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art home film mcr. theatre org home digital books food drink .FILM may 1 Clouds of Sils Maria, 2014 MAXINE PEAKE AS HAMLET (12A) THE IMMORTAL STORY (15) events Mon 4 May, 18:45 Matinee Sun 10 May, 12:00 Thu 7 May, 18:45 Wed 13 May, 13:30 ROUTES: DANCING TO NEW Sat 9 May, 13:45 See P.04 for details. ORLEANS + SHORTS AND Q&A (PG) From its sell-out run at Manchester’s Royal Classics Sat 2 May, 16:00 Exchange Theatre comes this unique and critically acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s THE FRENCH CONNECTION (18) Dir Alex Reuben/GB 2008/48 mins tragic Hamlet. In this stripped-back, fresh and . Sun 17 May, 12:00 Alex Reuben’s debut feature Routes, is a fast-paced version, BAFTA nominee Maxine road movie through the dance and music of Peake creates a Hamlet for now, giving a Wed 20 May, 13:30 the American Deep South. Inspired by Harry performance hailed as “delicately ferocious” by Our popular ongoing Dir William Friedkin/US 1971/104 mins Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, and The Guardian and “a milestone Hamlet” by the Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider evocative of Maya Deren’s seminal Meshes Manchester Evening News. programme brings cinema ‘Popeye’ Doyle (Academy Award-winning Gene Of The Afternoon, Reuben’s film offers an Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most iconic work. The classics to the big screen Hackman) and Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider) idiosyncratic documentation of lesser-known play explodes with big ideas and is the ultimate are tough New York cops attempting to crack forms of American culture, and the extraordinary every month – with each film story of loyalty, love, betrayal, murder and a drug smuggling ring. They have a small dancing Americans of the Deep South. From madness. Hamlet’s father is dead and Denmark showing on a Sunday at 12:00 candy store under surveillance, but Doyle is North Carolina to the Holy Grail of his childhood has crowned a new king. Consumed by grief, not happy when he receives the order to work hero, Fats Domino, and the Jazz of New Orleans, and the following Wednesday he struggles to exact revenge, with devastating with a pair of French federal agents on the Reuben captured on the road Appalachian consequences. at 13:30. There are informal case, one of whom he has a long-standing Bluegrass, Clogging, Mississippi Fife and Drum feud with. Blues, Krumping, Memphis Hip-Hop, Indian Smoke post-screening discussions Dance, Louisiana Cajun, Zydeco and Swamp Pop, BYPASS + Q&A (15) following Wednesday all in a vivid stream of sound and vision. Mon 11 May, 18:00 screenings – see our website EVENT Dir Duane Hopkins/GB 2014/105 mins for details. This screening will be accompanied by a George Mackay, Donald Sumpter, Benjamin Dilloway, selection of Alex Ruben‘s short films and a Charlotte Spencer Q&A with the director. Duane Hopkins is one of the most distinctive if unheralded voices in British cinema and his The French Connection II, 1975 Routes: Dancing to New Orleans, 2008 latest feature, a follow-up to 2008’s Better Things, is another uniquely personal and poetic portrait of contemporary British life. The film THE FRENCH CONNECTION II (15) documents the breaking point in the life of Tim, a young man too physically weak and soft- Sun 31 May, 12:00 hearted to cope with the extreme demands of Wed 3 Jun, 13:30 his life on a rough and tumble council estate, Dir John Frankenheimer/US 1975/119 mins with a terminally ill single mother, an absent Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson father and brother, and a wayward younger Taking over the directing reins from Friedkin, sister to care for. As Tim’s health declines and a Frankenheimer delivers is an equally brutal net of troubles close around him, Hopkins’ film and uncompromising portrait of France’s becomes peopled with phantoms and shadows. criminal underworld. Popeye Doyle (Hackman, Fast rising British actor George MacKay (Pride, again terrific) travels to Marseilles to track For Those In Peril) is exceptional in the central down Charnier (Rey, also reprising his role), role and David Proctor’s cinematography is the leader of a drug smuggling ring whom he another distinctive stand-out. A poetic and failed to capture in The French Connection. thoroughly mesmeric work. Acclaimed for its cold-turkey sequence EVENT (Hackman is turned into an addict by his This screening will be followed by a Q&A with quarry), the film more than gives the first producer Samm Haillay. installment a run for its money. EVENTS & SEASONS The French Connection, 1971 02 2 033 MATINEE CLASSIC/ THE IMMORTAL The Stranger, 1946 NT Live: Man and Superman Orson STORY (15) NATIONAL Sun 10 May, 12:00 Wed 13 May, 13:30 Welles Dir Orson Welles/FR 1969/61 mins/ English and THEATRE French with partial EngST Centenary Jeanne Moreau, Orson Welles, Roger Coggio LIVE Based on a short story by Karen Blixen, The Immortal Story is set in the Portuguese colony of Macao in the 19th century and concerns a . wealthy merchant with skeletons in his closet. Welles’ second-to-last completed feature, the film boasts sumptuous cinematography by Willy Kurant, who would go on to work with Catch the best of the Godard and music by Eric Satie. Originally National Theatre, live in Sun 10 – released as part of a double bill with Buñuel’s Simon of the Desert, like much of Welles’ work high-definition on the big it polarised the critics. THE STRANGER (PG) screen. NT LIVE: MAN AND SUPERMAN NT LIVE: THE HARD PROBLEM Wed 13 Tue 12 May, 18:20 (12A AS LIVE) (ENCORE) (15) The Immortal Story, 1969 Dir Orson Welles/US 1946/94 mins Thu 14 May, 18:45 Thu 28 May, 20:00 May Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes (The Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard Having directed two undisputed masterpieces English Patient, Schindler’s List; Oedipus at (Shakespeare in Love, Arcadia, Rosencrantz - Citizen Kane and The Magnificent the National Theatre) plays Jack Tanner in and Guildenstern are Dead) returns to the To celebrate the Orson Welles Ambersons - Orson Welles delved into the this exhilarating reinvention of Shaw’s witty, National Theatre with his highly-anticipated Centenary, we’re delighted suspense film for his third feature, crafting provocative classic. new play The Hard Problem, directed by to present a number of films a post-war, psychological noir that laid the Jack Tanner, celebrated radical thinker and Nicholas Hytner (Othello, Hamlet, One Man, foundations for his later film noir classics. showcasing his genius as an rich bachelor, seems an unlikely choice as Two Guvnors). Edward G. Robinson stars as a government guardian to the alluring heiress, Ann. But she Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a actor and director. Welles agent tracking down a sadistic Nazi officer takes it in her assured stride and, despite the brain science institute, is nursing a private perhaps remains best known (Welles), who has evaded justice for running love of a poet, she decides to marry and tame sorrow and a troubling question at work, Nazi extermination camps. Rankin has for Citizen Kane and Touch of this dazzling revolutionary. Tanner, appalled where psychology and biology meet. If there crafted a new identity for himself in a quaint by the whiff of domesticity, is tipped off by is nothing but matter, what is consciousness? Evil but these less frequently Connecticut town by marrying the daughter his chauffeur and flees to Spain, where he is This is ‘the hard problem’ which puts Hilary at screened works prove that his of a local judge, but as his past begins to captured by bandits and meets The Devil. A odds with her colleagues who include her first catch up with him, will his wife side with the contribution to cinema is wide See P.03 for more details romantic comedy, an epic fairytale, a fiery mentor Spike, her boss Leo and the billionaire investigators or her husband? philosophical debate, Man and Superman asks founder of the institute, Jerry. reaching. on all of this month’s fundamental questions about how we live. Welles’ The Lady of NT Live: The Hard Problem (Encore) Matinee Classics. Shanghai also screens this month as part of The Mirror Cracked, a season of films exploring the darker side of the funfair. Turn to P.06 for details. 04 4 055 EVENT/ AUDIO PLAY: CARNIVAL OF The Mirror SOULS Sat 23 May, 22:00 Sun 24 May, 18:00 Cracked... Dir Bren O’Callaghan/GB 2014/Approx 60mins Baby Dee, Amanda Hennessey A new, unique adaptation of director Herk . Harvey’s 1962 experimental horror film oddity, Carnival of Souls, has been stripped and adapted to become an audio-only experience inside a darkened cinema, inspired by classic adventure Sat 23 – radio serials and sensory deprivation methods. Commissioned by Film Hub North West Central with an advisory group of blind and partially Sat 30 May sighted audience members, the broadcast is The Lady from Shanghai, 1947 relayed across wireless headsets incorporating binaural audio – a technique that creates the MUSIC & FILM/ LONESOME THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (PG) The funfair has often featured illusion of the action happening to and around WITH LIVE SCORE as a key location in cinema, the listener, forming a sense of intimate proximity. Sun 24 May, 22:00 From approaching footsteps to whispered breath, Big, 1988 Sun 24 May, 20:00 Dir Orson Welles/US 1947/87 mins largely because of its ability you will be fully immersed in the unfolding drama.