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.
Le Quattro Volte ( Four Times ) (2010)
7.2/10
Director: Michelangelo Frammartino
Starring: Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano, Nazareno Timpano
An unclassifiably brilliant reverie on life, death, nature and the splendours of Calabria, "Le Quattro Volte" is a deceptively simple and playfully ph... Read more
My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010)
7.2/10
Director: Jean Becker
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Patrick Bouchitey, Jean-Francois Stevenin, Gisele Casadesus
In a small French town, Germain, a nearly illiterate man in his 50's, considered by many to be the village idiot, takes a walk to the park where he me... Read more
Pina (2011)
7.7/10
Director: Wim Wenders
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
Restrepo (2010)
7.5/10
Director: Tim Hetherington
Riveting and intimate, this documentary shot in a U.S. outpost in Afghanistan follows-without comment or added perspectives-the activities of a 15-man... 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
Nothing to Declare (2010)
6.3/10
Director: Dany Boon
Starring: Karin Viard, Benoit Poelvoorde, Dany Boon, Francois Damiens, Laurent Gamelon, Ju...
When the news drops about the opening of the E.C. borders between France and Belgium in the early 90s, a loud cry of panic goes up on both sides of t... Read more
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010)
7.6/10
Director: Eli Craig
Starring: Tyler Labine, Katrina Bowden, Alan Tudyk
What do you get when you cross two West Virginia hillbillies with evil? Tucker and Dale are two best friends on vacation at their dilapidated mountain... Read more
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
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
6.9/10
Director: Sean Durkin
Starring: Hugh Dancy, Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes, Brady Corbet, Elizabeth Olsen, Louisa Kr...
Elizabeth Olsen (in her feature film debut) stars as Martha, a young girl living in a dangerous cult under the oppression of a sadistic leader. She ev... Read more
Romantics Anonymous (2010)
6.9/10
Director: Jean-Pierre Ameris
Starring: Benoit Poelvoorde, Isabelle Carre
Love and chocolate are the predominant themes of this charming French romantic comedy in which Benoit Poelvoorde plays the owner of a small chocolate... Read more