Moro Spanish Film Festival 2021 – Full Programme Announced!
The rich programme consists of 20 feature films from Spain together with 9 films from across Latin America including Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Uruguay. From hilarious crime capers to sensual romantic comedies, powerful historical epics and contemporary urban dramas, the Moro Spanish Film Festival is for all movie-lovers and aficionados of Spanish cinema alike. ¡Viva la fiesta!
Joyous romantic comedy ROSA’S WEDDING (La boda de Rosa) will open the Festival. Written and directed ...
Murder Mysteries at Dendy Coorparoo and Dendy Portside!
The film festival, titled Murder Mysteries, brings you the very best classic whodunit films spanning from the 40’s all the way through until the late 70s. Don’t miss Humphrey Bogart in Maltese Falcon, classics like The Third Man and Kind Hearts & Coronets.
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Of course Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest will be screened and you couldn’t have a murder mystery film festival without including the famous detective writer, Agatha Christie’s Murder on the ...
Pedro Almodovar Retrospective is coming to Dendy Coorparoo!
The film festival, titled PEDRO ALMODÓVAR RETROSPECTIVE, celebrates the expansive, bold and daring career of Spanish Auteur, Pedro Almodóvar. Catch his muse, Penélope Cruz in the visually stunning, Volver, Broken Embraces and Academy Award Winner, All About My Mother. See Antonio Banderas in the dark romantic comedy, Tie me up! Tie Me Down!, Pain and Glory and Thriller, The Skin I live in, plus more classic Almodóvar titles to satisfy your soul.
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Aleksei German: History Though a Keyhole is screening at GOMA’s Australian Cinémathèque!
With the exception of his final work, the Boschian sci-fi Hard to Be a God 2013, German’s films are all set within the post-Revolution pre-Khrushchev Russia of 1918-1953. This tumultuous milieu underpins his portraits of morally complex characters often teetering on the edge of calamity. Through these stories, German builds allegorical explorations of both his own past and the past of his compatriots.
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German crafted a unique cinematic language that extends ...
The Moro Spanish Film Festival Returns this April!
Screening nationally from 20 April, the following films are our first sneak peek into the programme which will screen nationally at Palace Cinemas.
From Spain, the selection includes:
Internationally acclaimed director Alejandro Amenábar’s (The Others, The Sea Inside) exposé of the 1936 Spanish coup WHILE AT WAR (Mientras dure la Guerra). Filmed across Spain and Argentina, it reveals the personal side of politics through the eyes of writer Miguel de Unamuno.
Trapped inside a ...
Scale New Heights at the 32nd Alliance Française French Film Festival!
Awash with high-octane drama, seductive romance, nail-biting suspense, historical tales that will enthral and comedies guaranteed to elevate your spirits, the 2021 Alliance Française French Film Festival will showcase multiple Première screenings and special events to be revealed today when the Festival’s website goes live at: http://www.affrenchfilmfestival.org
Presented by the Alliance Française in association with the Embassy of France in Australia and the wonderful support of their ...
Fantastic Mr Wes: A Wes Anderson Retrospective is coming to Dendy Coorparoo!
The retrospective, titled FANTASTIC MR. WES, is a delightful trip through all nine of Wes Anderson’s colourful films: Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissor, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and Isle of Dogs.
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Fantastic Mr Wes: A Wes Anderson Retrospective
4-24 February 2021
Dendy Coorparoo, Brisbane
www.dendy.com.au
Japanese Film Festival Classics 2020 is currently screening at GOMA!
'Provocation and Disruption' is all about the poetic, the abstract, the visceral and the abrasive in visionary Japanese cinema. The selection broadly encapsulates films that were fiercely uncompromising and transcended convention, each leaving its unique mark on Japan’s film industry. In their own distinct way, these prolific cinematic works eschew traditional narrative structures and genre tropes to embrace distortion and symbolism. From dynamic and provocative colour, editing and camera ...
British Film Festival announces Australian premiere of Supernova
A heart-rending modern love story about a couple struggling with a diagnosis of early-onset dementia, Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci deliver beautifully tender performances in Supernova. Together, they plan a road trip through England, to reconnect with friends and family and visit the places of their past. As their journey progresses, their individual ideas for their future begin to collide. Secrets are uncovered, private plans unravel and their love for each other is tested like never ...
The 2020 British Film Festival returns to Australian screens this November!
The British Film Festival celebrates the finest filmmakers and acting talent British cinema has to offer and the 2020 programme features some of the most anticipated films of the year – from powerful true stories and literary adaptations to biographies and documentaries.
Highlights include:
AMMONITE from writer/director Francis Lee. Having just debuted in the UK to rave reviews, the film, set in 1840s England stars Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan as a palaeontology pioneer and a ...
