This weekend, the Raglan Old School Arts Centre has another three movies with award winning actors and movies that have been nominated for and won awards.
On March 1st at 4.30pm, ANORA, the OSCAR Nominee for BEST PICTURE and BEST ACTRESS is first up. This film has already won Golden Globes and BAFTAs and also won the Palme d’Or at Cannes.
On Saturday night at 7.30pm is the second screening of MARIA about Maria Callas and starring Angelina Jolie. This film is also an OSCAR nominee and has already won in other festivals including the PALM SPRINGS FILM FESTIVAL with the 2025 Winner Desert Palm Achievement Award Actress Angelina Jolie.
On Sunday 2nd at 4.30pm there will be the first screening of WICKED. This story of how a green-skinned woman framed by the Wizard of Oz becomes the Wicked Witch of the West; feature film is based on the Broadway musical.
WICKED nominated for ten 2025 OSCARS including BEST PICTURE and BEST ACTRESS
WICKED 2025 Winner Golden Globe Cinematic and Box Office Achievement
WICKED 2025 BAFTA wins for Costume Design and Production Design
Door sales from 30 mins before session times. You can reserve seats or buy tickets at http://raglanmovies.nz
Mar 1, Apr 6: Movie – ANORA
In this winner of Palme d’Or, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and OSCAR nominated love story from Sean Baker (Tangerine, Red Rocket) a Las Vegas sex worker (Mikey Madison in an Oscar-nominated role) gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she and a young Russian oligarch fall for each other. However, when news of their impulsive marriage reaches his homeland, his parents make moves to get their union annulled.
Married to the mob: Mark Eydelshteyn and Mikey Madison make a striking couple” – 4.5/5 Stars NZ Listener
ANORA | R 139 mins | USA
Saturday 1st March 4.30pm, Sunday 6th April 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,.
Door sales from 30 mins before session times.
Licensed bar & homemade snacks on sale.
Anora is simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking, and generally being where at an intersection between audience adoration and true frontrunner status.
Directed by: Sean Baker
Starring: Karren Karagulian, Yuriy Borisov, Mikey Madison, Ross Brodar, Ivy Wolk, Lindsey Normington, Mark Eydelshteyn, Vache Tovmasyan
Produced by: Sean Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Quan
ANORA | R 139 mins | USA
Mar 2, 5: Movie – WICKED
Wicked makes a triumphant move from the stage to the screen.
“The completed film is pretty much a triumph. It honours the stage show in all the ways that matter, but revels in some set-pieces that could only be achieved on a screen..” – 4.5/5 Graeme Tuckett Stuff/ Waikato Times
WICKED | PG 160 mins | USA
Sunday 2nd March 4.30pm, Saturday 15th March 4.00pm
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, 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.
Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, stars Emmy, Grammy and Tony winning powerhouse Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, Broadway’s The Color Purple) as Elphaba, a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover her true power, and Grammy-winning, multi-platinum recording artist and global superstar Ariana Grande as Glinda, a popular young woman, gilded by privilege and ambition, who has yet to discover her true heart.
DIRECTOR: Jon M. Chu
WRITER: Winnie Holzman
STARRING: Peter Dinklage, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Erivo, Keala Settle, Ariana Grande, Bowen Yang, Marissa Bode, Jonathan Bailey, Bronwyn James, Ethan Slater
WICKED | PG 160 mins | USA
Mar 1: Movie – MARIA
Academy Award®-winner Angelina Jolie is Maria Callas, one of the most iconic performers of the 20th century in acclaimed director Pablo Larrain’s operatic MARIA. The film follows the American-Greek soprano as she retreats to Paris after a glamorous and tumultuous life in the public eye. MARIA reimagines the legendary soprano in her final days as the diva reckons with her identity and life.
“There is an overt theatricality and artificiality which gives the film its life..” – 4/5 Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
MARIA | M Off. Lang & Drug Use 123 mins | USA
Saturday 1st March 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, or 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.
Maria Callas is remembered as an unparalleled artist and a groundbreaking presence in the world of opera, though others have painted her as a tragic figure, a woman whose own life mirrored the art form she loved. “You are born an artist, or you are not,” Callas famously said. “And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a firework. The artist is always there.”
Directed by: Pablo Larraín
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Alba Rohrwacher, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Pierfrancesco Favino, Haluk Bilginer, Valeria Golino
Produced by: Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Juan de Dios Larraín, Lorenzo Mieli
MARIA | M Off. Lang & Drug Use 123 mins | USA