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.
Let The Bullets Fly (2010)
7.4/10
Director: Jiang Wen
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Ge You, Jiang Wu
Set in China during the warring 1920s, notorious bandit chief Zhang descends upon a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, an identity that h... 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
The Way Back (Blu-ray) (2010)
7.3/10
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Ed Harris, Mark Strong, Colin Farrell, Saoirse Ronan, Jim Sturgess
For seven men who escaped from a brutal Stalinist gulag in 1940 Siberia, breaking out was the easy part. What followed was a harrowing, 4,000-mile tre... Read more
Senna (2010)
8.6/10
Director: Asif Kapadia
Spanning his years as a Formula One racing driver from 1984 to his untimely death a decade later, "Senna" explores the life and work of triple world c... Read more
Armadillo (Blu-ray) (2010)
7.5/10
Director: Janus Metz
Offering a unique glimpse into the international war against the Taliban, filmmaker Janus Metz's harrowing documentary follows a platoon of Danish sol... Read more
Point Blank (Blu-ray) (2010)
7.4/10
Director: Fred Cavaye
Starring: Gilles Lellouche, Roschdy Zem, Elena Anaya, Gerard Lanvin
A French action thriller from Fred Cavaye ("Anything for Her"), "Point Blank" is a relentless thriller that follows a man as he races through the stre... Read more
Hobo With a Shotgun (Blu-ray) (2011)
6.1/10
Director: Jason Eisener
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Brian Downey
Originally a trailer featured in the Canadian theatrical run of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's "Grindhouse," this exploitation tribute stars... Read more
Pina ( Blu-ray ) (2011)
7.7/10
Director: Wim Wenders
Starring: Pina Bausch
Wim Wenders pays tribute to the work of brilliant avant-garde German choreographer Pina Bausch. When Bausch tragically died of cancer two days before... Read more
Senna ( Blu-ray ) (2010)
8.6/10
Director: Asif Kapadia
Spanning his years as a Formula One racing driver from 1984 to his untimely death a decade later, "Senna" explores the life and work of triple world c... Read more
The Tree of Life ( Blu-ray ) (2011)
6.8/10
Director: Terrence Malick
Starring: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain
Written and directed by Terrence Malick, this complex and thought-provoking exploration of the human condition stars Brad Pitt as the patriarch of a M... Read more