What's on at Watermans this week
By Isabel Millett
1st Jul 2022 | Local News
Welcome to our feature What's on at Watermans this week? rounding up the current cinema, theatre and gallery listings on at the local riverside arts centre.
What's on at Watermans this week?
Good Luck To You, Leo Grande
Two-time Academy Award winner Emma Thompson (Love, Actually) plays a retired teacher Nancy Stokes. She embarks on a post-marital sexual awakening with the help of a sex worker, Leo Grande played by Daryl McCormack (Peak Blinders). Together they find a surprising human connection.
The Princess
The Princess tells the story of Princess Diana exclusively through contemporaneous archival footage creating a bold and immersive narrative of her life and death. Turning the camera back on ourselves, the film illuminates the profound impact she had and how the public's attitude to the monarchy was, and still is, shaped by these events.
The Big Hit
Also known as 'UN TRIOMPHE'
Étienne, an often-out-of-work but endearing actor, runs a theatre workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to stage Samuel Beckett's classic Waiting for Godot. When he is allowed to take the colourful band of convicts on a tour outside the prison, Étienne finally has the chance to thrive. Each date is a new success and a unique relationship grows between this ad hoc group of actors and their director. But soon comes the final performance in Paris. Will their last night together be the biggest hit of them all? An uplifting comedy inspired by true events.
Wings of Desire
Wings Of Desire marked Wenders' "homecoming" and was his first German film after eight years in America. The main characters are guardian angels—benevolent, invisible beings in trench coats—who listen to the thoughts of mortals and attempt to comfort them. One of them, Damiel (Bruno Ganz), wishes to become human after he falls in love with the beautiful trapeze artist Marion (Solveig Dommartin).
Peter Falk, played by himself, helps him during his transformation, by introducing him to life's little pleasures. The film is narrated from the perspective of the angels, who see the world in black and white. Only when Damiel becomes human does the world of color reveal itself to him. He leaves behind his old friend Cassiel (Otto Sander), who continues to be accompanied by Homer (Curt Bois), the "storyteller of humanity."
The film has achieved cult status all around the world; in 1998, it was remade under the title City Of Angels, which features Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan in the lead roles..
The Bad Guys
Nobody has ever failed so hard at trying to be good as The Bad Guys.
After years of countless heists and being the world's most-wanted villains, The Bad Guys, a crackerjack criminal crew of animal outlaws are finally caught. Mr. Wolf makes a deal to save the gang from prison and with the help of their mentor Professor Marmalade: The Bad Guys will go Good… or will they? Find out in this madcap adventure animation, based on the New York Times best-selling book series.
Straight Line Crazy
This is a pre-recorded event of a live broadcast performance from the Bridge Theatre in London.
Ralph Fiennes (Antony & Cleopatra) leads the cast in David Hare's (Skylight) blazing account of the most powerful man in New York, a master manipulator whose legacy changed the city forever.
For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses exploited those in office through a mix of charm and intimidation. Motivated at first by a determination to improve the lives of New York City's workers, he created parks, bridges and 627 miles of expressway to connect the people to the great outdoors.
Faced with resistance by protest groups campaigning for a very different idea of what the city should become, will the weakness of democracy be exposed in the face of his charismatic conviction?
Broadcast live from the Bridge Theatre in London, Nicholas Hytner directs this exhilarating new play.
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