One of the great silent films, GW Pabst’s Pandora’s Box is renowned for its sensational storyline, sparkling Weimar-period setting and the legendary, lead performance from its iconic star Louise Brooks. Following the rise and fall of Lulu (Brooks), a spirited but innocent showgirl whose sheer sexual magnetism wreaks havoc on the lives of men and women alike, the film was controversial in its day, then underappreciated for decades. Pandora’s Box now stands as an incredibly modern movie and few stars of any era dazzle as bright as Louise Brooks.
New 2K DCP of the 2009 restoration of Munich Film Museum’s definitive cut. Live, improvised piano accompaniment by Jonny Best
Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard, Mathieu Almaric and Charlotte Gainsbourg team up for the latest feature from acclaimed writer-director Arnaud Desplechin. Filmmaker Ismael lives with his wife Sylvia (Gainsbourg) but remains obsessed with his ex-wife, who disappeared 20 years ago and is believed to be dead. When she suddenly reappears, Ismael’s life – already complicated by a film project he is unable to finish – takes a strange turn. Complex, playful and humorous, Ismael’s Ghosts is a wonderful showcase for some of French cinema’s finest acting talent.
Starring Mathieu Amalric, Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Nominee, Lumiere Awards, Best Cinematography, Best Music.
Nominee Munich Film Festival, Best International Film.
“There are moments in this movie that are richer than anything you can possibly see in a movie theater this month, scenes that will fill you with awe.” – Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
“An unforgettable experience.” – Glenn Kenny, New York Times
Widower and ageing Brooklyn hipster Frank starts a band with his teenage daughter Sam just before she leaves home to attend college in California. When a song of theirs finds success online, it complicates Frank’s attempts to let go of his dreams of stardom and allow his daughter to find her own path in life.
Starring Nick Offerman, Kiersey Clemons, Ted Danson and Toni Collette.
Winner, Audience Award – Best Narrative Feature, Sarasota Film Festival and Wisconsin Film Festival Nominee.
Audience Award, Edinburgh International Film Festival
“This is a movie you not only want to see but also to put on the turntable.” – Peter Howell, Toronto Star.
“One of the nicest things about HEARTS BEAT LOUD, and there are several nice things, is the way that Offerman and Clemons seem like father and daughter.” – Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle.
From legendary writer-director Paul Schrader comes a gripping new film that ranks among his very best work.
Reverend Ernst Toller is a solitary parish priest at a small church in upstate New York, which is on the cusp of celebrating its 250th anniversary. Now more of a tourist attraction catering to a dwindling congregation, it has long been eclipsed by its nearby parent church, Abundant Life, with its state-of-the-art facilities. When a pregnant parishioner asks Reverend Toller to counsel her husband, a radical environmentalist, Toller is plunged into his own tormented past and finds himself questioning his own future and where redemption might lie. With the pressure on him beginning to grow, he must do everything he can to stop events spiraling out of control.
Starring Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Philip Ettinger.
Winner, Best Director – Jury Prize, Main Programme, FEST International Film Festival Winner.
Green Drop Award and Nominee, Best Film, Venice Film Festival 2017.
“Ultimately its sheer archness reveals Paul Schrader as a gifted and deeply persuasive evangelist of the transcendental style – if not quite a canon saint.” – John Semley, The Globe and Mail
“This is a movie about faith tested, and people trying to reconcile hope with a world that can feel hopeless. It’s a film to be seen in a dark theater with an audience hushed in reverence of the power of cinema.” – Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
Studio 54 was the epicentre of 70s hedonism – a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolise an entire era. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind of New York society. Now, 39 years after the velvet rope was first slung across the club’s hallowed threshold, a feature documentary tells the real story behind the greatest club of all time.
PLEASE NOTE: This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
Starring Steve Rubell andIan Schrager.
“For those of us who never went (and probably couldn’t have gotten in if we tried), “Studio 54″ lets you taste a bit of the ecstasy.” – Owen Gleiberman, Variety.
“An enjoyable ride that captures both the excitement of the party and the shameful details of its aftermath.” – John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter.
Critically acclaimed filmmaker Fatih Akin returns with IN THE FADE, a gripping, edge-of-your-seat contemporary thriller exploring the lengths one woman would go to seek retribution after a brutal terrorist attack. Inspired by shocking real-life events, the film tells the story of Katja, whose life is torn apart when her husband and young son are suddenly killed in a bomb attack. A police investigation points to a pair of young neo-Nazis as the key suspects, but when a lack of evidence fails to fully incriminate them, Katja is forced to take matters into her own hands and her hunt for justice begins to take increasingly dangerous and unexpected turns.
Winner of the Best Actress award at Cannes 2017, the 2018 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and featuring a career-defining central performance from Kruger, In the Fade is a timely and all-too-urgent drama about a woman pushed to the edge as she desperately searches for the answers she believes to be out there.
Starring Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto, Numan Acar
Winner, Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language, Golden Globes 2018 Winner, Best Actress – Diane Krueger, Cannes Film Festival 2017
“It’s flawed but powerful, mostly down to a revelatory performance from Diane Kruger.” – Ian Freer, Empire Magazine
“Diane Kruger carries entire scenes of witness testimonies through looks and grimaces alone. It’s a masterclass.” – Kevin Maher, The Times
Steve is a warehouse worker by day, hip-hop artist by night. He represents a forgotten generation whose dreams haven’t been met. But Steve is also a deeply community-driven optimist, who has also been trying to find a way to bring creativity and culture to the disadvantaged kids of the city. Kids like he once was – kids whose opportunities to build a better life are restricted by the world around them. Music has been his dream for 30 years and he saw the opportunity in the City of Culture year to start a project: the ‘Beats Bus’, using a bus donated by his company and converted into a sound studio, allowing him to visit some of Hull’s poorest schools and give kids a voice through music training and performance – a chance he never had.
Additional dates now added
Friday 10 Aug, 7:30pm, Kardomah94
+ post-film Q&A with Sean McAllister and Steve Arnott, hosted by Lee Corner from Absolutely Cultured
Multiple August dates 7:30pm, Vue Cinema Hull
+ post-film Q&A with Sean McAllister and Steve Arnott
Monday 13 August
Tuesday 14 August
Wednesday 15 August
Monday 20 August
Wednesday 22 August
Thursday 23 August
Tuesday 28 August
Wednesday 29 August
A unique opportunity to work with film-maker and tech wizard, Sean Atkinson, to learn techniques and form an approach to promoting your creative practice online and in digital formats.
The day will begin with an introduction of the many ways media may be used to promote you and your work. Through talk and demonstration, Sean will bring several examples of tech, show effective ways of using them, and present some of the projects that he has worked on to support others in managing their profile through media and tech.
This will include some basic techniques of using your phone or tablet for film, editing and sound along with some of the particularities of spreading your material on social media and other digital outlets and the most effective apps and programmes.
You will then explore using the techniques etc with the support of Sea, with opportunity for questions and discussion throughout.
Have a wonderful Halloween at the City Hall in the company of Erik (The Phantom), who is once again up from the dungeons again!
In one of his most famous roles, Lon Chaney plays the Phantom, with a stellar cast of the silent screen to support him. Christine Daaé played by Mary Philbim, is the object of Erik’s obsession and he stops at nothing for her to succeed and for her to be his possession.
The love triangle is complete with Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny played by Norman Kerry, who is the true love of Christine.
The original story by Gaston Leroux is fantastic, with horror and suspense are the key elements to this film.
Donald MacKenzie, organist from London’s Odeon Leicester Square, will be at the console of the City Hall organ to provide the magical accompaniment to seamlessly move from one dramatic scene to the next and provide a special edge to the film’s nail biting experience.
Famed practical joker Henry Russell leaves 50,000 pounds to each of his four surviving relatives, but his will has one last joke – they each have to undertake a task completely out of character within a month.
Join the Culture:Orchestra for a whole evening of myth and magic, including music from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and The Deathly Hallows, as well as The Chronicles of Narnia:The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and highlights from the box office smash, Wicked.
Paired with some of the best loved magical orchestral works; The Magic Flute Overture, The Moldau, In the Hall of the Mountain King and the Hansel and Gretel Overture, the Culture:Orchestra and their night of magic is one not to be missed.
Culture:Orchestra Magic! will take place on the following dates:
A double bill celebrating the Deaf community, as part of Deaf Awareness Week.
The Silent Child centres around a profoundly deaf four year old girl, who lives in a world of silence until a caring social worker teaches her the gift of communication. An insightful short story, inspired by real life events, which observes the avoidable struggles that deaf children face.
Power in Our Hands is a ground-breaking documentary – containing newly digitised archive footage available to the public for the first time – on the Deaf community’s fight for civil rights and principally, the right to be heard. Combining social history and archive film with contemporary interviews, Power in Our Hands explores the secret history and heritage of the Deaf community in the UK and gives people a glimpse into Deaf culture that is mostly hidden from the hearing world.
The evening will be fully inclusive for the deaf and those hard of hearing.
Join Engine Room Theatre for The Voyage, as it makes the step from stage to screen.
Recorded at Halifax Square Chapel, the film captures an intimate and magical performance from the company’s much celebrated 2016 tour.
The Voyage Screening is a “pay what you want” event.
1000 years ago, the mysterious Dark Crystal was damaged by one of the Urskeks and an age of chaos began!
The evil race of grotesque birdlike lizards the Skeksis, gnomish dragons who rule their fantastic planet with an iron claw. Meanwhile the orphan Jen, raised in solitude by a race of the peace-loving wizards called the Mystics, embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of the Dark Crystal, which gives the Skesis their power and restore the balance of the universe.
The night also includes the free to enter The Big Movie Quiz! that starts up in the bar at 7.15pm.
Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, where he inadvertently disrupts his parents’ first meeting and attracts his mother’s romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents’ romance, and with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown return to 1985.
The night also includes the free to enter The Big Movie Quiz! that starts up in the bar at 7:15pm.
Dame Vivienne Westwood is the doyenne of British fashion, and one of the most influential originators in history. This film explores Vivienne Westwood’s uphill struggle to success, looking closely at her artistry, her activism and her cultural significance.
Blending iconic archive and newly shot observational footage, this story will be told in Vivienne’s own words, and through touching interviews with her inner circle of family, friends and collaborators.
