19th Lavazza Italian Film Festival to open with the Australian Premiere of Loro!
Presented by Palace, the program, consisting of 37 feature films and 2 short films, celebrates cinema d’italia in all its glory – from the funny and outrageous to lavish romance, poetic drama and revealing documentaries. With 33 Australian Premieres, the Lavazza Italian Film Festival is the place to experience la dolce vita and lose yourself in the best Italian cinema on the big screen.
This year’s SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS include the 2018 winner of Best Original Screenplay at Cannes ...
Griff Rhys Jones is bringing his Where Was I? show to Australia!
Griff will deliver an evening of laughter from forty years of travelling - through family, manhood and the world itself. He has been down rivers and up mountains – literally into Africa, out of India and across oceans in Three Men and A Boat, Mountains, Rivers and other adventures.
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But he has also crossed the arid wastes of the BBC. He's navigated being sixty. He's explored the jungles of indignity. He's turned downhill without a map in to a career. And along ...
Ruel is touring Australia this September and October!
Showcasing breathless talents that have seen him compared to the likes of James Blake, Frank Ocean and Sam Smith, Ruel is a prodigious talent who is moving ever sharper into focus. His affecting, soul-infused singles ‘Younger’, ‘Don’t Tell Me’ and ‘Dazed and Confused’ have been praised globally, prompting Sir Elton to describe him as “the most amazing voice that I've ever heard from a male singer at 14 years of age”.
This rave was followed up by an interview on John’s ...
Bill Murray, Jan Vogler and Friends, New Worlds Tour!
A program that showcases the core of the American values in literature and music. A show that communicates the bridges artists have built between America and Europe. Twain, Hemingway, Whitman, Cooper, Bernstein, Gershwin and Foster are some of the strongest voices that influenced generations of humans in America and gave the world a picture of the charm, energy and creative force of the ‘New Worlds’.
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“Mr. Murray described the idea as ‘the collision of ...
The 2018 Lavazza Italian Film Festival returns this September!
Sitting at the heart of the program are our SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS which include: The 2018 winner of Best Original Screenplay at Cannes Film Festival, HAPPY AS LAZZARO, Alice Rohrwacher’s (The Wonders LIFF14) enchanting third film; and from Matteo Garrone, the director of Gomorrah comes DOGMAN - the Cannes Film Festival award-winning tale of a dog-lover in desolate Southern Italy who is driven to terrifying extremes by a violent local bully.
Strong dramas are aplenty with films from ...
Jeff Dunham: Passively Aggressive touring Australia this September!
Dunham released his latest standup special, Jeff Dunham: Relative Disaster, on Netflix this year. The special features Dunham along with his ill-behaved and slightly demented posse of characters for a gleeful skewering of family and politics. Dunham and his famous cohorts Walter, Achmed the Dead Terrorist, Bubba J, and Peanut also consider what a new member to their already dysfunctional family could mean, putting the ‘relative’ in Relative Disaster.
Dunham, a Guinness World Record ...
Bloc Party will be performing Silent Alarm in their Australia 2018 Tour!
As tickets to the European leg of the tour were snapped up with frenzied excitement, Australia will be given a rare opportunity to experience an album recently described by Complex Magazine as “a long-overdue reminder of how urgent and exciting rock could be” and by the NME as “one of the best albums of all time”.
Back in 2004, Bloc Party were four Londoners emerging into a post-Strokes world buzzing with a newly discovered love of angular guitars. Lead by the compelling, ...
Big adventures on the big screen through a female lens: 2018 Gutsy Girls Adventure Film Tour!
The 2018 tour will transport you to the steep backcountry powder of British Columbia in Canada, to exposed ridgelines in the French alps. Be introduced to inspiring swimmers, committed skiers, ground breaking alpinists, an award winning Australian adventure photographer and a crew of slackliners making a difference in Lebanon.
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These amazing stories of courage, grit, determination and outdoor inspiration are focused on bringing the female adventure experience ...
The Volvo Scandinavian Film Festival returns this month!
Opening the festival is UNDER THE TREE, a very dark comedy from Icelandic writer-director Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson. The shade from a front-yard tree sees the already simmering tensions between two families come to the boil in an astute observation of suburban mores.
Mid-way through the 20-day festival will be special event screenings of AMATEURS, winner of the 2018 Göteborg Film Festival award for Best Nordic Film. The comedy from director Gabriela Pichler hints at the changing face of ...
Flight Facilities All Your Love Australian 2018 Tour!
Selling out their Melbourne & Sydney shows within minutes of going on sale and their Brisbane show in less than a day, the FF crew added second shows in Melbourne & Sydney with Melbourne selling-out shortly after and Sydney close to capacity. A second Brisbane show has just been added and tickets are on sale now. This is one ticket you don’t want to miss getting your hands on!
For those fans who missed out on tickets in Melbourne - never fear, we got you! You can sign-up to a ...
