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CONTENTS 04 08 12 14 Big Nights Aotearoa For World All Ages 26 32 34 40 Fresh Sport Framing Arts & Reality Music 46 49 Info & Index Schedule

WELCOME

Is that a movie screen in your pocket? With vast libraries of film and television a mere finger tap away for many of us, it behoves any film festival to choose more carefully than ever. At the speed with which today’s audiences demand access to films, our haul from May’s Cannes Film Festival sits squarely with the zeitgeist – but our commitment to getting Inherent Vice, one of the great American films of late 2014, onto the giant screen in July 2015 almost looks like a nostalgic gesture. That is, until you are sitting in the Regent completely absorbed in the present tense of the film’s unique fictional universe.

Programming NZIFF is more than ever about celebrating the public occasion of movie-going, privileging the big screen experience and enlivening the interaction between films and audiences, ideally with the filmmakers present to contribute in person. The only challenge about finding 100 or so films that fit that agenda in 2015 was finding even more.

What a fantastic asset to Dunedin film lovers the Regent is, with its brilliant 4K projection and superb sound. We greatly appreciate the continuing support of the Otago Theatre Trust in providing NZIFF the Dunedin venue that’s a festival in its own right. Thanks too to the Rialto, a year-round bastion of creative programming, for making us so welcome.

We never forget that it’s the support of its audience that keeps NZIFF alive and kicking. Ticket sales contributed 88% of our national income in 2014. The major sponsorship we receive from the New Zealand Film Commission is a gratifying institutional endorsement of that support, and we appreciate it immensely.

We welcome Resene for their second year as sponsors of myriad films from New Zealand filmmakers. Māori Television and RadioLIVE are great media partners. NEC very generously escorted us into the digital era and remain highly valued supporters now that we are fully ensconced. There is not one film print at this year’s festival of film.

We’re all of us aboard this enterprise because filmmakers gave whatever it took to get their pictures into the world in the first place. So one wanted to contemplate the immanence of the past in a Thai hospital; another to orchestrate the comic misunderstandings of a Latin Lothario’s ex-wives; another to count the ways you can bludgeon a zombie with an oversize dildo? We hope team NZIFF’s advocacy of their many achievements will help lead you to the explorations that mean the most to you.

Bill Gosden Director 4 BIG NIGHTS

The Mafia Kills Only in Summer La mafia uccide solo d’estate Opening Night

The winner of the 2014 European Film Director: Pierfrancesco Diliberto Award for Best European Comedy, aka ‘Pif’ this Italian box office hit follows the Italy 2013 | 90 mins growing pains of Arturo, a Palermo boy Producers: Mario Gianani, Lorenzo Mieli Screenplay: Michele Astori, Pierfrancesco whose life, from conception onwards, Diliberto, Marco Martani is impacted in dramatic ways by the Photography: Roberto Forza operations of the Mafia. For a romantic Editor: Cristiano Travaglioli Music: Santi Pulvirenti comedy, it delivers a disconcertingly With: Cristiana Capotondi, Pif, Alex Bisconti, effective protest at Cosa Nostra Ginevra Antona, Claudio Gioè, Ninni Bruschetta, Barbara Tabita, Rosario Lisma, Enzo Salomone, domination of Sicilian life: it portrays Maurizio Marchetti historic Mafia violence as idiotic. It’s a Festivals: Karlovy Vary 2014 bold big-screen debut for actor/director In Italian with English subtitles M violence, offensive language, sex scenes Pierfrancesco ‘Pif’ Diliberto, a satirical current affairs broadcaster whose Italian TV profile is broadly comparable to Jon Stewart’s in the US. “Diliberto’s film, a buoyant farce, chronicles two decades in the history of Palermo and the Cosa Nostra, lampooning the atrocities and hypocrisies of the Mob… heartrending emotion in his terrific Cleverly splicing himself into archival feature debut… There are moments “Diliberto has devised a news footage and dramatizing a when audiences will wonder if laughing rather… unusual method romance around the historical action, about gangland whackings isn’t in bad Diliberto has managed to make a taste, yet it becomes increasingly clear of addressing Palermo’s political comedy that seems at once that the director-scripter is using humor Mafia infestation. If he A Regent Thursday 30 July, 7.30 pm B Regent Tuesday 4 Aug, 2.15 pm tremendously funny and intensely to cut Mafia bosses down to size, can’t fight them, he’ll serious.” — Calum Marsh, Village thereby turning an accusatory glare B SJ Gore Thursday 13 Aug, 11.00 am Voice at an Italy that granted these people skewer them… with great “Pierfrancesco Diliberto does a power.” — Jay Weissberg, Variety comic verve.” OPENING NIGHT remarkable job negotiating the ★ SJ Gore Thursday 13 Aug, 8.15 pm — Calum Marsh, Village Voice (See p48 for details) delicate balance between humor and

The Assassin Nie Yinniang Centrepiece

Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien, as visual a poet of human existence as ever made movies, has been working for Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien almost a decade to produce this ravishing Taiwan 2015 | 105 mins distillation of a vanished world. Winner Producers: Hou Hsiao-hsien, Chen Yiqi, Peter Lam, Lin Kufn, Gou Tai-chiang, Tung Tzu-hsien of the Best Director Award at Cannes. Screenplay: Hou Hsiao-hsien, Chu Tien-wen, “Nominally a martial arts film of the Hsieh Hai-meng, Zhong Acheng swordplay genre, The Assassin, inspired Photography: Mark Lee Ping-bing Editors: Liao Ching-sung, Pauline Huang Chih-chia by 9th-century Tang Dynasty fiction, is Music: Lim Giong actually a breathtakingly contemplative With: Shu Qi, Chang Chen, Zhou Yun, Tsumabuki Satoshi, Juan Ching-tian, historical drama. Filmmakers including Hsieh Hsin-ying, Sheu Fang-yi Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee, and Bernardo Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2015 Bertolucci can eat their hearts out, Best Director, Cannes Film Festival 2015 In Mandarin with English subtitles because The Assassin involves the M violence most extravagant, intricately detailed, extraordinarily beautiful recreation of PROUDLY SPONSORED BY the interiors, decor, dress and manners of imperial China that has ever likely TAIPEI ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL OFFICE IN been put on film… NEW ZEALAND Yinniang (Shu Qi), a general’s daughter exiled since childhood, is RogerEbert.com assigned by her martial arts master to “Whether shooting through wafting “The Assassin is a beautiful, kill the cousin to whom she was once transparent curtains or mountain mists, beguiling film; it’s betrothed, as punishment for failing to or using muted or saturated colours, complete the political assassination of holding for a long time on a static tableau impossible not to get fully a corrupt governor. This is played out or delivering a quick montage depicting lost in its rarefied world.” as an intricate cat-and-mouse game of Yinniang despatching her enemies with — Dave Calhoun, Time Out stalking, and its pleasures for the viewer deadly ease, Hou constantly makes us are not the ordinary ones of pursuit feel almost as if we’re watching and capture, but the quality of living something we’ve never seen before.” completely in each moment through — Geoff Andrew, Sight & Sound A Regent Saturday 8 Aug, 9.00 pm Tuesday 11 Aug, 1.45 pm Hou’s vision.” — Barbara Scharres, B Regent BIG NIGHTS 5

Tale of Tales Il racconto dei racconti Closing Night

“Salma Hayek eating a serpent’s heart; Toby Jones cuddling a giant flea. Python meets Pasolini in this horrific, Director: Matteo Garrone hilarious – and very grown up – fairy Italy/France 2015 | 125 mins tale anthology… The Italian director Producers: Matteo Garrone, Jeremy Thomas, Jean Labadie, Anne-Laure Labadie Matteo Garrone has abandoned the Screenplay: Edoardo Albinati, Ugo Chiti, heightened social realism of Gomorrah Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso. Based on and Reality for something much older the book by Giambattista Basile Photography: Peter Suschitzky and eerier: a triptych of fables drawn Editor: Marco Spoletini from a 17th-century book of Neapolitan Production designer: Dimitri Capuani folk stories compiled by the Italian poet Costume designer: Massimo Cantini Parrini Music: Alexandre Desplat Giambattista Basile. The Tale of Tales With: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, dances on a razor’s edge between John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson, Stacy Martin, Christian Lees, Jonah Lees, Bebe Cave funny and unnerving, with sequences of Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2015 shadow-spun horror rubbing up against CinemaScope/Censors rating tbc moments of searing baroque beauty. The result is a fabulously sexy, defiantly unfashionable readymade cult item.” — Robbie Collin, The Telegraph “Ogres, giant fleas, albino twins, an ©GRETA DE LAZZARIS old woman flaying her skin in search (Vincent Cassel) allows his rampant of youth and a queen feasting on sexual desire to lead him into bed with “It is a masterpiece of the heart of a sea monster: the sheer, an old crone; yet another (John C. black-comic bad taste obstinate oddness of Tale of Tales Reilly) dies after taking the advice of a sends crowd-pleasers like Game of mysterious old man on how to cure the and a positive carnival Thrones and The Hobbit scuttling into inability of his wife (Salma Hayek) to of transgression.” the shadows of the forest in terror… have a child… — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian What links these strange, seductive There’s much to delight as Tale of tales is a cheeky observation of the Tales takes hold – not least Garrone’s B Regent Friday 14 Aug, 3.45 pm follies of power. One king (Toby Jones) belief in the power of these stories A Regent Sunday 16 Aug, 8.00 pm breeds a flea and accidentally marries to travel through the years.” — Dave off his daughter to a brute; another Calhoun, Time Out A SJ Gore Sunday 23 Aug, 8.00 pm

45 Years Special Presentation

Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay shared the acting honours at the Berlin Film Festival for their roles as a long- Director/Screenplay: Andrew Haigh married couple suddenly prompted to UK 2015 | 93 mins wonder how well they know each other. Producer: Tristan Goligher Andrew Haigh’s sensitively measured Photography: Lol Crawley Editor: Jonathan Alberts portrait of a marriage finds a well-worn Production designer: Sarah Finlay familiarity in their scenes together Costume designer: Suzie Harman With: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, and draws from each actor their most Geraldine James, Dolly Wells, David Sibley, delicately nuanced work in years. Sam Alexander, Richard Cunningham, Comfortably retired in Norfolk, Kate Hannah Chambers, Camille Ucan, Rufus Wright Festivals: Berlin 2015 and Geoff are preparing for their 45th- Best Actress & Best Actor, Berlin International anniversary party, when a letter arrives Film Festival 2015 M sex scenes, offensive language which raises a ghost from the past. It concerns Geoff’s first girlfriend, Katya, PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH who died in a mountain accident when the two of them were holidaying 50 years ago. Surprised by Geoff’s response, Kate becomes increasingly preoccupied by ©AGATHA A. NITECKA what she doesn’t know about that “A wry, witty, wonderfully true- first affair, and how it shaped the to-life drama notable not only for its “It’s a film of small man she married. All the while she superb performances but also for the moments and tiny tends to arrangements for the party subtlety of its script and direction. in an atmosphere of high anticipation Also impressive for its expressive use gestures that leaves a amongst their friends. Writer-director of Norfolk’s landscape and weather, it very, very big impression.” Andrew Haigh, whose Weekend cut comes across a little like late Bergman — Dave Calhoun, Time Out deep in its account of a relationship – but with rather more laughs. For that lasted a mere two days, proves me at least, it’s one of the finest B Regent Thursday 13 Aug, 11.15 am equally astute and empathetic British films of recent years.” — Geoff A Regent Saturday 15 Aug, 6.00 pm observing a life-long intimacy chaffing Andrew, BFI.com A SJ Gore Friday 21 Aug, 6.00 pm at its limitations. 6 BIG NIGHTS

Amy Special Presentation

“To hear Amy Winehouse sing numbers like ‘Back to Black’ and ‘Love Is a Losing Game’ in Asif Kapadia’s sensitive and Director: Asif Kapadia extraordinary documentary Amy is to UK 2015 | 128 mins open yourself to an unsettling rush Producer: James Gay-Rees of grief and joy. Kapadia [Senna] has Editor: Chris King Music: Amy Winehouse, Antonio Pinto conducted interviews with key people With: Amy Winehouse, Tony Bennett, in Winehouse’s life – including her Salaam Remi, Yasiin Bey, Lauren Gilbert, Juliette Ashby, Nick Shymansky, Andrew Morris, ex-husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, and her Raye Cosbert, Mark Ronson, Blake Fielder-Civil longtime best girlfriends, Juliette Ashby Festivals: Cannes (Midnight Screenings), Sydney 2015 and Lauren Gilbert – weaving them Colour and B&W through performance and interview amyfilm.co.uk footage as well as personal videos and stills shot by friends, family, and colleagues. The result is a surprisingly seamless biographical documentary, one that, even though it’s been constructed largely from found elements, feels gracefully whole… Kapadia presents Winehouse looking her best: we see her performing on care not to lose sight of the human Late Show with David Letterman, a being behind the mythology. In the “A commemoration of her glorious vision with Maria Callas eyes beginning, she was just a Jewish girl colossal talent, and a and Ronnie Spector hair, wearing a from North London, with a bawdy polka-dotted supper-club dress that sense of humor and a voice that carried moving tribute to a makes her somewhat thoughtlessly hints, like subtle notes of perfume, of brilliant, witty, vivacious placed tattoos look more glamorous, the singers who’d come before her. In young woman gone far not less. But what really counts is the end, she was both ravaged and B Regent Friday 31 July, 1.30 pm the care Kapadia takes in showing radiant, but Amy focuses mostly on the too soon.” A Regent Sunday 2 Aug, 5.45 pm Winehouse in her lowest moments… latter.” — Stephanie Zacharek, Village — Robbie Collin, The Telegraph Even if the last third of Amy is Voice A SJ Gore Friday 14 Aug, 8.00 pm Tuesday 18 Aug, 11.00 am painful to watch, Kapadia takes B SJ Gore

Embrace of the Serpent El abrazo de la serpiente Special Presentation

An Amazonian shaman, the lone survivor of his tribe, is the commanding central presence in this hypnotic Director: Ciro Guerra reversal of the jungle-explorer genre by Colombia/Venezuela/Argentina Colombian director Ciro Guerra (The 2015 | 125 mins Wind Journeys). It’s majestically shot Producer: Cristina Gallego Screenplay: Ciro Guerra, in the Amazon, in B&W so intensely Jacques Toulemonde Vidal rich and finely detailed that you might Photography: David Gallego wish the world itself could do without Editors: Etienne Boussac, Cristina Gallego Music: Nascuy Linares colour. The shaman Karmakate’s With: Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, peregrinations are based on actual trips Yauenkü Miguee, Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2015 documented by two explorers, German Directors’ Fortnight Prize, Cannes Film Festival ethnographer Theodor Koch-Grunberg, 2015 who visited in 1911, and American In Cubeo, Huitoto, Wanano, Tikuna, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Catalan and Latin, scientist Richard Evans Schultes, who with English subtitles followed in his footsteps with Koch- B&W/M violence, content may disturb Grunberg’s journals for a guide, three decades later. Ironically, it’s through these men’s explorations that any record of the likes ©ANDRES CÓRDOBA of Karamakate survives. Intercutting entirely submerged in this fantastical, between the shaman as a young man quasi-mythical, soul-crushing yet “At once blistering and and as an older one guiding each of often very funny story… None of the poetic... Ciro Guerra‘s his alien visitors down the river, Guerra arduousness behind-the-scenes shows posits the opposite situation. He turns in the final film, which unfolds with visually majestic film pays an indigenous eye on these stray a stunning directorial sureness and a tribute to the lost cultures Europeans who’ve become uneasy layered intelligence that at times lands and civilizations of the dependents, mocking them, seducing an insight so wincingly wise and true them with animism, and drawing on it takes your breath away.” — Jessica Colombian Amazon.” nature’s pharmacy to cure their ails and Kiang, The Playlist — Justin Chang, Variety bend their minds. B Regent Wednesday 5 Aug, 1.15 pm Saturday 8 Aug, 3.15 pm “Just a few minutes in, the viewer is A Regent BIG NIGHTS 7

The Lobster Special Presentation

In the world of Yorgos Lanthimos’ wily jet black satire of socially enforced coupledom, single adults are required Director: Yorgos Lanthimos to find a partner within 45 days or be Greece/Ireland/UK 2015 | 118 mins transformed into the animals of their Producers: Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Ceci Dempsey, Yorgos Lanthimos choice. Studding his supremely deadpan Screenplay: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou creation with gags that may have you Photography: Thimios Bakatakis gaping in disbelief, the director of Editor: Yorgos Mavropsaridis With: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden, Dogtooth proves as savage and adroit a Olivia Colman, Ashley Jensen, Ariane Labed, surrealist in English as in his native Greek. Angeliki Papoulia, John C. Reilly, Léa Seydoux, Michael Smiley, Ben Whishaw “David (a paunchy Colin Farrell) picks Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2015 the lobster, because they live long Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival 2015 and he likes the sea. Left by his wife In English and French, with English subtitles R16 violence, offensive language, sex scenes, of 11 years, David is taken to a hotel content may disturb compound where the non-attached – played by Ben Whishaw, John C. Reilly, PROUDLY SPONSORED BY Ashley Jensen, and Jessica Barden, among others – can form couples or earn extensions by hunting down Loners, renegade singles who hide in DESPINA SPYROU the woods. With him, he brings Bob, a police officers badger unaccompanied border collie who used to be his brother. adults for proof of couplehood. As the “Charlie Kaufman or Spike Lanthimos continually introduces shocks and surreal-satirical conceits Jonze couldn’t have new bizarre rules, rituals, and pile on, they accumulate meaning, punishments… It’s a funny, unsettling, leading to a semi-ambiguous finale that written a more exquisite occasionally gruesome riff on the questions whether it’s even possible for dark comedy in the age way a society can prioritize long-term two people to be in love on terms other of Tinder.” relationships while codifying them into than the ones their culture has laid out meaningless gesture… He also keeps for them. There’s comedy that’s weird — Aaron Hillis, Filmmaker expanding the scope, from the hotel to for its own sake, and then there’s this.” the woodland world of the Loners and — Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club A Regent Thursday 6 Aug, 8.30 pm Wednesday 12 Aug, 3.45 pm then to a nearby city, where patrolling B Regent

Sherpa Special Presentation

We are unlikely ever to tire of the Director: Jennifer Peedom spectacle of Everest as pure wilderness, Australia 2015 | 96 mins even if, before the terrible events of May, Producers: Bridget Ikin, John Smithson tales of adventure tourists crowding the Photography: Renan Ozturk, Hugh Miller, Ken Sauls mountain were becoming more and Editor: Christian Gazal more common. The Everest captured so Music: Antony Partos vividly in Australian filmmaker Jennifer With: Phurba Tashi Sherpa, Russell Brice, Ed Douglas Peedom’s superb Sherpa is one of Festivals: Sydney 2015 awesome beauty, but it is also one In Nepali and English, with English subtitles CinemaScope teeming with chaotic human activity. sherpafilm.com In 2013 news channels around the world reported that Sherpa guides had turned angrily on European climbers on Everest. Wanting to know what had driven the famously obliging Sherpas to such action, Peedom, already an experienced filmmaker in the Himalayas, set out to film the 2014 climbing season. Her film crew embedded with a commercial expedition operated by Kiwi Himalayan veteran Russell Khumbu Icefall. Having acquainted us, Brice. The 25 Sherpas in his team carry before this tragedy, with the candid This stunning new equipment and ensure the safety of viewpoints of Phurba and his team, documentary explores clients who might pay up to $75,000 Brice and his clients, and numerous for the experience. At the heart of this other denizens of the mountain, the relationship film is Brice’s Sherpa leader Phurba Peedom captures the dramatic between cashed-up Tashi, about to attempt to summit reappraisals that follow, with equal Everest expeditions Everest for the 22nd time. candour. Unforgettably, we watch as Then, in April 2014, a 14 million the Sherpas, facing fierce opposition and their guides. A Regent Sunday 9 Aug, 6.00 pm ton block of ice crashed down and and blatant misrepresentation, defy A Regent Sunday 16 Aug, 11.00 am killed 16 Sherpas as they worked the dictates of ‘commercial reality’ and on the climbing route through the unite to restore order to their mountain. A SJ Gore Sunday 16 Aug, 6.30 pm 8

The Art of Recovery AOTEAROA

Peter Young Director/Photography: Peter Young New Zealand 2015 90 mins Producers: Peter Young, Tracy Roe Executive producer: Gaylene Preston With: Wongi Wilson, Emma Wilson, Coralie Winn, Ryan Reynolds, Johnny Moore, Sam Crofsky, Pete Majendie, Barnaby Bennet, Liv Worsnop, Swing Town Rebels & CERA

If you’ve not been there for yourself, vacant spaces – and being celebrated prepare to be amazed by the profusion with feeling in Peter Young’s lively of massive murals, pop-up enterprises documentary. and inventive recreational options that Young juxtaposes the organic nature have brought colour and vitality to of the internationally admired Gap Filler Central Christchurch since the massive initiatives with the business-driven demolitions that followed the quake. imperatives of the Christchurch Central ‘People feel it is theirs’, says Pete Recovery Plan. He leaves us hoping Majendie, in explanation of the success against hope that a new city can be of his 185 Empty Chairs, a project infused with the same resurgent spirit which drew on donated materials and pride of community ownership. and voluntary assistance to create a memorial to those who died in Christchurch on 22 February 2011. Intended as a temporary installation, the chairs have been lovingly tended and much visited ever since. Majendie’s observation perfectly encapsulates the community spirit being forged in A Regent Saturday 15 Aug, 3.30 pm

Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses NEW ZEALAND FILMS AT NZIFF ARE PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY

David Stubbs

Director/Screenplay: David Stubbs New Zealand 2015 88 mins Producers: David Stubbs, Thomas Robins Photography: Mathew Knight Editor: Bradley Warden With: Kura Forrester, William Davis, Tina Cook, Hariata Moriarty CinemaScope/M content may disturb NZIFF is proud to provide big screen premieres for striking work made within our own In October 2007, 22-year-old Janet nightmare experienced by Janet and Moses died and a 14-year-old female her whānau. Invoking traditions they shores. In fact it’s one of our key objectives. relation was hospitalised during a haven’t entirely mastered, they are In 2015 we platform a marvellous diversity of mākutu-lifting in the Wellington consumed by their anxiety to rescue suburb of Wainuiomata. In 2009 nine her from the torments of her illness. documentaries – several of them significantly members of Janet’s family, all siblings The escalation of dread and conviction international in scope – and two very different of her mother or their spouses, were that enveloped them progresses charged in relation to her tragic death. incrementally and so convincingly in programmes of short films. We’re proud to host Their trial was reported around the Stubbs’ telling that rational disbelief at screenings for a film that marks the 2014 Tu¯hoe world and widely portrayed as a what occurred is no longer an option. head-to-head collision of Western law Dramatic without ever relishing drama Crown Settlement – and the first documentary and traditional belief. In Belief, David for its own sake, this is a persuasive about New Zealand Cinema since Sam Neill’s Stubbs, a Pākehā filmmaker who and moving picture of humanity in grew up in Wainuiomata, proceeds extremis. Cinema of Unease made its indelible mark 20 with impressive tact and sensitivity to years ago. understand and describe just what happened. He weaves together witness interviews, items of public record and A Rialto Sunday 16 Aug, 1.15 pm re-enactments to draw us into the A Rialto Sunday 16 Aug, 5.45 pm AOTEAROA 9

Crossing Rachmaninoff

Enthralled, like its hero, by the turmoil, Peter Young Rebecca Tansley* lyricism and sheer melodic grandeur of one of the most beloved works in the Director/Producer: Rebecca Tansley Romantic piano repertoire, Rebecca New Zealand 2015 | 79 mins Tansley’s documentary recounts the Co-producer: Lyn Collie voyage of Italian-born Auckland pianist Photography: Simon Raby Editor: Thomas Gleeson Flavio Villani. From picking out TV jingles Sound: Mike Westgate on a rusty keyboard as a child to his With: Flavio Villani debut last Christmas with a Calabrian In English and Italian, with English subtitles orchestra playing Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, his path has been circuitous but purposeful. Beginning in Auckland, where Villani arrived at the age of 26 to study performance at Auckland University, the film starts four months before the big night, but incorporates a good measure of his backstory into its countdown to show time. We see him with his own students. We see him rehearsing, performing and taking his son is gay or that he could ever notes from his mentor, Matteo Napoli. make a living playing the piano. “We don’t choose the Then it’s time to return to Italy a mere Villani’s modestly avowed assurance music. The music chooses ten days ahead of the performance. and his easy intimacy with the You may never want to spend filmmaker make him an entirely winning us.” — Matteo Napoli another Christmas in the sun once subject even when he’s not channelling you’ve hung out for a winter evening Rachmaninoff. The more he talks about in the cucina Villani, though there’s the concerto, the easier it is to see what something of the prodigal son about a vivid and exhilarating existence he’s B Regent Friday 7 Aug, 11.00 am* this food-filled homecoming. Villani found within it. Watching and hearing A Regent Saturday 8 Aug, 12.45 pm* explains his struggle with his father, an him live it in the film’s last act is a Sunday 16 Aug, 2.15 pm ex-military man unable to accept that joyous consummation indeed. A SJ Gore

Out of the Mist Philip Dadson: Sonics From Scratch

Director/Screenplay: Directors/Producers: Tim Wong Simon Ogston, New Zealand 2015 Orlando Stewart 80 mins New Zealand 2015 Producer: Melinda Jackson 85 mins Photography: Daniel Rose Photography: Simon Ogston Editor: Peter O’Donoghue Editors: Jacob Parish, Music: Svenda Ström, Simon Ogston Jason Erskine With: Philip Dadson, Narrator: Eleanor Catton Don McGlashan, Geoff Chapple Blu-ray

The best conversation you have narration belongs to one of our own, Few New Zealand artists have had Orlando Stewart craft a comprehensive about movies at NZIFF this year may Eleanor Catton. Most of the other such an enlivening impact on fine arts overview of Dadson’s life and work, be the one you have in your head films Wong feeds into the conversation as Philip Dadson with his international roping in various academics, historians, watching and listening to Tim Wong’s are much less generally known and reputation for sonic invention, and even some of his old scratch advocacy for some remarkable New barely political at all. There are such sophisticated video-installation art, orchestra alumni to weigh in. Featuring Zealand films and filmmakers who tantalising excerpts on display that we and innovative experimentation in a wealth of archival footage infectious don’t make it into the standard tour wish we had the space on our schedule the field of sound. He is arguably best enough to prompt involuntary toe- guides. The regular line-up is shrewdly to bring you the screenings you’ll be known for founding the avant-garde tapping, this is a vivid portrait of characterised in the process too, but craving of myriad cinematic treasures, ensemble From Scratch, which would creative Kiwi ingenuity, and a paean to there’s no rancour in his account of not least Annie Goldson’s Wake (1994), use everything from old lampshades to the role of collectivism in realising great the mainstream, magnificently and Tony Williams’ Next of Kin (1982), customised PVC pipes to perform its art. — JF absurdly characterised by a sweeping Gabriel White’s Oracle Drive (2013) intricate, rhythmic compositions. shot of the Southern Alps from a 50s and maybe even Cinerama South Seas This polished and engaging travelogue while Orson Welles savours Adventure (1958). documentary charts Dadson’s career every syllable of ‘Aorangi’, ‘Aotearoa’ from his humble beginnings in Napier and ‘Māori’ on the soundtrack. He through to his eventual recognition on cuts soon enough to civil war on the the world stage. Aided by the warm, streets in Merata Mita’s Patu! – and the B Rialto Wednesday 12 Aug, 1.00 pm laid-back presence of the subject A Rialto Wednesday 12 Aug, 6.15 pm Sunday 16 Aug, 3.45 pm Thursday 13 Aug, 1.00 pm voice we will hear delivering Wong’s A Rialto himself, filmmakers Simon Ogston and B Rialto 10 AOTEAROA

MADMAN ENTERTAINMENT New Zealand’s Best 2015 JURY PRIZE 82 mins approx. | R13 violence, offensive language, nudity, content may offend

For our fourth New Zealand’s Tits on a Bull Ow What! Feeder Best short film competition, NZIFF NZ 2015 | 16 mins | Director/Screenplay: Tim NZ 2015 | 15 mins | Director/Producer/Screenplay: NZ 2015 | 16 mins | Director: Christian Rivers programmers Bill Gosden and Michael Worrall | Producers: Piripi Curtis, Lara Northcroft Michael Jonathan | Photography: Grant Mckinnon Producer: Mhairead Connor | Screenplay: Photography: Richard Curtis Guy McDouall | Photography: Simon Baumfield McDonnell viewed 75 submissions Te Mauri dreams of following in his to make a shortlist of 12 from which The star player of a Ma¯ori women’s absent rugby-playing father’s footsteps A down-on-his-luck musician finds filmmaker Christine Jeffs selected rugby team must choose between and finds encouragement from an inspiration when he moves into a these six finalists. loyalty to her coach and love for her unusual source. A charming story creepy derelict flat, but success comes A jury of three will select the teammate. The narrative skilfully takes with surprising power. A memorable at a cost... Dark narrative with a twist. winners of the $5,000 Madman us to the heart of the relationships. performance from Timoti Tiakiwai Surprises keep coming to the end. Entertainment Jury Prize and the Realistic and full of feeling. Refreshing. which places us firmly in his world. Madam Black $3,000 Friends of the Civic Award. Funny and poignant all at once. A separate jury appointed by the Not Like Her NZ 2014 | 11 mins | Director/Producer: Ivan Barge Screenplay: Matthew Harris | Photography: New Zealand Cinematographers NZ 2015 | 14 mins | Director/Screenplay: Hash Perambalam | Producers: Lucy Stonex, Brendan The Tide Keeper Andrew Stroud Society will present the Allen Guilford | | Donovan | Photography: Grant Mckinnon NZ 2014 10 mins Director/Producer/Screenplay: An errant photographer must concoct Cinematography Award of $2,000 Alyx Duncan | Photography: Ben Montgomery, A rebellious teenager is forced to Chris Pryor | Festivals: Melbourne, Vancouver 2014 an elaborate story when he runs over and an engraved pan glass. The spend the day with her estranged a beloved pet. The tricky situations we winner of the Audience Choice Award An old seaman dreams the ocean into mother when she is suspended get ourselves into. Sweet and quirky takes away 25 percent of the box his bed. Gloriously filmed, powerful from school. Edgy performances tale which abounds with charm and office from the NZIFF screenings. and provocative, with strength of with perfect moments of solitude. humour. Christine’s comments on each film vision and clarity of tone that resonates Understated with intensity. Could have appear in italics. beautifully with feeling. seen more.

B Rialto Friday 31 July, 4.30 pm A Rialto Tuesday 4 Aug, 6.15 pm

NOT LIKE HER TITS ON A BULL MADAM BLACK

Simone Young AM COnDuCTOR Baiba Skride VIOLIn

NEW ZEALAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA presents CATHEDR A L OF SOUND SIBELIUS AND BRUCKNER

SIbELIuS Violin Concerto in D minor

bRuCKnER Symphony No. 8 in C minor (original version)

Wed 2 Sep 7.00pm dunedin Town Hall

Free pre-concert talk 45 minutes prior

FOR TICKET DETAILS VISIT nzso.co.nz AOTEAROA 11

PRESENTED IN Nga¯ Whanaunga Ma¯ori Pasifika Shorts 2015 ASSOCIATION WITH 94 mins approx. | Censors rating tbc

A collection of Māori and Pasifika Taniwha Coral a Māori soldier. Rachel Morris’ story of short films curated by Leo Koziol NZ 2015 | 3 mins | Director: Mika (Nga¯i Tahu, Takata¯pui) NZ/Samoa 2015 | 15 mins | Director/Screenplay: her grandmother beautifully depicts the (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rakaipaaka), Giacomo Martelli | Executive Producer: Maea landscape of Far North Awanui. — LK We open with waiata from Ma¯ori Director of the Wairoa Māori Film Tamasese (Samoan) | Producers: Steve Finnigan, magician Mika, another divination, an Grant Baker, Fuimaono Alex Wright (Samoan) Festival, with guest co-curator Craig Mrs Mokemoke expression of the spirit of Taniwha! — LK Fasi (Niue), Director of the Pollywood A fisherman finds something disturbing NZ 2015 | 9 mins | Director/Screenplay: Li Gent Xin in a forbidden lagoon. Shot fully in Producer: Tia Barrett (Nga¯ti Maniapoto, Nga¯i Tahu) Film Festival. Ma This year’s expression of ‘Ngā Samoan, this native noir tale lingers Mrs Mokemoke loves her husband, NZ 2014 | 16 mins | Director/Screenplay: Nikki with you long after it ends. — LK Whanaunga’ – which means Si’ulepa (Samoan) | Producers: Ngaire Fuata but he’s more interested in her (Rotuman), Nikki Si‘ulepa inheritance. A mind-expanding mash- relatedness and connectedness La¯haina¯ Noon between peoples – is realised with When a grandmother discovers one up of Lindauer portraits, silent-era USA 2014 | 14 mins | Director/Screenplay: storytelling, film noir and Kubrickian films from Aotearoa, Hawaii, Samoa of her precious toys is missing, she Christopher Kahunahana (Hawaiian Ka¯naka Maoli) and Tuvalu. Native noir, cultural takes matters into her own hands. Ma Producer: Patricia Buskirk intrigue. — LK comedy and deep drama combine is a no-nonsense kind of lady. Never Three short stories are woven together Elevation in an expression of ‘Hawaiiki Hōu’ – underestimate Ma! — CF during a yearly tropical solar NZ 2015 | 14 mins | Director/Screenplay: Tihini Voices of a New Hawaiiki. Curators’ phenomenon. Hawaiians believe Grant (Te Arawa) | Producer: Lara Northcroft comments on each film appear in Islet that during La¯haina¯ Noon the sun (Te Arawa) italics. Tuvalu 2015 | 11 mins | Director/Producer/ rests on the brain and for one minute Screenplay: Andrew John Fakaua Ponton (Tuvaluan) Trapped in an elevator, a white your mana magnifies. — CF supremacist and a Māori gang member A 13-year-old boy must navigate the confront their issues and come out expectations of his ultra-conservative Netta Jones better men, or not. In this dark community. This comic tale is the NZ 2015 | 12 mins | Director: Pablo Araus Lobos comedy, a common hate creates an first full Tuvalu language short shot in Producer/Screenplay: Rachel Morris (Te Aupo¯uri) unlikely union. — CF Tuvalu. — LK During WWII 16-year-old Netta falls for

A Rialto Tuesday 11 Aug, 6.15 pm

CORAL ISLET MRS MOKEMOKE

The Price of Peace Tom Who? The Enigma of Tom Kreisler

Director: Kim Webby Director: Shirley Horrocks New Zealand 2015 New Zealand 2015 87 mins 73 mins Producers: Christina Milligan, Producers: Shirley Horrocks, Tony Roger Grant, Kim Webby Green Photography: Jos Wheeler Photography: Adrian Greshoff, Editor: Cushla Dillon Leon Narby, Ron Egozi Music: Joel Haines Editor: Steven Mountjoy With: Tame Iti Narrator: Jennifer Ward Lealand In English and Māori, with English subtitles

There’s an enlightening and moving as a microcosm of the tension between If the art of Tom Kreisler (1938–2002) statue’s penis. Averse to marketing portrait of Tūhoe activist, artist and Ngāi Tūhoe and the Crown, Webby remains a secret, Shirley Horrocks’ and the politics of the art world, he kaumātua Tame Iti at the heart of observes a people who never lose their richly illustrated doco does everything preferred to live with his family in Kim Webby’s film about the trial of integrity or sense of independence right to make it less so. A uniquely New Plymouth and do his own thing, the ‘Urewera Four’ and its aftermath. despite the long shadows of injustice. cosmopolitan figure in the New teaching art to high school students, She outlines the perils of surveillance A startling and engaging documentary, Zealand arts scene, he grew up in though at one point he attempted a in her account of the trial, in which The Price of Peace reveals a national Argentina, the son of Austrian refugees break for Mexico. Exploring the artist’s Iti and three others were accused of failure of maddening proportions, from Nazi Europe. At age 13 they sent inspiration, Horrocks heads to Mexico plotting terrorist activities after an culminating in an emotionally cathartic him to Christchurch, where a well-to- too, to explore the Day of the Dead alleged paramilitary training camp was denouement that’s deeply personal do uncle and aunt adopted him. (Ian culture that was a lifelong influence. discovered by police in the Urewera in scale – yet crucially hopeful in its Athfield was a boyhood friend.) Back in New Zealand, family, curators in 2007. historic significance. He left New Zealand and travelled and numerous artists share their stories, Charting Iti’s youth as a young the world before returning and making those of us who never met the activist through to his perspective on entering art school. In his first man wish that we had. the polarising trial, the film offers us dealer show, with what proved to a rich, multifaceted portrait of the be characteristic Pop Art verve he man, peppered with both his warm mocked the Arts Council 1967 tour humanism and his rightly embittered A Rialto Sunday 9 Aug, 1.00 pm of a replica of Michelangelo’s David A Rialto Sunday 9 Aug, 5.45 pm Monday 10 Aug, 11.30 am B Rialto Monday 10 Aug, 2.00 pm philosophy. Viewing Iti’s legal quandary B Rialto by exhibiting a giant painting of the 12 FOR ALL AGES

PROUDLY PRESENTED T A S T E N A T U R E Enchanted Kingdom 3D IN ASSOCIATION WITH saturday...... brunch - THe w inter menu ORGANIC + SeASONAL Directors: Patrick Morris, ...... Neil Nightingale UK 2014 | 87 mins Producers: Myles Connolly, Amanda Hill, Neil Nightingale Photography: Rod Clarke, Robin Cox, Mark Deeble, Jonathan Jones, Brendan McGinty, Jamie McPherson, Simon Werry Music: Patrick Doyle OPEN 7 DAYS Narrator: Idris Elba 3D/G cert MON - Fri

9:00–18:00 ©BBC EARTH PRODUCTIONS AFRICA LIMITED AND RELIANCE PRODCO LLC 2014 SAturDAY This amazing, immersive big-screen and lava-spewing volcanoes, to 9:00–16:00 adventure offers a glorious visual crashing waterfalls and deep fantastical rhapsody to the natural wonders of a seas, as we experience some of the SuNDAY continent. Delightfully voiced by Idris greatest gatherings of wildlife ever 10:00–15:00 Elba, this really is an ideal all-ages captured on film. With up-close-and- film. — NM personal animal encounters and “The creators of BBC’s groundbreaking absolutely stunning scenery, this is Walking with Dinosaurs 3D and Earth an unspeakably beautiful film that take us on a spellbinding journey presents nature in all her epic through seven realms of Africa to reveal grandeur.” — New York International a natural world stranger, more magical, Children’s Film Festival DeliciOUS FOOD MADe tO ORDer and more mystical than anything we might imagine. The film flows likes a & Self seRV iCe tea, c0ffee & CAKe stream, with extraordinary timelapse photography, sweeping aerial shots, 3D Rialto Sunday 9 Aug, 10.30 am 131 High Street, Dunedin (Opp. the Southern Cross Hotel) and macro and micro lensed 3D 3D Rialto Saturday 15 Aug, 10.30 am propelling us from enchanted forests phone: 03 474 0219 email: [email protected] to the boiling edge of the underworld, 3D SJ Gore Sunday 16 Aug, 12.15 pm Monday 17 Aug, 6.15 pm w w w . t a s t e n a t u r e . c O . n z from celestial ice-capped mountains 3D SJ Gore

Animation for Kids 2015 60 mins approx. | NZIFF recommends this programme for children aged 9–12 | Censors rating tbc

Animation is uniquely capable of The Story of Percival Pilts Crowded Johnny Express creating worlds of almost boundless Janette Goodey, John Lewis | Australia/New Zealand Andrew Khosravani, Cristina Florit Gomila | UK 2014 Kyungmin Woo | Korea 2014 | 5 mins originality and creativity, each with its 2015 | 8 mins 3 mins own perfectly imagined rules and logic Johnny, a lazy intergalactic courier, has A whimsical story about living an Our best ideas and our best intentions – just like kids really. This programme is a delivery to make. His package isn’t impractical life based on a childhood will only help us so far. bookended by two stunning examples very big and he seems to have been promise. of this. New Zealand animator, Janette Scoop sent to an empty planet to drop it off. Goodey, although mostly resident in Petux The Brothers McLeod | UK 2014 | 2 mins Rosso Papavero Australia these days, did much of the | | Leonid Shmelkov Russia 2015 6 mins Martin Smatana | Slovakia 2015 | 6 mins design and costuming work on The Clark and Tiffany take their Chopper- Story of Percival Pilts in Auckland. It is Things are plenty weird down on the Chopper to the annual Lava Fish Day. A boy becomes dazzled by the farm – and it’s got something to do narrated with consummate skill by our MiMO glittering charms of a fantastic circus own Mark Hadlow. And the closing with that cord hanging from the sky and finds himself swept into the new that the farmer keeps pulling. Yee Chang Pei, Shannon Oon Qian Yi | Singapore film, one of the most complex films we 2014 | 2 mins reality on the other side of the tent have shown in the Kids programme, My Big Brother flap. navigates a world where bullies can A charming and beautifully hand- Jason Rayner | USA 2014 | 3 mins hold sway and you might not know drawn film channelling the art of a The Dam Keeper who your true friends are. In between, Lots of kids have a big brother. But very famous artist called Joan Miró. Daisuke Tsutsumi, Robert Kondo | USA 2014 | 18 mins are liberal doses of hilarity, intrigue how big is TOO big? Balloona Laguna A big story of a small town relying and a chicken with special powers. Matisse Gonzalez | Germany 2014 | 7 mins on a little pig who takes care of the windmill that keeps them all safe. PROUDLY PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH A bizarre encounter with a mean- spirited balloon animal seller turns into a wild and crazy jam session.

B Regent Saturday 8 Aug, 11.00 am

THE STORY OF PERCIVAL PILTS MY BIG BROTHER BALLOONA LAGUNA FOR ALL AGES 13

PROUDLY PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH Song of the Sea

Here’s something super special with all- Director: Tomm Moore ages appeal. Years in the making, Tomm Ireland/Luxembourg/France/Belgium/ Moore’s Oscar-nominated, handmade Denmark 2014 | 90 mins animated feature serves up a heady brew Producers: Tomm Moore, Ross Murray, Paul Young, Stephan Roelants, Serge Umé, Marc Umé, of Irish folklore in a dazzling procession Isabelle Truc, Clément Calvet, Jérémie Fajner, of story book images. Its story of a Frederik Villumsen, Claus Toksvig Kjaer Screenplay: Will Collins. Based on an original motherless boy and his speechless little story by Tomm Moore sister finding their place (and her voice) Editor: Darragh Byrne in a world of restless spirits is fraught Production designer: Adrien Merigeau Music: Bruno Coulais, Kíla with adventure and imbued with Voices: David Rawle, Brendan Gleeson, Fionnula emotions anyone might recognise. Flanagan, Lisa Hannigan, Lucy O’Connell, Jon Kenny, Pat Shortt, Colm Ó’Snodaigh, Liam “This visually stunning animation Hourican, Kevin Swierszcz masterwork, steeped in Irish myth, Festivals: Toronto, Busan, London 2014; folklore and legend, so adroitly mixes Sydney 2015 PG cert the magical and the everyday that to watch it is to be wholly immersed in PROUDLY PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH an enchanted world. Those who saw director Tomm Moore’s previous film, 2009’s The Secret of Kells, will hardly be surprised. Like Japan’s transcendent Hayao Miyazaki, Moore has a great gift appear… including energetic fairies, for diving deeply into his culture and unpleasant elves, a disconcerting witch “It’s about story and heart coming back with treasures for all… called Macha, the legendary storyteller and emotion and wonder Song of the Sea begins with the the Great Seanachaí and the sea god myth of the selkie, a creature who Mac Lir… One of the messages of this and craftsmanship and manages to be a seal in the ocean but emotional film is the power of song to because of that it becomes a human on land. That legend and change worlds. So it’s appropriate that timeless, a beautiful piece others from Ireland’s great treasure Song of the Sea’s music, composed house of tales come to play a major by Bruno Coulais in collaboration with of art that will delight part in the lives of a young brother and the Irish group Kíla, is exceptionally audiences old and young.” A Regent Sunday 2 Aug, 1.15 pm sister and their family… A whole flotilla melodic and pure pleasure to listen to.” — Todd Brown, Twitch Sunday 23 Aug, 1.15 pm of lively and colorful supernatural folk — Kenneth Turan, LA Times A SJ Gore

When Marnie Was There Omodie no Marnie

From the house of Miyazaki, bearing Director: Yonebayashi Hiromasa his praise but not his participation, Japan 2014 | 103 mins comes this delicately crafted tale Producers: Nishimura Yoshiaki, Hoshino Koji of a timid girl and her mysterious Screenplay: Niwa Keiko, Ando Masashi, Yonebayashi Hiromasa. Based on the novel by new friend by director Yonebayashi Joan G. Robinson Hiromasa (Arrietty). Based on the 1967 Animation director: Ando Masashi Production designer: Taneda Yohei children’s novel by British author Joan Music: Muramatsu Takatsugu G. Robinson, its setting (and spirit Voices: Takatsuki Sara, Arimura Kasumi, world) have been elegantly transposed Matsushima Nanako, Terajima Susumu, Negishi Toshie, Moriyama Ryoko, Yoshiyuki Kazuko, to an idyllic Japanese village that feels Kuroki Hitomi faintly Gothic and totally Ghibli. Anna, Festivals: Rotterdam 2015 In Japanese with English subtitles an artistically gifted but withdrawn PG cert girl, is sent from Sapporo to spend the summer convalescing from asthma at PROUDLY PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH her aunt and uncle’s home by the sea. While out walking, Anna beholds an abandoned mansion across the bay, where she meets Marnie, a mysterious blond girl. They form an instant club of two – but the lines between reality and ©2014 GNDHDDTK fantasy blur as Marnie’s story is pieced Bursting with color and detail, together from an intriguing trail of buoyed along and uplifted by pianist The latest – and we hope hints and clues. Muramatsu Takatsugu’s feather-light not last – feature from “Marnie is about friendship, and score, the film’s traditional animation the bond that brings Anna around to style gives the already old-fashioned Studio Ghibli is a socializing with other girls her age. narrative an even more timeless feel. beautifully animated tale Yonebayashi’s open-hearted tale, more Instead of marking what could be the of the growing friendship than any other Ghibli offering, could end of an era, it arrives almost like conceivably have worked just as well a classic heirloom, uncovered and and emotional adventures in live-action, and yet the tender restored for contemporary eyes.” of two 12-year-old girls. story gains so much from the studio’s — Peter Debruge, Variety Sunday 16 Aug, 1.15 pm delicate, hand-crafted approach. A Regent 14 BRAZIL & CANADA

The Second Mother Que horas ela volta? WORLD

Director/Screenplay: Anna Muylaert Brazil 2015 | 110 mins With: Regina Casé, Michel Joelsas, Camila Márdila Festivals: Sundance, Berlin 2015 Special Jury Prize (World Cinema), Sundance Film Festival 2015 In Portuguese with English subtitles CinemaScope/M drug use, offensive language

Centred on a warm and humorous Jéssica. Educated and assured, she performance by Brazilian actress and hasn’t seen her estranged mother in a TV host Regina Casé, The Second decade. To Val’s intense embarrassment, Mother brings an edge of social critique Jéssica assumes equal status with her to its heart-tugging tale of mother and employers and sparks a crisis that’s child reunion. Val (Casé) has been a been a long time coming. The boss- devoted live-in housemaid for a São housemaid dynamic at play here may Paulo family for 13 years. She serves be deeply rooted in Brazilian society, impeccable dinner parties for Bárbara, but writer/director Anna Muylaert the brusque, self-made businesswoman clearly appreciates that seeing one’s who’s her boss; she keeps track of the child emancipated beyond one’s reach layabout husband’s medicine regimen; might hurt in any language. and she is confidant and comforter to

Fabinho, the teenage son. B Regent Tuesday 4 Aug, 10.00 am* In short, the good-natured maid is A Regent Tuesday 4 Aug, 6.15 pm the nurturing figure in the household. *Please note: Special Senior Price of The disconnect with actual motherhood $6.00 applies is brought into strong relief with the arrival of Val’s biological daughter, A SJ Gore Saturday 15 Aug, 6.00 pm

The Forbidden Room

Directors: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson Canada 2015 | 130 mins Screenplay: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Robert Kotyk, John Ashbery With: Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey, Louis Negin, Mathieu Amalric, Our pick of the features we have encountered Udo Kier, Charlotte Rampling, Geraldine Chaplin in a year of intense engagement with Festivals: Sundance, Berlin 2015 Colour and B&W/M nudity international cinema. We do what we can theforbiddenroom-film.com to cover many bases, while always insisting on that certain indefinable quality. We pay attention too, to the films lavished with praise Since Careful in 1992, NZIFF audiences own inner child at gunpoint; a man has have reeled in amazement as Canadian a lobotomy in order to cure himself of or box office success in their countries of origin. Guy Maddin constructed psychic a paralyzing obsession with bottoms; delirium from a welter of narrative and a mustache induces melancholic scraps from bygone films – that is, memories… ‘films’ that he’s fabricated himself, As is the case with most of Maddin’s with a fetishist’s attention to vanished work, lust, shame, and fetishism technologies and archaic film styles. abound as the film navigates the nether This time he’s working with co-director regions of the human body and psyche Evan Johnson to yield a magnum opus with playfully archaic euphemism. The of melodramatic scenarios, dizzying 58-year-old filmmaker has assembled in its nutty grandeur. his best cast in years to bring these “The new feature spits out serial-style ludicrous narrative nuggets to life.” adventures in spasmodic fragments: a — Emma Myers, Film Comment stranded submarine crew must rely on air bubbles in their breakfast flapjacks for oxygen; a lumberjack goes on a quest to rescue a maiden from a pack A Rialto Friday 7 Aug, 8.15 pm Wednesday 12 Aug, 8.45 pm of wild wolf men; a woman holds her A Rialto AUSTRALIA & BELGIUM WORLD 15

Holding the Man

Timothy Conigrave’s memoir, Holding Director: Neil Armfield the Man, is a love story for the ages, Australia 2015 | 128 mins and Neil Armfeld’s film honours it Producer: Kylie du Fresne beautifully. Conigrave met John Caleo Screenplay: Tommy Murphy. Based on the memoir by Timothy Conigrave when they were teenagers at Xavier Photography: Germain McMicking College in Melbourne in the 1970s. Tim Editor: Dany Cooper With: Ryan Corr, Craig Stott, Guy Pearce, was an aspiring actor. John was captain Anthony LaPaglia, Camilla Ah Kin, Kerry Fox, of the football team. Their romance Sarah Snook lasted 15 years and endured a good Festivals: Sydney 2015 Censors rating tbc many trials, a fair few of them instigated by Tim. John died at 33, felled by the plague that killed so many young gay men in the 80s. Forbidden by the Caleo family to speak at his lover’s funeral, Tim ensured through his memoir that the world would know the depth of tenderness they shared. The film is deeply romantic, even in its tragic denouement, but feels keenly in touch with the lived experience of its subjects. Unexpected sociological that you wouldn’t want to see it any details feel exactly right: you may other way. Timothy Conigrave’s be surprised who in 1976 can take a There’s fire in Holding the Man, lest unforgettable book couple of mutually smitten schoolboys we ever forget a time when so many in their stride, though it’s no surprise sons, brothers, friends and lovers died informs every moment when an Italian paterfamilias (Anthony amidst such fear and recrimination. of this beautiful film LaPaglia) cannot. But it’s no simplistic denunciation of adaptation. Actors Ryan Corr and Craig Stott bygone homophobia. All it is out to say age 15 years as Tim and John. They are on that score is that these two boys, too big to be playing schoolboys, but then men, were the lights of each they portray such distinct individuals, other’s lives, that they knew it, and B Rialto Friday 14 Aug, 11.00 am Saturday 15 Aug, 8.15 pm so sweetly, surprisingly into each other, so why shouldn’t anyone else? A Regent

The Brand New Testament Le Tout nouveau testament

In Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael’s universe, God (Benoît Poelvoorde) is a mean-spirited bastard lounging around Director: Jaco Van Dormael his Brussels apartment in dressing Belgium/France/Luxembourg 2015 gown and trackies, watching sport on 117 mins TV and wreaking havoc on the world Producers: Jaco Van Dormael, Olivier Rausin, Daniel Marquet from his DOS-run PC. Goddess (the Screenplay: Thomas Gunzig, Jaco van Dormael marvellous Yolande Moreau), his long Photography: Christophe Beaucarne suffering wife, sticks to her embroidery Editor: Hervé de Luze Music: An Pierlé and bides her time. But ten-year-old With: Pili Groyne, Benoît Poelvoorde, daughter Éa (played by a fantastic Catherine Deneuve, François Damiens, Yolande Moreau, Laura Verlinden, young actress, Pili Groyne) has taken Serge Larivière, Didier De Neck, Romain Gelin one too many strappings from the old Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2015 man and resolves – with the help of In French with English subtitles CinemaScope/Censors rating tbc her better-known older brother – to liberate the world from the malign hand of Dad. Not to give away too much about her mission, she sets about recruiting six disciples whose testimony about their own miracle-free ®FABRIZIO MALTESE lives will constitute the Brand New storytelling momentum and a highly Testament. Surreal silliness ensues, creative visual scheme. He’s in the “Such a divinely with some florid CGI assistance, and Gondry/Gilliam zone, but if you can’t entertaining story memorable encounters with, amongst get down with a floating fish skeleton others, a small boy who wants to be humming ‘La Mer’, why do you go to is sure to become a a girl and Catherine Deneuve as a the movies in the first place?… This is cult classic.” wealthy shopaholic who bonds with a a vision of optimism, of people being — Nina Hudson, The Upcoming gorilla. Literal adherents of the previous given the opportunity to help one two Testaments need not apply, but another and doing it with tenderness. there’s a daffy innocence – a touch of If you can get past the initial blasphemy, Amélie – about this brand new one. you’ll find a highly moral film.” A Regent Tuesday 11 Aug, 6.15 pm Friday 14 Aug, 1.30 pm “Van Dormael maintains a blazing — Jordan Hoffman, The Guardian B Rialto 16 WORLD FRANCE

Clouds of Sils Maria

In this wiser, gentler 21st-century spin on themes of thespian rivalry, Juliette Binoche brings her own stellar Director/Screenplay: Olivier Assayas status to the role of lauded actress France/Germany/Switzerland 2014 Maria Enders. Maria’s transition to 124 mins ‘mature’ roles presses hard on her Producer: Charles Gillibert Photography: Yorick Le Saux when she’s invited to appear in a new Editor: Marion Monnier production of the play that made With: Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz, Lars Eidinger, Johnny Flynn, Angela her famous at 18. The legend of her Winkler, Hanns Zischler, Nora von Waldstätten, brilliant debut as a young woman who Brady Corbet seduces and abandons a powerful Festivals: Cannes (In Competition), Locarno, Toronto, Vancouver, New York 2014 older woman has clung to her, but this Winner Best Supporting Actress (Kristen Stewart), time she’s being cast as the victim. Jo- César Awards 2015 CinemaScope/M offensive language Ann (Chloë Grace Moretz), a hellraising Hollywood starlet, fresh out of rehab, will take the star-making role. The echoes of earlier films about thespian rivalry resound, but the central dynamic in Olivier Assayas’ thoroughly engrossing film lies in Maria’s bond with her savvy personal “Inquisitive and enchanting… A story assistant Val. Kristen Stewart brings a which revolves around three women, “The chance to look warm naturalism to the role, playing one that explores uneven relationships behind the curtain that a super-aware young woman whose and rivalries in a manner seldom seen independence won’t be compromised, onscreen… Clouds of Sils Maria dips Assayas has lifted so as much as she admires the woman and soars in its grand ambitions but, artfully is a temptation who depends on her. The film takes at its best, blends the rampant egos one shouldn’t resist.” place largely in the Swiss Alps where and raging insecurities of All About B Regent Friday 14 Aug, 11.00 am the eponymous snaking clouds provide Eve with a fresh and playful modernity.” — Betsy Sharkey, LA Times A Regent Sunday 16 Aug, 5.30 pm breathtaking respite from the dramatic — Emma Simmonds, The List hall of mirrors in which the restless B SJ Gore Thursday 20 Aug, 11.00 am actress searches for significance. A SJ Gore Saturday 22 Aug, 4.00 pm

Far from Men Loin des hommes

Featuring a fine performance from Director: David Oelhoffen Viggo Mortensen and an original France 2014 | 110 mins soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Producers: Marc Du Pontavice, Matthew Gledhill Ellis, Far from Men is a tense tale of Screenplay: David Oelhoffen. Based on the short story ‘The Guest’ by Albert Camus honour and friendship that bears all the Photography: Guillaume Deffontaines hallmarks of a classic frontier Western, Editor: Juliette Welfling not least in its vast Algerian desert Music: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis With: Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb, setting. The year is 1954; the war is Djemel Barek, Vincent Martin, Nicolas Giraud, beginning and village schoolteacher Jean-Jérôme Esposito, Hatim Sadiki, Yann Goven, Antoine Régent, Sonia Amori Daru (Mortensen), an ex-French Army Festivals: Venice, Toronto, London 2014; soldier, is caught in the crossfire. Born Rotterdam, Tribeca 2015 In French and Arabic, with English subtitles in Algeria but Spanish by lineage, he’s CinemaScope/M violence perceived as alien by both locals and colonisers alike. He’s obliged by the French police to escort a dissident (Reda Kateb, A Prophet) to a regional court to face trial for murder. Skirmishes with groups of soldiers, locals and rebels are fraught with suspicion and danger, constantly forcing the question of ©MICHAEL CROTTO where Daru’s loyalties truly lie. intimate story of personal duty and the Based on ‘The Guest’, a short story power of friendship that nonetheless “A must-see for Mortensen’s by Albert Camus, writer/director David unfolds against a huge backdrop, a characteristically Oelhoffen’s drama underplays its contrast in scale that is a characterizing contemporary relevance to resonant element of a great genre Western. wonderful performance.” effect. And Guillaume Deffontaines’ luxuriant — Chuck Bowen, Slate “Far from Men is a quietly grand, photography mirrors that contrast, beautiful film… Taking the conventions expending just as much care in the of Western films to different countries, lighting of faces and expressions as planets, time periods or political in the luscious widescreen desert and situations is hardly new, but when it’s mountain vistas.” — Jessica Kiang, A Regent Saturday 1 Aug, 6.45 pm Friday 7 Aug, 4.00 pm done well, it never gets old… It’s an The Playlist B Regent FRANCE & GUATEMALA WORLD 17

Saint Laurent

The second lavish film biography of Yves Saint Laurent in a single year, this ‘unauthorised’ version is the Director/Music: Bertrand Bonello more sensuous affair, less concerned France/Belgium 2014 | 151 mins with ticking off the life story than Producers: Eric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer with sampling the man’s excesses, his Screenplay: Thomas Bidegain, Bertrand Bonello Photography: Josée Deshaies influences, his demons and the sheer With: Gaspard Ulliel, Jérémie Renier, Louis Garrel, delight of his creative triumphs. Léa Seydoux, Amira Casar, Aymeline Valade, Micha Lescot, Helmut Berger, “Bertrand Bonello’s Saint Laurent Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Valérie Donzelli, beckons with the promise of an inside Dominique Sanda, Jasmine Trinca Festivals: Cannes (In Competition), New York, look at the hectic and mysterious Busan 2014 world of fashion… You are transported Best Costume Design, César Awards 2015 into the workshops where Yves In French and English, with English subtitles R16 offensive language, sexual references, nudity, Saint Laurent designed his couture drug use collections of the late 1960s and early 70s, and into the business meetings where his brand-extension strategies were hatched. After-hours you follow the designer, in the company of friends, lovers and hangers-on, to Paris nightclubs and cruising areas, to a perspective on his subject – played in Morocco and to bed. A few names are his prime by the epicene, hollow- “Focusing on a dark, dropped – Andy Warhol, Loulou de la cheeked Gaspard Ulliel – that is at once hedonistic, wildly creative Falaise – but mostly you sweep through intimate and detached. Beginning at a the parties and runway shows without low moment in 1974, flashing back to decade in Yves Saint stopping for introductions, as if you the glory days of 1967 and later jumping Laurent’s life and career, already knew everyone who mattered. ahead to Saint Laurent’s final years Bonello considers the It’s a giddy, intoxicating, decidedly (when he’s played by Helmut Berger), A Regent Saturday 8 Aug, 6.00 pm decadent feeling, but Saint Laurent is the film is a compulsively detailed swirl couturier as a myth, a B Regent Tuesday 11 Aug, 10.45 am more than merely seductive. In of moods and impressions, intent on brand, an avatar of his dispensing with the usual plodding capturing the contradictions of the man B SJ Gore Friday 21 Aug, 11.00 am era.” — Dennis Lim, Artforum routines of the biopic, Mr Bonello offers and his times.” — A.O. Scott, NY Times A SJ Gore Sunday 23 Aug, 5.00 pm

The Measure of a Man Ixcanul Volcano La Loi du marché

Director/Screenplay: Jayro Bustamante Director: Stéphane Brizé Guatemala/France 2015 France 2015 | 93 mins 95 mins Screenplay: Stéphane Brizé, Photography: Luis Armando Olivier Gorce Arteaga With: Vincent Lindon Editor: César Díaz Festivals: Cannes Music: Pascual Reyes (In Competition) 2015 With: María Mercedes Coroy, Best Actor (Vincent Lindon), María Telón, Manuel Antún Cannes Film Festival 2015 Festivals: Berlin 2015 In French with English subtitles In Kaqchikel and Spanish, with CinemaScope/M adult themes English subtitles M sex scenes, offensive language, nudity © NORD-OUEST FILMS - ARTE FRANCE CINÉMA Vincent Lindon, modern French a moving pitch… Brizé devotes nearly Richly atmospheric and steeped and returned there to make his film, cinema’s icon of down-to-earth every other scene to Thierry’s domestic in Mayan folklore, director Jayro holding workshops, asking people to masculinity, was a popular choice for life, where there is stress but no strife. Bustamante’s film seems at first to have tell stories from their own lives and the Best Actor Award at Cannes for his There is love in that house, stability, emerged from another age, though the experiencing living conditions of the magnetically contained performance and a tentative happiness… Through it setting turns out to be contemporary. Maya at close range. But Dickens might as Thierry, a former factory worker all, Lindon takes in every atom of every The drama centres on the choices have taught him about the power of struggling to keep home and family situation, every pointer, every negative facing María, a 17-year-old Kaqchikel pathos. The persuasive authenticity and together without a job. Filmmaker word, considering what’s of value, Maya who works with her parents on sombre observation of social realities in Stéphane Brizé (Mademoiselle discarding what’s not. This is one of a coffee plantation in the shadow of this first film from Guatemala mark it as Chambon) earns comparison with the the most sensitively shaded depictions the eponymous volcano. She is set to one of the year’s most distinctive from Dardenne brothers and the best films of listening I’ve ever had the pleasure be married to the farm’s foreman, a all of Latin America. of Laurent Cantet. to watch. He’s playing the pressure, but loveless match that will at least protect “Very quietly, the film damns a his way: tense, cool.” — Wesley Morris, the livelihood of her parents. But María system that throws workers overboard Grantland is secretly working on other plans that and either dangles a lifeboat just out will take her away from traditional life – of reach or changes the definition of and towards a startling contradiction of drowning. Eventually, Thierry takes a the natural order as she understands it. job working security at a department A Regent Wednesday 5 Aug, 6.15 pm Bustamante grew up in the region B Rialto Friday 31 July, 2.30 pm B Regent Monday 10 Aug, 1.15 pm store, where the film’s critique reaches of the Kaqchikel Maya in Guatemala A Rialto Sunday 2 Aug, 6.00 pm 18 WORLD GERMANY & INDIA

Phoenix

German director Christian Petzold and his actress muse Nina Hoss follow up Barbara (2012) with Phoenix, an almost Director: Christian Petzold Hitchcockian drama of mistaken identity Germany/Poland 2014 | 98 mins set in Berlin immediately after WWII. Producers: Florian Koerner Von Gustorf, Hoss plays Nelly, a jazz singer, injured Michael Weber Screenplay: Christian Petzold, with the while escaping from a concentration collaboration of Harun Farocki. Based on the camp. Successful reconstructive surgery novel Le Retour des cendres by Hubert Monteilhet Photography: Hans Fromm has rendered her barely recognisable Editor: Bettina Böhler to her few surviving acquaintances. Music: Stefan Will With: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Despite their warnings, she searches Kunzendorf, Trystan Pütter, Michael Maertens, the blitzed city hoping to confront Imogen Kogge, Felix Römer, Uwe Preuss, the missing husband who may have Frank Seppeler, Kathrin Wehlisch Festivals: Toronto, San Sebastián, Vancouver, betrayed her to the Nazis in the first London 2014; Rotterdam 2015 place. When he fails to recognise her, a FIPRESCI Prize, San Sebastián International Film Festival 2014 bizarre new courtship ensues. The film In German and English, with English subtitles is a haunted chamber piece, finding M adult themes new depths of experience in one of the great heartbroken songs of all time: Kurt Weill and Ogden Nash’s ‘Speak Low (When You Speak Love)’. “Petzold is probing away at the “Phoenix once again proves that nature of love, memory and betrayal “The threads of a German filmmaker Christian Petzold …Hoss is an extraordinarily expressive concentration camp and his favorite star, Nina Hoss, are and soulful actress, able to convey her clearly one of the best director–actor character’s fragility and fear as well as survivor’s return to duos working in movies today… The her determination to confront her past… postwar Germany are plot alone would probably make As more wartime lies are exposed, the woven into a masterful this latest effort worthy enough, but real drama here is less in the outrageous it’s the masterly craftsmanship and plot twists than in the quiet but searing web by Christian Petzold.” A Regent Friday 31 July, 6.30 pm performances that reveal Petzold to intensity of Hoss’s performance.” — Ryan Gilbey, The Guardian B Regent Monday 3 Aug, 1.15 pm be at the top of his game.” — Jordan — Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent Mintzer, Hollywood Reporter A SJ Gore Saturday 15 Aug, 8.30 pm

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Director/Screenplay: Director/Screenplay: Chaitanya Tamhane Prashant Nair India 2014 | 116 mins India 2015 | 98 mins With: Vira Sathidar, Vivek With: Suraj Sharma, Tony Gomber, Geetanjali Kulkarni Revolori, Smita Tambe Festivals: Venice, London 2014 Festivals: Sundance 2015 Horizons Award, Audience Award (World Cinema Venice Film Festival 2014 Dramatic), Sundance Film In Marathi, Hindi, English and Festival 2015 Gujarati, with English subtitles In Hindi with English subtitles CinemaScope/M cert CinemaScope/M violence, offensive language

©ZOO ENTERTAINMENT On trial: an elderly poet and singer involved. The defense lawyer’s family Winner of Sundance’s Audience Award viewed through an ironic prism of of protest songs charged with inciting just wants him to settle down. The for World Cinema, writer/director local misconceptions, and a soundtrack suicide. Antiquated features of the female prosecutor is respected in her Prashant Nair’s handsomely produced peppered with America-influenced Indian legal system are enlisted to professional career, but still cooks Indian indie film tells a classic tale of vintage Indian pop, Umrika handles silence dissent in this richly detailed dinner and follows orders from her country lads finding their bearings in its big themes with a light, personal and provocative court drama. husband and children. The film explores the big city. touch. Its bittersweet tone is anchored A prize-winner in Mumbai and Venice, caste system prejudice in a grander As a young boy, Ramakant watches by Life of Pi star Suraj Sharma in a Chaitanya Tamhane’s film has been sense, while also telling a riveting tale his older brother Udai set off from moving debut – while The Grand widely admired, not least for taking of a singular victim whose life may their remote mountain village en Budapest Hotel’s bellboy Tony Revolori time to understand the individual lives never rise above his status.” — Casey route to America (‘Umrika’). Udai’s turns up as his well-meaning buddy and motivations of the key players Cipriani, Indiewire letters home are a long time coming, and light relief. entrammelled by the laborious but, lavishly illustrated with magazine machinations of the law. clippings, they infuse the whole village “The story is simultaneously hilarious with American dreams, and even for its ridiculousness and tragic as a provide the impetus for Ramakant to result of its unfairness. As we watch learn to read. After a family tragedy, the infuriating trial unfold over months, Ramakant himself sets out for Mumbai, Tamhane uses the down time to B Rialto Wednesday 12 Aug, 1.30 pm determined to follow his brother’s path. A Regent Monday 3 Aug, 6.15 pm Saturday 15 Aug, 1.15 pm Thursday 6 Aug, 2.00 pm examine the intimate lives of those A Rialto Set in the mid-80s, with global events B Rialto ICELAND, IRAN & ITALY WORLD 19

Rams Hrútar

Made in Iceland – and inconceivable anywhere else – this wryly observed winter’s tale about two obstinate Director/Screenplay: bachelor farmers was the jury and Grímur Hákonarson audience favourite in the Un Certain Iceland/Denmark 2015 | 93 mins Regard section at Cannes. Producer: Grímar Jónsson Photography: Sturla Brandth Grøvlen In a spectacular, weather-swept Editor: Kristján Lođmfjörđ valley, brothers Gummi and Kiddi are Music: Alti Örvarsson neighbours, sharing the family land and With: Sigurđur Sigurjónsson, Theodór Júlíusson, Charlotte Böving, Jón Benónýsson, Guđrún tending to their small flocks of sheep. Sigurbjörnsdóttir, Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson, It’s 40 years since they spoke to one Jörundur Ragnarsson Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard) 2015 another. When communication can’t Un Certain Regard Prize, Cannes Film Festival 2015 be avoided, Kiddi’s dog trots between In Icelandic with English subtitles houses carrying their handwritten notes CinemaScope/M offensive language, nudity between his teeth. Kiddi is a boozer and brawler, a popular figure at community get-togethers, but it’s through the eyes of the gentle, sober-sided Gummi that we see him acting out. They both do love their sheep, though, so when their rare and precious stock is threatened feels both folkloric and true. by disease, there’s every reason for “Gummi’s scheme to ensure the “Rams plunges audiences them to set aside a lifetime of hostility. survival of the flock has elements of into a coarse, laconic Surely? Ealing comedy but it is the deadpan Director Grímur Hákonarson is a sensibility of a Kaurismäki or a Bent world… which is former documentarian with a strong Hamer that percolates through the film nonetheless full of kinship to these dogged old buggers, in both visual gags and the general humour and tenderness and his portrait is one of exasperated tone.” — Allan Hunter, Screendaily affection. There’s a tall-tale dimension under its thick skin.” to their feuding that’s sometimes very — Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa funny, but Hákonarson taps into the B Rialto Friday 7 Aug, 2.00 pm elemental, leaving us with a tale that A Regent Monday 10 Aug, 6.15 pm

Tehran Taxi Black Souls Anime nere

Director/Screenplay: Director: Francesco Munzi Jafar Panahi Italy/France 2014 Iran 2015 | 82 mins 103 mins With: Jafar Panahi With: Marco Leonardi, Fabrizio Festivals: Berlin 2015 Ferracane, Barbora Bobulova Golden Bear (Best Film), Berlin Festivals: Venice, Toronto 2014 International Film Festival 2015 Best Film, Best Director & Best In Farsi with English subtitles Screenplay, Donatello Awards Censors rating tbc 2015 In Italian with English subtitles CinemaScope/M violence, offensive language, drug use

JAFAR PANAHI FRANCESCA CASCIARRI The great Iranian director Jafar Panahi interests. The surprisingly informative, The far-flung brothers of a mob family deadly machismo… As the body count (Offside, The Circle) has never let entertaining and layered sampling of are compelled to regroup after a escalates, you observe the implosion being barred from filmmaking stop life in Tehran that emerges won the bumptious young nephew stirs up a of an airtight mob community whose him. For the third time since the ban Golden Bear for Best Film at Berlin. long-dormant feud. Though the action code of silence is embraced by wives was imposed, he’s managed to apply “More than ever before, Panahi’s encompasses Amsterdam and Milan, and family members… Black Souls is his considerable art to production on composite picture of contemporary the dark heart of their tale is located the antithesis of a sensationalist splatter a very small scale – and to get the Iranian reality puts on a satirical shape, in Calabria, in the tiny mountainous movie. There is not an operatic flourish resulting work out of Iran and into but the melancholy smile on the town of Africo, where the ’Ndrangheta to be seen in a film whose killings competition at a major international driver’s face – and in this case driver exerts control. are executed with a cold blooded film festival. and director are one and the same Based on a true story, Francesco efficiency. This isn’t entertainment; it’s In Tehran Taxi, shot entirely inside person – is more eloquent than any Munzi’s film explores the tributaries of life and death.” — Stephen Holden, a car, he poses as a cab driver and piece of dialogue.” — Dan Fainaru, catastrophe with meticulous, almost NY Times films interactions with a succession Screendaily anthropological realism. The hand of of lively customers, not least his own death hovers over every character, but feisty niece who’s making a film you might not guess where or when it too. It’s never entirely clear whether will strike. the passengers are aware of their “Black Souls is an ominous, well- participation, adding an ambiguity all B Rialto Tuesday 4 Aug, 12.00 pm acted portrait of an ingrown feudal B Regent Friday 7 Aug, 1.30 pm the more teasing for being in their best A Rialto Saturday 8 Aug, 6.15 pm society of violence, retaliation and A Regent Wednesday 12 Aug, 8.15 pm 20 WORLD ITALY

Mia madre

Italian favourite Nanni Moretti returned to the Cannes Competition this year with his best film since The Son’s Room Director: Nanni Moretti was awarded the Palme d’Or in 2001. Italy/France 2015 | 107 mins In lightly disguised autobiographical Producers: Nanni Moretti, Domenico Procacci Screenplay: Nanni Moretti, Francesco Piccolo, mode, he tells the story of Margherita Valia Santella (Margherita Buy), a filmmaker anxiously Photography: Arnaldo Catinari juggling the demands of her career, Editor: Clelio Benevento With: Margherita Buy, John Turturro, her teenage daughter and the decline Giulia Lazzarini, Nanni Moretti, Beatrice Mancini, of her ageing mother, Ada. Moretti Stefano Abbati, Enrico Ianniello, Anna Bellato, Tony Laudadio, Lorenzo Gioielli himself plays Margherita’s brother, Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2015 who has taken leave from his job to Best Actress (Margherita Buy), Best Supporting nurse their dying mother. Actress (Giulia Lazzarini), Donatello Awards 2015 In Italian with English subtitles With characteristic openness to the CinemaScope/Censors rating tbc big questions and the way they are manifested in our everyday existence, Moretti moves between Margherita’s personal and professional lives in a lifelike mix of thoughtfulness and wry comedy. Playing Barry Huggins, an ©SACHER FILM LE PACTE outrageously grandstanding – and that is greater than the sum of its parts. needy – American actor in the film Declaredly inspired by Moretti’s own “Nanni Moretti’s Mia Margherita is making, John Turturro is mother’s death during the editing of madre is warm, witty a comic treat. Habemus papam, Mia madre is one “Its relatively tranquil surface, its of the Roman director’s least showy and seductive… a small amusements (many of them films, but also one of those that most tremendously smart revolving around a tasty turn by John successfully rises above his personal and enjoyable movie.” Turturro), its moments of touching, tics and mannerisms to achieve a kind B Regent Thursday 6 Aug, 10.45 am almost Sirkian melodrama, above all of universal pathos.” — Lee Marshall, — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian A Regent Sunday 9 Aug, 3.30 pm its ability to tease resonant themes out Screendaily of seemingly inconsequential scenes B SJ Gore Wednesday 19 Aug, 11.00 am or lines of dialogue, make for a film A SJ Gore Thursday 20 Aug, 6.00 pm

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Director: Cristina Comencini Italy 2015 | 104 mins Producer: Lionello Cerri Screenplay: Giulia Calenda, Cristina Comencini Photography: Italo Petriccione With: Virna Lisi, Marisa Paredes, Angela Finocchiaro, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi In Italian with English subtitles CinemaScope/M low level offensive language

In this vivacious female ensemble regular Marisa Paredes as the Spanish comedy, two of the wives and all five actress Crispo married during his known daughters of a womanising Spaghetti Western era. Valeria Bruni movie star congregate in the South Tedeschi parodies her own neurotic Italian sun for a public celebration of screen persona as the Parisian daughter, his memory. For every phase in Saverio an actress who’s never felt part of Crispo’s international career, there was the clan, and gradually wakes up to at least one partner left with a child. the news that papa was an equal- Co-writer/director Cristina opportunity evader of family ties. Comencini contrasts the fizz of sisterly disputes, showbiz rivalries and survivor FEATURE PRECEDED BY solidarity with the earnest critical Food for Thought dissertations and tributes of the official Pat Robins | New Zealand 2015 | 14 mins commemoration. In film-clip pastiches revelling in Italy’s movie past, we revisit A Regent Sunday 2 Aug, 3.15 pm the career highlights of the feckless B Regent Monday 3 Aug, 10.30 am departed one. The cast includes the late Virna Lisi in her final role as the B SJ Gore Friday 14 Aug, 11.00 am official first wife, and Almodóvar A SJ Gore Sunday 16 Aug, 4.00 pm JAPAN, RUSSIA & THAILAND WORLD 21

Our Little Sister Umimachi Diary

Kore-eda Hirokazu (Like Father, Like Son; I Wish) sustains his place as the current master in the great Japanese Director/Editor: Kore-eda Hirokazu cinema tradition of exquisitely nuanced Japan 2015 | 128 mins family dramas. His new film reaches us Producers: Matsuzaki Kaoru, Taguchi Hijiri Screenplay: Kore-eda Hirokazu. Based on the direct from competition at Cannes. graphic novel by Yoshida Akimi “This irresistible, light-filled family Photography: Takimoto Mikiya drama from Japanese writer-director Production designer: Mitsumatsu Keiko Music: Kanno Yoko Kore-eda Hirokazu brims with small With: Ayase Haruka, Nagasawa Masami, moments and slips down as easily as Kaho, Hirose Suzu the many meals it shares with us. Festivals: Cannes (In Competition), Sydney 2015 In Japanese with English subtitles Kore-eda gives us three sisters, Sachi Censors rating tbc (Ayase Haruka), Yoshino (Nagasawa Masami) and Chika (Kaho), all in their 20s, who meet their teenage half-sister, Suzu (Hirose Suzu), for the first time at their estranged father’s funeral far away in the countryside. Immediately getting on well with this balanced, smart young woman, they invite Suzu to share with them the old family it radiates joy and harmony despite home in Kamakura that their father playing out entirely in the shadow of a “Japanese director abandoned 15 years earlier and where difficult father’s death. Out of darkness, Kore-eda Hirokazu’s the three still live, eating, drinking Kore-eda discovers light, and there’s and talking together like friends as a meandering, extremely personable lovingly crafted small- much as siblings. Their close rapport charm to this film that means that scale family drama is full and reliance on each other – and the even its more soppy moments – such of characters you won’t dignity with which they welcome as when two characters cycle through their new sister, despite her presence an avenue of cherry blossom – feel want to leave behind.” unearthing old resentments – is deeply well-earned and entirely fitting. Deeply — Tim Robey, The Telegraph infectious… charming and quietly moving.” — Dave B Regent Friday 31 July, 10.45 am An intimate, warm embrace of a film, Calhoun, Time Out A Regent Saturday 1 Aug, 4.00 pm

The Fool Cemetery of Splendour Durak Rak ti Khon Kaen

Director/Screenplay/ Editor/Music: Yury Bykov Russia 2014 | 121 mins Director/Screenplay: Producers: Aleksey Uchitel, Apichatpong Kira Saksaganskaya Weerasethakul With: Artem Bystrov, Nataliya Thailand/UK/France/ Surkova, Boris Nevzorov, Kirill Polukhin, Darya Moroz, Yury Germany 2015 Tsurilo, Alexander Korshunov 122 mins Festivals: Locarno, Vancouver With: Jenjira Pongpas Widner, 2014; New Directors/New Films Banlop Lomnoi 2015 Festivals: Cannes In Russian with English subtitles (Un Certain Regard) 2015 CinemaScope/M violence, In Thai with English subtitles offensive language, drug use M adult themes

The lives of hundreds are at stake in this “An explosive combination of highly No one weaves past and present, the “I was spellbound. Its sleep motif compulsive Russian suspense drama personal moral drama and a wider, spiritual and the animal, the mundane will undoubtedly strike many as apt, that does double service as a vehement scathing portrait… This well-oiled and the divine, with the serene because this is a slow, strange film, exposé of a society devoured by narrative machine is further aided by dream logic of Thai filmmaker and and if you have an immunity to its crony capitalism. Investigating a burst a clever ticking-clock mechanism that artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul. trancelike effects (it invades a little pipe in a decaying provincial housing actually ratchets up the tension the His first feature-length film since like a benign virus), you may well drift project, plumber and student engineer longer the characters’ vodka-soaked, Uncle Boonmee (which won Cannes away. But if you are susceptible and Dima (Artem Bystrov) discovers two blame-game speeches are allowed to in 2010) unfolds its enigmas in a trusting enough to let the film gently massive cracks running the length of go on.” — Boyd van Hoeij, Hollywood hospital where soldiers succumbing occupy you, you will have something the building. Realising that the block is Reporter to a sleeping sickness are tended glorious and quiet to keep for yourself. about to collapse, he decides that the by a benevolent volunteer. Her Just please, for the love of all things mayor must be alerted at once, even strong sense of spiritual affinity holy, of which this film may very well if it’s the night of her 50th birthday with one soldier is explored amidst be one, see it in a cinema.” — Jessica celebration. The party is in no mood manifestations of the location’s Kiang, The Playlist for whistle-blowing plumbers, but past as a cemetery of kings. But faced with Dima’s mounting alarm, the in Apichatpong’s world no one is assembled councillors and contractors surprised by the uncanny: goddesses sober up enough to recognise what A Rialto Saturday 1 Aug, 8.15 pm may desert their shrine to head off A Rialto Tuesday 11 Aug, 8.15 pm B Rialto Tuesday 4 Aug, 3.45 pm Saturday 15 Aug, 8.15 pm scams a fatal collapse might expose. for a spot of shopping. A Rialto 22 WORLD SWEDEN & USA

99 Homes

Ramin Bahrani’s visceral drama Director/Editor: Ramin Bahrani of real estate agency run amok is USA 2014 | 112 mins keenly honed to make your blood Producers: Ashok Amritraj, Ramin Bahrani, boil. Michael Shannon is magnetic Kevin Turen, Justin Nappi Screenplay: Ramin Bahrani, Amir Naderi. as Rick Carver, a reptilian broker Based on a story by Bahareh Azimi who specialises in home foreclosure. Photography: Bobby Bukowski Music: Anthony Partos, Matteo Zingales Andrew Garfield plays one of his many With: Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, victims, a hard-working tradesman Laura Dern, Noah Lomax, Tim Guinee, who finds himself evicted from his Clancey Brown Festivals: Venice, Toronto 2014; Sundance 2015 home, only to then be offered work CinemaScope/Censors rating tbc with Carver – doing unto others what’s just been done to him. Bahrani’s gripping premise is fuel for an enraged and enthralling indictment of the American wealth divide, heightened with the clammy pulse of a crime thriller. Garfield, channelling the wounded desperation of his star- making turn in The Social Network, is terrific as the everyman wrestling with a profound ethical conflict, but descent-into-madness gangster picture, this is Shannon’s show – reining in those of us not directly affected by “This is a tough, muscular, his trademark histrionics for a coolly the housing collapse will nonetheless idealistic drama that contained (but no less ominous) emerge with a better understanding portrait of greedy malevolence. — JF of its terrible human toll.” — Jessica packs a mighty punch, “‘Importance’ is such a loaded, Kiang, The Playlist and Shannon and Garfield off-putting word, but it’s the right “A timely, terrifically acted moral are excellent.” one in this context, because while nail-biter… Carver’s nihilistic state-of- Bahrani’s filmmaking skill and the the-nation rants recall Tony Montana in — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian A Regent Friday 31 July, 8.45 pm excellent performances convincingly his self-actualising pomp, and Shannon B Rialto Monday 3 Aug, 3.45 pm sell the experience of the film almost delivers them with Tyrannosaur charisma.” Tuesday 18 Aug, 7.45 pm as a genre thriller or a Scorsese-esque, — Robbie Collin, The Telegraph A SJ Gore

Inherent Vice A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson USA 2014 | 149 mins Director/Screenplay: Screenplay: Paul Thomas Roy Andersson Anderson. Based on the novel Sweden 2014 | 100 mins by Thomas Pynchon With: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh With: Holger Andersson, Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Nils Westblom Waterston, Reese Witherspoon, Festivals: Venice, Toronto 2014 Benicio Del Toro, Jena Malone Golden Lion (Best Film), Venice R16 sex scenes, nudity, drug use, Film Festival 2014 offensive language In Swedish with English subtitles inherentvicemovie.com M content may disturb

NZIFF puts Paul Thomas Anderson’s as its core, plus Katherine Waterston, Frequently imitated but only ever say, no one’s buying. If you’ve seen inspired adaptation of Thomas actor Sam’s daughter, as the pivotal equalled by himself, Roy Andersson, his Songs from the Second Floor or Pynchon’s novel onto New Zealand femme fatale… Trying to pare back cinema’s deadpan poet of drabness, You, The Living, you’ll already know cinema screens at last. Joaquin Phoenix Pynchon without killing the joke was takes years to craft and string together whether you have to see his latest. If is woozily perfect as stoned LA beach the challenge. Anderson has done his exquisite, absurdist scenarios you haven’t, there’s really just one way bum and private investigator Doc a remarkable job of replicating the about ‘what it means to be a human to find out. Sportello, lured by his ex into a missing crazy kaleidoscope of crime, dope being’. Featuring the ‘whitest white “What a bold, beguiling and utterly person enquiry that’s richly evocative and raunch the novelist conjured. It people in cinema’ (Nick Pinkerton, unclassifiable director Andersson is. He in every detail, and evocatively is a densely detailed cultural polyglot Sight & Sound), and the least healthy thinks life is a comedy and feels it’s a incomprehensible in toto. of real estate machinations, Aryan looking, his films unfold towards their tragedy, and is able to wrestle these “Phoenix and the terrific acting Brotherhood bikers, dental scams, sex, pokerfaced punchlines in elaborate conflicting impulses into a gorgeous, ensemble that joins him in this pot- drugs, dope smoking, detectives and studio-built dioramas that constitute deadpan deadlock.” — Xan Brooks, infused 70s-era beach noir create dames.” — Betsy Sharkey, LA Times miracles of banality in their own right. The Guardian such a good buzz you can almost The sketches in Pigeon are get a contact high from watching. A connected by the wanderings of a pair sprawling cast is required for the many of weary salesmen with three ‘fun’ vices and various intrigues, with Josh items to offer: a set of vampire teeth, a Brolin, Reese Witherspoon, Owen A Regent Sunday 9 Aug, 8.00 pm laughing bag, and a rubber fright mask A Rialto Sunday 2 Aug, 3.45 pm B Regent Monday 10 Aug, 3.15 pm A Rialto Sunday 9 Aug, 3.30 pm Wilson, Jena Malone and Martin Short called ‘Uncle One-Tooth’. Needless to USA WORLD 23

Experimenter

Social psychologist Stanley Milgram’s Director/Screenplay: obedience tests, conducted at Yale Michael Almereyda during the 60s, are studied, referenced USA 2015 | 90 mins and debated to this day. Reconstructing Producers: Uri Singer, Fabio Golombek, Aimee Schoof, Isen Robbins, Danny A. Abeckaser, these polarising experiments, in which Per Melita subjects were instructed to administer Photography: Ryan Samul painful electric shocks to a stranger, Editor: Kathryn J. Schubert Music: Bryan Senti filmmaker Michael Almereyda explores With: Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Jim Gaffigan, the troubling implications of Milgram’s Edoardo Ballerini, John Palladino, Kellan Lutz, Dennis Haysbert, Danny A. Abeckaser, Taryn landmark study against the backdrop Manning, Anthony Edwards, Lori Singer of his personal life. Ingeniously Festivals: Sundance, San Francisco 2015 structured and slyly provocative, his M offensive language experimentermovie.com film might be the most distinctive biopic you see this year. Shaking off genre tropes, Almereyda seems less interested in ticking off Milgram’s substantial achievements than he does in examining the sociological impact of that most significant of milestones. Peter Sarsgaard’s performance draws us deep JASON ROBINETTE into the question of his own responses increasing discomfort of his obedient to the behaviour he’s exploring. Winona participants led many to call Milgram’s “Milgram gets a biopic Ryder is vivid as his wife. — JF ethics into question and the experiment as polymorphous as one “Readers who’ve heard of only one remains a campus debate-starter today.” psychology experiment in their lives — John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter of his own research probably know Milgram’s: in 1961’s “Almereyda has created an studies… a highly formal, ‘obedience study’, he found that the experiment of his own: a kind of always fascinating movie.” majority of subjects would give fellow cinematic Rorschach test, prodding volunteers horrible electric shocks if viewers to consider what they would — Scott Foundas, Variety instructed to do so by an authority do if sitting in the same seat as B Rialto Friday 31 July, 12.30 pm figure. The shocks weren’t real, but Milgram’s subjects.” — Anthony A Rialto Tuesday 4 Aug, 8.15 pm A Rialto Wednesday 5 Aug, 8.15 pm the subjects didn’t know that; the Kaufman, Screendaily

Grandma

Lily Tomlin’s no cuddly movie granny Director/Screenplay: Paul Weitz in this richly loaded comedy of inter- USA 2015 | 80 mins generational female camaraderie – and Producers: Paul Weitz, Andrew Miano, exasperation. She’s just sent her young Terry Dougas, Paris Latsis Photography: Tobias Datum girlfriend (Judy Greer) packing and she Editor: Jonathan Corn is super cranky. When her teenage Music: Joel P. West With: Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner, Marcia Gay granddaughter Sage (Julia Garner) Harden, Judy Greer, Laverne Cox, Sam Elliott, turns up out of nowhere, Elle (Tomlin) Nat Wolff, John Cho gets the picture in no time: Sage is Festivals: Sundance, Tribeca 2015 M drug use, offensive language pregnant and whatever she decides to do, she’s counting on grandma to come out fighting for her. In the course of a day, Elle fronts up to anyone who could or should, in her opinion, help Sage out: the hapless impregnator, her own friends and ex-lovers, and, most unlikely of all, Elle’s daughter, Sage’s uptight lawyer mother (a hilarious Marcia Gay Harden). Writer/director Paul Weitz (About a Boy, American AARON EPSTEIN Pie) knows just how to pace his stellar Sage… However, everything in the cast and lightly convey the poignancy movie revolves around the irreplaceable “This is really a story about of imperfect life choices that make Tomlin, and rightly so. Her entire history three generations of laughing out loud so essential. as an actor, a comedian, a feminist “This is a refreshingly modest, no- and a pioneering voice for LGBT rights women and how they frills movie that is character-driven in comes into play in this formfitting interact with each other… the most rewarding possible sense, role. Anybody who loves her – and if Lily Tomlin adds heart, with an ample share of priceless you don’t, why are you even reading? dialogue played for truth, not for – won’t want to miss this.” — David soul, and, naturally, tons B Regent Wednesday 12 Aug, 11.45 am jokes. The performances are lovely, Rooney, Hollywood Reporter of comedy.” A Regent Friday 14 Aug, 6.30 pm including that of up-and-comer Garner, — Brian Moylan, The Guardian who has many touching moments as A SJ Gore Friday 14 Aug, 6.15 pm 24 WORLD USA

Kiss Me Kate 3D The Misfits

Director: George Sidney Director: John Huston USA 1953 | 110 mins USA 1961 | 125 mins Producer: Jack Cummings Producer: Frank E. Taylor Screenplay: Dorothy Kingsley. Screenplay: Arthur Miller Based on the book by Samuel Photography: Russell Metty and Bella Spewack Music: Alex North Music: Cole Porter With: Clark Gable, With: Kathryn Grayson, Marilyn Monroe, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Montgomery Clift, Bob Fosse, Keenan Wynn Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach 3D/G cert B&W/PG cert

‘If she says your behaviour is heinous/ Keenan Wynn and James Whitmore Marilyn Monroe’s final film is famously impossibly tender-hearted Roslyn kick her right in the Coriolanus’: Cole invite the lovelorn Howard Keel to imbued with the personal traumas of their gentler sides – without telling Porter had a ball updating The Taming ‘Brush Up Your Shakespeare’ (sample its iconic stars: Monroe, Clark Gable her that the work they do with wild of the Shrew for Broadway in 1948. lyric above) in a soft shoe duet that and jumpy, mesmerising Montgomery horses is anything but gentle. Monroe’s Hollywood responded in 1953 with a purports to be improvised on the spot Clift. You’ve never had a better look wary intimacy with the avuncular, 3D Technicolor extravaganza studded and comes close to vaudeville perfection. at any of them than in this glorious 4K smitten Gable and the ever-hurting with great Porter songs and dynamic There’s also some warbling from Kathryn digital restoration. The writer Arthur Clift is intensely touching. Director dance numbers designed to be Grayson, as the operetta diva in the Miller was in Reno securing the divorce John Huston’s love of location pays experienced in three dimensions. Hitting show within the show, that’s not quite that cleared the way to marrying dividends in the desert and the horse- Hollywood dance with the speed and so zippy. But when Fosse and Hermes Monroe when he had the idea of a wrangling scenes, widely considered brilliance of a lightning bolt, Bob Fosse Pan’s choreography hits the screen story about the old cowboys he met as contributing to the 59-year-old makes one of the most breathtaking with Porter’s music, this is as fabulous there. By the time he’d remodelled it Gable’s subsequent heart attack, are entrances in the history of the medium. as movie musicals – or 50s 3D – get. as a film script for his new wife, that electrifying. Ann Miller dances and sings ‘It’s Too marriage too was on the rocks. She Darn Hot’ in high heels, and she’s like a 3D Rialto Saturday 1 Aug, 6.00 pm plays dreamy, impulsive Roslyn, in Reno shimmying tap-dancing dervish in pink, 3D Rialto Sunday 2 Aug, 1.30 pm to end a loveless marriage with no idea working a black Spanish hand fan all 3D Rialto Monday 3 Aug, 1.30 pm where she’s headed next. Before the the while and tossing discarded movie’s over, all three of the Nevada B Rialto Monday 10 Aug, 1.00 pm 3D SJ Gore Saturday 15 Aug, 3.45 pm A Regent Saturday 15 Aug, 1.00 pm accessories in our faces.l Gangsters cowboys she’s met have shown the

A Most Violent Year

Director/Screenplay: J.C. Chandor USA 2014 | 125 mins ur Photography: Bradford Young at yo self t With: Oscar Isaac, Jessica re o a Chastain, David Oyelowo, Alessandro Nivola, Albert Brooks T In English and Spanish, with English subtitles CinemaScope/M violence, great offensive language, content may disturb wine or coffee amostviolentyear.com

In this loaded slow burn of a thriller, Anna (Jessica Chastain) sees things the director of Margin Call turns the differently: playing by the rules was not before your festival film at same forensic skills to the nexus of the way her father made his fortune. crime and business in an earlier era. “Chastain is killer good, shooting off It’s 1981, a peak year in the annals of her mouth like a Brooklyn bombshell: New York violence, but Abel (Oscar ‘You’re not gonna like what’ll happen Isaac), proud owner of an indie oil sales once I get involved.’ And Isaac is an company, has the big time within his implosive powerhouse. Chandor gives grasp. He’s paid the deposit on the him the space to set up psychological Jersey waterfront storage that’s going torments that reverberate hellishly… to make all the difference and all he You watch with nerves clenched, www.rialto.co.nz needs is 30 days to raise the rest. But holding on tight.” — Peter Travers, 11 Moray Place someone, somewhere, is determined Rolling Stone to squeeze him out – and the nasty 03 474 2200 surprises keep on coming. Abel’s a sharp operator – as a pep talk to his sales team makes super clear – but he’s determined to take on his opposition A Rialto Sunday 2 Aug, 8.00 pm B Rialto Wednesday 5 Aug, 3.45 pm l by legitimate means. His wife USA & VARIOUS WORLD 25

While We’re Young

In Noah Baumbach’s wittily observed Director/Screenplay: Noah Baumbach – and sometimes very silly – comedy USA 2014 | 97 mins of generation envy, Ben Stiller, master Producers: Noah Baumbach, Scott Rudin, of furrowed self-regard, plays Josh, Lila Yacoub, Eli Bush Photography: Sam Levy a 44-year-old documentary maker, Editor: Jennifer Lame stalled on a project for almost a Music: James Murphy With: Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, decade. Josh is amazed and delighted Amanda Seyfried, Charles Grodin, when he’s schmoozed by the up-and- Adam Horovitz, Maria Dizzia coming 25-year-old Jamie, played with Festivals: Toronto, New York 2014 M offensive language lolloping faux naif charm by Adam while-were-young.com Driver. Talk about on-the-nose casting: Naomi Watts and Amanda Seyfried slot in just as neatly as the wives swept along by the booby-trapped bromance. Soon the older couple abandon their child-rearing contemporaries to hang out at ayahuasca ceremonies with their much cooler new best friends. The plot thickens with the appearance of another generation again, in the person of Josh’s father-in-law, a doyen young and the intersection of the of the New York documentary scene two at crucial life junctures… While “Almost perfect… Never played with multi-layered bemusement a truly original comedy, While We’re before have the effects by the great Charles Grodin. Young is the rare one that also “It’s about retro hip, VHS, typewriters laces rich thematic elements with of new tech – and and vinyl being the domain of cool wonderfully drawn characters to intergenerational young things, while their elders go create a picture that’s as genuinely envy – been articulated digital and attempt with tragic vanity hilarious as it is thoughtful about how to keep their fingers on the pulse.” hopes, ambitions, dreams and ideals of so amusingly.” B Regent Thursday 13 Aug, 1.30 pm — Tim Robey, The Telegraph personal and creative accomplishments — Catherine Shoard, The Guardian A Regent Thursday 13 Aug, 8.30 pm “A deliciously entertaining, funny ebb and flow across decades.” and honest look at getting old, being — Kevin Jagernauth, The Playlist A SJ Gore Saturday 22 Aug, 6.30 pm

Animation Now 2015 89 mins approx. | M violence

When NZIFF took the plunge and hired The Story of Percival Pilts Locus of Everyday Life The Sleepwalker me to programme animated shorts Janette Goodey, John Lewis | Australia/New Zealand Kynd, Sawako | Japan 2014 | 7 mins Theodore Ushev | Canada 2015 | 4 mins in 1997, the job seemed massive: the 2015 | 8 mins number entered that year was 600. All Abstraction of astounding beauty and If Miro had been an animator, he Young Percival vows he will not let his arrived in the mail on VHS tapes. To visual complexity. might have come up with this. feet touch the ground. Narration by get to this year’s programme, a grand Mark Hadlow. total of 3,535 shorts had to be sifted, Cruise Patrol Play like a Driver Bobby de Groot, Arjan van Meerten | The Netherlands Manabu Himeda | Japan 2013 | 3 mins weighed and catalogued – and fewer Bendito Machine V 2013 | 7 mins than 100 arrived in a physical format. Confounding mini-masterpiece from That speaks volumes for what is – Pull the Trigger On a lonely highway in the blazing one of Japan’s most audacious rising Jossie Malis | Spain 2014 | 12 mins happening in the world of creative desert heat, a patrolman interrupts a stars. animation. There is a diversity, Doomsday rendered in exquisitely couple of homicidal teddy bears. World of Tomorrow complexity and an intriguing, filigreed silhouettes. Bear Story ingenious artfulness to so much Don Hertzfeldt | USA 2015 | 17 mins Gabriel Osorio Vargas | Chile 2014 | 10 mins animation that never makes it into the Me and My Moulton One of the year’s great short films, Torill Kove | Canada/Norway 2014 | 14 mins cinemas. As always, the overarching A bear’s autobiography as played out animated or otherwise, World of mission is to cut to the essence of This droll short traces a young girl’s at his own marvellous tin marionette Tomorrow takes a young girl on a truly what auteur animators are creating struggle with her parents’ obsession theatre. mind-bending tour of her future. and showcase it here in one glorious with modernism. big-screen hit. It’s a special pleasure Nothing Else but Water to open this year’s programme with a Scoop Carlos De Carvalho | France 2014 | 5 mins stunning film that has many of its roots The Brothers McLeod | UK 2014 | 2 mins Celebrating the safe return of a ship in New Zealand. — Malcolm Turner Hallucinogenic nuttiness. of intrepid explorers, a young pig wonders just where he fits into it all.

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’71 FRESH Director: Yann Demange UK 2014 | 99 mins Producers: Angus Lamont, Robin Gutch Screenplay: Gregory Burke Music: David Holmes With: Jack O’Connell, Paul Anderson, Richard Dormer Festivals: Berlin 2014; Sundance 2015 CinemaScope/R16 graphic violence, offensive language

“Bomb-torn Belfast in 1971 must have himself cut adrift from his companions. been like nowhere else on Earth – more As night closes in, he has no idea how like a rubble-strewn circle of hell. This to get back to his barracks, and must is the apocalyptic vision laid out in throw himself on the mercy of loyalist Yann Demange’s stunningly well- allies who are no certain guarantees of crafted survival thriller, ’71. The film’s sanctuary… He’s green, terrified, out of stark realism and bruising impact are his depth. O’Connell’s performance in enough in themselves, but the risk, this near-wordless role hardly strikes a and the real artistic payoff, is its bold false note: he’s excellent as usual.” sensory plunge into this Hadean inferno. — Tim Robey, The Telegraph Jack O’Connell [Starred Up] stars as Gary Hook, a young squaddie fresh out of training school, whose unit is dispatched to help with peacekeeping in the Northern Irish capital, amid the rising tensions of that fatefully violent year. These unprepared rookies have barely taken to the streets before B Regent Friday 31 July, 4.15 pm Monday 3 Aug, 8.30 pm rioting breaks out, and Gary finds A Regent

Girlhood Bande de filles

Director/Screenplay: Céline Sciamma France 2014 | 113 mins Photography: Crystel Fournier Music: Para One With: Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh We line up the films that grabbed our attention Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2014 and held it with their sustained energy In French with English subtitles CinemaScope/M offensive and originality – in subject, technique and language sensibility.

“This wonderful coming-of-age drama and contradictions of underprivileged, feels particularly relevant to a New urban teenage life. An (American) Zealand audience. In a stunning, star- football game is in progress, but the making debut performance, Karidja players beneath the pads are all female, Touré plays Marieme, a troubled teenager mostly black, and speak a slangy from the Paris projects whose sense of colloquial French: they are, as the self transforms when she falls in with French title has it, a ‘Bande de filles’… three other girls her own age. I’m not Girlhood is a fascinatingly layered, in the best position to assess the textured film that manages to be authenticity of the film’s portrayal of both a lament for sweetness lost these girls and where they come from, and a celebration of wisdom and but it felt more real than any other identity gained, often at the very same teenager-centric film I think I’ve ever moment.” — Jessica Kiang, The Playlist seen.” — Dominic Corry, NZ Herald “Bursting onto the screen in a blast of buzzing power pop, Girlhood from Céline Sciamma (Water Lilies, Tomboy) is marked from the outset by its B Rialto Tuesday 4 Aug, 1.00 pm A Rialto Thursday 6 Aug, 6.15 pm energetic embrace of the complexity FRESH 27

Deathgasm

Growing up can be hell, especially for Director/Screenplay: Jason Lei Howden a teenage metal fan in conservative, New Zealand 2015 | 86 mins small-town New Zealand. Brodie (Milo Executive producers: Ant Timpson, Greg Newman Hawthorne) is shipped off to live Producers: Andrew Beattie, Morgan Leigh Stewart, Sarah Howden, Ant Timpson with his Christian aunt and uncle in Photography: Simon Raby the middle of nowhere. They aren’t Editors: Jeff Hurrell, Gareth van Niekerk impressed with his love for the likes of Music: Dead Pirate With: Milo Cawthorne, James Blake, Trivium and Cannibal Corpse. Things Kimberley Crossman, Sam Berkley, Daniel Cresswell, look up when he meets a like mind Delaney Tabron, Stephen Ure, Jodie Rimmer, Colin Moy in bad boy Zakk (James Blake) and Festivals: SXSW 2015 together they form a heavy metal band CinemaScope/R16 graphic violence, sexual references, offensive language with a couple of D&D geeks. @deathgasmfilm All hell, literally, breaks loose when the pair get their hands on an unrecorded song from their death metal idol. It soon becomes apparent why the song was never recorded, as everyone within earshot of their garage jam session is turned into demonic zombies. So it’s up to our head-banging heroes to, reluctantly, save the world high with a zombie-vs-sex toys battle, from a satanic apocalypse. — MM it’s a very metal tribute to the grand “Deathgasm is a bloody, “Director Jason Lei Howden drenches tradition of Kiwi splatter comedies.” head-banging ball of fun, it in enough spraying plasma to drown — Richard Whittaker, Austin Chronicle a demon and raise hysterical belly “Deathgasm is the real deal. Straight gore and soul-shaking laughs. A Weta CGI effects guy by from the bowels of hell comes a music.” training, Howden goes practical-heavy metalhead’s wet dream, scored by — Rob Hunter, Film School Rejects for gory, glorious, ridiculous, and some of the thrashiest New Zealand comedic effect. It also doesn’t hurt that and international metal icons around. he clearly knows his metal, mocking Fuck thumbs, this film gets two metal only what he loves. Shamelessly low- horns way, WAY up.” — Matt Donato, brow, reaching a beer-fueled gleeful We Got This Covered A Regent Friday 7 Aug, 8.45 pm

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Exhilarating in its candour and ironic verve, The Diary of a Teenage Girl recounts the visceral thrills and spills Director: Marielle Heller of 15-year-old Minnie (Bel Powley) as USA 2015 | 102 mins she throws herself into her first affair. Producers: Anne Carey, Bert Hamelinck, Madeline Samit, Miranda Bailey Her secret lover: the ridiculously easy- Screenplay: Marielle Heller. Based on the novel going boyfriend (Alexander Skarsgård) by Phoebe Gloeckner of her blithely hedonistic mother Photography: Brandon Trost Editors: Marie-Hélène Dozo, Koen Timmerman (Kristen Wiig). Music: Nate Heller “Marielle Heller’s tough, irreverent, With: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Kristen Wiig, Christopher Meloni, Abby Wait, furiously felt debut feature is faithfully Madeleine Waters, Margarita Levieva adapted from Phoebe Gloeckner’s Festivals: Sundance, Berlin, New Directors/New 2002 novel of the same name, written Films 2015 Cinematography Award (US Dramatic), in the age of grrl power but set in Sundance Film Festival 2015 the mid-70s, when underage girls CinemaScope/R16 drug use, sex scenes, offensive language explored their sexual desires more or less on their own. The narrative takes the form of a diary recorded on audiocassette by Minnie, a 15-year- old aspiring graphic novelist (Aline SAM EMERSON Kominsky is her idol) who is having an who carries the weight of the movie on affair with her mother’s 32-year-old her slight shoulders as Minnie discovers “Remarkably vibrant and boyfriend. Minnie is the aggressor in her sexuality can be a means to both frank… a film with the this affair, and her hunger for sex and self-worth and self-destruction. Kristen love, her wildly swinging emotions, and Wiig delivers as Minnie’s substance- stuff of life coursing the fact that she comes through the dependent bohemian mother, through its veins and sex experience wiser but undaunted are particularly in the film’s darker second very much on its brain.” truly liberating.” — Amy Taubin, Film half, and Alexander Skarsgård infuses Comment the conflicted Monroe with a great — Todd McCarthy, Hollywood “Drawing on her acting background, deal of sympathy and subtle comedy.” Reporter A Rialto Friday 31 July, 8.15 pm Heller elicits a truly staggering — Emma Myers, Film Comment A Rialto Monday 3 Aug, 8.15 pm performance from newcomer Bel Powley, B Rialto Friday 7 Aug, 4.00 pm 28 FRESH

Ex Machina

Novelist and screenwriter Alex Garland Director/Screenplay: Alex Garland (The Beach) makes a decisive directorial UK 2015 | 108 mins debut with this smart, sleekly designed Producers: Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich and flawlessly performed psy-fi drama. Photography: Rob Hardy Editor: Mark Day “Ava (Alicia Vikander) doesn’t mean Music: Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow to scare you. She only wants to get With: Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, inside your head. The heroine of Alex Sonoya Mizuno, Oscar Isaac Festivals: SXSW 2015 Garland’s Ex Machina has sharp blue CinemaScope/R13 nudity, offensive language, eyes, an even, inquisitive voice and content may disturb exmachina-movie.com skin so clear it seems to soften the air around it. She’s also a robot, pieced PROUDLY SPONSORED BY together by a reclusive genius in a house shrouded by mountains, and her thought processes are sparked by the terms millions of humans are keying into Blue Book, the world’s most popular internet search engine… Ava’s creator, the alpha-male tech guru Nathan (Oscar Isaac), describes his eureka moment thusly: it was when he realised that Blue Book didn’t know her and decide whether or not simply tell him what people all over she can pass for a human being… This “Stylish, elegant, tense, the world were thinking, but how they is bewitchingly smart science fiction of cerebral, satirical and were thinking too… Caleb (Domhnall a type that’s all too rare. Its intelligence Gleeson) has won a staff lottery to visit is anything but artificial.” — Robbie creepy… Alicia Vikander’s Nathan at his isolated home-slash-HQ, Collin, The Telegraph bold performance will a helicopter ride away, to bear witness “Shrewdly imagined and persuasively short your circuits.” to the company’s top-secret new made, Ex Machina is a spooky piece product… The aim of the week-long of speculative fiction that’s completely — Dan Jolin, Empire B Regent Thursday 13 Aug, 3.45 pm visit is for Caleb to carry out a Turing plausible, capable of both thinking big A Regent Friday 14 Aug, 8.30 pm Test: over the course of seven daily thoughts and providing pulp thrills.” A SJ Gore Thursday 20 Aug, 8.15 pm encounters with Ava, he has to get to — Kenneth Turan, LA Times

Mustang

While it begins in a burst of lyrical exuberance with schoolchildren frolicking in surf, this knockout first Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven feature from Deniz Gamze Ergüven Turkey/France/Germany 2015 builds increasing tension culminating in 94 mins an edge-of-seat finale. It’s the tale of Producer: Charles Gillibert Screenplay: Deniz Gamze Ergüven, five orphaned sisters growing in sexual Alice Winocour consciousness, and their guardian Photography: David Chizallet, Ersin Gök uncle and grandmother’s increasing Editor: Mathilde Van de Moortel Music: Warren Ellis attempts to lock down this adolescent With: Güneş Nezihe Şensoy, Doğa Zeynep force. In their coastal Turkish town, Doğuşlu, Elit Işcan, Tuğba Sunguroğlu, Ilayda Akdoğan, Nihal Koldaş, Ayberk Pekcan watchful neighbours defame the Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2015 spirited girls’ purity: it’s a world where In Turkish with English subtitles parents still bang on newly-weds’ CinemaScope/M violence, sexual references doors demanding blood on the sheets. So the girls are imprisoned in their sun- filled, several-storeyed house until one by one they are married off – as long as their virginity can be guaranteed. Masterfully under-told, the story rarely leaves the house, unfolding through emotional climax as the possibility of the eyes of the youngest girl, Lale, who freedom diminishes. Mustang depicts “A playful look at five reaches her own brave conclusion that a modern patriarchal Turkey with a young women’s rebellion escape is the only option. deeply enculturated repression: the Likened to The Virgin Suicides in its apparent normality of the restrictions against their strict dreamy style and narrative, Mustang belies their shocking violence. Ergüven upbringing soon becomes has a more urgent political drive, as operates with a light touch, however, something far more we see several different versions of expertly drawing the viewer into a total severely compromised female life. empathy with Lale, her diminishing life stirring and emotional.” Pared-back storytelling and a bold, options, and one clear principle she — Tim Grierson, Screendaily very present musical score (by Warren surmises: that if you don’t fight, you A Regent Wednesday 12 Aug, 6.15 pm Ellis) culminate in a phenomenally die. — JR B Rialto Friday 14 Aug, 4.00 pm FRESH 29

Results

Andrew Bujalski’s amiably off-kilter Director/Screenplay: Andrew Bujalski rom com circles around three characters USA 2015 | 104 mins and a Texas gym called Power 4 Life. Producers: Sam Slater, Paul Bernon, Houston King The Australian owner and founder, Photography: Matthias Grunsky Editor: Robin Schwartz Trevor (Guy Pearce), is sincere about Music: Justin Rice the self-motivation mantras that are With: Guy Pearce, Cobie Smulders, Kevin Corrigan, Giovanni Ribisi, his stock in trade. That 4 stands 4 the Anthony Michael Hall, Brooklyn Decker, four Wellnesses: Physical, Emotional, Constance Zimmer Mental and Spiritual, and Trevor plans Festivals: Sundance, SXSW, San Francisco 2015 M sex scenes, offensive language, drug use to dedicate real estate to each of them. His most hardcore trainer Kat (Cobie PROUDLY SPONSORED BY Smulders) concentrates solely on the Physical: there’s nothing wrong with Kat that a vigorous run can’t put right. Their regimes are upended by the arrival of a transplant from New York in dire need of a tone up in every department. Danny (the deeply funny Kevin Corrigan) looks as though he’s never before set foot outdoors. He is unemployed, recently divorced and, Andrew Bujalski’s deadpan-goofy thanks to an inheritance, newly very quasi-romance Results is the way two “Results manages, in its rich. Trevor is in no position to turn of the three main characters have the own subtle, unassuming down the cheques Danny hands over hardest bodies imaginable but soft for Kat’s house calls. But if Danny can hearts and wooly heads… And Pearce way, to reinvent the be energised at all, it’s by an interest in makes Trevor so dopey and lovable rom com. It’s enchanting.” Kat that doesn’t extend to her fitness that his wiry physique makes him seem — Bilge Ebiri, New York programme. Any self-improvement like a walking non sequitur.” — David that takes place may be purely Edelstein, New York A Regent Friday 7 Aug, 6.30 pm accidental, but it’s excellent fun to B Regent Tuesday 11 Aug, 4.00 pm watch so much self-denial unravel. “The most adorable aspect of A SJ Gore Sunday 16 Aug, 8.30 pm

Mommy Tangerine

Director/Editor: Sean Baker Director/Screenplay/ USA 2015 | 88 mins Editor: Xavier Dolan Screenplay: Sean Baker, Canada 2014 | 139 mins Chris Bergoch Photography: Radium Cheung, With: Anne Dorval, Antoine Sean Baker Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément With: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Festivals: Cannes 2014 Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival Festivals: Sundance, 2014 San Francisco 2015 In French and English, In English and Armenian, with English subtitles with English subtitles R16 violence, sexual references, Censors rating tbc offensive language, drug use

SHAYNE LAVERDIÄRE MAGNOLIA PICTURES French-Canadian wunderkind Xavier with the violent, wild Steve, Dolan Two transgender prostitute BFFs talk has been seeing someone else. She Dolan was 25 when he delivered discovers joy and energy in unusual trash and storm the LA streets in this goes ballistic, stalking the streets of his fifth feature to Cannes in 2014. places. Dolan throws everything but R-rated comedy of infidelity, retribution Los Angeles looking first for him, then What’s truly precocious is the power the kitchen sink at Mommy – he uses and sorely stretched friendship. Their the actual woman (a ‘fish’) he’s been of the exuberant young filmmaker’s a cameraphone-style, almost-square taxi-driving biggest admirer is having seeing. Even among the least-regulated imaginative identification with the screen ratio that he widens for the a bad night too. Sean Baker (Starlet) sex workers there’s a code of honor, eponymous mother, brilliantly played film’s happier moments, even getting shot the entire movie on a souped- and ‘this bitch,’ whoever she is, has by Anne Dorval. his main character to do the widening up iPhone 5S, and the blazing HD violated it… [It’s] something that feels “It’s the tale of a wild, gurning with his own hands. Mommy may feel hyper-reality of the imagery is a perfect real – and not because the filmmakers teen, Steve (Antoine Olivier Pilon), crass and bombastic at times… but you match for the awesome, OTT emotions are telling you it is, but because the an angel face hiding devilish deeds. can’t ignore its heartfelt emotion and on display. filmmaking has brought pavement and Steve has severe ADHD, which he winning belief that there’s no single “It’s trashy, lurid, and hilariously doughnuts and wigs and the smell of heavily medicates, and a love-hate definition of what makes a family.” profane – exploitation in the best, most crystal meth to life.” — Wesley Morris, relationship with his mother, Die — Dave Calhoun, Time Out cinematic sense – but without ever Grantland (Anne Dorval), and another maternal losing the thread of human ache that figure, their new neighbour, the meek, connects the handful of characters stuttering Kyla (Suzanne Clément). to each other. Alexandra (Mya Taylor) Where others would find only misery B Rialto Wednesday 5 Aug, 11.15 am accidentally tells Sin-Dee (Kiki Kitana A Regent Sunday 2 Aug, 8.30 pm Saturday 8 Aug, 8.00 pm B Rialto Monday 10 Aug, 4.15 pm and pain as Die and Kyla struggle A Rialto Rodriguez) that her man (and pimp) 30 FRESH

Turbo Kid

A raucous retro action-comedy that delivers fun and gore by the bucket- load, this debut feature from Québécois Directors/Screenplay: François Simard, filmmaking collective RKSS (François Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell Simard and siblings Anouk and Canada/New Zealand 2015 | 95 mins Yoann-Karl Whissell) pays homage to Producers: Anne-Marie Gélinas, Ant Timpson, Benoit Beaulieu, Tim Riley such VHS-era favourites as BMX Bandits Photography: Jean-Philippe Bernier and Mad Max, as well as their cheeky Editor: Luke Haigh straight-to-video knock-offs. Music: Le Matos With: Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf, Turbo Kid takes us back to the Aaron Jeffery, Edwin Wright, Romano Orzari, future, 1997 to be exact, where Michael Ironside Festivals: Sundance, SXSW 2015 the evil overlord Zeus (played with Audience Award (Midnighters), SXSW Film malevolent relish by genre stalwart Festival 2015 Michael Ironside) controls the only CinemaScope/R16 graphic violence, offensive language remaining supply of water in a post- @turbokidfilm nuclear dystopian wasteland. The comic book-obsessed Kid scavenges in the ruins for goods to trade with other survivors for water, but instead ends up finding a new bestie, a preternaturally enthusiastic pink-haired girl named 80s and discovered when the world’s Apple. BMX-riding goons in the employ last VHS store emptied its storage “A magical can’t-miss of Zeus maraud around the landscape locker… Turbo Kid mixes innocent experience that’s like abducting vulnerable survivors. When kid-stuff action with the kind of Apple is kidnapped, the Kid must draw outlandish gore many of the era’s teens a Saturday morning on his superhero know-how and the covertly devoured on video. A pitch- cartoon turned into an power of an ancient artifact to rescue perfect pastiche that never mocks its apocalyptic 80s fever- her and dispense some turbocharged inspirations, the picture is silly fun to blood-spattered revenge on the bad warm the hearts of aging fanboys dream.” — Matt Donato, A Regent Saturday 1 Aug, 9.00 pm guys. — MM and delight hipsters who weren’t yet We Got This Covered B Regent Wednesday 5 Aug, 4.00 pm “A post-apocalyptic adventure that born the first time.” — John DeFore, Saturday 22 Aug, 8.30 pm might well have been made in the early Hollywood Reporter A SJ Gore FRESH 31

Victoria

A hot romantic thriller filmed in a single Director: Sebastian Schipper mobile shot, Sebastian Schipper’s Germany 2015 | 140 mins Victoria aces a dazzling experiment Producers: Jan Dressler, Sebastian Schipper, in narrative filmmaking. Catalan Anatol Nitschke, Catherine Baikousis, David Keitsch star Laia Costa plays the eponymous Screenplay: Sebastian Schipper, heroine, a young Spanish exile looking Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Eike Schulz Photography: Sturla Brandth Grøvlen for excitement in Berlin. Amused by Music: Nils Frahm a band of dodgy buddies she sees With: Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, being turned away from the club she’s Burak Yigit, Max Mauff, André M. Hennicke Festivals: Berlin 2015 leaving, she’s persuaded to tag along In German and English, with English subtitles by the flirtatious Sonne (Frederick CinemaScope/R16 violence, offensive language, drug use Lau), a handsome lunk with a soulful gaze. Intimacy beckons, but Sonne’s posse are determined to haul the action out of the Before Sunrise zone and into something more like Pulp Fiction. Encompassing over two hours of seamless real time, Victoria’s single shot presses hard on its increasingly outlaw protagonists, while taking in ©MONKEYBOY a tantalising array of Berlin funk. “On April 27th, 2014, we started “If you’re going to pull a stunt like the camera a little after 4.30 am in a “Sebastian Schipper takes this, you’d damn well better dream up, club we’d built ourselves (in order to us on an exciting journey construct and hone a project that keep locations close to each other), warrants the gimmick. And Schipper, and after two hours and 14 minutes through 140 minutes with his co-writers Olivia Neergaard- – after we’d run, walked, strolled and filmed in one breathtaking Holm and Eike Schulz, most certainly climbed through 22 locations, had sequence. It is as poignant have. Victoria is an exhilarating more than 150 extras handled by six experience, its tension setting in early assistant directors and seven actors as it is astounding.” before mounting to a nearly unbearable followed in succession by three sound — Bénédicte Prot, Cineuropa pitch, then subsiding and cranking up all crews – we were done – at 6.54 am.” A Regent Wednesday 5 Aug, 8.15 pm over again.” — David Hudson, Fandor — Sebastian Schipper B Regent Thursday 6 Aug, 3.15 pm

The Tribe Plemya

Director/Screenplay: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy Ukraine/The Netherlands 2014 | 132 mins Festivals: Cannes 2014 Critics’ Week Grand Prize, Cannes Film Festival 2014 In Ukrainian Sign Language without subtitles CinemaScope/R18 violence, sexual violence, sex scenes, content may disturb

Here’s a boarding school gang This is filmmaking of amazing formal movie like nothing you’ve seen confidence and power. before. Turning tricks or terrorising “Slaboshpytskiy’s feature debut the streets of Kiev by night, the immediately bypasses any suggestion teenage desperadoes in The Tribe of gimmickry and goes straight for the are all residents of a school for the jugular, presenting a Lord of the Flies- deaf, communicating entirely in like world of social Darwinism that’s sign language. As we watch the as brutal as it is strangely beautiful. protagonist’s progress from wary It’s proof that you don’t need the outsider to brutal top dog, filmmaker sound of characters speaking to make Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy relies entirely a masterpiece – you simply need on his deaf cast’s gestural language vision.” — David Fear, San Francisco to convey visceral emotions. There are International Film Festival no subtitles. Everything is shot with a steely, fluid elegance. Fastidiously elaborated Steadicam set-ups keep us transfixed by every scene, from an awkward first tryst to garish B Rialto Thursday 13 Aug, 3.30 pm Friday 14 Aug, 8.45 pm explosions of retribution and pain. A Rialto 32

PRESENTED IN Being Evel ASSOCIATION WITH SPORT Director: Daniel Junge USA 2015 | 100 mins Photography: Robert Muratore Editor: Davis Coombe Music: John Jennings Boyd With: Evel Knievel, Johnny Knoxville, Robbie Knievel, Frank Gifford, Tony Hawk, George Hamilton Festivals: Sundance 2015

K&K PROMOTIONS “You may be aware that Evel Knievel job of articulating just how influential is the pre-eminent daredevil of our Knievel was on today’s extreme sports time, but you might not fuly grasp the daredevils.” — Ray Bort, Esquire magnitude of the stuntman’s celebrity “While he certainly could have been and what his fearless spirit represented a better human being, there’s no way to so many unless you were alive on earth, even with all the fighting during his thrilling run throughout the and drinking and womanizing, that 1970s. Being Evel is a new documentary he could have been a better showman. that aims to educate younger The documentary, like its subject, is audiences about Knievel’s influence, unapologetically dazzling.” — Drew and it contains plenty of unbelievable Taylor, The Playlist revelations that only bolster the legendary mythology surrounding the man in red, white, and blue… Being Evel was produced by Johnny Knoxville – who is also one of the film’s primary B Rialto Thursday 6 Aug, 4.00 pm interviewees – along with fellow A Regent Tuesday 11 Aug, 8.45 pm Jackass creator Jeff Tremaine and BMX A SJ Gore Monday 17 Aug, 8.15 pm legend Mat Hoffman. They do a great

Red Army

Director/Producer/ Screenplay: Gabe Polsky USA/Russia 2014 85 mins With: Slava Fetisov, Vladislav Tretiak, Scotty Bowman, Vladimir Pozner Festivals: Cannes (Out of Competition) 2014 Not tiddly-winks. In English and Russian, with English subtitles CinemaScope redarmymovie.com

The hazardous relationship between eventually lead the Russian exodus sports and national identity to the US before returning to his underscores every moment of this homeland as a close ally of Putin – highly entertaining documentary about makes a compelling and mordantly the careers of Soviet ice hockey stars funny guide. He’s blunt, ironic, not a before and after perestroika. Home little nostalgic for the rigours of Soviet to some of the greatest – and most sports training programmes – and not mercilessly drilled – players the sport a little contemptuous of the American has ever seen, the Soviet Union’s Red system that prizes individual prowess Army team became a key combatant over the team spirit that made the in the Cold War’s propaganda battle. Soviets great. ‘They’re a microcosm of their society,’ Reagan insisted of the Soviet team, sparing the Soviets the trouble of saying it themselves. When they triumphed, as they usually did, so it seemed did communism. Long-time captain and legendary B Rialto Tuesday 11 Aug, 1.00 pm Sunday 16 Aug, 8.15 pm defenseman Viacheslav Fetisov – who’d A Rialto SPORT 33

Meru

“With jaw-dropping cinematography… and direct access to the trials, drive and anxieties of its renowned mountain Directors: Jimmy Chin, climbing subjects, Meru is a hybrid Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi of gorgeous nature photography USA 2015 | 89 mins and riveting nonfictional storytelling. Producers: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Shannon Ethridge Titled after Mount Meru, a 21,000 ft. Photography: Renan Ozturk, Jimmy Chin Himalayan peak that looms over the Editor: Bob Einsenhardt Ganges River and features the iconic Music: J. Ralph With: Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, Renan Ozturk, ‘Shark’s Fin’, a massive sheer granite Jon Krakauer, Jenni Lowe-Anker, Amee Hinkley, spine jutting out of the mountain’s face Grace Chin, Jeremy Jones Festivals: Sundance, San Francisco 2015 into sub-zero degreed thin-aired space, Audience Award (US Documentary), the film focuses on three mountaineers Sundance Film Festival 2015 as they take on the challenge to merufilm.com become the first to ascend its peak. Conrad Anker, famous for his ascents in Patagonia, Antarctica and the Himalayas; Meru co-director Jimmy Chin, an athlete distinguished equally for his skills in photography, climbing © RENAN OZTURK and extreme sports; and Renan Ozturk, “The film’s incredible imagery shows a relative newcomer in this group, but daily life in the vertical realm – captured “It beggars belief already internationally respected as a by the three climbers themselves and that pro-sports free climber and visual artist, teamed one base camp manager… Propelled up in 2008 to reach the summit, but by an excellent score and unflinching cinematographers dishearteningly and dangerously failed commentary from [writer Jon] Krakauer, Chin and Ozturk actually with a mere 100 meters to go. Amidst this film goes deep into a world of shot most of the film personal and professional risks… the alpinism that is austere and alien climbers make the daring decision to to most people and breaks it down while in the midst of make one more attempt.” — Sean to celebrate the struggles and triumphs this ‘impossible climb’.” Uyehara, San Francisco International of the human spirit.” — Mary Anne — Dennis Harvey, Variety Monday 10 Aug, 8.15 pm Film Festival Potts, NationalGeographic.com A Regent

Sunshine Superman

Marah Strauch’s spectacular  documentary celebrates the reckless free spirit – or insanity, if you prefer – Director: Marah Strauch of Carl Boenish, the pioneering hero USA/Norway 2014 | 100 mins and cheerleader of BASE jumping. Producers: Eric Bruggemann, Marah Strauch The name is an acronym for building, Photography: Vasco Nunes, Nicolay Poulsen Editors: Marah Strauch, Eric Bruggemann, antenna, span, earth (think mountains) Kevin Mcguinness – the things that its practitioners, Music: KAADA With: Carl Boenish, Jean Boenish, John Long, equipped with parachutes, like to Bob Boenish, Charlie Ducat, Rick Harrison, leap off. Boenish made free fall Bill Wendt, David Blattel, Kent Lane, Jim Winkler, Phil Mayfield photography an integral part of the Festivals: Toronto, New York 2014 sport, providing Strauch with an exhaustive visual archive of his exploits – and affording us the vicarious giant- screen thrill of leaping off mountains too. “Not only was Boenish a man of his moment [he died in 1984], he was also light-years ahead of it, anticipating the explosion in the kinds of authority- MAGNOLIA PICTURES defying extreme sports that are now Yosemite’s El Capitan and downtown firmly embedded in the mainstream. LA skyscrapers as one of the daredevil “Stunning footage of BASE Marah Strauch’s gripping documentary originators of the BASE-jumping jumping makes this about Boenish’s life on land and in movement. He was like Evel Knievel the air shows how this sunny optimist with a blissed-out smile and a rip cord… fascinating doco into a ditched a career as an electrical until he pushed too far. Interviews with thrill ride… That FEATURE PRECEDED BY engineer at Hughes Aircraft to follow Boenish’s wife, Jean, give his life story nosebleed you’re having? Pelorus his love of skydiving full-time. perspective and heart, especially in the Alex Sutherland | New Zealand 2015 | 13 mins Soon his feats would grow more film’s tragic finale.” — Chris Nashawaty, It’s not a special effect.” and more outrageous and dangerous, Entertainment Weekly — John Anderson, Indiewire A Regent Tuesday 4 Aug, 8.30 pm as he graduated from parachuting out Wednesday 19 Aug, 7.45 pm of airplanes to illegally jumping from A SJ Gore 34

The 50 Year Argument REALITY FRAMING Directors: Martin Scorsese, David Tedeschi USA/UK/Japan 2014 97 mins With: Robert Silvers, Joan Didion, Noam Chomsky, Derek Walcott, Colm Tóibín, Michael Chabon, Mary Beard, Norman Mailer Festivals: Berlin, Toronto, New York 2014

Book reviews have always been just words – ‘well, versus the whole world’. part of The New York Review of Books. At the centre of it all sits the venerated, Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi’s workaholic, octogenarian Robert rich, affectionate film explores the Silvers, his desk piled with books, a pug range and impact of a paper that dog sniffing at his feet. ‘The Review has provided a singular political, is based on the idea that highly skilful, cultural and intellectual lens across intelligent, interested people,’ he says, five decades, publishing erudite and ‘can write fascinatingly and revealingly iconoclastic first-hand reporting on about nearly any subject.’ — TM civil rights and women’s liberation; on everything from the Velvet Revolution and the Vietnam War to Tahrir Square. Assembled from new interviews and archival footage, the stars are all here: Lowell, Havel, McCarthy, Auden, Chomsky, Didion and many more. The arguments spill from page to screen. Sontag versus Mailer, Mailer versus B Rialto Friday 7 Aug, 12.00 pm Saturday 8 Aug, 12.00 pm Vidal, Vidal versus – in the filmmakers’ A Rialto

Alice Cares Ik ben Alice

Director: Sander Burger The Netherlands 2015 | 79 mins Photography: Sal Kroonenberg Editor: Manuel Rombley Music: Jeroen Arts Festivals: Rotterdam 2015 In Dutch with English subtitles The profusion of excellent documentaries submitted to us is staggering. We try to steer a course that favours formal sophistication and complexity, while allowing ourselves on occasion to fall for Alice is here to help, or at least she underway. Meanwhile, researchers will be soon. A 60-centimetre tall inspect the robot-eye evidence and the most forthright advocacy and appeals robot, with a doll-like face, a camera fall upon every pause or glitch in robot to the heartstrings. Documentaries have behind her eyes, and the body of, response as a programming challenge. well, a robot, Alice, made by the Experienced health-care workers called always shared the spotlight with dramatic American firm Hanson Robotic, is being in for advice about elderly needs are features at NZIFF. You will find more fine programmed by a research group at both apprehensive and sceptical about Amsterdam’s Free University to provide the likelihood they will be replaced examples filling the Aotearoa section of companionship and assistance to by the caredroids. Barely editorialising the programme and in the section that elderly people living alone. for a moment, this simple account of This doco accompanies three Alices android life in the real world turns out follows. Also in our Big Nights, For All separately placed on a pilot scheme to be the most profound, heartrending Ages and Sport sections. In other words, with three women in their 80s, and and morally challenging film about observes the markedly different artificial intelligence yet. documentaries are everywhere at NZIFF. relationships that develop. ‘I’d prefer a real person’, says one as Alice is settled in. ‘Oh, that’s a shame’, Alice replies, and gradually curiosity overcomes A Rialto Sunday 2 Aug, 11.45 am Wednesday 5 Aug, 2.00 pm resistance and a conversation is B Rialto FRAMING REALITY 35

Best of Enemies

Over ten nights in August 1968, Directors/Producers: Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville let rip. The clash of the commentators USA 2015 | 88 mins – the liberal iconoclast versus the public Photography: David Leonard, Graham Willoughby, Mark Schwartzbard face of conservatism – would quickly Editors: Eileen Meyer, Aaron Wickenden become essential viewing. It was a Music: Jonathan Kirkscey masterstroke from ABC, the minnow With: William F. Buckley Jr, Gore Vidal, Kelsey Grammer, John Lithgow, Dick Cavett, of American network television. Andrew Sullivan, Christopher Hitchens, The urbane, imperious Vidal and the Brooke Gladstone, Todd Gitlin Festivals: Sundance, SXSW, San Francisco 2015 indignant, seething Buckley exchange Colour and B&W philosophical salvo and sarcastic insult bestofenemiesfilm.com in a contest replete with dazzling eloquence, acerbic wit and visceral PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH loathing. ‘It’s as if’, reflects Buckley’s former assistant, ‘they were matter and anti-matter, parallel lives’. The rivalry – cultural, ideological, skin-crawlingly personal – encapsulates the unease of a nation becoming mired in an unwinnable war in Vietnam and beset ABC PHOTO ARCHIVES VIA GETTY IMAGES by profound social unrest at home. directors Morgan Neville and Robert These mesmerising debates, which Gordon achieve something more: “Enticing, scintillating and spiralled out into a protracted legal an adroit, rambunctious melding of downright fascinating… battle, climax in an astonishing outburst archival footage and new interviews from Buckley, a moment which he later illustrates the way the arguments of A sort of brainy equivalent said had tormented him for years. For 1968 wrenched open political and of the Ali–Frazier boxing his part, Vidal is said to have revelled, cultural fissures that persist today; and matches of the same four decades on, at news of Buckley’s how the Vidal–Buckley scraps created a death. ‘Rest in hell’, he wrote. template – a high-point probably, too general era.” Best of Enemies thrills as an – for a now familiar TV format, in — Todd McCarthy, Hollywood entertainment alone: two intellectual which political punditry takes the shape B Regent Tuesday 4 Aug, 4.15 pm Reporter Thursday 6 Aug, 6.15 pm prize-fighters slugging it out. But of a boxing match. — TM A Regent

Awake: The Life of Yogananda Censored Voices

Directors/Screenplay: Director: Mor Loushy Paola di Florio, Israel/Germany 2015 Lisa Leeman 87 mins USA 2014 | 87 mins Producers: Daniel Sivan, Hilla Producers: Peter Rader, Medalia, Neta Zwebner Paola di Florio, Lisa Leeman Screenplay: Mor Loushy, Music: Anoushka Shankar, Daniel Sivan Krishna Das, Philip Glass, Alanis With: Amos Oz, Avraham Morissette, George Harrison Shapira, Elisha Shelem, Amitai Narrator: Anupam Kher Shelem, Ilan Lotan With: Deepak Chopra, Russell Festivals: Sundance, Berlin 2015 Simmons, George Harrison In Hebrew and English, awaketheyoganandamovie.com with English subtitles Colour and B&W censoredvoices.com

AVNER SHAHAF “Fittingly enlightening, Awake: The spiritual awakening upon discovering This potent Israeli documentary from battle. Many were shattered by Life of Yogananda is a vivid, elegantly orange robe-wearing, long-haired, encourages us to consider whose the sudden shift from defensive role assembled portrait of the savvy guru brown-skinned men weren’t exactly interests are served when the traumatic to a mercilessly offensive one. They with the cherubic face and penetrating warmly embraced. It wasn’t long before experience of returning soldiers is openly speculated about the ongoing gaze who brought meditation to the he was smeared as the leader of a love deleted from the record. How different impact of their brutality on the civilian West. cult preying on married women. might the world be today if the horror Arab population. The Israeli army Although the name Paramahansa Funded by the Self-Realization stories told by young veterans of the censored the recordings and they are Yogananda (1893–1952) may not ring a Fellowship but co-directed by Paola 1967 Six-Day War had been heard at heard here for the first time. Filmmaker bell, his teachings had a lifelong di Florio and Lisa Leeman with an the time? Mor Loushy invites the surviving influence on the likes of George open, inquisitive mind, the film The war, which began with Israel interview subjects to respond to their Harrison and Steve Jobs… Heeding a offers an absorbing glimpse into facing seemingly impossible odds, original testimony, and contrasts metaphysical calling to leave India for the life and times of the world’s ended with it conquering Jerusalem, their recollected distress with official materialistic America, Yogananda first superstar swami.” — Michael Gaza, Sinai and the West Bank. It is newsreel accounts of their heroism. initially landed at Boston Harbor at the Rechtshaffen, LA Times a war portrayed ever since in Israel dawn of the Roaring 20s but eventually as righteous defence. While the realized that Los Angeles would offer a whole country was in the flush of greater wellspring of disciples… But victory, a group of young kibbutzniks when Yogananda took his teachings to A Rialto Saturday 8 Aug, 10.00 am led by author Amos Oz recorded A Rialto Monday 10 Aug, 6.15 pm Sunday 9 Aug, 11.00 am Tuesday 11 Aug, 11.45 am the South, he experienced a rude A Rialto conversations with soldiers returning B Rialto 36 FRAMING REALITY

Cartel Land

Matthew Heineman’s unnervingly action-based documentary captures the impact of Mexican drug cartels Director: Matthew Heineman on both sides of the border with you- USA/Mexico 2015 | 98 mins are-there immediacy. With staggering Producers: Matthew Heineman, Tom Yellin frontline access, Heineman observes Photography: Matthew Heineman, Matt Porwoll Editors: Matthew Hamachek, Matthew the retaliatory forces that have formed Heineman, Bradley J. Ross, Pax Wassermann in the wake of oppressive cartel Music: H. Scott Salinas, Jackson Greenberg With: José Manuel Mireles, Tim ‘Nailer’ Foley, violence: the Autodefensas, a Mexican Paco Rangel Valencia vigilante group who fight to free their Festivals: Sundance, Tribeca 2015 townships from cartel dominion, and Directing and Cinematography Awards (US Documentary), Sundance Film Festival 2015 the Arizona Border Recon, a makeshift In English and Spanish, with English subtitles American militia hellbent on defending CinemaScope/R13 violence, offensive language, content may disturb their border from traffickers. It’s a www.cartellandmovie.com portrait that refuses to shy away from complication; while the cartels are depicted as unequivocally horrific (with their crimes often recounted to us in harrowing detail), Heineman is equally as interested in the troubling patterns forming amidst the resistance. of live fire, a gunpoint interrogation in His film emerges a dangerous, fiercely the back of a moving car and even a “A gripping, nuanced look gripping drug-war saga that examines scene of torture. Several instances make at two different responses the cyclical nature of corruption and you fear for the filmmakers’ safety.” the ways in which noble intentions — Ben Kenigsberg, Variety to the ongoing violence can become distorted by violence and “While there’s no minimizing and death strewn by power. — JF the valor and skill of the filmmaker, the vicious drug cartels “There’s no lack of immediacy in the credit also goes to his talented co- footage south of the border, where cinematographer, Matt Porwoll, for plaguing both sides of Heineman, who filmed with a small capturing the mayhem and malice the Mexican/American crew and served as one of his own in the lands ravaged by the cartels.” B Rialto Wednesday 12 Aug, 4.00 pm border.” — Tim Grierson, Paste Thursday 13 Aug, 8.30 pm cinematographers, captures the eruption — Duane Byrge, Hollywood Reporter A Rialto

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Dreamcatcher

Documenting the unsung actions of heroic, down-to-earth women who work for social change, the films of Kim Director/Photography: Kim Longinotto Longinotto have in recent years taken UK/USA 2014 | 104 mins us to India (Pink Saris), Durban (Rough Producers: Teddy Leifer, Lisa Stevens Aunties) and south-west Cameroon Editor: Ollie Huddleston Music: Stuart Earl (Sisters in Law). In Dreamcatcher, we With: Brenda Myers-Powell hit the streets, prisons and high schools Festivals: Sundance, San Francisco 2015 Directing Award (World Documentary), of Chicago in the company of the Sundance Film Festival 2015 disarmingly fabulous Brenda Myers- R16 sexual references, drug references, offensive Powell, a former prostitute and abuse language survivor, who works, unpaid, to rescue young women from the cycles of abuse and exploitation that she knows all too well. “British filmmaker Kim Longinotto focuses on the work of Brenda Myers-Powell, an early contender for saint of the year… Like the film, she’s calm, non-judgmental and engaging and despite her undeniable star quality fantastic performer, making the high- (an award-worthy biopic feels like the school girls she works with laugh amid “A sex-worker turned next logical step), Longinotto doesn’t the narration of horrors, and finishing feminist-force-of-nature impose a conventional narrative on the film with a hip-swaying, full-voiced her story, or those of the women she performance of her favourite song. is Kim Longinotto’s helps, and gives them the chance to Longinotto’s documentaries often, guide to Chicago in her share their harrowing stories without subtly and brilliantly, create such a characteristically great any forced emotional beats. It’s grim, stage on which her subjects can be unfussy and deeply moving.” their best selves, for themselves.” documentary.” — Benjamin Lee, The Guardian — Sophie Mayer, Sight & Sound — David Jenkins, Little White Lies “As well as having resilience and A Rialto Saturday 1 Aug, 12.00 pm Thursday 6 Aug, 1.00 pm determination, [Myers-Powell] is a B Rialto

City of Gold The Enemy Within

Director: Laura Gabbert Director: Owen Gower USA 2015 | 89 mins UK 2014 | 116 mins Producers: Laura Gabbert, Producers: Sinead Kirwan, Holly Becker Mark Lacey, Owen Gower Photography: Jerry Henry, Photography: Malcolm Hadley Goro Toshima Editor: Paul Edmunds Music: Bobby Johnston Music: Rael Jones With: Jonathan Gold the-enemy-within.org.uk Festivals: Sundance, San Francisco 2015 cityofgolddoc.com

©JOHN STURROCK There’s no more loving, curious or Greater Los Angeles, from mini-malls Margaret Thatcher’s strategic sacrifice obfuscation and excuse-making (all infectious guide to the city of Los in the San Gabriel Valley to downtown of Britain’s coal mines now stands of which was definitively swept away Angeles and its eateries than food critic street vendors, providing a delicious clearly as a historic turning point in earlier this year when newly released Jonathan Gold. The first writer to win a portrait of a thriving city of immigrants. the free marketeer war on organised documents revealed just how far Pulitzer Prize for reviewing restaurants, One comes away with a sense of a labour. (‘The enemy within’ is what the Tories were prepared to go to he’s less likely to point you to the hot place with such a breadth of cultural she called the unions.) In this realise their dream of an unrestrained and the hip than to the authentic, diversity that the city’s reputation illuminating record of their struggle, corporate free-for-all). Lovingly made, the unusual and the flavoursome. for vapidity is quickly buried… It’s strike veterans rake over their losses beautifully shot and wonderfully Reviewing street food and the tiny a pleasure to ride shotgun on this with alacrity and insight. soundtracked by the likes of The ethnic hybrids he discovers in strip journey.” — Vicki Robinson, Film “It exposes how the Thatcher Specials and The Mekons, this is timely, malls and suburban neighbourhoods, Comment government colluded with big business, important and truthful cinema, at once he illuminates a wealth of cultural the police and the media to break the bitter, nostalgic and unexpectedly experience and culinary adventure. In a back not just of the National Union of uplifting.” — Tom Huddleston, Time city teeming with options, he opens up Miners, but of the entire trade union Out new worlds for diners and owners alike. movement, and perhaps even any “Here is a gentle, unassuming film, notion of working class solidarity. This five years in the making: the filmmakers is an unashamedly one-sided viewpoint, drove with LA Times food critic A Rialto Saturday 15 Aug, 6.15 pm but that in itself feels necessary to B Rialto Friday 31 July, 1.00 pm A Rialto Sunday 16 Aug, 11.00 am A Regent Sunday 2 Aug, 10.45 am Jonathan Gold around the streets of correct two decades of government 38 FRAMING REALITY

The Look of Silence Senyap

“Joshua Oppenheimer’s ground- breaking documentary The Act of Killing confronted viewers with a moral Director: Joshua Oppenheimer vacuum in which the perpetrators of Denmark/Indonesia, 2014 | 99 mins the politically motivated massacres Co-director: Anonymous that roiled Indonesia in 1965 were Producer: Signe Byrge Sørensen Executive producers: Werner Herzog, only too happy to reenact their crimes. Errol Morris, André Singer In the director’s own words, ‘I felt I’d Photography: Lars Skree Editor: Niels Pagh Andersen wandered into Germany 40 years after Music: Seri Banang, Mana Tahan the Holocaust, only to find the Nazis Festivals: Venice, Toronto, New York, The Look of Silence Busan, CPH:DOX 2014; Berlin, SXSW, still in power.’ San Francisco 2015 widens the frame to include the FIPRESCI Prize, victims’ perspective. Less a sequel than Venice International Film Festival 2014 CPH:DOX Award, CPH:DOX 2014 a companion piece, the film follows Audience Award, SXSW Film Festival 2015 gentle optometrist Adi as he asks the In Indonesian and Javanese, killers about their crimes – among them, with English subtitles R13 content may disturb the vicious murder of his elder brother. thelookofsilence.com The interviewees insist that ‘the past is past’, and yet it’s only too clear that the lack of accountability leaves the threat intact: one former killer darkly the intolerable absence of truth and intimates that Adi’s actions could be reconciliation.” — Max Goldberg, San “Both a direct sequel to understood as communist activity, Francisco International Film Festival The Act of Killing and a while another – a legislator no less – is “When the end credits roll, and even more explicit in promising that you notice most of the crew’s names complete stand-alone further questioning will prompt more are listed as ‘anonymous’, the threat work. Either way, it’s one killing. Oppenheimer continues to test seems fresh and immediate… This of the most powerful docos the limits of observational documentary is an essential companion piece to in his aesthetic interpretation of Oppenheimer’s earlier film; another I have ever experienced.” trauma. A startling and grave work astonishing heart-of-darkness voyage — Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, San sure to be discussed for years to come, into the jungle of human nature.” A Regent Saturday 1 Aug, 11.45 am Francisco Bay Guardian B Regent Thursday 6 Aug, 1.00 pm The Look of Silence bears witness to — Robbie Collin, The Telegraph

Going Clear: Scientology Merchants of Doubt and the Prison of Belief

Director: Alex Gibney Director: Robert Kenner USA 2015 | 120 mins USA 2014 | 96 mins Screenplay: Alex Gibney. Based Producers: Robert Kenner, on the book by Lawrence Wright Melissa Robledo Photography: Sam Painter Screenplay: Robert Kenner, Kim Editor: Andy Grieve Roberts. Based on the book by With: Lawrence Wright, Mark Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Rathbun, Mike Rinder, Jason Conway Beghe, Paul Haggis With: Jamy Ian Swiss, Stanton Festivals: Sundance 2015 Glantz, Sam Roe, Patricia Callahan, James Hansen, John Passacantando, William O’Keefe Festivals: Toronto, New York 2014 merchantsofdoubtmovie.com

SAM PAINTER The Church of Scientology hates this a Scientology rally, is at once riveting Merchants of Doubt, based on the decades that science was inconclusive film. When it was released in the US in and discomfiting. book of the same name, shines its light about smoking when their own March, the organisation immediately Beyond the fascination and kookiness on corporate public relations strategies researchers had told them the opposite. launched a media counter-offensive, of the self-help parables, e-meters and for undermining inconvenient scientific It seems clear that those documents inveighing against director Alex Gibney alien emperor foundation myth, Going research. Should you embark on a have now served as the blueprint for and the apostates who appear in it. Of Clear paints a chilling picture – all of it career in science in the 21st century, the orchestrated denial of human- course they did: as is laid bare in this denied by Scientology – of a paranoid this film suggests you may need a thick generated climate change. affecting, gobsmacking documentary, and brutal ‘church’. It also confirms the hide if your research places human Utilising card-sharp con artistry as Scientology’s retaliations know few status of Gibney (Enron: The Smartest welfare ahead of corporate profit. Your its ruling metaphor, Robert Kenner’s bounds. Guys in the Room, Mea Maxima Culpa, every conclusion may be countered richly storied film draws its most Lucid testimonies from former We Steal Secrets: The WikiLeaks Story) by a pseudo-expert granted equal vivid testimony from two reformed executives and adherents stand in as America’s pre-eminent contemporary media time to provide ‘balance’. Don’t skeptics – and one extremely voluble, contrast to the glossy and sinister documentary filmmaker. — TM be surprised if you are called an elitist, unrepentant spinner. exhortations of David Miscavige, seeking to deprive ordinary citizens of who rose to succeed the charismatic the right to choose. These tactics and fantasist L. Ron Hubbard. New footage B Regent Monday 3 Aug, 3.30 pm more, as revealed in the thousands of celebrity disciples John Travolta and A Regent Sunday 9 Aug, 11.00 am of documents leaked to anti-tobacco Tom Cruise, who is shown preaching crusader Stanton Glantz, enabled B Rialto Monday 3 Aug, 1.00 pm A SJ Gore Saturday 15 Aug, 1.15 pm A Rialto Monday 3 Aug, 6.15 pm the legacy of LRH before thousands at the tobacco industry to maintain for FRAMING REALITY 39

The Silences

This powerful story by Margot Nash is a Margot Nash ‘personal essay compilation documentary’ in which Nash investigates her confusing Director/Producer/Screenplay/ and destructive relationship with her Photography/Editor: Margot Nash mother. With a father who suffered Australia 2015 | 73 mins from extreme mental instability, and a Music: Elizabeth Drake With: Lynette Curran, Pamela Rabe, John Stanton, home full of secrets, Nash scours her Toni Scanlan, Melissa Ippolito, Shelley McShane, family history through oral recollections, Robin Laurie, Elizabeth Cooke, Sandra Cooke, Michela Noonan, Kathy Bain photos and letters from her parents, and conversations with older sister, Diana, asking: what really happened? Escaping this discomfort into the 70s feminist art-making scene, Nash finds her voice. Her freedom particularly antagonises mother, Ethel, who above all wanted to be an actor: Ethel finds her daughter’s artistic enlightenment disappointing and futureless. Interspersed with the archival footage are excerpts from Nash’s early film works, Vacant Possession and fearlessly and conscientiously to make Call Me Mum, which already echo the peace with her parents, and the world In this lucid, heartfelt events of her childhood. of their generation, through art. The doco of an unstable family Nash’s father never recovered from simple and repetitive inspection of the trauma of WWII, and his return to personal and family images and the life, feminist filmmaker the family makes for a tense household. compelling authorial voice make for an Margot Nash tries to make Rife with repressed ambitions and painful intimate and gripping experience. — JR peace with her parents’ secrets, this is no idealised family life, “I have worked to show the but Nash looks her history in the eyes complexities of their lives, understand destructive behaviour. without flinching. Her voice carries you the choices they made and find through the film with tenderness and compassion in my heart for both of B Rialto Thursday 13 Aug, 10.45 am Thursday 13 Aug, 6.15 pm clarity: we see a filmmaker trying them.” — Margot Nash A Rialto

She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry The Wolfpack

Director: Mary Dore USA 2014 | 93 mins Producers: Mary Dore, Director/Photography: Nancy Kennedy Crystal Moselle Photography: Svetlana Cvetko, USA 2015 | 84 mins Alicia Weber Editors: Nancy Kennedy, With: Bhagavan Angulo, Govinda Kate Taverna Angulo, Narayana Angulo, With: Judith Arcana, Fran Beal, Mukunda Angulo, Krisna Angulo, Rita Mae Brown Jagadesh Angulo, Visnu Angulo, shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com Susanne Angulo, Oscar Angulo Festivals: Sundance, Tribeca 2015 Grand Jury Prize (US Documentary), Sundance Film Festival 2015 thewolfpackfilm.com

“Mary Dore’s She’s Beautiful When change the world – and how tough The winner of the Documentary Grand faltering and they are making tentative She’s Angry is an urgent, illuminating it was to do so. Dore’s generous Jury Prize at Sundance this year, Crystal forays into the world outside. dive into the headwaters of second- with fiery archival footage – marches, Moselle’s film delves into the bizarrely “The Wolfpack indeed has much to wave feminism, the movement that chants, meetings, gobsmackingly sheltered lives of six brothers whose say about fandom, the reciprocal bonds – no matter what its detractors insist – sexist news reports – as she traces father has confined them (and their between consumption and production, has given us the world in which we live. the development of the National sister) since birth to the tiny rooms of the nightmarish consequences of ‘We live in a country that doesn’t like Organization for Women and its many their Lower East Side apartment. What unchecked patriarchy, and, especially, to credit any of its radical movements’, sister groups… That defiant sisterhood these boys know about social interaction the pathological evils of insularity Susan Brownmiller says in the film. changed the workplace, our sexual they’ve learned from watching movies (it may be one of the greatest films ‘They don’t like to admit in the United politics, our language. She’s Beautiful – thousands of them – and filming ever made on this theme).” — Blake States that change happens because When She’s Angry is the best filmed ingenious, homemade re-creations of Williams, Cinema Scope radicals force it.’ account of how that happened you their favourites. (Reservoir Dogs looms A score of those who dared force it could ever expect to see.” — Alan large: it offers each of them a major role.) turn up for fresh interviews in Dore’s Scherstuhl, Village Voice Moselle draws on a vast video wide-ranging film: here’s Rita Mae archive of their housebound lives to A Rialto Friday 31 July, 6.30 pm Brown, Ellen Willis, Fran Beal, Judith delight and disturb us in equal measure, A Rialto Saturday 1 Aug, 2.15 pm Arcana, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and but her portrait is a gently hopeful one, B Rialto Tuesday 4 Aug, 2.00 pm many more, dishing truth and priceless A Rialto Friday 7 Aug, 6.15 pm capturing them at a moment when Saturday 15 Aug, 11.15 am Friday 21 Aug, 8.00 pm anecdotes about what it felt like to A Rialto the tyrannical grip of their father is A SJ Gore 40

The End of the Tour & MUSIC & ARTS ARTS

Director: James Ponsoldt USA 2015 | 106 mins Screenplay: Donald Margulies. Based on the book Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky Photography: Jakob Ihre With: Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Segel Festivals: Sundance 2015 CinemaScope/M offensive language, sexual references endofthetour-movie.com

JAKOB IHRE “This love song to the art of “Two writers bonding over work, conversation is about a Rolling their self-awareness and how their Stone journalist, David Lipsky (Jesse efforts are perceived can only sustain Eisenberg) who is infatuated with an audience of non-authors so far, the novelist David Foster Wallace’s but The End of the Tour understands gargantuan novel Infinite Jest and the necessity to communicate begs for the opportunity to profile universal truths… The movie’s look at the author… Wallace, played as a isolation, confidence and connection shambling, reflective, moody, acutely reverberates deeply… Intimate, soul- self-aware and rigorously honest lost baring, and winning, The End of the soul by Jason Segel, immediately Tour is a special, lovely little gem.” impresses Lipsky with his utter lack of — Rodrigo Perez, The Playlist pretense, his fondness for his dogs and his appreciation for junk food and Pepsi. FEATURE PRECEDED BY Lipsky serves as an acolyte, a sounding Tama board and a friend, and yet Wallace, Ryan Alexander Lloyd | New Zealand 2014 | 10 mins himself an experienced journalist, is suspicious of his interlocutor’s motives” A Rialto Monday 10 Aug, 8.15 pm — Kyle Smith, NY Post B Rialto Tuesday 11 Aug, 3.45 pm

PRESENTED IN Lambert & Stamp ASSOCIATION WITH

Director/Photography: James D. Cooper USA 2014 | 117 mins Music: The Who With: Chris Stamp, Kit Lambert, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Terence Stamp Festivals: Sundance 2014 Colour and B&W lambertstampmovie.com

“More combustible than most bands of golden b&w footage (Lambert and See also Amy (p6), Philip Dadson: Sonics (or most explosives), The Who had Stamp always planned to document From Scratch (p9), The Price of Peace (p11), a street fighter for a frontman, a their managerial brilliance), James thorny intellectual for a guitarist, a D. Cooper’s poundingly fun, scrappy Tom Who? The Enigma of Tom Kreisler (p11). lunatic whirlwind for a drummer and profile has an unusually satisfying nuts- John Entwistle on bass. As we learn and-bolts perspective on the 60s fame in the puckishly entertaining Lambert machine.” — Joshua Rothkopf, Time & Stamp, the guys needed a firm Out NY hand: Oxford-educated Kit Lambert “This isn’t myth-burnishing hokum… and East End schemer Chris Stamp Lambert & Stamp just happens to (brother of actor Terence) were both illuminate the glory and tumult of the frustrated filmmakers until they found band’s rise with unexpected candour.” a mission in polishing the rock quartet — Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice for stardom. Roger Daltrey’s punching problem had to be addressed, while Pete Townshend required creative encouragement (and Lambert’s B Rialto Friday 7 Aug, 1.00 pm classical vinyl) if he was ever going to A Rialto Friday 14 Aug, 6.15 pm finish Tommy. Blessed with a wealth A Rialto Saturday 15 Aug, 3.45 pm ARTS & MUSIC 41

Around the World in 50 Concerts Om de wereld in 50 concerten

The enduring expressive power of Director: Heddy Honigmann the Western orchestral repertoire is The Netherlands 2014 | 94 mins keenly observed in this wonderfully Producers: Carmen Cobos, Kees Rijninks idiosyncratic documentary by Photography: Goert Giltay Editor: Danniel Danniel Peruvian-born Dutch filmmaker Heddy With: The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Honigmann (Underground Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, Marcelo Ponce, Alice Makgorane, Portia Makgorane, Michael Masote, Crazy). One of Europe’s longest- Sergej Bogdanov running and most esteemed orchestras, Festivals: Amsterdam Documentary 2014; Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Hot Docs 2015 In Dutch, English, Russian and Spanish, Orchestra celebrated its 125th with English subtitles anniversary in 2013 by playing 50 Blu-ray concerts over six continents. The film takes in three of the more daunting ports of call: Buenos Aires, Soweto and St Petersburg. It’s impossible to imagine a more appreciative observer of the venture than Honigmann. Her alertness to what drives musicians to dedicate their lives to performing is matched by a subtle understanding of the “Here Honigmann sensitively consolations that music can offer to any interpolates generous helpings of the “The mutually beneficial of us. And both are rendered all the orchestra’s recordings to envelopingly relationships between more potent by her abiding sensitivity persuasive effect. The most powerful to exile, whether it be felt by a young episode of all is, paradoxically, the one musicians and their flautist in his hotel room missing a son’s closest to ‘home’: a nocturnal al fresco audiences form the core birthday halfway across the world; rendition of a sentimental Amsterdam of [this] delightful doco or by an elderly Russian who finds in ditty using the city’s streets and canals Mahler’s Symphony No 8 a conduit as grand backdrop, capable of bringing from Dutch doyenne to the vanished world of his mother tears not only to Dutch eyes.” — Neil Heddy Honigmann.” who once heard it conducted by the Young, Hollywood Reporter A Rialto Wednesday 5 Aug, 6.15 pm — Neil Young, Hollywood Reporter Wednesday 12 Aug, 11.30 am composer himself. B Rialto

From Scotland with Love

Expat New Zealand director Virginia Director: Virginia Heath Heath collaborated with prolific Scottish UK 2014 | 75 mins indie folksinger King Creosote (Kenny Producer: Grant Keir Anderson) to pair archival footage with Photography: Julian Schwanitz Editor: Colin Monie original songs and create this vibrant Music: Kenny Anderson aka King Creosote elegy for 20th-century Scotland. Their Colour and B&W film offers no interviews or voice-overs, fromscotlandwithlovethefilm.com relying instead on Anderson’s poetic songs to tell stories and embellish a myriad of documentary clips: industry, education, protest, housing, war, rural life, and, most stirringly, parties, parades, celebrations, holidays in the Highlands or at the beach. The past we see may be almost as foreign a country now to those who live there as to anyone who’s never set foot: it’s impossible to watch the lively throngs in this film without considering how massively the social contract has changed in the meantime. Scotland with Love, Scots and those “The detail-rich vignettes (miners with Scottish blood in their families “It’s not the Scotland of smoking, couples skating on frozen may feel a certain pang of inherited Walker’s shortbread rivers, a self-conscious sandwich-board nostalgia well up inside them. Kenny boy advertising Auchtermuchty Flower ‘King Creosote’ Anderson sings with the and red-bearded pipers… Show) are almost too much for one blend of resoluteness and regret that but a moving portrait sitting. But it’s spellbinding… It’s like he musters like few others… Nostalgia, of strong-willed people a new kind of history programme: of course is the point… Yet something immersive, lyrical and, in its way, about the narrative intentions of the enduring in times of A Regent Saturday 1 Aug, 2.00 pm beautiful.” — Mark Braxton, Radio film raises it above the status of a change.” B Regent Tuesday 4 Aug, 12.30 pm Times misty-eyed trip down memory lane.” — Timothy Monger, All Music “During the opening minutes of From — David Pollock, The Scotsman A SJ Gore Tuesday 18 Aug, 6.00 pm 42 ARTS & MUSIC

Iris

New York fashion original Iris Apfel Director: Albert Maysles first came to prominence as an interior USA 2014 | 83 mins designer in the 1950s when she and Producers: Laura Coxson, Rebekah Maysles, her husband founded a company Jennifer Ash Rudick Photography: Albert Maysles, Nelson Walker III, specialising in hand-woven historic Sean Price Williams textiles. They furnished nine White Editor: Paul Lovelace Music: Steve Gunn, Justin Tripp Houses in a row and lived an enviable With: Iris Apfel, Carl Apfel, Billy Apfel, globetrotting lifestyle. Alexis Bittar, Mickey Boardman, Linda Fargo, Apfel began cultivating her Tavi Gevinson, David Hoey, Naeem Khan, Harold Koda, Jenny Lyons, Duro Olowu extraordinary sense of personal style Festivals: New York, Amsterdam Documentary early on, sporting an endless array of 2014; San Francisco 2015 gigantic round eyeglasses, wearing boldly mixed patterns, and adorning herself with cascades of costume jewellery. It took the world of fashion decades to catch up, but by the 21st century she had become an unlikely style icon, her striking look being celebrated in fashion magazines and an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum ©BRUCE WEBER of Art’s Costume Institute in 2005. There are the expected fashion shoots The late veteran documentarian and cocktail parties, and testimonials “I’m not pretty, and I’ll Albert Maysles (Gimme Shelter, Grey from the great and good (designer never be pretty, but it Gardens) follows the 93-year-old Iris on Dries van Noten, jeweller Alexis Bittar, her rounds with his usual impeccable photographer Bruce Weber), but we doesn’t matter. I have discretion, turning what others might also see Iris haggle over bangles at a something much better. have made a mere caricature into Harlem market and grapple with the I have style.” a moving study of a headstrong, deteriorating health of her doting hubby, B Regent Wednesday 5 Aug, 11.15 am irreverent, compulsively quotable Carl, who turned 100 during filming. — Iris Apfel A Regent Sunday 9 Aug, 1.30 pm (‘colour can raise the dead’) woman Don’t miss the chance to meet one of towards the end of her extraordinary the most unforgettable characters of A SJ Gore Wednesday 19 Aug, 6.00 pm Saturday 22 Aug, 12.00 pm life. this festival. — Angela Lassig A SJ Gore

IT JUST TASTES Listen to Me Marlon BIGGER Director/Editor: Stevan Riley UK 2015 | 97 mins Producers: John Battsek, R.J. Cutler, George Chignell Screenplay: Stevan Riley, Peter Ettedgui Photography: Ole Bratt-Birkeland Festivals: Sundance, San Francisco 2015

There is no other actor who possesses McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter the cinema screen with the authority “Listen to Me Marlon is an elegy, of Brando in his great roles. And with scenes of extraordinary beauty there’s not been a biography yet that throughout – not least the young cut to the quick of his life and art with Brando himself – but Riley has the clarity of this documentary. not made a hagiography, nor is “Marlon Brando reveals himself this documentary just for Brando posthumously as he never publicly fans. Most actors are lucky, with a did in life in the remarkable ghostwriter’s help, to produce two documentary Listen to Me Marlon. hundred pages of gossip. Riley has Making marvellously creative use sifted through mountains of tapes and of a stash of audio recordings the found the emotions that made Brando actor privately made, plus a striking the actor of his generation.” — David amount of unfamiliar and never- D’Arcy, Screendaily before-seen photos and film footage, British documentarian Stevan Riley delivers an enthrallingly intimate look at the brilliant, troubled and always B Rialto Thursday 6 Aug, 12.00 pm Saturday 8 Aug, 2.00 pm www.epicbeer.com charismatic screen legend.” — Todd A Rialto

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Mavis!

“Gospel/soul music legend and civil Director: Jessica Edwards rights icon Mavis Staples shines in a USA 2015 | 80 mins film that’s rich with six decades of music Producers: Jessica Edwards, Rachel Mills and song. Lead singer of The Staple Photography: Keith Walker Editor: Amy Foote Singers – the acclaimed ‘first family Music: Mavis Staples of song’ founded by Mavis’s father With: Mavis Staples, Yvonne Staples, Roebuck ‘Pops’ Staples, Cleotha Staples, Roebuck ‘Pops’ Staples – she fused Pervis Staples, Bob Dylan, Prince, Jeff Tweedy, gospel, soul, folk and rock to transcend Bonnie Raitt, Levon Helm, Chuck D racism and unite people through music. Festivals: SXSW, Hot Docs 2015 mavisfilm.com Special appearances by Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan, Chuck D and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, among others, testify to her profound influence on American music. But it is Staples herself who is the shining star of Mavis! A consummate storyteller, she reveals intimate tales of her life onstage and off – from shout- outs on the Southern gospel circuit in the 50s, freedom songs inspired by Martin Luther King Jr in the 60s, to chart-busting hits in the 70s and 80s adroitly entwines archival material, and her recent album One True Vine. newly filmed interviews and live “I’ll stop singing when I The film glows with the power and performances to create a cinematic have nothing left to say, spiritual grace of her unforgettable portrait quite capable of converting the voice.” — Lynne Fernie, Hot Docs uninitiated into acolytes, and elevating and that’s not gonna “All-around living legend Mavis casual interest to flood-tide levels of happen.” Staples is celebrated with the respect and affection.” — Joe Leydon, — Mavis Staples infectiously joyful enthusiasm of a Variety passionately devoted fan in Mavis!, a B Regent Friday 14 Aug, 1.45 pm spirited and captivating bio-doc that A Regent Sunday 16 Aug, 3.30 pm richly deserves the exclamation point Sunday 23 Aug, 3.15 pm in its title. Director Jessica Edwards A SJ Gore

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict A Poem Is a Naked Person

Director: Director/Photography/ Lisa Immordino Vreeland Editor: Les Blank USA/Italy/UK 2015 USA 1974/2015 96 mins 90 mins Producers: Stanley Buchthal, Producers: Leon Russell, David Koh, Dan Braun Denny Cordell Photography: Peter Trilling Sound: Maureen Gosling With: Jacqueline Bograd Weld, Music: Leon Russell Francine Prose, John Richardson, With: Leon Russell, Nicky Haslam George Jones, Willie Nelson Festivals: Tribeca 2015 Festivals: SXSW 2015 Blu-ray lesblank.com

Without collector and patron cine-biographer of Diana Vreeland, Pianist, producer, songwriter (‘Delta from George Jones, it’s as engagingly Peggy Guggenheim, art in the 20th and a comfortable inhabitant of the Lady’, ‘Song for You’) and singer Leon distracted by peripheral action and century might have looked a little social eco-system in which her subject Russell was a Wrecking Crew session personalities as any Blank film. Russell different today. She nurtured Pollock, rebelled and thrived. player (see p45) who shot to fame opted not to release it. Blank himself Motherwell, Rothko and scores “Keeping Jackson Pollock afloat may when he appeared in the Joe Cocker showed it often in closed screenings, of others and amassed a personal have been her proudest achievement, concert film Mad Dogs and Englishmen and the legend of its dyspeptic vision collection that surely rates among the but the list of artists who had their in 1970. A blond, long-haired music of 70s rock ‘n’ roll decadence grew five top reasons to visit Venice. She first exhibitions with Guggenheim is professional from Oklahoma, his piano accordingly. Blank’s son Harrod has at was wealthy, but by no means the staggering… Vreeland gives a good style fused boogie, blues and country last cleared the rights and worked with wealthiest of the Guggenheims. She sense of her impact, while telling to vamp up Cocker’s full-out rock the Criterion Collection to produce preferred the bohemian world to high stories of so many love affairs and ego revue style. He was an unlikely subject this beautiful HD transfer, giving new society and had a good nose for where clashes Art Addict never feels a bit for folk-arts laureate Les Blank, but life to Russell’s place in the pantheon in the world the most exciting work like a history lesson.” — John DeFore, that’s who Russell chose to make this and introducing us to some snakes in was to be found. She was personally Hollywood Reporter film portrait. Les Blank’s Eden. awkward, but sexually adventurous, Though the film Blank delivered in something she flaunted to widespread 1974 contains storming performances amazement and dismay in a scandalous from Russell, along with appearances memoir. Her life story is chronicled here A Rialto Saturday 1 Aug, 4.00 pm from a young Willie Nelson and a A Rialto Thursday 6 Aug, 8.30 pm Monday 3 Aug, 11.30 am Tuesday 11 Aug, 1.45 pm by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, recent B Rialto drop-dead rendition of ‘Take Me’ B Rialto 44

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Seymour: An Introduction

“Ethan Hawke directed this documentary, Director: Ethan Hawke about Seymour Bernstein, a pianist, USA 2014 | 81 mins now in his late eighties, who, in 1977, Producers: Ryan Hawke, Greg Loser, renounced the duties and the anxieties Heather Joan Smith Photography: Ramsey Fendall of a public performer and became a Editor: Anna Gustavi piano teacher… Even nonmusicians Music: Seymour Bernstein With: Seymour Bernstein, Michael Kimmelman, have been struck by the vigor of Andrew Harvey, Joseph Smith, Kimball Gallagher Bernstein’s wisdom, among them Festivals: Toronto, New York 2014 Hawke, who met him one evening seymouranintroduction.com and ‘felt kind of safe around him’. If anything, the sweetness of the subject’s nature and the gentle modulations of his speaking voice are so potent that it would seem not just uncivil but futile to contradict him; yet Hawke is too alert and too inquiring to let the movie subside into worship. The kindly surface is broken by brisker moments: clips of master classes, tryouts of different Steinways, memories of playing for front-line art and life from a man who sees no troops in Korea, and pedagogic advice dividing line between the one and “A greatly admired, deeply that cuts hard against the American the other… He speaks softly though nourishing New York City grain: ‘I’m not so sure that a major urgently in shapely paragraphs, never career is a healthy thing to embark mind mere sentences, and holds out piano teacher still active in upon,’ Bernstein says. Hawke is seeking the shining promise – a believable one, his 80s, Bernstein and his not to reclaim a forgotten figure or to coming from him – that with sufficient persistent faith in musical argue for his status but to follow his dedication, meaning the sort of hard challenging lead.” — Anthony Lane, work that great teachers always insist art are the subjects of a film B Regent Monday 10 Aug, 11.15 am New Yorker on, ‘music and life will interact in a both beautiful and true.” A Regent Saturday 15 Aug, 11.00 am “It’s a study in boundless passion, never-ending cycle of fulfilment‘.” — Stuart Klawans, The Nation Saturday 22 Aug, 2.00 pm plus a wellspring of wisdom about — Joe Morgenstern, Wall St Journal A SJ Gore

Women He’s Undressed The Wrecking Crew

Director: Director: Denny Tedesco Gillian Armstrong USA 2008 | 101 mins Australia 2015 | 99 mins With: Lou Adler, Herb Alpert, Producers: Gillian Armstrong, Glen Campbell, Cher, Dick Clark, Damien Parer Micky Dolenz, Carol Kaye Photography: Anna Howard Festivals: SXSW, Vancouver 2008 Editor: Nicholas Beauman Colour and B&W Music: Cezary Skubisz-ewski wreckingcrewfilm.com With: Darren Gilshenan, Deborah Kennedy, Louis Alexander Festivals: Sydney 2015

MAGNOLIA PICTURES Orry George Kelly (1897–1964), time the big pretender gets married. Director Denny Tedesco is an Wilson, Cher, Nancy Sinatra, Glen Hollywood costume designer But the ripest fruit here is to be enthusiastic guide to the legacy of his Campbell and Herb Alpert are on hand extraordinaire, grew up in Kiama, a found in the dazzling clips: 42nd Street, father, LA session guitarist Tommy to testify that it’s all true. Shot over a New South Wales town notable in his Casablanca, Some Like It Hot, Les Tedesco, and the loose coterie of ace decade and completed in 2008, the estimation for its blowhole and view Girls, Gypsy, every great picture Bette musicians known as ‘The Wrecking film is so loaded with hit tracks that it of the Pacific Ocean. He made his way Davis ever made. Hollywood insiders Crew’ who contributed to some of the took another six years and a Kickstarter across it via art school and window who knew him (Jane Fonda) or who greatest pop tracks of the 50s and campaign to clear the music rights. dressing work in Sydney. After a spell know all about him (a who’s who of 60s. As Tedesco – happily abetted by “A wonderful, touching and hilarious designing for the New York stage and contemporary costume designers) many of the surviving players – tells it, film about the unsung stars of so many clubs, he moved to Los Angeles in 1932 testify to his outness, his excesses and the arrangements and riffs these guys records that you carry in your heart.” with his English boyfriend, an aspiring his extraordinary talent for unifying (and one woman, bassist Carol Kaye) — Elvis Costello actor named Archie Leach. actor and character in costume. came up with defined the unique styles Taking her sassy tone from Kelly’s of many and varied pop greats. Phil recently discovered tell-all memoir, Spector’s vaunted ‘wall of sound’? The Armstrong provides a third-person bass riff on ‘These Boots Are Made narration delivered by a Kelly stand-in for Walking’? The Beach Boys classic (Darren Gilshenan) – and makes a meal album Pet Sounds? ‘The Pink Panther of Archie’s transformation into Cary B Regent Wednesday 12 Aug, 1.30 pm Theme’? Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass? B Rialto Wednesday 5 Aug, 1.00 pm A Regent Thursday 13 Aug, 6.15 pm A Rialto Saturday 8 Aug, 4.00 pm Grant, pausing to scoff anew every Their versatility was staggering. Brian 46

DUNEDIN TICKET PRICES AT THE VENUE ON THE DAY Regent Theatre: From 9.00 am on the day of the screening, Monday to Friday; from one hour before the first screening on weekends. A CODED SESSIONS Rialto Cinemas: From 10.30 am daily. Sessions starting after 5.00 pm weekdays and all weekend sessions. METHODS OF PAYMENT » Full Price $16.00 Cash/EFTPOS: Accepted for box office and venue bookings. » Film Society/Film Industry Guilds/OTT $13.00 Visa/Mastercard: Accepted for all bookings. » Student/Unwaged $13.00* Cheque: Personal cheques are accepted for mail bookings only, and must be received five working days prior to your first screening. Cheques payable to TicketDirect. » Children (15 and under)/Seniors (65+) $10.00 TICKET COLLECTION B CODED SESSIONS For phone and mail bookings, tickets can be mailed out if booking is received at least Sessions starting before 5.00 pm weekdays and others as indicated. seven days prior to your first screening. Please note: tickets cannot be replaced if they are lost in the post. » Full Price $12.50 Tickets paid by cheque will be held at the Regent booking office. All other tickets will » Children (15 and under)/Seniors (65+) $10.00 be held for collection at the cinema box office of your first screening. Please bring your credit card and any concession ID as verification of your ticket purchase. 3D FILMS REFUNDS 3D glasses not included. We encourage you to recycle and bring your own. Please note that NO REFUNDS will be given for uncollected tickets or tickets collected They can be purchased from the venue’s box office for $1.00. late. Bookings once made cannot be altered. Please choose carefully as there are no » Full Price $18.50 exchanges or refunds except as required by law. » Film Society/Film Industry Guilds/OTT/Student $15.50* » Children (15 and under)/Seniors (65+) $12.50 VENUE INFORMATION S SPECIAL SENIOR SCREENING – The Second Mother (p14) FOR ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS VISIT www.nziff.co.nz » Seniors (65+) $6.00** Regent Theatre: 17 The Octagon, Ph (03) 477 8597 Rialto Cinemas: 11 Moray Place, Ph (03) 474 2200 FIVE-TRIP PASS On sale at both venues. Can be purchased on the day or in advance. WHEELCHAIR ACCESS/SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS Please advise the ticket seller when purchasing your tickets if you have difficulty with » Five-trip pass $60.00*** stairs, or have any special requirements. * Full-time student and unwaged concession price available for counter bookings only on presentation of current relevant ID. PROGRAMME CHANGES ** A Special Senior price of $6.00 is available for the 10.00 am screening on Tuesday 4 August. We reluctantly reserve the right to change the schedule by amending dates or replacing *** The Five-Trip Pass can be purchased in advance and used to book tickets on the day for any NZIFF films. Any necessary changes will be advertised at NZIFF venues and in the Otago Daily session that is not sold out. This pass cannot be used to secure tickets for 3D films. Passes can be Times. shared and used at both venues. They cannot be used for online, phone or mail bookings. PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY DUNEDIN FILM SOCIETY, OTAGO THEATRE TRUST AND FILM INDUSTRY GUILDS There are no advertising films or trailers at NZIFF. We reserve the right to ask latecomers CONCESSION PRICE to wait until the conclusion of any speeches or short films before they are seated. If Film Society members are entitled to purchase one ticket per session at the discount rate. collecting tickets prior to a screening please allow extra time in case there are queues. Membership ID is required – please ensure you bring it with you to the venue to present to staff on request. The concession price is not available to those holding Film Society MOBILE PHONES three-film sampler cards. Please switch off mobile phones before entering the auditorium.

BUYING TICKETS GENERAL INFORMATION Advance bookings can be made for all NZIFF screenings. As the Regent and Rialto CENSORSHIP CLASSIFICATION Cinemas are unfortunately unable to offer allocated seating, we recommend arriving G – Suitable for general audiences early to your session to secure the best seats. PG – Parental guidance recommended for younger viewers M – Unrestricted. Recommended more suitable for mature audiences 16 years and over ONLINE (Rialto Cinemas screenings only) – www.rialto.co.nz RP13 – Restricted to persons 13 years and over, unless they are accompanied by a parent or guardian From Tuesday 7 July. Booking fees apply. RP16 – Restricted to persons 16 years and over, unless they are accompanied by a parent or guardian R13 – Restricted to persons 13 years and over IN PERSON R16 – Restricted to persons 16 years and over R18 – Restricted to persons 18 years and over Advance ticket sales are available for all sessions and can be made from the venue where the film is screening. As these box offices are operated for NZIFF by the venues Classifications will be published in NZIFF’s daily newspaper advertising and displayed at the themselves, they are not equipped to sell tickets for other NZIFF venues. These box venues’ box offices. Children’s tickets are available only for films classified G, PG and M. offices will open one hour prior to the first NZIFF session of the day at the venue and At the time of printing some films have not been rated. Until they receive a censor rating, close 15 minutes after the start of the day’s final NZIFF session. they are considered R18 (unless clearly aimed at children) and can only be purchased by and for people aged 18 and over. For more information please visit the ticketing and venue Regent Theatre Tuesday 7 July – Sunday 16 August information page on our website. Please note: ID may be requested for restricted films. 9.00 am – 5.30 pm Monday to Friday; 10.30 am – 1.00 pm Saturday; Closed Sundays prior to the start of NZIFF. WEBSITE – www.nziff.co.nz Rialto Cinemas Tuesday 7 July – Sunday 16 August; 10.30 am – 9.00 pm daily Register on our website to customise your view of NZIFF, select your favourite films, send films to your friends, and create your own schedule. The site also features an at-a-glance MAIL planner that shows you exactly when each movie is scheduled to start and finish. A booking form is available on our website. Once completed, post to: Facebook: www.facebook.com/nzfilmfestival NZIFF Bookings, Regent Theatre, PO Box 5036, Dunedin 9058. Twitter: www.twitter.com/nzff Booking fee: $8.50 per transaction. YouTube: www.youtube.com/nzintfilmfestival TELEPHONE (Regent Theatre screenings only) – (03) 477 8597 Instagram: www.instagram.com/nziff 9.00 am – 5.30 pm Monday to Friday; 10.30 am – 1.00 pm Saturday; closed Sundays. DUNEDIN FILM SOCIETY – www.dunedinfilmsociety.org.nz Booking fee: $8.50 per transaction.

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Thursday 30 July B 1.00 pm Girlhood (RIALTO) 113 p26 A 6.15 pm Tehran Taxi (RIALTO) 82 p19 B 2.00 pm The Wolfpack (RIALTO) 84 p39 A 8.00 pm Mommy (RIALTO) 139 p29 A 7.30 pm The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (REGENT) 90 p4 B 2.15 pm The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (REGENT) 90 p4 A 9.00 pm The Assassin (REGENT) 105 p4 Friday 31 July B 3.45 pm The Fool (RIALTO) 121 p21 Sunday 9 August B 10.45 am Our Little Sister (REGENT) 128 p21 B 4.15 pm Best of Enemies (REGENT) 88 p35 3D 10.30 am Enchanted Kingdom 3D (RIALTO) 87 p12 B 12.30 pm Experimenter (RIALTO) 90 p23 A 6.15 pm New Zealand’s Best 2015 (RIALTO) 82 p10 A 11.00 am Awake: The Life of Yogananda (RIALTO) 87 p35 B 1.00 pm The Enemy Within (RIALTO) 116 p37 A 6.15 pm The Second Mother (REGENT) 110 p14 A 11.00 am Going Clear (REGENT) 120 p38 B 1.30 pm Amy (REGENT) 128 p6 A 8.15 pm Experimenter (RIALTO) 90 p23 A 1.00 pm The Price of Peace (RIALTO) 87 p11 B 2.30 pm Ixcanul Volcano (RIALTO) 95 p17 A 8.30 pm Sunshine Superman (REGENT) 100 + 13 p33 A 1.30 pm Iris (REGENT) 83 p42 B 4.15 pm ’71 (REGENT) 99 p26 Wednesday 5 August A 3.30 pm A Pigeon Sat on a Branch… (RIALTO) 100 p22 B 4.30 pm New Zealand’s Best 2015 (RIALTO) 82 p10 B 11.15 am Iris (REGENT) 83 p42 A 3.30 pm Mia madre (REGENT) 107 p20 A 6.30 pm Phoenix (REGENT) 98 p18 B 11.15 am Mommy (RIALTO) 139 p29 A 5.45 pm Tom Who? (RIALTO) 73 p11 A 6.30 pm The Wolfpack (RIALTO) 84 p39 B 1.00 pm The Wrecking Crew (RIALTO) 101 p45 A 6.00 pm Sherpa (REGENT) 96 p7 A 8.15 pm The Diary of a Teenage Girl (RIALTO) 102 p27 B 1.15 pm Embrace of the Serpent (REGENT) 125 p6 A 8.00 pm Animation Now 2015 (RIALTO) 89 p25 A 8.45 pm 99 Homes (REGENT) 112 p22 B 2.00 pm Alice Cares (RIALTO) 79 p34 A 8.00 pm Inherent Vice (REGENT) 149 p22 Saturday 1 August B 3.45 pm A Most Violent Year (RIALTO) 125 p24 Monday 10 August B 4.00 pm Turbo Kid (REGENT) 95 p30 A 11.45 am The Look of Silence (REGENT) 99 p38 A 6.15 pm Around the World in 50 Concerts (RIALTO) 94 p41 B 11.15 am Seymour: An Introduction (REGENT) 81 p45 A 12.00 pm Dreamcatcher (RIALTO) 104 p37 A 6.15 pm The Measure of a Man (REGENT) 93 p17 B 11.30 am The Price of Peace (RIALTO) 87 p11 A 2.00 pm From Scotland with Love (REGENT) 75 p41 A 8.15 pm Experimenter (RIALTO) 90 p23 B 1.00 pm The Misfits (RIALTO) 125 p24 A 2.15 pm The Wolfpack (RIALTO) 84 p39 A 8.15 pm Victoria (REGENT) 140 p31 B 1.15 pm The Measure of a Man (REGENT) 93 p17 A 4.00 pm Our Little Sister (REGENT) 128 p21 B 2.00 pm Tom Who? (RIALTO) 73 p11 A 4.00 pm Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (RIALTO) 96 p43 Thursday 6 August B 3.15 pm Inherent Vice (REGENT) 149 p22 3D 6.00 pm Kiss Me Kate 3D (RIALTO) 110 p24 B 10.45 am Mia madre (REGENT) 107 p20 B 4.15 pm Tangerine (RIALTO) 88 p29 A 6.45 pm Far from Men (REGENT) 110 p16 B 12.00 pm Listen to Me Marlon (RIALTO) 97 p42 A 6.15 pm Censored Voices (RIALTO) 87 p35 A 8.15 pm The Fool (RIALTO) 121 p21 B 1.00 pm Dreamcatcher (RIALTO) 104 p37 A 6.15 pm Rams (REGENT) 93 p19 A 9.00 pm Turbo Kid (REGENT) 95 p30 B 1.00 pm The Look of Silence (REGENT) 99 p38 A 8.15 pm The End of the Tour (RIALTO) 106 + 10 p40 B 2.00 pm Umrika (RIALTO) 98 p18 Sunday 2 August A 8.15 pm Meru (REGENT) 89 p33 B 3.15 pm Victoria (REGENT) 140 p31 A 10.45 am The Enemy Within (REGENT) 116 p37 B 4.00 pm Being Evel (RIALTO) 100 p32 Tuesday 11 August A 11.45 am Alice Cares (RIALTO) 79 p34 A 6.15 pm Best of Enemies (REGENT) 88 p35 B 10.45 am Saint Laurent (REGENT) 151 p17 A 1.15 pm Song of the Sea (REGENT) 90 p13 A 6.15 pm Girlhood (RIALTO) 113 p26 B 11.45 am Censored Voices (RIALTO) 87 p35 3D 1.30 pm Kiss Me Kate 3D (RIALTO) 110 p24 A 8.30 pm A Poem Is a Naked Person (RIALTO) 90 p43 B 1.00 pm Red Army (RIALTO) 85 p32 A 3.15 pm Latin Lover (REGENT) 104 + 14 p20 A 8.30 pm The Lobster (REGENT) 118 p7 B 1.45 pm A Poem Is a Naked Person (RIALTO) 90 p43 A 3.45 pm A Pigeon Sat on a Branch… (RIALTO) 100 p22 B 1.45 pm The Assassin (REGENT) 105 p4 Friday 7 August A 5.45 pm Amy (REGENT) 128 p6 B 3.45 pm The End of the Tour (RIALTO) 106 + 10 p40 A 6.00 pm Ixcanul Volcano (RIALTO) 95 p17 B 11.00 am Crossing Rachmaninoff (REGENT) 79 p9 B 4.00 pm Results (REGENT) 104 p29 A 8.00 pm A Most Violent Year (RIALTO) 125 p24 B 12.00 pm The 50 Year Argument (RIALTO) 97 p34 A 6.15 pm Nga¯ Whanaunga (RIALTO) 94 p11 A 8.30 pm Tangerine (REGENT) 88 p29 B 1.00 pm Lambert & Stamp (RIALTO) 117 p40 A 6.15 pm The Brand New Testament (REGENT) 117 p15 B 1.30 pm Black Souls (REGENT) 103 p19 A 8.15 pm Cemetery of Splendour (RIALTO) 122 p21 Monday 3 August B 2.00 pm Rams (RIALTO) 93 p19 A 8.45 pm Being Evel (REGENT) 100 p32 B 10.30 am Latin Lover (REGENT) 104 + 14 p20 B 4.00 pm Far from Men (REGENT) 110 p16 B 11.30 am Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (RIALTO) 96 p43 B 4.00 pm The Diary of a Teenage Girl (RIALTO) 102 p27 Wednesday 12 August B 1.00 pm Merchants of Doubt (RIALTO) 96 p38 A 6.15 pm She’s Beautiful When… (RIALTO) 93 p39 B 11.30 am Around the World in 50 Concerts (RIALTO) 94 p41 B 1.15 pm Phoenix (REGENT) 98 p18 A 6.30 pm Results (REGENT) 104 p29 B 11.45 am Grandma (REGENT) 80 p23 3D 1.30 pm Kiss Me Kate 3D (RIALTO) 110 p24 A 8.15 pm The Forbidden Room (RIALTO) 130 p14 B 1.00 pm Out of the Mist (RIALTO) 80 p9 B 3.30 pm Going Clear (REGENT) 120 p38 A 8.45 pm Deathgasm (REGENT) 86 p27 B 1.30 pm Court (RIALTO) 116 p18 B 3.45 pm 99 Homes (RIALTO) 112 p22 B 1.30 pm Women He’s Undressed (REGENT) 99 p45 Saturday 8 August A 6.15 pm Merchants of Doubt (RIALTO) 96 p38 B 3.45 pm The Lobster (REGENT) 118 p7 A 6.15 pm Umrika (REGENT) 98 p18 A 10.00 am Awake: The Life of Yogananda (RIALTO) 87 p35 B 4.00 pm Cartel Land (RIALTO) 98 p36 A 8.15 pm The Diary of a Teenage Girl (RIALTO) 102 p27 B 11.00 am Animation for Kids 2015 (REGENT) 60 p12 A 6.15 pm Mustang (REGENT) 94 p28 A 8.30 pm ’71 (REGENT) 99 p26 A 12.00 pm The 50 Year Argument (RIALTO) 97 p34 A 6.15 pm Philip Dadson: Sonics From Scratch (RIALTO) 85 p9 A 12.45 pm Crossing Rachmaninoff (REGENT) 79 p9 A 8.15 pm Black Souls (REGENT) 103 p19 Tuesday 4 August A 2.00 pm Listen to Me Marlon (RIALTO) 97 p42 A 8.45 pm The Forbidden Room (RIALTO) 130 p14 B 10.00 am The Second Mother (REGENT) 110 p14 A 3.15 pm Embrace of the Serpent (REGENT) 125 p6 B 12.00 pm Tehran Taxi (RIALTO) 82 p19 A 4.00 pm The Wrecking Crew (RIALTO) 101 p45 Thursday 13 August B 12.30 pm From Scotland with Love (REGENT) 75 p41 A 6.00 pm Saint Laurent (REGENT) 151 p17 B 10.45 am The Silences (RIALTO) 73 p39 48

Dunedin schedule continued GORE TICKET PRICES GORE SCHEDULE All screenings at St James Theatre B 11.15 am 45 Years (REGENT) 93 p5 ★ OPENING NIGHT GALA B 1.00 pm Philip Dadson: Sonics From Scratch (RIALTO) 85 p9 Thursday 13 August Includes drinks and nibbles (from 6.45 pm). B 1.30 pm While We’re Young (REGENT) 97 p25 B 11.00 am The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (90) p4 Full Price $20.00 B 3.30 pm The Tribe (RIALTO) 132 p31 ★ 8.15 pm The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (90) p4 Seniors (65+)/Students (13 and over) $16.00 B 3.45 pm Ex Machina (REGENT) 108 p28 Friday 14 August A 6.15 pm The Silences (RIALTO) 73 p39 Children (12 and under) $14.00 B 11.00 am Latin Lover (104 + 14) p20 A 6.15 pm Women He’s Undressed (REGENT) 99 p45 A CODED SESSIONS A 8.30 pm Cartel Land (RIALTO) 98 p36 Sessions starting after 5.00 pm weekdays and all A 6.15 pm Grandma (80) p23 A 8.30 pm While We’re Young (REGENT) 97 p25 weekend sessions. A 8.00 pm Amy (128) p6 Full Price $15.00 Friday 14 August Saturday 15 August Seniors (65+)/Students (13 and over) $13.00 B 11.00 am Clouds of Sils Maria (REGENT) 124 p16 A 1.15 pm Going Clear (120) p38 Gore Musical Theatre/Film Club members $12.00 B 11.00 am Holding the Man (RIALTO) 128 p15 3D 3.45 pm Kiss Me Kate 3D (110) p24 Children (12 and under) $9.00 B 1.30 pm The Brand New Testament (RIALTO) 117 p15 A 6.00 pm The Second Mother (110) p14 B 1.45 pm Mavis! (REGENT) 80 p43 B CODED SESSIONS A 8.30 pm Phoenix (98) p18 B 3.45 pm Tale of Tales (REGENT) 125 p5 Sessions starting before 5.00 pm weekdays and others as indicated. Sunday 16 August B 4.00 pm Mustang (RIALTO) 94 p28 3D 12.15 pm Enchanted Kingdom 3D (87) p12 A 6.15 pm Lambert & Stamp (RIALTO) 117 p40 Full Price $10.00 A 2.15 pm Crossing Rachmaninoff (79) p9 A 6.30 pm Grandma (REGENT) 80 p23 Seniors (65+)/Students (13 and over) $10.00 A 4.00 pm Latin Lover (104 + 14) p20 A 8.30 pm Ex Machina (REGENT) 108 p28 Children (12 and under) $7.00 A 6.30 pm Sherpa (96) p7 A 8.45 pm The Tribe (RIALTO) 132 p31 3D FILMS A 8.30 pm Results (104) p29 Saturday 15 August Includes 3D glasses hire. Monday 17 August 3D 10.30 am Enchanted Kingdom 3D (RIALTO) 87 p12 Full Price $17.00 3D 6.15 pm Enchanted Kingdom 3D (87) p12 A 11.00 am Seymour: An Introduction (REGENT) 81 p45 Seniors (65+)/Students (13 and over) $15.00 A 8.15 pm Being Evel (100) p32 A 11.15 am She’s Beautiful When… (RIALTO) 93 p39 Children (12 and under) $11.00 A 1.00 pm The Misfits (REGENT) 125 p24 Tuesday 18 August A 1.15 pm Court (RIALTO) 116 p18 B 11.00 am Amy (128) p6 A 3.30 pm The Art of Recovery (REGENT) 90 p8 BUYING TICKETS A 6.00 pm From Scotland with Love (75) p41 A 3.45 pm Lambert & Stamp (RIALTO) 117 p40 Tickets are available at the St James Theatre in advance. A 7.45 pm 99 Homes (112) p22 Please note: There is no allocated seating so arrive A 6.00 pm 45 Years (REGENT) 93 p5 early for the best seats. A 6.15 pm City of Gold (RIALTO) 89 p37 Wednesday 19 August Budget Day Tuesday does not apply to NZIFF screenings. A 8.15 pm Cemetery of Splendour (RIALTO) 122 p21 No vouchers may be used for NZIFF screenings. B 11.00 am Mia madre (107) p20 A 8.15 pm Holding the Man (REGENT) 128 p15 MULTI-FILM DISCOUNT A 6.00 pm Iris (83) p42 Buy tickets for five or more films in one transaction and A 7.45 pm Sunshine Superman (100 + 13) p33 Sunday 16 August receive a 20% discount off the total amount. A 11.00 am City of Gold (RIALTO) 89 p37 GROUP BOOKINGS Thursday 20 August A 11.00 am Sherpa (REGENT) 96 p7 For group bookings of 20 or more people, please B 11.00 am Clouds of Sils Maria (124) p16 A 1.15 pm Belief (RIALTO) 88 p8 contact Peter Cairns at [email protected] or A 6.00 pm Mia madre (107) p20 Ph (03) 208 7396 or 027 208 7393. A 1.15 pm When Marnie Was There (REGENT) 103 p13 A 8.15 pm Ex Machina (108) p28 A 3.30 pm Mavis! (REGENT) 80 p43 VENUE INFORMATION A 3.45 pm Out of the Mist (RIALTO) 80 p9 SBS St James Theatre: 61 Irk Street, Ph (03) 208 7396 Friday 21 August Wheelchair access is available at some screenings. A 5.30 pm Clouds of Sils Maria (REGENT) 124 p16 B 11.00 am Saint Laurent (151) p17 Please phone the St James Theatre for details. A 5.45 pm Belief (RIALTO) 88 p8 A 6.00 pm 45 Years (93) p5 A 8.00 pm Tale of Tales (REGENT) 125 p5 A 8.00 pm The Wolfpack (84) p39 A 8.15 pm Red Army (RIALTO) 85 p32 Saturday 22 August

A 12.00 pm Iris (83) p42 A 2.00 pm Seymour: An Introduction (81) p45 A 4.00 pm Clouds of Sils Maria (124) p16 A 6.30 pm While We’re Young (97) p25 A 8.30 pm Turbo Kid (95) p30

Sunday 23 August

A 1.15 pm Song of the Sea (90) p13 A 3.15 pm Mavis! (80) p43 A 5.00 pm Saint Laurent (151) p17 A 8.00 pm Tale of Tales (125) p5

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INDEX 45 Years 5 The Fool 21 The 50 Year Argument 34 The Forbidden Room 14 ’71 26 From Scotland with Love 41 99 Homes 22 G A Girlhood 26 Alice Cares 34 Going Clear: Amy 6 Scientology and the Prison of Belief 38 Animation for Kids 2015 12 Grandma 23 Animation Now 2015 25 H Around the World in 50 Concerts 41 Holding the Man 15 The Art of Recovery 8 The Assassin 4 I Awake: The Life of Yogananda 35 Inherent Vice 22 MERU ©JIMMY CHIN P T B Iris 42 Ixcanul Volcano 17 Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict 43 Being Evel 32 Tale of Tales 5 Pelorus 33 Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses 8 K Tama 40 Philip Dadson: Sonics From Scratch 9 Best of Enemies 35 Kiss Me Kate 3D 24 Tangerine 29 Phoenix 18 Black Souls 19 Tehran Taxi 19 The Brand New Testament 15 L A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence 22 Tom Who? The Enigma of Tom Kreisler 11 Lambert & Stamp 40 C A Poem Is a Naked Person 43 The Tribe 31 Latin Lover 20 The Price of Peace 11 Cartel Land 36 Listen to Me Marlon 42 Turbo Kid 30 Cemetery of Splendour 21 The Lobster 7 R U Censored Voices 35 The Look of Silence 38 Rams 19 City of Gold 37 Umrika 18 Red Army 32 Clouds of Sils Maria 16 M Results 29 Court 18 The Mafia Kills Only in Summer 4 V Crossing Rachmaninoff 9 Mavis! 43 S Victoria 31 The Measure of a Man 17 D Saint Laurent 17 Merchants of Doubt 38 W Deathgasm 27 The Second Mother 14 Meru 33 When Marnie Was There 13 Seymour: An Introduction 45 The Diary of a Teenage Girl 27 Mia madre 20 Sherpa 7 While We’re Young 25 Dreamcatcher 37 The Misfits 24 She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry 39 The Wolfpack 39 E Mommy 29 The Silences 39 Women He’s Undressed 45 A Most Violent Year 24 Embrace of the Serpent 6 Mustang 28 Song of the Sea 13 The Wrecking Crew 45 Enchanted Kingdom 3D 12 Sunshine Superman 33 The End of the Tour 40 N The Enemy Within 37 New Zealand’s Best 2015 10 Ex Machina 28 Nga¯ Whanaunga Ma¯ori WITHOUT WHOM Experimenter 23 Pasifika Shorts 2015 11 For Regent Theatre (Dunedin): Sarah Anderson (Director); Nelson Miles (Technical Manager); F O Russell Campbell (Projectionist Supreme); Andrea Ford (House Manager); Bernie Chatfield, Tess Palmer, Robin Dignan (Booking Office); Hannah Molloy (Marketing Manager); Alison Cunningham Far from Men 16 Our Little Sister 21 (Chair), Sallyjane Cranfield (Deputy Chair), John Aitken, Russell Atkinson, Garry Gibson, Christine Food for Thought 20 Out of the Mist 9 Hislop, Sandra Nixon, Kathleen Wallace, Clinton Miller, Richard Thomson (Regent Theatre Trust of Otago Trustees) For Rialto Cinemas (Dunedin): Craig Robinson (Manager); Gary Gutschlag (Head Projectionist); Mike Dillon, Damian Smith (Venue Managers) For SBS St James Theatre (Gore): Peter Cairns

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Notes in this brochure are written and compiled by the programmers, Bill Gosden, Michael McDonnell, Ant Timpson and Malcolm Turner. Toby Manhire, Jo Randerson, Judah Finnigan, Andrew Langridge, Angela Lassig and Nic Marshall also contributed notes. The brochure was edited, drawing on a wide array of writers we like, by Bill Gosden, who also wrote the unsigned notes, cribbing the occasional perfect adjective from said writers. It was managed by Sibilla Paparatti with the assistance of a squadron of ace proofreaders who labour beyond the call of duty. Views expressed in the brochure do not necessarily represent the views of the staff or trustees of the New Zealand Film Festival Trust.