Submarine
"A perfect blend of cool, quirky comedy and warm hearted drama"
4 Stars Margaret 4 Stars David from ABC's "At the Movies"
A 15 year old boy wants to lose his virginity before his next birthday and reignite the spark between his parents.
SUBMARINE is the highly-acclaimed debut feature from Richard Ayoade (star of THE IT CROWD and NATHAN BARLEY), based on the hilarious, best-selling novel by Joe Dunthorne.
In his head, 15-year-old Welsh schoolboy Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) is a cool literary genius. In reality, he’s socially inept and unpopular. Oliver has set himself two tasks for the summer: to lose his virginity (before it becomes legal) and save his parents' marriage. Suspecting that his mother (Sally Hawkins) is having an affair with old flame, Graham (Paddy Considine), a mullet-wearing, capoeira-teaching, new-age evangelist, Oliver monitors his parents’ sex-life by charting their bedroom dimmer switch. To bolster his endeavours, Oliver forges passionate love letters on behalf of his unsuspecting father to his mother.
Meanwhile, Oliver attempts to woo schoolmate, Jordana. When a calculated attempt at bullying earns him Jordana’s affections, she introduces him to the thrills of pyromania and dictates to him what he should be writing about her in his diary. (Syposis courtesty Mad Man http://www.madman.com.au/catalogue/view/15650/submarine )
Classification: M
Duration: 97 mins
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director: Richard Ayoade
Lead actor: Noah Taylor
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Saturday, March 17, 2012
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Next Screening "TropFest 2011" Thursday 8th September 2011
Thursday 8th September 2011
6.30pm wine and nibbles
7.00 pm film screens
A DESPERATE DEED
Director: Matt Bird
Producers: Matt Bird & John Marsh
Living on the brink and struggling to provide for his young family, a father arms himself and sets off into the night to commit a crime. Back at home, his wife waits anxiously for his safe return.
ANIMAL BEATBOX - WINNER
Director/Producer: Damon Gameau
An animated call of nature. We journey down a jungle river and are introduced to different animals who all lend their names to be a part of a collective song. It is a light, fun look at our unique animal planet.
DEN SISTA GALAXONAUT
Director/Producers: Alexander George & Tyrone Lindqvist
The film is about Sven Larsson – who was the first man on the moon. It will educate on Sven’s early life and the Swedish Space Program of the 1960’s.
FLIGHT
Director/Producer: Nicholas Verso
Jonah dreams of being able to fly away from his life in the housing commission. But after an encounter at the local skate park, he finds his wings in an unexpected way.
FOCUSDirector/Producer: Ari Kruger
Boy meets girl. They fall in love. Things have never felt better. But one day, he notices something about her he hadn’t noticed before. Her pinky finger is blurred. Out of focus. He hopes that it’ll go away, but when it comes back, it’s worse than before...
MISSING HER
Director/Producer: Michael Weisler
When the one thing that means anything to you vanishes, is there still hope? For six-year-old Henry, this question burns brightly as he is thrust into a new life, in an unfamiliar place, surrounded by strangers.
MONKEYS
Director: Joel Edgerton
Producers: Louise Smith & Joel Edgerton
Friendship is tested when a guy realised his mate has gone and copied his haircut. Will he confront his true emotions?
SILENCER
Director/Producers: David Collins & Doug Bayne
You never hear the shot that gets you. David Collins is the most dangerous assassin on the face of the planet, because nobody ever hears his shots.They are very, very quiet indeed.
THE APPLICANT
Director: Tim Dean
Producers: Chris Corbett & Tim Dean
An Applicant. An Interviewer. An office. But what exactly is the Applicant applying for?
THE MAESTRO
Director: Adam Anthony
Producers: Adam Anthony & Edward Copestick
On unkind city streets an off-key derelict liberates a device empowering him to create a symphony out of the world around him. When the orchestra becomes as big as the city itself, will The Maestro still be able to control his world of sound?
THE UNSPOKEN
Director/Producer: Jason van Genderen
A confronting look at a film maker's personal journey to reach out to his dying father. 'The Unspoken' sheds light on a lifetime of affirmations never spoken between a father and his son. As the film maker's father prepares to take his last stand with terminal lung cancer, Jason prepared this film as his last chance to reach out before he slips away.
THINGS TO DO
Directors: Daniel Jameison & Ana Maria Belo
Producer: Ana Maria Belo
One night and day in Tim and Sara’s life. How far do you go for the one you love? How much can you sacrifice? How much can you ask? What do you really need to be happy?
TRANSPARENCY
Director: Melissa Cowan
Producers: Emely Nott
Behind every photograph is a story. How does the photographer judge whether it is his story to tell? Is Tom willing to risk everything he ever had with Julie to tell her story? Will Tom ever learn to live life outside the frame?
Y2GAY
Director: Dan Ilic & James Pender
Producers: Peter Slee
We all remember how bad Y2K was. Well reinforce your doors and stock up your bunker, because it's happening all over again. The gays are getting married, and Mick is convinced that everything will change for the worse. There’s always something to be scared of and this year it’s Y2GAY.
A FAMILY AFFAIR
Director/Producers: Stevo Petkovic, Melinda Cklamovska, Craig Anderson
From the outside Helen and Malcolm appear to be like any other brother and sister, but these two have a controversial secret... they are in love! Since going public, their family have disowned them and the courts want them behind bars, so Helen and Malcolm are dealing with the stress the only way they know how... by having as much sex as possible!
6.30pm wine and nibbles
7.00 pm film screens
TROPFEST
the world's largest short film festival
A DESPERATE DEED
Director: Matt Bird
Producers: Matt Bird & John Marsh
Living on the brink and struggling to provide for his young family, a father arms himself and sets off into the night to commit a crime. Back at home, his wife waits anxiously for his safe return.
ANIMAL BEATBOX - WINNER
Director/Producer: Damon Gameau
An animated call of nature. We journey down a jungle river and are introduced to different animals who all lend their names to be a part of a collective song. It is a light, fun look at our unique animal planet.
DEN SISTA GALAXONAUT
Director/Producers: Alexander George & Tyrone Lindqvist
The film is about Sven Larsson – who was the first man on the moon. It will educate on Sven’s early life and the Swedish Space Program of the 1960’s.
FLIGHT
Director/Producer: Nicholas Verso
Jonah dreams of being able to fly away from his life in the housing commission. But after an encounter at the local skate park, he finds his wings in an unexpected way.
FOCUSDirector/Producer: Ari Kruger
Boy meets girl. They fall in love. Things have never felt better. But one day, he notices something about her he hadn’t noticed before. Her pinky finger is blurred. Out of focus. He hopes that it’ll go away, but when it comes back, it’s worse than before...
MISSING HER
Director/Producer: Michael Weisler
When the one thing that means anything to you vanishes, is there still hope? For six-year-old Henry, this question burns brightly as he is thrust into a new life, in an unfamiliar place, surrounded by strangers.
MONKEYS
Director: Joel Edgerton
Producers: Louise Smith & Joel Edgerton
Friendship is tested when a guy realised his mate has gone and copied his haircut. Will he confront his true emotions?
SILENCER
Director/Producers: David Collins & Doug Bayne
You never hear the shot that gets you. David Collins is the most dangerous assassin on the face of the planet, because nobody ever hears his shots.They are very, very quiet indeed.
THE APPLICANT
Director: Tim Dean
Producers: Chris Corbett & Tim Dean
An Applicant. An Interviewer. An office. But what exactly is the Applicant applying for?
THE MAESTRO
Director: Adam Anthony
Producers: Adam Anthony & Edward Copestick
On unkind city streets an off-key derelict liberates a device empowering him to create a symphony out of the world around him. When the orchestra becomes as big as the city itself, will The Maestro still be able to control his world of sound?
THE UNSPOKEN
Director/Producer: Jason van Genderen
A confronting look at a film maker's personal journey to reach out to his dying father. 'The Unspoken' sheds light on a lifetime of affirmations never spoken between a father and his son. As the film maker's father prepares to take his last stand with terminal lung cancer, Jason prepared this film as his last chance to reach out before he slips away.
THINGS TO DO
Directors: Daniel Jameison & Ana Maria Belo
Producer: Ana Maria Belo
One night and day in Tim and Sara’s life. How far do you go for the one you love? How much can you sacrifice? How much can you ask? What do you really need to be happy?
TRANSPARENCY
Director: Melissa Cowan
Producers: Emely Nott
Behind every photograph is a story. How does the photographer judge whether it is his story to tell? Is Tom willing to risk everything he ever had with Julie to tell her story? Will Tom ever learn to live life outside the frame?
Y2GAY
Director: Dan Ilic & James Pender
Producers: Peter Slee
We all remember how bad Y2K was. Well reinforce your doors and stock up your bunker, because it's happening all over again. The gays are getting married, and Mick is convinced that everything will change for the worse. There’s always something to be scared of and this year it’s Y2GAY.
A FAMILY AFFAIR
Director/Producers: Stevo Petkovic, Melinda Cklamovska, Craig Anderson
From the outside Helen and Malcolm appear to be like any other brother and sister, but these two have a controversial secret... they are in love! Since going public, their family have disowned them and the courts want them behind bars, so Helen and Malcolm are dealing with the stress the only way they know how... by having as much sex as possible!
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Next screening "Animal Kingdom"
Thursday 7th April 2011
6.30pm pre-screening drinks and nibbles
7.00pm film screens
Animal Kingdom
****.5 stars Australian film
Celebrating the recent Oscars and the nomination of Australian film industry stalwart, Jacki Weaver, Reels at Wehl, is screening 'Animal Kingdom'.
ANIMAL KINGDOM is a powerful psychological crime drama that tells the story of a tense battle between a dangerous criminal family and the police.
Armed robber Pope Cody (BEN MENDELSOHN) is in hiding, on the run from a gang of renegade detectives who want him dead. His business partner and best friend, Barry 'Baz' Brown (JOEL EDGERTON), wants out of the game, recognising that their days of old-school banditry are all but over. Pope's younger brother, the speed-addicted and volatile Craig Cody (SULLIVAN STAPLETON), is making a fortune in the illicit substances trade - the true cash cow of the modern criminal fraternity - whilst the youngest Cody brother, Darren (LUKE FORD), naively navigates his way through this criminal world - the only world his family has ever known.
Armed robber Pope Cody (BEN MENDELSOHN) is in hiding, on the run from a gang of renegade detectives who want him dead. His business partner and best friend, Barry 'Baz' Brown (JOEL EDGERTON), wants out of the game, recognising that their days of old-school banditry are all but over. Pope's younger brother, the speed-addicted and volatile Craig Cody (SULLIVAN STAPLETON), is making a fortune in the illicit substances trade - the true cash cow of the modern criminal fraternity - whilst the youngest Cody brother, Darren (LUKE FORD), naively navigates his way through this criminal world - the only world his family has ever known.
Awards
World Cinema Jury prize at Sundance
Oscar nomination best actress
Reviews
****.5 stars. The revelation here is JACKI WEAVER, always a fine actor but seldom revealing the depths of character she does here. All the performances are superb, down to the small parts. ABC's David & Margaret 'At the Movies'
Most countries do not define themselves by their criminals, but most countries were not established as dumping grounds for the poor and criminal classes either. The hatreds go back a long way. In a sense, there's a direct line between the shootout at Glenrowan in 1880 – when the Kelly gang and the cops attempted to settle things their own way – and the events of Animal Kingdom, an extraordinarily tense, menacing film set in a Melbourne crime family in the recent past.
Animal Kingdom is cinema, not television. The difference is subtle but significant. There is more unsaid, more told by the camera rather than dialogue and more time to develop ideas in the script.
No one will accuse this film of romanticising criminals but nor does it allow us to see them simply as beasts.
Classification: MA
Duration: 113 mins
Genre: Drama
Director: David Michod
Cast: Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Luke Ford, Jacki Weaver, Sullivan Stapleton, James Frecheville
Producer: Liz Watts
Screenplay: David Michod
Distributor: Madman
Language: English
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 mins
Genre: Drama
Director: David Michod
Cast: Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Luke Ford, Jacki Weaver, Sullivan Stapleton, James Frecheville
Producer: Liz Watts
Screenplay: David Michod
Distributor: Madman
Language: English
Country: Australia
Friday, July 16, 2010
Next screening "Bliss - the Director's Cut" & our AGM
'Bliss - the Director's Cut' will be the film for our next Reels event, Thursday 29th July.
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Bliss - the Director's Cut'
Thursday 29th July 2010
Annual General Meeting- prior to the screening we will hold our AGM. All roles on the committee will be vacated and the current committee is welcoming new members. We especially need help with the promotions,
setup, setdown.
AGM 5.30pm Thursday 29th July 2010 at Wehl Street Theatre.
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Bliss - the Director's Cut'Thursday 29th July 2010
6.30pm pre-screening wine
7.00pm film commences
"Bliss" has been re-released with the Director's Cut. This coincides with Bliss the opera, that has been playing in Australia and has now ventured overseas.
Synopsis
7.00pm film commences
"Bliss" has been re-released with the Director's Cut. This coincides with Bliss the opera, that has been playing in Australia and has now ventured overseas.
Synopsis
Bliss is the acclaimed movie based on Peter Carey's award-winning novel, Bliss, and the debut film of celebrated director Ray Lawrence (Lantana, Jindabyne)
Following a four-minute death from a heart attack, Harry Joy (Barry Otto) returns to life finding the certainties of his former existence have entirely vanished. The world he previously knew, which saw him drifting amiably through life as a successful advertising executive, has become a literal living Hell. His wife Bettina (Lynette Curran) is in a sordid affair with Harry's business partner (Jeff Truman) and his teenage son (Miles Buchanan) engages in an incestuous relationship with his sister (Gia Carides) - exchanging drugs for sex with her... All around him people are dying of cancer and Harry's advertising agency has taken to promoting carcinogenic products.
Harry is convinced he actually is living in Hell and befriends an angel in the form of ex-prostitute Honey Barbara (Helen Jones) to return him to happiness.
History
Following a four-minute death from a heart attack, Harry Joy (Barry Otto) returns to life finding the certainties of his former existence have entirely vanished. The world he previously knew, which saw him drifting amiably through life as a successful advertising executive, has become a literal living Hell. His wife Bettina (Lynette Curran) is in a sordid affair with Harry's business partner (Jeff Truman) and his teenage son (Miles Buchanan) engages in an incestuous relationship with his sister (Gia Carides) - exchanging drugs for sex with her... All around him people are dying of cancer and Harry's advertising agency has taken to promoting carcinogenic products.
Harry is convinced he actually is living in Hell and befriends an angel in the form of ex-prostitute Honey Barbara (Helen Jones) to return him to happiness.
History
To say it was ahead of its time is an understatement – the boldness of its metaphors and the sharpness of its satire were too much for many people in 1985. Indeed, the film was almost stillborn after 400 people walked out during its first screening at the Cannes Film Festival (another 1,600 stayed). No Australian distributor would touch it, especially once it received an ‘R’ classification, because of the depiction of incest between Harry’s children, David and Lucy (Gia Carides). The classification was overturned on appeal and the film eventually opened in the smallest cinema in Sydney, a former newsreel theatre with 130 seats. A couple of glowing reviews helped it to find an audience that kept growing. When the film won the AFI Awards for Best Picture, Best Direction and Best Adapted Screenplay for 1985, Bliss had become an art-house hit. It played for six months in Sydney and around the country.
(source http://aso.gov.au/titles/features/bliss/notes/)
Trailers & further information
The film http://aso.gov.au/titles/features/bliss/
The opera http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2009/s2781757.htm
(source http://aso.gov.au/titles/features/bliss/notes/)
Trailers & further information
The film http://aso.gov.au/titles/features/bliss/
The opera http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2009/s2781757.htm
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