2008 Screening Schedule

Mon 3 March:
Opening Night Party, 6pm
The Young Girls of Rochefort by Jacques Demy, 6:30pm
Mon 10 March:
Jacquot de Nantes by Agnes Varda, 6:30pm
Mon 17 March:
Bay of Angels by Jacques Demy, 6:30pm
Mon 24 March: NO SCREENING - Easter Monday
Mon 31 March:
Donkey Skin by Jacques Demy, 6:30pm
Mon 7 April:
Umbrellas of Cherbourg by Jacques Demy, 6:30pm
Mon 14 April:
Pool of Princesses by Bettina Blumner, 6:30pm
Mon 21 April: NO SCREENING - World Cinema Showcase, Members get discounted tickets!
Mon 28 April: NO SCREENING - World Cinema Showcase, Members get discounted tickets!
Mon 5 May:
Requiem by Hans Christian-Schmid, 6:30pm
Mon 12 May:
Ghosts by Christian Petzold, 6:30pm
Mon 19 May:
The Round-Up by Miklós Janscó, 6:30pm
Mon 26 May:
Ivan the Terrible Parts I & II by Sergei Eisenstein, 8:00pm
Mon 2 June: NO SCREENING - Queen's Birthday
Mon 9 June:
Zabriskie Point by Michelangelo Antonioni, 6:30pm
Mon 16 June:
The Passenger by Michelangelo Antonioni, 6:30pm
Mon 23 June:
Control Room by Jehane Noujaim, 6:30pm
Mon 30 June:
Killer of Sheep by Charles Burnett, 6:30pm
Mon 7 July:
Several Friends / The Horse / When it Rains / My Brother's Wedding by Charles Burnett, 6:30pm
Mon 14 July:
Unknown Chaplin by Brownlow & Gill, 8:00pm
Mon 21 July:
Fanny & Alexander by Ingmar Bergman, 8:00pm
Mon 28 July:
The Glass Shield by Charles Burnett, 6:30pm
Mon 4 August: NO SCREENING - International Film Festival, Members get discount tickets!
Mon 11 August: NO SCREENING - International Film Festival, Members get discount tickets!
Mon 18 August:
The Man Without a Past by Aki Kaurismaki, 6:30pm
Mon 25 August:
The World of Apu by Satayajit Ray, 6:30pm
Mon 1 September:
Kiwi Jokers (NZ Shorts) by Various Directors, 6:30pm
Mon 8 September:
The Footstep Man by Leon Narbey, 6:30pm
Mon 15 September:
Charleen / Backyard by Ross McElwee, 6:30pm
Mon 22 September:
Sherman's March by Ross McElwee, 8:00pm
Mon 29 September:
Time Indefinite by Ross McElwee, 6:30pm
Mon 6 October:
The King and the Clown by Lee Jun-ik, 6:30pm
Mon 13 October:
Forbidden Quest by Kim Dae-woo, 6:30pm
Mon 20 October: DOUBLE FEATURE
Barking Dogs Never Bite by Bong Joon-ho, 6:30pm
Driving with my Wife's Lover by Kim Tai-sik
From the archives:

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Jacquot de Nantes

Screening: Monday 10 March, 6:30pm

Jacquot de Nantes, Agnes Varda, France 1991

Inspired by the stories and memories of her husband Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda created an affecting and enlightening portrait of the artist as a young boy, exploring the inspiration for Demy's films in the everyday world of his Nantes upbringing.

Filming in the places of Jacquot's youth—his father's garage and the family kitchen where life indeed was all singing, if not all dancing; the rural home where Demy and his brother spent the war years — Varda beautifully employed Nantes residents as her nonprofessional actors.

Varda's conceit is to have everything that feeds Jacquot's creative world — the puppet shows, the movie posters, Snow White (on whom he has a crush), a flamboyant aunt from Rio — in the saturated color of his own later movies, clips from which are relevantly interspersed here.

But ironically, it is the black-and-white in which Varda so richly and skillfully evokes French life in the forties that feeds our own insatiable cinephilia. — Judy Bloch

(In French with English subtitles, 118 minutes, B&W/colour)