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FROZEN II U THE MUPPETS U FREE FAMILY IN CONVERSATION: DIL DHADAKNE DO 12A LIFE GOES ON Fri 20 Dec – Thu 2 Jan Sat 18 – Sun 19 Jan WORKSHOP JAVED AHKTAR Sun 5 Jan, 2pm + IN CONVERSATION (excl 25 Dec & 1 Jan) USA 2011, 1hr 43mins + MR INDIA 12A Dir: Zoya Akhtar SANGEETA DATTA 12A USA 2019, 1hr 43mins Tickets £3 Fri 31 January, 7.30pm India 2015, 2hrs 50mins, Wed 29 Jan, 6pm Dir: Shekhar Kapur Hindi with English subtitles Dir: Sangeeta Datta It’s the question we’ve all being When a trio of Muppet fanatics India 1987, 2hrs 59mins UK 2009, 2hrs, Hindi and Bengali asking… why was Elsa born with learn that evil businessman Tex + In Conversation, Hindi with The Mehras invite family and with English subtitles magical powers? With Arendelle Richman wants to drill for oil under English subtitles friends to join them on a cruise under threat, Anna, Elsa and the the now disused Muppet Theatre, to celebrate their 30th wedding After the sudden death of his wife, gang set out to find the answer they hatch a plan to bring the Javed Ahktar is a master of anniversary. But as deep-seated London doctor Sanjay Banerjee and save their kingdom. Another Muppets back for one final show the Indian musical and one of emotions, resentments and finds himself facing challenges sure-fire Disney hit. to save the theatre. Jason Segal – Bollywood’s most noted film writers, insecurities come to the fore, with his grown-up daughters.

man or Muppet? Discuss. poets and lyricists, whose credits will the couple be torn apart? Director Sangeeta Datta joins us in p8 – see Matinees Midweek as Available include the movies Deewar, Zanzeer conversation after the screening. and Sholay and a host of iconic THE GREATEST CHITTY CHITTY songs which have earned him SHOWMAN PG BANG BANG U numerous awards. Join us for this DON 12A ROCK ON!! 12A Sat 11 – Sun 12 Jan Sat 25 – Sun 26 Jan WINTER very special event celebrating his Sun 19 Jan, 2pm Sun 12 Jan 2pm USA 2017, 1hr 42mins UK/USA 1968, 2hrs 26mins WANDER-LAND 75th birthday, where he will share Dir: Farhan Akhtar Dir: Abhishek Kapoor Tickets £3 Tickets £3 Sat 11 Jan, 12pm – 4pm his craft of writing for the Bollywood India 2006, 2hrs 58mins, India 2008, 2hrs 25mins, Free, drop-in musical. Followed by a screening of Hindi with English subtitles Hindi with English subtitles Hugh Jackman is on fine vocal Eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts Mr India, the tale of a poor but kind- form as PT Barnum – politician, (Dick van Dyke) creates an amazing Create a character to explore a hearted man who takes orphans Recruited by the police to After 10 years apart, four friends are businessman and self-proclaimed flying car that transports him and his digital snow-scape, collecting items into his home. Discovering his masquerade as the leader of brought back together to relive their ‘greatest showman’. With a star family on adventures galore. Packed and avoiding danger along the way. scientist father's invisibility device, an international gang of drug moments of glory as Mumbai-based studded cast including Michelle with catchy songs, it’s a classic After designing your character you he fights to save his children and smugglers, Vijay must fend for grunge rock band, "Magik". Williams, Zendaya and Zac Efron, crowd-pleaser – just watch out for can guide it on the screen using all of India from the clutches of a himself when things go wrong and it’s pure, unadulterated the child-catcher! your own movement. Part of Cultural megalomaniac. the investigating officer is killed. Hollywood entertainment. Quarter Earlies, free activities for families across the Cultural Quarter. Best for ages 4+ 6 7 CONTINUED FROM LAST MONTH

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STAR WARS: THE LITTLE WOMEN U CATS CERT TBC GREENER GRASS 12A 1917 15 RISE OF SKYWALKER Fri 3 – Thu 16 Jan Fri 3 – Thu 9 Jan Wed 8 Jan, 6.15pm Fri 10 – Thu 30 Jan Wed 18 Dec – Mon 2 Jan Dir: Greta Gerwig Dir: Tom Hooper Dir: Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe Dir: Sam Mendes (excl 25 Dec & 1 Jan) Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet Cast: Taylor Swift, Ian McKellen Cast: Jocelyn Luebbe, Beck Bennett Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, USA 2019, 2hrs 35mins USA 2019, 2hrs 15mins UK/USA 2019, runtime TBC USA 2019, 1hr 35mins Colin Firth UK/USA 2019, 1hr 50mins  – Guardian. Greta Gerwig’s Andrew Lloyd Webber’s record- In a DayGlo, bizarro version of ORDINARY LOVE (Lady Bird) superb adaptation of breaking stage musical reaches the suburbia, soccer moms and best  – The Times. Academy Fri 27 Dec – Thu 2 Jan Louisa May Alcott’s beloved story silver screen in this star-studded friends Jill and Lisa – who’s pregnant Award winning director Sam Mendes (excl 1 Jan) of the March sisters – four young adaptation. Featuring Judi Dench, with a soccer ball! – are locked in (Skyfall, American Beauty) brings his UK 2019, 1hr 32mins women each determined to live life Jason Derulo, Idris Elba and a passive aggressive battle of wills singular vision to this World War I on her own terms in post-Civil War Taylor Swift amongst others – and that turns sinister when Lisa begins epic. At the height of the First World America. One of the earliest feminist introducing Royal Ballet principal systematically taking over every War, two young British soldiers, HONEY BOY novels, Little Women follows the dancer Francesca Hayward in aspect of Jill's life. Jocelyn DeBoer Schofield (Pride’s George MacKay) Blake’s own brother amongst them. Fri 27 Dec – Thu 2 Jan sisters as they make their way her feature film debut – the film and Dawn Luebbe’s gloriously and Blake (Game of Thrones’ Filmed in an extraordinary single (excl 1 Jan) from sheltered teenaged lives at reimagines the musical for a weird feature debut is a hilariously Dean-Charles Chapman) are given take by master cinematographer USA 2019, 1hr 35mins home into the responsibilities and new generation with spectacular demented Stepford Wives-on-acid a seemingly impossible mission. Roger Deakins, 1917 stands challenges of adulthood. With an production design, state-of-the-art satire that’s destined for cult In a race against time, they must alongside Saving Private Ryan and incredible ensemble cast, this highly- technology, and dance styles ranging classic status. cross enemy territory and deliver Dunkirk as a modern masterpiece anticipated film is sure to feature in from classical ballet to contemporary, a message that will stop a deadly and a breathtaking story of empathy, the upcoming awards season. hip-hop to jazz, street dance to tap. attack on hundreds of soldiers – heroism and the horrors of war.

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Dir: Tom Cullen Dir: Kasi Lemmons Dir: Cameron Ford, Charlie Turnbull Dir: Zed Nelson Dir: Rory Booth p8 – see Matinees Midweek as Available Cast: Tatiana Maslany, Jay Duplass Cast: Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr Aus 2019, 1hr 41mins UK 2019, 1hr 34mins UK 2019, 45mins 1917 15 UK 2019, 1hr 22mins USA 2019, 2hrs 5mins FREE Wed 15 Jan, 11am Five friends attempt to cycle “ – An unmissable portrait “ – authentic and  – Guardian. Cynthia Erivo 2,600 kilometres from Oklahoma of modern London” – Guardian. In this local music documentary, captivating” – The Digital Fix. gives a powerful, compelling to California in honour of John Photographer Zed Nelson follows first time director Rory Booth takes JOJO RABBIT 12A Six scenes. Six years. Six moments performance in Kasi Lemmons’ Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning the inhabitants of Hoxton Street in a look at a group of DIY musicians Wed 22 Jan, 11am that shape a relationship. One of biopic of abolitionist and former novel, The Grapes of Wrath. Hackney – one of London’s poorest working together in Leicester. the sleeper hits of the London Film slave Harriet Tubman, casting a long Travelling through the communities boroughs – over a four-year period Through a series of interviews, Festival, Pink Wall is a modern-day overdue spotlight onto one of the of Middle America, the group seeks in this captivating documentary. a conversation emerges on THE PERSONAL romance, following the six-year most significant figures in American to understand how the country As private developers and companies camaraderie, collaboration, and the HISTORY OF DAVID relationship of Jenna (Maslany) history. Based on Tubman's thrilling has changed since the Dust Bowl make deeper inroads, changing the interdependence of artists. The film COPPERFIELD PG and Leon (Duplass). Intimately and inspirational life, Harriet tells the migration of the 1930s, exploring area dramatically, we meet local explores the importance of space in Wed 29 Jan, 11am told through defining moments extraordinary tale of her escape from the wealth gap, religion, immigration business owners, people who have the making of music, and the along their journey together, the slavery and transformation into one and the American Dream. This is a spent their entire lives in the reliance of communities on their film explores how both friendship of America’s greatest heroes. Through story of adventure, human connection, neighbourhood and others struggling shared and creative spaces – and resentments grow as the her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity inequality and disenfranchisement, to get by. Nelson’s debut feature is a including the home of a houseplant Programme details correct at time of pressures of adult life confront them. Harriet freed hundreds of slaves and as seen through the lens of John starkly honest but compassionate enthusiast, an empty church, and printing. Please check our website for MyPhoenix Members and Friends changed the course of history. Steinbeck’s seminal work. portrait of modern British life. MyPhoenix Liquid Tony’s Jam Cavern. up-to-date information as changes are tickets £5. Members and Friends tickets £5. 8 9 sometimes necessary. 0116 242 2800 BOX OFFICE

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course, covering all aspects of learned at Film School. p8 – see Matinees Midweek as Available For our customers who are blind THE GREATEST LITTLE WOMEN U screenwriting and working in the film Note: open to all, not just those who have or have sight loss, many films now SHOWMAN PG Tue 7 Jan, 7.45pm industry, led by tutor Kenton Hall. THE WALT DISNEY completed our Film School course. come with audio description, where Sat 11 Jan, 11am COMPANY EXAMINED a recorded narrator describes the 1917 15 Sat 7 Mar, 10.30am – 4pm on-screen action during gaps in the For children and adults on the Tue 14 Jan, 8pm 30 GREATEST FOREIGN Price: £16 dialogue. This is broadcast through autistic / Asperger’s spectrum, LANGUAGE FILMS wireless headsets so only the wearer these screenings have reduced JOJO RABBIT 12A Thursdays, 12 Mar – 16 Apr 2020 We take a look behind the can hear. Headsets are available sound levels, partially raised Mon 20 Jan, 8pm 2pm – 3.30pm scenes at Walt Disney to find out at Box Office. Details of all films lighting, no trailers and freedom Price: £75 / £65 conc / £60 Members what makes the company one of screening with audio description are to move around. THE PERSONAL the most successful entertainment available on our website, or look out HISTORY OF DAVID Last year the BBC polled over providers ever, and explore for the symbol in the brochure COPPERFIELD PG 200 international film critics to their vast catalogue of films film listings. Tue 28 Jan, 8.45pm find out their favourite movies made and recent business acquisitions.

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WEDNESDAY 1 JANUARY FRIDAY 10 JANUARY SATURDAY 18 JANUARY SUNDAY 26 JANUARY Closed – Happy New Year! 1917 12:00 14:40 17:30 20:15 Hollywood Will Eat Itself 10:30 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 11:00 Little Women 15:00 20:30 The Muppets 11:00 David Copperfield 12:00 THURSDAY 2 JANUARY Bikes of Wrath 18:15 1917 12:00 14:40 17:30 20:30 Shooting the Mafia 14:00 Frozen II 11:30 Jojo Rabbit 14:00 20:15 Bolshoi Ballet: Giselle 15:00 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 12:30 16:00 19:30 SATURDAY 11 JANUARY Motherless Brooklyn 17:10 David Copperfield 16:30 19:30 Ordinary Love 13:45 18:00 The Greatest Showman 11:00 1917 18:00 Honey Boy 15:50 20:15 The Greatest Showman 11:30 SUNDAY 19 JANUARY Uncut Gems 20:30 1917 13:20 15:50 18:20 21:00 The Muppets 11:30 FRIDAY 3 JANUARY Little Women 13:45 20:45 1917 12:00 MONDAY 27 JANUARY Cats 12:00 15:00 20:15 The Street 16:35 Don 14:00 1917 13:00 Little Women 13:30 16:45 19:45 Small Circles 19:00 Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait 15:00 David Copperfield 13:30 17:15 20:00 Pink Wall 18:00 Jojo Rabbit 14:10 17:00 Anne Frank: Parallel Stories 18:30 SUNDAY 12 JANUARY 1917 17:00 19:50 Uncut Gems 20:30 SATURDAY 4 JANUARY The Greatest Showman 11:00 Motherless Brooklyn 19:30 Little Women 11:00 14:30 17:30 20:30 1917 12:00 TUESDAY 28 JANUARY Cats 12:30 18:00 Little Women 13:30 19:30 MONDAY 20 JANUARY David Copperfield 13:00 15:35 17:00 The Biggest Little Farm 15:30 Rock On!! 14:00 Jojo Rabbit 13:00 1917 13:30 Pink Wall 20:40 Count Orlov Musical 15:30 1917 13:30 17:00 19:45 In Search of Mozart 18:15 1917 16:30 20:15 Jojo Rabbit 20:00 Uncut Gems 19:45 SUNDAY 5 JANUARY The Street 18:00 Motherless Brooklyn 17:00 David Copperfield 20:45 Little Women 12:00 Cats 13:00 19:15 MONDAY 13 JANUARY TUESDAY 21 JANUARY WEDNESDAY 29 JANUARY Dil Dhadakne Do 14:00 Little Women 13:00 20:15 1917 13:30 17:15 20:00 David Copperfield 11:00 Little Women 16:00 19:30 1917 13:30 17:00 19:45 Jojo Rabbit 14:30 18:00 1917 12:00 Pink Wall 15:00 The Street 18:00 Motherless Brooklyn 20:30 David Copperfield 13:35 18:10 20:45 NT Live: Fleabag 17:30 Uncut Gems 14:40 TUESDAY 14 JANUARY WEDNESDAY 22 JANUARY Atypical: Aquarela 16:05 MONDAY 6 JANUARY 1917 13:00 17:30 Jojo Rabbit 11:00 Life Goes On 18:00 Talking Pictures 10:30 Little Women 13:30 20:15 1917 12:45 15:25 18:10 20:45 Cats 13:00 18:00 Permission 16:00 Jojo Rabbit 15:00 17:45 THURSDAY 30 JANUARY Little Women 13:30 16:45 19:45 Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait 18:15 Movie Mavericks: El Topo 20:15 David Copperfield 14:00 17:30 20:15 Harriet 20:40 1917 20:00 1917 15:00 THURSDAY 23 JANUARY Atypical: Aquarela 18:00 TUESDAY 7 JANUARY WEDNESDAY 15 JANUARY 1917 14:30 17:10 19:45 Uncut Gems 20:10 Talking Pictures 10:30 1917 11:00 Jojo Rabbit 14:30 20:15 Little Women 13:00 16:45 Permission 13:00 18.00 Movie Mavericks: El Topo 17:30 FRIDAY 31 JANUARY Cats 13:30 20:45 1917 15:00 18:15 20:45 David Copperfield 13:35 16:30 19:45 Harriet 18:00 Little Women 15:10 20:10 FRIDAY 24 JANUARY Waves 14:15 Little Women 19:45 Film Quiz 20:30 David Copperfield 14:30 17:15 19:55 Bombshell 17:10 Shooting the Mafia 15:00 In Conversation: WEDNESDAY 8 JANUARY THURSDAY 16 JANUARY 1917 17:30 Javed Akhtar + Mr India 19:30 Little Women 11:00 Scandi-Noir 14:00 Uncut Gems 20:00 Cats 12:00 20:30 Little Women 12:00 17:05 Little Women 14:00 17:00 20:00 1917 14:00 16:50 20:00 SATURDAY 25 JANUARY Harriet 15:15 Permission 15:00 Musical Film 10:30 Cinema Bizarre: Greener Grass 18:15 NT Live: Small Island 19:30 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 10:30 David Copperfield 12:15 15:05 17:45 20:30 THURSDAY 9 JANUARY FRIDAY 17 JANUARY 1917 13:20 Little Women 13:45 17:00 19:55 1917 12:30 15:20 18:10 20:45 2040 16:00 Cats 14:30 17:45 Jojo Rabbit 13:00 15:30 20:20 Shooting the Mafia 18:15 Harriet 20:20 Mystery Film 18:15 Uncut Gems 20:30

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