Canterbury Film Society’s 2011 mini-season

Welcome to Canterbury Film Society’s 2011 mini-season of classic and contemporary cinema from around the world and from our own doorstep.

Morvern Callar Patu!

Films will be held fortnightly at the CPSA Building at CPIT starting at 6:30pm (except where noted otherwise) and are all in DVD or 16mm format starting Monday 13 June 2011.

Membership for the 2011 mini-season is only $40 and this also qualifies for discounted tickets at the New Zealand International Film Festival in August! If you hold a current membership, it will be frozen until next year.

The full line-up is:

13 June Yojimbo (Kurosawa/Japan/1961)

27 June Journey in Italy (Rossellini/Italy/1953) AGM at 6pm

11 July North Face (Stölzl/Germany/2008)

25 July Morvern Callar (Ramsay/UK/2002)

8 August Rome Open City (Rossellini/Italy/1945)

29 August Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine

(Jayanti/Canada/2003)

12 September Patu! (Mita/New Zealand/1983)

26 September Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch/USA/1940) *

10 October Singin in the Rain (Donen, Kelly/USA/1952) *

* Screening starts at 7.30pm.

FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO WWW.CANTERBURYFILMSOCIETY.ORG.NZ

YOJIMBO

Kurosawa Akira | Japan | 1961 | DVD | M violence Mifune Toshiro stars as a mercenary samurai who sells his services to two rival factions. “Yojimbo was inspired by the American Western and combines its best elements – a remarkable authenticity, finely drawn

characters, brilliant comedy, superb editing, and exquisite widescreen cinematography.” – Pacific Film Archive

JOURNEY IN ITALY

(Viaggio in Italia)

Roberto Rossellini | Italy | 1953 | DVD | PG “A trip to Italy opens up long-festering emotional wounds for a seemingly happy couple in Rossellini’s

fascinating film, long acclaimed as the key link between Italian neorealism and the modernist, subjective

cinema of the early sixties.” – Jason Sanders

NORTH FACE

(Nordwand)

Philipp Stölzl | Germany | 2008 | DVD | M content may disturb

Incredible true story based around the 1936 ascent of the north face of the Eiger, the most notorious peak in the Swiss Alps. “A mountaineering adventure more tense, more edge-of-the-seat suspenseful, than Touching the Void? Almost incredibly, this German drama is that film.” – The Independent

MORVERN CALLAR

Lynne Ramsay | UK | 2002 | DVD | R16 drug use, sex scenes, offensive language Stars Samantha Morton as a young woman on an existential journey following her boyfriend’s suicide and the discovery of his unpublished manuscript. “Mixes art-house cool with the buzz of rave culture.” – Sight & Sound

ROME OPEN CITY

Roberto Rossellini | Italy | 1945 | 16m |

Rossellini’s neorealist masterpiece Rome Open City follows a Priest and a group of workers who will have to endure the final oppression by the invading Nazi soldiers.

GAME OVER: KASPAROV AND THE MACHINE

Vikram Jayanti | Canada | 2003 | DV A gripping and suspenseful portrait of Russian chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov told through the prism of his famous match-up with the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. “An engrossing tale of ego, strategy, and the limits of human intelligence.” – Chicago Reader

PATU!

Merata Mita | New Zealand | 1983 | 16mm | PG As thousands took to the streets in protest at the 1981 Springbok Tour, battalions of filmmakers and

photographers recorded their confrontations with police and rugby diehards. Thirty years on, Merata Mita’s assemblage of this footage remains an incredibly persuasive and thoroughly essential document. Screens with the support of the New Zealand Film Archive.

THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER

Ernst Lubitsch | USA | 1940 | 35mm | PG Lubitsch applies his elegant touch to this classic Hollywood comedy. Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart play sparring co-workers in a Budapest emporium who are unwitting lonely-hearts pen pals. “Close to

perfection – one of the most beautifully acted and paced romantic comedies.” – Pauline Kael

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN

Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | USA | 1952 | 35mm “A brilliant satire of the chaos into which the industry descended when sound came in – and a sharp, funny commentary on the perversities of big studio politics… No true movie lover doesn’t have a special heart-place for this perfect backstage musical comedy, or for that sublime dance in the rain by Kelly.” – Chicago Tribune

Rome Open City

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