Life is Beautiful, Phoenix Square 4 Midland Street Leicester LE1 1TG

Life is Beautiful

In 1930s Italy, Jewish bookkeeper Guido lives a carefree life with his wife and son, until the occupation of Italy by German forces.

To help his son survive the horrors of a concentration camp, Guido pretends the Holocaust is a game. Benigni’s masterpiece is screened with The Leicester Dante Alighieri Society - for those who love Italy and all things Italian.

Sunday 22 September 2013

starts at
15:00

cost
£7.60, £5.85 concession, £5 student

www.phoenix.org.uk

0116 242 2800

Phoenix Square
4 Midland Street Leicester
LE1 1TG

Throne of Blood, Phoenix Square 4 Midland Street Leicester LE1 1TG

Throne of Blood

Perhaps the greatest literary adaptation, Kurosawa deftly transplants Shakespeare’s Macbeth to feudal Japan.

Toshiro Mifune stars as General Washizu, obsessed by a witch’s prophecy of power and seduced into murderous action by his wife Asaji. The iconic ending - filled with howls of rage and a hail of arrows - is unforgettable.

Tuesday 17 September 2013

20:30

£7.60, £5.85 concession, £5 student

www.phoenix.org.uk

0116 242 2800

Phoenix Square
4 Midland Street Leicester
LE1 1TG

Jadoo + QA with Amit Gupta, new film was shot entirely in Leicester, Phoenix Square 4 Midland Street Leicester LE1 1TG

Jadoo + QA with Amit Gupta

This hilarious new film was shot entirely in Leicester, from a director who grew up on Belgrave Road.

Harish Patel (Run Fatboy, Run) and Kulvinder Ghir (Goodness Gracious Me) star as brothers who tear apart their family recipe book during an argument. Now running rival restaurants across the street from each another, one of their daughters returns home and demands they join together to cook her upcoming wedding feast! Can the brothers learn to forgive each other?

Monday 16 September 2013

19:45

£7.60, £5.85 concession, £5 student

www.phoenix.org.uk

0116 242 2800

Phoenix Square
4 Midland Street Leicester
LE1 1TG

IKARIE XB-1, Jindrich Polák’s, Phoenix Square 4 Midland Street Leicester LE1 1TG

IKARIE XB-1

Jindrich Polák’s pioneering and much-imitated feature is one of
the cornerstones of contemporary sci-fi cinema.

Adapted from Stanislaw Lem’s 1955 novel The Magellanic Cloud,
and predating Gene Rodenberry’s Star Trek and Kubrick’s 2001,
Ikarie XB-1’s influence can be seen on both - and on almost every
other science-fiction vehicle that followed. Essential cinema.

Friday 13 September 2013

20:45

£7.60, £5.85 concession, £5 student

www.phoenix.org.uk

0116 242 2800

Phoenix Square
4 Midland Street Leicester
LE1 1TG

NT Live, Macbeth, Phoenix Square 4 Midland Street Leicester LE1 1TG

NT Live: Macbeth

National Theatre Live will broadcast Manchester International Festival’s production of Macbeth, with Kenneth Branagh (My Week With Marilyn, Hamlet) in his first Shakespeare performance in over a decade as Macbeth, and Alex Kingston (Doctor Who, ER) as Lady Macbeth.

Directed by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh, this electrifying new production of Shakespeare’s tragic tale of ambition and treachery unfolds within the walls of an intimate de-consecrated Manchester church.

Ends 27th July

starts at

    20:00

    £14, £12 concession

    www.phoenix.org.uk

    0116 242 2800

    Phoenix Square

    4 Midland Street Leicester

    LE1 1TG

GLYNDEBOURNE, Hippolyte et Aricie, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Phoenix Square 4 Midland Street Leicester LE1 1TG

GLYNDEBOURNE - Hippolyte et Aricie

Jean-Philippe Rameau.

Sung in French with English supertitles. Diana, chaste goddess of the moon and the hunt,
and Cupid, god of love, argue over who will dominate. Their quarrel is settled by Jupiter,
who decrees that love will rule over all hearts for one day every year.
Diana vows to protect the mortals Hippolytus (Hippolyte) and Aricia (Aricie).


    Thursday 25 July 2013

starts at
    18:15

    £14, £12 concession

    www.phoenix.org.uk

    0116 242 2800

    Phoenix Square
    4 Midland Street Leicester
    LE1 1TG