SCREENINGS
THE DEEP BLUE SEA Drama, 98mins. Protagonist Pictures. Dir: Terence Davies. Key cast: Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale. Hester Collyer leads a privileged life in 1950s London as the beautiful wife of High Court judge Sir William Collyer. To the shock of those around her, she walks out on her marriage to move in with young ex-RAF pilot Freddie Page, with whom she has fallen passionately in love. Laemmle Monica 1
DEMONS NEVER DIE Suspense, horror, 93mins. TF1 International. Dir: Arjun Rose. Key cast: Ashley Walters, Robert Sheehan, Tulisa Contostavlos. When London teenager Amber Johnson takes her own life, Archie Eden and seven other depressed London teenagers decide to follow her lead and create a suicide pact. Criterion 5
DESPERATE ENDEAVORS Drama, biography, comedy, 103mins. LBYL Films. Dir: Salim Khassa. Key cast: Michael Madsen, Gulshan Grover. A 1970s New York City setting finds Indian-born immigrant Ram Patel trying to establish himself in the turbulent city life where he encounters various hurdles that prevent him from obtaining his goals of becoming successful and wealthy. AMC Santa Monica 2
DIRTY GIRL Comedy, Road Movie, 89mins. The Salt Company. Dir: Abe Sylvia. Key cast: Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich, William H Macy. Laemmle Monica 4
ECSTASY Thriller, 100mins. Intandem Films. Dir: Rob Heydon. Key cast: Kristin Kreuk, Billy Boyd, Adam Sinclair. When Heather breaks up with her husband, Hugh, frustrated with her boring
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HOTEL LUX Comedy, drama, Historical, 110mins. Bavaria Film International. Dir: Leander Haussmann. Key cast: Michael Bully Herbig, Juergen Vogel, Thekla Reuten. Nazi Berlin, 1938: the comedian, womaniser and cabaret actor Hans Zeisig always cracks up his audiences with
middle class and loveless marriage, she seeks a change in her life. She finds just that in Lloyd Buist, a drug addict who smuggles Ecstasy from Amsterdam in various creative ways. Broadway Cineplex 2
GIRL WALKS INTO A BAR Comedy, 80mins. Locomotive Distribution. Dir: Sebastian Gutierrez. Key cast: Carla Gugino, Rosario Dawson, Danny DeVito. A sharp-witted comedy that connects a group of apparent strangers over one night across 10 bars throughout Los Angeles. A dentist teams up with a feisty would-be assassin to put the final touches on the plan to kill his wife, but he unknowingly sets off a chain of events that fuels a crosstown journey through the many lounges, bars, strip clubs and the occasional nudist
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MY TOMORROW Drama, 90mins. SND M6 Group. Dir: Marina Spada. Key cast: Claudia Gerini, Claudia Coli. Monica is a fulfilled 40-year-old woman. She has a nice life and a well balanced existence… or so it seems. There is only one small crack — a complicated family pattern she thought she left behind her. She hardly sees her father, an obsessively religious man, or her stepsister. When he dies and the affair with her boss ends, the balance is broken. AMC Santa Monica 1
his Stalin-Hitler show, performed with his close friend and acting partner Siegfried Meyer, a Jew. With the political atmosphere changing, Meyer soon joins the Resistance. A few years later, the politically uninterested Zeisig — after giving shelter to Meyer’s beautiful Communist comrade Frida one night — has to flee. AMC Santa Monica 4
ping pong clubs scattered across Los Angeles. Fairmont 5
GOD BLESS AMERICA Black comedy, drama, 99mins. Magnolia Pictures. Dir: Bobcat Goldthwait. Key cast: Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr. This social commentary on post 9/11 America is a subversive and violent film about a depressed man who starts killing society’s meanest and cruelest people. Broadway Cineplex 1
GRAYSTONE Horror, Supernatural Thriller, 83mins. 6 Sales. Dir: Sean Stone. Key cast: Sean Stone, Alexander Wraith, Antonella Lentini. Three film-making friends venture into an abandoned asylum to test their own fundamental beliefs about the
supernatural. Once locked and lost inside, they quickly discover that they are not alone and now they are forced to confront their darkest fears. Based on actual events. Criterion 6
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IN DARKNESS Historical, drama, 144mins. Beta Cinema. Dir: Agnieszka Holland. Key cast: Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Furmann, Agnieszka Grochowska. Lvov, Poland, 1943. Hiding Jews from the Nazis in the city sewers, a petty thief must decide between saving himself or the Jews. Laemmle Monica 3
KEYHOLE Drama, 90mins, Entertainment One. Dir: Guy Maddin. Key cast: Jason Patric, Isabella Rossellini, Udo Kier. A gangster and deadbeat father, Ulysses Pick, returns home after a long absence. He is toting two teenagers: a drowned girl, Denny, who has mysteriously returned to life and a bound-and- gagged hostage, who is actually his own teenage son, Manners. Confused Ulysses doesn’t recognise his own son, but he feels with increasing conviction he must make an indoor odyssey from the back door of his home all the way up, one room at a
time, to the marriage bedroom where his wife Hyacinth awaits. Laemmle Monica 2
THE LAST RITES OF JOE MAY Drama, 90mins. Maya Entertainment Group. Dir: Joe Maggio. Key cast: Dennis Farina, Jamie Allman. Chronicles the last days in the life of Joe May, an aging, short money hustler who, despite a life of loss and failure, has always believed that a glorious destiny awaited him. Now in his sixties, his health failing and resources dwindling, Joe is presented with one last shot at greatness. Fairmont 4
MICHAEL Thriller, 98mins. Fortissimo Films. Dir: Ribhu Dasgupta. Key cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Mahie Gill, Purav Bhandare. Set in Kolkata, Michael, a loyal, hard working police office, is ordered by his superiors to open fire on a peaceful crowd of protesters. He shoots away from the crowd, but a bullet accidentally ricochets and kills a 12-year-old boy. Michael’s career and whole life start to fall apart, especially when he is fired from the force and begins to receive threatening phone calls suggesting retribution on his own young son. Criterion 3
PENNHURST Supernatural Thriller, horror, 90mins. Stonebrook International. Dir: Michael Rooker. Key cast: Michael Rooker, Beverley Mitchell, Haylie Duff. For decades, Pennhurst psychiatric hospital has been haunted by turbulent supernatural forces. When a local TV show embarks on a mission to capture this paranormal activity, they discover something completely unexpected. As restless souls from the past torment the crew members, they fear for their lives as one by one they are gruesomely murdered. In a surprising revelation, they discover something more terrifying than ghosts is responsible. Fairmont 2
ROOM 205 Mystery, 90mins. SevenOne International. Dir: Rainer Matsutani. Key cast: Jennifer Ulrich, Florian Jahr. For 19-year-old Katrin, entering college means the chance to finally escape her overly protective father and the home that had spawned such terrible memories. She enthusiastically moves into a run-down boarding house, unconcerned with the vague rumours regarding Annika, her room’s previous tenant, who had vanished without a trace one year ago. Fairmont 3
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