Where Stars light the Screen GENERAL INFORMATION LOCATION Deckchair Cinema screens films 7 nights a week from April Jervois Road, Darwin Waterfront until November. We are open nightly from 6pm, with films FREE parking at Deckchair and on starting promptly at the advertised time. the Esplanade. DINNER AND DRINKS Only a short walk from town, We have delicious meals available to buy every night from take the scenic Damoe Ra Park our caterers. You can bring your own food, but remember walkway to the cinema (just you cannot bring your own alcohol. We are a fully licensed before Parliament House). venue and our bar opens from 6pm nightly. Film InfoLine: Deckchair Get down early to enjoy dinner and a drink on our popular Cinema dining deck. Deckchair Cinema is an ideal location to catch (08) 8981 0700 the sea breeze while the sun sets on Darwin Harbour.

TICKETS DECKCHAIR CATERING BY: Buy tickets online at www.deckchaircinema.com to skip the queue; we don’t charge any online booking fees! Or buy Saturday & Monday tickets at our Box Office nightly from 6pm (sorry we cannot 0412 073 007 process in-person or telephone bookings outside of our Box [email protected] deebeecatering.com.au Office hours). www.facebook.com/deebeecatering Single Double Sessions Tickets (weekends only) Adults $16 $24 Tuesday & Thursday 0401 755 471 Concession* $12 $18 [email protected] SUNDAY Members* $10 $15 Children (5-15) $8 $12 FUNDRAISERS Family – 2 adults and 2 children $35 $55 Children 4 and under Free Free All ticket profits go to Darwin-based * ID required Wednesday & Friday NFPs on Sunday nights. Want to have a 93 Mitchell St, Darwin fundraiser night next year? 08 8941 3500 Applications open 1 Nov - 31 Jan yearly. [email protected] Get your tickets at www.hanuman.com.au www.facebook.com/hanuman www.deckchaircinema.com *Sunday nights is fundraiser catering www.deckchaircinema.com SPECIAL EVENTS DECKCHAIR LIVE PROGRAM 1, 2018 Mini 18 – 20 April Deckchair Cinema reopens with some of the best new Indonesian cinema handpicked from the 12th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival. We also welcome Guest of Honour , arguably ’s most 18 April - 3 June famous filmmaker and director of Nyai. FLiCKERFEST Friday 4 May Who: JUNO FLiCKERFEST is Australia’s leading Academy® JUNO is an internet bounty hunter of elusive beats, collector of unexposed grooves, curator of classy bangers. Named after the Roland Juno-106 and raised on his mother’s Accredited and BAFTA-recognised short taste of funk, jazz, and R&B, JUNO fuses the music he inherited with electronica and film festival. Over two separate screenings trip-hop. JUNO will lead your ears to experience the hand drums and exotica of the see highlights from their Australian and east all the way all the way to the harmonicas and gunslingin’ shootouts of the west International shorts programs. More info through his unique mixing style and meticulously curated playlist. flickerfest.com.au When: Wednesday 18 April, pre-film performance Members Night: Columbus Film: Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts, screening 7.30pm followed by Q&A with Garin Nugroho Thursday 10 May *Opening Night film! DFS Members get FREE entry! Members Night is special in that we have live music before the film and Café Cinema afterwards. Café Cinema is a group discussion over complimentary refreshments. Tonight’s discussion will be hosted by local architect Katy Moir. DFS Members AGM Saturday 12 May Members please pop it in the diary: 5:00pm on Sat 12 May is the date for Who: Ben Evolent the 2018 Darwin Film Society AGM. Award winning songwriter Ben Evolent lives up to his namesake. The Northern See you on the deck! Territory folk/reggae/blues artist fills his songs with a healthy dose of raw emotion, relatable truths, loveable melodies and lively hooks. And this generous style makes Reconciliation Week Films him one of the Northern Territory’s most loved songwriters and live performers. When: Thursday 10 May, pre-film performance 28 May – 2 June Film: Columbus, screening 7.30pm followed by Café Cinema It’s been over 10 years since the *Free Entry to DFS Members National Apology was made on 13 February 2008. We commemorate this event with a special Reconciliation Week program. MEMBERSHIP $75 Why Warriors Fundraiser Become a member of the Darwin Film Society and over your 12-month membership you get: Thursday 31 May Tix to this event raise funds for a Yolngu • 4 FREE tickets per year Health Retreat to combat diabetes rates. Why • 4 FREE members’ screenings per year Warriors’ Hope for Health project is headed by 12 Yolngu ladies and Dr Kama Trudgen. The • A MASSIVE $6 discount off the Adult ticket price Australia’s iconic outdoor cinema project is featured in the doco The Magic Pill. • And MUCH MORE! operated by the Darwin Film Society See website for more details and to purchase. www.deckchaircinema.com PROGRAM 1, 2018 After The Apology (M) 81m Phantom Thread (M) 130m 2017, Larissa Behrendt, Australia 2017, Paul Thomas Anderson, UK 2 June 5, 11, 21 May The number of Aboriginal children being Set in the glamour of 1950s post-war 18 April - 3 June removed today by welfare agencies is much London, a renowned dressmaker (Daniel higher than during the time of the Stolen Day-Lewis) is at the centre of British Generations. A landmark documentary fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, Skip the queue! Get tickets at www.deckchaircinema.com exploring the continued practice of child and socialites. When he falls in love removal and the community response. with an enigmatic waitress, life takes a APRIL Coco (PG) 109m psychosexual turn. Sun 15-Apr 7:30 FUNDRAISER: Spark Film Initiative - M 2017, Lee Unkrich, USA Pop Aye (M) 104m Swinging Safari 27 April | 17 May 2017, Kirsten Tan, Thailand Pixar’s newest animated wonder is a leap 24, 28 April 18-20 April: Darwin Mini-Indonesian Film Festival into a fantasy world with young hero Miguel A disenchanted architect bumps into his with Guest of Honour Garin Nugroho trying to get back to his family through trials long-lost childhood elephant on the streets Wed 18-Apr 7:30 Deckchair Cinema Opening Night: CTC of courage. Musical and magical, this film of Bangkok. Excited, he takes his elephant on Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts won Best Animated Feature at the 2018 a journey across Thailand, in search of the Academy Awards. Thurs 19-Apr 7:30 Nyai - FREE SCREENING CTC farm where they grew up together. Thai with Columbus (CTC) 104m English subtitles. Fri 20-Apr 7:30 Negeri Dongeng CTC 2017, Kogonada, USA Sweet Country (MA15+) 113m 20-Apr 9:30 Message Man MA15+ 10, 25 May 2017, Warwick Thornton, Australia Sat 21-Apr 7:30 The Florida Project MA15+ Architecture is a supporting character 28 May | 2 June in this boy meets girl love story set in A new Australian classic from award- 21-Apr 9:30 The Death of Stalin MA15+ Columbus, Indiana. The city is celebrated for winning NT director Warwick Thornton. Sun 22-Apr 7:30 FUNDRAISER: Malak Marketplace - M its modernist buildings, its unique physical An Aboriginal stockman goes on the run The Gut Movie space casting spells on all those who visit. when he kills a white station owner in Mon 23-Apr 7:30 The Shape of Water MA15+ Gurrumul (PG) 96m self-defence. A period set in 1929 2017, Paul Williams, Australia in the Northern Territory outback. Tues 24-Apr 7:30 Pop Aye M 19, 29 May Swinging Safari (M) 97m Wed 25-Apr 7:30 The Killing of a Sacred Deer MA15+ Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was one of the 2017, Stephan Elliot, Australia most important artists to ever come out of Thurs 26-Apr 7:30 Lady Bird M 15 April Australia. Living a traditional Yolngu life, his Ahh… Australia in the 70s. It’s a time of breakthrough album ‘Gurrumul’ brought him Fri 27-Apr 7:30 Coco PG boxed wine and bad hair, but good times. to a crossroads as his international fame grew. 27-Apr 9:30 The Shape of Water MA15+ Guy Pearce and Kylie Minogue star in this hilarious comedy from the director of Priscilla Sat 28-Apr 7:30 Jill Bilcock - Dancing the Invisible PG Her Sound Her Story (PG) 70m 2017, Claudia Sangiorgi Dalimore, Australia Queen of the Desert. 28-Apr 9:00 Pop Aye* M 24 May The Death of Stalin (MA15+) 106m Sun 29-Apr 7:30 FUNDRAISER: Darwin Cycling Club - CTC An intimate conversation unveiling the 2017, Armando Iannuci, UK All For One stories and impact women have within the 21, 30 April | 22, 25 May Australian music industry. This one-of-a- Mon 30-Apr 7:30 The Death of Stalin MA15+ Moscow, 1953: when tyrannical dictator kind all-female narrative is brimming with Joseph Stalin drops dead, his parasitic cronies MAY individuality, strength and creativity. square off in a frantic power struggle to Tues 1-May 7:30 Lady Bird M Jill Bilcock - Dancing the Invisible be the next Soviet leader. An uproarious, wickedly irreverent satire. Wed 2-May 7:30 The Shape of Water* MA15+ (PG) 78m 2017, Axel Grigor, Australia The Florida Project (MA15+) 112m Thurs 3-May 7:30 Paddington 2 G 28 April, 7 May 2017, Sean Baker, USA Fri 4-May 7:30 Flickerfest - Best of Australian Shorts Some of Australia’s most loved films bear the 21 April | 12 May stamp of Australian film editor Jill Bilcock. A 6-year-old’s summer break is filled 4-May 9:30 Flickerfest - Best of International This documentary explores Jill’s extraordinary Shorts with childhood wonder while the adults impact on cinema. Features interviews with Baz around her struggle with hard times. Warm, Sat 5-May 7:30 Lady Bird M Luhrmann, Cate Blanchett and more. winning, and gloriously alive even as it raises 5-May 9:30 Phantom Thread M Lady Bird (M) 95m sobering questions about modern America. Sun 6-May 7:30 FUNDRAISER: Corrugated Iron Youth PG 2017, Greta Gerwig, USA The Killing of a Sacred Deer Arts - Hairspray 26 April | 1, 5, 11 May (MA15+) 121m Indie darling Greta Gerwig reveals herself Mon 7-May 7:30 Jill Bilcock - Dancing the Invisible* PG 2017, Yorgos Lanthimos, USA to be a bold new cinematic voice with her 25 April | 19 May directorial debut, excavating both the humor Tues 8-May 7:30 The Square MA15+ A surreal . Steven, a and pathos in the turbulent bond between a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an Wed 9-May 7:30 Loveless CTC mother and her teenage daughter. unthinkable sacrifice when the behaviour Thurs 10-May 7:30 Columbus CTC Loveless (CTC) 128m of a teenage boy he has taken under his Fri 11-May 7:30 Phantom Thread M 2017, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia wing turns sinister. Stars Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman. 11-May 9:45 Lady Bird* M 9, 14 May Amidst a vicious divorce, one couple are The Shape Of Water (MA15+) 123m Sat 12-May 7:30 We're Family Now (preceded by DFS PG impatient to move on - even threatening 2017, Guillermo del Toro, USA AGM) to abandon their young son Alyosha. Until, 23, 27 April | 2 May after one of their fights, Alyosha disappears. 12-May 9:00 The Florida Project* MA15+ At a top secret research facility in the A masterful film that probes Russia’s deeper 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique Sun 13-May 7:30 FUNDRAISER: Council on the Ageing PG moral issues. NT - Breakfast at Tiffany's relationship with an amphibious creature Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts that is being held in captivity. Won Mon 14-May 7:30 Loveless* CTC (CTC) 93m Best Film and Best Director at the 2018 Tues 15-May 7:30 Banff Mountain Film Festival 2017, , Indonesia Academy Awards. Wed 16-May 7:30 Tix: www.banffaustralia.com.au 18 April | 18 May The Song Keepers (CTC) 84m Billed as a feminist ‘satay western’. When 2017, Naina Sen, Australia Thurs 17-May 7:30 Coco* PG Marlina, a young widow, is attacked and her 30 May | 1 June Fri 18-May 7:30 We're Family Now PG cattle stolen, she fights back. On a journey The inspiring story of an Aboriginal of redemption and empowerment she 18-May 9:00 Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts CTC women’s choir and their historic tour of travels across the big sky island of Sumba, Germany. These remarkable women take Sat 19-May 7:30 Gurrumul PG Indonesia. Indonesian with English subtitles. their music and stories of cultural survival, 19-May 9:30 The Killing of a Sacred Deer* MA15+ Message Man (MA15+) 91m identity and cross-cultural collaboration to 2018, Corey Pearson, Indonesia the world. From NT director Naina Sen. Sun 20-May 7:30 FUNDRAISER: Darwin Performance PG Academy - The Greatest Showman 20 April The Square (MA15+) 151m Within the Indonesian archipelagos, an 2017, Ruben Östlund, Sweden Mon 21-May 7:30 Phantom Thread* M Australian ex-hitman visits a remote island 8, 23 May Tues 22-May 7:30 The Death of Stalin MA15+ and befriends a young boy. When the boy A prestigious Stockholm museum’s is almost killed, the assassin’s violent past chief art curator is in a professional and Wed 23-May 7:30 The Square* MA15+ resurfaces. A gripping thriller featuring personal crisis after attempting to set up stunning scenery and an international cast. Thurs 24-May 7:30 Her Sound Her Story* PG a controversial new exhibit. A satirical Fri 25-May 7:30 The Death of Stalin* MA15+ Negeri Dongeng (CTC) 104m reflection on the confused identity of the 2017, Anggi Frisca, Indonesia modern male. Swedish with English subtitles. 25-May 9:30 Columbus* CTC 20 April We’re Family Now (PG) 80m Sat 26-May 7:30 Paddington 2* G A team of seven young filmmakers climb 2018, Nathaniel Kelly, Australia the seven highest mountains in Indonesia, 12, 18, 26 May 26-May 9:30 We're Family Now* PG each with their own camera. The result is a The story of a family in Darwin suburbia dynamic and multi-perspective doco, showing Sun 27-May 7:30 FUNDRAISER: Volleyball NT - G navigating new and tumultuous just how rich and how vast Indonesia really is. The Lion King (1994) circumstances. Two years in the making Indonesian with English subtitles. 28 May - 2 June: Reconciliation Week Film Program, on a shoestring budget, this is the debut commemorating 10 years since the National Apology Nyai (CTC) 90m feature from talented young NT filmmaker Mon 28-May 7:30 Sweet Country MA15+ 2016, Garin Nugroho, Indonesia Nathaniel Kelly. 19 April Westwind: Djalu’s Legacy (M) 90m Tues 29-May 7:30 Gurrumul PG As the end of Indonesia’s Dutch colonial era 2017, Ben Strunin, Australia Wed 30-May 7:30 The Song Keepers CTC approaches, a young and beautiful woman lives with her sick and aged Dutch husband. 1 June Thurs 31-May 7:30 The Magic Pill (Why Warriors event) CTC She is called Nyai, which means a foreigner’s Djalu is an aging tribal elder, a yidaki master and custodian of an ancient dreaming. JUNE concubine. A new film from Indonesian auteur Garin Nugroho. Indonesian with Feeling he has no-one to inherit his sacred and esoteric traditional songlines, Djalu Fri 1-Jun 7:30 Westwind M English subtitles. seeks a solution. 1-Jun 9:15 The Song Keepers CTC Paddington 2 (G) 104m Sat 2-Jun 7:30 After The Apology CTC 2017, Paul King, UK Recommended for Restricted to General mature audiences 18 and over 2-Jun 9:00 Sweet Country MA15+ 3, 26 May The beloved children’s book character Sun 3-Jun 7:30 FUNDRAISER The Leukaemia CTC returns. Paddington spreads joy and Not suitable for people Parental guidance under 15. Under 15s must Check the Foundation NT - Avengers: Infinity War marmalade wherever he goes. But when a recommended be accompanied by a parent classification robbery occurs, Paddington is determined to *Last Screening Fundraiser Special Screening Free to Members Open Caption or adult guardian solve it! An intelligent, fun and funny film for Please note – program information is correct at time of printing. the whole family. 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