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STAGE ON SCREEN CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Fri 10 – Thu 23 Nov p. 6 Phoenix is a registered charity, No 701078 DISCOVER PHOENIX As we turn to the penultimate For the grown-ups, national treasure ART & page of our 2017 calendars Judi Dench graces our screens for the French FILM DIGITAL we find ourselves faced with third month running, this time with Festival UK November’s dreary dampness Ken Branagh (aka ‘Special K’) in Agatha CULTURE Christie’s classic, Murder on the Orient p. 12 – 13 and dark nights. Think of Phoenix p. 4 Express (p9); Annette Bening and Jamie as your antidote and bring a little Bell team up for the wonderfully-titled sunshine into your life with the Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool (p10); 3 Fs – film, food and fun. and if you’re a fan of Chris Morris’ coming next month legendary Brass Eye, don’t miss Oxide We’re introducing our new MyPhoenix Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes (p9). Passport movies − 3 films each month specially selected from across our We’re taking part in the national tour programme to give you a taste of of the French Film Festival, a real treat something different. With members’ for Francophiles (p12); and if you love The man who invented christmas tickets just £5 for Passport movies, it’s nail-biting suspense, check out Thriller another great reason to join MyPhoenix Season, which starts this month (p13). – look out for the icon in the film Finally, Reading List continues in the listings and diary. Cube Gallery, and we’re also holding Our kids programme this month includes a couple of art events as part of Star wars: the last jedi Paddington 2 and Lego Ninjago, plus Leicester Art Week (p4). there’s a free drop-in workshop on Sat Whatever you’re into, you’ll find it 18 Nov too (p7). at Phoenix.
It’s a wonderful life BOX OFFICE BOOK ONLINE Available as Silver Screenings – see p11 0116 242 2800 phoenix.org.uk 5 4 E ART OF H T SCREENWRITING Tuesdays, Feb – 3 Apr 13 (8 sessions) 7pm – 9pm Price: £96 / £80 conc. An intensive practical guide covering all aspects of and working screenwriting Tutors in the film industry. James Kenton Hall and Richard professional have numerous to their credits screenwriting with names, and they’ll share you some of their experiences and trade secrets. TALKING PICTURESTALKING WINTER Mondays, Jan 8 Mar – 12 (10 sessions) Tuesdays, 9 Jan Mar – 13 10.30am – 12pm (10 sessions) Price: £84 / £73.50 conc. (£80 / £70 conc. for MyPhoenix Members & Friends) your love of film with Share this 10-week course of group discussions – led by tutor Alan Seaman – that put the cinema week into focus. The price includes a cup of tea/coffee and a ticket to the 1pm or 1.30pm film screening following your session. isit our E SPECTRE H ONE DAY COURSES ONE DAY T ON SCREEN Sat Nov 18 10.30am − 4pm £16 Spirits, apparitions and spectres often left to the imagination are yet 2017 has seen on screen, Ghost Story David Lowery’s turn this convention on its white- and sheet-draped head. Lecturer the author Laura Mee explores and sometimes eerie, macabre imagery and comedic, dream-like themes associated with ghosts in the movies. SHORT COURSES Our short courses and workshops are a great way to get more out of film and digital technology. V website to find out more and to book online. I-YU: I-YU: H READING LIST Ursula Mayer – Medea, 2013 WU C Thu 5 Oct – Mon Nov 13 free Cube Gallery, Chi-Yu Wu artist Taiwanese censorship and national explores identity in this new film installation, commissioned by Phoenix and Videoclub with in association Osmosis Festival Taipei. Filmed in Northern Malaysia, the interviews with local film features communities, documenting their interactions with – and reactions that to – books and literature have been banned by the Malaysian state. Focusing on a pair of bookstores, smuggled banned items are where investigates the in, Chi-Yu habits of these reading underground communities and their demand for knowledge and information forbidden by the state.
HOP: isual Arts, E CAMERA – H ING AND BEING ED H H IND T H ARTIST WORKS – 4pmThu 11am 9 Nov, booking essential Free, this Led by Alice Gale-Feeney, practical and participatory workshop for artists, performers and relationship filmmakers looks at the between performance and video, asking how each medium frames For more and informs the other. details, visit the Phoenix website. WATC IN FRONT AND BE WATC Leicester Art Week is a programme of exhibitions and events co-ordinated Leicester by V visual contemporary between collaboration a arts venues in Leicester. Alongside screenings from the from Alongside screenings Network Art and Screen ICA’s Beth Kettel will give programme, to a performance relating lecture a new video work she has been commissioned to make by Phoenix. The event has been programmed and developed in partnership with Anna Lucas, who will lead a panel discussion with a number of invited and participating artists.
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WEEK 2017 LEICESTER ART LEICESTER The ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts, London) will lead a seminar with Will of Pavilion Rose, producer a platform(Leeds), providing to and establish themes for explore discussion. of the day’s the rest Little City Studio is a day-long festival of films, discussions and performances exploring process, and performanceproduction in the artists’ moving image from urban perspective of provincial like Leicester. centres Sat 11 Nov, 10.30am Nov, Sat 11 – 6pm £10 Tickets MO LITTLE CITY STUDIO ART BOX OFFICE BOOK ONLINE Available as Silver Screenings – see p11 0116 242 2800 phoenix.org.uk 7 6
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PG OURITE V PG ES H IE V E MOE E WITC E FAMILY FA Spend some quality family time at Phoenix: we’ve got greatfilms and free creative activities to keep you and your entertained.little ones Sat 4 – Sun 5 Nov UK/USA 1990, 1hr 31mins member chooses Each month a staff their childhood. a favourite film from of house assistant This month front Birtles chose Nicolas Roeg’s Jordan classic adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches.“As a young child I and found that I loved the horror dark fantasy of The Witches. Luke embarks upon The adventure is brilliant and gripping”. MY LITTLE PONY: TH Sat – Sun Nov 18 19 Canada/USA 2017, 1hr 39mins threatening a dark force There’s down to Twilight Ponyville, and it’s Sparkle and her pony pals to save the magic their home through of friendship. Phoenix favourite Emily Blunt voices pony-gone-bad in this TV spin-off. Tempest TH FAMILY FUN REW H E S H E CAMELLIAS H NOW £2 MEMBER on all new shows DISCOUNT from 11 Sep 2017 Sepfrom 2017 11 marked them with... onwards. help, we’ve To added to the programme E TAMING OF T E LADY OF T H E NUTCRACKER HE H Bolshoi Ballet T Sun 12 Nov, 3pm Sun 12 Nov, T Sun 3 Dec, 3pm JULIET AND ROMEO Sun 21 Jan, 3pm T Sun 4 Feb, 3pm E ROYAL E ROYAL H : H E GALA T V H AN GOG NIG OCKNEY T AT H ID H V INCENT V A NEW WAY OF SEEINGA NEW WAY 6.30pm 20 Mar, Tue 6.30pm 3 Apr, Tue ebourne Opera Glynd LE NOZZE DI FIGARO 7pm 7 Nov, Tue Shakespeare Royal Company TWELFT ACADEMY OF ARTS OF ACADEMY 6.30pm 21 Nov, Tue 3.30pm Sun 26 Nov, CEZANNE – PORTAITS OFLIFE A 23 Jan, 6.30pm Tue Sun 28 Jan, 3.30pm V 14 Feb, 7pm Wed Berlin Philharmonic NEW YEAR’S E CONCERT Sun 31 Dec, 4pm Exhibition on Screen DA E E ES V NCOR NCOR E E H OT TIN ROOF HOWS E MERRY WI H
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18 15 OSTS: H E BRASS EYE TAPES H OXIDE G OXIDE T Mon 6.45pm Nov, 13 Dir: Michael Cumming Featuring: Chris Morris UK 2017, 60mins + Q&A of hours of hundreds Made from his personal unseen material from Michael Cumming’s director archive, insights into the making film shares of the legendary TV series Brass both of the Eye. Michael directed pilots and the series and, over a two year period, witnessed the a highs and lows of Brass Eye from very personal perspective. Michael will be doing a Q&A after the film – spilling beans, shattering myths and letting a few cats out of the bag. CALL ME BY NAME YOUR – ThuFri 10 23 Nov Dir: Luca Guadagnino Cast: Armie Hammer, Chalamet Timothée 2017, Italy/France/Brazil/USA 2hrs 11mins, subtitled (parts) of the director The new film from sensualA Bigger Splash is a gorgeous to make the heart ache. romance 1983, northern Italy and Elio (Chalamet), the son of a university professor, to whiling away looks forward another summer at his family’s arrival 17th century villa. But the of charismatic American graduate off student Oliver (Hammer) throws his plans and the two spend a sun- desire summer of fledging drenched that will change their lives forever. Bonneville), they escape the determined and are hospital ward to lead lives full of purpose, passion and adventure. faces a race against time to find the they strike again. before murderer 12A E H 12A E H ORIENT EXPRESS BREAT – ThuFri 10 23 Nov Dir: Andy Serkis Foy Garfield, Claire Cast: Andrew UK 2017, 1hr 57mins Based on an inspiring true story of love and courage, the directorial of the debut of Andy Serkis (Lord Rings, Planet of the Apes) was the for the opening gala screening London Film Festival. Living in Kenya with his wife Diana, roguish Robin Cavendish tea-broker (Garfield) is struck down with polio at the age of 28, confined to a hospital bed and given months to to give up, and live. But they refuse brothers with the help of Diana’s and Hollander in a dual role) (Tom Hall (Hugh inventor Teddy MURDER ON T Fri – Thu 3 Nov 16 Dir: Kenneth Branagh Cast: Judi Dench, Ridley Kenneth Branagh, Daisy (TBC) USA/Malta 2017, 1hr 55mins and stars in Kenneth Branagh directs with this sumptuous period thriller the classic an all-star cast, based on Detective novel by Agatha Christie. (Branagh) is aboard Poirot Hercule one of the when the Orient Express Stranded in passengers is murdered. full the snow and facing a carriage governessof suspects including a (Daisy Ridley), a missionary (Penélope Cruz), a butler (Derek Jacobi) and a princess (national Dench), Poirot Dame Judi treasure Les and 18 on 35mm, 15 . Nobody knows what Eagle vs Shark , Mean Streets RESTORED CLASSICRESTORED Run Lola Run SORCERER Fri 3 – Mon 6 Nov Dir: William Friedkin Bruno Cremer Cast: Roy Scheider, USA 1977, 2hrs 1min, subtitled (parts) Originally conceived by Friedkin as a between small mid-budget picture and his next big The Exorcist became infamous Sorcerer project, as costs spiralled and cast and crew heat of the in the tropical quarrelled Dominican Republic jungle. Roy Scheider stars as one of four fugitive village in Latin men in a remote America, tasked with a tension- driving soaked 200 mile journey, unstable dynamite dangerously oil well. via truck to a remote MYSTERY FILM Fri 6.15pm Nov, 3 All tickets £4 the Join us as we voyage into film unknown with our mystery monthly night. Since starting the in 2015 we’ve shown titles screening like we’re screening (including our staff) (including our staff) screening we’re you can until the film begins, but trust that we’ll deliver some brilliant cinema. any The Mystery Film may be classification up to an 18 certificate. for are As such, these screenings only. over-18s Choristes
15 12A H E PARTY H I AM NOT A WITC Fri 3 – Thu 9 Nov Dir: Rungano Nyoni Cast: Maggie Mulubwa UK/France 2017, 1hr 33mins, subtitled (parts) stunning debut Rungano Nyoni’s stars newcomer Maggie feature Mulubwa as 8-year old Shula. After an incident in her village, Shula is branded a witch and taken into state Exiled to a witch camp, she custody. by a white ribbon to a is tethered and told if she cuts the tree large ribbon she will be cursed. A powerful indictment of corruption and those cultural looking to exploit Africa’s MyPhoenix and spiritual history. Members and Friends tickets £5. T Fri – Thu 3 9 Nov Dir: Sally Potter Timothy Cast: Patricia Clarkson, Spall, Kristen Scott Thomas UK 2017, 1hr 11mins (TBC) lip-smackingly funny Sally Potter’s the middle classes and of satire politics is a caustic treat. bourgeoisie her Janet (Scott Thomas) and their husband Bill (Spall) gather for a party to friends round celebrate her being appointed But Shadow Minister of Health. some of their guests have own and as announcements of their begin to pour out and secrets pile up, the little soiree revelations rapidly unravels. What began with champagne could end with blood on the floor. 12A 15
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Becoming loyal Jae-ho and after their release to take Hyun-su set about trying over a crime ring, but their faces the ultimate test relationship lies as they discover what truly beneath their alliance. Sung-hyun bloody crime gripping, Byun’s thriller stars K-Pop sensation Yim role. Si-wan in his first film CERT TBC H 18 E 8T H ENTURES OF V E ADE CINEMA BIZARRECINEMA CINEMA BIZARRE: TH BUCKAROO BANZAI T ACROSS DIMENSION Fri 24 8:30pm Nov, Dir: WD Richter John Lithgow, Cast: Peter Weller, Goldblum Jeff USA, 1984, 1hrs 42mins is a Banzai (Weller) Dr Buckaroo test pilot physicist, neurosurgeon, musician who, with his and rock band the Hong Kong Cavaliers, the Red must save Earth from of aliens from − a group Lectroid Planet 10. Counting filmmakers such Anderson and Kevin Smith as Wes fans, this is an amongst its ardent piece of sci-fi absurdity. unforgettable PADDINGTON 2 PADDINGTON Fri 24 – Thu 30 Nov Dir: Paul King Sally Hawkins, Cast: Ben Whishaw, Grant Hugh Bonneville, Hugh TBC UK/France 2017, Runtime favourite The sequel to perhaps our film of 2014, the adorable Marmalade-obsessed bear returns! Mr Spying a pop-up book in antique shop that would be Gruber’s Lucy’s the perfect gift for his Aunt takes on Paddington 100th birthday, to get a series of odd-jobs in order But when enough money to buy it. to the book is stolen it is up Paddington, his courageous family and a host of new The Browns friends to catch the thief. PG CERT TBC OR Q&A H ELMA ICTORIA AND ABDUL ABDUL ICTORIA AND H T Fri 24 – Mon 27 Nov Dir: Joachim Trier Cast: Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins Norway/France/Denmark/Sweden, Runtime TBC, subtitled Shy student Thelma, leaves her family to study at university in Oslo. Meeting fellow student Anja, the two experience a powerful attraction in Thelma that seems to result As her seizure. a severe suffering her so do feelings for Anja increase and she becomes aware seizures that she possesses dangerous supernatural powers. Thelma must tragic events in her own confront past for the safety of herself and Anja. MyPhoenix Members and Friends tickets £5. V + AUT 6.15pm Nov, Fri 17 Dir: Stephen Frears Cast: Judi Dench, Ali Fazal + Q&A UK/USA 2017, 1hr 52mins Leicester, In partnership with Literary of VictoriaShrabani Basu – author Story of the and Abdul, The True Closest Confidant – joins Queen’s about the us at Phoenix for a talk plus a book and writing experience of post-film Q&A after a screening adaptation starring Judi the recent Queen Dench. Sent to serve the young for her Golden Jubilee, clerk Abdul strikes up an unlikely of with the Empress relationship India herself. 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RAILWAYS REMEMBERED RAILWAYS Based on a remarkable true story Based on a remarkable the memoir by and adapted from Turner, the actor and writer Peter Gloria Annette Bening stars as star of The Grahame (Oscar-winning ) who Big Heat and In a Lonely Place Peter (Jamie meets struggling actor they’re Bell) in the late 1970s while boarding living in the same London Gloria house. Falling for each other, Peter; but hides her ill health from after collapsing during a UK tour she asks if she can come and stay with his family in Liverpool to recuperate. Fri 17 – ThuFri 17 30 Nov Dir: Paul McGuigan Cast: Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters UK 2017, 1hr 45mins FILM STARS DON’TFILM STARS V LI IN DIE Transport in Britain was nationalised Transport on 1 January 1948 with the formation Commission. of the British Transport but British Rail is best remembered, was also British Road Services, there and others, all British Waterways serving the needs of the nation. It also marked a new era in documentary filmmaking and this explores screening special archive the aspiration of nationalised transport, the buses, lorries, remembering waterways and trains of yesteryear. by Rob Foxon of the Introduced Film Archive. Leicestershire Sun 2.30pm Nov, 19 £7.50 Tickets BRITIS NATIONALISED & TRANSPORT BOX OFFICE BOOK ONLINE Available as Silver Screenings – see p11
0116 242 2800 phoenix.org.uk 12 13 12A ERSATION V E H T CON Sat 3.40pm 25 Nov, Coppola Dir: Francis Ford Cast: Gene Hackman, John Cazale Harrison Ford, USA 1974, 1hr 53mins Gene Hackman plays surveillance expert Harry Caul in Coppola’s made in between classic thriller, the first two parts of The Caul is tasked Godfather trilogy. couple by an a with recording unknown client, but what he raises unsettling, deadly captures to questions and he is forced moral engage with his work’s implications. Released within years scandal, The of the Watergate Conversation is a telling document of the paranoid ‘70s and also a for an age in chilling reminder which surveillance is the norm. 15 CTOR’S CUT CTOR’S This nail-biting and This suspense-filled nationwide season screens at Phoenix from Nov − Jan, in partnership with the Cinema Independent Office as part of BFI Thriller on Tour. BLOOD SIMPLE E DIR Fri 3 – Sun 5 Nov Dir: Joel Coen Cast: M. Emmett Walsh, Dan Hedaya USA 1984, 1hr 36mins thrilling Joel and Ethan Coen’s – a stylish, debut feature imaginative and hard-boiled neo noir – marked their arrival as important and distinctive new cinematic voices on its release decades ago, and we’re three it in a luminous new screening Sleazy Texas 4K digital restoration. is hired private eye Visser (Walsh) by bar owner Marty (Hedaya) to kill his unfaithful wife (Frances McDormand) and her lover (John Getz). Though given a plan to Visser decides to work from, modify it without warning and events quickly spiral out of control. H RILLER T SEASON 15 15 PROBLEMOS 28 6.20pm Nov, Tue Dir: Éric Judor Éric Judor Cast: Blanche Gardin, France 2016, 1hr 25mins, subtitled Victor young Parisians, and Two Gaya, pay a visit to their friend activist a radical green in living who’s by riot police. camp surrounded The hippy-style community extols the virtues of “living differently”, adopting a way of life in which individualism, technology and gender distinctions have all been abolished. But disaster strikes in the form of a terrible pandemic which as the leaves the camps’ residents only survivors. A wacky and world’s comedian- from feature fun third turned-director Eric Judor. MERCENAIRE MERCENAIRE Thu 8.15pm 9 Nov, Dir: Sacha Wolff Pakihivatau Pilioko, Laurent Cast: Toki subtitled France 2016, 1hr 38mins, is persuaded to Soane 19-year-old home leave his New Caledonian as a rugby to try his luck in France French Though technically player. by as such not recognised he’s to the locals and Soane struggles he deserves. get the recognition too light Deemed too short and told he’s by the rugby team official not an to fly back home. But that’s non- option. An almost entirely cast deliver compelling professional exploration performances in Wollf’s of sacrifice and the quest for success. MyPhoenix Members and Friends tickets £5. CERT TBC CERT TBC IE UNE V 6.15pm Nov, 14 Tue Dir: Stéphane Brizé Cast: Judith Chemla France/Belgium 2015, 1hr 59mins, subtitled Beautifully shot and adapted from first novel, Guy de Maupassant’s of a Man) offers Brizé (The Measure a dazzling mosaic of the trials and tribulations in the life of Jeanne Chemla), an optimistic (a revelatory young noblewoman living in 19th When the century Normandy. handsome Viscount Julien de asks for her hand in marriage,Lamare she fantasises about a life brimming afternoonswith dreamy of flower beds bathed in dappled sunlight. very different. her fate proves Yet LE REDOUTABLE Thu 6.20pm 2 Nov, Dir: Michel Hazanavicius Cast: Louis Garrel, Bejo Stacy Martin, Bérénice subtitled France 2016, 1hr 42mins, Michel Hazanavicius (The Director Artist) charts the brief relationship icon Jean- New Wave of French and Anne (Garrel) Luc Godard Wiazemsky the 17-year- (Martin), . old star of his film La Chinoise as Godard They marry in 1967 but in politics interested becomes more his friends, he alienates his wife and who not to mention the public early films his zestful preferred . Though the such as Breathless film focuses on the inner turmoil of displays a deft spirits, Garrel creative talent for comedy. inherits a smallholding in rural his wife and France he uproots young daughter Manon to begin But his a new life in the country. plot and neighbours covet Jean’s will go to any length to get it, Manon des with shocking results. picks up the story ten years Sources and Manon (Béart) is now later, a beautiful but shy shepherdess. When she unexpectedly discovers the truth about her neighbours and the water shortage that blights the village, Manon plots her revenge. and gorgeous Heartbreaking, absolutely not to be missed. AL UK AL
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Claude Berri’s magnificent saga, magnificent Claude Berri’s novels. Pagnol’s based on Marcel (Depardieu) When Jean Cadoret Sat 3pm Nov, 18 Dir: Claude Berri Depardieu, Cast: Gérard Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Yves Emmanuelle Béart France/Italy/Switzerland 1986, 2hrs 2mins + France 1986, 1hr 53mins, subtitled DOUBLE BILL: JEAN DE FLORETTE + MANON DES SOURCES We’re delighted We’re to join the national tour of the French Film Festival UK, nowin its 25th year.
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Wednesday 1 November Thursday 9 November Friday 17 November Friday 24 November Loving Vincent 11:00 Murder on the Orient Express 13:00 15:30 18:00 20:30 Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 13:00 Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 13:00 18:10 The Death of Stalin 13:10 15:50 18:15 20:40 The Party 14:00 18:20 (Audio Described) Paddington 2* 13:30 18:15 Loving Vincent 13:30 20:45 I Am Not a Witch 16:00 Breathe 14:45 Thelma* 15:30 The Snowman 15:30 18:10 Mercenaire 20:15 Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 15:30 18:10 20:30 The Merciless 15:40 Victoria & Abdul + Author talk 18:15 The Killing of a Sacred Deer* 20:30 Thursday 2 November Friday 10 November Call Me by Your Name 21:10 Cinema Bizarre: Buckaroo Banzai 20:30 The Death of Stalin 14:45 17:30 20:30 Murder on the Orient Express 15:00 18:00 20:45 The Snowman 13:30 Breathe 15:30 18:10 Saturday 18 November Saturday 25 November Loving Vincent 16:10 19:50 Call Me by Your Name 20:30 My Little Pony 10:30 Paddington 2* 11:00 16:00 18:30 Le Redoubtable* 18:20 Spectre on Screen 10:30 The Killing of a Sacred Deer* 13:00 20:15 Saturday 11 November Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 12:30 15:40 18:00 20:30 The Conversation 15:40 Friday 3 November Lego Ninjago (Autism Friendly) 10:30 Call Me by Your Name 12:50 Thelma* 13:20 Murder on the Orient Express 12:00 14:40 17:15 19:45 Lego Ninjago 12:40 Jean de Florette & Manon des Sources Double Bill Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 18:00 Jean de Florette 15:00 The Merciless 20:45 I Am Not a Witch 13:30 Murder on the Orient Express 15:00 18:15 20:15 Sorcerer 15:40 Breathe 17:30 Manon des Sources 17:30 Mystery Film 18:15 Call Me by Your Name 20:45 Breathe 20:00 Sunday 26 November The Party 20:15 Paddington 2* 12:00 Sunday 12 November Sunday 19 November Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 20:00 Saturday 4 November Lego Ninjago 11:30 My Little Pony 10:45 Exhibition on Screen: Hockney 15:30 The Witches 10:45 Breathe 12:00 Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 12:00 The Merciless 12:20 Murder on the Orient Express 12:00 15:00 18:00 20:30 Murder on the Orient Express 14:00 17:15 Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 14:30 18:00 19:45 Paddington 2* 14:50 17:30 Railways Remembered 14:30 Thelma* 19:45 I Am Not a Witch 12:45 Bolshoi Ballet: The Taming of the Shrew 15:00 The Party 18:15 Call Me by Your Name 16:40 19:30 Call Me by Your Name 17:00 The Killing of a Sacred Deer* 17:10 Sorcerer 20:00 Breathe 19:45 Breathe 20:15 Monday 27 November Sunday 5 November Monday 13 November Monday 20 November Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 13:30 18:15 The Witches 11:00 Murder on the Orient Express 13:30 15:40 18:00 Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 13:30 15:40 17:15 19:45 Paddington 2* 13:00 18:10 Murder on the Orient Express 12:00 Breathe 13:00 Breathe 13:00 18:00 The Killing of a Sacred Deer* 15:20 20:30 Sorcerer 13:00 Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes 18:45 Call Me by Your Name 20:30 Thelma* 15:45 Murder on the Orient Express 14:30 17:00 19:30 Call Me by Your Name 20:30 The Merciless 20:30 The Party 15:40 Tuesday 21 November Blood Simple 17:30 Tuesday 14 November Call Me by Your Name 13:30 Tuesday 28 November I Am Not a Witch 19:45 Call Me by Your Name 13:30 17:00 Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 13:00 15:30 20:20 Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 13:30 15:40 Breathe 13:00 19:50 Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 18:00 The Killing of a Sacred Deer* 13:00 20:15 Monday 6 November Murder on the Orient Express 15:40 20:45 (Descriptive Subs) Paddington 2* 16:00 20:15 The Party 13:00 14:45 18:40 Une Vie* 18:15 Exhibition on Screen: Hockney 18:30 Problemos 18:20 Murder on the Orient Express 13:30 17:15 19:45 Breathe 20:15 Boy 18:10 I Am Not a Witch 16:30 Wednesday 15 November Blood Simple 20:30 Murder on the Orient Express 11:00 Wednesday 22 November Wednesday 29 November Call Me by Your Name 13:30 18:00 Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 11:00 Paddington 2* 11:00 Tuesday 7 November Murder on the Orient Express 14:30 18:10 20:45 Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 14:00 17:30 20:30 The Killing of a Sacred Deer* 13:20 18:00 I Am Not a Witch 13:00 Breathe 20:40 Breathe 14:30 18:00 Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 13:30 20:30 Murder on the Orient Express 13:30 20:30 Call Me by Your Name 19:50 Boy 16:00 20:40 Murder on the Orient Express 18:00 Thursday 16 November Paddington 2* 16:00 18:15 (Descriptive Subs) Murder on the Orient Express 13:30 18:00 Thursday 23 November The Party 15:30 17:00 Call Me by Your Name 15:00 Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 14:00 16:45 19:50 Thursday 30 November Glyndebourne Opera: Le Nozze de Figaro 19:00 Breathe (Descriptive Subs) 16:15 Breathe 14:15 Boy 13:00 Breathe 20:30 Call Me by Your Name 17:00 Paddington 2* 14:45 18:10 Wednesday 8 November NT Live: Follies 19:00 NT Live: Follies 19:30 Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 15:30 18:10 20:30 The Lion in Winter 10:30 The Killing of a Sacred Deer* 20:20 Murder on the Orient Express 13:30 17:15 19:45 I Am Not a Witch 14:00 18:10 The Party 16:15 20:15
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