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.
Buck (2011)
7.6/10
Director: Cindy Meehl
Starring: Buck Brannaman
This documentary tells the incredible true story of Buck Brannaman, the unusually perceptive cowboy whose remarkable ability to communicate with horse... Read more
Love Like Poison ( Un Poison Violent ) (2010)
6.4/10
Director: Katell Quillevere
Starring: Michel Galabru, Thierry Neuvic, Clara Augarde, Lio , Stefano Cassetti
Anna (Clara Augarde) is a 14-year-old girl who comes back to the family home in small town Brittany from her Catholic boarding school for the holidays... Read more
Melancholia ( Blu-ray ) (2011)
7.1/10
Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charlotte Rampling, Kiefer Sutherland, Kirsten Dunst, Stel...
Sci-fi-infused drama from acclaimed director Lars Von Trier follows the story of a chronically depressed young woman (Kirsten Dunst) whose frailties m... Read more
Bicycle Dreams (2009)
7.4/10
Director: Stephen Auerbach
The organizers of the Race Across America (RAAM) call it "the World's Toughest Bike Race," and if it isn't the most punishing athletic event in the Un... 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
Love Story (2010)
6.9/10
Director: Florian Habicht
Starring: Masha Yakovenko, Florian Habicht
A beautiful stranger on the Coney Island train becomes both lead actress and real life object of desire in this choose your own adventure documentary... Read more
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010)
7.4/10
Director: Alex Gibney
Writer/director Alex Gibney ("Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room") submits a probing examination of former New York governor Eliot Spitzer's brief,... Read more
La Dolce Vita ( Blu-ray ) (1960)
8.1/10
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Alain Cuny, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimee, Marcello Mastroianni, Yvonne Furneaux
'A landmark of cinematic social comment,' wrote one critic about Fellini's journey through a decadent Rome. Banned by the church in many countries, th... Read more
The Holy Roller (2010)
5.7/10
Director: Patrick Gilles
Starring: Mark Hadlow, Simon Barnett, Angus Benfield
A struggling preacher is tricked into starting a church in a nightclub by its unscrupulous owner, who sees it as a way to repay his gambling debts to... Read more
Project Nim (2011)
7.4/10
Director: James Marsh
Could an ape be taught to communicate like a human? Meet Nim, the chimpanzee raised much like a human child as part of an ambitious 1970s scientific e... Read more