An Oscar-winning documentary as brilliant and blistering as writer James Baldwin, around whom it is built, this tells the story of race in America, from the nation's beginning to now. It contains a wealth of sharply chosen archival and recent footage, and Samuel L. Jackson narrates.
Beautiful, universally relatable capturing of hopes, dreams, love found and love lost through the lives of nurses who have come from small towns to Mumbai, where privacy is a luxury and loneliness is found throughout.
A fascinating and beautifully shot backstage view of the unexpected challenges for both creators and performers when Czech dance stars Jiří and Otto Bubeníček are invited by the Royal New Zealand ballet to turn their short work based on the film The Piano into a full-length ballet.
On a WA wheat farm in 1968, Ed (Xavier Samuel) and Paddy (Clarence Ryan) are best mates despite steep social inequalities, but new laws change their world. Roger Mason’s dreamlike score complements visuals that pay homage to Terrence Malick.
In the hands of Wim Wenders and his star, Kōji Yakusho, this film about a man whose days are all seemingly the same as he goes about his job cleaning toilets in Tokyo becomes a beautiful, gently uplifting Zen meditation on fulfilment, meaning and simple joys.
This must-see 1953 classic remains one of the most suspenseful films ever made. And we’re screening it in a brand-new 4k remastered version. Yves Montand stars, as two teams of desperate men in South America compete to be the first to deliver a truckload of highly unstable nitro-glycerine, along a route with the potential for obliteration at every turn.
At first this seems like a straightforward Nat Geo-style portrait of endearing census-taker Amber, asking people about their happiness in Bhutan, famed for its Gross National Happiness. But the filmmakers have tapped into something much deeper and more affecting.
Banned from making movies in his home country, acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi (The White Balloon) responded by mounting cameras within a taxicab and driving around Tehran for a day picking up passengers, supposedly at random. The result is both a love-letter to cinema and a revealing look at the country and its people.
Come for a never-better Russell Crowe, for Peter Weir’s extraordinary cinematic artistry, for the deeply thrilling, you-are-there naval battle scenes, or for the music by Wollongong’s own Richard Tognetti — just come and see this epic the way it should be seen, on the big screen.
A film for people who love films, from Wong Kar-wai, ‘the most romantic filmmaker in the world’. Stylised, stylish and seductive for those prepared to surrender to it, this is the seemingly separate but actually cleverly connected and mirrored stories of two lovelorn cops in bustling, colourful Hong Kong, before it was handed back to China.
Miles Davis (in his only starring feature film role) plays a legendary trumpeter whose brief, unexpected Outback appearance changes the life of John ‘Dingo’ Anderson (Colin Friels). Davis and Michel Legrand composed the soundtrack and Rolf de Heer directs.
Meditative, dreamlike, fantastical and mysterious, slyly funny and philosophical, surreal and free of plot as we know it, this film shows us the interior life of a calmly dying man visited by visions of his past, and past lives, and spirits from the beyond.
A must for film-lovers, as the director of Cinema Paradiso delves into the career of cinema composer maestro Morricone. This richly entertaining documentary delivers a feast of memorable clips from The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Days of Heaven, The Mission, The Hateful Eight and many more.
Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster were never better — and that’s saying something — brilliantly cast against type as a desperate small-time press agent and the monstrous gossip columnist who can make or break lives with a line.
Istanbul is famed for many things, including its street cats. This beautifully shot documentary reveals the city’s life and heart through seven of its distinct feline characters and the people who interact with them.
A ‘true-crime’ story like you’ve never seen, this is the brilliantly told story of how four US college students decided to steal books worth millions and what happened next. Exciting, sure-handed and frequently surprising, it stars Saltburn’s Barry Keoghan in one of his first major roles.
This based-on-a-true-story Mexican drama, about an unorthodox teacher who joins a school in a dangerous, impoverished town and refuses to accept that its kids have no futures, hits all the familiar notes of the genre — and is no less powerful for doing so.
This story of a lost-soul archaeologist turned tomb-raider (Josh O’Connor) in 1980s Italy and the people around him is beguiling, poetic, funny, mournful, romantic, strange, magical and utterly distinctive.
An immersive, sometimes heart-stopping spectacle that demands to be seen on the big screen, this documentary from the director of Gunda has no narration. It lets its incredible visuals and audio tell the story of water in all its forms on our planet.
Glass-obsessed heiress Lucinda (Cate Blanchett, already extraordinary in one of her first films) and guilt-ridden naif priest Oscar (Ralph Fiennes, in a role unlike any other in his career) are inveterate gamblers, and lifelong misfits until they meet one another. But even then neither can resist an all-or-nothing bet.
Living alone in her London flat, 12-year-old Georgie must confront reality when her estranged father, Jason, shows up out of nowhere. Uninterested in a sudden new parental figure, she remains stubbornly resistant to his efforts. As they both adjust to their new circumstances, Georgie and Jason soon find that they still have a lot of […]
Samay fights heaven and earth to find light. He wants to catch, control, cut and project that light to tell stories. Now to pursue that dream he must leave everything he loves and take a flight to find the light. Rated M
A golden era Hollywood musical about the turmoil suffered by the movie industry in the late 1920s as movies were transitioning from silent to talkies. Rated G
Two Italian boys spend their childhoods together in a secluded alpine village roaming the surrounding peaks and valleys before their paths diverge. Rating unclassified
Ben Platt and Molly Gordon star as lifelong best friends and drama instructors at a rundown camp in upstate New York. When clueless tech-bro Troy arrives to run the property (into the ground), Amos and Rebecca-Diane band together with the staff and students to stage a masterpiece to keep their beloved summer camp afloat. Rated […]
A drama about how mere humanity can bond us all. It follows Ali, an immigrant using another man’s license, and his elderly passenger Esther, who can’t remember where she is going, and is angry that she’s been stripped of everything familiar to her. Rating unclassified Short film: Grey Power – Australia, 2023 ∙ 12 mins […]
A poetic portrait of environmentalist Bob Brown and the forest that draws on emerging science and Brown’s experiences of activism to inspire a new chapter in our relationship with trees. Rated M
In this modern, pitch-black take on the screwball comedy, Walter Matthau stars as Henry Graham, a formerly affluent playboy whose lifestyle has drained his fortune. He sets his sights on meek but wealthy botany professor Henrietta Lowell (Elaine May) to avoid climbing down the social ladder. Rated G
Living alone in London, writer Adam encounters his neighbour Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. Preoccupied with childhood memories as he works on a screenplay, Adam is drawn to his family home where his parents appear to still be living, just as they were on the day that they died 30 years […]
Over the course of a single day, seven-year-old Sol and her extended family prepare for a surprise birthday party for her father. Rating unclassified
Growing old amid flickering memories, one of the oldest amateur film clubs in the world is teetering on the brink of survival. Desperately clinging to their dreams, and to each other, this hilarious and moving portrait of artistic folly speaks to the delusional escapist dreamer in us all. Rated M
Shayda, a brave Iranian mother, finds refuge in an Australian women’s shelter with her six-year-old daughter. Over Persian New Year, they take solace in Nowruz rituals and new beginnings, but when her estranged husband re-enters their lives, Shayda’s path to freedom is jeopardised. Rated M
