05 November 2008
Welcome to Big Screen 2008
COUNTDOWN TO
BURNIE
Thursday, 9 October 2008 |
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10:00AM - School Screening
Hating Alison Ashley (PG) 100min A comic yet poignant portrayal of the dilemmas of being a teenager, of how schoolgirl rivalries and embarrassing families can eventually lead to true friendship.  FREE Metro Cinemas Burnie |
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12:30PM - School Screening
Dr Plonk (G) 85min It is the great year 1907 and Dr Plonk, famous scientist and inventor calculates that the world will end in 101 years unless immediate action is taken.  FREE Metro Cinemas Burnie |
Friday, 10 October 2008 |
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10:30AM - BIGhART presents film screening workshop for secondary schools
Drive (G) 90min The Drive crew present a series of short films made by young men across the northwest coast. The audience and a community panel will discuss the issues of young men coming of age dying before their time. Feedback and discussion from this session will feed directly into the final editing stages of Drive to produce a feature documentary directly accessible to young men of the northwest coast. Free Metro Cinemas Burnie |
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7:00PM - Opening Night with special guest Roy Billing
Unfinished Sky (M) 91min A lyrical and sensual story set in a country town with a sinister secret. $8/$6 Metro Cinemas Burnie |
Saturday, 11 October 2008 |
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10:00AM - Family Screening
Babe (G) 92min Farmer Hoggett wins a runt piglet at a local fair and young Babe befriends and learns about all the other creatures on the farm. $5 includes popcorn & drink (kids only) Adults Free! Metro Cinemas Burnie |
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2:00PM
Children of the Silk Road (M) 125min Inspired by true events, The Children of the Silk Road tells how a young Englishman, George Hogg came to lead sixty orphaned boys on an extraordinary journey of almost a thousand miles across snow-bound Liu Pan Shan mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert. $8/$6 Metro Cinemas Burnie |
Saturday, 11 October 2008 |
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7:00PM - The friends of the Burnie Art Gallery present
The Home Song Stories (M) 103min The Home Song Stories is an epic tale of mothers and sons, mothers and daughters, unrequited love, secrets and betrayal. $20 - RSVP's essential to Mary ph: 6430 5875 Metro Cinemas Burnie |
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9:00PM
Cactus (M) 89min A man is kidnapped from his city home in the quiet hours of the night. $8/$6 Metro Cinemas Burnie |
Sunday, 12 October 2008 |
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2:00PM
Forbidden Lies (M) 107min Spinning murder, greed and literary scandal into a web that entangles us all, Forbidden Lie$ is a real-life thriller for our time. $8/$6 Metro Cinemas Burnie |
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4:30PM - Jewels from the Archive
The Man from Snowy River (PG) 99min A stellar cast shine in this classic Australian period drama. Based on Banjo Paterson’s much-loved poem, the film is set in Australian high country. $8/$6 Metro Cinemas Burnie |
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6:30PM
Death Defying Acts (PG) 100min On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic who aims to con the famous magician out of $10,000. $8/$6 Metro Cinemas Burnie |
