PHOENIX CINEMA DECEMBER & JANUARY WELCOME CONTENTS
Tis the season to be jolly, dear Phoenix fans, we’re doing our part to make it so. WEEKLY E-MAIL WELCOME & CONTENTS 1-2 December leads with the filmmaker/cast screening of Chicken, an astonishing Stay up to date with all our dramatic debut by director Joe Stephenson. programming by subscribing MAIN FEATURES 3-13 to our free newsletter: e-mail We’re all on journeys of some kind and this batch of films runs the gamut. The [email protected] or PHOENIX FILM SALON + QUIZ 14 Homesman, with Tommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank, tells a pioneer tale visit our website. of wilderness, wildness and meeting your match. With Kon-Tiki, based on a best- HOLIDAY SPECIALS 15-16 selling novel, we cling to a raft while crossing the Pacific in 1947. In Manakanama, we travel by cable car in Nepal, meeting unforgettable people en route. Bill FOLLOW US ONLINE BRINGING UP BABY 18 plays a curmudgeonly and misunderstood man with a good heart in Murray For news, chatter and St. Vincent. Big Eyes refers to the popular paintings of the 1960s associated with competitions, find us on FOR THE FAMILY 17, 19-21 artist Walter Keane. Christopher Waltz and Amy Adams play Mr. and Mrs. Facebook,Twitter and Keane in this surprising story. With a Big Bang performance, Eddie Redmayne CALENDAR 22-26 portrays physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything. Instagram. SPECIAL EVENTS 27-30 PHOENIX NIGHTS invites guest curators to host our monthly Friday late @PhoenixCinema night slot. 5 December Terry Jones presents the classic comedy Groundhog Day. PhoenixCinema SCREEN ARTS 31-32 International music party leader DJ Dan brings a New Year vibe 2 January. Phoenix_Cinema Excercise you brain at our USE IT OR LOSE IT FILM QUIZ in association FRIENDS OF THE PHOENIX 33-34 with Rochester Kino and PHOENIX FILM SALONS in association with Rochester Kino, with Nick Walker providing cerebral aerobics. FILM STUDIES 35 So many specials! Get your inner princess on with our Frozen Sing-a-long. Not EDUCATION 36-38 rocking the tiara? Sharpen up with Edward Scissorhands. We go to France for the WW1 story, Joyeux Noël, and to the North Pole to claim our Elf. CINEMA INFORMATION 39-40 Our Café warms the winter up with new soups and casseroles, and offers CAFÉ BAR 41 complimentary sherry and mince pies for Christmas. Why not give Phoenix Friends cards as gifts this year? They provide discounts BEHIND THE SCENES 42 year round and enable us to keep serving the community. Ask at our box office. BOX OFFICE 020 8444 6789 See you at the movies! WWW.PHOENIXCINEMA.CO.UK Elizabeth Taylor-Mead , Executive Director 52 HIGH ROAD, EAST FINCHLEY N2 9PJ 1 2 FROM FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER FROM FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER
My Old Lady 12A Hockney 15 1hr 47. UK/France/USA 2014. Directed by Israel Horovitz. With Kevin 1hr 52. UK 2014. Directed by Randall Wright. With David Hockney. Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith. The documentary follows the life of David Hockney from his humble Three time divorcee, recovering alcoholic and failed playwright Mathias Gold Bradford upbringing, to the hedonistic glamour of 1960s Hollywood and (Kevin Kline; A Fish Called Wanda) is down on his luck, that is until he inherits into his personal experiences of being a gay man during the AIDS epidemic a grand flat in Paris from his father. When Mathias visits in order to sell the in the 1980s. With access to previously unseen archive material, Hockney valuable property he is presented with an awkward dilemma: it is tied to an provides a fresh and candid insight into the life of the artist, in turn revealing old French property law stating that he must financially support the current the true roots of his art. Having already directed Lucian Freud: A Painted Life, resident’s life, that of the stubborn Mathilde Girard (Maggie Smith; The Best the documentary is in good hands with director Randall Wright and BAFTA Exotic Marigold Hotel, Ladies in Lavender), until they pass away. Mathilde’s winning producer Kate Ogborn whose recent work includes Ken Loach’s resistance to Mathias thaws gradually as does that of her daughter Chloé The Spirit of ’45. (Kristen Scott Thomas; Only God Forgives, Looking for Hortense) as they come to know more about Mathias and their shared history.
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The Homesman 15 Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem PG 2hrs 03. France/USA 2014. Directed by Tommy Lee Jones. With Tommy 1hr 53. Israel/France/Germany 2014. Directed by Shlomi Elkabetz, Ronit Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Meryl Streep. Elkabetz. With Ronit Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian, Rami Danon. In Hebrew, French and Arabic, with English subtitles. When three women (Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, and Grace Gummer, exhibiting the early talent and beauty of her mother, Meryl Streep) are In Israeli law marriage and divorce fall within the jurisdiction of the driven mad by the isolation of American frontier life, the strong willed Mary Rabbinical, and not the civil, court. For a woman to therefore obtain a Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank; Million Dollar Baby) must transport them to divorce (gett) she must seek the approval of her husband. Gett, The Trial of Iowa for their safety. En route she encounters the rugged army deserter, Viviane Amsalem explores these legal imbalances and contradictions through George Briggs (Tommy Lee Jones; No Country for Old Men, Lincoln), whom its powerless protagonist Viviane Amsalem (Ronit Elkabetz) and her three she recruits as muscle for the journey across the hostile Nebraskan plains. year battle to separate from her obstinate husband Elisha (Simon Abkarian). As director on his second major film, Tommy Lee Jones has created in The With this film sibling directors Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz bring their trilogy Homesman a psychologically gripping and enthralling road movie set amidst to a close and use the dark humour in their writing and the claustrophobic the expanse and grit of a classic western. courtroom setting to hold patriarchy up to judgement.
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St Vincent 12A Kon-Tiki 15 1hr 42. USA 2014. Directed by Theodore Melfi. With Melissa McCarthy, 1hr 56. UK/Norway/Denmark 2012. Directed by Joachim Rønning, Espen Naomi Watts, Chris O’Dowd, Terrence Howard. Sandberg. With Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gustaf Skarsgård, Agnes Kittelsen . In Norwegian, French, Swedish, with English subtitles. A debut from writer and director Theodore Melfi, St. Vincent sees Bill Murray (Moonrise Kingdom, Groundhog Day) back to his very best as the Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at both the Oscars and the dishevelled and lecherous Vincent who is tasked with caring for his Golden Globes, Kon-Tiki is a critically acclaimed adventure film about the neighbour’s child, Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher). Vincent goes about teaching Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl (Pal Sverre Hagen; Ragnorak, Max the wide-eyed Oliver the way of the world as he sees it (mainly filled Manus: Man of War) and his sea voyage across the Pacific Ocean. Heyerdahl with gambling, liquor and women) as the pious Brother Geraghty (Chris embarks on the journey as he sees it as the only way to conclusively prove O’Dowd: Cuban Fury, Calvary) does his best to do otherwise. The young that early South American settlers once populated Polynesia. With beautifully Lieberher is assured and pitch perfect as Oliver whose pairing with Murray shot scenes of glowing eels, leaping sea life and lush seascapes, Kon-Tiki evokes has echoes of a young Jason Schwartzman in Wes Anderson’s Rushmore. the sense of wonder and mystery created by Ang Li’s brilliant Life of Pi.
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Friends of The Phoenix membership offers: 2 free tickets £2 off all regular screenings £2 off for a guest, twice a year & no booking fees £25 single or £40 joint
Manakamana tbc Big Eyes tbc 1hr 58. Nepal/USA 2013. Directed by Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez. With USA 2014. Directed by Tim Burton. With Amy Adams, Krysten Ritter, Chabbi Lal Gandharba, Anish Gandharba, Bindu Gayek. In Nepali and English. Christoph Waltz, Jason Schwartzman. Manakamana is a breathtaking documentary portrait of pilgrims and tourists Margaret Keane was a popular American painter from the 1950s and 1960s, as they travel in a cable car above jungle from the developing modern world and yet at the time nobody knew her name. Directed by Tim Burton, Big Eyes to the ancient Manakamana temple in Nepal. Shot by directors Pacho Velez unravels the mystery of Margaret Keane’s life (Amy Adams; American Hustle, and Stephanie Spray of Harvard’s famed Sensory Ethnography Lab entirely The Fighter) who’s paintings of children with wide melancholic eyes were falsely within the transparent bubble of the cable car, the film is made up of 11 claimed by her husband Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz; Django Unchained, completely uncut shots, giving it a uniquely natural quality in the way that it Inglorious Basterds) because, as he puts it, ‘Sadly, people don’t buy ‘Lady Art’.’ A observes its subjects. Produced by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, fearsome legal battle ensues as Margaret seeks to reclaim property of her art it also recalls the unflinching power of their documentary Leviathan. as well as reclaiming an important part of her own identity. Burton moves in a fresh direction, whilst retaining his characteristically surreal stamp, with this unusual real-life tale of false authorship and commercialism in modern art.
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The Theory of Everything 12A Testament of Youth 12A 2hrs 03. UK 2014. Directed by James Marsh. With Eddie Redmayne, Felicity 2hrs 10. UK 2014. Directed by James Kent. With Hayley Atwell, Dominic Jones, Tom Prior, Harry Lloyd. West, Kit Harington, Emily Watson, Alicia Vikander, Miranda Richardson. The Theory of Everything puts on screen the life of one of the most An adaptation of Vera Brittain’s popular WWI memoir of the same name, extraordinary and defiant individuals of the modern age - that of theoretical Testament of Youth follows the life of a young Vera (Alicia Vikander; A Royal physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking. The film follows Hawking’s life Affair, Anna Karenina) confronted with the devastating social and emotional (Eddie Redmayne: Les Misérables, My Week With Marilyn) from his studies consequences of war in 1914. Vera overcomes the conservatism which and breakthroughs at Cambridge University as a cheeky and brilliant surrounds her to gain a place at Oxford University and pursue her dreams of scientist, to his falling in love with Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones: The Invisible becoming a writer. As she falls in love with Roland Leighton (Kit Harington; Woman) and across his diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Likely to Game of Thrones, Pompeii) and her life begins to blossom, the onset of war be a big award contender, The Theory of Everything sees a particularly strong gradually tears it away as she and those around her join the war effort. performance from Redmayne who seems to fully inhabit the mind and body Testament of Youth provides a deeply emotional and timely reminder of the far of this complicated and exceptional man. reaching effects of “The War To End All Wars” 100 years on.
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Phoenix Film Salon (in association with Rochester Kino)
Monday 8 December: The Homesman (p. 5) Monday 22 December: Manakamana (p. 9) Monday 5 January: The Theory of Everything (p. 11) Monday 19 January: Testament of Youth (p. 12)
Phoenix Film Salons are led by Nick Walker, who introduces the film and hosts a post-screening discussion in the auditorium. These screenings take place two Mondays per month, as the last evening show. Please check our website or weekly listings for a comfirmed time. Nick Walker is a freelance film programmer, events producer and lecturer. Previously director of ‘National Schools Film Week’ schools film festival and producer of the annual cult film season ‘Scalarama’, Nick is also the founder Whiplash 15 and Director of Rochester Kino. Admission to all Film Salon screenings £9.50 (friends £7.50), no concessions. 1hr 47. USA 2014. Directed by Damien Chazelle. With Miles Teller, Melissa Benoist, J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser. Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award winner at the 2014 Sundance Film Use It Or Lose It Film Quiz Festival, Whiplash is a powerful look at musical obsession and single-minded (in association with Rochester Kino) determination. The film follows a talented young jazz drummer, Andrew An educational and entertaining one hour Neyman (Miles Teller; The Spectacular Now), as he endeavours to break film quiz with clips projected on the big away from mediocrity to become a musical great under the tutelage of screen. Test your cinema knowledge for the masterful but uncompromising Terrance Fletcher (JK Simmons; Juno, a chance to win a gift membership to the Burn After Reading). In his teaching, Fletcher verbally and physically pushes Phoenix. Andrew to his absolute limit, pitching his talents against his spirit and ultimately asking the question: what are you willing to sacrifice in order to Sunday 7 December 11am (Musicals) become a truly exceptional artist? This film is mesmerising, innovative, and Sunday 11 January 11 am (Cities) surprising. Highly recommended. Tickets £5/£3 Friends. 13 14 HOLIDAY SEASON SPECIALS DECEMBER
Frozen Sing-A-Long PG Elf PG Sunday 30 Nov 11am Wed 24 December 12.30pm Sunday 21 Dec 1.30pm 1hr 33. USA/Germany 2003. Dir by 1hr 48. USA 2013. Dir by Chris Buck, Jon Favreau. With Will Ferrell, James Jennifer Lee. Caan, Bob Newhart. Dress up for the occasion and come After wreaking havoc due to his sing along with the Frozen movie... ungainly size, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole is sent to the US in Tickets £7 search of his true identity. Tickets £7/£5 child Edward Scissorhands 12 Family ticket £20 Sunday 21 Dec 4.30pm U 1hr 45. USA 1990. Dir by Tim Burton. With Johnny White Christmas Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest. Wed 24 December 3pm Starts at 4.30pm: no ads and trailers. 1hr 55. USA 1954. Dir by Michael An uncommonly gentle young man, who happens to Curtiz. With Bing Crosby, Danny have scissors for hands, falls in love with a beautiful Kaye, Rosemary Clooney. adolescent girl. The Thief of Bagdad U Come join us for this timeless Tickets £5 12 Christmas film about a successful Joyeux Noël Sun 28 December 2pm song-and-dance team that becomes Sun 21 Dec 6.30pm 1hr 42. UK 1940. Dir by Tim Whelan, romantically involved with a 1hr 53. USA/Germany 2005. Dir by Christian Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger. With sister act... Carion. With Diane Kruger, Benno Furmann, Sabu, Conrad Veidt, John Justin. Tickets £7/£5 child Guillaume Canet, Daniel Bruhl. With subtitles. Family ticket £20 Starts at 6.30pm: no ads and trailers. Ranked by critics as one of the best fantasy films of all time, along On Christmas Eve during world War I, the with Fantasia and The Wizard Of Oz, Germans, French, and Scottish fraternize and this Arabian Nights tale in glorious get to know the men who live on the opposite Technicolor uses innovative special side of a brutal war, in what became a true effects to proclaim the joy of lesson of humanity. storytelling. Tickets £9.50/£6 child Tickets £9.50/£7 conc/£6 child 15 16 EVERY TUESDAY AT 11AM EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 11AM
BRINGING UP BABY (BUB Club) is a chance for parents and carers to bring their babies up to 12 months to the cinema and enjoy the latest releases in a comfortable environment. Just register for a BUBClub membership, which is free and valid until the child’s first birthday. Please note: regulations are strict: No Baby, No Admittance.
3 DECEMBER 31 DECEMBER My Old lady (p. 3) Big Eyes (p. 10)
10 DECEMBER 7 JANUARY Gett: The Trial of Viviane The Theory of Everything (p. 11) Amsalem (p. 6)
14 JANUARY 17, 24 DECEMBER St Vincent (p. 7) Bringing Up Baby is taking a seasonal break. Happy Holidays! 21 JANUARY A special 30 minute programme in a relaxed environment perfect Testament of Youth (p. 12) for little ones with a fun activity at 10.30am (places are limited and must be pre-booked in person or over the phone) 28 JANUARY Ages 2-4. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Whiplash (p. 13) Tickets £3 per child.
2 December 23 December 13 January TBC Gruffalo’s Child Humf 9 December 30 December 20 January TBC LIAF TBC 16 December 6 January 27 January Q Pootle 5 Timmy Time TBC
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27 DECEMBER PHOENIX KIDS CLUB Planes 2 U Every Saturday at 11am we have a free activity for kids aged 5-10 1hr 32. When Dusty learns that his engine followed by a film at midday. A maximum of 20 children can attend is damaged and he may never race again, the activities so pre-booking through our box office is advised. All he joins a forest fire and rescue unit to be films are shown in 2D. trained as a firefighter. Tickets for the film are £2. Friends discount not applicable. No lone adults. 3 JANUARY All children under 12 years of age must be accompanied by a responsible adult. Film tbc
29 NOVEMBER 10 JANUARY LIAF U Earth to Echo PG 1hr 19. Animated shorts from around the world. 1hr 29. After receiving a bizarre series of encrypted messages, 6 DECEMBER a group of kids embark on an U adventure with an alien who The House of Magic needs their help. 1hr 25. Thunder, an abandoned young cat, stumbles into a magician’s house. 17 JANUARY Petit Nicholas PG 13 DECEMBER 1hr 29. Nicholas is very happy and Disney’s Christmas Carol PG all he wants from life is for nothing 1hr 32. Animated retelling of Dickens’ classic to change. When he overhears that novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on his mother is pregnant, he panics a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of and envisions the worst. several Christmas ghosts. 24 JANUARY 20 DECEMBER The Boxtrolls PG U Saving Santa 1hr 37. An orphaned boy raised by 1hr 24. A lowly stable elf is the only underground cave-dwelling trash one who can stop an invasion of the collectors tries to save his friends North Pole. from an evil exterminator. 19 20 HOLIDAY WORKSHOP WWW.PHOENIXCINEMA.CO.UK CALENDAR
CALENDAR KEY FRI 28 NOV - THU 4 DEC Make your Own Christmas Film! HURSDAY 30 OCTOBER 10AM-3PM MAIN FEATURES MAIN FEATURES Monday 22 December 10am-3pm FAMILY SCREENINGS MY OLD LADY What stories could we create about Christmas? What does BRINGING UP BABY HOCKNEY Christmas mean to you? In this one day workshop with a professional actress and director we’ll brainstorm ideas, then create our own HOLIDAY SCREENINGS ALSO PLAYING Christmas film using improvisation. With an emphasis on screen SATURDAY 29 NOVEMBER acting we’ll then film our project and you’ll receive a DVD of the SPECIAL EVENTS finished work. Happy Christmas! LIAF at 12pm SCREEN ARTS SUNDAY 30 NOVEMBER FILM STUDIES FROZEN SING-A-LONG at 11am EDUCATION TALES FROM THE GOLDEN FILM SALON & QUIZ AGE at 2pm
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Terry Jones presents: DJ Dan presents: Groundhog Day 12A Interstella 5555 (tbc) FRIDAY 5 DECEMBER 11.30PM FRIDAY 2 JANUARY 11.30PM Japan/France 2003. 1hr 08. Dir by Kazuhisa Takenouchi. With Romanthony, Thomas Bangalter. USA 1993. Dir by Harold Ramis. With Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem is an anime musical film created Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky. by Daft Punk and Japanese anime legend Leiji Matsumoto (Star Blazers), with the Bill Murray plays Phil, an ambitious, self-centred, television weatherman working pop duo’s seminal album, Discovery, as the score. Set some time in the future, for a local station in Pennsylvania. He turns on the charm for the cameras and Interstella 5555 tells the story of an alien pop band called the Crescendolls and contempt for his co-workers. On 2 February, 1992, Phil, his cheerful producer Rita their fight for musical independence in the face of the cosmic corporate powers (Andie MacDowell) and cameraman Larry (Chris Elliot) are sent to the folksy town which seek to exploit them. The film has drawn a cult following over the years of Punxutawney, to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities. As he leaves for from Daft Punk and anime fans alike, and is hugely respected for the way the home, Phil is caught in a freak storm and is stuck in what is for him an unbearably luminescent neon world created by Matsumoto seems a perfect fit for Daft Punk’s friendly small town nightmare. He does in fact wake up the next day, but only to distinct brand of disco / funk. find it’s Groundhog Day all over again.. and again... and again. Tickets £9.50 Tickets £9.50
Terry Jones is a writer, film director and performer, best known for his television and film work with Monty Python’s Flying Circus. As a film director he DJ Dan is the creator of Propaganda, an International co-directed (with Terry Gilliam) Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and directed clubbing phenomenon with over 20 club nights across himself, co-wrote and starred in The Life of Brian, The Meaning of Life, Erik the the UK and Ireland as well as a weekly night in Sydney, Viking, The Wind in the Willows. He also wrote the screenplay for Jim Henson’s Australia and monthly club night in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Labyrinth. Television credits include: Crusades, Gladiators the Brutal Truth, Ancient a weekly event in Ibiza each summer. DJ Dan joined Oasis Inventions, Hidden Histories, Medieval Lives, The Story of One Barbarians , The Great on several tours to play their aftershow parties, and has Map Mystery. He’s the author of Fairy Tales, Fantastic Stories, The Saga of Erik the continued to DJ for Noel Gallagher and played his end Viking, Nicobobinus, The Curse of the Vampire’s Socks, and academic works such of world tour party. He has also played aftershow as Chaucer’s Knight and Was Richard II A Tyrant. With Anna Soderstrom, Terry parties for The Stone Roses and The Prodigy. wrote the libretto for an ‘opera’ Evil Machines which he directed for the Teatro He has played at some of the biggest festivals Sao Luiz, Lisbon (2008). He had three books published in 2011: Animal Tales, globally including Glastonbury, V Festival, Trouble on the Heath, and Evil Machines. He is currently working on a new film, Reading & Leeds Festival, Bestival, Absolutely Anything starring Simon Pegg and Kate Beckinsale, a documentary Snowbombing, Benicassim and about the Economy (the Crash 2008) and (with Jim Steinman) a musical version has toured across Australia of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. with the Big Day Out Festival. 27 28 SPECIAL EVENTS SPECIAL EVENTS
The Romanian New Wave: Being John Malkovich 15 12 Tales from the Golden Age SUNDAY 4 JANUARY 2PM SUNDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2PM 1hr 48. USA 1999. Dir by Spike Jonze. 2hrs 35. Romania/France 2009. Urban legends from With John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, the Communist era... Catherine Keener, John Malkovich. The film will be introduced by Dr Eleni Liarou (Birbeck A puppeteer discovers a portal that College, University of London) who, after the screening, leads literally into the head of the will lead a discussion on New Wave cinema. Tickets £7 movie star, John Malkovich. This quirky film written by Charlie 15 Chicken + cast/crew Q&A Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the MONDAY 1 DECEMBER 8.30PM Spotless Mind) will be screened on glorious 35mm. 2hrs 10 (including Q&A). UK 2014. Dir by Joe A. Stephenson. With Scott Chambers, Yasmin Paige, Morgan Watkins. Tickets £5 15 year old Richard has learning difficulties and lives with his restless and destructive brother Polly. When the land they live on is bought by a new landowner, and the electricity supply to their caravan is cut, their already Cycling Event: E precarious living conditions get even worse. Tickets £11.50/£9 conc Alf Engers aka “The King” + Q&A SUNDAY 25 JANUARY 1PM Open Bethlehem tbc + director Q&A Dir by Ray Pascoe. Packed with rare footage, extended SUNDAY 14 DECEMBER 7PM interviews with Engers today and Dir by Leila Sansour. Shot over five years the contributions from his friends film captures the city of Bethlehem as it has and rivals, this film gives us never been seen before. This is an an unforgettable portrait emotional journey of one woman’s of great rider and of a fight for her hometown. vanished era in the sport of time-trialling. Tickets £9.50 Tickets £9.50/£7 conc
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The Old Vic: The Crucible 12A The Met Live in HD: Die Meistersinger 3hrs 30. The Old Vic’s five-star, sold-out production von Nurnberg of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible directed by Yaël 6hrs. James Levine returns to one Farber and starring Richard Armitage. of his signature Wagner works Based on the Salem Witch trials; In a small tight-knit conducting this epic comedy about community, personal grievances collide with lust and a group of Renaissance “master superstition, fuelling widespread hysteria. singers” whose song contest unites Thursday 4 Dec 7pm a city. Sunday 7 Dec 1pm LIVE Saturday 13 Dec 5pm ENCORE Sunday 14 Dec 12pm NT Live: JOHN 18 The Merry Widow 2hrs. Internationally renowned DV8 Physical Theatre 2hrs 57. The great Renée Fleming bring their powerful new production to the National stars as the beguiling femme fatale Theatre. Lloyd Newson, DV8’s Artistic Director, who captivates all Paris in Lehár’s interviewed more than 50 men asking them frank enchanting operetta, seen in a questions, initially about love and sex. One of those new staging by Broadway virtuoso men was John. What emerged was a story that is Hockney: Live from LA director and choreographer Susan both extraordinary and touching. Stroman. Nathan Gunn co-stars TUESDAY 25 NOVEMBER 7PM Contains adult themes, strong language and nudity. as Danilo and Kelli O’Hara is Suitable for 18yrs+ 3hrs 15 approx. UK 2014. Dir by Randall Wright.Valencienne. Tuesday 9 Dec 8.30pm An exclusive gala screening of the highly LIVE Saturday 17 Jan 5.55pm anticipated new feature Hockney, followed by an ENCOREin- Sunday 18 Jan 1.30pm depth conversation with David Hockney from his NT Live: Treasure Island 12A Los Angeles studio, broadcast live into cinemas. Les Contes 3hrs. Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of murder, Hockney is the definitive exploration of one of theD’Hoffman money and mutiny is brought to life in a thrilling new most important artists of his generation. For the3hrs 46. The Met offers a wild, stage adaptation by Bryony Lavery, broadcast live first time, David Hockney has given unprecedentedkaleidoscopic production of from the National Theatre. access to his personal archive of photographs andOffenbach’s operatic masterpiece. Suitable for 10yrs+ films, resulting in a frank and unparalleled visual LIVE Saturday 31 Jan 5.55pm diary of his long life. Thursday 22 Jan 7pm ENCORE Sunday 1 Feb 1.30pm Tickets £11.50/£9 conc 31 32 FRIENDS OF THE PHOENIX FRIENDS OF THE PHOENIXFRIENDS
Become a friend of The Phoenix ** (or buy a membership as a gift for Coliseum Membership £100/£175 someone this Christmas) and enjoy per year a great range of benefits including the satisfaction of supporting your favourite cinema charity. 4 free film tickets per year £2 off regular film screenings*, special events & Screen Arts Friends of The Phoenix also get discounts at many local Priority Booking & £4 off Met Opera HD businesses, please check our website for up-to-date information. www.phoenixcinema.co.uk/friends £2 off for a guest’s film ticket, 4 times a year No booking fee 15% off Cafe Bar ** Rex Membership £1000/£1500 2 Friends-only screening events per year
per year 2 free film related private receptions *** Free film tickets all year 10% off private cinema hire Complimentary Phoenix T-shirt 4 guest film tickets £2 off special events & Screen Arts ** Priority Booking & £4 off Met Opera HD Picturedrome Membership £25/£40
No booking fee per year 20% off Cafe Bar 2 free film tickets per year 2 Friends-only screening events per year * 2 free film related private receptions £2 off regular film screenings & special events 20% off private cinema hire*** £2 off for a guest’s film ticket, twice a year Complimentary Phoenix T-shirt No booking fee Free hot drink with every screening 10% off Cafe Bar 2 Friends-only screening events per year
* Excludes Kids Club and Orange Wednesday ** Two people paying together *** Subject to availability 33 34 FILM STUDIES AT THE PHOENIX TICKETS £7 EDUCATION
Just come along and catch a great movie or if you’re interested in our film studies strand let us know at [email protected]
Starting this Autumn you can get into cinema in a big way with CINEMANIA, Orlando PG Thu 4 Dec 10.30am a specially selected season of film screenings, talks and Q&A’s from industry 1hr 30. UK/Russia 1992. Dir by Sally Potter. With Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane. professionals. Join other film lovers to discuss movies and the film industry, and become a CINEMANIA Ambassador to get the chance to programme and Young nobleman Orlando is commanded by Queen Elizabeth I to stay forever market your own film event. young; he moves through several centuries of British history, experiencing a variety of lives and relationships along the way. If you’re aged 12-24 and love film, this is the place for you! And tickets for under 24’s are just £4 - bargain!
Beyond the Hills 12 Thu 11 Dec 10.30am Upcoming films: 2hrs 29. Romania 2012. Dir by Cristian Mungiu. With Cosmina Stratan, Cristina The Goonies - Tue 25 Nov 4.15pm Flutur, Valeriu Andriuta. With English subtitles. Wadjda - Tue 9 Dec 4.15pm The story of a friendship between two young women who grew up in the same Persepolis - Tue 6 Jan 4.15pm orphanage; one has found refuge at a convent in Romania and refuses to leave with her friend, who now lives in Germany. Films are open to all and tickets for over-25s are £6. Find out more at www.cinemanialondon.com 35 36 EDUCATION EDUCATIONAPRIL & MAY
Throughout the year our film education work engages with children and young people through term-time screenings, visits and workshops.
UPCOMING SCREENINGS In December we’ll have some end-of-term Christmas screenings. In January we’ll be marking Holocaust Memorial Day. For more info on these screenings, please email education@ phoenixcinema.co.uk or call 020 3074 1967.
Most screenings start at 10am. All accompanying adults are free of charge. For students who love film
VISIT THE PHOENIX Programme the Phoenix is an opportunity for film students and students who love film to independently programme their own event at the Phoenix Did you know we also offer visits? and gain the industry programmer’s inside view - absolutely free! Your class can have exclusive use of the auditorium (including We provide the interested students with a free space in our schedule where a special screening) participate they can then select a feature of their choosing along with up to three short in amazing workshops and get films of their own as trailers. If no self-made short films are available, the an exciting peek behind the group can use the additional time in other ways; perhaps for a Q&A, post- scenes of our historic building. film discussion or lecture in the auditorium. See our website for ideas or ask us about tailoring a visit to your Programme the Phoenix tickets will be open to the public, so this is as specifications. much a chance for us to see what the new generation has to offer and the potential future direction of film in the UK. For more information email [email protected] 37 38 CINEMA INFORMATION BOX OFFICE 020 8444 6789 WWW.PHOENIXCINEMA.CO.UK
Film Times Tickets and booking ACCESSIBILITY Phoenix Film Salon (in association Main features and some special The box office is open from 11am • Full access for wheelchair with Rochester Kino) events start 25 minutes after the Mon–Sat and from 1pm Sunday. users: external ramp, lift, Fortnighly screenings of the latest stated programme times. All other Adult Tickets disabled toilet. Four dedicated contemporary films on show at the Phoenix screenings start promptly at the Mon all day: £7 (except Film Salon spaces in the auditorium. Please will be introduced by Nick Walker, who will also host a post-screening discussion in the published times. All times listed are screenings: admission £9.50) let us know when booking. auditorium. The Salon takes place two Mondays subject to confirmation. For up to date Tue–Fri before 5pm: all tickets £7, • Guide dogs welcome; please per month, as the last evening screening. For information please: after 5pm: £9.50 adults/£7 concs. let us know in advance. the schedule and more information on the Sat, Sun and Bank Holidays • Visit our website: • Disabled parking available on films, check our website or join our email list. www.phoenixcinema.co.uk. before 5pm: £9.50 adults/£7 concs. the High Road and Fairlawn Tickets: £9.50 (no concessions) • Join our free email list. Go to our after 5pm: all tickets £9.50 Avenue on single yellow lines website or visit the box office. Child (Under 15s) Tickets: and in parking bays any time, Phoenix Gallery • Call 020 8444 6789 for recorded film Mon all day and Tue-Fri before 5pm: free of charge. December: Oliver Bloom, paintings times 24 hours a day. child £5 • Limited guide features for Tue-Fri after 5pm + Sat, Sun, Bank January: Peter Wilson, paintings • Pick up a weekly time sheet at the visually impaired visitors. Stairs Holidays: child £6 cinema or local libraries and shops. have clear markings, floor . surfaces are non-slip. Staff will Hire the Phoenix • Check listings on the Time Out Concessions: unemployed, senior citizens, be happy to assist. The Phoenix is available to hire for charity website and in national papers. students, registered disabled. Please bring • Free admission for carers of events, private screenings, business events Parking proof of status. Prices and discounts for registered disabled visitors, and as a filming location. To make an enquiry special events may vary. visit: www. phoenixcinema.co.uk/cinema-hire East Finchley Tube Station: subject to CEA card and Catering options available from the café to £4.50 Mon–Fri, £1.50 Saturday, • Tickets for the film week starting availability. Applications for the Friday will go on sale no later than suit your party requirements. £1 Sundays/Bank Holidays. CEA card available from the the Monday prior. box office. Local parking: • Saturday evening shows and special Max stay 90mins, payable by mobile events have allocated seating. • Subtitled screenings offered phone. Free after 6.30pm and Sundays/ when possible. Integrated • Tickets booked online or by Bank Holidays. induction loop available. telephone subject to booking fee. Management reserve the right of admission. Transport • No refunds or exchanges on • This programme is available Information correct at time of press. Registered any tickets within 48 hours of a online and in large format, on Tube: East Finchley (Northern Line) charity no. 296135. Part of the Europa Cinemas screening. All refunds are at the request. Network of the European MEDIA Programme. Buses: 102, 143, 263, N20. manager’s discretion. 39 40 CAFE BAR BEHIND THE SCENES
The Café Bar is open from 11am every Monday-Saturday and from 1pm on Sundays
Visit the Phoenix Café Bar for locally roasted coffee, homemade seasonal cakes, and a wide range of soft drinks, wines and beers. All this can be enjoyed in our café or taken into the film. We also serve pre- and post cinema snacks and sandwiches, daily soups and hot specials made fresh by our Phoenix cooks.
BEHIND THE SCENES TOURS Explore behind the scenes of this historic building and find out all about its fascinating past. The tours last for approximately 45 minutes, include a visit to the projection room.
SUNDAY 30 NOVEMBER: 1.00pm You will find East Finchley’s fastest wi-fi, a warm friendly indoor area for SUNDAY 25 JANUARY: 10.30 and 11.30am rainy days and a sunny tree-facing balcony outside. Tickets £2 All our food is freshly prepared so if you are watching a film, be sure to Limited availability so please reserve your space with our box arrive in plenty of time. office on 020 8444 6789. Tailored catering options available for cinema private hires and events.
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Old Vic Encore Met Live in HD The Crucible Die Meistersinger von Thu 4 Dec 7pm Nurnberg Sun 7 Dec 12.30pm Sat 13 & Sun 14 Dec
NT Live The Merry Widow Sat 17 & Sun 18 Jan JOHN Tue 9 Dec 8pm Les Contes D’Hoffman Sat 31 Jan & Sun 1 Feb Treasure Island Thu 22 Jan 7pm Iolante/Duke Wed 18 Feb 1.30pm Bluebeard’s Castle Sat 14 & Sun 15 Feb Behind the Beautiful Forevers La Donna del Lago Thu 12 March 7pm Sat 14 & Sun 15 March The Hard Problem Cavalleria Rusticana/ Thu 16 April 7pm Pagliacci Sat 25 & Sun 26 Apr Man and Superman Thu 14 May 7pm RSC Live The Merchant of Venice Wed 22 July 7pm
BOX OFFICE 020 8444 6789 WWW. PHOENIXCINEMA.CO.UK 52 High Road, East Finchley, facebook.com/PhoenixCinema N2 9PJ @PhoenixCinema