Winter 2016 brochure

SEASON 2016/17 11 Nov - 26 Jan

La La Land

French Film Fest (Chocolat)

A United Kingdom

American Honey

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Chichester Cinema We are very excited here at New Park, as we have two very special events/seasons coming up this Winter.

We are honoured to be one of only a few cinemas countrywide to be selected to take part in 24th French Film Festival UK. This feast of French Cinema will include mainly contemporary titles (don’t miss ‘Chocolat’), a one-off documentary (‘Journey Through French Cinema’), an animation (‘April and the Extraordinary World’), as well as a visiting Film Maker (‘Made in France’).

These unreleased films are new to the UK, so this is a unique opportunity to see them.

On Sunday 15th January, we welcome Composer Carl Davis to our screening of the incomparable ‘Napoleon’ by Abel Gance. Director Kevin Brownlow and Carl Davis combined to bring this 1927 masterpiece back to our screens, and this rare screening will stick in your minds for years to come. As one recent viewer in LA commented, “the most impressive and emotional, overwhelming cinematic experience. Simply fantastic.”

I am happy to announce that we intend to upgrade our seating, air conditioning and sound proofing next year, hoping to make your viewing experience the best it has ever been. With this in mind, we hope to raise as much money as possible through our Winter Raffle (and Film Quiz in the Spring) - so pick up some raffle tickets and return them to the Box Office by January 23rd.

See you at the Cinema

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what’s on

Winter 2016/17 contents The Accountant 32

Francofonia 30

After Love 42

French Film Festival 11

Akenfield 28

From Kitchen to Boardroom 49

Alan Bennett’s Diaries Live 9

I, Daniel Blake 10

Shakespeare 400 and the Autumn of our Years 48 Shoes 26 The Sleeping Beauty 48 Snowden 41

Allied 35

I, Olga Hepnarova 40

American Honey 46

In Bed with Victoria 12

American Pastoral 39

Indignation 32

Swallows and Amazons 36

April and the Extraordinary World 15

The Innocents 30

Starfish 43

A Journey Through French Cinema 11

A Street Cat Named Bob 20

The Killing$ of Tony Blair 25

Sully 43

Arrival 34 Au Nom de Ma Fille 34 The Beatles and World War II 25 The Beatles: Eight Days a Week 22 Berlin Philharmonic Live 38 Blood Father 22 The Birth of a Nation 46 Bridge 26 Britain on Film: Railways 38

La La Land 47

The Tales of Hoffmann 19

The Light Between Oceans 19

Things to Come 24

Love & Friendship 28 Made in France 13 Mediterranea 29 Meet Me in St Louis 37 Memories 26 Miss Saigon 9

Café Society 10

A Monster Calls 48

Cezanne et Moi 18

Napoleon 45

Chocolat 12

No Man’s Land 31

Collateral Beauty 44

Nocturnal Animals 32

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The Nutcracker (Bolshoi) 33

The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch 10 Deepwater Horizon 22 Don’t Look Now… We’re Being Shot At! 15 The Eagle Huntress 44 Embrace of the Serpent 40

Trolls 36 Tubby Hayes: A Man in a Hurry 25 A United Kingdom

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United States of Love 40 The Unknown Girl 37 Valley of Love 24 Victim 50 The White Knights 13

One More Time with Feeling 23 One War 28 Paterson 35 Paths of the Soul 42 Phantom Boy 36

Fanny’s Journey 17

Queen of Katwe 20

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 39

Remember 29

First Growth 16

Tour de France 14

The Nutcracker (ROH) 31

Ethel and Ernest 9

The Fencer 21

Swiss Army Man 23

Life, Animated 46

Burn Burn Burn 41

Come What May

Sour Grapes 21

Rosalie Blum 17 The Scent of Mandarin 16

A Street Cat Named Bob

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Film Listings Fri 11 Nov 12:00 I, Daniel Blake (15) 100m 13:30 Still Alice (Autumn of our Years Talk) 14:00 Journey Through French Cinema + Tavernier Q&A 195 inc interval 18:45 Café Society (12A) 96m 21:00 Chocolat 110m

Sat 12 Nov 13:30 Chocolat 16:00 The Curious World of Hiëronymus Bosch 90m 18:15 Ethel and Ernest 94m 20:30 I, Daniel Blake

Sun 13 Nov 12:15 Miss Saigon (Encore) 180m 15:30 In Bed with Victoria 90m 18:00 I, Daniel Blake 20:30 White Knights 112m

Mon 14 Nov 12:15 I, Daniel Blake 14:30 White Knights 17:00 In Bed with Victoria 90m

Tue 15 Nov 13:00 Tour de France 95m 15:30 Ethel and Ernest 18:00 Made in France 89m + N. Boukrief Q&A 20:30 I, Daniel Blake

Wed 16 Nov 13:00 Come What May 114m 15:30 I, Daniel Blake

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17:45 Tour de France 20:00 Alan Bennett’s Diaries Live 135m

Thu 17 Nov 13:15 I, Daniel Blake 15:30 Ethel and Ernest 18:00 Don’t Look Now… We’re Being Shot At! 122m 20:45 Café Society

Fri 18 Nov 12:30 The Light Between Oceans (12A) 133m 15:00 Don’t Look Now… We’re Being Shot At! 17:45 The Light Between Oceans 20:15 Come What May

Sat 19 Nov 12:30 The Light Between Oceans 15:30 April and the Extraordinary World 103m 18:00 First Growth 97m 20:30 The Light Between Oceans

Sun 20 Nov 12:00 First Growth 14:00 The Tales of Hoffman ROH Encore 210m 18:00 April and the Extraordinary World 20:30 The Light Between Oceans

Mon 21 Nov 12:00 The Light Between Oceans 14:30 The Light Between Oceans 17:00 The Scent of Mandarin (15) 110m

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Tue 22 Nov 13:00 The Scent of Mandarin 15:00 The Light Between Oceans 18:00 The Light Between Oceans 21:00 Fanny’s Journey (12A) 95m

Wed 23 Nov 12:00 The Light Between Oceans 14:30 The Light Between Oceans 17:00 Fanny’s Journey

Thu 24 Nov 12:45 The Light Between Oceans 15:45 Rosalie Blum 96m 18:00 The Light Between Oceans 20:45 The Light Between Oceans

Fri 25 Nov 12:45 Queen of Katwe (PG) 124m 15:30 A Streetcar Named Bob (12A) 103m 18:00 Rosalie Blum 20:30 Deepwater Horizon (12A) 107m

Sat 26 Nov 12:30 Queen of Katwe 15:15 The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years 138m 18:00 Cezanne et Moi 120m 20:45 A Streetcar Named Bob

Sun 27 Nov 13:00 Cezanne et Moi

15:45 Deepwater Horizon 18:15 Queen of Katwe 21:00 A Streetcar Named Bob

15:00 One War (15) 89m (P) 17:00 Love and Friendship (P)

Mon 28 Nov

Tue 6 Dec

12:30 Sour Grapes (15) 85m 14:30 Swiss Army Man (15) 107m 16:45 A Streetcar Named Bob

14:30 The Beatles and WWII (P) 16:30 Akenfield (S) 18:30 Valley of love (P) (15) 90m

Tue 29 Nov

13:00 Bridge (P) 15:00 The Killing$ of Tony Blair (15) 90m (S) 17:00 Valley of Love (S) 19:00 Things to Come (15) 100m (P)

13:15 A Streetcar Named Bob 15:45 Queen of Katwe 18:30 Sour Grapes 20:45 Swiss Army Man

Wed 30 Nov

Wed 7 Dec

13:15 Deepwater Horizon 15:45 A Streetcar Named Bob 18:15 The Fencer (PG) 99m 20:45 Blood Father (15) 88m

Thu 8 Dec

Thu 1 Dec

Fri 9 Dec

13:15 Blood Father 15:30 The Fencer 18:00 A Streetcar Named Bob 20:30 One More Time With Feeling (15) 112m

13:00 Things to Come (S) 15:00 Love and Friendship (S) 17:00 Memories (S) 19:00 The Killing$ of Tony Blair (S)

Fri 2 Dec

Sat 10 Dec

13:15 The Fencer 13:30 King Lear / 1000 Acres (Shakespeare/ Autumn Talk) 15:30 A Streetcar Named Bob 18:00 Queen of Katwe 20:45 Blood Father

13:00 One War (S) 15:00 Akenfield (S) 17:00 Things to Come (S) 19:00 Valley of Love (S)

(S) = Studio (P) = Pic. Palace

Sat 3 Dec 15:00 Love and Friendship (PG) 93m (S) 17:00 Bridge (15) 100m (S) 19:00 Memories (15) 92m (S)

Sun 4 Dec 13:00 Remember (15) 95m (S) 15:00 Akenfield (PG) 98m (S) 17:00 Remember (S) 19:00 The Beatles and WWII (12A) 97m (S)

Mon 5 Dec 13:00 Shoes (12A) 89m (S)

13:00 Mediterranea (15) 106m (S) 15:00 Memories (S) 17:00 Mediterranea (S) 19:00 Tubby Hayes: A Man in a Hurry (PG) 60m (S)

Sun 11 Dec 14:00 The Nutcracker ROH 135m 17:00 The Accountant (15) 128m 20:00 The Innocents (15) 115m

Mon 12 Dec 13:15 The Innocents 15:45 The Accountant 18:30 Francofonia (PG) 88m 20:30 Nocturnal Animals (15) 115m

Tue 13 Dec 13:00 The Innocents 15:30 The Innocents 18:00 Nocturnal Animals 20:30 The Accountant

Wed 14 Dec 12:15 Francofonia 14:30 Nocturnal Animals 16:45 The Accountant

Fri 16 Dec

12:45 A United Kingdom (12A) 111m 15:15 Arrival (12A) 116m 18:00 A United Kingdom 20:45 Indignation (15) 110m

Sat 17 Dec 13:15 A United Kingdom 15:30 Indignation 18:00 A United Kingdom 20:30 Arrival

Sun 18 Dec 12:15 Au Nom de Ma Fille (15) 87m 14:00 The Nutcracker (Bolshoi) 135m 17:00 A United Kingdom 20:00 A United Kingdom

Mon 19 Dec 13:15 Phantom Boy (PG) 84m 15:30 A United Kingdom 18:00 Indignation 20:30 A United Kingdom

Tue 20 Dec 13:15 Au Nom de Ma Fille 15:30 A United Kingdom 18:15 Swallows and Amazons (PG) 100m 20:45 A United Kingdom

Wed 21 Dec 13:15 Phantom Boy 15:30 Indignation 18:00 A United Kingdom 20:30 A United Kingdom

Thu 22 Dec 13:00 Swallows and Amazons 15:30 A United Kingdom 18:00 A United Kingdom 20:30 Arrival

Fri 23 Dec 13:00 Allied (15) 15:45 Swallows and Amazons 18:15 Meet Me in St. Louis (U) 113m 20:45 Au Nom de Ma Fille

Sat 24 Dec 12:45 Swallows and Amazons 15:00 Meet Me in St. Louis 17:30 Allied

Sun 25 Dec Christmas Day CLOSED

Mon 26 Dec Boxing Day CLOSED

Thu 15 Dec

Tue 27 Dec

12:00 14:30 16:45 19:00

13:00 Trolls (U) 92m 15:15 The Unknown Girl (15) 113m 18:00 Paterson (15) 113m 20:30 Allied

The Accountant Nocturnal Animals The Innocents No Man’s Land (NT Live) 150m

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Film Listings continued Wed 28 Dec

Sat 7 Jan

Wed 18 Jan

13:00 Trolls 15:15 Allied 18:15 The Unknown Girl 20:45 Paterson

13:15 Sully 15:30 No Man’s Land (NT Encore) 150m 18:30 Starfish 20:45 Sully

13:15 The Birth of a Nation 16:00 The Eagle Huntress 18:15 Collateral Beauty 20:30 A United Kingdom

Thu 29 Dec 13:00 Trolls 15:15 Paterson 18:00 Allied 20:45 The Unknown Girl

Fri 30 Dec 12:45 Trolls 14:45 Embrace of the Serpent (15) 119m 17:30 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (PG) 140m 20:30 American Pastoral (15) 126m

Sat 31 Dec 12:15 Trolls 14:15 Britain on Film: Railways (U) 83m 16:00 New Years Eve Concert: Berlin Phil. 120m

Sun 1 Jan 12:00 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 14:30 Burn Burn Burn (15) 106m 17:15 American Pastoral 20:00 Snowden (15) 134m

Mon 2 Jan 12:30 Snowden 15:00 American Pastoral 17:45 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 20:45 I, Olga Hepnarova (15) 105m

Tue 3 Jan 13:00 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 16:00 I, Olga Hepnarova 18:30 Britain on Film: Railways 20:30 American Pastoral

Wed 4 Jan 12:30 American Pastoral 15:00 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 18:00 Burn Burn Burn 20:30 Embrace of the Serpent

Thu 5 Jan 12:30 Burn Burn Burn 15:00 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 17:45 American Pastoral 20:30 Snowden

Fri 6 Jan

13:30 Sully (12A) 96m 16:00 Starfish (15) 92m 18:15 Sully 20:30 After Love (15) 100m

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Sun 8 Jan 13:00 After Love 15:30 Sully 18:00 Paths of the Soul (12A) 115m 20:30 Sully

Mon 9 Jan 13:30 Sully 16:00 Starfish 18:15 Sully 20:30 After Love

Tue 10 Jan 13:30 Sully 15:45 United States of Love (18) 106m 18:15 Starfish 20:30 Sully

Wed 11 Jan 12:30 Sully 14:30 Paths of the Soul 17:00 Sully

Thu 12 Jan 13:30 Starfish 15:45 Sully 18:00 Sully 20:15 United States of Love

Fri 13 Jan

12:45 A United Kingdom (12A) 111m 15:15 American Honey (15) 162m 18:15 Collateral Beauty (12A) 94m 20:30 The Birth of a Nation (15) 120m

Sat 14 Jan 13:15 Life, Animated (PG) 99m 15:45 Collateral Beauty 18:00 The Eagle Huntress (PG) 87m 20:15 American Honey

Sun 15 Jan 11:00 Napoleon (Acts 1&2) 191m inc interval 14:30 The Eagle Huntress 16:15 Napoleon (Acts 3&4) 171m inc interval 19:45 Collateral Beauty

Thu 19 Jan 12:45 American Honey 15:45 A United Kingdom 18:15 The Birth of a Nation 21:00 Collateral Beauty

Fri 20 Jan 13:15 La La Land (12A) 126m 15:30 A Monster Calls (12A) 108m 18:00 La La Land 20:45 A Monster Calls

Sat 21 Jan 12:45 A Monster Calls 15:15 La La Land 18:00 A Monster Calls 20:30 La La Land

Sun 22 Jan 12:30 La La Land 15:00 The Sleeping Beauty (Bolshoi Ballet) 170m 18:00 A Monster Calls 20:30 La La Land

Mon 23 Jan 12:45 La La Land 15:30 A Monster Calls 18:00 La La Land 20:45 A Monster Calls

Tue 24 Jan 12:45 A Monster Calls 15:15 La La Land 18:00 A Monster Calls 20:30 La La Land

Wed 25 Jan 12:15 La La Land 14:45 A Monster Calls 16:45 La La Land

Thu 26 Jan 12:45 A Monster Calls 15:15 La La Land 18:00 A Monster Calls 20:30 La La Land

Mon 16 Jan 12:45 Collateral Beauty 15:00 The Birth of a Nation 17:45 A United Kingdom 20:15 American Honey

Tue 17 Jan 13:15 15:45 18:00 20:15

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A United Kingdom Collateral Beauty Life, Animated The Birth of a Nation

The Eagle Huntress

Highlights this season include Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart in Harold Pinter’s ‘No Man’s Land’; two versions of ‘The Nutcracker’ (ROH & Bolshoi); ‘Alan Bennett’s Diaries Live’ followed by a Q&A with Bennet (by satellite); and a ‘New Year’s Eve Concert’ live from Berlin conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.

OPERA

Miss Saigon (Encore) – Sun 13 Nov 12:15 �����������������������������������������������������������������������������pg 9 The Tales Of Hoffman (ROH Encore) – Sun 20 Nov 14:00 ����������������������������������������������������������������������� pg 19

BALLET

The Nutcracker (ROH Encore) – Sun 11 Dec 14:00 ��������������������������������������������������������������������������� pg 31 The Nutcracker (Bolshoi Recorded Live) – Sun 18 Dec 14:00 �������������������������������������������������������������������������pg 33 The Sleeping Beauty (Bolshoi Recorded Live) – Sun 22 Jan 15:00 ������������������������������������������������������������������������� pg 48 Swan Lake (Bolshoi Recorded Live) – Sun 5 Feb 15:00 ���������������������������������������������������������next Season

THEATRE

Alan Bennett’s Diaries Live – Wed 16 Nov 20:00 �����������������������������������������������������������������������pg 9

No Man’s Land NT Encore – Thu 15 Dec 19:00 �������������������������������������������������������������������������� pg 31

CONCERT

Berliner Philharmoniker Live: The New Year’s Eve Concert with Sir Simon Rattle and Pianist Daniil Trifonov – Sat 31 Dec 16:00 �������������������������������������������������������� pg 38

Exhibition on Screen

The Curious World Of Hiëronymus Bosch – Thu 10 Nov 16:00 & Sat 12 Nov 16:00 ���������������������������������������pg 10

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Pg 33 The Nutcracker

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Live: Transmitted Live by Satellite during the actual performance.

Encore: Follow ups that have been recorded Live by Satellite.

Delayed Live: Recorded live by satellite and transmitted within a week.

Recorded: Live performances, but pre-recorded.

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Miss Saigon

Sun 13 Nov 12:15 Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15)

The epic love story tells the tragic tale of young bar girl Kim, orphaned by war, who falls in love with American GI Chris – but their lives are torn apart by the fall of Saigon.

This 25th Anniversary Performance, featuring appearances by the original cast including Jonathan Pryce and Lea Salonga, was described as “the greatest musical of all time” by the Daily Mail.

This encore performance has been added due to our sell-out screening in October.

180m approx inc. interval

Booking Ref

Alan Bennett’s Diaries Live

Wed 16 Nov 20:00 Tickets £15.00 (Friends/Students £12.50) Booking Ref

An unmissable live event that will take a candid look into the mind of Britain’s best-loved writer, who at 82, shows no signs of slowing down.

‘Alan Bennett’s Diaries’, a new film about the writer, will precede an exclusive Q&A with Alan with from his local Primrose Hill library. Inspired by his acerbic and often hilarious diaries, the film shows Bennett as he’s never been seen before. Intimate encounters, filmed over the course of a year, reveal a writer who is bemused by his own popularity and is still as angry and irreverent in his 80s as he was in his 20s.

135m approx.

Ethel and Ernest

Sat 12 Nov 18:15 Tue 15 Nov 15:30 Thu 17 Nov 15:30

Based on the graphic novel

by Raymond Briggs, this is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.

Jim Broadbent and Brenda Blethyn play Briggs’ parents in this animated adaptation of one of ‘The Snowman’ author’s best-selling books. ‘Ethel And Ernest’ live through four decades of marriage, taking in the Great Depression, the Second World War and the swinging 60s.

Cast also includes ‘Born Free’ star Virginia McKenna, and EastEnders veteran June Brown.

UK 2016 Roger Mainwood 94m

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Café Society

Fri 11 Nov 18:45 Thu 17 Nov 20:45

A love story drenched in nostalgia, this bittersweet romance from Woody Allen is a film of rare beauty.

Set in the 1930s, we follow Bronx-born Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) to Hollywood, where he falls in love, and back to New York, where he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life. With a great jazzy soundtrack, this beautifully-shot film is a blend of comedy and drama that ends in a transcendently wistful final montage.

USA 2016 Woody Allen 96m

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I, Daniel Blake

Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu

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12:00 20:30 18:00 12:15 20:30 15:30 13:15

Ken Loach’s 2016 Cannes Palme D’Or Winner is not to be missed.

Daniel Blake (Dave Johns), a middle aged carpenter who requires state welfare after an injury, is joined by single mother Katie (Hayley Squires) and her two young children, and they find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy.

We believe completely in these people standing in front of us, as Loach and the actors have imagined them.

UK/France 2016 Ken Loach 100m

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Exhibition on Screen

The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch

Thu 10 Nov 16:00 Sat 12 Nov 16:00 Tickets £12.50 (Friends/Students £10) Booking Ref

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The first of a new series of Exhibition on Screen.

Based on the critically acclaimed exhibition which brought together practically all of Bosch’s major paintings and drawings from around the world to his home town of Den Bosch. This film asks just who is Hieronymus Bosch? Why are his fantastical paintings so popular? How does he bridge the medieval and Renaissance worlds?

UK 2016 90m approx

The French Film Festival 2016, now in its 24th edition, is the pre-eminent celebration of Francophone cinema in the UK involving more than 30 leading independent cinemas, this year including Chichester Cinema at New Park for the very first time.

With selections covering everything from contemporary and classic titles, to animation, documentary, and shorts as well as an assortment of guests and encounters. These unreleased festival films are new to the UK, so this is a unique opportunity to see them. Vive le Cinéma!

Fri 11 Nov Special Event

14:00

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A Journey Through French Cinema Voyage à Travers le Cinéma Français Bertrand Tavernier presents a treasure trove of a documentary and a masterful exploration of some of the directors, actors and composers who graced French cinema.

Tavernier is a life-long fan of cinema. Through his own experience as a filmmaker and his personal connections, he takes us on a voyage through his country’s film history, focusing on both major and unheralded auteurs from the 1930s through to the 1970s, showcasing their artistry with a selection of wonderful clips. Tavernier talks directly to the camera with infectious enthusiasm about the films, actors, directors, composers, writers and cinematographers who have meant so much to him, and who played such a significant role in French film history. From Renoir, Chabrol and Godard, through to Melville and Becker, every frame of this marvellous documentary exudes passion. This is a very special documentary displaying Tavernier’s generous spirit, and provides a sweeping survey of the history of French film and is a must for film lovers. (Subtitles) France 2016 Bertrand Tavernier 195m + Q&A (plus interval) Intro/Q&A: We welcome Professor Hugo Frey, Head of History and Politics, University of Chichester - Author of ‘Nationalism and theCinema in France’ (2015).

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Chocolat

11 Nov 21:00 12 Nov 13:30

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From the circus to the music hall, from anonymity to glory, this is the incredible story of Monsieur Chocolat (Omar Sy from ‘Untouchable’), the first black artist of the French stage.

The duo he formed with George Footit (James Thierrée) - a British clown and acrobat, who discovered Monsieur Chocolat in a small circus in the North of France - met with huge and popular success in Belle Époque Paris, before fame, easy money, gambling, and discrimination wore out their friendship and Monsieur Chocolat’s career. The film retraces the story of this remarkable artist. Sy does a fantastic job channelling the spirit of a man caught between his desire to be rich and free and the gradual recognition that he is still only someone else’s whipping boy. Also stars Clotilde Hesme, OlivierGourmet and Frédéric Pierrot. (Subtitles) France 2016 Roschdy Zem 110m

Sun 13 Nov 15:30 Mon 14 Nov 17:00

In Bed with Victoria

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Victoria A portrait of a woman forever on the verge of either a breakdown or an orgasm in this quirky and memorable drama comedy.

Despite the title ‘In Bed with Victoria’ is really about the opposite: How a flustered single working mum (Virginie Efira), is going through a midlife crisis where she can’t get anyone in bed with her at all.

Low sexual libido is just one of many issues plaguing the titular heroine of this lively Gallic dramedy, which opened up last year’s Critics’ Week sidebar in Cannes. Justine Triet presents a truly original film that bears all the hallmarks of classic American comedy and demonstrates a subtle mastery of the narrative potential offered by borderline and chaotic situations. (Subtitles) France 2016 Justine Triet 90m

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Tue 15 Nov 18:00 (Q&A) We hope to welcome one of the Film Makers to introduce the film.

Special Event

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Made in France After the horrible terrorist attacks that rocked Paris, this daring investigation thriller plunges you inside the extremist Muslim groups that grow inside western countries and can strike at any moment.

This darkly atmospheric thriller takes you on a white-knuckle ride inside a cell of home-grown extremists. Sam is a Franco-Algerian journalist hoping to write a tell-all exposing the threat of domestic terrorism, and using his knowledge of Islam, he infiltrates a small cadre of extremists. From the outside, it all appears frighteningly ordinary, except for Sam, who is now in the precarious position of a normal guy trying to look like an extremist trying to look normal.

The film is finally being released after two delays caused by terrorist attacks in Paris (Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan Theatre). (Subtitles) France 2015 Nicolas Boukrief 89m + Q&A

Sun 13 Nov 20:30 Mon 14 Nov 14:30

The White Knights

Booking Ref

Les Chevaliers Blancs In an unnamed African country, the Move For Kids organisation (based on the real-life Zoe’s Ark) is officially established to rescue orphans and provide them with a new life in France.

Led by Jacques (Vincent Lindon), it soon becomes apparent that the organisation’s motives behind saving the orphans are not always altruistic. With the line between humanitarian assistance and human trafficking becoming blurred, the stakes and risks get higher. Shot with shocking immediacy, it vividly evokes the on-the-ground ethical quagmire with a brilliant cast and a gripping script. With a standout performance by Louise Bourgoin, the film offers no easy answers, but rather leaves it to audiences to decide what to think. (Subtitles) France 2015 Joachim Lafosse 112m

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Tue 15 Nov 13:00 Wed 16 Nov 17:45

Tour de France

Booking Ref

This odd-couple road movie pits a cranky artist (Gerard Depardieu) against a Parisian hip-hopper (Sadek).

With a baseball cap forever pinned down over his forehead, the 20-year-old Far’Hook (Sadek) is not really as tough as his lyrics and streetwise look make him out to be. He’s actually a smart and sensitive young artist - as capable of nailing a freestyle verse as he is of singing along to the cheesy Serge Lama ballad, ‘Je suis Malade’.

When he’s run out of Paris by a rival rapper, Far’Hook takes to the road with his producer’s father, Serge (Depardieu), a cantankerous Sunday painter who’s decided to follow in the footsteps of 18th century landscape artist Claude-Joseph Vernet, traveling around to various seaports in the West and South to reproduce the master’s work over two centuries later. (Subtitles) France 2016 Rachid Djaïdani 95m

Wed 16 Nov 13:00 Fri 18 Nov 20:15

Come What May

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En Mai Fait ce que te Plait May 1940. To escape the German invasion, the inhabitants of a small village in the north of France take to the road, like millions of other French people.

On this exodus, the villagers take with them a German child, whose father opposed the Nazi regime and who has been jailed in Arras for lying about his nationality. During the chaos, the father is freed and sets out to find his son, accompanied by a Scottish soldier who is trying to get back to England. A beautiful, poignant and illuminating French film that manages to make a familiar history lesson seem freshly observed. With Olivier Gourmet, Mathilde Seigner, Alice Isaac and August Diehl, plus a film score by the legendary Ennio Morricone.

(Subtitles) France 2015 Christian Carion 114m

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Sat 19 Nov 15:30 Sun 20 Nov 18:00 Booking Ref

April and the Extraordinary World

Avril et le Monde Truqué A beautifully inventive new example of animated sci-fi, adapted from a graphic novel by revered artist Jacques Tardi.

April has an alternate-history peg that’s irrepressibly Gallic. In the late 19th century, a scheme hatched by Napoleon to engineer supersoldiers goes horribly awry. The result is an early 20th century of stunted technology. Instead of wars over oil, there are wars over charcoal. And every scientist who shows promise disappears from public view in short order. The film’s designs and contraptions also evoke Jules Verne, Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ and more. With delightful detail and an exuberant sense of play, this feels entirely fresh! Voice cast includes Marion Cotillard and Jean Rochefort. (Subtitles) France 2015 Franck Ekinci & Christian Desmares 103m

Thu 17 Nov 18:00 Fri 18 Nov 15:00 Booking Ref

Don’t Look Now… We’re Being Shot At!

La Grande Vadrouille During WWII, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew (inc. Terry Thomas) set out from Paris to the South.

Literally “The Great Stroll” deals with two ordinary Frenchmen helping the crew of a Royal Air Force bomber shot down over Paris, and make their way through German-occupied France to escape arrest. Prior to the arrival of ‘Titanic’ in 1997, this was France’s all-time box-office champion. In terms of French-language movies, it maintained the number one spot for even longer, finally being displaced by ‘Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis’ in 2008. Cast includes Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Claudio Brook and Mike Marshall. (Subtitles) France 1966 Gérard Oury 122m Box Office 01243 786 650

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Sat 19 Nov 18:00 Sun 20 Nov 12:00

First Growth

Booking Ref

Premiers Crus Bursting with sumptuous cinematography of the vineyards of Burgundy, an assured cast and a feel-good script, this is vintage French film-making about the art of making wine.

The story concerns Charlie (Jalil Lespert), the son of a wine grower (G érard Lanvin) who left his vineyard home to become a renowned Parisian wine critic and the author of a hugely successful wine guide.

Since leaving, however, his indifferent and grief-stricken father has all but driven the family business to bankruptcy. Initially reluctant, Charlie returns to Burgundy to help to revive the ailing vineyard. Thrown into the deep end with no experience while under his father’s skeptical gaze, Charlie must now prove that he is worthy of the land that has been passed down through his family for generations. Can the wine critic become a wine producer? (Subtitles) France 2015 Jérôme Le Maire 97m

Mon 21 Nov 17:00 Tue 22 Nov 13:00

The Scent of Mandarin

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L’Odeur de la Mandarine During WW1, a nurse treats a man who lost a leg on the front lines, and their friendship evolves into a passionate affair.

In the final months of the Great War, cavalry officer Charles (Olivier Gourmet) contemplates his future after losing his leg in battle. Angèle (Georgia Scalliet) is his home-care nurse, recently widowed by the continuing conflict. A frank empathy comes across throughout, especially in the earthily shot sequences of Charles re-learning to ride his beloved horses. Scalliet is remarkable, drawing out the strong feminist elements that pervade the film, and playing against familiar face Gourmet with spark and intelligence. With a military inflected score, this is a striking reflection on the Great War. (Subtitles) France 2015 Gille Legrand 110m

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Fanny’s Journey

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Le Voyage de Fanny Fanny and her sisters attempt to escape Nazi-occupied France but many dangers lie ahead of them.

In Nazi-occupied France, Jewish people’s lives are in danger, so 12-year-old Fanny’s family send her, with her younger sisters, to a remote boarding school hoping they will be safe. It soon becomes clear that nowhere can offer them refuge, so they embark on a journey to escape the enemy, all the time having to remain strong and constantly inventing new identities for themselves, should they be questioned by the authorities. The past is impressively recreated and by keeping the worst events off screen, ‘Fanny’s Journey’ is accessible for a family audience and is an absorbing, inspiring tale of bravery and determination. (Subtitles) France-Belgium 2016 Lola Doillon 94m

Thu 24 Nov 15:45 Fri 25 Nov 18:00

Rosalie Blum

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A warm, witty and impeccably performed drama-comedy about a random encounter that has unexpected and far-reaching consequences.

Thirty-something Vincent Machot (indelibly played by Kyan Khojandi) is a hairdresser, like his father before him. Life rotates around work, his overbearing mother who lives in the apartment upstairs, and a womanising cousin constantly trying to set him up. But one morning Vincent experiences a powerful déjà-vu when he meets the gaze of a grocery store clerk, Rosalie Blum (the fabulous Noémie Lvovsky).

Intrigued by this mysterious woman, he begins following her… With its themes of fraternity, love and the need for human connection, ‘Rosalie Blum’ delivers a timely reminder of the best that French culture has to offer. It’s a joy to watch. (Subtitles) France 2015 Julien Rappeneau 96m Box Office 01243 786 650

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Cezanne et Moi

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Cezanne and I This 19th-century period drama stars Guillaume Gallienne as post-impressionist painter Paul Cezanne and Guillaume Canet as Emile Zola.

This beautiful film which features Provence as one of the main characters, charts the decade-long friendship and eventual fallout between Cezanne, who was born into a wealthy family but struggled to make a living as a painter, and Zola, who came from a family of more straitened circumstances but achieved fame and prosperity as a politically-engaged novelist. Directed by Daniele Thompson (‘Avenue Montaigne’) and co-starring Alice Pol, Déborah François, Sabine Azéma and Gérard Melan. (Subtitles) France 2016 Danièle Thompson 120m

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The Light Between Oceans

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A heart-breaking drama about fate, love, moral dilemmas and the lengths to which one couple will go to see their dreams realized.

Tom (Michael Fassbender), a dignified war veteran, applies for a job as a lighthouse keeper on a remote island off the coast of Western Australia. Isabel (Alicia Vikander) is the young woman he meets briefly on the mainland just before his first stint on the island. She is impulsive and a little reckless, persuading Tom to marry her so she can share his life on the island, where they live entirely alone. Everything begins to change on the night of a mighty storm. Fassbender has relatively few lines but his face is a landscape of seething moral anguish; Vikander brings a mercurial intensity to her role; and the film takes its tone from Alexandre Desplat’s swirling musical score.

UK 2016 Derek Cianfrance 132m

Sun 20 Nov 14:00 Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) ROH Opera Encore

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The Tales of Hoffmann Charismatic young tenor Vittorio Grigolo and Leonardo Capalbo share the title role and lead an excellent cast in Offenbach’s fantastical operatic drama.

The Royal Opera’s lavish production is a favourite with audiences.

Created by John Schlesinger, this production brings alive a 19thcentury world of romance, comedy, mystery and menace. At the centre of these extraordinary tales of clockwork dolls, magical glasses, ghostly voices and sensual courtesans is the vivid imagination of the drunken Romantic poet Hoffmann. The music includes the famous ‘Barcarolle’ and the stunning showpiece numbers are perfect vehicles for the vocal virtuosity of Sofia Fomina as the clockwork doll Olympia. Sung in French with English subtitles.

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Queen of Katwe

25 Nov 26 Nov 27 Nov 29 Nov 2 Dec

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The colourful true story of a young girl selling corn on the streets of rural Uganda, whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess.

Directed by Mira Nair (‘Monsoon Wedding’), the film follows Phiona Mutesi, a Ugandan girl living in the Kampala slum of Katwe, who learns to play chess and quickly emerges as a prodigious talent despite not knowing how to read. Within a few years, she becomes good enough to play nationally - and then on a global stage. Today, she’s one of the first two women from Uganda to become titled chess players. With a wonderful lead performance by the newcomer Madina Nalwanga, ably supported by David Oyelowo (‘Selma’, and ‘A United Kingdom’ screening later this season) as her teacher, Nair has created an elating achievement.

USA 2016 Mira Nair 124m

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A Street Cat Named Bob

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The true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat called Bob. Bowen’s autobiographical 2012 book warmed the hearts of readers across the world, went on to sell millions of copies and, crucially, helped change the public perception of homelessness. The real-life ‘Bob’ plays himself in the film and shows off his impressive high-fiving skills with Luke Treadaway who plays James, who in turn impresses with his singing skills. Beside its heart-warming tale of their friendship, the film offers an insight into the injustice of life on the streets, that is by turns frustrating and life-affirming. Joanne Froggatt (‘Downton Abbey’) co-stars as the support worker.

UK 2016 Roger Spottiswoode 103m

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Wed 30 Nov 18:15 Thu 1 Dec 15:30 Fri 2 Dec 13:15 International Panorama: Finland

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The Fencer

Miekkailija Fleeing from the secret police, an ambitious young fencer finds himself teaching small-town children in a godforsaken spa resort, only to realize that this is exactly what he wants to do in life.

Set in the early 1950s, the story follows a young Estonian who was forcibly conscripted into the German army. Yet in the Stalinist Soviet Union, Endel (Märt Avandi) is tainted and his brilliant career in Leningrad as a fencer must end. Instead, he goes to teach sport in the boondocks of Estonia. Suffused with gorgeous cinematography, this sharp-sweet drama was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in the 2016 Golden Globes, and is a pleasure to watch. (Subtitles) Finland/Estonia/Germany 2016 Klaus Härö 99m

Mon 28 Nov 12:30 Tue 29 Nov 18:30

Sour Grapes

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A counterfeiter who befriends the rich and powerful sells millions of dollars of fraudulent wine through the top auction houses.

This highly entertaining documentary tells the strange story of Rudy Kurniawan, who in the early 2000’s electrified the sedate world of US wine investment by paying colossal sums at auction forrare bottles. He schmoozed the top players in wine, dazzled them with his apparent wealth - everyone wanted to be Rudy’s friend. Then, riding the crest of his self-created bull-market wave, he began selling his stock at a vast profit. But French wine producer Laurent Ponsot noticed something iffy about some of the bottles, and the expensively dressed young emperor of wine was in deep trouble.

UK 2016 Jerry Rothwell & Reuben Atlas 85m

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Deepwater Horizon

Fri 25 Nov 20:30 Sun 27 Nov 15:45 Wed 30 Nov 13:15

On April 20th, 2010, one of the world’s largest man-made disasters occurred on the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico.

This story about the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill, honours the brave men and women whose heroism would save many on board, and change everyone’s lives forever. Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell star in this explosive, intelligent thriller, whilst John Malkovich tackles the antagonist role of a cynical BP company man with a lip-smacking relish.

USA 2016 Peter Berg 107m

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Blood Father

Wed 30 Nov 20:45 Thu 1 Dec 13:15 Fri 2 Dec 20:45

Mel Gibson plays a haggard, exhausted father who must summon the strength to save his daughter’s life.

Link (Gibson) is a lonely ex-con and recovering alcoholic, on probation and running a tattoo business from his scuzzy trailer.

He is tormented by thoughts of his lost daughter, Lydia (Moriarty), the product of a marriage that broke up long ago. Suddenly this terrified young woman shows up out of nowhere, having got in with some scary criminals who now want to kill her.

France 2016 Jean-François Richet 88m

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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week

Sat 26 Nov 15:15 Booking Ref

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The Touring Years Ron Howard trashes the idea that there’s nothing new to say about The Beatles with a revealing survey of the fouryear odyssey that changed everything.

The film explores how John, Paul, George and Ringo came together to become this extraordinary phenomenon, “The Beatles.” It will focus on the time period from the early Beatles’ journey in the days of The Cavern Club in Liverpool to their last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1966.

UK/USA Ron Howard 138m

Thu 1 Dec

One More Time with Feeling

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Nick Cave opens up over a personal tragedy, airing his raw grief in this unconventionally directed documentary.

What started as a promotional film for Cave’s upcoming album (Skeleton Tree), morphed into a moving contemplation of shattering loss and – as Cave terms it – “trauma”. For hovering in the background, is the death of his 15-year-old son midway through recording in 2015.

Cave’s wife, clothes designer Susie Bick, remains too reserved to emote for the camera, but gradually becomes a more significant presence in the film. Dominik’s (‘The Assassination of Jesse James’) uniquely intimate documentary skilfully shows a family coming to terms with their loss and a group of musicians who are trying to plot a course through a difficult emotional time with honesty and dignity.

UK/France 2016 Andrew Dominik 112m

Mon 28 Nov 14:30 Tue 29 Nov 20:45

Swiss Army Man

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Outrageously fun and deeply affecting, this is a ‘gonzo’ buddy comedy, unlike anything you have ever seen.

Bursting with limitless creativity in both form and content, ‘Swiss Army Man’ goes from the absurd to the emotional to the whimsical to the profound and back again. Hank (Paul Dano) is stranded on a deserted island, having given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a corpse named Manny (Daniel Radcliffe) washes up on shore. Dano and Radcliffe both fully commit to their directors’ audacious vision, and their work is exceptional, finding the perfect balance of humour and heart that drives the whole film. Sometimes, films like these remind us that cinema is an art form as well as an entertainment platform.

USA 2016 Daniel Scheinert/ Daniel Kwan 107m

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Best of Low Budget Indie Films

We mainly focus on ten selected highlights from the 25th Chichester International Film Festival including the Best Low Budget Independent film and Best Documentary as voted for the Audience Awards, and two films starring Isabelle Huppert. We also are having rare screenings of 2 outstanding films that surprisingly went straight to DVD (‘Mediterranea’ and ‘Remember’).

Things to Come 72%

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Best of the Film Festival

L’Avenir A philosophy teacher (Isabelle Huppert) soldiers through some troubled times in this heartfelt portrait of middle age.

The first of two superb films starring Huppert that premiered at our Festival. This moving portrait of womanhood is an intelligent, poetic and naturalistic exploration of one woman’s pursuit of happiness.

Hansen-Løve is one of the most distinguished emerging auteurs in European cinema. (Subtitles) France 2016 Mia HansenLøve 100m

Wed 7 Dec 19:00 (Pic Palace) Fri 9 Dec 13:00 (Studio) Sat 10 Dec 17:00 (Studio) Booking Ref

Valley of Love 75%

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Tue 6 Dec 18:30 (Pic Palace) Wed 7 Dec 17:00 (Studio) Sat 10 Dec 19:00 (Studio) Booking Ref

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Nominated for the 2015 Cannes Palme d’Or, this is a poetic and poignant exploration of love and loss set in the blistering heat and alien beauty of Death Valley.

The second of the two Huppert films premiered in our Festival.

Two of French cinema s most prolific performers, Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu, reunite to play an estranged couple meeting for the first time in years. With stunning cinematography of the Californian desert, ‘Valley of Love’ reignites the chemistry between Depardieu and Huppert, not seen on screen together since 1980. (Subtitles) France 2015 Guillaume Nicloux 90m

Tubby Hayes: BestFilm Festival A Man in a Hurry the

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This absorbing and moving Jazz documentary won the Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary.

Narrated by actor Martin Freeman, this first ever featurelength documentary about Tubby charts the life and times of perhaps Britain’s greatest jazz exponent. Featuring exclusive interviews with people who knew, worked and gigged with Tubby, as well as his many and varied fans. Among those interviewed are Sir Peter Blake and Tubby Hayes’ biographer Simon Spillett.

UK 2015 Lee Cogswell 60m

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This controversial and damning report from George Galloway about our former Prime Minister Tony Blair, was runner up for the Best Documentary Audience Award.

The title refers to three types of “killing” which Galloway pins on Blair’s shoulders. He will use the film to argue that Blair “killed” the Labour party; “hundreds of thousands” of civilians; and that since stepping down from office, the former leader has made a “financial killing”.

UK 2016 Greg Ward Daniel Turi & Sanne Van den Bergh 90m

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Sun 4 Dec 19:00 (Studio) Tue 6 Dec 14:30 (Pic Palace)

The Beatles and World War II

Best of the Film Festival

The complete reboot of the original contentious 1976 film ‘All this and World War II’.

Take some of the most famous artists of the 70s - Elton John; Tina Turner; Bee Gees; Peter Gabriel; Bryan Ferry; Rod Stewart; get them to sing cover versions of some of the most famous Beatles songs ever; add unseen documentary footage of WWII telling the story of that epic encounter, and… what do you have? This enormously entertaining, and occasionally very chilling documentary.

UK 2016 Tony Palmer 97m

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Memories 88%

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Sat 3 Dec 19:00 (Studio) Thu 8 Dec 15:00 (Studio) Fri 9 Dec 17:00 (Studio)

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the Film Les Souvenirs Festival This delightful French comedy was the surprise hit of our Festival, becoming the runner up for the Audience Award for Best New Feature.

Belgian darling Annie Cordy steals the show in this endearing family affair in which she plays a newly widowed grandmother who finally takes her life into her own hands. Weaving themes of romance, remembrance and the passing of time, this enjoyable and often very funny film progresses smoothly towards a satisfying conclusion. (Subtitles) France 2015 Jean-Paul Rouve 92m

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Bridge 91%

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Sat 3 Dec 17:00 (Studio) Wed 7 Dec 13:00 (Pic Palace)

Best of the Film

The film won the Festival Chichester Film Festival Audience Award for Best Low Budget Independent film.

This is a life affirming and heartwarming story of the chance meeting of two suicidal strangers on a Bridge over the Ganges, both experiencing immense emotional distress. Their meeting initially brings great challenges but eventually, ‘healing’ and wholeness to both lives. The Director, a child psychiatrist by profession, was inspired from his direct experience with young people and families to whom he is highly indebted. (Subtitles) India 2016 Amit Ranjan 100m

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Shoes 75%

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Mon 5 Dec 13:00 (Studio) Booking Ref

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Best of the Film

A beautifully told Festival and simple tale from Iran created on a low budget.

Ali is a teenager who wants to prove to everyone that he is independent and can take on great responsibilities. He would love to keep an eye on people’s shoes in the holy shrine in place of his grandfather, but they do not let him. When he is finally allowed to do so, all goes wrong when he loses a pilgrim’s shoes.

(Subtitles) Iran 2015 Morteza Asemani 89m

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Sun 4 Dec 15:00 (Studio) Tue 6 Dec 16:30 (Studio) Sat 10 Dec 15:00 (Studio) Booking Ref

One War 74%

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Mon 5 Dec 15:00 (Pic Palace) Sat 10 Dec 13:00 (Studio)

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Based on Ronald Festival Blythe’s acclaimed oral-history book, Peter Hall’s long un-seen, extraordinary film offers a lyrical yet authentic depiction of British pastoral life.

The story of a farming family who have lived for generations in the Suffolk village of the film’s title. A profoundly romantic work of sublime poetic realism, ‘Akenfield’ boasts compelling performances from its cast of non-professional actors and a sweeping, rhapsodic orchestral score composed by Michael Tippett. (Shown as part of the Treasures from the Archive strand in the Festival) UK 1974 Peter Hall 98m

Best of the Film

In 1945, Major Festival Prokhorov arrives at a small northern Russian island. There live eleven people: five young women, five young children, and Captain Nichiporuk.

The young mothers were exiled to the island from the territories occupied by fascists, and their children are the children of the German occupier. When the women are told about the German capitulation, their hopes for forgiveness and return home become a certainty. (Subtitles) Russia 2009 Vera Glagoleva 89m

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Love & Friendship

Sat 3 Dec 15:00 (Studio) Mon 5 Dec 17:00 (Pic Palace) Fri 9 Dec 15:00 (Studio) Booking Ref

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Lady Susan Vernon takes up temporary residence at her inlaws’ estate and is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica - and herself too, naturally.

Lady Susan (Kate Beckinsale) is a high-class widow whose waning finances threaten her lifestyle. Accompanied by her confidante Mrs. Johnson (Chloë Sevigny) who is waiting for her elderly husband (Stephen Fry) to pass on, the sharptongued Lady Susan sets her sights on charming Reginald de Courcy (Xavier Samuel). Witty adaptation of Jane Austen’s novella from Whit Stillman.

USA 2016 Whit Stillman 93m

Thu 8 Dec 13:00 (Studio) Thu 8 Dec 17:00 (Studio)

Mediterranea

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Two men make the dangerous journey from Africa to Italy for a better life, but then face hostility and violence in this shocking look at the life-and-death struggle of refugees.

Koudous Seihon and Alassane Sy star in this drama written and directed by Jonas Carpignano. The film follows African immigrants Ayiva (Seihon) and Abas (Sy) as they make the dangerous journey to Italy in the hope of finding a better life. However, as the pair attempt to settle into their new home in a makeshift settlement, they are greeted with hostility and resentment from locals as rising racial tensions in the community eventually leads to violence. This is the first of two outstanding films that were never given a UK theatrical release. (Subtitles) Italy 2015 Jonas Carpignano 106m

Sun 4 Dec 13:00 (Studio) Sun 4 Dec 17:00 (Studio)

Remember

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With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man (Christopher Plummer) with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.

Atom Egoyan directs this drama starring Christopher Plummer as Zev, a German survivor of Auschwitz suffering with dementia and living in a New York City care home. With the help of fellow Auschwitz survivor and care home resident Max (Martin Landau), and before he runs out of time, Zev decides to track down a camp guard he remembers as being responsible for killing his family, who has thus far evaded justice. Zev’s investigations and his difficulty with memory take him perilously close to danger. Atom Egoyan’s gripping thoughtful thriller has a superb central performance by Christopher Plummer, but divided critical opinion. The second of two unreleased films for the UK theatrical market.

Canada 2015 Atom Egoyan 95m Box Office 01243 786 650

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The Innocents

Les Innocentes In 1945 Poland, a young French Red Cross doctor discovers several nuns in advanced stages of pregnancy during a visit to a convent.

WWII is finally over and Mathilde (Lou de Laâge) is treating the last of the French survivors of the German camps. When a panicked Benedictine nun appears at the clinic begging Mathilde to follow her back to the convent, what she finds there is shocking: a holy sister about to give birth and several more in advanced stages of pregnancy. A non-believer, Mathilde enters the sisters’ fiercely private world, dictated by the rituals of their order and the strict Rev. Mother (Agata Kulesza, ‘Ida’). This is a powerful, brave film that will stay with you for days. (Subtitles) France/Poland 2016 Anne Fontaine 115m

Mon 12 Dec 18:30 Wed 14 Dec 12:15

Francofonia

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A history of the Louvre Museum during the Nazi occupation, and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.

Sokurov delivers a passionate love poem to the Louvre and its nearly endless artistic riches by focusing on the collaboration between Louvre director Jacques Jaujard and the German officer Count Franz Wolff-Metternich, who during WWII worked together to ensure the Louvre’s artworks wouldn’t be sent to the Nazis in Germany. Special effects show us the history of the Louvre, we are given amazing drone-captured visuals of Paris, and archival footage is blended with dramatic re-creations. Directed by Alexander Sokurov, who you may remember brought us the astounding one-take ‘Russian Ark’ in 2002.

(Some subtitles) France/Germany 2016 Aleksandr Sokurov 88m

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Thu 15 Dec 19:00 (Live) Sat 7 Jan 15:30 (Encore) Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) National Theatre Live

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No Man’s Land Following their hit run on Broadway, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart return to the West End stage in Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land, broadcast live to cinemas from Wyndham’s Theatre, London.

One summer’s evening, two ageing writers, Hirst and Spooner (McKellen and Stewart), meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hirst’s stately house nearby. As the pair become increasingly inebriated, and their stories increasingly unbelievable, the lively conversation soon turns into a revealing power game, further complicated by the return home of two sinister younger men. Also starring Owen Teale and Damien Molony, don’t miss this glorious revival of Pinter’s comic classic.

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The Nutcracker Ballet in two acts The first of two productions (ROH and Bolshoi) of Tchaikovsky’s marvellous ballet score taking the traditional Christmas slots.

The Royal Ballet’s glorious production, created by Peter Wright in 1984, is the production par excellence of an all-time ballet favourite.

It is Christmas Eve and Drosselmeyer the magician sweeps young Clara away on a fantasy adventure in which time is suspended and a magical journey takes them through the Land of Snow to the Kingdom of Sweets. Tchaikovsky’s glittering score, the gorgeous festive stage designs and The Royal Ballet’s captivating dancing make this Nutcracker the quintessential Christmas experience. Choreography - Peter Wright; Music - Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky; Conductor - Boris Gruzin.

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Nocturnal Animals

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An art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband’s novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a symbolic revenge tale.

Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star in this superb second feature from the fashion designer turned film director (Tom Ford – ‘A Single Man’ 2009) – a pitchblack thriller that combines melodrama with a kind of teasing sophistication. The outstanding cast includes Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Laura Linney, Andrea Riseborough and Michael Sheen.

USA 2016 Tom Ford 115m

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The Accountant

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As a math savant un-cooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities.

Christian (Ben Affleck) has more affinity for numbers than people. He works as a freelance accountant for some of the world’s most dangerous criminal organizations, before taking on a legitimate client, where an accounting clerk (Anna Kendrick) has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. Edge of your seat action with a great lead performance from Affleck. J.K. Simmons from ‘Whiplash’ co-stars.

USA 2016 Gavin O’Connor 128m

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Indignation

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Based on the Philip Roth novel about a brilliant young Jewish boy from New Jersey.

1951: Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman) travels on scholarship to a small, conservative college in Ohio, thus exempting him from being drafted into the Korean War. But once there, Marcus’s growing infatuation with his beautiful classmate Olivia (Sarah Gadon), and his clashes with the college’s imposing Dean (Tracy Letts), put his and his family’s best laid plans to the ultimate test.

USA 2016 James Schamus 110m

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Tue 20 Dec 15:30 & 20:45 Wed 21 Dec 18:00 & 20:30 Thu 22 Dec 15:30 & 18:00 Also screens 13-19 Jan (See pg47) Booking Ref

This is based on extraordinary true events, when in 1947, Seretse Khama (David Oyelowo), the King of Botswana, met Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike), a London office worker.

They were a perfect match, yet their proposed marriage was challenged not only by their families but by the British and South African governments. The latter had recently introduced the policy of apartheid and found the notion of a biracial couple ruling a neighbouring country intolerable. South Africa threatened the British: either thwart the couple or be denied access to South African uranium and gold and face the risk of South Africa invading Botswana. Much like Asante’s preceding picture ‘Belle’, there’s an indelible charm and striking aesthetic that makes for such absorbing cinema.

UK 2016 Amma Asante 111m

Sun 18 Dec 14:00 Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15; Children £10) Bolshoi Ballet

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The Nutcracker The 2nd version of the classic Christmas ballet, is also the first of the great trilogy of Tchaikovsky ballets, all being presented by the Bolshoi over the next 3 months.

On Christmas Eve, Marie’s wooden nutcracker doll is transformed into a beautiful prince who takes her on a magical journey. Before they leave, they must confront the Mouse King, whose army is threatening Marie…

Music - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Choreography - Yuri Grigorovich; Libretto - Yuri Grigorovich (after E. T. A. Hoffmann and Marius Petipa).

Cast: Denis Rodkin (the Nutcracker Prince), Anna Nikulina (Marie), Andrei Merkuriev (Drosselmeyer), Vitaly Biktimirov (the Mouse King) and the Bolshoi Corps De Ballet. Captured live on 21 Dec 2014.

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Au Nom de Ma Fille aka: Kalinka Daniel Auteuil stars in this intense film inspired by a true story.

1982: fourteen years old Kalinka Bamberski is found dead in her mother’s house in Germany. Kalinka would spend her vacation there ever since her mother had started a new life with the seductive and charismatic Doctor Krombach (Sebastian Koch, ‘The Lives of Others’). Although the strange circumstances of her death point to Krombach, a conspiracy of silence seems to protect him. André Bamberski (Auteuil), Kalinka’s father, sets out on a struggle for justice confronted alone against doctors, judges, and even against his ex-wife.

Auteuil connects with viewers, embodying a hardworking, optimistic, funny man, who just wants his family to be happy. (Subtitles) France/Germany 2016 Vincent Garenq 87m

Fri 16 Dec 15:15 Sat 17 Dec 20:30 Thu 22 Dec 20:30

Arrival

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Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner play academics enlisted bythe military to make contact when alien spacecraft land on Earth in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi drama.

Dr. Louise Banks (Adams) and her team must race against time for answers. Her attempts to ‘translate’ the language of her new extraterrestrial friends creates gripping cinema that does what great sci-fi should: offers new perspectives on our own world. ‘Arrival’ boldly snubs the standard alien-invasion trends of contemporary movies to explore a mood and language of its own. Since ‘Incendies’, Villeneuve has grown exponentially as a filmmaker, and he seems to be interested in ordinary people in extraordinary situations, and never taking the audience’s intelligence for granted. His films, in short, treat us like we know a thing or two, and these days that feels like a gift.

USA 2016 Denis Villeneuve 116m

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Allied

13:00 17:30 20:30 15:15 18:00

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The incredible story of a British officer and his French sweetheart during World War II. IIn 1942, British Intelligence officer Max Vatan (Brad Pitt) encounters a French Resistance fighter called Marianne Beausejour (Marion Cotillard – ‘La Vie en Rose’) on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. During a mission in Casablanca, they are forced into a pretend marriage so their cover isn’t blown. The pair are reunited later in London and fall in love, though the horrors of war threaten to destroy their relationship. Pitt, returns to WWII once again after the success of David Ayer’s ‘Fury’, and Zemeckis, whose past successes include ‘Forest Gump’, ‘Cast Away’, ‘Back to the Future’ to name just a few, visits this important period for the first time.

USA 2016 Robert Zemeckis

Tue 27 Dec 18:00 Wed 28 Dec 20:45 Thu 29 Dec 15:15

Paterson

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Adam Driver plays a bus driver and part-time poet called Paterson, in Jim Jarmusch’s intimate drama.

Chronicling a week in the life of a bus driver and amateur poet whose home happens to be Paterson, New Jersey (home to Allen Ginsberg and Lou Costello among others), the film depicts, day by inevitably slightly different day, his banal but unexpectedly engrossing routine.

Paterson’s verse – written, apparently, by Oklahoma-born poet Ron Padgett – appears on screen in handwriting as Driver’s voice hesitantly tests the sounds of the words; they fit the character like a favourite old suit. The dependably distinctive and rewarding Jim Jarmusch (‘Dead Man’, ‘Broken Flowers’) returns with a lovely, characteristically episodic fable about the fragile, fruitful and just occasionally fraught relationship between creativity and everyday life.

USA 2016 Jim Jarmusch 113m Box Office 01243 786 650

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Swallows and Amazons

Tue Thu Fri Sat

20 Dec 22 Dec 23 Dec 24 Dec

18:15 13:00 15:45 12:45

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Based on the classic, best-selling book by Arthur Ransome, this beautiful remake is faithful in period and spirit to the original book and film.

Four children dream of escaping the tedium of a summer holiday with their mother. When finally given permission to camp on their own on an island in the middle of a vast lake, they are overjoyed. But they soon discover they may not be alone. Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Lake District, this is a heart-warming adventure for all the family.

UK 2016 Philippa Lowthorpe 100m

Phantom Boy

Mon 19 Dec 13:15 Wed 21 Dec 13:15

A super-powered boy helps a wheelchair-bound policeman in his attempt to bring down a mob kingpin.

Leo has a secret. A mysterious illness has transformed him into a phantom boy, able to leave the confines of his body and explore the city as a ghostly apparition.

Like their previous entry ‘A Cat in Paris’, the film soars on wings of the directors’ film noir fancy with a villain worthy of Fritz Lang.

France/Belgium 2016 Jean-Loup Felicioli & Alain Gagnol 84m

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Trolls

Tue 27 Dec Wed 28 Dec Thu 29 Dec Fri 30 Dec Sat 31 Dec

13:00 13:00 13:00 12:45 12:15

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From the creators of ‘Shrek’ comes a smart, funny, irreverent animated comedy.

Anna Kendrick stars as Poppy, the optimistic leader of the Trolls, alongside her polar opposite, Branch, played by Justin Timberlake. Together, this unlikely pair of Trolls must embark on an adventure that takes them far beyond the only world they’ve ever known.

Voice cast also includes John Cleese, Gwen Stefani, James Corden, Zooey Deschanel and Russell Brand.

USA 2016 Mike Mitchell & Walt Dohrn 92m

Fri 23 Dec 18:15 Sat 24 Dec 15:00 Festive Screening

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Meet Me in St Louis This much-loved 1944 musical which saw the on-screen blossoming of Judy Garland is an unmissable big-screen experience.

This bubbly film is divided into four family album chapters that emulate the four seasons leading up to the St. Louis World’s Fair.

It was one of the first films to integrate musical numbers into the plot, and explores, without condescension or simple-mindedness, the feelings that drive the Smith family members apart and then bring them back together again. You could see the entire film as a brilliant showcase for its sensational song: ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’, which Judy Garland sings in the presence of her sobbing sister, with her eyes upturned like a sorrowing saint.

Other musical highlights include ‘The Trolley song’, ‘Skip to My Lou’ and ‘The Boy Next Door’.

USA 1944 Vincente Minnelli 113m

Tue 27 Dec 15:15 Wed 28 Dec 18:15 Thu 29 Dec 20:45 International Panorama: Belgium

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The Unknown Girl La Fille Inconnue The Dardenne brothers’ new film sees a doctor attempt to uncover the identity of a patient who died after she refused her treatment.

One evening, after closing her practice for the day, young doctor Jenny (Adèle Haenel), hears the doorbell ring but doesn’t answer it. The next day, the police inform her that an unidentified young woman (the unknown girl of the title) has been found dead close by.

The film is made in the Dardenne brothers’ characteristically austere naturalistic style. Jenny contacts people one by one who might have run into the girl on that fateful night - can they tell her who she was?

Haenel (‘Water Lilies’, ‘Les Combattants’) is mesmerising! (Subtitles) Belgium/France 2016 Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne 113m

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Sat 31 Dec 16:00 Live Tickets £15.00 (Friends/Students £12.50)

Berlin Philharmonic Live

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New Year’s Eve Concert Conducted by Sir Simon Rattle with pianist Daniil Trifonov.

Celebrate the end of the year with the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Sir Simon Rattle at the festive 2016 New Year’s Eve Gala Concert starring the young pianist Daniil Trifonov. Before the champagne corks pop, you can experience first-class virtuosic piano playing in a sparkling programme that features classic works by Rachmaninov, Walton and Dvořák.

Concert Programme includes Dmitri Kabalevsky Overture to Colas Breugnon; Sergei Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor; William Walton Pieces for Orchestra Façade; and Antonín Dvořák Slavonic Dances.

120m approx with 30m introduction and interviews. There is no interval

Sat 31 Dec 14:15 Tue 3 Jan 18:30

Britain on Film: Railways

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Your chance to travel back to a time when travelling by rail was comfortable, punctual and maybe even glamorous!

This is a major new collection of rare archive films charting the history of the UK’s railways and bringing home the romance and heady freedoms offered by train travel as it expanded across the country in the early 20th century. Sourced from the national and regional archives and newly digitised, ‘Britain on Film: Railways’ is an immensely nostalgic and evocative collection of films which document not just the glories of the railway, but also the changing social, political and economic climates of the 20th century. The films cover the period from 1898 to 1970, and is a real treat.

UK 2016 Various Directors 83m

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American Pastoral

20:30 17:15 15:00 20:30 12:30 17:45

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Ewan McGregor plays the lead, and chooses this Philip Roth Pulitzer Prize winning novel to launch his directorial career.

In 1968, a hardworking man, who’s been a staple in his quaint community for years, watches his seemingly perfect middle class life fall apart as his daughter’s new radical political affiliation threatens to destroy their family. Seymour “Swede” Levov (McGregor) is a legendary high school athlete, who grows up to marry a former beauty queen and inherits his father’s business.

Swede’s seemingly perfect life shatters when his daughter rebels by becoming a revolutionary and committing a deadly act of political terrorism during the Vietnam War. Also stars Dakota Fanning and Jennifer Connelly.

UK 2016 Ewan McGregor 126m

Fri 30 Dec Sun 1 Jan Mon 2 Jan Tue 3 Jan Wed 4 Jan Thu 5 Jan

17:30 12:00 17:45 13:00 15:00 15:00

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

The adventures of a writer in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards years before Harry Potter reads his book.

Oscar Winner Eddie Redmayne stars as the writer Newt Scamander in this wondrous visual feast. He has written a book containing the history of Magizoology (study of magical creatures) and describes 85 magical species found around the world. The magic of ‘Harry Potter’ lives on in this J.K. Rowling work, and intended as the first chapter in a whole new fantasy film franchise. Rowling has written the screenplay herself, allowing director Yates to give us a joyfully fantastic watch. The film also stars Ezra Miller (‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’), Colin Farrell (‘In Bruges’) and even Jon Voight (‘Deliverance’, ‘Midnight Cowboy’).

UK 2016 David Yates 140m Box Office 01243 786 650

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Back by Popular Demand:

Embrace of the Serpent

Fri 30 Dec 14:45 Wed 4 Jan 20:30

El Abrazo de la Serpiente After Mark Kermode voted this as the Best Film of the firsthalf of 2016, we have had many requests to bring it back – here it is!

This is the story of the encounter, apparent betrayal and finally life-affirming friendship between an Amazonian shaman (the last survivor of his people) and two foreign scientists.

This is gripping, challenging, engrossing, from beginning to end. A seriously good film!

(Subtitles) Columbia 2015 Ciro Guerra 119m

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International Panorama: Czech Rep

I, Olga Hepnarova

Mon 2 Jan Tue 3 Jan

20:45 16:00

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Já, Olga Hepnarová Olga Hepnarova would become infamous in her homeland as the last Czechoslovak woman to be executed.

“My verdict is: I, Olga Hepnarová, the victim of your bestiality, sentence you to the death penalty.” Those were the famous words of the 22-year-old mass murderer, who in 1973 drove a truck into a group of innocent people in Prague. An exquisite monochrome palette and long lingering shots add to this intriguing film. (Subtitles) Czech Republic 2016 Petr Kazda & Tomás Weinreb 105m

International Panorama: Poland

United States of Love

Tue 10 Jan 15:45 Thu 12 Jan 20:15 Booking Ref

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Zjednoczone Stany Milosci Berlinale prize-winner centres on four women struggling with love in newly post-Communist Poland.

Agata, Renata, Marzena and Iza, four apparently happy women, decide it’s time to change their lives, fight for their happiness and fulfil their deepest desires.

Austere, melancholic and marked by dry minimalist humour, this is plainly the confident work of a fast-maturing young filmmaker with a strong voice and a sharp visual sense.

Poland 2016 Tomasz Wasilewski 106m

Sun 1 Jan Mon 2 Jan Thu 5 Jan

Snowden

20:00 12:30 20:30

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Oliver Stone’s much anticipated film about the most devastating whistle-blower the world has seen.

This is the incredible untold personal story of Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt is perfectly cast), the polarizing figure who exposed shocking illegal surveillance activities by the NSA and became one of the most wanted men in the world. He is considered a hero by some, and a traitor by others. No matter which you believe, the epic story of why he did it, who he left behind, and how he pulled it off makes for one of the most compelling films of the year. Stone turns a brilliant trick by visually showing how computer spying is conducted - we do not have to understand how it works to appreciate what it does, because Stone skilfully shows us. Also features some great British talent: Tom Wilkinson, Joely Richardson and Rhys Ifans.

USA 2016 Oliver Stone 134m

Sun 1 Jan Wed 4 Jan Thu 5 Jan

Burn Burn Burn

14:45 18:00 12:30

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Following the death of their friend, two girls in their late twenties embark on a road trip to spread his ashes in this very funny British comedy.

Jack Farthing (the evil George in ‘Poldark’) plays Dan, who as we find out in flash-back – was the life and soul of the party. At his funeral, under-achieving actress Seph (Lady Edith in ‘Downton Abbey’) and advertising copywriter Alex (Chloe Pirrie of acclaimed indie ‘Shell’) are handed a computer file containing filmed testimony of his dying wish – to be scattered in four locations across the UK, all of special import to him. After initial scepticism, they dive into the journey, with Dan in the glove compartment, in tupperware, and decreasing in volume as the trip progresses. Look out for the stunning vistas viewed from misty Ben Lomond – a destination worthy of the trip.

UK 2015 Chanya Button 106m Box Office 01243 786 650

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Audience Award Winner

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Sun 8 Jan Wed 11 Jan

Paths of the Soul

18:00 14:30

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Winner of the Audience Award at this year’s Chichester Film Festival.

This docu-drama follows the journey of a group of Tibetans on a bowing pilgrimage across the world’s highest plateau to Lasa, the holy capital of Tibet. Road movies are a staple of cinema but they are rarely as breath-taking, immersive and intense as this. The director ‘cast’ a group of Tibetan villagers who were planning the traditional Buddhist pilgrimage to Lhasa - a sort of once-in-a-lifetime act of devotion akin to the Islamic Hajj - and structured a loose narrative around their incredible 1,200-mile journey. This is a moving testament to a mutual devotion of spirituality, a fantastic and refreshingly benevolent look at a different culture. Blurring the confines between documentary and fiction, it takes the empathetic viewer on an incredible journey. (Subtitles) China 2015 Zhang Yang 115m

Fri 6 Jan Sun 8 Jan Mon 9 Jan International Panorama: France

20:30 13:00 20:30

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After Love

L’Économie du Couple A couple, on the verge of divorce, have to live together and learn to share their belongings until they can find new homes.

Marie (Berenice Bejo from ‘The Artist’) has reached the end of her tether with her husband Boris (Cédric Kahn). Fifteen years worth of simmering grudges about sock laundry have boiled over, the battle lines have been drawn in the house that they are still forced to share, and the time they spend with their twin daughters is neatly apportioned between them. This is an outstanding film with echoes of Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Scenes from a Marriage’, condensed into a shorter timeframe, although its depiction of a crumbling relationship is just as complex. Successfully premiered at Cannes 2016. (Subtitles) France/Belgium 2016 Joachim Lafosse 100m

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Sully

6 Jan 7 Jan 8 Jan 9 Jan

13:30 & 18:15 13:15 & 20:45 15:30 & 20:30 13:30 & 18:15

Tue 10 Jan 13:30 & 20:30 Wed 11 Jan 12:30 & 17:00 Thu 12 Jan 15:45 & 18:00 Booking Ref

Tom Hanks stars in this thrilling portrait of heroic airline pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who successfully completed an emergency landing of an Airbus A320 full of passengers on the Hudson River in 2009.

Director Clint Eastwood transforms the events of Flight 1549 into a fierce, stark, haunted drama of horror narrowly avoided. The action of the film involves another shock: federal officials question Sully’s judgment and subject him and First Office Jeff Skiles (Aaron Eckhart) to an investigation that could cost him his job and even his pension.

Eastwood films the doomed flight with a terrifyingly intimate sense of danger, focussing on its existential centre, the little red button under the pilot’s thumb. Sully describes himself as “just a man who was doing his job,” and therein lies the story’s central appeal.

USA 2016 Clint Eastwood 96m

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Starfish

6 Jan 7 Jan 9 Jan 10 Jan 12 Jan

16:00 18:30 16:00 18:15 13:30

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The story of a couple whose love is tested to its limit after their perfect life falls apart in a single moment.

In the tiny landlocked English county of Rutland, children’s book author and stay-at-home dad Tom Ray (Tom Riley) is looking forward to the imminent birth of his second child with breadwinner wife Nicola (Downton Abbey’s Joanne Froggatt). He initially attributes violent stomach pains to a couple of date-expired sausages, and even doctors are slow to diagnose a life-threatening blood disease.

Only radical surgery has a hope of saving him, and a grim-faced Nicola signs the permissions to amputate all four limbs and most of his lower face. For the limb stumps, the real Tom Ray steps in as a body double, helped by seamless visual effects work.

UK 2016 Bill Clark 92m

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Fri 13 Jan Sat 14 Jan Sun 15 Jan Mon 16 Jan Tue 17 Jan Wed 18 Jan Thu 19 Jan

Collateral Beauty

18:15 15:45 19:45 12:45 15:45 18:15 21:00

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David Frankel’s (‘Devil Wears Prada’, Hope Springs’) new film features an all-star cast which includes Kate Winslet, Keira Knightley and Helen Mirren.

Will Smith stars as an advertising executive who has suffered a horrible tragedy which causes him to question what he calls the three pillars of humanity, what connects each and every person on Earth: Love, Time, and Death. Pushing him to the very edge, his friends force him to confront the truth in surprising and profoundly human ways.

This thought-provoking drama explores how even the deepest loss can reveal moments of beauty, and how the constants of love, time and death interlock in a life fully lived. This definite Oscar contender also stars Edward Norton, Naomie Harris and Michael Peña.

USA 2016 David Frankel 94m

Sat 14 Jan 18:00 Sun 15 Jan 14:30 Wed 18 Jan 16:00

The Eagle Huntress

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A stunning rites-of-passage story about a young girl who dares to dream of becoming the first ever female entrant to the ‘Golden Eagle’ competition in her Mongolian homeland.

13-year-old Aisholpan trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rises to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been handed down from father to son for centuries. While there are many old Kazakhs who vehemently reject the idea of any female taking part, Aisholpan’s father Nurgaiv believes that a girl can do anything a boy can. With some of the most amazing cinematography ever seen, this breath-taking documentary narrated by Daisy Ridley (‘Star Wars: Force Awakens’), shows when we encourage our daughters, amazing things happen.

UK 2016 Otto Bell 87m

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Sun 15 Jan 11:00 11:00 Act1 (113m) – 15m Interval – Act2 (63m) 14:15 Lunch Interval 16:15 Act3 (107m) – 15m Interval – Act4 (49m) Film Only - £12.50 (Friends/Students £10) Film & Food - £22.50 (Friends/Students £20) Special Event

Napoleon

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Napoléon vu par Abel Gance ‘Napoleon’ is pure cinema. There’s something about the way it was shot that makes it like no other. So many people, having seen our restoration, have said: “That was the greatest experience I have ever had in a motion picture theatre.” - Kevin Brownlow Powered along by Carl Davis’s invigorating orchestral score, this is a biopic that pairs the grandeur of its subject’s work and vision with its own cinematic innovations. You will have read about the triptychs that close the movie but perhaps you’ve also heard about the flash cuts, superimpositions, multiple exposures and the cameras mounted on horseback. It follows Napoleon as an alienated schoolboy, and his disastrous return as a young man to his native Corsica. The snowball fight that opens the film, in which Bonaparte and nine friends strategize their way to a crucial victory over 40 of their peers, is a beauty – staged as if it were the culmination of a bloody war.

The effect on the viewer of the final act is truly mesmerizing. At the centre of it all, Albert Dieudonné’s graven face, beneath that famous hat, surveys his own triumph. The work of Gance, Brownlow and Davis will rekindle devotion to the cinematic arts. We present this true epic of cinema in two parts, allowing for a lunch break.

France 1927 Abel Gance / Kevin Brownlow 235m (plus intervals) We are delighted to welcome Carl Davis, composer of the vast score for Napoleon, to our screening.

Following Napoleon’s victory at the battle of Marengo in 1800, his cook famously invented the dish Chicken Marengo. Brasserie Blanc is delighted to offer a Special Lunch Deal of Chicken Marengo and a Glass of Wine for £10 during the main interval. (Must be booked in advance with your ticket).

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American Honey

Fri Sat Mon Thu

13 Jan 14 Jan 16 Jan 19 Jan

15:15 20:15 20:15 12:45

Andrea Arnold’s (‘Fish Tank’) first US film is deeply moving, and reveals her wonderful eye for the flotsam and jetsam of American society.

Star (Sasha Lane), an adolescent girl from a troubled home, runs away with a travelling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest. Finding her feet in this gang of youngsters (including Shia LaBeouf), she soon gets into the group’s lifestyle. This is bold, captivating cinema that could be considered a 21st century version of Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’, with a soundtrack that threatens to never leave your head.

USA 2016 Andrea Arnold 162m

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Life, Animated

Sat 14 Jan 13:15 Tue 17 Jan 18:00 Booking Ref

The inspirational story of Owen Suskind, a young man who was unable to speak as a child until he and his family discovered a unique way to communicate by immersing themselves in the world of classic Disney animated films.

By endlessly viewing and memorising every Disney animated classic he could find, Owen defied that original diagnosis, and developed the ability to learn to speak.

Then came reading and writing.

This emotional coming-ofage story follows Owen as he graduates to adulthood and takes his first steps toward independence.

USA 2016 Roger Ross Williams 99m

The Birth of a Nation

Fri 13 Jan Mon 16 Jan Tue 17 Jan Wed 18 Jan Thu 19 Jan

20:30 15:00 20:15 13:15 18:15

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The rousing tale of a real-life black American preacher who led a slave rebellion in the antebellum South.

Nat Turner (Nate Parker) is a literate slave and preacher, whose owner (Armie Hammer), accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. As he witnesses countless atrocities -against himself and his fellow slaves - Nat orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom. Winner of both the grand jury and audience awards at the Sundance Film Festival.

USA 2016 Nate Parker 120m

Fri 20 Jan Sat 21 Jan Sun 22 Jan Mon 23 Jan Tue 24 Jan Wed 25 Jan Thu 26 Jan

La La Land

13:15 & 18:00 15:15 & 20:30 12:30 & 20:30 12:45 & 18:00 15:15 & 20:30 12:15 & 16:45 15:15 & 20:30

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This Oscar front-runner tells the story of an aspiring actress and a jazz musician who are struggling to make ends meet in a city known for crushing hopes and breaking hearts.

As the film starts, Mia (Emma Stone) and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) find themselves in a traffic jam, where drivers start jumping out of their cars to joyously sing and dance. This wondrous (and technically accomplished) scene, which received a deserved round of applause at the Venice Premiere, tells us what kind of film to expect: a musical that’s set in the exasperating present day, but which has its heart in the harmonious past. Mia is an aspiring actress who moved to Hollywood years ago, but the closest she has been to the movie business is working in a Warner Bros backlot canteen. Sebastian is just as far from where he wants to be. A jazz obsessive, he longs to open a nightclub where he can improvise on the piano while wearing tailored three-piece suits, but instead he has to plod through Christmas songs in a restaurant whose owner is so stern that he’s played by JK Simmons. Chazelle’s follow-up to the acclaimed ‘Whiplash’ is knowingly romantic and defiantly nostalgic. Set in modern day Los Angeles, this original musical about everyday life explores the joy and pain of pursuing your dreams.

USA 2016 Damien Chazelle 126m

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Fri 13 Jan 12:45 Mon 16 Jan 17:45 Tue 17 Jan 13:15 Wed 18 Jan 20:30 Thu 19 Jan 15:45 Also screens from 16 Dec (see Pg33)

Based on true events, when in 1947, Seretse Khama (David Oyelowo), the King of Botswana, met Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike), a London office worker.

Their proposed marriage was challenged not only by their families but by the British and South African governments.

The latter had recently introduced the policy of apartheid and found the notion of a biracial couple ruling a neighbouring country intolerable.

See page 33 for full details.

UK 2016 Amma Asante 111m

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Fri 20 Jan Sat 21 Jan Sun 22 Jan Mon 23 Jan Tue 24 Jan Wed 25 Jan Thu 26 Jan

A Monster Calls

15:30 & 20:45 12:45 & 18:00 18:00 15:30 & 20:45 12:45 & 18:00 14:45 12:45 & 18:00

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A visually spectacular drama from J.A. Bayona (‘The Impossible’), where a boy seeks the help of a tree monster to cope with his single mom’s terminal illness.

12-year-old Conor (Lewis MacDougall), dealing with his mother’s (Felicity Jones) illness, a less-than-sympathetic grandmother (Sigourney Weaver), and bullying classmates, finds a most unlikely ally when a Monster appears at his bedroom window. Ancient, wild, and relentless, the Monster (with Liam Neeson’s voiceover and performance-capture) guides Conor on a journey of courage, faith, and truth. The film brings some of the creepiness of the Spanish director’s 2007 debut ‘The Orphanage’, and with Patrick Ness’ screenplay, adapted from his own 2011 book, hits just the right emotional notes.

USA 2016 J.A. Bayona 108m

Sun 22 Jan 15:00 Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15; Children £10) Bolshoi Ballet

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The Sleeping Beauty The continuation of the Bolshoi’s captivating Tchaikovsky ballets.

On her 16th birthday, a curse by the evil Carabosse causes the beautiful Princess Aurora to fall into a deep slumber for 100 years.

Only the kiss of a prince can awaken her. In this resplendent and magical classic, the Bolshoi dancers take us on a dreamlike journey through the famous fairy tale, complete with jewel fairies, a magical kingdom, a youthful princess and a handsome prince. In the purest style of classical ballet, the Bolshoi’s peerlessly sumptuous staging with luxurious sets and costumes brings Perrault’s tale to life.

A must-see! Music - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Choreography -Yuri Grigorovich; Libretto - Ivan Vsevolozhsky and Marius Petipa; Cast The Bolshoi Principals, Soloists and Corps De Ballet. (Captured live) Running time 170m including interval

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Film Courses & Talks at New Park

Fri Fri Fri

4 Nov 10:30 (About Schmidt & Wild Strawberries) 11 Nov 13:30 (Still Alice) 2 Dect 13:30 (King Lear and A Thousand Acres)

Tickets £6/Session Booking Ref

Shakespeare 400 and the Autumn of our Years Film Course by Rosemary Coxon We continue this series of talks on the “Seven Ages of Man”.

Two sessions on The Autumn of Our Years (120m each), followed by our finale which brings together Shakespeare’s masterclass on ageing in two versions of ‘King Lear’ 180m). It may be helpful, but not essential, to have read or dipped into the plays and novels before you come. Rosemary Coxon is theEducation Officer at Chichester Cinema at New Park

COMING SOON

From Kitchen to Boardroom How Women’s changing place in society was reflected in films of the day From the 1930’s to the present day, a not always silent revolution took place in the role of women in society, both in America and Britain.

Films of the days reflected these changes. In our Spring Awards programme 2017, we take a look at these seismic changes with two courses – the first focusing on America and the second on Britain.

Firstly we have a day course (Mar 18) led by Nick Smedley who will lead an interactive day course, with short talks, discussion groups, Q&A and maybe even a quick film quiz. Don’t miss it!

Secondly, the Cinema’s Education Officer, Rosemary Coxon, will lead three sessions (Mar 24, 31 & Apr 7) on the changing portrayal of women in British film.

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VICTIM Sat 11 Feb

18:00 + Intro/Q&A

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Screening Diversity in the British Cinema

A Special Event at Chichester Cinema at New Park In 1961 a British film challenged the prevailing view on homosexuality and helped to change the law, as recommended four years earlier in the report of the committee chaired by Lord Wolfenden. That film was ‘Victim’, starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms.

The Earl of Arran, who piloted the 1967 Sexual Offences Act through The House of Lords, told Bogarde how much he admired “your courage in taking on this difficult and potentially damaging part” which helped to swing public opinion in favour of reform. “It is comforting” Arran said “that perhaps a million men are no longer living in fear”.

To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act - and the 60th of the report itself - a screening of ‘Victim’ on Sat Feb 11 will be introduced by John Coldstream, Dirk Bogarde’s official biographer. A Q&A with Peter McEnery, who played Boy Barrett in the film, will follow.

And that’s not all!

In subsequent weeks we will screen three other films of the period which, in raising similar issues, tested and extended the boundaries drawn by the British Board of Film Censors: ‘The Killing of Sister George’, ‘The L-Shaped Room’ and ‘A Taste of Honey’.

This event will conclude with a day-course on Saturday 4th March looking at the links between film, censorship and public opinion in the early ‘60s. It will include many relevant clips. We are delighted to welcome as our lead speaker Brian Robinson, who has spent 25 years on the staff of the British Film Institute - most recently as Communications Manager, Archive and Heritage - and since 2000 has programmed the BFI’s London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.

We hope you are as excited about the events as we are and look forward to seeing you at the cinema.

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