Film

Motherless Brooklyn

A Chinatown-style noir-ish period crime thriller with a Tourette's twist

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Bristol Palestine Film Festival 2019: Soufra + food & discussion

Documentary about a woman who starts a catering company in a Lebanese refugee camp

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Bad Santa

The least festive movie ever made returns for Christmas

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Knock Down the House + Q&A

Free screening of award-winning doc about four female Democrats who ran for Congress in 2018

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The Cosmic Shed Presents: Tron-fest

The first Tron movie plus a panel discussion hosted by the Bristol-based podcast

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French Film Festival on Tour: Happy Birthday

The great Catherine Deneuve stars in Cédric Kahn's family meltdown comedy

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Bristol’s week in film: December 6-12 2019

No big blockbusters this week, but there are plenty of interesting smaller films, from Ed Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn to Liam Neeson in cancer weepie (no, really) Ordinary Love.

The Jumanji sequel is previewed on Saturday, Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday. You can also catch advance screenings of the wokey second remake of Bob Clark’s classic slasher Black Christmas on Thursday.

Should you prefer White Christmas, that’s showing too this week. We’ve included it in our handy round-up of Christmas films for all tastes, from the sappy and sentimental to the peerless Bad Santa.

It’s also the main weekend of the Bristol Palestine Film Festival, whose highlights inlcude a screening and grub at St. George’s.

Follow the links for further details about everything. Go here for our comprehensive film listings.

New Releases

Film / Drama

Motherless Brooklyn

A Chinatown-style noir-ish period crime thriller with a Tourette's twist

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Film / Drama

Ordinary Love

Liam Neeson shelves the whupass temporarily for a foray into romantic cancer weepie territory

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Film / Art House

So Long, My Son

Epic family drama exploring the human impact of the Chinese Communist Party’s one-child policy

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Film / Drama

Honey Boy

Shia LaBeouf plays his own abusive dad in this semi-autobiographical act of movie therapy

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Film / Animation

StarDog and TurboCat

Brit animated mutt'n'moggie bonding adventure

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Film / Documentary

Shooting the Mafia

Portrait of an octogenarian Italian photographer who documents the crimes of the Cosa Nostra

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Film / Documentary

The Street

Gentrification, austerity, a deepening social divide - the forces that shaped Brexit in microcosm

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Preview screenings

Film / Comedy

Jumanji: The Next Level

All the gang are back in the sequel to Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

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Film / Horror

Black Christmas

Second remake of the festive slasher, this time with a modish MeToo-era twist

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Film / Comedy

Jumanji: The Next Level 3D

All the gang are back in the sequel to Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

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Bristol Palestine Film Festival

Film / Documentary

Bristol Palestine Film Festival 2019: Gaza + director Q&A

Documentary charting the lives of ordinary Gazans against the backdrop of conflict

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Film / Documentary

Bristol Palestine Film Festival 2019: Ghost Hunting

A Palestinian director re-enacts his experiences in Israel's main interrogation centre

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Film / Documentary

Bristol Palestine Film Festival 2019: Hurdle

A new generation of Palestinians express their passion for parkour in the shadow of the wall

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Film / Art House

It Must Be Heaven

Veteran Palestinian director Elia Suleiman takes a comedic look at the meaning of being in exile

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Film / Animation

Bristol Palestine Film Festival 2019: Palestinian Shorts

A selection of the best new short films by and about Palestinians

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Film / Drama

Bristol Palestine Film Festival 2019: Screwdriver

A Palestinian man struggles to adjust after 15 years in an Israeli jail

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Film / Documentary

Bristol Palestine Film Festival 2019: Soufra + food & discussion

Documentary about a woman who starts a catering company in a Lebanese refugee camp

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Film / Documentary

Bristol Palestine Film Festival 2019: The Apollo of Gaza

Fascinating documentary about the discovery - and mysterious disppearance - of an ancient statue

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Film / Animation

Bristol Palestine Film Festival 2019: The Tower

Feature-length animation in which a Palestinian refugee girl learns about her family history

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Christmas Films

Film / Comedy

Bad Santa

The least festive movie ever made returns for Christmas

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Film / Comedy

The Bishop’s Wife

Return of the frothy, whimsical Cary Grant comedy for Christmas

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Film / Comedy

Gremlins

Joe Dante's splendid blackly comic kiddie horror returns for Christmas

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Film / Comedy

Elf

Enduringly popular festive comedy with Will Ferrell as Santa's largest elf

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Film / Animation

Bing’s Christmas

Festive tot animation, not the deceased crooner

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Film / Comedy

CBeebies Christmas Show: Hansel and Gretel

The annual dose of CBeebies family fun, this year featuring Waffle the Wonder Dog

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Film / Animation

The Grinch

Benedict Cumberbatch voices the Christmas-hating furry verdant person in Dr. Seuss animation

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Film / Drama

It’s a Wonderful Life

James Stewart stars in festive family classic

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Film / Comedy

White Christmas

Get nostalgically festive with Bing and Danny in BFI Musicals season

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Event Cinema

Film / Science Fiction

The Cosmic Shed Presents: Tron-fest

The first Tron movie plus a panel discussion hosted by the Bristol-based podcast

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Film / Documentary

Knock Down the House + Q&A

Free screening of award-winning doc about four female Democrats who ran for Congress in 2018

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Film / Comedy

Friends: The One with the Anniversary Part 1

Start of a fan-milking three-part 25th anniversary event, with four episodes in 4K

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Film / Ballet

Royal Ballet Live: Coppélia

The return of Ninette de Valois’ romantic story ballet

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Film / Event Cinema

Tosca Live from La Scala

New production of Puccini's melodramatic opera of passion, terror, torture and ropy plot contrivance

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Film / Event Cinema

Les Misérables: The Staged Concert

Live broadcast of the record breaking hit musical from the Gielgud Theatre

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Film / Comedy

Friends: The One with the Anniversary Part 2

Second part of a fan-milking three-part 25th anniversary event, with four episodes in 4K

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Film / Event Cinema

National Theatre Encore: Present Laughter

Andrew Scott stars in Noël Coward’s 1943 comedy of fame, desire and loneliness

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Film / Event Cinema

42nd Street: The Musical

Bonnie Langford stars in the glitzy musical, recorded live at the Theatre Royal

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Film / Event Cinema

National Theatre Live: Fleabag – Encore Screenings

Phoebe Waller-Bridge's one-woman play that inspired the hit TV series returns to the stage

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Film / Event Cinema

An American in Paris – The Musical

Christopher Wheeldon's Tony Award-winning musical theatre production based on the MGM classic

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One-Off Screenings

Film / Art House

French Film Festival on Tour: Happy Birthday

The great Catherine Deneuve stars in Cédric Kahn's family meltdown comedy

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Film / Drama

The Thin Red Line

Terrence Malick's 1998 war flick kicks off the Cube's new film and philosophy series

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Film / Comedy

Greener Grass

Bizarre and deadpan satire on suburban conformity

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Film / Musical

Pakeezah

Musical melodrama from 1972, with one of the most famous soundtracks in Bollywood history

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Film / Animation

KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World! Legend of Crimson

Japanese box office hit anime screened with English subtitles

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Film / Art House

Monos

Colombia's official Oscar entry: 'Apocalypse Now on shrooms'

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Still Going Strong

Film / Animation

Frozen II

All the gang are back in Disney's inevitable sequel to its 2013 global mega-hit

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Film / Drama

Knives Out

Rian Johnson's knowing, intricately plotted homage to the Agatha Christie-style murder-mystery

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Film / Drama

Blue Story

Topical British 'postcode war' gang violence drama directed by Rapman

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Film / Action

Charlie’s Angels

Another Charlie's Angels reboot anyone?

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Film / Comedy

Last Christmas

A festive romcom with a dash of Elf and plenty of Wham!

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Film / Drama

The Nightingale

Epic period vengeance thriller from the director of The Babadook

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Film / Comedy

Marriage Story

Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver star in Noah Baumbach's divorce drama

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Film / Drama

Le Mans ’66

Matt Damon and Christian Bale star in the story of the battle between Ford and Ferrari

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Film / Thriller

21 Bridges

Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman gets his own cop thriller vehicle

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Film / Fantasy

Joker

Joaquin Phoenix slaps on the clown face in this darker take on the DC villain

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Film / Animation

Abominable

A teen girl escorts a yeti back to his mountain home in this DreamWorks animation

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Film / Drama

Harriet

Biopic of 19th century slave-turned-abolitionist and political activist Harriet Tubman

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Film / Animation

A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

Aardman's woolly mischief-maker befriends a cute burpy space alien

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Film / Animation

The Addams Family

Charles Addams's spooky creation gets an animated update for the Instagram era

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Film / Drama

The Good Liar

Career conman Ian McKellen meets his match in the form of Helen Mirren

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Film / Drama

The Aeronauts

Period hot air balloon adventure romp with Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones

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Booking Now

Film / Comedy

Compass Presents: Singin’ in the Rain

Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds holler in the precipitation in this expanded cinema event with food

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Film / Documentary

Aquarela

A narration-free, globe-trotting celebration of the sheer awesome power of water in all its forms

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Film / Animation

Moomins and the Winter Wonderland

Suitably wintery adaptation of Tove Jansson's books using vintage stop-motion footage

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Film / Musical

A Star Is Born

George Cukor's epic 1954 musical with an Oscar nominated Judy Garland

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Film / Musical

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Jacques Demy’s 1964 homage to his beloved Hollywood musicals

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Film / Documentary

Citizen K

Alex Gibney explores the strange case of oligarch-turned-dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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Film / Art House

French Film Festival on Tour: Young Ahmed

Cannes award-winning portrait of a radicalised Muslim teen

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Film / Drama

Housekeeping

Local Hero director Bill Forsyth's overlooked first American drama

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Film / Comedy

When Harry Met Sally

Have what she's having now the lockdown's over

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