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BULLET TRAIN
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“The plot is absurd, the characters preposterous — but who cares? Bullet Train is fun,” said one critic of Kōtarō Isaka’s original best selling darkly satirical, thriller. David Leitch’s big screen ad...
- Mon 15 Aug to Thu 18 Aug
- 126 minutes
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NOPE
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“What’s a bad miracle?” NOPE is something very different from GET OUT and US the first two and very original calling cards from the ever ambitious and imaginative Jordan Peele. Now, he redefines th...
- Mon 15 Aug to Thu 25 Aug
- 130 minutes
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HIT THE ROAD 
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Panah Panahi’s award winning road movie with a difference is as charming as it is sharp-witted. A boisterous Iranian family of four —two middle-aged parents and their two sons, one a taciturn adult...
- Mon 15 Aug to Wed 24 Aug
- 93 minutes
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Mon 15 Aug21:00 (SC2 SUBS) Subs (Foreign)
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THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT
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Funny, smart, and original, THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT is a wild and wonderful tribute to the iconic Nicolas Cage. He’s played vampires, Elvis fanatics, bad lieutenants, Ghost Riders, rec...
- Mon 15 Aug to Thu 18 Aug
- 105 minutes
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ALI AND AVA
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The ordinary becomes extraordinary in writer-director Clio Barnard’s tale of cultural diversity and tribal loyalties and the unlikely romance that unfolds when hip hop meets Bob Dylan. Ali is a Bri...
- Mon 15 Aug to Thu 18 Aug
- 94 minutes
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MEMORIA
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A fascinating collaboration between acclaimed Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul and actor Tilda Swinton, MEMORIA is an exploration of reality, myth, history and memory and a mesmerising meditat...
- Mon 15 Aug to Thu 18 Aug
- 135 minutes
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MINIONS 2: THE RISE OF GRU
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Time to go bananas and join Kevin, Stuart, Bob, and newcomer, Otto, on the latest colourful and crazy Minions adventure. Gru is a 12-year-old fan of The Vicious 6, a super villain group. Along with...
- Tue 16 Aug to Thu 25 Aug
- 87 minutes
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WHERE IS ANNE FRANK?
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“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” Another brilliantly inventive fable that fuses historical narrative and wondrous animation, from the director of...
- Tue 16 Aug to Thu 18 Aug
- 100 minutes
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PINK PALACE: LOLA AND THE SEA
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Pink Palace the Rio's weekly queer film club presents LOLA AND THE SEA, Audience Award Winner at the 2021 San Fransisco Frameline LGBTQI+ Film Festival Lola (Mya Bollaers) lives in the city with he...
- Wed 17 Aug
- 91 minutes
FREE CHOL SOO LEE + Q&A
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With archival footage and poignant interviews, FREE CHOL SOO LEE tells the now largely forgotten story of how former street hustler became the symbol for a landmark movement. In 1973, after a murd...
- Fri 19 Aug to Thu 25 Aug
- 83 minutes
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Fri 19 Aug17:45 (SC2 SUBS) Subs (Foreign)
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PARIS, TEXAS
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Whether for the unforgettable landscape, now looking more spectacular than ever in a new 4K restoration, or Sam Shepherd’s brilliant screenplay or Ry Cooder’s haunting music or the iconic Harry Dean S...
- Fri 19 Aug to Mon 22 Aug
- 150 minutes
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WINGS OF DESIRE
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“Wings of Desire on the big screen in 4K shows us a city and shows us a world that is 30 years old, but it is so succinct, so there and so rich that it could also be a new film. ” — Wim Wenders. WI...
- Tue 23 Aug to Thu 25 Aug
- 122 minutes
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CLASSIC MATINEE: DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA
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Classic Matinee is a monthly screening for the over 55's presented in a relaxed atmosphere with free tea, coffee, cakes and biscuits, tickets for the over 55's are just £2.50, carers go free and we we...
- Wed 24 Aug
- 126 minutes
PINK PALACE: PANDORAS BOX
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Pink Palace our weekly queer film club presents one of the great silent films, and the first on screen representation of lesbianism - GW Pabst’s Pandora’s Box (1929). The film is renowned for its s...
- Wed 24 Aug
- 133 minutes
EM AND TRINH
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A rare chance to discover, and enjoy, one of the most successful Vietnamese films of 2022, the story of Trinh Cong Son, legendary composer and musician famous for his romantic music but also known wo...
- Fri 26 Aug to Mon 29 Aug
- 140 minutes
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I am Belmaya
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Sue Carpenter’s multi-award winning film is a “superb portrait of a young Nepali woman lifting herself out of subjugation through the means of photography and filmmaking” - UK Film Review ……grippin...
- Thu 8 Sep
- 75 minutes
Two Poets and a River
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Two Poets and a River explores themes of love and loss through the lives and musical poetry of the two most prominent and innovative Wakhi musicians in Central and South Asia: Qurbonsho in Tajikistan ...
- Thu 8 Sep
- 75 minutes
Aphex Twin and his impact on popular culture
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A musical mystery tour featuring interviews with collaborators and fans of the man himself. The film provides as many questions as it does answers but then the same is true of the music and the music ...
- Thu 8 Sep
- 50 minutes
A Tribute to Jordan: Punk and the Pistols
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In the words of Jon Savage, Jordan Mooney, who sadly died of cancer this April, was 'the first Sex Pistol'. A beehived Valkyrie in rubber, spiked heels and Mondrian make-up, she became the figurehe...
- Tue 13 Sep
- 90 minutes
CLASSIC MAT: THE AXE FORGETS BUT THE TREE REMEMBERS
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Classic Matinee is a monthly screening for the over 55's (but everyone is welcome) the screening is presented in a relaxed atmosphere with free tea, coffee, cakes and biscuits, tickets for the over 55...
- Wed 21 Sep
- 60 minutes
FREE CHOL SOO LEE + Q&A
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With archival footage and poignant interviews, FREE CHOL SOO LEE tells the now largely forgotten story of how former street hustler became the symbol for a landmark movement. In 1973, after a murd...
- Opening Mon 15 Aug
- 83 minutes
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