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Event Cinema for January 2015
After a slow start, January’s event cinema programme gets into gear with the big Testament of Youth preview. The NT’s new Treasure Island, recasting Jim Hawkins as a girl, comes to cinemas so you don’t have to haul ass to London. And this month’s Exhibition on Screen explores The Girl with a Pearl Earring. Full details of what’s showing where, plus trailers where available, can be found in the what’s on section.
Testament of Youth + Live Q&A
All the local multiplexes, plus the Orpheus and Watershed, are carrying this satellite preview four days before Testament of Youth opens. It’s beamed direct to your naked steaming eyeballs from the BFI’s Southbank. Director James Kent will introduce the film, which is also preceded by a whole heap of behind-the scenes footage. Kent, producer Rosie Alison, and Vera Brittain’s daughter (Shirley Williams, for it is she) will then take part in a Q&A. Go here for our full review of the film.
Screening: Jan 12
Exhibition on Screen: Girl with a Pearl Earring
The story behind Vermeer’s pouting pierced lady, who drew more than a million punters during her recent world tour. Plus a romp around some other treasures in the royal collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague.
Screening: Jan 13
The Old Vic’s The Crucible
Another chance to see this HD recording of Richard Armitage in Arthur Miller’s classic witch-hunt drama, which packed ’em in at cinemas last year.
Screening: Jan 13
Met Opera: The Merry Widow
Tony Award-winning Broadway director and choreographer Susan Stroman, of ‘Crazy For You’ and ‘The Producers’ fame, makes her Metropolitan Opera debut with this new staging of Lehar’s popular comic operetta in an art nouveau setting.
Screening: Jan 17
National Theatre Live: Treasure Island
Bryony Lavery recasts Jim Hawkins as a girl in her re-working of Robert Louis Stevenson’s venerable yarn. The mutinous seadog action is broadcast live in HD from the NT’s enormous Olivier stage.
Screening: Jan 22
Bolshoi Ballet: Swan Lake Live
One of the Bolshoi’s signature ballets, broadcast live in HD from Moscow.
Screening: Jan 25
Royal Opera House Live: Andrea Chernier
Umberto Giordano’s verismo opera is based on the last years of real-life poet Andre Chenier, who had an unfortunate appointment with Mme Guillotine during the French revolution. It’s back on the Covent Garden stage for the first time since 1985, in a lavish new production staged by David McVicar.
Screening: Jan 29 & Feb 1 (encore screening)
Met Opera: Les Contes d’Hoffman
Bartlett Sher’s much-acclaimed production of Offenbach’s opera fantastique returns to the Met with a new cast.
Screening: Jan 31
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