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| [17 Jul 09] :: Cathay Pacific ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL - Suter Theatre, 4th – 18th November |
Cathay Pacific ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL - Suter Theatre, 4th – 18th November
Information on the 2009 festival's films, schedule of screenings, opening night and major event details will be [...continue] |
| [17 Jul 09] :: NEW ZEALAND SHORTS - Thursday 8th October - Probably the STATE - 6p.m. |
Our final screening for 2009.
Multicultural Medley
An 86min programme of films from 2007 and 2008 by NZ Filmmakers
Clean Linen (Zia Mandviwalla, 15 mins)
The story [...continue] |
| [17 Jul 09] :: SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN, WINTER... AND SPRING- Thursday 1st October - PROBABLY the STATE- 6p.m. |
SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN, WINTER... AND SPRING
Bom teoreum gaeul gyeowool geurigo bom
(Kim Ki-Duk, Korea, South, 2003) 102 minutes
Spring Summer Fall Winter...and Spring is a [...continue] |
| [17 Jul 09] :: Untold Scandal - Friday 25th September -SUTER - 6p.m. |
Untold Scandal
Joseon Namnyeo Sangyeol Ji Sa
(E J-Yong, Korea, South, 2003) 124 minutes
An unexpected, exquisite version of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" takes place in [...continue] |
| [17 Jul 09] :: 33rd NELSON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 10th - 23rd September |
33rd NELSON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 10th - 23rd September
Films include:
A Christmas Tale
Arnaud Desplechin, France 2008, 150 mins
Big River Man
John [...continue] |
| [17 Jul 09] :: Attack the Gas Station - Thursday 3rd September -SUTER - 6p.m. |
Attack the Gas Station
Director: Kim Sang-jin
Producer: Lee Kwan-soo
Screenplay: Park Jeong-woo
Cinematography: Choi Jeong-won
Editor: Ko Im-pyo
Music: Son [...continue] |
| [17 Jul 09] :: You the Living - Thursday 27th August -SUTER - 6p.m. |
You the Living (Du Levande)
Roy Andersson, Sweden, 2007, 93 mins, 35mm
In Swedish with English subtitles
Or, you, the living dead. The motley bunch of sad-looking characters that [...continue] |
| [17 Jul 09] :: STALKER - Thursday 20th August - SUTER - 6p.m. |
SUTER This Week.
STALKER, Andre Tarkovsky,1979,USSR,35mm, 161min
Stalker
by Nick Schager Slant Magazine
Posted: April 25, 2006
In his book Sculpting with [...continue] |
| [17 Jul 09] :: Noi the Albino - Thursday 13th August - SUTER - 6p.m. |
Screening at the SUTER this week
Noi Albinoi (Noi the Albino)
Dagur Kari,2002,93 min
Cast: Elin Hansdottir, Throstur Leo Gunnarsson, Tomas Lemarquis
Fjord [...continue] |
| [17 Jul 09] :: Travel and Counterculture - Agnes Varda - Thursday 6th August - Suter - 6p.m. |
Travel and Counterculture
This collection of six short films focus on Varda’s eye for exoticism and her engagement with '60s counterculture. O Seasons, O Chateaux… is Varda’s short [...continue] |
| [17 Jul 09] :: LIVE CINEMA! - Thursday 30th July - Suter - 6p.m. |
3 Charlie Chaplin films with Gábor Tolnay on Keyboard
Public Door Sales
Tillie’s Punctured Romance USA 1914
This slapstick comedy with the Keystone Kops and [...continue] |
| [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] |
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