Cinema Program from December 1

RIVERSIDE CINEMA FROMDECEMBER1
International Day of People with Disability
International Day of People with Disability
International Day of People with Disability
Open Captioned screening.
Audio description headsets are available,
but must be pre-booked through Box Office.
“A radiant, uplifting story of an autistic boy who
transcends his condition by transferring life’s
challenges into the format of a Disney animated
movie, the film is a documentary gem.” –
Hollywood Reporter
Open Captioned screening.
Audio description headsets are available,
but must be pre-booked through Box Office.
FINDING DORY
Finding Dory reunites everyone’s favourite forgetful
blue tang fish, Dory, with her friends Nemo and Marlin
on a search for answers about her past. What can she
remember? Who are her parents? And where did she
learn to speak Whale?
Directed by Andrew Stanton and produced by
Lindsey Collins, the film features the voices of Ellen
DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Ed O’Neill, Kaitlin Olson,
Ty Burrell, Eugene Levy and Diane Keaton.
SATURDAY 3 DECEMBER 10:30AM
TICKETS: SIDEKICKS MEMBERS ADULT $12,
CONC $9
SINGLE TICKETS ADULT $15, CONC $12,
F/T STUDENT $12, CHILD UNDER 16 $10
LIFE, ANIMATED
Inspired by and based on Ron Suskind’s book about
his son’s journey from nearly mute toddler to young
man seeking independence, Academy Award®
winning director Roger Ross Williams’ powerful film
expertly combines classic Disney sequences and
strikingly original hand-drawn animations alongside
the Suskind family story. A beautiful insight into
how art can shine light in the darkest of places.
SATURDAY 3 DECEMBER 3PM
TICKETS: SIDEKICKS MEMBERS ADULT $12,
CONC $9
SINGLE TICKETS ADULT $15, CONC $12,
F/T STUDENT $12, CHILD UNDER 16 $10
FLORENCE FOSTER
JENKINS
Based on the incredible true story, Academy
Award® winner Meryl Streep stars as an inspiring
New York socialite who dreams of becoming a
great opera singer. While the voice she heard in
her head was beautiful, to everyone else it was
hilariously awful. Her husband and biggest fan, St.
Clair Bayfield (Golden Globe winner Hugh Grant) is
determined to protect his beloved Florence from
the truth. But when Florence stages a huge concert
at Carnegie Hall, he faces his greatest challenge to
make sure her performance hits all the right notes.
SATURDAY 3 DECEMBER 7PM
Classification: PG
Duration: Approx. 1 hour 43 minutes (No interval)
Duration: Approx. 1 hours 32 minutes (No interval)
Duration: Approx. 1 hour 50 minutes (No interval)
Royal Shakespeare Company
Screen Café
Please note:
Sessions are continually
added to our cinema program.
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KING LEAR
By William Shakespeare
Following his performance as Willy Loman in Arthur
Miller’s great 20th Century American tragedy
Death of a Salesman, Antony Sher returns to play
King Lear, one of the greatest parts written by
Shakespeare. The production is directed by Artistic
Director Gregory Doran.
Captured live on stage in Stratford-Upon-Avon and
screened at Riverside Theatres.
SUNDAY 4 DECEMBER 1PM
TICKETS: SIDEKICKS MEMBERS ADULT $22,
CONC $19
SINGLE TICKETS ADULT $25, CONC $22,
F/T STUDENT $15, CHILD UNDER 16 $15
Classification: E – Exempt from Classification
Duration: Approx. 3 hours 30 minutes
(Including interval)
THE LEGEND OF
BEN HALL
MEET
FILMM THE
AKER
Featuring post-screening Q&A with director
Matthew Holmes via Skype on 5 December
After two years running from the law, bushranger
Ben Hall is drawn back into bushranging by his old
friend, John Gilbert. Reforming the gang and taking
on a new recruit John Dunn, the trio begin a spree
of robberies and crimes across New South Wales.
After the killing of two policemen, the three become
the most wanted men in the colony.
MONDAY 5 DECEMBER 7PM (INCLUDES Q&A)
SATURDAY 10 DECEMBER 2PM
TICKETS: SIDEKICKS MEMBERS ADULT $12,
CONC $9
SINGLE TICKETS ADULT $15, CONC $12,
F/T STUDENT $12, CHILD UNDER 16 $10
Classification: M
Duration: Approx. 2 hours 14 minutes (No interval)
CINEMA
Classification: G
TICKETS: SIDEKICKS MEMBERS ADULT $12,
CONC $9
SINGLE TICKETS ADULT $15, CONC $12,
F/T STUDENT $12, CHILD UNDER 16 $10
Classification: PG
RIVERSIDE CINEMA FROMDECEMBER1
Meet the Filmmaker hosted
by Peter Castaldi
A FLICKERING TRUTH
MEET
FILMM THE
AKER
THE LIGHT BETWEEN
OCEANS
Exhibition On Screen
THE CURIOUS WORLD OF
HIERONYMUS BOSCH
Hieronymus Bosch, The Ship of Fools, c. 1500-10
Featuring post-screening Q&A with director
Pietra Brettkelly via Skype on 7 December
New Zealand filmmaker Pietra Brettkelly’s (Maori
Boy Genius, MIFF 2012) moving and powerful
documentary of one man’s journey to restore
thousands of hours of film heritage in post-Taliban
Afghanistan – a journey that uncovers the very
nearly forgotten history of his ravaged country.
“An historical journey, a love letter to Afghanistan,
its cinema and people.” – CineVue
WEDNESDAY 7 DECEMBER 7PM (INCLUDES Q&A)
TUESDAY 13 DECEMBER 7PM
TICKETS: SIDEKICKS ADULT $12, CONC $9
SINGLE TICKETS ADULT $15, CONC $12,
F/T STUDENT $12, CHILD UNDER 16 $10
Language: Dari with English subtitles
Classification: CTC – Check our website closer to
the screenings
Duration: Approx. 1 hour 36 minutes (No interval)
National Theatre Live Encore Series
THE AUDIENCE
WEEK
D
MATI AY
NEE
Nominated for three Tony Awards®, The Audience
sees Helen Mirren reprise her Olivier Awardwinning performance as Queen Elizabeth II,
following her Academy Award® win for the same
role in The Queen.
Our National Theatre Live encore screening of The
Audience features a live performance recorded
during the original run of the production in London’s
West End in 2013.
MONDAY 12 DECEMBER 10:30AM
TICKETS: SIDEKICKS MEMBERS ADULT $22,
CONC $19
SINGLE TICKETS ADULT $25, CONC $22,
F/T STUDENT $15, CHILD UNDER 16 $15
This remarkable new film features the critically
acclaimed exhibition ‘Jheronimus Bosch – Visions
of Genius’ at Het Noordbrabants Museum in the
Netherlands, which brought the majority of Bosch’s
paintings and drawings together for the first time to
his home town of Den Bosch and attracted almost
half a million art lovers from all over the world.
This film will be Open Captioned on 17 December.
Audio description headsets are available,
but must be pre-booked through Box Office.
With his fascinating life revealed plus the details
and stories within his works seen like never before,
don’t miss this cinematic exploration of a great
creative genius.
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the
coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue
from an adrift rowboat. When they meet the child’s
biological mother, they must make a decision that
affects their lives forever.
SATURDAY 10 DECEMBER 10:30AM
SUNDAY 11 DECEMBER 10:30AM
TICKETS: SIDEKICKS MEMBERS ADULT $17,
CONC $14
SINGLE TICKETS ADULT $20, CONC $17,
F/T STUDENT $15, CHILD UNDER 16 $15
Classification: E – Exempt from Classification
Based on one of the most successful Australian
novels in recent years, this highly anticipated film
stars Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and
Rachel Weiss.
SUNDAY 11 DECEMBER 5PM
SATURDAY 17 DECEMBER 2PM (OPEN CAPTIONS)
TICKETS: SIDEKICKS ADULT $12, CONC $9
SINGLE TICKETS ADULT $15, CONC $12,
F/T STUDENT $12, CHILD UNDER 16 $10
Duration: Approx. 1 hour 30 minutes (No interval)
Classification: M
MIRACLE ON 34TH
STREET
SPIRIT OF THE GAME
WEEK
D
MATI AY
NEE
Miracle on 34th Street is an irresistible fable that
has, for many years, become synonymous with
celebrating Christmas. Back on the big screen for
the holiday season, this three-time Oscar® Awardwinning tale is as resplendent as the holiday itself
and is sure to delight fans old and new!
THURSDAY 15 DECEMBER 10:30AM
MONDAY 19 DECEMBER 10:30AM
TICKETS: SIDEKICKS ADULT $12, CONC $9
SINGLE TICKETS ADULT $15, CONC $12,
F/T STUDENT $12, CHILD UNDER 16 $10
Duration: Approx. 2 hours 13 minutes (No interval)
MEET
FILMM THE
AKER
NSW Premiere - Featuring a post-screening
Q&A with very special guests on 15 December.
See our website for full details
The inspirational true story of the Mormon Yankees
and the Melbourne 1956 Olympics.
In 1956 a small group of missionaries made
worldwide history when they took on the task of
helping the struggling Australian basketball team
prepare for the Olympic Games. What unfolded was
an electrifying story of sport, spirit, trials and faith,
and the unification of a nation!
THURSDAY 15 DECEMBER 7:30PM
(INCLUDES Q&A)
SATURDAY 17 DECEMBER 5PM
Year: 1947
SIDEKICKS ADULT $12, CONC $9
SINGLE TICKETS ADULT $15, CONC $12,
F/T STUDENT $12, CHILD UNDER 16 $10,
GROUPS 10+ $12
Classification: E – Exempt from Classification
Classification: G
Classification: PG
Duration: Approx. 3 hours (Including interval)
Duration: Approx. 1 hour 36 minutes (No interval)
Duration: Approx. 1 hour 38 minutes (No interval)
RIVERSIDE CINEMA FROMDECEMBER1
HACKSAW RIDGE
National Theatre Live
NO MAN’S LAND
By Harold Pinter
This film will be Open Captioned on 16 December.
Audio description headsets are available for both
screenings, but must be pre-booked through Box
Office.
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart return to the
West End stage in this glorious revival of Pinter’s
comic classic captured live from Wyndham’s
Theatre, London.
“Mel Gibson’s best film since Braveheart.”
– Access Hollywood
One summer's evening, two ageing writers, Hirst
and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub. As the
pair becomes increasingly inebriated, the lively
conversation turns into a revealing power game.
The screening will be followed by an exclusive
Q&A with the cast and director Sean Mathias.
The extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss who,
in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of World War
II, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun.
Directed by Mel Gibson and starring Andrew
Garfield, Vince Vaughn, Hugo Weaving, Sam
Worthington, Teresa Palmer and Rachel Griffiths.
FRIDAY 16 DECEMBER 7:30PM (OPEN CAPTIONS)
SATURDAY 17 DECEMBER 7:30PM
TICKETS: SIDEKICKS MEMBERS ADULT $12,
CONC $9
SINGLE TICKETS ADULT $15, CONC $12,
F/T STUDENT $12, CHILD UNDER 16 $10
Classification: MA15+
SATURDAY 4 FEBRUARY 1PM
FRIDAY 10 FEBRUARY 7PM
SUNDAY 12 FEBRUARY 1PM
TICKETS: SIDEKICKS MEMBERS ADULT $22,
CONC $19
SINGLE TICKETS ADULT $25, CONC $22,
F/T STUDENT $15, CHILD UNDER 16 $15
Palace Opera & Ballet
THE ROYAL BALLET:
THE NUTCRACKER
The Royal Ballet celebrates Peter Wright’s 90th
birthday with his glorious production par excellence
of this all-time favourite ballet.
It’s Christmas Eve and Drosselmeyer (Gary Avis) the
magician sweeps young Clara (Francesca Hayward)
away on a fantastical journey from the family living
room to the Kingdom of Sweets.
Captured live on stage at the Royal Opera House,
London.
SUNDAY 5 FEBRUARY 1PM
TICKETS: SIDEKICKS MEMBERS ADULT $22,
CONC $19
SINGLE TICKETS ADULT $25, CONC $22,
F/T STUDENT $15, CHILD UNDER 16 $15
Classification: E – Exempt from Classification
Classification: E – Exempt from Classification
Duration: Approx. 2 hours 19 minutes (No interval)
Duration: Approx. 2 hours 30 minutes
(Including interval)
Duration: Approx. 2 hours 15 minutes
(Including interval)
Palace Opera & Ballet
Exhibition On Screen
Palace Opera & Ballet
PARIS OPÉRA BALLET:
SWAN LAKE
I, CLAUDE MONET
OPÉRA DE PARIS:
THE TALES OF HOFFMANN
Claude Monet, Impression Sunrise, 1872
Captured live on stage at Palais Garnier, Paris, you
and your family will love seeing this legendary
ballet featuring Tchaikovsky's beautiful score on
Riverside's big screen.
Swan Lake is the beloved classic love story of
Prince Siegfried and the Swan Princess Odette,
who are divided by the villainous sorcerer Rothbard.
In this “Freudian” version conceived for the Paris
Opera Ballet in 1984 by Rudolf Nureyvev, Prince
Siegfried’s role is elevated to that of the hero.
SATURDAY 18 FEBRUARY 1PM
TICKETS: SIDEKICKS MEMBERS ADULT $22,
CONC $19
SINGLE TICKETS ADULT $25, CONC $22,
F/T STUDENT $15, CHILD UNDER 16 $15
Classification: E – Exempt from Classification
Duration: Approx. 2 hours 40 minutes
(Including interval)
From award-winning director Phil Grabsky comes this
fresh new look at arguably the world’s favourite artist
– through his own words.
Using letters and other private writings I, Claude Monet
reveals new insight into the man who not only painted
the picture that gave birth to impressionism but who
was perhaps the most influential and successful
painter of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries.
Shot on location in Paris, London, Normandy and
Venice, I, Claude Monet is a cinematic immersion into
some of the most loved and iconic scenes in Western
Art.
SUNDAY 26 FEBRUARY 10:30AM
SATURDAY 4 MARCH 10:30AM
TICKETS: SIDEKICKS MEMBERS ADULT $17,
CONC $14
SINGLE TICKETS ADULT $20, CONC $17,
F/T STUDENT $15, CHILD UNDER 16 $15
Classification: E – Exempt from Classification
Duration: Approx. 1 hour 30 minutes (No interval)
Ramón Vargas leads an incredible cast in
Robert Carsen’s spectacular production of
Offenbach’s dazzling final opera, a work that
combines fantasy, gravity and humour in an
unexpectedly innovative synthesis of opera buffa,
romantic opera and grand opera. Opéra de Paris
Musical Director Phillpe Jordon conducts.
Captured live on stage at Opéra Bastille, Paris.
WEDNESDAY 15 MARCH 1PM
TICKETS: SIDEKICKS MEMBERS ADULT $22,
CONC $19
SINGLE TICKETS ADULT $25, CONC $22,
F/T STUDENT $15, CHILD UNDER 16 $15
Classification: E – Exempt from Classification
Duration: Approx. 3 hours 25 minutes
(Including 2 intervals)
RIVERSIDE CINEMA FROMDECEMBER1
WEEKDAY
MATINEE
SERIES
National Theatre Live
Exhibition On Screen
SAINT JOAN
THE ARTIST’S GARDEN
By Bernard Shaw
Philip Leslie Hale, Crimson Rambler, 1909
Shaw’s classic play follows the life and trial of a young
country girl who declares a bloody mission to drive
the English from France.
SATURDAY 18 MARCH 1PM
SUNDAY 19 MARCH 1PM
FRIDAY 24 MARCH 7PM
TICKETS: SIDEKICKS MEMBERS ADULT $22,
CONC $19
SINGLE TICKETS ADULT $25, CONC $22,
F/T STUDENT $15, CHILD UNDER 16 $15
Following the smash hit Painting the Modern
Garden: Monet to Matisse from Season 3 of
Exhibition On Screen comes a new film based
on the hugely popular exhibition The Artist’s
Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden
Movement from the Florence Griswold Museum
in Connecticut, widely considered a home of
American impressionism.
SATURDAY 25 MARCH 10:30AM
SUNDAY 26 MARCH 10:30AM
Classification: E – Exempt from Classification
TICKETS: SIDEKICKS MEMBERS ADULT $17,
CONC $14
SINGLE TICKETS ADULT $20, CONC $17,
F/T STUDENT $15, CHILD UNDER 16 $15
Classification: E – Exempt from Classification
Duration: Approx. 4 hours (Including interval)
Duration: Approx. 1 hour 30 minutes (No interval)
DECEMBER 2016
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SATURDAY
Finding Dory 10:30am
SUNDAY
Royal Shakespeare Company: King Lear 1pm
MONDAY
The Legend of Ben Hall 7pm
WEDNESDAY
11
12
13
15
16
17
19
SUNDAY
A Flickering Truth 7pm
Exhibition On Screen: The Curious World of
Hieronymus Bosch 10:30am
Exhibition On Screen: The Curious World of
Hieronymus Bosch 10:30am
4
5
10
12
18
26
SATURDAY
National Theatre Live: No Man’s Land 1pm
SUNDAY
The Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker 1pm
FRIDAY
National Theatre Live: No Man’s Land 7pm
SUNDAY
National Theatre Live: No Man’s Land 1pm
SATURDAY
Paris Opéra Ballet: Swan Lake 1pm
SUNDAY
Exhibition On Screen: I, Claude Monet 10:30am
4
15
18
19
24
25
26
SATURDAY
Exhibition On Screen: I, Claude Monet 10:30am
WEDNESDAY
Opéra de Paris: The Tales of Hoffmann 1pm
SATURDAY
National Theatre Live: Saint Joan 1pm
SUNDAY
National Theatre Live: Saint Joan 1pm
FRIDAY
National Theatre Live: Saint Joan 7pm
SATURDAY
Exhibition On Screen: The Artist’s Garden 10:30am
SUNDAY
Exhibition On Screen: The Artist’s Garden 10:30am
SATURDAY
Life, Animated 3pm
MONDAY
National Theatre Live: The Audience 10:30am
TUESDAY
A Flickering Truth 7pm
THURSDAY
Miracle on 34th Street 10:30am
FRIDAY
Hacksaw Ridge 7:30pm
SATURDAY
The Light Between Oceans 2pm
MONDAY
Miracle on 34th Street 10:30am
Florence Foster Jenkins 7pm
The Legend of Ben Hall 2pm
The Light Between Oceans 5pm
Spirit of the Game 7:30pm
Spirit of the Game 5pm
FEBRUARY 2017
MARCH 2017
Hacksaw Ridge 7:30pm
All Monday and Thursday matinees include tea and
biscuits served from 10am.
The Friends of Riverside will be your hosts to each
session. The Friends are volunteers who support
the theatre through fundraising, social activities
and being advocates for the theatre. Everyone is
welcome to attend these sessions and The Friends
will be there to make you feel welcome.
For full details or more Weekday Matinee Series
sessions please visit the website.
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TICKETS
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CINEMA TRANSACTION FEES $1.65
Transaction fees apply
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Please Note: Sessions are
continually added to our
cinema program.
Please check our website
for updates.
CINEMA
Captured live from the Donmar Warehouse and
screened at Riverside, Gemma Arterton stars as
Joan of Arc in this electrifying production.