The Housewarming Club presents… Almodóvar Tuesdays at Eclipse – Young Esteban wants to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his father, carefully concealed by his mother Manuela. – A Greek saying states that only women who have washed their eyes with tears can see clearly. This saying does not hold true for Manuela. The night a car ran over her son Esteban, Manuela cried until her eyes ran completely dry. Far from seeing clearly, the present and the future become mixed up in darkness. She begins looking for his father who has become a transvestite.
TICKETS via Asian Cinema Collective – Search ‘Eclipse Asian Cinema’ or https://events.humanitix.com/host/asian-cinema-collective – Thursday 1st Oct. CURE (kiyoshi Kurosawa 1997) – Thursday 8th Oct. THE QUIET FAMILY (Kim Jee-woon 1998) – Thursday 15th Oct. RINGU (Hideo Nakata, 1998) – ACC x Eclipse – https://events.humanitix.com/host/asian-cinema-collective
Miércoles con Almodóvar The death of Ernesto Martel (José Luis Gómez) sets off a chain of events that forces one man to come to terms with his past. Before he went blind, Harry Caine was Mateo Blanco (Lluís Homar), a film director who often worked with Ernesto. Ten years ago, Ernesto and Mateo’s friendship became a battle for Lena (Penélope Cruz), Ernesto’s mistress and Mateo’s secret object of affection. When the former recruits his son (Rubén Ochandiano) to spy on the latter, things quickly spiral out of control. 2009 Palme d’Or IN COMPETITION
CULT CLASSIX …a presentation of Umbrella films – Widower Shigeharuseeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.
CULT CLASSIX …a presentation of Umbrella films – Philip Brophy’s hilariously bonkers debut feature makes an oozing, suppurating, bloody mess of Melbourne suburbia. – Everybody needs good neighbours. But if they don’t arrive in time with their warnings about those dietary supplement pills found in your letterbox, you might lose more weight than you bargained for – as the unfortunate residents of Pebbles Court discover. That tardy alarm-raising good Samaritan’s message? “The first phase is hallucinogenic. The second phase is glandular. The third is … arrgghhh!” – “One of the best movies of its type – a cool, sexy, gory, funny horror film.” – Quentin Tarantino, The Movie Show (2003)
Cult Classix: …a presentation of Umbrella films – Sexual deviant Frank (Sean Chapman) inadvertently opens a portal to hell when he tinkers with a box he bought while abroad. The act unleashes gruesome beings called Cenobites, who tear Frank’s body apart. When Frank’s brother (Andrew Robinson) and his wife, Julia (Clare Higgins), move into Frank’s old house, they accidentally bring what is left of Frank back to life. Frank then convinces Julia, his one-time lover, to lure men back to the house so he can use their blood to reconstruct himself.
CULT CLASSIX …a presentation of Umbrella films – 4k Restoration Hailed by The Guardian as “the last great film of the 90s”, Human Traffic is an unapologetic celebration of club culture and hedonism that has lost none of its energy. – Five Cardiff friends — trapped in dead-end jobs, bad relationships and dysfunctional families — plan a night out to remember. What follows is a wild, funny and surprisingly tender journey through clubs, drugs, pubs and parties, with unexpected epiphanies along the way. – Propelled by a joyous central performance from John Simm and marking Danny Dyer’s barnstorming feature debut, the film crackles with authenticity — and an unparalleled soundtrack featuring Underworld, Matthew Herbert, Fatboy Slim, Primal Scream and Orbital.
Cult Classix: …a presentation of Umbrella films – Often referred to as one of the scariest films ever made, PULSE (Japanese title: KAIRO) tells the story of a group of young friends rocked by the sudden suicide of one of their own, and his subsequent, ghostly reappearance in grainy computer and video images. Is he trying to contact them from beyond the grave or is there something more sinister afoot? The mysterious floppy disk they find in the dead man’s apartment may provide a clue, but instead launches a program that seems to present odd, ethereal transmissions of people engaged in solitary activities in their apartments. But there is something not quite right in the appearance and behavior of these lonely souls. Soon, there are more strange deaths and disappearances within the group, terrifying rooms sealed in red tape, and the appearance of more ghosts as the city of Tokyo – and the world – is slowly drained of life.
CULT CLASSIX …a presentation of Umbrella films – A gang of outlaws roams the countryside of Thailand. Among them is the handsome gunslinger Dum (Chartchai Ngamsan), who became an unwillingly bandit whilst trying to reclaim his beloved, Rumpoey (Stella Malucchi), the posh daughter of a provincial governor who’s been married off to a policeman. Dubbed the Black Tiger by his gang, Dum finds himself being pursued by the very same policeman who’s taken his love, and does everything in his power to reach her. – Ultra-stylised with richly saturated colour and packed with exuberant sets, stunning shots, a stirring soundtrack, Wisit Sasanatieng’s Thai ‘western’ TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER was the first Thai film to be selected for competition at the Cannes Film Festival, premiering in 2001.
CULT CLASSIX …a presentation of Umbrella films – 10th Anniversary Screening: WIN a boxed set of the film + Anna Biller’s short film series. – Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder. With a visual style that pays tribute to Technicolor thrillers of the 1960s, THE LOVE WITCH explores female fantasy and the repercussions of pathological narcissism.
Presented by DADo – Robin Boyd Foundation – When an inventive cult filmmaker decides to make a Hallmark-style documentary on concrete, he paves a path to something far more profound and hilarious. – Idle during the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike, documentarian John Wilson attends a workshop on how to make Hallmark Christmas rom-com movies. Inspired by his apartment building’s crumbling foundations, he tests this aspirational, escapist formula on the world’s love affair with concrete. Unsurprisingly, Wilson struggles to pitch his idea to prospective investors – and, fretting that he might be falling through the industry’s cracks, he takes a pilgrimage from the celebrity handprints outside LA’s Chinese Theatre to the dome atop Rome’s ancient Pantheon and more, finding surprising insights along the way. “I doubt any movie, especially any documentary, will make me laugh harder this year, and many of its emotional grace notes land fully. Even with my high expectations, The History of Concrete is a small triumph.” – The Hollywood Reporter
From four-time Academy Award-winning auteur, Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman, The Revenant), comes the politically charged satire, Digger, an outrageous dark-comedy that follows the most powerful man in the world, Digger Rockwell (Academy Award nominee Tom Cruise) and his frantic mission to prove he is humanities saviour. – Digger Rockwell, eccentric, billionaire oil tycoon spends his days in extravagance and wealth, with not a care for the cost his oil drilling business has on the world around him. However, when an environmental catastrophe caused by his negligence comes to light, he begins a desperate campaign to show the world that he is their unlikely saviour before the disaster destroys everything.
BUBS Screening – All welcome! – The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s saviour before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.
When an inventive cult filmmaker decides to make a Hallmark-style documentary on concrete, he paves a path to something far more profound and hilarious. Idle during the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike, documentarian John Wilson attends a workshop on how to make Hallmark Christmas rom-com movies. Inspired by his apartment building’s crumbling foundations, he tests this aspirational, escapist formula on the world’s love affair with concrete. Unsurprisingly, Wilson struggles to pitch his idea to prospective investors – and, fretting that he might be falling through the industry’s cracks, he takes a pilgrimage from the celebrity handprints outside LA’s Chinese Theatre to the dome atop Rome’s ancient Pantheon and more, finding surprising insights along the way. “I doubt any movie, especially any documentary, will make me laugh harder this year, and many of its emotional grace notes land fully. Even with my high expectations, The History of Concrete is a small triumph.” – The Hollywood Reporter
Miércoles con Almodóvar Adapted from Alice Munro’s short stories, Julieta (Adriana Ugarte) is about to leave Madrid to live in Portugal when she runs into Bea (Michelle Jenner), the childhood friend of her daughter Antía. This chance meeting sets off a range of emotions in Julieta, and she begins to write a long and revealing letter to her daughter – one filled with regret, guilt and love. With a sense of mystery, an expressive score and his trademark use of vibrant colour, Almodóvar has made a film of spellbinding beauty
Based on the bestselling novel from Nobel Prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro and written and directed by Academy-Award® winner Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit), Klara and the Sun introduces audiences to Klara (Jenna Ortega), an Artificial Friend who wants nothing more than to find the perfect home. When Klara meets Josie (Mia Tharia), each immediately senses a kindred spirit in the other. Josie has a fraught relationship with her mother (Amy Adams) and they’ve suffered great loss, but Klara’s innocent wonder and unwavering loyalty begin to heal the family and bring light to Josie’s complicated world.
BUBS Session – $15 – All Welcome! – Based on the bestselling novel from Nobel Prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro and written and directed by Academy-Award® winner Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit), Klara and the Sun introduces audiences to Klara (Jenna Ortega), an Artificial Friend who wants nothing more than to find the perfect home. When Klara meets Josie (Mia Tharia), each immediately senses a kindred spirit in the other. Josie has a fraught relationship with her mother (Amy Adams) and they’ve suffered great loss, but Klara’s innocent wonder and unwavering loyalty begin to heal the family and bring light to Josie’s complicated world.
$15 TICKETS – National Release PREMIERE SCREENING Book giveaways Courtesy of Paperback Books and $10 bubbly! – Based on the bestselling novel from Nobel Prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro and written and directed by Academy-Award® winner Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit), Klara and the Sun introduces audiences to Klara (Jenna Ortega), an Artificial Friend who wants nothing more than to find the perfect home. When Klara meets Josie (Mia Tharia), each immediately senses a kindred spirit in the other. Josie has a fraught relationship with her mother (Amy Adams) and they’ve suffered great loss, but Klara’s innocent wonder and unwavering loyalty begin to heal the family and bring light to Josie’s complicated world.
Monkeyshines Movie Club presents… ALL TICKETS $13 – Directed by Matt Johnson (Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie) 1967: the height of the Cold War. The CIA suspects there is a Russian mole inside of NASA, sabotaging the Apollo program. They send two young agents on a mission to go undercover, posing as documentary filmmakers to capture NASA’s race to the moon. The real mission – use their access and technology to hunt down the leak. But what they discover is far more shocking than soviet spies – Their government may be hiding a secret about Apollo that could define the decade, and the White House will stop at nothing to silence anyone who learns it.
Preview screening of the Australian romantic crime comedy “Pickpockets”. Followed by a live Q&A with the team behind the film – Including Writer/Actor Lucy Green and Writer/Director/Actor D.C. Fairhurst. – The flirty rivalry between a lone-wolf pickpocket and a charismatic rookie escalates into a spiteful turf war. Tempted by the score of a lifetime, the former enemies are forced to partner up. But when feelings get involved, their well-laid plans quickly fall apart.
Due to a promise, cemetery sales rep Wei Ping An embarks on the road to clear up the rumors surrounding his client Han Lu. Wei Ping An is a former mob boss who’s now in his middle age and destitute. He makes a living by selling burial plots. After his client Han Lu “moved in” and got caught in a controversy, the burial site was in danger of being forcibly demolished. Wei Ping An tries every means to find out the truth only to realize that the people who spread rumors simply do not care about the truth. Instead, they rely on the truth they believe in. Wei Ping An himself is caught in a new rumor.
After #MeToo broke the cultural silence on gendered violence, survivors swiftly found themselves facing a new kind of silencing and fear as defamation laws became weaponised by alleged perpetrators against women for speaking out. In the wake of this defamation avalanche, international human rights lawyer and free speech defender Jennifer Robinson is fighting for the rights of victims of gender violence to tell their story. Robinson takes audiences inside the courtroom and behind the headlines to reveal how the legal system is used to discredit, re-victimise and financially ruin survivors. SILENCED brings unrivalled access to the women and journalists at the centre of high-profile legal battles across the globe, including Brittany Higgins, Australian former political staffer, survivor and advocate against gender violence, Catalina Ruiz-Navarro, journalist and co-founder of the feminist magazine Volcánicas, and Amber Heard, Hollywood actor and advocate who found herself at the centre of one of the most high-profile defamation battle in in recent history. From International Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Selina Miles and Blayke Hoffman, SILENCED is a powerful, emotional and urgent documentary that challenges the devastating flaws maintaining the status quo within the justice system.
BUBS Screening – All welcome! – After #MeToo broke the cultural silence on gendered violence, survivors swiftly found themselves facing a new kind of silencing and fear as defamation laws became weaponised by alleged perpetrators against women for speaking out. – In the wake of this defamation avalanche, international human rights lawyer and free speech defender Jennifer Robinson is fighting for the rights of victims of gender violence to tell their story. Robinson takes audiences inside the courtroom and behind the headlines to reveal how the legal system is used to discredit, re-victimise and financially ruin survivors. SILENCED brings unrivalled access to the women and journalists at the centre of high-profile legal battles across the globe, including Brittany Higgins, Australian former political staffer, survivor and advocate against gender violence, Catalina Ruiz-Navarro, journalist and co-founder of the feminist magazine Volcánicas, and Amber Heard, Hollywood actor and advocate who found herself at the centre of one of the most high-profile defamation battle in in recent history. From International Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Selina Miles and Blayke Hoffman, SILENCED is a powerful, emotional and urgent documentary that challenges the devastating flaws maintaining the status quo within the justice system.
Power Up Now presents Silkwood for one night only at Eclipse Cinema in Collingwood on Friday, October 16th at 6:30pm. TICKETS via LINK: https://events.humanitix.com/power-up-now-silkwood – On November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood, an employee of a nuclear facility, left to meet with a reporter from the New York Times. She never got there. – Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose of radiation, Karen faces the blank walls of corporate indifference and denial. As her illness increases, her protest grows louder and she becomes an obvious danger to the powers that be. – Silkwood stars Meryl Streep as the film’s heroine alongside Kurt Russell as her rough but loving boyfriend and Cher as her butch lesbian “roommate”. Directed by Mike Nichols (The Bird Cage, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Graduate). Written by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen.
Miércoles con Almodóvar Ever since his beloved wife was horribly burned in an auto accident, Dr. Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas), a skilled plastic surgeon, has tried to develop a new skin that could save the lives of burn victims. Finally, after 12 years, Ledgard has created a skin that guards the body, but is still sensitive to touch. With the aid of his faithful housekeeper (Marisa Paredes), Ledgard tests his creation on Vera (Elena Anaya), who is held prisoner against her will in the doctor’s mansion.
Adapted from Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel, this seductive, psychological thriller follows renowned author Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway) and Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson), a struggling writer who relocates to the remote Crawford estate to ghostwrite for Verity. After Lowen uncovers what appears to be Verity’s chilling autobiographical notes, she wrestles with the disturbing and twisted confessions about Verity’s husband Jeremy (Josh Hartnett), and finds it hard to separate fiction from reality, manipulation from attraction, and opportunity from obsession.