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This new production of Norma for The Royal Opera is distinguished by a superlative cast of internationally renowned singers.

Bellini’s classic belcanto opera is full of wonderful melodies and opportunities for star singing. But it is especially known for Norma's stunning showpiece aria, ‘Casta diva’.

Àlex Ollé of innovative Catalan theatre group La Fura dels Baus directs, bringing a modern edge to this timeless tale of love, rivalry and betrayal, set against a backdrop of war driven by the extremes of a fanatically religious society.

Royal Opera Music Director Antonio Pappano conducts this stunning cast, including Joseph Calleja as Norma’s secret lover, Pollione and Sonia Ganassi as the priestess Adalgisa, in a striking new production, which opens the 2016/17 Season.

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Director: Colm McCarthy.
Starring: Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close, Sennia Nanua. UK/USA 2016. 111 mins.

In a post-apocalyptic Britain, most of humanity has been decimated by an infection that turns its victims into flesh-eating zombies. On a heavily guarded army base, a small group of apparently immune but ultimately doomed children are being studied by a callous biological scientist (Close). When crazed zombies eventually overrun the base, one highly gifted child (remarkable newcomer Nanua) escapes with her kindly teacher (Arterton), along with a protective soldier (Considine) and the treacherous scientist. Based on the terrific but terrifying bestselling novel by M. R. Carey, Peaky Blinders director Colm McCarthy’s big-screen breakthrough has elements of such undead epics as World War Z and 28 Days Later…, and features a uniquely nuanced narrative and winning turns from all involved.

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Director: Alex Cox.
Starring: Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman. UK 1986. 113 mins.

In Alex Cox’s truly inspired portrait of the punk era, the gawky, rather dim-witted Sid Vicious (a perfectly cast Gary Oldman) is hired as the Sex Pistols’ bassist despite being unable to play the bass guitar – to their Machiavellian manager Malcolm McLaren’s utter delight. Already on a self-destructive journey, Sid meets spiky American groupie Nancy Spungen (Webb). Having offered to score some drugs, Nancy promptly absconds with his cash, but when they meet up a little later she claims to have been ripped off. He naively believes her and falls in love. Their ensuing and ultimately fatal relationship plays out against the backdrop of the 1970s’ bleakly rebellious music scene.

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Director: Sharon Maguire.
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey. UK/Ireland/France/USA 2016. TBC mins.

Twelve years since The Edge Of Reason reprised the incredible success of Bridget Jones’s Diary, Renée Zellweger makes her third appearance as the delightfully ditzy singleton.

After recently splitting up with Mark Darcy (Firth), her enduring admirer from the first two romantic comedies, Ms Jones now maintains that she’s both happy and finally in control of her life – until, that is, a handsome American, Jack Qwant (Dempsey, long-term star of TV’s Grey’s Anatomy), sweeps her off her feet. And then, rather inconveniently, she finds herself pregnant and unsure whether Mark or Jack is the father.

It’s an uneasy dilemma for the somewhat reluctantly grown-up Bridget, who must also decide who she would want the father to be. Zellweger’s wonderfully nuanced performance will delight cinema audiences.

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Director: Colm McCarthy.
Starring: Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close, Sennia Nanua. UK/USA 2016. 111 mins.

In a post-apocalyptic Britain, most of humanity has been decimated by an infection that turns its victims into flesh-eating zombies. On a heavily guarded army base, a small group of apparently immune but ultimately doomed children are being studied by a callous biological scientist (Close). When crazed zombies eventually overrun the base, one highly gifted child (remarkable newcomer Nanua) escapes with her kindly teacher (Arterton), along with a protective soldier (Considine) and the treacherous scientist. Based on the terrific but terrifying bestselling novel by M. R. Carey, Peaky Blinders director Colm McCarthy’s big-screen breakthrough has elements of such undead epics as World War Z and 28 Days Later…, and features a uniquely nuanced narrative and winning turns from all involved.

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Rory Kinnear is Mack the Knife in a new version of this landmark twentieth-century musical, broadcast live from the stage of the National Theatre.

Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s classic musical theatre piece is adapted by Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) and directed by Rufus Norris (Everyman, London Road).

As London's East End scrubs up for the coronation, Mr and Mrs Peachum gear up for a bumper day in the beggary business. Keeping tight control of the city's underground – and their daughter’s whereabouts.

With Olivier Award-winner Rory Kinnear (Hamlet, Othello, James Bond) as Macheath, alongside Rosalie Craig (As You Like It, My Family and other Animals) as Polly Peachum and Haydn Gwynne (The Windsors, Drop the Dead Donkey) as Mrs Peachum.

Contains filthy language and immoral behaviour.

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Director: David Mackenzie.
Starring: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham. USA 2016. 102 mins.

This double buddy movie is a real joy. Cool-headed Toby (Pine) and impulsive Tanner (Foster) are bank-robbing brothers, pursued across the blighted Texan badlands by soon-to-retire Texas Ranger Marcus (Bridges) and his long-suffering Native American deputy, Alberto (Birmingham). Wily, laconic Marcus realises the brothers’ low-key strategy – early mornings, small banks, small bills – will prove their undoing, and insists on playing a waiting game. Meanwhile, despite his brother’s admonishments, Tanner pushes the risk factor with random heists.

Subtexts, subplots, flashes of dark humour and surprises aplenty abound, and the wry script by Taylor Sheridan (Sicario), tautly executed by rising British director David Mackenzie (Starred Up), maintains emotional interest as well as suspense, with echoes of the Coens’ Blood Simple and True Grit.

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Director: Mia Hansen-Løve.
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Roman Kolinka, Édith Scob. France/Germany 2016. 102 mins. French with English subtitles.

Cheerful Parisian teacher Nathalie (Huppert) is married to the similarly intellectual Heinz (André Marcon, Marguerite), who suddenly announces that he’s leaving her, predictably enough, for a younger woman. Although able to bear life’s burdens with philosophical fortitude – she’s already coping with a relentlessly difficult mother (Scob, Holy Motors) – Nathalie is understandably shaken by the prospect of divorce and consequent loneliness. But she gradually finds rational if not emotional solace with an ex-student (Kolinka) now living in a rural anarchist collective. Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve (Eden) again weaves an understated but compelling observational drama, which capitalises on the considerable talents of two justly venerated French actors in Huppert and Scob. Kolinka (who co-starred in Eden) is also excellent, and the film is further enriched by Løve’s regular cinematographer, Denis Lenoir.

Contains infrequent strong language and drug misuse.

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Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari.
Starring: Yiorgos Kendros, Makis Papadimitriou, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos. Greece 2015. 105 mins. Greek with English subtitles.

Six men cruise the Aegean aboard a luxury yacht variously fishing, scuba diving and vying for superiority in a series of increasingly bizarre competitive games. These include the innocuously mad against-the-clock assembly of IKEA shelves, the whole orchestrated with a quiet relish by the boat’s owner, an imperious 60-something known only as The Doctor (Kendros). At one end of the social spectrum is alpha male Yannis (Pirpassopoulos), at the other his brother, the bumbling, insecure mummy’s boy Dimitris (Papadimitriou). Much of the film’s tinder-dry humour comes from their awkward relationship.

Director/co-writer Athina Rachel Tsangari produced both Dogtooth and Alps, and Chevalier is infused with the droll influence of those films’ director, Yorgos Lanthimos.

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February 9th, 1964, 8:12pm EST – after a brief commercial break, four young men from Liverpool step onto the Ed Sullivan stage, changing culture forever.

Seventy-three million people watched The Beatles perform that night, the largest audience in television history. But it is what the band did next that would introduce them to the entire world, permanently transforming the music industry and forever engraining them into the fabric of popular culture... They went on tour.

By the time the band quit touring in August of 1966, they had performed 166 concerts in 15 countries and 90 cities around the world. The cultural phenomenon their touring helped create, known as "Beatlemania," was something the world had never seen before and, arguably, hasn't since.

Stay in your seat after the film to experience 30 minutes of footage from the legendary 1965 Shea Stadium performance, presented for the first time in a digitally restored 4k transfer with remastered sound.

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Director: Sharon Maguire.
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey. UK/Ireland/France/USA 2016. TBC mins.

Twelve years since The Edge Of Reason reprised the incredible success of Bridget Jones’s Diary, Renée Zellweger makes her third appearance as the delightfully ditzy singleton.

After recently splitting up with Mark Darcy (Firth), her enduring admirer from the first two romantic comedies, Ms Jones now maintains that she’s both happy and finally in control of her life – until, that is, a handsome American, Jack Qwant (Dempsey, long-term star of TV’s Grey’s Anatomy), sweeps her off her feet. And then, rather inconveniently, she finds herself pregnant and unsure whether Mark or Jack is the father.

It’s an uneasy dilemma for the somewhat reluctantly grown-up Bridget, who must also decide who she would want the father to be. Zellweger’s wonderfully nuanced performance will delight cinema audiences.

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Cymbeline is a ruler of a divided Britain. When Innogen, the only living heir, marries her sweetheart in secret, an enraged Cymbeline banishes him. But a powerful figure behind the throne is plotting to seize power and murder them both. Innogen embarks on a dangerous journey that will reunite Cymbeline with a lost heir and reconcile the young lovers. Melly Still directs Shakespeare’s rarely performed romance.

Join us for this live cinema screening on the 28 September, broadcast live from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Feel part of the action from your seat.

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Director: Colm McCarthy.
Starring: Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close, Sennia Nanua. UK/USA 2016. 111 mins.

In a post-apocalyptic Britain, most of humanity has been decimated by an infection that turns its victims into flesh-eating zombies. On a heavily guarded army base, a small group of apparently immune but ultimately doomed children are being studied by a callous biological scientist (Close). When crazed zombies eventually overrun the base, one highly gifted child (remarkable newcomer Nanua) escapes with her kindly teacher (Arterton), along with a protective soldier (Considine) and the treacherous scientist. Based on the terrific but terrifying bestselling novel by M. R. Carey, Peaky Blinders director Colm McCarthy’s big-screen breakthrough has elements of such undead epics as World War Z and 28 Days Later…, and features a uniquely nuanced narrative and winning turns from all involved.

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Director: David Mackenzie.
Starring: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham. USA 2016. 102 mins.

This double buddy movie is a real joy. Cool-headed Toby (Pine) and impulsive Tanner (Foster) are bank-robbing brothers, pursued across the blighted Texan badlands by soon-to-retire Texas Ranger Marcus (Bridges) and his long-suffering Native American deputy, Alberto (Birmingham). Wily, laconic Marcus realises the brothers’ low-key strategy – early mornings, small banks, small bills – will prove their undoing, and insists on playing a waiting game. Meanwhile, despite his brother’s admonishments, Tanner pushes the risk factor with random heists.

Subtexts, subplots, flashes of dark humour and surprises aplenty abound, and the wry script by Taylor Sheridan (Sicario), tautly executed by rising British director David Mackenzie (Starred Up), maintains emotional interest as well as suspense, with echoes of the Coens’ Blood Simple and True Grit.

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Director: Mia Hansen-Løve.
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Roman Kolinka, Édith Scob. France/Germany 2016. 102 mins. French with English subtitles.

Cheerful Parisian teacher Nathalie (Huppert) is married to the similarly intellectual Heinz (André Marcon, Marguerite), who suddenly announces that he’s leaving her, predictably enough, for a younger woman. Although able to bear life’s burdens with philosophical fortitude – she’s already coping with a relentlessly difficult mother (Scob, Holy Motors) – Nathalie is understandably shaken by the prospect of divorce and consequent loneliness. But she gradually finds rational if not emotional solace with an ex-student (Kolinka) now living in a rural anarchist collective. Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve (Eden) again weaves an understated but compelling observational drama, which capitalises on the considerable talents of two justly venerated French actors in Huppert and Scob. Kolinka (who co-starred in Eden) is also excellent, and the film is further enriched by Løve’s regular cinematographer, Denis Lenoir.

Contains infrequent strong language and drug misuse.

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Director: Sharon Maguire.
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey. UK/Ireland/France/USA 2016. TBC mins.

Twelve years since The Edge Of Reason reprised the incredible success of Bridget Jones’s Diary, Renée Zellweger makes her third appearance as the delightfully ditzy singleton.

After recently splitting up with Mark Darcy (Firth), her enduring admirer from the first two romantic comedies, Ms Jones now maintains that she’s both happy and finally in control of her life – until, that is, a handsome American, Jack Qwant (Dempsey, long-term star of TV’s Grey’s Anatomy), sweeps her off her feet. And then, rather inconveniently, she finds herself pregnant and unsure whether Mark or Jack is the father.

It’s an uneasy dilemma for the somewhat reluctantly grown-up Bridget, who must also decide who she would want the father to be. Zellweger’s wonderfully nuanced performance will delight cinema audiences.

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Director: Tim Burton.
Starring: Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L. Jackson. USA 2016. TBC mins.

Visionary director Tim Burton and versatile screenwriter Jane Goldman (The Woman In Black, Kick-Ass) are the ideal couple to bring Ransom Riggs’s cult young adult bestseller to the big screen, with Burton’s quirky imagination soaring to the skies in this gothic spectacular. When a lonely teenager called Jake (Butterfield, Hugo) discovers clues that seem to unlock mysterious alternative realities, he also uncovers a hidden establishment known as Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children. As well as getting chummy with its decidedly peculiar residents – all perfectly cast – and getting to grips with their various bizarre abilities, Jake learns from Miss Peregrine (Green, Casino Royale) that danger lurks everywhere. There are dark, powerful forces out there and Jake must figure out who and what to trust.

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Director: Colm McCarthy.
Starring: Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close, Sennia Nanua. UK/USA 2016. 111 mins.

In a post-apocalyptic Britain, most of humanity has been decimated by an infection that turns its victims into flesh-eating zombies. On a heavily guarded army base, a small group of apparently immune but ultimately doomed children are being studied by a callous biological scientist (Close). When crazed zombies eventually overrun the base, one highly gifted child (remarkable newcomer Nanua) escapes with her kindly teacher (Arterton), along with a protective soldier (Considine) and the treacherous scientist. Based on the terrific but terrifying bestselling novel by M. R. Carey, Peaky Blinders director Colm McCarthy’s big-screen breakthrough has elements of such undead epics as World War Z and 28 Days Later…, and features a uniquely nuanced narrative and winning turns from all involved.

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Director: David Mackenzie.
Starring: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham. USA 2016. 102 mins.

This double buddy movie is a real joy. Cool-headed Toby (Pine) and impulsive Tanner (Foster) are bank-robbing brothers, pursued across the blighted Texan badlands by soon-to-retire Texas Ranger Marcus (Bridges) and his long-suffering Native American deputy, Alberto (Birmingham). Wily, laconic Marcus realises the brothers’ low-key strategy – early mornings, small banks, small bills – will prove their undoing, and insists on playing a waiting game. Meanwhile, despite his brother’s admonishments, Tanner pushes the risk factor with random heists.

Subtexts, subplots, flashes of dark humour and surprises aplenty abound, and the wry script by Taylor Sheridan (Sicario), tautly executed by rising British director David Mackenzie (Starred Up), maintains emotional interest as well as suspense, with echoes of the Coens’ Blood Simple and True Grit.

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Director: Mia Hansen-Løve.
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Roman Kolinka, Édith Scob. France/Germany 2016. 102 mins. French with English subtitles.

Cheerful Parisian teacher Nathalie (Huppert) is married to the similarly intellectual Heinz (André Marcon, Marguerite), who suddenly announces that he’s leaving her, predictably enough, for a younger woman. Although able to bear life’s burdens with philosophical fortitude – she’s already coping with a relentlessly difficult mother (Scob, Holy Motors) – Nathalie is understandably shaken by the prospect of divorce and consequent loneliness. But she gradually finds rational if not emotional solace with an ex-student (Kolinka) now living in a rural anarchist collective. Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve (Eden) again weaves an understated but compelling observational drama, which capitalises on the considerable talents of two justly venerated French actors in Huppert and Scob. Kolinka (who co-starred in Eden) is also excellent, and the film is further enriched by Løve’s regular cinematographer, Denis Lenoir.

Contains infrequent strong language and drug misuse.

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February 9th, 1964, 8:12pm EST – after a brief commercial break, four young men from Liverpool step onto the Ed Sullivan stage, changing culture forever.

Seventy-three million people watched The Beatles perform that night, the largest audience in television history. But it is what the band did next that would introduce them to the entire world, permanently transforming the music industry and forever engraining them into the fabric of popular culture... They went on tour.

By the time the band quit touring in August of 1966, they had performed 166 concerts in 15 countries and 90 cities around the world. The cultural phenomenon their touring helped create, known as "Beatlemania," was something the world had never seen before and, arguably, hasn't since.

Stay in your seat after the film to experience 30 minutes of footage from the legendary 1965 Shea Stadium performance, presented for the first time in a digitally restored 4k transfer with remastered sound.

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Director: Sharon Maguire.
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey. UK/Ireland/France/USA 2016. TBC mins.

Twelve years since The Edge Of Reason reprised the incredible success of Bridget Jones’s Diary, Renée Zellweger makes her third appearance as the delightfully ditzy singleton.

After recently splitting up with Mark Darcy (Firth), her enduring admirer from the first two romantic comedies, Ms Jones now maintains that she’s both happy and finally in control of her life – until, that is, a handsome American, Jack Qwant (Dempsey, long-term star of TV’s Grey’s Anatomy), sweeps her off her feet. And then, rather inconveniently, she finds herself pregnant and unsure whether Mark or Jack is the father.

It’s an uneasy dilemma for the somewhat reluctantly grown-up Bridget, who must also decide who she would want the father to be. Zellweger’s wonderfully nuanced performance will delight cinema audiences.

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When a street urchin vies for the love of a beautiful princess, he uses a genie's (Robin Williams) magic power to make himself off as a prince in order to marry her.

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Wozzon Comedy Club is an evening of stand-up comedy presenting you with fresh new acts from across the UK.

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Director: Christian Vincent.
Starring: Fabrice Luchini, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Eva Lallier. France 2015. 98 mins. French with English subtitles.

In this double Venice Festival winner from La Seperation writer-director Christian Vincent, the ever-world-weary Fabrice Luchini (Potiche, In The House) plays Michel Racine, an uptight provincial judge. Presiding over the particularly grim trial of a man accused of brutally killing his daughter, Michel finds that one of the jurors, Ditte (Knudsen, Borgen, The Duke Of Burgundy), is a woman he long ago fell in love with. Although it’s initially unclear if she felt similarly smitten, Ditte agrees to share coffee with Michel – who abandons his nitpicking maintenance of protocols – during a courtroom break and, well, one thing leads to another. It’s an often tense but warmly humorous meditation that draws on the parallels between legal and personal trials, with Knudsen in particular demonstrating her command of emotional subtleties.

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Directors: Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan.
Starring: Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe. USA 2016. TBC mins.

Hilarious yet deeply affecting, Swiss Army Man tells the tale of Hank (Dano), who is stranded on a desert island and has given up all hope of ever making it home. But one day everything changes when a corpse named Manny (Radcliffe) washes up on shore.

The two become fast friends, and ultimately go on an adventure that will bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams. Bursting with limitless creativity in both form and content, Swiss Army Man creates a world like no other. Dano and Radcliffe both fully commit to the directors’ audacious vision, and their work is exceptional, finding the perfect balance of humour and heart that drives the whole film. The result is a wholly original examination of human vulnerability and connection.

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Messy goes to Okido’ is a comedy adventure, science-educational show following a curious, lovable monster called Messy.

Messy magically transports us from the real world to the land of Okido, where he finds the answers to his questions.

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Director: Taika Waititi.
Starring: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata. New Zealand 2016. 101 mins.

Teenager Rick (Dennison), an overweight hip-hop fan, finds himself living in the latest of several foster homes, where the kindly Bella (Wiata) and gruff backwoodsman Hector (Neill) do their best to accommodate (i.e. put up with) him. Then Bella abruptly disappears, and social services threaten to move Rick on. Having none of it, Rick runs away into the bush, followed by the somewhat reluctant Hector. Their ensuing adventures as they outwit an increasingly intense search for them prove both ingenious and hilarious.

Kiwi writer-director Taika Waititi has strong form in offbeat comedy following 2014’s vampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows, and Dennison and Neill are excellent conduits for his quietly absurdist humour. The result is one of the unlikeliest buddy movies since Planes, Trains And Automobiles.

Contains moderate bad language, innuendo and infrequent bloody moments.

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The Basement Jazz Club
A new monthly Jazz Club in the Basement

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February 9th, 1964, 8:12pm EST – after a brief commercial break, four young men from Liverpool step onto the Ed Sullivan stage, changing culture forever.

Seventy-three million people watched The Beatles perform that night, the largest audience in television history. But it is what the band did next that would introduce them to the entire world, permanently transforming the music industry and forever engraining them into the fabric of popular culture... They went on tour.

By the time the band quit touring in August of 1966, they had performed 166 concerts in 15 countries and 90 cities around the world. The cultural phenomenon their touring helped create, known as "Beatlemania," was something the world had never seen before and, arguably, hasn't since.

Stay in your seat after the film to experience 30 minutes of footage from the legendary 1965 Shea Stadium performance, presented for the first time in a digitally restored 4k transfer with remastered sound.

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Director: Sharon Maguire.
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey. UK/Ireland/France/USA 2016. TBC mins.

Twelve years since The Edge Of Reason reprised the incredible success of Bridget Jones’s Diary, Renée Zellweger makes her third appearance as the delightfully ditzy singleton.

After recently splitting up with Mark Darcy (Firth), her enduring admirer from the first two romantic comedies, Ms Jones now maintains that she’s both happy and finally in control of her life – until, that is, a handsome American, Jack Qwant (Dempsey, long-term star of TV’s Grey’s Anatomy), sweeps her off her feet. And then, rather inconveniently, she finds herself pregnant and unsure whether Mark or Jack is the father.

It’s an uneasy dilemma for the somewhat reluctantly grown-up Bridget, who must also decide who she would want the father to be. Zellweger’s wonderfully nuanced performance will delight cinema audiences.

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Directors: Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan.
Starring: Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe. USA 2016. TBC mins.

Hilarious yet deeply affecting, Swiss Army Man tells the tale of Hank (Dano), who is stranded on a desert island and has given up all hope of ever making it home. But one day everything changes when a corpse named Manny (Radcliffe) washes up on shore.

The two become fast friends, and ultimately go on an adventure that will bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams. Bursting with limitless creativity in both form and content, Swiss Army Man creates a world like no other. Dano and Radcliffe both fully commit to the directors’ audacious vision, and their work is exceptional, finding the perfect balance of humour and heart that drives the whole film. The result is a wholly original examination of human vulnerability and connection.

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Director: Taika Waititi.
Starring: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata. New Zealand 2016. 101 mins.

Teenager Rick (Dennison), an overweight hip-hop fan, finds himself living in the latest of several foster homes, where the kindly Bella (Wiata) and gruff backwoodsman Hector (Neill) do their best to accommodate (i.e. put up with) him. Then Bella abruptly disappears, and social services threaten to move Rick on. Having none of it, Rick runs away into the bush, followed by the somewhat reluctant Hector. Their ensuing adventures as they outwit an increasingly intense search for them prove both ingenious and hilarious.

Kiwi writer-director Taika Waititi has strong form in offbeat comedy following 2014’s vampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows, and Dennison and Neill are excellent conduits for his quietly absurdist humour. The result is one of the unlikeliest buddy movies since Planes, Trains And Automobiles.

Contains moderate bad language, innuendo and infrequent bloody moments.

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A sweeping, swashbuckling adventure set in a mythical ancient Japan, with an all-star voice cast. In the epic fantasy from animation studio LAIKA, scruffy, kindhearted Kubo (voiced by Art Parkinson of "Game of Thrones") ekes out a humble living while devotedly caring for his mother in their sleepy shoreside village. It is a quiet existence -- until a spirit from the past catches up with him to enforce an age-old vendetta. Suddenly on the run from gods and monsters, Kubo"s chance for survival rests on finding the magical suit of armor once worn by his fallen father, the greatest samurai the world has ever known. Summoning courage, Kubo embarks on a thrilling odyssey as he faces his family"s history, navigates the elements, and bravely fights for the earth and the stars.

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Director: Marcus Dillistone. Starring: The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery and Sir John Mills (voice). UK. 1999.

50 minute making-of presentation followed by the 16 minute film and a Q&A.

When director Marcus Dillistone was invited to watch a Royal Salute fired by The King’s Troop, little did anyone know that it would lead to the production of a feature-quality short film, and a Royal premiere three years later. The Troop is a spectacular evocation of horse artillery in action. Shot by Oscar nominee Alex Thomson BSC ('Excalibur’), and with a sweeping musical score performed by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,The Troop captures the drama and kinetic beauty of the British Army’s most senior unit - the right of the line. This is a rare chance to see The Troop film presented in widescreen 35mm CinemaScope. Preceding the film is a compelling ‘making-of’ presentation given by the film’s director, Marcus Dillistone, who explains how the film got made - from an idea on the back of an envelope, to a Royal premiere at BAFTA. It is significant testimony that following the premiere Her Majesty The Queen requested a loan copy to screen to her Christmas guests at Sandringham.

If you appreciate British traditions, Army ceremonial, equestrian skill, or merely beautiful visual narrative, then this is a must-see film.

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Director: Steven Spielberg.
Starring: Mark Rylance, Rebecca Hall, Penelope Wilton. UK/Canada/USA 2016. TBC mins.

Steven Spielberg’s vision of The BFG could not have come at a more opportune time: this year we celebrate 100 years of Roald Dahl. What better way to mark the century of the adored British author than with a brand new big friendly giant?

At the centre of the tale is Sophie (Ruby Barnhill), a characterful and curious young girl living in a London orphanage. One night, Sophie is let into an amazing secret: giants exist, and they deliver dreams into children’s bedrooms.

Sophie discovers this when she is whisked off to a land of giants, where the BFG (Rylance) teaches her about dreams and protects her from his rather less friendly brothers, including the Bloodbottler (Bill Hader) and the Fleshlumpeater (Jemaine Clement).

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February 9th, 1964, 8:12pm EST – after a brief commercial break, four young men from Liverpool step onto the Ed Sullivan stage, changing culture forever.

Seventy-three million people watched The Beatles perform that night, the largest audience in television history. But it is what the band did next that would introduce them to the entire world, permanently transforming the music industry and forever engraining them into the fabric of popular culture... They went on tour.

By the time the band quit touring in August of 1966, they had performed 166 concerts in 15 countries and 90 cities around the world. The cultural phenomenon their touring helped create, known as "Beatlemania," was something the world had never seen before and, arguably, hasn't since.

Stay in your seat after the film to experience 30 minutes of footage from the legendary 1965 Shea Stadium performance, presented for the first time in a digitally restored 4k transfer with remastered sound.

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Director: Sharon Maguire.
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey. UK/Ireland/France/USA 2016. TBC mins.

Twelve years since The Edge Of Reason reprised the incredible success of Bridget Jones’s Diary, Renée Zellweger makes her third appearance as the delightfully ditzy singleton.

After recently splitting up with Mark Darcy (Firth), her enduring admirer from the first two romantic comedies, Ms Jones now maintains that she’s both happy and finally in control of her life – until, that is, a handsome American, Jack Qwant (Dempsey, long-term star of TV’s Grey’s Anatomy), sweeps her off her feet. And then, rather inconveniently, she finds herself pregnant and unsure whether Mark or Jack is the father.

It’s an uneasy dilemma for the somewhat reluctantly grown-up Bridget, who must also decide who she would want the father to be. Zellweger’s wonderfully nuanced performance will delight cinema audiences.

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A new monthly Open Mic Night to showcase those with the creative buzz. For any kind of performer- poetry, comedy, musings, music, monologue and miscellaneous! Guest headliners, up-n-comers and first-timers meet in the chilled surroundings of The Basement to take the stage! AGE 16+

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Director: Mat Whitecross. Featuring: Noel Gallagher, Liam Gallagher. UK 2016. 122 mins.

Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna), teams up with Mat Whitecross (Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, Spike Island) to tackle game-changing act Oasis. With unprecedented access to Oasis’s archive, they create a magnificent patchwork of rarities from the Oasis vault, skilfully woven together with new interviews with the band as they look back (sometimes in anger) on their experiences. The film follows the Gallaghers’ truly rags-to-riches journey from a Manchester council estate to the release of their first single, Supersonic, to selling out stadiums. Liam and Noel’s furious feuding and the mayhem and excess of the band were a magnet for the press. The brothers speak unusually candidly about their fractious relationship and extraordinary rise to fame. Supersonic tells the story behind one of the world’s greatest super-bands, and is a riveting portrayal of the Britpop phenomenon.

In UK and Irish cinemas with exclusive live stream Q&A with Liam Gallagher and Mat Whitecross on October 2.

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Directors: Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan.
Starring: Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe. USA 2016. TBC mins.

Hilarious yet deeply affecting, Swiss Army Man tells the tale of Hank (Dano), who is stranded on a desert island and has given up all hope of ever making it home. But one day everything changes when a corpse named Manny (Radcliffe) washes up on shore.

The two become fast friends, and ultimately go on an adventure that will bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams. Bursting with limitless creativity in both form and content, Swiss Army Man creates a world like no other. Dano and Radcliffe both fully commit to the directors’ audacious vision, and their work is exceptional, finding the perfect balance of humour and heart that drives the whole film. The result is a wholly original examination of human vulnerability and connection.

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Director: Taika Waititi.
Starring: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata. New Zealand 2016. 101 mins.

Teenager Rick (Dennison), an overweight hip-hop fan, finds himself living in the latest of several foster homes, where the kindly Bella (Wiata) and gruff backwoodsman Hector (Neill) do their best to accommodate (i.e. put up with) him. Then Bella abruptly disappears, and social services threaten to move Rick on. Having none of it, Rick runs away into the bush, followed by the somewhat reluctant Hector. Their ensuing adventures as they outwit an increasingly intense search for them prove both ingenious and hilarious.

Kiwi writer-director Taika Waititi has strong form in offbeat comedy following 2014’s vampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows, and Dennison and Neill are excellent conduits for his quietly absurdist humour. The result is one of the unlikeliest buddy movies since Planes, Trains And Automobiles.

Contains moderate bad language, innuendo and infrequent bloody moments.

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A sweeping, swashbuckling adventure set in a mythical ancient Japan, with an all-star voice cast. In the epic fantasy from animation studio LAIKA, scruffy, kindhearted Kubo (voiced by Art Parkinson of "Game of Thrones") ekes out a humble living while devotedly caring for his mother in their sleepy shoreside village. It is a quiet existence -- until a spirit from the past catches up with him to enforce an age-old vendetta. Suddenly on the run from gods and monsters, Kubo"s chance for survival rests on finding the magical suit of armor once worn by his fallen father, the greatest samurai the world has ever known. Summoning courage, Kubo embarks on a thrilling odyssey as he faces his family"s history, navigates the elements, and bravely fights for the earth and the stars.

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Director: Alfred Hitchcock.
Starring: Farley Granger, Robert Walker. USA 1951. 103 mins.

Two strangers start chatting on a train, and one of them proposes that they commit two perfect murders by killing the individuals responsible for each other’s problems.

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Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari.
Starring: Yiorgos Kendros, Makis Papadimitriou, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos. Greece 2015. 105 mins. Greek with English subtitles.

Six men cruise the Aegean aboard a luxury yacht variously fishing, scuba diving and vying for superiority in a series of increasingly bizarre competitive games. These include the innocuously mad against-the-clock assembly of IKEA shelves, the whole orchestrated with a quiet relish by the boat’s owner, an imperious 60-something known only as The Doctor (Kendros). At one end of the social spectrum is alpha male Yannis (Pirpassopoulos), at the other his brother, the bumbling, insecure mummy’s boy Dimitris (Papadimitriou). Much of the film’s tinder-dry humour comes from their awkward relationship.

Director/co-writer Athina Rachel Tsangari produced both Dogtooth and Alps, and Chevalier is infused with the droll influence of those films’ director, Yorgos Lanthimos.

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February 9th, 1964, 8:12pm EST – after a brief commercial break, four young men from Liverpool step onto the Ed Sullivan stage, changing culture forever.

Seventy-three million people watched The Beatles perform that night, the largest audience in television history. But it is what the band did next that would introduce them to the entire world, permanently transforming the music industry and forever engraining them into the fabric of popular culture... They went on tour.

By the time the band quit touring in August of 1966, they had performed 166 concerts in 15 countries and 90 cities around the world. The cultural phenomenon their touring helped create, known as "Beatlemania," was something the world had never seen before and, arguably, hasn't since.

Stay in your seat after the film to experience 30 minutes of footage from the legendary 1965 Shea Stadium performance, presented for the first time in a digitally restored 4k transfer with remastered sound.

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Director: Sharon Maguire.
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey. UK/Ireland/France/USA 2016. TBC mins.

Twelve years since The Edge Of Reason reprised the incredible success of Bridget Jones’s Diary, Renée Zellweger makes her third appearance as the delightfully ditzy singleton.

After recently splitting up with Mark Darcy (Firth), her enduring admirer from the first two romantic comedies, Ms Jones now maintains that she’s both happy and finally in control of her life – until, that is, a handsome American, Jack Qwant (Dempsey, long-term star of TV’s Grey’s Anatomy), sweeps her off her feet. And then, rather inconveniently, she finds herself pregnant and unsure whether Mark or Jack is the father.

It’s an uneasy dilemma for the somewhat reluctantly grown-up Bridget, who must also decide who she would want the father to be. Zellweger’s wonderfully nuanced performance will delight cinema audiences.

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Two corrupt cops in New Mexico set out to blackmail and frame every criminal unfortunate enough to cross their path. Things take a sinister turn, however, when they try to intimidate someone who is more dangerous than they are. Or is he?

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Directors: Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan.
Starring: Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe. USA 2016. TBC mins.

Hilarious yet deeply affecting, Swiss Army Man tells the tale of Hank (Dano), who is stranded on a desert island and has given up all hope of ever making it home. But one day everything changes when a corpse named Manny (Radcliffe) washes up on shore.

The two become fast friends, and ultimately go on an adventure that will bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams. Bursting with limitless creativity in both form and content, Swiss Army Man creates a world like no other. Dano and Radcliffe both fully commit to the directors’ audacious vision, and their work is exceptional, finding the perfect balance of humour and heart that drives the whole film. The result is a wholly original examination of human vulnerability and connection.

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Director: Taika Waititi.
Starring: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata. New Zealand 2016. 101 mins.

Teenager Rick (Dennison), an overweight hip-hop fan, finds himself living in the latest of several foster homes, where the kindly Bella (Wiata) and gruff backwoodsman Hector (Neill) do their best to accommodate (i.e. put up with) him. Then Bella abruptly disappears, and social services threaten to move Rick on. Having none of it, Rick runs away into the bush, followed by the somewhat reluctant Hector. Their ensuing adventures as they outwit an increasingly intense search for them prove both ingenious and hilarious.

Kiwi writer-director Taika Waititi has strong form in offbeat comedy following 2014’s vampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows, and Dennison and Neill are excellent conduits for his quietly absurdist humour. The result is one of the unlikeliest buddy movies since Planes, Trains And Automobiles.

Contains moderate bad language, innuendo and infrequent bloody moments.

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Director: Stephen Dunn. Starring: Connor Jessup, Aaron Abrams, Joanne Kelly, Isabella Rossellini. Canada, 2015. 90 mins.

Closet Monster tells the story of Oscar Madly (Jessup, Falling Skies), a creative and driven teenager hovering on the brink of adulthood. Affected by his dysfunctional parents, unsure of his sexuality, and haunted by horrific images he witnessed as a child, Oscar dreams of escaping the town he feels is suffocating him. He embarks on a journey of self-discovery with the beloved help of his talking pet hamster (voiced by Rossellini), his imagination, and the prospect of love that will ultimately bring him closer to confronting his inner monster.

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February 9th, 1964, 8:12pm EST – after a brief commercial break, four young men from Liverpool step onto the Ed Sullivan stage, changing culture forever.

Seventy-three million people watched The Beatles perform that night, the largest audience in television history. But it is what the band did next that would introduce them to the entire world, permanently transforming the music industry and forever engraining them into the fabric of popular culture... They went on tour.

By the time the band quit touring in August of 1966, they had performed 166 concerts in 15 countries and 90 cities around the world. The cultural phenomenon their touring helped create, known as "Beatlemania," was something the world had never seen before and, arguably, hasn't since.

Stay in your seat after the film to experience 30 minutes of footage from the legendary 1965 Shea Stadium performance, presented for the first time in a digitally restored 4k transfer with remastered sound.

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Director: Sharon Maguire.
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey. UK/Ireland/France/USA 2016. TBC mins.

Twelve years since The Edge Of Reason reprised the incredible success of Bridget Jones’s Diary, Renée Zellweger makes her third appearance as the delightfully ditzy singleton.

After recently splitting up with Mark Darcy (Firth), her enduring admirer from the first two romantic comedies, Ms Jones now maintains that she’s both happy and finally in control of her life – until, that is, a handsome American, Jack Qwant (Dempsey, long-term star of TV’s Grey’s Anatomy), sweeps her off her feet. And then, rather inconveniently, she finds herself pregnant and unsure whether Mark or Jack is the father.

It’s an uneasy dilemma for the somewhat reluctantly grown-up Bridget, who must also decide who she would want the father to be. Zellweger’s wonderfully nuanced performance will delight cinema audiences.

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Directors: Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan.
Starring: Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe. USA 2016. TBC mins.

Hilarious yet deeply affecting, Swiss Army Man tells the tale of Hank (Dano), who is stranded on a desert island and has given up all hope of ever making it home. But one day everything changes when a corpse named Manny (Radcliffe) washes up on shore.

The two become fast friends, and ultimately go on an adventure that will bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams. Bursting with limitless creativity in both form and content, Swiss Army Man creates a world like no other. Dano and Radcliffe both fully commit to the directors’ audacious vision, and their work is exceptional, finding the perfect balance of humour and heart that drives the whole film. The result is a wholly original examination of human vulnerability and connection.

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This new production of Norma for The Royal Opera is distinguished by a superlative cast of internationally renowned singers.

Bellini’s classic belcanto opera is full of wonderful melodies and opportunities for star singing. But it is especially known for Norma's stunning showpiece aria, ‘Casta diva’.

Àlex Ollé of innovative Catalan theatre group La Fura dels Baus directs, bringing a modern edge to this timeless tale of love, rivalry and betrayal, set against a backdrop of war driven by the extremes of a fanatically religious society.

Royal Opera Music Director Antonio Pappano conducts this stunning cast, including Joseph Calleja as Norma’s secret lover, Pollione and Sonia Ganassi as the priestess Adalgisa, in a striking new production, which opens the 2016/17 Season.

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Director: Taika Waititi.
Starring: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata. New Zealand 2016. 101 mins.

Teenager Rick (Dennison), an overweight hip-hop fan, finds himself living in the latest of several foster homes, where the kindly Bella (Wiata) and gruff backwoodsman Hector (Neill) do their best to accommodate (i.e. put up with) him. Then Bella abruptly disappears, and social services threaten to move Rick on. Having none of it, Rick runs away into the bush, followed by the somewhat reluctant Hector. Their ensuing adventures as they outwit an increasingly intense search for them prove both ingenious and hilarious.

Kiwi writer-director Taika Waititi has strong form in offbeat comedy following 2014’s vampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows, and Dennison and Neill are excellent conduits for his quietly absurdist humour. The result is one of the unlikeliest buddy movies since Planes, Trains And Automobiles.

Contains moderate bad language, innuendo and infrequent bloody moments.

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Now! That's What I Call Short Film ’16: London Short Film Festival’s Greatest Hits

Directors: Various. UK 2016. 90 mins approx.

Find out what makes the London Short Film Festival great. LSFF have distilled the 2016 festival to bring you a compilation of this year’s greatest hits, featuring works from LSFF ’16 award winners as well as other favourites, including a film newly commissioned by LSFF (spoiler alert: it’s about cats). Come and watch some of the freshest talent in UK filmmaking, with an eclectic mix of drama, documentary, animation, music and experimental short films.

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February 9th, 1964, 8:12pm EST – after a brief commercial break, four young men from Liverpool step onto the Ed Sullivan stage, changing culture forever.

Seventy-three million people watched The Beatles perform that night, the largest audience in television history. But it is what the band did next that would introduce them to the entire world, permanently transforming the music industry and forever engraining them into the fabric of popular culture... They went on tour.

By the time the band quit touring in August of 1966, they had performed 166 concerts in 15 countries and 90 cities around the world. The cultural phenomenon their touring helped create, known as "Beatlemania," was something the world had never seen before and, arguably, hasn't since.

Stay in your seat after the film to experience 30 minutes of footage from the legendary 1965 Shea Stadium performance, presented for the first time in a digitally restored 4k transfer with remastered sound.

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Director: Sharon Maguire.
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey. UK/Ireland/France/USA 2016. TBC mins.

Twelve years since The Edge Of Reason reprised the incredible success of Bridget Jones’s Diary, Renée Zellweger makes her third appearance as the delightfully ditzy singleton.

After recently splitting up with Mark Darcy (Firth), her enduring admirer from the first two romantic comedies, Ms Jones now maintains that she’s both happy and finally in control of her life – until, that is, a handsome American, Jack Qwant (Dempsey, long-term star of TV’s Grey’s Anatomy), sweeps her off her feet. And then, rather inconveniently, she finds herself pregnant and unsure whether Mark or Jack is the father.

It’s an uneasy dilemma for the somewhat reluctantly grown-up Bridget, who must also decide who she would want the father to be. Zellweger’s wonderfully nuanced performance will delight cinema audiences.

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Director: Tate Taylor.
Starring: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett. USA 2016. TBC mins.

This shocking and irresistibly mysterious thriller is based on British author Paula Hawkins’s bestselling novel, relocating the action from London to New York.

Emily Blunt (Sicario) stars as Rachel, who daydreams about an imaginary ‘perfect couple’ living in one of the beautiful homes that she sees every day from the train. But one day, as she looks through the window, she sees something shocking in the house – and later she wakes up covered in blood and with no memory of why. When the news reports that a local woman has gone missing, Rachel becomes obsessed with finding out what has happened to her and, even more troublingly, where she herself was that night.

With a gripping central riddle, The Girl On The Train promises to be one of the year’s most talked-about movies.

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Director: Christian Vincent.
Starring: Fabrice Luchini, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Eva Lallier. France 2015. 98 mins. French with English subtitles.

In this double Venice Festival winner from La Seperation writer-director Christian Vincent, the ever-world-weary Fabrice Luchini (Potiche, In The House) plays Michel Racine, an uptight provincial judge. Presiding over the particularly grim trial of a man accused of brutally killing his daughter, Michel finds that one of the jurors, Ditte (Knudsen, Borgen, The Duke Of Burgundy), is a woman he long ago fell in love with. Although it’s initially unclear if she felt similarly smitten, Ditte agrees to share coffee with Michel – who abandons his nitpicking maintenance of protocols – during a courtroom break and, well, one thing leads to another. It’s an often tense but warmly humorous meditation that draws on the parallels between legal and personal trials, with Knudsen in particular demonstrating her command of emotional subtleties.

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Directors: Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan.
Starring: Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe. USA 2016. TBC mins.

Hilarious yet deeply affecting, Swiss Army Man tells the tale of Hank (Dano), who is stranded on a desert island and has given up all hope of ever making it home. But one day everything changes when a corpse named Manny (Radcliffe) washes up on shore.

The two become fast friends, and ultimately go on an adventure that will bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams. Bursting with limitless creativity in both form and content, Swiss Army Man creates a world like no other. Dano and Radcliffe both fully commit to the directors’ audacious vision, and their work is exceptional, finding the perfect balance of humour and heart that drives the whole film. The result is a wholly original examination of human vulnerability and connection.

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Director: Taika Waititi.
Starring: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata. New Zealand 2016. 101 mins.

Teenager Rick (Dennison), an overweight hip-hop fan, finds himself living in the latest of several foster homes, where the kindly Bella (Wiata) and gruff backwoodsman Hector (Neill) do their best to accommodate (i.e. put up with) him. Then Bella abruptly disappears, and social services threaten to move Rick on. Having none of it, Rick runs away into the bush, followed by the somewhat reluctant Hector. Their ensuing adventures as they outwit an increasingly intense search for them prove both ingenious and hilarious.

Kiwi writer-director Taika Waititi has strong form in offbeat comedy following 2014’s vampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows, and Dennison and Neill are excellent conduits for his quietly absurdist humour. The result is one of the unlikeliest buddy movies since Planes, Trains And Automobiles.

Contains moderate bad language, innuendo and infrequent bloody moments.

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February 9th, 1964, 8:12pm EST – after a brief commercial break, four young men from Liverpool step onto the Ed Sullivan stage, changing culture forever.

Seventy-three million people watched The Beatles perform that night, the largest audience in television history. But it is what the band did next that would introduce them to the entire world, permanently transforming the music industry and forever engraining them into the fabric of popular culture... They went on tour.

By the time the band quit touring in August of 1966, they had performed 166 concerts in 15 countries and 90 cities around the world. The cultural phenomenon their touring helped create, known as "Beatlemania," was something the world had never seen before and, arguably, hasn't since.

Stay in your seat after the film to experience 30 minutes of footage from the legendary 1965 Shea Stadium performance, presented for the first time in a digitally restored 4k transfer with remastered sound.

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Director: Sharon Maguire.
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey. UK/Ireland/France/USA 2016. TBC mins.

Twelve years since The Edge Of Reason reprised the incredible success of Bridget Jones’s Diary, Renée Zellweger makes her third appearance as the delightfully ditzy singleton.

After recently splitting up with Mark Darcy (Firth), her enduring admirer from the first two romantic comedies, Ms Jones now maintains that she’s both happy and finally in control of her life – until, that is, a handsome American, Jack Qwant (Dempsey, long-term star of TV’s Grey’s Anatomy), sweeps her off her feet. And then, rather inconveniently, she finds herself pregnant and unsure whether Mark or Jack is the father.

It’s an uneasy dilemma for the somewhat reluctantly grown-up Bridget, who must also decide who she would want the father to be. Zellweger’s wonderfully nuanced performance will delight cinema audiences.

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Café Scientifique is a place where, a cup of coffee or a glass of wine in your hand, you can come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology. Meetings take place in cafes, bars, restaurants and even theatres, but always outside a traditional academic context. AGE 14+

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Director: Tate Taylor.
Starring: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett. USA 2016. TBC mins.

This shocking and irresistibly mysterious thriller is based on British author Paula Hawkins’s bestselling novel, relocating the action from London to New York.

Emily Blunt (Sicario) stars as Rachel, who daydreams about an imaginary ‘perfect couple’ living in one of the beautiful homes that she sees every day from the train. But one day, as she looks through the window, she sees something shocking in the house – and later she wakes up covered in blood and with no memory of why. When the news reports that a local woman has gone missing, Rachel becomes obsessed with finding out what has happened to her and, even more troublingly, where she herself was that night.

With a gripping central riddle, The Girl On The Train promises to be one of the year’s most talked-about movies.

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Director: Christian Vincent.
Starring: Fabrice Luchini, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Eva Lallier. France 2015. 98 mins. French with English subtitles.

In this double Venice Festival winner from La Seperation writer-director Christian Vincent, the ever-world-weary Fabrice Luchini (Potiche, In The House) plays Michel Racine, an uptight provincial judge. Presiding over the particularly grim trial of a man accused of brutally killing his daughter, Michel finds that one of the jurors, Ditte (Knudsen, Borgen, The Duke Of Burgundy), is a woman he long ago fell in love with. Although it’s initially unclear if she felt similarly smitten, Ditte agrees to share coffee with Michel – who abandons his nitpicking maintenance of protocols – during a courtroom break and, well, one thing leads to another. It’s an often tense but warmly humorous meditation that draws on the parallels between legal and personal trials, with Knudsen in particular demonstrating her command of emotional subtleties.

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Directors: Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan.
Starring: Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe. USA 2016. TBC mins.

Hilarious yet deeply affecting, Swiss Army Man tells the tale of Hank (Dano), who is stranded on a desert island and has given up all hope of ever making it home. But one day everything changes when a corpse named Manny (Radcliffe) washes up on shore.

The two become fast friends, and ultimately go on an adventure that will bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams. Bursting with limitless creativity in both form and content, Swiss Army Man creates a world like no other. Dano and Radcliffe both fully commit to the directors’ audacious vision, and their work is exceptional, finding the perfect balance of humour and heart that drives the whole film. The result is a wholly original examination of human vulnerability and connection.

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Director: Taika Waititi.
Starring: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata. New Zealand 2016. 101 mins.

Teenager Rick (Dennison), an overweight hip-hop fan, finds himself living in the latest of several foster homes, where the kindly Bella (Wiata) and gruff backwoodsman Hector (Neill) do their best to accommodate (i.e. put up with) him. Then Bella abruptly disappears, and social services threaten to move Rick on. Having none of it, Rick runs away into the bush, followed by the somewhat reluctant Hector. Their ensuing adventures as they outwit an increasingly intense search for them prove both ingenious and hilarious.

Kiwi writer-director Taika Waititi has strong form in offbeat comedy following 2014’s vampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows, and Dennison and Neill are excellent conduits for his quietly absurdist humour. The result is one of the unlikeliest buddy movies since Planes, Trains And Automobiles.

Contains moderate bad language, innuendo and infrequent bloody moments.

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Director: Alfred Hitchcock.
Starring: Farley Granger, Robert Walker. USA 1951. 103 mins.

Two strangers start chatting on a train, and one of them proposes that they commit two perfect murders by killing the individuals responsible for each other’s problems.

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Procter Goblins present Oh No! Not This…, a theatrical double-bill of egotistical dark comedy, from the bizarre and disturbing minds of some local folk:
THIS TIME IT LIVES! By Arthur Fisher and Harold Bremmer
Join Harold and Arthur for an unusually live edition of their morbid, monthly podcast. This time, they are discussing mysterious river deaths, with special guest David Paulides. Who will turn up. He’ll definitely turn up. There’s no way he won’t, otherwise there’d be no event.
Their uncanny ability for incompetence is only rivalled by their egocentric behaviour (mainly Arthur, but don’t tell him I said that-H). So come along if you like conspiracy theory, the horror genre, terrible poetry about birds or just want to know more about the actual podcast. Also there’s beer. But you have to pay for it. No freebies. First two rows might get wet and… damn those advert breaks.

KATH, ALICE ‘AND?’ STIBS by Mark Watson
Photocopy Theatre bring us a darkly comic look at what can happen when a narcissists self-confidence is all that is required to wrest control of others destinies from their fumbling grasp.
Why would anyone obey an idiot? When the idiot's in charge of course! One night at an adult education class teaches our intrepid pupils more than they ever dreamed of. Tutor Justin will bring new meaning to their lives as he reveals amazing techniques and unconventional skills. But is the reward of self-discovery enough to justify the method? No. It is not.

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February 9th, 1964, 8:12pm EST – after a brief commercial break, four young men from Liverpool step onto the Ed Sullivan stage, changing culture forever.

Seventy-three million people watched The Beatles perform that night, the largest audience in television history. But it is what the band did next that would introduce them to the entire world, permanently transforming the music industry and forever engraining them into the fabric of popular culture... They went on tour.

By the time the band quit touring in August of 1966, they had performed 166 concerts in 15 countries and 90 cities around the world. The cultural phenomenon their touring helped create, known as "Beatlemania," was something the world had never seen before and, arguably, hasn't since.

Stay in your seat after the film to experience 30 minutes of footage from the legendary 1965 Shea Stadium performance, presented for the first time in a digitally restored 4k transfer with remastered sound.

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Director: Sharon Maguire.
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey. UK/Ireland/France/USA 2016. TBC mins.

Twelve years since The Edge Of Reason reprised the incredible success of Bridget Jones’s Diary, Renée Zellweger makes her third appearance as the delightfully ditzy singleton.

After recently splitting up with Mark Darcy (Firth), her enduring admirer from the first two romantic comedies, Ms Jones now maintains that she’s both happy and finally in control of her life – until, that is, a handsome American, Jack Qwant (Dempsey, long-term star of TV’s Grey’s Anatomy), sweeps her off her feet. And then, rather inconveniently, she finds herself pregnant and unsure whether Mark or Jack is the father.

It’s an uneasy dilemma for the somewhat reluctantly grown-up Bridget, who must also decide who she would want the father to be. Zellweger’s wonderfully nuanced performance will delight cinema audiences.

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Director: Tate Taylor.
Starring: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett. USA 2016. TBC mins.

This shocking and irresistibly mysterious thriller is based on British author Paula Hawkins’s bestselling novel, relocating the action from London to New York.

Emily Blunt (Sicario) stars as Rachel, who daydreams about an imaginary ‘perfect couple’ living in one of the beautiful homes that she sees every day from the train. But one day, as she looks through the window, she sees something shocking in the house – and later she wakes up covered in blood and with no memory of why. When the news reports that a local woman has gone missing, Rachel becomes obsessed with finding out what has happened to her and, even more troublingly, where she herself was that night.

With a gripping central riddle, The Girl On The Train promises to be one of the year’s most talked-about movies.

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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.

Episodes in this programme: Acorn, Balloon, Hide & Seek, Sheep, and Spider.
It’s all about doing things, and DUGGEE likes to do a lot, and go to lots of places.

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Procter Goblins present Oh No! Not This…, a theatrical double-bill of egotistical dark comedy, from the bizarre and disturbing minds of some local folk:
THIS TIME IT LIVES! By Arthur Fisher and Harold Bremmer
Join Harold and Arthur for an unusually live edition of their morbid, monthly podcast. This time, they are discussing mysterious river deaths, with special guest David Paulides. Who will turn up. He’ll definitely turn up. There’s no way he won’t, otherwise there’d be no event.
Their uncanny ability for incompetence is only rivalled by their egocentric behaviour (mainly Arthur, but don’t tell him I said that-H). So come along if you like conspiracy theory, the horror genre, terrible poetry about birds or just want to know more about the actual podcast. Also there’s beer. But you have to pay for it. No freebies. First two rows might get wet and… damn those advert breaks.

KATH, ALICE ‘AND?’ STIBS by Mark Watson
Photocopy Theatre bring us a darkly comic look at what can happen when a narcissists self-confidence is all that is required to wrest control of others destinies from their fumbling grasp.
Why would anyone obey an idiot? When the idiot's in charge of course! One night at an adult education class teaches our intrepid pupils more than they ever dreamed of. Tutor Justin will bring new meaning to their lives as he reveals amazing techniques and unconventional skills. But is the reward of self-discovery enough to justify the method? No. It is not.

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The season begins with a new production of Wagner’s Tristan Und Isolde, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle for his first Live In HD performance.

Nina Stemme stars as Isolde, a touchstone role she has sung with major opera companies around the world. Her Tristan is Australian heldentenor Stuart Skelton, who sang Siegmund in the Met’s Ring cycle in 2013. The cast also includes Ekaterina Gubanova, Evgeny Nikitin and René Pape. The staging, by Mariusz Treliński (who directed the 2015 Met double bill of Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle), is a co-production with the Festival Hall Baden-Baden, Teatr Wielki (Polish National Opera) and China’s National Centre For The Performing Arts.

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Director: Tate Taylor.
Starring: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett. USA 2016. TBC mins.

This shocking and irresistibly mysterious thriller is based on British author Paula Hawkins’s bestselling novel, relocating the action from London to New York.

Emily Blunt (Sicario) stars as Rachel, who daydreams about an imaginary ‘perfect couple’ living in one of the beautiful homes that she sees every day from the train. But one day, as she looks through the window, she sees something shocking in the house – and later she wakes up covered in blood and with no memory of why. When the news reports that a local woman has gone missing, Rachel becomes obsessed with finding out what has happened to her and, even more troublingly, where she herself was that night.

With a gripping central riddle, The Girl On The Train promises to be one of the year’s most talked-about movies.

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Procter Goblins present Oh No! Not This…, a theatrical double-bill of egotistical dark comedy, from the bizarre and disturbing minds of some local folk:
THIS TIME IT LIVES! By Arthur Fisher and Harold Bremmer
Join Harold and Arthur for an unusually live edition of their morbid, monthly podcast. This time, they are discussing mysterious river deaths, with special guest David Paulides. Who will turn up. He’ll definitely turn up. There’s no way he won’t, otherwise there’d be no event.
Their uncanny ability for incompetence is only rivalled by their egocentric behaviour (mainly Arthur, but don’t tell him I said that-H). So come along if you like conspiracy theory, the horror genre, terrible poetry about birds or just want to know more about the actual podcast. Also there’s beer. But you have to pay for it. No freebies. First two rows might get wet and… damn those advert breaks.

KATH, ALICE ‘AND?’ STIBS by Mark Watson
Photocopy Theatre bring us a darkly comic look at what can happen when a narcissists self-confidence is all that is required to wrest control of others destinies from their fumbling grasp.
Why would anyone obey an idiot? When the idiot's in charge of course! One night at an adult education class teaches our intrepid pupils more than they ever dreamed of. Tutor Justin will bring new meaning to their lives as he reveals amazing techniques and unconventional skills. But is the reward of self-discovery enough to justify the method? No. It is not.

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Disney's cherished animation roars back onto the big screen! After being tricked into thinking he was responsible for the death of his father by his dastardly uncle Scar, our hero Simba flees the Savannah. There he begins a new life, with a meerkat and a wart hog as his unlikely allies, until a chance encounter forces him to face his past and his true destiny.

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Director: Tate Taylor.
Starring: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett. USA 2016. TBC mins.

This shocking and irresistibly mysterious thriller is based on British author Paula Hawkins’s bestselling novel, relocating the action from London to New York.

Emily Blunt (Sicario) stars as Rachel, who daydreams about an imaginary ‘perfect couple’ living in one of the beautiful homes that she sees every day from the train. But one day, as she looks through the window, she sees something shocking in the house – and later she wakes up covered in blood and with no memory of why. When the news reports that a local woman has gone missing, Rachel becomes obsessed with finding out what has happened to her and, even more troublingly, where she herself was that night.

With a gripping central riddle, The Girl On The Train promises to be one of the year’s most talked-about movies.

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Director: Wim Wenders.
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz. West Germany/France 1977. 126 mins. German with English subtitles.

In Wenders’s breakthrough film, a German art restorer in need of cash is approached by American Tom Ripley with the offer of an assignment as killer for hire.

Contains moderate violence.

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Procter Goblins present Oh No! Not This…, a theatrical double-bill of egotistical dark comedy, from the bizarre and disturbing minds of some local folk:
THIS TIME IT LIVES! By Arthur Fisher and Harold Bremmer
Join Harold and Arthur for an unusually live edition of their morbid, monthly podcast. This time, they are discussing mysterious river deaths, with special guest David Paulides. Who will turn up. He’ll definitely turn up. There’s no way he won’t, otherwise there’d be no event.
Their uncanny ability for incompetence is only rivalled by their egocentric behaviour (mainly Arthur, but don’t tell him I said that-H). So come along if you like conspiracy theory, the horror genre, terrible poetry about birds or just want to know more about the actual podcast. Also there’s beer. But you have to pay for it. No freebies. First two rows might get wet and… damn those advert breaks.

KATH, ALICE ‘AND?’ STIBS by Mark Watson
Photocopy Theatre bring us a darkly comic look at what can happen when a narcissists self-confidence is all that is required to wrest control of others destinies from their fumbling grasp.
Why would anyone obey an idiot? When the idiot's in charge of course! One night at an adult education class teaches our intrepid pupils more than they ever dreamed of. Tutor Justin will bring new meaning to their lives as he reveals amazing techniques and unconventional skills. But is the reward of self-discovery enough to justify the method? No. It is not.

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Directors: Þórdur Bragi Jónsson, Una Lorenzen, Heather Millard. 2016. UK/Iceland/USA. 76min.

Meet the artists who are redefining the tradition of knit and crochet, bringing yarn out of the house and into the world. Reinventing our relationship with this colorful tradition, YARN weaves together wool graffiti artists, circus performers, and structural designers into a visually-striking look at the women who are making a creative stance while building one of modern art's hottest trends.

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Director: Steven Spielberg.
Starring: Mark Rylance, Rebecca Hall, Penelope Wilton. UK/Canada/USA 2016. TBC mins.

Steven Spielberg’s vision of The BFG could not have come at a more opportune time: this year we celebrate 100 years of Roald Dahl. What better way to mark the century of the adored British author than with a brand new big friendly giant?

At the centre of the tale is Sophie (Ruby Barnhill), a characterful and curious young girl living in a London orphanage. One night, Sophie is let into an amazing secret: giants exist, and they deliver dreams into children’s bedrooms.

Sophie discovers this when she is whisked off to a land of giants, where the BFG (Rylance) teaches her about dreams and protects her from his rather less friendly brothers, including the Bloodbottler (Bill Hader) and the Fleshlumpeater (Jemaine Clement).

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Louis Theroux’s first theatrical feature documentary, from the Oscar TM winning producer of SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN and MAN ON WIRE, sees the renowned filmmaker delve into the world of Scientology, one of the worlds most mysterious and powerful religions, in what he regards as ‘the Holy Grail of Stories’.

With a lifetime of experience dealing with eccentric, unpalatable and unexpected human behaviour, the unassuming Theroux won’t take no for an answer when his request to enter the Church of Scientology headquarters is turned down. Inspired by the Church’s alleged techniques, and aided by former Scientology members-turned-whistleblowers, Theroux uses actors to recreate incidents people claim to have experienced as members in an attempt to better understand the way it operates. However, in a bizarre twist, it becomes clear that Louis is not the only one making a documentary… Suffused with a good dose of humour and moments worthy of a Hollywood script, MY SCIENTOLOGY MOVIE is as outlandish as it is revealing.

This screening will be followed by a live satellite Q&A with Louis Theroux.

Due to exceptional demand for this event, encore screenings have been added at some cinemas. Find out more.

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Director: Tate Taylor.
Starring: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett. USA 2016. TBC mins.

This shocking and irresistibly mysterious thriller is based on British author Paula Hawkins’s bestselling novel, relocating the action from London to New York.

Emily Blunt (Sicario) stars as Rachel, who daydreams about an imaginary ‘perfect couple’ living in one of the beautiful homes that she sees every day from the train. But one day, as she looks through the window, she sees something shocking in the house – and later she wakes up covered in blood and with no memory of why. When the news reports that a local woman has gone missing, Rachel becomes obsessed with finding out what has happened to her and, even more troublingly, where she herself was that night.

With a gripping central riddle, The Girl On The Train promises to be one of the year’s most talked-about movies.

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The season begins with a new production of Wagner’s Tristan Und Isolde, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle for his first Live In HD performance.

Nina Stemme stars as Isolde, a touchstone role she has sung with major opera companies around the world. Her Tristan is Australian heldentenor Stuart Skelton, who sang Siegmund in the Met’s Ring cycle in 2013. The cast also includes Ekaterina Gubanova, Evgeny Nikitin and René Pape. The staging, by Mariusz Treliński (who directed the 2015 Met double bill of Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle), is a co-production with the Festival Hall Baden-Baden, Teatr Wielki (Polish National Opera) and China’s National Centre For The Performing Arts.

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Director: Tate Taylor.
Starring: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett. USA 2016. TBC mins.

This shocking and irresistibly mysterious thriller is based on British author Paula Hawkins’s bestselling novel, relocating the action from London to New York.

Emily Blunt (Sicario) stars as Rachel, who daydreams about an imaginary ‘perfect couple’ living in one of the beautiful homes that she sees every day from the train. But one day, as she looks through the window, she sees something shocking in the house – and later she wakes up covered in blood and with no memory of why. When the news reports that a local woman has gone missing, Rachel becomes obsessed with finding out what has happened to her and, even more troublingly, where she herself was that night.

With a gripping central riddle, The Girl On The Train promises to be one of the year’s most talked-about movies.

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A lonely private investigator is contacted by a mysterious woman who pulls him into a mind game known as "telephone walking". Fascinated by her voice, Aloys discovers an imaginary universe that allows him to break out of his isolation.

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A lot may have changed since Eddard Stark set off from Winterfell in season 1 back in 2011. This quiz will span questions from all 6 seasons of the fantasy epic Game Of Thrones. We’re going to cover everything, warts, weddings and all. Are you an Arch Maester, or to coin an old cliché, do you know nothing?
Doors 7.30, quiz starts at 8. Maximum 5 people (including aliens) per team, £1.50 per person.

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King Lear has ruled for many years. As age begins to overtake him, he decides to divide his kingdom amongst his children, living out his days without the burden of power. Misjudging his children’s loyalty and finding himself alone in the wilderness, he is left to confront the mistakes of a life that has brought him to this point.

Antony Sher returns to the RSC to play King Lear, one of the greatest parts written by Shakespeare in this, one of Shakespeare’s most epic and powerful plays.

Join us for this live cinema screening of one of Shakespeare’s most epic plays on 12 October, broadcast live from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Feel part of the action from your seat.

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Director: Tate Taylor.
Starring: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett. USA 2016. TBC mins.

This shocking and irresistibly mysterious thriller is based on British author Paula Hawkins’s bestselling novel, relocating the action from London to New York.

Emily Blunt (Sicario) stars as Rachel, who daydreams about an imaginary ‘perfect couple’ living in one of the beautiful homes that she sees every day from the train. But one day, as she looks through the window, she sees something shocking in the house – and later she wakes up covered in blood and with no memory of why. When the news reports that a local woman has gone missing, Rachel becomes obsessed with finding out what has happened to her and, even more troublingly, where she herself was that night.

With a gripping central riddle, The Girl On The Train promises to be one of the year’s most talked-about movies.

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Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World + Satellite Q&A with Werner Herzog, live from the London Film Festival.

In a documentary on our society as it enters a new technological age, Werner Herzog explores the effect of the Internet – as well as its history and future – and the wonders of robotics. Herzog does not himself use a phone (smart or otherwise) and rarely goes online. Ironically this makes him the perfect choice to examine the impact connected technology is having on our lives. Neither celebration nor condemnation, Herzog’s exploration includes volunteering for tech pioneer Elon Musk’s mission to Mars and looking at technological developments that could lead to breakthroughs in medical research. Most affecting of all are the questions asked about the dark side of the web: can we trust those who understand this technology not to misuse it? On a planet still governed by nature’s laws, what if our online infrastructure were completely wiped out by natural disaster?

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Director: Tate Taylor.
Starring: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett. USA 2016. TBC mins.

This shocking and irresistibly mysterious thriller is based on British author Paula Hawkins’s bestselling novel, relocating the action from London to New York.

Emily Blunt (Sicario) stars as Rachel, who daydreams about an imaginary ‘perfect couple’ living in one of the beautiful homes that she sees every day from the train. But one day, as she looks through the window, she sees something shocking in the house – and later she wakes up covered in blood and with no memory of why. When the news reports that a local woman has gone missing, Rachel becomes obsessed with finding out what has happened to her and, even more troublingly, where she herself was that night.

With a gripping central riddle, The Girl On The Train promises to be one of the year’s most talked-about movies.

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Introducing Curly, Swirly's younger sister who likes to put on gigs and stuff. Curly's debut at The Basement see's three local acts from the streets of York... Reverb and heavy chorus maestros PEACH open the show and are followed up by the dreamy sounds of Wolf Solent. Headlining the show are Neuschlaufen, York's long time connoisseurs of noise drone and repetition.

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Director: Kelly Asbury.
USA 2011. 82 mins.

The animated tale Gnomeo & Juliet knowingly follows the quintessential star-crossed lovers tragedy Romeo and Juliet, with the unexpected twist of making the characters garden gnomes that can move when human beings aren't watching. Though Gnomeo (James McAvoy) and Juliet (Emily Blunt) belong to feuding garden-gnome families, they meet and fall in love. But the clans' shared animosity is exacerbated when Tybalt (Jason Statham) dies in part because of actions taken by Gnomeo to defend a friend whom Tybalt was attacking. After getting some sage advice from a statue of William Shakespeare (Patrick Stewart), Gnomeo attempts to set things right, and win the heart of the lawn ornament he loves. The supporting cast includes the vocal talents of Michael Caine, Hulk Hogan, and Maggie Smith.

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Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
Choreography: Yuri Grigorovich
Libretto: Yuri Grigorovich and Isaak Glikman

Cast: The Bolshoi Principals, Soloists and Corps De Ballet

In a seaside town where business and the Mafia are flourishing, the Golden Age cabaret is the favourite nightly haunt of dancers, bandits and young revellers. The young fisherman Boris falls in love with Rita, a beautiful dancer, but she is also the friend of a local gangster…

A satire on Europe during the Roaring ’20s, The Golden Age makes for an original, colourful and dazzling show with its jazzy score and music-hall atmosphere. This ballet – which can only be seen at the Bolshoi – has everything: mad rhythms, vigorous chase scenes and decadent cabaret numbers. With this passionate love story featuring beautiful duets between Boris and Rita, the Bolshoi dancers plunge magnificently into every stylised step and gesture.

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Director: Anthony Minghella.
Starring: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law. USA 1999. 139 mins.

Ambitious social climber Tom Ripley is sent to Italy to bring home an errant playboy. This crisp, taut thriller twists its way through the stunning Mediterranean scenery.

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The legendary Miss Saigon, in cinemas for one night only. This spectacular, sell-out 25th Anniversary Gala Performance of the global stage sensation also features appearances by the original cast including Jonathan Pryce and Lea Salonga.

This acclaimed new production was described as “the most thrilling, soaring and emotionally stirring musical with magnificent performances” by the Daily Telegraph and “the greatest musical of all time” by the Daily Mail. The epic love story tells the tragic tale of young bar girl Kim, orphaned by war, who falls in love with American GI Chris – but their lives are torn apart by the fall of Saigon.

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How much do you love your partner? How much do you trust them? And can they trust you? Mozart’s classic opera Così fan tutte puts two pairs of lovers to the test – with great music but distinctly unexpected results. For this new production, director Jan Philipp Gloger creates a richly theatrical world as the playground for this quirky comedy, where two men try to woo each other’s partners for a bet. Don Alfonso – the puppet master of this experiment in love – is here a theatre director who uses all the sets, props and tricks of his trade to invent new scenes to challenge the lovers’ affections. This lively, youthful and imaginative take on one of the world's best-loved operas is performed by a cast of rising stars conducted by Semyon Bychkov.

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Directors: Saeed Taji Farouky, Michael McEvoy. 2015, UK/Afghanistan, 84min.

After the screening we'll be joined by director Saeed Taji Farouky for a Q&A.

Tell Spring Not to Come This Year follows one unit of the Afghan National Army (ANA) over the course of their first year of deployment in Helmand without NATO support. It is an intimate film about the human side of combat, told from a largely unheard and misrepresented perspective, that explores the deep personal motivations, desires and struggles of a band of fighting men on the front line. Without a NATO soldier in sight, and no narrative but their own, this is the war in Afghanistan, through the eyes of the Afghans who live it.

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Director: Robert Greene. USA 2016. 112 mins.

“TV 40 news personality Christine Chubbuck shot herself in a live broadcast this morning on a Channel 40 talk programme. She was rushed to Sarasota Memorial Hospital, where she remains in critical condition.” Shockingly, this is a real-life news bulletin from 1974. Even more shockingly, the bulletin was composed by Chubbuck herself, who left it on the studio desk before putting the gun to her head. She died some hours later. Who was Christine Chubbuck, and why did she do this horrifying thing? Director Robert Greene and actor Kate Lyn Sheil explore Chubbuck’s actions from the inside, making a boldly self-reflexive attempt to ‘perform’ her story as Sheil prepares to play Chubbuck on film. A Sundance 2016 award winner, the result is a provocative and at times even eerie meditation not just on Chubbuck’s life and death, but also on performance, voyeurism and documentary truth.

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With a score of heartbreaking beauty and intensity, Saul takes us into a nightmare world of madness and despair. This powerful and highly acclaimed production, filmed live in Festival 2015, delves deep into Handel’s opera based on the Biblical tale.

Saul charts the first King Of Israel’s love and loathing of his eventual successor, David. We watch Saul crumble before our eyes, as dramatically as Shakespeare’s King Lear, as he watches David win everyone’s heart – including that of his son, Jonathan.

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Director: Tod Browning. Starring: Bela Lugosi. USA 1931. 74 mins.

Bela Lugosi takes his first bite out of Bram Stoker’s Gothic horror. Donning the now-iconic black cape, he laid the foundation for future generations of movie vampires, and for the genre as a whole.

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PPY & By Candlelight present Tom Brosseau The Basement, York. Thursday 20th October, 8pm. £8adv/£10otd North Dakota Impressions, Tom Brosseau’s new album, is the 3rd in an album trilogy to visit life from a local perspective. Produced by Sean Watkins in Silverlake and Highland Park, Los Angeles, North Dakota Impressions takes the listener on a journey begun with Grass Punks (2014) and Perfect Abandon (2015). A journey through a time that doesn't clip along uniformly on some common interstate but treads at its own pace on a rural route. More glances, more investigations and introspections, more light, more dark. Memories, imaginings, longings for a place, a home - a hopeful album. 'North Dakota troubadour brings stark, trembling beauty to folky acoustic pop. The world is better for it.' MOJO Magazine

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Welcome to the Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club - bringing the best live stand-up to York!
Four top professional comedians Enjoy brilliant comedy A great night out! Book in advance and save money or pay on the night
Each show has four top professional comedians from all over the world to make you LOL!
Wherever possible we'll be bringing you comedians off the telly from such shows as BBC2's Mock The Week, Shooting Stars, Channel 4's 8 Out of 10 Cats, BBC1's Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, Have I Got News For You, QI, and Paramount's Live at The Comedy Store etc.
Previously we've booked the likes of Jason Manford, John Bishop and Sarah Millican before they hit the big time. So come and see more brilliant comedians!
There's also a full bar and two breaks for get more drinks and chatting to your friends!
'Ace night' Julie Lovatt
'Fantastic night yet again' Fleur Spafford
'Great night, everyone must try going, very funny' Lee Evans (not the Lee Evans!)
There are all real reviews from real customers so get booking now if you fancy a laugh!
Please note we do not allow bookings for Hen or Stag parties of any size and such parties will be refused admission to the venue.

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Simon Keenlyside makes his Met role debut as the unrepentant seducer in Tony Award winner Michael Grandage’s staging of Mozart’s masterpiece. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads a cast that includes Hibla Gerzmava, Malin Byström, Serena Malfi, Adam Plachetka, Matthew Rose, Kwangchul Youn and Rolando Villazón.

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Directors: Mike Thurmeier, Galen T. Chu.
Voices: Simon Pegg, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Wedge. USA 2016. 94 mins.

The fifth entry in the successful animated franchise remains in the eminently capable hands of series directors Mike Thurmeier and Galen T. Chu, with co-writers Michael Berg and Michael J. Wilson, and many of the familiar characters again voiced by their regular stars.

This time round Scrat’s (Wedge) quest for a mysterious acorn takes him beyond the Earth’s atmosphere, where an innocent mistake triggers various unexpected consequences that threaten the very future of our planet. To avert impending disaster, Buck (Pegg), Sid (John Leguizamo), Diego (Denis Leary), Shira (Lopez) and the rest of the quirky animal gang embark on a series of wild adventures, which inevitably involve thrills, spills, whacky stunts and much good-humoured nail-biting, as well as a bunch of new friends.

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Brendon Burns: Black Comedian Presented by the Burning Duck Comedy Club
"The single most jaw-dropping, awkward, yet ultimately rewarding bit of stand up we have ever seen” ****** (An unprecedented six out of six stars) Time Out, London
If we were to use one word to describe Brendon Burns’ career it’d be “interesting”. This is not your everyday comic. Older, wiser, calmer (and after being fitted with a hearing aid, infinitely quieter) Brendon’s energy is still enticing. His turn of phrase is coarse yet oddly eloquent, whilst remaining fully accessible and intensely loveable. Never pompous and ever self-deprecating he just somehow seems to get away with murder.
‘A comedians’ comedian… a perennial mischief-maker.’ ★★★★ Chortle
Not so much an “edgy truth-sayer” but a traditionally harmless and inclusive warm-hearted court jester, Brendons influence is ubiquitous throughout the stand up world. Often replicated but never matched, his shows aren’t just extended sets, Burns specialises in creating experiences: forever experimenting with the form and throwing himself new challenges.
‘His peers are not other stand ups but more from the literary World. Burns is the William Burroughs and Charles Bukowski of stand up.’ Guardian
Age Restrictions 18+

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Louis Theroux’s first theatrical feature documentary, from the Oscar TM winning producer of SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN and MAN ON WIRE, sees the renowned filmmaker delve into the world of Scientology, one of the worlds most mysterious and powerful religions, in what he regards as ‘the Holy Grail of Stories’.

With a lifetime of experience dealing with eccentric, unpalatable and unexpected human behaviour, the unassuming Theroux won’t take no for an answer when his request to enter the Church of Scientology headquarters is turned down. Inspired by the Church’s alleged techniques, and aided by former Scientology members-turned-whistleblowers, Theroux uses actors to recreate incidents people claim to have experienced as members in an attempt to better understand the way it operates. However, in a bizarre twist, it becomes clear that Louis is not the only one making a documentary… Suffused with a good dose of humour and moments worthy of a Hollywood script, MY SCIENTOLOGY MOVIE is as outlandish as it is revealing.

This screening will be followed by a recorded Q&A with Louis Theroux, which was broadcast live to cinemas on 10 October.

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Director: Taika Waititi.
Starring: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata. New Zealand 2016. 101 mins.

Teenager Rick (Dennison), an overweight hip-hop fan, finds himself living in the latest of several foster homes, where the kindly Bella (Wiata) and gruff backwoodsman Hector (Neill) do their best to accommodate (i.e. put up with) him. Then Bella abruptly disappears, and social services threaten to move Rick on. Having none of it, Rick runs away into the bush, followed by the somewhat reluctant Hector. Their ensuing adventures as they outwit an increasingly intense search for them prove both ingenious and hilarious.

Kiwi writer-director Taika Waititi has strong form in offbeat comedy following 2014’s vampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows, and Dennison and Neill are excellent conduits for his quietly absurdist humour. The result is one of the unlikeliest buddy movies since Planes, Trains And Automobiles.

Contains moderate bad language, innuendo and infrequent bloody moments.

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Director: Nicholas Hytner.

Starring: Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam. UK 2015. 104 mins.

Maggie Smith reprises the role she played in Alan Bennett’s hit stage play as the elderly Miss Shepherd, a lady who occupied a decrepit Bedford van parked in Bennett’s Camden Town driveway for some 15 years. Having directed the play, Nicholas Hytner (THE CRUCIBLE, The MADNESS OF KING GEORGE) now helms Bennett’s screen adaptation to delightful, multilayered effect.

Miss Shepherd is no slave to personal hygiene or polite diplomacy. Smith’s wonderful take on this cantankerous English eccentric is well matched by Alex Jennings, who plays Bennett as he becomes Miss Shepherd’s somewhat bemused benefactor and astringent observer. Roger Allam, Frances de la Tour and James Corden (star of Bennett’s THE HISTORY BOYS) also add considerably to this joyous, socially contemplative comedy drama, but, as ever, Smith steals the show.

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Simon Keenlyside makes his Met role debut as the unrepentant seducer in Tony Award winner Michael Grandage’s staging of Mozart’s masterpiece. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads a cast that includes Hibla Gerzmava, Malin Byström, Serena Malfi, Adam Plachetka, Matthew Rose, Kwangchul Youn and Rolando Villazón.

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Director: Guillaume Nicloux.
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu. France/Belgium 2015. 92 mins. French with English subtitles.

A long-divorced couple of successful French actors, Isabelle (Huppert) and Gérard (Depardieu) find themselves reunited by a letter received six months after his suicide from their son, Michael. The letter invites them to a rendezvous in California’s Death Valley on a specific date – with a promise that Michael himself will somehow appear. His presence transpires to be more metaphysical than supernatural, and what ensues is a sly opportunity for writer-director Guillaume Nicloux to reflect on the celebrity culture that he explored with 2014’s faux documentary The Kidnapping Of Michel Houellebecq. Depardieu and Huppert, who last worked together 36 years ago on Maurice Pialat’s Loulou, give marvellously subtle performances as the estranged, agreeably spiky pair.

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States Of Terror: Contemporary Horror in World Cinema.

We’re very excited to be offering a six week film course investigating the contemporary horror film. Sessions will take place on Tuesday evenings from 25 October to 29 November at 7.30.

From Hollywood to Europe to Asia, the horror film is thriving. With recent international hits like It Follows (2014), The Babadook (2014), Big Bad Wolves (2013), Painless (2012), The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears (2013) and Flu (2013) filmmakers in countries as diverse as USA, Australia, Israel, Spain, France, Japan, Hong Kong, India and South Korea are using the horror genre to address the fears and anxieties of their cultures.
In this six week course we investigate contemporary horror cinema around the globe. Focusing on a different national cinema each week, we look at what terrifies the people of these nation states and ways in which horror crosses-over to international audiences. With film clips and discussion, the course will explore the genre’s unique capacity to break cultural boundaries and speak to social, political and personal anxieties in a world cinema context.
Each session includes a presentation/lecture followed by a tutorial where discussion is encouraged. Advance viewing is optional; select scenes and montages will be shown during weekly sessions.

Course tutor Jon Towlson is a film critic for Starburst Magazine and the author of Subversive Horror Cinema: Countercultural Messages of Films from Frankenstein to the Present (McFarland & Co, 2014); Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Constellations) (Auteur/Columbia University Press, 2016) and The Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931-1936 (McFarland & Co, 2016).

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Director: Mel Brooks. Starring: Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Kenneth Mars, Gene Wilder. 1974. USA. Mel Brooks' monstrously crazy tribute to Mary Shelley's classic pokes hilarious fun at just about every Frankenstein movie ever made. Summoned by a will to his late grandfather's castle in Transylvania, young Dr. Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) soon discovers the scientist's step-by-step manual explaining how to bring a corpse to life. Assisted by the hunchback Igor (Marty Feldman) and the curvaceous Ings (Teri Garr), he creates a monster (Peter Boyle) who only wants to be loved..

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Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborneʼs modern classic conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment. Rob Ashford directs Kenneth Branagh as the unforgettable Archie Rice in the final production for the Plays At The Garrick season.

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Director: James Whale. Starring: Boris Karloff. USA 1931. 70 mins.

Boris Karloff cemented his horror legacy by bringing Frankenstein’s Monster to life. The mythology of neck bolts, electricity-fuelled resurrections and brain implants gone wrong began here, not in Mary Shelley’s novel.

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Wozzon Comedy Club is an evening of stand-up comedy presenting you with fresh new acts from across the UK.

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Welcome to the Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula has invited some of the world's most famous monsters - Frankenstein and his wife, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, a family of werewolves, and more - to celebrate his daughter Mavis' 118th birthday. For Drac, catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem - but his world could come crashing down when a human stumbles on the hotel for the first time and takes a shine to Mavis.

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Everlate return to York's Basement Bar to play an intimate acoustic set of their own songs, following their recent single launch. AGE 16+

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Halloween Bonanza: Kymberley Kennedy + Ramona Rose+ Special Guests
Blackout Recordings presents Kymberley Kennedy - The Head Games Tour. To celebrate the imminent release of her forthcoming debut album, "Head Games", Kymberley and her band, Miles Williams (guitar), David Soulsby (keys) and Sam Whiting (drums) are embarking on their first headline tour. Nominated for two awards at Yorkshire Gig Guide's Grassroots Awards (Outstanding Artist/ Band of 2016 and Outstanding Songwriter of 2016) they are performing a stripped down set on this special acoustic date of the tour at City Screen Basement Bar in York with support from Laura Kindelan and special guests.

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Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
Choreography: Yuri Grigorovich
Libretto: Yuri Grigorovich and Isaak Glikman

Cast: The Bolshoi Principals, Soloists and Corps De Ballet

In a seaside town where business and the Mafia are flourishing, the Golden Age cabaret is the favourite nightly haunt of dancers, bandits and young revellers. The young fisherman Boris falls in love with Rita, a beautiful dancer, but she is also the friend of a local gangster…

A satire on Europe during the Roaring ’20s, The Golden Age makes for an original, colourful and dazzling show with its jazzy score and music-hall atmosphere. This ballet – which can only be seen at the Bolshoi – has everything: mad rhythms, vigorous chase scenes and decadent cabaret numbers. With this passionate love story featuring beautiful duets between Boris and Rita, the Bolshoi dancers plunge magnificently into every stylised step and gesture.

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Director: Patrick Shen. USA 2016. 81 mins.

Reminiscent of 1982’s Koyaanisqatsi, In Pursuit of Silence is a meditative exploration of our relationship with silence, sound and the impact of noise on our lives. Beginning with an ode to John Cage’s groundbreaking composition 4'33", In Pursuit Of Silence takes us on an immersive cinematic journey around the globe – from a traditional tea ceremony in Kyoto, to the streets of Mumbai, loudest city on the planet.

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An identity in crisis; a country in revolution. Anastasia is a ballet about one of the great historical mysteries of the 20th century, only recently solved. At the height of the Russian Revolution the royal family were executed, but afterwards a young woman appeared – apparently a surviving royal princess, the Grand Duchess Anastasia. Known as 'Anna Anderson', she couldn't remember her past and she was presumed to be an imposter. Many wanted to forget the massacre and the Revolution; many believed, or hoped, that a princess could have survived, a remnant of the old world. One of Kenneth MacMillan's first creations on becoming Director of The Royal Ballet in 1970, Anastasia is a dramatic and haunting exploration of Anna's nightmare of memory and identity. To music by Tchaikovsky and Martinů, we follow the events leading to the murder of a family, and Anna's confused dreams – or memories. A powerful, psychological challenge for the principal ballerina, this is a rare opportunity to see a landmark ballet by a major choreographer.

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Café Scientifique is a place where, a cup of coffee or a glass of wine in your hand, you can come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology. Meetings take place in cafes, bars, restaurants and even theatres, but always outside a traditional academic context. AGE 14+

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Exhibition On Screen: The Curious World Of Hieronymus Bosch

Delve into the vivid imagination of a true visionary.

Who was Hieronymus Bosch? Why do his strange and fantastical paintings resonate now more than ever? How does he bridge the medieval and Renaissance worlds? Where did his unconventional and timeless creations come from? Discover the answers to these questions and more with this remarkable new film from Exhibition On Screen.

The Curious World Of Hieronymus Bosch features the critically acclaimed exhibition Visions Of A Genius at the Noordbrabants Museum in Bosch’s home town in the southern Netherlands. The exhibition brought many of Bosch’s paintings and drawings together for the first time, and attracted almost half a million art lovers from all over the world. With details of his fascinating life and the stories within his works revealed as never before, this cinematic exploration of a great creative genius is not to be missed.

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Director: Karl Freund. Starring: Boris Karloff. USA 1932. 73 mins.

Karloff created another iconic monster in Imhotep, a vengeful ancient Egyptian priest who seeks to be reunited with his true love after 3,000 years. Dracula cinematographer Karl Freund directed this mysterious chiller.

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Dr Sketchy’s York, presented by artist extraordinaires Jay Sillence and Tonks features a mix of eccentric characters, burlesque starlets, fetish models, drag queens and much more. No sterile room with a boring model, have a drink, have a laugh, enjoy some funny contests and win some wacky prizes. You don’t need to be a perfect artist, it’s just a bit of fun.

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There's a certain laconic flair to Lail Arad's songwriting. Partly folk and partly not, her delivery sits somewhere between Jeffrey Lewis and Lou Reed but with an innately feminine flair.
New single 'When We Grow Up' arrives on September 25th, and it's a cool-as-hell depiction of youthful insecurity matched to infinite possibility.

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A new monthly Open Mic Night to showcase those with the creative buzz. For any kind of performer- poetry, comedy, musings, music, monologue and miscellaneous! Guest headliners, up-n-comers and first-timers meet in the chilled surroundings of The Basement to take the stage! AGE 16+

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Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
Choreography: Alexei Ratmansky
Libretto: Adrian Piotrovsky and Fyodor Lopukhov

Cast: Svetlana Lunkina (Zina), Mikhail Lobukhin (Pyotr), Maria Alexandrova (the Ballerina), Ruslan Skvortsov (the Ballet Dancer), Denis Savin (the Accordionist), Alexei Loparevich (the Old Dacha Dweller)

During harvest festival on a collective farm, a visiting dance troupe reunites a ballerina with her childhood friend, Zina. In order to teach her unfaithful husband a lesson, Zina, the ballerina and the ballerina’s husband decide to swap roles for the evening…

Alexei Ratmansky invokes the genius of Shostakovich’s score, creating a laugh-out-loud masterpiece with slapstick comedy, hilarious deceptions, false identities (including Principal Dancer Ruslan Skvortsov dressed as a sylph) and many colourful characters! The Bolshoi bursts with vivid life and bright spirits in Ratmansky’s brilliantly choreographed smash.

Captured live on 29 Apr 2012

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An identity in crisis; a country in revolution. Anastasia is a ballet about one of the great historical mysteries of the 20th century, only recently solved. At the height of the Russian Revolution the royal family were executed, but afterwards a young woman appeared – apparently a surviving royal princess, the Grand Duchess Anastasia. Known as 'Anna Anderson', she couldn't remember her past and she was presumed to be an imposter. Many wanted to forget the massacre and the Revolution; many believed, or hoped, that a princess could have survived, a remnant of the old world. One of Kenneth MacMillan's first creations on becoming Director of The Royal Ballet in 1970, Anastasia is a dramatic and haunting exploration of Anna's nightmare of memory and identity. To music by Tchaikovsky and Martinů, we follow the events leading to the murder of a family, and Anna's confused dreams – or memories. A powerful, psychological challenge for the principal ballerina, this is a rare opportunity to see a landmark ballet by a major choreographer.

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Dead Eagle Club UK EP launch + Libby Redman
Join York's Dead Eagle Club for the UK launch of their EP, 'Der Kiez'. The EP is inspired by real-life events at the famous Reeperbahn in Germany and has been produced using vintage synths. The event features a DJ set from Libby Redman and a live performance of 'Austrian Boy'.
Ticket Price: £5 Age Restrictions: 16+

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Director: James Whale. Starring: Claude Rains, USA 1933. 72 mins.

Claude Rains made his American film debut as Dr Griffin, H.G. Wells’s scientist turned invisible psychopath. Helped along by some impressive matte work and trick photography, Rains conjures his considerable screen presence through voice alone.

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York’s only regular poetry slam! Each poet gets 3 minutes, and the audience vote for their favourite performance! Raw, fun, anarchic and challenging what spoken word can be, if you’ve been to Say Owt before you’ll know it’s a raucous evening of powerful poetry. If you’ve never been to a slam, now’s the time to come check it out!
Winner gets £30, second place £15 and bragging rights!
Interested in slamming? Snd us a line at sosyork@hotmail.com (free entry for performers).
Doors 7.30, slam starts sharp afterwards! £7 entry.
Compered by Henry Raby & Stu Freestone
Say Owt Slam is supported by Apples & Snakes
Plus special guest SCOTT TYRRELL
Scott has been a poet since the turn of the century. A former member of the Poetry Vandals, he has performed his work around the country, Europe, on a bus, on a plane and Stratford east tube Station in Rush hour. He is author of 2 collections of poetry. Most recently, the warmly received 'Grown Up' published by Red Squirrel Press. He has performed at many festivals including Edinburgh, WOMAD, the Big Chill, Kendal Calling and Glastonbury – where he was blogger in residence in 2015.
He is an award-winning comedian and winner of many major poetry slams, including The Great Northern Slam, The UK Anti-Slam and the BBC Fringe Poetry Slam 2015.

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Director: Abel Gance.
With Albert Dieudonné, Antonin Artaud, Gina Manès, Vladimir Roudenko. France 1927. 333mins (3 intervals)

Abel Gance’s heroic depiction of the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte is an undisputed cinema landmark. Renowned for its groundbreaking technical innovations, including a stunning triptych finale, Gance’s visionary epic traverses many of the formative experiences that shaped Napoleon’s rapid advancement. Cool under pressure, Bonaparte overcomes fierce rivals, deadly seas and political machinations to seal his imperial destiny. The story’s chapters play out in exhilarating fashion, tied together by an incredible feat of editing and technical ingenuity. With an equally enthralling score composed and conducted by Carl Davis (newly recorded in 7.1), this new digital restoration presents the silent masterpiece in all of its grandiose glory, with rich velvety blacks combining with gorgeously coloured tints and tones. Truly a magnificent big-screen experience.

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Directors: Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane.
Voices: Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Hayden Rolence. USA 2016. 103 mins.

Following on from 2003’s hit animated aquatic adventure Finding Nemo, the amnesiac regal blue tang Dory (voiced as before by Ellen DeGeneres) unexpectedly recovers some childhood memories, prompting her to set out to find her family. Accompanied by her friends Nemo (Rolence) and Marlin (Brooks), she swims to California’s Monterey Marine Life Institute, where she meets bolshie octopus Hank (Ed O’Neill), beluga whale Bailey (Ty Burrell) and whale shark Destiny (Kaitlin Olson), who agree to help her in her quest. With Finding Nemo writer-director Andrew Stanton also returning along with his Wall-E and Toy Story colleague Angus MacLane as co-director, this magical, beautifully rendered tale of rediscovery also affirms the importance of family.

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Vintage Sundays presents a selection of Disney’s best-loved masterpieces, spanning the classic 1940s era through to the 1990s renaissance. Find out more.

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Northern Radar presents Joe Fox
Joe Fox never set out to be famous. He was just writing songs because he wanted to — or even, because he needed to. “I’ve found a lot of people I’ve met really love being noticed,” he observes. “A lot more people do their jobs for others’ recognition than I thought. I don’t really. I’ve just always always made music because I enjoy it.” It’s this dedication to craft and a total disregard for trends that makes Fox’s voice unique in the landscape of 2016. A student of every great songwriter from the Beatles to Bob Marley, he brings a classic structure to the mind’s eye of a listless and disenfranchised child of the inner city. Paradoxically, it’s this headstrong mindset that led to Fox’s discovery. He takes a different approach to the Soundcloud generation, and in 2014 was busking and selling his CDs on the streets of London. When, by a fluke meeting in Soho at 4am, Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky heard Fox sing, he immediately knew he’d found someone special. Fox played a melancholic folk tune with fablelike qualities and a rough edge, titled ‘Listen Up Katie.’ “Whose song is that?” Rocky asked. Fox replied that it was his own — and Rocky immediately invited him to the studio. Their extraordinary collaboration began that night, with Fox crashing on the spare bed in Rocky’s hotel room. Six of his already written original songs formed the basis for new songs on Rocky’s number one studio album At.Long.Last.A$AP (including on the woozy standout ‘Jukebox Joints’ alongside Kanye West). As Billboard noted, “Fox anchors almost a third of the album.” The year since the album’s release in summer 2015 has been a whirlwind for Fox, between joining Rocky on a world tour to promote the album, signing to Rocky’s production company, AWGE and his own record deal with Blue Flowers/Island Records. He’s hung out with Daft Punk, and been told he’s a great songwriter by Danger Mouse. But Fox stays unfazed by the chaos of the music industry. “I feel like my life was more surreal before,” he muses. “It has more order now.” “Music has saved me, a lot,” he adds. “It’s religious.” The Acoustic Alley Sessions EP, is an introduction to Joe Fox the same way he began making and selling his music: alone with a guitar. As he puts it, “these songs are lifeblood. The first song he played for Rocky, “Listen Up Katie,” is on the record, along with other songs that date back to his busking days. ‘Radio’ is a dizzying, sweet love song with a chorus that pierces; ‘Head Down Low,’ meanwhile, taps into a more menacing voice, warning of the perils of inner city life. Acoustic Alley Sessions exposes Fox’s blisteringly honest songwriting style and raw, blues tinged voice.

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Originally published in 1933 – and rediscovered by a generation of feminists in the 1970s – Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth is an autobiographical account of the devastation wreaked by World War I. This lavish adaptation by BBC Films shows how spirited young Vera (Alicia Vikander, ANNA KARENINA) breaks free from the conventions of her class and gender to go to Oxford, only to have her brother (Taron Egerton) and fiancé (Kit Harington, Game of Thrones) torn from her by the outbreak of hostilities. She then heads for the front as a field nurse, experiencing the horror of war first hand. Eventually Vera returns to Oxford, a grieving woman in a shell-shocked country. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH is not just a heartbreaking love story, but also a corrective to the myth that only men fight wars. Contains scenes of bloody injury.

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The Royal Opera's lavish production of Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), Offenbach's masterpiece, is a favourite with audiences. Created by Academy Award-winning film director John Schlesinger, this production brings alive a 19th-century world of romance, comedy, mystery and menace. At the centre of these extraordinary tales of clockwork dolls, magical glasses, ghostly voices and sensual courtesans is the vivid imagination of the drunken Romantic poet Hoffmann. Charismatic young tenor Vittorio Grigolo is Hoffmann – compelled to tell the story of his lovers who, he believes, have all been stolen by a succession of arch villains. Superb baritone Thomas Hampson performs all four villains. The music includes the famous ‘Barcarolle’ and the stunning showpiece numbers are perfect vehicles for the vocal virtuosity of Sofia Fomina as the clockwork doll Olympia, Christine Rice as the courtesan Giulietta, and Sonya Yoncheva as Hoffmann's last love Antonia.

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Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
Choreography: Alexei Ratmansky
Libretto: Adrian Piotrovsky and Fyodor Lopukhov

Cast: Svetlana Lunkina (Zina), Mikhail Lobukhin (Pyotr), Maria Alexandrova (the Ballerina), Ruslan Skvortsov (the Ballet Dancer), Denis Savin (the Accordionist), Alexei Loparevich (the Old Dacha Dweller)

During harvest festival on a collective farm, a visiting dance troupe reunites a ballerina with her childhood friend, Zina. In order to teach her unfaithful husband a lesson, Zina, the ballerina and the ballerina’s husband decide to swap roles for the evening…

Alexei Ratmansky invokes the genius of Shostakovich’s score, creating a laugh-out-loud masterpiece with slapstick comedy, hilarious deceptions, false identities (including Principal Dancer Ruslan Skvortsov dressed as a sylph) and many colourful characters! The Bolshoi bursts with vivid life and bright spirits in Ratmansky’s brilliantly choreographed smash.

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This unmissable live event will take a candid look into the mind of Alan Bennett, Britain’s best-loved writer, who, at 82, shows no signs of slowing down. The event will include a screening of Alan Bennett’s Diaries, a new film about the writer, followed by an exclusive Q&A with Alan Bennett from his local library in Primrose Hill. Inspired by his acerbic and often hilarious diaries, the film shows Alan as he’s never been seen before – following him to New York, the scene of his early triumph in Beyond The Fringe, to accept an award from the city’s Public Library; to Shepherd’s Bush to record an episode of Private Passions for Radio 3 and open up about the importance of music in his life; to his local community-run library in Primrose Hill, which, he despairs, some would rather see turned into a Pizza Hut; to the East Coast railway line, which he’d like to see renationalised, and the village in Yorkshire he calls home. Intimate encounters, filmed over the course of a year, reveal a writer who is bemused by his own popularity and is still as angry and irreverent in his 80s as he was in his 20s.

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Funke and the Two Tone Baby’ ‘Funke AKA Dan Turnbull is taking fat beats, driving bass lines and blues-tinged electronics out of the fields and bringing the festival inside for 16 date tour. Support on each occasion comes from festival favourites and Funke Friends and at The Basement in York he plays alongside The Dyr Sister. Simultaneously playing 6 instruments though a mind-bending array of effects and loops, Funke isn’t your average one-man and a loop pedal act. He’s a 5-piece band exploding out of one guy. A wall of sound thrown from the speakers. A tsunami in a trilby. Having just been confirmed as main tour support for Skinny Lister and following stand out sets at this years Beautiful Days, Boomtown Fair, Knockengorroch, Nozstock and another 88 festivals in the last two years, Funke is at the top of his game and showcasing new machines, sounds and songs. www.funkeandthetwotonebaby.co.uk --------------- The Dyr Sister. Biography (Dyr is Old Norse for Deer) Sally Currie is The Dyr Sister and that most wonderful of things, a true and pioneering individual. A multi-instrumentalist she conjures up surreal tales with the aid of a viola, a mandolin, her voice and an array of live samples. Sally performs her catalogue of haunting, ethereal modern day folk songs as a one-woman band, portraying a fascinating canvas of sound and beats as she goes. Her original and innovative pieces are influenced by a wide range of genres from jungle and dubstep through trip hop and hip hop and ending somewhere deep amongst the many varieties of traditional folk music from around the world. She released her debut album “Fairy Tales for the Modern Gentleman - Volume One” in June 2015 and in July 2016 a five track EP. “The Demonstration Extended Play”. These unique and unconventional tunes are at the heart of her concerts. Quirky, and quite fantastic. The Dyr Sister crafts perfectly formed folk-infused alternative pop. Dom Smith - Soundsphere Magazine “The Dyr Sister is a rare artistic gem of contemporary folk talent!”. Jon Vyner - Tidal Concerts/The Camden Underworld www.thedyrsister.co.uk

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Director: James Whale. Starring: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester. USA 1935. 75 mins.

Love hurts for Karloff’s Monster in this sequel, as he finds himself at the mercy of enraged townsfolk and an uninterested bride – memorably realised by a shock-eyed, tower-haired Elsa Lanchester.

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Beth Vyse is back with an extraordinary look at her battle with Breast Cancer.
‘But then, as comedians go, Beth Vyse doesn’t have much time for the expected.’ THE GUARDIAN
A bodacious and ballsy look at her battle with breast cancer. Hear the tale of her Stoke-on-Trent family; The Waltons on Alcohol, her time with Nelson Mandela, acting and thieving at the Royal Shakespeare Company, settling down with Michael Jackson and finding cancer. Not to mention her producing two football teams from her womb. And all before the age of 30!
"A balance of surreal humour with raw emotion, as she brings her experiences to life" The Guardian
***** "Funniest thing I've seen on the Fringe" BROADWAY BABY
***** "She is a powerhouse of high energy and emotion from start to finish" BUNBURY
**** "Vyse comes across as an incredibly strong woman, not least because she manages to display her vulnerabilities whilst still maintaining a huge stage presence" THREE WEEKS
**** "She has the verve, the charisma and the honesty to get the job done" CHORTLE
**** "Visionary piece of genre-fusing theatre on surviving cancer" THE STAGE
**** "Vyse has brought her experiences so vividly to life it’s difficult not to wish to hear more." THE SKINNY
"This is a powerful show tackling a life-changing subject and it does it very well." Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke
BEST SHOW NOMINATION at the Barry Awards.
As seen on Loose Women, BBC's best new thing and heard on BBC radio 4 and BBC Scotland.

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Director: David Yates.
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Ezra Miller, Colin Farrell. UK / USA 2016. TBC mins.

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them is an all-new adventure returning us to the wizarding world created by J. K. Rowling.

Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory Of Everything) stars in the central role of wizarding world magizoologist Newt Scamander, under the direction of David Yates, who helmed the last four Harry Potter blockbusters.

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt’s fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds.

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Welcome to the Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club - bringing the best live stand-up to York!
Four top professional comedians Enjoy brilliant comedy A great night out! Book in advance and save money or pay on the night
Each show has four top professional comedians from all over the world to make you LOL!
Wherever possible we'll be bringing you comedians off the telly from such shows as BBC2's Mock The Week, Shooting Stars, Channel 4's 8 Out of 10 Cats, BBC1's Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, Have I Got News For You, QI, and Paramount's Live at The Comedy Store etc.
Previously we've booked the likes of Jason Manford, John Bishop and Sarah Millican before they hit the big time. So come and see more brilliant comedians!
There's also a full bar and two breaks for get more drinks and chatting to your friends!
'Ace night' Julie Lovatt
'Fantastic night yet again' Fleur Spafford
'Great night, everyone must try going, very funny' Lee Evans (not the Lee Evans!)
There are all real reviews from real customers so get booking now if you fancy a laugh!
Please note we do not allow bookings for Hen or Stag parties of any size and such parties will be refused admission to the venue.

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A festive celebration, featuring a 90-minute recorded Christmas concert packed with all the favourites including Hallelujah, Jingle Bells, White Christmas and many more, performed by André and his famous Johann Strauss Orchestra along with his sopranos and tenors.

As an exclusive for cinema audiences, André will be inviting his fans to his home town for a live intimate tour of Maastricht's magical Christmas highlights, as well as participating in a Q&A with CinemaLive host Charlotte Hawkins, where the King Of Waltz will answer questions submitted by cinema audiences.

Don’t miss this heartwarming festive treat!

The previously unseen 90-minute concert was recorded during André Rieu’s 2015 December tour.

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Director: David Yates.
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Ezra Miller, Colin Farrell. UK / USA 2016. TBC mins.

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them is an all-new adventure returning us to the wizarding world created by J. K. Rowling.

Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory Of Everything) stars in the central role of wizarding world magizoologist Newt Scamander, under the direction of David Yates, who helmed the last four Harry Potter blockbusters.

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt’s fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds.

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After recently accompanying folk rock legends Fairport Convention as their special guest on a 30 date UK tour, Roger Davies will be celebrating the release of his new album with us in April. This special concert with one of today's most engaging songwriters is not to be missed: his song Wear Your Poppy With Pride has raised thousands of pounds for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal and he received an LMPA Award for his album The Busker. Roger is now following in the footsteps of his musical heroes: Harvey Andrews, Jake Thackray and Richard Thompson, establishing himself as a songwriter of renown. "Every song on his album is a standout track" - Living Tradition Magazine "Beautiful songs" - BBC Radio 3 "The best night out I've had in ages. I'd go so far as to say he was a revelation" - Recent Audience Member Roger's brand new CD album 'Roger Davies: Live at The Topic Folk Club' will be available at this show. www.rogerdaviesmusic.com

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Director: David Yates.
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Ezra Miller, Colin Farrell. UK / USA 2016. TBC mins.

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them is an all-new adventure returning us to the wizarding world created by J. K. Rowling.

Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory Of Everything) stars in the central role of wizarding world magizoologist Newt Scamander, under the direction of David Yates, who helmed the last four Harry Potter blockbusters.

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt’s fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds.

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Director: David Yates.
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Ezra Miller, Colin Farrell. UK / USA 2016. TBC mins.

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them is an all-new adventure returning us to the wizarding world created by J. K. Rowling.

Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory Of Everything) stars in the central role of wizarding world magizoologist Newt Scamander, under the direction of David Yates, who helmed the last four Harry Potter blockbusters.

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt’s fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds.

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Director: David Yates.
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Ezra Miller, Colin Farrell. UK / USA 2016. TBC mins.

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them is an all-new adventure returning us to the wizarding world created by J. K. Rowling.

Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory Of Everything) stars in the central role of wizarding world magizoologist Newt Scamander, under the direction of David Yates, who helmed the last four Harry Potter blockbusters.

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt’s fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds.

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The Royal Opera's lavish production of Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), Offenbach's masterpiece, is a favourite with audiences. Created by Academy Award-winning film director John Schlesinger, this production brings alive a 19th-century world of romance, comedy, mystery and menace. At the centre of these extraordinary tales of clockwork dolls, magical glasses, ghostly voices and sensual courtesans is the vivid imagination of the drunken Romantic poet Hoffmann. Charismatic young tenor Vittorio Grigolo is Hoffmann – compelled to tell the story of his lovers who, he believes, have all been stolen by a succession of arch villains. Superb baritone Thomas Hampson performs all four villains. The music includes the famous ‘Barcarolle’ and the stunning showpiece numbers are perfect vehicles for the vocal virtuosity of Sofia Fomina as the clockwork doll Olympia, Christine Rice as the courtesan Giulietta, and Sonya Yoncheva as Hoffmann's last love Antonia.

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Director: David Yates.
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Ezra Miller, Colin Farrell. UK / USA 2016. TBC mins.

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them is an all-new adventure returning us to the wizarding world created by J. K. Rowling.

Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory Of Everything) stars in the central role of wizarding world magizoologist Newt Scamander, under the direction of David Yates, who helmed the last four Harry Potter blockbusters.

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt’s fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds.

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Director: David Yates.
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Ezra Miller, Colin Farrell. UK / USA 2016. TBC mins.

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them is an all-new adventure returning us to the wizarding world created by J. K. Rowling.

Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory Of Everything) stars in the central role of wizarding world magizoologist Newt Scamander, under the direction of David Yates, who helmed the last four Harry Potter blockbusters.

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt’s fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds.

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Mitsuha and Taki are two total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town and for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he’s never been to.

What does their newfound connection mean? And how will it bring them together?

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Director: George Waggner. Starring: Lon Chaney Jnr. USA 1941. 70 mins.

Lon Chaney Jnr stepped out from his father’s illustrious shadow with his most memorable role as Larry Talbot, a young man who haunts the wilds of Wales after turning into a werewolf.

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Wozzon Comedy Club is an evening of stand-up comedy presenting you with fresh new acts from across the UK.

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“A veteran performer at the top of his game – the playing is immaculate and full of passion, as you would expect from one of the UK’s leading exponents of blues guitar”
Come and see John and the guys live and join us for a night of blistering blues with a rocky edge!
John Verity has had a varied and amazing career, supporting rock luminaries such as JIMI HENDRIX, JANIS JOPLIN, THE WHO, JOHN MAYALL’S BLUESBREAKERS and MOUNTAIN and recording with RINGO STARR, KEITH EMERSON, GREG LAKE, TIM ROSE, ZOMBIES, COLIN BLUNSTONE, PHOENIX, CHARLIE and ARGENT to name but a few.
Recording and touring constantly, with his distinctive soulful blues edge, 2016 has already been John’s busiest in recent years and especially so with live appearances with his band; a fluid line-up but always with musicians of the highest professionalism and musicality. Continuing in the same vein with dates booked at high profile venues across the UK for this year and 2017, John is pleasing old friends and winning over new fans. Comments from audience members at HRH Blues at Sheffield 02:-
‘For me, John Verity Band were the highlight of the weekend. I didn’t know what to expect but they were awesome! I am now a confirmed Verity fan!’
‘An electrifying gig with brilliant songs and expert playing. Every moment was to be savoured.’ 'I'm listening to John Verity today. I first saw him in Sheffield recently and was utterly stunned and gobsmacked by just how good he is. This guy has the best style and touch - as a player he makes me tingle. I suggest to you all out there- miss this guy at your peril’. John also found the time earlier in 2016 to record and produce the latest album ‘My Religion’. This was released in April as a CD plus a vinyl double album in June and achieved critical acclaim from respected publications including ‘Blues in Britain’ and ‘Blues Matters’ with airplay on numerous radio stations including Paul Jones show ‘Nothing but the Blues’ on BBC Radio 2.
Find more JV music and catch up with the news here: www.johnverity.com

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Director: Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami. 2015. Germany/Switzerland/Iran. 90min.

Sonita Alizadeh, a strong-willed teenager who idolizes Rihanna and Michael Jackson, is an aspiring rapper, in spite of all the obstacles she confronts in Iran and from her conservative Afghan family. She is an undocumented Afghan refugee in Tehran, and her family has other plans for her. In this gripping documentary, her dream of living abroad is about to come true just as her family plan on sending her back home to get married to a much older man. He would give them a lump sum of money, which would allow Sonita's brother to pay the dowry find a bride of his own. While she must now attempt to overcome numerous personal and bureaucratic hurdles to avoid what seems inevitable, the film's director, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami is also confronted with a dilemma: should she interfere to help her or let things unfold in front of her eyes and of the camera? The film offers an incredible insight into the life of a young Afghan woman in Iran and the hurdles she must overcome to be able to live her dream of becoming a singer.

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Director: Jack Arnold. Starring: Julie Adams, Richard Carlson. USA 1954. 79 mins.

A half-human, half-fish creature – another iconic creation from the Universal special effects team – disrupts a research party deep in the Amazon, and kidnaps a beautiful young scientist in the process.

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A new monthly Open Mic Night to showcase those with the creative buzz. For any kind of performer- poetry, comedy, musings, music, monologue and miscellaneous! Guest headliners, up-n-comers and first-timers meet in the chilled surroundings of The Basement to take the stage! AGE 16+

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Up Close and Personal With Al Goodwin (Accompanied by Dave Freeney)
“Sparks of hope fly from each one of Al Goodwin’s songs as he takes you on a journey through the pivotal moments in his life. A warm, honest Yorkshireman, Al is no stranger to the hard grind of life and is clearly not afraid to bare his soul. But his sincere lyrics and fully charged acoustic guitar playing are laced with a strength, compassion and humour that verges on intoxicating. Experiencing a live performance with Al is like hanging out with an old friend with some great songs thrown in. A richly rewarding experience that comes with a lingering afterglow”
“Al’s writing tells of heart breaking truth’s about love and life and his control of each eloquently crafted song oozes the joy and pain of his life’s experiences which he shares openly, inviting us to journey with him through his melodic and rhythmic landscapes. Al’s work is a triumph of the artist remaining faithful to the truth. Never compromising or giving way to influence. His live performances provide exactly the same experiences as do the cleverly simple and emotionally evocative videos for his songs.
“Following up from his acclaimed album ‘Birth, Death and In Between’ Al is in the midst of his new works with two new releases available to hear now ‘All Colours Shine’ and ‘So Real’ fostering the same intensity but with a heart rendering and beautifully crafted fuller production that harks back to the greats of the 70’s but with a very modern touch”
Age Restrictions 16 +

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The Royal Ballet's glorious production of The Nutcracker, created by Peter Wright in 1984, is the production par excellence of an all-time ballet favourite. It is Christmas Eve and Drosselmeyer the magician sweeps young Clara away on a fantasy adventure in which time is suspended, the family livingroom becomes a great battlefield, and a magical journey takes them through the Land of Snow to the Kingdom of Sweets. Tchaikovsky's glittering score, the gorgeous festive stage designs and The Royal Ballet's captivating dancing – including an exquisite pas de deux between the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Prince – make this Nutcracker the quintessential Christmas experience.

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One of the most highly praised operas of recent years, Kaija Saariaho’s yearning medieval romance L’Amour De Loin (‘Love From Afar’) has its Met premiere this season. The production is by Robert Lepage, co-produced with L’Opéra De Québec in collaboration with Ex Machina. Debuting Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki leads the performance, which stars Susanna Phillips as Clémence, Eric Owens as Jaufré, and Tamara Mumford as the Pilgrim who carries messages of love between them.

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Sonya Yoncheva brings her acclaimed interpretation of the doomed courtesan Violetta Valéry to Live In HD audiences for the first time, opposite rising American tenor Michael Fabiano as her lover Alfredo. Thomas Hampson sings one of his most acclaimed Met roles as Giorgio Germont, Alfredo’s disapproving father, in a revival of Willy Decker’s staging conducted by San Francisco Opera Music Director Nicola Luisotti.

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The Royal Ballet's glorious production of The Nutcracker, created by Peter Wright in 1984, is the production par excellence of an all-time ballet favourite. It is Christmas Eve and Drosselmeyer the magician sweeps young Clara away on a fantasy adventure in which time is suspended, the family livingroom becomes a great battlefield, and a magical journey takes them through the Land of Snow to the Kingdom of Sweets. Tchaikovsky's glittering score, the gorgeous festive stage designs and The Royal Ballet's captivating dancing – including an exquisite pas de deux between the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Prince – make this Nutcracker the quintessential Christmas experience.

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Following their hit run on Broadway, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart return to the West End stage in Harold Pinter’s No Man's Land, broadcast live to cinemas from Wyndham’s Theatre, London.

One summer's evening, two ageing writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hirst's stately house nearby. As the pair become increasingly inebriated, and their stories increasingly unbelievable, the lively conversation soon turns into a revealing power game, further complicated by the return home of two sinister younger men.

Also starring Owen Teale and Damien Molony, don’t miss this glorious revival of Pinter’s comic classic. The broadcast will be followed by an exclusive Q&A with the cast and director Sean Mathias.

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Wozzon Comedy Club is an evening of stand-up comedy presenting you with fresh new acts from across the UK.

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Welcome to the Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club - bringing the best live stand-up to York!
Four top professional comedians Enjoy brilliant comedy A great night out! Book in advance and save money or pay on the night
Each show has four top professional comedians from all over the world to make you LOL!
Wherever possible we'll be bringing you comedians off the telly from such shows as BBC2's Mock The Week, Shooting Stars, Channel 4's 8 Out of 10 Cats, BBC1's Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, Have I Got News For You, QI, and Paramount's Live at The Comedy Store etc.
Previously we've booked the likes of Jason Manford, John Bishop and Sarah Millican before they hit the big time. So come and see more brilliant comedians!
There's also a full bar and two breaks for get more drinks and chatting to your friends!
'Ace night' Julie Lovatt
'Fantastic night yet again' Fleur Spafford
'Great night, everyone must try going, very funny' Lee Evans (not the Lee Evans!)
There are all real reviews from real customers so get booking now if you fancy a laugh!
Please note we do not allow bookings for Hen or Stag parties of any size and such parties will be refused admission to the venue.

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Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Yuri Grigorovich
Libretto: Yuri Grigorovich (after E. T. A. Hoffmann and Marius Petipa)

Cast: Denis Rodkin (the Nutcracker Prince), Anna Nikulina (Marie), Andrei Merkuriev (Drosselmeyer), Vitaly Biktimirov (the Mouse King) and the Bolshoi Corps De Ballet

On Christmas Eve, Marie’s wooden nutcracker doll is transformed into a beautiful prince who takes her on a magical journey. Before they leave, they must confront the Mouse King, whose army is threatening Marie…

Christmas would not be complete without the enchanting tale of young Marie and her nutcracker prince! Danced by the Bolshoi’s principals, Russian ballet master Yuri Grigorovich’s staging of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s fairy tale will transport children and adults alike to a world of magic and wonder for the holiday season.

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Following their hit run on Broadway, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart return to the West End stage in Harold Pinter’s No Man's Land, broadcast live to cinemas from Wyndham’s Theatre, London.

One summer's evening, two ageing writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hirst's stately house nearby. As the pair become increasingly inebriated, and their stories increasingly unbelievable, the lively conversation soon turns into a revealing power game, further complicated by the return home of two sinister younger men.

Also starring Owen Teale and Damien Molony, don’t miss this glorious revival of Pinter’s comic classic. The broadcast will be followed by an exclusive Q&A with the cast and director Sean Mathias.

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For the first time in HD, Met Music Director James Levine conducts Verdi’s early drama of Ancient Babylon, with Plácido Domingo adding a new role to his repertoire as the title character. Liudmyla Monastyrska sings the tour-de-force role of Abigaille, Nabucco’s wilful daughter, alongside Jamie Barton, Russell Thomas and Dmitri Belosselskiy.

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For the first time in HD, Met Music Director James Levine conducts Verdi’s early drama of Ancient Babylon, with Plácido Domingo adding a new role to his repertoire as the title character. Liudmyla Monastyrska sings the tour-de-force role of Abigaille, Nabucco’s wilful daughter, alongside Jamie Barton, Russell Thomas and Dmitri Belosselskiy.

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Simon Russell Beale returns to the RSC after 20 years to play Prospero in this groundbreaking production directed by Royal Shakespeare Company Artistic Director Gregory Doran.

On a distant island a man waits. He has been robbed of his position, power and wealth, and his enemies have left him in isolation. But this is no ordinary man, and this no ordinary island. Prospero is a magician, able to control the elements and bend nature to his will.

When a sail appears on the horizon, he reaches out across the ocean to the ship that carries the men who wronged him. Creating a vast storm he wrecks the ship and washes his enemies up on the shore. When they awake they find themselves lost on a fantastical island where nothing is as it seems.

In a unique partnership with Intel, the production will be using today’s most advanced technology in a bold reimagining of Shakespeare’s magical play, creating an unforgettable theatrical experience.

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The electrifying team of Vittorio Grigolo and Diana Damrau reunites for a new production of Gounod’s opera based on the Shakespeare play. Damrau makes her role debut as Juliette in Bartlett Sher’s new production, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Elliot Madore sings Mercutio, and Mikhail Petrenko sings Frère Laurent. Sher’s staging is a La Scala production.

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Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Yuri Grigorovich
Libretto: Ivan Vsevolozhsky and Marius Petipa (after Charles Perrault)

Cast: The Bolshoi Principals, Soloists and Corps De Ballet

On her 16th birthday, a curse by the evil Carabosse causes the beautiful Princess Aurora to fall into a deep slumber for 100 years. Only the kiss of a prince can awaken her…

In this resplendent and magical classic, the Bolshoi dancers take us on a dreamlike journey through the famous fairy tale, complete with jewel fairies, a magical kingdom, a youthful princess and a handsome prince. In the purest style of classical ballet, the Bolshoi’s peerlessly sumptuous staging with luxurious sets and costumes brings Perrault’s tale to life. A must-see!

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The electrifying team of Vittorio Grigolo and Diana Damrau reunites for a new production of Gounod’s opera based on the Shakespeare play. Damrau makes her role debut as Juliette in Bartlett Sher’s new production, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Elliot Madore sings Mercutio, and Mikhail Petrenko sings Frère Laurent. Sher’s staging is a La Scala production.

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International superstars Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Anita Rachvelishvili, Lianna Haroutounian and Gregory Kunde lead a superb cast of world-class singers in this Verdi classic. Il trovatore is one of the great operas of the Romantic period, a story of passion and blood, love and vengeance, disaster and murder. New in the 2015/16 Season, this atmospheric and poetic staging by director David Bösch puts the story of passion against the backdrop of war. Fire and snow in the landscape echo the cruelty and love of the story: soldiers and gypsies clash, a mother reveals a terrible secret and two men are engaged in a deadly fight for one woman. The famous Anvil Chorus is just one of the highlights of Verdi’s exceptionally fine music, which captures the shifting emotions of the drama through impassioned love duets, fiery solos and stirring choruses.

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Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Yuri Grigorovich
Libretto: Ivan Vsevolozhsky and Marius Petipa (after Charles Perrault)

Cast: The Bolshoi Principals, Soloists and Corps De Ballet

On her 16th birthday, a curse by the evil Carabosse causes the beautiful Princess Aurora to fall into a deep slumber for 100 years. Only the kiss of a prince can awaken her…

In this resplendent and magical classic, the Bolshoi dancers take us on a dreamlike journey through the famous fairy tale, complete with jewel fairies, a magical kingdom, a youthful princess and a handsome prince. In the purest style of classical ballet, the Bolshoi’s peerlessly sumptuous staging with luxurious sets and costumes brings Perrault’s tale to life. A must-see!

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Music. Power. Jealousy.

Lucian Msamati (Luther, Game of Thrones, NT Live: The Comedy of Errors) plays Salieri in Peter Shaffer’s iconic play, broadcast live from the National Theatre, and with live orchestral accompaniment by Southbank Sinfonia.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world – and he’s determined to make a splash. Awestruck by his genius, court composer Antonio Salieri has the power to promote his talent or destroy his name. Seized by obsessive jealousy he begins a war with Mozart, with music, and ultimately, with God.

After winning multiple Olivier and Tony Awards when it had its premiere at the National Theatre in 1979, Amadeus was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film.

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Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Yuri Grigorovich
Libretto: Yuri Grigorovich

Cast: Svetlana Zakharova (Odette/Odile), Denis Rodkin (Prince Siegfried), Artemy Belyakov (the Evil Genius), Igor Tsvirko (the Fool)

By moonlight on the shore of a mysterious lake, Prince Siegfried meets the bewitched swan-woman Odette. Completely spellbound by her beauty, he swears his love to her. However, the Prince realises too late that Fate has another plan for him….

A ballet of ultimate beauty, and a score of unparalleled perfection, born at the Bolshoi in 1877. In the dual role of the white swan Odette and her rival black swan Odile, prima ballerina Svetlana Zakharova exudes both vulnerability and cunning through superb technical mastery, alongside Denis Rodkin as a powerful and emotional Siegfried. Including breathtaking scenes with the Bolshoi’s corps de ballet, this is classical ballet at its finest.

Captured live on 25 Jan 2015

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International superstars Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Anita Rachvelishvili, Lianna Haroutounian and Gregory Kunde lead a superb cast of world-class singers in this Verdi classic. Il trovatore is one of the great operas of the Romantic period, a story of passion and blood, love and vengeance, disaster and murder. New in the 2015/16 Season, this atmospheric and poetic staging by director David Bösch puts the story of passion against the backdrop of war. Fire and snow in the landscape echo the cruelty and love of the story: soldiers and gypsies clash, a mother reveals a terrible secret and two men are engaged in a deadly fight for one woman. The famous Anvil Chorus is just one of the highlights of Verdi’s exceptionally fine music, which captures the shifting emotions of the drama through impassioned love duets, fiery solos and stirring choruses.

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The pioneering literary work of Virginia Woolf is the inspiration for multi-award-winning choreographer Wayne McGregor's brilliant triptych for The Royal Ballet. McGregor has long been at the cutting edge of ballet, working with collaborators from across the artistic world, and in this critically acclaimed work he combines themes from three of Woolf's landmark novels – Mrs Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves – with elements of her letters, essays and diaries. Acclaimed British composer Max Richter (Infra, Sum and Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons) creates a specially commissioned score incorporating electronic and live music.

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Music. Power. Jealousy.

Lucian Msamati (Luther, Game of Thrones, NT Live: The Comedy of Errors) plays Salieri in Peter Shaffer’s iconic play, broadcast live from the National Theatre, and with live orchestral accompaniment by Southbank Sinfonia.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world – and he’s determined to make a splash. Awestruck by his genius, court composer Antonio Salieri has the power to promote his talent or destroy his name. Seized by obsessive jealousy he begins a war with Mozart, with music, and ultimately, with God.

After winning multiple Olivier and Tony Awards when it had its premiere at the National Theatre in 1979, Amadeus was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film.

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The pioneering literary work of Virginia Woolf is the inspiration for multi-award-winning choreographer Wayne McGregor's brilliant triptych for The Royal Ballet. McGregor has long been at the cutting edge of ballet, working with collaborators from across the artistic world, and in this critically acclaimed work he combines themes from three of Woolf's landmark novels – Mrs Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves – with elements of her letters, essays and diaries. Acclaimed British composer Max Richter (Infra, Sum and Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons) creates a specially commissioned score incorporating electronic and live music.

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Gemma Arterton is Joan of Arc, broadcast live from the Donmar Warehouse.

Bernard Shaw’s classic play follows the life and trial of a young country girl who declares a bloody mission to drive the English from France. As one of the first Protestants and nationalists, she threatens the very fabric of the feudal society and the Catholic Church across Europe.

Josie Rourke (Coriolanus, Les Liaisons Dangereuses) directs Gemma Arterton (Gemma Bovery, Nell Gwynn, Made in Dagenham) as Joan of Arc in this electrifying production.

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Exhibition On Screen: I, Claude Monet

“My head is bursting – I want to paint it all.” Award-winning director Phil Grabsky presents a fresh new look at arguably the world’s favourite artist, Claude Monet, using the painter’s own words.

Based on letters and other private writings, I, Claude Monet provides new insight into the man who not only painted the picture that gave birth to Impressionism, but who was perhaps the most influential and successful painter of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

In spite of this, and perhaps because of it, Monet’s life is a gripping tale of a man who, behind his sun-dazzled canvases, suffered from bouts of depression, loneliness and even suicidal thoughts. Then, as his art developed and his love of nature led to the glories of his garden at Giverny, his letters reveal his humour, insight and love of life.

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Gemma Arterton is Joan of Arc, broadcast live from the Donmar Warehouse.

Bernard Shaw’s classic play follows the life and trial of a young country girl who declares a bloody mission to drive the English from France. As one of the first Protestants and nationalists, she threatens the very fabric of the feudal society and the Catholic Church across Europe.

Josie Rourke (Coriolanus, Les Liaisons Dangereuses) directs Gemma Arterton (Gemma Bovery, Nell Gwynn, Made in Dagenham) as Joan of Arc in this electrifying production.

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Kristine Opolais stars in a new production of the opera that first won her international acclaim, Dvořák’s fairy tale about the tragic water nymph Rusalka. Sir Mark Elder conducts Mary Zimmerman’s new staging, which also stars Brandon Jovanovich as the human prince who captures Rusalka’s heart; Katarina Dalayman as Rusalka’s rival, the Foreign Princess; Eric Owens as the Water Sprite, Rusalka’s father; and Jamie Barton as the duplicitous witch Ježibaba.

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Kristine Opolais stars in a new production of the opera that first won her international acclaim, Dvořák’s fairy tale about the tragic water nymph Rusalka. Sir Mark Elder conducts Mary Zimmerman’s new staging, which also stars Brandon Jovanovich as the human prince who captures Rusalka’s heart; Katarina Dalayman as Rusalka’s rival, the Foreign Princess; Eric Owens as the Water Sprite, Rusalka’s father; and Jamie Barton as the duplicitous witch Ježibaba.

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A perennial delight and a much-loved classic, The Royal Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty combines the best of classical ballet, with all its charms and virtuosity, splendid music and talented dancers. First choreographed to Tchaikovsky's great musical score by Marius Petipa in Russia in 1890, The Sleeping Beauty has wonderful ensembles, solos including the Rose Adage as Princess Aurora meets her suitors, and of course the concluding celebratory dances for the happy union of prince and princess. The Royal Ballet's landmark staging was revived for the Company's 75th anniversary celebrations in 2006. The designs by Oliver Messell, one of the greatest stage designers of the 20th century, were restored and updated for this production by Peter Farmer. The rich evocations of the baroque opulence of a royal court, the panoramic journey of the prince to the overgrown castle and the colourful characters in this famous fairytale make this Sleeping Beauty a spectacle like no other.

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A perennial delight and a much-loved classic, The Royal Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty combines the best of classical ballet, with all its charms and virtuosity, splendid music and talented dancers. First choreographed to Tchaikovsky's great musical score by Marius Petipa in Russia in 1890, The Sleeping Beauty has wonderful ensembles, solos including the Rose Adage as Princess Aurora meets her suitors, and of course the concluding celebratory dances for the happy union of prince and princess. The Royal Ballet's landmark staging was revived for the Company's 75th anniversary celebrations in 2006. The designs by Oliver Messell, one of the greatest stage designers of the 20th century, were restored and updated for this production by Peter Farmer. The rich evocations of the baroque opulence of a royal court, the panoramic journey of the prince to the overgrown castle and the colourful characters in this famous fairytale make this Sleeping Beauty a spectacle like no other.

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“I’ve no talent for life.”

Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free...

Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel.

Tony Award-winning director Ivo van Hove (A View From The Bridge at the Young Vic Theatre) returns to National Theatre Live screens with a modern production of Ibsen’s masterpiece.

Ruth Wilson (Luther, The Affair, Jane Eyre) plays the title role in a new version by Patrick Marber (Notes On A Scandal, Closer).

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Sonya Yoncheva brings her acclaimed interpretation of the doomed courtesan Violetta Valéry to Live In HD audiences for the first time, opposite rising American tenor Michael Fabiano as her lover Alfredo. Thomas Hampson sings one of his most acclaimed Met roles as Giorgio Germont, Alfredo’s disapproving father, in a revival of Willy Decker’s staging conducted by San Francisco Opera Music Director Nicola Luisotti.

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Music: Benjamin Britten, Max Richter, Ludwig van Beethoven, Leonid Desyatnikov
Choreography: Hans Van Manen, Sol León, Paul Lightfoot, Alexei Ratmansky

Cast: The Bolshoi Principals, Soloists and Corps De Ballet

For one evening, the Bolshoi takes on a bold new challenge in Hans Van Manen’s Frank Bridge’s Variations, Sol León and Paul Lightfoot’s Short Time Together and Alexei Ratmansky’s Russian Seasons. This encounter between some of the best dancers in the world and the masters of contemporary choreography results in an outstanding synthesis, raising Van Manen’s formal beauty, León and Lightfoot’s intensity, and Ratmansky’s witty brilliance to a new level.

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“I’ve no talent for life.”

Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free...

Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel.

Tony Award-winning director Ivo van Hove (A View From The Bridge at the Young Vic Theatre) returns to National Theatre Live screens with a modern production of Ibsen’s masterpiece.

Ruth Wilson (Luther, The Affair, Jane Eyre) plays the title role in a new version by Patrick Marber (Notes On A Scandal, Closer).

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Music: Benjamin Britten, Max Richter, Ludwig van Beethoven, Leonid Desyatnikov
Choreography: Hans Van Manen, Sol León, Paul Lightfoot, Alexei Ratmansky

Cast: The Bolshoi Principals, Soloists and Corps De Ballet

For one evening, the Bolshoi takes on a bold new challenge in Hans Van Manen’s Frank Bridge’s Variations, Sol León and Paul Lightfoot’s Short Time Together and Alexei Ratmansky’s Russian Seasons. This encounter between some of the best dancers in the world and the masters of contemporary choreography results in an outstanding synthesis, raising Van Manen’s formal beauty, León and Lightfoot’s intensity, and Ratmansky’s witty brilliance to a new level.

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Exhibition On Screen: The Artist's Garden - American Impressionism

Following the smash hit Painting The Modern Garden: Monet To Matisse from Season 3 of Exhibition On Screen comes a new film based on the hugely popular exhibition The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism And The Garden Movement from the Florence Griswold Museum in Connecticut, widely considered a home of American impressionism.

American impressionism took its lead from French artists such as Renoir and Monet. It then followed its own path and, over a thirty-year period, speaks as much about the American nation as it does about the artistic movement.

The story of American impressionism is closely tied to a love of gardens and a desire to preserve nature in the midst of rapid urbanisation in that country. Looking at studios, gardens and famous locations throughout the eastern United States, UK and France, this mesmerising film is a feast for the eyes.

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James Levine conducts a rare Met revival of Mozart’s Idomeneo, set in the aftermath of the Trojan War. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s classic production, which has its first Met revival in over a decade this season, stars Matthew Polenzani in the title role. The cast also includes Elza van den Heever, Nadine Sierra, Alice Coote and Alan Opie.

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James Levine conducts a rare Met revival of Mozart’s Idomeneo, set in the aftermath of the Trojan War. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s classic production, which has its first Met revival in over a decade this season, stars Matthew Polenzani in the title role. The cast also includes Elza van den Heever, Nadine Sierra, Alice Coote and Alan Opie.

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Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is one of the most popular of all operas, with ravishing music and a heartbreaking story of a loving geisha deserted by a callous American husband. Muchloved soprano Ermonela Jaho sings the title role for the first time at Covent Garden, in Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier's stunningly beautiful production. The exotic imagery of the Nagasaki setting is drawn from 19th-century Western artists' romanticized views of Japan. Puccini's music brings alive the birdsong of the morning, the ritual of a wedding and the seduction by naval officer B.F. Pinkerton (sung by exciting young tenor Marcelo Puente) of his young, innocent bride. Well known moments include the impassioned aria ‘Un bel dì’ (One fine day) as the abandoned Cio-Cio-San clings vainly to her dreams. Royal Opera Music Director Antonio Pappano, acclaimed for his interpretations of Italian opera, conducts this intense and gripping journey from light and excitement to darkness and self-sacrifice.

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Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is one of the most popular of all operas, with ravishing music and a heartbreaking story of a loving geisha deserted by a callous American husband. Muchloved soprano Ermonela Jaho sings the title role for the first time at Covent Garden, in Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier's stunningly beautiful production. The exotic imagery of the Nagasaki setting is drawn from 19th-century Western artists' romanticized views of Japan. Puccini's music brings alive the birdsong of the morning, the ritual of a wedding and the seduction by naval officer B.F. Pinkerton (sung by exciting young tenor Marcelo Puente) of his young, innocent bride. Well known moments include the impassioned aria ‘Un bel dì’ (One fine day) as the abandoned Cio-Cio-San clings vainly to her dreams. Royal Opera Music Director Antonio Pappano, acclaimed for his interpretations of Italian opera, conducts this intense and gripping journey from light and excitement to darkness and self-sacrifice.

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Music: Ilya Demutsky
Choreography: Yuri Possokhov
Libretto: Kirill Serebrennikov

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.

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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.

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Music: Ilya Demutsky
Choreography: Yuri Possokhov
Libretto: Kirill Serebrennikov

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.

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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.

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Anna Netrebko reprises one of her most acclaimed roles as Tatiana, the naive heroine of Tchaikovsky’s opera adapted from Pushkin’s novel. Dmitri Hvorostovsky stars as the title character, who rejects Tatiana’s love until it’s too late. Robin Ticciati, Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera, conducts the revival of Deborah Warner’s staging. Alexey Dolgov sings the role of Onegin’s friend turned rival Lenski, with Elena Maximova as Tatiana’s sister Olga, and Štefan Kocán as Prince Gremin.

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Anna Netrebko reprises one of her most acclaimed roles as Tatiana, the naive heroine of Tchaikovsky’s opera adapted from Pushkin’s novel. Dmitri Hvorostovsky stars as the title character, who rejects Tatiana’s love until it’s too late. Robin Ticciati, Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera, conducts the revival of Deborah Warner’s staging. Alexey Dolgov sings the role of Onegin’s friend turned rival Lenski, with Elena Maximova as Tatiana’s sister Olga, and Štefan Kocán as Prince Gremin.

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The Met’s first new production since 1969 of Strauss’s rich romantic masterpiece is conducted by Music Director James Levine and directed by Robert Carsen, whose most recent Met production was the hit 2013 staging of Falstaff. Renée Fleming sings one of her signature roles as the Marschallin, opposite Elīna Garanča in her first North American performances as the impulsive young title character. The cast also includes Günther Groissböck, Erin Morley, Marcus Brück and Matthew Polenzani. Der Rosenkavalier is a co-production with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Teatro Regio Di Torino.

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The Met’s first new production since 1969 of Strauss’s rich romantic masterpiece is conducted by Music Director James Levine and directed by Robert Carsen, whose most recent Met production was the hit 2013 staging of Falstaff. Renée Fleming sings one of her signature roles as the Marschallin, opposite Elīna Garanča in her first North American performances as the impulsive young title character. The cast also includes Günther Groissböck, Erin Morley, Marcus Brück and Matthew Polenzani. Der Rosenkavalier is a co-production with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Teatro Regio Di Torino.

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This gorgeous mixed programme demonstrates the great creative vision of Frederick Ashton, Founder Choreographer of The Royal Ballet. The Dream is Ashton's adaptation of Shakespeare's riotous comedy in which a forest sprite plays havoc, armed with a love potion. Symphonic Variations was Ashton's first work after World War II, and one of the Company's first to be performed on the huge main stage of the Royal Opera House, in 1946. With six dancers performing a series of quartets, duets, sextets and solos to Franck’s brooding Variations symphoniques, this seminal masterpiece celebrates the pure beauty of movement. Marguerite and Armand is Ashton's beautiful and emotional retelling of a well-known story, familiar to us through Verdi's opera La traviata. Ashton famously created this poignant ballet on Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in 1963.

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Exhibition On Screen: Michelangelo Love And Death

To coincide with a glorious new exhibition at the National Gallery of London, this film offers a full and fresh biography of Michelangelo who, with Leonardo, is considered one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance – and perhaps of all time. This film explores his relationship with his contemporaries and his immense artistic practice which included painting, sculpture and architecture. Among the works explored are the universally adored David in Florence, the Sistine Chapel in Rome and the Manchester Madonna (today in the National Gallery).

A major new film which gets to the very heart of this tempestuous, passionate giant.

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This gorgeous mixed programme demonstrates the great creative vision of Frederick Ashton, Founder Choreographer of The Royal Ballet. The Dream is Ashton's adaptation of Shakespeare's riotous comedy in which a forest sprite plays havoc, armed with a love potion. Symphonic Variations was Ashton's first work after World War II, and one of the Company's first to be performed on the huge main stage of the Royal Opera House, in 1946. With six dancers performing a series of quartets, duets, sextets and solos to Franck’s brooding Variations symphoniques, this seminal masterpiece celebrates the pure beauty of movement. Marguerite and Armand is Ashton's beautiful and emotional retelling of a well-known story, familiar to us through Verdi's opera La traviata. Ashton famously created this poignant ballet on Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in 1963.

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World-famous tenor Jonas Kaufmann makes his role debut as Otello in Verdi's passionate retelling of Shakespeare's great tragedy of jealousy, deception and murder. Soprano Maria Agresta will be his Desdemona and baritone Ludovic Tézier his nemesis Iago in a new production by Olivier Awardwinning director Keith Warner. A major work of the opera repertory, Verdi's Otello draws on the full forces of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, the Royal Opera Chorus and this stellar line-up of principal singers, with exquisite duets, emotionally potent solo numbers and thrilling choruses. Particular highlights include Otello and Desdemona's rapturous love duet and Desdemona's poignant 'Willow Song'. Royal Opera Music Director Antonio Pappano conducts this Italian masterpiece.

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World-famous tenor Jonas Kaufmann makes his role debut as Otello in Verdi's passionate retelling of Shakespeare's great tragedy of jealousy, deception and murder. Soprano Maria Agresta will be his Desdemona and baritone Ludovic Tézier his nemesis Iago in a new production by Olivier Awardwinning director Keith Warner. A major work of the opera repertory, Verdi's Otello draws on the full forces of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, the Royal Opera Chorus and this stellar line-up of principal singers, with exquisite duets, emotionally potent solo numbers and thrilling choruses. Particular highlights include Otello and Desdemona's rapturous love duet and Desdemona's poignant 'Willow Song'. Royal Opera Music Director Antonio Pappano conducts this Italian masterpiece.

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