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The Wellington Film Society is currently in recess.
The website now lists the complete 2012 programme. There is a great selection. Highlights include the original
MILDRED PIERCE starring Joan Crawford,
the Australian outback masterpiece WAKE IN FRIGHT,
and a long long-lost Fassbinder science fiction epic WORLD ON A WIRE.
33 films in all and a 12-month membership that equates to under $3 a movie. Start saving up, or join now via the website.
Printed brochures will be available in the middle of next week at all the usual places. The first screening will be on Monday 5 March.
The NZ Film Archive's Mediatheatre, 84 Taranaki Street. On Thursday and Saturday
Florian Habicht's LOVE STORY (NZ 2011).
On Friday Stories in Silhouette - Magical fairy tales by Lotte Reiniger,
presented by the Goethe-Instutut. Entry by koha.
For details of all Mediaplex events check the Archive's events calendar.
Festivals to note in your diary for 2012:
The French Film Festival. Paramount, 8-21 March
World Cinema Showcase. Paramount, 5-22 April
Both festivals are coming alive. The French website launched late on Wednesday, and the first half-dozen films announced for the Showcase can now be found on line..
If your festival is not listed here, please advise the Cinemaster
This site relies on the various cinemas having their own websites up to date to access their screening times. The paragraphs describing the
films starting this week are in most cases adapted from the linked reviews.
For comments and movie news, contact the Cinemaster at filmster@gmail.com.
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THE ARTIST -
An outrageous and nearly impossible amount of fun, which is not a concept Americans much associate with French films - and that's the factor that may put the movie
and its lantern-jawed, meta-handsome leading man, Jean Dujardin, in this winter's Oscar Awards race. Ever since its Cannes premiere,
audiences at festivals around the world have responded rapturously and uproariously.
Not everyone will like it that much, undoubtedly, but if you do, it's the kind of movie you'll tell all your friends about, and drag them back to see if they seem reluctant.
Also Lighthouse Petone.
EL BULLI - COOKING IN PROGRESS -
Food is love and life and one giant nomgasm in this sumptuous, succulent, overtly sensual documentary which profiles a year in the life of Ferran Adria,
renowned chef at the world's most famous restaurant, Spain's elBulli on the Catalan coast. It's a measure of how far foodies have come in the past few years
that a niche doc like this is playing in theatres instead of on the Food Network.
WEEKEND -
Filmed in some of the same Nottingham settings featured in Karel Reisz's kitchen-sink classic Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960),
Andrew Haigh's wonderful second feature takes place during a single weekend in the city. What begins as a one-night stand deepens over the course of a lazy
Saturday and Sunday, as the two guys lounge around in bed, walk the streets or talk long into the night, buoyed by a little drink, cocaine
and the ingenuous ease that comes with mutual attraction.
From the International Film Festival.
THE VOW -
One of the best romance movies of recent years. It takes your emotions and twists them around while combining typical romcom bs.
It's a chick flick through and through and contains all the elements you love and hate about movies like this.
But in the end, it pulls it all together to deliver a truly touching picture with a solid story.
Also Roxy, Readings and Queensgate.
SAFE HOUSE -
You've got nifty car chases, car crashes, explosions, fist fights, loud gunfire, jumping from roof to roof: what more can a movie lover ask for?
You could want some extended conversations. You could want subtlety and nuance in writing. You could want a script that makes a modicum of sense
while still allowing enough of a twist near the conclusion. You could ask that at least somebody, anybody, might use a silencer on his gun because those gunshots are loud, man.
Also Readings and Queensgate.
THIS MEANS WAR -
This is one of those romantic comedies that try to lure couples in by having hot guys for the girls and guns and explosions for the guys.
They bumped up the release date for this to February 14th, Valentine's Day, so they definitely see this as a date movie... and it is.
Even though it's directed by McG, the action is pretty goofy and sub par but that's ok because the movie is actually pretty funny and can be enjoyed by both sexes.
Also Queensgate and Reading Porirua.
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