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MARCH HIGHLIGHTS
ART / FILMS BY BEN RIVERS
FILM / HAIL, CAESAR!
SEASON / HOLLYWOOD CLASSICS
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Available as Silver Screenings – see p10
STAGE ON SCREEN / HANGMEN
LEARN / UNDERSTANDING ADAPTATION
FAMILY / DIY VIRTUAL REALITY
COMING IN APRIL
ANOMALISA
EDDIE THE EAGLE
HIGH-RISE
WELCOME Hurrah − spring has finally sprung (well, just about)! With the arrival of March we say goodbye to the awards season, which means we can get back to what we do best; that is, bringing you great low budget, independent films and world cinema. There are so many films in our programme you can see a different movie virtually every night this month. Highlights include the tense and deeply moving Neerja (p7); The Survivalist, an atmospheric thriller from debut director Stephen Fingleton (p5); and the terrifying The Witch (p7). On the lighter side, Hail, Caesar! (p4) stars George Clooney in a glorious romp that’ll have you laughing out loud.
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We’ve festivals and seasons galore this month too. Our Hollywood classics (p12) continue, and we’ve got another four films from the Japan Foundation Touring Programme (p12). Dystopia is the theme of our festival in partnership with DMU (p11), with six films over four days, including a Terry Gilliam double bill. We’re also part of the Cultural Exchanges festival, and are travelling back to the swinging ‘60s with a special event on 3 Mar (p11). This month’s art programme focuses on artists’ films, with work by UK artist and director Ben Rivers and filmmakers from across East Asia.
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CONTINUED FROM LAST MONTH
TRUMBO
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Fri 19 Feb - Thu 3 Mar Dir: Jay Roach Cast: Bryan Cranston USA 2015, 2hrs 4mins Imprisoned for being a communist sympathiser, scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo hatches a plan to use a pseudonym and continue to work right under the noses of HUAC in 1950s Hollywood.
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.
RAMS
Available as Silver Screenings – see p10
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Fri 4 - Thu 24 Mar Dir: Joel & Ethan Coen Cast: Josh Brolin, George Clooney UK/USA 2016, 1hr 46mins Loosely based on the life of ‘40s movie studio ‘fixer’ Eddie Mannix (Brolin), this new film from the Coen Brothers (Inside Llewyn Davis) is a nostalgic journey into the bygone world of classic Hollywood. When star Baird Whitlock (Clooney) is kidnapped during the filming of a biblical epic, it’s up to Eddie and an assortment of stars and filmmakers to get him back. The superb cast includes Channing Tatum (doing his best Gene Kelly), a hilarious Ralph Fiennes as pompous director
Laurence Laurentz and Tilda Swinton as a fiery gossip columnist. A laugh-out-loud romp that’s one of the most entertaining films in years.
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Fri 26 Feb - Wed 2 Mar Dir: Grímur Hákonarson Cast: Sigurður Sigurjónsson Iceland/Denmark/Norway/ Poland, 1hr 33mins, subtitled
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HAIL, CAESAR!
Two Icelandic sheep farming brothers must put aside their differences and work together after disease decimates their community’s flocks.
TANGERINE
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Fri 26 Feb - Wed 2 Mar Dir: Sean Baker Cast: Mya Taylor USA 2015, 1hr 26mins Fresh out of prison, transgender sex worker Sin-Dee Rella meets up with fellow working girl Alexandra.
THE FINEST HOURS
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Fri 4 - Mon 7 Mar Dir: Craig Gillespie Cast: Chris Pine, Casey Affleck USA 2015, 1hr 57mins On 18 February 1952, the SS Pendleton was caught in a nor’easter off the New England coast and broke in two. Picked up by a nearby town’s radar system, the local coastguard and his small team are dispatched to rescue the crew of the stricken tanker, but they face a dangerous battle against the savage storm in their small lifeboat. Based on an incredible true story, it’s a tale of courage and daring in the face of overwhelming odds.
BONE TOMAHAWK
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Fri 4 - Mon 7 Mar Dir: S. Craig Zahler Cast: Kurt Russell, Richard Jenkins USA 2015, 2hrs 12mins Kurt Russell stars as Sheriff Hunt, rounding up a posse after a multiple kidnapping. Heading out with his elderly deputy, a flashy gunman and the husband of a missing woman, the four men discover the kidnappers they seek are a cannibalistic tribe, and they must find the captives before they suffer a gruesome fate. A stunning western with strong gore and violence throughout, it’s The Hills Have Eyes crossed with The Searchers and not for the faint hearted!
HE NAMED ME MALALA
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Mon 7 Mar, 6pm Dir: Davis Guggenheim UAE/USA, 1hr 26mins, subtitled All tickets £5 Screening on the eve of International Woman’s Day in partnership with Leicestershire Fawcett Group; local poet Jess Green joins us to perform before the film. Guggenheim’s documentary looks at the Taliban’s attempt to assassinate 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai in 2012. After making a full recovery, Malala courageously refused to be scared into silence and now campaigns for the rights of children worldwide.
MERU
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TRIPLE 9
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Fri 11 - Thu 17 Mar Dir: John Hillcoat Cast: Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor USA 2016, 1hr 56mins John Hillcoat (The Road, Lawless) returns with this rip-roaring thriller starring Casey Affleck (Ain't Them Bodies Saints), Kate Winslet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad). Blackmailed by the Russian mob, a group of corrupt cops plan to murder a fellow officer (a code ‘999’) in order to pull off a huge heist in the ensuing chaos. But a group of elite police are closing in on the gang and are determined to bring them down at any cost.
ORTHODOX
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Tue 8 - Thu 10 Mar Dir: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Cast: Conrad Anker, Grace Chin India/USA 2015, 1hr 30mins
Tue 8 - Thu 10 Mar Dir: David Leon Cast: Stephen Graham, Michael Smiley UK 2015, 1hr 38mins
After Sherpa in January, Meru is another superb documentary about mountain climbing but this time from the point of view of the climbers. Following three elite alpinists as they attempt the ‘Shark Fin’ of Mount Meru − one of the most coveted prizes in the highstakes world of climbing − the film seeks to find out what drives these men to such lengths. A thought provoking, stunningly shot film about conquering peaks and inner demons.
Stephen Graham (This is England), Michael Smiley (Kill List) and Christopher Fairbank (Dickensian) star in David Leon’s debut feature about a Jewish boxer. Taking up the sport for self-defence, Benjamin alienates himself from his religious community and soon turns to crime. After a spell in prison he is determined to turn his life around, but gets drawn back into his old ways. As Benjamin, Graham gives a characteristically brilliant performance.
THE SURVIVALIST
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Fri 11 - Tue 15 Mar Dir: Stephen Fingleton Cast: Mia Goth, Andrew Simpson UK 2015, 1hr 41mins Described as ‘Mad Max in the countryside’ by Indiewire, The Survivalist is a visceral thriller set in an alternate present where food is scarce. A nameless farmer zealously protects his crop, but when a mother and daughter arrive on his doorstep his loneliness drives him to let them in. Are they just in need of help or are they plotting to take his land and food? Northern Irish writer-director Fingleton’s first film is a brutal, tense and atmospheric debut.
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A BIGGER SPLASH
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Fri 18 - Thu 24 Mar Dir: Luca Guadagnino Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton Italy/France 2015, 2hrs 4mins ‘
- Feels like the greatest party you have ever been invited to.’ - The Times. Rock star Marianne Lane (Swinton) is recovering from surgery on a secluded island with her partner Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts), but they didn’t count on the arrival of Marianne’s old flame Harry (Fiennes), a boisterous and irrepressible record producer with his seductive daughter in tow. As the three friends reminisce, old grudges surface and threaten to ruin the peace of the island retreat.
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Available as Silver Screenings – see p10
GOODNIGHT MOMMY TBC
RAILWAYS REMEMBERED – TOWARDS THE SEVENTIES Sun 20 Mar, 2.30pm Tickets: £7.50 Introduced by Rob Foxon, this new programme of rare archive films explores the railway heritage of our more recent times including steam at Leicester Central in 1959, the transition to diesel and electric traction and West Coast Main Line electrification 50 years ago, setting the scene for a new age of InterCity high speed rail travel in the Seventies. Exciting times indeed!
NOBLE
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FREEHELD
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Sat 12, Mon 14 - Thu 17 Mar Dir: Peter Sollett Cast: Julianne Moore, Ellen Page USA 2015, 1hr 41mins Based on the inspirational true story of Laurel Hester (Moore, Still Alice), a New Jersey police officer who, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, faced a struggle to ensure her hard-earned pension benefits would go to her girlfriend, Stacie (Page). Encountering opposition from the establishment, the couple found support in the mismatched pair of Hester’s straight-laced partner Dane (Michael Shannon) and LGBT activist Steven Goldstein (Steve Carell, The Big Short).
THE HERE AFTER
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Sat 19 - Tue 22 Mar Dir: Severin Fiala Cast: Susanne Wuest Austria 2014, TBC, subtitled
Sat 19 - Tue 22 Mar Dir: Stephen Bradley Cast: Deirdre O'Kane, Brendan Coyle UK/Vietnam 2014, 1hr 39mins
Mon 21 - Thu 24 Mar Dir: Magnus von Horn Cast: Ulrik Munther Sweden/Poland 2015, 1hr 42mins, subtitled
In a country house, twins Lukas and Elias eagerly await the return of their TV star mother from facial surgery. But the woman who returns wrapped in bandages isn’t very motherly, and the brothers suspect she is not who she claims to be. As they begin to test her, things spiral rapidly and viciously out of control. A genuinely disturbing film, this slice of Austrian arthouse horror ratchets up the tension and violence at every turn.
Vietnam 1989, 14 years after the end of the war. Tough Irishwoman Christina arrives in Ho Chi Minh City with a mission in mind: she is going to care for the city’s orphaned children. Through flashbacks we see what pushed Christina to this calling, including her own nightmarish childhood and abuse in the slums of Dublin. Based on the true life story of Christina Noble, a proud and defiant woman who refused to let her spirit be broken.
Released from a correctional facility where he was interred for murder, teenager John is thrust into a community that has neither forgotten nor forgiven his crime. Facing barely contained rage from his fellow classmates and the quiet revulsion of his father, John is alone until he sparks a relationship with the school rebel Malin. Reminiscent of Mommy and 2011’s Breathing, von Horn’s heartrending film forces us to consider the limits of our own compassion.
NEERJA
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Mon 21 - Thu 24 Mar Dir: Ram Madhvani Cast: Shabana Azmi, Sonam Kapoor India 2016, 2hrs, subtitled In 1986, PanAm Flight 73 was hijacked while on the ground at Jinnah International Airport, Pakistan. With the flight crew escaped, the leader of the terrorists was forced into a confrontation with the authorities, threatening the lives of all on board. In the midst of the standoff, flight attendant Neerja risked everything to protect her passengers. A true story of one woman’s incredible courage, Neerja is a tense, moving and humbling experience.
TRUTH
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Fri 25 - Thu 31 Mar Dir: James Vanderbilt Cast: Cate Blanchett Australia/USA, 2hrs 5mins It’s 2004 and American CBS news show 60 Minutes runs a damning story on President (and re-election candidate) George W. Bush's patchy military service in the 1970s. After the accuracy of their source is questioned, producer Mary Mapes (Blanchett) and anchor Dan Rather (Robert Redford) face a firestorm of criticism. Did they let personal politics cloud their judgement? Interrogating the privileges of power and freedom of the press, this timely film has reliably great performances from the two leads.
DISORDER
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Fri 25 - Thu 31 Mar Dir: Alice Winocour Cast: Matthias Schoenaerts France/Belgium 2015, 1hr 38mins, subtitled (parts) A slick and exciting action thriller, nominated for a handful of awards on the festival circuit. Vincent is an ex-soldier suffering from PTSD who takes a security job protecting a businessman’s wife and child. Despite the seemingly easy nature of the detail he becomes paranoid that a threat is incoming. Schoenaerts is compelling, returning to the vulnerable brute role that brought him to the world’s attention in Bullhead and Rust and Bone.
JANIS: LITTLE GIRL BLUE 15 Fri 25 - Mon 28 Mar Dir: Amy J. Berg Cast: Janis Joplin, Cat Power USA 2015, 1hr 44mins A heartfelt documentary about the legendary Janis Joplin, narrated by American musician Cat Power. Once heard never forgotten, Janis Joplin remains one of the most beloved and respected singers of all time, who blazed a trail for women in rock and roll. Comprised of archive footage of her electric performances, interviews with friends and based on Janis’ own letters to her parents, it’s a moving but ultimately celebratory film about an incredible talent.
THE WITCH
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Fri 25 - Thu 31 Mar Dir: Robert Eggers Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson Canada/USA 2015, TBC A Puritan family are cast out of their community in 17th century New England. Determined to survive on their own, the stubborn father moves his wife and children to a cabin on the edge of a huge forest. But something evil stalks the wood, and when their infant son disappears the family tears itself apart. Rather than relying on cheap shocks, The Witch curls around you with creeping dread then tightens its coils. Stunning.
MYSTERY FILM
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Fri 25 Mar, 6.15pm Tickets £3 We continue our voyage into the unknown with our monthly 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 guarantee it’ll be 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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Oddball and the Penguins Lazy Sunday: Hail, Caesar! Bone Tomahawk Hail, Caesar! A Star is Born Hail, Caesar!
Oddball and the Penguins Bone Tomahawk Hail, Caesar! The Finest Hours Hail, Caesar! Hail, Caesar! The Elegant Life of Everyman Bone Tomahawk Hail, Caesar!
Hail, Caesar! The Finest Hours Hail, Caesar! Bone Tomahawk Leicester Windrush Documentary Hail, Caesar!
Trumbo The Hateful Eight Trumbo A Night at the Cinema in the 1960s: One Million Years B.C. Trumbo
Rams Trumbo Rams Tangerine Trumbo The History of Cinema-going in Leicester Trumbo The Hateful Eight
Trumbo Tangerine Trumbo The Hateful Eight Tangerine Trumbo Rams
MARCH 2016
Hail, Caesar! Triple 9 Hail, Caesar! The Survivalist Hail, Caesar! Freeheld A Japanese Tragedy Hail, Caesar!
Freeheld Hail, Caesar! Triple 9 Hail, Caesar! Mad Max: Fury Road 3D Hail, Caesar!
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Hail, Caesar! Hail, Caesar! Triple 9 Hail, Caesar! Freeheld Hail, Caesar! There is a Happy Land Further Awaay Hail, Caesar!
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Goosebumps Lazy Sunday: Hail, Caesar! On the Town Bolshoi Ballet: Spartacus Hail, Caesar! The Survivalist Hail, Caesar! Triple 9 Freeheld Hail, Caesar! The Survivalist Hail, Caesar! Triple 9 Hail, Caesar! The Survivalist
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Triple 9 Hail, Caesar! Freeheld NT Live: Hangmen Hail, Caesar!
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Kung Fu Panda 3 Disorder The Witch Truth Welcome to Leith
Lazy Sunday: Kung Fu Panda 3 Truth Spartacus Kung Fu Panda 3 Janis: Little Girl Blue Disorder The Witch Disorder
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Kung Fu Panda 3 DIY Virtual Reality The Witch Janis: Little Girl Blue Truth I’ll Give It My All… Tomorrow Disorder This Changes Everything Phoenix Film of 2015 Disorder
Kung Fu Panda 3 Disorder Truth The Railway Children Rattle the Cage Disorder Janis: Little Girl Blue The Witch Disorder
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Kung Fu Panda 3 Kung Fu Panda 3 Truth Janis: Little Girl Blue Disorder Mystery Film The Witch Disorder
A Bigger Splash Neerja The Here After
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Goosebumps - Autism Friendly Goosebumps Hail, Caesar! The Survivalist Hail, Caesar!
Hail, Caesar! - Audio Described The Survivalist Hail, Caesar! Triple 9 Hail, Caesar! The Survivalist Hail, Caesar! Triple 9
Hail, Caesar! Meru Hail, Caesar! Meru Hail, Caesar! Orthodox
To Kill a Mockingbird Orthodox Hail, Caesar! Meru Hail, Caesar! Orthodox ENO: The Mikado Hail, Caesar!
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The Finest Hours Hail, Caesar! Hail, Caesar! Hail, Caesar! He Named Me Malala Hail, Caesar! Bone Tomahawk
The Finest Hours Hail, Caesar!
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Tue 22 A Bigger Splash Neerja Hail, Caesar! Goodnight Mommy Noble Being Good The Here After
A Bigger Splash Noble Hail, Caesar! The Here After A Bigger Splash Noble Neerja Goodnight Mommy
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The Iron Giant Lazy Sunday: Silent Running Hail, Caesar! Railways Remembered: Towards the Seventies Goodnight Mommy Noble A Bigger Splash
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Reel India Ek tha Bhujang The Iron Giant Noble Rio Bravo Hail, Caesar! A Bigger Splash Double Bill: Brazil & Twelve Monkeys Goodnight Mommy
A Bigger Splash A Bigger Splash Neerja Hail, Caesar! Neerja The Here After A Bigger Splash Hail, Caesar!
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Hail, Caesar! Understanding Adaptation Escape from New York A Bigger Splash
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Kung Fu Panda 3 Welcome to Leith Rattle the Cage Truth The Witch Disorder East Asia Moving The Witch Disorder
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FRI 18 MAR
Japan Foundation Touring Film
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Truth Kung Fu Panda 3 The Witch Disorder The Witch Rattle the Cage Disorder Welcome to Leith Truth Disorder
Rattle the Cage Disorder 35mm Club: The Asphalt Jungle Disorder
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SILVER SCREENINGS Matinee screenings for just £4.60 including refreshments.
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING TBC
RAMS
Sat 26 Mar, 6pm Dir: Avi Lewis Canada/USA, 1hr 29mins
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Wed 2 Mar, 11am
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
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Wed 9 Mar, 10.30am
Open to all, screening in partnership with The University of the Third Age (U3A)
HAIL, CAESAR!
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A BIGGER SPLASH
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TRUTH
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RATTLE THE CAGE
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Mon 28 - Thu 31 Mar Dir: Majid Al Ansari Cast: Omar Abdulhamid UAE/Jordan 2015, TBC, subtitled
Screening in partnership with Friends of the Earth and Global Justice Leicester, the film will be followed by a panel discussion. What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we’ll ever get to build a better world? Inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller and filmed across four years in nine countries, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to reimagine the vast challenge of climate change.
Engrossing from start to finish, Rattle the Cage is the first film of its kind produced in the UAE – a terrifically enjoyable, darkly comic neo-noir throwback to thrillers like The Hitcher. Waking up with a foggy memory in a police cell, Talal’s situation goes from bad to worse when a ‘policeman’ arrives and cold-bloodedly kills the only guard on duty. Now trapped in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a madman, Talal must play along whilst also trying to escape.
WELCOME TO LEITH
35MM CLUB: THE ASPHALT JUNGLE
ACCESS CINEMA DESCRIPTIVE SUBTITLES For anyone who is deaf or has hearing loss, we show subtitled versions of the latest English language movies in our main cinema screens.
HAIL, CAESAR!
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Tue 8 Mar, 6pm AUDIO DESCRIBED For our customers who are blind or have sight loss, these monthly screenings feature audible descriptions of the action on screen.
HAIL, CAESAR!
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Fri 11 Mar, 1pm AUTISM FRIENDLY For children and adults on the autistic / Asperger’s spectrum, these screenings have reduced sound levels, partially raised lighting, no trailers and freedom to move around.
GOOSEBUMPS Sat 12 Mar, 10.30am
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Tue 29 - Thu 31 Mar Dir: Michael Nichols, Christopher K. Walker USA 2015, 1hr 26mins This jaw-dropping documentary thriller looks at the story of a small town in North Dakota. In 2010, white supremacist Craig Cobb moved to Leith (population 16), and tried to take it over. By organising armed patrols and purchasing 12 plots of land for his Neo-Nazi followers, Cobb intended to manufacture an electoral majority, much to the horror of the townspeople. When the devil is legally your neighbour, how can you kick him out of town?
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Tue 29 Mar, 8.20pm Dir: John Huston Cast: Sam Jaffe, Sterling Hayden USA 1950, 1hr 52mins Continuing our monthly screening from 35mm film we present John Huston’s masterful noir from 1950, featuring a sultry early appearance from Marilyn Monroe as a lawyer’s mistress. Fresh from a seven year stretch, criminal mastermind ‘Doc’ Riedenschneider puts together a crew for one last job: to steal a million dollars worth of jewellery then retire to Mexico. The heist is meticulously planned, but bad luck and a double-cross threaten to put them all behind bars.
a i p o t s dy pian o t s y d dystopian film festival
Thu 17 - Sun 20 Mar Our third festival in partnership with film students at DMU looks at the theme of ‘dystopia’. From the violent futures of Mad Max and Escape from New York to the clash of idyll and anarchy in Brazil and Silent Running, why are movies so keen to show us the destruction of civilisation, and why do we love to watch them?
SCHOOL SCREENING: WALL-E Thu 17 Mar, 10.30am A special screening of Wall-E for local schools.
BRAZIL + TWELVE MONKEYS DOUBLE BILL 15 Sat 19 Mar, 6.30pm 4hrs 46mins (incl. 20min intermission) A double bill from visionary filmmaker Terry Gilliam. In Brazil a bureaucrat in a nightmarish retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error but ends up an enemy of the state. We follow with Twelve Monkeys, where the last surviving scientists of a postapocalyptic future send a convicted criminal back in time to stop the spread of a deadly virus.
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD 3D
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Thu 17 Mar, 7.30pm 2hrs
The long awaited return of Mad Max was a critical and audience favourite last year and is best seen on the big screen! Introduced by Dr James Russell, Principal Lecturer in Film Studies at DMU, who will talk about Hollywood depictions of the apocalypse from ‘50s science fiction to modern action movies.
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK + THE SOCIAL CINEMA DJ SET 15 Fri 18 Mar, 7.30pm 1hr 34mins In this cult classic, outlaw Snake Plisken (Kurt Russell) is tasked with saving the US President from derelict New York, now a giant maximum security prison ruled by vicious criminals. Followed by a DJ set in our Café Bar from Alan Morton, founder of The Social Cinema.
SILENT RUNNING
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Sun 20 Mar, 12pm 1hr 29mins Another cult classic, this is a rare chance to see it on the big screen. Bruce Dern stars as a scientist on a spaceship who goes renegade when he’s instructed to destroy the last of Earth’s plant life.
CULTURAL EXCHANGES FESTIVAL THE HISTORY OF CINEMA-GOING IN LEICESTER TBC Wed 2 Mar, 6pm Free screening Join us on a journey through our city’s cinema-going past. This documentary features interviews with local audiences and a wealth of material from the county’s archives, and will be accompanied by a talk from the DMU research team behind it.
60'S CINEMA NIGHT: ONE MILLION YEARS BC Thu 3 Mar, 6.30pm / film 7.30pm Cinema-going in the 1960s was a very different experience than it is today, and for one night only we’re bringing it back! With a 50th anniversary screening of Hammer’s One Million Years BC and a host of actors recreating ‘60s memories throughout, we’ll take you back in time to a different age of cinema magic. Come dressed in your finest ‘60s attire and join us for an event like no other. Organised by Dr Matthew Jones, Lecturer in Cinema and Television History at DMU, who has been working with colleagues at UCL on an AHRC-funded project to collect memories of cinema-going in the 1960s.
LEICESTER WINDRUSH DOCUMENTARY TBC Fri 4 Mar, 7pm – 10pm Free screening Premiering at Phoenix, this new documentary looks at the history of Leicester’s Caribbean community and some of its most influential leaders over the past 65 years.
THE JAPAN FOUNDATION TOURING FILM PROGRAMME 2016 IKIRU: THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF LIFE IN JAPANESE CINEMA Feb – Mar Inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s iconic 1952 film Ikiru (“To Live”), the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2016 is an exciting collection of films looking at the way Japanese filmmakers observe and capture people’s lives, and how people across the ages persevere, negotiate and reconcile with the environment and situation in which they live.
THE ELEGANT LIFE OF MR. EVERYMAN 35MM 12A TBC Sat 5 Mar, 6.10pm Dir: Kihachi Okamoto Cast: Keiju Kobayashi Japan 1963, 1hr 42mins, subtitles Eburi is a lowly salaryman who drunkenly promises two magazine editors that he will write them a masterpiece. Once sober, Eburi commits himself to his promise using himself and his middle class life as the subject. Featuring animation and audacious editing, this inventive and often comical film is a timeless treatment of life in postwar Japan.
A JAPANESE TRAGEDY 35MM
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Tue 15 Mar, 8.30pm Dir: Keisuke Kinoshita Cast: Yûko Mochizuki Japan 1953, 1hr 56mins, subtitles Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita − considered to be one of the most important directors of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema in the 1950s − this film is a heartbreaking portrait of post war Japan. Haruko struggles to bring up her ungrateful, materialistic son and daughter, but their uncaring attitude drives her to despair.
BEING GOOD
TBC
Tue 22 Mar, 8.30pm Dir: Mipo O Cast: Kengo Kora Japan 2015, 2hrs 1min, subtitles Tasuku is a new primary school teacher struggling to deal with his class, and being constantly on the receiving end of concerns from the children’s overly-protective parents. Despite feeling out of his depth, when he discovers that one of his pupils is being abused by their parents, he decides that he must do something to help.
HOLLYWOOD CLASSICS Feb – Mar Our series of Hollywood Classics −inspired by Trumbo and the Coen Brothers’ Hail, Caesar! − continues this month.
A STAR IS BORN
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Sun 6 Mar, 4.45pm Dir: George Cukor Cast: Judy Garland, James Mason USA 1954, 2hrs 53mins
Sun 13 Mar, 1pm Dir: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen Cast: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra USA 1949, 1hr 37mins
Sat 19 Mar, 3pm Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: John Wayne, Dean Martin USA 1959, 2hrs 5mins
A beloved showbiz story, A Star is Born marked Judy Garland's return to movies after a four year absence.
Fun-loving sailors Gabey, Chip, and Ozzie have 24 hours of shore leave in New York, and set out to find romance.
Small-town Sheriff John T. Chance finds himself under siege after arresting the brother of a powerful local rancher.
I'LL GIVE IT MY ALL... TOMORROW
See some of the world’s greatest stage shows and exhibitions come alive on our cinema screens. TBC
Sat 26 Mar, 3.20pm Dir: Yuichi Fukuda Cast: Shinichi Tsutsumi Japan 2013, 1hr 45mins, subtitles Fed up forty-something Shizuo quits his secure job to become a full-time slacker, embarking on a reluctant pursuit to follow his true passion in life: Manga! Following the mid-life crisis of a loveable lazybones trying to find his calling, this comedy will delight aspiring writers of all ages.
Tickets from £11.50
THE MIKADO
King Lear Wed 12 Oct, 7pm
(ENO) Wed 9 Mar, 7.30pm
N AT I O N A L T H E AT R E L I V E An irresistible combination of wonderful wit, hilarious antics and memorable melodies.
HANGMEN (NT Live) Sat 12 Mar, 7.30pm
(York Theatre Royal) Mon 28 Mar, 3.30pm
PG
After its mention in Trumbo last month we just had to screen Kubrick’s sword and sandals epic on the big screen.
Hamlet Wed 8 Jun, 7pm Cymbeline Wed 28 Sep, 7pm
THE RAILWAY CHILDREN
Sun 27 Mar, 2.15pm Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier USA 1960, 3hrs 16mins
R O YA L S H A K E S P E A R E C O M PA N Y
THIS MONTH
Olivier winner Martin McDonagh returns to the West End in Matthew Dunster’s award-winning production.
SPARTACUS
Hangmen, National Theatre Live
STAGE ON SCREEN
This delightful show is perfect family viewing for a Bank Holiday Monday.
Hangmen Sat 12 Mar, 7.30pm EXHIBITION ON SCREEN The Mikado Wed 9 Mar, 7.30pm BOLSHOI BALLET Spartacus Sun 13 Mar, 3pm Don Quixote Sun 10 Apr, 4pm
EXHIBITION ON SCREEN 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
See our website for full details and more shows in 2016, and to buy tickets (with no booking fee).
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 Mon 28 Mar, 3.30pm
ART AT PHOENIX DIY Virtual Reality
Box Office — 0116 242 2800 Book Online — www.phoenix.org.uk
FAMILIES AT PHOENIX
ODDBALL AND THE PENGUINS
THE IRON GIANT
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Sat 19 – Sun 20 Mar USA 1999, 1hr 29mins
Sat 5 – Sun 6 Mar Australia 2015, 1hr 35mins A chicken farmer and his granddaughter train their mischievous sheepdog, Oddball, to protect an island colony of penguins from fox attacks.
A young boy befriends a giant alien robot in this adaptation of Ted Hughes’ classic tale.
KUNG FU PANDA 3
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Fri 25 - Thu 31 Mar China/USA 2016, 1hr 35mins
GOOSEBUMPS PG Sat 12 – Sun 13 Mar USA 2015, 1hr 43mins
Po and his pals are back! Need we say more?
Teenager Zach teams up with the girl next door when the imaginary demons created by her author-father come to life.
DIY VIRTUAL REALITY
14 – 15
Available as Silver Screenings – see p10
Sat 26 Mar, 12pm – 4pm Café Bar Free but booking is required
EK THA BHUJANG
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Sat 19 Mar, 10.30am India 2015, 1hr 13mins Hindi with English subtitles 10 year old Kabir wants to be Lord Krishna in the school play, but his teacher won’t let him as he’s not a Hindu. So Kabir tells a lie to help him get the role, but the lie grows and grows and eventually he’s forced to face his fears. Part of our regular programme of films screening in partnership with the Children’s Film Society, India.
Make your very own DIY Virtual Reality headset using the popular Google Cardboard template. Assemble your VR viewer out of ordinary card and special lenses, then add your iPhone or Android device to start exploring the amazing world of Virtual Reality. We’ll provide everything you need to make the headset except the smartphone. You’ll need to have either an iPhone or Android running 4.1 or later, with a screen no larger than 5.5”. If you don’t have one you can still take part – just let us know before you arrive. Suitable for ages 5+, parents must accompany children. See our website for booking information.
This screening is presented in collaboration with the ICA, as part of the Artist Moving Image Network, funded by Arts Council England. Image credit: Ben Rivers There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay (2015)
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.
THERE IS A HAPPY LAND FURTHER AWAAY... FILMS BY BEN RIVERS Introduced by Anna Lucas Wed 16 Mar, 7.30pm Screen 2, all tickets £4 This programme of films by Ben Rivers - one of the UK’s leading artists and director of feature films including Two Years at Sea – brings together a selection of recent works alongside two short early films. The screening includes There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay (2015) and Things (2014), alongside The Coming Race (2007) and A World Rattled of Habit (2008).
EAST ASIA MOVING Thu 31 Mar, 6.30pm Screen 2, all tickets £4 East Asia Moving presents recent work by artist filmmakers from China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Singapore, giving a brief glimpse into moving image practices from East Asia.
intertwine throughout and between each film. The programme contains a review of poetic, accomplished and emotive films, created by rising filmmaking talent from East Asia. Artists include: Lu Yang, Shi Zheng, Shiriagari Kotobuki and Li Ming.
Through his films, Ben Rivers captures human interactions with remote landscapes and far off places, often referencing cinematic genres and iconography.
Deeply spiritual imagery combines with cutting edge biological technology in Lu Yang’s LuYang Delusional Mandala, while dark humour, the sublime and high energy
Curated by Moritz Cheung and Jamie Wyld for Videoclub. Supported by Arts Council England.
CPD FOR TEACHERS
THIS MONTH
TALKING PICTURES SPRING
UNDERSTANDING ADAPTATION
Mondays, 4 Apr – 20 Jun (10 sessions) Tuesdays, 5 Apr – 21 Jun (10 sessions) 10.30am – 12pm Price: £80 / £70 conc.
New courses for primary school teachers and home educators.
iPAD FILMMAKING IN THE CLASSROOM Tue 22 Mar, 2pm – 5pm Price: £5
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.
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!
Image credit: LuYang Delusional Mandala – Lu Yang (2015)
AUSTEN ON SCREEN Thursdays, 7 Apr – 28 Apr (4 sessions) 7pm – 8.30pm Price: Price: £48 / £40 conc
FILM AND PHILOSOPHY Sat 16 Apr, 10.30am – 4pm Price: £15
FILM SCHOOL Tuesdays, 3 May – 21 Jun (8 sessions) 7pm – 9pm Price: £96 / £80 conc.
MEETING ROOMS FOR HIRE Ideal for training, presentations and events – hire space at Phoenix from £15 per hour + VAT
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