Another great week of film at Pontio in Bangor this week, with The Matrix Resurrections and Licorice Pizza, the story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around, and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
Weekly Drama Workshop Blas for young people and National Dance Company Wales host Dance For Parkinson’s fun and informal sessions, proven to develop confidence and strength, whilst temporarily relieving some participants of symptoms in everyday life.
Cinema: Book Here: https://www.pontio.co.uk/online/article/ffilm all other events find out more here: https://www.pontio.co.uk/
The Matrix Resurrections (15)
Lana Wachowski, 2021, 150m
Cast – Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jessica Henwick
Friday 21 – Saturday 29 January
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Plagued by strange memories, Neo’s life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix. Directed by visionary director Lana Wachowski and starring original stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss this long awaited fourth chapter in the Matrix saga promises to be something really special.
Licorice Pizza
Paul Thomas Anderson, 2021, 134m
Cast – Bradley Cooper, Sean Penn, Alana Haim
Friday 28 January – Thursday 3 February
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
“Licorice Pizza” is the story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around, and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973. Written and Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson ( Phantom Thread, Magnolia, The Master), the film tracks the treacherous navigation of first love. Starring Bradley Cooper, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Benny Safdie, Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman this promises to be another joyful Anderson masterpiece.
THE 400 BLOWS (Les Quatre Cents Coups) PG
François Truffaut, 1959, 100m
Cast – Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Remy, Claire Maurier, Patrick Auffay.
Wednesday 26 January, 7pm
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
The first great film from the French Nouvelle Vague. One of the greatest films about childhood, Truffaut’s partly autobiographical first feature is also profoundly moving Forever in trouble at school – when he’s not playing truant – 13-year-old Antoine Doinel finds life no easier at home; besides demanding he help with housework and shopping, his parents frequently bicker with one another. Eventually there’s a tipping point… Eliciting a memorably affecting and naturalistic performance from the young Jean-Pierre Léaud, and achieving a documentary-like authenticity by shooting in far-from-glamorous Paris locations, Truffaut is never sentimental. It is a heartbreakingly plausible portrait of adolescent individuality under threat from adult conformism. And as Akira Kurosawa, no less, said – ‘it is one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen.’
NT Live: Leopoldstadt (12A)
Tom Stoppard / Patrick Marber, 2022, 140m
Cast – Sebastian Armesto, Aaron Neil, Ed Stoppard
Thursday 27th January 7pm
+ Sunday 30th January 2pm (Encore)
Recorded live
£13 / £11 / £10
Tom Stoppard’s Olivier Award-winning new play Leopoldstadt is a passionate drama of love, family and endurance.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria. But Hermann Merz, a factory owner and baptised Jew now married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world.
We follow his family’s story across half a century, passing through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. A company of 40 actors represent each generation of the family in this epic, but intimate play.
Filmed live on stage in London’s West End, ‘Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece is magnificent’ (Independent) and should not be missed.
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Events:
Blas
BLAS is Pontio’s arts participation project offering children and young people various experiences of the arts. There are three aspects to BLAS, firstly, weekly drama workshops for children and young people, from school year 3 to 13. Secondly, health and well-being arts projects with children and young people. Thirdly, youth arts projects in conjunction with professional companies that visit Pontio.
BLAS was launched in January 2013 following a successful bid for funding from Arts Council of Wales, and since then it has gone from strength to strength undertaking a number of projects with inspiring practitioners and Bangor’s enthusiastic children and communities.
The project is run by Pontio Arts Development Co-ordinator, Mared Elliw Huws and is funded by the Arts Council of Wales and the Widening Access programme at Bangor University
Weekly Drama Workshop
The weekly workshops are returning to Pontio Studio!
Weekly drama and performance workshops to develop confidence, stage presence, performing skills and have fun!
Where: Studio, Pontio
When: Every Monday and Wednesday night – Term Time
Monday: 5:00pm – 6:00pm – Years 3 and 4, 6:15pm – 7:15pm – Years 5 and 6,
Wednesday: 6 :30pm – 7:30pm – Years 7, 8 and 9 – 7:45pm – 8:45pm – Years 10 – 13
Cost: £25 (discount code available for residents of LL57 1 area)
Workshops are held mainly in Welsh. It is not essential to be fluent, and we welcome everyone of all language ability.
For more details email Mared: m.huws@bangor.ac.uk
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National Dance Company Wales host Dance For Parkinson’s
Dance for Parkinson’s classes are fun and informal.
Dance has been proven to develop confidence and strength, whilst temporarily relieving some participants of symptoms in everyday life. Classes are creative and promote feelings of freedom from the physical and social constraints of having Parkinson’s.
We are an Affiliated hub of English National Ballet’s Dance for Parkinson’s programme.
Classes are 90 minutes long, and all you’ll need is a chair.
English National Ballet’s Dance for Parkinson’s programme has been running since 2008. We are proud to be part of the Dance for PD membership, to support Dance for Parkinson’s Partnership and People Dancing and to have an affiliation with Parkinson’s UK. ENB’s national Dance for Parkinson’s programme enjoys close links with Parkinson’s UK and the European Parkinson’s Disease Association EPDA.
Dates
ONLINE: 25 January
ONLINE: 1 / 8 / 15 February
IN THE STUDIO: 1 / 8 / 15 / 22 / 29 March
