An end and a Beginning

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1778620953/

The Port Fairy Film Society ends its highly successful and varied 2011 season with a screening of the 2010 comedy – drama “Beginners”. Written and directed by Mike Mills this tells the story of Oliver (Ewan McGregor), a man reflecting on the life and death of his father (Christopher (Sound of Music) Plummer) while trying to forge a new relationship with a woman dealing with father issues of her own.

Beginners premiered at the 2010 Toronto film festival where it received favourable reviews.

The film is structured as a series of interconnecting flashbacks but characterised by the strong performances of the lead male actors. As the title suggests the film has the theme of new starts, of reshaping the self, of embarking on new adventures and life changing experiences.

What a great way to end the year and begin the new one!!

Those of us old enough to remember the romp through the Austrian alps in Sound of Music will be impressed that old age has not affected Christopher Plummer who gives a sound performance as a man addressing contemporary “father and son” issues.

“Beginners” has moved audiences and is an immensely moving, funny and involving film. Plummer brings a rare wit, compassion and grace to his role ably supported by Ewan McGregor.

This memorable film screens this Friday 7.30 at Port Fairy’s Reardon Theatre. Not to be missed.

And speaking of beginnings this summer brings a host of exciting films to Port Fairy. Moyne Shire in conjunction with the Port Fairy Film society brings a range of films that should not be missed. Commencing with an outdoor screening of Rio (Village Green December 28) the program includes Red Dog, Kung Fu Pandas, The Guard, Jane Eyre and many more. For program details see the Moyanana Festival program or posters around town.

This Friday 2011 Palme d'Or winner The Tree of Life

The Tree of Life trailer

Terrence Malick’s exploration of the meaning in The Treeof Life is personalized in 1950’s Texas in the relationships of the O’Brien family, butgrounded in Malick’s meditative visualization of the impermanence of life, forwhich he won the 2012 Palme d’Or .

Jack (Hunter McCraken), the eldest son and his two brothers, experience the ways of the world with itsstrictures from his authoritarian father (Brad Pitt) while encouraged to discover its joys by their loving religious mother (JessicaChastain). "There are two ways through life - the way of nature and the way ofgrace," says the voice of Jack's mother in the opening moments. The boys are drawn both ways.

With the death of a son, there is remorse and grief, the perspective of a bereaved Christianmother. Through their internal monologue we are privy to the thoughts: Why does misfortune befall the good? If there’s a higher power, who are we to it? In the opening sequence, Malick cites Job.

As an adult, the eldest son Jack( Sean Penn), an architect, still looks forpermanence in the modern world. Dreamsand memory collide in Jack's spiritual, emotional and intellectual journey ashe seeks to reconcile with the past, to reclaim his relationship with hisfather and to properly mourn the loss of his brother.

Malick (The Thin Red Line, Days of Heaven, Badlands) hasboldly visualized his ambient universal themes, using Donald Trumball (2001: A Space Odyssey) forthe beautifully evocative special effects photography, Alexandre Desplat'ssoaring music and Emmanuel Lubezki's glorious cinematography.

For his boldness, Malick haspolarized his audience. For many, the narrative is too labyrinthine, disconnectedfrom the visualizations, that in turn are considered pretentiousand unnecessary.

For Margaret Pomeranz, ABC, “thisis a most audacious, wonderful film. While it lacks a conventional narrativestructure, it has a poetic vision….I was incredibly moved by this beautifullymade film, I was also challenged by it. It doesn't get much better than that. Icannot wait to see it again.” Margaret gaveit five stars, David three stars. Leigh Paatsch, Herald Sun: Fivestars.

Peter Bradshaw, Guardian: “TerrenceMalick's film is an unashamedly epic reflection on love and loss. .. this is visionary cinema on an unashamedly huge scale: cinema that's thinking big. Malick makes anawful lot of other film-makers look timid and negligible by comparison.” Five stars.

A. O. Scott, NY Times: “moviegoers eager forrapture can find consolation — to say nothing of awe, amazement and grist forendless argument — in “The Tree of Life,” Terrence Malick’s new film, which contemplates human existencefrom the standpoint of eternity. ..

There are very few films Ican think of that convey the changing interior weather of a child’s mind withsuch fidelity and sensitivity…

The sheer beauty of this film is almost overwhelming, but as with other works of religiously minded art,its aesthetic glories are tethered to a humble and exalted purpose, which is toshine the light of the sacred on secular reality.”

TheTree of Life is certainly avisionary, emotionally immersive film that must be seen on the big screen. It screensat 7.30pm this Friday 18 November, at the Reardon Theatre, Port Fairy for thePort Fairy Film Society. All Welcome.

Next Tuesday, 22nd November at 1.30pm at the Reardon Theatre,the PFFS screens a sing-a long ”Sound of Music” for the last Classic Matinee for2011. All welcome.

TARERER FILM FESTIVAL

TARERER FILM FESTIVAL Tonight 7.30 at the Reardon Theatre, Port Fairy
Two great films from producer David Josey, curated by Wal Saunders with Archie Roache.

7.30 pm TOOMELAH

A special pre-release screening(Une Certain Regard  2011 Cannes, SFF & MIFF)

Ivan Sen(Beneath Clouds)made the film by himself over many months living in the Toomelah community, his mothers' place. A remarkable act of film making. Great acting by young Daniel who is cheeky, beautiful, himself and Tanitia. (MA15+)106 mins

Toomelah Trailer

9.20pm MAD BASTARDS

 Brendan Fletcher's story of TJ who returns home to the Kimberleys, after time in prison, to reconnect with his son Bullet and his people, himself. The film  is about the transformative effect of the spirituality in contemporary aboriginal communities. The Film has great music from the Pirgrams. It was made through a collaborative project with the local community. "Mad bastards is Music, Hunting, Family.. "

(MA 15+) 95 mins

Mad Bastards Trailer

 TFF Festival Pass $15 , Sessions $10

Big Four weeks on Port Fairy Film Society Calender …a great celebration of films and community in one small town!!

Film lovers will have a treat for the next four plus weeks in Port 

Fairy. It certainly is looking to be one of the busiest times for the 

committee commencing with the Annual General Meeting in the presence 

of some of its 230 members just prior to the monthly screening this 

Friday October 21st at 7:30pm.

This months film is titled “Of Gods and Men” a standout film at last 

years Cannes Festival and winner of the Grand Jury (Second) prize by 

acclaimed director Xavier Beauvios. Inspired by real events, this 

opens on the monastery perched in the mountains of Algeria where 

eight French trappist monks live in harmony with their Muslim 

brothers. They provide medical care and support to their community.  

When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamist 

fundamentalist group, fear sweeps the region. The army offers 

protection, and after difficult personal and collective decisions the 

monks decide to remain, despite the impending danger and violence 

beyond the monastery. David Stratton of “At the Movies fame, 

described Of Gods and Men as “The best film screened at Cannes”, and 

as “outstanding” and, “a serene, contemplative work”. He went on to 

give it four and half stars.

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3877411353/

  Following close behind on Tuesday October 25th the Movie Classics 

brings the great Marx brothers hilarious double ‘Duck Soup” and “A 

Night at the Opera” screening from 1:30pm.

http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s3226791.htm

  Friday October 28th is the next date for the eagerly awaited Port 

Fairy Short Film Showcase, where local film makers will get the 

opportunity to show their short films to an appreciative audience. 

The showcase will also coincide with  “Framed “ the Independent film 

making forum, brought to Port Fairy via ABC Open, where independent 

films and film making will be open for discussion and the audience 

will meet and hear film makers and those involved in the industry. 

This night is a free event and commences at 7pm.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=261011107264391

At 1.30pm on Sunday 30 October, the Port Fairy Consolidated School

have a dress up screening of the classic “Ghostbusters”.

Great fun for the whole family!

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi984219929/

At 7.30pm on Friday November 11th, the Film 

Society hosts the Tarerer Film Festival with two indigenous films 

produced by David Jowsey. The Tarerer festival curator Wal Saunders 

has chosen pre-release “Toomelah” and “Mad Bastards” for a two film festival

around the theme of  youth. They screen at the Reardon Theatre from 7:30pm.

Toomelah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSYkIEy7pEY

http://www.davidjowseyfilms.com/work/toomelah.aspx

Mad Bastardshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFggTphkkfI

Framed at Port Fairy: Independent Filmmaking Forum

Presented by Open Channel in collaboration with ABC Open
Supported by Film Victoria

To coincide with the Port Fairy Film Society's Short Film Showcase, Open Channel
presents Framed at Port Fairy: Independent Filmmaking Forum.

Friday October 28, 7.00pm - Reardon Theatre - Bank Street, Port Fairy FREE

A night of independent short films and discussion, with films by local filmmakers and ABC Open contributors plus a panel discussion and feedback session with documentary writer/director William Head (Night Fare, We Are Illuminated) film/TV producer Angela Lee (Hard Rubbish, With Tim Ferguson) and ABC Open Producer Colleen Hughson in conversation with Open Channel's Alex Castro.
The night offers fantastic networking opportunities for local filmmakers and opportunities to ask the panellists questions about creating and marketing their own films.

If you would like to submit a film for the Short Film Showcase you can down load a submission form here.
http://freepdfhosting.com/f1e4eed456.pdf

Presenters: William Head, Angela Lee, Colleen Hughson

Portland-raised William Head graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2009 where his graduate film, Night Fare received a number of awards and was selected for the prestigious Australian International Documentary Conference in 2010. His most recent film, We Are Illuminated received production support through the Screen Australia/Open Channel Raw Nerve program and has been selected for festivals in Russia, Mexico and the inaugural Antenna Documentary Film Festival in Sydney. In 2011 he co-founded the monthly non-fiction screening program and online Mubi channel, 'Don't You Have Docs?'. He was selected for the Film Victoria supported Crossover program which brought together teams of filmmakers and computer developers, and this has led to his involvement in an international co-production project with Renegade Films (Rockwiz, Wilfred), BBC Scotland and RTE.

Angela Lee undertook an Open Channel short course in Production and Production Management in 2009 before taking on the role of Line Producer for the Raw Nerve program overseeing four overlapping short film productions. In 2010 she was a script assessor for the Short & Sharp Pitching Competition, Producer of Raw Nerve short film Hard Rubbish, which was selected in the top 10% of TropFest entries from an international pool of more than 700. In that same year she was the Producer of the hit television show With Tim Ferguson, which aired on C31 to a weekly audience of more than 40,000. She has recently completed production on a new Raw Nerve film Phone Call, written and directed by Daniel and Jared Draperis, starring Lewis Fitz-Gerald (Crownies, The Flying Doctors, Breaker Morant) and Mark Leonard Winter (Winners & Losers, Balibo, Blame).

ABC Open Producer Colleen Hughson was born and bred in Warrnambool. A documentary maker, she has extensive experience in filmmaking and digital storytelling both as a practitioner and as a co-coordinator and facilitator for community groups and schools. Some of her award winning work includes All The Ladies, a documentary on women in Hip Hop, Chicks with Decks Skateboard Documentary and A.K.A.Girl Skater, covering the first all-girl/women skateboarding tour.

Framed at Port Fairy is part of Open Channel's Framed: Screen Industry Seminar Series. Framed is supported by Film Victoria.

ABC OPEN South West Victoria                        OPEN CHANNEL

Oranges and Sunshine

http://www.imdb.com/rg/VIDEO_PLAY/LINK//video/screenplay/vi1971296793/

As a Fundraiser for the Relay For Life, the Warrnambool Buddhists group screens Oranges and Sunshine at the Reardon Theatre Port Fairy at 1.30 and 7.30pm Friday 7 October. Rated M 104 mins Admission $12

Oranges and Sunshine tells the story of Margaret Humphreys (Emily Watson), a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals of recent times; the mass deportation of130,000 children from the United Kingdom to Australia and Canada, 7000 to Australia from 1940 to 1967. Single-handedly and against overwhelming odds, Margaret reunited thousands of families and drew worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice. Children as young as four had been told that their parents were dead.

When Harold Haig was 10 years old, a man in a suit came to visit. "He said to me, 'Would you like to go to this wonderful place called Australia where the sun shines all day every day and you pick oranges off the trees, live in a little white cottage by the sea and ride a horse to school?'" remembers Haig, who is 73 but looks younger, with Pete Postlethwaite cheekbones and flowing white hair. "While I was letting this sink in, he added, 'Well, you know you're an orphan, your parents are dead, you've got no family, you might as well go.'" Haig was one of the children from British care homes .

"What Margaret did for me and for thousands of child migrants is to give us back our lives, give us back our identity, and shine a light in where there was just darkness." Where would he be without Humphreys? "I have my doubts about whether I'd be here alive," he says. "You should ask, where would all of us be?"

“Jim Loach's debut is a powerful, deeply moving, understated account of a major social injustice that went unreported for many years and only this past year received an official apology from the two governments involved, those of Great Britain and Australia”(2009). Phillip French, The Guardian

“But the film, like Humphreys herself, is not an attempt at recrimination; it shows how a single individual can bring about enormous change and make a difference, where perhaps organisations, Governments, political parties and other groupings are impotent.”

“Oranges and Sunshine is a triumph of storytelling on screen and puts us through the emotional wringer - as it should.” Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile

  

“There are beautiful performances here from every member of the cast, and it's much to Loach's credit that he handles this potentially sensational material with such restraint. Above all, many scenes are incredibly moving.”, David Stratton: At the Movies, ABC Margaret and David: 4 Stars

This Fridays screening is Babies……

Four countries, four babies from birth to first steps..…a mesmerizing look at the world of babies.

This Friday night the Port Fairy Film Society is looking forward to bringing the delightful and extraordinary documentary “Babies”. It captures on film the earliest stages of the journey of humanity that are at “once unique and universal to us all.” The children are, in order of the screening Ponijao, who lives in Namibia, them Bayarjargal, who resides with his family in Mongolia, near Bayanchandmani; Mari who lives in Tokyo and Hattie from San Francisco, California.

The French film maker Thomas Blames has chosen four very contrasting parts of the world to capture the universal truths of a common existence where from the time of birth, we observe babies experience the beginning of their  journey into the world , their families, their environment  and their culture.  This is all presented in an observational style, without narration and only the occasional squeals and sounds of the babies as they interact with their surroundings, siblings, parents and animals. The film is captivating and mesmerizing in its simplicity and a joy to watch. Movie goers should find this an enjoyable and engaging way to pass the time in a warm and welcoming theatre on a Friday night.

Margaret from “At the Movies” gives “Babies” 4 **** “Babies” is Rated PG and screens at 7:30pm on Friday September 16^th at the Reardon Theatre.  All Welcome.

View the trailer http://www.madman.com.au/videos/view/2450

Tuesday Classics:                                                                  The Tuesday classics continues its current season with its second film on Tuesday September 27^th with the Classic “Paint your Wagon” from 1:30 pm at the Reardon Theatre. All welcome. 

View the Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0idoJnBAvk

Call out for films for Port Fairy's Short Film Showcase

Do you want to see your film on the big screen?

Port Fairy Film Society and ABC Open invite you to submit your short films for our short film showcase screening on Friday 28 October.

Please send in your films for selection:
· Films under 15 minutes

· We welcome films of any genre, old & new: documentaries, dramas, animations, experimental.

· All ages welcome.

· Closing date for submissions: EXTENDED to 12 October.

DOWNLOAD A submission form http://freepdfhosting.com/4f1dbe77f3.pdf

Our CHEEZY PROMOTION:  http://vimeo.com/27891573

Top short films from 2011 St Kilda Film Festival to delight audiences

Prizewinning films and outstanding favourites from this years St Kilda Film Festival’s Top 100 Shorts will soon be enjoyed at 7.30pm Wednesday 17 August at Port Fairy’s Reardon Theatre as part of its national tour .

The St Kilda Film Festival tour will ensure that film buffs around the state will have the opportunity to view this year’s exceptional entrants from Australia’s largest short film competition.

Festival Director Paul Harris says of the Tour “The awesome shorts chosen for our national showcase offer audiences the opportunity to view some of the most innovative, cutting edge, inspiring and just plain entertaining work from Australia’s current crop of emerging filmmakers, who are literally taking the world by storm.”

Straight from taking the Festival’s top honour for Best Short Film and the richest cash prize in Australian short film is The Kiss, directed by Ashlee Page and produced by Sonya Humphrey. The film follows the story of two teenage girls, fuelled by alcohol and hormones, whose fun night out takes a dangerous turn when they become trapped in a water tank. Ashlee Page also picked up the Best Director award for the film.

This year’s tour program also features a showcase of Australian talent: Nash Edgerton presents his new short Bear written by him and David Michod (Animal Kingdom), while Nadine Garner makes directorial debut with festival favourite Afterglow. This moving film follows the story of a young woman in post World War II Australia as she meets her forbidden love to tell him she has not terminated her pregnancy.

Jack Thompson, Gary Sweet and Sigrid Thornton appear together for the first time in The Telegram Man, a tale set in World War 11 where the once popular telegram man becomes a figure of fear and repulsion as he delivers the onslaught of bad news.

These films, along with other festival winners and crowd favourites will screen in two sessions at each destination- tour dates and the full list of touring films is attached below.

The St Kilda Film Festival is proudly produced and presented by the City of Port Philip . For more information, visit http://www.stkildafilmfestival.com.au/2011/

"Potiche" - very French and very funny.

This months offering at the Port Fairy Film Society should tempt film lovers out into the cold and into the warmed up Reardon Theatre, for this very French and very funny film, complete with famous French stars and silly, farcical situations in a retro 70's setting. Based on a very successful hit comic play, Catherine Denueve plays Suzanne, the "Potiche" or submissive, housebound, trophy wife of a successful but tyrannical businessman Robert (Fabrice Luchini).

Robert is taken hostage by irate workers who go on strike at his umbrella factory and Suzanne steps in and takes charge of the factory and the situation, proving herself to be more than competent and capable. Things of course get complicated, and so the battle of the sexes and the classes ensues with comic consequences. With further great performances from Gerard Depardieu, playing a former union leader and Suzannes ex-lover ("a lovelorn political beast") and an ensemble cast of comic actors the film unfolds to be a hugely enjoyable and entertaining satire.

Critics have said of "Potiche"

"For pure pleasure of cinema, there's nothing better out there at the moment."

and

"This frothy, farcical film from Francois Ozon dotes on its star and Deneuve delivers. She's fabulous and funny. The song and dance routine she does with Depardieu is alone worth the price of a ticket." Margaret ABC

"Potiche" will be screened on Friday July 15th at 7:30pm at the Reardon Theatre Bank St. Port Fairy. It is Rated M and its running time is 110 Minutes. New and existing members always welcome. Free tea and Coffee and sweets for sale.

In A Better World

This film will keep you talking long after it’s over, which is often the mark of a very good film..

This Friday 17 June, the Port Fairy Film Society brings a beautifully crafted and thought provoking drama from Danish Director Susanne Biers who brought us such fine movies as "After the Wedding" and "Brothers".

Winner of the Golden Globe in 2010 and in 2011 the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, "In A Better World" approaches violence and justice from a variety of angles, and at separate stages of their evolution. It focuses on the domestic story of a new friendship between two boys and the consequences of bullying, violence and revenge, but is set against a broader conflictual back drop which links to the refugee camps of Africa, where the father of one of the boys works and where violence exists on an everyday basis.

The film asks moral questions and presents challenges through exploring the themes of how adults teach their children to handle conflict, to control their own potential violent urges, and how to provide a peaceful response in a violent world.

Margaret from "At the Movies" describes "In a Better World" in this way;

"It's a beautiful, sad, ultimately compassionate film about the origins of iolence, wherever it rears its head, and the implications of dealing with it."

She then goes on to rate it at 4 out of 5 stars.

Viewers will hopefully find "In a Better World" a poignant and provocative film about masculinity, parent's responsibility and the dangers of violence in everyday life.

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1945869593/

"In a Better World" is rated MA15+, and is a Danish film with subtitles. It screens at 7:30pm on Friday June 17th at the Reardon Theatre. All members current and new are welcome. Memberships are on sale from 7:10pm. See you round the Urn.

* 7.30PM Friday 1 July SIDEWAYS

As part of its July romantic Winter Weekend program, the PF WWE screens Sideways.

A Miles, a dedicated wine buff and unpublished novelist, takes his old friend Jack, who is about to get married, on a week long bachelor's trip to Californian wine country, where they meet Maya and Stephanie and learn about the true nature of pinot noir. Their different notions of love and lust take them on an amusing but complicated and painful journey.

.ABC Margaret: 4.5 Stars David: 5 Stars (USA) MA (127 mins) Tickets at the door.

http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s1249884.htm

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi864551193/

It's a big movie month at Port Fairy in May..

Friday May 6th: 7:30pm. Movie: "Strange Birds in Paradise" A community fundraiser for the West Papuan Association SW Victoria.

The Australia West Papua Association (SW -Vic) and the Port Fairy Film

Society are proud to present the award winning full length feature

documentary by Australian film maker. Charlie Hill-Smith, "Strange Birds in

Paradise".

Winner of the 2010 IF award for "Best Documentary" and nominated for four

AFI awards, Strange Birds in Paradise is a journey into just some of the

more than 250 West Papuan cultures.

Intercut with Hill-Smith's travelogue

and short animations, the interviews paint a picture not only of a country

with a rich musical tradition and breathtaking nature, but also of a country

weighed down by Indonesian military oppression.

A large number of retired

army generals have substantial economic interests in West Papua, and the

army uses extreme violence to keep the lid on the West Papuan population's

independence movement.

In 2006, Hill-Smith decided to return to West Papua,

this time equipped with a professional camera and all the knowledge he had

gained about the country's history.

While the Indonesian army continues to dominate the indigenous inhabitants

of West Papua, three friends gather in Melbourne to record outlawed folk

songs with renowned Australian rock musicologist David Bridie.

Charlie Hill -Smith confronts a basic question: how could these two vibrant

cultures be at war and how can the rest of the world seemingly not care?

The film features music by award winning performer, composer and frequent

visitor to SW Victoria, David Bridie.

The film is presented as a fundraiser to support educational programs about

human rights and non-violent resistance in West Papua and to support health

and education for West Papuan refugees living in camps on the PNG - West

Papua border.

entry is $12/$8 concession Rated PG, 78 Mins.

To see the film trailer go to http://www.strangebirds.com.au/

Friday May 13th: 7:30pm.Movie: "The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest" Rated MA 15+. A community Fundraiser for St.Patrick's School Port Fairy.

The Third film in the Millenium Trilogy based on Stieg Larssons popular crime thrillers.

It takes up where the previous two films finished with Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) recovering in a hospital from horrendous attacks and awaiting trial for three murders. When she is released, Mikael Blomqvist (Michael Nykvist ) must prove her innocence. Meanwhile, Lisbeth is plotting her own revenge against the people who put her in this situation.

"The third and final entry in Stieg Larsson's enormously successful series is perhaps the least thrilling, but it's easily the most satisfying."

Tickets available at the door. Rated MA 15+ 147 Mins

The trailer can be viewed at http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi650316057/

Friday May 20th: Usual monthly PFFS Screening. Movie: "Another Year" Rated M (UK) 130 Mins

Directed by Mike Leigh (Secrets and Lies, Vera Drake, Happy go Lucky), Starring Jim Broadbent & Ruth Sheen.

The PFFS brings yet another of Director Mike Leigh’s wonderful domestic dramas with the 2011 released "Another Year" starring Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville and Ruth Sheen. This drama & comedy follows the story of a married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.

It is described by critics as "An unassuming little masterpiece.." "Desperation and fulfilment, anxiety and warmth, pain and contentment -- all come together in the darkly splendid Another Year. " . “a deeply involving, intelligent, compassionate drama of the sort only Leigh can create” (Peter Bradshaw) ..with all the sadness and happiness that Leigh can staple onto the screen in the amalgam that is life around him”(Andrew Urban)

The Trailer can be viewed at http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi4561177/

Tuesday May 24th: Tuesday PFFS Movie Classic: 1:30pm. "Rebecca"

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine and George Sanders. Rated PG 130 Minutes

Rebecca is a masterpiece of haunting atmosphere, Gothic thrills, and gripping suspense.

A lonely man, a lovely girl... struggling against the secret of Manderley….The shadow of a remembered woman came between their lips... but these two had the courage to hope... and to live their love!

The Trailer can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwneccC52fY

Final film in this 2011 Feb-May series of Classic Movie matinees; Next season August- November 2011, starts at 1.30pm on Tuesday 23 August. Concession Memberships through the PF Day Centre, Senior Citizens Club and Moyneyana House.

Have a Great May!!!!

The Tree in Port Fairy this Friday

Described as one of the better Australian films of 2010, Julie Bertuccelli’s “The Tree” has wonderful cinematography of the Australian landscape, fine acting by Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marton Csokas, Morgana Davies, Aden Young, Christian Byers, Tom Rusell, Gabriel Gotting, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Gillian Jones. It was the closing night film at the 2010 Cannes film Festival.

The Tree is the story of young Simone and her mother Dawn. After her father is killed in an accident, Simone decides her father lives on in the tree and protects them. With time the huge Morton Bay Fig Tree becomes entwined with their house. When Dawn finds herself a new love problems emerge.

Whilst it is generally agreed Bertuccelli, who wrote the screen play and directed the film, has not made a masterpiece, “this is a beautifully made film and it is beautifully acted, I think, by the entire cast. I think they are all very, very good”( David ABC). Both Margaret gave the film 3.5 Stars.

http://youtu.be/iSLTwvurWA0

The Tree is a Port Fairy Film Society screening at 7.30pm on Friday 15 April at the Reardon Theatre, Bank Street Port Fairy. Memberships are on sale from 7.15 pm. All Welcome. Free tea and coffee.

This month the Tuesday Matinee Classic, “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” with Jane Powell and Howard Keel is on the THIRD Tuesday at 1.30pm at the Reardon Theatre.

http://youtu.be/CfFFFfRwsR0

"The Kings Speech" comes to Port Fairy for special fundraising event.

The multi award winning Film "The Kings Speech" is coming to Port Fairy on

Friday April 8th with an afternoon and evening screening to raise funds for

the Japanese earthquake appeal.

The film has receive many nominations and awards, mainly for the performance

of Colin Firth as King George the V1, who, to overcome his

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttering> stammer, sees

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Logue> Lionel Logue, an unorthodox

Australian <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_therapy> speech therapist

played by <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Rush> Geoffrey Rush.

The two men become friends as they work together, and after his

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VIII_of_the_United_Kingdom> brother

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VIII_abdication_crisis> abdicates, the

new king relies on Logue to help him make a radio broadcast at the beginning

of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II> World War II.

The film has received widespread acclaim, all performances are excellent and

it is a thoroughly enjoyable and moving experience,that could easily be seen

more than once.

Critics have said:

"Colin Firth gives a masterful performance in The King's Speech, a

predictable but stylishly produced and rousing period drama" Rotten Tomatoes

The Port fairy Film Society will screen the film and all funds raised will

go to the World Vision appeal. Please come along, bring some friends and

provide support to recovery from this devastating world event. Rated M and

goes for 118 minutes. The Film screens at 1:30 and 7:30 at the Reardon

Theatre and tickets can be purchased for $8.00 child/concession and $12:00

Adult /full price.