BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//com.denhaven2/NONSGML ri_cal gem//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:Australia/Sydney BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20190407T030000 RDATE:20190407T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20191006T020000 RDATE:20191006T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191001T212900 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191001T193000 DESCRIPTION:In downtown Cincinnati\, an unusually bitter winter storm lea ds a group of homeless patrons to take shelter inside their local public library. With the storm showing no signs of letting up at closing time and storm shelters at full capacity\, the group decide to stage a sit-in and stay the night. What begins as a simple act of non-violent civil di sobedience soon turns into a stand-off with the local police\, led by a no-nonsense crisis negotiator (Alec Baldwin) and a savvy district attorn ey (Christian Slater)\, with the library’s staff (Emilio Estevez\, Jena Malone) caught in the middle. \n\nAlso directed by Estevez\, The Public is a David-versus-Goliath story that tackles challenging issues of homel essness\, mental illness and freedom head on.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191001.html#film-4519 SUMMARY:The Public LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191003T211000 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191003T193000 DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP W ITH ANU LEARNING COMMUNITIES\n\nLulu Wang's poignant family drama stars rapper-turned-actor Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians\, Ocean’s 8) as Billi\, a New York-based writer at odds with her parents and relatives. When Bi lli discovers that her beloved grandmother – or ‘Nai Nai’ – has received a terminal cancer diagnosis\, she is devastated. But perhaps even more so when she discovers that her family has decided to hide this diagnosis from their matriarch\, instead opting to host a grand wedding to gather the family one last time before she passes.\n\nSkilfully marrying its C hinese-American cultural specificity with universal themes\, and based o n a true lie from Wang’s own life\, The Farewell has resonated with audi ences around the world – and for good reason.\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191003.html#film-4520 SUMMARY:The Farewell LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191004T213000 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191004T193000 DESCRIPTION:Now in its 8th year\, the St. George Bank Lebanese Film Festi val comes to the ANU Film Group in 2019!\n\nThe Lebanese Film Festival p uts the spotlight on films shot or based in Lebanon\, or made by Lebanes e filmmakers around the world. The Canberra leg of the festival features three films\, including Kairos\, the Festival’s 2019 Film of the Year a ward winner. The film’s director\, Paul Barakat\, and star Chris Bunton will be in attendance to introduce the film and answer questions in a Q& A following the screening. \n\n• FRIDAY 4 OCTOBER @ 7:30 PM: KAIROS (201 9\, 89 mins) – A boxer with Down syndrome finds his dreams of stepping i nto the ring challenged\, which forces him to question the very nature o f his identity. Followed by Q&A with director Paul Barakat and star Chri s Bunton.\n\n• SATURDAY 5 OCTOBER @ 4 PM: WANTED (2019\, 90 mins) – Four elderly residents of a nursing home decide to break out and live life o n their own terms in the name of love and solidarity.\n\n• SUNDAY 6 OCTO BER @ 4 PM: GOOD MORNING (2018\, 85 mins) – Two war veterans meet each m orning at a Beirut café to discuss the chaotic events of the region\, as they attempt to preserve their mind and avoid succumbing to Alzheimer’s . \n\nAll screenings are FREE and open for all to attend. For more infor mation about the Festival\, please visit their website at www.lff.org.au \n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191004.html#film-4521 SUMMARY:Lebanese Film Festival 2019 (October 4 – 6) LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191005T220800 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191005T193000 DESCRIPTION:Two police detectives – an old-timer (Mel Gibson) and his vol atile younger partner (Vince Vaughn) – find themselves suspended from th e force when a video of them strong-arming a suspect is leaked to the me dia. Low on cash and with no other options\, the renegade cops have no c hoice but to descend into the criminal underworld to survive. There\, th ey are put on a collision course with a desperate ex-con and a ruthless crime boss\, and find far more than they bargained for waiting in the sh adows.\n\nThe latest neo-noir from director S. Craig Zahler (Brawl in Ce ll Block 99\, also starring Vaughn)\, Dragged Across Concrete is a hardb oiled\, slow-burning thriller that makes full use of its excellent ensem ble cast.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191005.html#film-4522 SUMMARY:Dragged Across Concrete LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191010T210300 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191010T193000 DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EMBASSY OF INDONESIA\n\nWid owed Marlina (Marsha Timothy) lives in the dry and remote region of Sumb a\, Indonesia. One day an outlaw turns up and announces he and his frien ds will soon relieve her of her livestock and show her a good time. Unfo rtunately\, Marlina’s idea of a good time is to behead him and make off across the countryside with his head\, with his two surviving crew membe rs in pursuit.\n\nDirector Mouly Surya blends elements of the neo-Wester n with feminist noir in her subversive tale of female empowerment that u nfolds in four acts. Hailed by many as the first-ever ‘Satay Western’\, this gorgeously shot film was Indonesia’s submission for the Best Foreig n Language Film Oscar in 2018.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191010.html#film-4523 SUMMARY:Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (Marlina si Pembunuh dalam Empa t Babak) LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191011T221100 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191011T193000 DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nQuentin Tarantino is back with his ninth film: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. \n\nSet in 1969\, at the end of Hollywood’s Golden Age\, the film follows aging television a ctor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) as he tries to save his petering ca reer\, with help from his friend and stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt ). Little do they know\, however\, that they are soon about to be caught up in the activities of Charles Manson’s hippie cult.\n\nA throwback to the end of an era that changed film forever\, the film features an ense mble cast starring alongside DiCaprio and Pitt\, including Margot Robbie \, Al Pacino and Kurt Russell.\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191011.html#film-4524 SUMMARY:Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191012T185800 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191012T170000 DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nThe Lion King remains one of the crowning achievements of the Disney Renaissance of the 90s\, so i t should come as little surprise that the latest in their ongoing string s of remakes is an almost-identical retelling of the animated classic.\n \nThe film once again follows Simba\, a young lion prince who flees his kingdom after the accidental death of his father\, Mufasa. While in exil e\, he realises his true destiny with the help of a pair of newfound fri ends. The main point of difference here is the animation\, with Jon Favr eau (Iron Man\, The Jungle Book) swapping out hand-drawn cells for stunn ingly photorealistic CGI. James Earl Jones returns to voice Mufasa\, joi ned by the likes of Donald Glover\, Beyonce\, Seth Rogen and Chiwetel Ej iofor in the recording booth.\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191012.html#film-4525 SUMMARY:The Lion King LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191012T213900 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191012T193000 DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EMBASSY OF ARGENTINA\n\nMar co (Ricardo Darín) and Ana (Mercedes Morán) married\, and had a son\, 25 years ago. When their son heads off to Spain to study\, they find marri ed life with just each other monotonous\, and decide to go their separat e ways with relative amicability.\n\nThis is a romantic comedy – of sort s – of their life apart\, as they initially enjoy single life\, before r ealising they may have been better off together after all. You’ll recogn ise Darín’s hangdog face immediately (by law\, it seems that no Argentin ian film can be released to the outside world without him)\, and he and co-star Morán make a meal of their time together on screen. Or rather\, not together.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191012.html#film-4526 SUMMARY:An Unexpected Love (El amor menos pensado) LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191017T211900 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191017T193000 DESCRIPTION:Set in present-day Dublin\, two best friends Laura (Holliday Grainger) and Tyler (Alia Shawkat) live their late 20s in a whirlwind of fun and freedom amidst the pills\, thrills and bellyaches of the party scene. That is\, until Laura unexpectedly meets – and gets engaged to – a classical pianist named Jim who is the antithesis of Tyler and the wor ld she inhabits with Laura. How will their lives change? Will the optimi sm of their freewheeling friendship survive?\n\nBased on the novel by Em ma Jane Unsworth\, and directed by Sophie Hyde\, this acclaimed Australi an-Irish drama explores the complexity and messiness of life and the fri endships that populate it.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191017.html#film-4527 SUMMARY:Animals LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191018T221900 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191018T193000 DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nIn stark contrast to the c ampy-but-unnerving 1990 mini-series\, the 2017 film adaptation of Stephe n King’s It blew audiences away thanks to its terrifying new interpretat ion of Pennywise the Dancing Clown. The biggest shock came at the very e nd\, however\, when it was revealed that ‘It’ was actually ‘It: Chapter One’ – a revelation which left horror fans waiting with baited breath fo r Chapter Two. \n\nSet 27 years after the members of the Losers' Club fa ced their fears and seemingly defeated Pennywise\, the now-adult members of the Club have gone their separate ways. But when Pennywise returns t o terrorise the town of Derry\, the Losers’ Club must return home to def eat the all-powerful demon once and for all. \n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191018.html#film-4528 SUMMARY:It: Chapter Two LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191019T182700 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191019T170000 DESCRIPTION:Beauty is more than meets the eye in Uglyville\, a shantytown populated by UglyDolls\, a group of deformed toys rejected by manufactu rers and deemed too odd to make it onto store shelves. Frustrated by the ir cast out existence\, a group of UglyDolls set out beyond the borders of the only home they’ve ever known to find the Big World\, a mythical p lace where toys are played with and loved by children.\n\nAn unabashed o de to being yourself\, UglyDolls is colourful cinematic confection fille d with sugary sentiment and more original songs sung by A-list pop stars that you can count\, including Kelly Clarkson\, Janelle Monae\, Nick Jo nas\, Blake Shelton\, Charli XCX\, and Pitbull. Based on the plush toy l ine of the same name and – believe it or not – a story by Robert Rodrigu ez.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191019.html#film-4529 SUMMARY:UglyDolls LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191019T214000 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191019T193000 DESCRIPTION:The third film from the Oscar-winning team behind Amy and Sen na takes an in-depth – and arguably definitive – look at celebrated Arge ntinian soccer player Diego Armando Maradona. Constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage from Maradona’s own personal archive\ , the film focusses on his time playing for Italian club SSC Napoli\, af ter making the move from FC Barcelona in 1984 for a record-breaking fee. \n\nOn the field\, the charismatic Argentine quickly cemented his statu s as one of the best football players of all time\; off the field\, howe ver\, his life was fraught with scandals and personal frailties. This do cumentary captures it all – the remarkable highs and the devastating low s – as it examines the rise of poor boy and the subsequent fall of a spo rting legend.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191019.html#film-4530 SUMMARY:Diego Maradona LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191023T210100 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191023T193000 DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EMBASSY OF GEORGIA\n\nGeorg ia’s official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category at l ast year’s Oscars is a coming-of-age folk fable set in the mystical Geor gian mountains. \n\nNamme (Mariska Diasamidze) lives in a remote village with her three older brothers and her father (Aleko Abashidze)\, who se rves as their local ‘water healer’\, a traditional medicine man who deri ves his powers from a sacred spring. Namme’s father is getting old and s ick\, and her brothers have declined to carry on their father’s professi on\, so it falls to her to become the new village healer. But the role r equires her to live a life free of distractions like love and marriage – and young unworldly Namme soon finds herself torn between tradition and independence.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191023.html#film-4531 SUMMARY:Namme LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191024T211700 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191024T193000 DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EMBASSY OF CUBA\n\nIn 1989\ , academics at the University of Havana’s Russian language department ar e suddenly and mysteriously relieved of their teaching duties. It turns out that Soviet doctors are struggling to treat the victims of the Chern obyl nuclear disaster that happened three years prior – and Malin (Rodri go Santoro)\, a professor of Russian Literature\, and his colleagues are urgently needed to act as translators for a large number of patients be ing flown to Cuba for treatment.\n\nA Translator takes a look at a littl e-known chapter in Cuban history\, when the Caribbean nation opened its highly-regarded medical facilities to Russian patients suffering from ra diation-related diseases\, many of which were young children. This power ful film is Cuba’s official submission to the recently-renamed Best Inte rnational Feature Film category for the 2020 Oscars.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191024.html#film-4532 SUMMARY:A Translator (Un Traductor) LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191025T215900 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191025T193000 DESCRIPTION:At age thirteen\, Theo Decker witnessed his mother’s death in a bomb blast at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art\, and in the conf usion grabbed a priceless painting titled The Goldfinch. It’s a moment t hat launches him on a poignant odyssey of grief\, guilt\, reinvention an d redemption. In a life where he defines moments as either ‘before’ or ‘ after’ that fateful day\, The Goldfinch remains in the middle.\n\nBased on Donna Tartt's 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name\, th e film stars Oakes Fegley (Pete’s Dragon) as young Theo and Ansel Elgort (Baby Driver) as the adult Theo\, alongside a supporting cast including Sarah Paulson\, Luke Wilson\, Jeffrey Wright\, and Nicole Kidman.\n\n\n - URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191025.html#film-4533 SUMMARY:The Goldfinch LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191026T212200 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191026T193000 DESCRIPTION:Weathering with You tells the story of Hodaka\, a high-school teenager who runs away from his remote island home during an unnatural rainy season. Arriving in Tokyo\, he quickly finds himself out of his de pth – and the city’s weather seems to reflect his gloomy outlook. That i s\, until he befriends a mysterious orphan girl named Hina\, who appears to have the power to manipulate the weather. \n\nThe latest film from d irector Makoto Shinkai and the creators behind last year’s hit anime fil m Your Name is Japan’s submission to the recently-renamed Best Internati onal Feature Film category at the 2020 Oscars. Much like Your Name\, Wea thering with You also explores contemporary Japanese attitudes and theme s with a little bit of magic – making for a moving and beautiful experie nce.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191026.html#film-4534 SUMMARY:Weathering with You (Tenki no ko) LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191026T232500 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191026T213200 DESCRIPTION:Is Donnie Darko a realist drama about a troubled teen (Jake G yllenhaal) who believes in time travel and blames his vandalism spree on a rabbit-man only he can see? Or is it a surrealist sci-fi drama about a teen who is understandably baffled by both the fake platitudes of the adults around him and the reality of time travel? In any case\, in the 1 8 years since its release (yes\, Donnie Darko has come of age) it has be come a cult classic\, and remains as enigmatic as ever. \n\nNote: this s creening is of the original 2001 theatrical version of the film\, not th e 2004 director’s cut.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191026.html#film-4535 SUMMARY:Donnie Darko LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191031T211800 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191031T193000 DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EMBASSY OF PORTUGAL\n\nPort ugal's submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2019\, thi s globetrotting drama tells the story of 16th-century author Fernão Mend es Pinto. Today heralded as one of history’s greatest adventurers\, Pint o never saw his claim to fame: he spent a decade writing an account of h is travels\, but it wasn't published until 1614\, nearly 30 years after his death.\n\nThe film charts Pinto's adventures to the Far East – from China to Japan\, India\, Malaysia and Vietnam – over the course of 20 ye ars\, as well as his battle to prove the validity of his account upon hi s return to Portugal. Director João Botelho reflects the ambiguous and c ontroversial nature of Pinto’s work using abstract methods of storytelli ng\, including theatrical acting and musical sequences. \n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191031.html#film-4536 SUMMARY:Pilgrimage (Peregrinação) LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191101T213200 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191101T193000 DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nA worldwide television phe nomenon\, Downton Abbey was a hit with critics and audiences alike for i ts six-year run between 2010 and 2015. Depicting the lives of the aristo cratic Crawley family and their domestic servants in post-Edwardian Engl and\, the show featured a who’s who of British screen talent – much of w hom have returned for this big-screen continuation of the series.\n\nSet in 1927\, the film finds the Crawleys and their staff preparing for a r oyal visit from the King and Queen of England. As the royal entourage de scends upon the titular Yorkshire estate in advance of the visit\, the r esidents find themselves at odds with their visitors – while an impendin g threat on the monarch’s life may leave the future of Downton hanging i n the balance.\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191101.html#film-4537 SUMMARY:Downton Abbey LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191102T211200 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191102T193000 DESCRIPTION:Claire Millaud (Juliette Binoche)\, a 50-year-old divorced te acher\, creates a fake Facebook profile to test her lover Ludo (Guillaum e Gouix). Posing as pretty 24-year-old 'Clara'\, she befriends Ludo’s fr iend Alex (Francois Civil) so that Ludo will accept her friend request. As her fake friendship with Alex develops into a genuine online love aff air\, she finds the line between lies and reality starts to blur. Is she really lying if she finds herself in who he thinks she is?\n\nThis Fren ch drama directed and co-written by Safy Nebbou is both an intriguing ch aracter study and topical examination of how people forge connections an d identities through social media.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191102.html#film-4538 SUMMARY:Who You Think I Am (Celle que vous croyez) LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191102T225500 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191102T212200 DESCRIPTION:On the first day of summer\, in the small French village of V erderonne\, the reclusive Claire Darling (Catherine Deneuve) wakes up co nvinced that her death is imminent. She then decides to sell the entire contents of her house in giant garage sale. Everything must go\, and alo ng with it the memories that haunt her. However\, news of the sale cause s one ghost from her past to return: the daughter that she hasn’t seen f or twenty years (played by Deneuve’s actual daughter Chiara Mastroianni) .\n\nClaire Darling is French director Julie Bertuccelli’s highly atmosp heric adaptation of American author Lynda Rutledge's novel “Faith Bass D arling’s Last Garage Sale”.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191102.html#film-4539 SUMMARY:Claire Darling (La dernière folie de Claire Darling) LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191108T213200 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191108T193000 DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nAfter 1989’s Batman paved the way for big-budget superhero fare and The Dark Knight in 2008 showed that cinephiles could take comic book movies seriously\, here comes yet another film that redefines the genre – and also happens to feature the Clown Prince of Crime.\n\nSet in a gritty\, Scorsese-inspired version o f Gotham City circa the 1980s\, the film is a thrilling character study of Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix)\, a failed stand-up comedian strugglin g to find his place in society. As Arthur makes one bad decision after a nother\, he begins to realise that the joke always seems to be on him – setting off an escalating series of violent events that define who he wi ll become.\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191108.html#film-4540 SUMMARY:Joker LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191108T232200 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191108T214200 DESCRIPTION:Almost four decades after he drew first blood\, Sylvester Sta llone returns to his iconic role for one final outing.\n\nFor many years \, John Rambo (Stallone) has been raising horses on his ranch in Arizona and living out his retirement in relative peace. He’s even developed a special bond with a woman named Maria (Adriana Barraza) and her teenage granddaughter\, Gabriela (Yvette Monreal). So when Gabriela is kidnapped by a drug cartel and forced into the world of sex trafficking\, there’s only one thing for the violence-prone Vietnam vet to do: embark on a ru thless – and very bloody – quest to rescue the girl and punish those res ponsible.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191108.html#film-4541 SUMMARY:Rambo: Last Blood LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191109T183700 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191109T170000 DESCRIPTION:Teenager Yi (Chloe Bennet) finds her life changed forever whe n she unexpectedly encounters a young Yeti on the roof of her Shanghai a partment building (as you do). She soon realises that the lone creature is in trouble and on the run\, being hunted by a wealthy animal collecto r (Eddie Izzard) and his zoologist henchwoman (Sarah Paulson). With two friends in tow\, Yi sets off on an epic journey across China to safely r eunite the creature – which they name ‘Everest’ – with his family at the highest point on Earth.\n\nAbominable is the latest film from the maker s behind the How to Train Your Dragon series\, a magical and beautifully -animated Far East adventure for the whole family.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191109.html#film-4542 SUMMARY:Abominable LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191109T210000 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191109T193000 DESCRIPTION:12-year-old Max (Jacob Tremblay) has a dilemma: he’s just bee n invited to a party where he’ll get the chance to finally kiss his crus h\, but he doesn’t know how. Eager for some pointers\, Max recruits best friends Thor (Brady Noon) and Lucas (Keith L. Williams) to use a drone to spy on the teenage couple constantly making out next door. Things tak e a turn for the disastrous\, however\, when the prized drone is acciden tally destroyed\, and the boys decide to skip school to buy a new drone – a decision which sets off an entire series of misadventures.\n\nDefini tely not one for kids\, Good Boys is chock full of crude humour\, but th ere’s fun to be had and a thoughtful message beneath it all.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191109.html#film-4543 SUMMARY:Good Boys LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191115T213000 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191115T193000 DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EMBASSY OF THE ISLAMIC REPU BLIC OF AFGHANISTAN\n\nThe First Afghan Film Festival begins this Friday with 10 films screening over the course of one week between Friday 15 N ovember and Thursday 21 November. \n\nA celebration of 50 years of diplo matic relations between Afghanistan and Australia\, as well as the 100th anniversary of Afghanistan’s Reclamation of Independence\, the Festival features films\, shorts\, documentaries\, Q&As with special guests\, pa nel discussions and more. Some of these films are even coming to us dire ct from their premieres at major international film festivals in Venice and Cannes!\n\nAll films will be screened with English subtitles and are FREE for all to attend (no membership or registration required). You ca n check out the full listing of screenings and events below\, or head to www.anufg.org.au/afghan2019 for further information.\n\n• FRI 15 NOV @ 7:30 PM: HAVA\, MARYAM AND AYESHA (2019\, 86 mins)\n\nThree Afghan women from different backgrounds must each learn to fend for themselves as th ey face big challenges in their lives. Afghanistan’s entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the Academy Awards in 2020\, comi ng to us direct from its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival just two months ago!\n\n• SAT 16 NOV @ **4 PM**: BEGANA (1986\, 40 mins)\n\n This classic short film stars Salam Sangi\, one of the Afghanistan’s gre atest film stars\, as a farmer working for a feudal landlord\, who is di shonoured by the landlord’s son and sets out for revenge. Sangi himself will be in attendance to introduce the film and participate in a Q&A abo ut the world of Afghan cinema.\n\n• SAT 16 NOV @ **5 PM**: AFGHAN CAMELE ERS IN AUSTRALIA (2014\, 55 mins)\n\nA documentary exploring the contrib utions of more than 3\,000 men from Afghanistan and their camels who wer e crucial to development of the Australian Outback in the 1900s. Followe d by a panel discussion with director Fahim Hashimy and Dr Mike Smith\, academic and expert on Australia’s Afghan cameleers.\n\n• SAT 16 NOV @ 7 :30 PM: OSAMA (2004\, 83 mins)\n\nAfter the rise of the Taliban in Afgha nistan and the restriction of women in public life\, a young girl is for ced to masquerade as a boy named ‘Osama’ in order to find work to suppor t her mother and grandmother. Inspired by a true story\, this acclaimed film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2004.\ n\n• SUN 17 NOV @ **4 PM**: WHAT I SAW ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD (2019\, 48 mins)\n\nA rare glimpse at the people who live on the Pamir mountains \, the farthest and most remote region of Afghanistan. Though sheltered from war and violence\, its residents must fight to survive the extreme conditions and keep their culture alive. Followed by Q&A with director P arwiz Shamal.\n\n• SUN 17 NOV @ **6 PM**: THE ORPHANAGE (2019\, 90 mins) \n\nIn 1989\, a 15-year-old ticket scalper living in Kabul is obsessed w ith Bollywood musicals but soon finds his life abruptly changed when he is arrested and sent to live in a Soviet state orphanage. This Danish-Af ghan musical drama premiered in May at the prestigious Director’s Fortni ght of the Cannes Film Festival.\n\n• MON 18 NOV @ 7:30 PM: A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT (2017\, 83 mins)\n\nWhen Soraya\, a married mother of two and the head of the Kabul Crime Division\, is sentenced to death after k illing her husband in self-defence\, she writes to the President of Afgh anistan to plead her case. Written and directed by Roya Sadat\, Afghanis tan’s first female director since the fall of the Taliban.\n\n• TUE 19 N OV @ 7:30 PM: THE PATIENCE STONE (2012\, 102 mins)\n\nIn an unspecified war-ridden Middle Eastern country\, a woman watches over her husband as he lies in a coma\, and speaks frankly to him for the first time about h er sacrifices and sorrows of the past decade. He becomes her ‘patience s tone’\, which\, according to Persian mythology\, shields its user from h ardship.\n\n• WED 20 NOV @ 7:30 PM: JIRGA (2018\, 78 mins)\n\nMike Wheel er\, a former Australian soldier\, returns to Afghanistan to seek forgiv eness from the family of a civilian man he accidentally killed during th e war. In doing so he puts his life in the hands of the Jirga – the vill age justice system. Australia’s official Oscar submission for Best Forei gn Language Film in 2019.\n\n• THU 21 NOV @ 7:30 PM: ROCKABUL (2018\, 90 mins)\n\nThis documentary by Australian journalist Travis Beard reveals a unique side of modern Afghan youth culture through the little-known s tory of District Unknown\, Afghanistan's first heavy metal band\, which formed in response to the war and political turmoil around them.\n\n\n\n - URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191115.html#film-4544 SUMMARY:Afghan Film Festival (November 15 – 21) LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191122T211500 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191122T193000 DESCRIPTION:The Australian Dream documents the serial shaming and raciall y charged abuse directed at two-time Brownlow medallist footballer and A ustralian of the Year recipient Adam Goodes on the basis of his aborigin ality. It examines the events leading up to Goodes’ eventual resignation from the AFL\, his retreat from public life and his triumphant eventual return\, while taking a broader look at the state of racism in contempo rary Australia. \n\nThis hard-hitting and important film features interv iews with Stan Grant\, Michael O’Loughlin\, Tracy Holmes\, Linda Burney and other prominent Australians in addressing key issues we face in achi eving justice and equality for all\, while questioning Australia’s abili ty to confront its own past.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191122.html#film-4545 SUMMARY:The Australian Dream LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191123T184200 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191123T170000 DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nAfter having spent most of her childhood exploring the jungle with her parents\, extroverted adven turer Dora (Isabela Moner) must now face her most dangerous adventure: a ttending an American high school to improve her social skills. But when her parents (Eva Longoria\, Michael Peña) disappear while looking for a legendary lost city of gold\, Dora must assemble a ragtag group of teens in a race to find the city themselves and locate her parents – before a gang of mercenaries beat them to it.\n\nThis live-action version of the hugely popular Nickelodeon cartoon character is a winning family-friend ly adventure that retains the youthful spirit of its source material whi le adding enough Indiana Jones-style thrills and meta humour to appeal t o all audiences.\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191123.html#film-4546 SUMMARY:Dora and the Lost City of Gold LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191123T212700 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191123T193000 DESCRIPTION:Henry Brogan (Will Smith) is an aging assassin hoping to make his next job his last. Unfortunately\, his government handler (Clive Ow en) has other plans and dispatches a younger assassin to permanently ‘re tire’ his asset. Brogan suddenly finds himself in the fight of his life against this mysterious young operative who can do everything he can do\ , only better – until he discovers that the younger assassin is in fact a clone of himself.\n\nGemini Man has languished in development hell for nearly two decades due to the technology required being too undeveloped over the years. But leave it to Ang Lee\, who has a proven track record of experimenting with revolutionary new filmmaking technology\, to fina lly bring the film – and a fully digital Will Smith circa his Fresh Prin ce days – to life.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191123.html#film-4547 SUMMARY:Gemini Man LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191129T210000 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191129T193000 DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EMBASSY OF BULGARIA\n\nears after the death of their parents\, Philip (Martin Dimitrov) still finds himself caring for his young brother Victor (Dimitar Nikolov)\, who wor ks in a flower shop run by the quietly ethereal Emma (Elitsa Mateva). At night\, Emma works on constructing a miniature garden in the backroom o f the flower shop.\n\nOn the surface\, Philip has it all – a successful career and a beautiful girlfriend – but there is a void in his life that he soon believes only Emma can fill. That is\, until he discovers that Victor is also in love with Emma. It’s not long until the bonds of broth erhood and friendship are tested – with Emma’s mythical garden gradually taking over their lives in this dreamlike Bulgarian drama.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191129.html#film-4548 SUMMARY:The Infinite Garden LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191130T211300 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191130T193000 DESCRIPTION:Dogman is an Italian crime drama directed by Matteo Garrone t hat\, like his internationally-acclaimed hit Gomorrah\, is also set in t he grimy and crime-ridden outskirts of Napoli. Picked by Italy as their submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Oscars in 2 019\, this multi-award-winning thriller is a grim character study based on a remarkable true story. \n\nThe film follows mild-mannered Marcello (Marcello Fonte)\, who runs a small-time dog grooming business and would do anything for his young daughter. So when he gets involved with a pet ty criminal (Edoardo Pesce)\, Marcello soon finds himself swept up in a criminal plan he wants nothing to do with in order to protect his family .\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191130.html#film-4549 SUMMARY:Dogman LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191130T230100 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191130T212300 DESCRIPTION:Shot and set in Melbourne\, this Australian psychological thr iller is the second feature from director Kim Farrant (Strangerland) and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Luke Davies (Lion).\n\nSeven years after t he tragic death of her young daughter\, depressed single mum Lizzie (Noo mi Rapace) is still grieving – until she spots a seven-year-old girl who is the splitting image of her late daughter. Grief soon gives way to ob session as Lizzie begins following the young girl and attempts to befrie nd the girl’s mother (Yvonne Strahovski)\, propelling them towards a sho cking confrontation.\n\nAlso starring Luke Evans and Richard Roxburgh\, Angel of Mine is a complex and compelling thriller.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191130.html#film-4550 SUMMARY:Angel of Mine LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191206T213300 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191206T193000 DESCRIPTION:Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) blasts off on an intergalac tic space odyssey to the outer reaches of the solar system in order to f ind his missing father (Tommy Lee Jones). But what he finds instead is a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet and challenges the na ture of human existence as we know it.\n \nAd Astra (a Latin phrase mean ing ‘to the stars’) is an ambitious sci-fi drama that marries beautiful planetary visuals with weighty themes of family and masculinity. James G ray (We Own the Night\, The Lost City of Z) directs a cast including Jon es\, Donald Sutherland\, Liv Tyler and Ruth Negga – with Brad Pitt in hi s second major role of the year after Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.\n\n \n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191206.html#film-4551 SUMMARY:Ad Astra LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191207T182800 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191207T170000 DESCRIPTION:Originally filmed by the late director Sydney Pollack in 1972 \, Amazing Grace documents the recording of Aretha Franklin’s live album of the same name at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Ang eles. Accompanied by the Southern California Community Choir\, the resul ting album became the most successful of Franklin’s entire career and re mains one of the best-selling gospel albums of all time. Due to producti on issues\, however\, the filmed footage became impossible to synchronis e\, and the project was shelved indefinitely. \n\nNow having been uneart hed and completed\, Aretha Franklin’s electrifying performance can final ly be experienced more than 45 years after its initial recording.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191207.html#film-4552 SUMMARY:Amazing Grace LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191207T213500 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191207T193000 DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY \n\nIt’s 1979 in East Germany at the height of the Cold War. No longer a ble to bear their government’s oppressive regime\, the Strelzyk and Wetz el families decide to plan a grand escape to the West by a homemade hot air balloon\, secretly built from scratch over the course of 18 months. Their plan to cross the border to freedom\, however\, puts them in the s ights of the diligent and unforgiving State Police. \n\nBased on a spect acular true story\, this German film fittingly arrives on the 30th anniv ersary of the fall of the Berlin Wall\, and is a thrilling example of on e of thousands of real-life escape attempts from East Germany in the 196 0s and 70s – and the lengths that people are willing to go to for freedo m.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191207.html#film-4553 SUMMARY:Balloon LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191213T210900 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191213T193000 DESCRIPTION:Ten years ago\, four strangers – a geeky student (Jesse Eisen berg)\, a hardened hunter (Woody Harrelson)\, a 12-year-old girl (Abigai l Breslin) and her older sister (Emma Stone) – became a makeshift family as they travelled across the United States in an attempt to find refuge from the zombie apocalypse. \n\nArriving in 2009\, the original Zombiel and was a hilarious thrill ride that gave new life to the undead zom-com genre\, and now the original cast are back an entire decade later for t he sequel. Much has changed since then: the zombies have evolved\, new s urvivors have entered the picture\, and a deep rift causes our heroes to go their separate ways. So shuffle along and kick off the ANU Film Grou p’s Zombie Week with a bang… or should that be a bite?\n\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191213.html#film-4554 SUMMARY:Zombieland: Double Tap LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191214T211500 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191214T193000 DESCRIPTION:The ANU Film Group’s Zombie Week continues with a zom-com fro m none other than Jim Jarmusch\, director of such gems of American indep endent cinema as Only Lovers Life Alive\, Broken Flowers\, and Stranger Than Paradise. And he’s (dis)assembled a cast that you don’t need to be undead to salivate over: from Adam Driver to Bill Murray\, Chloë Sevigny \, Steve Buscemi\, Tilda Swinton and more.\n\nStrange things are happeni ng in the sleepy suburban town of Centerville: daylight hours are becomi ng unpredictable\, animals are exhibiting unusual behaviours\, and there appears to be no logical explanation for a spate of violent murders. Th ere can only be one conclusion: the dead are rising from their graves an d it’s up to the town’s citizens to stop them. \n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191214.html#film-4555 SUMMARY:The Dead Don't Die LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191214T230400 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191214T212500 DESCRIPTION:The one that started it all: since premiering in 2004\, Shaun of the Dead has spawned countless zom-coms (including two screening thi s week) and become a bona fide cult classic\, with many regarding it as one of the best horror-comedy films ever made. And now it’s back on the big screen in commemoration of its 15th anniversary!\n\nLovelorn loser S haun (Simon Pegg) spends his days working at an electronics store and hi s evenings downing pints at the local pub with best friend Ed (Nick Fros t). He’s just been dumped by his girlfriend\, Liz (Kate Ashfield)\, but that soon becomes the least of his problems when their town is inexplica bly overrun with zombies. Seizing his chance to finally prove himself\, he sets out to save his friends and family from the undead and win Liz b ack.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20191214.html#film-4556 SUMMARY:Shaun of the Dead LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200117T213800 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200117T193000 DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\n27 years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgement Day\, Skynet sends a powerful new Terminator back in time to eliminate a person who will be key to the future of the resistance. But this time\, its target isn’t John or Sarah Connor – inst ead it’s a mysterious young girl named Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes). Fortu nately for Dani\, she finds herself aided by a hybrid cyborg-human (Mack enzie Davis)\, an antiquated T-800 Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) an d none other than Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton\, reprising her iconic ro le).\n\nAlthough technically the sixth instalment in the saga\, Terminat or: Dark Fate is a direct sequel to 1991’s T2 and disregards the sequels that have come since. Directed by Tim Miller (Deadpool) and with a stor y from James Cameron himself\, Dark Fate rewrites the future to put the franchise back on track.\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20200117.html#film-4557 SUMMARY:Terminator: Dark Fate LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200117T232300 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200117T214800 DESCRIPTION:Grace (Samara Weaving) couldn’t be happier. She’s about to be married to the man of her dreams (Mark O’Brien) at his super-wealthy fa mily’s luxurious estate. But on her wedding night\, she discovers a time -honoured tradition that requires new members of the family to partake i n a game. What begins as playful hide and seek\, however\, soon turns in to a deadly game of cat and mouse as her eccentric new relatives (Adam B rody\, Henry Czerny\, Andie MacDowell) set out to hunt her down before s unrise.\n\nReady or Not is a smart\, subversive and darkly funny horror film with a triumphant performance from Weaving and filled to the brim w ith thrilling action setpieces and sharp satire.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20200117.html#film-4558 SUMMARY:Ready or Not LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200118T185900 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200118T170000 DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nFive years ago\, Maleficen t gave us a revisionist portrait of the villainess (or so we’d been told ) from Disney’s ornate 1959 masterpiece Sleeping Beauty. In this sequel\ , the sleek contours of her character shift into a new shape yet again. \n\nSeveral years have passed\, and Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) and Prin cess – soon to be Queen – Aurora (Elle Fanning) find themselves twisted into cross-purposes\, as a new evil threatens their land and all its mag ical inhabitants. Michelle Pfeiffer and Chiwetel Ejiofor join the cast a nd director Joachim Rønning\, famous for biopics of Norwegian national h eroes\, navigates darker territory than the original film without losing touch with its fairy tale heart. \n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20200118.html#film-4559 SUMMARY:Maleficent: Mistress of Evil LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200118T211300 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200118T193000 DESCRIPTION:After having surviving a recent health scare\, Londoner Kate (Emilia Clarke) has found herself unlucky in both love and life. Seeming ly incapable of making good decisions\, she decides to accept a job as a n elf in a year-round Christmas shop. But her life takes a new turn when dreamy Tom (Henry Golding) walks into the store and into her life. And as the city transforms itself for the most wonderful time of the year\, Kate realises that sometimes you’ve just gotta have faith…\n\nDirected b y Paul Feig (Bridesmaids) and written by none other than Emma Thompson\, this Christmas-set romantic comedy prominently features the music of Ge orge Michael and Wham!\, including the titular song and a number of prev iously-unreleased tracks.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20200118.html#film-4560 SUMMARY:Last Christmas LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200124T210300 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200124T193000 DESCRIPTION:If you have difficulty counting (and who doesn’t)\, the eleve nth Apollo mission was the one that first brought members of our species onto the surface of the moon\, and safely back again. This is its story – and nothing but.\n\nTold entirely in with primary material\, archival sound\, archival footage (including some shot in 70mm\, and you don’t h ave to be as old as the Apollo program to remember the sheer beauty of 7 0mm)\, this is a film guaranteed to show you something you haven’t seen before as it deeply delves into a unique moment in our history.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20200124.html#film-4561 SUMMARY:Apollo 11 LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200124T224700 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200124T211300 DESCRIPTION:Released 40 years ago\, Ridley Scott's Alien revolutionised a genre with a dark\, beautiful and iconic blend of art\, science-fiction and horror that has since spawned sequels\, prequels\, crossovers and p arodies. \n\nMemory: The Origins of Alien documents the untold origin st ory behind the iconic 1979 film\, which began with a 29-page script enti tled ‘Memory’. Exploring the film’s roots in Greek mythology\, comic boo ks and inspiration from a range of other science-fiction authors\, this documentary showcases previously-unseen material from the archives of th e film’s writer\, Dan O'Bannon\, including story notes\, behind-the-scen es footage and concept art from designer H. R. Giger.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20200124.html#film-4562 SUMMARY:Memory: The Origins of Alien LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200125T184500 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200125T170000 DESCRIPTION:Some 30 years ago\, Angela Lansbury became television’s most- recognised woman when she starred in ‘Murder\, She Wrote’\, which saw he r solve a murder a week as Jessica Fletcher. This is the film that made it possible for her by giving her a crack at the most iconic of murder m ystery detectives\, Miss Marple. \n\nBased on Agatha Christie’s eighth M iss Marple book\, the film involves a death on the set of a Hollywood pr oduction setting up camp in the sleepy village of St. Mary Mead – comple te with movie stars\, played by genuine movie stars\, including Elizabet h Taylor\, Kim Novak\, Tony Curtis and Rock Hudson\; some of whom don’t quite make it to the end of the movie. Plus\, of course\, a very clever twist.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20200125.html#film-4563 SUMMARY:The Mirror Crack'd LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200125T214000 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200125T193000 DESCRIPTION:A stellar ensemble cast – including Daniel Craig\, Chris Evan s\, Toni Collette\, Jamie Lee Curtis\, Michael Shannon and Christopher P lummer – make murder mysteries fun again in acclaimed director Rian Joh nson’s (Brick\, Looper) clever\, stylish and masterful modern-day tribut e to the work of Agatha Christie.\n\nWhen renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Plummer) is found dead at his estate after just celebrating h is 85th birthday\, debonair detective Benoit Blanc (Craig) is called in to investigate. As Blanc sifts through the evidence\, he soon realises t hat everyone is a suspect: from Thrombey’s devoted staff to his dysfunct ional family\, who were all at the mansion for their patriarch’s birthda y party – and who all have a motive for wanting him dead.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20200125.html#film-4564 SUMMARY:Knives Out LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200131T214800 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200131T193000 DESCRIPTION:** NOTE: THIS FILM REPLACES THE ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED 'MOTHERL ESS BROOKLYN' DUE TO A RELEASE DATE CHANGE **\n\nAlexandre (Melvil Poupa ud) is a family man who lives in Lyon\, a bastion of the French Catholic Church\, with his wife and four children. A fervent churchgoer\, he is horrified when he learns that Father Preynat (Bernard Verley)\, the prie st who abused him when he was a Boy Scout\, is still working with childr en. \n\nUnable to rest until he takes action\, Alexandre joins forces wi th two fellow survivors – François (Denis Ménochet) and Emmanuel (Swann Arlaud) – to expose the Catholic Church and their inaction in the face o f rampant sexual abuse. What follows is a sobering\, gripping and fact-b ased account of a group of survivors' quest for the truth\, one which wi ll endanger the relationships with their loved ones\, as well as comprom ise their own fragile selves.\n\nDirected by acclaimed French filmmaker François Ozon. Based on a true story.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20200131.html#film-4574 SUMMARY:By the Grace of God LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200201T210900 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200201T193000 DESCRIPTION:Embattled detective Andre Davis (Chadwick Boseman) gets a cha nce at redemption when the NYPD is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers. As the search intensifies\, authorities take unprec edented measures to prevent the perpetrators from escaping by putting th e entire island of Manhattan on lockdown\, closing all of its 21 bridges . As the night unfolds\, however\, Davis begins to suspect that there is more to the manhunt that meets the eye: gradually uncovering a wide-rea ching conspiracy\, the lines between criminal and cop become increasingl y blurred.\n\nAlso starring J.K. Simmons and Sienna Miller\, 21 Bridges is a race-against-the-clock crime thriller – and the first of two New Yo rk-set films screening at the ANU Film Group tonight.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20200201.html#film-4566 SUMMARY:21 Bridges LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200201T230900 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200201T211900 DESCRIPTION:Struggling to make ends meet\, inexperienced New York strippe r Destiny (Constance Wu) finds her life changed forever when she is take n under the wing of the club’s star dancer\, Ramona (Jennifer Lopez). Bu t when the 2008 recession hits and their earnings are significantly slas hed\, the pair concoct a daringly dangerous scheme to take their money – and their lives – back at the expense of their wealthy Wall Street clie ntele.\n\nLed by a commanding and career-best performance from Jennifer Lopez\, Hustlers is a sexy\, funny heist film with a lot of heart that i s as empowering as it is entertaining – rounding out the ANU Film Group’ s night of New York-set films.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20200201.html#film-4567 SUMMARY:Hustlers LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200207T220200 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200207T193000 DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\n40 years after the events of The Shining\, a now-adult Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor) is still tra umatised by the terrifying events he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel. But Dan’s life is once again about to be turned upside down when he encounters a young teenager named Abra (Kyliegh Curran) who also poss esses the powerful gift of ‘the Shining’. Together\, the unlikely pair a re forced to call upon their psychic powers to evade a merciless cult le ader (Rebecca Ferguson) whose followers feed off the gifted in their que st for immortality.\n\nBased on Stephen King’s 2013 sequel novel\, Docto r Sleep acts as a sequel to both Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film and King’s original 1977 novel\, reconciling the differences between the two while offering up a new vision of terror.\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20200207.html#film-4568 SUMMARY:Doctor Sleep LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200208T182700 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200208T170000 DESCRIPTION:They’re creepy and they’re kooky – and now they’re back on th e big screen for their first-ever animated adventure!\n\nWhen the Addams family make the move to a new town\, they are aghast to discover that t heir new neighbourhood is populated by colourful\, cheery suburbanites. They soon learn that the entire town is being run by a controlling reali ty TV host (Alison Janney)\, who will stop at nothing to rid her perfect world of the freaky new arrivals. As Gomez (Oscar Issac) and Morticia ( Charlize Theron) face off against this crazed new nemesis\, Wednesday (C hloë Grace Moretz) attempts to fit in at the local high school\, while t he rest of the household make preparations for their extended family to arrive for a major celebration.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20200208.html#film-4569 SUMMARY:The Addams Family LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200208T212400 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200208T193000 DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EMBASSY OF SPAIN\n\nThe 21s t film from Spanish master filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar\, Pain and Glory is one of his most acclaimed and personal efforts in years – and Spain’s o fficial submission to the Best International Feature Film category at th e 2020 Oscars.\n\nSalvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas) is an aging film dir ector who finds himself reflecting back on his life when he is invited t o a 30th anniversary screening of one of his hits. The tribute inspires him to sift through the chaos of his existence – from his addictions to his passions to his family – in an attempt to use the past to salvage hi s future. As we have come to expect from Almodóvar’s work\, there is ple nty of his signature melodrama\, bold colours\, emotional detail\, mothe r issues and\, of course\, Penelope Cruz.\n\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20200208.html#film-4570 SUMMARY:Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria) LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200214T220200 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200214T193000 DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nIn the early 1960s\, the r acing world was dominated by one name: Ferrari. Year after year\, Enzo F errari’s legendary racing team would take home the trophy at the 24 Hour s of Le Mans race in France\, the world’s oldest sports car endurance ra ce. Determined to put American cars on the map\, Henry Ford II (Tracy Le tts) directed his company’s racing division to build a revolutionary new car that could beat Ferrari’s.\n\nLed by visionary automotive designer Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) and fearless British-born driver Ken Miles ( Christian Bale)\, the eccentric\, determined team of engineers set out o n their mission – ultimately producing the Ford GT40 for an epic showdow n against Ferrari at Le Mans in 1966.\n\nDirected by James Mangold (Walk the Line\, Logan)\, Ford v Ferrari is thrilling true-life tale that is sure to rev your engines.\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20200214.html#film-4571 SUMMARY:Ford v Ferrari LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200215T185700 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200215T170000 DESCRIPTION:What does Bruce Springsteen know about the world of a working class British-Pakistani teenager like Javed (Viveik Kalra)\, whose pare nts can’t see how his passion for music and writing will lead to a real job? Quite a lot it turns out\, and as Javed delves into Springsteen’s b ack-catalogue\, his life is forever changed.\n\nSet in 1987\, Blinded by the Light is based on journalist Sarfraz Manzoor's memoir ‘Greetings fr om Bury Park: Race\, Religion and Rock N’ Roll’\, and Manzoor co-wrote t he script. No less than twelve of Springsteen’s songs feature in the sou ndtrack\, including several rarities. This film will strike a chord in a nyone who ever felt held back when\, baby\, they were born to run.\n\n\n - URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20200215.html#film-4572 SUMMARY:Blinded by the Light LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200215T212800 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200215T193000 DESCRIPTION:[This is a No Guests screening]\n\nBased on the more evocativ ely-titled play “The End of the Rainbow”\, Judy follows the titular Judy Garland as she embarks on her last\, sold-out-yet-desperate concert tou r in London in 1969. Months before her eventual death\, Garland (as play ed with taut twitchiness by Renée Zellweger) is barely keeping it togeth er off-stage – or\, indeed\, on stage either. \n\nWhen The Wizard of Oz had its initial release\, it was nowhere more popular than in war-torn L ondon\; and three decades later\, locals retain their affection for its star. Garland may have been right to see the city as her best shot at re demption.\n\n- URL:http://www.anufg.org.au/filminfo/20200215.html#film-4573 SUMMARY:Judy LOCATION:ANU Film Group END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR