Wednesday, 21 October 2020

HONEST THIEF [M]

1h 39min | Action, Crime, Drama

Friday          23 Oct       10:45am, 8:55pm *NEW*
Saturday      24 Oct       1:45pm, 8:55pm
Sunday        25 Oct       3:55pm

Friday          30 Oct       10:45am, 8:50pm
Saturday      31 Oct       1:45pm, 8:50pm
Sunday        1   Nov       3:50pm Final
 
A bank robber tries to turn himself in because he's falling in love and wants to live an honest life...but when he realizes the Feds are more corrupt than him, he must fight back to clear his name.

Director: Mark Williams
Writers: Steve Allrich, Mark Williams

Stars: Liam Neeson, Kate Walsh, Jai Courtney

trailer https://youtu.be/_TLtcw7ixRc

note: Violence & offensive language



Saturday, 17 October 2020

RIGOLETTO on the Lake *on screen*


Sat 24 OCT 7pm & Sun 25 OCT 2pm

Giuseppe Verdi’s 
RIGOLETTO 
on Lake Constance, Bregenz
*on screen* Cinema Live event 
tix $20; Conc $15 Student; Child $12

compelling, blood-curdling and beautiful ... one weekend only 

Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece – compelling, blood-curdling and beautiful – is being performed for the first time on the unique Bregenz lake stage. Once of Verdi's most popular works, Rigoletto is an unforgettable tale of sacrifice and revenge; of a father's rage and a daughter's shame. It features several of opera's best-known arias - including Rigoletto's passionate denouncement "Cortigiani, vil razza dannata," Gilda's dreamy "Caro nome" and the Duke's instantly recognisable "La donna è mobile." 

Directed and designed by Philip Stölzl, this timeless tragedy will delight audiences with a powerhouse combination of entertainment and emotional intensity from the spectacular shore of Lake Constance.

Rigoletto on the Lake contains a sequence of flashing lights which might affect customers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy. 

TRAILER: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7fiq9a

Key Facts ... by Cinema Live... Rigoletto on the Lake, performed on a magnificent water stage, screening in Australian cinemas for the first time.

Considered one of Verdi’s greatest masterpieces, Rigoletto premiered in Venice in 1851. A story of lust, murder and revenge, it has been performed consistently across the world and is a staple in every opera house's repertoire. 

.  1. The story is based on a play by Victor Hugo. He is better known for his other masterpieces: Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and is considered one of France's greatest novelists.

2. The censors had real issues with the content of the opera. Set in the immoral world of the Duke of Mantua, whose corruption and misuse of power is displayed, the fact that there seems to be no redemption for his victims caused real issues for finally getting the opera on the stage.

3. Its most famous aria is the Duke's La Donna è Mobile, (A woman is flighty). Due to the Duke's mistreatment of women, and particularly Rigoletto’s daughter, it is no surprise that this is an opera without a happy ending.

4. Although the opera was very successful with audiences from the beginning, many critics condemned the story for its dark and tragic plot being combined with popular tunes. However, later on, critics warmed to the opera, one stating that in Rigoletto there "is more substance and feeling than in the whole of Wagner's Ring Cycle".

5. The staging for Rigoletto on the Lake weighs no less than 140 tons anchored on 120 piers. As many as 46 different companies took part in the construction of the moving Clown head and hands. They can be moved, pulled apart and disconnected, mirroring the breakdown of Rigolettos mind as the story goes on.



MZAZA The Birth and Death of Stars [LIVE music] on stage

World music favourites MZAZA bring you their brand new show, with exotic rhythms and melodies that tap into the beating heart of humankind .

SAT 31 OCT 8PM

 MZAZA 
The Birth and Death of Stars [LIVE music]
  
 
tix all $15 | $12 group 10+

Multi-award winning world music favourites MZAZA premiere The Birth and Death of Stars, drawing inspiration from history’s philosophers and astronomers and leading us on a surreal voyage through the ether to explore what links us to each other and the world around us.

 Sitting comfortably between music and theatre, the show is brought to the stage by a powerful collaboration of creative minds featuring director Benjamin Knapton, Finnish animator Laura Matikainen and writer Pauline Maudy.

 Celebrate the launch of the band’s third album, take a step away from the everyday and contemplate our place in the universe to the sounds of some of Australia’s most uniquely diverse musicians and songwriters.

Lead by enchanting French vocalist Pauline Maudy, this group of talented musicians and songwriters from Bosnia, Latvia, Greece, Turkey, France and Australia will mesmerise you with inspired performances on accordion, violin, shah kaman, percussion, double-bass and guitar.

 

Don’t miss this multi-award winning, international touring group that relishes connections with communities across Queensland.


About the Company

 Brisbane based six-piece MZAZA deliver Balkan-French sounds to folk lovers around the world. Led by enchanting French-Sephardic vocalist Pauline Maudy, this award-winning group of musicians from Bosnia, Latvia, Greece, Turkey, France and Australia has been mesmerising audiences with powerful and inspired performances and recordings.  The impressive musicianship of MZAZA – deftly realised with accordion, violin, percussion, double bass and Flamenco guitar – embraces diversity, the old and the new, the familiar and the foreign. 

 Some milestones include:

2018 - 6 show tour of Europe, plus seven days in a studio in Athens recording their third album.

2017 - 18 show tour of Queensland courtesy of arTour and Arts Queensland.

2016 - 20 date European tour including 4 festival appearances.

2015 - Album release; Ghosts, mixed by ARIA-nominated engineer Robin Mai and featured a collection of impressive musical collaborators. Ghosts spent three weeks in the AMRAP Metro Charts, was feature album on Melbourne’s PBS and spent five weeks in 4ZZZ’s top 20. Ghosts tracks received two Queensland Music Awards (2015, 2016)

2012 - Album release; Journey Over Skin three tracks Highly Commended in the Queensland Music Awards

MZAZA’s festival highlights include: Cygnet, National and Woodford Folk Festivals, MONA FOMA, Brisbane Festival and Queensland Music Festival.

 MZAZA support highlights include: Violent Femmes (USA) Yasmin Levy (Israel), Melbourne Ska Orchestra (AUS), Baba Zula and Baro Banda (Turkey), and DJ Click (France).

Friday, 16 October 2020

THE SECRET GARDEN (PG)

 107mins | 2020 | Drama, Family, Fantasy

Friday          9 Oct        10:45am, 6:45pm *new*
Saturday      10 Oct      1:45pm, 6:45pm
Sunday        11 Oct       1:45pm

Friday          16 Oct       6:45pm
Saturday      17 Oct       6:45pm
Sunday        18 Oct       1:35pm Final

An orphaned girl discovers a magical garden hidden at her strict uncle's estate.
Based on the famous novel.

Director: Marc Munden
Writers: Frances Hodgson Burnett (novel), Jack Thorne (adaptation)
Stars: Dixie Egerickx, Colin Firth, Julie Walters

THE BROKEN HEARTS GALLERY [M]

1h 48min | Comedy, Romance 

Friday 16 Oct        10:45am, 8:40pm *new*
Saturday 17 Oct     1:45pm, 8:40pm
Sunday 18 Oct       3:45pm

Friday          23 Oct       8:45pm
Saturday      24 Oct       6:30pm
Sunday        25 Oct       3:45pm FINAL

After a break up, a young woman decides to start a gallery where people can leave trinkets from past relationships.

 Director: Natalie Krinsky

Writer: Natalie Krinsky (screenplay)

Stars: Geraldine Viswanathan, Dacre Montgomery, Utkarsh Ambudkar 

TRAILER https://youtu.be/7aokhRzwlJI 






FOUR KIDS AND IT [PG]

1h 50min | Family, Fantasy

Friday 23 Oct 6:45pm *NEW*
Saturday 24 Oct 6:45pm
Sunday 25 Oct 1:45pm

A group of kids on holiday in Cornwall meet a magical creature on the beach with the power to grant wishes.

Director: Andy De Emmony
Writers: Simon Lewis, Mark Oswin

Stars: Teddie-Rose Malleson-Allen, Pippa Haywood, Matthew Goode, Russell Brand, Michael Caine

23 WALKS [M]

1h 42min | Drama

Friday          16 Oct       10:30am, 6:30pm *new*
Saturday      17 Oct       1:30pm, 8:50pm
Sunday        18 Oct       1:30pm FINAL

A gentle, sweet, funny, romantic story of love in later life following a couple in their sixties, Dave and Fern, who get to know one another over the course of 23 dog walks.


Director:
 Paul Morrison
Writer: Paul Morrison

Stars: Graham Cole, Bob Goody, Dave Johns




Tuesday, 6 October 2020

MADE IN ITALY [M] stars Liam Neeson

1h 34min | Comedy


Thursday 1 Oct     7:10pm *new*

Friday 2 Oct          8:35pm
Saturday 3 Oct      8:35pm
Sunday 4 Oct        1:30pm

Friday          9 Oct        8:50pm
Saturday      10 Oct      8:50pm
Sunday        11 Oct       3:50pm Final

A heart-warming comedy set in glorious Tuscany starring Liam Neeson as Robert, a charming artist who returns to Italy with his estranged son Jack (Neeson’s real life son Micheál Richardson) to sell the house they inherited from his late wife. They are shocked to find the once glorious villa now dilapidated.  

Director/Writer: James D'Arcy

Stars: Yolanda Kettle, Micheál Richardson, Souad Faress


***** If you liked "Under the Tuscan Sun", you will enjoy this delightful movie and the romance of Tuscany will captivate you.” Kaykatniss G

Trailer: https://youtu.be/M2RqzDC6gF4

https://youtu.be/tJHcv0Pm0RU 



Sunday, 4 October 2020

The 355

  Thriller

When a top-secret weapon falls into mercenary hands, a wild card CIA agent joins forces with three international agents on a lethal mission to retrieve it, while staying a step ahead of a mysterious woman who's tracking their every move.

 Director: Simon Kinberg

Writers: Simon Kinberg, Theresa Rebeck

Stars: Jessica Chastain, Bingbing Fan, Diane Kruger

watch trailer https://youtu.be/xugboHXcG94