New Meetup: The Gold Rush - International Film Festival - Civic theatre

Announcing a new Meetup for The Auckland Movie Fans Meetup Group!

What: The Gold Rush - International Film Festival - Civic theatre

When: July 26, 2009 5:30 PM

Where: (A location has not been chosen yet.)

NZ International Film Festival - Auckland 9-26 July 2009
http://nzff.co.nz...

Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009
Meetup time: 5.30pm
Meetup place: I'll be in the Civic's Wintergarden Festival Lounge (lower level) http://www.scoop.co.n... between 5.30-6.00pm or txt me 0272750083
Film start time: 6.15pm

The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin featuring Philharmonia orchestra $25) – 6.15 pm Sun 26 Jul
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Year: 1925
Running time: 80 mins
USA
Screenplay: Charlie Chaplin
B&W/G cert
With: Charlie Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman

Payment options
I plan to see at least 9 festival films and will be pre-paying all of them (Option 1). As usual, the seats are allocated and there is the potential to miss out if not booked/paid for in advance. EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: Book before July 9 and pay $14.00 for adult tickets to A-coded sessions. (normal price $15.00). Ticketing service fees will apply. Check out the festival site for the cheap parking special deal.

I will be setting the RSVPs for Friday 3 July with the following payment options: Option 1: RSVP & Pre-purchase all films (and get a discount). Meet me outside the main entrance of the Civic theatre on Saturday, 4 July and we can purchase tickets to all the films from the theatre’s ticket counters – this way we can be seated together! I thought some time after 1.00pm but I’m flexible so long as everyone can agree on the time.
Option 2: RSVP & make your own payment arrangements. There are a number of payment options set out in the NZFF guide e.g. via internet. You’re more than welcome to take this option – chances are that we won’t be seated together but you can still meet me at the specified meet up time and place prior to the start of the film.
Option 3: Don’t RSVP and show up on the day. Can’t decide or don’t want to plan ahead? No problem! Meet me at the specified meet up time and place prior to the start of the film and see if there are still tickets available – you’ll probably be seated elsewhere in the theatre though.

Please let me know which option you are going for when you RSVP, thanks.

SYNOPSIS
Accompanied by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Timothy Brock. Music by Charlie Chaplin, restored and adapted by Timothy Brock. Music copyright © Roy Export Company Establishment and Bourne Co. All rights reserved.
A highlight of any movie-going year, this year's Live Cinema collaboration between the Festival and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra offers laughter and spectacle. Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush is one of the great, endlessly rewatchable cinema comedies and its presentation with live music is exactly the kind of experience that The Civic was originally designed to deliver so grandly. Conductor/composer Timothy Brock has worked with the Chaplin Estate since 1999 to reconstruct Chaplin's own superb film scores. He completes that project with his work on The Gold Rush. He returns to the Festival to conduct the Auckland Philharmonia in this single New Zealand performance and to prove once again how gloriously far from silent the cinema we mistakenly call by that name actually was. Like Keaton's immortal The General, the 1925 The Gold Rush places its comic anti-hero at the centre of an historical epic. He is The Lone Prospector, a gentle soul among the throngs who've headed to Alaska hungry for gold. We see him first traipsing nimbly along the rim of a ridge high on a mountain pass, blithely unaware that he's being followed by a large black bear...
The Gold Rush was the last movie Chaplin made before the spectre of technological change – the ‘talkies’ – began to haunt him. Its brilliant set-pieces – the Little Tramp making dinner rolls dance, ravenous Mack Swain mistaking the Tramp for a large chicken, Swain and the Tramp feasting upon the latter's shoe, and the cabin teetering on the edge of the abyss – are classic moments of silent-film comedy. Though it is probably Chaplin's most famous film, The Gold Rush is atypical in several ways. Its snowy wastes are far removed from his usual urban and rural settings and the film has a happy ending, with the Tramp becoming a millionaire. The Museum of Modern Art's notes suggest that The Gold Rush “captured Chaplin in a time of relative contentment – one of the medium's great geniuses at a moment of confidence in his ability to control his destiny and his art.” — BG

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