Anniversary Film Series - July 2025
During the month of July, the Len Lye Cinema is sharing some cinematic treasure for your enjoyment, 2025 is a year where many incredible films celebrate some impressive and slightly sobering anniversaries.
We are proud to share 5 of these across the month for you to delight in. Many of these films rarely make it back on to the big screen, so this is an opportunity not to miss.
Films:
Heat - 30th Anniversary
Thu 3 July | 7:00 pm | R16 | Book your seats
Master criminal Neil McCauley is trying to plan one last big heist before retiring. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Hanna attempts to track down McCauley as he deals with the chaos in his own life, including the infidelity of his wife and the mental health of his stepdaughter. McCauley and Hanna discover a mutual respect, even as they try to thwart each other's plans.
Heat is an engrossing crime drama that draws compelling performances from its stars -- and confirms Michael Mann's mastery of the genre.
1995 | US | Drama | 170 min | Dir. Michael Mann
To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of this seminal coming of age drama, we bring your favourite delinquent teens back to the big screen for a special one-off screening. Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
1985 | US | Drama | 96 min | Dir. John Hughes
Brazil - 40th Anniversary
Sat 19 Jul | 3:00 pm | M | Book your seats
In the dystopian masterpiece Brazil, Jonathan Pryce plays a daydreaming everyman who finds himself caught in the soul-crushing gears of a nightmarish bureaucracy. This cautionary tale by Terry Gilliam, one of the great films of the 1980s, has come to be esteemed alongside antitotalitarian works by the likes of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and Kurt Vonnegut. And in terms of set design, cinematography, music, and effects, Brazil is a nonstop dazzler.
1985 | UK/US | Dark Comedy/Sci-fi | 132 min | Dir. Terry Gilliam
The Night of the Hunter - 70th Anniversary
Sun 13 July | 3 pm | PG | Book your seats
Incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed—is truly a stand-alone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by Shelley Winters, are uncovered by her terrified young children.
Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this ethereal, expressionistic American classic—also featuring the contributions of actress Lillian Gish and writer James Agee—is cinema’s most eccentric rendering of the battle between good and evil.
1955 | US | Drama/Thriller | 92 min | Dir. Charles Laughton
Psycho - 65th Anniversary
Thu 17 July | 7:00 pm | M | Book your seats
One of the greatest films of all time, Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother.
1960 | US | Drama/Thriller | 109 min | Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Jaws - 50th Anniversary
Thu 24 July | 7:30 pm | M | Book your seats
Rarely seen on the big screen, the film that made millions never move beyond their waists, do not miss the chance to catch this film where is belongs, frightening and on a large scale....never on TV.
When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.
1975 | US | Drama | 124 min | Dir. Steven Spielberg
