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The Wellington Film Society has concluded its screening schedule for 2019. It will return to the Embassy
on the first Monday in March 2020, hopefully with a 3D classic. The programme will officially be launched around the last week of January. In the meantime members will continue
to enjoy discounts at the commercial cinemas around town.
Anyone can join the Film Society at any time on line.
Film Festivals to note:
NZ International Film Festival 2020. Embassy, etc. 31 July -16 August 2020. Mark your diaries now.
This site relies on the various cinemas having their own websites up to date to access their screening times.
The paragraphs describing the films starting this week are in most cases adapted from the linked reviews.
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STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER -
This final film has been directed, by J.J. Abrams with much the same neo-classic-Lucas precision and crispness and verve that he brought to The Force Awakens, though in this
case with less of the lockstep nostalgia that made that film such a direct clone of the first Star Wars that the thrill of going back to 1977 was mitigated by the fact that the entire
thing had been transparently engineered to give you that feeling. It keeps repeating that though the forces of the First Order are actually outnumbered, those forces work to make the
Resistance fighters feel isolated and alone, as if they had no power. And you'd better believe that's a pointed and timely statement. In its way, it's also a tip of the hat to George Lucas,
who in the Star Wars saga drew on the pop culture of the past to create a revolutionary new pop culture, and in doing so foresaw the future. Maybe more than he knew.
Also Penthouse, Empire, Roxy, Lighthouse, Readings, Monterey and Coastlands.
THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON -
A triumph for diversity in casting, this is an enormously endearing and often funny drama about two outlaws: a 22-year-old with down syndrome, and a small-time crab fisher who sets
his competition's traps ablaze. While breaking only minor new ground in the unlikely duo/outlaw chase picture, the film is a triumph for actor Zack Gottsagen, in a role written
specifically for him by first-time feature filmmakers Tyler Nelson and Michael Schwartz. Advance screenings this weekend.
VITA AND VIRGINIA -
It was the best of times, it was the headiest of times, a time when women of letters found doors open and fame at their feet, women's suffrage was new and driving one's open-top
Rolls roadster was a badge of liberation. The film is an adaptation of a stage play, which was based on the letters the two women, Vita Sackville-West and critical darling, Virginia Woolf,
exchanged over decades of romance and post-romantic friendship. Although it was not the easiest affair, it did climax with Woolf's fantastical biography, Orlando.
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