This month we have an especially generous bonanza of tickets to give away for a stellar line up of movies. Almost a European film festival, there are also some of the best recent comedies from America and two Cannes winners from master director Theo Angelopoulos.
PORTABLE SYMPOSIUM ADELAIDE
9 April , 2008
The Portable Film Festival ® as part of its Portable Symposium and Screen Academy Series 2008 presents Current TV's Vice President of Development and Production in Viewer Created Content, Ezra Cooperstein. Current TV was the first fully integrated web and TV platform to hit the online space.
Led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore who is Chairman Of The Board, Current TV have pioneered the television industry's leading model of interactive viewer created content, and are the only 24/7 cable and satellite television network/internet site produced and programmed in collaboration with its audience.
Learn about a truly revolutionary 'alternative to traditional media' network, as "The Portable Symposium Series" brings this trailblazing practitioner to the Australian and international creative community.
Media Resource Centre (13 Morphett Street, Adelaide) Wednesday 9th April at 6pm. Tickets are free www.mrc.org.au
AFFIF NEWS
That champion of a film Boxing Day, which won the Australian Directors' Guild Finders Award for its writer/director Kriv Stenders, will be screening to a specialist audience of distributors and exhibitors in New York and Los Angeles in May and June. Kriv and producer Kristian Moliere will be attending these. Meanwhile from Madison, Wisconsin, where it has been screening as part of Wisconsin Film Festival, we were bemused to read a review of Boxing Day which claims ‘makes Requiem for a Dream look like Enchanted.’ Festival selections now number ten, across UK, Canada, Portugal, Israel and Canada.
SUBSCRIBER OFFERS!
This genuinely charming film which opened the recent French Film Festival. Written and directed by the enormously talented Cedric Klapisch (The Spanish Apartment, Russian Dolls)
Icon Film Distribution are giving 50 in season doubles to the first responses.
Email entry to rsvp@picturethis.net.au
PARIS (M) dir: Cedric Klapisch
The story begins with Pierre (Romain Duris), a young man unexpectedly confronted with his own mortality. For the next 24 hours, his tour through the city will weave with those of his beloved sister (Juliette Binoche), his neighbours,their friends and workmates, and their interconnected stories of love, familial bonds, loneliness and compassion come together in unexpected ways. An emotional and inspiring ode to Paris.
FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (MA) dir: Nicholas Stoller
From the makers of Knocked Up, a comic look at one guy’s arduous quest togrowup and get over the heartbreak of being dumped!For anyone who has ever had their heart ripped out and cut into a billion pieces comes a hilarious, heartfelt look at relationships - starring Jason Segel (who also wrote the film) and Kristen Bell,(Veronica Mars) as Sarah Marshall. Forgetting Sarah Marshall is the world’s first romantic disaster comedy.
www.forgettingsarahmarshall.com.au. in cinemas April 17
30 in season doubles from Universal Pictures. Email entry to rsvp@picturethis.net.au
THE COUNTERFEITERS (MA) dir: Stefan Ruzowitzky
The true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, counterfeiter extraordinaire and bohemian. After getting arrested in a German concentration camp in 1944, he agrees to help the Nazis in an organised counterfeit operation set up to help finance the war effort. It was the biggest counterfeit money scam of all time. Over 130 million pound sterling were printed, under conditions that couldn't have been more tragic or spectacular. Winner of 2008 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film
50 tickets for a preview screening on Monday 28 April Email entry to rsvp@picturethis.net.au Courtesy of Madman Cinema
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL (M) dir: Craig Gillespie
Written by Six Feet Under writer Nancy Oliver, Lars and the Real Girl is a heartfelt comedy starring Ryan Gosling as Lars Lindstrom, an awkwardly shy young man in a small northern town who finally brings home the girl of his dreams to his brother and sister-in-law's home. The only problem is that she's not real - she's a blow up doll Lars ordered off the internet. But Lars has other things in mind, like a deep, meaningful relationship.
Thanks to Rialto Distribution we have 30 in season double tickets. Email entry to rsvp@picturethis.net.au Now showing.
THE SECRET AND THE GRAIN [M] director Abdellatif Kechiche
From celebrated director Abdellatif Kechiche, whose L′esquive stormed the Cesars (French Oscars) in 2005, winning four awards including Best Film. Set in the rustic port of Sète The Secret of the Grain follows Slimane, whose growing dissatisfaction with the shipyard job he′s had for the last 35 years prompts him to try to open his own restaurant. A grand film about ordinary people, The Secret of the Grain is a slow-burning drama drenched with humanity (and - naturally - some mouth-watering meals), in the tradition of Babette′s Feast and Eat Drink Man Woman.
10 double complimen tary in-season ticket s
THE ORPHANAGE Dir: Juan Antonio Bayona. (MA 15+)
Produced by visionary filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) this is a chilling,new Spanish blockbuster. Laura (Belen Rueda) spent the happiest years of her childhood growing up in an orphanage by the seaside, cared for by the staff and fellow orphans whom she loved as brothers and sisters. Now, thirty years later, she returns with her husband Carlos and Simon their 7-year-old son, with a dream of restoring and reopening the long abandoned orphanage as a home for disabled children. But Laura slowly becomes convinced that something long-hidden and terrible is lurking in the old house, something waiting to emerge and inflict appalling damage on her family.
We have 75 doubles for a preview screening on Monday 12 May.
For tickets to The Secret of the Grain and The Orphanage
To win your tickets, CLICK HERE and fill in ALL of your details, and the name of the film. Tickets are limited so be quick!
CINEMATOGRAPH HELLENIKA: THEO ANGELOPOULOS
ETERNITY AND A DAY (M)
6:30pm Wednesday 16 April 1998 138mins
As Alexandre, a celebrated Greek writer, prepares to leave his seaside home forever, he finds a letter from his long dead wife. Reading about an enchanted summers day spent with her, Alexandre realises that, after a life spent chasing after the words of poems and novels, all he wants is one final chance to capture the lost precious moments of true happiness, even if only for one day. Winner: Palm d’Or Cannes 1998
ULYSSES’ GAZE (M)
4:00pm Sunday 20 April 1995 176mins
Starring Harvey Keitel, this is a compelling meditation on the fall of Communism and the conflict in the Balkans. Winner: Jury Grand Prix Cannes 1995
http://www.mercurycinema.org.au/screenings/angelopoulos.html
Presented by the Media Resource Centre and SACGCM as part of Festival Hellenika 2008, celebrating Greek culture. Mercury Cinema 16 & 20 April Tickets $11/$9
To win 5 double passes to ETERNITY AND A DAY ring MRC on 8410 0979.For fans of rarely seen cult classics, Adelaide Cinemathqeue is showing two Monte Hellman films this month- Two –Lane Blacktop (1971) an existential road movie, and Cockfighter (1974) with Warren Oates in a compelling, wordless performance. Both films star Oates and Harry Dean Stanton.
Mercury Cinema 7:30pm 21 and 24 April
