The Movie Group meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month.
VENUE: Dendy Quays Cinema (between Circular Quay and the Opera House)
COST: Please buy your ticket when you arrive at the theatre
RSVP: Iolanda Capodanno and Grace Mroz (contactable on [email protected]) are the Movie Group Convenors but there is no need to RSVP – just come along. Meet before the film in the foyer of the cinema
APRES FILM (Optional): After the movie screening, we meet at Buckley’s Pub/Cafe, East Circular Quay, 7 Macquarie Street – a four-minute walk from Dendy Cinema Opera Quays. See the website at https://www.buckleyssydney.com.au
From the Baltic Sea city of Gdynia and looking very pleased after her fellow Polish countrywoman Olga Tokarczuk’s belated Nobel Prize in Literature 2018, our very own “AMAZING GRACE” at this year’s Polish Fiction Film Festival.
- 10.00am: The King MA15+ / Mature Audiences (2hrs 20mins) FINISH approx 12.50pm
- 10.15am: Judy M Mature Audiences CC (1hrs 58min)FINISH approx 12.30pm
- 10.15am: Strange But True M /Noir-Thriller/Mature themes, violence and coarse language (1hr 36mins) FINISH approx 12noon
10.00am: 1. THE KING-MA15+/Mature Audiences (2hrs 20m)
Set in 15th-Century England.
Prince Hal, after his tyrannical father dies, is crowned King Henry V. Reluctantly inheriting the throne, the young king must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life. He is guided by his one true friend, Falstaff (Joel Edgerton)
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Robert Pattinson
Director: David Michôd
Release date: 11 October 2019
10.15am: 2. JUDY-M Mature (1hr 58m)
Winter 1968 and showbiz legend Judy Garland(Renée Zellweger) arrives in Swinging London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, but if her voice has weakened, its dramatic intensity has only grown. As she prepares for the show, battles with management, charms musicians and reminisces with friends and adoring fans, her wit and warmth shine through. Even her dreams of love seem undimmed as she embarks on a whirlwind romance with Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be fifth husband. Featuring some of her best-known songs, the film celebrates the voice, the capacity for love, and the sheer pizzazz of “the world’s greatest entertainer.”
Directed by Rupert Goold, it is an adaptation of the Olivier and Tony-nominated West End and Broadway play End of the Rainbow by Peter Quilter. The film stars as Garland.
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Rufus Sewell, Jessie Buckley, Finn Wittrock, Michael Gambon
Director: Rupert Goold
Release date: 17 October 2019
10.15am: 3. STRANGE BUT TRUE M /Noir-Thriller/Mature themes, violence and course language (1hr 36mins)
Laid up with a broken leg after an accident, Philip Chase (Love, Simon’s Nick Robinson) is now living back at home with his mother Charlene (Amy Ryan) in upstate New York. It’s been five years since the death of Philip’s brother Ronnie, a devastating blow that has torn the Chase family apart.
However, everything changes and barely healed wounds are re-opened when they receive an unexpected visit from Ronnie’s former girlfriend, Melissa (Margaret Qualley). Melissa is heavily pregnant and the father, she insists, is Ronnie. Could it be that Melissa is giving birth to Ronnie’s child? Stranger things have happened. Their desperate search for answers takes them on a poignant and emotional journey where the truth is altogether more alarming…
Also starring Greg Kinnear, Brian Cox and Blythe Danner and based on the Best-selling novel of the same name, STRANGE BUT TRUE will keep you guessing until the very end.
Cast: Amy Ryan, Margaret Qualley, Nick Robinson, Blythe Danner
Director: Rowan Athale
Release date: 17 October 2019
