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Every Little Step (M)
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Director: Adam Del Deo & James D. Stern
96m
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EVERY LITTLE STEP explores the incredible journey of A Chorus Line, from ambitious idea to international phenomenon. Contrasting the original musical with the current revival, EVERY LITTLE STEP investigates why the musical’s themes are so timeless and universal. Going behind the scenes of the recent revival’s open casting – being staged by many members of the original production – and featuring exclusive interviews and original footage from the show’s evolution, the dramatic journey of the performers offers an unfolding story of life imitating art. A fantastic documentary for all lovers of musical theatre, Adam Del Deo & James D. Stern’s film will leave you singing all the Chorus Line favourites with renewed bravado. |
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Hugo Weaving gives a heart-wrenching performance as a father, Kev, whose impulses cause him to go on a journey across the Australian desert with his young son (Tom Russell). As the two travel through small towns, avoiding human connections and the truth about why they’re on the run, the relationship between father and son both develops but becomes increasingly wayward. The director of the Palme d’Or winning short ‘Crackerbag’, director Glendyn Ivin’s drama deftly treads a fine-line of family dysfunction against the stunning backdrop of our local landscape. Premiered at the 2009 Adelaide Film Festival. |
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Wake In Fright (M)
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Director: Ted Kotcheff (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, First Blood)
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Based on the novel by Kenneth Cook, director Ted Kotcheff’s controversial 1971 Australian/American co-production was almost lost to cinema’s past as the only known 16mm and 35m prints of the film were in an extremely poor condition for screening. But the 2004 discovery of the original negatives in a Pittsburgh vault destined for destruction has seen the film carefully restored by the National Film and Sound Archive and Atlab/Deluxe, securing a slot in the Classics Program at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, where it first premiered in 1971 and was nominated for the Golden Palm Award. Starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty and Jack Thompson, Cook’s story of a young teacher who becomes trapped within the violent and drunken culture of the Australian outback is a riveting drama that is now considered a classic of Australian Cinema Culture. Fully restored 35mm print. |
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Audrey Tautou (Amelie) gives a tour-de-force performance as one of the twentieth century’s most influential designers, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel. Beginning with Chanel being born into a poor family living in rural France, Fontaine’s film illustrates how a keen eye for women’s fashion and revolutionary approach to design allowed her to rise above the family provincial background and establish herself on the international stage. Taking inspiration from the most unlikely of places - such as military uniforms and nun’s habits - Chanel carefully and cleverly used her way with men to get closer to the centre for fashion, Paris. Co-starring Alessandro Nivola, Benoit Poelvoorde and Emmanuelle Devos, COCO AVANT CHANEL (Coco Before Chanel) is a stunningly-produced romantic biography as refreshing as a splash of No. 5. |
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Professor David Lurie’s (John Malkovich) life falls apart after he has an impulsive affair with one of his students. Forced to resign from Cape Town University he escapes to his daughter’s farm in an isolated part of rural South Africa. Questioning his daughter’s complicity in the Government’s generosity to her black neighbour, David’s views are darkened further after he and his daughter are the victims of a vicious attack. Uncompromising, challenging and utterly riveting, DISGRACE takes a broader view of South Africa where it’s white residents now face the realities of a new type of discrimination. Winner: Critic’s Prize, Toronto International Film Festival. |
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Sunshine Cleaning (M)
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Director: Christine Jeffs (Sylvia, Rain)
112m
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From the makers of ‘Little Miss Sunshine’, Amy Adams stars as Rose; a single-mother who struggles to make ends meet. Spending her days cleaning homes much nicer than the one she shares with her young son, Rose decides to team-up with her rebellious sister Norah (Emily Blunt) to start her own business in the growth-industry of crime scene clean-ups. Leaving her son in the care of the sisters’ cranky wheeler-dealer father (Alan Arkin), Rose soon discovers that while she doesn’t mind the icky workload there’s much more that comes with the job. |
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Four Of A Kind (M)
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Director: Fiona Cochrane (debut) |
While interviewing a surgeon’s wife for a murder investigation, a cop remembers a long-forgotten crime, revealed later to her psychiatrist. But the psychiatrist has problems of her own. Her new lover, a much younger man, might be having an affair. Her best friend might be a blackmailer, or even a murderer. The surgeon’s wife prefers to omit the truth, but in the end, the truth will out…or will it? The debut feature of Fiona Cochrane, Australian drama FOUR OF A KIND is based on Helen Collins’ play Disclosure, which was performed at the Melbourne Fringe Festival and La Mama Theatre. Starring Leverne McDonnell and Gail Watson. |
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Two Lovers (M)
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Director: James Gray (The Yards, We Own The Night)
109m
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Set in insular world of Brooklyn, TWO LOVERS and is a classic tale of love, choice and consequence. After moving back home, Leonard (Joaquin Phoenix in his alleged last film performance) meets two women in quick succession: Michelle (Gwyneth Paltrow), a mysterious and beautiful neighbour who is exotic and out-of-place in Leonard’s staid world, and Sandra (Vinessa Shaw), the lovely and caring daughter of a businessman who is buying out his family’s dry-cleaning business. Leonard is forced to make an impossible decision – between the impetuousness of desire and the comfort of love – or risk falling back into the darkness that nearly killed him. |
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Katyn (MA15+)
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Director: Andrzej Wajda (Ashes and Diamonds)
Victoria Galardi, Martin Carranza
121m
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Directed by the famous Andrzej Wajda and acclaimed as his most important film, KATYN is about the murder of thousands of Polish officers by the Soviet Secret Police (among those killed was Wajda’s own father). Using stories from authentic diaries and letters to relate the fate of officers and their families, KATYN shows the predicament of Poland in this true story. The secret deal between Hitler and Stalin – one of the world’s most shocking turn of wartime events – is also detailed in cinema for the first time.
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State Of Play (M)
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Director: Kevin Macdonald (Last King Of Scotland, Touching The Void)
127m
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Based on the acclaimed BBC miniseries, director Kevin Macdonald’s adaptation is set in the halls of power in Washington DC. A young woman is mysteriously killed, causing an affair had by her with a young crusading Congressman (Ben Affleck) to become public. Sensing a bigger story, a journalist (Russell Crowe) digs deeper with the assistance of a young recruit (Rachel McAdams). Weaving a complex web that traverses politics, journalism, war and big business, Macdonald’s film is a thoroughly modern political thriller that instils the importance of the media in bringing the truth to the surface. Co-starring Helen Mirren and Jason Bateman.
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My Year Without Sex (M)
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Director: Sarah Watt (Look Both Ways)
92 mins
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AFI Award winning director Sarah Watt (Look Both Ways) returns with a quintessentially Aussie comedy starring Sasha Horler and Matt Day as working class parents Natalie and Ross. When an unexpected event throws everything into chaos, Natalie and Ross struggle to keep both their everyday lives and “everynight” activities on-track. Authentically capturing Australian suburban life complete with its laughter and tears, Watt’s film is a breath of fresh air.
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Power, money and blood: these are the ‘values’ that the residents of the province of Naples and Caserta confront every day. They have practically no choice and are forced to obey the rules of the ‘System’, the Camorra. Only a lucky few can even think of leading a ‘normal’ life. Five stories are woven together in this violent scenario, set in a cruel and ostensibly invented world, but one that is deeply rooted in reality. Based on the controversial, bestselling novel of the same name and winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival 2008.
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Samson And Delilah (MA15+)
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Director: Warwick Thornton (Nana)
101 mins
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Acclaimed short filmmaker Warwick Thornton makes his feature debut with a riveting romance set in Australia’s Red Centre. Delilah (Marissa Gibson) spends her life caring for her grandmother Kitty, an indigenous artist. Samson (Rowan McNamara) is a young man lost in his remote, mundane existence. Brought together by Kitty, Samson and Delilah begin a tenuous courtship which blossoms under extreme circumstances. Winner: Audience Award, Adelaide Film Festival. |
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Mary and Max (PG)
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Director: Adam Elliot (Harvey Crumpet)
99 mins
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Oscar Winner Adam Elliot makes his feature claymation debut with MARY AND MAX, a tale of pen-friendship between two very different people. Mary Dinkle, a lonely 8 year old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, selects 44 year old New Yorker Max Horovitz at-random to become her pen-friend. Spanning 20 years, 2 continents and many of life’s ups and downs, Mary and Max’s friendship takes us on a journey that explores autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism, obesity, kleptomania, sexual difference, trust, copulating dogs, religious difference, agoraphobia and where babies come with Elliot’s signature style. |
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