Nelson Film Society

Welcome to the Nelson Film Society!

Quality alternative entertainment

Nelson Film Society is pleased to be able to bring you another year of first class films from around the world. Our programme will feature works by the acclaimed cinema-artist Lech Majewski of Poland (and America) who will be present to introduce his films in a special address at the Suter Art Gallery. The assistance of the Goethe Institut has made available four German films from the East to mark the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Then, with the assistance of the French Embassy, we have three more by their great auteurs.

Support from the New Zealand Film Commission will allow us to screen a seminal New Zealand feature film – The Footstep Man together with the annual collection of short films. Finally, following the success of our end-of-season Korean movie last year, we have programmed three more. And, once again, we will present 'Live Cinema' from the silent era supported by Gabor Tolnay on the piano!

News

[23 Jun 09] :: Nackt unter Wölfen - Thursday 23rd July - Suter - 6p.m.

Nackt unter Wölfen (Naked Among Wolves)
1963, East Germany (DEFA), b/w, 124 min. Feature
Director: Frank Beyer

Naked Among Wolves is based on a true story memorialized in a [...continue]

[23 Jun 09] :: Her Third - Thursday 16th July - Suter - 6p.m.

HER THIRD
Der Dritte
(Egon Gunther, East Germany, 1972) 107 minutes

Her Third caused quite a stir when it was released in 1972. Here was a film about an unmarried woman [...continue]

[23 Jun 09] :: The Navigators - Thursday 9th July - Suter - 6p.m.

THE NAVIGATORS (Ken Loach, 2001)
By Dennis Grunes

A robust, humane comedy highly reminiscent of his earlier Riff Raff (1991), The Navigators may be Ken Loach’s first [...continue]

[14 Jun 09] :: I Was Nineteen - Thursday 2nd July - STATE Cinema - Circa 6p.m.

I WAS NINETEEN (Konrad Wolf, 1967)
By grunes
“It is the destiny of Germans to unite the good of all peoples.”
— eighteenth-century German philosopher Immanuel [...continue]

[14 Jun 09] :: The Architects - Thursday 25th June - Suter - 6p.m.

The Architects [GDR 1990]
Die Architekten
Director: P. Kahane
Cinematographers: A. Köfer, C. Prochnow
Public Door Sales Available
Filmed during the end of 1989, at the [...continue]

[06 Mar 09] :: Mala Noche- Thursday 18th June - Definitely the SUTER - 6p.m.

The Making of Moolade is a twenty-two minute documentary that details the methods used and the difficulties encountered when filming last week's movie in Africa. It features the director, Osumene [...continue]

[06 Mar 09] :: Moolaadé- Thursday 11th June - Suter - 6p.m.

'MOOLAADE'
Heroism and Defiance in an African Village
By A. O. SCOTT
The Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene is routinely referred to as the father of postcolonial African cinema, [...continue]

[05 Mar 09] :: Berlin-Schönhauser Corner- Thursday 4th June - Suter - 6p.m.

Berlin-Schönhauser Corner
Berlin-Ecke Schönhauser
(Gerhard Klein, East Germany, 1957) 79 minutes

Gerhard Klein was responsible for some of the most artistically significant [...continue]

[05 Mar 09] :: Manufactured Landscapes - Thursday 28th May - Suter - 6p.m.

Manufactured Landscapes

Jennifer Baichwal’s staggering, unconventional documentary follows celebrated Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky on a tour of Asia, where he trains his lens on [...continue]

[05 Mar 09] :: Darwin's Nightmare - Thursday 21st May - Suter - 6p.m.

The Descent of Man

The Nile perch was introduced to Lake Victoria some 40 to 50 years ago, an apparent attempt to replenish the overfished waters that led to the extinction of hundreds of [...continue]

[05 Mar 09] :: Drugstore Cowboy - Thursday 14th May - Suter - 6p.m.

DRUGSTORE COWBOY
(Gus Van Sant, USA, 1989) 101 minutes

Everything in "Drugstore Cowboy," the new film about a gang of small-time junkie thieves, is steeped in a kind of [...continue]

[05 Mar 09] :: The Footstep Man - Thursday 7th May - Suter - 6p.m.

The Footstep Man
Leon Narbey,2005,NZ,35mm,123min,col.

This is another variation on the film-as-secondary reality theme popularized in recent years by the likes of The Purple [...continue]

[05 Mar 09] :: Diva - Thursday 30th April - Suter - 6p.m.

Diva
An entanglement of tapes, mopeds,arias, zen masters and subways
By Roger Ebert (Great Movie)

Peering into obscure corners of Paris, Jean-Jacques Beineix emerged with an [...continue]

[05 Mar 09] :: La Sentinelle - Thursday 23rd April - Suter - 6p.m.

LA SENTINELLE
(Arnaud Desplechin, France, 1992) 145 minutes

Critique
Avant-garde director Arnaud Desplechin followed his acclaimed short film La Vie des morts with this [...continue]

[05 Mar 09] :: Angelus - Thursday 16th April - Suter - 6p.m.

ANGELUS
(Lech Majewski, Poland, 2000) 103 minutes

The bizarre story of the “Circle of Janow,” a group of Stalinist-era Silesian coal miners, mystics, and naïve painters, forms the [...continue]

[05 Mar 09] :: Basquiat - Thursday 9th April - Suter - 6p.m.

BASQUIAT
(Julain Schnabel, USA, 1996) 108 minutes

Anyone who has ever painted or drawn knows the experience of dropping out of the world of words and time. A state of reverie takes [...continue]

[05 Mar 09] :: The Garden of Earthly Delights - Thursday 2nd April - Suter - 6p.m.

THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS
(Lech Majewski, UK/Italy, 2004) 105 minutes

"This film puts to shame most other love stories in its honesty. Within a very philosophical [...continue]

[05 Mar 09] :: Brick - Thursday 26th March - Suter - 6p.m. -- Followed by...NFS AGM ! (NZ, colour, 20min, English)

BRICK
(Rian Johnson, USA, 2005) 110 minutes

Rian Johnson, the writer and director of Brick, was obviously impressed by film noir and his high school years. The movie declares itself [...continue]

[19 Feb 09] :: LECH MAJEWSKI - NZ Film Society featured Cinema-artist 2009

Reading Lech Majewski's résumé can give you a headache. A prolific poet and novelist, painter, composer-librettist and director of operas, and director, writer, composer, producer, and cameraman of [...continue]

[19 Feb 09] :: Mauvais Sang - Thursday 19th March - Suter - 6p.m.

MAUVAIS SANG
Bad Blood / The Night Is Young
(Leos Carax, France, 1986) 119 minutes

Mauvais Sang is a sort of thriller (a nuance captured in the otherwise [...continue]

powered by Cactus Web Design & Hosting Nelson