Nights of Neo-Noir - Film Festival
Schedule
Thu Mar 30 2023 at 08:00 pm to 10:25 pm
Location
Academy Cinemas | Auckland, AU
From March 30 - April 7th we are celebrating the shadowy, violent, neon-soaked nihilism of Neo-noir film with eight brilliant examples of the genre from different master directors.______________________
Opening Night Screening:
LOST HIGHWAY (1997)
134 mins | Rated R18
Thursday March 30th, 8:00 PM
From director David Lynch. After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life.
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BLOOD SIMPLE (1984)
99 mins | Rated R16
Friday March 31st, 8:30 PM
The career-long darkly comic road trip through misfit America of Joel and Ethan Coen (THE BIG LEBOWSKI) began with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled neonoir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner sets off a torrent of violence with one murderous thought. Actor M. Emmet Walsh (BLADE RUNNER) looms over the proceedings as the slippery private eye with a yellow suit, a cowboy hat and no moral compass, and Frances McDormand (FARGO) gives a cunning debut performance that set her on the road to stardom.
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FALLEN ANGELS (1995)
99 mins | Rated M
Saturday April 1st, 8:30 PM
Lost souls reach out for human connection amid a glimmering Hong Kong in Wong Kar Wai’s hallucinatory, neon-soaked nocturne. Originally conceived as a segment of CHUNGKING EXPRESS only to spin off on its own woozy axis, FALLEN ANGELS plays like the dark, moody flip side of its predecessor as it charts the subtly interlacing fates of a handful of urban loners, including a coolly detached hit man (Leon Lai Ming) looking to go straight; his business partner (Michelle Reis), who secretly yearns for him; and a mute delinquent (Takeshi Kaneshiro) who wreaks mischief by night.
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LE SAMOURAÏ (1967)
105 mins | Rated PG
Sunday April 2nd, 6:00 PM
In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.
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NIGHT MOVES (1975)
100 mins | Rated R16
Monday April 3rd, 8:15 PM
Former footballer and present private detective Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as an aging Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return her stepdaughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection with the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.
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Tickets Only $5.00:
BRICK (2005)
110 mins | Rated M
Wednesday April 5th, 8:30 PM
Brendan Frye (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 500 DAYS OF SUMMER, LOOPER) is a high school loner, someone who knows all the angles but has chosen to stay on the outside. When the girl he loves turns up dead, he is determined to find the “who” and “why” and plunges into the dark and dangerous social strata of his high school peers.
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CHINATOWN (1975)
130 mins | Rated R16
Thursday April 6th, 7:30 PM
Landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's CHINATOWN stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits.
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Opening Night Screening:
SE7EN (1995)
127 mins | Rated R18
Friday April 7th, 8:00 PM
Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Wrath. Pride. Lust. Envy. Two cops (Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman) track a brilliant and elusive killer who orchestrates a string of horrific murders, each K*ll targeting a practitioner of one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
Where is it happening?
Academy Cinemas, 44 Lorne Street,Auckland, New Zealand