August is shaping up to be a great month at the movies for Bellingen. It seems the selection of boutique films is resonating with audiences around the Shire, with August being no exception. On August 30th two Australian films (Women He’s Undressed, Paper Planes) hit the Big Screen along with two awarded foreign-language films (Samba, Tangerines).
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“Australia produces international hit films each year, punching well above our weight as a national film industry,” states Sunday At The Pictures’ Artistic Director Kate Howat. “Women He’s Undressed is a brand-new film direct from the Sydney Film Festival. It chronicles the life of the three-time Oscar winning Aussie Costume Designer Orry-Kelly, who dressed all the big stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood, including Marilyn Monroe, Rita Heyworth, and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca.”
Women He’s Undressed Director, Australian Gillian Armstrong (Oscar & Lucina, Little Women, My Brilliant Career), has kindly provided an introduction to the Bellingen screening of her new film.
Another runaway international hit this year was the new Aussie family film Paper Planes (Sam Worthington, Ed Oxenbould) about a young boy’s dream to win the International Paper Plane Competition. Prior to the film there will be Bellingen’s very own paper plane competition in the Hall with great prizes to be won, starting from 1:30pm.
Rounding out the four film sessions are Samba, from the filmmakers behind ‘The Intouchables’, and the Premiere of the first Estonian movie ever nominated for a foreign-language Oscar, Tangerines; the 2015 anti-war film about a tangerine farmer mediating between two wounded soldiers from opposing sides of the Georgian conflict.
Sunday At The Pictures is held on the last Sunday of the month at Bellingen Memorial Hall. Tickets and film info are available through www.satp.com.au.
