FEDORA

FRI 13 JAN 15:30 SAT 14 JAN 20:15 MON 16 JAN 20:00 TUE 17 JAN 20:30

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INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA: GERMANY RIMINI

Wretched and riddled with guilt, Richie is driven to nefarious lengths to raise money for his estranged daughter. Richie Bravo, once upon a time a successful pop star, chases after his faded fame in wintry Rimini. Trapped between permanent intoxication and concerts for busloads of tourists, his world starts to collapse when his adult daughter re-enters his life. She demands money from him that he doesn’t have. This is a chilling parable about the sins of the father becoming the punishments of the child, and about the moral arc of the universe bending, across generations, toward the coldest justice imaginable. Director Ulrich Seidl’s lounge singer is so horrible, he may be brilliant. (Subtitles) GERMANY/FRANCE 2022 ULRICH SEIDL 114M

PERFORMANCE

SUN 15 JAN 14:45 (DELAYED LIVE)

TICKETS £20 (FRIENDS/STUDENTS £17.50)

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MET OPERA Umberto Giordano’s exhilarating drama returns to the Met repertory for the first time in 25 years. Packed with memorable melodies, showstopping arias, and explosive confrontations. ‘Fedora’ requires a cast of thrilling voices to take flight, and the Met’s new production promises to deliver. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva, one of today’s most riveting artists, sings the title role of the 19th-century Russian princess who falls in love with her fiancé’s murderer, Count Loris, sung by star tenor Piotr Beczała. Soprano Rosa Feola is the Countess Olga, Fedora’s confidant, and baritone Artur Ruciński is the diplomat De Siriex, with much-loved Met maestro Marco Armiliato conducting. Director David McVicar delivers a detailed and dramatic staging based around an ingenious fixed set that, like a Russian nesting doll, unfolds to reveal the opera’s three distinctive settings—a palace in St. Petersburg, a fashionable Parisian salon, and a picturesque villa in the Swiss Alps. Sung in Italian with English Subtitles. 160M APPROX WITH INTERVAL

FOCUS ON FILM

FILM EDUCATION AT NEW PARK

Look out for the Special Talk & Film Offers

Chichester Cinema at New Park is committed to providing a unique Film Education experience to the local community. In 2022 the team presented sixteen events for adults on Saturday mornings in the auditorium, on subjects ranging from the career of Sidney Poitier to the music of George Gershwin on film. Some of these were led by outside speakers, such as Roger Griffith O.B.E. and local film history author Nick Smedley, but most of them were put together by members of the Education Team, who are all volunteers and certified film nuts! The team also runs free events for local schools, linked to topics which the students are studying in class or for exams. In December alone we covered ‘Fantasia’ and the drawings of Heinrich Kley for primary school students and three events for local A level students on the films of Hitchcock and Tarantino (Film Studies) and on ‘Othello on film’ for English Literature students. For the Winter 2023 programme the Team are offering no less than five talks, taking place every Saturday in January plus another on Feb 11. They are:

A MIRROR FOR BRITAIN? REFLECTIONS ON THE EALING FILMS

Patrick Hargood, the Education Officer, will be looking back at the films made at Ealing Studios, focusing on their heyday during WW2 and the post-war years. SAT 7 JAN 10:30 – SEE PG16 THE WAY OF CAMERON

Andrew Vance from the Education Team will be assessing the career of blockbuster director James Cameron. Sat 14 Jan 10:30 – See pg21 SUSSEX ON THE BIG SCREEN

We welcome local film author Ellen Cheshire who will be giving a revamped version of her sell-out talk at the Film Festival, with a wealth of extra clips. Sat 21 Jan 10:15 - See pg28 DYLAN ON FILM TALK

‘Don’t Look Back’ was an early film featuring Bob Dylan, but Sandy Guthrie from the Education team will be ignoring that injunction and looking back at some of the films which have featured the great man, both as an actor and as a musician. Sat 28 Jan 10:30 – See pg30 THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL

Finally, on Sat 11 Feb, Patrick will be returning for a celebration of all things cinematic in a talk which will cover films about filmmaking and also cinemas and cinemagoing. Sat 11 Feb 10:30 – See pg33