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DVD review: Drive (18), 96 minutes, Icon Home Entertainment, action/thriller/ romance ****

10:24am Friday 3rd February 2012

NOT since Saving Private Ryan has a long, silent opening to a film said so much to set the atmosphere.

Sarah’s Key given Holocaust Memorial screening in York

Kristen Scott Thomas in Sarah’s Key

12:29pm Friday 27th January 2012

AS part of Holocaust Memorial Day in York, on Sunday City Screen will show Sarah’s Key (12A) at 8pm.

DVD review: The Guard (15) 92 minutes, Studio Canal ****

12:17pm Friday 27th January 2012

IF Irish black comedy cum eccentric crime thriller The Guard feels like a not-so-distant cousin of In Bruges, the family link is even closer.

The Artist runs for extra week

The Artist

9:53am Friday 13th January 2012

THE Artist, French director Michel Hazanavicius’s charming portrayal of love and corrosive pride at the sunset of Hollywood’s silent-movie era and the dawning of the talking motion picture, is being given another week’s run at City Screen from today.

Aesthetica Short Film Festival to return

Katie O’Neill of Aesthetica sits with the projector and looks at the image projected on a billboard at York Station to promote York’s first short film festival last month

1:23pm Friday 9th December 2011

YORK’S first boutique film festival will return in 2012 with new venues, 150 films from around the world and potentially a fresh strand too.

Rachael Le Roque as Marilyn Monroe promotes launch of new film at City Screen

Rachael Le Roque as Mariliyn Monroe

11:43am Friday 25th November 2011

NEVER mind spending one week with Marilyn, Rachael Le Roque lives her whole life with her… and she’s going out with Elvis.

Review: Wuthering Heights; Running time: 128mins; Certificate: 15

Wuthering Heights

12:20pm Friday 11th November 2011

LAURENCE Oliver and Merle Oberon in 1939. Anna Calder-Marshall and Timothy Dalton in 1970. Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes in 1992 (with singer Sinead O’Connor popping up briefly as Emily Bronte bestriding the moors).

Now screening at City Screen, York: Leonardo da Vinci show

A gallery worker views Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait of Cecilia Gallerani entitled The Lady With An Ermine, at the National Gallery’s landmark exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan

10:56am Wednesday 9th November 2011

FIRST it was the New York Metropolitan Opera, then NT Live from the National Theatre and the Bolshoi Ballet live from Moscow, and now the craze for satellite broadcasts at City Screen, York has spread to another canvas: a London art exhibition.

Film critic Mark Kermode’s book date sells out at City Screen

10:24am Friday 4th November 2011

FILM critic Mark Kermode’s book tour show, The Good, The Bad And The Multiplex, at City Screen, York, on Monday, has sold out.

Short film festival opens across screens in York

Daihei Shibata’s Japanese film The Light Of Life, one of the films being shown as part of the festival

9:05am Wednesday 2nd November 2011

YORK’S first international film festival opens tomorrow, and such has been the response from film-makers that the event will return next year.

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