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THIS MONTH —
NEW FILMS —
BROOKLYN THE PROGRAM BRIDGE OF SPIES HE NAMED ME MALALA
THE UK FESTIVAL OF ZOMBIE CULTURE Returns for its 9th year!
ONWARDS & OUTWARDS Celebrating British women filmmakers
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NOVEMBER HIGHLIGHTS
ART / THE FLICKERING DARKNESS
FESTIVAL / THE UK FESTIVAL OF ZOMBIE CULTURE
FILM / THE LADY IN THE VAN
BRANAGH THEATRE LIVE / THE WINTER’S TALE
SEASON / ONWARDS AND OUTWARDS
LEARN / WHERE ARE THE GIRLS?
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COMING IN DECEMBER
BLACK MASS
CAROL
STEVE JOBS
WELCOME November’s here, with its frosty nights and foggy mornings, so comfort yourself with a visit to Phoenix for a fantastic film, freshly cooked food, or a frothy coffee.
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Poll-winning favourite Toy Story kicks off our family films this month; Ben Foster is utterly convincing as disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong in biopic The Program; and national treasures abound with Maggie Smith starring as Alan Bennett’s garden ‘lodger’ in the big screen adaptation of his memoir The Lady in the Van, while Judi Dench hits our screen as Paulina in Kenneth Branagh’s production of The Winter’s Tale (p11). Our annual ‘Zombie Day’ extravaganza (p15) is a gory celebration of zombie culture − back for its 9th year. Have you got the stomach for it?
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We’ve a new exhibition opening offsite, at LCB Depot’s Lightbox Gallery, on 11 Nov − The Flickering Darkness (p12) explores the journey of food produce from South America’s biggest market to its consumption. The Gain Line continues in our Cube Gallery until the end of the month. Women’s roles and representation in the film industry are under the spotlight in our Onwards and Outwards season (p10), and we delve deeper with a new short course, Where Are The Girls? (p13).
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CONTINUED FROM LAST MONTH
BROOKLYN
SUFFRAGETTE
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Mon 12 Oct - Thu 5 Nov Dir: Sarah Gavron Cast: Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter UK 2015, 1hr 46mins
THE MARTIAN
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Fri 23 Oct - Thu 5 Nov Dir: Ridley Scott Cast: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain USA 2015, 2 hrs 21 mins
RED ARMY
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Fri 30 Oct - Mon 2 Nov Dir: Gabe Polsky Documentary USA/Russia 2014, 1hr 24mins, subtitled (parts)
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Fri 6 Nov – Thu 19 Nov Dir: John Crowley Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson UK/Ireland 2015, 1hr 51mins 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 both the freedom of her new life and Tony, a sweet-natured Italian-American, but a tragedy back home means she must return to Ireland. Although not wanting to stay, Eilis is drawn back to her old life and catches the attention of
THE LAST MAN ON EARTH WITH LIVE SOUNDTRACK PG THE LOBSTER
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Fri 30 Oct - Thu 5 Nov Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz UK/France 2015, 1hr 58mins
SICARIO
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Fri 30 Oct - Thu 12 Nov Dir: Denis Villeneuve Cast: Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin USA 2015, 2hrs 1min, subtitled (parts)
Sun 1 Nov, 7pm Tickets £10 Dir: Ubaldo Ragona Cast: Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia USA/Italy 1964, 1hr 26mins Cult 60s B-movie The Last Man on Earth is given a contemporary spin as Sheffield electronica duo Animat join us to provide an ambient and atmospheric soundtrack. Vincent Price stars as Dr Robert Morgan, a survivor trying to find a cure for a plague that turned the human race into the living dead.
local lad Jim Farrell. Torn between two countries and two suitors, Eilis must decide where her heart lies. Superb performances from a young cast make this epic, sweeping romance feel fresh and relevant.
TAXI TEHRAN
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Fri 6 - Thu 12 Nov Dir: Jafar Panahi Cast: Jafar Panahi Iran 2015, approx 90mins, subtitled
Despite being banned from filmmaking for 20 years, director Jafar Panahi continues to defy the order with his third and possibly best feature. Using a pseudodocumentary style to look at social challenges within Iran through a camera strapped to the inside of a taxi, Panahi is pulled into the everyday lives and struggles of the Iranian community. Revealing and funnier than expected, Taxi Tehran won the Golden Bear Award at Berlin in February.
SYRIA ON THE ROAD: STORIES OF CONFLICT, MIGRATION AND PLACE Fri 6 Nov, from 6pm Double bill tickets: £10 (individual tickets available) A film programme exploring the changing nature of screen storytelling in the context of the Syrian civil war and the global refugee crisis. Syria on the Road is a partnership between Counterpoints Arts’ Learning Lab, Highlight Arts, RHUL, Outgrain and Phoenix, as part of the 2015 Platforma Arts + Refugee Festival. Includes a screening of Juan delGado’s short film-installation Fleches sans Corps (‘Arrows without Bodies’, 2003).
AAAAAAAAH! + DIRECTOR Q&A 18
Sat 7, Mon 9 & Thu 12 Nov Dir: Steve Oram Cast: Julian Barratt, Toyah Wilcox UK 2015, 1hr 19mins
' - One of the great British films of the new millennium' - Little White Lies. Director Steve Oram will be joining us at Phoenix for a Q&A after the 8.15pm screening on Sat 7 Nov. Set in a language-free world where it seems man has reached the peak of evolution and is now regressing to a more primal, ape-like state, Oram’s (Sightseers) jaw-dropping directorial debut is a singular piece of disturbing, visceral and absolutely hilarious cinema.
ON THE BRIDE’S SIDE + Q&A TBC
6pm Dir: Antonio Augugliaro, Gabriele del Grande, Khaled Soliman al Nassiry Italy 2014, 1hr 29mins, subtitled
A Palestinian poet and an Italian journalist meet a group of Palestinians and Syrians who entered Europe via the Italian island of Lampedusa after fleeing the war in Syria. They decide to help them complete their journey to Sweden – and hopefully avoid getting themselves arrested as traffickers – by faking a wedding.
QUEENS OF SYRIA + DIRECTOR Q&A TBC
8pm Dir: Yasmin Fedda Jordan 2014, 1hr 10mins, subtitled Queens of Syria tells the story of sixty women from Syria, all forced into exile in Jordan, who came together in Autumn 2013 to create and perform their own version of the Trojan Women about the plight of women in war. Director Yasmin joins us after the screening.
RAILWAYS REMEMBERED BRITISH NARROW GAUGE RAILWAYS
THE DAMNED: DON’T YOU WISH THAT WE WERE DEAD TBC
Sun 8 Nov, 2.30pm Introduced by Rob Foxon Tickets £7
Tue 10 Nov, 8.30pm Dir: Wes Orshoski Cast: Gaye Advert, Fred Armisen USA 2015, 1hr 50mins
Take a leisurely ride along some of Britain's long forgotten narrow gauge railways, calling at such delightful places as Sparrowlee or Southwold by the sea! Take a trip into the 'Secret Valley' on the little known Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway; then see the narrow gauge railways of Wales still serving the slate industry for which they were constructed more than a century before. All this and much more on genuine archive film.
From the director of Lemmy comes the story of the longignored pioneers of punk, The Damned - the first UK punks on wax and the first to cross the Atlantic. Shot around the globe over three years, the film charts the band's complex history and infighting, and includes appearances from Mick Jones (The Clash) and members of the Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, Blondie and more.
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WITHNAIL & I + DIRECTOR INTRO
THE LADY IN THE VAN 12A
Fri 13 Nov, 8pm Dir: Bruce Robinson Cast: Richard E. Grant UK 1987, 1hr 48mins
Fri 20 Nov – Thu 3 Dec Dir: Nicolas Hytner Cast: Maggie Smith, Dominic Cooper UK 2015, 1hr 44mins
This wonderful new comedy drama is packed with prestige in front of and behind the camera with a cast that includes Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings and Jim Broadbent, it’s directed by Nicholas Hynter (The History Boys, National Theatre’s One Man, Two Guvnors) and has been adapted by Alan Bennett from his 1999 Olivier awardnominated play of the same name.
MISSISSIPPI GRIND
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Mon 13 - Thu 19 Nov Dir: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Ben Mendlesohn USA 2014, 1hr 48mins Gerry (Mendlesohn, Animal Kingdom) is a down-on-hisluck gambler. After meeting a charismatic young poker player called Curtis (Reynolds), the two set off on a road trip through the south. Stopping at casinos and private card games, both men are hiding secrets, but who will double cross who to win big? Mendlesohn is superb, all hang-dog eyes and crumpled jacket - his Gerry is a loser you can’t help but root for.
Based on the playwright’s real-life relationship with Miss Shepherd, (Smith) an eccentric local homeless woman invited by Bennett to temporarily park her van on the driveway of his London home, where she stayed for 15 years!
FIDELIO: ALICE'S JOURNEY 15
Mon 13 - Thu 19 Nov Dir: Lucie Borleteau Cast: Ariane Labed France 2014, 1hr 37mins, subtitled
Sea, sky and sensuality are the order of the day in this French drama as 30-year-old engineer Alice leaves her fiancé behind to work on a merchant navy cargo ship. Defiantly her own woman and unafraid of her sexuality, Alice holds her own amongst the boisterous all-male crew, but things become complicated when she realises the captain is a former lover. Borleteau’s first feature is an assured tale of lust and wanderlust out on the ocean.
It’s 1969 in Camden, where Marwood and Withnail, a pair of 'resting' actors, decide to leave their dingy flat for a countryside holiday. Director Bruce Robinson will join us at Phoenix to introduce the film. Screening in partnership with the University of Leicester for Literary Leicester, Bruce will also present a free talk on his new book about Jack the Ripper from 6.30pm - tickets available from the Literary Leicester website.
THE WALK 2D & 3D
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Mon 13 - Thu 19 Nov Dir: Robert Zemeckis Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt USA 2015, 2hrs 3mins
Just remember, don’t look down! From Academy Award winner Zemeckis (Forest Gump) comes the true story of Philippe Petit (Gordon-Levitt) the French highwire artist who in 1974 decided to walk between the World Trade Centre towers, a quarter of a mile up. Playing like a heist movie as Philippe meticulously plans how to get round security to both string the wire and then walk on it, when he finally steps out - even for those without vertigo - it's pure cinematic adrenaline.
BRIDGE OF SPIES
MYSTERY FILM
12A
Fri 27 Nov - Thu 10 Dec Dir: Steven Spielberg Cast: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance USA 2015, 2hrs 22mins ' - wonderfully uncynical thriller scripted by the Coen brothers‘ - The Guardian. Best described as Mr Smith Goes to East Berlin, Spielberg’s new film is a richly entertaining, feel-good spy movie with absorbing performances from Hanks and Rylance (Wolf Hall). It’s 1962, the height of the Cold War, and the world’s two super powers are locked in an escalating game of one-upmanship. The Soviets have captured U2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers, while Russian
CRIMSON PEAK
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Fri 20 Nov, 8.30pm Join us as we continue to voyage into the unknown with our mystery film night. Perhaps it'll 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 will know what we’re screening (including our staff!) until the film begins so place your trust in us and each month we’ll deliver some brilliant cinema. spy Rudolf Abel has been arrested by the US. Thrust into this political quagmire, amiable civilian lawyer James Donovan (Hanks) is tasked by the CIA to broker a prisoner exchange deal with the USSR.
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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Fri 20 – Thu 26 Nov Dir: Guillermo del Toro Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston USA 2015, 1hr 59mins Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) returns with this spine-chilling fantasy horror. Edith Cushing (Wasikowska) is whisked off to the eerie mansion of British aristocrat Sir Thomas Sharpe (Hiddleston) after a family tragedy. Soon starting to hear (and see) things going bump in the night, Edith realises an old evil lurks in the house and something has awoken it. A lip-smacking, occasionally bloody throwback to Hitchcock’s gothic Rebecca and the Hammer films of the 60s.
THE PROGRAM
15
Fri 20 - Thu 26 Nov Dir: Stephen Frears Cast: Ben Foster, Chris O’Dowd UK/France 2015, 1hr 44mins Irish sports journalist David Walsh (O’Dowd) is suspicious. American cyclist Lance Armstrong has beaten cancer, but he’s returned stronger than ever and his performances on the way to multiple Tour De France victories seem almost super-human. Is it natural talent, or something else? This gripping thriller follows Walsh’s obsessive mission to expose
the sensational doping scandal that rocked professional cycling. Foster gives a chilling, mesmerising performance as the Machiavellian Armstrong who would go to any lengths to win.
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Lazy Sunday: Sicario The Big Knights Suffragette Red Army The Lobster The Last Man on Earth with Animat Live Score The Martian Sicario The Martian Red Army Suffragette The Lobster Sicario Sicario The Lobster Suffragette Red Army Sicario - Descriptive Subtitled Red Army The Martian The Lobster The Martian Sicario The Lobster Red Army Suffragette NT Live: Hamlet Sicario The Martian Suffragette Red Army Sicario The Lobster Taxi Tehran Brooklyn Sicario Brooklyn On the Bride’s Side + Q&A Queens of Syria + Q&A Brooklyn Toy Story 3D
Brooklyn Taxi Tehran Sicario Brooklyn Taxi Tehran Brooklyn Aaaaaaaah! + Q&A Brooklyn Lazy Sunday: Brooklyn Railways Remembered Bolshoi Ballet: Jewels Brooklyn Taxi Tehran Brooklyn Sicario Taxi Tehran Brooklyn Sicario Brooklyn Aaaaaaaah! Where are the Girls? Brooklyn Sicario Brooklyn Taxi Tehran Brooklyn Sicario Brooklyn - Descriptive Subtitled Taxi Tehran The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead? Brooklyn Brooklyn Sicario Brooklyn Taxi Tehran Brooklyn NT Live: Hamlet Brooklyn Brooklyn Taxi Tehran Brooklyn Sicario Brooklyn Aaaaaaaah!
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Brooklyn The Walk 3D Fidelio: Alice’s Journey Brooklyn Withnail & I + Director Q&A Mississippi Grind Hotel Transylvania - Autism Friendly The UK Festival of Zombie Culture Drone Filmmaking course The Walk 2D Fidelio: Alice’s Journey Brooklyn Mississippi Grind Lazy Sunday: The Walk 2D Fidelio: Alice’s Journey Brooklyn Mississippi Grind The Walk 3D Fidelio: Alice’s Journey Brooklyn Mississippi Grind The Walk 2D Brooklyn Mississippi Grind Fidelio: Alice’s Journey Brooklyn Fidelio: Alice’s Journey Mississippi Grind The Walk 3D The Walk 2D Fidelio: Alice’s Journey Mississippi Grind Brooklyn The Walk 3D Mississippi Grind Fidelio: Alice’s Journey Brooklyn The Walk 3D Fidelio: Alice’s Journey Brooklyn Mississippi grind Brooklyn
StateLand Mississippi Grind The Walk 2D Mississippi Grind Fidelio: Alice’s Journey The Walk 3D NT Live: Of Mice and Men Brooklyn The Lady in the Van - Audio Desc Crimson Peak The Lady in the Van The Program The Lady in the Van Mystery Film Pappu Ki Pugdandi Hotel Transylvania 2 The Lady in the Van The Program The Lady in the Van Crimson Peak The Lady in the Van The Program The Lady in the Van Crimson Peak Hotel Transylvania 2 Lazy Sunday: The Lady in the Van Crimson Peak The Lady in the Van The Program The Lady in the Van NT Live: Of Mice and Men The Lady in the Van The Program The Lady in the Van Crimson Peak The Lady in the Van Orion: The Man Who Would Be King + Q&A The Lady in the Van The Program Crimson Peak The Lady in the Van The Program The Lady in the Van Crimson Peak
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The Lady in the Van - Desc. Subs The Program The Lady in the Van A Streetcar Named Desire The Lady in the Van The Program Crimson Peak The Lady in the Van The Lady in the Van The Gold Diggers + Panel Discussion The Lady in the Van Crimson Peak The Lady in the Van The Program Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter’s Tale The Lady in the Van The Lady in the Van Bridge of Spies He Named Me Malala Bridge of Spies Bridge of Spies Güeros Paper Planes Bridge of Spies Bridge of Spies He Named Me Malala Bridge of Spies The Lady in the Van Bridge of Spies Güeros Paper Planes Lazy Sunday: Bridge of Spies Güeros The Lady in the Van Bridge of Spies He Named Me Malala Bridge of Spies The Lady in the Van Bridge of Spies The Lady in the Van Güeros
Bridge of Spies The Lady in the Van Bridge of Spies He Named Me Malala Bridge of Spies The Lady in the Van Bridge of Spies Güeros Exhibition on Screen: Goya Visions of Flesh and Blood Bridge of Spies
Access Cinema Silver Screening Course Stage on Screen Onwards and Outwards
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SILVER SCREENINGS GÜEROS
TBC
Fri 27 Nov - Thu 3 Dec Dir: Alonso Ruizpalacios Cast: Tenoch Huerta Mexico 2014, 1hr 46mins, subtitled Sent to live with his older brother Federico by his overwhelmed mother, young Tomas soon adapts to his sibling’s lifestyle of mooching around and stealing electricity from the neighbours. Hearing that their absent father’s favourite musician is on his deathbed, the brothers search Mexico City to pay their respects. Slyly subversive with its New Wave influence showing in the gorgeous black and white photography and cool humour.
ONWARDS AND OUTWARDS Nov - Dec
HE NAMED ME MALALA PG
Fri 27 - Mon 30 Nov Dir: Davis Guggenheim Cast: Malala Yousafzai USA 2015, 1hr 27mins, subtitled Guggenheim’s (An Inconvenient Truth) documentary looks at the events leading up to the Taliban’s attack on 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai in 2012. Shot in the head when gunmen opened fire on her school bus, Malala fully recovered and courageously refuses to be scared into silence. Now a campaigner for the rights of children worldwide and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, this is her story.
A unique programme of films made by British women filmmakers over the last 50 years. Onwards and Outwards draws attention to the lack of knowledge surrounding the conditions for women working in the UK’s film industry, highlighting women filmmakers who have excelled in making works of independence and originality and raising the profile of these key issues.
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Led by the ICA, in partnership with eleven other UK venues in cultural centres throughout the country, the programme serves as a public platform for productive debates amongst a diverse range of audiences. Onwards and Outwards is made possible with support from the BFI, awarding funds from The National Lottery.
Matinee screenings for just £4.60 including refreshments.
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
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Wed 25 Nov, 10.30am Open to all, screening in partnership with The University of the Third Age (U3A). Blanche moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her. Due to the Into Film Festival for children, we have no 11am Silver Screenings this month. The regular slot will return in December.
ORION: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING + DIRECTOR Q&A 12A Mon 23 Nov, 6.15pm Dir: Jeanie Finlay UK/USA 2015, 1hr 26mins
Orion tells the story of Jimmy Ellis, an unknown singer with a voice – the very twin of Elvis’s. Plucked from obscurity, he was signed to Sun Records and given an outlandish fictional identity. The scheme exploded into cult success - and the ‘Elvis is alive’ myth began. Borne by his incredible voice, Jimmy Ellis - as the masked Orion - gained the success he'd always craved, but at what price? Director Jeanie Finlay joins us for a Q&A after the screening.
DESCRIPTIVE SUBTITLES
SICARIO
15
Tue 3 Nov, 6.10pm
BROOKLYN
STAGE ON SCREEN
The Winter's Tale
ACCESS CINEMA
12A
Tue 10 Nov, 6.10pm
THE LADY IN THE VAN 12A
Tue 24 Nov, 6.10pm AUDIO DESCRIBED
COMING SOON
THE LADY IN THE VAN 12A
JEWELS
Fri 20 Nov, 1pm
(Bolshoi Ballet) Sun 8 Nov, 3pm
AUTISM FRIENDLY
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Sat 14 Nov, 10.30am
THE GOLD DIGGERS + PRESENTATION U Wed 25 Nov, 7.30pm Dir: Sally Potter Cast: Julie Christie UK 1983, 1hr 26mins
Sally Potter’s avant-garde film is based around a quest: to understand both the nature of money - gold - and the nature of the female film star as an icon and object of exchange. Speaking after this screening of The Gold Diggers, Sophie Mayer, the acclaimed author of The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love and There She Goes: Feminist Filmmaking and Beyond, presents a masterclass which examines over three and a half decades of changing British feminist cinema.
Celebrated choreographer George Balanchine’s abstract masterpiece is a visually captivating homage to the dance schools that forged his iconic style.
HAMLET
(NT Live) Wed 11 Nov, 7pm
N AT I O N A L T H E AT R E L I V E Jane Eyre Tue 8 Dec, 7pm Les Liaisons Dangereuses Thu 28 Jan 2016, 7pm E N G L I S H N AT I O N A L OPER A
Due to overwhelming demand, we’ve added another date for this enthralling production.
The Mikado Thu 3 Dec, 7.30pm
OF MICE AND MEN
The Magic Flute Wed 9 Mar 2016, 7.30pm
(NT Live) Sun 22 Nov, 6pm
Another chance to see Golden Globe winner James Franco in this riveting revival of John Steinbeck's classic.
THE WINTER’S TALE (Branagh Theatre Live) Thu 26 Nov, 7pm Thu 24 Dec, 2pm
Shakespeare's timeless tragicomedy of obsession and redemption is reimagined in a new production, starring Judi Dench.
BOLSHOI BALLET The Lady of the Camellias Sun 6 Dec, 3pm The Nutcracker Sun 13 Dec, 3pm
EXHIBITION ON SCREEN Goya: Visions of Flesh and Blood Tue 1 Dec, 7.30pm Renoir: The Unkown Artist Tue 16 Feb 2016, 7.30pm See website for full details and to buy tickets.
THE UK FESTIVAL OF ZOMBIE CULTURE Sat 14 Nov, 12pm - late Tickets: £25 (includes entry to all 6 films) Individual film tickets on sale where available. Now in its 9th year, the Zombie Film Festival returns to Phoenix bigger, better and bloodier than ever before! With over 13 hours of zombie movies, zombie videogaming in our micro cinema, director Q&As, make-up artists, the Best Dressed Zombie award, special guest zombie authors and horror traders, it promises to be another ‘goresome’ day!
MYSTERY ZOMBIE FILM TBC
One film is yet to be confirmed, check our website for the latest info.
MAGGIE
USA 2015, 1hr 35mins When a teenage girl becomes infected with a disease that turns people into cannibalistic zombies, her father resolves to stay by her side. Arnold Schwarzenegger himself plays the stoic dad.
ME AND MY MATES VS THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE
Australia 2015, 1hr 30mins Riotously funny Aussie zombie film with three telecom tradesman trapped in a telephone exchange during the onset of a zombie apocalypse.
COOTIES
NIGHTMARE CITY
Italy / Mexico 1980, 1hr 93mins Zombies brandish axes and other sharp stabby implements in Umberto Lenzi’s utterly insane radiation-sickness opus Nightmare City. When a military plane lands at a European airport, a hoard of bloodthirsty ghouls pores out.
USA 2014, 1hr 25mins Elijah Wood stars as a mildmannered primary teacher forced to toughen up when infected school dinners turn the school kids into tiny bloodthirsty zombies!
DARKEST DAY + Q&A
UK 2015, 1hr 30mins Director Daniel Rickard joins us for a Q&A after a screening of his original British movie. Waking up on a beach with no memory, a man must avoid both a plague of zombies and the overzealous army who are looking to wipe everyone out.
ART THE FLICKERING DARKNESS Thu 12 – Fri 27 Nov (not including weekends) Offsite at LCB Depot’s Lightbox Gallery, Free The Flickering Darkness (Revisited) explores the journey that food produce takes from its arrival before dawn at the Corabastos market in Bogotà, Colombia – the largest of its kind in Latin America – to its consumption across the social spectrum. In this film, artist Juan delGado attempts to create sense out of the market’s chaos and order, while inviting wider reflections
on society’s strata and how they interact. The Flickering Darkness (Revisited) is supported by Unlimited; celebrating the work of disabled artists, using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and Spirit of 2012. Through this support the work is accompanied by an audio description (available through headsets at any time) and screened with captions at regular intervals.
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EXHIBITION PREVIEW & ARTIST’S TALK
Wed 11 Nov, from 6pm Help us celebrate the launch of The Flickering Darkness (Revisited) at LCB Depot, and hear from artist Juan delGado about the creation of the work and his time spent researching and filming in Colombia.
DRONE FILMMAKING WORKSHOP
Sat 14 Nov, 1pm – 4pm Phoenix Interact Labs, £20
THE GAIN LINE Until Sun 29 Nov Cube Gallery & Café Bar, Free The Gain Line is a movingimage artwork by Ravi Deepres, commissioned to coincide with the Rugby World Cup. Utilising new technology such as mini-cams, drones mapping player movement and groundbreaking 3D laser
scanning, The Gain Line takes the viewer into the mind-set of the rugby player, psychologically, physically, and virtually. The title refers to an invisible line on the rugby field that measures a team’s forward progress and their territorial advantage over their opponents. Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, in partnership with Phoenix and ICIA Bath.
Inspired by the pioneering filmmaking techniques used in The Gain Line, this workshop will give an introduction to the basics of drone filmmaking, exploring how open, DIY approaches can be used to experiment with this new technology. Book online or at the Box Office.
STATELAND
Recent film & video from the USA Wed 18 Nov, 6.30pm Screen 2, Free StateLand is a collection of film and video from some of the most creative and groundbreaking American artists working today, including Gabriel Abrantes, Ben Russell, Michael Robinson, Laida Lertxundi and Luciano Piazza.
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StateLand puts America under the microscope, exploring the multifaceted landscape that these artists are informed and inspired by, and revealing the contrasts and qualities being utilised by contemporary filmmakers − varying between 16mm and digital collage, uncanny storytelling, and subtle abstraction.
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WHERE ARE THE GIRLS?
TALKING PICTURES WINTER
As the ICA’s Onwards and Outwards film season begins at Phoenix, join us to explore the position of women in front of and behind cinema’s cameras and screens, and unravel the tangled threads of passivity, servility and sexuality, seduction, liberation and provocation.
Share your love of film at Phoenix with this 10 week course of tutorled group discussions that put the cinema week into focus. Includes a ticket to the 1pm or 1.30pm film screening.
15 – 15
Mondays, 9 Nov – 30 Nov 7pm – 8.30pm (4 sessions) Tutors: Laura Mee and G Sian Price: £48 / £40 conc.
Starts January (10 sessions) 10.30am – 12pm Tutor: Alan Seaman Price: £80 / £70 conc.
FAMILY FILMS Phoenix Family Films
PAPPU KI PUGDANDI
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Sat 21 Nov, 10.30am Hindi with English subtitles
TOY STORY 3D
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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Sat 7 Nov, 11am USA 1995, 1hr 21mins You voted this your favourite family film in our summer poll… enjoy!
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA
Part of our regular programme of films screening in partnership with the Children’s Film Society, India.
U
Sat 14 Nov, 10.30am USA 2012, 1hr 31 mins
RANGOLI WORKSHOP Sat 21 Nov, 12pm – 3pm, Free
Autism Friendly screening. Meet hotel owner Count Dracula and his monster guests in this animated family comedy.
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2
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Sat 21 – Sun 22 Nov USA 2015, 1hr 29mins
Count Dracula and his pals return in a brand new adventure. Dracula is worried that his grandson Dennis isn’t showing signs of being a vampire, and decides to put him through a ‘monster-in-training’ boot camp.
PAPER PLANES
Make your own traditional Rangoli card or badge at this fun, free workshop, delivered by our friends from Leicester Begrave Mela. Suitable for all ages.
U
Sat 28 - Sun 29 Nov Australia 2014, 1hr 36mins Dylan, a young Australian boy, is obsessed with flying and dreams of competing in the World Paper Plane Championships in Japan.
CHRISTMAS FAMILY FUN DAY Sat 5 Dec, 10.15am – 3pm
Suitable for ages 4-11 Tickets: £10 per person – children must be accompanied by an adult. Join Santa, Mrs Claus and the Phoenix elves for a day of crafts, storytelling and film fun. Our elves will guide you through a host of festive activities, including a visit to Santa’s grotto and a party lunch, all topped off with a screening of Christmas comedy caper Get Santa.
CODE CLUB Second Monday every month, 4.30pm - 6pm Our new monthly Code Club for 9-11 year olds is up and running. Find out more on our website, and contact us if you’d like to join the waiting list for a place.
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OPENING TIMES
TICKETS
Mon – Fri
Sat – Sun & bank holidays
Box Office
12pm – 9pm 10.30am – 9pm (Wed)
11am – 9pm
Café Bar & Cube Gallery
9am – 11pm
10am – 11pm
11am – 9pm
11am – 9pm (Sat) 10am – 6pm (Sun)
Food Served
STANDARD TICKETS
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Student/U18
After 5pm & Weekends
£8.30
£6.50
£5.50
Before 5pm
£7.50
£6.50
£5.50
MyPhoenix Members & Friends
£1 off standard Full and Conc ticket price
TICKET OFFERS
PARKING
Autism Friendly / Supported Environment Screenings
£4.00 one free carer ticket available for CEA cardholders
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.
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.
£14.75 / £13.25 conc.
On-street parking is also available around Phoenix. Please always check the signs as restrictions may apply.
Film & Dine †
Lazy Sunday † £12.50 / £10.95 conc.
Combine the film of your choice with a meal Any item from the brunch menu, a drink and a ticket to the 12pm show
3D cost an additional £1.50 (3D glasses included) Art exhibitions are all FREE entry
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BOX OFFICE 0116 242 2800
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