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Every screening will take place in the University of Otago’s Red Lecture Theatre, located near the side entrance of the Scott building, across the road from the emergency entrance of the Dunedin Public Hospital on Great King Street not far from the corner of Hanover Street. With the exception of the 11 July screening (which will begin one half hour earlier than usual), all of this year’s film showings will begin at 7:30 pm.
Due to the non-commercial screening rights, most screenings are for members or 3-Movie Pass holders only.
We reluctantly reserve the right to change the scheduled program if a film does not arrive.
Download our 2012 Brochure and membership form.
Opening Night
Every Good Marriage Begins In Tears
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Wednesday 29 February @ 7:30 pm
DAY TRIP
Zoe McIntosh | N.Z. | 2010 | 11 minutes | G
A gang member wakes up one morning and decides that he needs a day off and on a whim goes for a cruise on the Interislander Ferry. At a Picton Pub he makes an unlikely connection with several brothers of a different clan. Day Trip was selected for the New York and Tribeca film festivals and Tuhoe Isaac won the best performance in a short film award at the 2010 Qantas Film and Television Awards.
Followed by:
EVERY GOOD MARRIAGE BEGINS IN TEARS
Simon Chambers | U.K. | 2006 | 62 minutes | Exempt
What happens when two U.K. raised sisters are pressured into arranged marriages by their Bangladesh born parents? This tender and often hilarious film manages to extract fresh insights from an exploration of such universal themes as love and inter-generational conflict by including intimate footage of some of a real family’s most personal moments. It also dispels many of the clichéd myths about the Islamic treatment of women.
*Casual admission will be possible, in exchange for a small donation.
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Wednesday 7 March at 7:30 pm*
WALKABOUT
Nicolas Roeg | Australia | 1971 | 35mm | 100 min | R16
A fable-like story of a teenage girl and her young brother stranded in the Australian outback. “It’s that rare thing, the intellectually haunting film – the movie that doesn't shock with its gore or stun with its violence so much as work its way beneath your senses to terrify with a realization about our species and ourselves that we'd rather not admit is true.” – New York Sun
Wednesday 14 March at 7:30 pm*
UNCOMFORTABLE COMFORTABLE
Campbell Walker | N.Z. | 1999 | Digital | 93 min | M
The first low-budget film shot, edited and exhibited on digital video to receive funding from Creative New Zealand’s Screen Innovation fund, this unflinching yet often highly comedic examination of a relationship gone bad inaugurated a filmmaking revolution in this country. The director will attend the Dunedin Film Society’s exclusive local screening and be available for a question and answer session afterwards.
*Casual admission will be possible, in exchange for a small donation.
Wednesday 21 March at 7:30 pm
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE
Tay Garnett | U.S.A. | 1946 | 35mm-B+W | 113 min | PG
The first of the two classic Hollywood adaptations of a James M. Cain hardboiled novel that we will be screening this year. “More film blanc than noir, as screencombusting lovers John Garfield and Lana Turner – dressed more for Park Avenue than the greasy spoon she slings hash in – plot to do away with her nice but old husband.” – Film Forum
Wednesday 28 March at 7:30 pm
MILDRED PIERCE
Michael Curtiz | U.S.A. | 1945 | 113 min | 35 mm-B+W | PG
Joan Crawford won her only Oscar for the title role, as a single mother who toils her way from waitress to successful businesswoman to provide for her spoilt and ungrateful daughter. Director Michael Curtiz followed up the success of Casablanca with this melodramatic noir adaptation of James M Cain’s notoriously racy novel.
Wednesday 04 April at 7:30 pm
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE
John Huston | U.S.A | 1950 | 35mm-B+W | 112 min | PG
The big daddy of complex and sophisticated caper movies, this brilliant, chilling thriller revolves around a million-dollar jewel heist. A taut, unsentimental study in character and relative morality… It has spawned countless imitations, few of which even remotely approach the intelligence and detail of the original.” –Time Out
Wednesday 11 April at 7:30 pm
THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE (Le conseguenze dell’amore)
Paolo Sorrentino | Italy | 2004 | 35mm | 100 min | M
“Echoes of Visconti and Antonioni abound in this exquisitely subdued high-gloss psychological thriller in which a dour Mafia bagman exiled in a Swiss hotel jeopardises his safety with a love affair… Moves seamlessly from stylish stasis into explosive violence to great effect..” – Sight & Sound
Wednesday 18 April at 7:30 pm
WAKE IN FRIGHT
Ted Kotcheff | Australia | 1970 | 109 min | R16
“This gritty classic follows the increasingly off-kilter journey of a very proper and uptight teacher whose one night in the outback turns into a shattering hallucination of gambling, drinking and brutality… Controversial and groundbreaking… One of the great beacons of Australian cinema.” – ACMI
Wednesday 9 May at 7:30 pm
LA STRADA (The Road)
Federico Fellini | Italy | 1954 | 35mm-B+W | 104 min | M
Best Foreign Film, Academy Awards 1956
The film that made Fellini a household name. Anthony Quinn is a force of nature as the itinerant circus strongman who buys an affection-starved waif (Fellini’s muse Giulietta Masina) from her poverty-stricken family. “The cornerstone of Fellini’ s work.” – Martin Scorsese
Wednesday 23 May at 7:30 pm
THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS (Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini)
Vittorio De Sica | Italy | 1970 | 35mm | 95 min | PG
This late-career triumph from Bicycle Thieves director Vittorio De Sica follows the lives of two Jewish families in the years leading up to World War II. “An autumnal work in two senses – the subject is the last golden flash of freedom before one of history's major tragedies… De Sica’ s final great work.” – Bright Lights Film Journal
Wednesday 30 May at 7:30 pm*
TABU
F.W. Murnau | U.S.A | 1931 | 35 mm-B+W | 90 min | M
This tragic story, about a young Tahitian’s forbidden love for a sacred virgin, was shot on location in Tahiti, Bora Bora and Morea. “Murnau’s tragic Polynesian saga liberated him from the studios, enabling him to show his mastery of the natural world… one of the most stunningly beautiful films ever made.” – MOMA
*Casual admission will be possible, in exchange for a small donation.
Wednesday 6 June at 7:30 pm
ASHES OF TIME REDUX
Wong Kar-Wai | Hong Kong | 1994/2008 | Digital | 94 min | M
Wong spent five years reassembling, colour correcting and re-scoring his lyrical 1994 contribution to the wuxia (martial arts) genre, which produced an even more visually striking and emotionally affecting meditation on memory and love. “The changes – a reworked score, less murky colouring – serve to bring out more lustrously than ever the yearning wondrousness of this star-laden treasure.” – Daily Telegraph
UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO INTER-SEMESTER BREAK
Wednesday 11 Julyat 7:00 pm*
WORLD ON A WIRE
Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany | 1973 | Digital | Part 1 100 min & Part 2 105 min | Tbc
Fassbinder’s long unseen science-fiction epic offers a boundlessly inventive take on future paranoia. “Anticipates Blade Runner in its meditation on artificial and human intelligence and The Matrix in its conception of reality as a computer-generated illusion.” – NY Times PLEASE NOTE THE EARLIER STARTING TIME. There will be a brief intermission between Parts 1 and 2.
*Casual admission will be possible, in exchange for a small donation.
Wednesday 18 July at 7:30 pm
PARADISE
Sina Walker | New Zealand | 2009 | Digital | 12 min | PG
A father takes his young son on a hunting expedition, which has unexpected emotional consequences.
Followed by:
NENNETTE
Nicolas Philibert | France | 2010 | Digital | 70 min | Exempt
Born in the jungles of Borneo, Nénette is a 40-year-old orangutan – and the oldest (and most beloved) inhabitant at the Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes in Paris. Documentarian Philibert’s film is a captivating study of an enigmatic animal and our relationship to her. “Remarkable.” – Sight & Sound
Wednesday 25 July at 7:30 pm
RACHEL
Simone Bitton | France | 2009 | Digital | 100 min | Exempt
This intelligent, layered documentary puts the Gaza Strip death of American peace activist Rachel Corrie in the context of a new generation of globalised activists crossing the world to put themselves in harm’s way. “Simone Bitton again proves that she is one of the finest contemporary documentarians.” – Screendaily
NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2012, Dunedin, 27 July-12 August
Wednesday 15 August at 7:30 pm*
JERICHOW
Christian Petzold | Germany | 2009 | Digital | 93 min | M
The latest version of the pulp classic The Postman Always Rings Twice takes place on the windswept Baltic coast. Lana Turner’s character is now the wife of a Turkish kebab stall owner, played by director Christian Petzold’s mesmerising regular actress Nina Hoss.
*Casual admission will be possible, in exchange for a small donation.
Wednesday 22 August at 7:30 pm*
VACATION (Ferien)
Thomas Arslan | Germany | 2007 | Digital | 98 min | Tbc
“Ana, Robert and their teenage son Max plan on spending an idyllic sojourn at their remote country house. Their fragile unity is disrupted, however, when more and more members of their extended family show up to vent past resentments and reveal long-kept secrets. A serene, quietly rewarding drama.” – Seattle IFF
*Casual admission will be possible, in exchange for a small donation.
Wednesday 29 August at 7:30 pm
LE PLAISIR (Pleasure)
Max Ophuls | France | 1951 | 35 mm-B+W | 95 min | R16
With a dream cast of French stars – Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Simone Simon – Ophuls lavishly adapts three de Maupassant stories which sardonically explore the distinctions between pleasure and happiness. “Delicate, savage, essential – infinite Plaisir.” – Slant
Wednesday 05 September at 7:30 pm*
THE STRENGTH OF WATER
Armagan Ballantyne | N.Z. | 2009 | Digital| 86 min | M
The arrival of a stranger to the remote Hokianga precipitates a terrible accident and young twins Kimi and Melody must learn to live apart. “This is a stunningly assured and original debut feature. Viewers may find themselves strangers in their own land but the experience is unforgettable.” – Herald on Sunday
*Casual admission will be possible, in exchange for a small donation.
Wednesday 12 September at 7:30 pm
LE CASQUE D’OR (The Golden Helmet)
Jacques Becker | France | 1952 | 35mm-B+W | 95 min | PG
Based on actual events, Becker’s tale of doomed love in the Belle Epoque underworld features Simone Signoret as a beautiful blonde cabaret enchantress who abandons her gangster beau for the love of an honest carpenter. “Becker’s masterpiece, one of the great movie romances.” – Village Voice
Wednesday 19 September at 7:30 pm
LE SILENCE DE LA MER (The Silence of the Sea)
Jean Pierre-Melville | France | 1947| 35 mm-B+W | 95 min | G
Melville’s first film is one of the most disturbing and poetic films on the Occupation. A naïve, unpolitical German officer is billeted in the country with an old man and his niece, who maintain a disdainful silence in the soldier’s presence. “A root influence on Bresson and the whole French New Wave.” – Time Out
Wednesday 26 September at 7:30 pm*
AFTERNOON (Nachmittag)
Angela Schanelec | Germany | 2007 | Digital | 97 min | Tbc
Schanelec taps into the existentialism of Antonioni and the post-modernism of Godard to present an acutely original take on Anton Chekov’s The Seagull. Here, the setting is modern Germany, in a lakeside holiday house where actress Irene, her son and her brother have withdrawn from the outside world.*Casual admission will be possible, in exchange for a small donation.
Wednesday 03 October at 7:30 pm
THE CAT’S MEOW
Peter Bogdanovich | U.S.A. | 2001 | Digital | 112 min | M
An elegant and funny whodunit about a famously unsolved Hollywood murder, involving Charlie Chaplin, actress Marion Davies and media mogul William Randolph Hearst. “Peter Bogdanovich taps deep into the Hearst mystique, entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal.” – Entertainment Weekly
Wednesday 10 October at 7:30 pm*
EDEN
Rebecca Tansley | New Zealand | 2010 | Digital | 14 min | M
On an isolated vineyard, two drifters form a bond that represents a possibility of hope in the wake of despair.
Followed by:
COWBOYS IN INDIA
Simon Chambers | U.K. | 2009 | Digital | 79 min | Exempt
In a remote and impoverished region of India, a London filmmaker is unaware of the trouble he will cause his two local guides as they investigate the Corporate Social Responsibility program of a high-profile, London-based mining company. The company plans to mine a local tribe’s sacred mountain, something that many of the indigenous people vow to fight, preferring to retain their traditional way of life.
*Casual admission will be possible, in exchange for a small donation
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