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Times for week Thursday 4th April – Wednesday 10th April
Paramount Cinemas - 25 Courtenay Place, Wellington - www.paramount.co.nz - ph (04) 384
4080
Times for week Thursday 4th April –
Wednesday 10th April
| Film | Thurs | Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon | Tues | Wed |
| Eternity - 79 min (M) | 3:50pm 8:40pm | 3:50pm 8:40pm | 3:50pm 8:40pm | 3:50pm 7:15pm | 3:50pm 5:20pm | 3:50pm 8:40pm | 3:50pm 8:40pm |
| Liberal Arts - 93 min (M Contains adult themes) | 4:30pm | 4:30pm | 4:30pm | 3:15pm | 4:05pm | 4:30pm | 4:30pm |
| No - 115 min (M violence & offensive language) | 2:15pm 6:20pm 8:30pm | 2:15pm 6:20pm 8:30pm | 2:15pm 6:20pm 8:30pm | 1:00pm 5:05pm | 1:55pm | 2:15pm 6:20pm 8:30pm | 2:15pm 6:20pm 8:30pm |
| Searching for Sugarman - 85 min (M) | 1:40pm 5:10pm | 1:40pm 5:10pm | 1:40pm 5:10pm | 1:40pm 5:10pm | 1:40pm | 1:40pm 5:10pm | 1:40pm 5:10pm |
| Seven Psychopaths - 111 min (R16 graphic violence, sex scenes and offensive language) | 8:40pm | 8:40pm | 8:40pm | 6:55pm | 6:55pm | 8:40pm | 8:40pm |
| The Imposter - 95 min (M) | 3:20pm 6:50pm | 3:20pm 6:50pm | 3:20pm 6:50pm | 3:20pm | 3:20pm | 3:20pm 6:50pm | 3:20pm 6:50pm |
| The Red House - 75 min (PG Adult Themes) | 2:20pm 7:10pm | 2:20pm 7:10pm | 2:20pm 7:10pm | 2:20pm 7:10pm | 2:20pm 7:10pm | 2:20pm 7:10pm | 2:20pm 7:10pm |
| The Room - 100 min (M) | 10:45pm | ||||||
| The Whale - 89 min (G) | 5:25pm | 5:25pm | 5:25pm | 5:25pm | 5:25pm | 5:25pm | 5:25pm |
| Wellington Film Society: Beau Travail - 93 min (M) | 6:15pm |
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| Eternity | This locally made sci-fi mystery is Alex Galvin's follow-up to his critically acclaimed When Night Falls. Set in the near future, a police detective is forced to take part in an experimental computer game to avoid being demoted or even fired from the force. The case the game sets for him to solve, is the most challenging of his career: a locked room murder of a wealthy property investor. The further he investigates, the more complex the case becomes. Soon Richard realizes far more is at stake than the murder he's supposed to solve. His life is on the line and unless he manages to solve the case, and fast, he may not have any future at all. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Liberal Arts | Jesse is 35 and working as an Admissions Officer at a New York university. It wasn’t the career he had planned for himself, but wanting to stay within the safe walls of an ivory tower, he took it. When he receives an invitation the the retirement of one of his favorite professors at the Ohio univeristy he attended, he leaps at the chance. The reluctant retiree introduces Jesse to Zibby, a 19-year-old daughter of a friend, at a party. Despite the 16 year age gap, the pair hit it off, indulging in the kind of idealistic conversation that can only be held by college kids. Still enthralled with the promise he felt during his undergrad years, Jesse feels more at home with Zibby than he ever has in his real, workaday world. While on campus, Jesse also reonnects with his acerbic romantic poetry teacher, and this scene is perhaps the highlight of the film. We are also introduced to other campus ‘characters’, all young people striving to find their niche in a world that demands conformity from people who long to stand out. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No | In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, Rene Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Searching for Sugarman | The extraordinary story od a Detroit musician who was a star in South Africa without his knowledge. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Seven Psychopaths | Films about people writing films are not that rare, but this is certainly the bloodiest one I can remember seeing, outdoing even Barton Fink for death count. Colin Farrell plays Marty, and Irish screenwriter with an alcohol problem and a script with nothing but a title Seven Psychopaths. Marty wants to make a Bhuddist film from this title, something his best friend Billy says probably quite rightly is insane. Billy's a little unstable, but a loyal friend who is all too willing to help Marty out with his script. He's the sidekick of Hans, who makes a good living out of dognapping. But things go more than a little pear shaped when Billy snatches shih-tzu, Bonny, who belongs to seriously crazy mob boss Jimmy Costello | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Imposter | Another one for the 'truth-is-stranger-than-fiction' file, this film tells the story of French con-artist Frederic Bourdin, who managed to convince a Texan family that he was their 16 year-old son and brother who went missing three years earlier. Numerous questions are raised by this even-handed doco, the most central is how could this man have convinced the family he was the person he said he was? Nicholas Barclay was a slight, blue-eyed blonde who would have been 16 when he was 'found' in Spain. Bourdin is a stocky 23 year-old, dark-haired and brown-eyed. Yet no one in the family questioned that he was their Nicholas - even when he couldn't speak English without a thick French accent. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Red House | The film centers around a couple in their 60s. Lee is an aging activist who spens his time poring over local planning documents and weeding out the dodgy clauses. When they met, over twenty years ago, they spoke not a word of each other’s languages. Now Jia speaks a fractured English, and Lee is attempting to learn her Mandarin. When duty to her aging parents calls Jia back to China, Lee follows. The city Jia left behind has changed many times over since she left and it’s a world away from the tranquil red house in the bush where she and Lee currently live. Duncan captures the contrast between the two places brilliantly and shows how the love between Lee and Jia is strong enough to withstand the juxtaposition of their two worlds. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Whale | Narrated by Ryan Reynolds with playfulness and tenderness, this a touching story of man and nature. When a two-year-old orca is separated from its pod, it shows up in a bay near Vancouver and begins to interact with the kayakers and other vessels in the area. She stays for four years. The small town's admiration and affection for the creature doesn't wain. The Department of Fisheries attempts to deal with the attention by limiting the public's contact with the whale, named Luna. The local Inuits are convinced Luna is the reincarnation of their recently deceased chief and protest against this decision. When the Fisheries Department attempt to lure Luna into a massive net, the tribe row their canoes and lead the whale away with their song. |
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