BIG SCREEN 2009

28 - 30 August

OPENING NIGHT
FRIDAY 28 AUGUST, 6.30PM for 7.00PM SCREENING

Director Sarah Watt will be at Majestic Cinemas Nambucca Heads, to introduce her second feature film My Year Without Sex.

Join us for drinks and nibbles from 6.30pm before the screening of…

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

SATURDAY 29 AUGUST, 11.00AM
Mary and Max (PG)
2009, 92 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.

SATURDAY 29 AUGUST, 2.00PM
Last Ride (M)
2009, 101 mins

When his father (Hugo Weaving) bundles him into the car in the middle of the night, ten-year-old Chook (Tom Russell) knows something is wrong. As the two escape, facing an unknown future, their troubled relationship and the need to survive sees them battling the elements and each other.
Dir: Glendyn Ivin. Writ: Mac Gudgeon.

SATURDAY 29 AUGUST, 7.30PM
Disgrace (M)
2008, 119 mins

David Lurie (John Malkovich), twice-divorced and dissatisfied with his job as an English professor in post-apartheid South Africa, finds his life falling apart. When he seduces one of his students, he is dismissed from his teaching position, and takes refuge on his daughter's (Jessica Haines) farm in the Eastern Cape. Based on the Booker Prize winning novel by Nobel Prize winning author J.M. Coetzee.
Dir: Steve Jacobs Writ: Anna Maria Monticelli.

FAMILY SCREENING
SUNDAY 30 AUGUST, 10.00AM
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.

A LOST MASTERPIECE
SUNDAY 30 AUGUST, 1.00PM
Wake in Fright (M)
1971, 114 mins

The story of John Grant a young school teacher, stranded in the outback. A brutal and confronting portrayal of Aussie mateship and the bush, Wake in Fright had been lost to audiences for decades until a chance discovery of the film in America has led to its digital restoration by the National Film and Sound Archive. Starring Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty and a young Jack Thompson.
Dir: Ted Kotcheff Writ: Kenneth Cook/Even Jones

SUNDAY 30 AUGUST, 3.30PM
Love The Beast (M)
2009, 92 mins

Eric Bana casts himself in his perfect role: exploring the meaning of a 25-year-long relationship with his first car, ‘The Beast’, and the importance of bonds formed through a common passion.
Dir/Writ: Eric Bana.

SUNDAY 30 AUGUST, 6.30PM
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

Free School Screenings

Thu 27 Aug 10.00am	Babe: Pig in the City (G)
Thu 27 Aug 12.30pm	Footy Legends (PG)
Fri 28 Aug 10.00pm	Footy Legends (PG)
Fri 28 Aug 12.30pm	The Black Balloon (M)

General Screenings

Fri 28 Aug 6.30pm for 7.00pm	OPENING NIGHT - My Year Without Sex (M) + short film Living with Happiness (PG)
Sat 29 Aug 11.00am	Mary and Max (PG)
Sat 29 Aug 2.00pm	Last Ride (M)
Sat 29 Aug 7.30pm	Disgrace (M)
Sun 30 Aug 10.00am	FAMILY SCREENING - Babe (G)
Sun 30 Aug 1.00pm	A LOST MASTERPIECE - Wake In Fright (M)
Sun 30 Aug 3.30pm	Love The Beast (M)
Sun 30 Aug 6.30pm	Samson and Delilah (MA15+)

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