Seniors' Cinema Archive 2012

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

Gilda

Rita Hayworth was never more ravishing than in this 1946 Hollywood classic.

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (3D)

The 32,000 year old cave paintings of Chauvet are vividly rendered in the superb 3D documentary by Werner Herzog.

We Have a Pope (Habemus Papam)

Veteran French actor Michel Piccoli (Belle de Jour) stars in a gentle comic drama from Italian satirist Nanni Moretti.

Beginners

A charming semi-autobiographical romantic drama starring Christopher Plummer as a late bloomer in the love stakes.

Jane Eyre

Cary Fukunaga's sweepingly dramatic adaptation of the celebrated classic of gothic literature by Charlotte Bronte.

Mozart's Sister

The stunning 18th Century costume drama freely inspired by the life and musical times of the prodigiously gifted Mozart siblings.

Get Low

Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek co-star in a gently paced, bittersweet film drawn from 1930s Tennessee folklore.

Never Let Me Go

American director Mark Romanek's fine adaptation of the best-selling novel by 'The Remains of the Day' author, Kazuo Ishiguro.

The City of Your Final Destination

Anthony Hopkins gives an exquisitely nuanced performance in the James Ivory-directed adaptation of the Peter Cameron novel.


My Dog Tulip

A gorgeously animated feature based on the memoir by British author, J.R. Ackerley, featuring the voice of Christopher Plummer.


 
 
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