FILM GUIDE January - April 2017

LA LA Land

Box Office: 01245 606505 www.chelmsford.gov.uk/theatres The Childhood of Julieta (15) Café Society (12A) Little Men (PG) Oasis: Supersonic Hunt for the a Leader (12A) Tuesday 10 January Friday 13 January Tuesday 17 January (15) Wilderpeople (12A) 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm Thursday 5 January Friday 20 January Friday 27 January 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm Starring: Emma Suárez, Adriana Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Starring: Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Ugarte, Daniel Grao Stewart, Steve Carrell Ehle, Paulina Garcia Starring: Robert Pattinson, Stacy Starring: Liam Gallagher, Noel Starring: Sam Neill, Julian Martin, Bérénice Bejo Gallagher, Paul Arthurs, Christine Dennison, Rima Te Wiata Director: Pedro Almodòvar Director: Woody Allen Director: Ira Sachs Biller, Mark Coyle Director: Brady Corbet Director: Taika Waititi Director: Mat Whitecross

A child’s angelic face conceals Making its international debut Jesse Eisenberg (The Social A compassionate look at the A revealing look at the Based on the book Wild Pork a budding sociopath in at the 2016 Cannes Film Network) and Kristen Stewart way in which adult problems meteoric rise of seminal ‘90s and Watercress by Barry Crump this audacious and senses- Festival, Julieta is based on (The Twilight Saga) star in impact childhood relationships, rock band Oasis from the Hunt for the Wilderpeople has Woody Allen’s charming and from the acclaimed New been labelled one of the ‘30 shattering debut from actor three short stories from the council estates of Manchester Must See Films of Sundance Film turned director Brady Corbet. book Runaway (2004) by Alice witty period romantic comedy. York director Ira Sachs. When to some of the biggest concerts 13-year-old Jake’s grandfather Festival 2016’. Ricky Baker (Julian An international cast led by Munro and director, Pedro Looking for an exciting career, of all time in just 3 short dies, his family moves from Dennison) is a typical city kid. young Bobby Dorfman leaves Arrogant, defiant, and determined Robert Pattinson and Bérénice Almodóvar. The film stars Manhattan back into his father’s years. Making extensive use Bejo (The Artist) headlines Emma Suárez and Adriana New York for the glitz and of never-before-seen concert to do exactly what he wants. glamour of 1930s Hollywood. old Brooklyn home. There, Jake Until that is, he is taken out of his this dark domestic nightmare. Ugarte as older and younger befriends the charismatic Tony, footage with candid interviews After landing a job with his comfort zone and sent to live with Set amidst the turmoil of versions of the protagonist, whose single mother Leonor, and a firsthand account of uncle, Bobby falls for Vonnie, foster parents in the bush. Faced World War I and its aftermath, Julieta, where a chance runs the shop downstairs. the backstage sibling rivalry a charming woman who with the prospect of going back it follows the young son of encounter causes her to reflect Soon, Jake’s parents Brian that threatened to destroy the to a care home, Ricky runs away happens to be his employer’s an American diplomat living on the tragic circumstances and Kathy ask Leonor to sign band, this insightful and hugely into the bush, with Uncle Hector mistress. Settling for friendship a new, steeper lease on her (Sam Neill) following, scared for in France as he learns to surrounding the disappearance but ultimately heartbroken, entertaining new documentary manipulate the adults around of her daughter. Julieta was store igniting a feud between from the producers of the city kid’s safety in this harsh Bobby returns to the Bronx and environment. As welfare officials him - a monstrous coming of selected as the Spanish entry the adults. At first, Jake and ‘Senna’ and ‘Amy’ tells their begins working in a nightclub. Tony don’t seem to notice; arrive to an empty house, they age that ominously parallels for the Best Foreign Language Everything falls into place the two boys, so different on extraordinary story with raw wrongly conclude that Hector the rising tide of Fascism in Film at the 2016 Oscars. when he finds romance with a the surface, begin to develop honesty. Supersonic shines a has abducted Ricky. Now uncle Europe. A stylistically fearless This entrancing and beautiful socialite, until Vonnie a formative kinship as they light on one of the most genre and child must set aside their tour-de-force, The Childhood heartbreaking film is heralded walks back into his life and discover the pleasures of being and generation-defining British differences, not just to evade of a Leader reaches fever-pitch Almodóvar’s best work in a bands ever seen. the pursuing social workers and captures his heart once again. young in Brooklyn but soon police officers, but to simply delirium thanks to ravishing decade. Woody Allen’s bittersweet, enough, the adult conflict survive in the bush. With witty cinematography and a warmly nostalgic Hollywood intrudes upon their friendship. dialogue, compassionate and thunderous score by legendary, golden age comedy is inventive storytelling Hunt for boundary-pushing musician beautifully photographed by the the Wilderpeople is consistently Scott Walker. great Italian cinematographer clever, funny and moving. Vitrorio Storaro.

116mins/2016/UK, France, Hungary 97mins/2016/Spain 96mins/2016/USA 83mins/2016/USA 117mins/2016/UK 99mins/2016/New Zealand

Language: French with English subtitles Language: Spanish with English subtitles Language: English Language: English Language: English Language: English

Contains moderate sex and drug references and Contains mild bad language and infrequent mild Contains very strong language and drug Contains moderate bad language, innuendo and Contains infrequent moderate sexual activity violence violence references infrequent bloody moments

Box Office: 01245 606505 | www.chelmsford.gov.uk/theatres A £1.50 booking fee is applicable per transaction, except for cash and debit card payments made in person and by telephone The Girl on Things to Come My Scientology Bridget Jones’s Queen of Katwe Arrival (12A) the Train (15) (12A) Movie (15) Baby (15) (PG) Wednesday 22 February 8.00pm Friday 3 February Tuesday 7 February Thursday 9 February Tuesday 14 February Monday 20 February 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm Starring: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker Starring: Emily Blunt, Haley Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Starring: Louis Theroux, Starring: Renée Zellweger, Starring: Madina Nalwanga, Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson André Marcon, Roman Kolinka Tom Cruise, Rob Alter Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong’o Director: Dennis Villeneuve Director: Tate Taylor Director: Mia Hansen-Løve Director: John Dower Director: Sharon Maguire Director: Mira Nair

Commuter Rachel Watson Berlin Silver Bear winning director Following a long fascination Returning to her Oscar- ‘The true story depicting the Linguistics professor Louise (Emily Blunt) catches daily Mia Hansen-Løve’s fifth film is a with the religion and with much nominated signature role as life of Phiona Phiona Mutesi, a Banks (Amy Adams) leads an glimpses of a seemingly perfect tender, contemplative portrait of experience in dealing with loveable singleton Bridget Ugandan girl living in a slum in elite team of investigators when couple, Scott and Megan, womanhood - and an irresistible eccentric, unpalatable and Jones, Renée Zellweger Katwe, Kampala. gigantic spaceships touch down from the window of her train. collaboration between the unexpected human behaviour, captures our hearts once in 12 locations around the filmmaker and actor Isabelle One day, Watson witnesses Huppert (The Piano Teacher, the beguilingly unassuming again alongside a host of Life is a constant struggle for world. As nations teeter on the something shocking unfold in White Material, Amour). Nathalie Theroux won’t take no for an returning favourites including 10-year-old Phiona (Madina verge of global war, Banks and the backyard of the strangers’ (Huppert) teaches philosophy answer when his request to Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones Nalwanga) and her family. Her her crew must race against time home. Rachel tells the at a Parisian high school. She enter the Scientology Church’s and Sally Phillips, plus a terrific world changes one day when to find a way to communicate authorities what she thinks she is deeply passionate about her headquarters is turned down. cameo from acting legend she meets Robert Katende with the extraterrestrial saw after learning that Megan job and enjoys passing on the Inspired by the Church’s use Emma Thompson. Breaking up (David Oyelowo), a missionary visitors. Hoping to unravel is now missing and feared pleasure of thinking to others. of filming techniques, and with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) who teaches children how to the mystery, she takes a dead. Unable to trust her own Married with two children, she aided by ex-members of the leaves Bridget Jones over 40 play chess. Phiona becomes chance that could threaten memory, the troubled woman divides her time between her organization, Theroux uses and single again. Suddenly, her fascinated with the game and her life and quite possibly all family, former students and her begins her own investigation, actors to replay some incidents love life comes back from the soon becomes a top player of mankind. Adapted from eccentric mother, leading a life of while police suspect that Rachel personal and intellectual fulfilment. people claim they experienced dead when she meets a dashing under Katende’s guidance. Her Ted Chiang’s award-winning may have crossed a dangerous Unexpectedly, Nathalie’s husband as members, in an attempt to and handsome American named success in local competitions novella ‘Story of Your Life’, line. Based on the best-selling announces he is leaving her for better understand the way it Jack (Patrick Dempsey). Things and tournaments opens the this thoughtful, provocative, novel of the same name by another woman. With a newfound operates. In a bizarre twist, it couldn’t be better, until Bridget door to a bright future and a strikingly original sci-fi drama Paula Hawkins and produced freedom suddenly thrust upon her, becomes clear that the Church discovers that she is pregnant. golden chance to escape from poses big questions in the by the award-winning Marc Nathalie must reinvent herself and is also making a film about Now, the bewildered mum-to- a life of poverty. tradition of ‘2001: A Space Platt, this psychological thriller establish a new way of living. Louis Theroux. Suffused with be must figure out if the daddy Odyssey’ and ‘Interstellar’. is gripping until the very end. Featuring a remarkable a good dose of humour and is Mark or Jack. One thing’s From award-winning director performance from Huppert, Things moments worthy of a Hollywood for sure: Bridget’s journey as Denis Villeneuve. to Come is an intelligent, poetic script, My Scientology Movie is she attempts to find out is as and naturalistic exploration of one woman’s pursuit of happiness. stranger than fiction. hilarious and revealing as ever.

112mins/2016/USA 100mins/2016/France, Germany 97mins/2016/UK, USA 120mins/2016/Ireland, UK, France, USA 124mins/2016/USA 116mins/2016/USA

Language: English Language: French/German Language: English Language: English Language: English Language: English

Contains infrequent strong language, Contains strong language and sex Contains mild sex references, injury Contains strong language, sex and violence Contains strong language Contains infrequent strong language drug misuse references detail and distressing scenes

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Based on the international Tom (Michael Fassbender) is Star (Sasha Lane), a free- From writer/director Tom Ford The First Lady of the United Moonlight is the tender and bestseller by James Bowen. a World War I veteran who spirited teenager on the comes a haunting romantic States must fight back tears to profoundly moving story of James is homeless, a maintains a lighthouse off brink of adulthood, leaves thriller of shocking intimacy maintain her dignity and poise a young man’s struggle to recovering drug addict, and the shore of Australia with his her troubled home in the and gripping tension that in front of the entire nation, find himself, told across three desperate to turn his life wife Isabel (Alicia Vikander), a American Midwest and hits explores the thin lines between while also doing her all to defining chapters in his life as around. But he’s also alone woman desperate to have a the road with a magazine love and cruelty, and revenge preserve her husband’s legacy. he experiences the ecstasy, and friendless – at least until baby. Her prayers are answered crew - itinerant labourers who and redemption. Academy Wading through waves of grief pain, and beauty of falling he meets ‘A Street Cat Named when an infant washes up peddle publications door-to- Award nominees Amy Adams and trauma, Jackie follows in love, while grappling with Bob’. Taking a bath in a on shore in a rowboat. Tom door for long hours during the and Jake Gyllenhaal star as a Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy his own sexuality. Based on house his social worker found thinks they should notify the day and party hard at night, divorced couple discovering in her quest to regain her faith, the play In Moonlight Black for him, he hears someone authorities but ultimately gives never certain where the job dark truths about each other doing everything in her power Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin clattering about in another in to Isabel’s wish to keep the will lead next. Led by hard- and themselves. Susan is a to maintain her children’s spirits McCraney. Moonlight has room. Discovering that it’s just girl. Fate strikes again when driving manager Krystal and successful Los Angeles art- after the loss of their father. already received wide critical a stray ginger tomcat, James the couple meet the child’s her seductive enforcer Jake gallery owner whose idyllic Directed by Pablo Larraín, Jackie acclaim winning Barry Jenkins adopts him, names him Bob, biological mother (Rachel (Shia LaBeouf, Transformers), life is marred by the constant sees a host of famous faces the Audience Choice Award at and soon finds that having Weisz) on the mainland. Now, the crew becomes a surrogate traveling of her handsome appear on screen alongside one the Chicago International Film an animal companion makes Tom and Isabel must make a family to Star, offering hope, second husband. While he another, with Peter Sarsgaard festival. a huge difference to his life. decision that will forever affect love and the freedom that is away, she is shaken by the (The Magnificent Seven) as Sometimes it takes nine lives to the lives of four people. A comes from being on the arrival of a manuscript written Robert F. Kennedy and Richard save one. ‘A Street Cat Named heart-wrenching drama from road. English director Andrea by her first husband, who she E. Grant (The Iron Lady) as Bob’ is a heartwarming true the acclaimed director of ‘Blue Arnold, (Fish Tank, Red Road) has not seen in years. As Susan William Walton supporting story based on real owner of Valentine’. has written and directed her reads the manuscript, it forces Portman (Black Swan) in the lead Bob the cat, James Bowen’s first American movie, winning her to examine her past and role as Jackie. Tipped for Oscar own life. her the Jury Prize at the 2016 confront some inner demons. success the role has already Cannes Film Festival, a movie won Natalie Portman Actress of for this generation. the year at the Hollywood Film Awards 2016.

103mins/2016/UK 133mins/2016/UK, New Zealand, USA 164mins/2016/UK,USA 117mins/2016/USA 100mins/2017/USA, Chile, France 111mins/2017/USA

Language: English Language: English Language: English Language: English Language: English Language: English

Contains very strong language, strong Contains strong threat, violence, sexual Contains some sexuality, drug use, brief Contains moderate drug references Contains infrequent moderate sex sex, nudity, drug use violence, nudity and drug use Contains brief strong violence violence & strong language throughout

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La La Land (12A) Sonita (PG) Toni Erdmann Monday 10 April Thursday 13 April (Cert tbc) DRAMA BALLET OPERA 8.00pm 8.00pm Tuesday 18 April Starring: Ryan Gosling, Starring: Sonita Alizadeh, 8.00pm The Tempest The Sleeping Il Trovatore Emma Stone, Amiée Conn Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami Wednesday 18 January Beauty Tuesday 31 January Starring: Peter 7.00pm 7.15pm Director: Damien Chazelle Director: Rokhsareh Simonischek, Sandra Sunday 22 January 3.00pm Ghaemmaghami Hüller, Michael Wittenborn Pre-recorded from the Royal Live from the Shakespeare Company, Live from the Royal Opera House, Director: Maren Ade Stratford-upon-Avon Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow London

From the director of ‘Whiplash’ Sonita is a powerful Receiving critical acclaim at On a distant island a man waits. On her 16th birthday, a curse International superstars Dmitri ‘La La Land’ is a glorious documentary film about Sonita festivals, Toni Erdmann is a Robbed of his position, power by the evil Carabosse causes Hvorostovsky, Anita Rachvelishvili, Hollywood musical that Alizadeh, a young Afghani comedy about an older man’s and wealth, his enemies have the beautiful Princess Aurora to Lianna Haroutounian and Gregory received universal adoration on refugee in Iran who channels alter ego. From director Maren left him in isolation. But this is fall into a deep slumber for 100 Kunde lead a superb cast of the festival circuit. her frustrations and seizes her Ade (The Forest for the Trees, no ordinary man, and this is no years. Only the kiss of a prince world-class singers in this Verdi destiny through music and Everyone Else), this hilarious ordinary island. Prospero is a can awaken her… classic. Il Trovatore is one of the magician, able to control the very Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and rapping after her family tries to new feature explores the great operas of the Romantic elements and bend nature to his Mia (Emma Stone) are drawn sell her into a marriage. complex relationship between In this resplendent and magical period, a story of passion and will. When a sail appears on the together by their common Winifried with his hardworking classic, the Bolshoi dancers blood, love and vengeance, horizon, he reaches out across desire to do what they love. The film was directed by daughter Ines, who he is eager take us on a dreamlike journey disaster and murder. This to reconnect with. After the the ocean to the ship that carries A breathless, life-affirming Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami through the famous fairy tale, atmospheric and poetic staging death of his dog, Winifried the men who wronged him. romance begins between the and premiered at the 2016 complete with jewel fairies, a by director David Bösch puts decides to go and visit her in Creating a vast magical storm he two of them, and they’re happy Sundance Film Festival, where magical kingdom, a youthful the story of passion against the Burcharest. The geographical wrecks the ship and washes his backdrop of war. Fire and snow for the first time in a long time. it won the festival’s World enemies up on the shore. When princess and a handsome change doesn’t help the two to in the landscape echo the cruelty But as success mounts they are Documentary Grand Jury Prize they wake they find themselves prince. In the purest style of see eye to eye and their already and love of the story: soldiers and faced with decisions that begin and Audience Award. lost on a fantastical island where classical ballet, the Bolshoi’s fraught relationship is pushed to gypsies clash, a mother reveals a to fray the fragile fabric of their nothing is as it seems. In a unique peerlessly sumptuous staging its limits. After a disagreement, terrible secret and two men are love affair, and the dreams they partnership with Intel, the RSC will with luxurious sets and Winifried returns back to engaged in a deadly fight for one worked so hard to maintain in Germany as ‘Toni Erdmann’, be using today’s most advanced costumes brings Perrault’s tale each other threaten to rip them technology in a bold reimagining to life. woman. The famous Anvil Chorus Winifried’s smooth talking alter is just one of the highlights of apart. ego. Ines is not left much choice of Shakespeare’s magical play, Verdi’s exceptionally fine music, but to spend time with her creating an unforgettable which captures the shifting eccentric father as she is forced theatrical experience. This emotions of the drama through to decide whether her father screening will be the perfect impassioned love duets, fiery might deserve some place in her introduction to Shakespeare for life after all. young theatregoers and families. solos and stirring choruses.

Starring: The Bolshoi Principals, Soloists and Starring: Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Gregory Kunde, Starring: Simon Russell Beale Corps De Ballet Anita Rachvelishvili and Lianna Haroutounian 128mins/2017/USA 91mins/2016/Germany, Switzerland, Iran 162mins/2017/Germany, Austria

Language: English/Persian/Dari with Artistic Director: Gregory Doran Choreography: Yuri Grigorovich Director: David Bösch Language: English Language: German with English subtitles English subtitles

Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Music: Giuseppe Verdi Contains mild injury detail and forced Contains strong sexual content, graphic Contains infrequent strong language marriage theme nudity, strong language and brief drug use

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BALLET BALLET BALLET BALLET OPERA BALLET Swan Lake Woolf Works The Sleeping Beauty A Contemporary Madama Butterfly A Hero of Sunday 5 February Sunday 12 February Tuesday 28 February Evening Thursday 30 March Our Time 3.00pm 2.00pm 7.00pm 7.15pm Sunday 19 March Sunday 9 April 4.00pm 3.00pm Pre-recorded from the Pre-recorded from the Live from the Live from the Live from the Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow Royal Opera House, Royal Opera House, Live from the Royal Opera House, London London Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow London Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow By moonlight on the shore The first revival of Wayne The Royal Ballet’s magical, The Bolshoi boldly takes on Antonio Pappano conducts a Pechorin, a young officer, of a mysterious lake, Prince McGregor’s critically acclaimed much-loved landmark production a new challenge in a triptych superb cast in this ravishing embarks on a journey across production of Puccini’s heart- Siegfried meets the bewitched ballet triptych, inspired by the celebrates its 70th anniversary. of works by three masters of the majestic mountains of the works of Virginia Woolf. Back in 1946, as London was still rending opera. Puccini’s story of swan-woman Odette. modern and contemporary loving geisha Cio-Cio San’s tragic Caucasus, on a path set by Completely spellbound by McGregor has long been at the emerging from the rubble of the choreography. For the first time, relationship with callous American his passionate encounters. her beauty, he swears his love cutting edge of ballet, working Blitz, the Royal Ballet re-opened the company performs The naval officer B.F. Pinkerton is one Disillusioned and careless, he to her. However, the Prince with collaborators from across the Royal Opera House with its Cage by legendary Academy of the world’s most popular operas. inflicts pain upon himself and the artistic world, and in this sumptuous production of The Set against an exotic Nagasaki realises too late that Fate has Award-winning choreographer the women around him… work he combines themes Sleeping Beauty. This boasted backdrop drawn from 19th century another plan for him… Jerome Robbins, a master of from three of Woolf’s landmark the legendary Margot Fonteyn western artists’ romanticised view visualizing and translating music The story based on the novels – Mrs Dalloway, dancing the role of Aurora. It of Japan, it’s a heart-breaking tale A ballet of ultimate beauty, Orlando and The Waves – was revived ten years ago by to movement. Together with of love, honour and betrayal played larger-than-life hero out to a magnificently evocative and a score of unparalleled with elements of her letters, Monica Mason and Christopher Harald Lander’s homage to Pechorin is adapted from classical ballet in Études and score. Among the many highlights Mikhail Lermontov’s literary perfection, born at the Bolshoi essays and diaries. Acclaimed Newton to mark the company’s are such lyrical passages as the in 1877. In the dual role of the British composer Max Richter 75th birthday. Oliver Messel’s Alexei Ratmansky’s colorful fabulous Humming chorus, Cio- masterpiece in three separate white swan Odette and her (Infra, Sum and Recomposed gorgeous original set designs folklore-inspired Russian Cio San’s seduction by Pinkerton, stories recounting his rival black swan Odile, prima by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The were stunningly re-imagined Seasons, A Contemporary and, of course, her wonderful, heartbreaking betrayals. Is ballerina Svetlana Zakharova Four Seasons) creates a by Peter Farmer in what has Evening brings some of the impassioned aria ‘Un bel di’. Pechorin a real hero? Or is Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s exudes both vulnerability specially commissioned score become a continuously evolving best dancers in the world he a man like any other? This incorporating electronic and work whose bedrock is a perfect stunningly beautiful production and cunning through superb together with masters of features acclaimed Albanian brand new production by technical mastery, alongside live music. marriage of Tchaikovsky’s contemporary choreography. soprano Ermonela Jaho singing the choreographer Yuri Possokhov Denis Rodkin as a powerful and passionate, intense music The result promises to be title role for the first time at Covent is a tragic poetic journey that emotional Siegfried. Including and Marius Petipa’s stunning an outstanding synthesis of Garden, with exciting young tenor can only be seen performed by choreography. This perennial Marcelo Puente as Pinkerton. The breath-taking scenes with the Robbins’s energy, Lander’s the Bolshoi. favourite continues to enchant conductor is Royal Opera Music Bolshoi’s corps de ballet, this is virtuosity, and Ratmansky’s witty audiences young and old with its Director Antonio Pappano, who’s brilliance in a programming classical ballet at its finest. fairytale world of princesses, fairy renowned for his interpretations of godmothers and magical spells. first. Italian opera.

Starring: Svetlana Zakharova, Denis Rodkin, Starring: Alessandra Ferri, Sarah Lamb, Natalia Starring: Svetlana Zakharova, Denis Rodkin, Starring: Ermonela Jaho. Marcelo Puente, Scott Starring: The Bolshoi Principals, Soloists and Starring: Marianela Nuñez, Vadim Muntagirov Artemy Belyakov, Igor Tsvirko Osipova Artemy Belyakov, Igor Tsvirko Hendricks, Elizabeth Deshong Corps de Ballet

Choreographers: Jerome Robbins, Harald Choreography: Yuri Grigorovich Choreography: Wayne McGregor Choreography: Marius Petipa Director: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier Choreography: Yuri Possokhov Lander, Alexei Ratmansky

Music: Igor Stravinsky, Carl Czerny, Leonid Music:Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Music: Max Richter Music: Giuseppe Verdi Music: Giacomo Puccini Music: Ilya Demutsky Desyatnikov

Box Office: 01245 606505 | www.chelmsford.gov.uk/theatres A £1.50 booking fee is applicable per transaction, except for cash and debit card payments made in person and by telephone FILMS THUR 5 JAN The Childhood of a Leader (12A) Tue 10 jAN Julieta (15) FRI 13 JAN Café Society (12A) TUE 17 JAN Little Men (PG) FRI 20 JAN Supersonic (15) FRI 27 JAN Hunt for the Wilderpeople (12A) Fri 3 FEB The Girl on the Train (15) TUE 7 FEB Things to Come (12A) THUR 9 FEB My Scientology Movie (15) BALLET TUE 14 FEB Bridget Jones’s Baby (15) Jewels MON 20 FEB Queen of Katwe (PG) Tuesday 11 April 7.15pm WED 22 FEB Arrival (12A) MON 27 FEB A Street Cat Named Bob (12A) Pre-recorded from the SAT 11 MAR The Light Between Oceans (12A) Royal Opera House, London THUR 23 MAR American Honey (15)

George Balanchine’s glittering ballet Jewels was inspired by MON 27 MAR Nocturnal Animals (15) the beauty of the gem stones he saw in the New York store of WED 29 mar Jackie (15) jewellers Van Cleef & Arpels. He went on to make history with tue 4 apr Moonlight (Cert TBC) this, the first abstract three-act ballet, first performed in 1967 by New York City Ballet. Jewels was performed in full by The Royal mon 10 apr La La Land (12A) Ballet for the first time in 2007, using costume designs from the thur 13 apr Sonita (PG) original NYCB production and new set designs by Jean-Marc Puissant. Each of the three movements draws on a different tue 18 apr Toni Erdmann (Cert tbc) stone for its inspiration and a different composer for its sound. The French Romantic music of Fauré provides the impetus for the lyricism of ‘Emeralds’. The fire of ‘Rubies’ comes from Stravinsky and the jazz-age energy of New York. Grandeur and CINEMA EVENTS elegance complete the ballet in ‘Diamonds’, with the splendour of Imperial Russia and Tchaikovsky’s opulent Third Symphony. Each section salutes a different era in classical ballet’s history as WED 18 JAN The Tempest well as a distinct period in Balanchine’s own life. Through it all, SUN 22 JAN The Sleeping Beauty Balanchine displays his genius for combining music with visionary choreography. TUE 31 JAN Il Trovatore SUN 5 FEB Swan Lake Starring: Beatriz Stix-Brunell, Melissa Hamilton and Marianela Nuñez SUN 12 FEB Woolf Works TUE 28 FEB The Sleeping Beauty Choreography: George Balanchine SUN 19 MAR A Contemporary Evening THUR 30 MAR Madama Butterfly Music: Gabriel Fauré,Igor Stravinsky and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky SUN 9 APR A Hero of Our Time TUES 11 APR Jewels Symbols:

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