Phoenix Leicester Feb 2015 by Jake Harvey

FEB —– 15

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CINEMA

THIS MONTH —

THE YEAR’S BEST FILMS Catch the final contenders for the Academy Awards

ART

CAFÉ BAR

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FEBRUARY AT A GLANCE

Foxcatcher p4

Inherent Vice p4

The Circle p5

Selma p5

Night Will Fall p5

Bogowie p6

Mr. Turner p6

Wild p6

Paper Souls p7

Dancing in Jaffa p7

Mary is Happy, Mary is Happy p10

American Sniper p7

A Most Violent Year p10

THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL p10

LOVE IS STRANGE

STILL LIFE

2–3

COMING IN MARCH

WILD TALES

February brings many joyous things… snowdrops, Valentine love and of course the Oscars’ red carpet, which will be rolled out for this year’s ceremony on 22 February. As always, we’ve a feast of great films on offer, including the cream of this year’s awards contenders, with Foxcatcher (6–23 Feb), Martin Luther King biopic Selma (13–26 Feb), Wild (13–19 Feb) and Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper (20–26 Feb) receiving a host of nominations. An antidote to the winter blues, The Second Best Marigold Hotel opens on 27 Feb and reunites Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Bill Nighy, alongside new addition Richard Gere, in a feel-good film that lets us escape to warmer climes. We’re bringing back a couple of audience favourites this month too – Pride (3 Feb) and Mr. Turner (6–12 Feb) – so if you didn’t manage to catch them first time round now’s your chance. Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen joins our popular Stage on Screen programme, kicking off with the Duchess of Malfi on 26 Feb. At Phoenix we aim to inspire and help you explore your interests. Feed your mind and learn something new by trying one of our short courses (p14): from 8 Great Hollywood Directors to The Art of Screenwriting, and a workshop where you can make a crystal radio, there’s plenty to choose from.

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WELCOME

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CONTINUED FROM LAST MONTH

FOXCATCHER

Fri 6 – Mon 23 Feb Dir: Bennett Miller Cast: Steve Carell, Channing Tatum USA 2014, 2hrs 14mins

ME, MYSELF AND MUM 15 Sun 1 & Mon 2 Feb Dir: Guillaume Gallienne Cast: André Marcon France / Belgium 2013, 1hr 26mins, subtitled

Guillaume Gallienne’s selfdeprecating comedy won the ‘Director’s Fortnight’ at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.

INHERENT VICE

Sun 1 – Thu 12 Feb Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon USA 2014, 2hrs 29mins Based on the novel by Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice follows drug-fuelled private investigator, Larry ‘Doc’ Sportello, hired by his ex-girlfriend Shasta to investigate a plot to kidnap her current lover. But when Shasta disappears Doc is drawn into a tangled story of drug dealers, hustlers, dentists and hippie-loathing cops – all played out in the hazy sun of 1970s Los Angeles.

Directed by Academy Award nominee Bennett Miller (Moneyball), and based on a shocking true story, Foxcatcher is an electrifying parable of modern America. Wrestler Mark Schultz has always lived in the shadow of his older brother David, but he gets a shot at glory when eccentric multimillionaire John du Pont asks him to move onto his Pennsylvania estate and

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH 12A

Sun 1 – Thu 5 Feb Dir: James Kent Cast: Hayley Atwell, Kit Harrington UK 2014, 2hrs 9mins

Adapted from Vera Brittain’s 1933 autobiography, Testament of Youth is a moving account of a British woman’s uphill battle to forge an independent life and career during the First World War. Strong-willed and intelligent, Vera is torn between her ambition to be a writer, her relationship with her fiancée, and the increasing presence of the war. A spirited performance from Alicia Vikander as Vera with great support from Kit Harrington.

train for the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Obsessed with 'giving America hope', Du Pont takes a fanatical interest in the career of the Schultz brothers and the three men are set on a collision course bound together by violence, loyalty and all-consuming ambition.

EX MACHINA

Sun 1 – Thu 5 Feb Dir: Alex Garland Cast: Domhnall Gleeson USA / UK 2015, 1hr 48mins Alex Garland’s (The Beach) directorial debut stars Domhnall Gleeson as Caleb, a young coder who wins a competition at work to spend a week at the home of Nathan, the company’s reclusive CEO. Arriving at Nathan’s mountain retreat, Caleb discovers he's been invited to a high-tech lab where he will participate in an experiment interacting with the world’s first robot girl. What game is Nathan playing? It’s thrilling and cerebral sci-fi that asks questions about the nature of humanity and identity.

NIGHT WILL FALL (+ Intro) 15 THE CIRCLE

Sun 1 Feb, 3pm Dir: Andre Singer Cast: Alfred Hitchcock UK 2014, 1hr 15mins

Screening to mark Holocaust Memorial Day and introduced by Professor Aubrey Newman from the University of Leicester’s Stanley Burton Holocaust Centre. When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 194445, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened. Restored and completed by Imperial War Museums.

SELMA

Mon 2 – Thu 5 Feb Dir: Stefan Haupt Cast: Matthias Hungerbühler Switzerland 2014, 1hr 42mins, subtitled

In the mid-1950s, shy teacher Ernst becomes a member of the gay organisation Der Kreis, whose publication unites the post-World War II gay community in Switzerland. Meeting and falling for female impersonator Röbi, Ernst is torn between his bourgeois upbringing and acceptance of his homosexuality. A fascinating blend of documentary and drama as the film cuts between flashbacks and interviews with the real Ernst and Röbi.

12A

Fri 13 – Thu 26 Feb Dir: Ava DuVernay Cast: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo UK / USA 2014, 2hrs 7mins Starring the UK’s own David Oyelowo, Selma is a powerful and timely story of courage and unity. Set in 1965, the film chronicles the tumultuous period when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led three mass protest marches along a 54-mile stretch of highway from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Refusing to back down in the face of violent opposition, King and his supporters fought to secure equal voting rights for African-Americans. Featuring stunning performances from a top-

notch cast including Tom Wilkinson, Wendell Pierce (The Wire) and Martin Sheen, it’s a scandal that director DuVernay hasn’t been Oscar nominated for this gripping film.

PRIDE (+ Intro) 15 Tue 3 Feb, 7pm (film at 7.30pm) Dir: Matthew Warchus Cast: Imelda Staunton, Bill Nighy UK 2014, 2hrs Screening as part of DMU's Out-Takes Festival – celebrating LGBT history – and introduced by Vice-Chancellor Professor Dominic Shellard. A life-affirming and uplifting movie, set during the National Union of Mineworkers’ strike in the summer of 1984. Based on a true story, a group of gay and lesbian activists raise funds for the miners, and decide to take the money directly to a small mining village in the Welsh valleys.

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INSPIRED BY

LEICESTER

BOGOWIE

MR. TURNER

12A

Fri 6 – Mon 9 Feb Dir: Lukasz Palkowski Cast: Tomasz Kot, Piotr Glowacki Poland 2014, 2hrs, subtitled

Fri 6 – Thu 12 Feb (excl Sat 7th) Dir: Mike Leigh Cast: Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson UK 2014, 2hrs 29mins

A fast-paced medical drama based on the career of Polish cardiac surgeon Zbigniew Religa. A champion of experimental treatment, Zbigniew led a team of doctors to conduct the country's first human heart transplant, in the face of opposition from his hospital superiors.

’ – What a glorious film this is’ – The Guardian.

INSPIRED BY LEICESTER – every month we screen a film which reflects the rich diversity of life in Leicester.

WILD

Nominated for an Academy Award 6–7

From the director of the multiaward winning Dallas Buyers Club comes this new film based on Cheryl Strayed’s tremendously successful memoir. After years of reckless behaviour following the

Fri 13 Feb, 8.45pm Dir: Jim Jarmusch Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton UK/ Germany/ France 2013, 2hrs 2mins

Screening alongside our short Back by popular demand, Mike course Love is Irregular. Vampires Leigh’s film stars Timothy Spall as Adam and Eve have been lovers for painter J.M.W Turner. Beginning several hundred lifetimes and are in 1826, the film focuses on the growing sick of the modern world, last quarter-century of Turner’s but a visit from Eve’s blood-hungry life, from his life in London with his younger sister Ava threatens to beloved father, his relationship with tear their relationship apart. This a Margate landlady, to risking the gorgeously-shot exploration of the wrath of the Royal Academy with effect of immortality on the soul his increasingly impressionist works. plays like a melancholy love song. A gorgeously-textured biopic.

Fri 13 – Thu 19 Feb Dir: Jean-Marc Vallée Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern USA 2014, 1hr 55mins

‘ – Reese Witherspoon pulls on a pair of ill-fitting hiking boots and stomps straight into the Oscar race with a raw, wrenching performance as writer Cheryl Strayed in this journey back from the brink.’ – The Times

ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE 15

breakup of her marriage, twentysix-year-old Cheryl decides to hike the thousand mile Pacific Crest Trail alone, believing that only by putting herself through the dangerous and exhausting journey can she break free from her selfdestructive path. A powerful story of determination, courage and unbreakable spirit.

AMERICAN SNIPER

Fri 20 – Thu 26 Feb Dir: Clint Eastwood Cast: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller USA 2014, 2hrs 12mins

Directed by Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper stars in this muscular drama based on the life of Chris Kyle – the deadliest sniper in US military history. A good ol’ boy from Texas, renowned for his accuracy and commitment to missions, Kyle’s tours of Iraq begin to take their toll on him and his young family. Cooper is outstanding, delivering a complex performance of a man torn between duty and family, someone who feels at home on the battlefield but alienated in civilian life.

PAPER SOULS

TBC

Sat 14 – Mon 16 Feb Dir: Vincent Lannoo Cast: Stéphane Guillon, Julie Gayet France / Lux / Belgium 2013, 1hr 30mins, subtitled A romantic and magical new French film. Once a successful novelist, Paul now makes a living writing beautiful funeral speeches for the recently bereaved. Approached by widower Emma to write a eulogy about her husband Nathan, a rather large problem occurs when the supposedly-deceased Nathan knocks on Paul’s door in the middle of the night! Have Paul’s words brought Nathan back to the world of the living? And how will he react to Paul and Emma’s growing attraction?

Reminiscent of 2009’s The Hurt Locker, American Sniper is a tense and absorbing thriller.

DANCING IN JAFFA

Mon 23 – Thu 26 Feb Dir: Hilla Medalia Cast: Pierre Dulaine, Yvonne Marceau USA 2013, 1hr 29mins, subtitled

THE MONOCHROME SPY

18 (UNRATED)

Thu 26 Feb, 3pm Free Event Dir: Paul Gosling, Carolos Dandolo Cast: Rob Leeson, Emma Bamford UK 2015, 1hr 5mins

An absolute treat of a documentary, Dancing in Jaffa follows renowned ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine In partnership with the DMU Cultural as he takes his program ‘Dancing eXchanges festival. A comedyClassrooms’ back to the city of thriller set in 1964 in the worlds of his birth, Jaffa, Israel. Intent on cult TV and international espionage teaching Jewish and Palestinian made by Leicester's Crooked Hand children together, Pierre is Productions. When TV star Guy convinced that by making them realises the KGB are using his TV dance with ‘the enemy’ he can foster programme to send secret messages a new generation who believe in to the East, he faces a race against love and mutual respect. As you can time to find the traitor on the show. imagine, it’s not all plain sailing. The screening will be followed by a discussion of the genre.

FEBRUARY—15 11.30am The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies 12pm Lazy Sunday: Inherent Vice 3pm Inherent Vice 3pm Holocaust Memorial Day: Night Will Fall + Introduction 5.20pm Me, Myself and Mom 6pm Testament of Youth 7.15pm Inherent Vice 8.40pm Ex Machina 1pm Inherent Vice Mon 2 1.30pm Testament of Youth 4pm Ex Machina 4.30pm Inherent Vice 6.20pm Me, Myself and Mom 7.45pm Inherent Vice 8.20pm The Circle 1pm Testament of Youth Tue 3 1.15pm Inherent Vice 3.45pm Inherent Vice 4.15pm The Circle 6.30pm Ex Machina – Descriptive Subtitled 7pm Pride 8.30pm Inherent Vice 11am Testament of Youth Wed 4 1pm Inherent Vice 1.45pm The Circle 4pm Ex Machina 4.20pm Inherent Vice 6.20pm The Circle 7.30pm Testament of Youth 8.30pm Inherent Vice 1.15pm Inherent Vice Thu 5 1.40pm Ex Machina 4pm The Circle 4.30pm Inherent Vice 6.15pm Mrs. Doubtfire 7.30pm Testament of Youth 8.30pm Inherent Vice 2pm Inherent Vice Fri 6 2.15pm Mr. Turner 5.15pm Inherent Vice 5.30pm Bogowie 8.15pm Foxcatcher 8.15pm Inherent Vice 11.15am Annie Sat 7 1pm Inherent Vice 2pm Double Bill: Trouble in Store & Silent Comedy Shorts 4.30pm Inherent Vice 5.45pm Bogowie 7.45pm Foxcatcher 8.20pm Inherent Vice 11am Annie Sun 8 12pm Lazy Sunday: Foxcatcher 1.30pm Inherent Vice 2.45pm Mr. Turner 4.40pm Inherent Vice 5.45pm Foxcatcher 7.45pm Inherent Vice 8.30pm Bogowie 1pm Inherent Vice Mon 9 1.30pm Foxcatcher 4.10pm Inherent Vice 5.15pm Bogowie 7.15pm Inherent Vice 7.45pm Mr. Turner Inherent Vice Tue 10 1pm 1.30pm Foxcatcher 4.10pm Inherent Vice 5pm Mr. Turner 7pm The Art of Screenwriting: A Practical Guide 7.15pm Inherent Vice – Descriptive Subtitled 8pm Foxcatcher Wed 11 10.30am On the Waterfront 1pm Mr. Turner 1.30pm Inherent Vice 4pm Foxcatcher 4.40pm Inherent Vice 7pm RSC: Love’s Labour’s Lost 7.45pm Inherent Vice Thu 12 1.50pm Inherent Vice 3pm Mr. Turner 5pm Inherent Vice 6.10pm The Birdcage

Sun 1

7pm 8.10pm 8.35pm 11.15am Fri 13 1pm 2pm 3.50pm 5pm 6.15pm 7pm 8pm 8.45pm Sat 14 10.30am 11am 1pm 1.20pm 3.45pm 4.15pm 6.20pm 7.45pm 8.45pm Sun 15 11am 12pm 1.30pm 2.35pm 4.20pm 5pm 7.15pm 7.45pm Mon 16 11am 1pm 1.30pm 3.45pm 4.15pm 6.15pm 7.30pm 8.45pm Tue 17 12.15pm 1.15pm 2.35pm 3.50pm 5.20pm 6.05pm 8pm 8.30pm Wed 18 10.30am 11am 1pm 2pm 3.45pm 4.30pm 6.30pm 7.30pm Thu 19 11.15am 12pm 2.15pm 2.30pm 5pm 5pm 7pm 7.50pm 8pm 10am Fri 20 12.30pm 1pm 3.10pm 4pm 5.30pm 8.15pm 8.30pm Sat 21 10.30am 12pm 1pm 2.45pm 4.10pm 5.15pm 8pm 8.30pm Sun 22 11.30am 12pm 2.15pm 2.45pm 5pm 5.30pm 7.45pm

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Personal Service Inherent Vice Foxcatcher Big Hero 6 Foxcatcher Selma Big Hero 6 Selma Wild Love is Irregular Selma Only Lovers Left Alive Big Hero 6 – Autism Friendly Big Hero 6 Selma Big Hero 6 Paper Souls Selma Wild Selma Foxcatcher Big Hero 6 Lazy Sunday: Wild Selma Big Hero 6 Selma Foxcatcher Selma Paper Souls Big Hero 6 Paper Souls Selma Big Hero 6 Selma Wild Selma Foxcatcher Big Hero 6 Selma Foxcatcher Big Hero 6 Selma Wild – Descriptive Subtitled Selma Eddie Murphy: Raw Big Hero 6 Foxcatcher Selma Big Hero 6 Wild Selma NT Live: Treasure Island Selma Big Hero 6 Big Hero 6 Selma Wild Selma Foxcatcher Rocco and His Brothers Wild Selma Big Hero 6 Selma American Sniper – Audio Described Big Hero 6 Selma Foxcatcher Selma Comedy in the Dark Big Hero 6 Foxcatcher Selma Big Hero 6 Selma American Sniper Selma Comedy in the Dark Big Hero 6 Lazy Sunday: Selma Big Hero 6 Selma Selma Foxcatcher American Sniper

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Selma American Sniper 1.30pm Selma 3.45pm Dancing in Jaffa 4.45pm Selma 5.45pm Foxcatcher 7.45pm Selma 8.30pm American Sniper Selma Tue 24 1pm 1.30pm Dancing in Jaffa 3.30pm American Sniper 4pm Selma 6.15pm Dancing in Jaffa 7pm Selma – Descriptive Subtitled 8.20pm American Sniper Selma Wed 25 11am 1pm American Sniper 2pm Selma 4pm Dancing in Jaffa 5pm Selma 6.10pm Dancing in Jaffa 7.45pm American Sniper 8.10pm Selma Thu 26 12.30pm Dancing in Jaffa 1pm Selma 3pm The Monochrome Spy 4pm Selma 5.30pm American Sniper 7pm Irina Palm 7pm Globe on Screen: The Duchess of Malfi 8.15pm Selma 2.15pm The Second Best Exotic Fri 27 Marigold Hotel 3.40pm Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy 4.50pm The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 6.15pm Enemy 7.30pm The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 8.15pm A Most Violent Year Sat 28 10.45am Peppa Pig 11.30am The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 12.30pm Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy 2.15pm Globe on Screen: The Duchess of Malfi 3.10pm The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 5.50pm Enemy 6pm The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 7pm Awards Round Up 8pm A Most Violent Year 8.40pm The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Mon 23 1pm

Key

Access Cinema Silver Screening Courses Stage on Screen Comedy Festival Leicester Red Project

FILM & DINE Enjoy a cinema ticket and a meal anytime just £13.50 / £12 conc.

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THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL PG

Fri 27 Feb – Thu 12 Mar Dir: John Madden Cast: Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith USA / UK 2015, 2hrs 2mins

The gang’s back together (with a few new additions) in this sequel to the tremendously successful The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Four years ago the hotel first opened its doors and now, with his eye on a new property, proprietor Sonny is looking to expand. However, with his forthcoming marriage to the love of his life taking up all his time, he looks for help from his newly installed no-nonsense co-manager

10 – 11

Nominated for an Academy Award

A MOST VIOLENT YEAR

Muriel (Maggie Smith). Elsewhere, old favourites Evelyn and Douglas (Dench and Nighy) are wondering where their regular lunch dates are leading, and handsome new arrival Guy (a twinkly-eyed Richard Gere) causes a bit of a stir. After the serious nature of the awards season movies, this warm and funny film is a welcome escapist treat.

ENEMY

MARY IS HAPPY, MARY IS HAPPY 15

Fri 27 Feb – Thu 5 Mar Dir: J.C. Chandor Cast: Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain USA 2014, 2hrs 5mins

Fri 27 Feb – Thu 5 Mar Dir: Denis Villeneuve Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent Canada / Spain 2013, 1hr 30mins

Fri 27 Feb – Mon 2 Mar Dir: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit Cast: Patcha Poonpiriya Thailand 2013, 2hrs 7mins, subtitled

Set in 1981, the most crime-ridden year of New York’s history, this new film from Chandor (Margin Call, All is Lost) has drawn comparisons with The Godfather. First-generation immigrant Abel runs a heating oil business and wants to be on the up-and-up, but his competitors have the city carved up in their favour. As Abel and his fiery Brooklyn-born wife fight for their slice of the American Dream, in this town how long can a man stay honest and be successful?

An enthralling psychological thriller from Denis Villeneuve (Incendies, Prisoners) guaranteed to make your skin crawl. Glum history professor Adam Bell is watching an old movie when he spots what looks like himself in a scene. Discovering the doppelganger is enigmatic actor Anthony, Adam tracks him down; but what begins as a friendly meeting descends into a darker journey as the two identical men’s lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined.

Although pitched as ‘the first film based on a real Twitter feed’ (a USP almost guaranteed to put off as many people as it attracts), this new Thai film following high school pupil Mary is actually a punchy and original coming-of-age story. Buying a frozen jellyfish, an exploding iPhone, and attempting to create the perfect yearbook are all covered in 410 tweets that punctuate the film, perfectly skewering the frustrations and experiences of youth.

COMEDY

EDDIE MURPHY: RAW

TROUBLE IN STORE & SILENT COMEDY SHORTS U MRS. DOUBTFIRE

Sat 7 Feb, 2pm All tickets: £10 3hrs approx.

12A

Thu 5 Feb, 6.15pm Free screening USA 1993, 2hrs 5mins

Celebrate the work of the sadlymissed Robin Williams with this free screening of the hilarious family classic Mrs. Doubtfire. After a messy divorce where his ex-wife wins custody, an actor disguises himself as an older female housekeeper in order to spend time with his children.

THE BIRDCAGE

Thu 12 Feb, 8.30pm Free screening USA 1996, 1hr 47mins

A second free screening to celebrate Robin Williams’ work. A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a straight front so their son can introduce them to his fiancée's moralistic rightwing parents.

Tue 17 Feb, 8.30pm All tickets: £5 USA 1987, 1hr 33mins

Showing in tribute to Festival Patron and comedy legend Sir Norman Wisdom OBE – whose first starring role in Trouble in Store broke box office records on its release in 1953. Chaplin always described Wisdom as his 'favourite clown', so we pair it with some of his silent shorts.

Eddie Murphy's legendary standup performance, recorded live in 1987 at the Felt Forum in New York City's Madison Square Garden. Before the dubious movie choices in his later career, this is Murphy at his uncensored and hilarious best, talking for 90 minutes about men, women, sex and fame. WARNING! You may be offended if you're black, white, male, female, rich or poor, Mr. T or Richard Pryor.

COMEDY IN THE DARK 16+

Fri 20 & Sat 21 Feb, 8.30pm All tickets: £10 Comedy in the Dark returns to Leicester after sell-out shows in the UK and Europe. We present what truly is a unique comedy experience where comedians take on the challenge of performing in pitch black. Your favourite stand ups, one hour, no lights. In partnership with Big Difference Company.

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S TAG E O N S C R EEN

R OYA L SHAKESPEARE C O M PA N Y

The world’s greatest stage shows at the cinema Tickets: £15 / £13 conc. Shakespeare's Globe on Screen joins our expanding Stage on Screen offer this month. This page includes our full listings stretching into summer.

LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST Sun 1 Mar, 3pm

LOVE’S LABOUR’S WON

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Thu 19 Mar, 7pm N AT I O N A L T H E AT R E LIVE

TREASURE ISLAND Wed 18 Feb, 6.30pm

BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS Thu 12 Mar, 7pm

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE Thu 26 Mar, 7pm

THE HARD PROBLEM Thu 16 Apr, 7pm

MAN AND SUPERMAN

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

Thu 14 May, 7pm

R OYA L E XCHANGE MANCHESTER

HAMLET

Mon 23 Mar, 7.30pm

GLOBE ON SCREEN

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Wed 22 Jul, 7pm

DUCHESS OF MALFI Thu 26 Feb, 7pm Sat 28 Feb, 2.15pm

OTHELLO

Wed 26 Aug, 7pm

TITUS ANDRONICUS Thu 2 Apr, 7pm Sat 4 Apr, matinee time TBC

JULIUS CAESAR

Thu 7 May, 7pm Sat 9 May, matinee time TBC

ANTONY & CLEOPATRA Thu 11 Jun, 7pm Sat 13 Jun, matinee time TBC

BOLSHOI BALLET

ROMEO AND JULIET Sun 8 Mar, 4pm

IVAN THE TERRIBLE Sun 19 Apr, 4pm

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

ENGLISH N AT I O N A L OPER A

Thu 25 Jun, 7pm Sat 27 Jun, matinee time TBC

LA TRAVIATA

Wed 11 Mar, 7.30pm

THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE Tue 19 May, 7.30pm

CARMEN

Wed 1 Jul, 7.30pm

EXHIBITION ON SCREEN

VINCENT VAN GOGH – A NEW WAY

12 – 13

Tue 14 Apr, 7.30pm See our website for full details and to buy tickets (with no booking fee).

THE IMPRESSIONISTS Tue 26 May, 7.30pm

FAMILY FILMS

SILVER SCREENINGS Matinee screenings for just £4.60 including refreshments.

Got the kids for half term? We’re showing Disney’s latest – Big Hero 6. With an adorable robot, kung fu and a band of high-tech heroes, it’s guaranteed family fun. Our Café Bar also has a tasty children's menu, games to play, and fresh coffee for the adults!

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH 12A Wed 4 Feb, 11am

ON THE WATERFRONT

Wed 11 Feb, 10.30am Screening in partnership with The University of the Third Age (U3A)

FOXCATCHER

BIG HERO 6

Wed 18 Feb, 11am

SELMA

12A

Wed 25 Feb, 11am

ACCESS CINEMA DESCRIPTIVE SUBTITLES

EX MACHINA

Tue 3 Feb, 6.30pm

INHERENT VICE

ANNIE

Tue 10 Feb, 7.15pm

WILD

12A

Tue 24 Feb, 7pm AUDIO DESCRIBED

AMERICAN SNIPER Fri 20 Feb, 1pm

AUTISM FRIENDLY

BIG HERO 6

Sat 14 Feb, 10.30am

Sat 7 & Sun 8 Feb Dir: Will Gluck Cast: Cameron Diaz USA 2014, 1hr 58mins

Tue 17 Feb, 6.05pm

SELMA

Fri 13 – Sun 22 Feb Dir: Don Hall, Chris Williams Cast: Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit USA 2014, 1hr 48mins

12A

A modern update of John Huston’s 1982 film starring Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild). Adorable orphan Annie lives with her mean foster mum, but her life changes when New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks saves her from being run down. Cynically trying to use her to boost his campaign, Annie’s adorable nature soon begins to melt his heart!

The creators of Frozen bring you... an adorable inflatable robot! Orphaned brothers Hiro and Tadashi are obsessed with inventing, but disaster strikes and Hiro is left alone with only his brother’s robot Baymax for company. A wonderful mix of Wall-E and Po from Kung-Fu Panda, Baymax is as cuddly as a marshmallow. Hiro starts about teaching him kungfu skills so theay can bring to justice those responsible for the tragedy that took his brother away. Fun and exciting, Baymax will be a hit with kids of all ages!

PEPPA PIG: THE GOLDEN BOOTS

Sat 28 Feb & Sun 1 Mar UK 2015, approx 1hr

Come along and wear your boots for puddles of golden Peppa fun! An hour of Peppa pleasure including a brand new 15-minute neverseen-before special episode, five favourite Peppasodes and a whole bunch of songs, giggles and snorts with the Milkshake presenters Jen, Derek and Kemi.

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LEARN AT PHOENIX

Sat 14 Mar, 1pm – 4.30pm Tutor: Phoenix Interact Labs Price: £25 To tie in with our upcoming exhibition, The Crystal Line, learn how to build your own crystal radio. Visit phoenix.org.uk for full course details and to book online.

Our short courses and workshops are a great way to get more out of film and digital technology, whether you’re learning for pleasure or developing professional skills.

EXPLORING THE LIVES OF SEX WORKERS THROUGH FILM

Thursdays, 12 Feb – 19 Mar, 7pm Free

THE ART OF SCREENWRITING: A PRACTICAL GUIDE

A short season of six films offering fresh insights into the lives of sex workers.

Tuesdays, 10 Feb – 31 Mar, 7pm – 9pm (8 sessions) Tutors: Kenton Hall and Richard James Price: £96 / £80 conc.

From idea to film: screenwriting secrets unleashed.

LOVE IS IRREGULAR

Fri 13 Feb, 7pm – 8.30pm + 8.45pm screening of Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive (see p6) Price: £10 / £8 conc. A whistle-stop tour of some slightly more twisted portrayals of love on film.

AWARDS ROUND UP Sat 28 Feb, 7pm – 8.30pm Price: £4

14 – 15

WORKSHOP: MAKE A CRYSTAL SET RADIO

A panel discussion about this month’s BAFTA and Oscar results, with Phoenix film programmer Jake Harvey; doctor of film, Laura Mee; and screenwriter Richard James.

8 GREAT HOLLYWOOD DIRECTORS Fridays, 6 Mar – 8 May, 2pm – 3.30pm (8 Sessions) Price: £52 / £44 conc.

Highlighting eight of the greatest Hollywood directors to grace the silver screen.

DISTRIBUTING YOUR FILM

Sat 7 March, 10.30am – 4pm Tutor: Rhys Davies Price: £35 / £30 conc. Film sales, marketing and distribution – how to get a distribution deal for your film.

Delivered in partnership with Firefly Leicester Community Interest Company, the season aims to raise awareness amongst care professionals and the public of how stigmatised representations of sex workers can have a life-threatening impact upon them. Following each of the films – three of them Italian, three British – there will be Q&A sessions for the audience to explore stereotypes and prejudices with guest speakers including former sex workers, activists and researchers. Visit phoenix.org.uk under Festivals to find out more.

ART

THE CRYSTAL LINE— THE FUTURE BATTLEFIELD HEARD THROUGH ITS PAST

JULIAN OLIVER THE CRYSTAL LINE Cube Gallery, Free Fri 6 – Mon 30 Mar

Created by internationally-renowned artist Julian Oliver, The Crystal Line reconstructs a World War One crystal radio as a way to hear about the future of warfare. The advent of radio communications revolutionised war, removing the need for human and animal messengers, and giving commanders more effective control of their troops on the frontline. The radios possessed an almost magical quality, turning electromagnetic phenomena in the air directly into electricity. Today, all wireless communications are descendants of the crystal radio, from mobile phones to wireless networking.

The Crystal Line will scour the World Wide Web for the latest developments in warfare, transmitting them to the radio set complete with audio properties and textures unique to a crystal radio set; heard just as men in the trenches would have heard them a century ago.

THE NEW INCUNABLE PRINT SHOP Phoenix Café Bar Fri 16 Jan – Sat 28 Feb

A display of 3D print blocks and prints created by the public at our New Incunable Print Shop exhibition at Lightbox Studios, LCB Depot in November.

Commissioned by Phoenix and the Cutting Room.

DROP-IN WORKSHOP Tue 17 Feb, 1pm – 7pm

Pop into our free drop-in workshop to make your own print block and create an original artwork. A limited number of small group sessions are also available until 28 February, by prior arrangement – contact sarah.vallance@phoenix.org.uk The print shop is part of Affective Digital Histories, a research project exploring how communities change with urban decline and regeneration. Visit affectivedigitalhistories.org.uk to find out about all the activities.

FILM & DINE

Enjoy a cinema ticket and a meal anytime just £13.50 / £12 conc.

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

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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

Special ticket offers – not available online Film & Dine – combine the film of your choice with a meal for £13.50 / £12.00 conc. Lazy Sunday – a full English breakfast and a ticket to the 12pm show for £10.95 / £8.95 conc.

BOX OFFICE 0116 242 2800

BOOK ONLINE www.phoenix.org.uk

Family tickets

1 adult + 1 child, £9.50 1 adult + 2 children, £14.25 2 adults + 2 children, £19.00

3D films cost an additional £1.50 Art exhibitions are all FREE entry You can buy tickets in advance online, by phone or in person at the box office. We do not charge a booking fee.

*Concessions available for people with proof of status for unemployment, receipt of state pension and disability. Office enquiries, including corporate space hire – 0116 242 2821. One free carer ticket is available for CEA cardholders. Phoenix, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, LE1 1TG

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