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| The Disappearance Of Alice Creed (CTC) |
commences September 9
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| A terrifically enjoyable film from debut writer-director J Blakeson. In the ten minutes before the first words, The Disappearance of Alice Creed has already proven itself an economical debut thriller on par with Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave – with which it’s often been compared. Prepping for an abduction with ruthless efficiency, ex-cons Vic (Eddie Marsan) and Danny (Martin Compston) get their prey, Alice (Gemma Arterton), trussed and shackled in a soundproofed room. Yet the more meticulously one plans the perfect crime, the less effort it takes for things to go very awry. |
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| Reluctant Infidel (MA15+) |
commences September 16
105min
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| An identity crisis comedy centred on Mahmud Nasir, successful business owner, and salt of the earth East End Muslim who discovers that he's adopted - and Jewish. Meet MAHMUD NASIR (Omid Djalili), loving husband, doting father and something of a relaxed Muslim. Does the F word occasionally pass his lips? Its hardly worth mentioning. Does he say his prayers five times a day? Of course! Well, usually Does he fast every day of Ramadan? Whos counting anyway? He may not be the most observant, but in his heart he is as Muslim as it gets. But after his mothers death a discovery turns Mahmuds world upside down. He finds his birth certificate which reveals that not only was he adopted at birthbut hes Jewish, and his real name is Solly Shimshillewitz! As Mahmud tumbles headlong into a full scale identity crisis, the only person he can turn to is LENNY (Richard Schiff), a drunken Jewish cabbie who agrees to give him lessons in Jewishness, which start with how to dance like Topol. Oy vey. |
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| The Girl Who Played With Fire (MA15+) |
commences September 23
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| The award-winning and best-selling Millennium trilogy has fast become a global phenomenon, selling over 25 million copies in over 40 countries. Author Stieg Larsson was the world’s second-best selling author of 2008, but tragically died before any of his trilogy were published. Like the first film, THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE is stylish, intelligent, dark and action packed. |
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| Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (CTC) |
commences September 23
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| Michael Douglas and Shia LaBeouf star in Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street 2.” Douglas is back in his Oscar®-winning role as Gordon Gekko, whose iconic “Greed is good” mantra and daring corporate raids made him a rock star of financial titans. Emerging from a lengthy prison stint, Gekko finds himself on the outside of a world he once dominated. He now has to play catch-up and redefine himself in a different era. He has to become relevant again. But a young, idealistic investment banker (LaBeouf) learns the hard way that Gekko is still a master manipulator – and if there’s one place where you can redefine yourself, one place where your relevance is a deal away, it’s Wall Street. |
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commences September 30
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| A French Australian co production, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marton Csokas and Aden Young and is directed by French filmmaker Julie Bertuccelli (Since Otar Left). Filmed entirely in Australia, it is an adaptation of the novel Our Father Who Art in the Tree. It received a standing ovation when it closed the Cannes Film Festival. After the sudden death of her father, 8-year-old Simone shares a secret with her mother Dawn. She’s convinced her father speaks to her through the leaves of her favourite tree and he’s come back to protect them. But the new bond between mother and daughter is threatened when Dawn starts a relationship with George, the plumber, called in to remove the tree’s troublesome roots. As the branches of the tree start to infiltrate the house, the family is forced to make an agonising decision. But have they left it too late... |
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commences October 7
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| Based on Elizabeth Gilbert's best selling memoir of the same name. Julia Roberts plays Gilbert, a woman who had everything a modern women is supposed to dream of having - a husband, a house, a successful career - yet she found herself lost, confused and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world - visiting Italy, India and Indonesia - that becomes a quest for self-discovery. |
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| City of Your Final Destination (CTC) |
commences October 14
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| Ensemble cast features Anthony Hopkins, Omar Metwally, Laura Linney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and directed by the legendaryNorma Aleandro James Ivory. 28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi (Metwally) wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar travels to Uraguay to get through to the three people who were closest to Gund - his brother (Hopkins), widow (Linney), and younger mistress (Gainsbourg) - so he can get authorization to write the biography. |
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commences October 28
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| WINNER BEST PICTURE AND BEST SCREENPLAY SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL. Bleak, haunting and yet still hopeful, Winter’s Bone features an incredible starmaking performance from Jennifer Lawrence. 17 year old Ree Dolly (Lawrence) sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin’s code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth. Based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell, Winter’s Bone was filmed entirely on location in the Ozarks of Southwestern Missouri |
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| Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Pt. 1 (CTC) |
commences November 18
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| Instead of distilling J.K. Rowling's behemoth bestseller into a single film, director David Yates (who also helmed Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Price) has divided the final book in the series into a pair of movies. Part 1 begins as Harry, Ron and Hermione set out on their perilous mission to track down and destroy the secret to Voldemort's immortality and destruction - the Horcruxes. On their own, without the guidance of their professors or the protection of Professor Dumbledore, the three friends must now rely on one another more than ever. |
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commences November 18
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| Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, GasLand is a personal story that rapidly becomes a global one. Josh Fox lives in a rural retreat in upstate New York. One day he receives a letter making an offer for the rights to drill for natural gas on his land. He starts to ask questions and the more he asks, the more devastating are the answers. A drilling boom across America, using a system of hydraulic fracturing or 'fracking' (a method also on the rise in Australia), has contaminated the water table in numerous states, but the corporate giants are in cover-up mode and the government has regulated itself out of the picture. |
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commences TBC
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Julianne Moore and Liam Neeson are Catherine and David, two successful professionals living in an upscale East Coast suburb with their moody teenage son, they seem happily married. When David misses a flight home to a surprise birthday party arranged by Catherine, she begins to suspect that David may not be faithful. A later discover seems to confirm Catherine's suspicions, causing her to test her husband. Arranging to meet a young woman, Chloe (Amanda Seyfried), with a plan to get her to seduce her husband, Catherine finds herself 'directing' the planned encounter with David. With Chloe expected to report back following the encounter, Catherine begins a strange friendship with the woman who may lead to the end of her marriage and an unexpected personal discovery. Directed by Atom Egoyan. |
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