Film Festivals 2011
Hoyts, Northlands was the Christchurch venue for this years International Film Festival, so grateful to Hoyts that Christchurch had a Film Festival at all... Most of the films shown at the 2011 festival have now found their way onto the DVD or Blu-ray format and are available for rental. To assemble your Personal Film Festival, simply scroll the candidates below for your consideration. Highlights include "Drive", the fascinating "How Much Does Your Building Weigh Mr Forster", the acclaimed "Incendies" and from old maestro's Lars Von Trier comes "Melancholia" and Wim Wenders delivers with "Pina". The "Add to My Picks" function at the top right of you screen on any film page my prove useful at this time.
Sleeping Beauty (2011)
5.3/10
Director: Julia Leigh
Starring: Chris Haywood, Rachael Blake, Emily Browning, Ewen Leslie, Peter Carroll
It's hardly a fairytale life for disaffected college student Lucy (Emily Browning). After taking a job as a "lingerie waitress" at an exclusive club c... Read more
Snowtown (2011)
6.6/10
Director: Justin Kurzel
Starring: Daniel Henshall, Lucas Pittaway
Sixteen-year-old Jamie longs for an escape from the violence that surrounds him in Adelaides northern suburbs. His salvation arrives in the form of Jo... Read more
Space Battleship Yamato (2010)
6.1/10
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
Starring: Takuya Kimura, Meisa Kuroki
In the year 2194, alien marauders, the Gamilons, bombard the Earth with planetary bombs sent from space. Humanity fights back but is defeated and esca... Read more
Submarine (2010)
7.3/10
Director: Richard Ayoade
Starring: Noah Taylor, Paddy Considine, Sally Hawkins, Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige
Young Oliver Tate's coming of age is coming even sooner than expected. Prone to daydreaming, listening to French crooners, and indulging other self-ab... Read more
Tabloid (2010)
7.1/10
Director: Errol Morris
Starring: Joyce McKinney
Documentary maestro Errol Morris (The Fog of War) tackles the much stranger-than-fiction adventures of Joyce McKinney, a former beauty queen whose s... Read more
Take Shelter (2011)
7.4/10
Director: Jeff Nichols
Starring: Kathy Baker, Michael Shannon, Shea Whigham, Jessica Chastain, Katy Mixon
In this unnerving drama, Michael Shannon ("Bug") plays a husband and father who harbours the growing certainty that an apocalyptic event will soon tak... Read more
Taxi Driver (1976)
8.3/10
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Albert Brooks, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster, Peter Boyle, Robert...
A disturbingly brutal depiction of a lonely, unstable New York City cab driver (Robert De Niro) who stalks a presidential candidate, then turns his vi... Read more
The First Grader (2010)
7.5/10
Director: Justin Chadwick
Starring: Naomie Harris, Oliver Litondo
A heartwarming tale based on a true story, "The First Grader" is set in a remote mountain village in Kenya and tells the story of 84-year-old former M... Read more
The Forgiveness of Blood (2011)
6.9/10
Director: Joshua Marston
Starring: Tristan Halilaj, Sindi Lacej
American director Joshua Marston broke out in 2004 with his jolting, Oscar-nominated "Maria Full of Grace", about a young Colombian woman working as a... Read more
The Future (2010)
6.2/10
Director: Miranda July
Starring: Hamish Linklater, David Warshofsky, Miranda July
In this trippy indie feature from writer/director Miranda July ("Me and You and Everyone We Know"), thirtysomething Sophie (July) and Jason (Hamish Li... Read more