Paramount Programme 21st – 27th May

Paramount Programme 21st – 27th May

25 Courtenay Place, Po Box 6232 Wellington. Ph 384 4080. Fax 384 4408.www.paramount.co.nz

PROGRAMME 21st – 27th May Thu

21st Fri

22nd Sat

23rd Sun

24th Mon

25th Tue

26th Wed

27th
A FILM WITH ME IN IT (M) 91 minutes

4.05pm

8.40pm 12.20pm

4.25pm

8.40pm 12.20pm

4.25pm

8.40pm 12.20pm

4.25pm

4.15pm 12.20pm

4.25pm

8.40pm 12.20pm

4.25pm

ALTER EGO (doco) 78 minutes 7.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm
NZ Comedy Festival: 5 7.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm
IN SEARCH OF BEETHOVEN (M) 137 minutes 11.50am

6.10pm 11.50am

6.10pm 11.50am

6.10pm 11.50am

4.10pm 1.45pm 11.50am

8.30pm 11.50am

8.30pm
I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG (M) 130 minutes 1.45pm 2.10pm

6.25pm 2.10pm

6.25pm 2.10pm

6.25pm 2.00pm

2.10pm

6.25pm 2.10pm

8.40pm
ROMAN DE GARE (M) 110 minutes 2.10pm

8.30pm 2.10pm

8.30pm 2.10pm

8.30pm 2.10pm

6.30pm

2.10pm

2.10pm

6.20pm
RELIGULOUS (M) 108 minutes 5.10pm 5.10pm 5.10pm 5.10pm 5.10pm 5.10pm 5.10pm
MENS’ GROUP (R16 violence & offensive language, drug use & sex scenes) 112 minutes 4.10pm 4.10pm 4.10pm 6.40pm 4.10pm 4.10pm 4.10pm
THE CLASS (M offensive language) 135 minutes 2.50pm

8.30pm 2.50pm

8.30pm 2.50pm

8.30pm 2.50pm

2.50pm 2.50pm

8.30pm 2.50pm

8.30pm
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (PG –sexual references) 12.30pm 12.30pm 12.30pm 12.30pm 12.30pm 12.30pm
WELLINGTON FILM SOCIETY PRESENTS: Noi The Albino (M) 93 minutes 6.15pm

ALTER EGO Tags, throwups and pieces are part of almost every major cityscape around the world, and are more or less part of our everyday life. AlterEgo takes the viewer to 9 major cities around the world and into the lifes of some very passionate individuals standing behind those written identities, walking the borderline between creation and destruction, art and vandalism. They describe the motivation that drives them to paint the streets, explaining their work and their personal backgrounds, what graffiti is and what it means to them. The camera follows them around to places, one would hardly see on one's own, shows them on their urban missions as well as their studios and homes. The featured artists talk about their justification using public space as a means for their expression, the role of Graffiti in an arthistorical context and the influence of advertisement on society, placed in the most public areas. Most of the featured artist pursue a professional career already, either as artists or designers or in fields not related to art at all. They come from different social backgrounds, different countries and cultures, but they all have one thing in common - the love for their creation and expression, and everything that comes out of it.

A FILM WITH ME IN IT A surprise hit at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival, this is a blacker than black comedy about an actor suffering through the worst day of his life with only his inebriated best friend for support. After possibly the most humiliating audition ever, Mark goes home to his crumbling flat to discover his girlfriend has left him. And then tragedy strikes. Then tragedy strikes again. And again… Mark and his failed screenwriter pal must figure out what to do next. Comedy doesn’t come much blacker than this, yet the film is hugely enjoyable. Dylan Moran and Mark Doherty make an ideal on-screen pair and their performances are one of the film’s greatest pleasures. Doherty is an everyman whose passive approach to life is crippling him. As chaos rages around him, he can do nothing but watch the absurdity rain down upon him. Beautifully written and flawlessly performed, this is one not to be missed if you like to have fun in the movie theatre.

IN SEARCH OF BEETHOVEN has briought the world’s leading performers and experts on Beethoven to reveal new insights into this legendary composer. The line-up of performers and interviewees includes Gianandrea Noseda, Sir Roger Norrington, Riccardo Chailly, Claudio Abbado, Fabio Luisi, Frans Brüggen, Ronald Brautigam, Hélène Grimaud, Vadim Repin, Janine Jansen, Paul Lewis, Lars Vogt, and Emanuel Ax among others. The film is narrated by Juliet Stevenson and young RSC actor David Dawson. The unique research process makes this incredibly detailed documentary the most comprehensive piece of programming on Beethoven ever produced. Whether a die-hard Beethoven fan, or simply curious to go beyond the Fifth Symphony, In Search of Beethoven will appeal to all cinemagoers alike. I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG Kristin Scott-Thomas is best known for her English language work in films like The English Patient and Four Weddings and a Funeral, but it is in French that she manages to give the finest performance of her career. She plays Juliette, a woman just released from prison after fifteen years. She goes to live with her sister while she finds her feet, much to the consternation of her sister’s husband. The film focuses on the details of her daily life as she tries to negotiate being back in the real world. But little by little insights are given into what her life was before, why she was imprisoned and how she managed to cope behind bars. The joy of the film is that it doesn’t give you all of this at once, meting out information slowly and organically until finally you see the full picture.with at some point during their lives.
RELIGULOUS Bill Maher is one of the USA’s most irreverent comics so it is fitting that he team up with the director behind Borat. As he travels the world provoking and questioning people about their faith, Maher is by turns engaging and obnoxious. Raised a Catholic until the age of thirteen, but with a Jewish mother, Maher is obviously curious about religion and its adherents. The people he chooses to question include a televeangelist, an egomaniac rabbi who admits to going to a holocaust denial conference, a reformed gay who in turns helps other gays reform, a theme-park Jesus and a Latino who believes he is the second coming of Jesus. THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Shylock is one of Shakespeare’s greatest villains and this stunning adaptation of the play makes some brave choices in interpreting the text, but never to the detriment of the story. Visually stunning and featuring outstanding performances, this may well be the best Shakespeare adaptation on film today.
THE CLASS Winner of the Palm d’Or at Cannes 2008 and the official French entry for the Academy Awards, The Class has featured in almost every critics’ “best of 2008” list. A mixture of documentary and organically developed drama make this one of the most authentic films about the classroom I’ve ever seen. Young teacher Francois Begaudeau (playing himself) is determined to instil communal values into his multi-ethnic class. A few students though, are determined not to be patronized and make his job difficult at every possible opportunity.With a cast made up entirely of real students, the authenticity of the classroom is palpable. No one who has been a teacher, or indeed a student, can fail to recognize the characters presented here.

MEN’S GROUP Once a week six very different men, Paul, Freddy, Cecil, Lucas, Moses and Alex, meet at Paul’s house to talk. When they begin they are strangers, each there for their own reasons and often against their will. To begin with all six hide themselves behind something: anger, jokes or silence. But as they begin to open up to one another, they discover that they share many of the same fears and anxieties ROMAN DE GARE Veteran French director Claude Lelouche has made little memorable cinema since his 1995 WWII set version of Les Miserables. But Roman De Gare changes this. It is a twisty, intelligent thriller that delights in toying with the audience’s expectations. The film begins by introducing a group of seemingly unrelated characters. Judith Ralitzer is a novelist who has just published a novel called God, the Other when she is brought in for questioning about two murders. In a speeding car we hear the radio tell of an escaped serial killer known as The Magician because of his penchant for doing card tricks before attacking his victims. Pierre Laclos is at a highway rest stop, waiting out a storm and watches as Huguette is left there by her fiancé who it tired of arguing with her. Desperate and alone, she accepts his offer of a ride and they tell each other about their lives. But who is Pierre?

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