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W E D N E S D A Y 1 1 D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 4
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The Wellington Film Society has now completed its screening programme for the year. The committee are having a well-diserved rest and are also planning the screening schedule for 2025. The opening screening is expected to be on 24 February, with the first of the "two screening of each film" model - at 6.00pm and 8.30pm. The new schedule is expected to be released late in January. In the meantime tell your friends about the new screening model and encourage them to join. Memberships make good Christmas presents.
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Film Society Memberships available at any time on line.
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
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THE PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE -
A film about Ireland, written by an American. There's plenty here that's by the book, from the playful stereotyping of some of the villagers to the founding of the family feud in a dispute over a red-headed woman, but it's well played, and the American proves a little wilier that most of his archetypal predecessors, giving as good as he gets. From the recent British and Irish Film Festival.
Also Lighthouse, Monterey and Shoreline.
GUT INSTINCT -
A truly unique psychedelic theatrical experience that makes you the main character as you watch a post-apocalyptic PSA set in a world where alien gut microbes have devastated the human population. During the presentation, you are instructed to eat periodically as a narrator guides you through this new world. A good gimmick, and this nails the gimmick, making something that feels completely different from anything you've watched before.
CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER'S POINT -
Tyler Taormina's delightful stocking-stuffer is as alive to the domesticated magic of the season as a classic carol. Taormina's fondly multivalent, Millennial-Norman-Rockwell perspective incorporates a child's experience of the holiday, overlaid with a teen's and a parent's and a grandparent's and so on. It feels as though all his Christmases have come at once. There is no War on Christmas here, just a wholehearted surrender to its folksy, kitschy pleasures.
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