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[05 Mar 12] :: New 2012 Screening Programme online

Click here to view the new screening programme for March-October 2012.

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 11th October - Win Win - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.

While wary of classification in general, filmmakers and cinephiles resist associations to the “sports movie” the most. The athlete’s journey to the final match, the win- or lose-all moment, is often [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 4th October - Le Plaisir - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.

Le Plaisir

by Fernando F. Croce on November 3, 2005

As with Jean Renoir's "Everyone has their reasons," it's easy to misread Max Ophüls's famous maxim ("Life is [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 27th September - Le Silence de la Mer - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.

Le Silence de la Mer
The Silence of the Sea

by Jack Eason
27 May 2011

While Jean-Pierre Melville is best remembered for razor-sharp, existential crime [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 20th September - Casque D'Or - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.

CASQUE D'OR
(Jacques Becker, France, 1952) 96 minutes

Love comes in all shapes and sizes. There is pure love, coming openly and cleanly from deep inside the heart. There is the [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: 36th Nelson New Zealand International Film Festival

Nelson Dates: August 29th to September 16th

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 23rd August - Two Great Sheep - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.

Two Great Sheep

"In this mild-mannered satire of hierarchal life in rural China, a dutiful peasant and his wife are rewarded for their generosity to the community by being [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 16th August - KAMRAN SHIRDEL RETROSPECTVE - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.

This retrospective features five short films from Kamran Shirdel one of the pioneers of the social-documentary in Iranian cinema.

Kamran Shirdel (born in 1939) studied architecture, [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 9th August - Addicted to Love - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.

ADDICTED TO LOVE
Lao na
(Lui Hao, China, 2010) 112 minutes

Old Pop, a retired factory worker, lives in a former industrial area of Beijing with his extended family. He likes [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 2nd August - Jerichow - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.

Jerichow
The new man always rings twice

In a district where unemployment and poverty are common, it may not seem like wealth to own a snack shop. But if you own a string of them, [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 26th July - Buddha's Lost Children - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.

Buddha's Lost Children

“An exquisite and tranquil documentary about a Thai monk and the homeless boys to whom he gives a brand new life, Buddha's Lost Children is richly affecting on [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 19th July - The Cat's Meow - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.

The Cat's Meow

“Elegant, funny and unexpectedly touching, this whodunit about a murder aboard the yacht of William Randolph Hearst represents a bracing comeback for Peter Bogdanovich. [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 12th July - LIVE CINEMA! - Starring Buster Keaton and Gabor Tolnay ! -Suter Theatre - 6p.m.

Our annual silent film has been a highlight of the season for the last twelve years. Silent films were never really silent -in all cinemas creative musicians, usually pianists, provided an [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 5th July - Illustrious Energy - STATE CINEMA - 6p.m.

Note: STATE CINEMA THIS WEEK

Illustrious Energy

Finest film no-one has seen
By Shane Gilchrist
Created 06/08/11 ODT

Illustrious Energy might highlight a [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 28th June - Ae fond kiss - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.

Ae fond kiss

Director Ken Loach (Sweet Sixteen) turns his magnifying glass of social consciousness toward an examination of romance amidst clashing cultures. Imagine My Big Fat Greek [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 21st June - Farewell - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.

Farewell
The war that came in from the cold
Release Date: 2010
by Jim Emerson
Editor, RogerEbert.com / Jul 28, 2010
Christian Carion's “Farewell” (that was the French [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 14th June - Monsieur Batignole - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.

Monsieur Batignole (2002)

Gerard Jugnot’s Monsieur Batignole is described as a comedy. Europeans, it seems, are able to find humour in the wartime world of collaborators and Jewish [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 7th June - Plug and Pray - Suter Theatre - 6p.m

Plug & Pray

The creation of artificial intelligence was a fantastical idea that captured the minds of scientists (and science fiction writers) from the very start of the [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 31st May - Woodenhead - Suter Theatre - 6p.m

Woodenhead
Could this be New Zealand? Gert, “an innocent dump hand”, is ordered by the dump owner (an imperious Warwick Broadhead) to deliver his beautiful mute daughter, Princess Plum, to [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 24th May - La Strada - Suter Theatre - 6p.m

La Strada

Federico Fellini's "La Strada" (1954) tells a fable that is simple by his later standards, but contains many of the obsessive visual trademarks that he would return [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 17th May - Walkabout - Suter Theatre - 6p.m

Walkabout
Release Date: 1971
Roger Ebert / Apr 13, 1997
Is "Walkabout" only about what it seems to be about? Is it a parable about noble savages and the crushed spirits [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 10th May - Gomorra(h) - Suter Theatre - 6p.m

Gomorrah
The all-Italian Gomorrah is a chilling and unromantic exposé of the Camorra and its deadly hold on Neapolitan society
The expression 'See Naples and die' is often attributed to [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 3rd May - The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Suter Theatre - 6p.m

THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS (IL GIARDINO DEI FINZI-CONTINI)
A film review by Steve Rhodes

This is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the widely praised THE GARDEN OF THE [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 26th April - Wake in Fright - Suter Theatre - 6p.m

WAKE IN FRIGHT
SYNOPSIS:
In 60s Australia, John Grant (Gary Bond), is an Education Department bonded teacher at a tiny outback school. Making his way to Sydney for the holidays, John [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 19th April - The Asphalt Jungle - Suter Theatre - 6p.m

The Asphalt Jungle (MGM, 1950) directed by John Huston, based on the novel by W.R. Burnett.
Main cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Sam Jaffe, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Marc Lawrence, [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 12th April - Mildred Pierce - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.

MILDRED PIERCE" (1945) Review

I have been a fan of the 1945 movie, "MILDRED PIERCE" for years. Ever since the age of twelve. But many years have passed since I felt the urge [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 5th April - The Postman Always Rings Twice - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.

This movie has been designated a Critic's Pick by the film reviewers of The Times.
May 3, 1946
THE SCREEN; 'The Postman Always Rings Twice,' With Lana Turner in a Star Role, Makes Its [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 29th March - The Consequences of Love- Suter Theatre - 6p.m.

THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE
(Le Consequenze Dell'Amore)
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Italy. 2004.
Reviewed by Jamie Garwood and Patrick Bliss
This slow burn of a film to [...continue]

[26 Feb 12] :: Thursday 22nd March - A Mao e a Luva -The Story of a Book Trafficker - 6p.m.

A Mao e a Luva – The Story of a Book Trafficker

Followed by Nelson Film Society AGM

"A Mao e a Luva is the book that inspired protagonist Ricardo Gomes Ferraz to [...continue]

[01 Mar 11] :: New Screening Programme 2012

We've uploaded our new screening programme for 2012. Have a look here.