Friday January 24 to Thursday January 30, 2014

The Royal Opera House Live Cinema Season gets off to a dramatic start with the return of Puccini’s musically sublime final opera Turandot – a tale of disguised identities, riddles, ritual executions and powerful, triumphant love.

6 OSCAR NOMINATIONS INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, DIRECTOR & ACTOR

9 OSCAR NOMINATIONS INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, DIRECTOR & ACTOR

Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave stars Chiwetel Ejifor as Solomon Northup, a free black man in 1840s America. He makes his living as a fiddle player, and his wife is a teacher.

Opening night afterparty at the Jane Bond, in conjunction with Orange Monkey Music - Limited $20 tickets via Evenbrite get you admission to the movie, plus a drink at the after party.

Wadjda, played by Waad Mohammed, is a precocious young Saudi girl from a lower-middle-class family in Riyadh; her spirit and tenacity are considered problematic by her school teachers, while Wadjda herself is perplexed by the Kingdom’s restrictive culture towards women. Much as women are not allowed to drive cars, girls – Wadjda leans – cannot ride bikes.

“The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, are children of movie technique. In their first two movies, Blood Simple and Raising Arizona, they executed stylistic leaps and somersaults like young circus tumblers.  Now, in Miller's Crossing, producer/writer Ethan and director/writer Joel have come of inevitable age. Their routine's become more than just twists and turns.

Director Lee Daniels (Precious) teams up with Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Danny Strong to tell the remarkable story of White House butler Eugene Allen (played by Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker), who served eight U.S. presidents over the course of 30 years, and witnessed sweeping social change during his three decades of service at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.