Our March Opening consists of four
films:
Mini Opening Festival – Screens first 4 Tuesdays in
March
2nd Mar The Blue Angel, Von Sternberg (
The film that launched one of the most famous director / star partnerships
in the cinema. Dietrich, star of the sleaziest nightclub in
screen history.
9th Mar
Waydowntown, Gary
Burns (Canada 2000)
A group of young employees bet a
month's salary, winner take all, on who can last the longest without going
outside.
16th Mar Magik & Rose, Vanessa Alexander
(NZ)
23rd Mar A programme of Queenstown home movies. A slice of Queenstown’s
history on 16mm. Some views of Queenstown in the 60’s and images from
the Coronation. Dress in period and enjoy. Non-members welcome with gold coin
donation.
Main Programme – Screens every second Tuesday
from April
6th Apr Policewoman,
20th Apr Grill
Point, Dresen (Germany 2002) Chris and Ellen
launch an affair. It is quickly discovered. Suddenly, no one is complaining
about a dull life. The shock of this affair causes each character to examine
the stagnation of his or her existence. Reactions run in extremes…
4th May Days of
Heaven, Malick (
18th May The Son, Dardenne
(Belgium/France2002)
Just out of prison for killing
Gourmet's son in a robbery five years ago, Gourmet appears to be making the
extraordinary gesture of taking the boy into his pastoral care without
revealing the truth to the authorities or to the boy himself.
.1st Jun Chimes at
15th Jun The
Franc A poor musician, finds some money
and is immediately tackled by a dwarf who forces him to buy a lottery ticket.
The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun Feisty
and fearless Sili sets out to earn a living hawking
the newspaper ‘Le Soleil’ (‘The Sun’), the only girl
in a sea of boys.
29th Jun The Law, (
13th Jul Xala, Ousmane Sembene (
A comic satire and
a deadly accurate polemic against the black bourgeoisie of
27th Jul Woman
of the Dunes, Teshigahara (Japan 1964) The
extraordinary visual appeal of the film lies in the fascinating textures it
conjures up out of sand, sea and human flesh, and in the pictorially striking
and emotionally suggestive patterns of contrasts, and also of weirdly
disturbing resemblances, it creates.
10th Aug Rock
Hudson’s Home Movies (1992) Famously closeted Rock Hudson returns from
death (and 'outing') to explain what was really going on in all those
frothy comedies with Doris Day.
+ Bruce and His Things
24th Aug Tokyo Story, Ozu
(
7th Sep Blowup,
Antonioni
(
21st
Sep The Lady Eve, Sturges (
5th Oct Animals, Philibert (France1995) For
30 years the Zoology Hall of the
19th Oct To be and to have, (France 2002) In a one-room schoolhouse in rural France,
Georges Lopez, a handsome, slightly monkish teacher in his late middle years,
works with his pupils, who number less than a dozen and range from kindergartners
to preteens.
2nd Nov Sullivan’s Travels, Sturges
(USA) A film that movingly searches the grim depths of poverty, prisons, and
chain gangs; and a film that is, in the end, a hilarious exposé of its own
well-established concern. While Sullivan's
Travels prefigures Woody Allen and the Coen
Brothers, it remains unique in American cinema.
16th Nov Intimate Strangers Berliner (
Nobody’s Business Berliner (
30th
Nov Blues
According to Lightning
Marc and Anne Life
and culture of
Yum Yum Yum Vibrancy of Cajun and Creole cuisine
14th Dec Flight of the Albatross, Werner Mayer (NZ1996)
1997:
A German
teenager comes to