Monday, July 5 at 2 and 8.15

Bar-Salon

Canada 1974 N.Z. Premiere Chosen for the Locarno Film Festival, 1974, and Paris Film Festival, 1975

A club-owner, his daughter, and a topless dancer are three of the characters in this French-Canadian drama by Andre Forcier. "A finely-controlled, low-key film."- New York Times.

Monday, July 5 at 5.15 only

The Invitation

Switzerland, 1973. N.Z. Premiere Special July Prize, Cannes Film Festival 1973. Chosen for the Locarno, San Francisco Film Festivals.

An engaging comedy about the staff of a Geneva insurance office and how their true natures are revealed at a Sunday-afternoon house-warming party. "Extremely funny." New York Times. "A quiet masterpiece." Judith Crist. Directed by Claude Goretta.

Tuesday, July 6 at 2 and 5.15

I.F. Stone's Weekly

U.S.A. 1973 N.Z. Premiere Chosen for the Cannes, London, Edinburgh and Berlin Film Festivals, 1974

"Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed." This is the credo of the editor-publisher-mail boy of a famous Washington newsletter. And this exhilarating film is his story, filmed by Jerry Bruck Jnr. "Such a thorough delight, it left me feeling high. Don't miss it." : New York Times. "Brilliant, witty, hard-hitting a contemporary classic." Film Comment.

Tuesday July 6 at 8.15 only

WR Mysteries of the Organism

West Germany/Yugoslavia 1971 N.Z. Premiere Cannes, Berlin, London Film Festivals, 1971. Sydney, Melbourne Film Festivals, 1972.

The wittiest and most cynical film by Dusan Makavejev. A documentary on the late Wihelm Reich is the starting point for wry comparison of socialism and capitalism and a fictional story of two girls seeking political and sexual liberation. "The film is indeed liable to offend, confound or confuse a good many people, who should not, however, deny themselves the experience of seeing it." - Jay Cocks in Time Magazine Note after being banned by the N Z. censor, this film has been passed on appeal with an R.20 certificate allowing it to be shown only once at the Film Festival. No one under 20 will be admitted.

Wednesday, July 7 at 2 and 8.15

People of the Metro

Czechoslovakia 1974 Wellington Premiere Chosen for the London and Karlovy Vary Film Festivals 1974

A delicate and humorous film by the Czech master Jaromil Fires, who brought us "My Love to the Swallows." His three linked stories about people involved in building the new Prague underground are told with warmth and charm.

Wednesday, July 7 at 5.15only

Oddballs

U.S.S.R. 1974 N.Z. Premiere

Chosen for the London, Moscow, Melbourne and Sydney Film Festivals 1975

A fresh and fanciful tale of a 19th century peasant boy who goes to the city to seek his fortune, falls in love with a red-head, and then falls foul of her governor lover. He escapes from prison in a fantastic flying machine (as "Variety" put it "straight out of Da Vinci by way of Ronald Searle.") Director Eldar Shengelaya

Thursday, July 8 at 2 and 8.15

The Son of Amr is Dead

Belgium/Tunisia 1975 N.Z. Premiere Grand Prix at Locarno Film Festival, 1975

Pierre Clementi stars in this hallucinatory film by Jean-Jacques Andrien with music by Monteverdi as a young man who goes to a dead friend's Tunisian villiage on a voyage of self discovery. "A splendidly-photographed image of two cultures." -Dilys Powell.

Thursday, July 8 at 5.15 and 10.45

Elektreia

Hungary 1975 N.Z. Premiere Chosen for the Cannes, Chicago, Sydney Film Festivals 1975

In his newest film, Miklos Jansco re-tells the Electra legend in "musical-tragedy" style featuring hundreds of naked men and women in Busby Berkeley formations with a red helicopter hovering. "A bold and exciting work of art faultlessly executed." -David Stratton. "Dazzling.... beautiful." -Sight and Sound.

Friday, July 9 at 2 and 8.15

Nada

France/Italy 1974 Wellington Premiere Chosen for the Sydney Film Festival, 1975

The prolific Claude Chabrol contributes two new features to this year's

Film Festival. This one is a cynical look at a political kidnapping and the way it's handled by the authorities. "A disturbing study of violence on both sides of the law." - David Stratton.

Friday, July 9 at 5.15 and 10.45 the way to

The Way to Pleasure

France/Italy 1974 N.Z. Premiere Chosen for the London and Venice Film Festivals, 1975

Scriptwriter Paul Gegeuff stars in this unique film which he based on the breakup of his own marriage. His former wife is the other main performer. Claude Chabrol has made a gripping film described by The Times as an elegant account of "the terror of a couple watching themselves drifting apart."

Saturday, July 10 at 10 a.m. only

Welfare

U.S.A. 1975 N.Z. Premiere Chosen for the 1975 London Film Festival.

An extraordinary new documentary by Frederick Wiseman about going on the dole in New York. It's a disturbing study of bureaucracy versus humanity. "Poignant, sometimes morbidly funny." - Newsweek. "Whole lives seem to live themselves out before our eyes....." - New York Times.

Saturday July 10 at 2 p.m. only Sunday July 11 at 2 p.m. only

Hideaways

U.S.A. 1975 Wellington Premiere Festival Choice: Recommended by the censor as particularly suitable for family entertainment.

Ingrid Bergman stars with two likeable children in this new film by veteran Fielder Cook from the award-winning children's story 'The Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler." The two kids run away to New York, where they hide in the Metropolitan Museum and discover a mystery. Mrs Frankweiler is a rich old recluse who comes to share their secret. "Fresh and enjoyable.." - Monthly Film Bulletin.

Saturday, July 10 at 5.15 and 8.15

Stavisky

France/Italy 1974 Wellington Premiere Chosen for the Cannes, London, New York Film Festivals, 1974.

The first film in five years from Alain Resnais stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Charles Boyer, with music by Stephen Sondheim. His subject is the downfall of a grandiose swindler, and the last days of frivolity before the Second World War. Sight and Sound called it a "Mariebad of daylight.... a sort of 'Citizen Kane' investigation of the early 30s millieu of political scandal and prejudice."

Sunday, July 11 at 5.15 and 8.15

The Pedestrian

West Germany/Switzerland 1973

N.Z. Premiere Chosen for the London, Chicago, Sorrento Film Festivals, 1973. Sydney, Melbourne Film Festivals, 1974. Winner of Golden Globe of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association: Best Foreign Film. German Federal Film A ward: Best Film of 1973.

A controversial drama written and directed by Maximilian Schell about a German industrialist accused by a newspaper of being in charge of a Nazi execution squad. Outstanding photography is matched by an unusual cast including Peter Hall, Peggy Ashcroft, Lil Dagover and Francoise Rosay.

Monday, July 12 at 2 and 8.15

Confrontation

Switzerland 1974 Wellington Premiere Chosen for the Rotterdam, Antwerp, Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, London and Edinburgh Film Festivals 1975.

A factual drama about a young Jewish medical student in the 1930s who shoots a Nazi leader the film asks: was he right, and if so, was it worth it. "The re-creation is scrupulous, with an intense understated performance by the main actor.... Oddly absorbing." - The Times. "A most complex moral issue about which no two people will feel the same. Was he a hero? Or was he a coward who took the law into his own hands?" - Sunday Express

Monday, July 12 at 5.15 only

Wrong Movement

Germany 1975 Wellington Premiere Chosen for the London, Edinburgh, Berlin Sydney Film Festivals 1975.

A contemporary journey along the Rhine is the setting for this free adaption of a Goethe novel. "Filled with many disturbing probing and deftly executed sequences. One of this year's most acclaimed and awarded films." - Variety. Director: Wim Wenders.

Tuesday, July 13 at 2 and 8.15

Fear Eats the Soul

West Germany 1974 Wellington Premiere International Critics' Prize, and Ecumenical Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival 1974. New York Film Festival 1974.

A 60-year-old widow falls in love with a young Moroccan emigrant labourer, and together they suffer the slings and arrows of the outraged neighbours. A controversial new film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder hailed by Jan Dawson as "the Cannes Festival's best film" David Robinson in The Times wrote: "It is consistently intelligent and entertaining." The London Daily Telegraph said: "Very provocative. Wonderfully well acted."

Tuesday, July 13 at 5.15 only

The Harder they Come

Jamaica 1973 N.Z. Premiere

This film by Perry Henzell was described by Time: "Fast, tough and sinuous with a score of Jamaican reggae that jauntily accentuates its vigour; this saga of a small-time pot pusher and pop star is a kind of Caribbean 'Threepenny Opera."' And U.S. Nation said: "Deeply appealing.. also a disturbing study of a post-colonial society in ruins."

Wednesday, July 14 at 2, 5.15 and 8.15

Hester Street

U.S.A. 1975 N.Z. Premiere Chosen for the Critics' Week, Cannes 1975

A gently ironic tale of Jewish immigrants in New York in the 1890s, directed by Joan Micklin Silver. "An unconditionally happy achievement.....The cast is superlative and Carol Kane is extraordinary." -New York Times. "Hester Street's abundant humour, sex appeal and simple humanity are universal." - Playboy. "A beautifully detailed film of charm and subjstance. A page from the album of our past. " - Judith Crist.

Thursday, July 15 at 2, 5.15 and 8.15

Middle of the World

Switzerland 1974 Wellington Premiere Chosen for the Locarno, New York and London Film Festivals 1974; Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals 1975.

Director Alain (La Salamander) Tanner's films have always been on the cutting edge between social problems and sexual ones. This new film - his first in colour - is no exception. An extra-marital affair between an engineer and an emigrant waitress (a stunning performance by Olimpia Carlisi) founders because physical obsessions are powerless against social differences. "Coolly intelligent and subtle." - Time Magazine. "One of the best films about the nature of passionate love." -New Yorker.