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THE BEST OF

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Welcome to The Phoenix, one of the oldest UK film societies, showing the very best of world cinema. We have a loyal and growing membership whose opinions we value and reflect in our programming.

We work in very close cooperation with Union Films at Southampton University Students Union, who provide the venue and screen our films. The Cinema has comfortable, raked seating and films are shown in digital format with their original soundtrack and English subtitles, as appropriate.

Films are normally shown on Wednesdays starting at 8pm prompt. We do not show trailers or adverts, though we may show a high-quality short. So do arrive in time to get a ticket and get seated. The film will start at 8pm!

Before the film introduction we provide Film Notes and Newsletters and afterwards we encourage members to score the film and make comments. Food is available from the Union facilities. Nibbles and drinks are available from Union Films snack counter. The Bars are often open afterwards for discussion on the film’s impact.

Welcome to

The Phoenix World Cinema in Southampton

Remember, THE FILM WILL START AT 8pm!

STUDENTSTickets can be bought at the normal Union Films prices. If you do not buy one in advance then do leave enough time to get yours beforehand.

The film really does start at 8pm – no ads or late admissions! Union Films Première Pass holders can watch any Phoenix film too.

Phoenix Full Membership is just £25. Apply using the form in the centre of this booklet.

How to see our filmsFull Membership: Just show your membership card and take your favourite seat for all our films. It is good value even if you can only see less than half of our programme!

Apply using the form in the centre of this booklet. Students get a special deal – see below.

Tickets: for individual films can be obtained from Union Films Box Office. You will first become an Associate Member (£3) and then each film will cost £5. Do leave enough time to join and get your ticket.

A tangerine farmer stays, despite the war, to harvest his crop and care for a wounded fighter. This rare showing of the first Estonian film to be shortlisted for an Oscar/Golden Globe is an eloquent statement for peace.

ALMANYA: WELCOME TO GERMANYDir: Yasemin Samdereli • Germany 2011 • 101 mins • Lang: Ger

19 Oct 2016

We are showing this humorous and touching film about three generationsof a Turkish immigrant family in Germany as part of the University’s German Festival. In collaboration with the Goethe Institut, London.

OUR LITTLE SISTERDir: Hirokazu Koreeda • Japan 2015 • 128 mins • Lang: Jap

When three sisters travel to their father’s funeral, they meet their 13-year-old half-sister for the first time. The touching characters, depicted with a Chekhov-like combination of lightness and sadness, are ones you will not want to leave behind. Delightful.

26 Oct 2016

HAIL, CAESARDir: Joel and Ethan Coen • UK/USA/Japan 2016 • 106 mins • Lang: Eng

An immensely funny take on the life of a 1950s Hollywood fixer, facedwith the kidnapping of the leading man of a biblical epic (GeorgeClooney). Classic Coen Brothers entertainment with a starry cast.

2 Nov 2016

Wed 12 October 2016 • 8.00pmOPENING FILM

TANGERINESDir: Zaza Urushadze • Est/Georg 2013 • 87 mins • Lang: Est/Rus/Georg

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THE ASSASSIN Dir: Hsiao-Hsien Hou • Tai/Chi/HK/Fr 2015 • 105 mins • Lang: Mand

Martial Arts meets sumptuous visual photography and a tale of greatemotional realism as a female assassin accepts a dangerous mission to kill a 7th Century Chinese political leader. Cannes Best Director prize 2015.

9 Nov 2016

TOO LATE Dir: Dennis Hauck • USA 2015 • 107 mins • Lang: Eng

Emotional entanglements ensue when a stripper with a heart of gold calls for help from a private eye. An ambitious contemporary (indie) film noir shot in five non-sequential takes - pure cinematic enjoyment.

16 Nov 2016

RAMSDir: Grímur Hákonarson • Ice/Den/Nor/Pol 2015 • 93 mins • Lang: Ice

Deadpan humour and jaw-dropping scenery permeate this primal, almost mythical, tale of estranged brothers reuniting to save their sheep from disease.

23 Nov 2016

MUSTANGDir: Deniz Gamze Ergüven • Fra/Ger/Tur/Qat 2015 • 97 mins • Lang: Tur

In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters rebel against their family’s strictrule as arranged marriages are being prepared. This haunting explorationof the limits of freedom was the most popular film in this year’s filmsociety viewing sessions.

30 Nov 2016

TAXI TEHRANDir: Jafar Panahi • Iran 2015 • 82 mins • Lang: Pers

The acclaimed, but now banned Iranian director surreptitiously shoots afilm from the front seat of his taxi to deliver a satirical portrait of the stateof his country. A courageous and witty documentary-style Berlin GoldenBear winner. To mark International Human Rights Day.

7 Dec 2016

THE LADY IN THE VAN Dir: Nicholas Hytner • UK 2015 • 104 mins • Lang: Eng

Friday 16 Dec 2016

Our Christmas bash stars Maggie Smith, who excels as the irascible, eccentric homeless woman of Alan Bennett’s comic memoir. Also starring: the traditional festive film quiz and refreshments.

I, DANIEL BLAKE Dir: Ken Loach • UK/Fr/Bel 2016 • 100 mins • Lang: Eng

11 Jan 2017

A carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mumnavigating her way through an impersonal benefits system. Ken Loach’s heartfelt Palme d’Or winner has equal amounts of humour, despair and warmth.

THE SECOND MOTHERDir: Anna Muylaert • Brazil 2015 • 112 mins • Lang: Port

The life of a live-in housekeeper in the big city is turned upside downwhen her assertive daughter comes to stay with the family she works for.

18 Jan 2017

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SON OF SAULDir: László Nemes • Hungary 2015 • 107 mins • Lang: Hung/Yid/Ger/etc.

A Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz goes to extraordinarily dangerous lengths to try to bury the corpse of a young boy - even hunting for a rabbi to help. This shattering and intense Golden Globe and Oscar winner is an audience choice, too, and marks Holocaust Memorial Day.

25 Jan 2017

WHEN MARNIE WAS THEREDir: Hiromasa Yonebayashi • Japan 2014 • 103 mins • Lang: Jap

The reputedly last Ghibli animation is a delight. A troubled teenage girlbecomes obsessed with an (imaginary?) girl living in an abandoned mansion.

1 Feb 2017

AMYDir: Asif Kapadia • UK/USA 2015 • 128 mins • Lang: Eng

The Oscar and BAFTA Best Documentary of 2016 delves beneath the musical life and tragic death of Amy Winehouse.

8 Feb 2017

A WARDir: Tobias Lindholm • Denmark 2015 • 115 mins • Lang: Dan/Ara/Eng

During an Afghan mission, a company commander makes a decision when his soldiers are caught in crossfire that has repercussions both for himself and his family back home. Thought-provoking, gripping and utterly realistic.

15 Feb 2017

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VICTIMDir: Basil Dearden • UK 1961 • 90 mins • Lang: Eng

Dirk Bogarde stars as a lawyer in this year’s rarely seen classic. In a role that could have ruined his career, he goes after a blackmailer who is threatening homosexual men with exposure.

1 Mar 2017

JULIETADir: Pedro Almodóvar • Spain 2016 • 99 mins • Lang: Sp

Told over 30 years, with two actresses playing Julieta, this ravishing studybased on Alice Munro short stories mighthavebeencalled‘AllAboutMyDaughter’. Increasingly moving extended flashbacks, teasingly free of easy resolution, show Almodóvar returning satisfyingly to his roots.

8 Mar 2017

DHEEPANDir: Jacques Audiard • France 2015 • 115 mins • Lang: Tam/Fr/Eng

A Tamil Tiger veteran enters the French immigration system, only to find the refugee’s life an exhausting and spirit-sapping daily grind. After Audiard’s stunning‘AProphet’waspippedtotheCannes Palme d’Or, he finally won with this quieter, simmering work.

15 Mar 2017

3 COEURSDir: Benoît Jacquot • Fra/Ger/Bel 2014 • 106 mins • Lang: Fr/Chi

Comic couplings ensue from the love triangle of a tax inspector, his new bride and her sister. A French romcom to luxuriate in.

22 Feb 2017

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THE DAUGHTERDir: Simon Stone • Australia 2015 • 96 mins • Lang: Eng

Geoffrey Rush and Sam Neill star in a contemporary drama where afamily is haunted by the past as hidden secrets are revealed. Inspired byIbsen’splay‘TheWildDuck’.

26 Apr 2017

EMBRACE OF THE SERPENTDir: Ciro Guerra • Col/Ven/Arg 2015 • 125 mins • Lang: Sp/Port/Ger etc.

A mystical tribal shaman leads two western explorers through hisdisappearing world in this psychedelic, politically-tinged Colombianadventure. Poetic, but blistering.

3 May 2017

SING STREETDir: John Carney • Ire/UK/USA 2016 • 106 mins • Lang: Eng

A boy growing up in 1980s Dublin escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he fancies. An emotional comedy with music along the impressive lines of ‘TheCommitments’.

Tuesday 9 May 2017 7pm joint showing with unionfilms

CHEVALIERDir: Athina Rachel Tsangari • Greece 2015 • 105 mins • Lang: Gre

Six men on a luxury yacht play an ominous game to find who is the bestman in this satirical drama. Its puncturing of masculine pretensions and black humour won it Best Film at the 2015 London Film Festival.

22 Mar 2017

AUDIENCE CHOICEYour chance to programme something from recent releases.

24 May 2017

THE LESSONDir: K Grozeva/P Valchanov • Bul/Gre 2014 • 111 mins • Lang: Bul/Eng

A fascinating morality tale in which a teacher wanting to teach a robber inher class a lesson, gets embroiled herself with loan sharks. Can she findthe right way out?

31 May 2017

CAFÉ SOCIETYDir: Woody Allen • USA 2016 • 96 mins • Lang: Eng

Woody Allen’s latest is a charming romantic comedy set in 1930sHollywood with Kristen Stewart playing an agent to the stars. A nostalgictribute to the golden age of film making.

7 Jun 2017

MOUNTAINS MAY DEPARTDir: Zhangke Jia • Chi/Fr/Jap 2015 • 131 mins • Lang: Chi/Man/Cant/Eng

A woman’s choice between suitors and her relationship with her son reflects on the pull between tradition and progress in a capitalist world. A beautifully-filmed melodrama with a surreal coda set in Australia.

14 Jun 2017

AMERICAN HONEYDir: Andrea Arnold • UK/USA 2016 • 163 mins • Lang: Eng

A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a magazine sales crew criss-crossing the Midwest and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law-bending and young love. Cannes Jury Prize 2016.

17 May 2017

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The Phoenix is the trading name of Southampton Film Theatre; Company no. 1383708 Charity no. 276825

1 Mar 2017 • 8pm

OUR SEASON'S CLASSIC

VICTIMDir: Basil Dearden • UK 1961 • 90 mins • Lang: Eng

CONTACT USThe Phoenix, PO Box 1212, Southampton SO17 1ZL Enquiries: 0870 7650763Email: enquiries@thephoenix.org.ukWebsite: www.thephoenix.org.uk

The Phoenix is the trading name of Southampton Film Theatre; Company no. 1383708 Charity no. 276825

PARKINGThe most convenient parking is by the Sports Centre.Entryisby31UniversityRoad,signed‘HighfieldHealth’Postcode SO17 1TL. It is free after 5.30pm.

BUSES All UniLink buses stop at the University.

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AUTUMN 2016 FILMS START AT 8PM

12 October Tangerines 19 October Almanya: Welcome To Germany 26 October Our Little Sister 2 November Hail, Caesar 9 November The Assassin 16 November Too Late 23 November Rams 30 November Mustang 7 December Taxi Tehran Friday, 16 December Lady in the Van

SPRING 2017

11 January I, Daniel Blake 18 January The Second Mother 25 January Son of Saul 1 February When Marnie Was There 8 February Amy 15 February A War 22 February 3 Coeurs 1 March Victim 8 March Julieta 15 March Dheepan 22 March Chevalier

SUMMER 2017

26 April The Daughter 3 May Embrace of the Serpent Tuesday, 9 May, 7pm Sing Street 17 May American Honey 24 May Audience Choice 31 May The Lesson 7 June Café Society 14 June Mountains May Depart

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