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| [15 Jul 08] :: LIVE CINEMA! SAFETY LAST - Thursday 24th July, Suter Cinema - 6p.m. |
LIVE CINEMA! Our annual not so silent movie!
Featuring Harold Lloyd, and the keyboard magic of Gábor Tolnay.
Open to non-members
Safety Last
The third genius of [...continue] |
| [15 Jul 08] :: MY BROTHER'S WEDDING -Thursday 17th July, Suter Cinema - 6p.m. |
My Brother's Wedding
Joy and pain: Charles Burnett's My Brother's Wedding
By Andrew Chan
Who would deny that the revival of Charles Burnett's career has been the major film [...continue] |
| [29 Jun 08] :: THE GLASS SHIELD -Thursday 10th July, Suter Cinema - 6p.m. |
| Charles Burnett (To Sleep with Anger) may attempt too much with his police-corruption drama The Glass Shield, but the film's ambition makes Burnett's occasional overstatement easy to forgive. [...continue] |
| [29 Jun 08] :: KILLER of SHEEP -Thursday 3rd July, Suter Cinema - 6p.m. |
L.A. Story
Charles Burnett's much revered, rarely seen South Central-set film finally gets its theatrical due
There are first films like Citizen Kane or Breathless, [...continue] |
| [22 Jun 08] :: Charles Burnett |
| Charles Burnett directs the next 3 films in our programme. The following link gives a good background to this Black American [...continue] |
| [17 Jun 08] :: THE PASSENGER -Thursday 26th June, Suter Cinema - 6p.m. |
Antonioni's The Passenger: Dead End Journey
I’ve always loved the elusively intricate films of the Italian director, Michelangelo Antonioni (e.g., L’Eclisse, Red Desert) and seen them [...continue] |
| [17 Jun 08] :: ZABRISKIE POINT -Thursday 19th June, Suter Cinema - 6p.m. |
| During the 1960s, Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni was the darling of the movie critics. His critically-supported art house cred was so powerful that MGM signed him for a three-picture [...continue] |
| [04 Jun 08] :: MEMORY AND DESIRE -Thursday 12th June, Suter Cinema - 6p.m. |
This film replaces "illustrious Energy" which is not available.
With: Yuri Kinugawa (Sayo), Eugene Nomura (Keiji), Yoko Narahashi (Mrs Nakajima), Joel Tobeck (Nod), Shiori [...continue] |
| [27 Apr 08] :: ZELARY -Thursday 5th June, Suter Cinema - 6p.m. |
Ondrej Trojan,2003,Czech/Austria/Slovakia,150min
Managing to be at once epic and intimate, "Zelary" matches a resilient urban woman against a compassionate rural man in the [...continue] |
| [27 Apr 08] :: The Young Girls of Rochefort -Les Demoiselles de Rochefort- Thursday 29th May, Suter Cinema - 6p.m. |
Jacques Demy, France, 1966, 120 minutes
When my best friend and I were both lonely and single and in our 20s, we used to wonder aloud what it would be like to find the perfect [...continue] |
| [27 Apr 08] :: Jacquot de Nantes - Thursday 22nd May, Suter Cinema - 6p.m. |
Agnes Varda, France, 1991, 118 minutes
The opening credits to Jacquot de Nantes announce that this dramatisation of French auteur, Jacques Demy's childhood and adolescence is “une [...continue] |
| [27 Apr 08] :: Sehnsucht ( Longing) - Thursday 15th May, Suter Cinema - 6p.m. |
Longing (2006) 88 mins
Director: Valeska Grisebach
Producer: Peter Rommel
Open to the Public
After the (roughly) 7 million films concerning male unfaithfulness [...continue] |
| [27 Apr 08] :: LOLA - Thursday 8th May, Suter Cinema - 6p.m. |
Lola
Jacques Demy, France/Italy, 1960, 85 minutes
In an time when gunmen walk on ceilings, when men morph into monsters before our eyes, when future governors of California are shorn [...continue] |
| [27 Apr 08] :: Peau d'âne (Donkey Skin) - Thursday 1st May, Suter Cinema - 6p.m. |
Koch Lorber Films presents a film written and directed by Jacques Demy, based on a story by Charles Perrault. Running time: 100 minutes.
"Donkey Skin" is told with the [...continue] |
| [16 Apr 08] :: Gespenster (Ghosts)- Thursday 24th April, Suter Cinema - 6p.m. |
Gespenster
Christian Petzold, Ger/Fr, 2005, 85 min,35mm,col
Presented with the support of the Goethe Institut, Wellington
Non-Members welcome
The filmmaker [...continue] |
| [10 Apr 08] :: Pool of Princesses- Thursday 17th April, Suter Cinema - 6p.m. |
POOL OF PRINCESSES
(Bettina Blumner, Germany, 2007) 90 minutes
A film about three teenagers - Klara, Mina and Tanutscha - from the Berlin district of Kreuzberg. The trio have [...continue] |
| [03 Apr 08] :: Requiem- Thursday 10th April, Suter Cinema - 6p.m. |
Hans-Christian Schmid, Germany, 2006, 92 minutes
A Mind in Torment Faces a Terrible Decline
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Like “The Exorcism of Emily Rose,” the 2005 [...continue] |
| [27 Mar 08] :: Bay of Angels- Thursday 3rd April, Suter Cinema - 6p.m. |
(Jacques Demy, France, 1962) 89 minutes
Jacques Demy followed his first full length-film, Lola (1961) with this comparatively anodyne tale of love and obsession in the gambling halls [...continue] |
| [11 Mar 08] :: Film; A New Wave Auteur Without the Rough Edges |
| YOU have charm, you have grace, you have beauty,'' says an awestruck American sailor to the title character (played by Anouk Aimée) of Jacques Demy's 1961 film ''Lola,'' and those words are as true [...continue] |
| [08 Mar 08] :: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Thursday 27th March, Suter Cinema - 6p.m. |
Welcome to our first screening for 2008. Come a little earlier - there can often be a delay as folk sign up for the year, and as they enjoy a glass of wine or juice before the screening.
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