Seniors' Cinema Archive 2011
Fine films for grown-up tastes.
Drawing on the best of Australian and international cinema, screenings feature well-crafted, character-driven stories, elegant period dramas, quirky comedies and fascinating documentaries.
Saturdays and Sundays 11am, Mondays 1.30pm
Curated by Roberta Ciabarra
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A superb, contemplative drama about a group of French Trappist monks torn between spiritual and temporal realities.
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A disaffected Israeli executive learns to live up to his job title in a touching, tragicomic film by Eran Riklis (The Lemon Tree).
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Paul Giamatti (Sideways) and Dustin Hoffman are hilarious as father and son in a film based on the novel by Mordechai Richler.
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Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon take a food-lovers' tour of England in Michael Winterbottom's hugely entertaining road-trip comedy.
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Contemporary auteur Kelly Reichardt explores America's most enduring foundation myth in her bold, re-fashioned western.
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A grandly staged romantic drama based on the best-selling novel by Sara Gruen.
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Deneuve and Depardieu team up in a delightful French farce by the director of '8 Women'.
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Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky) stars in the latest comedy from the director of Calendar Girls.
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A documentary on the life and times of Joan Rivers as bold and brash as the comedy legend herself.
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Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman goes behind the scenes of one of France's premier cultural institutions.
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Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt co-star in a very British remake of the classic French comedy.
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The gorgeous new animated feature from Sylvain Chomet, the director of The Triplets of Belleville.
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Kevin Kline and Paul Dano star as odd couple roomies in a whimsical ode to eccentricity.
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Michael Sheen and Dennis Quaid in the political drama from the writer of The Queen and Frost/Nixon.
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Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush star in the most Oscar-feted film of this year's Academy Awards.
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A gentle, quietly melancholic, Brief Encounter-style romantic drama - with a modern twist.
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Encore screenings of the 1948 screen classic featuring sublime cinematography by Jack Cardiff.
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Screen legends Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn star in a classic from Hollywood's golden age.
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Direct from Cannes, the definitive visual portrait of British master cinematographer Jack Cardiff.
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A young woman joins a pilgrimage to Lourdes in Jessica Hausner's mysterious, compelling drama.
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The inspiring true tale of a young blind boy who became one of Italy's most gifted sound recordists
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Tom Ford's stunning directorial debut, adapted from the seminal 1964 Christopher Isherwood novel.
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The box office hit featuring a stunning finale set to Tchaikovsky's Concerto for Violin.
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Jon Amiel's poignant drama, based on the life and ground-breaking work of Charles Darwin.
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Miranda Otto re-teams with her Love Seranade director in a gentle, wry drama from Shirley Barrett.
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MGM's lush melodrama screens in a superbly restored 35mm print. Limited season exclusive to ACMI.
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Linklater's brilliant evocation of 30s theatre life on Broadway and Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre.
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