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UID:anufg.org.au/films/3696
DESCRIPTION:<b><i>Yes\, you read that right. This screening is FREE for a
 nyone and everyone to attend\, so why not come along and check out the b
 est way to see movies in Canberra? Find out more <a href="https://www.fa
 cebook.com/events/1803549566529075/">HERE</a></b></i>!\n\nAfter a car cr
 ash leaves his hands mangled\, gifted-yet-arrogant neurosurgeon Stephen 
 Strange (Cumberbatch) finds his career over and his life in ruins. Despe
 rate for healing\, he looks for a solution beyond Western medicine and h
 eads to Nepal to seek out a purported miracle cure. What he finds instea
 d is The Ancient One (Swinton) – an enigmatic sorcerer who opens up Stra
 nge’s mind to an unseen world of mysticism and alternate dimensions. Dis
 covering his true calling\, Strange commences training in the mystic art
 s\, not just to regain the use of his hands\, but to also stave off dark
  forces being conjured by a turncoat ex-disciple (Mads Mikkelsen).\n\nDe
 buting in comic book form in 1963\, Doctor Strange and his trippy\, psyc
 hedelic world was no doubt a product of the drug-induced haze of the era
 . But leave it to Marvel Studios to turn another one of their B-list cha
 racters into a visually awesome and thrillingly fun big-screen adventure
  (Iron Man was far from a household name before Marvel’s first film).\n\
 nFrom the very first scene it’s clear that Doctor Strange is something d
 ifferent. Characters bend gravity\, time and reality to their will\, res
 ulting in stunning action sequences that can only be described as Incept
 ion meets The Matrix by way of Salvador Dali. Though ostensibly an origi
 n story\, the film and its Oscar-calibre cast manage to put a playful an
 d distinctive spin on Marvel’s winning formula for their 14th (!) consec
 utive hit. So conjure up a portal to the Film Group to kick off 2017 wit
 h Doctor Strange!\n\n\n- Adrian Ma
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170213.html#film-3696
SUMMARY:Doctor Strange (Free Screening)
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170216T103800Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170216T083000Z
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UID:anufg.org.au/films/3698
DESCRIPTION:The Accountant (Affleck) is someone who makes an off-the-grid
  living doing auditing work for criminals\; and he’s twice as dangerous 
 as they are\, because he has to be. A mathematical genius who grew up wi
 th autism and a military father\, he’s learned to defend himself against
  anyone. He has something better than CPA accreditation – he has autisti
 c licence. Sorry.\n\nIn our story three things happen to The Accountant 
 for the very first time: he takes on a job that’s not actually illegal\;
  he starts to attract the attention of the FBI\; and he begins to fall f
 or a woman (Kendrick)\, also an accountant\, and she with him. Two of th
 ese three things are not quite what they appear.\n\nThe starting point f
 or the film seems to have been: ‘Let’s have an action star with the leas
 t exciting possible profession’\; and that\, so popular folklore assures
  us\, is accounting. And yes\, it’s fun watching an impassive introvert 
 dressed like a Mormon as he punches and shoots his way through a thicket
  of mercenary assassins – but the plotting is smart\, and the character 
 is intriguingly developed\, so that the film has more to offer us than j
 ust this guilty pleasure.\n\n\n- Henry Fitzgerald
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170216.html#film-3698
SUMMARY:The Accountant
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170217T103100Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170217T083000Z
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UID:anufg.org.au/films/3699
DESCRIPTION:Ron Howard returns to direct another of Dan Brown’s (“The Da 
 Vinci Code”) Robert Langdon novels\, Inferno\, which finds the famous sy
 mbologist (again played by Tom Hanks) on a trail of clues tied to the gr
 eat Dante himself. When Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amn
 esia\, he teams up with Sienna Brooks (Jones)\, a doctor he hopes will h
 elp him recover his memories. Together they race across Europe and again
 st the clock to stop the unleashing of a global virus that would wipe ou
 t half of the world’s population that was created by the late nutcase bi
 llionaire Bertrand Zobrist (Ben Foster). But there are traitors aplenty\
 , making Langdon’s task all the more difficult and dangerous.\n\nFor the
  first half hour or so I had no idea what was going on and wondered whet
 her I was supposed to remember the events of Langdon’s previous outing i
 n Angels & Demons. But bear with it. Perhaps this is Ron Howard’s attemp
 t to replicate Langdon’s fragmented state of mind.\n\nIf nothing else In
 ferno served as a wonderful tourism ad for Italy\, as I found myself thi
 nking ‘gee\, maybe we should go to Florence as it looks beautiful’\, fol
 lowed shortly after by my husband suggesting we should go and see Venice
  before it sinks. If you can’t make it to Italy\, seeing Inferno might b
 e the next best option.\n\n\n- Jacinta Gould
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170217.html#film-3699
SUMMARY:Inferno
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170217T123400Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170217T104100Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170217T104100Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3700
DESCRIPTION:Multi-award winning director Ang Lee brings his unusual persp
 ective to Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk\, based on the best-selling no
 vel by Ben Fountain. The film\, set in 2004\, is told from the point of 
 view of 19-year-old private Billy Lynn who\, along with his fellow soldi
 ers in Bravo Squad\, becomes a hero after a harrowing Iraq encounter and
  is brought home temporarily for a celebration tour. \n\nSet across a si
 ngle day\, the soldiers are to be paraded at halftime before a huge Than
 ksgiving Day football crowd. Lee contrasts the cheerleaders\, marching b
 ands\, fireworks\, noise and excitement with flashbacks of the brutality
  and horror of war. \n\nThis movie is rich with interesting characters p
 ortrayed by a talented cast. Fresh-faced English actor Joe Alwyn is perf
 ect as Billy and Kristen Stewart again shows her real talent playing Bil
 ly’s sister. Steve Martin brings out his most sly persona as a cynical b
 usinessman who understands that patriotism sells. It’s good to see Tim B
 lake Nelson (O Brother\, Where Art Thou?) again as a wealthy Texan drill
 er.\n\nLike other seminal work from Taiwanese Ang Lee\, he brings an out
 sider’s insight into the ways that Americans demonstrate their national 
 fervour and to his portrayal of their society and culture in a film that
  you will not forget quickly.\n\n\n- Brett Yeats
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170217.html#film-3700
SUMMARY:Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170218T074800Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170218T060000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170218T060000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3701
DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nThe plot seems familiar… w
 here have we seen this before? Oh\, that’s right – it’s from every secon
 d MGM musical ever made. Yes folks\, the ‘let’s put on a show’ musical i
 s back!\n\nAnd you know what – we can see why it was so popular in the f
 irst place. For one thing\, we don’t have to worry about all the laborio
 us woodwork required to make the songs fit: we simply sit back and watch
  to see how the animators have staged them. We don’t even have to like t
 he songs in order to like watching them.\n\nIn the overarching plot we f
 ollow the efforts of an amiably optimistic koala (McConaughey) trying to
  rescue his historic theatre from ruin. He’s staging a talent show\; and
  after the advertised value of prize money is accidentally increased by 
 a factor of 100\, he finds he actually has some talented applicants\, ea
 ch with their own unique reason for wanting to win. They’re all worth wa
 tching and any one of them could become the star of his or her own film 
 (but hopefully they won’t). I was particularly fond of the faux-rebellio
 us teenage porcupine\, probably because she’s voiced by Scarlett Johanss
 on.\n\nI have just one reservation about this film: the artwork (art dir
 ection and character animation) is merely ordinary\, well below what I k
 now Illumination is capable of\, let alone other studios. But I’m put in
  my place: watching this immensely fun film with an audience\, it was ob
 vious that no one cared.\n\n- Henry Fitzgerald
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170218.html#film-3701
SUMMARY:Sing
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170218T104400Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170218T080000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170218T080000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3702
DESCRIPTION:A teenager named Star (newcomer Lane) relies on discarded foo
 d in dumpsters to feed the children in her care. When an opportunity ari
 ses to join a group of youths selling magazine subscriptions door-to-doo
 r\, Star leaves her abusive home and travels to Kansas City\, knocking b
 ack booze and drugs with her newfound friends. She is particularly drawn
  to Jake (LaBeouf)\, the charismatic chief salesman.\n\nDirector Andrea 
 Arnold has shown herself to be an articulate storyteller when it comes t
 o tales of youthful passion. Movies like Fish Tank and Wuthering Heights
  depict characters on the brink of adulthood going after love and life. 
 This is her first American film and it’s a road trip worth taking. Whils
 t not being plot-driven\, it is frequently breathtaking in its raw-nerve
  depiction of the pursuit of the American Dream\, millennial style. The 
 film has intentionally been framed in the Instagram-like 4:3 ratio\, all
 owing the cinematographer to zoom in on faces with emotional effect whil
 st also making other parts of the imagery bold and dream-like. And it ha
 s the best bus-singalong (the title track\, by Lady Antebellum) since Ca
 meron Crowe’s Almost Famous.\n\nIf your tendency will be to dismiss this
  movie’s characters as rowdy exhibitionists with tattoos and hippety-hop
  music\, then I am sorry to say you are officially An Old Fart\, and hav
 e failed to see this marvellous movie for what it is: an ode to youthful
  impulsiveness and recklessness\, with characters familiar with life’s c
 ruelties\, and all set amongst America’s rural poverty and class divisio
 ns.\n\n\n- Travis Cragg
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170218.html#film-3702
SUMMARY:American Honey
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170219T095500Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170219T080000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170219T080000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3792
DESCRIPTION:<b><i>Yes\, you read that right. This screening is FREE for a
 nyone and everyone to attend\, so why not come along and check out the b
 est way to see movies in Canberra? Find out more <a href="https://www.fa
 cebook.com/events/1329100120486653/">HERE</a></b></i>!\n\nAfter a car cr
 ash leaves his hands mangled\, gifted-yet-arrogant neurosurgeon Stephen 
 Strange (Cumberbatch) finds his career over and his life in ruins. Despe
 rate for healing\, he looks for a solution beyond Western medicine and h
 eads to Nepal to seek out a purported miracle cure. What he finds instea
 d is The Ancient One (Swinton) – an enigmatic sorcerer who opens up Stra
 nge’s mind to an unseen world of mysticism and alternate dimensions. Dis
 covering his true calling\, Strange commences training in the mystic art
 s\, not just to regain the use of his hands\, but to also stave off dark
  forces being conjured by a turncoat ex-disciple (Mads Mikkelsen).\n\nDe
 buting in comic book form in 1963\, Doctor Strange and his trippy\, psyc
 hedelic world was no doubt a product of the drug-induced haze of the era
 . But leave it to Marvel Studios to turn another one of their B-list cha
 racters into a visually awesome and thrillingly fun big-screen adventure
  (Iron Man was far from a household name before Marvel’s first film).\n\
 nFrom the very first scene it’s clear that Doctor Strange is something d
 ifferent. Characters bend gravity\, time and reality to their will\, res
 ulting in stunning action sequences that can only be described as Incept
 ion meets The Matrix by way of Salvador Dali. Though ostensibly an origi
 n story\, the film and its Oscar-calibre cast manage to put a playful an
 d distinctive spin on Marvel’s winning formula for their 14th (!) consec
 utive hit. So conjure up a portal to the Film Group to kick off 2017 wit
 h Doctor Strange!\n\n\n- Adrian Ma
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170219.html#film-3792
SUMMARY:Doctor Strange (Free Re-Screening)
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170221T104100Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170221T083000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170221T083000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3703
DESCRIPTION:As this movie opens\, you are confronted with the sounds of h
 eavy breathing and moving bodies. It sounds like a sex scene\, but there
 ’s a hint of aggression to it. Eventually the horrifying reality is reve
 aled – a woman is being raped by a masked intruder.\n\nDirector Paul Ver
 hoeven has decided to film a script that does not let anyone off easily.
  It’s basically a psychological study of how one woman responds to this 
 assault. However\, the response is most probably going to be not one you
  expect. She doesn’t report it to police\, nor does she seek bloody reve
 nge (the two Hollywood standard storylines after a rape is committed).\n
 \nElle is one of the best films I saw last year. At its centre is a mesm
 erising\, Oscar-nominated performance from the always great Isabelle Hup
 pert\, playing a character who herself is far from an ideal human being 
 (the dinner scene later in the movie is one to behold). You never really
  know whether she is a plucky survivor\, an absolute psycho or a woman s
 o scarred by childhood trauma that she responds to everything life throw
 s at her with a resolute calm. Verhoeven seems to be channelling fellow 
 European provocateur director Michael Haneke (this actually reminded me 
 of The Piano Teacher\, also starring Huppert). And it’s also quietly\, w
 ickedly funny.\n\nLook\, if Power Rangers is the movie you are most look
 ing forward to in this semester’s programme\, then this isn’t the movie 
 for you. But\, for everyone else\, Elle is a must-see.\n\n\n- Travis Cra
 gg
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170221.html#film-3703
SUMMARY:Elle
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170223T104300Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170223T083000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170223T083000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3704
DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nIt’s a strange and thrilli
 ng experience to see a film set in JK Rowling’s magical world without ha
 ving read the book first. Well\, I mean\, I have read the book\, obvious
 ly\, but “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” was a tiny charity pu
 blication in 2001\, describing only a few magical creatures…\n\nI digres
 s. This film is a joy. As someone who half-lives in the Harry Potter uni
 verse\, it’s wondrous to see it expanded – like a surprise compartment i
 n a magic suitcase. We see the magical world at a different time and pla
 ce: 1926 New York\, through the eyes of Hogwarts-educated Newt Scamander
  (Redmayne)\, who finds it all as curious as we do (They say ‘No-Maj’ in
 stead of ‘Muggle’! They have a Magical Congress\, not a Ministry!). Newt
  is on beast-related business\, and his magic suitcase houses a multitud
 e of animals\, including a Niffler (a sort of cuddly\, avaricious\, esca
 pe-artist platypus).\n\nNewt loses his suitcase\, is temporarily arreste
 d\, and befriends a no-maj (Fogler) – a relationship forbidden in this n
 ew world\, which seems besieged on all sides. The dark wizard Grindelwal
 d is gaining power\; a sinister anti-magic association draws crowds on s
 treet corners\; and an inchoate\, deadly force is terrorising the city.\
 n\nAnd that’s\, maybe\, the first twenty minutes: it only ramps up from 
 there. The plot is tight and twisty\; the effects are stunning\; and the
  magical creatures are ADORABLE AND CUDDLY\, no matter how many spikes\,
  fangs or talons they have. I want all of them.\n\n- Helena Sverdlin
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170223.html#film-3704
SUMMARY:Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170224T102200Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170224T083000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170224T083000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3705
DESCRIPTION:Rachel (Blunt) likes to watch people from the train. She like
 s to tell herself stories about what their lives are like – rather too o
 bsessively\, for she also starts to resent it when these strangers don’t
  live up to her expectations. Then something dreadful happens to one cou
 ple she’s fantasising about – someone who lives near where she used to l
 ive. It seems she might know the person responsible. In fact\, it starts
  to look as though she might be the person responsible: she’s an alcohol
 ic\, and she’s all too aware she has alarming gaps in her memory. All sh
 e can do is try to fill in these gaps\, hoping the guilty party turns ou
 t to be someone other than herself.\n\nThe wintry and overcast suburban 
 American setting\, the off-balance mood\, the background of everyone hav
 ing secrets and everyone with something to feel guilty about\, the hidde
 n violent intrigue within marriages… all of these things screamed Gone G
 irl to critics and audiences\, and the film was unfairly maligned for fa
 iling to live up to an example it resembled only by accident\; and super
 ficially at that.\n\nThe Girl on the Train is more of a conventional thr
 iller-with-a-twist – and none the worse for being so\; take it on its ow
 n terms and it works beautifully. Blunt gives one of her better performa
 nces: a woman constantly on the edge of losing her grip\, but with enoug
 h residual resourcefulness and good sense for us not to want to give up 
 on her.\n\n\n- Henry Fitzgerald
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170224.html#film-3705
SUMMARY:The Girl on the Train
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170224T123100Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170224T103200Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170224T103200Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3706
DESCRIPTION:Ben (Mortensen) and wife Leslie (Trin Miller)\, socialists at
  heart and disillusioned with corporate America\, have chosen to raise t
 heir six kids off grid – literally – in a forest camp in the Pacific Nor
 thwest of the USA. The children’s education is rigorous\, both mentally 
 and physically. They’re not hippies\, unless modern hippies stalk and ki
 ll deer with knives and have a thorough knowledge of political science.\
 n\nThe film opens with the death of Leslie\, who commits suicide while i
 n hospital for bipolar disorder. Leslie wanted a funeral in line with Bu
 ddhist philosophies\, but her staunchly conservative parents take charge
  of her remains and organise a Christian funeral near their home in New 
 Mexico. They blame Ben for her illness and death through his influence a
 nd subsequent deviation from their conservative lifestyle. Leslie’s fath
 er Jack (Langella) goes so far as to threaten to have Ben arrested if he
  comes to the funeral. The children want to be there\, however\, so Ben 
 takes them. Meanwhile\, the children’s isolation has left them unprepare
 d for the outside world they experience as they drive south\, setting th
 e film up for a clash-of-wills\, a clash-of-culture and a coming-of-age 
 road trip.\n\nThe movie could have dealt with these themes via clichés b
 ut stops short of doing so. It has inconsistencies\, however\, and it’s 
 a little uneven as though the director Matt Ross couldn’t quite decide w
 hat its main direction should be. Viewers who like to have clear-cut ‘go
 odies’ and ‘baddies’ in films won’t find them here. We’ve all got our fa
 ults\, including Ben\, and for him there’s also a coming-of-age of sorts
 . Come to the screening and see how that works out.\n\n\n- Dallas Stow
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170224.html#film-3706
SUMMARY:Captain Fantastic
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170225T101400Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170225T080000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170225T080000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3707
DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\n‘It is a period of civil w
 ar. Rebel spaceships\, striking from a hidden base\, have won their firs
 t victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle\, Rebel sp
 ies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire’s ultimate weapon\, the 
 DEATH STAR.’ – Opening crawl from A New Hope.\n\nDid you ever wonder abo
 ut that battle? Or how the spies managed to steal the plans and why they
  were vital enough to risk such a mission? Well come along and find out.
  Rogue One tells this tale\, and tells it well. Being a new story we get
  introduced to a whole range of characters led by the plucky survivor Jy
 n Erso (Jones). Jyn hasn’t had the easiest of lives\, but her father’s r
 ole within the Empire leads the Rebellion to track her down to help thei
 r head of intelligence Cassian Andor (Luna) on a vital mission. He bring
 s the delightful droid K-2SO (Tudyk) who is fantastic. I also loved the 
 blind Force user Chirrut Imwe (Yen) who joins the team during the first 
 part of their mission.\n\nIt’s visually spectacular and the final scenes
  are something you have to watch on the big screen. There are a few fami
 liar faces from the franchise who are great to see included\, but overal
 l it’s the story that makes Rogue One work and you don’t even have to be
  a mad fan to enjoy it. The Force is strong in this one.\n\n- Steven Cai
 n
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170225.html#film-3707
SUMMARY:Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170225T120200Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170225T102400Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170225T102400Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3708
DESCRIPTION:The latest from German director Tom Tykwer (best known for Ru
 n Lola Run and Perfume)\, this film follows Alan (Hanks)\, a salesman st
 ruggling with heat and local indifference and a pervasive sense of failu
 re as he and his team wait in the middle of the desert for an audience w
 ith the King of Saudi Arabia.  They hope to get the IT contract for the 
 new city he’s building\, and they hope their state-of-the-art holographi
 c conferencing technology will get it for them. Or rather\, Alan himself
  doesn’t hope for much\, but he goes through the motions. And he also do
 es something else: he starts exploring – and Tykwer knows how to make hi
 s exploration magical\, without making it seem as though he’s making it 
 magical.\nI have to admit: something about Saudi Arabia terrifies me\, a
 nd probably you\, too – it is a repressive\, totalitarian\, terrorism-ex
 porting theocracy\, after all. But iron curtains tend to magnify fears b
 eyond reason. An illustration: I was in a plane flying over the country 
 I saw nothing but grim red deserts and grim black mountains and enormous
 \, eerily perfect round circles dotting the landscape. Those circles cre
 eped me out\; I assumed they had something to do with oil\, and that if 
 you stood next to them it would be like being in Mordor. But it turns ou
 t they are in fact sewerage treatment plants\, converting waste to agric
 ulture. Up close\, they’re green.\nThis is the journey of Alan as he loo
 ks at Arabia up close.\n\n\n- Henry Fitzgerald
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170225.html#film-3708
SUMMARY:A Hologram for the King
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170301T102100Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170301T083000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170301T083000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3709
DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nThe most unique characteri
 stic of the human race is our capacity to create art. No other species d
 oes this. Can you imagine the sort of films a giraffe would make? Me nei
 ther.\n\nI’ll get to the point: Moonlight is a film that reminds us why 
 we make movies. It is visual\, visceral and\, above all\, a powerfully h
 uman experience that exemplifies the power of the medium. It is the sort
  of film that communicates ideas and evokes responses that can only be e
 xperienced through cinema. If you think that’s high praise\, do yourself
  a favour and take a chance on this film. It may not become your favouri
 te film ever\, but you won’t regret having seen it.\n\nIn less hyperboli
 c terms\, Moonlight is the story of a young black man told across three 
 defining chapters in his life growing up in a rough neighbourhood of Mia
 mi. As he goes from childhood to adulthood\, he struggles to find himsel
 f and his place in the world\, while experiencing the ecstasy and pain o
 f falling in love.\n\nYes\, the story is a small one and its cast devoid
  of marquee names\, but Moonlight is no less powerful or timeless than a
 ny star-studded Oscar-winning epic. Yes\, it centres on themes of race\,
  sexuality\, social inequality\, bullying and drug abuse – but it avoids
  clichés and somehow manages to be wholly universal in scope. You may ha
 ve nothing in common with these characters\, but this beautiful story of
  human connection and self-discovery will deeply resonate nonetheless.\n
 \n- Adrian Ma
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170301.html#film-3709
SUMMARY:Moonlight
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170302T102600Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170302T083000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170302T083000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3710
DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nTwelve giant Brazil-nut-sh
 aped UFOs arrive at seemingly random locations around the world. There t
 hey sit for weeks as mankind attempts to make contact\, all the while te
 nsion between nations of the world escalates as they disagree on how to 
 proceed.\n\nEnter Dr Louise Banks (Adams)\, a leading linguistic expert 
 engaged by the military (led by an in-form Whitaker) to help communicate
  with the aliens and find out why they have come to Earth – and whether 
 they pose a threat to mankind. As Louise and physicist Ian Donnelly (Ren
 ner) form a basic vocabulary with the seven-limbed extra-terrestrials an
 d begin to understand how to communicate\, tensions outside the ship esc
 alate to the brink of war as an animalistic fear breeds within society. 
 The situation is made more complicated when the aliens share what seems 
 to be a complex algorithm with Louise’s team.\n\nArrival is a masterpiec
 e. It tells a story that thrills and resonates emotionally in equal meas
 ure. It doesn’t talk down to its audience and still manages to convey po
 tentially complex ideas in an understandable\, engaging manner. The film
  looks magnificent. In a market full of empty effects-laden remakes and 
 reboots it is refreshing to see that Hollywood can still turn out genuin
 ely original content with the same quality bells and whistles.\n\n- Adam
  Gould
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170302.html#film-3710
SUMMARY:Arrival
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170303T083000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Do you want to know why Donald Trump won the US Presidential 
 election? Watch this film to understand.\n\nNo amount of hand wringing a
 t the result will make people understand the lingering effects of the 20
 08 global financial crisis on the many normal folk in America. Instead o
 f increasing prosperity\, health and earnings are on the decline. The on
 ly way to get ahead of debt or homelessness seems to be through crime (n
 ot coupons).\n\nHell or High Water is one of the best movies of 2016 (ti
 ed in my opinion with I\, Daniel Blake)\, and shows the dying rust-belt 
 towns and industries\, such as farming and manufacturing. It is a neo-We
 stern about a series of bank robberies carried out by two brothers\, who
  are trying to save the family farm after the death of their mother. The
  older brother (Pine) is calm and measured\; the younger (Foster) is rec
 kless\, volatile and an ex-criminal\, who missed his mother’s funeral wh
 ile inside and might have killed someone to land him there. A series of 
 holdups of the Texas Midlands Bank\, which almost have the farm in their
  clutches\, are targeted as fair game by the brothers\, who soon end up 
 with a cunning Texas Ranger (Bridges) on their trail. \n\nDo they manage
  to pull it off? Are there casualties? What does failed economic recover
 y look like for the man with no influence or importance? A hint would be
  the graffiti in the opening scene\, which sums up the undercurrent of t
 he movie.\n\n\n- Carol Christopher
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170303.html#film-3711
SUMMARY:Hell or High Water
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170303T102200Z
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DESCRIPTION:With the intensity of Black Swan\, the allure of director Nic
 olas Winding Refn’s earlier Drive\, and the audacity of Death Becomes He
 r\, this film treads a delicate path between the disturbing and the sati
 rical. Fresh from a string of arthouse action flicks\, the director’s pe
 rhaps surprising next step sees Elle Fanning squaring off against L.A. f
 ashionistas.\n\nFanning plays aspiring model Jesse\, who arrives in the 
 City of Angels with only good intentions. Little does she know a bevy of
  jealous and uncompromising starlets await\, who will stop at nothing to
  ruin her year. With Jena Malone’s kind-yet-creepy new friend\, and Kean
 u Reeves’ utterly unconscionable motel owner\, The Neon Demon explores t
 he quest for perfection through a uniquely unnerving lens.\n\nCritics ar
 e divided over this somewhat impressionistic film. Stunningly shot\, and
  with a transcendent score from Cliff Martinez\, a frequent (and ironic)
  complaint is the emphasis of style over substance. But the modern incar
 nation of the genre film often takes this line\, usually with great succ
 ess (see Under the Skin). Here\, there is a two-level effect: the plot a
 nd characterisation comprise a sharp critique of our obsession with beau
 ty\, while the stylistic elements contribute to a pervasive sense of dre
 ad\, building up to the proverbial shocking conclusion. If you know appr
 oximately what to expect\, you won’t be disappointed.\n\n\n- Stephen Man
 n
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170303.html#film-3712
SUMMARY:The Neon Demon
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170304T080000Z
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DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nMia (Stone) is an aspiring
  actress who spends her time between auditions serving lattes to movie s
 tars. Sebastian (Gosling) is an idealistic jazz musician making ends mee
 t by playing in dingy establishments. \nAfter opening with one of the mo
 st spectacularly choreographed musical numbers ever committed to film\, 
 the two meet for the first time stuck in morning traffic on a Los Angele
 s freeway. It’s far from love at first sight\, but of course that’s just
  the beginning. \n\nSeveral further chance encounters – and a series of 
 enchanting song-and-dance numbers – convince the dreamers that they are 
 meant for one another. And when they fall head over heels in love\, it’s
  nothing short of magical – both for them and for us. As their careers s
 tart to take off and pull them in different directions\, however\, the f
 ilm goes from sugar sweet to bittersweet\, culminating in a powerful and
  poignant ending.\n\nWords don’t do this film justice. La La Land is a f
 ilm to be experienced\; to be fully immersed and swept up in. Damien Cha
 zelle has been working on this love letter to old-school musicals for ye
 ars\, but was only able to get it made after the success of Whiplash. An
 d we should be grateful\, because the end result is one of the most orig
 inal and exuberant moviegoing experiences of the year\, as ambitious and
  star-reaching as the characters he’s created. With a record-matching 14
  Oscar nominations\, La La Land is currently the film to beat in the Bes
 t Picture Oscar race\, and it’s not hard to see why.\n\n- Adrian Ma
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170304.html#film-3713
SUMMARY:La La Land
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170304T101800Z
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DESCRIPTION:‘Live every day like it’s your last and someday you’ll be rig
 ht.’\n\nThe story begins in 1935\, when Bobby Dorfman (Eisenberg) heads 
 west to Los Angeles to join his Uncle Phil (Carell) who is a successful 
 Hollywood talent agent with Golden Era clients he name-drops at will. Ph
 il introduces Bobby to the world of glitz and glamour\, and eventually g
 ives Bobby a minor job and asks one of his secretaries\, Vonnie (Stewart
 )\, to show him around town. \n\nNaturally\, it was love at first sight 
 for Bobby as he was smitten with Vonnie from the moment she stepped into
  the office. Later\, when she told him that she was already attached\, i
 t seemed like that was that. (Of course it wasn’t\, otherwise it’d be a 
 terribly short movie.)\n\nCafé Society is about the romantic roads never
  travelled and the poignant ways in which change is inevitable. In recou
 nting how a young man finds and loses his first love\, director Woody Al
 len wants to suggest how the mistakes of youth can follow you for the re
 st of your life. The film is colourful\, it’s artistic and it had me fas
 cinated with their romance (or lack thereof) and what future lay ahead f
 or Bobby and Vonnie – even though Kristen Stewart was in the lead with h
 er usual deadpan expressions.\n\nAs a side note\, to be honest\, right t
 ill the end of the movie\, I had (and still have) no idea what Café Soci
 ety refers to… please do enlighten me if you know.\n\n\n- 
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170304.html#film-3714
SUMMARY:Café Society
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170306T083000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170306T070000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170306T070000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3791
DESCRIPTION:The ANU Film Group’s Annual General Meeting is your window in
 to the inner workings of the group – find out all of the behind the scen
 es stuff\, ask questions\, and take the opportunity to get in on the act
 ion.\n\nLast year was our 50th anniversary\, and to commemorate the occa
 sion we celebrated throughout the year with a bunch of special events an
 d activities. As a result there’s lots to fill you in on\, as well as se
 tting the scene for an exciting year ahead as we kick off the next 50 ye
 ars.\n\nMore importantly\, the AGM is when we appoint the new Film Group
  committee. The roles are many and varied and include working front of h
 ouse\, film selection\, promotion and community engagement\, and pretty 
 much any aspect that helps the group to run. We’d love to see some new f
 aces - no experience necessary\, just a willingness to commit a bit of t
 ime to help us continue to be the awesome group that you love. If you’d 
 like more info\, please contact us at info@anufg.org.au. We hope to see 
 you there.\n\n\n\n- ANU Film Group
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170306.html#film-3791
SUMMARY:ANUFG Annual General Meeting
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170307T100600Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170307T083000Z
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DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE CANBERRA\n\n
 Set in the picturesque town of Nevers in Central France\, Rosalie Blum i
 s made up of many likeable and unique characters. Vincent\, a male haird
 resser dominated by his widowed mother\, while on an errand encounters R
 osalie\, a local shop owner. Vincent feels they have met before but Rosa
 lie does not think so. He becomes obsessed with Rosalie and follows her 
 to try to understand her more. Vincent is left feeling perplexed after d
 iscovering some surprises about Rosalie.\n\nAfter becoming aware of her 
 stalker\, Rosalie retaliates by enlisting the help of her niece\, Aude\,
  to in-turn stalk Vincent. Aude\, together with her two quirky friends a
 nd well-meaning but awkward roomie\, quickly piece together Vincent’s ra
 ther predictable and bland life. They become convinced that Vincent has 
 done away with his mother and stashed her in the apartment above his. Vi
 ncent’s fun loving cousin tries to set him up with women to make him mor
 e of a man but to no avail\, as Vincent feels he still has a slim chance
  with a far-away girl in Paris.\n\nThe movie reveals aspects of life-cha
 nging decisions we all encounter at some stage\, from the ‘everyday mund
 ane’ to the ever risky ‘go on and take a chance’. Rosalie Blum is a movi
 e that blends together human emotions of curiosity\, humour\, sorrow and
  regret – and it all works so well!\n\n\n- Lisa Wood
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170307.html#film-3715
SUMMARY:Rosalie Blum
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170309T104900Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170309T083000Z
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DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nSet in 1950s Pittsburgh\, 
 this is Denzel Washington’s film adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer 
 Prize-winning Broadway play. The movie reprises the stage roles of Washi
 ngton as the main character\, loquacious Troy Maxson\, and Davis as his 
 wife Rose: characters compared by some to those in “Death of a Salesman”
 \, with Troy Maxson a ‘black Willy Loman’ – or perhaps a more nuanced ve
 rsion of Ralph Kramden. \n\nTroy’s main attribute is his powerful speech
 ifying. The movie opens with Maxson pontificating to his friend Jim Bono
  (Stephen Henderson) and the audience soon learns of his many trials gro
 wing up in the US south\, his prison experience and his work ethic. \n\n
 ‘Wordy’ and definitely not for the ‘popcorn’/action movie audience\, Fen
 ces is more of an intellectual tour de force\, as Maxson\, openly illite
 rate\, demonstrates his strong command of language. Indeed\, language is
  the very essence of Maxson – to a fault\, to the long suffering Rose an
 d Bono\, and sons: rising football star Cory (Adepo) and musician Lyons 
 (Hornsby). Silence is not his strong suit and his bitterness at his posi
 tion as a sanitation worker\, with his early dreams of a baseball career
  having been dashed\, is palpable\, affecting his relationship with Cory
 .\n\nAt 139 minutes\, think of this movie as an intense experience you h
 ave had… perhaps a tough examination or interminable lecture\, and gird 
 yourselves for an experience every bit as forceful and exhausting\, but 
 ultimately rewarding\, as the travails of Willy Loman.\n\n- Bob Warn
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170309.html#film-3716
SUMMARY:Fences
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170310T102700Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170310T083000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170310T083000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Right from its opening sequence\, with a startling and unexpe
 cted nude dancing scene\, Nocturnal Animals shows that it is going to ta
 ke us into unusual territory. Based on Austin Wright’s 1993 novel “Tony 
 and Susan”\, the film stars Adams as Susan Morrow\, an art curator and d
 ealer whose life hasn’t turned out quite the way she imagined. She has a
  loveless marriage to a philandering husband\, and feels alone and empty
  in her well-designed home looking over the hills of LA. When her ex-hus
 band Tony (Gyllenhaal) sends her the manuscript for his latest novel\, s
 he is drawn back to the past where she starts to regret her mistakes.\n\
 nAnd here is where it gets complicated to describe (although not to watc
 h) as we branch into three separate storylines: Susan’s present\, her pa
 st and the neo-noir story in the novel. The third section is the most in
 triguing\, although it is quite explicit in its tension and cruel afterm
 ath. It also houses the film’s MVP\, Michael Shannon\, as a local detect
 ive who gets involved in the violent revenge.\n\nDirector Ford is more w
 idely known as a fashion designer\, and that is apparent through the pro
 duction design of this movie (it often looks like one of the body object
 ifying ads he is (in)famous for). This movie has divided audiences\, wit
 h some calling it misogynistic\, distasteful and mean-spirited\, whilst 
 others (myself included) rate it as fascinating and compelling. Come alo
 ng and decide for yourself.\n\n\n- Travis Cragg
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170310.html#film-3717
SUMMARY:Nocturnal Animals
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170310T121500Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170310T103700Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170310T103700Z
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DESCRIPTION:The miracle of YouTube: there’s a wonderful 1982 interview wi
 th John Carpenter\, David Cronenberg and Werewolf writer/director Landis
 \, in which they discuss the filmmaking method\, horror tropes\, audienc
 es and censors. One interesting theme is the unexpected cuts that must b
 e made\; frequently the directors are surprised by an audience’s reactio
 n to scenes they themselves consider tame.\n\nAll the more so for Landis
 \, since this film is essentially a comedy. Several scenes had to be rem
 oved for it to achieve an (American) ‘R’ rating and it’s still outstandi
 ngly frightening. Perhaps the light-hearted tone throws the more viscera
 l moments into sharp relief\, with makeup artist Rick Baker achieving le
 gendary status for his grisly transmogrification of protagonist David (N
 aughton) into the hairy beast.\n\nYou know the story. David and his frie
 nd Jack are backpacking through the English countryside. They foolishly 
 wander off the road and onto the dark moors\, and are attacked by a sava
 ge something. Jack is killed\, and David wakes up weeks later in the car
 e of Nurse Alex (Agutter). But his troubles have only just begun\, and h
 e’s not the same man he was when he arrived…\n\nThis is a classic\, a un
 ique film that needn’t offer a ‘unique twist’. If you haven’t seen it\, 
 you’re in for a treat. If you have\, you need no convincing.\n\n\n- Step
 hen Mann
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170310.html#film-3718
SUMMARY:An American Werewolf in London
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170311T072900Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170311T060000Z
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DESCRIPTION:This Australian film – and it doesn’t get a whole lot more Au
 stralian than a red sunset over infinite red plains\, with Bryan Brown d
 riving a ute to a cattle station – is a prequel\, sort of\, to 2011’s Re
 d Dog\, also from director Stenders. We are introduced to a new story\, 
 set in the past\, featuring a young red dog… though we can’t be certain 
 it’s the same dog\, he’s certainly no less lovable.\n\nMick (Miller)\, a
  young city boy\, moves to the Pilbara with his grandfather (Brown) afte
 r a family tragedy. Uprooted from everything familiar\, he is lost until
  he finds a friend in a red puppy – which he naturally names Blue. Toget
 her they explore this strange new world\, populated by myth\, mystery an
 d a cast of crazy outback characters of all colours and species.\n\nIt’s
  not as memorable as the original film\, perhaps because at times it fee
 ls more like a series of vignettes than a single cohesive story. It also
  seems to be targeted at a younger audience\, though there are still som
 e powerful emotional moments. Miller in the lead role is very likeable a
 nd the performances around him\, if a little over the top at times\, are
  all very good. Certainly Red Dog: True Blue is a funny and moving famil
 y film which won’t disappoint. Especially if you’re a dog lover.\n\n\n- 
 Pedr Cain
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170311.html#film-3719
SUMMARY:Red Dog: True Blue
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170311T095600Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170311T080000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170311T080000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3720
DESCRIPTION:The spaceship Avalon\, in its 120-year voyage to a distant co
 lony planet known as ‘Homestead II’ and transporting 5\,259 people\, has
  a malfunction in one of its sleep chambers. As a result one hibernation
  pod opens prematurely and the one person that awakes\, Jim Preston (Pra
 tt)\, is stranded on the spaceship\, still 90 years from his destination
 .\n\nWith no one for company other than an android bartender called Arth
 ur (Sheen)\, Jim starts to wonder if this life is worth living (and grow
 s a god-awful beard). He is saved from this contemplation when another p
 assenger is awakened – Aurora Lane (Lawrence)\, a writer from New York.\
 n\nMeanwhile\, slowly but surely\, the ship is starting to fall apart (l
 iterally in some cases). Malfunctions increase\, including opening anoth
 er hibernation pod. This time a crew member (Fishburne – or is it Samuel
  L. Jackson – Google it) has been awakened\, which is convenient as now 
 they can access the bridge and other locked areas. Now they can get to f
 ixing the ship before the ever-worsening malfunctions wipe them all out.
 \n\nThis is a movie that should be seen on the big screen so you can tak
 e in the beauty of space in all its glory. And it’s nice that there are 
 no nasty aliens threatening to burst out of anyone. Even though it is se
 t in space\, this is a story about human connections and what we need to
  live\, not just survive. While it may not seem like it at first glance\
 , this story will give you plenty to think about and/or discuss with you
 r friends (or the Internet) afterwards.\n\n\n- Jacinta Gould
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170311.html#film-3720
SUMMARY:Passengers
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170315T101400Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170315T083000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170315T083000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3721
DESCRIPTION:Set in Portland\, Oregon\, The Edge of Seventeen concerns Nad
 ine Franklin (Steinfeld)\, a 17-year-old\, angst-ridden high-schooler wh
 o feels alone in the world upon learning that her best (and only) friend
  is dating her older brother (Jenner). To make matters worse\, Nadine’s 
 mother is largely absent and demeaning\, whilst the guy she has a crush 
 on barely knows she exists.\n\nAs she ponders the worth of her existence
 \, Nadine seeks companionship in the form of her teacher\, Mr Bruner (Ha
 rrelson) and her classmate Erwin (Hayden Szeto)\, learning the most impo
 rtant lesson of all: that life goes on.\n\nThe Edge of Seventeen provide
 s an honest insight into what it is like to be a teenager in a modern wo
 rld\, briefly touching upon topics such as racism\, consent and grief. I
  found it funny and well-written\, employing the incisive use of dark hu
 mour to convey Nadine’s frustration at her life. This film is so much mo
 re than just a typical teen movie\, and has something in it for people o
 f all ages to relate to.\n\nThe movie earned star Hailee Steinfeld a wel
 l-deserved 2017 Golden Globes nomination. A must-see for anyone who enjo
 yed John Hughes classics such as The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles.
 \n\n\n- Mirella Connell
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170315.html#film-3721
SUMMARY:The Edge of Seventeen
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170316T104946Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170316T083046Z
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UID:anufg.org.au/films/3722
DESCRIPTION:The hero of this movie is Virginia-born Desmond Doss (Garfiel
 d)\, the first conscientious objector to be awarded the US Medal of Hono
 r. The medal was for the lives he saved as a medic during the Okinawa ba
 ttle of spring 1945\, one of the most hellish of the entire campaign. Do
 ss had no problem with serving in the military but\, as a Seventh Day Ad
 ventist\, he couldn’t carry a weapon\, which meant the military were rel
 uctant to enlist him due to his inability to protect fellow soldiers.\n\
 nDirector Gibson has created another fascinating look at religious ideol
 ogy. And\, as was also the case with Apocalypto and The Passion of the C
 hrist\, he isn’t afraid to include the intense violence of the situation
  as well. (Throw in Braveheart\, and there is an entire thesis waiting t
 o be written on Gibson’s obsession with violence as the most direct path
  to transcendence\, but we haven’t room here to explore that.) The basic
 -training scenes are well-judged\, but the movie really takes off in the
  second half which depicts the bloody battle.\n\nGarfield shines in his 
 best performance since The Social Network\, and Hugo Weaving is also emo
 tionally believable as the brutal father Doss doesn’t want to become. Wi
 nner of seven AACTA awards – and nominated for six Oscars\, including Be
 st Picture – Hacksaw Ridge is a large achievement for Gibson that burns 
 with his peculiar intensity.\n\n\n- Travis Cragg
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170316.html#film-3722
SUMMARY:Hacksaw Ridge
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170317T102853Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170317T083053Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170317T083053Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3723
DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nLion is a true story of lo
 ss\, love and hope\, confidently told. Saroo\, a five-year-old boy\, is 
 separated from his family and lost in India. He must survive and\, after
  facing many horrors\, is adopted by an Australian couple. 25 years late
 r\, he begins the journey to find himself in what has been lost.\n\nDese
 rvedly Dev Patel has received critical acclaim for his role as the adult
  Saroo\, sensitively delving into the pain of being torn between homes a
 nd lives. Nicole Kidman is outstanding and David Wenham and Rooney Mara 
 are way more than competent. I hope recognition is given to the child ac
 tor\, Sunny Pawar\, who steals the first half of the movie as a sweet in
 nocent Saroo confronted by so much danger.\n\nAn emotional journey of pa
 in\, adoption and the journey home\, the movie is inspiringly told. Ther
 e are sweeping cinematic shots and an epic soundtrack. Many of its theme
 s are obvious but worthy: lost children and survival\; overseas adoption
 \; the parental bond\; and the need of all of us to discover our identit
 y. Certainly the themes of home and identity are raised to a profound an
 d inspiring level. But\, like a good wine\, you can drink on Lion to you
 r heart’s content without cloying on it. You will shed a tear.\n\n- Geor
 ge Zuber
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170317.html#film-3723
SUMMARY:Lion
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170317T121900Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170317T103800Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170317T103800Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3724
DESCRIPTION:In my opinion\, I\, Daniel Blake is one of the best movies of
  2016 (tied with Hell or High Water). It also won director Ken Loach the
  Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. Loach\, who has social 
 issues at the forefront of his films\, shines a light on the British soc
 ial services bureaucracy\, including its Job Centre and staff\; and it’s
  a very dim light.\n\nComedian Dave Johns plays Blake\, a 59-year-old tr
 adesman recuperating after a heart attack. Told by his doctors to rest\,
  he is given contrary orders by our Centrelink equivalent. He is assesse
 d as being ready to work after completing the mandatory eligibility test
  for the sickness benefit\, and not qualifying.\n\nWidower Blake meets K
 atie (Squires) at the Job Centre who\, with her two children\, is a solo
  mother and new to the Newcastle area. Together they navigate various pa
 rts of the system and their individual circumstances\; from job hunting\
 , navigating mainly online assistance\, the food bank\, appeals\, to acq
 uiring extra cash to keep afloat. \n\nThe scenes with a dodgy\, low-paid
 -but-caring young neighbour intertwine both generations in warm camarade
 rie\, especially when tables are turned. The ending adds pathos to our c
 haracters’ situation. It reminded me of another British film\, Still Lif
 e. This is faster paced\, but still similarly poignant and contemplative
  about these men and their lives.\n\n\n- Carol Christopher
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170317.html#film-3724
SUMMARY:I\, Daniel Blake
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170318T100413Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170318T080013Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170318T080013Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3725
DESCRIPTION:It’s 1942 and World War II is raging on. On a mission for the
  recently formed Allied Forces\, Canadian Air Force operative Max Vatan 
 (Pitt) parachutes into the Moroccan desert en route to Nazi-occupied Cas
 ablanca. His orders: to rendezvous with the French Resistance fighter (C
 otillard) who will be posing as his wife\, and then assassinate the Germ
 an Ambassador. But their relationship soon becomes more than just an act
 \, as they unexpectedly fall in love and – mission accomplished – reunit
 e in London for their happily ever after.\n\nAll seems perfect. That is\
 , until Max is informed by British Intelligence that his now-(real)-wife
  and mother to his child may in fact be a Nazi spy. As passion and roman
 ce give way to distrust and suspicion\, husband and wife find themselves
  pitted against each other in a deadly test of loyalty\, identity and lo
 ve – with only the fate of the free world in the balance.\n\nA nostalgic
  throwback to the likes of Casablanca and Notorious\, this good old-fash
 ioned romantic spy thriller undoubtedly delivers on the romance\, spies 
 and thrills. Sparks fly every time Pitt and Cotillard are on screen\, wi
 th master storyteller Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future\, Forrest Gump
 ) ensuring that his attractive leads are matched by equally sumptuous re
 creations of WWII-era Europe.\n\nUnlike the films that inspired it\, how
 ever\, Allied isn’t likey to still be talked about in 70 years\, but it’
 s a superb production that deserves a look by anyone who reckons they do
 n’t make ’em like they used to.\n\n\n- Adrian Ma
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170318.html#film-3725
SUMMARY:Allied
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170318T101400Z
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DESCRIPTION:It turns out you can’t keep a good (or even halfway decent) f
 ranchise superspy hero down these days. Xander Cage (Diesel) has been pr
 esumed dead since 2005’s xXx: State of the Union (which replaced Diesel 
 with Ice Cube)\, but really he’s in self-imposed exile – only occasional
 ly participating in extreme stunts in privacy just for his own entertain
 ment. But when the world is threatened by a powerful weapon called ‘Pand
 ora’s Box’\, Cage has to\, as the title suggests\, return to fight the b
 ad guys with the help of a gang of similarly thrill-seeking cohorts\, in
 dulging in a whole heap of wild activities on their way to saving everyo
 ne.\n\n2002’s xXx isn’t exactly a classic of the action genre\, but it d
 oes offer plentiful ridiculous stunts which keep it quite entertaining a
 nyway. Diesel is meat-headed enough\, Samuel L. Jackson’s got the quips 
 and the authority\, and it’s only those poor fools who are looking for c
 omprehensible plots and depth who are left out. This belated sequel give
 s us a new mob of lunkheads to join Diesel’s team – Australia’s Ruby Ros
 e is there to be dangerous and flirty with the ladies\, Rory McCann from
  “Game of Thrones” is a nutcase driver\, and Nina Dobrev from “Vampire D
 iaries” is the techy geek. \n\nIf you’re going to hate that the plot is 
 somewhere between ludicrous and non-existent\, this is not your movie. I
 f you’re going to sit back and enjoy the explosions\, this is your movie
 .\n\n\n- Simon Tolhurst
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170318.html#film-3726
SUMMARY:xXx: Return of Xander Cage
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170321T083026Z
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DESCRIPTION:Say what you will about Ben Affleck\, there’s no denying he k
 nows how to direct a film. He launched his directing career in 2007 adap
 ting a Dennis Lehane novel with Gone\, Baby Gone\, and followed that wit
 h even more impressive turns in The Town and Argo. Now\, Affleck has com
 e full circle to bring another of Lehane’s novels to the big screen in L
 ive By Night.\n\nIt’s the roaring ’20s and prohibition has done little t
 o stop the flow of liquor\, least of all in Boston where gangster-run sp
 eakeasies keep the likes of Joe Coughlin (Affleck) plenty busy. But the 
 life of an outlaw comes at a high cost\, as Joe discovers firsthand when
  a botched robbery forces him to flee Boston for a one-way trip to the s
 unny shores of Tampa\, Florida.\n\nAnd that’s just the tip of the fedora
 . There\, Joe muscles in on a rum bootlegging operation\, falls in love 
 with a Cuban femme fatale\, shoots people (and gets shot at) and even fi
 nds time to face off against two mobs\, a God-fearing local sheriff\, co
 rrupt politicians and the KKK.\n\nLive By Night clearly leaves no trope 
 of the genre unturned. But Affleck’s loyalty to the old-school gangster 
 flicks of yesteryear is perhaps his downfall too: its many characters an
 d sub-plots could easily fill a whole series of films. But for what it’s
  worth\, Affleck’s fourth effort as director is still a brilliantly cast
  and beautifully made gangster epic that’s well worth getting lost in.\n
 \n\n- Adrian Ma
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170321.html#film-3727
SUMMARY:Live by Night
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170323T083000Z
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DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP W
 ITH ANU MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE\n\nHidden Figures is the true an
 d untold story of Katherine Johnson\, the African-American mathematician
  who calculated flight trajectories for Project Mercury and the Apollo 1
 1 flight to the Moon.\n\nSet in 1969\, the film begins with Johnson and 
 her two colleagues\, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson\, working in the s
 egregated West Area Computers division of Langley Research Center. After
  the Russians successfully launch a satellite into space\, NASA is left 
 desperately playing catch up in the Space Race. Using their calculations
 \, the unlikely trio helped John Glenn become the first American astrona
 ut to make a complete orbit of Earth.\n\nHidden Figures is gorgeous and 
 colourful\, highlighting the 1960s aesthetic\, through fashion and the g
 lamour of the Space Race. However\, it is contrasted by the cultural att
 itudes towards not only women in the workforce\, but towards segregation
  of African-Americans at the peak of the civil rights movement\, after t
 he assassination of civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr only a 
 year prior.\n\nThe all-star supporting cast\, including Kevin Costner\, 
 Kirsten Dunst and Jim Parsons\, are quite simply outshone by the excepti
 onal performances of Taraji P. Henson as Johnson\, Octavia Spencer and t
 he outstanding\, breakthrough performance of musician-turned-actress Jan
 elle Monáe.\n\nThis film is funny and sassy but\, more importantly\, Hid
 den Figures commands our attention and respect for these incredible wome
 n who\, despite insurmountable discrimination\, were fundamental in the 
 Apollo missions\, for which they are finally receiving the acclaim they 
 deserved.\n\n- Elyshia Hopkinson
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170323.html#film-3728
SUMMARY:Hidden Figures
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170324T083000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Here is the big-screen adaptation of a present-day\, time-ben
 ding sci-fi action video game series. I’ll start by saying I’m a huge fa
 n of the games\, which meant I was pretty excited to see this. It also m
 eant there was a very large risk of disappointment. Luckily my enthusias
 m was rewarded with a great film. Phew. I’m also pleased to say you don’
 t need to know the games to enjoy this film.\n\nIt’s the story of Cal Ly
 nch (Fassbender) who flees home after the death of his mother. Many year
 s later he has run afoul of the law and things aren’t looking very brigh
 t. However\, his fortune changes when the mysterious Sofia (played wonde
 rfully by Cotillard) and her father Dr. Rikkin (Irons) whisk him away to
  a private medical facility in Spain. They have a machine called The Ani
 mus\, which harnesses genetic memory to enable a modern descendant of a 
 long past ancestor to relive the memories of said ancestor. They need Ca
 l to relive the memories of Aquilar de Nerha his great\, great\, great\,
  great etc. grandfather in 15th century Spain. Oh\, and Aquilar was one 
 of the key members of the Assassins\, a shadow organisation who protect 
 the ideals of freedom and free will (yay!) from the tyranny and subjugat
 ion of the Templar Order (boo!).\n\nI really enjoyed the film\, there ar
 e some breathtaking visuals you need to see on the big screen\, inventiv
 e and engaging action and fight sequences rounded off by an engrossing s
 tory. Though if you ever wanted to join the Assassins\, you better not h
 ave acrophobia as they don’t seem to mind looking down! Exercise your ow
 n free will and come along to see this one.\n\n\n- Steven Cain
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170324.html#film-3729
SUMMARY:Assassin’s Creed
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170324T103500Z
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DESCRIPTION:This over-the-top comedy centres on Ned (Cranston)\, an overp
 rotective father and CEO of a printing company. His simple life is turne
 d upside down when the family meets his daughter Stephanie’s new boyfrie
 nd\, Laird (Franco). Laird is a mega rich Silicon Valley technology entr
 epreneur who\, among other things\, is foul-mouthed\, socially awkward a
 nd downright weird – a role Franco slots into very easily!\n\nNed and th
 e family are visiting Stephanie for the holidays when they find out abou
 t this previously unmentioned boyfriend. Ned is soon in a panic\; lost i
 n this high tech world that is a far cry from the simple mechanical worl
 d of printing and aghast at the fact that this strange man could become 
 his new son-in-law. So begins a battle between father and (would-be) son
 -in-law to convince Stephanie of the right thing to do.\n\nDirected by J
 ohn Hamburg\, known for writing I Love You\, Man and Along Came Polly\, 
 this is a crazy film which delivers on what it promises. Cranston and Fr
 anco are both a lot of fun to watch and\, while it won’t go down in hist
 ory as one of 2016’s greatest offerings\, it’s an enjoyable time in the 
 cinema.\n\n\n- Matthew Auckett
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170324.html#film-3730
SUMMARY:Why Him?
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170325T075300Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170325T060000Z
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DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nA large part of what keeps
  drawing me back to Disney animation is visual. Moana has superb art dir
 ection – full of glittering\, sun-drenched Pacific Ocean waterscapes\, b
 ut the view never becomes monotonous\, nor do the bright colours ever hu
 rt our eyes. And the character animation\, a longstanding Disney strengt
 h\, is once again inspired. I can’t not mention the chicken\, a creature
  somehow kept alive by the sheer force of its own stupidity\; or the vil
 lainous race of – of all things – coconuts. And I was excited to see the
  seventh Disney animated feature from directors Musker and Clements\, wh
 ose past work includes The Little Mermaid and Aladdin.\n\nHard to sell t
 his stuff to anyone who isn’t an animation buff\, though\, so I’ll take 
 a different tack: this is a film that succeeds in transporting us to its
  own unique and semi-enchanted world\, and it does so by drawing heavily
  on Polynesian mythology\, and respecting it\, without ever feeling cons
 trained by it. To say the story is traditional is unfair\; say rather th
 at it’s archetypal. Moana\, the heroine\, sets out on a heroic journey\,
  abandoning her people in order to save them. She is reluctantly helped 
 by the demigod Maui – at first more demi than god – and the two of them 
 are effective counterweights to each other\; she’s Luke to his Han\, so 
 to speak. We also rarely lose sight of that chicken… I can’t imagine any
 one walking into this film without walking out grinning.\n\n- Henry Fitz
 gerald
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170325.html#film-3731
SUMMARY:Moana
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170325T080000Z
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DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nAfter a car crash leaves h
 is hands mangled\, gifted-yet-arrogant neurosurgeon Stephen Strange (Cum
 berbatch) finds his career over and his life in ruins. Desperate for hea
 ling\, he looks for a solution beyond Western medicine and heads to Nepa
 l to seek out a purported miracle cure. What he finds instead is The Anc
 ient One (Swinton) – an enigmatic sorcerer who opens up Strange’s mind t
 o an unseen world of mysticism and alternate dimensions. Discovering his
  true calling\, Strange commences training in the mystic arts\, not just
  to regain the use of his hands\, but to also stave off dark forces bein
 g conjured by a turncoat ex-disciple (Mads Mikkelsen).\n\nDebuting in co
 mic book form in 1963\, Doctor Strange and his trippy\, psychedelic worl
 d was no doubt a product of the drug-induced haze of the era. But leave 
 it to Marvel Studios to turn another one of their B-list characters into
  a visually awesome and thrillingly fun big-screen adventure (Iron Man w
 as far from a household name before Marvel’s first film).\n\nFrom the ve
 ry first scene it’s clear that Doctor Strange is something different. Ch
 aracters bend gravity\, time and reality to their will\, resulting in st
 unning action sequences that can only be described as Inception meets Th
 e Matrix by way of Salvador Dali. Though ostensibly an origin story\, th
 e film and its Oscar-calibre cast manage to put a playful and distinctiv
 e spin on Marvel’s winning formula for their 14th (!) consecutive hit. S
 o conjure up a portal to the ANU Film Group to experience Doctor Strange
  on the big screen!\n\n- Adrian Ma
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170325.html#film-3732
SUMMARY:Doctor Strange
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170330T104300Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170330T083000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170330T083000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Patriots Day\, based on the book “Boston Strong”\, follows th
 e lead up to and aftermath of the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing and the s
 ubsequent terrorist manhunt led by the Boston police force. Starring an 
 ensemble cast including Mark Wahlberg\, J. K. Simmons\, John Goodman and
  Kevin Bacon\, the story is drawn primarily from real-life accounts incl
 uding those of the first responders\, the law enforcement investigative 
 team\, government officials that worked to track down the bombers\, and 
 actual survivors of the bombings.\n\nAs it’s based on the book\, the fil
 m is not necessarily historically accurate – rather Patriots Day is inte
 nded to be an homage to the survivors of the bombings\, to those who wor
 ked tirelessly in the aftermath and to the city of Boston itself.\n\nTo 
 be completely honest\, Patriots Day\, in the same vein as American Snipe
 r\, is not subtle in its message\; it is dripping with political propaga
 nda\, especially being produced in the year that Trump was elected to of
 fice\, so you should not be surprised by the liberties taken in this fil
 m.\n\nHowever\, if you are able to see past a bit of ‘Murican Patriotism
 ’ and the ‘good guys’ versus the ‘bad guys’\, the manner in which the ti
 meline occurs is handled with sensitivity. Patriots Day humanises the ve
 ry real story of tragic loss of life and the significant number of those
  injured\, as well as the incredible effort towards the tension-packed c
 limax to one of the most sophisticated and well-coordinated manhunts in 
 US law enforcement history.\n\n\n- Elyshia Hopkinson
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170330.html#film-3733
SUMMARY:Patriots Day
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170331T083000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170331T083000Z
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DESCRIPTION:I have a theory – okay\, a silly half-baked generalisation – 
 about Oliver Stone: whenever he makes a film with a title consisting of 
 someone’s name\, he’s a great director. Presenting: Snowden.\n\nSome of 
 you may recall the documentary Citizenfour. I was one of the few who did
 n’t think much of it\, perhaps because I did not at the time know who Sn
 owden was: all I saw was three people talking in a Hong Kong hotel room\
 , and we were never really told what their story was. This film tells us
  the story\; and more importantly\, puts flesh on it.\n\nSo who is Snowd
 en? As played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt\, he’s an awkward and naïve young 
 man with an unlikely girlfriend (Shailene Woodley\, who offers us an eng
 aging mix of uncertainty and warmth). He’s also an intelligence contract
 or who is becoming increasingly concerned about the US Government’s elec
 tronic surveillance of – well\, everything\; and that includes him. He f
 inds himself a pawn on a chessboard he never knew existed\, and it’s inc
 reasingly tense as we watch him sneak past more powerful pieces to reach
  the eighth rank.\n\nThe script is based on Snowden’s own account of him
 self\, so take it with a grain of salt if you like – but please\, allow 
 yourself to submit to the drama. I think this is one of the best films o
 f 2016. Perhaps you missed it as it seemed a few beats behind the zeitge
 ist. That’s a feeble reason. Watch it now.\n\n\n- Henry Fitzgerald
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170331.html#film-3734
SUMMARY:Snowden
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170331T124600Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170331T105900Z
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DESCRIPTION:Straight-arrow cop Bennie Chan (Jackie) has spent the best pa
 rt of his life hunting down the criminal inexplicably dubbed ‘The Matado
 r’\, who killed his best friend/partner (Tsang). Benny thinks he has his
  man when a witness to The Matador’s evilness comes forward\, but she is
  murdered in his Macau casino before she can hand over valuable evidence
 . Pro-gambler Connor Watts (Knoxville) witnesses the murder and ends up 
 with said evidence\, only to be snatched by the Russian mob. Benny rescu
 es Connor in Russia\, only for the pair to find they have to return to H
 ong Kong on foot after Connor burns Bennie’s passport in his own attempt
  to escape… and so on until the pair defeat The Matador and rescue the g
 irl. No\, not the dead one\, another one whose inclusion in the synopsis
  would only confuse things further.\n\nSkiptrace is Hollywood’s latest a
 ttempt to arbitrarily pair Jackie Chan with a comedian and hope the doll
 ars roll in (spoiler: they didn’t). Sadly\, that comedian is a very off-
 his-game Johnny Knoxville. The movie is a disjointed\, convoluted mess f
 rom start to finish. Where Chan bothers replicating his trademark comedi
 c action it plays out at a pace slow enough that the audience could repe
 at every move. For the most part it is replaced by wonky CGI or clumsily
  cut inserts. At worst it is a confusing reminder of much better movies\
 ; at best it is an oddly entertaining and entirely out-of-place cover of
  Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” performed by Jackie and a circle of nomad
 ic Mongolian tribesman. This MST3K-grade disaster is funny for all the w
 rong reasons and needs to be seen to be believed.\n\n\n- Adam Gould
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170331.html#film-3735
SUMMARY:Skiptrace
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170401T094000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170401T080000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170401T080000Z
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DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nJackie Kennedy is probably
  the most famous First Lady that the world has ever seen\, and the close
 st that America has seen to royalty. The story of her time as First Lady
  tragically unfolded before the world’s eyes\; and since\, we have seen 
 countless iterations of her on the screen and in literature. But I assur
 e you\, you have never seen her quite like you will see in Pablo Larraín
 ’s Jackie.\n\nRevolving around her life\, from shortly before JFK’s assa
 ssination to the week after\, Jackie is not concerned with the iconic Fi
 rst Lady’s role as the fashion icon or her public appearances\; instead\
 , it digs deeper to reveal the human being underneath. It puts you in th
 e same room as her when she went home and washed her husband’s blood off
  her skin\, and it focuses on her courage and intelligence in the face o
 f unspeakable tragedy.\n\nOf course\, director Larraín’s head-spinning\,
  psychological approach wouldn’t have worked if he didn’t have a believa
 ble actress in the title role. Fortunately\, Natalie Portman’s under-the
 -skin portrayal of Jackie is not just believable\; she is an absolute re
 velation. From nailing Jackie’s unique\, breathy voice and her mannerism
 s to her most vulnerable moments\, Portman’s performance is heartbreakin
 g and inspiring all at once. She may already have an Oscar to her name f
 or Black Swan\, but Jackie is her best performance to date. And the movi
 e\, likewise\, is a biopic unlike any other and one of the best films of
  the year.\n\n- Abdulla Rasheed
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170401.html#film-3736
SUMMARY:Jackie
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170401T120300Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170401T095000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170401T095000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Yep\, we’re all different and consequently different things a
 ppeal to us in films. A good film – and this is a real good film – will 
 find a range of attractors for each and every one of us. \n\nIn The Ligh
 t Between Oceans\, a damaged WWI veteran seeks solitude in a new job as 
 the lighthouse keeper at Janus Rock\, WA. On his way\, and to everyone’s
  surprise\, he finds a wife and they find blissful loving solitude toget
 her. Tragedy occurs and a bad decision is made. As in life\, the consequ
 ences of the decision are huge\, all-encompassing and have impacts on so
  many. The rest of the film tells that story\, so bring your tissues.\n\
 nThe acting of the leads\, Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander\, is s
 imply outstanding. They are very well supported by Rachel Weisz and the 
 trio of Aussie old men: Garry McDonald\, Bryan Brown and Jack Thompson. 
 Adam Arkapow’s cinematography deserves an Oscar. Visually stunning\, it’
 s supposed to be WA but is filmed in NZ and to a lesser extent Tassie.\n
 \nOn checking\, the film has had both great and ordinary reviews. Person
 ally I don’t get the melodrama bit. In my opinion Stedman’s book is flaw
 ed and I do acknowledge that something is missing: there’s a hollowness.
 .. I thought\, reflecting the character of the lighthouse keeper and his
  wife.\n\nBeautiful things can be sad\, and sad things can be beautiful.
 \n\n\n- George Zuber
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170401.html#film-3737
SUMMARY:The Light Between Oceans
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170406T112200Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170406T093000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170406T093000Z
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DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EMBASSY OF BRAZIL IN CANBER
 RA\n\nVal (Casé) is a live-in maid who has been working for more than a 
 decade for an upper-middle class family in São Paulo\, the largest city 
 in Brazil. She cleans\, cooks\, raises her bosses’ son as her own\, and 
 is referred to by them as ‘part of the family’. However\, Val does not e
 at at the same table nor swim in the swimming pool. Not that she would e
 ver dream of doing such things – she ‘knows her place’.\n\nThe dynamics 
 of the house implode when Val’s estranged daughter Jessica (Márdila) com
 es to São Paulo to take her university admission exams and asks to stay 
 with her mother\, only to find out that Val lives in a small back room. 
 Argumentative\, Jessica questions the structure that seems so natural to
  Val and the family and stretches boundaries never challenged. Even visu
 ally\, Jessica appears in more open scenes\, while Val is constrained by
  walls and doorways.\n\nIn her previous movies\, director Anna Muylaert 
 has always explored the universe of Brazilian middle-class\, seldom feat
 ured in films that reach international audiences. The Second Mother is h
 er most mature and moving piece\, showing the contrast between mother an
 d daughter and social classes without falling into easy dualities of rig
 ht/wrong. Ace comedian Casé leaves her comfort zone to portray Val in th
 e delicate relationship with her daughter\, both well deserving of the s
 pecial prize received at the Sundance Festival.\n\n\n- Ana Paula Lacerda
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170406.html#film-3738
SUMMARY:The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?)
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170408T105800Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170408T090000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170408T090000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the handso
 me\, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey (Dornan)\, Anastasia St
 eele (Johnson) has broken off their relationship and started a new caree
 r with a publishing house. But her desire for Christian still dominates 
 her every waking thought\, and when he proposes a new arrangement\, Anas
 tasia cannot resist. They rekindle their searing sexual affair\, and Ana
 stasia learns more about the harrowing past of her damaged\, driven and 
 demanding Fifty Shades. As their relationship grows\, Anastasia must con
 front the anger and envy of the women who came before her\, and make the
  most important decision of her life.\n\nAnyone who has read the books w
 ill acknowledge that they are poorly written. Unfortunately E.L. James h
 as been given a lot of creative control over the movies and the screenpl
 ays reflect that. Fifty Shades of Grey suffered greatly from this\, with
  the screenplay writer unable to make improvements that didn’t meet with
  James’s approval. This time around the screenplay has been written by J
 ames’s husband so it suffers the same fate. But look past that and you w
 ill still appreciate the romance\, with a bit of erotica (strictly MA ra
 ted) thrown in. Although with a Film Group audience you may appreciate i
 t as more than just a romance.\n\n\n- Jacinta Gould
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170408.html#film-3739
SUMMARY:Fifty Shades Darker
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170408T130500Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170408T110800Z
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DESCRIPTION:Kevin (McAvoy) has dissociative identity disorder – the so-ca
 lled ‘Split Personality’ disease where different identities manifest in 
 the same person. In his case\, there are 23 personas inside his head – e
 verything from a 9-year-old child to a sophisticated woman. He’s counsel
 led by Dr Karen Fletcher (Buckley)\, but this therapy does not appear to
  be helping\, given he’s just kidnapped three teenage girls and is holdi
 ng them captive. Even worse\, a 24th personality\, known as ‘The Beast’\
 , is emerging. But one of the girls\, Casey (Taylor-Joy)\, knows a littl
 e about hunting and may be able to turn the tables…\n\nM. Night Shyamala
 n has had an uneven track record of late – particularly his bigger budge
 t films like The Last Airbender and After Earth have been notable artist
 ic and financial flops. But a much lower budget has seen him earn his be
 st reviews since The Sixth Sense with this tense thriller. McAvoy has on
 e of those roles that actors lust for\, that gives him full opportunity 
 to explore his range\, and he grabs it with abandon. Buckley is a horror
  veteran\, going back to the ’70s with Carrie\, while Taylor-Joy follows
  up her knockout role in The Witch. A tense experience that will keep yo
 u on the edge of your seat up until the last minute.\n\n\n- Simon Tolhur
 st
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170408.html#film-3740
SUMMARY:Split
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170412T093000Z
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DESCRIPTION:We might never know why Michael Keaton’s career went from Bat
 man and Beetlejuice in the ’80s to appearing in the likes of Herbie: Ful
 ly Loaded and First Daughter in the early 2000s. But we can at least be 
 thankful that\, ever the hard worker\, Keaton has made a brilliant comeb
 ack in recent years with award-worthy turns in back-to-back Best Picture
  winners Birdman and Spotlight. And his winning streak continues here wi
 th The Founder.\n\nKeaton plays Ray Kroc\, a down-on-his-luck milkshake 
 machine salesman who spots a business opportunity when he pays a visit t
 o brothers Mac and Dick McDonald (Lynch and Offerman)\, owners of a revo
 lutionary new hamburger joint by the name of – you guessed it – McDonald
 ’s. Kroc sees immense potential in the brothers’ speedy system of food p
 roduction and initially partners with them as a franchising agent. As th
 e business grows\, however\, so does Kroc’s ambition and he begins to wa
 nt more than just a franchise.\n\nPlaying like a fast-food-fuelled versi
 on of The Wolf of Wall Street\, this tall true tale serves as yet anothe
 r masterful showcase for Keaton’s boundless energy and talent. Much like
  The Social Network and Steve Jobs\, the film does away with the need fo
 r a heroic – or even likeable – protagonist\, but there’s no doubt you’l
 l find yourself admiring Kroc’s tenacity at the end of the day thanks to
  Keaton’s compelling performance. The Founder is a sharp\, fun and shrew
 dly cynical look at the founding of an American empire – and I’m lovin’ 
 it.\n\n\n- Adrian Ma
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170412.html#film-3741
SUMMARY:The Founder
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170420T093000Z
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DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nKing Kong\, the mythical g
 iant monster/ape\, was introduced to fans in the 1930s and has appeared 
 in various films and TV shows since then. This year\, he makes an impres
 sive return to the big screen with a reinvented storyline aimed at drawi
 ng in a new audience while retaining the current fan base and joining Le
 gendary’s shared universe of giant monster films kickstarted by 2014’s G
 odzilla reboot. The other ‘big’ selling point of this film is the great 
 cast which includes Tom Hiddleston (most recently of ‘Thor’s brother\, L
 oki’ fame)\, last year’s Best Actress Oscar winner Brie Larson\, and Sam
 uel L. Jackson (famous for many things\, perhaps most notably not being 
 Laurence Fishburne – Google it).\n\nThe story behind Kong: Skull Island 
 is that of King Kong’s origins. It is set on an uncharted (of course!) P
 acific island which is where the main characters meet a bunch of… well… 
 interesting inhabitants.\n\nKing Kong is definitely the king of the jung
 le in my books\, particularly when that jungle is a treacherous island f
 illed with giant scary things. There has been no monkeying around with t
 his movie (sorry\, couldn’t help myself)\, the special effects are very 
 good\, and the cast and storyline keep you engaged. Leave your realism a
 t the door and instead grab some popcorn and a friend to cling to for sa
 fety during the scary bits. \n\nCome see this film on the big screen the
  way King Kong should be seen. You’ll go ape.\n\n- Tamara Cain
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170420.html#film-3742
SUMMARY:Kong: Skull Island
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170421T111200Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170421T093000Z
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DESCRIPTION:FILMMAKER Q&A SCREENING: SET IN CANBERRA WITH SCENES SHOT ON 
 THE ANU CAMPUS\, THIS AACTA-NOMINATED FILM MAKES ITS WAY TO THE ANU FILM
  GROUP FOR A SPECIAL Q&A WITH DIRECTOR SOTIRIS DOUNOUKOS!\n\nBased on He
 len Garner’s book of the same title\, Joe Cinque’s Consolation details t
 he events leading up to the planned murder of Joe Cinque by his girlfrie
 nd\, Anu Singh.\n\nAnu had a mental condition\, and blamed Joe for makin
 g her ill – including supposedly telling her that she needed to lose wei
 ght and to take drugs to help the process. Anu later became depressed as
  she fell behind in her studies and started thinking about committing su
 icide. She engaged a fellow student\, Madhavi Rao\, to help her with her
  suicide plans. As the days passed\, Anu got increasingly paranoid and a
 nnoyed at Joe – and he unwittingly became a part of their plans.\n\nAs i
 t is based on a true story\, the enjoyment of the film lies not in knowi
 ng the ending\, but in the journey of getting there. Director Sotiris Do
 unoukos immerses you in the story and you find yourself hoping that the 
 ending would be different.\n\nI was involved in the filming of this movi
 e as an extra\, but sadly I am nowhere to be found (trust me\, I kept my
  eyes peeled) as the 3 scenes that I was part of had been cut. That’s an
  entire day of mine down the drain\, but I promise that your 102 minutes
  spent watching this movie won’t be. \n\nAlso don’t forget to keep a loo
 kout for the little snippets of none other than your very own ANU Film G
 roup mentioned in the film – there might be a quiz after to see if you f
 ound them!\n\n\n- Xin Yi Tan
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170421.html#film-3743
SUMMARY:Joe Cinque’s Consolation (Q&A Event)
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170422T111807Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170422T090007Z
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DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nLet me make it simple: Man
 chester by the Sea is a film you need to see. A strong frontrunner for B
 est Picture\, having already having won countless awards\, the film is a
  seemingly simple meditation on loss and grief. But don’t let that put y
 ou off\; the film is far from dreary\, and instead offers a painful-but-
 heartfelt\, tragic-yet-humorous narrative that is anything but simple – 
 much like life itself.\n\nThe film centres on Lee Chandler (Affleck)\, a
  quiet man eking out a solitary existence as a Boston handyman. When he 
 receives news that his older brother (Chandler) has died suddenly\, he r
 eluctantly returns to the eponymous seaside town where he grew up to mak
 e funeral arrangements. There\, much to Lee’s surprise\, he learns that 
 he’s been made the sole guardian of his 16-year-old nephew (Hedges). \n\
 nNeedless to say\, this is a responsibility he has zero interest in taki
 ng on. Lee has gone to great lengths to exile himself from the world\, m
 ost of all from Manchester\, which holds nothing but painful memories fo
 r him. Through intricately layered flashbacks\, we discover Lee’s past a
 nd just why he was driven away.\n\nThe ever-reliable Affleck knocks it o
 ut of the park as the haunted Lee\, while Williams is astonishing as Lee
 ’s ex-wife and Hedges is a revelation as the spirited youngster. But it’
 s writer-director Lonergan – in only his third film since 2000 – that in
 stils the film with humour\, heart and humanity. It may not end with eas
 y answers\, but that’s life. And it’s beautiful.\n\n- Adrian Ma
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170422.html#film-3744
SUMMARY:Manchester by the Sea
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170422T124600Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170422T112800Z
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DESCRIPTION:Young elitists Brandon and Philip decide to host a dinner par
 ty to tell a series of friends and peers that they have committed the pe
 rfect crime\, one that none of the guests will ever work out. Or so they
  believe. That crime? The boys have ridden the world of a lesser friend 
 and they are now all dining around his corpse. ‘They’ include David’s fa
 ther\, old schoolmaster\, and girlfriend. Come to think of it\, where’s 
 David? Good thing none of the guests will ever work it out… assuming eve
 rything goes to plan.\n\nRope stands as one of Hitchcock’s finest moment
 s. Though arguably not as good a film as North by Northwest or Vertigo\,
  and certainly not as notorious as Psycho or The Birds\, it represents a
  rare instance of a filmmaker being creatively given as much rope as he 
 desired and still producing a decent movie with widespread appeal. The g
 immick of Rope is that it was shot entirely in two long takes on a singl
 e set. Hitchcock wanted only one take but physically couldn’t devise a w
 ay to hold enough film in the camera. Instead he had to settle for makin
 g it look like a single take by having a character throw a coat over the
  camera midway through! \n\nDespite this significant limitation the mast
 er managed to produce a taught thriller that’s up there with his best an
 d that features a surprising number of camera tricks. Rope is a mastercl
 ass in blending art\, technology\, social commentary and entertainment f
 or the masses.\n\n\n- Adam Gould
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170422.html#film-3745
SUMMARY:Rope
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170427T111800Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170427T093000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170427T093000Z
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DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EMBASSY OF THE ARGENTINE RE
 PUBLIC\n\nArquimedes Puccio is a gangster patriarch ruling over his loca
 l turf in Buenos Aires in the 1980s. Things are in flux since the dictat
 orship fell\, and mobsters are enjoying special access to the elites of 
 society. Behind the respectable façade of a well-to-do family living abo
 ve a surf shop\, business as usual for Arquimedes involves kidnapping we
 althy neighbours for ransom. He is ably assisted by his eldest son\, han
 dsome rugby player Alejandro\, who uses his fame and popularity to ident
 ify possible targets.\n\nDirector Pablo Trapero’s films have not really 
 had a presence here in Australia prior to this\, but boy am I going to b
 e keeping an eye out for his future projects based on this one. He exper
 tly handles this true-life noir thriller\, exposing and exploring a dark
  period in the history of his home country. It invites comparisons with 
 the classic Coppola film The Godfather\, with its ‘rise and fall’ narrat
 ive and examination of the nature of evil and the true cost of family lo
 yalty. And the main actor Guillermo Francella is chilling with his pierc
 ing blue eyes and pale face\, as he goes about his grubby grisly schemes
 .\n\nWinner of the Best Director prize at the Venice Film festival\, The
  Clan is a must-see classic of modern Argentinian cinema.\n\n\n- Travis 
 Cragg
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170427.html#film-3746
SUMMARY:The Clan (El Clan)
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170428T114200Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170428T093000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170428T093000Z
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DESCRIPTION:In the high stakes world of political power brokers\, Elizabe
 th Sloane (Chastain) is the best in the business. As cunning as she is u
 nbeatable\, Sloane is the most formidable lobbyist in Washington D.C. an
 d one who will do whatever it takes to win – even if it means breaking t
 he rules to do so. \n\nBut when the head of a powerful gun lobby makes S
 loane a lucrative offer to convince women to oppose a bill imposing new 
 regulations on the sale of firearms\, she suddenly finds herself in a cr
 isis of conscience. In a surprising about-face Sloane rejects the offer\
 , resigns from her prestigious firm and takes up a job at a scrappy litt
 le outfit on the other side of the fence. For once in her life\, Sloane 
 has a cause to fight for that she actually believes in and is willing to
  risk everything that she’s worked for to defend it. But could winning c
 ome at too high a price?\n\nIf anything\, Miss Sloane is a prime showcas
 e for the talents of the chameleonic Jessica Chastain. She immerses hers
 elf in the role of the iron-willed\, ice-cold Sloane\, and still manages
  to imbue the character with a dash of melancholy to avoid veering into 
 fem-bot territory. It’s a firecracker of a performance\, and one that el
 evates this unpredictable political thriller beyond its John Grisham Lit
 e narrative. So if you like your power politics with a dash of theatrica
 lity and rapid-fire Aaron Sorkin-esque dialogue\, be sure to make a date
  to see Miss Sloane.\n\n\n- Adrian Ma
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170428.html#film-3747
SUMMARY:Miss Sloane
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170428T131600Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170428T115200Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170428T115200Z
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DESCRIPTION:Southside With You tells the based-loosely-on-fact story of t
 he first long afternoon into evening date of a lowly intern in a Chicago
  legal firm with one of that firm’s lawyers\, as he attempts to win her 
 over from cold colleague to future wife. Spoiler alert: he is successful
 \, and the two will go on to become President and First Lady Barack and 
 Michelle Obama.\nAnd that’s really all there is to it\, as plot goes. Th
 is is a character study\, a wonderfully written film which through lengt
 hy conversations explores romance\, race\, culture and two extraordinary
  individuals. The lead performances by Sawyers and Sumpter\, which the f
 ilm hangs so heavily upon\, are extremely good – capturing the essence o
 f the Obamas without becoming a caricature.\nComparisons have been made 
 with Before Sunrise\, and there are certainly similarities as we see the
  tender birth of a relationship. Unfortunately the restrictions imposed 
 on the filmmakers by the well known reality of their two lead characters
  confines the film – while the nudges and nods to their future are fun\,
  it does remove a lot of the tension. What we are left with is a loving\
 , happy and ultimately satisfying homage to romance\, and to the endurin
 g legacy of the Obamas.\n\n\n- Pedr Cain
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170428.html#film-3748
SUMMARY:Southside With You
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170429T105700Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170429T090000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170429T090000Z
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DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nChoose life\nChoose Facebo
 ok\, Twitter\, Instagram and hope that someone\, somewhere cares\nChoose
  looking up old flames\, wishing you’d done it all differently\nAnd choo
 se watching history repeat itself\nChoose your future\nChoose reality TV
 \, slut shaming\, revenge porn\nChoose a zero hour contract\, a two hour
  journey to work\nAnd choose the same for your kids\, only worse\, and s
 mother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody
 ’s kitchen\nAnd then… take a deep breath\nYou’re an addict\, so be addic
 ted\nJust be addicted to something else\nChoose the ones you love\nChoos
 e your future\nChoose life\n\nMark Renton (McGregor) returns to Glasgow 
 after a 20 year absence. His main intent being to make amends with Simon
  ‘Sick Boy’ Williamson (Miller) and Daniel ‘Spud’ Murphy (Ewan Bremner).
  Alas he also finds a still-psychopathic Francis Begbie (Carlyle) fresh 
 out of jail and still holding a grudge. Despite the obvious threat to hi
 s own life Renton this time chooses to stick it out and help his friends
  get their dysfunctional lives back on track.\n\nWhilst many elements of
  T2 are loosely based on “Porno”\, the sequel novel to “Trainspotting”\,
  the film is largely an original story (blame the Internet changing the 
 world for that one\, as well as the problem that “Porno” just wasn’t in 
 the same league as its predecessor even when its story material was more
  socially relevant). All for the best though as Danny Boyle and long-tim
 e screenwriting collaborator John Hodge (who also translated the origina
 l book to the big screen) have created an unexpectedly worthy sequel to 
 the greatest Scottish film of all time.\n\n- Adam Gould
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170429.html#film-3749
SUMMARY:T2: Trainspotting
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170429T125100Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170429T110700Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170429T110700Z
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DESCRIPTION:The small crew of the international space station discover\, 
 in a piece of Martian rock\, the first evidence of extra-terrestrial lif
 e. It’s a time for celebration… until their research goes wrong\, and su
 ddenly this harmless piece of single-celled life threatens everyone on b
 oard.\n\nYes\, it does sound pretty much like Alien – a small group trap
 ped in claustrophobic space vehicle fighting for their lives against a m
 ysterious alien force. But that was a big scary monster that you could h
 ide from. How do you hide from something tiny? Can you trust the crew me
 mbers that have already been exposed? Are they now under the control of 
 the alien? Is a scary monster currently burrowing its way out of their c
 hest?\n\nFrom the writing team behind Deadpool and featuring the ever re
 liable Gyllenhaal and Reynolds in the lead roles\, along with a space-st
 ation-load of high budget Gravity-esque special effects\, Life is a cree
 py thriller that will keep you guessing. It may not be the most original
  sci-fi movie to ever hit theatres\, but it’s a fun ride on the big scre
 en nonetheless.\n\n\n- Pedr Cain
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170429.html#film-3750
SUMMARY:Life
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170502T105800Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170502T093000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170502T093000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3751
DESCRIPTION:‘My eyes are open. Believe me\, they are open.’\n\nHigh noon 
 in a Bedouin village in southern Israel’s Negev Desert. Jalila is hostin
 g an awkward celebration – the marriage of her husband to a second\, muc
 h younger wife – while trying to conceal the humiliation that boils insi
 de her. Her daughter Layla is preoccupied with a different matter: her s
 ecret\, strictly forbidden love affair with Anuar\, a university friend.
  \n\nLayla\, more like her mother than she will admit\, is convinced tha
 t reason and resolve will be enough to win her freedom\, but village pol
 itics quickly close that door. As Layla\, her mother\, her sisters and t
 he men of the village all navigate territory strewn with emotional landm
 ines\, Sand Storm spins a riveting tale of subterfuge\, secrets\, and fe
 alty.\n\nWritten and directed by Elite Zexer\, an Israeli filmmaker maki
 ng a solid\, sensitive feature debut in collaboration with a combined Je
 wish and Arab crew\, Sand Storm was the darling of film festival critics
  and audiences around the world\, winning the Grand Jury Prize at Sundan
 ce as well as Best Feature Film\, Best Director and Best Supporting Actr
 ess at the 2016 Ophir Awards (Israeli Oscars).\n\nElite Zexer’s artful s
 torytelling derives its authenticity – its complexity of character\, ric
 h detail\, and subtle humour – from the 10 years she personally spent in
 teracting with Bedouin women. A story of tradition\, modernity and divid
 ed family\, Sand Storm portrays the layered relationship between mother 
 and daughter\, both bound by custom while struggling to adapt to a chang
 ing world.\n\n\n- Megan Churley
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170502.html#film-3751
SUMMARY:Sand Storm (Sufat Chol)
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170504T113000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170504T093000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170504T093000Z
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DESCRIPTION:This is an interesting take on the idea of rediscovering\, or
  in this case discovering\, all of the incredible things about our world
  and our lives that are often taken for granted. \n\nIn The Space Betwee
 n Us\, a group of astronauts undertake a mission to colonise Mars. After
  they land on Mars\, one of the astronauts discovers she’s pregnant and 
 gives birth to a boy. She dies from complications and her son\, Gardner 
 (Butterfield)\, is raised on Mars by the remaining astronauts. Gardner h
 as an extraordinary life living on Mars and only ever meeting 14 people\
 , but as he gets older he starts researching Earth and looking for his u
 nnamed father. This leads him to begin an online friendship with Tulsa\,
  a teenage girl from Colorado (Robertson).\n\nWhen Gardner finally goes 
 to Earth he is eager to experience all of the things he has only read ab
 out\, but his body can’t deal with the different atmosphere on Earth. Th
 is is where the story moves from sci-fi to become a touching story of li
 fe’s experiences and adventures as Gardner and Tulsa race against time t
 o discover the truth about his father and learn so much more in the proc
 ess. I know\, the last sentence sounds like the quote from the movie pos
 ter but that’s really how I felt about this story. Putting aside my desi
 re to include a comment about men being from Mars (and women from Venus)
 \, I certainly would encourage you to come along and discover what is a 
 really enjoyable film.\n\n\n- Tamara Cain
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170504.html#film-3752
SUMMARY:The Space Between Us
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170505T111700Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170505T093000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170505T093000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3753
DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nGhost in the Shell tells t
 he story of the Major (Johansson)\, a cyborg policewoman who is tasked w
 ith taking down a notorious hacker.\n\nThe film met with accusations of 
 ‘whitewashing’ when Scarlett Johansson was cast as the Major who\, in pr
 evious renditions\, has been Japanese. However the view from Japan was m
 uch different\, with the majority of people actually impressed with the 
 casting of Johansson\, who already has several sci-fi films under her be
 lt\, including Under the Skin and Lucy. \n\nThis is a new\, live-action 
 adaptation of hugely popular Japanese anime series set in a dystopian cy
 berpunk future. It deals with questions of ambiguous identity in a world
  of sophisticated artificial intelligence. These questions – first asked
  in the mid-1990s before the social media revolution\, and before intern
 et access and smartphones became ubiquitous – seem all the more pertinen
 t in today’s world.\n\nThe name ‘Ghost in the Shell’ is taken from the w
 ork of psychologist Arthur Koestler who describes the ‘Ghost’ as the pri
 mitive parts of the human brain left over from an earlier stage of human
  evolution that can overpower higher logical functions. To the writers o
 f Ghost in the Shell\, A.I. represents the next stage in human evolution
 \, but one which is not yet fully separated from the human minds that cr
 eated it.\n\n- Matthew Rogers
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170505.html#film-3753
SUMMARY:Ghost in the Shell
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170505T125300Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170505T112700Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170505T112700Z
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DESCRIPTION:An unidentified body has been found in a house in a small tow
 n in the US. Coroner Tommy Tilden (Cox) and his son and medical technici
 an Austin (Hirsch) are performing the autopsy. But this is no ordinary b
 ody\, and this will be no ordinary autopsy. As the Tildens investigate f
 or a cause of death\, strange things start to occur and it seems quite p
 ossible that by the end of the night there may be a few extra corpses to
  go around…\n\nNorwegian director Øvredal gained a reputation with the f
 ilm Troll Hunter six-and-a-bit years ago\, a clever mix of humour and sc
 ares. The Autopsy of Jane Doe doubles down on the scares\, with the morg
 ue proving a suitably spooky location for unnerving events. It’s about a
 s grisly as the title suggests\, with a whole lot of scalpel-work and sk
 in-peeling – but it’s also got a fair bit going on to get into your head
  and startle you with something other than just gore. Hirsch and Cox mak
 e an effective team as they discover more about what makes this cadaver 
 different from all the others they’ve seen. So come along for a film to 
 make you shiver.\n\n\n- Simon Tolhurst
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170505.html#film-3754
SUMMARY:The Autopsy of Jane Doe
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170506T084400Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170506T070000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170506T070000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3755
DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nGotham City is not a place
  anybody would want to live. Constantly under threat by various supervil
 lains\, and protected only by a weirdo with a Bat-fetish who has an infi
 nite set of expensive gadgets\, vehicles and weaponry. But of course tha
 t weirdo is secretly a lonely billionaire named Bruce Wayne (Arnett)\, w
 ith just his mansion and his butler Alfred (Fiennes) to keep him company
  – well\, except for young Dick Grayson (Cera)\, the orphan he’s recentl
 y adopted\, possibly by mistake. But with the enthusiastic Barbara Gordo
 n (Rosario Dawson) looking to have the police work with Batman\, and The
  Joker (Galifianakis) assembling a vast army of villains to fight agains
 t him\, maybe it’s time for Bruce to learn the meaning of family…\n\nThe
  LEGO Movie was a massive hit\, and one of the highlights of the film wa
 s Arnett’s performance as the pompous LEGO Batman. So it’s his moment to
  seize the solo spotlight. Again animated by Australia’s Animal Logic\, 
 and directed by Chris McKay from TV’s “Robot Chicken”\, this is a much s
 illier Batman than we’ve seen since last year’s 50th anniversary ANU Fil
 m Group screening of 1966’s Batman: The Movie. But this is still hysteri
 cal fun for anybody of any Bat-loving age\, full of action and LEGO-expl
 osions.\n\n- Simon Tolhurst
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170506.html#film-3755
SUMMARY:The LEGO Batman Movie
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170506T111700Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170506T090000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170506T090000Z
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DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nLogan ‘Wolverine’ Unimport
 ant-last-name (Jackman) has had a pretty tough trot. He’s been running f
 rom a troubled childhood\; fighting in world wars\; blown up by a nuclea
 r weapon\; forced to kill his unrequited love\; gone back in time to sav
 e the future\; experimented on with adamantium\, lost the adamantium\, r
 egained the adamantium\; and had a pretty rubbish origin movie.\n\nNow\,
  in the future\, Logan and Professor Charles Xavier (Stewart) are both g
 etting on a bit. Logan’s healing power is waning and he has chronic pain
 . Professor X is succumbing to Alzheimer’s and his memory failing. But t
 here are powers creating mutant assassins from young mutants and an army
  of mutant hunters led by Donald Pierce (Holbrook). When they come acros
 s a young mutant named Laura Kinney (Keen)\, they help out one last time
 . Especially as her abilities and genetic markers seem very\, very famil
 iar.\n\nThis is the final X-Men film for longstanding actors Jackman and
  Stewart\, and they finish in fine style. The limitations time has place
 d upon them seem real and you can almost feel their struggles. Director 
 Mangold also presents a gritty\, realistic tale without the large scale 
 effects of previous series outings. I think it’s more intense in both em
 otion and impact. I really enjoyed it and give it six adamantium claws u
 p.\n\n- Steven Cain
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170506.html#film-3756
SUMMARY:Logan
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170511T105700Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170511T093000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170511T093000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3757
DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to the wedding of the year. Don’t f
 it in? Take a number.\n\nEx-maid of honour Eloise (Anna Kendrick) – havi
 ng been relieved of her duties after being unceremoniously dumped by the
  best man via text – decides to hold her head up high and attend her old
 est friend's wedding anyway.\n\nShe finds herself seated at the 'random'
  table in the back of the ballroom with a disparate group of strangers\,
  most of whom should have known to just send regrets (but not before sen
 ding something nice off the registry).  As everyone's secrets are reveal
 ed\, Eloise learns a thing or two from the denizens of Table 19 and disc
 overs that friendships – and even a little romance – can happen under th
 e most unlikely circumstances.\n\n\n- 
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170511.html#film-3757
SUMMARY:Table 19
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170512T121100Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170512T093000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170512T093000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3758
DESCRIPTION:In the 17th century\, after defeating a peasant uprising beli
 eved to have been incited by European Catholics\, Japan’s ruling Tokugaw
 a Shogunate set out to outlaw the practice of Christianity across the co
 untry. Christians that weren’t persecuted\, tortured or killed by the Sh
 ogunate were forced to publicly renounce their faith\, with many going u
 nderground in order to practice their religion clandestinely.\n\nSilence
  is set in this world and follows two Portuguese Jesuit priests (Garfiel
 d and Driver) as they travel to Japan to locate their mentor (Neeson)\, 
 who is believed to have abandoned his faith. The priests are immediately
  drawn into the struggle of the hidden Christians\, and find themselves 
 forced to take drastic steps not only to survive\, but to stay true to t
 heir beliefs while doing so.\n\nIn today’s era of endless sequels and pr
 equels\, films as daring and ambitious as Silence are about as rare as a
  Chris Hemsworth film where he keeps his shirt on. A 160-minute film abo
 ut priests in feudal Japan doesn’t exactly scream ‘box office hit’\, but
  this thankfully has one big thing going for it: Martin Scorsese.\n\nSco
 rsese\, himself a failed priest\, has articulated his struggle with fait
 h throughout much of his life’s work\, but this is the summation of it a
 ll. Scorsese has been working on bringing Shusaku Endo’s novel to the bi
 g screen for nearly 30 years\, and the end result is nothing but the wor
 k of a master: a passion project in every sense of the phrase.\n\n\n- Ad
 rian Ma
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170512.html#film-3758
SUMMARY:Silence
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170513T104700Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170513T090000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170513T090000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Your Name is not your typical teenage romance. Directed by Ma
 koto Shinkai\, this romantic fantasy film has received critical acclaim 
 and broken box office records in Japan\, becoming one of the highest gro
 ssing films of all time. The story of the film is slightly unconventiona
 l\, but for those familiar with Shinkai’s previous works (Children Who C
 hase Lost Voices from the Deep\, 5 Centimeters Per Second) this will com
 e as no surprise.\n\nThe story centres on two teenagers who\, despite be
 ing geographically apart\, manage to communicate through unorthodox mean
 s and in doing so develop a friendship of sorts. Whilst the initial prem
 ise of the film is likely to throw some viewers off\, Shinkai does a mas
 terful job of storytelling which leaves you wanting more right until the
  very end. Though it is serious at points it is interlaced with light he
 arted and whimsical moments resulting in a wonderful balance of emotiona
 l depth and comedic fun. \n\nAlongside the unique storyline the film is 
 beautifully animated throughout and certain sequences within the film ar
 e extremely pleasurable to watch. Overall this is a must-watch flick and
  one which will remain with the viewer long after its end.\n\n\n- Zahra 
 Tariq
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170513.html#film-3759
SUMMARY:Your Name (Kimi no na wa)
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170513T125700Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170513T105700Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170513T105700Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3760
DESCRIPTION:Godzilla as a cinematic franchise has been around for a bit o
 ver 60 years and 31 films. So you’d think there’s very little else to be
  said about the creature. It shows up\, stomps Tokyo\, stomps off again 
 til the next sequel.\n\nBut Hideaki Anno (“Neon Genesis Evangelion”) and
  Shinji Higuchi’s film is different. For a start\, it ignores most of th
 at history and starts with the Japanese government facing an apparently 
 brand new\, strange radioactive creature which changes forms repeatedly 
 as the story goes on. And gosh does the Japanese Government have a lot o
 f meetings. It’s pretty much “The West Wing” meets Godzilla\, with lots 
 of fast-paced discussion scenes\, including a fair bit of bureaucratic i
 neptness before heroic scientists start working together to try to crack
  what the hell this thing is and how it can be stopped.\n\nYes\, the hum
 ans are less interesting than the monster but they’re never particularly
  dull and the action ratchets along rather well. There’s some distinct a
 nti-Americanism going on here with suspicions about how they may be invo
 lved\, although this does also give rise to the one big flaw – the mainl
 y subtitled film goes non-subtitled when the characters speak English\, 
 and by far the worst English is spoken by a character who’s meant to be 
 an American representative.\n\nObviously if you’re looking for a particu
 lar amount of depth… no\, this is still a Godzilla movie\, go elsewhere.
  But if you’re okay with destruction and conspiracy\, this is quite an e
 njoyable flick.\n\n\n- Simon Tolhurst
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170513.html#film-3760
SUMMARY:Shin Godzilla (Shin Gojira)
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170516T110800Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170516T093000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170516T093000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3761
DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EMBASSY OF FINLAND\n\nThere
  is a long tradition of films celebrating the role of school teachers\, 
 and how they can influence and inspire young lives. Remember Dead Poets 
 Society or To Sir With Love or Goodbye Mr Chips? This one from Finland m
 ight become another favourite.\n\nBased on true stories\, The Fencer has
  something for everyone: action\, drama and romance. Set in a beautiful 
 Nordic landscape during a snowy winter\, this is the touching tale of Es
 tonian champion fencer\, Endel Nelis. Life was difficult and sometimes d
 angerous under Soviet rule in Estonia straight after WWII. To escape the
  KGB secret police\, Nelis moves to a small town where he becomes a phys
 ical education teacher at a local school. He soon becomes a father figur
 e to his students\, mostly war orphans\, as he starts to teach them fenc
 ing in an afterschool sports club.\n\nHowever\, he quickly realises how 
 difficult it is to leave his past life behind\, and is faced with a diff
 icult decision. The talented students in the sports club wish to compete
  in a fencing competition but that would possibly reveal his past and pu
 t him at great risk.\n\nThe movie is directed by Klaus Härö\, a Finnish 
 filmmaker with a long history of successful films and many awards\, whos
 e work deserves to be seen by a wider audience.\n\n\n- Justus Toivanen
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170516.html#film-3761
SUMMARY:The Fencer (Miekkailija)
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170519T110200Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170519T093000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170519T093000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3762
DESCRIPTION:For better or worse\, Disney has been a childhood institution
  for almost a century. From the first Mickey Mouse cartoons all the way 
 to this semester’s Moana\, the studio has provided enchanting and sweet 
 tales for us to treasure and pass down to future generations.\n\nLife\, 
 Animated\, whilst not a Disney film\, is a tribute to this legacy\, as t
 old through the life of Owen Suskind. Diagnosed with autism at age three
 \, Owen retreated into a world of non-communication\, until his father o
 bserved his obsessive interest in Disney films and started successfully 
 talking to him through the characters he adored. Using this as a startin
 g point\, Owen was rehabilitated into being able to interact with the wo
 rld again\, through the movies he loved.\n\nThis was my favourite docume
 ntary of 2016. It’s an inspiring\, engaging\, amusing and sweet story. B
 ased on Ron Suskind’s (Owen’s father) best-selling book “Life\, Animated
 : A Story of Sidekicks\, Heroes\, and Autism”\, this movie documents Owe
 n’s journey through interviews\, Disney clips of classic characters like
  Simba\, Jafar and Ariel\, and original animation\, to show how the movi
 es’ expressive\, exaggerated elements provide Owen with the means to mak
 e the activity around him more tangible. And the scene with Aladdin voic
 e actor Gilbert Gottfried rates as the most heart-warming scene in any m
 ovie I saw last year.\n\nA unique story of an inimitable individual\, Di
 sney could not ask for a better endorsement than Life\, Animated.\n\n\n-
  Travis Cragg
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170519.html#film-3762
SUMMARY:Life\, Animated
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170519T130600Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170519T111200Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170519T111200Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3763
DESCRIPTION:For as long as humanity has existed\, fear has loomed large i
 n our psyche\, and our ability to go about our regular lives making the 
 most of our situation is a testament to our resilience as a species. How
 ever\, the curtain is regularly drawn back to scare us out of complacenc
 y and remind us that we should not just blindly trust our governments an
 d corporations to have our backs. So if you wanted the next thing to kee
 p you awake at night\, then welcome to Alex Gibney’s Zero Days.\n\nThis 
 is the inside story of Stuxnet\, a US-Israeli produced malware designed 
 as a weapon of mass destruction. Its main purpose for existence was to b
 ring down sections of an Iranian power plant\, but it then expanded to t
 he world. Zero Days shows how such powerful technology may be overtaking
  its creators in regards to security and politics.\n\nGibney is most fam
 ous for Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room\, highlighting the company’
 s corrupt business practices. He has also directed exposés on Scientolog
 y and the Catholic Church\, so he is well-versed in tackling the themes 
 of distrusting those in power. \n\nZero Days is yet another glass of col
 d water to the face\, a necessary wakeup call for all of us to be aware 
 of how technological creations need to be handled. It can be dense with 
 information at times (I didn’t understand about half of it)\, but it’s s
 till an important film that should be widely seen.\n\n\n- Travis Cragg
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170519.html#film-3763
SUMMARY:Zero Days
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170520T082100Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170520T070000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170520T070000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3764
DESCRIPTION:A man narrowly escapes death from a shipwreck and is washed o
 nto the shores of a tropical island. He’s resourceful enough to attempt 
 to escape\, more than once\, but a large\, soulful-eyed red turtle seems
  determined to stop him. And then…\n\nI need to warn you that the ‘and t
 hen’ is something rather horrible\, which will taste very sour when it o
 ccurs. It’s a testament to how wonderful the film is that\; not only doe
 s it fully recover from this sour moment\; it transforms the moment into
  something breathtaking and uplifting. By the end you won’t regret havin
 g stuck it out. I’m pretty sure this will even be true of any children t
 here may be in the audience. But – well\, caveat emptor. Just know they 
 will face a rough moment.\n\nYou’ll also be amazed at how much story the
  film manages to tell\, and how crystal-clear it all is\, without there 
 being a single word of dialogue. Given the film is a collaboration betwe
 en Studio Ghibli in Japan\, additional studios in France and Belgium\, a
 nd a Dutch-English animator\, it probably made sense to remove language 
 from the equation. The look is also a unique mix of elements you might r
 ecognise from Japan and Europe\, with vistas both serene and alarming\, 
 and a colour palette chosen so as to make the red of that turtle look li
 ke the loveliest colour on Earth.\n\n\n- Henry Fitzgerald
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170520.html#film-3764
SUMMARY:The Red Turtle
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170520T105100Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170520T090000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170520T090000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3765
DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE HIGH COMMISSION OF THE REPU
 BLIC OF BOTSWANA\n\nThe British Empire was forged by trials and tribulat
 ions. The fact that its influence is still amongst us is no mean feat\; 
 with the monarchy\, language\, system of parliament and Commonwealth Gam
 es among many common threads that tie all her colonies together. A Unite
 d Kingdom\, based on a true story\, is an example of one of the many upr
 isings made by individual territories against their oppressive and explo
 itative English rulers.\n\nThis well-made film shows the fight for indep
 endence for Bechuanaland\, now Botswana\, by its future king (Oyelowo). 
 His ascendance to the throne is stymied by his love for his white wife (
 Pike)\, whom he meets while studying in London in the 1940s. The union a
 nd his future rule with her by his side is opposed by all parties – gove
 rnment and family. The seeping of apartheid from neighbouring South Afri
 ca\, an asset on many fronts to the English\, adds to the political tens
 ion of an interracial marriage at the highest family tier of Bechuanalan
 d.\n\nPike was in a similarly sympathetic role in another true story\, M
 ade in Dagenham\, about equal pay for women in the workplace. This film 
 too explores issues around tolerance and unity. Can love conquer all? Wa
 tch this and see.\n\n\n- Carol Christopher
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170520.html#film-3765
SUMMARY:A United Kingdom
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170526T105700Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170526T093000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170526T093000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3766
DESCRIPTION:The Eagle Huntress is the uplifting and thrilling true story 
 of Aisholpan\, a 13 year old Mongolian girl who\, with great courage\, n
 ative talent and the support of her loving family\, becomes the first fe
 male eagle hunter in twelve generations of her Kazakh community. Along t
 he way she must overcome both physical obstacles and social barriers\, u
 ndertaking her rite-of-passage against the breathtaking backdrop of the 
 Altai Mountains.\n\nFeaturing some scenes so amazing you would think the
 y were re-creations\, but were in fact captured through the use of cutti
 ng-edge filmmaking technology (including drones and Go-Pros) and present
 ed with skilful cinematography\, The Eagle Huntress is a stunning visual
  treat. Add narration by Daisy Ridley from Star Wars\, and a soundtrack 
 that includes “Angel by the Wings” by Sia\, and you have an entertaining
 \, heartwarming and fabulous film experience.\n\nSince premiering at the
  2016 Sundance Film Festival this documentary has received rave reviews 
 and generated considerable award interest. Go see it with friends and fa
 mily\, and be inspired!\n\n\n- Kellie Takenaka
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170526.html#film-3766
SUMMARY:The Eagle Huntress
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170526T123800Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170526T110700Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170526T110700Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3767
DESCRIPTION:The fifth film in the Underworld franchise – Blood Wars – see
 s the return of vampire death dealer Selene (Beckinsale) as she once mor
 e takes on the Lycan clan of werewolves – and anybody else that gets in 
 her way. \n\nAnd that’s really all you need to know from a plot perspect
 ive. It’s not like you’ll really be attending for the plot anyway (even 
 though it is a pretty decent one\, and far superior to the previous film
 \, Underworld: Awakening). The important thing is that Selene still kick
 s ass in skin-tight leather and the action is slick\, stylish and non-st
 op – bullets and swords flying every which way for most of the tight 90-
 odd minute running time.\n\nThere is a quick recap at the start for thos
 e new to the franchise (or those who just can’t remember – it has been 1
 3 years since it all started after all!) but Blood Wars is pretty self-c
 ontained and those who have little or no memory of what has gone before 
 will still enjoy the ride. There are plot holes\, and at times the low b
 udget shows through\, but if you come in hoping to watch a woman elegant
 ly laying the smackdown from start to finish you’ll walk out very happy.
 \n\n\n- Pedr Cain
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170526.html#film-3767
SUMMARY:Underworld: Blood Wars
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170527T111600Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170527T090000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170527T090000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3768
DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nThe Fast and the Furious c
 rew have been through quite a bit – starting at car theft and leading in
 to ever escalating confrontations involving heists\, gunfights\, brawls\
 , mercenaries\, revenge\, international intrigue and\, most importantly\
 , a whole lot of Vin Diesel as Dom speechifying about family. The Fate o
 f the Furious (AKA Fast & Furious 8) is the latest in the series\, which
  has increasingly become a kinda multi-ethnic action-packed soap opera w
 ith cars\, with an extended cast of recurring characters\, many of whom 
 are former rivals now turned allies.\n\nIn this one\, Dom (Diesel) and L
 etty (Michelle Rodriguez) are on their honeymoon. With the gang’s names 
 now cleared and the vengeful Deckard Shaw (Statham) locked away\, everyt
 hing should be going fine\, right? Wrong. Very wrong. On a seemingly sim
 ple mission\, Dom betrays the team\, sending Agent Hobbs (Johnson) into 
 prison with Shaw\, and teams up with the high-tech terrorist Cipher (The
 ron). With the help of Frank Petty (Kurt Russell)\, a covert operative\,
  the team has to find out what Dom’s really up to and stop the dangerous
  Cipher before further mayhem ensues.\n\nYes\, it’s dumb\, but so entert
 ainingly so that only the most miserable of critics would complain. Scre
 enwriter Chris Morgan has been writing for these since the third entry\,
  Tokyo Drift\, and this one even has a new director in F. Gary Gray\, wh
 o definitely knows car action from his remake of The Italian Job\, and h
 ow to handle a strong ensemble cast from directing Straight Outta Compto
 n. Big screen action on a big screen with big sound. Don’t miss it.\n\n-
  Simon Tolhurst
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170527.html#film-3768
SUMMARY:The Fate of the Furious
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170527T130900Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170527T112600Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170527T112600Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3769
DESCRIPTION:Two mercenaries (Matt Damon and Pedro Pascal) are left the so
 le survivors of a party seeking their fortune bringing black powder back
  to the west\, after they are attacked by a shadowy monster.\n\nBeating 
 their retreat they are imprisoned after stumbling upon the Great Wall\, 
 which is being built to hold back the onslaught of monstrous creatures a
 ttacking the land. Led by strategist Wang (Lau)\, two generals (Jing Tia
 n and Zhang Hanyu) command an ever-dwindling force of warriors that repe
 l the wall to combat the oncoming creatures. Reluctantly\, the mercs are
  allowed to join the defenders as they prepare to hold back the monsters
  from the capital in one final defence.\n\nThe Great Wall is a Chinese-U
 S co-production mainly aimed at the Chinese market\, where it opened as 
 the top movie of the Christmas-New Year period and recouped its producti
 on costs before even opening in the West. Director Zhang Yimou (best kno
 wn for Hero and House of Flying Daggers\, but probably should be best kn
 own for Raise the Red Lantern) makes a welcome return to action movies w
 ith The Great Wall. Few directors have his eye for colour and an ability
  to command grand\, sweeping action scenes. The contrast of murky grey m
 onsters against black powder sparks and blood is truly a sight to behold
 .\n\n\n- Adam Gould
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170527.html#film-3769
SUMMARY:The Great Wall
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170602T121200Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170602T093000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170602T093000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3770
DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EMBASSY OF THE FEDERAL REPU
 BLIC OF GERMANY\n\nHow often have you seen a Hollywood movie where the b
 attle of the generations is played out between a parent and an adult chi
 ld? Daughter gets married and father has to cope with the change\, or so
 n has to take lonely widowed mother on a road trip. And they always end 
 in a reconciliation of sorts.\n\nWell\, the synopsis of Toni Erdmann may
  sound similar: ‘retired prankster father poses as life coach to try and
  be closer to his estranged workaholic daughter’. But this is a very dif
 ferent movie\, mainly because it refuses to remain predictable\, and it 
 strikes with scene after scene that will have you laughing out loud at i
 ts reality-based absurdity. Right from the start\, with the ticking pack
 age scene\, you will get a sense of the type of humour. And a later nude
  scene rivals the wrestling scene in Borat\, in the way it is so expertl
 y and hilariously played out.\n\nIt also has complex characters that do 
 not fit into the Hollywood mould\, and little elements throughout that y
 ou have to watch for that make observations on class and gender politics
 . But most of all\, it is a film about humanity – what it means to be hu
 man\, and how a human should live.\n\nLast comment: if you observe the r
 unning time and it concerns you\, don’t be worried. When this film ended
 \, I seriously thought there was another hour to go. The humour makes th
 is film fly by.\n\n\n- Travis Cragg
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170602.html#film-3770
SUMMARY:Toni Erdmann
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170603T090900Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170603T070000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170603T070000Z
UID:anufg.org.au/films/3771
DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\n‘Tale as old as time’ may 
 be the opening lyric of Beauty and the Beast’s title song\, but it must 
 surely also be the current mantra of Disney’s live action division. Seem
 ingly content with mining their animated classics for inspiration\, they
 ’ve announced plans to remake everything from Aladdin to The Little Merm
 aid\, The Lion King\, Peter Pan\, Dumbo and beyond. Even 101 Dalmatians 
 villainess Cruella de Vil will be receiving the Maleficent treatment and
  getting an origin film starring Emma Stone!\n\nBut who can blame them w
 hen the end result has been a string of pretty solid films in their own 
 right? That said\, the real test is yet to come: while the original Slee
 ping Beauty\, Cinderella\, The Jungle Book and Pete’s Dragon were all we
 ll and good\, they are nowhere near as beloved as this one.\n\nArguably 
 the best film to come out of Disney’s ’90s renaissance\, Beauty and the 
 Beast is widely regarded as one of the greatest animated films ever made
 . Accordingly\, Disney have wisely chosen not to mess with perfection an
 d opted for a near-straight remake – with many of the same songs\, chara
 cters\, dialogue and even costumes intact\, but a few new additions thro
 wn in for good measure. They’ve handed the reigns to an ace director of 
 movie musicals (Bill Condon of Chicago and Dreamgirls fame) and recruite
 d a top cast of acting talent (led by Harry Potter’s Emma Watson as Bell
 e) and voice talent (incluidng Ewan McGregor\, Ian McKellen\, Emma Thomp
 son and Stanley Tucci) to bring it all to life. \n\nSo whether you grew 
 up with the original or simply enjoy sweeping fairy tale romances\, be o
 ur guest and see this film.\n\n- Adrian Ma
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170603.html#film-3771
SUMMARY:Beauty and the Beast
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED IN PARTNERHIP WITH THE HIGH COMMISSION OF THE REPUB
 LIC OF UGANDA\n\nIn one respect this could be a standard Disney underdog
  sports movie: think The Mighty Ducks\, or Cool Runnings – and\, like th
 e latter\, based on a true story. There’s a young girl (Nalwanga) in Kat
 we\, the poorest part of Kampala\, Uganda who reveals herself to have an
  unexpected talent for chess\; and a struggling amateur chess coach (Oye
 lowo) who makes it his business to see her succeed. Scoff all you like\,
  but if you don’t actually have a heart of stone you’ll be cheering her 
 along by the end (and your cheering will be rewarded).\n\nBut that aside
 \, one thing that sets this film apart from the (pleasantly) clichéd gen
 re to which it belongs\, is that it fully commits to its setting. It rea
 lly was filmed in the slums of Katwe\, which shows in every shot: some t
 hings cannot be faked\, and this is clearly no fake. (The director\, Mir
 a Nair\, first made her name with the highly-regarded 1988 film Salaam B
 ombay!\, also showing actual locations – and actual street children – in
  the poorer parts of a large city.) Yet\, without any sugar coating (or 
 none that I could detect)\, the result is not a grim excursion of duty i
 nto a place we’d rather not go – not a ‘look how squalid everything is’ 
 misery piece. We see the slums as slums\, but also\, for a brief time\, 
 as home to these characters.\n\n\n- Henry Fitzgerald
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170603.html#film-3772
SUMMARY:Queen of Katwe
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EMBASSY OF GREECE\n\nCheval
 ier follows a group of six middle-aged men on a fishing trip in the gorg
 eous Aegean Sea. These guys have wealth\, robust health and lead care-fr
 ee lives. With this much testosterone in a confined space there is bound
  to be trouble. Before long\, the competition comes out in the open – th
 ey will judge each other on absurd\, petty and humiliating activities wi
 th the overall winner receiving a chevalier signet ring\, the coveted pr
 ize that gives the film its name.\n\nChevalier is a study of male antago
 nism seen through the eyes of female director Athina Rachel Tsangari. De
 spite the film having no female characters\, Tsangari speaks with a femi
 nist voice as she observes the farcical behaviour of these men from a pe
 rspective only a woman would be able to provide.\n\nThe addition of the 
 ship’s crew brings another dimension to the film. As we are bemused by t
 he aggression of this game\, so are they. The upstairs-downstairs nature
  of their treatment throws into harsh light these men who literally live
  and exist ‘above’ throughout the film. The crew’s conversations about t
 he game help to maintain the comedy\, despite delving into some serious 
 examination of male class privilege.\nThe Greek islands and the ocean le
 nd themselves to the languid style of the cinematography\; everything is
  beautiful\, clean and pristine.\n\nNamed as Best Film at the London Fil
 m Festival in 2015 – and selected as Greece’s official submission in the
  Best Foreign Language Film category for this year’s Oscars – it is an e
 xtraordinary film and one that is unmissable for anyone who enjoys an in
 sightful but disturbing comedy.\n\n\n- Brett Yeats
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170609.html#film-3773
SUMMARY:Chevalier
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed director Lee Tamahori (Once Were Warriors) returns 
 home to New Zealand for an evocative family drama based on Whale Rider a
 uthor Witi Ihimaera's novel\, Bulibasha. \n\nIn the 1960s\, off the rura
 l East coast of New Zealand\, two Māori sheep-shearing families – the Ma
 hanas and the Poatas – are sworn enemies and commercial rivals as they b
 attle for supremacy in the shearing sheds and in their own hearts. \n\n1
 4-year-old Simeon (Akuhata Keefe) – the youngest son of the Mahana famil
 y – is troubled by the rivalry and sets out to unravel the truth behind 
 the longstanding feud. In doing so\, he inadvertently risks not just his
  own future prospects\, but the ire of his traditionalist grandfather (T
 emuera Morrison) and the cohesion of their tight-knit society.\n\n\n- 
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170610.html#film-3774
SUMMARY:Mahana
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DESCRIPTION:In case you’re a little allergic to sappiness and you’re thin
 king the title is a red flag (too Hallmark\, too Oprah) – this is the st
 ory of a landmark legal case in the United States\, and ‘Loving’ happene
 d to be the last name of the two main people involved. I suppose some pu
 ns are just too good to resist.\n\nMildred and David Loving (Ruth Negga 
 and Joel Edgerton) were a couple who were married in Washington\, D.C. I
 n their home and neighbouring state of Virginia\, their marriage was ill
 egal\, because Mildred was black and David was white\; so on returning h
 ome\, they were arrested\, and escaped prison sentences only by agreeing
  to exile. They appealed the decision against them and finally\, eight y
 ears after their arrest\, won in the Supreme Court in 1967.\n\nThe film 
 is about loving and the law as well as the Lovings and the law\, and in 
 Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter\, Mud\, Midnight Special) has found the perfe
 ct director to prevent it from becoming either too saccharine or too str
 ident. Nichols’s strange stories always seem to be telling themselves\, 
 and that works just as well when he’s venturing into territory less stra
 nge than his previous work – although that these laws existed in a Weste
 rn country within living memory is strange enough.\n\n\n- Henry Fitzgera
 ld
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170610.html#film-3775
SUMMARY:Loving
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EMBASSY OF AUSTRIA\n\nJewis
 h Austrian author Stefan Zweig was one of the most celebrated writers in
  the world in the 1920s and 1930s. When Nazism was gaining a foothold ac
 ross Europe Zweig made the decision to leave his beloved homeland. This 
 film chronicles his years in exile.\n\nAt a writers’ conference in Bueno
 s Aires in 1936\, where he is the guest of honour\, Zweig is asked to ma
 ke a statement denouncing Nazism but refuses. He wrestles with the decli
 ne of European society but is unable to make a public condemnation of Hi
 tler. Zweig does however care – much of his time is spent writing letter
 s or donating money to both intellectuals and ordinary people fleeing Na
 zi persecution.\nHe searches for renewed purpose in New York and\, most 
 notably\, rural Brazil. Director Schrader adeptly crafts the cluttered f
 rames of banquets and conferences\, the intimate living rooms and the op
 en fields. Central to these expressive images is the figure of Zweig\, p
 layed with barely concealed despair by Josef Hader.\n\nLearn about a vis
 ionary who dedicated a large part of his writings to the utopian ideal o
 f a peaceful\, united Europe without any national borders. Today he is c
 onsidered one of the masterminds of the European Union. He believed in t
 he peacemaking power of cultural exchange\, refused to view the world in
  a simplistic manner and adopt his opponents’ verbal brutality.\n\n\n- B
 rett Yeats
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170616.html#film-3776
SUMMARY:Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DESCRIPTION:Set in rural Australia in the summer of 1965\, Jasper Jones i
 s a coming-of-age story about fourteen year old Charlie Bucktin\, who is
  struggling with bullies\, the break-up of his parents and falling in lo
 ve. On the night that Jasper Jones\, the town’s mixed race outcast\, sha
 res with him a secret to the whereabouts of missing teen\, Laura Wishart
 \, Charlie’s life is changed forever.  \n\nIn trying to clear Jasper of 
 any blame for Laura’s disappearance\, Charlie and Jasper have to face sm
 all town attitudes\, the reality of family breakdown\, ingrained racism 
 and cultural stereotypes. All the while being determined to find the tru
 th about what happened to Laura\, no matter how dangerous. \n\nThis adap
 tion of the multi-award winning Australian book of the same name stars t
 he up-and-coming and exceptionally talented Levi Miller (Red Dog: True B
 lue\, Pan) in the lead role\, with support from the extraordinary and pe
 rfectly cast Hugo Weaving and Toni Collette.\n\nBoth heartwarming and th
 ought provoking\, Jasper Jones is a very special\, powerful and importan
 t film. From the makers of Bran Nue Dae\, the film is gorgeous\, with be
 autiful cinematography\, vivid close shots and sumptuous colours. It bea
 utifully captures that special aesthetic of the Australian bush and the 
 picturesque ‘small town’ of the 1960s\, but also holds a mirror to our p
 ast and in turn to contemporary Australian society\, addressing issues o
 f perception\, inclusion and stereotypes that are still very relevant to
 day.\n\n\n- Elyshia Hopkinson
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170617.html#film-3777
SUMMARY:Jasper Jones
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DESCRIPTION:Paterson (Driver) is a bus driver in Paterson\, New Jersey. H
 e is a quiet man who writes poetry in his spare time\, and enjoys a rela
 tively simple life despite his eccentric Latino wife and the drama surro
 unding everyone else around him. We follow Paterson through a week in hi
 s life as he observes the folks around him and is casually inspired by e
 veryday experiences to put together poems in his ever-present notebook.\
 n\nPaterson sees cult American indie director Jim Jarmusch return to str
 aight-forward dramatic fare after a couple of excursions in genre territ
 ory (most notably with the excellent Only Lovers Left Alive). Arguably h
 is best movie in almost 20 years\, which itself says a lot\, the film ca
 rries all of Jarmusch’s trademarks: magnificently understated performanc
 es\, calculated pacing\, both comically blunt and delicately subtle symb
 olism\, and casual dialogue that makes you feel like part of the convers
 ation without having said a word. \n\nMore than just repeating a formula
 \, however\, the movie presents an engaging narrative that seamlessly mo
 ves through what would typically have been loosely joined vignettes in h
 is earlier work. What’s more Paterson made me forget just how much I hat
 e Adam Driver and poetry – for two hours they were the most fascinating 
 things on the planet.\n\n\n- Adam Gould
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170617.html#film-3778
SUMMARY:Paterson
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170623T093000Z
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DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF 
 KOREA\n\n2016 was a great year for South Korean movies. Of particular no
 te were the best zombie movie ever made\, Train To Busan (screened at th
 e ANUFG last semester)\, and Park Chan-Wook’s masterful bonkers sexy per
 iod piece The Handmaiden (if you get a chance to see it\, do so – it was
  my runner-up Best Film of 2016).\n\nThe Age of Shadows also contributed
  to the banner year. It was South Korea’s official submission to the Bes
 t Foreign Language Film Oscar race and\, whilst it didn’t make the short
 list\, it is a fun\, pulse-quickening spy yarn worth seeing.\n\nExplorin
 g a dark period in Korea’s past\, The Age of Shadows is set in the 1920s
 \, when Korea was under Japanese rule. A resistance movement is building
  with plans to execute a special mission. But the fight for independence
  will be hard-won as the Japanese police force\, in particular Captain L
 ee Jung-chool\, is intent on keeping them silenced.\n\nThe cat-and-mouse
  game that ensues is as good as any James Bond movie\, or maybe even Ing
 lourious Basterds. There are several heart-stoppingly tense action seque
 nces (one on a train in particular). The production values are impeccabl
 e\, and the performances are solid. It doesn’t even matter if you can’t 
 keep up with every plot development (I found it confusing at times)\, as
  this is pure escapist enjoyment in the tradition of the best Hollywood 
 action films.\n\n\n- Travis Cragg
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170623.html#film-3779
SUMMARY:The Age of Shadows
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nI – along with the majorit
 y of ANUFG members\, I suspect – have a nostalgic attachment to films of
  the 1980s. The epic sagas of the decade\, particularly Indiana Jones\, 
 Star Wars and Alien\, are closest to my heart. \n\nIt is my humble opini
 on that\, similarly to how the Star Wars prequels led me to question how
  George Lucas could have possibly strayed so far from the beloved origin
 al films\, Ridley Scott’s long awaited prequel to the Alien saga\, Prome
 theus\, not only filled me with disappointment but a longing for redempt
 ion. I know that nostalgia plus anticipation equals incredibly high expe
 ctations but\, due to Prometheus\, my trust in Scott was all but lost. H
 e and Lucas were now to sit together in the naughty corner.\n\nLuckily\,
  I am open minded enough to give second chances\; for example the two ne
 w Star Wars films\, released recently\, have renewed my trust in the bra
 nd. By respecting the source material they had the ability to satisfy ev
 en my most discerning of tastes. Scott\, now\, has the perfect opportuni
 ty to win back the hearts of fans with Alien: Covenant by returning to t
 he classic feel and isolating dread of Alien with the tale of yet anothe
 r colony ship being threatened by the new and terrifying evolution of th
 e Xenomorph.\n\nA return to form for Scott\, the film is sinister\, clau
 strophobic and more than reminiscent of the original\, featuring a loomi
 ng horror that lies in the dark\, stalking its prey\, leaving the viewer
 s’ imagination to do its worst.\n\n- Elyshia Hopkinson
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170624.html#film-3780
SUMMARY:Alien: Covenant
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DESCRIPTION:When valley-girl cheerleader Buffy (Swanson) is told by a cra
 zy old man (Sutherland) that she has been chosen by an ancient prophecy 
 to be her generation’s saviour in the everlasting battle between man and
  vampire she thinks the old man is crazy. That quickly changes when anci
 ent vampire Lothos (Hauer) and his nest of underlings (led by Paul Reube
 ns\, carrying over his best Pee-Wee Herman acting chops) decide to tear 
 her school apart looking for her. A few training montages later and we h
 ave a feminist warrior ready to defend her people\, and hit the mall at 
 lunch.\n\nBuffy The Vampire Slayer is the movie that elevated Joss Whedo
 n (now Marvel’s golden-boy director/producer of Avengers fame) from bein
 g some dude that wrote a couple of episodes of “Roseanne” to a big-time 
 movie writer\, then back to nothing again for a few years after this\, o
 ne of the most hyped movies of summer ’92\, flopped big time. \n\nWhedon
  all but disowned the movie afterwards for not following his darker visi
 on (which was realised to near-perfection by the later series\, although
  even that still took a season and a half to really find its feet) and o
 verplaying the valley-girl cheerleader angle\, but for the most part tho
 se aspects actually work well. It’s just a much sunnier vision than the 
 brooding screenwriter wanted\; Shakespeare played in neon spandex. \n\nB
 uffy treads a fine line between being awesome and being awful\, largely 
 depending on whether you can embrace its absurd juxtaposition. Embrace i
 t!\n\n\n- Adam Gould
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170624.html#film-3781
SUMMARY:Buffy the Vampire Slayer
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170630T093042Z
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DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EMBASSY OF ESTONIA\n\nThank
 s to the generous support of the Estonian Embassy\, the ANU Film Group i
 s the first and only place where an Australian audience will have the op
 portunity to see this darkly comic crime mystery.\nThe film centres on E
 lsa\, the mother and full time carer of Lauri\, a teacher who has been i
 n a coma since being shot in suspicious circumstances. Attentive in her 
 duties\, Elsa receives Lauri’s visitors – friends\, students\, his girlf
 riend\, his boss and others – who come to update the unconscious Lauri o
 n their lives and unburden themselves of their troubles.\n\nAs the polic
 e inquiry into the crime progresses\, some of Lauri’s closest ties are c
 alled into question. Director Kadri Kõusaar cunningly navigates a script
  that slowly pieces together the truth behind the shooting using the vis
 itors’ confessionals to the comatose protagonist and cleverly building a
  web of motives among the tight-knit community. Bathed in the pastel ton
 es of post-Soviet life\, Mother is a smartly-crafted whodunit set in a s
 mall town where just about everyone is dreaming of something bigger.\n\n
 This film has been compared to the off-kilter mysteries of Fargo and Ram
 s. If you\, like me\, enjoyed those you really should come and see this.
 \n\n\n- Brett Yeats
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170630.html#film-3782
SUMMARY:Mother (Ema)
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170701T090000Z
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DESCRIPTION:“Baywatch” was an American TV series about lifeguards in Los 
 Angeles County\, California. The show was actually cancelled after its f
 irst season on NBC\, but it was ‘rescued’ and went on to become one of t
 he most watched television shows in the world during its run from 1989 t
 o 1999. So\, what does this big-screen\, big-budget reboot of the series
  have in store for you (other than a cameo appearance from The Hoff)?\n\
 nFor those who remember the TV show\, you’ll find yourself drawn to the 
 idea of this movie for all of those inexplicable reasons you watched the
  show (*cough* – slow motion beach running – *cough*). For everyone else
 \, knowledge of the intricate and complex plot of the TV show is not nee
 ded for you to enjoy this film. The ‘in-jokes’ may be lost on you\, but 
 you’ll be dragged into this film by the very fit and toned looking lifeg
 uards (noting your civic duty to understand the dangers of the ocean by 
 watching intently) played by the likes of Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron\,
  all having a blast\; a hard to believe and slightly overly-complicated 
 crime to investigate\; and some pretty darn cool explosions.\n\nThis is 
 a fun movie-going experience\, and is not meant to be any more than that
 . It does definitely benefit from being watched on the big screen… and I
  think a Film Group audience will also be a bonus. So make sure you’re p
 art of that audience and head to this (on-screen) beach to escape Canber
 ra’s cold weather.\n\n\n- Tamara Cain
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170701.html#film-3783
SUMMARY:Baywatch
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DESCRIPTION:This movie is a fun escape. That should be reason enough to s
 ee it\, but just in case you aren’t convinced by my first six words I wi
 ll attempt to persuade you with phrases like ‘super powers’\, ‘colour-co
 ded skin-tight power suits’\, and ‘cool helmets with opaque visors’. \n\
 nPower Rangers is the second film in tonight’s double feature of big-scr
 een ‘90s TV series reboots\, and the studio has clearly put quite a bit 
 of effort into making a new origin film that won’t require you to be a d
 evout Power Rangers fan to enjoy the story.\n\nThe backstory goes someth
 ing like this: there is a trans-dimensional energy field called The Morp
 hing Grid which is channelled through The Zeo Crystal. Intergalactic bad
 die Rita Repulsa (Banks) attempts to steal the crystal\, creating a scar
 y creature to help her. But Zordon (Cranston)\, a warrior\, leads a grou
 p called the Power Rangers to stop it. They win\, destroying the creatur
 e and sending Rita away though a black hole. But when five teenage stude
 nt outcasts accidentally undo the good work of the Power Rangers many ye
 ars later\, they must then band together to restore balance to the force
 … oops\, wrong movie. I mean\, they must then become Power Rangers thems
 elves\, master their new skills and work as a team to defeat Rita and sa
 ve the world. \n\nReally\, the plot doesn’t matter all that much with th
 is film. It’s got some great visual effects\, a diverse cast\, and of co
 urse\, superheroes. Don’t miss this fun night of good versus evil.\n\n\n
 - Tamara Cain
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170701.html#film-3784
SUMMARY:Power Rangers
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DESCRIPTION:Writer/director Asghar Farhadi has proven himself a master of
  thought-provoking\, human dramas in recent years with The Past and Osca
 r-winner A Separation. His latest film\, The Salesman\, is on a slightly
  larger stage than his earlier films. But it is no less powerful an exam
 ination of human emotion.\n\nEmad and Rana (Hosseini and Alidoosti) are 
 a married couple\, actors living in Tehran currently performing in the p
 lay “Death of a Salesman”. When their apartment becomes unsafe they are 
 forced onto the street – luckily a friend of a friend has a vacant apart
 ment\, which turns out to be a good size\, even though the previous occu
 pant has left a substantial amount of their belongings behind. All seems
  to be going well until a case of mistaken identity leads to Rana being 
 assaulted in their new home – leaving her fearful and paranoid\, and sen
 ding the mild-mannered\, calm and confident Emad into a spiral of anger 
 and vengeance.\n\nPreviously Farhadi has shown us characters caught up i
 n a mystery\, examining how they react as the mystery unfolds. In The Sa
 lesman he instead resolves the mystery relatively early\, with the film 
 focused primarily on the emotional aftermath. But we’re not given the ea
 sy\, Hollywood\, good-guy-kills-everyone-to-raucous-cheers revenge that 
 we’re used to seeing. This is a situation altogether more real\, more gr
 itty\, where nothing is black and white and the purity of vengeance is n
 owhere to be found. There will be no triumphant\, uplifting music and sl
 ow pan across the Iranian flag to cap off the experience.\n\n\n- Pedr Ca
 in
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170707.html#film-3785
SUMMARY:The Salesman (Forushande)
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170708T090000Z
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DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nGuardians of the Galaxy wa
 s a complete surprise to me. Not unlike the very first Iron Man (which I
  saw with my very limited knowledge of the Marvel universe at the time) 
 the seemingly obscure story of Guardians absolutely blew me away. It was
  hilarious\, endearing and simply awesome.\n\nThe film saw a ragtag bunc
 h of misfits band together\, overcome their internal struggles and becom
 e\, well\, the Guardians of the Galaxy. How very Avenger-ly. \n\nThere w
 ere three things that made Vol. 1 so great. First and foremost\, Chris P
 ratt as Star-Lord with his roguish sass\, comedic timing and overly impr
 essive dance moves. Pratt is simply a God amongst men and was perfectly 
 cast in this role. Secondly\, the kickass and all ’round classic soundtr
 ack of hits from the ‘70s\, aptly named ‘Awesome Mix Vol. 1’. \n\nAnd fi
 nally\, the very best part of Guardians was the interaction between the 
 seamless ensemble cast. Every member of the team all worked so perfectly
  together and the end result was simply comedy gold. I will make a big c
 all here\, but personally I enjoyed the dynamic between the team in Guar
 dians way more than The Avengers. There\, I said it.\n\nThe highly-antic
 ipated Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 is set two months after the first
  film\, as the Guardians travel throughout the cosmos trying to discover
  who Star-Lord’s father is and in the process struggle to keep their new
 found family together. Be prepared for more of everything you loved in t
 he first volume\, but now with the adorable Baby Groot to fawn over too.
  Oh\, and also expect ‘Awesome Mix Vol. 2’ to be twice as awesome.\n\n- 
 Elyshia Hopkinson
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170708.html#film-3786
SUMMARY:Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DESCRIPTION:Wes Anderson is synonymous with the cult indie film. His work
 s are iconic\; through use of impeccably arranged details\, textures\, c
 olours and music\, Anderson has an awkward yet confident style\, perfect
 ly complemented by an elite pool of actors which he recycles throughout 
 his films.\n\nThe Life Aquatic was my very first experience of Anderson’
 s work and I fell in love immediately. There are so many wonderful aspec
 ts to this film: the incredible soundtrack\, including delightful acoust
 ic renditions of David Bowie songs sung in Portuguese\; adorable animati
 on and predominantly\, the excellent cast\, fronted by everyone’s favour
 ite rascal\, Bill Murray\, who plays Zissou (a homage to the great ocean
 ographer and documentary filmmaker Jacques Cousteau\, to whom the film i
 s dedicated).\n\nWhilst filming his most recent documentary\, Zissou’s p
 artner Esteban is eaten by an elusive ‘Jaguar Shark’. Reminiscent of “Mo
 by Dick”\, Zissou becomes obsessed\, swears revenge on the shark and is 
 determined to document its destruction. Owen Wilson plays Ned\, a fan of
  Zissou’s who joins the expedition and finances the expedition\, because
  he secretly believes that Zissou is his father. Cate Blanchett plays Ja
 ne\, a pregnant reporter covering the bizarre quest\, who Ned and Zissou
  end up having a rivalry over.\n\nAnderson gained his well-deserved cult
  following due to his beautiful\, tender and often surreal and ridiculou
 s coming-of-age films. He focuses on themes of love\, family\, grief\, m
 anhood and responsibility. Amongst Anderson’s contemporaries\, The Life 
 Aquatic is an absolute must see.\n\n\n- Elyshia Hopkinson
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170708.html#film-3787
SUMMARY:The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP W
 ITH THE EMBASSY OF SPAIN\n\nWith his latest film\, director Pedro Almodó
 var is back to his best as he captivates the viewer with master storytel
 ling in this beautifully crafted study of human relationships. The film 
 covers a variety of themes including the relationship between mother and
  daughter\, coming of age\, family relations and the trials and tribulat
 ions of marriage.\n\nJulieta’s engrossing life story is told in flashbac
 ks with Emma Suárez playing the middle-aged Julieta and the stunning Adr
 iana Ugarte playing the younger Julieta. When the film opens\, we meet t
 he middle-aged Julieta who is living in Madrid with her boyfriend Lorenz
 o. A chance meeting with Beatriz\, the former best friend of her daughte
 r Antia\, sends Julieta’s immediate plans of moving to Portugal into tur
 moil. In this early encounter\, Almodóvar presents the question that is 
 central to the rest of the film: what happened to Julieta’s daughter? We
  are then taken on an emotional journey as Julieta’s story unfolds.\n\nT
 he two actresses playing Julieta are perfectly cast with both of them gi
 ving strong heart-warming performances. For me\, Julieta is one of the b
 est movies of 2016\, up there with Sing Street and Rosalie Blum. Beautif
 ully filmed\, deeply moving\, suspenseful and superbly acted\, it is a c
 inema experience that is not to be missed.\n\n- Michael McKenna
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170714.html#film-3788
SUMMARY:Julieta
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed filmmaker Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Holmes\, Lock\, Sto
 ck and Two Smoking Barrels) brings his dynamic style to this epic and ac
 tion-packed re-telling of the King Arthur legend.\n\nIn this new take on
  the classic Excalibur myth\, the treacherous Vortigern (Jude Law) orche
 strates a coup on Camelot to seize the crown by killing his brother\, th
 e King. The only survivor is the King's son\, who drifts away in a boat 
 and eventually winds up in Londinium\, where he is rescued and named Art
 hur. \n\nRobbed of his birth right and his identity\, the young Arthur (
 Charlie Hunnam) comes up the hard way in the back alleys and streets of 
 the city. But when he hears of a magical sword in a stone\, he finds his
  life turned upside down as his true legacy begins to catch up to him – 
 whether he likes it or not. \n\n\n- 
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170715.html#film-3789
SUMMARY:King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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DESCRIPTION:The Cutler family live life as outlaws in their own anarchic 
 corner of Britain's richest countryside\, as they have done for three ge
 nerations. \n\nChad Cutler (Michael Fassbender) is the oldest son and he
 ir apparent to his bruising father Colby's (Brendan Gleeson) criminal cl
 an and has been groomed to spend his life hunting\, thieving and torment
 ing the police. But with his own son – Tyson (Georgie Smith) – soon comi
 ng of age\, Chad soon finds himself locked in a battle with his father f
 or the future of his young family. \n\nWhen Colby learns of Chad's dream
 s for another life he sets out to tie his son and grandson into the arch
 aic order that has bound the Cutler family for generations. With the law
  cracking down and his father tightening his grip\, Chad is forced into 
 increasingly desperate measures. \n\nFeaturing incredible performances –
  and an astonishing score by The Chemical Brothers – Trespass Against Us
  is at once an exhilarating crime thriller and a profoundly moving story
  about love and family.\n\n\n- 
URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20170715.html#film-3790
SUMMARY:Trespass Against Us
LOCATION:ANU Film Group
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