Programme 3: 9 August - 14 September

2010

Programme 3: 9 August - 14 September

AUGUST

Mon 9 7.30pm North Face M 121mTue 10 7.30pm New York I Love You MA15+ 103mWed 11 7.30pm North Face M 121mThu 12 7.30pm Marmaduke PG 88m Fundraiser - Australian Orangutan Project

Darwin FestivalFri 13 7.30pm A Touch Of Spice M 108m 9.30pm North Face* M 121mSat 14 7.30pm New York I Love You* MA15+ 103m 9.30pm Merantau 18+ 106mSun 15 7.30pm St Kilda Film Festival with NT short film - The Dressmaker’s DaughterMon 16 7.00pm Our Generation Movie + music $20 full, $15 concessionTue 17 7.30pm My Name is Khan M 161mWed 18 7.30pm Merantau* 18+ 106m

Big ScreenThur 19 7.30pm The Waiting City M 103m NT PREMIERE – tickets $20 including refreshments

Fri 20 7.30pm Bran Nue Dae PG 84m 9.30pm Shine M 106mSat 21 7.00pm I Love You Too M 107m with special guest Peter Helliar 9.30pm Animal Kingdom MA15+ 113m

Sun 22 7.30pm A Touch Of Spice* M 108m with NT short film - Keeping the Heat Mon 23 7.30pm The Waiting City M 103mTue 24 7.30pm Message Sticks Wed 25 7.30pm Message Sticks Thu 26 7.30pm Answered by Fire M 170m Fundraiser - YWCAFri 27 7.30pm My Queer Career 86m with special guest Kylie Plunkett 9.30pm Animal Kingdom MA15+ 113mSat 28 7.30pm The Secret in their Eyes MA15+ 133m 9.45pm The Waiting City M 103mSun 29 7.30pm My Name is Khan M 161m with NT short film - Spacedude

Mon 30 7.30pm Animal Kingdom MA15+ 113mTue 31 7.30pm It’s Complicated M 120m

SEPTEMBER

Wed 1 7.30pm My Name is Khan* M 161mThu 2 7.30pm The Diving Bell and the Butterfly M 112m Fundraiser - Disability Awareness Week (Darwin City Council)

Fri 3 7.30pm The Waiting City* M 103m 9.30pm Food, Inc. PG 94mSat 4 7.30pm Animal Kingdom MA15+ 113m 9.30pm Robin Hood M 140mSun 5 7.30pm The Secret in their Eyes MA15+ 133m with NT short film - Man Makes History Mon 6 7.30pm Alice in Wonderland PG 108mTue 7 7.30pm The Secret in their Eyes MA15+ 133mWed 8 7.30pm Food, Inc. PG 94mThu 9 7.30pm Bran Nue Dae PG 84m Fundraiser - Darwin Middle SchoolFri 10 7.30pm Robin Hood M 140m 9.45pm The Secret in their Eyes* MA15+ 133mSat 11 7.30pm Alice in Wonderland* PG 108m 9.30pm Animal Kingdom* MA15+ 113mSun 12 7.30pm Food, Inc.* PG 94m with NT short film - The Door Knockers Mon 13 7.30pm Robin Hood* M 140mTue 14 7.30pm The Spy Who Loved Me M 125m ABC Listener Screening

*Final Screening Fundraiser Special Screening Free to Members

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Available at the box office each night from 6.30pm, movies begin at 7.30pm. Cash, Cheque, EFTPOS and credit card facility available.

LocationJervois Road - off Kitchener Drive, Darwin Wharf Precinct.FREE car parking at the cinema and Esplanade. Only a short walk from town, take the scenic Damoe Ra walkway to the cinema (just before Parliament House).

Contact UsDarwin Film SocietyGPO Box 3008, Darwin NT 0801info@deckchaircinema.com

(08) 8981 0700www.deckchaircinema.com

GENERAL INFORMATION

FoodDeckchair Cinema has a licensed snack bar where you can buy snacks, wine, beer, ice-cream and assorted treats. No BYO alcohol. Hot food is available on site every night, or you can bring a picnic. Come down at 6.30pm to enjoy a meal and sunset before the film.

FundraisersThursday nights are community events which are open to everyone. Tickets can be purchased at the door from 6.30pm. Different organisations provide good food, goodwill and fun.

MembershipAs a member of the Darwin Film Society, you will benefit from a massive $5 discount on an adult admission to the Deckchair Cinema, four FREE tickets when you sign up and four FREE member screenings a year. A years’ membership costs $75 or $50 for concession. For more information and to download an application form, please visit the Deckchair website www.deckchaircinema.com

TicketsSingle Double Session>$13 $20 Adults$10 $15 Concession*$8 $12 Seniors & Members$6 $9 Children (5-15)$30 $45 Family Ticket

>Weekends only*Proof required

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DARWIN FESTIVAL FILMS

A Touch of Spice M 108m

2004 Tassos Boulmetis Greece

13, 22 AugThe heartw

arming story of a young Greek boy, grow

ing up in Istanbul, w

here his Grandfather teaches him the

joy of preparing food - which, like life, requires ‘a touch

of spice’. The story is set in 1959 when Turkey expelled

Greek nationals and it explores the challenges faced by a child adapting to a ‘hom

e’ that is foreign.

My Nam

e is Khan M 161m

2010 Karan Johar India17, 29 Aug, 1 SepA story about M

uslim Indians living in a paranoid, post-

9/11 America. Told through a Bollyw

ood lens by skilled Director Karan Johar, M

y Name is Khan teaches lessons

about Islam and tolerance.

Merantau (18+

) 106m2010 Gareth Evans Indonesia14, 18 AugAn

adrenaline charged

action film

–

Merantau

is the story of a young practitioner of Silat - a deadly Indonesian m

artial art. He leaves his village for Jakarta – and finds his skills tested as he tries to rescue a young girl from

human traffickers.

Our Generation2010 Sinem

Saban and Damien Curtis Australia

16 Aug. Box office opens at 6pm, program

me starts

at 7pm

. Cost

$20 includes

film

and live

music

performance.

Australian Premiere

of the

ground-breaking new

docum

entary on Aboriginal rights, OUR GENERATION. W

ith live music by M

ama Kin, Shellie M

orris and special guests from

the Black Arm Band. Follow

ing the film

will be a discussion w

ith Yolngu from NE Arnhem

Land, film

-makers and special guests, chaired by Jeff

McM

ullen.

105.7 ABC DARWIN LISTENER

SCREENING105.7 ABC Darw

in’s Richard Margetson w

ill program

Deckchair with the 1977 Bond classic

‘The S

py W

ho Lo

ved M

e’ M

125m, 14 Sep.

This event is open to anyone to attend, but you can win tickets if you listen to the

Saturday Breakfast show w

ith Margo from

7am.

The dress code is.... Bond!

CAFE CINEMA NIGHT – FOOD, INC. PG 94m On W

ednesday 8 Sep stick around after the screening of Food, Inc. The Darwin Film

Society w

ill provide tea, coffee, cake and a facilitator to lead an informal, friendly

discussion on this fascinating documentary. Free adm

ission for Darwin Film

Society m

embers. Everyone w

elcome!

DARWIN INTERNATIONAL

FILM FESTIVAL From

Wednesday 15th to Sunday 19th Septem

ber, Darwin w

ill have its very own film

festival at the Deckchair Cinem

a. The Darwin International Film

Festival will be your

chance to see 9 outstanding films that w

ill be shown for the first tim

e in the Top End. Program

me available soon through our usual outlets.

Rating

s

My Queer Career 86m

2010 Various Australia 27 AugA fabulous collection of engaging and diverse short film

s from

Australia’s prestigious

queer short

film

competition. Follow

ing the screening will be a Q&A

session with Kylie Plunkett, w

inner of the 2010 Queer Perspective and Audience Choice aw

ards.

St Kilda Film Festival

2010 Various Australia15 AugExperience the popular national touring program

me of

the St Kilda Film Festival. The Best of the Fest brings

enormous variety and reflects the creative inspiration

of accomplished short film

makers.

Message Sticks

24, 25 AugFree event – bookings essential at info@

deckchaircinema.com

Celebrating its 11th year, the Message Sticks Indigenous

Film Festival returns w

ith more rem

arkable storytelling. This year’s festival focuses on a new

crop of Indigenous film

makers from

Australia and abroad showcasing the

great diversity of Indigenous culture and artists.

NATIONAL FILM AND SOUND ARCHIVE’S BIG SCREENThe W

aiting City M 103m

2010 Claire McCarthy Australia

NT Premiere – presented by Big Screen 19 Aug

Tickets $20 including refreshments.

Also screening23, 28 Aug, 3 SeptThe story of an outw

ardly happy Australian couple w

ho journey to India to collect their adopted baby. W

hen they arrive in Calcutta they discover that the adoption arrangem

ents have still to be finalised. Soon the intoxicating m

ystic power of the city

pulls them in separate and unexpected directions

and the vulnerability of their marriage begins to

reveal itself. An intimate, com

plex love story of transform

ation, set against the exhilarating epic backdrop of Calcutta.

Bran Nue Dae PG 84m2009 Rachel Perkins Australia20 AugEnjoy this sm

ash-hit film on the big screen. A

coming-of-age, m

usical comedy road m

ovie for all the fam

ily. Geoffrey Rush plays Father Benedictus and the NT’s ow

n Jessica Mauboy stars.

Shine PG 155m1996 Scott Hicks Australia20 AugGeoffrey

Rush stars

in an

Oscar-winning

performance as the brilliant pianist David Helfgott.

Experience SHINE before Helfgott’s performance in

the Darwin Festival.

I Love you Too M 107m

2009 Daina Reid Australia21 Aug. Box office opens at 6pm

, program starts

at 7pm.

Meet

Peter Helliar!

Comm

itment-phobe

Jim

(Brendan Cowell) and his best m

ate Blake (Helliar) attem

pt to win over the w

omen of their dream

s. Peter Helliar, com

edian, TV star and scriptwriter of

I LOVE YOU TOO will introduce his film

and conduct a Q+

A after the screening.

Animal Kingdom

MA15+

113m2010 David M

ichôd Australia21 AugAlso screening 27, 30 Aug, 4, 11 SeptA pow

erful thriller about the battle between a

Melbourne crim

e family and the police and the

young m

an w

ho finds

himself

caught in

the crossfire. Excellent perform

ances by Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Ben M

endelsohn and Jacki Weaver.

New York I Love You M

A15+ 103m

2009 Various directors USA10, 14 AugustIn the city that never sleeps, love is alw

ays on the mind.

Those passions come to life in NEW

YORK, I LOVE YOU (rendition of 2006 PARIS, JE T’AIM

E) - a collaboration of storytelling from

some of today’s m

ost imaginative

filmm

akers and featuring an all-star cast.

Food, Inc. PG 94m2009 Robert Kenner USA3, 8, 12 SepFood, Inc. reveals surprising - and often shocking truths - about w

hat we eat, how

it’s produced, and w

here we are going from

here. Filmed in the USA, this

documentary exposes the handful of corporations that

now control the food supply.

North Face M 121m

2009 Phillip Stolzl Austria/Germany

9, 11, 13 AugBased on a true story, NORTH FACE is a gripping adventure dram

a about a competition to clim

b the most

dangerous rock face in the Alps. In July of 1936 - less than a year after the m

ost recent and fatal attempt,

two top Germ

an mountaineers take up the challenge to

become the first to scale the infam

ous rock face, the so-called M

urder Wall.

It’s Complicated M

120m2009 Nancy M

eyers USA31 AugA classy rom

p that harks back to the classics of the ‘30s. In this rom

antic comedy for the over 50s M

ERYL STREEP plays the role of an older w

oman being w

ooed by tw

o men – played by Alec Baldw

in and Steve M

artin.

Alice in Wonderland PG 108m

2010 Tim Burton USA

6, 11 Sep19-year-old Alice returns to the m

agical world from

her childhood adventure, w

here she reunites with her old

friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen’s reign of terror.

The Secret In Their Eyes MA15+

133m2010 Juan Jose Cam

panella Argentina. Winner Oscar

for Best Foreign Film28 Aug, 5, 7, 10 SepThis im

pressive, absorbing film - half thriller, half

love story - is set between the present w

hen a retired detective begins to w

rite, as a novel, the story of a m

urder which has obsessed him

for decades; and the tim

e of the dictatorship in Argentina, when the brutal

murder occurred.

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