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	Ryan Gosling stars in Derek Cianfrance's thriller THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES</p>

    Ryan Gosling stars in Derek Cianfrance's thriller THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES

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	TABU "takes cinema to a new level" says Margaret Pomeranz</p>

    TABU "takes cinema to a new level" says Margaret Pomeranz

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	Sam Raimi produces a new vision of his cult horror classic EVIL DEAD</p>

    Sam Raimi produces a new vision of his cult horror classic EVIL DEAD

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	SPRING BREAKERS, Harmony Korrine's tale of Miami mayhem stars James Franco</p>

    SPRING BREAKERS, Harmony Korrine's tale of Miami mayhem stars James Franco

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	Helen Mirren reprises Queen Elizabeth II in THE AUDIENCE, opening July 5</p>

    Helen Mirren reprises Queen Elizabeth II in THE AUDIENCE, opening July 5

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Set in the years following 9/11, The Reluctant Fundamentalist follows a young Pakistani man, Changez, chasing corporate success on Wall Street. Living in the suspicious, terrorism-altered...

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 18:30 18:35 21:10 more...

Director: Mira Nair

Running Time: 2hrs 6 mins

Rating: M

Sunset Six - Exclusive

SEASON EXTENDED BY POPULAR DEMAND! Riff (Greg Stone - Underbelly Razor, The Bank) is a faded rock star. A sex addicted, alcoholic wash up who hasn't written a good song in twenty years....

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 20:25 23:20 Sunday, May 26, 2013 12:35 more...

Director: Jeremy Stanford

Running Time: 100 mins

Rating: TBA

The Place Beyond The Pines

The highly anticipated new drama from director Derek Cianfrance ("Blue Valentine") powerfully explores the consequences of motorcycle rider Luke's (Academy Award nominee Ryan...

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 19:00 20:30 21:40 more...

Director: Derek Cianfrance

Running Time: 140 mins

Rating: MA15+

Tabu

Acclaimed director Miguel Gomes returns with a sumptuous, eccentric two-part tale centered on Aurora, shown first as an impulsive, cantankerous elderly woman in present-day Lisbon. When Aurora...

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 18:45 21:05 23:25 more...

Director: Miguel Gomes

Running Time: 113 mins

Rating: MA15+

Broken

BROKEN was winner of the 2012 British Independent Best Film Award and takes its place among the finest of new British cinema. Directed by multi-award winning theatre director, Rufus Norris, and...

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 19:45 21:35 23:25 more...

Director: Rufus Norris

Running Time: 1hr 30 mins

Rating: MA15+

Evil Dead - Exclusive

A remote cabin in the woods becomes a blood-soaked chamber of horrors when a group of 20-something friends unwittingly awakens an ancient demon in Evil Dead, the highly anticipated reboot of Sam...

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 19:35 21:30 23:30 more...

Director: Fede Alvarez

Running Time: 1hr 30 mins

Rating: R18+

Spring Breakers

Director Harmony Korine (Gummo) returns with his highly-anticipated thriller centred on the annual American college ritual of ‘Spring Break’. Four students (Vanessa Hudgens, Selena...

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 19:25 21:20 23:15 more...

Director: Harmony Korine

Running Time: 1hr 34 mins

Rating: R18+

The Hunt

Mads Mikkelsen (A ROYAL AFFAIR) delivers a superb, award-winning performance in this electrifying new film from Thomas Vinterberg, the acclaimed director of THE CELEBRATION. Lucas...

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 19:05 21:25 Sunday, May 26, 2013 11:15 more...

Director: Thomas Vinterberg

Running Time: 1hr 56 mins

Rating: MA15+

The Company You Keep

Robert Redford stars as Jim Grant, a former member of the 1970's revolutionary militant group the Weather Underground. When another member of the group is captured after evading authorities...

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 18:50 21:20 Sunday, May 26, 2013 10:50 more...

Director: Robert Redford

Running Time: 2hrs 2 mins

Rating: M

No - Oscar nominee!

A prizewinner at the Cannes, San Paolo and Abu Dabi Film Festivals, Gael García Bernal ( The Motorcycle Diaries ) stars as René Saavedra, an advertising executive who risks his...

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 19:05 21:15 23:25 more...

Director: Pablo Larraín

Running Time: 108 mins

Rating: M

The Other Son

Lorraine Levy's prize-winning film is a graceful and touching drama of family love and self-acceptance. As Joseph (Jules Sitruk) prepares to join the Israeli army for his national service,...

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 18:40 21:10 Sunday, May 26, 2013 14:15 more...

Director: Lorraine Levy

Running Time: 1hr 45 mins

Rating: M

A Place for Me

Three years past his divorce, veteran novelist Bill Borgens (Greg Kinnear) can’t stop obsessing over his ex-wife Erica (Jennifer Connelly), who ignominiously left him for another man. Even...

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 18:55 Sunday, May 26, 2013 12:30 14:30 more...

Director: Josh Boone

Running Time: 1hr 37 mins

Rating: MA15+

First Position

Winner of the Jury Prize at the San Francisco Documentary Festival and the audience award at DOCNYC. First Position is a documentary that follows six young dancers from around the world as they...

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 18:30 Sunday, May 26, 2013 10:40 14:35 more...

Director: Bess Kargman

Running Time: 90 mins

Rating: G

Rust and Bone

From acclaimed director Jacques Audiard, who delivered such powerhouse films including the Oscar-nominated A Prophet, Read My Lips and the eight Cesar-award winning The Beat That My Heart...

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 20:55 Sunday, May 26, 2013 12:00 16:35 more...

Director: Jacques Audiard

Running Time: 2 hrs 2 mins

Rating: MA15+

Trance

Oscar winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) re-teams with his Trainspotting and Shallow Grave screenwriter John Hodge for this high-stakes thriller set between the elite world of...

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 20:45 23:20 Sunday, May 26, 2013 16:00 more...

Director: Danny Boyle

Running Time: 101 mins

Rating: MA15+

Camille Rewinds

Winner: Directors Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival. Nominated for 13 "French Oscars" (César Awards) including Best Film, Director, Actress. Noémie Lvovsky’s...

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 18:25 Sunday, May 26, 2013 11:10 18:25 more...

Director: Noémie Lvovsky

Running Time: 1 hr 55 mins

Rating: TBA

Cloud Atlas

Lana Wachowski and Andy Wachowski collaborate with Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer to co-direct and adapt David Mitchell’s British Book Award-winning novel Cloud Atlas. Examining how...

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 20:50 Sunday, May 26, 2013 20:50 Monday, May 27, 2013 12:40 more...

Director: Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer & Andy Wachowski

Running Time: 172 mins

Rating: MA15+

Haute Cuisine

Hortense Laborie (Catherine Frot) is a famous chef who lives in the Périgord region. To her great surprise, the president of the French Republic (Jean d'Ormesson) appoints her as his...

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Sunday, May 26, 2013 11:20 Monday, May 27, 2013 11:20 19:10 more...

Director: Christian Vincent

Running Time: 1hr 35 mins

Rating: TBA

Song For Marion

A wonderfully heart-warming story of long-term married couple Arthur (Terence Stamp) and Marion (Vanessa Redgrave). Cantankerous but doting husband Arthur does not share his wife Marion's...

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Sunday, May 26, 2013 10:35 Monday, May 27, 2013 10:35 13:25 more...

Director: Paul Andrew Williams

Running Time: 1hr 33 mins

Rating: PG

Silver Linings Playbook - Oscar Winner!

Life doesn’t always go according to plan. Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) has lost his house, his job, and his wife and finds himself living with his parents (Jacki Weaver, Robert DeNiro)...

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 22:50 Sunday, May 26, 2013 13:30 Monday, May 27, 2013 13:30 more...

Director: David O. Russell

Running Time: 2 hrs 2 mins

Rating: M

Django Unchained - Oscar Winner!

Quentin Tarantino is back with a western rich with intertextual references and an almighty cast including Christoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L Jackson. Set in the American...

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Sunday, May 26, 2013 15:55 Monday, May 27, 2013 15:55 Tuesday, May 28, 2013 15:55 more...

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Running Time: 2 hrs 45 mins

Rating: MA15+

The Great Gatsby 3D

Group & Private Bookings available in both 3D and 2D! Book now. Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" follows would-be writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as he leaves the...

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May 30, 2013

Director: Baz Luhrmann

Running Time: 142 mins

Rating: M

The Great Gatsby 2D

Group & Private Bookings available in both 3D and 2D! Book now. Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" follows would-be writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as he leaves the...

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May 30, 2013

Director: Baz Luhrmann

Running Time: 142 mins

Rating: M

Happiness Never Comes Alone

Sacha (Gad Elmaleh) likes his friends, his piano and partying. He spends his evenings playing in a jazz club where he seduces pretty girls. He is happy and free, living in the thrill of the...

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May 30, 2013

Director: James Huth

Running Time: 1hr 50 mins

Rating: M

Farewell My Queen - Exclusive

Farewell, My Queen marks the return of acclaimed director Benoît Jacquot and brilliantly captures the passions, debauchery, occasional glimpses of nobility and ultimately the chaos that...

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Jun 6, 2013

Director: Benoît Jacquot

Running Time: 1hr 40 mins

Rating: M

Still Mine

In his first lead after decades of supporting roles, James Cromwell delivers a stand out performance in Still Mine, a deeply affecting love story about a couple in their twilight years. Based on...

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Jun 6, 2013

Director: Michael McGowan

Running Time: 1hr 42 mins

Rating: PG

One Mile Above - Exclusive to Nova

Winner of ‘Best Artistic Contribution’ at the Tokyo International Film Festival. Based on an inspirational true story, director Jiayi Du’s One Mile Above depicts a young...

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Jun 6, 2013

Director: Jiayi Du

Running Time: 1hr 30 mins

Rating: M

You Aint Seen Nothin Yet - Exclusive

From the mind of Alain Resnais (Wild Grass) comes You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet. Featuring an all-star French cast including Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi, Michel Piccoli, Lambert...

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Jun 13, 2013

Director: Alain Resnais

Running Time: 1hr 50 mins

Rating: PG

Mud - Exclusive

From the director of the critically acclaimed drama Take Shelter comes the all-star thriller Mud. Two teenage boys, Ellis and Neckbone, find a strange man (Matthew McConaughey) hiding out on an...

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Jun 13, 2013

Director: Jeff Nichols

Running Time: 2hrs 10 mins

Rating: M

A Lady in Paris

Still queen of the screen, Jeanne Moreau illuminates this stylish comedy drama as a haughty old dame with an acid wit.  Moreau turned 84 this year, but effortlessly steals the show in this...

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Jun 13, 2013

Director: Ilmar Raag

Running Time: 1hr 34 mins

Rating: TBA

Pure Sound: The Gyuto Monks of Tibet

DALAI LAMA Melbourne visit, encore event screening! Narrated by Emmy Award winning actress Toni Collette, this documentary offers a unique behind the scenes insight into the extraordinary...

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Jun 18, 2013

Director: John Doggett-Williams

Running Time: 53 mins

Rating: TBA

Errors of the Human Body - Exclusive

Obsessively struggling to develop a cure for a rare genetic ailment, which caused the death of his infant son, Geneticist Geoff Burton (played by Michael Eklund from The Call) is forced to...

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Jun 20, 2013

Director: Eron Sheean

Running Time: 1hr 41 mins

Rating: TBA

Satellite Boy

Pete and his Grandfather (David Gulpilil) live in an abandoned drive-in cinema just outside Wyndham. When a new development threatens their way of life, Pete embarks on a quest to save their...

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Jun 20, 2013

Director: Catriona McKenzie

Running Time: 1hr 30 mins

Rating: PG

In the House

Director Francois Ozon (Swimming Pool) enjoys a return-to-form with this tightly-wound thriller based on the play by Juan Mayorga. Bored high school teacher Germain (Fabrice Luchini) continually...

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Jun 27, 2013

Director: François Ozon

Running Time: 1hr 45 mins

Rating: MA15+

The Look of Love

The Look Of Love Preview Screening Monday June 10, 6.30pm Celebrate the Queen’s Birthday and all things British with a preview screening of the fabulous new UK film The Look Of...

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Jun 27, 2013

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Running Time: 1hr 41 mins

Rating: TBA

To The Wonder - Exclusive

Award winning filmmaker Terrence Malick returns to the screen, following-up his Palme d'Or winning epic The Tree Of Life with this breathtakingly beautiful drama. Featuring an all-star cast...

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Jul 4, 2013

Director: Terrence Malick

Running Time: 112 mins

Rating: M

We Steal Secrets - The Wikileaks Story

Filmed with the startling immediacy of unfolding history, Academy Award®-winning director Alex Gibney’s documentary details the creation of Julian Assange’s controversial...

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Jul 4, 2013

Director: Alex Gibney

Running Time: 2hrs 10 mins

Rating: M

Reality

In Matteo Garrone's acclaimed comic follow-up to the striking Italian underworld thriller Gomorrah, Aniella Arena stars as Luciano; a charming fishmonger whose unexpected and sudden...

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Jul 4, 2013

Director: Matteo Garrone

Running Time: 1hr 56 mins

Rating: TBA

Behind The Candelabra

Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh directs Michael Douglas in what is sure to be an award-winning performance as show business legend Liberace. Scott Thorson (Matt Damon) is a young man coming to...

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Jul 11, 2013

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Running Time: 118 mins

Rating: CTC

Much Ado About Nothing

In his follow-up to the enormously successful blockbuster The Avengers, director Joss Whedon changes gear with a modern interpretation of William Shakespeare’s classic comedy Much Ado...

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Jul 11, 2013

Director: Joss Whedon

Running Time: 1hr 37 mins

Rating: PG

Cloudburst - Exclusive

A beautifully crafted romantic comedy with stunning performances from Academy award winning actresses Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker, Cloudburst sees Stella (Dukakis) and Dot (Fricker)...

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Jul 11, 2013

Director: Thom Fitzgerald

Running Time: 93 mins

Rating: CTC

Before Midnight

It has been nine years since Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) reconnected on the streets of Paris in Before Sunset, having met on a train to Vienna nine years earlier in Before...

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Jul 18, 2013

Director: Richard Linklater

Running Time: 1hr 48 mins

Rating: TBA

The Room

SCREENS FIRST SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH, LATE. Written, directed and starring Tommy Wiseau, The Room is like no other film you’ve seen. Johnny (Tommy Wiseau) seems to have it all- a...

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May 14, 2020

Director: Tommy Wiseau

Running Time: 1hr 49 mins

Rating: M

Giulio Cesare - 2012/13 season

The opera that conquered London in Handel’s time comes to the Met in David McVicar’s inventive production—which triumphed at its Glyndebourne premiere in 2005. The Guardian...

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Sunday, May 26, 2013 11:30 more...

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Running Time: 5 hrs 10 mins

Rating: NR

War Of The Worlds: Alive on Stage

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of The Worlds – Alive on Stage, the New Generation is coming to the big screen for the first time. This stunning musical multi-media production,...

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Sunday, May 26, 2013 11:00 more...

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Running Time: 2hrs 18 mins

Rating: NR

Meet The Filmmaker - Satellite Boy

Legendary Australian actor and AFI winner David Gulpilil (Ten Canoes, The Tracker) and Writer/Director Catriona McKenzie come to Cinema Nova to discuss their award winning new film SATELLITE BOY...

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Thursday, May 30, 2013 18:45 more...

Director: Catriona McKenzie

Running Time: 90 mins

Rating: PG

Privilege Member Preview - Much Ado About Nothing

In his follow-up to the enormously successful blockbuster The Avengers, director Joss Whedon changes gear with a modern interpretation of William Shakespeare’s classic comedy Much Ado...

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Thursday, May 30, 2013 18:30 more...

Director: Joss Whedon

Running Time: 1hr 47 mins

Rating: PG

Nederlands Dans Theatre - An Evening with EKMAN, EYAL & GAI BEHAR, LEÓN & LIGHTFOOT, INGER

BALLET 1 : Title to be announced / New Creation - Choreographers : ALEXANDER EKMAN BALLET 2 : Title to be announced / New Creation - Choreographers : SHARON EYAL & GAI BEHAR BALLET 3 :...

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Saturday, June 1, 2013 11:00 Sunday, June 2, 2013 11:00 more...

Director: Nederlands Dans Theatre

Running Time: 160 mins

Rating: NR

Blacula

An African prince (on an anti-slavery mission to Transylvania in 1780!) is bitten by Dracula and cursed to roam the earth as the terrifying black vampire Blacula. Two hundred years later, when a...

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Friday, June 7, 2013 19:30 more...

Director: William Crain

Running Time: 1hr 33 mins

Rating: M

This House

A new play by James Graham. It’s 1974 and the corridors of Westminster ring with the sound of infighting and backbiting as Britain’s political parties battle to change the future of...

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Saturday, June 8, 2013 13:00 Sunday, June 9, 2013 13:00 Saturday, June 15, 2013 11:30 more...

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Running Time: mins

Rating: NR

The Look of Love

The Look Of Love Preview Screening Monday June 10, 6.30pm Celebrate the Queen’s Birthday and all things British with a preview screening of the fabulous new UK film The Look Of...

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Monday, June 10, 2013 18:30 more...

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Running Time: 1hr 41 mins

Rating: TBA

Pure Sound: The Gyuto Monks of Tibet

DALAI LAMA Melbourne visit, encore event screening! Narrated by Emmy Award winning actress Toni Collette, this documentary offers a unique behind the scenes insight into the extraordinary...

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013 18:45 more...

Director: John Doggett-Williams

Running Time: 53 mins

Rating: TBA

The Bolshoi Ballet: Romeo and Juliet

Based on the play by William Shakespeare,  Romeo and Juliet is one of the most popular ballets in the world. Nevertheless, its creation was difficult. Originally commissioned by the...

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Saturday, June 29, 2013 11:00 Sunday, June 30, 2013 11:00 more...

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Running Time: 2 hrs 25 mins

Rating: NR

I Don't Want to be Born

Joan Collins is an ex-stripper whose affair with her former boss might be the reason she’s had a possessed baby.  The little brat bites and scratches everyone, pulls the head off his...

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Friday, July 5, 2013 19:30 more...

Director: Peter Sasdy

Running Time: 1hr 35 mins

Rating: M

The Audience

OLIVIER AWARD - BEST ACTRESS (Helen Mirren) Helen Mirren reprises her Oscar winning role of Queen Elizabeth II in a new play written by Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost Nixon) and directed by...

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Friday, July 5, 2013 18:30 Saturday, July 6, 2013 13:00 Sunday, July 7, 2013 13:00 more...

Director: Stephen Daldry

Running Time: 165 mins

Munch: 150th Anniversary

This year, all of Norway celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944), one of the towering figures of modern art.  Munch 150, co-hosted by the National Museum...

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Saturday, July 13, 2013 13:00 Sunday, July 14, 2013 13:00 Tuesday, July 16, 2013 18:30 more...

Director: Phil Grabsky

Running Time: 1hr 30 mins

Rating: TBA

Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure

The National Gallery exhibits one of the most startling and fascinating artists of all-time - Johannes Vermeer, painter of the Girl with a Pearl Earring. Vermeer painted little more than 30...

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Saturday, October 19, 2013 13:00 Sunday, October 20, 2013 13:00 Tuesday, October 22, 2013 18:30 more...

Director: Phil Grabsky

Running Time: 1hr 40 mins

Rating: TBA