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January 28, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Film Society: 2019 Schedule

Staying at Wellington’s wonderful Embassy Theatre –   for 2019 –  The Wellington Film Society has just recently released its full schedule for the new year. Click on that link to check out the film season which opens Monday March 4, with David Lynch’s Mullholland Drive and closes on Monday, November 25 with Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard. Screenings take place on […]
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December 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Film Society: Preview – Cover Girl (December 3)

Well, we made it – this week is the final screening for 2018 of The Wellington Film Society. What a year. A huge range of amazing films, all shown on one of the biggest screens in one of the greatest movie venues in this part of the world. It has been a year of transition […]
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November 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Film Society: Preview – The Selfish Giant (November 12)

The Wellington Film Society is heading into its final few weeks for 2018. Last week it was Fireworks Wednesday, this week we’re in the world of Oscar Wilde, or at the least inspired by his words with this take on The Selfish Giant. Actually, this Iranian film from 2006 is – literally – about fireworks; […]
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November 3, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Film Society: Preview – Fireworks Wednesday [Chaharshanbe-soori] (November 5)

The Wellington Film Society is back and last week it was all about Halloween with Daughters of Darkness, so this week, as it’s “Fireworks Monday” we have the film Fireworks Wednesday (hey, close enough…) Actually, this Iranian film from 2006 is – literally – about fireworks; though it’s a new year celebration rather than any […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2006, 6.15pm, Asghar Farhadi, Chaharshanbe-soori, Cinema, Embassy, Film, Fireworks, Fireworks Wednesday, Fireworks Wednesday [Chaharshanbe-soori], Guy Fawkes, Iran, Monday, Movie, Nov 5), November 5, Preview – Fireworks Wednesday, Theatre, Wellington Film Society, Wellington Film Society: Preview, Wellington Film Society: Preview – Fireworks Wednesday (November 5), Wellington Film Society: Preview – Fireworks Wednesday [Chaharshanbe-soori] (November 5), Wgtn, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 13, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Film Society: Preview – Neon Bull [Boi Neon] (October 15)

The Wellington Film Society rolls on – there’ll be a break next week for Labour Weekend. Last week we were treated to China’s Van Goghs. This week it’s Neon Bull. Gabriel Mascaro’s Neon Bull takes us to Brazil and the world of the vaquejada – two cowboys (“vaqueiros”) on horseback pursue a bull, seeking to pin it between two […]
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October 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Film Society: Preview – China’s Van Goghs (October 8)

The Wellington Film Society rolls on. Last week it was Mustang. This week it’s back to documentary, with China’s Van Goghs. One of the most affecting moments in China’s Van Goghs unfolds in a small art gallery, where the documentary’s protagonists and their friends eagerly gather to watch the 1956 Vincent van Gogh biopic Lust for Life. Their […]
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September 30, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Film Society: Preview – Mustang (October 1)

The Wellington Film Society hits into October, meaning the end of the year is on its way…last week it was Lewat Djam Malam – shown internationally as “After The Curfew” – this week it’s Deniz Gamze Ergüven‘s Oscar-nominated first feature, Mustang. “Its emotions are universally recognizable, as is the powerful yearning of its young, female […]
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September 15, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Film Society: Preview – Paris, Texas (September 17)

The Wellington Film Society showed Santi-Vina last week. This week it’s Paris, Texas. I’ve seen a lot of Wim Wenders films. I’ll watch almost anything that is scored by Ry Cooder. I love Harry Dean Stanton, and Dean Stockwell too for that matter. I’ve read plenty of Sam Shepard including his Motel Chronicles which was […]
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September 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Film Society: Preview – Santi-Vina (September 10)

The Wellington Film Society screening of Tangerine last week was a treat. And this week it’s back to Thai film for Santi-Vina in fact the first Thai film shot on 35mm in colour. Long believed lost and the film’s director Thavi Na Bangchang died in 1970, believing the last 35mm print had been irreparably damaged […]
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September 2, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Film Society: Preview – Tangerine (September 3)

I was away for the Wellington Film Society screening of Manila In The Claws of Light last week. But I’m glad to be back in time for this Monday’s showing of Tangerine. I loved this film – it was funny and sad all at once and so profound, the story that helped to sell it […]
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July 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Film Society: Preview – L’Inhumaine [The Inhuman Woman] (July 23)

The Wellington Film Society’s program will take a break for the next couple of weeks to welcome The International Film Festival but there’s one last picture to go. Last week’s it was Fidelio: Alice’s Journey, this week we have the oldest film in the program: L’Inhumaine. Though active into the 1970s Marcel L’Herbier is best […]
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July 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Film Society: Preview – Young Torless (July 9)

The Wellington Film Society’s program will soon take a break for a couple of weeks to welcome The International Film Festival but there’s still a couple of weeks of films and then the program returns in mid-August for another few months. Following on from last week’s showing of Les Cowboys we travel back in time […]
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