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Dolittle
Wednesday 19 February 2020
1:15 pm
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Robert Downey Jr. electrifies one of literature’s most enduring characters in a vivid reimagining of the classic tale of the man who could talk to animals: Dolittle. After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle…
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Hard of Hearing: 1917
Thursday 20 February 2020
3:30 pm
Sam Mendes’ visceral and immersive vision of the First World War battlefields. Two young British soldiers, Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman), are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory…
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NT Live: Cyrano de Bergerac
Thursday 20 February 2020
7:00 pm
James McAvoy (X-Men, Atonement) returns to the stage in an inventive new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, broadcast live to cinemas from the West End in London. Fierce with a pen and notorious in combat, Cyrano almost has it…
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Weathering With You
Friday 21 February 2020
6:00 pm
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The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as…
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Waves
Friday 21 February 2020
8:15 pm
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Set against the vibrant landscape of South Florida, and featuring an astonishing ensemble of award-winning actors and breakouts alike, Waves traces the epic emotional journey of a suburban African-American family – led by a well-intentioned but domineering father –…
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Midnight Traveller
Saturday 22 February 2020
3:10 pm
When his life is threatened by the Taliban, filmmaker Hassan Fazili goes on the run with his wife and two small daughters. Shooting on their mobile phones, the family takes us with them on a harrowing and gruelling journey,…
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A Hidden Life
Saturday 22 February 2020
5:10 pm
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Terrence Malick’s three-hour epic probes places the world of men against the call of the eternal. Based on the true story of Franz Jägerstätter (August Diehl), we find him in the secluded bucolic idyll of the Austrian mountains, surrounded…
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Hard of Hearing: Waves
Monday 24 February 2020
2:00 pm
Set against the vibrant landscape of South Florida, and featuring an astonishing ensemble of award-winning actors and breakouts alike, Waves traces the epic emotional journey of a suburban African-American family – led by a well-intentioned but domineering father –…
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A Banana? At This Time of Night?
Monday 24 February 2020
7:30 pm
Afflicted by muscular dystrophy, Yasuaki (OIZUMI Yo) doesn’t let that slow him down. A charming and eternally positive man, he is determined to live an independent life and fulfil his dreams with the help of coerced volunteers Misaki (TAKAHATA Mitsuki) and Tanaka (MIURA Haruma). Based on a true story.
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Royal Opera House: The Cellist/Dances at a Gathering (Live)
Tuesday 25 February 2020
7:15 pm
The Royal Ballet presents the world premiere of Cathy Marston’s first work for the Company on the Main Stage alongside a revival of Jerome Robbins’s timeless classic of pure dance. Cathy Marston has previously been an Associate Artist of…
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Hard of Hearing: A Hidden Life
Thursday 27 February 2020
2:00 pm
Terrence Malick’s three-hour epic probes places the world of men against the call of the eternal. Based on the true story of Franz Jägerstätter (August Diehl), we find him in the secluded bucolic idyll of the Austrian mountains, surrounded…
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Talking About Trees
Saturday 29 February 2020
1:15 pm
Ibrahim, Manar, Suleiman and Altayeb are the members of the Sudanese Film Club founded in 1989. Unable to make films for years, they have decided to revive an old cinema. They are united not only by their love of…
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The Personal History of David Copperfield
Saturday 29 February 2020
3:20 pm
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Armando Iannucci (The Death of Stalin, In the Loop) directs this zippily-paced, brilliantly funny adaptation of Charles Dickens’ autobiographical coming of age novel. Starting literally from his birth, David (played in later years by Dev Patel) is born into…
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Met Opera: Agrippina (Live)
Saturday 29 February 2020
5:55 pm
In the Met’s first-ever performances of Agrippina, Handel’s satire of sex and power politics, Sir David McVicar reconceives a production evoking a scandalous world in which the Roman Empire never fell but simply kept going right up to the…
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Royal Opera House: The Cellist/Dances at a Gathering (Encore)
Sunday 1 March 2020
2:00 pm
The Royal Ballet presents the world premiere of Cathy Marston’s first work for the Company on the Main Stage alongside a revival of Jerome Robbins’s timeless classic of pure dance. Cathy Marston has previously been an Associate Artist of…
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Fando & Lis
Sunday 1 March 2020
4:45 pm
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s (El Topo, The Holy Mountain) directorial debut, Fando and Lis, premiered at the 1968 Acapulco Film Festival where the audience erupted in riot. The movie was subsequently banned in Mexico. The film tells the story of a…
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Her Sketchbook
Monday 2 March 2020
7:30 pm
Mami (KADOWAKI Mugi) is an otaku and a hikikomori (shut-in). Worried about her future, Mami’s father finds her a job as a videogame tester, where she meets Ryotaro (MIURA Takahiro). Encouraged by him to draw game characters for the company, she takes her first tentative steps towards new opportunities.
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Queen & Slim
Tuesday 3 March 2020
7:30 pm
Joining a legacy of films such as Bonnie and Clyde and Thelma & Louise, Queen & Slim is a powerful, consciousness-raising love story that confronts the staggering human toll of racism and the life-shattering price of violence.
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Parasite
Friday 6 March 2020
8:15 pm
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From the imagination of Bong Joon Ho (Okja, Snowpiercer, The Host), Parasite finds a family of grifters worming their way into an upper-class family’s perfect world. The Kims are living a marginal life when their son fakes his way…
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Ride Your Wave
Saturday 7 March 2020
3:30 pm
After young firefighter Minato (KATAYOSE Ryota) rescues avid surfer Hinako (KAWAEI Rina), the two fall in love. But Minato’s life is cut short in an accident at sea causing the distraught Hinako to stay away from the ocean; until the day she hums their song and he appears in the water…
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NT Live: Cyrano de Bergerac (Encore)
Sunday 8 March 2020
2:00 pm
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James McAvoy (X-Men, Atonement) returns to the stage in an inventive new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, broadcast live to cinemas from the West End in London. Fierce with a pen and notorious in combat, Cyrano almost has it…
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I Go Gaga, My Dear
Monday 9 March 2020
7:30 pm
Filmmaker Nobutomo begins to notice gradual changes affecting her nonagenarian mother. Turning the camera on her parents’ life, she presents an intimate portrait of the highs and lows of a family living with Alzheimer’s and the reality of geriatric care in Japan’s super ageing society.
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Met Live: Der Fliegende Hollander
Saturday 14 March 2020
5:55 pm
For the first time at the Met, Sir Bryn Terfel sings the role of the mysterious Dutchman, condemned to roam the seas for eternity, with Anja Kampe as the devoted Senta, whose love can set him free.
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The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps
Monday 16 March 2020
7:30 pm
Teetering on the edge of divorce, a couple is faced with tragedy when their daughter becomes brain dead with little chance of recovery following an accident. Confronted by an impossible decision, the parents must seek alternative solutions in a bid to keep her alive…
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Royal Opera House: Fidelio (Live)
Tuesday 17 March 2020
7:15 pm
Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new production, conducted by Antonio Pappano, Jonas Kaufmann plays the political prisoner Florestan, and Lise Davidsen his wife Leonore (disguised as ‘Fidelio’) who daringly…
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Our Meal for Tomorrow
Saturday 21 March 2020
3:20 pm
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After participating in their school’s sack race, an unlikely romance begins between an introverted Hayama (NAKAJIMA Yuto) and outspoken Uemura (ARAKI Yuko). As their lives unfold over the next 7 years, can they overcome obstacles and continue sharing meals in good times and bad?
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Royal Opera House: Fidelio (Encore)
Sunday 22 March 2020
2:00 pm
Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new production, conducted by Antonio Pappano, Jonas Kaufmann plays the political prisoner Florestan, and Lise Davidsen his wife Leonore (disguised as ‘Fidelio’) who daringly…
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Little Nights, Little Love
Monday 23 March 2020
7:30 pm
Sato (MIURA Haruma) is a singleton in his late 20s, longing for the perfect meet-cute to kick start his love life. One day, he meets Saki (TABE Mikako) in an unlikely encounter on the street, soon sparking a romantic connection. Is it a miracle? Based on a story by one of Japan’s most popular novelists, the story asks what is necessary in attaining happiness in a relationship
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My Love Story!!
Friday 27 March 2020
2:00 pm
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Takeo (SUZUKI Ryohei) is a lovable giant admired by his fellow male students but struggling to find his own love story – girls tend to be repelled by his hulking looks or fall for his best friend (SAKAGUCHI Kentaro). That is until the day he saves Rinko (NAGANO Mei) from a pervert…
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Royal Opera House: Swan Lake (Live)
Wednesday 1 April 2020
7:15 pm
While remaining faithful to the Marius Petipa/Lev Ivanov text, Scarlett’s additional choreography and John Macfarlane’s magnificent designs breathe new life into what is arguably the best-known and most-loved classical ballet. The entire Company shines in this eternal tale of…
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Royal Opera House: Swan Lake (Encore)
Sunday 5 April 2020
2:00 pm
While remaining faithful to the Marius Petipa/Lev Ivanov text, Scarlett’s additional choreography and John Macfarlane’s magnificent designs breathe new life into what is arguably the best-known and most-loved classical ballet. The entire Company shines in this eternal tale of…
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Exhibition on Screen: Easter in Art
Tuesday 7 April 2020
7:30 pm
The story of Christ’s death and resurrection has dominated western culture for the past 2000 years. It is perhaps the most significant historical event of all time, as recounted by the gospels but, equally, as depicted by the greatest…
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Met Opera: Tosca (Live)
Saturday 11 April 2020
5:55 pm
Sir David McVicar’s bold staging of Puccini’s operatic thriller returns with star soprano Anna Netrebko as the passionate title diva, opposite Brian Jagde as her lover, the idealistic painter Mario Cavaradossi.
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David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet – Live From the World Premiere
Thursday 16 April 2020
7:25 pm
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with David Attenborough live from the World Premiere at the iconic Royal Albert Hall. One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. This unique feature documentary is…
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David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet + recorded Q&A at the World Premiere
Saturday 18 April 2020
5:00 pm
The film will be followed by a Q&A with David Attenborough, recorded live from the World Premiere at the iconic Royal Albert Hall. One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. This unique feature documentary…
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Royal Opera House: Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci (Live)
Tuesday 21 April 2020
7:00 pm
These two short Italian operas are each regarded as the composers’ masterpiece, and are brought together in a new staging by award-winning director Damiano Michieletto, who sets both operas in a poverty stricken village in 1980s southern Italy, where…
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Royal Opera House: Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci (Encore)
Sunday 26 April 2020
2:00 pm
These two short Italian operas are each regarded as the composers’ masterpiece, and are brought together in a new staging by award-winning director Damiano Michieletto, who sets both operas in a poverty stricken village in 1980s southern Italy, where…
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Royal Shakespeare Company: King John
Wednesday 29 April 2020
7:00 pm
A mad world of mad kings, teetering on the brink of disaster! Richard the Lionheart is dead. His brother John is King of England. Threatened from all sides by Europe, the English noblemen and even his own family, King…
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Met Live: Maria Stuarda
Saturday 9 May 2020
5:55 pm
Donizetti’s drama, focused on the political and personal rivalry between two queens, returns to the Met with Diana Damrau as the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, and Jamie Barton as her rival, Queen Elizabeth I.
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NT Live: The Welkin (Live)
Thursday 21 May 2020
7:00 pm
One life in the hands of 12 women. Rural Suffolk in England, 1759. As the country waits for Halley’s comet, a young woman is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. When she claims to be pregnant, a jury…
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Royal Opera House: The Dante Project (Live)
Thursday 28 May 2020
7:15 pm
Dante’s Divine Comedy is an epic journey through the afterlife: it encompasses the horrifying drama of Inferno and its damned, the lyrical mysticism of pilgrims on mount Purgatorio and the dazzling spheres of Paradiso with their endless configurations of…
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Royal Opera House: The Dante Project (Encore)
Sunday 31 May 2020
2:00 pm
Dante’s Divine Comedy is an epic journey through the afterlife: it encompasses the horrifying drama of Inferno and its damned, the lyrical mysticism of pilgrims on mount Purgatorio and the dazzling spheres of Paradiso with their endless configurations of…
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NT Live: The Welkin (Encore)
Sunday 7 June 2020
2:00 pm
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One life in the hands of 12 women. Rural Suffolk in England, 1759. As the country waits for Halley’s comet, a young woman is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. When she claims to be pregnant, a jury…
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Royal Shakespeare Company: The Winter’s Tale
Wednesday 10 June 2020
7:00 pm
Set across a 16-year span from Mad Men to the moon landings, this new production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale imagines a world where the ghosts of fascist Europe collide with horrors of The Handmaid’s Tale, before washing up…
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Berliner Philharmoniker: Live Season Finale
Friday 12 June 2020
6:30 pm
Enjoy the conclusion of the Berliner Philharmoniker 2019/20 Live Cinema with Gustavo Dudamel conducting Mahler’s powerful Symphony No. 2 in C minor “Resurrection”. This spectacular Season Finale Concert will be broadcast live from Berlin and will feature exclusive behind-the-scenes interviews and…
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Royal Opera House: Elektra (Live)
Thursday 18 June 2020
7:45 pm
Strauss’s thrilling and audacious adaptation of Greek tragedy receives a new staging by the award- winning director Christof Loy. This uncompromising opera, about a daughter intent on bloody revenge and a mother driven to madness, has provoked critics to…
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Royal Opera House: Elektra (Encore)
Sunday 21 June 2020
2:00 pm
Strauss’s thrilling and audacious adaptation of Greek tragedy receives a new staging by the award- winning director Christof Loy. This uncompromising opera, about a daughter intent on bloody revenge and a mother driven to madness, has provoked critics to…
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Exhibition on Screen: Frida Kahlo
Monday 6 July 2020
7:30 pm
This highly engaging film takes us on a journey through the life of one of the most prevalent female icons: Frida Kahlo. She was a prolific self-portraitist, using the canvas as a mirror through all stages of her turbulent…
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Royal Shakespeare Company: The Comedy of Errors
Wednesday 15 July 2020
7:00 pm
How do any of us really know who we are? A man arrives in a strange town only to find that everyone knows his name, but thinks he’s someone else. A woman wonders why her husband is not the…
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Royal Shakespeare Company: Pericles
Wednesday 23 September 2020
7:00 pm
Forced to flee his native land, Pericles becomes a refugee at the mercy of sea and strangers. Scarred by the heartbreaking loss of family and home, he submits to the rhythms of the ocean in the hope of a…
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