QUICK SELECT
DEAN SPANLEY
Dir: Toa Fraser, UK/NZ, 2008, 100 mins, 35mm, (G)
Toa Fraser’s bitter-sweet Edwardian shaggy dog story is about reincarnation and the ‘metaphysical’ powers of a rare bottle of Tokay wine. The surprise pleasure of recent movie-going has great oddball roles for Peter O’Toole, Sam Neill and Bryan Brown.
All tickets only $5 per person!
WAKE IN FRIGHT
Dir: Ted Kotcheff, UK/USA/Aust., 1971, 109 mins, 35mm, (M)
“Sweat, dust and beer… There’s nothing else out here mate!”
For many, it’s the greatest Australian film ever made. At the very least, it's a high-point of the Australian film industry revival of the early 1970s. In director Ted Kotcheff’s hands Kenneth Cook’s savage novel becomes a sweat-blurred cinematic vision of savage Australian masculinity, as bush school teacher John Grant (Gary Bond) is trapped by the turn of a two-up coin in the outback mining city of Bundanyabba. All John wants to do is get to Sydney and the arms of his girlfriend. But led on by the local copper (Chips Rafferty, in his last role) and his other new best mates (including Jack Thompson and Donald Pleasence) the ‘Yabba becomes an inescapable, self-made hell of beer, dust and violence. Nominated for the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971, Wake in Fright has been all but impossible to see for many years. After a decades-long search for the original negatives it’s been restored by the NFSA in partnership with The Wake in Fright Trust and Atlab/Deluxe Australia, and acclaimed all over again at the recent Cannes 2009 Classics program and Sydney Film Festival. Arc Cinema gives you the first and best chance to see the most anticipated Australian classic re-release in many years. A Madman Entertainment Release. 109 mins, 35mm, (M)
“Wake in Fright is Australian cinema’s Paradise Lost” - Paul Byrnes
“One of the greatest films to be made in this country” – Garry Maddox, Sydney Morning Herald
Sessions:
Thurs 2 July, 7pm
Sat 4 July: 2 and 7pm
Fri 10 July; 7.00pm
Sat 11 July: 4.30 and 7pm
Sun 12 July: 4.30pm
Due to the unprecedented demand, extra sessions have been scheduled:
Friday, 17 July, 2pm and 7pm
Sunday, 19 July, 12 midday
Wednesday, 22 July, 7pm
Sunday, 26 July, 12 midday
ACCIDENT
Dir: Joseph Losey, UK, 1967, 105 mins, 35mm, (M)
A pair of idealistic undergrads (Michael York and Jacqueline Sassard), two midlife-crisis-ridden Oxford Dons (Losey regulars Dirk Bogarde and Stanley Baker), and a long suffering spouse (Pinter’s then wife Vivien Merchant) lunch on the grass, basking in a late English summer and the social and gender turmoil of the 1960s. Emerging as a new critical favourite amongst the Pinter-Losey collaborations, Accident is humid with sexual, moral and class tension “…Losey's finest film… (has) grown more resonant with time.”- Nick James, Sight and Sound.
FILMS MADE BY AUSSIE KIDS
2007-09, video, 55 mins (*unclassified 15+. Under Australian law; those under 15 must be accompanied by a parent, teacher or guardian)
Short films for kids 6 years and up. ALL TICKETS $5
Full film listing for Films Made By Aussie Kids
BIG SHOTS, SMALL PACKAGES ONE
2007-09, video, 55 mins (*unclassified 15+. Under Australian law; those under 15 must be accompanied by a parent, teacher or guardian)
Short films for kids 8 years and up. ALL TICKETS $5
Full film listing for Big Shots, Small Packages 1
THE NEW BLACK
Aust. 2008-09, 85 mins, video, (unclassified 15+)
Australia’s festival of new Indigenous filmmaking returns for 2009, beginning with seven new short films made by Indigenous Australian filmmakers. The mix is of familiar names taking their first film directing credit – such as actors Leah Purcell (Auntie Maggie and the Womba Wakgun) and Deborah Mailman (Ralph) – and talented up-and-newcomers like Romaine Moreton (The Farm), Adrian Wills (Bourke Boy) and Dena Curtis (Jacob). But all of the stories are straight from the heart of Indigenous Australia. Presented in association with Blackfella Films, and with the support of Screen Australia, SBS Television and the Sydney Opera House. ENTRY FREE.
FIRE TALKER
Dir: Ivan Sen, 2009, 52 mins, video, (unclassified 15+)
The latest documentary from the director of Beneath Clouds uses forty years of archival footage to build a candid study of the life of Charles Perkins, activist & bureaucrat. On the frontline of the emerging Aboriginal civil and land rights movement, Perkins had a straight-shooting character and sometimes aggressive temperament, but also inspired many Australians, black and white. Presented in association with Blackfella Films, and with the support of Screen Australia, SBS Television and the Sydney Opera House ENTRY FREE.
(Image: Robert McFarlane)
LITTLE BIG SHOTS FILM FESTIVAL
2007-09, video, 55 mins (*unclassified 15+. Under Australian law; those under 15 must be accompanied by a parent, teacher or guardian)
Shorts made by kids for kids 4 to 10 years old. ALL TICKETS $5
Full film listing for Big Shots, Small Packages 2
LITTLE BIG SHOTS FILM FESTIVAL THREE
2007-09, video, 55 mins (*unclassified 15+. Under Australian law; those under 15 must be accompanied by a parent, teacher or guardian)
Short films for kids 6 to 12 year old. ALL TICKETS $5
Full film listing for Big Shots, Small Packages 3
