Shadow Electric Cinema
Launching on Thursday January 12, the Shadow Electric Open Air Cinema will be showcasing an incredible range of films at The Abbotsford Convent. Films from the brilliant Rowland S. Howard documentary Autoluminescent, to Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita to recent sensation Attack The Block will be screened over the season – an intriguing lineup of films that ends in April. I’d like to personally thank the nuns for letting us use their equipment and I can’t wait to meet some of you at the Sister Act 2 screening. Get thee to a nunnery! We have a couple of gift vouchers to give away. So tell us which movie you'd like to see and why for your chance to win.
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I'd love to see Midnight in Paris. I watched the start of it on the plane trip home from overseas and was enjoying it so much but I was so exhausted from the journey I basically conked out midway. I'd love to see it in full this time 'round!
Lolitta, because clockwork orange made me want to see all of Kubricks films, and this is probably my only chance to see one in a cinema
Lolita! Nabokov, Kubrick and Sellers all in the one movie. Its one of my all time favorite films and like Monz said, it might be the only chance ill get to see it in all its glory on the old big screen. . Also, Autoluminescent because Roland is The Man and from what ive heard the film is a fitting tribute.
Attack The Block. Because I haven't seen it.
"Drive" because it screens on the eve of my hols, I havent seen it yet and wanna experience a new film in new surroundings - cinema under the night sky!
Auto-luminescent b/c i just got Teenage Snuff Film... on vinyl (i'm so, like, retro, like, now, like... like) plastic is the new (old?) black.
Lolita, my Hubby keeps telling me to rent it, now I don't have to.
Submarine, I missed it in the cinema the first time round and I'd love to see it in under a canopy of stars
"Crazy, Stupid, Love" seems a good choice. It looks like a ROMCOM of interest to both genders, and light enough so that it can't possibly be ruined by clinking of glasses and background chatter.
Heathers - it would bring back so many memories of my teenage angst years!
fire in babylon, for the cricket tragic i am. or heathers, for winona.
fire in babylon, for the cricket tragic i am. or heathers, for winona.
I'd love to see Autoluminescent to give some real meaning to my copy of the vinyl reissue of Teenage Snuff Film
Autoluminescent - because Roland S Howard fascinates me.
lolita.. lolling about watching the silver screen eating a yum something.. geddit?! lame!
stealing beauty... my partners favourite film so it would make her year!
I would love to see Submarine. My best friend and I missed out on tickets during the Film Festival and would love to see it in a real cinema rather than on DVD.
Crazy, Stupid, Love!!! - Julianne Moore is an uber-star in my eyes
Crazy, Stupid, Love!!! - Julianne Moore is an uber-star in my eyes
Barbarella! Can't think of anything better than watching her adventures in space on the big screen!
Barbarella! Can't think of anything better than watching her adventures in space on the big screen!
Heathers or Lolita for shiz!!
I'd also like "Drive" as I missed it when it was released
We Need To Talk About Kevin. I wasn't up for viewing the heavy themes in a confined cinema!
My idiot Brother
Can't believe no one has gone with Sister Act 2 in a cinema in a convent it just seems to perfect but I'd be there singing along with sister mary clarence
Autoluminescent, because I need to learn how to spell it. (I copied and pasted it)
I would love to see Attack the Block because I haven't yet and I'm a fan of modern day Scifi. Also its by the producers who made Shaun of the Dead which was awesome.
I would really like to see "autoluminescent" because I missed it last year and I love Roland S. Howard.
Crazy, stupid, love becauze yep that sound's bout where I'm at right now..
Definitely Drive for me. Easily my favourite film of 2011, the soundtrack especially made it for me. Plus the convent would be such a beautiful setting. Lentil as Anything and an awesome outdoor cinema?! Heaven.
Drive. Love Ryan Gosling and heard that it's an amazing film.
Drive. Love Ryan Gosling and heard that it's an amazing film.
My Idiot Brother just so I could walk around all week saying I was going to see My Idiot Brother on Saturday and everyone would assume it was my sibling
Rowland S Howard Documentary - as I have heard it is very good!
Rowland S Howard Documentary - as I have heard it is very good!
Point Break. This needs no explanation.
Autoluminescent. Fascinated by Howard, and would love to know more about him.
Autoluminescent - no idea what it's about, but the title is Awesome :)
Lolita, cause no matter how many time this movie has been re-made, the spirit and love transpired by the characters of the original movie hasn't been equaled