The curtain has gone up on the 2010 programme of the Queenstown Film Society, to reveal 25 world cinema festival favourites and rediscovered celluloid classics.
The film enthusiasts will present their winter season of must-see movies to society members at Dorothy Brown's Cinema and Bar in Arrowtown from May 4 until October 18 at 8.30pm.
Notables include the 2001 Argentinian caper-within-a-caper Nine Queens, the 2005 Russian illegal adoption drama The Italianand the 2005 German tragi-comedy Summer in Berlin.
Rachael Blake, Robyn Malcolm and Queenstown resident Sam Neill star in the 2003 New Zealand thriller Perfect Strangers.
Vintage delights include the French New Wave landmark Breathless, Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Family Plot, the Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall adventure To Have and Have Not, and the Marilyn Monroe comedy Some Like It Hot.
Society president Tanya Surrey, of Queenstown, said the films were selected by the committee "to show a range of art-house films, and movies you wouldn't normally be able to see outside of the New Zealand Federation of Film Societies, which we're affiliated to."
Movies will be projected on the silver screen from 35mm and 16mm prints, or DVDs, Ms Surrey said.
Residents can join the society at any screening, or by email via the website.
Membership costs $105 for the year, which works out as $4.20 a film, or a $30 ticket can be bought to watch any three films.
There were 72 members last year, up from 54 in 2008.
