Programme 3: 9 August - 14 September
2010
Programme 3: 9 August - 14 September
AUGUST
Mon 9 7.30pm North Face M 121mTue 10 7.30pm New York I Love You MA15+ 103mWed 11 7.30pm North Face M 121mThu 12 7.30pm Marmaduke PG 88m Fundraiser - Australian Orangutan Project
Darwin FestivalFri 13 7.30pm A Touch Of Spice M 108m 9.30pm North Face* M 121mSat 14 7.30pm New York I Love You* MA15+ 103m 9.30pm Merantau 18+ 106mSun 15 7.30pm St Kilda Film Festival with NT short film - The Dressmaker’s DaughterMon 16 7.00pm Our Generation Movie + music $20 full, $15 concessionTue 17 7.30pm My Name is Khan M 161mWed 18 7.30pm Merantau* 18+ 106m
Big ScreenThur 19 7.30pm The Waiting City M 103m NT PREMIERE – tickets $20 including refreshments
Fri 20 7.30pm Bran Nue Dae PG 84m 9.30pm Shine M 106mSat 21 7.00pm I Love You Too M 107m with special guest Peter Helliar 9.30pm Animal Kingdom MA15+ 113m
Sun 22 7.30pm A Touch Of Spice* M 108m with NT short film - Keeping the Heat Mon 23 7.30pm The Waiting City M 103mTue 24 7.30pm Message Sticks Wed 25 7.30pm Message Sticks Thu 26 7.30pm Answered by Fire M 170m Fundraiser - YWCAFri 27 7.30pm My Queer Career 86m with special guest Kylie Plunkett 9.30pm Animal Kingdom MA15+ 113mSat 28 7.30pm The Secret in their Eyes MA15+ 133m 9.45pm The Waiting City M 103mSun 29 7.30pm My Name is Khan M 161m with NT short film - Spacedude
Mon 30 7.30pm Animal Kingdom MA15+ 113mTue 31 7.30pm It’s Complicated M 120m
SEPTEMBER
Wed 1 7.30pm My Name is Khan* M 161mThu 2 7.30pm The Diving Bell and the Butterfly M 112m Fundraiser - Disability Awareness Week (Darwin City Council)
Fri 3 7.30pm The Waiting City* M 103m 9.30pm Food, Inc. PG 94mSat 4 7.30pm Animal Kingdom MA15+ 113m 9.30pm Robin Hood M 140mSun 5 7.30pm The Secret in their Eyes MA15+ 133m with NT short film - Man Makes History Mon 6 7.30pm Alice in Wonderland PG 108mTue 7 7.30pm The Secret in their Eyes MA15+ 133mWed 8 7.30pm Food, Inc. PG 94mThu 9 7.30pm Bran Nue Dae PG 84m Fundraiser - Darwin Middle SchoolFri 10 7.30pm Robin Hood M 140m 9.45pm The Secret in their Eyes* MA15+ 133mSat 11 7.30pm Alice in Wonderland* PG 108m 9.30pm Animal Kingdom* MA15+ 113mSun 12 7.30pm Food, Inc.* PG 94m with NT short film - The Door Knockers Mon 13 7.30pm Robin Hood* M 140mTue 14 7.30pm The Spy Who Loved Me M 125m ABC Listener Screening
*Final Screening Fundraiser Special Screening Free to Members
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Available at the box office each night from 6.30pm, movies begin at 7.30pm. Cash, Cheque, EFTPOS and credit card facility available.
LocationJervois Road - off Kitchener Drive, Darwin Wharf Precinct.FREE car parking at the cinema and Esplanade. Only a short walk from town, take the scenic Damoe Ra walkway to the cinema (just before Parliament House).
Contact UsDarwin Film SocietyGPO Box 3008, Darwin NT [email protected]
(08) 8981 0700www.deckchaircinema.com
GENERAL INFORMATION
FoodDeckchair Cinema has a licensed snack bar where you can buy snacks, wine, beer, ice-cream and assorted treats. No BYO alcohol. Hot food is available on site every night, or you can bring a picnic. Come down at 6.30pm to enjoy a meal and sunset before the film.
FundraisersThursday nights are community events which are open to everyone. Tickets can be purchased at the door from 6.30pm. Different organisations provide good food, goodwill and fun.
MembershipAs a member of the Darwin Film Society, you will benefit from a massive $5 discount on an adult admission to the Deckchair Cinema, four FREE tickets when you sign up and four FREE member screenings a year. A years’ membership costs $75 or $50 for concession. For more information and to download an application form, please visit the Deckchair website www.deckchaircinema.com
TicketsSingle Double Session>$13 $20 Adults$10 $15 Concession*$8 $12 Seniors & Members$6 $9 Children (5-15)$30 $45 Family Ticket
>Weekends only*Proof required
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DARWIN FESTIVAL FILMS
A Touch of Spice M 108m
2004 Tassos Boulmetis Greece
13, 22 AugThe heartw
arming story of a young Greek boy, grow
ing up in Istanbul, w
here his Grandfather teaches him the
joy of preparing food - which, like life, requires ‘a touch
of spice’. The story is set in 1959 when Turkey expelled
Greek nationals and it explores the challenges faced by a child adapting to a ‘hom
e’ that is foreign.
My Nam
e is Khan M 161m
2010 Karan Johar India17, 29 Aug, 1 SepA story about M
uslim Indians living in a paranoid, post-
9/11 America. Told through a Bollyw
ood lens by skilled Director Karan Johar, M
y Name is Khan teaches lessons
about Islam and tolerance.
Merantau (18+
) 106m2010 Gareth Evans Indonesia14, 18 AugAn
adrenaline charged
action film
–
Merantau
is the story of a young practitioner of Silat - a deadly Indonesian m
artial art. He leaves his village for Jakarta – and finds his skills tested as he tries to rescue a young girl from
human traffickers.
Our Generation2010 Sinem
Saban and Damien Curtis Australia
16 Aug. Box office opens at 6pm, program
me starts
at 7pm
. Cost
$20 includes
film
and live
music
performance.
Australian Premiere
of the
ground-breaking new
docum
entary on Aboriginal rights, OUR GENERATION. W
ith live music by M
ama Kin, Shellie M
orris and special guests from
the Black Arm Band. Follow
ing the film
will be a discussion w
ith Yolngu from NE Arnhem
Land, film
-makers and special guests, chaired by Jeff
McM
ullen.
105.7 ABC DARWIN LISTENER
SCREENING105.7 ABC Darw
in’s Richard Margetson w
ill program
Deckchair with the 1977 Bond classic
‘The S
py W
ho Lo
ved M
e’ M
125m, 14 Sep.
This event is open to anyone to attend, but you can win tickets if you listen to the
Saturday Breakfast show w
ith Margo from
7am.
The dress code is.... Bond!
CAFE CINEMA NIGHT – FOOD, INC. PG 94m On W
ednesday 8 Sep stick around after the screening of Food, Inc. The Darwin Film
Society w
ill provide tea, coffee, cake and a facilitator to lead an informal, friendly
discussion on this fascinating documentary. Free adm
ission for Darwin Film
Society m
embers. Everyone w
elcome!
DARWIN INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL From
Wednesday 15th to Sunday 19th Septem
ber, Darwin w
ill have its very own film
festival at the Deckchair Cinem
a. The Darwin International Film
Festival will be your
chance to see 9 outstanding films that w
ill be shown for the first tim
e in the Top End. Program
me available soon through our usual outlets.
Rating
s
My Queer Career 86m
2010 Various Australia 27 AugA fabulous collection of engaging and diverse short film
s from
Australia’s prestigious
queer short
film
competition. Follow
ing the screening will be a Q&A
session with Kylie Plunkett, w
inner of the 2010 Queer Perspective and Audience Choice aw
ards.
St Kilda Film Festival
2010 Various Australia15 AugExperience the popular national touring program
me of
the St Kilda Film Festival. The Best of the Fest brings
enormous variety and reflects the creative inspiration
of accomplished short film
makers.
Message Sticks
24, 25 AugFree event – bookings essential at info@
deckchaircinema.com
Celebrating its 11th year, the Message Sticks Indigenous
Film Festival returns w
ith more rem
arkable storytelling. This year’s festival focuses on a new
crop of Indigenous film
makers from
Australia and abroad showcasing the
great diversity of Indigenous culture and artists.
NATIONAL FILM AND SOUND ARCHIVE’S BIG SCREENThe W
aiting City M 103m
2010 Claire McCarthy Australia
NT Premiere – presented by Big Screen 19 Aug
Tickets $20 including refreshments.
Also screening23, 28 Aug, 3 SeptThe story of an outw
ardly happy Australian couple w
ho journey to India to collect their adopted baby. W
hen they arrive in Calcutta they discover that the adoption arrangem
ents have still to be finalised. Soon the intoxicating m
ystic power of the city
pulls them in separate and unexpected directions
and the vulnerability of their marriage begins to
reveal itself. An intimate, com
plex love story of transform
ation, set against the exhilarating epic backdrop of Calcutta.
Bran Nue Dae PG 84m2009 Rachel Perkins Australia20 AugEnjoy this sm
ash-hit film on the big screen. A
coming-of-age, m
usical comedy road m
ovie for all the fam
ily. Geoffrey Rush plays Father Benedictus and the NT’s ow
n Jessica Mauboy stars.
Shine PG 155m1996 Scott Hicks Australia20 AugGeoffrey
Rush stars
in an
Oscar-winning
performance as the brilliant pianist David Helfgott.
Experience SHINE before Helfgott’s performance in
the Darwin Festival.
I Love you Too M 107m
2009 Daina Reid Australia21 Aug. Box office opens at 6pm
, program starts
at 7pm.
Meet
Peter Helliar!
Comm
itment-phobe
Jim
(Brendan Cowell) and his best m
ate Blake (Helliar) attem
pt to win over the w
omen of their dream
s. Peter Helliar, com
edian, TV star and scriptwriter of
I LOVE YOU TOO will introduce his film
and conduct a Q+
A after the screening.
Animal Kingdom
MA15+
113m2010 David M
ichôd Australia21 AugAlso screening 27, 30 Aug, 4, 11 SeptA pow
erful thriller about the battle between a
Melbourne crim
e family and the police and the
young m
an w
ho finds
himself
caught in
the crossfire. Excellent perform
ances by Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Ben M
endelsohn and Jacki Weaver.
New York I Love You M
A15+ 103m
2009 Various directors USA10, 14 AugustIn the city that never sleeps, love is alw
ays on the mind.
Those passions come to life in NEW
YORK, I LOVE YOU (rendition of 2006 PARIS, JE T’AIM
E) - a collaboration of storytelling from
some of today’s m
ost imaginative
filmm
akers and featuring an all-star cast.
Food, Inc. PG 94m2009 Robert Kenner USA3, 8, 12 SepFood, Inc. reveals surprising - and often shocking truths - about w
hat we eat, how
it’s produced, and w
here we are going from
here. Filmed in the USA, this
documentary exposes the handful of corporations that
now control the food supply.
North Face M 121m
2009 Phillip Stolzl Austria/Germany
9, 11, 13 AugBased on a true story, NORTH FACE is a gripping adventure dram
a about a competition to clim
b the most
dangerous rock face in the Alps. In July of 1936 - less than a year after the m
ost recent and fatal attempt,
two top Germ
an mountaineers take up the challenge to
become the first to scale the infam
ous rock face, the so-called M
urder Wall.
It’s Complicated M
120m2009 Nancy M
eyers USA31 AugA classy rom
p that harks back to the classics of the ‘30s. In this rom
antic comedy for the over 50s M
ERYL STREEP plays the role of an older w
oman being w
ooed by tw
o men – played by Alec Baldw
in and Steve M
artin.
Alice in Wonderland PG 108m
2010 Tim Burton USA
6, 11 Sep19-year-old Alice returns to the m
agical world from
her childhood adventure, w
here she reunites with her old
friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen’s reign of terror.
The Secret In Their Eyes MA15+
133m2010 Juan Jose Cam
panella Argentina. Winner Oscar
for Best Foreign Film28 Aug, 5, 7, 10 SepThis im
pressive, absorbing film - half thriller, half
love story - is set between the present w
hen a retired detective begins to w
rite, as a novel, the story of a m
urder which has obsessed him
for decades; and the tim
e of the dictatorship in Argentina, when the brutal
murder occurred.
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