Red Carpet Events, Preview Screenings, Q&A's - we do the lot!
NIGHT BEFORE SCREENINGS
Coyote vs. acme
WEDNESDAY 16 SEPTEMBER | ALL SITES
After enduring years of catastrophic product failures at the hands of ACME, Inc., Wile E. Coyote (Genius) finally fights back. Teaming up with billboard accident lawyer Kevin Avery (Will Forte), he takes on slick corporate counsel Buddy Crane (John Cena) and ACME, Inc., the profit-obsessed conglomerate behind every one of the Coyote’s chaotic catastrophes. Also, there’s a roadrunner. And dynamite.
PG - Violence & coarse language
Light Club Previews
Heart of the BEast
SATURDAY 19 & SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER | ALL SITES
WEDNESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER | LIGHT HOUSE PETONE & PAUATAHANUI
SPECIAL RATE FOR LIGHT CLUB MEMBERS!
After a harrowing plane crash, Special Forces officer James Belmont (Brad Pitt) and his combat dog, Odin, find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Together, they are forced into a brutal fight for survival against the elements. From acclaimed filmmaker David Ayer, Heart of the Beast is an intense adventure thriller that explores the unbreakable bond between a man and his best friend as they face their greatest battle yet.
M - Violence & injury detail
senior wednesday preview
An Evening with Victor Hugo
WEDNESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER | ALL SITES
Director Pascal Bonitzer (Maigret and the Dead Lover) brings this charming tale from the late Sophie Fillières brilliantly to life. French acting legend Fabrice Luchini plays popular performer Robert Zucchini, who has built his career on a stage act that lauds the works of the famous writer Victor Hugo.
Robert’s bold reverence of Hugo’s ‘male genius’ doesn’t always play well with more enlightened modern audiences, and he finds himself not only at odds with a feminist theatre troupe, but with his adult daughter Lisbeth (Marie Narbonne, The Count of Monte Cristo), who has recently reappeared in his life. Robert wrestles with how art meets with politics - but more importantly, with his real-life relationships. Where he once took refuge in texts of the past, Lisbeth demands his presence in the moment.
Little by little, with his daughter’s help, Robert begins to reconnect with his past, open up to others and relearn the practice of his craft.
M - Offensive language & nudity
Q&A Screening With director Paloma Schneideman & star Ani Palmer
Big Girls Don't Cry
FRIDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 6PM | LIGHT HOUSE CUBA - SOLD OUT!
FRIDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 8.15PM SESSION ADDED WITH Q&A FROM PALOMA & ANI - SOLD OUT!
The debut feature film from Paloma Schneideman.
Rural New Zealand, 2006. Over one transformative summer, 14-year-old Sid Bookman discovers desire, identity and the internet, as she imitates the people, she longs to be loved by.
Starring Ani Palmer, Rain Spencer, Noah Taylor, Tara Canton, Ngataitangirua Hita, Beatrix Rain Wolfe, Ian Blackburn.
R16 - Drug use & offensive language, Sexual material, Sexual violence
Q&A SCREENING with Director Gerd Pohlmann & Sally Griffin
LAST MAN STANDING
SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 1PM | PETONE
Jim Anderton has said he did not leave the Labour Party, rather, all of his colleagues did. The left-wing politician was a successful candidate for Sydenham in Christchurch, before his lone opposition to the Fourth Labour Government’s free-market reforms led him to resign in 1989, and lead Alliance, a merger of four smaller parties.
Through a wide lens on the era, we see how a more viciously competitive political environment began to emerge in New Zealand in the ‘90s along with the electoral system transition to MMP, as smaller parties including New Zealand First and ACT jostled for influence — a more pressurised climate that, in the wake of a family tragedy, prompted Anderton to temporarily step back from politics and hand the party reins to Sandra Lee, also featured prominently.
This is an essential span of Anderton’s time in politics, from the weaponised scandal of 1976’s Moyle Affair, to 9/11, when he was Acting Prime Minister, and the Christchurch earthquake, which upended his 2011 mayoral run. – Carmen Gray
E - Exempt
CHeese + Wine screening
Verity
WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER | ALL SITES
Tickets include a glass of wine (red, white or non-alc options) and cheese and crackers..
Adapted from Colleen Hoover's best-selling novel, this seductive, psychological thriller follows renowned author Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway) and Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson), a struggling writer who relocates to the remote Crawford estate to ghostwrite for Verity. After Lowen uncovers what appears to be Verity's chilling autobiographical notes, she wrestles with the disturbing and twisted confessions about Verity’s husband Jeremy (Josh Hartnett), and finds it hard to separate fiction from reality, manipulation from attraction, and opportunity from obsession.
TBC
