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t of the second Asia Triennial Manchester. It includes new work which created a laser etched map on black Billion Suns is Katie Paterson’s Earth- a ambitiously cuts across conventional notions of the scale and status of the S anodized aluminium of all the Moon-Earth (Moonlight Sonata photographic object, opening up its potential to represent cultural, social and demised stars recorded since records Reflected from the Surface of the physical realities and relationships. The work’s seductive materiality belies its began, some 27,000 different kinds. Moon) , an automated piano which sharp critical and political consciousness. SKIES As a result of this most recent plays a fragmented version of residency, which allowed her to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. The Curated by Alnoor Mitha, Director Shisha & AT M11, and Sarah Perks, expand upon her research and sheet music was transcribed into Cornerhouse Programme & Engagement Director. Bren O’ Callaghan , interest in Ancient Darkness and morse code and beamed to the moon, Cornerhouse’s Visual Early Light, Cornerhouse is delighted where it was reflected back to source. to host the UK premier of 100 Billion However, given the pitted, cratered Arts Programme Suns – a confetti cannon that mimics nature of the Moon’s surface, not Asia Triennial Manchester 11 , a Shisha Highights include the Asia Triennial Manager, takes a look at the dizzying spectrum of a universal all the notes made it back home. initiated project, opens 1 Oct – 27 Nov Film Programme, curated by the out of this world phenomenon. Some were deflected into space and 2011with a vibrant and exciting Cornerhouse, opening on Sat 1 Oct works of Constellations it is this scarred and lonely lament with a live Q&A from Phillipine director showcase of current contemporary artist Katie Paterson. “There are 3, 216 pieces of paper that that will play as you ascend the visual art from Asia at venues across Brillante Mendoza, and a preview of each correspond to an explosion central stairwell. the city. ATM 11 features a series of his most recent film, Lola . The season called a gamma ray burst ,” explains exhibitions, commissions and features a range of new films from Katie about the work. “When it burns, 100 Billion Suns will fire daily during interventions by international and UK across the region, as well as a major it burns as brightly as 100 billion suns. the period of exhibition, Tue – Fri at artists exploring the theme of Time Mendoza retrospective. It outshines the whole galaxy, the 19:00, Sat & Sun at 14:00. and Generation, presenting new site- brightest explosion to happen in the specific work alongside work not seen For more information visit universe. So I collected and sourced all For information about Constellations before in the UK, and challenging www.asiatriennialmanchester.com 3,216 images (of documented gamma see p.4. stereotypical viewpoints of ray bursts) and colour-matched them. contemporary Asian artistic practice. Image Credit Rashid Rana, Desperately Image Credits Both: Katie Paterson, Seeking Paradise II , 2 010–11 . Earth-Moon-Earth (4’33”), 2007. Photo: Vipul Sangoi, Raindesign, 2 010. Photography: Katie Paterson. 10/11

ART Tour EVENTS Magda Archer: Crazy Mad Sat 9 Jul 15:00 - 16:00 Free, Booking recommended

Join curator Mike Chavez-Dawson and artist Magda Archer as they Screening plus Q&A delve deeper into Crazy Mad . This A Cosmological Fantasia informal, interactive tour of Gallery 1 Mon 4 Jul includes a chance to pose your 18:20 questions directly to the artist. Roshana Rubin-Mayhew Daksha Patel £5.50 full/£4 concs This tour will be BSL interpreted. Film Start Time Fri 9 Sep – Wed 12 Oct Tour Thu 30 Jun - Tue 2 Aug FREE, Café & Bar BAFTA and Cornerhouse present an Open Reception Constellations FREE, Café & Bar epic scale 15 minute film showcasing Constellations and Magda Thu 8 Sep Daksha Patel will display a new series the astonishing visual effects for Archer: Crazy Mad 18:00 - 19:00 CORNERHOUSE Roshana Rubin-Mayhew has been of drawings, produced alongside Professor Brian Cox’s Wonders of Sat 9 Jul FREE, Booking recommended PROJECTS loading film into her camera for the the Asian Triennial and a commission the Universe programme, recently 17:00 - 19:00 past decade. Film Start Time is a at Piccadilly train station. Her work broadcast on BBC2, followed by an FREE, Drop in Join Cornerhouse staff on a tour of collection of the images created at looks at the ways in which people in-depth Q&A with Creative Director the exhibition as we consider the the start of these rolls of film. They construct cities and are in turn Rob Hifle exploring the behind the With the city in the grip of the static nature of gallery presentation are the first instances of light seeping affected by the cities they inhabit. By scenes secrets. Comprehensively Manchester International Festival, we when affected by changeability, onto the unexposed negative, burning mapping recorded urban activity onto researched, and using the most up- extend an open invitation to both chance and the practice of our up the celluloid. Some glimpse at biological structures, she connects to-date science available, this is a familiar and first-time visitors. Enjoy a featured artists. This ongoing series of moments never fully captured, others discreet areas of scientific enquiry rare opportunity to see this unique complimentary drink and explore our This tour will be BSL interpreted. are abstract plays of light and colour. and data visualisation. Working from film – one of the most accurate and two diverse summer shows, exhibitions and projects in At a time when film is being replaced her studio at Suite Studios, Salford, stirring visualisations of travel, in Constellations and Magda Archer: Preview and around Cornerhouse in the digital revolution, this exhibition her practice is informed by rigorous space and time, you are ever likely to Crazy Mad , before heading out to Edition #3: The Hafsah Naib features new work by celebrates the surprisingly individual research and enquiry. see! A must attend event for anyone sample the city’s cultural fruit. Video Systems artists based in the North aesthetic of film. A Cornerhouse Micro Commission, wanting to enter the world of visual Fri 19 Aug West. Look out for supported by Paul Hamlyn effects. 18:00 - 20:00 Frances Blythe Foundation. Free, Drop in projects in our Café. Fri 5 Aug – Tue 6 Sep Film provided courtesy of BBC and FREE, Café & Bar visual design team BDH (Burrell Join us to celebrate the opening of All works exhibited are Durrant Hifle). our Gallery 1exhibition Edition #3: for sale. The setting of Frances Blythe’s The Hafsah Naib Video Systems . photographs is ‘any place’ Britain. This event forms part of BAFTA’s UK- The houses featured in the images wide learning and events Artist Talk & Tour seem built to the design of a child’s programme, giving audiences across Edition #3: The Hafsah Naib drawing; this could be suburbia at its the country access behind the Video Systems most ordinary. Despite the lack of screens of the film, TV and games Sat 20 Aug people in the frame, a claustrophobic industries. For more information visit 14.00 – 15.00 sense of human presence pervades www.bafta.org FREE, Booking recommended each tense image. Frances Blythe was selected for Bloomberg New Screening in association with our Join artist Hafsah Naib to learn more Contemporaries in 2009. She has exhibition Constellations. about her approach to public since graduated from an MA Fine Art engagement and collaboration with at Manchester Metropolitan reference to her site-specific and University and is based at Rogue highly localised installation in Gallery 1. Studios, Manchester.

For more information about these exhibitions and for details of how For more details and to to submit your own work book tickets for art for exhibit, visit events online visit cornerhouse.org/ cornerhouse.org/art cornerhousprojects Image Credits Bottom left: Still from Wonders of the Universe . Middle: Magda Image Credits All Roshana Rubin-Mayhew, Archer, Wee Scotch . Photography: Polite Film Start Time . Company. Top right: Kitty Kraus, Untitled , 2008 courtesy Galerie NEU Berlin 12/13

Art Film BAFTA Masterclass Photography Tracey Emin The Faber Book of New CREATIVE Writing Comedy Drama Working Collaboratively BO OKS Love Is What You Want South American Cinema INDUST RIES Tue 26 Jul Wed 21 Sep £27.99 Hayward Publishing £20 Faber & Faber 17:00 – 18:15 14:00 £4 full/£3 concs £25 full/£18 concs This catalogue accompanies the first Featuring interviews with the most major survey exhibition of Emin’s significant voices of the Latin new Sarah Hooper is a TV writer whose A half day worskhop for photographers work at a public gallery in London wave – “bonded by blood, politics, latest original script, Mount Pleasant , that explores how joining forces with since her rise to prominence in the strife, courage, ingenuity, and a is currently being produced for Sky 1 other photographers – on single Cornerhouse Publications 1990s. It brings together suites of shared desire to make movies” – this Cornerhouse is an HD. Amongst her TV credits are projects or long term – can increase is our international works from across the artist’s career book analyses the filmmakers and informal social hub for a several episodes of Paul Abbott's the visibility, momentum and creativity distribution service for emphasising the diversity of her films that have captivated audiences whole host of creatives in long-running BAFTA award winning of your work. dynamic practice. The exhibition is worldwide. comedy drama Shameless . In this Speakers include Paul Herrmann visual arts books and showing now at Hayward Gallery, Available in our bookshop. Manchester, but we also insightful and inspiring writing master- (Redeye), Charlie Meecham catalogues. You can London until Mon 29 August. offer a formal programme class, join Sarah in conversation with (The Bradford Grid Photography download the 2 011 Available to buy online at aimed at inspiring, Heat Magazine’s TV Editor Boyd Project) and Mark Devereux (Blank catalogue and buy books www.cornerhouse.org/books supporting and informing Hilton to discuss the craft of writing Media Collective). comedy drama for television. In association with Redeye, the at www.cornerhouse.org creative industry Programmed in partnership with photography network. practitioners and those You can also buy an BAFTA and Sky 1HD. who aspire to enter the Keynote incomparable range of creative world. John Knell: cultural magazines, film Making Culture Work books and postcards in our Date tbc bookshop, many of which £7.50 full/£5.50 concs are not available online. John Knell is one of the UK’s leading thinkers on the changing face of work and organisations and is co-founder of Intelligence Agency. In this keynote, John will review some key debates in cultural policy and assess their implications for the arts and creative industries – from rethinking innovation through to social impact bonds. What are their implications for the types of conversation about value and success that are going to shape the arts and creative industries in Call for EntriEs the future? exposures is the UK’s most prestigious student film festival: now in its 17th year with strong Coming Soon... links to the industry and an ever growing audience, the festival is the place where the BAFTA TV Preview Keynote media industry seeks out new emerging talent. It is also a great opportunity for students Mount Pleasant plus Cast and Crew Q&A Charles Leadbeater to see their films on the big screen, check out the level of competition across the rest of Tue 26 Jul the UK universities, meet fellow filmmakers, develop future collaborations and get plenty 18:30 of chances to get up close with industry professionals in relaxed informal settings. £7.50 full/£5.50 concs Filmed on location around Manchester, Mount Pleasant is a new Sky 1 HD is my work EligiblE? whEn is thE dEadlinE for Entry? comedy drama which stars a wealth of British talent including Sally Lindsay, Bobby Ball and Lisa Tarbuck, following the not-so-perfect life of 30-something Interested in visual • To be eligible for entry work must have • Early bird: Fri 29 Jul 2 011 (£10 per film) Lisa (Lindsay) and her husband Dan as they constantly get caught up in the effects? Don’t miss been produced whilst studying at a UK • Official deadline: Fri 26 Aug 2 011 complicated lives of their friends, workmates and ever present in-laws. This the Q&A with Wonders institution between August 20 10 and (£ 15 per film) of the Universe advance preview event will include a screening of the first episode of Mount Creative Director Rob July 2 011 • Latecomer: Fri 23 Sep 2 011 (£20 per film) Pleasant followed by a Q&A, led by Heat Magazine’s TV Editor Boyd Hilton, Hilfe (see p.10) • Work can be of any genre, theme or type with talent including writer Sarah Hooper, director Dewi Humphreys and actor • Work must be no longer than 30 minutes Sally Lindsay. Programmed in partnership with BAFTA and Sky 1HD. For more Creative Industries events and Further practical information, including rules, guidelines, entry opportunities visit cornerhouse.org/ forms and FAQ can be found on www.exposuresfestival.co.uk creatives Image Credit Mount Pleasant 14/15

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JULY Fri 1 Jul l A Separation opens p.21 Mon 4 Jul 18:20 l Screening + Q&A / A Cosmological Fantasia p.10 AT A Tue 5 Jul 20:00 l Film Quiz p.15 Fri 8 Jul l The Tree of Life opens p.20 GLANCE Sat 9 Jul 15:00 l Tour / Magda Archer: Crazy Mad p.10 Sat 9 Jul 17:00 l Open reception / Constellations and Magda Archer: Crazy Mad p.10 Mon 11 Jul 18:10 l Introduced screening / Cairo Station p.27 Wed 13 Jul 18:10 l Introduced screening / The Land p.27 Fri 15 Jul l Cell 211 opens p.21 Sun 17 Jul 12:00 Matinee Classics / Day for Night p.28 EXHIBITIONS l AT A GLANCE Tue 19 Jul 18:20 l NBCQ / Treacle Jnr. + post-screening discussion p.23 Wed 20 Jul 13:30 l Matinee Classics / Day for Night + post-screening discussion p.28 Constellations Fri 22 Jul l Beginners opens p.21 Sat 25 Jun - Sun 11 Sep JU LY— Sat 23 Jul l The Good, The Bad and The Funky – Young People’s Cinema Takeover Day p.14 Galleries 2 & 3 Tue 26 Jul 17:00 l BAFTA Masterclass / Writing Comedy Drama p.13 Tue 26 Jul 18:30 l TV Preview + Q&A / Mount Pleasant p.13 Magda Archer: Crazy Mad Sun 26 Jun - Sun 7 Aug Sun 31 Jul 12:00 l Matinee Classics / Breakfast At Tiffany’s p.28 Gallery 1 AUGUST Edition #3 SEPTEMBER Tue 2 Aug 20:00 Film Quiz p.15 l Sat 20 Aug - Sun 18 Sep Wed 3 Aug 13:30 l Matinee Classics / Breakfast At Tiffany’s + post-screening discussion p.28 Gallery 1 These pages provide an overview of what’s on Tue 9 Aug 18:20 l POUT on Tour / Break My Fall + Director’s Q&A p.26 at Cornerhouse in July, August and September. Thu 11 Aug 20:40 l POUT on Tour / Man At Bath p.26 FILM HIGHLIGHTS For more information, updates and additions Fri 12 Aug l The Salt of Life opens p.22 AT A GLANCE please visit www.cornerhouse.org Sun 14 Aug 12:00 l Matinee Classics / Taxi Zum Klo p.28 Wed 17 Aug 13:30 l Matinee Classics / Taxi Zum Klo + post-screening discussion p.28 July For further details on finding dates and times 20:30 l POUT on Tour / Sea Purple p.26 The Tree of Life for new release films please see p. 20. Fri 19 Aug 18:00 l Preview / Edition #3: The Hafsah Naib Video Systems p.10 opens Fri 8 Jul Fri 19 Aug l In A Better World opens p.22 To book tickets for events and screenings ring Sat 20 Aug 14:00 l Artist Talk & Tour / Edition #3: The Hafsah Naib Video Systems p.10 August Box Office on 0161 200 1500 or book online at Fri 26 Aug l The Skin I Live In opens p.18 The Skin I Live In www.cornerhouse.org opens Fri 26 Jul Tue 30 Aug 17:00 l One Hour Intro / The Skin I Live In p.19

September SEPTEMBER For latest dates Melancholia Tue 6 Sep l Film Quiz p.15 opens Fri 30 Sep and times or to book tickets visit Thu 8 Sep 18:00 l Tour / Constellations p.10 cornerhouse.org Fri 9 Sep l Jane Eyre opens p.23 or call Sun 11 Sep 12:00 l Matinee Classics / Taxi Driver p.28 0161 200 1500 Wed 14 Sep 13:30 l Matinee Classics / Taxi Driver + postscreening discussion p.28 Wed 21 Sep 14:00 l Photography / Collaboration p.13 Sun 25 Sep 12:00 l Matinee Classics / Cría Cuervos p.28 Please note that Wed 28 Sep 13:30 Matinee Classics / Cría Cuervos + post-screening discussion p.28 distributors can l change the date of Fri 30 Sep l Melancholia opens p.23 releases at short notice so occasionally printed film screening dates will become Art inaccurate. l Unfortunately this is l Film out of our control. l Creative Industries l Regular Events 18/19

Superstar Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar embraces horror and thriller conventions in his macabre melodrama The FILM Skin I Lived In . Almodóvar reunites with Antonio Banderas ( Law of Desire ) who excels in his role as an eminent plastic surgeon dedicated to creating flawless artificial skin. Haunted by his past and driven by revenge, the doctor’s obsession leads him to carry out increasingly sinister tests to perfect his invention.

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CONTINUING The Tree of Life (12A) From Fri 8 Jul Dir Terrence Malick/US 2011/ details of the films listed in Incendies (15) 138 mins NEW A second set of films is the guide as well as new From Fri 24 Jun Brad Pitt, Fiona Shaw, Jessica also listed in the guide. additions to our Dir Denis Villeneuve/CN FR Chastain, Sean Penn RELEASES 2010/131 mins/Arabic wEng ST These will screen during programme. You can also Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux- The long-awaited return of Terrence the quarter, just not as search for films and Poulin, Maxim Gaudette Malick wowed audiences at Cannes soon as they are released exhibitions by day and Film Festival, with The Tree of Life nationally. These are listed week. Following the death of their mother, receiving near universal praise and a Beginners (15) by month, but without twins Simon and Jeanne travel to her reputation as the must see cinematic From Fri 22 Jul homeland in the Middle East in experience of the summer. Dir Mike Mills/US 2010/104 mins dates. Details and dates • Film times are published search of their origins. Their mother This visionary film chronicles Ewan McGregor, Christopher Welcome to the film for these films are in a weekly calendar on Nawal has engineered their journeys youngster Jack’s early life in 1950s Plummer, Melanie Laurent, section of our quarterly confirmed on our website Tuesdays at 14:00. You can by leaving each of the twins a letter small-town America where he lives Goran Visnjic guide. The films listed here and in our e-newsletters pick up a copy in the and instructions to find the father with his parents and two brothers. they believed dead and an unknown Malick interweaves this boyhood A wistful and understated American are the highlights of our nearer the time. building, or download it sibling. Their personal missions are narrative with episodes from Jack’s indie, following a lonely, grief-stricken film programme coming up from our website. presented alongside flashbacks that life as an adult where he struggles to man as he strives to make sense of over the next three months. Dates and times for all reveal secrets in their mother’s past reconcile his difficult relationship with his parents’ lives after the death of his There are some gems to Matinee Classics, one-off • You can phone Box and deep-rooted, painful cultural his religious disciplinarian father. mother and revelation that his father look forward to over the screenings, special Office on 0161 200 1500 for memories. Canada’s nomination for Through a series of visually arresting is gay. This highly personal semi- the Foreign Language Oscar sequences, Malick abandons realism autobiographical story is directed by summer, including Pedro seasons and film events film listings information. If for a poetic and ambitious filmic style filmmaker, artist and graphic designer Almodóvar’s The Skin I are listed in the guide. you call before 12.00, the OPENING IN JULY exploring the origins of the cosmos Mike Mills ( Thumbsucker ) and is a Live In , (see p.24 for an recorded information line and questioning the meaning of life. quirky yet delicate exploration into article about Almodóvar) Don’t forget, we’ll also be will list all the times for Winner of the Palme d’Or award at the mysteries of love, depicted by A Separation (PG) Cannes Film Festival 2 011 . a charismatic star cast, with a and in September look out adding more films to the upcoming films. After 12.00 From Fri 1 Jul romantic touch reminiscent of early for maverick director Lars programme during the a member of our team will (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) Woody Allen. von Triers’ Melancholia quarter, so check the be available to answer Dir Asghar Farhadi/IR 2011/123 which features a stunning website, or sign up to our your query. mins/Persian wEng ST Arrietty (CTBA) performance from weekly e-newsletters for Peyman Moaadi, Leila Hatami, (Kari-gurashi no Arrietty) Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini Dir Hiromasa Yonebayashi/JP 2010/ Kirsten Dunst. the latest information. • You can sign up for our 94 mins free weekly e-newsletter Middle-class couple Nader and Voicecast to be added How are films listed in Where else can I find out that provides details of all Simin’s marriage falls apart when the guide? dates and screening times the films, art and events Nader decides to call off their plans to Arrietty is an enchanting adaptation for new releases? coming up in the week leave Iran. Following his separation of The Borrowers from the masters of from his wife, Nader hires a devout Cell 2 11 (18) Japanese animation, Studio Ghibli. Opening dates for new ahead. If you’d like to sign carer to look after his elderly father (Celda 211) Arrietty is a young Borrower, one of a releases we plan to screen You can find out dates and up for the bulletin you can and later becomes embroiled in her From Fri 15 Jul family of tiny people living under the ‘on date’ (i.e. as soon as times for new releases and do this via our website. You life as he discovers his employee is Dir Daniel Monzón/ES FR 2009/113 floorboards of a house and in close they are released other new additions to our can also sign up to one both pregnant and working without mins/Spanish wEng ST proximity to the human occupants. her husband’s permission. Carlos Bardem, Luis Tosar, When Arrietty breaks the most nationally) are listed over programme in several of our genre specific film Asgar Farhadi was awarded the Alberto Ammann, Marta Etura important Borrower rule and interacts the next couple of pages. ways: e-newsletters. Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film with one of the human children, she These films will be on for at Festival 2 011 for this compelling Monzón’s tense prison drama does all she can to protect the least one week, • Search for Film + drama which casts a spotlight on recounts the story of a newly Borrowers’ way of life. moral and social issues in appointed warden who is accidentally The majority of screenings will be sometimes longer if they Coming Soon on contemporary Iran. caught up in violent jail riots. In order shown in Japanese wEng ST. There prove popular. www.cornerhouse.org for to survive, Juan must blend in with will be selected dubbed screenings. the prisoners as they revolt, and so Check our website for the latest poses as new inmate of cell 211 to information on these showings. save his skin. Cell 211 was a Box Film distributors can change the release Office smash hit in Spain, and the film dates and running times collected eight prestigious Goya at short notice so awards in 2 010. occasionally printed information will become For latest inaccurate. Check our film dates and website for the latest times visit information. cornerhouse.org Image Credits Left: A Separation . or call Middle: Cell 2 11 . Right top: Beginners . 0161 200 1500 Right bottom: Arrietty . 22/23

In a Better World (CTBA) The Tree (CTBA) OPENING IN SEPTEMBER Drive (CTBA) (Hævnen) Dir Julie Bertucelli/FR AU Dir Nicolas Winding Refn/US From Fri 19 Aug 2010/100 mins 2011/100 mins Dir Susanne Bier/DK 2010/113 Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marton Jane Eyre (PG) Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, mins/Danish wEng ST Csokas, Morgana Davies, Aden Young From Fri 9 Sep Bryan Cranston Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Dir Cary Joji Fukunaga/GB 2011/ Ulrich Thomsen, Markus Rygaard Set in rural Queensland, The Tree is an 120 mins An enthralling crime film from Nicolas emotional and sensitively presented Mia Wasikowska, Michael Winding Refn, acclaimed director Winner of the 2 011 Oscar for Best exploration of grief. Following the Fassbender, Jamie Bell, of 2008’s Bronson . Ryan Gosling Foreign Language Film, Susanne sudden death her husband, Dawn Craig Roberts, Sally Hawkins gives a memorable performance as The Light Thief (CTBA) Bier’s In A Better World presents and her four children struggle to cope Driver, a Hollywood stuntman who (Svet-Ake) interwoven stories of revenge and with their devastating loss. The film One of the classic literary love affairs moonlights as a getaway driver for Dir Aktam Arym Kubat/Kyrgyzstan forgiveness centred on one family focuses on eight-year-old Simone returns to the big screen in a new the criminal underworld. DE FR NL 2010/80 mins/Kyrgyz who are split across two continents. who firmly believes that her late adaptation from Cary Joji Fukunaga Melancholia (CTBA) Drive is a smart and occasionally wEng ST Anton works in an African refugee father’s spirit lives on in the imposing (Sin nombre ). Mia Wasikowska ( The From Fri 30 Sep violent film that plays stylistic Aktan Arym Kubat, Taalaikan camp and witnesses the effects of fig tree that overshadows their Kids Are All Right ) and Michael Dir Lars von Trier/DK SE FR DE homage to the US crime films of the Abazova, Askat Sulaimanov, violence on a daily basis; his wife and weatherbeaten house. When both Fassbender ( Hunger ) display palpable 2011/135 mins 1970s and early 80s reminiscent of Asan Amanov two young sons live a seemingly less the tree and her ties to the past are on-screen chemistry as mousy nanny Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Tarantino's movie junkie style. troubled life in a quiet Danish suburb. threatened, Simone seeks solace in Jane Eyre and her imposing, secretive Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Blending tradition with political As the couple struggle to make their the tree’s branches. employer Mr Rochester. An authentic Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt commentary, The Light Thief is a marriage work, their eldest son Elias presentation of Charlotte Brontë’s modern-day folk tale of good and evil becomes a victim of school bullies. passionate characters. Lars von Trier, the enfant terrible of in which an electrician devotes His closest school friend loyally European cinema, follows his 2009 himself to improving his neighbours’ defends him, and the pair embark on shocker Antichrist with a beautifully lives. Fixing anything he can including a perilous revenge mission. shot apocalyptic film. With a stand- short circuits, power cuts, electricity out performance from Kirsten Dunst meters and even marriages, Svet- as a manic depressive bride and an Ake is an unassuming local hero. equally impressive performance from When unemployment and capitalist Charlotte Gainsbourg as her sister, corruption challenge the villagers, the film presents a disastrous family he refuses to give up his humble gathering threatened by the fast- struggles. approaching planet melancholia.

OPENING IN AUGUST New British Cinema Quarterly returns in The Salt of Life (CTBA) Sarah’s Key (CTBA) July with a funny and poignant drama. From Fri 12 Aug (Elle s’appelait Sarah) NEW BRITISH CINEMA (Gianni e le donne) Dir Gilles Paquet-Brenner/FR Dir Gianni di Gregorio/IT 2011/88 2010/106 mins/French wEng ST mins/Italian wEng ST Niels Arestrup, Kristin Scott NEWS Gianni di Gregorio, Valeria de Thomas, Aiden Quinn, We’re pleased to announce QUARTERLY Franciscis Bendoni, Alfonso Mélusine Mayance that all our cinemas are now Santagata, Elisabetta Piccolomini fully equipped with hi- Kristin Scott Thomas delivers a definition digital technology, Treacle Jnr. (CTBA) The Salt of Life is a charming family compelling performance as Julia, an giving noticeably enhanced Tue 19 Jul on-screen images and saga from Italian actor-director Gianni American journalist living in 18:20 di Gregorio. Continuing the themes of improved sound to provide contemporary Paris whose you with a far better Dir Jamie Thraves/GB 2011/83 mins di Gregorio’s break-out film Mid- investigations into the 1942 Vél d’Hiv cinematic experience than Aidan Gillen, Tom Fisher, August Lunch , his latest feature round up of French Jews uncovers ever before. Riann Steele focuses on Gianni, a middle-aged man unsettling secrets. Alongside scenes dominated by the women in his life: his We’re very excited about of Julia’s modern day life, Sarah’s this development and hope For reasons he prefers to keep wife, surly daughter and demanding Key presents the emotional story of you enjoy our significantly private, architect Tom abandons his mother. Unsatisfied with his lot, Sarah Starzynski a 10-year-old girl, improved facilities! life as husband and father and takes Gianni follows some dubious advice caught up in the tragedy at the to living on the streets of London. and decides to take on a mistress. velodrome who is desperate to save After a run-in with a tree and some her younger brother. much needed medical attention in A&E, Tom strikes up a rather odd friendship with Aiden, a child-like chatterbox whose carefree façade “Funny, touching and gritty, this For more information on the New hides his own difficult life. Featuring a coolly rendered observation on need British Cinema Quarterly programme, standout performance from Aidan and rejection really is a Brit drama to visit www.nbcq.co.uk Image Credits This page: Left top: The Gillen, star of popular American shout about” Time Out Light Thief . Left bottom: The Salt of Life . Middle: In a Better World . Right: The Tree . drama The Wire and Channel 4’s ground-breaking British television Followed by a post-screening Q&A Image Credits Opposite page: Left: Jane series Queer as Folk . with members of the filmmaking team. Eyre . Middle: Melancholia . Right: Drive . PEDRO 24/25 ALMOD ÓVAR edro Almodóvar is the flamboyant characters of his films, Complex narratives and stories most celebrated Spanish such as the protagonists of The Law marked by coincidence and chance filmmaker since Luis of Desire (1987). encounters are motifs in virtually all Buñuel. His 18 films have his films. References to other films IN FOCUS made him a celebrity To some critics, his most accomplished and literature are often found in auteur, renowned films were the three consecutive Almodóvar, with his more recent internationally. With a vast releases starting with Live Flesh (1997), films tending to reference his own Carmen Herrero , of Manchester collection of awards and which was the first time he worked work: Broken Embraces (2009) Metropolitan University casts a P prizes from festivals around with Penélope Cruz, followed by All included a director shooting a film spotlight on Pedro Almodóvar’s the world, Almodóvar can About My Mother (1999) and his very similar to Women on the Verge be considered one of contemporary most critically acclaimed film, Talk to of a Nervous Breakdown . cinematic obsessions. cinema’s most accomplished and Her (2002). Live Flesh is one of his few engaging filmmakers, who is often films in which the male characters In Almodóvar’s film, music is a key controversial and paradoxical. and their interactions are more feature. The soundtracks of his movies important than their female can be characterised as eclectic, from Almodóvar‘s first films appeared counterparts. It is also the first of his the punk versions included in Pepi, during the ‘Movida’, a wild outpouring films where Spain’s fascist past is Luci, Bom… and Labyrinth of Passion of creativity in Madrid which followed revisited. Talk to Her also features an (1982) –including the song ‘Suck it to the end of dictatorship in Spain. His unconventional male friendship me’ performed by Almodóvar & first film, Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other involving the terrifyingly simple MacNamara- to the original and more Girls on the Heap (1980), is full of sex, Benigno, perhaps Almodóvar’s most ‘classical’ compositions by Alberto drugs, violence and black humour fascinating character. It is his most Iglesias. More recently he has that encapsulate the outrageous, ambitious film, from a narrative included songs by Brazilian Caetano sleazy word of Madrid at the end of point of view, but also for the richness Veloso and Carlos Gardel’s tango the 70s. of the cultural references. ‘Volver’ in a flamenco version sung by Estrella Morente. The sentimentality The films that followed explored Death and loss are the most vivid of and excess of bolero have been used similar themes with complex Almodóvar’s recurring themes with to great effect by Almodóvar in melodramatic stories and developed murder, bullfighting and the cold several films. Spanish singer Luz links with some of his favourite drama of hospital high-dependency Casal interpreted ‘Piensa en mí’ and actresses, including Cecilia Roth and units being staple ingredients of his ‘Un año de amor’ in High Heels ; and Carmen Maura, the protagonist of films, particularly from The Flower of Chavela Vargas (a gay icon in the What Have I Done to Deserve This? My Secret (1995) to Talk to Her . His Hispanic world) underlined the (1984). This film, a darkly humorous obsessions reappear in his films with feminine irrationality and emotion melodrama with touches of neo- the same regularity as his favourite of the protagonist of The Flower of my realism ‘a la española’, is one of the actresses. Gender and sexuality as a Secret (1995). Bolero speaks the most celebrated of his early works. matter of performance, as exemplified language of desire and the His breakthrough in European art- by Letal in High Heels and Agrado in impossibility of achieving it, an idea house cinema was the frenetic comedy All About My Mother . Motherhood, expressed in The Law of Desire Women on the Verge of a Nervous sisterhood and friendships between through Los Panchos’ bolero ‘Lo dudo ’. Breakdown (1988), the success of women are central in All About My which allowed him to establish his Mother , a film completed a few His body of work – covering a variety own production company, El Deseo. months after his mother’s death, but of styles, including silent film, musical, these are themes that he has visited comedy, and noir cinema –underlines By this stage, the visual style of his before and since. The return to rural the quality of this the unique movies had become one of his most roots is present in Volver (2006), an director who represents a unique recognisable trademarks: the look of homage to village traditions and blend of popular filmmaker and art- the films is gaudy, matching the superstitions and a fond portrayal of house auteur. With his latest release, melodramatic plot of his films such supportive neighbours. Religion is The Skin I Live In (2011), Almodóvar as Women on the Verge of a Nervous an area treated with ambivalence in opts for a thriller as a perfect vessel Breakdown , High Heels (1991) and his films from the parody of Dark for this interest in mixing For more details Kika (1993). The use of vivid colours, Habits (1983) to the darker portrayal cinematographic genres bringing about The Skin I Live In visit whether in designer clothes or of seminary education in Bad back one of his most charismatic cornerhouse.org/ kitschy décor, matches the Education (2004). actors, Antonio Banderas. skin-I-live-in 26/27

FILM YOUSSEF CHAHINE SEASONS POUT Cairo Station (CTBA) (Bal Al Hadeed) Mon 11 July 18:10 Dir Youssef Chahine/EG 1958/ 77 mins/Arabic wEngST Man at Bath (CTBA) Farid Shawqi, Hind Rostom, ON (Homme au bain) Youssef Chahine Thu 11 Aug 20:40 Hailed at the time for ushering in a Dir Christophe Honoré/FR 2010/72 new era of Arabic cinema, filmmaker mins/French wEng ST Youssef Chahine stars in this François Sagat, Omar Ben Sellem, melodrama of poverty and sexual Chiara Mastroianni frustration – one that shocked Arab audiences in the 1950s. The Shortly before departing for New filmmaker is remarkable as a crippled TOUR York on business, burgeoning newsvendor who lives alone in a filmmaker Omar ends his fraught squalid, pinup-lined shack and Break My Fall (CTBA) relationship with partner Emmanuel, whose obsession with a beautiful Tue 9 Aug Timed to coincide with the demanding that he be gone when he young lemonade stand vendor leads 18:20 Manchester Pride returns the following week. Man at inevitably towards violence. One of Dir Kanchi Wichmann/GB 2011/ celebrations, POUT on Tour Bath is a striking meditation on the the decisive turning points in 106 mins male form, appearing as much a Chahine’s enduring career, Cairo A rare opportunity to see The Land (CTBA) Kat Redstone, Sophie Anderson, and Peccadillo Pictures celebration of porn actor François Station marked a new visual daring two classics of Arab (Al Ard) -Kai Brandon Ly present a whole host of top Sagat’s sculpted body as it is a tense and embrace of ambitious and cinema from Youssef Wed 13 July 18:10 quality films that were part examination of love and desire. controversial subject matter, an Chahine, Egypt’s best- On the eve of Liza’s 25th birthday, of the BFI London Lesbian attempt to rejuvenate formula-driven Dir Youssef Chahine/EG 1969/ both she and girlfriend Sally become known director and 130 mins/Arabic wEngST and Gay Film Festival, Sea Purple (CTBA) mainstream Egyptian cinema by embroiled in a swirl of emotions that (Viola di Mare) judiciously experimenting with formal producer. Chahine’s films Hamdy Ahmed, Yehia Chahine, will change their lives forever. including some brand new Wed 17 Aug and thematic elements from both have gained him critical Ezzat El Alaili Featuring a soundtrack soaked with titles that were not in the 20:30 Italian neo-realism and German acclaim and popular music from a host of upcoming British programme. We’ve made a Dir Donatella Maiorca/IT expressionism. As prescient in 2 011 as it was in the bands and breakout performances support and he was special selection of films 2009/105 mins/Italian wEng ST late 1960s, The Land is one of Arabic from its young cast, Break My Fall is Valeria Solarino, Isabella awarded the Cannes cinema’s most enduring film classics. an honest, tender portrayal of a from POUT on Tour for Ragonese, Ennio Fantastichini lifetime achievement This engaging feature details the relationship on the rocks. Cornerhouse audiences, award in 1997. struggle of a group of peasant including two screenings Growing up in 19th-century Sicily, farmers in the 1930s to protect their Event of re-issued feature rebellious Angela finds herself These screenings will be fields and their livelihood against a We are pleased to welcome corrupt pasha (high ranking official) Taxi Zum Klo as part of attracted to her best friend Sara. As introduced by Dalia director Kanchi Wichmann for a deep friendship turns to passion, interested only in self-aggrandizement. post-screening Q&A. Matinee Classics Angela’s strict father demands that Mostafa, Research Fellow Adapted by Chahine from a novel (for details see p.28). the relationship cease. Based on a in Modern Arab Cultural published shortly after the abolition true story, Sea Purple has drawn History at The University of of the monarchy by Egypt’s 1952 comparisons to ‘The Secret Diary of Manchester. revolution, The Land offers a full- Miss Anne Lister’ with its depiction of blooded narrative of political struggle a landmark lesbian love story. and sweeping nationalist emotions. It is a rallying cry for an Arab world demoralised by the Israeli expansion in the late 1960s. For more details visit cornerhouse.org/ For more youssef-chahine details visit Screenings presented in cornerhouse.org/ association with the Arab Fringe, pout-on-tour Image Credits Top: Man at Bath . Middle: Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival Image Credits Top: The Land . Break My Fall . Bottom: Sea Purple . and FACT, Liverpool. Bottom: Cairo Station . 28/29

New Print New Print Breakfast at Tiffany’s (PG) Taxi Driver (18) get the most out Sun 31 Jul & Wed 3 Aug Sun 11 & Wed 14 Sep of Cornerhouse by Dir Blake Edwards/US 1961/114 mins Dir Martin Scorsese/US 1976/ MATINEE Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, 114 mins signing up as a Patricia Neal Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, member, and enjoy CLA SSICS Jodie Foster, Peter Boyle a range of benefits Adapted from Truman Capote’s novella, follow glamorous, good- A cult classic, from American auteur including: time-girl Holly Golightly, played by Martin Scorsese, which follows the iconic Audrey Hepburn, as she alienated and battle-scarred loner — Two free cinema tickets Gift Membership is also and her handsome neighbour Travis Bickle, as he embarks on a — £1 off all cinema tickets available – the perfect Paul, an aspiring writer, live out their mission of misguided revenge in the — 10% discount on food present for film lovers, book Our popular, ongoing big dreams in the Big Apple. This seedy underbelly of 1970s and soft drinks in the Café readers, art enthusiasts and unforgettable and sophisticated Manhattan. Featuring a career programme brings cinema — 10% discount on books coffee drinkers! classics to the big screen comedy, studded with sparkling defining performance from Robert De moments, remains the gemstone of Niro, this acclaimed psychological from our Bookshop every month – with each Hollywood romances 50 years on thriller has been stunningly digitally — £5 off all course prices Individual Membership showing on a Sunday at from its original release. remastered for its 35th anniversary — Exhibition preview starts from just £25 a year. 12:00 and the following year. Winner of the Palme d’Or award invitations Wednesday at 13:30, so at the Cannes Film Festival 1976. — Latest programme you never need to miss information emailed to those must-sees! Each of you in advance of being these screenings will have made available to the an informal post-screening general public — discussion following the Priority booking on P special events Wed showing. — Exclusive Members If you’d like to enjoy I opportunities, offers and breakfast or an early lunch discounts in our Café before feasting

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mins/French wEng ST Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup, mins/Spanish wEng ST E Jacqueline Bisset, Nathalie Baye, Orpha Termin Geraldine Chaplin, Ana Torrent, Alexandra Stewart, Héctor Alterio Jean-Pierre Léaud Written, directed and starring Frank Ripploh, Taxi Zum Klo was highly Shot in 1975, as General Franco lay B Imbued with Truffaut’s infectious controversial on its initial release in dying, Saura’s masterpiece centres passion for the magic of cinema, this 1981, not least for its explicit on an eight-year-old orphan who wise, witty blend of comedy and depiction of the Berlin gay scene of believes she’s poisoned her drama is one of the most charming of the time. Made on a shoestring authoritarian father, a military man all his films. Truffaut himself plays budget and shot in a striking realist whom she blames for the death of

Ferrand, the director of a melodrama style, the film tells the story of the her adored mother. This darkly M being shot in Nice. As the production private and public life of a school unsettling and deeply touching story proceeds, Ferrand must control the teacher and has lost little of its is one of cinema’s most hauntingly chaos of real life off-camera – be it a impact in the intervening thirty years. vivid depictions of a child’s fantasy- diva fluffing her lines, or the Screening in association with POUT imbued reality. E tempestuous romanticism of an on Tour, Tue 9 – Wed 17 Aug. See For more information immature leading man. A superb opposite for more details. visit: cast, including Truffaut regular Jean- www.cornerhouse.org/ Pierre Léaud, perfectly embodies the membership fleeting joys and pitfalls of teamwork. M Image Credit Taxi Driver . 30/31

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