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July – August 2019
Cinema
MoonFest / Sundown Cinema / Family Films / Special Events / Controversy
Timetable Thursday
2pm
18-Jul
Yesterday
6pm MoonFest: The Dish
8.30pm Yesterday
Monday 1-Jul Friday 19-Jul
2pm Sometimes Always Never 6pm Vita & Virginia
7pm BIFF: The Photograph 8.30pm MoonFest: Apollo 11
Tuesday 2-Jul Saturday 20-Jul
2pm Sometimes Always Never 11am Capture The Flag (Zoom-In Cinema)
8pm Sunset 5pm MoonFest: Apollo 11
Wednesday 3-Jul 7.30pm MoonFest: Star Trek - The Motion Picture
5.45pm Sometimes Always Never Sunday 21-Jul
8pm Sunset 2pm Aladdin
Thursday 4-Jul 5pm The Great Dictator
2pm Sometimes Always Never Monday 22-Jul
7pm NT Live: All My Sons 12.30pm Aladdin
Friday 5-Jul 6.30pm Vita & Virginia
5.45pm Diego Maradona Tuesday 23-Jul
8.40pm Thunder Road 12.30pm Aladdin
Saturday 6-Jul 6.30pm MoonFest: The Right Stuff
1.30pm Detective Pikachu Wednesday 24-Jul
5.30pm Thunder Road 12.30pm Aladdin
7.30pm Diego Maradona 6pm MoonFest: Apollo 11
Sunday 7-Jul 8.15pm Vita & Virginia
2pm Detective Pikachu Thursday 25-Jul
5pm 4K Film: Kind Hearts & Coronets 12.30pm Aladdin
Monday 8-Jul 5.30pm Vita & Virginia
2pm Diego Maradona 7pm NT Live: The Lehman Trilogy
6.30pm Dirty God 8.15pm Ella Fitzgerald: Just One Of Those Things
Tuesday 9-Jul Friday 26-Jul
5.45pm Diego Maradona 12.30pm Toy Story 4
8.40pm Dirty God 5.30pm In Fabric
Wednesday 10-Jul 8.15pm Birth Of Afrobeat + Bakosó:
2pm Diego Maradona Afrobeats de Cuba + Live Gig
7pm Cruising + Intro Saturday 27-Jul
Thursday 11-Jul 12.30pm Toy Story 4
11am Detective Pikachu 5pm The Garden
8.15pm Diego Maradona 7pm André Rieu 2019 Maastricht Concert:
Friday 12-Jul Shall We Dance?
11am Cinema Bambino: Yesterday 7.30pm In Fabric
5.45pm Yesterday Monday 29-Jul
8.30pm This Is Spinal Tap 1.30pm Toy Story 4
+ Heavy Metal Parking Lot 7pm In Fabric
Saturday 13-Jul Tuesday 30-Jul
12.30pm Yesterday 11am Toy Story 4
4pm Yesterday 3.30pm Never Look Away
7pm Pavarotti + Satellite Q&A 7.30pm The Edge
Sunday 14-Jul Wednesday 31-Jul
2pm Encore: Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake 2pm Toy Story 4
5.30pm Yesterday 7pm RSC Live: Measure For Measure
Monday 15-Jul
2pm Yesterday Thursday 1-Aug
6.30pm Yesterday 12.30pm Toy Story 4
Tuesday 16-Jul 7.30pm Never Look Away
10.30am Celebrating Age: Wild Rose Friday 2-Aug
5.30pm Yesterday 12.15pm The Secret Life Of Pets 2
8.15pm Yesterday 8pm Rocketman
Wednesday 17-Jul Saturday 3-Aug
1.30pm Yesterday + Afternoon Tea 12.15pm Toy Story 4
7pm The Outsiders 8pm Rocketman
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Sunday 4-Aug Tuesday 20-Aug
2pm Five Seasons: The Gardens Of Piet 12.30pm The Lion King
Oudolf 5.45pm Do The Right Thing
Monday 5-Aug 8.30pm Midsommar
1pm The Secret Life Of Pets 2 Wednesday 21-Aug
6.30pm Our Time 12noon The Lion King
Tuesday 6-Aug 3pm The Lion King
11am Toy Story 4 7.30pm 501 Not Out + Q&A
1.30pm The Secret Life Of Pets 2 Thursday 22-Aug
7pm Rocketman 1pm The Lion King
Wednesday 7-Aug 5.30pm Tell It To The Bees
12.30pm The Secret Life Of Pets 2 8pm Midsommar
6pm Five Seasons: The Gardens Of Piet Friday 23-Aug
Oudolf 12.30pm Horrible Histories: The Rotten Romans
8pm Rocketman 5.45pm Blinded By The Light
Thursday 8-Aug 8.30pm The Dead Don’t Die
11am Toy Story 4 Saturday 24-Aug
2pm Rocketman 1pm Horrible Histories: The Rotten Romans
6.30pm Our Time 6pm Balance, Not Symmetry
Friday 9-Aug 8.30pm Blinded By The Light
12.30pm The Queen’s Corgi Sunday 25-Aug
5.45pm Tolkien 12.30pm Horrible Histories: The Rotten Romans
8.30pm Late Night 4pm Blinded By The Light
Saturday 10-Aug Monday 26-Aug
12.30pm The Queen’s Corgi 11am Horrible Histories:
5pm Varda By Agnes The Rotten Romans
8pm Tolkien 6.30pm Blinded By The Light
8.45pm Sundown Cinema: Monty Python’s Life Tuesday 27-Aug
Of Brian 6pm The Dead Don’t Die
Sunday 11-Aug 8.30pm Blinded By The Light
2.30pm André Rieu 2019 Maastricht Concert: Wednesday 28-Aug
Shall We Dance? 5.45pm Blinded By The Light
5.45pm Late Night 8.30pm The Dead Don’t Die
Monday 12-Aug Thursday 29-Aug
1pm The Queen’s Corgi 2pm Blinded By The Light
6.30pm Tolkien 7pm Blinded By The Light
Tuesday 13-Aug Friday 30-Aug
1pm The Queen’s Corgi 6pm Pain & Glory
6.30pm 4K Film: Apocalypse Now - The Final Cut Saturday 31-Aug
Wednesday 14-Aug 8pm Pain & Glory
2pm The Queen’s Corgi
5.45pm Tolkien
8.30pm Late Night Relaxed screening
Thursday 15-Aug Subtitled screening
1pm The Queen’s Corgi Audio described screening
7pm Varda By Agnes
Friday 16-Aug Dates and times are subject to change. Please
11am Cinema Bambino: The Lion King check our website for the most current information.
5.30pm Tell It To The Bees www.macbirmingham.co.uk
8.15pm Midsommar
Saturday 17-Aug
12noon The Lion King
3pm The Lion King
7pm 501 Not Out + Q&A
8.30pm Sundown Cinema: Withnail & I
Sunday 18-Aug
11am The Lion King
2pm The Lion King
5pm NT Live: Small Island (Encore)
Monday 19-Aug
12.30pm The Lion King
6.30pm Tell It To The Bees
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New Releases
Thunder Road
Friday 5 + Saturday 6 July | 15 | 90 mins | 2019
Sometimes Always Never Director: Jim Cummings | Cast: Jim Cummings,
Monday 1 – Thursday 4 July | 12A | 87 mins | 2019 Kendall Farr
Director: Carl Hunter | Cast: Bill Nighy, Alice Lowe
Officer Jim Arnaud’s eulogy at his mother’s
Able to blend charming gruffness and winning funeral does not go as planned. Consumed by
affability with just the raise of an eyebrow, Bill sadness, Jim searches for some semblance
Nighy has long proven himself one of Britain’s of control in an otherwise crumbling existence.
best character actors, and now he stars Thunder Road is a painful, often blackly funny
alongside Sam Riley and Alice Lowe in this exploration of grief, mental illness and the fragile
stylish and heartfelt comedy-drama about a tailor male ego.
searching for a lost son.
Dirty God
Diego Maradona Monday 8 + Tuesday 9 July | 15 | 105 mins | 2019
Friday 5 – Thursday 11 July | 12A | 105 mins | 2019 Director: Sacha Polak | Cast: Vicky Knight, Rebecca Stone
Director: Asif Kapadia Dirty God is a portrait of a woman with incredible
Diego Maradona is constructed from over resilience. When Jade, a young mother from
500 hours of never-before-seen footage from London, is discharged from hospital, the doctors
Maradona’s personal archive with the full support are pleased with her progress. But can she ever
of the man himself. The charismatic Argentine be happy again? After an acid attack by her ex,
loved a fight against the odds and led Napoli to she will have to live with scars on her neck, chest,
their first-ever title. It was the stuff of dreams. arms and part of her face. The burns may heal,
But there was a price… Diego could do as he but the scars remain. Newcomer Vicky Knight,
pleased while performing miracles on the pitch who was badly burned as a child, is a genuine
but, as time passed, darker days closed in. revelation in a powerful lead performance.
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Yesterday
Friday 12 – Thursday 18 July | 12A | 112 mins | 2019 | Cinema Bambino: Friday 12 July, 11am
Director: Danny Boyle | Cast: Himesh Patel, Lily James
Yesterday, everyone knew The Beatles. Today, only Jack remembers their songs. He’s about to become
a very big deal. From Academy Award winning director Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis, the Oscar-
nominated screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually and Notting Hill, comes a rock-n-roll
comedy about music, dreams, friendship, and the long and winding road that leads to the love of your life.
On Wednesday 17 July, this film will be followed by an afternoon tea including fresh sandwiches, homemade scones
with jam and clotted cream, cakes and lashings of tea. Price: £22.75 including film ticket.
Vita & Virginia Ella Fitzgerald: Just One Of Those Things
Friday 19 – Thursday 25 July | 12A | 110 mins | 2019 Thursday 25 July | 12A | 89 mins | 2019
Director: Chanya Button | Cast: Gemma Arterton, Director: Leslie Woodhead
Elizabeth Debicki Ella Fitzgerald was a 15-year-old street kid when
It’s 1922, and socialite and novelist Vita Sackville- she won a talent contest in 1934 at the Apollo
West (Gemma Arterton) has set her sights on theatre in Harlem. Within months she was a
befriending the writer Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth star. Ella: Just One Of Those Things follows her
Debicki), hoping she can learn how to develop her extraordinary journey over six decades as her
own writing style and be taken seriously by the sublime voice transforms the tragedies of her
literary establishment. But from the moment Vita own life and the troubles of her times into joy. The
lays eyes on Virginia at one of the Bloomsbury film uses never-before-seen images and unheard
Group’s legendary parties, it’s clear there is more interviews to bring Ella Fitzgerald to life and to
to Vita’s intent than simple friendship. An ardent tell the story of her music - a black woman who
and blatant seduction begins. forged her career in the face of vile racism.
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In Fabric Five Seasons:
Friday 26 July – Monday 29 July | 15 | 118 mins | 2019 The Gardens of Piet Oudolf
Director: Peter Strickland | Cast: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Sunday 4 – Wednesday 7 August | U | 75 mins | 2019
Gwendoline Christie Director: Thomas Piper
Bank clerk Sheila (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) has Journey through all four seasons in stunning
decided it’s time to start dating again. Calling a gardens and locations around the world. This
lonely-hearts ad in a newspaper, she soon agrees fascinating documentary immerses viewers in
on a rendezvous with the promising-sounding the work of designer and plantsman Piet Oudolf
Adonis. Time to get herself something nice to who challenges conventional notions of nature,
wear. But a trip to Dentley & Soper’s Trusted public space and beauty. The film also follows
Department Store soon becomes a shopping Oudolf as he designs and installs a major new
experience like no other. In Fabric is as wildly, garden at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, a gallery and
perversely imaginative and visually thrilling as arts centre in Southwest England, a garden he
we have come to expect from director Peter considers his best work yet.
Strickland.
Late Night
Friday 9 – Wednesday 14 August | 15 | 105 mins | 2019
Director: Nisha Ganatra | Cast: Emma Thompson,
Mindy Kaling
Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson) is a pioneer
and legendary host on the late-night talk-show
circuit. When she’s accused of being a “woman
who hates women,” she puts affirmative action on
the to-do list, and—presto!—Molly (Mindy Kaling)
is hired as the one woman in Katherine’s all-male
writers’ room. Molly, wanting to prove she’s not
simply a diversity hire who’s disrupting the comfort
of the brotherhood, is determined to help Katherine
by revitalising her show and career—and possibly
create even bigger change at the same time.
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Blinded By The Light
Friday 23 – Thursday 29 August | 12A | 114 mins | 2019
Director: Gurinder Chadha | Cast: Viveik Kalra, Nikita Mehta
1987, Margaret Thatcher’s England. Javed (Viveik
Kalra), a 16-year-old British Pakistani boy, lives
in the town of Luton. His father’s recent job
termination and the neighborhood skinheads
are a daily reminder of the difficult times he’s
living in. What young Javed really wants is to be
a writer—something his father doesn’t approve
Tell It To The Bees of or understand—and when a new friend loans
Friday 16 – Thursday 22 August | Cert TBC | 106 mins | 2019 him a few Bruce Springsteen cassettes, Javed is
Director: Annabel Jankel | Cast: Holliday Grainger, changed forever.
Anna Paquin
The Dead Don’t Die
Love has a way of finding us when we least Friday 23 – Wednesday 28 August | 15 | 105 mins | 2019
expect it. Directed by Annabel Jankel, this tender
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Cast: Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton
period drama, set in small-town, postwar Britain,
depicts the emergence of a love that while Jim Jarmusch’s newest foray into genre film
rescuing two women from isolation, also places (after weirdo western Dead Man, Samurai/
them in danger. crime film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
and vampire drama Only Lovers Left Alive)
promises ‘the greatest cast ever disassembled’
- Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë
Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Caleb
Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Iggy Pop, Selena
Gomez, RZA, Carol Kane and Tom Waits. The
Dead Don’t Die stands as not just a humorous
and sometimes scary subversion of the zombie
genre, but also a tribute to cinema itself.
Balance, Not Symmetry
Saturday 24 August | 15 | 96 mins | 2019
Midsommar Director: Jamie Adams | Cast: Laura Harrier, Bria Vinaite
Friday 16 – Thursday 22 August | Cert TBC | 140 mins | 2019 Balance, Not Symmetry is a moving, funny and
Director: Ari Aster | Cast: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor inspirational new film from the talented and
Dani and Christian are a young American couple prolific filmmaker Jamie Adams, one made in
with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. close conjunction with Scottish rock band Biffy
But after a family tragedy keeps them together, Clyro, who worked on both the storyline and the
a grieving Dani invites herself to join Christian score. Laura Harrier stars as a Scottish-American
and his friends on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime art student who is studying at Glasgow School of
midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. Art, and whose privileged existence is thrown into
What begins as a carefree summer holiday in a a spin when her father unexpectedly dies. Torn
land of eternal sunlight takes a sinister turn when between supporting her mother (Kate Dickie)
the insular villagers invite their guests to partake and dealing with her own sense of loss, she finds
in festivities that render the pastoral paradise herself re-examining her life and friends.
increasingly unnerving and disturbing.
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Family
£4.25
tickets
for adults and kids
seeing family
films*
Aladdin Detective Pikachu
Sunday 21 – Thursday 25 July | PG | 128 mins | 2019 Saturday 6 – Thursday 11 July | PG | 104 mins | 2019
Director: Guy Ritchie | Cast: Will Smith, Naomi Scott Director: Rob Letterman | Cast: Ryan Reynolds,
Get ready for the live-action adaptation of Disney Ken Watanabe
studio's animated classic, with two time Oscar Detective Pikachu stars Ryan Reynolds as the
nominee Will Smith as the Genie who has the power titular character in the first-ever live-action movie
to grant three wishes to whoever possesses his based on the iconic face of the global Pokémon
magic lamp; Mena Massoud as Aladdin, the hapless brand. The story begins when ace private eye
but lovable street rat who is smitten with the Sultan's Harry Goodman goes mysteriously missing,
daughter; Naomi Scott as Princess Jasmine, the prompting his 21-year-old son Tim to find out
Sultan's beautiful daughter who wants to have a say what happened. Tim and Pikachu join forces on a
in how she lives her life; and Marwan Kenzari as thrilling adventure to unravel the tangled mystery.
Jafar, an evil sorcerer who devises a nefarious plot
to unseat the Sultan and rule Agrabah himself.
The Queen’s Corgi
Friday 9 – Thursday 15 August | PG | 93 mins | 2019
Directors: Vincent Kesteloot & Ben Stassen
Cast: Julie Walters, Matt Lucas
The Queen’s Corgi is about the adventures of
Rex (Jack Whitehall), the British monarch’s most
beloved dog, who loses track of his mistress and
stumbles across a clan with dogs of all kinds
confronting and fighting each other. During his
epic journey to return to the queen, Rex falls in
love and discovers his true self.
*£4.25 tickets for adults and kids seeing family films before 6pm. Does not include Cinema Bambino (aimed at adults with
babies under 12 months), where prices are £5.25 for all tickets.
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Toy Story 4
Friday 26 July – Thursday 8 August | U | 100 mins | 2019
Director: Josh Cooley | Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen
Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the rest of the gang
embark on a road trip with Bonnie and a new toy
named Forky. The adventurous journey turns into The Lion King
an unexpected reunion as Woody’s slight detour Friday 16 – Thursday 22 August | Cert TBC | TBC mins |
leads him to his long-lost friend Bo Peep. As 2019 | Cinema Bambino: Friday 16 August
Woody and Bo discuss the old days, they soon Director: Jon Favreau | Cast: Donald Glover, Seth Rogen
start to realize that they’re worlds apart when it Utilizing pioneering filmmaking techniques to
comes to what they want from life as a toy.
bring treasured characters to life in a whole new
way, director Jon Favreau’s all-new The Lion King
The Secret Life Of Pets 2 journeys to the African savanna where a future
Friday 2 – Wednesday 7 August | U | 85 mins | 2019 king is born.
Directors: Chris Renaud & Jonathan del Val
Cast: Patton Oswalt, Lake Bell Horrible Histories The Movie:
Packed with animation studio Illumination’s Rotten Romans
signature irreverence and subversive humor, Friday 23 – Monday 26 August | PG | 104 mins | 2019
The Secret Life of Pets 2 explores the emotional Director: Dominic Brigstocke | Cast: Nick Frost,
lives of our pets, the deep bond between them Kim Cattrall
and the families that love them, and answers the
Horrible Histories The Movie: Rotten Romans will
question that has long intrigued every pet owner
- what are your pets really doing when you’re not transport audiences back to Roman Britain and
at home? embrace the timeless, irreverent humour of the
successful books and TV series.
Cinema Bambino Yesterday
Enabling parents to enjoy screenings of
Friday 12 July | 12A | 112 mins | 2019
popular films in our cinema with their babies
Director: Danny Boyle | Cast: Himesh Patel, Lily James
(under 12 months). We offer a relaxed
atmosphere and an opportunity to get out of
the house and meet other parents. Our cinema The Lion King
facilities are adapted appropriately, with the Friday 16 August | Cert TBC | TBC mins | 2019
noise turned down, lights turned up and ample Director: Jon Favreau | Cast: Donald Glover, Seth Rogen
buggy parking space. All tickets £5.25.
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Special Events
Birth Of Afrobeat + Bakosó:
Afrobeats de Cuba + Live Performance
Friday 26 July | 15 | 90 mins approx | 2019
Directors: Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi & Opiyo Okeyo
Two short documentaries Birth of Afrobeat and
Bakosó: Afrobeats de Cuba explore the global
obsession with the music phenomenon
Afrobeat, which has brought joy, connections
and influences from Lagos to London, US to
Cuba and beyond. The two films will be followed
by a live Afrobeat music performance.
Two cricket documentaries screening at MAC to celebrate a summer of cricket in Edgbaston!
501 Not Out + Q&A
Saturday 17 + Wednesday 21 August | 12A
Approx 90 mins | 2019 | Saturday 17 £15.25 / £13.25
Wednesday 21 £12.25 / £10.25
Director: Sam Lockyer
Twenty-five years on from Brian Lara’s
world-record breaking innings for Warwickshire
at Edgbaston, Sam Lockyer’s brand new
documentary 501 Not Out tells the story of
cricket’s first global superstar. Featuring rarely
seen archive footage and stills, the film also
examines the wider impact of Lara’s arrival and
The screening on Sat 17 Aug will be followed by an
success at Warwickshire, coming so soon after
exclusive on stage Q&A featuring the following special
the test record 375. 501 Not Out brings an guests Tim Munton, John Morris, Ian Bell, Gladstone
amazing story to life on the big screen during Small and Sam Lockyer.
Lara’s 50th year – his own half-century – with The screening on Wed 21 Aug will be followed by an on
this screening coming at the height of a huge stage Q&A with director Sam Lockyer.
summer for cricket in the UK. Q&A guests are subject to change.
The Edge
Tuesday 30 July | 15 | 95 mins | 2019 Director: Barney Douglas
Screening just before The Ashes come to Edgbaston, The Edge is a compelling, funny and emotional
insight into a band of brothers’ rise to the top of their sport and the huge sacrifices they were forced to
make. No England cricket team rose higher…and fell harder. Featuring incredible unseen footage from
the period and captivating new interviews from star players.
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Sep- -Aug
Oct 2019
2018Sundown Cinema
The original outdoor cinema experience that you know and love returns with some classic titles.
Pre-book your picnic package online and look out for our themed cocktails and snacks at the bar on the night.
Monty Python’s Life Of Brian
Saturday 10 August | 8.45pm | 12A | 90 mins | People’s Postcode Lottery Arena | £10.25
Director: Terry Jones | Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin
Is there a better place to watch the classic Monty Python film Life Of Brian than in our outdoor
amphitheatre arena? You’d be hard pressed to think of one. Returning to cinemas for its 40th
anniversary, Life Of Brian is Monty Python’s achingly funny take on religious belief in general, Roman
history, and the muddled and uncertain origins of what really is ‘gospel truth’ — all wrapped up in a
parody of bloated Biblical epics.
Withnail & I
Saturday 17 August | 8.30pm | 15 | 105 mins | People’s Postcode Lottery Arena | £10.25
Director: Bruce Robinson | Cast: Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann
It’s the end of the 1960s and two out-of-work actors, Withnail (Grant) and ‘I’ (McGann), subsist on a
diet of booze, drugs and fags in their revolting Camden flat. In order to escape the depressing nexus
of visits from their dealer and the months of untouched washing-up, they escape to the country, with
the intention of getting some R and R at a cottage owned by Withnail’s uncle Monty (Richard Griffiths).
However, things do not exactly go as planned.
macbirmingham.co.uk/cinema 11We will be screening This Is Spinal Tap + Heavy Metal Parking Lot and The Outsiders
to complement our partnership with Home of Metal this summer.
The Outsiders
Wednesday 17 July | PG | 91 mins | 1983
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Cast: Matt Dillon,
Rob Lowe
When artist Ben Venom was in high school, it
was the punks versus the jocks. In Francis Ford
This Is Spinal Tap Coppola’s 1983 film The Outsiders, if you’re a ‘soc’,
+ Heavy Metal Parking Lot you’ve got money and a future. But if you’re a
Friday 12 July | 15 | 97 mins | 1984 ‘greaser’, you’re an outsider with only your friends.
Director: Rob Reiner | Cast: Michael McKean, Reflecting Ben’s teen years in depicting the battle
Christopher Guest between the insiders and the outsiders, The
Outsiders is the perfect film to screen this summer
Spinal Tap is the loudest band in England
alongside Ben’s new exhibition All This Mayhem in
and they’re making a comeback with a North
our first floor gallery.
American tour promoting their new album Smell
the Glove. Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner) sets out to
Ben Venom: All This Mayhem
make a documentary of the legendary rock band’s
Saturday 22 June – Sunday 8 September 11am -
exploits on the road.
5pm, Tuesday – Sunday & Bank Holidays
Screening as part of the Home of Metal project First Floor Gallery | Free
and a favourite of San Francisco based artist Ben
MAC, in partnership with Home of Metal,
Venom, whose new exhibition All This Mayhem
presents a major exhibition of work by
features at MAC this summer, cult mockumentary
internationally renowned, San Francisco-based
This Is Spinal Tap is still as sharp and funny as it
artist, Ben Venom, exemplifying his interest in
was when it was released 35 years.
the DIY aspect of heavy metal culture combined
The screening will be a preceded by a rare with the tradition of quilting.
showing of the 1986 short film Heavy Metal
Ben Venom is in residence in the gallery during the first week of
Parking Lot, the brainchild of directors John Heyn the exhibition. See macbirmingham.co.uk for further details.
and Jeff Krulik, who filmed Judas Priest fans in a Support received from The Roughley Trust and players of People’s
concert arena parking lot in suburban Maryland. Postcode Lottery through Postcode Culture Trust.
12 MAC Cinema / Jul - Aug 20194K Film:
We’re halfway through our first season dedicated to
screening cinematic classics in remastered 4K digital prints,
offering stunning picture clarity and a chance to see well
Remastered known features in a completely new light. Here are two more
gems for you to enjoy!
4K Film: Kind Hearts & Coronets
Sunday 7 July | PG | 102 mins | 1949
Director: Robert Hamer | Cast: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood
One of the Golden-Age Ealing comedies and a classic of British cinema, Kind Hearts & Coronets stars
Dennis Price as Louis D’Ascoyne, the would-be Duke of Chalfront whose mother was disinherited
by her noble family for marrying beneath her. When her dying wish to be buried in the family crypt is
refused, Louis vows to avenge his mother whilst at the same time gaining himself the title of Duke, by
engaging in the gentle art of murder, killing off one by one each of the eight successors to the title – all
unforgettably played by Alec Guinness.
4K Film: Apocalypse Now - Final Cut
Tuesday 13 August | 15 | 183 mins | 1979
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Cast: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando
A never-before-seen and newly restored cut of Francis Ford Coppola’s spectacular cinematic
masterpiece in a way which the director believes ‘looks better than it has ever looked and sounds better
than it has ever sounded’. The film follows Army Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), a troubled man sent
on a dangerous and mesmerizing odyssey into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade American colonel
named Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has succumbed to the horrors of war and barricaded himself in a
remote outpost. This is the first time the original negative has ever been scanned and over 11 months
and 2,700 hours were spent on cleaning and restoring the film’s 300,173 frames.
macbirmingham.co.uk/cinema 13MOONFEST
In-Flight Movies
50 years after the Apollo 11 moon landing, MAC Associate Company Little Earthquake
is joining forces with Midlands Arts Centre and the University of Birmingham to
celebrate this special anniversary in spectacular style.
MoonFest: The Dish MoonFest: Apollo 11
Thursday 18 July | 12A | 101 mins | 2000 Friday 19 – Wednesday 24 July | U | 93 mins | 2019
Director: Rob Sitch | Cast: Sam Neill, Billy Mitchell Director: Todd Miller
Those indelible images of man’s first steps on NASA’s vaults open for the first time to spill
the moon? They would never have been seen this never-before seen collection of audio and
by anybody without the efforts of a bunch of 70mm film footage of the Apollo 11 mission. The
eccentric scientists based at a remote sheep footage is so clean and vibrant, it’s as if you are
farm in Australia. Warm, witty and full of hugely standing at the base of the rocket. Exquisitely
enjoyable performances, The Dish is a welcome crafted and realized, this truly immersive
reminder that some of humanity’s greatest experience offers a new look into one of
achievements would never happen without the humanity’s greatest achievements, leaving us to
little people behind the scenes. marvel at human ingenuity and the impulse that
led humanity to space.
14 MAC Cinema / Jul - Aug 2019MoonFest: DIY Zoom-In Cinema
Saturday 20 July | PG | 120 mins | 2015 | £4.25
Director: Enrique Gato | Cast: Lorraine Pilkington
Build and decorate your very own space
vehicle using scrap and craft from the
Birmingham Scrapstore (ably supported by Moonfest: Star Trek - The Motion
your accompanying adults and the magnificent Picture
MoonFest mechanics!) before taking off for a Saturday 20 July | U | 132 mins | 1979
short intergalactic parade and finally settling in to Director: Robert Wise | Cast: William Shatner,
a comfy cinema seat to watch animated feature Leonard Nimoy
Capture The Flag.
NASA and Star Trek have been connected,
both directly and indirectly, since Star Trek: The
Original Series premiered in September 1966,
and numerous astronauts have said that Star
Trek inspired them to want to go into space.
So it seems entirely appropriate for the USS
Enterprise’s very first big screen adventure to
screen during MoonFest, a wondrous journey
through the cosmos that culminates with a
final storyline twist linked to NASA’s own space
Moonfest: The Right Stuff programme.
Tuesday 23 July | 15 | 185 mins | 1983
Director: Philip Kaufman | Cast: Ed Harris, Scott Glenn
Before Philip Kaufman brought Tom Wolfe's book
The Right Stuff to cinemas in 1983, onscreen
astronauts were little more than asteroid bait. In
Kaufman's hands, however, spaceflight became a
far more human pursuit - a story of inner resolve
and dedication to an inspirational cause. The
Right Stuff is both an exceptional piece of cinema
and a rousing tribute to what humanity can
achieve through intelligence and courage.
macbirmingham.co.uk/cinema 15! Controversy Since the dawn of cinema, the argument over what is and isn’t acceptable to fill the screen has raged on. When television started to invade homes, the debate only grew more divisive. As society changed, so did the films and television programmes of the era. MAC cinema will be hosting a series of screenings and special events focusing on some of the most controversial films and television programmes ever created. Cruising Wednesday 10 July | 18 | 98 mins | 1980 Director: William Friedkin | Cast: Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino Few films have incited as much debate and anger within the LGBTQ+ community as William Friedkin’s flawed but fascinating 1980 feature Cruising. Starring Al Pacino as a cop who goes undercover in New York City’s gay S&M scene to investigate a killer targeting homosexual men, protesters began picketing the film during production and continued during the film’s release for what they perceived as its anti-gay message and attempt to link latent homosexuality with homicidal tendencies. University of Warwick lecturer Jose Arroyo will be discussing these issues in a special introduction, as well as revealing his own personal link to the film. ! Warning! Contains sexual imagery, violent scenes and problematic depictions of homosexual characters. The Great Dictator Sunday 21 July | PG | 120 mins | 1940 Director: Charlie Chaplin | Cast: Charlie Chaplin Did Adolf Hitler ever watch Charlie Chaplin’s satirical masterpiece The Great Dictator? Some suggest that he did, others that he never saw it. You hope that he did. He would have been furious. Banned in Nazi Germany (and, by extension, all countries occupied by the Nazis), many thought The Great Dictator would be the end of Chaplin’s career, but it turned out to be both his biggest box office hit and his most critically acclaimed feature. It’s also a perfect example of how art can play an important part in fighting the powers of fascism and racism. ! Warning! Contains scenes likely to provoke Adolf Hitler. 16 MAC Cinema / Jul - Aug 2019
The Garden
Saturday 27 July | 12A | 88 mins | 1990 Director: Derek Jarman | Cast: Tilda Swinton, Roger Cook
You could always rely on enfant terrible Derek Jarman for a spot of controversy. Made in 1990 on a
miniscule budget and filmed only a few years before his death, The Garden effectively sees Jarman
reimagine the life and death of Christ as an allegory for the persecution of gay men, complete with a
transvestite Mary Magdalene and Pontius Pilate in a pair of small gold pants.
! Warning! Contains blasphemous scenes, contentious imagery and three singing Santas.
Do The Right Thing
Tuesday 20 August | 15 | 120 mins | 1989 Director: Spike Lee | Cast: Danny Aiello, Spike Lee
On the hottest day of the year on a street in Brooklyn, hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it
explodes into violence in Spike Lee’s incendiary drama, celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.
Sometimes controversy comes out of films being honest and clear-eyed about the inequalities at the
heart of society, something Spike Lee has made a career out of. Do The Right Thing is still Lee’s most
provocative work, and perhaps his finest.
! Warning! Contains scenes of rioting and uncomfortable truths about racial inequality.
macbirmingham.co.uk/cinema 17Foreign Language
Sunset
Tuesday 2 + Wednesday 3 July | 15 | 141 mins | 2019
BIFF: The Photograph Hungarian
Monday 1 July | 15 | 109 mins | 2019 | Indian Director: László Nemes | Cast: Susanne Wuest, Juli Jakab
Director: Ritesh Batra | Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, From Oscar-winning director László Nemes
Sanya Malhotra comes this sublimely evocative recreation of
Cannes hit The Lunchbox took the world by storm in 1913 Budapest, a city at the crux of world history.
2013, and its director Ritesh Batra returns to the big Perfectly pitched between dream and nightmare,
screen with this nuanced romance between unlikely with real lives caught in the web of history, Sunset is
lovers. a worthy successor to Son of Saul.
Never Look Away
Tuesday 30 July + Thursday 1 August
15 | 189 mins | 2019 | German
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Cast: Tom Schilling, Paula Beer
Inspired by real events and spanning
three eras of German history, Never
Look Away tells the story of a young art
student, Kurt (Tom Schilling) who falls
in love with fellow student, Ellie (Paula
Beer). Ellie’s father, Professor Seeband
(Sebastian Koch), a famous doctor,
is dismayed at his daughter’s choice
of boyfriend, and vows to destroy the
relationship.
18 MAC Cinema / Jul - Aug 2019Our Time Pain & Glory
Monday 5 + Thursday 8 August | Cert TBC | 173 mins Friday 30 August – Thursday 5 September | 15
2019 | Spanish 113 mins | 2019 | Spanish
Director: Carlos Reygadas | Cast: Carlos Reygadas, Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Cast: Antonio Banderas,
Natalia López Penelope Cruz
Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas’ Our Time is an Long-time Almodóvar leading man Antonio
unsparing account of a marriage in crisis. Starring Banderas stars in Pain & Glory as Salvador Mallo, a
the director and his real-life spouse Natalia López, director whose physical ailments have led into an
the film depicts a couple navigating the difficult almost hermit-like existence, before he is reunited
terrain of an open relationship. Reygadas captures with an actor from his past and embarks on a
the beauty and intimacy of the family’s daily wild new chapter. Featuring all the mayhem we
life, as well as the disruptive forces of paranoia, love about Almodóvar together with a romantic
distrust and patriarchal values. Disavowing the sentimentality and an infectious love for cinema,
conventions of popular cinema, Our Time is a this latest film from the director of All About My
deeply personal and provocative work that asks Mother has been revered as his finest work in years.
challenging questions about the nature of romantic
relationships outside of social norms.
Varda By Agnès
Saturday 10 + Thursday 15 August | 15 | 115 mins 2019
Director: Agnès Varda
In this inspirational and affecting documentary,
the great visual storyteller Agnès Varda (1928–
2019) shares her observations on cinema, art
and life. Whether behind the camera, or in front of
it as she often was, Agnès Varda always defied
a conventional approach. Full of illuminating
wisdom, moving stories and amusing anecdotes,
this is an unmissable self-portrait of a talent with
an uncompromising vision, a deep curiosity and
empathy for other people – ‘real people’ – and a
spirited, life-affirming outlook.
macbirmingham.co.uk/cinema 19On The Stage
Pavarotti + Satellite Q&A
Saturday 13 July | 12A | 180 mins | 2019 | £12.25 / £10.25
NT Live Encore: All My Sons Director: Ron Howard
Thursday 4 July | 12A | 165 mins | 2019 | £15.25 / £13.25 From the team behind the worldwide success
Director: Jeremy Herrin | Cast: Sally Field, Bill Pullman The Beatles: Eight Days A Week comes two-time
Academy Award winning director Ron Howard's
America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even
documentary celebrating the life of the beloved
harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success
opera star Luciano Pavarotti, who sold over 100
story. They have built a home, raised two sons
million records in his lifetime.
and established a thriving business. But nothing
lasts forever. The screening will be followed by a live satellite Q&A with
guests TBC.
Encore: Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake
Sunday 14 July | 12A | 130mins | 2019 | £17.25 / £15.25 Director: Matthew Bourne | Cast: Will Bozier, Nicole Kabera
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake comes to cinemas with a fresh look for the 21st century and is ‘as bold
and beautiful as ever’ (««««« Telegraph).
20 MAC Cinema / Jul - Aug 2019NT Live: The Lehman Trilogy
Thursday 25 July | 12A | 210 mins | £17.25 / £15.25
2019 | Theatre
Director: Sam Mendes | Cast: Simon Russell Beale,
Adam Godley, Ben Miles
The story of a family and a company that
changed the world, told in three parts on a
single evening. On a cold September morning
in 1844 a young man from Bavaria stands on a
New York dockside. Dreaming of a new life in
the new world. He is joined by his two brothers
and an American epic begins. 163 years later, RSC Live: Measure For Measure
the firm they establish – Lehman Brothers – Wednesday 31 July | 12A | 210 mins | £17.25 / £15.25
spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy, and Director: Gregory Doran | Cast: Antony Byrne, Sandy Grierson
triggers the largest financial crisis in history.
‘To whom should I complain?’ When a young
novice nun is compromised by a corrupt official,
who offers to save her brother from execution in
return for sex, she has no idea where to turn for
help. When she threatens to expose him, he tells
her that no one would believe her. Shakespeare
wrote this play in the early 1600s, yet it remains
astonishingly resonant today.
André Rieu 2019 Maastricht Concert:
Shall We Dance?
Saturday 27 July + Sunday 11 August | U | 145 mins
£17.25 / £15.25 | Theatre/Cinema NT Live: Small Island (Encore)
Put on your dancing shoes for this year’s fairytale Sunday 18 August | 15 | 170 mins | Theatre
concert of the classics and crossover music. £15.25 / £13.25
Set against the stunning medieval backdrop Director: Rufus Norris | Cast: CJ Beckford, Chereen Buckley
of Maastricht’s Vrijhof Square, André Rieu’s Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel Small
hometown concert features the superstar Island comes to life in an epic new theatre
violinist with his 60-piece Johann Strauss adaptation. Small Island embarks on a journey
Orchestra plus world-class singers, other special from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second
guests and over 100 dancers. World War to 1948 – the year the HMT Empire
Windrush docked at Tilbury.
macbirmingham.co.uk/cinema 21Bring Back
Celebrating Age: Wild Rose
Tuesday 16 July | 15 | 100 mins | 2019
Director: Tom Harper | Cast: Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters
Rose-Lynn Harlan (Jessie Buckley) is bursting Bring Back: Rocketman
with raw talent, charisma and cheek. Fresh out Friday 2 – Thursday 8 August | 15 | 121 mins | 2019
of jail and with two young kids, all she wants is Director: Dexter Fletcher | Cast: Taron Egerton, Bryce
to get out of Glasgow and make it as a country
Dallas Howard
singer in Nashville. Rose-Lynn gets a cleaning
job, only to find an unlikely champion in the The tantrums, the tiaras, the songs, the drugs,
middle-class lady of the house (Sophie the scandals - expect the full, unvarnished story
Okonedo). An uplifting story with an original of one of music’s biggest superstars in this
soundtrack about family, dreams and reality, and exhilarating musical fantasy from director Dexter
three chords and the truth. Fletcher, starring Taron Egerton as Reginald
Kenneth Dwight - better known as Elton John.
This film will be preceded by pastries and coffee which Rocketman is as brash, colourful and brutally
are included in the ticket price for over 65s as part of honest as the man himself, who’s given the film
MAC’s Celebrating Age season. Refreshments are his complete blessing. The ups and the downs
served at 10am and the screening begins at 10.30am are all here. Strap in for the ride.
Bring Back: Tolkien
Friday 9 – Wednesday 14 August | 12A | 112 mins | 2019
Director: Dome Karukoski | Cast: Nicholas Hoult,
Lily Collins
Nicholas Hoult takes the lead role in this moving
take on the early life of John Ronald Reuel
Tolkien, whose experiences growing up in the
Midlands would ultimately inform the greatest
fantasy saga ever written.
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macbirmingham.co.uk/cinema 23Ticket Prices
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