| FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 2019 | THE STRAITS TIMES | happenings life D7

John Lui Film Correspondent & Boon Chan Media Correspondent recommend

PHOTOS: CATHAY

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DARK Now showing on Netflix/

A group of teenage friends, including Jonas (Louis Hofmann), Magnus (Moritz Jahn) and Martha (Lisa Vicari), head into the woods one night. Magnus and Martha’s younger brother, Mikkel (Daan Lennard Liebrenz, above), tags along but later vanishes into thin air. The pacing is pretty slow at first, but it soon becomes clear there are plenty of secrets and lies in the small town of Winden, home to a nuclear plant and where everyone seems to know everyone else. Stick with it for a while and soon you will find it hard to stop at one episode as your eagerness for answers grows. It is the first German-language Netflix original series, with the first season debuting in December 2017 and Season 2 released in June – proof that the streaming giant beefing up its slate of non-English content can pay off handsomely.

Boon Chan

BRUCE LEE RETROSPECTIVE Five of the martial arts master’s SHOPLIFTERS (M18) well-known films – The Big Boss (1971, 121 minutes/ above), The Way Of The Dragon (1972), Fist Of Fury (1972), Enter The Dragon Winner of the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film (1973) and Game Of Death (1973) – Festival, Shoplifters (left) tells the story of a rag-tag have been brought by Cathay band of misfits who call themselves a family. Cineplexes back to the big screen, in There is enough warmth, joy and sadness in this remastered formats and with original, movie to fill three ordinary films. If Dickens lived in undubbed dialogue. Japan today, he might have penned this story of the Bruce-mania gripped the world Fagin-like Osamu (Lily Franky), a thief with a weakness from the early 1970s and lasted well for giving space in his home to people with no place to after his death in 1973. His work go. This cheeky multi-generational bunch has created spawned an industry in martial-arts an oasis in a city with no space for the losers. movies in Hong Kong that has lasted Writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda lives for tiny, to this day, paving the way for a new poignant moments of humanity – a parent teasing a generation of gongfu stars. child, older people looking at fireworks in the sky, WHERE: Cathay Cineplex AMK Hub, wistfully talking about the time they used to be part of Level 4 AMK Hub, 53 Ang Mo Kio something larger, but which now seems like a lifetime Avenue 3 and Cathay Cineplex West ago. MallLevel 5 West Mall, 1 Bukit Batok WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden Mile Tower, Central Link, MRT: Ang Mo Kio/Bukit 6001 Beach Road MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: Sunday, Batok WHEN: Aug 12 to 16, various 2.20pm ADMISSION: $13.50 INFO: www.theprojector.sg times ADMISSION: $7 standard, $4 for seniors. Tickets on sale from today INFO: www.cathaycineplexes. com.sg/movies

John Lui

FILMS Pavarotti (2019, PG13) PETS tomorrow) ADMISSION: $5 (Safra WHERE: Seminar/Meeting Room, by conductor Hannu Lintu, Ron Howard and the award-winning member), $10 (guest) TEL: 6788-8433 Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, performing one of Schumann’s final team that made The Beatles: Eight Pets’ Day Out INFO: E-mail [email protected] 177 Hindhede Drive MRT: Beauty compositions, his Violin Concerto, Miles Davis: Birth Of The Cool (Sivaruuben) World WHEN: Aug 17, 10.30am - noon which was lost to the music world for Days A Week – The Touring Years, has Botanic Gardens is (2019, NC16) ADMISSION: $10 a child INFO: E-mail more than 80 years. now told the life story of acclaimed launching Pets’ Day Out together with Electric Go-kart Grand Prix [email protected] WHERE: Victoria Concert Hall, A visionary, innovator and originator tenor, philanthropist and its signature monthly event, This competition, suitable for children 9 Empress Place MRT: Raffles Place who defied categorisation and 20th-century icon, Luciano Pavarotti Gardeners’ Day Out. Visitors can from eight years old and adults (up to WHEN: Today, 7.30pm embodied the word cool, Miles Davis – from his humble beginnings in adopt pets from the animal welfare 100kg), is in two categories (under 16 OTHERS ADMISSION: $15 - $88, tickets from has become a cultural icon. Newly Modena to the height of his success, groups, interact with animals and released archival material and including as part of the years old and 16 and above). ticketing.sso.org.sg volunteers from the groups, pose and Participants will be timed for each Designathon We Engage 2019: performance footage illustrate a man record-breaking Three Tenors. take photos with the colourful birds attempt and the fastest three for Designing For Dementia of intensity and devotion to his craft. WHERE: Shaw Theatres Lido, Levels 5 Singapore Botanic Gardens on display, get complimentary pet each category over the three days will The event aims to empower the Market Square Despite the indignities of the United & 6 Shaw House, 350 health checks by vets community – designers, developers, States during the time of segregation, win prizes such as a Segway miniLite Enjoy scrumptious bites and shop MRT: Orchard WHEN: Aug 20, 9pm (pre-registration required) and join or a ES2 KickScooter (each worth entrepreneurs, students, caregivers, nothing was going to stop Davis from for plants at the Market Square in the ADMISSION: $18, tickets available pet-friendly fringe events. $799) and Downtown East vouchers healthcare workers and social service realising his dream to create a new Orchid Plaza as part of your weekend from Tue; Singapore Film Society WHERE: Visitor Services Centre, ($50 or $100). providers – to come together to form of musical expression. outing at Singapore Botanic Gardens. membership, from $18 a month HortPark, 33 Hyderabad Road WHERE: D’Marquee at Downtown design for dementia. Form teams of WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden WHERE: Orchid Plaza, Singapore TEL: 9017-0160 INFO: E-mail MRT: Labrador Park WHEN: Aug 17, East, 1 Pasir Ris Close MRT: Pasir Ris two to five members to register your Botanic Gardens, 1 Cluny Road Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road [email protected] 9am - 3pm ADMISSION: Free, go to WHEN: Aug 9 - 11, noon - 9pm interest to join. MRT: Nicoll Highway MRT: Botanic Gardens nparks.gov.sg for registration details ADMISSION: $18 a person ($15 for WHERE: Level 1 Makerspace, WHEN: Tomorrow & Sun, 9am - 7pm WHEN: Tomorrow & Aug 23, 8.30pm INFO: E-mail nparks_hortpark@ NTUC members), five laps 111 Middle Road MRT: Bugis ADMISSION: Free ADMISSION: $13.50 (standard), $11.50 NATURE nparks.gov.sg INFO: tinyurl.com/dekartz WHEN: Mon, 7.30 - 9.30pm INFO: E-mail nparks_sbg_visitor_ (concession) INFO: theprojector.sg ADMISSION: Free TEL: 9672-2836 [email protected] Weekends In The Park: SAF Yacht Club: Offshore INFO: E-mail robin@ Family Yoga Dog Grooming Certification: Anthropocene: The Human Theory Examination Fishing Competition onemakergroup.com The Feng Ya Song Symphony Epoch (2018, NC16) Soak in the morning sun with a family SAF Yacht Club (SAFYC) members and The Singapore Kennel Club (SKC) is Celebrated composer Zhao Jiping and yoga session in the park, where you guests can take part in this This cinematic meditation on holding its 19th SKC Grooming Bollywood Veggies his vocalist wife, Zhang Ningjia, can also enjoy vast open lawns, lush competition, which is organised as an humanity’s massive re-engineering of Examination and 8th SKC Elites National Day Activities together with innovative music banks of wildflowers and unique Open Individual event. All catches the planet is a feature documentary Grooming Competition (both on Explore local farm Bollywood Veggies director Yeh Tsung and the Singapore waterways. The young ones can have must be submitted for weigh-in at the four years in the making. Narrated by Sept 6 at United Square), preceded by during the long National Day Chinese Orchestra (SCO), will showcase fun at the Water Playground. SAFYC Sembawang’s marina office Swedish actress Alicia Vikander, the a written theory examination. weekend. Poison Ivy Bistro will house his latest masterwork, The Feng Ya WHERE: Tecoma Green/Ficus Green, area by 4.30pm the same day. film showcases the beauty and horror WHERE: Theory exam: Pet Lovers young hawkers selling local Song Symphony. Internationally lawn near Garden Spa/Dog Run, WHERE: SAF Yacht Club, 43 Admiralty of man-made or altered landscapes. Centre IHQ, 07-91/92 North Spring favourites, feature a variety of renowned sheng master Wu Wei will Road West MRT: Sembawang WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park, 1384 Ang Mo Bizhub, 11 Yishun Industrial Street 1 farm-to-table specials and peddle perform the sheng concerto composed WHEN: Sept 1, 9am - 5pm Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road Kio Avenue MRT: Ang Mo Kio/Bishan fresh local produce. There will also be for him, Earth And Fire. MRT: Yishun WHEN: Aug 19, 2 - 4pm ADMISSION: $50 - $70 registration MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: Aug 9, WHEN: Aug 11, 8 - 9am walk-in activities such as WHERE: SCO Concert Hall, Level 1 ADMISSION: $120 entry fee; fee; $35 - $50 boat charter; register 5.30pm; Aug 25, 2.30pm ADMISSION: Free, register at pot-a-local-herb ($10), terrarium Singapore Conference Hall, certification fees (upon passing): at bit.ly/2Z3qRP3 TEL: 6758-3359 ADMISSION: $13.50 (standard), $11.50 bishanparkfamilyyoga.eventbrite.sg making ($25) and art with nature ($10 $150 - $500 TEL: 6469-4821 INFO: E-mail [email protected] 7 Shenton Way MRT: Tanjong Pagar (concession) INFO: theprojector.sg TEL: 8322-1251 INFO: E-mail INFO: E-mail [email protected] or to $15). WHEN: Tomorrow, 8pm [email protected] go to skc.org.sg WHERE: Bollywood Veggies, 100 Neo ADMISSION: $20 - $78 Army Daze (1996, PG) KIDS Tiew Road MRT: Kranji WHEN: Aug 9 - TEL: 6348-5555 INFO: sistic.com.sg A Singaporean-made comedy about Threatened Birds Of Singapore 12, 10am - 3pm ADMISSION: Free entry Coco The Colugo a group of 18-year-old youth who are Nearly a third of the resident bird CONTESTS to farm; $10 - $25 for walk-in activities Coco and Friends is a new • The listings on these Happenings beginning their national service. species are threatened with TEL: 9739-6677 programme, suitable for children pages are free. Write to Life Despite their different racial and extinction and documented in Prata Eating Competition INFO: E-mail events@ aged five to eight (Kindergarten 1 to Happenings, Life, The Straits Times, family backgrounds, they discover Nature Society (Singapore)’s Red bollywoodadventures.com Be the fastest to eat 10 pratas and win Primary 2), by 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore Data Book. The society and many similarities and forge $300 worth of cash and attractive and HSBC Singapore. It aims to 318994 or e-mail [email protected] friendships that would help ease Mapletree Investments have jointly prizes. All participants will get an event promote greater understanding and LAST CALL at least two weeks ahead. Include the their transition to the tough army organised this photography T-shirt (while stocks last). awareness of some of Singapore’s name of the event, organiser, venue, routine. exhibition, which will also promote Mr Zermatt Neo, who set the record native biodiversity found in the SSO Subscription Concert: date and time, ticket prices and WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden the 35th Singapore Bird Race in for the most number of pratas eaten forests. Through the eyes of Coco the Kerson Leong Plays Schumann nearest MRT station, as well as your Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road November. in 10 minutes, will be making an Malayan Colugo, children will embark Just 22, Canadian violinist Kerson name, address and contact number. MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: Aug 10, WHERE: VivoCity, 1 Harbourfront Walk appearance. on a nature adventure, learning about Leong has played in leading venues, We reserve the right to edit 8.30pm; Aug 25, 5pm MRT: HarbourFront WHEN: Aug 16 - 23 WHERE: Safra , 1A Tampines Coco and his friends and about the from Carnegie to Wigmore. He makes or reject items. Go to ADMISSION: $13.50 (standard), $11.50 ADMISSION: Free TEL: 6741-2036 Street 92 MRT: Tampines plants found in the forest that are his Singapore debut with the www.straitstimes.com (click on (concession) INFO: theprojector.sg INFO: E-mail [email protected] WHEN: Aug 9, 3 - 6pm (register by useful to both man and animals. Singapore Symphony Orchestra, led Lifestyle) for more listings.