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The CRY-BABY Sessions allow parents to come back to the movies again!
• Sessions open only to parents and their babies (and of course toddlers and young children) where we allow anything to go - crying, kicking, screaming, and yes, breastfeeding too! We'll even leave the lights half on so you can see what you're doing!
• Ticket prices are $15.50 adult; $11.00 unemployed, students and seniors;
$9.00 for pensioners and $13.50 for industry concessions; $11 Privilege Card Members. |
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Happy Go Lucky (PG)
Cry-baby session -
Wednesday July 9, 11am
Now Showing
Director: Mike Leigh (SECRETS AND LIES)
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Poppy (Sally Hawkins, THE PAINTED VEIL) is an irrepressibly cheerful primary school teacher who won’t let anyone or anything get her down. Even when her bicycle, which she so happily rides through the busy streets of London is stolen, her first thought is only: “I didn’t even get a chance to say goodbye.”
Living with her flatmate Zoe, Poppy has a gift for making the most of life. Determined to learn to drive, she finds herself matched with Scott (Eddie Marsan, THE ILLUSIONIST), an uptight driving instructor who is everything she is not. From Director Mike Leigh (VERA DRAKE), HAPPY GO LUCKY is a laugh-out-loud comedy about having fun, looking for love and getting on with life.
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Salute (PG)
Cry-baby session -
Wednesday July 23, 11am
Now Showing
Starts July 17
Director: Matt Norman (THE UMBRELLA MEN)
102mins
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SALUTE is a journey back to the 1960's and beyond, to examine what has now become one of the most famous Olympic moments in history.
The 1968 Mexico Olympics was notorious for so many reasons. When The Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia prior to the games, as well as the mass killings of Mexican Students during the Student protests, Vietnam, the Assassination of Robert Kennedy Junior and Martin Luther King Jr, sports and politics were destined to meet. The American outcry followed by complaints of unfair high-altitude, proved to be just the beginning. Nevertheless, America could never have foreseen the dramatic momentum that has prevailed over 35 years since the event that is “The civil rights movement”.
SALUTE being written, directed and produced by Peter Norman’s nephew Matt Norman, promises to be a fascinating and exclusive insight into the drama that was the Mexico Olympics, as well as the drama that followed in the lives of all three men on that dais. This film is personal. It’s about three men that consider themselves brothers for life. Matt Norman has been welcomed into this acceptance of brotherhood with both Tommie Smith and John Carlos which gives this film a truth all of it’s own; A family one. To find a truly amazing man you must first know that man from start to finish. This is Peter Norman’s untold story….. |
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How About You (M)
Cry-baby session -
Wednesday August 6, 11am
Now Showing
Starts July 24
Director: Anthony Byrne
110mins
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HOW ABOUT YOU, adapted from a short story by author Maeve Binchy and featuring a stellar cast, tells the story of Ellie (Hayley Atwell), a carefree young woman who is left in charge of a residential home in the beautiful Irish countryside owned and run by her older sister Kate (Orla Brady). Kate is the sensible one, while Ellie is impetuous. It's Christmas time, and most of the residents of the home have left to spend the festive period with their families. Remaining at the home are four grumpy old residents known as "the hardcore": retired screen beauty Georgia (Vanessa Redgrave), spinster sisters Hazel (Imelda Staunton) and Heather (Brenda Fricker), and a retired High Court judge, Donald (Joss Ackland). It's a baptism of fire for Ellie whose youth and inexperience bring her head to head with the cantankerous foursome. |
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The Savages (M)
Cry-baby session -
Wednesday August 20, 11am
Now Showing
Starts July 24
Director: Tamara Jenkins (THE SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS)
124mins
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Laura Linney was nominated for an Oscar for her lead performance in THE SAVAGES. Along with a best original screenplay Oscar nomination, the film also stars Philip Seymour Hoffman in an irreverent look at family, love and mortality as seen through the lens of one of modern life’s most bewildering and challenging experiences: when adult siblings find themselves plucked from their everyday, self-centred lives to care for an estranged elderly parent.
The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back at their difficult family history. Having wriggles their way out from beneath their father’s domineering thumb, they are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. Wendy (Linney, MYSTIC RIVER) is a struggling East Village playwright, AKA a temp who spends her day applying for grants, stealing office supplies and dating her very married neighbour. Jon (Seymour Hoffman, CAPOTE) is a neurotic college professor writing books on obscure subjects in Buffalo. Then comes the call that informs them that the father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage (Philip Bosco, WONDER BOYS), is slowly being consumed by dementia and they are the only ones that can help.
Now, as they put their already arrested lived on hold, Wendy and Jon are forced to live together under one roof for the first time since childhood, rediscovering the eccentricities that drove each other crazy. Faced with complete upheaval and battling over how to handle their father’s final days, they are confronted with what adulthood, family and, most surprisingly, each other are really about. |
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The Visitor (TBC)
Cry-baby session -
Wednesday September 9, 11am
Director: Thomas McCarthy
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Sixty-two-year-old Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins, SIX FEET UNDER) is sleep walking through his life. Having lost his passionfor teaching and writing, he fills the void by unsuccessfully trying to learn to play classical piano. When his college sends him to Manhattan to attend a conference, Walkter is surprised to find a young couple has taken up residence in his apartment. Victims of a real estate scam, Tarket (Haaz Sleiman, 24), a Syrian man, and Zanab, his Senegalese girlfriend, have nowhere else to go. In the first of a series of tests of the heart, Walter reluctantly allows the couple to stay with him. Through the newfound connections with three virtual strangers, Walter is awakened to a new world and a new life. |
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