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Thursday 1 June 2023 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown

Anthony is 80, mischievous, living defiantly alone and rejecting the carers that his concerned daughter, Anne, encouragingly introduces. Anthony is gradually succumbing to dementia and feels abandoned when Anne tells him she’s moving to Paris. Confused and upset, against the backdrop of a warped perspective and his rapid mental decline, Anthony is starting to lose his grip on reality. He struggles to navigate the present and the past and as faded memories and glimpses of lucidity trigger sudden mood swings, Anthony’s surroundings and even time itself become distorted. Why has his younger daughter stopped visiting? Who are the strangers that burst in on Anthony?

THE FATHER warmly embraces real life, through loving reflection upon the vibrant human condition; heart-breaking and uncompromisingly poignant. Led by towering performances from Academy Award Winners Anthony Hopkins (Elephant Man, Silence of the Lambs) and Olivia Coleman (The Favourite) and artfully helmed by writer-director Florian Zeller, THE FATHER delivers a devastating yet compassionate portrayal of dementia that will leave audiences floored.

THE FATHER screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 1 June 2023 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown.  1hr 37min (M) Drama USA/France 2020

$10 entry for guests or $30 for a 3 x film membership subscription. The entry fee includes supper and refreshments after the screening.

For more information, contact thursdaypictures@gmail.com

Thursday 4 May 2023 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown

In 19th-century Ireland, painfully shy butler Albert Nobbs (Glenn Close) hides an incredible secret: He is really a she. Terrified that someone will discover her identity, Albert keeps a very low profile, until the arrival of Hubert Page (Janet McTeer) registers a sea change in Albert’s life. Hubert is also secretly a woman and has managed to find a partner who helps her maintain her masquerade. Hoping to find a similar arrangement, Albert begins wooing a hotel maid (Mia Wasikowska).

ALBERT NOBBS is based on a story by George Moore (1852-1933), an Irish realist writer who may have known some real-life parallels in Dublin. Close starred in a stage production of a play based on the book in 1982, and spent years trying to make it into a film. In addition to her starring role, Close is also a producer and co-writer with John Banville. 

The 2011 drama/romance film received several accolades for Close and McTeer’s performances. It will be screened on Thursday 4 May 2023 at 7.30pm in the Killara Centre, Camperdown. Rated R 1hr 53min.

$10 entry for guests or $30 for a 3 x film membership subscription. The entry fee includes supper and refreshments after the screening.

For more information, contact thursdaypictures@gmail.com

Thursday 6 April 2023 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown

LOST IN PARIS is a 2016 French-Belgian comedy film written, directed and co-produced by Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon. Fiona (played by Gordon) is a Canadian librarian who’s orderly life is disrupted when she receives a letter of distress from her 88-year-old Aunt Martha who is living in Paris. Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. As Fiona scours the city looking for her, she encounters Dom (Abel), the affable, but annoying tramp who just won’t leave her alone. 

LOST IN PARIS has an infectious absurdity with fanciful light-heartedness and charming performances.

LOST IN PARIS screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 6 April 2023 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown.  1hr 23min (not yet rated)

$10 entry for guests or $30 for a 3 x film membership subscription. The entry fee includes supper and refreshments after the screening.

For more information, contact thursdaypictures@gmail.com

Thursday 2 March 2023 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown

To celebrate International Women’s Day (March 8), a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women – we are screening HIDDEN FIGURES a biographical drama that honours three brilliant African American women at NASA in the 1960s. 

As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Based on the true life stories of three of these women, known as “human computers”, we follow these women as they quickly rose the ranks of NASA alongside many of history’s greatest minds specifically tasked with calculating the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, and guaranteeing his safe return. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.

HIDDEN FIGURES screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 2 March 2023 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown. Rated PG 2hr 7min

$10 entry for guests or $30 for a 3 x film membership subscription. The entry fee includes supper and refreshments after the screening.

For more information, contact thursdaypictures@gmail.com

Thursday 2 February 2023 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown

BLIND AMBITION follows four friends who have conquered the odds to become South Africa’s top sommeliers after escaping starvation and tyranny in their homeland of Zimbabwe. Driven by relentless optimism, a passion for their craft and a sense of national pride, they form Zimbabwe’s first national wine tasting team and set their sights on the coveted title of ‘World Wine Tasting Champions’. From the moment they arrive in France to compete in the World Wine Blind Tasting Championships (the Olympics of the wine world), this team of mavericks turns an establishment of privilege and tradition on its head.

BLIND AMBITION is a 2021 documentary from Australian writer-director-producers Robert Coe and Warwick Ross (Red Obsession). It won awards for Best Feature Documentary at Tribeca Festival and Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary at Sydney Film Festival.

BLIND AMBITION screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 2 February 2023 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown. Rated M 1hr 36min. In English, Shona and French with English subtitles

$10 entry for guests or $30 for a 3 x film membership subscription. The entry fee includes supper and refreshments after the screening.

For more information, contact thursdaypictures@gmail.com

Thursday 1 December 2022 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown

Our gift to you…  our FREE December film will be Three Summers, a 2017 feel-good comedy.

Three Summers is an Australian romantic comedy film, written and directed by Ben Elton. It was filmed and is set in Western Australia, at a fictional summer music festival called ‘Westival’. The story revolves around a blossoming romance between two musicians, pretentious theremin player Roland (Robert Sheehan) and down-to-earth pub band fiddler Keevy (Rebecca Breeds), amidst a microcosm of Australian society.

In keeping with a ‘festival’ atmosphere, the film has a large ensemble cast including Magda Szubanski, Michael Caton, Deborah Mailman, Jacqueline McKenzie, John Waters and Kelton Pell.

THREE SUMMERS screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 1 December 2022 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown. Rated M 1hr 35min

FREE entry (including supper and refreshments after the screening).

This event will follow the current Victorian State Government Covid-19 regulations. NOTE: Out of respect for your own health and the health of other members, if you are unwell, please do not attend. 

For more information, contact thursdaypictures@gmail.com

Thursday 3 November 2022 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown

Sami Blood is a 2016 Swedish coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Amanda Kernell, as her feature film debut. Inspired by the personal experience of Kernell’s grandmother, the deeply moving film is about what she calls an “untold” story and a “dark chapter” in Swedish history. Kernell is referring to the oppression of the Samis, also known as Lapps, an indigenous people who live in the far northern areas of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia.

The film is set in the 1930s with a frame story in the present day. At the start of the film, 78-year-old Christina, a Sami woman whose name as a child was Elle-Marja, comes with her son and granddaughter to a small town somewhere in Swedish Lapland to attend her younger sister’s funeral. Christina does not want to be there. She does not like the Sami people, and is disturbed when people speak to her in her first language, Southern Sami, which she can no longer understand. She even refuses to spend the night at her late sister’s family home and would rather check into a hotel. In the evening at the hotel, Christina remembers her childhood and the events that drove her away from her community.

SAMI BLOOD screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 3 November 2022 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown. Rated M 1hr 48 min. English subtitles.

$10 entry for guests or $30 for a 3 x film membership subscription. The entry fee includes supper and refreshments after the screening.

REMINDER: The 2021/2022 Annual General Meeting of the Corangamite Film Society will be held from 6.45pm – 7.15pm just prior to the screening of Sami Blood. All welcome to attend the AGM.

This event will follow the current Victorian State Government Covid-19 regulations. NOTE: Out of respect for your own health and the health of other members, if you are unwell, please do not attend. 

For more information, contact thursdaypictures@gmail.com

The 2021/2022 Annual General Meeting of the Corangamite Film Society will be held on Thursday 3 November 2022 at 6.45pm at the Killara Centre, Camperdown.
This will coincide with our November ‘Thursday Pictures’ film screening of Sami Blood at 7.30pm.

All are welcome to attend the AGM, and of course the film.

For any enquiries email thursdaypictures@gmail.com

Thursday 6 October 2022 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown

One grey, foggy morning, a mysterious young man, Zhenia (Alec Utgoff, Stranger Things), crosses the border from the Ukraine into Poland, carrying only a massage table. When faced with a staid official at Warsaw’s immigration office, he secures the necessary residence permit by simply taking the man’s head in his huge, soft hands and massaging him into a trance.

From multi award-winning writer/director Małgorzata Szumowska (Elles) and her long-time cinematographer Michał Englert, NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN is a beguiling modern fable about an affluent gated community forever altered by the arrival of an enigmatic stranger who may – or may not – have powers of healing.

A reflection on class, immigration, and global warming with touches of magical realism and moments of sober beauty and subtle humour.

NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 6 October 2022 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown. From Poland, released in 2020. Rated M  Comedy/Drama 1hr 53min. In Polish, Russian, French and Vietnamese with English subtitles.

$10 entry for guests or $30 for a 3 x film membership subscription. The entry fee includes supper and refreshments after the screening.

The event will follow the current Victorian State Government Covid-19 regulations. NOTE: Out of respect for your own health and the health of other members, if you are unwell, please do not attend. 

For more information, contact thursdaypictures@gmail.com

Thursday 1 September 2022 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown

FLEE is a 2021 Danish animated documentary film that tells the true story of Amin Nawabi, an Afghan refugee. Amin grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, which now threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband.

Revealing his story for the first time to director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, his close friend and high-school classmate, Amin recounts the extraordinary journey he undertook as a child refugee from Afghanistan to Denmark. Made with a striking blend of animation, intimate interviews between Jonas and Amin, ‘80s music and archival footage, FLEE details an unforgettable story of self-discovery and a relentless will to survive.

FLEE screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 1 September 2022 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown.
Rated M  1hr 29min. Danish with English subtitles.

$10 entry for guests or $30 for a 3 x film membership subscription. The entry fee includes supper and refreshments after the screening.

The event will follow the current Victorian State Government Covid-19 regulations. NOTE: Out of respect for your own health and the health of other members, if you are unwell, please do not attend. 

For more information, contact thursdaypictures@gmail.com