August 2014 Phoenix Brochure

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Cinema Art Café Bar August Programme Two Days, One Night Fri 29 Aug – Thu 11 Sep

Also this month Our first open air screening – A Hard Day’s Night Free creative workshops for children on Fridays New Stage on Screen dates including Stephen Fry Live

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New film releases Boyhood Begin Again The Rover Lilting

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Chef p4 This month we’re celebrating. Arts Council England has announced that Phoenix has been awarded funding for a further three years (until 2018) as one of a select group of National Portfolio organisations dedicated to bringing great art to people across the country.

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The Golden Dream p5

Arts Council England’s investment will help us build on the work we already do. Later this month, for example, we’ll be announcing the first recipients of our new Phoenix Interact Labs bursary scheme, which includes funding and support for emerging artists in Leicester and Leicestershire.

The Fault in Our Stars p4

Begin Again p5

Joe p5

The Rover p6

A Promise p6

The Year and the Vineyard p6

Lilting p7

Mood Indigo p6

The Man Whose Mind Exploded p7 Two Days, One Night p10

Coming in September

The Hundred-Foot Journey

This funding means we’ll be able to keep developing our art and digital culture programme over the next three years – bringing more exhibitions from artists across the world to Leicester, taking art out into the city and providing support for the local arts community.

In the Cube gallery this month we’ll be showcasing cutting edge work from our partners at De Montfort University before setting up for our next exhibition Sites of Collective Memory. In the cafebar we’ll be running free drop-in workshops for children every Friday to help introduce them to the amazing world of creative technology (p13).

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Begin Again

Continued from last month

Boyhood

Dir. Richard Linklater Cast: Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane USA 2014, 2hrs 46mins Filmed across a 12 year period with the same cast, Richard Linklater’s (Before Midnight) new film is a oneof-a-kind masterpiece, the type that comes along every so often to remind you why you love cinema.

Following young Mason

(Ellar Coltrane) from the age of 5–18, we see him grow up literally before our eyes – through snapshots of birthdays, family holidays, first days at school and graduations. A nostalgic hymn to the recent past, childhood and

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“I tried to split them up thinking he was attacking her and the woman punches me in the mouth – turns out it was Janis Joplin”.

Mike Myers’ hugely entertaining biopic is about celebrity manager Shep Gordon – a showbiz survivor few have heard of; but everyone will know his incredible roster of clients including Alice Cooper, Sylvester Stallone and Michael Douglas (who shares some wonderfully catty anecdotes!)

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Dir. John Carney Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Keira Knightley USA 2013, 1hr 44mins

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Dir. Mike Myers Cast: Shep Gordon USA 2013, 1hr 25mins

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family – whether as a parent, sibling or friend – everyone will recognise some part of their own experience in Mason’s journey.

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Like Irish director Carney’s 2006 film Once, his new movie is a sweet and uplifting film about the redemptive power of music.

When disgraced former record label exec Dan (a gorgeouslyscruffy Mark Ruffalo) spots young singer songwriter Gretta (Knightley) performing in an East

Village bar, her innocent songs and raw talent convince him to record an album with her using the streets of New York as a studio. Touching performances from the two leads and great support from Catherine Keener and James Corden.

The Golden Dream

Joe

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A new feel-good comedy about following your heart (and palate) that will leave you very hungry!

Favreau stars as Carl; fed up with cooking his boss’s pretentious menu at a fancy eatery, things come to a head when a local critic savages his food in a review.

Deciding to quit and pursue his dream of running a Cuban sandwich truck, Carl calls in a few favours and is soon off on the road, aided by his son and loyal colleague Martin. A hymn to family, determination and the simple pleasures of food.

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Dir. David Gordon Green Cast: Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan USA 2013, 1hr 57mins

Dir. Rebecca Zlotowski Cast: Tahar Rahim, Léa Seydoux Austria/France 2013 1hr 35mins, subtitled

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Fri 1 – Mon 4 Aug Dir. Jon Favreau Cast: Jon Favreau, John Leguizamo USA 2014, 1hr 54mins

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Dir. Josh Boone Cast: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort USA 2014, 2hrs 20mins

Dir. Diego Quemada-Díez Cast: Brandon López, Rodolfo Domínguez Guatemala/Spain/Mexico 2013 1hr 48mins, subtitled

Taking America by storm this summer, this adaptation of John Green's best-selling novel stars Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort as Hazel and Gus, two teenagers who meet at a cancer support group. Immediately falling for each other, the reality of their conditions threatens their young love. Successfully adapted by the screenwriters of 500 Days of Summer and elevated through the young stars' winning performances, the film will strike a chord beyond young audiences.

First-time director QuemadaDíez tackles the theme of illegal immigration from a young perspective as four teenagers embark on a challenging train journey from Guatemala to the U.S. border. Contrasting the beautiful scenery with the hardships of corrupt cops and traffickers the friends face, the youths are confronted by the harsh reality that the promise of the US ‘Golden Dream’ holds. This hard-hitting film pulls no punches and has won multiple awards worldwide.

Drawing comparisons to last year’s Mud, redemption and violence clash in this gritty drama when 15-year-old Gary approaches ex-con Joe (Cage) for work on his lumber crew. The boy, hoping for a better life yet regularly beaten by his alcoholic dad Wade, triggers a fatherly instinct in Joe that he never knew he had.

A stunning return to form for Cage after years making brainless medium-budget movies, he’s matched by rising star Sheridan.

Joe is a film with guts and heart.

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Director Zlotowski's second feature is a dark and gripping love story, set within the tight-knit community of workers at a nuclear power plant in the heart of the French countryside. Newcomer Gary (Rahim, A Prophet) lands a job as a decontamination sub contractor, but soon falls into a passionate affair with Karole (Seydoux), a co-worker's fiancée. With it only a matter of time until someone uncovers their relationship, how long can Gary trust his workmates to watch his back in the dangerous environment of the plant?

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Dir. David Michôd Cast: Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson Australia/USA 2014, 1hr 43mins, subtitled (parts)

Dir. Hong Khaou Cast: Ben Whishaw, Pei-pei Cheng UK2014, 1hr 26mins

Michôd's follow-up to Animal Kingdom is a brutal crime drama set 10 years after a global economic collapse has reduced the Australian Outback to a dystopian wilderness, where strangers are viewed with suspicion and kindness equals weakness. After Eric's (Pearce) precious car is stolen by a gang,

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Fri 9 – Mon 11 Aug Dir. Patrice Leconte Cast: Rebecca Hall, Alan Rickman France/Belgium 2013, 1hr 38mins An old-fashioned swooning romance of forbidden passion based on Stefan Zweig's novella Journey into the Past and based in pre-WWI Germany: Richard Madden (TV’s Game of Thrones) stars as up-and-coming secretary Friedrich Zeitz, selected by ailing factory owner Karl Hoffmeister (Rickman) to be a tutor to his young son at his country estate. Friedrich soon falls for Hoffmeister’s younger wife Lotte, but the pair’s mutual attraction is threatened by their loyalty to their benefactor and the impending war.

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Ben Whishaw (Skyfall, Bright Star) plays Richard – a young Londoner crippled with grief over the death of his boyfriend Kai. Kai’s only relative in the UK is his mother Junn (Pei-pei Cheng, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) who is unable to speak English and ensconced in a drab retirement home. Hoping the two can find some solace

in memories of a man they both loved, Richard hires his friend as a translator, but Junn was unaware or refuses to acknowledge Kai and Richard’s relationship. A film for anyone who has ever loved, and perhaps lost, Hong Kahu’s debut feature is tremendously moving and made with intelligence and

care. Moments of comic relief come from Peter Bowles as Alan – an elderly Romeo making bumbling attempts to seduce Junn.

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World War I on Film: Paths of Glory PG

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Dir. Jonathan Cenzual Burley Cast: Andrea Calabrese, Spain 2013, 1hr 15mins

Dir. Michel Gondry Cast: Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou France/Belgium 2013, 1hr 34mins, subtitled

Dir. Toby Amies Cast: Tony Banwell UK 2012, 1hr 17mins

Dir. Stanley Kubrick Cast: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker USA 1957, 1hr 25mins

Dir. Matt Reeves Cast: Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke USA 2014, 2hrs 10mins

In this magical micro-budget film, a Spanish civil war fighter falls from the sky into a present day village in Spain. After befriending the town’s teacher and an overenthusiastic priest (who assumes he must be an angel or a saint), the mysterious soldier sets out to find a way to return to 1937 and his fiancée.

Bursting with more wit and charm than a hundred blockbuster movies – but with none of their marketing budget – this is a hidden gem for fans of world cinema.

From the endlessly inventive mind of Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) comes a surreal adaptation of Boris Vian's cult novel. Colin (Duris), a fabulously wealthy bachelor, falls in love with the enigmatic Chloé (Tautou). But the lovers' idyllic new life (and Paris itself) begins to crumble when Chloé becomes sick from a lily growing in her lungs, and the only cure is to surround her constantly with fresh flowers.

Whimsical and heartbreaking.

75-year-old eccentric Drako Zarhazar, a former dancer, biker, drug dealer to The Rolling Stones, model/muse for Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol and Derek Jarman, and ‘elder statesman on the 1980s London fetish club scene’ is unable to create memories after suffering brain damage. Forced to live in the present, Drako discusses his incredible life from inside his Brighton flat. How much is fact and how much is fiction?

Get swept along for the ride with this fascinating man.

Kubrick’s masterful anti-war drama shows men caught up in, and ground to pieces by, the machinations of the war machine.

Desperate for a scapegoat after a disastrous attempt to seize the heavily fortified ‘Ant Hill’, the French generals close ranks and court martial three infantrymen for cowardice. A lawyer in civilian life, the soldiers’ commanding officer Colonel Dax (Douglas) defends his men personally, but is confronted by the petty one-upmanship of the top brass.

After 2011’s surprise hit Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the franchise steps up a gear to deliver the most intelligent and enthralling blockbuster of the summer.

Set 10 years after the end of Rise of..., a virus has wiped out most of mankind, and the apes have created their own forest utopia.

When a small group of human survivors makes contact looking for help, it kick-starts a chain of events that can only lead to war.

Shakespearean in scope with incredible action sequences.

he takes off in pursuit only to find Rey (Pattinson), the injured and naïve little brother of one of the thieves, who has been left behind.

Bound by a shared desire to settle scores with the escaped gang members, the two men set off

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on a desperate vengeance-fuelled chase. With superb performances from the two leads, The Rover is Australian cinema at its most raw.

Mood Indigo

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The Golden Dream Maleficent Chef Supermensch The Golden Dream Boyhood Chef Maleficent Boyhood Chef The Golden Dream Supermensch Globe on Screen: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Earth to Echo Begin Again A Promise Joe Earth to Echo Grand Central Begin Again Cinema Bizarre: Adaptation Joe Earth to Echo Autism Friendly Screening: Earth to Echo Begin Again A Promise Essential Cinema: The Big City (Mahanagar) Double Bill: Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid & The Sting Double Bill: Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid Double Bill: The Sting Joe Grand Central Begin Again Earth to Echo Lazy Sunday: Begin Again Grand Central A Promise Essential Cinema: The Big City (Mahanagar) Glyndebourne: La Traviata Begin Again Joe Earth to Echo Begin Again

Maleficent Chef Boyhood Maleficent The Fault in Our Stars Supermensch Boyhood Chef World War 1 on Screen Maleficent Maleficent Getting started with Arduino Supermensch Boyhood The Fault in Our Stars Chef Supermensch Boyhood The Fault in Our Stars Maleficent Lazy Sunday: Chef Supermensch Boyhood Maleficent The Fault in Our Stars Supermensch Boyhood Chef Maleficent Chef Boyhood The Fault in Our Stars Supermensch The Golden Dream Boyhood Chef Maleficent Chef Supermensch The Golden Dream Boyhood Chef – subtitled Supermensch The Golden Dream Maleficent Boyhood

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – subtitled

The Rover WWI on Film: Paths of Glory The Rover Mood Indigo The Rover The Man Whose Mind Exploded The Unbeatables Lazy Sunday: The Rover The Man Whose Mind Exploded The Rover WWI on Film: Paths of Glory The Rover The Man Whose Mind Exploded Mood Indigo The Rover Phoenix Film Camp The Unbeatables Mood Indigo The Rover Dawn of the Planet of the Apes The Rover Mood Indigo The Rover Dawn of the Planet of the Apes The Unbeatables Mood Indigo The Rover The Unbeatables The Rover

A Promise Joe Earth to Echo Joe The Year and the Vineyard Grand Central Begin Again Earth to Echo Earth to Echo Begin Again The Year and the Vineyard Joe Grand Central Begin Again – subtitled Grand Central Joe The Year and the Vineyard Earth to Echo WWI on Film: Paths of Glory Joe Grand Central Begin Again Earth to Echo Joe Grand Central Begin Again The Year and the Vineyard Earth to Echo Begin Again Earth to Echo Joe The Year and the Vineyard Begin Again Grand Central Joe The Year and the Vineyard The Unbeatables The Rover In a World... – audio described Mood Indigo The Unbeatables The Rover The Man Whose Mind Exploded The Rover Mood Indigo The Rover The Unbeatables The Rover Mood Indigo

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Key Access Cinema Silver Screening

Courses Stage on Screen

Planes 2 Lilting Cycling with Moliere The Rover Planes 2 The Rover Lilting The Short Cinema The Rover Planes 2 The Rover Lilting Planes 2 The Rover Cycling with Moliere The Rover Lilting The Rover Two Days, One Night God’s Pocket Two Days, One Night Lilting Charulata Two Days, One Night Two Days, One Night Lilting The House of Magic Two Days, One Night Lilting Two Days, One Night Charulata Two Days, One Night Lilting God’s Pocket Two Days, One Night The House of Magic Lazy Sunday: Two Days, One Night God’s Pocket Two Days, One Night Charulata Two Days, One Night God’s Pocket Two Days, One Night Lilting

Bicycle The Rover Planes 2 Cycling with Moliere The Rover Planes 2 The Rover The Rover Lilting Courtyard Screening: A Hard Day’s Night Pantani The Rover Planes 2 Planes 2 The Rover Lilting Cycling with Moliere The Rover The Rover Planes 2 Lazy Sunday: Lilting The Rover Planes 2 The Rover Cycling with Moliere The Rover Lilting The Rover Cycling with Moliere Planes 2 Planes 2 The Rover Cycling with Moliere The Rover Lilting The Rover Journeys Festival: Leave to Remain + Q&A The Rover Planes 2 The Rover Lilting The Rover Planes 2 The Rover – subtitled Lilting Cycling with Moliere The Rover

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Must-see masterpieces

Fri 29 Aug – Thu 11 Sep

The Big City

Dir. Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne Cast: Marion Cotillard Belgium/Italy/France 2014, 1hr 35 mins, subtitled The Dardenne brothers return after 2011’s The Kid with a Bike with this brilliant drama about Belgian working class life. Mother of two Sandra (Cotillard, Rust and Bone, La Vie en Rose) loses her factory

Cycling with Moliere

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(Alceste à bicyclette)

CINEMA BIZARRE The weird and wonderful

Adaptation

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(Mahanagar) job due to a vote made by her coworkers; forced to choose between keeping her or their annual €1000 bonuses. Demanding a re-vote, Sandra is left with one weekend to convince each worker to choose solidarity over personal gains and keep her career. Sandra’s plight, and her fellow workers’ various anguished reactions to her

Leave to Remain + Director Q&A 15

Fri 22 – Thu 28 Aug

Mon 25 Aug, 7.15pm

Dir. Philippe Le Guay Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Lambert Wilson France 2013, 1hr 45mins, subtitled

Dir. Bruce Goodison Cast: Toby Jones, Noof Ousellam UK 2013, 1h 29mins

This exquisitely-French new comedy stars Fabrice Luchini (In the House) as Serge, a once great stage actor turned recluse on the Île de Ré. When his friend Gauthier (Wilson, Of Gods and Men) arrives to try and convince him to take a key role in his new production of Molière's The Misanthrope, Serge at first refuses but then insists the two egocentric men spend the week rehearsing together inbetween gallivanting cycle rides around the windswept landscape.

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The screening will be followed by a Q&A with BAFTA-winning director Bruce Goodison.

This moving coming-of-age drama follows young teenager Omar, whose refugee status in the UK is about to be decided. When a boy from Omar’s hometown in Afghanistan arrives, the secret he knows about Omar’s past threatens to derail his asylum plea.

Screening as part of Journeys Festival.

Produced by ArtReach, Journeys Festival celebrates the contribution of refugee & asylum seeker artists to the UK’s cultural landscape.

Fri 8 Aug, 8.15pm

DOUBLE BILL Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid / The Sting PG

Sat 9 & Sun 10 Aug

plea make for riveting viewing.

Cotillard is electric in the lead role and the film thoroughly deserves the awards it has picked up on the festival circuit.

God’s Pocket

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Fri 29 Aug – Tue 2 Sep Dir. John Slattery Cast: Philip Seymor Hoffman, USA 2014, 1hr 29mins When Mickey’s (Hoffman in one of his last roles) lowlife step-son is killed in a construction ‘accident’, no-one in their blue-collar neighbourhood of God’s Pocket, Philadelphia, cares that he’s gone.

With his wife Jeanie suspecting foul play and demanding he investigate, Mickey ropes in his friend Arthur to find out what happened, arousing the interest of the mob and a local reporter.

Mad Men star Slattery’s film is a black comedy-infused crime drama with a terrific ensemble cast including John Turturro, Eddie Marsan and Richard Jenkins.

Dir. Satyajit Ray Cast: Madhabi Mukherjee, Anil Chatterjee India 1963, 2hrs 13mins, subtitled As we’re screening Charulata at the end of August we present Mahanagar, another film from Satyajit Ray, a key filmmaker in the history of Indian cinema.

Restored by the BFI, it's a warm and witty account of a housewife’s struggle to be a saleswoman in 1950s Calcutta.

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All tickets £3 Dir. Spike Jonze Cast: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep USA 2002, 1hr 50mins With our new film Joe signifying a return to form for Nicolas Cage, we screen what we think was his last great performance: the dual role of screenwriters Charlie and Donald Kaufman in Spike Jonze's brilliant comedy-drama metafilm Adaptation.

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Sat 9 Aug, 3.15pm Dir. George Roy Hill Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford USA 1969 / 1973 Running time: Approx 4hrs incl. 20min interval While away a lazy August afternoon with this charming Newman and Redford double bill. These two collaborations, with the pair playing cowboys and grifters, cemented them as the kings of Hollywood and the films scooped a combined 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture for The Sting.

Fri 29 – Sun 31 Aug Dir. Satyajit Ray Cast: Madhabi Mukherjee India 1964, 1hr 50mins, subtitled Fully restored by the BFI to mark the film’s 50th anniversary, Ray’s favourite of all his films is a beautifully-observed melodrama starring Madhabi Mukherjee as Charulata, the bored wife of newspaper editor Bhupati.

Noticing her restless nature, Bhupati asks his charming cousin Amal to keep her company but the two fall for each other.

Subtitled Chef 15 Tue 5 Aug, 6pm Begin Again 15 Tue 12 Aug, 6.10pm Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 12A Tue 19 Aug, 6pm The Rover 15 Tue 26 Aug, 6.10pm

Audio Described In a World 15 Fri 15 Aug, 1pm

Autism Friendly Earth to Echo PG Sat 9 Aug, 10.30am

Silver Screenings Boyhood Wed 6 Aug, 11am

Paths of Glory Wed 13 Aug, 10.30am Screening in partnership with The University of the Third Age (U3A)

Mood Indigo Wed 20 Aug, 11am

Lilting Wed 27 Aug, 11am

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La Traviata Sun 10 Aug, 5.30pm (live)

Phoenix presents the

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Verdi’s opera about one couple’s tragic passion.

S U M M ER 2 014 S E A SO N Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me

Marking the publication of his new volume of memoirs, this is a rare opportunity to see the multi-award-winning comedian, actor, presenter, writer and raconteur on stage in a one-man comic tour de force.

Helen McCrory takes the title role in Euripides’ powerful tragedy.

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

The Two Gentlemen of Verona Tue 9 Sep, 7.30pm

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

Love’s Labour’s Won, or Much Ado About Nothing 12A Wed 4 Mar, 7pm (live)

Sun 26 Oct, 4pm (live)

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

All Globe on Screen tickets are £13 / £11.50 conc.

Thu 7 Aug, 7.30pm (recorded) A teasing, inventive play, featuring some of Shakespeare’s most dazzling dramatic poetry.

Treasure Island 12A Thu 22 Jan, 7pm (live) Wed 18 Feb (recorded)

Sun 7 Dec, 4pm (recorded)

The Nutcracker Sun 21 Dec, 4pm (live)

Swan Lake Sun 25 Jan, 4pm (live) Sun 8 Mar, 4pm (recorded)

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Family fun for the summer holidays

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There’s no shortage of things for children at Phoenix this month – including free workshops on Fridays in our café bar.

Make a 3D model or paint your own electric circuit board!

Fri 22 Aug – Thu 28 Aug Air racer Dusty joins forces with Blade Ranger and his courageous aerial firefighting team to battle a massive wildfire.

Creative technology workshops

JOHN 18 Tue 9 Dec, 8pm (live)

La Bayadère

Romeo and Juliet

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The Legend of Love

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Tickets star t at just £9.50 for an adult and child. See bac kpage for full det ails

Planes 2: Fire and Rescue Medea 12A Thu 4 Sep, 7pm (live)

Wed 1 Oct, 7.15pm (live)

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The Short Cinema film festival

Ages 6 – 12

Earth to Echo

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The Unbeatables

Free on Fridays – drop in children’s workshops.

Make something amazing!

Booking not required.

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Fri 15 Aug – Thu 21 Aug

Technology Explorers

Three friends find a small alien robot stranded on earth and in need of their help.

Amadeo embarks on an adventure with the players of his beloved table football game.

Fri 1 & 15 Aug, 11am – 4pm

Love Local Film Wed 27 Aug, 7pm Tickets: £4

Sun 19 Apr, 5pm (live)

Win a night at Curve and Chutney Ivy! See any Stage on Screen show this summer and you could win a fantastic night out for two, courtesy of Curve, Chutney Ivy and Swift Fox Cabs. Just complete an entry form at box office.

Encore screenings are recordings of the first night’s live performance.

Licensing restrictions limit the number of encore screenings we can show.

The Short Cinema returns for its 8th year to exhibit the best and brightest film-making talent from across the East Midlands on the big screen.

Create your own 3D printed model or learn how to write basic coding to control painting bots and robotic toys, with Phoenix Interact Labs.

Superpowers Creative Technology Fri 8 & 22 Aug, 11am – 4pm

Maleficent

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The House of Magic

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Sat 30 – Sun 31 Aug

Angelina Jolie stars as Maleficent in the untold story of the villain from Sleeping Beauty.

Thunder, a young stray cat, seeks shelter from a storm inside a magical old house.

Bring your imagination to life with art and the latest technology. Make pictures using Bare Conductive’s electric paint, then connect them to Arduino technology to add light and sound effects as if by magic!

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River Studies

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Michael Aschauer Cube gallery, until Fri 8 Aug Michael Aschauer's exhibition exploring how rivers affect people and places continues until Fri 8 Aug. Also online at play. riverstudies.org

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Skyride Leicester To celebrate Leicester’s annual traffic-free bike ride (Sun 24 Aug) we’re screening two great cycling films. Find out more about Skyride at goskyride.com

BICYCLE + producer Q&A Thu 21 Aug, 8pm UK 2014, 1hr 30mins Why is cycling back in fashion?

Includes interviews with Sir Dave Brailsford, Gary Fisher, Chris Boardman and Sir Chris Hoy. Sponsored by the Bike Lounge Leicester – an evening of cycling and cycling culture every 2nd Thursday of the month, 7pm – 10.30pm at St. Martins Tea & Coffee.

Workshops

3D Printing Introduction

Getting Started with Arduino Sat 2 Aug, 1pm – 5pm, £45 All you need to get up and running with Arduino – a cheap little computer you can program to read sensors and control things motors and lights. The course fee includes a complete Arduino kit – yours to keep after the workshop. Please bring a laptop.

Contact the box office to book on 0116 242 2822. interactlabs.co.uk

DMU PhD Showcase Cube gallery Fri 15 – Mon 18 Aug Free entry A series of 3D films and images

by PhD students at De Montfort University’s Institute of Creative Technologies: Sandra Oliveira, Yin-Ren Chang and Jackie Calderwood.

Coming in September: Sites of Collective Memory Cube gallery Fri 5 Sep – Fri 3 Oct

Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist 15 Fri 22 Aug, 8.30pm UK 2014, 1hr 34mins, subtitled

An exhibition of four new animated artworks, each offering intimate portraits of witnesses to historic events – including the 7/7 London terrorist attacks, the Hiroshima bombing and the massacre of Roma communities in Nazioccupied Poland.

An Animate Projects touring exhibition.

Open Air Cinema A Hard Day’s Night

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Fri 22 Aug, arrive 8pm (film starts at sundown) Dir: Richard Lester UK 1964, 1hr 27mins Tickets: Seats £6.00 Blanket/cushion spaces: £5.00 Make it a magical open air night at the movies as we open up the inner courtyard at Phoenix for our first ever outdoor film event.

And what better way to start than with the classic Beatles movie – A Hard Day’s Night – digitally remastered and back on screen for its 50th anniversary.

Tue 12 Aug, 6.30pm – 8.30pm, £10.

Book via interactlabs.co.uk Learn how to make your own 3D printed objects, the different ways 3D printing can be used and where the technology is headed in the future.

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At the height of Beatlemania in 1964, we follow the comic capers of The Fab Four as they travel from

Appreciation World War I on Screen Sat 2 Aug (1 session) 10am – 4pm Tutor: Alan Seaman Cost: £26 / £22 conc.

In 1998 Marco Pantani won the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia, a feat no rider has ever repeated.

Less than six years later he died alone aged 34 from cocaine poisoning. This is the story of the tragic battles fought by ‘The Pirate’.

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

10 Movie Icons Fri 26 Sep – Fri 28 Nov 2pm – 3.30pm Tutor: Alan Seaman Cost: £65 / £55 conc.

Liverpool to London for a TV show.

Made on a shoestring budget, it’s regarded as one of the greatest rock and roll films ever made.

Still fresh after all these years, it paved the way for a generation of music videos.

A limited number of seated tickets will be available; please book early.

If purchasing blanket/cushion spaces, please bring something to sit on.

Drinks and snacks will be on sale.

Singing and dancing will be encouraged!

See our website for full details.

With kind support from Blueprint

Short Courses Skills Phoenix Film Camp Practical film making for 16-19 year olds Mon 18 – Fri 22 Aug (5 sessions) 10am – 4pm Tutor: Andy Gregory Cost: £160 Distributing Your Film Sat 6 Sep (1 session) 10.30am – 4pm Tutor: Rhys Davies Cost: £35 / £30 conc.

See website for more details.

To book call the box office.

Box office 0116 242 2800

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Take your drink into the cinema At Phoenix, you’re welcome to take any drink you order at the bar into the cinema

Opening Times

Tickets

Mon – Fri

Sat – Sun & bank holidays

Box office

12pm – 9pm

11am – 9pm

Café Bar & DMU Cube Gallery

9am – 11pm

Food Served

11am – 9pm

Full

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Student/U18

After 5pm & Weekends

£7.90

£6.10

£5.00

10am – 11pm

Before 5pm

£7.10

£6.10

£5.00

11am – 9pm (Sat) 10am – 6pm (Sun)

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

Box Office 0116 242 2800

Family tickets

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

Book Online www.phoenix.org.uk

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

Phoenix, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, LE1 1TG

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

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

*Concessions available for people with proof of status for unemployment, receipt of state pension and disability.

One free carer ticket is available for CEA cardholders.

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Access Parking in front of building & Halford Street NCP

Hearing loops in building

Baby changing facilities

Guide dogs are welcome

Wheelchair spaces

Toilet & washing facilities

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