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Starts Thursday 9th September at LUNA LEEDERVILLE LUNA ON SX
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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 16th September at CINEMA PARADISO
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| An identity crisis comedy centred on Mahmud Nasir, successful business owner, and salt of the earth East End Muslim who discovers that he's adopted - and Jewish. Meet MAHMUD NASIR (Omid Djalili), loving husband, doting father and something of a relaxed Muslim. Does the F word occasionally pass his lips? Its hardly worth mentioning. Does he say his prayers five times a day? Of course! Well, usually Does he fast every day of Ramadan? Whos counting anyway? He may not be the most observant, but in his heart he is as Muslim as it gets. But after his mothers death a discovery turns Mahmuds world upside down. He finds his birth certificate which reveals that not only was he adopted at birth but hes Jewish, and his real name is Solly Shimshillewitz! As Mahmud tumbles headlong into a full scale identity crisis, the only person he can turn to is LENNY (Richard Schiff), a drunken Jewish cabbie who agrees to give him lessons in Jewishness, which start with how to dance like Topol. Oy vey. |
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Starts Thursday 16th September at LUNA LEEDERVILLE
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The directorial debut of Oscar-nominated actor Casey Affleck, I’M STILL HERE is a striking portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of internationally acclaimed actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, I’M STILL HERE follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent himself as a hip hop musician. Sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, and always riveting, the film is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads. Defying expectations, it deftly explores notions of courage and creative reinvention, as well as the ramifications of a life spent in the public eye. |
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Starts Thursday 16th September at LUNA LEEDERVILLE
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Showcasing Japan's Freshest Anime this side of Tokyo at Luna Leederville Sept 16-29 Screening for a limited 2 week season, and showcasing films that are as diverse as they are accomplished, Reel Anime 2010 will feature hotly anticipated titles: EVANGELION 2.0: YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE, EVANGELION:1.0 YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE, SUMMER WARS, KING OF THORN and REDLINE. Screening in the original Japanese with English subtitles, ReelAnime 2010 has something for new and old fans of anime alike! Tickets $15.50 | $11.50 conc. Multi Pass (5 films ) now available online Take this link to REEL ANIME 2010 SCHEDULE. Buy a multi pass and win a limited pretty cool collectable number of Japanese SUMMER WARS posters. Start buying now!
Win a Special DVD Anime Pack when you attend the Reel Anime 2010! By attending the Reel Anime Festival 2010 you have a chance to win The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Appleseed (Original), Evangelion 1.11 , Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust and Ninja Scroll
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Starts Thursday 23rd September at CINEMA PARADISO LUNA ON SX WINDSOR CINEMA
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Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. A researcher and a Millennium journalist about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander’s prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behavior makes her an official danger to society – but no-one can find her anywhere.
Meanwhile, Mikael Blomkvist, editor-in-chief of Millennium, will not believe what he hears on the news. Knowing Salander to be fierce when fearful, he is desperate to get to her before she is cornered and alone. As he fits the pieces of the puzzle together, he comes up against some hardened criminals, including the chainsaw-wielding ‘blond giant’ – a fearsomely huge thug who can feel no pain.
Digging deeper, Blomkvist also unearths some heart-wrenching facts about Salander’s past life. Committed to psychiatric care aged 12, declared legally incompetent at 18, this is a messed-up young woman who is the product of an unjust and corrupt system. Yet Lisbeth is more avenging angel than helpless victim – descending on those that have hurt her with a righteous anger terrifying in its intensity and truly wonderful in its outcome.
As Millennium fever takes hold on Australia after the acclaimed and phenomenonally successful ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’, Larsson’s trilogy ignites in thrilling fashion with this second installment. Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace continue to play the leading roles, accompanied by a very notable ensemble Swedish cast. Stylish, intelligent, dark and action- packed, Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy will usher in the new thriller for the new decade...
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Starts Thursday 23rd September at WINDSOR CINEMA
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Michael Douglas is back in his Oscar®-winning role as one of the screen’s most notorious villains, Gordon Gekko. Emerging from a lengthy prison stint, Gekko finds himself on the outside of a world he once dominated. Looking to repair his damaged relationship with his daughter Winnie, Gekko forms an alliance with her fiancé Jacob (Shia LaBeouf). But can Jacob and Winnie really trust the ex-financial titan, whose relentless efforts to redefine himself in a different era have unexpected consequences. Starring: Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Frank Langella, Carey Mulligan, Susan Sarandon, Vanessa Ferlito, Charlie Sheen. |
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Starts Thursday 30th September at LUNA LEEDERVILLE LUNA ON SX
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A lyrical film about dealing with loss, set in stunning rural Queensland. The fruit of a partnership between French filmmaker Julie Bertucelli (Since Otar Left) and Australian producers, The Tree closed the 2010 Cannes Film Festival to a standing ovation. Based on a book by Aussie author and former Circus Oz performer Judy Pascoe, The Tree takes a refreshingly positive approach to grieving after a young child – played with range and precision by newcomer Morgana Davies – becomes convinced her dead father is whispering to her through the leaves of a Morton Bay fig tree on the family property. Masterfully shot on the plains of rural Queensland, this is an international collaboration that stays true to its Australian roots. Also features performances from Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist) and Aden Young |
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Starts Thursday 7th October at CINEMA PARADISO 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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Starts Thursday 14th October at LUNA ON SX
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Chloe Moretz (Hit Girl from Kick-Ass) stars as Abby, a mysterious 12-year old girl, who moves next door to Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Road). Owen is a social outcast who is viciously bullied at school and in his loneliness, forms a profound bond with his new neighbour. Owen can’t help noticing that Abby is like no one he has ever met before. As a string of grisly murders occupy the town, Owen has to confront the reality that this seemingly innocent girl is really a savage vampire.
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Starts Thursday 14th October at LUNA LEEDERVILLE LUNA ON SX
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A steamy Hitchcockian thriller about sexual jealousy seen through the eyes of director Atom Egoyan (Exotica). Catherine (Julianne Moore) and David (Liam Neeson), she a doctor, he a professor, are at first glance the perfect couple. Happily married with a talented teenage son (Max Thieriot), they appear to have an idyllic life. But when David misses a flight and his surprise birthday party, Catherine’s long simmering suspicions rise to the surface. Suspecting infidelity, she decides to hire an escort to seduce her husband and test his loyalty. Catherine finds herself ‘directing’ Chloe’s (Amanda Seyfried) encounters with David, and Chloe’s end of the bargain is to report back, the descriptions becoming increasingly graphic as the meetings multiply.
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Starts Thursday 28th October at CINEMA PARADISO
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Based on the remarkable life of iconic French singer, poet, writer and actor Serge Gainsbourg, the film is a surreal and evocative record of Gainsbourg’s youth growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris, when he was called Lucien Ginsberg, through to his transformation into the hard-living showman, enfant terrible and successful song-writer of the '50s and '60s (famous for his glamourous lovers including Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin), to his notoriety in the '70s and '80s. We glimpse the fantasy world that drove his inspiration, the women he loved and lost and most of all, the music that made him a legend.
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Starts Thursday 28th October at LUNA ON SX WINDSOR CINEMA
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1968 Rita (Sally Hawkins) lives in the UK town of Dagenham and, like many local women, she works at the Ford plant stitching together seat covers. It’s intricate work carried out in sweltering conditions. So why, she wonders, are the workers paid the same as unskilled labourers? Is it because the work is unskilled? Or is it in fact because they are women? Made in Dagenham shows how, at some expense to their family lives, in a country already crippled by strikes, and with a little help from colourful political firebrand Barbara Castle (Miranda Richardson), the Dagenham women managed to overturn an age old hypocrisy. Imagine An Education with a Norma Rae sensibility, Dagenham also stars Bob Hoskins, Rosamund Pike, Richard Schiff and Rupert Graves.
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Starts Thursday 28th October at WINDSOR CINEMA
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Red is a witty action-comedy starring Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Bruce Willis. These four used to work for the CIA and the secrets they know has just made them the Agency’s top targets. Now framed for assassination, they must use all of their collective cunning, experience and teamwork to stay one step ahead of their deadly pursuers and stay alive. To stop the operation, the team embarks on an impossible, cross-country mission to break into the top-secret CIA headquarters, where they will uncover one of the biggest conspiracies and cover-ups in government history.
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Starts Thursday 4th November 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 11th November at WINDSOR CINEMA
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Wild Target is a comedy about uptight Victor Maynard (Bill Nighy), a middle-aged, solitary assassin, who lives to please his formidable mother Louisa (Eileen Atkins), despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims, Rose (Emily Blunt).He spares her life, unexpectedly acquiring a young apprentice in the process, Tony (Rupert Grint). Believing Victor to be a private detective, his two new companions tag along, while he attempts to thwart the murderous attentions of his unhappy client (Rupert Everett). This is the UK remake of the hit Jean Rochefort comedy that played the Perth Festival awhile back.
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Starts Thursday 18th November at LUNA LEEDERVILLE
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Josh Fox lives in a rural retreat in upstate New York. One day he receives a letter making an offer for the rights to drill for natural gas on his land. He starts to ask questions and the more he asks, the more devastating are the answers. A drilling boom across America, using a system of hydraulic fracturing or 'fracking' (a method also on the rise in Australia), has contaminated the water table in numerous states - some residents can set their tap water alight! Now the corporate giants are in cover-up mode and the government has regulated itself out of the picture. Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival
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Starts Thursday 25th November at LUNA LEEDERVILLE
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On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication which leads to Facebook. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications. From director David Fincher (Fight Club) and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (West Wing, A Few Good Men), this films proves you don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.
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Starts Thursday 25th November at LUNA LEEDERVILLE
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This is set six years after a NASA space probe that has collected alien micro-organisms has crashed in Mexico, turning much of the country into a walled in no-go zone. A cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border. Welcome to this year's District 9, already getting great kudos at film festivals around the globe.
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Starts Thursday 2nd December at LUNA LEEDERVILLE
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True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten stars as a new constable arriving for his first day of work in the Victoria town of Red Hill. Steve Bisley is the staunch head of police. Chaos ensues after news reports hit of a dangerous prisoner (Tom Lewis) having escaped from prison. This stylish, Western-influenced Aussie thriller follows this police officer’s first day as it turns into something of a nightmare with revenge on the escapee’s mind.
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