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HOME is a trading name of Greater Manchester Arts Centre Ltd, a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and No: 1681278. Registered office 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester, M15 4FN Charity No: 514719. janJackie, 2016 DOUBLE BILL: ME! I’ AFRAID OF Phil’s Films Neville Smith: A + BAG OF YEAST . Retrospective (CTBA) FILM SEASONS Thu 19 Jan, 18:10 . film NEW RELEASES ME! I’M AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF I’m Too Happy Granada @ 60 Wed 28 Dec – Dir /GB 1978/64 mins Neville Smith, , , Derek . . Wed 4 Jan Sun 8 – Sun 29 Thompson HOME projectionist Phil Henshall In ’s television drama Me! celebrated a momentous 50 years in the Jan I’m Afraid of Virginia Woolf, once again Until Tue 13 Dec Sat 3 – Mon 12 profession this year. To mark the occasion, In January, we continue our annual directed by Stephen Frears, Smith plays Phil shares three of his favourite films from retrospective of overlooked British the lead Trevor Hopkins, a painfully Dec screenwriters. This time we dust off the Selected by artist Rachel Maclean over the years, plus documentary Out of shy English lecturer whose chance Join us for a series of special work of writer and actor Neville Smith, THE UNKNOWN GIRL (CTBA) CHI-RAQ (15) UNITED STATES OF LOVE (18) LIFE, ANIMATED (PG) MAGNUS (U) THE PASS (15) + SHORT FILM THE INCIDENT (15) and curator Bren O’Callaghan, this Print, an ode to the much-loved analogue encounter with a student makes him retrospective screenings as we celebrate today perhaps best remembered for his (LA FILLE INCONNUE) (ZJEDNOCZONE STANY HEARTBREAK season of films expands upon themes process that began his career. feel his life may be about to change. 60 years of groundbreaking, fearless and for the starring From Fri 2 Dec MILOSCI) From Fri 9 Dec From Fri 9 Dec Date TBC within the artist’s rainbow-dipped homemcr.org/phils-films From Fri 2 Dec Dir Spike Lee/US 2015/127 mins Dir Jean Cocteau/FR US 2016/90 mins Dir Benjamin Ree/NO 2016/78 mins From Fri 9 Dec Dir Jane Linfoot/GB 2015/94mins creative programming from Manchester’s Gumshoe, now considered something of BAG OF YEAST yet unsettling works to address Dir Michael Grigsby/GB 1976/60 mins Dirs Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne/BE FR Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes Dir Ben A. Williams/GB 2016/87 mins Ruta Gedmintas, Tom Hughes, Tasha Connor an early 1970s British classic. From Fri 2 Dec The remarkable story of how Owen Widely known as the ‘Mozart of Chess’, own Granada TV. Alison Steadman, Neville Smith, Bill Dean, Peter 2016/113 mins/ French wEng ST childhood, happiness and innocence In America’s hip-hop scene, Chicago Dir Tomas Wasilewski/PL SE 2016/106 mins/ Suskin, diagnosed with autism, found a Magnus Carlsen possesses not only an , Arinze Kene A successful young couple see their homemcr.org/neville-smith Kerrigan as qualities ripe for commodification homemcr.org/granada-60 Adèle Haenel, Olivier Bonnaud, Yannick Renier has long been dubbed ‘Chi-Raq’ for its Polish wEng ST pathway to language and a framework innate skill and remarkable memory Intelligently adapted by John Donnelly comfortable lives unravel when they Julia Kijowska, Magdalena Cielecka, Dorota Kolak and exploitation. Combining fairytale In Bag of Yeast, teacher Tony Scannell This latest from Jean-Pierre and Luc infamous reputation as murder capital for making sense of the world through but unrivaled creativity and intuition. In from his own acclaimed , The Pass each make the decision to ignore the decides he wants to be ordained as It is the beginning of the 1990s and with horror, we offer a drink from a Dardenne may best be described as a of the USA. Set in the city’s South Side Disney animations. Magnus, Ree reveals this young man’s is an intimate and urgent chamber plight of a troubled teenage girl in this a Catholic Priest, but his decision has Polish society is trying to redefine cinematic well in which the water may social-realist film noir. After refusing to neighbourhoods, this bold satire based unusual and rapid trajectory to the piece about two aspiring premier intimate study of guilt, and wide-ranging effects on his family and itself after years of stagnation. Shot in taste of strawberries, but blisters soon answer a late-night knock on her clinic on Greek poet Aristophanes’ comedy pinnacle of the chess world. league footballers on the cusp of both responsibility, from acclaimed shorts loved ones. desaturated colours and with a muted bubble upon the lips. door, a young doctor seeks the truth Lysistrata, is enriched by plenty of greatness and sexual self-discovery. director Jane Linfoot. JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (U) production design, this drama reflects behind the mysterious death of her music. homemcr.org/im-too-happy Wed 28 Dec, 18:10 unidentified caller. upon the attempts to escape an anti- Preceded by short film Heartbreak. Don’t miss Rachel Maclean’s exhibition, Dir Don Chaffey/GB US 1963/100 mins THE WORLD CUP: A CAPTAIN’S TALE pleasure, body-hating environment. Nancy Kovack, Todd Armstrong, Gary Raymond, Honor GUMSHOE (12A) Wot u :-) about? in our gallery. See (CTBA) GRANADA KIDS TV RETROSPECTIVE Blackman Sun 8 Jan, Time TBC overleaf for details. Sun 22 Jan, 15:30 (CTBA) + POST-SCREENING The legendary Greek hero leads a team Tue 10 Jan, Time TBC DIr Tom Clegg/GB 1982/150 mins ALICE (PG) DISCUSSION of intrepid adventurers in a perilous Dir Stephen Frears/GB 1971/86 mins Dennis Waterman, Ken Hutchinson, , (NECO Z ALENKY) Sat 3 Dec, 13:30 quest for the legendary Golden Fleece Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, , Bill Dean Sat 3 Dec, 18:20 Running time 100 mins in this enduring classic with special Albert Finney gives a career-best Made for Tyne Tees television, Smith Dir Jan Svankmajer/CZ CH GB 1988/85 mins/Czech Join us for a curated session of effects courtesy of Ray Harryhausen. performance as night club compere delivers a top-notch, uplifting, football wEng ST extracts and rarities including DARBY O’GILL AND THE LITTLE Eddie Ginley who has dreams of being drama. The World Cup: A Captain’s Tale Kristýna Kohoutová Clapperboard, Hickory House and PEOPLE (U) ’s answer to Sam Spade – dreams tells the story of West Auckland F.C. a Hugely acclaimed Czech animator Jan THE BLACK HEN (12A) UNCLE HOWARD (15) THE SON OF JOSEPH (12A) EAT THAT QUESTION: FRANK DONNIE DARKO (15) THE EAGLE HUNTRESS (U) INDIGNATION (15) Children’s Ward, in the company of Thu 29 Dec, 13:00 that see him drawn into a complex plot of part-time team made up of local miners Švankmajer’s darkly surreal adaptation (KALO POTHI) (LE FILS DE JOSEPH) ZAPPA IN HIS OWN WORDS (15) special guests including BAFTA winning Dir Robert Stevenson/US 1959/93 mins family betrayal and murder. who represented England in the Sir From Fri 16 Dec From Fri 23 Dec From Fri 23 Dec From Tue 27 Dec of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale combines Children’s Ward writer and producer Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Thomas Lipton Trophy. Dir Aaron Brookner/US GB 2016/97 mins Dir Richard Kelly/US 2001/95 mins Dir Otto Bell/GB US Mongolia 2016/87 mins/ Dir James Schamus/US 2016/111 mins Screening from an archive 35mm print. Date TBC From Fri 16 Dec From Fri 16 Dec live action with the director’s Russell T Davies. Darby O’Gill, an ageing storyteller in Dir Min Bahadur Bham/NP FR DE CH 2015/90 Dir Eugène Green/FR BE2016/113 mins/ French Dir Thorsten Schütte/FR DE 2016/93 mins , Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell Kazakh wEng ST Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, AFTER A LIFETIME (CTBA) A beautiful portrait of filmmaker trademark stop-motion animation. rural Ireland is desperately seeking the DOUBLE BILL: APACHES + LONG mins/Nepali wEng ST wEng ST Donnie is a troubled teenager: prone Executive producer Daisy Ridley Based on Philip Roth’s novel, Indignation WORLD IN ACTION (CTBA) + POST- Thu 12 Jan, 18:15 Howard Brookner by family member Told entirely through archival footage proverbial pot of gold. There’s just one SHOT (CTBA) Khadka Raj Nepali, Sukra Raj Rokaya, Jit Victor Ezenfis, Natacha Régnier, Fabrizio to sleepwalking and in possession of narrates this visually stunning follows Marcus Messner, a brilliant SCREENING DISCUSSION Dir /GB 1971/80 mins Bahadur Malla Aaron Brookner, Uncle Howard also Rongione culled from the performer’s 30-year tiny little thing in his way: a 21-inch Sun 29 Jan, 18:00 looks at 1980s New York and the career, this energetic celebration of an imaginary friend, a six-foot rabbit documentary about Aisholpan, a working class Jewish boy from Sun 11 Dec, 18:15 Bill Dean, Neville Smith, Peter Kerrigan In a Nepalese village ravaged by civil Determined to find the identity of his Running time 120 minutes leprechaun named King Brian. But Darby APACHES named Frank, who tells him the world 13-year-old girl who becomes the first Newark, , who travels on Directed by Ken Loach and first screened war, two boys from different castes burgeoning US Indie scene. Radiating unknown father, 15-year-old Vincent Zappa’s life and legacy illustrates his must match his wits against the shrewd Dir John Mackenzie/GB 1977/27 mins is going to end in 28 days, 06 hours, 42 female in twelve generations of her a scholarship to a small, conservative Join legendary camera operator on ITV, After a Lifetime is something of become close while bonding over a philosophy of living life to the full, tracks down philandering, narcissistic fierce intelligence, witty intransigence, little trickster in order to get the gold. For Apaches, perhaps the most minutes and 12 seconds. Kazakh family to become an eagle college in 1950s Ohio, exempting him George Jesse Turner for a celebration a neglected social-realist masterpiece. raising an egg-laying hen, but find their this is an assured and affectionate publisher Oscar, only to be mistaken political conviction and irrepressible shocking public information film made hunter. from being drafted into the Korean War. of Granada’s World in Action and a It focuses on two brothers brought documentary. quest for enlightenment. in the UK, Smith collaborated with lives upended as they become caught in for a writing prodigy and drawn into This modern classic now receives a full discussion around what made this together by the death of their father, The Long Good Friday director John a clash between fighting forces. the pretentious world of the Parisian 4K restoration. show an essential part of our national which causes them to reflect on his life of FEED ME (CTBA) Mackenzie to present the story of a literary circuit. conversation for 35 years. militancy and political activism. Mon 5 Dec, 18:30 band of children who enjoy playing Dir Rachel Maclean/GB 2015/61 mins around the most dangerous of sites, DOUBLE BILL: THE GOLDEN VISION + Jaime Adler, Peter Brooke, Sara Cartwright the farmyard. Feed Me is a parable of the pleasures MATCH OF THE DAY (CTBA) and perils of indulgence, a waspish skit NIGHT OF THE DEMON (PG) Sun 15 Jan, 18:20 LONG SHOT on a world where greed is good. Dir Maurice Hatton/GB 1978/85 mins Fri 30 Dec, 18:15 THE GOLDEN VISION Charles Gormley, Neville Smith, Wim Wenders Dir Jacques Tourneur/GB 1957/95 mins Dir Ken Loach/GB 1968/74 mins Feed Me, 2015 by Rachel Maclean. Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis Ken Jones, Bill Dean, Neville Smith Long Shot is a knock-about tale that Commissioned by FVU and Hayward perfectly reflects the perilous state of An American psychologist journeys to Another of Smith’s collaborations with Touring for British Art Show 8. the British film industry in the 1970s. (CTBA) A MONSTER CALLS (12A) MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (15) LA LA LAND (12A) JACKIE (15) T2: (CTBA) DENIAL (12A) CORONATION STREET 2016 (CTBA) + to debunk a devil-worshipping Ken Loach and Tony Garnett, The Golden Supported by Arts Council England and Smith turns in a sparklingly witty POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION cult in Tourneur’s celebrated adaptation Vision mixes the adventures of a group of From Mon 2 Jan From Mon 2 Jan From Fri 13 Jan From Fri 13 Jan From Fri 20 Jan From Fri 27 Jan From Fri 27 Jan Creative Scotland. performance. Mon 12 Dec, 18:20 of the short story by M. R James. Everton-obsessed fans with footage of Dir /IT MX JP US 2016/160 mins/ Dir J.A. Bayona /ES US 2016/108 mins Dir Kenneth Lonergan/US 2016/137 mins Dir Damien Chazelle/US 2016/129 mins Dir Pablo Larraín/US CL FR 2016/100 mins Dir Danny Boyle/GB 2017/TBC mins Dir Mick Jackson/GB US 2016/110 mins Running time 120 minutes the team in training. English and Japanese with partial Eng ST , Felicity Jones, Lewis , Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler , , Amiée Conn Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Ewan McGregor, , , , THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE OUT OF PRINT (CTBA) Screening from an archive 35mm print. No exploration of Granada would be , Liam Neeson, MacDougall Lee is the resident handyman for an Damien Chazelle’s follow-up to Natalie Portman gives a sensational HOME patron Danny Boyle revisits A riveting drama penned by David WORLD (15) Wed 4 Jan, 18:15 MATCH OF THE DAY complete without a celebration of their Dir Stephen Frears/GB 1974/30 mins Martin Scorsese returns with a Based on the acclaimed novel by apartment complex in a Boston suburb. Whiplash has all the right moves: a lead performance as Jacqueline Bouvier Trainspotting, reuniting the original Hare from Deborah E. Lipstadt’s book Tue 13 Dec, 18:20 Dir Julia Marchese/US 2014/95 mins Dir Guy Maddin/CA 2003/100 mins/English and most enduring drama in the week of Gladys Ambrose, Bill Dean, Neville Smith compelling and weighty period drama Patrick Ness, this darkly alluring film When his brother Joe dies suddenly, love of jazz, a love of classic Hollywood Kennedy in this poignant depiction of cast, novelist Irvine Welsh, Boyle’s History on Trial: My Day in Court with a In a culture where digital presentation Spanish with partial EngST Coronation Street’s 56th birthday. This In Match of the Day, made for the that confirms him as one of the great from director J.A. Bayona tells the story Lee returns to his hometown - and his musicals and a love of life. An ambitious the events leading up to and following regular scriptwriter John Hodge and Denier, this is an absorbing is taking over our cinemas, Out of Print Isabella Rossellini, Mark McKinney, Maria de Medeiros special event will showcase archive BBC’s Second City Firsts strand, a . Silence follows two of a young boy doubly assailed by past - to care for Joe’s teenage son, an jazz pianist and an aspiring actress fall the assassination of JFK. A meticulously Oscar-winning director of photography account of a fight for truth. celebrates the unique cinemas where Based on an original screenplay by gems and provide a sneak peek at football-mad young man must miss a Jesuit Portuguese Catholic priests who frightening dreams and fraught real-life arrangement neither party welcomes. in love while pursuing their dreams of structured and cogent meditation on Anthony Dod Mantle. At the time 35mm film prints are still going strong - , Isabella Rossellini stars what’s to come on the Weatherfield match to attend his sister’s wedding. face persecution after travelling to circumstances. stardom. grief, power and mythology. of writing details are sketchy, but and explores why 35mm film should be as a beer baroness who, at the height cobbles for Christmas in the company However, things start to look up when Japan to locate their mentor. anticipation levels are high. allowed to coexist with digital forever. of the Great Depression, sponsors a of guests from the production team he meets a young woman there. contest to find the world’s saddest tune. and cast. Screening from a 35mm print.

CHINESE FILM FORUM UK PRESENTS / CHINESE NEW YEAR one-off screenings & events 2017 + INTRO (CTBA) classics live broadcasts courses ATOMIC: LIVING IN DREAD AND Wed 25 Jan, 18:15 Our popular programme brings cinema classics to the big screen every month – so you Catch the best theatre and opera broadcast live in our cinemas from the world’s most PROMISE (PLAYED LOUD*) (12A) never need to miss those must-sees! Visit homemcr.org/classics for more details. prestigious companies. Visit homemcr.org/live-broadcasts for more details. To celebrate Lunar New Year 2017 Tue 13 Dec, 20:40 we are bringing together some of the Dir Mark Cousins/GB 2015/71 mins finest talents working in contemporary (CTBA) Using only archive footage, Mark ONE LONG JOURNEY (CTBA) Chinese cinemas. This programme of Cousins’ acclaimed film captures the short films is drawn from the Hong Wed 28 Dec, 16:00 Sat 28 Jan, 13:00 dreams and nightmares of the atomic Kong International Film Festival’s Julieta, 2016 Dir Andy Lawrence/GB 2015/86 mins Tickets £12 full/£10 concs ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING age. A chilling, mesmeric, hallucinated BOBBY SANDS: 66 DAYS (15) A DATE FOR MAD MARY (15) ‘Beautiful’ series, which includes work One Long Journey follows one man’s Dir Abel Gance/FR 1927/330 mins COURSE/ WOMEN IN SPANISH visual experience enhanced by a from the likes of Jia Zhangke, Lu Yue, Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Thu 1 Dec, 20:20 Thu 15 Dec, 18:15 Tue 27 Dec, 18:25 dream to build a boat and sail it CINEMA haunting and (at-times) thundering Tsai Ming-Liang and Ann Hui. Van Daële, Antonin Artaud Dir Andrew Dominik/ GB 2016/ 110 mins Dir Brendan Byrne/GB IE 2016/106 mins Dir Darren Thornton/IE 2016/82 mins home. Following his 70th birthday, Vik score by Mogwai. The film event of the century for all MET OPERA LIVE/ L’AMOUR DE RSC LIVE/ (12A AS 8 weeks beginning Tue 31 Jan Back by popular demand, don’t miss In the spring of 1981, Irish Republican Seána Kerslake, Tara Lee, Charleigh Bailey Pengilly-Johnson leaves the loneliness This screening is supported by the LOIN (LIVE) LIVE) cinephiles. Abel Gance’s extraordinary 18:30 – 20:30 another chance to see Nick Cave & the *The film was made to be played loud. Bobby Sands’ 66-day hunger strike ‘Mad’ Mary McArdle returns to her home of his flat in southern England on Confucius Institute at the University of depiction of the rise of Napoleon Bad Seeds perform their 16th studio We are honouring the artists’ intentions. brought the attention of the world to town after a short spell in prison – for one last adventure, where he soon Sat 10 Dec, 17:40 Wed 11 Jan, 18:45 £80 full / £60 concs Manchester. Bonaparte is a landmark in cinema album Skeleton Tree on the big screen. Ear plugs will be provided on request. his cause. 66 Days is a major feature- something she’d rather forget. Back encounters troubled waters. Kaija Saariaho’s breakthrough opera returns to the RSC Explore the roles and representations history, featuring ground-breaking length documentary drawn from his home, everything and everyone has Event/ This screening will be introduced has its Met Opera premiere in a after 20 years to play in this of women in Spanish film in this eight- THEO AND HUGO (18) THE DARKEST UNIVERSE (15) technical innovations including a wide- hunger strike diary exploring Sands’ changed and Mary becomes determined by Andy Willis, Reader in Film Studies at dazzling new production by Robert groundbreaking production directed week course, led by Carmen Herrero, the University of Salford and HOME Film screen triptych finale, rich tints and Fri 2 Dec, 20:35 remarkable life and death, 35 years on to prove that she can change too. Thu 29 Dec, 18:30 Lepage. Eric Owens is the on a by Artistic Director Gregory Doran. On Head of Spanish at Manchester Senior Visiting Curator. an epic running time of 5 ½ hours plus Dirs Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau/FR from his ultimate sacrifice. Dirs Tom Kingsley, /GB 2016/87 mins quest of love and Susanna Phillips is his a distant island a man waits – but this Metropolitan University and Co-Director intervals. Blue Velvet, 1986 2016/97 mins/French wEng ST Will Sharpe, Tiani Ghosh, Joe Thomas lover on the other side of the sea. is no ordinary man, and this no ordinary of the Film in Language Teaching Geoffrey Couet, Francois Nambot In this piercing offbeat oddity, Zac is 3000 NIGHTS (CTBA) BLUE VELVET (18) (CTBA) NT LIVE/ NO MAN’S LAND (LIVE) island. Association. In a sex club, Theo and Hugo’s bodies a lonely city trader on the edge of a (3000 LAYLA) Sun 4 Dec, 13:15 Sun 22 Jan, 13:00 MET OPERA LIVE/ ROMÉO ET From the 1940s to the present day, Thu 15 Dec, 18:45 meet, click together and merge in a psychological breakdown. Having lost Tue 6 Dec, 20:15 Tue 24 Jan, 20:30 + Intro JULIETTE (LIVE) you’ll study the image of women in passionate embrace. The two young Tue 31 Jan, 18:10 Following their hit run on Broadway, Ian STARFISH (15) his job, his girlfriend, and his wayward Wed 7 Dec, 13:00 Wed 25 Jan, 13:00 Spanish film: women as icons, as men, in the empty streets of Paris by Dir Mai Masri/FR JO LB AE 2015/103 mins/ McKellen and return Sat 21 Jan, 17:40 younger sister Alice, who has gone Arabic and Hebrew wEng ST Dir David Lynch/US 1986/120 mins Dir /US 1981/107mins subjects, and as creators, with a focus Wed 14 Dec, 18:20 to the West End stage. In the pub Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo star night, are faced with their budding love. missing, he decides to take matters Maisa Abd Elhadi, Nadira Omran, Rakeen Saad Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Raul Julia on the visibility and empowerment Dir Bill Clark/GB 2016/95 mins one evening, two ageing writers’ as opera’s classic lovers, in Gounod’s THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A into his own hands. Layal, a young Palestinian A classic of American cinema, Blue Francis Ford Coppola shines his women have achieved in acting, WITHERING LOOKS (CTBA) Joanne Froggatt, Tom Riley, Phoebe Nicholls, drunken stories become increasingly lush Shakespeare adaptation. Michele Dotrice STAFF PICK OF THE YEAR/ WEEK - THE TOURING YEARS schoolteacher is imprisoned in a high Velvet is quintessential Lynch. When spotlight on a Las Vegas couple whose directing, production and screenwriting Wed 7 Dec, 18:30 JORDAN IN CONVERSATION + GHOST IN THE SHELL (15) unbelievable, and their lively ROH LIVE/ (LIVE) Starfish is the true and incredibly MUSTANG (15) (12A) security Israeli prison after picking up a a clean-cut young man discovers a break-up on the 4th of July leads them IL TROVATORE in post-Franco Spain. Dir Noreen Kershaw/GB 2016 SAD VACATION (15) (KÔKAKU KIDÔTAI) conversation soon turns into a young hitchhiker. 3000 Nights tells her severed human ear in the grass, his both to a night on the strip in pursuit Beginners’ level, no prior knowledge Maggie Fox, Sue Ryding moving story of Tom and Nicola Ray Sat 17 Dec, 20:40 Wed 28 Dec, 13:00 revealing power game. Tue 31 Jan, 19:15 (Tom Riley, Joanne Froggatt), whose Sat 21 Jan, 18:30 Wed 25 Jan, 20:40 story, and finds hope in humanity when quest to solve the grisly mystery leads of their romantic fantasies. Made necessary. Manchester’s very own award winning Dir Deniz Gamze Ergüven/FR DE QA TU 2015/94 Dir Ron Howard/GB 2016/138 mins MET OPERA/ NABUCCO (LIVE) International superstars Dmitri love is tested to the limit when their mins/Turkish wEng ST Tickets £9 full / £7 concs Dir Mamoru Oshii/JP 1995/83 mins/Japanese everything that makes a person human him into the terrifying underworld of by Coppola’s Zoetrope Studios, this comedy duo LipService give you a slice Despite performing to the largest wEng ST Hvorostovsky, Anita Rachvelishvili, The course includes six sessions with perfect life falls apart in a single Günes Nezihe Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Elit Iscan is being deliberately eradicated. his own town. neglected wholly ambitious production of life with the Bronte sisters – well, audience in television history in 1964, Preceding a screening of Danny Atsuko Tanaka, Iemasa Kayumi, Akio Ôtsuka Sat 7 Jan, 17:40 Lianna Haroutounian and Gregory the course tutor and two course moment. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale Garcia’s Sad Vacation, a new features a beautiful score by Tom just two of them; Anne has just popped it was The Beatles’ next move – a Mamoru Oshii’s Manga classic GUMSHOE (12A) Liudmyla Monastyrska is Abigaille, Kunde lead a superb cast of world- screenings. and her four sisters innocently play with documentary looking at the ill-fated Waits and Crystal Gaze. out for a cup of sugar. world tour – that changed the very remastered. In the year 2029, the Sun 8 Jan, Time TBC the warrior woman determined to class singers in this Verdi classic that some local boys on the way home from trip to New York by Sid Vicious and fabric of popular culture. This is the ultimate secret agent is not human, has Tue 10 Jan, Time TBC Event/ The screening on Tue 24 Jan rule empires, and Jamie Barton is the is one of the great operas of the Full event running time 70 mins. school. The supposed debauchery of their Nancy Spungen, John Robb of The Getting in the Christmas not-to-missed story of the band’s no physical body and can travel freely Dir Stephen Frears/GB 1971/86 mins is presented in collaboration with heroic Fenena. Dmitri Belosselskiy is Romantic period. games causes a scandal with unintended Membranes talks to punk icon Jordan spirit? Check out our festive exceptional touring years and the birth through the information highways of Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Bill Dean The Skinny, the biggest listings and the stentorian voice of the oppressed A Bronte Society commission for consequences in this remarkable feature about her role in the punk movement films overleaf. of Beatlemania. the world, hacking and manipulating See Neville Smith season above. entertainment magazine in the North, Hebrew people. Bronte200. about the limits of female subordination. We are also screening ROH Live/ whatever, whomever and whenever and the film will be introduced by The Nutcracker as part of our Selected by HOME staff as pick of required. member of The Skinny team. Christmas season, see overleaf. the year. World Factory PUSH also offers great opportunities METIS: Zoë Svendsen and Simon for artists and creatives to meet theatre Daw presents push industry professionals, share ideas and WORLD FACTORY inspirations and develop skills across DIRECTED BY ZOË SVENDSEN festival a broad range of topics. There are a AND SIMON DAW range of workshops and events to get involved in, covering everything from Wed 7 – Sat 10 Dec 2017 funding for your short film, to finding Tickets £20 (concs available) your voice, surviving the Edinburgh Made in China. Sold in Britain. Worn . Fringe Festival and more. So, gather by you. Riffing on our awareness up your friends and get ready to of mass production and vulture experience some of the best creative capitalism, you are invited to take Sat 14 – work being produced on your doorstep. your seat and play a provocative PUSH 2017 is supported by Auto game – where you and your six Sat 28 Jan Dolly West’s Kitchen Trader. teammates run a clothing factory in China. But which card will you PUSH is our annual celebration of homemcr.org/PUSH-2017 Manchester School of Theatre draw? Will ethics matter or will creative talent in the North West. OPPORTUNITY/ CALL FOR presents profits always come first? In the rag Over two weeks, we’ll be dedicating PROPOSALS: CREATIVE DOLLY WEST’S KITCHEN trade, can anyone ever win? our stages, screens and public INTERVENTIONS homemcr.org/world-factory spaces to showcasing some of the Thu 1 – Sat 3 Dec most exciting film, theatre and visual Interested in showing our cinema Tickets £10 full / £6 concs art to come from local talent around audiences something a bit different As World War II rages across Europe, TEAM TICKET DEAL the region. during PUSH? We’re looking to Fancy playing World Factory programme a series of creative in Donegal there is another war closer The varied programme means you with your friends? Get a team interventions to take place before our to home. In Dolly West’s kitchen, her could find yourself immersed in the of six people together and regular programme of film screenings family have their own conflicts to face world of Franz Kafka, channeling your save £2 per ticket. Tickets throughout the festival. with the arrival of allied troops across inner Madonna, becoming the star of must be purchased together the border in Derry. War changes a spoken word performance, or being All art forms, styles and genres are (subject to availability). everything. Its tragedies, its survivals… transported to a Greek island amid a welcome, but interventions must be no the history of the West family will be refugee crisis. longer than 5 minutes in duration, and changed forever. must be suitable for the certificate of Event/ Don’t miss our Participatory the film they will accompany. Theatre: Politics & Ethics workshop Want to take part? Email led by World Factory director WOW! Said The Owl [email protected] by Zoë Svendsen on Fri 9 Dec. See 18:00 on Wed 14 Dec. Creatives section for more details.

Box of Tricks presents Narvik NARVIK A NEW PLAY WITH SONGS BY LIZZIE NUNNERY Tue 31 Jan – Sat 4 Feb Tickets £12 (concs available) Don’t miss our festive theatre Present day, Liverpool. All alone, throughout December. For an old man falls in a basement and families, we present an loses consciousness. World War Two, adaptation of much-loved . A young sailor full of hope and children’s book WOW! Said the courage falls in love. Narvik tells the Owl, and – strictly for grownups story of a couple pulled together and – Manchester’s own David Hoyle torn apart as the events of one summer presents a Christmas cabaret, ripple across an ocean of time. Yule Be Sorry. homemcr.org/narvik See Driving HOME for Christmas overleaf for more details.

Now Is The Moment We Learn Hope, 2017

JMK DIRECTOR’S GROUP DEC BRING ART CREATIVES MEETING PLAYREADING Tue 6 Dec, 18:00 THE Free, booking required Fri 2 Dec, 11:00 In this month’s meeting, new joint Fri 13 Jan, 11:00 regional co-ordinator for the JMK Trust FAMILY Tickets £5 (refreshments and Sam Potter joins us to lead a session scripts included) on a director’s approach to staging new Read and discuss plays as a group versions of classic plays. in our fun, informal Playreading homemcr.org/jmk sessions. Open to all, no experience PARTICIPATORY THEATRE: necessary. In December, we’ll POLITICS & ETHICS be reading ’ A Christmas Carol. Visit the website for Fri 9 Dec, 17:00 confirmation of January’s title. Free, booking required FILM/ SAFETY LAST! (U) homemcr.org/playreading Interested in making theatre involving Sat 28 Jan, 11:00 (Relaxed) audience participation? In this session, Sun 29 Jan, 11:00 World Factory director Zoë Svendsen Dirs Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor/US 1923/74 talks about her work and the ethical mins/Silent implications for audience experience in Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davies, Bill Strothers Rachel Maclean: Wot U :-) About? interactive theatre. A small-town optimist moves to the big homemcr.org/participatory-theatre city with hopes of proving himself to EXHIBITION/ RACHEL MACLEAN: HOME PROJECTS/ MARK HOME PROJECTS/ VICTORIA his sweetheart. But when he pretends WOT U :-) ABOUT? LEEMING: BEARDED BRUTES LUCAS: LAY OF THE LAND (AND FILMED UP to be the manager of the department OTHER SUCH MYTHS) store he is working in as a sales Until Sun 8 Jan Until Sun 22 Jan Fri 2 Dec, 18:20 clerk, he must carry out a dangerous Main Gallery Granada Foundation Galleries 1 & 2 Fri 27 Jan – Sun 2 Apr £5.50 full/ £4 concs publicity stunt to keep his ruse going. Curated by Bren O’Callaghan and Bearded Brutes is a collection of Granada Foundation Galleries Discover the short films being produced WORKSHOP/ THE ART OF Visit our website for more information Sarah Perks vivid photographic portraits bursting 1 & 2 by talented people in our region at our DIGITAL MARKETING on our relaxed screenings A major solo exhibition of entirely with colour, sparkle and, perhaps A new project and exhibition regular showcase screening, Filmed Up. homemcr.org/accessibility unsurprisingly, beards. Mark Leeming’s investigating connections between Tue 17 Jan, 18:30 new work in large format print, film OPPORTUNITY/ SCREEN YOUR and sculpture by acclaimed Scottish labour of love offers an enjoyable, gender and geographical place. This £7 full / £6 concs (PUSH Festival parent & baby Screenings SHORT FILM AT HOME artist Rachel Maclean, who will offbeat insight into juxtapositions of series of photographic works is the ticket offer available) Parents, grandparents and carers of represent Scotland at the 2017 Venice modern masculinity. outcome of Victoria Lucas’ research Submission deadline Are you an artist or creative children under 12 months can enjoy Biennale. Maclean uses green screen excursion across the Californian Desert Thu 26 Jan, 17:00 practitioner looking for time and cost films in a relaxed environment with their We are grateful to Klein Imaging for techniques and the fairytale genre to in 2015. Digitally rendered images Are you a North West-based filmmaker effective ways to manage your existing babies. Not open to those attending supporting the exhibition print and examine the murky boundary between re-present a cluster of giant boulders with a short film to share? Why not online presence? Join Sian Ediss, without babies under 12 months. framing production for Bearded Brutes. childhood and adulthood, resulting in as an imaginary site for potential Digital Marketing Manager at Pixel8, homemcr.org/mark-leeming submit it for consideration to Filmed For film details visit an unsettling foray into a netherland subversive happenings. Up? There is no submission fee and we who’ll share practical tools and tips for homemcr.org/accessibility reminiscent of the candy coloured Co-commissioned and curated by Mark accept films under 20 minutes, old or managing your creative brand online palette of children’s television. Mark Leeming: Bearded Brutes Devereux Projects. new, of any genre. when you’re short of time and . homemcr.org/rachel-maclean homemcr.org/victoria-lucas homemcr.org/filmedup homemcr.org/digiskills HOME Digital is in association with Join us for the preview MOTHERS WHO MAKE BSL LED GALLERY TOUR Preview/ Virgin Media Business. The Princess Bride, 1987 of Lay of the Land (and other such Mon 5 Dec, 10:30 Sat 3 Dec, 15:00 myths) on Fri 27 Jan from 18:00. SHOW & TELL JAN 2017 This Christmas, we present Free, booking required Free, booking required Sat 21 Jan, 16:00 a whole bundle of festive Join Art and Design Historian, Jennifer Victoria Lucas: Lay Of The Land Mothers Who Make is a monthly family fun in the form of films Little for a tour of Rachel Maclean’s (And Other Such Myths) creative peer support group for Free, booking required including The Princess Bride, exhibition. The tour will be led solely in mothers who are artists, writers, Discover Manchester’s creative scene the Movie and British Sign Language with no spoken actors, dancers, filmmakers and as artists, designers and makers talk Miracle on 34th Street, and English. photographers – professional or about their practice, projects or sources our theatre adaptation of otherwise! Every kind of maker is of inspiration in five minutes flat. much-loved children’s book, welcome, and every kind of mother. Don’t miss I’m Too Happy, a season Speakers include artists Connor Collins WOW! Said the Owl. Feel free to bring along your children, of films curated by Rachel Maclean, and Naomi Kendricks, and filmmaker See Driving HOME for of any age. taking place until Tue 13 Dec. See film James Kennedy with more to be Christmas overleaf for more seasons overleaf for details. homemcr.org/mothers-who-make announced soon! details. homemcr.org/show-tell driving home for christmas The season to be jolly is upon us and we’re celebrating by bringing you more ROH LIVE/ THE NUTCRACKER festive delights than you can shake a candy cane at. There’s no place like HOME THE DARK CRYSTAL (PG) LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (PG) (LIVE) this Christmas! #HoHoHOME Sat 10 Dec, 12:45 Wed 14 Dec, 20:40 Little Angel Theatre presents Dirs Jim Henson, Frank Oz/US 1982/93 mins Dir Frank Oz/US 1986/94 mins Thu 8 Dec, 19:15 THEATRE/ WOW! SAID THE OWL Jim Henson, Kathryn Mullen, Frank Oz Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Levi Stubbs, Vincent ’s glorious production A Very 80s Gardenia, On another planet in the distant past, of The Nutcracker, created by Peter Wed 14 – Fri 30 Dec Christmas a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find A singing plant, a daring hero, a sweet Wright in 1984, is the production Fri 16 Dec, 10:30 (Relaxed the missing shard of a magical crystal, girl and a demented dentist. This par excellence of an all-time ballet performance) . and so restore order to his world. A Jim comedy musical about a nerdy florist favourite, and the quintessential Tickets £8 adult/ £6 child (BIG Henson gem. who finds his chance for success and Christmas experience. Family Card discount available) romance with the help of a giant man- This Christmas, explore the wow-world Fri 9 – Thu eating plant demands to be seen. of colours with a curious little owl who is 22 Dec determined to stay awake to see what day light brings. The acclaimed children’s book This is not a Christmas season. It’s an by award-winning author Tim Hopgood is 80s season. From big hair and dodgy brought to life through a blend of beautiful fashion to the films that defined a story-telling, puppetry and music. Directed generation, the 80s were brilliant. by Joy Haynes, this show will delight and So, this festive period we present a EVENT/ ENCHANTMENT UNDER SANTA CLAUS THE MOVIE (U) FILM/ MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (U) excite children aged 2-5yrs. selection of titles loved by children THE SEA DISCO and adults, then and now, which after Sun 11 Dec, 15:50 THE THING (18) Fri 16 Dec, 18:10 homemcr.org/wow-said-the-owl Fri 9 Dec, 20:00 – Late Dir George Seaton/US 1947/96 mins 30 years, still have a watchability that Thu 22 Dec, 17:50 Join us for a free multi-sensory access Dir Jeannot Szwarc/US 1985/108 mins Fri 16 Dec, 20:30 Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O’Hara, Natalie Wood a lot of today’s low-risk blockbusters Free workshop at 11:45 on Fri 16 Dec. Dudley Moore, , David Huddleston Dir John Carpenter/US 1982/109 mins When Kris Kringle, a department store just don’t have – enjoy! Inspired by our Very 80s Christmas Kurt Russell, A. Wilford Brimley, T. K. Carter, David Santa, is declared insane, and put on launch feature, we get our Christmas The delightful story of a master toymaker Clennon Yule Be Sorry - photograph by Tristram Kenton homemcr.org/80s-christmas party on with an ‘Enchantment Under who discovers a magical kingdom of Kurt Russell stars as one of a crew trial, everyone’s faith is put to the test elves at the North Pole, where he is as young and old alike face the age-old Curated by Jeni Hall, HOME Programme The Sea’ disco, circa 1955... and 1985. of scientists on an isolated Antarctic entrusted with special powers to become question: Do you believe in Santa Claus? Administrator: Film, and 80s fan. research site who discover a spaceship Join us in the ground floor bar after Santa Claus! There he meets Patch, an buried beneath the ice, and becomes George Seaton’s enduring classic is an the film, freshly transformed into a eager-to-please elf who becomes mixed terrorised by the shape-changing irresistible seasonal fable. kitsch, underwater setting á la the up with a dastardly tycoon’s plans to monster that is housed within. 50s dance Marty McFly gatecrashes take over Christmas. to save his family’s future. Vintage 78 DJs will be in session embracing Rock n’ Roll, Doo wop and Rhythm and Blues records from the greatest artists David Hoyle, Bourgeois & Maurice of the day. Until lightning strikes the and Jonny Woo presents clock tower at 10:04 that is, when we THEATRE/ YULE BE SORRY – A flip things into the 80s with help from FILM/ IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (U) CHRISTMAS CABARET Pop Curious? club night who will spin THE PRINCESS BRIDE (PG) BACK TO THE FUTURE (PG) us tunes from Madonna, Duran Duran SCROOGED (PG) Fri 16 Dec – Sat 24 Dec Fri 16 Dec, 20:00 and more. Sat 17 Dec, 11:00 (relaxed) Dir Frank Capra/US 1948/131 mins Tickets £15 (concs available) Fri 9 Dec, 18:00 Mon 12 Dec, 20:40 Sun 18 Dec, 11:00 , Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore Post-drag, post-gender, avant-garde Dir Robert Zemeckis/US 1985/116 mins Our undersea bar will be serving 80s Wed 21 Dec, 18:00 Mon 19 Dec, 20:40 This firm festive favourite from Oscar- Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson cocktails and authentic diner food to Dir Richard Donner/US 1988/101 mins legend, Manchester’s own David Hoyle Dir Rob Reiner/US 1987/99 mins winning director Frank Capra is a All-American teenager Marty McFly is keep revellers fuelled and air-guitaring , Karen Allen, John Forsythe presents an unmissable evening of high Cary Elwes, Chris Sarandon, Mandy Patinkin, genuinely tender and enduring piece of mistakenly sent back in time to 1955 with gusto. We encourage time comedy, sound, vision, paint and song. This comedy take on the classic Charles Christopher Guest, Robin Wright, yuletide cinema. by his eccentric scientist friend, Doc For this special, festive performance travellers, mer-creatures and crimped Dickens novel sees television executive A grandfather reads his sick grandson Brown. During his trip, Marty meets his David is joined by London’s award- fashionistas to join us for the most Francis Xavier Cross visited by a story of swashbuckling swordsmen, teenaged parents-to-be, and is soon in winning cabaret stars Bourgeois & colourful shindig of the Christmas from the past, giving him the chance dread pirates and true love in this a race against time to make sure they Maurice and Jonny Woo. A dynamic calendar! And yes…there’ll also be a to mend his selfish ways. A classic warm and funny fairytale. fall in love as fate intended – all so real-life DeLorean Time Machine here Christmas story starring Bill Murray in and debauched must-see. that he can get “back to the future”. from 12:00 ‘til 01:00. one of his early comedic roles. homemcr.org/yule-be-sorry