All NZ Film Societies Auckland Hamilton Palmerston North Nelson Canterbury Queenstown Dunedin WELLINGTON FILM SOCIETY Faced with the usual abundance of meaningless  choices, it's valuable to have someone else do the  choosing. These are the films of the books that no  one reads, but there are hundreds of people watching.  - Tim Corballis, describing The Wellington Film Society as one of his  favourite places - Sunday Magazine, Sunday Star-Times, 22 May 2005
2013 SCHEDULE All screenings at the Paramount, 25 Courtenay Place, at 6.15pm Mondays. All Members Only. *Except films screened in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut in June, July and September which are also open to the public with admission by donation at the door (notes only). March 4 NO (Pablo Larrain, Chile/USA 2012)  115 mins  HD  M                Thanks to Paramount Cinemas March 11 Annual General Meeting (approx 20 mins), followed by: LA JETEE (Chris Marker, France 1962) 28 mins 16mm  PG A SENSE OF HISTORY (Mike Leigh, UK 1992) 28 mins 35mm  PG March 18 TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (Monte Hellman, USA 1971) 102 mins  35mm  M March 25 THE AWFUL TRUTH (Leo McCary, USA 1937)  91 mins  DV  PG April 1 No Screening - Easter Monday April 8 BEAU TRAVAIL (Claire Denis, France 1999) 93 mins  35mm  M April 15 BOY MEETS GIRL (Leos Carax, France 1984) 100 mins  35mm  R16   April 22 BADLANDS (Terrence Malick, USA 1973)  94 mins  35mm  R16 Aoril 29 TROUBLE EVERY DAY (Claire Denis, France/Germany/Japan 2001)  102 mins  DV  R18 May 6 HELENO (Jose Henrique Fonseca, Brazil, 2011) 116 mins  HD  M In association with the Reel Brazil Film Festival May 13 LES AMANTS DU PONT-NEUF (Leos Carax, France 1991) 125 mins  35mm  M May 20 35 SHOTS OF RUM (Claire Denis, France/Germany 2008) 100 mins  DV  M May 27 THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN (Germaine Dulac, France 1928) 40 mins  DV  PG THE BLOOD OF A POET (Jean Cocteau, France 1932) 55 mins  DV  PG  June 3 No Screening - Queen’s Birthbay June 10 ERASERHEAD (David Lynch, USA 1977) 85 mins 35mm  M June 17* BEATS BEING DEAD (Christian Petzold, Germany 2011) 88 mins  HD  M June 24 THE BALLAD OF GENISIS AND LADY JAYE (Marie Losier, USA/France 2011) 70 mins  DV Exempt July 1* DON’T FOLLOW ME AROUND (Dominik Graf, Germany 2011) 88 mins  HD  M July 8* ONE MINUTE OF DARKNESS (Christoph Hochhausler, Germany 2011) 90 mins  HD  R13 July 15 NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT (Patricio Guzman, France/Chile 2010)  90 mins  HD  Exempt July 22 FREE RADICALS: A HISTORY OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM (Pip Chodorov, France 2010) 82 mins DV  E July 26-August 11 NZ International FILM FESTIVAL   Embassy, Paramount, etc. August 19 DESIGN FOR LIVING (Ernst Lubitsch, USA 1933) 91 mins  HD  PG August 26 THE PIANO IN A FACTORY (Zhang Meng, China 2010)  107 mins  HD  M Sept 2 DEEP END (Jerzy Skolimowski, UK/Germany 1970) 90 mins  HD  R18 Sept 9* THE JOYLESS STREET (G W Pabst, Germany 1925) 151 mins  DV  PG Sept 16 RUGGLES OF RED GAP (Leo McCarey, USA 1935) 91 mins  HD  G Sept 23 LES VALSEUSES (Bertrand Blier, France 1974) 117 mins  HD  tba  Sept 30* KINSHASA SYMPHONY (Claus Wischmann/Martin Baer, Congo/Germany 2010) 95 mins  DV Exempt Oct 7 MR TREE (Han Jie, China 2011) 88 mins  DV  tba Oct 14 MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR LAWRENCE (Nagisa Oshima, NZ/Japan/UK 1983) 123 mins  HD  M Oct 21 TROUBLE IN PARADISE (Ernst Lubitsch, USA 1932)  83 mins  DV  PG Oct 28 No Screening - Labour Day Nov 4 VIDEODROME (David Cronenberg, Canada 1983)  89 mins  HD  R18 Nov 11 BLACK SUN (Gary Tarn, UK 2005)  70 mins  DV  PG Nov 18 TONY TAKITANI (Jun Ichikawa, Japan 2004) 75 mins  DV  M Nov 25 VIVA MARIA ! (Louis Malle, France 1965) 122 mins  HD  PG In memory of Michael Thomas
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