After a pause on Monday, the Raglan Film Festival gets underway again on Tuesday 19th.
Reserve online: raglanmovies.nz or phone 825 0023. Door sales from 30 minutes before screening times. Raglan Old School Arts Centre in Stewart Street.
For further details about each movie showing at the festival, plus the Raglan Arts Film Festival (RAFFA) screenings, pick up copies of the official Film Festival leaflet and brochure, available at the Old School and various outlets around town.
Or download them now: Film Festival Feature Films Leaflet 2017 Film Festival Brochure 2017 or check out the Raglan Film Festival website Feature Films and RAFFA entries.
First up is the children’s film My Pet Dinosaur, an imaginative action adventure. A troubled town is plunged into chaos when a boy accidentally makes a new friend.
Tuesday 19 Sept, 5.30pm. Action Adventure Family/97 mins/PG Coarse Language /Australia.
Raoul Peck’s outstanding Oscar-nominated documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, narrated by Samuel L Jackson, presents an astonishing and challenging examination of race in the USA.
Tuesday 19 Sept, 7pm, and Friday 22 Sept, 5.30pm. Documentary/90 mins/USA.
After a full house on Sunday, The Artist’s Garden, returns. It tells the story of the American Impressionist movement and the gardens they painted.
Wednesday 20 Sept, 7pm. Documentary/90 mins/USA.
PERFECT STRANGERS – smartphones, selfies in a dinner table Italian comedy
Perfect Strangers presents a fiendishly clever take on decorum in the age of technology posing the question: how well do we really know those closest to us?
Thursday 21 Sept, 4.30pm. Comedy Drama/96mins/M Offensive Language and Sexual Themes/Italy. Subtitles.
Lords of Dogtown follows the ‘Z-Boys’ skate team in Venice, California. It’s the 1970s, a drought has an unexpected side effect: as people empty their swimming pools, a group of teen surfers from the ‘Dogtown’ area of Venice Beach, California move in with skateboards, and a new sport is born. Based on a true story, this film follows ‘Z-Boys’ skate team as they revolutionize competitions with a more aggressive form of skateboarding, propelling three of them into stardom but shredding their friendships. Soak up the time and place.
Friday 22 Sept, 8pm. $8 with skateboard, $10 without! Biography/Rated M,
Sexual References/107 mins/USA.
The story of prolific rapper, actor, poet and activist Tupac Shakur is the subject of All Eyez On Me, showing on Sunday 17 Sept, 7pm, and Thursday 21 Sept, 7pm. Biographical Drama/139 mins/R16 Violence, Offensive.
Licensed bar and homemade snacks on sale at all screenings. Adult single $15, concession $12, child $8. Multi-entry special: Six sessions for the price of four $60.
Reserve online: raglanmovies.nz or phone 825 0023. Door sales from 30 minutes before screening times. Raglan Old School Arts Centre, 5 Stewart Street, Raglan.