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THE AWARDS SEASON
THE BIG SHORT
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DAD’S ARMY CREED YOUTH THE HATEFUL EIGHT
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FEBRUARY HIGHLIGHTS
ART / VISIBLE BITS AUDIBLE BYTES
FILM / TRUMBO
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Oscar Nominated
SEASON / JAPAN FOUNDATION TOURING SEASON
STAGE ON SCREEN / AS YOU LIKE IT
LEARN / LOVE IS STRANGE
FAMILY / HALF-TERM FUN
COMING IN MARCH
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HAIL, CAESAR!
THE WITCH
WELCOME For many people February brings to mind the red roses synonymous with Valentine’s day, but here at Phoenix we love the red carpets that’ll be rolled out soon for the BAFTAs and Oscars.
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This month we’re screening yet more potential award winners. The Big Short starring Steve Carell is nominated for Best Film, along with Spotlight, Room and Brooklyn, which is returning to Phoenix due to overwhelming demand (p4-5). The Revenant (screened here in January) is out in front with 12 Oscar nominations; could this be the year Leonardo DiCaprio finally wins a golden statuette, or will he lose out to Eddie Redmayne who’s back on our screens in The Danish Girl for DMU Pride (p7)?
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We’d love to know who you think the big winners will be at this year’s awards. Share your views with us in our Oscars Poll – coming online in February – or join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Of course, if all this talk of the Oscars is getting too much, we’ve got plenty of other things for you to look forward to. We’ve a selection of Hollywood classics, including the glorious An American in Paris (p10), plus a season of Japanese films (p10). There’s also Comedy in the Dark (p7), and plenty of family fun for halfterm (p13).
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Our latest exhibition, The Canvas of Resonance, continues in the Cube Gallery until Sat 20 Feb – turn to p14 for this month’s art programme. And if you fancy learning something new, sign up for one of our short courses (p15); there’s plenty to choose from. Love film? Love art? Love learning? Love Phoenix.
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Friend card £65 UPCOMING MY PHOENIX EVENTS Wed 10 Feb MyPhoenix Members & Friends Wine and cheese tasting, 6.30pm – 8pm More details on our website
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SPOTLIGHT 15 Mon 1 – Thu 11 Feb Dir: Tom McCarthy Cast: Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo USA 2015, 2hrs 9mins Nominated for Best Film at the BAFTAs and Oscars, Spotlight follows the Boston Globe’s investigative journalists as they unearthed a huge scandal of child abuse within their local Catholic Church in 2001. Intelligent and gripping.
ROOM 15 Mon 1 – Thu 11 Feb Dir: Lenny Abrahamson Cast: Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay Ireland/Canada 2015, 1hr 58mins Another Best Film nominee. Ma and Jack have lived in ‘Room’ for all of Jack’s life. Ma has created a whole world for Jack there, with toys, school and gym class. But she wants them to escape, and to do that they will have to risk everything. Profoundly moving with an emotional punch.
RADIATOR 15 Mon 1 Feb Dir: Tom Browne Cast: Richard Johnson, Julia Ford UK 2014, 1hr 34mins A son returns home to help his elderly parents at their isolated Cumbrian cottage, in this moving and insightful debut from Tom Browne.
THE BIG SHORT
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Fri 5 Feb- Thu 11 Feb Dir: Adam McKay Cast: Steve Carell, Christian Bale USA 2015, 2hrs 10mins ‘
– Witty, absurd and far more entertaining than it has any right to be’ – Empire. Nominated for 5 BAFTAs and 5 Oscars. When the financial collapse occurred in 2008, not everyone lost out. From the author of Moneyball, this new film follows a group of traders who in 2005 realised that not only was the crash coming, but that they could make a lot of money betting against it. The Big Short has a fine cast that includes Brad Pitt, Steve Carell, Christian
Bale and Ryan Gosling, and succeeds in being both informative and very, very funny.
CINEMA BIZARRE The weird and wonderful
YAKUZA APOCALYPSE
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Fri 5 Feb, 9.15pm Dir: Takashi Miike Cast: Yayan Ruhian Japan, 2015, 1hr 55mins, subtitled In the ruthless underground world of the Yakuza, legendary boss Kamiura is rumoured to be invincible, but the truth is he’s a vampire! Given an ultimatum that he must return to the international syndicate he left years ago, Kamiura’s refusal sets in motion a series of increasingly bizarre and violent events. As you’d expect from Miike (13 Assassins, Gozu) Yakuza Apocalypse is bonkers, blood-filled and glorious fun.
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Fri 12 – Tue 16 Feb Dir: Ryan Coogler Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone USA 2015, 2 hrs 13mins Safe to say no-one had high hopes when another film in the Rocky franchise was announced, so it’s a welcome surprise that Creed exceeds all expectations. Michael. B Jordan (Fruitvale Station) stars as the son of Rocky’s late friend and former rival Apollo Creed, who asks Rocky to help train him to follow in his father’s footsteps. Now in the mix for the Oscars, Creed is a thrilling, crowd-pleasing movie about fathers and sons, fighting and redemption.
YOUTH
DAD’S ARMY
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Fri 12 – Thu 18 Feb Dir: Paolo Sorrentino Cast: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel Italy/France 2015, 2hrs 4mins, subtitled (parts)
Fri 12 – Thu 25 Feb Dir: Oliver Parker Cast: Bill Nighy, Catherine Zeta-Jones UK 2016, TBC
Retired orchestra conductor Fred Ballinger (Caine) is on holiday at an Alpine resort with his daughter and best friend Mick (Keitel), a film director. Mick is working on a new movie, but Fred is determined to stay retired despite an invitation from the Queen to perform for Prince Philip's birthday! A funny but down to earth film about fading memories and twilight years, with a great supporting cast that includes Jane Fonda and Rachel Weisz.
Returning to the town of Walmington-on-Sea in 1944 we rejoin the Home Guard, led by the hapless Captain Mainwaring (Jones) and his long-suffering second-in-command Sergeant Wilson (Nighy). With WWII reaching its climax and the allies preparing to invade Germany, Mainwaring’s troop are tasked with sniffing out an undercover German spy whilst dealing with the scrutiny of glamorous female journalist Rose
Winters (Zeta-Jones). Stuffed full of national treasures – like Michael Gambon, Mark Gatiss, Bill Nighy and Toby Jones – and filled with laugh-out-load moments, this new take on the beloved television series is a delight.
MYSTERY FILM
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35MM CLUB: IKIRU
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Fri 12 Feb, 6.45pm Tickets £3 Join us as we voyage into the unknown with our mystery film night. It could be a new digital restoration, a 35mm print of an old classic or a rare theatrical outing for a film you’ve never had the chance to see on the big screen. Nobody knows what we’re screening (including our staff!) until the film begins, but you can trust that we’ll deliver some brilliant cinema. The Mystery Film may be any classification up to an 18 certificate. As such, these screenings are for over-18s only.
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Sat 13 – Mon 15 Feb Dir: John Crowley Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson Ireland/UK/Canada, 1hr 49mins Returning due to high demand, and with Oscar nominations for Best Film and Best Actress (Saoirse Ronan). 1950s Ireland and young Eilis is leaving for America. Sponsored by a priest in Brooklyn, Eilis finds a job and lodgings with the no-nonsense Mrs Kehoe (Julie Walters). After initial homesickness, Eilis falls in love with her new life, but a tragedy back home means she must return to Ireland. Torn between two countries, Eilis must decide where her heart lies.
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Sat 13 Feb, 3pm Dir: Akira Kurosawa Cast: Takashi Shimura Japan 1952, 2hrs 22mins, subtitled We love 35mm film here at Phoenix, but sadly with the rise of digital it’s a format that has been on the way out for quite a while. But we’re not ready to say goodbye just yet! We’re starting the 35mm Club where each month we’ll screen from real film. First up, inspired by the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme (p10) we’ll be screening Kurosawa’s Ikiru, a heartbreaking exploration of humanity and mortality.
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TRUMBO
A WAR
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Fri 19 Feb – Thu 3 Mar Dir: Jay Roach Cast: Bryan Cranston, Helen Mirren USA 2015, 2hrs 4mins
Fri 19 – Mon 22 Feb Dir: Tobias Lindholm Cast: Pilou Asbæk, Tuva Novotny Denmark, 1hr 55mins, subtitled
1947 and Dalton Trumbo is the most in-demand scriptwriter in Hollywood, but his charmed life comes crashing down when he and a host of other filmmakers are blacklisted as Communist sympathisers by the House of UnAmerican Activities. After serving time for refusing to testify and desperate for money as no-one will hire him, Trumbo hatches a plan to work under various pseudonyms right under the noses of HUAC. As Trumbo’s reputation for fixing others
In only his second film Tobias Lindholm musters the same intensity as in his directorial debut, 2012’s A Hijacking. Pilou Asbæk plays Claus, a respected Danish troop commander in Afghanistan, who in the chaos of combat makes a decision that ends in tragedy. Returning home to face trial, the film switches to a courtroom drama as gripping as a battlefield. Raw and unflinching, A War is fiercely intelligent European cinema that asks more questions than it answers.
THE ASSASSIN
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Mon 22 – Thu 25 Feb Dir: Hsiao-Hsien Hou Cast: Qi Shu, Chen Chang Taiwan/China 2016, 1hr 46mins, subtitled Winner of the Best Director award at Cannes, this new film from HsiaoHsien Hou (his first in eight years) is a must for world cinema fans. In 9th century China, lethally talented assassin Nie Yinniang is sent back to the land of her birth, with orders from her mistress to kill a man she was originally supposed to marry. Don’t expect an action-packed romp; this is a thoughtful and beautifully shot film about duty, love and loyalty.
writers’ work grows, the industry’s biggest stars come looking for his help; but will his persecutors find out and put a stop to it? A hugely entertaining look behind the scenes of glamorous 40's Hollywood, the cast includes Oscar nominee Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, and Helen Mirren as the delightfully horrible gossip columnist Hedda Hopper.
THE HATEFUL EIGHT 18 Fri 26 Feb – Wed 2 Mar Dir: Quentin Tarantino Cast: Kurt Russell, Tim Roth USA 2016, 2hrs 48mins The new film from Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) is a violent and funny western set in a remote cabin. Bounty hunter John Ruth (Russell) is transporting his prisoner Daisy Domergue to Red Rock to hang, but is forced to stop at a lodge when a huge blizzard rolls in. With the owners gone and the cabin populated by a motley collection of outlaws, who can be trusted and who will survive the night?
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Fri 26 Feb – Tue 1 Mar Dir: Grímur Hákonarson Cast: Sigurður Sigurjónsson Iceland/Denmark/Norway/Poland, 1hr 33mins, subtitled Who would have thought that a film about two sheep farmers in Iceland would be one of the most moving and subtly powerful films you‘ll see all year? Gummi and Kiddi are two brothers who live on neighbouring farms but haven’t spoken in 40 years. When scrapie (a degenerative disease fatal to sheep) spreads through their region and the government insists on all flocks being incinerated, the brothers must reconcile and conspire to save their family’s treasured breed.
THE DANISH GIRL
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DMU PRIDE After a huge success last year, Phoenix again partners with De Montfort University for their #DMUPride festival. The annual #DMUPride festival celebrates the LGBT community at DMU and beyond, and highlights their commitment to equality and promoting diversity.
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Fri 26 Feb – Tue 1 Mar Dir: Sean Baker Cast: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor USA 2015, 1hr 26mins
– Beautiful, humane and moving’ – The Telegraph. Returning due to popular demand and in partnership with DMU, Eddie Redmayne stars in this remarkable love story, inspired by the lives of artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Originally known as Einar, Lili Elbe (Redmayne) was one of the first people to undergo sex reassignment surgery in the early 20th century. Directed by Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) with a cast that includes Vikander as Lili’s wife Gerda, Matthias Schoenaerts and Ben Whishaw, The Danish Girl is captivating and beautifully made.
‘ – A bit of a marvel… combines extraordinary visual inventiveness, humour and pathos.’ – The Independent. Famous as ‘the film shot on an iphone’ Tangerine crackles with life and is one of the funniest, most controversial and eye-opening films you will see. Fresh out of prison, transgender sex worker Sin-Dee Rella meets up with fellow working girl Alexandra. When Alexandra reveals that Sin-Dee’s boyfriend and pimp Chester has been cheating on her with a cisgender woman, Sin-Dee sets out to confront them.
COMMENTARY
COMEDY IN THE DARK
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Thu 18 Feb, 8pm Tickets: £6
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TANGERINE
Mon 1 Feb – Thu 4 Feb Dir: Tom Hooper Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander UK/Germany/USA 2015, 2hrs
Film and animation combine with live performance in Commentary, an exciting new cinematic event which draws upon a wealth of local Leicester talent. Comedians, poets, musicians and more perform against a backdrop of films and stunning animations. A multimedia mash-up not to be missed! #WhatAreYouWatching?
Sat 20 & Sun 21 Feb Advised 18+ show Doors 7.45pm, show starts 8pm Tickets: £10 Comedy in the Dark returns to Leicester after sell-out shows in the UK and Europe. We present a truly unique comedy experience where comedians take on the challenge of performing in pitch black. Your favourite stand ups, one hour, no lights! In aid of Big Difference Company; line up to be announced.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Spotlight An American in Paris Room Spotlight Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai
Spotlight Star Wars: The Force Awakens Room Spotlight The Big Short Spotlight Yakuza Apocalypse
The Danish Girl Spotlight Room Harry Potter Night Spotlight Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Spotlight
Spotlight The Danish Girl Spotlight Room Spotlight The Danish Girl Spotlight Room
Spotlight Room Spotlight Room Spotlight - Descriptive Subtitled The Art of Screenwriting The Danish Girl
Radiator Spotlight The Danish Girl Spotlight Radiator Spotlight Room
FEBRUARY 2016
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip Youth Dad’s Army Dad’s Army Creed Brooklyn Dad’s Army Youth Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip Youth Dad’s Army Dad’s Army Dad’s Army Creed Exhibition on Screen: Renoir Dad’s Army
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip Lazy Sunday: Dad’s Army Brooklyn Dad’s Army The Philadelphia Story Dad’s Army Youth Creed Dad’s Army
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip - Autism Friendly Creed Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip Dad’s Army 35mm Club: Ikiru Dad’s Army Brooklyn Dad’s Army Youth
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Mystery Film Love is Strange Dad’s Army Creed
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Paper Planes Trumbo The Hateful Eight Tangerine Trumbo Rams NT Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses Trumbo
Rams Trumbo Tangerine Trumbo Uzumasa Limelight The Hateful Eight Trumbo
Trumbo Dad’s Army The Assassin Trumbo Dad’s Army NT Live: As You Like It Trumbo
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The Assassin Trumbo Dad’s Army Trumbo - Descriptive Subtitled From Here to Eternity Trumbo The Assassin Trumbo Dad’s Army Trumbo The Assassin Trumbo Dad’s Army Trumbo The Assassin
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Dad’s Army Trumbo The Assassin Trumbo A War
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip Dad’s Army Youth Dad’s Army
Spotlight Room The Big Short Spotlight The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky + Q&A Spotlight
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Spotlight The Big Short Spotlight Room Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter’s Tale Spotlight
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The Big Short Spotlight Star Wars: The Force Awakens Spotlight Room Spotlight The Big Short
Tess Spotlight The Big Short Spotlight Room The Big Short Spotlight
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Lazy Sunday: The Big Short Spotlight The 100-Year-Old Man who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared Star Wars: The Force Awakens Spotlight Room Spotlight
Spotlight The Big Short
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Dad’s Army Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip Dad’s Army Dad’s Army Visible Bits, Audible Bytes Dad’s Army Youth
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With our Film & Dine offer, you can enjoy a meal in our Café Bar and a film for just £14.75 / £13.25 conc. It’s become very popular, so this month we’re changing things to make it easier for everyone. From now on, anyone with a film ticket can upgrade to Film & Dine at our Café Bar if they fancy a meal as well. To make this possible, Film & Dine customers will no longer be able to reserve tables and pre-order food for after their film.
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Hollywood Classics
Comedy Festival
Silver Screening
Japan Touring Cinema
Trumbo Rams Tangerine Trumbo Rams Trumbo The Hateful Eight
Lazy Sunday: The Hateful Eight Trumbo Trumbo Guys and Dolls Tangerine Trumbo Rams
Access Cinema
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HOLLYWOOD CLASSICS Feb – Mar Inspired by Trumbo (screening this month) and the Coen Brothers' new film Hail, Caesar! (coming in March) we present a series of Hollywood classics from the ‘40s and ‘50s. Come and enjoy enchanting musicals, swooning romances and the huge stars of Hollywood’s golden years.
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS U
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY U
Sat 6 Feb, 2.30pm Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron USA 1951, 1hr 53mins
Sun 14 Feb, 3pm Dir: George Cukor Cast: Katharine Hepburn USA 1940, 1hr 52mins
A Technicolor delight featuring the amazing choreography of the legendary Gene Kelly. Jerry, the titular American, is a struggling artist. He finds investment from an older woman who begins to fall in love with him, but he has his sights set on someone else – the partner of one of his closest friends. 'S wonderful!
Regarded by many as the definitive romantic comedy. An all-star cast, including James Stewart, Cary Grant and a luminous Katherine Hepburn, plus a superb script make The Philadelphia Story an absolute classic. Tracy Lord is due to remarry, but when her ex-husband and a local reporter arrive during the wedding preparations, who will she end up choosing?
THE JAPAN FOUNDATION TOURING FILM PROGRAMME 2016 IKIRU: THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF LIFE IN JAPANESE CINEMA Feb – Mar Inspired by Kurosawa’s iconic 1952 film Ikiru (‘To Live’ – screening on Sat 13 Feb for 35mm Club), the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2016 will provide an exciting collection of films looking at the way in which Japanese filmmakers have been observing and capturing people’s lives, with many of the films never before screened in the UK.
SARUSUBERI: MISS HOKUSAI 12A Sat 6 Feb, 6.10pm Dir: Keiichi Hara Cast: Kumiko Asô, Gaku Hamada Japan 2015, 1hr 33mins, subtitled Set in early 19th century Japan during the Edo period, this animation brings to life the story of O-Ei, the daughter of the ukiyo-e master, Katsushika Hokusai (globally famous for his piece The Great Wave). O-Ei has inherited both her father’s stubbornness and his talent, and her art is so powerful that it leads her into trouble.
SILVER SCREENINGS FROM HERE TO ETERNITY PG Tue 23 Feb, 6.20pm Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr USA 1953, 1hr 58mins Winner of eight Oscars and famous for the sizzling beach scene between Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster, From Here to Eternity is ‘old school drama of the highest order’ – Empire. Set in the days leading up to the Pearl Harbour attack, the movie follows the intertwined lives of an army unit in Hawaii.
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Sun 28 Feb, 3.45pm Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons USA 1955, 2hrs 23mins Nathan Detroit, the fixer of New York's longest established floating craps game, is feeling the heat on all sides. The cops are bearing down on him, his clientele have full wallets and itchy dice fingers, and his fiancée is demanding a wedding that's been 14 years in the making! Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra star in Mankiewicz’s classic musical.
Matinee screenings for just £4.60 including refreshments.
SPOTLIGHT
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TESS
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Wed 10 Feb, 10.30am Open to all, screening in partnership with The University of the Third Age (U3A)
DAD’S ARMY TBC Wed 17 Feb, 11am
TRUMBO
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Wed 24 Feb, 11am
ACCESS CINEMA DESCRIPTIVE SUBTITLES
SPOTLIGHT THE COWARDS WHO LOOKED TO THE SKY + DIRECTOR Q&A 18 Thu 11 Feb, 6.30pm Dir: Yuki Tanada Cast: Kento Nagayama Japan 2012, 2hrs 20mins, subtitled
UZUMASA LIMELIGHT
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Tue 2 Feb, 7.15pm
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Fri 26 Feb, 6.15pm Dir: Ken Ochiai Cast: Seizô Fukumoto, Chihiro Yamamoto Japan 2014, 1hr 43mins, subtitled
DAD’S ARMY TBC Thu 18 Feb, 6pm
TRUMBO
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Tue 23 Feb, 6pm AUDIO DESCRIBED
Yuki Tanada, considered one of Japan’s most talented filmmakers, returns from a four year break with this emotionally-engaging and bold expression of the inner lives, hardships and cooped-up feelings of individuals in modern day Japan. Yuki joins us for a Q&A after the screening.
An award-winning film telling the admirable story of Seiichi, a ‘kirareyaku’ actor whose main job in samurai movies is simply to be killed-off by the lead star. When the studio where Seiichi works decides to discontinue its samurai epics, Seiichi finds himself at a loss but hope arrives in the form of a young woman named Satsuki, who soon becomes his disciple.
DAD’S ARMY TBC Fri 19 Feb, 1pm AUTISM FRIENDLY
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP Sat 13 Feb, 10.30am
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As You Like It, National Theatre Live
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STAGE ON SCREEN
THIS MONTH
See some of the world’s greatest stage shows and exhibitions come alive on our cinema screens.
THE WINTER’S TALE
Tickets from £11.50
(Branagh Theatre Live) Tue 9 Feb 2016, 7pm Definitely your final chance to see Dame Judi in Kenneth Branagh’s phenomenally successful production.
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Oscar Nominated
RENOIR: THE UNKNOWN ARTIST (Exhibition on Screen) Tue 16 Feb, 7.30pm Delve deep into the life of this remarkable artist. Filmed at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, which houses the world’s largest collection of Renoir’s works.
N AT I O N A L T H E AT R E LIVE As You Like It Thu 25 Feb, 7pm
Hamlet Wed 8 Jun, 7pm
Les Liasons Dangereuses Sat 27 Feb, 7.30pm
EXHIBITION ON SCREEN
Hangmen Sat 12 Mar, 7.30pm ENGLISH N AT I O N A L OPERA The Mikado Wed 9 Mar, 7.30pm
AS YOU LIKE IT
BOLSHOI BALLET
(NT Live) Thu 25 Feb, 7pm Shakespeare’s glorious comedy of love and transformation, starring Rosalie Craig (London Road, Macbeth at MIF) as Rosalind.
R O YA L SHAKESPEARE C O M PA N Y
Spartacus Sun 13 Mar, 3pm Don Quixote Sun 10 Apr, 4pm
Renoir: The Unknown Artist Tue 16 Feb, 7.30pm Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse Tue 12 Apr, 7.30pm B R A N A G H T H E AT R E L I V E The Winter's Tale Tue 9 Feb, 3pm Romeo and Juliet Thu 7 Jul, 7.15pm Y O R K T H E AT R E R O YA L The Railway Children Bank Holiday Mon 28 Mar, 3.30pm See our website for full details and more shows in 2016, and to buy tickets (with no booking fee).
FAMILIES AT PHOENIX Phoenix Family Films
PAPPU KI PUGDANDI
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Sat 20 Feb, 10.30am India 2015, 1hr 23mins Hindi with English subtitles There’s loads of good stuff for families at Phoenix, with great films, free workshops and a tasty children’s menu in our Café Bar... plenty to keep you and the kids (or grandkids!) busy this half-term.
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
A magical tale about the true nature of happiness. Pappu is a young boy who doesn’t fit in at his swanky school. When he discovers a genie living in his tree house, he thinks he may have found the solution to all his problems.
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Part of our regular programme of films screening in partnership with the Children’s Film Society, India.
Fri 5 – Mon 8 Feb USA 2015, 2hrs 16mins It’s back! Han Solo, Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia return to the big screen in a new adventure set 30 years after The Return of the Jedi. If you didn’t manage to see it in December, now’s your chance.
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP
RANGOLI WORKSHOP Sat 20 Feb, 12pm – 3pm Free Make your own traditional Rangoli patterns at this fun, free workshop brought to you in partnership with our friends at Leicester Mela. Drop-in, no need to book. Suitable for all ages.
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Fri 12 – Sun 21 Feb USA 2015, 1hr 32mins Everything you’d expect from a ‘chipmunk movie’. Join Alvin, Simon and Theodore on the road from LA to Miami as they attempt to stop their friend and record producer Dave from proposing to his new girlfriend. Full of hijinks, humour, misunderstandings, and even a chipmunk version of ‘Uptown Funk’!
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Sat 27 – Sun 28 Feb Australia 2014, 1hr 36mins A relaxed, heart-warming family comedy about Dylan, a shy 12 year-old boy living in rural Australia, who is obsessed with flying. After winning a school competition, his dream of competing in the World Paper Plane Championships in Japan comes true. Faced with stiff competition can he come out on top?
HARRY POTTER BOOK NIGHT Thu 4 Feb, 5pm – 7pm Free (excl film) Join us for a celebration of Harry Potter. There’ll be loads of fun activities, including a costume competition, book readings, and crafts, with lots prizes to be won. We’re also screening the Prisoner of Azkaban at 7.30pm. Check our website for full details.
Box Office — 0116 242 2800 Book Online — www.phoenix.org.uk
ART AT PHOENIX
VISIBLE BITS AUDIBLE BYTES Wed 17 Feb, 6.30pm Screen 2, Free
14 – 15
Available as Silver Screenings – see p11
Oscar Nominated
The seventh annual Visible Bits, Audible Bytes brings stunning, genre-breaking works of audiovisual art to Phoenix. Stimulate the eye and the ear with contemporary fusions of new and old technologies, from computeranimated tessellation patterns driven by music, to hand-painted films complementing digital soundscapes. The screening presents new work from around the globe, including China, Canada, Holland, Israel and the USA. Presented by the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University. Image Credit: Raven Kwok, from ‘Skyline’
THE CANVAS OF RESONANCE Tue 19 Jan – Sat 20 Feb Cube Gallery, Free The Canvas of Resonance is a sound and visual installation by Kenny Wong Chi-Chuen, inspired by the Foley artists who produced sound effects for cinema, TV and radio in the predigital age. In the early days of live radio, Foley artists invented a novel way to create the sound of thunder: their method of rattling a large piece of thin copper
sheeting suspended by wires was so effective that it became a mainstay of the industry for decades, and is still what many people associate with a Foley artist’s work. The Canvas of Resonance re-examines this longstanding audio effect, creating complex, atmospheric sound compositions by manipulating the surface of a series of metal sheets suspended in the gallery space. The resulting installation – accompanied by flickering lights highlighting the surface of the metal – is a dramatic, immersive experience.
LEARN AT PHOENIX Our short courses and workshops are a great way to get more out of film and digital technology. Visit our website to find out more and to book online.
THIS MONTH
THE ART OF SCREENWRITING: A PRACTICAL GUIDE Tuesdays, 2 Feb – 22 Mar (8 sessions) 7pm – 9pm Price: £96 / £80 conc. An intensive skills-based guide to screenwriting, sharing industry secrets along the way.
LOVE IS STRANGE Fri 12 Feb, 7pm – 8.30pm Price: Price: £10 / £8 conc. The antidote to Valentine’s Day: a speedy tour of unusual and twisted portrayals of romantic love on film.
CPD FOR TEACHERS New courses for primary school teachers and home educators.
FILM AND THE TOPIC CURRICULUM Thu 11 Feb, 10am – 2.30pm Price: £10
IPAD FILMMAKING IN THE CLASSROOM Tue 22 Mar, 2pm – 5pm Price: £5
UNDERSTANDING ADAPTATION Fri 18 Mar, 7pm – 8.30pm Price: £10 / £8 conc. A refreshing look at adaptations in the cinema, focusing on the creative process involved in getting a book onto the big screen.
TALKING PICTURES SPRING Mondays, 4 Apr – 20 Jun (10 sessions) Tuesdays, 5 Apr – 21 Jun (10 sessions) 10.30am – 12pm Price: £80 / £70 conc. Share your love of film with this 10 week course of tutor-led group discussions that put the cinema week into focus. Includes a ticket to the 1pm or 1.30pm film screening.
ACTING FOR FILM BASICS Wednesdays, 6 Apr – 27 Apr (4 sessions) 7pm – 8.30pm Price: £48 / £40 conc. A practical guide to the skills and techniques specific to film acting. No experience necessary!
AUSTEN ON SCREEN Thursdays, 7 Apr – 28 Apr (4 sessions) 7pm – 8.30pm Price: £48 / £40 conc. A tour of Jane Austen’s life and works on screen, exploring their lasting impact and asking whether they truly capture the genius of her writing.
FILM AND PHILOSOPHY Sat 16 Apr, 10.30am – 4pm Price: £15 A fascinating exploration of what we understand by good and evil, justice, duty and desire, through film.
FILM SCHOOL Tuesdays, 3 May – 21 Jun (8 sessions) 7pm – 9pm Price: £96 / £80 conc. A practical introduction to filmmaking, taking you step by step from pre-production planning through to the final edit of your film.
PHOENIX + FAMILIES = FUN! Great films, free workshops and a tasty kids’ menu Family tickets start at just £10 (1 adult + 1 child)
OPENING TIMES
TICKETS Sat – Sun & bank holidays
Mon – Fri
12pm – 9pm
Box Office
STANDARD TICKETS
Full
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Student/U18
After 5pm & Weekends
£8.30
£6.50
£5.50
Before 5pm
£7.50
£6.50
£5.50
£1 off standard Full and Conc ticket price
10.30am – 9pm (Wed)
11am – 9pm
Café Bar & Cube Gallery
9am – 11pm
10am – 11pm
MyPhoenix Members & Friends
Food Served
11am – 9pm
11am – 9pm (Sat) 10am – 6pm (Sun)
TICKET OFFERS
PARKING There is a pay and display car park next to Phoenix. Parking costs £1 for up to 2 hours, £2 for 3 hours, £4 all day, and is free after 6pm. On Sundays and bank holidays there is a £1 charge from 6am-6pm and a maximum stay of 3hrs.
Autism Friendly / Supported Environment Screenings
£4.00 one free carer ticket available for CEA cardholders
Family tickets
Adult + child £10 Adult + 2 children £15 2 adults + 2 children £20
Rutland Street NCP on Halford Street (LE1 1TQ) is a short walk from Phoenix and costs £4.40 all day for Phoenix customers. Tickets must be validated at the Box Office.
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On-street parking is also available around Phoenix. Please always check the signs as restrictions may apply.
Lazy Sunday †
Combine the film of your choice with a meal
£14.75 / £13.25 conc.
Any item from the brunch menu, a drink and a ticket to the 12pm show
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BOX OFFICE 0116 242 2800
BOOK ONLINE
www.phoenix.org.uk
Phoenix, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, LE1 1TG Office enquiries, including room & screen hire – 0116 242 2821
ACCESS Front of building & Halford St NCP
Hearing loops in building
Wheelchair spaces available
Baby changing facilities
Guide dogs are welcome
Toilet & washing facilities
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