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A richly textured essay film on landscape, art, history, life and loss, 'Patience (After Sebald)' offers a unique exploration of the work of internationally acclaimed writer W.G. Max Sebald (1944 – 2001) via a walk through East Anglia tracking his most influential book, The Rings of Saturn. The much anticipated new feature by the Grierson Award-winning Director of 'JoyDivision', 'Patience (After Sebald)' is the first film about Sebald, marking ten years since the writer’s untimely death, and with contributions from major writers, artists and film-makers such as Adam Philips, Robert Macfarlane, Andrew Motion, Rick Moody and Tacita Dean.
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Stories Before Bedtime returns to the Criterion with an alternative Valentine’s theme on the 10th February. Twisted Love: an anti-valentines evening of unlikely love stories will see Irish actress Niamh Cusack reading Angela Carter’s The Courtship of Mr Lyon, Tom Hiddleston, recent star of Hollywood blockbuster Thor and Steven Spielberg’s Warhorse, reading the erotic Tennessee Williams short story The Kingdom of Heaven, and star of Men Behaving Badly Caroline Quentin reading extracts from Ovid’s hilarious The Art of Love. All Stories for Bedtime ticket holders will also be delighted by a refreshing Hendrick's Gin cocktail on arrival. For more information and to purchase tickets click here. The series is a three-way partnership between the Criterion Theatre, The Reader Organisation , a pioneer of reader development and social change, and Vintage Classics