Showroom Cinema
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3 Faces
Iranian actor Behnaz Jafari (playing herself) is distraught after receiving an apparent suicide note from a girl whose family forbid her to pursue studies at a drama school. With her director (Jafar Panahi) in tow, she flees the film she’s working on and embarks on a road trip to Iran’s rural north to locate the girl. Directing frequently farcical encounters with signature restraint, Panahi gently probes the patriarchal customs that impact women in all areas of Iranian society, astutely revealing a myopic worldview lurking beneath the veneer of apparently quaint local traditions and rituals of hospitality. While its preoccupations are ostensibly within a national context, Three Faces unearths startling resonances with contemporary global preoccupations with gender and power.
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Alphaville
- 1965
- France
- 1h 38min
- 15
- Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
- Written by: Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Howard Vernon
Enjoyable mid-60s Godard caper which turns contemporary Paris into Alpha 60, a chilly city of the future from which such concepts as love and tenderness have been banned. Enter Constantine's grizzled gumshoe Lemmy Caution and we're set for an extended and highly idiosyncratic homage to comic strip heroism.
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Casablanca
- 1942
- US
- 1h 42min
- PG
- Directed by: Michael Curtiz
- Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
You must remember this … Bogart being impossibly noble, Bergman torn between two lovers, Claude Rains playing both ends against the middle, devious Nazis, a fogbound airport, a piano-player tinkling that tune. A wonderful hill of beans.
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Everybody Knows
- 2018
- Spain / France / Italy
- Directed by: Asghar Farhadi
- Cast: Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Carla Campra
Laura (Cruz) returns to her small town for a family wedding with her teenage daughter Irene (Campra) and young son. But then Irene is kidnapped. A stellar cast and careful craftsmanship make this portrait of family tensions perfectly watchable, but it’s a bit soapy and predictable and never as gripping as it might be.
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The Favourite
- 2018
- Ireland / UK / US
- 15
- Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos
- Cast: Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone, Nicholas Hoult
In the court of Queen Anne (Colman), power is wielded by Lady Sarah Marlborough (Weisz), but then Sarah’s young cousin Abigail (Stone) arrives. Brash, bawdy and beguiling, and a deceptively acute commentary on the nature of power, with career-best work from Weisz and Stone and a commanding performance from Colman as the ailing Queen.
Mon 25 Mar
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Minding the Gap
- 2018
- USA
- 1h 33min
- Directed by: Bing Liu
Debut feature documentary by Liu about his relationship with best friends Keire and Zack, from skateboarding teenagers to young men grappling with responsibility, family, race, class, masculinity and abuse. Skilfully edited, beautifully shot and superbly scored. One of the best documentaries of the year.
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Running For Good: The Fiona Oakes
- 2018
- UK
- 1h 14min
- Directed by: Keegan Kuhn
Documentary following runner Fiona Oakes on the Marathon des Sables.
Sun 24 Mar
SHAFF- Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
More than 100 of the best adventure, travel and extreme sports films hand-picked for you from around the world, on the big screen at the heart of the UK's outdoor capital city.
Sun 24 Mar
Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
There are over 100 films covering adventure, travel and extreme sport to be seen at this festival, all selected by Festival Director Matt Heason. To help wade through the programme the films are grouped into categories covering adrenaline, spirit of adventure and specialist sports, such as mountain biking, running and climbing. The programme also includes a Festival Fringe of free events and special screening for children and teens.
Sun 24 Mar
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
- 2018
- USA
- 1h 32min
- PG
- Directed by: Aaron Horvath, Peter Rida Michail
- Cast: Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Will Arnett
Disgruntled that so many big players in the DC Universe have their own movie but they themselves don’t, the Teen Titans pressure hotshot director Jade Wilson (Bell) to make one. Inventive and very funny animated superhero comedy which is a treat for kids and adults alike.
Sat 30 Mar
Under the Silver Lake
- 2018
- US
- 2h 19min
- Directed by: David Robert Mitchell
- Cast: Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Topher Grace
Sam (Garfield) becomes obsessed with Hitchcockian blonde Sarah (Keough), and when she suddenly disappears he goes in search of her. Lynchian exploration of LA noir, fitfully amusing but lacking the intensity of its rather obvious influences.
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Based in a converted 1930's building, Showroom boasts four 'luxury auditoria' screening a varied programme of classic, indie and arthouse films from around the world.
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