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Now Showing at Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside, Opens 22 May 2008 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Academy Award Winner!
Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky
Starring Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow
It was the biggest counterfeit money scam of all times. Over 130 million pound
sterling were printed, under conditions that couldn't have been more tragic or
spectacular.
During the last years of the war, as the German Reich saw that
the end was near, the authorities decided to produce their own banknotes in
the currencies of their major war enemies. They hoped to use the duds to
flood the enemy economy and fill the empty war coffers. At the
Sachsenhausen concentration camp, two barracks were separated from the
rest of the camp and the outside world, and transformed into a... (more)
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2008 Academy Awards - Winner: Best Foreign Film! |
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Now Showing at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Portside
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Directed by Bharat Nalluri
Starring Amy Adams, Frances McDormand, Tom Payne, Shirley Henderson, Ciarán Hinds, Sally Leonard.
Can you get a life and discover love, all in one day? Two women are about to find out.
In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew (McDormand) is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Without so much as severance pay, Miss Pettigrew realizes that she must - for the first time in two decades - seize the day. This she does, by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level - as 'social secretary.' Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social... (more)
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Now Showing at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Directed by Tom Vaughan
Starring Ashton Kutcher, Cameron Diaz, Queen Latifah
What Happens In Vegas follows two strangers who wake up to discover they got married sometime during the previous night's drunken festivities, with one of them winning a huge jackpot on the other's quarter. The newlyweds devise ever-escalating schemes to undermine each other and claim the money – only cupid may have other plans.
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Now Showing at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Directed by Jon Favreau
Starring Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges.
Based upon Marvel's iconic Super Hero, Iron Man tells the story of Tony Stark (Downey Jr.), a billionaire industrialist and genius inventor who is kidnapped and forced to build a devastating weapon. Instead, using his intelligence and ingenuity, Tony builds a high-tech suit of armor and escapes captivity. Upon his return to America, Tony must come to terms with his past. When he uncovers a cunning plot with global implications, he dons his powerful armor and vows to protect the world as Iron Man.
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Now Showing at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Now Showing at Dendy Portside
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STAFF PICK!
Directed by Craig Gillespie
Starring Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner, Patricia Clarkson.
When Lars Lindstrom (Ryan Gosling) introduces his brother Gus and sister-in-law Karin to his new friend Bianca, who he met on the internet, their immediate response is shock and disbelief. Has Lars, the sweet, socially challenged introvert gone completely mad - they meet Bianca and see a doll, but Lars sees a friend.
Bianca isn't a real woman at all but a Real Doll, how will they explain this to the residents of the sleepy Midwestern US town they've grown up in and currently reside? Karin and Gus consult the town's family physician, Dr. Dagmar Berman (Patricia Clarkson), who advises... (more)
'...it's so beguiling and so well done that I was completely entranced.'
**** 4 stars
- Margaret Pomeranz At The Movies
'Lars And The Real Girl is a delightful, offbeat love story about a small-town boy and a girl from the big city. It's utterly surprising and very perceptive about the good things that can happen in a small community.'
**** 4 stars
- Paul Byrnes Sydney Morning Herald
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Now Showing at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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Directed by John Curran
Starring Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Toby Jones
Based on the classic novel by Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil is a love story set in the 1920s that tells the tale of a young English couple, Walter (Norton), a middle class doctor and Kitty (Watts), an upper-class woman, who rush their marriage and relocate to Shanghai, where she falls in love with someone else. When he uncovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China ravaged by a deadly epidemic, and takes her along. Their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them purpose in one of the most remote and beautiful places... (more)
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Opens 15 May 2008 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy George St, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside, Kino Dendy Melbourne
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Directed by Claude Miller
Starring Cécile De France, Patrick Bruel, Ludivine Sagnier, Julie Depardieu, Mathieu Amalric
Based on a novel by author Philippe Grimbert, Un Secret tells the tragic childhood story of Francois (Amalric). As a sickly young child, Francois (Vigourt) instinctively knew that he was a disappointment to his physically robust parents, Tania (de France) and Maxime (Bruel). Though Francois does find some amount of solace in his friendship with kindly masseuse Louise (Depardieu), his discovery of a strange toy in the attic causes his parents to act more strangely towards him than ever before.
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Opens 15 May 2008 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Portside, Kino Dendy Melbourne
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Directed by Helen Hunt
Starring Helen Hunt, Colin Firth, Bette Midler, Matthew Broderick, Lynn Cohen, Ben Shenkman.
Adapted from Elinor Lipman's novel of the same name, Helen Hunt makes her feature directing debut with Then She Found Me, a touching story of schoolteacher April Epner (Hunt) and her very unlikely path towards personal fulfillment.
Following the separation from her husband (Broderick) and the death of her adopted mother, April is contacted by her apparent birth mother (Midler), who turns out to be a local talk show host Bernice Graves. As Bernice tries to become the mother to April that she was never able to be, April seems to find solace in the arms of the parent of one of her... (more)
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Opens 15 May 2008 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Rob Stewart
Starring Rob Stewart, Patrick Moore, Erich Ritter, Paul Watson, Boris Worm.
For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring sharks began as an underwater adventure. What it turned into was a beautiful and dangerous life journey into the balance of life on earth.
Driven by passion fed from a lifelong fascination with sharks, Stewart debunks historical stereotypes and media depictions of sharks as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters and reveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the evolution of the seas.
Filmed in visually stunning, high definition video, Sharkwater takes you into the most shark rich waters of the world, exposing the exploitation and corruption... (more)
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Opens 15 May 2008 at Dendy George St, Opens 22 May 2008 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Tony Rogers
Starring Jason Gann, Adam Zwar, Anya Beyersdorf, Paul Denny.
Actor Darren McWarren (Gann) starred in soap, mini-series and film before destroying his career with a series of indiscretions. Now McWarren is out of the industry and living in a small town in Western Victoria he can do whatever he wants.
When a journalist decides to write a 'Where are they now' profile on McWarren, he finds the former star has become a modern day Errol Flynn. The local girls want to fornicate with him and their fellas want to fight him. He mightn't have found love – but it's the next best thing.
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