Program for 2019
Our program runs with fortnightly screenings on Thursdays, from March until October, except 30 films or more each season. Feel free to download a pdf of the program. 2019programsecondhalf_event.pdf The films that make up our program have been selected, mostly sight unseen by the committee and based on availability as announced by the distributors. We aim to select a variety of films from various countries, which in the end will not appeal to all members all of the time, but should appeal to a broad membership. Please choose to attend sessions which you think will appeal to you based on the synopses and the film classification details we provide, or come to screenings ready to be pleasantly surprised or mildly disappointed, or worse, simply shocked. We will again hand out voting slips this year, to give you an opportunity to provide a basic feedback for each of the screened movies. While there aren't any other overarching themes, if you look hard enough you might be able to spot unintended correlations between double screenings. We are keen to hear back from you about ideas you might have, feedback on films we have screened or films you would like to see in the future. Productive comment is always encouraged and best sent to us via the website or facebook page. We, the committee, are looking forward to this year's program of screenings, and we hope you share our anticipation. Previous Years' ProgramFilm review sitesMissed a Cinema Group screening?
Townsville CityLibraries hold DVDs from several of our previous screenings.
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Non members welcome - $15 for two films
Half-year membership $60 from July 1
New Venue : Event Cinemas City (Sturt St)
25th July 2019 1st Film at 7.00pm
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
1968 - UK,USA - 149min - G - Sci Fi Drama
Dir: Stanley Kubrick 2001: A Space Odyssey is a countdown to tomorrow, a road map to human destiny, a quest for the infinite. To begin his voyage into the future, Kubrick visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millenia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever conceived) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Dullea) into uncharted realms of space, perhaps even into immortality. "Open the pod bay doors, HAL." Let the awe and mystery of a journey unlike any other begin.
8 August 2019 1st Film at 7.00pm
CAPERNAUM
2019 -Lebanon,USA - 120min - M - Drama Dir: Nadine Labaki Twelve-year-old Zain stands in a Beirut court and declares that he wants to sue his parents "for giving [him] life". A shocking and outlandish statement, but as Labaki’s film traces through Zain’s experiences – born in a family overwhelmed by too many children, slum neighbourhoods, a sister sold into marriage, deprivation and roaming the streets as the sole caretaker of an abandoned toddler – his grievances against the world and those who brought him into it reverberate with righteous fury.
8 August 2019 2nd Film at 9.10pm
Undermined: Tales from the Kimberley
Kimberley Traditional Owners – including activist, musician and Bardi man Albert Wiggan and academic and Yimardoowarra woman Dr Anne Poelina – question what meaningful negotiation looks like and offer humanising portraits of those at the centre of this battle in Australia’s spectacular north-west corner, which governments aspire to make "the future economic powerhouse of Australia". With the highest percentage of Aboriginal people living on Country in Australia, what will this mean for the Kimberley’s custodians, lands and cultures, and will they survive these pressures?
Tales From the Kimberley is a powerful and enlightening film. It highlights the fundamental necessity to hear, listen and understand from those that know the realities of the situation far better than anyone else. |
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