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FILMS John Lui Film Correspondent recommends

The Chinese Lives Of Uli Sigg

(2016, NC16) Picks This documentary is about Swiss entrepreneur, diplomat and art collector Uli Sigg and the tense Film socio-political context of China’s transformation since the 1970s. WHERE: Block 7, Gillman Barracks, 7 Lock Road MRT: Labrador Park WHEN: Today, 8pm ADMISSION: $5 from start-ulisigg.peatix.com

A Botanic Gardens Movie: Shorts Under The Stars The Singapore Art Museum presents two nights of award-winning local and international short films curated for the family-friendly exhibition Imaginarium. Fringe activities start from 5pm. WHERE: Eco Lake Lawn (Bukit Timah entrance), Botanic Gardens, 1 Cluny Road MRT: Botanic Gardens WHEN: Today & tomorrow, 5 - 9pm (screening from 7.30pm) ADMISSION: Free (snacks provided) INFO: E-mail nparks_sbg_visitor_ [email protected]

Blue (2017, PG) The industrialisation that has occurred in the oceans over the last century mirrors the events that triggered mass extinctions on land. Industrial-scale fishing, habitat destruction, species loss and pollution have placed the ocean in peril. The very nature of the sea is being irretrievably altered. Blue is a provocative journey into the ocean realm, witnessing this critical moment in time when the marine BIRDS OF PASSAGE (M18) native people of Colombia can grow. Rapayet (Jose Acosta, PHOTOS: ANTICIPATE 125 minutes/Now showing/ above left) is a young man looking to make enough to world is on a precipice. PICTURES, GOLDEN marry, but the lure of drug money pushes him – and his WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden VILLAGE, SINGAPORE What happens when a Central American indigenous clan – into a future that will shake their culture to the core. FILM SOCIETY Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road culture, one that has resisted Christianisation and This film was Colombia’s nomination in the Best Foreign MRT: Nicoll Highway Western ways for centuries, gets into the drug trade? Language category at this year’s Oscars. WHEN: Tomorrow, 3.15pm This hypnotic, beautifully photographed crime thriller WHERE:The Projector, Level 5 Golden Mile Tower, 6001 ADMISSION: $13.50 (standard), $11.50 digs into what happens when, beginning in the 1970s, Beach Road MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: Now showing, (concession) INFO: theprojector.sg gringos (Americans) begin arriving with planeloads of various times ADMISSION: $13.50 INFO: For schedule and cash, looking to buy as much marijuana as the Wayuu bookings, go to theprojector.sg Amazing Grace (2019, PG) Amazing Grace depicts the 1972 concert when singer Aretha Franklin performed with Reverend James Cleveland and The Southern California Community Choir at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. Director Sydney Pollack forgot to use clapperboards, making it almost impossible to sync sound to image and the film remained unseen for decades. After Pollack died in 2008, director Alan Elliott took over the production. CONTEMPORARY ASIAN WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden CINEMA SERIES Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: Thu, July This new project, a partnership 29 - 31: 8.30pm; July 26: 7.50pm; July between the Singapore Film Society 27: 4.40pm; July 28: 2.30pm (SFS) and Filmgarde Cineplexes, will ADMISSION: $13.50 (standard), $11.50 showcase critically acclaimed films (concession) INFO: theprojector.sg from South Korea, Hong Kong, China, Japan and other parts of the region. Downtown East Free Kicking off the series is South Outdoor Movie Screening Korean psychological thriller Clean Up (2018, NC16, 104 minutes), This month’s film, Guang (2018, PG13), winner of the New Currents award at is about autistic Wen Guang (Kyo last year’s Busan International Film Chen), who is sent out to look for work Festival. by his brother (Ernest Chong), but the The debut feature of film-maker attempts fail. Guang is compulsively Kwon Man-ki tells the story of a drawn to objects that produce woman, Jung Ju (Yoon Ji-hye, above), musical notes and he behaves in a way who is mentally tortured by a sin she that causes potential employers to PARASITE (M18) working at odd jobs. Then Ki Woo (Choi Woo-shik, above committed years ago until one day, reject him. His brother, who has raised 131 minutes/Now showing/ right), the eldest son, is asked to fake his credentials to the consequences catch up with her. him since the death of their mother, land a job as a tuition teacher. His student is a girl, Da Hye Clean Up screens on July 26 and 27. resents postponing his ambitions to Social satires rarely come as funny, as unpredictable or as (Jung Ji-so, above left), daughter of a wealthy man, Mr Park WHERE: Filmgarde Cineplex Bugis+, look after his child-like sibling. generous to its characters as this work by South Korean (Lee Sun-kyun). 05-01 Bugis+, 201 Victoria Street WHERE: Outside D’Marquee, film-maker Bong Joon-ho. At the Park mansion, Ki Woo sees the splendour of their MRT: Bugis WHEN: July 26 to Downtown East, 1 Pasir Ris Close His peek into the lives of people from the opposite ends lives compared with the squalor of his own and it sets in November ADMISSION: $13.50 for the MRT: Pasir Ris WHEN: July 27, of the wealth divide makes both parties responsible for motion a string of incidents that will change the fortunes public, $12 for SFS Film Addicts and 7.30 - 10pm ADMISSION: Free their own miseries – but instead of making viewers hate of both families. Filmgarde members TEL: 6589-1688 them for their nasty, selfish behaviour, he elicits pity. Winner of the Palme d’Or, the highest award, at this year’s INFO: For bookings and schedule, The Kim family live in a grubby basement dwelling, Cannes Film Festival. go to fgcineplex.com.sg/movies INFO: downtowneast.com.sg

In Fabric (2018, R21) In Fabric, which premiered at last year’s Toronto International Film PETS Sept 11 & 25, Oct 9 & 23, 12.30 - 1pm building techniques by transforming how you and your family can Dragonfly Walk At Festival, is a haunting ghost story set ADMISSION: Free, sign up at building blocks into works of art. apply for it. 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The many species found there WHERE: GV Suntec City, 03-373 Examination and 8th SKC Elites UOB Painting Of The Year TEL: 6267-0155/0157 INFO: E-mail WHERE: Toa Payoh HDB Hub Atrium, include Trumpet Tails, Scarlet Suntec City Mall, 3 Temasek Grooming Competition (both on Competition [email protected] or 480 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh MRT: Toa Adjutants and Common Amberwings. Boulevard MRT: Promenade/ Sept 6 at United Square), preceded by United Overseas Bank is inviting [email protected] Payoh WHEN: July 27 & 28, 9am - 5pm WHERE: Meet at 10am at the side of a written theory examination. Esplanade WHEN: Aug 24, 1pm Singapore citizens and permanent ADMISSION: Free INFO: www.chas.sg the park next to Toa Payoh Swimming ADMISSION: Singapore Film Society WHERE: Theory exam: Pet Lovers residents to enter the 38th UOB Complex MRT: Toa Payoh Centre IHQ, 07-91/92 North Spring OTHERS membership, from $18 a month Painting of the Year Competition. WHEN: Tomorrow, 10 - 11.30am Bizhub, 11 Yishun Industrial Street 1 TEL: 9017-0160 INFO: E-mail Country winners in Indonesia, ADMISSION: Free MRT: Yishun WHEN: Aug 19, 2 - 4pm LAST CALL [email protected] Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand URA Draft Master Plan INFO: www.nss.org.sg ADMISSION: $120 entry fee; will be considered for a month-long Exhibition certification fees (upon passing): residency programme at the Fukuoka The Urban Redevelopment Authority Mr Sign NATURE $150 - $500 TEL: 6469-4821 (URA) is taking its Draft Master Plan INFO: E-mail [email protected] or Asian Art Museum in Japan. Mr Sign by the T.H.E Dance Company 2019 to the heartland. Check out go to skc.org.sg WHERE: ArtSpace@HeluTrans, centres on the subject of thoughts Nature Appreciation Walk At 02-04 Tanjong Pagar Distripark, future plans for your neighbourhood and ideas. Through a performance 39 Keppel Road MRT: Tanjong Pagar/ at the various venues. and post-show dialogue, the Through this guided walk, TOURS Outram Park WHEN: Submissions: WHERE (MRT): Waterway Point production examines the individual’s • The listings on these Happenings participants will gain a greater Aug 16 - 18; awards ceremony in (Punggol), Westgate (Jurong East), place in a hierarchical society and pages are free. Write to Life appreciation of Singapore’s rich Culture City, Culture Scape, November ADMISSION: Free Junction 8 (Bishan), Our enables the audience to gain an Happenings, Life, The Straits Times, natural heritage and the need to Public Art Trail TEL: 6539-1177 INFO: E-mail Hub (Tampines), Causeway Point understanding and appreciation of 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore 318994 or e-mail [email protected] protect it for future generations. Get inspired by and unwind in the [email protected] (Woodlands) WHEN: Mon - July 28: contemporary dance as well as to at least two weeks ahead. Include the Discover the importance of Windsor company of art nestled in the or go to www.uobpoy.com Waterway Point, Westgate, Junction reflect on whether communication is Nature Park as a buffer to the Central compounds of Mapletree Business 8; July 29 - Aug 4: Our Tampines Hub; indeed important to humans. name of the event, organiser, venue, Catchment Nature Reserve. City II. KIDS Aug 1 - 4: Causeway Point WHERE: Esplanade Theatre Studio, date and time, ticket prices and WHERE: Meet at Windsor Nature Park WHERE: NTU Centre for ADMISSION: Free INFO: ura.gov.sg 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ nearest MRT station, as well as your Pavilion, off Upper Thomson Road Contemporary Art, Gillman Barracks, City Hall WHEN: Today, 8pm name, address and contact number. MRT: Marymount WHEN: July 27, Block 43 Malan Road; meet at taxi Brick Art Workshop Chas Carnival ADMISSION: $38; $23 We reserve the right to edit 9.15 - 10.30am ADMISSION: Free stand of Alexandra Retail Centre, At this garden-themed workshop by Learn more about the upcoming for students, full-time national or reject items. Go to INFO: E-mail lim_siew_hong@ 460 Alexandra Road MRT: Labrador Taman Jurong Brick Art Interest enhancements to the Community servicemen & seniors www.straitstimes.com (click on nparks.gov.sg Park WHEN: July 31, Aug 14 & 28, Group, children can learn basic Health Assist Scheme (Chas) and INFO: esplanade.com Lifestyle) for more listings