FILM GUIDE

FILM GUIDE
Sept - Dec 2016
Tale Of Tales
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Elvis & Nixon (15)
High-Rise (15)
Friday 2 September
8.00pm
Tuesday 6 September
8.00pm
Starring: Michael Shannon,
Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer,
Colin Hanks
Starring: Tom Hiddleston,
Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller
Director: Liza Johnson
Director: Ben Wheatley
Time Out Of
Mind (15)
Friday 9 September
8.00pm
Starring: Richard Gere, Ben
Vereen, Jena Malone, Steve
Buscemi
Director: Oren Moverman
Oscar nominee Michael
Shannon and Oscar winner
Kevin Spacey star in this
entertaining retelling of
the encounter and events
leading up to the legendary
meeting of Elvis Presley and
President Nixon in 1970,
immortalised in the most
requested photograph in the
National Archives. When Elvis
decides to put his fame to
use by vowing to fight for his
country, he decides to visit the
White House with the goal of
convincing Nixon to appoint
him as a federal agent. What
follows is a farcical scramble as
staff attempt to co-ordinate a
mutually acceptable meet-andgreet between the most famous
man and the most powerful
man in America.
Based on the novel by J.G
Ballard and presented by
acclaimed director Ben
Wheatley, High-Rise sees Tom
Hiddleston (Thor, The Night
Manager) star as a young
surgeon named Laing, who
becomes the newest resident of
a luxurious apartment in a hightech skyscraper. Quickly settling
in, he meets neighbours such
as bohemian single mother
Charlotte (Sienna Miller),
charismatic documentarian
Wilder (Luke Evans) and his
pregnant wife Helen (Elisabeth
Moss), as well as the building’s
enigmatic architect (Jeremy
Irons), who lives on the
building’s penthouse floor. But
life isn’t as perfect for tenants
on the lower floors, and as
power outages become more
common and the building’s
flaws come to light, all
begins to crumble into an
intense class war.
Screened at the 2014 Toronto
International Film Festival,
Time Out Of Mind is a
compassionate drama from
Oscar nominated director Oren
Moverman. Richard Gere gives
an intelligent and determined
performance as George, a
homeless and mentally ill
man living in denial on the
unforgiving streets of New York.
Having had no luck finding
temporary housing, George
is given refuge in Manhattan’s
largest homeless shelter,
where he befriends a seasoned
shelter-dweller named Dixon
(Ben Vereen). This dense and
believable drama unfolds as
George beings to re-build
his life and regain hope of
repairing his relationship with
estranged daughter Maggie
(Jena Malone).
86mins/2016/USA
116mins/2015/UK/Belgium
118mins/2014/USA
Language: English
Language: English
Language: English
Contains strong language
Contains strong violence, sex and very
strong language
Contains strong language and sex
references
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Versus: The Life &
Films Of Ken Loach (12A)
The Neon
Demon (18)
Midnight
Special (12A)
Monday 12 September
8.00pm
Thursday 22 September
8.00pm
Tuesday 4 October
8.00pm
Starring: Ken Loach, Gabriel
Byrne, Robert Carlyle, Nell
Dunn
Starring: Elle Fanning,
Christina Hendricks, Keanu
Reeves, Jena Malone
Starring: Michael Shannon,
Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst,
Jaeden Lieberher
Director: Louise Osmond
Director: Nicolas Winding
Refn
Director: Jeff Nichols
Versus: The Life & Films
Of Ken Loach is a funny,
provocative and behind-thescenes account of the life and
career of legendary British
filmmaker Ken Loach. Creator
of ground-breaking films like
Kes, Riff-Raff, The Wind That
Shakes The Barley, The Angels’
Share and most recently I,
Daniel Blake (which won him
the Palme D’Or at Cannes this
year) Ken Loach’s film career
has spanned an extraordinary
52 years. As well as interviews
with the man himself, director
Louise Osmond talks with
a host of Loach’s friends,
adversaries, actors and
collaborators who pay a fitting
tribute to a director who has
made a career out of telling
stories that need to be told.
The Neon Demon, the new
horror thriller from Nicolas
Winding Refn, stars Elle
Fanning (Maleficent, Super
8) as an aspiring model who
moves to Los Angeles and
soon finds that her youth and
vitality are devoured by a group
of beauty-obsessed women
desperate to get what she has.
Jesse (Fanning) signs to a top
agent (Christina Hendricks)
and walks for a pretentious top
designer (Alessandro Nivola),
but her new friends – a makeup artist (Jena Malone) and
cold-faced models – either
love her, envy her or want
her dead. This mesmerizingly
strange and sinister take on the
fashion world provides a hugely
entertaining and vampiric story
of supermodel cannibalism.
This truly gripping sci-fi thriller
has it all: an outstanding cast,
including Oscar nominee
Michael Shannon, Kirsten
Dunst and Joel Edgerton;
a gritty, realistic feel; and a
spectacularly amazing finale
that you won’t forget in a hurry.
Inventive and independentminded director Jeff Nichols
brilliantly presents the story of
an unusual child who possesses
mysterious powers, and his
father. Together they go on the
run to escape the clutches of
the FBI, as well as the members
of an eerie religious cult who
worship the boy’s powers.
This narratively satisfying and
visually striking film follows the
father and son who desperately
run towards a looming date
with destiny that could change
everything.
93mins/2016/UK
117mins/2016/France/Denmark/USA
109mins/2015/USA/Greece
Language: English
Language: English
Language: English
Contains infrequent strong language
Contains strong bloody images,
necrophilia and sexual assault
Contains moderate violence and threat
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Where To
Invade Next (15)
The Nice
Guys (15)
Starring: Jesuthasan
Antonythasan, Kalieaswari
Srinivasan, Claudine
Vinasithamby
Thursday 13 October
8.00pm
Tuesday 18 October
8.00pm
Starring: Michael Moore,
Krista Kiuru, Tim Walker
Starring: Russell Crowe, Ryan
Gosling, Angourie Rice, Matt
Bomer
Director: Jacques Audiard
Director: Michael Moore
Director: Shane Black
Dheepan (15)
Friday 7 October
8.00pm
From the BAFTA winning
director of Rust and Bone and
A Prophet comes this bold and
powerful story of a Sri Lankan
warrior who is forced to flee to
France to escape the civil war.
Taking with him two strangers
– a woman and a little girl – in
the hope that he will have a
better chance of asylum in
Europe, Dheepan (Jesuthasan
Antonythasan) arrives in the
suburbs of Paris, where he
is given a temporary home
in a run-down housing block
plagued with gang violence
and crime. Forced to confront
the daily violence he receives
as caretaker of the building,
his war wounds are quickly
reopened and his warrior
instincts are awoken once again
to protect his family. Winner
of the Palme d’Or at the 2015
Cannes Film Festival, Dheepan
is a gripping, human tale of
survival.
Just in time for election
season, this hilarious, comedic
and six-years-in-the-making
documentary sees academy
award-winning director Michael
Moore confront the most
pressing issues facing America
today and finds solutions
in the most unlikely places.
Moore playfully visits various
countries in Europe and Africa
and acts as an ‘invader’ who
wishes to steal their ideas
and ways of life for America.
Whether it is Germany with its
industrial policy, Norway with
its prison system or France with
its gourmet school lunches,
this expansive and subversive
comedy calls for America
to realise that there is much
they could learn from other
countries.
Considered one of the pioneer
screenwriters of the action
film genre, award winning
director Shane Black (Iron Man
3) presents this action comedy
drama about two chalk and
cheese investigators trying to
uncover a conspiracy. Set in
1970s Los Angeles, PI Holland
March (Ryan Gosling), a clumsy
single father whose usual
clients include elderly women
worried about the whereabouts
of their dead husbands, and
Jason Healy (Russell Crowe), a
thuggish and unconventional
enforcer, team up to solve the
case of a missing girl and the
seemingly unrelated death
of a porn star. This highly
entertaining dark comedy is a
fantastic display of 70s sleaze,
slapstick and some brilliant
chemistry between Crowe and
Gosling.
112mins/2015/France
118mins/2015/USA
116mins/2015/USA
Language: Tamil, French and English
with subtitles
Language: English
Language: English
Contains strong language and violence
Contains strong language, violence and
drug references
Contains strong language, sex
references and strong violence
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Sing Street (12A)
Tale Of Tales (15)
Monday 24 October
8.00pm
Monday 31 October
8.00pm
Starring: Ferdia Walsh-Peelo,
Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle
Kennedy
Starring: Salma Hayek,
Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones,
John C Reilly
Director: John Carney
Director: Matteo Garrone
Award winning Irish director
John Carney returns to his roots
for the warm and uplifting Sing
Street, which takes us back to
1980s Dublin through the eyes
of a 14 year old boy named
Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo).
With his parent’s marriage on
the rocks and money troubles
making matters even worse,
Conor is forced to move from
his private school to an innercity public school, where the
kids are rough and the teachers
are even rougher. But when
Conor meets the beautiful
and super cool Raphina (Lucy
Boynton), he puts all of his
energy into starting a band,
rounding up the local talent
and inviting her to star in one
of his music videos. Inspired
by Carney’s life and love for
music and complete with a
killer soundtrack, Sing Street is
an electrifying, heart-warming,
coming-of-age film.
A far cry from the fairy tales
you would have been told
as a child, Tale of Tales is
a seductive and macabre
adaptation of Giambattista
Basile’s classic Italian fairy
tales. Hailed as a masterpiece
at Cannes Film Festival 2015,
this outrageous and lavish
production focuses on three
wildly fantastical fairy tales,
presented by director Matteo
Garrone and featuring a host
of bizarre characters (played by
Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly,
Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones
and more). Flea-petting,
heart-eating, kings, queens,
grotesque monsters and
fairies can be expected from
these adult-only fairy tales,
which together create one
unforgettable production that
is likely to be the strangest and
most breathtaking film
you’ll see for a long time.
Embrace Of
The Serpent (12A)
Tuesday 1 November
8.00pm
Starring: Nilbio Torres, Jan
Bijvoet, Antonio Bolivar
Director: Ciro Guerra
Colombian director Ciro Guerra
presents this enthralling,
politically tinged, intoxicating
and historical adventure film
set in the Amazonian jungle.
The story follows an Amazonian
shaman, the last survivor of his
people, and his relationship
with two European scientists,
who come to the jungle 40
years apart in search of a sacred
healing plant. Nominated
for Best Foreign Language
Film at this year’s Oscars,
Embrace Of The Serpent is a
visually stunning and thoughtprovoking film. Shot in dreamy
black and white, its blistering
and poetic themes help to tell
the moving story (inspired by
real life events) that displays
the ravages of colonialism.
106mins/2016/Ireland/UK/USA
134mins/2015/Italy/France/UK
122mins/2015/Colombia/Venezuela/
Argentina
Language: English
Language: English and Russian
Language: Spanish, Portuguese, German,
Catalan, Latin with English subtitles
Contains infrequent strong language,
drug use and moderate sex references
Contains strong sex, violence and gory
images
Contains moderate violence, injury detail
and threat
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Notes On
Blindness (U)
Thursday 10 November
8.00pm
Starring: Dan Renton Skinner,
Simone Kirby, John M. Hull
Directors: Pete Middleton,
James Spinney
Following the Emmy award
winning short film of the same
name, the feature version of
Notes on Blindness takes
a creative approach to the
documentary form. After losing
his sight in the 1980s, academic
and author John Hull realises
that for his own sanity he
must learn to fully understand
blindness. He begins to keep
an audio diary to document
his observations, thoughts and
experiences as he documents
his own extraordinary journey
into ‘a world beyond sight’.
This inspiring docu-drama
embeds John’s original audio
recordings within compelling
cinematography and textured
sound design, resulting in a
poetic and intimate story of
loss, rebirth and transformation.
I, Daniel Blake (TBC)
Fire At Sea (12A)
Tuesday 6 December
8.00pm
Friday 9 December
8.00pm
Starring: Dave Johns, Hayley
Squires, Sharon Percy, Colin
Coombs
Starring: Samuele Pucillo,
Pietro Bartolo, Maria Costa
Director: Ken Loach
Winner of the Palme d’Or at
the 2016 Cannes Film Festival,
I, Daniel Blake is the new film
by British filmmaker Ken Loach.
Having worked as a joiner in
Newcastle for most of his life,
59-year-old Daniel (Dave Johns)
finds himself recovering from a
heart attack and needing help
from the State for the first time
ever. He crosses paths with
single mother Kattie (Hayley
Squires) and her two young
children, who face moving from
a homeless hostel in London to
a flat in a city she doesn’t know.
Heartfelt and emotional yet
with great warmth and humour,
this brutally moving drama
follow’s Daniel and Kattie’s
struggle with the red tape of
welfare bureaucracy and the
benefits system of modern day
Britain.
Director: Gianfranco Rosi
This powerful and poetic
documentary from award
winning filmmaker Gianfranco
Rosi provides an unsentimental
insight into the carnage and
despair of migrants arriving
on the Mediterranean island
of Lampedusa. Having won
the Golden Bear award at
the Berlin International Film
Festival, Fire At Sea illuminates
the human lives behind the
crisis; cleverly contrasting
the terrifying uncertainty and
desperation of the migrants
with the settled inhabitants
of the island as director Rosi
captures their history, culture
and ordeals as they deal with
the hundreds of migrants
landing there on a weekly basis.
90mins/2016/UK
100mins/2016/UK/France/Belgium
114mins/2016/Italy/France
Language: English
Language: English
Language: Italian and English with
English subtitles
Contains no material likely to offend
or harm
Content warning TBC
Contains infrequent strong language, moderate
injury detail and distressing scenes
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A Hologram For
The King (12A)
Love &
Friendship (U)
Thursday 15 December
8.00pm
Tuesday 20 December
8.00pm
Starring: Tom Hanks,
Alexander Black, Sarita
Choudhury
Starring: Kate Beckinsale,
Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel
Director: Tom Tykwer
Golden Globe nominated
director Tom Tykwer presents
this romantic comedy about
an American businessman
who travels to Saudi Arabia,
hoping to sell a new IT system
to a wealthy king. Oscar
winner Tom Hanks stars as
Alan Clay, who finds himself
baffled by the local Saudi
customs and thwarted by an
opaque bureaucracy. With the
help of hilarious taxi driver
Yousef (Alexander Black) and a
beautiful Saudi doctor named
Zahra (Sarita Choudhury), Alan
eventually finds his footing in
this romantic, comedic story,
based on the bestselling novel
by Dave Eggers, of colliding
cultures and the dashed hopes
and desperation of American
business abroad.
Director: Whit Stillman
Oscar nominated director
Whit Stillman presents this
hilariously self-aware period
comedy-drama based on the
lesser known novel by Jane
Austen. Kate Beckinsale gives
one of the best performances
of her career as the beautiful,
young widow, Lady Susan,
a scandalous and flirtatious
character amongst the polite
society of the 1790s. Wishing
to wait out the extravagant
rumours circulating about her
liaisons, Lady Susan visits her
in-laws estate, where she soon
finds herself set on securing
a husband for herself and her
reluctant daughter. A born
manipulator, Lady Susan can
wrap anyone around her little
finger and in doing so attracts
the simultaneous attention
of three suitors. Brilliantly
refreshing, Love &
Friendship shows how
funny Jane Austen can be.
Absolutely
Fabulous: The
Movie (15)
Wednesday 21 December
8.00pm
Starring: Jennifer Saunders,
Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha
Director: Mandie Fletcher
The hugely popular UK TV hit
is back, but this time on the big
screen. Still oozing with glitz
and glamour and living the
high life they are accustomed
to, Edina (Jennifer Saunders)
and Patsy (Joanna Lumley) star
in this broad, silly and likeably
daft Britcom, where the pair
find themselves blamed for
a major incident with Kate
Moss at an uber fashionable
launch party. With a large
number of heavyweight cameo
performances from the likes of
Stella McCartney, Alexa Chung,
Jeremy Paxman, Graham
Norton, Christopher Biggins
and more, this fashionista
sitcom sees Edina and Patsy
hilariously flee to the French
Riviera as they try to escape the
media storm and paparazzi in
the hope of living in the high
life once more.
98mins/2016/UK/France/Germany/USA/
Mexico
93mins/2016/Ireland/Netherlands/
France/USA/UK
91mins/2016/UK/USA
Language: English and Arabic with
English subtitles
Language: English
Language: English
Contains infrequent strong language,
moderate sex and drug use
Contains no material likely to offend
or harm
Contains strong language and drug
misuse
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Turandot
Norma
Sunday 18 September
7.30pm
Monday 26 September
7.15pm
RSC Live:
Cymbeline
Pre-recorded from the
Handa Opera on
Sydney Harbour
Live from the Royal
Opera House,
London
One of the greatest operas
ever written, Puccini’s Turandot
is performed by the acclaimed
Handa Opera against the
jaw-dropping background of
Sydney Harbour. Director Chen
Shi-Zheng brings a unique
perspective to this classic story,
performed by an exceptional
cast of 78 and including an
incredible version of Nessun
Dorma sung by Riccardo
Massi. Brilliant melodies for
music-lovers, a gripping story
for those that need action
and drama, an exotic setting
and plenty of movement for
lovers of stagecraft and visual
splendor are all features in this
unforgettable performance.
This new production of
Norma for The Royal Opera
is conducted by Antonio
Pappano and distinguished
by a superlative cast of
internationally renowned
singers. Bellini’s classic bel
canto opera is full of wonderful
melodies and opportunities for
star singing, but it is especially
known for Norma’s stunning
showpiece aria, ‘Casta diva’.
Àlex Ollé of innovative Catalan
theatre group La Fura dels Baus
directs, bringing a modern
edge to this timeless tale of
love, rivalry and betrayal, set
against a backdrop of war
driven by the extremes of a
fanatically religious society.
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Wednesday 28 September
7.00pm
Live from the Royal
Shakespeare
Company
Cymbeline is a ruler of a
divided Britain. When Innogen,
the only living heir, marries
her sweetheart in secret, an
enraged Cymbeline banishes
him. But a powerful figure
behind the throne is plotting to
seize power and murder them
both.
Innogen embarks on a
dangerous journey that will
reunite Cymbeline with a lost
heir and reconcile the young
lovers. Melly Still directs
Shakespeare’s rarely performed
romance.
Starring: Dragana Radakovic, Riccardo
Massi, Hyeseoung Kwon
Starring: Sonya Yoncheva, Joseph
Calleja, Sonia Ganassi
Starring: Gillian Bevan, Hiran Abeysekera,
Bethan Cullilane, James Clyde
Director: Chen Shi-Zheng
Director: Àlex Ollé
Director: Melly Still
Music: Giacomo Puccini
Music: Vincenzo Bellini
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RSC Live:
King Lear
Così Fan Tutte
The Golden
Age
Wednesday 12 October
7.00pm
Live from the Royal
Shakespeare
Company
King Lear has ruled for many
years. As age begins to
overtake him, he decides to
divide his kingdom amongst
his children, living out his days
without the burden of power.
Misjudging his children’s loyalty
and finding himself alone in the
wilderness, he is left to confront
the mistakes of a life that has
brought him to this point.
RSC Associate Artist Antony
Sher plays King Lear, one of
the greatest parts written by
Shakespeare in this, one of
Shakespeare’s most epic and
powerful plays, directed by RSC
Artist Director Gregory Doran.
Monday 17 October
6.30pm
Live from the Royal
Opera House,
London
How much do you love your
partner? How much do you
trust them? Can they trust you?
Mozart’s classic opera Così Fan
Tutte puts two pairs of lovers to
the test – with great music but
distinctly unexpected results.
For this new production,
director Jan Philipp Gloger
creates a richly theatrical world
as the playground for this
quirky comedy, where two men
try to woo each other’s partners
for a bet. This lively, youthful
and imaginative take on one of
the world’s best-loved operas
is performed by a cast of rising
stars conducted by Semyon
Bychkov.
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Saturday 22 October
7.30pm
Pre-recorded from
the Bolshoi Ballet,
Moscow
In a seaside town where
business and the Mafia are
flourishing, the Golden Age
cabaret is the favourite nightly
haunt of dancers, bandits and
young revellers. The young
fisherman Boris falls in love with
Rita, a beautiful dancer, but
she is also the friend of a local
gangster…
A satire on Europe during the
Roaring ’20s, The Golden Age
makes for an original, colourful
and dazzling show with its
jazzy score and music-hall
atmosphere. This ballet – which
can only be seen at the Bolshoi
– has everything: mad rhythms,
vigorous chase scenes and
decadent cabaret numbers.
Starring: Antony Sher, Paapa Essiedu,
James Clyde
Starring: Corinne Winters, Angela Brower,
Daniel Behile, Johannes Martin Kranzle
Starring: The Bolshoi Principles, Soloists
and Corps de Ballet
Director: Gregory Doran
Director: Jan Philipp Gloger
Choreographers: Yuri Grigorivich and
Isaak Glikman
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
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Branagh Theatre
Live: The
Entertainer
Anastasia
The Bright
Stream
Thursday 27 October
7.15pm
Wednesday 2 November
7.15pm
Live from the Royal
Opera House,
London
Live from the Garrick Theatre,
London
Set against the backdrop
of post-war Britain, John
Osborne’s modern classic
conjures the seedy glamour
of the old music halls for an
explosive examination of public
masks and private torment.
Rob Ashford directs Kenneth
Branagh as the unforgettable
Archie Rice in the final
production for Plays at the
Garrick season.
An identity in crisis; a country
in revolution. Anastasia is a
ballet about one of the great
historical mysteries of the 20th
century, only recently solved.
At the height of the Russian
Revolution the royal family
were executed, but afterwards
a young woman appeared –
apparently a surviving royal
princess, the Grand Duchess
Anastasia.
Anastasia is a dramatic and
haunting exploration of
Anna’s nightmare of memory
and identity. A powerful,
psychological challenge for the
principal ballerina, this is a rare
opportunity to see a landmark
ballet by major choreographer,
Kenneth MacMillan.
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Saturday 12 November
3.00pm
Pre-recorded from
the Bolshoi Ballet,
Moscow
During harvest festival on a
collective farm, a visiting dance
troupe reunites a ballerina with
her childhood friend, Zina. In
order to teach her unfaithful
husband a lesson, Zina, the
ballerina and the ballerina’s
husband decide to swap roles
for the evening.
Alexei Ratmansky invokes
the genius of Shostakovich’s
score, creating a laughout-loud masterpiece with
slapstick comedy, hilarious
deceptions, false identities
(including Principal Dancer
Ruslan Skvortsov dressed as
a sylph) and many colourful
characters. The Bolshoi bursts
with vivid life and bright spirits
in Ratmansky’s brilliantly
choreographed smash.
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Phil
Dunster, Gawn Grainger, Crispin Letts
Starring: Natalia Osipova, Marianela
Nuñez, Federico Bonelli, Edward Watson
Starring: Svetlana Lunkina, Mikhail
Lobukhin, Maria Alexandrova
Director: Rob Ashford
Choreographer: Kenneth MacMillan
Choreographer: Alexei Ratmansky
Music: Pyotr Il’Yich Tchaikovksy
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
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Les Contes
D’Hoffmann
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker
Thursday 8 December
7.15pm
Sunday 18 December
3.00pm
Live from the Royal
Opera House,
London
Pre-recorded from
the Bolshoi Ballet,
Moscow
Sunday 20 November
2.00pm
Pre-recorded from
the Royal Opera
House, London
The Royal Opera’s lavish
production of Les Contes
d’Hoffmann (The Tales of
Hoffmann), Offenbach’s
masterpiece, is a favourite with
audiences. Created by Oscar
winning film director John
Schlesinger, this production
brings alive a 19th century
world of romance, comedy,
mystery and menace.
At the centre of these
extraordinary tales of clockwork
dolls, magical glasses, ghostly
voices and sensual courtesans
is the vivid imagination of
the drunken romantic poet
Hoffmann. Charismatic
young tenor Vittorio Grigolo
is Hoffmann, whilst superb
baritone Thomas Hampson
performs all four villains.
The Royal Ballet’s glorious
production of The Nutcracker,
created by Peter Wright in
1984, is the production par
excellence of an all-time ballet
favourite.
It is Christmas Eve and
Drosselmeyer the magician
sweeps young Clara away on
a fantasy adventure in which
time is suspended, the family
living room becomes a great
battlefield, and a magical
journey takes them through the
Land of Snow to the Kingdom
of Sweets. Tchaikovsky’s
glittering score, the gorgeous
festive stage designs and
The Royal Ballet’s captivating
dancing make this Nutcracker
the quintessential Christmas
experience.
On Christmas Eve, Marie’s
wooden nutcracker doll is
transformed into a beautiful
prince who takes her on a
magical journey. Before they
leave, they must confront the
Mouse King, whose army is
threatening Marie.
Christmas would not be
complete without the
enchanting tale of young Marie
and her nutcracker prince.
Danced by the Bolshoi’s
principals, Russian ballet master
Yuri Grigorovich’s staging of E.
T. A. Hoffmann’s fairy tale will
transport children and adults
alike to a world of magic and
wonder for the holiday season.
Starring: Vittorio Grigolo, Thomas
Hampson, Sofia Fomina
Starring: Lauren Cuthbertson, Frederico
Bonelli, Francesca Hayward
Starring: Denis Rodkin, Anna Nikulina,
Andrei Merkuriev, Vitaly Biktmirov
Director: John Schlesinger
Choreographer: Peter Wright after
Lev Ivanov
Choreographer: Yuri Grigorovich
Music: Jacques Offenbach
Music: Pyotr Il’Yich Tchaikovsky
Music: Pyotr Il’Yich Tchaikovsky
A £1.50 booking fee is applicable per transaction, except for cash and debit card payments made in person and by telephone
FILMS
FRI 2 SEP
TUE 6 SEP
FRI 9 SEP
Leisure Plus
cardholder discount
Group Booking
discount (1 in 10
free)
Versus (12A)
The Neon Demon (18)
TUE 4 OCT
Midnight Special (12A)
TUE 18 OCT
Audio-described
screening
Full: £14.50
Conc: £13.00
PREMIUM Seats: £2.00 extra
Film Prices:
Full: £6.10
Conc: £5.00
PREMIUM Seats: £2.00 extra
Full time students & registered
unemployed: £4.00
For information on guidelines and film
classifications, please visit:
www.bbfc.co.uk/classification/guidelines
Please note that film and cinema event
times are subject to change as additional
screenings are sometimes added. Times can
be checked via
www.chelmsford.gov.uk/cinemaevents
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Dheepan (15)
Where To Invade Next (15)
The Nice Guys (15)
MON 24 OCT
Sing Street (12A)
MON 31 OCT
Tale Of Tales (15)
TUE 1 NOV
THUR 10 NOV
TUE 6 DEC
Cinema Event Prices:
Time Out Of Mind (15)
MON 12 SEP
THUR 13 OCT
Full-time (FE/HE)
students registered
unemployed
High-Rise (15)
THUR 22 SEP
FRI 7 OCT
Symbols:
Elvis & Nixon (15)
FRI 9 DEC
THUR 15 DEC
TUE 20 DEC
WED 21 DEC
Embrace Of The Serpent (12A)
Notes On Blindness (U)
I, Daniel Blake (Cert TBC)
Fire At Sea (12A)
A Hologram For The King (12A)
Love & Friendship (U)
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (15)
CINEMA EVENTS
SUN 18 SEP
Turandot
MON 26 SEP
Norma
WED 28 SEP
RSC Live: Cymbeline
WED 12 OCT
RSC Live: King Lear
MON 17 OCT
Così Fan Tutte
SAT 22 OCT
THUR 27 OCT
The Golden Age
Branagh Theatre: The Entertainer
WED 2 NOV
Anastasia
SAT 12 NOV
The Bright Stream
SUN 20 NOV
Les Contes D’Hoffmann
THUR 8 DEC
The Nutcracker
SUN 18 DEC
The Nutcracker
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