from the monstrous daily tasks he is forced to commit by the Nazi soldiers. Very confronting, but anyone with even a passing interest in Holocaust cinema needs to see this extraordinary film. (Subtitles) Hungary 2015 László Nemes 107m

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Jane Got a Gun

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A solid Western has ridden into town, with focus on a woman who lives in a harsh setting – a woman who has enjoyed few, if any, breaks.

Forced to defend the family homestead when the vengeful Bishop Boys arrive to settle a score with her badly injured husband (Noah Emmerich), Natalie Portman’s Jane Hammond prepares to confront the enemy, enlisting the paid assistance of her gunslinger ex-beau (the perfectly cast Joel Edgerton). Set in late nineteenth century New Mexico, Portman brings a credible, mournful resolve to her character.

The supporting players, including a near unrecognizable Ewan McGregor, moustachioed with darkened hair as the gang’s coldly ruthless leader, are equally effective. Full of gorgeous vistas nicely captured by the cinematographer Mandy Walker.

USA 2015 Gavin O’Connor 98m

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Midnight Special

13 May 14 May 16 May 17 May 18 May 19 May

15:45 12:45 12:15 17:45 20:45 15:15

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A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.

Roy (Michael Shannon, impressively gaunt and weary) and his sidekick Lucas (Joel Edgerton) are said by TV reports to have kidnapped an eight-year-old boy, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher) from a religious cult called The Ranch, a bunch of hicks fiercely led by Sam Shepard. But Roy is actually Alton’s father and Alton is no ordinary child. He has extraordinary powers, a blinding light in his eyes able to inspire faith in all who look into them. However, he has to be kept out of the sunlight, so that much of the movie takes place in deep and worrying shade. Jeff Nichols’ follow up to the brilliant ‘Mud’ also stars Kirsten Dunst as Alton’s mother and Adam Driver as the open-minded FBI agent.

USA 2016 Jeff Nichols 111m

Fri 20 May 15:15 Tue 24 May 18:00 International Panorama: Italy

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Suburra Stefano Sollima (‘Gomorra’) excites viewers again with the story of a gangster who wants to turn Rome’s waterfront into a new Las Vegas.

The Suburra, a rough neighbourhood of Rome, is the scene of an ambitious real estate project, but with the state, the Vatican and the mafia involved, things are not what they seem. In 2011, torrential rainfall saw the waters of the Tiber rise to dangerous levels; it was just at this moment that Pope Benedict XV took the unprecedented step of abdicating. ‘Suburra’ takes these two end-of-days omens as the backdrop for the apocalyptic story. There is a new energy in Italian cinema. In the vein of 2008’s ‘Gomorra’, this raw and tasty production feeds from modern Italian television, and in combination with festivalfriendly auteurs like Moretti or Sorrentino, promises a new triumphant era of Italian Cinema. (Subtitles) Italy/France 2015 Stefano Sollima 130m

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Miles Ahead

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Don Cheadle directs and stars as Miles Davis in an exploration of the legendary jazz musician’s life and music.

High on drugs and pining for his lost love, Davis is holed up in his apartment, obsessing over a reel of new music. The suits at the record studio want that tape: they smell money. Meanwhile, a scrappy Rolling Stone journalist (Ewan McGregor, as the fictional Dave Brill) wants the story of the Miles Davis comeback. Cheadle nails the swagger (and the humour in that swagger) and his admiration for the man and his music is evident. ‘Miles Ahead’ is not just about the music. It is about what we all face in our lives; questions about who we really are and how we are ultimately defined. Its intentionally meandering structure and clever use of editing make this one of the few movies in which you eagerly anticipate the next transition.

USA 2015 Don Cheadle 100m

Sat 21 May 15:15 Mon 23 May 14:15 Tue 24 May 21:00 International Panorama: Chile

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The Club El Club Winner of the Silver Bear (Grand Jury Prize) at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival, this intricate, raw film, is beautifully eloquent from the very first shot.

In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of punishment by the Church. What is most laudable about the film is how Larraín manages to allude to the wider structures, behaviour and corruption of the church without ever making this claustrophobic, moody and very local story feel anything but crucial, thrilling and disturbing. Critics have heaped praise on this feature since it’s Berlin premiere. (Subtitles) Chile 2015 Pablo Larraín 138m BOX OFFICE 01243 786 650

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Sun 22 May 14:00 Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15)

Frankenstein

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A brand new ballet commissioned by the ROH. Encore by satellite from the Royal Opera House.

Royal Ballet Artist in Residence Liam Scarlett has chosen Mary Shelley’s gothic classic ‘Frankenstein’ as the basis for his first full‑length narrative ballet for the Covent Garden Main Stage.

A story of betrayal, curiosity, life, death and, above all, love, it inspires Scarlett to explore the very depths of human nature and our need to find acceptance and a place in the world. For this exciting new ballet, Scarlett returns to the music of Lowell Liebermann, from whom he has commissioned a brand new score.

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Thu 26 May 18:15 Sat 4 Jun 16:00 Tickets £12.50 (Friends/Students £10)

Teatro Alla Scala:

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The Temple of Wonders The story of one of the world’s most exclusive music and performing arts venues comes to the big screen.

Thanks to historical music and theatre greats such as Giuseppe Verdi and Arturo Toscanini, and contemporary arts directors including Franco Zeffirelli and Patrice Chéreau, Teatro Alla Scala has upheld its position as a world-class theatre throughout the years. The film leads us through the main historical, musical, social and political events in its 238-years. The story is beautifully brought to life on through statements and commentary from musicians, experts and aficionados, and features photographs, musical scores, paintings and videos from centuries of archive material. Look out for two more ‘Discover Arts’ documentaries featuring Leonardo da Vinci (June) and St. Peters and the Papal Basilicas (July). (Some subtitles) Italy/UK 2016 Luca Lucini 95m

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Florence Foster Jenkins

20 May 21 May 22 May 23 May 24 May 25 May 26 May

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

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

Born in 1868, Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep) was a child prodigy as a pianist who performed at the White House in her youth, but fell into poverty after an arm injury left her unable to play the piano. While living with her mother in New York, Jenkins began to dream of becoming an opera singer – despite her lack of natural talent. She fell in love with St Clair Bayfield, a British Shakespearean actor (Hugh Grant) who supported her ambition, and later became her agent and common-law husband. Rebecca Ferguson and Simon Helberg (‘The Big Bang Theory’s Howard) also co-star in this biopic directed by Stephen Frears (‘The Queen’, ‘Philomena’).

UK 2016 Stephen Frears

Sat 21 May 20:30 Wed 25 May 12:00

Papusza

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An historical epic in black and white which deals with Romany gypsy poet Bronislawa Wajs (1908 -1987). Known as Papusza, she has become something of a legend in Poland.

The narrative moves through several time planes and, while recounting various aspects of her life story, also recreates the patterns of Roma life in the pre-war period. World War II saw the killing of some 35,000 Polish Roma, while the post-war Communist regime forced the remainder to abandon their traditional lifestyle.

The film focuses principally on the discovery of Papusza by the ethnographer, Jerzy Fikowski, the first Polish writer to chart Roma history and customs. The black and white photography is sharp and poetic – and occasionally romantic. Five years in the making, this is an inspired and innovative evocation of a reality now past. (Subtitles) Poland 2013 Joanna Kos-Krauze & Krzysztof Krauze 132m

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Our Kind of Traitor

27 May 28 May 29 May 30 May 31 May 1 Jun 2 Jun

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

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A couple find themselves lured into a Russian oligarch’s plans to defect are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service, neither of whom they can trust.

While on holiday in Marrakech, an ordinary English couple, Perry (Ewan McGregor) and Gail (Naomie Harris), befriend a flamboyant and charismatic Russian, Dima (Stellan Skarsgård), who unbeknownst to them is a kingpin money launderer for the Russian mafia. When Dima asks for their help to deliver classified information to the British Secret Services, Perry and Gail get caught in a dangerous world of international espionage and dirty politics. The couple is propelled on a perilous journey through Paris and Bern, a safe house in the French Alps, to the murky corners of the City of London and an alliance with the British Government via a ruthless and determined MI6 agent. Also stars Damien Lewis.

UK 2016 Susanna White 107m

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Departure

27 May 28 May 29 May 31 May

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

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An English mother and teenage son spend a week in the South of France breaking up a summer home that has become one of the casualties of a crumbling marriage.

Beatrice (Juliet Stevenson) is a wife and mother on the edge, putting on a brave face before Elliot (Alex Lawther) ceases to be her boy and becomes a man. Her husband Philip (Finbar Lynch), has decided that the house must be sold, and Beatrice struggles to come to terms with saying goodbye to a piece of her life that was never her choice to begin with. Into this fragile scenario arrives Clément (Phénix Brossard), the enigmatic local teenager who, inevitably, shows Elliot a glimpse of future possibilities. A heart-breaking ode to the many autumns of life that is as sensitive and contemplative as it is beautiful to behold.

UK 2015 Andrew Steggall 109m

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Mustang

27 May 28 May 29 May 30 May 2 Jun

18:15 13:15 20:30 14:30 18:00

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This striking portrait of female empowerment was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the BAFTAs, Oscars and Golden Globes.

Five free-spirited teenaged sisters innocently splash about on the beach with their male classmates, when a neighbour passes by and reports what she considers to be illicit behaviour to the girls’ family.

The family overreacts, removing all “instruments of corruption,” like cell phones and computers, and essentially imprisoning the girls, subjecting them to preparation for them to become brides. Each sister has a distinct personality and relationship with the other four, varying levels of determination and her own reasons for wanting to escape, which allows Ergüven to explore the scenario’s several possible outcomes, be it happy ending or tragedy or the bittersweet fates in between. (Subtitles) France/Germany/Turkey 2015 Deniz Gamze Ergüven 97m

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27 May 28 May 31 May 1 Jun 2 Jun

20:45 15:45 20:30 17:30 15:30

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3 Hearts 3 Coeurs A tax inspector, his new bride and her sister become entwined in a love triangle.

Benoît Jacquot’s romantic drama with the sensibility of a thriller, opens with tax inspector Marc (Benoît Poelvoorde) missing a train back to Paris and striking up a conversation with Sylvie (Charlotte Gainsbourg). They fall for each other immediately, but plans don’t quite work out after a Paris mix-up. He later meets and falls for Sophie (Chiara Mastroianni), unbeknownst to Marc… Sylvie’s sister. There’s always been an immediacy to Jacquot’s visual style; he likes to follow his characters closely, and so gets performances that are energetic but quiet. But here he adds a certain Hitchcockian elegance as well.

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Mon 30 May 12:30 Tue 31 May 13:00 Thu 2 Jun 13:00

The Jungle Book

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Rudyard Kipling’s beloved story returns to the screen in this live action production from director Jon Favreau (‘Elf’, ‘Iron Man’).

Mowgli (Neel Sethin), an orphan boy raised in the jungle, finds he is no longer welcome when fearsome tiger Shere Khan (Idris Elba), who bears the scars of Man, promises to eliminate what he sees as a threat.

Urged to abandon the only home he has ever known, Mowgli embarks on a captivating journey, guided by panther‑turned‑stern mentor Bagheera (Ben Kingsley), and the free-spirited bear Baloo (Bill Murray), where they come across python Kaa (Scarlett Johansson) and ape King Louie (Christopher Walken) amongst others. This 2016 version of the classic tale seamlessly blends live-action with photorealistic CGI, using up-to-the-minute technology and storytelling techniques to immerse audiences in an enchanting world.

USA 2016 Jon Favreau

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Zootropolis

12:45 13:15

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In a city of anthropomorphic animals, a fugitive con artist fox and a rookie bunny cop must work together to uncover a conspiracy.

The modern mammal world of Zootropolis is a city like no other.

Comprised of habitat neighbourhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it is a melting pot where animals from every environment live together. But when rookie Officer Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) arrives, she discovers that being the first bunny on a police force of big, tough animals isn’t so easy. Determined to prove herself, she jumps at the opportunity to crack a case, even if it means partnering with a fast-talking, scam-artist fox, Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), to solve the mystery. There are also some fantastic set-pieces for older audiences, including a charming knock-off of the ‘What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully’ wedding scene from ‘The Godfather’. Who needs humans?

USA 2016 Byron Howard & Rich Moore 108m *Please check our website for Special Offer details.

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Love and Friendship

3 Jun 4 Jun 5 Jun 6 Jun 7 Jun 8 Jun 9 Jun

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

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Based on Jane Austen’s posthumously published novel ‘Lady Susan, this is both fresh and deliciously evil in equal measures.

Set in the opulent drawing rooms of eighteenth-century English society, ‘Love & Friendship’ focuses on the machinations of a beautiful widow, Lady Susan Vernon, who, while waiting for social chatter about a personal indiscretion to pass, takes up temporary residence at her in-laws’ estate. While there, the intelligent, flirtatious, and amusingly egotistical Lady Vernon is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica - and herself too, naturally. She enlists the assistance of her old friend Alicia, but two particularly handsome suitors complicate her orchestrations.

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A Hologram for the King

3 Jun 4 Jun 5 Jun 6 Jun 7 Jun 8 Jun 9 Jun

18:15 20:45 13:00 14:30 21:00 14:45 15:15

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A failed American businessman (Tom Hanks) looks to recoup his losses by traveling to the Middle East and selling his idea to a wealthy monarch.

Based on the 2012 novel of the same name written by Dave Eggers, the film tells the story of Alan Clay, a washed-up, desperate American salesman who travels to Saudi Arabia to secure the IT contract for a massive new complex being built in the middle of the desert. This is much more than just a business deal for him, on the line is the repossession of his home, and his daughter’s college education. This comedy drama directed by Tom Tykwer (‘Run Lola Run’, ‘Perfume: Story of a Murderer’) also stars Ben Wishaw and Tom Skerritt. (Some subtitles) Germany / USA 2016 Tom Tykwer

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Sun 5 Jun Tue 7 Jun

15:30 18:00

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Classics Restored and Reissued

Romeo and Juliet Franco Zeffirelli’s acclaimed adaptation of Shakespeare’s timeless love story is generally acclaimed to be best version committed to film.

Zeffirelli places his “star crossed lovers” (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey) within a world of everyday life, and with the first shots of the film, we are caught up in the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues.

We understand the nature of the quarrel between Tybalt (Michael York) and Mercutio (John McEnery) instinctively because Zeffirelli has picked them for their types: cocky insolence vs. sly mockery. Zeffirelli interviewed hundreds of young actors and actresses before choosing the two leads. They are magnificent. The love between them, and the physical passion that comes with it, are of that naive and hopeless intensity only those in love for the very first time can comprehend.

UK/Italy 1968 Franco Zeffirelli 138m

Wed 1 Jun

20:00

Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) This is a rare live relay which is not being transmitted in most UK locations.

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I Capuleti e I Montecchi Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona Live from Barcelona comes this Vincenzo Bellini opera portraying the eternal love story of Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo, the Montecchi’s leader, and Juliet, the Daughter of the Capuleti, belong to the two rival factions in XIII century Verona. In a world full of intrigues, fights and rivalries, Juliet fakes her death in order to escape with her lover, but Romeo, not knowing of this ruse, commits suicide. When she wakes up, and sees him dead, she too kills herself. This performance, directed by Vincent Boussard and conducted by Riccardo Frizza, features the acclaimed Joyce DiDonato and Patrizia Ciofi in the lead roles, and costumes by Christian Lacroix.

150m inc interval.

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20:00

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The Audience

To help celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th birthday, we present an encore of ‘The Audience’ from the Gielgud Theatre, with Helen Mirren as Her Majesty.

Peter Morgan’s play shows a series of the Queen’s weekly meetings with various prime ministers to have held office during her reign, including Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron.

For sixty years she has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace - a meeting like no other in British public life - it is private. ‘The Audience’ breaks this contract of silence - and imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street incumbents and their Queen. From Churchill to Cameron, each Prime Minister has used these private conversations as a sounding board and a confessional - sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive. Directed by Stephen Daldry (‘Billy Elliot’, ‘The Hours’).

180m including interval.

Film Courses & Talks at New Park

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30 Apr 10:00-16:00

Tickets £12 (In the Studio) Hollywood Cinema and Fantasy Films:

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Imagining Paradise

Hollywood has always understood the fascination of conjuring up fantasy worlds. With Star Wars back on the agenda, this short oneday course asks, why is Hollywood preoccupied with imagining the world as a different place?

In the 1940s, a period which would culminate in the UnAmerican Activities investigations, Hollywood explored alternative worlds where American values could be recaptured. More recently, Hollywood has returned to the fantasy genre, with films which explore life beyond the everyday. But, just like the 1940s, the use of fantasy explores the emptiness of contemporary life, and offers us a meditation on the destiny of America in a changing world.

Nick Smedley is a film historian specialising in Hollywood cinema’s underlying cultural values since 1930. There will be lots of scope for discussion and Q&A. BOX OFFICE 01243 786 650

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Tickets £6/Session Special Offer: £15 for all three sessions

Three Authors in Search of Films!

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Three iconic authors, their best-known novels and how they translated into film. Led by Rosemary Coxon, the cinema’s Education Officer, every session will include details of their lives, extracts from their novels and many film clips! Enjoy the journey!

Daphne Du Maurier

Graham Greene

John Le Carré

This writer still intrigues us today with her marvellous ability to create a truly bewitching story, which keeps you fascinated until the last page. (inc. ‘Don’t Look Now’, ‘Rebecca’, ‘The Birds’).

Wed 4 May 18.30

A connoisseur of human frailty, Greene was entirely comfortable with the movie adaptations of his work. (inc. ‘The Third Man’, ‘Brighton Rock’, ‘The End of the Affair’) Wed 11 May 18.30

Many of Le Carré’s books have been adapted for the screen. We will be looking at some of the best - (inc. ‘The Constant Gardener’, ‘Smiley’s People’ - not to mention ‘The Night Manager’) Wed 18 May 18.30

Fri 1 Apr 13:30 Henry V Fri 8 Apr 13:30 Hamlet Tickets £6 (In the Studio)

Shakespeare 400

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Tribute to William Shakespeare Our four-week tribute to commemorate the 400th Anniversary of the death of our greatest playwright culminates with Rosemary Coxon leading an extended session on Shakespeare’s most famous and controversial play ‘Hamlet’, with clips from no less than 5 film versions - Olivier (1948), Kosinstev (1964), Zeffirelli (1990), Branagh (1996) & Michael Almereyda (2000). 180m

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19:00

Tickets £6 (In the Studio)

Kipling and Film

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In his lifetime Rudyard Kipling, who died eighty years ago, was one of the most celebrated, respected, and widely-read writers of both prose and poetry. But not everyone registered how much respect he had for the new popular medium of film.

Still in his thirties when film shows first became available to the public, he immediately recognized their power. Film-makers returned the compliment, starting with Pathe, who commissioned him to write screenplays for silent movies. In the years since his death film versions of his stories have multiplied. The latest, a new Disney version of ‘The Jungle Book’, screens in June. Mary Hamer, international lecturer, researcher, and broadcaster, author of prizewinning ‘Kipling & Trix’, takes a close look at Kipling’s enthusiasm for film and at the way cinema has used his work. Fresh back from Shimla, she has tales to tell.

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Ticket prices Spring 2016 Full price Senior citizens

£8.00 £7.50

(For first two matinees everyday)

Friends Full time Students/Unemployed Children under 15 Student Gold

£7.00 £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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Chichester Cinema at New Park Ltd. New Park Road, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 7XY

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

General Manager: Walter Francisco Registered Charity No. 1099780

The cinema gratefully acknowledges the generous support of: Design: The Graphic Design House www.tgdh.co.uk • 023 9233 4971

BOX OFFICE 01243 786 650 BOX OFFICE HOURS 12.30 to 20.30 info@chichestercinema.org

chichestercinema.org Advance booking by Phone, Online or at the Box Office is recommended.

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