September - The Wife - Monday, 17th September and Wednesday, 26th September

The times / dates for the September film, The Wife, will be



Monday, 17th September - 5.30pm.
Wednesday, 26th September - 7.05pm

The Wife

Behind any great man, there's always a greater woman - and you're about to meet her. It is crucial you get to know this woman - many of us already do and don't even realise it. Joan Castleman (Glenn Close): a highly intelligent and still-striking beauty - the perfect devoted wife. Forty years spent sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his skyrocketing literary career. Ignoring his infidelities and excuses because of his "art" with grace and humour. Their fateful pact has built a marriage upon uneven compromises. And Joan's reached her breaking point. On the eve of Joe's Nobel Prize for Literature, the crown jewel in a spectacular body of work, Joan's coup de grace is to confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and secret of his career. The Wife is a poignant, funny and emotional journey; a celebration of womanhood, self-discovery and liberation.

August - The Death of Stalin - Wednesday, 15th August / Monday, 20th August

The August film, The Death of Stalin, will be screened on the following dates:

Wednesday 15th August, 7 pm

Monday 20th August, 5.30 pm

In early-1953 Moscow, under the Great Terror's heavy cloak of state paranoia, the ever-watchful Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, collapses unexpectedly of a brain haemorrhage. Inevitably, when his body is discovered in the following morning, a frenetic surge of raw panic spreads like a virus in the senior members of the Council of Ministers, as they scramble to maintain order, weed out the competition, and, ultimately, take power. But in the middle of a gut-wrenching roller-coaster of incessant plotting, tireless machinations, and frail allegiances, absolutely no one is safe; not even the feared chief of the secret police, Lavrenti Beria. In the end, who will prevail after the death of Stalin?

July - Isle of Dogs - Wednesday, 25th July and Monday, 30th July

The July film, Isle of Dogs, will be screening on the days below (slightly odd days because of the school holidays)

Wednesday, 25th July - 7.05pm
Monday, 30th July - 6.30pm

    An outbreak of dog flu has spread through the city of Megasaki, Japan, and Mayor Kobayashi has demanded all dogs to be sent to Trash Island. On the island, a young boy named Atari sets out to find his lost dog, Spots, with the help of five other dogs... with many obstacles along the way.

 

 

June - Gurrumul - Monday, 4th June (5.30pm) and Wednesday, 13th June (7.00pm approx)

Monday, 4th June- 5.30pm
Wednesday, 13th June- 7.00pm

Celebrated by audiences at home and abroad, indigenous artist Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was one of the most important and acclaimed voices to ever come out of Australia. Blind from birth, he found purpose and meaning through songs and music inspired by his community and country on Elcho Island in far North East Arnhem Land. Living a traditional Yolngu life, his breakthrough album 'Gurrumul' brought him to a crossroads as audiences and artists around the world began to embrace his music. GURRUMUL is a portrait of an artist on the brink of global reverence, and the struggles he and those closest to him faced in balancing that which mattered most to him and keeping the show on the road.

May Film - The Party - Monday 7th May and Wednesday, 16th May

The Party, our May film, will be screening on Monday, 7th May at 5.30pm and Wednesday, 16th May at 7.00pm.



The Party



To celebrate her long-awaited prestigious post as a Shadow Minister for Health and, hopefully, the stepping stone to party leadership, the newly-appointed British opposition politician, Janet, is throwing a party for friends at her London flat. Of course, in this select and intimate soirée, apart from Bill--Janet's self-denying academic husband--a motley crew of elite hand-picked guests have been invited: There's April, the sourly cynical American best friend; her unlikely German husband, Gottfried; there's also Jinny and Martha; and finally, Tom, the smooth banker in the impeccable suit. But inevitably, before dinner is served, the upbeat ambience will shatter to pieces, as festering secrets will start surfacing in this perfect domestic war-zone. Undoubtedly, after this night, things will never be the same again.

April Film - Call Me By Your Name - 9th and 11th April

The first screening of the April film - Call Me By Your Name - will be on Monday, 9th April at 5.35pm. Due to Easter and school holidays, the second screening will be on Wednesday of the same week, 11th April at 7pm



CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, the new film by Luca Guadagnino, is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman. It's the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17-year-old young man, spends his days in his family's 17th century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel). Elio enjoys a close relationship with his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture, and his mother Annella (Amira Casar), a translator, who favor him with the fruits of high culture in a setting that overflows with natural delights. While Elio's sophistication and intellectual gifts suggest he is already a fully-fledged adult, there is much that yet remains innocent and unformed about him, particularly about matters of the heart. One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24-year-old American college graduate student working on his doctorate, arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio's father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of the setting, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.

The Square - Fundraiser for the Armidale International Film Festival - Saturday 24 March, 5:30pm

An early taste of the International Film Festival

 

A preview… an early launch and a film not to be missed!  

Come and check out THE SQUARE - Oscar nominated film (Best Foreign Language) and Winner of the Palme d’Or at 2017 Cannes Film Festival - on Saturday 24 March at 5:30pm.   It is an early taster of what will be on offer at the annual Armidale International Film Festival which is held on first weekend of August. 

 

THE SQUARE is both outlandishly funny and a biting satire on the world of modern contemporary art.  With a stellar cast, including Elizabeth Moss (The Handmaiden) as an American journalist and Dominic West (The Wire) as a visiting artist, it centres on a dashing museum curator (Claes Bang) and his dysfunctional institution.  But it is much, much more.  Provocative, challenging, at times uncomfortable and disturbing to watch, the film also raises moral questions about marketing, the media, performance art and the cultural elite.  Its fearless director, Ruben Ostlund (Force majeure), gradually but relentlessly exposes the fragility of culture and sophistication that refined middle-class humans surround themselves with and ultimately reveals their public selves in juxtaposition with their private, animal natures.  You will talk about it for days. 

Come along to this special film fundraiser, profits support this year’s Armidale International Film Festival.  The committee has been planning the event for a number of months – and have chosen 13 acclaimed films this year that showcase the world!

 

Tickets are $17 and are on sale NOW at the Belgrave Cinema.