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Starts Thursday 12th August at LUNA LEEDERVILLE LUNA ON SX
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The Ghost Writer stars Ewan McGregor as just that, an aspiring scribe turned reluctant hack for hire. He agrees to complete the memoirs in progress of former UK Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), following the suspected suicide of the former ghost writer. Director Roman Polanski (who won Best Director Prize at the last Berlin Film Fest.) has woven a moody gothic political thriller riddled with hidden messages, about a dubious autobiography of a prominent public figure in exile. Lots of parallels with his own life there. Based on the novel by Robert Harris (Enigma, Fatherland). |
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Starts Saturday 14th August at LUNA LEEDERVILLE
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Late shows exclusive to Luna Leederville every Saturday night: 11.15pm from Aug 14 Written, directed and starring Tommy Wiseau, The Room (M) is like no other film you’ve seen. Johnny (Tommy Wiseau) seems to have it all; a beautiful fiancée, Lisa, great friends and a job with a promotion in the works. But Lisa, (Juliette Danielle) isn’t who she seems. Manipulative and restless, Lisa sets her sights on Johnny’s best friend Mark (Greg Sestero) and they start a torrid affair and Johnny’s perfect world starts to crumble.
Featured on Adult Swim’s Tim and Eric, Awesome Show, Great Job! and beloved by comic actors and identities such as Kevin Smith, Paul Rudd, Frank Black, Jonah Hill and Alec Baldwin, The Room has garnered a massive cult following, selling out sessions across the US, leaving audiences stunned and wondering “how can so bad, be so good?”
Tommy Wiseau’s The Room, made only $3,000 at the box office in its 2003 release, before sinking without a trace.
A group of curious hipsters tracked it down after noticing an LA billboard Wiseau had booked, and started a series of midnight screenings, in which the audience joined in, Rocky Horror Picture Show style - dressing up, talking back to the screen and throwing spoons and footballs. The film has since developed a cult following not unlike that for Plan 9 from Outer Space, including fans like celebrity comedian David Cross and Tim & Eric of Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, who invited Wiseau to appear in one of their episodes.
Faced with crowds laughing at his masterpiece, a lesser man might have lost faith, but Wiseau has happily re-badged The Room as a 'black comedy', even rocking up for the screenings- his energetic participation at post-film Q&As is the stuff of legend. The overrated hype of some cult classics often border on overkill, but The Room's place in the pantheon of ‘So Bad, It's Horrifically Awful Good’ is hard to deny. No matter how bad something in life may be, it could never possibly be as bad as this.
“There’s not one redeeming feature about this movie. It’s awful.” -filmforthesoul.blogspot.com "What makes viewing The Room attractive is the chance for Perth audiences to gleefully ignore cinema etiquette while attending the weekly late-night screenings. Patrons are encouraged to make witty interjections, heckle, holler and hurl projectiles (plastic spoons) at the screen. It's the good-natured, interactive viewing experience that ensures, quite miraculously, that this deliriously incompetent piece of film-making winds up providing five-star entertainment." Gavin Bond, Sunday Times Entertainment (Perth) |
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Starts Thursday 19th August at WINDSOR CINEMA
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Matching Jack is a powerful emotional drama from award winning director Nadia Tass, about the unbreakable bond between parent and child. At the same time Marisa Hagen (Jacinda Barrett) discovers that her child (Tom Russell) is seriously ill, she also finds out that her husband (Richard Roxburgh) has been unfaithful for years. Marisa goes on a bizarre search in an attempt to turn her husband’s serial affairs into a positive – an illegitimate child could save her son’s life. A chance encounter with another parent, Connor (James Nesbitt) & his son Finn (Kodi Smit-McPhee), leads them on an unpredictable journey of love and hope. Special Talking Pictures Q&A Screening Event with award winning director Nadia Tass Sunday 3.00pm at the Windsor Cinema in Nedlands.
Nadia Tass (Malcolm, Amy, The Big Steal, Mr Reliable, Pure Luck) one of Australia's most respected and unique filmmakers is coming specifically to the Windsor, Perth for this extra special Q&A session! Nadia will introduce and then invite the audience to ask questions about her latest drama following the 3.00pm session. The Q&A will be hotsed by PAC director, Annie Murtagh-Monks. Tickets $15.50 | $11.00 conc. Now on sale and online |
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Starts Thursday 19th August at CINEMA PARADISO
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Director Ruba Nadda (Sabah) again explores cross-cultural romance with Juliette (Patricia Clarkson), a magazine editor, who travels to Cairo to meet her husband, a UN official working in Gaza, for a three week vacation. When he is unavoidably delayed, he sends his friend Tareq (Alexander Siddig), who had been his security officer for many years, to escort her throughout the beautiful and exotic city. They find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches them both unawares.
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Starts Thursday 19th August at LUNA LEEDERVILLE
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| Could there be a more hot-button topic than terrorism these days? Although it is usually the subject of serious films, British comedian Chris Morris (The Day Today, Brass Eye) finds the humour (and ultimately the humanity) in this extremist world. Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce. In a storm of razor-sharp verbal jousting and large-scale set pieces Four Lions is a comic tour de force; it shows that - while terrorism is about ideology - it can also be about idiots. |
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Starts Thursday 26th August at LUNA LEEDERVILLE
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The year is 1984, and on the rural East Coast of New Zealand "Thriller" is changing kids' lives. Boy (James Rolleston) is a dreamer who loves Michael Jackson. He lives with his brother Rocky (Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu), a tribe of deserted cousins and his Nan (Mavis Paenga). Boy's other hero, his father, Alamein (Taika Waititi), is the subject of Boy's fantasies, and he imagines him as a deep sea diver, war hero and a close relation of Michael Jackson (he can even dance like him). In reality he's "in the can for robbery". When Alamein returns home after 7 years away, Boy is forced to confront the man he thought he remembered, find his own potential and learn to get along without the hero he had been hoping for. Winner of the Audience Award for Fiction Feature Film at the 2010 Sydney Film Festival |
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Starts Thursday 26th August at LUNA LEEDERVILLE LUNA ON SX
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| Renowned director Michael Winterbottom (Genova) returns with a haunting thriller based on the distinguished novel by Jim Thompson. Prompting none other than director Stanley Kubrick to call it "the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind I have ever encountered", The Killer Inside Me stars Casey Affleck as Lou Ford, a young Sherrif in a small middle-American town. Seemingly a regular fellow leading an unremarkable existence with his girlfriend Amy (Kate Hudson), Lou is actually a cunning and depraved sociopath. When a case warrants the arrest of a beautiful young prostitute (Jessica Alba) living on the outskirts of town, Lou can’t restrain his urges and soon falls into a tangle of darkness, lust and deceit that may call into question which side of the jail bars this lawman should be on. A stylish and chilling 1950's companion-piece to Bret Easton Ellis' first-person serial killer thriller American Psycho, this is amongst Winterbottom's best films. |
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Starts Thursday 26th August at CINEMA PARADISO LUNA ON SX
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| Gregoire Canvel has everything a man could want: a wife he loves, three delightful children and a dream job as a film producer. Discovering talented filmmakers and developing films that fit his conception of the cinema, Gregoire devotes almost all of his time and energy to his work. Although he spends weekends with his family at their house in the country, even these precious moments are regularly interrupted by demanding directors and concerned investors. While Gregoire's very presence commands admiration and his exceptional charisma leads many to believe he is invincible, the future of his prestigious production company is in doubt due to too many productions, risks and debts. Gregoire soon realises that he's made one gamble too many, triggering a series of events that will change the lives of his family forever. |
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Starts Thursday 2nd September at CINEMA PARADISO LUNA ON SX WINDSOR CINEMA
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A sexy comedy of errors about a very modern family. The Allgoods are a close family experiencing life's typical ups and downs: 18-year-old daughter Joni (Mia Wasikowska) is heading off to Stanford University and starting to distance herself from her parents; 14-year-old Laser (Josh Hutcherson) is hanging out with a deadbeat friend who constantly leads him into trouble. The only difference is that this family has two mums. Jules (Julianne Moore) and Nic (Annette Bening) have been together for years, deeply in love, and had both children through artificial insemination.
This loving but strained home life is thrown into comic disarray when the kids track down their biological donor-Dad, Paul (Mark Ruffalo), and invite him home for dinner. Paul is a bachelor whose sudden longing for a family introduces an interesting sexual dynamic to the not-quite-ordinary equation of the Allgoods. At first Joni is so happy to have a cool, handsome dad like Paul. But soon enough she comes to realise that Paul is fun loving but lacks self-control and when he starts sleeping with one of her mums chaos reigns. |
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Starts Thursday 9th September at LUNA LEEDERVILLE
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| In the ten minutes before the first words, The Disappearance of Alice Creed has already proven itself an economical debut thriller on par with Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave – with which it’s often been compared. Prepping for an abduction with ruthless efficiency, ex-cons Vic (Eddie Marsan) and Danny (Martin Compston) get their prey, Alice (Gemma Arterton), trussed and shackled in a soundproofed room. Yet the more meticulously one plans the perfect crime, the less effort it takes for things to go very awry. |
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Starts Thursday 9th September at CINEMA PARADISO LUNA ON SX
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| Director of 'Friends With Money' & 'Lovely And Amazing', Nicole Holofcener achieves her best film to-date with this laugh-out-loud comedy of upper middle class angst. Married parents Cathy and Alex (Catherine Keener & Oliver Platt) run a successful retro furniture store in New York City, buying pieces from the adult children of those who have recently passed away. Generous toward those she perceives as less fortunate than herself, Cathy regularly looks in on their cantankerous, elderly neighbour Andra. Andra's granddaughters Rebecca and Mary (Rebecca Hall & Amanda Peet) are poles apart as sisters, working as a nurse and beautician, respectively. Coming together to celebrate Andra's birthday, these New Yorkers approach one another with suspicion but make some surprising connections. |
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Starts Thursday 23rd September at CINEMA PARADISO LUNA ON SX
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| In the anticipated follow-up to smash hit thriller The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is accused of a triple murder, a crime that writer Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist)will do everything to prove she is innocent of. Daniel Alfredson directs the second instalment of Stieg Larsson’s international bestselling Millennium Trilogy. |
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Starts Thursday 30th September at LUNA LEEDERVILLE
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Brent (Xavier Samuel) has never really recovered from the night of his car crash. It's the crash that killed his father, the crash that he was responsible for, and his only solace is his loving girlfriend Holly (Victoria Thaine). But there's another girl who yearns to comfort Brent, the quietest girl in school, Lola (Robin McLeavy). Just when Brent thought his life couldn't get any worse, Brent turns down Lola's invitation to the school prom and enters a nightmare beyond imagining.
Just hours before the dance, Brent is abducted and taken to Lola's home by her adoring, demented Daddy (John Brumpton) who's determined to make his lovelorn princess's dream come true, her own private prom night with her dream date. As the night wears on Brent discovers that Lola's feelings for him aren't the only thing she's been keeping a secret... |
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Starts Thursday 7th October at WINDSOR CINEMA
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| Liz Gilbert (Julia Roberts) had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having - a husband, a house, a successful career - yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused, and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery. In her travels, she discovers the true pleasure of nourishment by eating in Italy; the power of prayer in India, and, finally and unexpectedly, the inner peace and balance of true love in Bali. Based upon the best-selling memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love proves that there really is more than one way to let yourself go and see the world. |
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