Moonage Daydream, featuring never-before-seen footage and performances by David Bowie, is the main highlight at Sinema Pontio in Bangor this week.
A live screening of Madama Butterfly is definitely not to be missed, with Crimes of the Future and another opportunity to watch Top Gun Maverick, rounding off the week.
Special offer: £5 tickets for all 2pm showings Monday-Wednesday.
For more information and to Book for all events visit the Pontio website here: https://www.pontio.co.uk/
Cinema:
Moonage Daydream (15)
Brett Morgen, 2022, 135m
Cast – David Bowie
Friday 23 – Thursday 29 September
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
How do you encapsulate the life of David Bowie in a way that mirrors the ingenuity, invention and creative brilliance of the man himself on the big screen? Featuring never-before-seen footage and performances, filmmaker Brett Morgen explores David Bowie’s creative, spiritual and musical journey in his own extraordinary and distinctive cinematic style that layers archive material, audio recordings, image montages and innovative sound design, to draw us into the worlds of his subject.
Moonage Daydream weaves, blends and manipulates footage of Bowie, drawn from the vast archive of his estate, to create a kaleidoscopic fever dream of a film that captures Bowie as performer, artist and thinker. Truly a cinematic event. Unmissable.
ROH Live: Madama Butterfly (12A)
Puccini, 2022, 165m
Cast – Maria Agresta, Joshua Guerrero, Carlos Alvarez
Tuesday 27 September, 7.15pm
Sunday 2 October, 2pm(ENCORE)
£15/£12.50/£10
Live Screening, Italian with subitles
When the young geisha, Cio-Cio-San, marries American Naval Officer Pinkerton, she believes she is entering a real, binding marriage for life. Forsaking her religion and community, she learns all too late that for Pinkerton, their marriage is merely an illusion – with tragic consequences. With a score that includes Butterfly’s aria, ‘Un bel dì, vedremo’ (‘One fine day’) and the Humming Chorus, Giacomo Puccini’s opera is entrancing and ultimately heart-breaking. Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s exquisite production takes inspiration from 19th-century European images of Japan. Nicola Luisotti conducts the orchestra.
Latcho Drom (Siwrne saff / Safe journey) U
Tony Gatlif, 1993, 104m
Cast – La Caita, Tchavolo Schmitt, Dorada Schnitt
Thursday 29 September 5.30pm
FREE
As part of Bangor University’s week-long celebration of Traveller, Gypsy and Romani culture we are proud to present a free screening of Gatlif’s award winning musical movie about the Romani’s people’s journey from north-west India to Spain.
It is a film that eschews words, relying mainly on images, music, and gestures — universal languages that, like Gypsy culture itself, traverse continents and centuries.
Emotionally, the movie conveys an intense, exuberant feeling of belonging that seems intimately tied to the alienation and persecution of Gypsies — though here it’s nearly always the joy that’s emphasized, not the suffering.
Roma, Gypsy and Traveller civil society organisations: Exploring experiences and challenges in Europe today, Pontio Arts Centre, Bangor University, 28-29 September.
This event will bring together Roma, Gypsy and Traveller civil society organisations from across Europe with academics, policy makers, and community members to hear about and discuss Roma, Gypsy and Traveller experiences in Europe. This event foregrounds the experiences of Roma civil society organisations and will include an audio-visual exhibition designed to highlight some of the voices we have captured in our research as well as a film screening and two days of discussions.
Organised through keynotes, roundtables and workshops, the event will also reflect on two years of research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council WISERD Civil Society Research Centre that examined Czech and Greek Roma, and UK Gypsy, Roma and Traveller, civil society organisations.
S4C: Dal y Mellt (12A)
FREE BUT TICKETED
PREVIEW
Thursday 29 September, 8.15pm
Iwan Roberts, Huw Chiswell 2022
Cast – Gwion Morris Jones, Mark Lewis Jones, Siw Hughes, Dyfan Roberts
A chance to enjoy a preview episode of the latest big S4C drama – an adaption of Iwan Roberts thriller Dal y Mellt in the company of cast and crew.
Crimes of the Future (18)
David Cronenberg, 2022, 108m
Cast – Viggo Mortensen, Lea Seydoux, Kristen Stewart
Friday 30 September – Thursday 6 October
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Cronenberg, the Canadian master of body-horror cinema is back with a typically controversial film journey that takes us into a bizarre new society where pain is the ultimate pleasure and ‘surgery is the new sex’. Whether you see it as a black comedy about Art and morals or a glimpse into our future it is both unmissable and horrifying and up on our screen.
As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux), Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin (Kristen Stewart), an investigator from the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed…Their mission–to use Saul’s notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.
Top Gun Maverick (12A)
Kosinski, 2022, 137m
Cast – Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller
Saturday 1 October, 11am + Saturday 8 October, 11am
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Another chance to see Tom Cruise’s long-awaited sequel. The first Top Gun released way back in 1986 was a massive world wide hit that defined the eighties for many and made Cruise a superstar. This time around Tom is back as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, older but still in his element as a courageous test pilot training new graduates for a special flight mission. Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past and his deepest fears in order to succeed.
