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[10 Mar 13] :: New 2013 Screening Programme online
Click here to view the short notes for the screening programme for March-October 2013.
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 21st March 2013 - Boy Meets Girl - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
Boy Meets Girl - (Leos Carax, 1984, France, 100min)

Perched between compulsive citation and the kind of brooding, morbid anxiety that might characterize an older, more world-weary [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 28th March -The Lovers on the Bridge - Suter Theatre - 6p.m
The Lovers On The Bridge - (Leos Carax, France,1999, 125min)

Leos Carax's "The Lovers on the Bridge" arrives trailing clouds of faded glory. It was already one of the most [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 4th April - Two-Lane Blacktop - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
Two-Lane Blacktop - (Monte Hellman, 1971, USA, 103min)

As far as car movies go, Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop is the exact opposite of a movie like Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), which [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 11th April - 35 Shots of Rum - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
35 Shots of Rum - (Claire Denis,2008, France, 100min)

This outstanding new film from Claire Denis, the director of Beau Travail and Vendredi Soir, demonstrates her fluency and mastery [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 18th April - Beau Travail - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999, France, 90 mins)

Beau travail plays out its story like the distant echo of a myth. The film is based on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor, but the [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 25th April - White Material - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
White Material - (Claire Denis, 2009, France, 100min)

Isabelle Huppert is superb as a colonial farmer ignoring the mounting tensions around her in Claire Denis's fine return to [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 2nd May - Cowboys in India + Every Good Marriage Begins With Tears - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
Cowboys in India - (Simon Chambers, 2009, UK, 76min)

A hapless filmmaker and his two local guides explore the conflict surrounding the Vedanta mines in [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 9th May- Deep End - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
DEEP END - (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970, West Germany/USA, 90 min)

The pool is often a hotspot of youthful longing and discovery in cinema, and in this 1970 film Polish filmmaker Jerzy [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 23rd May- Badlands - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
Badlands - (Terrence Malick, 1973, USA, 95min)

The time is late summer at the end of the 1950's and the place a small, placid town in South Dakota. The streets are lined with oak and [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 30th May- The Last Bolshevik - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
The Last Bolshevik - Le Tombeau d'Alexandre - (Chris Marker, 1993, Finland, 120min)

A significant chunk of Chris Marker's filmography is nominally told from something resembling first- [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 6th June -The Secret in Their Eyes - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
The Secret in Their Eyes - El Secreto De Sus Ojos - (Juan José Campanella, 2009, Argentina, 129min)

"The Secret in Their Eyes" opens with the meeting, after many years, of [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 13th June - Eraserhead - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977, USA, 89 minutes)

David Lynch Made a Man Out of Me

Our critic comes of age as Eraserhead just gets better with time

Like [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 20th June - Viva Maria - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
VIVA MARIA ! - (Louis Malle,1965, France/Italy,122 minutes)
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By all the odds, one feels, Viva Maria! ought to have been a terrible fiasco. There is the unbreakable cinema rule that no film [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Dreileben
Dreileben
by Phil Coldiron

There's been no worse trend in 21st-century cinema than the emergence of the water-cooler puzzle movie. Defined by the films of Christopher Nolan [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 27th June - Beats Being Dead (Dreileben 1) - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
BEATS BEING DEAD - Etwas Besseres als den Tod - (Dreileben 1)
(Christian Petzold, Germany, 2011, 88 min)

Christian Petzold's Dreileben Part 1: Beats Being Dead depicts a modern [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 4th July - Don't Follow Me Around (Dreileben 2) - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
DON'T FOLLOW ME AROUND - Komm mir nicht nach - (Dreileben 2)
(Dominik Graf, 2011, Germany, 88min)

Part 2 in the Dreileben trilogy, Don't Follow Me Around, is the story of [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 11th July - One Minute of Darkness (Dreileben 3) - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
One Minute of Darkness - Eine Minute Dunkel - (Dreileben 3)
(Christoph Hochhäusler, 2011, Germany, 90 min)

Christoph Hochhäusler's Dreileben Part 3: One Minute Of Darkness is [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 18th July - Nostalgia for the Light - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
Nostalgia for the Light - Nostalgia de la luz,
(Patricio Guzmán, 2010, France/Germany/Chile, 90min )

Astronomy provides release from Chile's traumas in a stunning [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 25th July - Black Sun - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
Black Sun
(Gary Tarn, 2005, UK, 70 min)

British musician and film-maker Gary Tarn has devised a quietly impressive cinematic meditation on the story of Hugues De Montalembert. [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 1st August - Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence
(Nagisa Oshima, 1983, New Zealand/Japan/UK, 123 min )

Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, is a strange film indeed. It was the first English-language [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 8th August - Free Radicals:A History of Experimental Film - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
Free Radicals A History of Experimental Film
(Pip Chodorov, 2011, France, 2011, 82min)

In the spirit of fairness, Pip Chodorov lays his hand down on the table right away. “Free [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 15th August - Kinshasa Symphony - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
Kinshasa Symphony
(Claus Wischmann,Martin Baer, 2010, Congo/Germany, 95min)

Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the third-largest city in Africa. [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 22nd August - Isla Negra, Isla Blanca - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
Isla Negra, Isla Blanca
(Bonaventura Durall i Soler, 2004, Chile/Spain, 56min)

After having travelled around the world, the poet Pablo Neruda had four homes built and renovated [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: 37th Nelson New Zealand International Film Festival
Nelson Dates: August 28th to September 15th
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 19th September - Anton Chekhov's The Duel - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
Anton Chekhov's The Duel
(Dover Kosashvili, 2010, USA, 95min)

Anton Chekhov's peculiar espirit can pose a formidable challenge to cinematic adapters. His unique dramatic [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 26th September - Tony Takitani - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
Tony Takitani
(Jun Ichikawa, 2004, Japan, 75min)

A delicate wisp of a film with a surprisingly sharp sting, "Tony Takitani" tells the story of a lonely man who at age [...continue]
[10 Mar 13] :: Thursday 3rd October - Trouble in Paradise - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
Trouble in Paradise

(Ernst Lubitsch, 1932, USA, 83min)
When I was small I liked to go to the movies because you could find out what adults did when there weren't any children in [...continue]
[05 Feb 13] :: Thursday 10th October 2013- Twin Sisters - Suter Theatre - 6p.m.
Twin Sisters (De Tweeling)
(Ben Sombogaart, 2002, Holland, 135min)

Summary: After being separated following their parents' deaths, two sisters lead dramatically different lives during [...continue]
[05 Mar 12] :: New 2013 Screening Programme online
Click here to view the short notes for the screening programme for March-October 2013.
 
     
     
 
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