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Small Things Like These (12A)

Small Things Like These

Cillian Murphy plays a father who witnesses Ireland’s church’s abusive workhouses for unwed mothers in an absorbing Dickensian story based on recent history.


Christmas 1985. Devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong (Murphy) discovers disturbing secrets kept by the convent in his town, along with some shocking truths of his own. The film reveals truths about Ireland's Magdalene laundries - horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform "fallen young women." Adapted from the Booker Prize nominated novel by Claire Keegan, Cillian Murphy's outstanding acting – as has become the norm – anchors this moving film.

Ireland/Belgium 2024 Tim Mielants 98m


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We Live in Time (15)

We Live in Time

An offbeat, deeply emotional romance that brings together the magnetic pairing of Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield. Known for his knack for heartfelt stories with a twist, director John Crowley (‘Brooklyn’) crafts a love story that’s as funny as it is poignant, exploring the strange intersections of fate, memory and connection.


The film follows two seemingly mismatched characters, Eleanor (Pugh) and Louis (Garfield), whose lives unexpectedly intertwine and change each other in profound ways. Their relationship unfolds in fragmented glimpses of joy, heartbreak and fleeting moments that capture the ups and downs of modern love. This is a quirky, beautifully shot exploration of what it means to find - and perhaps lose - “the one”. This is indie romance at its most moving and inventive.

UK 2024 John Crowley 115m


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Nightbitch (15)

Nightbitch

A woman pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her domesticity takes a surreal turn.


Amy Adams plays a mother who feels like she’s lost herself after leaving her job as an artist to be at home full time. Her husband (Scoot McNairy) isn’t much help, cluelessly stumbling through the small amount of parenting he manages to contribute. Heller skilfully portrays the repeated routines of motherhood – breakfast, lunch, dinner, bath time, bedtime – as both meaningful and exhausting. And in the midst of parenting chaos, the mother becomes convinced she’s turning into a dog. The film is very funny, a little gross and an unforgettable role for Adams who is obviously having a great time.

USA 2024 Marielle Heller 98m



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Thursday 16 Jan 202520:15 Book Now

Maria (15)

Maria

Pablo Larraín returns with a stirring and unconventional biopic that delves into the tumultuous life of Maria Callas, one of opera’s most iconic figures. Known for his introspective storytelling, Larraín offers an intimate look at the singer’s artistry, vulnerability and the immense pressures she faced.


Angelina Jolie stars as Maria Callas, capturing both her fierce passion on stage and her complex personal struggles off it. As Callas battles between her demanding career and longing for personal happiness, Larraín’s narrative unfolds with sensitivity, exploring her relationships, insecurities and the sacrifices she made for her art. The film juxtaposes grand, beautifully staged opera scenes with quieter moments that reveal Callas’s inner turmoil, creating a portrait that is as powerful as it is poignant. With Larraín’s nuanced direction and Jolie’s evocative performance, ‘Maria’ is both a tribute to a legendary voice and a study of artistic endurance.

USA/Chile 2024 Pablo Larraín 115m


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Conclave (12A)

Conclave

When a Cardinal is tasked with leading one of the world's most secretive and ancient events, selecting a new Pope, he finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy that could shake the very foundation of The Church.


Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with running this covert process after the unexpected death of the beloved Pope. Once the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders have gathered from around the world and are locked together in the Vatican halls, Lawrence uncovers a trail of deep secrets left in the dead Pope’s wake, secrets which could shake the foundations of the Church. This is a skilfully crafted film with stunning cinematography and a beautiful score that takes many surprising turns, culminating in a climactic reveal that will leave audiences astonished. The A-list cast also includes Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow and Isabella Rossellini.

UK/USA 2024 Edward Berger 120m


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It Bites! Dracula on Film Talk (15)

It Bites! Dracula on Film Talk

A Hundred Years of Dracula at the Movies 


With Robert Eggers’ new take on ’Nosferatu’ reaching the big screen this month, this talk will look right back to its cinematic beginnings in the silent era.


What accounts for the enduring popularity of Dracula? Is he truly a reflection of our darkest selves, a Freudian mirror by which to peek inside the soul and recoil at what we see?  The last 100 years have seen some of cinema’s greatest directors tackle the peculiar horror of this most famous of vampire stories. With Eggers’ reboot screening this month, Nick Johnston-Jones and John Harte of the Cinema Education Team explore the genesis of this 1922 masterpiece of German Expressionism, reaching back into the origins of the vampire legend and the cinematic legacy of Bram Stoker’s creation. Bring your garlic, sharpen your stakes, and prepare for 90 minutes in the company of everyone’s favourite Count!

100m inc Q&A


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Sat 18 Jan 10:30 - In the Auditorium


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Saturday 18 Jan 202510:30 Book Now

Rocco and his Brothers (15)

Rocco and his Brothers

Rocco e i Suoi Fratelli


Visconti's masterpiece, an epic melodrama of social migration and moral decay, is now beautifully restored and better than ever!


Rosaria Parondi (Katina Paxinou), an impoverished Italian mother, moves to Milan with her close-knit family of five sons to find opportunity in the big city. A heated rivalry begins when two of Rosaria's boys - Rocco (Alain Delon) and Simone (Renato Salvatori) - fall for Nadia (Annie Girardot), a beautiful sex worker with whom each has an affair. As soft-spoken Rocco and brutal Simone both pursue Nadia in their own way, tension between them threatens to tear the family apart. Visconti has made a film with a sheer passion that makes most current filmmaking look feeble. It is a richly textured and profoundly affecting drama, resoundingly alive with characters, and a leader in post-WWII Italian cinema.

Italy 1960 Luchino Visconti 179m + short interval


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Saturday 18 Jan 202514:45 Book Now

The Tales of Hoffmann (RBO '25) (PG)

The Tales of Hoffmann (RBO '25)

Royal Opera & Ballet

Four women: four curious love stories. Juan Diego Flórez leads a fantastic cast in Offenbach's dream-like opera. This fantastic new production from the ROB will make for an interesting comparison with the recent Met production shown in September.

Sun 19 Jan 14:00


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No Other Land (15)

No Other Land

This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.


For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation. He began filming the at the age of 15 in the name of evidence. That evidence put forth by the directors – Adra, Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, Palestinian filmmaker and farmer Hamdan Ballal and Israeli cinematographer and editor Rachel Szor – is straightforward, un-sensationalized and completely infuriating. For its many images of despair, the film still offers a stirring vision for what could be – Israelis and Palestinians working together in the name of justice, collaborating toward a world where both are free. ‘No Other Land’ won best documentary at the 2024 Berlin film festival and is essential viewing. (Subtitles)

Palestine/Norway 2024 B. Adra, H. Ballal, Y. Abraham, R. Szor 92m


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Tuesday 21 Jan 202515:15 Book Now
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One Life (12A)

One Life

To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day 2025, we bring back one of the best and most moving films of 2023, which sees Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn play a real 20th Century hero – Nicholas Winton.


Winton was a well-to-do stockbroker who, at the start of WWII, is so horrified by unfolding events that he heads off to Prague to do anything he can to help the terrified young refugees fleeing Hitler. Everyone thinks he is crazy – including his mother, played by Helena Bonham-Carter. But he somehow manages to organise visas and trains to get hundreds of them to safety in the UK; what has since become known as the Kindertransport. Winton was sometimes called the British Oskar Schindler, and the parallels go beyond their acts of extreme kindness: both men were completely consumed by the task they undertook and never able to focus on the people that they did save, only those that they failed to save.

UK 2023 James Hawes 110m



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Thursday 23 Jan 202515:30 Book Now
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A Real Pain (15)

A Real Pain

In the lead up to Holocaust Memorial Day (27 Jan), we present this story of mismatched cousins who reunite for a tour through Poland to honour their beloved grandmother.


David Kaplan (Jesse Eisenberg) is a married Manhattan tech worker with a young son, who decides to bid the family goodbye and take a week-long road trip to Poland with his screwup cousin Benji (an off-the-charts great Kieran Culkin), whose default mode happens to be, obnoxious. Their beloved, recently deceased grandmother yearned for them to see her native Poland and understand how she grew up in a nurturing Jewish culture and escaped a Nazi death camp. The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history. This is a film that manages to be ruefully perceptive and laugh-out-loud funny, often at the same time: and that’s not easy.

USA/Poland 2024 Jesse Eisenberg 90m


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How to Make Millions before Grandma Dies (12A)

How to Make Millions before Grandma Dies

Lahn Mah


A scheming young man quits work to care for his dying grandmother, motivated by her fortune, and scheming to win her favor before she dies.


After Grandma Amah (Usha Seamkhum) is diagnosed with cancer, lazy college dropout M. (Putthipong "Billkin" Assaratanakul) commits himself to caring for her after he fails to make a name for himself as a video game streamer. Unfortunately for him, it turns out that winning Grandma's favour is no easy feat. We are shown the apathy of the younger generation and the sardonic wit of the older one through frequent hilarious exchanges. The dialogue is biting, crisp, smart and frequently heartbreaking. The film has been a blockbuster success throughout South East Asia, and should also be very well received on our shores.

Thailand 2024 Pat Boonnitipat 125m


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Friday 24 Jan 202515:45 Book Now
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Nosferatu (15)

Nosferatu

Robert Eggers reimagines Murnau’s silent horror classic ‘Nosferatu’ in this atmospheric, haunting adaptation. Known for his meticulous historical detail and eerie storytelling, Eggers brings a fresh intensity to this legendary vampire tale.


Set in 19th-century Europe, the film follows young real estate agent Thomas Hutter (Bill Skarsgård) who travels to a remote, eerie castle to assist Count Orlok (Willem Dafoe) with a property purchase. Hutter soon discovers that Orlok is no ordinary client but an ancient vampire intent on spreading darkness. As Hutter fights to save his beloved Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) from Orlok’s deadly influence, the story unfolds with an eerie beauty and mounting tension. Eggers’ use of shadow, historical set design and unsettling imagery brings this Gothic horror to life in vivid, spine-chilling detail, paying homage to the original film while carving out its own haunting identity. Also stars Nicholas Hoult and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

USA/Germany 2024 Robert Eggers 122m


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Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers (U)

Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers

Exhibition on Screen

200 years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery is hosting the UK’s biggest ever Van Gogh exhibition. Van Gogh is not only one of the most beloved artists of all time, but perhaps the most misunderstood.

Sat 25 Jan 16:00

Mon 27 Jan 13:15 (PLUS Q&A)

Wed 29 Jan 13:15

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Aida (Met '25) (PG)

Aida (Met '25)

Met Opera

American soprano Angel Blue headlines this grandest of grand operas features an epic Ancient Egyptian backdrop for what is in essence an intimate and tragic love story.

Sun 26 Jan 14:00

Thu 30 Jan 19:00



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2073 (15)

2073

A drama-doc which tackles some challenges the world faces, through a time traveller who risks her life to change the course of history and save the future of humanity.


It's the year 2073, and the worst fears of modern life have been realized. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarized police roam the wrecked streets, while survivors hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence. In this ingenious mixture of visionary science fiction and speculative nonfiction (inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette ‘La Jetée’), Academy Award-winner Asif Kapadia (‘Amy’) transports us to a future foreshadowed by the terrifying realities of our present moment. Samantha Morton plays a survivor besieged by nightmare visions of the past - a past that happens to be our present, visualized through contemporary footage interconnecting today's global crises of authoritarianism, unchecked big tech, inequality and global climate change. ‘2073’ is an urgent, unshakable vision of a dystopic future that could very well be our own. This genre-bending film combines real archival footage and original interviews with a fictional dystopian narrative to issue a dire warning about impending global disaster.

UK 2024 Asif Kapadia 85m plus recorded Q&A (30m)


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A Complete Unknown (15)

A Complete Unknown

Director James Mangold (‘Walk the Line’, ‘Ford v Ferrari’) takes on the enigmatic life of Bob Dylan in a fresh, unconventional biopic. Starring Timothée Chalamet as the iconic folk singer, the film explores Dylan’s transformative journey through fame, identity and reinvention during the 1960s.


Following Dylan’s rise from a Greenwich Village poet to a global music icon, we see the chaos, ambition and uncertainty of a young artist challenging himself and his audience. Chalamet embodies Dylan’s charisma and intensity, while scenes with real-life performances and legendary figures - from Joan Baez to Johnny Cash - anchor the story in music history. Mangold’s direction blends period detail with a restless energy, making this an intimate, raw look at an artist in constant evolution.

USA 2024 James Mangold 141m


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Nickel Boys (12A)

Nickel Boys

Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, ‘Nickel Boys’ chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African American men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.


Elwood Curtis's (Ethan Herisse) college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he's sentenced to the netherworld of Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory sunk deep in the Jim Crow South. He encounters another ward, the seen-it-all Turner (Brandon Wilson). The two teens strike up an alliance: Turner dispensing fundamental tips for survival, Elwood, clinging to his optimistic worldview. Backdropped by the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement, Elwood and Turner’s existence appear worlds away from Rev. Martin Luther King's burnished oratory. Despite Nickel's brutality, Elwood strives to hold onto his humanity, awakening a new vision for Turner. The cinematography and production design are exceptional. This is a survivor’s coming of age story: tough, disillusioned, brilliant!

USA 2024 RaMell Ross 140m


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Better Man (15)

Better Man

Michael Gracey (‘The Greatest Showman’) returns with a deeply personal and visually striking biopic chronicling the life of pop icon Robbie Williams.


Based on the true story of the meteoric rise, dramatic fall and remarkable resurgence of British pop superstar Robbie Williams, one of the great entertainers of modern time. The film is uniquely told from Robbie's perspective, incorporating surreal musical sequences (one medley on London’s Regent Street is jaw-dropping) and candid reflections, while capturing his signature wit and indomitable spirit. It follows his journey from childhood, to being the youngest member of chart-topping boyband Take That, through to his unparalleled achievements as a record-breaking solo artist - all the while confronting the challenges that stratospheric fame and success can bring. This wildly ambitious musical biopic also features Steve Pemberton and Alison Steadman.

Australia/UK 2024 Michael Gracey 134m


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Friday 31 Jan 202520:30 Book Now
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The Stories and Films Behind the Shows (12A)

The Stories and Films Behind the Shows

Sir Cameron Mackintosh Presents…


As the season of performance events of musicals produced by Cameron Mackintosh continues at the cinema, this talk will explore their origins in literature and cinema.

 

‘Miss Saigon’, ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ and ‘Les Misérables’ - filmed live performances of all these stage musicals are being screened at Chichester Cinema. This talk, by Andrew Vance of the Chichester Cinema Education Team, will look back at the origins of these stories, including both the literature and the film versions on which they were based and the extent to which they influenced the creatives behind the productions. ‘Les Misérables’ is now in its 40th year and Cameron Mackintosh takes his maxim from the autobiography of Charles B Cochran - “Advice to aspiring young producers: never put a show on for audiences: always put it on for yourself and do it as best you can. Only then, maybe, will an audience come to see it.” For Cameron Mackintosh this has worked very successfully.

100m inc Q&A


Tickets £7.50


Sat 1 Feb 10:30 - In the Auditorium


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Callas (PG)

Callas

To complement the new biopic on Maria Callas, we are delighted to welcome back to Chichester director Tony Palmer to introduce and Q&A his documentary on the great soprano.


This film, made at the request of Maria Callas herself, was started in 1973, but wasn't finished until 12 years later. It includes eye-witness accounts by Franco Zeffirelli, Tito Gobbi, Luchino Visconti, Carlo Maria Giulini, Giuseppe Di Stefano and many others who knew her well. It tells a story that was previously unknown, about a great singer who had been brought low by love, and whose career was unbelievably short when considered against her extraordinary worldwide reputation. Maria - just a woman, who often spoke of Callas in the third person, in trouble, asking, begging sometimes, for our understanding and our love. She deserves it, because there was no greater singing actress in our time. And she was only 53 when she died.

UK 1978 Tony Palmer 92m


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The Girl with the Needle (15)

The Girl with the Needle

Pigen Med Nålen


A fictionalised true crime hypnotic thriller based on a real Danish case from 1921, shot in high-contrast expressionist monochrome, and nominated for the 2024 Cannes Palme d’Or.


Copenhagen 1919: Young factory worker Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne) is struggling to survive in post WWI Copenhagen, when she finds herself unemployed, abandoned and pregnant. She meets Dagmar (Trine Dyrholm), a charismatic woman running an underground adoption agency, helping mothers to find foster homes for their unwanted children. With nowhere else to turn, Karoline takes on the role of a wet-nurse. A strong connection is formed between the two women, but Karoline's world shatters when she stumbles upon the shocking truth behind her work. Scandi noir gets a 1910s twist in this darkly gripping, unsettling tale about a woman struggling to find love and a sense of morality. Denmark’s submission to the 2025 Foreign Film Oscar category is harrowing in places, but seriously impressive. (Subtitles)

Denmark 2024 Magnus von Horne 115m


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Saturday 1 Feb 202520:45 Book Now
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Les Misérables: The Staged Concert (12A)

Les Misérables: The Staged Concert

The Staged Concert Live! (40th Anniversary)

To mark the 40th anniversary of the world’s most popular musical, a unique opportunity to experience the spectacular staged concert version on the big screen featuring an all-star cast including Michael Ball, Alfie Boe, Carrie Hope Fletcher, Matt Lucas and John Owen Jones.

Sun 2 Feb 14:30

Tue 4 Feb 18:00

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Psycho (15)

Psycho

For our second Film Club (18-25’s) screening of the season, we present this unquestionable cinema classic from the master Alfred Hitchcock.


Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), on the run after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother. Featuring Bernard Herrmann’s greatest score, this is a film that is always worth another viewing, especially on the big screen. As New York’s Village Voice reported on the film’s 1960 release, “Hitchcock is the most daring avant-garde filmmaker in America today. All discerning filmgoers are advised to see ‘Psycho’ no less than three times (first for ‘the sheer terror of the experience’, again for the ‘macabre comedy’, and finally for the movie's ‘hidden meanings’."


USA 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 109m


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Tuesday 4 Feb 202521:00 Book Now

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (PG)

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie des Grauens


To complement Robert Eggers new film ‘Nosferatu’, we present the original 1922 classic by F.W. Murnau, where Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and the estate agent’s wife.


In this highly influential silent horror film, the mysterious Count Orlok (Max Schreck) summons Thomas Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim) to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen (Greta Schroeder). After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok's servant, Knock (Alexander Granach), prepares for his master to arrive at his new home. The atmosphere and images are timeless in their power – expressionism at its best. “There is pure expressionist inspiration in Murnau's juxtaposition of the evil wolves and the terrified old women: a poetry of fear.” – Peter Bradshaw (The Guardian). (English intertitles)

Germany 1922 F.W. Murnau 94m


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Wednesday 5 Feb 202518:15 Book Now

Macbeth (2025) (15)

Macbeth (2025)

★★★★★ Daily Telegraph & Guardian

Donmar Warehouse

David Tennant stars in the title role of this spellbinding story of love and murder, the renewing power of nature, and of the internal struggles of a damaged man as he tries to control his destiny.

Wed 5 Feb 20:00

Sun 9 Feb 16:45

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The Brutalist (18)

The Brutalist

Oscar favourite for Best Film. This is a visually arresting drama that tells the story of ambition, art and survival in the aftermath of World War II, exploring the life of a visionary architect as he seeks to leave his mark on postwar America.


László Toth (Adrien Brody) is a Hungarian architect who emigrates to America with his wife Erzsébet (Marion Cotillard), in search of a fresh start and creative freedom. As Toth’s career takes off, he faces the dark intersections of art and politics, grappling with personal sacrifice and ethical compromises. With stunning cinematography that mirrors the stark and monumental style of brutalist architecture, ‘The Brutalist’ is both a character study and a meditation on art’s power and cost. Corbet’s ambitious storytelling and the film’s haunting aesthetic make this an unforgettable cinematic experience.

USA/Hungary 2024 Brady Corbet 205m


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Babygirl (15)

Babygirl

A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much-younger intern.


Romy Mathis (Nicole Kidman) owns a duplex apartment in the city and a big house in the country. She has a doting husband (Antonio Banderas), two adorable daughters and a gilded career as the CEO of a non-specific “robot business” that runs a successful delivery scheme. She has it all, which naturally means that she wants something else, something more. Before long she has embarked on a perilous affair with her office intern Samuel (Harris Dickinson). Kidman and Dickinson smoulder together, with writer-director Halina Reijn's clinical gaze keeping this sexually frank thriller more provocative than salacious.

USA 2024 Halina Reijn 114m


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We Make Antiques! (15)

We Make Antiques!

Uso Happyaku


As the first of seven Japanese films in this mini-season, we offer this entertaining crowd-pleaser that offers a comical take on the serious world of antiques trading. Antiques Roadshow meets Ocean’s Eleven!


While searching a rich family’s storehouse one day, opportunist antiques dealer Norio (Nakai Kiichi) among other items, he finds a valuable 16th-century teacup from Japan’s most famous tea master Sen no Rikyu, and deceives the homeowner to get it for almost nothing. However, the homeowner himself is a fake – in reality, he is a talented but impoverished ceramic artist called Sasuke (Sasaki Kuranosuke). Norio soon realises that by combining Sasuke’s artistic prowess and his dealership, they could make a pretty penny. Maybe, just maybe, they can pull off the greatest swindle the world of Japanese antiques has ever seen. This is such an interesting film that manages to entertain while sharing knowledge about the world of antiques, history, and pottery with precision. (Subtitles)

Japan 2018 Take Masaharu 105m


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Saturday 8 Feb 202516:45 Book Now

Vermiglio, the Mountain Bride (15)

Vermiglio, the Mountain Bride

A beautifully made drama exploring the complex dynamics of a sprawling family near the wartime border with Germany.


The lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Maura Delpero’s visionary film. In the last days of WWII, we see a series of dramatic, consequential events after the arrival of deserting Sicilian soldier (Giuseppe De Domenico). Including a romance with Lucia (Martina Scrinzi). This was a richly deserving winner of the 2024 Grand Jury prize at the Venice film festival. It is a richly compassionate, emotional and detailed drama of family secrets in wartime Italian countryside, in the manner of Ermanno Olmi or the Taviani brothers. It is wonderfully acted with unaffected naturalism by its cast of professionals and newcomers and plays an extravagant pizzicato on the audience’s heartstrings. (Subtitles)

Italy 2024 Maura Delpero 119m


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Friday 14 Feb 202516:15 Book Now

The Tasting (15)

The Tasting

La Dégustation


A very enjoyable wine-based romantic comedy about two awkward singles who form an unlikely couple and inadvertently find love.


Jacques (Bernard Campan) is divorced and runs a small wine shop on the verge of bankruptcy in a small French town. Hortense (Isabelle Carré) is also single, full of life and eager to find true love. One day she walks into his store looking for a good drop of wine to share with a group of homeless people that she regularly cooks for, and before too long she has signed up for a tasting workshop at Jacques’ store. The road to romance though, is not exactly smooth, especially when both of them are harbouring secrets – and nursing past hurts. Carré ('L'Enfant de Personne') and Campan ('Tous Inconnus') are both César award-winning actors and have convincing on-screen chemistry for an unlikely couple. Just like a good wine, ‘The Tasting’ has a lasting finish. (Subtitles)

France 2023 Ivan Calbérac 92m


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Friday 14 Feb 202518:30 Book Now
Saturday 15 Feb 202512:45 Book Now

Uncorked - The History of Alcohol in Film (15)

Uncorked - The History of Alcohol in Film

As French romcom ‘The Tasting’ arrives at Chichester Cinema, this talk will look back at some of the films, both vintage and contemporary, from around the world in which booze has played a part.


From the very early days of cinema to the latest releases, the use and misuse of alcohol has featured regularly. To accompany the new French romcom ‘La Dégustation’ (‘The Tasting’), a talk will sample the films that place alcohol at the centre of the narrative, either as the luxury tipple of choice, or the demon drink. Former drinks trade journalist Sandy Guthrie will provide a cocktail of clips to show how wine, beer and spirits can fuel a story or act as a metaphor in films from around the world, whether historical films or contemporary dramas and comedies. Whether it is ‘Whisky Galore!’ or a tale from the vineyards of France, this tasting session will provide a few surprises, some classic vintage films and almost certainly leave the audience pining for a glass of something or other.


100m inc Q&A


Sat 15 Feb 10:00 - In the Auditorium


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Here (12A)

Here

Director Robert Zemeckis (‘Forrest Gump’, ‘Back to the Future’) brings a mind-bending, visually inventive story to life, adapting Richard McGuire’s acclaimed graphic novel. Known for pushing cinematic boundaries, Zemeckis explores time, memory and the idea of “home” in an experimental, emotionally charged way.


The film stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright as multiple characters across different eras, all connected to the same ordinary room over centuries. From the distant past to the far future, moments of love, loss and everyday life unfold within these four walls, each scene adding new layers to the meaning of place and belonging. With seamless transitions between time periods and captivating visual effects, ‘Here’ creates a moving, almost surreal experience that celebrates life’s fleeting, interconnected moments. Zemeckis’s latest work is a cinematic puzzle, blending the familiar and the extraordinary in a way only he can.

USA 2024 Robert Zemeckis 98m


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Saturday 15 Feb 202514:30 Book Now