Winter 21/22
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley Haunting Alongside Our Shadows 25 September 2021 – 9 January 2022
QUAD Gallery Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s first solo exhibition in the UK – featuring new commissions of immersive, digital, sculptural and interactive works controlled by the viewer, with a focus on the hidden histories of Black Trans people. Curated by Helen Starr & Peter Bonnell.
Film
Don’t miss A rich tapestry of highly absorbing theatrical drama A Christmas Carol
December & January French Film Season Christmas Film Season Oscar Contenders New NT Live Season
Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards 25 September 2021 – 9 January 2022
QUAD Extra Gallery Spaces
Image - Florence Goupil, Shipibo-Konibo, The Healing Plants Image top right - Danielle Brathwaite Shirley, 2021
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King Richard
Rebel Dykes
Fri 3 - Thurs 9 December USA 2021 144 mins Dir: Reinaldo Marcus Green
Fri 3 - Thurs 9 December UK 2021 92 mins Dir: Harri Shanahan & Sian A. Williams
Armed with a clear vision and a brazen, 78-page plan, Richard Williams (Will Smith) is determined to write his two daughters,Venus and Serena, into history.Training on tennis courts in Compton, California, Richard shapes the girls’ unyielding commitment and keen intuition. Together, the Williams family defiy seemingly insurmountable odds and the prevailing expectations laid before them.
“Will Smith aces it as the Williams sisters’ tennis-coaching dad.”
Rebel Dykes follows a tight-knit group of friends who met at Greenham Common peace camp and became artists, performers, musicians and activists in London. A hot, heady, punky, sexy mash-up of animation, previously unseen rare archive footage and new interviews tells the story of a radical scene: squatters, BDSM nightclubs, anti-Thatcher rallies, protests demanding action around AIDS and the fierce ties of chosen families.
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Getting Away With Murder (S) + Q&A Sun 5 December at 2pm UK 2021 175 mins Dir: David Wilkinson During the Holocaust one million people in 22 countries carried out the unprovoked murder of 11 million innocent men, women and children. 99% of those responsible were never prosecuted; most were never even questioned. This film asks the question - why were so many people actively permitted to get away with their crime(s)?
National Theatre Live
The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage Gorillaz - Song Machine - Live from Kong Wednesday 8 December at 7:00pm Experience the biggest virtual band on the planet in cinemas worldwide, as Gorillaz bring their highly acclaimed Song Machine Live to the big screen. This special presentation also features a pre-show programme and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage.
Tickets - £13 £11 Concessions and £10 QUAD Members
The Guardian
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West Side Story Friday 10 – Thursday 30 December USA 2021 156 mins Dir: Steven Spielberg 15
C’Mon C’Mon Friday 3 - Thursday 9 December USA 2021 109 mins Dir: Mike Mills Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) and his young nephew (Woody Norman) forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they are unexpectedly thrown together in this delicate and deeply moving story about the connections between adults and children, the past and the future, from writer-director Mike Mills (20th Century Women).
West Side Story tells the classic tale of fierce rivalries and young love in 1957 New York City. This reimagining of the beloved musical stars Ansel Elgort (Tony); Rachel Zegler (María); Ariana DeBose (Anita); David Alvarez (Bernardo); Mike Faist (Riff); Josh Andrés Rivera (Chino); Ana Isabelle (Rosalía); Corey Stoll (Lieutenant Schrank); Brian d’Arcy James (Officer Krupke); and Rita Moreno (Valentina).
National Theatre Live
Hex
From 17 March Book by Tanya Ronder, music by Jim Fortune and lyrics by Rufus Norris
National Theatre Live
Leopoldstadt
From 27 January A new play by Tom Stoppard Directed by Patrick Marber Tom Stoppard’s Olivier Awardwinning new play Leopoldstadt is a passionate drama of love, family and endurance. At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria. But Hermann Merz, a factory owner and baptised Jew now married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. We follow his family’s story across half a century. A vividly original retelling of Sleeping Beauty, a mythic, bighearted new musical that goes beyond the waking kiss. Deep in the wood, a lonely fairy longs for someone to bless.When she is summoned to the palace to help the princess sleep, her dream turns into a nightmare and her blessing becomes a curse. Soon, she is plunged into a frantic, hundred-year quest to somehow make everything right. Rufus Norris directs Rosalie Craig (The Ferryman, Company) in this new musical filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, with music by Jim Fortune, book by Tanya Ronder.
From 17 February By Philip Pullman, adapted by Bryony Lavery, directed by Nicholas Hytne Set twelve years before the epic His Dark Materials trilogy, this gripping adaptation revisits Philip Pullman’s fantastical world in which waters are rising and storms are brewing. Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt. In their care is a tiny child called Lyra Belacqua, and in that child lies the fate of the future. And as the waters rise around them, powerful adversaries conspire for mastery of Dust: salvation to some, the source of infinite corruption to others.
Tickets: £17 Concessions £15 16 – 25 years £10 & QUAD Members £13
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Calamity – A Childhood Of Martha Jane Cannary
(Calamity, Une Enfance De Martha Jane Cannary) Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 December France/Denmark 2020 85 mins Dir: Remi Chaye With Calamity, writer/director Rémi Chayé explores the origins of the legendary American frontierswoman, digging into her childhood and the ways in which she defied the gender conventions of her time. This feminist retelling shows how young Martha Jane Cannary fought against a sexist and male-dominated society to become an iconic frontierswoman – an empowering tale about a strong female hero that all audiences can cheer for. Audience award winner at Annecy Animation Film Festival 2020.
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Between Two Worlds (S) (Le Quai De Ouistreham)
Wednesday 8 December France 2021 117 mins Dir: Emmanuel Carrere Juliette Binoche stars as an author who, inspired by George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier, goes undercover as a cleaning lady in a northern French port to research a book on job insecurity and social precariousness. It is the second fiction feature for screenwriter Carrère after The Moustache, which premiered in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2005. The film is based on French journalist Florence Aubenas’ bestselling non-fiction work Le Quai de Ouistreham, which investigates increasing financial insecurity in French society through her experiences in the northern port city of Caen.
Delicious (S) (Delicieux)
Thursday 9 December at 7:30pm France 2021 112 mins Dir: Eric Besnard In 1789 France, prior to the dawn of the Revolution, gastronomy remains strictly the domain of the aristocrats and the prestige of a noble house is dependent on the quality and reputation of its table. When the talented cook Manceron (Grégory Gadebois) serves an unapproved dish of his own creation, the repercussions are brutal, and he is promptly dismissed. He swears off his passion until the arrival of a mysterious woman (Isabelle Carré) who helps him create France’s very first restaurant. A wildly enjoyable tale of reignited passion, mentorship and revenge...
Ticket Prices From 7 January 2022 Full Price £10.00 Concessions £7.50 Members £7.20 Concessionary Member £6.30 Cine Kids / Young people Under 25 years £4.00
Bad Luck Banging, or Looney Porn (S) Friday 17 – Sunday 19 December Romania 2021 106 mins Dir: Radu Jude In Radu Jude’s Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, Emi, a schoolteacher, finds both her career and personal reputation under threat after a private sex tape is leaked online. Forced to meet the parents who are demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to give in to their pressure. A rebellious satire from one of Romania’s most ambitious directors, this is one of 2021’s most unique films.
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The Tender Bar USA 2021 104 mins Dir: George Clooney JR is a boy without a name and a father. At least, that’s the story according to many of the adults outside of his family. But when his mother moves back into her childhood home, JR’s charismatic bar-owning Uncle Charlie (Ben Affleck) is determined the boy doesn’t see himself that way. Tender Bar is a poignant reflection on the ways in which the right influence, at just the right time, can have a profound impact.
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Swan Song
Lamb (S)
Titane (S)
Friday 17 – Thursday 23 December USA 2021 116 mins Dir: Benjamin Cleary
Friday 24 – Thursday 30 December Sweden 2021 107 mins Dir: Valdimarr Johannsson
France/Belgium 2021 108 mins Dir: Julie Ducournau
Set in the near future, Swan Song is a powerful, emotional journey told through the eyes of Cameron (Mahershala Ali), a loving husband and father diagnosed with a terminal illness who is presented with an alternative solution by his doctor (Glenn Close) to shield his family from grief. As Cam grapples with whether or not to alter his family’s fate, he learns more about life and love than he ever imagined.
A childless couple in rural Iceland make an alarming discovery one day in their sheep barn. They soon face the consequences of defying the will of nature, in this dark and atmospheric folktale, the striking debut feature from director Valdimar Jóhannsson. Noomi Rapace stars in this sweetly dark film that may inhabit your nightmares.
One of the most provocative Palme d’Or winners ever, and only the second win for a female director. Following a series of unexplained crimes, a father is reunited with the son who has been missing for 10 years. Gender fluidity, familial subversion, techno-sexual delirium and full-on violence take Titane into the far reaches of genre futurism, with Ruben Impen’s cinematography pushing a pulp aesthetic to a hyper-sophisticated new level.
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Cow
The 400 Blows (S)
Licorice Pizza
UK 2021 93 mins Dir: Andrea Arnold
France 1959 98 mins Dir: Francois Truffaut
This film is an endeavour to consider cows. To move us closer to them. To see both their beauty and the challenge of their lives. Not in a romantic way but in a real way. It’s a film about one dairy cow’s reality and acknowledging her great service to us.
The most autobiographical of Truffaut’s films, The 400 Blows follows a few months in the life of 12-year-old Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) who, misunderstood and mistreated by his neglectful parents and repressive schoolteachers, seeks refuge in truancy, petty crime, and the cinema. Over fifty years on, the film that launched the French New Wave is universally regarded as one of the all-time great coming-of-age movies.
From 7 January USA 2021 133 mins Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson
“... there is something very heartfelt and committed about Andrea Arnold’s film: a poignancy and intimacy.”
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The latest film from Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master, Magnolia) sends him back to the 1970s to tell the story of Alana Kane (Alania Haim) and Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman) growing up, running around and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973. The film tracks the treacherous navigation of first love.Also starring Sean Penn,Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper and Benny Safdie.
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The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain 20 December - 13 January UK 2021 111 mins Dir: Will Sharpe The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain (Benedict Cumberbatch), whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public’s perception of cats forever. Moving from the late 1800s through to the 1930s, we follow the incredible adventures of this inspiring, unsung hero.
The Lost Daughter USA 2021 121 mins Dir: Maggie Gyllenhall Alone on a seaside vacation, Leda (Olivia Colman) becomes consumed with a young mother and daughter as she watches them on the beach. Unnerved by their compelling relationship, (and their raucous and menacing extended family), Leda is overwhelmed by her own memories of the terror, confusion and intensity of early motherhood. Also starring Dakota Johnson, Jessie Buckley, Ed Harris, Peter Sarsgaard, Paul Mescal and Dagmara Dominczyk.
Josep (S)
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OSS 117 – From Africa With Love (S) (OSS 117 Alerte Rouge En Afrique Noire) Friday 3 December at 7:45pm France 2021 117 mins Dir: Nicholas Bedos OSS 117 exudes confidence and might just be the luckiest idiot alive. The subtext is critical of France’s ostensibly well-meaning but ultimately exploitative and disastrous policies in Africa. Jean Dujardin suavely leads the cast as Hubert and is joined by Pierre Niney and Fatou N’Diaye.
Operation Mincemeat UK 2021 Dir: John Madden It’s 1943. The Allies are determined to break Hitler’s grip on occupied Europe and plan an all-out attack on Sicily; but they face an impossible challenge – how to protect a massive invasion force from potential massacre. It falls to two remarkable intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu (Colin Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley (Matthew Macfadyen), to dream the most inspired and improbable disinformation strategy of the war.
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A Radiant Girl (S) (Une Jeune Fille Qui Va Bien)
Sat 4 December at 5:30pm France 2021 98 mins Dir: Sandrine Kiberlain Actress Sandrine Kiberlain makes her feature-directing debut with this drama about an aspiring French-Jewish actress living in Paris in 1942, during the early days of the Nazi occupation.
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The Sleeping Car Murders (S)
(Compartiment Tueurs)
Mon 6 & Tues 7 December France 1965 135 mins Dir: Costa-Gravas This first feature by FrancoGreek director Costa-Gravas was adapted from a novel by Sebastien Japrisot and is a humourous, visually punchy take on the murder-mystery.
Mon 6 & Tues 7 December France/Belgium/Spain 2020 74 mins Dir: Aurel French illustrator Aurel investigates the life of the Catalan republican cartoonist and exile Josep Bartolí, who was detained by the Gestapo and sent to various concentration camps after crossing the border into France to flee the Spanish Civil War. Told through the memories of a dying elderly gendarme who encountered him in the French concentration camp, it follows Bartolí’s arrival in Mexico after jumping from a train transporting him to another camp, where he met Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, before living and working in the United States. With the voices of Sergi López and Sílvia Pérez Cruz, it won prizes at the Tokyo Anime Awards, Anima and the European Film Awards. It was also the recipient of the best animated film César and was part of the Cannes official selection last year.
Home Alone
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Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 December USA 1990 103 mins Dir: Chris Columbus Macaulay Culkin stars as ten-year-old Kevin McCallister who is inadvertently left home alone by his family when they go on vacation. On the evening before his family leave for their Christmas break to Paris, Kevin is banished to his room for misbehaving by his mother Kate (Catherine O’Hara). When he wakes the following morning, he discovers he is alone in an empty house. Kevin must cope not only with life on his own but also with the threat of two persistent, albeit incompetent, burglars Marv (Daniel Stern) and Harry (Joe Pesci). Meanwhile, Kate vainly tries to find a way to get back home. A perennial festive favourite.
Licorice Pizza
Cyrano
Belfast
Parallel Mothers (S)
From 7 January USA 2021 133 mins Dir: Paul Thomas PG Anderson
From 14 January USA 2021 124 mins Dir: Joe Wright
From 21 January UK 2021 97 mins Dir: Kenneth Branagh
Spain 2021 120 mins Dir: Pedro Almodovar
Director Joe Wright (The Darkest Hour) reimagines the timeless tale of a heartbreaking love triangle into musical life with his latest film. A man ahead of his time, Cyrano De Bergerac (Peter Dinklage) dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted friend, the luminous Roxanne (Haley Bennet).
Director Kenneth Branagh brings to the screen a personal and joyful story about the power of memory, set in late 1960s Northern Ireland. At the centre of the film is Buddy, a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance.Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know for a new life.
The latest film from Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master, Magnolia) sends him back to the 1970s Elf PG to tell the story of Alana Kane Thursday 23 & Friday 24 December (Alania Haim) and Gary Valentine USA 2003 97 mins Dir: Jon Favreau (Cooper Hoffman) growing up, running and falling in love Will Ferrell stars as Buddy, a human being whoaround has spent his whole in the Fernando Valley, 1973. life believing himself to be an elf. Brought upSan by Santa (Edward The film tracks the treacherous Asner) and his elves at the North Pole, Buddy has spent the last navigation of first love.Also 30 years happily working in Santa’s toy workshop. But when his starring Penn,working Tom Waits, ungainly size starts to become a liability in theSean elf-sized Bradley Cooper and Benny Safdie. environment, Santa suggests that Buddy head to New York City to find his biological father (James Caan).
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Encanto From 26 December USA 2021 109 mins Dir: Byron Howard & Jared Bush Encanto tells the tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift from super strength to the power to heal.
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Clifford The Big Red Dog From 26 December USA/UK/ Canada 2021 96 mins Dir: Walt Becker When middle-schooler Emily Elizabeth (Darby Camp) meets a magical animal rescuer (John Cleese) who gifts her a little, red puppy, she never anticipated waking up to find a giant tenfoot hound in her small New York City apartment. While her single mom (Sienna Guillory) is away for business, Emily and her fun but impulsive uncle Casey (Jack Whitehall) set out on an adventure.
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Memoria Thailand 2021 136 mins Dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Ever since being startled by a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, Jessica (Tilda Swinton) is unable to sleep. In Bogata to visit her sister, she befriends Agnes (Jeanne Balibar), an archaeologist studying human remains discovered within a tunnel under construction. Jessica travels to see Agnes at the excavation site.
USA 2021 105 mins Dir: Joel Coen
The Guardian
Two women meet in the delivery room, both having made the same decision to go it alone as mothers. Janis (Almodóvar regular Penélope Cruz) is middle-aged, resolved and delighted to find herself with child; Ana (Milena Smit) is a teenager, overwhelmed and regretful. Building mutual support, they soon discover how their lives are entwined in ways they may not have imagined. Meanwhile, Janis’s role as a forensic archaeologist finds her excavating the graves of men killed during Franco’s ‘White Terror’. Birth, death, motherhood, fate: few could make light work of such heavy themes, but at this point in his career we know to expect Almodóvar’s steady command.
A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland, and his ambitious wife supports him in his plans of seizing power. Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand star in Joel Coen’s bold and fierce Shakespeare adaptation; a tale of murder, madness, ambition, and wrathful cunning.
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Christmas 2021
Christmas Screenings
Cine Kids Christmas
At Derby Cathedral PG
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A Muppet Christmas Carol U
It’s A Wonderful Life Friday 17 - Saturday 24 December USA 1946 130 mins Dir: Frank Capra The annual QUAD tradition is back! It’s Christmas Eve, and Clarence the guardian angel is assigned to convince the desperate George Bailey not to take his own life. George is a thoroughly decent family man who has sacrificed his dreams for the citizens of the small town of Bedford Falls. When George decides he is worth more dead than alive, it’s up to Clarence to help him realise how many lives his good deeds have touched.
A Christmas Carol
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Friday 17 & Saturday 24 December UK 2020 90 mins Dir: David Morris & Jacqui Morris
A Victorian family prepares a paper theatre performance of A Christmas Carol. In a daring twist of format, characters are portrayed by dancers and voiced by an eclectic cast of the world’s most recognisable actors. The mix of danced action and spoken narration brings fresh dimension to Dicken’s characters and poetic language, whilst remaining true to the beauty of the author’s original narration. With narration by Carey Mulligan, Andy Serkis, Martin Freeman, Simon Russell Beale, Daniel Kahuya, Lesle Caron and Dame Sian Phillips.
Crossing The Streams: Die Hard
Thursday 18 December at 4.30pm (doors from 4pm) 15
Saturday 18 December at 7:30pm USA 1988 132 mins Dir: John McTiernan It wouldn’t be Christmas without a trip to Nakatomi Plaza. NYPD cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) takes a trip to LA to see his estranged wife and spend Christmas with his kids. He didn’t count on getting stuck in a skyscraper with a bunch of German terrorists headed up by the well-spoken Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman). Yippe-Ki-yay, Mother Hubbard!
A Muppet Christmas Carol brings their own take to the classic Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol in a heart-warming Christmas classic perfect for all the family. Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo and all your favourite muppets join Michael Caine, who plays the iconic role of Ebenezer Scrooge, the cruel and heartless man visited by the three Ghosts Of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
The Greatest Showman
Family friendly film screenings every weekend and during school holidays
A Boy Called Christmas Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 December UK/France 2021 106 mins Dir: Gil Kenan A Boy Called Christmas follows a decidedly ordinary boy called Nikolas, nicknamed ‘Christmas’, who sets out on an extraordinary adventure into the snowy north in search of his father who is on a quest to find the fabled elf village of Elfheim. It’s a dangerous trek and Nikolas faces many obstacles but he eventually discovers Elfheim, which is only found through true faith. However, there he learns that humans are hugely unpopular and he’s thrown into a dungeon with a hungry troll and a truth pixie, who can’t tell lies. Starring Dame Maggie Smith, Jim Broadbent, Kirsten Wiig, Sally Hawkins and Henry Lawfull as Nickolas.
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Thursday 18 December at 6.45pm (doors from 6:15pm) In The Greatest Showman, Hugh Jackman tackles the legendary figure of P.T. Barnum in the mostly true tale of his life, brought to life with music and an all-star cast including Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, Zendaya & Rebecca Ferguson. Christmas At Derby Cathedral tickets: £13, £11 Concessions, family tickets for 2 adults and 2 children £35
Paddington
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Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 December UK 2014 95 mins Dir: Paul King Everyone’s favourite bear returns to the big screen this Christmas time. Please look after this bear! A young Peruvian bear is left on the platform of Paddington station and is taken in by the Brown family who don’t know what they are letting themselves in for! Excitement, laughs and thrills abound in the excellent film by Paul King (Paddington 2 and the forthcoming Wonka).