home box office mcr. 0161 200 1500 org home film . aug –sep Agnes Varda, Faces Places, 2017 Part of our season Agnes Varda: Gleaning Truths, Aug 26 – Sep 26 1 NEW RELEASES Pope Francis: A Man of His The Big Bad Fox and Other Tracking Edith (PG) Word (PG) Tales (U) From Fri 10 Aug From Fri 10 Aug (Le grand méchant renard et Dir Peter Stephan Jungk/AU DE RU GB 2016/92 mins Dir Wim Wenders/CH IT DE FR 2018/96 mins/Italian, autres contes) Sicilian Ghost Story (CTBA) The Escape (15) Hearts Beat Loud (12A) Spanish, German and English with partial EngST A documentary about the Austro- The latest film from Wim Wenders From Fri 10 Aug British photographer Edith Tudor-Hart, From Fri 3 Aug From Fri 3 Aug From Fri 3 Aug Dirs Benjamin Renner, Patrick Imbert/FR 2017/83 Tracking Edith follows filmmaker Peter Dirs Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza/IT FR CH Dir Dominic Savage/GB 2017/101 mins Dir Brett Haley/US 2018/97 mins is intended to be a personal journey mins/French wEng ST and English Dubbed Stephan Jungk’s journey to understand 2017/122 mins/Italian wEng ST Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper, Frances Barber Nick Offerman, Kiersey Clemons, Ted Danson with Pope Francis, rather than a Guillaume Darnault, Damien Wietecka, Kamel Abdelssadok the motivations of his great aunt who, Julia Jedlikowska, Gaetano Fernandez, Corinne Gemma Arterton gives a raw and Set in an ailing Brooklyn record biographical documentary about him. Musallari while living a double life as a spy for affecting performance as Tara, a shop, Hearts Beat Loud looks at The pope’s ideas and his message are This beautiful hand-drawn animation Giuseppe is the child of a man with the KGB, recruited Kim Philby and housewife and mother suffocating the blossoming musical relationship central to this documentary, which tells the barnyard tales of a fox who mafia connections who has turned helped create the Cambridge Five, the under the weight of her domestic between a father-daughter duo about sets out to present his work of reform mothers a family of chicks, a rabbit that informer. One day Giuseppe vanishes, Soviet Union’s most successful spy ring burdens who makes the extraordinary to embark on a journey of love, growing and his answers to today’s global acts like a stork, and a duck who wants kidnapped by those his father crossed. in the UK. decision to abandon her family in order up and musical discovery. questions. to be Santa Claus. His classmate, Luna rebels against the to find herself. All screenings at 13:00 will be Bring the code of silence and collusion and sets Family screenings with adjusted cinema out to find the boy she so bashfully conditions, see p21 for details. loves. Note: Screenings will be a mix of French with English subtitles and English dubbed, see website for details. Event Event The Apparition (12A) Leaning into the Wind: Under the Tree (15) The Eyes of Orson Welles The Heiresses (12A) The Nun (12A) (L’apparition) Andy Goldsworthy (PG) (Undir trénu) (12A) (Las herederas) (La religieuse) From Fri 3 Aug From Fri 10 Aug From Fri 10 Aug From Fri 17 Aug From Fri 17 Aug From Fri 17 Aug Dir Xavier Giannoli/FR 2018/144 mins/French Dir Thomas Riedelsheimer/GB DE 2017/97 mins Dir Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson/IS 2017/89 mins/ Dir Mark Cousins/GB 2018/115 mins Dir Marcelo Martinessi/PY DE UY BR NO FR Dir Jacques Rivette/FR 1966/140 mins/French wEng ST 2018/98mins/Spanish wEng ST wEng ST Filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer Icelandic wEng ST Welles trained as an artist before Anna Karina, Liselotte Pulver, Micheline Presle Vincent Lindon, Galatéa Bellugi, Patrick d’Assumçao Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson, Edda Björgvinsdóttir, Ana Brun, Margarita Irun, Ana Ivanova reteams with Andy Goldsworthy for he become an actor and director, French New Wave icon Anna Karina Sigurður Sigurjónsson Timid Chela and extroverted Chiquita The Apparition is a story of a reporter an absorbing documentary portrait and continued to draw and paint stars as Suzanne, a young woman The shade from a garden tree brings are a long-term couple. When Chiquita investigating a young French woman of the influential British sculptor throughout his career. Award-winning forced against her will to take vows as the already simmering tensions is sent to prison for debt, Chela is who claims to have seen the Virgin and environmentalist. Riedelsheimer director Mark Cousins has been a nun in a 4K restoration of Rivette’s between two neighbours in an suddenly left on her own and discovers Mary. Combining a mystery plot intimately captures Goldsworthy’s granted access to this treasure trove of controversial portrayal of life within Icelandic suburb to boiling point in this a sense of self, independence and involving the Catholic Church with exploration of the world and himself imagery, to make a film about what he the church. absurdist and psychologically astute desire providing a taxi service for some the continent-hopping story of a through these ephemeral and finds there - the story of Welles’ visual traumatised war journalist seeking the comedy from director Hafsteinn Gunnar new-found friends. permanent workings on the landscape, Sigurðsson. thinking, never before told. truth, the result is an intriguing and cities and his own body. Event/ The screening on Wed 22 suspenseful drama. Event/ We will be joined by director Aug at 18:30 will be introduced by Dr Plus/ Selected screenings of this film will Mark Cousins for a Q&A following the Monica Pearl, Lecturer in 20th Century be preceded by the short film In Bloom 17:50 screening on Fri 17 Aug. American Literature at the University (Dir Jess Mone/GB 2018/9 mins) winner of Manchester. of the 2018 MSA Best Film Award. 2 3 Preview Satellite Event Event Distant Constellation BlacKkKlansman (15) The Children Act (12A) C’est la vie! (CTBA) Cold War (15) The Miseducation of (CTBA) (Le sens de la fête) (Zimna wojna) Cameron Post (15) From Fri 24 Aug From Fri 24 Aug From Fri 17 Aug Dir Spike Lee/US 2018/135 mins Dir Richard Eyre/GB 2017/105 mins From Fri 31 Aug From Fri 31 Aug From Fri 7 Sep Dir Shevaun Mizrahi/TR US 2017/80 mins/ Turkish, John David Washington, Adam Driver, Topher Grace, Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Fionn Whitehead Dirs Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano/BE CA FR Dir Pawel Pawlikowski/PL FR GB 2018/88 mins/ Dir Desiree Akhavan/US 2018/92 mins Laura Harrier English, French and Armenian with partial EngST Adapted by Ian McEwan from his 2017/117 mins/French wEng ST Polish wEng ST Chloë Grace Moretz, Quinn Shephard, Jennifer Ehle Shevaun Mizrahi makes a portrait of Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman tells the own novel, this riveting drama stars Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jean-Paul Rouve, Gilles Lellouche Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc Appropriate Behaviour director not only the elderly residents of a astonishing true story of one of the Emma Thompson as a High Court The directorial duo behind 2011’s Pawel Pawlikowski follows up Ida with Desiree Akhavan’s adaptation of retirement home in Istanbul, but also riskiest undercover investigations in judge tasked with making a decision Intouchables reunites for an enjoyable another first-rate monochrome drama Emily Danforth’s novel was one of of time itself, which seems to stand American history – an improbable early that will speak to our most fraught romp in which a wedding threatens to told against the backdrop of the Cold the standout titles at Sundance. still within the building’s walls. The ’70s case in which African-American questions regarding religious tolerance erupt into an utter nightmare for the War in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia Depicting the horrifying reality of cycle of life and death is unavoidably police detective Ron Stallworth — and could mean life or death for an party’s cantankerous planner. Jean- and Paris. The story of a love affair conversion therapy, the film is an tragic, but Mizrahi also finds beauty applied for and was ultimately granted innocent young man. Pierre Bacri is in masterful form as Max that spans different time frames exquisite and compassionate hybrid of and poetry in the fullness of all these membership to the Ku Klux Klan. Angély, the seasoned caterer charged and countries, this is an eloquent an institutional drama and a summer people’s lives. with keeping the wedding on track. meditation on the impossibility of love camp film. Chloë Grace Moretz is Event/ The preview screening on Mon and state-sponsored fear. outstanding in the central role. 20 Aug at 18:15 will be followed by a satellite Q&A with director Spike Lee. Event/ The screening on Thu 13 Sep at 20:40 will be introduced by Professor Jackie Stacey, University of Manchester. Braguino (CTBA) One Note at a Time (PG) Yardie (15) Under the Wire (15) American Animals (15) In Praise of Nothing (CTBA) From Fri 24 Aug From Fri 24 Aug From Fri 31 Aug From Fri 7 Sep From Fri 7 Sep From Fri 7 Sep Dir Clément Cogitore/FR 2017/49 mins/Russian Dir Renee Edwards/GB US 2016/95 mins Dir Idris Elba/GB 2018/102 mins Dir Christopher Martin/GB 2018/95 mins/English Dir Bart Layton/GB US 2018/117 mins Dir Boris Mitić/RS HR FR 2017/78 mins wEng ST and Arabic with partial EngST One Note at a Time is set in the iconic Aml Ameen, Stephen Graham, Fraser James Ann Dowd, Evan Peters, Blake Jenner A discursive essay film about the The Braguine family lives self- musical backdrop of New Orleans, Based on the cult novel by Victor This is a powerful account of war Unfolding from multiple perspectives universe from Serbian director Boris sufficiently in the middle of the Siberian where the music stopped in 2005 when Headley, Idris Elba’s standout correspondent Marie Colvin and and incorporating the real-life figures Mitić, In Praise of Nothing is narrated tundra.