DUNEDIN 8–30 AUGUST 2017 GORE 17–27 AUGUST 2017 NZIFF.CO.NZ
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41st Dunedin International Film Festival
Presented by New Zealand Film Festival Trust under the distinguished patronage of Her Excellency The Right Honourable Dame Patsy Reddy, Governor-General of New Zealand
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Director: Bill Gosden General Manager: Sharon Byrne Communications Manager: Rebecca McMillan Publicist (Dunedin): Hannah Molloy Festival Host (Dunedin): Joshua Thomas Assistant to General Manager: Lisa Bomash Programmer: Sandra Reid Assistant Programmer: Michael McDonnell Animation NOW! Programmer: Malcolm Turner All Ages Programmer: Nic Marshall Incredibly Strange Programmer: Anthony Timpson Online Content Coordinator: Kailey Carruthers Content Manager: Ina Kinski Materials and Content Assistants: Ian Freer, Jule Hartung Technical Adviser: Ian Freer PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY Publications Coordinator: Tim Wong Administration Coordinator: Estela Sangkop Audience Development Coordinator: Alice Vilardel Communications Assistant (Wellington): Abby Cattermole Guest Coordinator: Pamela Harvey-White Festival Accounts: Alan Collins Ticketing Supervisor: Tim Keats Festival Interns: Miles Chan (Auckland), Kezia Dwyer (Wellington) Publication Design: Ocean Design Group Publication Production: Greg Simpson Cover Design: Ponui Patuaka, Meri Gracia Cover Illustration: Tom Simpson Animated Title: Anthony Hore (designer), Aaron Hilton (animator), Tim Prebble (sound), Catherine Fitzgerald (producer)
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13 – 14 September Regent Theatre, Dunedin FEATURING THE DUNEDIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
17 September Civic Theatre, Invercargill
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In a world fraught with changes you might not want to be reminded about, we bring you the 2017 NZIFF catalogue, cleverly contrived to look like business as usual. Yes, indeed, we have made our choice of the best the world had to offer us and the assortment is as rich and varied as it always has been. But the world’s best filmmakers often move as the world moves, and it is impossible to deny the darkness of the new films that dominated Cannes this year – or to ignore the fact that recently so many filmmakers have felt compelled to address the imperilled rights of the young.
NZIFF’s collaboration with the Otago Theatre Trust and the fabulous Regent once A BRAND NEW BALLET again brings these films, in all their myriad shades, to Dunedin filmgoers at the most fitting venue imaginable. Of course our programme spills beyond our flagship venue, by Francesco Ventriglia with an extremely enticing selection of films to be found at the Rialto, and further south, at the SBS St James Theatre in Gore. Regular festival goers should note a deviation from the established COSTUME & SET DESIGN / JAMES ACHESON pattern in Dunedin: we’ve only two weekends at the Regent in order to make way for the major rugby event MUSIC / SERGEI PROKOFIEV coinciding with our closing weekend. The Rialto have stepped up with extra days to bridge the gap. LIGHTING / JON BUSWELL 2degrees Mobile returns as sponsor of a massive World cinema section for a second year. Resene join us for their fourth year as sponsors of another stunning bunch of New Zealand films. Flicks.co.nz, RadioLIVE and Metro magazine remain proactive media partners. We also welcome NZherald.co.nz as our digital news partner.
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Let your broadband 20th Century Women Opening Night A loving, funny and insightful memoir Director/Screenplay: Mike Mills of the mother who brought him up USA 2016 | 119 mins – and two younger women she might Producers: Megan Ellison, Anne Carey, Youree Henley have enlisted to assist – Mike Mills’ Photography: Sean Porter 20th Century Women swirls happily Editor: Leslie Jones speed take off with Music: Roger Neill around a richly shaded performance With: Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, from Annette Bening. Set in sunny, Billy Crudup, Lucas Jade Zumann, Alia Shawkat Festivals: New York 2016; Rotterdam 2017 late-70s southern California on the Nominated, Best Screenplay, Academy Awards 2017 brink of the Reagan era, the film is CinemaScope | M offensive language, nudity, drug brimful with the music, artefacts and use & sexual references 2degrees Fibre attitudes of its day, a lively time capsule PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH inviting constant comparison with where we have landed now. Lucas Jade Zumann plays 15-year-old Jamie and it’s through his eyes that we Fasten your seatbelt see the bohemian household over which his mother, Dorothea, holds uncertain dominion. There are two boarders, Abbie (Greta Gerwig), a purple-haired punk photographer, and William (Billy Crudup), a hippie handyman – and “A captivating Annette Bening is pushover for any woman who fancies the beating heart of this gloriously “A funny, emotionally him. Dorothea is unaware of a third unclassifiable movie… Part comedy piercing story about house guest, Julia (Elle Fanning), the girl of manners, part mother–son love next door whose propensity for chaste story, it had me laughing and tearing a teenager and the women sleepovers is driving Jamie insane. up simultaneously… Although Bening who raise him.” The plot is wafer-thin, but the joy of reigns supreme, Mills zigzags through — Manohla Dargis, NY Times A REGENT Tue 8 Aug, 7.00 pm 20th Century Women is in how these time and his characters’ lives with a B REGENT Fri 11 Aug, 10.45 am beautifully realised individuals bounce messy amplitude that is downright off each other and bring the joys, Renoiresque. Everyone has his reasons. ✪ SJ Gore Thu 17 Aug, 8.00 pm frustrations and fashions of 40 years Everyone has her say.” — Molly See p45 for details ago wafting into the present. Haskell, Sight & Sound A SJ Gore Sat 26 Aug, 8.00 pm
The Square Closing Night
We close our 41st edition with a blast, Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner, a sprawling, jaw-dropping satire, centred Director/Screenplay: Ruben Östlund on a Swedish museum curator (Claes Sweden/Germany/France/Denmark 2017 | 147 mins Bang), an exhibit, a stolen phone and Producers: Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober an American journalist (Elisabeth Moss). Photography: Fredrik Wenzel “The Square [is] a sardonic, darkly Editors: Ruben Östlund, Jacob Secher Schulsinger With: Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West, funny picture about a dashing Terry Notary, Christopher Laessø, Marina museum curator whose dysfunctional Schiptjenko, Elijandro Edouard, Daniel Hallberg, Martin Sööder institution is a microcosm of the Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 larger world. Can art, or the tools Palme d’Or (Best Film), Cannes Film Festival 2017 In English and Swedish, with English subtitles used to promote it, cross the bounds Censors rating tbc of moral responsibility? What does it take to jog the upper classes out PROUDLY SPONSORED BY of their comfortable insularity? The Square is both outlandishly funny and biting – and features a fascinating and sometimes disturbing performance by Terry Notary, the gifted actor and [Hobbit] movement choreographer.” — Stephanie Zacharek, Time organizing principle relating to the Find out more at “The Square is set in the rarefied chasm between the social faces we “Östlund’s eye for the reaches of Sweden’s art world, but wear and the self-interested creatures subtleties of human from that vantage point takes pot we really are. Snip by snip, in scenarios 2degreesbroadband.co.nz shots at marketing, the media, the dripping with acidly observed behavior, especially public Swedish culture of militant political discomfort, Östlund clips precisely behavior, never fails.” Proud sponsors of the World Strand correctness as well as the pretension, through the barbed-wire barrier — Emily Yoshida, Vulture self-deception, and pseudospeak of the fences of culture, sophistication and cultural elite… socialization that refined middle-class While the targets are many and modern humans erect between our Östlund, admirably, almost always public selves and our private, animal B REGENT Wed 23 Aug, 3.15 pm Fibre broadband not available everywhere. See 2degreesbroadband.co.nz for T&Cs punches up, there is a kind of natures.” — Jessica Kiang, The Playlist A REGENT Fri 25 Aug, 8.15 pm
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Faces Places Visages villages Centrepiece
88-year-old Agnès Varda, working in collaboration with the young photo- muralist JR, reminds us that big themes Directors/Screenplay: Agnès Varda, JR can live in small places – and that every France 2017 | 89 mins Photography: Claire Duguet, Nicolas Guicheteau, life yields something to celebrate. As Valentin Vignet, Romain Le Bonniec, the two travel across France, looking Raphael Minnesota, Roberto De Angelis, Julia Fabry Editors: Agnès Varda, Maxime Pozzi Garcia up old friends and creating artworks Music: M (Matthieu Chedid) from photographs of the people they With: Agnès Varda, JR meet, a friendship blossoms – and Festivals: Cannes (Out of Competition) 2017 In French with English subtitles with it a wonderful free flow of ideas Censors rating tbc and observations. “She is nearly 90; he is 34. She PROUDLY SPONSORED BY worked with Jean-Luc Godard; he looks like Jean-Luc Godard (and, much to Varda’s consternation, will similarly not take off his sunglasses). And yet, the movie is barely five minutes old before it’s clear that these two are a screen duo for the ages... Varda has always possessed a warm and compulsively watchable screen nearly 60-year career, this is one of presence, and the pint-sized iconoclast her most profoundly personal and “Serendipities fly as still has more pep in her step than exuberantly populist works. A tour cinema’s greatest most of us have ever had… JR is an de France that is both a romp and a absolute joy (and a mensch, to boot)… meditation on photography, cinema, gleaner goes rambling Teasing at times, quietly deferential and mortality, with brief appearances in the cine-van of magnum at others, he taps into his co-star’s by Mimi, the scene-stealing cat, it is muralist JR.” inherent sense of wonder and creates at once poetry and the naked truth, — Isabel Stevens, Sight & Sound A REGENT Thu 17 Aug, 6.15 pm a canvas big enough for her to fit all shape-shifting before one’s eyes, and B REGENT Wed 23 Aug, 11.00 am of the ideas that she’s still dying to promising ever more pleasure with project.” — David Ehrlich, Indiewire each viewing.” — Amy Taubin, Film B SJ Gore Thu 24 Aug, 11.00 am “In her magnificent, groundbreaking, Comment A SJ Gore Sat 26 Aug, 6.00 pm
Good Time Special Presentation
“This eyes-open-to-the-world NYC crime thriller from filmmaking brothers Benny and Josh Safdie is cocky, grubby Directors: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie and electric. It features Robert Pattinson USA 2017 | 100 mins Producers: Oscar Boyson, Sebastian Bear-McClard on top form as Connie, a quick-thinking Screenplay: Josh Safdie, Ronald Bronstein chancer who we first meet extracting Photography: Sean Price Williams his mentally challenged brother Nick Editors: Benny Safdie, Ronald Bronstein Music: Oneohtrix Point Never (Benny Safdie) from a therapy session With: Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, so they can spend the morning Jennifer Jason Leigh, Buddy Duress, Barkhad Abdi, Taliah Webster robbing a bank. Connie is violent and Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 dangerous, but he’s also quick-witted CinemaScope | R16 violence, offensive language, drug use & sex scenes and charismatic, so he’s teasingly fun and rewarding company – for us at PROUDLY SPONSORED BY least; not for those he meets… Once the Brooklyn bank job goes south the film stays on the move, running, punching, tumbling, stumbling over 24 hours as the fallout drags us through streets, vehicles, homes, jail, a hospital, a theme park and more. Racing through the gutter of the city, he’s quick and coarse yet he also lends it’s all shot in a scuzzy, real-world style, the character a glint in the eye and a “A riveting race-against- , although the photography by Sean spark in the brain – he’s always more time thriller with Price Williams also runs with a theme of than just bad. The Safdies are show-off neon and scarlet - and bathing some filmmakers, for sure – this is a directing a pounding heart.” scenes in brothel-red isn't the only tour de force. But what makes the — David Rooney, Hollywood thing here that nods to early Martin film more than just a hugely enjoyable Reporter Scorsese… It also boasts a terrific, thriller is that it so clearly has its eyes throbbing electronic score by Daniel on the world around it.” — Dave Lopatin, aka Oneohtrix Point Never. Calhoun, Time Out Pattinson is great in this, surely his A REGENT Fri 18 Aug, 8.30 pm best post-Twilight performance to date: B REGENT Tue 22 Aug, 3.45 pm BIG NIGHTS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 7
Human Traces Special Presentation
After imbuing horror tropes with Nic Gorman genuine feeling in his award-winning zombie short Here Be Monsters, Kiwi Director/Screenplay: Nic Gorman writer-director Nic Gorman brings New Zealand 2017 | 87 mins Producer: Nadia Maxwell a grounded human touch to his Photography: John Chrisstoffels feature debut. A knotty psychological Editor: Richard Shaw thriller set on an isolated subantarctic Music: Stephen Gallagher With: Sophie Henderson, Mark Mitchinson, island, Human Traces deftly pairs taut Vinnie Bennett, Sara Wiseman, Peter Daubè, suspense with slippery character study, Milo Cawthorne CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc refusing to let any of its players fall into simplistic archetypes. The drama takes place 750 kms south of New Zealand, where husband-and- wife scientist team Sarah (Sophie Henderson) and Glenn (Mark Mitchinson) have been posted to monitor the ecosystem of a remote island. When a mysterious stranger (Vinnie Bennett) arrives, paranoia and deception begin to disrupt the order. Splitting his film into three chapters, each told from a Bennett who shines most, lending his different character’s perspective, Gorman mysterious homme fatale a disarming “Human Traces tells a delights in disorienting his audience. naturalism. complex story on a big Each new act is designed to reassemble Beyond expertly deploying spilled the last: no sooner have you sided secrets, climactic confrontations and canvas… [It’s] about with one character than you find your washed-up corpses for dramatic humans and how they are allegiance complicated by the next effect, it’s Gorman’s understanding shaped by forces they can point of view. The tension builds from of the humanity within beneath the a trio of stellar performances, with each genre beats that grounds the film. be entirely oblivious to…” allowed equal time to thicken; national This gripping examination of human — Nic Gorman treasures Henderson and Mitchinson behaviour reminds us that everyone is A REGENT Wed 23 Aug, 8.00 pm do impressive work, but it’s newcomer only the hero of their own story. — JF B RIALTO Thu 24 Aug, 1.45 pm
The Killing of a Sacred Deer Special Presentation
This new movie by the Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, Dogtooth) is a meticulously wrought Director: Yorgos Lanthimos chiller, visiting the retribution of Ireland/UK 2017 | 125 mins Producers: Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos classical tragedy on a fatally flawed Screenplay: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou surgeon, played by Colin Farrell. Photography: Thimios Bakatakis “The rich vein of unsettling darkness Editor: Yorgos Mavropsaridis With: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, and psychological unease that ripples Raffey Cassidy, Sunny Suljic, Alicia Silverstone, like a treacherous underground stream Bill Camp Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 beneath the absurdist humour of Best Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival 2017 Yorgos Lanthimos' work becomes a Censors rating tbc brooding requiem of domestic horror in his masterfully realized fifth feature, The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Reaching back to classical Greek tragedy for inspiration, this hypnotic tale of guilt and retribution provides an even more riveting role for Colin Farrell after his collaboration on the director's English-language debut, The Lobster. He's flanked by a never- better Nicole Kidman and a performance who cares about bold filmmaking… of chilling effectiveness from emerging This is a movie that closes its grip “When absurdism feels Irish talent Barry Keoghan in a thriller on our fears by infinitesimal degrees, this wrong, you know it’s that frequently invites comparison to demonstrating that bone-deep, tightly vintage Polanski… clamped anxiety can be scarier than being done right.” The new film's grim scenario of screaming terror.” — David Rooney, — Robbie Colin, The Telegraph a family under dire threat will make Hollywood Reporter it hard for some to watch. But the “A film of clean hands, cold impressive rigor of its craft, the skilfully heart, and near-Satanic horror, it was subdued intensity of the acting and garlanded with boos at its Cannes press the startling originality of the story will screening and it is absolutely fucking A REGENT Thu 17 Aug, 8.15 pm make the film unmissable for anyone brilliant.” — Jessica Kiang, The Playlist B REGENT Fri 18 Aug, 3.45 pm 8 BIG NIGHTS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
Loveless Nelyubov Special Presentation
Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan) won the Cannes Jury Prize for his stark and gripping tale of a divorcing couple Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev caught in a missing-child procedural. Russia/France/Belgium/Germany 2017 128 mins “Andrey Zvyagintsev has produced Producers: Alexandre Rodnyansky, another masterpiece in this apocalyptic Serguey Melkumov study of a failed marriage and the Screenplay: Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev Photography: Mikhail Krichman subsequent disappearance of a child. Editor: Anna Mass Loveless is a stark, mysterious and Music: Evgeni Galperin With: Maryana Spivak, Alexey Rozin, terrifying story of spiritual catastrophe: Matvey Novikov, Marina Vasilyeva, a drama with the ostensible form of a Andris Keishs, Alexey Fateev Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 procedural crime thriller. It has a hypnotic Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival 2017 intensity and unbearable ambiguity In Russian with English subtitles which is maintained until the very end. 4K DCP | CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc This is a story of modern Russia whose people are at the mercy of implacable forces, a loveless world like a planet without the full means to support human life, a place where the ordinary need for survival has mutated or upgraded into an unending aspirational demand prepared for the crystalline perfection for status, money, freedom to find an of Russian genius Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Loveless is a tragic advantageous second marriage which style… There is no way to do the fairytale we can all brings a nice apartment, sex, luxury and film justice while also selling it as an the social media prerogative of selfies appealing way to spend two devastating believe in.” and self-affirmation. But all of it is hours. But Zvyaginstev’s skill as a — Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice underpinned, or overseen, by intensely filmmaker is such that as discomfiting conservative social norms of Christianity, as it is, it’s deeply compelling and conformism and nationalism.” — Peter immersive.” — Jessica Kiang, The Playlist Bradshaw, The Guardian “After four films, including the B REGENT Mon 21 Aug, 3.15 pm brilliant Leviathan, we are almost A REGENT Thu 24 Aug, 6.15 pm
Mountain Special Presentation
Australian filmmaker Jennifer Peedom Director: Jennifer Peedom follows her extraordinary Sherpa with a Australia 2017 | 74 mins giant screen celebration of the allure of Producers: Jennifer Peedom, Jo-anne McGowan Screenplay: Robert Macfarlane, Jennifer Peedom the mountains, created in collaboration Photography: Renan Ozturk with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Editors: Christian Gazal, Scott Gray Music: Richard Tognetti, the Australian Chamber Spectacular images, shot in 21 Orchestra countries by legendary mountaineer/ Narrator: Willem Dafoe Festivals: Sydney 2017 cinematographer Renan Ozturk (Meru, CinemaScope Sherpa) and others, have been cut together thematically to an orchestral score drawing on Chopin, Grieg, Vivaldi, Beethoven and new works by Richard Tognetti. The orchestra will perform live when the film tours Australia in August, but we’re delighted to have secured NZIFF big-screen engagements for the soundtracked version. Drawing from Robert Macfarlane’s book Mountain, read on the soundtrack by Willem Dafoe, the film considers the changes in humanity’s relationship to capture the exultant top-of-the-world mountains over recent times. Not so imagery that makes this film such an “To those who are long ago they represented the divine exhilarating experience. As Peedom enthralled by the and mysterious; to many indigenous offers us a jaw-dropping montage communities living on their flanks they of people throwing themselves off mountains, their wonder always will. By the time Hillary and precipices for the sheer thrill of it, is beyond all dispute. To Tenzing ascended Everest, mountains her film revels both in the dramatic those who are not, their had been colonised by the west and grandeur of the mountains and in the filled our imaginations as personal glorious irrationality which may be the allure is a kind of madness.” A REGENT Sun 20 Aug, 6.30 pm challenges to be overcome. only sane human response. — Robert Mcfarlane, Mountain B REGENT Wed 23 Aug, 1.15 pm That spirit of conquest may be hard to separate from the risks taken to A SJ Gore Tue 22 Aug, 6.15 pm BIG NIGHTS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 9
My Year with Helen Special Presentation
Gaylene Preston’s My Year with Gaylene Preston Helen delivers a fascinating portrait of Helen Clark on a mission – and a Director/Producer: Gaylene Preston laconic account of the exasperating New Zealand 2017 | 93 mins Co-producer: Catherine Madigan circumstances wherein she hit the glass Executive producer: Alexander Behse ceiling at the United Nations. Photography: Sam Russell, Colin Sonner, Early in the film the former PM spells Gaylene Preston Editor: Paul Sutorius out her primary professional objective: Music: Jan Preston find herself a job where she can “do With: Helen Clark Festivals: Sydney 2017 a power of good.” Keen to discover what that might look like in 2015, Preston followed Clark to Botswana in her position heading up the UN Development Programme. She didn’t know that in the year that followed Clark would also be campaigning for the position of secretary general. The election of the UN’s top official had once been so secretive that not even the candidates knew they were in the official running. For 2016 the UN singles out a wealth of clued-up announced that the contest would be commentators and shrewdly observes “We do have a way much more transparent. Considering multiple angles to the story. Nothing of women taking charge the organisation’s remits around gender anyone has to say is intended to equality, the time felt ripe for the first convince you that this was a transparent that a lot of other female SG in its 80-year history. process, or even, in fact, a race. nationalities don't.” The media love a horse race, and Clark is dignified and resilient in the — Gaylene Preston politicians, diplomats and feminist face of loss. She can always congratulate organisations were immediately abuzz herself on having had Preston on hand with speculation and opinion. Shuttling to mine her disappointing experience between a forthright Clark and UN and discover in it the fuel for future fire. A REGENT Sun 20 Aug, 1.00 pm briefings which reveal nothing, Preston B REGENT Mon 21 Aug, 10.30 am
The Other Side of Hope Toivon tuolla puolen Special Presentation
Aki Kaurismäki, Finland’s deadpan laureate of life at the bottom of the heap, responds to Europe’s refugee Director/Producer/Screenplay: crisis with a seriously funny film about Aki Kaurismäki Finland/Germany 2017 | 98 mins a young Syrian mechanic (soulful Photography: Timo Salminen Sherwan Haji) who finds his way into Editor: Samu Heikkilä Finland by stowing away on a container With: Sherwan Haji, Sakari Kuosmanen, Ilkka Koivula, Janne Hyytiäinen, Nuppu Koivu, ship full of coal. “Show me to the Kaija Pakarinen, Niroz Haji, Simon Hussein police station,” he asks the first person Al-Bazoon Festivals: Berlin, Sydney 2017 he meets, intending to take the legal Best Director, Berlin International Film Festival 2017 path to political asylum. “Are you In Finnish, English and Arabic, with English subtitles sure?” comes the reply. M violence The refugee is slowly drawn, by a newly flush (though hopelessly melancholic) entrepreneur, into life under the radar working and living in what is surely Finland’s dodgiest sushi restaurant. “It’s difficult to imagine anyone coming away from Aki Kaurismäki’s MALLA HUKKANEN gorgeous tragicomedy about the Not unlike the salted herring with refugee crisis in Europe, the challenges wasabi that gets served to a busload of “The warmest, most of the restaurant business and the unfortunate Japanese diners, this is a life-enhancing film I’ve rewards of self-reinvention without movie about foreign elements coming feeling gentle elation sparked by the together, whether it’s displaced Middle seen this year.” story’s evidence of human kindness Easterners fleeing atrocity in sleepy — Saskia Baron, The Arts Desk amid cruelty and indifference. This Scandinavia or two men from different is a world that reeks of cigarette worlds forging a mutually enriching smoke and cheap vodka, yet as always friendship that speaks of selfless in the work of Finland’s maestro of compassion without sentimentality.” droll melancholy, the perfume that — David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter B REGENT Thu 10 Aug, 4.00 pm lingers longest is empathy… A REGENT Sat 12 Aug, 6.15 pm 10
100 Men AOTEAROA
Paul Oremland* Director: Paul Oremland New Zealand 2017 94 mins Producer: Vincent Burke Photography: Owen Scurfield, Guy Quartermain, Fred Burns Editor: Stuart Boone Music: Karl Steven With: James, Mr Raglan, Chris the journalist, Richard the sailor Censors rating tbc
100 Men fast-tracks through 40 life. Their on/off-again romance gets years of gay history via a countdown major screen time, with Paul unpicking of filmmaker Paul Oremland’s most their decision to eschew monogamy for memorable shags. The significance an open relationship. The polyamorous of the 100 men varies, but all have life is a major talking point of the film. lingered in Paul’s mind for some small In the days before gay marriage seemed or, ahem, big reason. Most of the men even remotely possible, the rejection of feature only as a descriptive nickname; monogamy was a defining feature of some appear on camera. Although the gay culture, and the film explores the film does ask whether gay men are too effects it had on men’s lives. fixated on sex, Paul is more interested This thoughtful film looks forward in these men’s lives, emphasising the as much as it does back, leaving us to collective experience of the isolation of ponder the intricacies of gay identity growing up gay. today. — Chris Tse Paul recounts how a religious upbringing in New Zealand fuelled an inner struggle and how his first heartbreak led to a move to the UK. It’s A RIALTO Sat 19 Aug, 8.30 pm* there that he met John, the love of his B RIALTO Mon 21 Aug, 4.15 pm
NEW ZEALAND FILMS AT NZIFF ARE PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY Bill Direen: A Memory of Others
Simon Ogston Bill Direen
Foraging Director/Producer/Editor: Simon Ogston New Zealand 2017 87 mins Photography: Jeff Smith, NZIFF is proud to provide a big screen showcase Simon Ogston Music: Bill Direen With: Bill Direen, The Bilders, for striking work made within our own shores. Nick Bollinger, Steven Cogle, Marie Direen, David Eggleton, We are honoured in 2017 to host the first Ferocious, Hamish Kilgour screenings of Waru, an extraordinary and powerful Simon Ogston, director of invaluable his written work. His stops include collaboration by eight Ma¯ ori women filmmakers. documentaries about Philip Dadson homages to Janet Frame in Oamaru, and the Skeptics, has crafted a lively James K. Baxter in Jerusalem and NZIFF also provides the first New Zealand portrait of Bill Direen, one of New Michael Joseph Savage in Auckland. screenings of Toa Fraser’s 6 Days, fresh from its Zealand’s truly maverick voices. For over It’s a thoroughly engaging and 40 years, that voice has encompassed pleasurably cinematic trip through our UK World Premiere, and Nic Gorman’s Human poetry, rock music, theatre and long- geographical and cultural landscape, Traces (p7), direct from its NZIFF World Premiere form prose. A road movie following threaded with interviews and his first national tour in more than a material from Direen’s rich archive. much closer to home, in Christchurch. Documentary decade, A Memory of Others follows As stimulating as the man it profiles, filmmakers have brought us a record number Direen from Dunedin, to Christchurch, A Memory of Others is an in-depth to Wellington, to Auckland. In each exploration of his music and writing, of films about New Zealanders this year – and city he reunites with old bandmates providing a glimpse of our social history our two regular short film programmes shine or works with new collaborators to and current milieu through his eyes. produce a succession of strikingly as bright as ever. different performances. En route, Direen visits key locations from his past, telling stories and A RIALTO Sat 26 Aug, 5.45 pm giving spoken-word performances of A RIALTO Sun 27 Aug, 1.00 pm AOTEAROA 11
6 Days
Appearing the same year as his sports Director: Toa Fraser doco The Free Man (see below), this New Zealand/UK 2017 | 95 mins latest thriller from New Zealand’s most Producer: Matthew Metcalfe Screenplay: Glenn Standring versatile filmmaker, Toa Fraser, rounds Photography: Aaron Morton out his status as a serious action Editor: Dan Kircher Music: Lachlan Anderson director. Compellingly shaped by Glenn With: Jamie Bell, Abbie Cornish, Mark Strong, Standring’s excellent script, 6 Days tells Martin Shaw, Emun Elliot, Ben Turner, Aymen Hamdouchi, Tim Pigott-Smith, the true story of what happened when Robert Portal, Colin Garlick, Andrew Grainger, six heavily armed gunmen invaded the Martin Hancock Iranian embassy in London in April RP13 violence & offensive language 1980. With 26 people held hostage, the ordeal lasted for six nail-biting days as police, politicians and military wrestled over the best way to neutralise the threat. Policeman Max Vernon (a soulful Mark Strong) tries to reason with the terrorists through trust and negotiation, while Rusty Firmin (Jamie Bell) and a crack troop of SAS operatives prepare to handle the situation by these contrasting perspectives evenly, more aggressive means. As pressure Fraser etches out a refreshingly “There’s a very real to resolve the issue mounts, Fraser ambivalent position for the audience moral struggle… I don’t tautly builds toward the inevitable, the to observe from. film climaxing with a white-knuckle Especially in a year when the really think of the movie recreation of one of the most methods of our own special forces have in terms of heroes and audacious special forces raids in history. been put under scrutiny, Fraser’s film villains.” — Toa Fraser Amidst the action is BBC reporter comes as a timely examination of the Kate Adie (Abbie Cornish), the British moral fallout that comes with using journalist whose arresting live coverage force. — JF B RIALTO Fri 25 Aug, 4.15 pm of the event broke new ground for A RIALTO Sat 26 Aug, 8.15 pm television news reporting. In balancing A RIALTO Tue 29 Aug, 8.15 pm
The Free Man The Inland Road
Director: Toa Fraser Jackie van Beek New Zealand 2017 84 mins Director/Screenplay: Producer/Screenplay: Jackie van Beek Matthew Metcalfe New Zealand 2017 Photography: Andrew Stroud Editors: Chris Plummer, 80 mins Cushla Dillon, Bryn Evans Producer: Aaron Watson Music: Sean Donnelly Photography: Giovanni C. Lorusso With: Jossi Wells, The Flying Editors: Luca Cappelli, Tom Eagles Frenchies With: Gloria Popata, David Elliot, Chelsie Preston Crayford, Georgia Spillane, Jodie Hillock Festivals: Berlin 2017 CinemaScope | M drug use & offensive language
After his adrenalised te reo chase footage from the Flying Frenchies New Zealand audiences will probably situation, is played with subtle depth thriller The Dead Lands, New Zealand back-catalogue: human catapulting, know writer/director Jackie van Beek by newcomer Gloria Popata, alongside director Toa Fraser brings audiences a base-jumping from moving vehicles, as Pauline from Funny Girls, rather local farmer Will (David Elliot), his riveting examination of adrenaline itself and in one thrilling sequence, a slack- than as an internationally award- pregnant wife Donna (Chelsie Preston with his new sports documentary, The rope walk sans harness. Like a Red Bull winning short filmmaker. Van Beek’s Crayford) and their six-year-old niece Free Man. At once a white-knuckle sports movie by way of Werner Herzog, writing has a more poetic and serious Lily (Georgia Spillane). adventure film and ruminating spiritual Fraser’s film laces the action with bent, and in her first feature she turns The dramaturgy resists conventional inquiry, Fraser’s doco follows Kiwi rich existential contemplation: for his her attention to home and family, narrative choices to reach gentler yet world-champion freestyle skier Jossi daredevil heroes, toying with the void is focussing on mothering, daughters, resonant conclusions. It’s particularly Wells as he travels and trains with The not just recreation but a philosophical and the after-effects of romantic enjoyable to see female characters Flying Frenchies, a troupe of extreme- position. Not since Man on Wire has and sexual encounters. show such sensitivity, complexity and sport eccentrics who specialise in an the psyche of the adrenaline-junkie The cinematography by Giovanni empathy. An anticipated and enjoyable array of breathtaking vertiginous stunts. been plumbed so grippingly. — JF C. Lorusso boasts the rugged farm debut feature. — Jo Randerson With no experience whatsoever, landscapes of Central Otago, strikingly Wells learns to cross a rope suspended captured in natural light. These between two trees and works his way spacious landscapes contrast with up to traversing the perilous peaks of A REGENT Mon 21 Aug, 8.15 pm hand-held close-ups of the superb the French Alps. Supplying the rest of naturalistic performances. Teenage A REGENT Wed 16 Aug, 8.00 pm the thrills is a surfeit of heart-stopping A SJ Gore Mon 21 Aug, 8.15 pm Tia, on the run from a disrupted family B RIALTO Thu 17 Aug, 1.45 pm 12 AOTEAROA
Kobi
In a modest workshop in a beautiful Andrea Bosshard Central Otago landscape, Swiss Shane Loader* goldsmith Kobi Bosshard, approaching Directors/Producers/Photography: 80 and widely regarded as the Andrea Bosshard, Shane Loader New Zealand 2017 | 103 mins grandfather of contemporary New Editor: Shane Loader Zealand jewellery, continues to produce Music: Plan 9 works of classic simplicity and elegance. With: Kobi Bosshard, Patricia Bosshard-Browne, Trixie Woodill, Peter McKay Daughter Andrea Bosshard’s lucid In English and German, with English subtitles and loving film portrait of her father – and of her mother, Patricia, too – is one of the year’s loveliest films, a lyrical evocation of rich, unhurried life. Kobi moved to New Zealand in the early 60s, with goldsmithing in his blood. The ethos of the hippie era may have enabled his choice of profession, but there’s no mistaking the work ethic or quiet single-mindedness underlying his subsequent life of creativity. Super 8 home movies brim with flowers and sunny days and evince an An abundance of jewellery is idyllic view of a fresh landscape and a alluringly displayed for the camera. “The work we do comes out young family in the New World. Plentiful The beauty of a lifetime’s work is of the life we live, archival footage reminds us of the days proclaimed by a succession of true when TV broadcasters covered the arts, experts: women and a few men who so we have to have a while readings from family letters take speak eloquently about the pieces by life to start with.” us into the heart of the family. This Kobi they have worn and treasured. — Kobi Bosshard may be a very personal history, but it’s It seems unlikely that Bosshard set out A REGENT Sun 13 Aug, 2.45 pm* perfectly pitched for an audience of to recruit new customers for her father, B REGENT Mon 14 Aug, 11.15 am* strangers: the filmmaker inscribes her but be warned, you may leave this own presence in the inspiring story of gentle tribute to the simple life with B SJ Gore Wed 23 Aug, 11.00 am her parents’ lives with unusual grace. a hankering to shop. A SJ Gore Sun 27 Aug, 3.00 pm AOTEAROA 13
No Ordinary Sheila
If you haven’t already heard of Sheila Hugh Macdonald Natusch, prepare to be inspired. The Christine Dann* life story of this nonagenarian natural Director: Hugh Macdonald historian, illustrator and writer is a New Zealand 2017 | 98 mins Producer/Screenplay: Christine Dann beautiful, truly Antipodean journey, Photography: Richard Mekalick, Hugh Macdonald, made with love by her nephew and Graeme Moffatt, Dave McCarlie, Ivars Berzins, Tim Butters, Dave Asher, Ben Gustavson, long-time Kiwi filmmaker, Hugh Mary Khanna, Steve Pearce, Vanessa Carruthers, Macdonald (This is New Zealand). Kate Le Comte Born in 1926 on Rakiura (Stewart Editor: Abi King-Jones Narrator: Phil Darkins Island) to the Traill family, Sheila’s early With: Sheila Natusch, Kim Hill, Susan Hamel, childhood memories include a near- Dinah Priestley, Shaun Barnett, Ken Scadden, Andy Dennis, Euan Macdonald, Mark Gee, drowning at the hands of schoolmates Maraea Kiel, Gary Kiel – this and other life misfortunes she shrugs off casually. Growing up in the deep south led to an adventurous resilience which saw her climb multiple mountains, cycle from Picton to Bluff and write dozens of groundbreaking natural history books, including her magnum opus, Animals of New Zealand. stints at the National Library and Featuring beautiful historic footage Correspondence School. “You just get on with it. You of the lower south in the 30s and 40s, Viewers will love this radiant, defiant can’t go under. There are this film offers fascinating glimpses into and unconventional life story which life as one of few female students at ranges from the southern wilds to the such people, but I Otago University, and covers Sheila’s rugged Wellington coastline, where am not one of them.” friendship with Janet Frame and their Sheila still lived until very recently, — Sheila Natusch B REGENT Thu 17 Aug, 10.30 am* subsequent and unsuccessful foray without car, TV, lipstick or alcohol, A REGENT Sat 19 Aug, 1.00 pm* into teaching. Moving to Wellington planning to “get the last bit of fun out Special Senior Price of $6.00 in the 50s saw Sheila and husband of life that there is.” — Jo Randerson applies to screening on Tues 17 Aug Gilbert Natusch take up residence in Owhiro Bay, while she had professional A SJ Gore Thu 24 Aug, 6.15 pm
Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web Spookers
Director: Florian Habicht Annie Goldson* New Zealand/Australia Director: Annie Goldson 2017 | 82 mins New Zealand 2017 Producers: Nick Batzias, 112 mins Lani-rain Feltham, Suzanne Walker, Virginia Whitwell Producer: Alexander Behse Screenplay: Florian Habicht, Peter With: Kim Dotcom, Mona O’Donoghue, Veronica Gleeson Dotcom, Glenn Greenwald, Photography: Grant Adams Lawrence Lessig, Gabriella Editor: Peter O’Donoghue Coleman, Jimmy Wales, Jonathan Music: Marc Chesterman Taplin, Greg Sandoval, Sean Festivals: Hot Docs, Sydney 2017 Gallagher, Mike Masnick, Moby M adult themes Festivals: SXSW, Hot Docs 2017 spookers.com
Kim Dotcom has become such a entrepreneur. He attracts the attention Zombie brides, baby-killing banshees camaraderie or reinforcement as in familiar part of New Zealand’s media of Hollywood bosses bent not just and psycho-killer clowns are all family letting their demonic fantasies run riot. and cultural furniture that it is easy to upon disabling a website awash in Florian Habicht’s fanciful and funny Bringing in his own art department forget the jaw-dropping astonishment with pirated content, but sending a documentary portrait of Spookers, the and some cute lo-fi effects, Habicht of the dawn raid on 20 January 2012, resounding message to those who popular theme park occupying the casts their horror-show personae in when 76 officers swarmed upon the might seek to emulate his business. former Kingseat Psychiatric Hospital. florid dream scenarios. Former patients German internet mogul’s mansion, In documenting the drama – court Ex-sheep farmers Beth and Andy worry that Spookers promotes the bounding from helicopters, armed to tussles, scraps with John Key, the Watson along with daughter Julia unhelpful notion that psychiatric the teeth. Internet Party, the ‘Moment of Truth’ are the down-to-earth proprietors illness is a terrifying thing, but there In the definitive filmed account – Goldson resists any temptation to of the sprawling destination where seems little doubt for Habicht or the of the saga to date, Annie Goldson extol or excoriate, while underscoring, multifarious fiends lie in wait to scare current inhabitants: Kingseat under (Brother Number One) delivers a jolting beyond the political circus and the bejeezus out of tens of thousands the Watsons’ watch is better for the reminder of the legal, political and braggadocio, just how pivotal this case of screaming customers every year. nation’s mental health than it ever was personal upheavals ignited by the US is in the internet age. — Toby Manhire In Habicht’s enchanted view the before. government’s attempt to extradite Watsons run a family business in Dotcom and colleagues for copyright- more senses than one. The actors he A REGENT Wed 9 Aug, 8.15 pm related offences. It begins with the interviews have never had as much B REGENT Tue 15 Aug, 4.15 pm formative years: convicted hacker turns A RIALTO Mon 14 Aug, 7.45 pm* entertainment in their lives as creating security consultant turns file-sharing B RIALTO Wed 16 Aug, 1.45 pm havoc as Spookers, nor found such A SJ Gore Sat 19 Aug, 8.00 pm
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Waru
A sisterhood of Māori female directors Guests bravely share their insights into the complexity of child abuse, in a sequence Directors: Briar Grace-Smith, of eight short films that seamlessly Casey Kaa, Ainsley Gardiner, Katie Wolfe, Chelsea Cohen, become one. At the centre of their Renae Maihi, Paula Jones, stories is Waru, a boy killed at the Awanui Simich-Pene hands of a caregiver. His tangi, set on New Zealand 2017 | 88 mins a small rural marae, is the centrepiece Producers: Kerry Warkia, Kiel McNaughton of the film, but there is an underlying Screenplay: Briar Grace-Smith, Casey Kaa, Ainsley Gardiner, Katie Wolfe, disturbance of heavy themes touching Chelsea Cohen, Renae Maihi, Paula Jones, on culture, custom and shame. Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu Photography: Drew Sturge We see a single death through With: Tanea Heke, Roimata Fox, Ngapaki Moetara, the differing lenses of the extended Awhina-Rose Ashby, Maria Walker, Kararaina Rangihau, Acacia Hapi, family, community, and in one sharp Antonio Te Maioha, Miriama McDowell, sequence, national media too. Waru Amber Curreen, Merehake Maaka In English and Māori, with English subtitles weaves multiple reactions and offers Censors rating tbc a glimpse into the events that ensue upon the killing of a child and the conflict created among loved ones. As Waru’s grandmothers, Kararaina Rangihau and Merehake Maaka deliver powerful in challenging roles, which electrifying performances, demonstrating left me questioning if I would have the “When a child is killed their skill in the art of karanga. As same courage to intervene. every five weeks there their wailing and laments call on their The subject could hardly be heavier, ancestors to safely take their mokopuna, but this is a hugely important film. is no other way to tackle a challenge for his body unfolds. Unless we are willing to be tested, abuse other than Māori humour isn’t absent, and we have no chance of reducing our confronting it, head on.” neither are the subtexts within the shameful child abuse rate here in banter, leaving me to wonder if our Aotearoa. It’s a film everyone in the — Mihingarangi Forbes ability to laugh in times of sorrow is family should see and talk about. a cloak to mask our pain. Antonio Te — Mihingarangi Forbes, Māori Issues B RIALTO Tue 22 Aug, 3.45 pm Maioha and Miriama McDowell are Correspondent, RNZ/The Hui A RIALTO Tue 22 Aug, 7.45 pm
Swagger of Thieves TEAM TIBET: Home away from Home
Director/Producer/ Director/Producer: Photography: Robin Greenberg Julian Boshier New Zealand 2017 New Zealand 2017 160 mins 110 mins Photography: Waka Attewell, Editor: Eddie Larsen Costa Botes, John Chrisstoffels, With: Nigel ‘Booga’ Beazley, Ruth Korver, Chris Li, the Tibetan Nigel Regan, Andrew Durno, Audio Visual Section Mark Hamill, Tom Watson, Editor: Peter Metcalf Mike Franklin-Browne, With: Thuten Kesang, Andrew Ashton, Tamzin Beazley Tenzin Atisha, the Dalai Lama Colour and B&W | R16 drug use & In English and Tibetan, offensive language with English subtitles
FAIRFAX MEDIA NZ / SUNDAY STAR-TIMES Any band as theatrically confrontational disgruntled, others with their gruntle Filmed over a period of 22 years by recounting his own personal history as Head Like a Hole is going to have a still intact. Wellington filmmaker Robin Greenberg or outlining the environmental and story worth telling. Swagger of Thieves Studded through the film are (Huloo, The Free China Junk), TEAM political implications of China’s director Julian Boshier has worked for performances by the band in all TIBET provides a thorough and inspiring occupation of its ‘Western Treasure a decade on this film. He has earned their cock-wobbling, floor pounding, account of Tibetan culture in exile House’. A vital point of contact for the the trust and respect of Nigel ‘Booga’ propulsive and preposterous glory. through the experience and advocacy international exile community, as the Beazley and Nigel Regan, the ever- Whether you come as a fan of of the delightful Thuten Kesang, Dalai Lama himself is happy to testify, collapsing binary stars who are the guts the music, as a fan of solid filmmaking, New Zealand’s first Tibetan refugee. he’s been a tireless advocate too for of any HLAH line up. or as a bystander wondering what Having run away from the monastery multicultural visibility in Auckland. Boshier finds the two men staring all the noise is about, you’ll be seeing as a child, he was sent by his father to Greenberg summons up a multitude down the age with belligerence, one of the most intelligently assembled school in India in 1954, where he was of admirers, leaving us in no doubt vulnerability, shamelessness and and truthfully told documentaries raised by Scottish Presbyterians. Unable at all that her film is a labour of love, honesty. There is no legacy polishing New Zealand has produced. — Graeme to return to Tibet after his parents richly deserved. here, and no one’s feelings are spared. Tuckett were arrested in the wake of the 1959 Alongside the Nigels we meet Tamzin uprising, he’s been a fully committed Beazley, holding together a family in Kiwi since 1967, without ever losing his the face of Booga’s occasional flailing defining Tibetan identity. darkness. Band members emerge in Charismatic and funny, he’s a A RIALTO Sat 12 Aug, 1.30 pm various iterations – some wounded and A REGENT Thu 24 Aug, 9.00 pm marvellous storyteller, whether B RIALTO Fri 18 Aug, 11.00 am AOTEAROA 15
MADMAN ENTERTAINMENT New Zealand’s Best 2017 JURY PRIZE 75 mins approx. | Censors rating tbc
For this year’s New Zealand’s Best short Do No Harm Thicket Waiting film competition, NZIFF programmers NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Roseanne Liang NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Julian Vares NZ 2016 | Director: Amberley Jo Aumua Bill Gosden and Michael McDonnell Producer: Hamish Mortland | Photography: Andrew Producer: Craig Gainsborough | Photography: Eoin Screenplay: Samuel Kamu | Photography: Greer viewed 83 submissions to make a McGeorge | Editor: Tom Eagles | With: Marsha Yuan, O’Liddigh | Editor: Richard Lord | With: Tim Hamilton, Lindsay | Editor: Huhana Ruri-Panapa Jacob Tomuri | Festivals: Sundance 2017 | 12 mins Peter Tait, Albertine Jonas | 16 mins With: Desmond Malakai, Casta-Troy Cocker-Lemailie shortlist of 12 from which filmmaker 12 mins Gaylene Preston selected these six A doctor abides by her Hippocratic A farmboy is inspired to stand-up to oath even when violent gangsters his overbearing father. In the classic Two boys wait outside a dairy for a finalists. A jury of three will select phone call. An outstanding student the winner of the $5,000 Madman interrupt her surgery. Female power NZ rural tradition marked by excellent rendered extreme by a director performances. film set in a harsh world so rarely Entertainment Jury Prize, while a presented with such charm married $3,000 Wallace Friends of the Civic successfully stretching her muscles in every direction. Untitled Groping with a sharp aesthetic eye for raw Award will be awarded by donors, the truth. Wallace Foundation and Wallace Media Revenge Fairytale Laundry NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Catherine Bisley Ltd, to the film or contributor to a film NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Becs Arahanga Producer: William Bisley | Photography/Editor: Paul The Dregs they deem to merit special recognition. Producers: Julian Arahanga, Kath Akuhuata-Brown Wedel | With: Loren Taylor | 9 mins NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Matt Campbell The winner of the audience vote takes Photography: Chris Mauger Editor: Luke Evans With: Producer: Annabel Carr | Photography: Clayton Aidee Walker, Jarod Rawiri | 11 mins A woman pitches a tent on the edge Carpinter | Editor: Jeremy Masters | With: Eamonn Tee, away the Audience Choice Award, of a forest and starts to collect men. A Shayla Crombie, Florence Noble | 15 mins A frustrated mum struggles to find consisting of 25 percent of the box most satisfying piece of wry feminist intimacy while raising a young family. A teenage misfit starts a band only office from the main-centre NZIFF myth making that makes me want to A real woman’s sexy adventure to lose control to the school bully. screenings. Gaylene’s comments on see a lot more from this director. I cannot believe this director was each film appear in italics. elevating domestic life and putting the poems of Hone Tuwhare in a place not not born in 1975! A tribute to high usually found! school bands, the Gordons and what elevation from dorkhood a guitar can accomplish.
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DO NO HARM LAUNDRY UNTITLED GROPING REVENGE FAIRYTALE
PRESENTED IN Nga¯ Whanaunga Ma¯ori Pasifika Shorts 2017 ASSOCIATION WITH 91 mins approx. | M violence & sex scenes | In English, Maˉori, New Zealand Sign Language and Tongan, with English subtitles
A collection of Māori and Pasifika Natalie Lady Eva Tree short films curated by Leo Koziol NZ 2016 | Director/Screenplay: Qianna Titore Tonga/USA 2017 | Directors: Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Lauren Jackson (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rakaipaaka), Producer: Eloise Veber | 9 mins Producer: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu | 11 mins Producers: Andrew Cochrane, Jeremy Macey | 16 mins Director of the Wairoa Māori Film A Māori girl receives a precious A young trans woman becomes her A young woman with a shameful Festival, with guest co-curator Craig waiata composed by her deceased true self. Being fakaleiti in Tonga is secret hides out from friends and Fasi (Niue), Director of the Pollywood grandfather. In this story from a challenge – but there’s a beauty family in a massive tree. A lonely tree Film Festival. Curators’ comments on Hokianga, tragedy strikes but there is pageant where your star can shine no in a crowded city becomes the symbol each film appear in italics. hope in a new beginning. — CF matter who you are. — LK for a young Tongan woman's personal journey, and a family that loves her no Tama Sunday Fun Day matter what. — LK Mannahatta NZ 2017 | Directors: Jared Flitcroft, Jack O’Donnell NZ 2016 | Director/Screenplay: Dianna Fuemana NZ 2017 | Director/Producer/Screenplay: Renae Maihi Producer: Ashleigh Flynn | Screenplay: Jared Flitcroft, Producer: Jay Ryan | 15 mins Possum 15 mins Jack O’Donnell, David Hansen | 9 mins A teenager and a solo mum prepare to NZ 2016 | Director/Screenplay: Dave Whitehead An ancient spirit tries to send a A deaf Māori boy feels isolated from have their own fun on a Sunday. Tiger Producers: Sadie Wilson, Paul Murphy | 15 mins message to a recent immigrant in the his family but draws strength from knows exactly how the world looks at Two brothers hatch a plan to head into city that never sleeps. Stones are the performing the haka. Having reminders her, but still fights to be accepted by the woods and hunt for a notorious symbol of burden – a burden that of what is important is a necessity. her peers. Acceptance in this case is to possum named Scar. Step back to the needs an open heart to carry and put Forgetting what’s important may cost be left alone without question. — CF 70s in this fantastical Oˉ taki-filmed to rest. — CF you your life. — CF story of two Maˉori boys growing up in the wild world of Wairoa. — LK
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That’s Not Me WORLD
Director: Gregory Erdstein Australia 2017 | 86 mins Screenplay: Gregory Erdstein, Alice Foulcher Photography: Shelley Farthing-Dawe Editor: Ariel Shaw Music: Nicholas Pollock With: Alice Foulcher, Isabel Lucas, Richard Davies, Belinda Misevski, Rowan Davie, Andrew Gilbert, Catherine Hill, Lloyd Allison-Young, Janine Watson, Steve Mouzakis Festivals: Sydney 2017 M sex scenes, offensive language & drug use
Melbourne director Gregory Erdstein Let’s just say she does not always and co-writer/star Alice Foulcher have correct those who mistake her for the created a sassy, slyly sympathetic real actress in the family. Polly’s sorry satire of celebrity dreams in this neatly world is amusingly filled out by a wryly proportioned debut feature. Polly funny ensemble, including Isabel Lucas (Foulcher) can’t remember when as a spaced-out compatriot with one she didn’t fantasise about being an toe firmly placed on the Hollywood acclaimed actress, and she’s already ladder; Richard Davies as a self-styled turned down daytime TV to prove it. guru of Melbourne fringe theatre; and So it’s a rude shock when her identical Catherine Hill and Andrew Gilbert twin sister Amy (Foulcher again), as doting stage parents, eager to showing no such qualms, steps from fill scrapbooks with reports of their Aussie soap to HBO kudos and starts daughters’ stellar achievements. dating Jared Leto. Polly’s desperate measures are best WORLD FILMS AT NZIFF ARE left to the film to divulge, but they PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY put her firmly in line with the unruly young women driving such era-defining B REGENT Thu 24 Aug, 2.00 pm comedies as Bridesmaids and Girls. A REGENT Fri 25 Aug, 6.15 pm
Maudie
Director: Aisling Walsh Canada/Ireland 2016 115 mins Screenplay: Sherry White Photography: Guy Godfree With: Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Kari Matchett, Gabrielle Rose, Zachary Bennett, Billy MacLellan Festivals: Toronto, Vancouver 2016; Berlin, San Francisco, Sydney 2017 People’s Choice Award, Vancouver International Film Festival 2016 PG violence & sex scenes Help yourself to our pick of the features “The life of legendary Canadian folk Undaunted by his curmudgeonly artist Maud Lewis is painted in exquisite nature, she’s inspired by the natural we have encountered in a year of intense detail in this impeccably acted, incredibly splendour surrounding their hovel to engagement with international cinema. affecting biopic. At the beating heart take up a paint brush. Operating with of Aisling Walsh’s film is Sally Hawkins no preconceptions of what ‘art’ should We do what we can to cover many bases, (Happy-Go-Lucky) who not only be, her charmingly unsophisticated, while always insisting on that certain captures the contorted physicality of uniquely one-dimensional paintings this self-taught painter, who contended strike a chord with tastemakers… indefinable quality. We pay attention too, with rheumatoid arthritis, but also Her exuberance proves infectious.” to the films lavished with praise or box exudes the creative spirit raging within — Vancouver International Film Festival her despite her debilitated frame. office success in their countries of origin. The film’s backdrop is undeniably cinematic: the rugged beauty and expansive vistas of 1930s Nova Scotia. Likewise, its primary setting is A REGENT Mon 14 Aug, 6.15 pm unspeakably intimate: the comically B REGENT Tue 22 Aug, 11.00 am tiny one-room house that Maud shares with misanthropic fish peddler Everett B SJ Gore Fri 25 Aug, 11.00 am (Ethan Hawke)… A SJ Gore Sat 26 Aug, 3.30 pm
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A Fantastic Woman Una mujer fantástica
Chilean director Sebastián Lelio follows his marvellous Gloria (2013) with another resoundingly affirmative Director: Sebastián Lelio portrait of a marginalised woman Chile/USA/Germany/Spain 2017 105 mins holding her ground. Santiago bar singer Producers: Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, Marina Vidal, played by the sensational Sebastián Lelio, Gonzalo Maza trans actress Daniela Vega in her screen Screenplay: Sebastián Lelio, Gonzalo Maza Photography: Benjamín Echazarreta debut, is headstrong, vivacious and Editor: Soledad Salfate happily in love. When her lover dies, Music: Matthew Herbert With: Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Marina finds herself, a trans woman Aline Küppenheim, Nicolás Saavedra, living with an older man, immediately Amparo Noguera, Néstor Cantillana, Alejandro Goic, Antonia Zegers, Sergio Hernandez suspected of foul play. Festivals: Berlin 2017 The labyrinth of transphobia Marina Best Screenplay, Berlin International Film Festival 2017 must navigate is galling to behold, In Spanish with English subtitles because every insidious blow seems so CinemaScope | M violence, offensive language familiar and credible. It’s in the way & sex scenes Marina registers the humiliations without allowing them to bring her down that Lelio’s film constantly surprises and Vega’s performance enthrals. “While it’s politically charged and hypnotic scene where Marina is forced very much of the moment in terms to pass as a man. Vega even does her “It may be a timely film, of its representation of trans-rights own singing, with impressive ability. No but it is its timelessness, as issues, what’s perhaps most remarkable less than Paulina García’s astonishing is that not a word of direct advocacy work in Gloria, this is acting at its most well as its depths is spoken. Any trace of the agenda fearless. The movie represents a huge of compassion, that qualify movie is deftly subsumed in pulsing leap in terms of trans narratives it as a great one.” human drama… onscreen, but by any standard, it’s a A RIALTO Sun 20 Aug, 1.45 pm — Ryan Gilbey, The Guardian The movie’s stunning revelation, powerful drama of a woman whose B RIALTO Thu 24 Aug, 11.45 am however, is Vega…. It’s a transfixing suffering never dims her determination A RIALTO Wed 30 Aug, 6.15 pm performance, restrained and moving, to keep moving forward.” — David with a gut-wrenching impact in one Rooney, Hollywood Reporter A SJ Gore Thu 24 Aug, 8.15 pm
Frantz Heal the Living Réparer les vivants
Director: Katell Quillévéré France/Belgium 2016 Director: François Ozon 103 mins France/Germany 2016 Screenplay: Katell Quillévéré, 114 mins Gilles Taurand. Based on the novel by Maylis de Kerangal Screenplay: François Ozon, Philippe Photography: Tom Harari Piazzo. Loosely based on the film Editor: Thomas Marchand Broken Lullaby by Ernst Lubitsch Music: Alexandre Desplat With: Pierre Niney, Paula Beer With: Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Festivals: Venice, Toronto, San Seigner, Anne Dorval Sebastián, Vancouver, London, Festivals: Venice, Toronto, London Busan 2016; Sundance 2017 2016; Rotterdam, 2017 Best Young Actress (Paula Beer), In French with English subtitles Venice Film Festival 2016 CinemaScope | M graphic medical | B&W and Colour CinemaScope procedures PG violence
In a small German town, in the shooting on 35mm and largely in One family’s tragedy offers the hope than her previous works Suzanne aftermath of WWI, young Anna black and white, director François of renewed life for another in this and Love Like Poison, this spidering mourns her fiancé Frantz who died in Ozon couches his elegiac tale in exquisitely modulated drama pivoting ensemble piece – adapted from the trenches. One day a French soldier, the formal poise of an earlier era’s on the delicate advocacy of a hospital’s Maylis de Kerangal’s internationally Adrien (Pierre Niney, surely the leading ‘quality’ historical drama. There’s one organ transplant team. Eschewing acclaimed 2014 novel – boasts French screen actor of his generation), distinctive difference: as always for melodrama and sentimentality, Katell beautifully pitched performances from arrives and lays flowers at Frantz’s Ozon, the film’s title notwithstanding, Quillévéré evokes the momentous a handpicked cast that includes Tahar grave. In the war-battered community it is the complex journey of the female forces at play for each of the key Rahim and Emmanuelle Seigner. But passions run high at the effrontery of protagonist that most engages him. participants with emotional clarity it’s Quillévéré’s soaring visual and sonic the Frenchman. Among those most Tracing Anna’s return to the world and weighs the transference of life in acumen (with an assist from composer affected is Anna, who decides to get of the living, actress Paula Beer is a passages of sheer cinematic exaltation. Alexandre Desplat, here in matchless to know the sad young stranger. As revelation. “What sounds like fodder for a form) that suffuses a potentially she draws him out about his pre-war routinely gripping episode of ER is familiar hospital weeper with true friendship with Frantz in Paris, our complicated with rare depths of grace.” — Guy Lodge, Variety picture of their generation struggling personal and sensual detail in French to recover after the betrayals of war B REGENT Thu 17 Aug, 1.30 pm director Katell Quillévéré’s sublimely deepens and takes unexpected turns. A REGENT Tue 22 Aug, 6.15 pm compassionate, heart-crushing third A RIALTO Sun 13 Aug, 1.45 pm Expanding on the plot of a little feature Heal the Living. More polished B RIALTO Mon 21 Aug, 2.15 pm remembered Lubitsch film from 1932, A SJ Gore Sat 19 Aug, 5.30 pm but no less authentically humane A RIALTO Thu 24 Aug, 6.15 pm 18 WORLD FRANCE
BPM (Beats Per Minute) 120 battements par minute
The personal and the political are as vitally connected as the chicken and the egg in Robin Campillo’s moving and Director/Screenplay/Editor: inspiring Cannes Grand Prix winner. Robin Campillo France 2017 | 144 mins The writer/director draws on his own Producers: Hugues Charbonneau, experience as a member of AIDS activist Marie-Ange Luciani organisation ACT UP in 90s Paris, Photography: Jeanne Lapoirie Music: Arnaud Rebotini embedding an intimately observed love With: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, story within a vivid evocation of the Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz, Félix Maritaud, Ariel Borenstein, Aloïse Sauvage, Simon Bourgade, dynamics of radical protest. Médhi Touré, Simon Guélat, Coralie Russier Hunky Arnaud Valois plays Nathan, Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 Grand Prix, Cannes Film Festival 2017 a wary, HIV-negative newcomer to the In French with English subtitles movement who falls for firecracker CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc Sean (incandescent Argentinean actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart), HIV-positive and irresistibly impatient with the group’s more pragmatic leadership. Campillo wrote Laurent Cantet’s The Class and this year’s The Workshop (p19). His skill for catching the currents of a CELINE NIESZAWER group discussion is as persuasive as ever. The film’s political and moral weight The issues that once exercised ACT UP should not overshadow the artistry of “A slice-of-life look at a take on clear and present life in 2017 as its design, nor the quiet profundity of time in history that feels the young activists brainstorm, strategise its unreserved and admirable approach dramatic interventions and storm the to gay intimacy. Campillo has given incredibly urgent in institutions that would let them die. his movie the breath of true life. It today’s torn-up world.” “It’s both devastating and heartening grieves and triumphs and haunts with — Nikola Grozdanovic, The Playlist to watch, these horrifyingly young abounding grace and understanding, people bravely confronting vast and its heartbeat thumping with genuine, seemingly unmovable systems… while undeniable resonance.” — Richard attending to their own fears, their own Lawson, Vanity Fair B REGENT Wed 9 Aug, 3.15 pm fragile mortality… A REGENT Fri 11 Aug, 8.30 pm
Happy End Let the Sunshine In Un beau soleil interieur
Director/Screenplay: Director: Claire Denis Michael Haneke France 2017 | 94 mins France/Germany/Austria Screenplay: Claire Denis, 2017 | 110 mins Christine Angot Photography: Agnès Godard Photography: Christian Berger Music: Stuart A. Staples Editor: Monika Willi With: Juliette Binoche, Xavier With: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Beauvois, Philippe Katerine, Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Alex Descas, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Fantine Harduin, Toby Jones Gérard Depardieu Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ 2017 Fortnight) 2017 In French with English subtitles In French with English subtitles Censors rating tbc Censors rating tbc
Happy End sees Michael Haneke, grim satire that skewers the isolation A radiant Juliette Binoche absorbs our who, one way or another, come on Austria’s micro-surgeon of European of modern technology and the moral attention through every moment of to her. decadence, in black comic mode, failings of polite society with a grave this unexpected foray into romantic There’s wry comedy in Isabelle’s applying his scalpel to a rich Calais face. Haneke has assembled a stellar dramedy by the great French director impatience to cut to the unspoken family, the Laurents, who own a cast to illustrate all this, including a Claire Denis. This is comedy in a specific intent in their blandishments, though construction company and cohabit typically laser-focused Isabelle Huppert literary mode, written by Denis in the delight of consummation – so uneasily in separate apartments housed as the head of the family company, her collaboration with the novelist and empathetically evoked by Denis, one within a luxurious estate. Amour co-star Jean-Louis Trintignant playwright Christine Angot. A leading of the cinema’s great sensualists – is “A series of unfortunate events – an as the family’s senile, fatalist patriarch, light of the ‘autofiction’ movement, likely to be followed by bemusement overdose (or was it?), a wall collapse and a striking Fantine Harduin as Ève, Angot is famous for the frankness or dismay until she rallies for the next on a job site, a suicide attempt – sends a young scion of the family who may with which she has placed her own suitor. the family spinning, and Haneke be the most dangerous one of all.” emotional life on the printed page. “A series of richly human encounters mines strange comedy out of the — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair Binoche plays the Angot surrogate, that flow, meander and pulse with life.” Laurents’ relatively emotionless, passive Isabelle, a Parisian artist, recently — Justin Chang, LA Times reactions… divorced from the father of her Happy End is as amusingly ten-year-old daughter. Alone and inscrutable and coy about its themes unleashed, she remains undaunted in A RIALTO Fri 25 Aug, 6.15 pm as his masterful 2005 creeper Caché B REGENT Tue 15 Aug, 1.45 pm her yearning to connect sexually and A RIALTO Mon 28 Aug, 8.00 pm was. But Happy End is a wryer work, a A REGENT Sun 20 Aug, 4.00 pm romantically with a succession of men B RIALTO Tue 29 Aug, 11.15 am FRANCE WORLD 19
The Midwife Sage femme
Two of France’s most distinguished Director/Screenplay: Martin Provost stars, Catherine Deneuve and Catherine France/Belgium 2017 | 117 mins Frot share the screen in this touching Producer: Olivier Delbosc Photography: Yves Cape tale of the unlikely connection of Editor: Albertine Lastera opposites. Claire (Frot) is a dedicated Music: Grégoire Hetzel With: Catherine Frot, Catherine Deneuve, Olivier and tireless midwife whose sense of Gourmet, Quentin Dolmaire, Mylène Demongeot pride and responsibility clash with the Festivals: Berlin 2017 In French with English subtitles depersonalised efficiency of modern CinemaScope | PG coarse language hospitals. She’s raised her son solo and is well pleased that he’s made PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH it to medical school. One day she receives a strange phone call, a voice from the past. Béatrice (Deneuve), the extravagant and frivolous mistress of her late father, has pressing news and wants to see her again, over a drink, 30 years after having disappeared without a trace. Claire, habitually conscientious and sober, bridles at the prospect of having this foolish woman back MICHAÂL CROTTO in her life, but prepares to meet her again proves that French filmmakers regardless. know how to treat actresses of a “A bittersweet delight Writer/director Martin Provost certain age… As the reigning grande written to order for (Séraphine) has gifted two expert dame of French cinema, Deneuve actresses with marvellously individual could easily rest on her laurels, only two consummate roles for an entertaining and emotional taking roles that befit and reinforce her performers who inhabit pas de deux. As old resentments are stature. Which makes her vulnerable their diametrically faced down, they tacitly acknowledge turn here all the more special. Playing A REGENT Sat 12 Aug, 3.30 pm common fears, begin to enjoy each a heart-on-her-sleeve, still-crazy-after- opposed characters B REGENT Fri 25 Aug, 10.30 am other’s shortcomings and build anew all-these-years free spirit, Deneuve with satisfying élan.” on their shared past. delivers her best performance in recent B SJ Gore Tue 22 Aug, 11.00 am — Lisa Nesselson, Screendaily “Martin Provost’s The Midwife once memory.” — Ben Croll, Indiewire A SJ Gore Sun 27 Aug, 5.15 pm
A Woman’s Life TheNEW Workshop ZEALAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Une vie L’atelierDANCE ALL OVER THE INSIDE Director: Stéphane Brizé Director: Laurent Cantet France/Belgium 2016 France 2017 | 114 mins 119 mins Screenplay: Robin Campillo, Screenplay: Stéphane Brizé, Laurent Cantet Florence Vignon. Based on the Photography: Pierre Milon novel by Guy de Maupassant With: Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, With: Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre Warda Rammach, Issam Talbi, Darroussin, Yolande Moreau, Florian Beaujean, Mamadou Swann Arlaud, Nina Meurisse Doumbia, Julien Souve, Festivals: Venice, Toronto 2016 Mélissa Guilbert Critics’ Prize, Venice Film Festival Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain 2016 Regard) 2017 In French with English subtitles In French with English subtitles M violence & sex scenes CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc MICHAÂL CROTTO Director Stéphane Brizé (Mademoiselle fictional heroines – Emma Bovary, Jane French writer-director Laurent Cantet, France’s colorful young population, Chambon, The Measure of a Man) Eyre, Anna Karenina – is evident. She Palme d’Or winner in 2008 for The no intellectuals with writing experience applies his keen eye for social suffers, but she also reads, thinks and Class, returns with a suspenseful film, among them (all are played by non- ANDREW JOYCE observation to costume drama with desires, and strives to find a zone of basedSECTION on a PRINCIPALtrue story, CELLO about a writer’s professional actors). Charged with this striking adaptation of Guy de freedom within boundaries dictated by relationship with a right-wing student producing a book to promote the Maupassant’s first published novel. fate and society… who troubles and intrigues her. image of La Ciotat, a small seaside A young aristocrat named Jeanne A Woman’s Life… moves calmly “This story of a successful crime novel town located between Marseille and (Judith Chemla) raised and educated and deliberately, but it never feels authorPIANOMANIA who is invited to a small town Toulon, Olivia soon discovers that the by kind, progressive parents seems slow. Instead, its images and scenes to take charge of a writing project one subject which unites her students poised on the brink of modern are suffused by an intensity that seems is part social survey, part political is murder – though they can’t quite womanhood, but finds herself almost to be a quality of the light and documentary,WITH with the potentialFREDDY flicker agree on what KEMPF kind of murder they ill-prepared for a feckless husband air as they play across Ms Chemla’s of a love story and the touchCHRISTCHURCH of a should write VISITabout, or how to treat it.” AIR FORCE MUSEUM NZSO.CO.NZ and a pious, hypocritical society. watchful, sometimes inscrutable thriller.20 SEP 7.00PM — Dan FORFainaru, TICKET Screendaily DETAILS
“The pathos and wonder of features.” — A.O. Scott, NY Times TheFREDDY Workshop KEMP PIANO/CONDUCTOR conveys a stunningly HANDEL CONCERTO FOR KEYBOARD OP. 4 NO. 1 IN G MINOR MOZART PIANO A Woman’s Life comes from its authenticCONCERTO portrait NO. 21 INof CFrench MAJOR (2NDyouth MVT) CHOPIN ANDANTE SPINATO ET GRAND POLONAISE BRILLANTE MENDELSSOHN PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 IN recognition that Jeanne is at once a today;G MINOR their (3RD class, MVT) racial RACHMANINOV and PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 IN C MINOR (2ND MVT) GERSHWIN RHAPSODY IN BLUE captive of cruel circumstances and occupational concerns. The seven B RIALTO Fri 11 Aug, 2.00 pm a wilful, intelligent human being. A RIALTO Sun 27 Aug, 3.30 pm young people in author Olivia’s (Marina A RIALTO Sat 19 Aug, 2.15 pm IN ASSOCIATION PRINCIPAL Her kinship with other 19th-century B RIALTO Mon 28 Aug, 12.00 pm Foïs) WITH:class represent a snapshot of PARTNERS: A RIALTO Mon 21 Aug, 8.00 pm
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BEETHOVEN: Call Me by Your Name THE PIANO & Luca Guadagnino, the Italian writer- Director: Luca Guadagnino VIOLIN SONATAS director of I Am Love and A Bigger Italy/France 2017 | 132 mins Splash, winds back the flamboyance Producers: Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco Morabito, to powerful effect in this languorous, James Ivory, Howard Rosenman sun-filled and wonderfully empathetic Screenplay: James Ivory, Luca Guadagnino, Walter Fasano. Based on the novel by André Aciman tale of first love. Timothée Chalamet Photography: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom is riveting as Elio, a smart, musically Editor: Walter Fasano Music: Sufjan Stevens gifted 17-year-old hanging out for With: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, the summer of 1983 with his parents Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Victoire Du Bois at their villa in northern Italy. Elio is Festivals: Sundance, Berlin 2017 obliged to move out of his bedroom In English, Italian and French, with English subtitles to make way for his father’s American RP13 sex scenes research assistant, 20-something Oliver (Armie Hammer). Brash and handsome, Oliver immediately sets local hearts aflutter and irritates the hell out of Elio. But the two increasingly find themselves together. A dance of attraction and retreat begins and gradually consumes them both. “Luca Guadagnino likes to show off Elio’s great leap into emotional risk his homeland as a place of sensual self- “A swirling wonder, a film touches everyone in his idyllic world: discovery… But he’s never mounted the about coming of age, the depth of understanding granted to total swirl of sultry weather, budding him in this film feels like a gift to every libidos and teenage confusion that about the secrets of youth, one of us. marks his new drama, Call Me by Your the magic of summer, the The film’s stock of sensual pleasures Name, a triumphant, heartbreaking beauty of Italy.” extends to its exquisite use of music, tale of coming out based on André including the Psychedelic Furs, Elio’s Aciman’s acclaimed 2007 novel… Sweet — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair amusingly bad-tempered renditions of and salty, his movie burns like a suntan.” Bach and three perfectly attuned songs — Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out NY A REGENT Tue 15 Aug, 7.45 pm by Sufjan Stevens. B REGENT Fri 18 Aug, 11.00 am
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PRESENTED IN Blade of the Immortal A Date for Mad Mary ASSOCIATION WITH Mugen no junin
Director: Miike Takashi Director: Darren Thornton Japan/UK 2017 Ireland 2016 | 82 mins 141 mins Screenplay: Darren Thornton, Screenplay: Oishi Tetsuya. Based Colin Thornton. Based on the play on the manga by Samura Hiroaki 10 Dates with Mad Mary by With: Kimura Takuya, Sugisaki Yasmine Akram Hana, Fukushi Sota, Ichihara With: Seána Kerslake, Tara Lee, Hayoto, Toda Erika, Kitamura Charleigh Bailey, Denise Kazuki, Kuriyama Chiaki McCormack, Siobhán Shanahan Festivals: Cannes (Midnight Festivals: Galway, Karlovy Vary, Screenings) 2017 London 2016; San Francisco 2017 In Japanese with English subtitles Best Irish Feature Film, Galway R16 violence & sexual violence Film Fleadh 2016 M offensive language
It beggars belief that this is Miike hunters. Years later he is hired as a Seána Kerslake is completely winning both hilarious and touching. Will it Takashi’s 100th feature, but even more bodyguard for Rin, whose kendo-master as the larrikin Mary out to prove she’s dawn on Mary, as it dawns on us, that impressive is how the man behind father and pupils were slaughtered by not a loser in this funny, soulful Irish hiding in plain sight there’s a member such classics as Audition and Ichi the the swordsmen of Itto-ryu. romcom. While Mary’s been doing time of the wedding offering much more Killer is still on fire in the director’s Before the last drop of blood hits for a spontaneous gesture she’d rather than a chance to get back at the bride? chair. So, rejoice fans – the maestro the dirt viewers will be immersed in a forget, her best girlfriend Charlene If the origins in a stage play by is back on form, katana in hand and complex web of political conspiracy and has disappeared, heart and soul, into Yasmine Akram show in the adaptation ready to party. supernatural shenanigans, as the expertly wedding planning land. Mary gets by writer/director brothers Darren and Based on a popular manga series staged battles between ever increasing out of jail in time for the big day, Colin Thornton, it’s simply because about a vengeful swordsman with numbers of adversaries erupt in crimson bridesmaid’s speech at the ready. But the dialogue, quick and salty, is such an uncanny ability to self-heal, geysers of body parts. It all builds to a oops, Charlene is wavering on having a driving force. The Drogheda settings Blade of the Immortal is a gorgeous virtuoso display of kinetic action that her wild and crazy old mate at the top hum with life and devilry. fantasy romp. Raw and savage, with some are saying even tops 13 Assassins’ table and has cut her back to a single just the right amount of levity, it’s climax to end all climaxes. — AT invite. All Mary’s hurt and indignation also a welcome return to the heroic are channelled into a single mission: bloodshed of Miike’s great samurai showing up with a plus-one. B REGENT Fri 11 Aug, 1.15 pm epic, 13 Assassins. As she assesses partner options, A REGENT Sat 19 Aug, 6.30 pm Mega idol Kimura Takuya stars as A REGENT Sat 19 Aug, 8.30 pm Kerslake makes Mary’s mix of bluntness, Manji, whose sister is killed by bounty B REGENT Fri 25 Aug, 3.00 pm sarcasm and minimal self-awareness A SJ Gore Fri 25 Aug, 6.15 pm
Pop Aye The Teacher U cˇ i t e l k a
Director: Jan Hrˇebejk Slovakia/Czech Republic Director/Screenplay: 2016 | 102 mins Kirsten Tan Screenplay: Petr Jarchovský Singapore/Thailand 2017 Photography: Martin Žiaran With: Zuzana Mauréry, Csongor 102 mins Kassai, Peter Bebjak, Martin Festivals: Sundance, Rotterdam Havelka, Ondřej Malý, Éva Bandor, 2017 Zuzana Konečná, Richard Labuda, Screenwriting Award (World Oliver Oswald, Tamara Fischer, Cinema Dramatic), Sundance Film Ina Gogálová, Monika Čertezni Festival 2017 Festivals: Karlovy Vary, Busan 2016 In Thai with English subtitles In Slovak with English subtitles CinemaScope | M sex scenes, M offensive language & nudity sexual references & offensive language
An architect, feeling past his use-by uprooted characters, from a wild- A communist-era schoolroom is a suggested. What can the parents of the date, and his long-lost elephant take haired vagabond who seems to foretell microcosm of outrageous political successful students say in response to a road trip across Thailand to find the future to a ladyboy with karaoke favouritism in this highly enjoyable such slanders? Their faked rectitude is their childhood home in this rueful, aspirations. return to form from Czech director astutely caricatured in a nimbly scripted, funny Sundance award winner. Once In her debut feature writer/director Jan Hřebejk (Divided We Fall). The increasingly tense battle of wits. a cutting edge architect in Bangkok, Kirsten Tan takes full advantage of the setting is Bratislava in 1983, drolly While the accusers fret and stew, Thana is facing the imminent beautiful scenery, characterful actors evoked in an array of wacky wallpapers their hapless children suffer the demolition of the mall that was once and a charismatic elephant to tell a and goofy sweaters, where a parent– consequences, and we root against his crowning glory. His wife’s flagrant story about our drift from fundamental teacher meeting is hearing the case the odds for the bully’s comeuppance. lack of concern is doing nothing to human needs and values. Her tale of against the eponymous Comrade In the title role Zuzana Mauréry is a quiet his fear of obsolescence. man and pachyderm is unsentimental, Drazděchová. Under her watch some sneaky, deplorable wonder, a richly Wandering the streets of the city gently comic and thoughtful. of the brightest pupils have been realised screen villain surpassed in 2017 he is amazed to come across a fellow receiving the poorest grades. only by her real-world equivalents. throwback, Pop Aye, the elephant he Their aggrieved parents claim that grew up with in his rural village. On a she aids and abets other pupils in direct whim he buys Pop Aye and sets off on proportion to the goods and services a road trip, walking and hitching back B RIALTO Tue 15 Aug, 12.00 pm she receives from their parents: a free B RIALTO Thu 10 Aug, 12.15 pm to where they came from. On the way A RIALTO Sat 26 Aug, 1.45 pm haircut here, free electrical repairs there. A RIALTO Sun 13 Aug, 5.45 pm they befriend a succession of equally A RIALTO Tue 29 Aug, 6.15 pm Even more intimate favours have been A RIALTO Wed 16 Aug, 6.15 pm 22 WORLD SPAIN
Summer 1993 Estiu 1993
As enthralling a child’s-eye view as has graced the screen in many a year, Summer 1993 draws us into the new Director/Screenplay: Carla Simón world of six-year-old Frida, transplanted Spain 2017 | 97 mins Producer: Valérie Delpierre from Barcelona to live with her aunt, Photography: Santiago Racaj uncle and three-year-old cousin Anna Editors: Didac Palou, Ana Pfaff in the country. It’s summer and living Music: Ernest Pipo, Pau Boïgues With: Laia Artigas, Paula Robles, Bruna Cusí, around this bohemian couple is certainly David Verdaguer, Fermi Reixach easy, but adjustment for the little girl is Festivals: Berlin 2017 Best First Feature, Berlin International Film Festival not easy at all. While Anna fastens like 2017 glue onto her brand new older sister, In Catalan with English subtitles PG adult themes Frida’s not so sure she actually needs a sister, let alone a new pair of parents. It’s not long before we deduce that the real parents have died and Frida’s change of scene will be permanent. Catalan director Carla Simón’s feature debut is autobiographical. Her memory of childish schemes and dreams is acute and bracingly free of sentimentality. The performances Though programmed in the festival’s she’s drawn from the two children Young Adult section, Summer 1993 Carla Simón’s are miraculously unaffected, so when took the prize for Best First Feature at autobiographical jewel Frida leads her trusting little charge this year’s Berlinale. It’s a beautiful film. up the garden path you may want “A summer of troubled and troubling is one of the most to leap into the movie and sort experience is reshaped into a delicately evocative and affecting things out. What’s just as piercing is crafted, moving filmic memoir by Carla depictions of childhood the filmmaker’s appreciation of the Simón… That the film draws deeply B REGENT Wed 9 Aug, 11.00 am kindness, imagination and patience on personal recollection can be sensed seen in years. A REGENT Sat 19 Aug, 4.00 pm required of her aunt and uncle to in virtually every frame.” — Jonathan convince a defiant little orphan that Holland, Hollywood Reporter B SJ Gore Thu 17 Aug, 11.00 am she was important and loved. A SJ Gore Wed 23 Aug, 6.15 pm
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The Party
The dinner-party-from-hell genre Director/Screenplay: Sally Potter is delivered a short sharp shock by UK 2017 | 71 mins veteran British writer-director Sally Producers: Christopher Sheppard, Kurban Kassam Photography: Alexey Rodionov Potter in this gleaming black comedy. Editors: Anders Refn, Emilie Orsini Kristin Scott Thomas is hosting a With: Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall, Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones, group of friends to celebrate her Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy promotion as shadow Minister of Festivals: Berlin 2017 B&W | M violence, offensive language Health, elegantly juggling dinner & drug use preparation, congratulatory calls and surreptitious messaging from a lover. Husband Timothy Spall plays aggressive DJ, otherwise upright but catatonic in the living room as the guests arrive. These include her best friend (Patricia Clarkson, wryly acidic), her life-coach boyfriend (Bruno Ganz, wondrously inane), a coked-up venture capitalist (Cillian Murphy) who arrives sans wife, and an earnest lesbian couple (Emily Mortimer and Cherry Jones) intent on sharing some good news. Silly them. One shouldn’t pull a muscle, “It’d poop The Party, so to speak, to however, in reaching for the subtext “A consummate drawing- reveal anything further – though this is of Potter’s witty shaggy-dog story: Its room divertissement, less a plot-based exercise than a tipsily giddy in-the-moment pleasures are conversational one. Potter’s eminently enough… Months after the US election played with relish by a quotable screenplay works up just campaign turned an intended jibe into dream ensemble.” enough narrative momentum to sustain a rallying cry, Sally Potter’s latest further — Guy Lodge, Variety a barrage of killer one-liners: With the proves that there’s pleasure, pride A REGENT Wed 23 Aug, 6.15 pm hors d’oeuvres increasingly unlikely to or both to be taken in being a nasty B REGENT Thu 24 Aug, 12.00 pm be served, decorum is swiftly shed and woman.” — Guy Lodge, Variety these privileged vultures instead feed A SJ Gore Fri 18 Aug, 6.15 pm ravenously on each other’s ideals… A SJ Gore Sun 20 Aug, 5.15 pm
Kiki, Love to Love The Wound Kiki, el amor se hace Inxeba
Director: Paco Léon Spain 2016 | 102 mins Producers: Ghislain Barrois, Director: John Trengove Álvaro Augustin, Andrés Martín South Africa/Germany/ Screenplay: Paco Léon, Fernando Pérez The Netherlands/France Photography: Kiko de la Rica 2017 | 88 mins Editor: Alberto de Toro Screenplay: John Trengove, Thando With: Paco Léon, Ana Katz, Mgqolozana, Malusi Bengu Belén Cuesta, Álex García, Photography: Paul Özgür Natalia de Molina, Candela Peña, With: Nakhane Touré, Bongile Luis Callejo, Luis Bermejo Mantsai, Niza Jay Ncoyini In Spanish with English subtitles Festivals: Sundance, Berlin 2017 CinemaScope | R18 sexual In Xhosa, Afrikaans and English, violence, sex scenes & offensive with English subtitles language CinemaScope | M violence, offensive language & sex scenes
Born under the sign of Almódovar, Paco you to learn that in this film’s sunny Ukwaluka is the Xhosa tradition of played in a provocative act of casting León’s homeland hit finds comedy and view of gratification, nobody ends up male circumcision that separates by Nakhane Touré, an out gay South a little pathos in the mismatched sexual feeling used. 18-year-olds from their families for African singer. Xolani is a poor kinks of a group of interconnected A remake of The Little Death, it a period of healing, fasting and warehouse worker who takes annual Spaniards. Paco (director León) and could hardly differ more in spirit, manhood-proving tests of stamina. In leave to join his friend Vija to attend Ana, for example, work on reigniting transposing the action to a sweltering making this the scene for a suspenseful the camp. Mocking so much enforced their passion by visiting bondage Madrid and celebrating difference, its psycho-drama, director John Trengove masculinity and needling Xolani about parties and furry nightclubs – and message never more sweetly displayed – who is white – and his cowriters defy his unmanly devotion to Vija, Kwanda find themselves igniting unexpected than when a hearing-impaired call the ‘what happens on the mountain, becomes increasingly disruptive. passions in others. Natalia, meanwhile, centre worker (fetish: silk) helps a stays on the mountain’ ethos of the Expertly playing our fears for both the discovers after getting mugged that she voiceless customer indulge his fantasies tradition. They also demonstrate with young initiate and his targets, Trengove has a case of harpaxophilia, helpfully through a phone sex line. devastating conviction how that code brings the tension to a shocking peak. explained on-screen as “sexual arousal might struggle in the modern world to being produced by being robbed with withstand such exposure. FEATURE PRECEDED BY Broken violence,” while José learns he has A RIALTO Sat 12 Aug, 8.15 pm Kwanda, a privileged, thoroughly somnophilia, sexual pleasure caused by A RIALTO Wed 16 Aug, 8.15 pm urbanised young Xhosa man, is Scott Mouat | New Zealand 2017 | 16 mins watching someone sleep. If you caught B RIALTO Thu 17 Aug, 4.00 pm compelled by his father to submit to a whiff of the non-consensual in any these traditional rites. His appointed A RIALTO Sun 13 Aug, 7.45 pm of this, it may or may not encourage A SJ Gore Fri 25 Aug, 8.00 pm guardian through the ritual is Xolani, B RIALTO Wed 16 Aug, 4.00 pm 24 WORLD UK
Ethel & Ernest A Monster Calls
Director: Roger Mainwood UK 2016 | 94 mins Director: J.A. Bayona Screenplay: Roger Mainwood. UK/Spain/USA 2016 Based on the graphic novel by 109 mins Raymond Briggs Editor: Richard Overall Screenplay: Patrick Ness. Animation director: Peter Dodd Based on his novel Music: Carl Davis, Paul McCartney Photography: Óscar Faura Voices: Jim Broadbent, With: Lewis MacDougall, Brenda Blethyn, Luke Treadaway Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Festivals: London 2016 Liam Neeson, Toby Kebbell PG violence Festivals: Toronto, London 2016 Best Director, Cinematography & Editing, Goya Awards 2017 CinemaScope | PG violence & scary scenes
This funny and poignant animated household in Wimbledon might be Twelve-year-old English boy Conor ravishing painterly animation for the feature perfectly captures the tone and considered working class. O’Malley (Lewis MacDougall) is a monster’s enthralling tales, to impart visual style of Raymond Briggs’ tender The voice work of Jim Broadbent lonely kid. His father lives in California; tough and fortifying wisdom about life, graphic novel about his ‘very ordinary’ and Brenda Blethyn is a treat, with his loving mother (Felicity Jones) is and about stories too. parents, from their first trip to the Luke Treadaway as the grown-up terminally ill, and his grandmother “Mixing horror movie imagery with pictures in 1928 (Hangman’s House Raymond who came of age in the 60s (Sigourney Weaver) makes a chilly honest, heart-wrenching human truths, with Victor McLagen!) to their deaths, and headed to art school – much to his substitute. His sole companion appears Bayona has created a dark, coming- just months apart, in 1971. mother’s dismay. A soundtrack marking nightly in the intimidating form of a of-age masterpiece… Entertaining, There’s a canny social and political out the years in popular music also gigantic tree creature (voiced by Liam tonally impeccable, and heartbreaking, history of Britain traced through their features original contributions from Neeson) who tells him fantastic tales this is a monster movie with a very experiences and amusingly expressed Carl Davis and Paul McCartney. of apothecaries and kings, handsome human heart.” — Marten Carlson, through decades of gentle crossfire princes and wicked stepmothers. The Consequence of Sound between Labour Dad and Tory Mum. monster challenges Conor to discover A lifelong milkman with few complaints, the truth in the stories that might give B REGENT Thu 10 Aug, 1.45 pm Ernest keeps a close eye on world him the strength to make the best of A RIALTO Thu 17 Aug, 6.15 pm events, while Ethel, a former lady’s A RIALTO Sun 20 Aug, 4.00 pm his sorry lot. maid, would rather sleep than watch J.A. Bayona’s adaptation of Patrick A RIALTO Sat 12 Aug, 6.00 pm the moon landing on TV and bristles B SJ Gore Mon 21 Aug, 11.00 am Ness’ young adult novel draws on a A RIALTO Thu 17 Aug, 8.15 pm at any suggestion that their little A SJ Gore Sat 26 Aug, 1.30 pm spectacular arsenal of CGI, shifting into B RIALTO Fri 18 Aug, 4.00 pm
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Beatriz at Dinner
This perfectly honed chamber drama Director: Miguel Arteta from director Miguel Arteta and USA 2017 | 83 mins writer Mike White begins as a squirmy Producers: Aaron L. Gilbert, Pamela Koffler, David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon dinner-party-gone-wrong comedy and Screenplay: Mike White expands into something much more Photography: Wyatt Garfield Editor: Jay Deuby soulful and timely. Music: Mark Mothersbaugh Salma Hayek plays Beatriz, a With: Salma Hayek, John Lithgow, Connie Britton, Jay Duplass, Amy Landecker, Chloë Sevigny, Mexican-American holistic healer invited David Warshofsky, John Early to stay on for dinner by her wealthy Festivals: Sundance 2017 client and avowed friend Cathy (Connie CinemaScope | M violence & offensive language Britton). She finds herself breaking bread with Cathy’s husband’s business partners and their wives. The alpha male at the party is billionaire developer Doug Strutt (John Lithgow, playing against the obvious Trump connotations with a chilling assurance). As the cocktails multiply and the one percent rejoice in world domination, the earnest Beatriz enunciates an alternative view. “Arteta deftly portrays the cocoon This might be the best performance of wealth and the shamelessness of Salma Hayek has ever given, her quiet, “Dark, hopelessly humane those who seek it at all costs: Doug observant reserve eventually giving Beatriz at Dinner is can say whatever he wants, because way to bewilderment and resolve. he’s surrounded by sycophants and And her inner turmoil is a powerfully the perfect film for the others who feed on his money and relevant one: How does a person Trump era… Salma power. Beatriz, we sense, has been committed to healing – to being Hayek is remarkable.” let in on a gathering that people like principled, empathetic, and good – her are not supposed to see. That’s a handle first contact with the devils — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair pretty simple set-up, but Arteta and who think nothing of destroying our screenwriter Mike White find nuance world?” — Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice A REGENT Fri 18 Aug, 6.30 pm in the conflict… B REGENT Mon 21 Aug, 1.15 pm
The Beguiled
Sofia Coppola was crowned Best Director at Cannes this year for arguably her best film to date: a crisp, Director: Sofia Coppola unsettling, absolutely essential remake USA 2017 | 94 mins Producers: Youree Henley, Sofia Coppola of Don Siegel’s 1971 oddity starring Screenplay: Sofia Coppola. Based on the novel Clint Eastwood. Everything about this by Thomas Cullinan and the screenplay by Albert Maltz, Grimes Grice new interpretation beguiles, from its Photography: Philippe Le Sourd exciting cast of fresh and familiar faces, Editor: Sarah Flack to its unexpected jabs of humour, to Music: Phoenix With: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, its almost shocking sense of brevity – Elle Fanning, Oona Laurence, Angourie Rice, though above all else, it is Coppola’s Addison Riecke, Emma Howard, Wayne Pére, Matt Story, Joel Albin gaze that enthrals, placing female Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 desire and self-preservation at the film’s Best Director, Cannes Film Festival 2017 M violence, sex scenes & content that may disturb tipping point. — Tim Wong “In Sofia Coppola’s elegantly spare, psychosexual Civil War drama The Beguiled, a wounded Union soldier, Colonel John McBurney (Colin Farrell), is discovered in the surrounding woods of a Virginia all-girls seminary school, circa 1864… The girls and women of them all… Coppola deepens the the property, overseen by headmaster material’s implicit wellsprings of “Coppola’s new take Martha Farnsworth (Nicole Kidman) loneliness and longing, mitigating the burnishes a vision of slowly begin to vie for the attention sexism by diverting the point of view of this enemy from the other side, away from McBurney to the women hard-won female conveniently laid up with a bum leg just he’s attempting to manipulate… autonomy… [and] brings a down the hall from their bedrooms… It’s a magnificently shot movie, dreaminess… and a The Eastwood version was a kinky and often a very funny one, as tense joke of a psychodrama: a retrograde dinners with the stranger from minimalism where before curiosity about a gaggle of repressed, the North transform into duels of nightmares had reigned.” sheltered Confederate belles being innuendo.” — A.A. Dowd, AV Club A REGENT Sun 13 Aug, 6.00 pm — Isabel Stevens, Sight & Sound seduced by the manliest Yankee of B REGENT Thu 17 Aug, 4.00 pm 26 WORLD USA
The Lost City of Z
In the early 20th century British explorer Director: James Gray Percy Fawcett made eight expeditions USA 2016 | 141 mins into the Amazonian jungle pursuing Producers: Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Anthony Katagas, James Gray, Dale Armin Johnson evidence of a lost, highly evolved Screenplay: James Gray. Based on the book by civilisation. James Gray’s spectacular David Grann Photography: Darius Khondji film collapses those expeditions into Editors: John Axelrad, Lee Haugen a tidier history, but the enquiring Music: Christopher Spelman With: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, spirit of the movie holds closely to the Sienna Miller, Tom Holland, Edward Ashley, wanderlust of the incurable adventurer. Angus Macfadyen, Ian McDiarmid, Clive Francis, Pedro Coello, Matthew Sunderland, It’s hard to think of another film on Johann Myers, Franco Nero such epic scale that contains so careful Festivals: New York 2016; Berlin, San Francisco 2017 and nuanced a portrait of the explorer In English, Spanish, Portuguese and German, hero or his conflicted relationship with with English subtitles 4K DCP | CinemaScope | M violence & offensive the society that he, in name at least, language represents. Charlie Hunnam’s Fawcett is a commanding slow burn from class resentment to mystic quest, with Robert Pattinson barely recognisable as his companion in adventure. Sienna Miller makes a powerful impression as the wife chafing to join him but forever protagonist that avoids the clichés of left behind. The cinematography, by the genre. It feels like a work of classic “Pictures with the grand Darius Khondji (Se7en, Delicatessen), Hollywood cinema, but without the sweep and dreamy energy captures the seductive allure of jungle arch, mannered quality that can come and river in ravishing imagery fit only with a contemporary director trying to of The Lost City of Z don’t for the giant screen. harken back to the past. Gray’s film is come along every year “The Lost City of Z is a miraculous beguiling and poetic, capable of gluing – they barely come along movie, at once moving, intimidating, you to the screen for every second of its B REGENT Fri 11 Aug, 3.15 pm and gorgeous to behold. It’s a tale of languorous running time and lingering at all.” A REGENT Sun 13 Aug, 8.15 pm colonial exploration that’s aware in the brain for weeks after.” — David — Stephanie Zacharek, Time of the sins of the past, and a portrait Sims, The Atlantic A SJ Gore Fri 18 Aug, 8.00 pm of a driven, obsessive, flawed male A SJ Gore Sun 20 Aug, 7.00 pm
NEW ZEALAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Brigsby Bear DANCE ALL OVER THE INSIDE Director: Dave McCary USA 2017 | 98 mins Screenplay: Kevin Costello, Kyle Mooney With: Kyle Mooney, Greg Kinnear, Matt Walsh, Michaela Watkins, Mark Hamill, Ryan Simpkins, Jorge Lendeborg Jr, Claire Danes, Jane Adams, Kate Lyn Sheil, Alexa Demie, Andy Samberg Festivals: Sundance, Cannes (Critics’ Week), Sydney 2017 M sex scenes, offensive language & drug use
In this inventive, Gondry-esque comedy, sweet fellowship in extreme fan Saturday Night Live’s earnest goofball culture, and the liberating power of Kyle Mooney is a man obsessed by sheer silliness with the conviction ANDREW JOYCE the only TV show he’s ever seen, a little- of the true believer. SECTION PRINCIPAL CELLO known series about a magic bear saving “Brigsby Bear’s strongest asset (well, the world. after the gobs of in-universe verbiage James (Mooney) has lived in a bunker that come spilling from James’ mouth) PIANOMANIA for 25 years. His only contact is with is Kyle Mooney’s extraordinary his parents (Mark Hamill and Jane performance… To hang around James Adams), and his only source of external and soak up some of his positivity WITH FREDDY KEMPF stimulation is the 80s-style ‘Brigsby (even if it is a little unclear if he knows DUNEDIN VISIT Bear Adventures’, delivered weekly what’s going on half the time) is a joy.” TOWN HALL NZSO.CO.NZ 21 SEP 7.00PM FOR TICKET DETAILS on VHS cassettes. He’s probably the — Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair
FREDDY KEMP PIANO/CONDUCTOR world’s most intense student of the HANDEL CONCERTO FOR KEYBOARD OP. 4 NO. 1 IN G MINOR MOZART PIANO Brigsby mythos. CONCERTO NO. 21 IN C MAJOR (2ND MVT) CHOPIN ANDANTE SPINATO ET GRAND POLONAISE BRILLANTE MENDELSSOHN PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 IN G MINOR (3RD MVT) RACHMANINOV PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 IN C MINOR When James has to leave his bunker (2ND MVT) GERSHWIN RHAPSODY IN BLUE and meet other people, he loses access to new episodes. The slow-dawning A REGENT Fri 11 Aug, 6.15 pm
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It Comes at Night Wind River
Director/Screenplay: Trey Edward Shults USA 2017 | 92 mins Director/Screenplay: Photography: Drew Daniels Taylor Sheridan Editors: Trey Edward Shults, USA 2017 | 111 mins Matthew Hannam Music: Brian McOmber Photography: Ben Richardson With: Joel Edgerton, Christopher Music: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, With: Jeremy Renner, Riley Keough, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Elizabeth Olsen, Gil Birmingham, Griffin Robert Faulkner, Jon Bernthal, Julia Jones, David Pendleton, Mikey Kelsey Asbille, James Jordan, CinemaScope | R16 violence, Teo Briones, Apesanahkwat, offensive language & content that Graham Greene may disturb Festivals: Sundance, Cannes (Un Certain Regard), Sydney 2017 CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc © 2016 SUNDANCE INSTITUTE In a time that might be now, after a domestic thriller joins the rarified Following up his energetic scripting “Wind River is a modern western, plague has emptied the cities, a family company of Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 for Sicario and Hell or High Water, and one of very few forays into the of three have boarded themselves up novel The Road and the small handful actor-turned-screenwriter Taylor genre that’s set in snow country… in an abandoned backwoods lodge of intimate post-apocalyptic scenarios Sheridan takes the director’s chair for Sheridan and cinematographer Ben and dedicated every waking moment that puncture through to our deepest this chilly backwoods thriller set in the Richardson use that landscape beautifully to mastering the art of survival. Joel fears… remote Wind River Indian reservation, in a story that reaches out in several Edgerton is the family’s patriarch, Don’t hold your breath hoping to Wyoming. Jeremy Renner stars as directions – it’s about, among other Carmen Ejogo his wife and Kelvin learn what the plague is. That’s part Cory Lambert, an expert marksman things, communities of forgotten people, Harrison Jr their precious, watchful of what makes Shults’s spare, fablelike employed by the US Fish and Wildlife the intricacies of gender dynamics and 17-year-old son. When a stranger story transcend any number of Walking Service to cull dangerous animals. While the ways in which violence against (Christopher Abbott) breaks into the Dead episodes… It Comes at Night is out on a job, he discovers the body of women can be insidiously veiled. The house seeking food and refuge for his a film of tense gradations, a chamber a young Native American woman in story comes to rest in a way that’s both own wife and infant son, the survivalist piece set at the twilight of humanity.” the middle of the wilderness. The FBI somber and gratifying.” — Stephanie nightmare of scarce resources, — Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out NY hold jurisdiction on the reservation and Zacharek, Time invisible disease and creeping paranoia they send rookie agent Jane Banner escalates. (Elizabeth Olsen) to investigate. She “A major statement on the subject soon realises she’s in over her head, so A RIALTO Fri 11 Aug, 8.15 pm of civilization in freefall, writer-director A REGENT Sun 20 Aug, 8.15 pm looks to Lambert to help her hunt down B RIALTO Mon 14 Aug, 4.00 pm Trey Edward Shults’s nerve-shredding B RIALTO Thu 24 Aug, 4.15 pm a predator of a different kind. — MM A RIALTO Tue 15 Aug, 8.15 pm
PRESENTED WITH Animation NOW! 2017 SUPPORT FROM 85 mins approx. | Censors rating tbc
Our longstanding animation Double King À perdre haleine Waiting for the New Year programmer Malcolm Turner, also Australia 2017 | Director: Felix Colgrave | 9 mins France 2016 | Director: Lea Krowczyk | 4 mins Latvia 2016 | Director: Vladimir Leschiov | 8 mins head honcho at the Melbourne Ah, the quest for power in all its crazy, Sometimes you just have to let the The passage of seasons is the simplest International Animation Festival, offers twisted, warped and comically gory music take you over. of all things, but is lived differently by a selection of the brightest and best forms. different people. from this year’s Animation NOW! I Want Pluto to be a Festival – in 2017 supported Beer Planet Again Before Love by Victoria University Wellington, | | | | Italy 2016 Director: NERDO 2 mins France 2016 | Directors: Marie Amachoukeli, Vladimir Russia 2016 Director: Igor Kovalyov 19 mins School of Design. Charles Bukowski’s roiling, volcanic Mavounia-Kouka | 12 mins Love leads us down many false paths Rising stars, including New Zealand’s thoughts writ loud on one of his On the beautiful complexities of and this drama knows them all. own, jostle with longstanding masters; favourite subjects. rebuilding and the uncertain joys of the playful with the profound. Here admiring from afar. are flights of cinematic magic of an Satie’s “Parade” individuality that only animators can Japan 2016 | Director: Yamamura Koji | 14 mins Fire in Cardboard City bring to the screen – delivering a An animated re-creation of a realist New Zealand 2017 | Director: Phil Brough | 8 mins cornucopia of creative excitement to ballet, fuelled by extracts from Satie Fighting a fire in Cardboard City is reward any moviegoer. essays. always going to be challenging. If you’re looking to sample the international animation ecosystem Primal Flux Scratchy in all of its multi-coloured, variously USA 2016 | Director: Joan C. Gratz | 3 mins Canada 2017 | Director: Marv Newland | 3 mins shaped glories, there’s no better place Gratz gently plunges us into a visceral Everywhere you go, everything you to begin. realm of constantly morphing three- do, everybody you meet – everything’s dimensional clay. scratchy.
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Born in China ALL AGES ALL FOR Director: Lu Chuan USA/China 2016 79 mins Producers: Phil Chapman, Roy Conli, Brian Leith Screenplay: David Fowler, Brian Leith, Phil Chapman, Lu Chuan Photography: Irmin Kerck, Justin Maguire, Shane Moore, Rolf Steinmann, Paul Stewart Editor: Matthew Meech Music: Barnaby Taylor Narrator: John Krasinski Festivals: San Francisco 2017
The visual splendour of the natural of the harshest and most unforgiving world and its extraordinary creatures is environments on the planet. captured on a grand scale in this true- The footage captured on this life adventure from Disneynature – ideal epic journey into the wilds of China for young animal lovers. is breathtaking for its access and
In an epic tale of four seasons, we intimacy – presented as an opportunity follow some of the animal families that for young audiences to relate the populate various corners of China’s natural world to their own lives, and to expansive terrain. Meet Ya Ya, a panda contemplate the mysteries of the circle bear mother guiding her growing of life. — Nicola Marshall baby Mei Mei as she begins to explore Note: Animal survival depicted. Some and seek independence; Tao Tao, scenes may be upsetting for very young a mischievous two-year-old golden children. snub-nosed monkey nudged toward self-sufficiency after the arrival of his new baby sister; and Dawa, a mother A RIALTO Sun 13 Aug, 12.00 pm snow leopard – an elusive animal rarely A REGENT Sun 20 Aug, 11.00 am caught on camera – facing the very real drama of raising her two cubs in one A SJ Gore Sun 27 Aug, 1.15 pm
Swallows and Amazons
Director: Philippa Lowthorpe UK 2016 | 97 mins Producers: Nicholas Barton, Nick O’Hagan, Joe Oppenheimer Screenplay: Andrea Gibb. Based on the novel by Arthur Ransome Photography: Julian Court Editor: David Thrasher Music: Ilan Eshkeri With: Rafe Spall, Andrew Scott, Kelly Macdonald, Dane Hughes, Orla Hill, Teddie-Rose Malleson-Allen, Bobby McCulloch Recommended for ages 9+ PG low level violence
“The four Walker children have finally “Arthur Ransome’s classic pre-war Features selected by Nic Marshall of Square convinced their parents to let them tale of childhood adventure Swallows Eyes Film Foundation, ardent promoters of set off on their own for a sailing and Amazons still evokes a golden, adventure during summer vacation. prelapsarian age when kids were free international cinema to our youngest audiences Their summer of freedom quickly turns range and mucking about in boats and their movie-going companions. The into a fierce turf war when they learn was the acme of excitement… Director their island camp has been claimed Philippa Lowthorpe and screenwriter animated short film programmes are lovingly by the boisterous Amazons, and find Andrea Gibb have tweaked one or curated by Nic with a little assistance from our themselves caught in the midst of two details of Ransome’s original. some nefarious international intrigue And they’ve added an extra dash of Animation NOW! maestro Malcolm Turner. that’s landed in their sleepy byways. derring-do. But at heart their film is as Based on the beloved English novels cosily nostalgic as the cherished 1974 See also: My Life As a Courgette (p31). by Arthur Ransome, Swallows and version.” — Jason Best, Movie Talk Amazons is filled with dramas big and small… that come together to create a fluidly captivating story of bravery set against the languorous beauty of A RIALTO Sun 27 Aug, 11.00 am the English countryside.” — New York International Children’s Film Festival A SJ Gore Sun 20 Aug, 1.15 pm FOR ALL AGES 29
Animation for Kids 4+ 61 mins approx. | G cert
We’ve searched all around the world Eagle Blue Awesome Beetle’s Fruit of Clouds and back again to shape this eclectic UK 2016 | Director: Will Rose | 4 mins Czech Republic 2017 | Director: Katerˇina Karhánková collection of imaginative and engaging Colours 11 mins Eagle Blue soars high above the Latvia 2016 | Director: Indra Sprog´e | 3 mins animated short films – terrific viewing mountaintop – but she must swoop A charming tuft makes a great for both the very youngest of filmgoers A nearly impossible story, supported down to the town below and provide discovery through overcoming its fear and animation admiring grown-ups. by a catchy melody, guides us through a proper meal for her hungry kids. of the unknown. There’s only space here to list some the alphabet. highlights. For the full programme Tiger Spider Web The Sled listing go to nziff.co.nz — NM | | Germany 2015 | Director: Kariem Saleh | 4 mins Russia 2016 Director: Natalia Chernysheva 4 mins Russia 2016 | Director: Olesya Shchukina | 4 mins A tiny tiger, happy but hungry, sneakily Anyone can get caught in a sticky In the middle of deepest, snowiest satisfies an endless appetite. situation, but sometimes working winter, a squirrel finds something he The Cage together can make things a whole has never seen before. Big Box Singsong: Bears France 2016 | Director: Loïc Bruyere | 6 mins load easier. Canada 2016 | Directors: Warren Brown, Adam Stone Soup Goddard | 2 mins When a bear and his bird pals find the The Pocket Man right rhythm, teamwork equals sweet France 2015 | Director: Clémentine Robach | 7 mins Let’s hear it for the Bears! Georgia/Switzerland/France 2016 | Director: Ana freedom. Chubinidze | 8 mins Times are tough in one little town: first no food, now no electricity. Mr Night Has A Day Off When he makes a new friend, the A Hole Eventually, the transformative power Lithuania 2016 | Director: Ignas Meilunas | 2 mins pocket man realises that acts of Mexico 2016 | Director: Maribel Suárez | 4 mins of community nourishes all in the best kindness come in all shapes and sizes. What will Mr Night do on his day off? A small girl befriends a hole in her ways possible. Wander through the daylight and garden, discovering that patience and a create mischief, of course. helping hand can make a big difference when you want something to grow.
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Animation for Kids 8+ 71 mins approx. | PG low level violence
Hold tight for a showcase of brilliant Welcome to My Life Nino & Felix Water Path For a Fish animated short films – curated for the USA 2015 | Director: Elizabeth Ito | 9 mins Italy 2015 | Directors: Marta Palazzo, Lorenzo Latrofa Spain 2016 | Director: Mercedes Marro | 8 mins curious. Whether you’re an inquisitive 8 mins A glimpse into a day in the life of Oscar rescues a goldfish from the kid or long-time animation fan, there’s Douglas, aka T-Kesh – just your Two boys, who are not particularly clutches of hungry cats but, with the most certainly something for you. average Monster-American teenager. thrilled at being brought together, clash drought, has trouble caring for it. When There’s only space here to list some out their differences to find the ways in the water returns, the trouble becomes highlights. For the full programme 1 Minute Nature: which they are more alike than not. keeping track of his new fishy friend. listing go to nziff.co.nz — NM Jellyfish Weather Little Mouse Netherlands 2016 | Directors: Stefanie Visjager, G-AAAH Hungary 2016 | Director: Ervin B. Nagy | 7 mins Katinka Baehr | 1 min UK 2016 | Director: Elizabeth Hobbs | 1 min Outdoor Cinema The sea is full of colour and ‘Little Mouse’ is a hugely talented Typographical flights of fancy tell the Russia/Australia 2014 | Director: Tatiana Poliektova, underwater mystery in one boy’s true swimmer who earned a spot at the true story of typist-turned-aviator Amy Filippo Rivetti | 3 mins story of a day at the beach. Bucharest Youth Championship. Will Johnson. A group of industrious creatures make she have what it takes to out-lap the an outdoor cinema to reflect the world Jonas and the Sea big kids? Fire in Cardboard City around them. Netherlands 2015 | Director: Marlies van der Wel New Zealand 2017 | Director: Phil Brough | 8 mins 12 mins Sweaty Armpits There’s action aplenty for the USA 2016 | Director: Tony Dusko | 1 min Cats & Dogs Jonas casts aside everything in pursuit Cardboard City Fire Department as Switzerland/Germany 2015 | Director: Gerd Gockell, of his dream to live in the sea. Does anyone have a mop? they try to curb their first real fire. Jesús Pérez | 6 mins One cat. One dog. You can probably anticipate how this might go.
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Gabriel and the Mountain Gabriel e a montanha FRESH
Director: Fellipe Barbosa Brazil/France 2017 127 mins Screenplay: Fellipe Barbosa, Lucas Paraizo, Kirill Mikhanovsky With: João Pedro Zappa Festivals: Cannes (Critics’ Week) 2017 In English, Portuguese, Swahili, Chichewa and French, with English subtitles CinemaScope | M sex scenes, offensive language, drug use & content that may disturb
Spectacular and thrumming with life, The director is alive to his friend’s this richly layered road movie shows us vanity and the ironies attendant on Africa through the eyes of an eager gap- his “total immersion in the heart of year backpacker. “I travel as I’ve always Africa.” Required by a waitress at a dreamed of doing in a nontouristic and beachside cafe to order a meal, Gabriel sustainable manner,” he emails back is outraged to be mistaken for a mere home to Brazil. “Spending $2 or $3 a tourist. But his appetite for the freedom day and giving 80% of my daily budget and friendship of the road gives this to the locals who feed and shelter me.” film irresistible exuberance and heart. Brazilian director Fellipe Barbosa’s There’s mystery too: his impatience to film recreates the journey of his friend knock off the achievements he’s set Gabriel Buchmann who died on the himself brings his brief and brilliant life slopes of Malawi’s Mount Mulanje to an end and sets this wonderfully in 2009. The African cast is made enlivening film in motion. up almost entirely of people whom the open-hearted young Brasileiro befriended along the way. They play B RIALTO Thu 10 Aug, 3.45 pm themselves – and deliver personal A RIALTO Fri 18 Aug, 8.15 pm tributes in voiceover. A RIALTO Sun 20 Aug, 8.00 pm
I Am Not a Witch
Director/Screenplay: Rungano Nyoni UK/France/Zambia/ Germany 2017 | 95 mins Photography: David Gallego Music: Matthew James Kelly With: Margaret Mulubwa, Henry B.J. Phiri, Nancy Murilo Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2017 In English, Bemba, Nyanja and Tonga, with English subtitles PG adult themes
We line up the films that held our attention In Zambian-born, Welsh-raised director start believing you’re a witch… Rungano Nyoni’s truly surreal tale, a Rungano Nyoni has made the subject with their energy and originality – in terms nine-year-old village girl is accused the focus of her debut feature… a of subject, technique and sensibility. Not every of witchcraft and hauled off to do biting satire attacking the ignorance witches’ work. Soon she’s identifying which provides oxygen for this hokum… film that feels like a harbinger of the future the culprit in a police line-up, bringing Underneath the humor there’s is the work of a young filmmaker – though on the rain, or just posing for tourists. staunch determination from the Though accusing someone of witchcraft director. ‘It’s so important that we’re an encouraging number on the pages that is illegal in Zambia, Nyoni’s tale is based not precious about [witchcraft], follow are. on continuing practices she observed otherwise nothing gets done,’ she said.” herself living for a month in a witches’ — Thomas Page, CNN.com camp. The awfulness of her story is leavened by the merciless satirical eye she trains on superstition’s perpetrators – the men who put these ‘witches’ to work. “When you’ve been told you’re a B RIALTO Tue 15 Aug, 4.15 pm witch, forced to live as a witch, forced A RIALTO Wed 23 Aug, 8.15 pm to act as a witch, you might eventually A RIALTO Thu 24 Aug, 8.15 pm FRESH 31
A Ghost Story
One of the wonders of this or any year, Director/Screenplay/Editor: David Lowery’s film takes the homeliest David Lowery of images for the supernatural – a sheet USA 2017 | 93 mins with two forlorn eyeholes – and places Producers: Toby Halbrooks, James M. Johnston, Adam Donaghey it at the centre of a layered and piercing Photography: Andrew Droz Palermo contemplation of existential mystery. Music: Daniel Hart With: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, Will Oldham, Working in secret and on a micro-budget, McColm Cephas Jr., Kenneisha Thompson, the director of Pete’s Dragon has Grover Coulson, Liz Franke, Barlow Jacobs Festivals: Sundance 2017 evoked a profound eeriness from the M offensive language most minimal and intimate of means. As the ghost of a young husband (Casey Affleck) observes the grief of his partner (Rooney Mara) and then lingers through subsequent tenancies of the house they shared, the helpless ghost’s attachment to the place he loved becomes increasingly impersonal and unsettled. Lowery’s theme is realised in delicate, folkloric images of a distinctly American paradise lost, its hushed mood disrupted by abrupt bursts of anything-goes quality that’s endlessly activity – Will Oldham on a brilliant fascinating. Any movie that can turn “It’s a rare privilege to see jag as a drunken doom theorist – and a walking joke like The Ghost into a contemporary American radical bends in time. a figure of genuine pathos is a movie “A Ghost Story has the structure and that earns every long pause, and film as ambitious, rhythm of a musical suite, with Lowery every sudden leap.” — Noel Murray, emotionally honest, and working variations on the same The Playlist just-plain-breathtaking.” themes, the same characters, and the “A Ghost Story is filmmaking that same location. The result can be lyrical challenges and exhilarates, a potent — Dan Schoenbrun, Filmmaker and poetic, or more naturalistic and reminder of how many new places minimalist. In both cases, A Ghost Story film can still be taken.” — Dominik A REGENT Tue 22 Aug, 8.45 pm is absolutely mesmerizing, with an Suzanne-Mayer, Consequence of Sound B REGENT Thu 24 Aug, 4.00 pm
PRESENTED IN My Life As a Courgette ASSOCIATION WITH Patti Cake$ Ma vie de courgette
Director: Claude Barras Director/Screenplay: Switzerland/France 2016 Geremy Jasper 66 mins USA 2017 | 108 mins Screenplay: Céline Sciamma. Photography: Federico Cesca Based on the novel by Gilles Paris Editor: Brad Turner Animation director: Kim Keukeleire Music: Geremy Jasper, French Voices: Gaspard Schlatter, Jason Binnick Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccoud With: Danielle Macdonald, Briget English Voices: Erick Abbate, Everett, Siddharth Dhananjay, Ness Krell, Romy Beckman Mamoudou Athie, Cathy Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Moriarty, Sahr Ngaujah Fortnight), Melbourne, Toronto, Festivals: Sundance, SXSW, London 2016; Sundance 2017 New Directors/New Films, Nominated, Best Animated San Francisco, Cannes (Directors’ Feature, Academy Awards 2017 Fortnight) 2017 PG sexual references Censors rating tbc
A bunch of kids from nightmare film has a keen eye and ear for the “Two stars are born in Patti Cake$, The audience at the film’s world backgrounds find refuge and way children process the inconceivable one of those rare crowd-pleasers that premiere gave an audible gasp when companionship in this soulful and (neglect, abuse, deportation, murder)… earn their love honestly. The first is she answered her first question because subversive Oscar-nominated animated The feeling of melancholy is undercut the sensational Danielle Macdonald, no one had a clue she was Australian feature. Painstakingly crafted over by the resilience of these children, their who plays the second: the movie’s let alone not American. In a movie like a decade, Courgette marks another ability to forge relationships and create title character, also known as Patricia this, filmmakers often have to convince triumph for animation director Kim life out of chaos… Dombrowski, a poor white New Jersey the audience an actor playing a Keukeleire, who worked on Wes My Life As a Courgette never rapper who, with her tiny diverse posse musician is as good as the story says Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox. sacrifices what’s true for what’s trite yearns to cross the bridge to fame there are. At no point in Patti Cake$ “My Life As a Courgette is a stop- and easier to sell. This is animation as and fortune. Written and directed by is there ever a hint that Macdonald is motion cartoon, blessed with both an art form, inspiring and indelible.” Geremy Jasper, the movie treads familiar unable to legitimately rap. She’s simply a Swiss director (Claude Barras), and — Peter Travers, Rolling Stone aspirational ground: Patricia has dreams, a revelation.” — Gregory Ellwood, an ambition not to do anything the pluck and obstacles (she’s routinely The Playlist conventional way. The animated In English – dubbed taunted because of her weight), but characters… are beautifully realized, A REGENT Tue 15 Aug, 6.15 pm her outsider status isn’t fetishized or and the delicate touch of Barras works A RIALTO Tue 22 Aug, 6.15 pm romanticized, and she’s divinely real.” wonders. Skillfully adapted by Céline B RIALTO Fri 25 Aug, 1.00 pm — Manohla Dargis, NY Times B RIALTO Wed 23 Aug, 4.00 pm Sciamma (Girlhood) from the hit 2002 In French with English subtitles “It’s hard to equate what a star- A RIALTO Sun 27 Aug, 5.45 pm young adult novel by Gilles Paris, the B REGENT Mon 14 Aug, 2.15 pm making turn this is for Macdonald. A RIALTO Wed 30 Aug, 8.30 pm 32 FRESH 33
Lady Macbeth
Victorian patriarchy meets its match in this juicy period drama. The title alerts us to murderous intent, but the source Director: William Oldroyd material here is one step removed UK 2016 | 89 mins Producer: Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly from Shakespeare: this striking debut Screenplay: Alice Birch. Based on the novella Lady is a stylised reinvention of the 1865 Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov Russian novella Lady Macbeth of the Photography: Ari Wegner Editor: Nick Emerson Mtsensk District. Katherine (Florence Music: Dan Jones Pugh) is a young bride, a virtual With: Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton, Naomi Ackie, Christopher Fairbank captive in the draughty mansion of her Festivals: Toronto, San Sebastián, London 2016; dour mine owner husband. Her flinty Sundance, New Directors/New Films, San Francisco 2017 father-in-law pressures her for an heir, Critics’ Prize, San Sebastián International Film though the sadistic ritual unfolding Festival 2016 CinemaScope | R16 violence, offensive language nightly in the marital bedroom scarcely & sex scenes favours reproduction. The incredulous Katherine plots her liberation. If she’s prepared to contemplate murder to escape this disgusting prison, what won’t she do to guarantee her pleasure when she finds it in the arms of the taunting hunk (Cosmo Jarvis) who runs casting adds a frisson of racism to the the household stable? Her maid (Naomi routine abuse of the servant class while “A barbed feminist fable Ackie) stands by, rendered mute by the Katherine’s self-empowerment may feel of class, cruelty and trouble she sees. Pugh, in virtually every proto-feminist in intent. scene, is mesmerising – her insolence “Oldroyd coolly subverts the sexual power that feels smouldering as she’s corseted into fusty conventions of British costume absolutely true to its tight bodices and hooped skirts, her drama… [the film] deliberately incurs period and uncannily abandon as sumptuous as her flesh as many debts to Chandler and when she casts them off. Hammett as it does to Austen or Eliot.” attuned to the present Twenty-first century identity — Jonathan Murray, Cineaste moment.” politics flicker through this revisionist A REGENT Sat 12 Aug, 8.30 pm — A.O. Scott, NY Times masterpiece theatre. Colour-blind B REGENT Wed 16 Aug, 4.00 pm
Una The Untamed La región salvaje
Director: Benedict Andrews USA/UK/Canada 2016 Director: Amat Escalante 94 mins Mexico 2016 | 100 mins Screenplay: David Harrower. With: Ruth Ramos, Simone Bucio, Based on his play Blackbird Jesús Meza, Eden Villavicencio Photography: Thimios Bakatakis Festivals: Venice, Toronto, Editor: Nick Fenton San Sebastián, London 2016; Music: Jed Kurzel Rotterdam, San Francisco 2017 With: Rooney Mara, Ben Best Director, Venice Film Festival Mendelsohn, Riz Ahmed 2016 Festivals: Toronto, London 2016 In Spanish with English subtitles R16 sex scenes, offensive language R16 violence, nudity, sex scenes, & content that may disturb offensive language & content that may disturb
MANUEL CLARO, MARTÍN ESCALANTE Opened out by David Harrower from The film interrogates the psychology A mysterious visitor offers gratification and Alejandra and observes that maybe his 2005 stage two-hander Blackbird, of abuse with precision, intelligence to the sexually oppressed in this they should be getting some of what the first feature directed by the and restraint; taking on a disturbing arresting mix of hard-edged realism she’s been getting. She directs them Australian stage director-dramatist subject, Harrower and Andrews and bio-sci-fi from Mexican provocateur to a chalet in the countryside where Benedict Andrews is a crucible for expertly shift us through an enormous Amat Escalante (Heli). Alejandra and a scholarly elderly couple harbour the traumatic legacy of abuse – and range of intellectual and emotional her husband Angel live with their the mysterious guest. Not everyone the combustible nerviness of actors positions. This is filmmaking artistry young sons in Guanajuato, Mexico. granted access to the chalet comes Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn. of the highest order, from writing While the swaggering Angel lords it out exhilarated. As in the fierce Heli, “With deeply unresolved questions and performances to the unsettling, over his family, he’s also lining up Escalante’s indictment of posturing about her past, Una (Rooney Mara) moody score from Jed Kurzel (Macbeth, his next furtive hotel room hook-up machismo is graphic, incisive and travels to another city, turning Snowtown).” — Tricia Tuttle, London with Fabián, Alejandra’s brother. super-realistic. Envisaging its nemesis up unannounced at Ray’s (Ben Film Festival The gentle humanitarian in the film, as nature consumed by sexual ecstasy, Mendelsohn) work and dredging Fabián works in the local hospital. he’s created one memorably weird up a decade-old experience that he He too strains under the yoke of the mash-up of a movie. thought he’d left behind. Mendelsohn domineering Angel. and Mara are exceptional as the One day a young stranger arrives troubled and troubling Ray and Una, A RIALTO Fri 25 Aug, 8.15 pm at the clinic, strung out but strangely and Riz Ahmed makes for a perfect A RIALTO Sun 27 Aug, 8.00 pm exhilarated, with what appears to be A REGENT Thu 10 Aug, 8.15 pm foil as the innocent Scott. B RIALTO Mon 28 Aug, 4.15 pm a dog bite. Soon she befriends Fabián B REGENT Mon 14 Aug, 4.00 pm 34
Blue REALITY FRAMING Director/Screenplay: Karina Holden Australia 2017 | 76 mins Photography: Jody Muston Underwater photography: Jon Shaw Editor: Vanessa Milton With: Lucas Handley, Madison Stewart, Mark Dia, Phillip Mango, Jennifer Lavers, Tim Silverwood, Valerie Taylor Festivals: Sydney 2017 PG cert
With a background in natural history patiently extracting some of that waste TV, director Karina Holden has made from the bellies of endangered sea birds. an empowering conservationist On Cape York Peninsula the Nanum documentary showcasing the work Wunghtim rangers clear the coastal and advocacy of six `ocean guardians'. waters of the vast ghost nets abandoned Madison Stewart, who grew up on by fishing boats and trapping sea life. the Great Barrier Reef, has become Proving that conservation is not the an underwater filmmaker, using her sole preserve of the young, pioneering camera and social media to increase diver, shark advocate, artist and public awareness of the plight of sharks. Australian heroine Valerie Taylor is Mark Dia, regional oceans campaigner cautiously upbeat at 82. The ocean will for Greenpeace South Asia, uncovers recover, she says, “if we leave it alone.” illegal fishing practices, corruption and labour abuses in the seafood industry. Following the surf was what led Tim Silverwood to combat the appalling B REGENT Wed 9 Aug, 1.15 pm ubiquity of plastic waste in sea and on A REGENT Wed 16 Aug, 6.15 pm shoreline, Dr Jennifer Lavers is a marine eco-toxicologist, seen in the film A SJ Gore Sat 19 Aug, 1.30 pm
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
Director: Matt Tyrnauer USA 2016 | 92 mins Producer: Robert Hammond, Corey Reeser, Jessica Van Garsse, Matt Tyrnauer Photography: Chris Dapkins Editors: Daniel Morfesis, Andrea Lewis Music: Jane Antonia Cornish With: Jane Jacobs, Robert Moses Festivals: Toronto, Amsterdam Documentary 2016; Sydney 2017 Colour and B&W
At his most powerful in the years has fashioned a lively documentary The profusion of excellent documentaries after World War II, powerbroker about the enduring issues enunciated submitted to us is staggering. We try to steer and developer Robert Moses was so clearly in their clash. determined to modernise New York “Tyrnauer transforms what could a course that favours formal sophistication and speed up the traffic. He demolished be a staid profile film into an urgent and complexity, while allowing ourselves on great swathes of housing to build story about the dangers of ‘urban high-rise accommodation and construct renewal,’ something Jacobs herself occasion to fall for the most forthright advocacy superhighways the length of Manhattan. would admire… How do we retain and appeals to the heartstrings. David to his Goliath, Jane Jacobs led a neighborhood diversity amid rapid grass-roots campaign to thwart his plan gentrification? Can a metropolis retain You will find more fine examples filling the to plough an expressway across town, its humanity when everyone’s living in right through Lower Manhattan. Author high-rises?” — April Wolfe, Village Voice Aotearoa section of the programme and in of The Death and Life of Great American the sections that follow. Also in our Big Nights Cities, Jacobs had a vision of urban life that involved people, neighbourhoods, and For All Ages sections. In other words, heritage and habitation on a human documentaries are everywhere at NZIFF. scale, qualities Lower Manhattan enjoyed in abundance. Director Matt A REGENT Wed 9 Aug, 6.15 pm Tyrnauer (Valentino: The Last Emperor) B REGENT Tue 22 Aug, 1.30 pm FRAMING REALITY 35
The Farthest
More than 12 billion miles away a Director/Screenplay: Emer Reynolds spaceship the size of a bus has left our Ireland 2017 | 121 mins Solar System and is entering deep space. Producers: John Murray, Clare Stronge Photography: Kate McCullough Slowly dying within its heart is a nuclear Editor: Tony Cranstoun generator that will beat for perhaps Music: Ray Harman With: Fran Bagenal, Jim Bell, John Casani, another decade before the lights on Timothy Ferris, Suzanne Dodd, Amahl Drake, Voyager finally go out. But this little Frank Drake, Don Gurnett, Heidi Hammel, Candy Hansen-Koharcheck, Andrew Ingersoll, craft could travel on for millions of years, Charley Kohlhase, Lawrence Krauss carrying the ‘Golden Record’ bearing Festivals: Tribeca, Sydney 2017 recordings and images of life on Earth. In this spectacular and immensely enjoyable documentary, some of the women and men who have worked on NASA’s Voyager mission look back in wonder and sheer joy at what they achieved and the extraordinary wealth of knowledge that the tiny spaceship has beamed back to earth. As many of them ruefully acknowledge, it’s the most inward- looking, least scientific aspect of the best science project of all time, their project – that famous Golden Record passion for exploring the great beyond “This 40-year retrospective with its Bach, Beethoven, Balinese is inspiring. of the ongoing Voyager gamelans and Chuck Berry – that’s “It’s the right film at the right time, dominated the public imagination a cathartic moment in which audiences missions brings the around Voyager. This film, in which will shed tears for a little machine made humor and humanity they retrace Voyager’s 40-year journey of silicon and aluminium, wrapped in to the science.” and successive revelations from Jupiter tin foil and running on less computing — Tasha Robinson, The Verge (1979), Saturn (1981), Uranus (1986) power than our smartphones, yet A REGENT Sun 13 Aug, 12.00 pm and Neptune (1989), provides the which will outlive us all – perhaps B REGENT Wed 16 Aug, 11.00 am best possible hope of changing that. by billions of years.” — Fionnuala When these enthusiasts talk about the Halligan, Screendaily A SJ Gore Sun 27 Aug, 7.45 pm
PROUDLY I Am Not Your Negro SPONSORED BY Kedi
Director: Raoul Peck
USA/France 2016 93 mins Director: Ceyda Torun Screenplay: Raoul Peck, Turkey/USA 2016 James Baldwin 79 mins Photography: Henry Adebonojo, Bill Ross, Turner Ross Producers: Ceyda Torun, Narrator: Samuel L. Jackson Charlie Wuppermann With: James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Photography: Martin Luther King Jr, Medgar Charlie Wuppermann Evers, Lorraine Hansberry Editor: Mo Stoebe Festivals: Toronto, New York With: Sari, Bengü, Aslan Parçasi, 2016; Berlin 2017 Psikopat, Deniz, Gamsiz, Duman Nominated, Best Documentary, Festivals: Melbourne, Vancouver Academy Awards 2017 2016 B&W and Colour In Turkish with English subtitles
“Whatever you think about the past ever assembled on the tortured subject of “It’s hard to say whether Ceyda Torun’s In all great cities, the magnificent and future of what used to be called American identity – accompany images delightful and visually splendid Kedi is intersects with the mundane – that’s ‘race relations’ – white supremacy and from old talk shows and news reports, a documentary about Istanbul, with what makes them not only livable but the resistance to it, in plainer English – from classic movies and from our own cats, or a documentary about cats vital. The cats of Kedi tell that story, in this movie will make you think again, decidedly non-post-racial present… that happens to be set in Istanbul… between naps. They know a good place and may even change your mind. I Am Not Your Negro is a thrilling If Kedi is any sort of anthropological when they’ve found it.” — Stephanie Though its principal figure, the novelist, introduction to his work, a remedial examination of the life of a city, it Zacharek, Time playwright and essayist James Baldwin, course in American history, and an works because its vision is filtered is a man who has been dead for nearly advanced seminar in racial politics – a through the lazy-looking but in 30 years, you would be hard-pressed to concise, roughly 90-minute movie with fact hyper-aware eyes of our feline FEATURE PRECEDED BY find a movie that speaks to the present the scope and impact of a 10-hour compatriots… Stay moment with greater clarity and force, mini-series or a literary doorstop.” The picture’s pleasures are bountiful, Craig Gainsborough, Luke Thornborough | New Zealand insisting on uncomfortable truths — A.O. Scott, NY Times particularly for cat lovers…There are 2017 | 7 mins and drawing stark lessons from the cats sleeping obliviously on unnervingly B REGENT Thu 10 Aug, 11.30 am shadows of history… high-up ledges; cats padding across A REGENT Thu 10 Aug, 6.15 pm A REGENT Sat 12 Aug, 11.00 am The voice-over narration… is entirely B REGENT Fri 18 Aug, 1.45 pm corrugated rusty-red roofs; cats just B RIALTO Mon 21 Aug, 12.30 pm drawn from Baldwin’s work… His hanging out in doorways, their ears published and unpublished words – some A SJ Gore Sat 19 Aug, 3.30 pm barely twitching as nearby humans B SJ Gore Fri 18 Aug, 11.00 am of the most powerful and penetrating A SJ Gore Wed 23 Aug, 8.15 pm extol their virtues… A SJ Gore Mon 21 Aug, 6.15 pm 36 FRAMING REALITY
Risk To Stay Alive: A Method
Director: Laura Poitras Director: Erik Lieshout Germany/USA 2016 The Netherlands/ 93 mins Belgium 2016 | 70 mins Photography: Kirsten Johnson Producer: Marc Thelosen Editors: Melody London, Photography/Editor: Laura Poitras Reinier van Brummelen Music: Jeremy Flower Music: Iggy Pop With: Julian Assange, With: Michel Houellebecq, Sarah Harrison, Jacob Appelbaum, Iggy Pop, Anne Claire Bourdin, Renata Avila, Joseph Farrell, Jerome Tessier Jennifer Robinson Festivals: Amsterdam Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Documentary 2016; Sydney 2017 Fortnight) 2016; Sydney 2017 In English and French, with In English, Arabic and Spanish, English subtitles with English subtitles
Julian Assange loathes Risk. Or he like an intelligence agency. Calling A Michel Houellebecq/Iggy Pop combo rewards of suffering. loathes, at least, what Risk has become. the State Department, demanding to may initially seem incongruous. Houellebecq’s “advice to young When it premiered at Cannes in 2016, speak to Hillary Clinton. Taking on an However, these two enfants terribles, poets” combines reflections on artistic Laura Poitras’ film presented a mostly elaborate disguise for the dash to the veteran disrupters of the worlds of existence and the experiences of people admiring portrait of the WikiLeaks Ecuadorian embassy. literature and rock music on opposite in his own life, whom we also have founder. It has since been updated, Spellbinding and at times disquieting, sides of the Atlantic, share many the privilege of meeting. Far from the and updated again. WikiLeaks’ role Risk explores the moral and ethical affinities, not the least of which is the misérabilisme for which Houellebecq in the US presidential election is part debate sparked by WikiLeaks. But at shared belief that the role of the artist is renowned, this superbly crafted of that, but Poitras’ revisions are more its core it is a study of a man whose is to “put your finger on the wound film mines the value in difference and profoundly spurred by deepening brilliance risks becoming subsumed of society and press down real hard.” otherness, often with deadpan and suspicion about Assange’s character, by narcissism, with a startling attitude Iggy’s first encounter with impish wit – something else the two particularly his response to sexual to those who challenge him – and Houellebecq’s writing was like delving men share. — SR assault allegations. a filmmaker unwilling to remain a into his own autobiography, so much Seven years in the making, Risk is bystander. — Toby Manhire did it seem to describe his early a thematic sibling to Citizenfour, the experience as a geeky outsider. His Edward Snowden feature that won inimitable voice, gravel-rough and Poitras the 2015 Best Documentary poised, wonderfully recites excerpts B RIALTO Thu 10 Aug, 2.15 pm Oscar. The access is extraordinary. We A RIALTO Fri 11 Aug, 6.15 pm from To Stay Alive: A Method, the A RIALTO Sat 12 Aug, 4.30 pm see Assange marshalling his cohorts B RIALTO Wed 23 Aug, 12.15 pm French writer’s manifesto about the A RIALTO Mon 14 Aug, 6.15 pm
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Step
If you come to NZIFF in search of real-life heroines, the ‘Lethal Ladies’ of Baltimore Leadership School for Young Director: Amanda Lipitz Women are here to steal your hearts USA 2017 | 83 mins Producers: Steven Cantor, Amanda Lipitz – before they dazzle you in a blaze of Photography: Casey Regan step dance fury. Editor: Penelope Falk Opened in 2009 with a mandate to Music: Laura Karpman, Raphael Saadiq With: Blessin Giraldo, Cori Grainger, Tayla Solomon, send every student to university, the Gari McIntyre, Paula Dofat school is well attuned to the fractured Festivals: Sundance, San Francisco 2017 Special Jury Prize (Documentary), Sundance Film home lives and poverty facing many Festival 2017 of its brightest charges. The film trails three very differently positioned seniors as each is guided through a nerve- wracking college application process. Where they find unity, relief and exhilaration is on the step dance team. Under the new step mistress, that’s no walk in the park either: she’s pushing them to kill at the state dance-off. Director Amanda Lipitz gets close to her subjects and into their relationships “Step is so much fun, it could cause with the women who champion and some doc purists to gripe at the glossy “Inspirational… Step tells a challenge them: their mothers, a touches… but that’s where the film story that highlights heroically persistent college counsellor, may ultimately prove most powerful. and the no-bullshit step coach. With By offering some of society’s most the intertwining values so much effort concentrated on marginalized members – young black of hope and education.” getting into college, the outcome of women – their time in the spotlight — Steve Greene, Indiewire the step competition assumes a lesser without any inkling of condescension significance than in the standard ‘Best or exploitation, Lipitz does more than in Show’ documentary, which only just entertain or enlighten. She’s makes it more loaded when the big breaking down barriers in nonfiction A REGENT Mon 21 Aug, 6.15 pm moment suddenly arrives. cinema.” — Geoff Berkshire, Variety B REGENT Fri 25 Aug, 1.00 pm
Unrest Winnie
Director: Jennifer Brea Director/Screenplay: USA 2017 | 97 mins Pascale Lamche Screenplay: Jennifer Brea, France/South Africa/ Kim Roberts The Netherlands 2017 Photography: Sam Heesen, Christian Laursen 98 mins With: Jennifer Brea, Omar Wasow, Photography: Olivier Raffet, Jessica Taylor, Lee Ray Denton, Felix Meyburgh Randy Denton, Casie Jackson With: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Festivals: Sundance, SXSW 2017 Zindzi Mandela-Hlongwane Special Jury Prize (Documentary), Festivals: Sundance 2017 Sundance Film Festival 2017 Directing Award (World Cinema In English and Danish, with Documentary), Sundance Film English subtitles Festival 2017
A largely mysterious condition that Unrest tells the story of Jen and her French director Pascale Lamche’s Zindzi, biographers, journalists and reportedly afflicts as many as 17 husband, Omar, facing the unexpected, Sundance award winner outlines the lawyers make it abundantly clear how million people worldwide, chronic and four of the community of ME life and work of legendary activist she became such a formidable fighter, fatigue syndrome or myalgic patients whom Jen brings together on Winnie Madikizela-Mandela – and still going strong at 80. encephalomyelitis (ME) still perplexes the internet, in the United States, UK allows her to deliver her side of a “It might be apparent where the most doctors and is often dismissed and Denmark. Together they explore disputed history. Nelson Mandela film’s sympathies reside, but Winnie is as a psychosomatic illness. how to make a meaningful life when was often perceived as a saint, even by no means a simple or straightforward Director Jennifer Brea was a everything changes. The film is a feat by the regime he opposed. Winnie, missive of support. Lamche’s efforts to journalist and academic studying for of disability filmmaking, made with an who was married to him for 38 years unravel not only the tale at hand but a PhD at Harvard. Months before her international team and using innovative and furthered his agenda in a violent also the reasoning behind the many wedding she became progressively technologies to allow the bedbound outside world during his 27 years of conflicting views surrounding her ill, losing the ability even to sit in a director to cover the world and film as incarceration, was almost as readily subject – and the ripples both leave in wheelchair. When told by her doctor if she’s in the room. demonised. Lamche’s film makes telling the country today – are deftly it was ‘all in her head’, her response use of archival clips, not least Winnie handled.” — Sarah Ward, Screendaily was to start filming from her bed, Mandela’s fractious engagement gradually deploying crews globally with the Truth and Reconciliation to document the world inhabited by B RIALTO Fri 11 Aug, 12.00 pm Commission and her breathtaking millions of patients whom medicine A RIALTO Sun 13 Aug, 3.45 pm denunciation by Bishop Desmond Tutu. B RIALTO Wed 16 Aug, 11.45 am forgot. A RIALTO Sat 26 Aug, 11.45 am Interviews with diplomat daughter A RIALTO Fri 18 Aug, 6.15 pm 38
BANG! The Bert Berns Story AN ARTIST AN OF PORTRAIT Directors: Brett Berns, Bob Sarles USA 2016 | 96 mins Directors: Brett Berns, Bob Sarles Screenplay: Joel Selvin Photography: Aaron Medick, Gil Gilbert Narrator: Steven Van Zandt With: Paul McCartney, Van Morrison, Solomon Burke, Keith Richards, Ben E. King, Wilson Pickett, Ronald Isley, Cissy Houston, Brenda Reid, Betty Harris, Mike Stoller, Doug Morris, Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich Festivals: SXSW, Vancouver 2016
Bert Berns created some of the most nightclub go-go dancer), and a record gloriously soulful pop records of the industry hustler and standover man 1960s. This Bronx-born son of Russian known as ‘Wassel’. Jewish immigrants wrote such immortal Berns had friendships and songs as ‘Twist and Shout’ and ‘Piece of partnerships with colourfully unsavoury My Heart’, brought Cuban rhythms into characters, and vicious showdowns R&B and produced the hits that kick- with colleagues and rivals. And yet started Van Morrison’s career. He also the word that keeps recurring in this “walked with gangsters – and exalted documentary is ‘soul’. Everyone attests them,” according to his biographer Joel that Berns had it, from Morrison to Selvin. black soul giants like Ben E. King and Berns, who died in 1967, age 38, Cissy Houston. This movie helps us lived as though he was on borrowed understand that soul, its origins and its time. The movie parallels the punchy torments. — Nick Bollinger pace of his brief but dramatic life. Steven Van Zandt (from Springsteen’s E Street Band) narrates. Interviewees are A RIALTO Thu 10 Aug, 8.00 pm mostly straight-shooting New Yorkers, B RIALTO Fri 11 Aug, 4.15 pm including Berns’ widow Ilene (a former A RIALTO Tue 15 Aug, 6.15 pm
Beuys: Art As a Weapon
Director/Screeplay: Andres Veiel Germany 2017 107 mins Photography: Jörg Jeshel Editors: Stephan Krumbiegel, Olaf Voigtländer With: Joseph Beuys, Caroline Tisdall, Rhea Thönges-Stringaris, Franz Joseph van der Grinten, Johannes Stüttgen, Klaus Staeck Festivals: Berlin, Sydney 2017 In German and English, with English subtitles Colour and B&W
“Most Germans, regardless of their level Beuys shows you the man, his See also: of education or their interest in art have interactions with the press, his inner Bill Direen: A Memory of Others (p10), heard of Joseph Beuys [1921– 1986]. family life and the dilemmas he faced in Born in Kleve, he walked the earth like his career: from youthful depression to Faces Places (p6), Kobi (p12), Maudie (p16). a shaman, dressed in a hat and a khaki starting a counter-cultural revolution.” fishing vest, offered healing thoughts, — Rene J. Meyer-Grimberg, Berlin aktionen (happenings) and confusing Film Journal installation pieces suggesting ways to “Veiel’s film strives to not only heal a wounded post-war Germany. invite viewers to reminisce over the His personal legend includes being a importance of Beuys’ work, but also member of Hitler youth, a gunner with provide us with an insight into the the Luftwaffe and getting shot down workings of a true anti-conformist’s over the Caucasus. His pilot died but mind.” — Josef Proimarkis, Cineuropa he survived and, according to his story (which is gently questioned in the film), the Tartars rolled him in fat and wool until he could be brought to a hospital. Consequently, fat and wool figure B RIALTO Tue 15 Aug, 2.00 pm prominently in his work. A RIALTO Sat 19 Aug, 12.00 pm PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST 39
House of Z
“As good looking and stylish as its Director: Sandy Chronopoulos subject, House of Z is a portrait of the USA 2017 | 90 mins artist as a young man. Famously well Producers: Jana Edelbaum, Rachel Cohen, Sandy Chronopoulos connected, Zac Posen rode a rocket Photography: Konrad Czystowski, Nadia Hallgren, ship to fame and success at the age of Mark Klassen Editors: Hollie Singer, Madeleine Gavin 21. But his is a cautionary tale of what Music: Eric Stamile happens to those whose PR machines With: Zac Posen, Susan Posen, Alexandra Posen, Stephen Posen, Naomi Campbell, are steps ahead of reality. As quickly Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, André Leon Talley, as the handsome Zac made a name Paz de la Huerta, Claire Danes for himself, he found himself on the Festivals: Tribeca 2017 receiving end of damaging gossip, PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH bad reviews and dropping sales. Told with the help of a star-studded cast, including Puff Daddy, Naomi Campbell and Claire Danes, this all-access story charts the rise and fall – and rise again – of a fashion world wunderkind.” — Aisha Jamal, Hot Docs “‘Fashion has a dark side. Not all runways and lipstick and fishtail gowns,’ Posen says about his chosen In Posen’s continued dedication to milieu, and while House of Z is making dresses in his atelier – and by “An enjoyable doc aesthetically quite straightforward, personally draping gowns over female overflowing with stunning it receives a jolt of unique energy bodies, as the foundation of his process from Posen’s own front-and-center – House of Z captures the way in which pieces of clothing, both participation in this portrait… He direct hands-on engagement is vital on models and on its star.” comes across as a young man to an artist’s continued relevance, and — John DeFore, Hollywood humbled by failure and appreciative vitality.” — Nick Schager, Variety Reporter of the opportunities he still has, not to A REGENT Sat 12 Aug, 1.15 pm mention now capable of viewing his B REGENT Tue 15 Aug, 11.30 am past through a more mature, objective lens… A SJ Gore Sun 20 Aug, 3.15 pm
BIG Time La Chana
Director/Photography: Director: Lucija Stojevic Kaspar Astrup Schröder Spain/Iceland 2016 Denmark 2017 | 93 mins 83 mins Producer: Sara Stockmann Producers: Lucija Stojevic, Editors: Bobbie Esra G. Pertan, Deirdre Towers Cathrine Ambus, Kaspar Astrup Photography: Samuel Navarrete Schröder Editor: Domi Parra Music: Ali Helnwein Music: Ernesto Briceño With: Bjarke Ingels With: La Chana In Danish and English, with Festivals: Amsterdam English subtitles Documentary 2016 Audience Award, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2016 In Spanish with English subtitles
As a kid, Danish architect Bjarke Ingels there’s a world of difference between ‘La Chana’, the living legend of Spanish her brutally possessive [first] husband… considered the flat roof on his parents’ fielding such paltry objections on home flamenco dancing, surveys the emotional The shadowy husband turned down house to be a waste of space – with ground and opening a New York office rollercoaster of her tough life and Hollywood offers and effectively forced potential. In 2016, his plans for a to embark on mammoth projects that remarkable career in a documentary La Chana into an early retirement, from smoke ring-blowing power plant with will join the most famous architectural that mixes highly personable interview which she emerged triumphantly via a ski slope on its roof in Copenhagen skyline of them all. footage with a lifetime’s worth of a 1977 TV special… In her late sixties attracted attention outside the usual Schröder documents the architect’s flat-out amazing performance clips. at the time of filming, the dignified, architectural press. Time magazine struggle to balance ambition, ill health Has anybody else anywhere ever dowager-like La Chana has mobility named him, at the age of 42, one of and relationships with remarkable moved their feet with such speed, issues but is still very much a ‘force the world’s 100 most influential people intimacy, but his film never feels closer expression and passionate intensity? of nature’. She retains just enough of the year. to the heart of its subject than when it “La Chana is an admiring, even ‘strength, speed and soul’ – the crucial Filmmaker Kaspar Astrup Schröder lets him talk about buildings, marker at adoring portrait of a strong-willed elements of flamenco – to be coaxed filmed Ingels on and off over several hand, dashing off lightning illustrations female performer rising above the into one last show.” — Neil Young, years, and the portrait of a driven of everything he says. restrictions of the patriarchal society Hollywood Reporter man stretched increasingly thin is both into which she was born. In the case compelling and alarming. Early in the of La Chana – also known as Antonia film there’s wry coverage of the fallout B RIALTO Thu 17 Aug, 11.45 am Santiago Amador – this was the that occurs when the power company A RIALTO Sat 19 Aug, 4.30 pm fiercely traditional gypsy society of B RIALTO Mon 14 Aug, 12.45 pm asks who’s paying for the ski slope, but A RIALTO Sun 20 Aug, 11.45 am Franco-era Spain, as personified by A RIALTO Mon 28 Aug, 6.15 pm 40
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Although he doesn’t have the name Director/Producer/Screenplay: recognition or profile of some of his Reiner Holzemer contemporaries, acclaimed Belgian Germany/Belgium 2017 | 90 mins designer Dries Van Noten is the latest Photography: Reiner Holzemer, Toon Illegems, Erwin Van Der Stappen to get the fashion documentary Editors: Helmar Jungmann, Stephan Krumbiegel treatment in this intimate and Music: Colin Greenwood, Matthew Herbert, Sam Petts-Davies understated portrait. All the requisite With: Dries Van Noten, Iris Apfel, Pamela Golbin, fashion film fixtures are on show: Geert Brulot In English and Dutch, with English subtitles gorgeous clothes, stunning models and plenty of sartorial drama. For 30 years, Van Noten has carved a successful career as an independent designer in a fickle and demanding industry. His fashion shows are must- see events and he can count Iris Apfel and Kanye West among his fans. Dries provides a peek at Van Noten’s creative process as he and his team prepare four new collections. His clothes revel in clashing prints, blending low and high culture and exhibiting an unrivalled eye footage of previous shows. These for detail. Like many designers, Van are some of the film’s most insightful “The fashion industry Noten is sensitive to the fast fashion scenes, allowing Van Noten to chart the has been dying in its climate. “‘Fashion’ is such an empty evolution of his abilities and confidence word,” he says. “I think we have to as a designer and acknowledge his own grave, and people invent a new word.” In a world where successes and missteps. like Dries keep the we’re constantly told what’s hot or Like its subject, Dries is a quietly flame alive.” — Iris Apfel not, designers like Van Noten provide modest film that allows the opulent a counterpoint to an industry driven fashion to soar. This is cinematic A RIALTO Sun 20 Aug, 6.00 pm by trends. window shopping that won’t break the B RIALTO Wed 23 Aug, 2.15 pm Dries is also a chance for Van Noten bank. — Chris Tse B RIALTO Fri 25 Aug, 2.30 pm A RIALTO Sat 26 Aug, 3.45 pm to revisit the past through archival
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Director: James Bogle Australia 2017 | 94 mins Director: Producer: Sue Clothier Catherine Bainbridge Screenplay: James Bogle, Victor Gentile Canada 2017 | 102 mins Photography: Jim Frater Co-director: Alfonso Maiorana Editor: Lawrie Silvestrin With: Robbie Robertson, Buffy Music: Ash Gibson Greig Sainte-Marie, John Trudell, With: Brett Whiteley, Wendy Pat Vegas, Martin Scorsese, Whiteley, Frannie Hopkirk, Tony Bennett, Steven Tyler, Barry Pearce, Kathie Sutherland, Iggy Pop, Taj Mahal, Adam Beach Phillip Adams, Andrew Olle Festivals: Sundance 2017 Special Jury Prize (World Cinema Documentary), Sundance Film Festival 2017
This revealing tribute to Native thunder of drummer Randy Castillo to Blending archival footage, interviews genius at work deeply affected by his American musicians celebrates their the glides and slides in the singing of and personal correspondence, Whiteley surroundings and fractured psyche. little credited contributions to popular early jazz queen Mildred Bailey. is a bold portrait of Australian artist “I am trying to become a great contemporary music from blues to jazz, In the end, though, the point is not Brett Whiteley that charts his chaotic man. Believe in me.” Whiteley says from Hendrix to Metallica. to untie the tangled blood knot of life in his own words. Despite early this with a determination in his voice “A Native American singer of the American music so much as celebrate success, Whiteley’s public struggles that acknowledges the forces in his Tuscarora tribe, Pura Fe Crescioni sits the greatest Native American music with addiction soon overshadowed life that both fuelled his talent and beside a turntable as it plays a 1929 stars, many of whom kept their origins his artistic talents, pulling him ever sealed his untimely death. Although he recording of the bluesman Charley concealed. As Robbie Robertson of The deeper into a state of personal and may have always questioned himself, Patton. ‘When I hear this, it’s Indian Band was warned when he was young, creative turmoil. there’s no denying the legacy he left music to me,’ she says. ‘That rhythm. ‘Be proud you’re an Indian, but be One of the constants of Whiteley’s behind. Whiteley ensures that we Do you hear it?’ After the field careful who you tell.’” — Nick Bollinger life was his wife and muse Wendy, who continue to recognise this iconic artist’s recordings of Mississippi Chocktaws features as the film’s other prominent achievements. — Chris Tse performing their ‘Drunk Dance’ just voice, recounting decades of passion moments earlier, I hear it. and drama with him. The film breathes
Once this idea has been sown, it’s A REGENT Mon 14 Aug, 8.45 pm new life into many of Whiteley’s works hard not to hear Native American B RIALTO Mon 28 Aug, 2.15 pm – from his erotically charged landscapes elements throughout the music profiled to his political New York output – B RIALTO Tue 22 Aug, 1.45 pm in this film, from the heavy metal A SJ Gore Tue 22 Aug, 8.00 pm giving us an impressionistic view of a A RIALTO Wed 23 Aug, 6.15 pm Roll out the digital red carpet. Official Sponsors of NZIFF 2017 Innovative Festivals choose forward thinking technology partners. www.shift72.com VOD Solutions for the entertainment industry 43
DUNEDIN TICKET PRICES TICKET COLLECTION For phone and mail bookings, tickets can be mailed out if booking is received at least seven days prior to your first screening. Please note: tickets cannot be replaced if they are lost in the post. A CODED SESSIONS If you paid for your tickets by cheque, they will be held at the Regent box office. All other Sessions starting after 5.00 pm weekdays and all weekend sessions tickets will 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. » Full Price $16.00 » Film Society/Film Industry Guilds/Regent Theatre Friends $13.00 REFUNDS Please note that NO REFUNDS will be given for uncollected tickets or tickets collected late. » Student/Community Services Card $13.00* Bookings once made cannot be altered. Please choose carefully as there are no exchanges or refunds except as required by law. » Children (15 and under)/Seniors (65+) $10.00
B CODED SESSIONS VENUE INFORMATION Sessions starting before 5.00 pm weekdays and others as indicated FOR ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS VISIT www.nziff.co.nz » Full Price $12.50 Regent Theatre: 17 The Octagon, ph (03) 477 8597. Rialto Cinemas: 11 Moray Place, ph (03) 474 2200. » Children (15 and under) $10.00 WHEELCHAIR ACCESS/SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS » Seniors (65+) $10.00 Please advise the ticket seller when purchasing your tickets if you have difficulty with stairs, or have any special requirements. S SPECIAL SENIOR SCREENING No Ordinary Sheila (p13) PROGRAMME CHANGES » Seniors (65+) $6.00** We reluctantly reserve the right to change the schedule by amending dates or replacing films. Any necessary changes will be advertised at NZIFF venues and in FIVE-TRIP PASS the Otago Daily Times. On sale at both venues. Can be purchased on the day or in advance PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY » Five-Trip Pass $60.00*** There are no advertising films or trailers at NZIFF. We reserve the right to ask latecomers to wait until the conclusion of any speeches or short films before they are seated. If collecting * Full-time student and Community Services Card concession price available for counter bookings only on presentation tickets prior to a screening please allow extra time in case there are queues. of current relevant ID. ** A Special Senior price of $6.00 is available for the 10.30 am screening on Thursday 17 August. *** The Five-Trip Pass can be purchased in advance and used to book tickets on the day for any NZIFF session that is MOBILE PHONES not sold out. Passes can be shared and used at both venues. They cannot be used for online, phone or mail bookings. Please switch off mobile phones before entering the auditorium.
DUNEDIN FILM SOCIETY, REGENT THEATRE FRIENDS AND FILM INDUSTRY GUILDS CONCESSION PRICE GENERAL INFORMATION Film Society members are entitled to purchase one ticket per session at the discount rate. Membership ID is required – please ensure you bring it with you to the venue to present to WEBSITE – www.nziff.co.nz Roll out staff on request; failure to do so will result in the full price being charged for attendance. Register on our website to customise your view of NZIFF, select your favourite films, send films The concession price is not available to those holding Film Society three-film sampler cards. to your friends, and create your own schedule. The site also features an at-a-glance planner Prices are GST inclusive and in NZD. that shows you exactly when each movie is scheduled to start and finish.
www.facebook.com/nzfilmfestival BUYING TICKETS www.twitter.com/nzff Advance bookings can be made for all NZIFF screenings. As the Regent Theatre and Rialto Cinemas are unfortunately unable to offer allocated seating, we recommend arriving early www.youtube.com/nzintfilmfestival the digital to your session to secure the best seats. ONLINE (Rialto Cinemas screenings only) – www.rialto.co.nz www.instagram.com/nziff From Tuesday 18 July. Booking fees apply. PROGRAMME CHANGES IN PERSON We reluctantly reserve the right to change the schedule by amending dates or replacing films. Advance ticket sales are available for all sessions and can be made from the venue where the Any necessary changes will be advertised at NZIFF venues and on our website. film is screening. As these box offices are operated for NZIFF by the venues themselves, they are not equipped to sell tickets for other NZIFF venues. These box offices will open one hour PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY prior to the first NZIFF session of the day at the venue and close 15 minutes after the start of There are no advertising films or trailers at NZIFF. We reserve the right to ask latecomers red carpet. the day’s final NZIFF session. to wait until the conclusion of any introductions or short films before they are seated, Regent Theatre: Tuesday 18 July – Friday 25 August or to seat latecomers in seats other than those originally purchased, to minimise disturbance Official Sponsors of NZIFF 2017 9.00 am – 5.30 pm Monday to Friday; 10.30 am – 1.00 pm Saturday to other patrons. Open Sundays during NZIFF. Rialto Cinemas: Tuesday 18 July – Wednesday 30 August CENSORSHIP CLASSIFICATION Innovative Festivals choose forward 10.30 am – 9.00 pm daily. G – Suitable for general audiences PG – Parental guidance recommended for younger viewers thinking technology partners. MAIL M – Unrestricted. Recommended as more suitable for mature audiences 16 years and over A booking form is available on our website. Once completed, post to: RP13 – Restricted to persons 13 years and over, unless they are accompanied by a parent or guardian NZIFF Bookings, Regent Theatre, PO Box 5036, Dunedin 9058. RP16 – Restricted to persons 16 years and over, unless they are accompanied by a parent or guardian Booking fee: $8.50 per transaction. R13 – Restricted to persons 13 years and over R16 – Restricted to persons 16 years and over TELEPHONE (Regent Theatre screenings only) – (03) 477 8597 R18 – Restricted to persons 18 years and over 9.00 am – 5.30 pm Monday to Friday; 10.30 am – 1.00 pm Saturday; closed Sundays. Booking fee: $8.50 per transaction. Classifications will be published in NZIFF’s daily newspaper advertising and displayed at the venues’ box offices. Children’s tickets are available only for films classified AT THE VENUE ON THE DAY G, PG and M. At the time of printing some films have not been rated. Until they Regent Theatre: From 9.00 am on the day of the screening, Monday to Friday; receive a censor rating, they are considered R18 (unless clearly aimed at children) from one hour before the first screening on weekends. and can only be purchased by and for people aged 18 and over. For more Rialto Cinemas: From 10.30 am daily. information please visit the ticketing and venue information page on our website. Please note: ID may be requested for restricted films. METHODS OF PAYMENT Cash/EFTPOS: Accepted for box office and venue bookings. Visa/Mastercard: Accepted for all bookings. 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. www.shift72.com VOD Solutions for the entertainment industry
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Tuesday 8 August A 6.15 pm BANG! The Bert Berns Story (RIALTO) 96 38 Tuesday 22 August A 7.00 pm 20th Century Women (REGENT) 119 5 A 6.15 pm My Life As a... (Dubbed) (REGENT) 66 31 B 11.00 am Maudie (REGENT) 115 16 A 7.45 pm Call Me by Your Name (REGENT) 132 20 Wednesday 9 August B 12.00 pm Animation NOW! 2017 (RIALTO) 85 27 A 8.15 pm Wind River (RIALTO) 111 27 B 11.00 am Summer 1993 (REGENT) 97 22 B 1.30 pm Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (REGENT) 92 34 B 1.15 pm Blue (REGENT) 76 34 Wednesday 16 August B 1.45 pm Whiteley (RIALTO) 94 41 B 3.15 pm BPM (Beats Per Minute) (REGENT) 144 18 B 11.00 am The Farthest (REGENT) 121 35 B 3.45 pm Good Time (REGENT) 100 6 A 6.15 pm Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (REGENT) 92 34 B 11.45 am Winnie (RIALTO) 98 37 B 3.45 pm Waru (RIALTO) 88 14 A 8.15 pm Spookers (REGENT) 83 13 B 1.45 pm Brigsby Bear (REGENT) 98 26 A 6.15 pm Frantz (REGENT) 114 17 B 1.45 pm Kim Dotcom… (RIALTO) 112 13 A 6.15 pm My Life As a... (Dubbed) (RIALTO) 66 31 Thursday 10 August B 4.00 pm Lady Macbeth (REGENT) 89 33 A 7.45 pm Waru (RIALTO) 88 14 B 11.30 am Kedi (REGENT) 79 + 7 35 B 4.00 pm The Wound (RIALTO) 88 + 16 23 A 8.45 pm A Ghost Story (REGENT) 93 31 B 12.15 pm The Teacher (RIALTO) 102 21 A 6.15 pm Blue (REGENT) 76 34 B 1.45 pm Ethel & Ernest (REGENT) 94 24 Wednesday 23 August A 6.15 pm The Teacher (RIALTO) 102 21 B 2.15 pm To Stay Alive: A Method (RIALTO) 70 36 B 11.00 am Faces Places (REGENT) 89 6 A 8.00 pm The Inland Road (REGENT) 80 11 B 3.45 pm Gabriel and the Mountain (RIALTO) 127 30 B 12.15 pm Risk (RIALTO) 93 36 A 8.15 pm Kiki, Love to Love (RIALTO) 102 23 B 4.00 pm The Other Side of Hope (REGENT) 98 9 B 1.15 pm Mountain (REGENT) 74 8 A 6.15 pm I Am Not Your Negro (REGENT) 93 35 Thursday 17 August B 2.15 pm Dries (RIALTO) 90 41 A 6.15 pm New Zealand’s Best 2017 (RIALTO) 75 15 B 10.30 am No Ordinary Sheila (REGENT) 98 13 B 3.15 pm The Square (REGENT) 147 5 A 8.00 pm BANG! The Bert Berns Story (RIALTO) 96 38 B 11.45 am BIG Time (RIALTO) 93 39 B 4.00 pm Patti Cake$ (RIALTO) 108 31 A 8.15 pm The Untamed (REGENT) 100 33 B 1.30 pm Frantz (REGENT) 114 17 A 6.15 pm The Party (REGENT) 71 23 A 6.15 pm Whiteley (RIALTO) 94 41 Friday 11 August B 1.45 pm The Inland Road (RIALTO) 80 11 B 4.00 pm Kiki, Love to Love (RIALTO) 102 23 A 8.00 pm Human Traces (REGENT) 87 7 B 10.45 am 20th Century Women (REGENT) 119 5 B 4.00 pm The Beguiled (REGENT) 94 25 A 8.15 pm I Am Not a Witch (RIALTO) 95 30 B 12.00 pm Unrest (RIALTO) 97 37 Thursday 24 August B 1.15 pm A Date for Mad Mary (REGENT) 82 21 A 6.15 pm Ethel & Ernest (RIALTO) 94 24 B 2.00 pm The Workshop (RIALTO) 114 19 A 6.15 pm Faces Places (REGENT) 89 6 B 11.45 am A Fantastic Woman (RIALTO) 105 17 B 3.15 pm The Lost City of Z (REGENT) 141 26 A 8.15 pm A Monster Calls (RIALTO) 109 24 B 12.00 pm The Party (REGENT) 71 23 B 1.45 pm Human Traces (RIALTO) 87 7 B 4.15 pm BANG! The Bert Berns Story (RIALTO) 96 38 A 8.15 pm The Killing of a Sacred Deer (REGENT) 125 7 B 2.00 pm That’s Not Me (REGENT) 86 16 A 6.15 pm Brigsby Bear (REGENT) 98 26 Friday 18 August B 4.00 pm A Ghost Story (REGENT) 93 31 A 6.15 pm Risk (RIALTO) 93 36 B 11.00 am Call Me by Your Name (REGENT) 132 20 B 4.15 pm It Comes at Night (RIALTO) 92 27 A 8.15 pm Wind River (RIALTO) 111 27 B 11.00 am TEAM TIBET: Home away… (RIALTO) 160 14 A 6.15 pm Heal the Living (RIALTO) 103 17 A 8.30 pm BPM (Beats Per Minute) (REGENT) 144 18 B 1.45 pm I Am Not Your Negro (REGENT) 93 35 A 6.15 pm Loveless (REGENT) 128 8 Saturday 12 August B 2.00 pm Nga¯ Whanaunga... (RIALTO) 91 15 A 8.15 pm I Am Not a Witch (RIALTO) 95 30 A 11.00 am Kedi (REGENT) 79 + 7 35 B 3.45 pm The Killing of a Sacred Deer (REGENT) 125 7 A 9.00 pm Swagger of Thieves (REGENT) 110 14 B 12.00 pm Animation for Kids 4+ (RIALTO) 61 29 B 4.00 pm A Monster Calls (RIALTO) 109 24 Friday 25 August A 1.15 pm House of Z (REGENT) 90 39 A 6.15 pm Winnie (RIALTO) 98 37 B 10.30 am The Midwife (REGENT) 117 19 A 1.30 pm TEAM TIBET: Home away… (RIALTO) 160 14 A 6.30 pm Beatriz at Dinner (REGENT) 83 25 B 1.00 pm My Life As a... (Dubbed) (RIALTO) 66 31 A 3.30 pm The Midwife (REGENT) 117 19 A 8.15 pm Gabriel and the Mountain (RIALTO) 127 30 B 1.00 pm Step (REGENT) 83 37 A 4.30 pm To Stay Alive: A Method (RIALTO) 70 36 A 8.30 pm Good Time (REGENT) 100 6 B 2.30 pm Dries (RIALTO) 90 41 A 6.00 pm A Monster Calls (RIALTO) 109 24 Saturday 19 August B 3.00 pm Blade of the Immortal (REGENT) 141 21 A 6.15 pm The Other Side of Hope (REGENT) 98 9 B 11.15 am Animation for Kids 4+ (REGENT) 61 29 B 4.15 pm 6 Days (RIALTO) 95 11 A 8.15 pm Kiki, Love to Love (RIALTO) 102 23 A 12.00 pm Beuys: Art As a Weapon (RIALTO) 107 38 A 6.15 pm Let the Sunshine In (RIALTO) 94 18 A 8.30 pm Lady Macbeth (REGENT) 89 33 A 1.00 pm No Ordinary Sheila (REGENT) 98 13 A 6.15 pm That’s Not Me (REGENT) 86 16 Sunday 13 August A 2.15 pm The Workshop (RIALTO) 114 19 A 8.15 pm The Square (REGENT) 147 5 A 4.00 pm Summer 1993 (REGENT) 97 22 B 10.15 am Animation for Kids 8+ (REGENT) 71 29 A 8.15 pm Una (RIALTO) 94 33 A 12.00 pm Born in China (RIALTO) 79 28 A 4.30 pm BIG Time (RIALTO) 93 39 Saturday 26 August A 12.00 pm The Farthest (REGENT) 121 35 A 6.30 pm A Date for Mad Mary (REGENT) 82 21 A 11.45 am Unrest (RIALTO) 97 37 A 1.45 pm Heal the Living (RIALTO) 103 17 A 6.30 pm Nga¯ Whanaunga... (RIALTO) 91 15 A 1.45 pm Pop Aye (RIALTO) 102 21 A 2.45 pm Kobi (REGENT) 103 12 A 8.30 pm 100 Men (RIALTO) 94 10 A 3.45 pm Dries (RIALTO) 90 41 A 3.45 pm Unrest (RIALTO) 97 37 A 8.30 pm Blade of the Immortal (REGENT) 141 21 A 5.45 pm Bill Direen: A Memory of Others (RIALTO) 87 10 A 5.45 pm The Teacher (RIALTO) 102 21 Sunday 20 August A 8.15 pm 6 Days (RIALTO) 95 11 A 6.00 pm The Beguiled (REGENT) 94 25 A 11.00 am Born in China (REGENT) 79 28 A 7.45 pm The Wound (RIALTO) 88 + 16 23 A 11.45 am BIG Time (RIALTO) 93 39 Sunday 27 August A 8.15 pm The Lost City of Z (REGENT) 141 26 A 1.00 pm My Year with Helen (REGENT) 93 9 A 11.00 am Swallows and Amazons (RIALTO) 97 28 A 1.00 pm Bill Direen: A Memory of Others (RIALTO) 87 10 Monday 14 August A 1.45 pm A Fantastic Woman (RIALTO) 105 17 A 3.30 pm A Woman’s Life (RIALTO) 119 19 B 11.15 am Kobi (REGENT) 103 12 A 4.00 pm Ethel & Ernest (RIALTO) 94 24 A 5.45 pm Patti Cake$ (RIALTO) 108 31 B 12.45 pm La Chana (RIALTO) 83 39 A 4.00 pm Happy End (REGENT) 110 18 A 8.00 pm Una (RIALTO) 94 33 B 2.15 pm My Life As a... (Subtitled) (REGENT) 66 31 A 6.00 pm Dries (RIALTO) 90 41 B 2.30 pm New Zealand’s Best 2017 (RIALTO) 75 15 A 6.30 pm Mountain (REGENT) 74 8 Monday 28 August B 4.00 pm The Untamed (REGENT) 100 33 A 8.00 pm Gabriel and the Mountain (RIALTO) 127 30 B 12.00 pm A Woman’s Life (RIALTO) 119 19 B 4.00 pm Wind River (RIALTO) 111 27 A 8.15 pm It Comes at Night (REGENT) 92 27 B 2.15 pm RUMBLE... (RIALTO) 102 41 B 4.15 pm Una (RIALTO) 94 33 A 6.15 pm Maudie (REGENT) 115 16 Monday 21 August A 6.15 pm La Chana (RIALTO) 83 39 A 6.15 pm To Stay Alive: A Method (RIALTO) 70 36 B 10.30 am My Year with Helen (REGENT) 93 9 A 8.00 pm Let the Sunshine In (RIALTO) 94 18 A 7.45 pm Kim Dotcom… (RIALTO) 112 13 B 12.30 pm Kedi (RIALTO) 79 + 7 35 A 8.45 pm RUMBLE... (REGENT) 102 41 B 1.15 pm Beatriz at Dinner (REGENT) 83 25 Tuesday 29 August Tuesday 15 August B 2.15 pm Heal the Living (RIALTO) 103 17 B 11.15 am Let the Sunshine In (RIALTO) 94 18 B 11.30 am House of Z (REGENT) 90 39 B 3.15 pm Loveless (REGENT) 128 8 A 6.15 pm Pop Aye (RIALTO) 102 21 B 12.00 pm Pop Aye (RIALTO) 102 21 B 4.15 pm 100 Men (RIALTO) 94 10 A 8.15 pm 6 Days (RIALTO) 95 11 B 1.45 pm Happy End (REGENT) 110 18 A 6.15 pm Animation NOW! 2017 (RIALTO) 85 27 Wednesday 30 August B 2.00 pm Beuys: Art As a Weapon (RIALTO) 107 38 A 6.15 pm Step (REGENT) 83 37 A 6.15 pm A Fantastic Woman (RIALTO) 105 17 B 4.15 pm I Am Not a Witch (RIALTO) 95 30 A 8.00 pm The Workshop (RIALTO) 114 19 A 8.30 pm Patti Cake$ (RIALTO) 108 31 B 4.15 pm Spookers (REGENT) 83 13 A 8.15 pm The Free Man (REGENT) 84 11
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GORE TICKET PRICES GORE SCHEDULE INDEX
✪ OPENING NIGHT GALA Thursday 17 August 6 Days 11 M 20th Century Women 5 Includes drinks and nibbles B 11.00 am Summer 1993 (97) 22 Maudie 16 100 Men 10 (from 7.30 pm; limited to 80 tickets) A 6.15 pm New Zealand’s Best 2017 (75) 15 The Midwife 19 ✪ 8.00 pm 20th Century Women (119) 5 A Monster Calls 24 » Full Price $20.00 A Friday 18 August Mountain 8 » Seniors (65+)/ $16.00 B 11.00 am Kedi (79 + 7) 35 Animation for Kids 4+ 29 My Life As a Courgette 31 Students (13 and over) A 6.15 pm The Party (71) 23 Animation for Kids 8+ 29 My Year with Helen 9 Animation NOW! 2017 27 » Children (12 and under) $14.00 A 8.00 pm The Lost City of Z (141) 26 Saturday 19 August N B A CODED SESSIONS A 1.30 pm Blue (76) 34 New Zealand’s Best 2017 15 Sessions starting after 5.00 pm weekdays A 3.30 pm I Am Not Your Negro (93) 35 BANG! The Bert Berns Story 38 Nga¯ Whanaunga… 2017 15 and all weekend sessions A 5.30 pm Frantz (114) 17 Beatriz at Dinner 25 No Ordinary Sheila 13 The Beguiled 25 » Full Price $15.00 A 8.00 pm Spookers (83) 13 Beuys: Art As a Weapon 38 Sunday 20 August O » Seniors (65+)/ $13.00 BIG Time 39 A 1.15 pm Swallows and Amazons (97) 28 The Other Side of Hope 9 Students (13 and over) Bill Direen: A Memory of Others 10 A 3.15 pm House of Z (90) 39 Blade of the Immortal 21 » Gore Musical Theatre/ $12.00 A 5.15 pm The Party (71) 23 P Film Club members Blue 34 A 7.00 pm The Lost City of Z (141) 26 The Party 23 Born in China 28 Children (12 and under) $9.00 Patti Cake$ 31 » Monday 21 August BPM (Beats Per Minute) 18 Pop Aye 21 B 11.00 am Ethel & Ernest (94) 24 Brigsby Bear 26 B CODED SESSIONS A 6.15 pm Kedi (79 + 7) 35 Sessions starting before 5.00 pm R A 8.15 pm The Free Man (84) 11 C weekdays and others as indicated Risk 36 Tuesday 22 August Call Me by Your Name 20 RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked… 41 » Full Price $10.00 B 11.00 am The Midwife (117) 19 Citizen Jane: Battle for the City 34 A 6.15 pm Mountain (74) 8 » Seniors (65+)/ $10.00 S Students (13 and over) A 8.00 pm RUMBLE... (102) 41 D Spookers 13 Wednesday 23 August A Date for Mad Mary 21 » Children (12 and under) $8.00 The Square 5 B 11.00 am Kobi (103) 12 Dries 41 A 6.15 pm Summer 1993 (97) 22 Step 37 A 8.15 pm I Am Not Your Negro (93) 35 E Summer 1993 22 Swagger of Thieves 14 BUYING TICKETS Thursday 24 August Ethel & Ernest 24 B 11.00 am Faces Places (89) 6 Swallows and Amazons 28 Tickets are available at the St James Theatre A 6.15 pm No Ordinary Sheila (98) 13 F in advance. Please note: There is no T A 8.15 pm A Fantastic Woman (105) 17 allocated seating so arrive early for the best Faces Places 6 seats. Budget Day Tuesday does not apply to The Teacher 21 Friday 25 August A Fantastic Woman 17 NZIFF screenings. No vouchers may be used TEAM TIBET: Home away from Home 14 B 11.00 am Maudie (115) 16 The Farthest 35 for NZIFF screenings. That’s Not Me 16 A 6.15 pm A Date for Mad Mary (82) 21 Frantz 17 Prices are GST inclusive and in NZD. To Stay Alive: A Method 36 A 8.00 pm Kiki, Love to Love (102) 23 The Free Man 11 MULTI-FILM DISCOUNT Saturday 26 August U Buy tickets for five or more films in one A 1.30 pm Ethel & Ernest (94) 24 G transaction and receive a 10% discount Una 33 A 3.30 pm Maudie (115) 16 Gabriel and the Mountain 30 off the total amount. Unrest 37 A 6.00 pm Faces Places (89) 6 A Ghost Story 31 The Untamed 33 GROUP BOOKINGS A 8.00 pm 20th Century Women (119) 5 Good Time 6 For group bookings of 20 or more people, Sunday 27 August please contact Peter Cairns at W A 1.15 pm Born in China (79) 28 H [email protected] or ph (03) 208 7396 Waru 14 or 027 208 7393. A 3.00 pm Kobi (103) 12 Happy End 18 Whiteley 41 A 5.15 pm The Midwife (117) 19 Heal the Living 17 Wind River 27 A 7.45 pm The Farthest (121) 35 House of Z 39 Winnie 37 Human Traces 7 VENUE INFORMATION A Woman’s Life 19 The Workshop 19 SBS St James Theatre: 61 Irk Street, I ph (03) 208 7396. The Wound 23 I Am Not a Witch 30 Wheelchair access is available at some screenings. Please phone the St James I Am Not Your Negro 35 Theatre for details. The Inland Road 11 It Comes at Night 27
WITHOUT WHOM K For Regent Theatre (Dunedin): Sarah Anderson (Director); Nelson Miles (Technical Manager); Russell Campbell (Projectionist Supreme); Andrea Ford (Administration Manager); Bernie Chatfield, Tess Palmer, Kedi 35 Robin Dignan, Belinda Middlemass, Georgina Scouller (Box Office); Hannah Molloy (Marketing Manager); Kiki, Love to Love 23 Alison Cunningham (Chair); Russell Atkinson (Deputy Chair); John Aitken, Kathleen Wallace, Garry Gibson, The Killing of a Sacred Deer 7 Andy Henderson, Jennifer Anglin, Lawrie Forbes, Mayor Dave Cull (Regent Theatre Trust of Otago Trustees) Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web 13 KEY TO ICONS For Rialto Cinemas (Dunedin): Craig Robinson (Manager); Gary Gutschlag (Head Projectionist); Kobi 12 Sophie Bond, Mike Dillon, Damian Smith (Venue Managers) For SBS St James Theatre (Gore): Peter Cairns Guest Appearance L La Chana 39 Short Preceding Feature Notes in this brochure are written and compiled by the programmers, Bill Gosden, Michael McDonnell, Ant Timpson, Sandra Reid Lady Macbeth 33 and Malcolm Turner. Tim Wong, Toby Manhire, Nick Bollinger, Judah Finnigan, Jo Randerson, Andrew Langridge, Chris Tse, Rebecca Cannes Selection 2017 McMillan, Graeme Tuckett and Nic Marshall also contributed notes. The brochure was edited, drawing on a wide array of writers we Let the Sunshine In 18 like, by Bill Gosden, who also wrote the unsigned notes, cribbing the occasional perfect adjective from said writers. It was managed The Lost City of Z 26 by Tim Wong with the assistance of a squadron of ace proofreaders who labour beyond the call of duty. Views expressed in the Loveless 8 Major Festival Award brochure do not necessarily represent the views of the staff or trustees of the New Zealand Film Festival Trust.
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