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LEGEND EVEREST RICKI AND THE FLASH HARD TO BE A GOD
SCALARAMA Revel in cult film on VHS
BRITISH SILENT FILM FESTIVAL Celebrate the art of silent cinema
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SEPTEMBER AT A GLANCE
ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL P4
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THE PRESIDENT p5
EVEREST P6
THE TREATMENT P6
CARTEL LAND p5
GOING CLEAR p7
STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON P5
HARD TO BE A GOD P7
LEGEND P7
POPULAIRE p6
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THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL P7
MISS JULIE p6
RICKI AND THE FLASH P7
WE HAVE A POPE p7
THE ECSTASY OF WILKO JOHNSON P10
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COMING IN OCTOBER
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Autumn is just around the corner, with all its mellow fruitfulness. Embrace the new season here at Phoenix, with our programme of wonderful world cinema, sumptuous Stage on Screen shows, and arresting art. With Leicester a host city for the Rugby World Cup, we’re screening Building Jerusalem with a Q&A live via satellite with Jonny Wilkinson, Clive Woodward and Martin Johnson (p4)… surely a must-see for rugby fans. Other film highlights include quirky high school tale Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, the heart-stopping Everest, and Meryl Streep’s latest, Ricki and the Flash. We’re also part of this year’s Scalarama festival (p11), a nationwide celebration of cult cinema, so expect a weird and wacky film treat or two. We’ve added new Stage on Screen dates (p12) due to huge demand, so if you missed Othello back in August, you’ve got another chance to catch it this month. And if you’re hoping to see Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet in October, you might want to book now as it’s sure to sell out. Whose Gaze is it Anyway? (p13) continues in our Cube Gallery as part of the Institute of Contemporary Arts touring programme; our one-day course The Personal is Political (p13) runs alongside the exhibition to explore representations of the Middle East in film. With the autumn term starting now, we’ve got a range of new learning opportunities for adults (p12), including British Cinema in the 1960s and Halloween Screams: An Introduction to Horror Cinema, so unleash your inner film buff and sign up.
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CONTINUED FROM LAST MONTH
45 YEARS
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Tue 1 - Thu 10 Sep Dir: Andrew Haigh Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay UK 2015, 1hr 35mins Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay play elderly couple Kate and Geoff in Andrew Haigh’s spellbinding new drama. During preparations for their 45th wedding anniversary a letter arrives concerning an old flame of Geoff’s, and the seemingly happy couple find their relationship rocked to the core as questions of lives unlived and what might have been emerge between them. A masterclass in acting and direction, Rampling and Courtenay are mesmeric while Haigh directs with elegance and subtlety.
L'ECLISSE
ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL 12A
Fri 4 - Thu 10 Sep Dir: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Cast: Thomas Mann, Olivia Cooke USA 2015, 1hr 45mins
Greg and his friend Earl are two American high school kids who spend most of their time creating daft parodies of classic movies for their own enjoyment, perfect for Greg as he plans to get through school without drawing any attention to himself. All that changes when Greg’s mum insists he spend time with Rachel, a girl from his class recently diagnosed with cancer. At first awkward and embarrassed, the two connect
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Available as Silver Screenings – see p11
Tue 1 - Thu 3 Sep Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni Cast: Monica Vitti, Alain Delon Italy 1962, 2hrs 6mins, subtitled
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through his and Earl’s movies and Greg decides to make Rachel her own film. Quirky, funny and a cinephile’s dream for film references - it’s powerful stuff that fills your heart with a love for cinema and optimism.
Filmed in sumptuous black and white, L’Eclisse followed L’Avventura and La Notte in Antonioni’s trilogy on contemporary malaise and arrives in a new digital restoration.
THE WOLFPACK
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Tue 1 - Thu 3 Sep Dir: Crystal Moselle USA 2015, 1hr 30mins
This jaw-dropping new documentary looks at the incredible true story of the Angulo brothers, confined to their tiny family home in Manhattan’s Lower East Side since birth.
POLITICAL CINEMA SEASON BUILDING JERUSALEM + SATELLITE Q&A 12A
THIS IS NOT A FILM
This screening will be followed by a Q&A live via satellite from London with Jonny Wilkinson, Clive Woodward and Martin Johnson. The film charts the dawn of modern rugby with Sir Clive Woodward at the helm. It is an astonishing story of pressure, expectation and courage, tracing the roots of success back to the professionalisation of the game in the ‘90s, culminating in that glorious World Cup campaign of 2003.
The film will be introduced by James Harvey-Davitt and followed by a post-screening discussion. In 2010 award winning director Jafar Panahi was convicted of propaganda against the Islamic Republic and sentenced to six years in prison. Under house arrest awaiting the results of an appeal, Panahi made a film depicting a day in his life, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled out of the country in a cake.
Thu 1 Sep, 7pm UK 2015, 2hrs 15mins (approx) All tickets £10
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Wed 2 Sep, 6.15pm Dir: Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Jafar Panahi Iran 2011, 1hr 15mins, subtitled
CARTEL LAND
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CONCERTO – A BEETHOVEN JOURNEY
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THE HISTORY OF CINEMA-GOING IN LEICESTER TBC
Fri 4 - Thu 10 Sep Dir: Matthew Heineman Cast: Jose Manuel Mireles Mexico 2015, 1hr 40mins, subtitled
Sun 6 Sep, 3.20pm Dir: Phil Grabsky UK 2015, 1hr 32 mins
“There’s an imaginary line out there, between right and wrong, good and evil”. Heineman’s searing documentary looks at two vigilantes fighting Mexican drug cartels on either side of the US border. Driven by a lack of government support a small-town doctor leads an uprising, whilst in Arizona a paramilitary group is led by veteran Tim “Nailer” Foley. It’s courageous filmmaking with a sense of urgency and desperation that few documentaries achieve.
Screening in partnership with Leicester International Music Festival. Filmed over the course of four years, renowned documentary filmmaker Phil Grabsky followed leading concert pianist Leif Ove Andsnes’s attempt to understand and interpret one of the greatest sets of works for piano ever written: Beethoven’s five piano concertos. Considered one of the top pianists of the age, Andsnes’s exquisite and exclusive classical performances are given centre stage.
Join us on a journey through our city’s cinema-going past. From the Electric Theatre to the modern multiplexes, many grand picture palaces and cramped fleapits have opened and closed since the early 1900s. This new 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.
THE PRESIDENT
STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON 15
IN SEARCH OF BEETHOVEN TBC
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Fri 11 - Thu 17 Sep Dir: Mohsen Makhmalbaf Cast: Mikheil Gomiashvili France / Georgia 2014, 1hr 59mins, subtitled When a President orders the lights to be turned off in his city to impress his beloved grandson, it becomes the catalyst for a full-scale uprising. Soon on the run for their lives the two pose as poor travellers, and the President must confront the shocking hardships that his despotic regime has wreaked on his country. Recalling King Lear and Benigni's Life Is Beautiful, it’s a satiric parable with bite and immediacy.
Fri 11 - Thu 17 Sep Dir: F. Gary Gray Cast: Jason Mitchell, Corey Hawkins USA 2015, 2hrs 27mins
Brimming with angry energy, Straight Outta Compton chronicles the rise of rap group N.W.A and follows Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and MC Ren as they navigate the emerging West Coast hip-hop scene of the 1980s. From tough beginnings, to their breakthrough success, Straight Outta Compton is a raucous portrait of the genre’s most influential and groundbreaking figures.
Wed 9 Sep, 6pm Free screening Dir: Kieran Chauhan UK 2015, 1hr 30mins
Mon 14 Sep, 6.30pm Dir: Phil Grabsky UK 2009, 2hrs 19mins
He is one of the greatest musicians and composers in history, and yet his life story is shrouded in myth and misunderstanding. So just what is the true story of Ludwig van Beethoven? A one-off screening of Phil Grabsky's critically acclaimed documentary in partnership with the Leicester International Music Festival.
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THE TREATMENT
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Mon 14 - Thu 17 Sep Dir: Hans Herbots Cast: Geert Van Rampelberg Belgium 2014, 2hrs 10mins, subtitled An intense Belgian thriller in the Scandi-noir mould. Inspector Nick Cafmeyer is a brilliant detective haunted by the childhood disappearance of his brother. Local sex-offender Ivan Plettinckx was arrested but never convicted, and he now delights in tormenting Nick. When a new case involving the disappearance of a child comes up, Nick is convinced Plettinckx is involved, but how far will he go to prove it?
MISS JULIE
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POPULAIRE
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Mon 14 - Thu 17 Sep Dir: Liv Ullmann Cast: Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell Norway/UK 2014, 2hrs 10mins
Thu 17 Sep, 8pm Dir: Régis Roinsard Cast: Romain Duris France 2012, 1hr 51mins, subtitled
The new film from director Liv Ullman is a smouldering account of seduction, based on the 1888 Swedish play by August Strindberg. Over the course of a midsummer evening in County Fermanagh, the daughter of a baron encourages her father’s valet to seduce her, but the man is not as simple as she supposes. As power shifts between them and they become both predator and prey, a fascinating psychological drama unfolds.
Screening in partnership with the Leicester French Circle. This sweet and immaculately-styled film from France is a delight. Déborah François plays hopeless insurance secretary Rose. Unable to complete the simplest tasks – her saving grace is an uncanny ability to type very quickly. Recognising her talent, her suave boss Louis takes her on the road to typing competitions, and as her fame escalates Louis begins to fall for her.
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GEMMA BOVERY
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Fri 18 - Thu 24 Sep Dir: Anne Fontaine Cast: Gemma Arterton UK / France 2014, 1hr 39mins, subtitled (parts)
EVEREST 2D & 3D
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Fri 18 Sep - Thu 1 Oct Dir: Baltasar Kormákur Cast: Jason Clarke, Emily Watson UK/USA 2015, 2hrs 1min Based on a real-life tragic incident in 1996, Everest follows a group of climbers as they attempt to scale Earth’s highest mountain but disaster strikes when a huge storm rolls across the peaks. With the group forced to try and survive nature at its wildest,
Everest is edge of your seat, heart-in-mouth stuff. Alongside the incredible effects and scenery, Icelandic director Kormákur (Jar City, 101 Reykjavík) has assembled a top notch cast including Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Jason Clark and Keira Knightley, who give the story believability and emotional power.
Anne Fontaine’s (Coco Before Chanel) new film charts the arrival of British couple Gemma and Charlie Bovery into a small French town. Village baker and literature buff Martin notices that the couple share similarities with Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, even the marital strife. Taking Gemma under his wing, is Martin trying to help or does he want to see a live version of Flaubert’s classic novel acted out in front of his eyes?
RICKI AND THE FLASH
HARD TO BE A GOD
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Fri 25 Sep - Thu 1 Oct Dir: Jonathan Demme Cast: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline USA 2015, 1hr 42mins Performing in bars and scraping a living as a cashier, ageing rock star Ricki (Streep) is drawn back to the family she left to pursue a music career when she hears her daughter’s marriage has broken down. Arriving to hostility from her children, estranged husband and his new wife, Ricki becomes determined to fix their relationships. Streep is, as always, brilliant in the central role - balancing Ricki’s delicate mixture of melancholy and rebellion
WE HAVE A POPE
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Sun 20 Sep, 3pm Dir: Nanni Moretti Cast: Michel Piccoli Italy 2011, 1hr 42mins, subtitled Screening in partnership with The Leicester Italian Society. After the Pope passes away, the Conclave meets to decide on his successor, but is the man they pick up to the job? Featuring a brilliant performance from Michel Piccoli and some genuinely hilarious moments – witness the Pope’s new therapist trying to organise a volleyball tournament between Nuns and Cardinals – this is a heart-warming film about faith, courage and humanity.
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Fri 18 - Mon 21 Sep Dir: Aleksei German Cast: Leonid Yarmolnik Russia 2013, 2hr 57mins, subtitled
(all songs were performed live and Streep learnt to play guitar for the role) and there is great support from Kline, Rick Springfield (yes that one) and her real-life daughter Mamie Gummer.
THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL
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Mon 21 - Thu 24 Sep Dir: Marielle Heller Cast: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Kristen Wiig USA 2015, 1hr 42mins ‘ ’ - You watch it thinking, this is probably going to be a lot of people’s favourite movie’ Little White Lies. This honest and deliciously funny debut film from Marielle Heller is based on Phoebe Gloeckner’s graphic novel and stars Bel Powley as Minnie, a teen artist living in 1970’s San Francisco who decides to have an affair with her mother’s jock boyfriend Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård).
Fifteen years in the making, the final film from Russian auteur Aleksei German is a piece of overwhelming art cinema. Scientists from Earth travel to the almost identical planet of Arkanar where the renaissance never occurred. Instructed only to observe, they find themselves drawn into the mud and blood of Dark Ages culture. Almost indefinable, Hard to be a God is a concoction of Tarkovsky’s Stalker, Dante’s Inferno and Goya’s Disasters of War.
LEGEND
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Fri 25 Sep - Thu 1 Oct Dir: Brian Helgeland Cast: Tom Hardy, Emily Browning UK 2015, TBC Tom Hardy is on brilliant form in the dual role of twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray, the East End gangsters who ruled London in the ‘60s. Starting with protection rackets but escalating to armed robbery and murder, Reggie tries to pursue a relationship with a local girl despite the increasingly psychotic tendencies of Ronnie threatening their empire. Superb support includes Christopher Ecclestone as a detective determined to bring the Krays to justice.
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SILVER SCREENINGS BAJRANGI BHAIJAAN
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Fri 25 - Mon 28 Sep Dir: Kabir Khan Cast: Salman Khan India 2015, 2hrs 39mins, subtitled Lost in India following a family trip, a mute Pakistani girl meets the big-hearted ‘Bajrangi’. When Bajrangi realises she is from Pakistan, the two face the daunting task of getting across the border to find her parents. The second most watched Indian film of all time and an Indian box office smash, Bajrangi Bhaijaan has the wonderful blend of action, romance and comedy you expect from Bollywood.
THE ECSTASY OF WILKO JOHNSON
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Sat 26 Sep, TIME TBC Dir: Julien Temple UK 2015, 1hr 32mins
45 YEARS
Julien Temple’s new film confronts our worst nightmares of impending death and turns them upside down. It tells the extraordinary story of legendary musician Wilko Johnson (of Dr. Feelgood fame) who, when diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given just months to live, embarked on a farewell tour, capturing the imagination of the world as he went. But like every good story Wilko's has a damn fine twist in its tale.
SUMMER HOLIDAY
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Wed 9 Sep, 10.30am Open to all, screening in partnership with The University of the Third Age (U3A)
MISS JULIE
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GEMMA BOVERY
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Wed 23 Sep, 11am
RICKI AND THE FLASH 12A Wed 30 Sep, 11am
KNIFE IN THE WATER
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Sat 5 Sep, TIME TBC Dir: Krzysztof Kieślowski Poland 1987, 2hr 3mins
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Wed 16 Sep, TIME TBC Dir: Roman Polański Poland 1962, 1hr 36mins
MASTERPIECES OF POLISH CINEMA THE ILLUMINATION
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Tue 8 Sep, TIME TBC Dir: Krzysztof Zanussi Poland 1973, 1hr 33mins
Banned for years for getting too This dazzlingly original film-essay close to the political knuckle, combines an intensely intimate Kieślowski's three-part narrative portrait of a young would-be hinges on whether medical student scientist with a quizzical analysis Witek catches a train, and on of his sincere (if fumbling and what happens afterwards. Can naive) attempts at grasping the he control the outcome, or is his very meaning of life. Its frequent life dictated by fate? This newlyscholarly digressions into both restored version contains scenes art and science anticipated Peter never previously screened in public. Greenaway by many years. 11 – 11
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Martin Scorsese presents...
BLIND CHANCE
Matinee screenings for just £4.60 including refreshments.
Martin Scorsese presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema is currently organised by DI Factory, all DOTS, Propaganda Foundation and The Film Foundation, in cooperation with Tor, Zebra and Kadr film studios, in partnership with the National Audiovisual Institute of Poland, and with the support of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland and the Polish Film Institute
Polański's first feature mixed ostensibly simple ingredients: two men; a woman; a yacht; a vast expanse of water, and a haunting jazz score by the great Krzysztof Komeda. It resulted in not just one of the most psychologically gripping films of its era, but also Poland's first Oscar nominee.
THE PROMISED LAND
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Sun 20 Sep, TIME TBC Dir: Andrzej Wajda Poland 1975, 2hr 50mins
Wajda's pitiless dissection of the industrial revolution from the perspective of three young entrepreneurs vying to be the most ruthless was voted the 'best film in the history of Polish cinema' in 1996.
ACCESS CINEMA DESCRIPTIVE SUBTITLES
ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL 12A
Springing from the ashes of the legendary London repertory cinema The Scala in King’s Cross, Scalarama is an annual nationwide celebration of cult cinema.
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA 15
Sun 27 Sept, TIME TBC Dir: John Carpenter Cast: Kurt Russell, Kim Catrall USA 1985, 1hr 35 mins The Social Cinema returns to celebrate the 40th birthday of the analogue majesty that is VHS. We're turning Phoenix into a video paradise, with a video exchange, retro gaming, drinks offers and a movie quiz, before a special VHS screening of John Carpenter’s cult classic Big Trouble in Little China.
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STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON 15 Tue 15 Sep, 7.30pm
MYSTERY FILM EXTREME 18
RICKI AND THE FLASH
Fri 25 Sep, 8.30pm All tickets £3
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Wed 30 Sep, 6.15pm
Place your trust in us and join us for our mystery film night. Inspired by Scalarama, be advised that this month’s overwhelming film pushes the boundaries of 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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EVEREST 2D
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Fri 18 Sep, 1pm
AUTISM FRIENDLY
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 2 PG
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FAMILY FILMS
Strange Magic
MINIONS
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Sat 5 – Sun 6 Sep USA 2015, 1hr 44mins Back by popular demand. Need we say more?
INSIDE OUT
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Sat 12 – Sun 13 Sep USA 2015, 1hr 42mins ‘ ’ - Even measured alongside Pixar's numerous great pictures, it stands out as one of the studio's very best.’ - The Daily Telegraph
STRANGE MAGIC
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FOTO
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Sat 19 – Sun 20 Sep USA 2015, 1hr 39mins
Sat 19 Sept, 11.30am Hindi with English subtitles
This madcap animated musical tells of the misadventures of a cast of goblins, elves, fairies and imps battling over a powerful love potion.
Foto is eleven years old and lives in a world of imagination and fantasy. Struggling to interact with the real world, his life is turned upside down when a film crew arrives in his home town to make a movie.
ZARAFA
Sat 26 – Sun 27 Sep France 2012, 1hr 18mins A young boy escapes slave traders, crosses the desert, meets pirates and befriends a young giraffe on a journey from Africa to Paris.
Part of our regular programme of films screening in partnership with the Children's Film Society, India.
Othello, RSC
STAGE ON SCREEN
SHORT COURSES Explore film in all its forms with our short courses this autumn.
BRITISH CINEMA IN THE 1960S See some of the world’s greatest stage shows come alive on our cinema screens. Tickets: £15 / £13 conc.
COMING SOON
OTHELLO
(RSC) Sat 5 Sep, 7.15pm A sell-out in August, we’ve added another date. Othello is the greatest general of his age, but he is also an outsider with enemies driven by prejudice and jealousy to destroy him.
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW LIVE Thu 17 Sep, 6.45pm
Still the world’s favourite rock ’n’ roll musical. Join Richard O’Brien and some very special guests for a guaranteed party, live in cinemas for one night only.
ROGER WATERS: THE WALL Tue 29 Sep, 8pm
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Roger Waters, co-founder and primary songwriter of Pink Floyd, fuses the epic and the personal in Roger Waters: The Wall a concert film that goes well beyond the stage.
See website for full details and shows in 2016, and to buy tickets (with no booking fee).
N AT I O N A L T H E AT R E L I V E The Beaux’ Stratagem Thu 3 Sep, 7pm Coriolanus Thu 24 Sep, 7pm Hamlet – Starring Benedict Cumberbatch Thu 15 Oct, 7pm Sat 17 Oct, 7.30pm Sun 18 Oct, 6pm Of Mice and Men Thu 19 Nov, 7pm Jane Eyre Tue 8 Dec, 7pm R OYA L S H A K E S P E A R E C O M PA N Y Henry V Wed 21 Oct, 7pm VAU D E V IL L E T H E AT R E L I V E The Importance of Being Earnest Thu 8 Oct, 7.15pm E N G L I S H N AT I O N A L OPER A The Barber of Seville Mon 19 Oct, 7.30pm The Mikado Thu 3 Dec, 7.30pm BOLSHOI BALLET Jewels Sun 8 Nov, 3pm The Lady of the Camellias Sun 6 Dec, 3pm The Nutcracker Sun 13 Dec, 3pm
Fridays, 25 Sep – 30 Oct 2pm – 3.30pm (6 sessions) Price: £72 / £60 conc. As post-war austerity gave way to affluence, a new generation of stars and directors broke through in the British film industry. Explore and discuss a decade of great films.
TALKING PICTURES AUTUMN
Tuesdays, 20 Oct – 22 Dec 10.30am – 12pm (10 sessions) Price: £80 / £70 conc. 10 week course of tutor-led group discussions that put the cinema week into focus. Includes a ticket to the 1pm or 1.30pm film screening.
MORE ACTING FOR FILM
Wednesdays, 21 Oct – 25 Nov 7pm – 8.30pm (6 sessions) Price: £72 / £60 conc. A practical, exercise-based intermediate level course, delving deeper into the art and execution of film acting.
HALLOWEEN SCREAMS: AN INTRODUCTION TO HORROR CINEMA Sat 31 Oct (1 session) 10.30am – 4pm Price: £24 / £20 conc.
Explore the history of horror cinema through key films and their meanings and messages, shedding light on this genre’s enduring popularity.
ART WHOSE GAZE IS IT ANYWAY? Thu 27 Aug – Thu 24 Sep Cube Gallery, Free The exhibition looks at the history of Arab pop culture through printed materials, film and video. Its inspiration began with the archive of Abboudi Bou Jaoudeh – a prolific collector whose underground treasure trove in Beirut holds a vast collection of Arab film memorabilia, from rare film posters to cultural magazines published from the 1930s to the present day. Film posters from the archive will be displayed in the Cube Gallery, alongside a newly commissioned work by Qatari-American artist Sophia Al-Maria, who presents an imaginary poster and sketchbook for her unmade film, Beretta, which she has been attempting to produce over the past three years.
WORKSHOP: CRITICAL POSTER DESIGN
Saturday 19 Sep, 2pm-5pm, Free Ages 16+ Based on the collection of film posters from the Whose Gaze is it Anyway? display, work with artist Jo Dacombe to create your own posters using hand-printed techniques.
FILM: WEST BEIRUT + PANEL DISCUSSION 15
Sat 19 Sep, Time TBC Dir: Ziad Doueiri Lebanon 1998, 1hr 45mins, subtitled Set in Lebanon during the Civil War of 1975, West Beirut is the story of two young boys, Tarek and Omar. At first the war is an opportunity for adventure, which the boys document on their Super 8 camera. But soon, tensions arise. Based on the director’s boyhood memories, the film underscores the terrors children suffer during wartime. Followed by Whose Gaze is It Anyway, on Syria, a panel discussion with two Syrian filmmakers.
FILM: SALVATION ARMY 18
Sun 27 Sep, Time TBC Dir: Abdellah Taia Morocco 2013, 1hr 21mins, subtitled The rapturous debut feature from Moroccan writer Abdellah Taia offers a charged, semi-autobiographical tale about a young graduate who must navigate the sexual, racial and political intrigue surrounding his arrival in Geneva. Inspired by his autobiographical novel of the same title, Taia’s coming-of-age story folds and unfolds with love, pain, desire and violence.
These exhibitions form part of ICA Touring, in partnership with the Arab British Centre
COURSE: THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL - THE ARAB GAZE ON FILM Sat 5 Sept, 10am-4pm £24 / £20 conc. Tutor: James Harvey-Davitt
Frequently portrayed in reductive and exotic ways in mainstream cinema, representations of the Arab World often offer little insight into the region. This course will provide an introduction to a number of Arab filmmakers who regularly blur the lines between the personal and the political.
THE GAIN LINE
Thu 1 Oct – Sun 29 Nov Cube Gallery, Free The Gain Line is a movingimage artwork by Ravi Deepres, commissioned to coincide with the Rugby World Cup. The title refers to an invisible line on the rugby field that measures teams’ forward progress and their territorial advantage over their opponents.
Thu 10 – Sun 13 Sep
Three Live Ghosts
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THE 18TH
BRITISH SILENT FILM FESTIVAL
Phoenix plays host to the 18th British Silent Film Festival this September, with an exciting programme of rediscoveries, rarely-seen British silent (and not-sosilent) films and highlights from international festivals. This annual festival focuses mainly on British film before 1930, but draws on archive collections from all over the world to bring you fantastic silent films produced in other countries.
14 – 15
This year’s themes are iconic events from 1915 and heroes and villains, from swashbuckling adventurers and early astronauts, to footballing champions and the quiet heroes of the World War One. The programme also takes a look at British silent cinema in transition with some of the last of the silent and first sound films produced. To add to the experience, the films will be accompanied by the world’s leading silent film musicians, including Stephen Horne and Laura Rossi.
For further information and full details of the 4-day programme of events, talks and screenings, visit the British Silent Film festival website at www.britishsilentfilmfestival.com.
TICKETS Festival 4-day pass £105 (£90 concs) Festival 1-day pass £50 (£40 concs) Book online at www.phoenix.org.uk or via our Box Office, tel 0116 242 2800. Festival passes include lunch, tea and coffee each day and entrance to all events. Individual tickets may be available nearer the time - please call the Box Office or check our website for more information. The British Silent Film Festival is directed, organised and programmed by Laraine Porter, Bryony Dixon and Neil Brand.
FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Thu 10 Sep 10.30am The W Plan 1.30pm Was Blackmail Britain’s First Talkie? 2.30pm Dark Red Roses 4pm Splinters 6pm High Treason 8.30pm The Guns of Loos
Fri 11 Sep 9am The Rocks of Valpre 11am Not for Sale 1.30pm The Man from Home 3.30pm The Strongest/Den Starkaste 6pm Three Live Ghosts 8.30pm Michel Strogoff
Sat 12 Sep 9am Windjammer 11am The World in 1915: The Sinking of the Lusitania 12pm ‘The Death of a War Hero’ highlights from the Imperial War Museum 1.30pm Steamboat Bill Jnr Buster Keaton programme 4pm The Great Game 6pm The Cosmic Voyage 8.30pm Jane Shore at Leicester Cathedral
Sun 13 Sep 9am The World in 1915: Gallipoli 11am Tell England 1.30pm The Silent Persuaders: Early British Advertising Films 3.15pm The Kingdom of Rye/ Ragens Rike 6.30pm Arsenal
THE GUNS OF LOOS
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Set against the backdrop of the Battle of Loos on the Western Front, two soldiers are tested on the battlefield and in their rivalry for Diana, a Red Cross nurse (Carroll in her first film role). Issues of class and personal bravery are sensitively explored, and an extraordinary action sequence shatters the myth that British silent film was static and stagey. Accompanied by the world premiere of Stephen Horne’s stirring new score.
HITCHCOCK LOST AND FOUND: THREE LIVE GHOSTS
JANE SHORE
U
Sat 12 Sep, 8.30pm at Leicester Cathedral Dir: Bert Haldane, F. Martin Thornton Cast: Blanch Forysthe, Roy Travers UK 1915, 1hr 20 mins
Thu 10 Sep, 8.30pm Dir: Sinclair Hill Cast: Henry Victor, Madeleine Carroll UK 1928, 1hr 24mins
A cast of thousands is used to great effect in this version of the much-told story of Jane Shore, a goldsmith’s wife who becomes mistress to Edward IV and then falls foul of the future Richard III. Newly transferred with its original tints from a nitrate print, this is a rare chance to see this early classic from the BFI National Archive in the fitting surroundings of Leicester’s medieval cathedral. Presented with a new score by Laura Rossi.
ARSENAL U
Fri 11 Sep, 6pm Dir: George Fitzmaurice Cast: Norman Kerry, Edmund Golding UK 1922, 1hr
Recently rediscovered at Gosfilmofond in Russia, this comedy is one of the thoughtto-be lost films on which a young Hitchcock worked during his tenure at the Famous Players Lasky’s London studio. Adapted from a popular Broadway play, the film concerns three veterans who return from WWI only to discover that they have been officially listed as dead. Introduced by Hitchcock scholar Charles Barr.
PG
Sun 13 Sep, 6.30pm Dir: Alexander Dovzhenko Cast: Semyon Svashenko, Amvrosi Buchma USSR 1929, 1hr 32mins Set during the 1918 Russian Civil War in the bleak aftermath of WWI; Timosh, a demobbed soldier, survives a devastating train crash on his return from the War to find that Ukrainian freedom is being prematurely celebrated. He becomes increasingly disenfranchised with the governance of the munitions factory in which he works and calls for the adoption of the new Soviet Collectivism. Accompanied by the British premiere of a new music score by Guy Bartell of Bronnt Industry Kapital.
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