Upcoming Screenings
Documentary Australia, 1981, 21 mins
Cast: Judith Wright, Roger Pulvers
At Edge is an experimental poetic film on th relationship between leading Australian poet Judith Wright and her bush environment.
It was filmed by Solrun Hoaas in 1978 just after Judith Wright moved to the property of that name at Mongarlowe, south-eastern New South Wales. It communicates a realtionship between the poet and her bush environment.
Biographical Drama USA 2013, 104 mins
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C Hall, Jack Houston, Jennifer Jason Leigh.
In the early 1940s, Allen Ginsberg is an English major at Columbia University, only to learn more than he bargained for. Dissatisfied by the orthodox attitudes of the school, Allen finds himself drawn to iconoclastic colleagues like Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Together, this gang would explore bold new literary ideas that would challenge the sensibilities of their time as the future Beat Generation.
However, for all their creativity, their very appetites and choices lead to more serious transgressions that would mark their lives forever.
Recent Screening
Drama, France/Belgium 2023 2H 15M
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoit Magimel, Emmanuel Salinger
The story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin - the fine gourmet chef she has been working for over the last 20 years.
Growing fonder of one another, their bond turns into a romance and gives rise to delicious dishes that impress even the world's most illustrious chefs. When Dodin is faced with Eugenie's reluctance to commit to him, he decides to start cooking for her.
Anime Japan 2023, 2 hours 4 min
Cast: Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Ko Shibasaki
Mahiito, a young 12-year-old boy, struggles to settle in a new town after his mother's death. However, when a talking heron informs Mahito that his mother is still alive, he enters an abandoned tower in search of her, which takes him to another world.
Directed by the famed Hayao Miyazaki, and produced by Studio Ghibli, The Boy and Heron won the academy award for Best Animated Feature Film for 2024.
Ghost Stories Australia 1993, 1H 30MIN
Cast: Diana Davidson, Jack Charles, Ben Kennedy
Three Australian stories of the supernatural are recounted in this anthology. Rick (Jack Charles), an Aboriginal boy living near a swamp on Bribie Island, is haunted by an American soldier who drowned in quicksand. Ruby (Tracey Moffatt) and her family live in a house near long-abandoned train tracks, which still carry ghostly apparitions. A landlord (Lex Marinos) has trouble evicting the tenants of an old warehouse: a couple that's been dead for years.
BeDevil is a trilogy of ghost stories that follows characters pestered by vision- real, remembered and imagine. These contemporary tales travel from the sparseness of the outback, through the merky, rotting swamps of the islands, to the Brisbane docks.
Comedy Finland/Germany 2023, 1H 21MIN
Cast: Alm Poysti, Jussi Vatanen, Janne Hyytiainen
In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of lvoe met by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles - from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.
Aki Kaurismkai's 2017 film The Other Side of Hope won Best Director award at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. At the same festival he also announced that it would be this last film as a director. It's fortunate that he changed his mind, because this subsequent film, Fallen Leaves, perfects much of the carefully curated melancholy, deadpan humour and poignancy for which he is renowned.
Drama/Thriller France 2023, 2H 31MIN
Cast: Sandra Huller, Samuel Theis, Milo Michado-Graner, Swann Arlaud and Messi (a border collie)
In an isolated mountain chalet near Granoble, successful but depressed novelist Sandra Boyter (Sandra Huller) decides to reschedule her interview with a female student because her husband, university lecturer Samuel Maleski (Samuel Theis), is playing loud music in the attic above, disrupting the interview.
After the student leaves the chalet, Sandra's visually impaired son, Daniel goes for a walk with his guide dog Snoop. When they return home, Daniel finds Samuel dead in the snow, a bloody wound in his head, apparently having fallen from the attic window. Did he jump? Or was he pushed?
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