Please check the Belgrave Cinema website for Film Club films / times for the 2019/20 season.
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
2019/20 season
The Belgrave Cinema will take over the organisation of the Armidale Film Club.
Please check the Belgrave Cinema website for Film Club films / times for the 2019/20 season.
Please check the Belgrave Cinema website for Film Club films / times for the 2019/20 season.
Sunday, 27 January 2019
February film - Can You Ever Forgive Me - Monday, 11th February and Wednesday, 20th February
The February film, Can You Ever Forgive Me, will be screening on
Monday, 11th February - 5.30pm and
Wednesday, 20th February - 7.00pm
This will be the last film of the 2018/9 season!
The new 2019/20 season will kick off in March with another 11 interesting / exiting / unusual films. New membership passes will be available from the 11th February - we hope to see you again at the cinema for another year.
Can You Ever Forgive Me
Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) made her living in the 1970's and 80's profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack (Richard E. Grant). An adaptation of the memoir "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" relays the true story of the best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats).
Monday, 11th February - 5.30pm and
Wednesday, 20th February - 7.00pm
This will be the last film of the 2018/9 season!
The new 2019/20 season will kick off in March with another 11 interesting / exiting / unusual films. New membership passes will be available from the 11th February - we hope to see you again at the cinema for another year.
Can You Ever Forgive Me
Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) made her living in the 1970's and 80's profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack (Richard E. Grant). An adaptation of the memoir "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" relays the true story of the best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats).
Sunday, 9 December 2018
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
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
Monday, 12 November 2018
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
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.
Wednesday, 3 October 2018
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.
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.
Tuesday, 28 August 2018
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.
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.
Monday, 6 August 2018
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:
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?
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?
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
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.
Thursday, 31 May 2018
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.
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.
Monday, 16 April 2018
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.
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.
Monday, 26 March 2018
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.
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.
Friday, 16 March 2018
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.
Thursday, 8 March 2018
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.
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.
Wednesday, 17 January 2018
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.
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.
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
December film - Gifted - Monday, 11th December and Wednesday, 20 December 2018
The screenings of our December film, Gifted, will be Monday, 11th December (at 5.35 pm) and Wednesday, 20 December 2018 (at 7.30pm).
Gifted
Frank Adler (Chris Evans) is a single man raising a child prodigy - his spirited young niece Mary (Mckenna Grace) - in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the 7-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother, Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan), whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.
Gifted
Frank Adler (Chris Evans) is a single man raising a child prodigy - his spirited young niece Mary (Mckenna Grace) - in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the 7-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother, Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan), whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.
Tuesday, 31 October 2017
November - Ali's Wedding - Monday, 13th November and Wednesday, 22nd November 2017
The screenings of the November film, Ali's Wedding, will be Monday, 13th November at 5.30pm and Wednesday, 22nd November at 7.00pm
Ali's Wedding
After a "white lie" which spirals out of control, a neurotic, naive and musically gifted Muslim cleric's eldest son must follow through with an arranged marriage, except he is madly in love with an Australian born-Lebanese girl.
Ali's Wedding
After a "white lie" which spirals out of control, a neurotic, naive and musically gifted Muslim cleric's eldest son must follow through with an arranged marriage, except he is madly in love with an Australian born-Lebanese girl.
Friday, 13 October 2017
October - A Quiet Passion - 16th and 25th October
The second screening of our October film, A Quiet Passion, will be on Wednesday, 25th October at 7.00 pm.
A Quiet Passion
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
A Quiet Passion
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
Thursday, 7 September 2017
September - Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer - 18th and 27th September
The screening dates for our September film, Norman, will be Monday, 18th September (5.45 pm) and Wednesday, 27th September (7pm).
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
Norman Oppenheimer (Richard Gere) lives a lonely life in the margins of New York City power and money, a would-be operator dreaming up financial schemes that never come to fruition. As he has nothing real to offer, Norman strives to be everyone’s friend, but his incessant networking leads him nowhere.Always on the lookout for someone willing to pay attention to him, Norman sets his sights on Micha Eshel (Lior Ashkenazi), a charismatic Israeli politician alone in New York at a low point in his career. Sensing Eshel’s vulnerability, Norman reaches out with a gift of a very expensive pair of shoes, a gesture that deeply touches Eshel. When Eshel becomes Prime Minister three years later, he remembers.
With his very real connection to the leader of a major nation, Norman is awash in the respect he has always craved. Flush with his newfound feeling of success, Norman attempts to use Eshel’s name to leverage his biggest deal ever: a series of quid pro quo transactions linking the Prime Minister to Norman’s nephew (Michael Sheen), a rabbi (Steve Buscemi), a mogul (Harris Yulin), his assistant (Dan Stevens), and a treasury official from the Ivory Coast. Norman’s kaleidoscopic plans soon go awry, creating the potential for an international catastrophe he must struggle to prevent.
With his very real connection to the leader of a major nation, Norman is awash in the respect he has always craved. Flush with his newfound feeling of success, Norman attempts to use Eshel’s name to leverage his biggest deal ever: a series of quid pro quo transactions linking the Prime Minister to Norman’s nephew (Michael Sheen), a rabbi (Steve Buscemi), a mogul (Harris Yulin), his assistant (Dan Stevens), and a treasury official from the Ivory Coast. Norman’s kaleidoscopic plans soon go awry, creating the potential for an international catastrophe he must struggle to prevent.
Wednesday, 9 August 2017
August - Paterson - Monday, 21st July and Wednesday, 30th July
The August film, Paterson, will screen on Monday, 21st July (5.30pm) and Wednesday, 30th July (7.00pm).
Mid-year membership ($60 for the remaining 6 films) will be available in August.
Paterson
A Jim Jarmush film - a quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.
Mid-year membership ($60 for the remaining 6 films) will be available in August.
Paterson
A Jim Jarmush film - a quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.
Monday, 10 July 2017
July - The Sense of an Ending - Monday, 17th July and Wednesday, 26th July
The July film, The Sense of an Ending, will screen on Monday, 17th July (at 5.35pm) and on Wednesday, 26th July (at 7pm).
The Sense of an Ending:
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.
The Sense of an Ending:
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.
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