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Brian and Charles July 2022
What’s on July 2022
FROM FRIDAY 1 JULY FROM FRIDAY 1 JULY
The Big Hit (15) Nitram (PG)
Director: Emmanuel Courcol Starring: Kad Merad, Director: Justin Kurzel Starring: Caleb Landry
Year: 2021 Marina Hands Year: 2021 Jones, Judy Davis,
Country: France With English subtitles Country: Australia Anthony LaPaglia
Duration: 106m Duration: 112m
Étienne, an often-out-of-work but endearing Caleb Landry Jones’s electrifying performance
actor, runs a theatre workshop in a prison, where burns through the screen in Justin Kurzel’s
he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners disturbing and utterly riveting dramatisation of
to stage Samuel Beckett’s classic Waiting for events leading to the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre in
Godot. When he is allowed to take the colourful Tasmania.
band of convicts on a tour outside the prison,
Étienne and his ad hoc group of actors finally have Angry, isolated and never able to fit in at school,
the chance to thrive. But soon comes the final ‘Nitram’ still lives at home with his battle-weary
performance in Paris. Will their last night together mother and loving father. An unexpected
be the biggest hit of them all? French Film Festival friendship with an eccentric heiress offers him
a brief taste of a very different life but proves a
temporary diversion on his inexorable path towards
disaster. Glasgow Film Festival
Fri 01 15:00 17:30 Fri 01 17:00 19:45
Sat 02 15:00 17:30 Sat 02 17:00 19:45
Sun 03 17:00 19:30 Sun 03 16:30 19:15
Mon 04 17:30 20:00 Mon 04 17:00 19:45
Tues 05 14:30 20:00 Tues 05 17:00 19:45
Wed 06 17:30 20:00 Wed 06 17:00 19:45
Thurs 07 10:30 13:30 Thurs 07 15:00 20:15
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FROM FRIDAY 1 JULY FROM FRIDAY 1 JULY
Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War (TBC) The Princess (12A)
Director: Margy Kinmonth Starring: Alan Bennett, Director: Ed Perkins
Year: 2022 Grayson Perry, Ai Weiwei Year: 2022
Country: UK Country: UK
Duration: 88m Duration: 100m
One of Britain’s greatest landscape artists, Eric The story of Princess Diana is told exclusively
Ravilious, was killed in a plane crash while on through contemporaneous archive footage
commission as Official War Artist in Iceland in 1942. creating a bold and immersive narrative of her life
His life was as compelling and enigmatic as his and death. Turning the camera back on ourselves,
art, set against the dramatic wartime locations it also illuminates the profound impact she had
that inspired him. This film brings to life a unique and how the public’s attitude to the monarchy
and still grossly undervalued British artist caught was, and still is, shaped by these events.
in the crossfire of war, whose legacy largely sank
without trace, until now. Featuring Ai Weiwei, Alan From the Academy Award and Emmy-winning
Bennett, Grayson Perry and many more. producers of Man on Wire and Searching for Sugar
Man.
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Mon 04 15:30 Mon 04 17:45 20:15
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Wed 06 17:45 Wed 06 15:00 20:15
Thurs 07 13:45 Thurs 07 17:45 19:45
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What’s on July 2022
FROM FRIDAY 8 JULY / PREVIEWS THURSDAY 7 JULY FROM FRIDAY 8 JULY
Thor: Love and Thunder (TBC) Brian and Charles (TBC)
Director: Taika Waititi Starring: Director: Jim Archer Starring: David Earle,
Year: 2022 Chris Hemsworth, Year: 2022 Chris Hayward
Country: USA Natalie Portman Country: UK
Duration: TBC Duration: 90m
Hoping for inner peace, Thor’s retirement is Brian, a lonely inventor in rural Wales, spends his
interrupted by galactic killer Gorr the God Butcher days building quirky, unconventional contraptions
(Christian Bale). To combat the threat, Thor enlists that seldom work. Undeterred by his lack of
the help of ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, who – to his success, Brian attempts his biggest project yet.
surprise – can now wield magical hammer Mjolnir, Three days, a washing machine, and various spare
as the Mighty Thor. parts later, he’s invented Charles, an artificially
intelligent robot who learns English from a
With his characteristic humour and charm, writer- dictionary and is obsessed with cabbages.
director Taika Waititi makes a welcome return to
the Marvel universe.
Thurs 07 17:00 20:00 20:00 Fri 08 15:15 17:45 20:15
Fri 08 14:00 17:00 20:00 Sat 09 15:15 17:45 20:15
Sat 09 14:00 17:00 19:30 Sun 10 13:00 15:30 20:30
Sun 10 14:00 17:00 20:00 Mon 11 15:30 17:45 20:15
Mon 11 13:15 17:00 20:00 Tue 12 13:30* 15:00 17:45 20:15
Tues 12 13:15 17:00 20:00 Wed 13 15:30 17:45 20:15
Wed 13 13:15 17:00 20:00 Thur 14 10:30 13:30 17:45 20:15
Thurs 14 14:00 17:00 20:00 Additional Times TBC *Bringing up baby screening
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FRIDAY 8 – SUNDAY 10 JULY MONDAY 11 – WEDNESDAY 13 JULY
All My Friends Hate Me (15) Faya Dayi (12A)
Director: Andrew Gaynord Starring: Tom Stourton, Director: Jessica Beshir With English subtitles
Year: 2021 Joshua McGuire Year: 2021
Country: UK Country: Ethiopia
Duration: 94m Duration: 120m
When Pete’s old university friends invite him to Ethiopian legend has it that khat, a stimulant leaf,
celebrate his birthday with a weekend away in a was found by Sufi Imams in search of eternity.
grand country mansion, he’s looking forward to Inspired by this myth, Faya Dayi is a spiritual
reliving the glory days. But when he arrives, Pete journey into the highlands of Harar immersed in
can’t seem to do anything right, and there are the rituals of khat - today Ethiopia’s most lucrative
new inside jokes he isn’t in on. And why have his cash crop. Through the prism of the khat trade,
friends invited a random stranger from the local Faya Dayi weaves a tapestry of intimate stories
pub to join the party? of people caught between violent government
repression, khat-induced fantasies and
Playfully tapping into contemporary social anxiety, treacherous journeys beyond their borders, and
the escalating tension and hilarity will have you the dreams of the youth who long for a better life.
joyfully squirming in your seat.
Fri 08 18:00 20:30 Mon 11 20:30
Sat 09 18:00 20:30 Tues 12 17:15
Sun 10 19:00 Wed 13 20:30
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What’s on July 2022
FROM TUESDAY 12 JULY FROM FRIDAY 15 JULY
Wayfinder (TBC) Vampyr – 90th Anniversary (PG)
Director: Larry Achiampong Director: Carl Theodor Duration: 73m
Year: 2022 Dreyer Starring: Maurice Schultz,
Country: UK Year: 1932 Sybille Schmitz
Duration: 83m Country: Denmark With English subtitles
Larry Achiampong’s Wayfinder is an epic film The first foray into sound filmmaking by one
about belonging and displacement, cultural of cinema’s pivotal artists, Vampyr remains
heritage and the meaning of home. Set in a a cornerstone work of the horror genre. The
pandemic, it follows the Wanderer, a young girl dreamlike tale of an occult-obsessed student’s
who travels from the north of England to the visit to a small French village, as he is drawn into
South, finding herself in a series of poignant the unsettling mystery around a stricken family’s
encounters with people, stories, songs and struggle with malevolent forces, remains an
situations. Evoked with reference to science unparalleled evocation of the uncanny.
fiction, folk song, computer games and landscape
painting, this very personal film takes the form of Writer, poet and tutor Andrew Graves will
an intrepid, visionary journey. introduce the screening on Monday 18 July.
Tue 12 20:30 Fri 15 18:15
Wed 13 18:00 + Director Q&A. Sat 16 18:30
Thur 14 19:45 Sun 17 14:30 19:45
Mon 18 18:15 + Introduction.
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FROM FRIDAY 15 JULY FROM FRIDAY 15 JULY
The Good Boss (TBC) Laurent Garnier: Off the Record (TBC)
Director: Fernando León Duration: 120m Director: Gabin Rivoire Starring: Laurent Garnier,
de Aranoa Starring: Javier Bardem, Year: 2021 Carl Cox,
Year: 2021 Manolo Solo Country: UK Seth Troxler
Country: Spain With English subtitles Duration: 95m
Boss and community bigwig Blanco (Javier Off the Record chronicles the life of house music
Bardem) promotes himself as a father figure legend Laurent Garnier. With over thirty years’
to his staff at his successful industrial scales experience, this globetrotting documentary
company Basculas Blanco. But, just as his factory highlights his work as a pioneer, as a generous
is shortlisted for a local business award, Blanco supporter of new talent, as well as his advocacy
quickly turns abusive parent while having to for social and political movements through the
firefight potential catastrophes. collective experience of music. Delve into archive
footage detailing the rise of techno, told through
His devious, desperate schemes generate the the eyes and ears of a trailblazer.
film’s escalating, wickedly black humour, and
Bardem wonderfully embodies the toxic, entitled Join us on Friday 15 July, when Dirty Disco
corporate boss. BFI Soundsystem will be playing vinyl in the Café Bar.
Fri 15 15:00 17:45 Fri 15 20:15
Sat 16 16:45 19:45 Sat 16 20:30
Sun 17 16:30 19:30
Mon 18 16:45 19:45
Tue 19 16:45 19:45
Wed 20 16:45 19:45
Thur 21 10:30 13:30 20:30
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What’s on July 2022
FROM FRIDAY 15 JULY FROM FRIDAY 15 JULY
The Good Boss (TBC) Laurent Garnier: Off the Record (TBC)
Director: Fernando León Duration: 120m Director: Gabin Rivoire Starring: Laurent Garnier,
de Aranoa Starring: Javier Bardem, Year: 2021 Carl Cox,
Year: 2021 Manolo Solo Country: UK Seth Troxler
Country: Spain With English subtitles Duration: 95m
Boss and community bigwig Blanco (Javier Off the Record chronicles the life of house music
Bardem) promotes himself as a father figure legend Laurent Garnier. With over thirty years’
to his staff at his successful industrial scales experience, this globetrotting documentary
company Basculas Blanco. But, just as his factory highlights his work as a pioneer, as a generous
is shortlisted for a local business award, Blanco supporter of new talent, as well as his advocacy
quickly turns abusive parent while having to for social and political movements through the
firefight potential catastrophes. collective experience of music. Delve into archive
footage detailing the rise of techno, told through
His devious, desperate schemes generate the the eyes and ears of a trailblazer.
film’s escalating, wickedly black humour, and
Bardem wonderfully embodies the toxic, entitled Join us on Friday 15 July, when Dirty Disco
corporate boss. BFI Soundsystem will be playing vinyl in the Café Bar.
Fri 15 15:00 17:45 Fri 15 20:15
Sat 16 16:45 19:45 Sat 16 20:30
Sun 17 16:30 19:30
Mon 18 16:45 19:45
Tue 19 16:45 19:45
Wed 20 16:45 19:45
Thur 21 10:30 13:30 20:30
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MONDAY 18 – WEDNESDAY 20 JULY FROM FRIDAY 22 JULY
Earwig (15) Where the Crawdads Sing (TBC)
Director: Lucile Duration: 114m Director: Olivia Newman Starring: Daisy Edgar
Hadžihalilović Starring: Paul Hilton, Alex Year: 2022 Jones, Harris Dickinson
Year: 2021 Lawther, Romola Garai Country: USA
Country: Belgium Duration: TBC
A mesmerising fable of long-repressed secrets From the best-selling novel comes a captivating
and awakened memories from the mysterious mystery. It tells the story of Kya, an abandoned
and dream-like world of Lucile Hadzihalilovic girl who raised herself to adulthood in the
making her debut feature in the English language. dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. For
Somewhere in Europe, mid-20th century. Albert is years, rumours of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley
employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth made Cove, isolating Kya from her community. Drawn to
of ice. Mia never leaves their apartment, where the two young men from town, Kya opens herself to
shutters are always closed. The telephone rings a new and startling world; but when one of them
regularly and the Master enquires after Mia’s well- is found dead, she is immediately cast by the
being. Until the day Albert is instructed that he community as the main suspect.
must prepare the child to leave.
Mon 18 20:30 Fri 22 14:00 17:00 20:00
Tue 19 19:30 Sat 23 14:00 17:00 20:00
Wed 20 20:30 Sun 24 13:30 16:00 19:00
Mon 25 14:00 17:00 20:00
Tues 26 14:00 17:00 20:00
Wed 27 14:00 17:00 20:00
Thurs 28 10:30 13:30 17:00 20:00
Additional Times TBC Additional Times TBCWhat’s on July 2022 FROM FRIDAY 22 JULY FROM FRIDAY 22 JULY Robust (TBC) The Big City (PG) Director: Constance Meyer Starring: Gérard Director: Satyajit Ray Starring: Madhabi Year: 2021 Depardieu, Year: 1964 Mukherjee, Country: France Déborah Lukumuena Country: India Anil Chatterjee Duration: 95m With English subtitles Duration: 135m With English subtitles Legendary French actor Gérard Depardieu shines Hailed as one of Satyajit Ray’s greatest films, as idiosyncratic film star Georges, despondent The Big City is set in 1960s Calcutta, where over the prospect of his trusted bodyguard taking gender roles, and economic and social values are leave for a few weeks. When substitute Aïssa rapidly changing. Middle-class housewife Arati is arrives on his doorstep, Georges fears his fussy compelled to take a job as a saleswoman in order daily routines will be upended as he prepares for to support her family. Her recognition of worker’s an upcoming role. Despite his initial protestations, rights and her own financial empowerment the two form a friendship as they begin to affect challenges patriarchal attitudes both in and one another’s lives. With soulfulness and moments outside the home, and when her Anglo-Indian of levity, director Meyer creates an uncanny yet colleague is sacked, she resigns in protest. A tender tale of unlikely human connection. powerful and progressive drama. –BFI Fri 22 15:00 Fri 22 17:30 Sat 23 16:45 Sat 23 17:15 Sun 24 14:45 Sun 24 17:00 Mon 25 17:15 Mon 25 16:15 Tue 26 17:15 Tue 26 13:45 Wed 27 17:15 Wed 27 16:15 Thurs 28 15:15 17:45 Thurs 28 16:45 Additional Times TBC Additional Times TBC
FROM FRIDAY 22 JULY FROM FRIDAY 29 JULY
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (TBC) The Railway Children Return (TBC)
Director: Robert B. Duration: 127m Director: Morgan Matthews Starring: Jenny Agutter,
Weide, Don Argott Starring: Kurt Vonnegut Year: 2022 Sheridan Smith
Year: 2021 Jr., Sam Waterston Country: UK
Country: USA Duration: TBC
Experience the extraordinary life of author Kurt Inspired by one of the most beloved British family
Vonnegut through the 25-year friendship with films of all time, The Railway Children Return is an
the filmmaker who set out to document it. The enchanting adventure for a
film began 39 years ago when young, fledging new generation.
filmmaker Robert Weide (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
wrote a letter to his literary idol proposing a 1944. Three evacuee children are sent from
documentary on Vonnegut’s life and work. Salford to the Yorkshire village of Oakworth,
Shooting began in 1988, and the resulting film where they are met on the train station platform
reflects the friendship and bond Weide and by retired headteacher Bobbie Waterbury (Jenny
Vonnegut formed over the decades. Agutter). Soon, the children discover injured
American soldier Abe hiding out in the railyard, and
they are thrust into a dangerous quest to help
their new friend.
Fri 22 20:30 Fri 29 12:30 14:30
Sat 23 20:15 Sat 30 14:00 16:45
Sun 24 19:30 Sun 31 14:00 16:45
Mon 25 19:45
Tue 26 19:45
Wed 27 19:45
Thurs 28 19:45
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FROM FRIDAY 29 JULY FROM FRIDAY 29 JULY
Lightyear (PG) Minions: The Rise of Gru (TBC)
Director: Angus Maclane Starring: Chris Evans, Keke Director: Kyla Balda Starring: Steve Carell,
Year: 2022 Palmer, Taika Waititi Year: 2022 Piere Coffin
Country: USA Country: USA
Duration: 100m Duration: 90m
Explore the origin story of Buzz Lightyear, the This summer, discover the origin story of how the
hero who inspired the toy. The legendary Space world’s greatest supervillain first met his iconic
Ranger is marooned on a hostile planet 4.2 million Minions, forged cinema’s most despicable crew
light-years from Earth. With a group of ambitious and faced off the most unstoppable criminal force
recruits and his charming robot companion cat ever assembled, in Minions: The Rise of Gru.
called Sox, Buzz tries to find a way back home.
Complicating the mission is the arrival of Emperor Long before he becomes the master of evil, Gru
Zurg, with an army of ruthless robots and a (Steve Carell) is just a 12-year-old boy in 1970s
mysterious agenda. suburbia, plotting to take over the world from
his basement. It’s not going particularly well.
When Gru crosses paths with the Minions, this
unexpected family joins forces.
Fri 29 15:00 Fri 29 14:45
Sat 30 12:45 15:00 Sat 30 14:45
Sun 31 15:00 Sun 31 14:45
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Fire of Love (TBC) Hit the Road (12A)
Director: Sara Dosa Director: Panah Panahi Starring:
Year: 2022 Year: 2021 Pantea Panahiha,
Country: Canada Country: Iran Hasan Majuni
Duration: 93m Duration: 94m With English subtitles
Fire of Love is the story of intrepid French A family takes a road trip across endless miles
scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft, who loved of rugged Iranian landscape. Dad’s got a broken
two things — each other, and volcanoes. For leg whilst Mum fusses over their pet dog. Their
two decades, the daring French volcanologist energetic youngest son sings whilst his elder
couple roamed the planet, chasing eruptions and brother tries to concentrate on the road. The
documenting their discoveries. claustrophobia in the car grows, but so does the
love and affection they have for each other.
Drawing from the Kraffts’ spectacular archive, this
lyrical celebration of the intrepid scientists’ spirit + Rola & Emad’s Story (10m)
of adventure tells a story of primordial creation Hit the Road will be preceded by this short film
and destruction, and two bold explorers as they created by the charity Framework. In 2017, Rola
venture into the unknown. and Emad fled the horrors of war-torn Syria and
resettled in Newark.
Fri 29 17:45 20:15 Fri 29 17:30 20:00
Sat 30 17:45 20:15 Sat 30 17:30 20:00
Sun 31 17:45 20:15 Sun 31 17:30 20:00
Additional Times TBC Additional Times TBCWhat’s on July 2022 FROM FRIDAY 29 JULY Paris, Texas (12A) Director: Wim Wenders Starring: Year: 1984 Harry Dean Stanton, Country: USA Nastassja Kinski Duration: 139m Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire) brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sam Shepard. It follows the mysterious, nearly mute drifter Travis as he tries to reconnect with his young son, living with his brother in Los Angeles, and his missing wife. A powerful statement on masculinity and the myth of the American family, and an exquisite visual exploration of a vast, crumbling world of canyons and neon. – Criterion Collection Fri 29 17:15 Sat 30 19:45 Sun 31 19:45 Additional Times TBC
Silver Screen All tickets £5 Our weekly Thursday matinee screenings programmed with our senior customers in mind The Big Hit Thursday 7 July 10:30 & 13:30 Brian and Charles Thursday 14 July 10.30 & 13.30 The Good Boss Thursday 21 July 10.30 & 13:30 Where the Crawdads Sing Thursday 28 July 10.30 & 13:30
Join us for a weird weekend of films
about dreams and doubles
22–24 July 2022
Tickets for the weekend are 4-for-3
(only available at the box office)
Artwork by Kim Thompson @kim_a_tron
Long Day’s Journey into Night – 3D (12A)
Director: Bi Gan Duration: 133m
Year: 2018 Starring: Tang Wei, Jue Huang
Country: China
Our weird weekend opens with a rare 3D screening of Bi Gan’s Long Day’s
Journey into Night, a neo-noir mystery dealing with the slippery nature of
memory. Gan’s film is a dreamscape of fractured time that leaps in and out of
reality.
Luo Hongwu returns to his hometown, haunted by his past and desperately
searching for his lost love Wan Qiwen. Along his journey, Luo falls asleep in a
cinema, allowing the audience to enter his dream reality with a spellbinding,
hour-long unbroken take, shot entirely in 3D.
Fri 22 20:15
3 Women (PG)
+ intro by film writer Andrew Key
Director: Robert Altman Duration: 124m
Year: 1977 Starring: Shelley Duvall,
Country: USA Sissy Spacek
Strange dreams don’t just exist within the films this weekend – the idea for 3
Women famously came to Robert Altman in a dream. Upon waking up, he had
a specific memory of directing Sissy Spacek and Shelley Duvall in a film about
identity theft, set against the backdrop of the California desert.
Housemates Pinky and Millie live and work together in a dusty, deserted
California resort town. Pinky idolises Millie but her behaviour turns sinister when
she begins to mimic Millie’s mannerisms and personality.
Sat 23 13:45AFTER PARTY
Featuring music from DJs Joey Bell and Sue Starbuck Saturday 23 July
and artwork by Kim Thompson. From 9pm
Double Bill: Meshes of the Afternoon +
Mulholland Drive (15)
Director: Maya Deren Director: David Lynch
Year: 1943 Year: 2001
Duration: 15m Country: USA
Starring: Maya Deren Duration: 147m
Starring: Naomi Watts,
Laura Harring
Mulholland Drive is David Lynch’s fever-dream take on Tinseltown, starring
Naomi Watts as the ingenue Betty Elms - newly arrived in Hollywood and
determined to break into acting. There she meets an enigmatic woman with
amnesia, who calls herself Rita (after Hayworth). Together the pair attempt to
solve the mystery of Rita’s true identity.
We’ll also be hosting a rare screening of Maya Deren’s landmark experimental
short Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), about a young woman lost in a dream
within a dream.
There will be a short interval between films.
Sat 23 18:30
Céline and Julie Go Boating (35mm) (12A)
+ intro by film critic Christina Newland
Director: Jacques Rivette Duration: 186m
Year: 1974 Starring: Juliet Berto, Dominique
Country: France Labourier
A genre-bending masterpiece of female friendship and surrealism, Céline and
Julie Go Boating is arguably the most famous work from director Jacques
Rivette. Céline and Julie are two friends – a magician and a librarian. They share
clothes, ideas and identities on a journey involving ghosts, magic, and time
travel. It touches on the worlds of authors Lewis Carroll and Henry James, and
even went on to inspire David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive.
Introduction by lead film critic for the i Paper, Christina Newland
Sun 24 15:30Special Events.
The Afterlight (35mm) + Q&A (PG) Explorer + Q&A (TBC)
Director: Charlie Shackleton Country: UK Director: Matthew Dyas Duration: 143m
Year: 2021 Duration: 82m Year: 2022 Starring: Ranulph Fiennes,
Country: UK Anton Bowring
The Afterlight is a dreamy cinematic collage from director Charlie Shackleton (Beyond Considered the world’s greatest living explorer and breaker of several records, Sir
Clueless). Compiled of fragments of hundreds of films from around the world, the film Ranulph Fiennes tells his remarkable life story. Combining new and archive footage with
brings together an ensemble cast of actors with one thing in common: each is no longer alive. remarkable landscapes to present a well-deserved portrait of the icon that is Ran.
The Afterlight itself exists as a single 35mm film print. Further eroding every time it Followed by a pre-recorded Q&A with Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Bear Grylls.
screens, eventually it will disappear entirely.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Charlie Shackleton and artist and
filmmaker Jeanie Finlay.
Sun 10 18:00 Thu 14 19:30
Broadway’s Mystery Film (15) NT Live: Prima Facie (12A)
All tickets £5
Duration: 134m
We love film and we love to share our passion for film. This mystery film is chosen by Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) makes her West End debut in the UK premiere of Suzie Miller’s
one of our film-loving staff and is one we feel deserves to be (re)discovered on the big award-winning play. Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister who has worked her way up from
screen. Expect anything from stone-cold classics to forgotten gems. We’ll introduce the working class origins to the top of her game. But an unexpected event forces her
event and let you know who selected it, but the film will remain a mystery until the lights to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and
go down. morals diverge. This solo tour de force was captured live at London’s intimate Harold
Pinter Theatre.
[Advised rating 15] Includes reference to sex, violence and rape.
Fri 15 19:30 Sun 21 / 24 19:00 / 13:00Special Events.
My Movie: The Rock (15) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (15)
Director: Michael Bay Duration: 136m Director: John Cameron Mitchell Duration: 92m
Year: 1996 Starring: Sean Connery, Year: 2001 Starring: John Cameron Mitchell,
Country: USA Nicolas Cage Country: USA Michael Pitt
A dishonest Brigadier General Frank Hummel threatens the government to launch rockets Adapted from his 1998 off-Broadway musical, writer-director John Cameron Mitchell
on the city of San Francisco. However, a mild-mannered chemist and an ex-convict team also stars as genderqueer East German glam-rocker Hedwig Schmidt in this trailblazing
up to stop the general. cult classic.
Dedication: Happy Birthday Simon Our heroine tells the story of her life through song – from humble beginnings listening
to pop radio with her head in the oven, through a botched sex-change operation, until
This film is showing as a My Movie screening – finally transforming herself into the ‘internationally ignored song stylist’ and frontwoman
chosen by a Broadway customer to celebrate a special occasion, and open to all. of her band, The Angry Inch.
Join us on Sat 30 July for Pride celebrations with DJs, drag performers and more - free
entry until late.
Sun 24 12:00 Fri 29 20:30Fragile Lives: The Cinema of Precarity
Precarity has become one of the key words of our time – join us this month for a season of Tickets: Pay What You Feel
films featuring selected works which allow us to examine key questions the term raises, and FREE / £2 / £4 / £8
approach it in some of its diversity.
The season is sponsored by The Centre
We’re offering tickets for this season on a sliding scale – choose what to pay based on your for the Study of Inequality, Culture and
circumstances. If you can afford more, it helps us to give free or cheaper tickets for those Difference and The Work Futures Research
who may not otherwise be able to attend. Group, both at Nottingham Trent University.
Bicycle Thieves + introduction (U) The Gleaners and I + discussion (PG)
Director: Vittorio De Sica Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani, Director: Agnès Varda
Year: 1948 Enzo Staiola Year: 2000
Country: Italy Country: France
Duration: 89m Duration: 79m
Vittorio de Sica’s Bicycle Thieves is perhaps the most archetypal Agnès Varda (1928-2019) was for many years France’s most admired
neorealist film - with its location shooting, amateur actors, and woman filmmaker and remains one of the most admired directors
deep embedding in all the difficulties of life in the post-war world. in world cinema. Famous for her feminist fictions, she was also a
The film is certainly a document of that period, but what is striking great maker of often very personal documentaries such as this
now is how contemporary its themes of access to transport, debt, one. It bears witness to Varda’s sense of her own aging, her bodily
precarious labour and the loss of self-respect suddenly seem, precariousness, but also tours the by-ways of France recording how
almost as if the intervening history had been erased. our economy generates waste but also produces ‘waste’ humans,
people deemed superfluous to the needs of economy.
The film will be preceded by a short introduction from Martin
O’Shaughnessy, Professor of Film Studies at Nottingham Trent. The film will be followed by an informal discussion session.
Tue 05 18:00 Mon 11 18:00
Bait + discussion (15) Between Two Worlds + panel (12A)
Director: Mark Jenkin Starring: Ed Rowe, Director: Emmanuel Carrère Starring: Juliette Binoche,
Year: 2019 Simon Shepherd Year: 2021 Hélène Lambert
Country: UK Country: France
Duration: 89m Duration: 107m
Shot on black and white analogue film - on a shoestring budget Between Two Worlds is based on journalist Florence Aubenas’s best-
- using a 16mm Bolex clockwork camera, Bait is one of the most selling account of her undercover investigation of precarious women
admired British films of recent times. A distant descendant of workers at a ferry port in Northern France.
Visconti’s neorealist classic La Terra Trema, with its story of a
fishing community fighting exploitation, Bait pits traditional fishing Exposing the harsh economic realities of the normally invisible labour
communities against well-heeled tourists bringing out all the fault- of precarious women workers, it also poses the key question of
lines of a highly unequal Britain where the precarity of some sits the ethics of spectatorship - of what happens when the relatively
uneasily alongside the security of others. privileged seek to represent (to speak for but perhaps also instead of)
those without access to public voice.
The film will be followed by an informal discussion session.
Followed by a panel discussion hosted by Martin O’Shaughnessy,
Professor of Film Studies at Nottingham Trent.
Wed 20 18:00 Tue 26 17:45Family Matinées – All tickets £3.90 (unless otherwise stated)
The Railway Children (U) Dr. Who: Classic Movie Double Bill
[with interval] (PG)
Director: Lionel Jeffries Starring: Jenny Agutter, Director: Robert Flemyng / Country: UK / Starring: Peter Cushing, Roy Castle
Year: 1970 Bernard Cribbins, Dinah Sheridan
Country: UK Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) 82m
Duration: 108m Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966) 84m
Experience an exciting and nostalgic Dr. Who double bill on the big screen.
Bored and lonely during a summer holiday, Mary, an ordinary 12-year-old-
girl follows an odd cat into the nearby woods where she stumbles upon Dr. Who & the Daleks was The Doctor’s first adaptation for cinema, and
a flower and then a little broomstick. Together the flower and the first time Doctor Who was ever seen in colour. Having invented the
broomstick whisk her above the clouds, far away to Endor College – TARDIS, the Doctor and his three young accomplices set forth on a quest
a school of magic! through time and space.
In Daleks – Invasion Earth 2150 A.D, the future of Planet Earth now
belongs to The Daleks, but deep within the London Underground a group
of freedom fighters are planning a resistance attack.
Sun 03 14:00 SUN 10 13:15 Standard ticket price
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG)
Bringing up Baby - Screenings for parents
and carers with babies! Tickets are £6 for
you, free for babies under one year of age.
Brian and Charles (TBC)
Director: Jeff Fowler Starring: James Marsden, Jim
Year: 2022 Carrey, Ben Schwartz
Country: USA
Duration: 122m Director: Jim Archer Starring: David Earle,
Year: 2022 Chris Hayward
After settling in Green Hills, Sonic is eager to prove that he has what it Country: UK
takes to be a true hero. His test comes when Dr. Robotnik returns with Duration: 90m
a new partner, Knuckles, in search of a mystical emerald that has the
power to destroy civilisations. Sonic teams up with his own sidekick, Brian, a lonely inventor in rural Wales, spends his days building quirky,
Tails, and together they embark on a globe-trotting journey to find the unconventional contraptions that seldom work. Undeterred by his
emerald before it falls into the wrong hands. lack of success, Brian attempts his biggest project yet. Three days, a
washing machine, and various spare parts later, he’s invented Charles,
an artificially intelligent robot who learns English from a dictionary and is
obsessed with cabbages.
Sat 16 15:30 Tue 12 13:30Tickets and times at broadway.org.uk
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