What's On This Week: LIVING, EMILY, THE GREAT ESCAPE and More

18th April, 2023

Due to a scheduling issue, we regret to inform you that Distinguished Professor Larissa Behrendt OA is no longer able to join us for an in-person Q&A following our screening of her film, YOU CAN GO NOW, on Wednesday 19 April.

Presented in partnership with ANU Law Reform and Social Justice, the screening will instead feature a special pre-recorded introduction from Professor Behrendt.

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WHAT’S ON THIS WEEK
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Live life to the fullest by catching Bill Nighy's extraordinary, Oscar-nominated performance in LIVING. Also in our Autumn season's penultimate week: a doco about First Nations artist Richard Bell, an action classic celebrating 60 years, the strange tale of a '16-year-old student', and an unconventional Emily Brontë biopic.

• WED 19 APR @ 7:30 PM: YOU CAN GO NOW (M, 80 MINS)

A look at the life and provocative work of First Nations artist, Richard Bell: both a provocateur of the art world who challenged its whiteness, and an activist who spent his childhood living in a tin shed, learning politics on the streets of Redfern.

• THU 20 APR @ 7:30 PM: LIVING (PG, 102 MINS)

In post-WWII London, a veteran civil servant (Bill Nighy) receives a medical diagnosis which forces him to take stock of his life. Determined to make a change before it's too late, he attempts to turn his dull, lonely existence around.

• FRI 21 APR @ 7:30 PM: THE GREAT ESCAPE (PG, 172 MINS)

Imprisoned during World War II in a German POW camp, a group of Allied soldiers plan an ambitious escape in an attempt to draw Nazi forces away from battle, in this 60th anniversary screening of the star-studded action classic.

• SAT 22 APR @ **5 PM**: MY OLD SCHOOL (M, 105 MINS)

In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in Scotland. The sensational story of what follows over the next two years is stranger than fiction as it is revealed that Brandon is far from who he says he is.

• SAT 22 APR @ 7:30 PM: EMILY (M, 130 MINS)

An unconventional biopic which imagines the early life of enigmatic author Emily Brontë (Emma Mackey) on her transformative journey towards womanhood in the years leading up to the writing of her one and only novel, Wuthering Heights.