15 BOX OFFICE — 0116 242 2800 phoenix.org.uk MAY CINEMA / ART / CAFÉ BAR PHOENIX 8 – 14 May NEW FILMS — FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD A GIRL WALKS HOME THIS MONTH — ALONE AT NIGHT SPARK FESTIVAL Creative fun for all the family STONES FOR THE RAMPART UK GREEN FILM FESTIVAL FORCE MAJEURE We join cinemas nationwide to celebrate environmental films SAMBA MAY AT A GLANCE FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD P4 <MultipleINTERSECTING LINKS > <MULTIPLEINTERSECTING LINKS> Box Office242 2800 0116 — GOOD KILL P4 CHILD 44 P6 FORCE MAJEURE P5 Book Online — www.phoenix.org.uk BEVERLEY + MAKING OF DOC P5 <MultipleINTERSECTING LINKS > <MULTIPLEINTERSECTING LINKS> JOHN WICK P6 STONES FOR THE RAMPART P5 PHOENIX P6 THE VOICES P7 <MultipleINTERSECTING LINKS > <MULTIPLEINTERSECTING LINKS> THE WATER DIVINER P7 THE FALLING P10 A ROYAL NIGHT OUT P7 WOMAN IN GOLD P10 8 1/2 P10 COMING IN JUNE CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA MR HOLMES TIMBUKTU 2 – 3 DISCOVER FILM DISCOVER PHOENIX FIND WELCOME It’s Spark Festival time again! Leicester is home to the biggest children’s arts festival in the country, and at Phoenix our programme is jam–packed with digital fun for all ages. Experiment with new technologies in a short workshop; catch a family film; or create your own ‘light art’ in our Cube Gallery with Water Light Graffiti, an amazing wall embedded with thousands of LEDs that light up when you paint on it with water. A huge thank you to everyone who filled in our annual customer survey last month: we got over 950 responses. We’re currently looking through all your comments to see how we can make things better for you, and shape Phoenix’s future as we continue to adapt to pressures on public funding. We know that access–for–all is important to many of you, and with your support we plan to develop our focus on wider community engagement through our education programme, Access Cinema, our artists’ bursary scheme, and involvement in local and national festivals. Film–wise this month, the UK Green Film Festival returns for a fourth year, and we’re marking the 70th anniversary of VE Day with screenings of British drama A Royal Night Out and Germany’s Phoenix. (Phoenix showing Phoenix – a sure–fire recipe for confusion!) And we’ll let you be the judges of whether the new version of Far From the Madding Crowd, with Carey Mulligan as headstrong Bathsheba Everdine, is a worthy rival to the 1967 classic starring Julie Christie. Post your comments on our review board. Phoenix is a registered charity. Our aim is to bring inspirational film and art to all. Made possible with the support of: LOST RIVER 15 Box Office242 2800 0116 — Fri 1 - Mon 4 May Dir: Ryan Gosling Cast: Matt Smith, Christina Hendricks USA 2014, 1hr 33mins FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD 12A Gosling’s directorial debut is a Fri 1 - Thu 14 May dark, neon-drenched fantasy noir. Dir: Thomas Vinterburg Set in the abandoned realms of Cast: Carey Mulligan, Matthias stars as Bathsheba, a landowner Lost River, a single mother is forced Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen who attracts the attentions of to take extreme measures to save UK / USA 2015, 1hr 59mins three very different suitors - an her family’s decrepit family home honourable farmer (Schoenaerts), while her son Bones begins an Book Online — www.phoenix.org.uk Following Schlesinger’s 1967 an older bachelor (Sheen) and investigation that puts him on a adaptation last month, Danish a reckless cavalryman (Tom collision course with the town’s filmmaker Thomas Vinterburg (The Sturridge). Fighting to retain her feared bully. Influenced by Lynch Hunt) has assembled a superb independence in a patriarchal and Noé, it’s a mind-blowing cast for his new version of Thomas society, Bathsheba’s story is one of visual cocktail. Hardy’s classic novel. Carey Mulligan romance and tragedy. BAFTA SHORTS 2015 15 HONEYTRAP + Q&A 18 GOOD KILL 15 Sat 2 - Sun 3 May Sat 2 May, 7.30pm Mon 4 - Thu 7 May Dir: Various Dir: Rebecca Johnson Dir: Andrew Niccol UK 2015, 2hrs 3mins Cast: Jessica Sula, Cast: Ethan Hawke, January Jones Lucien Laviscount USA 2014, 1hr 42mins 1 1 A feature-length selection of short UK 2014, 1hr 38mins live action and animated films Ethan Hawke stars as Air Force from the EE British Academy Film Followed by a Q&A with director pilot Thomas Egan, taken out of Awards (BAFTA). Films include Rebecca Johnson. Set in Brixton the skies and tasked with fighting Best Animation winner The Bigger and inspired by real events, a war as a drone operator from Picture plus BAFTA-winning Honeytrap is an urban drama told a trailer in Las Vegas. Cushioned and Oscar-nominated short, from a girl's point of view. Yearning by distance and with the daily Boogaloo and Graham. ‘Exudes for love and status, fifteen-year- missions beginning to weigh a style and confidence that bode old Layla is swept into a whirlwind heavy on his conscience, Egan’s well for the state of emerging romance with self-styled gang judgement and relationship with UK talent.’ Sight & Sound leader/rapper Troy - and then spat his family begin to suffer. Andrew out the other side. Desperate to Niccol’s contemporary war drama Available as Silver Screenings – see p win him back, she offers to lead is a fascinating examination of the another boy who's in love with her ethics of modern warfare. into an ambush. 4 – 5 INSPIRED BY LEICESTER BEVERLEY + DIOR AND I 12A STONES FOR THE MAKING OF DOC TBC Fri 8 – Mon 11 May RAMPART 15 Fri 8 - Mon 11 May Dir: Frédéric Tcheng Sun 10 - Thu 14 May Dir: Alexander Thomas Cast: Raf Simons, Marion Cotillard Dir: Robert Glinski Cast: Laya Lewis, Vicky McClure France 2014, 1hr 30mins Cast: Tomasz Zietek, Marcel Sabat UK 2015, 1hr Poland 2014, 1hr 52mins Dior and I charts the appointment Made in Leicester and set in the city of Raf Simons as creative director Based on Aleksander Kamiński’s in 1980, Beverley is a short film that of Christian Dior, one of the world’s immensely popular 1943 novel, follows a mixed-race girl’s struggle leading fashion houses. With Raf widely regarded as one of the to carve out a sense of identity a surprise choice for the role and most influential non-fiction texts in a confusing, shifting cultural the pressure of designing his first of the twentieth century and landscape. Hoping for change, collection in just eight weeks, Dior recommended reading for all Polish a move from a decaying, urban and I offers a riveting behind- secondary school students. Set environment to the comfort and the-scenes exploration of the during the occupation of Poland theoretical safety of white suburbia fashion world and the dog-eat-dog during the Second World War, the doesn’t provide the hope and figures that inhabit it. 'Absurd, but film follows the efforts of the Polish opportunities Beverley wished for. mesmeric.' – The Guardian underground scout movement and The film will be screened with the their acts of sabotage and resistance ‘Making-of-Beverley’ documentary. against their Nazi oppressors. FORCE MAJEURE 15 MR. SMITH GOES TO Fri 1 - Thu 7 May WASHINGTON U Dir: Ruben Östlund Wed 13 May, 6.15pm Cast: Johannes Bah Kuhnke Dir: Frank Capra Sweden / France 2014, 2hrs Cast: James Stewart USA 1939, 2hr 4mins During a family holiday in the French Alps, dad Tomas abandons his A new 3-month season of films wife and their children in a blind looking at politics in cinema, each panic when a controlled avalanche introduced by James Harvey-Davitt, almost turns to disaster. With his PhD Candidate in English and wife feeling betrayed at his seeming Media, Anglia Ruskin University. cowardice, what started as a simple In Mr Smith Goes to Washington, family getaway leaves a frail marriage Capra presents one of his boldest hanging in the balance. Östlund’s arguments for the merits of darkly-funny Swedish drama was Congress. To this day, Jimmy a popular presence at last year’s Stewart’s idealistic naïveté remains Cannes Film Festival, where it took one of the iconic representations of the Jury Prize. the responsibilities of power. CHILD 44 15 JOHN WICK 15 THE INVISIBLE LIFE PG Box Office242 2800 0116 — Fri 15 - Thu 21 May Fri 15 - Mon 18 May Fri 15 - Mon 18 May Dir: Daniel Espinosa Dir: Chad Stahelski Dir: Vitor Gonçalves Cast: Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman Cast: Keanu Reeves, Willem Dafoe Cast: Filipe Duarte, João Perry USA / UK / Czech 2014, 2hrs 17mins USA 2014, 1hr 41mins Portugal 2013, 1hr 43mins Set in Stalin’s Soviet Russia in They killed his puppy... Big Hugo, a man on the cusp of the 1950s, Tom Hardy plays Leo mistake. Legendary hitman John middle age, is in the grip of an Demidov, a disgraced MGB agent Wick (Reeves) is thrown back into unshakeable torpor, squandering determined to track down a the seedy underworld of New his life away. Facing the impending notorious serial killer responsible York City, vying for revenge after death of his friend and professional for the brutal murders of several Russian mobsters kill a dog left mentor Antonio, he realises children. Although aided by a to him by his deceased wife. With something must change. Existing powerful Russian general (Oldman), nods to the works of John Woo somewhere between the existential Book Online — www.phoenix.org.uk Demidov’s hunt for the killer takes and a perfect comeback role for horror of Bergman and absurdist unexpected turns as hidden forces Reeves, John Wick is an adrenaline literary dread of Kafka, Portuguese seem determined to cover up shot and a must for all fans of pure director Gonçalves’ first film in the truth.