AUGUST 2003 NOW PLAYING IN AUSTRALIA
AUGUST 2003 NOW PLAYING IN AUSTRALIA
Festivals Previews Re-Releases
7 AUGUST - 13 AUGUST
Festivals
Australian International Movie Convention 12- 16 August 2003. Where: Royal Pines Resort Gold Coast. What: Over 120 trailers, 20 new Australian films previewed, 10 blockbuster films for 2003/4, Seminars and workshops, more.
By Hook Or By Crook FEAST
Short Bytes Film Festival
Chori Chori
Epic
Fellin's Roma Aug 11 only, Astor.
Frenzy
High Tide
La Bataille Du Rail
Les Bonnes Femmes
Latin Boys Go To Hell
Love Is The Devil
Martha's New Coat
Nego Soldiers Cinemamatheque
No Worries
The Rife A Passion
Snow Sand And Savages
Previews
Buffalo Soldiers
Cypher
Down With Love
The Italian Job
Japanese Story
Night We Called It A Day
The Rage In Placid Lake
Take Away
Tears Of The Sun
Titanic 3D: Ghosts Of The Abyss
Visitors
Re-Releases
Australian Rules
Basic Training (Cinemathque)
Bears
Beneath Clouds
Big Shots Funeral
Dalkeith
Dark Blue World
Dinner Rush
The Edge The Movie
Hustler White (R) Mercury, Adelaide.
Monty Python And The Holy Grail GU Marion, Adelaide
Monty Python's Life Of Brian
Muppets From Space
Ned
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Rosetta
Russian Ark
Samsara
Storm Boy
The Squatters Daughter
Strangers On A Train
They're A Weird Mob
Three Colours White
True Romance
14 AUGUST - 20 AUGUST
Festivals
The Corpse Grinders 15 August Mercury Adelaide. When the Lotus Cat Food Company finds itself in financial trouble, the owners decide to find a new, cheap source of meat - the local graveyard. Only one problem - soon cats develop a taste for human flesh, and tabbies are tearing out throats all over town.
Diary Of A Country Priest 18 August, Hobart. From the novel by Georges Bernanos, Robert Bresson's starkly beautiful tale of a young dying priest achieves a cinematic spirituality on a par with Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc". The first truly 'Bressonian' film in which non-actors, natural sound, pared-down images and real locations are used to externalise the solitude and inner anguish of the characters. Exquisitely stylised direction defines one of the finest literary adaptations ever made.
Kitty Foyle
Koi Mil Gaya (M): Selected, Melb/ Bris/ Syd. MG Distribution/ Black Cat Productions. 166 mins. D: Rakesh Poshan. FROM 15 AUG
Madame And Company
Maytime
Meetings With Remarkable Men 18 August, Syd. The story of an Asian mystic who devotes his entire existence, from youth to old age, to finding the meaning of life. He eventually develops a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.
Mother Joan Of The Angels August 18, Mercury Adelaide.
Mrs Miniver 15/16/17 August, Civic Theatre Gunnedah. The Minivers, an English "middle-class" family experience life in the first months of World War II. While dodging bombs.
Pillow Talk 14 August, GU Megaplex Marion Adelaide. 1959 comedy about Brad, a womanising composer, who disguises his voice to woo Jan, the woman with whom he shares a phone line. The plan succeeds at first, but Brad is caught out when Jan recognises his sweet talking from previous overlapping phone calls.
Tere Naan (MA): Selected, Melb. Hoyts Distribution. 2 screens. 139 mins. C: Chinatown Cinema & Taj Cinema. India. FROM 15 AUG
Too Many Ways To Be Number One 17 Aug Melb, ACMI
Previews
Buffalo Soldiers
The Italian Job
Japanese Story
Titanic 3D: Ghosts Of The Abyss 17 August, Darling Harbour IMAX. Academy Award-winning director and master storyteller James Cameron journeys back to the site of his greatest inspiration: the legendary wreck of the Titanic. With a team of the world's foremost historic and marine experts and friend Bill Paxton, he embarks on an unscripted adventure back to the final grave where nearly 1,500 souls lost their lives almost a century ago. Using state-of-the-art technology developed expressly for this expedition, Cameron and his crew are able to explore virtually all of the wreckage, inside and out, as never before.
The Turnadot Project 16/17 August. Valhalla Glebe Syd. Oscar winning director Alan Miller's spectacular film of the staging of Puccini's opera (by Zhang Yimou) outdoors in Beijing's Forbidden City.
Visitors
Re-Releases
American Pie 2
Anita & Me
Australian Rules
Baraka
Barbershop
Beau Travail
Betty Blue Directors Cut
Black And White 14th August, Warrina Cineplex Townsville.
Bloody Sunday
Casablanca Adelaide
The Crow
Don's Party
Lucie Aubrac 14th August, Warrina Cineplex Townsville.
Matilda
Metropolis (2001) Brisbane Schonell St Lucia.
National Security
Ned
Swimming Upstream
Tears Of The Black Tiger Perth
Under The Sand
21 AUGUST - 27 AUGUST
Festivals
BMW Festival Of German Cinema 22- 31 August, Valhalla/ Chauvel.
Hard Goodbyes: My Father Aug 27 Como St Yarra Melb.
The American Friend 31 August Brisbane State Library
Bridge Of The Wind 1 Sep Canberra Electric Shadows
Deluge 30 Aug Bris State Library
Mumbah Se Aaya Mere Dost (M): Selected, Syd. 160 mins. C: World Cinemas Fairfield. 22 AUG
Volcano High Mercury 3/4 Sep.
Previews
Finding Nemo
Japanese Story
The Rage In Placid Lake
Titanic 3D: Ghosts Of The Abyss
Undead
Re-Releases
The 25th Hour (MA) Roadshow. Opens August 21, Mackay City Cinema. Opened elsewhere June 5, 2003.
Atanarjuat MA 24 August State Library Theatre Brisbane
Bloody Sunday 22 August Darwin Deckchair Cinema
Blue Sunday 21 August Darwin Deckchair Cinema
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner 24th August. Screensound Australia, Acton.
LOTR: The Fellowship Of The Rings
Mad Max
Mad Max 2
Not Without My Daughter Aug 27 Moncrieff Theatre Bundaberg
Oliver Twist Aug 27 Kingston Arts Center, Moorabbin Melb.
Philadelphia Story 23/ 24 August Melb Lumiere
Pillow Talk 19/20 Aug Adelaide 1959 GU Megaplex Marion
Princess Monokote 23 Aug Melb Astor
Will It Snow For Christmas? 22/23/24 Aug Nambour Cinema, Sunshine Coast
28 AUGUST - 3 SEPTEMBER
Festivals
Bassmatwatan (M): Selected, Syd. Dist: World Media. 2 screens. 106 mins. Lebanon. Based on the TV show. Based on the TV show Bassmat Watan, the movie tells the story of the Lebanese immigrants to Canada that began in 1976. FROM 28 AUG
Boys (TBA) From 28 August. Taj, Melb. 1 screen.
East Of Eden (TBA) From 28 Aug GU Megaplex Marion, Adelaide. 1 screen.
Gangaajal (MA): Selected, Syd. Dist: Sangam. 1 screen. 157 mins. C: World Cinemas Fairfield. India. Ajay Devgan, Gracy Singh, Mohan Agashe, Ayub Khan, Mukesh Tiwari, Mohan Joshi, Yashpal Sharma, Akhilendra Mishra, Anoop Soni. D: Prakashjha. By the river Ganga lays the imaginary district town of Tejpur in Bihar. Amit Kumar, played by Ajay Devgan, is the new Superintendent of Police. In Tejpur Amit encounters an ensemble of colourful characters. The uncrowned emperor -
Sadhu Yadav, his debauched son Sundar, the self-righteous journalist Rabidas, the policemen who close their eyes to everything around... The beedi-smoking corrupt DSP Bhurelal and Bachcha Yadav, the policeman who inspired by Amit makes life-transforming choices. Amit tries tobreathe life into the decaying police force and some of his officers begin to trust him and respond. But the shackles of the corrupt system are too strong to break. The cynicism of the disillusioned townsmen doesn't help either. They are blocked at every juncture and often humiliated. Inspiration gives way to frustration. This leads them to seek reckless solutions. And a weapon of revenge is accidentally discovered. This weapon of purification becomes a symbol of purification in the hands of the common people. Suddenly a spineless society transforms into a mob on a crusade for justice and revenge. FROM 29 AUG
Greek Film Festival From Aug 28 Como St Yarra Previews
28 Days Later (MA) Fox. 54 screens.
Agent Cody Blanks
Legally Blonde II: Red, White and Blonde
Rugrats Go Wild
Titanic 3D: Ghosts Of The Abyss
Undead
Re-Releases
8 Femmes
About Schmidt
Ghandi 31 August Bowen Summergarden Cinema.
Ghost World (M) 28 August, Warrina Cineplex, Townsville.
Indian In The Cupboard Melb Sun Theatre Yarraville.
Minority Report
Punch Drunk Love
Rebel Without A Cause
Ryans Daughter
Runaway Mummy (M) Opens August 28 at Hoyts Broadmeadows and Hoyts Merrylands. Opened July 3, 2003 elsewhere.
Sorcerer (M) 28 August, Warrina Cineplex, Townsville.
Swing
T Rex
Talk To Her
Thunderbird 6
Thunderbirds Are Go
A Time For Drunken Horses
The Truman Show
The Yogi's Of Tibet 2 Sep Darwin Deckchair