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Book online Our first major new exhibition of 2 013 is a solo exhibition from internationally www.cornerhouse.org renowned artist Rosa Barba. Subject to Constant Change is a unique collaboration between Cornerhouse and Turner Contemporary and each venue will feature Barba's new film commission Subconscious Society in a different cinematic and sculptural format. January also sees the return of the young curatorial team behind our popular 2 012 exhibition Lost is Found , who present

INFORMATION BOOKING fresh new group show Four in Gallery 1. The exhibition features four new commissions by artists selected from an open call for submissions. Get an Cornerhouse is Manchester’s Book online insight into the process of putting the show together from one of the curators centre for contemporary visual www.cornerhouse.org involved on p.08. art and independent film. (no booking fee)

Cornerhouse also has a By phone The New Year also brings a fabulous selection of must-see films to our screens. publications division – an 0161 200 1500 Highlights include the much anticipated spectacle Django Unchained , Quentin international distribution service Booking line is open from Tarantino’s blood soaked tribute to the Western genre; heartfelt British comedy for visual arts books and Mon – Sun: 12:00 – 20:00 catalogues. Quartet , returning after the success of our sold out preview plus Q&A with stars In person Billy Connolly and Tom Courtenay back in December; and McCullin , a powerful OPENING HOURS Our Box Office team are available documentary following the career of revered photojournalist Don McCullin. to take bookings from Main Building & Bar Mon – Sun: 12:00 – 20:00 Mon – Thu: 9:30 - 23:00 In March we welcome back ¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Film Festival with Fri - Sat: 9:30 - 00:00 SUPPORT US more Spanish language films, events and special guests, as well as an exhibition Sun: 11:00 - 22:30 from Mexican artist Yoshua Okón. Highlights of the festival are on p.24, and you As a registered charity, we depend Galleries on the support and generosity of can read an interview with Adam Isenberg, the director of moving documentary Mon: Closed supporters and partners to Una Vida sin palabras , on p.26. Tue - Sat: 12:00 - 20:00 deliver our unique programme of Sun: 12:00 - 18:00 original contemporary visual art, independent film, and engagement Bookshop activities. To make a donation or Mon – Sun: 12:00 - 20:00 find out how to support our work visit Café www.cornerhouse.org/support-us Mon – Thu: 11:00 - 23:00 Fri - Sat: 11:00 - 00:00 FOLLOW US Sun: 11:00 - 22:30 Look out for news CONTENTS about Radical Women Bank Holiday opening times become a fan of Cornerhouse Manchester events, Tue 1 Jan: Open from 12:00 taking place at 04 l Art – Exhibitions venues across the Fri 29 Mar: Open from 12:00 08 l Art Article – Curating Four city in March and April Mon 1 Apr: Open from 12:00 @CornerhouseMCR 10 l Art – Events (Gallery 1 open) 11 l Art – Cornerhouse Projects 12 l Art – Coming soon Sign up to our free e-newsletters 13 l Creative Industries at www.cornerhouse.org/sign-up 14 l Books 15 l Food & Drink 16 l At a glance calendar 18 l Film – New releases 22 l Film – Events and festivals Cover image Rosa Barba, Subconscious 26 l Film – Article All information correct at time of Society , 2 013 (production shot) 29 l Courses photo: Jenny Ekholm. going to press. 30 l Information 04/05

This most comprehensive solo Using the grandiose interior of exhibition by Rosa Barba to date Manchester’s hitherto abandoned features a major new installation, Albert Hall (a former Methodist Subconscious Society (2 013), mission) as main stage, the artist commissioned especially for the show, assembled a group of local alongside a selection of related film residents, some with memories of ART sculptures. In a unique collaboration the building, and filmed them inside. between Turner Contemporary and Barba’s protagonists reflect on Cornerhouse, each institution will different objects from the past: these exhibit a different cinematic and are relics of the age of mechanical sculptural format of Barba’s work in reproduction and analogue Margate and Manchester during technology, now receded into near similar time periods. obsolescence and becoming increasingly mysterious in the digital Barba’s practice explores the material present. Exterior scenes filmed in properties of film, such as the celluloid Kent show a post-industrial Thames filmstrip, projection and sound Estuary with desolate structures apparatus, while at the same time rendered increasingly strange, such probing the structure of cinematic as abandoned boats, a collapsing narrative and its relationship to pier, dilapidated sea forts rising out memory itself. Subconscious Society of the water on stilts, and Margate’s takes the end of the industrial age now defunct Dreamland amusement as its subject, shot on location in park, which opened its doors as a Kent and Manchester, and in part new mass leisure culture emerged in drawing on the latter’s rich history the early 1900s. as a manufacturing capital in the 19th century. Subconscious Society is shown on a large suspended screen in Gallery 3, projected onto from both sides using 35mm and 16mm film. At Turner Contemporary, the work appears in a fragmented form and is dispersed across various smaller projector sculptures scattered through the space. Also on view at Cornerhouse in Gallery 2 is Barba’s five-projector installation Coro Spezzato: The Future Lasts One Day , which premiered at the Venice Biennale in 2009.

Subject to Constant Change is curated by Henriette Huldisch for Cornerhouse and Lauren A. Wright for Turner Contemporary.

Organised in collaboration with ROSA BARBA: Turner Contemporary.

Exhibition supported by The Henry Moore Foundation, Institut für Image Rosa Barba, Subconscious Society , 2 013 (production shot) Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), ETC Ltd, SUBJECT TO photo: Jenny Ekholm. and LSI Projects Ltd.

Find out more about the exhibition and look out for digital content at cornerhouse.org/ CONSTANT CHANGE Sat 26 Jan - Sun 17 Mar — Galleries 2 & 3 — FREE rosa-barba 06/07

Inserted within the US tradition of United Fruit Company, UFCO (now civil war re-enactments, Octopus known as Chiquita Banana), a US (2 011 ) by artist Yoshua Okón offers Company based in Guatemala and an alternative presentation of the directly linked to the CIA-led coup Guatemalan Civil War. Where usually and to the following civil war. Also such activities take place in historically presented is US (2005), a single significant locations by enthusiasts channel animation originally created with no direct experience of the for the Monuments For The USA conflict in question, in this work the show. site is of symbolic significance. The battlefield is relocated to US soil at a Yoshua Okón was born in Mexico Home Depot parking lot in Los City in 1970 where he currently lives. Angeles, and the conflict is performed His work is like a series of near- by people who fought during the sociological experiments executed Guatemalan Civil War. The former for the camera blending staged soldiers are now members of the situations, documentation and Los Angeles Mayan community, and improvisation, questioning habitual they gather to look for work as day perceptions of reality and truth, labourers in the same parking lot selfhood and morality. In 2002 he where this performance takes place. received an MFA from UCLA with a Fulbright scholarship. In 1994, Okón

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Liz West’s colour drenched Nicola Ellis’ touchable, human-sized installation features a never-ending sculpture is made from irregular landscape of bright objects encased shaped paddlestones and has an inside a reclaimed wardrobe. Beams unearthly, cocoon like appeal. of light will invite you to look inside as they seep out of the wardrobe’s Four has been curated and developed open doors into dark surroundings. by Cornerhouse’s Young Curators, Elizabeth Gibson, Alex Leigh and Tristram Aver has reinterpreted Neetu Roy, the team responsible for Richard Ansdell’s 19th century oil the successful 2 012 show Lost is YOSHUA OKÓN: FOUR painting The Chase using internet Found . For this exhibition the found imagery and cultural and curators devised an open call to give Sat 9 Mar - Mon 1 Apr — Gallery 1 — FREE commercial iconography to create four artists the opportunity to each TRISTRAM AVER an altered view of contemporary realise a specially commissioned NICOLA ELLIS Britishness and urban living. piece. Kate Sully has created a giant petri Exhibition supported by D’Oyly KATE SULLY dish, whose ‘cultures’ – made from Carte Charitable Trust. printed fabric, wiring and other LIZ WEST found objects – suggest organic Image Tristram Aver, Busy Bodies and OCTOPUS This exhibition is part of ¡Viva! formations like coral and lichen. Busy Bees, (after Lucy Ann Leavers) . Festival, see p.26 for details. 08/09

David Shrigley: HOW ARE YOU FEELING? Until Sun 6 Jan Galleries 1, 2 & 3 LAST FREE If you haven’t already visited, make Visitor comments sure you don’t miss your chance to “This is fantastic! We all need a bit of see our hugely popular exhibition humour in our lives.” HOW ARE YOU FEELING? by artist David Shrigley before it draws to a “This might be the best exhibition close. The exhibition features a range I’ve seen all year! Amazing CHANCE of Shrigley’s drawings, alongside opportunities for people to interact site-specific work made especially with the work!” for this exhibition, and offers visitors a highly interactive experience. Exhibition supported by the Palace TO SEE Hotel and Absolut Vodka.

ast year a team of young people would be visually stunning and Neetu Roy, one of our young came together to curate and contextually interesting. Themes came curators, describes the market the exhibition Lost is into play, and after much deliberation process of selecting work Found . This year, the curators the final four pieces were chosen. As for our exhibition, Four . from this team were invited a group, we established that these back to Cornerhouse to take four pieces work together extremely on a new challenge. Our initial well to produce an exhibition which Image David Shrigley, HOW ARE YOU L FEELING? installation shot at task was to design a brief for is visually compelling and also Cornerhouse. Photo: WEARETAPE. potential artists to create entirely accessible to a wide audience.

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sign up for our FREE G which included many international our skills as curators. Unlike the entries. Back at Cornerhouse, the artwork for Lost is Found where young people’s mammoth job of whittling down to existing works were displayed, the just four finalists confronted us. The pieces for Four are entirely new N Membership scheme. carnage began… Some of the proposals commissions and this is undoubtedly

I were immediately favoured by the the aspect which excites me most. I group, whereas others divided opinion am eager to see how the pieces are Benefits include: and encouraged constructive debate. realised. Being part of the curatorial T As the numbers of entries diminished, team for Four has most certainly – £3 cinema tickets any day, recurring themes and concepts been a un-four-gettable experience! any time A began to arise. Within several rigorous –10% discount on books from hours, we were able to shortlist the Four is on show in Gallery 1 applications to around ten artworks between Sat 26 Jan – Sun 24 Feb.

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Preview Rosa Barba: Subject to Cornerhouse Projects is Constant Change & Four our ongoing exhibition Fri 25 Jan showcase in our busy 18:00 – 21:00 FREE, Drop in Café and Bar. In response to feedback from A portrait of the artist … Andrew Sawyer Join us to celebrate the launch of audiences and artists, Thu 17 Jan – Mon 18 Feb Thu 21 Feb – Tue 16 Apr our two latest exhibitions. Galleries 2 we are renewing our call FREE, Café & Bar FREE, Café & Bar & 3 feature a solo show from internationally renowned artist Rosa for submissions with a Portraiture can take many forms and Manchester-based freelance Barba, which includes the debut of refreshed and updated this group showcase displays photographer Andrew Sawyer has her new film commission shot in brief that gives new criteria approaches to human representation been making a name for himself as a Manchester’s previously abandoned and opportunities for this that may challenge expectations. travel photographer, as well as Albert Hall. Gallery 1group show Four programme strand. Featuring Alex Leigh, a member of shooting landscapes, live music, features new commissions by Liz Cornerhouse’s Young Curators Panel portraits, and practicing fine art. For West, Tristram Aver, Kate Sully and and co-curator of Four . Formerly a Cornerhouse Projects, he will be Nicola Ellis. member of Creative Stars, Leigh presenting two new series of works experiments with new mediums to taken during recent artistic Curators’ Tour & Talk Preview get under the skin of his profile. residencies in Morocco and Sweden. Four Yoshua Okón: Octopus His work stands out due to its Sat 2 Feb Fri 8 Mar attention to detail, subtlety, and 14:00 – 16:00 18:00 – 20:00 original treatment of tone and light. FREE, Early booking recommended FREE, Drop in

Our young curators will lead a tour Join us on the launch night of ¡Viva! of Four before moving to the Annexe 2013 and enjoy a complimentary where they will be joined by the drink and first look at our new commissioned artists for a discussion exhibition from Mexican artist Yoshua CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Artist and Curator’s around the exhibition. Come along Okón in Gallery 1, prior to our Tour & Talk to learn more about the process of opening night film gala. Rosa Barba: Subject to selecting the final works from the We are seeking North West artists : whether emerging Affordable art : we’re also keen to Constant Change many proposals received and the Artist’s Talk submissions from artists, or established, tutored or self-taught, work with artists and curators based Sat 26 Jan challenge of bringing together Yoshua Okón we welcome applications from in the North West or nationally, to 14:00 – 15:30 seemingly disparate projects to form Sat 9 Mar curators, designers, people of any age, working in any develop exhibitions of affordable art FREE, Early booking recommended an exhibition of related themes. 14:00 – 15:30 collectives and other artistic discipline, with a focus on where single items do not exceed FREE, Early booking recommended creative individuals and contemporary visual art. £150. Berlin-based artist Rosa Barba is This tour will be BSL interpreted. groups who wish to joined by curator Henriette Huldisch Yoshua Okón will be joined by Artistic present new or existing Emerging curators : we now also Due to the nature of the exhibition to discuss her unique dual-site Director Visual Art and Film , Sarah welcome proposals from new space, all artwork must be 2D and collaboration and joint commission Perks, for a cinema-based work. We are especially curators and producers wishing to wall-mountable, and should be between Cornerhouse and Turner discussion interspersed with excerpts interested in ideas that present a group or solo exhibition of ready to hang with all necessary Contemporary, Margate to create a of the artist’s video work and showcase at least one or artwork that may originate from the fixtures and fittings provided. bold, ambitious new work. installation views as we look into his more of the following North West and beyond. evolving practice. See p.29 for details of priorities: our January art course The Art of Walking Please visit cornerhouse.org/cornerhouseprojects for the full submission brief.

Images Left: Rosa Barba, Coro Spezzato: The Future Lasts One Day , 2009. Right: Image Andrew Sawyer, Kate Sully, Doily , 2 012. Sculptures, 2012. 12/13

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Our Micro Commissions scheme WORKSHOPS aims to develop new, original and innovative ideas that can be realised Our Creative Industries for £500 or less. Do you have an idea £4 full / £3 concs per session programme offers a range you’d like to propose but would Anguish and Enthusiasm – reveals most about the mindset and of regular workshops, prefer to discuss it with us first? If so Work in the creative sector and want What Do You Do With Your outlook of those that map the new pop into our downstairs bar on the to fine-tune your digital skills? We Revolution Once You’ve terrain. Frequently followed by Civil talks, opportunities and dates above for an informal chat with continue our series of sessions to Got It? Wars and purges, many ideological events for people working members of the Micro Commission help develop your engagement with Sat 13 Apr – Sun 9 Jun principles – and people themselves – in the industry or those team, who will be on hand to give online audiences. Galleries 1, 2 & 3 fall by the wayside. What makes a hoping to do so. These you feedback and advice before you FREE successful revolutionary? And who submit your proposal. For more gets to decide? events, which are information visit Anguish and Enthusiasm is an programmed in response www.microcommissions.org extraordinary group show of new The exhibition will be accompanied to audience feedback, aim and recent contemporary art from by a film programme plus a series of to help you develop your Show & Tell across the globe exploring the in-depth events exploring these skills, widen your network Sat 16 Feb concept of a successful revolution. issues. 16:00 – 18:00 While revolutions can serve as and encourage innovative FREE, Drop-in landmark shifts in the history of a Exhibition supported by Institut für thinking. Image Sandra Ramos, nation, people or a cause, it is often Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa). Get a taste of what’s happening in Twitter – El fin de la inocencia ,1996. the post-revolutionary period that the mind of some of the city’s Make it Work for You Creative Lunch leftfield innovators at the latest Thu 24 Jan Creative Lunch is our very own installment of our popular Show & 18:00 – 20:00 network to support emerging theatre Tell events. Bringing the visual arts and performance workers to develop community and Manchester’s Are you on Twitter but want to use it their own practice and work. The thriving digital design sector more effectively? From creating lists network is free to join and meets both together in a playful and informal to deciding which browser is best for virtually and in the real world to setting, ten artists and designers will you, co-organiser of Manchester share ideas and inspiration, develop make lightning-quick presentations Social Media Café Josh R gives you partnerships, and get creative projects about a current project, experiment the tips and tools you need to make of all shapes and sizes off the or source of inspiration. your 140 characters work for you. ground. Workshops will be starting up again soon but for now why not Filmed Up Coding for Beginners join our creative community online at Fri 15 Mar Thu 28 Feb http://creativelunch.ning.com 18:30 – 20:30 18:00 – 20:00 £4.50 full / £3 concs You come into contact with code Join us for 2 013’s first edition of and computer systems every day Filmed Up, our regular North West sometimes without even realising it. Filmmakers’ night. Discover films Coding might sound mind-boggling produced on your doorstep, hear but understanding the basic principles what the filmmakers have to say and and building blocks that underpin Want to suggest a network with a bunch of creative pretty much every programming digital skills workshop we people. The entire programme is language is well within the grasp of should programme? selected by a panel of Cornerhouse us all. In this session, technical Have your say at audience members and you will writer Chris Mills will take you gently cornerhouse.org/digiskills have the chance to vote for your through all the programming favourite film on the evening. fundamentals you'll need to gain a working understanding on how code Want to submit a film? We accept and computer systems work, and submissions all year round. you’ll even get to write some simple Visit cornerhouse.org/filmedup for code yourself. All you need is a full details. computer and an open mind – no Image Courtesy of eldh on Flickr. previous knowledge required. 14/15

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m cues from Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 spaghetti western Django , the film is set in the plans for this year’s concert begin a local farm takes care of him and o the deep south just prior to the American civil war. Jamie Foxx stars as the r to unravel. Marking the directorial feeds him. They spend time together F titular hero – a slave living a life at the mercy of Dr. King Schultz, played by debut for Oscar-winning actor Dustin in the wild scenery of dunes and the ever brilliant Christoph Waltz. Django sets out on the hunt for a ruthless Hoffman, Quartet is a witty and woods, mysteriously engaging in gang of killers in order to eventually rescue his wife Broomhilda Von Shaft charming British film about growing private prayer at the edge of the from vicious plantation owner Calvin Candie. With standout performances old with hope. ponds, where the devil is prowling... across the board and character names like that, who could resist? 20/21

RELEASED IN MARCH stardom, altering his entire life in expectation of his imminent celebrity. With a mesmerising score Caesar Must Die (CTBA) from Alexandre Desplat ( The King’s (Cesare deve morire) Speech ), Reality is a modern-day Dirs Paolo Taviani, Vittorio fairy tale that delves into the darker Taviani/IT 2012/76 mins/ side of celebrity culture. Italian wEng ST Salvatore Striano, Giovanni What Richard Did (15) Song for Marion (PG) Lore (CTBA) Arcuri, Cosimo Rega, Antonio Beyond the Hills (CTBA) Dir Lenny Abrahamson/IE 2012/ Dir Paul Andrew Williams/GB Dir Cate Shortland/DE AU Frasca, Juan Dario Bonetti (Dupa dealuri) 87 mins 2012/93 mins 2012/108 mins/German wEng ST Dir Cristian Mungiu/RO FR BE Jack Reynor, Róisín Murphy, Gemma Arterton, Christopher Saskia Rosendahl, Kai Malina, The Taviani brothers’ compelling 2012/150 mins/Romanian wEng ST Sam Keeley, Lars Mikkelsen Eccleston, Vanessa Redgrave, Nele Trebs, Ursina Lardi, drama documentary Caesar Must Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Terence Stamp, Anna Reid Hans-Jochen Wagner, Mika Seidel Die was awarded the prestigious Valeriu Andriuta, Dana Tapalaga, Richard is a charming and talented Golden Bear at the 2 012 Berlin Film Catalin Harabagiu teenager looking forward to a future Terence Stamp stars as Arthur, an When the German resistance Festival. Set in one of Rome’s of endless optimistic possibilities. incorrigible grump set in his ways but collapses and her parents are maximum security prisons, the film Set in an austere and remote In The House (CTBA) During the long, easy summer days wholly dedicated to the love of his imprisoned by Allied forces, documents the prisoners’ Romanian Monastery, Beyond the (Dans la maison) before university, Richard meets life, wife Marion. Whilst Arthur routinely teenager Lore is left to fend for production of Julius Caesar. The Hills is based on the true story of an Dir Fran çois Ozon/FR 2012/ Lara, a friend of a friend, who offers goes about his senior years, Marion herself and her siblings. The children directors draw subtle parallels unusual exorcism. Directed by 105 mins/French wEng ST him the mature relationship that he’s embraces every opportunity she can set out across a war-torn and between Shakespeare’s text and the Palme d’or winner Cristian Mungiu Fabrice Luchini, Ernst Umhauer, yearning for. But when a mindless and practises regularly in quaint defeated landscape for their contemporary world, interweaving (4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days ), the film Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle moment of violence pushes him to ragtag community choir The OAPZ. grandmother’s house, hoping for the dual narratives of the dramas focuses on the close friendship of Seigner, Denis Menochet, the edge of reason, devastating the When Marion suffers a cancer relapse, some sort of salvation. Amidst the that unfold on and off the stage. two young women, Alina and Bastien Ughetto lives of the people closest to him, can Arthur is forced to confront his painfull chaos, they encounter Thomas, an Voitcha, who were raised together in Richard save his world from crumbling relationship with their estranged son, emaciated and mysterious Jewish an orphanage and then reunited For his follow up to 2 011 ’s run-away around him? Irish filmmaker Lenny James, and grudgingly immerse refugee seemingly with no past. following years of separation. In the hit Potiche , acclaimed French auteur Abrahamson ( Adam & Paul ) brings a himself in an unfamiliar sociable When all Lore has ever known time that they’ve been apart, Voitcha François Ozon presents a captivating fresh insight into Ireland’s middle- lifestyle. Written and directed by Paul results in a lifetime of lies, she must has taken her holy vows and has thriller with blackly comic tones. classes rarely seen on screen. Andrew Williams (London to Brighton ), go against her natural instincts and devoted her life to God. But Alina Based on Juan Mayorga’s play The this astutely observed family drama is consider who and what she can now wishes for the pair to resume their Boy in the Back Row , In The House RELEASED IN FEBRUARY anchored by emotionally heartrending trust. This powerfully emotional and life together away from the draconian stars heavyweights of French cinema performances from its all-star cast. lyrical tale asks us to reconsider the life in the monastery. Her passionate Kristin Scott Thomas, Fabrice Hyde Park on Hudson (12A) nature of love, guilt and forgiveness rejection of the church and its rules Luchini and Emmanuelle Seigner in Dir Roger Michell/GB 2012/95 mins in a battle-scarred world. Good Vibrations (15) sets in motion a devastating series a dangerous tale of intrigue and Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Dirs Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn of events. deception. Literature teacher Williams, Samuel West, Olivia Colman Leyburn/GB IE 2012/103 mins Germain is jaded by his mundane Richard Dormer, Jodie Whittaker, work life and his marriage is far from Bill Murray gives a marvellously wry Dylan Moran, Liam Cunningham, perfect. His passion for teaching is – and likely Oscar-nominated – Kerr Logan unexpectedly reignited by a gifted performance as President Franklin student who shows considerable D. Roosevelt in this charming tale that No (15) Set in 1970s Belfast, at the height of literary promise, but whose essays follows King George VI and Queen Dir Pablo Larraín/CL US 2011/ the Troubles, Good Vibrations is a and means of inspiration begin to Elizabeth’s visit to America. The story 118 mins/Spanish wEng ST fascinating portrait of Terri Hooley, a blur the boundaries between reality centres around the controversial Gael Garcia Bernal, Alfredo visionary and a rebel who became and fiction. affair that the President pursues with Castro, Luis Gnecco, the Godfather of Northern Ireland’s Daisy, his younger and gently Antonia Zegers, Marcia Tagle punk scene. Terri is the ultimate Reality (CTBA) impoverished distant cousin, and Distributors can music fan, and rather than turn to Dir Matteo Garrone/IT FR the reaction of the visiting Royals, Pablo Larraín’s No follows Tony change release dates the partisan violence engulfing his 2012/115 mins/Italian wEng ST played with gusto by Samuel West Manero and Post Mortem to complete at short notice so city, he sets up the Good Vibrations occasionally our Aniello Arena, Loredana Simioli, and Olivia Colman. Beautifully the director’s powerful trilogy of films printed film screening record shop, bullishly working against Nando Paone, Graziella Marina, recreating 1930s America, the film set during the rule of Chilean dictator dates will become the odds to make it a success. With a Nell Iorio really comes to life in the sparring Pinochet. This historical drama which inaccurate. great soundtrack and excellent central between the heads of state, with stars Gael García Bernal as Rene Unfortunately this is performance from Richard Dormer, Director Matteo Garrone follows his out of our control. Murray and West on splendid top form. Saavedra, a talented young advertising Good Vibrations is an inspirational Palme d’Or nominated mafia drama, executive who is tasked by Pinochet’s story of one man’s determination to Gomorrah , with this scathing and opposition with heading up a place music above all else. lively satire showing the extreme campaign for a ‘no’ vote in the lengths one man will go to to country’s 1988 referendum. With achieve his five minutes of fame. immense pressure to succeed, and Luciano is a busy fishmonger under scrutiny from the authorities, juggling his career with a hectic Rene and his team come up with home life in Naples. When his family offbeat ideas for the campaign. persuades him to audition for reality Winner of the Director’s Fortnight at TV show Big Brother, Luciano drifts Cannes Film Festival 2 012. away with fantasies of wealth and 22/23

The Magistrate People Thu 17 Jan Thu 21 March CHINESE FILM 18:45 18:45 Oscar nominee and Tony Award- Award-winning writer Alan Bennett FILM NT LIVE winner John Lithgow ( Dirty Rotten is reunited with director Nicholas Scoundrels, Shrek, 3rd Rock from Hytner and Olivier Award-winning EVENTS the Sun ) takes the title role in Arthur actress Frances de la Tour, with National Theatre Live Wing Pinero’s uproarious Victorian whom he worked on The History Boys FORUM UK farce, directed by Olivier Award- and The Habit of Art , for his eagerly brings the best of British winner Timothy Sheader ( Crazy for anticipated new play People . Theatre to Cinema 1, You and Into the Woods, Regent’s People spoil things; there are so live in hi-definition. Park Open Air Theatre, London). many of them and the last thing one When amiable magistrate Posket wants is them traipsing through Memories Look at Me (CTBA) £15 full (John Lithgow) marries Agatha one’s house. But with the park a (Ji yi wang zhe wo) £13.50 Cornerhouse Members (Olivier Award-winner Nancy Carroll, jungle and a bath on the billiard Tue 29 Jan £10 Children (under 16) and Livewire After the Dance ), little does he table, what is one to do? Dorothy 18:20 Members realise she’s dropped five years from (Frances de la Tour) wonders if an Dir Song Fang/CN 2012/ 87 mins/ her age – and her son’s. When her attic sale could be a solution. Mandarin wEng ST For other ticket deals see our deception looks set to be revealed, it Song Di-jin, Song Fang, Song Yuan website. sparks a series of hilarious Also on sale now is This House , a indignities and outrageous mishaps. sharp and critically-acclaimed new A young woman’s return from play about the ruthless, fast-paced Beijing to visit her parents in their world of 1970s British politics, which hometown of Nanjing sparks screens on Thu 16 May. reflections on the changes their lives For further have witnessed. Actor Song Fang information and (Flight of the Red Balloon ) steps to book online behind as well as in front of the visit camera for this, her Locarno Film cornerhouse.org/ All NT Live performances are ntlive Festival award-winning directorial certified ‘As Live’. Cornerhouse debut. Clearly influenced by the recommends certificate 12A. hybrid style of Jia Zhangke, here You Are the Apple of My One Hour Intro producing, Memories Look at Me is Eye (CTBA) Popular Taiwan Cinema a meticulously constructed (Na xie nian, wo men yi qi Beyond the Arthouse reflection on ageing and memory in zhui de nu hai) Tue 19 Feb a rapidly changing modern China. Tue 19 Feb 17:00 “Gracefully suspended between the 18:20 FREE, Booking required docu-fiction genre of producer Jia Dir Giddens Ko/TW 2011/109 Zhangke and the gentle observational mins/Mandarin wEng ST European arthouse and festival qualities of Hou Hsiao-hsien... Ko Chen-Tung, Michelle Chen, audiences may be familiar with the Memories Look at Me nonetheless films of Taiwan New Cinema LITHUANIAN ANIMATION Steven Hao, Ao-Chuen, Tsai succeeds in finding its own, low-key Cheng-Hsien, Yen Sheng-yu, auteurs, such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, groove.” Variety Wan Wan Tsai Ming-liang and Edward Yang. However, since the revival of popular To celebrate Chinese New Year, we film production in the territory in the are pleased to present this special mid-2000s, Taiwanese cinema has RETROSPECTIVE screening of You Are the Apple Of been breaking box office records at My Eye. Breaking box office records home and in the region, yet remains Wed 27 Mar across Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore relatively unseen on European Budinaite’s Independence Day (2 012). 18:10 and China when it was released in screens. This talk from Dr. Felicia A dark streak of humour pervades £5.50 full / £4 concs 2011, You Are the Apple of My Eye is Chan (RCUK Fellow in Film, Media this unmissable retrospective which a teenage coming-of-age romance and Transnational Cultures, The spans puppet, hand-drawn, cutout, This special screening is presented Event set in Taiwan, spanning the mid -1990s University of Manchester) will survey shadow theatre techniques and for the 100th anniversary of Lithuanian This screening will be introduced by to mid-2000s. Director Giddens Ko several contemporary Taiwanese computer-generated films. Animation. The programme starts Chris Berry, Professor of Film brings his semi-autobiographical films and explore the limitations For programme updates and with the one of the greatest pioneers Studies at King’s College London. novel to the big screen, looking back such a politics of selection imposes confirmation of guests please visit of the medium, self-taught filmmaker on the growing pains of adolescence upon our understanding of national cornerhouse.org/Lithuanian- Ladislas Starewitch and her stop- Presented by the Chinese Film Forum and young adulthood with bittersweet and cultural cinemas. animation motion masterpiece with live bugs, UK, as part of its symposium ‘The nostalgia and gentle, self-deprecating The Insects’ Christmas (1913). creation and circulation of Chinese humour. With thanks to the Lithuanian Lovingly curated by Dasa Vanova, the identities in and through cinema’, Embassy in London, Daiva programme offers highlights from held at the Chinese Arts Centre, on Supported by the Confucius Parulskiene, Rita Valiukonyt, Dasa the archive and also showcases Vanova and the Anifest Festival in Tue 29 – Wed 30 January. For more Institute, in association with the Images Top: The Magistrate rehearsal contemporary talent such as Urte information visit www.cffuk.org Chinese Film Forum UK. Image Left: Memories of Me . the Czech Republic. image. Bottom: Independence Day’ Top: You Are the Apple of My Eye . (Urte Budinaite, 2 012). 24/25

March sees the return of Violeta se fue a los cielos Blancanieves (CTBA) ¡Viva! and the 19th edition (CTBA) (Snow White) of the festival brings a (Violeta Went to Heaven) Dir Pablo Berger/ES 2012/ selection of the best films Dir Andrés Wood/CL AR ES BR 104 mins 2011/110 mins/Spanish wEng ST Maribel Verdú, Ángela Molina, from across Spain and Francisca Gavilán, Thomas Durand, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Pere Ponce, Spanish speaking Latin Christian Quevedo José María Pou, Inma Cuesta America to our screens as well as an exhibition from Violeta se fue a los cielos recounts Pablo Berger’s spectacular silent Mexican artist Yoshua Los Lobos de Arga (CTBA) the fascinating life of Violeta Parra film Blancanieves is an inventive and (Game of Werewolves) (1917-67), Chilean composer, amusing translation of the Snow White Okón to Gallery 1 (see Dir Juan Martinez Moreno/ES songwriter, folklorist, visual artist, story to the bull-fighting world of 1920s p.07). On these pages are a 2011/102 mins/Spanish wEng ST and mother of the New Chilean Seville. With stunning black and selection of highlights you Gorka Otxoa, Carlos Areces, Song Movement. Andrés Wood white cinematography, Blancanieves can expect from the film Secun de la Rosa traces Parra’s life from her humble is an exquisite homage to Europe’s programme, which beginnings in rural Chile to her life as Golden Age of silent cinema. features comedies, dramas Spanish werewolf comedy Los Lobos a cultural icon passionate about de Arga is a retro parody of the horror preserving traditional culture. The and documentaries. genre, complete with splatter gore, film features a rich soundtrack of Full programme details, monsters and a cute canine sidekick. Parra’s influential songs. including details of events Tomas is a naïve and unsuccessful Part of Radical Women Manchester for film fans and language writer who returns to his family’s learners, will be announced historic homestead in the Galician in February. Visit village of Arga after a15-year absence. Lured by the promise of an award for cornerhouse.org/viva2 013 his literary achievements, Tomas La Vida empieza hoy (CTBA) instead finds himself centre stage in (Life Begins Today) a battle against a deadly hundred- Dir Laura Mañá/ES 2010/90 mins/ year-old curse. Spanish wEng ST Pilar Bardem, María Barranco, Sonsoles Benedicto, Educardo El Mundo es nuestro (CTBA) Blanco, Mariana Cordero Dir Alfonso Sànchez / ES 2012/ 87 mins/Spanish wEng ST Spanish comedy La Vida empieza Alfonso Sánchez, Alberto López, hoy takes a light-hearted approach Pepe Rodriguez, Antonia Gómez, to sex lives in the third age, when a María Cabrera, Alfonso Valenzuela Barcelona community centre provides classes aimed at reawakening the Ali (CTBA) Topical heist comedy El Mundo es dormant libidos of its very mature Dir Paco R. Baños/ES 2012/ nuestro makes a farce with bite out students. 84 mins/Spanish wEng ST of Spain's current financial woes. Verónica Forqué, Nadia de Dressed as holy week penitents, two Santiago, Julián Villagrán working class sevillanos decide that the only way to escape their crisis- Shot with a sun-drenched palette of hit city is to rob a bank. When things bold primary colours, Paco R. Baños’ don’t go to plan, the pair end up with feature directorial debut is an an oddball group of hostages and an engaging coming-of-age story about even bigger crisis on their hands. a rebellious Spanish teenager coping ¡VIVA! 19TH SPANISH AND LATIN with her mother’s delicate mental Del lado del verano (CTBA) health. Damaged by past experiences, (The Summer Side) the eponymous Ali builds a wall Dir Antonia San Juan/ES 2012/ around her heart that risks repelling 100 mins/Spanish wEng ST AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL those who love her most. Antonia San Juan, Eduardo Casanova, Secun de la Rosa, Una Vida sin palabras (CTBA) Sara Guerra (A Life Without Words) Dir Adam Isenberg/NI 2011/ Del lado del verano is an entertaining FRI 8 –SUN 24 MAR 71 mins/Spanish wEng ST comedy from the Canary Islands which centres on the trials and tribulations For details of our Una Vida sin palabras is a moving of a wonderfully dysfunctional January film course, Spanish and documentary about young Deaf adults Image Credits Opposite page: family. The film stars and is directed Latin American in rural Nicaragua who gain their first Blancanieves . Top left: Los Lobos de Arga . by well-known Spanish actress Cinema in the 21st experience of communication Bottom left: Ali . Top middle: Violeta se fue Antonia San Juan, best known for her In partnership with Instituto Century, see p.29 a los cielos . Bottom middle: El Mundo es through sign language thanks to the nuestro . Top right: La Vida empieza hoy . role as Agrado in Pedro Almodóvar’s Cervantes Manchester. determination of their teacher Tomasa. Bottom right: Del lado del verano . All About My Mother . 26/27

lives in Istanbul, Turkey, where he spending time in rural Nicaragua. hosts and directs a travel Great people and a very special documentary program (Adem'in country. Seyir Defteri) for TRT, Turkey's state broadcaster. This is his first film. Do you have on-going links with the family in the film? Did they get Why did you choose to make a film to see it? about Deafness? It took a while to arrange, but To me, the film is not really about eventually the on-sight assistant, Deafness. It’s about language. It Nola Nackerud—an American contrasts those who have it—such as woman who has lived there for the Deaf sign language teacher in the years and has close ties to the Deaf film—with those who don’t: Dulce community—was able to take the Maria and Francisco, and countless film up to them on a borrowed others in rural communities around laptop. I wish I could have been the world who have grown up Deaf there to watch with them. They and deprived of the chance to learn a don’t have a phone, so we keep in sign language. To meet someone touch through Nola. With Dulce who doesn’t know any language is Maria and Francisco, of course, the to begin to understand its central only communication is face to face. importance to our lives. Nola goes out now and then, and keeps me posted on how they are How did you first come across the doing. I miss them. NGO helping Dulce Maria and Francisco? Is there a Deaf culture/community I studied linguistics and remember in Nicaragua like there is in the UK? from my studies the curious story of Do Deaf people there have a legal the emergence of Nicaraguan Sign entitlement to communication Language. I wanted to make a support? documentary about that, so I started There is an active national association digging around online and came for and by Deaf Nicaraguans called across the NGO ‘Nicaraguan Sign ANSNIC. They are the heart of the Language Projects’. I corresponded Deaf community there. But ANSNIC with the NGO’s director, then spent and the NGO in the film don’t have a few weeks travelling around the funds to reach everyone, so in Nicaragua meeting people from the practice educational opportunities Nicaraguan Deaf community. Along for the Deaf are often severely the way, through a friend of a friend, lacking, especially in rural I was introduced to the family in the communities. Whatever the laws on film. Dulce Maria and Francisco were the books may be, Deaf people in like no one I’d ever met: adults who Nicaragua often face tremendous knew not a word of any language – hardship. But I saw hope for progress not even their own names. They from the Deaf I met in the capital, seemed suspended in another who have a strong sense of cultural dimension, even a bit mystical, identity and are more or less Director Adam Isenberg answers orn Deaf on a farm in forgotten at the outer limits of our politically mobilised. Nicaragua, Dulce Maria (28) linguistically and socially constructed some of our questions about his and her brother Francisco (22) reality. Their life, and the predicament What are you working on now? debut film Una Vida sin palabras have never strayed more of countless others like them, I’d like one day to make my original which screens as part of the 19th than a few miles from their became more important to me than project about the creation of rural home. They know no the history of the local sign language. Nicaraguan Sign Language. It’s ¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Blanguage at all – written, So the film became about them, and really a fascinating story, but for Film Festival. spoken or signed. They are the sign-language teacher’s efforts now I’m busy with another couple UNA VIDA entirely locked out of fundamental to reach them. documentaries in development: one knowledge, having never had a about the treatment of the Deaf in conversation with anyone. This begins Were there any particular prisons, and the other about child to change when they are visited by a difficulties in making this film in labourers here in Istanbul. Deaf sign-language teacher, Nicaragua? working for a local NGO, who comes Funding was hard. In the end, it all Una Vida sin palabras will be to their village determined to teach came out of my pocket, and from screened during the 19th ¡Viva! them their first words. many kind donations from friends Spanish & Latin American Film who cared about the project. We Festival, Fri 8 - Sun 24th March. Adam Isenberg was born outside filmed for seven weeks. In all, it was See p.25 for more information. SIN PALABRAS San Francisco, USA, and has a degree a wonderful experience getting to in linguistics from UC Berkeley. He know the family in the film, and 28/29

New Print New Print – Director’s Cut Stand by Me (15) Lawrence of Arabia (PG) Sun 20 & Wed 23 Jan Dir David Lean/GB 1962/227 mins Dir Rob Reiner/US 1986/87 mins Sun 24 & Wed 27 Feb Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, MATINEE Corey Feldman, Jerry O’Connell, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, CLA SSICS Kiefer Sutherland Omar Sharif COURSES An unnamed author finds out an old One of the screen's grandest epics, friend has passed away, and begins this monumental story recounts the to recall memories of his misspent true life experiences of the enigmatic youth, when he and his gang of scholar and adventurer T.E. close-knit friends went searching Lawrence, better known to the world Our popular, ongoing for a missing teenager’s body but as Lawrence of Arabia. Lean’s multi- Our courses offer you the programme brings cinema found more than they bargained Oscar winning biopic is visually chance to explore the classics to the big screen for. This powerful and touching stunning and boasts a wonderfully ideas and issues at the coming of age story features a rousing score from Maurice Jarre. every month – with each wonderful performance from a Screening at the earlier times of heart of our film and visual film showing on a Sunday young River Phoenix. 11 :30 on Sun 24 Feb and 13:00 on art programme in a relaxed at 12:00 and the following Wed 27 Feb. and sociable setting. Wednesday at 13:30. There 12 Angry Men (U) Cornerhouse Members are informal postscreening Sun 3 & Wed 6 Mar receive a £5 discount off discussions following the The Art of Walking Led by Dir Sidney Lumet/US 1957/93 mins all prices. Starts Tue 22 Jan Morag Rose, co-founder of The LRM Wednesday screenings – Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E. G. 18:30 – 20:30 (Loiterers Resistance Movement) an see our website for details. Marshall, Jack Warden, Ed Begley £50 full/ £35 concs, 7 weeks interdisciplinary collective exploring Spanish and Latin (includes optional walking psychogeography, public space and If you’d like to enjoy A Puerto Rican youth is on trial for expedition on Sun 3 Mar) the hidden sights, sounds and murder, accused of killing his own American Cinema in the breakfast or an early lunch 21st Century stories of the city. Valentine’s Special father. When the jury retire to consider A mundane trip to the shops or an in our Café before feasting Starts Mon 21 Jan Annie Hall (15) their verdict, only one person, juror encounter with the sublime where Beginners’ level, no prior knowledge your eyes, then please 18:30 – 20:30 Sun 10 Feb 12:00, Wed 13 Feb number eight (Henry Fonda) refuses every step creates an imaginary required. £70 full/ £50 concs, 8 weeks arrive early to avoid 13:30, Thu 14 Feb 20:40 to accept this as an open and shut universe? Walking is an everyday disappointment. Dir Woody Allen/US 1977/93 mins case, and doubts the accused’s activity with extraordinary resonances; Course Screening Using a series of illustrated case Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony guilt. Set in the New York jury room it has inspired a rich tradition of Tue 12 Feb, 18 :15, studies this beginners’ level course Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon where the 12 men are deliberating, writers, artists, performers and Robinson in Ruins (U) will consider recent trends in 21st Lumet’s debut feature is a master - activists. This course will explore Century Spanish and Latin American This story of a modern love affair work of directorial control, which walking as a creative practice and cinema. Through discussion and took the 1978 Oscars by storm and creates a tense atmosphere of will take us on a journey from Blake debate, course tutors will introduce is indisputably one of Woody Allen’s claustrophobia. and Wordsworth to Richard Long and a broad range of topics, including finest moments in front of and Marina Abramovi c´. We will unravel representations of Latin American behind the camera. Allen plays Alvy ¡Viva! Special the tangled routes of Situationists, Sign up to our free cities, transnational productions and Singer – a successful comedian Long Holidays of 1936 (CTBA) Surrealists, psychogeography, courses e-newsletter, performers, film memories, to hear when new trying to resolve the tangled web that (Las Largas Vacaciones del mythogeography, deep topographers changing notions of the auteur and courses go on sale, is his personal life. He meets the 36) and more, as well as sharing inspiring genre production with a focus on the at cornerhouse.org/ New Print young, and equally neurotic, Annie Sun 17 & Wed 20 Mar techniques for DIY dérives that bring sign-up role of Filmax International in Spain. Babette’s Feast (U) Hall and so begins a relationship that Dir Jaime Camino/ES 1976/ the theory into multisensory reality. (Babettes Gæstebud) is poignant, genuine and hilarious. 106 mins/Spanish wEng ST Films to be considered include: Sun 6 & Wed 9 Jan Concha Velasco, José Sacrist án, [REC] Genesis , Medianeras and En Dir Gabriel Axel/DK 1998/104 mins/ Francisco Rabal, Ángela Molina la ciudad sin límites . Danish, French, Swedish wEng ST Stéphane Audran, Bodil Kjer, To coincide with ¡Viva! Spanish and Led by Birgitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle, Latin American Film Festival, we’re A range of regular Cornerhouse Bibi Andersson pleased to present this classic from tutors, from Manchester Metropolitan late Franco era Spain. Set in a middle- University, The University of Adapted from the short story by Isak class holiday resort near Barcelona Manchester, and The University of Dinesen (Karen Blixen), Babette’s at the time of the outbreak of the Salford. Feast is a mouth-watering classic, Spanish Civil War, the film tells the which sees an exiled Parisian chef Valentine’s Café Offer story of a bourgeois family caught Beginners’ level, no prior knowledge bring gastronomic indulgence to two Present your Annie Hall cinema ticket up in the drama of the conflict. The required. pious sisters and their austere in our Café Bar and enjoy a special experiences of the holidaymakers community in 19th century Denmark. Valentine’s offer on a delicious New form an engrossing microcosm of Course Screening Babette’s Feast is at once poignant York Brownie and Manhattan the developing political situation. Mon 4 Feb, 18:15, The Skin I Live In (15) and funny, and above all, joyful in its cocktail. See p .1 5 for details. 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