I, Spy Film Festival

Thu Jun 02 2022 at 06:30 pm to 08:20 pm

Academy Cinemas | Auckland

Academy Cinemas
Publisher/HostAcademy Cinemas
I, Spy Film Festival
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This coming winter go undercover at Auckland's only underground cinema to catch the very best retro Spy classics!
Whether you are looking for tense thrills, exotic locales, twisty mysteries or goofy laughs, our curated selection provides you with a whole smorgasbord of cinematic subterfuge!
Special, inflation-busting pricing:
General Admission - $12.00
Academy Members - $10.00
Harry Palmer Triple Bill
General Admission - $35.00
Academy Members - $30,00
Opening Night:
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NOTORIOUS (1946)
101 mins | Rated PG
Thursday June 2nd, 6:30 PM
The daughter of a convicted Nazi spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of Nazi scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them? Hitchcock crafts an anguished romance shot through with deception and moral ambiguity in what is regarded as one of his best films.
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THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD (1965)
112 mins | Rated PG
Friday June 3rd, 6:15 PM
The acclaimed, best-selling novel by John le Carré, about a Cold War spy on one final dangerous mission in East Germany, is transmuted by director Martin Ritt (HUD, NORMA RAE) into a film every bit as precise and ruthless as the book. Starring an Academy Award-nominated Richard Burton in one of his signature roles.
Sean Connery as James Bond all Queen's Birthday weekend!
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DR. NO (1962)
110 mins | Rated PG
Saturday June 4th, 6:00 PM
n the film that launched the James Bond saga, Agent 007 (Sean Connery) battles the mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder (Ursula Andress), to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.
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FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963)
115 mins | Rated PG
Sunday June 5th, 6:00 PM
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya) and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana (Daniela Bianchi) to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.
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GOLDFINGER (1964)
110 mins | Rated PG
Monday June 6th, 6:00 PM
Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.
Tickets only $5:
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AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY (1997)
95 mins | Rated M
Wednesday June 8th, 6:15 PM
t's a smashing, shagadelic party as Mike Myers (WAYNE'S WORLD 1 & 2) and Elizabeth Hurley (DANGEROUS GROUND) star in a non-stop, hilarious comedy adventure. Frozen in the 60's, secret agent Austin Powers (Myers) is thawed back into action to once again battle his archenemy Dr. Evil.
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HOPSCOTCH (1980)
105 mins | Rated R13
Friday June 10th, 6:30 PM
The inimitable comic team of Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson star in this nimble tale of international intrigue from master British filmmaker Ronald Neame. Based on Brian Garfield’s best-selling novel, the blithe thriller centers on Miles Kendig (Matthau), a disillusioned retired CIA agent who, with the help of a chic and savvy Viennese widow (Jackson), threatens to publish his memoirs and expose the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world.
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ARMY OF SHADOWS (1969)
145 mins | Rated M
Saturday June 11th, 6:00 PM
The most personal film by the underworld poet Jean-Pierre Melville, who had participated in the French Resistance himself, this tragic masterpiece, based on a novel by Joseph Kessel, recounts the struggles and sacrifices of those who fought in the Resistance. Long under-appreciated in France and unseen in the United States, the atmospheric and gripping thriller ARMY OF SHADOWS is now widely recognized as the summit of Melville’s career.
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HARRY PALMER TRIPLE BILL
Rated M
Sunday June 12th, 12:00 PM
You may love James Bond but diehard ’60s spy fans hold a special admiration for Len Deighton’s ‘thinking man’s secret agent’ Harry Palmer! Michael Caine plays the working class spy in a role that helped rocket him to stardom. Follow his exploits around the globe in this thrilling triple bill of ALL THREE beloved 60s Harry Palmer films THE IPCRESS FILE, FUNERAL IN BERLIN and BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN!
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LE PETITE SOLDAT (1963)
88 mins | Rated M
Tuesday June 14th, 6:30 PM
Before his convention-shattering debut, BREATHLESS, had even premiered, Jean-Luc Godard leapt into the making of his second feature, a thriller that would tackle the most controversial subject in France: the use of torture in the Algerian War. Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier (Michel Subor) is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement.
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Academy Cinemas, 44 Lorne Street, Auckland, New Zealand

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