We love the big screen and with big blockbuster film releases, original plots, and new and familiar characters, there has never been a better time to get lost in a great story on the silver screen.
The Bonington in Arnold has some great films lined up over March for those planning a cinema trip.
Women Talking (15)
Based on the best-selling book and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, Women Talking is the powerful story of the women of an isolated religious community and their attempt to reconcile a brutal reality with their faith.
Stay and fight, or leave. They will not do nothing.
“At once timely and timeless.” Observer ★★★★★
“This meditation on abuse and survival deserves the Best Picture Oscar” Independent ★★★★★
“A remarkable ensemble of performers unite for this timely chamber-piece” Empire ★★★★
“A gripping film” Telegraph ★★★★
Nominated for 2 Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Original Screenplay
Telegraph ★★★★★ Guardian ★★★★ Independent ★★★★
The film is available to watch from Tue 28 February – Thu 9 March
Event Cinema : Brian & Roger Eno: Live at the Acropolia (U)
Brian Eno and Roger Eno have been recording together since 1983. This unique musical event not only sees the two brothers performing live together for the first time but it’s one of the very rare occasions that Brian Eno has ever performed live in front of an audience.
In front of a sell-out crowd and against a backdrop of spectacular images being projected onto the stones of the Odeon of Herodes Atticus amphitheatre, Brian and Roger perform atmospheric musical landscapes from legendary productions that include ambient records, television soundtracks and film scores.
The film is available to watch from Thu 2 March at 7.30pm
Oscar Catch-up Screenings: All Quiet on the Western Front (15)
All Quiet on the Western Front tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the trenches. The film from director Edward Berger is based on the world renowned bestseller of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.
“Extraordinarily potent German first world war drama” Guardian ★★★★★
Times ★★★★ Telegraph ★★★★ Empire ★★★★
Nominated for 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best International Feature
The film is screening Fri 3 & Tue 7 March
Event Cinema: Extra Screening: National Theatre Live- The Crucible (12A)
A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller’s captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma).
Raised to be seen but not heard, a group of young women in Salem suddenly find their words have an almighty power. As a climate of fear, vendetta and accusation spreads through the community, no one is safe from trial.
Lyndsey Turner (Hamlet) directs this contemporary new staging, designed by Tony Award-winner Es Devlin (The Lehman Trilogy). Captured live from the Olivier stage at the National Theatre.
“Gripping revival of Arthur Miller’s masterpiece speaks to us with urgent force” Telegraph ★★★★★
The Crucible by Arthur Miler, directed by Lyndsey Turner
The film is screening Sat 4 March at 1.30pm
Oscar Catch-up Screenings: Avatar- The Way of Water (12A)
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, Avatar The Way of Water begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive and the tragedies they endure.
“Eccentric, soulful, joyous, dark and very, very blue.” Empire ★★★★★
Nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture
Screening on Sat 4 March at 6pm
Event Cinema: Exhibition on Screen: Mary Cassatt- Painting the Modern Woman (12A)
Exhibition on Screen, the award-winning pioneer bringing art films to cinemas around the world for over a decade, is proud to announce the release of Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman in cinemas nationwide on International Women’s Day, Wednesday 8th March 2023.
Mary Cassatt made a career painting the lives of the women around her. Her radical images showed them as intellectual, curious and engaging. This was a major shift in the way women appeared in art.
Directed by Ali Ray (Frida Kahlo) and featuring the world’s most eminent Cassatt curators and scholars (all women), this new feature film Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman reveals how this classically trained American artist came to join a group of Parisian radicals – the Impressionists – a movement that transformed the history of art.
The film is screening Wed 8 March at 7.30pm & Sun 12 March at 4.30pm
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (18)
Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.
“An epic portrait of an American artist” The Indiependent ★★★★★
“Essential viewing” Little White Lies ★★★★★
Empire ★★★★★ Metro ★★★★★ Guardian ★★★★
Nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Documentary
The film is available to watch on Fri 10 March at 1.30pm & Tue 14 March at 4.30pm
Blue Jean (15)
In Thatcher’s Britain, Jean, a PE Teacher, is forced to live a double life. When a new student arrives and threatens to expose her, Jean is pushed to extreme lengths to keep her job and her integrity.
“A masterpiece” Telegraph ★★★★★
This screening is available to watch Fri 10 – Thu 16 March
Free Screening: We R Here present Love?
As part of the celebration of International Women’s Day Love? shows us a glimpse into the world of survivors of this hidden form of abuse by using the voices of many millions of women to portray the voice of “Woman”. The film articulates the silent voices of Domestic Abuse, describing not just the dark world they inhabit, but the shafts of light that bring a sense of hope.
A powerful film like no other, this WILL save lives.
Produced, written and starring Samantha Beckinsale, directed by Jason Figgis of Figgis West Productions, and co – produced with October Eleven Pictures and Simon W. Golding.
Presented by WeRHere and Gedling Borough Council for International Women’s Day 2023.
The film is available to watch Fri 10 March from 7pm
Event Cinema: Encore Screening: National Theatre Live- Othello (12)
An extraordinary new production of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedy, directed by Clint Dyer with a cast that includes Giles Terera (Hamilton), Rosy McEwen (The Alienist) and Paul Hilton (The Inheritance).
She’s a bright, headstrong daughter of a senator; elevated by her status but stifled by its expectations. He’s refugee of slavery; having risen to the top of a white world, he finds love across racial lines has a cost.
Wed in secret, Desdemona and Othello crave a new life together. But as unseen forces conspire against them, they find their future is not theirs to decide.
Othello is filmed live on the Lyttleton stage of the National Theatre.
“Clint Dyer makes this tragedy feel utterly new” Guardian ★★★★
Othello
by William Shakespeare
directed by Clint Dyer
The film is available to watch Sun 12 March at 7pm
Catch-up Screenings: A Man Called Otto (15)
Otto (Tom Hanks) is a grumpy isolated widower with staunch principles, strict routines and a short fuse, who gives everyone in his neighbourhood a hard time as he watches over it like a hawk. Just as it seems like he’s finally given up on life, an unlikely and reluctant friendship develops with his new neighbours. Little by little, Otto undergoes a subtle transformation…but is he really capable of change?
The film is available to watch Mon 13 – Thu 16 March
Event Cinema: Anything Goes – The Musical (PG)
Don’t miss Anything Goes, ‘the show of the year’ (★★★★★ The Telegraph) and a ‘fizzing tonic for our times’ (★★★★★ The Guardian) when it sails back into cinemas.
Filmed live during its sold-out 2021 run at the Barbican in London, this major 5-star production of the classic musical comedy features an all-star cast led by renowned Broadway royalty Sutton Foster as Reno Sweeney, alongside Robert Lindsay (My Family), Felicity Kendal (The Good Life) and Gary Wilmot (Chicago).
A heart-warming romance with spectacular dance routines and some of theatre’s most memorable songs, Anything Goes is ‘a joyously shipshape revival’ (★★★★★ The Observer).
The film is available to watch Wed 15 March at 7pm
The Whale (15)
From acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky comes The Whale, the story of a reclusive English teacher who attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.
“Brendan Fraser seals his comeback in a sensational film of rare compassion” Telegraph ★★★★★
“A film with a very big heart” Independent ★★★★
Nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Actor (Fraser)
The film is available to watch Mon 20 – Thu 23 March
Event Cinema: The Royal Opera House Live- Turandot(12A)
In the court of Princess Turandot, suitors who fail to solve her riddles are brutally killed. But when a mysterious Prince answers one correctly, suddenly he holds all the power –and a glorious secret. When life hangs in the balance, can love conquer all? Puccini’s score is rich in musical marvels (featuring the famous aria ‘Nessun dorma’), while Andrei Serban’s production draws on Chinese theatrical traditions to evoke a colourful fantasy tableau of ancient Peking. Antonio Pappano conducts Anna Pirozzi in the title role and Yonghoon Lee as Calaf.
OPERA
Company – The Royal Opera
Music – Giacomo Puccini
The film is available to watch Wed 22 March at 7.15pm
Cinema prices at The Bonington are very competitive, with tickets at £6.50, and concessions at £5.50. Concessions are open to those Under 18, Students with valid student ID, and over 60s. Tickets for 16-25 Year Old’s are £4 via a free membership here- Young Person’s Membership – The Bonington (boningtontheatre.co.uk)
You can book tickets for the films listed above here: https://www.boningtontheatre.co.uk/whats-on/
