Juliet Naked
Wednesday 14 November 2018 Screening times: 10.00am, 2.30pm, 5.00pm and 7.15pm Directed by Jesse Peretz USA Comedy/Drama/Music 105 mins M Annie (Rose Byrne) is stuck in a long-term relationship with Duncan (Chris O’Dowd) – an obsessive fan of obscure rocker Tucker Crowe (Ethan Hawke). When the acoustic demo of Tucker’s hit record from 25 years ago surfaces, its release leads to […]
Custody
Drama CUSTODY – Monday 19thNovember 2018 Directed by Xavier Legrand France – Subtitled Drama 93 mins M Miriam and Antoine have recently separated. While she is willing to permit their 17 year old daughter, Josephine, to decide living arrangements for herself, Miriam is desperate to keep her youngest, 11 year old Julian, away from his father. However the Magistrate rules in […]
Jirga
Drama JIRGA – Wednesday 28thNovember 2018 Directed by Benjamin Gilmour Australia Drama/War 78 mins M A modern morality tale about a former Australian soldier, Mike, who returns to Afghanistan to find the family of a civilian he accidentally killed during the war. Seeking forgiveness, he puts his life in the hands of the village justice system – the Jirga. Jirga is the […]
Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far On Foot
Biography DON’T WORRY HE WON’T GET FAR ON FOOT – Wednesday 12 December 2018 Directed by Gus Van Sant USA/France Biography/Comedy/Drama 114 mins M After Portland slacker John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix) nearly loses his life in a car accident, the last thing he intends to do is give up drinking. But when he reluctantly enters treatment – with encouragement from his […]
Strange Colours
Drama STRANGE COLOURS Monday 18 March 2019 10.00 am and 6.30 pm (Note that both sessions have allocated seating) Directed by Alena LodkinaAustralia Drama 85 mins MA15+ Please note that the 6.30 pm session is preceded by the Noosa Film Society Annual General Meeting Milena travels to a remote opal mining community to see her estranged, ill father. Lost and alone, […]
Wajib
Drama WAJIBWednesday 27 March 2019 10.00 am, 2.30 pm, 5.00 pm & 7.15 pm Directed by Annemarie JacirPalestine/France/Germany (Subtitles) Drama 96 mins M Abu Shadi (Mohammad Bakri) is a divorced father and a school teacher in his mid-60s living in Nazareth. After his daughter’s wedding in one month, he will be living alone. Shadi (Saleh Bakri), his architect son, arrives from […]
Cold War
Drama COLD WAR Wednesday 27th February 2019 10.00 am, 2.30 pm, 5.00 pm and 7.15 pm Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski Poland/UK/France (Subtitled) Romance/Drama/Music 88 mins M A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s in […]
Boy Erased
Drama BOY ERASED Monday 18 February 2019 10am and 6:30pm allocated seating Directed by Joel Edgerton USA/Australia Drama 115 mins MA15+ Directed, written and co-starring Joel Edgerton, alongside Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, and Russell Crowe, BOY ERASED tells the true story of a young man’s struggle to find himself while being forced to question every aspect of his identity. Jared, […]
Can You Ever Forgive Me
Comedy CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? Wednesday 13 February 2019 10am, 2:30pm, 5:00pm, 7:15pm Directed by Marielle Heller USA Comedy/Drama 106 mins MA Melissa McCarthy stars in the adaptation of the memoir CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats) Lee Israel who made her living in the 1970’s and 80’s profiling […]
Shoplifters
Drama SHOPLIFTERS Wednesday, 30 January 2019 10.00am, 2.30pm, 5.00pm & 7.15pm Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda Japan (subtitles) Crime/Drama 121 mins M A Japanese couple, stuck with part-time jobs and hence inadequate incomes, avail themselves of the fruits of shoplifting to make ends meet. They are not alone in this behaviour. The young and the old of the household are also in […]