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BLADE RUNNER 2049 (15) PECKING ORDER (PG) BLOOD SIMPLE: DIRECTOR’S CUT THE SNOWMAN (CTBA) THE INERTIA VARIATIONS (15) I AM NOT A WITCH (CTBA) + Q&A + ADRIFT (15) + Q&A From Fri 6 Oct From Fri 13 Oct From Fri 20 Oct From Fri 6 Oct Dir Slavko Martinov/NZ 2017/88 mins From Fri 6 Oct Dir /GB 2017/TBC mins From Fri 20 Oct Dir Rungano Nyoni/GB FR 2017/90 mins Dir Denis Villeneuve/GB US CA 2017/163mins Dirs Joel Coen, Ethan Coen/US 1984/96 mins Rebecca Ferguson, Michael Fassbender, James Dir Johanna St Michaels/SE GB 2017/85 mins Gloria Huwiler, Chileshe Kalimamukwento, Travers Join members of the 148-year-old D’Arcy Merrill Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas Christchurch Poultry, Bantam and John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya A unique and fascinating portrait Thirty years after the events in Ridley Pigeon Club in the lead up to their Immediately pulpy and cultish in feel, When an elite crime squad’s of The The’s Matt Johnson as he After a minor incident in village, Scott’s seminal sci-fi, a new Blade National Show, as they battle history the Coens’ thrilling debut possesses lead detective investigates the concentrates on life away from music nine-year-old Shula is to a Runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths (and each other) in their quest for all the characteristics that propelled disappearance of a victim on the first with his political ‘Radio Cineola’ travelling witch camp. As she navigates a long-buried secret that has the glory. Audiences will be introduced them to success – razor sharp dialogue; snow of winter, he fears an elusive broadcasts. Directed by Swedish through her new life, she must decide potential to plunge what’s left of to an endearing and eclectic group of a predilection for lethal and futile serial killer may be active again. The documentarist Johanna St Michaels, whether to accept her fate or risk the society into chaos. K’s discovery leads ‘chick fanciers’, each hoping to take violence; ironic, fatalistic humour; and latest thriller from Tomas Alfredson, who is also Johnson’s former partner, consequences of seeking freedom. him on a quest to find Deckard who away the top prize. an inventive focus on the tragicomic The Snowman is based on Jo Nesbø’s the film also looks at the creative global bestseller. Event/ We will be joined by director has been missing for 30 years. lives of idiosyncratic misfits. impulse and the stasis it can induce. Rungano Nyoni for a Q&A following the preview screening at 18:20 on Tue Plus/ Short film Adrift will play with Event/ We will be joined by Matt 17 Oct. this feature. Johnson and Johanna St Michaels for a Q&A following the screening on Mon 23 Oct at 18:10.

THE DEATH OF STALIN (15) + Q&A From Fri 20 Oct Dir Armando Iannucci/FR GB 2017/107 mins Jason Isaacs, Rupert Friend, Steve Buscemi Based on graphic novel The Death THE REAGAN SHOW (PG) THE PARTY (15) LOVING VINCENT (12A) Of Stalin by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin, writer and director Armando From Fri 6 Oct From Fri 13 Oct From Fri 13 Oct Iannucci’s acerbic satire is set in the Dirs Sierra Pettengill, Pacho Velez/US 2017/ Dir Sally Potter/GB 2017/71 mins Dirs Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman/GB PL 2017/95 days following the Russian leader’s 74 mins Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones mins stroke in 1953 as his core team of Told solely through 1980s network Aidan Turner, Saoirse Ronan, Eleanor Tomlinson The Party is a political comedy ministers tussle for control. news and videotapes created by the wrapped around a tragedy about Co-directors Kobiela and Welchman Reagan administration itself, the film a dinner party gone very wrong. explore Vincent van Gogh’s most Event/ We will be joined by director follows Reagan’s rivalry with Soviet Described by Potter as an anti-Brexit inspirational paintings to tell the story Armando Iannucci for a Q&A leader Mikhail Gorbachev, tracing how statement about ‘broken England’, it’s of his remarkable work, career and his following the preview screening on the Communicator-in-Chief used his a savage satire of the middle-class, untimely and controversial demise. A Wed 18 Oct at 18:00. public relations expertise to overcome exploring the truths behind seemingly synthesis of painting and cinema, this Soviet mistrust, the objections of a liberal convictions with insight and is a lovingly crafted, intelligent and sceptical press corps, and the looming killer wit. informative work. threat of WWIII.

2 3 THE BALLAD OF SHIRLEY COLLINS (12A) + Q&A From Sun 22 Oct Dirs Rob Curry, Tim Plester/GB 2017/94 mins Singer Shirley Collins once stood at the epicentre of the folk music DINA (15) SORCERER (15) THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER (CTBA) scene. However, she her (CTBA) From Fri 20 Oct voice in mysterious circumstances, From Fri 3 Nov From Fri 10 Nov Dirs Antonio Santini, Dan Sickles/US 2017/103 mins and retired from musical life. This Dir William Friedkin/US 1977/121 mins From Fri 3 Nov Dir /US 2017/115 mins Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal , Brooklynn , Valeria Cotto Dina, an outspoken and eccentric documentary explores the story Dir /GB IE 2017/109 mins Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Alicia Silverstone 49-year-old in suburban Philadelphia, behind the icon, and chronicles Four international renegades agree to The Florida Project tells the story of a invites her fiancé Scott, a Walmart Shirley’s battle to rediscover that risk their lives transporting gallons of Steven and Anna are well off and live a precocious six-year-old and her rag-tag door greeter, to move in with her. voice she lost so many years nitroglycerin across dangerous South happy and healthy family life with their group of close friends whose summer Having grown up neurologically diverse previously. American jungle in Friedkin’s remake of two children, Kim and Bob. break is filled with childhood wonder, Wages of Fear. Restored for its 40th possibility and a sense of adventure, in a world blind to the value of their Their lives take a darker turn when experience, the two are head-over- Event/ We will be joined by anniversary and, augmented by the while their parents and the adults producer Paul Williams and Tangerine Dream score, this is essential Martin, a fatherless youth with whom around them struggle with hard times. heels for one another, but shacking up Steven has a strained friendship poses a new challenge. directors Rob Curry and Tim Plester big screen viewing. for a Q&A following the preview ingratiates himself further into the lives screening on Sat 21 Oct at 17:50. of the family.

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (15) GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT 78/52 (15) FÉLICITÉ (CTBA) MARJORIE PRIME (12A) KALEIDOSCOPE (CTBA) AND BAMI (15) From Fri 27 Oct From Fri 3 Nov From Fri 10 Nov From Fri 10 Nov From Fri 10 Nov Dir Luca Guadagnino/IT FR US 2017/132 mins/ From Fri 27 Oct Dir Alexandre O. Philippe/US 2017/92 mins Dir Alain Gomis/FR BE 2017/French and Lingala Dir Michael Almereyda/US 2017/99 mins Dir Rupert Jones/GB 2016/100 mins French, Italian and English with partial Eng ST Dir Sophie Fiennes/GB 2017/115 mins wEng ST , Geena Davis, Tim Robbins Anne Reid, Sinead Matthews, Deborah Findlay Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael In 78 setups and 52 cuts, the deliriously Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu, Gaetan Claudia, Papi Stuhlbarg A multi-narrative journey through choreographed two-minute shower Mpaka What would we remember and what Toby Jones is at his very best in this would we forget if we could choose? complex and dark psychological thriller. Amid the sun-drenched splendour of the private and public realms of the sequence in Psycho ripped apart A gritty, music-infused drama about a In a near future, 86-year-old Marjorie Middle-aged Carl, recently released Northern Italy, Elio and Oliver discover legendary singer and performer Grace cinema’s definition of horror. With Kinshasa bar singer who comes out of has conversations with a hologram that from prison, is trying to adjust to life the heady beauty of awakening desire Jones. Director Sophie Fiennes creates black-and-white film-geek reverence, her emotional shell after a brush with resembles her dead husband and has on the outside. Written and directed by over the course of a fateful summer. a powerful cinematic experience, director Alexandre O. Philippe breaks misfortune. Initially grounded firmly been programmed to share Marjorie’s Toby’s brother, Rupert Jones, the film The latest film by Luca Guadagnino (I contrasting breathtaking musical down this most notorious and essential in realism, the film gradually morphs past with her. is a twisted and tangled look into one Am Love) is sensuously adapted from sequences with intimate personal scene shot for shot, enlisting the help into a dreamlike mood piece and, man’s psyche, as influences of past and the novel by André Aciman. footage, ultimately reaching beyond of film buffs and filmmakers alike. eventually, a tentative romance. the iconic mask. present collide in his tortured mind. Event/ We will be joined by director Alexandre O. Philippe for a Q&A Event/ We will be joined by director following the preview screening at Rupert Jones and producer Matt 18:15 on Thu 26 Oct – part of our Wilkinson for a Q&A following the FilmFear season. Turn to p15 for details preview screening at 18:20 on Fri 27 Oct. on FilmFear.

4 5 SUBURBICON (15) From Fri 24 Nov Dir /US 2017/105 mins , Oscar Isaac, Julianne Moore George Clooney returns to the director’s chair and re-teams with INGRID GOES WEST (15) FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN BEACH RATS (CTBA) Joel and Ethan Coen (as co-writers) LIVERPOOL (CTBA) From Fri 17 Nov From Fri 24 Nov for this dark and complex tale of Dir Matt Spicer/US 2017/98 mins From Fri 17 Nov Dir /US 2017/95 mins very flawed people making very bad Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olsen, O’Shea Jackson Jr. Dir Paul McGuigan/GB 2017/105 mins Harris Dickinson, Madeline Weinstein, Kate Hodge choices in a seemingly idyllic 1950s Following the death of her mother, Jamie Bell, Stephen Graham, Annette Bening Frankie, an aimless Brooklyn teenager community. young Ingrid Thorburn escapes a Annette Bening and Jamie Bell star is having a miserable summer, so he humdrum existence by moving out in this adaptation of the memoir by escapes with his delinquent friends West to befriend her Instagram British actor Peter Turner, recounting and flirts with older men online. This obsession and LA socialite Taylor his romance with the legendary (and exquisitely crafted, scrupulously Sloane. After a quick bond is forged legendarily eccentric) Hollywood star authentic, dark, and dangerous film between these unlikeliest of friends, and film noir stalwart Gloria Grahame confirms the promise of Eliza Hittman’s the façade begins to crack in both during the later years of her life. arresting earlier work. women’s lives.

Parent & Baby Screenings

BATTLE OF THE SEXES (12A) From Fri 24 Nov Dirs Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris/GB US 2017/ 121 mins Emma Stone, Elisabeth Shue, Steve Carell Dayton and Farris recreate the legendary 1973 tennis match that pitted Billie Jean King against the Parents, grandparents and carers of Unfortunately we are unable to admit boorish Bobby Riggs. The film succeeds babies aged up to 12 months can children older than 12 months of age. both as a comedy but more importantly enjoy films in a relaxed environment homemcr.org/parent-and-baby also as a commentary on sexism with their babies. The volume will be from a historical and contemporary lowered and the lights will remain PECKING ORDER (PG) perspective. dimmed throughout the screening. Thu 19 Oct, 11:00 Films will begin at the advertised time without adverts or trailers. See p2 New Releases for film details. LOVING VINCENT (12A) Baby changing facilities are readily available and our café bar team can Thu 9 Nov, 11:00 provide high chairs and hot water for See p2 New Releases for film details. bottles on request.

6 7 one-off screenings & events Check It, 2016 HOMELESS FILM FESTIVAL/ CHECK JARMAN AWARDS (18) + Q&A In Another Life, 2016 IT (CTBA) + POST SCREENING

Sun 1 Oct, 15:30 Dawson City: Frozen Time, 2016 DISCUSSION Dir Various/GB 2017/147 mins (inc Q&A) Mon 6 Nov, 18:10 A selection of deep, sharp and, at UK PREMIERE/ DALIDA (CTBA) DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME (CTBA) + Q&A Dirs Dana Flor, Toby Oppenheimer/US 2016/91 mins times, playful works taking on some Tue 24 Oct, 17:50 Check It is a feature-length of the biggest subjects of our times. Dir Lisa Azuelos/FR 2017/124 mins/French, Italian, Fri 27 Oct, 17:45 documentary about a black gay English and Arabic with partial Eng ST This year’s Jarman Award shortlist are Dir Bill Morrison/US 2016/120 mins gang struggling to survive in one Sveva Alviti, Riccardo Scamarcio, Jean-Paul Rouve Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Oreet Ashery, IN ANOTHER LIFE (CTBA) + Q&A This screening’s been a long time of Washington D.C.’s most violent An impassioned biopic of the acclaimed Adham Faramawy, Melanie Manchot, coming. Lost for half a century, 500 neighborhoods. Charlotte Prodger and Marianna Tue 3 Oct, 18:10 Raving Iran, 2017 music icon Dalida, who was born in films were discovered buried under a Simnett. Dir Jason Wingard/GB 2016/83 mins/English, Cairo and gained celebrity across French, Arabic wEng subtitles sub-arctic swimming pool in remote Event/ This screening will be followed RAVING IRAN (15) Europe in the 1960s, singing in French, Canada. Dawson City: Frozen time is a by a panel discussion chaired by Esther Event/ We will be joined by artist Elie Haddad, Toyah Frantzen, Yousef Jubeh, Biniyam Biruk Theshome Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, German, feature film that quite literally pieces Lisk-Carew, freelance film moderator, Marianna Simnett for a Q&A during Mon 9 Oct, 18:20 In Another Life is a bold mix of Italian. Azuelos’ film is a touching together history and features rare on the themes of homelessness within this screening. Dir Sue Meures/CH 2017/84 mins/Persian, English and tragic portrait of an emotionally documentary and drama, shot over a and German with partial Eng ST footage from the early silent era. the LGBT+ and black communities. complex woman who was born to be year in the Calais Jungle. Faced with Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of a star. This project is supported by Film Hub the prospect of illegal entry to the UK or Tehran’s underground techno scene. In North West Central, proud to be part the squalor of the camp, Syrians Adnan a country where the routine “eat, sleep, This event is supported by the Cultural of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, and Bana decide to take their chances rave, repeat” is a punishable political Engagement Fund of the University of in partnership with North West Film in a desperate bid to make it to the UK. act, salvation comes when they are Manchester . Archive, Manchester Metropolitan This event is part of Journeys Festival invited to perform at the biggest Event/ Followed by a post-screening University and Manchester Science The Orchard, 2013 International. techno festival in the world. discussion, see website for details. Festival. THE BALLAD OF SHIRLEY THE ORCHARD (CTBA) + Q&A Event/ This screening will include a COLLINS (12A) GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT & Event/ We will be joined by filmmaker Tue 7 Nov, 18:10 post-screening Q&A with director Bill Morrison, archivists, conservation Sat 21 Oct, 17:50 BAMI - LIVE WITH FRIENDS (15 Dirs Clive Myer, Lynda Myer-Bennett/GB 2013/102 KEVIN JEROME EVERSON Jason Wingard. specialists and HOME’s Artistic Director mins Dirs Rob Curry, Tim Plester/GB 2017/94 mins AS LIVE) SCREENING (15) + Q&A for Visual Arts, Sarah Perks for a Lucy Black, Paul Currier, Daisy Douglas MANCHESTER IRISH LANGUAGE See New Releases for synopsis. Wed 25 Oct, 19:00 Mon 2 Oct, 18:10 Q&A following this screening to talk Filmed in real time over one weekend, FILM MORNING/ ROCKY ROS Grace Jones and Friends Live promises about the scrupulous and fascinating The Orchard is an experimental drama Dir Kevin Jerome Everson/US 2009-2017/87 mins Event/ We will be joined by producer MUC (15) to be a thrilling and enlightening processes that were used to create feature owing as much to Godard for We’ll be screening of a selection of Paul Williams and directors Rob Curry evening with the inimitable icon, as this film. its reflexivity and the Danish Dogme short films from award-winning artist Sat 7 Oct, 10:30 – 13:30 and Tim Plester for a Q&A following she discusses her life and work with movement for its visual aesthetic as it Kevin Jerome Everson. Born in Ohio and Tickets £6 full / £5 concs this screening. some of her closest collaborators, from does to Chekhov and Pirandello for its based in Virginia, Everson is proving Dir Michael Fanning/IE 2017/92 mins/Irish and the worlds of music, fashion, art and form and content. to be one of the US’s most prolific English with partial Eng ST The Inertia Variations, 2017 Our annual celebration of Irish film, following an exclusive preview and relevant filmmakers, constructing Event/ We will be joined by directors language film returns with a special of Sophie Fiennes’ highly anticipated portraits that defy simple definition Clive Myer, Lynda Myer-Bennett for a screening of Rocky Ros Muc, a new film. and eschew socio-political cliché. Q&A following this screening. passionate account of the life of Event/ We will be joined by artist Ros Muc-born boxer Sean Mannion. Kevin Jerome Everson for a Q&A The screening will be followed by a THE INERTIA VARIATIONS (15) You might also be interested in our following this screening. discussion in both Irish and English and + Q&A producton of Chekov’s Uncle Vanya this event is open to all, whether or not on in our Theatre 1 stage from Mon 23 Oct, 18:10 you are an Irish speaker. Fri 3 Nov. Dir Johanna St Michaels/SE GB 2017/85 mins Part of this year’s Irish Language Arts See New Releases for synopsis. Festival supported by the Government www.homemcr.org/uncle-vanya of Ireland. Programmed in partnership Event/ We will be joined by Matt with Manchester’s Irish language Johnson and Johanna St Michaels for a groups and screened with thanks to Q&A following this screening. Below the Radar. Grace Jones: Bloodlight & Bami, 2017 8 9 , 2006 COURSE/ BEYOND THE GOLDEN Creative AGE: CINEMA Visions: Hong 1997 - 2017 seasons Kong Cinema 8 weeks, beginning Tue 17 Oct Sara, 2014 18:30 – 20:30 Handsworth Songs, 1987 Black History 1997 - 2017 SARA (18) + Q&A £80 full / £60 concs . (CHOR GEI) Despite anxieties brought on by the Month AFTER THIS OUR EXILE (15) handover to China in 1997, Hong Kong . Sun 8 Oct, 16:00 (FU ZI) remains one of East Asia’s most vibrant Dir Herman Yau/HK 2015/95 mins/, Thai film industries, offering everything from Sat 7 – and English with partial EngST Sun 22 Oct, 15:30 Charlene Choi, Simon Yam, Ryan Lau Dir Patrick Tam/HK 2006/159 mins/Cantonese wEng ST genre productions to piercing social wed 4 – mon 16 Tue 14 nov , Charlie Yeung, Ian Iskandar Gouw commentaries. Creative Visions offers a specially Director Herman Yau returns to a more After this Our Exile is without doubt This course supplies an overview of the selected season of some of the most socially conscious filmmaking in this oct one of the best Hong Kong films last 20 years of Hong Kong cinema, To mark the 30th anniversary outstanding work produced since the morally complex but ultimately moving since 1997. Set in an unspecified past, showing an industry persisting through of Black History Month, and our HANDSWORTH SONGS (15) handover of Hong Kong to China in story of a woman who following a life of exploitation decides to try and do it is the story of a family, a father uncertain political times. first collaboration with Come The Tue 10 Oct, 18:30 1997. HOME is pleased to collaborate something so others don’t have to and a son, and the difficulty and Beginners’ level, no prior knowledge Revolution, HOME presents a diverse Dir John Akomfrah/GB 1987/61 mins with Create Hong Kong and the Hong suffer as she did. disappointment of everyday life. necessary. Six sessions plus two course range of titles that look at BAME issues Award-winning film essay on race and Kong Economic and Trade Office We are pleased to be able to screen screenings (see below). from a national and international civil disorder in 1980s Britain and the London on a project managed by the Event/ Followed by a post-screening the director’s longer edit of the film. perspective. inner city riots of 1985, Handsworth Hong Kong International Film Festival Q&A with director Herman Yau. Led by Fraser Elliott, PhD researcher of Come the Revolution is a collective of Songs takes as its point of departure Society. LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE (15) Chinese-language film and member of curators, programmers and creatives the civil disturbances of September and homemcr.org/creative-visions Made in Hong Kong, 1997 (DYUT MENG GAM) the Chinese Film Forum UK. from Bristol and Birmingham committed October 1985 in the Birmingham district The Sleep Curse, 2017 Mon 23 Oct, 20:30 DUMPLINGS (18) + INTRO to exploring and challenging black life, of Handsworth and in the urban centres Dir /HK 2011/107 mins/Cantonese wEng ST Tue 31 Oct, 18:20 experience and cultural expression of London. Ching Wan Lau, Terence Yin, Richie Jen through cinema. Dir Fruit Chan/HK 2004/91 mins/Cantonese and Image © Smoking Dogs Films; courtesy Johnnie To is one of the most important Mandarin wEng ST homemcr.org/bhm Lisson Gallery. directors working in Hong Kong today Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Miriam Yeung, MADE IN HONG KONG (15) and Life without Principle one of his From legendary director Fruit Chan, this Pressure, 1976 The Night of Truth, 2004 (HEUNG GONG JAI JO) most complex and satisfying works. gleeful tale of everyday horror is both Tue 17 Oct, 20:40 Set against the backdrop of the global excruciating and enjoyable. A young Dir Fruit Chan/HK 1997/108 mins/Cantonese wEng ST banking crisis, the film interweaves a Chinese immigrant (Bai Ling) has a Sam Lee, Neiky Hui-Chi Yim, Wenders Li number of stories as Hong Kongers try thriving business selling her homemade With a career-making central to make ends meet within a system dumplings with incredible rejuvenating performance from Sam Lee as Moon, that seems stacked against them. properties to rich Hong Kong matriarchs, a down-on-his-luck teenager trying to including a retired actress (Miriam THE NIGHT OF TRUTH (18) + make ends meet in the marginalised Yeung). But what is the secret ingredient EVENT neighbourhoods of a Hong Kong that is so successful? on the cusp of great change, Made (LA NUIT DE LA VÉRITÉ) Event/ This screening will be THE SLEEP CURSE (18) + Q&A in Hong Kong offers a sobering introduced by Andy Willis, Senior Mon 16 Oct, 18:00 (SHI MIAN) alternative to the slick genre films the , 2003 Dir Fanta Régina Nacro/BF FR 2004/100 mins/ Visiting Curator: Film at HOME. PRESSURE (15) city was renowned for. Presented in a RUNNING ON KARMA (15) French wEng ST Sat 7 Oct, 18:00 4K restoration. Wed 4 Oct, 18:00 Moussa Cissé, Georgette Paré, Adama Dir Herman Yau/HK 2017/102 mins/Cantonese and (DAAI ZEK LOU) ONE NITE IN MONGKOK (15) Ouédraogo Japanese wEng ST ORDINARY HEROES (15) Dir Horace Ové/GB 1976/136 mins Thu 26 Oct, 18:10 Herbert Norville, Oscar James, Frank Singuineau The poetic and visually stunning Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Michelle Wai, Jojo Goh (QIAN YAN WAN YU) Tue 14 Nov, 18:20 Dirs Johnnie To, Wai Ka-fai/HK 2003/93 mins/ Dir Tung-Sing/HK 2004/110 mins/ feature debut from Fanta Régina This blood drenched horror reunites the Cantonese and English with partial EngST Hailed as Britain’s first black feature, Thu 19 Oct, 17:50 Cantonese and Mandarin wEng ST Nacro. Set in an unnamed country legendary duo of director Herman Yau , , Siu-Fai Cheung Pressure is a hard-hitting, honest Dir Ann Hui/HK 1999/128 mins/Cantonese wEng ST , Cecilia Cheung, document of the plight of disenchanted racked by a decade-long genocidal and actor Anthony Wong for this tale Kang-sheng Lee, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Kwan-Ho Tse Centering on superstar Andy Lau’s civil war, The Night of Truth tells the of a Neurologist whose father worked A hitman from the Chinese mainland, British-born black youths. Horace Ové One of the most original voices to Big, a Buddist Monk turned muscle- story of the efforts of the opposing for the Japanese in occupied Hong Lai Fu, is hired to avenge the death of makes the most of his combination emerge from the Hong Kong new wave bound stripper, who struggles with the community leaders to overcome their Kong and whose legacy of guilt lives on a Hong Kong crime lord’s son, but the of professional actors and local non- of the late the 1970s, Ann Hui is now a fact that he can see people’s future, differences. in his sons dreams...and nightmares. Be police are onto him from the start. actors from the streets of London in major figure in global cinema. Ordinary Running on Karma is one-of-a-kind film warned: this is Asia Extreme! Hidden in the dense streets of Mong Kok, an angry but also incredibly balanced Event/ We will be joined by Come the Heroes is one of her most engaging and is a deceptively complex work that Lai Fu works to complete his contract. work. Revolution for an event following this Event/ Followed by a post-screening works, utilising a challenging formal combines elements of the supernatural Screening from a 16mm print. screening. Q&A with director Herman Yau. style to explore the history of Hong with the crime film and Buddhist Kong’s political activists since 1970s. philosophy. 10 11 Metropolis, 1927 a Revolution Happiness, 1934 Betrayed? film season The End of St. Petersburg, 1927 . THE END OF ST. PETERSBURG (PG) + LIVE ACCOMPANIMENT FROM thu 12 – HARMONIEBAND sun 15 oct (KONETS SANKT-PETERBURGA) A weekend of films from the Soviet Sun 15 Oct, 13:30 Dirs Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller/Soviet Union reflecting both the optimism of Union 1927/85 mins/Russian wEng ST the early days of the post-revolutionary HAPPINESS (CTBA) The Overcoat, 1926 Aleksandr Chistyakov, Vera Baranovskaya, Ivan period, marked by an enthusiasm for (SCHASTE) Chuvelyov Design experimenting and discovering the Fri 13 Oct, 18:00 The End of St Petersburg was planned potential of film as a medium, and the Dir Aleksandr Medvedkin/Soviet Union 1934/ to grace the 10th anniversary of the Manchester: shift in the 1930s toward the state 95 mins/Silent Revolution. The director’s plans were approved style of Socialist Realism, a Pyotr Zinovyev, Yelena Yegorova, Nikolay ambitious: Pudovkin wanted it to cover DM17 change that left many practitioners Cherkasov THE OVERCOAT (CTBA) the two centuries of the city’s history. Blade Runner: Director’s Cut, 1982 . disillusioned. Happiness comes in a variety of (SHINEL) In the end, the film is a boots level BLADE RUNNER: DIRECTOR’S CUT strange strange forms; here a peasant Curated by Andy Willis, Reader in Film narrative about a naïve youth who is (15) + INTRO dreams of becoming Czar, eating Sat 14 Oct, 18:00 Studies at the University of Salford and forced to seek work in the city. his fill and spending his time doing Dirs Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg/Soviet sun 8 – Tue 10 Oct, 20:30 HOME Senior Visiting Curator: Film. Union 1926/84 mins/Russian wEng ST HarmonieBand have an international nothing. With its bizarre satirical Dir /US 1982/116 mins Antonina Eremeeva, Emil Gal, Sergey Gerasimov reputation for presenting specially wed 11 oct homemcr.org/a-revolution-betrayed slapstick, Medvedkin’s film offers an Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young Based on the work of Gogol and composed scores for silent films. The DM17 festival is an annual series unforgettable antidote to the socialist Set in 2019, Deckard (Harrison Ford) is directed by Kozintsev and Trauberg, Paul Robinson’s score for this silent of events which celebrates design in realist style that was developing within assigned to ‘retire’ six rogue replicants leading lights in FEKS (The Factory of classic was presented in September all forms. In this second year of Design Soviet cinema at the time. Manchester screenings at HOME, who have returned to earth from an the Eccentric Actor), The Overcoat is in Eindhoven’s Plaza Futura and the Tsar to Lenin, 1937 we feature three films in the series off-world colony. During his search he a great example of the creative spirit Amsterdam ‘Eye’. becomes obsessed with Rachael (Sean October (Ten Days that present in 1920s Soviet cinema and ‘Reframing Reality’, each depicting Shook the World), 1928 visions of an artificial future humanity Young), an advanced replicant who fantastically showcases its directors’ and looking at differing concepts of causes him to question the nature of OCTOBER (TEN DAYS THAT delight in revelling in the grotesque. what might be considered ‘female’ in humanity. SHOOK THE WORLD) (PG) Screening from a 35mm print. that depiction. (OKTYABR) Event/ This screening will be TSAR TO LENIN (15) + INTRO NEW BABYLON (U) homemcr.org/dm17 introduced by writer and presenter Thu 12 Oct, 18:00 (NOVYY VAVILON) Chapayev, 1934 Gia Milinovich, who will talk about the Dirs Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov/ Sat 14 Oct, 16:00 METROPOLIS (PG) CHAPAYEV (PG) underlying theme of the series. Soviet Union 1928/104 Mins/Silent Dir Herman Axelbank/US 1937/63 mins Sat 14 Oct, 20:30 Vasili Nikandrov, Boris Livanov, Layaschenko Dirs Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg/Soviet Sun 8 Oct, 13:00 Using archive footage assembled over Union 1929/77 mins/Silent wEng Captions and Sun 15 Oct, 18:00 Dir Fritz Lang/DE 1927/124 mins/German October was commissioned to celebrate more than a decade, Tsar to Lenin Subtitles Dirs Georgi Vasilyev, Sergey Vasilyev/Soviet Union 1934/93 mins/Russian wEng ST wEng ST the 10th anniversary of the October presents an extraordinary cinematic David Gutman, Yelena Kuzmina, Andrei Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich Revolution. Its official status meant that Kostrichkin Boris Babochkin, Leonid Kmit, Varvara account of the Russian Revolution Myasnikova This visionary Fritz Lang classic Eisenstein had great resources to hand, Another strikingly original film from and bears witness to a moment in Produced by the Lenfilm studio, this from 1927 is celebrated for the first however his formal experiments meant the FEKS duo of Kozintsev and history when socialist ideals inspired legendary account of the heroics of a appearance of a robot in a feature- Her, 2013 that the film met with some disapproval Trauberg, New Babylon is a love story the greatest twentieth century Red Army Chapayev is both an intense length film. Created in female form, the within official circles. set amongst the events of the Paris HER (15) revolutionary movement. story of sacrifice and a clear example fake Maria leads factory workers to Commune of 1871. Jay Leyda called Screening from a 35mm print. of Soviet propaganda, which upon its rise up and destroy the machines that Wed 11 Oct, 13:00 Event/ This screening will be it a ‘consistently magnificent climax release became something of a cultural rule them. Dir /US 2013/126 mins introduced by Chris Marsden, to the silent films of Kozintsev and , , Scarlett phenomenon. Johansson National Secretary of the Socialist Trauberg’. Screening from a 35mm print. Set in the near future, Spike Jonze’s Equality Party. Screening from a 35mm print, please prescient film follows Theodore note this print has no soundtrack. (Joaquin Phoenix), a man who develops a relationship with Samantha, an artificial computer operating system, personified with a female voice (). 12 13 the Return of Angels of Revolution, 2014 filmfear Memory film . season . thu 26 – tue 31 oct FilmFear returns for a second year, sat 21 oct – marking Halloween with a celebration of sun 26 nov horror, dark fantasy and intense cinema. To mark our major autumn exhibition, Previews, cult favourites, short films and The Return of Memory, we will be special guests come together for another presenting a special season of inescapable HOME invasion. contemporary cinema and artists’ ANGELS OF REVOLUTION (CTBA) CLOSE RELATIONS (CTBA) Created and curated by Film4 and HOME. (ANGELY REVOLYUTSII) (RODNYE) film from Russia, Eastern Europe and Highlights are listed here, for the full former Socialist territories. Together programme, please visit the website or Sun 22 Oct, 17:50 Sat 25 Nov, 17:50 My Friend Dahmer, 2017 they explore the different legacies of Dir Aleksei Fedorchenko/ RU 2014/113 mins/Russian Dir Vitaly Mansky/LV DE EE GB 2016/112 min/Russian pick up our FilmFear brochure in venue. the Russian Revolution - and all that wEng ST and Ukrainian wEng ST homemcr.org/filmfear PREVIEW/ THE ENDLESS (CTBA) PREVIEW/ MY FRIEND DAHMER followed in its wake - that are still felt Irina Ermolova, Polina Aug, Konstantin Balakirev Leading documentary filmmaker, (CTBA) today across the countries of the ‘New 1934: legendary Communist fighter, the Russian citizen and Soviet-born PREVIEW/ 78/52 (15) + Q&A Fri 27 Oct, 20:40 Dirs Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson/US 2017/111 mins East’. beautiful Polina-Revoluzia, is asked by Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky Mon 30 Oct, 18:15 Thu 26 Oct, 18:15 Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, Callie Hernandez, Dir Marc Meyers/US 2017/107 mins the newborn Soviet government to bring crisscrosses Ukraine to explore the Created and curated by The New Social Dir Alexandre O. Philippe/US 2017/92 mins Tate Ellington Ross Lynch, Alex Wolff, Vincent Kartheiser and HOME. order to the north of the Soviet Union, country’s society after the Maidan A glimpse behind the curtain at the Filmmakers Aaron Moorhead and A disquieting drama that explores the where their new ideology is rejected revolution, mirrored within his own homemcr.org/return-of-memory practical magic that helped create Justin Benson return after their highly High School years of notorious serial by two native populations. Polina large Ukrainian family, who live the most famous set-piece in horror original monster movie Spring with killer Jeffrey Dahmer. This adaptation convinces five of her friends and former scattered across the country. The movie history – the shower scene in a new mindbender. The co-directors of Derf Backderf’s graphic novel is colleagues-in-arms to go with her, and film explores the reasons behind the Psycho. Commentators include Peter play brothers who return to the cult hypnotically creepy, with Ross Lynch together they are tasked with bridging conflict, after which families and Bogdanovich, Walter Murch, Jamie Lee community in which they grew up, doing a terrifyingly good job of the chasm between these clashing citizens of a single country found Curtis and . discovering a creeping terror that showing us how a killer might come Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our cultures. Based on a true story. themselves on different sides of the Collective Body, 2013 becomes increasingly tangible. to be. barricades. Preview courtesy of Dogwoof Pictures. Preview courtesy of Arrow Films. Preview courtesy of Altitude Films. YUGOSLAVIA, HOW IDEOLOGY Event/ We will be joined by director MOVED OUR COLLECTIVE BODY Alexandre O. Philippe for a Q&A (CTBA) following this screening. Sat 21 Oct, 13:30 Hitchcock’s Psycho also screens as part Dir Marta Popivoda/SB FR DE 2013/ 62 mins/Serbian School Number 3, 2017 of FilmFear. and English with partial EngST City of the Sun, 2017 SCHOOL NUMBER 3 (CTBA) Brawl in Cell Block 99, 2017 The Mimic, 2017 Berlin-based Serbian filmmaker Marta CITY OF THE SUN (CTBA) Popivoda offers a very personal Sat 25 Nov, 15:20 (MZIS QALAQI) PREVIEW/ BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK PREVIEW/ THE MIMIC (CTBA) perspective on the history of socialist Dir Yelizaveta Smith/UK DE 2017/116 min/Russian 99 (18) Yugoslavia, the collapse of the socialist wEng ST Sun 26 November, 18:00 Mon 30 Oct, 20:40 Dir Rati Oneli /GE US QA NL 2017/104 min/Georgian Sun 29 Sep, 18:00 Dir Huh Jung/KR 2017/100 mins state and its transformation into a Speaking directly to the camera, wEng ST teenagers from a school in Ukraine’s Dir S. Craig Zahler/US 2017/132 mins Yum Jung-ah, Park Hyuk-kwon few democratic nation states. Using Up to 50 percent of the world’s Kaleidoscope, 2017 film footage from 1945 to 2000, the Donbass region share their innermost Jennifer Carpenter, , A South Korean hit that draws on manganese, a vital metal across the PREVIEW/ KALEIDOSCOPE (CTBA) hopes, fears, desires and memories in director S. Craig folklore to create a compelling and very film focuses on themes of ideology in globe, used to be mined in Chiatura, this heartfelt documentary. While the Zahler returns with another brutal scary new K-horror film, one that can public spaces, mass performances and in western Georgia. Today, Chiatura Fri 27 Oct, 18:20 war between Russia and Ukraine is Dir Rupert Jones/GB 2017/102 mins slice of pulp-fiction, turning a prison be mentioned alongside such favourites choreography of the public, collective resembles an apocalyptic ghost town never mentioned, it forms an unspoken Toby Jones, Anne Reid, Sinead Matthews thriller into an ever-escalating cycle of as The Wailing, Whispering Corridors body. with few remaining inhabitants. In epicentre around which individual See p5 new releases for synopsis. violent revenge. Vince Vaughn is our and A Tale of Two Sisters. Event/ This screening will be followed his documentary debut, director Rati hero, a mechanic whose unexpected stories coalesce. Preview courtesy of Arrow Films. by a Q&A with director Marta Oneli provides fascinating insights Preview courtesy of Pinpoint & Stigma reversal of fortune sends him deep into Popivoda. into a living environment whose bleak Films. a nightmarish criminal underworld from industrial ruins appear at once colossal Event/ We will be joined by director which escape seems impossible. and like a film set. His camera brings Rupert Jones and producer Matt Preview courtesy of Universal Pictures. that most valuable of resources to the Wilkinson for a Q&A following this surface – humanity. special preview screening.

14 15 States of Danger and Deceit: UK Jewish Film Remember Bagdad, 2016 European Political Thrillers of Festival the 1970s .

. REMEMBER BAGDAD (CTBA) + mon 13 – sun 26 PANEL DISCUSSION Sat 4 Nov – Tue 12 Dec nov Tue 21 Nov, 18:20 The 21st UK International Jewish Dir Fiona Murphy/GB IQ IL 2016/69 mins Film Festival returns to HOME with a range of outstanding features and Remember Baghdad is a fascinating The First Lap, 2017 documentaries from around the world exploration of the rich Jewish life and THE FIRST LAP (CTBA) as well as special guests for events. culture that had flourished in Iraq Korean Film (CHO-HAENG) before the events of the 20th and early homemcr.org/jewish-2017 21st centuries dramatically changed Festival Sat 11 Nov, 18:10 the course of the country – and the . £6.30 full / £4.90 concs fate of its Jews. Member £4.90 full / £3.50 concs Event/ This screening will be followed Dir Kim Dae-hwan/KR 2017/101 mins/Korean by a panel discussion. sat 11 – wEng ST The Essential Link: The Story of Cho Hyun-chul, Kim Sae-byuk Wilfrid Israel, 2016 sun 12 nov Kim Daehwan’s film explores THE ESSENTIAL LINK: THE STORY Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, 1970 The London Korean Film Festival generational conflict within a OF WILFRID ISRAEL (CTBA) + This winter, we present a season of For the full programme, please visit the returns to HOME with a selection of contemporary love story in thrilling PANEL DISCUSSION nail-biting thrillers that expose the website or pick up our States of Danger the best of current Korean cinema. forensic detail. Twenty-somethings This year’s programme focuses on film Su-hyeon and Ji-young live together Mon 13 Nov, 20:30 political tensions that reverberated and Deceit brochure in venue. Let Yourself Go! , 2017 noir features and crime dramas and our in financial and emotional insecurity. Dir Yonatan Nir/IL 2016/71 mins/English, across Europe in the 1970s. A decade homemcr.org/european-political-thrillers Hebrew, and German wEng ST when the social turmoil that marked the diverse programme will give audiences When Ji-young tells Su-hyeon that she LET YOURSELF GO! (CTBA) Despite taking an integral role in late 1960s gave way to more strident the opportunity to consider the wider may be pregnant, pressure mounts on (LASCIATI ANDARE) the Kindertransport and working politics involving stark and sometimes issues that surround the film industries them to either commit or split up. in partnership with the British Sun 26 Nov, 20:30 violent contrasts between left and right. of both Korea and the UK today. intelligence, Wilfrid Israel is a forgotten Dir Francesco Amato/IT 2017/102 mins/Italian A decade scarred by the emergence of wEng ST homemcr.org/korean-2017 hero. This fascinating documentary uncompromisingly radical groups such When the physician of distinguished explores not only Israel’s remarkable as the Red Army Faction and the Red Z, 1969 psychiatrist, Elia orders him to start rescue operations but also the reasons Brigades. exercising, Elia hires Claudia, a young Z (15) they had been kept secret for so long. The Merciless, 2017 personal trainer. The meeting of Beginning with Costa-Gavras’ legendary Sat 4 Nov Z, this season offers audiences the THE MERCILESS (CTBA) Event/ This screening will be followed these two very different individuals Dir Costa-Gavras/FR 1969/127 mins/French, dramatically changes their lives, and is chance to discover or revisit some of Russian and English with partial EngST Coin Locker Girl, 2015 (BULHANDANG) by a panel discussion. the decade’s key works - films that still Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis the source of one of the funniest films Trintignant COIN LOCKER GIRL (CTBA) Sun 12 Nov, 20:20 GOOD THOUGHTS, GOOD you’ll watch this year. influence the way in which politically (CHA-I-NA-TA-UN) engaged filmmakers approach their Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign £6.30 full / £4.90 concs WORDS, GOOD DEEDS: THE work and the genre. Language Film in 1970, after also Sat 11 Nov, 13:00 Member £4.90 full / £3.50 concs CONDUCTOR ZUBIN MEHTA having been nominated for Best Dir Byun Sung-hyun/KR 2017/120 mins/Korean (CTBA) + PANEL DISCUSSION Curated by Andy Willis, Reader in Film £4.90 full / £3.50 concs Picture, Z remains one of the most wEng ST Studies at the University of Salford Member £4 full / £3 concs Sun 19 Nov, 16:00 influential political thrillers of all Sol Kyung-gu, Im Si-wan, Kim Hie-won, Jeon and HOME’s Senior Visiting Curator: Dir Han Jun-hee/KR 2015/110 mins/Korean Hye-jin Dir Bettina Ehrhardt/DE 2016/ 89 mins/ time. Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a wEng ST German, English and Italian wEng ST Film. Produced by Rachel Hayward, Whether inside prison or out, ruthless magistrate assigned to investigate Kim Hye-soo, Kim Ko-eun HOME’s Programme Manager: Film and gangster Jae-ho and his new young Conductor Zubin Mehta was born the supposed accidental death of a As a newborn, ‘Il-young’ is abandoned coordinated by Jessie Gibbs, HOME protégé Hyun-soo struggle to trust in India and has had a dazzling left-wing politician, memorably played in a subway station locker and eight Film team. each other in a world of endless international career. It is Israel, however, by Yves Montand. In the course of his years later, she is sold off to the double-dealing and betrayal. that he is most identified with. Produced States of Danger and Deceit: European work he uncovers a series of deceits godmother of a Chinatown gang. Coin Reminiscent of Tarantino, this is also a on the eve of his 80th birthday, this Political Thrillers in the 1970s is and lies that attempt to hide the real Locker Girl is a story of two women moody neo-noir, all existential musings, documentary is a celebration of the programmed by HOME as part of BFI political motivation of the killing. who have found their own ways to rain-swept treachery and savagery just legendary maestro’s life and work. Thriller season, Who Can You Trust?. survive in a cruel, harsh world. Presented with support of the BFI, out of shot. Event/ This screening will be followed awarding funds from The National by a panel discussion. Lottery. 16 17 Manchester The Breadwinner, 2017 Loving Vincent, 2017 Spike is 60 Animation . Festival . mon 20 & mon 27 nov PREVIEW/ THE BREADWINNER LOVING VINCENT (CTBA) , one of the most prominent tue 14 nov – (CTBA) Wed 15 Nov, 18:30 and prolific directors of the 21st ThU 16 Nov Tue 14 Nov, 20:30 Dirs Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman/GB PL century, celebrated his 60th birthday The UKs biggest animation festival Dir Nora Twomey/IE 2017/94 mins 2017/95 mins in early 2017, and to celebrate, We returns to HOME this November Saara Chaudry, Laara Sadiq, Shaista Latif Jerome Flynn, Saoirse Ronan, Aidan Turner QUEER MEDIA FESTIVAL Are Parable have produced a series with a jam-packed three-day event Released next year, this film is based The world’s first fully painted feature Queer Media PRESENTS HILDA VS DEIRDRE: of screenings of some his iconic films. showcasing the best and brightest on the critically acclaimed book by film which uses 65,000 handp ainted Festival 2017 QUEER CORRIE SPECTACULAR From the controversial to the dramatic, talent the animation industry has to Deborah Ellis and tells the story of oil paintings to tell the mysterious (CTBA) this season will show the multi-faceted circumstances around the death of nature of Lee’s body of work. offer. Parvana, an 11-year-old girl growing up . Sat 18 Nov, 18:30 Vincent Van Gogh. Whether you’re an avid animation under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001 Dir Various/ GB 1977, 1981, 1989, 1998/101 mins This project is supported by Film Hub fan or just want to be blown away by who is forced to become the caretaker Note: We will also be joined by the An interactive experience to celebrate North West Central, proud to be a of the family after her father is unjustly makers of this film for a Masterclass sat 18 nov the camp heritage of Coronation member of the BFI Film Audience something you’ve never seen before, After last year’s sell-out event, we are arrested. during the festival. Street through four archive episodes Network. the festival will take you on a journey proud to announce that the Queer into the stories that are brought to life Note: We will also be joined by the of the soap opera featuring the iconic homemcr.org/spike-60 Tehran Taboo, 2017 Media Festival returns for the festival’s makers of this film for a Masterclass characters of Hilda Ogden and Deirdre through this vibrant and expressive fourth year celebrating the amazing during the festival. Barlow. Hosted by Manchester drag art form. range of LGBTQ stories in all forms of queens as we look back at the Ogden’s Along with Masterclasses, Q&As, panel media, for another spectacular event Father, 2013 second honeymoon, Hilda’s lost washing discussions, workshops, and special at HOME. previews the festival brings the best drama, Deirdre’s Christmas Day homemcr.org/qmf-2017 revelation of Ken’s affair and the day that animation has to offer. He Got Game, 1998 QUEER MEDIA FESTIVAL 2017 she went to prison. Highlights are listed here, PREVIEW/ TEHRAN TABOO (18) HE GOT GAME (15) for the full programme visit With thanks to the BFI National TV Sat 18 Nov, 11:00 – 17:30 Mon 20 Nov, 17:50 manchesteranimationfestival.co.uk Wed 15 Nov, 20:30 Archive and ITV Archive. Dir Ali Soozandeh/DE AT 2017/96 mins/Farsi wEng ST £15 full / £12 concs Dir Spike Lee/US 1998/136 mins homemcr.org/maf-2017 A CENTURY OF ARGENTINIAN Elmira Rafizadeh, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Arash Marandi Discover innovative storytellers creating , Ray Allen ANIMATION (18) Tehran Taboo takes a look at the illicit LGBTQ stories using the new digital Washington and professional basketball side of Iran’s youth culture through four platforms of virtual reality, gaming player Allen play father and son in Tue 14 Nov, 20:40 and mobile filmmaking. Learn who this drama about Jesus, a high school Dir Various/AR 2004-2016/72 mins young people searching for freedom and happiness. mixes digital with traditional media sporting superstar. However, his dad, This programme of Argentinian Short like theatre making, animation and who has been in prison for most of films from the last 13 years has My Entire High School journalism. Enjoy a creative mix of Jesus’ life, has been given the chance of been curated by Bit Bang Festival to Sinking into the Sea, 2016 inspiring talks, performances, workshops QUEER MEDIA FESTIVAL freedom – if he can convince Jesus to The World of Tomorrow Part 2, 2017 celebrate 100 years of Argentinian and films aiming to refresh the way that PRESENTS QUEERING play for a certain college team. Animation. For the full film listing please PREMIERE/ THE WORLD OF LGBTQ narratives are told. ANIMATION (CTBA) INSIDE MAN (15) TOMORROW DOUBLE BILL (CTBA) see the website. Sat 18 Nov, 20:30 Mon 27 Nov, 17:50 Tue 14 Nov, 17:30 PREVIEW/ THE BIG BAD FOX AND Dir Various/Various 2016-17/105 mins Dir Spike Lee/US 2006/129 mins Dir Don Hertzfeldt/US 2015 & 2017/40 mins OTHER TALES (U) Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Chiwetel PREVIEW/ MY ENTIRE HIGH A programme celebrating the medium This highly anticipated follow-up to Eijiofor Wed 15 Nov, 16:50 SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA of animation in telling queer narratives. Don Hertzfeldt’s film The World of Inside Man represents Lee’s first move Dirs Benjamin Renner, Patrick Imbert/FR (CTBA) Expect an amazing array of LGBTQ Tomorrow is, like the first film, written 2017/83 mins/French wEng ST animated short films created from into mainstream studio features, and is entirely around candid audio recordings Guillaume Darnault, Damien Wietecka, Kamel Thu 16 Nov, 14:15 live action, hand-drawn illustrations, still his highest grossing at $184 Million. Abdelssadok of Hertzfeldt’s five-ye ar-old niece.This Thu 16 Nov, 20:20 computer-generated to stop-motion Washington teams up with Lee for the special screening presents both short This trio of laugh out loud animal Dir Dash Shaw/US 2016/75 mins techniques exploring the queer colourful fourth time to play a detective who is films as they were designed to be adventures is the new feature by , , cartoon rainbow of diverse stories. negotiating with a highly intelligent shown as a double bill. Benjamin Renner and Patrick Imbert – This audacious debut feature by bank robber who will stop at nothing to who were part of the team behind the Graphic Novelist Dash Shaw is part complete his task. Oscar nominated Ernest and Celestine. disaster movie, part high school comedy and part blockbuster satire...it’s one not to be missed. 18 19 classics live broadcasts BRING THE FAMILY Catch the best theatre and opera Our popular programme brings cinema classics to the big screen every month so you Our family programme is supported by Auto Trader. broadcast live in our cinemas from the Hamlet never need to miss those must-sees! Sunday screenings are usually accompanied by a world’s most prestigious companies. homemcr.org/families free, informal post-screening discussion. Visit homemcr.org/classics for details. homemcr.org/live-broadcasts Hocus Pocus, 1993 In October, you can also catch classic films screening as part of Design Manchester: DM17 and A Revolution Betrayed? film seasons. See pages 12 & 13 for details. La Bohème Visit homemcr.org/classics for details.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977

HOCUS POCUS (PG) Kubo and the Two Strings, 2016 Sun 29 Oct, 11:00 Dir Kenny Ortega / US 1993 / 96 mins Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy After three centuries, three witches are resurrected on Halloween night, ROH LIVE/ LA BOHEME (LIVE) NT LIVE/ HAMLET (ENCORE) (12A) and it’s up to two teenagers, a young KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS (PG) Tue 3 Oct, 19:00 Thu 5 Oct, 18:45 girl, and an immortal cat to put an end Sun 26 Nov, 11:00 Composer: Puccini/Opera in four acts/Sung in Academy Award nominee Benedict to their reign of terror once and for all. Italian wEng ST/155 minutes (including 1 interval) Dir Travis Knight / US 2016 / 102 mins Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, The When Rodolfo, a penniless poet, Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Matthew Imitation Game) takes on the title role You might also be interested McConaughey meets Mimì, a seamstress, they fall of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. in Manchester Animation A young boy named Kubo embarks instantly in love. But their happiness is Festival family day. Visit on a magical quest to locate a suit threatened when Rodolfo learns that Now seen by over 750,000 people of armour worn by his late father, so Mimì is gravely ill. worldwide, the original 2015 NT Live manchesteranimationfestival. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE broadcast returns to cinemas. co.uk/family for details. he can defeat a vengeful spirit from Acclaimed director Richard Jones the past. THIRD KIND (PG) (Boris Godunov, Il trittico) directs a Coriolanus Sun 5 Nov, 13:00 new production of Puccini’s La bohème.

Tue 7 Nov, 20:00 Follies Wed 8 Nov, 13:00 State of Siege, 1972 RELAXED Dir /US 1977/137 mins Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr STATE OF SIEGE (15) We are pleased to screen the 40th (ÉTAT DE SIÈGE) RSC LIVE/ CORIOLANUS (12A SCREENINGS AS LIVE) anniversary 4K restoration of the Sun 19 Nov, 13:00 Designed for people with autism BLADE RUNNER 2049 (15) Director’s Cut version of Steven spectrum conditions and their Tue 21 Nov, 20:30 NT LIVE/ FOLLIES (LIVE) Wed 11 Oct, 18:45 Sat 28 Oct, 11:00 Spielberg’s sci-fi classic. A series of Dir Costa-Gavras/FR IT 1972/120 mins/French wEng ST families. We’ll keep the lights on low, Rome Season Director, Angus Jackson, See p2 for synopsis. unexplained events lead an electrical Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O. E. Hasse Thu 30 Nov, 18:45 completes the Royal Shakespeare turn the sound down a little, and engineer (Dreyfuss) into an encounter Perhaps the greatest political thriller Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical Company’s collection of Shakespeare’s provide a separate room to take a THE DAY OF THE JACKAL (15) with an alien lifeform. is staged for the first time at the break in. There will be no trailers or of the 1970s, Costa-Gavras calls on Roman plays with Corialanus. Sat 11 Nov, 15:30 National Theatre and broadcast live to advertisements before the film starts Screening from a 4k digital print. Yves Montand to lead this story of At the emergence of the Repubic of cinemas. and you’ll be able to move around the See website for synopsis. an American who is kidnapped by Rome Caius Martius Coriolanus is a cinema if you want to. KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS (PG) guerrillas in Uruguay. The taut story is , 1971. There’s a party on fearless soldier but a reluctant leader. told against the backdrop of repressive the stage of the Weismann Theatre. In this new city state struggling to find New to our Relaxed Screenings Sat 25 Nov, 11:00 politics, death squads and American programme, we are trialling screenings Tomorrow the iconic building will be its feet, Coriolanus must decide who he See above for synopsis. involvement in Latin America. demolished. Thirty years after their really is and where his allegiances lie. for adults and older teens. Screening as part of States of Danger final performance, the Follies girls homemcr.org/accessibility and Deceit: European Political Thrillers gather to have a few drinks, sing a few of the 1970s. songs and lie about themselves. 20 21 DON’T MISS... THEATRE ART CREATIVES HOME PROJECTS/ STRELNIKOV’S COURSE/ CHILD PROTECTION & HOME PRESENTS/ ORBIT 2017 GLASSES AND OTHER STORIES SAFEGUARDING Until Sun 15 Oct Until Sun 29 Oct Thu 12 Oct, 10:00 Tickets £15 - £5 Granada Foundation Galleries Tickets £130 Multibuy discounts available Free, drop in homemcr.org/safeguarding Orbit Festival 2017 brings together homemcr.org/strelnikovs-glasses innovative new work from theatre EXHIBITION/ THE RETURN OF WORKSHOP/ HOW TO CREATE makers across the globe who want to MEMORY GREAT VIDEO HOME PROJECTS/ MACKINNON & explore our place in the world. Many Sat 21 Oct – Sun 7 Jan SAUNDERS: ORIGINS Thu 26 Oct, 18:30 of these shows come straight from the Ground floor gallery Tickets £7 full / £6 concs Edinburgh Festival Fringe, exploring Fri 3 Nov – Sun 7 Jan 2018 Free, drop in homemcr.org/digital-skills our relationship with the past, how Granada Foundation Galleries we remember, the stories we tell Unofficial histories, suppressed Free, drop in FILMED UP ourselves and what it is that makes us memories and strategies of resistance homemcr.org/mackinnon-saunders who we are. all converge in our new major group Submission deadline: Wed 18 Oct exhibition, which seeks to redress homemcr.org/orbit-2017 No submission fee the legacy of the Russian Revolution Don’t miss the selection Films of all genres, under 20 minutes, on its centenary by exploring how of artist films screening in made by filmmakers currently residing contemporary artists are responding to HOME PRESENTS/ UNCLE VANYA October. in the NorthWest are welcome for the state of the ‘New East’ today. See pages 8, 9 & 10 for film details. submission to our regular short film night. Fri 3 – Sat 25 Nov EXHIBITION TOURS homemcr.org/filmed-up Tickets £26.50 - £10 ARTIST FILM/ JARMAN Artist and Curator Gallery Tour Taking Russia’s past as inspiration, AWARDS (18) + Q&A Sat 21 Oct, 12:00 HOME’s Artistic Director of Theatre REGULAR Walter Meierjohann’s production of Curator Gallery Tour Sun 1 Oct, 15:30 Dir Various/GB 2017/147 mins EVENTS much-loved play Uncle Vanya explores Sat 2 Dec, 12:00 the acutely tragic and deeply comic BSL Led Gallery Tour PLAYREADING ARTIST FILM/ KEVIN JEROME spirit of Chekhov’s late masterpiece, Sat 25 Nov, 15:00 EVERSON (15) + Q&A Fri 6 Oct, 11:00 with a bold visual design and live music BOOK LAUNCH + Q&A/ OTHER Fri 3 Nov, 11:00 Part of our A Revolution Betrayed? RUSSIAS BY VICTORIA LOMASKO Mon 2 Oct, 18:10 Dir Kevin Jerome Everson/US 2009-2017/87 Tickets £5 (scripts and season marking 100 years since the mins refreshments included) Russian Revolution. Sat 21 Oct, 15:15 Free, booking required homemcr.org/playreading homemcr.org/uncle-vanya ARTIST FILM/ HANDSWORTH BOOK LAUNCH + Q&A/ MOTHERS WHO MAKE ACCESSIBLE SONGS (15) SUBKULTURA BY ARTEMY PERFORMANCES Mon 20 Nov, 10:30 TROITSKY Tue 10 Oct, 18:30 Dir John Akomfrah/GB 1987/61 mins TOUCH Audio Described Free, booking required TOUR Sat 21 Oct, 16:30 Touch Tour homemcr.org/mothers-who-make Sat 11 Nov, 13:00 Free, booking required ARTIST FILM/ DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME (CTBA) + Q&A SHOW & TELL Audio Described WALKING TOUR/ ENGELS BY NIGHT OR HOW TO Sat 11 Nov, 14:00 Fri 27 Oct, 17:45 Sat 28 Oct, 16:00 GROW A WORLD IDEOLOGY Dir Bill Morrison/US 2016/120 mins Free, booking required Caption Subtitled NOCTURNALLY Tue 14 Nov, 19:30 homemcr.org/show-tell BSL Interpreted Tue 28 Nov, 20:00 Wed 15 Nov, 19:30 Tickets £10 YOUNG PEOPLE YOUNG IDENTITY This exhibition is accompanied by a film season, see p14 for Every Monday, 19:00 details. Free, drop in homemcr.org/young-identity 22 23 VISIT OPENING TIMES FILM PRICES HOME Box Office Off Peak (before 17:00) 2 Tony Wilson Place Mon – Sun: 12:00 – 20:00 Full £7 / Member Full £5.50 Manchester Main Gallery Peak (from 17:00) M15 4FN Mon: Closed* Full £9 / Member Full £7 INFORMATION & BOOKING Tue – Sat: 12:00 – 20:00 £5 student advance tickets Sun: 12:00 – 18:00 available (limited capacity). homemcr.org Granada Foundation Galleries 0161 200 1500 Concessions and discounts are Mon – Thu: 11:00 – 23:00 [email protected] available, please see website for Fri – Sat: 11:00 – 00:00 further details. ACCESSIBILITY Sun: 11:00 – 22:30 homemcr.org/accessibility Bookshop Mon – Sun: 12:00 – 20:00 KEEP IN TOUCH Ground Floor Bar @HOME_mcr Mon – Thu: 10:00 – 23:00 Facebook HOMEmcr Fri – Sat: 10:00 – 00:00 Instagram HOMEmcr Sun: 11:00 – 22:30 Audioboom HOMEmcr Café Youtube HOMEmcrorg Mon – Thu: 11:00 – 23:00 Fri – Sat: 11:00 – 00:00 Sun: 11:00 – 22:30 *Except Bank Holiday Mondays

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HOME is a trading name of Greater Manchester Arts Centre Ltd, a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales No: 1681278. Registered office 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester, M15 4FN Charity No: 514719.