Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Screened "TropFest 2012" Thursday 19 July 2012
6.30pm pre-screening drinks and nibbles
7.00pm Tropfest 2012 screens
Tropfest is Australia’s most prestigious short film festival and one of its most iconic cultural events. It is also the largest short film festival in the world. At home, Tropfest is recognised for its enormous contribution to the development of the Australian film industry by providing unique platforms for emerging filmmakers through its events and initiatives, and new and expanded audiences for their work. More http://tropfest.com/au/history-of-tropfest/
The 2012 Finalists that will be screened at Reels @ Wehl Film Society can be found here http://tropfest.com/au/category/archive/2012-finalists/
The 2012 Winner can be found here http://tropfest.com/au/2012-winner/
Note: these films are unclassified
Friday, June 1, 2012
Screened "Ides of March" Thursday 28 June 2012
6.30pm pre-screening drinks and nibbles
7.00pm film screens
The Ides of March
4.5 stars Margaret 3 stars David from ABC's at the Movies
A staffer finds his idealism and beliefs taking a back seat to backroom political dealings and manipulative power plays.
An American Presidential election is looming, and in the crucial Ohio primary contest between Democratic front-runners, small 'l' liberal Governor Mike Morris, GEORGE CLOONEY, looks like winning over his more conservative rival, Senator Pullman, MICHAEL MANTELL. Morris' staff include campaign manager Paul Zara, PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN, and press secretary Stephen Meyers, RYAN GOSLING, while Pullman's campaign is being run by Tom Duffy, PAUL GIAMATTI, who thinks Stephen would be an asset for his team.
Official website
http://www.idesofmarch-movie.com/site/
Classification: M
Duration: 101 mins
Genre: Drama
Director: George Clooney
Lead actor: George Clooney
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood, Marisa Tomei
Language: English
Country: United States
7.00pm film screens
The Ides of March
4.5 stars Margaret 3 stars David from ABC's at the Movies
A staffer finds his idealism and beliefs taking a back seat to backroom political dealings and manipulative power plays.
An American Presidential election is looming, and in the crucial Ohio primary contest between Democratic front-runners, small 'l' liberal Governor Mike Morris, GEORGE CLOONEY, looks like winning over his more conservative rival, Senator Pullman, MICHAEL MANTELL. Morris' staff include campaign manager Paul Zara, PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN, and press secretary Stephen Meyers, RYAN GOSLING, while Pullman's campaign is being run by Tom Duffy, PAUL GIAMATTI, who thinks Stephen would be an asset for his team.
Official website
http://www.idesofmarch-movie.com/site/
Classification: M
Duration: 101 mins
Genre: Drama
Director: George Clooney
Lead actor: George Clooney
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood, Marisa Tomei
Language: English
Country: United States
Monday, May 14, 2012
Film changed to "The Skin I Live In" Thursday 17 May 2012
Doors open 6.30pm. Bar closes 6.55pm. Film starts 7.00pm
**** stars Margaret David from ABC's At the Movies and all other reviewers around the world
This film contains a don't tell twist that will seriously get under your skin.
In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed a further three things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig. Scruples was never a problem. Marilia, the woman who looked after him from the day he was born, is his most faithful accomplice. And, as for the human guinea pig ...
"Outrageous. In a class of its own." Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times
"Banderas is terrific. Almodovar at his obscenely entertaining and exploitative". Wendy Ide, The Times
Official trailer http://youtu.be/EolQSTTTpI4
Review http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s3374248.htm
Classification: MA
Duration: 120 mins
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Lead actor: Tony Banderas
Cast: Elena Anaya
Producer: Agustin Almodovar, Esther Garcia
Screenplay: Alberto Iglesias
Music: Alberto Iglesias
Language: Spanish
Country: Spain
Monday, April 16, 2012
Screened "Melancholia" Thursday 26 April 2012
5 stars Margaret
2.5 stars David
This film is certain to divide opinion if we go by ABC's 'At the Movies' star rating by Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton.
In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth… From acclaimed director Lars von Trier MELANCHOLIA is the most stunning and compelling film of the year. (Synposis courtesy Madman http://www.madman.com.au/catalogue/view/15425/melancholia)
Classification: M
Duration: 136 mins
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Director: Lars von Trier
Lead actor: Kirsten Dunst
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgard, Producer: Meta Louise Foldager, Louise Vesth
Language: English
Country: Denmark
Trailer http://www.melancholiathemovie.com/#_trailer
Awards http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527186/awards
2.5 stars David
This film is certain to divide opinion if we go by ABC's 'At the Movies' star rating by Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton.
"Well now I think we're heading for a major stoush on the show ... " Margaret
In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth… From acclaimed director Lars von Trier MELANCHOLIA is the most stunning and compelling film of the year. (Synposis courtesy Madman http://www.madman.com.au/catalogue/view/15425/melancholia)
Classification: M
Duration: 136 mins
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Director: Lars von Trier
Lead actor: Kirsten Dunst
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgard, Producer: Meta Louise Foldager, Louise Vesth
Language: English
Country: Denmark
Trailer http://www.melancholiathemovie.com/#_trailer
Awards http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527186/awards
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Next screening "Submarine" Thursday 22 March 2012
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
"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
Friday, January 13, 2012
Next screening
"L'amour, c'est mieux à deux - The Perfect Date"
Valentine's Day 14 Feb 2012
The French hit movie is a perfect date for Valentine's Day. Enjoy champagne, strawberries dipped in chocolate and nibbles.
Tuesday 14 February 2012
6.30pm pre-screening drinks and nibbles
7.00pm film screens
Valentine's Day 14 Feb 2012
The French hit movie is a perfect date for Valentine's Day. Enjoy champagne, strawberries dipped in chocolate and nibbles.
Tuesday 14 February 2012
6.30pm pre-screening drinks and nibbles
7.00pm film screens
What would you do for the woman of your dreams?
Globetrotting aid-worker Michel (Clovis Cornillac from the Asterix films) dreams of that great romantic moment when fate brings two soulmates together. On the other hand, his best friend since childhood, Vincent (Coco’s Manu Payet) is a hotshot divorce lawyer who prefers an all-sex, no-commitment approach to relationships. But when Vincent's latest squeeze, Nathalie, dumps him and Michel finds out that Vincent had engineered his "chance encounter" with beautiful blonde Angèle, the two childhood friends realise they'll have to help each other out if they want to find lasting happiness with the women of their dreams. Will it all end in marriage, or in tears?
Theatrical Trailer
Rated MA
Running time: 100 minutes
Language: French with English subtitles
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Next screening "Incendies"
Thursday 12th January 2012
6.30pm drinks and nibbles
7.00pm film screens
*** Margaret
**** David
8.2 / 10 International Movie Data Base
The Academy Award nominated Incendies also won the Best Feature Film awarded by the jury at the 2011 Adelaide Film Festival. Director Denis Villeneuve responded by saying that "As a poetic sign of gratitude to [the] Adelaide Film Festival, I'll give the name of 'Adelaide' to one of my main characters in my next film. So thank you one thousand times to [the] Adelaide Film Festival!"
The Academy Award nominated Incendies is a masterful cinematic achievement - at once a tightly woven mystery; an epic, sweeping family drama and deeply affecting, profound and transcendent work.
At the reading of their mother Nawal's will, twin siblings Jeanne and Simon learn for the first time that they have a brother, and that their father, who they thought was dead, is in fact alive. Their mother's final wish is that the twins find them both to deliver certain sealed letters. Shifting back and forth in time, Incendies follows two parallel journeys, expertly interwoven: the twins' journey to their mother's Middle-Eastern homeland to unlock the past, and Nawal's journey some twenty years earlier to find the baby boy she was forced to give up. Both journeys shine an unsettling light on Nawal's past and culminate in a shocking final revelation.
To encounter a film of heart-wrenching drama, mythic proportions and sweeping visual majesty is rare, but such are the riches of Denis Villeneuve's Incendies. An incredibly powerful film that unfolds in such unique and unexpected ways, Incendies will floor you from the very first scene. It is one of those exceptional, extraordinary films that restores your faith in the power of cinema.
Trailers
http://www.hopscotchfilms.com.au/entertainment/out-now-1/incendies-dvd-1/
Awards
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1255953/awards
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Featuring: Maxim Gaudette, Mélissa Désomeaux-Poulin, Rémy Girard, Lubna Azabal
Rated: MA 15+, Strong themes and violence
Run Time: 130 minutes
Country of Origin: Canada
Genre: Drama
Language: French/ Arabic / English subtitles
6.30pm drinks and nibbles
7.00pm film screens
*** Margaret
**** David
8.2 / 10 International Movie Data Base
The Academy Award nominated Incendies also won the Best Feature Film awarded by the jury at the 2011 Adelaide Film Festival. Director Denis Villeneuve responded by saying that "As a poetic sign of gratitude to [the] Adelaide Film Festival, I'll give the name of 'Adelaide' to one of my main characters in my next film. So thank you one thousand times to [the] Adelaide Film Festival!"
The Academy Award nominated Incendies is a masterful cinematic achievement - at once a tightly woven mystery; an epic, sweeping family drama and deeply affecting, profound and transcendent work.
At the reading of their mother Nawal's will, twin siblings Jeanne and Simon learn for the first time that they have a brother, and that their father, who they thought was dead, is in fact alive. Their mother's final wish is that the twins find them both to deliver certain sealed letters. Shifting back and forth in time, Incendies follows two parallel journeys, expertly interwoven: the twins' journey to their mother's Middle-Eastern homeland to unlock the past, and Nawal's journey some twenty years earlier to find the baby boy she was forced to give up. Both journeys shine an unsettling light on Nawal's past and culminate in a shocking final revelation.
To encounter a film of heart-wrenching drama, mythic proportions and sweeping visual majesty is rare, but such are the riches of Denis Villeneuve's Incendies. An incredibly powerful film that unfolds in such unique and unexpected ways, Incendies will floor you from the very first scene. It is one of those exceptional, extraordinary films that restores your faith in the power of cinema.
Trailers
http://www.hopscotchfilms.com.au/entertainment/out-now-1/incendies-dvd-1/
Awards
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1255953/awards
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Featuring: Maxim Gaudette, Mélissa Désomeaux-Poulin, Rémy Girard, Lubna Azabal
Rated: MA 15+, Strong themes and violence
Run Time: 130 minutes
Country of Origin: Canada
Genre: Drama
Language: French/ Arabic / English subtitles
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