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Cinema City

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St Andrews Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 4AD
  • Box office 0871 902 5724
  • General enquiries 0871 704 2053
  • Box office times Mon–Sat noon–8.30pm; Sun 4–8pm.
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  • Website www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/…
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Air

Air
  • 2023
  • USA
  • 1h 52min
  • 15
  • Directed by: Ben Affleck
  • Cast: Matt Damon, Jason Bateman, Ben Affleck

The creation story of the iconic shoes: the Air Jordans.

Fri 7 Apr
Sat 8 Apr
Sun 9 Apr
Mon 10 Apr

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  • 2022
  • US
  • 1h 53min
  • 18
  • Directed by: Laura Poitras
  • Cast: Nan Goldin

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography and rare footage. The film documents Nan’s fight to hold the Sackler family pharmaceutical dynasty accountable for the opioid overdose crisis in America.

Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, the film interweaves Goldin’s past and present, the deeply personal and urgently political, from P.A.I.N.’s actions at renowned art institutions to Goldin’s photography of her friends and peers through her epic The Ballad of Sexual Dependency and her legendary 1989, NEA-censored AIDS exhibition Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing.

Tue 4 Apr

Allelujah

Allelujah
  • 2022
  • 1h 39min
  • 12A
  • Directed by: Richard Eyre
  • Cast: Jennifer Saunders, Bally Gill, Russell Tovey, David Bradley, Derek Jacobi, Judi Dench

Allelujah is a warm and deeply moving story about old age. When the geriatric ward in a small Yorkshire hospital is threatened with closure, the hospital decides to fight back by galvanizing the local community: they invite a news crew to film their preparations for a concert in honour of the hospital's most distinguished nurse. What could go wrong? Allelujah celebrates the spirit of the elderly patients whilst paying tribute to the deep humanity of the medical staff battling with limited resources and ever-growing demand.

Sun 2 Apr
Mon 3 Apr
Subtitled / Senior
Tue 4 Apr
Wed 5 Apr
Senior
Thu 6 Apr
Senior

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Composer Pierre Foldes makes a richly rewarding film debut with this animated feature adapted from a collection of short stories by Haruki Murakami. Tokyo, a few days after the 2011 tsunami. Kyoko suddenly leaves her husband Komura who takes a week’s leave to deliver a mysterious box to two young women. Meek bureaucrat Katagiri returns home one evening to find a giant frog demanding his help to save Tokyo from an earthquake. Cleverly weaving together multiple storylines and animation techniques, the film brings Murakami’s playful, surrealist tales to vivid life.

Fri 7 Apr
Subtitled
Tue 25 Apr
Subtitled

Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves

Dungeons & Dragons
  • 2023
  • US / Canada
  • 2h 14min
  • 12A
  • Directed by: Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley
  • Cast: Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Hugh Grant

A group of skilled adventurers must recover an ancient relic.

Sun 2 Apr
Subtitled
Mon 3 Apr
Tue 4 Apr
Wed 5 Apr
Thu 6 Apr

Encanto

Encanto
  • 2021
  • US
  • 1h 39min
  • PG
  • Directed by: Byron Howard, Jared Bush
  • Cast: Stephanie Beatriz, John Leguizamo, María Cecilia Botero, Diane Guerrero, Jessica Darrow, Angie Cepeda, Wilmer Valderrama

A Colombian girl is frustrated at being the only member of her family without magic powers.

Mon 3 Apr
Kids

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • 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.

Sun 2 Apr

God's Creatures

God's Creatures
  • 2022
  • UK / Ireland
  • 1h 41min
  • 15
  • Directed by: Saela Davis, Anna Rose Holmer
  • Cast: Emily Watson, Paul Mescal, Aisling Franciosi, Declan Conlon, Toni O'Rourke, Marion O'Dwyer, Brendan McCormack, Lalor Roddy

In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community in this tense, sweepingly emotional epic.

Sun 2 Apr
Mon 3 Apr
Tue 4 Apr
Senior
Wed 5 Apr
Thu 6 Apr

Hamlet - Bristol Old Vic Live

Event Cinema: Hamlet – Bristol Old Vic Live
  • 2023
  • UK

Experience the star-studded premiere of Hamlet from wherever you are in the world, broadcast live from our stage to your screen. Bristol Old Vic On Screen is delighted to announce two live broadcast dates for the theatre's upcoming production of Hamlet, coming to you wherever you are, on 10 and 11 Nov – and now, due to popular demand, a special Encore Broadcast on Sat 12 Nov.

Captured by state-of-the-art cinematic technology, allowing us to get right up close to the action on stage, we'll broadcast the live production directly to you from our beautiful 255-year-old theatre to your screen as it happens – so you get the full live experience from the best seat in the house.

We're so excited to be able to bring this bold new adaptation of Shakespeare's seminal work to audiences across the world, and we can't wait to share it with you!

Thu 6 Apr

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
  • 2019
  • US
  • 1h 44min
  • PG
  • Directed by: Dean DeBlois
  • Cast: Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Cate Blanchett, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill, Kit Harington, Justin Rupple, Kristen Wiig, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, F. Murray Abraham, Gerard Butler

Hiccup (voiced by Baruchel) is now a chief with growing responsibilities, while Toothless the dragon is in love; but then dragon hunter Grimmel (Abraham) is determined to spoil people’s fun. The franchise is running out of steam; there’s too much going on and the central bond is obscured.

Sat 8 Apr
Kids

Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff

Metropolitan Opera: | Falstaff
  • 2023
  • US

Baritone Michael Volle stars as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance, in Verdi’s glorious Shakespearean comedy. Maestro Daniele Rustioni takes the podium to oversee a brilliant ensemble cast that features sopranos Hera Hyesang Park Ailyn Pérez, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano, contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, tenor Bogdan Volkov, and baritone Christopher Maltman.

Fri 7 Apr

Midsommar

Midsommar
  • 2019
  • US / Sweden
  • 2h 20min
  • 18
  • Directed by: Ari Aster
  • Cast: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Archie Madekwe, Ellora Torchia, Will Poulter

Dani (Pugh) is a fragile American girl dating fellow student Christian (Reynor) who, after tragically losing family members, travels to Sweden with Christian and his friends to visit a commune. Slow-burn horror which simmers rather than explodes, but Pugh and Reynor give full-blooded turns and it’s transfixing.

Mon 3 Apr

Moonlight

Moonlight
  • 2016
  • US
  • 1h 51min
  • 15
  • Directed by: Barry Jenkins
  • Cast: Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, Trevante Rhodes, Mahershala Ali, Janelle Monáe, Naomie Harris

The story of a young black man growing up, struggling with his sexuality and neglected by his drug-addicted mother. Astutely judged and beautifully humane sophomore feature from Jenkins, with sublime work from the three actors playing the main character (Hibbert, Sanders, Rhodes) and fine support from Ali, Harris and Monáe. Terrific.

Sun 2 Apr

National Theatre Live: Life of Pi

National Theatre Live: Life of Pi
  • 2023
  • UK

Puppetry, magic and storytelling combine in a unique, Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation of the best-selling novel.

After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, a 16-year-old boy named Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with four other survivors – a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a Royal Bengal tiger. Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive?

Filmed live in London’s West End and featuring state-of-the-art visuals, the epic journey of endurance and hope is bought to life in a breath-taking new way for cinemas screens.

Tue 4 Apr

Night of the 12th

Night Of The 12th
  • 2022
  • France, Belgium
  • 1h 55min
  • 15
  • Directed by: Dominik Moll
  • Cast: Bastien Bouillon, Bouli Lanners, Théo Cholbi

Detective Yohan Vivès (Bastien Bouillon) has only just taken over as head of the detective bureau of the local police department when he is assigned to the chilling murder of a young woman in her quiet mountain village. But what starts as a meticulous investigation into the victim’s life soon turns into a haunting obsession for Yohan and his team as the killer remains at large.Winner of the prestigious Lumière award for Best Film as well as six César awards, The Night of the 12th is a deeply arresting and powerful crime thriller from acclaimed French director Dominik Moll.

Sun 2 Apr
Subtitled
Mon 3 Apr
Subtitled
Subtitled / Senior
Tue 4 Apr
Subtitled
Wed 5 Apr
Subtitled
Thu 6 Apr
Subtitled
Subtitled / Senior

Rye Lane

Rye Lane
  • 2023
  • UK
  • 1h 22min
  • 15
  • Directed by: Raine Allen-Miller
  • Cast: David Jonsson, Vivian Oparah

Romantic comedy in which two people recovering from bad breakups connect over an eventful day in London.

Sun 2 Apr
Tue 4 Apr
Thu 6 Apr

The Snail and the Whale

The Snail and the Whale
  • 2019
  • UK
  • 26min
  • U
  • Directed by: Max Lang, Daniel Snaddon
  • Cast: Diana Rigg, Sally Hawkins, Rob Brydon, Cariad Lloyd, Max Lang

A charming short animation film based on Julia Donaldson's children's book.

Tue 4 Apr
Wed 5 Apr
Cinema City

The building housing this cinema was bequeathed in 1925 to the 'Mayor, Alderman and Citizens of the City of Norwich' with the intention 'that the place should be used for the advancement of education in its widest and most comprehensive sense'. That aim stands true today, as a vast range of events and themed screenings take place at the venue, including showings of documentaries and live recordings of opera and theatre shows. Refreshments are available at the Dining Room.

All areas of the building are accessible by wheelchair and adapted toilet facilities are available.

To access the cinema by public transport please note that Norwich Railway Station is a short walk away, as is the Norwich Castle Meadow Bus Terminal.

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