TUBULAR BELLS (MIKE OLDFIELD) – THU 22 SEP 20:00

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THU 22 SEP 20:00

TICKETS £15 (FRIENDS/STUDENTS £12.50)

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TUBULAR BELLS

MIKE OLDFIELD Described by John Peel on its release as “a new recording of such strength and beauty that to me it represents the first breakthrough into history that any musician has made”. Mike Oldfield’s ground-breaking ‘Tubular Bells’ will soon be celebrating its 50th anniversary. The album has sold 3 million copies in the UK (9x platinum), is celebrated as the best-selling instrumental album of all time, has featured in a host of films and TV series, was a key part of the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony and continues to resonate to this day. To celebrate that upcoming anniversary, the Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary Concert is coming to the New Park big screen in the shape of a full 4K recording of this year’s live show at London’s Royal Festival Hall, with Samuel West as MC, star of ‘The Crown’, ‘The Gentlemen’, and ‘Darkest Hour’. 91M

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SPECIAL OFFER FRITZ LANG TALK PLUS ‘M’ FOR ONLY £13 (FRIENDS £10) FOCUS ON FILM

SAT 17 SEP 10:30 – IN THE AUDITORIUM

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FRITZ LANG TALK

FROM WEIMAR TO HOLLYWOOD Fritz Lang was the acknowledged leader of the German film industry in the 1920s, culminating in his 1931 masterpiece, ‘M’. His subsequent career in Hollywood was not so spectacular nor as consistent, as he struggled to navigate the intricate politics of the American studio system. Nevertheless, with such potent dramas as ‘Fury’, ‘You Only Live Once’, and ‘Cloak and Dagger’, Lang made a brilliant and enduring contribution to film culture. Nick Smedley is an expert on Hollywood cinema and American history, and an engaging and friendly speaker. Illustrated copiously with mouth-watering film clips, this is a talk to educate, elucidate and entertain. There will be plenty of opportunity to join in with your questions and observations, so do join us for a journey into the darker regions of the human psyche with the German master. 120M

SPECIAL OFFER FRITZ LANG TALK PLUS ‘M’ FOR ONLY £13 (FRIENDS £10)

SAT 24 SEP 15:30

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M

M - EINE STADT SUCHT EINEN MÖRDER

A landmark psychological thriller with arresting images, deep thoughts on modern society, and Peter Lorre in his finest performance. In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre), a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert’s heinous crimes are so repellent and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice. The greatest creation of Fritz Lang’s career remains one of the most disturbing movies of his, or any, film-making era. The film has not aged a day. (Subtitles) GERMANY 1931 FRITZ LANG 117M

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THE FORGIVEN

Speeding through the Moroccan desert to attend an old friend’s lavish weekend party, wealthy Londoners David and Jo Henninger (Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain) are involved in a tragic accident with a local teenage boy. Arriving late at the grand villa with the debauched party raging, the couple attempts to cover up the incident with the collusion of the local police. But when the boy’s father arrives seeking justice, the stage is set for a tension-filled culture clash in which David and Jo must come to terms with their fateful act and its shattering consequences. A dark and dirty morality play where nobody’s very concerned with morals, John Michael McDonagh’s film takes some extremely questionable behaviour and makes it as intriguing as it is off-putting. UK 2021 JOHN MICHAEL MCDONAGH 117M

FRI 23 SEP 20:45 SUN 25 SEP 18:00 TUE 27 SEP 14:00

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CRIMES OF THE FUTURE

As he did with 90s hit ‘Crash’, the director creates a bizarre new society of sicko sybarites where pain is the ultimate pleasure and ‘surgery is the new sex’ In the field of body horror, nobody is more accomplished than Cronenberg, whose classics of the genre (including ‘The Fly’, ‘Scanners’ and ‘Videodrome’) have a terrible, clinging quality; they stick to you like parasites. His return to the land of icky-muckyyucky is set in a future where the human body is undergoing big changes. Pain is a thing of the past (that’s good!), pleasure is also on the way out (that’s bad) and people are growing new organs (that’s weird). Viggo Mortensen plays a performance artist who incorporates his body’s rapidly expanding organ set into his art. CANADA / UK 2022 DAVID CRONENBERG 107M

WED 28 SEP 15:30 FRI 23 SEP 12:15 THU 29 SEP 19:45

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INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA: JAPAN ONODA: 10,000 NIGHTS IN THE JUNGLE

A robust, old-fashioned anti-war epic tells the true story of the soldier posted to the Philippines in the Second World War, who refused to surrender until 1974. Inspired by the life of Japanese intelligence officer Hiroo Onoda, who during the Second World War had trained as a commando with orders to hold Lubang island and never to surrender or take his own life. Fiercely loyal to these original instructions, and refusing to believe the war was over, he held out as a hermit-guerrilla for decades. In a world where the deluge of toxic opinion spewing from social media platforms has the ability to corrupt a rational mind, it’s a very prescient film in the way its subject is a person who has been wholly convinced of his destiny, to the point where he refuses to question the logic of his dire circumstance. (Subtitles) FRANCE / JAPAN 2021 ARTHUR HARARI 173M

FRI 23 SEP 15:45 SAT 24 SEP 20:30 SUN 25 SEP 13:00 MON 26 SEP 15:30 THU 29 SEP 12:30

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FROM THE FILM FESTIVAL IT SNOWS IN BENIDORM

Peter (Timothy Spall) has worked all his life at a Manchester bank. When he is awarded an early retirement, he decides to visit his brother in Benidorm, only to discover that he’s disappeared. A favourite at our recent festival. Having retired, Peter, a man of routines and few joys, decides to go to Benidorm to visit his brother Daniel with whom he has little contact. But when he arrives, Daniel seems to have vanished. Peter discovers that his brother owns the burlesque Benidorm Club. Among the dancers, Alex, a beautiful woman with an enigmatic past. Spall is terrific as the archetypal “little man” at the story’s heart. But the British-born Sarita Choudhury (‘The Green Knight’) is even better as the vampish Alex, who may even know what has befallen Daniel, but is in no mood to give up her secrets just yet. The film is as much a haunting portrait of Benidorm itself with its emphasis on the architecture and townscape. It is stunningly visual, with a colour palette, not dissimilar to its producer’s Pedro Almodóvar. SPAIN/UK 2020 ISABEL COIXET 117M

GREEN SCREEN: ECO FILM FEST

Tickets only £4.50

Coming up with ideas for Chichester’s contribution to The Big Green Week, a national event to raise awareness of our climate change emergency, taking place at the end of September, thoughts by the city’s various eco groups quickly turned to film. No surprise there as film is such a powerful medium to inspire, educate, expose, entertain and call to action. So, we are delighted to be teaming up with Chichester Cinema at New Park to put on four films on Mondays from September 19 to October 10. Look out for the Green Screen logo. These stunning documentaries from around the world have been carefully chosen to provide cinema-goers with hope, optimism and solutions while facing up to and exploring the damage we have wreaked on the planet. They might give you a renewed sense of wonder and respect for our natural world, they may encourage you to rise up, they may enthuse you to reset your life or make changes to the everyday. We really hope so. Sue Gilson - On behalf of Transition Chichester and Eco Chi

KISS THE GROUND

Dustbowls can become gardens of Eden through the radical regeneration of our denuded soil. This awardwinning documentary, narrated by Hollywood actor and activist Woody Harrelson, shows how. The solution to climate change lies under our feet is the powerful and optimistic message of this persuasive and fast-paced film. If we can heal our soil by regenerative agriculture, already showing incredible results around the world, we can completely and rapidly stabilise the earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food supplies. One regen rancher in America is shown by his lush acreage while his neighbour’s land is stripped of life, barren. Scientists, activists, farmers and politicians share their knowledge and enthusiasm under the personable narration of Harrelson. USA 2020 JOSHUA TICKELL AND REBECCA HARRELL TICKELL 84M MON 19 SEP 18:00

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Hope for the next generation is the driving force behind this upbeat offering looking at how the world is responding in inspiring ways to the challenge of climate change. Many films aboutclimate change can be, understandably, downbeat, but this is an entertaining, informative and optimistic documentary, structured as a letter to his fouryear-old daughter Velvet. She will be 21 in the year 2040 and he travels the world to find the best solutions to reverse climate catastrophe. Renewable energy, diet, marine permaculture and the empowerment of women and girls through education are allexplored. AUSTRALIA 2019 D. GAMEAU 92M

THE TERRITORY

An immersive look at the tireless fight by indigenous people in the Brazilian rainforest to preserve their wayof life. This multi award-winning offering by National Geographic is a piece of expertly-crafted activist film-making following a young indigenous leader taking on the high stakes struggle against encroaching deforestation by farmers and illegal settlers. Intimate access to people on both sides of the clash, action unfolding in the moment and rich sound design make this a complex, thrilling and thoughtful exploration of the issues on both an epic and personal scale. BRAZIL/DENMARK/USA 2022 ALEX PRITZ 83M

RIVER

Our remarkable relationship with rivers is explored in a mesmerising, meditative odyssey of rare beauty and exceptional cinematography. Rivers have always shaped our landscape, history and culture, flowed through our imagination and dreams. And this extraordinary film spanning six continents brilliantly captures their majesty – and vulnerability. It has a sparse, poetic and timeless script, perfectly partnered with haunting music from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood. Rivers are shown on grand scales with audiences going with the flow like never before. Narrated by Willem Dafoe. AUSTRALIA 2021 J. PEEDOM AND J. NIZETI 75M MON 26 SEP 18:00

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