BIG SCREEN 2009

17 - 20 September

OPENING NIGHT
Thursday 17 SEPTEMBER, 6.00PM

Join us for a free sausage sizzle and meet special guest Leon Burchill of Stone Bros in Kununurra to present his opening night film. Gates open at 5.30pm.

Stone Bros. (MA15+)
2009, 90 mins

City based Eddie, sets off to reconnect with his blackfella roots by taking a sacred stone back to his hometown. But when wild-boy Charlie forces himself along for the ride, Eddie's spiritual journey takes a sharp turn off-track and becomes a riotous trip through outback Australia.
Writ/ Dir: Richard J Frankland.

 

SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER, 8.00PM
Wake in Fright (M)
1971, 114 mins

The story of young school teacher John Grant, stranded in the outback. A brutal and confronting portrayal of Aussie mateship and the bush, Wake in Fright was lost to audiences for decades until a chance discovery of the film in America led to its digital restoration by the National Film and Sound Archive. Starring Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty and a young Jack Thompson.

…one of the greatest films to be made in this country.
Garry Maddox, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

The best and most terrifying film about Australia in existence.
 Nick Cave

TRIPLE BILL!

SATURDAY 19 SEPTEMBER, 6.00PM
BABE (G)
1995, 92 mins

A delightful family film about a little pig who wants to be a sheepdog.
Dir: Chris Noonan Writ: Dick King-Smith, George Miller, Chris Noonan

Oscar Winner, Golden Globe Winner

SATURDAY 19 SEPTEMBER, 7.50PM
Mary and Max (PG)
2009, 80 mins

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. A claymated feature film from the creators of the Academy Award winning short animation Harvie Krumpet.
Dir/ Writ: Adam Elliot.

Mary and Max is an unqualified triumph - a beautiful, witty, deeply emotional film that explores the innate human need to connect.
Jim Schembri, THE AGE

WINNER Best Feature Award - Annecy International Animation Festival

 

SATURDAY 19 SEPTEMBER, 9.30PM
My Year Without Sex (M)
2009, 96 mins

An almost love story about all the big questions, and even more of the small ones. Over one messy year, Ross and Natalie navigate their two kids, hospital, nits, housework, birthdays, Christmas, faith, football, job insecurity, more nits…and whether they will ever have sex again.
Dir/ Writ: Sarah Watt

Funny and heart-wrenching.
Michaela Boland, AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

DOUBLE FEATURE

SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER, 6.00pm
Two Fists One Heart (M)
2008, 105 mins

Set in Perth, Two Fists One Heart is a love story, a sports story, a story about mates, about the fight game, about violence and prejudice. Above all, it’s about family and both the strengths and limitations of one generation’s ambitions and hopes for the next.
Dir: Shawn Seet Writ: Rai Fazio

…one of the most polished Australian films to come along in some time.
Sandra Hall, THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

 

SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER, 8.00PM
Samson and Delilah (MA15+)
2009, 101 Mins

Samson and Delilah’s world is small - an isolated community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes, they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival. Lost, unwanted and alone, they also discover that love never judges.
Dir/ Writ: Warwick Thornton

Winner 2009 Camera d’Or – Cannes Film Festival

..one of the most wonderful films this country has ever produced.
Margaret Pomeranz, AT THE MOVIES

 

Thu 17 Sep 6.00pm	OPENING NIGHT - Stone Bros. (MA15+)
Thu 17 Sep 8.00pm	Wake in Fright (M)
Sat 19 Sep 6.00pm	Babe (G)
Sat 19 Sep         7.50pm	Mary and Max  (PG)
Sat 19 Sep 9.30pm	My Year Without Sex (M)
Sun 20 Sep 6.00pm	Two Fists One Heart (M)
Sun 20 Sep           8.00pm	Samson and Delilah (MA15+)

 

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