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This American Life
Saturday May 26 : 1.00pm
Sunday May 27 : 1.00pm
Saturday June 2: 1.45pm
Sunday June 3: 1.45pm
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A Captured Live stage show extravaganza! Broadcast on more than 500 stations to 1.8 million listeners worldwide, the award-winning public radio show, This American Life, now comes to the big screen. The show will perform an episode on stage at the Skirball Centre for the Performing Arts in New York and captured live. A celebration of performance, music, dance, comedy and video, the show will feature stories by Ira Glass; writer David Rakoff; comic Tig Notaro; Snap Judgment host Glynn Washington; plus live music by OK Go; a new short film by Mike Birbiglia, dance by Monica Bill Barnes & Company, animation, projected illustration and much more. |
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Polisse (CTC)
Thursday June 14 : 6.30pm
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Compelling and occasionally a little disturbing, Polisse follows the trials of Paris's Juvenile Protection Unit, as they are faced on a daily basis with the best and worst of human behaviour, taking the knocks as they come, whatever the cost to their personal lives. This gripping feature from actor-filmmaker Maïwenn (All About Actresses, Forgive Me) cements her talent as a director, conveying the raw emotional strain of the unit's work with tragic realism. Join her as she discusses her new film (which has been compared to The Wire) with The Herald Sun’s Neala Johnson. |
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Text Classics -
Page to Picture Series
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Cinema Nova and Text Publishing present a series of discussions on the book to film adaptation of selected novels featured in the newly released Text Classics series. Join us to reminisce on these classics of page and screen, together with our panel members from the film and publishing industries. |
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Careful, He Might
Hear You (PG)
110 min
Wednesday June 6: 6.45pm
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It’s the Great Depression. Six-year-old PS is an orphan. He lives in Sydney with his Aunt Lila. But all that is about to change. Now his Aunt Vanessa has decided to take proper care of him.
Careful, He Might Hear You is one of the most extraordinary portraits of childhood in Australian fiction. The 1983 film starring Wendy Hughes and Robyn Nevin won 8 AFI awards and was recently featured as a classic film on At the Movies (ABC TV). |
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They're a Weird Mob (G)
112 min
Wednesday July 4: 6.45pm
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Just off the boat from Italy—the north—Nino Culotta arrives in Sydney. He thought he spoke English but he’s never heard anything like the language these Australians are speaking. They’re a Weird Mob is an hilarious snapshot of the immigrant experience in Menzies-era Australia, by a writer with a brilliant ear for the Australian way with words. The film starred some early Australian stars including Chips Rafferty and John Meillon, made in 1966.
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Wake in Fright (M)
114 min
Wednesday August 1: 6.45pm
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Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant’s journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers. Wake in Fright was made into a film in 1971, arguably the greatest film ever made in Australia. It starred Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, and Jack Thompson in his first screen role. Lost for many years, the restored film was re-released to acclaim in 2009. |
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My Brilliant Career (G)
100 min
Wednesday September 5: 6.45pm
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Written with all the high spirits of youth, My Brilliant Career is the unforgettable tale of Sybylla Melvin, a headstrong country girl—passionate, endearing, stubborn, honest—and her fraught journey from rags to riches to rags. The 1979 film stars Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Julia Blake & Wendy Hughes. |
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Stiff (M)
93 min
Wednesday October 3: 6.45pm
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The fiddle at the Pacific Pastoral meat-packing works was a nice little earner for all concerned until Herb Gardiner reported finding a body in number 3 chiller. An accident, of course, but just the excuse a devious political operator might grab to stir up trouble with the unions. Enter Murray Whelan, minder, fixer and general dogsbody for the Minister of Industry. Between playing of party factions and pursuing the kohl-eyed Ayisha, it’s all in a day’s work for Murray to hose down the situation at Pacific Pastoral. The acclaimed 2004 TV series starred David Wenham, Sam Neill, Mick Molloy and Deborah Kennedy, directed by John Clarke. |
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Roméo et juliet
Saturday June 16: 11.00am
Sunday June 17: 11.00am
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Performed by l’Opéra National de Paris.
Symphonie Dramatique, Op. 17 (1839).
Text by Emile Deschamps after William Shakespeare.
The legend of the martyred lovers of Verona, immortalised by Shakespeare, is revisited for the Paris Opera Ballet by one of the key figures of contemporary dance, Sasha Waltz. To Berlioz’s dramatic symphony, combining music, song and dance, the choreographer evokes all the emotion inherent in this tragic love story.
Music: Hector Berlioz
Running time: approximately 4 hours |
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Raymonda
Saturday July 21: 11.00am
Sunday July 22: 11.00am
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Performed by the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia
Ballet in 3 acts.
Founded in 1898 at the Mariinsky Theatre, the last ‘grand ballet of the 19th century, Raymonda is a masterpiece which is symbolic of a key period for classical ballet. Although the collaboration between Marius Petipa and Alexander Glazunov was difficult (Petipa was by then an experienced choreographer whilst Glazunov was a novice at creating music for ballet), Raymonda became an overnight success in Russia. This new choreographic version from Yuri Grigorovich dates back from 2003.
Music: Alexander Glazunov.
Running time: approximately 4 hours (with 2 intermissions) |
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Cinema
Nova presents the new season direct from London’s
prestigious National Theatre,
captured live in high definition.
Tickets: $25 full / $23 concession
& members / $15 child
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Frankenstein
Encores
VERSION 1
(Jonny Lee Miller as Victor and Benedict Cumberbatch as Creature)
Saturday June 9 - 1.00pm
Sunday June 10 - 1.00pm
VERSION 2
(Benedict Cumberbatch as Victor and Jonny Lee Miller as Creature)
Saturday June 23 - 1.00pm
Sunday June 24 - 1.00pm
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Due to unprecedented popular demand, Cinema Nova presents encore screenings of Danny Boyle's award-winning National Theatre production: Frankenstein.
Oscar-winner Danny Boyle (127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire) returned to his theatre roots to direct this visionary adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic with two of the UK’s hottest stars, Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting). Cumberbatch and Miller alternate the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature for this special two-part presentation. This production has won has won a host of awards including Best Actor at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards and Critics Circle Theatre Awards and Best Director at the What’s on Stage Awards.
Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal. Scientific responsibility, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil are embedded within this thrilling classic gothic tale.
“This is a memorable production and will doubtless be spoken of for years to come.” Daily Mail
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One Man Two Guvnors
Encores
Saturday July 7 - 1.00pm
Sunday July 8 - 1.00pm
2 hours 45 minutes (including one interval)
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Due to unprecedented popular demand, Cinema Nova presents encore screenings of the National Theatre’s: One Man Two Guvnors.
Based on The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni with songs by Grant Olding, Richard Bean’s award-winning show is a glorious celebration of British comedy – a unique, laugh-out-loud mix of satire, song, slapstick and glittering one-liners. Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe. But Roscoe is really Rachel, posing as her own dead brother – who’s been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers. Francis sports the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a job with one Stanley Stubbers – but to prevent discovery he must keep his two guvnors apart. Winner of a Brit Award and What’s on Stage award. |
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The Last of the Haussmans
Saturday Oct 27 - 1.00pm
Sunday Oct 28 - 1.00pm
Approx 3hours (with two intervals)
Tickets on sale soon
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A new play by Stephen Beresford
Julie Walters plays Judy Haussman, with Rory Kinnear and Helen McCrory as her children, in this blackly-funny family drama. |
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Timon of Athens
Saturday Nov 24 - 1.00pm
Sunday Nov 25 - 1.00pm
Approx 3hours (with two intervals)
Tickets on sale soon
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By William Shakespeare
Simon Russell Beale takes the title role in Shakespeare’s fable of consumption, debt and ruin. |
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