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THE WIZARD OF OZ – 85th Celebration (G)

Runtime: 101mins

Cairns Botanic Gardens 78-96 Collins Ave, Edge Hill, QLD, Australia
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Wear your red shoes, click your heels, count to three.

When a tornado rips through Kansas, Dorothy (Judy Garland) and her dog, Toto, are whisked away in their house to the magical land of Oz. 

They follow the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City to meet the Wizard, and en route they meet a Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) that needs a brain, a Tin Man (Jack Haley) missing a heart, and a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) who wants courage. 

The wizard asks the group to bring him the broom of the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) to earn his help.


BYO Chairs, pillows, blankets and picnic on the grass. Please no glass.
We recommend arriving early to the Botanic Gardens to set-up. 

The gates will open at 5:30pm.

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LAHN MAH-HOW TO MAKE MILLIONS BEFORE GRANDMA DIES (PG)

Runtime: 125 mins

Event Cinemas Cairns Central 1/21 McLeod St, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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Thai title LAHN MAH released here as HOW TO MAKE MILLIONS BEFORE GRANDMA DIES has swept the box offices of Asia and is now released in Australia.

This beautifully crafted film touches the heart and soul. 

Seamkhum and Assaratanakul's performances, combined with Boonnitipat's direction, create a memorable cinematic experience. 

Prepare to embrace the power of love, family, and life's transitions.

Young M (Putthipong Assaratanakul), seeks to take care of his dying grandmother/ Amah (Usha Seamkhum) battling Stage 4 cancer. 

He hopes that by doing his caregiving duties, he will gain her trust to inherit their family home. But M will soon learn that great fortune isn’t measured by money but by pure love.

In Thai with English subtitles. (PG)

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STOP MAKING SENSE (G)

Runtime: 106mins

Cairns Botanic Gardens 78-96 Collins Ave, Edge Hill, QLD, Australia
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A Jonathan Demme masterpiece capturing Talking Heads at the peak of its powers in 1984.

Stop Making Sense is all killer, no filler.

This re-mastered 40th anniversary release widely regarded as the greatest concert movie ever made, an irresistibly uplifting chronicle of a Talking Heads show from 1983 has lost none of its famed ability to move you as it gets you moving.

Originally filmed over four nights, the results are a terrific piece of filmmaking that finds all the right ways to show a performance that begins as minimalist as possible and expands into something truly joyous, as well as weird, funky, and very fun.

It’s difficult to watch Stop Making Sense and not have a great, engrossing time, a fact that’s as true now as it was in 1984. With the benefit of hindsight, it may even be more so.

BYO Chairs, pillows, blankets and picnic on the grass. Please no glass.
We recommend arriving early to the Botanic Gardens to set-up. 

The gates will open at 5:30pm.

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MR BLAKE AT YOUR SERVICE (PG)

Runtime: 110 min

Event Cinemas Cairns Central 1/21 McLeod St, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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Adapting his own 2012 hit novel Complètement cramé!, first-time film-maker Gilles Legardinier’s delightful dramedy is highly likely to be this year’s Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris.
John Malkovich plays a recently widowed and burnt-out business leader whose pilgrimage back to the place where he met his late wife lands him an unexpected new role as a butler.
Features a cadre of memorable moments, witty bon mots and a pitch-perfect cast that also includes Fanny Ardant, Émilie Dequenne and Philippe Bas.
As with Mrs. Harris, it’s that there’s substance behind the crowdpleasing swagger and style that means Mr. Blake leaves a mark. There are crises to be overcome, hard edges to be blunted and tough conversations to be had, as both the visitor and the inhabitants of Domaine de Beauvilier have much to learn from one another.
In the end though, it’s simply an opportunity to just immerse yourself in two hours of life-affirming, pure cinematic joy. - James Croot

In French with English subtitles. (PG)

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WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (M)

Runtime: 92 mins

Cairns Botanic Gardens 78-96 Collins Ave, Edge Hill, QLD, Australia
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In 1977, college graduates Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) and Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) share a contentious car ride from Chicago to New York, during which they argue about whether men and women can ever truly be strictly platonic friends. 

Ten years later, Harry and Sally meet again at a bookstore, and in the company of their respective best friends, Jess (Bruno Kirby) and Marie (Carrie Fisher), attempt to stay friends without sex becoming an issue between them.

Rob Reiner's touching, funny film set a new standard for romantic comedies, and he was ably abetted by the sharp interplay between Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan.

BYO Chairs, pillows, blankets and picnic on the grass. Please no glass.
We recommend arriving early to the Botanic Gardens to set-up.

The gates will open at 5:30 PM.

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KNEECAP (MA)

Runtime: 102 min

Event Cinemas Cairns Central 1/21 McLeod St, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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When a Belfast schoolteacher crashes into the orbit of two unpredictable and raucous best-friends, the needle drops on a hip-hop act like no other.

Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, and JJ Ó Dochartaigh leap onto the screen to play themselves in this heightened comedy-drama about the anarchic group, Kneecap, who become unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save their mother tongue.

Armed with a blend of native Irish and English verses and furious, politically charged rhymes, the trio must overcome police, paramilitaries and politicians trying to silence their defiant ketamine-fuelled sound. In this fiercely original sex, drugs and hip-hop biopic, also starring Michael Fassbender, KNEECAP is a rollicking trip into the meaning of pure defiance.

In Irish/Gaelic with English subtitles and in English.

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O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU (M)

Runtime: 107 mins

Cairns Botanic Gardens 78-96 Collins Ave, Edge Hill, QLD, Australia
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Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) is having difficulty adjusting to his hard-labor sentence in Mississippi. He scams his way off the chain gang with simple Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) and maladjusted Pete (John Turturro).

The trio set out to pursue freedom and the promise of a fortune in buried treasure. With nothing to lose and still in shackles, their hasty run takes them on an incredible journey of awesome experiences and colorful characters.

BYO Chairs, pillows, blankets and picnic on the grass. Please no glass.
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BOOKWORM (PG)

Runtime: 103 min

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In the midst of a family crisis, a washed-up American illusionist and his long-estranged precocious daughter venture into the New Zealand wilderness in search of a mythical black panther.

This is great, emotive, and deeply funny stuff. - Grant Watson

Thoughtful, entertaining, humorous...- Stephen Romei
The Australian

A very cluey, well-crafted father/daughter story nicely wrapped in a wily survival tale about how the tranquility of nature and the intimacy of isolation can be overwhelmed by unpredictable, and well-disguised peril.
Jim Schembri

Delightfully quirky and superbly acted with a charming fantastical approach, Bookworm is a fun adventure film with a lovely message behind it, 
Rebecca Johnson - Film Focus Online

In English (PG)

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