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9th January 2009 - 22nd January 2009
Phoenix Cinema
Slumdog Millionaire (15)
Slumdog Millionaire (15) at 3.45pm (not Sun), 6.15pm (not Sat) and 8.45pm through Thursday 15 Jan. Please check our website or local listings for times the following week.
2hrs. UK/USA 2008. Directed by Danny Boyle. With Irfan Khan, Anil Kapoor and Dec Patel.
In this latest award-winning offering from stylish director Danny Boyle an 18 year-old orphan Jamal (Patel), living in the slums of Mumbai, becomes a contestant on Hindu version of the quiz-show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, hosted by Bollywood star Prem Kumar (Kapoor). He is just one question away from winning the jackpot when he is exposed as illiterate and uneducated and is arrested for cheating. In a desperate bid to explain to the police why he is so knowledgeable, Jamal re-traces his life on the streets, presenting a vivid snapshot of modern India. Running through the film is the story of Jamal's relationships with fellow 'slumdogs', brother Salim and friend Latika, presenting itself in themes of survival in the slums, religious riots, gang lords, crime, telephone call centres and money. An engaging and uplifting film which guarantees to raise a smile.
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10th January 2009
Phoenix Cinema
NY Met: Live in HD Presents La Rondine
La Rondine at 6pm. 2hrs 15 with one interval.
Opera’s charismatic real-life duo, Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna deliver this ravishing romance from Puccini in a new production by Nicolas Joël. Screened live via satellite in crystal-clear high definition.
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10th January 2009
Phoenix Cinema
Kids Club - The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (U)
Kids Club at 12 noon. Activity starts at 11am prompt. No admittance to activity after 11.15am.
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (U)
1 hr 27. The ever-popular SpongeBob SquarePants stars in his very own film, but can he reclaim King Neptune's stolen crown? |
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11th January 2009
Phoenix Cinema
Sunday Double Bill
Heavy Load (12A) at 2pm
1hr 31. UK 2008. Directed by Jerry Rothwell.
Shot over two years as the band, Heavy Load, record their first album, the film is a documentary of a punk band trying to make it with a particular set of challenges. Uniquely, the band is made up of members with and without disabilities which makes their life as a band a negotiation between two different worlds: the institutional timetables of day centres, work placements and social workers with the slacker life of rehearsals, studios and gigs. The films follows the band as they move from disability club nights to mainstream gigs to test whether their dream can survive.
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Patti Smith: Dream of Life (15) at 4pm.
1hr 49. USA 2008. Directed by Steven Sebring.
Eleven years in the making, this documentary surveys the life of Patti Smith not only as a musician but as a poet and painter as well. Sebring is not as concerned with portraying a particular moment in time as weaving a tapestry of the philosophical and spiritual themes that have remained potent in her work.
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15th January 2009
Phoenix Cinema
Thursday Film Classics
Jeux Interdits (Forbidden Games) (18) at 11am.
1 hr 23. France 1952. Directed by René Clément. With Georges Poujouly and Brigitte Fossey.
One of the first films to address the horrors of war through the eyes of children, Jeux Interdits shows the efforts of two children to assimilate the death around them during the Nazi takeover of France.
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17th January 2009
Phoenix Cinema
Kids Club - Speed Racer (PG)
Kids Club at 12 noon. Activity starts at 11am prompt. No admittance to activity after 11.15am
Speed Racer (PG) 2 hrs 15.
A fast paced adventure from the brains behind the Matrix trilogy. Speed Racer and Racer X team up to win the terrifying cross-country car rally called The Crucible.
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21st January 2009
Phoenix Cinema
Older Women in Film Study Morning
10am-1pm with panel discussion following film.
This is an introductory session for people to explore the representation of older women in film. Regardless of whether you are older person, film enthusiast, or interested in issues of gender and representation in the media, this day is about raising awareness and extending knowledge with regards the representation of older women in film. We’re hoping that if there is enough interest the study day will be the first of what could develop into either a course or a series of further study days examining the representation of older women in contemporary and classic global cinema.
Fear Eats the Soul (15) 1 hr 33. Germany 1974. Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Brigitte Mira and El Hedi ben Salem.
A widowed and lonely German cleaning woman falls in love with a much younger Moroccan guest worker. They marry, despite the shocked and bigoted reactions of those around them only to question their relationship when they gain social acceptance. Considered one of Fassbinder’s most powerful films, it won two awards at Cannes upon its release.
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22nd January 2009
Phoenix Cinema
Thursday Film Classics
Plein Soleil (PG) at 11am.
1 hr 59. France 1960. Directed by René Clément. With Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet and Marie Laforêt.
Rene Clement's striking study of a glamorous and complex psychopath was a career-making star turn from a young, amazingly beautiful and ultra-cool Alain Delon. Based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, this is a taut, expertly crafted thriller in which Delon stars as Ripley, an emissary sent by a wealthy American industrialist to save his son, wealthy playboy Philippe Greenleaf, from a life of decadence in Rome. Insinuating himself into Greenleaf's life Ripley playfully practises his signature and dresses up in his clothes, before, on a yachting trip, putting into action his plan to get his life, girl and money.
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23rd January 2009 - 29th January 2009
Phoenix Cinema
Milk (15)
Milk (15) at 3.15 (not Sun), 6.00pm and 8.45pm.
2hrs 8. USA 2008. Directed by Gus Van Sant. With Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, James Franco and Diego Luna.
Gus Van Sant’s new film concentrates on the last eight years of the life of activist and politician Harvey Milk (Penn). The film begins with a middle aged Harvey in New York City pondering what he can do to make his life more meaningful. Milk moves with his partner to San Francisco where they open up a small business in a working class neighbourhood and Milk becomes an outspoken activist. He eventually goes on to become the first openly gay man in American history to be elected to public office. Voted onto the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, Milk became a champion not only for gay rights but for a myriad of causes ranging from union workers to senior citizens. In a time when homosexuals were routinely victims of violence and prejudice, Milk rallied support against a state-wide referendum to fire all gay schoolteachers and their supporters even as threats against his own life began. Milk’s tragically short life and political career were marked by a courage in his convictions and true compassion for his fellow man. Van Sant has created an inspiring picture of a man who changed the course of history.
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24th January 2009
Phoenix Cinema
NY Met: Live in HD Presents Orfeo and Eurydice
Ofreo and Eurydice at 6pm. 1 hr 31 (no interval).
This complete vision for Gluck features the artistry of Stephanie Blythe in the title role. Conducted by James Levine and produced by Mark Morris.
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24th January 2009
Phoenix Cinema
Kids Club - Cars (PG)
Kids Club at 12 noon. Activity starts at 11am prompt. No admittance to activity after 11.15am
Cars (PG) 2 hrs 1. Racecar Lightning McQueen gets waylaid on his way to the Piston Cup Championship and discovers that there's more to being a car than just winning races. |
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25th January 2009
Phoenix Cinema
Into Great Silents, The Best in Silent Cinema
As part of our ongoing series we bring you another silent film with live accompaniment by acclaimed pianist Stephen Horne and preceded by a talk by film historian Gerry Turvey.
Shooting Stars (U) at 2pm. 1hr 20. Directed by Anthony Asquith. With Brian Aherne and Annette Benson.
The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks. Mae hatches a plot to kill her husband by putting a real bullet in the prop gun which will be fired at him during the making of their new film, Prairie Love.
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29th January 2009
Phoenix Cinema
Thursday Film Classics
Le Mépris (15) at 11am.
1 hr 43. France 1963. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. With Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance and Fritz Lang.
The story of screenwriter Paul (Piccoli) and the unravelling of his marriage to Camille (Bardot) is also an examination of the role of the artistic filmmaker in commercial cinema – a role which Godard himself was struggling to play.
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31st January 2009 - 1st February 2009
East Finchley tube station
Walk London
 Walk off the Winter blues with Walk London's Winter Wanders weekend of walking - 40 walks across London covering all 350 miles of the Strategic Walk Network.See www.walklondon.org.uk for details and downloadable free leaflets -also available as audio to download to your mp3 or mobile.
There's a walk on our doorstep - the Capital Ring section 11 goes through East Finchley tube station. (This section starts at Hendon and ends at Highgate). Did you know you were on part of the 75 mile orbital route as you walk through Cherry Tree, Highgate and Queens Wood? Why not explore further with one of our free led walks.
We're aiming to double numbers particpating from the last Autumn Ambles in September: bring more than 4 friends/family/foes and win yourself a Walk London T shirt! Contact:
Alexandra Rook
Project Director
WAlk London
07811 465880
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