Where Stars light the Screen General Information Deckchair Cinema screens films 7 nights a week from April until November. We are open nightly from 6pm, with films starting promptly at the advertised time. Dinner and Drinks You can bring your own food, but remember you cannot bring your own alcohol. We are a fully licensed venue and our bar opens from 6pm nightly. Our nightly caterers are: Sunday DeeBee Catering Monday DeeBee Catering Tuesday Oka Teppanyaki Wednesday Hanuman Thursday Fundraiser Catering Friday Hanuman Saturday DeeBee Catering Tickets Buy tickets online at www.deckchaircinema.com to skip the queue; we don’t charge any online booking fees! Or buy tickets at our Box Office nightly from 6pm (sorry we cannot process in- person, or telephone, bookings outside of our Box Office hours). Single Double Sessions Tickets (weekends only) Adults $16 $24 Concession* $12 $18 Members* $10 $15 Children (5-15) $8 $12 Family – 2 adults and 2 children $35 $55 Children 4 and under Free Free * ID required Membership $75 Become a member of the Darwin Film Society and over your 12 month membership you get: • 4 FREE tickets per year • 4 FREE members’ screenings per year • A MASSIVE $6 discount off the adult ticket price • And MUCH MORE! See website for more details and to purchase. Location Jervois Road, Darwin Waterfront Deckchair Cinema FREE parking at Deckchair and on the Esplanade. Only a short walk from town, Program 4, 2016 take the scenic Damoe Ra Park walkway to the cinema (just before Monday 26 September - Sunday 20 November Parliament House). SPECIAL EVENTS The Animal Condition: Documentary Launch (NT) Wednesday 28 September In an attempt to approach the topic in a non-polemical way, four friends take a road trip to learn more about industrial meat farming, interviewing activists and farmers along the way. This screening is the NT launch of this new Australian documentary. Shine: Mental Health Week Screening Wednesday 10 August This year Mental Health Week takes place between 9th - 15th October. To help promote social and emotional wellbeing to the community, the Darwin Film Society is teaming up with Team Health to program this special 20th anniversary screening of Shine, which stars Geoffery Rush as concert pianist David Helfgott and depicts the musician’s experience with mental illness. Lust and Revenge: Paul Cox Special Tuesday 8 November In honour of the passing of Paul Cox, multi-award winning Australian film director we bring you one of his most amusing films. Co-written by Cox and John Clarke, Lust and Revenge is a wonderfully sly satire about the ART world with beautiful performances by Claudia Karvan, Nicholas Hope and Chris Haywood. The 18th Over The Fence Comedy Festival Friday 11 November Over The Fence Comedy Film Festival is the longest running touring comedy film festival in Australia. Enjoy fourteen laugh- out-loud shorts from comedy filmmakers from around the world - this year’s theme is Its a Big Bad World Out There. Last Cab to Darwin CLOSING NIGHT – Sunday 20 November To celebrate reaching the 1000-member milestone this year, we handed the programming reigns to DFS members for our Closing Night film! The poll results are in and it’s the smash hit featuring many MEDIA OPERATED BY familiar faces and places: Last Cab to Darwin! Celebrate another SUPPORTER fab season of films with us at Deckchair’s Closing Night! Where Stars light the Screen Program 4, 2016 Belle and Sebastian: Love and Friendship (PG) 92m The Adventure Continues (PG) 97m 2016, Whilt Stillman, Monday 26 September - Sunday 20 November 2015, Christian Duguay, France Ireland | Netherlands | UK 26 Sep, 1 & 19 Oct, 19 Nov 1 & 9 October An attractive widow seeks a suitable Based on the classic French children’s husband for her daughter and herself - novel, orphan Sebastian and his and throws polite society into a palaver. dependable Pyrenees Mountain Dog, Based on Jane Austen’s humorous SEPTEMBER Belle, must find their adopted mother, novel and comedy of manners. who they believe has survived a plane Mon 26-Sep 7.30pm Love and Friendship PG 92m crash. French with English subtitles. Maggie’s Plan (M) 98m Tues 27-Sep 7.30pm Sing Street M 106m 2015, Susanna White, USA Wed 28-Sep 7.30pm The Animal Condition - CTC 90m The BFG (PG) 117m 2, 7 & 19 November Documentary Launch 2016, Steven Spielberg, When Maggie (Greta Gerwig) becomes Thurs 29-Sep 7.30pm Fundraiser: Jason Bourne M 123m UKA | Canada | USA involved with a married man, (Ethan (Young Professionals Network) 3 & 18 November Hawke), and things don’t work out, she Fri 30-Sep 7.30pm Mustang M 97m Steven Spielberg brings this Roald resolves to reunite him with his wife (Julianne Moore) in this screw-ball 30-Sep 9.30pm Girl Asleep M 77m Dahl classic to life. When an orphan called Sophie accidently sees a giant (anti-) romantic comedy. OCTOBER on the streets of London, she is captured and taken to Giant Land. Miles Ahead (M) 100m 2015, Don Cheadle, USA Sat 01-Oct 7.30pm Belle & Sebastian - PG 97m 23 & 28 October The Adventure Continues The Clan (MA15+) 110m Don Cheadle (also a co-writer) plays 2015, Pablo Trapero, Argentina | Spain 01-Oct 9.30pm Love and Friendship PG 92m Miles Davis in this biopic, exploring the Sun 02-Oct 7.30pm Embrace of the Serpent with NT Short M 125m 25 & 29 October, 4 November life and career of the jazz legend via Members Free Screening followed by Café Cinema Based on shocking real events, the an imagined encounter between Davis Mon 03-Oct 7.30pm Girl Asleep M 77m Puccios appeared to be an ordinary and a journalist (Ewan McGregor). middle-class Argentinian family. But in Tues 04-Oct 7.30pm Swiss Army Man M 97m the 70s and 80s, the family’s patriarch, Mustang (M) 97m Wed 05-Oct 7.30pm Goldstone M 109m Arquímedes, masterminded a series 2015, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Thurs 06-Oct 7.30pm Fundraiser: Finding Dory G 97m of money-driven kidnappings. Spanish France | Germany | Turkey | Qatar (Guide Dogs NT) with English subtitles. 30 September, 8 & 24 October Fri 07-Oct 7.30pm Sonita CTC 90m A heart-wrenching coming of age story Dingo (PG) 109m set in Turkey. When five orphaned 07-Oct 9.30pm Sing Street* M 106m 1991, Rolf de Heer, Australia sisters are caught socialising with some Sat 08-Oct 7.30pm The Wait CTC 100m 28 October local boys, their guardians fear for 08-Oct 9.30pm Mustang M 97m their reputations and resort to drastic Young John Anderson (Colin Friels) is measures. Turkish with English subtitles. Sun 09-Oct 7.30pm Belle & Sebastian - The Adventure PG 97m captivated by jazz musician Billy Cross Continues with NT Short (Miles Davis in his only film appearance) Our Kind of Traitor (MA15+) 108m Mon 10-Oct 7.30pm Three MA15+ 88m and his band when they perform on the 2016, Susanna White, UK | France Tue 11-Oct 7.30pm Sonita* CTC 90m local airstrip in the Kimberley after their 14 & 29 October, 15 November Wed 12-Oct 7.30pm Shine - M 105m plane is diverted. Years later, he still dreams of joining Billy in Paris. A white knuckled spy thriller based Mental Health Week Screening on John Le Carre’s novel, a school Thurs 13-Oct 7.30pm Fundraiser: Shrek PG 90m Downriver (MA15+) 99m teacher (Ewan McGregor) is drawn into (St John Ambulance) high level espionage by a charismatic Fri 14-Oct 7.30pm Our Kind of Traitor MA15+ 108m 2015, Grant Scicluna, Australia and mysterious Russian he meets 4, 12 & 16 November on vacation. 14-Oct 9.30pm Goldstone M 109m James (Reef Ireland) returns Sat 15-Oct 7.30pm Blazing Saddles – M 95m from juvenile detention over the The Red Turtle (PG) 80m Gene Wilder special screening disappearance of a boy years earlier. 2016, Michael Dudok de Wit, 15-Oct 9.30pm Swiss Army Man M 97m But will finding the boy’s remains Japan | France | Belgium Sun 16-Oct 7.30pm Three* with NT Short MA15+ 88m offer deliverance, or dredge up painful 22 October, 13 November Mon 17-Oct 7.30pm Freedom Stories* PG 99m truths and family secrets? A man marooned on an island has his escape attempts thwarted by Tues 18-Oct 7.30pm Girl Asleep* M 77m Down Under (MA15+) 90m a mysterious red turtle. Stunningly Wed 19-Oct 7.30pm Love and Friendship PG 92m animated, this is a beautiful and moving 2016, Abe Forsyth, Australia Thurs 20-Oct 7.30pm Fundraiser: Secret Life Of Pets G 90m allegory about the circle of life. (Carers NT) 9 & 11 November With a uniquely Australian mix of Sing Street (M) 106m Fri 21-Oct 7.30pm Swiss Army Man* M 97m slapstick comedy, uncomfortable 2016, John Carney, Ireland | UK 21-Oct 9.30pm Embrace of the Serpent M 125m truths and unnervingly familiar 27 Sep, 7 Oct, 12 & 18 Nov Sat 22-Oct 7.30pm The Red Turtle PG 80m caricatures, Down Under follows Invoking a veritable memory lane 22-Oct 9.15pm Lights Out M 81m two carloads of testosterone-fuelled of 80s music, Sing Street is the hot-heads in the aftermath the now- Sun 23-Oct 7.30pm Miles Ahead with NT Short M 100m heartwarming and hilarious story of infamous Cronulla riots. Conor from working class Dublin who Mon 24-Oct 7.30pm Mustang* M 97m forms a band to win a girl. Tues 25-Oct 7.30pm The Clan MA15+ 110m Embrace of the Serpent (M) 125m Wed 26-Oct 7.30pm Radical Reels - 2015, Ciro Guerra, Columbia | Venezuela Sonita (CTC) 90m Tickets at www.radicalreels.com.au 2 & 21 October, 1 November 2015, Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami, Germany | Switzerland Thurs 27-Oct 7.30pm Fundraiser: Pulp Fiction R18+ 154m In this dream-like film told in two (Environmental Defenders Office) parallel narratives set 30 years apart, 7 & 11 October Fri 28-Oct 7.30pm Dingo - Miles Davis double PG 109m Karamakate is an Amazonian shaman, A Sundance award-winning documentary, Sonita tells the story of a 14-year old 28-Oct 9.30pm Miles Ahead* - Miles Davis double M 100m and last survivor from his tribe.