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  • The Wellington Film Society opening screening - Embassy 24 February - at 6.00pm and 8.30pm: ALL THAT JAZZ Bob Fosse, USA, 1979.
    Inspired by Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (1963), this is Bob Fosse's arresting rumination on the limitations of his own character and talent, seen through the prism of an onscreen doppelganger. It depicts a tumultuous chapter in the life of film director/choreographer/theater director Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider), who juggles the challenges of transforming a hokey stage musical into something fresh with long hours spent obsessively refining his latest movie, a biopic about a comedian that echoes Fosse's Lenny (1974). Scheider gives the most nuanced and surprising performance of his career, beautifully depicting every contradictory aspect of the main character; the decidedly non-musical performer even dives headfirst into a full-on musical number, and looks graceful guiding dancers through their moves (with a cigarette dangling from his lips, Fosse-style). - Peter Hanson, Every 70s Movie.
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  • Film Festivals to note:
  • If you have a festival due to run in Wellington and it's not listed here, contact the Cinemaster.


    This site relies on the various cinemas having their own websites up to date to access their screening times. The paragraphs describing the films starting this week are in most cases adapted from the linked reviews.

    For comments and movie news, contact the Cinemaster at filmster@gmail.com.




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    BRIDGE JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY - For all its familiar, delightful notes, it's also wincingly astute regarding modern-day dynamics, good and bad, for women of Bridget's age. Renee Zellweger is still luminously endearing in midlife, but because the world really has changed: women can date men a decade or more younger without inciting mass hysteria. Also Penthouse, Empire, Roxy, Lighthouse, Queensgate, Monterey, Coastlands and Shoreline.

    CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD - After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, played by Harrison Ford in his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut, Sam Wilson finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red. Also Roxy, Lighthouse, Queengate, Monterey, Reading and Coastlands.

    PRESENCE - It's an invigorating feeling to know early on in a movie that you're in confident hands, and Steven Soderbergh conveys that assurance instantaneously in the opening moments. It's clear from the start that the wood-lined house will be a major character, but even more significant is the point of view behind the subjective camera, which gives the film its title.

    MOZART'S SISTER - Born five years earlier than her little brother Wolfgang, Maria-Anna Mozart had an extraordinary ear for music from an early age. When Wolfgang arrived, it was clear they were a pair of prodigies. Together, they toured British palaces and French courts, wowing royalty with their skills as pianists and composers. Writer, Director and Producer Madeleine Hetherton-Miau injects her film with a curiosity that's infectious. All Lighthouse.

    HEART EYES - A masked psychopath who only strikes on Valentine's Day mistakes a cynical ad exec and her hopelessly romantic colleague as a killable couple in this highly entertaining genre mashup. Director Josh Ruben, along with screenwriters Phillip Murphy, Christopher Landon and Michael Kennedy, craftily concocts a sweetly sinister blending of romantic comedy tropes with slasher movie fodder. Also Monterey and Reading.


    u p c o m i n g   f i l m s
    BIRD Feb 20 Penthouse
    I'M STILL HERE Feb 20 Lighthouse
    TINA Feb 27 Reading
    THE LAST JOURNEY Feb 27 Penthouse
    MICKEY 17 Mar 06 Reading
    HARD TRUTHS Mar 06 Lighthouse
    SNOW WHITE Mar 20 Reading
    THE LAST SHOWGIRL Mar 20 Penthouse
    A MINECRAFT MOVIE Apr 03 Reading









     

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