December - Leave No Trace - 10th and 19th December

The December film, Leave No Trace, will be screening on Wednesday, 19th December at  7.05pm and Monday, 10th December at 5.30.


Leave No Trace
Will (Ben Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), have lived off the grid for years in the forests of Portland, Oregon. When their idyllic life is shattered, both are put into social services. After clashing with their new surroundings, Will and Tom set off on a harrowing journey back to their wild homeland. The film is directed by Debra Granik from a script adapted by Granik and Anne Rosellini

November - Searching - Wednesday, 21st and Monday, 26th November

The screening times for the November film club film, Searching will be

Wednesday, 21st  November - 7.00pm
Monday, 26th November - 5.30pm

 

After David Kim (John Cho)'s 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop. In a hyper-modern thriller told via the technology devices we use every day to communicate, David must trace his daughter's digital footprints before she disappears forever.

 

October - Food Fighter - Monday, 22nd October and Wednesday, 31st October

Our October film, Food Fighter, will screen on 

Monday, 22nd October (5.30pm) and
Wednesday, 31st October (7.05pm)

Food Fighter

Filmed across four continents and over two years, Food Fighter is the inspirational story of one woman's crusade against the global scandal of food waste.

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.  

March Film - I Am Not Your Negro - Monday, 12th March (5.30) and Wednesday, 21st March (7pm)

The March film - and the first film of the 2018/19 season - will be I Am Your Negro. The first screening will be Monday, 12th March at 5.30pm, the time for the second screening on Wednesday, 21st March will be at 7.00pm.








I Am Not Your Negro 




In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, "Remember This House." The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin's death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.

If you haven't renewed your membership yet, you can do so at the cinema anytime.

February Film - The Florida Project - Monday 12th (5.30pm) and Wednesday 21st February

The screening times for our February Film (and the last film for this season of the film club) will be The Florida Project.




Monday, 12th February - 5.30pm
Wednesday,  21st February - 7.00 pm











Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Disney World.

The new season of the Film Club (2018/19) will start of in March with I Am Not Your Negro - details will be posted soon.