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Manchester '76 - '92. The time of Tony Wilson, Factory Records and The Hacienda. The time of Joy Division, New Order and the Happy Mondays. The time of music, drugs and the birth of the rave scene. Director Michael Winterbottom and writer Frank Cottrell Boyce knowingly play fast and loose with the truth, preferring to 'print the legend'. Manchester musos will fume at the absences and the outright lies, but that's just fuel to the film's fire. COME EARLY! Doors 7pm, pre-show 7:30pm
Organic NZ Magazine and the Soil & Health Association of NZ are promoting organic farming & land care through for this years Organic Week. Join us at The Hollywood for a brand new film about the inspiring story of British farmers standing up against the industrial food system and transforming the way they produce food - to heal the soil, benefit our health and provide for local communities. A panel discussion will take place directly after the film. Doors 5:30pm for drinks, movie snacks and time to connect. Feature film starts 6:30pm, panel discussion commences at 8pm.
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Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decade-defining artistic events, and Red Desert, his first colour film, is perhaps his most epochal. This provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological age—about a disaffected woman, brilliantly portrayed by Antonioni muse Monica Vitti, wandering through a bleak industrial landscape beset by power plants and environmental toxins, and tentatively flirting with her husband’s coworker, played by Richard Harris—continues to keep viewers spellbound. With one startling, painterly composition after another—of abandoned fishing cottages, electrical towers, looming docked ships—Red Desert creates a nearly apocalyptic image of its time, and confirms Antonioni as cinema’s preeminent poet of the modern age. COME EARLY! Doors 6:30pm, pre-show 7pm
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The Original (well as original as we’re allowed) STAR WARS Trilogy Marathon comes to The Hollywood for the first time ever! Feels like only yesterday when we saw it at The Cinerama downtown. For this inaugural showing of the trilogy in NZs greatest cinema we’re doing it Hollywood style. Yes folks - for the first time ever for a Star Wars screening, you can BYO Bean Bags! We are offering a two tier ticket system - those who want to ooze into their own comfy bean bag like a warm taun taun tummy. And those hard-arses who prefer it classic imperial regular seating! Which ever way you lean on the canteen- we got you covered. But don’t delay - as these special BYOB spots sell first - so be quick! And let’s all enjoy 6.5 hours of the most influential series ever made. 3pm: Episode IV - A NEW HOPE 5:30: Episode V - THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK 8pm: Episode VI - RETURN OF THE JEDI Doors 2pm Marathon starts at 3pm sharp! 20 min coffee and snack breaks in between films. NO OUTSIDE FOOD in the cinema! We've got candy, popcorn, ice cream, vegan pies & sausage rolls, soup & bread that you are welcome to munch away on in session - Pop out if you need something extra. *REMEMBER TO BE QUIET AND ENJOY* - Or you'll be asked to leave. *BEAN BAG SEATS* BYO Bean Bag - Bring, borrow from a friend or buy - We do not have spares!
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While driving in heavy rain on a deserted road, Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) pulls over to pick up a hitchhiker (Rutger Hauer). Halsey quickly regrets his decision to stop as the hitcher puts a knife to Jim’s throat and tells him to pass a car on the side of the road. Its occupants have already been brutally slaughtered by the ominous stranger. Now a bloody game cat-and-mouse is about to be played out on these desolate stretches of Texas highway, and every car that passes, and every soul that drives those roads, will have death, destruction, and mayhem along for the ride. TERROR ALERT! The Hitcher is a stretch for actress Jennifer Jason Leigh, especially when she’s tied between two vehicles headed in opposite directions! There is depth in the ambiguities of The Hitcher that makes the film rewarding beyond its powerfully visceral action and that lends to its cult nature. Christopher Nolan counts The Hitcher among his favourite films "the criminally underappreciated Rutger Hauer is in his finest and most influential Euro-psycho performance this side of Blade Runner.” COME EARLY! Doors 6:30pm, pre-show 7pm
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At the center of The Last Starfighter is a teenager named Alex Rogan (Lance Guest), who lives in a trailer park at the dusty outskirts of his hometown. Dreaming of escape but trapped by his family’s meager finances, Alex finds solace in the Starfighter arcade cabinet that’s parked outside a nearby convenience store. After one day achieving a high score, Alex finds himself abruptly greeted by the game’s creator, Centauri (Robert Preston), who reveals himself to be an alien of the race mentioned in Starfighter, and that Alex’s performance qualifies him to be the pilot of a real starfighter on the frontline of a brutal sectarian war. COME EARLY! Doors 5:30pm, pre-show 6pm
MViolence, offensive language & content that may disturb.
Douglas Quaid is haunted by a recurring dream about a journey to Mars. He hopes to find out more about this dream and buys a holiday at Rekall Inc. where they sell implanted memories. But something goes wrong with the memory implantation and he remembers being a secret agent fighting against the evil Mars administrator Cohaagen. Beautifully restored in 4k for the ultimate TOTAL RECALL big screen experience. COME EARLY! Doors 5:30pm, pre-show 6pm OSCARS 1990 SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR VISUAL EFFECTS - (NOMINATION) ACADEMY OF SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY & HORROR 1991 - SATURN AWARD BEST SCIENCE FICTION FILM