Phoenix Leicester November 2014 by Jake Harvey

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CINEMA

ART

CAFÉ BAR

THE IMITATION GAME Fri 14 Nov–Thu 4 Dec NEW FILMS —

NIGHTCRAWLER THE BABADOOK VIOLETTE FURY

THIS MONTH —

5TH ANNIVERSARY

We celebrate 5 years in our new home

JACQUES TATI

A season of the French director's films

ZOMBIE FESTIVAL Returns for its 8th year!

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NOVEMBER AT A GLANCE

Tony Benn: Will and Testament p4

Mr. Turner p4

Maps to the Stars p5

PRIDE p5

STILL THE ENEMY WITHIN p5

Nightcrawler p7

EFFIE GRAY p5

Violette p6

The Imitation Game p6

Wish I was Here p6

Fury p7

The Babadook p7

Jimi: All is by my side p10

Gone too far p10

MY OLD LADY

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE

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COMING IN DECEMBER

INTERSTELLAR

We’re delighted to tell you Phoenix has a new website. It’s in exactly the same place as the old one – at phoenix.org.uk – but if you take a look, you’ll see it’s been completely redesigned. We think it looks fantastic and we hope you do to. But more importantly, we hope you’ll find it useful – a simple tool you can use to quickly find out what’s on at Phoenix and buy tickets if you want. If you use a smartphone or tablet, you’ll see the website adapts to fit the screen – making it a doddle to check our listings or the latest exhibitions wherever you may be. We see the new website as a valuable complement to this monthly brochure – enabling us to provide you with the latest news, more information and new ways to get involved. Please use the ‘Contact Us’ facility to provide any feedback you would like to share with us. This month also sees our 5th anniversary at Phoenix Square. We’re planning a series of special activities over the year ahead and will also be asking you to help us plan for the next five. To kick things off in November we’re welcoming back comedian and writer, Adam Buxton, who’ll be performing on our anniversary date. We’re also giving you the opportunity to vote back your favourite 5 films we’ve shown over the last 5 years.

Phoenix is a registered charity. Our aim is to bring inspirational film and art to all. Made possible with the support of:

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WELCOME

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CONTINUED FROM LAST MONTH

MR. TURNER

12A

Fri 31 Oct – Thu 20 Nov Dir: Mike Leigh Cast: Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson UK 2014, 2hrs 29mins Mike Leigh’s new film stars Timothy Spall on winning form as painter J.M.W Turner. Beginning in 1826 the film focuses on the last quarter-century of Turner’s life, from his life in London with his beloved father, his relationship with a Margate landlady, to risking the wrath of the Royal Academy with his increasingly impressionist works. Spall’s performance is a tour-de-force, his grunting Turner

IDA 12

Fri 31 Oct – Thu 6 Nov Dir: Pawel Pawlikowski Cast: Agata Trzebuchowska Poland / Denmark, 2014, 1hr 22mins, subs

LE JOUR SE LÈVE (DAYBREAK) PG

Fri 31 Oct – Mon 3 Nov (excl Sun 2 Nov) Dir: Marcel Carné Cast: Jean Gabin France 1939, 1hr 31mins, subs

FINDING FELA

4–5

Fri 31 Oct – Tue 4 Nov Dir: Alex Gibney USA / UK / Nigeria, 2hrs

eccentric and humane, a world away from the priggish art-critics and Academy members. A gorgeously textured biopic from the director of Another Year and Vera Drake. “ Supremely enjoyable” —The Telegraph “ A glorious film” —The Guardian

TONY BENN: WILL AND TESTAMENT 12A Mon 3 – Thu 6 Nov Dir: Skip Kite Documentary UK 2014, 1hr 35mins

Tony Benn, who sadly passed away in March this year, was the longest-serving Labour MP in history, and arguably, the most popular UK politician of all time. Across the globe his brand of socialism struck a chord with people of all ages and social backgrounds. For the first time ever through intimate, quasi-confessional interviews and Benn’s own personal photographic and film archive, Will and Testament reveals a very human face behind the political mask.

BELLE

12A

Thu 6 Nov, 8.30pm Dir: Amma Asante Cast: Gugu Mbatha-Raw UK 2013, 1h 44mins Screening in partnership with DMU for Black History Season, this gorgeous costume drama is based on the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral (Goode) raised by her great-uncle Lord Chief Justice Mansfield and his wife. Afforded certain privileges because of her lineage but never allowed to be fully equal, Belle falls in love with an idealistic young man and in doing so brings on the struggle to end slavery in England.

PRIDE

MAPS TO THE STARS

Fri 7 – Tue 11 Nov Dir: Matthew Warchus Cast: Imelda Staunton, Bill Nighy, Dominic West, Andrew Scott UK 2014, 2hrs

Mon 10 – Thu 13 Nov Dir: David Cronenberg Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Canada / USA / Germany, 2014, 1hr 51mins

Back by popular demand, this year’s ‘The Full Monty’, is 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 money for the miners, but are faced with suspicion and animosity from the macho mining community. Big-hearted, moving and very funny.

The new film from Cronenberg is a blackly comic satire that doesn’t so much break taboos as smash through them in a drugged-up daze. An awful Hollywood family and their circle of equally awful acquaintances – callous agents, pretentious actors and wannabe stars – find themselves haunted by past indiscretions and cruelty. Funny and bizarre, this riotously scathing indictment of celebrity culture and modern materialism is an acid-drop treat.

EFFIE GRAY

12A

Fri 7 – Thu 13 Nov Dir: Richard Laxton Cast: Dakota Fanning, Emma Thompson UK 2014, 1hr 48mins Written by Emma Thompson and starring Greg Wise, Dakota Fanning, Julie Walters and Thompson herself, this sumptuous new period drama is based on the real-life story of Euphemia Chalmers Gray – a 19th century lady whose love triangle caused scandal across Victorian London. Marrying art critic John Ruskin shortly after her 19th birthday, Effie soon finds herself isolated and unloved with Ruskin unwilling to consummate the marriage; but

Ruskin’s protégé John Millais offers a chance at happiness. “ Beautiful! A deftly crafted period drama that flourishes in the hands of its screenwriter and co-star Emma Thompson.” —The Edinburgh Reporter

STILL THE ENEMY WITHIN 15

Wed 12 Nov, 7.30pm Dir: Owen Gower Cast: Norman Strike, Paul Symonds UK 2014, 1hr 52mins A one-off screening of this new award-winning documentary offering a unique insight into one of recent history’s most dramatic events: the 1984-85 miners’ strike. No experts; no politicians - thirty years on, this is the raw emotional story of those who drove Britain’s longest strike. The film weaves stunningly edited archive footage of the strike and never-before-seen interviews with the strike’s key players: the miners themselves.

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RAILWAYS REMEMBERED

Introduced by Rob Foxon.

WISH I WAS HERE

Fri 14, Mon 17 & Tue 18 Nov Dir: Zach Braff Cast: Kate Hudson, Josh Gad USA 2014, 1hr 46mins

RAILWAYS IN WARTIME

Sun 16 Nov, 2.30pm Running time: 3hrs approx Tickets: £6.50

75 years ago in 1939, Britain's 10 years since his directorial debut railways were taken under Garden State, Scrubs actor-turnedgovernment control for the director Zach Braff returns with duration of hostilities. In genuine another slice of quirky American archive footage, see how our indie. Wish I Was Here follows railways coped with nightly Aidan Bloom, an unemployed LA bombing raids yet continued in actor who has no option but to their essential wartime role taking home-school his kids after his father workers to the factories, and falls ill and can no longer pay their transporting troops and machines private school fees. Forced to of war. See the rapid construction evaluate his career and role as a of WD Austerity locomotives for dad, Aiden must also try to use overseas, preparations for the reconcile his grouchy father and D-Day landings and lots more. younger slacker brother.

THE IMITATION GAME

12A

Fri 14 Nov – Thu 4 Dec Dir: Morten Tyldum Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode UK / USA 2014, 1hr 54mins Based on the incredible true story of the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park during WWII, this new film from the director of Headhunters stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the eccentric genius Alan Turing. A brilliant mathematician, Turing joins a group of logician prodigies employed by the British Government to crack the Enigma Code, a German cypher with 159 million, million, million possible

configurations. Alienating colleagues with his arrogant manner and single-minded determination at work, Turing also has secrets in his private life he must keep hidden. An incredible performance from Cumberbatch is backed by a superb supporting cast including Mark Strong, Matthew Goode, Keira Knightley and Charles Dance.

VIOLETTE

Mon 17 – Thu 20 Nov Dir: Martin Provost Cast: Olivier Gourmet, Sandrine Kiberlain France / Belgium 2013, 2hrs 18mins, subs

This elegant biopic follows neurotic writer Violette Leduc, who meets fellow writer Simone de Beauvoir after the war in St-Germain-desPrés. The pair begin an intense and complex friendship which teaches Violette to use the power of her emotional turmoil to create work more beautiful than she could have imagined. A charming, poignant and fitting homage to a renowned writer.

NIGHTCRAWLER

Fri 28 Nov – Thu 4 Dec Dir: Dan Gilroy Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo USA 2014, 1hr 57mins Set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles, Nightcrawler stars a gaunt Jake Gyllenhaal as Lou Bloom, a driven young man who discovers the cut-throat world of freelance crime scene journalism. Starting with a police scanner and a cheap camera, Lou’s amoral attitude soon impresses network boss Nina. But how far is he willing to go in pursuit of the perfect shot? Is it enough for him to get there first, or can he engineer his own exclusive? A pulse-pounding thriller

with an utterly mesmerising central performance from Gyllenhaal; if Academy voters had any sense they’d hand him the Oscar right now.

FURY

THE BABADOOK

Fri 21 – Thu 27 Nov Dir: David Ayer Cast: Brad Pitt, Jon Bernthal UK / USA/ China 2014, 2hrs 14mins This blistering and bruising new war film from David Ayres (End of Watch) stars Brad Pitt as American tank commander Don 'Wardaddy' Collier. It’s April 1945, and as the Allies make their final push for victory, a battle-hardened five-man Sherman tank crew are sent on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Out-numbered and out-gunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

Fri 21 – Mon 24 Nov Dir: Jennifer Kent Cast: Essie Davis, Daniel Henshall Australia 2014, 1hr 33mins

WWI ON SCREEN: THE BATTLES OF CORONEL AND FALKLAND ISLANDS Sat 22 – Sun 23 Nov Dir: Walter Summers Cast: Roger Maxwell, Craighall Sherry UK 1927, 1hr 45mins

This terrifying Australian film scared the wits out of the Sundance Film Festival crowds when it premiered To commemorate the centenary of earlier this year, and arrives in the UK the outbreak of WWI, the BFI having picked up a crop of awards National Archive has restored one of on the festival circuit. Still coping the finest films of the British silent with the violent death of her era – a thrilling reconstruction of two husband 6 years ago, single mother decisive naval battles from the early Amelia struggles to look after her stages of the conflict. This stirring temperamental son Samuel, film is presented with a newly especially when a mysterious book commissioned score composed appears in his room and they find by Simon Dobson and performed their house visited by the bogeyman by The Band of Her Majesty’s himself ‘Mr Babadook’. Royal Marines.

NOVEMBER—14 Sat 1

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11am The Goonies 1pm Finding Fela! 1.30pm Mr. Turner 3.40pm The Goonies 4.45pm Mr. Turner 6.10pm Le Jour Se Lève 8pm Mr. Turner 8.15pm Ida 11.15am The Goonies 12pm Lazy Sunday: Mr. Turner 3.30pm Mr. Turner 5.30pm Ida 7.15pm Mr. Turner 7.30pm Finding Fela! 1pm Ida 1.30pm Mr. Turner 3.15pm Finding Fela! 4.40pm Mr. Turner 6.15pm Tony Benn: Will and Testament 7.45pm Mr. Turner 8.30pm Le Jour Se Lève 1pm Mr. Turner 1.30pm Finding Fela! 4pm Tony Benn: Will and Testament 4.15pm Mr. Turner 6.10pm Ida 7.30pm NT Live: Frankenstein 8.15pm Mr. Turner 5.45pm Mr. Turner 6.15pm Ida 8.15pm Mr. Turner 8.45pm Tony Benn: Will and Testament 2pm Mr. Turner 2.15pm Ida 4.15pm Ida 5pm Mr. Turner 6.15pm Tony Benn: Will and Testament 8.15pm Mr. Turner 8.30pm Belle

2.30pm Effie Gray 3pm Mr. Turner 5.15pm Mr. Turner 6.10pm Effie Gray 8.20pm Mr. Turner 8.30pm Pride Sat 8 10.30am Maleficent – Autism Friendly 11.30am The Maze Runner 1.15pm Mr. Turner 2pm Heaven’s Gate 4.30pm Mr. Turner 6.15pm Jour de Fete 7.45pm Mr. Turner 8.15pm Effie Gray Sun 9 12pm Lazy Sunday: Mr. Turner 12.15pm The Maze Runner 2.45pm Mr. Turner 3pm Heaven’s Gate 6pm Effie Gray 7.15pm Mr. Turner 8.20pm Pride Mon 10 1pm Effie Gray 1.30pm Mr. Turner 3.30pm Effie Gray 4.40pm Mr. Turner 6.15pm Pride 7.45pm Mr. Turner 8.45pm Maps to the Stars Tue 11 1pm Mr. Turner 1.30pm Effie Gray 3.50pm Effie Gray 4.15pm Mr. Turner 6.15pm Maps to the Stars 7.30pm Mr. Turner – Subtitled 8.40pm Pride Wed 12 10.30am Great Expectations 1pm Mr. Turner 1.30pm Effie Gray 4.15pm Mr. Turner 4.30pm Maps to the Stars 7.30pm Still the Enemy Within

Fri 7

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8pm Mr. Turner 3pm Mr. Turner 4.30pm Mr. Turner 6.10pm Effie Gray 7.45pm Mr. Turner 8.30pm Maps to the Stars Fri 14 2.30pm The Imitation Game 3pm Mr. Turner 5.15pm The Imitation Game 6.10pm Wish I Was Here 8pm The Imitation Game 8.30pm Withnail & I Sat 15 11am Mr. Turner 12pm The UK Festival of Zombie Culture 2pm The Imitation Game 5pm The Imitation Game 8pm The Imitation Game Sun 16 12pm Lazy Sunday: The Imitation Game 2.30pm Railways Remembered: Railways in Wartime 2.40pm The Imitation Game 5.15pm The Imitation Game 6pm Mr. Hulot’s Holiday 7.45pm The Imitation Game 8pm Mr. Turner Mon 17 1pm The Imitation Game 1.30pm Violette 4.30pm The Imitation Game 5.30pm Mr. Turner 7.45pm The Imitation Game 8.30pm Wish I Was Here Tue 18 1pm The Imitation Game 1.30pm Wish I Was Here 3.40pm The Imitation Game 5.30pm Mr. Turner 6.10pm The Imitation Game – Subtitled 8.30pm Violette 8.40pm The Imitation Game Wed 19 1pm The Imitation Game

Thu 13

1.15pm Mr. Turner 3.30pm The Imitation Game 4.20pm Violette 7.15pm The Imitation Game 8pm Adam Buxton: BUG XL Recordings Special Thu 20 1.15pm The Imitation Game 1.45pm Mr. Turner 3.45pm The Imitation Game 5.15pm Violette 6.15pm The Imitation Game 8.15pm Mr. Turner 8.45pm The Imitation Game Fri 21 1pm The Imitation Game – Audio Described 2pm The Imitation Game 3.45pm The Babadook 5pm The Imitation Game 6.15pm Mon Oncle 8pm The Imitation Game 8.45pm Fury Sat 22 12.15pm Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1pm The Imitation Game 3pm The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Isles 3.30pm The Imitation Game 6pm The Babadook 6.15pm The Imitation Game 8.15pm Fury 8.40pm The Imitation Game Sun 23 11am Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 12pm Lazy Sunday: Fury 1.15pm The Imitation Game 3.30pm The Imitation Game 4pm Bolshoi Ballet – The Pharaoh’s Daughter 6pm The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Isles 7.20pm The Imitation Game 8.30pm The Babadook Mon 24 1pm Fury 1.30pm The Imitation Game

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3.45pm Jimi: All Is by My Side 4.30pm The Imitation Game 6.15pm Jimi: All Is by My Side 7.45pm The Imitation Game 8.45pm The Babadook Tue 25 1pm The Imitation Game 1.30pm Jimi: All Is by My Side 3.40pm The Imitation Game 4pm Fury 6.15pm The Imitation Game – Subtitled 7.30pm Dr. Strangelove + intro 8.45pm The Imitation Game Wed 26 11am The Imitation Game 1pm Fury 1.30pm The Imitation Game 3.45pm Jimi: All Is by My Side 4.30pm The Imitation Game 6.15pm Jimi: All Is by My Side 7.30pm The Imitation Game 8.45pm Fury Thu 27 2.30pm The Imitation Game 3pm Jimi: All Is by My Side 5.30pm The Imitation Game 6pm Trafic 8pm The Imitation Game 8.15pm Fury Fri 28 2.15pm The Imitation Game 3pm Playtime 5pm The Imitation Game 6pm Nightcrawler 8.30pm The Imitation Game Sat 29 10.30am Science Fiction Cinema 11.15am Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day 1pm Gone Too Far 1.15pm The Imitation Game 3pm Playtime 3.45pm The Imitation Game 6.15pm The Imitation Game

Sun 30

8.30pm Nightcrawler 8.45pm The Imitation Game 12pm Lazy Sunday: The Imitation Game 12.30pm Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day 2.30pm Playtime 2.50pm The Imitation Game 5.15pm Gone Too Far 5.30pm The Imitation Game 7.30pm Nightcrawler 8pm The Imitation Game

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CINEMA BIZARRE The weird and wonderful

WITHNAIL & I

Fri 14 Nov, 8.30pm Dir: Bruce Robinson Cast: Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann UK 1987, 1hr 48mins

JIMI: ALL IS BY MY SIDE 15

Mon 24 – Thu 27 Nov Dir: John Ridley Cast: Hayley Atwell, André Benjamin UK / USA / Ireland 2013, 1hr 57mins

OutKast's André Benjamin stars as Jimi Hendrix in this revealing biopic from Academy Award-winning writer-director John Ridley. Covering a pivotal year in Hendrix's life from 1966-67, the film follows

“We want the finest wines available to humanity. And we want them here, and we want them now!” A one-off screening of this cult Jimi from being an unknown classic starring Richard E. Grant, backup guitarist playing New York's Paul McGann and the sadly missed Cheetah Club, to taking London’s Richard Griffiths. Two actors, music scene by storm, up until his Withnail and Marwood, decide to triumphant show at the Monterey leave their miserable London flat Pop Festival. With original music for a holiday at the country cottage composed by star Benjamin, it’s an of Withnail’s Uncle Monty. But it intimate portrait of a sensitive rains non-stop, there’s no food and young musician on the verge of when Uncle Monty arrives he takes becoming a rock legend. a VERY keen interest in Marwood.

SILVER SCREENINGS GONE TOO FAR

12A

10 – 11

Sat 29 Nov – Mon 1 Dec Dir: Destiny Ekaragha Cast: Malachi Kirby, Adelayo Adedayo UK 2014, 1hr 27mins A British film not about white Cockney gangsters makes for a nice change, and this debut comedy from Destiny Ekaragha is a fresh and light-hearted look at modern urban life. Yemi is a second generation Nigerian immigrant whose plans to seduce local girl Armani are scuppered by the arrival of his embarrassing brother Iku who’s been living in his motherland and, unlike Yemi, is proud of his African roots! Fresh, revealing and funny.

DR. STRANGELOVE + INTRO PG

Tue 25 Nov, 7.30pm Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott UK / USA 1964, 1hr 35mins Screening in partnership with the DMU film studies department, this screening of Stanley Kubrick’s masterful Cold War satire is introduced by Peter Krämer, senior lecturer in film studies at the University of East Anglia. The author of numerous essays, and several books on the films of Stanley Kubrick, his most recent the BFI Film Classic on Dr. Strangelove.

Matinee screenings for just £4.60 including refreshments. Due to projector maintenance, there will be only two Silver Screenings this month.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

12A

Wed 12 Nov, 10.30am Screening in partnership with The University of the Third Age (U3A)

THE IMITATION GAME 12A Wed 26 Nov, 11am

COURSES & LEARNING

ESSENTIAL CINEMA Must-see masterpieces

HEAVEN’S GATE

Sat 8 – Sun 9 Nov Dir: Michael Cimino Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken USA 1981, 3hr 36mins Mauled by the critics on release and considered one of the biggest box office bombs of all time... we’re not exactly selling Cimino’s 1981 film are we? Presented in a new digitallyrestored 216 minute ‘definitive cut’, this sweeping American epic deserves to be reappraised. Loosely based on the Johnson County War of 1890s Wyoming, Kristofferson and Walken are on opposite sides but in love with the same woman, Ella Watson (Isabelle Huppert).

SCIENCE FICTION CINEMA

Sat 29 Nov, 10.30am–4.30pm Tutor: Michael Parkes Cost: £15 (1 session) A one day course charting the history of the Sci-Fi genre; from the early worlds of fantasy depicted in silent films, through to the invasion anxieties of the war years, the body politics of the

THE UK FESTIVAL OF ZOMBIE CULTURE Sat 15 Nov, 12pm – late Tickets: £25 (includes entry to all 6 films)

70s and 80s and the representation of technology in contemporary sci-fi cinema. Contact the box office to book. More details are available on our website.

THEATRE OF THE DEAD

Australia 2014, 1hr 30mins

After a sell-out event last year the Zombie Film Festival returns to Phoenix bigger, better and bloodier than ever for its 8th year!

During a rehearsal, the cast of an Australian theatre realise too late they’re surrounded by zombies, do they try to fight or flee?

I SURVIVED A ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST

JUAN OF THE DEAD

New Zealand 2014, 1hr 44mins

Cuba 2011, 1hr 32mins

A runner on a zombie film has the ‘first day from hell’ when real zombies overrun the production!

A group of slackers face off against a horde of zombies who the Cuban government labels ‘dissidents’!

BOMBSHELL BLOODBATH

GO GOA GONE India 2013, 1hr 51mins

MYSTERY ZOMBIE FILM TBC

This Lucio Fulci-influenced Italian style zombie splatter film oozes retro gore.

The first Indian zom-com sees a group of friends stuck on a remote island filled with zombies!

One film is yet to be confirmed, check website for latest updates.

USA 2014, 1hr 20mins

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FAMILY FILMS THE GOONIES

Sat 1 – Sun 2 Nov USA 1985, 1hr 49mins

THE MAZE RUNNER

12A

Sat 8 – Sun 9 Nov USA 2014, 1hr 52mins

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 12A Sat 22 – Sun 23 Nov USA 2014, 1hr 41mins

ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY PG Sat 29 – Sun 30 Nov USA 2014, 1hr 21mins

To kick things off, Phoenix favourite Adam Buxton is back with a BUG special on our anniversary date – Wednesday 19th November. We’re also launching a poll to reveal the top 5 films screened in our new venue – as voted for by you!

CHRISTMAS FAMILY FUN DAY

VOTE FOR YOUR TOP 5 FILMS

Sat 6 Dec 10.15am–2.30pm Suitable for ages 4–11 Tickets: £10 per person (all children must be accompanied by an adult) Join Santa, Mrs Claus and the Phoenix elves for a day of crafts, storytelling and big screen merriment.

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We’re celebrating our fifth anniversary in Leicester’s Cultural Quarter this month. To thank you for your ongoing support, we’re planning some special events over the course of the year.

The elves will guide you through a host of festive activities including a trip to Santa’s grotto, a Christmas party lunch and a screening of the seasonal classic Miracle on 34th Street.

What’s the best film you’ve seen at Phoenix? Want the chance to bring it back to the big screen? Now you can. Cast your vote in our anniversary poll of the 30 most popular films we’ve shown over the past five years and we’ll screen the top 5 choices. From Wed 19th November, you can cast your vote at phoenix.org.uk/top-5 or pick up a form at box office. One lucky entrant will win their own film screening for up to 30 friends, and 3 runners-up will get our ‘Film & Dine for Two’ gift vouchers.

ADAM BUXTON: BUG XL RECORDINGS SPECIAL 18 Wed 19 Nov, 8pm £15 / £13 (conc)

Comedian, writer and YouTube enthusiast Adam Buxton returns to Phoenix to celebrate our fifth anniversary with us. In this special edition of BUG, he’ll be focusing on the music and music videos of XL Recordings - one of the UK’s most influential independent record labels. With a history of working with some of the most innovative film directors, XL counts amongst its diverse roster of artists Radiohead, The Prodigy, The White Stripes, Basement Jaxx and Dizzee Rascal.

JACQUES TATI SEASON

ACCESS CINEMA

A season of films from the great French comedian, writer, actor and director Jacques Tati, all digitally restored, to mark the re-release of his 1968 film Playtime.

PLAYTIME

Fri 28 Nov – Mon 1 Dec Dir: Jacques Tati Cast: Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden France / Italy 1968, 2hrs 4mins, subs Considered by many to be Jacques Tati's masterpiece, Playtime is a perfectly orchestrated city symphony. Monsieur Hulot has a job interview — but before he can worry about impressing his future employer, he'll need to find them first. Landing in a reimagined modernist Paris, he must navigate endless corridors, slippery floors, sinking chairs, sliding doors and misleading reflections in a high-tech corporate labyrinth.

JOUR DE FETE

Sat 8 Nov, 6.10pm France 1948, 1hr 10mins, subs

Tati’s debut feature is a sublime blend of slapstick and satire as an inept mailman looks to speed up his deliveries in rural France.

MR. HULOT'S HOLIDAY

(Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot) Sat 16 Nov, 6pm France 1953, 2hrs 3mins, subs The film that introduced Tati’s pipe-smoking clumsy character Monsieur Hulot, here causing havoc on an August vacation at the seaside.

MON ONCLE

Fri 21 Nov, 6.15pm France / Italy 1958, 1hr 45mins, subs Tati’s first colour film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1958. Monsieur Hulot visits his sister and nephew but his old-fashioned ways don’t fit with their materialistic lifestyle.

TRAFIC

Thu 27 Nov, 6pm Italy / France 1971, 1hr 37mins, subs Mr. Hulot drives a recreational vehicle from Paris to Amsterdam in his usual disastrous style.

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MR. TURNER

12A

Tue 11 Nov, 7.30pm

THE IMITATION GAME 12A Tue 18 Nov, 6.10pm Tue 25 Nov, 6.15pm

AUDIO DESCRIBED

THE IMITATION GAME 12A Fri 21 Nov, 1pm

AUTISM FRIENDLY

MALEFICENT

Sat 8 Nov, 10.30am

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MELT, SPLINTER AND THREAD BY ESTHER ROLINSON

STAGE ON SCREEN

Here’s a selection of some of the shows we have coming up. For the full Stage on Screen programme, please see our website. Tickets: £15 / £13 conc.

REMBRANDT

Tue 2 Dec, 7.30pm The first in our upcoming Exhibition on Screen season: London’s National Gallery and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum give exclusive access to this major new show.

THE PHARAOH’S DAUGHTER Sun 23 Nov, 3pm (live)

LA BAYADERE

Sun 7 Dec, 4pm (recorded)

THE NUTCRACKER Sun 21 Dec, 3pm (live)

GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING Tue 13 Jan 2015, 7.30pm

VINCENT VAN GOGH Tue 14 Apr 2015, 7.30pm

THE IMPRESSIONISTS

LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST 12A

Wed 11 Feb 2015, 7pm (live)

Tue 26 May 2015, 7.30pm

LA TRAVIATA JOHN 18

Tue 9 Dec, 8pm (live)

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TREASURE ISLAND

Thu 22 Jan 2015, 7pm (live) Wed 18 Feb 2015, 6.30pm

Wed 11 Mar 2015, 7.30pm (live) Encore screenings are recordings of the first night’s live performance. Licensing restrictions limit the number of encore screenings we can show.

Cube Gallery Thu 23 Oct – Mon 5 Jan Free Melt, Splinter and Thread are three new animated sculptural light works by artist Esther Rolinson. Made from acrylic, fibre optics and programmed LEDs, the installations are evocative of disintegrating structures and create unfolding vistas of landscapes in motion. Splinter and Thread will be exhibited until early December, followed by Melt until 5 January. Funded by Arts Council England and supported by De Montfort University, Rolinson was assisted by Sean Clark, Dave Everitt, Luke Woodbury and Graeme Stuart in the development of this work.

Affective Digital Histories is a project investigating how communities change with urban decline and regeneration, exploring the untold stories of people who lived and worked in former industrial buildings in Leicester’s Cultural Quarter. Here’s how you can get involved this month.

HIDDEN STORIES AND SOUNDS OF THE CULTURAL QUARTER: THE LAUNCH

Lightbox Studios at LCB Depot Thu 27 Nov, 6.30pm–9pm

JUNEAU PROJECTS: THE NEW INCUNABLE PRINT SHOP Lightbox Studios at LCB Depot Thu 6 – Sat 29 Nov, Free Last month we invited you to try your hand at designing 3D printed woodblocks; this month your woodblocks are all featured in this new exhibition – run in partnership with Juneau Projects – where the blocks are being put into action and used to design unique artworks, posters and prints to order. Visit the exhibition to find the block you made, design a new block, or have a go at printing.

Juneau Projects are an artist collective who often make participatory work which is concerned with the rapidly increasing speed of technological development, and its associated obsolescence.

Join us for the launch of two exciting new apps – Hidden Stories and Sounds of the Cultural Quarter – that delve deep into the untold history of Leicester’s Cultural Quarter. Sounds from past and present, poetry, plays and narrative are all unlocked as you explore the area. Access the apps from Thu 27 Nov at affectivedigitalhistories.org.uk

The title of the exhibition refers to one of the earliest forms of printed material – 'the Incunable' – drawing together the oldest and newest technological advances in printmaking. Open: Tue – Sat: 12pm–5.30pm Sun 16 Nov: 3.30pm–9.30pm

TELL US YOUR STORY If you’ve got a story to tell about your time in the Cultural Quarter, use the new video booth in our reception area to record your recollections - we’re particularly interested in stories from the 1970s to the present day. Your video will be uploaded to the Affective Digital Histories archive and you - and everyone else - will be able to access it online. The booth will be in Phoenix in November before it moves on to other Cultural Quarter venues.

The Affective Digital Histories project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and run in partnership with the University of Leicester and Cuttlefish Multimedia.

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Phoenix, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, LE1 1TG

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

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. One free carer ticket is available for CEA cardholders.

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