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Director: Tom McCarthy.
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber. USA 2015. 129 mins.
The story of a group of journalists’ Pulitzer Prize-winning exposure of wrongdoing in the Catholic Church is brought to life by an ensemble of the best actors around.
The Boston Globe’s so-called Spotlight team – ‘Robby’ Robinson (Keaton), Michael Rezendes (Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (McAdams) and Matty Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James) – specialises in deep investigative journalism. When they hear of allegations that Boston’s cardinal knew about, and covered up, child abuse by priests, they are incredulous at first. But their editor (Schreiber) quietly insists that they pursue it, and we see the profound effects on all concerned – at the Globe, and in the community at large – as the horrifying truth emerges.
At a time when serious journalism seems under attack from all sides, Spotlight is an important as well as a gripping film: grown-up, serious but thrillingly entertaining.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino.
Starring: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Jane Fonda. Italy/France/Switzerland 2015. 124 mins.
Maestro Sorrentino follows his Oscar-winning The Great Beauty with an equally lush meditation on life, love and loss. Youth stars Caine as Fred Ballinger, a retired composer and international conductor, whom we encounter at a tranquil Swiss spa.
There he receives a visit from a Buckingham Palace emissary with a request from the Queen to perform his most famous piece, but he refuses “for personal reasons” that only become clearer later. In the meantime, Sorrentino lets us observe this ageing curmudgeon in his natural habitat among his fellow residents. Ever the stylist, Sorrentino crafts his own visual symphony using the characters as his instruments.
Notes of surreal humour abound, and the cast all give first-rate performances. Sorrentino has yet again outdone himself with this beguiling film for both young and old.
Director: Oliver Parker.
Starring: Bill Nighy, Michael Gambon, Toby Jones. UK 2015. TBC mins.
The narrator announces, “The year is 1944. On the brink of defeat our nation has a secret weapon. These heroes are Britain's last line of defence…” and we’re off and running with a fond recreation of the BBC sitcom which at its peak commanded up to 18 million viewers.
Johnny English Reborn and St Trinian’s director Oliver Parker works with regular screenwriter Hamish McColl to fashion a period-perfect tale of the somewhat picaresque, pratfall-prone Walmington-On-Sea Home Guard. Their story is picked up in 1944, just after the original series ended.
The iconic roles are taken on by a great cast of British character actors including Bill Nighy as Sergeant Wilson, Toby Jones as Captain Mainwaring, Michael Gambon as Private Godfrey, a moustachioed Tom Courtenay as Lance Corporal Jones, and Catherine Zeta-Jones as visiting journalist Rose Winters.
Director: Tom McCarthy.
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber. USA 2015. 129 mins.
The story of a group of journalists’ Pulitzer Prize-winning exposure of wrongdoing in the Catholic Church is brought to life by an ensemble of the best actors around.
The Boston Globe’s so-called Spotlight team – ‘Robby’ Robinson (Keaton), Michael Rezendes (Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (McAdams) and Matty Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James) – specialises in deep investigative journalism. When they hear of allegations that Boston’s cardinal knew about, and covered up, child abuse by priests, they are incredulous at first. But their editor (Schreiber) quietly insists that they pursue it, and we see the profound effects on all concerned – at the Globe, and in the community at large – as the horrifying truth emerges.
At a time when serious journalism seems under attack from all sides, Spotlight is an important as well as a gripping film: grown-up, serious but thrillingly entertaining.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino.
Starring: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Jane Fonda. Italy/France/Switzerland 2015. 124 mins.
Maestro Sorrentino follows his Oscar-winning The Great Beauty with an equally lush meditation on life, love and loss. Youth stars Caine as Fred Ballinger, a retired composer and international conductor, whom we encounter at a tranquil Swiss spa.
There he receives a visit from a Buckingham Palace emissary with a request from the Queen to perform his most famous piece, but he refuses “for personal reasons” that only become clearer later. In the meantime, Sorrentino lets us observe this ageing curmudgeon in his natural habitat among his fellow residents. Ever the stylist, Sorrentino crafts his own visual symphony using the characters as his instruments.
Notes of surreal humour abound, and the cast all give first-rate performances. Sorrentino has yet again outdone himself with this beguiling film for both young and old.
Director: Oliver Parker.
Starring: Bill Nighy, Michael Gambon, Toby Jones. UK 2015. TBC mins.
The narrator announces, “The year is 1944. On the brink of defeat our nation has a secret weapon. These heroes are Britain's last line of defence…” and we’re off and running with a fond recreation of the BBC sitcom which at its peak commanded up to 18 million viewers.
Johnny English Reborn and St Trinian’s director Oliver Parker works with regular screenwriter Hamish McColl to fashion a period-perfect tale of the somewhat picaresque, pratfall-prone Walmington-On-Sea Home Guard. Their story is picked up in 1944, just after the original series ended.
The iconic roles are taken on by a great cast of British character actors including Bill Nighy as Sergeant Wilson, Toby Jones as Captain Mainwaring, Michael Gambon as Private Godfrey, a moustachioed Tom Courtenay as Lance Corporal Jones, and Catherine Zeta-Jones as visiting journalist Rose Winters.
13.00Silver Screen: Aged over 60? Join the Silver Screen Club for discounted tickets and a free tea or coffee at these shows. Usual ticket prices apply to non-members.
HOH Subtitled: This screening has subtitles for people with hearing loss
Director: Tom McCarthy.
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber. USA 2015. 129 mins.
The story of a group of journalists’ Pulitzer Prize-winning exposure of wrongdoing in the Catholic Church is brought to life by an ensemble of the best actors around.
The Boston Globe’s so-called Spotlight team – ‘Robby’ Robinson (Keaton), Michael Rezendes (Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (McAdams) and Matty Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James) – specialises in deep investigative journalism. When they hear of allegations that Boston’s cardinal knew about, and covered up, child abuse by priests, they are incredulous at first. But their editor (Schreiber) quietly insists that they pursue it, and we see the profound effects on all concerned – at the Globe, and in the community at large – as the horrifying truth emerges.
At a time when serious journalism seems under attack from all sides, Spotlight is an important as well as a gripping film: grown-up, serious but thrillingly entertaining.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino.
Starring: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Jane Fonda. Italy/France/Switzerland 2015. 124 mins.
Maestro Sorrentino follows his Oscar-winning The Great Beauty with an equally lush meditation on life, love and loss. Youth stars Caine as Fred Ballinger, a retired composer and international conductor, whom we encounter at a tranquil Swiss spa.
There he receives a visit from a Buckingham Palace emissary with a request from the Queen to perform his most famous piece, but he refuses “for personal reasons” that only become clearer later. In the meantime, Sorrentino lets us observe this ageing curmudgeon in his natural habitat among his fellow residents. Ever the stylist, Sorrentino crafts his own visual symphony using the characters as his instruments.
Notes of surreal humour abound, and the cast all give first-rate performances. Sorrentino has yet again outdone himself with this beguiling film for both young and old.
Director: David Evans; Writer: Philippe Sands. UK, 2015, 94min.
A poignant, thought-provoking account of friendship and the toll of inherited guilt, My Nazi Legacy explores the relationship between two men, each of whom are the children of very high-ranking Nazi officials and possess starkly contrasting attitudes toward their fathers. Eminent human rights lawyer Philippe Sands investigates the complicated connection between the two, and even delves into the story of his own grandfather who escaped the same town where their fathers carried out mass killings. The three embark on an emotional journey together, as they travel through Europe and converse about the past, examining the sins of their fathers and providing a unique view of the father-son relationship, ultimately coming to some very unexpected and difficult conclusions.
10.30Silver Screen: Aged over 60? Join the Silver Screen Club for discounted tickets and a free tea or coffee at these shows. Usual ticket prices apply to non-members.
Director: Luca Guadagnino.
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Matthias Schoenaerts, Dakota Johnson. Italy 2015. 124 mins.
Marianne (Swinton), an ageing rock star, is enjoying an extended holiday on a Sicilian island, following career-threatening throat surgery, with filmmaker boyfriend Paul (Schoenaerts, Rust And Bone). Their peace is disrupted when Harry (Fiennes) – Marianne’s bombastic, avidly freethinking ex – and his precocious daughter, Penelope (Johnson), turn up to stay, uninvited. The ensuing friction, jealousy, passionate intrigue and fierce recriminations fuel Luca Guadagnino’s often funny, constantly edgy film inspired by Jacques Deray’s 1969 psychological drama La Piscine.
Doyenne of immersive characterisation Swinton, who also fronted Guadagnino’s sumptuous I Am Love, brilliantly navigates the extremes provoked by this emotional roller coaster, largely without actually being able to speak due to her character’s recuperation. The remaining ensemble – especially Fiennes, exuding all the energetic intensity of his role in The Grand Budapest Hotel – supports her to perfection.
In 1966 Argentinian author, critic and psychoanalyst Oscar Masotta organised three happenings (or anti-happenings). El helicóptero is the film footage of the re-enactment of Masotta's "The Helicopter" happening and, the first chapter of a longer film by Garcia titled Segunda Vez
Director: Luca Guadagnino.
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Matthias Schoenaerts, Dakota Johnson. Italy 2015. 124 mins.
Marianne (Swinton), an ageing rock star, is enjoying an extended holiday on a Sicilian island, following career-threatening throat surgery, with filmmaker boyfriend Paul (Schoenaerts, Rust And Bone). Their peace is disrupted when Harry (Fiennes) – Marianne’s bombastic, avidly freethinking ex – and his precocious daughter, Penelope (Johnson), turn up to stay, uninvited. The ensuing friction, jealousy, passionate intrigue and fierce recriminations fuel Luca Guadagnino’s often funny, constantly edgy film inspired by Jacques Deray’s 1969 psychological drama La Piscine.
Doyenne of immersive characterisation Swinton, who also fronted Guadagnino’s sumptuous I Am Love, brilliantly navigates the extremes provoked by this emotional roller coaster, largely without actually being able to speak due to her character’s recuperation. The remaining ensemble – especially Fiennes, exuding all the energetic intensity of his role in The Grand Budapest Hotel – supports her to perfection.
Director: Tom McCarthy.
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber. USA 2015. 129 mins.
The story of a group of journalists’ Pulitzer Prize-winning exposure of wrongdoing in the Catholic Church is brought to life by an ensemble of the best actors around.
The Boston Globe’s so-called Spotlight team – ‘Robby’ Robinson (Keaton), Michael Rezendes (Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (McAdams) and Matty Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James) – specialises in deep investigative journalism. When they hear of allegations that Boston’s cardinal knew about, and covered up, child abuse by priests, they are incredulous at first. But their editor (Schreiber) quietly insists that they pursue it, and we see the profound effects on all concerned – at the Globe, and in the community at large – as the horrifying truth emerges.
At a time when serious journalism seems under attack from all sides, Spotlight is an important as well as a gripping film: grown-up, serious but thrillingly entertaining.
From Gabriel Abrantes comes a supercharged history of sculptor Constantin Brancusi’s infamous ‘Princess X’, a futuristic bronze phallus that is actually a bust portrait of Napoleon’s equally infamous great grand niece, Marie Bonaparte.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino.
Starring: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Jane Fonda. Italy/France/Switzerland 2015. 124 mins.
Maestro Sorrentino follows his Oscar-winning The Great Beauty with an equally lush meditation on life, love and loss. Youth stars Caine as Fred Ballinger, a retired composer and international conductor, whom we encounter at a tranquil Swiss spa.
There he receives a visit from a Buckingham Palace emissary with a request from the Queen to perform his most famous piece, but he refuses “for personal reasons” that only become clearer later. In the meantime, Sorrentino lets us observe this ageing curmudgeon in his natural habitat among his fellow residents. Ever the stylist, Sorrentino crafts his own visual symphony using the characters as his instruments.
Notes of surreal humour abound, and the cast all give first-rate performances. Sorrentino has yet again outdone himself with this beguiling film for both young and old.
Director: Luca Guadagnino.
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Matthias Schoenaerts, Dakota Johnson. Italy 2015. 124 mins.
Marianne (Swinton), an ageing rock star, is enjoying an extended holiday on a Sicilian island, following career-threatening throat surgery, with filmmaker boyfriend Paul (Schoenaerts, Rust And Bone). Their peace is disrupted when Harry (Fiennes) – Marianne’s bombastic, avidly freethinking ex – and his precocious daughter, Penelope (Johnson), turn up to stay, uninvited. The ensuing friction, jealousy, passionate intrigue and fierce recriminations fuel Luca Guadagnino’s often funny, constantly edgy film inspired by Jacques Deray’s 1969 psychological drama La Piscine.
Doyenne of immersive characterisation Swinton, who also fronted Guadagnino’s sumptuous I Am Love, brilliantly navigates the extremes provoked by this emotional roller coaster, largely without actually being able to speak due to her character’s recuperation. The remaining ensemble – especially Fiennes, exuding all the energetic intensity of his role in The Grand Budapest Hotel – supports her to perfection.
In 1966 Argentinian author, critic and psychoanalyst Oscar Masotta organised three happenings (or anti-happenings). El helicóptero is the film footage of the re-enactment of Masotta's "The Helicopter" happening and, the first chapter of a longer film by Garcia titled Segunda Vez
Director: Luca Guadagnino.
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Matthias Schoenaerts, Dakota Johnson. Italy 2015. 124 mins.
Marianne (Swinton), an ageing rock star, is enjoying an extended holiday on a Sicilian island, following career-threatening throat surgery, with filmmaker boyfriend Paul (Schoenaerts, Rust And Bone). Their peace is disrupted when Harry (Fiennes) – Marianne’s bombastic, avidly freethinking ex – and his precocious daughter, Penelope (Johnson), turn up to stay, uninvited. The ensuing friction, jealousy, passionate intrigue and fierce recriminations fuel Luca Guadagnino’s often funny, constantly edgy film inspired by Jacques Deray’s 1969 psychological drama La Piscine.
Doyenne of immersive characterisation Swinton, who also fronted Guadagnino’s sumptuous I Am Love, brilliantly navigates the extremes provoked by this emotional roller coaster, largely without actually being able to speak due to her character’s recuperation. The remaining ensemble – especially Fiennes, exuding all the energetic intensity of his role in The Grand Budapest Hotel – supports her to perfection.
Director: Tom McCarthy.
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber. USA 2015. 129 mins.
The story of a group of journalists’ Pulitzer Prize-winning exposure of wrongdoing in the Catholic Church is brought to life by an ensemble of the best actors around.
The Boston Globe’s so-called Spotlight team – ‘Robby’ Robinson (Keaton), Michael Rezendes (Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (McAdams) and Matty Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James) – specialises in deep investigative journalism. When they hear of allegations that Boston’s cardinal knew about, and covered up, child abuse by priests, they are incredulous at first. But their editor (Schreiber) quietly insists that they pursue it, and we see the profound effects on all concerned – at the Globe, and in the community at large – as the horrifying truth emerges.
At a time when serious journalism seems under attack from all sides, Spotlight is an important as well as a gripping film: grown-up, serious but thrillingly entertaining.
From Gabriel Abrantes comes a supercharged history of sculptor Constantin Brancusi’s infamous ‘Princess X’, a futuristic bronze phallus that is actually a bust portrait of Napoleon’s equally infamous great grand niece, Marie Bonaparte.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino.
Starring: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Jane Fonda. Italy/France/Switzerland 2015. 124 mins.
Maestro Sorrentino follows his Oscar-winning The Great Beauty with an equally lush meditation on life, love and loss. Youth stars Caine as Fred Ballinger, a retired composer and international conductor, whom we encounter at a tranquil Swiss spa.
There he receives a visit from a Buckingham Palace emissary with a request from the Queen to perform his most famous piece, but he refuses “for personal reasons” that only become clearer later. In the meantime, Sorrentino lets us observe this ageing curmudgeon in his natural habitat among his fellow residents. Ever the stylist, Sorrentino crafts his own visual symphony using the characters as his instruments.
Notes of surreal humour abound, and the cast all give first-rate performances. Sorrentino has yet again outdone himself with this beguiling film for both young and old.
Director: Peter Sohn.
Voices: Raymond Ochoa, Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand. USA 2015. TBC mins.
In an ancient alternative universe where the dinosaurs weren’t destroyed by an asteroid, we meet a big-hearted young Apatosaurus called Arlo (Ochoa), who has become separated from his family. He befriends Spot (Jack Bright), a lonely cave-dwelling tot. Spot moves around on all fours and communicates mainly in squeaks and grunts, whilst accident-prone Arlo is blessed with human speech. The pair encourage each other to face their fears and overcome adversity as they travel through the wild and mysterious landscape.
Noted thesps Frances McDormand and Jeffrey Wright voice other key characters. This delightful film is the directorial debut of Peter Sohn, who was an animator on The Incredibles and Ratatouille. With twice as many special effects as any previous Pixar animation, The Good Dinosaur is a visual feast and a heartwarming prehistoric adventure.
Director: Luca Guadagnino.
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Matthias Schoenaerts, Dakota Johnson. Italy 2015. 124 mins.
Marianne (Swinton), an ageing rock star, is enjoying an extended holiday on a Sicilian island, following career-threatening throat surgery, with filmmaker boyfriend Paul (Schoenaerts, Rust And Bone). Their peace is disrupted when Harry (Fiennes) – Marianne’s bombastic, avidly freethinking ex – and his precocious daughter, Penelope (Johnson), turn up to stay, uninvited. The ensuing friction, jealousy, passionate intrigue and fierce recriminations fuel Luca Guadagnino’s often funny, constantly edgy film inspired by Jacques Deray’s 1969 psychological drama La Piscine.
Doyenne of immersive characterisation Swinton, who also fronted Guadagnino’s sumptuous I Am Love, brilliantly navigates the extremes provoked by this emotional roller coaster, largely without actually being able to speak due to her character’s recuperation. The remaining ensemble – especially Fiennes, exuding all the energetic intensity of his role in The Grand Budapest Hotel – supports her to perfection.
In 1966 Argentinian author, critic and psychoanalyst Oscar Masotta organised three happenings (or anti-happenings). El helicóptero is the film footage of the re-enactment of Masotta's "The Helicopter" happening and, the first chapter of a longer film by Garcia titled Segunda Vez
Director: Luca Guadagnino.
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Matthias Schoenaerts, Dakota Johnson. Italy 2015. 124 mins.
Marianne (Swinton), an ageing rock star, is enjoying an extended holiday on a Sicilian island, following career-threatening throat surgery, with filmmaker boyfriend Paul (Schoenaerts, Rust And Bone). Their peace is disrupted when Harry (Fiennes) – Marianne’s bombastic, avidly freethinking ex – and his precocious daughter, Penelope (Johnson), turn up to stay, uninvited. The ensuing friction, jealousy, passionate intrigue and fierce recriminations fuel Luca Guadagnino’s often funny, constantly edgy film inspired by Jacques Deray’s 1969 psychological drama La Piscine.
Doyenne of immersive characterisation Swinton, who also fronted Guadagnino’s sumptuous I Am Love, brilliantly navigates the extremes provoked by this emotional roller coaster, largely without actually being able to speak due to her character’s recuperation. The remaining ensemble – especially Fiennes, exuding all the energetic intensity of his role in The Grand Budapest Hotel – supports her to perfection.
Director: Adam McKay.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell. USA 2015. 130 mins.
Sitting neatly between the claustrophobic boiler-room drama of Margin Call and The Wolf Of Wall Street’s Grand Guignol theatrics, this latest entry into the financial-disaster subgenre boasts an all-star cast. Narrated by potty-mouthed banker Jared Vennett (Gosling), the film follows various unsavoury high rollers betting against the inevitable crash of 2008 – and actually winning.
Vennett dives into the credit-default-swop swamp, along with the self-loathing Mark Baum (Carell, in fine form), the apparently deranged Michael Burry (Christian Bale) and, a little later, a dishevelled Brad Pitt as a discredited banker gone rogue.
Most of us now have a handle on what caused the global economic collapse and even on some of its tortured jargon, but writer-director Adam McKay (Anchorman) has crafted a nifty comedy drama that even the fiscally illiterate will find both hilarious and suspenseful.
Join Buzzbee and friends in their fun-packed adventures in The Hive!
Every day brings something new for the little bee as he explores the world around him with best friends Barnabee, Debee, Jasper the wasp and his sister, Rubee.
Whether they’re on a treasure hunt or camping out under the stars, building a den or training Grandpa and Grandma Bee’s pet flea, Jump, to do tricks, there’s always something to learn and share.
And with a host of other colourful characters including Mamma and Pappa Bee, Mr Millipede, Miss Ladybird and Postman Spider, the Hive is a place you’ll want to keep coming back to visit!
Director: Luca Guadagnino.
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Matthias Schoenaerts, Dakota Johnson. Italy 2015. 124 mins.
Marianne (Swinton), an ageing rock star, is enjoying an extended holiday on a Sicilian island, following career-threatening throat surgery, with filmmaker boyfriend Paul (Schoenaerts, Rust And Bone). Their peace is disrupted when Harry (Fiennes) – Marianne’s bombastic, avidly freethinking ex – and his precocious daughter, Penelope (Johnson), turn up to stay, uninvited. The ensuing friction, jealousy, passionate intrigue and fierce recriminations fuel Luca Guadagnino’s often funny, constantly edgy film inspired by Jacques Deray’s 1969 psychological drama La Piscine.
Doyenne of immersive characterisation Swinton, who also fronted Guadagnino’s sumptuous I Am Love, brilliantly navigates the extremes provoked by this emotional roller coaster, largely without actually being able to speak due to her character’s recuperation. The remaining ensemble – especially Fiennes, exuding all the energetic intensity of his role in The Grand Budapest Hotel – supports her to perfection.
In 1966 Argentinian author, critic and psychoanalyst Oscar Masotta organised three happenings (or anti-happenings). El helicóptero is the film footage of the re-enactment of Masotta's "The Helicopter" happening and, the first chapter of a longer film by Garcia titled Segunda Vez
Director: Luca Guadagnino.
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Matthias Schoenaerts, Dakota Johnson. Italy 2015. 124 mins.
Marianne (Swinton), an ageing rock star, is enjoying an extended holiday on a Sicilian island, following career-threatening throat surgery, with filmmaker boyfriend Paul (Schoenaerts, Rust And Bone). Their peace is disrupted when Harry (Fiennes) – Marianne’s bombastic, avidly freethinking ex – and his precocious daughter, Penelope (Johnson), turn up to stay, uninvited. The ensuing friction, jealousy, passionate intrigue and fierce recriminations fuel Luca Guadagnino’s often funny, constantly edgy film inspired by Jacques Deray’s 1969 psychological drama La Piscine.
Doyenne of immersive characterisation Swinton, who also fronted Guadagnino’s sumptuous I Am Love, brilliantly navigates the extremes provoked by this emotional roller coaster, largely without actually being able to speak due to her character’s recuperation. The remaining ensemble – especially Fiennes, exuding all the energetic intensity of his role in The Grand Budapest Hotel – supports her to perfection.
Director: Tom McCarthy.
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber. USA 2015. 129 mins.
The story of a group of journalists’ Pulitzer Prize-winning exposure of wrongdoing in the Catholic Church is brought to life by an ensemble of the best actors around.
The Boston Globe’s so-called Spotlight team – ‘Robby’ Robinson (Keaton), Michael Rezendes (Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (McAdams) and Matty Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James) – specialises in deep investigative journalism. When they hear of allegations that Boston’s cardinal knew about, and covered up, child abuse by priests, they are incredulous at first. But their editor (Schreiber) quietly insists that they pursue it, and we see the profound effects on all concerned – at the Globe, and in the community at large – as the horrifying truth emerges.
At a time when serious journalism seems under attack from all sides, Spotlight is an important as well as a gripping film: grown-up, serious but thrillingly entertaining.
From Gabriel Abrantes comes a supercharged history of sculptor Constantin Brancusi’s infamous ‘Princess X’, a futuristic bronze phallus that is actually a bust portrait of Napoleon’s equally infamous great grand niece, Marie Bonaparte.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino.
Starring: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Jane Fonda. Italy/France/Switzerland 2015. 124 mins.
Maestro Sorrentino follows his Oscar-winning The Great Beauty with an equally lush meditation on life, love and loss. Youth stars Caine as Fred Ballinger, a retired composer and international conductor, whom we encounter at a tranquil Swiss spa.
There he receives a visit from a Buckingham Palace emissary with a request from the Queen to perform his most famous piece, but he refuses “for personal reasons” that only become clearer later. In the meantime, Sorrentino lets us observe this ageing curmudgeon in his natural habitat among his fellow residents. Ever the stylist, Sorrentino crafts his own visual symphony using the characters as his instruments.
Notes of surreal humour abound, and the cast all give first-rate performances. Sorrentino has yet again outdone himself with this beguiling film for both young and old.
Director: Luca Guadagnino.
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Matthias Schoenaerts, Dakota Johnson. Italy 2015. 124 mins.
Marianne (Swinton), an ageing rock star, is enjoying an extended holiday on a Sicilian island, following career-threatening throat surgery, with filmmaker boyfriend Paul (Schoenaerts, Rust And Bone). Their peace is disrupted when Harry (Fiennes) – Marianne’s bombastic, avidly freethinking ex – and his precocious daughter, Penelope (Johnson), turn up to stay, uninvited. The ensuing friction, jealousy, passionate intrigue and fierce recriminations fuel Luca Guadagnino’s often funny, constantly edgy film inspired by Jacques Deray’s 1969 psychological drama La Piscine.
Doyenne of immersive characterisation Swinton, who also fronted Guadagnino’s sumptuous I Am Love, brilliantly navigates the extremes provoked by this emotional roller coaster, largely without actually being able to speak due to her character’s recuperation. The remaining ensemble – especially Fiennes, exuding all the energetic intensity of his role in The Grand Budapest Hotel – supports her to perfection.
In 1966 Argentinian author, critic and psychoanalyst Oscar Masotta organised three happenings (or anti-happenings). El helicóptero is the film footage of the re-enactment of Masotta's "The Helicopter" happening and, the first chapter of a longer film by Garcia titled Segunda Vez
Director: Luca Guadagnino.
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Matthias Schoenaerts, Dakota Johnson. Italy 2015. 124 mins.
Marianne (Swinton), an ageing rock star, is enjoying an extended holiday on a Sicilian island, following career-threatening throat surgery, with filmmaker boyfriend Paul (Schoenaerts, Rust And Bone). Their peace is disrupted when Harry (Fiennes) – Marianne’s bombastic, avidly freethinking ex – and his precocious daughter, Penelope (Johnson), turn up to stay, uninvited. The ensuing friction, jealousy, passionate intrigue and fierce recriminations fuel Luca Guadagnino’s often funny, constantly edgy film inspired by Jacques Deray’s 1969 psychological drama La Piscine.
Doyenne of immersive characterisation Swinton, who also fronted Guadagnino’s sumptuous I Am Love, brilliantly navigates the extremes provoked by this emotional roller coaster, largely without actually being able to speak due to her character’s recuperation. The remaining ensemble – especially Fiennes, exuding all the energetic intensity of his role in The Grand Budapest Hotel – supports her to perfection.
15.25Silver Screen: Aged over 60? Join the Silver Screen Club for discounted tickets and a free tea or coffee at these shows. Usual ticket prices apply to non-members.
HOH Subtitled: This screening has subtitles for people with hearing loss
Director: Brett Haley.
Starring: Blythe Danner, Sam Elliott, June Squibb. USA 2015. 93 mins.
Widowed two decades earlier, sprightly Californian ex-teacher Carol (Danner) becomes more acutely aware of her solitary, unvaried routine when her beloved Labrador is put down. She is encouraged to seek fresh challenges by her three best friends, played with mischievous gusto by Rhea Perlman (Cheers’s acerbic Carla), June Squibb (Nebraska) and Mary Kay Place (It’s Complicated).
Carol’s exploits, including experimenting with speed dating and marijuana, are played for both laughs and poignancy in director/co-writer Brett Haley’s touching but never mushy meditation on the realities of later life for the cautiously optimistic. Carol also forges heartfelt new connections, firstly with a geeky young odd-job man (Martin Starr) and then with a handsome retired businessman (Elliott, Grandma). The subtle relish that Carol brings to all her discoveries testifies to Danner’s consummate artistry.
Contains infrequent strong language, moderate sex references and drug use.
13.10Silver Screen: Aged over 60? Join the Silver Screen Club for discounted tickets and a free tea or coffee at these shows. Usual ticket prices apply to non-members.
Director: Tom McCarthy.
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber. USA 2015. 129 mins.
The story of a group of journalists’ Pulitzer Prize-winning exposure of wrongdoing in the Catholic Church is brought to life by an ensemble of the best actors around.
The Boston Globe’s so-called Spotlight team – ‘Robby’ Robinson (Keaton), Michael Rezendes (Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (McAdams) and Matty Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James) – specialises in deep investigative journalism. When they hear of allegations that Boston’s cardinal knew about, and covered up, child abuse by priests, they are incredulous at first. But their editor (Schreiber) quietly insists that they pursue it, and we see the profound effects on all concerned – at the Globe, and in the community at large – as the horrifying truth emerges.
At a time when serious journalism seems under attack from all sides, Spotlight is an important as well as a gripping film: grown-up, serious but thrillingly entertaining.
Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse.
Starring: Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving. Australia 2015. TBC mins.
Wielding a sewing machine and the accumulated vitriol of a career in the international couture business, Tilly Dunnage (Winslet) returns home to the Australian outback.
She was banished from the town after being falsely accused of murder as a child, and even her dotty mother (Judy Davis) is still not persuaded of her innocence. Tilly transforms the town’s dowdiest womenfolk – and some of the men – with her extravagant fashion creations. Intent on exacting revenge on those who wronged her, she also sets out to unravel the mystery of the crime she’s still suspected of committing. In doing so she confounds our every expectation, not least in the direction of her romance with local hunk Teddy (Hemsworth).
Director Jocelyn Moorhouse returns 20 years after How To Make An American Quilt with this wonderfully offbeat black comedy.
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Director: Luca Guadagnino.
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Matthias Schoenaerts, Dakota Johnson. Italy 2015. 124 mins.
Marianne (Swinton), an ageing rock star, is enjoying an extended holiday on a Sicilian island, following career-threatening throat surgery, with filmmaker boyfriend Paul (Schoenaerts, Rust And Bone). Their peace is disrupted when Harry (Fiennes) – Marianne’s bombastic, avidly freethinking ex – and his precocious daughter, Penelope (Johnson), turn up to stay, uninvited. The ensuing friction, jealousy, passionate intrigue and fierce recriminations fuel Luca Guadagnino’s often funny, constantly edgy film inspired by Jacques Deray’s 1969 psychological drama La Piscine.
Doyenne of immersive characterisation Swinton, who also fronted Guadagnino’s sumptuous I Am Love, brilliantly navigates the extremes provoked by this emotional roller coaster, largely without actually being able to speak due to her character’s recuperation. The remaining ensemble – especially Fiennes, exuding all the energetic intensity of his role in The Grand Budapest Hotel – supports her to perfection.
In 1966 Argentinian author, critic and psychoanalyst Oscar Masotta organised three happenings (or anti-happenings). El helicóptero is the film footage of the re-enactment of Masotta's "The Helicopter" happening and, the first chapter of a longer film by Garcia titled Segunda Vez
Director: Luca Guadagnino.
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Matthias Schoenaerts, Dakota Johnson. Italy 2015. 124 mins.
Marianne (Swinton), an ageing rock star, is enjoying an extended holiday on a Sicilian island, following career-threatening throat surgery, with filmmaker boyfriend Paul (Schoenaerts, Rust And Bone). Their peace is disrupted when Harry (Fiennes) – Marianne’s bombastic, avidly freethinking ex – and his precocious daughter, Penelope (Johnson), turn up to stay, uninvited. The ensuing friction, jealousy, passionate intrigue and fierce recriminations fuel Luca Guadagnino’s often funny, constantly edgy film inspired by Jacques Deray’s 1969 psychological drama La Piscine.
Doyenne of immersive characterisation Swinton, who also fronted Guadagnino’s sumptuous I Am Love, brilliantly navigates the extremes provoked by this emotional roller coaster, largely without actually being able to speak due to her character’s recuperation. The remaining ensemble – especially Fiennes, exuding all the energetic intensity of his role in The Grand Budapest Hotel – supports her to perfection.
Director: Tom McCarthy.
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber. USA 2015. 129 mins.
The story of a group of journalists’ Pulitzer Prize-winning exposure of wrongdoing in the Catholic Church is brought to life by an ensemble of the best actors around.
The Boston Globe’s so-called Spotlight team – ‘Robby’ Robinson (Keaton), Michael Rezendes (Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (McAdams) and Matty Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James) – specialises in deep investigative journalism. When they hear of allegations that Boston’s cardinal knew about, and covered up, child abuse by priests, they are incredulous at first. But their editor (Schreiber) quietly insists that they pursue it, and we see the profound effects on all concerned – at the Globe, and in the community at large – as the horrifying truth emerges.
At a time when serious journalism seems under attack from all sides, Spotlight is an important as well as a gripping film: grown-up, serious but thrillingly entertaining.
From Gabriel Abrantes comes a supercharged history of sculptor Constantin Brancusi’s infamous ‘Princess X’, a futuristic bronze phallus that is actually a bust portrait of Napoleon’s equally infamous great grand niece, Marie Bonaparte.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino.
Starring: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Jane Fonda. Italy/France/Switzerland 2015. 124 mins.
Maestro Sorrentino follows his Oscar-winning The Great Beauty with an equally lush meditation on life, love and loss. Youth stars Caine as Fred Ballinger, a retired composer and international conductor, whom we encounter at a tranquil Swiss spa.
There he receives a visit from a Buckingham Palace emissary with a request from the Queen to perform his most famous piece, but he refuses “for personal reasons” that only become clearer later. In the meantime, Sorrentino lets us observe this ageing curmudgeon in his natural habitat among his fellow residents. Ever the stylist, Sorrentino crafts his own visual symphony using the characters as his instruments.
Notes of surreal humour abound, and the cast all give first-rate performances. Sorrentino has yet again outdone himself with this beguiling film for both young and old.
In 1966 Argentinian author, critic and psychoanalyst Oscar Masotta organised three happenings (or anti-happenings). El helicóptero is the film footage of the re-enactment of Masotta's "The Helicopter" happening and, the first chapter of a longer film by Garcia titled Segunda Vez
Director: Luca Guadagnino.
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Matthias Schoenaerts, Dakota Johnson. Italy 2015. 124 mins.
Marianne (Swinton), an ageing rock star, is enjoying an extended holiday on a Sicilian island, following career-threatening throat surgery, with filmmaker boyfriend Paul (Schoenaerts, Rust And Bone). Their peace is disrupted when Harry (Fiennes) – Marianne’s bombastic, avidly freethinking ex – and his precocious daughter, Penelope (Johnson), turn up to stay, uninvited. The ensuing friction, jealousy, passionate intrigue and fierce recriminations fuel Luca Guadagnino’s often funny, constantly edgy film inspired by Jacques Deray’s 1969 psychological drama La Piscine.
Doyenne of immersive characterisation Swinton, who also fronted Guadagnino’s sumptuous I Am Love, brilliantly navigates the extremes provoked by this emotional roller coaster, largely without actually being able to speak due to her character’s recuperation. The remaining ensemble – especially Fiennes, exuding all the energetic intensity of his role in The Grand Budapest Hotel – supports her to perfection.
Director: Brett Haley.
Starring: Blythe Danner, Sam Elliott, June Squibb. USA 2015. 93 mins.
Widowed two decades earlier, sprightly Californian ex-teacher Carol (Danner) becomes more acutely aware of her solitary, unvaried routine when her beloved Labrador is put down. She is encouraged to seek fresh challenges by her three best friends, played with mischievous gusto by Rhea Perlman (Cheers’s acerbic Carla), June Squibb (Nebraska) and Mary Kay Place (It’s Complicated).
Carol’s exploits, including experimenting with speed dating and marijuana, are played for both laughs and poignancy in director/co-writer Brett Haley’s touching but never mushy meditation on the realities of later life for the cautiously optimistic. Carol also forges heartfelt new connections, firstly with a geeky young odd-job man (Martin Starr) and then with a handsome retired businessman (Elliott, Grandma). The subtle relish that Carol brings to all her discoveries testifies to Danner’s consummate artistry.
Contains infrequent strong language, moderate sex references and drug use.
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Director: Tom McCarthy.
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber. USA 2015. 129 mins.
The story of a group of journalists’ Pulitzer Prize-winning exposure of wrongdoing in the Catholic Church is brought to life by an ensemble of the best actors around.
The Boston Globe’s so-called Spotlight team – ‘Robby’ Robinson (Keaton), Michael Rezendes (Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (McAdams) and Matty Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James) – specialises in deep investigative journalism. When they hear of allegations that Boston’s cardinal knew about, and covered up, child abuse by priests, they are incredulous at first. But their editor (Schreiber) quietly insists that they pursue it, and we see the profound effects on all concerned – at the Globe, and in the community at large – as the horrifying truth emerges.
At a time when serious journalism seems under attack from all sides, Spotlight is an important as well as a gripping film: grown-up, serious but thrillingly entertaining.
Director: Adam McKay.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell. USA 2015. 130 mins.
Sitting neatly between the claustrophobic boiler-room drama of Margin Call and The Wolf Of Wall Street’s Grand Guignol theatrics, this latest entry into the financial-disaster subgenre boasts an all-star cast. Narrated by potty-mouthed banker Jared Vennett (Gosling), the film follows various unsavoury high rollers betting against the inevitable crash of 2008 – and actually winning.
Vennett dives into the credit-default-swop swamp, along with the self-loathing Mark Baum (Carell, in fine form), the apparently deranged Michael Burry (Christian Bale) and, a little later, a dishevelled Brad Pitt as a discredited banker gone rogue.
Most of us now have a handle on what caused the global economic collapse and even on some of its tortured jargon, but writer-director Adam McKay (Anchorman) has crafted a nifty comedy drama that even the fiscally illiterate will find both hilarious and suspenseful.
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Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse.
Starring: Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving. Australia 2015. TBC mins.
Wielding a sewing machine and the accumulated vitriol of a career in the international couture business, Tilly Dunnage (Winslet) returns home to the Australian outback.
She was banished from the town after being falsely accused of murder as a child, and even her dotty mother (Judy Davis) is still not persuaded of her innocence. Tilly transforms the town’s dowdiest womenfolk – and some of the men – with her extravagant fashion creations. Intent on exacting revenge on those who wronged her, she also sets out to unravel the mystery of the crime she’s still suspected of committing. In doing so she confounds our every expectation, not least in the direction of her romance with local hunk Teddy (Hemsworth).
Director Jocelyn Moorhouse returns 20 years after How To Make An American Quilt with this wonderfully offbeat black comedy.
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Directors: Neville Astley & Mark Baker. Voices: Brian Blessed, David Rintoul, Alexander Armstrong. UK 2015. 70 mins.
This riotous animation introduces us to Sir Morris and Sir Boris, two well-meaning but dim-witted knights, voiced with bellicose charm by Brian Blessed and David Rintoul. These brave knights tackle every challenge with endearing gusto, oblivious of the trail of chaos left by their constant heroism. From the animators behind Peppa Pig, this compilation from the star-studded BBC series sparkles with wry humour and boisterous slapstick.
Director: Peter Sohn.
Voices: Raymond Ochoa, Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand. USA 2015. TBC mins.
In an ancient alternative universe where the dinosaurs weren’t destroyed by an asteroid, we meet a big-hearted young Apatosaurus called Arlo (Ochoa), who has become separated from his family. He befriends Spot (Jack Bright), a lonely cave-dwelling tot. Spot moves around on all fours and communicates mainly in squeaks and grunts, whilst accident-prone Arlo is blessed with human speech. The pair encourage each other to face their fears and overcome adversity as they travel through the wild and mysterious landscape.
Noted thesps Frances McDormand and Jeffrey Wright voice other key characters. This delightful film is the directorial debut of Peter Sohn, who was an animator on The Incredibles and Ratatouille. With twice as many special effects as any previous Pixar animation, The Good Dinosaur is a visual feast and a heartwarming prehistoric adventure.
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Shakespeare’s glorious comedy of love and change comes to the National Theatre for the first time in over 30 years, with Rosalie Craig (London Road, Macbeth at MIF) as Rosalind.
With her father the Duke banished and in exile, Rosalind and her cousin Celia leave their lives in the court behind them and journey into the Forest Of Arden.
There, released from convention, Rosalind experiences the liberating rush of transformation. Disguising herself as a boy, she embraces a different way of living and falls spectacularly in love.
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After he wins his school's paper plane making contest, 11-year-old Dylan and his father bond as Dylan prepares for the World Paper Plane Championships in Tokyo.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen.
Starring: George Clooney, Josh Brolin, Scarlett Johansson. USA/UK 2016. TBC mins.
In their first flat-out comedy since 2008’s Burn After Reading, Ethan and Joel Coen depict the glamorous Hollywood fakery of the 1950s, when an uptight British film director (Ralph Fiennes) is having trouble trying to eradicate the Southern drawl of an inept young thesp (Alden Aldrich). The studio’s problems escalate wildly when the star of their unfinished swords ’n’ sandals epic, Baird Whitlock (Clooney), is kidnapped after a night of debauchery by a shadowy group calling themselves The Future.
The studio asks industry fixer Eddie Mannix (Brolin) to retrieve their valuable property. Fast-moving interwoven plot lines, the Coens’ trademark dry humour and a star-studded ensemble cast – which includes Frances McDormand, Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatutm, Tilda Swinton and Dolph Lundgren – make this a joy to behold.
The first season of the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Live promises an exceptional series of plays broadcast to cinemas from London’s Garrick Theatre over the course of a year.
The season begins with The Winter’s Tale. Shakespeare's timeless tragicomedy of obsession and redemption is reimagined in a new production co-directed by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh, following their triumphant staging of Macbeth in Manchester and Manhattan.
King Leontes appears to have everything: power, wealth, a loving family and friends. But sexual jealousy sets in motion a chain of events with tragic consequences…
The Winter’s Tale will star a remarkable group of actors, featuring Judi Dench as Paulina, alongside Tom Bateman (Florizel), Jessie Buckley (Perdita), Hadley Fraser (Polixenes), Miranda Raison (Hermione) and Kenneth Branagh as Leontes.
Following a sell-out run at London’s Royal Court Theatre, Olivier and Academy Award® winner Martin McDonagh (The Pillowman, The Cripple of Inishmaan, In Bruges) returns to the West End with Matthew Dunster’s award-winning production of his deeply funny new play Hangmen, broadcast live to cinemas by National Theatre Live.
In his small pub in the northern English town of Oldham, Harry (David Morrissey – The Walking Dead, State of Play) is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they've abolished hanging?
Amongst the cub reporters and pub regulars dying to hear Harry’s reaction to the news, his old assistant Syd (Andy Nyman – Peaky Blinders, Death at a Funeral) and the peculiar Mooney (Johnny Flynn – Clouds of Sils Maria) lurk with very different motives for their visit.
Director: Steven Spielberg.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance. USA 2015. 141 mins.
Steven Spielberg’s gripping latest tells the story of Brooklyn lawyer James Donovan (Hanks). He must negotiate the release of Francis Gary Powers (Austen Stowell, Whiplash), the pilot of an American U-2 spy plane shot down over Russia in 1960.
Donovan’s task involves organising the release of Powers, who is languishing in the notorious Lubyanka prison, in exchange for his own client, the British-born agent Rudolf Abel (Rylance), who was imprisoned in Atlanta three years earlier and charged with being part of a New York-based KGB spy ring.
The tense negotiations build to a dramatic encounter on Berlin’s famous Glienicke Bridge. Inspired by real events, Spielberg’s masterful re-enactment is co-written by Ethan and Joel Coen, and the starry cast includes veteran actor Alan Alda and Amy Ryan as Donovan’s wife. Bridge Of Spies is the ultimate Cold War blockbuster.
Contains infrequent strong language, moderate threat and violence.
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Director: Wolfgang Reitherman. USA. 1967. 77 mins.
Abandoned after an accident, baby Mowgli is taken and raised by a family of wolves. As the boy grows older, the wise panther Bagheera realizes he must be returned to his own kind in the nearby man-village. Baloo the bear however thinks differently taking the young Mowgli under his wing and teaching that living in the jungle is the best life there is. Bagheera realizes that Mowgli is in danger, particularly from Shere Khan the tiger who hates all people. When Baloo finally comes around, Mowgli runs off into the jungle where he survives a second encounter with Kaa the snake and finally, with Shere Khan. It's the sight of a pretty girl however that gets Mowgli to go the nearby man-village.
Following the hugely successful broadcasts of Coriolanus and King Lear, National Theatre Live brings the Donmar Warehouse’s highly anticipated new production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses to cinemas - broadcast live from the Donmar’s London home.
Directed by Josie Rourke (Coriolanus), the cast includes Elaine Cassidy (Harper's Island), Janet McTeer (The White Queen) and Dominic West (The Wire).
In 1782, Choderlos de Laclos’ novel of sex, intrigue and betrayal in pre-revolutionary France scandalised the world. Two hundred years later, Christopher Hampton's irresistible adaptation swept the board, winning the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Play. Josie Rourke’s revival now marks the play’s thirty year anniversary.
Former lovers, the Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont now compete in games of seduction and revenge. Merteuil incites Valmont to corrupt the innocent Cecile de Volanges before her wedding night but Valmont has targeted the peerlessly virtuous and beautiful Madame de Tourvel. While these merciless aristocrats toy with others’ hearts and reputations, their own may prove more fragile than they supposed.
A welcome re-release of perhaps the most influential of all horror films. Alfred Hitchcock's stunningly realised tale of gruesome murders and sly verbal sparring at the Bates Motel. Bernard Herrman's famed all-strings score enriches the film considerably and provides some of the most famous music in cinema history, with the innovative, nerve-jangling, violent 'screams' which accompany the stabbing of Janet Leigh in the shower.
In 2010, or maybe 2011 – it’s hard to be certain about these things – I wrote and performed a show called It’s Always Right Now, Until It’s Later. I originally performed it at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the Traverse Theatre every morning at 10.30am, before restaging it at St Ann’s Warehouse in New York, the National Theatre in London and the Royal Exchange in Manchester.
This film was made on one single night towards the end of the Manchester run, and is the entire show in real time. We showed it at the Latitude Festival a couple of years ago, but besides that it’s just been sitting on various hard drives whilst I decide what to do with it.
This feels like a slight shame, because I do think it’s pretty good, and over Christmas I had the idea of putting together a limited tour of interesting, lovely or odd cinemas, where I would introduce a screening of the film.
A welcome re-release of perhaps the most influential of all horror films. Alfred Hitchcock's stunningly realised tale of gruesome murders and sly verbal sparring at the Bates Motel. Bernard Herrman's famed all-strings score enriches the film considerably and provides some of the most famous music in cinema history, with the innovative, nerve-jangling, violent 'screams' which accompany the stabbing of Janet Leigh in the shower.
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Director: Wolfgang Reitherman.
Starring: Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot and Louis Prima. 78 mins.
Plus pre-screening singalong with live accompaniment
Come and enjoy a special screening of Disney's classic musical tale The Jungle Book, with all proceeds going to Asher's Fund – a campaign to raise much-needed money to send a local four-year-old boy with cerebral palsy to America for urgent life-changing surgery. This is Asher's favourite film!
Dress as your favourite animal – the best costume wins a prize! And join in with a Jungle Book singalong before the screening starts. A great way to help a great cause.
In atmospheric 1950s New York, the titular Carol (Blanchett) is marooned in an unhappy marriage to rich businessman Harge Aird (Kyle Chandler, Zero Dark Thirty) when a chance meeting with dreamy shop assistant Therese (Mara, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) sparks a slow-burning romance between the two women.
This prompts much soul-searching and subterfuge on their part, and a bitter custody battle with Harge over Carol’s only child, Rindy (winning newcomer K. K. Heim).
Paired again with Todd Haynes, the maverick director of I’m Not There, Blanchett gives a devastating performance that should be an Oscar shoo-in, with Mara not far behind; their on-screen chemistry fully exploits Phyllis Nagy’s emotionally muscular, pitch-perfect adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s landmark novel.
We are delighted to welcome director Ben Wheatley for a Q&A following this screening.
Director: Ben Wheatley.
Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller. UK 2015. TBC mins.
J. G. Ballard’s dystopian novel about society disintegrating within a giant tower block is brought to the screen by the maverick writer-director partnership of Amy Jump and Ben Wheatley (Kill List, Sightseers). Awarded his biggest budget yet, Wheatley ushers on board established stars and ace production designer Mark Tildesley (The Constant Gardener, 28 Days Later). Dr Robert Laing (Hiddleston), an affluent new tenant of the titular high-rise, quickly attracts the attentions of neighbour Charlotte (Miller) and then of Helen (Elisabeth Moss), who happens to be married to the socially stratified community’s resident troublemaker (Luke Evans).
As tensions build, the brutalist tower that its architect (a supremely laconic Irons) imagined would be “a crucible for change” gradually descends into anarchy in this great-looking, darkly hilarious drama.
E. Nesbit’s The Railway Children follows the story of Roberta (Bobbie), Phyllis and Peter, three sheltered siblings who suffer a huge upheaval when their father, who works for the Foreign Office, is taken away from their London home and falsely imprisoned. The children and their mother, now penniless, are forced to move from London to rural Yorkshire near a railway line. The story deals with themes of justice, the importance of family and the kindness of strangers.
York Theatre Royal’s Olivier Award-winning production of Mike Kenny and Damian Cruden’s imaginative stage adaptation is directed for the screen by International Emmy Award winner Ross MacGibbon (The Importance Of Being Earnest with David Suchet, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake). The filmed event from the National Railway Museum in Yorkshire features the original locomotive from the much-loved 1970 film.
“Spectacular” ★★★★★ – The Guardian “Unique and delightful” ★★★★★ – What’s On Stage