Films — by Collection

Lumière Cinemas

The New Zealand International Film Festival is always one of the best times of the year, but there is an added excitement this year, as we have a new home: the Lumière. I’m looking forward to seeing some unimpeachable classics on the big screen. Make sure you book a half-day of quiet solitude to fully appreciate Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev, one of the best investigations of the creative process committed to any medium, as well as the final-final-version2-ACTUALLYFINAL version of Apocalypse Now. It will be interesting to see whether Werner Herzog treats Gorbie better than HBO’s Chernobyl did, but I’m most excited to see some of the modern masters getting stuck into their work – High Life and In Fabric have been on my must-see list since I first heard about them. And as a fan of late 90s French electronica, I can’t go past Quentin Dupieux aka Mr Oizo’s Deerskin. — James Dann, Lumière Cinemas

Apocalypse Now: Final Cut

Francis Ford Coppola

Welcome back to the jungle with Brando, Duvall, Fishburne and Hopper for Francis Ford Coppola’s final – and finest – version of the ultimate Vietnam War epic.

High Life

Claire Denis

A forbidding spaceship carrying death row inmates hurtles towards oblivion in Claire Denis’s long-awaited, intensely hypnotic sci-fi opus.

God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya

Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija

Teona Strugar Mitevska

Teona Strugar Mitevska’s Macedonia-set satire charts the empowering, thought-provoking journey of a woman who challenges patriarchy and gender equality while finding herself in the process.

Meeting Gorbachev

Werner Herzog, André Singer

Former Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev gets his due in [Werner Herzog’s] engaging and touching valedictory to one of the most pivotal figures of the 20th century.” — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu

Céline Sciamma

Winner of Best Screenplay and the Queer Palm at Cannes, Céline Sciamma’s striking 18th-century tale of romantic obsession burns bright with female desire and the craft of a masterful filmmaker.

Beats

Brian Welsh

As EDM and ecstasy-fuelled raves are targeted by 90s lawmakers, two downtrodden Glasgow teenagers are determined to taste the action. Director Brian Welsh (The Entire History of You) makes it a night to remember.

Animals

Sophie Hyde

Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat (Arrested Development) are thirty-something best friends in Dublin, where partying hard is still their way to have fun, but the reality of getting older is getting harder to ignore.