For Friday 6th and Saturday 7th January 2023, Movies at the Old School, 5 Stewart Street, Raglan has three movies. First up is WHINA on Friday 6th January at 7pm. For Saturday at 5pm, we have the final screening of WHEN THE COWS COME HOME. On Saturday at 8.00pm, the new release movie THE ROAD DANCE is on. (No movies on Sunday as the Raglan Creative Market is on.)
Book online: http://raglanmovies.nz. Door sales from 30 mins before session times. Licensed bar & homemade snacks on sale at these screenings. Entry prices: Adults $15, Concession $12, RCAC Members $12, Children $8. The reduced concession rate is for $12 concession (student, seniors or CS cards).
WHINA
Stuff/ Waikato Times Graeme Tuckett, 4.5/ 5 Stars. “Great performances from all of the cast, but the absolute stars here will always be Miriama McDowell and Rena Owen, playing Whina as a grown and elderly woman respectively”
Rena Owen (Once Were Warriors), Miriama McDowell (Coming Home in the Dark) and Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne (Cousins) play cherished Māori activist Dame Whina Cooper throughout the years in this biopic directed by James Napier Robertson (The Dark Horse) and Paula Whetu Jones (Waru).
WHINA |PG, Violence 112 mins, New Zealand 2022
Director: James Napier Robertson, Paula Whetu Jones
Cast: Rena Owen, James Rolleston, Miriama McDowell, Vinnie Bennett, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne
Friday 6th January 7pm, Saturday 21st January 5.00pm, Sunday 5th February 7.30pm
Ticket prices: $15 Adults, $12 Concession and $8 Children.
Raglan Movies at the Old School, 5 Stewart St, Raglan 3225.
Book online: raglanmovies.nz, call into the Old School office Mon-Fri 10am to 2pm. (Office closed public holidays)
Door sales from 30 mins before session times.
Licensed bar & homemade snacks on sale.
Rena Owen (Once Were Warriors), Miriama McDowell (Coming Home in the Dark) and Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne (Cousins) play cherished Māori activist Dame Whina Cooper throughout the years in this biopic directed by James Napier Robertson (The Dark Horse) and Paula Whetu Jones (Waru).
Festival/Awards:
2022: Sydney Film Festival, Māoriland Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, Aussie and Kiwi Film Festival Prague, Hawai’i International Film Festival.
Director: James Napier Robertson, Paula Whetu Jones
Cast: Rena Owen, James Rolleston, Miriama McDowell, Vinnie Bennett, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne
PG, Violence 112 mins, New Zealand
THE ROAD DANCE
Based on the acclaimed novel by John MacKay, The Road Dance is adapted for the screen and directed by Richie Adams. Inspired by true events, this period drama centres on a young woman in a small community on the Isle of Lewis (off the coast of Scotland) in the years leading up to World War I.
Graeme Tuckett Stuff 4/5 Stars “The Road Dance is a sweeping epic of a type we don’t see much of any more. Despite the isolated and confined setting of the island – although we do travel to France with Murdo at times – this is still a film which absolutely fills the screen with startling land and seascapes at the merest provocation.”
THE ROAD DANCE | M, Violence & sexual violence 116 mins UK 2022
Director: Richie Adams
Cast: Morven Christie, David Brooks, Hermione Corfield, Felicity Keenan, Ali Fumiko Whitney
Thursday 6th January, Sunday 22nd January 4.30pm, Saturday 4th February 5.00pm
Ticket prices: $15 Adults, $12 Concession and $8 Children.
Raglan Movies at the Old School, 5 Stewart St, Raglan 3225.
Book online: raglanmovies.nz, call into the Old School office Mon-Fri 10am to 2pm. (Office closed public holidays)
Door sales from 30 mins before session times.
Licensed bar & homemade snacks on sale.
Life in the Scottish Hebrides is harsh – the edge of the world some call it. For the beautiful Kirsty (Hermione Corfield), her love for Murdo and their shared dreams of America promise escape from the scrape of the land and a stifled destiny. But the Great War changes all when Murdo is conscripted. The night before the young men go off to battle, tragedy is set in motion as villagers swirl and sup at a “road dance.”
Kirsty herself faces the horrors of a sexual assault that leaves her pregnant—and with few options…
WHEN THE COWS COME HOME
Observational New Zealand documentary from veteran independent filmmaker Costa Botes charting the unusual life of musician, journalist, artist and cow whisperer, Cambridge framer Andrew Johnstone.
Graeme Tuckett, Waikato Times/ Stuff 4.5/5 Stars: “An appropriately bucolic, unrushed Kiwi gem of a movie”
WHEN THE COWS COME HOME |Documentary | Exempt 104 Minutes | 2022 NZ
Produced, Directed & Edited by Costa Botes
Sunday 4th December 4.30pm
Saturday 7th January 5.00pm
Ticket prices: $15 Adults, $12 Concession and $8 Children.
Raglan Movies at the Old School, 5 Stewart St, Raglan 3225.
Book online: raglanmovies.nz, call into the Old School office Mon-Fri 10am to 2pm. (Office closed public holidays)
Door sales from 30 mins before session times.
Licensed bar & homemade snacks on sale.
After a series of failures in love and life, a social misfit returns to his family’s farm near Cambridge, where he discovers an unexpected and bewitching affinity with cows.
Veteran Kiwi filmmaker Costa Botes’ latest feature follows the daily routines of herdsman Andrew Johnstone, who lives on his parents farm, looking after a large group of beef cattle.
He is thoughtful, highly articulate and well-informed, and in the course of his varied life has played many roles, from poet, journalist, and radio broadcaster, to farmer, fencer and rock star.
In this delightful and thought-provoking documentary, we discover the life of a man who has suffered tragedy and disappointments, but has ultimately found his way to healing and contentment, giving us all pause for thought and providing some rollicking good yarns along the way.
Cinematography & Sound by Costa Botes
Additional Photography by Murray Milne & Andrew Johnstone
Original Music Score by Tom McLeod
Sound Mix by Phil Burton at Underground Sound
Produced, Directed & Edited by Costa Botes
104 Minutes