Our new Oct – Mar season

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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (PG)

Last session: Thu 23 May 2019 at 20.35

Dr. Strangelove is the classic, biting satire on the threat of total nuclear annihilation starring Peter Sellers. Based...

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ROH Live: Madama Butterfly (Live)

Last session: Thu 30 Mar 2017 at 19.15

Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is one of the most popular of all operas, with ravishing music and a heartbreaking...

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Met Opera Live: Idomeneo (Live)

Last session: Sat 25 Mar 2017 at 16.40

Mozart’s first operatic masterpiece returns to the Met in the classic Jean-Pierre Ponnelle production, conducted by James Levine.

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The Inner Life of Martin Frost (12A)

Last session: Sun 19 Mar 2017 at 15.30

Having completed his fourth novel, Martin Frost accepts the invitation of friends to spend a few weeks in...

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Blind Chance (15)

Last session: Wed 15 Mar 2017 at 18.00

Banned for years for getting too close to the political knuckle, Kieślowski's three-part narrative hinges on whether medical...

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Met Opera Live: La Traviata (Live)

Last session: Sat 11 Mar 2017 at 17.40

Sonya Yoncheva sings one of opera’s most beloved heroines, the tragic courtesan Violetta, opposite Michael Fabiano as her...

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The Conversation (15)

Last session: Wed 8 Mar 2017 at 18.00

Another classic Coppola, in which Hackman’s isolated, private life is built on other peoples’ private lives and conversations,...

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Blue in the Face (15)

Last session: Sun 5 Mar 2017 at 15.30

The Brooklyn cigar store owned by Augie Wren (Harvey Keitel) is a drop-in centre for all manner of...

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Met Opera Live: Rusalka (Live)

Last session: Sat 25 Feb 2017 at 17.40

Director Mary Zimmerman brings her wondrous theatrical imagination to Dvořák’s fairytale of love and longing, rejection and redemption...

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ROH Live: Il Trovatore (Live)

Last session: Tue 31 Jan 2017 at 19.15

International superstars Vitaliy Bilyy, Anita Rachvelishvili, Lianna Haroutounian and Gregory Kunde lead a superb cast of world-class singers...

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Met Opera Live: Roméo et Juliette (Live)

Last session: Sat 21 Jan 2017 at 17.40

Bartlett Sher’s new production of Gounod’s lush Shakespeare adaptation has won acclaim for its vivid 18th century milieu and stunning...

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RSC Live: The Tempest (12A)

Last session: Wed 11 Jan 2017 at 18.45

Simon Russell Beale returns to the RSC after 20 years to play Prospero in this groundbreaking production directed by Artistic Director...

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Met Opera Live: Nabucco (Live)

Last session: Sat 7 Jan 2017 at 17.40

The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his longtime...

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Santa Claus: The Movie (U)

Last session: Thu 22 Dec 2016 at 17.50

Complications surface when Santa Claus meets Patch, a misguided elf who gets mixed up with a business tycoon’s...

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Scrooged (PG)

Last session: Wed 21 Dec 2016 at 18.00

A hilarious 1980s comedy variation on the classic Christmas tale, starring Bill Murray.

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The Princess Bride (PG)

Last session: Mon 19 Dec 2016 at 20.40

A grandfather reads his sick grandson a story of swashbuckling swordsmen, dread pirates and true love in this...

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The Thing (18)

Last session: Fri 16 Dec 2016 at 20.30

John Carpenter's classic sees Kurt Russell face off against a shape-shifting monster.

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Little Shop of Horrors (PG)

Last session: Wed 14 Dec 2016 at 20.40

Feed me, Seymour! Feed me! Rick Moranis stars in Frank Oz's oddball musical about a man-eating plant from...

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The Saddest Music in the World (15)

Last session: Tue 13 Dec 2016 at 18.20

Guy Maddin's new film starring Isabella Rossellini. Part of the Guy Maddin season

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Met Opera Live: L’Amour de Loin (Live)

Last session: Sat 10 Dec 2016 at 17.40

Kaija Saariaho’s breakthrough opera has its Metropolitan Opera premiere in a dazzling new production with Eric Owens as the...

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The Dark Crystal (PG)

Last session: Sat 10 Dec 2016 at 12.45

On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard...

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Back to the Future (PG)

Last session: Fri 9 Dec 2016 at 18.15

"You built a time machine, out of a DeLorean?" Marty McFly needs to get back to the future...

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ROH Live: The Nutcracker (Live)

Last session: Thu 8 Dec 2016 at 19.15

The Royal Ballet's glorious production of The Nutcracker, created by Peter Wright in 1984, is the production par...

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Feed Me + Intro... (18)

Last session: Mon 5 Dec 2016 at 18.30

Feed Me is a parable of the pleasures and perils of indulgence, a waspish skit on a world...

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Ernest & Celestine (U)

Last session: Sun 27 Nov 2016 at 11.00

The story of an unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Celestine, this a...

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Escape From Tomorrow (15)

Last session: Thu 24 Nov 2016 at 18.20

Made by smuggling cameras into Disneyland, this disturbing satire is guerrilla filmmaking at its best.

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The Irish Film Institute Presents George Best: Football As Never Before (CTBA)

Last session: Tue 22 Nov 2016 at 18.30

It’s hard to imagine a filmmaker focusing on a single player for an entire game or match, but...

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ROH Live: Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Live)

Last session: Sun 20 Nov 2016 at 14.00

The Royal Opera's lavish production of Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), Offenbach's masterpiece, is a favourite...

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The Company of Wolves (18)

Last session: Mon 7 Nov 2016 at 20.40

A teenage heroine begins to discover her sexuality and its dark, unsettling power.

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Yella (12A)

Last session: Mon 7 Nov 2016 at 18.20

An effective metaphysical thriller. A young woman leaves her old life - and possessive husband - to start...

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Christiane F. (18)

Last session: Sun 6 Nov 2016 at 17.30

A gritty drama based on the true confessions of 13-year-old Christiane who becomes embroiled in the 1970s West...

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A Coffee in Berlin (15)

Last session: Fri 4 Nov 2016 at 18.20

A love-letter to the city of Berlin and Generation Y, depicting a day-in-the-life of twenty-something law school dropout...

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The Innocents (12A)

Last session: Thu 3 Nov 2016 at 18.20

One of the great British Gothic chillers, based on The Turn of the Screw.

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Victoria (15)

Last session: Wed 2 Nov 2016 at 20.05

Victoria, a young Spanish woman, dances through the Berlin scene with abandon. She meets four outsiders and forms...

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¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Festival presents Drácula (PG)

Last session: Mon 31 Oct 2016 at 18.10

Filmed at night on the sets being used by the better-known version starring Bela Lugosi, this Spanish language...

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Nosferatu + Live musical score... (PG)

Last session: Sun 30 Oct 2016 at 13.30

Nosferatu marked the first appearance on screen of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and it remains the eeriest of the...

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Battling Butler (U)

Last session: Sun 30 Oct 2016 at 11.00

Based on the Broadway play, the story revolves around a case of mistaken identity between two Alfred Butlers...

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Manchester Science Festival presents: Scanning the Horizon (12A)

Last session: Wed 26 Oct 2016 at 16.00

The BBC’s Horizon documentary series has examined scientific ideas for five decades. But how many of its predictions...

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Met Opera Live: Don Giovani (Live)

Last session: Sat 22 Oct 2016 at 17.40

The charismatic baritone Simon Keenlyside plays the title hero, opera’s ultimate cad, who goes to hell in a...

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ROH Live: Così fan tutte (Live)

Last session: Mon 17 Oct 2016 at 18.30

Mozart’s classic opera Così fan tutte puts two pairs of lovers to the test – with great music...

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RSC Live: King Lear (12A)

Last session: Wed 12 Oct 2016 at 18.45

Lear has ruled for many years. As age begins to overtake him, he decides to divide his kingdom...

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Met Opera Live: Tristan und Isolde (Live)

Last session: Sat 8 Oct 2016 at 16.45

Opening the new Met Opera Live season, Tristan und Isolde features a cast of outstanding Wagnerians: Nina Stemme as Isolde,...