2009 DUNEDIN FILM SOCIETY PROGRAMME
Casual admission is possible to those screenings marked with an asterix only. We hold more limited non-commercial screening rights for the rest of the programme, which means that entry must be restricted to Film Society members or pass holders.

Wednesday, March 4th at 7:30 p.m.*
WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY?
Dir: Rob Van Alkemade, 2007, U.S.A., 90 min.
(digital)
Van Alkemade's entertaining documentary follows the anti-consumerist odyssey of performance artist Reverend Billy accompanied by his Church of Stop Shopping Choir.
*Casual admission is possible for a small donation.

Wednesday, March 11th at 7:30 p.m.
BAD BLOOD (Mauvais sang)
Dir: Leos Carax, France, 1986, 116 min.
(16 mm.)-Cert.-M
Acclaimed neo-noir starring Juliette Binoche as part of a doomed love triangle with Denis Lavant & Michel Piccoli.

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World Cinema Showcase: March 12th-March 25th
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Wednesday, April 1st at 7:30 p.m.
FLANDERS
Dir: Bruno Dumont, France, 2006, 91 min. (35mm.)-Cert.-R16
Austere story about two farm workers who sign up to fight in the Middle East and the woman they leave behind.

Wednesday, April 8th at 7:30 p.m.
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES
Dir: Jennifer Baichwal, Canada, 2006, 90 min.
(35mm.)-Cert.-G
Astonishing documentary following celebrated Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky to such monuments of Asian industrialisation as China's Three Gorges Dam.

Wednesday, April 15th at 7:30 p.m.
THE SENTINEL (La Sentinelle)
Dir: Arnaud Desplechin, France, 1992, 139 min.
(35 mm.)-Cert.-TBC
Combines elements of espionage thriller with this director's trademark philosophical drama. "May be the sharpest film ever made about the end of the Cold War."

Wednesday, April 22nd at 7:30 p.m.
THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS
Dir: Lech Majewski, U.K./Italy, 2004, 103 min.
(35 mm.)-Cert.-TBC
In this playfully joyous, erotic and melancholy film, a beautiful art historian travels to Venice to spend the last few weeks of her life contemplating Bosch's painting.

Wednesday, April 29th at 7:30 p.m.
BASQUIAT
Dir: Julian Schnabel, U.S.A, 1996, 108 min.
(35 mm.)-Cert.-M
A fascinating account of the late Haiti born New York painter's meteoric rise from graffiti artist to Soho stardom. Features David Bowie, Gary Oldham & Jeffrey Wright.

Wednesday, May 6th at 7:30 p.m.
PERFECT STRANGERS
Dir: Gaylene Preston, N.Z., 2003, 95 min. (35 mm.)-Cert.-M
A woman kidnapped by a mysterious stanger (played by Sam Neill) and imprisoned on an island off the West Coast turns the tables on her captor with unexpected results.

Wednesday, May 13th at 7:30 p.m.
MALA NOCHE (Bad Night)
Dir: Gus Van Sant, U.S.A., 1985, 78 min. (35 mm.)-Cert.-M
Still distinctively original 20 years on, Vans Sant's bittersweet ode to Portland's skid row revolves around a shabby gringo's unrequited love for a Mexican hustler.

Wednesday, May 20th at 7:30 p.m.*
THE ASCENT
Dir: Larisa Shapitko, U.S.S.R., 1977, 109 min.
(35 mm.)-Cert.-GA
Epic trek across a frozen landscape that chronicles the Byelorussian peoples' suffering after the Nazi invasion.
*Casual admission is possible for a small donation.

Wednesday, May 27th at 7:30 p.m.
DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE
Dir: Herbert Sauper, Austria/France/Belgium, 2004,
107 min. (35 mm.)-Cert.-M
Scathing exposé of ecological disaster and exploitation in Tanzania's Lake Victoria, where an introduced species of Nile perch has devastated all other forms of aquatic life.

Wednesday, June 3rd at 7:30 p.m.
HER THIRD (Der Dritte)
Dir: Egon Günther, E. Germany, 1972, 107 min.
(digital)-Cert.-TBC
Told through a series of flashbacks, this engaging film follows a woman's slow progress towards independence.

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University of Otago Inter-Semester Break
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Wednesday, July 15th at 7:30 p.m.
BERLIN-SCHOENHAUSER CORNER
Dir: Gerhard Klein, E. Germany, 1957, 79 min.
(digital-B+W)- Cert.-TBC
Perceptive portrait of the city, as well as a cult teen film that is the E. German answer to Rebel Without a Cause.

Wednesday, July 22nd at 7:30 p.m.
THE ARCHITECTS (Architekten)
Dir: Peter Kahane, E. Germany, 1990, 102 min.
(digital)-Cert.-TBC
Shot in East Berlin just as the GDR was crumbling, Kahane's film focuses on a young architect whose vision and goals have been strangled by Communist dogma.

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INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Regent Theatre, Dunedin: July 24th-August 9th
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Wednesday, August 12th at 7:30 p.m.
AGNES VARDA'S PARIS
Dir: Agnès Varda, France, 1958-2004, Approx, 94 min. (digital)
Series of short films celebrating Varda's passion for her own Left Bank neighbourhood, as well as brief studies of poet Louis Aragon, Anna Karina and Jean-Luc Godard.

Wednesday, August 19th at 7:30 p.m.
GASLIGHT
Dir: George Cuckor, U.S.A., 1944, 114 min. (16 mm.)-Cert.-PG
Chilling Hollywood melodrama set in a fogbound London house, in which a sinister Victorian husband sets out to drive his wife (played by Ingrid Bergman) insane.

Wednesday, August 26th at 7:30 p.m.
CINEVARDAPHOTO
Dir: Agnès Varda, France, 1962-2004, Approx. 96 min. (digital)
Three mesmerizing short films that explore the subject of photography and resonate together in fascinating ways.

Wednesday, September 2nd at 7:30 p.m.
NEW ZEALAND SHORT FILMS
Programmed 1: Multicultural Medley
Approx. 86 min. (35 mm.)
- Clean Linen, Zia Mandviwalla, 2007
- Coffee and Allah, Sima Urale, 2007
- Fog, Peter Salmon, 2007
- Run, Mark Albiston, 2007?
- Take 3, Roseanne Liang, 2008?
- The Graffiti of Mr Tupaia, Christopher Dudman, 2008
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Programmed 2: It Came From the Swamp
Approx. 69 min. (digital)
- Retribution, Paul Tilling
- Clean as a Whistle, Sarah Rosser
- Swing, Dawn Tuffery
- Betty Banned Sweets, Michelle Savill, 2008
- Spit Takes, Chris Tan
- Meat, Joe Citizen
- Dark Priest, Sarah Nixon

Wednesday, September 9th at 7:30 p.m.
UNTOLD SCANDAL (Joseon namnyeo sangyeoljisa)
Dir: E J-yong, Korea, 2003, 124 min. (digital)-
Cert.-R16
Ingenious reworking of Laclos's Dangerous Liasons set in 18th cent. Korea. Lady Cho challenges her cousin to bed the young virgin who will be her husband's concubine.

Wednesday, September 16th at 7:30 p.m.
YOU THE LIVING (Du levande)
Dir: Roy Andersson, Sweden, 2007, 90 min. (35 mm.)-Cert.-M
Andersson is Sweden's comic laureate of depression and cinema's living master of the deadpan. You, the Living consists of a series of ingeniously twisted sketches.

Wednesday, September 23rd at 7:30 p.m.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN X 3
Dir: Charlie Chaplin, U.S.A., 1914-1917,
Approx. 80 min. (35 mm. -B+W, silent)-Cert. G
Chaplin plays the dastardly cad in the Mack Sennett farce Tillie's Punctured Romance. Accompanied by two other short features, The Tramp and The Adventurer.

Wednesday, September 30th at 7:30 p.m.
MOOLAADE
Dir: Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 2004, 123 min.
(digital)-Cert. M
Stirring final film from the groundbreaking African director. A defiant wife refuses to allow four girls to undergo the traditional rites of female circumcision.

WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING FOR SUPPORTING THIS YEAR'S PROGRAMME: