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Welcome to Auckland Film Society’s 2015 season of classic and contemporary cinema from around the world and on our own doorstep.
Celebrate the big screen experience with us!
• Exciting cinema that pushes the boundaries
• See films you may never have heard of – you’ll be surprised how much you enjoy them
• Weekly screenings give you time to reflect
• Guest speakers and Q&A with filmmakers
• Exceptional value – a full membership subscription works out at only $5 a film (even less with discounted membership)
• Great discounts at local cinemas, Show Me Shorts Film Festival and the NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2015 – 16 JULY – 2 AUGUST
Auckland Film SocietyWelCome
AUCKlAND FIlm SoCIeTY 2015 taking you further into film
We are happy to acknowledge the generous assistance of Auckland Council, ASB Community Trust, Embassy of France, Goethe-Institut and Confucius Institute. Programming by Michael McDonnell, NZ Federation of Film Societies, nzfilmsociety.org.nz Brochure art direction by Titan Ong Wei Sheong. Brochure published by Auckland Film Society Inc PO Box 5618, Wellesley St, Auckland 1141. Note: some censorship ratings tbc. Website: aucklandfilmsociety.org.nz Contact answerphone: 527 6076 Twitter: @aklfilmsoc Facebook: /aklfilmsoc
PUZZLE OF A DOWNFALL CHILD
PURPLE NOON Plein soleil
FoCUS oN FASHIoN
Three classics that put the emphasis on fashion and style
René Clément | France | 1959 | BR | PG adult themes
The iconic French adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s murder-thriller The Talented Mr Ripley stars the ever-stylish Alain Delon as the alluring anti-hero. His polished fashion sense exemplifies wealth and easy living, but also his perverse criminality.
Elio Petri | Italy | 1965 | BR | R16 This pop-art sci-fi comedy extravaganza from the heart of the swinging sixties stars Bond girl Ursula Andress and the über-cool Marcello Mastroianni as combatants in a futuristic Hunger Games-style reality show that pits trained assassins against each other.
Jerry Schatzberg | USA | 1970 | BR | R16 Fashion photographer Jerry Schatzberg made a wildly ambitious debut with this engrossing account of a washed up fashion model (Faye Dunaway) who loses her hold on reality. “A powerful film that contains one of Dunaway’s most brilliant performances.” – Pacific Film Archive
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
THE 10TH VICTIM La decima vittima
ClASSICS
Lewis Milestone | USA | 1930 | BR | PG violence
This Academy Award-winning film is one of the boldest statements ever made about the cruelty and futility of war. “Film’s definitive portrait of World War I and, perhaps, of war itself. Don’t miss it.” – Northwest Film Forum
Elio Petri | Italy | 1970 | BR | R18
This remarkable, provocative, Oscar-winning thriller tells the Kafkaesque tale of a Rome police inspector (Gian Maria Volonté) investigating a heinous crime – which he committed himself. “A potent study of power as pathology.” – Village Voice
PUZZLE OF A DOWNFALL CHILD
INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto
CHARULATA
SATYAJIT RAY
Three newly restored films from the great Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray.
Satyajit Ray | India | 1964 | DCP | G This rarely seen classic of world cinema is a deft and moving adaptation of a novella by Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore that traces the romantic and intellectual yearnings of a lonely wife in late 19th-century India.
Satyajit Ray | India | 1963 | DCP | PG sexual references
An ironic and humorous account of the plight of the Bengali middle class, both minutely particular to Calcutta in the 1950s and universally recognisable. “Heart-warming, funny, wise and profound. Not to be missed.” – Empire
Satyajit Ray | India | 1977 | DCP | PG violence
Detective Feluda attempts to track down a missing statue in the holy city of Varanasi. A wonder, both for Ray’s take on pulp fiction and his images of the teeming byways of one of the world’s most atmospheric and fascinating cities.
ASIAN AUTeURS
Diao Yinan | China | 2014 | DCP | M offensive language, sex
scenes, violence
A unique blend of pulp fiction flair and social-realist grit, this chilly urban noir finds a hard-bitten former detective resurrecting the cold case that ended his career. Winner Best Film, Berlin International Film Festival 2014.
CHARULATA
Black Coal, Thin Ice screens in co-operation with the Confucius Institute, Victoria University of Wellington
THE BIG CITY Mahanagar
THE ELEPHANT GOD Joi Baba Felunath
BLACK COAL, THIN ICE Bai ri yan huo
I WISH
Kore-eda Hirokazu | Japan | 2011 | BR | PG
Two brothers separated by divorce conspire to get back together. This droll, kid-centred film contains a multitude of perspectives to surprise and delight audiences from nine to ninety. “I walked out floating on a cloud.” – Sight & Sound
Kore-eda Hirokazu | Japan | 2013 | BR | PG This beguiling, often funny family drama centres on two families whose sons were swapped at birth. “A nearly flawless film on class and parenting… Charming, gently humorous, and beautifully attuned to the interior lives of children.” – Village Voice
DoUGlAS SIRK
Douglas Sirk | USA | 1955 | BR | PG low level violence
Rock Hudson comes to prune widow Jane Wyman’s garden and uproots her sterile, upper-middle-class suburban life in this elegiac mood piece that inspired Fassbinder’s Fear Eats the Soul and Todd Haynes’ Far from Heaven.
Douglas Sirk | USA | 1958 | BR | PG In one of his last films, Sirk brings his melodramatic talents and command of CinemaScope to an adaptation of William Faulkner’s Pylon. Rock Hudson stars as a journalist fascinated by the sordid lives of a trio of professional stunt fliers.
Douglas Sirk | USA | 1958 | BR | PG adult themes
Filmed on location in Germany in CinemaScope and based on the WWII novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Sirk’s penultimate film stars John Gavin and Lilo Pulver as lovers who meet among the bombed-out ruins.
I WISH Kiseki
All THAT HeAveN AlloWS
THe TARNISHeD ANGelS
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Soshite chichi ni naru
A TIme To love AND A TIme To DIe
Academy Cinemas 44 Lorne St, Auckland Central Mondays at 6:30 pm (Tuesdays after public holidays) March – October
09 Mar 6:30pm I WISH16 Mar 6:30pm THE TARNISHED ANGELS23 Mar 6:30pm ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS 30 Mar 6:30pm A TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE
07 Apr 6:30pm OMAR Tuesday
13 Apr 6:30pm CHARULATA20 Apr 6:30pm THE BIG CITY28 Apr 6:00pm ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Tuesday Early start AFS AGM follows
04 May 6:30pm THE ELEPHANT GOD11 May 6:30pm INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION 18 May 6:30pm THE 10TH VICTIM 25 May 6:30pm PUZZLE OF A DOWNFALL CHILD
02 Jun 6:30pm PURPLE NOON Tuesday 08 Jun 6:30pm TABU15 Jun 6:30pm THE SERVANT22 Jun 6:30pm ACCIDENT29 Jun 6.30pm BILLY LIAR
06 Jul 6:30pm LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON
10 Aug 6:30pm THE DEADLY PONIES GANG17 Aug 6:30pm HOME FROM HOME (Part 1)24 Aug 6:30pm HOME FROM HOME (Part 2)31 Aug 6.00pm VAN GOGH Early start
07 Sep 6:30pm EYES WITHOUT A FACE14 Sep 6:30pm KADDISH FOR A FRIEND 21 Sep 6:30pm THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE ...28 Sep 6.00pm BEYOND THE HILLS Early start
05 Oct 6:30pm FANTAIL12 Oct 6:30pm BLACK COAL, THIN ICE19 Oct 6:30pm A TRIP TO THE MOON + THE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE27 Oct 6:00pm THE GREAT BEAUTY Tuesday Early start
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EYES WITHOUT A FACE
EYES WITHOUT A FACE Les yeux sans visage
FReNCH FAveS
Georges Franju | France | 1960 | BR | M violence, horror A brilliant plastic surgeon lures unsuspecting women into his lab in order to find a face for his disfigured daughter. “An incredible amalgam of horror and fairy tale… A marvelous movie in the fullest sense.” – Time Out
Max Ophüls | France | 1953 | BR | G A sharp and graceful examination of love and loss, widely regarded as one of the finest romantic dramas of all time. “A cinematic gem… loaded with unforgettable images.” – Washington Post
Maurice Pialat | France | 1991 | BR | M Once seen, never forgotten, this portrait of the last months in the life of Van Gogh eschews sensationalism for the director’s trademark realism. “Arguably the greatest biographical film about an artist ever made.” – Sight & Sound
George Méliès | France | 1902 | BR | G
Serge Blomberg, Eric Lange | France | 2001 | BR The first outer-space adventure in the history of cinema, Méliès’ Trip to the Moon returns in this glorious restoration of the original hand-painted colour version, along with a fascinating documentary charting its century-plus history.
French Faves screen in co-operation with the Institut Français and the Embassy of France
VAN GOGH
A TRIP TO THE MOON Le voyage dans la lune
THE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE Le voyage extraordinaire
Four classic French films spanning over 100 years of cinema
THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE... Madame de…
THE GREAT BEAUTY
BEYOND THE HILLS După dealuri
OMAR
GloBAl ART CINemA
Cristian Mungiu | Romania | 2012 | BR | M offensive
language, content may disturb
Romanians Cristina Flutur and Cosmina Stratan shared the 2012 Best Actress Award at Cannes as former friends slowly driven apart by differences in faith in this film from the director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.
Hany Abu-Assad | Palestine | 2013 | BR | R16 violence,
offensive language A hyper-tense Oscar-nominated West Bank thriller, invested with potent noir fatalism by the gridlock of Israeli-Palestinian violence. “Political cinema at its best; intelligent, thought-provoking and utterly absorbing.” – CineVue
Paolo Sorrentino | Italy/France | 2013 | BR | M nudity This intoxicating contemporary take on La dolce vita by director Paolo Sorrentino won the 2014 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. “A shimmering coup de cinema to make your heart burst, your mind swim and your soul roar.” – The Telegraph
Miguel Gomes | Portugal/Germany | 2012 | DCP M sex scenes
A great ’50s love affair is recalled today in this heady, playful and inimitably Portuguese romantic drama. Stars Ana Moreira and Carloto Cotta are incandescent. “It’s simply glorious – giddy and pulse-quickening.” – The Telegraph
TABU
THE GREAT BEAUTY La grande bellezza
THE DEADLY PONIES GANG
HOME FROM HOME: CHRONICLE OF A VISION Die andere Heimat: Chronik einer Sehnsucht
KADDISH FOR A FRIEND Kaddisch für einen Freund
GeRmAN CINemA
THE DEADLY PONIES GANG
FANTAIL
These two German features marry themes of displaced and changing identities.
Edgar Reitz | Germany | 2013 | BR | M violence, offensive
language This supremely cinematic epic of mid 19th-century German life by the director of Heimat chronicles the quests and conflicts of families hoping to escape rural poverty and famine by forging a new life in Brazil.
Leo Khasin | Germany | 2010 | BR | censor rating tbc
A warm tale about an unlikely friendship between two displaced characters in a multicultural Berlin. Palestinian teenager Ali is forced to seek the forgiveness of his elderly neighbour after he breaks into the old man’s apartment on a dare.
German Cinema screens in co-operation with the Goethe Institut
ARTHoUSe AoTeARoA
Zoe McIntosh | New Zealand | 2013 | BR | R13 drug use,
offensive language
Clint and Dwayne, awesome lady-killer pony-riding gang of two, raise the funds to get Dwayne a new set of teeth. “The funniest movie valentine to stoned mateship and recreational innovation in backblocks NZ since Kaikohe Demolition.” – NZ International Film Festival
Curtis Vowell | New Zealand | 2013 | DCP | R15 violence,
offensive language, drug use
“One of the freshest New Zealand films to come along in years…. Fantail is an often-hilarious and occasionally devastating look at a young woman named Tania (Sophie Henderson) who works the night shift in a Manukau service station.” – New Zealand Herald
THANKS To AUCKlAND FIlm SoCIeTY SUPPoRTeRS
’60s BRITISH ClASSICS
Works by Hollywood exile Joseph Losey with English dramatist Harold Pinter, and the soon to be much more famous UK director John Schlesinger
Joseph Losey | UK | 1963 | BR | M Dirk Bogarde is a conniving Jeeves to James Fox’s hapless member of the idle class in this striking satire which blurs the demarcation between Upstairs and Downstairs. “A brilliant, subversive account of class relations and the changing times.” – The Guardian
Joseph Losey | UK | 1967 | BR | M
Dirk Bogarde and Stanley Baker star in a study of masculine malaise among the scholarly set. “A coldly funny puzzle movie, about the erotic entanglements of Oxford as superbly entangled by scenarist Harold Pinter.” – Chicago Reader
John Schlesinger | UK | 1963 | BR | PG Underachieving undertaker’s assistant Billy escapes the everyday drudgery of his existence into a world of Walter Mitty-esque fantasy. Starring Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie. “A dazzling and uproarious classic.” – Criterion
THE SERVANT
THE SERVANT
ACCIDENT
BILLY LIAR
taking you further into film
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