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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 BOX OFFICE BOOK ONLINE Available as Silver Screenings – see p9 0116 242 2800 PHOENIX.ORG.UK 4 5 FAMILY WORKSHOP FAMILY Room, Free Screen Sat 20 Jan, – 12.30pm 11am & 2pm – 3.30pm booking required Free, by our exhibition Inspired Changing Places, in this workshop we’ll be working together to stop- make a short film through motion animation that looks at the fascinating history of the St George’s of Leicester – now known as the area Cultural Quarter. city’s but booking is required. Free must be accompanied by Children an adult. Best for ages 4 – 9. EXHIBITION TOUR SCREENING AND Room Cube Gallery and Screen Thu Jan, 18 6.30pm booking advised Free, As part of the opening event for Changing Places, curator Mariam the exhibition Zulfiqar will introduce followed by a and give a brief tour, of two films that continue screening the themes of the exhibition: by Bani Here The Distance from Adibi and STONEWORK by Omar Chowdhury. These artists all live in, work in, or a connection to Bangladesh, retain India or Pakistan. The content of the works – and their placement in Leicester history – highlights a shared between England and South Asia, focusing on the international happening as changes that are of industrialisation. a result A Film and Video Umbrella touring A Film and Video Umbrella exhibition, supported by Arts Council National England, Canal & River Trust, District Metropolitan City of Bradford Trust, Council, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, Phoenix, Feltech, Links Signs and Heritage Lottery Fund. Curated by Mariam Zulfiqar. ART Changing Places is an exhibition of artists’ video curated by Film linking the and Video Umbrella, industrial transformations occurring South Asia with sites of across historic significance in Britain. constantly on the move, Places are being transformed, re- regularly Changing inhabited or reinvented. Places highlights one of the biggest catalysts for change in modern times – industrialisation. Sitting at the heart of the post- of area industrial St George’s artworks we host three Leicester, Machine by Imran Channa, Desire Jahan Nupur. Collective and Yasmin CHANGING PLACES CHANGING Mar Jan – Sun 11 Thu 18 Free Cube Gallery, Tuesdays, Apr 17 – 8 May 8.30pm – 7pm Price: £50 / £45 conc / £40 Members , Sky Movies, DVDs and so many ways are Blu-ray − there to watch films these days but there is only one way to go to the movies. take a deeper look at how and We why we love to watch film sitting by strangers. in the dark surrounded where attempt to give credit is due. credit Thursdays, Feb – 23 Mar 16 3.30pm – 2pm Price: £75 / £63 conc. (£72 / £60 conc. Members) an age when it is live in We on the customary to heap praise style of but the visual director, result of the a film is often the vision. In this cinematographer’s give credit course, we’ll attempt to is due. credit where MOVIEHOUSE MONDO Fridays, 6 Apr – 25 May 8.30pm – 7pm Price: £96 / £80 conc / £72 Members and wonderful delve into A weird the stranger side of world cinema the cult to the extreme. − from Italian vampires, sex Discover French witches and Japanese radioactive the work monsters as we explore Ana Lily Amirpour, of Dario Argento, Honda and many more. Ishiro WITH…:AN AUDIENCE A HISTORY OF CINEMAGOING SIX GREAT SIX GREAT CINEMATOGRAPHERS THE ART OF SCREENWRITING Tuesdays, Feb – 3 Apr 13 7pm – 9pm Price: £96 / £80 conc. An intensive practical guide covering all aspects of screenwriting and working in the film industry. Kenton Hall has numerous Tutor credits screenwriting professional with to his name, and he’ll share you some of his experiences and trade secrets. TALKING PICTURES TALKING WINTER Mondays, 8 Jan Mar12 – (10 sessions) Tuesdays, 9 Jan Mar – 13 10.30am – 12pm (10 sessions) Price: £84 / £73.50 conc. (£80 / £70 conc. Members) your love of film with this Share discussions 10-week course of group – led by tutor Alan Seaman – that put the cinema week into focus. The price includes a cup of tea/ and a ticket to the 1pm or coffee following 1.30pm film screening your session.

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Action films like Kill Bill, and Mad Max: the Dragon Tattoo powerful female Fury Road feature take a closer look at characters. We in women of ‘strong’ representations contemporary action cinema. Sat 10.30am 7 Apr, − 4pm Price: £16 ACTION CINEMA & 2000 SINCE FEMINISM An exploration of how three An exploration of how three responsible dominant film cultures gay/ for some of the most revered lesbian/queer films – Britain, the LGBT+ and America – represent community in modern cinema. Sat 24 Feb, 10.30am − 4pm Price: £16 NATIONAL QUEER QUEER NATIONAL CINEMAS Considered by some to be a modernConsidered burst on auteur, to the scene in 1991 with Reservoir we’ll look at how heDogs. Here, narrative and style,subverts genre, race and sexuality, and represents violence in his films. QUENTIN TARANTINO QUENTIN Sat 27 Jan, 10.30am − 4pm Price: £16 ONE DAY COURSES ONE DAY

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0116 242 2800 PHOENIX.ORG.UK 6 7 ROYAL SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE ROYAL COMPANY TWELFTH NIGHT 14 Feb, 7pm Wed MACBETH 7pm 11 Apr, Wed JULIET AND ROMEO 18 Jul, 7pm Wed THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR 12 Sep, 7pm Wed PHILHARMONIKA SIR SIMON RATTLE’S FAREWELL CONCERT 20 Jun, 6.30pm Wed BOLSHOI BALLET JULIET AND ROMEO Sun 21 Jan, 3pm THE LADY OF THE CAMELLIAS Sun 4 Feb, 3pm THE FLAMES OF PARIS 3pm Sun 4 Mar, ALL’OPERA LA BOHÈME 7pm 18 Apr, Wed PASQUALE DON 7pm 8 May, Tue LE CORSAIRE 6 Jun, 7pm Wed onwards. help, we’ve marked To them with... MEMBER DISCOUNT NOW £2 NOW MEMBER DISCOUNT on all new shows added to the programme Sep from 2017 11 NOW --- SALE ON --- TICKETS STAGE ON STAGE SCREEN EXHIBITION ON SCREEN CEZANNE – PORTAITS OF A LIFE 23 Jan, 6.30pm Tue Sun 28 Jan, 3.30pm VINCENT GOGH: VAN OF SEEINGA NEW WAY 6.30pm 20 Mar, Tue 6.30pm 3 Apr, Tue MONET CLAUDE I, 6.30pm 22 May, Tue 3.30pm Sun 27 May, NT LIVE FOLLIES 9 Jan, 7.30pm Tue ON A HOTCAT TIN ROOF Thu 22 Feb, 7pm 27 Feb, 7.30pm Tue JULIUS CAESAR 7pm Thu 22 Mar, MACBETH 7pm Thu 10 May, See some of the world’s See some of the world’s stage shows and greatest exhibitions on our cinema Check our website for screens. £10. full listings. Tickets from PG FAMILY FAVOURITE: IRONTHE GIANT Sat 27 – Sun 28 Jan USA 1999, 1hr 26mins member chooses Each month a staff their favourite family film: this month assistant Ali Carpenter- Box Office Giant. Hughes chooses The Iron adaptation “This affectionate story will Hughes’ short of Ted and adults alike. appeal to children With visual slapstick humour and loveable characters finding unusual the friendships in a fearful society, a positive message that film shares and questions ok to be different it’s Themes what it is to have ‘humanity.’ of loneliness and loss might get you teary-eyed but ultimately The Giant is a joyous celebration Iron of friendship and hope.” but booking required. Free must be accompanied by Children an adult. Best for ages 4 – 9. PG PG Sat 20 – Sun Jan 21 UK/France 2017, 1hr 43mins Another chance to catch the of our favourite latest adventures When marmalade-loving bear. his special gift for Aunt Lucy’s up to 100th birthday is stolen it’s Paddington to catch the thief. LU OVER THE WALL OVER LU Sat – Sun Jan 13 14 Japan 2017, 1hr 52mins more Kai is a quiet teenager, content to be in his bedroom making music than out with friends. After he is persuaded to join a band, roused he finds that his music has a mermaid called Lu who has two overwhelming obsessions: music, and Kai himself. 2 PADDINGTON Inspired by our exhibition Changing Inspired Places, in this workshop we’ll use stop-motion animation to make a short film that looks at the St fascinating history of Leicester’s – now known as the area George’s Cultural Quarter.

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FAMILY WORKSHOP FAMILY Sat 20 Jan, – 12.30pm 11am & 2pm – 3.30pm booking required Free, KIDS GET CREATIVE Based on RJ Palacio’s best-selling Based on RJ Palacio’s novel. Auggie has facial children’s spent his life and has differences in and out of hospital. When he determined to starts school, he’s just an ordinary show everyone he’s kid, but some tough challenges lay ahead. Heartwarming and – in equal measure heartbreaking bring a hankie! Fri 5 – Sun 7 Jan USA/Hong Kong 2017, 1hr 53mins WONDER

Ferdinand is a gentle giant of Ferdinand mistaken for a bull, but when he’s captured beast he’s a dangerous his home. and taken from Determined to escape his captors he rallies to his family, and return a misfit team to help him. FERDINAND Fri 29 Dec – Mon8 Jan USA 2017, 1hr 46mins Spend some quality family Spend some quality family time at Phoenix: we’ve films and free got great activities to keep creative you and your little ones entertained.

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WARS: STAR THE LAST JEDI Wed 3 Jan, 11am THE RED SHOES Jan,Wed 10 10.30am in Open to all, screening partnership with The University Age (U3A) of the Third HOUR DARKEST Jan,Wed 17 11am BILLBOARDS THREE OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Wed 24 Jan, 11am THE POST Jan,Wed 31 11am Matinee screenings for just for just screenings Matinee refreshments. £6 including SILVER SILVER SCREENINGS Impeccably directed by Wright and by Wright Impeccably directed with a supporting cast that includes and Ben Mendelsohn, Samuel West Ronald Pickup, Darkest Hour will be contender for statuettes a strong season. during awards PG 12A DARKEST HOUR DARKEST – ThuFri 12 25 Jan Dir: Joe Wright Cast: Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas UK, 2017, 2hrs 5mins complete Gary Oldman’s transformation into Winston is just one of many Churchill wonders in Joe Wright’s (Atonement) eagerly anticipated new film. Newly appointed as Prime Winston must Churchill Minister, decide whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue fighting against powerful German an increasingly With tension mounting as the army. odds stack up against the Allies, must make a choice that Churchill would change a generation. MOUNTAINS MAY MAY MOUNTAINS DEPART Jan – Thu 9 Tue 11 Dir: Zhang-Ke Jia Zhang, Jing Dong Zhao, Yi Cast: Tao China/France/Japan 2015, 2hrs 6mins, subtitled his critically Zhang-Ke Jia follows up of Sin with a film A Touch adored We force. packed with emotional 26 Zhao) across follow Shen (Tao Chinese years of rapidly changing becomes society as she falls in love, her family and moves from a mother, this seemingly slight home. From a film that Jia has created premise, calls “as finely staged the LA Times and and acted, as sorrowful transcendent, as anything ever to MyPhoenix grace the screen”. Members and Friends tickets £5. 15 PG STRONGER Mon Jan 8 – Thu 11 Green Dir: David Gordon Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal USA 2017, 1hr 59mins Hotly tipped to finally achieve Best Actor Oscar success, Jake Gyllenhall Bauman, a man who plays Jeff became a symbol of hope and after surviving the 2013 strength Boston Marathon bombing. Losing both of his legs in the attack, Bauman must learn to cope with his new life and his new-found fame. Backed by compelling performances Maslany (Orphan Black) Tatiana from Gyllenhall’s and Miranda Richardson, physicality commanding intensity, shows the very and humour, meaning of ‘Boston Strong‘. WONDER Fri 5 – Sun Jan 7 Dir: Stephen Chbosky Julia Roberts, Cast: Jacob Tremblay, Owen Wilson USA 2017, 1hr 53mins novel by Based on the best-selling tells the RJ Palacio, Wonder heart-warming story of Auggie Pullman, a boy born with facial who, after undergoing differences is now years of hospital treatment, learning to navigate his way through around elementary school. As those his him struggle to accept and strength Auggie’s difference, and unites determination inspires the town. A big hit at the US box is a truly touching Wonder office, family film. 12A personality, yet has a touchingly yet has personality, With throughout. a human streak star studded cast including Michelle pure, Williams it’s and Zac Efron, unadulterated Hollywood entertainment. HUMAN FLOW Fri 5 – Mon 8 Jan Dir: Ai Weiwei 2017, 2hrs 20mins, subtitled (parts) returns Renowned artist Ai Weiwei to cinema for a blistering documentary about the worldwide crisis. Using drone refugee 23 across photography captured countries, Human Flow charts the displacement of the 65 million globe as they the across refugees endeavour to make new lives for themselves. Garnering rave reviews, film is a timely and urgent Weiwei’s portrait of human need and perseverance. 15 PG SUBURBICON Fri 5 – Mon 8 Jan Clooney Dir: George Cast: Matt Damon, Oscar Isaac, Julianne Moore UK/USA 2017, 1hr 44mins outing for George The sixth directorial Clooney is set within the “idyllic” all-white American community of Suburbicon. A hot summer in 1959, at theand when a brutal break-in home of finance executive Gardner Lodge (Damon) coincides with an African-American family moving into the neighbourhood, it stirs up a seething underbelly of prejudice lurking beneath the white picket fence facade. Scripted by the , is shot through this creepy with their trademark dark humour. THE GREATEST THE GREATEST SHOWMAN Fri Jan 5 – Thu 11 Dir: Michael Gracey Cast: Hugh Jackman, , Ferguson USA 2017, 1hr 45mins vividly brought and legend are Truth that is to life in a brand new musical at as big and bold as the character is on fine Hugh Jackman its centre. vocal form as PT Barnum – and politician, businessman showman’ ‘greatest self-proclaimed the – as he sets out to create Written Barnum and Bailey Circus. of Dream by Bill Condon (director Girls and Beauty and the Beast) and featuring music by Benj Pasek (La La Showman Land), The Greatest exuberant conveys Barnum’s 12A 15 15

CONTINUED FROM LAST MONTH LAST FROM CONTINUED Anne (Huppert) is the head of a Anne (Huppert) is the head family in wealthy bourgeoisie estate Calais, running her family’s and trying to corral her English (Jones), dementia- lover Lawrence father and deadbeat son. suffering Fri 29 Dec – Thu Jan 4 (excl. 1 Jan) Dir: Michael Haneke Jones Cast: , Toby subtitled Fra/Aus/Ger 2017, 1hr 48mins, HAPPY END HAPPY The next chapter in the Star Wars in the Star Wars The next chapter begin her training saga sees Rey Sykwalker. under the tutelage of Luke With raging between the conflict will Rey and the First Order, resistance face the powerful Kylo Ren? to be ready Thu Dec – Thu 14 4 Jan (excl. 25 Dec Jan) & 1 Dir: Rian Johnson John Boyega Cast: Daisy Ridley, 30mins USA 2017, 2hrs STAR WARS: WARS: STAR THE LAST JEDI Kept hidden in the house by his for all of his life, James’s ‘parents’ only access to the outside world is the TV show Brigsby Bear. When and released, James is discovered he finds out his favourite show was for him. Withoutmade entirely new episodes to sustain him, James decides to make the show himself. by Andy Samberg Produced Nine Nine) and featuring (Brooklyn of American comedy a who’s-who talent, this is a moving and hilarious celebration of creativity. Tue 2 – ThuTue 4 Jan Dir: Dave McCary Hamill, Marc Cast: Kyle Mooney, Jane Adams USA 2017, 1hr 37mins BRIGSBY BEAR BOX OFFICE BOOK ONLINE Available as Silver Screenings – see p9

0116 242 2800 PHOENIX.ORG.UK 10 11 15 RESTORED CLASSICRESTORED chief of police William Willoughby of ineptitude. When (Harrelson) impulsive deputy Willoughby’s things (Rockwell) gets involved, spiral violently out of control. Lightening its jet black comedy with moments of deep compassion, this is an essential film. THE SILENCE OF LAMBSTHE Sat 20 – Sun Jan 21 Dir: Jonathan Demme Anthony Hopkins Cast: , USA 1991, 1hr 59mins Once seen never forgotten, The Silence of the Lambs is as shocking and vital as ever in this A killer named 4k restoration. young Bill is targeting Buffalo women, but the FBI has no leads on the case. Clarice Starling (Foster) a monster to catch must confront getting insight into the a monster, cannibal and psychiatrist, killer from Anthony Hopkins Hannibal Lecter. gives a powerhouse performance as Lecter making him simultaneously magnetic and repellent. 18 15 BATTLE ROYALE ROYALE BATTLE Jan,Fri 19 8.45pm Dir: Kinji Fukasaku Fujiwara, Cast: Tatsuya Kitano Takeshi Japan 2000, 1hr 54mins The Social Cinema is delighted to the immensely influential present Battle Royale. In a dystopian future, government authoritarian Japan’s has instigated the Battle Royale the to control Act in an effort a population. This act forces selected class of high-school students to take part in an annual fight to the death on a specially and designed island. Controversial though firmly played for gory, laughs, who will survive and what will be left of them? THREE BILLBOARDS BILLBOARDS THREE OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI JanFri 19 – Thu 1 Feb Dir: Martin McDonagh Cast: Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell Harrelson, Woody UK/USA 2017, 1hr 55mins Frances McDormand gives a mesmerising performance in Martin critically lauded McDonagh’s . follow-up to Seven Psychopaths been seven months since the It’s Hayes’ daughter, Mildred of murder have yet the local police department responsible. failed to find those by grief and frustrated Wracked Mildred by the lack of results, (McDormand) takes out advertising accusing billboards space on three PG 15 WALK WITH ME WALK Mon 22 – Thu 25 Jan J Francis, Max Pugh Dir: Marc Cast: Thich Nhát Hanh UK 2017, 1hr 34mins, subtitled (parts) Featuring a narration by Benedict With Me takes Cumberbatch, Walk us deep inside the world-famous monastery of Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhát Hanh. With unprecedented access, this intimate and engrossing a the life of documentary captures monastic community who have given up their possessions for one common purpose – to practice the art of mindfulness. Filmed over three With Me is a meditation years, Walk on a community determined to develop a deep sense of presence for all those they love. MyPhoenix Members and Friends tickets £5. THE DEATH DEATH THE OF STALIN Mon – Thu Jan 15 18 Dir: Cast: Simon Russell Beale, Steve Buscemi France/UK 2017, 1hr 47mins ArmandoBack by popular demand. Iannucci ‘s (The Thick of It, Veep) depicts the frenzied hilarious satire political chicanery that immediately Stalin followed the death of Joseph in 1953. As a host of Stalin’s things get underlings vie for power, underhand as they try increasingly the to fill the vacuum left by Laugh out loud demise. dictator’s funny and at times gloriously sweary, brilliant The Death of Stalin’s all on top form. ensemble cast are Les and 18 on 35mm, . Nobody knows what Eagle vs Shark , 12A Mean Streets Run Lola Run REY – Thu Jan 16 18 Tue Dir: Niles Atallah Cast: Rodrigo Lisboa, Claudio Riveros Chile/France 2017, 1hr 30mins, subtitled of lawyer dreamed In 1860, a French becoming the King of Patagonia… and he did just that. Or so it seems. Filling the frame with eye-catching of using a variety imagery created film styles including stop motion, a film as Niles Atallah creates beguiling and enigmatic as its synopsis suggests. Garneringofficial comparisons to Jan Svenkmajer and Michel Gondry as well as Stan experiments with the Brakhage’s physical surface of his film stock, MyPhoenix joy. Rey is an off-kilter Members and Friends tickets £5. MYSTERY FILM Jan,Fri 12 6.15pm voyage into the Join us as we 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 18 certificate. classification up to an for are As such, these screenings only. over-18s Choristes 15 squeamish but it is ludicrously squeamish but it is ludicrously entirely entertaining. Screening on 35mm. THE PRINCE OF NOTHINGWOOD – MonFri Jan 12 15 Dir: Sonia Kronlund Cast: Qurban Ali, Sonia Kronlund France/Germany 2017, 1hr 25mins during to rave reviews Screening Fortnight at Cannes, Sonia Director’s documentary takes as its Kronlund’s subject an utterly unique character – Salim Saheen, known as the Ed of Afghanistan. Saheen has Wood financed, filmed and self-distributed becoming features, over a hundred in his war-torn a celebrity and hero homeland. 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Frankie is a bored teenager desperateFrankie is a bored life. to escape his dull Brooklyn He fills his days spending time with his new girlfriend, experimenting with drugs and chatting to older men on the internet. Harris Dickinson is astonishing as Frankie, subtly portraying the confusions, frustrations and excitement of self-discovery. soulful version Playing like a more Kids, Eliza Hittman’s of Larry Clarke’s film won the directing sophomore at the award and marks her as a filmmaker to watch. BEACH RATS – Sun JanFri 12 14 Dir: Eliza Hittman Cast: Harris Dickinson, Madeline Weinstein USA 2017, 1hr 36mins Leaving restraint and good taste at Leaving restraint 100th film Miike’s Takashi the door, all the better is brutal, unhinged and for it. Based on the popular tells series, Blade of the Immortal samurai the story of Manji, a skilled Reminded cursed with immortality. Manji offers of his own dead sister, take to help young orphan Rin on those who killed her revenge With swimming pools worth family. film is not for the of blood, Miike’s Fri 12 – ThuFri Jan 12 18 Miike Dir: Takashi Kimura, Hana Sugisaki Cast: Takuya Japan/UK 2017, 2hrs 21mins, subtitled BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL BOX OFFICE BOOK ONLINE Available as Silver Screenings – see p9

0116 242 2800 PHOENIX.ORG.UK 12 13 PG PG PG 15 CINEMA CINEMA PG DESCRIPTIVE SUBTITLES DESCRIBED AUDIO FRIENDLY AUTISM BRIGSBY BEAR 2 Jan,Tue 6.15pm THE GREATEST SHOWMAN 9 Jan,Tue 5.15pm HOUR DARKEST Jan, 16 Tue 6pm HOUR DARKEST Jan,Fri 19 1pm Disability needn’t be needn’t Disability enjoying film. a barrier to system in have an infrared We enables which both our screens a sight or hearing people with personal headset loss to use a film audio described to hear the the alongside the action in film or to hear an amplified dialogue track. headsets to buy more like We’d people, so we can cater for more including guide dog groups needs and special educational school groups. up a crowd-funding set We’ve we appeal to raise the money need – visit spacehive.com/ phoenix-access-cinema-appeal and make a to find out more donation. With your support, difference. we can make a real LU OVER THE WALL OVER LU Sat Jan, 13 10.30am ACCESS ACCESS APPEAL ACCESS PG THE WAGES THE WAGES OF FEAR Fri 26 Sat – 27 Jan Clouzot Dir: Henri-Georges Montand, Fulco Lulli, Cast: Yves Eyck Peter Van /France 1953, 2hrs 11mins, subtitled of Fear has no “The Wages superior in the field of action- ” – The Guardian. In an unnamed South American four down on their luck country, drive two trucks to hired men are to of highly volatile nitroglycerine oil field. The pressure a remote to forced builds as they are navigate over perilous terrain knowing that the chemical could explode at any moment. A masterpiece of suspense, and stripped rugged Clouzot’s down film never lets the tension for a single frame. drop 12A THE HITCH-HIKERTHE Sat – Sun Jan 13 14 Dir: Ida Lupino Cast: Edmund O’Brien, USA 1953, 1hr 11mins and Lovejoy) friends (O’Brien Two a fishing trip from returning are when they pick up a hitchhiker But they soon (). their mistake as he forces realise fleeing country, them to drive across telling them he’ll a killing spree, their kill them when they reach destination. With a runtime just Ida Lupino crafted a over an hour, that short, sharp burst of adrenaline deserves to become a classic of the thriller genre. The final instalment of this nail-biting and suspense-filledUK-wide season, screening at Phoenix in partnership with the Independent Cinema office as part of BFI Thriller on Tour. THRILLER SEASON 15 government to publish the With Streep paper. controversial and Hanks in fine form alongside a superb supporting cast, Steven latest is timely, Spielberg’s important cinema. LOVER FOR A DAY FOR LOVER Sat 30 Jan 27 – Tue Dir: Philippe Garrel Cast: Éric Caravaca, Esther Garrel France 2017, 1hr 16mins, subtitled In an attempt to get over the recent of her relationship, breakdown real-life Jeanne (Esther Garrel, moves daughter of the director) a philosophy in with her father, Jeanne soon However, professor. has discovers that her presence new got in the way of her father’s with one of his students. relationship Filmed in beautiful monochrome, auteur Philippe Garrel’s New Wave is another pin-sharp latest offering and study of men, women, romance morality in contemporary Paris. 12A THE POST Fri 26 Jan – Thu 8 Feb Dir: Steven Spielberg Hanks, Tom Cast: , Sarah Paulson USA 2017, 1hr 56mins The Post depicts the true story of ‘Pentagon the fight to publish the Defence Papers’, a Department of in history of US participation Vietnam. Discovering that four had successive US presidencies up been involved in covering in Vietnam,details of military activity first female newspaper America’s Kate Graham (Streep) publisher, Post and its of The Washington Ben Bradlee editor, hard-driving (Hanks), join an unprecedented battle between journalists and

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(The West Wing) Sorkin (The West Aaron makes his long awaited directorial , based on Game debut with Molly’s memoir. best-selling Molly Bloom’s to her lawyer in flashbacks Told by the (Elba) after she is arrested journey FBI, the film charts Molly’s Olympic skiing to running the from most exclusive underground world’s poker game. Chastain excels with whip-crack dialogue, Sorkin’s demonstrating both the strength persona in and brittleness of Molly’s excess. a world of adrenaline-fuelled Fri 26 Jan – Thu 1 Feb Sorkin Dir: Aaron Cast: , Idris Elba, Kevin Costner USA 2017, 2hrs 20mins MOLLY’S GAME MOLLY’S Brad Sloan (Stiller) is a man in crisis. Brad Sloan (Stiller) is a man his that most of After realising and friends have become famous moved wealthy whilst he has hardly to on, he decides that he needs his his own life. Taking re-evaluate on the teenage son to visit colleges at East Coast, both find themselves wondering what their crossroads shines next steps will bring. Stiller in a performancefilm which, like the itself, is both funny and poignant. Mon 22 – Thu 25 Jan Dir: Mike White Jenna Fischer, Cast: Ben Stiller, Jemaine Clement USA 2017, 1hr 42mins BRAD’S STATUS BRAD’S STATUS Access Cinema Silver Screening Stage on Screen MyPhoenix Passport BOX OFFICE BOOK ONLINE JANUARY 2018 Lazy Sunday Thriller Season Course Members tickets £5 0116 242 2800 PHOENIX.ORG.UK

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