Award-winning filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki (Le Havre, The Other Side of Hope) makes a masterful return with FALLEN LEAVES, a timeless, hopeful and ultimately satisfying love story about two lonely souls’ path to happiness – and the numerous hurdles they encounter along the way. Set in contemporary Helsinki, and shot through with Kaurismäki’s typically playful, idiosyncratic style and deadpan humor, this tender romantic tragicomedy is a timely reminder of the potency of movie-going from one of cinema’s living legends. Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.

Original Language: Finnish

Presented with English subtitles

Napoleon is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the chequered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, played by Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix. Against a stunning backdrop of large-scale filmmaking orchestrated by legendary director Ridley Scott, the film captures Bonaparte's relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his one true love, Josephine, showcasing his visionary military and political tactics against some of the most dynamic practical battle sequences ever filmed.

Accessibility

All screenings of Napleon have audio description available if needed. Please ask at the Box Office for more information.

For more information on accessibility at the Lexi visit our accessibility page.

Emerald Fennel (Promising Young Woman) has gone back to her roots, with her highly anticipated second feature Saltburn, set among the lives of the British upper class at her alma mater, Oxford. It's a sexy, outrageously twisty crossover between Brideshead Revisited and The Talented Mr. Ripley, a no-holds-barred voyeuristic look at upper-class privilege.

It's hard to believe this is Barry Keoghan's (Banshees of Inishirin, Dune 2) first lead role, as he puts in an unforgettable performance (you'll know the scene we mean!) in Emerald Fennel's slick, horrid, gorgeous-looking revenge tale. Carey Mulligan, Archie Madekwe Richard E Grant and Rosamund Pike are an utterly committed supporting cast who all look like they're having the time of their lives.

Accessibility

All screenings of Saltburn have audio description available if needed. Please ask at the Box Office for more information.

For more information on accessibility at the Lexi visit our accessibility page.

It’s Tona’s 27th birthday and the extended family gather in the family’s rambling home to celebrate. Miscommunication, chaos, evasion and fear all come into play as Sol, Tona’s young daughter, tries to make sense of the adults’ evasive language and erratic behaviour. The viewer can see immediately that Tona is dying, being cared for in loving seclusion by his older sisters in an upstairs room. Through overheard conversations we understand that money for his treatment has run out. The second film from Lila Avilés (The Chamermaid) is a profoundly humane ensemble piece showing a childs point of view with nuance, warmth and humour.

Original language: Spanish

Presented with English subtitles

During lockdown a motley crew of 10 strangers came together to swim clandestinely in the ponds on Hampstead Heath.  Styling themselves The Water Rats, a great esprit de corps develops among the renegades. Of different ages, backgrounds and ethnicities, all are passionate about wild swimming.  

Civil disobedience has never looked so glamorous! The illicit venturing into the ponds is beautifully documented by photographer Jillian Edelstein, who has collaborated with film maker Greig Coetzee on this project.  

This screening will be preceded by a live intro by filmmakers Jillian Edelstein and Grieg Coetzee.

Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper), composer, conductor, and complicated man, meets actress Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan) at a party in 1946. The whirlwind romance that ensues as Bernstein's renown skyrockets develops into a complex, lifelong partnership – through two engagements, a 25-year marriage, and three children – that sees both halves enduring the pressure and fallout of ambition, commitment, fame and love.

Paul King's colourful, heartwarming musical has Timothee Chalamet giving it his all as the young chocalatier, making his way in the world with just a portable chocolate-making machine, some wistful childhood memories and some friends he made along the way. He's joined by a fantastic supporting cast including Olivia Coleman, Rowan Atkinson, Matt Lucas, Sally Hawkins and Calah Lane. Join us at The Lexi this Christmas to be swept off your feet by a spindley young man in a velvet coat and top hat, and marvel at how the world's greatest inventor, magician and chocolate maker overcame adversity and a few technical hitches... to became the world famous Willy Wonka.

Accessibility

Please note the screening on Wed 20 Dec at 18:15 is a subtitled, hard of screening. The screening on Thu 28 Dec at 14:00 is a Relaxed, autism-friendly screening.

All screenings of Wonka have audio description available if needed. Please ask at the Box Office for more information.

For more information on accessibility at the Lexi visit our accessibility page.

Race Today: The Untold Story of Black Britain’s Political Journal

Plus panel discussion with Director Wayne Saunders, Leila Hassan Howe and Jean Ambrose

 

Race Today tells the untold story of Black Britain’s political journal, featuring the members behind it. Produced by Wayne G Saunders, a filmmaker who was born when the Race Today journal was establishing itself as a serious political voice in the Black community. The film features heroes such as the late Darcus Howe, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Farrukh Dhondy, Leila Hassan, Jean Ambrose and many more who speak candidly about their lives and what the future looks like for the youth of today.

Director / speakers bio

Wayne G Saunders is an award winning filmmaker (ProductionBase, BBC & ITN, PAFF, African Movie Academy Awards Finalist) who has been focusing on social transformation through media since 1995. Saunders has worked on several pioneering movies, such as ‘Greatness’, ‘The Perfect Girl’, ‘Caught Up The System’ and ‘Nothing less’. He features in the British Film Institute book Teaching Black Cinema as well as The Black British Filmmaker’s Guide to Success.

Leila Hassan Howe is a British editor and activist, who was a founding member of the Race Today Collective. She worked for the Institute of Race Relations and became editor of the Race Today journal in 1986. Hassan was also a member of the Black Unity and Freedom Party.

Jean Ambrose is a British anti-racist activist. In the 1970s and 1980s she was active in Race Today, the Brixton-based collective and political journal. Like Leila Hassan, Ambrose was a member of the Black Unity and Freedom Party, and she joined the Race Today collective soon after its establishment in 1974. After the 1981 New Cross house fire she was active in the New Cross Massacre Action Committee (NCMAC)

After two films of true friendship and relentless flirting, Poppy (Anna Kendrick) and Branch (Justin Timberlake) are now officially, finally, a couple (#broppy)! As they grow closer, Poppy discovers that Branch has a secret past. He was once part of her favorite boyband phenomenon, BroZone, with his four brothers: Floyd (Golden Globe nominated electropop sensation Troye Sivan), John Dory (Eric André; Sing 2), Spruce (Grammy winner Daveed Diggs; Hamilton) and Clay (Grammy winner Kid Cudi; Don’t Look Up). BroZone disbanded when Branch was still a baby, as did the family, and Branch hasn’t seen his brothers since.

But when Branch’s bro Floyd is kidnapped for his musical talents by a pair of nefarious pop-star villains—Velvet (Emmy winner Amy Schumer; Trainwreck) and Veneer (Grammy winner and Tony nominee Andrew Rannells; The Book of Mormon)—Branch and Poppy embark on a harrowing and emotional journey to reunite the other brothers and rescue Floyd from a fate even worse than pop-culture obscurity.

Accessibility

Please note the screening on Thu 28 Dec at 11:45am is a subtitled, hard of screening. The screening on Tue 02 Jan at 12:20 is a Relaxed, autism-friendly screening.

For more information on accessibility at the Lexi visit our accessibility page.

Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Wish is an animated musical-comedy welcoming audiences to the magical kingdom of Rosas, where Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force—a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe—the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico—to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.

Accessibility

Please note the screening on Fri 29 Dec at 15:20 is a subtitled, hard of hearing screening.

For more information on accessibility at the Lexi visit our accessibility page.

Up in heaven, a chorus of prayers for help are heard coming from the small town of Bedford Falls. So a despairing man named George Bailey (James Stewart)  is prevented from committing suicide by the intervention of a funny little old fellow named Clarence Oddbody, "Angel, Second-Class". The angel shows him what others' lives would have been like, and what their town would have been like, if, as he wished, he had never been born. George has an epiphany, cries, "I want to live again!" and is restored to his family and friends who toast him as "the richest man in town". And a tinkling bell on the Baileys' Christmas tree tells George that Clarence's successful mission has won him his wings...If there's one film synonymous with Christmas, it's Frank Capra's 1946 fantasy drama It's A Wonderful Life.

Spectacle, fast cars and impeccable vintage tailoring in Michael Mann's Ferrari. During the summer of 1957, bankruptcy looms over the company that Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) and his wife (Penelope Cruz) built 10 years earlier. He decides to roll the dice and wager it all on the iconic Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile road race across Italy. The choreography of the race scenes, heart-stopping crashes and tense pit-stops will remind you why Michael Mann remains one of cinema's all-time great action directors.

This Christmas, escape to Middle Earth at The Lexi

History became legend, legend became myth, and some things that should not have been forgotten were lost...

Jackson's multi-layered, pacey adaptations of Tolkein's source material have created a rich fantasy world which fans return to again and again. In which cinema did you first see Legolas skateboard down an oliphants trunk? Or perhaps you first shrank in fear behind a sofa cushion as the Nazgul stalked the shire?  NB: After much debate on the Lexi team, we've decided to remain true to the original cinema experience and screen the Theatrical cuts as they were seen in 2001, 2002 and 2003 rather than the extended versions, which we reckon most fans have explored online.  

LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring

The future of civilization rests in the fate of the One Ring, which has been lost for centuries. Powerful forces are unrelenting in their search for it. But fate has placed it in the hands of a young Hobbit named Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood), who inherits the Ring and steps into legend. A daunting task lies ahead for Frodo when he becomes the Ringbearer - to destroy the One Ring in the fires of Mount Doom where it was forged.

"Rather than a stand-alone holiday blockbuster, The Fellowship of the Ring offers an epic act one...a rousing adventure." The Observer

"Dramatic tension and pictorial grandeur...Jackson is an enthusiastic visionary." New Yorker

Watch the whole trilogy here:

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Sat 30 Dec, 19:00

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Mon 01 Jan, 19:00

This Christmas, escape to Middle Earth at The Lexi

History became legend, legend became myth, and some things that should not have been forgotten were lost...

Jackson's multi-layered, pacey adaptations of Tolkein's source material have created a rich fantasy world which fans return to again and again. In which cinema did you first see Legolas skateboard down an oliphants trunk? Or perhaps you first shrank in fear behind a sofa cushion as the Nazgul stalked the shire?  NB: After much debate on the Lexi team, we've decided to remain true to the original cinema experience and screen the Theatrical cuts as they were seen in 2001, 2002 and 2003 rather than the extended versions, which we reckon most fans have explored online.  

LOTR: The Two Towers

The sequel to the Golden Globe-nominated and AFI Award-winning "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," "The Two Towers" follows the continuing quest of Frodo (Elijah Wood) and the Fellowship to destroy the One Ring. Frodo and Sam (Sean Astin) discover they are being followed by the mysterious Gollum. Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), the Elf archer Legolas and Gimli the Dwarf encounter the besieged Rohan kingdom, whose once great King Theoden has fallen under Saruman's deadly spell.

"To live up to expectations, The Two Towers only had to be as good as its predecessor -- and, astoundingly, it's better." AV Club

"These Tolkien films have a weight and seriousness that very few sword-and-sorcery pictures of the past 30-odd years have attained." - The Observer

Watch the whole trilogy here:

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Fri 29 Dec, 19:00

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Mon 01 Jan, 19:00

This Christmas, escape to Middle Earth at The Lexi

History became legend, legend became myth, and some things that should not have been forgotten were lost...

Jackson's multi-layered, pacey adaptations of Tolkein's source material have created a rich fantasy world which fans return to again and again. In which cinema did you first see Legolas skateboard down an oliphants trunk? Or perhaps you first shrank in fear behind a sofa cushion as the Nazgul stalked the shire?  NB: After much debate on the Lexi team, we've decided to remain true to the original cinema experience and screen the Theatrical cuts as they were seen in 2001, 2002 and 2003 rather than the extended versions, which we reckon most fans have explored online.  

LOTR: The Return of the King

The culmination of nearly 10 years' work and conclusion to Peter Jackson's epic trilogy based on the timeless J.R.R. Tolkien classic, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" presents the final confrontation between the forces of good and evil fighting for control of the future of Middle-earth. Hobbits Frodo and Sam reach Mordor in their quest to destroy the `one ring', while Aragorn leads the forces of good against Sauron's evil army at the stone city of Minas Tirith.

"A worthy conclusion to a modern epic. Don't worry that your expectations will be too high -- Return Of The King will exceed them all." - Total Film

No flabber has been left ungasted by Mr Jackson's mighty battle sequences, nor no gob unsmacked. - The Guardian

Watch the whole trilogy here:

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Fri 29 Dec, 19:00

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Sat 30 Dec, 19;00

Curated from international submissions, LSFF presents a series of animated shorts for a younger audience that ask the question, how are you? Sometimes, things get too much and we need to let it all out. Shouting in the playground, drifting off into imaginary worlds, or facing the fears inside our heads - these short films cross the world to hear stories of survival, friendship and family.

Sometimes, things are not always OK, but that’s OK. We get there in the end. From tiny plant shoots to mountain peaks, from caves to outer space, we learn that wherever you go, there you are.

Suitable for ages 9-12. Content warning: references to death, violence (mild)

Aaaah!, dir. Osman Cerfon, France 2022, 12mins

Lift Off, dir. Rui Han, USA 2023, 5mins

Trang, dir. Hannah Lau-Walker, UK 2023, 4mins

Bits, dir. Rosa Sawyers, UK 2023, 3mins

Into the next tide, dir. Yaya Xi-lin Wang, UK 2023, 9mins

Ice Merchants, dir. João Gonzalez, Portugal 2022, 14mins

Carrot, dir. HuiYi Jiang, MuEn Wang, UK 2022, 3mins

Not Another Bat-Mitzvah!, dir. Anna Glasman, UK 2023, 1min

Deeper Still, dir. Max Callaby, UK 2023, 6mins

The Tornado Outside, dir. Maria Tomazou, UK 2023, 8mins

Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale) plays Gareth Southgate in James Graham’s (Sherwood) gripping examination of nation and game.

The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can’t England’s men win at their own game?

With the worst track record for penalties in the world, Gareth Southgate knows he needs to open his mind and face up to the years of hurt, to take team and country back to the promised land.

Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Rupert Goold (Judy) directs this spectacular new play.

Joseph Fiennes portrayal of Gareth Southgate is ‘pitch-perfect’ (Time Out) in this ‘thrilling’ (Sunday Times) new play by James Graham.

A new play by James Graham.

You're all invited to Peppa's Cinema Party! This year, the world's most popular porcine star Peppa Pig celebrates her 20th anniversary. To mark such a momentous  occasion, she is, of course, throwing the biggest, most majestic, most Peppa Pig-est party ever. And all of her friends (that includes YOU!) are very much invited.

Featuring the voices of Katy Perry as Ms. Leopard and Orlando Bloom as Mr. Raccoon in an episode of the 3-part Wedding Party story, the whole family can enjoy 10 never-before-seen Peppa Pig episodes! And with 5 brand new songs, as well as 11 interactive entertainment shorts with Peppa and her friends playing, dancing and singing in the real world, you and your little ones will be moving and grooving with Peppa in a whole new way! So grab your coat and jump into your boots, let’s be on our way to the Peppa Cinema Party!

Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.  

 

Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adaptation which explores the complexities of human emotions.

 

Filmed live during its sold-out run in London’s West End, Vanya will be playing exclusively in cinemas in 2024.  

Adapted by Simon Stephens, after Anton Chekhov  

Directed by Sam Yates  

Designed by Rosanna Vize