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Little Women, 2019 JAN 1 NEW RELEASES Honey Boy (15) From Fri 6 Dec Dir Alma Har’el/US 2019/95 mins Her Smell (15) Sons of Denmark (15) Citizen K (CTBA) Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe From Fri 13 Dec (Danmarks sønner) From Fri 13 Dec Actor and screenwriter Shia Dir Alex Perry/US GR 2018/136 mins From Fri 13 Dec Dir Alex Gibney/GB US 2019/128 mins/Russian and English with partial EngST LaBeouf mines his own life in this Elisabeth Moss, Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens Dir Ulaa Salim/DK 2019/123 mins/Danish and confessional collaboration with The B-side to Vox Lux, Alex Ross Arabic wEngST This latest film from Oscar-winning director Alma Har’el, about the Perry offers an incisive portrait of Zaki Youssef, Mohammed Ismail Mohammed, Imad documentarian Alex Gibney stormy childhood and early adult a destructive personality in the Abul-Foul considers the strange case of Mikhail years of an actor struggling to engrossing and willfully chaotic Her A powerful, unnerving and provocative Khodorkovsky who rocketed to reconcile with his abusive father. Smell. At the film’s core is a simply film that looks at the impact of prosperity and prominence in the incredible performance from Elisabeth radicalised society, Sons of Denmark 1990s, served a decade in prison, and Moss as a rock singer facing down her is set in an alternate though all- became an unlikely martyr for the anti- inner demons. too-believable contemporary Danish Putin movement. society. Director Ulaa Salim taps into a political climate that will feel familiar for audiences across Europe.

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Buddies (15) + introduction & post-screening discussion From Fri 13 Dec Dir Arthur J. Bressan Jr./US 1985/76 mins Geoff Edholm, David Schachter, Damon Hairston So Long, My Son (12A) Buddies was the first film to tackle (Di jiu tian chang) the Aids pandemic four years after the first clinical diagnosis. An From Fri 6 Dec Dir Wang Xiaoshuai/CN 2019/185 mins/Mandarin intimate two-hander that received wEngST a muted showing at a handful of Wang Jingchun, Yong Mei, Wang Yuan, Du Jiang cinemas just months after it was Wang Xiaoshuai’s acclaimed drama completed, it has been unavailable chronicles people and a society in The Cave (CTBA) ever since. Buddies is quite full transformation - in which human possibly the most important film From Fri 6 Dec relationships and the tumultuous you’ve never heard of. Dir Feras Fayyad/SY DK DE US 2019/95 mins/ evolution of a nation are inevitably and Arabic and English with partial EngST Event/ The screening on Wed 18 inextricably intertwined. Director Feras Fayyad (Last Dec, 18:10 will be introduced by Men in Aleppo) returns to his Dr Monica Pearl, Lecturer in 20th native, war-torn Syria to follow a Century American Literature at dedicated team of female doctors the University of Manchester who who tirelessly treat casualties in will also lead a post-screening an underground hospital while discussion.. battling systemic sexism.

2 3 The Kingmaker (15) The Street (15) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (U) Little Women (U) Long Day’s Journey into Night Jojo Rabbit (12A) (CTBA) From Fri 13 Dec From Fri 20 Dec (Les parapluies de Cherbourg) From Fri 27 Dec From Thu 2 Jan Dir Lauren Greenfield/DK US 2019/101 Dir Zed Nelson/GB 2019/95 mins From Fri 20 Dec Dir /US 2019/135 mins (Di qiu zui hou de ye wan) Dir Taika Waititi/CZ NZ 2019/108 mins mins Florence Pugh, Saoirse Ronan, Emma Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Focusing on one street and its Dir Jacques Demy/FR West Germany 1964/91 mins/ Watson From Fri 27 Dec Johansson Centered on the indomitable character French and English with partial EngST inhabitants over a four-year period, Dir Gan Bi/CN 2018/138 mins/Mandarin wEngST of Imelda Marcos, The Kingmaker Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon Writer-director Greta Gerwig (Lady Taika Waititi channels in and set against the upheavals of rapid Tang Wei, Jue Huang, Sylvia Chang examines the Marcos family’s Bird) has crafted a Little Women that this highly anticipated comedic satire gentrification, years of austerity, the Catherine Deneuve was launched Oozing atmosphere with its noirish improbable return to power in the draws on both the classic novel and about a German boy who discovers fallout from Grenfell and the eruption to stardom by this dazzling musical neon glow, the film chronicles the Philippines. In an age when fake the writings of Louisa May Alcott, and a Jewish girl hiding in his home and of Brexit, this documentary offers a heart-tugger from Jacques Demy. return of Luo Hongwu to Kaili, the news manipulates elections, Imelda’s unfolds as the author’s alter ego, Jo consults with his imaginary best friend, revealing portrait of life in Exquisitely designed in a kaleidoscope hometown from which he fled many comeback story serves as a dark fairy March, reflects back and forth on her Adolf Hitler. A dazzling takedown of today. of colours, and told entirely through years before. Back for his father’s tale. lilting songs by the great composer fictional life. fascist thinking, Jojo Rabbit is Moonrise funeral, Luo recalls the death of an old Kingdom via The Tin Drum. Michel Legrand, The Umbrellas of friend and searches for lost love Wan Cherbourg is one of the most revered Qiwen. and unorthodox movie musicals of all time. 4K restoration.

Pink Wall (CTBA) Ordinary Love (12A) The Two Popes (12A) Amanda (15) La Dolce Vita (12A) Uncut Gems (CTBA) From Fri 20 Dec From Fri 20 Dec From Fri 20 Dec From Fri 3 Jan From Fri 3 Jan From Fri 10 Jan Dir Tom Cullen/GB 2019/85 mins Dirs Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn/GB Dir Fernando Meirelles/GB IT AR US 2019/126 mins Dir Mikhaël Hers/FR 2018/107 mins/French and Dir /IT FR 1960/175 mins/Italian and Dirs Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie/US 2019/135 mins Tatiana Maslany, Jay Duplass, Sarah Ovens 2019/92 mins Jonathan Pryce, , Juan Minujín English with partial EngST English with partial EngST Adam Sandler, Julia Fox, Kevin Garnett Liam Neeson, Lesley Manville, David Wilmot A modern-day romance following The Two Popes takes us beyond TV Vincent Lacoste, Isaure Multrier, Stacy Martin Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée An electrifying crime thriller about Jenna and Leon’s six-year relationship. Joan and Tom have been married for images of smoke rising from the David meets Lena, who has just moved La Dolce Vita rocketed Fellini to Howard Ratner, a charismatic New York Intimately told through defining many years. When Joan is diagnosed Vatican chimney into the hearts, to Paris, and falls in love. But soon international mainstream success. A City jeweller always on the lookout moments along their journey together, with breast cancer, the course of minds, and actions of those charged after, his life is brutally interrupted by look at the darkness beneath the for the next big score. Ratner makes a the film explores how both friendships her treatment shines a light on their with leading over a billion faithful. the sudden death of his sister. Beyond seductive lifestyles of Rome’s rich and series of high-stakes bets that could and resentments grow as the pressures relationship as they are faced with the Directed by Fernando Meirelles (City the shock and pain, David now finds glamorous, the film follows a notorious lead to the windfall of a lifetime. of adult life confront them. challenges that lie ahead. of God) this insightful story ushers us himself alone with his young niece celebrity journalist during a hectic behind gilded doors to watch the once Amanda to care for. week spent on the peripheries of the and future Popes grapple with faith spotlight. and religious leadership in a rapidly changing world.

4 5 1917 (CTBA) El Topo (18) A Hidden Life (CTBA) The Personal History of David The Holy Mountain (18) Le Grand Voyage (PG) From Fri 10 Jan From Fri 10 Jan From Fri 17 Jan Copperfield (PG) (La montaña sagrada) From Fri 31 Jan Dir /GB US 2019/110 mins Dir Alejandro Jodorowsky/MX 1970/125 mins/ Dir /DE US 2019/173 mins/English From Fri 24 Jan From Fri 24 Jan Dir Ismaël Ferroukhi/FR MA BG TR 2004/French and Spanish wEngST and German with partial EngST Arabic wEngST Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch, Richard Dir Armando Iannucci/GB US 2019/119 mins Dir Alejandro Jodorowsky/MX 1973/114 mins/ Madden Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, José August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Michael Nyqvist Nicolas Cazalé, Mohamed Majd, Jacky Nercessian , Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie Spanish wEngST Legarreta Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Zamira An elderly French-Moroccan patriarch, At the height of the First World War, The of a pious Austrian Director Armando Iannucci brings With El Topo, the ultra-violent tale of a Saunders determined to make the obligatory hajj two young British soldiers, Schofield farmer is severely tested as war his sardonic wit to ’ black-clad gunslinger on a murderous An alchemical work that weaves a to Mecca, commands his westernised and Blake are given a seemingly blankets Europe and Nazi ideology classic autobiographical novel. With mission to challenge four zen masters, psychedelic spell, The Holy Mountain teenage son, Reda, to drive him from impossible mission. They must cross spreads in this enveloping, spiritual its refreshing casting and ceaseless director Jodorowsky gave birth to was based on the spiritual teachings France to Saudi Arabia. enemy territory and deliver a message epic from master Terrence Malick. visual surprises, Iannucci and co-writer the counterculture phenomenon of of G. I. Gurdjieff and is loosely based that will stop a deadly attack on Relaying a little-known true story of Blackwell transpose their source the Midnight Movie and carved out a on the novel Mount Analogue by René hundreds of soldiers – Blake’s own quiet heroism, the film marks a major material into a decidedly 21st-century brother among them. place as one of cinema’s most visionary return to form for Malick. Daumal. filmmakers. cinematic context.

Midnight Traveller (CTBA) Waves (CTBA) Bombshell (CTBA) The Lighthouse (15) Show Me the Picture: The Story Queen & Slim (CTBA) From Fri 17 Jan From Fri 17 Jan From Fri 17 Jan From Fri 31 Jan of Jim Marshall (CTBA) From Fri 31 Jan Dir Hassan Fazili/QA GB CA US 2019/90 mins/ Dir Trey Edward Shults/US 2019/135 mins Dir Jay Roach/CA US 2019/108 mins Dir Robert Eggers/US 2019/109 mins From Fri 31 Jan Dir Melina Matsoukas/US CA 2019/132 mins Persian, Arabic and English with partial EngST Taylor Russell, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Alexa Demie Margot Robbie, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Liv Hewson Jodie Turner-Smith, Daniel Kaluuya, Bokeem Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe Dir Alfred George Bailey/GB US 2019/92 mins After receiving a Taliban death Woodbine Cracks begin to show in the perfect Based on the real scandal, Bombshell Director Robert Eggers follows up Legendary US photographer Jim sentence, Afghan filmmaker Hassan While on a forgettable first date in façade of a young athlete’s life, in this is a revealing look inside the most The Witch with another eerie period Marshall’s diary of a life in music Fazili decides to get his family to Ohio, a black man and a black woman, unexpected drama from Trey Edward powerful and controversial media tale. Set in the 1890s, the film stars captures both the volatile man behind safety in Western Europe. Staying one are pulled over for a minor traffic Shults (It Comes at Night). Structurally empire of all time; Fox News, and the Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson the lens and the seismic changes step ahead of aggressive smugglers infraction. The situation escalates, ambitious and thoughtfully bold, explosive story of the women who as lighthouse keepers battling the that defined the . A child of and right-wing nationalists, Hassan, his with sudden and tragic results and the Waves is a personal and audacious brought down the infamous man who elements, isolation, inner demons immigrants he battled inner demons wife and two daughters capture their pair unwittingly become a symbol of work. Trent Reznor provides the created it. and possibly some form of mythical and fought his way to become one of dramatic journey on mobile phones. soundtrack. supernatural force. trauma, terror, grief and pain for people the most trusted mavericks. across the US.

6 7 The Wedding Present: one-off screenings Something Left Behind (CTBA) Thu 12 Dec, 18:20 & events Dir Andrew Jezard/GB 2018/87 mins Something Left Behind explores Shooting the Mafia (15) + music, obsession, love, loss and introduction fading youth over the 30-year lifespan of The Wedding Present’s Thu 5 Dec, 18:00 Buddies, 1985 Dir Kim Longinotto/IE 2019/94 mins much-heralded debut LP and features interviews with all four Buddies (CTBA) + introduction Sicilian Letizia Battaglia original band members, key began a lifelong battle with & post-screening discussion players in the record’s history plus the Mafia when she first the major influence behind its very Wed 18 Dec, 18:10 pointed her camera at a brutally existence. Dir Arthur J. Bressan Jr./US 1985/81 mins slain victim. Documenting the Cosa Geoff Edholm, David Schachter, Damon Hairston The Dirty War on the National Health Service, 2019 Event/ Girls on Film podcast Nostra’s barbaric rule, she bore Buddies was the first film to tackle the The Dirty War on the National unflinching witness to their crimes. Her Aids pandemic four years after the first Tue 3 Dec, 19:00 photographs, art, and bravery helped Health Service (CTBA) + Q&A clinical diagnosis. An intimate two- Tickets: £6 full/£5 concs to bring an end to a shocking reign of hander that received a muted showing Sun 1 Dec, 17:35 Film critic and broadcaster slaughter. at a handful of cinemas just months Dir John Pilger/GB 2019/100 mins Anna Smith is back for another after it was completed, it has been Event/ This screening will be live audience recording of the female- The Wedding Present: Something Left Behind, 2018 The Dirty War on the NHS is the new introduced by Dr. Kirsty Fairclough, unavailable ever since. Buddies is quite led podcast, Girls On Film. Come along documentary from renowned BAFTA University of Salford and curator of possibly the most important film you’ve and join in the conversation and with and Emmy-winning filmmaker and In Her View: Women Documentary never heard of. journalist John Pilger. The film is industry guests, Bechdel tests and Filmmakers. See p17 for details. Event/ This screening will be both a tribute to a unique institution lively debate. introduced by Dr Monica Pearl, Lecturer and a warning. Pilger investigates in 20th Century American Literature at the dismantling “by stealth” of the The Lady Improper, 2019 the University of Manchester who will National Health Service. also lead a post-screening discussion.. Event/ We will be joined by director John Pilger for a Q&A following this screening. Chinese Film Forum UK presents: Conference/ Women in East Pink Pool (Screened at Filmed Up Sep 19) Asian Cinema UK Premiere/ The Lady Wed 4 Dec - Fri 06 Dec Improper (CTBA) + Q&A See website for full timings Wed 4 Dec, 17:50 Be Pure. Be Vigilant. Behave., 2019 Dir Jessey Tsang Tsui-Shan/HK 2019/105 mins/ Tickets: Three-day passes including a Cantonese wEngST Be Pure. Be Vigilant. Behave. ticket for The Lady Improper £35 full Charlene Choi, Kang Ren Wu, Tony Liu (15) + Q&A /£30 concs Yuen Siu-man is a gynaecology nurse Sat 7 Dec, 20:40 Early bird prices available online struggling with the fear of physical Dir Kieran Evans/GB 2019/62 mins Of Time and the Sea, 2018 intimacy that led to her recent divorce. Join us for a variety of presentations, To mark 20 years since the release When her father is hospitalised, she Of Time and the Sea (CTBA) discussions, and events with industry of The Holy Bible, the Manic Street enlists the help of Jihao, a French- guests, for this three-day conference Preachers hit the road in 2014 and It’s a Wonderful Life, 1948 (Bahar Zmien) educated chef, to salvage the faltering Filmed Up on Women in East Asian Cinema 2015 to perform their seminal album family restaurant, and their cooking It’s a Wonderful Life (U) Wed 18 Dec, 20:40 that will cover areas including in full for the first time. Armed with Dir Peter Sant/MT 2018/94 mins/Maltese wEngST Mon 2 Dec, 18:20 lessons take a sexual turn. representation, circulation, production his camera, film-maker and band Sat 14 – Mon 23 Dec Ruth Borg, Narcy Calamatta, Mandy Mifsud £5 full/£4.50 concs. contexts, and questions of labour. Event/ This screening will be followed collaborator Kieran Evans joined them Dir /US 1948/131 mins On an island an old man wracked with Discover short films of all genres , Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore This event is open to everyone, whether by a Q&A with director Jessey Tsang on the road. dementia dreams he was once a king. produced in our region and meet the you fancy attending a few talks or the Tsui-Shan. This firm festive favourite, from Oscar- A beautifully composed experimental filmmakers at our regular North West Event/ We will be joined by director whole programme. winning director Frank Capra is a feature that thrives on symbolism, it’s short film night screening. Kieran Evans for a Q&A following this Presented with support from The genuinely tender and enduring piece of an unconventional work that weaves a screening. homemcr.org/filmedup University of Salford. yuletide cinema. hypnotic spell. 8 9 Sprinter, 2019 Joan of Arc (CTBA) + Q&A Les demoiselles de Rochefort, 1967 Pakeezah, 1972 (Jeanne) Fri 10 Jan, 18:30 Dir Bruno Dumont/FR 2019/137 mins/French wEngST Lise Leplat Prudhomme, Annick Lavieville, Justine Herbez Bruno Dumont’s decision to work with a ten-year-old actress re-injects this heroine’s timeless cause and ideology with a modernity that highlights both the tragic female condition and Not Just Bollywood presents/ Son of Frankenstein (CTBA) Sprinter (15) the incredible fervour, strength and Pakeezah (CTBA) + introduction freedom women show when shackled Thu 19 Dec, 18:00 Tue 28 Jan, 18:30 by societies and archaic virile orders Sun 26 Jan, 15:20 Dir Rowland V. Lee/US 1939/99 mins Dir Storm Saulter/JM 2019/112 mins that belittle and alienate them. Dir Kamal Amrohi/IN 1972/147 mins/Urdu wEngST Dale Elliott, Lorraine Toussaint, David Alan Grier Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi Letters to Paul Morrissey, 2018 Meena Kumari, Ashok Kumar, Raaj Kumar Akeem Sharp, nicknamed the Rasta Event/ This screening will be followed Baron Wolf von Frankenstein is set on Letters to Paul Morrissey (CTBA) One of the most extraordinary musical redeeming his father’s reputation. That Rocket, is set to be Jamaica’s next big by a Q&A with director Bruno Dumont. melodramas ever made, Pakeezah is track and field sensation. Akeem hopes is, until he discovers a strange creature Wed 8 Jan, 18:15 much beloved by audiences for Meena sleeping in the vaults of the family his rise in athletics will take him to the Dirs Armand Rovira, Saida Benzal/US 2018/100 mins Kumari’s breathtakingly tragic turn as castle... A Universal horror classic U.S. to reunite with his mother, but his Xavi Sáez, Almar G. Sato, María Fajula the doomed Sahibjaan, who is born in a starring legends Boris Karloff, Bela rising star is weighed down by turmoil Structured as a number of celluloid graveyard to a dying mother who was Lugosi and Basil Rathbone. at home. letters sent from different parts of the once a famed courtesan. Staff Film of the Year (CTBA) globe to Paul Morrissey, director of Trash, Flesh and Heat and collaborator Event/ This screening will be Mon 30 Dec, Early Eve with Warhol and agent for the Velvet introduced by Omar Ahmed, co-curator The HOME Front of House team select Underground, Letters to Paul Morrissey of Not Just Bollywood. course their must-see film of 2019. The details plays like an increasingly intimate Screening as part of BFI Musicals! The Gothic Cinema of this film will be tightly kept under conversation. Philosophical, but also fun. Greatest Show on Screen, a UK-wide wraps until Mon 9 Dec. Bigger than Life/ Les 8 weeks, from Tue 14 Jan Reclaim the Frame/ Atlantics film season supported by National 18:30 – 20:30 A City Seen/ What Ever demoiselles de Rochefort Lottery, BFI Film Audience Network and (CTBA) + event Tickets: £85 full / £65 concs Happened to Baby Jane? (12A) (CTBA) + introduction ICO. bfimusicals.co.uk (Atlantique) What is Gothic cinema and how Mon 6 Jan, 17:50 The Reports on Sarah and Saleem, 2018 Tue 14 Jan, 20:15 Chinese Film Forum UK presents/ does it differ from horror films? This Thu 9 Jan, 18:00 Tickets £1 Dir Jacques Demy/FR 1967/126 mins/French wEngST chronological course will explore its Dir Mati Diop/FR SN BE 2019/104 mins/Wolof, French Girls Always Happy (CTBA) + Dir Robert Aldrich/US 1962/132 mins The Reports on Sarah and Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise history, from its transitional origins and English with partial EngST Dorléac introduction , Joan Crawford, Victor Buono Abdou Balde, Aminata Kane, Ibrahima Mbaye Saleem (CTBA) + post-screening in the magic lantern show and the A quarterly film night sharing the discussion Jacques Demy’s joyous, pastel- (Rou qing shi) first ‘trick’ films to its postmodern After a group of unpaid construction hued follow-up to The Umbrellas creativity of or selected by our city’s workers disappears at sea one night Mon 27 Jan, 18:00 fragmentation in the Gothic Mon 13 Jan, 17:50 of Cherbourg finds him working on most essential groups and charities. in search of a better life abroad, the Dir Yang Mingming/CN 2018/117 mins/Mandarin pastiches of , with a January’s screening has been selected Dir Muayad Alayan/PS DE NL MX 2018/127 mins/ an MGM scale as real-life sisters wEngST focus on industry and genre. women they have left behind in Dakar Arabic, Hebrew and English with partial EngST Catherine Deneuve and Françoise An Nai, Yang Mingming, Zhang Xianmin by Friends of Dorothy, a Manchester are overwhelmed with a mysterious fever. Maisa Abd Elhadi, Mohammad Eid, Kamel El Basha Beginners’ level, no prior knowledge group who inform, educate and Dorléac play twins looking for love and To celebrate the Year of the Rat, The extra-marital affair between necessary. The course includes six entertain the older LGBT community. Event/ This screening will be preceded excitement in their hometown. Michel we screen Girls Always Happy, an a Palestinian man and an Israeli sessions with the course tutor and by a recorded introduction from Legrand provides the jazzy score, while engaging portrait of the often-tense woman has political consequences two course screenings. Atlantics, 2019 filmmaker Mati Diop followed by a live dazzles in a supporting role. relationship between mother and under Israeli rule. Saleem from East poetry response from award-winning Screening from a 35mm print. daughter. Director Yang Mingming Son of Frankenstein, Tue 28 Jan Jerusalem works as a deliveryman. poet Be Manzini. There will also be a deftly portrays the complexities of La maschera del demonio / Black Sarah runs a café in West Jerusalem. creative writing workshop in response to Event/ This screening will be introduced family relationships as they move Sunday, Tue 18 Feb Despite being worlds apart, they risk the film’s themes in the bar afterwards. by Bigger Than Life programmers, Tom between the extremes of animosity Led by Xavier Aldana Reyes, Reader everything as they embark on an illicit Grieve and Jim Laycock. and affection. in English Literature and Film at affair. Reclaim The Frame is a mission to bring Manchester Metropolitan University. Screening as part of BFI Musicals! The Event/ This screening will be ever-greater audiences to films by Event/ This screening will be Greatest Show on Screen, a UK-wide introduced by Fraser Elliott, Chinese women to widen and enrich cinema’s accompanied by a post-screening film season supported by National Film Forum UK. perspective of the world, run by charity discussion led by Dr. Ruth Abou Lottery, BFI Film Audience Network and Birds’ Eye View, and backed by the Rached, Postdoctoral Research ICO. See pages 12-15. Supported by the Confucius Institute ’s Audience Fund. Associate at Freie Universität Berlin. at The University of Manchester. #ReclaimTheFrame bfimusicals.co.uk 10 11 seasons speciaL: , 1953 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 1964 BFI Musicals! The Greatest Show on Screen . One Hour Intro/ A Star is Born Sun 8 Dec, 15:30 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (U) Tickets: £4 full/£3 concs Sing Along/ Calamity Jane (U) Sun 1 Dec – (Les parapluies de Cherbourg) There are four films called A Star Is Sat 14 Dec, 18:00 sun 26 jan Born, but several other films telling the Dir David Butler/US 1953/101 mins From Fri 20 Dec Singing and dancing its way into HOME, same story (including Bollywood and Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie Dir Jacques Demy/FR West Germany 1964/91 mins/ this diverse and eclectic range of films porn versions) as well as a radio play Calamity Jane is one of Doris Day’s French and English with partial EngST Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon celebrates the joyful, emotional but most and, first, a novel. This richly illustrated best-loved films and a cult classic for importantly the shared experience of talk by Richard Dyer will look across queer audiences. Based on the life of See p4 for details. watching film musicals on the BIG screen. all the versions. What differences are real Wild West heroine and gunslinger, Cabin in the Sky, 1943 These films have been specially selected there between them? What do they all this hugely entertaining film won the by the HOME Film team, comprised of think it means to say a star is ‘born’? Academy Award for Best Original Song Jennifer Hall, Andy Willis, Jason Wood What effect does it have when the star (‘Secret Love’). and Rachel Hayward. in question is a singer and the story becomes a musical? And what makes Event/ Remember to bring your singing Screening as part of BFI Musicals! The the Judy Garland – James Mason – voice with you as this film will be a Greatest Show on Screen, a UK-wide film version special? family-friendly sing-a-long screening season supported by National Lottery, BFI hosted by Léonie Higgins of female Film Audience Network and ICO. performance trio Eggs Collective. Whip- bfimusicals.co.uk crack-away! Cabin in the Sky (U) Sat 21 Dec, 15:40 Dir /US 1943/99 mins Les demoiselles de Rochefort, 1967 Ethel Waters, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Lena Horne With its all-black cast, MGM’s 1943 Bigger than Life/ Les demoiselles Pakeezah, 1972 musical Cabin in the Sky provided a de Rochefort (PG) + introduction rare and invaluable showcase for some Tue 14 Jan, 20:15 of the era’s most legendary African Dir Jacques Demy/FR 1967/126 mins/French wEngST First a Girl, 1935 American performers. This Faustian Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac fantasy stars Ethel Waters, Eddie See p11 for details. Cabaret, 1972 ‘Rochester’ Anderson and Lena Horne A Star is Born, 1954 in her first and only leading role in an Event/ This screening will be Cabaret (15) MGM musical. introduced by Bigger Than Life A Star is Born (U) + introduction programmers, Tom Grieve and Jim Not Just Bollywood presents/ Sun 15 Dec, 13:00 Screening from a 35mm print. Laycock. Pakeezah (PG) + introduction Sun 8 Dec, 17:00 Tue 17 Dec, 20:30 + introduction We Are Parable presents/ The First a Girl (U) Dir George Cukor/US 1954/181 mins Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson Wed 18 Dec, 13:00 Art of the Black Visual Album: The Art of the Black Visual Album: Sun 26 Jan, 15:20 Sun 1 Dec, 13:00 Dir /US 1972/124 mins Process, 2019 Dir Kamal Amrohi/IN 1972/153 mins/Urdu wEngST The second of four adaptations of the Process (CTBA) Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem Meena Kumari, Ashok Kumar, Raaj Kumar Tue 3 Dec, 20:30 classic musical melodrama, recently An iconic, incredibly stylish study of Sat 4 Jan, 18:30 One of the most extraordinary musical Wed 4 Dec, 13:00 updated to acclaim by the hedonism and sexual ambiguity melodramas ever made, Pakeezah is Dir /GB 1935/98 mins in 2018, George Cukor’s (The Women, We Are Parable have teamed up with , , of pre-war Berlin, Cabaret was a much beloved by audiences for Meena My Fair Lady, A Philadelphia Story) epic HOME to screen Process the visual huge, multi-Oscar-winning hit for Kumari’s breathtakingly tragic turn as First a Girl stars Jessie Matthews 1954 version of A Star is Born features album from UK recording artist Sampha, choreographer and director Bob Fosse the doomed Sahibjaan, who is born in a (Evergreen), one of the era’s biggest an Oscar-nominated Judy Garland and which accompanied his Mercury Music in 1972 and made Liza Minnelli (who graveyard to a dying mother who was British stars. This little-known British James Mason as the lovers on opposing Prize winning album of the same name. won Best Actress) a star. once a famed courtesan. adaption of the 1933 German film ends of fame, and is widely considered Beautifully directed by Khalil Joseph, Viktor und Viktoria (later remade as Process is a deeply personal journey into one of the greatest musicals of all time. Event/ The screening on Tue 17 Dec, Event/ This screening will be Victor Victoria and similarly reworked in Sampha’s mind as he traverses between 20:30 will be introduced by Dr Andrew introduced by Omar Ahmed, co-curator Shakespeare in Love) sees a shop girl Event/ This screening will be introduced Sierra Leone and South London. Moor, Reader in Film at Manchester of Not Just Bollywood. pretending to be a boy in order to perform by Richard Dyer. Metropolitan University. We will also screen Kamasi Washington’s onstage as a female impersonator. visual album “As told to G/D thyself”. 12 13 The Backstage Footlight Parade, 1933 Betty Comden The Barkleys of Broadway, 1949 The Band Wagon, 1953 Musical: and the celebrating Hollywood popular Musical culture in times . of struggle . Sun 22 - Mon 30 Dec As part of HOME’s celebration of Sat 7 - Wed 11 Dec women’s contribution to world cinema, During the 1930s, in the days before we salute the work of twice Oscar- the Hays Code, the musical genre in nominated writer Betty Comden. In Hollywood offered a space for film- Footlight Parade (U) collaboration with her writing partner makers to engage with social issues , Comden was a leading of the day. Most importantly, and Mon 9 Dec, 18:10 figure on Broadway and a major urgently, the economic depression that Dir Lloyd Bacon/US 1933/104 mins contributor to some of Hollywood’s most The Barkleys of Broadway (U) The Band Wagon (U) blighted many people’s lives and forced , Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler loved musicals. This season offers the Mon 23 Dec, 15:50 Sun 29 Dec, 15:40 people to make difficult decisions to Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley joined opportunity to come along and enjoy Dir Charles Walters/US 1949/109 mins Dir Vincente Minnelli/US 1953/112 mins survive. All three films feature the forces once again to deliver this back- some of the most striking and innovative , Ginger Rogers, Oscar Levant Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant choreography of Busby Berkeley. stage musical. James Cagney plays a Hollywood musicals of the post-war era The film that saw Astaire and Rogers A major musical from the and a This season has been curated by Andy Broadway director forced into making re-united on screen after 10 years great example of Comden and Green’s musical prologues to be performed This season has been co-curated by Willis, Senior Visiting Curator and Rachel Hayward, HOME’s Head of Film apart. As with many of the scripts that interest in the contrast between Professor of Film Studies, School of before films screenings in what was his involved Betty Comden, The Barkleys of popular forms such as the musical first full-blown dancing role. and Andy Willis, Senior Visiting Curator: Arts and Media at University of Salford. Film and Professor of Film Studies, Broadway brings together an unbridled theatre and the pretentiousness of homemcr.org/backstage-musical School of Arts and Media at University celebration of American popular forms dramatic theatre. Fred Astaire plays of Salford. with a sharp critique of the potential a musical star who has to reconnect snobbishness of European high-art. with the uninhibited nature of song and homemcr.org/betty-comden dance. That’s Entertainment indeed! It’s Always Fair Weather, 1955 , 1949

Bells are Ringing, 1960

Gold Diggers of 1933, 1933 Bells are Ringing (U) On the Town (U) It’s Always Fair Weather (U) Singin’ in the Rain, 1952 42nd Street, 1933 Gold Diggers of 1933 (PG) Singin’ in the Rain (U) Mon 30 Dec, 17:50 Fri 27 Dec, 18:10 Dir Vincente Minnelli/US 1960/126 mins 42nd Street (U) Sun 22 Dec, 15:30 Wed 11 Dec, 18:10 Dirs Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly/US 1949/98 mins Dirs Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly/US 1955/101 mins Sat 28 Dec, 18:10 Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark Sat 7 Dec, 18:20 Dir Mervyn LeRoy/US 1933/97 mins Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse Dirs Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly/US 1952/103 mins Comden and Green contribute book Dir Lloyd Bacon/US 1933/89 mins Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon “New York, New York, a wonderful Another classic from the imagination Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’Connor and lyrics to this film adaptation of Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent Busby Berkeley worked with director town. The Bronx is up but the Battery’s of Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Typical of a Betty Comden and their 1956 Broadway hit. Directed A landmark film directed by Lloyd Mervyn LeRoy to create another classic down”. Written by Adolph Green and It’s Always Fair Weather follows the Adolph Green script, in Singin’ in by Vincente Minnelli, Judy Holliday Bacon with musical numbers by Busby Hollywood back-stage musical. Based Betty Comden and directed by Gene adventures of three GIs after they the Rain the spontaneous nature of reprises her Tony Award-winning role Berkeley, 42nd Street is the archetypal on a successful Broadway show, Gold Kelly and Stanley Donen, On the Town, leave the army in 1945. The film was musical performance is hamstrung by as Ella, a switchboard operator, in a back-stage musical. Contains the Diggers of 1933 follows the adventures is undoubtedly one of the landmark envisaged as a sequel of sorts to technology, here the introduction of plot that involves an array of amusingly dangerously tuneful, You are Getting of four aspiring female actors who will Hollywood musicals of all-time not On the Town and directed again by sound in the . Singin’ in the confusing interactions between to be a Habit with Me, Shuffle off to go to almost any ends to find fame or least for its innovative location Kelly and Stanley Donen in their last Rain is one of the greatest Hollywood her and those who use her service Buffalo and of course 42nd Street. fortune. shooting. collaboration for MGM. films of all time. Susanswerphone. 14 15 , 1965 In Her View: A Suitable Girl, 2017 seasons Women A Man for All Seasons (U) Documentary Filmmakers Sun 5 Jan, 14:15 American Dream, 1990 Tue 7 Jan, 20:20 . Wed 8 Jan, 13:00 American Dream (PG) Dir /GB 1966/120 mins Thu 16 Jan, 18:10 , Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw Wed 15 - Dir Barbara Kopple/US 1990/100 mins In 1960, enjoyed great Kopple’s acclaimed documentary is a success with the original London Thu 30 Jan sobering and fascinating depiction of production of his play A Man for All A Suitable Girl (U) As part of Celebrating Women in the social, economic and emotional A Man for All Seasons, 1966 Seasons. Following great international Global Cinema, this season will explore ramifications of a mid-1980s workers’ Sat 25 Jan, 13:30 acclaim, he went on to successfully Doctor Zhivago (PG) women documentary filmmakers. strike at a Hormel meatpacking plant Dirs Sarita Khurana and Smriti Mundhra/IN 2017/93 British adapt his theatrical work for this mins/Hindi and English with partial EngST Still overlooked in contemporary in Minnesota. Oscar-winning film version directed by Tue 7 Jan, 14:30 cinema, women have been making Khurana and Mundhra’s film follows Screenwriters: Dir David Lean/US IT GB 1965/200 mins Hollywood veteran Fred Zinnemann. documentaries on a vast range of Waste Land, 2010 three young women in India struggling , , Robert Bolt topics since the early days of cinema. to maintain their identities and follow Working once again with David Lean, their dreams amid intense pressure Dr Zhivago saw Robert Bolt establish Curated by Dr Kirsty Fairclough, . to get married. The film examines the himself as a screenwriter adept at University of Salford. women’s complex relationship with creating works with an epic scope. homemcr.org/in-her-view marriage, family and Indian societal Sun 5 - Wed 22 The film would receive five Oscars One Hour Intro/ In Her pressures. Lawrence of Arabia, 1962 including one for Bolt who would also Waste Land (PG) Jan win a Golden Globe for his work on View: Women Documentary Lawrence of Arabia (PG) Born and educated in Manchester, the script. Filmmakers Tue 21 Jan, 18:10 Robert Bolt initially made his name in Sat 11 Jan, 16:00 Dir Lucy Walker/GB 2010/99 mins the theatre with A Man for All Seasons. Dir David Lean/GB 1962/228 mins Wed 15 Jan, 18:00 An uplifting documentary highlighting Following the international success of Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Tickets: £4 full / £3 concs the transformative power of art and that work, the 1960s would see Bolt From a script by Robert Bolt and Through an exploration of some of the beauty of the human spirit. Director forge an important creative partnership , David Lean’s epic the key works and practitioners in Lucy Walker takes us on an emotional with David Lean, providing the telling of the story of T. E. Lawrence the field, curator Kirsty Fairclough journey from Jardim Gramacho, the screenplays for the director’s Lawrence won seven Oscars including Best Film will explore the In Her View season world’s largest landfill on the outskirts of Arabia (1962) and Dr Zhivago (David and Best Director Oscars and made an and contextualise how and why the of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of Lean, 1965). international film star of Peter O’Toole. dominant narrative of documentary international art stardom. film rarely includes the many women This season has been curated by Andy Ryan’s Daughter, 1970 The Swirl, 2016 Willis, Senior Visiting Curator: Film The Mission, 1986 working within it. and Professor of Film Studies, School Portrait of Jason, 1967 The Swirl (CTBA) + introduction of Arts and Media at University of The Mission (PG) (El Remolino) Salford. Sun 19 Jan, 13:00 Thu 30 Jan, 18:10 homemcr.org/robert-bolt Tue 21 Jan, 20:15 Dir Laura Herrero Garvin/MX 2016/75 mins/Spanish From the Sea to the Land Beyond, 2012 Wed 22 Jan, 13:00 wEngST One Hour Intro/ Robert Bolt Ryan’s Daughter (15) Dir Roland Joffé/GB FR 1986/125 mins From the Sea to the Land Siblings Pedro and Esther Benitez Sun 5 Jan, 13:00 , Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally Sun 12 Jan, 16:00 Beyond (U) remain in their home region in Tickets: £4 full / £3 concs Dir David Lean/GB 1970/195 mins Starring Jeremy Irons and Robert Portrait of Jason (CTBA) to conquer not only the flooded terrain This One Hour Intro will discuss the , , De Niro, and winner of both a Palme Wed 22 Jan, 18:20 but also the ghosts of a painful shared work of Manchester-born screenwriter Reunited with director David Lean, d’Or at the Cannes film festival and Wed 15 Jan, 19:30 Dir Penny Woolcock/GB 2012/74 mins childhood. Issues of feminine identity Robert Bolt. First finding praise as a Robert Bolt once again turned his a Golden Globe for Best Screenplay, Dir Shirley Clarke/US 1967/105 mins Penny Woolcock’s poetic meditation and power, memory, and the influence theatre writer, then collaborating on imagination to a romance of epic The Mission once again reveals Robert A gay African-American hustler and on Britain’s unique coastline and the of family poignantly converge in a series of memorably epic films with proportions creating the script for Ryan’s Bolt’s ability to write scripts, here aspiring cabaret performer, Jason is role it plays in our lives was made director Laura Herrero Garvin’s languid director David Lean before finding Daughter. Set in a small village in Ireland about the experiences of a missionary the sole on-screen presence in this from over 100 years of archive footage and beautiful film. acclaim for his script for The Mission, across the years 1917 and 1918, this story in 18th-century South America, on an with a soundtrack specially created classic piece of cinema verité. Over Event/ This screening will be preceded Bolt’s sometimes controversial career of the romantic entanglements of its epic scale. by British Sea Power. The film offers fifty years old, Clarke’s film still has so by a recorded introduction from often challenged the ambition and inhabitants unfolds against a backdrop moving testimony to our relationship to much to say about class, race, and the director Laura Herrero Garvin. scope of British cinema. of war and political turmoil. nature of performance. the coast. 16 17 Canada Now . classics Our popular programme brings cinema classics to the big screen every month so you never need to miss those must-sees! Sunday screenings are usually Mon 20 – Thu accompanied by a free, informal post-screening discussion. 23 Jan Visit homemcr.org/classics for details. This year’s edition of Canada Now New Creative North/ Telling First a Girl (U) features another bold and diverse PUSH FESTIVAL stories via film and audio + Sun 1 Dec, 13:00 selection of the finest features coming 2020 Q&A (CTBA) Tue 3 Dec, 20:30 A Man for All Seasons, 1966 out of the Great White North. Sat 18 Jan, 15:30 Wed 4 Dec, 13:00 A Man for All Seasons (U) Canada Now is presented by Telefilm Dir Victor Saville/GB 1935/98 mins . Tickets: £5.50 full / £4 concs Canada in partnership with the High Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Anna Lee Sun 5 Jan, 14:15 New Creative North offers 16-30-year- Commission of Canada and with the First a Girl stars Jessie Matthews Tue 7 Jan, 20:20 old creators commission opportunities support of the Quebec Government Fri 17 Jan – Sun (Evergreen), one of the era’s biggest for video, audio and interactive Wed 8 Jan, 13:00 Office in London. British stars. This little-known British 2 Feb works designed for BBC channels and Dir Fred Zinnemann/GB 1966/120 mins adaption of the 1933 German film Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw homemcr.org/canada-now Push Festival is back with another platforms. Join us for a screening and Viktor und Viktoria (later remade as In 1960, Robert Bolt enjoyed great line-up of emerging theatre, film listening experience of works emerging Victor Victoria and similarly reworked success with the original London showcases and visual art celebrating from the New Creative North scheme. in Shakespeare in Love) sees a shop production of his play A Man for All the work of North West artists; The programme includes Before A girl pretending to be a boy in order Seasons. Following great international supported by a programme of Pack of Wild Dogs Eat My Face, an to perform onstage as a female acclaim, he went on to successfully workshops, discussions and meet-ups exploration of grief and masculinity impersonator. adapt his theatrical work for this to help you take the next step in your by Naqqash Khalid; and Chop Chop, For Those Who Don’t Read Me, 2018 Screening as part of BFI Musicals! The Oscar-winning film version directed by artistic practice. a drama set in an all-female halal Greatest Show on Screen, a UK-wide Hollywood veteran Fred Zinnemann. For Those Who Don’t Read Me (15) homemcr.org/push-2020 butchers by Afshan D’souza-Lodhi. (À tous ceux qui ne me lisent pas) film season supported by National Event/ This screening will be followed Lottery, BFI Film Audience Network Mon 20 Jan, 18:00 by a Q&A with the artists and the New and ICO. Dir Yan Giroux/CA 2018/107 mins/French wEngST Creative North team. First a Girl, 1935 bfimusicals.co.uk Martin Dubreuil, Céline Bonnier, Henri Richer-Picard Loosely based on the life and work of Spit That Out, 2019 Cabaret (15) the late Quebec poet Yves Boisvert (1950-2012), Giroux’s debut feature Sun 15 Dec, 13:00 is an impressive tale of one man’s Tue 17 Dec, 20:30 + introduction The Mission, 1986 unusual quest for and expression of the Wed 18 Dec, 13:00 The Mission (PG) meaning of life. Dir Bob Fosse/US 1972/124 mins Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem Sun 19 Jan, 13:00 An iconic, incredibly stylish study of the Tue 21 Jan, 20:15 Film Hub North Polaris Award Showcase, 2019 hedonism and sexual ambiguity of pre- Wed 22 Jan, 13:00 Film Hub North Polaris Award war Berlin, Cabaret was a huge, multi- Dir Roland Joffé/GB FR 1986/125 mins Spit That Out/ North West Oscar-winning hit for choreographer and Showcase + Q&A (CTBA) Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally Edge of the Knife, 2018 Artist Film Programme (CTBA) director Bob Fosse in 1972 and made Liza Starring Jeremy Irons and Robert Minnelli (who won Best Actress) a star. Edge of the Knife (15) Sat 25 Jan, 15:45 Sat 1 Feb, 18:20 De Niro, and winner of both a Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival and (SGaawaay K’uuna) Tickets: £5.50 full / £4 concs Tickets: £5.50 / £4 concs Event/ The screening on Tue 17 Dec, a Golden Globe for Best Screenplay, Join us for a programme of films Discover a selection of recent work 20:30 will be introduced by Dr Andrew Thu 23 Jan, 18:10 The Mission once again reveals Robert shortlisted for the Film Hub North from artists who are living in, working Moor, Reader in Film at Manchester Dirs Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown/CA Bolt’s ability to write scripts, here 2018/100 mins/ Haida and English with partial EngST Polaris Award at Aesthetica Film in, hailing from or have studied Metropolitan University. about the experiences of a missionary Festival 2019. Made by teams living across the North West. Curated by Edge of the Knife is the legendary Screening as part of BFI Musicals! The in 18th-century South America, on an and working in the North of , Bren O’Callaghan from open-call indigenous tale of Adiits’ii, who Greatest Show on Screen, a UK-wide film epic scale. retreats alone into the forest after the programme showcases the very submissions to celebrate the innovative best of emerging northern filmmaking season supported by National Lottery, a tragic accident at sea takes the and bold moving image works BFI Film Audience Network and ICO. A Man for All Seasons and The life of his beloved nephew. A daring, talent in ASFF official selection. being made across the region. The bfimusicals.co.uk Mission are both screening as part ground-breaking film made entirely in Event/ The screening will be followed programme will include I, Dismantled of British Screenwriters: Robert two dialects of a nearly extinct Haida by a Q&A with the filmmakers. by Paul Daly, a brand-new HOME Artist Bolt, see p16 for details. language. Film commission for Push Festival 2020. Cabaret, 1972 18 19 ROH Live/ Coppélia (12A as live broadcasts Live) BRING THE FAMILY Catch the best theatre and opera broadcast live in our cinemas from the Tue 10 Dec, Doors - 19:00, Designed for the whole family (including world’s most prestigious companies. Performance – 19:15 babies), these screenings will have the Composer: Léo Delibes/Ballet/150 minutes volume lowered and the lights will remain homemcr.org/live-broadcasts A classic returns to The Royal dimmed throughout the screening. Films Ballet repertory with Ninette will begin at the advertised time without de Valois’ charming and funny adverts or trailers. Coppélia – a story of love, mischief homemcr.org/families and mechanical dolls. The intricate choreography is set to Delibes’ delightful score and shows off the technical precision and comedic timing of the whole Company. CBeebies Christmas Show/ Osbert Lancaster’s designs bring a Rio 2, 2019 colourful storybook world to life in Hansel and Gretel this Christmas treat for the whole Rio (U) Rio 2 (U) Sun 29 Dec, 11:00 family. Runtime: Approx. 70 mins Sun 8 Dec, 11:00 Sun 26 Jan, 11:00 Choreography: Ninette de Valois This winter, follow the trail to your Dir Saldanha/US 2011/92 mins Dir Carlos Saldanha/US 2014/101 mins Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Jamie Foxx Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Jemaine Clement favourite annual CBeebies Christmas Coppélia, 2019 Show. Blu is an exotic pet bird who believes It’s a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel he’s the last of his kind. But when his and their three kids after they’re The show is an adaptation of fairy- ROH Live/ La Bohème (12A owner learns about Jewel, Blu’s female hurtled from Rio de Janeiro to the tale classic Hansel and Gretel and as Live) counterpart in Rio de Janeiro, they set wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to will again feature many of CBeebies’ out on the adventure of a lifetime. Feel fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the most popular talent, including, for the Wed 29 Jan, Doors - 19:30, the rhythm...hear the beat...and let vengeful Nigel, and meets his father- first time - Waffle the Wonder Dog! Performance – 19:45 your spirit soar! in-law. There will be an exclusive sing-a-long Composer: Puccini/Opera /Sung in Italian wEng with Justin Fletcher and a Christmas Chosen by Chloë Brady, Age 7. ST/150 minutes Trail exclusively for cinemas. The Sleeping Beauty, 2019 Puccini’s opera of young love in ROH Live/ The Sleeping Beauty 19th-century Paris is packed with CBeebies Christmas Show/ beautiful music, including lyrical Hansel and Gretel (12A as Live) arias, celebratory choruses for Relaxed Screenings Sun 19 Jan, Doors - 13:45, Act II’s evocation of Christmas ) Sat 28 Dec, 11:00 Performance – 14:00 Eve in the Latin Quarter and a (Autism Friendly Runtime: Approx. 70 mins Composer: Tchaikovsky/Ballet/180 minutes poignant final scene over which Designed for people with autism spectrum conditions and their families. We’ll See Bring the Family for details. the composer himself wept. keep the lights on low, turn the sound down a little, and provide a separate This production of The Sleeping Beauty Rio 2 (U) has been delighting audiences in Richard Jones’s character-led room to take a break in. For the film screenings there will be no trailers or Covent Garden since 1946. A classic production perfectly captures advertisements before the film starts and you’ll be able to move around the Sat 25 Jan, 11:00 of Russian ballet, it established The La bohème’s mixture of comedy, cinema if you want to. Dir Carlos Saldanha/US 2014/101 mins Royal Ballet both in its new home after romance and tragedy, with striking New to our Relaxed Screenings programme, we are trialling screenings for adults Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Jemaine Clement World War II and as a world-class designs by Stewart Laing. The and older teens. See Bring the Family for details. company. Sixty years later, in 2006, the cast features some of the greatest homemcr.org/relaxed original staging was revived, returning interpreters of Puccini’s bohemian lovers performing today, as well Oliver Messel’s wonderful designs It’s A Wonderful Life (U) and glittering costumes to the stage. as former members of The Royal Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky’s enchanting Opera’s Jette Parker Young Artists Parent & Baby Thu 19 Dec, 11:00 score and Marius Petipa’s original Programme. Parents, grandparents and carers of babies aged up to 12 months can enjoy Dir Frank Capra/US 1948/131 mins choreography beautifully combine with Director: Richard Jones films in a relaxed environment with their babies. The volume will be lowered and James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore sections created for The Royal Ballet Conductor: Emmanuel Villaume the lights will remain dimmed throughout the screening. Films will begin at the See p9 for details. by Frederick Ashton, Anthony Dowell advertised time without adverts or trailers. Little Women (U) and Christopher Wheeldon. This ballet Baby changing facilities are readily available and our café bar team can provide is sure to cast its spell over anyone high chairs and hot water for bottles on request. Thu 23 Jan, 11:00 who sees it. Dir Greta Gerwig/US 2019/135 mins Unfortunately we are unable to admit children older than 12 months of age. Florence Pugh, Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson Choreography: Marius Petipa La Bohème, 2019 homemcr.org/parent-and-baby See p5 for details. 20 21 THEATRE get involved Throughout the year there PUSH FESTIVAL 2020 EVENTS ACCESS are on-going programmes, Playreading events, workshops, courses Fri 6 Dec, 11:00 – 13:00 and artist opportunities to Fri 10 Jan, 11:00 – 13:00 try out, so why not take a look at some of these Tickets £5 (scripts and refreshments included) events listed here? Our popular Playreading group offers an opportunity to read and discuss Accessible Music Productions Fri 17 Jan - Sun 2 Feb plays. The sessions are fun, friendly (AMP) Workshops FILM Push Festival is back with another line- and informal and new members are Tue 3 Dec, 18:00 – 20:00 A City Seen/ What Ever up of emerging theatre, film showcases always welcome. and visual art celebrating the work Tue 7 Jan, 18:00 – 20:00 1927, Edinburgh International Festival, HOME, Spoleto Venue Happened to Baby Jane? of North West artists; supported by a homemcr.org/playreading Free, booking required (12A) USA, and Theatre de la Ville presents programme of workshops, discussions Slate Social Monthly music workshops supporting Mon 6 Jan, 17:50 and meet-ups to help you take the next 18-25 year olds with different abilities Roots Mon 2 Dec, 17:00 – 20:00 Tickets £1 step in your artistic practice. and additional needs to write, play Mon 6 Jan, 17:00 – 20:00 Wed 11 Dec 2019 – Mon 30 Dec A quarterly film night sharing the homemcr.org/push-2020 and create music led by professional We need to know who we were, so we can imagine who we might be. creativity of or selected by our city’s Slate supports thousands of black musicians and artists. independent artists by increasing This Christmas join HOME favourites 1927 (Golem, The Animals and Children most essential groups and charities. OPPORTUNITIES homemcr.org/amp access to local, national and Took to the Streets) for a celebration of other cultures, told through their famed January’s screening has been selected Talent Development international networks. Slate Social is blending of theatre, animation and storytelling. by Friends of Dorothy, a Manchester group who inform, educate and Surgeries a place to meet other artists of colour homemcr.org/roots in an informal setting. Whatever art entertain the older LGBT community. Ongoing ACCESS form you’re working in, whether you’re Do you want to discuss a project See p10 for film details. starting out or an old hand, this space Caption Subtitled performance idea, need a bit of career advice or homemcr.org/a-city-seen is for you! Thu 19 Dec, 19:30 would like to find out more about the House Party Audio Described Touch Tour Talent Development opportunities here homemcr.org/slate TOUCH ART Fri 13 Dec, 19:00 TOUR Fri 20 Dec, 18:30 at HOME? Book in 30 minute chats with one of our Talent Development £5 (essential companions, free), Audio Described performance Trashformations producers. booking required Fri 20 Dec, 19:30 21 Oct 2019 – 6 Jan 2020 House Party is our quarterly inclusive homemcr.org/talent-development- Inspire Gallery club night aimed at music lovers, surgeries Trashformations presents artwork makers, movers and shakers aged created by women accessing M.A.S.H 18-25 with different abilities and VISUAL ART (Manchester Action for Street Health). additional needs brought to you by Taking photographs of wreck and ruin the team behind Accessible Music Manchester Open Exhibition 2020 from around the city as impetus, they Productions (AMP). Main Gallery use art as a means of transformation homemcr.org/amp by turning the trashed and broken into Sat 18 Jan – Sun 15 Mar, FREE something treasured. Mothers Who Make The Manchester Project Thursdays open late 12:00 – 21:00 YOUNG PEOPLE at Christmas Thu 23 Jan – Thu 12 Mar: open tours, Saturdays at 13:00 Mon 16 Dec, 10:30 – 12:30 Young Identity Mon 20 Jan, 10:30 – 12:30 Caption subtitled performance Sat 18 Jan – Sun 14 Mar : open response, various dates and times Every Monday from 19:00 (excluding Free, no booking required Wed 18 Dec, 20:00 Join us in the gallery for HOME’s first major open-submission exhibition of Mon 23 & 30 Dec) Mothers who Make is a growing over 500 works that we have received from artists across Greater Manchester. The Slightly Annoying Free, no booking required national network aimed at supporting The Manchester Open showcases and celebrates a curated selection of works Elephant A weekly poetry workshop for 15-25 mothers who are artists, working in including paintings, prints, photography, sculpture, mixed media, video and year olds led by Manchester’s premiere any discipline and at any stage of their BSL Interpreted and Relaxed performance. A real snapshot of what Greater Manchester is creating right now. youth spoken word project. careers. performance homemcr.org/manchester-open Thu 12 Dec, 10:30 homemcr.org/young-identity homemcr.org/mothers-who-make 22 23 OPENING TIMES VISIT FILM PRICES Box Office HOME Off Peak (before 17:00 Mon – Mon – Sun: 12:00 – 20:00 2 Tony Wilson Place Fri before 15:00 Sat & Sun) Manchester Main Gallery Full £7:50 / Member Full £6 M15 4FN Mon: Closed* Peak (from 17:00 Mon – Fri, Tue – Sat: 12:00 – 20:00 after 15:00 Sat & Sun) Sun: 12:00 – 18:00 INFORMATION & BOOKING Full £9.50 / Member Full £7.50 Granada Foundation Galleries Mon – Thu: 11:00 – 23:00 homemcr.org £5 student advance tickets Fri – Sat: 11:00 – 00:00 0161 200 1500 available (limited capacity). [email protected] Sun: 11:00 – 22:30 Concessions and discounts are Bookshop ACCESSIBILITY available, please see website for further details. 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