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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 Norman McLaren of Canada – a great friend of our Len Lye. Dr Terence Dobson of Canterbury University will introduce these films in a special address at the Suter Art Gallery. German films are again strongly represented with six contemporary films facilitated by the Goethe Institut. Then, with the assistance of the French Embassy, we have four more by their great auteurs. Support from the New Zealand Film Commission will allow us to screen a beautiful New Zealand feature film – Apron Strings directed by Samoan-born Sima Urale. And, we have programmed three movies from the ‘classic era’ of world cinema. Finally, we have managed to secure some Festival films that missed out on a Nelson screening. And, once again, we will present an evening of ‘Live Cinema’ from the silent era supported by Gabor Tolnay on the piano!
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| [10 Aug 10] :: Thursday 7th October - OSS117: Cairo, Nest of Spies - SUTER Theatre 6 p.m |
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2008)
Stupid Agent Man
Well, to begin with, "OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies" is a terrific title. Better than the film, but there you [...continue] |
| [10 Aug 10] :: Thursday 30th September - Back to Normandy - SUTER Theatre 6 p.m. |
Retour en Normandie, France 2007
In French with English subtitles ------ Alliance Francais members door sales available
Admirably direct with its storytelling but enormously rich in its [...continue] |
| [10 Aug 10] :: 9th September - 23rd September - NELSON'S 34TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL |
Stay tuned as the complete Nelson programme and screening schedule will be available online during August.
http://www.nzff.telecom.co.nz/n8437,759,region=8.html |
| [10 Aug 10] :: Thursday 2nd September - Swing Time - SUTER Theatre 6 p.m. |
Awards and Festivals:
1937 Academy Award Best Song (The Way You Look Tonight)
1996 Wellington Film Festival
Of all of the places the movies have created, one of the most [...continue] |
| [10 Aug 10] :: Thursday 26th August - Dancer in the Dark - SUTER Theatre 6 p.m. |
DANCER IN THE DARK: Musical tragedy. Starring Bjork and Catherine Deneuve. Directed and written by Lars von Trier. 140 minutes.
``Dancer in the Dark,'' the winner of the [...continue] |
| [10 Aug 10] :: Thursday 19th August - Sex and Lucia - SUTER Theatre 6 p.m. |
Sex and Lucia (2001)
Directed by Julio Medem
In Spanish, with English subtitles 128 minutes
Julio Medem, who wrote and directed ''Sex and Lucía,'' conjures up [...continue] |
| [06 Jul 10] :: Thursday 12th August - The Man Who Knew Too Much - SUTER Theatre 6 p.m. |
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956)
Alfred Hitchcock, USA,1956, 120min
Academy Award for Best Song.
Hitchcock apparently liked this story so much he filmed it twice, early on [...continue] |
| [06 Jul 10] :: Thursday 5th August - To Have and Have Not - STATE Theatre 6 p.m. |
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT
(Howard Hawks, USA, 1945) 100 minutes
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, Howard Hawks’s more or less in-name-only adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s "worst [...continue] |
| [06 Jul 10] :: Thursday 29th July - No Man's Land - SUTER Theatre 6 p.m. |
No Man's Land
A Film Review by James Berardinelli
France/Italy/Slovenia/UK, 2001, 98min
There are essentially two kinds of war films: those that present battle as an heroic [...continue] |
| [06 Jul 10] :: Thursday 22nd July - LIVE CINEMA! - Buster Keaton and Gábor Tolnay - SUTER Theatre 6 p.m. |
LIVE CINEMA! this year welcomes back Gábor Tolnay as he accompanies Buster Keaton's "COLLEGE"
College (1927)
Director: James W Horne
From Time Out Film [...continue] |
| [06 Jul 10] :: Thursday 15th July - Apron Strings - SUTER Theatre 6 p.m. |
Apron Strings
The latest NZ feature film is a real cultural potpourri set in the South Auckland suburb of Otahuhu, exploring the lives and tribulations of two families struggling in [...continue] |
| [27 Jun 10] :: Thursday 8th July - Comrades in Dreams - SUTER Theatre 6 p.m. |
Comrades in Dreams
There's something reassuring about"Comrades in Dreams", at least for people who think of movie theaters as special places. That can be rough, especially when [...continue] |
| [17 May 10] :: Thursday 1st July - The Italian - Suter Theatre 6p.m. |
The Italian
(Kravchuk,Russia,2005, 99min)
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: January 19, 2007
A dark fairy tale from Russia, “The Italian” — more on that [...continue] |
| [17 May 10] :: Thursday 24th June - Absurdistan - STATE CINEMA -Time to be advised, circa 6p.m. |
Absurdistan
Veit Hemler,Germany/Azerbaijan (2008)88min
Starring: Max Mauff, Kristyna Malerova
If Anglo-Americans can make a successful mockery of the banana-'Stan [...continue] |
| [17 May 10] :: Thursday 17th June - Nine Queens - Suter Theatre 6p.m. |
"A geniune treat for fans of the con man genre."
Written and directed by Fabian Bielinsky.
Photography, Marcelo Camorino.
Editing, Sergio Zottola.
Art [...continue] |
| [17 May 10] :: Thursday 10th June - Love in the Time of Cholera - Suter Theatre 6p.m. |
Love in the Time of Cholera
Small wonder that One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's best novel, has never been filmed. Watching "Love in the Time of [...continue] |
| [17 May 10] :: Thursday 3rd June - A Time for Drunken Horses - Suter Theatre 6p.m. |
A Time For Drunken Horses
Ghobadi, Iran, 2000, 80min
By Roger Ebert Oct 27, 2000
"A Time for Drunken Horses" supplies faces to go with news stories about the [...continue] |
| [03 May 10] :: Thursday 27th May - Sommer vor'm Balkon - Suter Theatre 6p.m. |
Sommer vor'm Balkon
Filmkritik von O. Materne
Ein Frauenfilm? Mag sein, aber auch die Herren der Schöpfung können einiges mitnehmen. Ein bisschen erinnert das Epos an eine Art "Große [...continue] |
| [03 May 10] :: Thursday 20th May - Close-Up - Suter Theatre 6p.m. |
CLOSE-UP, 1990, 100min, 35mm
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/kiarostami.html
Starring: Mohsen [...continue] |
| [03 May 10] :: Thursday 13th May - MOVEMENT, MUSIC & CONFLICT - Suter Theatre 6p.m. |
| A leading pioneer in animation and experimental filmmaking, Norman McLaren is the most honoured, innovative and influential filmmaker in the history of Canadian cinema and one of the leading film [...continue] |
| [03 May 10] :: Wednesday 12th May Norman McLaren Illustrated lecture by Dr Terence Dobson. Suter 6.30p.m. |
Introduction by Chris Watson, Secretary Nelson Film Society
Friends of the Suter and Nelson Film Society
The biggest ‘canvas’ in The Suter Te Aratoi o Whakatu is provided by the [...continue] |
| [03 May 10] :: Thursday 6th May - Norman McLaren - Dazzlers - Suter Theatre 6p.m. |
DAZZLERS
Norman McLaren Programme Three
(Norman McLaren, Canada, Various) 75 minutes
Reviews and notes
OPENING SPEECH (1960) 7 minutes
A film in which McLaren is [...continue] |
| [05 Apr 10] :: Thursday 29th April - After the Fall - STATE CINEMA 6.10 p.m. STATE ! |
After the Fall: YG interviews director of Berlin Wall documentary
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, only few traces of this former barrier between East and West remain. [...continue] |
| [05 Apr 10] :: Thursday 22nd April - The Colour of Paradise - Suter Theatre 6p.m. |
The Color of Paradise (Rang-e Khoda)
By Taoufik Founi
A sightless boy sees more of God's green earth than his sighted father can in Majid Majidi's majestic The [...continue] |
| [07 Mar 10] :: Thursday 15th April - La France - Suter Theatre 6p.m. |
LA FRANCE
(Serge Bozon, France, 2007) 102 minutes
In the once-upon-a-time fairy tale called LA FRANCE, a World War I movie like none other, French soldiers move through darkly [...continue] |
| [07 Mar 10] :: Thursday 8th April - My Winnipeg - Suter Theatre 6p.m. |
My Winnipeg
O Canada! A reverie on a frozen city
If you love movies in the very sinews of your imagination, you should experience the work of Guy Maddin. If you have [...continue] |
| [07 Mar 10] :: Thursday 1st April - The Five Obstructions - Suter Theatre 6p.m. |
De Fem benspaend
Jorgen Leth,Lars von Trier, Denmark/Belgium/Switzerland/France, 2003 90 minutes
In Danish experimental and documentary filmmaker Jorgen Leth's 1967 short [...continue] |
| [07 Mar 10] :: Thursday 25th March - Berlin is in Germany - Suter Theatre 6p.m. |
Berlin Is in Germany
Thirty-six-year-old Martin Schulz was behind bars when the wall came down. Now, after eleven years’ imprisonment, the former citizen of the GDR has been [...continue] |
| [15 Feb 10] :: Thursday 18th March - The Witnesses - Suter Theatre 6p.m. |
The Opening Film of Nelson Film Society's 2010 Programme.
The Witnesses
A moral tale that isn't saddled with moralism, The Witnesses is a novelistic film in the best sense; its [...continue] |
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