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OUTDOOR CINEMA
The popular NFSA Outdoor Screenings return in 2010, under the stars every Saturday night during January and February in our beautiful Art Deco courtyard. Enjoy a glass of wine as you watch films in real 35mm film projection from the comfort of our supplied deck chairs.
The season starts with a special Boxing Day tribute screening to Michael Jackson with The Wiz, then throughout January and February enjoy favourites such as The Lost Boys, Dirty Dancing, La Dolce Vita, brand new prints of Malcolm and Easy Rider. See our January and February sections for other films, session dates and details.
Local winery Four Winds Vineyard will join us for tastings and sales of luscious, carefully produced cool climate wines from their boutique winery in Murrumbateman. Purchase Riesling, Chardonnay, Shiraz, Cabernet and Merlot from their Alinga range by the bottle or glass.
Doors open at 7pm for a sunset start (approximately 8.30pm). Seating to capacity only. In the case of bad weather, films may be screened in Arc cinema.
BYO food and drink welcome in 2010 – sorry, no picnic blankets and eskies due to limited space. Please no glass where possible in the interests of public safety. The NFSA promotes responsible drinking.
WITHNAIL AND I
Dir: Bruce Robinson, UK, 1987, 103 mins, 35mm, (M)
In the last days of 1969 two 'resting' actors decide to leave behind the squalor and boredom of their 'matter-infested' Camden flat for an idyllic weekend in the English countryside. But a squalid cottage, eccentric uncle, no food, and constant rain bring a hunger for a past they only just realize is over. Director Bruce Robinson's hilarious and poignant semi-autobiographical film is an oftquoted look at the 'end of an era', and will always be one of Richard E Grant's most memorable roles.
MALCOLM
Dir: Nadia Tass, Aust., 1986, 85 mins, 35mm, (PG)
Tram-fixated Malcolm (Colin Friels), ex-con Frank (John Hargreaves), and his nothing-but-spunk girlfriend Judith (Lindy Davies) become the most effective bank robbing gang since The Kellys, in the most loved film of 1980s Australian cinema. A newly restored print from the NFSA's Deluxe/Kodak Project.
WILD AT HEART
Dir: David Lynch, USA, 1990, 124 mins, 35mm, (R)
Sailor Ripley (Nicolas Cage) is out on parole, grabs his girl Lula (Laura Dern) and gets on the road, unwittingly pursued by a hitman hired by Lula’s enraged mother. This post-Blue Velvet take on The Wizard of Oz (plus Brando in the 1960 Tennessee Williams adaptation The Fugitive Kind) is a sort of Lynchland travelogue, with supporting cameos from usual suspects like Harry Dean Stanton, Isabella Rossellini and most of the cast of Twin Peaks. 'Lynch's kinky fairy tale is a triumph of startling images and comic invention' - Rolling Stone. Imported print.
NEW YORK STORIES
Dirs: Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, USA, 1989, 124 mins, 35mm, (PG)
New York's three most famous directors; three short film stories about the city that has defined their filmmaking. In Life Lessons, Martin Scorsese collaborates with screenwriter Richard Price and the slouching Nick Nolte, playing a fashionable, but badly-blocked Abstract Expressionist painter. Coppola's Life Without Zoe (the first script credit for daughter Sofia Coppolla) follows a day in the life of the 12 year old daughter of absent, jet-setting celebrities. Woody Allen's Oedipus Wreaks is one of his career bests, with Allen and Mia Farrow as a couple with gigantic mother-in-law trouble.
DIRTY DANCING
Dir: Emile Ardolino, USA, 1987, 100 mins, 35mm, (M)
Say goodbye to Swayze under the stars with the now-cult ‘end of innocence’ film. Sometime in the 1960s, Baby (Jennifer Grey) struggles to break out of expected moulds and finds her chance for change through a handsome, holiday resort dancing instructor. The love story of Johnny and Baby became the fairy tale of the late ‘80s and ran for almost a year in most cinemas during its original release, making Patrick Swayze one of the biggest sex symbols in contemporary Hollywood.
THE LOST BOYS
Dir: Joel Schumacher, USA, 1987, 97 mins, 35mm, (M)
Two brothers, new to a small coastal town, find friendship in two very different peer groups. Whilst the older boy begins to party all night with his biker gang mates, the younger suspects there’s more to his brother’s sleeping-in than adolescent rebellion. Soon he’s fallen in with a pair of nerdy, comic-addicted brothers, who claim the town needs some serious vampireslaying. The original Teen vampire party animals were director Joel Schumacher’s post-glam, no-wave brat pack, including Jason Patric, Coreys Haim and Feldman, plus Kiefer Sutherland.
LA DOLCE VITA
Dir: Federico Fellini, Italy, 1960, 174 mins, 35mm, (M)
“By 1965 there’ll be total depravity…” So one of the cavalcade of Felliniesque characters remarks, in the Maestro’s gaze into the future of the 1960s and the chances for happiness for Rome’s indifferent chatting classes. Marcello Mastroianni plays a character not much different than his real-life self: a hack celebrity journalist vaguely pursuing a visiting movie star (Anita Ekberg, in that fountain), vaguely pursued by an equally bored socialite and descending into moral crisis when an admired friend destroys himself in a murder-suicide. At the end only a little girl on a beach seems to offer any hope. “Thomas Mann meets Eurotrash.” – David Thomson.
THE SCREEN AT KAMCHANOD
(Pee Chang Nang) Dir: Songsak Mongkolthong, Thailand, 2007, 97 mins, 35mm, (unclassified 18+)
In 1987, an outdoor movie screening in rural Thailand was reportedly attended by spirits, who emerged from the forest to watch and then suddenly disappeared. From this urban myth, director Mongkolthong has fashioned one of the most chilling hits of recent Thai horror cinema, resetting the story to a team of investigators who borrow the film print and a deserted Bangkok cinema to look for the truth – and find their screening being invaded by invisible patrons who just love to put their feet up on the seats! Canberra Premiere.
