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BOX OFFICE 2017 0116 242 2800 phoenix.org.uk APR CINEMA / art / caFÉ BAR THE HANDMAIDEN Fri 28 Apr – Thu 4 May THIS MONTH — EXHIBITION: NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED Explore the conflict between copyright and culture in the digital age New films — THE SENSE OF AN ENDING ELLE ACTING FOR THEIR FINEST FILM BASICS Learn what it takes PERSONAL SHOPPER to be on the big screen APRIL HIGHLIGHTS Box Office242 2800 0116 — FILM / THEIR FINEST StagE ON SCREEN / TWELFTH NIGHT Book Online — www.phoenix.org.uk LEARN / ACTING FOR FILM BASICS FAMILY / BEAUTY AND THE BEAST art / KIDS GET CREATIVE / NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED REAL LIFE GIFS WORKSHOP COMING NEXT MONTH Available as Silver Screenings – see p12 3 ALIEN: COVENANT MINDHORN THE ZOOKEEPER’s wife 2 – WELCOME March segues into April, heralding the glories of spring – busy birds, beautiful blossom, and tiddly tadpoles make even the hardest heart feel joyful. GET MORE OUT Now the evenings are lighter, we all feel more like getting out and about, and what better place to OF PHOENIX WITH go than Phoenix? MEMBERSHIP & Our new exhibition, No Copyright Infringement LOYALTY Intended, is a fascinating – and immensely relevant – look at how copyright is being affected by data sharing in the digital age. Join us for the launch on Fri 7 Apr (p4). We’ve got more short courses coming up, including Acting for Film Basics and Hardy on Screen (p5); all our tutors are experienced film industry professionals. Book your place online or at Box Office now. With films from 11 countries, there’s plenty to delight fans of world cinema. Look out for French Member Card £40 star Isabelle Huppert in the intensely provocative Elle (p6); stark Russian satire The Student (p10); and The Handmaiden, an erotic thriller from South Korea (p11). 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Made possible with the support of: Loyalty Card Free Art at PHOENIX Box Office242 2800 0116 — NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED Fri 7 Apr – Sun 21 May Cube Gallery, Free Exhibition launch: Fri 7 Apr, 6pm, all welcome No Copyright Infringement Intended explores the relationship between copyright and culture in the digital age, Book Online — www.phoenix.org.uk investigating how the concept of ownership and authorship is evolving and coming into conflict with outdated copyright and intellectual property laws. For the many people now mass sharing, copying and remixing seems like a natural form of self expression. Rather than embracing this change and using it to their advantage, rights holders often resort to reinforcing PANEL DISCUSSION: outdated laws − penalising those COPYRIGHT AS FRAME who copy − and placing barriers AND PRISON − A PUBLIC on technology’s ability to share CONVERSATION information and content freely. Fri 28 Apr, 6.30pm – 8.30pm A group exhibition featuring Alongside our exhibition No eight national and international Copyright Infringement Intended, artists working across a range this discussion will highlight the CURATOR’S TOUR of creative practices, it highlights disruptive power of technological Thu 11 May the ongoing tension between innovation on culture and copyright. 1pm – 2pm and 6pm – 7pm production and copyright, considers the new artistic Using the works within the exhibition Join No Copyright Infringement possibilities created through as a starting point, a panel including Intended curator Antonio Roberts this tension and suggests new artists and copyright experts will for a guided tour of the exhibition, ways forward for artists, rights discuss how emerging technologies followed by a chance to ask holders and the wider creative are shaping creative processes, how questions about the show. The community. (perceptions of) copyright enable tour will be preceded by a short and inhibit those technologically- presentation called Ctrl + C, looking Curated by Antonio Roberts, enabled processes and the at the one-way system of cultural a new media artist and curator appropriateness of appropriation. appropriation by corporations. Available as Silver Screenings – see p12 based in Birmingham. Kindly supported by Arts Council This event is free − book via The tour is free to attend − 5 England. our website. no booking necessary. 4 – LEARN at PHOENIX Visit our website to find out more and book online. THIS MONTH ACTING FOR FILM BASICS Wednesdays, 5 Apr – 26 Apr (4 sessions) 7pm – 8.30pm Price: £48 / £40 conc. A practical guide to the skills and techniques specific to film acting. No experience necessary! FILM SCHOOL HARDY ON SCREEN Tuesdays, 2 May – 20 Jun Thursdays, 6 Apr – 27 Apr (8 sessions) (4 sessions) 7pm – 9pm 7pm – 8.30pm Price: £96 / £80 conc. Price: £50 / £42 conc. (£48 / £40 conc. for MyPhoenix A practical introduction to Members & Friends) filmmaking, taking you step by step from pre-production planning Thomas Hardy’s works continue to through to the final edit of your film. resonate with modern audiences. Join us for a visual tour through his life and work, on screen and FILM FESTIVALS FOR beyond. INDIE FILMMAKERS BOOK TO FILM 2: Sat 26 Aug THE SEQUEL 10.30am – 4pm Fridays, 8 Sep – 13 Oct KEN LOACH Price: £16 (6 sessions) Sat 8 Apr 2pm – 3.30pm 10.30am – 4pm We dive into the world of film Price: £75 / £63 conc. Price: £16 festivals, and take a look at how (£72 / £60 conc. for MyPhoenix to find the right ones to enter, Members & Friends) We take a closer look at Loach’s how to build relationships and career, spanning 50 years. The reputation, and how to deal with Join us as we consider six more director of Cathy Come Home the word ‘no’. An essential overview subjects of big screen adaptation, and I, Daniel Blake, he’s known for filmmakers, with industry tips including Graham Greene, graphic for his hard hitting politics. for getting your film selected. novels and diaries. CONTINUED FROM LAST MONTH THE LOST CITY OF Z 15 Fri 24 Mar – Thu 6 Apr Dir: James Gray Cast: Charlie Hunnam ELLE 18 USA 2016, 2hrs 21mins Fri 7 – Thu 13 Apr Box Office242 2800 0116 — Dir: Paul Verhoeven An enthralling true story of Cast: Isabelle Huppert obsession, based on the France/Germany 2016, best-selling book by David Grant. 2hrs 10mins, subtitled At the dawn of the 20th century, British explorer Percy Fawcett Verhoeven’s latest art-house (Hunnam) voyages into the provocation has been nominated Amazon in search of a lost city for a host of awards, including that he believes was home to BAFTA and Oscar nominations for an ancient civilisation. Isabelle Huppert’s stunning performance as Michèle, a TRESPASS successful businesswoman on the trail of the unknown man who raped Book Online — www.phoenix.org.uk AGAINST US 15 her. Refusing to involve the police, Fri 31 Mar – Thu 6 Apr instead Michèle purchases a hatchet Dir: Adam Smith and spends time at a gun range. sense of humour which makes Cast: Michael Fassbender, But this is far from a simple for uncomfortable viewing and Brendan Gleeson rape-revenge story. Elle is complex, demands to be debated long after UK 2016, 1hr 49mins confrontational, with a jet-black the credits have rolled. Colby Cutler (Gleeson) is the tracksuit-clad bullying patriarch of the Cutler brood, who live in a field outside Gloucester and revel in outlaw pursuits of joyriding and robbery. Colby’s eldest son Chad (Fassbender) has ideas of getting his young family out, but Colby will do anything PERSONAL SHOPPER 15 to stop him from leaving. Fri 7 – Thu 13 Apr Dir: Olivier Assayas Cast: Kristen Stewart FREE FIRE 15 France/Germany 2016, Fri 31 Mar – Thu 13 Apr 1hr 45mins, subtitled (parts) Dir: Ben Wheatley Cast: Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy Olivier Assayas’s (Clouds of Sils France/UK 2016, 1hr 30mins Maria) new film is a heady blend of ghost story and mystery thriller. Boston, 1978 and Justine (Larson) Maureen is a young American has brokered an arms deal with woman employed as a personal the IRA. When the parties and shopper in Paris, working for a their henchmen meet in an ghastly celebrity. But she is also abandoned warehouse for the a medium, waiting for a sign from handover, what should be a her twin brother’s spirit that he is simple transaction turns into an at peace following his death in the insane shoot-out. A gloriously city. When she begins to receive Available as Silver Screenings – see p12 OTT and darkly comic action film text messages from an unknown from Ben Wheatley (High-Rise). number, is it the sign she’s been 7 waiting for, or something darker 6 – and dangerous? GoodFELLAS 18 AQUARIUS 18 Fri 7 Apr, 8.20pm Fri 14 – Thu 20 Apr Dir: Martin Scorsese Dir: Kleber Mendonça Filho Cast: Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci Cast: Sonia Braga USA 1990, 2hrs 25mins Brazil 2016, 2hrs 26mins, subtitled “As far back as I can remember, 65 year-old widow Clara is the last I always wanted to be a gangster.” remaining occupant of her old A bonafide classic, Scorsese’s crime seaside apartment building, the epic is based on the true-story of ‘Aquarius’.