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RETRO CLASSICS

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The Apartment

Billy Wilder
​USA  ·  1960

Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine star in Wilder’s heartwarming, cynical classic about an office worker who loans out his apartment as a trysting place for his philandering superiors.

“A smashing good comedy” – NY Times

​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>​

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Él

Luis Buñuel
Mexico  ·  1953
 
A passionate marriage descends into possessive jealousy and paranoid delusion, in one of the strongest and most overlooked films of Buñuel’s Mexican period.

“A deadpan, slyly tragic parable” – BFI

​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

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Heat

Michael Mann
USA  ·  1995

Epic crime thriller and meticulous character study pits brilliant detective Pacino against methodical career criminal De Niro in a high-stakes, high-casualty battle across Los Angeles.

 “Awesome… wholly original” – Time

​Screening times, review and trailer >>

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Kwaidan 
Kaidan

Kobayashi Masaki
​Japan  ·  1964

A colourful and visually stunning adaptation of four classic Japanese ghost stories, in which mortals encounter supernatural forces with fearful consequences.

​“The ultimate in ghost stories!” – NY Herald Tribune

​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>​

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Mississippi Masala

Mira Nair
USA  ·  1991
 
Mira Nair’s second feature is an incisive examination of race relations and cultural tensions in the American South, featuring Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury as star-crossed lovers. 

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​“Wonderfully tender and wryly funny” – NY Daily News

​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

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Ratcatcher

 Lynne Ramsay
UK  ·  1999

A grimly poetic meditation on childhood set in ’70s working-class Glasgow that unearths the hopes and dreams of its marginalised residents.

“Unsentimental, surprising… richly evocative” – NYFF
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​Screening times, review and trailer >>

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    • DUNEDIN
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  • 2026 SEASON
    • MIKHAIL KALATOZOV
    • HONG KONG CLASSICS
    • MUSICAL NOT MUSICAL
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    • CULT FAVOURITES
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