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r p A R A M B E F N A J Cornerhouse 70 Oxford Street M1 5NH WELCOME Box Office 0161 200 1500 We’ve got another packed programme in store for you this quarter as we enjoy our last few HIGHLIGHTS months in the building and celebrate the 30-year legacy we take with us to HOME. Information 0161 228 7621 In the galleries, our closing exhibition Playtime (p.4/5) continues until 15 March. Featuring Book online no fewer than nine international artists, this group show bids a playful farewell to the building cornerhouse.org we’ve called since 1985, with new and adapted works that respond to and celebrate the iconic space. Playtime takes its cue from Jacques Tati’s 1967 film of the same name, in which the architecture of a dizzyingly modern Paris makes for a series of elaborate audio visual gags. If you haven’t managed to see the exhibition yet, you can expect everything from a bouncing door obstacle course to a musical indoor swing set – make sure you don't miss it.

On Saturday 4 April, Playtime culminates in The Storming , a two-part event devised by artist INFORMATION BOOKING Humberto Vélez. In part , which takes inspiration not only from Tati’s Playtime but also from the 1920 Russian mass-action performance The Storming of the Winter Palace , Manchester’s Cornerhouse is Manchester’s Book online diverse cultural communities will descend upon the building, storming the entrance for a specially centre for contemporary visual cornerhouse.org commissioned performance. After a short intermission, part two will see DJs from the city’s past art and independent film. (no booking fee) and present music scene give the building a truly unique send-off. Turn to p.8 for details.

Cornerhouse also has a By phone Until then, this quarter brings some amazing new film releases to our screens. Highlights include publications division – an 0161 200 1500 Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) , which stars Michael Keaton as a washed-up international distribution service Booking line is open from actor who longs to return to the superhero role he is famed for; Theory of Everything , the for visual arts books and Mon – Sun: 12:00 – 20:00 fascinating story of one of the world’s greatest minds, Stephen Hawking; and Whiplash , the tale catalogues. of a young musician determined to rise to the top and the tough-love teacher whose lessons In person change him forever. Read more on p. 21. OPENING HOURS Our Box Office team is available to take bookings from Galleries Mon – Sun: 12:00 – 20:00 We’re also giving you the chance to take the reins for our closing season of films, That’s a Wrap , by Mon: Closed nominating titles from your Cornerhouse past to return to the big screen. However, there is a twist – Tue – Sat: 12:00 – 20:00 SUPPORT US we don’t want to know why it was a great film, we want you to tell us the story behind watching it Sun: 12:00 – 18:00 at Cornerhouse – why was it memorable? Did you see someone famous in the cinema? Was it As a registered charity we depend your first date with your husband/wife? (You get the idea). We’ll be choosing the winners based on Bookshop on the support and generosity of the best stories, so make ‘em good! Turn to p.29 to find out how to make your nomination. Mon – Sun: 12:00 – 20:00 supporters and partners to deliver our unique programme of Finally, we’ve come a long way since opening our doors (check out our homage to the very first Bar original contemporary visual art, Cornerhouse guide on the back cover) and we’re very much looking forward to continuing our Mon – Thu: 10:00 – 23:00 independent film and engagement work at HOME. Turn to p .1 4 for details on the opening weekend – we hope you’ll join us to Fri – Sat: 10:00 – 00:00 activities. To make a donation celebrate and get a taste of the amazing things to come. Sun: 11:00 – 22:30 or find out how to support our work visit Café cornerhouse.org/support-us CONTENTS Mon – Thu: 11:00 – 23:00 Fri – Sat: 11:00 – 00:00 JOIN THE CONVERSATION Sun: 11:00 – 22:30 04 G Playtime 06 G Art Events Box Office like our page 07 G Cornerhouse Projects Mon – Sun: 12:00 – 20:00 08 G The Storming 09 G Creative Industries Bank Holiday Opening @CornerhouseMCR 10 G Digital Skills Workshops Thu 1 Jan: Closed 12 G Books 13 G Food & Drink Sign up to our e-newsletters at 14 G HOME on the Horizon cornerhouse.org/sign-up 18 G At a Glance 20 G New Releases 24 G Film Events 27 G Matinee Classics 28 G ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival 29 G That’s a Wrap Front & back cover image All information is correct at the 30 G Thank You by Chris Payne time of going to press. 31 G Information 04/05

For our final exhibition before moving present new versions of existing to HOME, nine international artists work spanning installation, video, have paid homage to our legacy, with sound art and performance. work inspired by our iconic triangular building and director Jacques Tati’s Playtime will culminate in The Stormin g, ART 1967 comedy masterpiece Playtime . a new celebratory performance and closing party devised by Humberto In Tati’s film, famous for its enormous Vélez to give Cornerhouse a truly set of a dizzying, modern Paris, unique send-off. Turn to p.8 for a series of elaborate visual gags are details and booking information. staged as a group of people explore the city’s baffling environment. “The Curated by Sarah Perks, Artistic star is the décor,” the director once Director at Cornerhouse and HOME. noted, and it’s Tati’s innovative approach to décor and creative use Supported by: of sound that allows his trademark visual comedy to be realised.

In Playtime , artists have drawn on the themes of the film to explore architecture, physical comedy, sound, movement and space. Their work extends throughout the building, Media partner: onto Oxford Road and beyond.

The show features new commissions by Gabriel Lester, Jan St. Werner, Humberto Vélez and Naomi Drink sponsor: Kashiwagi. Niklas Goldbach and Shannon Plumb present existing work, while Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Rosa Barba and Andy Graydon

Until Sun 15 Mar — Galleries 1, 2 & 3 — FREE Jacques Tati’s Playtime screens on Wednesday 11 March at 20:20. Turn to p.26 for details.

PLAYTIME Image by Chris Payne. 06/07

Cornerhouse Projects is an ongoing programme of exhibitions in our Café and Bar that prioritises affordable artwork, North West-based artists and emerging curators. Each exhibition opens on a Thursday night ART CORNERHOUSE with an opportunity to meet the artist and toast the new PROJECTS show. All work is for sale. For more information visit EVENTS cornerhouse.org/cornerhouse-projects Cornerhouse Projects is supported by

The Society of the Spectacles Thu 8 Jan – Tue 17 Feb

Robert Hamilton, Hilary Judd and Susan Platt present The Society of the Spectacles, a collaborative photography project looking into the design and meaning behind modern eyewear. As part of an on-going Full Stop exploration into the way spectacles Thu 19 Feb – Thu 2 Apr impose on our features, they consider Artists: Claire Dorsett, Aliyah Hussain, Callum Stephen Higgins, Gemma how wearing glasses changes the Parker, Anna Columbine, Natalie Ellet, Clara Casian, Michael Redmond, way we look and are looked at, as well Andrew Sutton Performance: Kairos In ancient Greece, two concepts of duration of the performance Loren as the links between art and design, Sat 31 Jan (Live Performance) & time existed side by side: Chronos, will paint an elemental mandala – a style and culture, architecture and Cornerhouse is coming to an end; full stop. Yet a full stop denotes the end of Sun 1 Feb the linear and objective, the steady spiritual and ritual symbol physiognomy, seeing and not seeing, a sentence, not necessarily the end of a conversation, and this conversation 12:00 – 18:00 pulse of the modern clock; and representing the universe – and seeing and being seen, identity and is far from over as we begin our transition to HOME. In the last ever Free, drop in Kairos, a more subjective notion of transcribe the poem, again eyedentity; between I and eye. Cornerhouse Project, we hand over our public exhibition spaces to our time that recognised organic, constructed from the writing gallery invigilators, who know this building and its galleries inside out. Fusing poetry, live performance art rhythmic patterns of interwoven submissions of the public, onto the The resulting series of images, and creative technology, Kairos is feelings and emotions. In this new rotating wheel and across Elrick’s captured predominantly in and around Our invigilators are Manchester-based artists and creatives, with disciplines the second collaboration between piece, the pair present a 10-foot body as she recites the words, Cornerhouse, depict spectacle ranging from painting, sculpture, photography, acting, illustration, video, artists Loren Fetterman and mechanised time piece that unifying the cyclical experiences of wearers of interest and how their sound and installation. In this work, they will be investigating the building Stefanie Elrick, whose May 2 013 represents Kairos and explores our strangers into one voice. glasses ‘frame’ them. You might from top to bottom, making site-specific pieces in underused spaces, lifting piece ‘ Written in Skin ’ saw relationship with time through even spy some Cornerhouse staff… lids, documenting the mechanics of the everyday, and researching stories Fetterman use the semi-permanent movement, poetry and drawing. The live performance takes place and urban myths from our 30 year history; using a perspective and tattooing technique of blood-lining on Saturday 31 January from 12:00 Join us for the informal launch of knowledge that could only be acquired from behind-the-scenes access to to etch publicly sourced poems During Kairos , Elrick will be –18:00, and the fully transcribed The Society of the Spectacles in the present you with a new last look at this iconic building. onto Elrick’s body. secured to the central disc of the wheel will be on display for closer Cornerhouse Bar from 17:30 – 19:00 four concentric wheels turning viewing on Sunday 1February. on Thursday 8 January. Join us for the informal launch of Full Stop in the Cornerhouse Bar from 17:30 constantly. Throughout the –19:00 on Thursday 19 February. Image courtesy of the artist. 08/09

Performance: The Storming (Part 1) Sat 4 Apr 16:00 – 19:00 Free, booking required THE CREATIVE Before we close our doors for the final INDUST RIES time, artist Humberto Vélez presents The Storming , a celebratory performance to bid farewell to Cornerhouse in truly spectacular style. Manchester’s diverse social and cultural communities will descend STORMING Our Creative Industries upon the building, storming the programme offers a range Show & Tell CGO Surgeries for entrance for a specially commissioned Sat 24 Jan Creatives performance. The title recalls both of regular workshops, 16:00 - 18:00 Sat 31 Jan the famous Russian mass-action talks, and opportunities. Free, booking recommended One hour sessions available performance of 1920, The Storming These events, which are Pay what you can, booking essential of the Winter Palace , and the comical programmed in response Get a taste of what’s happening movements of Tati’s characters in to audience , aim inside the minds of our city’s leftfield One-to-one surgery sessions for his film Playtime , as they march, ant- innovators, as eight artists and creative practitioners of all like, through the furrows of a bafflingly to help you develop your designers deliver lightning disciplines. Do you want to discuss modern Paris. skills, widen your network presentations about a current an idea, talk through a sticking point and encourage innovative project, experiment or source of or seek new connections to move Event: The Storming thinking. inspiration. What better way to your work forward? Apply for an (Part 2) Closing Party spend a Saturday afternoon than informal hour-long session with Sat 4 Apr discovering what Manchester’s CGO’s creative consultant Chris 21:00 – Late creative community is up to? Grady, who has helped over 200 £15 full / £12 concs artists and creatives across the UK. Tickets limited to four per person Only eight places are available. If It’s not the end but a new beginning. you are interested please email After an intermission, Part 2 of The [email protected] with a brief Storming will get underway with DJs outline of what you would like to from Manchester’s past and present discuss. club scenes, live music, striking performance and a redraft of our Image Bagsie, by Tash Willcocks, Image Adapted from image by picture Jonathan Knowles. summonedbyfells (CC BY 2.0) creative constitution that sees you, the audience, become our culminating artwork. This spectacular event, overseen by artist Humberto Vélez, will see Cornerhouse come alive for a truly unique send-off. Playreading Fri 9 Jan, Fri 6 Feb & Fri 6 Mar Tickets will be available to 10:45 - 12:45 Cornerhouse Members from 12:00 £3, refreshments provided on Monday 5 January. Members can book by contacting Box Office. Playreading sessions are a fun, Tickets will go on general release friendly and informal opportunity to from 12:00 on Monday 12 January. read and discuss plays in a group, under the guidance of Manchester- Supported by: based theatre practitioner Lucia Image courtesy of Kilogramme. Cox. The group meets on the first Filmed Up Friday of every month and new Fri 13 Mar members are always welcome. 18:20 - 20:30 £4.50 full / £3 concs Drink sponsor: This quarter we’ll be covering Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge , Love short film? Discover the latest from the North West’s thriving filmmaking Harold Pinter’s Hothouse and community at Filmed Up, our regular short film night. Expect a mix of genres, George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion . styles and subjects from some of the region’s most talented filmmakers, selected by a panel of Cornerhouse audience members. Want to submit your film for consideration? The deadline is 17:00 on Thursday 22 January. Visit Image by Chris Payne. cornerhouse.org/filmedup for information on how to submit. 10/11

DIGITAL SKILLS WORKSHOPS HOME BOX OFFICE MCR. 0161 200 1500 ORG Do you want to fine-tune Tools & Trends on the Horizon your digital skills? Our Wed 18 Feb Digital Skills Workshops 18:00 – 20:00 £6 full / £4.50 concs are here to help you engage with online Do you need to stay on trend with technology? In this session, Editor-in- audiences and develop Chief of The Next Web , Martin Bryant, will discuss what the next generation your digital skillset. of apps and devices has to offer, and how they could improve your professional life. From serious tech trends to light-hearted apps and tools, Martin will help you stay ahead of the curve. These workshops always prove popular so we recommend booking early to avoid disappointment. You can also keep up with our latest digital skills events at cornerhouse.org/digiskills PROJECTOR: SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

Projector is Cornerhouse’s education programme that uses film and moving image to enrich students’ learning. Events cover Modern Foreign Languages and Film & Media, and are aimed at 14 -19 year olds studying GCSE, AS, A2 and equivalent qualifications. For more information about the programme, visit cornerhouse.org/projector

Film & Media Film & Media Modern Foreign Languages BBFC Study Day Film Industry Teachers Spanish Study Days DO YOU LOVE WHAT WE DO? THREE WAYS TO MAKE YOUR MARK AT Tue 3 Feb Workshop Tue 3 Mar, 10:00-13:00 (GCSE) HOME: 10:30-15:00 Thu 26 Feb Thu 5 Mar, 10:30-15:00 (AS/A2) 13:30-16:30 CAN YOU HELP US DO MORE OF IT? This interactive masterclass will go As part of Cornerhouse’s ¡Viva! • Commission / pl/que for the foyer of the behind the scenes at the British This workshop is for any teacher of Spanish and Latin American Film NOT SURE HOW? new building Board of Film Classification (BBFC). Film or Media Studies at GCSE or Festival , we will be running two • Dedic/te / cinem/ or the/tre se/t AS/A2. The session will focus on study mornings for Spanish school • M/ke / monthly contribution to our The session will cover a general case studies in order to explore and college groups, led by Carmen Communities Fund introduction to the history of ideas for teaching about production, Herrero, Head of Spanish at censorship and classification in the distribution and exhibition in the film Manchester Metropolitan University All your support will be invested b/ck into UK, and will include details on industry in the UK . and Ana Valbuena, Spanish Language current BBFC guidelines, societal Tutor at the Instituto Cervantes. projects /nd help us continue to fund the concerns and the current legislative All those attending will have access Visit Cornerhouse.org/projector for work you love /t HOME. framework that governs film and to useful resources and materials to details of the films that will be studied. DVD classification, all illustrated with take away and develop. Specifically, We’d love to tell you more. Ple/se cont/ct relevant clips. Students will watch a participants will be supported in M/rl/ Cunningh/m on 0161 200 1546 or film that posed classification issues dealing with ‘industry and institution’ em/il [email protected] in a particular category, and discuss questions relevant to individual in detail the elements that exam specifications. We /re / ch/rity (Reg Ch/rity No: 514719). determined the final certificate. Turn to p.28 for details on ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin Led by Roy Stafford, Freelance Film American Film Festival . Led by a BBFC representative. Lecturer. A collaboration between MovIES and Into Film. 12/13

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Jens Hoffmann: Weak Messages Create Cornerhouse Publications (Curating) From A to Z Bad Situations: A Manifesto is our international £7, JRP|Ringier by David Shrigley distribution service for £25, Canongate Books visual arts books and In this A-Z pocket book, curator FO OD catalogues. You can Jens Hoffmann delves into the Artist David Shrigley’s latest REG ULAR VENUE development of curatorial practice manifesto boasts over 400 new & download the current over the last two decades. illustrations, presented in the form of EVENTS HIRE catalogue and buy books Employing a diarist style, Hoffmann a peculiar self-help manual that DRINK at cornerhouse.org/books presents his personal curatorial promises to improve a society of alphabet where each letter evokes a feeble-minded individuals – some of You can also buy an theme related to the world of whom the artist professes are incomparable range of exhibition making, from A (as in responsible for running the country. cultural magazines, film Artist) and B (as in Biennial) to R (as No more weak messages. No more Our Café and Bar are the The Reel Deal Cornerhouse has a number of books and postcards in in Retrospective) and W (as in White bad situations! Available in the perfect places to grab a Every Mon & Tue evening spaces available for hire, providing our bookshop, as well as a Cube). The entries are not only bookshop. drink with friends, hold £15 full / £13.50 members an ideal location for meetings, social stimulating and intellectually events and private screenings in the selection of the best- rigorous, but also emotionally your meeting or have a Kick-start your week and treat heart of Manchester. Our spaces selling titles from engaging. Available in the bookshop bite to eat before catching yourself to a film, homemade pizza include three cinemas, the Annexe – Cornerhouse Publications. and at cornerhouse.org/books a film or checking out our and glass of wine, or pint of Four for a fully accessible event space with latest exhibitions. only £15 ( £13.50 for Cornerhouse its own private balcony area, ideal Members). for meetings, presentations or social We pride ourselves on offering events – and a smaller room suitable MACDONALD TOWNHOUSE HOTEL AND quality homemade food inspired by Limited availability, early booking for meetings or more intimate MACDONALD MANCHESTER HOTEL & SPA cuisines from all over the world. Grab recommended. presentations. a drink from the downstairs Bar or visit our first floor Café for a fabulous Monday Night Quiz For more details visit menu including our ever popular Every Mon (except Bank Holidays), cornerhouse.org/venue-hire or pizzas, gourmet sandwiches and 20:30 contact Pat Raikes on 0161 200 151 1 hand-cut chips. Our dedicated Free, in the bar or [email protected] patisserie chefs also ensure that we have a beautiful selection of pastries Test your knowledge of random bits and cakes freshly baked throughout and bobs with Mark at the weekly the day for you to enjoy. quiz. Every team wins a prize.

Occupying a former cotton warehouse, Macdonald Townhouse Hotel pays homage to the Party of six or more? Book a table by Monthly Film Quiz building’s Manchester heritage and is a great location for a small group or romantic evening. contacting the Café Bar on Tue 6 Jan, Tue 3 Feb, Tue 3 Mar 20:00 – 22:30, £10 per team of Alternatively stay at Macdonald Manchester Hotel & Spa located centrally at Piccadilly. 0161 200 1508 or emailing [email protected] four, booking required Originally designed as the city’s avant-garde hotel our stunning 338 bedrooms are larger than life. Join us on the first Tuesday of each AFTERNOON TEA THREE COURSE DINNER month and test your movie Enjoy a luxurious afternoon tea for two followed A decadent three course dinner for two followed knowledge to the limit with by overnight accommodation and breakfast. by overnight accommodation and breakfast. quizmaster Dave Murphy. Expect .00* .00* questions on anything from The £129 £139 Bicycle Thieves to Short Circuit 2 , PER COUPLE, QUOTE ‘YN4’ PER COUPLE, QUOTE ‘YN5’ plus the Genius and Quotes rounds. Enjoy both these great offers at Macdonald Townhouse Hotel or Macdonald Manchester Hotel & Spa. See our full menu at BOOK ONLINE AT WWW.MACDONALDHOTELS.CO.UK/HOME-MAGAZINE cornerhouse.org/ food-and-drink or Macdonald Townhouse Hotel, 101 Portland Street, Manchester, M1 6DF contact the Café Bar Macdonald Manchester Hotel & Spa, London Road, Piccadilly, Manchester, M1 2PG on 0161 200 1508 *Includes bed and breakfast. Subject to availability. Images All by Lucy Ridges. 14/15

With the opening of HOME on Thursday 21 May inching ever closer, we’re looking forward to a Bank Holiday weekend of world premiere theatre, newly commissioned visual art and a unique film and music project that will introduce Manchester – and the world – to our new spaces and to what can be expected from us at HOME.

Images Top left: HOME, Theatre 1. Top right: Hofesh Shechter Company, photo by Ben Rudick. HOME ON THE HORIZON Middle: GoGo Penguin, photo by Arlen Connelly. Bottom: Hofesh Shechter Company, photo by Gabrielle Zucca.

The opening weekend will exemplify Opening in the galleries, The Heart is Ahead of HOME’s opening, look out the ambitious, international and Deceitful Above All Things is a group for a trailblazer world premiere interdisciplinary nature of our exhibition co-curated by HOME’s performance by internationally upcoming programming across Artistic Director of Visual Art, Sarah acclaimed choreographer Hofesh visual art, theatre and film. Our Perks and senior visiting curator, Shechter (Winner of the Critics’ programming will have emphasis Omar Kholeif ,which explores the dark Circle Award for best choreography, on innovative, visual storytelling side of the funfair. The exhibition 2008 and Associate Artist of and will encourage dialogue will include new work from artists Sadler’s Wells), taking place over 30 between audiences and artists including Jeremy Bailey, Declan April – 2 May. The performance of across the artforms. Clarke, Basim Magdy, and Jessey The Bad, which will be the first in Tsang, and will feature existing work our largest theatre space, forms one The inaugural programme kicks off from Douglas Coupland and Wu part of a new three-part evening of with The Funfair – the world Tsang, amongst others. , created by the artist premiere of Simon Stephens’ new for his company throughout 2015. version of classic play Kasimir and Dutch Uncle’s Robin Richards will Karoline by Ödön von Horváth. The launch HOME’s year-long Music The Bad is co-commissioned by Funfair will be directed by HOME’s and Film project, performing at the HOME, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Artist Director of Theatre, Walter opening weekend in addition to Theatre de la Ville – Paris, Les Meierjohann – supported by in-house 2014 Mercury Prize nominees Gogo Theatres de la Ville de Luxembourg, dramaturg Petra Jane Tauscher – Penguin, and Mancunian singer- Festspielhaus St Pölten (including a following his critically acclaimed songwriter Josephine. The project, working residency), Berliner debut production of Romeo & Juliet which is produced in partnership Festpiele – Foreign Affairs and at . Romeo & Juliet set with the Royal Northern College of Staatstheater Darmstadt (including and costume designer, Ti Green, Music and BFI Film Hub North a working residency). also returns. West Central, will bring together Manchester’s finest musical talent The full 2015 programme will be The Funfair provides the conceptual to perform original scores launched in mid-January. Visit thread that will link the work alongside artist film, archive HOMEmcr.org for details. presented across the new building. footage and silent film. Image by Ben Page. 16/17

30 yeArs/ 3 screens/ 3 gAlleries /1 Bookshop/ 1 cAFé BAr/over 9,000,000 visitors/ 3,500,000 tickets sold/ 7,500 Films shown/ 114,000 screenings/ 3,000 Film events/ 3,500 Artists /350 mAjor exhiBitions/ 70 cornerhouse projects/ 10,000 Books distriButed/ 2,500,000 hot drinks served/ 1000 memBers /And 1 FAmous Film reviewer punched in the BAr 18/19

JANUARY Fri 2 Jan G Big Eyes opens Fri 2 Jan G Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) opens Fri 2 Jan G Theory of Everything opens AT A Tue 6 Jan 20:00 G Monthly Film Quiz Thu 8 Jan 18:00 G Launch: Cornerhouse Projects/ The Society of the Spectacles Fri 9 Jan 10:45 G Playreading/ A View from the Bridge GLANCE Sun 11 Jan 12:00 G Matinee Classics/ Guys and Dolls Mon 12 Jan 20:30 G Monday Night Quiz Tue 13 Jan 18:20 G Film Event/ Margaret Salmon: Selected Works Wed 14 Jan 13:30 G Matinee Classics/ Guys and Dolls plus post-screening discussion Mon 19 Jan 20:30 G Monday Night Quiz ART HIGHLIGHTS Thu 22 Jan 18:45 G NT Live/ Treasure Island AT A GLANCE Sat 24 Jan 16:00 G Show & Tell Sun 25 Jan 12:00 G Matinee Classics/ The Green Ray Mon 26 Jan 20:30 G Monday Night Quiz Playtime Wed 28 Jan 13:30 G Matinee Classics/ The Green Ray plus post-screening discussion Until Sun 15 Mar Sat 31 Jan All Day G CGO Surgeries for Creatives Sat 31 Jan 12:00 G Performance: Kairos Kairos JANUARY — Sat 31 Jan 20:10 G Film Event/ No Manifesto plus director and producer Q&A Sat 31 Jan - Sun 1 Feb FEBRUARY Cornerhouse Projects: Mon 2 Feb 20:30 G Monday Night Quiz Tue 3 Feb 20:00 G Monthly Film Quiz Full Stop Tue 3 Feb 10:30 G Projector/ BBFC Study Day Thu 19 Feb - Thu 2 Apr Fri 6 Feb 10:45 G Playreading/ Hothouse Mon 9 Feb 20:30 G Monday Night Quiz The Storming MARCH Fri 13 Feb 20:20 G Valentine’s Special/ The Philadelphia Story Parts 1 & 2 Sat 14 Feb 18:10 G Valentine’s Special/ The Philadelphia Story Sat 4 Apr Sun 15 Feb 12:00 G Valentine’s Special/ The Philadelphia Story Here’s your overview of what’s on at Mon 16 Feb 20:30 G Monday Night Quiz Cornerhouse in January, February and March. Mon 16 Feb 17:30 G Film Event/ CFFUK Presents Chinese New Year: The Golden Era For more information, updates and additions Wed 18 Feb 13:00 G NT Live/ Treasure Island (Family encore) FILM HIGHLIGHTS Wed 18 Feb 18:00 G Digital Skills Workshops/ Tools and Trends on the Horizon AT A GLANCE please visit cornerhouse.org Thu 19 Feb 18:00 G Launch: Cornerhouse Projects/ Full Stop To book tickets for events and screenings call Sun 22 Feb 12:00 G Matinee Classics/ Duck Soup January Mon 23 Feb 17:00 G UK Premiere/ What Happened in the Year of the Dragon Box Office on 0161 200 1500 or book online at Mon 23 Feb 20:30 G Monday Night Quiz Big Eyes cornerhouse.org (no booking fee). Wed 25 Feb 13:30 G Matinee Classics/ Duck Soup plus post-screening discussion Bird Man Thu 26 Feb 13:30 G Projector/ Film Industry Teachers’ Workshop Margaret Salmon: Fri 27 Feb 20:40 G Film Event/ Carnival of Souls Selected Works Whiplash For latest dates MARCH Ex Machina and times or to Sun 1 Mar 16:00 G Jeanette Winterson in conversation with Patrick Marber No Manifesto book tickets visit Mon 2 Mar 20:30 G Monday Night Quiz cornerhouse.org Tue 3 Mar 10:00 G Projector/ Spanish GCSE Study Morning Tue 3 Mar 20:00 G Monthly Film Quiz February or call 0161 200 1500 Thu 5 Mar G ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival/ María y el Araña Duke of Burgundy Thu 5 Mar 10:30 G Projector/ Spanish AS/A2 Study Day Chinese New Year: Fri 6 Mar 10:45 G Playreading/ Pygmalion The Golden Era Mon 9 Mar G ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival/ Quién mató a Bambi? Carnival of Souls Mon 9 Mar 20:30 G Monday Night Quiz Wed 11 Mar 20:20 G Playtime screens March Fri 13 Mar 18:20 G Filmed Up Sun 15 Mar G Last chance to see/ Playtime ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin Sun 15 Mar 12:00 G Matinee Classics/ Au revoir les enfants American Film Festival Mon 16 Mar 20:30 G Monday Night Quiz Still Alice Wed 18 Mar 13:30 G Matinee Classics/ Au revoir les enfants plus post-screening discussion Jeanette Winterson in Mon 23 Mar 20:30 G Monday Night Quiz conversation with G Art Sun 29 Mar 12:00 G Matinee Classics/ The Tales of Hoffman Patrick Marber G Film Mon 30 Mar 20:30 G Monday Night Quiz Wild Tales G Creative Industries Wed 1 Apr 13:30 G Matinee Classics/ The Tales of Hoffman plus post-screening discussion G Regular Events Sat 4 Apr 16:00 G Performance/ The Storming: Part 1 Sat 4 Apr 21:00 G Event/ The Storming: Part 2 20/21

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Produced by the Almodóvar brothers’ El Deseo, Wild González Iñárritu’s brutal, brilliant lead a wrestling team in training for g Tales is a frenetic black comedy from Argentinian the 1988 Seoul Olympics, he sees it n (RELATOS SALVAJES) satire of celebrity and the media i n director Damián Szifrón. This collection of six stories frenzy it invokes fires on all cylinders. as the perfect opportunity to step e offers a wry look at modern life and features a heady out of his brother’s shadow and e LILIANA ACKERMAN r mix of road-rage, cheating husbands, dodgy reignite his own career. Foxcatcher is a c S LUIS MANUEL ALTAMIRANO GARCÍA dealings, revenge and a temperamental bride all rich and moving story of brotherly played out by some of the biggest names in love, misguided loyalty and the Argentinian cinema, including Ricardo Darin as an corruption that can accompany ALEJANDRO ANGELINI engineer who specialises in demolitions. great power and wealth. 22/23

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Enemy (15) Wild (15) Pelo malo (CTBA) Love is Strange (15) Dir Denis Villeneuve/US Dir Jean-Marc Vallée/US 2014/ (Bad Hair) Dir Ira Sachs/US FR 2014/95 mins 2013/91mins 115 mins Dir Mariana Rondón/VE 2013/93 John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Reese Witherspoon, Gaby mins/Spanish wEng ST La maison de la radio (CTBA) Marisa Tomei Life of Riley (CTBA) Sarah Gadon, Isabella Rossellini Hoffmann, Laura Dern Samuel Lange Zambrano, Samantha Dir Nicolas Philibert/FR 2013/ (Aimer, boire et chanter) Castillo, Nelly Ramos, Beto 99 mins/French wEng ST Four decades into their relationship, Dir Alain Resnais/FR 2014/ Directed by Denis Villenueve and Reese Witherspoon and Academy Benites Ben and George can finally marry. 108mins/French wEngST starring Oscar-nominee Jake Award nominated screenwriter Nick A journey into the heart of Radio However, their vows are tested Sabine Azéma, Hippolyte Girardot, Gyllenhaal, Enemy is a mesmerising Hornby ( An Education, High Fidelity ) Following its ¡Viva! 2014 preview, France to discover what usually shortly afterwards when George Caroline Sihol, Michel Vuillermoz, psychological thriller based on the bring bestselling author Cheryl Pelo malo returns to Cornerhouse escapes our gaze: the inner loses his job and the couple are Sandrine Kiberlain novel The Double by Nobel laureate Strayed’s extraordinary real-life for selected screenings. It portrays workings and mysteries of a media forced to live apart. Separated and José Saramago. Jake Gyllenhaal adventure to the screen. After years the poignant battle between Marta, whose very matter – sound – suddenly reliant on friends and Alain Resnais’ final film is a plays Adam, a university lecturer of reckless behaviour, a heroin a struggling, grieving single mother, remains invisible. family, George and Ben must delightful, stylised feature adapted who, while watching a film, spots a addiction and the destruction of her and Junior, her nine-year-old mixed navigate a new world. from the Alan Ayckbourn play of the minor actor who looks just like him. marriage, Strayed makes a rash race son, over his sense of identity. From acclaimed writer and director same name. Set in Yorkshire and Consumed by the desire to meet his decision in a bid to save herself. The conflict is condensed into a fight Ira Sachs, comes a unique film performed in French, Life of Riley is double, Adam tracks down the actor Haunted by memories of her mother over Junior’s obsession with about life, love and long term a sparkling comedy about middle- and engages him in a complex and Bobbi and with limited hiking straightening his hair, which his commitment. Love is Strange is a class infidelity amongst a close dangerous struggle. Dark, gripping experience, she sets out alone to bigoted mother fears is an indication beautiful, charming and incredibly group of amateur dramatic and pulsating with atmosphere, trek more than a thousand miles on of his burgeoning sexuality. moving exploration about the enthusiasts as they prepare for a Enemy is a haunting and the Pacific Crest Trail. Wild reveals expansive, intimate nature inside all production. The friends are provocative psychosexual thriller her terrors and pleasures as she human relationships. devastated when one of their that has drawn comparisons to both forges ahead on a journey that number is diagnosed with cancer Lynch and Cronenberg. maddens, strengthens, and ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin The Duke of Burgundy (CTBA) and rally around him, each vying for ultimately heals her. American Film Festival Dir Peter Strickland/GB 2014/ his attentions and at the same time begins on Thu 5 Mar. Turn 101 mins bringing old injuries to the fore. to p.28 for details. Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D'Anna, Eugenia Caruso

Dazzlingly dark psychosexual melodrama The Duke of Burgundy is the latest film from Peter Strickland, the multi-award winning writer and director of Berbarian Sound Studio Whiplash (15) and Katalin Varga . The film follows Dir Damien Chazelle/US 2014/ Ex Machina (15) Cynthia and Evelyn, two women 106 mins Dir Alex Garland/US GB 2015/ who live cut off from the outside Still Alice (12A) Miles Teller, Melissa Benoist, 108 mins world and express their love for each Dir Richard Glatzer, Wash J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, other through ritual sado-masochist Westmoreland/US 2014/101 mins Austin Stowell Alicia Vikander role-play. However, when usually Kristen Stewart, Julianne Moore, dominant Cynthia begins to yearn Kate Bosworth, Alec Baldwin Having been accepted to study at In the debut feature film from for a more conventional relationship, the country’s most elite music novelist Alex Garland, a young it becomes clear that Evelyn is not Based on Lisa Gerova’s best-selling conservatory, 19-year-old jazz programmer is selected to as submissive as it she first appears. novel, Julianne Moore delivers a drummer Andrew Neyman is participate in an experiment to push powerful central performance determined to rise to the top. Dreaming the boundaries of artificial in this moving drama. Alice Howland of greatness but haunted by his intelligence, by evaluating the is a happily married mother of three father’s failed writing career, Andrew human qualities of a female A.I. and is a renowned linguistics begins to practice alone after hours, Domnhall Gleason and Oscar Isaac professor at Columbia University where he is overheard by Terence star in this thrilling sci-fi featuring a who starts to forget words. When Fletcher – a conductor known for his score co-composed by Geoff she receives a devastating terrifying teaching method as he is Barrow. diagnosis, Alice and her family find for his immense talent. When their bonds tested. Alice’s struggle Terence begins to single Andrew out to stay connected to who she once in class, the young man’s life is was is frightening, heartbreaking, changed forever. and inspiring. 24/25 CHINESE FILM FORUM UK PRESENTS CHINESE NEW YEAR FILM The Golden Era (CTBA) (Huang jin shi dai) EVENTS Mon 16 Feb 17:30 Dir Ann Hui/CN HK 2014/ 177 mins/ Mandarin wEng ST Wei Tang, Shaofeng Feng, Zhiwen Wang

Ann Hui, the multi-award winning director of A Simple Life , returns with Margaret Salmon: Selected Works this lavish and expansive tale based Tue 13 Jan on the turbulent life of writer Xiao 18:20 Hong. Long overshadowed by her Dir Margaret Salmon/GB 1998 - 2014/67 mins male counterparts, Hui’s quietly £6 full / £4.50 concs assertive film, driven by an outstanding performance by superstar Tang Wei, Margaret Salmon creates filmic portraits that weave together poetry and re-centres Xiao Hong’s literary Carnival of Souls (15) ethnography. Focusing on individuals in their everyday habitats, her films importance against the backdrop of Fri 27 Feb capture the minutiae of daily life and infuse them with a gentle grandeur. the political machinations of 1930s 20:40 Adapting techniques drawn from Cinema Vérité and Italian Neo-Realism, China. The Golden Era was selected Cinema 1 Salmon’s orchestrations of sound and image introduce a formal lyricism into as Hong Kong’s entry for the 2 015 £8 full / £6 concs, Cornerhouse members £6.50 full/ £4.50 concs, the tradition of realist film. This is a rare opportunity to revisit her early Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Livewire members £3 American typographies series and see developments in two newer works Supported by the Confucius Institute Directed by Bren O’Callaghan. Script adapted by Len Horsey. filmed around her home in Kent. at the . Music and sound design by Euan Rodger. Produced by Sally Folkard. Event Featuring the voices of musician Baby Dee and Amanda Hennessy. We are pleased to welcome Margaret Salmon for a post-screening Q&A. A new, unique adaptation of director Herk Harvey’s 1962 experimental horror film oddity, Carnival of Souls has been stripped and adapted to become an audio-only experience inside a darkened cinema, inspired by classic adventure radio serials and sensory deprivation methods. No Manifesto (CTBA) UK Premiere/ Sat 31 Jan What Happened in the Year Commissioned by Film Hub North West Central with an advisory group of 20:10 of the Dragon blind and partially sighted audience members, the broadcast is relayed Dir Elizabeth Marcus/GB 2015/ Mon 23 Feb across wireless headsets incorporating binaural audio – a technique that 96 mins 17:00 creates the illusion of the action happening to and around the listener, Dir Sun Xun/CN 2014/10 mins forming a sense of intimate proximity. From approaching footsteps to In 1991, a band with the unlikely Free, booking recommended whispered breath, you will be fully immersed in the unfolding drama. name of came on to the British music scene From artist Sun Xun, What Happened The story follows Mary Henry (Amanda Hennessy), the sole survivor of a proclaiming ambitions to make one in the Year of the Dragon is a horrific car accident who begins a new life in a sleepy Utah town, home to NT Live: Treasure Island (live) album, sell 16 million copies of it, and contemporary response to Aldous a derelict carnival and dancehall. Still struggling in the aftermath of her Thu 22 Jan, 18:45 then split up. A quarter century, Huxley’s 1932 seminal novel, Brave accident, she is haunted by an enigmatic figure that slips inside her dreams Wed 18 Feb, 13:00 (Family Encore) multiple hit records and one missing New World . Combining traditional (Baby Dee) and calls her to the ruins of the former pleasure ground – about Live £15 full/ £13 concs/ £10 child member later, they are still here. mediums with modern animation which the local Mormon congregation know more than they choose to reveal. Encore £10.50 full / £8.50 concs Now this colourful and contentious band faces off with their equally colourful techniques, Sun Xun’s work taps Family tickets available for and contentious fans in a verité multimedia mash-up experiment that will into a contemporary consciousness Featuring the voices of Amanda Hennessy with musician Baby Dee who Encore. See web for details. turn the traditional rock’n’roll documentary upside-down and shake it until all to explore how Huxley’s dystopian has collaborated with Mark Almond, Will Oldham, Andrew W. K and Matt the change falls out of its pockets. ideals have become reality in ’s Sweeney. Please note this performance takes place in near-total darkness. Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of society. This event is part of the piracy and buried treasure is brought For the making of No Manifesto , the Manics provided unprecedented access. Stately Shadows exhibition at CFCCA to life in a thrilling new stage The film tells the story of the band’s rise from mouthy punks to international running from 18 December 2 014 – 22 adaptation by Bryony Lavery, renown, takes a fascinating look at the band’s creative process, and joins them March 2 015 and is supported by broadcast live from the National on tour. By combining footage shot at home and on the road with rare archival Edouard Malingue Gallery. Theatre. On a dark, stormy night, the materials and fan interviews that provide commentary, lore, criticism and Event inn-keeper’s granddaughter, Jim, praise, No Manifesto gives a comprehensive look at a most unusual band. We are pleased to be joined for a post opens the door to a terrifying stranger. screening Q&A with Ying Tan, Curator At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge sea Event at CFCCA and the artist Sun Xun. chest, full of secrets. Intrigued, Jim We are pleased to welcome director Elizabeth Marcus and producer Kurt invites the sailor in – and there her Engfehr for a post-screening Q&A chaired by Rachel Hayward, Film dangerous voyage begins. Programme Manager. 26/27

The Green Ray (12A) Duck Soup (U) (Le rayon vert) Sun 22 & Wed 25 Feb JEANETTE WINTERSON Sun 25 & Wed 28 Jan Dir Leo McCarey/US 1933/69 mins Dir Eric Rohmer/FR 1986/98 mins/ The Marx Brothers, Margaret French wEng ST Dumont, Louis Calhern, MATINEE Marie Riviève, Béatrice Romand Raquel Torres, Edgar Kennedy

IN CONVERSATION WITH PATRICK MARBER CLA SSICS Largely improvised and featuring a Don’t miss this opportunity to catch strong central performance from classic Marx Brothers anarchic Marie Rivière, The Green Ray is a comedy in the brilliant Duck Soup. screenplay focused on the classic from French director Eric Image Jeanette Winterson, courtesy of Ant Clausen. obsessive nature of desire and Rohmer. Delphine is let down by her revenge – home territory for Marber. boyfriend and is left depressed at Our popular, ongoing her love life and disappointed by her Other screenplays include Asylum – programme brings cinema Parisian surroundings, so sets off on adapted by Marber from his own classics to the big screen her own on a quest for novel and starring Ian Mckellen and companionship and, potentially, a Natasha Richardson, and the soon every month – with each new lover. to be released Fifty Shades of Grey , film showing on a Sunday where Marber was brought onto the at 12:00 and the following project to add depth and character. Au revoir les enfants (12A) Wednesday at 13:30. Sun 15 & Wed 18 Mar Marber has also adapted Strinberg’s There are informal post- Dir Louis Malle/FR IT 1987/105 Miss Julie for the BBC ( After Miss screening discussions mins/ French, German, Latin and Julie ) – moving the action to 1945. following the Wednesday English with partial EngST Sun 1 Mar of poker, won the London Evening His 15-minute film, Love You More , screenings – see our Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette, Philippe Morier- 16:00 Standard Award for Best Comedy in was directed by artist Sam Taylor website for details. £12 full / £10 concs 1995. In 1997 his play Closer became Wood and featured two songs by Genoud, François Négret a national and international hit, the , including a cameo If you’d like to enjoy Louis Malle’s semi-autobiographical, Award-winning writer Jeanette winning the Lawrence Olivier Award appearance by lead singer Peter breakfast or an early lunch Winterson will be in conversation for Best New Play and going on to Shelley. Valentine’s Special/ multi-award-winning worldwide hit with Oscar and BAFTA-nominated be staged in 30 languages. in our Café before feasting The Philadelphia Story (U) is one of the great films about the screenwriter Patrick Marber. Marber Jeanette Winterson is an award- your eyes, then please Fri 13 Feb, 20:20 Second World War and Nazi- is one of a cross-over generation of Marber’s big screen transition winning writer whose credits include arrive early to avoid Sat 14 Feb, 18:10 occupied France. Set in January writers such as Lee Hall ( Billy Elliot ) happened in 2004 when he adapted the Prix d’argent from Cannes for disappointment. Sun 15 Feb, 12:00 1944 at an exclusive Catholic who move between writing for stage Closer into a film starring Julia Best TV screenplay ( Oranges Are Dir George Cukor/US 1940/ boarding school for boys near and film. This illuminating discussion Roberts, Natalie Portman, Jude Law Not The Only Fruit ) and a BAFTA for 113 mins Fontainebleau, the film tells the story will use clips from Marber’s film and Clive Owen. He was nominated Best Drama. She is currently Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, of two young pupils, their burgeoning work to focus on cross-over writing, for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for adapting her novella The Daylight friendship and the dangerous writing for female characters, his screenplay. Closer was also Gate for Hammer Horror. Her secrets they keep. differences between stage and nominated for Best Motion Picture. memoir, Why Be Happy When You Cukor’s classic about a society screen work, writing short films, the The movie grossed over $100 million. Could Be Normal is an international wedding threatened by scandal is a The Tales of Hoffman (U) commercial demands of the big bestseller. Her work in published highpoint of sophisticated Sun 29 Mar & Wed 1 Apr screen, success and writer’s block, In 2006 Marber’s adaptation of Zoe around the world in 20 languages. Hollywood comedy and the film Dirs Michael Powell, Emeric depression and creativity. Heller’s novel, Notes on a Scandal , She is currently Professor of New boasts peak-form performances Pressburger/GB 1951/128 mins was nominated for an Oscar, a Writing at Manchester University, throughout. Having divorced her Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Patrick Marber started out as an Golden Globe and a BAFTA for Best where she is developing a Guys and Dolls (U) irresponsible millionaire husband, Ludmilla Tcherina actor and stand-up comic working Adapted Screenplay. Starring Judi Screenwriting MA with the film Sun 11 & Wed 14 Jan the aptly named Tracy Lord is about for TV and radio. His first play, Dench and Cate Blanchett, and with producer Tanya Seghatchian ( Harry Dir Joseph L. Mankiewicz/US to wed a dull but dependable fellow. In The Tales of Hoffman , directors Dealer’s Choice , set round a game a score by Philip Glass, the Potter , My Summer of Love ). 1955/150 mins However, any hopes of privacy at Powell and Pressburger are at their Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, the wedding of the year are dashed most flamboyant and spectacular. Jean Simmons, Vivian Blaine by the arrival not only of her Riding high after The Red Shoes , reluctant ex but of a pair of with its dream-like central ballet Based on the Broadway show and journalists. Donald Ogden Stewart’s sequence, they set about creating a Playtime (U) filled to the brim with Frank Loesser script sparkles with wit and pithy film like no other, their entirely Wed 11 Mar, 20:20 tunes including Luck Be a Lady , this social comment, while the moonlit cinematic version of Jacques Dir Jacques Tati/ FR IT 1967/ 125mins/ French, English and German with outrageous comedy features Marlon amorous shenanigans fizz with Offenbach’s musical tale of a partial Eng ST Brando’s bold musical debut. memorably woozy eroticism. lovelorn poet suffering for his art. Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden Veteran gambler Sky Masterson The film reunites many of the takes a bet that he can win the dancers (Ludmilla Tcherina, Moira Jacques Tati’s gloriously choreographed and almost wordless comedies affection of a soldier in the Salvation Shearer, Robert Helpmann reached their peak with Playtime, which follows American tourist Barbara Army, setting himself up to lose both andLéonide Massine) from The Red and befuddled Frenchman Monsieur Hulot, as they attempt to negotiate a his money and his heart. Guys and Shoes , and designer Hein Heckroth bafflingly modern Paris – with highly comic results. Crammed with visual Dolls consistently ranks amongst is tasked with creating a Technicolor gags and an unconventional use of sound, Playtime is a lasting testament to the most popular film musicals of all world that is romantic, gothic, a modern era tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion. time, don’t miss it on the big screen. fantastical, and nowhere realistic. ¡VIVA! 21ST SPANISH AND 28/29 LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL THE ¡VIVA! WEEKENDERS THURSDAY 5 –MONDAY 9 MARCH

In March we’ll open the twenty-first edition of ¡Viva! with a carefully- honed selection of cinema from and Spanish- speaking Latin America. N To celebrate our move down the road to HOME, we’ll not only have an O event at Cornerhouse in March, but also two María y el Araña (CTBA) further events at HOME (María and Spider) S later in the year – so keep Dir María Victoria Menis/AR FR EC 2013/90 mins/Spanish wEng ST your eyes peeled for our Pablo Aguirre Andrade, Lucía Ruiz Ortiz, Mirella Pascual Mexican weekender in June and our fiesta of Menis’ award-winning third film is the meticulously crafted, tragic tale of two A Argentine teenagers falling between the cracks in a grossly unfair world. Image by Alex Bond. Spanish cinema in autumn While peddling cheap products on the underground, the studious 13-year-old

2015! María is drawn out of her shell by the attentions of a young juggler dressed in E a Spiderman costume. But as masks slip, an increasingly oppressive That’s a Wrap Want to nominate a film? In the meantime you can atmosphere suggests a dark secret threatening to overshadow young love. whet your appetite with a Fri 13 Mar - Thu 2 Apr Send us the title (plus director and year) and 200 – 300 words on your S couple highlights from the For the final season of film at experience to March line-up below, with Cornerhouse, we’re giving you the [email protected] by the full programme for film chance to programme what we Friday 30 January. fans and language screen. learners to be announced G We’re asking you to nominate a film in early February. you watched at Cornerhouse and tell us why the experience was special Visit or important to you. Did you watch it cornerhouse.org/viva2 015 N on a first date? Did you find yourself for details. sitting next to somebody I unexpected? Did it lead to a life changing event? Quién mató a Bambi? (CTBA) (Who Killed Bambi?) The best stories will determine Dir Santi Amodeo/ES 2013/96 mins/ Spanish wEng ST S which films return to the big screen Quim Gutiérrez, Julián Villagrán, Belén Ponce de León, Ernesto Alterio, before we close our doors for the Enrico Vecchi, Clara Lago last time, so make yours a good one. The only rules are that you must have Seven years after we showed Amodeo’s last feature film, the excellent O seen the film at Cornerhouse, and Cabeza de perro , we bring you this raucous black comedy about ordinary you must tell us your story – not what guys plunged into extraordinary situations, fighting to survive the economic happens in the film. Our programme crisis in whatever way they can. An assortment of endearingly shallow, L team will select the winning stories flippant, foolish, corrupt and downright psychotic characters scramble (film availability permitting) and through a series of hilarious plot twists as they try to grab a piece of the those behind them will be invited to action enjoyed by the ostentatious elite. share their story at the screening. C 30/31

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