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Queen & Slim

Tense and timely road movie putting a 'black lives matter' spin on the Bonnie and Clyde-style drama

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The Lighthouse

A much-acclaimed, genuinely creepy period arthouse horror flick from the director of The Witch

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Kinky Boots: The Musical

Fetish-themed hit stage musical adapted from the 2005 Britcom

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Parasite + Bong Joon-ho Q&A

Universally acclaimed Hitchcockian home invasion flick with lashings of social satire

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Organ

Previously untold WWII story launches Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme

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Us

Jordan Peele's brilliant follow-up to Get Out

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Bristol’s week in film: January 31-February 6 2020

There’s a strong crop of new releases this week, including Queen & Slim (go here for our review) – aka “the black Bonnie and Clyde”) – the justly lauded The Lighthouse (go here for our review) and Clint Eastwood’s latest film, Richard Jewell (go here for our review).

Many cinemas have previews of Dolittle at the weekend, while the Watershed and Everyman also have previews of the Oscar nominated Parasite, with a director Q&A by satellite, on Monday.

Two new seasons kick off at the Watershed this week too: the splendid Hell is Other People, to complement the release of Parasite, and the Japan Foudnation’s annual touring film programme.

Follow the links below for more info and screening times. Go here for our comprehensive film listings.

New Releases

Film / Drama

The Lighthouse

A much-acclaimed, genuinely creepy period arthouse horror flick from the director of The Witch

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Film / Drama

Richard Jewell

Clint Eastwood tells the true tale of a heroic security guard who was accused of terrorism

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Film / Drama

Queen & Slim

Tense and timely road movie putting a 'black lives matter' spin on the Bonnie and Clyde-style drama

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Film / Drama

A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood

Twinkly-eyed Tom Hanks does the heart-warming thing again in this cosy true-life fable

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Film / Action

The Rhythm Section

Blake Lively stars in a spy thriller from the producers of the James Bond flicks

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Previews

Film / Art House

Parasite + Bong Joon-ho Q&A

Universally acclaimed Hitchcockian home invasion flick with lashings of social satire

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Film / Comedy

Dolittle

Robert Downey Jr talks to the animals

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Event Cinema

Film / Event Cinema

Kinky Boots: The Musical

Fetish-themed hit stage musical adapted from the 2005 Britcom

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Film / Event Cinema

Metropolitan Opera Live: Porgy and Bess

The Gershwins' modern American classic returns to the Met for the first time in nearly 30 years

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Film / Event Cinema

National Theatre Encore: The Lehman Trilogy

The rise and fall of Lehman Brothers in three parts, directed by Sam Mendes

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Film / Event Cinema

Royal Opera House Live: La Boheme

Return of Richard Jones's production of Puccini's romantic opera

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Film / Documentary

The Windrush Journey of Mental Health + panel discussion

New documentary about African Caribbean people living in Bristol and the mental health system

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One-off screenings

Film / Art House

Organ

Previously untold WWII story launches Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme

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Film / Action

One Piece: Stampede

The 14th theatrical anime feature based on Eichiro Oda’s best-selling pirate manga

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Film / Drama

The Silence of the Lambs

4K 30th anniversary reissue of Jonathan Demme's Oscar-winning serial killer classic

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Film / Documentary

Greece: The Hidden War Part Two

Bristol Radical History Group presents controversial C4 doc from 1986

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Film / Art House

Theorem

A mysterious stranger seduces an entire family in Pasolini's 1968 allegory

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Film / Documentary

It Works: A Film About A Band of Brothers

Film about a national charity dedicated to mentoring young men who turn away from a life of crime

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Film / Horror

Us

Jordan Peele's brilliant follow-up to Get Out

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Still Going Strong

Film / Drama

1917

Sam Mendes's thrilling WWI counterpart to Dunkirk, inspired by a family story

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Film / Comedy

The Personal History of David Copperfield

Dev Patel stars in Armando Iannucci's zippy and imaginative Dickens adaptation

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Film / Drama

Little Women

Saoirse Ronan and Emma Watson star in Greta Gerwig's take on the Louisa May Alcott yarn

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Film / Action

Bad Boys For Life

The last part of the Bad Boys trilogy turns up 17 years on from Bad Boys II

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Film / Comedy

Uncut Gems

A thrilling crime comedy-drama with a great performance from - no, really - Adam Sandler

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Film / Animation

Weathering With You

Makoto Shinkai's follow-up to his lauded anime Your Name

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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 / Comedy

The Gentlemen

Matthew McConaughey is a US expat dope dealer in Guy Ritchie's return to gorblimey crime territory

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Film / Action

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

The hugely lucrative, nine-part 'Skywalker Saga' finally reaches its conclusion

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Film / Animation

Spies in Disguise

Superspy Will Smith is turned into a pigeon after a lab mishap in this family animation

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Film / Comedy

Jojo Rabbit

Meet the kid whose imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler in Taika Waititi's daring black comedy

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Film / Animation

Paw Patrol: Ready, Race, Rescue!

Firefighting mutt becomes champion racer in mini-feature for pint-sized petrolheads

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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 / Horror

The Turning

Long-gestating adaptation of The Turn of the Screw, previously filmed as The Innocents

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Film / Horror

The Grudge

Cinema eats itself with a reboot of the US remake of Japanese horror Ju-On: The Grudge

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Film / Drama

Just Mercy

A solid, by-the-book courtroom drama based on a shocking real-life miscarriage of justice case

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Film / Drama

Bombshell

True-life #MeToo drama about the women who exposed Fox News CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment

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Film / Family

Cats

Creepy human-cat hybrids abound in film version of the Lloyd Webber musical

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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 / Comedy

Playing With Fire

Macho firefighters wrangle nippers in a comedy from the director of Parental Guidance

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Now Booking

Film / Documentary

The Doors: Break on Thru

Recording of a tribute show to Ray Manzarek, plus interviews with surviving Doors

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Film / Art House

Parasite

Oscar winning Hitchcockian home invasion flick with lashings of social satire

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Film / Event Cinema

National Theatre Encore: Cyrano de Bergerac

James McAvoy stars as old big nose in Jamie Lloyd's modern street-style production

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Film / Drama

Finis Terræ + live musical accompaniment

4K restoration of the French silent film that was a key influence on The Lighthouse

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Film / Event Cinema

Madama Butterfly on Sydney Harbour

Spectacular production of Puccini’s evergreen opera recorded in 2014

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Film / Animation

Ride Your Wave

A surfer finds she can conjure up her dead lover in this imaginative anime

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Film / Comedy

Daniel Sloss: X

The Scottish comedian takes on toxic masculinity in his new stand-up show

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Film / Ballet

Bolshoi Ballet Live: Swan Lake

The greatest of all romantic ballets broadcast live from Moscow

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Film / Ballet

Royal Opera House Encore: The Cellist/Dances at a Gathering

A celebration of Jacqueline du Pré, plus Jerome Robbins' exercise in pure dance

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Film / Comedy

My Polish Honeymoon

A recently married Jewish couple learn more about their heritage during a honeymoon in Poland

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Film / Event Cinema

Metropolitan Opera Live: Agrippina

Sir David McVicar brings Handel's Roman opera to the Met for the first time

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Film / Drama

Sunset Boulevard

Billy Wilder's fabulously sour and cynical triumph returns on its 70th anniversary

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Film / Documentary

Wilderland Film Festival 2020

The Bristol-based touring wildlife film festival returns for its second year

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Film / Comedy

Curzon’s Big Thank You Weekend: Bugsy Malone Singalong screening

Free screening of Alan Parker's custard pie gangster musical with the very young Jodie Foster

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Film / Comedy

Paddington

The Ursine marmalade junkie's lucrative live-action/CGI update

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