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“And the winner is…” Ah, the starring Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya, which COMING NEXT MONTH ART & anticipation as those golden caused a sensation in the US. DIGITAL envelopes are oh-so-slowly We celebrate LGBT History Month with CULTURE opened and the cameras home in DMU’s Pride season, and following its on the faces of hopeful recipients, preview here in December the stunning P. 14 Portrait of a Lady on Fire begins a two- all trying to look like they’re not DARK WATERS week run at the end of February. in the least bit bothered by the impending announcement. It’s also the welcome return of our annual showcase of Japanese films from the February is awards season – and as ever, Japan Foundation, which kicks off on Sat Phoenix brings you a marvellous mix of 1 Feb with My Love Story!!. GREED headline-grabbing movies. We’ve got great family films and there’ll Highlights this month include Academy be loads of fun, free activities at half term Award-nominated Korean thriller as part of this year’s Spark Festival. Parasite, which has already won the Plus we turn off the lights for Comedy MILITARY WIVES Palme D’Or and a Golden Globe; Robert in the Dark for the Leicester Comedy Eggers’ psychological horror The Made possible with the support of Festival. Big names, big laughs, pitch dark! Lighthouse; biopic A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, which has earned Tom Whatever you’re into, Hanks BAFTA and Oscar nominations for you’ll find it at Phoenix. best supporting actor; a new version of Jane Austen’s Emma, from debut director

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JUMANJI: THE PAW PATROL: READY, The Spark Festival returns soft play area; or enjoy a to playing court jester in NEXT LEVEL 12A RACE, RESCUE! U to Phoenix, taking over mini-silent disco where you the court of a cartoon king.

Sat 1 – Sun 2 Feb TICKETS Fri 21 – Sun 23 Feb TICKETS the building with cutting can change the sounds by Sat 8 – Sun 9 Feb £3 Can 2019, 48mins £3 edge interactive artworks, dancing! And for our Spark Festival USA 2019, 2hrs 3mins It’s the Adventure Bay 500. The creative games and cinema, our friends at Flatpack As the gang return to Jumanji pups have built an awesome race amazing animations. There’ll be a host of virtual have put together a brilliant to rescue a player, they discover track and are ready to be the and augmented reality selection of animated short that the game is actually broken pit crew for legendary racer The COMEDY IN THE DARK You can play with a wonderful experiences for you to try – films from across the world. and is starting to fight back! They’ll Whoosh. But when he’s unable to FOR KIDS need to brave unknown dangers drive in the championship race, The Sat 15 and Sat 22 Feb array of colours and shapes in from making 3D sculptures to escape the world's most Whoosh calls on his biggest fan-pup 6pm, doors open 5.45pm a series of interactive pieces in an immersive virtual world, Suitable for ages 4 – 13. dangerous game. Marshall to take his place! Pawsome Tickets £7 by brilliant Midlands-based Check our website for entertainment for your little ones. artist Will Hurt; work with additional age guidance A special family version of Comedy SPIES IN DISGUISE PG THE RUNAWAYS 12A in the Dark at Leicester Comedy Welsh collective Pyka to turn for specific activities.

Tue 18 – Thu 20 Feb Fri 14 – Sun 16 Feb Festival. It’s still comedy, and old, unloved objects into TICKETS USA 2019, 1hr 42mins UK 2020, 1hr 53mins it’s still pitch black! Acts include awesome musical instruments; p8 – see Matinees Midweek as Available £3 Howard Read, Laura Davis, Samson dive into our interactive When super suave spy Lance When their home life is turned & Mabel, Stuart Goldsmith and Sterling is somehow turned into on its head, three children and more. A perfect family show for a pigeon (!), it’s up to his geeky their donkeys escape across the half-term giggles! Recommended ALL ACTIVITIES tech officer Walter to save the day. North Yorkshire moors, facing up for ages 8-12. Children must be ARE FREE AND A fun animated caper, voiced by to the harsh landscape and sibling accompanied by a paying adult. DROP-IN Will Smith and Tom Holland. relationships. A splendid modern children's adventure film.

MRS DOUBTFIRE 12A Sat 29 Feb – Sun 1 Mar FAMILY WORKSHOP TICKETS UK 1993, 2hrs £3 COLOUR-A-FRAME Help us create a mini-animation This much-loved 90s comedy was WORKSHOP by colouring in individual pictures the perfect vehicle for Robin Williams' Sat 8 Feb, 12pm – 4pm (called frames) that we’ll then combine unique talent and manic energy. With Free, drop-in using a clever piece of software. a superb supporting cast, including Part of Cultural Quarter Earlies. No Sally Field and Pierce Brosnan, it need to book for this free, drop-in really is as good as you remember. workshop. Suitable for ages 3+. 4 5 MyPhoenix Members and Friends tickets £5 BREAKFAST ON PLUTO 15 Wed 12 Feb, 6.15pm Dir: Neil Jordan 18 Cast: Cillian Murphy, Sun 16 Feb, 3pm Brendon Gleeson Dir: THE JAPAN FOUNDATION Ire/UK 2005, 2hrs 4mins Cast: Ryota Katayose, Rina Kawaei TOURING FILM PROGRAMME 2020 Japan 2019, 1hr 36mins “Enchanting and hopeful” – rogerebert.com. Abandoned director Masaaki Yuasa #DMU on the steps of the rectory in a (Lu Over the Wall) returns with this small Irish town, baby Patrick quirky love story. Student and avid PRIDE 2020 is found by the local priest and HAPPINESS IS A STATE surfer Hinako (Kawaei) falls in love We’re please to present placed in foster care. By the time with Minato (Katayose) but when he's a teen in the 1970s, Patrick OF MIND: JOY AND DESPAIR he loses his life at sea, Hinako a short season of films (Murphy) identifies as transgender, can no longer bear to even look in partnership with De renames himself Kitten and sets IN JAPANESE CINEMA at the ocean. One day Hinako out for London with a glam rock sings a song that reminds her of Montfort University Since 2004 the Japan Foundation has showcased some The season continues in group in the hope of finding their time together, and Minato as part of #DMUpride, his mother. Cillian Murphy was of the finest Japanese films, and now the UK’s largest March, and full details of appears in the water. From then on, nominated for a Golden Globe for festival of Japanese cinema is back for its 17th edition, the entire programme are she can summon him in any water. marking LGBT History his mesmerising performance in this year with the universal theme of ‘happiness’. available on our website. But can the pair really be together? Month 2020. Jordan’s comedy drama.

VITA & VIRGINIA 12A MY BEAUTIFUL MY LOVE STORY!! 18 I GO GAGA, HER SKETCHBOOK THE ACTOR 18 Fri 7 Feb, 8pm LAUNDRETTE 15 Sat 1 Feb, 6.30pm MY DEAR 18 + Q&A 18 Tue 25 Feb, 6.15pm Dir: Chanya Button Wed 19 Feb, 6.15pm Dir: Hayato Kawai Tue 11 Feb, 6.15pm Wed 5 Feb, 6.30pm Dir: Satoko Yokohama Cast: Gemma Arterton, Dir: Stephen Frears Cast: Ryohei Suzuki, Mei Nagano Dir: Naoko Nobutomo Dir: Masaya Ozaki Cast: Ken Yasuda, Elizabeth Debicki Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Japan 2015, 1hr 45mins, subtitled Japan 2018, 1hr 42mins, subtitled Cast: Mugi Kadowaki, Takahiro Miura Kumiko Aso, Shohei Uno Ire/UK 2018, 1hr 50mins Gordon Warnecke Japan 2017, 1hr 46mins, subtitled Japan 2016, 2hrs 3mins UK 1985, 1hr 37mins Freshman Takeo (Suzuki) is a When TV documentary maker “ – Fizzes with emotion” loveable giant admired by his Naoko Nobutomo began to notice Mami (Kadowaki, A Double Life) Satoko Yokohama’s (Bare Essence – The Times. Based on Eileen  – Empire. Omar, a young male classmates, but unfortunately gradual changes affecting her rarely leaves home since she of Life) first feature in six years is Atkins’ play of the same name, Pakistani man, is reunited with his girls are put off by his hulking elderly mother she decided to turn dropped out of school, and spends a heartwarming comedy about this biopic focuses on the former lover Johnny (Day-Lewis) appearance and tend to fall for his the camera on her parents’ life to her days in her room immersed in a thirty-something jobbing actor passionate relationship between and together they attempt to best friend instead. But everything document their everyday routines. her favourite manga. But when her who’s reached a crossroads in his Vita Sackville-West (Arterton) turn around a laundrette business changes one day when he rescues In her feature film debut Nobutomo father finds her a job as a video life. Takuji Kameoka (Yasuda, TEAM and Virginia Woolf (Debicki). owned by Omar’s uncle. Adapted a female student named Rinko has created an intimate portrait of the game tester she bravely steps NACS, in his first starring film role) Meeting in 1920s London, the two for the screen by Hanif Kureishi (Nagano) from a tricky situation on highs and lows of a family living with out of her comfort zone to re-join is single, loves to drink, and spends writers – who were both married from his own novel (earning him a train. A live action version of the Alzheimer’s, and the reality of geriatric society. The film shines a light on his life shuttling between sets and – embarked on an affair that later an Oscar nomination), this iconic popular TV anime. care in Japan’s ageing society. the Japanese phenomenon of bars. Then, when he’s on yet another inspired Woolf’s experimental Thatcher-era cross-cultural love hikikomori – people who choose location shoot, Kameoka meets 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography. story is a study of contrasts in to withdraw from society due to a female bar owner (Aso) and falls Expressive cinematography, British society – between rich social phobia and other reasons. in love at first sight. sumptuous costumes and a bold and poor, between the classes, We'll be joined by director Masaya Celebrating Major Sponsors Sponsor in Kind Cultural Partner Films without BBFC certification can soundtrack by Isobel Waller- between native British and Full Suite of Logo Lock-ups Ozaki for an exclusive Q&A only be screened to over 18s: this does Bridge (sibling of Phoebe) create a immigrant groups, between following the screening. not necessarily indicate that the films period piece with a modern edge. straight and gay. 6 7 contain adult content. 0116 242 2800 BOX OFFICE CONTINUED FROM LAST MONTH

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Fri 7 – Thu 20 Feb MONONOKE 12A Wed 12 Feb, 8.30pm Fri 14 Feb, 6.15pm PHOENIX.ORG.UK BOOK ONLINE Dir: Bong Joon-ho Sat 8 – Sun 9 Feb £1 per team member, Tickets £4 Cast: Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee Dir: max 6 players per team S Korea 2019, 2hrs 2mins, subtitled Japan 1997, 2hrs 8mins, subtitled Journey into the unknown with our THE PERSONAL Test your film knowledge at our mystery film night. Each month a HISTORY OF DAVID – Time Out. Winning Chosen to screen by the victorious monthly quiz night. Enjoy fun and film is chosen by a Phoenix staff COPPERFIELD PG this year’s Golden Globe for Best team at our special 10th birthday unique themed rounds to cater for member and the title is a closely Fri 24 Jan – Thu 6 Feb Foreign Language Film and hotly film quiz, Hayao Miyazaki’s epic is film buffs and casual fans alike, and guarded secret until the lights UK/USA 2019, 1hr 59mins tipped for BAFTA and Oscar one of the crowning achievements you’ll be in with a chance to win go down and the film begins to success, Parasite is one of 2020’s of his beloved animation company some splendid prizes. roll. With previous films including most anticipated films. Kim Ki-teak’s Studio Ghibli. Gremlins (as last month's Christmas BOMBSHELL 15 family are all unemployed and living is a mythic masterpiece that tells No need to book – tables are first treat), Mean Streets, Bonjour Fri 31 Jan – Thu 6 Feb in a squalid basement. When his son the tale of warrior prince Ashitaka, come, first served. Come down and Tristesse, Twelve Angry Men and Can/USA 2019, 1hr 49mins gets a tutoring job with the wealthy who is cursed by a demon god and have a great night’s quizzing. Modern Times, who knows what’s Park family, the Kims’ luck changes. must journey to the West to find a coming next? There’s only one way They gradually infiltrate the Park cure. Along the way, he encounters to find out… WAVES 15 home, attempting to take over their changes gears, keeping the San, a young woman fighting to Fri 31 Jan – Thu 6 Feb affluent lifestyle. With Hitchcockian audience on the edge of their seats protect the forest. The Mystery Film may be any classification USA 2019, 2hrs 16mins mastery, director Bong Joon-ho and raising the stakes to dizzyingly up to an 18 certificate. As such, these (Snowpiercer, Okja) relentlessly heart-pounding effect. screenings are for over-18s only.

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BOMBSHELL 15 Wed 5 Feb, 11am A HIDDEN LIFE 12A OUTSIDE THE CITY PG LITTLE WOMEN U THE LIGHTHOUSE 15 THE RUNAWAYS 12A

Fri 7 – Thu 13 Feb Fri 7 – Sat 8 Feb and Fri 14 – Thu 20 Feb Fri 14 – Thu 20 Feb Fri 14 – Sun 16 Feb

PARASITE 15 Dir: Terrence Malick Mon 10 –Tue 11 Feb Dir: Greta Gerwig Dir: Robert Eggers Dir: Richard Heap p9 – see Matinees Midweek as Available Wed 12 Feb, 11am Cast: August Diehl, Valerie Pachner Dir: Nick Hamer Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Cast: Willem Dafoe, Cast: Mark Addy, Tara Fitzgerald Ger/USA 2019, 2hrs 54mins UK 2019, 1hr 22mins Timothée Chalamet Robert Pattinson UK 2019, 1hr 53mins LITTLE WOMEN U USA 2019, 2hrs 15mins Can/USA 2019, 1hr 49mins Wed 19 Feb, 11.30am “– An exquisite work Back by popular demand, Outside This new British independent of genius” – Evening Standard. the City tells the story of the monks – Guardian. Back due to  – Telegraph. Two men are production – made on a tiny budget EMMA CERT TBC Visionary writer-director Terrence of Leicestershire’s Mount St Bernard demand, a superb ensemble cast stationed to a remote lighthouse – has more heart, bittersweet Wed 26 Feb, 11am Malick (Days of Heaven, Tree of Abbey, a small community of 25 bring to life Greta Gerwig’s (Lady in New England in the 1890s: joy and empathy than any Life) returns with this epic historical men with many over 80 years old. Bird) new adaptation of Louisa May both men have secrets, and both blockbuster… plus donkeys, trains A BEAUTIFUL drama based on the real-life story Director Nick Hamer spent a year Alcott’s beloved coming-of-age gradually lose their minds in the and beautiful Yorkshire countryside DAY IN THE of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian with them, gaining privileged story. One of the earliest feminist isolation. Pattinson and Dafoe too! Siblings Angie, Ben and Polly NEIGHBORHOOD PG farmer and conscientious objector access to document their hidden novels, Little Women follows the (channelling Gregory Peck’s Captain live with their dad in Whitby. After Wed 26 Feb, 12pm who refused to fight for the Nazis lives as they attempt to open the March sisters as they make their way Ahab) are both superb, captured their family life is turned upside in World War II. Faced with the first Trappist brewery in the UK. from sheltered teenaged lives at by visionary director Robert Eggers down, the three children run away threat of execution for treason, The venture must succeed, if their home into the responsibilities and (The Witch) in gorgeously grainy with their donkeys, embarking on a it is Franz’s unwavering faith and his unique way of life is to survive. And challenges of adulthood in post- black and white. With its themes journey across the North Yorkshire love for his wife and children that as the monks reflect on spirituality, Civil War America. Academy Award of guilt, love, lust and madness, moors in a search of their estranged Programme details correct at time of keeps his spirit alive. ageing and death, there are more nominee Saoirse Ronan leads an The Lighthouse is one of the most mother. MyPhoenix Members and printing. Please check our website for burials in the abbey’s graveyard. incredible ensemble cast, including original and daring films of the year. Friends tickets £5. up-to-date information as changes are Meryl Streep, James Norton 8 9 sometimes necessary. (Grantchester) and Emma Watson. 0116 242 2800 BOX OFFICE

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Sat 15 and Sat 22 Feb WITH YOU 12A DON QUIXOTE 15 Fri 21 Feb – Thu 5 Mar Fri 21 – Tue 25 Feb PHOENIX.ORG.UK BOOK ONLINE 8pm, doors open 7.45pm Sat 15 – Sun 16 Feb Fri 21 – Tue 25 Feb Dir: Autumn de Wilde Dir: Clint Eastwood Tickets £10 Dir: Makoto Shinkai Dir: Terry Gilliam Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Nighy Cast: Paul Walter Hauser, Jon Hamm Advised 18+ show Cast: Kotari Daigo, Nana Mori Cast: Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce UK 2020, Runtime TBC USA 2019, 2hrs 11mins Jap 2019, 1hr 52mins, subtitled USA 2018, 2hrs 13mins Leicester’s annual comedy festival Jane Austen’s beloved comedy is This new film from Clint Eastwood returns to Phoenix with Comedy in From the director of 2016’s 30 years in the making, Terry reimagined in this delicious new is a slick and gripping thriller, based the Dark – a truly unique comedy international breakout hit Your Gilliam’s passion project finally satire of social class from debut on an incident that took place at the experience where comedians take Name – currently the highest arrives on screen! Struggling to director Autumn de Wilde. Fancying 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Dealing on the challenge of performing in grossing anime film of all time – make a commercial in rural Spain, ad herself a matchmaker, privileged with drunken revellers during the pitch black. Your favourite stand ups, this gorgeous new animation follows director Toby (Driver) visits the place young woman Emma Woodhouse celebrations in Centennial Park, one hour, no lights! Acts include teenager Hodaka who arrives in where, as a student a decade ago, decides to meddle in the affairs of security guard Richard Jewell Pascal Cameron, Laura Davis, Tokyo having run away from his he filmed a Don Quixote adaptation. her friends and family, but the path noticed a suspicious package under Mitch Benn, Robin Morgan, Helen high school. Befriending Hina, a Encountering Javier (Pryce) a man to true love never did run smooth. a bench and evacuated the area Bauer, Stuart Goldsmith, Tony Law mysterious girl who appears to be he cast in that film, he discovers that Blissfully playful, Emma calls to before it exploded. Jewell was and more to be announced. There’s able to manipulate the weather, Javier has become convinced he is mind recent Austen adaptation heralded as a hero, but FBI officers a family-friendly version too – see the two go into business together the real Don Quixote and Toby is his Love & Friendship, and has a superb became suspicious. Did he just get page 5 for details. offering blue skies for any event. loyal servant Sancho Panza. supporting cast including Josh Vanity Fair) and Bill Nighy delivering lucky? Or did this wanna-be police But social services and the police O’Connor (God’s Own Country, a wonderful rumpled turn as Emma’s officer plant the device himself? threaten to tear them part. The Durrells), Johnny Flynn (Beast, long-suffering father.

JUST MERCY 12A A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE MR JONES 15 PORTRAIT OF A

Mon 17 – Thu 20 Feb NEIGHBORHOOD PG Fri 21 – Thu 27 Feb LADY ON FIRE 15

Dir: Destin Daniel Cretton Fri 21 – Thu 27 Feb Dir: Agnieszka Holland Fri 28 Feb – Thu 12 Mar p8 – see Matinees Midweek as Available Cast: Brie Larson, Michael B Jordan Dir: Marielle Heller Cast: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby Dir: Céline Sciamma USA 2019, 2hrs 17mins Cast: Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys Pol/UK/Ukr 2019, 1hr 56mins Cast: Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel China/USA 2019, 1hr 49mins Fra 2019, 1hr 59mins, subtitled Based on a powerful and thought- “– Bold and heartfelt” – provoking true story, Just Mercy  – Guardian. Marielle Heller Guardian. Academy Award nominee  – Independent. stars Michael B Jordan as Bryan (The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Can Agnieszka Holland (In Darkness) Brittany, 1760. Artist Marianne is Stevenson, an idealistic young You Ever Forgive Me?) continues returns with this powerful real-life commissioned to paint the wedding lawyer who arrives in Alabama to to add to her impressive directorial story of Welsh journalist Gareth portrait of Héloïse, a young woman open a centre offering legal counsel CV with this heart-warming film Jones, who uncovered Stalin’s who has just left the convent. But for men wrongfully imprisoned based on a real article by journalist genocidal famine in Ukraine, Héloïse is a reluctant bride and on death row. Coming across the Tom Junod. Considering it beneath which killed almost 10 million Marianne must produce the portrait case of Walter McMillian (Foxx, him, acclaimed journalist Lloyd during The Holodomor of 1932 without her knowing – observing with his best performance in Vogel grudgingly agrees to write and 1933. With an outstanding her by day and secretly painting years) who has been waiting on a magazine profile on beloved performance from rising British star at night. Intimacy and attraction death row for 6 years, Stevenson children’s television host Fred passes, the men become friends and James Norton (Grantchester, The grow between the two women as with BAFTA and Golden Globe becomes determined to overturn Rogers. When they finally meet, Vogel learns to face his traumatic Trial of Christine Keeler), Mr Jones they share Héloïse’s first and last nominations for Best Foreign his conviction, but faces intense the naturally cynical Vogel can’t past with a new perspective. Tom is a timely story of journalism, truth moments of freedom. Winning Best Language Film, Sciamma has opposition from local law quite believe the kindly and selfless Hanks excels in a role he was born and a chilling lesson from history. Screenplay and the Queer Palm created a mesmerising, enforcement. Rogers is for real. But as time to play. at the Cannes Film Festival, and modern masterpiece. 10 11 0116 242 2800 BOX OFFICE

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DANIEL ISN’T REAL 15 QUEEN & SLIM 15 THE HOLY MOUNTAIN 18 ONE-DAY COURSES THE ART OF TALKING PICTURES

Wed 26 – Thu 27 Feb Fri 28 Feb – Mon 2 Mar Fri 28 Feb – Sat 29 Feb SCREENWRITING WINTER PHOENIX.ORG.UK BOOK ONLINE Dir: Adam Egypt Mortimer Dir: Melina Matsoukas Dir: Alejandro Jodorowsky Tuesdays, 11 Feb – 31 Mar 2020 Mondays, 6 Apr – 15 Jun Cast: Patrick Schwarzenegger, Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Cast: Alejandro Jodorowsky, THE GREAT WAR: 7pm – 9pm (10 sessions) Miles Robbins Jodie Turner-Smith Horacio Salinas WWI ON SCREEN Price: £96 / £80 conc / £72 Members Tuesdays, 7 Apr – 16 Jun USA 2019, 1hr 40mins Canada/USA 2019, 2hrs 12mins Mexico 1973, 1hr 53mins Sat 1 Feb, 10.30am – 4pm 10.30am – 12pm Price: £16 An intensive practical 8-week (10 sessions) From the producers of Mandy Melina Matsoukas’ debut feature is Jodorowsky’s surreal masterpiece course, covering all aspects of Price: £85 / £75 conc / £70 Members comes this mind-bending horror, a stylish, provocative story of race, arrives in a gorgeous new 4K Cinema has always wrestled with screenwriting and working in the film with a pulsating electronic score, love and escape. Out for dinner on restoration. In a corrupt, greed- the concept of war, as have artists industry, led by tutor Kenton Hall. Our regular 10-week course of about a young man tormented by a first date, Slim (Kaluuya, Get Out) fuelled world, a man wakes in the of all stripes. We examine the tutor-led group discussions. The his childhood imaginary friend. and Queen (Turner-Smith) are pulled desert. Making his way to a nearby effect on cinema of the First World price includes a cup of tea/coffee Troubled college freshman Luke over by police for a minor incident. town he finds a tower inhabited War and its aftermath. 30 GREATEST FOREIGN and a ticket to the 1pm or 1.30pm suffers a violent family trauma and But when the situation spirals by a guru known as the Alchemist, LANGUAGE FILMS film screening following your session. resurrects his imaginary friend Daniel drastically out of control the two and the man joins the Alchemist’s Thursdays, 12 Mar – 16 Apr 2020 to help him cope. Charismatic and must go on the run – hunted across party of wealthy, powerful people THE WALT DISNEY 2pm – 3.30pm full of manic energy, Daniel helps the country by law enforcement but on a pilgrimage to the Holy COMPANY EXAMINED Price: £75 / £65 conc / £60 Members 70s HOLLYWOOD Luke to achieve his dreams, before heralded as outlaw heroes by some Mountain seeking enlightenment. Sat 7 Mar, 10.30am – 4pm Thursdays, 15 May – 18 Jun pushing him to the very edge of in the black community. MyPhoenix Overwhelmingly odd and held Price: £16 Last year the BBC polled over 2pm – 3.30pm sanity and into a desperate struggle Members and Friends tickets £5. together with a gossamer dream- 200 international film critics to find Price: £75 / £65 conc / £60 Members for control of his mind – and his soul. logic, The Holy Mountain is an We take a look behind the scenes out their favourite movies made unforgettable cinematic experience. at Walt Disney to find out what in a language other than English. Jaws, All The President’s Men, makes the company one of the Join us for a 6-week countdown Apocalypse Now, Annie Hall: most successful entertainment of the top 30. the seventies was the period that providers ever, and explore their shook the studios. Join tutor Alan vast catalogue of films and recent Seaman for an exploration of the Regular screenings for people with differing business acquisitions. GRAHAM GREENE decade in which Hollywood turned ACCESS ON SCREEN radical and then conservative. access needs, to give all our customers the Thursdays, 27 Feb – 2 Apr CINEMA chance to enjoy a great cinema experience. DRAWN THAT WAY: 7pm – 8.30pm

Price: £75 / £65 conc / £60 Members A HISTORY OF FILM FILM SCHOOL: PART 2 ANIMATION Thursdays, 4 – 25 Jun Available as Midweek Matinees – see p8 – see Matinees Midweek as Available Audio Autism Descriptive Sat 18 Apr, 10.30am – 4pm Film adaptations of Graham 7pm – 9pm Described Friendly Subtitles Price: £16 Greene’s work have played a huge Price: £50 / £45 conc / £40 Members part in establishing his reputation. For our customers who are blind JUMANJI: THE A HIDDEN LIFE 12A Tutor Kenton Hall delves into the We take a visual tour of his life and Make a short film in just 4 weekly or have sight loss, many films now NEXT LEVEL 12A Wed 12 Feb, 8.15pm wonderful world of animation on work on screen. sessions, with our new course led by come with audio description, where Sat 8 Feb, 11am film – from early shorts to today’s Keith Allott. A fantastic opportunity a recorded narrator describes the blockbusters. for you to put into practice what you on-screen action during gaps in the For children and adults on the THE LIGHTHOUSE 15 FILM SCHOOL learned at Film School. dialogue. This is broadcast through autistic / Asperger’s spectrum, Wed 19 Feb, 6.10pm Thursdays, 9 Apr – 28 May Note: open to all, not just those who have wireless headsets so only the wearer these screenings have reduced WWII ON SCREEN 7pm – 9pm completed our Film School course. can hear. Headsets are available sound levels, partially raised Sat 2 May, 10.30am – 4pm Price: £96 / £80 conc / £72 Members at Box Office. Details of all films lighting, no trailers and freedom EMMA CERT TBC Price: £16 screening with audio description are to move around. Tue 25 Feb, 8.45pm Filmmaker and director Keith available on our website, or look out Just days before the 75th Allott leads our annual 8-week for the symbol in the brochure For anyone who is deaf or has anniversary of VE Day (on 8 May), practical introduction to filmmaking, film listings. hearing loss, we show subtitled we take a visual tour through films taking you step by step from pre- versions of the latest English about World War II, the people production through to the final language movies in our main cinema who experienced it, and the way edit of your film. DID YOU KNOW? You can use our headsets in any film screens. it changed the world. screening to hear amplified sound levels. Just ask at Box Office. 12 13 ART & DIGITAL CULTURE

THANATOS Fri 10 Jan – Sun 23 Feb

Multisensory installation Thanatos a sculpture modelled on an autopsy THANATOS PANEL TALK – a collaboration between artist table. It is also accompanied by + WORKSHOP Eric Fong, perfumer Euan McCall a short film evoking the intensity Sat 1 Feb, 1.30pm – 3.15pm and forensic anthropologist Dr of searching for a cadaver in a Free Anna Williams – takes the audience forest, and eerie photographs of on an olfactory journey from the staged crime scenes taken at the Explore the forensic research that scentscape of an open meadow Crime Scene House at the Forensic underpins the Thanatos exhibition to the middle of a secluded forest Anthropology Department at in this free panel talk and workshop where a decomposing body is Teesside University. from the team behind the project. discovered. Thanatos considers the bodily Join Dr Anna Williams for an Inspired by the observation that processes that occur after death and introduction to her cutting-edge some of the volatile organic the advances in forensic science that forensic research that has led to compounds (VOCs) produced by help us to better understand them. the identification of some of the decomposition are identical to some gases produced by decomposing FTP ARTIST MEET-UP: of the natural ingredients used in Thanatos is a collaboration between cadavers, and their potential for commercial perfumes, Thanatos is a artist Eric Fong, perfumer Euan locating and investigating dead SONIC PI blend of selected VOCs plus floral McCall and forensic anthropologist bodies. The presentation will Sat 8 Feb, 2pm – 5pm and wood scents. Dr Anna Williams, whose research be followed with a conversation on the 400+ VOCs emitted during between Dr Williams, artist Eric FTP is a monthly, open session Leicester Media School and The exhibition centres on the human decomposition underpins Fong and producer Abigail Addison. for peer-to-peer learning and participants will create their own presentation of the perfume the project. discussion about digital tools original music through live coding. Thanatos displayed as both the After the talk, Dr Williams will lead a used in digital arts projects. physical product and as the scent. short The Scent of Death workshop, Each month we feature a specific Participants will learn how live coding The aroma of Thanatos can be giving participants the chance to tool and think about the ways works as live music performance; be discovered through interaction with smell for themselves some of the it can be deployed within arts introduced to the Sonic Pi live coding VOCs that are released during practices. We also have space environment; and shown how to use decomposition. for participants to present work built-in synthesisers, sample-players, to the group and develop new effects, and mixing to create music This is a free event, but booking is collaborations. in real time. essential. Call Box Office or go to our website to book your place. This session will be facilitated The meet-up is free and open to by Dr Ross Clement, Senior all, however spaces are limited for Lecturer, Music and Audio this session. Please book a place Technology Subject Group, online or at Box Office. 0116 242 2800 BOX OFFICE STAGE ON SCREEN PHOENIX.ORG.UK BOOK ONLINE

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