Paramount 10-16 January
Paramount Cinemas - 25 Courtenay Place, Wellington - www.paramount.co.nz - ph (04) 384 4080
Times for
week Thursday 10th – Wednesday 16th January
Film | Thurs | Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon | Tues | Wed |
10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th | 16th | |
Polisse - 127 min (R16 Offensive language, sexual themes & content that may disturb) | 2:40pm | 2:40pm | 2:40pm | 2:40pm | 2:40pm | 2:40pm | 2:40pm |
Searching for Sugarman - 85 min (E) | 6:55pm | 6:55pm | 6:55pm | 6:55pm | 6:55pm | 6:55pm | 6:55pm |
Seven Psychopaths - 111 min (R16 - violence & offensive language) | 2:55pm 6:40pm 8:45pm | 2:55pm 6:40pm 8:45pm | 2:55pm 6:40pm 8:45pm | 2:55pm 6:40pm 8:45pm | 2:55pm 6:40pm 8:45pm | 2:55pm 6:40pm 8:45pm | 2:55pm 6:40pm 8:45pm |
Sightseers - 95 min (R16 violence,offensive language and sex scenes) | 2:55pm 8:45pm | 2:55pm 8:45pm | 2:55pm 8:45pm | 2:55pm 8:45pm | 2:55pm 8:45pm | 2:55pm 8:45pm | 2:55pm 8:45pm |
Six Venice - 88 min (E) | 5:00pm | 5:00pm | 5:00pm | 5:00pm | 5:00pm | 5:00pm | 5:00pm |
The Angel's Share - 101 min (R16 violence & offensive language) | 4:45pm | 4:45pm | 4:45pm | 4:45pm | 4:45pm | 4:45pm | 4:45pm |
The Imposter - 95 min (E) | 12:50pm 5:05pm 8:35pm | 12:50pm 5:05pm 8:35pm | 12:50pm 5:05pm 8:35pm | 12:50pm 5:05pm 8:35pm | 12:50pm 5:05pm 8:35pm | 12:50pm 5:05pm 8:35pm | 12:50pm 5:05pm 8:35pm |
The Sessions - 95 min (M Contains sex scenes, nudity & sexual references) | 1:05pm | 1:05pm | 1:05pm | 1:05pm | 1:05pm | 1:05pm | 1:05pm |
To Rome With Love - 112 min (M Contains offensive language and sexual references) | 12:50pm 6:40pm | 12:50pm 6:40pm | 12:50pm 6:40pm | 12:50pm 6:40pm | 12:50pm 6:40pm | 12:50pm 6:40pm | 12:50pm 6:40pm |
Polisse Based
on real life cases, the horrific nature of what these cops
do is presented in a stark, no-nonsense manner. The film
does not dwell on these people so much as the ways the cops
deal with them. Any chance at laughter or light is grabbed
at as a way to allay the darkness of what they see every
day.
Searching for Sugarman The
extraordinary story od a Detroit musician who was a star in
South Africa without his knowledge.
Seven
Psychopaths Films about people writing films are
not that rare, but this is certainly the bloodiest one I can
remember seeing, outdoing even Barton Fink for death count.
Colin Farrell plays Marty, and Irish screenwriter with an
alcohol problem and a script with nothing but a title Seven
Psychopaths. Marty wants to make a Bhuddist film from this
title, something his best friend Billy says probably quite
rightly is insane. Billy's a little unstable, but a loyal
friend who is all too willing to help Marty out with his
script. He's the sidekick of Hans, who makes a good living
out of dognapping. But things go more than a little pear
shaped when Billy snatches shih-tzu, Bonny, who belongs to
seriously crazy mob boss Jimmy
Costello
Sightseers This darkly
hilarious British film is likely to be the most deranged
flick you’ll see this holiday season. Imagine Natural Born
Killers made by Mike Leigh and you’ll get some idea of
what you’re in for. The film opens with Chris picking up
his girlfriend, Tina, to go on a caravanning holiday. After
wrestling her away from her overprotective mother, they hit
the road, heading for such thrilling destinations as the
Pencil and Tramways museums. The pair are jubilant at being
on their own and free to travel. When an inconsiderate man
litters on an historic tram, Chris loses his cool and when
the opportunity arises in the parking lot, he runs him down.
Initially horrified, Tina manages to convince herself that
it was an accident and the couple continue on their way.
When, at a Yorkshire campsite, Chris bludgeons an annoying
camper to death and steals his dog, Tina can’t sweep that
one under the rug quite so easily, but still stays with
Chris. The only other option is to go back home to the
overbearing mother she’s only just beginning to leave
behind. And besides, you stand by your man, right? It’s
not long before Tina is joining in, trying her hand at
homicide and finding she likes it.
Six
Venice A documentary trawling Venice for the answer
to the question: What makes a city?
The Angel's
Share Robbie is a young thug who has been
sentenced to community service after yet another assault
charge for fighting with a rival and his family. He’s
desperate to change. His young girlfriend is pregnant and
Robbie wants to be a good father. When Harry, the
work-gang’s foreman, takes the team on a field trip to a
distillery, Robbie’s curiosity is piqued, especially by
the ‘Angel’s Share’ – the name given to the whiskey
lost to evaporation during the distilling process. As he
learns more about whiskey, and drags his new friends from
community service along to his tastings, he realizes some
whiskies are worth more than others. When he discovers an
extremely rare cask is up for auction in the Scottish
Highlands, he figures out that just a few bottles would be
enough to set he and his friends up for life.
The
Imposter Another one for the
'truth-is-stranger-than-fiction' file, this film tells the
story of French con-artist Frederic Bourdin, who managed to
convince a Texan family that he was their 16 year-old son
and brother who went missing three years earlier. Numerous
questions are raised by this even-handed doco, the most
central is how could this man have convinced the family he
was the person he said he was? Nicholas Barclay was a
slight, blue-eyed blonde who would have been 16 when he was
'found' in Spain. Bourdin is a stocky 23 year-old,
dark-haired and brown-eyed. Yet no one in the family
questioned that he was their Nicholas - even when he
couldn't speak English without a thick French
accent.
The Sessions A film about a
severely physically disabled man struggling to experience
sex does not sound, on the face of it, like an enjoyable
night out at the cinema. But the subject of this film, poet
and journalist Mark O'Brien, has such an engaging sense of
humor that the film is injected with a levity the subject
matter does not instantly point to. Crippled from the neck
down by a childhood brush with polio, Mark, with the support
of his family and a series of carers, managed to complete
college and pursued a successful career as a journalist.
This is all the more remarkable when one considers that he
could not survive more than a few hours outside an iron
lung. Right from the start Mark exhibits an interest in sex.
A young carer becomes the object of obsession, but leaves
after Mark makes an ill-thought out marriage proposal. It is
not until he's assigned an article on sex for the disabled
that Mark begins to explore the possibility that he might be
able to experience physical intimacy. His quest for it is
hampered by his Catholic upbringing and the religion's
strict attitudes toward sex.
To Rome With
Love Multiple stories thread through the streets
of Rome. A young American girl stops a nice-looking Italian
man to ask directions to the Trevi Fountain. Within minutes
theirs is a full blown romance and Mom and Dad are summoned
to meet the in-laws. This meeting does not go well, with
Woody Allen’s reluctantly retired music producer becoming
enchanted by his new son-in-law’s father’s singing in
the shower. He shoves the unwilling singer into the
spotlight with disastrous results. In another thread a young
American architect finds himself torn between two very
different women and a voice in his head argues with him as
he struggles to decide which, if either, is the best for
him. In another twist on ‘the other woman’, a young
Italian couple on their honeymoon become separated, the wife
winding up with an older movie star while her husband
struggles to impress business associates with a prostitute
who stumbled into his room accidentally. The final thread
deals with the idea of celebrity as everyman Roberto Begnini
finds himself suddenly famous for no reason at all.
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