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| Riverton Film Society | ||
Riverton Film Society 2012 Season |
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Jan 29, 7.00pm: The Strength of Water | More... |
| Armagan Ballantyne, New Zealand 2009, DV, M violence, offensive language, sex scenes | ||
| The arrival of a stranger to the remote Hokianga precipitates a terrible accident and young twins Kimi and Melody must learn to live apart. “This is a stunningly assured and original debut feature. Viewers may find themselves strangers in their own land but the experience is unforgettable.” – Herald on Sunday | ||
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Feb 26, 7.00pm: The Cat's Meow | More... |
| Peter Bogdanovich, USA 2001, DV. M low level violence | ||
| An elegant and funny whodunit about a famously unsolved Hollywood murder, involving Charlie Chaplin, actress Marion Davies and media mogul William Randolph Hearst. “Peter Bogdanovich taps deep into the Hearst mystique, entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal.” – Entertainment Weekly | ||
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Mar 25, 7.00pm: Wake in Fright | More... |
| Ted Kotcheff, Australia 1971, DV. R16 cert | ||
| “This gritty classic follows the increasingly off-kilter journey of very proper and uptight teacher whose one night in the outback turns into a shattering hallucination of gambling, drinking and brutality… Controversial and groundbreaking… One of the great beacons of Australian cinema.” – ACMI | ||
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Apr 29, 7.00pm: 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 27, 7.00pm: 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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Jun 24, 7.00pm: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | More... |
| Il giardino dei Finzi Contini, Vittorio De Sica, Italy 1970, DV. PG cert | ||
This late-career triumph from Bicycle Thieves director Vittorio De Sica follows the lives of two Jewish families in the years leading up to World War II. “An autumnal work in two senses – the subject is the last golden flash of freedom before one of history's major tragedies… De Sica’ s final great work.” – Bright Lights Film Journal |
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Jul 29, 7.00pm: Plug & Pray | More... |
| Jens Schanze, Germany 2010, DV | ||
| “The deeply fascinating and occasionally frightening future of artificial intelligence is the focus of this globe-trotting report on the state of things in the field. Among others, futurist Ray Kurzweil and computer pioneer Joseph Weizenbaum consider whether man really can go beyond biology.” – Vancouver IFF | ||
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Aug 26, 7.00pm: Farewell | More... |
| L'affaire farewell, Christian Carion, France 2009, DV. M low level offensive language | ||
| This tense, atmospheric, true Cold War spy movie centres on a disillusioned KGB colonel who risked everything in the early 80s to let the West know just how thoroughly Soviet spies had infiltrated American security. “Stunningly intelligent… frightening and, finally, very moving.” – New Yorker | ||
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Sep 30, 7.00pm: Vacation | More... |
| Ferien, Thomas Arslan, Germany 2007, DV. censors rating tbc | ||
| “Ana, Robert and their teenage son Max plan on spending an idyllic sojourn at their remote country house. Their fragile unity is disrupted, however, when more and more members of their extended family show up to vent past resentments and reveal long-kept secrets. A serene, quietly rewarding drama.” – Seattle IFF | ||
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Oct 28, 7.00pm: Coffee & Cigarettes | More... |
| Jim Jarmusch, USA 2003, DV.M offensive language | ||
| Bill Murray, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, the Wu-Tang Clan, Cate Blanchett, Steve Coogan and the White Stripes celebrate twin hipster addictions in a series of deadpan vignettes. “Way cool – and funny – in ways that more expensive comedies trying harder rarely are.” – Time | ||
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Nov 25, 7.00pm: Two Great Sheep | More... |
| Hao da yei dui yang, Liu Hao, China 2004, DV. PG cert | ||
| This gentle satire of hierarchal life in rural China sees a dutiful peasant and his wife entrusted with the raising of two expensive foreign sheep, temperamental animals that refuse to breed even after they are moved into the couple’s bedroom. | ||
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Dec 30, 7.00pm: Woodenhead | More... |
| Florian Habicht, New Zealand 2003, DV. M sex scenes | ||
| A subversive musical fairy-tale, Habicht’s carnivalesque oddity follows dump hand Gert on his quest to deliver the dump owner’s beautiful mute daughter Princess Plum to her wedding. “A truly unsettling, visually inventive, stylistically thrilling and quite marvellous diamond in the rough.” – Melbourne IFF | ||