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Perfect Days (PG)
Dir: Wim Wenders 2023 | 125 mins
Japanese with English subtitles
The latest film from acclaimed writer-director Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire). Set in Tokyo, the story celebrates the hidden joys of Japanese culture.
Winner of the Best Actor award at Cannes 2023, Koji Yakusho (Babel, 13 Assassins) stars as Hirayama, a contemplative middle-aged man who lives a life of modesty and serenity. He spends his days balancing his job as a dutiful caretaker of Tokyo’s numerous public toilets with his passion for music, literature and photography.
As we join him on his structured daily routine, a series of unexpected encounters gradually begin to reveal a hidden past that lies behind his otherwise content and harmonious life.
Nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 2024 Academy Awards.
‘Koji Yakusho’s performance is a masterclass in nuance’ ★★★★ Empire
Red Island (12A)
Dir: Robin Campillo 2024 | 117 mins
French with English subtitles
Inspired by filmmaker Robin Campillo’s own childhood. Early 1970s. Eight-year-old Thomas is growing up on a French Air Force base in recently independent Madagascar. From the innocent perspective of a child, the island is a paradise and a playground. But as adolescence grows near, he begins observing his parents and their circle of friends with new eyes. Childhood innocence slowly gives way to a more shadowy understanding of the hypocrisy and racism that defines France’s military involvement on the island.
‘This visually exquisite, tender film about a boy growing up in a military air base on an former colony is a wonderful watch’ ★★★★★ The Guardian
£10.50 | £9.50 conc
Special Ticket Offer
£9 | £8 conc tickets when you book for three films at the same time. Offer excludes event cinema screenings. Offer applied in basket.
Dune: Part II (12A)
Dir: Denis Villeneuve 2024 | 167 mins
The epic, big-screen adaptation Frank Herbert’s acclaimed bestseller continues.
Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavours to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.
‘Audacious, intimate, and menacing like no other blockbuster in existence’ ★★★★★ The Independent
£10.50 | £9.50 conc
Special Ticket Offer
£9 | £8 conc tickets when you book for three films at the same time. Offer excludes event cinema screenings. Offer applied in basket.
Bring Baby Screening
The screening on Sat 27 Apr 11am is exclusively for parents, carers and grown-ups with children under 2 years. Lights are kept on low level and you can move around if you need to. Tickets are £5.50 for adults (including a cup of tea/coffee); babies and infants are free of charge. Seating is unreserved and unaccompanied adults are not admitted.
Open Captioned Screening
The screening on Wed 24 Apr 2pm is an Open Captioned Screening. These screenings provide a transcription of the audio from a film. Captions are displayed at the bottom of the cinema screen along with the dialogue from the film.
Relaxed screenings
Our screening on Sat 20 Apr 1.30pm is Relaxed - everyone is welcome to join us for this friendly format. The lights are kept on low and the audience are free to move around, make noise or come in and out of the theatre as needed.
High & Low: John Galliano (15)
Dir: Kevin Macdonald 2023 | 117 mins
Documentary. Fashion designer John Galliano was widely recognized as one of the most influential names in 1990s and 2000s couture until his career abruptly ended in 2011. Candid footage - plus conversations with Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Anna Wintour and more - trace Galliano’s turbulent career through the decades.
‘An unflinching view of fashion’s most flawed genius’ ★★★★ The Telegraph
£10.50 | £9.50 conc
Special Ticket Offer
£9 | £8 conc tickets when you book for three films at the same time. Offer excludes event cinema screenings. Offer applied in basket.
Royal Opera House Live: Carmen
220 mins (including one interval)
Sung in French with English subtitles
Damiano Michieletto's sizzling new production evokes all the passion and heat of Bizet's score, which features Carmen’s sultry Habanera and the rousing Toreador song. Antonello Manacorda conducts an exciting international cast, with Aigul Akhmetshina performing the
title role.
Co-production with Teatro Real, Madrid and La Scala, Milan.
£16
The New Boy (12A)
Dir: Warwick Thornton 2023 | 96 mins
1940s Australia. A a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun (Cate Blanchett). The new boy’s presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
‘Colonial forces seek to stamp out Aboriginal spirituality in Warwick Thornton’s haunting outback fable’ ★★★★ Time Out
£10.50 | £9.50 conc
Special Ticket Offer
£9 | £8 conc tickets when you book for three films at the same time. Offer excludes event cinema screenings. Offer applied in basket.
National Theatre Live: Nye
160 mins tbc.
A new play by Tim Price, directed by Rufus Norris
Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain’s welfare state and created the NHS.
Confronted with death, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan’s deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life; from childhood to mining underground, Parliament and fights with Churchill.
Written by Tim Price and directed by Rufus Norris (Small Island), this epic new Welsh fantasia will be broadcast live from the National Theatre.
£16
The Persian Version (15)
Dir: Maryam Keshavarz 2023 | 107 mins
Coming from two countries at odds with each other, Iranian-American Leila strives to find balance and embrace her opposing cultures.
When her family reunites in New York City for her father’s heart transplant, Leila navigates her relationships from arms length in an effort to keep her 'real' life separate from her family life. However, when her secret is unceremoniously revealed, so are the distinct parallels between her life and that of her mother Shireen.
An honest portrayal of a woman who remains unapologetically herself, blended seamlessly into a heartfelt story about family, belonging - and the undeniable influence of pop music.
Winning both the Audience Award and the Best Screenplay Award at this years Sundance Film Festival, writer-director-producer Maryam Keshavarz delivers a compelling, intelligent and timely story of both the Iranian, and the Iranian-American, experience.
£10.50 | £9.50 conc
Special Ticket Offer
£9 | £8 conc tickets when you book for three films at the same time. Offer excludes event cinema screenings. Offer applied in basket.
Bring Baby Screening
The screening on Sat 11 May 11am is exclusively for parents, carers and grown-ups with children under 2 years. Lights are kept on low level and you can move around if you need to. Tickets are £5.50 for adults (including a cup of tea/coffee); babies and infants are free of charge. Seating is unreserved and unaccompanied adults are not admitted.
The Delinquents (12A)
Dir: Rodrigo Moreno 2023 | 190 mins
Spanish with English subtitles
Bank employee Morán schemes to steal enough money to liberate himself from corporate monotony, then confess and serve prison time while his co-worker hides the cash. Soon under pressure by a company investigator, accomplice Román later encounters a mysterious woman who will transform him forever.
‘Beguilingly surreal slow-motion Buenos Aires heist tale’ ★★★★★ The Guardian
£10.50 | £9.50 conc
Special Ticket Offer
£9 | £8 conc tickets when you book for three films at the same time. Offer excludes event cinema screenings. Offer applied in basket.
Macbeth: Ralph Fiennes & Indira Varma
150 mins
Tony and BAFTA Award winner Ralph Fiennes and Olivier Award winner Indira Varma star in a brand-new ‘full-voltage visceral’ (★★★★ Daily Telegraph) production of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Filmed live at Dock X, a custom-built theatre space in London, this critically acclaimed staging of Macbeth ‘that quickens the pulse, then goes for the jugular’ (★★★★ Financial Times) will be unmissable on the big screen.
Directed by Simon Godwin (Antony & Cleopatra, Romeo & Juliet, Hansard) with set and costume design by Frankie Bradshaw (Jerusalem, Blues for an Alabama Sky), this is a cinematic and ‘beautifully staged’ (★★★★ WhatsOnStage) production that brings ‘Shakespeare’s tragedy pulsing into the present day’ (★★★★★ The I).
Macbeth is coming. A couple corrupted by their relentless lust for power have blood on their hands.
Witness the gripping tale of greed, murder, deception, and superstition in cinemas for a limited time only. Once you cross the line, you can never turn back.
Courtyard Theatre
£16
Monkey Man (cert tbc)
Dir: Dev Patel 2024 | Run time tbc
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, an icon embodying strength and courage. Dev Patel stars as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club. Night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash.
After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
£10.50 | £9.50 conc
Special Ticket Offer
£9 | £8 conc tickets when you book for three films at the same time. Offer excludes event cinema screenings. Offer applied in basket.
Open Captioned Screening
The screening on Wed 22 May 2pm is an Open Captioned Screening. These screenings provide a transcription of the audio from a film. Captions are displayed at the bottom of the cinema screen along with the dialogue from the film.
Royal Opera House Live: The Winter’s Tale
200 mins (including two intervals)
Shakespeare’s profound story of love and loss, artfully adapted into a contemporary three-act narrative ballet by Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon.
King Leontes of Sicilia is crippled with an all-consuming jealousy when his friend, King Polixenes of Bohemia, stays with him and his wife Hermione. What follows is a tale where a marriage is destroyed, a child is abandoned and all hope is seemingly lost for two lovers.
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, The Winter's Tale is an award-winning modern ballet Classic - packed with emotional turmoil heightened by Joby Talbot’s compelling score and Bob Crowley’s atmospheric designs.
A co-production between The Royal Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada
£16
Mothers' Instinct (15)
Dir: Benoît Delhomme 2023 | 94 mins
Psychological thriller about two best friends and neighbours, Alice and Céline, whose perfect lives in 60s suburbia are shattered by a tragic accident involving one of their children. Starring Academy Award winners Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway.
Follow Alice and Céline as their familial bonds are gradually undermined by guilt and paranoia. Leading to a gripping battle of wills - revealing the darker side of maternal love.
£10.50 | £9.50 conc
Special Ticket Offer
£9 | £8 conc tickets when you book for three films at the same time. Offer excludes event cinema screenings. Offer applied in basket.
Open Captioned Screening
The screening on Sat 25 May 1pm is an Open Captioned Screening. These screenings provide a transcription of the audio from a film. Captions are displayed at the bottom of the cinema screen along with the dialogue from the film.
Robot Dreams (PG)
Dir: Pablo Berger 2023 | 102 mins
Dog spends a lot of time by himself, whiling away long evenings in his Manhattan studio apartment. Tired of his solitary existence, he decides to purchase a friend. When his order arrives, he builds Robot - a fun-loving, happy-go-lucky companion to keep him company.
Dog and Robot spend an idyllic day together, ending up at Coney Island to enjoy the fun. But they are soon separated on the beach. Dog, devastated at the loss of his friend, does everything in his power to get Robot back.
A heart-swelling, hand-drawn delight that invites audiences of all ages to explore love and loss through its tender portrait of a new friendship.
£9 | £7 under 16s
Family & Friends (4 people) £28
Relaxed screenings
All of our screenings of Robot Dreams are Relaxed - everyone is welcome to join us for this friendly format. The lights are kept on low and the audience are free to move around, make noise or come in and out of the theatre as needed.
Io Capitano (cert tbc)
Dir: Matteo Garrone 2024 | 121 mins
Wolof, French and English with English Subtitles
Seydou and Moussa are two Senegalese teenagers who leave Dakar to travel to Europe where they believe opportunities await.
On a journey neither could have imagined, the boys face the dangers and the beauty of the desert, the shock of detention centres in Libya and the perils of the sea in their pursuit of a better life. An epic story that offers a deeply human perspective on the migrant crisis.
Nominated for Best International Feature at this year’s Academy Awards and winner of the Silver Lion and Best Young Actor Awards at Venice Film Festival.
£10.50 | £9.50 conc
Special Ticket Offer
£9 | £8 conc tickets when you book for three films at the same time. Offer excludes event cinema screenings. Offer applied in basket.
Royal Opera House Live: Message In A Bottle
120 mins (including one interval)
The peaceful village of Bebko is alive with joyous celebrations. Suddenly, under attack, everything changes forever. Three siblings, Leto, Mati and Tana, must embark on perilous journeys in order to survive.
Message In A Bottle is a spectacular new dance-theatre show from five-time Olivier Award nominee, Kate Prince - inspired by and set to the iconic hits of 17-time Grammy Award-winning artist Sting. Including Every Breath You Take, Roxanne, Walking On The Moon and more.
With a mix of exhilarating dance styles, high-energy footwork and breath-taking athleticism, Message In A Bottle tells a unifying and uplifting story of humanity and hope.
This production was filmed in 2022.
A Sadler’s Wells and Universal Music UK production co-produced with Birmingham Hippodrome and The Lowry, Salford.
£16
Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG)
Dir: Mike Mitchell, Stephanie Stine 2023 | 94 mins
Jack Black returns to his role as Po - the world’s most unlikely kung fu master. Enjoy a hilarious, butt-kicking new chapter in this beloved action-comedy series.
Relaxed screenings
All of our screenings of Kung Fu Panda 4 are Relaxed - everyone is welcome to join us for this friendly format. The lights are kept on low and the audience are free to move around, make noise or come in and out of the theatre as needed.
£9 | £7 under 16s
Family & Friends (4 people) £28
Royal Opera House Live: Andrea Chénier
195 minutes (including one interval)
Sung in Italian with English subtitles.
At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunciation of Louis XVI. Five years later, the Revolution has given way to the Terror, transforming the power balance between Chénier, his beloved Maddalena and Gérard, the man who could destroy him...
Jonas Kaufmann headlines David McVicar’s spectacular staging, under the baton of long-time collaborator Antonio Pappano – who conducts Giordano’s epic historical drama of revolution and forbidden love in his last production as Music Director of The Royal Opera.
£16
Co-production with China National Centre for Performing Arts, Beijing and San Francisco Opera.