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Our Green HOME Page 3 Interview: At HOME we know that securing a creative green future takes an enormous commitment. That’s why impact of our expanding digital world whilst attempting to subvert the might of New York’s Stock Exchange. sustainability in the arts and cultural industries and we’re committed to Greater Manchester’s Zero Carbon Anna Smith As our Celebrating Women in Global Cinema programme continues so do our interviews with inspiring our green journey began over a This selection reveals the bearing of 2038 ambitions. This is an enormous women from the film industry. decade ago! climate crisis upon every aspect of and daunting target, but we have a homemcr.org/women-at-home We’re proud to be the world’s first our lives – from the food that we eat, responsibility to act, together. We to nurturing the biodiversity of our invite you to come on this journey We caught up with Film critic and broadcaster Anna Smith ahead of her next Girls on Film live podcast recording here at arts venue to train all our staff in planet, the securing of peaceful global with us. HOME (see p11). Anna hosts Q&As with film stars in cinemas all over the UK and is also Chair of the London Film Critics’ Carbon Literacy, and we’re sharing partnerships, and the implications of Circle and a regular critic for BBC News, Sky News, BBC Radio, Metro, The Guardian, Sight & Sound and more. Before that learning with other organisations Find out more, visit www.homemcr. an economics of greed. specialising in film, Anna was the launch editor of Wax, making her the first woman ever to edit a dance music magazine in too. We each have our part to play in org/green the UK. She has dedicated herself to film criticism since 2000. Follow @annasmithjourno on Twitter. making a difference. Showcasing climate-conscious art Alison Criddle, Projects and Our Film team put their Carbon creates a space where difficult Sustainability Coordinator Q: Tell us about why you started Girls Q: And your top Bechdel Test passes? Q: When you’re not at work, where Literacy commitments straight into conversations are made possible. By on Film? A: Off the top of my head, 9 to 5 is are you most likely to be found? action - sharing their knowledge considering the stories told on our stages and the materials used, we A: For decades, I’ve been dreaming a real winner – women learn to A: As a happy freelancer I’m often at with industry networks and selecting can understand what work needs of a show featuring women talking collaborate, share their problems work; thinking about movies if I’m the best climate-conscious films for to be done to make planet-positive to women about film – now the and their pleasures and learn not to not watching them. But I do love our screens. We’ve got some great choices. Right now, we’re on a four- world finally seems ready! There’s judge each other. And it’s hilarious! a long walk to a nice pub on a titles lined up, from documentary year energy reduction programme, been an increasing amount of press I also really love the conversations sunny day. Oh, and music festivals, Sharkwater: Extinction exposing we’re greening our supply chains about the fact that the majority in Secrets & Lies between Brenda karaoke, fancy dress parties, or a illegal shark fin fishing, to Five and we’ve pledged to become no of critics are men. Many of these Blethyn’s character and both her combination of all three. There you Seasons’ beautiful immersion into single-use plastic by 2020. Our four men are terrific critics, but the daughters - painful, bittersweet, go, I do have a life. the ideas of landscape designer Piet staff apiarists are busy caring for our gender imbalance doesn’t seem beautifully-judged. Oudolf. Natalie Portman co-produces two-rooftop honeybee hives too! We’re helpful to women and girls trying Q: What can Manchester audiences and stars in Christopher Quinn’s Celebrating Women in Global Cinema is delighted to have been awarded 4 to decide what to watch – nor does expect from Girls on Film Live? adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s co-curated by Rachel Hayward, HOME’s stars in Julie’s Bicycle’s Creative Green it necessarily serve the female Eating Animals, and The Hummingbird filmmakers struggling to be seen. A: Excellent new film recommendations, Head of Film and Andy Willis, Senior Project tackles the environmental certification scheme for environmental thought-provoking angles on classic Visiting Curator: Film and Professor of As Chair of The London Film Critics’ movies, entertaining feminist rants, Film Studies, School of Arts and Media Circle, I’m lucky enough to know lots audience question time and lots of at University of Salford. of amazing female critics - and I’m also lucky to have the support of a laughter. talented, passionate female team for Girls On Film – Executive Producer Hedda Archbold and audio producer Jane Long. It’s exciting working with such a dedicated team in these changing times. And I’m delighted that we have fabulous listeners of The Hummingbird Sharkwater: both sexes. Project, 2018. Extinction, 2018. See p5 See p 12 Q: What are some of your favourite films directed by women? A: Fish Tank by Andrea Arnold, We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lynne Ramsay, The Falling by Carol Morley, The Piano by Jane Campion, Leave No Trace by Debra Granik. Five Seasons: The Eating Animals, Gardens of Piet HOME’s rooftop 2017. See p5 Oudolf, 2018. beehives, 2019 See p5 2 3
NEW RELEASES Preview + Satellite Event We The Animals (15) Prophecy (CTBA) Tucked (15) From Fri 14 Jun From Fri 14 Jun From Fri 14 Jun Dir Jeremiah Zagar/US 2018/94 mins Dir Charlie Paul/US GB 2019/82 mins Dir Jamie Patterson/US 2018/78 mins Sheila Vand, Raúl Castillo, Evan Rosado Intimate and revealing, Prophecy offers Derren Nesbitt, Jordan Stephens, April Pearson Liam Gallagher: As It Was (15) Dirty God (CTBA) Gloria Bell (15) Documentarian Jeremiah Zagar moves an unprecedented insight into the mind Gender non-conforming Jackie is an into narrative features with this fluid, of an artist as he works on creating a 80-year-old drag queen with an acerbic From Fri 7 Jun From Fri 7 Jun From Fri 7 Jun Dir Charlie Lightening/GB 2019/85 mins Dir Sacha Polak/NL GB BE IE 2019/104 Dir Sebastián Lelio/CL US 2018/102 mins dream-like adaptation of Justin Torres’ masterpiece. Beginning with a blank nightclub comedy act. Young non- mins Julianne Moore, Sean Astin, Jeanne Tripplehorn autobiographical novel about a mixed- canvas, the film follows acclaimed binary performer Faith appears in the Featuring interviews with friends, Vicky Knight, Eliza Brady-Girard, Rebecca Stone race family with three inseparable artist Peter Howson on a journey that dressing room and Jackie must show family and collaborators, this new Director Sebastian Lelio remakes his After a horrific acid attack at the young sons in upstate New York. showcases his dark sense of humour as them the ropes. Despite demographic documentary follows Liam Gallagher’s own 2013 hit Gloria. Gloria is a free- hands of her ex-boyfriend, Jade is Zagar’s heartbreaking film explores the well as his immense talent. differences, they realise how much journey from Oasis front man to spirited divorcée who meets Arnold discharged from hospital. The doctors animalism of young children alongside they have in common in this feel-good, solo star. A tale of legal, family and on a night out and finds herself thrust are happy with her physical progress, that of violent, warring adults. Brighton-based comedy. personal battles, the film also looks at into an unexpected new romance, filled Liam’s emergence from the shadow of but Jade is still learning to cope with with both the joys of budding love and his brother Noel. the trauma of the incident and the the complications of dating, identity, visible scars. and family. Event/ Join us for the World Premiere of the film on Thu 6 Jun, 19:30 followed by a satellite broadcast of an exclusive live encore performance. Preview + Event Late Night (15) Halston (12A) Diego Maradona (CTBA) The Hummingbird Project (15) Five Seasons: The Gardens of Eating Animals (CTBA) From Fri 7 Jun From Fri 7 Jun From Fri 14 Jun From Fri 21 Jun Piet Oudolf (CTBA) From Fri 21 Jun Dir Nisha Ganatra/US 2019/102 mins Dir Frédéric Tcheng/US 2019/105 mins Dir Asif Kapadia/GB 2019/120 mins Dir Kim Nguyen/US 2018/110 mins From Fri 21 Jun Dir Christopher Dillon Quinn/GB IN DE CN US Emma Thompson, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Liza Minnelli, Marisa Berenson, Joel Schumacher 2017/94 mins The third film from the Academy Award Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Salma Hayek Dir Thomas Piper/US 2018/75 mins/English and John Lithgow Halston captures the epic sweep and BAFTA-winning team behind Senna In the hopes of striking it rich, two Dutch with partial EngST Based on the bestselling book by Katherine Newbury is a pioneer and of the life and times of legendary and Amy, Kapadia’s Diego Maradona cousins try to build a four-inch-wide After completing a documentary Jonathan Safran Foer, this is an urgent, legendary host on the late-night talk- designer Roy Halston Frowick, the is constructed from over 500 hours tunnel from Kansas to New Jersey that on New York’s High Line, filmmaker eye-opening look at the environmental, show circuit. When she’s accused of man who wanted to ‘dress all of of never-before-seen footage from will give them a one-millisecond edge Thomas Piper met the inspirational economic, and public health being a ‘woman who hates women’ she America’. The film expertly weaves Maradona’s personal archive. on transactions at the New York Stock designer and plantsman Piet Oudolf, consequences of factory farming. The puts affirmative action on the to-do rare archival footage and intimate Exchange. This is an environmentally and the idea for a new project was film offers attainable solutions to a list, and – presto! – Molly is hired as interviews with Halston’s friends, Event/ On Wed 5 Jun, 20:00 ahead of conscious work that also deals with born. This documentary immerses growing crisis while making the case the one woman in Katherine’s all-male family and collaborators, including Liza the UK Premiere at Sheffield Doc Fest, issues of class and power. viewers in Oudolf’s work and takes us that ethical farming affects every writers’ room. Minnelli. HOME will be joined by director and inside his creative process. aspect of our lives. HOME patron Asif Kapadia for a Q&A following a special preview screening of the film. 4 5
Preview + Event Mari (CTBA) A Season in France (CTBA) Yesterday (CTBA) Support the Girls (15) Ibiza: The Silent Movie (CTBA) Midsommar (CTBA) From Fri 21 Jun (Une Saison en France) From Fri 28 Jun From Fri 28 Jun From Fri 5 Jul From Fri 5 Jul Dir Georgia Parris/GB 2018/94 mins From Fri 21 Jun Dir Danny Boyle/GB 2019/117 mins Dir Andrew Bujalski/US 2018/86 mins Dir Julien Temple/GB 2019/90 mins Dir Ari Aster/GB SE 2019/Runtime TBA/LANG Bobbi Jene Smith, Madeleine Worrall, Dir Mahamat-Saleh Haroun/FR 2018/100 mins/ Himesh Patel, Ana de Armas, Lily James, Kate Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, Dylan Gelula This unique and innovative project Florence Pugh, Will Poulter, Jack Reynor Phoebe Nicholls McKinnon French wEngST Regina Hall stars as the hardworking provides a compelling audiovisual A couple are travelling through Sweden Charlotte, a successful dancer living in Eriq Ebouaney, Sandrine Bonnaire, Aalayna Lys Yesterday everyone knew The Beatles. manager of Double Whammies, a journey into 2,000 years of Ibiza’s to visit their friend’s rural hometown for London returns to Dorset upon hearing Mahamat-Saleh Haroun takes a dark Today only Jack remembers their ‘sports bar with curves.’ She runs bohemian soul. The film captures Julien its fabled mid-summer festival. What that her grandmother Mari is dying, yet compassionate look at illegal songs. From Academy Award®-winning the joint like a family, but over the Temple’s iconic style and boasts a begins as an idyllic retreat quickly news that is followed by the discovery immigrants struggling in Paris. Far director and HOME-patron Danny course of one challenging day her soundtrack curated by world renowned devolves into an increasingly violent that she herself is pregnant. Mari gets from a picture-postcard journey the Boyle, with screenwriter Richard Curtis, incurable optimism is tested by sketchy artist Fatboy Slim. and bizarre competition at the hands under your skin to tell a nuanced story film is something closer to a season in comes a rock-n-roll comedy about employees, bad customers and an even of a pagan cult. of one woman in a bold and dynamic hell. Yet, as tough as it is, A Season in music, dreams, friendship, and the long worse boss. way. France is also warm and subtly heart- and winding road that leads to the love breaking. of your life. Event/ On Wed 19 Jun, 20:00 we will have a special preview screening followed by a Q&A with director Danny Boyle. Preview + Event Event Apollo 11 (U) In Fabric (CTBA) Amin (CTBA) Vita and Virginia (12A) Don’t Look Now (15) Knife + Heart (18) From Fri 28 Jun From Fri 28 Jun From Fri 28 Jun From Fri 5 Jul From Fri 5 Jul (Un couteau dans le coeur) Dir Todd Douglas Miller/US 2019/93 mins Dir Peter Strickland/GB 2018/118 mins Dir Philippe Faucon/FR 2018/91 mins/French, Wolof Dir Chanya Button/IE GB 2019/110 mins Dir Nicolas Roeg/GB IT 1973/105 mins From Fri 5 Jul Gwendoline Christie, Sidse Babett Knudsen, wEngST Gemma Arterton, Elizabeth Debicki, Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, Hilary Mason Crafted from a newly discovered trove Dir Yann Gonzalez/FR MX CH 2018/102 mins/ Marianne Jean-Baptiste Moustapha Mbengue, Emmanuelle Devos, Mareme Isabella Rossellini of footage and more than 11,000 hours N’Diaye Sutherland and Christie star in Roeg’s French and Spanish wEngST of uncatalogued audio recordings, Menacing, macabre, genuinely erotic, Socialite Vita Sackville-West and masterfully atmospheric adaptation of Vanessa Paradis, Kate Moran, Nicolas Maury In Fabric is a haunting phantasmagoria Amin works as a hired hand for a literary icon Virginia Woolf run in An arthouse slasher movie set in the Apollo 11 takes us straight to the heart the novel by Daphne du Maurier about that follows the surge of misfortunes building company based in a Paris different circles in 1920s London. gay porn industry, Knife + Heart is of NASA’s most celebrated mission – a grieving couple adrift in a wintry afflicting customers who come into suburb and lives in a hostel that he Despite the odds, the magnetic Vita steeped in playful references to earlier the one that first put men on the moon, Venice following the death of their contact with a bewitched dress at an shares with other African immigrants. and the beguiling Virginia forge an films and filmmakers from Cruising to and forever made Neil Armstrong and daughter. Beautifully restored, the film eerie department store. Amin meets Gabrielle, a middle-aged unconventional affair, set against Argento. Buzz Aldrin into household names. freshly inspires shock and awe. French divorcée and as time passes, an the backdrop of their own strikingly Sound is as important as image to intimacy develops between the two. contemporary marriages, which Strickland so complementing the incredibly textured sound design is a inspired one of Woolf’s most iconic soundtrack by Cavern of Anti-Matter. novels, Orlando. Event/ On Mon 3 Jun, 17:50 we will have Plus/ The 18:00 screening on Mon 8 Jul a special preview screening followed by a will be introduced by Dr Monica Pearl, Q&A with director Peter Strickland. Lecturer in 20th Century American Literature at the University of Manchester. 6 7
The Dead Don’t Die (CTBA) Our Time (CTBA) Armstrong (CTBA) Never Look Away (CTBA) Varda by Agnès (CTBA) The Chambermaid From Fri 12 Jul (Nuestro Tiempo) From Fri 12 Jul (Werk ohne Autor) From Fri 19 Jul (CTBA) Dir Jim Jarmusch/SE US 2019/103 mins From Fri 12 Jul Dir David Fairhead/US 2019/100 mins From Fri 19 Jul Dir Agnès Varda/FR 2018/115 mins/ (La camarista) Adam Driver, Chloë Sevigny, Tilda Swinton French and English with partial EngST Dir Carlos Reygadas/MX FR DE DK SE 2018/173 Dramatic, moving and insightful, Dir Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck/DE IT From Fri 26 Jul Jarmusch’s follow-up to Paterson is mins/Spanish wEngST Armstrong tells the definitive life story 2018/189 mins/German and Russian wEngST Following the Academy Award- Dir Lila Avilés/MX 2019/102 mins/Spanish wEngST another foray into genre territory. Natalia López, Phil Burgers, Carlos Reygadas of Neil Armstrong: from his childhood Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer nominated Faces Places, the late Gabriela Cartol, Teresa Sánchez Featuring Tilda Swinton, Tom Waits, One of contemporary world cinema’s in rural Ohio, through aerial combat in Inspired by real events and spanning great Agnès Varda returns with Varda Eve, a young chambermaid at a Danny Glover, Iggy Pop and Bill Murray, greatest visual poets, Reygadas turns Korea, to his first steps on the Moon – three eras of German history, Never by Agnès, a documentary that sheds luxurious Mexico City hotel, confronts it’s a Jarmuschian take on the zombie the camera on himself in this tale of and the unwanted celebrity status that Look Away tells the story of a young light on her experience as a director, the monotony of long workdays with picture. a marriage at breaking point. Real-life ensued. art student, Kurt who falls in love with bringing a personal insight to what she quiet examinations of forgotten couple Reygadas and his wife Natalia fellow student, Ellie. Ellie’s father is termed “cine-writing”. Released to celebrate the 50th belongings and budding friendships. play Juan and Esther, who live a dismayed at his daughter’s choice of anniversary of the moon landings. Avilés’s striking debut employs a quasi- peaceful yet unusual existence on a boyfriend, and vows to destroy the Mexican cattle ranch. relationship. documentary approach and offers a microcosm of contemporary Mexican society. Parent & Baby Only You (15) Pavarotti (CTBA) Gwen (15) Making Noise Quietly (CTBA) From Fri 12 Jul From Mon 15 Jul From Fri 19 Jul From Fri 26 Jul Where Hands Touch, 2018 Dir Harry Wootliff/GB 2018/119 mins Dir Ron Howard/GB US 2019/114 mins Dir William McGregor/GB 2018/84 mins Dir Dominic Dromgoole/GB 2019/98 mins Natalie Arle-Toyne, Isabelle Barth, Tam Dean Burn Maxine Peake, Richard Harrington, Eleanor Trystan Gravelle, Deborah Findlay, Pauline McLynn Parents, grandparents and carers of Where Hands Touch (12A) Thanks to a partnership with Decca babies aged up to 12 months can Worthington-Cox Elena and Jake meet by chance on Records and through unique access Three stories of strangers meeting Thu 20 Jun, 11:00 A mysterious – and suspicious – run of enjoy films in a relaxed environment New Year’s Eve and start a passionate to the Pavarotti family archives, home on the edge of war. A conscientious Dir Amma Asante/GB 2018/122 mins ill fortune plagues a teenage girl, her with their babies. The volume will be relationship. Within weeks they are videos, behind-the-scenes footage and objector and a roaming artist find Amandla Stenberg, George Mackay, Abbie Cornish mother and sister on their hillside farm lowered and the lights will remain living together, and not long after they extensive live music footage, we see tenderness as the carnage of the Amandla Stenberg stars in director in this atmospheric and eerie, Wales- dimmed throughout the screening. talk about starting a family. But, as Pavarotti’s personal story emerge: from Second World War unfolds across the Amma Asante’s (A United Kingdom) set period piece from writer-director Films will begin at the advertised the seasons pass, reality catches up his humble beginnings in Northern Italy English Channel. A bereaved mother disquieting coming-of-age romance William McGregor. time without adverts or trailers. with them. through to global superstardom. struggles with bitterness and love in about a Black German teenager who recollecting her estranged son, lost in Baby changing facilities are readily falls in love with a member of the the Falklands. Deep in the Black Forest available and our café bar team can Hitler Youth. Maxine Peake will be joining us of Germany, an ageing holocaust provide high chairs and hot water for on Tue 11 Jun for our Girls on Film Vita and Virginia survivor seeks to bring peace to bottles on request. Live Podcast recording. See p11 for details. disturbed young boy and his equally Unfortunately we are unable to Thu 25 Jul, 11:00 wild stepfather. admit children older than 12 months See p7 for details. of age. homemcr.org/parent-and-baby 8 9
one-off screenings & events Preview/ In Fabric (CTBA) A City Seen: Narratives Live Music Accompaniment Pommel, 2018 Mon 3 Jun, 17:50 of Homelessness + Panel BIFA Best British Shorts (CTBA) Dir Peter Strickland/GB 2018/118 mins Discussion (CTBA) Thu 13 Jun, 18:00 Gwendoline Christie, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Marianne Jean-Baptiste Thu 6 Jun, 18:20 Tickets: Free (booking required) See p6 for film details Tickets £1 Dir Various/GB 2018/95 mins A quarterly film night exploring the Discover the next generation of Event/ We will be joined by director creativity of our city’s most essential exciting British filmmakers through Maxine Peake Yesterday, 2019 Peter Strickland for a Q&A following this groups. This event will showcase a their ground-breaking early work, special preview screening. The Seashell and the Clergyman, 1928 series of one minute films created by Girls on Film – Live podcast presented by BIFA and Film Hub North Preview/ Yesterday (CTBA) + Q&A MMU students with homeless charities The Seashell and the Clergyman recording supported by BFI NETWORK. and organisations from across the city. (CTBA) with a new soundtrack Wed 19 Jun, 20:00 Thought-provoking, emotional and Tue 11 Jun, 19:00 Dir Danny Boyle/GB 2019/117 mins Event/ Followed by a panel discussion performed live by In The relevant, these bite-size movies have a Himesh Patel, Ana de Armas, Lily James, Kate Is gender-flipping movie franchises a lot to say and not much time to say it. with film and charity representatives Nursery McKinnon feminist move or a token gesture? Join Join us for an evening of exploration, exploring homelessness in our city and See p6 for film details. Sun 9 Jun, 13:30 in the conversation alongside special film and, of course, post-show drinks the role of creative activism as a tool for Dir Germaine Dulac/FR 1928/42 mins guests Maxine Peake, speaking about Event/ This special preview screening and discussion. change. homemcr.org/a-city-seen Widely recognised as the first her new film Gwen, The Observer’s will be followed by a Q&A with director Bent, 1997 The best part? It’s entirely free. For the surrealist film, The Seashell Wendy Ide and former Times critic Danny Boyle. Bent (18) love of film, come! and the Clergyman is a complex, Kate Muir. Wed 5 Jun, 17:30 controversial and multi-layered film Event/ This screening will be followed Dir Sean Mathias/GB JP 1997/116 mins directed by Germaine Dulac, from an by a Q&A with the filmmakers of winning Mick Jagger, Clive Owen, Ian McKellen original scenario by Antonin Artaud. film The Big Day. To coincide with Ian McKellen On Stage Liam: As It Was, 2019 The BBFC famously banned the film in Theatre 1 we will be screening Sean stating “If there is a meaning, it is Pandora’s Box (CTBA) + Panel Mathias’ boundary-defying Bent. Preview/ Liam Gallagher: As It doubtless objectionable”. The BFI Discussion Recounting the fate of three homosexual Was (15) + Satellite Q&A included The Seashell and the Clergyman Unquiet Graves, 2018 on a list of 10 Great Feminist Films, Sat 15 Jun, 15:20 Gazagraph, 2018 men during the rise of Nazism, the film Thu 6 Jun, 19:30 Unquiet Graves (CTBA) + Q&A In the summer of 1977, is a harrowing but inspirational tale of Dir Charlie Lightening/GB 2019/85 mins describing it as ‘a visually imaginative The Past in the Present (PG) + critique of patriarchy – state and church Wed 12 Jun, 20:30 Granada Television broadcast struggle against oppression. This film screens on release from Fri 7 a lively late night all-female panel Q&A – and of male sexuality.’ Dir Sean A Murray/GB 2018/75 mins Screening from a 35mm print. Jun. See p4 for film details. show, entitled Pandora’s Box. Presented in partnership with Live A documentary exposing Britain’s Mon 24 Jun, 17:50 Event/ Join us for the World Premiere Cinema UK, supported by Film Hub secret collaboration in the murders of Presented by Joan Bakewell and Palestinian filmmakers from different followed by a satellite broadcast of an North, proud to be part of the BFI over 120 people on both sides of the featuring an early career Victoria locations – Jerusalem, the West Bank exclusive live encore performance. Audience Network. Irish border during the recent conflict. Wood – who performed a song at and Gaza – challenge the erasure Unquiet Graves recounts British the end of each programme – the of their histories through creatively involvement in a campaign aimed series offered a space for women from retracing and reflecting on different Move Film Festival (CTBA) different backgrounds and professions at terrorising the most vulnerable in aspects of Palestinian pasts. Part of the Mon 10 Jun society. to discuss frankly their experiences Creative Interruptions Research Project Diego Maradona, 2019 of work, parenting, and the pressures www.creativeinterruptions.com Programme 1 - 16:00 Event/ We will be joined by Anne Preview/ Diego Maradona (CTBA) Programme 2 - 18:00 of appearance. For this event, two Films screening are: Cadwallader and Margaret Urwin from of the episodes on ‘Work’ and ‘Dress’ Wed 5 Jun, 20:00 Filmed Up (CTBA) The Move Film Festival showcases The Pat Finucane Centre for a Q&A will be screened followed by a panel The Silent Protest: Jerusalem 1929 (Dir Dir Asif Kapadia/GB 2019/120 mins emerging and innovative talent from following this screening. Anne is the discussion. Mahasen Nasser-Eldin/20 mins) Fri 7 Jun, 18:20 See p4 for details. Manchester School of Art. Join our author of Lethal Allies: British Collusion £5/£4.50 Curated for Celebrating Women Eight Years Later (Dir Salim Abu Jabal, premiere of short films from young, in Ireland and Margaret is the author of Event/ Ahead of the UK Premiere at Discover short films of all genre in Global Cinema by Isabel Taube, 25 mins) distinct voices within our collective; A State in Denial. Sheffield Doc Fest, HOME will be joined produced in our region and meet the Researcher in History at Manchester Gazagraph (Dir Yousef Nateel, 40 mins) Whether it’s narrative, artist moving by director and HOME patron Asif filmmakers at our regular North West This event is supported by the Political Metropolitan University. image or documentary, there’s Event/ We will be joined by the directors Kapadia for a Q&A following a special short film night screening. something for everyone. Studies Association and the University This event will last approximately preview screening of the film. for a Q&A following this screening. homemcr.org/filmedup of Salford. 1 hour 30 mins. 10 11
seasons Event/ Trans Creative at the A Summer’s Tale, 1996 Beth Gibbons: Henryk Górecki: Movies (CTBA) Symphony No 3 (Symphony of Sun 30 Jun, 13:30 Sorrowful Songs) (U) Tickets: £6 full / £5 concs Thu 11 Jul, 18:30 Historically starved of Dir Michał Merczyński/PL 2014/51 mins cinematic content, transgender Following an invitation to collaborate audiences have found inventive ways with The Polish National Symphony to discover themselves on-screen. Bigger than Life/ A Summer’s Orchestra, Beth Gibbons undertook Zorian Clayton of Trans Creative and an intense preparation process. The Tale (U) BFI Flare chairs a panel discussing elusive yet iconic front woman of one these experiences, with speakers (Conte d’été) of the most important British bands including Juno Roche, writer of Queer Wed 3 Jul, 20:35 of the last two decades met and Sex. The event includes a screening Dir Éric Rohmer/FR 1996/114 mins/French wEngST exceeded the challenge, as evidenced of a selection of shorts fresh from BFI Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Langlet, Gwenaëlle Simon by this triumphant concert film. Island of the Hungry Ghosts, 2018 Flare. Bigger Than Life curate special 35mm Horizons Short Films, Photo Credit Iria CP Island of the Hungry Ghosts Part of Trans Vegas 2019, presented in screenings of under-shown and Horizons Festival Short Films (12A) partnership with BFI Flare and supported overlooked cinema. Horizons curated by Lost Lands (CTBA) + Tue 18 Jun, 18:00 by Superbia at Manchester Pride. A director highly attuned to the laidback rhythms of summer, French Festival Plus Discussion Dir Gabrielle Brady/GB AU 2018/98 mins New Wave master Éric Rohmer’s 1996 film follows Gaspard (Melvil Poupaud), Supporting Sat 15 Jun, 13:00 Home to few human inhabitants, Christmas Island is famous for crab Lost Land is an international film a self-serious musician-type who finds Sharkwater: Extinction, 2018 Refugee Week festival that showcase films about and migration but has a more troubling relationship with human migration, with himself with three competing romantic Sharkwater: Extinction (12A) by refugees. Their Manchester Festival possibilities whilst whiling away his . ran at Partisan Collective in November its jungle hiding Australia’s biggest offshore refugee detention centre. The The Yukon Assignment, 2018 time on the beaches of Brittany. Mon 29 Jul, 20:40 2018. Here we are pleased to invite Dir Rob Stewart/CA 2018/85 mins only connection to the outside world The Yukon Assignment (PG) The film will screen from a 35mm print. Sharkwater: Extinction follows Sat 15 – Fri 21 them to curate a selection of short films my local and international film for these asylum seekers is counsellor Poh Lin Lee. Mon 1 Jul, 18:20 Dir Chris Lucas/CA GB 2018/86 mins Event/ This screening will be introduced by Bigger Than Life filmmaker Rob Stewart as he exposes the massive illegal shark fin industry Jun makers for Horizons Festival. curators, Tom Grieve and Jim Laycock. and the political corruption behind Community Arts North West and Event/ This screening will be followed British adventurer Chris Lucas and it – a conspiracy that is leading to the HOME invite you to Horizons Festival by a panel discussion. his father depend on each other for global extinction of sharks. 2019. We will be celebrating with survival as they canoe down one of Canada’s most remote rivers. This is a full programme of theatre, film, Travelling Heritage Bureau Film art, performance, workshops and (CTBA) + Discussion a breathtaking exploration of one of debate. Showcasing the work of the the Earth’s last wildernesses and the Sun 16 Jun, 14:30 international arts community from story of how adventure can bring us Manchester and across the UK. From The Travelling Heritage Bureau is a together, irrespective of age. Kinshasha to Tehran, Damascus to co-research project and supportive Nervous Translation (PG) Lahore, THIS IS OUR UK, and everyone network with and for international Vita and Virginia, 2019 is welcome. women artists including refugees, The Echoes of Pain of the Many, 2011 Tue 2 Jul, 18:20 those seeking asylum and other Dir Shireen Seno/PH 2018/91 mins/ Vita and Virginia (CTBA) In support of the Lift The Ban The Echoes of Pain of the Many migrant women with direct experiences Tagalog wEngST Campaign. (15) + Q&A Jana Agoncillo, Angge Santos, Sid Lucero Mon 8 Jul, 18:00 of journeying or displacement, or homemcr.org/Horizons19 migration heritage. This film documents Based on the experiences of director Dir Chanya Button/IE GB 2019/110 mins Wed 19 Jun, 18:00 Gemma Arterton, Elizabeth Debicki, Penny Slinger: Out Of The Shadows, 2017 the activities of the project and issues Dir Ana Lucía Cuevas/GB US GT 2011/94 mins Shireen Seno growing up as a shy Isabella Rossellini of migration, art, archiving and cultural In The Echoes of Pain of the Many we child of the Filipino diaspora, Nervous See p7 for details. Penny Slinger: Out of the institutions. witness a moving, thought-provoking Translation seeks to recapture an Shadows (18) and rare documentary by a Latin important period in Philippine history Event/ This screening will be introduced Event/ Following the screening there and draw connections to the present by Dr Monica Pearl, Lecturer in 20th Wed 31 Jul, 20:40 American woman, recording her return will be a discussion addressing the day through issues that are still very Century American Literature at the Dir Richard Kovitch/GB 2017/98 mins from exile and into the still dangerous outcomes and findings of the project, familiar to us. University of Manchester. Penny Slinger: Out of the Shadows and volatile political environment of revealing the next steps for the artists is the incredible, untold story of the contemporary Guatemala. individually and collectively. British artist Penny Slinger and the Event/ We will be joined by the traumatic events that led to the Supported by the National Lottery director and members of the team for a creation of her masterpiece, the 1977 Heritage Fund. Q&A following this screening. photo-romance, ‘An Exorcism’. www.travellingheritagebureau.com 13 12
Of Flesh and Nobody Knows, 2004 Blood: The Early Cinema of Hirokazu Kore-eda After Life, 1998 . After Life (12A) (Wandafuru raifu) Sun 16 – Sat 22 Jun, 18:00 Dir Hirokazu Kore-eda/JP 1998/114 mins/Japanese wEngST Sun 30 Jun Arata, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Taketoshi Naitô If you had to choose the single best Widow of Silence, 2018 The Lift Boy, 2018 Widow of Silence (CTBA) + Q&A The Lift Boy (CTBA) “I’m so entranced by what unfolds in front of the camera. It seems memory of your life, what would it be? Nobody Knows (12A) South Asian wonderfully out of my control” Hirokazu Kore-eda poses the question in this lyrical yet down-to-earth fantasy set in Thu 27 Jun, 17:40 Film Festival Wed 26 Jun, 18:10 Dir Praveen Morchhale/IN 2018/85 mins/Urdu wEngST Sat 29 Jun, 15:40 Dir Jonathan Augustin/IN 2018/English and Hindi Kore-eda This selection of early works by Kore- a posthumous limbo. In just one week, the newly deceased must choose one Dir Hirokazu Kore-eda/JP 2004/141 mins/Japanese wEngST Yuya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kumura Up North Shilpa Marwaha, Ajay Chourey, Bilal Ahmad In Kashmir, a Muslim half-widow finds with partial EngST/107 mins Moin Khan, Nyla Masood, Saagar Kale Four children are left to fend for eda celebrates the richness, diversity, beauty and humanity of one of the memory that will constitute their own private heaven. themselves in a Tokyo apartment, . herself in dire straits. Unable to obtain her missing husband’s death certificate A funny and heart-warming tale of a young man, struggling to complete his foremost figures in contemporary world with their well-being and survival from the government, she must find the studies who is forced to work in a posh One Hour Intro/ Kore-eda cinema. dependant on the oldest son. Filmed over the course of a year, Kore-eda’s Wed 26 – Sat strength to overcome this harrowing situation that threatens her future. apartment building in Mumbai as a lift boy when his bread-winning father Presented in association with the BFI. homemcr.org/Koreeda Sun 23 Jun, 15:30 Tickets: £4 full / £3 concs heartbreaking study of childhood destroyed by neglect and societal 29 Jun Premiered at Rotterdam Film Festival. falls ill. 2018’s Shoplifters has attracted a The South Asian Film Festival Up Saturday Afternoon, 2019 indifference boasts superb naturalistic Event/ We will be joined by director wider international audience for films North returns to HOME for its second performances. Praveen Morchhale for a Q&A following by Hirokazu Kore-eda. But he has year. It features an entertaining this screening. been making fiction features for more Hana, 2006 and thought-provoking line-up of than 20 years. In this One Hour Intro, independent films that offer a rare window into a billion South Asian lives Satyajit Ray Short Film Roy Stafford will explore Kore-eda’s in the sub-continent right now. The Competition (15) early films and how they relate to contemporary concerns. festival is presented by the London Fri 28 Jun, 18:00 Indian Film Festival in association with Not Just Bollywood. The festival’s annual Satyajit Ray Short Film Competition and Award is a rare homemcr.org/SAFF chance to see the works of talented, emerging filmmakers, who are exploring Look out for our third Not themes of South Asian Experience. The Saturday Afternoon (15) Just Bollywood season this competition’s final shortlist films will be September, screening classic screened at the festival and the winner Sat 29 Jun, 18:00 and new titles from India’s of the 2019 award is announced on the Dir Mostofa Sarwar Farooki/BG DE IN 2019/86 festival’s Closing Night. In association mins/ Bengali, English wEngST Distance, 2001 independent film scene and Parambrata Chatterjee, Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Eyad Hana (CTBA) with the Bagri Foundation. Maborosi, 1995 Distance (CTBA) showcasing women in the Hourani (Hana yori mo naho) Films screening are: Winner of two jury awards at Moscow Indian film industry. Maborosi (12A) Sun 23 Jun, 17:00 Nooreh International Film Festival Bangladeshi (Maboroshi no hikari) Dir Hirokazu Kore-eda/JP 2001/132 mins/Japanese Sun 30 Jun, 17:50 (Dir Ashsih Pandey, 22 mins, Urdu wEngST) auteur Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (No wEngST Dir Hirokazu Kore-eda/JP 2006/127 mins/Japanese wEngST Alien Culture Bed Of Roses) returns with this tense Sun 16 Jun, 18:00 Arata Iura, Yûsuke Iseya, Susumu Terajima Jun’ichi Okada, Rie Miyazawa, Arata Furuta (Dir Iesh Thapar, 16 mins) thriller shot in a single take where Dir Hirokazu Kore-eda/JP 1995/109 mins/Japanese wEngST Loosely inspired by the 1995 sarin A samurai is obliged by the warrior code These Silences Are All The Words Makiko Esumi, Takashi Naito, Tadanobu Asano terrorists take over an eatery in gas attacks on the Tokyo subway to seek revenge for his father’s death (Dir Madhia Aijaz, 15 mins, Urdu wEngST) Dhaka, resulting in a siege scenario An apparently happy marriage is committed by extremist Buddhist cult but he is reluctant to act. Kore-eda’s U Ushacha and multiple deaths. Loosely based on abruptly ended by the husband’s Aum Shinrikyo, Kore-eda’s slow-burn, first and, to date, only period film is a (Dir Rohan Kanwade, 21 mins, Marathi wEngST) real events, the riveting film takes a sudden death, but was it accident subtly ambiguous drama is less about mellow and charming character study, Kark Pawan close look at the roots of modern day or suicide? Kore-eda’s haunting, terrorism than about the question of but also a gentle but pointed critique of (Dir Preet Nayak, 26 mins, Hindi wEngST) terrorism through political, social and meditative film traces a widow’s how fully we can understand human traditional notions of honour and duty. Rammat Gammat Nooreh, 2018 gender implications. attempts to comprehend bereavement. motivation or know the people we love. (Dir Ajitpal singh, 17 mins, Gujarati wEngST) 14 15
David Lynch: The Art Life, 2016 Meditation, Creativity, Peace Twin Peaks S3 ep 1 & 2 (15) (CTBA) Sun 7 Jul, 13:00 Sun 14 Jul, 13:30 Tickets: Free (booking required) Free (booking required) A quarter of a century on, David Dir David Lynch/US 2012/71 mins Lynch’s show is still baffling, mystical This documentary is an exhilarating, and occasionally deranged … only inspiring round-up of questions and now there’s a new crime to solve. answers from David Lynch’s European Forget Laura Palmer – who killed Ruth and Middle East tours of 2007-2009, Davenport? when he visited 16 countries to I’ll See You in My Dreams meet film students, receive national Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, 2008 awards, launch university projects, It’s a Great Sun 7 Jul, 15:30 Tickets £9.50 full/£7.50 concs Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, 1992 and describe the extraordinary School’s Out Battle Royale, 2000 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Big Wonderful The return of Twin Peaks after more than (CTBA) + Introduction benefits for creativity and peace to be gained by transcending thought with . World: David a twenty-five year absence from television screens was a major event, and one Sun 7 Jul, 20:20 Transcendental Meditation. Lynch Film capable of provoking reflection on the Dir David Lynch/US FR 1992/134 mins Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Mädchen Amick Mon 15 – medium itself. Season In this talk Dr Kirsty Fairclough, University Originally reviled on release, this film Thu 18 Jul Battle Royale (18) set in Deer Meadow, an alternate . of Salford will examine the phenomemon that is the world of Twin Peaks. and hellish Twin Peaks has undergone Visit school one last time before the summer holidays with our School’s Out (Batoru rowaiaru) a huge critical reappraisal and is mini season and see three films with Tue 16 Jul, 18:00 Twin Peaks S3 ep 8 (15) now seen as one of Lynch’s most Sat 6 Jul – Sun satisfying if complex works. Refusing an international scope. These films have earned a cult following through Dir Kinji Fukasaku/JP 2000/113 mins/Japanese wEngST Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto Sun 7 Jul, 16:45 29 Sep Tickets: Free (booking required) to offer comfort or easy answers to life’s horrors, it features a memorable their own memorable qualities as well In the midst of a future economic David Lynch erupted onto the as from their exaggerated yet astute crisis and social unrest the Japanese A brave and groundbreaking hour of contribution from David Bowie. reflections on the experiences of government introduce the Battle Royale cinema landscape with Eraserhead, television, Lynch takes the viewer on an establishing himself as a director of Event/ This screening will be young people. act as a means to control unruly school incredible journey. Guaranteed to blow kids. Fukasaku’s brutal and harrowing unique imagination and vision. Over introduced by Bren O’Callaghan, This season was curated by HOME’s your mind. yet totally bonkers action cult classic is the course of a career that includes Curator, HOME. Young Programmers. The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Wild at not to be missed. homemcr.org/Schools-out Heart, Lost Highway, Inland Empire and the seminal TV series Twin Peaks, Lynch David Lynch: The Power of Angus, Thongs and Perfect has remained true to an artistic vision Transcendental Meditation Snogging (12A) + Introduction of innocence adrift in the direst states Mon 15 Jul, 18:10 Sat 13 Jul, 16:30 The Elephant Man, 1980 of darkness and confusion. Dir Gurinder Chadha/GB 2008/100 mins Ticket prices: £12 full / £10 concs The Elephant Man (PG) homemcr.org/david-lynch Georgia Groome, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Karen Taylor For the last forty years, researchers have Sun 14 Jul, 15:20 An unexpected cult hit, this highly worked hard to test the effectiveness Clueless, 1995 Dir David Lynch/US GB 1980/118 mins quotable British cringe comedy boasts of ancient wisdom practices, including Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft an excellent soundtrack and a clever Clueless (12A) + DJ Set Transcendental Meditation. A number of Lynch’s monochrome homage to sensitivity to the teenage experience as Thu 18 Jul, 18:10 studies have shown benefits in lowering nineteenth century urban gothic tells 14-year-old high-schooler Georgia deals Dir Amy Heckerling/US 1995/97 mins stress, blood pressure, cholesterol, the tale of Joseph Merrick, exhibited with awkward situations and a lack of Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy smoking, drinking and anxiety. The fact David Lynch: The Art Life, 2016 as a ‘freak’ in Victorian London. With romance in her life. Yellow-tartan-clad fashion icon Cher that practising meditation is good for combating depression is becoming well- David Lynch: The Art Life (15) breath-taking cinematography and an takes new girl Tai under her wing but outstanding performance by John Hurt, Event/ This screening will be The Grandmother, 1970 established. in the process of matchmaking and Sat 13 Jul, 18:10 The Elephant Man raises interesting introduced by HOME’s young David Lynch Shorts Programme makeovers she begins to seek love of Join our panel, including film director Dirs Rick Barnes, Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Jon questions about society’s ‘casting off’ programmers. her own. Heckerling’s delightful comedy (CTBA) David Lynch (via video link), musician Nguyen/US DK 2016/86 mins of those perceived as different, about Illuminating Lynch’s own art, music and is a time capsule for 90s pop culture Tim Burgess, and executive director the human body and about the ethics Sat 6 Jul, 16:00 films, while shining a light on his unique but remains a staple for teenagers of the David Lynch Foundation UK, of societies. everywhere. Incorporating Lynch’s earliest forays world and journey from rural small town Deirdre Parsons on an exploration of into filmmaking, this selection of America to art school in Philadelphia, Transcendental Meditation (TM). Event/ Following the screening join us shorter works illustrates Lynch’s this documentary offers audiences a Presented in association with Guardian in the HOME downstairs bar from 20:00 restless creativity, the breadth of his greater understanding of both the man Live and David Lynch Foundation UK. for a 90’s themed DJ set. imagination and his ability to unsettle. and the artist. 16 17
Lina The Seduction of Mimi, 1972 Wertmüller: the Director in the White Hairspray, 1988 Hairspray (PG) Glasses The Seduction of Mimi (CTBA) (Mimì metallurgico ferito Sat 27 Jul, 20:40 . nell’onore) Dir John Waters/US 1988/92 mins Sun 21 Jul, 15:20 Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, Divine, Debbie Harry In his most commercially successful Sat 20 – Dir Lina Wertmüller/ITL 1972/121 mins/Italian and English wEngST film, John Waters is at his best directing an eclectic cast of musicians Wed 24 Jul Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Turi Ferro As part of HOME’s on-going Giancarlo Giannini plays Mimi, initially (including Debbie Harry and Sonny a poor labourer in Scicily, who is Desperately Seeking Susan, 1985 celebration of women’s contribution Bono), actors and drag queens in 1960s forced to leave his home in Sicily after to global cinema we present a Desperately Seeking Susan (15) Baltimore, where dance-loving teenager crossing the Mafia. The Seduction of small retrospective of work by the Tracy Turnblad (Ricki Lake) auditions Mimi mixes violence, sex and politics Sun 21 Jul, 13:00 provocative and controversial Italian for a spot on ‘The Corny Collins Show’. in a manner that would become firmly Tue 23 Jul, 20:30 director Lina Wertmüller, who began as Purple Rain, 1984 Hairspray will also be showing as our an assistant to Fellini and who went on associated with the controversial Wed 24 Jul, 13:00 director as the 1970s progressed. Season Launch/ Purple Rain (15) Bring the Family and Relaxed Screening Sound and + Introduction + DJ set Dir Susan Seidelman/US 1985/104 mins Rosanne Arquette, Madonna, Aiden Quinn (Autism Friendly), see p20 for details. to be the first women to be nominated for the best director Oscar for her work Love & Anarchy (CTBA) Vision: Pop Fri 19 Jul, 20:20 In the film that influenced fashion Performance (CTBA) + Q&A on Seven Beauties (1975). (Film d’amore e d’anarchia) in ways many might want to forget, homemcr.org/Lina-Wertmuller Stars on Film Dir Albert Magnolia/US 1984/111 mins Prince, Apollonia Kotero, Morris Day Madonna burst onto the big screen in Sun 28 Jul, 15:40 Dirs Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell/GB 1970/105 mins Mon 22 Jul, 18:00 Dir Lina Wertmüller/ITL FR 1973/120 mins/Italian . In his blistering screen debut, Prince her first major role as Susan, the free- spirited New Yorker who lights up the James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg This mind-bending tale of London’s wEngST Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Eros Pagni plays “The Kid”, a highly talented life of timid, repressed upper-middle- 60s criminal underworld features a Lina Wertmüller continued her but troubled young musician. Prince’s Fri 19 Jul – Wed talents are on full display here resulting class New Jersey housewife Roberta. never better Mick Jagger as a reclusive collaboration with actor Giancarlo Giannini in this tale of a man who sets pop star holed up in his Notting Hill 15 Aug in the soundtrack becoming an iconic worldwide smash hit. mansion. Also features the proto pop out to assassinate Benito Mussolini. On From the relatively early days of promo, ‘Memo From Turner.’ route he ends up hiding out in a brothel cinema, popular music figures have Event/ This screening will be where he begins to develop friendships Event/ We will be joined by producer Behind the White Glasses made forays into acting. Sound and introduced by season co-curator Kirsty with the women who work there. Fairclough, University of Salford. Sandy Lieberson and author of (CTBA) Vision: Pop Stars On Film offers an overview of some of the most Performance: 50th Anniversary Book, (Dietro gli occhiali bianchi) Seven Beauties, 1976 Plus/ After the screening, HOME’s Jay Glennie for a Q&A following this influential performances from a diverse Jason Wood will be presenting a Sat 20 Jul, 13:00 screening. range of cultural icons. specially-curated Prince themed DJ set Tue 23 Jul, 18:10 The Small World of Sammy Lee, 1963 Co-curated by Dr. Kirsty Fairclough, in the bar. Dir Valerie Ruiz/ ITL 2019/104 mins/Italian and University of Salford and Jason Wood The Small World of Sammy Lee English wEngST Creative Director: Film and Culture at The Harder They Come (15) + (12) + Introduction + DJ Set The enormous significance and critical HOME. Introduction acclaim that was awarded Lina Fri 26 Jul, 20:30 Seven Beauties (18) Wertmüller’s work in the 1970s is often Sound and Vision: Pop Stars on Film (Pasqualino Settebellezze) Sat 20 Jul, 18:20 Dir Ken Hughes/GB 1963/105 mins forgotten today. This documentary continues until Wed 15 Aug, visit the Anthony Newley, Julia Foster, Robert Stephens King Creole, 1958 Dir Perry Henzell/JM 1972/103 mins offers an insight into that moment Wed 24 Jul, 18:00 website for details of additional titles. Jimmy Cliff, Carl Bradshaw, Basil Keane The vibrant, down and dirty Soho of King Creole (PG) and her career more broadly and is Dir Lina Wertmüller/ITL 1976/113 mins/ Italian, homemcr.org/Popstars The Jimmy Cliff-starring tale of a the 1960s lives on in British classic The the perfect complement to our mini- German and Spanish wEngST Tue 30 Jul, 18:00 In partnership with MUBI. renegade songwriter from the boondocks Small World of Sammy Lee, featuring retrospective. Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler Dir Michael Curtiz/US 1958/116 mins of Jamaica who comes to the big city Bowie-inspiring actor and singer Anthony Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau With Seven Beauties Wertmüller looking for dreams and only finds reality. Newley as a strip-club compère. once again made a film that caused Set in New Orleans, Presley plays Cliff acts as well as he sings. controversy, discussion and debate, Event/ This screening will be 19-year-old Danny Fisher who is here exploring a range of political and Event/ This screening will be introduced by Bob Stanley of Saint struggling to graduate from high school personal questions through the story introduced by Karen Gabay, radio Etienne who will also DJ following the when he accidentally stumbles into a of a man who does anything to survive presenter and producer. screening in the downstairs bar. singing career. Undoubtedly Presley’s in Italy during World War II. best performance. 18 19
classics BRING THE live broadcasts Our popular programme brings cinema classics to the big screen every month so you never need to miss those must- FAMILY Designed for the whole family (including Catch the best theatre and opera broadcast live in our cinemas from the world’s most prestigious companies. sees! Sunday screenings are usually homemcr.org/live-broadcasts babies), these screenings will have the accompanied by a free, informal post- volume lowered and the lights will remain screening discussion. dimmed throughout the screening. Films Visit homemcr.org/classics for details. will begin at the advertised time without NT Live/ Small Island (12A as adverts or trailers. The Blue Angel, 1930 Goodbye First Love, 2011 live) Our family programme is supported by Goodbye First Love (15) Thu 27 Jun, Doors – 18:45, Auto Trader. (Un amour de jeunesse) Performance – 19:00 homemcr.org/families Sun 7 Jul, 13:00 NT Live/ All About Eve (12A) Running Time: Approx. 170 mins Bite-Sized Ballets/ Elves & the Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning Tue 9 Jul, 20:30 Mon 17 Jun, 20:20 Shoemaker (U) novel Small Island comes to life in Wed 10 Jul, 13:00 RSC Live/ The Taming of the Running Time: 130 mins Dir Mia Hansen Løve/FR DE 2011/112 mins/French, Sun 30 Jun, 11:00 an epic new theatre adaptation Shrew All About Eve tells the story of Margo which sees hope and humanity meet German, Danish and English with partial EngST Running time: Approx. 53 mins Channing. Legend. True star of the Lola Créton, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Magne-Håvard stubborn reality as the play traces the A hard-working shoemaker struggles to Wed 5 Jun, Doors – 18:45, theatre. Lifting the curtain on a world Brekke tangled history of Jamaica and the Charting a relationship over a decade, support his family. One day he awakes Performance – 19:00 of jealousy and ambition, this new The Blue Angel (PG) UK. Experience the play in cinemas, Mia Hansen Løve’s Goodbye First Love to find that his last piece of leather Justin Audibert (Snow in Midsummer, production, from one of the world’s filmed live on stage as part of National (Der blaue Engel) has been transformed into the most The Jew of Malta) turns Shakespeare’s most innovative theatre directors, follows a young woman as she moves Theatre Live’s 10th birthday. Sun 2 Jun, 13:00 from the ecstasy of youthful passion, magnificent pair of magical shoes. But fierce, energetic comedy of gender Ivo van Hove (Network, NT Live: A who has mysteriously made them? and materialism on its head to offer View from the Bridge), asks why our NT Live/ The Lehman Trilogy Tue 4 Jun, 20:40 through heartbreak to maturity and finding her place in the world. Graceful, With playful characters and spellbinding a fresh perspective on its portrayal of fascination with celebrity, youth and (12A as live) Wed 5 Jun, 13:00 identity never seems to get old. lyrical and tender. music, this adorable ballet is sure to have hierarchy and power. Thu 25 Jul, Doors – 18:45, Dir Josef Von Sternberg/DE 1930/99 mins/German, French and English wEngST Screening as part of Film Feels: your little ones dancing with excitement! Please note, this encore will start Performance – 19:00 Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron Obsession, a UK-wide season supported Hairspray (PG) promptly, with no adverts or trailers. Running Time: Approx. 240 mins Loosely based on a novel by Heinrich by the National Lottery and BFI Film By Stefano Massini, adapted by Ben Mann, Sternberg’s masterpiece is a Audience Network. Sun 28 Jul, 11:00 Romeo & Juliet, 2019 Power, directed by Sam Mendes dazzling construct of enigmatic lighting, Dir John Waters/US 1988/92 mins ROH Live/ Romeo & Juliet Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, Divine, Debbie Harry The story of a family and a company décor and sound, featuring Marlene (12A as Live) Dietrich and real-life stars of Weimar See p19 for details. that changed the world, told in three cabaret (Gerron, Valetti) and the now Tue 11 Jun, Doors – 19:00, parts on a single evening. This critically classic songs of Friedrich Hollaender. Possession (18) RELAXED Performance – 19:15 Ballet in three acts/195 minutes acclaimed and five-time Olivier Award nominated play features stunning set events (including 2 intervals) design from Es Devlin (NT Live: Hamlet) Sun 16 Jun, 13:00 Shakespeare’s enduring love story and will be broadcast live from is known the world over. Since London’s West End as part of National Tue 18 Jun, 20:20 Designed for people with autism its 1965 premiere with The Royal Theatre Live’s 10th Birthday season. Wed 19 Jun, 13:00 Desperately Seeking Susan, 1985 spectrum conditions and their families. Dir Andrzej Zulawski/FR DE 1981/118 mins We’ll keep the lights dimmed, the Ballet, Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo RSC Live/ Measure for Measure Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen Desperately Seeking Susan (15) volume lowered and provide a separate and Juliet has become a modern ballet classic. Each revival gives Wed 31 Jul, Doors – 18:45, Their marriage in pieces, Anna and space to take a break in. Performance – 19:00 Sun 21 Jul, 13:00 opportunities for new dancers to Mark’s relationship has become a Tue 23 Jul, 20:30 Bite-Sized Ballets/ Elves & the interpret the doomed lovers. Shakespeare wrote this play in psychotic descent into violence and self- mutilation. Believing his wife’s only lover Wed 24 Jul, 13:00 Shoemaker (U) the early 1600s, yet it remains Dir Susan Seidelman/US 1985/104 mins astonishingly resonant today. When a is the sinister Heinrich, Mark is unaware Sat 29 Jun, 11:00 Rosanne Arquette, Madonna, Aiden Quinn young novice nun is compromised by of another more demonic rival… Written Running time: Approx. 53 mins See p19 for details. a corrupt official, who offers to save and directed by Andrzej Zulawski, See Bring the Family above for details. her brother from execution in return Possession is a deeply unsettling Hairspray (PG) for sex, she has no idea where to turn experience. for help. Screening as part of Film Feels: Sat 27 Jul, 11:00 Obsession, a UK-wide season supported Dir John Waters/US 1988/92 mins by the National Lottery and BFI Film Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, Divine, Debbie Harry Audience Network. See p19 for details. 20 21
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