Winter 2022 Programme Season Brochure

This season sees an interesting mini trend of ‘Cinema Films.’ Could this be an upcoming trend from filmmakers to bring the magic of cinema to international viewers? Perhaps. The films we present are Sam Mendes’ ‘Empire of Light’ with Olivia Colman, Spielberg’s ‘The Fabelmans’ and the story of 1920’s Hollywood, ‘Babylon’.

After the great success of our first 2For1 Weekend in Oct 2022, we will be repeating this initiative in the Winter season. So many of you took advantage of the great offer to see some great films, with many coming back to the cinema after months away. The selected weekend this season is Fri 13 to Sun 15 Jan, where you will be able to choose from seven films and a talk. Use the Discount Code: 2FOR1JAN23 when booking online.

To do our little bit in these challenging times, we have joined forces with the New Park Centre to bring you Feel-Good Fridays. On selected Friday mornings, we will be screening a popular film from that week for only £3, and this will include a nice hot cup of tea or coffee to help you enjoy the film even more. See pg38 for details.

Look out for our revamping of the Cinema Friends’ scheme. We will be creating different levels of membership where you will be able to really take advantage of being a Friend, whilst at the same time supporting your favourite independent cinema. We will contact all current Friends, and will reveal more in the next brochure and online.

See you at the cinema

CINEMA DIRECTOR & PROGRAMMER

CONTENTS

ALCARRÀS 34 ANDRÉ RIEU IN DUBLIN 15 AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER 21 BAIT 32 BABYLON 33 THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN 11 THE BARBER OF SEVILLE 36 BEFORE SUNRISE 35 BIG VS SMALL 37 BOB DYLAN IN FILM TALK 30 CHARLOTTE 14 CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD TALK 33 CONFESS, FLETCH 9 CORSAGE 19 THE CRUCIBLE 26 EALING FILMS TALK 16 EMPIRE OF LIGHT 29 ENYS MEN 32 EO 37 THE FABELMANS 39 FANNY AND ALEXANDER 5 FEDORA 17 GIANT 20 HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 24 HOPPER: AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY 13 I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY 28 INDIA SWEETS AND SPICES 4 THE INFERNAL MACHINE 12 JAMES CAMERON TALK 21 THE LAVENDER HILL MOB 16 LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE 26

LIVING 27 LOVE ACTUALLY 5 A LOVE SONG 11 LYNCH/OZ 12 LYLE, LYLE, CROCODILE 7 A MAN CALLED OTTO 25 MOONAGE DAYDREAM 34 MRS HARRIS GOES TO PARIS 4 NANNY 2 2 NEW YEAR’S EVE CONCERT 8 NOCEBO 10 THE OLD WAY 36 OTHELLO 39 THE PALE BLUE EYE 9 PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID 30 PERFORMANCE EVENTS 8 THE QUEEN OF SPADES 19 RASHOMON 25 THE SILENT TWINS 14 STRANGE WORLD 7 SUSSEX ON FILM TALK 28 TÁR 31

THREE MINUTES: A LENGTHENING 24 TICKET TO PARADISE 2 2 TILL 31 UTAMA 6 THE WHALE 38 WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? 20 WHERE IS ANNE FRANK 24 WHITE NOISE 6 WHAT’S ON 40

INDIA SWEETS AND SPICES

When college freshman Alia returns home for the summer, she discovers secrets and lies in her parents’ past that make her question everything she thought she knew about her family. Alia Kapur returns to her family’s posh suburban New Jersey home after a year away at college and upends their well-ordered life with her brash independence. After befriending Varun the handsome son of the new owners of the local Indian grocery, she invites his family to a dinner party where family secrets are revealed. Alia’s surprise turns to rebellion when she uncovers secrets about both her parents that push her toward a daring and ultimately hilarious confrontation. The film celebrates a young woman’s coming of age set against a lovingly framed glimpse of the life of an Indian American family.

USA 2021 GEETA MALIK 101M

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

MRS HARRIS GOES TO PARIS

Simply delightful in every sense of the word - a widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own. A huge hit at New Park the first time round.

Leslie Manville’s Mrs Harris is a warm, hard-working cleaning lady in 1950s London, doggedly going from house to house, quietly tidying up after lives far more exciting and glamorous than hers. But when she sees a Dior dress in one of her regular client’s bedrooms, she falls in love and sets her mind on travelling to Paris to get one herself. This 60-year-old story of pursuing a dream with resolute kindness could not feel more fresh in its knowing class clash. Lesley Manville is an absolute treasure, her command of comedic pathos supreme.

HUNGARY/UK 2022 ANTHONY FABIAN 115M

FRI 23 DEC 20:00

LOVE ACTUALLY

National Lottery hosts ‘Love Actually’ at the Cinema. Atotemic Christmas film with an incredible ensemble cast that rewards multiple viewings with its unapologetic message of hope and optimism.

There is something Altmanesque about the multiple storylines wheeling around one another. Each story examines the complexities of the one emotion that connects us all: love. Especially memorable is Hugh Grant as the prime minister, Emma Thompson as the wronged wife, Bill Nighy as the old rocker and Andrew Lincoln as the man with the cue cards pursuing Keira Knightley. Without ever sounding a false note, this endearing ensemble holiday flick manages to be nuttier than Notting Hill, more satisfying than ‘Bridget Jones’ Diary’, and even more intricate than ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’.

UK 2003 RICHARD CURTIS 135M

BOOKING INSTRUCTIONS:

Visit www.nationalotteryhosts.com to claim your 2 free tickets. Please note that this screening will not have reserved seating.

CLASSICS RESTORED & REISSUED

SAT 24 DEC 14:00

Booking Ref

FANNY AND ALEXANDER

FANNY OCH ALEXANDER

Ingmar Bergman conveys the sweep of childhood with a fastidious attention to detail and sumptuous insight into human frailty. This is the perfect epic-length tale for Christmas Eve.

As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theatre company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander. Sumptuous, haunting and unusually tender, this is a masterwork that crystalizes many of the directors’ preoccupations into a familial epic. (Subtitles)

SWEDEN 1982 INGMAR BERGMAN 188M

TUE 27 DEC 15:45 WED 28 DEC 20:15

Booking Ref

UTAMA

A tender, quietly moving and poetic slice-of-life set in rural Bolivia concerning an elderly couple coming to terms with climate change and declining health. In the arid Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple have been living a tranquil life for years. While he takes their small herd of llamas out to graze, she keeps house and walks for miles with the other local women to fetch precious water. When an uncommonly long drought threatens everything they know, Virginio and Sisa must decide whether to stay and maintain their traditional way of life or admit defeat and move in with family members in the city. Writer-director Alejandro Loayza Grisi assembles this in a documentary style, creating a sharp evocation of the local culture. It’s a gorgeous slice of life with properly momentous undertones. (Subtitles)

BOLIVIA / URUGUAY 2022 ALEJANDRO LOAYZA GRISI 87M

FRI 30 DEC 14:45 MON 2 JAN 18:00 THU 5 JAN 20:00

Booking Ref

WHITE NOISE

DeLillo’s novel of campus larks and eco dread has long been ogled by Hollywood. Now it gets an elegant, droll treatment from Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig. While the movie at first appears to be a family drama, things soon take a dark turn when an ‘Airborne Toxic Event’ affects their Midwestern community, leading them to evacuate in order to escape the chemical fallout. The film dramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world. It’s a joy in fact, a surreal, very funny, rather prescient account of family, academia, death and supermarkets. Baumbach, director of ‘Frances Ha’ and ‘Marriage Story’ is just the director for such enigmatic material.

USA/UK 2022 NOAH BAUMBACH 136M

INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA: BOLIVIA

Booking Ref

LYLE, LYLE, CROCODILE

Lip-smackingly good fun with the CGI singing croc. Shawn Mendes voices the much-loved character of the reptile discovered in a pet shop, but it’s Javier Bardem’s flamboyant showman who steals the film.

When the Primm family moves to New York City, their young son Josh struggles to adapt to his new school and new friends. All of that changes when he discovers Lyle - a singing crocodile (Shawn Mendes) who loves baths, caviar and great music-living in the attic of his new home. The two become fast friends, but when Lyle’s existence is threatened by evil neighbour Mr. Grumps the Primm’s must band together with Lyle’s charismatic owner, Hector P. Valenti (Javier Bardem), to show the world that family can come from the most unexpected places.

USA 2022 JOSH GORDON/WILL SPECK 106M

FRI 30 DEC 12:30

SUN 1 JAN 15:15

MON 2 JAN 12:45

Booking Ref

STRANGE WORLD

Legendary family of explorers, the Clades, as they attempt to navigate an uncharted, treacherous land alongside a motley crew that includes a mischievous blob, a three-legged dog and a slew of ravenous creatures.

This original action-adventure journeys deep into an uncharted and treacherous land where fantastical creatures await the legendary Clades, a family of explorers whose differences threaten to topple their latest — and by far — most crucial mission.

USA 2022 DON HALL/QUI NTUYEN 102M

FAMILY CINEMA

FRI 30 DEC 17:30

SAT 31 DEC 13:15

SUN 1 JAN 20:00

MON 2 JAN 15:15

TUE 3 JAN 18:00

WED 4 JAN 20:15

THU 5 JAN 13:00

Booking Ref

THE PALE BLUE EYE

A Gothic thriller that revolves around a series of murders that took place in 1830 at the United States Military Academy. West Point, 1830. In the early hours of a grey winter morning, a cadet is found dead. But after the body arrives at the morgue, tragedy becomes savagery when it’s discovered that the young man’s heart has been skilfully removed, A world-weary detective is hired to investigate the murder. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case - a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe. Starring Christian Bale, Gillian Anderson and Harry Melling this is bound to chill your bones and quicken the pulse.

USA 2022 SCOTT COOPER 128M

SAT 31 DEC 18:15

MON 2 JAN 20:45

TUE 3 JAN 15:45

WED 4 JAN 13:30

Booking Ref

CONFESS, FLETCH

In this delightful comedy romp, Jon Hamm stars as the roguishly charming and endlessly troublesome Fletch, who becomes the prime suspect in a murder case. The only way to prove his innocence? Find out which of the long list of suspects is the culprit -- from the eccentric art dealer and a missing playboy to a crazy neighbour and Fletch’s Italian girlfriend. Crime, in fact, has never been this disorganised. It’s a perfectly delightful throwback to an age when a comic mystery fuelled by someone with a screen-friendly persona and even more screenfriendlier good looks weren’t an anomaly, and a perfect vehicle for Hamm. They just don’t make many movies like this anymore that make for a tremendous Saturday night at the pictures.

USA 2022 GREG MOTTOLA 98M

FRI 30 DEC 20:15

TUE 3 JAN 13:30

WED 4 JAN 15:45

THU 5 JAN 18:00

Booking Ref

AFTERSUN

Paul Mescal and newcomer Frankie Corio give astonishing performances as a father and daughter on holiday, in this moving and reflective debut from Charlotte Wells. One of the best UK films of the year!

Sophie and her dad Calum are on holiday in Turkey in the late 1990s. Despite a rough start (such as Calum’s broken arm and a room with a double bed rather than twins), it should be bliss – the ‘Macarena’ is blaring, the warm air is filled with the smell of sunscreen and Sophie is capturing it all on her mini-DV cam. However, cracks begin to emerge in the façade Calum is trying to maintain to give Sophie a perfect holiday. ‘Aftersun’ is a stunner, a heartbreaker on love, grief and the random moments in life that solidify into haunting memories. Lyrical without ever being obtuse, it’s a film that flourishes when attention is paid to its details.

UK/USA 2022 CHARLOTTE WELLS 102M

SUN 1 JAN 17:45

TUE 3 JAN 20:45

WED 4 JAN 18:00

THU 5 JAN 15:45

Booking Ref

NOCEBO

A fashion designer (Eva Green) suffers from a mysterious illness that confounds her doctors and frustrates her husband (Mark Strong) - until help arrives in the form of a mysterious Filipino nanny.

Christine’s illness appears to have wiped any memory of inviting nanny Diana to help her. Nevertheless, Diana’s traditional potions bring relief to Christine’s suffering while her healing endears her to an initially sceptical daughter. However, her husband senses she must be too good to be true. Skilfully directed by Lorcan Finnegan with allusions to colonial exploitation. The film wrestles with the characters’ psychological messiness and supernatural nuttiness. A film with striking production values and prescient ideas and themes.

IRELAND/UK/PHILIPPINES 2022 LORCAN FINNEGAN 96M

A LOVE SONG

At a campground in the rural West, a woman waits alone for an old flame from her past to arrive, uncertain of his intentions while bashful about her own.

Dale Dickey’s performance is a master class in authenticity, as always. Dickey is Faye, a solitary figure with a face full of longing at Campsite 7. She sets her crawdad traps, makes her coffee, studies birds and their calls by day, stars and their positions by night, and waits. Eventually, Faye’s patience pays off in the form of her childhood friend, Lito (Wes Studi). Decades of absence and years of meaning stand between Lito’s charming smile and Faye’s searching eyes. Filmmaker Max Walker-Silverman’s feature debut blesses us with 81 minutes of Dale Dickey, a gorgeous western landscape, and not much else. It is enough.

USA 2022 MAX WALKER-SILVERMAN 81M

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them. This was a huge hit at New Park the first time round. Martin McDonagh’s new film is a macabre black comedy of toxic male pride and wounded male feelings. Colin Farrell plays Padraic, a dairyman who lives with his unmarried sister. Every day promptly at two o’clock, goofy, good-natured Padraic calls for the guy he considers his best friend in all the world, Colm (Brendan Gleeson), so that they can go to the pub together. One day, a terrible thing happens: Colm simply decides he doesn’t want to be friends with Padraic any more. Martin McDonagh lyrically whips every incident in the film into a mordantly funny yet very dark fable about men’s innate inability to work together for the betterment of society at large.

IRELAND/UK 2022 MARTIN MCDONAGH 109M

FRI 6 JAN 17:45 MON 9 JAN 13:00 TUE 10 JAN 20:15 THU 12 JAN 13:15

THE INFERNAL MACHINE

A reclusive and controversial author is drawn out of hiding when he begins to receive endless letters from an obsessive fan. The release of Bruce’s first novel many years ago inspired Dwight to shoot 13 people from a clock tower. Even though he now lives in the middle of nowhere and hasn’t written since the shooting, Bruce is starting to get letters from someone calling themselves William DuKent. What ensues is a dangerous labyrinth as Bruce searches for the person behind the cryptic messages, forcing him to confront his past and ultimately reveal the truth behind the book. An intriguing slow-burn psychological thriller with multi-layered narrative. A must-see for Guy Pearce’s fans and anyone up for a thoughtprovoking mystery.

PORTUGAL/UK/USA 2022 ANDREW HUNT 111M

Booking Ref FRI 6 JAN 20:00 TUE 10 JAN 15:30

Booking Ref

LYNCH/OZ

‘The Wizard of Oz’ is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch’s work. The themes, images, and cultural vernacular of Victor Fleming’s ‘The Wizard of Oz’ continue to haunt David Lynch’s art and filmography - from his very first short, ‘The Alphabet’, to his latest series, ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’. Is David Lynch trapped in the land of Oz? If so, can we derive a new appreciation for Lynch’s body of work from taking a closer look at how it intersects and communicates with ‘The Wizard of Oz’? In turn, do ‘Mulholland Drive’, ‘Lost Highway’ or ‘The Elephant Man’ have something to say about the enduring resonance of America’s most beloved holiday movie?

USA 2022 ALEXANDRE O. PHILIPPE 108M

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

HOPPER: AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY

EXHIBITION ON SCREEN

Hopper’s work is the most recognisable art in America – popular, praised, and mysterious. Countless painters, photographers, filmmakers and musicians have been influenced by his art – but who was he, and how did a struggling illustrator create such a bounty of notable work?

This new film takes a deep look into Hopper’s art, his life, and his relationships. From his early career as an illustrator; his wife giving up her own promising art career to be his manager; his critical and commercial acclaim; and in his own words – this film explores the enigmatic personality behind the brush. Combined with expert interviews, diaries, and a startling visual reflection of American life, Hopper brings to life America’s arguably most influential artist. Hopper is a rare artist whose work is accessible to both the casual and critical observer. Rothko, Banksy, Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, and even The Simpsons have all been inspired by the unique way Hopper captured American life.

UK 2022 PHIL GRABSKY 90M

THE SILENT TWINS

The astounding true story of twin sisters who only communicated with one another. As a result, they created a rich, fascinating world to escape the reality of their own lives. A heartfelt, absorbing new film telling the true story of June and Jennifer Gibbons: the “silent twins”, young black women who grew up in Haverfordwest in Wales communicating with no one but each other. They were effectively abandoned by the school and care systems but wrote reams of intensely imaginative poems and stories, with June even self-publishing a novel. It gained them a reputation as authentic outsider artists when, in 1981, the twins were committed to Broadmoor hospital for arson and theft. This is an engrossing, well-acted story – disturbing, but also tender and sad.

POLAND/UK/USA 2022 AGNIESZKA SMOCZYNSKA 112M

CHARLOTTE

Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish girl comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she leaves Berlin for the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only the extraordinary will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story. The full-length animated feature traces Charlotte Salomon’s life from her teens as an art student in Berlin, through her escape to France, and her eventual capture and murder. The treatment is sensitive and affectionate, a sweet tribute to a tragic life.

CANADA/FRANCE 2021 TAHIR RANA/ÉRIC WARIN 92M

Booking Ref

ANDRÉ RIEU IN DUBLIN

Start 2023 in style with André Rieu in Dublin. Exclusive to cinemas this celebratory concert is the best way to welcome in the new year!

André and his Johann Strauss Orchestra will delight you with romantic melodies, popular classics, party tunes and beloved waltzes. André in Dublin is the maestro’s first recorded concert in the Irish capital for more than 20 years – it is a truly special event not to be missed. Bring your loved ones to your local cinema and enjoy an evening of music and dance on the big screen with André Rieu. Happy New Year!! Director: Michael Fizzano, André Rieu. Cast: André Rieu, The Johann Strauss Orchestra. 120M

A MIRROR FOR BRITAIN?

REFLECTIONS ON THE EALING FILMS

With a screening of ‘The Lavender Hill Mob’ this month and a stage production of the film at the Festival Theatre, we look back at the Ealing catalogue, illustrated with a range of clips of films from the thirties to the fifties.

Patrick Hargood, Chichester Cinema Education Officer, will guide us through the Ealing films which, to paraphrase producer Michael Balcon, “projected Britain and the British character.” These included not only the much-loved comedies, such as ‘Kind Hearts and Coronets’ and ‘The Ladykillers’, but also the wartime propaganda film ‘Went the Day Well?’ and the horror anthology ‘Dead of Night’. But did they really reflect Britain or were they rather how the British people wanted to see themselves…? Not quite the same thing.

90M

THE LAVENDER HILL MOB

A mild-mannered bank worker decides to steal a delivery of gold bullion. A perfect Ealing comedy starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway.

The perfect robbery - £1 million in gold bullion stolen from the Bank of England and smuggled to France in the form of Eiffel Tower paperweights. A memorable scene that sees Holloway and Guinness scampering down the staircase of the Eiffel Tower has a Hitchcockian, vertiginous quality. Alfie Bass and Sid James, playing the other criminals, are classic supporting turns; like Holloway, they are the kind of organic, garden-grown character actors that Britain may not produce any more. This is tremendous fun – one of the finest of caper-gone-wrong movies. A before-she-was-famous cameo from Audrey Hepburn is a surreal frisson. UK 1951 CHARLES CRICHTON 78M

RIMINI

Wretched and riddled with guilt, Richie is driven to nefarious lengths to raise money for his estranged daughter. Richie Bravo, once upon a time a successful pop star, chases after his faded fame in wintry Rimini. Trapped between permanent intoxication and concerts for busloads of tourists, his world starts to collapse when his adult daughter re-enters his life. She demands money from him that he doesn’t have. This is a chilling parable about the sins of the father becoming the punishments of the child, and about the moral arc of the universe bending, across generations, toward the coldest justice imaginable. Director Ulrich Seidl’s lounge singer is so horrible, he may be brilliant. (Subtitles) GERMANY/FRANCE 2022 ULRICH SEIDL 114M

FEDORA

MET OPERA

Umberto Giordano’s exhilarating drama returns to the Met repertory for the first time in 25 years. Packed with memorable melodies, showstopping arias, and explosive confrontations. ‘Fedora’ requires a cast of thrilling voices to take flight, and the Met’s new production promises to deliver. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva, one of today’s most riveting artists, sings the title role of the 19th-century Russian princess who falls in love with her fiancé’s murderer, Count Loris, sung by star tenor Piotr Beczała. Soprano Rosa Feola is the Countess Olga, Fedora’s confidant, and baritone Artur Ruciński is the diplomat De Siriex, with much-loved Met maestro Marco Armiliato conducting. Director David McVicar delivers a detailed and dramatic staging based around an ingenious fixed set that, like a Russian nesting doll, unfolds to reveal the opera’s three distinctive settings—a palace in St. Petersburg, a fashionable Parisian salon, and a picturesque villa in the Swiss Alps. Sung in Italian with English Subtitles.

160M APPROX WITH INTERVAL

INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA: GERMANY

FOCUS ON FILM

FILM EDUCATION AT NEW PARK

Look out for the Special Talk & Film Offers

Chichester Cinema at New Park is committed to providing a unique Film Education experience to the local community.

In 2022 the team presented sixteen events for adults on Saturday mornings in the auditorium, on subjects ranging from the career of Sidney Poitier to the music of George Gershwin on film. Some of these were led by outside speakers, such as Roger Griffith O.B.E. and local film history author Nick Smedley, but most of them were put together by members of the Education Team, who are all volunteers and certified film nuts!

The team also runs free events for local schools, linked to topics which the students are studying in class or for exams. In December alone we covered ‘Fantasia’ and the drawings of Heinrich Kley for primary school students and three events for local A level students on the films of Hitchcock and Tarantino (Film Studies) and on ‘Othello on film’ for English Literature students. For the Winter 2023 programme the Team are offering no less than five talks, taking place every Saturday in January plus another on Feb 11.

They are:

A MIRROR FOR BRITAIN? REFLECTIONS ON THE EALING FILMS

Patrick Hargood, the Education Officer, will be looking back at the films made at Ealing Studios, focusing on their heyday during WW2 and the post-war years.

SAT 7 JAN 10:30 – SEE PG16

THE WAY OF CAMERON

Andrew Vance from the Education Team will be assessing the career of blockbuster director James Cameron.

Sat 14 Jan 10:30 – See pg21

SUSSEX ON THE BIG SCREEN

We welcome local film author Ellen Cheshire who will be giving a revamped version of her sell-out talk at the Film Festival, with a wealth of extra clips.

Sat 21 Jan 10:15 - See pg28

DYLAN ON FILM TALK

‘Don’t Look Back’ was an early film featuring Bob Dylan, but Sandy Guthrie from the Education team will be ignoring that injunction and looking back at some of the films which have featured the great man, both as an actor and as a musician.

Sat 28 Jan 10:30 – See pg30

THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL

Finally, on Sat 11 Feb, Patrick will be returning for a celebration of all things cinematic in a talk which will cover films about filmmaking and also cinemas and cinemagoing.

Sat 11 Feb 10:30 – See pg33

FRI 13 JAN 13:15 & 18:00

SAT 14 JAN 15:30 & 18:00

MON 16 JAN 15:30

TUE 17 JAN 13:15

WED 18 JAN 19:45

THU 19 JAN 13:15

Booking Ref

CORSAGE

Vicky Krieps puts in a star turn as lonely, patronised Elizabeth of Austria in Marie Kreutzer’s compelling portrait of a disaffected woman. Austria’s submission to the Best Foreign Film category in the 2023 Oscars.

Royalty and the pedestal-prison of womanhood is the theme of this new film from Austrian director Marie Kreutzer, imagining the home life of the Hapsburg Empress Elizabeth of Austria in 1877, the year of her 40th birthday. While Elizabeth’s role has been reduced against her wishes to purely performative, her hunger for knowledge and zest for life makes her more and more restless. She travels to England and Bavaria, visiting former lovers and old friends, seeking the excitement and purpose of her youth. A very gorgeous, eye-catching and tragic epic that is anchored by Krieps’s brilliant performance as the renegade queen. (Subtitles)

AUSTRIA 2022 MARIE KREUTZER 113M

CLASSICS RESTORED & REISSUED

THE QUEEN OF SPADES

SAT 14 JAN 13:15

TUE 17 JAN 18:15

Booking Ref

How far would you go to amass your fortune? This classic tale of avarice and vengeance has undergone a painstaking six-month 4K restoration process.

Set in 1802 Russia, it tells the story of the ruthlessly ambitious Captain Suvorin, who overhears a rumour that an ailing Countess sold her soul to win at cards. Pursuing this story, and thusly his imagined future fortune, Suvorin will stop at nothing to achieve the secret of the cards. As Suvorin gets closer to the truth, his quest takes an unforgettably eerie turn. ‘The Queen of Spades’ is a treasured relic of a time when the British cinema momentarily abandoned its good manners and revelled gloriously in visual and emotional excess.

UK 1949 THOROLD DICKINSON 95M

INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA: AUSTRIA

CLASSICS

RESTORED & REISSUED

GIANT

James Dean’s final film - an epic ahead of its time dealing with racism and inequality head on. Now presented having undergone a beautiful 4K upgrade. It centres on two men: wealthy Texas rancher Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson) and the poor, low-class cowboy Jett Rink (James Dean) who pursue Leslie Lynnton (Elizabeth Taylor). In their efforts to woo her, she ultimately chooses Benedict only to discover the widespread racism in the Texas oil fields. Locals of Mexican descent are belittled by the bigoted white Texans. With Rink discovering oil on his own small plot of land and using the money he made to buy up everything around the Benedict ranch, it sows the seeds for conflict between the families that will last for generations.

USA 1956 GEORGE STEVENS 201M + INTERVAL

WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY?

RAS VKHEDAVT, RODESAC CAS VUKUREBT?

Two strangers become near-lovers, but having metamorphosed into different looking people, are unable to find or recognize each other. A magical unmissable gem.

In the Georgian riverside town of Kutaisi, summertime romance and World Cup fever are in the air. After a pair of chance encounters, pharmacist Lisa and soccer player Giorgi find their plans for a date undone when they both awaken magically transformed -- with no way to recognize each other. This creates other problems because neither can remember how to do their jobs. Watching these characters grapple with their new identities is enthralling. The most entrancingly feel-good movie of the year, which urges you to tell anyone who’d listen about its wondrous existence so they can bask in its soul-soothing magic too. (Subtitles)

GEORGIA/GERMANY 2021 ALEKSANDRE KOBERIDZE 150M

INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA: GEORGIA

THE WAY OF CAMERON

A talk on director James Cameron by Andrew Vance of the Chichester Cinema Education Team. How did James Cameron, born in a small town in Canada, become one of the most successful film directors of all time, with ‘Titanic’ and ‘Avatar’ grossing over $2billion?

From humble beginnings working for Roger Corman as a model maker to directing ‘Terminator’, ‘Aliens’, ‘The Abyss’ and others, his path will be illustrated with clips from all his films, from ‘Piranha II’, ‘The Spawning’ - “The best flying piranha film ever”, to his latest, ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’.

100M

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

The sequel to the biggest grossing film of all time arrives after a 13 year wait. It will kickstart a succession of sequels every other year until ‘Avatar 5’ in December 2028. Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, “Avatar: The Way of Water” begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure. Directed by James Cameron and produced by Cameron and Jon Landau, the film stars Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, Jemaine Clement and Kate Winslet.

USA 2022 JAMES CAMERON 190M

NANNY

A Senegalese immigrant nanny battles micro-aggressions and otherworldly forces as she tries to make a new life for herself in the US.

In this psychological horror fable of displacement, Aisha (Anna Diop), a woman who recently emigrated from Senegal, is hired to care for the daughter of an affluent couple (Michelle Monaghan and Morgan Spector) living in New York City. Haunted by the absence of the young son she left behind, Aisha hopes her new job will afford her the chance to bring him to the US. but becomes increasingly unsettled by the family’s volatile home life. As his arrival approaches, a violent presence begins to invade both her dreams and her reality, threatening the American dream she is painstakingly piecing together.

USA 2022 NIKYATU JUSU 97M

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TICKET TO PARADISE

A divorced couple that teams up and travels to Bali to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago.

Academy Award winners George Clooney and Julia Roberts reunite on the big screen as exes who find themselves on a shared mission. When they meet by chance on a plane, they discover they both have the same motive (to stop their daughter marrying a local in Bali), they realise they must team up to sabotage the wedding. Kaitlyn Dever (‘Booksmart’) plays daughter Lily, but it is Lucas Bravo (‘Emily in Paris’), who is hilarious, and almost steals the movie from Roberts and Clooney - if that is possible. ‘Ticket to Paradise’ is a romantic comedy about the sweet surprise of second chances. As for director Ol Parker, you will know him from ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ and the ‘Mamma Mia’ sequel, so expect a feelgood movie that will be a lot of fun.

USA 2022 OL PARKER 104M

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY

THU 26 JAN 15:30 FRI 27 JAN 13:15

FOCUS ON THE DOCUMENTARY THREE MINUTES: A LENGTHENING

Bianca Stigter’s documentary transforms rare colour home-movie footage shot in 1938 Poland into a testament to victims of the Holocaust.

Home movies may be the most haunting cinema of all, taking on the lustre of loss and mortality with each passing year. The home movies Glenn Kurtz found in his parents’ home in Florida were rarer and more precious still. The film explores the amateur footage his grandfather shot on a European trip in 1938, focusing on members of the Jewish community in Nasielsk, Poland, just one year before the Nazis invaded on their murderous campaign. A great film about filmmaking and a quietly devastating memorial for lives long gone. The most haunting and perhaps the best documentary of the year. (Subtitles)

NETHERLANDS/UK 2021 BIANCA STIGTER 69M

Booking Ref SAT 28 JAN 15:30 MON 30 JAN 17:45

Booking Ref

INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA: BELGIUM

WHERE IS ANNE FRANK

This superbly animated feature film follows the journey of Kitty, the imaginary friend to whom Anne Frank dedicated her diary. First shown at our 2022 International Film Festival. ‘Where is Anne Frank’ begins with a miracle, Kitty, the imaginary friend to whom Anne Frank writes in her famous Diary, comes to life in present-day Amsterdam. Unaware that 75 years have gone by, Kitty is convinced that if she’s alive, then Anne must be alive too. It’s the beginning of an adventurous journey. It’s the story of Kitty’s quest across contemporary Europe searching for her beloved friend. The flashback events of Frank’s life are elegantly interlaced with Kitty’s journey and though a modern refugee subplot feels slightly ungainly, Folman never once loses sight of the overwhelming horror of the Holocaust. A bold attempt to combine family entertainment and politics in animated form. (Subtitles)

BELGIUM/ LUXEMBOURG/ FRANCE/ ISRAEL 2021 ARI FORMAN 97M

FRI 20 JAN 10:15

(FEEL-GOOD FRIDAYS - PG38)

FRI 20 JAN 12:30 & 17:15

SAT 21 JAN 16:00 & 18:30

SUN 22 JAN 18:00 & 20:30

MON 23 JAN 14:45 & 20:45

TUE 24 JAN 13:30 & 19:45

WED 25 JAN 12:45 & 15:00

THU 26 JAN 13:00 & 17:15

Booking Ref

A MAN CALLED OTTO

Tom Hanks is Otto, a grumpy widower who meets his match when a lively young family moves in next door.

Based on the comical and moving New York Times bestseller, ‘A Man Called Otto’ tells the story of Otto Anderson, a grumpy widower whose only joy comes from criticizing and judging his exasperated neighbours. When a young family moves in next door, he meets his match in quick-witted and very pregnant Marisol, leading to an unexpected friendship that will turn his world upsidedown. A funny, heart-warming story about how some families come from the most unexpected places. You may remember the first big-screen adaptation of the book in 2015 – Sweden’s ‘A Man Called Ove’ – which also screened at New Park.

SWEDEN/USA 2022 MARC FORSTER 110M

SUN 22 JAN 12:30

WED 25 JAN 17:15

Booking Ref

CLASSICS RESTORED & REISSUED

RASHOMON

A brilliant and dazzling classic that explores one sequence of events from multiple perspectives.

A story of violence and mystery, the plot revolves around the murder of a samurai and the violation of his wife in a forest, and the attempts to find the culprit through the wildly differing versions of those present at the incident: a woodcutter who was passing through the area; the samurai’s wife; the victim himself, summoned by a medium to participate in the trial; and the main suspect, a notorious bandit played by Mifune, whose performance and range of emotion was internationally regarded as magnetic and feral. Not many movies make such an impact that their names enter the language. ‘Rashomon’ is such a movie.

JAPAN 1950 AKIRA KUROSAWA 88M

LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE

ROYAL BALLET

Never before seen in cinemas, this new full length Christopher Wheeldon ballet is based upon Laura Esquivel’s captivating novel of the same name.

A modern Mexican classic of magic realism provides the basis for The Royal Ballet’s new full-length work, reuniting Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon with the creative team who transformed ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’ into dance, composer Joby Talbot and designer Bob Crowley. The ballet is inspired by Laura Esquivel’s novel – a captivating family saga where the central character’s emotions spill out through cooking to influence everyone around her in startling and dramatic ways. In this co-production with American Ballet Theatre, Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra also acts as musical consultant for Talbot’s newly commissioned score, and Wheeldon has worked closely with Esquivel to reshape her richly layered story into an entertaining and engrossing new ballet.

190M APPROX INCLUDING 2 INTERVALS

THE CRUCIBLE

NT LIVE

A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller’s captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (‘The Crown’) and Brendan Cowell (‘Yerma’). Raised to be seen but not heard, a group of young women in Salem suddenly find their words have an almighty power. As a climate of fear, vendetta and accusation spreads through the community, no one is safe from trial. Lyndsey Turner (‘Hamlet’) directs this contemporary new staging, designed by Tony Award-winner Es Devlin (‘The Lehman Trilogy’). Captured live from the Olivier stage at the National Theatre.

180M INC INTERVAL

SUN 29 JAN 13:00 & 15:15

TUE 31 JAN 15:45 & 20:30

WED 1 FEB 13:30 & 18:15

THU 2 FEB 13:15 & 18:00

Booking Ref

LIVING

A gentle and poignant Kazuo Ishiguro-scripted remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1953 film ‘Ikiru’ about a man dealing with a terminal diagnosis.

A buttoned-up civil servant approaching retirement, his supposed reward for a life of pointless tedium, Mr Williams receives a stomach-cancer diagnosis with one year to live. And now he realises that he has been dead until this moment. He realises he may be able to achieve one thing - forcing the city authorities to build the modest little children’s playground for which local mothers have been desperately petitioning and which he and his colleagues have been smugly preventing with their bureaucratic inertia. Nighy is magnetic, heartbreaking and utterly unforgettable. Movies have become classics for less.

UK/JAPAN 2022 OLIVER HERMANUS 102M

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I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY

The joyous, emotional, heart-breaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, one of the greatest female R&B pop vocalists of all time. Tracking her journey from obscurity to musical superstardom. the film is a no-holds-barred portrait of the complex and multifaceted woman behind The Voice. From New Jersey choir girl to one of the best-selling and most awarded recording artists of all time, audiences are taken on an inspirational, poignant—and so emotional—journey through Houston’s trailblazing life and career, with show-stopping performances and a soundtrack of the icon’s most beloved hits as you’ve never heard them before. From the writer of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, ‘The Theory of Everything’ and ‘Darkest Hour’. USA 2022 KASI LEMMONS 140M APPROX

SUSSEX ON THE BIG SCREEN

From the moment moving pictures began to entertain audiences in 1896, Sussex has been a magnet for moviemakers due to its varied natural and built locations, and its relatively close proximity to London.

In this talk illustrated with many clips, Sussex-based film historian and author Ellen Cheshire will share some rare screen moments from Sussex-based film pioneers during the silent film period, followed by range of feature films from the 1940s to the 2020s that were filmed in some of Sussex’s key cities, towns and landscapes. 120M

FRI 27 JAN 15:00 & 20:15

SAT 28 JAN 13:00 & 17:45

SUN 29 JAN 17:30 & 20:00

MON 30 JAN 15:15 & 20:00

TUE 31 JAN 13:15 & 18:00

WED 1 FEB 15:45 & 20:15

THU 2 FEB 15:30 & 20:15

FRI 3 FEB 12:00

SAT 4 FEB 15:15

SUN 5 FEB 17:45

MON 6 FEB 20:45

TUE 7 FEB 13:00

WED 8 FEB 13:15

THU 9 FEB 17:30

Booking Ref

EMPIRE OF LIGHT

The ‘love letter to the movies’ genre is revived in this poignant, wonderfully acted drama about love, life and films. Starring Olivia Colman and Colin Firth. A depressed cinema manager called Hilary, works at the Empire cinema on Margate seafront in 1981 as Britain swan-dives into recession, unemployment and widespread racism. The staff at the Empire are family – of sorts – including pompous manager, Mr Ellis and dedicated projectionist Norman. The Empire has had to close two of its four screens and the entire upstairs bar due to falling ticket sales. But then the Empire hires a new ticket-seller: Stephen, a young Black man who has an instant connection with Hilary and their relationship blossoms. The movie, thanks in great part to another astonishing performance by Colman, slowly casts a spell all its own, eventually conjuring another grand, if slightly odder, piece of fine art from a master craftsman.

UK/USA 2022 SAM MENDES 119M

FILM – YET ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN

For 60 years Bob Dylan has loomed large as a cultural icon, whether as a singer and songwriter, poet or author, but he has also appeared in a number of films. Sandy Guthrie will guide us through a selection of these films, including concert performances from the 1960s onwards, as well as acting roles in several films over the years. As would be expected from someone as clouded in enigma as Dylan, some of the film choices are surprising. To coincide with ‘Girl from the North Country’ at Chichester Festival Theatre, this talk will dip into Dylan’s film output. There will also be a separate showing of ‘Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid’ – a film in which Dylan both acted and provided the iconic song ‘Knocking on Heaven’s Door’.

120M

PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID

A strange enigmatic western that echoes Peckinpah’s ‘Ride the High Country’ as a melancholy elegy for the West. A magnificent revisionist film that demythologises the Bill the Kid legend. Documenting the pursuit of outlaw Billy the Kid by Sheriff Pat Garrett, this is arguably Sam Peckinpah’s best film. It’s a treat to see this sad and beautiful film on the big screen. It has an all-pervading sadness and uses Bob Dylan’s inspired soundtrack as an extra character, much as Robert Altman lassooed Leonard Cohen into McCabe and Mrs Miller. The singer also puts in a typically

appearance as “Alias”, Kris Kristofferson is

and the background cast including

and Slim Pickens are remarkable. USA 1973 SAM PECKINPAH 122M

FRI 3 FEB 14:30 & 20:00

SAT 4 FEB 12:00 & 17:45

SUN 5 FEB 14:45 & 20:00

MON 6 FEB 12:15 & 17:45

TUE 7 FEB 15:15 & 20:00

WED 8 FEB 15:45 THU 9 FEB 14:30 & 20:00

Booking Ref

TÁR

Cate Blanchett is utterly magnetic as an imperious maestro in this ultra-stylish drama with a shocking climax. From writer-producer-director Todd Field comes TÁR, starring Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár, the ground-breaking conductor of a major German Orchestra. We meet Tár at the height of her career, as she’s preparing both a book launch and much-anticipated live performance of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. Over the ensuing weeks her life begins to unravel in a singularly modern way. The result is a searing examination of power, and its impact and durability in today’s society. An engrossing piece of cinema, even thrilling, that keeps us wrapped around its finger for a two-and-a-half-hour-plus running time that flies by.

USA 2022 TODD FIELD 158M

FRI 3 FEB 17:30 SAT 4 FEB 20:45 SUN 5 FEB 12:15 MON 6 FEB 15:15

Booking Ref

TILL

In 1955, after Emmett Till is brutally murdered, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.

‘Till’ is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was brutally lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie’s poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother’s ability to change the world. Next to Cate Blanchett’s remarkable incarnation of an egomaniacal conductor in ‘Tár’, Deadwyler delivers the most essential and critical performance in a film this year.

USA 2022 CHINONYE CHUKWU 130M

BAIT

Tension swamps a Cornish fishing village as the locals are being crowded out by tourists and second home owners. Hailed as a modern masterpiece by Mark Kermode. Modern-day Cornish fisherman Martin (Edward Rowe) is struggling to buy a boat while coping with family rivalry, the influx of Londoners, Airbnb and stag parties to his harbour village. The summer season brings simmering tensions between the locals and newcomers to boiling point, with tragic consequences. Mark Jenkin has given us a brilliantly original, intriguing and deeply engaging story which is sure to resonate with anyone who has spent any amount of time in Cornwall as a tourist or otherwise. Jenkin’s latest, ‘Enys Men’ is showing from Friday 10 February.

UK 2019 MARK JENKIN 89M

ENYS MEN

‘Bait’ director Mark Jenkin delivers another eerie prose-poem of a film, about an isolated woman lost inside her own mind. ‘Bait’ is showing on 7 February. Set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast, a wildlife volunteer’s daily observations of a rare flower turn into a metaphysical journey that forces her as well as the viewer to question what is real and what is nightmare. Shot on stunning 16mm, the film has a visceral quality that feels both innovative and authentic to the period. Additionally, Jenkin’s signature post-sync sound helps to build this dream-like world off the Cornish coast. Its elliptical obscurity is all its own. A singular, near-structureless nightmare that may also be a formal ghost story.

UK 2022 MARK JENKIN 96M

FRI 10 FEB 19:30 SAT 11 FEB 17:15 MON 13 FEB 12:45 WED 15 FEB 15:15 THU 16 FEB 19:30

Booking Ref

BABYLON

From the director of ‘Whiplash’ and ‘La La Land’ comes a tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess set in early Hollywood. With Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt. “It’s written in the stars. I am a star,” Nellie (Margot Robbie) says. “If I had money, I would only spend it on things that were fun. Not boring things, like taxes. I just want for everyone to party forever.” ‘Babylon’ is a fever dream of a movie that’s best witnessed on the big screen. An epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, with an ensemble cast including Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li and Jean Smart. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.

USA 2022 DAMIEN CHAZELLE 188M

THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL

MOVIES ABOUT THE MOVIES

An illustrated talk on films about filmmaking and filmgoing, from ‘Sunset Boulevard’ to ‘Babylon’.

The year has scarcely begun and yet we have already had three films by major filmmakers whose subject is… films. ‘The Fabelmans’, ‘Empire of Light’ and ‘Babylon’. In this talk, illustrated by a wide range of clips, Chichester Cinema Education Officer Patrick Hargood will be looking back at films on the making of films, including ‘Sunset Boulevard’ and ‘Fellini’s 8½’ and also films about cinemas and cinemagoing, including ‘Cinema Paradiso’ and ‘The Last Picture Show’. 120M

FRI 10 FEB 12:45

MON 13 FEB 20:15

THU 16 FEB 14:30

Booking Ref

MOONAGE DAYDREAM

A cinematic odyssey exploring David Bowie’s creative and musical journey. From visionary filmmaker Brett Morgen and sanctioned by the Bowie estate. Brett Morgen’s Moonage Daydream is a 140-minute shapeshifting epiphany-slash-freakout leading to the revelation that, yes, we’re lovers of David Bowie and that is that. It’s a glorious celebratory montage of archive material, live performance footage, Bowie’s own experimental video art and paintings, movie and stage work and interviews with various normcore TV personalities with whom Bowie is unfailingly polite, open and charming. Moonage Daydream is an immersive ride into David Bowie’s sound and vision, and leaves you gobsmacked by his creative genius over the course of his 50-year career. A bombastic, overstimulating, poignant, lifeaffirming and risk-taking summation of a life.

GERMANY / USA 2022 BRETT MORGEN 140M

SUN 12 FEB 12:45

TUE 14 FEB 20:30

Booking Ref

ALCARRÀS

Carla Simón won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for this buzzing and vibrant ensemble drama about a Catalonian family being evicted from their farm. As far as they can remember, the Solé family have spent every summer picking the peaches from their orchard in Alcarràs, a small village in Spain. But this year’s crop could be their last, as they face eviction. The new plans for the land include cutting down the peach trees and installing solar panels, which causes a rift within the large tight-knit family. For the first time, they face an uncertain future and risk losing more than their home. There are moments of pure joy still to be had across this final summer, which Simón renders with an unhurriedly luxurious gaze where you can feel the dirt, smell the food, sense the sun warm on your skin. (Subtitles)

SPAIN/ITALY 2022 CARLA SIMÓN 120M

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA: SPAIN

TUE 14 FEB 18:15 Booking Ref

Can the greatest romance of your life last only one night? Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke star in this ephemeral and cerebral love story. A chance encounter between two solitary young strangers. After they hit it off on a train bound for Vienna, Paris university student Celine and American tourist Jesse impulsively decide to spend the day together before he returns to the US. As the pair roam the city, Richard Linklater’s tenderly observant gaze studies the uncertainty and intoxication of young love. Capturing an effervescent mixture of the mid-90s, it’s a striking, authentic observation of two people experiencing a romantically charged connection which would come to erode and inform the shape of their future. USA/AUSTRIA 1995 RICHARD LINKLATER 101M

THE OLD WAY

An aging gunslinger and his daughter must face the consequences of his past, when the son of a man he murdered years ago arrives to take his revenge.

Nicholas Cage stars in his first Western as Colton Briggs, a coldblooded gunslinger turned respectable family man. When an outlaw and his gang put Colton and his family in peril, Colton is forced to take up arms with an unlikely partner - his 12-year-old daughter (Ryan Kiera Armstrong). The tale leads to a pulsepounding climactic shootout in time-honoured fashion. This is a classic revenge tale enlivened by the excellent Cage and the novel family dynamic of a father and daughter teaming up to dish out the vengeance.

USA 2022 BRETT DONOWHO 95M

THE BARBER OF SEVILLE

ROH LIVE

Expect heart-melting serenades, ridiculous disguises and a fairytale ending waiting just out of reach. From the barber’s opening number ‘Largo al factotum’, with its cry of ‘Figaro!,’ to Rosina’s feisty aria ‘Una voce poco fa,’ Gioachino Rossini’s comic opera is a riotously entertaining affair. When Rosina falls in love with a mysterious young suitor who calls himself Lindoro, she must use all her cunning – and a little help from her local barber – to outwit her calculating guardian Dr Bartolo. Rafael Payare makes his Royal Opera House debut conducting an outstanding international cast that includes: Aigul Akhmetshina (Rosina), Andrzej Filonczyk (Figaro), Lawrence Brownlee (Count Almaviva), Bryn Terfel (Don Basilio), Fabio Capitanucci (Doctor Bartolo), Ailish Tynan (Berta), Josef Jeongmeen Ahn (Fiorello). Sung in Italian with English subtitles. 225M

BIG VS SMALL

An unlikely 5-foot tall big-wave surfer takes on Portugal’s Nazaré in a courageous bid to equal her inner turmoil in this candid portrait of an abuse survivor.

When filmmaker Minna Dufton started her documentary about elite big wave champion surfer, the “tiny fighter” Joana Andrade who rides the powerhouse waves at Nazaré, little did she know Joana harboured a secret that could keep her from the waves. A third of the way through Minna Dufton’s documentary, Andrade drops a bombshell: as a 12-year-old she was groomed, drugged and sexually abused by a family friend. It’s about power and strength on top of the water and facing demons under it. It’s about trust, it’s about letting go. This is an unusually candid psychological portrait of a damaged yet resilient human being. (Some subtitles)

FINLAND 2020 MINNA DUFTON 76M

EO

We follow the experiences of a donkey named Eo through triumphs and disasters in this mesmerizing, exhilarating and poignant journey.

The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not for a moment does he lose his innocence. EO is an astonishment and so too is this wild, boldly expressionistic movie that conveys the life of its largely silent protagonist with a bare minimum of dialogue. Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes. (Subtitles)

POLAND/ITALY 2022 JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI 86M

FRI 17 FEB 15:30 & 17:45

SAT 18 FEB 15:15 & 20:30

SUN 19 FEB 18:15

MON 20 FEB 18:00 & 20:30

TUE 21 FEB 13:00

WED 22 FEB 13:15

THU 23 FEB 17:15

Booking Ref

THE WHALE

A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption. Early favourite for Best Actor Oscar. A bereft Charlie (Brendan Fraser) has become a recluse. With his best friend his only contact with the outside world, Charlie is eating himself into an early grave. His health failing, he reaches out to the daughter he abandoned when he fell in love with a man and left his wife. Unfolding in a single room, the film has a rich sense of place – the dusty American mid-west. But its themes are universal: our fundamental need for human connection, a sense that time is unforgiving, and the (occasionally awful) power and responsibility of parenting. With exquisite writing and pitch-perfect performances, ‘The Whale’ is destined to be one of the talking-point films of the year.

USA 2022 DARREN ARONOFSKY 117M

FRI 17 FEB 12:30 & 20:15

SAT 18 FEB 12:15 & 17:30

SUN 19 FEB 20:30

MON 20 FEB 12:00 & 15:00

TUE 21 FEB 15:30 & 20:15

WED 22 FEB 16:00

THU 23 FEB 14:00

Booking Ref

THE FABELMANS

Part memoir, part ode to the power of the movies, The Fabelmans finds Steven Spielberg digging at the family roots that helped make him a beloved filmmaker - and proves he hasn’t lost his magic touch.

Young Sammy Fabelman falls in love with movies after his parents take him to see ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’. Armed with a camera, Sammy starts to make his own films at home, much to the delight of his supportive mother. ‘The Fabelmans’ never seems self-serving. It’s a humble self-portrait, and the humility is most welcome. Viewers expecting a stirring childhood memoir about the power of cinema may be surprised at how bittersweet and raw the story actually is. But that vulnerability is what makes the film a triumph. USA 2023 STEVEN SPIELBERG 151M

THU

OTHELLO

NT LIVE

An extraordinary new production of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedy, directed by Clint Dyer with a cast that includes Giles Terera (‘Hamilton’), Rosy McEwan (‘The Alienist’), and Paul Hilton (‘The Inheritance’).

She’s a bright, headstrong daughter of a senator; elevated by her status but stifled by its expectations. He’s a refugee of slavery; having risen to the top of a white world, he finds love across racial lines has a cost. Wed in secret, Desdemona and Othello crave a new life together. But as unseen forces conspire against them, they find their future is not theirs to decide. ‘Othello’ was filmed live on the Lyttleton stage of the National Theatre. Directed by Clint Dyer. 180M APPROX INC 2 INTERVALS

WHAT’S ON

FRI 23 DEC

12:45 MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS (PG) 115M

15:15 INDIA SWEETS AND SPICES (PG) 101M

17:30 MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS 20:00 LOVE ACTUALLY (15) 135M SPECIAL XMAS SCREENING

SAT 24 DEC

12:00 INDIA SWEETS AND SPICES

14:00 FANNY AND ALEXANDER (15) 188M

17:30 MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS

SUN 25 DEC

XMAS DAY - CLOSED MON 26 DEC

BOXING DAY - CLOSED TUE 27 DEC 13:30 LYLE, LYLE, CROCODILE (PG) 106M

15:45 UTAMA (15) 87M 17:45 INDIA SWEETS AND SPICES 20:00 MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS

WED 28 DEC

13:00 MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS 15:30 LYLE, LYLE, CROCODILE 17:45 MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS 20:15 UTAMA

SUN 1 JAN

15:15 STRANGE WORLD 17:45 NOCEBO (15) 96M 20:00 THE PALE BLUE EYE MON 2 JAN 12:45 STRANGE WORLD 15:15 THE PALE BLUE EYE 18:00 WHITE NOISE 20:45 CONFESS, FLETCH TUE 3 JAN 13:30 AFTERSUN 15:45 CONFESS, FLETCH 18:00 THE PALE BLUE EYE 20:45 NOCEBO WED 4 JAN 13:30 CONFESS, FLETCH 15:45 AFTERSUN 18:00 NOCEBO 20:15 THE PALE BLUE EYE THU 5 JAN 13:00 THE PALE BLUE EYE 15:45 NOCEBO 18:00 AFTERSUN 20:00 WHITE NOISE FRI 6 JAN 13:15 THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (15) 109M 15:45 A LOVE SONG (PG) 81M 17:45 INFERNAL MACHINE (15) 111M 20:00 LYNCH/OZ (15) 108M

SAT 7 JAN 10:30 EALING FILMS TALK 13:15 CHARLOTTE (12A) 92M 15:15 THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN 17:45 THE SILENT TWINS (18) 113M 20:15 A LOVE SONG SUN 8 JAN 13:15 HOPPER (EXHIBITION ON SCREEN) 90M

LYLE, LYLE, CROCODILE

THU 29 DEC

12:45 LYLE, LYLE, CROCODILE 15:00 INDIA SWEETS AND SPICES

17:30 MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS 20:00 MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS

FRI 30 DEC

12:30 STRANGE WORLD (PG) 102M

14:45 WHITE NOISE (15) 136M

17:30 THE PALE BLUE EYE (15) 128M 20:15 AFTERSUN (15) 102M

SAT 31 DEC

13:15 THE PALE BLUE EYE 16:00 NEW YEAR’S EVE CONCERT: BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER 120M

18:15 CONFESS, FLETCH (15) 98M

15:15 ANDRÉ RIEU IN DUBLIN 120M 17:45 THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN 20:00 THE SILENT TWINS MON 9 JAN 13:00 INFERNAL MACHINE 15:30 THE SILENT TWINS 18:00 A LOVE SONG 20:00 THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN TUE 10 JAN 13:15 THE SILENT TWINS 15:30 LYNCH/OZ 17:45 THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN 20:15 INFERNAL MACHINE WED 11 JAN 13:00 THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN 15:15 A LOVE SONG 17:00 CHARLOTTE

THU 12 JAN 13:15 INFERNAL MACHINE 15:45 CHARLOTTE 18:00 HOPPER (EXHIBITION) 20:00 THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN

2FOR1 WEEKEND

FRI 13 JAN

13:15 CORSAGE (15) 113M

15:30 RIMINI (18) 114M 18:00 CORSAGE 20:15 NANNY (15) 97M

SAT 14 JAN 10:30 JAMES CAMERON TALK 13:15 THE QUEEN OF SPADES (PG) 95M 15:30 CORSAGE 18:00 CORSAGE 20:15 RIMINI

SUN 15 JAN 12:30 THE LAVENDER HILL MOB (U) 81M

USE DISCOUNT CODE: 2FOR1JAN23

14:45 FEDORA (MET) 161M INC INTERVAL 18:15 GIANT (PG) 201M + INTERVAL

MON 16 JAN

13:15 NANNY 15:30 CORSAGE 18:00 THE LAVENDER HILL MOB 20:00 RIMINI

TUE 17 JAN 13:15 CORSAGE 15:30 WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (15) 150M 18:15 THE QUEEN OF SPADES 20:30 RIMINI

WED 18 JAN 13:30 GIANT 17:30 NANNY 19:45 CORSAGE

THU 19 JAN 13:15 CORSAGE 15:45 GIANT 19:45 WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY?

FRI 20 JAN

10:15 A MAN CALLED OTTOFEEL-GOOD FRIDAY - PG38 12:30 A MAN CALLED OTTO (12A) TIME TBC 15:00 TICKET TO PARADISE (12A) 104M

17:15 A MAN CALLED OTTO 19:45 AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER (12A) 190M

SAT 21 JAN

10:15 SUSSEX ON FILM TALK 120M 12:30 AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER 16:00 A MAN CALLED OTTO 18:30 A MAN CALLED OTTO 21:00 TICKET TO PARADISE

SUN 22 JAN 12:30 RASHOMON (12A) 88M 14:30 LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE (ROH BALLET) 190M INC 2 INTERVALS

18:00 A MAN CALLED OTTO 20:30 A MAN CALLED OTTO

MON 23 JAN

12:30 TICKET TO PARADISE 14:45 A MAN CALLED OTTO 17:15 AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER 20:45 A MAN CALLED OTTO

TUE 24 JAN 13:30 A MAN CALLED OTTO 16:15 AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER 19:45 A MAN CALLED OTTO

WED 25 JAN 12:45 A MAN CALLED OTTO 15:00 A MAN CALLED OTTO 17:15 RASHOMON

THU 26 JAN 10:00 WHERE IS ANNE FRANKHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY PRIVATE SCREENING (PG) 99M

13:00 A MAN CALLED OTTO 15:30 THREE MINUTES: A LENGTHENING (12A) 69M 17:15 A MAN CALLED OTTO 19:45 THE CRUCIBLE (NT LIVE) 180M INC 2 INTERVALS

FRI 27 JAN 10:00 WHERE IS ANNE FRANKHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY PRIVATE SCREENING (PG) 99M

13:15 THREE MINUTES: A LENGTHENING (12A) 69M 15:00 EMPIRE OF LIGHT (15) 119M 17:30 I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY (12A) 140MTBC 20:15 EMPIRE OF LIGHT

SAT 28 JAN 10:30 BOB DYLAN TALK 120M 13:00 EMPIRE OF LIGHT 15:30 WHERE IS ANNE FRANK (PG) 99M

17:45 EMPIRE OF LIGHT 20:15 I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY

SUN 29 JAN

13:00 LIVING (12A) 102M 15:15 LIVING 17:30 EMPIRE OF LIGHT 20:00 EMPIRE OF LIGHT MON 30 JAN 12:30 I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY 15:15 EMPIRE OF LIGHT 17:45 WHERE IS ANNE FRANK 20:00 EMPIRE OF LIGHT

TUE 7 FEB

13:00 EMPIRE OF LIGHT

15:15 TÁR

18:15 BAIT (15) 89M

20:00 TÁR

WED 8 FEB

13:15 EMPIRE OF LIGHT 15:45 TÁR

THU 9 FEB 12:30 BAIT 14:30 TÁR 17:30 EMPIRE OF LIGHT 20:00 TÁR

FRI 10 FEB 10:30 THE OLD WAY (FEEL-GOOD FRIDAYS) - PG38

12:45 MOONAGE DAYDREAM (15) 140M

15:30 THE OLD WAY (15) 95M 17:30 ENYS MEN (15) 96M 19:30 BABYLON (15) 188M

SAT 11 FEB 10:30 CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD TALK 110M

TUE 31 JAN 13:15 EMPIRE OF LIGHT 15:45 LIVING 18:00 EMPIRE OF LIGHT 20:30 LIVING

WED 1 FEB 13:30 LIVING 15:45 EMPIRE OF LIGHT 18:15 LIVING 20:15 EMPIRE OF LIGHT

THU 2 FEB 13:15 LIVING 15:30 EMPIRE OF LIGHT 18:00 LIVING 20:15 EMPIRE OF LIGHT

FRI 3 FEB 12:00 EMPIRE OF LIGHT (15) 119M 14:30 TÁR (15) 158M 17:30 TILL (15) 130M 20:00 TÁR

SAT 4 FEB 12:00 TÁR 15:15 EMPIRE OF LIGHT 17:45 TÁR 20:45 TILL

SUN 5 FEB 12:15 TILL 14:45 TÁR 17:45 EMPIRE OF LIGHT 20:00 TÁR

MON 6 FEB 12:15 TÁR 15:15 TILL 17:45 TÁR 20:45 EMPIRE OF LIGHT

13:00 BIG VS SMALL (PG) 76M 14:45 PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID (18) 122M 17:15 BABYLON 20:45 THE OLD WAY SUN 12 FEB 12:45 ALCARRÀS (15) 120M

15:15 ENYS MEN 17:30 THE OLD WAY 19:45 BIG VS SMALL MON 13 FEB 12:45 BABYLON 16:15 THE OLD WAY 18:15 ENYS MEN 20:15 MOONAGE DAYDREAM

TUE 14 FEB

14:00 BIG VS SMALL 16:00 THE OLD WAY 18:15 BEFORE SUNRISE (15) 101M VALENTINE’S DAY FILM 20:30 ALCARRÀS

EMPIRE OF LIGHT

THE FABLEMANS

WED 15 FEB

13:00 THE OLD WAY 15:15 BABYLON 19:00 THE BARBER OF SEVILLE (ROH) 225M INC 2 INTERVALS

THU 16 FEB 12:45 BIG VS SMALL 14:30 MOONAGE DAYDREAM 17:15 PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID 19:30 BABYLON

FRI 17 FEB

12:30 THE FABLEMANS (PG) 151M 15:30 THE WHALE (15) 117M 17:45 THE WHALE 20:15 THE FABLEMANS

SAT 18 FEB 12:15 THE FABLEMANS 15:15 THE WHALE 17:30 THE FABLEMANS 20:30 THE WHALE

SUN 19 FEB 12:15 EO (15) 86M 14:15 THE BARBER OF SEVILLE (ROH) 225M INC 2 INTERVALS 18:15 THE WHALE 20:30 THE FABLEMANS

MON 20 FEB

12:00 THE FABLEMANS

15:00 THE FABLEMANS

18:00 THE WHALE

20:30 THE WHALE

TUE 21 FEB

13:00 THE WHALE 15:30 THE FABLEMANS 18:15 EO 20:15 THE FABLEMANS

WED 22 FEB 13:15 THE WHALE 16:00 THE FABLEMANS THU 23 FEB 14:00 THE FABLEMANS 17:15 THE WHALE 19:45 OTHELLO (NT LIVE) 190M INC 2 INTERVALS