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January School Holiday Art

Week 2. Session 1: 10.45-11.30 Session 2: 11.45-12.30

A selection of art-making adventures to surprise and inspire this summer holidays.

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Notorious

Sun 16 Jan 2022. 3—4:45PM

Sublime direction from Hitchcock, and terrific central performances from Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant make this a bona-fide classic worthy of a re-visit.

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Moana Reo Māori

Sat 15 Jan 2022. 3—4:47PM

Disney Animation's 56th animated feature film, from the directors of Aladdin and The Little Mermaid.
A Kiwi high school pupil has been cast as the voice behind the te reo Maori version of Disney's 'Moana'.

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January School Holiday Art

Week 1. Session 1: 10.45-11.30 Session 2: 11.45-12.30

A selection of art-making adventures to surprise and inspire this summer holidays.

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Superworm - NZ Premiere Screenings

10 - 28 Jan 2022. 10:30 am

Every school holidays we play free films for children courtesy of Mini-Square Eyes Film Foundation.

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Titane

Sat 8 Jan 2022. 3—4:50PM

Thrillingly provocative and original, Titane reaffirms writer-director Julia Ducournau's delightfully disturbing vision.

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Rose Plays Julie

Sat 8 Jan 2022. 10:30AM—12:15PM

In this intimate exploration of identity, trauma and power, a young woman seeks out her birth mother, inadvertently triggering a string of events which change both their lives.

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Best Sellers

Mon 3 Jan 2022. 10:30AM—12:15PM

A cranky, retired author reluctantly embarks on a final book tour to help out a young publisher.

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Délicieux | Delicious

Sun 26 Dec 2021. 3—4:55PM

France, 1789, just before the Revolution. With the help of a surprising young woman, a chef who has been sacked by his master finds the strength to free himself from his position as a servant and opens the first restaurant.

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Love Actually

Fri 24 Dec 2021. 3—5:20PM

Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.

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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Thu 23 Dec 2021. 7—9PM

This is Murray and Anderson at their most irreproachable and beguiling. In short, it's a bit of a minor masterpiece.
- Roddy Woombie - The List

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It's a Wonderful Life

Thu 23 Dec 2021. 3—5:20PM

The holiday classic to define all holiday classics, It's a Wonderful Life is one of a handful of films worth an annual viewing and especially on the big screen.

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Petite Maman

Thu 23 Dec 2021. 10:30—11:45AM

Nelly has just lost her grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother's childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods. One day she meets a girl her same age building a treehouse.

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Moonrise Kingdom

Sun 19 Dec 2021. 3—4:35PM

Warm, whimsical, and poignant, the immaculately framed and beautifully acted Moonrise Kingdom presents writer/director Wes Anderson at his idiosyncratic best.

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Fantastic Mr Fox

Sat 18 Dec 2021. 3—4:30PM

An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.

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The Grand Budapest Hotel

Thu 16 Dec 2021. 7—8:45PM

Typically stylish but deceptively thoughtful, The Grand Budapest Hotel finds Wes Anderson once again using ornate visual environments to explore deeply emotional ideas

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Juniper

Wed 15 Dec 2021. 10:30AM—12:10PM

When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his life around.

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Govett-Brewster Seniors

Fri 10 Dec 2021. 10—11AM

For December we're giving you a tour of two important new exhibitions in two different cities.
Join us for free-flowing conversations and experiences of contemporary art inside the current exhibitions.

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Pig

Wed 8 Dec 2021. 10:30AM—12:05PM

A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.

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Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America

Sun 5 Dec 2021. 1:30—3:30PM

Equipped with keen intelligence and a big heart, lawyer Jeffery Robinson educates and challenges in equal measure, giving voice to the silenced and seeking acceptance of racist realities in pursuit of lasting change.

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Patu!

Sat 4 Dec 2021. 1:30—3:25PM

Patu! is the definitive film of the 1981 Springbok tour protests, a technically complex piece of guerrilla filmmaking that explicitly connects apartheid abroad and racism at home. Newly preserved by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.

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The Danish Collector: Delacroix to Gauguin

Fri 3 Dec 2021. 10:30AM—12:05PM

Documentary on the breed of collectors that emerged and breathed immense interest in the (then) ignored art of the Impressionists.

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Happening

Tue 30 Nov 2021. 6:30—8:15PM

Winner of the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival, Happening is a powerful and timely abortion drama, executed precisely by director Audrey Diwan.

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Megan Dunn: Things I Learned at Art School

Tue 30 Nov 2021. 6—7:30PM

Join New Zealand author Megan Dunn as she shares her latest bookThings I Learned at Art School.

This hybrid memoir/essay collection tells the story of her early life and coming-of-age in New Zealand in the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s - from her Smurf collection to a chainsaw wielding performance artist, ALF to what it’s like to be an emerging-then a submerging-video artist.

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Kōrero of the Land

Tue 30 Nov 2021. 8:45—10:30AM

Ko Taranaki te maunga
Ko Huatoki te awa
Ko Paiare, ko Paitawa ngā toka tapu
Ko Tokomaru te waka
Ko Te Atiawa te iwi
Ko Ngāti Te Whiti te hapū
Ko Parahuka te marae
Ko Puke Ariki te pā tūwatawata
Ko Te Rangiapitirua te rangatira
Tihei mauri ora

Tying in with Swallowing Geography, join educator Damon Ritai (Ngāti Te Whiti) to share narratives of Puke Ariki and the Ngāti Te Whiti stories that are linked to this land.

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A Hero

Mon 29 Nov 2021. 6:30—8:40PM

Set against the vibrant backdrop of urban Shiraz, an affable but desperate prisoner is almost undone by a ‘selfless’ gesture that goes viral.

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Nitram

Sun 28 Nov 2021. 6:30—8:30PM

The first Australian film featured in Cannes’ Official Selection in a decade, Justin Kurzel’s disturbing dive into the tormented mind and soul of a mass-shooter is bolstered by four remarkable lead performances.

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I'm Your Man

Sun 28 Nov 2021. 4—5:45PM

An archaeologist reluctantly agrees to test-run a humanoid love robot programmed to fulfil her desires in this poignant comedy starring Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens.

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Summer of 85

Sat 27 Nov 2021. 6:30—8:15PM

This queer coming-of-age romance combines all the sensuality of François Ozon’s best with the infectious energy of a CW drama and how meeting one person can open you up and change the trajectory of your life.

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River

Sat 27 Nov 2021. 4—5:20PM

Let this exultant ode to the life-sustaining waterways that criss-cross our planet wash over you, captured in jaw-dropping imagery by Mountain director Jennifer Peedom.

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Signed, Theo Schoon

Thu 25 Nov 2021. 6:30—8:15PM

Tracing the story of one of our more complex characters, this layered portrait re-examines the exploits of influential outsider, Dutch immigrant artist Theo Schoon, told in his own words and through first-hand accounts.

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Hitler versus Picasso and the Others

Thu 25 Nov 2021. 10:30AM—12:05PM

An extraordinary report on how Hitler looted 'the great beauty' of Europe: the art that was the expression of its culture.

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Dear Comrades!

Wed 24 Nov 2021. 6:30—8:35PM

Andrey Konchalovsky’s tense political drama, a Venice prize-winner beautifully shot and rich with historical detail, tells the story of an infamous 1962 Soviet massacre and its attempted cover-up.

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Firestarter - The Story of Bangarra

Mon 22 Nov 2021. 6:30—8:15PM

The unique power of Australia’s Bangarra Dance Theatre, an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performing arts organisation, fuels this artful documentary by Wayne Blair and Nel Minchin.

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Memoria

Sun 21 Nov 2021. 6:30—8:50PM

Follow Tilda Swinton on a strange supernatural journey into the Colombian jungle, in this hypnotic new film from the director of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives and Cemetery of Splendour.

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One Second

Sun 21 Nov 2021. 4—5:50PM

One of China’s premier filmmakers delivers his love letter to cinema, set during the Cultural Revolution of his youth. Warm, funny and (despite rumoured political censorship) surprisingly sharp-edged.

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Written on the Wind

Sun 21 Nov 2021. 1:15—3PM

Our Bill Gosden tribute wouldn’t be complete without a wall-to-wall Technicolor classic. Bill’s love of early cinema, vibrant studio-era musicals, and frankly anything starring Elvis could be felt throughout his retrospective programming, not least in the carefully curated Live Cinema events he looked forward to most. Douglas Sirk, Hollywood’s unrivalled melodramatist, influenced some of Bill’s absolute favourites — Fassbinder and Almodóvar, most famously — and this presentation of one of the director’s late masterpieces is a fitting occasion to luxuriate in larger-than-life filmmaking on the biggest screen available, as only Bill would have it.

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There Is No I in Threesome

Sat 20 Nov 2021. 6:30—8PM

In love, newly engaged and maintaining a long-distance relationship, director Jan Oliver Lucks and his fiancée decide to throw traditional rules out the window by opening up their relationship before they tie the knot.

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President

Sat 20 Nov 2021. 4—6PM

Moving with the breathless intensity of a political thriller, this disturbing document of potential voter fraud in the 2018 Zimbabwe election is elevated by astonishing access to key players behind-the-scenes.

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Mass

Sat 20 Nov 2021. 1:15—3:10PM

Fran Kranz’s highly accomplished debut feature takes an unflinching look at the endemic horror of school shootings in America and their lingering scars, through the eyes of the parents of the perpetrator and his victim.