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The Visitor (M)
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Director: Thomas McCarthy
113 minutes |
Sixty-two-year-old Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins, SIX FEET UNDER) is sleep walking through his life. Having lost his passion for teaching and writing, he fills the void by unsuccessfully trying to learn to play classical piano. When his college sends him to Manhattan to attend a conference, Walkter is surprised to find a young couple has taken up residence in his apartment. Victims of a real estate scam, Tarket (Haaz Sleiman, 24), a Syrian man, and Zanab, his Senegalese girlfriend, have nowhere else to go. In the first of a series of tests of the heart, Walter reluctantly allows the couple to stay with him. Through the newfound connections with three virtual strangers, Walter is awakened to a new world and a new life. |
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Redbelt (M)
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Director: David Mamet (State & Main)
109 mins |
Set in the Los Angeles martial arts underworld - a place inhabited by bouncers, cagefighters, cops and special forces types - REDBELT is the story of Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejofor), a Jiu-Jitsu teacher who has avoided the prize fighting circuit, choosing instead to pursue an honourable life by operating a self-defense studio with a samurai’s code.
Terry and his wife Sondra (Alice Braga), struggle to keep the business running to make ends meet. An accident on a dark, rainy night at the Academy between an off duty officer (Maz Martini) and a distraught lawyer (Emily Moritimer) puts in motion a series of events that will change Terry’s life dramatically, introducing him to a world of promoters (Ricky Jay, Joe Mantegna) and movie star Chet Frank (Tim Allen). Faced with this, in order to pay off his debuts and regain his honour, Terry must step into this ring for the first time in his life. |
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Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden? (M)
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Dir: Morgan Spurlock
100mins |
Director Morgan Spurlock returns with an new mission to follow-up his smash-hit SUPER SIZE ME: to find the world’s most wanted man.
Frustrated by the fact that the US secret service has failed to capture Osama Bin Laden during the War On Terror, Morgan Spurlock sets off to see if his brand of down-home charm is able to uncover the al Qaeda leader’s whereabouts. Travelling to numerous countries including Saudi Arabia, Israel and Iraq, Spurlock lifts the lid off several societies and ways of life, almost all of which share both stark differences and similarities to our own. He interviews politicians, locals, students and even those connected with the Terrorist in a bid to not only get his man but to also break down the many cultural barriers between the Middle East and the West. |
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Female Agents (MA15+)
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Director: Jean-Paul Salome (GOODNIGHT)
French dialogue with English subtitles |
Based on true events, true stories and real heroines, FEMALE AGENTS is a powerful rendition of the challenges that faced female World War II Resistance fighters who were constantly in the shadow of men and accorded little importance for the roles they played in a violent and horrific war.
A member of the French Resistance, Louise (Sophie Marceau) flees to London after her husband's summary execution. She is recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), an intelligence and sabotage service overseen by Churchill himself. She is immediately assigned to an urgent mission: the rescue of a British agent who has fallen into German hands while preparing for D-Day on the Normandy beached. The man hasn’t talked yet, but there is no time to lose. Louise must first put together an all-female commando unit. She will stop at nothing to get exactly the right women for the mission’s special requirements, even if it means lying, blackmailing or securing pardons for serving prisoners.
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You, The Living (M)
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Director Roy Andersson
104 minutes |
Made up of perfectly crafted vignettes, YOU, THE LIVING is a hilarious and occasionally moving film about the absurdities of life.
Directed by Cannes Jury Prize winner Roy Andersson (Songs From The Second Floor), the film provides a window into the lives of numerous very different couples and individuals through a series of static tableaux that play like an ode to the mundanity of human existence. Wonderfully realized, YOU, THE LIVING bursts forth from its forlorn depression with the occasional musical moment. Moving in and out of homes, bars, traffic snarls and public spaces, people’s ridiculous behaviour and statements are made plainly apparent – to occasionally laugh-out-loud results. |
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And When Did You Lat See Your Father? (M)
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Director: Anand Tucker (SHOPGIRL, HILLARY & JACKIE)
109mins
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AND WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOU FATHER? is from Blake Morrison's moving and candid memoir of his father in the weeks leading up to his death. When Arthur (Jim Broadbent) is diagnosed with terminal cancer he has only a few weeks left. Hi son Blake (Colin Firth) travels to Yorkshire to stay with his mother in the village where he grew up, visiting his father at the hospital where, as a doctor, he had spent so much time with his own patients. As his father's condition worsens, Morrison contemplates their shared experiences, the intimacies and the irritations of their relationship. A moving drama about the importance of family, Tucker’s new film deftly shifts between the melancholy and lighter sides of family. |
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The Bank Job (MA15+)
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Director: Roger Donaldson (THE RECRUIT)
112 mins
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In September 1971, thieves tunneled into the vault of a bank in London's Baker street and looted safe deposit boxes of cash and jewellery worth millions and millions of pounds. Nine of it was recovered, nobody was ever arrested. The robbery made headline for a few days and then disappeared – the result of a UK Government ‘D’ Notice, gagging the press. This film reveals what was hidden in those boxes. The story involves murder, corruption and a sex scandal with links to the royal family – a story in which the thieves were the most innocent people involved. |
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Married Life (M)
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Director: Ira Sachs
90mins
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Suspense, star-crossed romance & comedy of manners - an unconventional human drama about the irresistible power & utter madness of love. Hitcock homage set in the 1940s. Stars Patricia Clarkson, Pierce Brosnan, AmyMcAdams & Chris Cooper who plots to kills his wife b/c he loves her 2 much to let her suffer when he leaves her. |
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THE SAVAGES (M)
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Director: Tamara Jenkins
116mins
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Laura Linney was nominated for an Oscar for her lead performance in THE SAVAGES. Along with a best original screenplay Oscar nomination, the film also stars Philip Seymour Hoffman in an irreverent look at family, love and mortality. Adult siblings plucked from their everyday, self-centered lives to care for estranged elderly parent. |
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Behind one of the most iconic images of the last century is the incredible true story of an unsung Aussie hero, brought to the big screen in SALUTE. A timely journey back to the 1968 Mexico Olympics to examine whas has now become one of the most famous Olympic moments in history.
Ten days before the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, police and military shot student demonstrators in what became known as the Tlatelolco Massacre. This was the local context in which Australian 200m silver-medalist Peter Norman would take to the podium wearing a badge in support of the Human Rights movement. When the American anthem played, Gold and Bronze medallists John Carlos and Tommie Smith would famously deliver the Black Power salute. The image of the three athletes would become one of the most iconic in a year of global unrest, and would change the course of each man's life. |
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UP THE YANGTZE (M)
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Director: Yung Chang
93mins
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The Three Gorges Dam, gargantuan and hotly contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle, provides the epic and unsettling backdrop for UP THE YANGTZE, a dramatic and disquieting feature documentary on life inside the 21st century Chinese dream. Stunningly photographed and beautifully composed, UP THE YANGTZE juxtaposes the poignant and sharply observed details of a young woman’s story against the monumental and ominous forces at work all around her. |
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THE SQUARE (MA15+)
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Director: Nash Edgerton (SPIDER)
127minutes
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The story of a man who contrives a simple plan in order to run away with his mistress, THE SQUARE is a slow-burning thriller in the same vein as Australian classics ‘Chopper’ and ‘Two Hands’. Featuring an amazing cast of local talent, THE SQUARE is world-class filmmaking by a fresh new talent |
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Happy Go Lucky (M)
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Director: Mike Leigh (SECRETS AND LIES)
128 minutes
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Poppy (Sally Hawkins, THE PAINTED VEIL) is an irrepressibly cheerful primary school teacher who won’t let anyone or anything get her down. Even when her bicycle, which she so happily rides through the busy streets of London is stolen, her first thought is only: “I didn’t even get a chance to say goodbye.”
Living with her flatmate Zoe, Poppy has a gift for making the most of life. Determined to learn to drive, she finds herself matched with Scott (Eddie Marsan, THE ILLUSIONIST), an uptight driving instructor who is everything she is not. From Director Mike Leigh (VERA DRAKE), HAPPY GO LUCKY is a laugh-out-loud comedy about having fun, looking for love and getting on with life. |
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The Band's Visit (M)
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Director: Eran Kolirin
English, Arabic and Hebrew dialogue with English subtitles
100mins
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The two awards won at the 2007 European Film Awards, brought THE BAND'S VISIT total tally of international film awards to an impressive twenty. The film has garnered rave reviews from critics and audiences alike from around the world with Variety calling it 'warm and delightful', The Hollywood Reporter hailing it as 'radiant and wise' and Time Out declaring it 'immensely charming'.
Eran Kolirin's charismatic debut feature film, which premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film festival and received the prestigious Un Certain Regard award, tells the story of an Egyptian police band that gets lost on its way to a music festival in Israel and end up stranded in a remote village.
Once, not long ago, a small Egyptian police band arrived in Israel. They came to play at an initiation ceremony but, due to bureaucracy, bad luck, or for whatever reason, they were left stranded at the airport. They tried to manage on their own, only to find themselves in a desolate, almost forgotten, small Israeli town, somewhere in the heart of the desert. A lost band in a lost town. Not many people remember this. It wasn't that important. |
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Mongol (MA15+)
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Director: Sergai Bodrov
Mongolian dialogue with English subtitles
120mins
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Award-winning Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov illuminates the life and legend of Genghis Khan in his stunning historical epic, MONGOL. Based on leading historical accounts and a nominee for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2008 Academy Awards, MONGOL delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of the ruler who was born as Temudgin in 1162. As it follows Temudgin from his perilous childhood to the battle that sealed his destiny, the film paints a multidimensional portrait of the future conqueror, revealing him not as the evil brute of legend, but as an inspiring, fearless and visionary leader. MONGOL shows us the making of an extraordinary man, and the foundation on which so much of his greatness rested: his relationship with his wife, Borte, his lifelong love and most trusted advisor.
Filmed in the very lands that gave birth to Genghis Khan, MONGOL transports us back to a distant and exotic period in world history; to a nomad's landscape of endless space, climatic extremes and ever-present danger. In a performance of powerful stillness and subtlety, celebrated young Japanese actor Asano Tadanobu (ZATOICHI) captures the inner fire that enabled a hunted boy to become a legendary conqueror. Masterfully blending action and emotion against some of the most arresting terrain on earth, Bodrov delivers an exciting and awe-inspiring tale of survival and triumph, and a love story for the ages. |
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Shine A Light (M)
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Director: Martin Scorsese (THE DEPARTED)
132mins
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It was Martin Scorsese who brought the concert picture alive with THE LAST WALTZ (1978) which documented the final performance of The Band. Since then many directors have attempted to match both his formula and concept however few have come close. With Scorsese’s latest concert film SHINE A LIGHT he remains the undisputed master.
Filmed at the famed Beacon Theatre in New York City in Fall 2006, Scorsese assembled a legendary team of cinematographers to capture the raw energy of the legendary band to name a few. Regardless of whether you are a Rolling Stones fan or not, the undeniable talent, energy and unbeatable combination of The Stones and Scorsese in SHINE A LIGHT will have you dancing in the isles and wanting more. |
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Lars And The Real Girl (PG)
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Director: Craig Gillespie (MR. WOODCOCK)
116mins
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LARS AND THE REAL GIRL is an emotional, comical, transformative journey written by Six Feet Under scribe, 2008 Oscar-Nominee Nancy Oliver.
When Lars Lindstrom (Ryan Gosling, HALF NELSON) introduces his brother Gus (Paul Schneider) and sister-in-law Karin (Emily Mortimer, PARIS J’ TAIME) to his new friend Bianca, who he met on the internet, their immediate response is shock and disbelief. Has Lars, the sweet, socially challenged introvert gone completely mad— they meet Bianca and see a doll, but Lars sees a friend. Bianca isn’t a real woman at all but a Real Doll, how will they explain this to the residents of the sleepy Midwestern town they’ve grown up in and currently reside? Karin and Gus consult the town’s family physician, Dr. Dagmar Berman (Patricia Clarkson), who advises them to go along with it. Lars is experiencing a delusion and in order to help him through this crisis, they and the townsfolk need to get onboard. After some persuasion and appeal to their love and concern for Lars, Gus and Karin enlist their cooperation. Soon Bianca is attending church, modeling at the local dress shop, volunteering at the hospital and accompanying Lars to his first ever social events. Surprisingly to those around her, Bianca weaves her way into the hearts of everyone she meets, filling voids they didn’t know they had. |
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The action comedy GET SMART sends Control agent Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell, THE OFFICE) on his most dangerous and important mission: to thwart the latest plot for world domination by the evil crime syndicate know as Kaos. It also happens to be his very first mission. |
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