Billy Liar (1963)
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: a short deconstruction of John Schlesinger’s British classic.
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: a short deconstruction of John Schlesinger’s British classic.
Previously at the Auckland Film Society: Losey and Pinter’s second film together makes a case for the pair as the most underrated collaborators in modern cinema.
Previously at the Auckland Film Society: Losey and Pinter’s masterful first collaboration.
A closer look at the screen iterations of Patricia Highsmith’s classic anti-hero, Tom Ripley.
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: a tale of creative and romantic liberation from Bengali master Satyajit Ray.
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: Satyajit Ray’s powerful working-class family drama set in his native Calcutta.
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: encapsulating Erich Maria Remarque’s resonant anti-war message.
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: the desperate living of Douglas Sirk’s bleak Faulkner adaptation.
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: love doesn’t conquer all in Douglas Sirk’s superlative Hollywood melodrama.
In praise of two compromised Orson Welles films, still vital and almost joyful in their imposed messiness.
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: with Leos Carax’s latest, there’s life in cinema yet.
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: the radical cinema of Shirley Clarke.
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: an unflinching portrait of an Australian community.
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: reexamining Brazil’s decades of dictatorship.
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: Louis Malle’s swansong through the world of Chekhov.
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: Louis Malle’s one-of-a-kind surrealist experiment.
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: Howard Hawks’s riot act.
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: part one of the Nicholas Roeg season.
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: Louis Malle’s looney Parisian romp, and the carnage beneath its silly surface.
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: G.W. Pabst’s Weimar Republic landmark accompanied by the Joyless Orchestra.