The Regal Film Society
The Regal Film Society
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 7 7.30PM
Dir Oliver Hermanus UK/Japan/Sweden 2022 102 mins Cert 12
Starring Bill Nighy and scripted by Kazuo Ishiguro, Living is a gentle and poignant remake of the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikuru (To Live). The film is set in 1950s London and in a deeply affecting performance Nighy plays a buttoned-up civil servant Mr Williams, who receives news which compels him to rethink his outlook on life. This wise and moving drama is an existential journey that celebrates learning how to live life, in all its fleeting beauty.
Watch the trailer here. Read the Guardian review here.
Tickets: £15.50, Regal Film Society Film Society members/Friends, Students/ES40s £13,
under 14s £10.
TUES 24 JAN 7.30PM
CEZANNE: PORTRAITS OF A LIFE
Exhibition on Screen is thrilled to be bringing back one of its most successful ever films, dedicated to the life and work of Paul Cézanne. One cannot appreciate 20th century art without understanding the significance and genius of Paul Cézanne. Filmed at the National Portrait Gallery in London, with additional interviews from experts and curators from MoMA in New York, National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, and Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and correspondence from the artist himself, the film takes audiences to the places Cézanne lived and worked, and sheds light on an artist who is perhaps one of the least known and yet most important of all the Impressionists.
“... a film that thoroughly repays careful listening and looking” The Guardian
Released to coincide with a major Cézanne exhibition at Tate Modern Oct 22 – Mar 23.
CINDERELLA
WEDS APRIL 12 7.15PM
WED 8 MARCH 7.30PM
MARY CASSATT: PAINTING THE MODERN WOMAN
Released to coincide with International Women’s Day
Mary Cassatt made a career painting the lives of the women around her. Her radical images showed them as intellectual, feminine and real, which was a major shift in the way women appeared in art. Presenting her astonishing prints, pastels and paintings, this film introduces us to the often overlooked Impressionist whose own career was as full of contradiction as the women she painted.
She printed, sketched, and painted dozens of images of mothers and children yet never married or had children herself. She was a classically trained artist but chose to join a group of Parisian radicals - the Impressionists – a movement that transformed the language of art. The world’s most eminent Cassatt curators and scholars help tell this riveting tale of great social and cultural change; a time when women were fighting for their rights and the language of art was completely
re-written. Mary Cassatt and her modern women were at the heart of it all.
LIVE FROM THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE
Running time: Approximately 3 hours (intervals TBC)
Royal Ballet Founder Choreographer Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella celebrates its 75th anniversary this Season. The ballet’s opening night in 1948, featuring Moira Shearer and Michael Somes in the lead roles, was received rapturously. After over a decade away from the Royal Opera House stage, Ashton’s timeless reworking of Charles Perrault’s famous rags-to-riches story returns, showcasing the choreographer’s deft musicality and the beauty of Prokofiev’s transcendent score. A creative team steeped in the magic of theatre, film, dance and opera brings new atmosphere to Cinderella’s ethereal world of fairy godmothers and pumpkin carriages, handsome princes and finding true love.
Tickets: £15.50, Regal Film Society Film Society members/Friends, Students/ES40s £13,
under 14s £10.