WHAT'S ON - 01/02/2025

• A COMPLETE UNKNOWN

  It would take an epic saga to do justice to the long, storied career of cultural icon Bob Dylan. James Mangold’s excellent biopic hinges instead around his first major reinvention, when he plugged in his electric guitar at 1965’s Newport... Read More

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• A REAL PAIN

  Multi-hyphenate Jesse Eisenberg’s second film as writer-director also sees him take on the roles of producer and star. Sharing lead acting duties with Kieran Culkin (best known for his television work, most notably as Roman Roy in Succession), the pair... Read More

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• BLUE ROAD – THE EDNA O’BRIEN STORY

  In 1960, a young Irish woman named Edna O’Brien wrote The Country Girls, the first of a sexually-frank trilogy of novels. Though the books were banned in Ireland, O’Brien became an international literary sensation, gaining fame and notoriety through her... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 11:10, 16:30 (Q&A)

  

• HARD TRUTHS

  Hard Truths reunites Mike Leigh with Marianne Jean-Baptiste, the star of his Secrets And Lies (1996), and marks his final collaboration with cinematographer Dick Pope, who passed away following filming. Beginning in media res, we meet Pansy, the flipside to Happy-Go-Lucky’s Poppy, a woman... Read More

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• INGMAR BERGMAN: PORT OF CALL

  Bergman charts the complex relationship between two outsiders in this assured early film; Port of Call, with its shades of Rossellini’s social realist ethos and location shooting, presages the existential explorations that would define his later works. Berit (Nine-Christine Jönsson),... Read More

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• MARIA

  With Maria, Chilean director Pablo Larrain completes his thematically linked triptych of portraits of famous, isolated women, having observed Jackie Kennedy before turning to Diana Spencer; Natalie Portman and Kristen Stewart received Best Actress Oscar nominations for their respective performances,... Read More

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• PRESENCE

  Despite his prolific and diverse output over the last 35 years, Presence marks director Steven Soderbergh’s first foray into the supernatural. From a screenplay by David Koepp, writer of films such as Carlito’s Way (Brian De Palma, 1993), the story... Read More

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• THE BRUTALIST (70MM)

  In 1947, architect László Tóth (Adrien Brody) flees persecution in Budapest for the US; initially forced to toil in poverty, circumstances thrust him into the orbit of Harrison van Buren (Guy Pearse), a millionaire businessman who comes to recognise the spark of revolutionary genius in the Hungarian’s innovative... Read More

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