BEATS WORKING ’24 – is a celebration of the year’s best music documentaries with a selection of paired live DJ sets from local legends including – DJ Jim Westlake & FeeB Squared. Tickets on sale now!
See you at the Picture House!
THIS WEEK
‘Aaron Schimberg’s darkly funny body-horror fairy tale takes a satirical scalpel to the beastliness of beauty.’ – Stephen Dalton, The Film Verdict
Edward is an aspiring actor relying on niche roles that lean into his facial shape caused by neurofibromatosis. When Ingrid, an aspiring playwright, moves in next door, his infatuation with her leads him to seek radical medical intervention.
‘Lee is beautiful, daring, and elusive, as all great art should be.’ – Andy Howell Film Threat
Kate Winslet delivers a captivating performance alongside a stellar cast in this portrait of legendary WWII war photographer Lee Miller. In 1977, a young journalist (Josh O’Connor) sits down to interview Miller in her final years.
Our Halloween special screening! Two decades since Edgar Wright’s zombie comedy, with Simon Pegg co-writing & starring. See it in glorious, restored 4K at TPH on Halloween night! HALLOWEEN SOLD OUT! SESSION ADDED – 1ST NOV, 8:20PM!
‘Shaun of the Dead remains a joyfully silly showcase for director Edgar Wright’s hyperkinetic visual style. It’s also unsettlingly prescient.’ – Noah Berlatsky, Splice
From Academy Award winning animator Adam Elliot comes a story of Grace Pudel – a hoarder of snails, romance novels, and guinea-pigs. MEMOIR OF A SNAIL opened this year’s MIFF and won the top prize at Annecy International Animation Film Festival & the British International Film Festival last week.
15 years after MARY & MAX, this bittersweet, local-set memoir will break your little heart and attempt to mend it all with a bunch of clay!
‘An epic primal myth that pulsates through cinema’ – Peter Bradshaw, Gaurdian
One of the most thrilling move epics of all time, SEVEN SAMURAI tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits. See it in gloriously restored 4K at TPH. Extra session added to Wednesday 6th Nov at 2pm!
‘Paris, Texas is a landmark work in every sense: understated, powerful, sublime.’ – F.X. Feeney, L.A. Weekly
Wim Wender’s quintessential American odyssey returns in a brand new 4k restoration to celebrate its 40th anniversary. A disheveled man who wanders out of the desert, Travis Henderson seems to have no idea who he is. Grab your tickets now! Session added!
NEXT WEEK & SOON
BEATS WORKING – A MUSIC DOC FESTIVAL.
TPH celebrates the year’s best music documentaries. All tickets available to purchase now, line-up links below –
Teaches of Peaches
Free Party: A Folk History
Devo
Pulp: a Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets
Hard-Ons: The Most Australian Band Ever
Dig! XX
‘A ravishing account of the birth of Australian surf culture.’ – Joshua Khoury Honi Soit
A poetic homage to Australia’s early surf-culture with unearthed footage set to an original soundtrack. YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HERE YESTERDAY combines hundreds of hours of lovingly restored 16mm footage with a salt-infused soundscape by Headland. Limited season at TPH, grab ya tix.
Ridley Scott returns to the Colosseum with a worthy match up pitting sharks and rhinos against Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington and Pedro Pascal in GLADIATOR II
After his home is conquered by the tyrannical emperors who now lead Rome, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum and must look to his past to find strength to return the glory of Rome to its people. Screening at TPH from November 14th, tickets for opening night on sale!
TPH X Velvet Curtain presents the 4K restoration and 70th anniversary screening of this landmark American classic.
Velvet Curtain is a dynamic local studio dedicated to the art of moving image. Specialising in capturing everything from films and music videos to events and commercial content. ON THE WATERFRONT (1954) screens on the 14th & 16th November. Tickets on sale!
‘The footage is out there, and it’s rarely been assembled into a more concise, powerful, and
damning array than it is here. Now it only has to be seen’ – David Ehrlich, Indiewire
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight. Screening at TPH from November 28th.
Somewhere in Long Island, sometime in the early 2000’s: it is Christmas Eve, and four sprawling generations of the Italian-American Balsano family gather for what could be the last holiday in their ancestral home.
CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER’S POINT is like being invited to a family Christmas – cosy and warm and utter chaos! It has glimmers of a Robert Altman, a true gem of a holiday film.
COMING SOON
YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HERE YESTERDAY
GREEN BORDER
AQUARIUS
ANORA
NOSFERATU
PADDINGTON IN PERU
OLLIE OLSEN BENEFIT NIGHT