3 October – 13 November 2014
Film, Art and Creative Technology Liverpool Biennial / Type Motion / World Mental Health Day / Big Data / The Future of Food / The Best of Independent Cinema from Picturehouse Image Nightcrawler
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Our events this month explore big data, the future of food production and the rise of vertical farms, and the changing life of our cities. Director Christopher Nolan returns to our cinema screens with Interstellar, where a group of explorers use a wormhole to travel space. Ben Affleck plays the prime suspect in his wife’s disappearance in Gone Girl, Timothy Spall stars as the eccentric 19th century painter J.M.W Turner in Mr Turner, and Jack O’Connell is a young British soldier abandoned on a Belfast street after a riot in ’71.
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Don’t miss your last chance to see our 2014 Liverpool Biennial exhibition from artist Sharon Lockhart, before we fill the building with incredible moving typography for our next exhibition, Type Motion.
World War II film Fury thrusts Brad Pitt into the line of fire as a tank commander. A young Polish nun discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation in Ida.
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Film Continues
From 3 October
From 3 October
From 3 October
Maps to the Stars
Gone Girl (Cert TBC)
Ida (12A)
Tony Benn: Will & Testament
(18)
(12A) Director David Cronenberg Starring Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson, John Cusack, Olivia Williams Canada/USA/Germany/ France 2014 112 mins
Welcome to Hollywood, Cronenberg style. This riveting psychological thriller boasts a gripping plot and stunning performances. Moore won Best Actress at Cannes for her portrayal of over-the-hill actress Havana; Wasikowska is Agatha, new to LA and keen to get work. They are supported by a starry ensemble of characters, all of them both bitterly funny and devastatingly revealing about family, ambition and commerce.
Director David Fincher Starring Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris USA 2014 TBC mins
Based on Gillian Flynn’s 2012 bestseller, this is another deceptive and irresistible thriller from the man behind Se7en, Zodiac and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Ben Affleck stars as Nick Dunne, one half of a seemingly perfect marriage, his wife Amy played by the excellent Rosamund Pike. All is well until their fifth wedding anniversary, when Amy inexplicably goes missing, and soon enough Nick is singled out as the prime suspect. Needless to say, nothing and no one gives up the answers easily.
Director Pawel Pawlikowski Starring Agata Trzebuchowska, Agata Kulesza, Dawid Ogrodnik Poland/Denmark 2013 82 mins Polish with English subtitles
This haunting London Film Festival winner from Pawlikowski (My Summer of Love) begins as Anna (Trzebuchowska), a teenage novitiate nun, is about to take her final vows in a rural convent. Fate intervenes when her hard-living aunt (Kulesza) invites Anna to visit her in Gdansk – whereupon her true identity is revealed, and in their different ways the two women face some unsettling realities. Contains suicide scene.
Director Skip Kite Featuring Tony Benn UK 2014 95 mins
When he died in 2014 at the age of 88, Tony Benn was Britain’s longestserving MP. This film is a reminder of how politics and the wider world have changed since he first entered parliament in 1950, and also of what a committed politician he was. Extensive archive footage and candid interviews conducted shortly before his death underline his significance, and provide a history of Britain during the latter half of the 20th century. Contains images of real dead bodies.
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Film From 10 October
From 10 October
From 17 October
From 22 October
’71 (15)
Violette (15)
The Judge (15)
Fury (Cert TBC)
Director Yann Demange Starring Jack O’Connell, Sean Harris, Sam Reid UK 2014 99 mins
Gary Hook (O’Connell) is an ordinary British soldier on a tour of duty in the crisis zone that is 1971 Northern Ireland. When a routine search goes wrong, he finds himself alone behind enemy lines. Demange expertly conjures the atmosphere of urban paranoia, while rising star Jack O’Connell gives a thoughtful, understated performance that brings heart, soul and hope to this bracing, energising movie, recalling Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker.
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Director Martin Provost Starring Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain France/Belgium 2013 139 mins French with English subtitles
Director David Dobkin Starring Robert Downey Jnr, Robert Duvall, Billy Bob Thornton USA 2014 142 mins
Director David Ayer Starring Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman, Shia LaBeouf UK/China/USA 2014 TBC mins
Violette Leduc, born out of wedlock at the beginning of the 20th century and scarred by childhood trauma and a loveless marriage, encountered Simone de Beauvoir in St-Germaindes-Prés. An intense relationship began between them which would last their whole lives. Martin Provost vividly and unsentimentally recreates the heady intellectual atmosphere of 1940s Paris. Devos gives an impassioned performance as Violette, while Kiberlain beautifully renders de Beauvoir’s intelligence, severity and compassion.
Following his mother’s death, hotshot lawyer Hank Palmer (Downey) returns to small-town Indiana to find his father Joseph (Duvall), a hitherto respected local judge, facing a murder charge. Deciding to defend him, Hank not only has to reconcile himself with his estranged family, but must also combat a tough prosecutor (Thornton) who has his own reasons to want Joseph behind bars.
Brad Pitt’s second World War II film after Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds has him commanding the rickety crew of an inadequately armoured Sherman tank slogging through Europe toward the war’s end. The fearful claustrophobia of tank warfare has never been better realised than in this visceral, grittily realistic film.
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Film From 24 October
From 24 October
From 31 October
From 31 October
Serena (15)
Jimi: All is by My Side (15)
Mr Turner (12A)
Nightcrawler
Director Susanne Bier Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Rhys Ifans USA/France 2014 110 mins
Director John Ridley Starring André Benjamin, Imogen Poots, Hayley Atwell, Burn Gorman UK/Ireland/USA 2013 118 mins
Director Mike Leigh Starring Timothy Spall, Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson UK 2014 150 mins
Director Dan Gilroy Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Bill Paxton, Rene Russo USA 2014 TBC mins
Danish director Susanne Bier’s latest film is set in Depression-era America, where newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton (Cooper and Lawrence) ruthlessly build up a timber empire. But it all unravels violently when Serena learns that she can’t bear children and discovers George has sired an illegitimate son.
The rise of Jimi Hendrix (Outkast’s André Benjamin) to rock legend is the fascinating essence of this fact-based musical drama. It follows his discovery in New York by Keith Richard’s then girlfriend, Linda Keith (Poots, Filth), and unfolds with Hendrix musing on his astonishingly original music and its influential effects.
With regular collaborator Timothy Spall masterful in the title role, Mike Leigh’s boisterous biopic of Britain’s greatest landscape artist, the eccentric J. M. W. Turner, examines his close relationship with his ailing father, and the rather more complex ones involving the women in his life. Beautifully and entertainingly realised.
Drifter Lou Bloom (Gyllenhaal) stumbles into the seedy world of freelance journalism in LA, where he goes armed with a camera and an increasingly perverse taste for carnage. As rival newshound Bill Paxton (A Simple Plan) exhorts him to sensationalise his reporting, Bloom inevitably crosses the line, and instead of merely covering the story, he becomes it. The Bourne Legacy writer Dan Gilroy makes a stunning directorial debut with this thrilling, morally driven crime drama.
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From 7 November
From 7 November
Interstellar (Cert TBC)
The Possibilities Are Endless (12A)
Director Christopher Nolan Starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain USA/UK 2014 TBC mins
Directors James Hall, Edward Lovelace Featuring Edwyn Collins UK 2014 83 mins
When scientists discover a wormhole that shrinks the space/time continuum, a group of explorers including idealistic everyman Cooper (McConaughey) elect to journey through it and push the boundaries of space travel, while furthering their noble ambition to save humanity from its destructive excesses. The film features a stellar cast including Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine and Jessica Chastain, while director Christopher Nolan creatively builds on the experimental cinematography he employed in The Dark Knight franchise, with stunningly eyeboggling results.
Leader of beloved Scottish indie band Orange Juice, Edwyn Collins, was left able to speak just two phrases after a massive stroke in 2005, one being the title of this uplifting documentary charting his remarkable recovery. Aided by his wife, author Grace Maxwell and his son William, Collins gradually learns to walk, read and draw again, eventually writing and recording two much-acclaimed albums, a slow but painstaking process which James Hall and Edward Lovelace’s film skilfully recalls. Contains infrequent strong language.
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“AN INSIGHTFUL BIOPIC” FRANCE MAGAZINE
★★★★
“COMPELLING” EMPIRE
THE EVOCATIVE STORY OF SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR’S LITERARY MUSE
IN CINEMAS OCTOBER 3 STRONG SEX 15 CONTAINS AND SEXUALISED NUDITY
Coming Soon
November 2014
The Imitation Game (Cert TBC) Director Morten Tyldum Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kiera Knightley, Matthew Goode UK/USA 2014 113 mins
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Specials
Exhibitions
Exhibition Related Films
Until 26 October
Liverpool Biennial 2014: Sharon Lockhart
Wednesday 8 October
Bill Douglas Trilogy:
My Childhood, My Ain Folk, and My Way Home (15)
Galleries 1, 2 & Public Spaces / FREE Entry / Tue – Sun / 11am – 6pm
Don’t miss your last chance to see the first UK solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Sharon Lockhart.
Director Bill Douglas 1972, 1973, 1978 172mins
Lockhart’s practice is underpinned by a commitment to immersing herself in new environments and building intimate relationships with people and places.
The Bill Douglas Trilogy forms the most deeply felt and precisely realised autobiographical project in modern cinema. Shot over a period of eight years, the films chart the progress from childhood to adolescence, following the director’s younger self from a poverty-striken mining village in East Lothian in the closing years of the war, to institutional life in an Edinburgh boys’ home and national service in Egypt in the ‘50s. Showing in a beautifully restored new print.
Perhaps the most significant of these is her friendship with a young Polish girl Milena with whom she has formed a continuing collaboration, three separate aspects of which are now on show at FACT. Supported by Kadist and neugerriemschneider. Liverpool Biennial is funded and supported by Arts Council England, Liverpool City Council, the European Union Regional Development Fund and Founding Supporter James Moores. Image: Sharon Lockhart, Pódworka, 2009. Installation at FACT. Courtesy the artist, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles.
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Coming Soon 13 November – 8 February 2015
Type Motion
Galleries 1, 2 & Public Spaces / FREE / Tue – Sun / 11am – 6pm
This November, FACT is pleased to present the UK premiere of Type Motion, an exhibition featuring over 200 outstanding examples of text and typography being used alongside the moving image. The exhibition celebrates the creative possibilities of opening up uses of text far beyond print, and seeks to showcase not only the importance of writing, but how bringing them to life with movement is an artform in itself.
From 7 November
Type Motion: Development Lab Part workshop, part archival space, and part co-working space, designed by xm:lab (interaction and exhibition designers of Type Motion). The space - resembling a hacklab - will host projects, workshops and events.
A project initiated, produced and presented by ZKM | Karlsruhe, in collaboration with FACT and xm:lab. Supported by The German Federal Cultural Foundation, Goethe-Institut,
Explore some of the techniques, technologies and inspiration behind the Type Motion exhibition, such as projection mapping, virtual reality, gaming, digital fabrication, coding, programming, and hardware tinkering.
Image: Kevin Blanc, Tiger Dust.
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Events Looking at the city
These one-day long exhibitions bring together the work of four Latin American and Latino artists who each engage with the city space.
13 – 21 October
Cities in Dialogue The Box / FREE / Various Times
Ranging from maps through to soundscapes and participation on the streets, the work of each artist aims to get the spectator to re-think the city, and discover the hidden memories it holds. In partnership with University of Liverpool and funded by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
13 October An interactive, audio-visual installation by artist Brian Mackern. 14 October A site-specific project developed in Santiago, Chile, by Barbara Palomino. 15 October Artist Marina Zerbarini looks at Argentina’s disappeared children. 20 October Brian Mackern reworks his memories of the port of Montevideo.
9 October
10 October
Mini Conference:
Mini Conference:
Big Data: 1.0 + 2.0
The Future of Food
The Box / FREE / 10am – 4.30pm
The Box / £4, £3 (Members & concs) / 12pm – 5pm
Who owns the information we share online? Hosted by FACT in collaboration with CASI at Hope University and IFG, this event explores the political and cultural aspects of Big Data. Speakers include the ‘father figure of online culture’ Richard Thieme.
Recent developments in farming methods are allowing us to build highly efficient, high-density farms utilising state of the art architectural and computational technologies.
21 October Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga’s video game reflects upon the dynamics of the undocumented youth immigrants in the USA.
This mini conference focuses on the Vertical Farm as a starting point to discuss the many scientific, political, philosophical and ethical issues for the future of food. In partnership with The Royal Standard, Joey Holder, and Tom Trevan.
Visit fact.co.uk/citiesindialogue to find out more about the full programme.
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Events Connecting Cities
Artist Residencies
4 October
The Constitute (Germany)
Darsha Hewitt (Canada)
Human Beeing
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Ali Momeni (Iran)
Sam Meech (UK)
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Lauren Moffat (Australia)
Residencies supported by the Culture programme of the European Commission.
Ropewalks Square / FREE / 6.30pm
German art and technology collective The Constitute have been working with students and staff at The Academy of St Francis of Assisi and local beekeeper Andrew Hubbard, to care for a new beehive (built in the shape of Ropewalks Square) on the roof of the school.
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We’re working with artists from around the world on a series of residencies. Visit fact.co.uk/residencies to find out more.
Image: Darsha Hewitt residency. Photographer: Juan Carlos Duarte (Intern at Atelier Macumba).
The students have been filming the bees and through the use of projection mapping technology, will use this footage to transform Ropewalks Square into a giant beehive! There will also be a family workshop, honey tasting and bee themed music. Human Beeing is part of Connecting Cities, supported by the Culture Programme 2007-2013 of the European Union.
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Vintage Sundays 5 October, 6pm
12 October, 2pm
19 October, 6pm
26 October, 6pm
2 November, 6pm
9 November, 6pm
WWI Centenery Screening:
This is Supermarionation
Black History Month Screening:
Halloween at Picturehouse:
BFI Sci-Fi:
This magnificent four-hour showcase of the work of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson includes episodes of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and many more, all introduced by Parker and Lady Penelope, and interspersed with vintage commercial breaks.
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Zabriskie Point (15)
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(U)
Director Fritz Lang Starring Brigitte Helm Germany 1927 145 mins Silent
Director Robert Mulligan Starring Gregory Peck USA 1962 129 mins
Director Robert Wiene Starring Conrad Veidt Germany 1920 55 mins Silent
Director Michelangelo Antonioni Starring Daria Halprin, Mark Frechette USA 1970 111 mins
Harper Lee’s celebrated coming-of-age tale follows a young white brother and sister whose lawyer father (Peck) is defending an African-American man in 1930s Alabama.
A sinister showman hypnotises his servant into committing murder. Disorienting Expressionist visuals and a deeply weird atmosphere distinguish this seminal horror.
Wings (PG) Director William A. Wellman Starring Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, Richard Arlen USA 1927 144 mins Silent
Two flying aces fall in love with the same girl. Winner of the first-ever Best Picture Oscar, Wings gives a thrilling and authentic pilot’seye view of biplanes in combat.
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Metropolis (PG)
In Antonioni’s grandiloquent assault on the American lifestyle, a rebellious student steals a plane in LA, heading for Death Valley and a sexual and mystic revelation.
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In cinema’s most famous vision of the future, workers barracked in a vast underground city revolt against the Aryan caste living in technocratic luxury above.
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Discover Tuesdays
Discover stunning cinema. See something different in our weekly slot.
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Join us in the bar after the film for our Film Club with Ben Howarth (except the first Tuesday of the month).
Times+ members can discover stunning cinema by visiting www.ourscreen.com/discover
4 November, 6pm
7 October, 6pm
14 October, 6pm
21 October, 6pm
28 October, 6pm
11 November, 6pm
Watermark
Wakolda
(U)
(12A)
All This Mayhem (15)
Mystery Road The Hermitage (15) Overnighters Revealed (Cert TBC)
Directors Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky Canada 2013 91 mins
In a magnificent follow-up to their groundbreaking documentary Manufactured Landscapes (2006), director Baichwal and photographer Burtynsky utilise state-of-the-art video, time-lapse footage, aerial photography and fascinating interviews to explore humankind’s complicated relationship with water.
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Director Lucía Puenzo Starring Alex Brendemühl, Florencía Bado Argentina/Spain/ Norway/France 2013 94 mins. Spanish with English subtitles
In this gripping drama, fugitive Nazi Josef Mengele is living incognito in an Argentinian hotel run by a couple whose 12-year-old daughter is small for her age. The apparently kindly doctor offers to help her, unaware that an Israeli agent is on his trail.
Director Eddie Martin Featuring Tas Pappas, Ben Pappas UK/Australia 2014 104 mins
Director Ivan Sen Starring Aaron Pederson, Hugo Weaving, Ryan Kwanten Australia 2013 121 mins
Telling the extraordinary story of the rise and fall of two of the world’s top-ranking skateboarders in the 1990s, the Pappas brothers, this incredible documentary is reminiscent of 2012’s The Imposter for its jawdropping revelations.
When the body of a young girl is discovered by the roadside, an inner-city detective is called to the Outback to solve the mystery. This vital, visually beautiful film recalls recent Australian hits such as Animal Kingdom and Jindabyne in scale and theme.
Director Jesse Moss USA 2014 TBC mins
Director Margy Kinmonth UK 2014 83 mins
Winner of the Special Jury Award at Sundance 2014, this raw documentary explores a small town in North Dakota, to which the discovery of a vast oilfield suddenly inspired thousands of impoverished Americans to migrate in search of work.
250 years old this year, the architecturally stunning State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg holds more than three million exquisite artefacts and masterpieces. This film offers an unprecedented showcase of some of the oldest, rarest and most precious of Russia’s great treasures.
Contains moderate violence and threat.
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Picturehouse Docs Thursday 9 October, 8.30pm
Thursday 23 October, 8.30pm
Virunga (Cert TBC)
Still the Enemy Within
plus director Q&A
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Director Orlando von Einsiedel UK/Congo 2014 TBC mins
plus Q&A with producers Mark Lacy and Sinead Kirwan
Virunga is Congo’s 3,000-square-mile national park. It’s the last natural habitat of the mountain gorilla, but it’s also the location of huge oil reserves. This stirring, lushly photographed documentary examines the conflicts that rage within and around it.
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Culture Shock
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Director Owen Gower UK 2014 112 mins
The 1984/5 Miners’ Strike divided a nation. This remarkable and stirring work, a winner at this year’s Sheffield Documentary Festival, applauds the determination of those who endured Britain’s longest strike in the face of near starvation and police brutality.
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Friday 3 October, 9.00pm
Thursday 13 November, 8.30pm
Withnail and I (15)
30th Aniversary Screening:
Director Bruce Robinson Starring Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths, Ralph Brown UK 1987 107 mins
Director Ivan Reitman Starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis USA 1984 105 mins
Robinson’s nostalgic and semiautobiographical debut quickly blossomed into an acerbic student cult classic, but it is also justifiably lauded as one of the finest British comedies of its time.
The original spectral sci-fi/cult comedy, about a team of DIY ghost exterminators tackling a paranormal hiccup in New York City.
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Specials Monday 13 October
Sunday 19 October, 4pm
Tuesday 21 October, 8.30pm
Thursday 23 October, 7pm
Liverpool Pride: LGBT Night:
Northern Soul (15)
Luna (Cert TBC)
Guardian Live:
The Way He Looks (Cert TBC) Director Daniel Ribeiro Brazil 2014 TBC mins Portuguese with English subtitles
Blind teenager Leonardo is on the brink of his first love. Will it be his best friend Giovana, or confident new boy Gabriel? Winner of the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival’s Teddy Award for best LGBT feature. Monday 10 November
Liverpool Pride: LGBT Night:
The Last of England (15) Director Derek Jarman UK/West Germany 1988 91 mins
Director Elaine Constantine Starring Steve Coogan, Josh Whitehouse, Elliot Langridge. UK 2014 102 mins
This wildly infectious, music-rich celebration of the titular ‘70s underground dance culture follows the fortunes of two young aspiring DJs, Matt and John (charismatic newcomers Whitehouse and Langridge), as they immerse themselves in a vibrant lifestyle shaped by the discovery of records by ‘60s American soul artists. Elaine Constantine’s debut feature faithfully recreates the excitement of this time, and compelling characters played by Steve Coogan, Ricky Tomlinson and real-life soul diva, Lisa Stansfield enhance its narrative strength.
plus Q&A with director and artist Dave McKean
In Conversation with Russell Brand
Director Dave McKean Starring Ben Daniels, Dervla Kirwan UK 2014 TBC mins
Broadcast live from the Emmanuel Centre, Westminster
Grant (Daniels) and Christine (Kirwan) are struggling to come to terms with the death of their baby. During a long weekend at an old friend’s isolated coastal house, unresolved affairs, projections and secrets are expressed in a series of extraordinary, hallucinatory dreams, which writerdirector and renowned comics creator McKean executes with a truly unique and mesmerising combination of live action, animation and graphics.
Russell Brand, one of our most controversial public figures, talks to the Guardian’s Owen Jones about why he thinks revolution isn’t just possible, but inevitable. In his new book, the writer and comedian argues that the system isn’t working, that our governments are corrupt and the opposing parties are all pointlessly similar. Is there another way or is this just ‘the way things are’? Brand has been taking on talk show hosts and BBC stalwarts. Now drawing on the likes of Orwell and Piketty, he sets out his ideas for a brighter, fairer society.
Derek Jarman’s scrutiny of national identity still packs all the raw anger of the 1980s. Screening to coincide with Homotopia’s production Jarman.
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Specials Irish Film Festival Sunday 26 October, 3.30pm
Five Fables Director Joel Simon Ireland 2014 90 mins Liverpool Irish Festival presents the English premiere of Five Fables, one of Seamus Heaney’s final works, consisting of five enchanting and beautifully animated tales, translated from medieval fables. It will be screened at Picturehouse at FACT as part of our family-friendly programme.
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s
Supermarionation Weekender Tuesday 28 October, 8.30pm
(PG) Director Stephen La Riviére UK 2014 119 mins
Screenings will be introduced by some of Ireland’s finest directors, and a Q&A will follow.
Wednesday 29 October, 6.30pm
New Irish Shorts
32A (15)
IndieCork Festival presents the best of creative contemporary short filmmaking from Ireland. Screenings will be introduced by some of Ireland’s finest directors, and a Q&A will follow.
Director Marian Quinn Ireland/Germany 2007 89 mins Maeve Brennan goes to school wearing her first bra. The summer holidays beckon, but an encounter with Brian Power, the local heartthrob, sets her on a collision course with her friends.
Tuesday 28 October, 6.30pm
Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm
New Irish Shorts 2
What Richard Did (15)
IndieCork Festival presents the best of creative contemporary short filmmaking from Ireland.
Director Lenny Abrahamson Ireland 2013 88 mins Abrahamson’s beautifully observed depiction of Dublin’s privileged middle-class teenagers exposes the cracks at the heart of modern Irish life.
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Filmed in Supermarionation
Showcasing animated films that have excelled on the international stage, and new films that premiere in the UK.
Monday 27 October, 6.30pm
Screenings will be introduced by some of Ireland’s finest directors, and a Q&A will follow.
Saturday 11 Octoberr, 1pm
Irish Animation Special
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With Thunderbirds approaching its 50th anniversary, this brand new documentary tells the definitive story of how its creators, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, pioneered what was to become their trademark in filmmaking using marionettes: Supermarionation. Sunday 12 October, 2pm
This is Supermarionation This magnificent four-hour showcase of the work of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson includes episodes of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and many more. Vintage Sundays
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Specials Halloween at Picturehouse Sunday 26 October, 6pm
Thursday 30 October, 8pm
Friday 31 October, 9pm
The Cabinet NT Encore: The Exorcist Frankenstein of Dr Caligari (18) (U)
Director Robert Wiene Starring Conrad Veidt Germany 1920 55 mins Silent
Death stalks a north German town when the sinister showman Caligari hypnotises his servant into committing murder by night and abducting the heroine. Celebrated as the founding example of Expressionism in the cinema, this nightmarish film exercised a profound influence on German studio films in the following decade, and on the horror genre ever since.
Benedict Cumberbatch as Creature The National Theatre’s thrilling broadcast of Frankenstein returns to cinemas.
Directed by Academy Award-winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire), Frankenstein features Benedict Cumberbatch (12 Years A Slave, Star Trek Into Darkness) and Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting, Mansfield Park) as Victor Frankenstein and his creation.
Vintage Sundays
Screen Arts
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Director’s Cut Director William Friedkin Starring Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller USA 1973 128 mins
Friedkin’s exemplary essay in suspense and edge-of-seat audience manipulation is still one of the scariest films ever made. Linda Blair is the apparently normal 12-year-old girl whose body is possessed by the Devil, Max von Sydow her saintly adversary, and Jason Miller the troubled priest who must confront the demon within and without. Culture Shock
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Screen Arts
Specials Homeless Film Festival
The first festival of its kind celebrates films that have homeless issues as a central theme or are made by homeless creatives.
Met Opera
Bolshoi Ballet
Monday 3 November
Wednesday 5 November
Wednesday 12 November
Live The Legend of Love
The Fisher King (15)
Parked (15)
The Unloved
Live: Saturday 11 October, 5.55pm Encore: Tuesday 14 October, 12pm Macbeth
(15) plus Q&A
Director Terry Gilliam Starring Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Tom Waits, Amanda Plummer USA 1991 137 mins
Director Darragh Byrne Starring Colm Meaney, Colin Morgan Ireland/Finland 2010 94 mins
Director Samantha Morton Starring Molly Windsor, Lauren Socha, Robert Carlyle, Susan Lynch UK 2009 103 mins
A former radio DJ, despondent because of a terrible mistake he once made, finds redemption in helping an apparently crazy homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake. Terry Gilliam’s classic is all more poignant following the recent death of Robin Williams.
Fred lives a quiet, isolated life in his car, having lost all hope of improving his situation. That all changes when he forms an unlikely friendship with Cathal, a dope-smoking 21-year-old with a positive attitude, who becomes his ‘neighbour’. Sharing laughs, and hard times too, Fred and Cathal find the simple, free pleasures of life.
Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged parents, she is placed in a children’s home. Through her eyes, we follow her struggle to cope with the system, armed only with her self-belief and her certainty that she is being watched over by the Holy Spirit.
Sunday 26 October, 3pm 180 mins approx (image)
193 mins approx
Live: Saturday 18 October, 5.55pm Encore: Tuesday 21 October, 12pm Le Nozze di Figaro 232 mins approx
Live: Saturday 1 November 4.55pm Encore: Tuesday 4 November, 12pm Carmen 218 mins approx
Royal Opera House Thursday 16 October, 7.15pm
Live Manon 155 mins approx
Exhibition Thursday 6 November 7pm
Encore David Bowie is happening now from the V&A 100 mins approx
Monday 10 November, 6.30pm
Encore Matisse Live from Tate Modern 90 mins approx
NT Live Thursdau 30 October, 8pm
Mon 27 October, 7.15pm
Live I Due Foscari 155 mins approx
Encore Frankenstein
Benedict Cumberbatch as Creature 135 mins approx
Tuesday 11 November, 3pm
Encore Frankenstein Jonny Lee Miller as Creature 135 mins approx 0871 902 5737
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Community & Learning World Mental Health Day Tuesday 7 October
Available now
Silver Linings In Hand Playbook + Shorts (15) Director David O. Russell 2012 122mins
Before the screening we’ll be showing short films by local people who use mental health support services at Mersey Care, PSS, Richmond Fellowship and Big Love Sista. World Mental Health Day raises awareness of mental distress, promote positive wellbeing and challenge stigma. In Partnership with Liverpool Mental Health Consortium.
We need your support to help create an inspiring programme for vulnerable young people.
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6.30pm / The Box / FREE (Booking Essential)
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One in 10 young people suffer from a diagnosable mental health issue. We believe that creative projects can give them the chance to tell their story, build confidence, learn new skills, make friends and inspire others.
To help us hit our target, text FACT04 accompanied by the amount you would like to donate (eg. FACT04 £10) to 70070, alternatively you can pick up a Support FACT flyer in our building or visit fact.co.uk/supportus.
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FACT Membership Join Now £5.50 of your Membership goes towards our awardwinning community and engagement programme, plus Picturehouse and FACT offer you a fantastic set of benefits:
3 FREE Cinema Tickets + £2 off when you buy full priced cinema tickets + Discounts at The Garden by Leaf at FACT, the FACT Bar and other local venues.
FACT Membership 1 Year Single: £36 | Retired (Over 60) £30 | Student £10 1 Year Joint: £67 | Retired (Over 60) £55 For more information about discounts available with your Membership card, visit us at Box Office, see fact.co.uk/ membership or call 0871 902 5737
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Tuesday 4 November
Freehand Tech Box The Box / FREE / 6.30pm
Aged 13 – 19? Love technology? Join Freehand Tech Box to work with different professionals from the art and maker worlds and have a go at some cutting edge, experimental creative technology. No previous experience required, we will provide all the goodies for you to get stuck in!
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At the workshops you’ll get to experience Mobile Video Making, Basic html and CSS, Game Design, Geeky Crafts, Digital Soundart and Fun Electronics. The next session takes place on 4 November at 5.30pm. To get involved, email Louise Latter on louise.latter@fact.co.uk. This project has been made possible by the generous support of Phil and Alexis Redmond.
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Clubs and Groups Saturday Mornings
Tuesdays and Thursdays before 5pm
Kids’ Club
Silver Screen Club A club for the over-60s
Games and activities from 10.30am Film starts at 11am
Annual membership is FREE, and members’ tickets are £4.50 including a tea or coffee and biscuits.
Annual membership £4 Tickets £1.50 / Non-members £3.50
Tuesday Mornings
Toddler Time
Sunday Mornings
Autism-Friendly Screenings Film starts at 11.30am For people on the autism spectrum and their familes, friends and carers. Tickets £3 No concessions or free tickets for support workers Kids’ Club note: Parents may leave children over eight alone in screenings but should be aware that the cinema is not providing any official childcare. We do, however, take special precautions for Kids’ Club screenings to provide as safe an environment as possible for younger audiences. These include increased staffing and ensuring that customers over 18 are not admitted to the screening unless they are accompanying a child. If you leave your children in the cinema please be there on time to collect them at the end of the film.
4 October / 5 October
Postman Pat: The Movie (U)
88 mins
11 October / 12 October
Film starts at 11am Designed to introduce pre-school children to the big screen.
92 mins
Tickets £3, accompanying adults FREE when you join Toddler Time (membership FREE). All shows are approximately 30 mins long.
18 October / 19 October
7 October Poppy Cat 6
89 mins
14 October Q Pootle 5
Beauty and the Beast (U) Escape from Planet Earth (PG) 25 October / 26 October
Paranorman (PG)
Thursdays
Big Scream Film starts at 11am Doors open at 10.30am By joining Big Scream parents can visit our cinema without having to find a babysitter or worry about their baby disturbing others. Membership is FREE, for two people per baby, valid until the baby’s first birthday. Ticket £6 for Big Scream members.
9 October
Ida (12A) 82 mins
16 October
Gone Girl (Cert TBC) TBC mins 23 October
The Judge (15) 142 mins
21 October
30 October
93 mins
Olly the Little White Van 9
1 November / 2 November
28 October Rastamouse 14
100 mins (image above and top)
4 November Timmy Time 14
Mr Turner (12A)
11 November Ben and Holly
13 November
Coraline (PG)
8 November / 9 November
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG)
Serena (15) 110 mins
6 November 150 mins
Interstellar (Cert TBC)
102 mins
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