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7.45PM WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 4TH​​​​​​​​
MARTIN SCORSESE'S
TAXI DRIVER​
NEW 4K RESTORATION
50TH ANNIVERSARY
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One of the cornerstones of modern cinema, we celebrate a true masterpiece with a special 50th anniversary screening of the newly remastered 4K of Taxi Driver. In a career filled with iconic films, including Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Killers of the Flower Moon -Taxi Driver stands out as arguably Martin Scorsese’s most influential and searingly powerful work, a film that single-handedly turned the landscape of cinema on its head.
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The signature role of perhaps the greatest screen actor of his generation, Robert De Niro stars as Travis Bickle, a disturbed loner who takes a job driving a cab on the graveyard shift in New York. Confronted daily by the urban decay and perceived sleaze of the city at night, Travis gradually detaches from reality, cultivating a dark desire for violence and retribution. The film also features a remarkable performance from a then-12-year-old Jodie Foster, alongside an equally intense and unsettling turn from Harvey Keitel, at the height of his powers, as her manipulative pimp.
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Winner of the Palme d'Or at Canne, Taxi Driver is not only an acting and directing masterclass, but also a landmark in achievement in so many other areas... Its harrowingly honest script by Paul Schrader (the mind behind Raging Bull, Hardcore, American Gigolo, Mishima, and First Reformed) is matched by the revolutionary cinematography of Michael Chapman (The Last Detail, Raging Bull) and the haunting, unforgettable score by Bernard Herrmann—in what would be his final work, following classics like Citizen Kane and multiple Hitchcock masterpieces including Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds.
A defining masterpiece of American cinema, Taxi Driver remains just as powerful, and perhaps even more relevant, 50 years after its initial release. This collaboration between arguably the greatest actor/director duo in film history, Scorsese and De Niro, presents the definitive portrait of a man on the edge, offering profound insight into one of today's most pervasive societal issues: the damaged and alienated male psyche. Brimming with emotional depth, political complexity, and some of the most daring technical filmmaking in all of cinema, seeing this on the big screen is an experience YOU cannot miss. And yes… I’m talking to YOU.
8.20PM FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13TH​​​​​​​​
GALENTINE'S DAY SPECIAL
ROMY & MICHELE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION​
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**DOORS & BAR OPEN EARLY AT 7PM FOR A PRE-FILM GET TOGETHER WITH GAL PALS AND DRINKS + A 'CLASS OF '87 SOUNDTRACK'.**
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Celebrate Galentine’s Day with your besties and the ultimate BFF movie: Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion. A bona fide cult classic, this irresistible comedy pairs Oscar winner Mira Sorvino with Friends legend Lisa Kudrow in cinema’s supreme celebration of female friendship, wrapped in one of the 90s’ most beloved sleeper hits.
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Ten years after leaving school, where they were relentlessly bullied by the “popular” girls, two, now unapologetically quirky, pastel-clad LA twenty-somethings, Romy (Sorvino) and Michele (Kudrow), discover that a reunion is planned back home in Tucson, Arizona. Insecurity quickly sets in, and with only two weeks to prepare, the duo decide the best plan is to invent fake successful personas to impress their old classmates. Needless to say, things don’t go exactly as planned.
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Based on the play 'Ladies Room' by former Groundling and Emily in Paris producer Robin Schiff and directed by David Mirkin (writer/producer/director of The Larry Sanders Show and The Simpsons), Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion is filled with absurdist wit, sharp social satire, and heart. It’s an ode to female friendship, individuality, and the courage to define success on your own terms. With two iconic lead performances, as well as classic supporting roles from Janeane Garofalo and Alan Cumming, this Galentine’s Day is the perfect time to take a fashion-forward road trip back to the Class of ’87, especially with a sequel now officially in the works.
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Don't delay, get tickets for you and your besties before your besties get tickets for you!
7.30PM SATURDAY FEBRUARY 14TH​​​​​​​​
VALENTINE'S DAY SPECIAL
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON'S
PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE​
NEW 4K REMASTER
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Perhaps the pre-eminent filmmaker of his generation, Paul Thomas Anderson has directed such contemporary classics as One Battle After Another, Licorice Pizza, Phantom Thread, There Will Be Blood, Magnolia, and Boogie Nights. This Valentine’s Day, we bring you (as ever) a Valentine’s film that celebrates romantic love through an alternative lens: Punch-Drunk Love, Anderson’s wonderfully idiosyncratic, off-beat ode to loneliness and the act of finding love.
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In the grand Hollywood tradition of casting gregarious comedic actors in deeply sensitive roles (think Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society or Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Anderson deploys Adam Sandler in a way that completely defies expectation. Sandler stars as Barry Egan, a socially awkward small-business owner whose overwhelming loneliness is matched only by his erratic temper and obsessive hoarding of frequent-flyer mile coupons. When Barry inadvertently attracts the affection of another lonely soul, Lena (an incandescent Emily Watson), their tentative, star-crossed romance is threatened by a swindling phone-sex operator and her con-man boss, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his most unforgettable and maniacal performances.
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Completely original and unlike any other love story, Anderson blends the realism of cinéma vérité with the heightened fantasy of classic MGM musicals and the whimsical inventiveness of Jacques Tati. The result is a delirious, art-house, technicolour dream that surprises, charms, and creates chaos at every turn. Bright and breezy yet deeply melancholy and emotionally complex, the film features breath-taking cinematography by Anderson’s frequent collaborator Robert Elswit (Oscar-winner for There Will Be Blood) and a sweeping, fairy-tale baroque-futurist score from genius music producer (working with artists as varied as Fiona Apple and Frank Ocean), Jon Brion, who also scored the likes of Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine... and Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird.
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Punch-Drunk Love is an oddball, intense, goofy, classical, and dreamlike journey from isolation to connection, and a testament to the inner strength love can provide. Don’t miss this gorgeous spectacle on the big screen in its director-approved 4K remaster this Valentine’s Day. Bring your significant other or fly solo, it matters not.. this Anderson masterpiece will satisfy a previously unknown corner of your soul, with its beauty, naivety, complexity, and its powerful punch of human empathy.
7PM SATURDAY FEBRUARY 28TH
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​​​​ALFRED HITCHOCK'S
TO CATCH A THIEF
4K REMASTER
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This past year has seen the return of one of cinema’s most exciting formats, with The Brutalist, One Battle After Another, the recent Emma Stone / Yorgos Lanthimos collaboration Bugonia, the upcoming Tom Cruise / Alejandro G. Iñárritu project, the latest Margot Robbie / Jacob Elordi / Emerald Fennell Wuthering Heights film, and new works from both M. Night Shyamalan and Greta Gerwig — all utilising the classic Paramount VistaVision process.
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But what is it that is proving so irresistible to modern filmmakers, it has prompted a widespread revival of a format that lay dormant for over sixty years? The answer lies in the magic of the select group of films produced during VistaVision’s original heyday. Over this very special VistaVision Weekend, we present two of the most significant titles from that extraordinary list.
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The very first Hitchcock film to employ VistaVision (he would go on to make four more), To Catch a Thief stands as easily the director’s most glamorous work and comfortably sits among the upper echelons of his remarkable filmography. Pairing Cary Grant with Grace Kelly — fresh from her Best Actress Oscar win — Hitchcock transports us to the glittering French Riviera for a sun-soaked romance between Kelly’s daring socialite Frances Stevens and Grant’s retired cat burglar John Robie. When a new jewel thief threatens Robie’s now reformed reputation, he must uncover the imposter’s identity to prove his innocence.
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This wonderfully enjoyable romp sees its two radiant stars rivalled only by the luminous VistaVision photography of the Riviera itself. Bubbling with humour, spice, and sparkling dialogue, To Catch a Thief delivers romantic suspense in the classic Hitchcock mould — all the while (and deliberately) never ruffling Grace Kelly’s exquisite Edith Head costumes or disturbing Cary Grant’s debonair disposition.
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Charm and chemistry flow through every frame of this the most picturesque of all Hitchcock’s classics, a film that exemplifies VistaVision’s power as a vehicle for cinematic visual artistry by a master director but also as a conduit for pure, easy-going glamourous entertainment on the big screen.
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You can buy tickets for this screening only or take advantage of our discount ticket for both nights of the VistaVision weekend to see One Eyed Jacks also.
6.10PM SUNDAY MARCH 1ST
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​​​​​​MARLON BRANDO'S
ONE EYED JACKS
4K REMASTER
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This past year has seen the return of one of cinema’s most exciting formats, with The Brutalist, One Battle After Another, the recent Emma Stone / Yorgos Lanthimos collaboration Bugonia, the upcoming Tom Cruise / Alejandro G. Iñárritu project, the latest Margot Robbie / Jacob Elordi / Emerald Fennell Wuthering Heights film, and new works from both M. Night Shyamalan and Greta Gerwig — all utilising the classic Paramount VistaVision process.
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But what is it that is proving so irresistible to modern filmmakers, it has prompted a widespread revival of a format that lay dormant for over sixty years? The answer lies in the magic of the select group of films produced during VistaVision’s original heyday. Over this very special VistaVision Weekend, we present two of the most significant titles from that extraordinary list.
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The last film ever shot in VistaVision until The Brutalist (2024) revived the format some 63 years later, One-Eyed Jacks has a history as dramatic as the film itself. Originally penned by legendary director Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch), production was first set to be helmed by Stanley Kubrick, who departed just days before shooting began. In an extraordinary twist, Marlon Brando—already hailed as the greatest actor of his generation—stepped in to direct, creating what would become his only film as a director.
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What followed was the actor of actors directing as only a truly great actor could. Brando’s characteristic passion, perfectionism, and intensity pour from every frame. Working with master cinematographer Charles Lang (Some Like It Hot, The Magnificent Seven), Brando crafts strikingly composed images and draws out a series of extraordinary performances from his cast—most notably from Pina Pellicer and Katy Jurado (High Noon), as well as his longtime collaborator and friend Karl Malden, with whom he had previously worked on A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront.
Brando himself, now calling the shots both in front of and behind the camera, accepts no limits on his power as an artist—delivering one of the finest, most emotionally charged performances of his career.
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The story begins with a botched bank robbery. Rio (Brando) is betrayed by his partner in crime, “Dad” Longworth (Malden). Burning for revenge, Rio bides his time, waiting years for the perfect moment to strike. By the time he rides back into town, “Dad” has reinvented himself as a respected lawman, married Maria (Jurado), and adopted her daughter Louisa (Pellicer). When Rio finally returns, the past collides violently with the present—and the sparks truly begin to fly.
A Western set by the sea, One-Eyed Jacks is a deeply unorthodox take on the genre. At times it almost forgets it’s a Western at all, turning instead toward an intimate study of character, desire, and betrayal. Its performances brim with intensity and beauty, and its unusually sophisticated social undercurrents make it a singular artifact of American cinema—now, at last, receiving its critical due.
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Long considered a legendary but somewhat lost film, One-Eyed Jacks has been painstakingly restored by two of its most devoted admirers, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese. Its influence reaches far beyond them, inspiring filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino, and David Lynch, who has repeatedly referenced the film throughout his work—including naming the brothel in Twin Peaks after it.
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A meditation on friendship, betrayal, and revenge, this romantic anti-Western stands as a one-of-a-kind work from one of cinema’s greatest and most enigmatic talents.
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You can buy tickets for this screening only or take advantage of our discount ticket for both nights of the VistaVision weekend to see To Catch a Thief also.
7.50PM FRIDAY MARCH 13TH​​​​​​​
MISSISSIPPI​
MASALA
4K RESTORATION
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Yes, you read that right: the mother of New York City’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is acclaimed director Mira Nair. Between creating landmark works such as Caméra d’Or–winning and Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay! and the Golden Lion and Golden Globe–winning Monsoon Wedding, Nair crafted this wonderfully luminous, big-hearted, sweet, sexy, and deeply satisfying celebration of love’s power to transcend racial prejudice, now finally enjoying a well-deserved revival.
After Mina’s (Sarita Choudhury - The Green Knight, Homeland, And Just Like That…, Fallout) Indian family are exiled from their home by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, they relocate to Mississippi to begin anew. Now in her twenties, Mina falls for the dashing young carpet cleaner Demetrius (Denzel Washington - Training Day, Philadelphia, American Gangster), despite her family’s fierce objections to their relationship. Their passionate romance unfolds amid the broader cultural tensions between Mississippi’s Indian and African American communities, while Mina’s father (Roshan Seth – Gandhi, My Beautiful Laundrette, The Buddha of Suburbia) struggles to release his lingering attachment to the life he lost in Uganda.
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A romantic gem rich filled with humour and piercing insight, Mississippi Masala explores identity, displacement, colourism, community, prejudice, family, and generational divides. It is a gorgeously irresistible yet honest ode to the melting pot of American society, as well as a moving portrait of individual emotional reckoning.
Beautifully shot in warm, glowing tones with intimate, naturalistic cinematography, the film looks spectacular in this new restoration. making this modern classic more effervescent than ever. We can’t wait to welcome you to this special screening of a truly underappreciated treasure of early ’90s cinema.
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