Barbican Centre

• 2021
• 2h 17min
• 12A

• Directed by: Terence Davies
• Cast: Jack Lowden, Calam Lynch, Kate Phillips

In his first film about an openly gay man, Terence Davies casts Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi to play poet Sassoon as a young man and in later life. Convalescing in a veterans’ hospital, and conveniently out of the public eye after publishing work that was sharply critical of the military decision-makers, Sasoon meets Wilfred Owen, a tender first relationship (if more of mind than body).
Davies counterpoints key moments in Sassoon’s life – his relationships with Ivor Novello and the aristocrat Stephen Tennant, as well as his later marriage to a woman – with beautiful readings of his poetry over montages of real images of soldiers in wartime. Featuring a wonderfully understated performance from Lowden, it’s a moving tribute to Sassoon, who grew to old age with bitter regret, having been unable to love and desire freely.

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• 2022
• 1h 45min
• 15

• Directed by: Carey Williams

AD | Dir Carey Williams/US 2022/104 mins. RJ Cyler, Donald Elise Watkins, Sebastian Chacon.

Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins) and his best friend, Sean (RJ Cyler), are both seniors in college about to embark on an epic night of Spring Break parties. Sean has the whole night planned out, including every party they will hit on their “legendary tour.” They return to their apartment to pre-game, yet find that their roommate, Carlos (Sebastian Chacon), has left the door open. As they enter with trepidation, Sean and Kunle discover a drunk, semiconscious White woman they don’t know on the floor. Worried the police will suspect them of wrongdoing, they try to get the woman to safety without drawing suspicion. What ensues is a chaotic, hilarious, and tension-filled chase all over town as our trio grapples with their differences while attempting to bring the woman to safety.

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• 2022
• US
• 2h 19min
• 15

• Directed by: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
• Cast: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr., James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis

Only Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) can save the world. To do it, she'll have to explore all the lives she could have led.

• 85%

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Indie folk singer/songwriter from Dublin with a tremulous tone.

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• 2022

• Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
• Cast: Ralph Fiennes

A new play by David Hare
Directed by Nicholas Hytner

Ralph Fiennes leads the cast in David Hare’s blazing account of the most powerful man in New York, a master manipulator whose legacy changed the city forever.

For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses exploited those in office through a mix of charm and intimidation. Motivated at first by a determination to improve the lives of New York City’s workers, he created parks, bridges and 627 miles of expressway to connect the people to the great outdoors.

Faced with resistance by protest groups campaigning for a very different idea of what the city should become, will the weakness of democracy be exposed in the face of his charismatic conviction?

Broadcast live from the Bridge Theatre in London, Nicholas Hytner directs this exhilarating new play.

Running time: 2h 30m

Ages: 15+

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