The 2006 season of the Canterbury Film Society kicks off very soon with a sci-fi double feature at 6:30pm on Monday 6 March at Rialto Cinemas on Moorhouse Ave. The Society screens a wide range of festival-calibre films - old classics, foreign films, documentaries, director retrospectives, New Zealand films, and much more - most Monday nights, 6:30pm, from March through October at Rialto.
Image: Filmmaker Joan Harvey's documentary From Hitler to M-X looks at American corporate links to the Hitler regime - screens March 13th.The 2006 season of the Canterbury Film Society kicks off very soon with a sci-fi double feature at 6:30pm on Monday 6 March at Rialto Cinemas on Moorhouse Ave. The Society screens a wide range of festival-calibre films - old classics, foreign films, documentaries, director retrospectives, New Zealand films, and much more - most Monday nights, 6:30pm, from March through October at Rialto.
Image: Filmmaker Joan Harvey's documentary From Hitler to M-X looks at American corporate links to the Hitler regime - screens March 13th.The 2006 programme comprises several exciting film packages that are touring the country for a very limited time. We have three films by influential French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard; two films by Luis Buñuel; a series of films about New York City, including Woody Allen's Manhattan; two classic French thrillers; two 1960s documentaries by the unsung Maysles Brothers; three films about German domestic terrorism; a study of legendary footballer George Best; and numerous New Zealand films including recent short films, rare features, and early films by Vincent Ward and Peter Jackson. In addition to these travelling collections, we have many titles from our permanent collection: some old Hollywood films including a Mel Brooks screwball comedy, a Busby Berkeley musical, and an early Scorcese film, and many hard-to-find documentaries including a film about actress Jean Seberg (from Godard's Breathless) and The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On - a Japanese documentary following an auto mechanic who slingshot pachinko balls at the emperor to protest an unjust war.
Screenings are open to members only, but you can become a temporary member for just $25 and see any three films in the 2006 programme. Or you can become a 12-month member and see more than 30 films for $100 waged / $90 unwaged - that's only $3 per film! For a full programme description and information on how to join, visit www.canterburyfilmsociety.org.nz or pick up a brochure from Alice in Videoland or the City Library.