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Sun 6 Sept14:00
£10Lizzie Borden’s frank and often funny look at a day-in-the-life of prostitutes working in a Manhattan brothel. The film follows Molly, a photographer, through her day working as a…
Sun 6 Sept17:30
£15After reinventing martial arts cinema and choreography at the Shaw Brothers in the 1970s, Lau Kar-Leung turned his hand to contemporary action in the late 80s with the hugely…
Sun 6 Sept19:45
£14Simon Callow will join Margy Kinmonth for a Q&A prior to the screening. Maddalena has a devastating effect on nearly every man she meets - sometimes with unfortunate fatal results…
Mon 14 Sept11:00
In Thea Gaji ć 's powerful debut based on a true story, a Yugoslav refugee and gifted musician rebuilds his life in Bristol, balancing fatherhood with the shadows of his past that…
Mon 14 Sept18:15
A young communist student spies on a flamboyant gay artist in this much-loved, Oscar-nominated modern classic from Cuba. Initially appearing to be a sweet gay romcom, this film…
Thu 17 Sept12:15
Book tickets for two or more of our Andrei Tarkovsky films in the same transaction to receive a discount! Tarkovsky's non-narrative, stream of consciousness autobiographical…
Thu 17 Sept18:10
Left alone in a hotel room with her younger sister, 17-year-old Mila ( Tamiris Zhangazinova ) joins an open-water swimming team led by an enigmatic coach. Set in contemporary…
Sun 20 Sept14:00
£10Jack Hazan’s genre-bending documentary follows artist David Hockney as he struggles to complete a painting featuring his model and lover with whom he has just broken up. It is…
Sun 20 Sept14:10
£16Bresson’s second feature is “a landmark in cinema history … Its influence on subsequent French cinema is far from exhausted” (David Thomson). Made in collaboration with Jean…
Fri 25 Sept17:45
A retired criminal profiler (William Petersen) reluctantly returns to the FBI to help track down a serial killer of families and is forced to consult an expert—the imprisoned Dr…
Fri 25 Sept20:00
£15Jazz
Sun 27 Sept12:50
Featuring a script by Jean-Claude Carrière and Anne-Marie Miéville, Sauve qui peut (la vie) ( Every Man for Himself ), looks at the sexual and professional lives of three…
Sun 27 Sept14:00
£10A new generation of young female activists awakens to a powerful, forgotten chapter of women 's history. As they navigate the complexities of teenage life and social activism…
Thu 1 Oct18:00
A retired criminal profiler (William Petersen) reluctantly returns to the FBI to help track down a serial killer of families and is forced to consult an expert—the imprisoned Dr…
Thu 1 Oct18:10
Featuring a script by Jean-Claude Carrière and Anne-Marie Miéville, Sauve qui peut (la vie) ( Every Man for Himself ), looks at the sexual and professional lives of three…
Thu 1 Oct18:30
£4Whose Family: Filipino Domestic Workers in Hong Kong and Beyond + Discussion There are nearly 400,000 domestic migrant workers in Hong Kong, most of them women from the…
Thu 1 Oct18:30
£4There are nearly 400,000 domestic migrant workers in Hong Kong, most of them women from the Philippines and Indonesia. The lack of a legal cap on working hours, alongside the…
