Opening Night: London River
A mother’s unconditional love is the theme of this haunting drama set against the backdrop of the 2005 London bomb attacks. Brenda Blethyn stars as a war widow who leaves her farm in Guernsey to travel to the big city in search of her daughter. Read more...
Opening Night: Vogue Theatre - Thursday, February 4th, 2010, 8:00pm - Buy Tickets: Film Only | Film & Reception
Vogue Theatre - Tuesday February 9 - 2:30PM [Buy Tickets]
Smith Rafael Film Center - Wednesday February 10 - 7:00PM
Balibo
This thriller derives its edge from being based on the true story of five Australian TV reporters who went missing in East Timor in 1975 just as Indonesia prepared to invade the tiny nation and the subsequent cover-up of the men’s fates. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Saturday February 6 - 7:00PM [Buy Tickets]
Smith Rafael Film Center - Monday February 8 - 7:00PM
Bran Nue Dae
Based on one of Australia’s best loved stage shows, this delightful musical follows an Aboriginal teen on his journey to find himself and escape an oppressive boarding school. Geoffrey Rush is the priest who runs the school and, yes, he sings and dances along with the rest of the engaging cast. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Sunday February 7- 7:00PM [Buy Tickets]
Smith Rafael Film Center - Tuesday, February 9 - 7:00PM
Broken Lines
A torrid extramarital affair plays out against the backdrop of ethnically diverse North London. Doraly Rosa and Dan Fredenburgh wrote the script and star as the illicit lovers barely able to control their passion. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Thursday February 11- 2:30PM [Buy Tickets]
Candy
This is the last film Heath Ledger made in his native Australia. He acted in it right after “Brokeback Mountain’’ and the liberation he feels to express himself is apparent. Geoffrey Rush and Abbie Cornish co-star in this tale of drugs and obsessive love. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Saturday, February 6- 9:15PM [Buy Tickets]
Crush
“Fatal Attraction’’ for the college set. A university student finds himself stalked by an obsessed girl who may or may not have supernatural powers. Aussie star Emma Lung makes a sexy siren to the handsome Chris Egan (”Eragon”). Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Saturday, February 6, 11:30PM [Buy Tickets]
The Daisy Chain
In this haunting Irish dramatic thriller, two-time best Oscar-nominee Samantha Morton plays an emotionally fragile mother who moves to her husband’s home village in the wind-swept Irish countryside after the tragic death of their first child. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Friday February 5 - 2:15PM [Buy Tickets]
Dean Spanley
A sterling cast led by Peter O’Toole, Jeremy Northam and Sam Neill breathes life into this gentle Edwardian comedy about spiritualism and reincarnation. Northam is a publisher who becomes enthralled by Neill’s clergyman and gradually buys his claim that he is a reincarnated dog. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Friday, February 5 - 4:30PM [Buy Tickets]
Disgrace
John Malkovich gives an unsparing performance as a Cape Town professor who resigns his post in disgrace over an affair with a student. Moving in with his daughter in the hinterlands, he witnesses a horrible act of violence. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Wednesday, February 10 - 7:15PM [Buy Tickets]
Don't Look Now
Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland are parents struggling with the loss of a child. They move to Venice for a change of scenery where they encounter a psychic who claims to see their daughter’s spirit and leads them on a spooky journey into the unknown. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Wednesday, February 10, 12:00pm [Buy Tickets]
Eamon
Filmed on location off the rugged coast of County Wicklow, this is a portrait of a troubled young family and the tensions that arise due to the close relationship between mother and son and the exclusion and humiliating rejection of the father. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Tuesday, February 9, 5:00PM [Buy Tickets]
The Eclipse
A picturesque Irish seaport town makes an ideal backdrop for this combination romance and ghost story. You can see why famed Irish dramatist Conor McPherson was drawn to direct—his plays like “The Weir’’ deal with ghostly matters. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Tuesday, February 9, 7:15pm [Buy Tickets]
The End of the Line
This eye-opening documentary alters our view of the ocean as an inexhaustible resource and exposes the damage that is being done to the seas by industrial food production, unchecked capitalism and rising consumer demand. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Wednesday, February 10, 4:45pm [Buy Tickets]
Helen
This beautifully filmed debut by directors Joe Lawlor and Christine Malloy focuses on a college coed selected to play a missing girl in a police reconstruction retracing her last known movements. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Saturday, February 6, 3:15pm [Buy Tickets]
Hush
While driving with his sleeping girlfriend at his side, a tired and irritable young man swerves, barely avoiding an accident with a white truck. Its back door opens, briefly revealing a woman caged up inside. Or is it something else? Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Wednesday, February 10, 9:45PM [Buy Tickets]
The Jammed
This engrossing social thriller takes an unflinching look at human trafficking and the sex slave industry in Melbourne. Inspired by court transcripts and actual events, the tight and riveting screenplay introduces us to five women brought to Melbourne illegally, all linked by a bored, single insurance clerk who unwittingly becomes involved in the search for the missing women. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Monday, February 8, 5:00pm [Buy Tickets]
Kings
Five men reunite for a friend’s wake 30 years after they all left Ireland. As they reminisce, they come to terms with the harsh reality of their lives. Famed Irish actor Colm Meaney (“The Commitments,’’ “The Damned United’’) stars as the one who became successful but still has his own problems. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Tuesday, February 9, 12:15pm [Buy Tickets]
Lantana
Anthony LaPaglia’s role as a cop who investigates the disappearance of a famous psychiatrist while his marriage is falling apart brought him to the attention of the creators of “Without a Trace,’’ who cast him as the head of a FBI missing persons bureau. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Monday, February 8, 2:30pm [Buy Tickets]
Mary and Max
Using distinctive claymation, Elliot tells the story of an unlikely pen pal relationship between a lonely girl in Melbourne and an obese New Yorker. Voicing the title characters, Toni Collette and Philip Seymour Hoffman make you feel the gamut of the pair’s emotions. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Monday, February 8, 12:15pm [Buy Tickets]
Men's Group
Six men from varying walks of life get together weekly to lament their predicaments. This heartfelt drama offers glimpses into their everyday existence, especially their attempts at personal relationships and makes you care intensely about of their fate. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Sunday, February 7, 3:45PM [Buy Tickets]
Our Wonderful Home
In Ireland, a husband struggles to keep his family in a comfortable lifestyle as he faces financial ruin. Unknown to him, his wife has taken a lover and his daughter is on drugs to keep her weight down. Refused a car on her 18th birthday, she makes a decision that will have dire consequences. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Friday, February 5, 12:15pm [Buy Tickets]
Peter & The Wolf
The familiar story of a boy who belatedly discovers the world can be dangerous is set to London’s Philharmonia Orchestra’s new recording of Prokofiev’s composition. With the absence of dialogue the film relies on the familiar music and action to tell the much-loved tale, which has been enhanced by director Suzie Templeton. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Sunday, February 7, 11:00am [Buy Tickets]
(Children Receive FREE Admission When Accompanied By Adult)
Red Riding 1974
The “Red Riding Trilogy’’ is a chilling neo-noir epic based on actual events. The first entry of the British crime drama introduces us to the Yorkshire Ripper, a serial killer who terrorized northwest England in the 1970s and 1980s. Read more...
Vogue Theatre: Friday, February 5, 7:00pm [Buy Tickets] | Sunday, February 7, 9:30pm [Buy Tickets]
Red Riding Trilogy Film Pass:
Friday, February 5, 7:00pm [Buy Film Pass] | Sunday, February 7, 9:30pm [Buy Film Pass]
Red Riding 1980
In the second film of the trilogy set six long years later the Ripper has not yet been found and local police fail to make any headway in the case. Read more...
Vogue Theatre: Friday, February 5, 9:15pm [Buy Tickets] | Monday, February 8, 9:30pm [Buy Tickets]
Red Riding Trilogy Film Pass:
Friday, February 5, 7:00pm [Buy Film Pass] | Sunday, February 7, 9:30pm [Buy Film Pass]
Red Riding 1983
The final entry in this ambitious trilogy opens with another young girl having disappeared. This recent murder has some alarming similarities to the previous abductions. A chief detective is forced to come to terms with the fact that he may have helped convict the wrong man. Read more...
Vogue Theatre: Friday, February 5, 11:30pm [Buy Tickets] | Tuesday, February 9, 9:35pm [Buy Tickets]
Red Riding Trilogy Film Pass:
Friday, February 5, 7:00pm [Buy Film Pass] | Sunday, February 7, 9:30pm [Buy Film Pass]
The Red Shoes
This 1948 classic remains the best film ever made about the ballet world. Moira Shearer is unforgettable as a young ballerina torn between her ascendant career and love for a composer. Read more...
Smith Rafael Film Center - Sunday, February 7, 4:00pm
Smith Rafael Film Center - Sunday, February 7, 7:00pm
Rough Aunties
This stirring documentary follow an outspoken, fearless, compassionate group of women who work at Bobbi Bear, a non-profit advocacy organization based in South Africa. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Wednesday, February 10, 2:30pm [Buy Tickets]
Smith Rafael Film Center - Monday February 8 - 7:00PM
Salute
Most people remember the black power salute at the 1968 Mexico Olympics. Less well known is the story this poignant documentary tells of the white Australian sprinter Peter Norman who showed solidarity with his black competitors and the price he paid for his sympathetic response. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Sunday, February 7, 1:00pm [Buy Tickets]
The Secret of Kells
This sweeping story about the power of the imagination told with dazzling animation and eye-popping colors will appeal to audiences of all ages. The hero is a young boy living in an abbey who is recruited to help complete an ancient book filled with secret wisdom and powers. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Saturday, February 6, 11:00am [Buy Tickets]
(Children Receive FREE Admission When Accompanied By Adult)
Shadows in the Sun
Jean Simmons’ fans will be delighted to see her back on the big screen for the first time in 15 years in this gentle family drama. She stars as an ailing widow living along the Norfolk coast. When her young male caretaker brings her marijuana to soothe her ills, she’s happy as a clam but her son and grandkids are appalled. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Saturday, February 6, 1:00pm [Buy Tickets]
Vogue Theatre - Thursday, February 11, 12:15pm [Buy Tickets]
The Square
The temptress is a familiar standby in film noir. The twist in this nifty contemporary example of the genre is that she comes from a working class background in Sydney. That doesn’t’ make her any less potent when she entices her married lover to arrange to have someone break into her house to steal a hefty bag of cash from her husband’s latest sordid crime. Noir fans can guess this leads nowhere good. Read more...
Vogue Theatre - Monday, February 8, 7:15pm [Buy Tickets]
Looking for Eric
Anyone who’s idolized a sports figure will get a special chuckle out of this disarming comedy about a sad sack postal worker in Manchester who slavishly follows the career of real-life soccer great Eric Cantona. One day Cantona materializes genie-like in his fan’s home and helps him sort out his messy life. Appearing as himself, Cantona is likeable and engaging. Read more...
Closing Night: Vogue Theatre - Thursday, February 11, 7:30pm - Buy Tickets: Film Only | Film & Reception
