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Director: Terrence Davies. Starring: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine.
UK 2017. 125mins.
The story of 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson is brought to vivid life, in a remarkably sensitive biopic by director Terence Davies, exploring her early days as a young schoolgirl, through to her later years as a recluse. Now recognised as a genius that penned some of the most important verses in American literature, the poet was virtually unknown in her lifetime, leaving behind a legacy of stunning, astute work that still resonates deeply today.
Featuring a curated selection of her poems in voiceover, A Quiet Passion details every facet of Dickinson’s character: her wit, her humour and the intimate, close-knit relationship she had with her family. Cynthia Nixon commands a superb performance in the title role, while Davies’ elegant direction allows the audience to connect with the hopes, dreams and disappointments of one of the greatest poets of all time.
Cast: The Bolshoi Principals, Soloists and Corps De Ballet
Pechorin, a young officer, embarks on a journey across the majestic mountains of the Caucasus, on a path set by his passions. Disillusioned and careless, he inflicts pain upon himself and the women around him…
“Give me everything, it is still not enough.” This story based on the larger-than-life hero Pechorin is adapted from Mikhail Lermontov’s literary masterpiece, three separate tales recounting Pechorin’s heartbreaking betrayals. Is he a real hero? Or is he just a man like any other? This brand new production by choreographer Yuri Possokhov is a tragic poetic journey that can only be seen at the Bolshoi.
Director: Raoul Peck. Featuring: James Baldwin. France/USA 2016. 94 mins.
With unprecedented access to James Baldwin’s original work, award-winning filmmaker Raoul Peck has completed the cinematic version of the book Baldwin never wrote – a radical narration about race in America that tracks the lives and assassinations of Baldwin’s friends, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. By confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassinations of these three men, we uncover a larger narrative of America’s historical and current denial and irrational relationship with race. Whilst it is partly anchored in the struggle for equality in the ’50s and ’60s, I Am Not Your Negro is about what it means to be black in America today.
Director: Pablo Larraín.
Starring: Luis Gnecco, Gael García Bernal, Mercedes Morán. Chile/Argentina/France/Spain 2016. 108 mins. Spanish with English subtitles.
Pablo Larraín (The Club, No, Tony Manero) turns to his compatriot, the Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda, for his sixth feature. Describing this inventive 1940s-set detective thriller as an ‘anti-bio’, he weaves a dizzying fable around the 1948 hunt for celebrated poet and politician Neruda, who goes underground when Chile outlaws Communism and finds himself pursued by an ambitious police inspector (Bernal) hoping to make a name for himself by capturing the famous fugitive. With a trio of outstanding performances from Bernal, Luis Gnecco as the poet on the run and Mercedes Morán as his wife Delia, this is a hugely refreshing and entertaining tale that boldly tests the limits of filmic biography.
Director: Julia Ducournau.
Starring: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Naït Oufella. France/Belgium 2016. 99 mins. French with English subtitles.
Following in the footsteps of her entire family, shy 16-year-old Justine, an animal-loving vegetarian, enrols in veterinary college. Entering a seductive world of boys, drugs and all-night parties, she is confronted with a moral dilemma when she must eat a raw rabbit liver as part of an initiation ritual. She devours the meat, and is soon overtaken by unusual cravings. Julia Ducournau’s impressive debut feature is a highly accomplished, bold and bloody exploration of womanhood. Based around Marillier’s terrific, no-holds-barred performance, Raw has echoes of both Catherine Breillat’s explorations of female sexuality and the body horror of early David Cronenberg. The tense coming-of-age story has a mordant streak of dark humour and moments of brutality and gore. These may prove disturbing even for seasoned horror fans, thanks to the work of FX maestro Olivier Afonso. Be warned, the blood and guts apparently caused some cinemagoers to faint during a recent screening at the Toronto Film Festival.
Director: Ben Wheatley.
Starring: Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Jack Reynor, Sam Riley, Noah Taylor. UK 2016. 91 mins.
Ben Wheatley (Sightseers, A Field In England) follows hot on the heels of his last feature, High-Rise, with this all-guns-blazing action thriller.
In America in 1978, Justine (Larson) has arranged a deal on behalf of two Irishmen (Cillian Murphy, Michael Smiley) to buy a stash of guns from gangsters Vernon (Copley) and Ord (Hammer), but then there’s a misunderstanding and shots are fired… The standout cast have great fun with this shoot-’em-up and the playful script’s wry dialogue as the manic standoff escalates into a bloody game of survival.
Director: Bill Condon
Starring: Emma Watson, Luke Evans, Stanley Tucci, Ian McKellen. USA 2017. 129 mins.
Back in 1991, the Walt Disney Company released Beauty And The Beast, an exquisitely drawn feature animation that became a gargantuan hit, delighting both audiences and critics and spinning off a blockbuster Broadway musical. So who better to breathe new life into the beloved French fairy tale – with its very modern message of not judging people by their appearance – in a live-action telling than the studio that made it a movie classic in the first place? Veteran director Bill Condon (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Parts 1 & 2, Dreamgirls, Mr Holmes) has refashioned the characters for a contemporary audience but stayed true to the animation’s music, with several new songs and an amended score by the original composer, Alan Menken. Get ready to be wowed all over again.
Adventures in World Cinema is the monthly screening from CineCity Festival, presenting the very best in international art cinema.
This month, we’re delighted to be screening the newly restored The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood. One of the earliest features from one of Iran’s most celebrated auteurs, Moshen Makhmalbaf, this 1990 political drama was banned by the Iranian authorities and only once shown in public. Last year, someone managed to salvage the surviving 63 minutes of the film from the Censors’ Office and this precious footage has now been restored.
Makhmalbaf has said that this truncated version of the film “looked like a living thing with no limbs but it was still breathing, and its story and meaning were not lost.”
The film follows an anthropologist and his young adult daughter as they negotiate life and family before, during and after the Iranian Revolution. The result is a powerful critique of Iranian society that uses its lead actors’ naturalistic performances to reveal the human impact of political tumult.
Director: Martin Scorsese.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Sharon Stone, James Woods. USA 1995. 171 mins.
Scorsese works again with Nicholas Pileggi, writer of GoodFellas, to create an epic, glossily stylised look at the Mafia’s involvement in Las Vegas in the '70s and '80s. The story centres on gambling fixer Ace (De Niro), sent west to oversee a casino, who falls out with strong-arm man Nicky (Pesci) over power, money and a woman (Stone). The sequences set behind the scenes of the casino are especially fascinating.
Director: Terrence Davies. Starring: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine.
UK 2017. 125mins.
The story of 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson is brought to vivid life, in a remarkably sensitive biopic by director Terence Davies, exploring her early days as a young schoolgirl, through to her later years as a recluse. Now recognised as a genius that penned some of the most important verses in American literature, the poet was virtually unknown in her lifetime, leaving behind a legacy of stunning, astute work that still resonates deeply today.
Featuring a curated selection of her poems in voiceover, A Quiet Passion details every facet of Dickinson’s character: her wit, her humour and the intimate, close-knit relationship she had with her family. Cynthia Nixon commands a superb performance in the title role, while Davies’ elegant direction allows the audience to connect with the hopes, dreams and disappointments of one of the greatest poets of all time.
Cast: The Bolshoi Principals, Soloists and Corps De Ballet
Pechorin, a young officer, embarks on a journey across the majestic mountains of the Caucasus, on a path set by his passions. Disillusioned and careless, he inflicts pain upon himself and the women around him…
“Give me everything, it is still not enough.” This story based on the larger-than-life hero Pechorin is adapted from Mikhail Lermontov’s literary masterpiece, three separate tales recounting Pechorin’s heartbreaking betrayals. Is he a real hero? Or is he just a man like any other? This brand new production by choreographer Yuri Possokhov is a tragic poetic journey that can only be seen at the Bolshoi.
Director: Raoul Peck. Featuring: James Baldwin. France/USA 2016. 94 mins.
With unprecedented access to James Baldwin’s original work, award-winning filmmaker Raoul Peck has completed the cinematic version of the book Baldwin never wrote – a radical narration about race in America that tracks the lives and assassinations of Baldwin’s friends, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. By confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassinations of these three men, we uncover a larger narrative of America’s historical and current denial and irrational relationship with race. Whilst it is partly anchored in the struggle for equality in the ’50s and ’60s, I Am Not Your Negro is about what it means to be black in America today.
Director: Pablo Larraín.
Starring: Luis Gnecco, Gael García Bernal, Mercedes Morán. Chile/Argentina/France/Spain 2016. 108 mins. Spanish with English subtitles.
Pablo Larraín (The Club, No, Tony Manero) turns to his compatriot, the Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda, for his sixth feature. Describing this inventive 1940s-set detective thriller as an ‘anti-bio’, he weaves a dizzying fable around the 1948 hunt for celebrated poet and politician Neruda, who goes underground when Chile outlaws Communism and finds himself pursued by an ambitious police inspector (Bernal) hoping to make a name for himself by capturing the famous fugitive. With a trio of outstanding performances from Bernal, Luis Gnecco as the poet on the run and Mercedes Morán as his wife Delia, this is a hugely refreshing and entertaining tale that boldly tests the limits of filmic biography.
Director: Julia Ducournau.
Starring: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Naït Oufella. France/Belgium 2016. 99 mins. French with English subtitles.
Following in the footsteps of her entire family, shy 16-year-old Justine, an animal-loving vegetarian, enrols in veterinary college. Entering a seductive world of boys, drugs and all-night parties, she is confronted with a moral dilemma when she must eat a raw rabbit liver as part of an initiation ritual. She devours the meat, and is soon overtaken by unusual cravings. Julia Ducournau’s impressive debut feature is a highly accomplished, bold and bloody exploration of womanhood. Based around Marillier’s terrific, no-holds-barred performance, Raw has echoes of both Catherine Breillat’s explorations of female sexuality and the body horror of early David Cronenberg. The tense coming-of-age story has a mordant streak of dark humour and moments of brutality and gore. These may prove disturbing even for seasoned horror fans, thanks to the work of FX maestro Olivier Afonso. Be warned, the blood and guts apparently caused some cinemagoers to faint during a recent screening at the Toronto Film Festival.
Director: Ben Wheatley.
Starring: Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Jack Reynor, Sam Riley, Noah Taylor. UK 2016. 91 mins.
Ben Wheatley (Sightseers, A Field In England) follows hot on the heels of his last feature, High-Rise, with this all-guns-blazing action thriller.
In America in 1978, Justine (Larson) has arranged a deal on behalf of two Irishmen (Cillian Murphy, Michael Smiley) to buy a stash of guns from gangsters Vernon (Copley) and Ord (Hammer), but then there’s a misunderstanding and shots are fired… The standout cast have great fun with this shoot-’em-up and the playful script’s wry dialogue as the manic standoff escalates into a bloody game of survival.
Director: Bill Condon
Starring: Emma Watson, Luke Evans, Stanley Tucci, Ian McKellen. USA 2017. 129 mins.
Back in 1991, the Walt Disney Company released Beauty And The Beast, an exquisitely drawn feature animation that became a gargantuan hit, delighting both audiences and critics and spinning off a blockbuster Broadway musical. So who better to breathe new life into the beloved French fairy tale – with its very modern message of not judging people by their appearance – in a live-action telling than the studio that made it a movie classic in the first place? Veteran director Bill Condon (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Parts 1 & 2, Dreamgirls, Mr Holmes) has refashioned the characters for a contemporary audience but stayed true to the animation’s music, with several new songs and an amended score by the original composer, Alan Menken. Get ready to be wowed all over again.
Adventures in World Cinema is the monthly screening from CineCity Festival, presenting the very best in international art cinema.
This month, we’re delighted to be screening the newly restored The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood. One of the earliest features from one of Iran’s most celebrated auteurs, Moshen Makhmalbaf, this 1990 political drama was banned by the Iranian authorities and only once shown in public. Last year, someone managed to salvage the surviving 63 minutes of the film from the Censors’ Office and this precious footage has now been restored.
Makhmalbaf has said that this truncated version of the film “looked like a living thing with no limbs but it was still breathing, and its story and meaning were not lost.”
The film follows an anthropologist and his young adult daughter as they negotiate life and family before, during and after the Iranian Revolution. The result is a powerful critique of Iranian society that uses its lead actors’ naturalistic performances to reveal the human impact of political tumult.
Director: Martin Scorsese.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Sharon Stone, James Woods. USA 1995. 171 mins.
Scorsese works again with Nicholas Pileggi, writer of GoodFellas, to create an epic, glossily stylised look at the Mafia’s involvement in Las Vegas in the '70s and '80s. The story centres on gambling fixer Ace (De Niro), sent west to oversee a casino, who falls out with strong-arm man Nicky (Pesci) over power, money and a woman (Stone). The sequences set behind the scenes of the casino are especially fascinating.
Director: Terrence Davies. Starring: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine.
UK 2017. 125mins.
The story of 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson is brought to vivid life, in a remarkably sensitive biopic by director Terence Davies, exploring her early days as a young schoolgirl, through to her later years as a recluse. Now recognised as a genius that penned some of the most important verses in American literature, the poet was virtually unknown in her lifetime, leaving behind a legacy of stunning, astute work that still resonates deeply today.
Featuring a curated selection of her poems in voiceover, A Quiet Passion details every facet of Dickinson’s character: her wit, her humour and the intimate, close-knit relationship she had with her family. Cynthia Nixon commands a superb performance in the title role, while Davies’ elegant direction allows the audience to connect with the hopes, dreams and disappointments of one of the greatest poets of all time.
HEY DUGGEE- a place for children (and their parents) to have fun, be energetic, and most of all to DO THINGS!
The show is based around a children’s playgroup called The Squirrel Club. Its run by a big dog called DUGGEE. The Squirrel Club is a place where kids have adventures and earn badges for their accomplishments.
There are five children who go to the Squirrel club. HAPPY, NORRIE,TAG, BETTY & ROLY. Their parents drop them off every day and they spend a couple of hours having fun and adventures with DUGGEE, in his clubhouse, and outside in his fantastical world before being picked up again at the end of the show.
Featuring the episodes: First Aid, Bubble, Submarine, Detective and Sewing.
It’s all about doing things, and DUGGEE likes to do a lot, and go to lots of places.
Director: Raoul Peck. Featuring: James Baldwin. France/USA 2016. 94 mins.
With unprecedented access to James Baldwin’s original work, award-winning filmmaker Raoul Peck has completed the cinematic version of the book Baldwin never wrote – a radical narration about race in America that tracks the lives and assassinations of Baldwin’s friends, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. By confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassinations of these three men, we uncover a larger narrative of America’s historical and current denial and irrational relationship with race. Whilst it is partly anchored in the struggle for equality in the ’50s and ’60s, I Am Not Your Negro is about what it means to be black in America today.
Director: Pablo Larraín.
Starring: Luis Gnecco, Gael García Bernal, Mercedes Morán. Chile/Argentina/France/Spain 2016. 108 mins. Spanish with English subtitles.
Pablo Larraín (The Club, No, Tony Manero) turns to his compatriot, the Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda, for his sixth feature. Describing this inventive 1940s-set detective thriller as an ‘anti-bio’, he weaves a dizzying fable around the 1948 hunt for celebrated poet and politician Neruda, who goes underground when Chile outlaws Communism and finds himself pursued by an ambitious police inspector (Bernal) hoping to make a name for himself by capturing the famous fugitive. With a trio of outstanding performances from Bernal, Luis Gnecco as the poet on the run and Mercedes Morán as his wife Delia, this is a hugely refreshing and entertaining tale that boldly tests the limits of filmic biography.
Director: Julia Ducournau.
Starring: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Naït Oufella. France/Belgium 2016. 99 mins. French with English subtitles.
Following in the footsteps of her entire family, shy 16-year-old Justine, an animal-loving vegetarian, enrols in veterinary college. Entering a seductive world of boys, drugs and all-night parties, she is confronted with a moral dilemma when she must eat a raw rabbit liver as part of an initiation ritual. She devours the meat, and is soon overtaken by unusual cravings. Julia Ducournau’s impressive debut feature is a highly accomplished, bold and bloody exploration of womanhood. Based around Marillier’s terrific, no-holds-barred performance, Raw has echoes of both Catherine Breillat’s explorations of female sexuality and the body horror of early David Cronenberg. The tense coming-of-age story has a mordant streak of dark humour and moments of brutality and gore. These may prove disturbing even for seasoned horror fans, thanks to the work of FX maestro Olivier Afonso. Be warned, the blood and guts apparently caused some cinemagoers to faint during a recent screening at the Toronto Film Festival.
Director: Ben Wheatley.
Starring: Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Jack Reynor, Sam Riley, Noah Taylor. UK 2016. 91 mins.
Ben Wheatley (Sightseers, A Field In England) follows hot on the heels of his last feature, High-Rise, with this all-guns-blazing action thriller.
In America in 1978, Justine (Larson) has arranged a deal on behalf of two Irishmen (Cillian Murphy, Michael Smiley) to buy a stash of guns from gangsters Vernon (Copley) and Ord (Hammer), but then there’s a misunderstanding and shots are fired… The standout cast have great fun with this shoot-’em-up and the playful script’s wry dialogue as the manic standoff escalates into a bloody game of survival.
Mad To Be Normal is the story of controversial Scottish psychiatrist, R.D. Laing and the infamous anti-psychiatry experiment he ran at Kingsley Hall - a medication-free sanctuary which made headlines around the world. During the 1960s and 1970s Laing was an international celebrity. In Santa Monica, 4,000 people turned out to see him perform a lecture. A radio journalist confidently referred to him as the “white Martin Luther King.” His books topped student reading lists the world over, as his language excited and enthralled them: “a child born today stands a 10 times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university... perhaps it is our very way of educating them that is driving them mad.”
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Director: Bill Condon
Starring: Emma Watson, Luke Evans, Stanley Tucci, Ian McKellen. USA 2017. 129 mins.
Back in 1991, the Walt Disney Company released Beauty And The Beast, an exquisitely drawn feature animation that became a gargantuan hit, delighting both audiences and critics and spinning off a blockbuster Broadway musical. So who better to breathe new life into the beloved French fairy tale – with its very modern message of not judging people by their appearance – in a live-action telling than the studio that made it a movie classic in the first place? Veteran director Bill Condon (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Parts 1 & 2, Dreamgirls, Mr Holmes) has refashioned the characters for a contemporary audience but stayed true to the animation’s music, with several new songs and an amended score by the original composer, Alan Menken. Get ready to be wowed all over again.
Adventures in World Cinema is the monthly screening from CineCity Festival, presenting the very best in international art cinema.
This month, we’re delighted to be screening the newly restored The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood. One of the earliest features from one of Iran’s most celebrated auteurs, Moshen Makhmalbaf, this 1990 political drama was banned by the Iranian authorities and only once shown in public. Last year, someone managed to salvage the surviving 63 minutes of the film from the Censors’ Office and this precious footage has now been restored.
Makhmalbaf has said that this truncated version of the film “looked like a living thing with no limbs but it was still breathing, and its story and meaning were not lost.”
The film follows an anthropologist and his young adult daughter as they negotiate life and family before, during and after the Iranian Revolution. The result is a powerful critique of Iranian society that uses its lead actors’ naturalistic performances to reveal the human impact of political tumult.
Director: Terrence Davies. Starring: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine.
UK 2017. 125mins.
The story of 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson is brought to vivid life, in a remarkably sensitive biopic by director Terence Davies, exploring her early days as a young schoolgirl, through to her later years as a recluse. Now recognised as a genius that penned some of the most important verses in American literature, the poet was virtually unknown in her lifetime, leaving behind a legacy of stunning, astute work that still resonates deeply today.
Featuring a curated selection of her poems in voiceover, A Quiet Passion details every facet of Dickinson’s character: her wit, her humour and the intimate, close-knit relationship she had with her family. Cynthia Nixon commands a superb performance in the title role, while Davies’ elegant direction allows the audience to connect with the hopes, dreams and disappointments of one of the greatest poets of all time.
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HEY DUGGEE- a place for children (and their parents) to have fun, be energetic, and most of all to DO THINGS!
The show is based around a children’s playgroup called The Squirrel Club. Its run by a big dog called DUGGEE. The Squirrel Club is a place where kids have adventures and earn badges for their accomplishments.
There are five children who go to the Squirrel club. HAPPY, NORRIE,TAG, BETTY & ROLY. Their parents drop them off every day and they spend a couple of hours having fun and adventures with DUGGEE, in his clubhouse, and outside in his fantastical world before being picked up again at the end of the show.
Featuring the episodes: First Aid, Bubble, Submarine, Detective and Sewing.
It’s all about doing things, and DUGGEE likes to do a lot, and go to lots of places.
Director: Raoul Peck. Featuring: James Baldwin. France/USA 2016. 94 mins.
With unprecedented access to James Baldwin’s original work, award-winning filmmaker Raoul Peck has completed the cinematic version of the book Baldwin never wrote – a radical narration about race in America that tracks the lives and assassinations of Baldwin’s friends, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. By confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassinations of these three men, we uncover a larger narrative of America’s historical and current denial and irrational relationship with race. Whilst it is partly anchored in the struggle for equality in the ’50s and ’60s, I Am Not Your Negro is about what it means to be black in America today.
15.45Silver Screen: Aged over 60? Join the Silver Screen Club for discounted tickets and a free tea or coffee at these shows. Usual ticket prices apply to non-Members.
Director: Pablo Larraín.
Starring: Luis Gnecco, Gael García Bernal, Mercedes Morán. Chile/Argentina/France/Spain 2016. 108 mins. Spanish with English subtitles.
Pablo Larraín (The Club, No, Tony Manero) turns to his compatriot, the Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda, for his sixth feature. Describing this inventive 1940s-set detective thriller as an ‘anti-bio’, he weaves a dizzying fable around the 1948 hunt for celebrated poet and politician Neruda, who goes underground when Chile outlaws Communism and finds himself pursued by an ambitious police inspector (Bernal) hoping to make a name for himself by capturing the famous fugitive. With a trio of outstanding performances from Bernal, Luis Gnecco as the poet on the run and Mercedes Morán as his wife Delia, this is a hugely refreshing and entertaining tale that boldly tests the limits of filmic biography.
11.00Silver Screen: Aged over 60? Join the Silver Screen Club for discounted tickets and a free tea or coffee at these shows. Usual ticket prices apply to non-Members.
Director: Julia Ducournau.
Starring: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Naït Oufella. France/Belgium 2016. 99 mins. French with English subtitles.
Following in the footsteps of her entire family, shy 16-year-old Justine, an animal-loving vegetarian, enrols in veterinary college. Entering a seductive world of boys, drugs and all-night parties, she is confronted with a moral dilemma when she must eat a raw rabbit liver as part of an initiation ritual. She devours the meat, and is soon overtaken by unusual cravings. Julia Ducournau’s impressive debut feature is a highly accomplished, bold and bloody exploration of womanhood. Based around Marillier’s terrific, no-holds-barred performance, Raw has echoes of both Catherine Breillat’s explorations of female sexuality and the body horror of early David Cronenberg. The tense coming-of-age story has a mordant streak of dark humour and moments of brutality and gore. These may prove disturbing even for seasoned horror fans, thanks to the work of FX maestro Olivier Afonso. Be warned, the blood and guts apparently caused some cinemagoers to faint during a recent screening at the Toronto Film Festival.
16.00Silver Screen: Aged over 60? Join the Silver Screen Club for discounted tickets and a free tea or coffee at these shows. Usual ticket prices apply to non-Members.
George Balanchine’s evocation of
the sparkle of emeralds, rubies and
diamonds is a brilliant ballet classic.
The French Romantic music of Fauré
provides the impetus for the subtlety
and lyricism of ‘Emeralds’, while the
fire of ‘Rubies’ comes from Stravinsky
and the jazz-age energy of New York.
Grandeur and elegance complete the
ballet with the splendour of Imperial
Russia and the peerless music of
Tchaikovsky in ‘Diamonds’.
Jewels is a masterclass in the many
luminous facets of classical ballet and
indeed of The Royal Ballet itself: the
virtuoso choreography of Balanchine,
the intensity of the soloists and the
precision of the entire Company.
Director: Ben Wheatley.
Starring: Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Jack Reynor, Sam Riley, Noah Taylor. UK 2016. 91 mins.
Ben Wheatley (Sightseers, A Field In England) follows hot on the heels of his last feature, High-Rise, with this all-guns-blazing action thriller.
In America in 1978, Justine (Larson) has arranged a deal on behalf of two Irishmen (Cillian Murphy, Michael Smiley) to buy a stash of guns from gangsters Vernon (Copley) and Ord (Hammer), but then there’s a misunderstanding and shots are fired… The standout cast have great fun with this shoot-’em-up and the playful script’s wry dialogue as the manic standoff escalates into a bloody game of survival.
13.30Silver Screen: Aged over 60? Join the Silver Screen Club for discounted tickets and a free tea or coffee at these shows. Usual ticket prices apply to non-Members.
Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in a new twist on Shakespeare’s comedy of mistaken identity.
A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out to explore a new land. So begins a whirlwind of mistaken identity and unrequited love.
The nearby households of Olivia and Orsino are overrun with passion. Even Olivia's upright housekeeper Malvolia is swept up in the madness. Where music is the food of love, and nobody is quite what they seem, anything proves possible.
Simon Godwin (NT Live: Man And Superman, NT Live: The Beaux’ Stratagem) directs this joyous new production with Tamsin Greig (Friday Night Dinner, Black Books, Episodes) as a transformed Malvolia. The ensemble cast also includes Daniel Rigby (Flowers, Jericho), Tamara Lawrence (Undercover), Doon Mackichan (Smack The Pony) and Daniel Ezra (The Missing, Undercover).
Director: Bill Condon
Starring: Emma Watson, Luke Evans, Stanley Tucci, Ian McKellen. USA 2017. 129 mins.
Back in 1991, the Walt Disney Company released Beauty And The Beast, an exquisitely drawn feature animation that became a gargantuan hit, delighting both audiences and critics and spinning off a blockbuster Broadway musical. So who better to breathe new life into the beloved French fairy tale – with its very modern message of not judging people by their appearance – in a live-action telling than the studio that made it a movie classic in the first place? Veteran director Bill Condon (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Parts 1 & 2, Dreamgirls, Mr Holmes) has refashioned the characters for a contemporary audience but stayed true to the animation’s music, with several new songs and an amended score by the original composer, Alan Menken. Get ready to be wowed all over again.
10.00Silver Screen: Aged over 60? Join the Silver Screen Club for discounted tickets and a free tea or coffee at these shows. Usual ticket prices apply to non-Members.
Enjoy this collection of films exploring how we have travelled in the region from 1900 to 1970’s to include bicycles, motor cars, steam trains, ferries and paddle steamers. The show also includes the British Transport Film film John Betjeman Goes by Train (1962) as he travels along the Kings Lynn - Hunstanton line and stops off at the Royal Wolferton Station.
Director: Terrence Davies. Starring: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine.
UK 2017. 125mins.
The story of 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson is brought to vivid life, in a remarkably sensitive biopic by director Terence Davies, exploring her early days as a young schoolgirl, through to her later years as a recluse. Now recognised as a genius that penned some of the most important verses in American literature, the poet was virtually unknown in her lifetime, leaving behind a legacy of stunning, astute work that still resonates deeply today.
Featuring a curated selection of her poems in voiceover, A Quiet Passion details every facet of Dickinson’s character: her wit, her humour and the intimate, close-knit relationship she had with her family. Cynthia Nixon commands a superb performance in the title role, while Davies’ elegant direction allows the audience to connect with the hopes, dreams and disappointments of one of the greatest poets of all time.
HEY DUGGEE- a place for children (and their parents) to have fun, be energetic, and most of all to DO THINGS!
The show is based around a children’s playgroup called The Squirrel Club. Its run by a big dog called DUGGEE. The Squirrel Club is a place where kids have adventures and earn badges for their accomplishments.
There are five children who go to the Squirrel club. HAPPY, NORRIE,TAG, BETTY & ROLY. Their parents drop them off every day and they spend a couple of hours having fun and adventures with DUGGEE, in his clubhouse, and outside in his fantastical world before being picked up again at the end of the show.
Featuring the episodes: First Aid, Bubble, Submarine, Detective and Sewing.
It’s all about doing things, and DUGGEE likes to do a lot, and go to lots of places.
Director: Raoul Peck. Featuring: James Baldwin. France/USA 2016. 94 mins.
With unprecedented access to James Baldwin’s original work, award-winning filmmaker Raoul Peck has completed the cinematic version of the book Baldwin never wrote – a radical narration about race in America that tracks the lives and assassinations of Baldwin’s friends, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. By confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassinations of these three men, we uncover a larger narrative of America’s historical and current denial and irrational relationship with race. Whilst it is partly anchored in the struggle for equality in the ’50s and ’60s, I Am Not Your Negro is about what it means to be black in America today.
Director: Pablo Larraín.
Starring: Luis Gnecco, Gael García Bernal, Mercedes Morán. Chile/Argentina/France/Spain 2016. 108 mins. Spanish with English subtitles.
Pablo Larraín (The Club, No, Tony Manero) turns to his compatriot, the Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda, for his sixth feature. Describing this inventive 1940s-set detective thriller as an ‘anti-bio’, he weaves a dizzying fable around the 1948 hunt for celebrated poet and politician Neruda, who goes underground when Chile outlaws Communism and finds himself pursued by an ambitious police inspector (Bernal) hoping to make a name for himself by capturing the famous fugitive. With a trio of outstanding performances from Bernal, Luis Gnecco as the poet on the run and Mercedes Morán as his wife Delia, this is a hugely refreshing and entertaining tale that boldly tests the limits of filmic biography.
Director: Julia Ducournau.
Starring: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Naït Oufella. France/Belgium 2016. 99 mins. French with English subtitles.
Following in the footsteps of her entire family, shy 16-year-old Justine, an animal-loving vegetarian, enrols in veterinary college. Entering a seductive world of boys, drugs and all-night parties, she is confronted with a moral dilemma when she must eat a raw rabbit liver as part of an initiation ritual. She devours the meat, and is soon overtaken by unusual cravings. Julia Ducournau’s impressive debut feature is a highly accomplished, bold and bloody exploration of womanhood. Based around Marillier’s terrific, no-holds-barred performance, Raw has echoes of both Catherine Breillat’s explorations of female sexuality and the body horror of early David Cronenberg. The tense coming-of-age story has a mordant streak of dark humour and moments of brutality and gore. These may prove disturbing even for seasoned horror fans, thanks to the work of FX maestro Olivier Afonso. Be warned, the blood and guts apparently caused some cinemagoers to faint during a recent screening at the Toronto Film Festival.
Director: Ben Wheatley.
Starring: Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Jack Reynor, Sam Riley, Noah Taylor. UK 2016. 91 mins.
Ben Wheatley (Sightseers, A Field In England) follows hot on the heels of his last feature, High-Rise, with this all-guns-blazing action thriller.
In America in 1978, Justine (Larson) has arranged a deal on behalf of two Irishmen (Cillian Murphy, Michael Smiley) to buy a stash of guns from gangsters Vernon (Copley) and Ord (Hammer), but then there’s a misunderstanding and shots are fired… The standout cast have great fun with this shoot-’em-up and the playful script’s wry dialogue as the manic standoff escalates into a bloody game of survival.
Director: Bill Condon
Starring: Emma Watson, Luke Evans, Stanley Tucci, Ian McKellen. USA 2017. 129 mins.
Back in 1991, the Walt Disney Company released Beauty And The Beast, an exquisitely drawn feature animation that became a gargantuan hit, delighting both audiences and critics and spinning off a blockbuster Broadway musical. So who better to breathe new life into the beloved French fairy tale – with its very modern message of not judging people by their appearance – in a live-action telling than the studio that made it a movie classic in the first place? Veteran director Bill Condon (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Parts 1 & 2, Dreamgirls, Mr Holmes) has refashioned the characters for a contemporary audience but stayed true to the animation’s music, with several new songs and an amended score by the original composer, Alan Menken. Get ready to be wowed all over again.
Director: Terrence Davies. Starring: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine.
UK 2017. 125mins.
The story of 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson is brought to vivid life, in a remarkably sensitive biopic by director Terence Davies, exploring her early days as a young schoolgirl, through to her later years as a recluse. Now recognised as a genius that penned some of the most important verses in American literature, the poet was virtually unknown in her lifetime, leaving behind a legacy of stunning, astute work that still resonates deeply today.
Featuring a curated selection of her poems in voiceover, A Quiet Passion details every facet of Dickinson’s character: her wit, her humour and the intimate, close-knit relationship she had with her family. Cynthia Nixon commands a superb performance in the title role, while Davies’ elegant direction allows the audience to connect with the hopes, dreams and disappointments of one of the greatest poets of all time.
12.30Silver Screen: Aged over 60? Join the Silver Screen Club for discounted tickets and a free tea or coffee at these shows. Usual ticket prices apply to non-Members.
HEY DUGGEE- a place for children (and their parents) to have fun, be energetic, and most of all to DO THINGS!
The show is based around a children’s playgroup called The Squirrel Club. Its run by a big dog called DUGGEE. The Squirrel Club is a place where kids have adventures and earn badges for their accomplishments.
There are five children who go to the Squirrel club. HAPPY, NORRIE,TAG, BETTY & ROLY. Their parents drop them off every day and they spend a couple of hours having fun and adventures with DUGGEE, in his clubhouse, and outside in his fantastical world before being picked up again at the end of the show.
Featuring the episodes: First Aid, Bubble, Submarine, Detective and Sewing.
It’s all about doing things, and DUGGEE likes to do a lot, and go to lots of places.
Director: Raoul Peck. Featuring: James Baldwin. France/USA 2016. 94 mins.
With unprecedented access to James Baldwin’s original work, award-winning filmmaker Raoul Peck has completed the cinematic version of the book Baldwin never wrote – a radical narration about race in America that tracks the lives and assassinations of Baldwin’s friends, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. By confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassinations of these three men, we uncover a larger narrative of America’s historical and current denial and irrational relationship with race. Whilst it is partly anchored in the struggle for equality in the ’50s and ’60s, I Am Not Your Negro is about what it means to be black in America today.
10.15Silver Screen: Aged over 60? Join the Silver Screen Club for discounted tickets and a free tea or coffee at these shows. Usual ticket prices apply to non-Members.
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15.30Silver Screen: Aged over 60? Join the Silver Screen Club for discounted tickets and a free tea or coffee at these shows. Usual ticket prices apply to non-Members.
Director: Pablo Larraín.
Starring: Luis Gnecco, Gael García Bernal, Mercedes Morán. Chile/Argentina/France/Spain 2016. 108 mins. Spanish with English subtitles.
Pablo Larraín (The Club, No, Tony Manero) turns to his compatriot, the Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda, for his sixth feature. Describing this inventive 1940s-set detective thriller as an ‘anti-bio’, he weaves a dizzying fable around the 1948 hunt for celebrated poet and politician Neruda, who goes underground when Chile outlaws Communism and finds himself pursued by an ambitious police inspector (Bernal) hoping to make a name for himself by capturing the famous fugitive. With a trio of outstanding performances from Bernal, Luis Gnecco as the poet on the run and Mercedes Morán as his wife Delia, this is a hugely refreshing and entertaining tale that boldly tests the limits of filmic biography.
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Director: Julia Ducournau.
Starring: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Naït Oufella. France/Belgium 2016. 99 mins. French with English subtitles.
Following in the footsteps of her entire family, shy 16-year-old Justine, an animal-loving vegetarian, enrols in veterinary college. Entering a seductive world of boys, drugs and all-night parties, she is confronted with a moral dilemma when she must eat a raw rabbit liver as part of an initiation ritual. She devours the meat, and is soon overtaken by unusual cravings. Julia Ducournau’s impressive debut feature is a highly accomplished, bold and bloody exploration of womanhood. Based around Marillier’s terrific, no-holds-barred performance, Raw has echoes of both Catherine Breillat’s explorations of female sexuality and the body horror of early David Cronenberg. The tense coming-of-age story has a mordant streak of dark humour and moments of brutality and gore. These may prove disturbing even for seasoned horror fans, thanks to the work of FX maestro Olivier Afonso. Be warned, the blood and guts apparently caused some cinemagoers to faint during a recent screening at the Toronto Film Festival.
13.30Silver Screen: Aged over 60? Join the Silver Screen Club for discounted tickets and a free tea or coffee at these shows. Usual ticket prices apply to non-Members.
Director: Ben Wheatley.
Starring: Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Jack Reynor, Sam Riley, Noah Taylor. UK 2016. 91 mins.
Ben Wheatley (Sightseers, A Field In England) follows hot on the heels of his last feature, High-Rise, with this all-guns-blazing action thriller.
In America in 1978, Justine (Larson) has arranged a deal on behalf of two Irishmen (Cillian Murphy, Michael Smiley) to buy a stash of guns from gangsters Vernon (Copley) and Ord (Hammer), but then there’s a misunderstanding and shots are fired… The standout cast have great fun with this shoot-’em-up and the playful script’s wry dialogue as the manic standoff escalates into a bloody game of survival.
Director: Bill Condon
Starring: Emma Watson, Luke Evans, Stanley Tucci, Ian McKellen. USA 2017. 129 mins.
Back in 1991, the Walt Disney Company released Beauty And The Beast, an exquisitely drawn feature animation that became a gargantuan hit, delighting both audiences and critics and spinning off a blockbuster Broadway musical. So who better to breathe new life into the beloved French fairy tale – with its very modern message of not judging people by their appearance – in a live-action telling than the studio that made it a movie classic in the first place? Veteran director Bill Condon (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Parts 1 & 2, Dreamgirls, Mr Holmes) has refashioned the characters for a contemporary audience but stayed true to the animation’s music, with several new songs and an amended score by the original composer, Alan Menken. Get ready to be wowed all over again.
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HOH Subtitled: This screening has subtitles for people with hearing loss
Best known for Our Daily Bread, an unsettling treatise on humankind’s Faustian pact with the food we eat, Austrian documentarian Nikolaus Geyrhalter has now directed a film that is equally disturbing. Despite its title, humans feature here only indirectly, and then solely in terms of the evidence they leave behind. Geyrhalter’s camera lingers on a series of largely abandoned industrial constructions: railway stations, swimming pools, a decaying church, an operating theatre, shopping malls and, most spectacular of all, a rollercoaster rising from the sea – presumably a casualty of climate change. However, there are no easy explanations on offer, and we are obliged to draw our own conclusions, our reactions enhanced by an eerie soundtrack composed entirely of nature’s responses to these forsaken edifices. A stunning, sobering work.
Presented by Misc Films, a UK-based programming collective dedicated to showcasing unreleased and under-screened films.
The UK’s favourite little green tractor, Tractor Ted, is back on the big screen with Picturehouse Cinemas!
Star of over 18 DVDs and appearing in millions of homes across the UK, Tractor Ted is all about real life farm fun for children aged 18 months+!
In this film, Meets Baby Animals, Tractor Ted takes us on a tour of the farm with Fudge the dog who is full of excitement. She is desperate to show Tractor Ted the piglets all snuggled in their bed, the calves being fed and the newborn lambs in the barn. There are some exciting machines hard at work in the fields too including the JCB and tractors. A brand new telehandler is delivered to the farm too!
Easter shenanigans aplenty in this charming kids' comedy from the director of ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS.
Mixing live-action and computer-animation, HOP tells the story of E.B. (Brand), the starry-eyed son of the Easter Bunny, who finds himself in hot bother after following his nose to Hollywood in pursuit of a career in music.
When unemployed lay-about Fred O'Hare (Marsden) hits E.B. with his car on his way home, the youngster takes full advantage of the situation and convinces Fred to take him in while he recovers from his 'injuries'. With Easter approaching and E.B.'s leg showing little sign of repair, it's suddenly up to Fred to save the day and deliver the eggs on time.