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Yvonne Rainer – Everything is a Performance is coming to the Australian Cinémathèque!

This program brings together the seven feature films that Rainer directed between 1972 and 1996. Her films blend archival footage, reconstructions, still photography and innovative audiovisual approaches to explore the personal and the political. They are spirited and vital works, brimming with droll humour and literary sophistication. Screening alongside these films is the impressionistic documentary Rainer Variations 2002, which explores Rainer’s life and work while playfully adopting ...

Star-studded 2024 Russell Hobbs British Film Festival line up has been announced!

Opening this year’s festival is the Australian Premiere of BLITZ, Steve McQueen's visually stunning period drama depicting pivotal moments of World War II in London and starring Saoirse Ronan, Paul Weller and brilliant newcomer Elliot Heffernan. Closing the festival is another exciting exclusive, the premiere of the highly anticipated WE LIVE IN TIME. With beautifully nuanced performances from Oscar nominees Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield, this heart rendering romance delves into the ...

Special Q&A Preview Screening of Left Write Hook is coming to Dendy Coorparoo!

The pen is as mighty as the punching bag when it comes to processing trauma.   //   Winner of the 2024 Melbourne International Film Festival Audience Award, LEFT WRITE HOOK follows eight survivors of abuse through a radical recovery program in this brave and candid look at how the written word and the fight in the ring can both serve as outlets for personal growth and empowerment. The film offers audiences a profound understanding of what it means to be a victim-sur...

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is coming to Dendy Cinemas 💋

Generally credited as being the best-known cinematic "Midnight Movie", for decades now The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been a “Cult Classic” in every sense of the word. Starring the inimitable Tim Curry and Susan Sarandon, the bizarre, over-the-top, and very unapologetic sci- fi/horror musical/gender-bending rock opera is a true, undeniable legend of cinema! But it’s not just the film itself… far from it, even!   //   THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW is all ...

A Very Naughty Christmas is coming to La Boite Theatre this November!

Settle in with a cocktail as the North Pole’s naughtiest performers show you what Santa really gets up to each holiday season. With a live band playing everything from pop music and original songs, to Christmas carols as you’ve never heard them before, you’ll be begging to sit on Santa’s lap!   //   Hilarious, witty, and incredibly sexy, it’s everything your uncle at Christmas dinner wishes he could be. Now in its eighth year running, A Very Naughty Christ...

The Irish Film Festival returns to Dendy Cinemas for its 10th Birthday!

Celebrating all things community and culture at Dendy Cinemas; we’ve sourced innovative, quality films that showcase the culture, traditions, history and character of Ireland and the Irish people. Enjoy some of the finest Irish stories on screen never seen before in Australia that will move you in the way only Irish stories can.   //   Following humble beginnings with our first festival in 2015, the IFF has gone from strength to strength to premiere moving dramas, ...

The Kurosawa Collection is coming to Dendy Cinemas Coorparoo this October!

In honour of the release of the 4K Restoration of Seven Samurai, Dendy Cinemas is hosting THE KUROSAWA COLLECTION, an exclusive series of retrospective screenings, bringing Kurosawa's most acclaimed films back to the big screen, many of them lovingly restored for the first time! The most celebrated Japanese filmmaker of all time with a towering cinematic legacy, Akira Kurosawa had a career that spanned from the Second World War to the early nineties. From his Shakespeare adaptations to ...

BIFF announces full program for 2024!

The Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) 2024 program includes new films from acclaimed and visionary filmmakers including Pedro Almodóvar’s THE ROOM NEXT DOOR starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton; the Palme d’Or Winning film ANORA from Sean Baker starring Mikey Madison; the highly anticipated EMILIA PEREZ from Jacques Audiard starring Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña and Karla Sofía Gascón, NIGHTBITCH starring Amy Adams and Brady Corbet’s historical drama THE BRUTALIST ...

Venice’s Gold and Silver Lion Winners set to shine at BIFF 2024!

A Special Presentation of THE ROOM NEXT DOOR and THE BRUTALIST —winners of the prestigious Gold and Silver Lion awards—will be featured as part of the festival lineup. A profound story of emotional estrangement, starring Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore and John Turturro, THE ROOM NEXT DOOR examines the devastating fractures within a family. Martha’s already strained relationship with her mother reaches a breaking point when a misunderstanding drives them further apart. With his ...

2024 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival – Gloria! Movie Review

Teresa (Galatéa Bellugi) is a young servant girl at a musical school for orphans. She is mute but seems to love music, she also appears to be suffering from some sort of trauma. When she discovers a brand new pianoforte in a storeroom that was gifted to the school, she sits down and begins to tickle the ivories. Teresa has real musical skills but they come out in a most peculiar way (for the times). When four other students hear her playing in the middle of the night they join forces to ...