0116 242 2800 BOX OFFICE PHOENIX.ORG.UK BOOK ONLINE Available as Silver Screenings – see p9 WHAT’S ON BOX OFFICE PHOENIX.ORG.UK JAN 2018 0116 242 2800 BAR É CINEMA / ART / CAF CINEMA / ART BOX OFFICE 0116 242 2800 FILMS SHORT PHOENIX.ORG.UK P. 8 COURSES Made possible with the support of P. 4 STAGE ON DARKEST HOUR SCREEN Fri 12 – Thu 25 Jan P. 7 Phoenix is a registered charity, No 701078 DISCOVER PHOENIX “So long, farewell, auf winners hitting the screens now. Gary ART & wiedersehen, goodnight” to Oldman is a Best Actor contender for his FAMILY DIGITAL 2017; hello 2018! Having tucked incredible portrayal of Winston Churchill FUN away your tinsel and a fair in Darkest Hour, and Jake Gyllenhall CULTURE is also tipped for Stronger (both p9). P. 6 amount of turkey ‘n’ trimmings, P. 5 Though Dunkirk is expected by many why not let Phoenix help you to scoop Best Picture, Spielberg’s The stave off those January blues. Post (p12) and Three Billboards Outside Get more out of film, learn new skills Ebbing, Missouri starring Frances COMING NEXT MONTH and meet people on one of our fantastic McDormand (p11) are definitely in short courses. We’ve got one-day with a chance. ‘tasters’ through to 8-week intensive World cinema highlights include courses (p4). Book online now, or speak ambitious Chinese drama Mountains to our Box Office team. May Depart (p9), the beguiling Rey LADY BIRD Our new exhibition, Changing Places (p10), and Sonia Krolund’s critically explores how industrialisation is acclaimed documentary The Prince of transforming towns and cities across Nothingwood (p10). South Asia, and links these places with And with family movies every weekend sites in Britain. Join us for the exhibition plus a free creative workshop for kids PHANTOM THREAD opening on 18 January (p5). (p6), there’s something for everyone. With the film world gearing up for Whatever you’re into, you’ll find the BAFTAs and Oscars at the end of it at Phoenix. February there are plenty of potential FINDING YOUR FEET SHORT ART 0116 242 2800 BOX OFFICE COURSES PHOENIX.ORG.UK BOOK ONLINE SIX GREAT CINEMATOGRAPHERS Thursdays, 16 Feb – 23 Mar 2pm – 3.30pm Price: £75 / £63 conc. (£72 / £60 conc. Members) We live in an age when it is customary to heap praise on the director, but the visual style of ONE DAY COURSES TALKING PICTURES a film is often the result of the WINTER cinematographer’s vision. In this QUENTIN TARANTINO Mondays, 8 Jan – 12 Mar course, we’ll attempt to give credit Sat 27 Jan, 10.30am − 4pm (10 sessions) where credit is due. EXHIBITION TOUR Price: £16 Tuesdays, 9 Jan – 13 Mar AND SCREENING 10.30am – 12pm MONDO MOVIEHOUSE Cube Gallery and Screen Room Considered by some to be a modern (10 sessions) Fridays, 6 Apr – 25 May Thu 18 Jan, 6.30pm auteur, Quentin Tarantino burst on Price: £84 / £73.50 conc. 7pm – 8.30pm CHANGING PLACES Free, booking advised to the scene in 1991 with Reservoir (£80 / £70 conc. Members) Price: £96 / £80 conc / £72 Members Dogs. Here, we’ll look at how he Thu 18 Jan – Sun 11 Mar As part of the opening event for subverts genre, narrative and style, Share your love of film with this A weird and wonderful delve into Changing Places, curator Mariam and represents sexuality, race and 10-week course of group discussions the stranger side of world cinema Cube Gallery, Free Zulfiqar will introduce the exhibition violence in his films. – led by tutor Alan Seaman – that − from the cult to the extreme. and give a brief tour, followed by a put the cinema week into focus. Discover French sex vampires, Italian Changing Places is an exhibition These artists all live in, work in, or screening of two films that continue NATIONAL QUEER The price includes a cup of tea/ witches and Japanese radioactive of artists’ video curated by Film retain a connection to Bangladesh, the themes of the exhibition: CINEMAS coffee and a ticket to the 1pm or monsters as we explore the work and Video Umbrella, linking the India or Pakistan. The Distance from Here by Bani Sat 24 Feb, 10.30am − 4pm 1.30pm film screening following of Dario Argento, Ana Lily Amirpour, industrial transformations occurring Adibi and STONEWORK by Omar Price: £16 your session. Ishiro Honda and many more. across South Asia with sites of The content of the works – Chowdhury. historic significance in Britain. and their placement in Leicester Available as Silver Screenings – see p9 An exploration of how three – highlights a shared history dominant film cultures responsible THE ART OF AN AUDIENCE WITH…: Places are constantly on the move, between England and South FAMILY WORKSHOP for some of the most revered gay/ SCREENWRITING A HISTORY regularly being transformed, re- Asia, focusing on the international Screen Room, Free lesbian/queer films – Britain, France Tuesdays, 13 Feb – 3 Apr OF CINEMAGOING inhabited or reinvented. Changing changes that are happening as Sat 20 Jan, 11am – 12.30pm and America – represent the LGBT+ 7pm – 9pm Tuesdays, 17 Apr – 8 May Places highlights one of the biggest a result of industrialisation. & 2pm – 3.30pm community in modern cinema. Price: £96 / £80 conc. 7pm – 8.30pm catalysts for change in modern times Free, booking required Price: £50 / £45 conc / £40 Members – industrialisation. A Film and Video Umbrella touring ACTION CINEMA & An intensive practical guide exhibition, supported by Arts Council Inspired by our exhibition England, Canal & River Trust, National covering all aspects of screenwriting Netflix, Sky Movies, DVDs and Sitting at the heart of the post- Changing Places, in this workshop FEMINISM SINCE 2000 Trust, City of Bradford Metropolitan District Sat 7 Apr, 10.30am − 4pm and working in the film industry. Blu-ray − there are so many ways industrial St George’s area of Council, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, we’ll be working together to Price: £16 Tutor Kenton Hall has numerous to watch films these days but there Leicester, we host three artworks Phoenix, Feltech, Links Signs and Heritage make a short film through stop- professional screenwriting credits is only one way to go to the movies. by Imran Channa, Desire Machine Lottery Fund. Curated by Mariam Zulfiqar. motion animation that looks at the Action films like Kill Bill, The Girl with to his name, and he’ll share with We take a deeper look at how and Collective and Yasmin Jahan Nupur. fascinating history of the St George’s the Dragon Tattoo and Mad Max: you some of his experiences and why we love to watch film sitting area of Leicester – now known as the Fury Road feature powerful female trade secrets. in the dark surrounded by strangers. city’s Cultural Quarter. characters. We take a closer look at attempt to give credit where representations of ‘strong’ women in credit is due. Free but booking is required. contemporary action cinema. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Best for ages 4 – 9. 4 5 FAMILY 0116 242 2800 BOX OFFICE FUN STAGE ON SCREEN PHOENIX.ORG.UK BOOK ONLINE Spend some quality family --- TICKETS ON SALE NOW --- time at Phoenix: we’ve got great films and free MEMBER DISCOUNT NOW £2 creative activities to keep on all new shows added to the programme from 11 Sep 2017 you and your little ones onwards. To help, we’ve marked them with... entertained. FERDINAND U LU OVER THE WALL PG FAMILY FAVOURITE: See some of the world’s BERLIN PHILHARMONIKA ROYAL SHAKESPEARE Fri 29 Dec – Mon 8 Jan Sat 13 – Sun 14 Jan THE IRON GIANT PG greatest stage shows and COMPANY USA 2017, 1hr 46mins Japan 2017, 1hr 52mins Sat 27 – Sun 28 Jan exhibitions on our cinema SIR SIMON RATTLE’S FAREWELL USA 1999, 1hr 26mins screens. Check our website for CONCERT TWELFTH NIGHT Ferdinand is a gentle giant of Kai is a quiet teenager, more full listings. Tickets from £10. Wed 20 Jun, 6.30pm Wed 14 Feb, 7pm a bull, but when he’s mistaken for content to be in his bedroom Each month a staff member chooses a dangerous beast he’s captured making music than out with friends. their favourite family film: this month EXHIBITION ON SCREEN BOLSHOI BALLET MACBETH and taken from his home. After he is persuaded to join a band, Box Office assistant Ali Carpenter- Wed 11 Apr, 7pm Determined to escape his captors he finds that his music has roused Hughes chooses The Iron Giant. CEZANNE – PORTAITS OF A LIFE ROMEO AND JULIET and return to his family, he rallies a mermaid called Lu who has two Tue 23 Jan, 6.30pm Sun 21 Jan, 3pm ROMEO AND JULIET a misfit team to help him. overwhelming obsessions: music, “This affectionate adaptation Sun 28 Jan, 3.30pm Wed 18 Jul, 7pm and Kai himself. of Ted Hughes’ short story will THE LADY OF THE CAMELLIAS appeal to children and adults alike. VINCENT VAN GOGH: Sun 4 Feb, 3pm THE MERRY WIVES WONDER PG With visual slapstick humour and A NEW WAY OF SEEING OF WINDSOR Fri 5 – Sun 7 Jan PADDINGTON 2 PG loveable characters finding unusual Tue 20 Mar, 6.30pm THE FLAMES OF PARIS Wed 12 Sep, 7pm USA/Hong Kong 2017, 1hr 53mins Sat 20 – Sun 21 Jan friendships in a fearful society, the Tue 3 Apr, 6.30pm Sun 4 Mar, 3pm UK/France 2017, 1hr 43mins film shares a positive message that Based on RJ Palacio’s best-selling it’s ok to be different and questions I, CLAUDE MONET ALL’OPERA children’s novel. Auggie has facial Another chance to catch the what it is to have ‘humanity.’ Themes Tue 22 May, 6.30pm differences and has spent his life latest adventures of our favourite of loneliness and loss might get Sun 27 May, 3.30pm LA BOHÈME in and out of hospital.