On his way to Vienna, American Jesse (Ethan Hawke) meets Celine (Julie Delpy), a student returning to Paris. After long conversations forge a surprising connection between them, Jesse convinces Celine to get off the train with him in Vienna. Since his flight to the U.S. departs the next morning and he has no money for lodging, they wander the city together, taking in the experiences of Vienna and each other. As the night progresses, their bond makes separating in the morning a difficult choice. Content expanded. "The charm—the midsummer enchantment—never feels forced; it steals up and wins you. A true romance." - The New Yorker

High school senior Megan is an all-American girl who loves cheerleading and dates a football player. Her suburban existence is turned upside-down when her family suspects her to be a lesbian. They send her to a ‘rehabilitation camp’ where she comes to question her own sexuality for the first time. "With its candy-coloured palette, and ambiguous-to-surreal setting, But I’m A Cheerleader’s aesthetics feel like a mesmerising hybrid of John Waters, Tim Burton, and Wes Anderson." - REFINERY29 COME EARLY! Doors open 5pm, pre-show 5:30pm *Go in the draw to win a Valentines Day Gift

Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. During the restless summer weeks, unrelenting but buried currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them and verge toward the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. COME EARLY! Doors 5:30pm, pre-show 6pm

After being mortally wounded and taken to the morgue, murderer Jason Voorhees spontaneously revives and embarks on a killing spree as he makes his way back to his home at Camp Crystal Lake. "With Jason's highlight kills, extremely proficient filmmaking, and the most enjoyable side-characters of the series, Part IV ranks among the most enjoyable slashers of all time." COME EARLY! Doors 7pm, pre-show 7:30pm

By staging elaborate fake suicides, Harold, a bored and depressive young boy, desperately tries to gain the attention of his wealthy and absent mother. To kill time, he goes to funerals, where he ends up meeting another regular attendee, Maude, an intriguing woman who could easily be his grandmother. Maude has a cheerful touch of madness, regardless of her past, which has not always been joyful. At her side, Harold learns to smile and begins to find life more enjoyable. “Make the most of your time on earth” . Harold and Maude are certainly one of the most iconic movie couples. Cat Stevens on the soundtrack reminds us “If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out.” COME EARLY! Doors 2:30pm, pre-show 3pm *Go in the draw to win a Valentines Day Gift!

What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences. A masterpiece of cinematic invention and political bravery, Jafar Panahi’s rousing new film deservedly won the Cannes Palme d’Or on a powerful and inspiring note. "Subtly plotted like a good thriller... slowly but surely builds into a stark condemnation of abusive power and its long-lasting effects." - Hollywood Reporter COME EARLY! Doors 5pm, pre-show 5:30pm

Join us at The Hollywood for NO OTHER CHOICE: NZ Premiere thanks to Letterboxd & Madman Films! After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition. Directed with pristine precision by Park Chan-wook, No Other Choice is a wickedly clever takedown of the corporate rat race that finds a perfect avatar in Lee Byung-Hun's skillfully hapless performance. "Full of pitch black comedy and unsubtle jabs at toxic masculinity." - Boston Globe "Well shot, well acted and with locations that vary from brutalist factory sites to beautiful nearby forests, No Other Choice is both believable and absurd as it unfolds. But its social relevance remains spot-on." Original-Cin "With humour blacker than black bean noodles, the film is a masterful work of cinema which might well be Chan-wook’s masterpiece. And given this is the man who directed The Handmaiden that’s saying a lot." - Time Out COME EARLY! Doors 6:30pm, pre-show 7pm

See it first at The Hollywood for a special Q&A with director Taratoa Stappard and lead actress Ariāna Osbourne. Far from home and haunted by visions, a Māori woman uncovers gruesome secrets inside an English manor. A bold, unsettling gothic tale of identity, memory, and colonial reckoning. With striking visual precision and a searing critique of colonial and cultural fetishisation, Stappard conjures a taut gothic atmosphere thick with foreboding. In doing so, he lays claim to a bold new cinematic territory: Māori Gothic, where the thin veneer of Victorian civility is torn away to reveal something truly monstrous beneath. Not ghosts or ghouls, but the legacy of empire itself. COME EARLY! Doors 6:30pm, pre-show 7pm, Q&A directly after the feature.

When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008. "More than anything, NTBTSTM is simply hilarious – a furiously funny roller coaster of a film whose energy never, ever dips. It is difficult to imagine a better, sharper comedy coming along this year. Or the next." - The Globe Mail "Delivers everything a fan of the show could want, expanding the level of spectacle while keeping the core of the ongoing project intact." - IndieWire All ticket holders get a special edition 'tour' poster and bumper sticker. COME EARLY! Doors 6:30pm, pre-show 7pm

An FBI agent goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers. Starring Patrick "I'm not gonna paddle my way to New Zealand!" Swayze & Keanu Reeves. "A freaky mix of Dog Day Afternoon and Big Wednesday; bank robbing meets surfing." - The Guardian "Kathryn Bigelow is a uniquely talented, uniquely powerful filmmaker. Where the male action directors are still playing with toys-with dolls and models and matte shots-Bigelow has tapped into something primal and strong. She is a sensualist of genius in this most sensual of mediums." - Chicago Tribune COME EARLY! Doors 6:30pm, pre-show 7pm

Incarcerated for assault and manslaughter, a man (Siu-wong Fan) survives in a futuristic prison by resorting to more extreme violence. "A rather astonishing, starkly stylized blood flood set inside a privatized prison." - Village Voice COME EARLY! Doors 7:30pm, pre-show 8pm

See it first at The Hollywood Avondale for a special presentation with HALF QUEEN & Madman Films. A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his daughter who has disappeared from a rave in Morocco. When the duo crosses paths with a group of misfits, their trip over the Atlas Mountains gradually becomes a coming-of-age odyssey. "It draws you out of your seat with a mighty succession of sonic rumbles, then promptly knocks you back into it with the most jolting of tragedies." - New Yorker COME EARLY! From 6:30pm, for a pre-show rave in the courtyard and garden bar with HALF QUEEN on the decks.

Johnny is a successful banker who lives happily in a San Francisco townhouse with his fiancée, Lisa. One day, inexplicably, she gets bored with him and decides to seduce his best friend, Mark. From there, nothing will be the same again... The Room has been slaying audiences now for over 20 years throughout the world with rabid fans called Roomies screaming out lines and tossing plastic spoons in the air. Why? No matter what you’ve already heard, nothing can prepare you for the once-in-a-lifetime big-screen experience of seeing actor/director/producer Wiseau mumbling his way through this excruciating love triangle about a kind-hearted banker, his best friend and his cheating bride-to-be. It has many unforgettable scenes, but keep your eyes peeled for pictures of spoons, close football tossing, characters vanishing and emerging and even one that announces ‘I definitely have breast cancer’ as a throwaway conversation starter. Unmissable. COME EARLY! Doors 7pm - SKOTCHKA'S AVAILABLE, pre-show 7:30pm *DO NOT BUY ANY NEW PLASTIC ! - We have plenty of recycled ones available for koha donated to Kai Avondale. Let's be sustainable and do something good at the same time right! It's the way Johnny would want it.

Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho painstakingly recreates the Recife of the 70s dictatorship years in this sprawling, colourful spy thriller like no other. Winner of Best Director and Best Actor at Cannes. "To watch The Secret Agent is to be fully drawn into this carefully recreated time, rendered deeply cinematic by Filho’s customary visual trickery and wonderfully eclectic soundtrack. A director known for handling deathly serious topics with fleet-footedness and winking mischief, it may be Mendonça Filho’s most staggering statement yet." - Tom Augstine COME EARLY! Doors 3pm, pre-show 3:30pm

The New Zealand Land Wars of the nineteenth century provide the setting for Geoff Murphy's internationally-praised epic, the closest thing to a classic western in NZ's cinematic back catalogue. Restored and revitalised in this special Utu Redux presentation. It starts with the slaughter of a Maori village where almost every character seems to enter into their own personal vendetta against their enemies, turning the film into a prolonged ballad of revenge. These savage motivations mean the moral compass is effectively shattered, nobody is completely good or evil, and the stage is set for some incredibly visceral set pieces, a grim view of race relations and a jet black sense of humour. Bruno Lawrence’s gun needs to be seen to be believed. The task of Murphy and cinematographer/producer Graeme Cowley to restore Utu was made all the more difficult by the original master negative no longer existing. As it had been disassembled and re-edited to make the shorter international version of the film in the 1980s, a painstaking three-year process was required to complete the new edit, overseen by Murphy and original Utu editor Michael Horton. COME EARLY! Doors 6:30pm, pre-show 7pm

Wild at Heart is, according to David Lynch, “a picture about finding love in hell.” “This is a snakeskin jacket. And for me it’s a symbol of my individuality and my belief in personal freedom.” Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage are Sailor and Lula, hotpants lovers on the lam, in Lynch’s fever dream road trip through a sleazy South of stick-up men, heavy metal concerts, and pornos, Texas-style. The guiding influences are Elvis Aron Presley, who Cage channels throughout, and The Wizard of Oz, with Sheryl Lee’s Good Witch appearing at the end of a rough ride menaced by Diane Ladd’s mad matriarch and Willem Dafoe’s oleaginous, stub-toothed Bobby Peru that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor. COME EARLY! Doors 7:30pm, pre-show 8pm *Go in the draw to win a Valentines Day Gift