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The Wellington Film Society Inc, PO Box 1584, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
2008 SCHEDULE
All screenings at the Paramount, 25 Courtenay Place, at 6.15pm Mondays
All Members Only unless otherwise stated.
March 3 LOLA (Jacques Demy, France 1960) 85 mins 35mm PG
Preceded by SURE TO RISE (Niki Caro, New Zealand 1994) 15 mins 35mm
March 10 BAY OF ANGLES (Jacques Demy, France 1962) 89 mins 35mm M
Preceded by The Annual General Meeting of the Wellington Film Society Inc
March 17 THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (Jacques Demy, France 1964) 91 mins
35mm PG
Preceded by HINEKARO (Christine Parker, New Zealand 1994) 15 mins 35mm
March 24 No Screening - Easter Monday
March 31 JACQUOT DE NANTES (Agnes Varda, France 1991) 118 mins 35mm PG
April 7 Koha GHOSTS (Christian Petzold, Germany/France 2005) 85 mins 35mm M
April 14 Koha LONGING (Valeska Grisebach, Germany 2006) 88 mins 35mm M
Preceded by I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY (Michael Hurst, New Zealand 1994) 14 mins
April 21 THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy, France 1966) 120 mins
35mm G
April 28 PEAU D'ANE (Jacques Demy, France 1970) 89 mins 35mm PG
Preceded by THIS FILM IS A DOG (Jonathan Ogilvie, New Zealand 1996) 4 mins 35mm
May 5 Koha POOL OF PRINCESSES (Bettina Blumner, Germany 2007) 90 mins 35mm
Preceded by THE KING BOYS (Christopher Clarke, New Zealand 2006) 15 mins 35mm
May 12 Koha REQUIEM (Hans-Christian Schmid, Germany 2006) 93 mins 35mm M
Preceded by WATER (Chris Graham, New Zealand 2003) 15 mins 35mm
May 19 ZABRISKIE POINT (Michelangelo Antonioni, USA 1970) 112 mins 35mm R16
May 26 THE PASSENGER (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy/Spain 1975) 123 mins 35mm M
June 2 No Screening - Queen’s Birthday
June 9 CAT PEOPLE (Paul Schrader, USA 1982) 118 mins 16mm R18
June 16 THE GLASS SHIELD (Charles Burnett, USA 1994) 108 mins dvd M
June 23 KILLER OF SHEEP (Charles Burnett, USA 1977) 80 mins 35mm M
Preceded by SEVERAL FRIENDS (Charles Burnett, USA 1969) 21 Mins dvd M
June 30 MY BROTHERS WEDDING (Charles Burnett, USA 1983/2007) 83 mins dvd M
Preceded by THE HORSE & WHEN IT RAINS (Charles Burnett, USA 1973 & 1995)
13 & 13 mins dvd M
July 7 TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (Charles Burnett, USA 1990) 102 mins 35mm PG
July 14 SHADOWS OF OUR FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (Sergey Parazhanov, USSR
1964) 97 mins 35mm GA
July 18-August 3 37th WELLINGTON FILM FESTIVAL Embassy, Paramount, etc.
August 11 SAFETY LAST! Sam Taylor/Fred Newmeyer, USA 1923) 70 mins 16mm silent G
Accompaniment by Adrianne Roberts. Piano thanks to Friends of NZ Film Archive.
August 25 SHERMAN'S MARCH (Ross McElwee, USA 1986) 155 mins 16mm M
September 1 PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden 1966) 85 mins dvd M
September 8 SIX CLASSIC NZ SHORTS (Various, New Zealand 1988-1998) 73 mins 35mm
September 15 TIME INDEFINITE (Ross McElwee, USA 1993) 114 mins 35mm Exempt
September 22 A STATE OF SIEGE / IN SPRING ONE PLANTS ALONE (Vincent Ward,
New Zealand 1978/1980) 52 / 45 mins 16mm GY
September 29 DRIVING WITH MY WIFE'S LOVER (Tai-sik Kim, South Korea 2006) 92 mins 35mm
Preceded by HEADLONG Simon Raby, New Zealand 1995) 13 mins 35mm
October 6 FORBIDDEN QUEST (Dae-woo Kim, South Korea 2006) 140 mins 35mm M
October 13 BARKING DOGS NEVER BITE (Joon-ho Bong, South Korea 2000) 106 mins
35mm M
October 20 THE KING AND THE CLOWN (Jun-ik Lee, South Korea 2005) 119 mins 35mm M
October 27 No Screening - Labour Day
November 3 COSI (Mark Joffe, Australia 1995) 100 mins 16mm M
November 10 THE MIRROR (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR 1974) 108 mins 35mm GY
November 17 THE YELLOW TICKET (Raoul Walsh, USA 1931) 78 mins 16mm
Preceded by OLD BASTARDS (Niki Caro, New Zealand 1995) 13 mins 16mm
November 24 M (Frtiz Lang, Germany 1931) 105 mins dvd PG