sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM OCT 15 & 16 KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON OCT 12, 13, 14 • ANTIMATTER FESTIVAL • www.antimatter.ws (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:45) RAMONA & BEEZUS OCT 10 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:20) • OCT 11 (7:00 only) TUES, OCT 12 WED, OCT 13 THURS, OCT 14 INCEPTION back by popular demand! Director: Christopher Nolan (USA, 2010, 148 minutes; PG) Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, 7pm ATOMIC SUBLIME 7pm MARWENCOL 7pm BEATS OF FREEDOM Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, TomHardy, MAO’S LAST DANCER Jesse Lerner, USA, 72min Jeff Malmberg, USA, 83min Wojciech Slota, Leszek Gnoinski, Poland, 78min Director: Bruce Beresford Ken Watanabe, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Marion Cotillard, Michael Caine, Lukas Haas (Australia, 2009, 119 min; English & Mandarin Using found footage, After a brutal assault An entrancing docu- with subtitles; rated G) Cast: Chi Chao, Bruce AS repositions the leaves him brain dam- mentary about rock “WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU HAD Greenwood, Joan Chen, Kyle MacLachlan. New York School of aged and broke, Mark music and indepen- YOUR MIND BLOWN BY A MOVIE?” abstract expression- Hogancamp seeks dence behind the Iron –New York Daily News Bruce Beresford delivers one of his best films in the ist painters within the recovery in Marwencol Curtain. The film jour- story of Chinese ballet star Li Cunxin. Like Nureyev context of The Cold - a miniature World neys through three Dreaming is life’s great solitary adventure. We and Baryshnikov, Li Cunxin was a ballet dancer too War, examining some War II-era town that decades of Polish rock experience them alone or not at all. But what if talented to be hidden from the eyes of the West, and ideological contra- he builds in his back- and revolution through other people could literally invade our dreams, too canny not to defect at the earliest opportunity. dictions and deploy- yard. “P P P P P - one of interviews with legends what if a technology existed that enabled inter- He made his grand jeté to freedom in 1981 while a ments. the best movies you’ll of the underground lopers to create and manipulate sleeping life guest artist at the Houston Ballet. Later, he moved to see this year.” - Now music scene and never- with the goal of stealing our secret thoughts, Australia with his wife and joined the Australian Ballet. Magazine before-seen footage of Poland under communism. or more unsettling still, implanting ideas in the His memoirs were a surprise international bestseller. deepest of subconscious states and making Spotted at Madame Mao’s Beijing Dance Academy us believe they’re our own? Welcome to the by Houston Ballet director (Bruce Greenwood), Li 9pm CITY BREATH 9pm WE DON’T CARE 9pm HORI SMOKU curated by Kai Lossgott, 70min world of Inception, written and directed by the (played by Birmingham Royal Ballet principal Chi masterful Christopher Nolan, a tremendously Chao) is seconded to America, where he quickly Through their common theme, these short video ABOUT MUSIC ANYWAY... SAILOR JERRY Cédric Dupire & Gaspard Kuentz, France/Japan, 80min Erich Weiss, USA, 73min exciting science-fiction thriller that’s as dis- realises that the West is not the den of decadence ‘gasps’ or ‘breaths’ of South African cities give voice turbing as it sounds. This is a popular enter- the party’s propagandists would make out. After fall- to the private dreams and nightmares of local poets, “Gloriously loud and abrasive but not without its The roots of American tattooing through the life of tainment with a knockout punch so intense ing for an American dancer (Amanda Shull), Li starts dancers, performance thoughtful side, this film invites you to take an its most iconoclastic figure, Norman “Sailor Jerry” and unnerving it’ll have you worrying if it’s safe hatching plans to stay with the help of immigration artists and filmmak- ears-first plunge into Collins. Considered by to close your eyes at night. Having come up lawyer (Kyle MacLachlan), but faces the agonising ers. They interrogate, Japan’s experimen- many the foremost tat- with the idea when he was 16, Nolan wrote the possibility of never seeing his family back in China with or against rational tal music scene... a too artist of all time, first draft of Inception eight years ago and in again. The production enjoyed a surprising amount logic, the way South bracing showcase for Collins is the father of the interim his great success with The Dark of access to Chinese locations and these scenes are Africans understand the aberrant activi- modern day tattooing, Knight, not to mention the earlier Memento, exquisite to look at. Mao’s Last Dancer’s two hours their cities and urban ties of artists like whose uncompromising put him in a position to cast Leonardo DiCaprio go by in a flash, and the ballet sequences are an life. Otomo Yoshihide and lifestyle and larger than and six other Oscar-nominated actors and added visual treat in a film with an embarrassment of Sakamoto Hiromichi.” life persona made him spend a reported $160 million in a most daring riches. Bruce Beresford has delivered one of his best - Eyeweekly an American legend. way. –Los Angeles Times movies. –Time Out Australia KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM OCT 19 (7:00 & 9:10) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM RAMONA & BEEZUS DESPICABLE ME Alfred Hitchcock’s REAR WINDOW OCT 22 & 23 Director: Alfred Hitchcock (USA, 1954, 112 minutes; (3:00 matinee & 7:15 & 9:15) DVD, G) Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter SALT Director: Philip Noyce (USA, 2010, 100 min- Now this is a movie. The experience is like ... well, like utes; PG) Cast: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, spying on your neighbors. Hitchcock traps us right Chiwetel Ejiofor from the first. Jimmy Stewart is a photographer who “A THRILL RIDE!” –Salon.com is stuck at home in a wheelchair, with his leg up in a cast. He starts spying on his neighbors. He begins to “A SENSELESS BLAST!” –New York Magazine notice odd behavior on the part of the couple across the way. They fight. The woman is not seen again. A spy thriller more than worth its salt. Angelina What happened to her? Was she murdered? How will Jolie, for all intents and purposes, is James the man dispose of the body? Seeing this movie with Bond in Salt, and it’s really no surprise that OCT 17 (3:00 matinee & 7:00) • OCT 18 (7:00 only) an audience adds a whole additional dimension to it. the only female action star in Hollywood more We are all asked to join Stewart in his voyeurism, and than measures up to Daniel Craig. Donning GET LOW A true tall tale we cheerfully agree. –Roger Ebert OCT 20 & 21 (7:10 & 9:00) several guises while on the run she even -- Director: Aaron Schneider (USA, 2010, 104 min; PG) Cast: Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek, Bill with the help of considerable facial latex, mind Cobbs, Lucas Black A WOMAN, A GUN, AND A NOODLE SHOP you -- turns up as a guy in one scene. It makes “A CAPTIVATING STORY! ROBERT DUVALL BLOWS YOU AWAY!” –Elle Director: Zhang Yimou (China, 2009, 91 min; Mandarin with subtitles; PG) an amusing gag, a kind of acknowledgment “HILARIOUS!” –Time Out Hong Kong that kick-ass action heroes now come in both Robert Duvall is an indisputably great actor. As Felix Bush, a Depression-era hermit out of the Tennessee genders. In Jolie’s case, it’s more convincing backwoods, Duvall finds the soul of a character who has shrouded himself in mystery for four decades. Get Zhang Yimou’s remake of the Coen brothers’ Blood Simple is exhilarating and inventive. The setting is as than ever. Salt is a better Bond movie than Low, from first-time feature director Aaron Schnei der, holds its cards close to the vest. The plot goes from far removed from conventional film noir territory as can be imagined. The drama plays out in the deserts of most recent Bond movies, as its makers keep simmer to sizzle when Felix decides to throw a funeral party – his own. Better yet, he wants to be present northern China. It is also set in a time when guns are new and swords and spears are still the weapons of the stunts real and severely limit CGI gimmick- at the service, which sounds more like a public stoning. Local funeral director Frank Quinn (Bill Murray) is choice. The film is gorgeous to look at, shot (in the initial scenes) in eye-popping colour. As in the best film ry. This is a slick, light entertainment. It’s fun eager to help Felix get low. With the help of his young assistant (Lucas Black), Frank rustles up speakers noirs, the plotting is embroiled. Wang (Ni Dahong) is a noodle shop owner who treats his wife (Yan Ni) with to watch Jolie’s Salt escaping from a virtual at Felix’s funeral by selling raffle tickets with Felix’s property as the prize. Lots of folks show up, including contempt. The wife buys a gun from a merchant passing through town and demands that her lover uses it lockdown, dodging cars and bullets, making widow Mattie (Sissy Spacek), a former love of Felix’s, and the Rev. Charlie Jackson (the superb Bill Cobbs), to kill her husband. In the meantime, the husband has recruited a patrol officer (Sun Hunglei) to kill the wife her way to New York and through subway tun- who knows things about Felix nobody else does.