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PG 12A A WRINKLE IN TIME Fri 20 – Mon 23 Apr USA 2018, 1hr 49mins – mysterious astral travellers Three the splendidly named Mrs Which, Mrs Whatsit and Mrs Who – help Charles on Meg and her brother for their father, their perilous search a new a scientist who discovered years five planet and travelled there ago, leaving his family behind. GHOSTBUSTERS Sat 28 – Sun 29 Apr USA 1984, 1hr 45mins The iconic ‘80s movie is back. A trio of former parapsychology professors and invent a device to capture contain ghosts, and decide to start a with a New York business providing service. unique paranormal removal Who ya gonna call? PG U FAMILY FAVOURITE: LABYRINTH Sat 14 – Sun 15 Apr UK/USA 1986, 1hr 41mins favourite is Jim family This month’s starring fantasy, classic Henson’s David Bowie – chosen by former member Ami. “I chose Phoenix staff this film because it was one of my favourites when I was young and love it too. I watch now my children it again and again and never get of it!” bored PETER RABBITPETER Fri 30 Mar – Sun 8 Apr UK/Australia/USA 2018, 1hr 35mins feud with long-standing Peter’s escalates as they Mr McGregor of Bea, compete for the affections the warm-hearted animal lover who A perfect Easter lives next door. holiday treat. FAMILY FUN FILM FESTIVALS FOR FOR FILM FESTIVALS INDIE FILMMAKERS Sat 25Aug, 10.30am – 4pm Price: £16 Keith filmmaker Join award-winning of Allott for an essential overview tips for film festivals, with industry getting your film selected. AN AUDIENCE WITH…: A HISTORY OF CINEMAGOING Tuesdays, Apr 17 – 8 May 8.30pm – 7pm Price: £50 / £45 conc / £40 Members , DVDs, Blu-ray… there many ways to watch films are but people still love to go to the take a closer look at cinema. We how and why. EDITING INDIE FOR FILMMAKERS Thursdays, 2 – 30 Aug 7pm – 8.30pm Price: £60 / £50 conc / £45 Members Learn how to get the most out of your film in the edit suite with this guide to the art of film editing, led include by tutor Keith Allott. Topics editing techniques, visual style, colour grading and mastering.

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COURSES SHORT BOX OFFICE BOOK ONLINE Available as Midweek Matinees – see p8 0116 242 2800 PHOENIX.ORG.UK 7 6 15 15 RED SPARROW RED Mon 9 – Thu Apr 12 Dir: Francis Lawrence Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton USA 2018, 2hrs 20mins Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and (Lawrence) an after she suffers uncertain future injury that ends her dancing career. School – in by the Sparrow Taken that teaches a covert organisation talented individuals to use their bodies as weapons – Dominika recruit becomes the most dangerous and is they have ever produced, sent on a mission that brings her conflict with the CIA. into direct A shockingly brutal, and sometimes not lurid, espionage thriller that’s for the faint hearted. SWEET COUNTRY Fri 6 – Thu Apr 12 Thornton Dir: Warwick Sam Neill Cast: Hamilton Morris, Australia 2017, 1hr 53mins ) (Samson & Delilah Thornton’s tells the beautiful and brutal film Aboriginal story of Sam (Morris), an on kindly man, who lives and works (Neill) ranch Smith’s Fred preacher After an in the Australian outback. cruel and incident involving Fred’s Sam neighbour Harry, ill-tempered on the and his wife find themselves harsh desert country, run across men pursued by a posse of local sheriff assembled by hard-nosed MyPhoenix Fletcher (Bryan Brown). Members and Friends tickets £5. 15 15 UNSANE Fri 6 – Mon 9 Apr Dir: Steven Soderbergh Juno Temple Foy, Cast: Claire USA 2018, 1hr 38mins new ) treads Foy (The Crown Claire in this twisted psychological ground acclaimed director thriller from Sawyer (Foy) Steven Soderbergh. believes she is being stalked and a therapist. Signing seeks help from up for a voluntary 24-hour stay in Behavioural the Highland Creek Sawyer finds her stay Centre, begin to extended when staff by Confronted question her sanity. fears, Sawyer begins her greatest to believe that her stalker is actually inside the facility. THE NILE HILTON THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT Mon 2 – Thu 5 Apr Saleh Dir: Tarik Mari Malek Fares, Cast: Fares Swe/Den/Ger/Fra 2017, 1hr 51mins, subtitled this award- Based on a true story, in the winning thriller takes place 2011 weeks leading up to the When a maid Egyptian revolution. 5-Star Nile at the witnesses a murder policeman Hilton Hotel, apathetic is called in. Dismissed as Noredin peers, a crime of passion by his continues to investigate Noredin and uncovers a web of corruption powerful elite; leading to Cairo’s a discovery which puts both his lives at risk. and the maid’s 15 PG THE THIRDTHE MURDER Fri 6 – Thu Apr 12 Koreeda Dir: Hirokazu Cast: Masaharu Fukuyama, Kôji Yakusho Japan 2017, 2hrs 5mins, subtitled Famous for his gentle family dramas like I Wishand Our Little Sister, has shifted gears for this Koreeda legal thriller that picked up six at the Japanese Academy awards with defending Tasked Awards. suspect Misumi, lawyer murder Shigemori seems to have taken on an unwinnable case – Misumi has confessed to the crime – already but as he digs deeper all Shigemori questions. Is Misumi more finds are guilty? And if not, why is he trying to take the blame? ISLE OFISLE DOGS Fri 30 Mar – Thu Apr 12 Anderson Dir: Wes Cast: Frances McDormand, Bill Murray Ken Watanabe, Germany/USA 2018, 1hr 41mins is back with another Anderson Wes la Fantastic immaculate animation à Mr Fox. In the not so distant future, an outbreak a Japanese city suffers all dogs of canine flu and banishes Atari, island. offshore to a remote is drawn to the boy, a 12 year-old pet, island in pursuit of his beloved of stray dogs and falls in with a pack his quest to help him on that agree to save his pet and escape the Isle of Dogs.

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15 18 WESTWOOD: PUNK, ACTIVIST ICON, Sat – Mon Apr 14 16 Dir: Lorna Tucker Cast: Vivienne Westwood UK 2018, 1hr 23mins Since igniting the punk movement with ex-partner and Sex Pistols’ Dame manager Malcolm McLaren, has been Vivienne Westwood 40 British fashion for over redefining for creating years and is responsible many of the most distinctive looks of our time. The film blends archive, beautifully crafted reconstruction, and insightful interviews with Vivienne’s fascinating network of collaborators, a from guiding us on her journey childhood in post-war Derbyshire to the runways of Paris and Milan. MYSTERY FILM 6.15pm Apr, Fri 13 voyage into the Join us as we film night. unknown with our mystery screening Since starting the monthly like titles in 2015 we’ve screened n and Les Choristes, 12 Angry Me . Run Lola Run and Song of the Sea screening Nobody knows what we’re until the film (including our staff) that we’ll begins, but you can trust deliver some brilliant cinema. any The Mystery Film may be 18 certificate. classification up to an for are As such, these screenings only. over-18s 12A 15 MY GENERATION Sat – Sun Apr 14 15 Dir: David Batty Cast: Michael Caine, David Bailey UK 2017, 1hr 24mins British film icon Michael Caine narrates and stars in this vivid and inspiring story of his personal London. 1960s journey through Based on personal accounts and footage, featuring stunning archive documentary this feature-length sees Caine travel back in time to talk to a host of stars – including the likes of the Beatles, Twiggy, Mary Quant, the David Bailey, Rolling Stones and David Hockney synonymous with the – who are swinging sixties. THE TOUCH THE Fri 13 – SunFri Apr 13 15 Dir: Ingmar Bergman Elliott Gould Cast: Bibi Andersson, 48mins Sweden/USA 1971, 1hr first Bergman’s Swedish maestro is the story English language feature young of a seemingly-contented marriage wife and mother whose affair. is disrupted by a passionate in a small Karin (Andersson) lives a prominent town with her husband, (Max von but stodgy surgeon is peaceful Sydow). Their marriage yearnsbut unexciting and Karin for Enter an American adventure. David Kovac Jewish archaeologist, (Gould), whose life and freedom intoxicating to Karin. are 15

– MELODY MAKERSMELODY + DIRECTOR Q&A 6pmSat Apr, 14 Dir: Leslie Ann Coles Canada/UK 2017, 1hr 37mins This new documentary chronicles the rise of music journalism from 1965-75, when Melody Maker magazine – a jazz musicians trade paper established in 1926 – transitioned into an internationally and roll “bible” for rock recognized fans and musicians alike. Featuring candid interviews with musicians and Melody Maker journalists, the insight into one of the film offers most dynamic periods in music in partnership Screening history. Leslie Ann Coles with DMU, director joins us for a Q&A after the film. 120 BEATS PER MINUTE PER BEATS 120 – Thu AprFri 13 19 Dir: Robin Campillo Biscayart Cast: Nahuel Pérez subtitled France 2017, 2hrs 23mins,  Winner Grand Jury prize at of the drama Camillo’s Cannes last year, in France. stormed box office the the city Paris in the early ‘90s, and mass is weighed down by the of HIV and AIDS. Amidst outbreak levels of the chaos and increasing of a group control, bureaucratic ACT UP young activists known as to increase lead a radical campaign the and understanding of awareness condition. In the midst of this, newcomer Nathan falls in love with leader. firebrand Sean – the group’s PG 15 PREVIEW JOURNEYMAN – Thu AprFri 13 19 Dir: Paddy Considine Cast: Paddy Considine, Jodie Whittaker UK 2017, 1hr 32mins Paddy Considine returns to the chair after his acclaimed director’s . After a 2011 debut, Tyrannosaur particularly brutal fight, champion boxer Matty Burton (Considine) collapses at home – a delayed to a devastating blow to reaction the head. Returning hospital a from man due to brain damage, different it is up to his wife (Whittaker) to help his life and reconnect him rebuild with his past. A powerful and deeply moving emotional drama with outstanding performances from both lead actors. MARY AND THE WITCH’S FLOWER 7.30pm Apr, 10 Tue Yonebayashi Dir: Hiromasa Cast: Hana Sugisaki subtitled Japan 2017, 1hr 45mins, – with recorded screening A preview anime – of this gorgeous introduction Ponoc, which was Studio from veteransfounded by Studio Ghibli and Yoshiaki Yonebayashi Hiromasa theNishimura. While spending Charlottesummer with her Great-Aunt finds a flowerin the countryside, Mary powersin the woods that has magical intoand transforms a little broomstick high one that flies, whisking her away, above the clouds, to Endor College – a school of magic. 15 MAKING IT ON AND SCREEN:OFF WORK, AND INCLUSION DIVERSITY IN UK FILM Thu 6.15pm Apr, 12 Event, 2hrs 15mins Free Who gets to ‘make it’ in the UK sector? How can creators, screen funders, businesses and cinema- on diversity goers encourage more The CAMEo our screens? and off Institute invites you to Research evening exploring diversity in the sector with the public UK screen Workforce launch of the BFI report Sector Diversity in the UK Screen of the documentary and a screening film The Acting Class (2017), followed by a Q&A with the film’s the from a representative directors, BFI and special guests. ONE CRAZY THING + DIRECTOR Q&A Mon 7.30pm 9 Apr, Dir: Amit Gupta Cast: Ray Panthaki, Daisy Bevan UK 2017, 1hr 34mins Leicester-born The new film from Amit Gupta (Resistance, director Jadoo). Jay (Panthaki) is a former hit career daytime TV star whose after a leaked sex bottom rock tape turned him into an internet scandal, sensation. Haunted by the works in Jay eschews fame and now But when he restaurant. his family’s – meets the girl of his dreams American student Hannah (Bevan) – Jay must find a way to tell her joins about his past. The director Q&A. us for a post-screening PG 15 15 PG PG PG

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Birds presence the change of have helped predict stormsseasons, the coming of and food chain. the rise of toxins in the have And once again, songbirds something to tell us. CERT TBC U A QUIET PLACE Fri 27 Apr – Thu 3 May Dir: John Krasinski Cast: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski USA 2018, 1hr 35mins “If they hear you, they hunt you.” A young family living in an isolated rural location must live in total silence for fear of alerting a that attacks mysterious threat at any sound. After an accident, the family face a deadly battle for survival as the monsters outside begin to close in. Masterfully your nerves in near- shredding silence, A Quiet Place opened to at the SXSW Festival rave reviews and is destined to be the next great cult horror. AVIATION ARCHIVE: ARCHIVE: AVIATION ROMANCE OF THE CLOUDS Sun 22 2.30pm Apr, £7.50 Tickets Aviation A history of British Civil footage – much on film, with archive and screening of it newly discovered RAF for the first time. Includes Pageant; Hendon and the 1929 Air from Imperial Airways’ new service first (the world’s Croydon international airport!) to Capetown days; in 1935, which took 11 boats wartime Sunderland flying and converted for civilian use; and airports of the 1950s, aircraft a golden era in civil aviation. by Rob Foxon of Introduced Film Archive. Leicestershire 18 CERT TBC 35MM CLUB CUSTODY Fri 27 Apr – Thu 3 May Dir: Xavier Legrand Denis Ménochet Cast: Léa Drucker, France 2017, 1hr 33min, subtitled Winner at last year’s of Best Director Film Festival, Custody takes Venice us right to the heart of familial the eyes of a young through discord divorce, parents When Julien’s boy. he spends his time passed between them, sensing their growing frustration as they try to outdo each This puts other for his affections. strain on their son and his great wellbeing, and something has got first? to give. But who will break TRUE ROMANCE TRUE Fri 20 8.40pm Apr, Scott Dir: Tony Cast: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette USA/France 1993, 2hrs scripted Tony Quentin Tarantino violent thriller, exuberant, Scott’s glorious 35mm. from which screens and Elvis fanatic Comic-book nerd (Slater) and a prostitute Clarence fall in named Alabama (Arquette) the news love, and when he breaks ends up killing to her pimp Clarence of cocaine him. Grabbing a suitcase it is on his way out, thinking clothing, the two of Alabama’s for Californiathem then hit the road hoping to sell the cocaine. But the mob is soon on their trail. 15 are established between the writer established between the writer are and her subjects. 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U CINEMA BIZARRECINEMA ESSENTIAL CINEMA ESSENTIAL THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE DEVIL’S THE Fri 8.30pm 27 Apr, Dir: Guillermo del Toro Cast: Marisa Paredes, Noriega Eduardo 2001, Spa/Mex/Fra/Arg 1hr 45mins, subtitled “What is a ghost? A tragedy itself?” Before doomed to repeat he was hoovering up every award , del going for The Shape of Water this stunning gothic directed Toro Abandoned at an ominous horror. rural orphanage after his father is killed in the Spanish civil war, Carlos discovers that the 12-year-old building is haunted and he sets out to unravel the mystery of ‘Santi’ – a ghost child who stalks the halls. THE GHOST MRS MUIR AND Fri 6 – Sun Apr 8 Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Rex Harrison Cast: Gene Tierney, USA 1947, 1hr 42mins Dick, Based on the novel by RA fantasy tells romantic Mankiewicz’s Lucy the story of a young widow, for a who leaves London Muir, Lucy quieter life at the seaside. haunted moves into a reportedly she arrives cottage, and shortly after of the she discovers that the ghost deceased former owner – sea – is haunting captain Daniel Gregg the house. Though their relationship is antagonistic at first, an unconventional friendship blossoms. PG 15 DEAD OF NIGHT OF DEAD 6.15pm Apr, 17 Tue Dir: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer Cast: Mervyn Johns, Mary Merrall UK 1945, 1hr 41mins A clear influence on Ghost Stories, film this 1945 Ealing Studios horror stars Mervyn Johns as architect bad haunted by a recurring Walter, to Invited to a country home dream. Walter consult on some renovations, is filled with a sense of impending the guests doom as he recognises and his dream at the house from events. finds himself able to predict Persuaded by the guests to stay, they entertain each other by telling tales of the supernatural. GHOST STORIES GHOST Fri 20 – Thu 26 Apr Andy Nyman Dyson, Dir: Jeremy Lawther Alex Cast: , UK 2017, 1hr 38mins Phillip Goodman is an Professor and also an expert in psychology, who has spent years arch-sceptic the debunking the notion of paranormal. But one day he of historical stumbles upon a folder particularly cases that detail three lead him brutal hauntings. The cases men, who all have different to three he more a dark story to tell. The these real investigates, the more As events begin to stories appear. escalate, does Phillip finally believe what he is hearing? PG Ghost we’ve put To coincide with the To new British of release film horror together a small collection of ghoulish the realms tales, from and the of the bizarre Join us for obscure. some spine-tingling cinematic experiences, special events and rare throughout screenings the month of April. Stories DOUBLE BILL WHISTLE AND YOU TO COME I’LL SIGNALMAN THE + 6.15pm Apr, Wed 11 UK 1968 + 1976, 2hrs (including talk and screenings) A double bill of classic BBC films, by local ghost expert introduced David Bell, author of Leicestershire Ghost Stories. The unnerving M.R. James adaptation Whistle and I’ll stars Michael Hordern Come to You who unearths a as a professor with follow cursed bone whistle. We Dickens’ chilling tale of a lonely by a railway signalman troubled with Screening ghostly spectre. thanks to the BFI and the BBC. 14 15 her projects using VR experiences her projects to enhance terminally ill patients’ is her quality of life. Keyed Alike debut VR narrative film. of the technologies that he used to make his compositions. Prize Luke Fowler is a Turner nominated artist, filmmaker and musician based in Glasgow. Screening in partnership Screening with the ICA as part of the Artist Moving Image Network, funded by Arts Council England. Interact Labs is our creative technology Interact Labs is our creative studio, home to a community of digital artists and makers. KEYED ALIKE REALITY VIRTUAL + TALK FILM his life was cut short in 1993 during the AIDS crisis, and and significant despite his prolific of experimentation and career collaboration, his work remains little known. Part-portrait, part rumination on the explores loss, Fowler carefully between the memory relationship of Bartlett and the precariousness Thu 6.30pm Apr, 19 & 8pm Screen Room, tickets £5 and Labs resident Phoenix Interact filmmaker Alex Rühl virtual reality her short VR film Keyed presents the Alike, alongside a talk about making of the film. Keyed Alike is set by some London riverside in love locks – railings – covered women very different two where and meet by chance. They argue love; Eve is tease each other about while Coley desperate to move on, ) (Gemma Whelan, Game of Thrones to is stuck in the past, unwilling let go. turnedAlex Ruhl is a TV producer Alex has garnered 360º VR creator. attention with international press

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Electro-Pythagoras of(a portraitMartin Bartlett) ART John Huston’s noir classic stars John Huston’s Bogart as San Francisco Humphrey When Sam gumshoe, Sam Spade. by a to him takes a case brought the name beautiful femme fatale by than more he gets of Miss Wonderly, for and is soon he bargained web of entangled in a dangerous crime and intrigue. The Maltese Bogart’s Falcon defined Humphrey of his life, performances for the rest many as one of by and is revered films of all time. the greatest Sat 28 11am Apr, Dir: John Huston Bogart, Mary Astor Cast: Humphrey USA 1941, 1hr 40mins THE MALTESE FALCON Born in 1939, Bartlett in Croydon emigrated to Canada with his family when he was 13. But filmmaker Luke Fowler’s profile profile filmmaker Luke Fowler’s of Martin Bartlett, an electronic music composer who conducted pioneering experiments with microcomputers. Screen Room, free Screen Wed 25 Apr, 6.30pm Apr, 25 Wed + INTRODUCTION MARTIN BARTLETT) (A PORTRAIT(A OF ELECTRO-PYTHAGORAS Access Cinema Midweek Matinees Stage on Screen MyPhoenix Passport BOX OFFICE BOOK ONLINE APRIL 2018 Lazy Sunday Course Spectres on Screen Members tickets £5 0116 242 2800 PHOENIX.ORG.UK SUNDAY 1 APRIL MONDAY 9 APRIL MONDAY 16 APRIL TUESDAY 24 APRIL Peter Rabbit 10:45 13:00 Talking Pictures Monday (Spring) 10:30 I Got Life! 13:00 15:40 Ghost Stories 13:00 Isle of Dogs 12:00 15:00 17:30 19:50 Sweet Country 13:00 Journeyman 13:30 18:00 The Guernsey Literary Mary Magdalene 15:15 Isle of Dogs 13:30 18:00 120 Beats Per Minute 15:15 and Potato Peel Pie Society* 13:30 17:00 19:45 Have a Nice Day 17:50 Unsane 15:40 Suffragette w/ intro 18:30 Western* 15:15 20:15 On Body and Soul 19:50 The Third Murder 16:15 The Shape of Water 20:15 The Messenger 18:00 One Crazy Thing + Q&A 19:30 MONDAY 2 APRIL Red Sparrow 20:20 TUESDAY 17 APRIL WEDNESDAY 25 APRIL Peter Rabbit 11:15 16:00 120 Beats Per Minute 13:00 20:10 The Guernsey Literary The Nile Hilton Incident 13:00 TUESDAY 10 APRIL Journeyman 13:30 15:45 and Potato Peel Pie Society* 11:00 Isle of Dogs 13:30 18:10 20:30 Talking Pictures Tuesday (Spring) 10:30 I Got Life! 16:00 18:00 The Guernsey Literary On Body and Soul 15:30 The Third Murder 13:00 Dead of Night 18:15 and Potato Peel Pie Society* 14:00 15:30 19:50 Mary Magdalene 18:10 Sweet Country 13:30 An Audience With: Ghost Stories 13:00 Have a Nice Day 20:45 Isle of Dogs 15:40 18:00 A History of Cinema Going 19:00 Western* 17:15 Red Sparrow 16:10 The Shape of Water 20:20 ENB: Akram Khan’s Giselle 18:30 TUESDAY 3 APRIL Mary and The Witch’s Flower 19:30 Ghost Stories (Desc. Subs) 20:45 Peter Rabbit 11:00 15:45 Sweet Country (Desc. Subs) 20:20 WEDNESDAY 18 APRIL Mary Magdalene 13:00 I Got Life! 11:00 Isle of Dogs 13:30 16:00 20:20 WEDNESDAY 11 APRIL The Shape of Water 13:00 17:20 THURSDAY 26 APRIL Isle of Dogs (Desc. 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