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Double Bill Sun 29 Jan
The Alternative Awards Season
I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER (15) at 1.45pm
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SWISS ARMY MAN (15) at 3.45pm
BOOK TICKETS
This Dostoevsky in Minnesota tale is a wry, stylish and beguiling chiller, unexpectedly and pleasingly macabre. John Wayne Cleaver is a troubled teen living in a remote town in the American Midwest. Bullied for being a misfit, he struggles to suppress his homicidal thoughts. When a series of grisly murders occur in the town he decides to use his knowledge of serial killers to investigate, even though it means embracing his inner demons… A streak of macabre humour breaks up the chills and character insights and the wonderful Christopher Lloyd, intoning poetry over dying embers, is alone worth the price of admission.
SWISS ARMY MAN is a surreal original that is both outrageously funny and deeply moving, Hank (Paul Dano) is stranded on a desert island, having given up all hope of ever making it home again. Suddenly everything changes when Manny (Daniel Radcliffe) washes up on shore and an epic adventure begins as the unlikely pair learn about life, love and masculinity. This debut feature from the two video directors collectively known as ‘Daniels,’ mixes highbrow ideas with lowbrow comedy – big questions, big laughs – and certainly stands high in the year’s most intriguing, imaginative and rewarding category.
The Double Bill discount will automatically apply at the checkout!
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Sun 5 Feb at 1.45pm
NT LIVE – AMADEUS (15)BOOK TICKETS
An encore performance recorded live from the National Theatre on Thursday February 2. The performance lasts approximately 3 hours including interval.
Music. Power. Jealousy. Peter Shaffer’s multi award-winner premiered at the National Theatre in 1979 and went on to become the basis for Milos Forman’s memorable Academy Award winning movie.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world – and he’s determined to make a splash. Awestruck by his genius, court composer Antonio Salieri has the power to promote his talent or destroy his name. Seized by obsessive jealousy he begins a war with Mozart, with music, and ultimately, with God.
“Epic. Wonderful. A stupendous revival” Time Out
“A soaring song of genius and jealousy” Evening Standard
“Note-perfect. Fresh, vital and musically inventive” Daily Telegraph
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Sun 12 Feb
Life/Art/Performance Double Bill
GIMME DANGER + THE R&B FEELING: THE BOB PARKS STORY (15) BOOK TICKETS
Jim Jarmusch’s cinematic offering to these punk gods traces the always raucous and frequently calamitous history of the Stooges from their beginnings to the present. Alongside contributions from animator James Kerr, and glimpses of Lucille Ball and a shirtless Yul Brynner, there’s a bonanza of archival performance footage, photos and interviews plus of course inimitable contributions from the outspoken, charismatic, improbable survivor and legend that is Iggy Pop.
The extraordinary story of “pretty weird” performance artist Bob Parks, who left 1970’s England to do his peculiar thing in Los Angeles. That journey ended with a collapsed career, a failed marriage, and a massive breakdown which found him walking through the L.A. Streets in a bikini. THE R&B FEELING is a rich and poignant, hilarious and heartbreaking, look at artistic endeavour, mental instability, tortured relationships and human kindness – and is certainly unlike anything you are ever likely to see.
With an introduction by Bob Parks himself – live on stage at the RIO
“If the purpose of conceptual or performance art is to make you think, then The R&B Feeling is a masterpiece…
The Time
“Hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure: a film that is as inventive as its brilliant, troubled, subject.”
Frieze
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