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Box Office 0161 200 1500 HIGHLIGHTS Information 0161 228 7621 WELCOME Book online www.cornerhouse.org The autumn gets off to an exciting start as we open a major new exhibition by Rashid Rana. Rana is well known internationally for his visually stunning artworks which challenge cultural stereotypes, but this will be his first public UK solo show. His exhibition Everything Is Happening At Once is showing as part of Asia Triennial Manchester 20 11 , taking place at venues across the city from Sat 1 October – Sun 27 November. We’ve also curated the very first ATM film programme – bringing you a selection of films from across South and East Asia, including six UK premieres and a retrospective of acclaimed Filipino filmmaker INFORMATION BOOKING Brillante Mendoza. Cornerhouse is Manchester’s Book online centre for contemporary visual www.cornerhouse.org Other highlights from our film programme this quarter include We Need to Talk art and independent film. (no booking fee) About Kevin , a gripping adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s award-winning novel; Tyrannosau r, the powerful directorial debut from actor Paddy Considine (see Cornerhouse also has a By phone p.22 for an article about the film); and The Ides of March , which sees George publications division – an 0161 200 1500 Clooney step back behind the camera to explore the murky world of US politics. international distribution service Booking line is open from for visual arts books and Mon – Sun: 12:00 – 20:00 catalogues. In December we’ve got plenty to keep you entertained over the festive season; In person Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without It’s a Wonderful Life , and we’re also OPENING HOURS Our Box Office team are available screening one of our favourite eighties films, Labyrinth . So take a break from to take bookings from your Christmas shopping and bring along the whole family to enjoy one of our Main Building & Bar Mon – Sun: 12:00 – 20:00 seasonal selections (see p.29 for details). Mon – Thu: 9:30 - 23:00 Fri - Sat: 9:30 - 00:00 SUPPORT US Finally, why not head over to Liverpool for your fix of the newest and coolest in Sun: 11:00 - 22:30 art and film, as this year’s Abandon Normal Devices Festival takes over the city As a registered charity, we depend between Thu 29 September and Sun 2 October? (www.andfestival.org.uk) Galleries on the support and generosity of Mon: Closed supporters and partners to deliver Tue - Sat: 12:00 - 20:00 our unique programme of original Sun: 12:00 - 18:00 contemporary visual art, independent film, and engagement Bookshop activities. To make a donation or Mon – Sun: 12:00 - 20:00 find out how to support our work visit Café www.cornerhouse.org/support-us Mon – Thu: 11:00 - 23:00 Fri - Sat: 11:00 - 00:00 FOLLOW US CONTENTS Sun: 11:00 - 22:30 04 l Art – Exhibitions Festive Opening Times become a fan of Cornerhouse 06 l Asia Triennial Manchester 11/ Exhibitions Coming Soon Sat 24 – Mon 26 Dec: Closed 07 l Art Article – Rashid Rana Tue 27 Dec: Open from 12:00 08 l Art - Events Sat 31 Dec – Sun 1 Jan: Closed @CornerhouseMCR 10 l Cornerhouse Projects Mon 2 Jan: Open from 12:00 11 l Books 12 l Creative Industries Mon 19 Dec – Sat 14 Jan Sign up to our free e-newsletter 14 l Courses Galleries closed for exhibition at www.cornerhouse.org/sign-up 15 l Food & Drink / Regular Events / Venue Hire changeover 16 l At a Glance 18 l Film – New releases 22 l Film article - Tyrannosaur Cover image Rashid Rana, Desperately All information correct at time of 23 l Film Events and Seasons Seeking Paradise 2 , 2 010-2 011 . going to press. 31 l Information Photo: Ken Adlard. 04/05

Everything is Happening at Once is In Gallery 1, Dis-Location (2007) Gallery 3 includes new work the first major UK public solo explores domesticity, displacement Language Series 2 and 3 (2009 -11 ) exhibition from internationally and everyday objects. A series of and the stunning large-scale acclaimed artist Rashid Rana. heavily pixellated photo sculptures sculpture Desperately Seeking such as Plastic Flowers In A Paradise 2 (2 010-11 ). On first glance, The works in this exhibition, spanning Traditional Vase (2007) manipulate we see the panoramic skyline of a ART 1992 to the present, blur the divide our ideas of representation and mirage-like, imaginary city. Close up, between two and three-dimensional reality. Look more closely at what the big picture disappears and forms. Photo sculptures, large scale may at first suggest a seascape in thousands of smaller images are photo mosaics, installations and new photo mosaic The World Is Not revealed, depicting houses in Lahore, video work twist our perceptions of Enough (2006-7), and you will see the the city where artist was born and is size and structure and challenge our micro-imagery of waste and urban currently based. view of the world we live in. decay that are woven together to create it. A special publication Rashid Rana: Everything Is Happening At Once will What Lies Between Flesh And Blood be published by Cornerhouse in 1, 2 and 3 (2009), in Gallery 2, dissects association with Lisson Gallery in both the body and physical December. relationships. In Red Carpet I (2007), the carnage of slaughtered animals in Curated by Alnoor Mitha, Director a Lahore abattoir hides in plain sight Shisha & ATM 11 , and Sarah Perks, behind the intricate beauty and Cornerhouse Programme & tradition of a Persian carpet. On the Engagement Director. surface, this particular series are serene abstracts, reminiscent of A special version of the exhibition will Rothko. Come closer, and their tour to New Art Exchange, unsettling detail is revealed, each Nottingham Sat 14 January – Fri 30 composed of an intricate mosaic of March 2 012. 3 thousands of tiny images of wounds &

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Asia Triennial Manchester 11 (AT M11), a Shisha initiated project, opens Sat 1October – Sun 27 November, with an exciting showcase of contemporary art from Asia at venues across the city. The festival explores the theme of Time and Generation. It features a series of exhibitions, commissions and interventions by international and UK artists and includes new site-specific work and UK premieres.

At Cornerhouse, we are presenting the first major public exhibition of Rashid Rana in the UK (see p.4), and curating the Asia Triennial Film Programme which includes a range of new films from across the region, with a major focus on Filipino director Brillante Mendoza (see p.23 for more details). Also look out for Daksha Patel’s Cornerhouse Project showing in our café bar and at Piccadilly train station until Wed 12 October, as part of the AT M11 Fringe. ashid Rana’s art challenges states. When questioned as to the traditional percep tions of the relevance of his home base of Lahore,

For more information visit www.asiatriennialmanchester.com E photographic image via a which features as a seemingly kaleidoscopic eye- view; endless source of palette-images combining multiplicity, (similar in many regards to a primary P layered intent, abstraction spectrum of paint, blended and Rand three-dimensional form. cropped to create nuance and tint), he Culminating in the reveal in offers further clarification. “I don’t O Gallery 3 of the dazzling mirror-box deny its presence but until now I have and city panorama of Desperately not made a work that is strictly based Seeking Paradise 2 , the journey is one on ‘Lahore’ alone. It intermingles with C that requires the viewer to look once, many other references.” COMING blink, clear the mind and then look

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R “Today, every image, idea and truth communication today that ‘virtual’ Creative Stars Exhibition Samantha Donnelly (ancient or media generated) experience is something I also regard Sat 14 Jan – Sun 14 Feb 2012 Sat 28 Jan – Sun 25 Mar 2012 encompasses its opposite within as my surroundings.” Gallery 1 Galleries 2 & 3 C itself,” says Rana from his studio in Pakistan. “We live in a state of duality. Cutting across conventional notions Over the last year we have been The perpetual paradox, which reigns of scale, Rana does not pursue form or

Samantha Donnelly will present two A developing the skills of 19 talented new installations in Galleries 2 & 3 the outside world, is a feature for the technique alone at the expense of young Creative Stars aged between that explore how our ideas of self are internal self also. This internal emotion or intention, but it is 14 – 18 from the Greater Manchester conditioned and constructed within conflict pervades nearly any topic I certainly noticeable throughout his region. Between them they have society. The exhibition will investigate choose to explore.” Working across current exhibition at Cornerhouse, as M skills in visual art, design, filmmaking, concepts of normality, behaviour, multiple media including mosaics, pixellated approaches and photography, music, performing arts, etiquette and national identity, in Bren O’ Callaghan , photography and video installation, abstract reduction. His cuboid photo radio production, writing and events addition to the powerful effects of Cornerhouse Visual Arts Rashid Rana reaches beyond sculptures incorporating such items production. Together they have media imagery on the individual – as geographical boundaries to reflect as vases of flowers, newspapers, curated an exhibition which will we are impelled to stay young, stay Programme Manager, the world at large; combining pop books and even an empty plinth, sit feature work from a number of thin, stay desirable. Donnelly's work talks to Rashid Rana culture, identity, faith, urbanisation, on the razor-edge of comprehension: developing artists work. The Creative is primarily sculptural, and is about his stunning, politics of gender and nationalism. far-regressed yet still firmly Stars will be marketing the exhibition underpinned by references to art identifiable. themselves so keep an eye on our multi-faceted work in history and popular culture – Pakistani critic Quddus Mirza has website for more details! specifically photography, TV, film and Everything Is Happening written, “[Rashid’s] work is a mark of Rana’s repeat foundation of an For more information about advertisements. She questions and At Once . a global language, which is underlying grid is similar in this Creative Stars visit understood worldwide, yet spoken regard to a fishing net, its apertures www.cornerhouse.org/livewire reworks a range of sculptural matter, mass-produced household wares, with a particular accent.” no wider than a camera lens so that Image Credits Top: The Creative Stars. imported fashion bargains and not even the tiniest observation Photo: Paul Greenwood. Bottom: Samantha “I have never been conscious of where escapes his catch. Donnelly, Handstands & Headstands second-hand finds in the studio over (installation view) 20 11 . Image courtesy of a period of time. Image Credit Rashid Rana, Plastic I am, but have never completely the artist and Ceri Hand Gallery. Flowers in a Traditional Vase , 2007 evaded where I live either,” Rana 08/09

In Conversation Rashid Rana and David Elliott Sat 1 Oct 12:00 – 13:30 ART FREE, Early booking recommended ART EVENTS Artist Rashid Rana is joined by David Elliott, freelance international curator based in Hong Kong and Berlin, to discuss his work. Artist’s Tour: Rashid Rana Photography Workshop Preview Sun 2 Oct Multiplicity and Meaning Screening Sketch-O-Matic Rashid Rana: Everything Is 14:00 – 15:00 Sat 12 & Sun 13 Nov NIGHT The Rebel (U) Thu 24 Nov – Sun 4 Dec Happening At Once FREE, Early booking recommended 11:00 – 18:00 Thu 24 Nov Open daily, including evenings – See Fri 30 Sep £50 full/£40 concs 20:30 booth for timings 18:00 – 22:00 Rashid Rana will lead this guided A social shindig for anyone £7.50 full/£5.50 concs £1 donation per sitter to artist FREE, Drop in tour, introducing you to his work A key approach in Rashid Rana ’s who loves art, likes art, Dir Robert Day/GB 1961/101 mins across all three gallery spaces. This is ongoing body of work is the hates art or makes art! Art Tony Hancock, George Sanders, In an age of buy to invest instead of Join us to celebrate the launch of the an opportunity to hear from the artist challenge to photographic form and Night is an informal John Le Mesurier, Irene Handl buy what you like, the making of art first ever UK public exhibition of about the original intentions behind the concept of two-dimensionality. In opportunity for debate has been torn from human hands as renowned artist Rashid Rana. This his work and the processes by which this two day intensive workshop, around the value of creative Screening during Art Night, this mass-multiple prints flood the high preview is timed to coincide with the they are created. award winning photojournalist Mimi practice in our increasingly vintage Tony Hancock comedy street, while the buying of art is seen city-wide launch of Asia Triennial This tour will be BSL interpreted. Mollica will encourage participants to cash-strapped economy. remains a cutting spoof of as rarefied and reserved for a wealthy Manchester 2 011 . develop their own eye for the urban contemporary art practice. Hancock few. Sketch-O-Matic is a full size Talk locale. The second day will involve plays a wage-slave London clerk with photo booth situated in our busy Rashid Rana: The World the use of post-production methods a landlady (Handl’s Cockney café-bar, but where the machinery Is Not Enough in our Mac studio suite. Cornerhouse Projects: harridan) who doesn’t appreciate his should be is a tiny, fully equipped Wed 26 Oct Led by Mimi Mollica and Sally Olding Art Night Special chipping away at a monstrous artist’s studio. You, the public, are 18.00 – 19.30 Own digital camera required. An Our series of more informal sculpture, Aphrodite at the Waterhole invited to sit inside as if for a FREE, Early booking recommended advance exercise will be required of exhibitions in the café-bar includes a (“Fancy knocking around with photograph and make a donation to all participants. All levels welcome. group edition from Suite Studio, women like that! I wonder what your the artist through a slot for a self- Virginia Whiles, art historian, critic Salford, featuring especially kids will look like!”). Absconding to portrait. Wait five minutes (give or and curator, will present an illustrated affordable prints, originals and Paris to make it as an artist, his take) and the image will appear. It talk that looks at Rashid Rana’s artwork at ultra-affordable prices in ridiculous methods and inflated ego may be a pencil drawing, doodle, practice in the context of both the run up to Christmas. Beats a box will tickle a chord with anyone cartoon, collage or even word-poem. indigenous and global aesthetics. of After Eights (other brands of mint puzzled by the grandiose claims of Take it, frame it, consider it. Now you Virginia Whiles is Associate Lecturer chocolate wafers are available). art superstars. are both patron and muse! at Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts, London. She gained her PhD in Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of London and is the Performance Workshop author of Art and Polemic in Pakistan: When Unlikely Things Mapping Manchester Asia Triennial Manchester Cultural Politics and Tradition in Workshop Happen; Kit Abramson with Daksha Patel and Launch Party Contemporary Miniature Painting. Abstract LEGO Sculpture and dubsection Adrian Slatcher Fri 30 Sep Sat 10 Dec Fri 14 Oct Sat 15 Oct 22:00 – 01:00 Tour 12:00 – 16:00 18:00 - 19:00 14:00 – 15:30 FREE, Drop in (Limited capacity) Rashid Rana £12 full/£10 concs FREE, Drop in FREE, Early booking recommended with Mrs Barbara Nice Following the launch of AT M11 Sat 26 Nov Rashid Rana’s photo sculptures take Working with DJ dubsection, Kit As part of the Manchester across multiple venues, the 14:00 – 15:00 everyday, innocuous objects, from a Abramson will set off an installation Weekender, join current Cornerhouse celebration continues into the early FREE, Early booking recommended stack of newspapers to a fridge, of metronomes to play out a drum n Projects artist, Daksha Patel, and hours in our café bar. Meet and presenting them in a highly bass ‘ahmen’ track. The metronomes Adrian Slatcher from Manchester mingle with the artists, curators, Mrs Barbara Nice, comedy star of abstracted, pixellated 3D form. In this will be “programmed” and set-off by Digital Development Agency for an guests and culture vultures with Phoenix Nights , housewife, mother of workshop inspired by Rana’s flower an array of mechanical triggers and informal talk and workshop. The drinks courtesy of our sponsors five unruly teenagers (that is, vase series, you will create your own motors, which will decipher the event will look at a pioneering new Tiger Beer. unshockable) and keen word- LEGO brick sculpture under the classic beat in this unrepeatable network of sensors that record These events both take place during searcher, invites you to join her on a expert tutelage of Duncan Titmarsh – performance. environmental data around our Manchester Weekender ( Fri 14 – Sun 16 Oct). comedic art safari through our the UK’s only Lego Certified A Cornerhouse Micro Commission, building. Participants will work For more information visit Rashid Rana exhibition as she Professional. supported by the Paul Hamlyn collaboratively to explore ways of www.creativetourist.com/weekender. Image Credits Left: Rashid Rana, ponders aloud what on earth it’s all Adults only. Limited capacity, early Foundation. For more information visualising the data through mapping Veil V, 2007 (detail). Top right: Rashid Image Credits Top left: The Rebel, Rana, Instance Anatomy, 2009. Bottom about. Flat heels and cushioned booking recommended. about Micro Commissions, please techniques and drawing activities. Top right: Drawing by John Allison right: Rashid Rana, Yellow Flowers, 2007 soles are encouraged! visit: www.microcommissions.org Bottom right: Daksha Patel, Map, 2 011 . 10/11

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This accessible film studies course Italian Neorealism was undoubtedly will enable you to break down the one of the most revolutionary idea of film into its constituent parts, cinematic styles of the twentieth so that you can start to analyse how century, and despite being born out film works. What is seen on screen; of the ruins of the aftermath of World Our courses offer you the how and where the camera is War II, it has continued to influence chance to learn more about positioned; whether the director and contemporary film directors, both art in and film in a relaxed editor have decided to cut the film within Italy and in the international (and how they have done it); how film industry. Led by Adalgisa Serio, and sociable setting. sound and music are used: these Italian Associate Lecturer at Open Cornerhouse Members elements all ‘make meaning’ for us. 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Cinema History in the English Dept at in contemporary films in order to Manchester Metropolitan University, explore the notion of a reinvigorated this course will equip you with the neo-neorealism. basic terms you need to talk about the effect films have on us all, and it Course Screening/ Wed 26 Oct: Our Café and Bar are the The Reel Deal Cornerhouse has a number of will enhance your enjoyment of film Paisà (Dir Roberto Rossellini/1946) perfect place to meet for Every Mon & Tue Evening spaces available for hire providing an Introduction to by developing your critical Course Screening/ Wed 23 Nov: drinks with friends, hold ideal location for meetings, social Contemporary Visual Arts: awareness of them. Gomorrah (Dir Matteo Garrone/2008) your meeting or have a Mondays and Tuesdays don’t get any events and private screenings in the Modernism quick bite to eat before better than this! heart of Manchester. Our spaces Starts Mon 10 Oct Kick-start your week and treat include three cinemas; The Annexe 18:30 – 20:30 catching a film or checking yourself to a film, a homemade pizza event space, a fully accessible space £60 full/£45 concs, 6 weeks out our latest exhibitions. and a glass of wine or pint of Becks with its own private balcony area Beginners’ level, no prior Vier for just £12.50. ideal for meetings, presentations or knowledge required We pride ourselves on offering quality Limited availability, early booking social events; plus a smaller room homemade food inspired by cuisines recommended. suitable for meetings or more The Manchester Modernist Society is from all over the world. Grab your intimate presentations. an artist-led initiative whose projects morning coffee and your breakfast Monday Night Quiz For more details visit range from a tour of the Mancunian muffin or lunchtime snack from the Every Mon, 20:30 www.cornerhouse.org/venuehire Way to a musical commission for a downstairs Bar, or visit our first floor FREE, Ground Floor Bar telephone box, as well as publication Café for a fabulous daily changing For costs and availability please of the quarterly modernist magazine . menu of pastries, quiches and Test your knowledge of random contact Pat Raikes at This course will invite you upon an salads in addition to classic cafe bar bobbins with Chris at the weekly [email protected] unconventional journey through fare, like our ever popular pizzas quiz. Every team wins a prize. or 0161 200 1511 . modernist design, art and and lamb burgers. There is always a There will be no quiz on Mon 31 Oct architecture, from Lubetkin’s great selection of vegetarian food on and Mon 26 Dec. Christmas functions Penguin Pool and post-war offer too. This year we’re offering a cosy yet reconstruction to Sheffield’s Park Monthly Film Quiz contemporary space for you to hold Hill, the Pompidou Centre and the New Year’s Eve Party in association with Fopp your annual festive knees-up in. Our pop aesthetic of Verner Panton. Following the success of last year’s Tue 4 Oct, Tue 1 Nov, Tue 6 Dec tailor-made Christmas packages Course Screening/ Tue 25 Oct: celebration, we will once again be 20:00 include a lovely private function Course Screening/ Mon 31 Oct: Singin’ in the Rain (Dirs Gene Kelly, welcoming in the New Year with a £14 per team of four, The Annexe space, full sit down meals for 50 or a Alphaville (Dir Jean-Luc Stanley Donen/1952) party in our Café bar. Expect stand-up buffet for 80, a fabulous Godard/1965) Course Screening/ Tue 8 Nov: champagne, live music and a So you think you’re a movie buff? Join inhouse DJ and full bar access. Do Goodfellas (Dir Martin fantastic atmosphere! us for our latest monthly film quiz, something different this Christmas Scorsese/1990) Visit our website for more details. here your movie knowledge will be and celebrate with us! tested to the limit. For costs and bookings please contact Top scorers can win a host of the Café bar on 0161 200 1508. fantastic prizes from DVDs, books, See our full menu at For full course synopsis and cornerhouse.org/ CDs and film memorabilia and more! details of other workshops food-and-drink Limited availability, early booking and events visit Contact the Café Bar recommended. cornerhouse.org/education on 0161 200 1508 Image Credit Singin’ in the Rain . Image Credit Photos: Ben Page 16/17 NOVEMBER Tue 1 Nov 20:00 l Monthly Film Quiz p.15 Thu 3 Nov 20:20 l ATM11 screening / Poetry p.24 AT A Sun 6 Nov 11:50 l ATM11 screening / Double Bill: Quattro Hong Kong I & II p.24 OCT —DEC Sun 6 Nov 12:00 l Matinee Classic / West Side Story p.30 GLANCE Sun 6 Nov 16:30 l Film with Live Musical Accompaniment / Drifters p.26 Wed 9 Nov 13:30 l Matinee Classic / West Side Story + post-screening discussion p.30 These pages provide an overview of what’s on at Thu 10 Nov 18:00 l Digital Skills Workshop / The Art of Blogging p.13 Cornerhouse in October, November and December. Thu 10 Nov 20:40 l ATM11 screening / The Stool Pigeon p.23 For latest dates and times and to book tickets visit cornerhouse.org or call Box Office 0161 200 1500. Fri 11 Nov l The Future opens p.20 Fri 11 Nov l Wuthering Heights opens p.21 Sat 12 Nov 11:00 l Photography Workshop / Multiplicity and Meaning p.8 OCTOBER Sat 12 Nov 12:00 l City on Screen / The Return of The Hollywood of the North Coach Trip! p.27 Sat 1 Oct 12:00 l In Conversation: Rashid Rana and David Elliott p.8 Sat 12 Nov 12:30 l Theatre Makers Creative Lunch p.12 Sat 1 Oct 18:00 l ATM11 Film Programme Opening Gala / Lola + post-screening Q&A p.25 Sun 13 Nov 11:00 l Photography Workshop / Multiplicity and Meaning p.8 Sun 2 Oct 12:00 l Matinee Classic/ Badlands p.30 Sun 13 Nov 13:30 l ATM11 screening / Kaledo p.25 Sun 2 Oct 14:00 l Artist’s Tour: Rashid Rana p.8 Mon 14 Nov l exposures trailblazer begins p.12 Sun 2 Oct 18:20 l ATM11 screening / Under the Hawthorn Tree p.23 Wed 16 Nov 14:00 l ATM11 screening / Slingshot p.25 Tue 4 Oct 20:00 l Film Quiz p.15 Thu 17 Nov 18:30 l Music Industry Panel / Breaking the Band p.13 Wed 5 Oct 13:30 l Matinee Classic/ Badlands + post-screening discussion p.30 Sat 19 Nov 16:00 l ATM11 screening / Manoro p.25 Wed 5 Oct 17:15 l One Hour Intro / The Films of Brillante Mendoza p.25 Sun 20 Nov 12:00 l Matinee Classic / Gilda p.30 Wed 5 Oct 18:00 l Digital Skills Workshop/Social Media Storytelling p.13 Sun 20 Nov 16:10 l ATM11 screening / Gallants + post-screening Q&A p.24 Wed 5 Oct 18:20 l ATM11 screening / Kinatay p.25 Tue 22 Nov 18:20 l New British Cinema Quarterly / Junkhearts + post-screening Q&A p.27 Thu 6 Oct 18:45 l NT Live / The Kitchen p.28 Wed 23 Nov 13:30 l Matinee Classic / Gilda + post-screening discussion p.30 Fri 7 Oct l Midnight in Paris opens p.19 Wed 23 Nov 14:00 l Photography Workshop / Funding for projects p.13 Fri 7 Oct l Tyrannosaur opens p.19 Thu 24 Nov 20:30 l The Rebel p.9 Sat 8 Oct 12:30 l Theatre Makers Creative Lunch p.12 Fri 25 Nov l The Deep Blue Sea opens p.21 Sat 8 Oct 16:00 l ATM11 screening / Service p.25 Sat 26 Nov 14:00 l Tour / Rashid Rana with Mrs Barbara Nice p.8 Mon 10 Oct 18:30 l Introduction to Contemporary Visual Arts: Modernism course starts p.14 Sat 26 Nov 16:00 l Show & Tell p.12 Tue 11 Oct 18:30 l ATM11 screening / The Gaze Returned: Three Short Films from China p.23 Sat 26 Nov 18:00 l ATM11 Film Programme Closing Gala / Hotel Black Cat + post-screening Q&A p.24 Tue 11 Oct 18:30 l Essential Introduction to Film Studies course starts p.14 Wed 30 Nov 18:10 l City on Screen / A Taste of Honey p.27 Wed 12 Oct 17:00 l Talk / Dong Bingfeng: Artists’ Film in China since 1990 p.23 Wed 12 Oct 18:30 l Introduction to Neorealism: Yesterday, Today course starts p.14 DECEMBER Thu 13 Oct 18:30 l Music Industry Panel / The Independent Label Lo Down! p.13 Thu 1 Dec 18:45 l NT Live / Collaborators p.28 Fri 14 Oct l Sleeping Beauty opens p.20 Fri 2 Dec 18:20 l French Film Festival / Service Entrance + post-screening Q&A p.28 Fri 14 Oct 18:00 l Performance / When Unlikely Things Happen; Kit Abramson and dubsection p.9 Fri 2 Dec l Las Acacias opens p.21 Sat 15 Oct 10:30 l Irish Study Morning 2011 p.26 Fri 2 Dec l We Have a Pope opens p.21 Sat 15 Oct 14:00 l Workshop / Mapping Manchester with Daksha Patel and Adrian Slatcher p.9 Sat 3 Dec 16:20 l French Film Festival / Robert Mitchum is Dead p.28 Sun 16 Oct 16:20 l Film with Live Musical Accompaniment / The Lost World p.26 Sat 3 Dec 18:20 l Labyrinth p.29 Tue 18 Oct 17:50 l ATM11 screening / Villain p.24 Sun 4 Dec 12:00 l Matinee Classic / The Shop Around the Corner p.29 Wed 19 Oct 18:30 l Stephen Bayley: Life’s A Pitch p.12 Tue 6 Dec 18:20 l Labyrinth p.29 Fri 21 Oct l We Need to Talk About Kevin opens p.18 Tue 6 Dec 20:00 l Film Quiz p.15 Sun 23 Oct 12:00 l Matinee Classic / The Lavender Hill Mob p.30 Wed 7 Dec 13:30 l Matinee Classic / The Shop Around the Corner p.29 Sun 23 Oct 16:30 l ATM11 screening / The Masseur p.25 Thu 8 Dec 14:00 l Photography Workshop / Legal Matters p.13 Mon 24 Oct 17:45 l The Splash and A Last Drop p.26 Thu 8 Dec 18:30 l Charles Leadbeater: Improvers, Entertainers, Shockers and Makers p.12 Wed 26 Oct 13:30 l Matinee Classic / The Lavender Hill Mob + post-screening discussion p.30 Sat 10 Dec 12:00 l Workshop / Abstract LEGO Sculpture p.8 Wed 26 Oct 14:00 l Photography Workshop / Exhibiting and print sales p.13 Fri 16 Dec l It’s a Wonderful Life opens p.29 Wed 26 Oct 18.00 l Talk / Rashid Rana: The World Is Not Enough p.18 Fri 16 Dec l Meet Me in St. Louis opens p.29 Thu 27 Oct 18:00 l Digital Skills Workshop / Audioboo - Giving You a Voice p.13 Sun 18 Dec 12:00 l Matinee Classic / White Christmas p.29 Fri 28 Oct l Miss Bala opens p.20 Tue 20 Dec 16:00 l Home Alone p.29 Fri 28 Oct l The Ides of March opens p.20 Wed 21 Dec 13:30 l Matinee Classic / White Christmas p.29 Sat 27 Dec l The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo opens p.21 l Art l Film l Creative Industries l Regular Events l Courses 18/19

CONTINUING OPENING IN OCTOBER

Drive (18) Midnight in Paris (CTBA) From Fri 23 Sep From Fri 7 Oct NEW Dir Nicolas Winding Refn/US Dir Woody Allen/US ES 2011/ 2011/100 mins 94 mins/English, French with FILM RELEASES Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, partial Eng ST Bryan Cranston Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, An enthralling crime film from Nicolas Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Winding Refn, acclaimed director of Carla Bruni 2008’s Bronson . Ryan Gosling ( Blue Valentine ) gives a memorable Hailed by critics as Woody Allen on The new release films performance as Driver, a Hollywood true top form, Midnight in Paris is a listed in this guide are the stuntman who moonlights as a witty romantic comedy starring Owen N highlights of our film getaway driver for the criminal Wilson as Hollywood screenwriter Gil I programme coming up over underworld. Drive is a smart and who is desperate for recognition as a the next three months. occasionally violent film that plays writer of great literature. We follow Gil V We’re looking forward to stylistic homage to the US crime while he holidays in Paris with his films of the 1970s and early 80s surly girlfriend and, by chance, her E actor Paddy Considine’s reminiscent of Tarantino’s movie parents and ex-boyfriend. When feature directorial debut, junkie style. none of his companions share his

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The Ides of March (CTBA) OPENING IN NOVEMBER The Deep Blue Sea (CTBA) OPENING IN DECEMBER From Fri 28 Oct From Fri 25 Nov Dir George Clooney/US 2011/98 mins Dir Terence Davies/GB George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, 2011/Running time TBC Las Acacias (CTBA) Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Rachel Weisz, Simon Russell Beale, From Fri 2 Dec Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Tom Hiddleston Dir Pablo Giorgelli/AR ES 2011/85 Hoffman mins/Spanish wEng ST Following his poetic screen homage Germán de Silva, Hebe Duarte George Clooney returns to the to Liverpool, Of Time and the City , Sleeping Beauty (CTBA) director’s chair and to the murky world iconic British director Terence Davies Ruben is a truck driver who seems From Fri 14 Oct of US politics for his highly anticipated Black Power Mix Tape returns to fiction filmmaking with a suited to his lonely day-to-day life Dir Julia Leigh/AU 2011/102 mins feature The Ides of March . Set in the 1967 – 1975 (CTBA) visually impressive adaptation of transporting lumber from Paraguay to Emily Browning, Rachael Blake not-too-distant future, Ryan Gosling Dir Goran Hugo Olsson/SE 2011/ Rattigan’s 1952 play. The enthralling Argentina. On one of his regular trips stars as an ambitious young press 93 mins The Future (12A) story follows dazzling socialite Hester to Buenos Aires, he agrees to accept a The debut feature from novelist Julia secretary whose work with a From Fri 11 Nov TBC who abandons her privileged life as passenger in exchange for a little extra Leigh is a 21st century take on myths prominent Ohio governor in the run This fascinating documentary tells Dir Miranda July/US 2010/91 mins the wife of a high court judge to cash. When Jacinta brings along her and fairy tales, blending a potent mix up to the presidential elections sees the story of the US Black Power Miranda July, Hamish Linklater, embark on a passionate love affair baby daughter, Ruben struggles to of sex, drugs and the subconscious. him unwittingly embroiled in movement from the perspective of David Warshofsky, Isabella Acres with her secret lover, a dashing young hide his annoyance, and the trio must Lucy is a university student who governmental corruption. filmmakers and journalists working pilot, and in the process gives up an embark on their lengthy journey. answers a newspaper advert for a for Swedish television at the time. Performance artist and indie unhappy life of comfort and convention. lucrative job as a waitress in an opulent, Their footage, shot over a nine year filmmaking favourite Miranda July We Have a Pope (CTBA) isolated mansion. Lucy’s enigmatic period and now gleaned from the (You and Me and Everyone We Know ) (Habemus Papam) beauty and sexual openness mean archives, is expertly crafted together returns to the big screen with this From Fri 2 Dec that she is soon promoted to the role to provide an outsiders view of one of quirky tale of love, freedom and an Dir Nanni Moretti/IT FR 2011/104 of ‘Sleeping Beauty’, a position that the most tumultuous periods in ailing cat. Sophie and Jason are mins/Italian wEng ST requires her total submission. American history. stuck in a rut, both bored with their Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti, jobs and seeking something new. Renato Scarpa, Jerzy Stuhr Miss Bala (15) When they adopt Paw Paw, a sick From Fri 28 Oct cat, the flighty couple are struck by Italian director Nanni Moretti follows Dir Gerardo Naranjo/MX 2011/113 the enormity of the responsibility and up his 2006 film The Caiman with a mins/Spanish wEng ST Jack Goes Boating (15) count down their remaining 30 days gentle satire set in the Vatican. Stephanie Sigman, Noe Hernandez, Dir Philip Seymour Hoffman/US of pet-free life. Veteran French actor Michel Piccoli James Russo, Jose Yenque 2010/91 mins plays the newly elected pontiff whose Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Ryan, Wuthering Heights (CTBA) Snowtown (CTBA) attack of nerves leaves him unable 23-year-old Laura’s dreams of John Ortiz, Daphne Rubin-Vega From Fri 11 Nov Dir Justin Kurzel / AU 2010 / 115mins and unwilling to take up his new post. competing in a beauty contest are Dir Andrea Arnold/GB 2011/Running Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall, The reluctant Pope is tended by a shattered in this gripping thriller from The highly anticipated directorial time TBC Louise Harris renowned psychiatrist (played by the director of 2008’s I’m Gonna debut from Oscar-winning actor New Print Kaya Scodelario, James Howson, Moretti himself) as his anxious Explode . In the wrong place at the Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Goes Kes (PG) Nichola Burley Based on true events, Snowtown cardinals await news from the Vatican. wrong time, Laura is an innocent Boating is an offbeat comedy about Dir Ken Loach/GB 1969/110 mins recounts in brutal, graphic detail the witness to a crime and becomes romance, friendship and betrayal set David Bradley, Colin Welland, For her highly anticipated third story of Australia’s most notorious caught up in the terrifying world of against the backdrop of working- Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, feature, Academy Award-winning mass murderer: John Bunting. Mexican gang violence. Used by the class New York City. As well as Brian Glover writer-director Andrea Arnold turns Jamie is a vulnerable youngster living gang leaders as a pawn in their proving his directing credentials, her attentions to Emily Brontë’s with his mother and brothers in the battles, Laura struggles to break free. Hoffman also stars as the titular Jack, Loach’s second feature film and big classic gothic novel. Set on the downbeat suburbs of Adelaide. a chauffeur obsessed with reggae screen debut is still deserving of its hostile and windswept Yorkshire When potential father-figure John who is unlucky in love. With a bit of seminal status in British cinema moors Wuthering Heights is a dark, enters his life, 16-year old Jamie matchmaking assistance from his history and is revered as one of Loach ’s passionate story of lost love, jealousy quickly becomes influenced by this mate Clyde, Jack meets Connie and best. Adapted from Barry Hines’ and obsession. Arnold’s 2 011 strangely charismatic, yet The Girl With The Dragon together they take small steps to love. novel A Kestrel for a Knave , Barnsley adaptation makes excellent use of dangerous, character. Tattoo (CTBA) schoolboy Billy attempts to escape the landscapes and the young cast of From Sat 27 Dec the harshness of his life and the brutal newcomers give excellent Dir David Fincher/US SE GB DE inevitability of his future by caring for performances as the ill-fated Cathy 2011/Running time TBC and training a kestrel that he finds. and Heathcliff. Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, The moving performances and truth ful Robin Wright, Christopher Plummer authenticity for 1960s Yorkshire are enhanced by Chris Menges’ subtly David Fincher ( The Social Network evocative cinematography. and Fight Club ) puts his directorial stamp on this English language adaptation of Stieg Larrson’s bestselling novel. Journalist Mikael For latest For the latest news, reviews film dates and and recommendations Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) is aided in times visit Image Credits Top left: Sleeping Beauty . his search to for a woman who has cornerhouse.org download our weekly Image Credits Top left: The Future . Bottom left: Miss Bala . Top middle: The podcast at Bottom left: Wuthering Heights . Top been missing for forty years by a or call Ides of March . Bottom middle: Jack Goes cornerhouse.org/resources middle: The Deep Blue Sea . Bottom 0161 200 1500 Boating . Top right: Black Power middle: Snowtown . Right: The Girl With young computer hacker Lisbeth Mix Tape . Bottom right: Kes . The Dragon Tattoo . Salander (Rooney Mara). 22/23 E

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N FILM PROGRAMME E L For the second Asia The Gaze Returned: Three Triennial Manchester Short Films from China (CTBA) O Festival, we present the first Tue 11 Oct I accompanying film 18:30 programme. This series of £3 As an actor Paddy Considine endless provocations result in him Dir various/CN 2007, 2009, V has rarely been less than taking a beating from a group of features, short films and 2010/60 mins

captivating. He is certainly no young men and being forced to run special events, includes six stranger to unsettling for his life – but listens calmly as he UK premieres, as well as a This special screening of three key

F violence on screen, whether it insults her smug middle-classness. season from award-winning short artists’ films from China be in Shane Meadows’ Dead Filipino director Brillante includes the UK premiere of Gaze, a Man’s Shoes or Channel 4’s The truth, of course, is never as it Mendoza. Curated by Sarah stunning one-stage performance O A Yorkshire noir series Red seems. Joseph’s life might outwardly piece by Wang Jianwei. Also

Perks (Cornerhouse Riding . His directorial debut is appear to be on a downward spiral, Programme & Engagement screening are Crust by acclaimed equally shocking, but Tyrannosaur is but it is Hannah who has arguably Director) and Andy Willis director Huang Wenhai, a film about a

Y also brave and, at times, brilliant. It been dealt the harsher hand. At Chinese steelworker in a Yangtze places Considine firmly alongside home and behind closed doors, her (Reader in Film Studies, River shipyard, and Cao Fei’s second other British actors who have made husband (a quietly terrifying Eddie University of Salford). life animation imirror that premiered

R equally bold debuts, from Gary Marsan) is the disturbed and to critical acclaim at the Venice Oldman ( Nil by Mouth ) and Peter merciless perpertrator of verbal and For more details and to UK Premiere Biennale 2007. Mullan ( Orphans ) to Tim Roth ( The physical abuse. That Hannah, despite book online visit: Under the Hawthorn Tree

O War Zone ) and Samantha Morton her own circumstances, is still able to www.cornerhouse.org/ATM (CTBA) Event (The Unloved ). be empathetic to Joseph is all the -film-programme (Shan zha shu zhi lian) We are pleased to welcome Dong more moving. Sun 2 Oct Bingfeng, Deputy Director of the T Considine’s film started life as a 2007 18:20 Iberia Centre for Contemporary Art in short. Dog Altogether was shot in Considine points out that “we are so Dir Zhang Yimou/CN 2010/114 Beijing, for an introduction and post-

S Glasgow and starred Peter Mullan as indulged in our own lives that we fail mins/Mandarin wEng ST screening Q&A. an angry and sad man on the verge to think for one second that the Zhou Dongyu, Shawn Dou, Xi Meijuan, I of losing control, and Olivia Colman woman who serves you in the bank Jiang Ruijia Talk as a kind charity shop worker who could be in living hell ”. And it is Dong Bingfeng: Artists’ Film offers him compassion. Tyrannosaur partly these assumptions that make Based on popular novel Under the in China since 1990 H keeps Mullan and Colman at the Tyrannosaur so memorable. It is tough Main sponsor: the Hong Kong Hawthorn Tree , this ravishingly shot film Wed 12 Oct centre of the action but moves the at times, but the film also features Economic and Trade Office, London. is set during the Cultural Revolution 17:00 story to Leeds. The change of location moments of humour and the ending The Hong Kong Economic and Trade and tells the story of a student who is FREE, No booking required

A matters little, for the film is an offers the possibility of redemption. Office, London is the official sent to be re-educated through work unflinching look at two sides of representation of the Hong Kong in the countryside only to find true This illustrated lecture led by Dong Britain and the preconceptions we Considine, who says he may prefer to Special Administrative Region love in the form of a young geologist Bingfeng, Deputy Director of the Paddy Considine’s have about both. pursue a career in directing rather Government in the UK, promoting working nearby. However, the social Iberia Centre for Contemporary Art in Sundance award-winning than acting, is confident enough of Hong Kong’s economic and cultural and political differences between Beijing, will explore the trends in feature debut is a From the opening scene, in which he his material never to play safe and links with the UK. With support from their families means that love cannot contemporary artists’ film in China brutally kicks his dog to death in a Mullan, whose own films are the Confucius Institute at the always run smoothly. including the rise of the independents, powerful account of drunken rage, Mullan’s character, uncompromising, gives a committed University of Manchester; the documentary film and experiments abuse and the search for Joseph, appears to be a lost cause. He performance. But is it Colman who Embassy of the Republic of the with media. redemption. lives alone in his clean but sparse stands out. Previously known as a Philippines London; EVA Airways; This event takes place at Lecture By Amy Raphael council house and finds it almost comedy actor in Peep Show and Rev, MINT Hotel Manchester; MIRIAD, Theatre T003, Ground Floor, impossible to relate to anyone. her performance in Tyrannosaur quite Manchester Metropolitan University; John Dalton Building, Manchester Colman’s Hannah, by contrast, is a literally takes your breath away. The Taipei Representative Office in Metropolitan University, Chester Christian who lives on a nice middle- the UK, and Tiger Beer. Street, M1 5GD. class estate in another part of town. With thanks to Curzon Cinemas She is a little scared of Joseph when All screenings will start at the he turns up at her shop to hide Tyrannosaur opens on Fri 7 October advertised times without adverts amongst the musty old clothes – his at Cornerhouse and trailers. Image Credit Under The Hawthorn Tree . 24/25

Villain (15) Gallants (15) Service (18) Slingshot (15) (Akunin) (Da lui toi) BRILLANTE MENDOZA (Serbis) (Tirador) Tue 18 Oct Sun 20 Nov Sat 8 Oct Wed 16 Nov 17:50 16:10 16:00 14:00 Dir Lee Sang-il/JP 2011/140 Dirs Derek Kwok, Clement Cheng/HK RETROSPECTIVE Dir Brillante Mendoza/PH 2008/90 Dir Brillante Mendoza/PH 2008/86 mins/Japanese wEng ST 2010/98 mins/Cantonese wEng ST mins/Tagalog wEng ST mins/Tagalog wEng ST Satoshi Tsumabuki, Eri Fukatsu, Leung Siu-lung, Chan Koon-tai, Brillante Mendoza is the first Filipino Gina Pareño, Jaclyn Jose, Julio Nathan Lopez, Coco Martin, Jacklyn Akira Emoto Teddy Robin, Wong You-nam to win the coveted Best Director Diaz, Kristofer King Jose, Jiro Manio, Kristoffer King Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Based on the popular Japanese This lovingly nostalgic kung-fu Renowned for a hyper-realist style The Pineda family operate a run- This gripping film, set in the slums of crime noir novel, Villain follows the UK Premiere comedy features a cast of Hong that utilises the latest in lightweight down sex cinema in the Philippines. Manila, tells the intersecting stories seemingly mundane lives of shop girl Double Bill: Quattro Hong Kong veterans. Weedy and bullied cinema technology, his films depict Whilst they are distracted by their of the city’s poorer inhabitants as the Mitsuyo and construction worker Kong I & II (CTBA) Cheung is dispatched to acquire the the harsh social realities of the own crumbling personal lives, in the local elections approach. Using light - Yuichi who meet on an internet dating Sun 6 Nov land rights to a ramshackle teashop contemporary Philippines and tell theatre the service boys are offering weight, and often hidden, cameras, site. Yuichi, however, is suspected of 11:50 in the middle of nowhere. When he compelling stories of ordinary people clients their own special kind of Mendoza serves up another dose of a local murder and events prior to £3 gets there he finds much more than coping in extraordinary situations. entertainment. his superb hyper-realist cinema. their meeting are revealed, exposing Dir various/CN HK 2011/123 he expected. everyone involved as not who they mins/Cantonese, English with Supported by the Embassy of the The Masseur (15) appear to be. partial Eng ST Event Republic of the Philippines, London. (Masahista) We are pleased to welcome director Sun 23 Oct Event Quattro Hong Kong sees established Derek Kwok for a post-screening 16:30 Introduced by Dr. Ryoko Sasamoto, directors return to short filmmaking. Q&A. Dir Brillante Mendoza/PH 2005/76 from the Department of Languages at In the first series, Hong Kong heavy mins/Tagalog wEng ST Manchester Metropolitan University. weights Fruit Chan, Herman Yau and Coco Martin, Paolo Rivero, Clara Law are joined by new kid on Allan Paule the block Heiward Mak covering love, family, fried rice and the end of A young masseur working at a gay UK Premiere the world. In the second programme, massage parlour in Manila Manoro (CTBA) veteran Stanley Kwan is joined by reassesses his life and relationships (The Teacher) Brillante Mendoza (Philippines), when he is forced to go back to the Sat 19 Nov Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand) Opening Gala provinces for the funeral of his 16:00 and Ho Yuhang (Malaysia) for another Lola (CTBA) estranged father. Dir Brillante Mendoza/PH 2006/75 selection of mesmerising shorts. (Grandmother) mins/Tagalog wEng ST Closing Gala Sat 1 Oct The Stool Pigeon (CTBA) Hotel Black Cat (CTBA) 18:00 Set amongst the rural Aeta Poetry (12A) (Sin yan) Sat 26 Nov Dir Brillante Mendoza/PH 2009/110 community during the build-up to the (Shi) Thu 10 Nov 18:00 mins/Tagalog wEng ST 2004 Philippines’ presidential Thu 3 Nov 20:40 Dir Herb Hsu Li-wen/TW 2010/98 Anita Linda, Rustica Carpio, Tanya election. Manoro is a striking 20:20 Dir Dante Lam/HK 2010/113 mins/Mandarin wEng ST Gomez, Jhong Hilario example of how close Mendoza’s Dir Lee Chang-dong/KR 2010/139 mins/Cantonese wEng ST Lu Yi-Cheng, Wen Zhen-ling, Xia work comes to blurring the lines mins/Korean wEng ST Nicholas Tse, Nick Cheung, Kwai Jing-ting, Li Kang-yi The lives of two grandmothers between fiction and documentary. Jeong-hee Yoon, Nae-sang Ahn, Lun-mei, Miao Pu, Liu Kai-chi become intertwined when their sons Mendoza’s short film Ayos ka will Hira Kim, Da-wit Lee, Yong-taek Kim Hotel Black Cat tells the interweaving are involved in a street brawl and they screen before the feature. For cop Don Lee, criminal informants stories and lingering past traumas of are sucked into the labyrinthine world UK Premiere Mija is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s are his bread and butter and he will the offbeat residents of the of the Philippine legal system. Kaledo (CTBA) Event disease but still looks after her go to any lengths to ensure that they eponymous residence. This low (Summer Heat) Introduced by Andy Willis, Reader in disengaged teenage grandson Wook. give him the knowledge he needs. budget production has the same Event Sun 13 Nov Film Studies at The University of For relaxation, she decides to enrol However, when he forces Ghost, a shambolic charm as the film’s central We are pleased to welcome award- 13:30 Salford and Asia Triennial on a poetry class, learning to express young street car racer, to inform on a location and marks its young director winning director Brillante Mendoza Dir Brillante Mendoza/PH 2006/90 Manchester 11 film curator. her angst, but when her grandson notorious gang leader he slowly Herb Hsu Li-wen as a talent to watch. for a post-screening Q&A. mins/Tagalog, Kapampangan wEng This is a FREE screening and will be gets involved in a serious local crime begins to question his own actions. ST, Cherry Pie Picache, Angel shown in The Annexe both their futures are threatened. Director Dante Lam delivers an action Event Kinatay (18) Aquino, Johnny Delgado Winner of Best Screenplay at the packed tale of a police officer We are pleased to welcome actress (Butchered) One Hour Intro Cannes Film Festival 2 010. increasingly burdened by the morality and director Herb Hsu Li-wen for a Wed 5 Oct A carefully observed family drama The Films of Brillante of his job. post-screening Q&A. 18:20 that follows a widowed woodcutter Mendoza Dir Brillante Mendoza/PH 2009/105 as he attempts to keep his three very Wed 5 Oct mins/Tagalog wEng ST different daughters in line. The trials 17:15 Coco Martin, Julio Diaz and tribulations of this rural family are FREE, Booking required told through a series of events, both Mendoza was awarded Best Director celebratory and traumatic, each Using clips spanning Mendoza’s Image Credits This page: Top left: Villain . at the Cannes Film Festival for this marking the volatile and changing career, this session will explore the Bottom left: Poetry . Middle: We Might As Well Be Strangers (Quattro Hong Kong I). visceral piece of filmmaking. Kinatay nature of life. political themes and social concerns Top right: Gallants . Bottom right: Hotel tells the story of a young student of his work, and consider how central Black Cat . whose seemingly innocent choices the contribution of his highly Opposite page: Left: Lola . one evening lead him into a shocking distinctive visual style is to the impact Middle: The Masseur . Right: Slingshot . world that exists in Manila after dark. and power of his work. 26/27

The Return of The Hollywood of the North Coach Trip! Sat 12 Nov 12:00 FILM CITY ON £10.50 full/£8.50 concs

EVENTS Yes, it’s back! It’s your chance to FILMS WITH LIVE MUSICAL climb aboard the magical history tour, set off down the Boulevard of ACCOMPANIMENT Dreams (Oxford Road) and take in the sights and sites of the city’s film SCREEN (12A) history. See the homes of the stars! A Taste of Honey Irish Study Morning 20 11 The Lost World (PG) See fabulous real locations used in Wed 30 Nov (Maidin Scannáin Gaeilge) Sun 16 Oct films! Did you know that Hulme was 18:10 Sat 15 Oct 16:20 once revolutionary St Petersburg? Dir Tony Richardson/GB 1961/ 10:30 – 13:00 Dir Harry O. Hoyt/US 1925/ Burt Kwuok was born in Rusholme 99 mins £6 full/£5 concs 100 mins and Charlie Chaplin went to school in Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan, Wallace Beery, Bessie Love, Ardwick? All this and more on the Murray Melvin Our annual Irish Study Morning Lloyd Hughes, Lewis Stone 2011 Hollywood of the North coach trip, returns with a special screening of £7.50 full/£5.50 concs hosted by CP Lee. To celebrate the 50th anniversary, documentary feature The Pipe, which we’re pleased to present a special recounts the experiences of three Bristol Silents present John (JJ) ARTIST’S FILM Following the success of The coach trip will conclude at 14:00 one-off screening of this award- inhabitants of an Irish village as they Garden’s new semi-improvised score last year’s events City on with a screening of George Formby’s winning and iconic film. Written in protest against a Shell oil pipeline to accompany this special screening Screen returns for a second first film, Boots! Boots! which was 1958 by Salford schoolgirl, Shelagh which threatens their land and of 1925 pioneering film The Lost The Splash and A Last Drop made at Manchester’s own Mancunian Delaney, A Taste of Honey was in the livelihoods. World . John is Scissor Sisters’ (CTBA) season to celebrate the rich cultural history of Film Company . vanguard of British social-realist musical director and keyboard player Mon 24 Oct movies and director Tony Richardson The screening will be followed by a and will be providing a live sound 17:45 Manchester and Salford. With thanks to Mike Blakeley and the made maximum use of the harsh bi-lingual post-screening discussion, track to this innovative, stop-motion FREE, Booking required This year’s offerings include North West Film Archive at urban landscape to create a gritty, all levels of Irish language welcome. dinosaur film. Featuring ground- Dir Yu-Chen Wang/GB 2011/20 mins two anniversaries and the Manchester Metropolitan University. uncompromising film about inter- breaking animation techniques from return of a perennial Meet outside Cornerhouse main racial sex, teenage pregnancy and Part of this year’s Irish Language Arts Willis O’Brien, just prior to his work Made in conjunction with the favourite. The University of entrance. Screening is included in the homosexuality. Festival supported by the on King Kong , this silent classic is a residency at Chinese Arts Centre and Salford’s film historian CP ticket price. Government of Ireland. dramatic and enchanting retelling of live performance at FutureEverything, Event Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s story. The Splash and A Last Drop is an Lee will be introducing the programme, which is a joint We are pleased to welcome lead artist’s film based on a fictional story actor Murray Melvyn for a post- Drifters (CTBA) of Yu-Chen Wang’s new experiment collaboration between the screening Q&A. Sun 6 Nov of creating ’A Last Drop’ in order to University and Cornerhouse. In partnership with University 16:30 re-fill the pools at Victoria Baths so of Salford. Dir John Grierson/GB 1929/60 mins that the water will never dry up again. £7.50 full/£5.50 concs Introduced by Ying Kwok, Curator at Human beatboxer, vocal sculptor the Chinese Arts Centre, and Bob and sound artist Jason Singh, will Dickinson, Presenter and Producer at perform a live vocal score to the 1929 BBC Radio. silent film Drifters , by John Grierson. NEW BRITISH CINEMA QUARTERLY Using techniques of prerecorded With support from Arts Council vocal sequences, live vocal England, Chinese Arts Centre, processing and sampling, Singh will FutureEverything, Victoria Baths and Junkhearts (CTBA) Event create a sonic backdrop of ambient MMU Media Lab. Tue 22 Nov We are pleased to welcome textures, experimental atmospheres 18:20 members of the filmmaking team for and rhythms created solely by the Dir Tinge Krishnan/GB a post-screening Q&A. For details of a special use of the voice to accompany the 2011/Running time TBC Halloween screening of epic journey of a film that explores Eddie Marsan, Romola Garai, Tom For more information on the New The Evil Dead visit cornerhouse.org/film the tensions between tradition and Sturridge, Shaun Dooley British Cinema Quarterly programme, modernity. visit www.nbcq.co.uk Our regular showcase of new British In partnership with BFI. A Cornerhouse talent returns with a tense Micro Commission supported by Paul psychological thriller from BAFTA Hamlyn Foundation. award-winner Tinge Krishnan. Set in inner-city London, Junkhearts tells Image Credits This page: Left: The Pipe . the emotional story of a former Top right: The Lost World . Bottom right: soldier whose post-traumatic stress The Splash and A Last Drop . disorder leaves him vulnerable to Opposite page: Top right: ATaste of Hone y. exploitation. FRENCH NT LIVE SEASONAL SPECIALS 28/29

National Theatre Live We’ve programmed a It’s a Wonderful Life (U) brings the best of British selection of classic films for Fri 16 – Fri 23 Dec Theatre to Cinema One all the family to enjoy this Dir Frank Capra/US 1948/131 mins Service Entrance (CTBA) live in hi-definition. December, including our James Stewart, Donna Reed, FILM (Les femmes du 6eme étage) Lionel Barrymore timeless favourite, It’s a Fri 2 Dec The Kitchen (As Live*) Wonderful Life , and two 18:20 Thu 6 Oct The ultimate feel good film from Oscar- Dir Philippe Le Guay/FR 2010/106 18:45 special Christmas themed winning director Frank Capra returns mins/French wEng ST £15 full/£13.50 Cornerhouse Matinee Classics. to our screens. On Christmas Eve Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Members compassionate but despairingly FESTIVAL Natalia Verbeke, Carmen Maura New Print New Print frustrated businessman George Bailey Set in the kitchen of an enormous Labyrinth (U) The Shop Around the (James Stewart) receives a visit from In this exuberant comedy, stockbroker 1950s West End restaurant, Arnold Sat 3 Dec 18:20 Corner (U) an angel called Clarence who stops We’re pleased to present Jean-Louis Joubert lives a peaceful Wesker ’s extraordinary play premiered Tue 6 Dec 18:20 Sun 4 Dec, 12:00 him jumping into a freezing river and a selection of highlights yet boring bourgeois existence with at the Royal Court in 1959 and has Dir Jim Henson/GB US 1986/ Wed 7 Dec, 13:30 helps him by showing him what life from the annual French Film his socialite wife in 1960s Paris. When since been performed in over 30 101 mins Dir Ernst Lubitsch/US 1940/ would have been like if he never existed. Festival. To celebrate the a flock of exuberant Spanish maids countries. The Kitchen puts the David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly 98 mins James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, opening of their new moves into the sixth floor servants’ workplace centre stage in a blackly quarters, Jean-Louis’ world is turned funny and furious examination of life Through dangers untold and Frank Morgan premises, and to toast the upside down, particularly by beautiful lived at breakneck speed, when work hardships unnumbered, spoilt teen festival’s success, the Maria, whose irrepressible passion threatens to define who we are. Sarah (Jennifer Connolly), Set in a Budapest in the run-up to Alliance Française de for life threatens to shake him from accidentally transports her baby Christmas, this delicate comedy Manchester will host an his staid foundation. A big-hearted brother to the faraway realm of the follows the obstacles blocking the opening night party delight not to be missed by any fan of Goblin King. Arguably the most path of potential lovers Alfred and following the screening of world cinema. effective fantasy film ever created, Klara, fellow workers in a gossip- Service Entrance on Sarah must negotiate the riddles, ridden emporium, unaware that they are courting one another by mail in an Fri 2 Dec. For further details Event traps and outlandish creatures that Service Entrance will be live within the labyrinth in a race anonymous correspondence. The visit www.cornerhouse.org/ accompanied by post-screening against time; a bewitching, inspiration behind Nora Ephron’s New Print french-film-festival Q&A. Check website for updates. deliciously terrifying world created by 1998 You’ve Got Mail , and previously White Christmas (U) the legendary Jim Henson’s Creature unavailable in UK cinemas, this Sun 18 Dec, 12:00 Robert Mitchum is Dead (CTBA) Shop. Screening from a new, digitally romantic story is one of Hollywood’s Wed 21 Dec, 13:30 Festival Pass (Robert Mitchum est mort) Collaborators (As Live*) restored print to celebrate the 25th most exquisite depictions of old Dir Michael Curtiz/US 1954/ Buy a French Film Festival Pass & Sat 3 Dec Thu 1 Dec anniversary of this genre-topping central Europe. 120 mins see both films for 16:20 18:45 achievement. Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, £10:50 full/ £7.00 concs Dirs Olivier Babinet, Fred Kihn/FR £15 full/£13.50 Cornerhouse New Print Vera-Ellen, Rosemary Clooney Cornerhouse Members: 2010/91 mins/French wEng ST Members Meet Me in St. Louis (U) £8.50 full/ £5.00 concs Olivier Gourmet, Pablo Nicomedes, From Fri 16 Dec Two talented song-and-dance men, Bakary Sangaré, André Wilms Collaborators is a blistering new play Dir Vincente Minnelli/US 1944/ pals during World War II, team up to by John Hodge (screenwriter of 113 mins become one of the hottest acts in Olivier Babinet and Fred Kihn’s feature Trainspotting , Shallow Grave , and Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, show business. One winter, they join debut is a charmingly idiosyncratic The Beach ) that centres on an Mary Astor, Licille Bremer, forces, romantically and road-movie, packed with palpable imaginary encounter between Stalin Tom Drake professionally, with attractive sister references and influences including and the playwright Mikhail Bulgakov act The Haynes Sisters and together Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch, Jean-Luc (best known for his novel The Master Set in 1903 suburban, mid-western St. they trek to Vermont for the perfect Godard, zombie movies, and rockabilly and Margarita ). Alex Jennings ( The Louis this classic 1944 musical from seasonal holiday. A heart-warming music. The story follows depressive Habit of Art ) will play Bulgakov and director Vincente Minnelli (An American Christmas tale, featuring a treasury of Z-list actor Franky and his manager Simon Russell Beale ( London in Paris ) follows the well-to-do Smith Irving Berlin classic tunes, including Arsene, as they set off in stolen car to Assurance ) will play Stalin. family as they prepare to celebrate of course, ‘White Christmas’. travel to a mid-summer film festival in the arrival of the spectacular 1904 Christmas Café Deal World’s Fair. However, the head of Creative Stars Screening the Polar Circle. The objective is to For further information, track down the legendary director details of future NT Live Indulge yourself with a tasty festive the family is summoned to New York We’re also pleased to present a film George Sarrineff and convince him of screenings and to book treat in our Café bar following our for a job promotion and the prospect specially selected by our young the bankability of their latest project. online visit December seasonal specials! of uprooting and moving threatens to Creative Stars team. Christmas cornerhouse.org/ntlive Present your cinema ticket for any of change the family’s lives forever. comedy Home Alone will show on Image Credits This page: Left: Service Entrance . Right: Collaborators . the films featured on this page in our Judy Garland, Minnelli’s future wife, Tue 20 Dec. Visit In collaboration with the French *All performances are certificated Café bar and you can enjoy a glass of heads the flawless ensemble cast in www.cornerhouse.org/livewire for Opposite page: Left: Labyrinth . mulled wine plus a mince pie or slice this delightful, nostalgic, and more details about the film and Middle: The Shop Around the Corne r. Film Festival with support from the “As Live ”. Cornerhouse Right: White Christmas . Alliance Française de Manchester. recommends certificate 12A. of stollen for ony £3.50. poignant film. Creative Stars. 30/31

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