It’s 2024 and movies are on again in Raglan. For early January, Movies at the Old School, 5 Stewart Street, Raglan has three movies. New release TWO TICKETS TO GREECE plus award winners OPPENHEIMER and TWO TICKETS TO GREECE.
First up is TWO TICKETS TO GREECE is on Saturday afternoon at 4.45pm followed by OPPENHEIMER on Saturday night at 7.30pm. PAST LIVES is on Sunday afternoon at 4.30pm.
Door sales from 30 mins before session times. You can reserve seats or buy tickets at http://raglanmovies.nz
The Old SChool Arts Centre office is closed till the 8th January.
Jan 6: TWO TICKETS TO GREECE
Three fabulous femmes – Laure Calamy, Olivia Côte and Kristin Scott Thomas – star in the wildly entertaining new comedy from writer/director Marc Fitoussi (Folies Bergère, Call My Agent!) about estranged childhood friends who tentatively reunite for a trip to the Greek Islands.
NZ LISTENER Sarah Watt, 5/5 Stars “A fresh French take on a familiar set-up of older woman off on a dream holiday Thoughtfully scripted, well-acted and fun French coming-of-middle-age film for femmes.”
NZ French Film Festival, “Two Tickets to Greece is an out-and-out crowd-pleaser, a breezily delightful tale of female camaraderie, stoked by laughter, tears and, of course, great scenery.”
LE PARISIEN, 4/5 Stars “Wonderful! There is a charm to this bittersweet comedy of two forty-somethings who seek to reinvent their lives. At the end, we are happy and a little sad like coming back from a trip, when everything did not go exactly as planned, but we had some wonderful encounters. “
TWO TICKETS TO GREECE |Comedy | M Violence, offensive language, sexual references & nudity 110mins | French with English subtitles
Saturday 6th January 4.45pm
Saturday 20th January 7.30pm
Ticket prices: $16 Adults, $14 Concession and $9 Children. RCAC Members $12.
Raglan Movies at the Old School, 5 Stewart St, Raglan 3225.
Book online: raglanmovies.nz, (Office closed until 8th January)
Door sales from 30 mins before session times.
Licensed bar & homemade snacks on sale.
TWO TICKETS TO GREECE
Recently divorced, and watching helplessly as her only son leaves home, Blandine (Côte) is struggling to find her footing again. So when her former best friend Magalie (a scene-stealing Calamy), loud and fearless, suddenly resurfaces, she allows herself to be spontaneous for a change… The two will take the trip they always dreamed of as teenagers, to Amorgos, the amazing location where Luc Besson’s The Big Blue was shot.
But as they head off towards their destination, it’s soon apparent that Magalie’s very different approach to holidaying – and to life – could lead Blandine to her breaking point…and beyond!
Starring Laure Calamy, Olivia Côte and Kristin Scott Thomas
Writer/Director Marc Fitoussi
Comedy | M Violence, offensive language, sexual references & nudity 110mins | French with English subtitles
Jan 6: OPPENHEIMER
8 nominations for 2024 Golden Globe Awards
2023 New York Critics Awards – Best Director and Best Cinematographer
Graeme Tuckett Stuff-Waikato Times, 5/5 Stars “Not just Christopher Nolan’s best, but one of this century’s key movies.”
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
OPPENHEIMER |M Sex scenes, offensive language, nudity & suicide 180mins | USA, UK
Saturday 6th January 7.30pm
Sunday 21st January 4.30pm
Ticket prices: $16 Adults, $14 Concession and $9 Children. RCAC Members $12.
Raglan Movies at the Old School, 5 Stewart St, Raglan 3225.
Book online: raglanmovies.nz, (Office closed until 8th January)
Door sales from 30 mins before session times.
Licensed bar & homemade snacks on sale.
OPPENHEIMER
Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is an epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.
The film stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Emily Blunt as his wife, biologist and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer.
Oscar® winner Matt Damon portrays General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, and Robert Downey, Jr. plays Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Academy Award® nominee Florence Pugh plays psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie plays theoretical physicist Edward Teller, Michael Angarano plays Robert Serber and Josh Hartnett plays pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence.
Oppenheimer also stars Oscar® winner Rami Malek and reunites Nolan with eight-time Oscar® nominated actor, writer and filmmaker Kenneth Branagh.
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: David Krumholtz,Cillian Murphy, Kenneth Branagh, Jason Clarke, Rami Malek, Emily Blunt, Dane DeHaan, Olivia Thirlby, David Dastmalchian, Matt Damon, Josh Hartnett, Matthew Modine, Matthias Schweighöfer, Alden Ehrenreich, Florence Pugh, Tony Goldwyn, Benny Safdie, Jack Quaid, Alex Wolff, Michael Angarano, Robert Downey Jr., Dylan Arnold
M Sex scenes, offensive language, nudity & suicide 180mins | USA, UK
Jan 7: PAST LIVES
5 nominations for 2024 Golden Globe Awards
BIF: 2023 Award for Best International Independent Film
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best First Film
STUFF – WAIKATO TIMES, James Croot 5/5 Stars “An evocative, emotion-inducing romantic drama that will overwhelm you when you least expect it. A pitch-perfect paean to childhood crushes and lost loves.”
The acclaimed New York set indie drama about a Korean immigrant in a tricky love triangle.
PAST LIVES |M Offensive language 106 mins| English and Korean with English subtitles
Sunday 7th January 4.30pm
Saturday 20th January 5.00pm
Ticket prices: $16 Adults, $14 Concession and $9 Children. RCAC Members $12.
Raglan Movies at the Old School, 5 Stewart St, Raglan 3225.
Book online: raglanmovies.nz, (Office closed until 8th January)
Door sales from 30 mins before session times.
Licensed bar & homemade snacks on sale.
PAST LIVES
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. 20 years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
Director: Celine Song
Producers: Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, David Hinojosa
Actors: John Magaro, Teo Yoo, Jojo T. Gibbs, Greta Lee
Screenwriters: Celine Song
M Offensive language 106 mins| English and Korean with English subtitles