I think we’d all like to escape the real world right now. Thankfully, there are heaps of films playing in cinemas across Aotearoa this week that will keep your eyes off your news feeds.
The Big Releases
Nocturnal Animals | Find movie times near you
Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams star in this romantic thriller from writer-director Tom Ford, based on the novel Tony and Susan by Austin Wright.
Arrival | Find movie times near you
Sicario director Denis Villeneuve casts Amy Adams as an expert linguist enlisted by the US government to investigate and communicate with an alien spacecraft, one of a dozen that have landed on Earth.
The Small Releases
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks | Playing this weekend nationwide
Animated re-release of the full six-part story, whose master negatives were lost several years after its 1966 BBC premiere.
Little Men | Playing in limited release nationwide
Filmmaker Ira Sachs follows up critical darling Love is Strange with another New York-set tale following the new friendship of two boys who can’t avoid their parents’ problems.
Death Note: Light Up the New World | Playing in limited release nationwide
Japanese fantasy thriller based on the acclaimed manga series and set ten years after the events of Death Note 2: The Last Name.
Wednesday, May 9 | Playing in Auckland, Dunedin & Northland
Iranian drama about a man who publicly advertises a big donation to one person in need, attracting an unwieldy massive crowd.
Jewish Film Festival (10 – 20 Nov.)
Auckland’s Academy Cinemas is home of the Jewish Film Festival which includes Denial, starring Timothy Spall as a Holocaust denier suing a writer played by Rachel Weisz, and NZIFF hit Sand Storm. For the full programme, check here.
Classics
An Angel at my Table | 6.00pm, Friday 11th Nov. @ Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision (WGTN)
The difficult life and times of celebrated author Janet Frame provided the source material for An Angel at my Table, the film that put Jane Campion on the map as one of our most talented filmmakers.
In My Father’s Den | 7.00pm, 10th & 12th Nov. @ Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision (WGTN)
Classic Kiwi mystery-thriller starring Matthew Macfadyen (Pride and Prejudice) as a returning war journalist searching for a missing teenage girl (Emily Barclay) he befriended.
Dirty Harry | 8.00pm, 11th Nov. @ Event Newmarket (AK)
Clint Eastwood is Dirty Harry, a Magnum-wielding take-no-prisoners San Francisco cop, in this 1971 crime classic.
My Fair Lady | 2.35pm, 13th Nov. @ Victoria Theatre & Cinema Devonport (AK)
The classic, multi Oscar-winning, Broadway adaptation starring Audrey Hepburn.
