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Picture from Dans la maison (In The House)

Wed 22 May 7.30pm

Cinema

Dans La Maison (in The House)

A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher.

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Picture from Jack the Giant Slayer

Wed 29 May 2pm

Cinema

Jack The Giant Slayer

The ancient war between humans and a race of giants when Jack, a young farmhand fighting for a kingdom and the love of a princess, opens a gateway between the two worlds.

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Picture from Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss

Tues 4 June 6.45pm

Glyndebourne Opera Live Presents

Ariadne Auf Naxos By Richard Strauss

The Glyndebourne Festival opens with a new production of this compelling collaboration between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Ariadne, abandoned on her island, longs for death, but a group of comedians turn up and their leader, Zerbinetta, tells her to cheer up and try a bit of flirting. When the god Bacchus descends and carries Ariadne off, Zerbinetta feels she’s been proved right. Sung in German with English subtitles.

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Picture from A Late Quartet

Wed 5 June 7.30pm

Cinema

A Late Quartet

On the eve of a world renowned string quartets 25th anniversary season, their beloved cellist, Peter Mitchell (Christopher Walken), is diagnosed with the early symptoms of Parkinsons Disease. When Peter announces he wishes to make the upcoming season his last, his three colleagues find themselves at a crossroad.

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Picture from Amour

Wed 12 June

Cinema

Amour

Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple's bond of love is severely tested.

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Picture from The Audience


Thurs 13 June 7.00pm

National Theatre Live Presents


The Audience


For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace - a meeting like no other in British public life - it is private. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said. Not even to their spouses.
The Audience breaks this contract of silence - and imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street incumbents and their Queen. From Churchill to Cameron, each Prime Minister has used these private conversations as a sounding board and a confessional - sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive.
The Audience reunites writer Peter Morgan and Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren following their collaboration on the critically-acclaimed movie sensation The Queen.

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Picture from I am so Excited

Sun 16 Jun 6pm

Cinema

I Am So Excited

When it appears as though the end is in sight, the pilots, flight crew, and passengers of a plane heading to Mexico City look to forget the anguish of the moment and face the greatest danger, which we carry within ourselves.A new Spanish comedy from Pedro Almodovar

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Picture from Promised Land

Wed 19 June 7.30pm

Cinema

Promised Land

A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.

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Picture from Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi

Sun 23 June 7.00pm

Glyndebourne Opera Presents

Falstaff By Giuseppe Verdi

Verdi’s farewell to the stage - with a Shakespearian laugh. Falstaff tries to seduce two of the merry wives of Windsor at once, but they prove too clever for him and in a riotous finale in Windsor Forest all is eventually forgiven.
Captured live in June 2009. Sung in Italian with English subtitles

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Picture from Love Is All You Need

Wed 26 June 7.30pm

Cinema

Love Is All You Need

Love Is All You Need is a warm, funny, heartfelt meditation on the birth pangs of starting a new life. Set at a picture-perfect summer wedding in Sorrento, the film stars Pierce Brosnan as Philip, a lonely, middle-aged English widower and estranged single father living in Denmark, and Trine Dyrholm as Ida, a Danish hairdresser recuperating from chemotherapy, who has just learned that her husband is leaving her for a woman half his age from his accounts department. The fates of these two bruised souls intertwine as they embark for Italy to attend the wedding of his son, Patrick, to her daughter, Astrid. The bumpy path towards the union of their children, and the clashes and faux pas of their wedding guests, force Philip and Ida to reevaluate all their notions of family, love and happiness.

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Picture from The Great Gatsby

Sun 7 July 6pm

The Great Gatsby

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton
Nick Carraway finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbour, Jay Gatsby. Drawn into Gatsby’s circle he becomes a witness to obsession and tragedy. A stunning film inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald's literary classic.
Director: Baz Luhrmann

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Picture from Le Nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wed 10 July 7.00pm

Glyndebourne Opera

Le Nozze Di Figaro By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Captured live in July 2012. Sung in Italian with English subtitles Michael Grandage’s production of Mozart’s greatest comedy. Figaro and his bride Susanna cleverly outwit their master the Count in his attempts at seduction, until, in one of the most touching moments in the whole of opera, he begs his Countess’s forgiveness and the whole household is happily reunited.

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Picture from The Great Gatsby

Thurs 11 July, 7.30pm

The Great Gatsby

"The Great Gatsby" follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy (Carey Mulligan) and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton). It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles.

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Picture from The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Wed 17 July 2013 7.30pm

Cinema

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland.

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Sat 20 & Sun 21 July 10.00am - 5.00pm (both days)

Film-Making Weekend Workshop With The North Yorkshire Media Training Partnership

All ages & levels of experience welcome.

Learn how to create movies on a shoestring budget and explore the basics of film storylining, scripting, camerawork and editing. Rather than using expensive studio cameras, you’ll discover how to get professional results out of the sort of camera used to film family occasions, and scriptwriting sessions will help you discover that you already know how films work – and how you can apply that understanding to your own screenplays.

Led by award-winning screenwriter James Richards and award-winning film maker Paul Richardson, both experienced trainers and low budget filmmakers. There’s no jargon, no need to hire expensive kit – this is about having the confidence to devise, make and exhibit movies. It’s about finding a voice.

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Picture from Populaire

Wed 24 July 7.30pm

Cinema

Populaire

1958. Rose is a terrible secretary but a demon typist. Her handsome boss resolves to turn her into the fastest girl in the world.

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Picture from Hippolyte et Aricie
by Jean-Philippe Rameau


Thurs 25 July 6pm

Glyndebourne Opera Live


Hippolyte Et Aricie
by Jean-Philippe Rameau


The great 18th century opera composer Rameau – remembered as “the God of Harmony” - sets a great classical legend, that of Phedre’s incestuous love for her stepson Hippolyte. He tries to flee with his lover Aricie, but is killed; only the gods’ intervention can resurrect him and reunite the pair. This is Glyndebourne’s first production of an opera by Rameau.
Sung in French with English subtitles

Approx length 3h 45 mins

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Picture from 
Don Pasquale
 by Gaetano Donizetti


Tues 6 August 7pm

Glyndebourne Opera Live


don Pasquale
 By Gaetano Donizetti


Don Pasquale is the 64th of Donizetti’s 66 operas, written a year before the onset of the syphilis-induced dementia that eventually overwhelmed him. Given the circumstances, it is hardly surprising that the diamond-bright wit and brilliance of this opera also has a distinctly dark side. Danielle de Niese, acknowledged as one of the world’s most talented and charismatic artists and described as “the world’s coolest soprano” by the New York Times, performs the role of Norina.
Approx length 2h 45 mins
Sung in Italian with English subtitles


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Picture from Billy Budd 
by Benjamin Britten


Fri 23 Aug 7.00pm

Glyndebourne
 Opera

Billy Budd 
by Benjamin Britten

This year marks the centenary of Benjamin Britten, and this is one of his most powerful operas, set on shipboard in Napoleonic times. The seaman Billy is lured into violence against the evil master-at-arms Claggart, and Capt. Vere, though sympathizing with Billy, is compelled to order his execution. Jacques Imbrailo takes the title role with Sir Mark Elder conducting.
Approx length 3h 25 mins (incl intervals)

Captured live in August 2010. Sung in English with English subtitles

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