Dunedin Film Soc. Memberships Now Half Price

Half-year 2011 Dunedin Film Society memberships will be available for
almost half price from July 13th (a waged half year membership will
cost $35, and a student unwaged membership will cost $30). Half-year
Film Society members are entitled to free admission to all 13 of the
remaining film screenings in the Dunedin Film Society's highly
exciting 2011 programme (there is no additional admission fee), as
well as to heavily discounted ticket prices at Rialto, Hoyts and Metro
cinemas and at evening and weekend sessions of the upcoming New
Zealand International Film Festival (scheduled to begin on August 4th
in Dunedin's newly refurbished Regent Theatre). When the Dunedin Film
Society's screenings resume on July 13th, half-year memberships may be
purchased at the door of the theatre before any of our film showings
or from the reception staff at the OUSA office (located on the main
campus of the University of Otago, near the corner of Albany and
Cumberland Streets). More limited three-movie passes will still cost
$25.

As well as representing one of the most economical movie viewing deals
in town, the Dunedin Film Society's 2011 season also offers the
broadest cross section of fiction and documentary films available
anywhere, both in terms of country of origin and historical period.
The highlights of the second half of this year's schedule include
three groundbreaking New Zealand programmes (one film each from
pioneering Maori directors Barry Barclay and Merata Mita, plus a
selection of contemporary short works curated by the NZ Film
Commission), two documentaries about influential individuals whose
innovative ways of thinking changed the world (media guru Marshall
McLuhan and anti-nuclear activist Joseph Rotblat), two classic
features directed by and an extremely illuminating documentary about
the internationally renowned German director Ernst Lubitsch (whose
stylish "touch" become associated with a very sophisticated type of
Hollywood comedy).

Please help to ensure the continuing survival of New Zealand's only
non-commercial distribution network by joining the Dunedin Film
Society and by passing this message on to your friends. For further
information, please see our website:
www.dunedinfilmsociety.arts.net.nz

A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DUNEDIN FILM SOCIETY's REMAINING 2011 SCREENINGS

All Wednesday film showings will take place in The Red Lecture
Theatre, located in the University of Otago's Scott Building on Great
King Street, across the road from the emergency entrance to the Duned
Public Hospital.

All Tuesday film showings will take place in the Church Cinema,
located next to the Church Restaurant, 50 Dundas Street, North
Dunedin.

Wednesday 13 July at 7:30 p.m.
7:30 pm McLUHAN'S WAKE
Kevin McMahon | Canada | 2002 | DV | 94 min
Media philosopher Marshall McLuhan was the 1960s’ hippest
intellectual, coining the phrase ‘the medium is the message’ and
inventing the concept of the global village. This elegant and visually
elaborate documentary interrogates his work and investigates its
pertinence for today’s connected world.

NEW ZEALAND

With the unexpected death of the great documentary maker Merata Mita
on 31 May 2010, New Zealand lost the last member of its first
generation of Maori directors. As a tribute to this illustrious group
of motion picture pioneers, we have decided to include two of their
most celebrated works in our 2011 programme, Merata Mita’s Patu! and
Barry Barclay’s Ngati.

Wednesday 20 July New Zealand at 7:30 p.m.*
NGATI
Barry Barclay | New Zealand | 1987 | 35mm | 93 min | PG coarse language
Barclay’s first feature film was a landmark as the first written and
directed by Maori and is now something of a classic. The film follows
a young doctor who discovers his Kiwi roots on a visit to a tiny Maori
settlement on the East Coast where his father used to practise.