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| Greytown Film Society | ||
Greytown
Film Society 2012 Season screens Fridays at 8:00 pm |
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Mar 2, 8.00pm: La Strada | More... |
| Federico Fellini, Italy 1954, DV. M adult themes | ||
The film that made Fellini a household name. Anthony Quinn is a force of nature as the itinerant circus strongman who buys an affection-starved waif (Fellini’s muse Giulietta Masina) from her poverty-stricken family. “The cornerstone of Fellini’ s work.” – Martin Scorsese |
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Apr 13, 8.00pm: The Postman Always Rings Twice | More... |
| Tay Garnett, USA 1946, DV. PG adult themes | ||
| Another classic James M Cain adaptation. “More film blanc than noir, as screencombusting lovers John Garfield and Lana Turner – dressed more for Park Avenue than the greasy spoon she slings hash in – plot to do away with her nice but old husband.” – Film Forum | ||
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May 4, 8.00pm: Walkabout | More... |
| Nicolas Roeg, Australia 1971, DV. PG cert | ||
| A fable-like story of a teenage girl and her young brother stranded in the Australian outback. “It’s that rare thing, the intellectually haunting film – the movie that doesn't shock with its gore or stun with its violence so much as work its way beneath your senses to terrify with a realization about our species and ourselves that we'd rather not admit is true.” – New York Sun | ||
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Jun 1, 8.00pm: Buddha's Lost Children | More... |
| Mark Verkerk, The Netherlands 2006, DV. PG violence | ||
| “An exquisite and tranquil documentary about a Thai monk and the homeless boys to whom he gives a brand new life, Buddha’s Lost Children is richly affecting on many levels… This is a beautiful and uplifting film that leaves us with a genuine sense of harmony.” – Urban Cinefile | ||
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Jul 6, 8.00pm: Last Train Home | More... |
| Gui tu lie chie, Fan Lixin, Canada/China 2009, DV | ||
| “The mind-boggling notion of 130 million Chinese migrant workers making their way home from inhospitable industrial cities to impoverished villages once each year gets a human face in Lixin Fan’s extraordinary, vital documentary… Essential viewing.” – Entertainment Weekly | ||
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Aug 3, 8.00pm: A Mao e a luva | More... |
| Roberto Orazi, Brazil/Italy 2010, DV | ||
| The story of poet and musician Ricardo Gomes Ferraz, better known as Kcal, who has turned his house in the favela Pina in Recife, Brazil into a library for the children of his community by scrounging and collecting books for over 15 years. | ||
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Screening with: Black Island, White Island | More... |
| Isla negra, isla blanca, Ventura Durall, Chile/Spain 2004, DV | ||
| This documentary explores the collaboration between the Nobel-prizewinning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and his friend, the Catalan architect Germà Rodriguez Arias, to build and renovate four unique houses in Chile and France. The collaboration produced two very different aesthetic styles: the irrational Nerudan world on one side and Bauhaus lines and rationalism on the other. | ||
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Sep 7, 8.00pm: Mid-August Lunch | More... |
| Pranzo di ferragosto, Gianni Di Gregorio, Italy 2008, DV. PG violence | ||
| In this delicate Italian comedy a happily retired bachelor is stuck looking after his aged mother and three other old ladies while Rome empties for a long weekend. “Charming and gently hilarious featuring an extraordinary cast of elderly characters…” – Hollywood Reporter | ||
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Oct 5, 8.00pm: Marti: The Passionate Eye | |
| Shirley Horrocks, New Zealand 2004, DV | ||
| Shirley Horrocks' film traces the dramatic personal story of Marti Friedlander, one of New Zealand’s leading photographers, alongside the major social changes she recorded. Marti talks frankly about the art of photography, her life, and the fascinating people and events she has portrayed. | ||
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Nov 2, 8.00pm: Rachel | More... |
| Simone Bitton, France 2009, DV | ||
| This intelligent, layered documentary puts the Gaza Strip death of American peace activist Rachel Corrie in the context of a new generation of globalised activists crossing the world to put themselves in harm’s way. “Simone Bitton again proves that she is one of the finest contemporary documentarians.” – Screendaily | ||
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Dec 7, 8.00pm: Act of Murder | |
| Shirley Horrocks, New Zealand 1993, DV | ||
| This film documents Miranda Harcourt taking her stageplay Verbatim (written by Harcourt and William Brandt) to prison audiences. The play is a six-character monologue made up of accounts of violent crime, all performed by Harcourt. Director Shirley Horrocks captures the reactions of the prison inmates watching their own lives unfold on stage. | ||
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Screening with: Early Days Yet | |
| Shirley Horrocks, New Zealand 2001, DV | ||
| A compelling close-up portrait of Allen Curnow, a man who worked on the cutting edge of literature for nearly 70 years. Beautifully filmed by Leon Narbey, the film takes Curnow to the scenes of many of his most important poems and provides vivid access to Curnow’s work through his own fascinating comments on writing. | ||