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Festive Treats at Cornerhouse
Christmas cards in the Foyer Bookshop
It’s cold outside and those endless shopping queues provide little comfort for frozen feet, so why not put some cheer back into your life with a visit to Cornerhouse. From original, unique gifts to festive films, there's something for everyone! read more...

What's On Today

Art

Please note: our Galleries are closed on Mondays.
Click here for detailed opening times.
The Intertwining Line
Catherine Bertola, After the Fact, 2006 (detail)
Drawing as Subversive Art
From Fri 7 November to Sun 11 Jan 2009
This exhibition presents early and contemporary animation films, linking them to works of drawing as one of the major forms within the visual arts.
Go
Still from GO (detail)
Part of Cornerhouse Projects
From Fri 7 November to Sun 11 Jan 2009
Go is a series of thirty short animated ‘roadmovies,’ by Manchester-based artist Rob Bailey. Go follows planes, trains, boats and cars as they travel across land, air, sea, through mountains, across deserts, over bridges and under oceans.
Marjane Satrapi, PERSEPOLIS
Still from PERSEPOLIS (detail)
From Fri 7 November to Sun 11 Jan 2009
To coincide with the exhibition prints of the artwork from Marjane Satrapi’s animation film PERSEPOLIS, will be on display in the café. Don't miss these bold images from the film which powerfully convey Satrapi’s experience of growing up in Iran.

New Books

The Ark of Architecture
Ark of Architecture cover
Selected Writings of Malcolm Quantrill
£32.50
This is both a reader and a re-reader of an acute architectural eye and mind: Malcolm Quantrill, fedora-user, bon vivant, architectural scholar and wanderer extraordinaire has held an unusual place in architectural scholarship over the last 50 years.
Esperanza Spierling
spierling
Beyond the Picture
£14.00
Spierling’s interior views of libraries, coliseums, entrance halls, swimming baths and waiting rooms are locations of public life, characterised by anonymity and functionality, signified by fleetingness and bleakness.

Film

Still from SILENCE OF LORNA
Silence of Lorna
13:40  16:00  18:10  20:30 
Cert 15, 105 mins
In French, Albanian with English Subtitles 
The highly acclaimed Dardenne brothers return with this uncompromising drama. Desperate for Belgian citizenship, young Albanian Lorna becomes involved with local mobster Fabio who orchestrates her sham marriage to down-and-out drug addict Claudio.
Still from BLINDNESS
Blindness
13:30  Audio Described   15:55  Audio Described   18:15  Audio Described   20:40  Audio Described  
Cert 18, 120 mins
In English, Japanese with English Subtitles 
Directed by Fernando Meirelles (CITY OF GOD, THE CONSTANT GARDENER) from the novel by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, BLINDNESS is a compelling allegory of humanity in crisis starring Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo and Danny Glover.
Still from WALTZ WITH BASHIR
Waltz With Bashir
13:50  16:10  18:30  20:20 
Cert 18, 87 mins
In Hebrew, German with English Subtitles 
In this powerful anti-war animation, documentary filmmaker, Ari Folman, investigates his own suppressed memories of life as a young conscript during the Lebanon war in 1982.