Film

Doctor Sleep

That sequel to The Shining you didn't know you needed

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Sorry We Missed You

Ken Loach puts the boot in to the 'gig economy'

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UK Green Film Festival: The Green Lie

'Can you really save the planet by buying more shit?' asks this must-see documentary

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Slayer: The Repentless Killogy

Horror short and live performance from the thrash metal titans

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Afrika Eye 2019: Return To Gorée + food, live music & Q&A

An evening of Senegalese film, music and food on board the SS Great Britain

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European Outdoor Film Tour 2019

Bumper annual crop of foolhardy al fresco adventuring

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Be Pure, Be Vigilant, Behave + director Q&A

Manic Street Preachers concert film shot during the 2014 Holy Bible 20 tour

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Alien

Ridley Scott's original Alien returns

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Wallace and Gromitathon

All four Wallace and Gromit shorts screened in aid of the Curzon's roof appeal

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Bristol’s week in film: November 1-7 2019

Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You and that Shining sequel Doctor Sleep are this week’s big new releases.

On the preview front, The Aeronauts is showing all over the shop from Monday onwards and the Watershed has a director Q&A after the preview of A Dog Called Money on Thursday.

We also have loads of film seasons and festival events coming up. Take your pick from the UK Green Film Festival, the start of Afrika Eye 2019, Bristol Film Festival’s screenings of Alien and Aliens at the Planetarium and the Watershed’s We Are Here LGBTQ+ season.

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

New Releases

Film / Horror

Doctor Sleep

That sequel to The Shining you didn't know you needed

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Film / Drama

Sorry We Missed You

Ken Loach puts the boot in to the 'gig economy'

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Film / Drama

After the Wedding

Michelle Williams and Julianne Moore star in a US remake of Susanne Bier's 2006 drama

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Film / Comedy

Brittany Runs a Marathon

An unfit, hard-partying woman takes up running in this true-life comedy-drama

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Preview Screenings

Film / Drama

The Aeronauts

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

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Film / Documentary

A Dog Called Money

Unconventional, impressionistic film about the creation of cult musician PJ Harvey's 2016 album

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Event Cinema

Film / Event Cinema

Slayer: The Repentless Killogy

Horror short and live performance from the thrash metal titans

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Film / Drama

National Theatre Encore: Hansard

A Tory minister and his wife go to war in Simon Woods' searing new play

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Film / Documentary

European Outdoor Film Tour 2019

Bumper annual crop of foolhardy al fresco adventuring

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Film / Ballet

Royal Ballet Live: Mixed Triple Bill

Concerto, Enigma Variations and Raymonda Act III

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Film / Event Cinema

DanTDM Presents the Contest

An "interactive in-cinema gaming event" with a YouTube star

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Film / Documentary

Be Pure, Be Vigilant, Behave + director Q&A

Manic Street Preachers concert film shot during the 2014 Holy Bible 20 tour

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Film / Ballet

Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet

Hugely acclaimed contemporary dance reworking places R&J in the sinister 'Verona Institute'

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Film / Documentary

Miles Davis – Birth of the Cool

Comprehensive PBS documentary about the life and career of the jazz giant

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UK Green Film Festival

Film / Documentary

UK Green Film Festival: The Green Lie

'Can you really save the planet by buying more shit?' asks this must-see documentary

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Film / Documentary

UK Green Film Festival: Earth

Meditative documentary exploring how industry has wreaked enormous change on the landscape

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Afrika Eye Festival

Film / Documentary

Afrika Eye 2019: Return To Gorée + food, live music & Q&A

An evening of Senegalese film, music and food on board the SS Great Britain

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Film / Documentary

Afrika Eye 2019: Freedom Fields

Documentary following a Libyan women's football team over five tumultuous years

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Film / Drama

Afrika Eye 2019: Supa Modo

A Kenyan village comes together to help realise a dying girl's dream of becoming a superhero

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Bristol Film Festival at the Planetarium

Film / Horror

Alien

Ridley Scott's original Alien returns

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Film / Action

Aliens

James Cameron directs a rare example of a sequel that's better than the original film

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We Are Here LGBTQ+ Season

Film / Drama

Cabaret

Liza Minnelli hoofs it up in thirties Berlin

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Film / Documentary

Dykes, Camera, Action!

Documentary exploring the secret history of lesbian cinema, screened in the We Are Here season

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One-off Screenings

Film / Animation

Wallace and Gromitathon

All four Wallace and Gromit shorts screened in aid of the Curzon's roof appeal

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Film / Art House

November

A bizarre, folklore-inspired Estonian fairytale

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Film / Comedy

Night of the Creeps

Cheese-tastic '80s horror flick screened in late night cult classic season

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Film / Animation

The Gruffalo/Room on the Broom

Double-bill of animations adapted from Julia Donaldson's popular children's picture books

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Film / Drama

Patton + intro

Oscar winning 1970 biopic of the bellicose US general

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Film / Drama

Kiss Me Deadly

Robert Aldrich's noir classic, which was referenced so reverently in Pulp Fiction

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Film / Drama

The Remains of the Day

Merchant-Ivory's greatest triumph, much of which was shot round these parts

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Film / Documentary

What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?

A provocative meditation on the state of race relations in the USA

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Film / Drama

The Last Tree

A Moonlight-esque coming-of-age story exploring pivotal points in the life of a British-Nigerian boy

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Film / Animation

Peter Pan

Disney's animated Peter Pan, with that great tick-tocking crocodile

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Film / Drama

Film & Food Fest 2021: The Greatest Showman – Singalong Version

Your chance to bellow along with the hit musical phenomenon outdoors on the Downs

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Still Going Strong

Film / Fantasy

Joker

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

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Film / Action

Terminator: Dark Fate

Creaky old Arnie's back in a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day

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Film / Art House

Monos

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

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Film / Fantasy

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

Horny old Angelina Jolie returns in Disney's sequel to its adult reworking of Sleeping Beauty

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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 / Animation

A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

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

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Film / Drama

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Timely, fact-based drama of gentrification

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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 / Comedy

Zombieland: Double Tap

All the gang are back for this zombie comedy sequel

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Film / Horror

Countdown

Killer app targets smartphone users in this latest variation on the techno-horror template

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Film / Action

Gemini Man

Will Smith is targeted by younger clone of himself in Ang Lee's Looper-style sci-fi action thriller

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Film / Drama

Downton Abbey

Julian Fellowes' toffs and forelock-tuggers invade the big screen

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Film / Drama

Judy

Renée Zellweger is Judy Garland in twilight years biopic

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Film / Fantasy

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil 3D

Horny old Angelina Jolie returns in Disney's sequel to its adult reworking of Sleeping Beauty

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Film / Drama

Official Secrets

Keira Knightley stars in the true story of GCHQ whistleblower Katharine Gun

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Film / Horror

Ready Or Not

A new bride is obliged to play a deadly game of hide and seek

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Film / Horror

IT: Chapter Two

Pennywise the dancing clown returns to menace the adult Losers in second part of the hit horror

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Now Booking

Film / Documentary

No Stone Unturned

The NUJ presents the Bristol premiere of this documentary about a freedom of speech scandal

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Film / Animation

A Grand Day Out 30th anniversary + Q&A

Charity screening of Nick Park's very first Wallace and Gromit film

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Film / Documentary

Steel is Real But Carbon is Quicker

Premiere of this Bristol-made documentary about the UK grassroots cycling scene

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Film / Drama

The Irishman

A brief opportunity to see Scorsese's Netflix gangster epic on the big screen

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Film / Documentary

The Amazing Johnathan + satellite Q&A

The twisty-turny story of a dying US illusionist and the filmmaker making a documentary about him

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Film / Documentary

Meeting Gorbachev

When Werner met Gorby

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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

Shakira in Concert: El Dorado World Tour

Colombian popstrel performs the hits in big sheds and stadiums around the globe

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Film / Drama

The Report

Dramatisation of the extraordinary true story of the probe into the CIA's use of torture after 9/11

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Film / Comedy

Chicago

The original 1927 silent film that inspired the musical, with live musical accompaniment

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Film / Event Cinema

RSC Live: Timon of Athens

Kathryn Hunter stars in a gender-swap production of the Bard's ever-timely satire on greed

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Film / Event Cinema

Depeche Mode: Spirits in the Forest

Synthpoppers captured live in concert by regular collaborator Anton Corbijn

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Film / Event Cinema

Metropolitan Opera Live: Akhnaten

Phelim McDermott‘s Olivier Award-winning production of Philip Glass‘s Egyptian opera

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Film / Animation

Promare

Anime feature boasting giant robots and OTT firefights

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Film / Event Cinema

INXS: Live Baby Live

1991 Wembley Stadium concert restored to 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 / Comedy

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Enjoyably camp, Oscar-winning outback comedy

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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 / Drama

It’s a Wonderful Life

James Stewart stars in festive family classic

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