Jackie Brown among the New Park films this week - Chichester

Mrs Harris Goes to Paris begins a two-week stint at New Park and is proving to be very popular.
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A widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress and decides that she must have one of her own. Lesley Manville is marvellous and utterly convincing as the wide-eyed chirpy cleaner who follows her dreams all the way to the French capital.

Moonage Daydream is American director Brett Morgen’s kaleidoscopic collage of David Bowie’s life - a dazzling mash-up of elegy, celebration and intimate portrait.

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It’s a glorious celebratory montage of archive material, live performance footage, Bowie’s own experimental video art and paintings, movie and stage work and interviews with various normcore TV personalities with whom Bowie is unfailingly polite, open and charming.

Jackie Brown may be the only Quentin Tarantino movie that gets noticeably better with each viewing. His third film has matured into a classic neo-noir. Restored and reissued. Jackie, (Pam Grier) a middle-aged air hostess, supplements her meagre wage by couriering cash for gun-smuggler Ordell (Samuel L Jackson). Unfortunately, she gets lifted and is faced with an unpleasant choice: shop her boss who has a habit of plugging traitors or do time.

Verdi’s Aida from the Royal Opera House will be screened twice. La Bohème will also be shown twice. Jack Absolute Flies Again is sold.

Richard Warburton

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