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New films — THE LOVE WITCH Fri 10 – Sun 12 Mar VICEROY’S HOUSE FREE FIRE THE LOST CITY OF Z IT’S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD

THIS MONTH — WHERE SHAPES COME FROM Explore how science translates nature, on an atomic scale DIY HOLOGRAM WORKSHOP Free weekend drop-in activity for families 2 – 3 Available as Silver Screenings – see p7 Book Online — www.phoenix.org.uk Box Office — 0116 242 2800 art / THE SEN SE OFANEND ING Festival /SENtient film /fences COMING nextmonth HIGHLIGHTS March Visible itsaudbytes Their FI NEST F stage onscreen/ H EDDA GABLER EVNT /ZIGGY AMIL Y /LEGOBATMAN STARDUST ELLE WELCOME

An old Phoenix proverb states that when the golden daffodils are resplendent and the golden statuettes GET MORE OUT have been won, spring is just around the corner. March may mean the end of the awards season, but OF PHOENIX WITH an abundance of incredible cinema still abounds. MEMBERSHIP & We’ve crammed an incredible 43 films into our LOYALTY programme this month! Highlights include Gurinder Chadha’s historical drama Viceroy’s House (p10), set in 1947 during the partition of India and starring MY PHOENIX MEMBERS Hugh Bonneville as Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy; Hidden Figures (p11), which tells the & FRIENDS GET: inspirational story of the women behind America’s space programme in the 1960s; and The Lost City of Z (p13), a spectacular biopic of intrepid Amazon • 2 free tickets explorer Percy Fawcett. • £1 off cinema and Stage on World cinema fans should look out for The Salesman (p13), from award winning Iranian director Screen tickets Asghar Farhadi. We’ve got another four films in our Japanese season (p6), and we’re hosting the • 10% off food and drink in Leicester Asian Film Festival (p4), from 16–19 Mar. our Café Bar

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Bazodee OUR artificial future /*SENTIENT Film Festival*/ Tue 21 – Sun 26 Mar

Sentience is our ability to perceive, yet it can be difficult to comprehend. Explore the beauty, complexity and horrors of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in cinema at this festival curated and delivered by DMU students, bringing together film, science and the examination of the human condition. You might even question who ‘you’ are... Ex Machina

METROPOLIS WITH LIVE EX MACHINA 15 2001: A SPACE ACCOMPANIMENT PG Thu 23 Mar, 8.15pm ODYSSEY U Wed 22 Mar, 7pm Sun 26 Mar, 12pm Venue: St Mary de Castro church “To erase the line between man Tickets £6 and machine is to obscure the line HAL 9000 re-joins the ‘Phoenix between men and gods.” system’ for a Lazy Sunday* screening A silent classic, heralded as the A computer programmer learns of Stanley Kubrick’s era-defining beginning of cinema’s fascination that he has been chosen to be the sci-fi masterpiece. The film will be with AI. Now in its 90th anniversary human component in a Turing test preceded by a short introduction year, we’re screening Fritz Lang’s to determine the capabilities and from the National Space Centre’s epic science-fiction drama in the consciousness of a beautiful robot. Dr Tamela Maciel. Remember, unique gothic setting of Leicester’s Alex Garland’s critically acclaimed Hal is watching you... St Mary de Castro church, with live debut explores the potential and * Lazy Sunday offer: Enjoy the film and a music accompaniment from the dangers of AI. brunch before the screening for brilliant Stephen Horne. In £13.95/£12.40 conc. See website for T&Cs. conjunction with DMU Local.

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PHOENIX FAMILY FUN Great films for families every weekend.

Silver Screenings

Matinee screenings for just GREAT PRICES £5.50 including refreshments.

Family tickets just £5 Toni Erdmann 15 per person* Wed 1 Mar, 11am Family ticket + popcorn & drink: £6.50 per Driving Miss Daisy U person ‡ Wed 8 Mar, 10.30am Open to all, screening in partnership with The University of the Third Age (U3A)

Viceroy’s House 12A Wed 15 Mar, 11am

Fences 12A Wed 22 Mar, 11am

Denial 12A Wed 29 Mar, 11am

BALLERINA U THE LEGO Sat 4 – Sun 5 Mar BATMAN MOVIE U France/Canada 2016, 1hr 29mins Sat 11 & Sun 12, Sat 18 & Sun Access Cinema 19, Sat 25 & Sun 26 Mar Another chance to see this charming Denmark/USA 2017, 1hr 44mins DESCRIPTIVE SUBTITLES animation set in 19th century France. Orphan Félicie dreams of becoming The caped crusader returns… Viceroy’s House 12A a ballerina, so she hatches a plan to in Lego form. Surprise, surprise Tue 7 Mar, 6pm escape the orphanage and heads − the Joker’s planning another to the bright lights of Paris. hostile takeover of Gotham City. Fences 12A Can Batman save the day? Tue 21 Mar, 5pm

KIDS GET CREATIVE Denial 12A Tue 28 Mar, 6.10pm DIY HOLOGRAMS WORKSHOP Sat 11 March, 12pm – 3pm AUDIO DESCRIBED

Find out how to turn YouTube transform old plastic into Fences 12A videos into holograms and make a hologram through a simple Fri 17 Mar, 1pm your own 3D images in this fun etching process. family workshop. Drop in, no booking required. AUTISM FRIENDLY We’ll show you how to turn Suitable for ages 3-10. Children your smartphone or tablet into must be accompanied by The Lego a holographic projector and an adult. Batman Movie U Sat 11 Mar, 10.30am * Valid for all children and up to two adults in any one group. 3D films cost an additional £1.50 (3D glasses included) ‡ Available for family films at weekends and school holidays, not available online. MARCH MONDAY 06 SUNDAY 12 13:00 Viceroy’s House 10:45 The Lego Batman Movie 13:30 It’s Only the End of the World 12:00 Lazy Sunday: Viceroy’s House 15:45 Viceroy’s House 14:30 Railways Remembered 2017 17:00 Moonlight 14:40 Viceroy’s House 18:10 Viceroy’s House 17:15 Viceroy’s House 19:30 Free Fire Preview + Q&A 18:00 The Love Witch 20:30 Viceroy’s House 19:45 Hidden Figures 20:20 Viceroy’s House TUESDAY 07 Wednesday 01 MONDAY 13 13:00 Viceroy’s House 11:00 Toni Erdmann 13:30 It’s Only the End of the World 13:00 Viceroy’s House 14:00 Moonlight 15:30 Viceroy’s House 13:30 Hidden Figures 14:30 Toni Erdmann 15:45 Moonlight 15:20 Viceroy’s House 17:30 Moonlight 18:00 Viceroy’s House – Desc Subs 17:40 Viceroy’s House 18:00 20th Century Women 18:15 It’s Only the End of the World 18:10 Christine 20:00 Toni Erdmann 20:30 Viceroy’s House 20:00 Viceroy’s House 20:30 Moonlight 20:40 Ziggy Stardust and the 20:40 Hidden Figures Spiders from Mars THURSDAY 02 TUESDAY 14 WEDNESDAY 08 13:45 Moonlight 13:00 Viceroy’s House 14:30 20th Century Women 10:30 Driving Miss Daisy 13:30 Christine 16:30 Moonlight 12:45 Viceroy’s House 17:00 Viceroy’s House 17:00 Toni Erdmann 14:00 Moonlight 17:15 Hidden Figures 19:00 NT Live: Saint Joan 15:10 Viceroy’s House 19:30 NT Live: Hedda Gabler 20:15 Moonlight 17:15 It’s Only the End of the World 20:00 Viceroy’s House 17:30 Viceroy’s House FRIDAY 03 19:30 Moonlight 19:50 Viceroy’s House WEDNESDAY 15 12:00 Moonlight 11:00 Viceroy’s House 14:00 Viceroy’s House 13:30 Hidden Figures 14:30 It’s Only the End of the World THURSDAY 09 14:30 Viceroy’s House 17:15 Viceroy’s House 14:00 Viceroy’s House 17:00 Viceroy’s House 18:00 Visible Bits Audible Bytes 15:30 Moonlight 17:00 Christine 19:45 Viceroy’s House 16:30 Viceroy’s House 19:30 Hidden Figures 20:15 Tonite Let’s All Make Love 18:00 It’s Only the End of the World 19:45 Viceroy’s House in Leicester 19:00 NT Live: Hedda Gabler 20:10 Viceroy’s House THURSDAY 16 SATURDAY 04 FRIDAY 10 14:00 Viceroy’s House 10:45 Ballerina 14:30 Hidden Figures 11:00 Viceroy’s House 14:30 Hidden Figures 16:30 Viceroy’s House 13:00 Viceroy’s House 15:30 Viceroy’s House 17:15 Christine 13:20 Moonlight 17:20 The Love Witch 19:00 Wrong Side Raju 15:45 It’s Only the End of the World 18:10 Viceroy’s House 19:45 Viceroy’s House 16:00 Viceroy’s House 20:00 Hidden Figures 18:00 A Silent Voice 20:30 Viceroy’s House 19:00 Viceroy’s House + Director Q&A FRIDAY 17 20:30 Moonlight SATURDAY 11 13:00 Fences – Audio Desc SUNDAY 05 15:30 The Founder 10:30 The Lego Batman Movie 16:00 The Fits – Autism Friendly 18:00 You Are My Sunday 10:45 Ballerina 11:00 The Lego Batman Movie 18:10 Certain Women 12:00 Lazy Sunday: Viceroy’s House 12:40 Hidden Figures 20:30 Mantostaan 12:45 Moonlight 13:15 Viceroy’s House 20:30 Fences 14:30 Viceroy’s House 15:20 Viceroy’s House 15:10 It’s Only the End of the World 15:40 Pale Moon 17:00 Viceroy’s House 17:40 Viceroy’s House 17:20 Moonlight 18:05 Hidden Figures 19:30 Viceroy’s House 20:00 Viceroy’s House 19:50 It’s Only the End of the World 20:45 The Love Witch SUNDAY 12 SAtURDAY 18 THURSDAY 23 WEDNESDAY 29

10:45 The Lego Batman Movie 13:00 The Founder 11:00 Denial 13:15 Certain Women 14:00 Fences 14:00 The Lost City of Z 13:20 Fences 15:30 Prevenge 15:15 The Salesman 15:40 The Fits 17:15 Certain Women 17:15 The Lost City of Z 16:30 Those Four Walls 17:30 The Founder 18:10 Denial 17:00 Mango Dreams 19:45 Fences 20:15 The Lost City of Z 17:30 The Founder 20:15 Ex Machina 20:30 Lady Maiko 19:30 Bazodee 20:00 Fences FRIDAY 24 THURSDAY 30

SUNDAY 19 13:10 Denial 14:00 The Lost City of Z 13:30 The Lost City of Z 15:30 Denial 11:15 The Lego Batman Movie 15:30 The Salesman 17:00 The Lost City of Z 12:00 Lazy Sunday: Fences 16:30 The Lost City of Z 18:10 The Salesman 14:00 Lipstick Under My Burkha 18:15 Mystery Film 20:00 The Lost City of Z 15:00 Bolshoi Ballet: 19:45 The Lost City of Z 20:45 Denial A Contemporary Evening 20:15 Her 17:30 The Fits 18:10 Certain Women Friday 31 19:20 Fences SATURDAY 25 20:30 The Founder 13:15 Free Fire 10:30 AI in Cinema 13:30 Trespass Against Us 11:15 The Lego Batman Movie 15:30 The Lost City of Z MONDAY 20 13:15 The Salesman 16:00 Free Fire 14:00 The Lost City of Z 18:15 Irreplaceable 13:00 Fences 16:00 Denial 18:30 Free Fire 13:30 The Founder 17:00 The Lost City of Z 20:30 Trespass Against Us 16:00 Certain Women 18:30 Double Bill The Terminator 20:45 Free Fire 16:00 Prevenge & Robocop 18:10 Certain Women 18:30 The Terminator 18:20 Prevenge 20:00 The Lost City of Z 20:20 The Founder 20:30 Robocop 20:30 Fences Key Access Cinema SUNDAY 26 Silver Screening TUESDAY 21 Stage on Screen 10:45 The Lego Batman Movie Course 13:00 Fences 12:00 Lazy Sunday: Sentient Film Festival 13:30 Certain Women 2001: A Space Odyssey Japan Touring Season 13:10 The Lost City of Z 16:00 Prevenge Leicester Asian Film Festival 17:00 Fences – Desc Subtitles 15:00 Denial 18:10 The Founder 16:45 The Lost City of Z 20:00 EOS: The Artist’s Garden 17:30 Denial – American Impressionism 19:45 The Salesman 20:40 Certain Women 19:50 The Lost City of Z

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11:00 Fences 13:00 Denial Phoenix 13:20 The Founder 13:30 The Lost City of Z 14:30 Fences 16:20 The Lost City of Z 15:50 Certain Women 18:10 Denial annual 18:10 A Stitch of Life 19:45 The Lost City of Z 18:15 Prevenge 20:30 The Salesman cinema pass 20:15 Fences 20:15 Certain Women TUESDAY 28 Watch a film at Phoenix and fill out a form at Box Office 13:00 The Lost City of Z before Fri 31 Mar, to enter 13:30 Denial 15:50 Denial our prize draw. 17:00 The Lost City of Z 18:10 Denial – Desc Subtitles T&Cs on our website 20:00 The Salesman 20:30 The Lost City of Z 10 – 11 Available as Silver Screenings – see p7 Book Online — www.phoenix.org.uk Box Office — 0116 242 2800 CONTINUED FROMLASTONTH raise Jamietobeagoodman. −attemptto handyman William occasional inputfrom mellow Julie, thethree women−with Abbie andJamie’s bestfriend punky photographertenant Jamie. 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Ben Wheatley’s (High-Rise) film telling the untold true story Drenched in the Technicolor of gloriously OTT and darkly comic of the African American women 1960s melodramas, it looks like action film previews at Phoenix mathematicians who were I Dream of Jeannie if it were made before its UK release. Boston, 1978 sequestered to Langley as the by Hammer studios 50 years ago. and Justine (Larson) has brokered space-race raged in the early ‘60s Elaine is the titular witch who arrives an arms deal with the IRA. When the and charged with getting a manned in a Californian town, casts sexual parties and their henchmen meet in flight to orbit Earth before the spells over the local men and an abandoned warehouse for the Russians. We follow three of the disposes of them when she’s had handover, what should be a simple women as they confront bigoted her way. Part psychodrama, part transaction turns into an insane co-workers at a time of high racial sexploitation and part feminist shoot-out. Ben Wheatley joins us for tension and fight for equal rights, reclamation of horror movie tropes, a Q&A after the preview screening recognition and respect. The Love Witch is a devilish delight. on Mon 6 Mar.

RAILWAYS CHRISTINE 15 THE FITS 12A REMEMBERED: Mon 13 – Thu 16 Mar Fri 17 – Sun 19 Mar STEAMING INTO Dir: Antonio Campos Dir: Anna Rose Holmer THE PAST Cast: Rebecca Hall, Michael C. Hall Cast: Royalty Hightower Sun 12 Mar, 2.30pm UK/USA 2016, 1hr 59mins USA 2015, 1hr 12mins Tickets £7.50 “If it bleeds it leads.” Somehow 11 year-old tomboy Toni trains at The pioneer cameramen of Victorian overlooked for Best Actress her brother’s boxing gym. Noticing times developed the mechanics of nominations during the awards local dance troupe ‘The Lionesses’ moving pictures by trial shootings at season, Rebecca Hall delivers a rehearsing in the studio next door places of predictable action − often mesmerising lead performance in and fascinated with their aggressive the local railway station! Railways Campos’ new film based on real dance style and easy confidence, and the cinema became inextricably events. 1970s, Sarasota, Florida and Toni begins to practice. As Toni linked, with priceless moving picture reporter Christine Chubbuck is befriends other new dancers and records of Britain’s railways from the struggling. Stuck at her local news tries to fit in, some of the girls begin birth of the cinema in 1896. This station, Christine is trapped to have mysterious seizures. Anna new and entertaining programme between her desire for journalistic Rose Holmer’s debut is a hypnotic of rare and classic archive films integrity and her boss’s demand for and dreamy film with a superb lead explores a treasure trove of history. ‘juicier’ stories. Pushed to the brink performance from newcomer Introduced by Rob Foxon of the by depression, work pressure and Royalty Hightower. Leicestershire Film Archive. unrequited love, Christine makes a shocking, tragic decision. 12 – 13 Available as Silver Screenings – see p7 Book Online — www.phoenix.org.uk Box Office — 0116 242 2800 of 2012’s Sightseers. gruesome deadpan humour fears, Prevenge shares the on Rosemary’s Baby andpregnancy bump-off? AdecidedlyBritishtake And whoisshereally tryingto But whyisRuthontherampage? of (admittedlypretty awful)people. murder –calmlydispatchingaseries child, Ruthisdrivento unborn on amission.Talking withher of Ruth,awidowedexpectantmum debut seeshertakeontheleadrole Alice Lowe’s darklyfunnydirectorial UK 2016,1hr27mins Cast: AliceLowe,Tom Davis Dir: AliceLowe M PR Troy’s stoicwifeRose)are electric. Washington Davis(as and Viola from the2010Broadway production, football player. Reprisingtheirroles son Cory, abuddingAmerican focuses hisresentment onhisyoung at hismissedopportunities,Troy Pittsburgh. Consumedbybitterness raising hisfamilyin1950s garbageman, baseball starturned (Washington) isa charismaticformer Pulitzer Prizewiningplay. Troy adaptation ofAugustWilson’s Denzel Washington’s powerful USA 2016,2hrs19mins Denzel Washington Davis, Cast: Viola Dir: DenzelWashington F FE ri 17 – Thu 23 M 23 17ri –Thu on 20 – Thu 23 M 23 –Thu 20 on NC EV ENG ES 12A E 15 ar ar American dream whateverthecost. as Kroc, willingtochasehis ‘founder’, MichaelKeatonisterrific Based onthelifeofMcDonalds outstrips thebrothers’ humbleplans. But hesoonfindshisambition restaurant sohejoinsthecompany. opportunity tofranchisethe and speedyservice,Rayseesan Richard) commitmenttogoodfood the owners’(brothers Mauriceand called McDonald’s. Impressed with receives abigorder from adiner milkshake-maker salesmanRayKroc 1954, andAmericantravelling USA 2016,1hr55mins Cast: MichaelKeaton Dir: JohnLeeHancock F TH knowingly lied. Holocaust didoccur andthatIrving task ofcategorically proving thatthe legal teamfacedthe unenviable is ontheaccused,Lipstadtandher in theUKwhere theburden ofproof suit againstLipstadt(Weisz). Filed −launchedalibel of NaziGermany Irving −aself-proclaimed scholar disrupting herspeakingengagements, Holocaust denierDavidIrving.After Lipstadt’s legalbattlewithinfamous American professor Deborah follows thedramatictruestoryof This powerfulcourtroom drama UK 2017,1hr49mins Cast: RachelWeisz, Tom Wilkinson Dir: MickJackson F DE ri 17 – Thu 23 M 23 17ri –Thu ri 24 – Thu 30 M 30 –Thu 24 ri E N F I A E OUND L 12A ar ar R 12A that deservestobecherished. thoughtful, deeplymovingcinema filmmaking, shecontinuestoproduce away from mainstream American work, stillwatersrundeep.Aworld teacher. AswithReichardt’s previous and Stewartananxiousnight-school a tensecampingtripwithherfamily Williams awifeon a difficult client, small-town lawyerstrugglingwith playsa set inMontana.Dern inatriptychoftales sublime form, andKristenStewarton Williams Michelle latest findsLauraDern, Kelly Reichardt’s (NightMoves) USA 2016,1hr47mins LauraDern Cast: MichelleWilliams, Dir: KellyReichardt F C ri 17 – Thu 23 M 23 17ri –Thu ERTA I N W O ar MEN 12A

THE SALESMAN 12A THE LOST CITY OF Z 15 Fri 24 – Thu 30 Mar Fri 24 Mar – Thu 6 Apr Dir: Asghar Farhadi Dir: James Gray Cast: Taraneh Alidoosti, Cast: Charlie Hunnam Shahab Hosseini USA 2016, 2hrs 21mins Iran/France 2016, 2hrs 4mins, subtitled James Gray returns with this stunning film based on the Multi award-winning Iranian director bestselling book by David Grant. Farhadi (A Separation) returns with At the dawn of the 20th century, a Hitchcockian revenge drama set in British explorer Percy Fawcett present-day Iran. Husband and wife (Hunnam) voyages into the Amazon Emad and Rana are in rehearsal for in search of an ancient lost city. a production of Arthur Miller’s Death Contending with hostile tribes, of a Salesman. Forced to move to deadly animals and the ridicule a new flat due to construction work, of the scientific establishment back one day Rana mistakenly lets in a home, Fawcett becomes obsessed stranger and is attacked. With his with proving his theory. An wife unwilling to involve the police, enthralling true story, it has the feel Emad becomes determined to seek of the classical adventures films of justice on his own. David Lean and John Huston.

MYSTERY FILM 18 TRESPASS AGAINST US 15 Irreplaceable 12A Fri 24 Mar, 6.15pm Fri 31 Mar – Thu 6 Apr Fri 31 Mar – Mon 3 Apr Tickets £3 Dir: Adam Smith Dir: Thomas Lilti Cast: Michael Fassbender, Cast: François Cluzet, Take a leap of faith and join us as we Brendan Gleeson Marianne Denicourt voyage into the unknown! Since UK 2016, 1hr 49mins France 2016, 1hr 43mins, subtitled starting our Mystery Film nights in 2015 we’ve shown a variety of The feature debut of award-winning For 30 years Doctor Jean-Pierre has brilliant cinema, including TV director Adam Smith, Trespass cared for everyone in his community, Christophe Barratier’s The Chorus, Against Us stars Brendan Gleeson where his no-nonsense attitude has Scorsese’s Mean Streets on 35mm, as Colby Cutler, the bullying endeared him to his patients. and New Zealand comedy Eagle Vs patriarch of the Cutler brood who Discovering that he has a serious Shark. No-one − and we mean live in a field outside Gloucester illness, Jean-Pierre reluctantly takes no-one − knows what we’re and revel in joyriding and robbery. on the help of newly qualified screening until the film begins, Colby’s eldest son Chad (Fassbender) doctor Nathalie. As she adjusts to but you can trust that it’ll be great. has ideas of getting his young family rural life and tries to ingratiate out, but Colby will do anything to herself with the locals, a mutual The Mystery Film may be any stop him from leaving. With typically respect builds between the two classification up to an 18 certificate. charismatic performances from hardworking doctors. A warm and As such, these screenings are for Gleeson and Fassbender, the excellent heartfelt third film from the director over-18s only. supporting cast includes Sean Harris, of Hippocrates. Lyndsey Marshal and Rory Kinnear. 14 – 15 Available as Silver Screenings – see p7 Book Online — www.phoenix.org.uk Box Office — 0116 242 2800 Sun 2Apr, 2.30pm Tue 21 Mar, 8pm – AmericanImpressionism The Artist’s Garden Exhibition onScreen Sun 9Apr, 4pm A Hero OfOurTime Sun 19Mar, 3pm A ContemporaryEvening The Bolshoitakeson C A CONTEMPORARY EVNING full listings. for website our Check screens. cinema our on exhibitions come alive and shows stage greatest S SCREEN STAGE ON Another chancetoseethis electrifying production. a boldnewchallenge. Thu 2M Thu Thu 14 M Thu (NT Live) (NT Live) (Bolshoi Ballet) version ofIbsen’s masterpiece. Patrick Marber’s sensational SAINT JOAN S HEDDA GABLER ee some of the world’s world’s the of some ee un 19un M omi ng ar, 7pm ar, 7.30pm ar, 3pm up BALLET BOLSHOI

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