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The Artist (PG)
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Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Run time: 100 mins
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A sublimely funny love letter to the end of silent movies in 1920s Hollywood, The Artist’s depiction of Hollywood’s golden age makes it this year’s Oscar dark horse. George Valentin (Cannes 2011 Best Actor winner Jean Dujardin) is a handsome and debonair star whose career comes to a crushing end with the advent of ‘talking pictures’. As Valentin quickly disappears from the A-list his former co-star Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo) shoots to stardom, potentially leaving their budding romance in her wake. Winner of the Audience Awards at both the San Sebastian and Hamptons International Film Festivals, The Artist also took out the ‘Palm Dog’ award at Cannes for Valentin’s canine co-star Uggy.
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Martha Marcy May Marlene (MA15+)
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Director: Sean Durkin
Run time: 101 minutes
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Martha (Elizabeth Olsen ) is a young woman rapidly unravelling amidst her attempt to reclaim a normal life after fleeing from a cult and its charismatic leader (John Hawkes). Seeking help from her estranged older sister Lucy (Sarah Paulson) and her brother-in-law (Hugh Dancy), Martha is unable and unwilling to reveal the truth about her disappearance. When her memories trigger a chilling paranoia that her former cult could still be pursuing her, the line between Martha’s reality and delusion begins to blur. A powerful psychological thriller. |
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Academy award winner Clint Eastwood directs Academy Award nominee Leonardo DiCaprio as FBI director J.Edgar, the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years. J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life. As seen through the eyes of Hoover himself, J. Edgar explores the personal and public life and relationships of a man who could distort the truth as easily as he upheld it, during a life devoted to his own idea of justice, often swayed by the darker side of power. |
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Weekend (MA15+)
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Director: Andrew Haigh
Run time: 97 mins
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Winner of best actor and best feature at Nashville Film Festival, Tom Haigh’s modern love story follows the budding romance of young Englishman Russell (newcomer Tom Cullen) and artist Glen (Chris New). What starts out as a casual Friday night tryst at a nightclub unexpectedly becomes something more as the two young men spend the next 48 hours together; sharing stories and reliving experiences with one another. Affecting and naturalistic, Weekend is a beautifully realized story of human connection that has deservedly earned comparisons with Richard Linklater's beloved Before Sunrise.
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A Few Best Men (MA15+)
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Director: Stephan Elliott
Run time: 97 mins
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When English lad David (Xavier Samuel) announces he is getting married to Australian Mia (Laura Brent), his hapless London mates are aghast and give a whole new meaning to the phrase 'for better or worse'! But of course they wouldn't miss the Blue Mountains wedding! Along the way, they have a run in with a crazed drug dealer (Steve Le Marquand) a large Merino sheep, and the pride possession of David's father in law, Senator Jim (Jonathan Biggins). The hilarious, chaos-filled wedding day risks turning what should be the best day of their lives into the worst.
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All’s Well, Ends Well 2012 (PG)
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Director: Chan Hing Ka
Runtime: 118 mins
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Cantonese (with Traditional Chinese & English sub-titles) The sixth instalment of the All’s Well Ends Well series, this beloved slapstick comedy features a star-studded cast including Donnie Yen, Louis Koo, Chapman To, Raymond Wong, Sandra Ng, Kelly Chen, Lynn Hung and Yang Mi. Follows the lives of four men on a heroic mission to help four female protagonists, who find themselves on a journey of self-discovery and beautiful new relationships.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (MA15+)
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Director: Tomas Alfredson
Run time: 127 mins
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Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Tom Hardy lead an all-star cast in this gripping spy thriller adapted from John Le Carré’s cult bestseller. George Smiley (Oldman) , a recently retired MI6 agent, is doing his best to adjust to a life outside the secret service. However, when a disgraced agent reappears with information concerning a mole at the heart of the Circus, Smiley is drawn back into the murky field of espionage. Tasked with investigating which of his trusted former colleagues has chosen to betray him and their country, Smiley narrows his search to four suspects – all experienced, urbane, successful agents – but past histories, rivalries and friendships make it far from easy to pinpoint. |
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Academy Award winner Charlize Theron plays Mavis Gary, ghost writer of teen literature and thirty something single who returns to her small hometown in an attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson). When reliving her glory days as ‘Queen Bee’ proves more difficult than she expected, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate (Patton Oswalt) whose high school experiences were quite unlike her own. Reuniting director Jason Reitman with the Academy Award winning screenwriter of Juno, Diablo Cody, this acid-tongued black comedy warns against looking back on adolescence through rose coloured glasses or, worse, beer goggles.
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Oscar-winners George Clooney and Alexander Payne unite in this heart-warming drama about a family at crossroads. Clooney plays Matt King, an indifferent husband and father forced to re-examine his life when his wife suffers a boating accident. As he attempts to repair his relationship with his daughters - precocious Scottie (Amara Miller) and rebellious Alexandra (Shailene Woodley), he discovers his wife was having an affair. With his girls in tow, Matt embarks on a haphazard search for his wife’s lover, leading to a tumultuous awakening that changes his concept of love, fatherhood and what it truly takes to be a man.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (MA15+)
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Director: David Fincher
Run time: 158 mins
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Directed by David Fincher, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first of three planned English language adaptations of Stieg Larsson's The Millennium Trilogy. Hoping to distance himself from the fallout of a libel conviction, journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) retreats to a remote island in Sweden’s far north. Turning his focus to the unsolved murder of a young girl forty years before, Blomkvist’s investigation gradually draws him into an unseemly side of elite society. Forever mindful that the killer may still roam free in the area, the ongoing investigation causes the journalist to join forces with an unlikely ally: tattooed computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara).
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Winner: Best Film & Best Director, National Board Of Review! Academy Award-wining director Martin Scorsese presents his first-ever 3-D film, based on Brian Selznick's award-winning, imaginative New York Times best-seller The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Hugo tells the story of an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. With the help of an eccentric girl, he searches for the answer to a mystery linking the father he recently lost, the ill-tempered toy shop owner living below him and a heart shaped lock, seemingly without a key. A passionate brief for film preservation wrapped in a fanciful tale of childhood intrigue and adventure, Hugo dazzlingly conjoins the earliest days of cinema with the very latest big-screen technology. Co-starring Sasha Baron Cohen and Ben Kingsley. |
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Based on the beloved children’s novel ‘The Borrowers’, Arrietty is the new film created by the renowned Japanese animation house that brought you Spirited Away and Ponyo, Studio Ghibli. When a young boy moves to the country home of a relative, little does he expect to meet 14-year-old Arrietty. Only measuring a few inches tall, Arrietty lives in secret beneath the floorboards of the house with her equally tiny parents. Only occasionally venturing out for supplies, by coming into contact with the new houseguest Arrietty puts the very existence of her family in danger. Produced and written by Hayao Miyazaki, Cinema Nova is proud to present both the original Japanese version screening with subtitles as well as the dubbed English language version. |
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In a performance that is likely to win a long-overdue Oscar for Best Actress, Meryl Streep stars as Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher rose from her career as a barrister to smash through barriers of gender and class in a male dominated world. In this surprising and intimate biographic drama the Iron Lady’s equally victorious and tumultuous time at 10 Downing Street is brought to vivid life by Streep. Incorporating archival footage and key moments in Thatcher’s career, Lloyd’s film portrays the autocratic style that allowed for her rise to power as well as her eventual downfall.
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The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn (PG)
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Director: Steven Spielberg
Run time: 107 min
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A spectacular 3D adventure based on the series of books The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé. The film is directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Steven Moffat and Edgar Wright & Joe Cornish, with Steven Spielberg also producing alongside Peter Jackson. Tintin (Jamie Bell) is an intrepid young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure. Co-stars Daniel Craig as the nefarious Red Rackham, with Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Toby Jones. |
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The
Skin I Live In (MA15+)
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Director: Pedro Almodovar
Running Time: 117 min
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Premiering in competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival
in May 2011, Pedro Almodovar’s latest production,
The Skin I Live In, reunites the director with former
collaborator Antonio Banderas after a 21 year hiatus.
Banderas plays Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon
who, after losing his wife in a fiery car accident twelve
years earlier, succeeds in creating a damage-resistant
synthetic skin that would have saved her life. Described
by Almodovar as a “horror story without screams
or frights”, the director’s signature directorial
flair adds an unhinged flamboyance to the already gripping
suspense.
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Albert
Nobbs (M)
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Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Run Time: 114 min
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In late 19th century Ireland, a woman disguises herself
as a man in order to gain employment as a butler in Dublin’s
most prestigious hotel. After 20 years as Albert Nobbs
(Glenn Close), meets a man for whom she considers letting
the mask she has worn for so long slip away. Adapted for
the screen by Close and Booker Prize-winning author John
Banville, Albert Nobbs also stars Mia Wasikovska, Jonathan
Rhys Myers, Aaron Johnson and Brendan Gleeson. |
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Written and directed by Lars von Trier (Antichrist), Melancholia
explores the relationship between sisters Justine (Kirsten
Dunst in her courageous, award-winning role) who is suffering
depression, and her sensible older sister Claire (Charlotte
Gainsbourg). Tension is rife between Justine, Claire,
and their family and the situation escalates when life
is threatened by the rapid approach of the mysterious
planet ‘Melancholia’. A visually stunning
emotional journey which earned Kirsten Dunst a Best Actress
gong at the Cannes Film Festival. |
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The
Women on the 6th Floor (PG)
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Run time: 106 min
Director: Philippe Le Guay
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Paris, 1962: Wealthy stockbroker Jean-Louis Jouvert (Fabrice
Luchini) lives a staid bourgeois existence with his socialite
wife (Sandrine Kiberlain), until they hire Maria (Natalia
Verbeke) a young, hardworking Spanish maid. Through Maria,
Jean-Louis’ eyes are opened to a new and refreshing
world of music, culture and the joie de vivre of the other
Spanish servants living on the building’s sixth
floor (including Almodóvar favourites Carmen
Maura and Lola Duenas). Before long the balance of the
household ruptures into wild, cross-cultural chaos with
unexpected results. A massive hit in France where
it screened in cinemas for over six months, Philippe Le
Guay’s hilarious and heart-warming film is a delight |
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The
Ides of March (M)
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Director: George Clooney
Run time: 98 mins
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Ryan Gosling stars as Stephen Myers, an idealistic campaign
press secretary working during a heavily contested Ohio
presidential primary election. As Election Day looms,
he finds himself involved in a political scandal that
threatens to upend his candidate's shot at the presidency.
Based on the play by Beau Willimon and featuring an all-star
cast including Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Marissa Tomei, Jeffrey Wright, George Clooney and Evan-Rachel
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We
Need To Talk About Kevin (MA15+)
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Director: Lynne Ramsay
Run Time: 111 minutes
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Adapted from Lionel Shriver's bestselling novel, Lynne
Ramsey (Morvern Callar) directs Tilda Swinton in a breathtakingly
fragile performance as Eva, a concerned mother who finds
it near impossible to connect with her son Kevin (Erza
Miller). While Kevin’s father (John C Reilly) seems
to have little trouble encouraging his son’s pursuits,
Eva believes she is dealing with a totally different child
whose actions toward her are highly motivated. When Kevin
does the unimaginable, Eva searches within herself for
an answer to the question of whether she is responsible
for his actions. Chilling, captivating and exquisitely
directed, We Need To Talk About Kevin is certain to figure
amongst the best films of the year after being nominated
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Moneyball (M)
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Director: Bennett Miller (Capote)
Run time: 133 minutes
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Based on a true story, Brad Pitt stars in a drama that
critics are calling a strong Oscar contender. Working
from a screenplay by two of cinema’s greatest writers,
Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) and Steve Zaillian (Schindler’s
List), director Bennett Miller assembles an all-star cast
including Pitt, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jonah Hill and
Robin Wright for this uplifting story of a baseball team
manager whose players can’t win. Unable to compete
with financially stronger teams such as the New York Yankees,
Billy Beane (Pitt) hires a number cruncher (Hill) who
works with him to put together a team of misfit players
who, together, might possess the combined skills to compete.
Elevated by rapid-fire dialogue and white-hot performances,
Miller’s film transcends the sports genre to become
riveting drama.
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Drive
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Director: Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson)
Run time: 100min
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Winner of Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival, Nicolas
Winding Refn’s electrifying new film is already
being lauded as one of the best films of the year. Ryan
Gosling stars as a Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as
a getaway driver. Promising his clients that he will whisk
them away from any crime scene, he has an uncanny ability
to elude police patrols and helicopter units. Keeping
to himself, he unexpectedly strikes up a friendship with
his neighbour Irene (Carey Mulligan) and her young son
Benicio. Looking to avoid involving them in his criminal
activities, fate intervenes by bringing him to the attention
of underworld heavies Bernie Rose (an outstanding Albert
Brooks) and his goon Nino (Ron Perlman). |
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Midnight
In Paris (PG)
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Director: Woody Allen
Running time: 94 mins
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On holidays in Paris with his fiancé, Gil, a successful
Hollywood screenwriter and self-confessed nostalgist,
harbours the dream of someday writing a great American
novel. He’s besotted with the golden age of Paris
of the 1920s, and the legends of Hemingway, Fitzgerald,
Picasso, Dali… Exploring the city, Gil embarks
on an enchanted journey to discover the streets alive
with hidden wonders that will change his life forever.
Featuring Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Michael
Sheen, Marion Cotillard and Adrien Brody, Midnight In
Paris is an exhilarating valentine to the City of Light,
and a sheer pleasure to watch – beguiling, magical,
thoughtful and very funny, and a paean to dreamers and
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The
Room (M)
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Director: Tommy Wiseau (Homeless in America, Neighbors)
Running time: 99 mins.
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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 beautiful
fiancée, Lisa, great friends and a job with a promotion
in the works. But Lisa, (Juliette Danielle) isn’t
who she seems. Manipulative and restless, Lisa sets her
sights on Johnnys best friend Mark (Greg Sestero) and
they start a torrid affair and Johnny’s perfect
world starts to crumble. Featured on Adult Swim’s
Tim and Eric, Awesome Show, Great Job! and beloved by
comic actors such as David Cross and Alec Baldwin, The
Room has garnered a massive cult following, selling out
sessions across the US, leaving audiences stunned and
wondering “how can so bad, be so good?” Don’t
miss your chance to see The Room at Cinema Nova.
Read director/writer/star
Tommy Wiseau’s letter to his Australian fans.
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