NZIFF announces new series of autumn events
Good news for film lovers wanting an escape from the multiplex and pining for the return of the New Zealand International Film Festival.
News reaches us of a new series of events, designed to take the place of the World Cinema Showcase and which will give the mighty Civic Theatre in Auckland the chance to show off what it can do.
Here's the presser:
NZIFF will present a series of Autumn Events this April and May in Auckland and Wellington.
Our new programme gets underway in high style with beautiful new digital restorations of Lawrence of Arabia and Guys and Dolls.
NZ premiere screenings of Oscar-nominated Kon-Tiki and Ant Timpson's The ABC's of Death will round out our first event in Auckland: A Big Weekend at the Civic.
Further Autumn Events – filmmaker retrospectives, hot documentaries, feature premieres – will be announced to take place at the newly refurbished Academy Cinemas, and Rialto Cinemas in Auckland in late April and May.
In Wellington NZIFF is planning to host Guys and Dolls and Lawrence of Arabia at the Embassy Theatre from 20 April. The remaining Autumn screenings, including presentations of Kon-Tiki and ABCs, will take place at the Paramount.
The Autumn Events will screen at a time of year that previously would have seen NZIFF’s World Cinema Showcase screenings taking place in the four main centres.
The schedule for the Civic screenings will be online and tickets on-sale from Tuesday 12 March directly from Edge ticketing outlets. Further information about other event screenings will follow later this week. A free printed calendar for the full panoply of NZIFF Autumn Events will be available around Auckland and Wellington from the end of March.
Stunning digital 4K restoration of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
David Lean’s 1962 biopic remains the benchmark in epic action cinema: literate, dynamic and visually stupendous. Dashing performances by Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif defined the two young actors for life. Premiered at a Special 50th Anniversary screening at Cannes last year, the brand-new 4K digital restoration presents Lean’s 1988 Director’s Cut as never seen before. The new state-of-the-art 4K projection system at The Civic has found its perfect showpiece.
Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra croon it up in GUYS AND DOLLS
Frank Loesser’s boisterous, tune-filled adaptation of stories by Prohibition era newspaper man and humourist Damon Runyon is one of the wonders of the Broadway musical, gloriously free of sentimentality and cant. Big stakes gambler Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando) pursues no-nonsense Salvation Army Sister Sarah Brown (lovely Jean Simmons) for a bet. Meanwhile nightclub chanteuse Miss Adelaide (Broadway star Vivian Blaine) presses another gambling man, longstanding fiancé Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra, naturally nonchalant) to name the day.
NZ PREMIERE: Oscar-nominated Best Foreign Language feature KON-TIKI
Kon-Tiki combines high adventure at sea with a fascinating psychological portrait of one of Norway’s national heroes, anthropologist/explorer/
NZ PREMIERE of Ant Timpson's anthology of horror: THE ABCs OF DEATH
You knew NZIFF’s Incredibly Strange programmer Ant Timpson was well-connected? Check out the register of international renegade talent signed up by Ant and his Austin partner-in-crime Tim League for this late-night extravaganza. Don’t miss your best ever chance to check out this who’s who of alt-exploitation with a crowd.
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