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PHOENIX CINEMA J U N E & J U LY 2 0 1 8
WELCOME CONTENTS
WEEKLY E-MAIL MAIN FEATURES 3-10
Hello Phoenix Friends and welcome to our new summer
brochure. Stay up to date with all our
programming by subscribing HOLIDAY SPECIALS 13-14
to our free newsletter: e-mail
I can now say with confidence that you can pack your winter info@phoenixcinema.co.uk
coats away, summer has arrived at the Phoenix! FOR THE FAMILY 15-18
or visit our website and be
We bring one of the biggest feel good films of the year to our entered into a monthly prize
draw to win two film tickets! CINEMEMORIES 19
screen, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (pg. 10). 10 years after
Mamma Mia!, Sophie is back on that beautiful sun-drenched
Greek island Kalokairi. I definitely need to book a holiday there. FOLLOW US ONLINE SPECIAL EVENTS 21-22
We have plenty to entertain our mini Phoenix friends this summer For news, chatter and
competitions, find us on SCREEN ARTS 23-25
holiday, with Thomas and Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! (pg.13)
pulling into the station on July 20. Look out in August for the long Facebook, Twitter and
awaited sequel to Disney Pixar’s Incredibles, and one of my daughter’s Instagram. CINEMA INFORMATION 33-34
favourite film series, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (pg.14). @PhoenixCinema
If all this wasn’t enough to get you into our fully air-conditioned
auditorium then I’m sure a visit from one of the country’s finest actors, PhoenixCinema
Timothy Spall, will. We’ll be welcoming him for a Q&A after a Phoenix_Cinema
screening of his one-man film Stanley a Man Of Variety (pg.22). Be quick
though, tickets are selling extremely fast!
So much is going on at the Phoenix this summer, so if football or tennis
isn’t for you then check out our brochure and start filling your diary with
great films to see.
Rob Belfield
Executive Director
BOX OFFICE 020 8444 6789
WWW.PHOENIXCINEMA.CO.UK
52 HIGH ROAD, EAST FINCHLEY N2 9PJ
FROM FRIDAY 1 JUNE FROM FRIDAY 8 JUNE
Book Club 12A
1hr 44. USA 2018. Directed by Bill
Holderman. With Diane Keaton,
Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary
Steenburgen.
Four lifelong friends’ lives are
turned upside down to hilarious
ends when their book club tackles
the infamous Fifty Shades of Grey.
From discovering new romance to
rekindling old flames, they inspire
each other to make their next
chapter the best chapter.
McQueen 15
That Summer TBC 1hr 51. UK 2018. Directed by Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui. With Alexander
1hr 20. Sweden/USA/Denmark 2017. McQueen.
Directed by Göran Olsson. With Beginning with his modest upbringing in London, Lee Alexander
Peter Beard, Lee Radziwill, Edith McQueen quickly ascended the ranks of the international fashion world.
Bouvier Beale. His theatrical runway shows and daring designs existed on the cutting
The Beales of Grey Gardens, Big edge of ’90s fashion with his controversial and confrontational work
Edie and Little Edie take centre earning him equal attention from fans and detractors alike. As McQueen’s
stage in That Summer. star rose, so did the pressure and accompanying anxiety.
The film uncovers footage lost for This stunning documentary tells McQueen’s story through the
decades shot by Andy Warhol, testimonials from his closest friends and family. Featuring personal
Peter Beard and the socialite archives, as well as dynamic footage of his most boundary-pushing shows,
sister of Jackie Onassis, Lee McQueen offers a vivid portrait of the tortured but inspired auteur’s work
Radziwill. and persona.
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FROM FRIDAY 15 JUNE FROM FRIDAY 22 JUNE
The Happy Prince 15 In the Fade 18
1hr 45. Germany/Belgium/UK/Italy 2018. Directed by Rupert Everett. With 1hr 46. Germany/France 2017. Directed by Fatih Akin. With Diane Kruger, Denis
Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson. Moschitto, Numan Aca.
In a cheap Parisian hotel room Oscar Wilde (Rupert Everett) lies on Critically acclaimed filmmaker Fatih Akin (The Edge of Heaven) returns
his death bed and the past floods back, transporting him to other times with In the Fade, a gripping, edge-of-your-seat contemporary thriller
and places. exploring the lengths one woman would go to seek retribution after a
Under the microscope of death he reviews the failed attempt to reconcile brutal terrorist attack involving her husband and young son.
with his long suffering wife Constance, the ensuing reprisal of his fatal Winner of the Best Actress award at Cannes 2017, the 2018 Golden Globe
love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas and the warmth and devotion of
Award for Best Foreign Language Film and featuring a career-defining
Robbie Ross who tried and failed to save him from himself.
central performance from Diane Kruger, In the Fade is a timely and all-
The Happy Prince is a portrait of the dark side of a genius who lived and too-urgent drama about a woman pushed to the edge as she desperately
died for love in the last days of the nineteenth century. searches for the answers she believes to be out there.
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FROM FRIDAY 29 JUNE FROM FRIDAY 6 JULY
The Bookshop PG Mary Shelley 12A
1hr 53. Spain/UK/Germany 2017. 2hrs. UK/Luxembourg/USA 2017.
Directed by Isabel Coixet. With Directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour. With
Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Elle Fanning, Maisie Williams, Ben
Clarkson. Hardy.
Based on Penelope Fitzgerald’s Elle Fanning and Douglas
novel of the same name. Booth star in this period drama
The Bookshop is set in a small town recounting the love affair between
in 1959 England, where a woman poet Percy Shelley and 18-year-
(Emily Mortimer) decides old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
against polite but ruthless local which was the inspiration for her
opposition to open a bookshop, a seminal novel ‘Frankenstein’.
decision which becomes a political
minefield.
Leave No Trace PG Swimming with Men 12A
1hr 48. USA 2018. Directed by Debra UK 2018. Directed by Oliver Parker.
Granik. With Ben Foster, Jeff Kober, With Charlotte Riley, Rupert Graves,
Dale Dickey. Rob Brydon.
Will (Ben Foster) and his teenage The Full Monty in Speedos!
daughter are living an ideal existence
When an accountant, played by
in the forests of Portland, Oregon,
multi-talented comedian Rob
when a small mistake derails their
Brydon, seeks to win back
lives forever.
his wife, he stumbles upon a
“Deeply intelligent story of love and surprising solution in the form of
survival in the wild.” aaaaa a male synchronised swimming
team: Men Who Swim.
- Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
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FROM FRIDAY 13 JULY FROM FRIDAY 20 JULY
First Reformed TBC Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again TBC
1hr 48. USA 2017. Directed by Paul Schrader. With Amanda Seyfried, Ethan USA 2018. Directed by Ol Parker. With Amanda Seyfried, Lily James, Meryl
Hawke, Cedric Kyles. Streep.
Get ready to sing, dance and laugh all over again backed by some of ABBA’s best
Reverend Toller (Ethan Hawke) is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor loved hits.
at a small Dutch Reform church in upstate New York. When a pregnant
parishioner (Amanda Seyfried) asks him to counsel her husband, a 10 years after Mamma Mia! and Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is back on
radical environmentalist, the clergyman finds himself plunged into his own the sun-drenched Greek island of Kalokairi, however, her circumstances
tormented past, and equally despairing future, until he finds redemption in are a little different this time. Now pregnant, Sophie is struggling to find
an act of grandiose violence. the knowledge and strength to move on to the most important chapter in
her life. Searching for inspiration, she retraces her mother Donna’s (Meryl
From writer-director Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, American Gigolo, Streep) steps from the past in the hope of finding the courage to be the
Affliction) comes a gripping thriller about a crisis of faith that is at once best mum she can be.
personal, political, and planetary.
THOMAS AND FRIENDS PULL INTO STATION AT
PHOENIX THIS SUMMER HOLIDAY - HEAD TO PG. 13
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HOLIDAY SPECIALS HOLIDAY SPECIALS
FROM FRIDAY 20 JULY COMING IN AUGUST
The monster family embark on
a luxury cruise so Drac can take
Big World! Big Adventures!
a summer holiday. It’s smooth
The Movie U
sailing for Drac’s Pack as the
Thomas brings viewers of monsters indulge in all of the
all ages along with him on shipboard fun the cruise has
incredible adventures around to offer. But the dream holiday
the world! With everything you turns into a nightmare when
know and love about the show, Mavis realizes Drac has fallen
plus more music, more laughter, for the mysterious captain of
and more action-packed stories the ship, Ericka, who hides a
than ever before. dangerous secret that could
Thomas will travel to exciting destroy all of monsterkind.
new places including China,
India and Australia. With Everyone’s favorite family of
the Steam Team by his side, superheroes is back, but this
including new engines Nia and time Helen is in the spotlight,
Rebecca, Thomas takes children leaving Bob at home with Violet
around the world to explore and Dash to navigate the day-to-
and discover new countries, day heroics of “normal” life. It’s
cultures, animals and friends! a tough transistion for everyone,
even when they’re all Incredible!
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KIDS CLUB SATURDAYS AT 12PM TICKETS £2 TICKETS
KIDS CLUB
£3
PHOENIX
On Saturdays at 11am we have a fun free activity for kids aged 5-10 years
KIDS CLUB
(pre-booking through our box office is advised)
followed by a film at midday.*
2 JUNE 30 JUNE
MARY AND THE A WRINKLE IN TIME PG
WITCH’S FLOWER PG
9 JUNE 7 JULY
A TURTLE’S TALE: WONDERSTRUCK PG
SAMMY’S ADVENTURE U
16 JUNE 14 JULY
MARY POPPINS U THE SPONGEBOB
SQUAREPANTS MOVIE U
23 JUNE 28 JULY
PADDINGTON PG
SHERLOCK GNOMES U
15 *All children under 12yrs of age must be accompanied by a responsible adult. No lone adults without a child will be admitted. 16
BUB CLUB: WEDNESDAY TERM TIME AT 11AM TODDLER TIME: TUESDAY AT 11AM
For parents and carers of infants under 12 months.*
No need to find a babysitter or worry about making noise,
and a great way to meet other carers who are film fans too.
Tickets £8 (babies go free!)
6 JUNE
BOOK CLUB 12A (pg.3)
13 JUNE
MCQUEEN 15 (pg.4)
20 JUNE A special 30 minute programme in a relaxed environment perfect for little
THE HAPPY PRINCE 15 (pg.5) ones with a fun activity at 10.30am (places are limited and must be
pre-booked in person or over the phone)
27 JUNE
IN THE FADE 18 (pg.6) Ages 2-4. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Tickets £3 per child.
4 JULY
THE BOOKSHOP PG (pg.7) Please note: Toddler Time programmes are subject to change.
11 JULY 5 June 26 June 17 July
MARY SHELLEY 12A (pg.8) The Gruffalo Hey Duggee Everything’s Rosie
18 JULY 12 June 3 July 24 July
FIRST REFORMED TBC (pg.9) Messy Goes to Okido Hopster Showtime The Highway Rat
25 JULY 19 June 10 July 31 July
MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN TBC (pg.10) Octonauts Sarah and Duck Rastamouse
17 * No lone adults without a baby will be admitted. 18CINEMEMORIES
Our Cinememories dementia friendly screenings are free for anyone over 60, who can
bring guests of any age, such as friends, family and carers.
The screening will have brighter lighting, quieter sound and a break in the middle of the
film for a sing-a-long and comfort break.
Free popcorn, biscuits and hot drinks are provided.
A Dementia Adviser for the borough of Barnet
(representing Alzheimer’s Society) will be present at the screenings, offering information
on how to live well with dementia and the support available for carers of someone living
with the condition.
Guys and Dolls U Hans Christian Andersen U
Tuesday 5 June - 12pm Tuesday 19 June - 12pm
Love Me or Leave Me PG
Tuesday 3 July - 12pm
Programme supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London.
Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery www.filmlondon.org.uk/filmhub.SPECIAL EVENTS SPECIAL EVENTS
The Ancient Law
(Das alte Gesetz) 18
2hrs 15. Germany 1923.
With its complex portrayal of
orthodoxy and emancipation, E.
A. Dupont’s period film marks
a highpoint of Jewish filmmaking
in Germany. This will be the UK
premiere of the restoration, and
will be shown on 2K DCP with live
musical accompaniment from Meg
Morely.
Sunday 3 June - 3:45pm
£12/£8.50
Stanley a Man of Variety 15
A Love That Never Dies 12A
+ Q&A
+ Timothy Spall Q&A
2hrs 8. UK 2016. Directed by Stephen Cookson. With Timothy Spall.
2hrs. UK 2018. Directed by Jane Harris
and Jimmy Edmonds. Stanley a Man of Variety is about a middle aged man who enjoys watching
classic British films and TV shows from the 1960/70s. He soon finds
In a culture that is still uneasy
himself in prison for a crime that he believes he didn’t commit and after
talking about death, dying and
many years in solitary confinement he begins to talk to his comedy heroes
bereavement A Love That Never Dies
from the past as each one tries to help him remember.
gives a voice to grief in ways that
will move and inspire. Timothy Spall plays all 15 characters in the nightmarish tale of a man
stuck in prison, riddled with delusions and hallucinations.
Includes a Q&A with directors Jane
Harris and Jimmy Edmonds. We’re delighted to welcome Timothy Spall for a Q&A following the screening.
Thursday 7 June - 8:30pm Wednesday 27 June - 6:30pm
21 £11/£8.50 £12 22SCREEN ARTS SCREEN ARTS
Bolshoi Ballet: Glyndebourne:
Coppélia TBC Madama Butterfly 12A
2hrs 45. 2018. Directed by Sergei 3hrs 30. 2018. Directed by Annilese
Vikharev. Miskimmon.
The Bolshoi’s unique version of Bursting with exotic colour and
Coppélia exhibits a fascinating memorable melodies whilst
reconstruction of the original blending authentic Japanese
19th century choreography of music with luscious European
this ebullient comedy involving a harmonies and orchestration,
feisty heroine, a boyish fiancee Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is an
with a wandering eye, and an old irresistible fusion of East and
dollmaker. West.
Sunday 10 June - 4pm Thursday 21 June - 6:30pm
£15/£13 £15/£13
Royal Opera House: The Opera House TBC
Swan Lake TBC 1hr 50. 2017. Directed by Susan
3hrs. 2018. Directed by Marius Petipa, Froemke.
Lev Ivanov. The Opera House, a new film by
The Royal Ballet performs a award-winning documentary
new production of Tchaikovsky’s filmmaker Susan Froemke,
magnificent classical ballet. While surveys a remarkable period of
remaining faithful to the text, the Metropolitan Opera’s rich
Liam Scarlett brings fresh eyes history. Featuring rarely seen
to the staging of this classic ballet, archival footage, stills, recent
in collaboration with his long-term interviews, and a soundtrack of
designer John Macfarlane. extraordinary Met performances.
Tuesday 12 June - 7:15pm Sunday 1 July - 2pm
23 £18/£15 £12/£8.50 24SCREEN ARTS
RSC Live:
Romeo and Juliet TBC
3hrs 30. 2018. Directed by Erica
Whyman.
A generation of young people
born into violence and ripped
apart by the bitter divisions of
their parents. Shakespeare’s most
famous story of love at first sight
explodes with intense passion in
this contemporary production
with heartbreaking consequences.
Wednesday 18 July - 7pm
£15/£13
Glyndebourne:
Saul - Recorded (2015) 12A
3hrs 30. 2015. Directed by Barrie
Kosky.
Barrie Kosky’s blazingly original
and visually spectacular staging of
Handel’s oratorio pairs baroque
music with contemporary
choreography and lavish designs
to create an enthralling theatrical
fusion of old and new.
Thursday 26 July - 7:30pm
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FILM TIMES TICKETS AND BOOKING ACCESSIBILITY applications are available at the box
Main features and some special The box office is open from 11am We welcome wheelchair users and office or you can apply on line at
events start 20 minutes after the Mon–Sat and from 1pm Sunday. www.ceacard.co.uk
have full access across the building: an
stated programme times. All other Main Feature Pricing: external ramp at our entrance, a lift to
screenings start promptly at the our auditorium, a platform lift to our Blue badge parking is available outside
published times. All times listed are Adults café and an accessible toilet in the foyer. the cinema on the High Rd and on
subject to confirmation. For up to Mon (any time): £7 There are four dedicated wheelchair Fairlawn Ave on single yellow lines and in
date information please: spaces in the auditorium (two front parking bays any time, free of charge.
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Max stay 90mins, payable by mobile Friday will go on sale no later than Where possible we aim to screen at We have 255 seats and can project
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Sundays/Bank Holidays. main feature where a subtitled version Packages can be tailored to suit all
• Saturday evenings and some special of the film has been made available to us. budgets.
TRANSPORT events have allocated seating. Our auditorium is also equipped with an
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Please note: Fairlawn Avenue next of our special events and live
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and can only be accessed from Fortis manager’s discretion. customers who are registered disabled, the European MEDIA Programme.
Green - there is no turning onto it and a free ticket for a carer subject to
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