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THE BIG CHILL SUMMER SESSIONS
TUESDAYS IN JANUARY & FEBRUARY

ADELAIDE PREMIERES AND FAVORITES

CHILL-OUT IN AIRCONDITIONED COMFORT
WITH DRINKS SPECIALS, GIVE-AWAYS AND MORE

ALL TIX $7

 

the life aquatic WITH STEVE ZISSOU

7:30pm Tuesday 20 February

Dir: Wes Anderson, US, 2004, 35mm, 119min, M

Steve Zissou. Oceanographer. Filmmaker. Adventurer. Eco Warrior. Part Jacques Cousteau - part Alby Mangels. Plagued with insecurities as he faces the twilight of his career, Zissou must also contend with a possible long lost son, a pregnant reporter writing a feature article on him, an ex-wife who is bedding his nemesis and an even more neurotic first mate. With crew in tow he sets sail into a wondrous picture book world of pirates, mutinies and fantastical marine creatures on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly non-existent Jaguar Shark that killed his partner. From the creative team behind The Royal Tenenbaums and The Squid and the Whale this wonderfully weird and wistful adventure-comedy stars Bill Murray, Owen Wilson and Cate Blanchett.

"The garish, exotic, retro styling is Anderson at his visual best." Empire Magazine
"a rare original, something of lasting value that will keep you engrossed and entertained in a dry, downbeat tone that is focused and filmic and fantastic." Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile

screened earlier

 

AMELIE

7:30pm Tuesday 23 January

Dir: Jean-Pierrie Jeunet, France, 2001, 35mm, 122mins, PG

One person can change your life forever.
A charming romantic comedy with a visual beauty that exudes the warmth and wonder of life's small pleasures. Essential viewing on the big screen whether you are experiencing this film for the first time or reliving this magical film again.
Set in Paris, Amelie (Audrey Tautou) lives in a world of her own creation. Introverted, but with a highly developed imagination, she is obsessed with the small pleasures of life; skimming stones over water, plunging her hand into a sack of grain, cracking the top of her Creme Brulee with a spoon.
Believing she can redirect the fate of those around her by affecting the slightest changes around them, Amelie sets about helping people fall in love, punishing her nasty neighbours and giving a new lease of life to the lonely or unloved. When it comes to finding her own true love, Amelie conducts a campaign of stealth and games to win the heart of Nino (Mathieu Kassovitz) but becomes afraid of where her destiny might take her.
From the creator of Delicatessen, City of Lost Children and A Very Long Engagement, director Jean-Pierre Jeunet brings us his most joyous film.

"Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie is a delicious pastry of a movie, a lighthearted fantasy in which a winsome heroine overcomes a sad childhood and grows up to bring cheer to the needful and joy to herself." Roger Ebert, Chicago Times

Winner of 4 Cesar Awards including Best Film, Best Director and Best Original Soundtrack
Winner of 2 BAFTA Awards 2002 including Best Original Screenplay
Nominated for 5 Oscars 2002 including Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography.

LOWER CITY (Cidade Baixa)

7:30pm Tuesday 30 Januar

Premiere + only screening

Dir: Sergio Machado, Brazil, 2005, 35mm, 98min, MA15+

Deco and Naldhino are best friends and petty hustlers who scratch together a living delivering cargo around the port city of Salvador in a motor boat they co-own. When they offer a ride to Karinna, an exotic dancer and occasional prostitute, they are drawn into a passionate menage à trios. Before long jealousy and obsession tears apart their bond and forces them onto the vibrant but violent streets of the city where they must now try to survive on their own. An impressive feature debut from documentary maker Sergio Machado in collaboration with renowned writer/producer/director Walter Salles, the creative team behind Madame Sata.

"a visual delight... vivid and visceral... a high octane drama in the same school as Latin American crowd pleasers Amores Perros and City of God." Paul Julian Smith, Sight & Sound

"a violent, passionate, erotic film with a steamy atmosphere that hits you in the face like an unwashed bar-cloth from a backstreet dive." Philip French, The Observer

Winner of Award of the Youth, Cannes Film Festival 2005.

OFFSIDE

7:30pm Tuesday 6 February

Premiere and only screening

Dir: Jafar Panahi, Iran, 2006, 35mm, 91min, PG

Barred from entering Tehran's Azadi Stadium, where Iran's national football team is playing Bahrain in a crucial qualifier for the 2006 World Cup, several football obsessed Muslim women risk arrest as they attempt to sneak in disguised as boys. Some are caught and, detained tantalisingly close to the on field action, challenge their captors to explain exactly why they can't watch with the men. Shot in a semi-documentary style, much of it amid the commotion surrounding the stadium on match day, this gentle comedy authentically captures the unifying excitement of World Cup fever and the absurdity of the law which excludes women.

From the acclaimed director of The White Balloon, The Circle & Crimson Gold.

"likeable, gentle and charming film about young women football fanatics, disguised as boys, doing their darnedest to defy the all-male rule." Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

"comic and exuberant, bold and resilient, but it is also acutely sensitive to the tensions simmering in a society where young people? are asking when they too will be brought into the game." Julian Graffy, Sight & Sound

Co-winner of the Silver Berlin Bear Jury Grand Prix 2006.

RENAISSANCE

7:30pm Tuesday 13 February

Premiere and only big screen outing

Dir: Christian Volkman, France/UK/ Luxembourg, 2006, 35mm, 105min, M

Described as being a cross between Sin City and A Scanner Darkly this incredible French animation is visually stunning throughout. Sure to be an instant cult classic.

Assigned to track down a missing geneticist by the sinister pharmaceutical conglomerate Avalon, hard boiled detective Bartholemy Karas scours labyrinthine Paris in the year 2054. But all the clues lead him back to his employer and the conspiracy behind The Renaissance Protocol.

Taking film noir to its most stylised edge, utilising live action motion capture, animated in 3D and rendered in high contrast black & white to create a graphic novel come to life.

Featuring the voice talents of Daniel Craig (Casino Royale's James Bond), Jonathan Pryce and Ian Holm, this bold vision of a stark near future is essential viewing for fans of cutting edge animation.

"A film for fans of cinema and sci-fi, Renaissance is visually stunning and wonderfully intriguing... This is a simply outstanding film that can't be missed." Joe Utichi, FilmFocus

"the graphic, hard edged world of Frank Miller's Sin City, complete with its noirish sensibilities, the flamboyant retro-futurism of Gattaca, all welded onto a sci fi thriller tale - the animation artistry enables the filmmakers to do things not possible in live action." Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile

Winner of the Feature Film Award, International Animated Film Festival 2006.