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BFI: Singin' in the Rain
20191213
It’s 1927 in Hollywood and the stuntman-turned-matinee-idol star of Monumental Pictures, Don Lockwood ( Gene Kelly ), is caught in the bumpy transition from silent films to talkies. When the studio...
- Fri 13 Dec to Wed 18 Dec
- 102 minutes
Fiddler: Miracle of Miracles
20191213
55 years after it opened on Broadway, Fiddler on the Roof , based on Sholem Aleichem’s stories, still makes people laugh, cry, dance and sing – every day and the world over, from Spain to Thailand. Jo...
- Fri 13 Dec to Wed 18 Dec
- 92 minutes
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Knives Out
20191213
A brilliantly-witty meta whodunnit from the man behind Brick , Looper and The Last Jedi , Knives Out is a devious delight from start to finish. It is acclaimed mystery writer Harlan Thrombey’s ( Chris...
- Fri 13 Dec to Wed 18 Dec
- 130 minutes
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The Muppet Christmas Carol.
20191214
One Christmas Eve, the miserly Scrooge (Caine) reluctantly gives Bob Cratchit (Kermit the Frog) an unpaid day off for Christmas. That night, Scrooge is visited by three spirits. The first takes him ba...
- Sat 14 Dec
- 86 minutes
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Sat 14 Dec11:00 All adults must be accompanied by a child to attend
BFI: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
20191214
Guy, an auto mechanic, has fallen in love with Geneviève, an employee in her widowed mother’s chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a tour of combat i...
- Sat 14 Dec to Wed 18 Dec
- 93 minutes
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UKJFF: Echo
20191215
A reschedule of the original festival screening. Echo is a suspenseful and stylish psychological thriller about a seemingly perfect couple. Having been married for 15 years, Ella and Avner seem to ...
- Sun 15 Dec
- 98 minutes
It's a Wonderful Life
20191217
The perennial Christmas favourite, It's a Wonderful Life is still a staple of the festive season. This ultimate feel-good favourite, from Oscar -winning director Frank Capra , stars James Stewart as d...
- Tue 17 Dec to Sun 22 Dec
- 162 minutes
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ROH Live: The Nutcracker
20191217
The Royal Ballet's glorious production of The Nutcracker, created by Peter Wright in 1984, is the production par excellence of an all-time ballet favourite. It is Christmas Eve and Herr Drosselmeyer t...
- Tue 17 Dec
- 150 minutes
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
20191219
“No one’s ever really gone.” The menacing presence of Emperor Palpatine looms over the concluding chapter of the Skywalker saga, which reportedly ties together all three Star Wars trilogies. A y...
- Thu 19 Dec to Thu 2 Jan
- 142 minutes
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Frozen 2
20191220
“Far away, as north as we can go, once stood an enchanted forest.” So begins the new fairy-tale animated musical from the creative team of Disney’s 2013 Oscar-winning FROZEN. The original cast are reu...
- Fri 20 Dec to Sun 29 Dec
- 100 minutes
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The Grinch.
20191221
Benedict Cumberbatch lends his voice to the infamous Grinch in this animated adaptation of Dr Seuss’ beloved holiday classic. The Grinch is a cynical grump who plots to ruin Christmas after his neighb...
- Sat 21 Dec
- 90 minutes
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Orly Katz
20191231
Little Women
20200103
“I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. I’m so sick of it.” In Greta Gerwig’s ( Lady Bird ) thrilling new telling of Louisa May Alcott’s classic 1868 novel, four you...
- Fri 3 Jan to Thu 9 Jan
- 135 minutes
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Wed 8 Jan11:00 (Bringing up Baby) Screening for carers of babies up to twelve months only. Regulations are strict: no baby no admittance. 17:10
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JoJo Rabbit
20200103
Writer-director Taika Waititi ( Thor: Ragnarok, Hunt For The Wilderpeople ) channels his signature style of humour and pathos into a provocative anti-hate satire that was one of the most talked-about ...
- Fri 3 Jan to Thu 9 Jan
- 108 minutes
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Met Opera: Wozzeck
20200111
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts William Kentridge’s new production of Alban Berg’s expressionistic masterpiece Wozzeck, regarded for its intense emotional power and brilliant score as one of the mos...
- Sat 11 Jan to Sun 12 Jan
- 240 minutes
EOS: Lucian Freud - A Self Portrait
20200114
For the first time in history, the Royal Academy of Arts in London, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, is bringing together Lucian Freud’s self-portraits. This intensely compelli...
- Tue 14 Jan
- 80 minutes
ROH Live: The Sleeping Beauty
20200116
This production of The Sleeping Beauty has been delighting audiences in Covent Garden since 1946. A classic of Russian ballet, it established The Royal Ballet both in its new home after World War II a...
- Thu 16 Jan
- 180 minutes
1917
20200117
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield ( Captain Fantastic’s George MacKay ) and Blake ( Game of Thrones ’ Dean-Charles Chapman ) are given a seemingly impossible...
- Fri 17 Jan to Thu 23 Jan
- 110 minutes
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Bolshoi: Giselle (Live)
20200126
The young peasant girl Giselle dies when she learns that the man she loves, Albrecht, has betrayed her. Against her own will, she joins the Wilis, vengeful spirits of jilted brides who condemn Albrech...
- Sun 26 Jan
- 240 minutes
ROH Live: La Boheme
20200129
Puccini’s opera of young love in 19th-century Paris is packed with beautiful music, including lyricalarias, celebratory choruses for Act II’s evocation of Christmas Eve in the Latin Quarter and a poig...
- Wed 29 Jan
- 180 minutes
Met Opera: Porgy and Bess
20200201
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess returns to the Met for the first time since 1990, in a new co-production with English National Opera and Dutch National Opera, hailed as a triumph at its premiere in Lond...
- Sat 1 Feb to Sun 2 Feb
- 240 minutes
NT Live: Cyrano de Bergerac
20200220
Starring James McAvoy (X-Men, Atonement) in the title role, this inventive new adaptation by Martin Crimp tells the story our hero, Cyrano, who is fierce with a pen and notorious in combat, he almost ...
- Thu 20 Feb
- 180 minutes
Bolshoi: Swan Lake (Live)
20200223
Prince Siegfried is summoned by his parents to choose a bride. However, he encounters a mysterious swan-woman by the lake, Odette, and is captivated by her. His vow of eternal love to her will have ir...
- Sun 23 Feb
- 240 minutes
ROH Live: Marston & Starlett
20200225
Choreographer Cathy Marston is previously an Associate Artist of the Royal Opera House and Director of Bern Ballett, and much in demand internationally. The inspiration for her first work for The Roya...
- Tue 25 Feb
- 180 minutes
Met Opera: Agrippina
20200229
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...
- Sat 29 Feb to Sun 1 Mar
- 240 minutes
Met Opera: Der Fliegende Hollander
20200314
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.
- Sat 14 Mar to Sun 15 Mar
- 240 minutes
ROH Live: Fidelio
20200317
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 D...
- Tue 17 Mar
- 180 minutes
Bolshoi: Romeo & Juliet 2020
20200329
In spite of each of their families being merciless enemies, Romeo and Juliet are deeply in love. The rivalry between the Capulets and the Montagues will cost Mercutio’s life, causing Romeo a desire of...
- Sun 29 Mar
- 240 minutes
ROH Live: Swan Lake
20200401
Liam Scarlett’s glorious production of Swan Lake, new in 2018, returns for its first revival. While remaining faithful to the Marius Petipa/Lev Ivanov text, Scarlett’s additional choreography and John...
- Wed 1 Apr
- 180 minutes
Met Opera: Tosca
20200411
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 Ca...
- Sat 11 Apr to Sun 12 Apr
- 240 minutes
Bolshoi: Jewels (Live) 2020
20200419
This opulent triptych was inspired by Balanchine’s visit to the famous jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels on New York’s Fifth Avenue, celebrating the cities and dance schools of Paris, New York and St. Peters...
- Sun 19 Apr
- 240 minutes
ROH Live: Pagliacci
20200421
Two opera classics are drawn together in this wonderfully observed re-creation of life in a south Italian village as a travelling theatre visits and emotions erupt. The award-winning production by Dam...
- Tue 21 Apr
- 180 minutes
RSC: King John
20200429
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 ...
- Wed 29 Apr
- 210 minutes
Met Opera: Maria Stuarda (2020)
20200509
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 Eliza...
- Sat 9 May to Sun 10 May
- 240 minutes
NT Live: The Welkin
20200521
A brand new play The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood from the National Theatre in London. The ensemble cast of 12 includes Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything, Shameless) and Ria Zmitrowicz (Three Girls, M...
- Thu 21 May
- 180 minutes
ROH Live: The Dante Project
20200528
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 sp...
- Thu 28 May
- 180 minutes
RSC Live: The Winter's Tale
20200610
ROH Live: Elektra
20200618
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 an...
- Thu 18 Jun
- 120 minutes
EOS: Friday Kahlo
20200706
“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality” We might think we already know Frida Kahlo – the image of floral crowns, big brows and folk style clothing have made her a muse to generati...
- Mon 6 Jul
- 90 minutes
