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.FILM may 1 Clouds of Sils Maria, 2014 MAXINE PEAKE AS (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 ’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 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 /US 1971/104 mins Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, and and “a milestone Hamlet” by the Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider evocative of Maya Deren’s seminal Meshes . 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 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 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 /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 ’s becomes peopled with phantoms and shadows. criminal underworld. Popeye Doyle (Hackman, Fast rising British George MacKay (Pride, again terrific) travels to 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- 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 /FR 1969/61 mins/ English and THEATRE French with partial EngST Centenary , Orson Welles, Roger Coggio LIVE Based on a short story by , 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 (The Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard Having directed two undisputed masterpieces English Patient, Schindler’s List; Oedipus at (Shakespeare in Love, Arcadia, Rosencrantz - 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 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 , 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 , 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. 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 oddity, , 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 , 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. , Orson Welles, Everett Sloane Mon 25 May, 20:00 The story follows Mary Henry, the sole survivor of Originally reviled on release for its oblique to combine the threat of EVENT/ EGGS COLLECTIVE Dir Pál Fejös/US 1929/69 mins a horrific car accident who begins a new life in a PRESENTS BIG (12A) Barbara Kent, Glenn Tryon, Fay Holderness narrative and experimental bent, Welles’ striking fun with something darker sleepy Utah town, home to a derelict carnival and noir is now rightly viewed as a classic of the dancehall. Still struggling in the aftermath of her Sun 24 May, 12:00 Set in Coney Island over the Fourth of July . A parable about greed and desire that and more menacing. From weekend, Hungarian-born director Pal Fejos’ accident, she is haunted by an enigmatic figure Dir Penny Marshall/US 1988/104 mins pits Welles as Irish sailor Michael O’Hara against the empty, windswept hall that slips inside her dreams, and calls her to the , Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia 1928 film Lonesome is a classic New York femme fatale Elsa Banister (Hayworth), the film is City romance, following two lonely characters of mirrors that closes The ruins of the former pleasure ground – about which “Zoltar says, make your wish”… Book most celebrated for its closing funfair shoot-out in whose chance meeting offers them a brief shot Carnival of Souls, 1962 the local Mormon congregation know more than your place for a special interactive a hall of mirrors. Distinguished by its deep focus Lady from Shanghai to the at happiness. The themes of urban isolation they choose to reveal. screening of 80’s favourite Big, starring chiaroscuro cinematography, the film also has CARNIVAL OF SOULS (12) and the chaos of the carnival feel curiously deserted, boarded up palace Tom Hanks and featuring fun and surprises one of cinema’s great final lines: ‘Maybe I’ll live Please note this performance takes place in prescient for a modern audience, while the near-darkness from theatre group Eggs Collective. so long that I’ll forget her. Maybe I’ll die trying’. Sat 30 May, 20:40 of ghosts depicted in Carnival innovative use of color tinting, superimposition Dir /US 1962/80 mins of Souls, the funfair is often a effects and a roving camera mark Fejos out as , Frances Feist, Sidney Berger FREAKS (12A) place of violence, vengeance an adventurous and imaginative filmmaker. A true original of low-budget artistry, Carnival As an award-winning neo-classical composer, of Souls is creepy, bizarre and dreamlike, at and abandoned dreams. Our artistic director Sun 24 May, 12:50 Orson Welles’ The Immortal Dir Tod Browning/US 1932/63 mins and principal songwriter and bassist for the times perhaps resembling a lost episode of The band Dutch Uncles, Robin Richards is one Much like cinema itself. The for theatre, Walter Harry Earles, Olga Baclanova, Wallace Ford Story and The Stranger Twilight Zone. Candace Hilligoss stars as Mary, of the city’s most exciting musical talents. who after an accident sets off for another town funfair is a little like one of Meierjohann directs our No exploration of the funfair on screen would His original score for Lonesome has been also screen this month to and a job as a church organist where she finds the famous mirrors in its be complete without director Tod Browning’s created in collaboration with the composition herself strangely drawn to an old abandoned production of The Funfair uncompromising and macabre film, Freaks. When department at the Royal College of celebrate the actor and amusement park. With its crisp black and darkened galley, take a look. a beautiful trapeze artist and her strongman Music. Musicians from the college will perform white photography and bags of atmosphere, But you may not like what is from Thu 14 May – Sat 13 lover try to murder a midget for his money, they alongside Robin, bringing this masterpiece director’s centenary. Turn the film has slowly acquired cult classic status. get much more than they bargained for when the of cinema to life in a completely new way. Acknowledged by George Romero as an reflected back at you... Jun. Visit our website for freaks of their travelling circus rise up in solidarity to P.04 for details. Music and Film is produced by HOME in inspiration for Night of the Living Dead, it is also to take revenge. A unique and compassionate a film much admired by . Harvey details and to book tickets. film, which is undoubtedly a cult masterpiece. collaboration with the Royal Northern College of Music and is supported by and writer John Clifford had their eye as much Film Hub North West Central, part of on the arthouse as the drive-in, aiming for ‘the the BFI Film Audience Network. look of a Bergman and the feel of a Cocteau’. 06 6 077 PREVIEW/ THE SALT OF THE PREVIEW/ TIMBUKTU (12A) EARTH (12A) HOME Fri 22 May, 18:30 Thu 21 May, 20:00 Dir Abderrahmane Sissako/FR MR 2014/96 mins/ Dirs Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, /FR BR IT English, Arabic, Bambara, French with partial EngST warming 2014/110 mins/French and English with partial EngST Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki Documentary filmmaking has proved a fertile Kidane lives a peaceful life in isolated sand hunting ground for German Wim Wenders dunes not far from Timbuktu with his wife Weekend and The Salt of the Earth nestles comfortably Satima, daughter Toya and their twelve-year- amongst Pina and The Buena Vista Social Club as old shepherd. Timbuktu has been taken over by one of his very finest non- works. Joining religious fundamentalists and the townspeople . forces with Juliano Salgado, the son of acclaimed are suffering under the regime imposed by Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, jihadists determined to control their faith. Kidane Wenders charts the remarkable life and career and his family are spared the pain and chaos of one of the giants of the medium. A film about that prevails in the town, until an incident brings Thu 21 – the power of photography to document, depict Kidane under the occupiers’ scrutiny. and bring to life the savagery and beauty to be found in the world, the film is framed by Wenders’ ROHMER IN (CTBA) Mon 25 overt admiration for his subject. The winner of a French César award, this is a hypnotic and Sat 23 May, 13:50 transformative work. Dir Richard Misek/FR GB 2013/67 mins Rohmer in Paris is an insightful love letter to May Slow West, 2015 UK PREMIERE/ SUBCONSCIOUS legendary nouvelle vague film-maker Eric Rohmer SOCIETY + Q&A (CTBA) and the world’s most cinematic city. The film Join us to celebrate the begins with the story of a chance encounter with UK PREMIERE/ DON’T GO BACK TO PREMIERE/ SLOW WEST (15) TOMORROW IS ALWAYS Fri 22 May, 16:00 SLEEP + Q&A (CTBA) TOO LONG + Q&A opening of HOME over a long Rohmer in 1994, while he was filming Rendezvous Sat 23 May, 18:20 Dir Rosa Barba/GB 2014/40 mins in Paris on location in Montmartre. This accidental bank holiday weekend of Sat 23 May, 16:00 Dir John Maclean/GB NZ 2015/84 mins Sun 24 May, 16:00 Subconscious Society is about the end of connection becomes the basis for a passionate Michael Fassbender, Rory McCann, Kodi Smit-McPhee the industrial era and the transition to the study in obsession. Part psycho-geographic Dir Stanya Khan/US 2014/76 mins Dir Phil Collins/GB 2014/82 mins events, art, theatre, film and A breathtaking first feature from John MacLean, digital age, in which computer code and the essay, part biographical documentary, this is Don’t Go Back to Sleep is an experimental We are delighted to present the regional premiere formerly of The Beta Band, Slow West is a stately, music. clone or copy are in the process of replacing a fascinating exploration of Rohmer’s lifelong narrative feature-length video created, directed, of our patron Phil Collins’ new . Tomorrow psychedelic in the mould of Dead Man material objects and analogue technology. relationship with the changing city. shot and edited by Stanya Kahn. Her sound Is Always Too Long conjures up a distinctive vision design forms a core of the film’s infrastructure and Arthur Penn’s The Missouri Breaks. Michael In the film, this paradigm shift is represented of Glasgow from the perspective of institutions that and includes original compositions by Kahn Fassbender features as a lone outlaw leading, or in the form of a social community, whose MY NIGHT WITH MAUD (PG) describe the scope of human experience and define and musician Keith Wood (of Hush Arbors and so he hopes, a young rich kid (Smit-McPhee) to us as social beings. protagonists make a final attempt at assigning (MA NUIT CHEZ MAUD) Thurston Moore’s band Chelsea Light Moving). safety across dangerous terrain (echoes of Meek’s and archiving objects from the past. It is set Collins met people in maternity hospitals, schools, Further extending a video practice that allows Cutoffabound). Told in flashback this is a hugely in a transitional realm where the past exists Sat 23 May, 15:30 community groups, and social clubs for the elderly fluid boundaries between the real and the original work that makes the most of its director’s in Glasgow, asking them to sing songs, make only as a reference to itself and the details of Dir Eric Rohmer/FR 1969/110 mins fictive, narrative and abstraction, Kahn directs an maverick vision. Fassbender is, as ever, terrific, predictions for the future, debate the status of the present are not fully decipherable yet. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie- ensemble cast of mostly non- to perform in filling out his role with characteristic vigour and freedom in today’s society, guide us through the Christine Barrault scripted and improvised scenarios in which their The theme of obsolescence is carried on in a Ben Mendelsohn has a small but pivotal role as city’s most famous prison, and dance like there’s no very material sense; by accident (both happy One of Rohmer’s finest acheivements, the subjectivity and agency become central to the tomorrow. These sequences are framed through an film’s construction. a fellow tracker. Brilliantly weird and wonderful, and tragic) it was filmed with the last available Oscar-nominated My Night with Maud is a Maclean is a one off original for sure. imaginary public-access network, one which, high shipment of Fuji 35mm stock. Additional footage captivating interrogation of morality and EVENT on bad attitude and with just a hint of mayhem, makes an appeal to the epic pleasures of channel has also been shot during Rosa Barba’s residency temptation. Jean-Louis is a devout Catholic, For this UK premiere of Don’t Go Back to Sleep EVENT surfing and the potential for low-budget television in Marfa, . Subconscious Society is Rosa who attempts to resist the advances of a we will be joined by director Stanya Kahn for a This screening will be followed by a Q&A with to reinvent itself through its viewers and their take Barba’s most comprehensive film project to date. divorcée, and is determined to save himself for post-screening Q&A. director John Maclean. on life as we somehow still live it. EVENT a woman whom he adores from afar. EVENT For this UK premiere we will be joined by director For this regional premiere we are pleased to The Salt of the Earth, 2014 Rosa Barba for a Q&A following this screening. welcome director and HOME patron Phil Collins 08 8 for a post-screening Q&A. 099 The Falling, 2014

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Weekend East is East, 1999 (18) EAST IS EAST (15) MUSIC & FILM/ CELLULOID HISTORY SONGS Mon 25 May, 12:50 Mon 25 May, 15:10 Dir Michael Winterbottom/GB 2002/117 mins Dir Damien O’Donnell/GB 1999/96 mins Mon 25 May, 18:00 , Lennie James, John Thomson Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge Approx 40 mins Once upon a time there was Manchester – and East is East is a bitter-sweet comedy about an This live multimedia performance from singer- the music – and madness, and for a brief shining interracial family growing up in 1970s . songwriter Josephine takes place against THE FALLING (15) A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH moment it was the centre of the universe (as Head of the family, George, is a popular chip a backdrop of historical footage drawn Dir Carol Morley/GB 2014/102 mins REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE (12A) everyone outside finally realised). Years later shop owner and lives with his white British from the North West Film Archive held at Greta Scacchi, Ellie Bamber, Mathew Baynton (EN DUVA SATT PÅ EN GREN OCH that feeling is re-captured in all its chaos and wife and their seven children, all of whom he Manchester Metropolitan University and FUNDERADE PÅ TILLVARON) rawness, from the arrival of the Sex Pistols to expects to conform to his strict Muslim ways. edited by filmmaker Kim May of Asta Films. Carol Morley writes and directs this masterful the death of the Haçienda, through the legend Caught between flared jeans and traditional It was designed to respond to the theme of and eagerly anticipated follow up to her Dir Roy Andersson/SE DE NO FR 2014/100 mins/ of . With a cast of thousands, Pakistani values, tensions arise when George Chaos to Order, and first appeared as part acclaimed Dreams of a Life. The Falling explores Swedish and English with partial EngST Winterbottom evokes a post-modern myth forces his eldest sons into an arranged of Everything Everything’s residency of the a mysterious fainting and twitching outbreak in Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom, Charlotta Larsson of musical Manchester (and Madchester) by marriage with two Muslim women. Will the 1969 at an all-girls school. At the centre of the same name at Manchester Central Library. Inspired by Breugel’s Hunters in the Snow following the trail of one from boys live up to their father’s expectations, epidemic are the intense and clever Lydia, and Josephine’s lyrics are adaptations of poems and Dostoevsky, Swedish director Roy mild-mannered regional TV presenter to super or will they rebel against his tyranny? the admired but rebellious Abbie. Within the Andersson’s concluding part of his remarkable music entrepreneur, with the aid of a few friends, written in response to the film footage. Her volatile, eerie atmosphere of the school and her trilogy is certain to be one of the stand-out musicians, designers, and the fans. An evocative EVENT melodies, and the audio-visual experience as a troubled home life, Lydia is driven to discover features of 2015. A panoramic view of human script and excellent performances bring the era East is East has been programmed by members whole, serve to reflect the sensation of liberation the truth behind the mystery whilst holding onto existence framed through the world-view of and its denizens back to life: see the members of our HOME Young Creatives scheme as part of that many people were experiencing for the her fragile friendship with Abbie. The Falling is two world-weary travelling joke salesmen, it’s of Joy Division (and New Order) onstage and off; HOME’s Manchester film series. In their special first time, as well as the order that was so a mesmerising psychological drama from one of a kaleidoscopic wandering through human witness the debauchery of Shaun Ryder and the introduction to the film, the team will discuss ingrained in their sense of personal freedom. the most exciting talents in contemporary British existence that looks at human kind’s capacity international e-famy of the Haçienda. why they chose it and how the themes still Produced by HOME in association with the filmmaking. resonate in the lives of young people today. North West Film Archive, this performance first for cruelty, pettiness and inhumanity. took place as part of Everything Everything’s Featuring the director’s trademark tableaux Chaos to Order residency at Manchester framing and astonishingly executed set-pieces Central Library, produced by Brighter that unfold on a mammoth scale, the film Sound. This performance will include a new, combines nightmare and fantasy to unique and previously not performed song and film. disarming effect. The winner of the prestigious Music and Film is produced by HOME in Venice Film Festival Golden Lion, it’s a film that collaboration with the Royal Northern is for the curious, the inquisitive but certainly not College of Music and is supported by for the faint-hearted. Film Hub North West Central, part of A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence, 2014 the BFI Film Audience Network. CONTINU 10 10 filmsING 1111 ARGERICH (PG) FROM FRI 1 MAY Dir Stephanie Argerich/CH FR 2012/100 mins/ French and English with partial EngST The world-renowned pianists Martha Argerich and Stephen Kovacevich, two giants of classical music, are seen here under the scrutiny of their daughter Stephanie, now in her thirties and a mother herself. Argerich is a warm, intimate and often funny family portrait that questions the relationship between a mother and her three daughters. Screened to acclaim at Locarno and Rome film festivals, this documentary work explores with subtlety the joys and difficulties of combining motherhood with an artistic career.

SAMBA (15) FROM FRI 1 MAY Dirs Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache/FR 2014/120 mins/ French and English with partial EngST , Charlotte Gainsbourg, A recent migrant to France, Samba (Omar Sy) fights to stay in his adopted country with the help of a rookie immigration worker Alice (Charlotte Gainsbourg), in this winning Far from the Madding Crowd, 2015 drama from the directors of the breakout hit Untouchable, one of France’s biggest FAR FROM THE MADDING 8 1/2 (15) breakout hits. Marking a shift from the broad Girlhood, 2014 CROWD (12A) (OTTO E MEZZO) integration comedy of their previous film, directors Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache STORY OF MY DEATH (15) GIRLHOOD (15) FROM FRI 1 MAY FROM FRI 1 MAY craft a nuanced story, inflecting the drama of Dir /GB US 2015/119 mins Dir /IT FR 1963/138 mins/ Samba’s predicament with humour that emerges (HISTÒRIA DE LA MEVA MORT) (BANDE DE FILLES) , , Italian wEngST naturally from his growing friendship with , Tom Sturridge, Juno Temple , Claudia Cardinale Sun 3 & Wed 6 May FROM FRI 8 MAY Alice, and with a fellow migrant played by the Dir Albert Serra /ES FR 2013/150 mins/ Dir Céline Sciamma/FR 2014/114 mins/ Remaking a classic is a tall order but Thomas Described by Guillermo del Toro as a ‘lusty, always-engaging Tahar Rahim (). Catalan wEng ST French wEng ST Vinterberg’s recalibration of John Schlesinger’s sweaty, glutinous poem to cinema’, Fellini’s Vicenç Altaió, Lluís Serrat, Eliseu Huertas Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh 1967 classic has all the right moves. Based on 8 ½ remains one of the most influential DIOR AND I (12A) The third feature from Céline Sciamma the literary classic by , Far From commentaries on the creative process. In his dying days, Giacomo Casanova lives SAT 2 & WED 6 MAY solemnly with his servant in rainy, gloomy 18th (Waterlilies, Tomboy) is a superlative coming- The Madding Crowd is the story of independent, Beautifully restored from the original negatives, of-age drama that provides an insightful beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, the film sees the director play out his own Dir Frédéric Tcheng/FR 2014/90 mins/ English and century Europe. Before he dies, he meets a dark French with partial EngST force in the form of Count and together look into adolescence and gang culture. Fed who attracts three very different suitors. This creative anxieties as a filmmaker (portrayed up with her abusive family situation, lack of Dior and I brings the viewer inside the world of they discuss life’s greatest pleasures. A parable timeless story of Bathsheba’s choices and by Mastroianni) struggling to make a movie. A school prospects and the “boys’ law” in the the Christian Dior fashion house with a privileged, about the shift from the Age of Enlightenment passions explores the nature of relationships quintessentially Italian work and quite simply a neighbourhood, Marieme starts a new life behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Raf to the darker and restless of the and love – as well as the human ability to must for the big screen. after meeting a group of three free-spirited Simons’ first haute couture collection as its new 19th century, The Story of My Death is a witty, overcome hardships through resilience and girls. When her home situation becomes artistic director. From conception through its intellectually sprightly work from acclaimed perseverance. unbearable, Marieme seeks solace in an older ultimate exhibition, the process is shown to be Catalan director Albert Serra (Birdsong). man who promises her money and protection. a true labour of love by the stoic Simons and a dedicated, charming, and often humorous team NEW RELEASES 12 12 of collaborators. 1313 Rosewater, 2014 CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (15) THE CONNECTION (15) (SILS MARIA) FROM FRI 29 MAY FROM FRI 15 MAY Dir Cédric Jimenez/FR 2014/135 mins/ French wEng ST Dir Oliver Assayas/FR 2014/124 mins/ French and , Gilles Lellouche, Céline Sallette English with partial EngST , Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz , 1975. Investigating magistrate Pierre At the peak of her international career, Michel (Jean Dujardin, The Artist) arrives with his veteran stage actress Maria Enders is asked wife and children in a city riddled with organised to perform in a revival of the play that made crime. He sets to work tackling the French her famous twenty years ago. Only instead Connection, a mafia organisation that exports of playing Sigrid, the alluring young girl who around the world, but as he delves deeper eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide, into the case, Pierre releases his old methods no she is being asked to step into the role of longer apply. The Connection is a sprawling crime the older Helena. Departing to Sils Maria – a drama with superb 1970s production values. remote region of the Alps – to rehearse with Lovers of The French Connection and The French her assistant, Maria comes across the young Connection II should find plenty here to admire. Hollywood starlet that is to take on the role ROSEWATER (15) THE TRIBE (18) of Sigrid, and finds herself face to face with The French Connection and The (PLEMYA) an ambiguously charming woman who is, in FROM FRI 8 MAY essence, an unsettling reflection of herself. French Connection II also screen this Dir /US 2014/103 mins FROM FRI 15 MAY month as part of our Matinee Classics Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Dimitri Leonidas Dir Miroslav Slaboshpitsky/GB NL 2014/132 mins/ ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (U) season. Turn to P.03 for more details. Directed by Emmy Award-winner Jon Stewart Sign Languages () and based on the memoir Grigoriy Fesenko, Yana Novikova, Rosa Babiy FROM FRI 15 MAY Then They Came for Me by The Tribe is a bold feature which confidently Dir Howard Hawks/US 1939/121 mins Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth THE GOOB (18) and Aimee Molloy, Rosewater is a gripping uses sign language to convey its story of and all too realistic political drama, depicting extreme teenage behaviour in a specialised Produced in a vintage year for cinema with an FROM FRI 29 MAY the detainment of journalist Maziar Bahari boarding school for deaf students. Deaf impressive cast, Only Angels Have Wings was Dir Guy Myhill/GB 2014/85 mins by Iranian forces as he covered the 2009 mute Sergey is the new kid in class, and overlooked on its initial release and is now Sienna Guillory, , Hannah Spearritt, recognised as a classic of American cinema. Liam Springs presidential election. For more than 100 days, in this daunting new environment, he A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, 2014 Bahari was blindfolded and brutally interrogated discovers the brutal hierarchy of ‘the Tribe’: In a remote part of South America, there’s a Rural Norfolk serves as an otherworldly backdrop by an assailant recognizable by one sole the school’s shadowy criminal network. By ramshackle, fog-bound port and landing strip A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE THE NEW GIRLFRIEND (15) to this remarkable debut feature. Taylor where two women arrive into the life of an ace distinguishing feature – the smell of rosewater. taking part in several robberies, Sergey gets AT NIGHT (15) (UNE NOUVELLE AMIE) (newcomer Liam Springs) is 16 and spending propelled higher into the organsation, but his pilot and despatcher: one a sassy nightclub his summer helping his mother (Sienna Guillory) PHOENIX (12A) acceptance into the group is threatened when pianist, the other his ex-lover. Viewers are FROM FRI 22 MAY FROM FRI 22 MAY ready their roadside greasy spoon for the busy treated to one of Hawks’ most enjoyable he breaks all the unwritten rules of the Tribe. Dir Ana Lily Amirpour/US 2014/101 mins/ Dir François Ozon/FR 2014/108 mins/ French wEng ST holiday season. Both live under the vigilant, FROM FRI 8 MAY explorations of his favourite themes: the Persian wEng ST , Anaïs Demoustier, Raphaël Personnaz watchful eye of his mum’s controlling, vicious Dir Christian Petzold/DE 2014/98 mins/ German The Tribe, 2014 connections between strong-willed women Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh A young woman, played by rising French boyfriend (the exceptional Sean Harris), who, in and English with partial EngST and stoical men, and the love and loyalty star Anaïs Demoustier, makes a surprising a fit of rage causes an accident that hospitalises Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf between men. Billed as the first Iranian vampire western, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a stylish discovery about the husband of her Taylor’s brother and undermines Taylor’s hesitant Concentration camp survivor Nelly Lenz and inventive take on the vampire genre that late best friend, in acclaimed director attempts at friendship and romance. A brooding undergoes reconstructive facial surgery after also takes in pulp novels, film noir and the François Ozon’s latest provocation.Claire and poetic coming-of-age tale with woozy injuries have left her severely disfigured. Iranian new wave. In short, it’s an incredible and Laura have been best friends since cinematography, the film recalls the early work Gradually returning to daily life in post-WWII genre mash up that still manages to be far childhood; their lives intertwined. When of Harmony Korine and also has something of Berlin, she embarks on a search for Johnny, more than the sum of its constituent parts. Laura falls ill and dies, Claire reaches out Malick’s Days of Heaven in its look at the pain the husband who may have betrayed her to In an Iranian ghost town that is home to to comfort Laura’s husband, David and and pleasure of rural existence. the Nazis. When Johnny fails to recognise her, pimps, prostitutes and other sordid souls, a discovers that he leads a secret life. Nelly keeps her identity secret, allowing him boy meets a girl and a love story begins to to inveigle her into a scheme with disturbing blossom. However, when vampirism is involved implications. the course of true love never runs smooth. 14 14 1515 Latest information HOME 2 Tony Wilson Place HOMEmcr.org Manchester M15 4FN Box Office 0161 200 1500

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