FLICKS CINEMA Lopdell House Theatre Titirangi
Film screenings are every fortnight on a FRIDAY apart from when a Theatre production is on, always best to check our website or e-mail [email protected] We also screen SPECIAL EVENT films on some Wednesday nights and we are able to arrange private screenings and fund raising film nights.
Showing new release art-house, drama and documentary films from all over the world. New laser projection and sound facilities, comfortable seating, bar and lounge.
TO ENSURE a SEAT at FLICKS screenings TEXT your booking to 0210 222 5558 and you will get confirmation of the booking by Text. or you can E-mail your booking to [email protected] and your booking will be confirmed.
TICKET PRICES:
We have not raised our ticket prices in five years but now have to adjust to the extra costs of acquiring and licensing films. So ticket prices for 2024 are as follows
Adult: $15 Senior/Student $12 all shows.
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LOPDELL FILM FESTIVAL
Wednesday 19th to Saturday 22nd June
Tickets for all films available on eventfinda.co.nz
and on door.
Enquiries telephone 09 817 2583
Tickets: Adult $10 and Children (14yrs under) $5 from eventfinda.co.nz and on door if not sold out.
Please note that phone bookings are not an option, as the Lopdell Office is not manned full-time at the moment.
Wednesday 19th 7pm Live music from 'Sugarmouse' in the lounge bar to start the festival evening. Bar open from 7pm complimentary refreshments.
8pm 'The Colour Room' (M) 107 mins Drama The Colour Room follows the journey of a determined, working class woman, Clarice Cliff, as she breaks the glass ceiling and revolutionises the workplace in the 20th century. Clarice Cliff (Dynevor) is a vivacious young factory worker in the industrial British midlands of the 1920s - Bursting at the seams with ideas for colours and shapes, Clarice takes more and more dangerous risks - but she manages to stay one step ahead of the workhouse and impress the eccentric factory owner Colley Shorter (Goode) on the way with her talent and innovation.
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Thursday 20th
6pm 'Anselm' (E) 94 mins Documentary Anselm Kiefer is one of the greatest contemporary artists. His past and present diffuse the line between film and painting, thus giving a unique cinematic experience that dives deep into an artist's work and reveals his life path. The director [Wim Wenders] has fashioned a mesmerizing engagement with Kiefer’s art, including just enough face time with the subject to elevate the work’s immersive, bleak majesty, rather than give it an aggrandizing spin. Visually breathtaking - an unbelievably gorgeous movie.
8pm 'The Road to Patagonia' (M) 90 mins. Documentary. Brand new release from Madman. A fascinating road-trip documentary. Collating 16 years worth of footage from Australian ecologist, director and star Matty Hannon's life as he looks to come to terms with his place in the world and accomplish a goal of surfing and exploring the west coast of the Americas from Alaska to Patagonia, The Road to Patagonia is a heartfelt and sincere documentary that is sure to be an audience favourite across the globe.
Stunningly captured by Hannon and Heather Hillier, who joins Hannon in his film and life journey here, Patagonia is one of the most visually incredibly and naturalistic documentaries.
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Friday 21st
10-30am 'The Miracle Club' (M) 86 mins. Drama/Comedy Starring Maggie Smith, Brenda Fricker.
Ballygar, Ireland, 1967: a hard-knocks community that marches to its own beat, rooted in traditions of loyalty, faith and togetherness. There's just one tantalizing dream for the women of Ballygar to taste freedom and escape the gauntlet of domestic life: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes. And with a little benevolent interference from their cheeky and rebellious priest, close friends Lily, Eileen, Dolly and her son Daniel are the 'lucky' few to win this ticket of a lifetime at their riotous local raffle night.
4pm 'Inspector Sun' (PG) 98 mins. Animation/Comedy/Family
After being fired from his detective job after a mission gone awry, Inspector Sun boards a seemingly normal plane for a much-needed vacation. When Dr. Spindlethorp receives a threat on his life, Sun is back on the case. Trapped in a web of lies, Sun must find his suspect before it's too late.
6pm 'Wicked Little Letters' (M) 90 mins. Comedy/Drama/Mystery Starring Olivia Colman, Timothy Spall, 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a dark, absurd scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger-than-fiction true story, "Wicked Little Letters" follows two neighbours: deeply-conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley). When Edith and fellow residents start to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Rose is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a national uproar, and a trial ensues. However, as the town's women, led by Police Officer Gladys Moss (Anjana Vasan), begin to investigate the crime themselves, they suspect that something is amiss and Rose might not be the culprit after all.
8pm 'The Eight Mountains' (E) 140 mins. Drama/Adventure An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains is a landmark cinematic experience as intimate as it is monumental, as deep as it is expansive. Adapting the award-winning novel by Paolo Cognetti, directors Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch (The Broken Circle Breakdown) portray through observant detail and stunning landscape photography the profound, complex relationship between Pietro (Luca Marinelli) and Bruno (Alessandro Borghi), who first meet as children when Pietro's Turin family vacations in an isolated village at the base of the Alpine slopes. Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. 97% Rotten Toms.
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Saturday 22nd
11am 'Archive Hour' (E) 60 mins A selection of short films from the New Zealand Film Archive. FREE ENTRY
come along and grab a tea or coffee and go back in time to the 50's 60's and 70's
3pm 'The King and I' (PG) 140 mins. Drama/Musical. Classic Movie from 1956 Presented by Sir Bob Harvey
Mrs. Anna Leonowens and her son Louis arrive in Bangkok, where she has been contracted to teach English to the children of the royal household. She threatens to leave when the house she had been promised is not available, but falls in love with the children. A new slave, a gift of a vassal king, translates "Uncle Tom's Cabin" into a Siamese ballet. After expressing her unhappiness at being with the King, the slave decides to make an attempt to escape with her lover. Anna and the King start to fall in love, but her headstrong upbringing inhibits her from joining his harem. She is just about to leave Siam but something important she finds out makes her think about changing her mind.
6pm 'One Life' (PG) 110 mins. Drama starring Sir Anthony Hopkins. The true story of Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria, living in desperate conditions with little or no shelter and food, and under threat of invasion. He immediately realized it was a race against time. How many children could he and the team rescue before the borders closed? He helped rescue 669 predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis.
8pm 'The Moon Is Upsidedown' (R16) 100 mins. Drama /Comedy In this New Zealand black comedy, three women - a duped mail-order bride, a numbed anaesthetist determined to have a romantic weekend, and an empty nester on an unexpected mission of mercy - each navigates her way through an unfamiliar landscape and the contours of the human heart. The Moon is Upside Down will be a polarising and provocative entry into the local roster. It swings from tender and reflective one moment, to raucous and gleefully filthy the next, without striking a false note.
It is a film that asks us to fill in some of the backstory ourselves and be prepared to change our opinions of the people on-screen. There is certainly no one here who is wholly bad or blameless, except Natalia perhaps, who is probably the latter.
This is a literate, clever and blackly funny gem. It won't be for everyone, but I think if you like The Moon is Upside Down at all, you'll probably love it, Graham Tuckett. STUFF.
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