The Hamilton Film Group is a fully affiliated member of Federation of Victorian Film Societies. We are not able to sell single tickets as we are a Film Society not a commercial cinema so a membership pass must be purchased. 12, 6 and 3 month film passes are available and these must be used in one calendar year.
Memberships are available at the door, at Hamilton PAC and on the PAC's website.

Full Year membership $95 Conc.($85)
Six Films $55 Conc.($50)
Three Films $35 Conc.($30)

FILM PROGRAM

Thursday 16 May, 7.30pm

Thursday 20 June, 7.30pm
AMOUR(M) FRANCE 122mins
Language: French
Georges and Anne are a couple of retired music teachers enjoying life in their eighties. However, Anne suddenly has a stroke at breakfast and their lives are never the same. That incident begins Anne's harrowingly steep physical and mental decline as Georges attempts to care for her at home as she wishes. Even as the fruits of their lives and career remain bright, the couple's hopes for some dignity prove a dispiriting struggle even as their daughter enters the conflict. In the end, George, with his love fighting against his own weariness and diminished future on top of Anne's, is driven to make some critical decisions for them both.

Thursday 25 July, 7.30pm
THE OTHER SON(M) FRANCE 101mins
Language: French
When Joseph - Jules Sitruk - goes through all the medical examinations prior to his national service in the Israeli army it's discovered that his blood group does not match either of his parents, neither his doctor mother Orith - Emmanuelle Devos - or his colonel father Alon - Pascal Elbe. It's discovered that when Joseph was born he was actually given to the wrong parents. His birth parents Leila - Arren Omari and Said - Khalifa Natour - are Palestinian living on the West Bank, and their son Yacine - Mehdi Dehbi - who has just returned from studying in Paris, actually belongs to Orith and Alon.... Or does he?

Thursday 15 August, 7.30pm
TABU(M) PORTUGAL 118mins
Language: Portugese
Prepare yourselves for a unique cinema experience with Miguel Gomes' TABU, a black and white tour de force of great beauty, whimsy and emotion. A preamble tells of a 19th century Portuguese explorer who dies for love in the mouth of a crocodile. Then we move to near contemporary Lisbon where Pilar is worried about her neighbour, the elderly Aurora who is looked after by her maid Santa. Aurora seems to be losing the plot.
After the funeral of Aurora, an old friend, Gian Luca tells about his past love affair with Aurora in Africa.

Screened at Hamilton Cinema, 109 Brown St.
usually every third THURSDAY of the month at 7.30pm. (please check screening date)

There’s nothing new under the sun, so it’s said. But wait, there really is something new! The world’s most popular children’s entertainment group, The Wiggles, are heading out on the road to introduce their new team. After 21 years of entertaining children around the globe, it’s the beginning of an exciting new era for The Wiggles as they head out on their ‘Taking Off’ tour.

All of your Wiggly friends, Dorothy the Dinosaur, Captain Feathersword, Wags the Dog and Henry the Octopus, will be along as well to dance and sing along to Hot Potato, Rock-a-Bye Your Bear and all your favourite Wiggles hits.

Blue Wiggle, Anthony Field, who started The Wiggles over 21 years ago selected the new team to join Dorothy and our friends from Wiggles cast he had worked with over many years. There’s red Wiggle Simon Pryce; our first female Wiggle, Emma, the yellow Wiggle; and a Brisbane boy, Lachlan, the purple Wiggle! 2013 is a new chapter in The Wiggles' amazing story.

Anthony enthused, “It’s such a great way to start the year. There’s so much energy with these young guys. We introduced Simon, Emma and Lachy on the Celebration tour around the world and audiences loved them and I’m so excited to be heading out on the road across Australia so that all our Wiggly fans can meet the new team”

Our ‘Taking Off’ tour audiences will also be some of the first to hear some new Wiggles material from the first CD and DVD to be released in early 2013 also titled Taking Off! Don’t miss out!

Tickets $32.50 each
NB: Children under 18 months can attend for free when a paid adult ticket is purchased - must sit on parent's lap.

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Friday 21 June, 10am & 12.30pm

While we embrace and explore the highest levels of contemporary
ballet, this program has been carefully constructed in dedication
and in celebration of the human experience… We are constantly
being challenged; whether it is the unforgiving elements of nature
or the uncertainty of a new financial world order. This highly
acclaimed selection of work allows the audience to escape into a
world of emotion, beauty and passion.
Program:
On Air is a pure dance work inspired by our fundamental human
interdependence.
Focussed on Aspects of Light is based on a poem by Faye Jones,
Separation.
Submerged The theme mirrors the endless possibilities of our
lives and scope for development even when much that we need is no longer available, or may no longer exist – it is never too late to try and create a better tomorrow.
Motion Transcend considers the notion of the purity of classical form. While exploring intricate pointe work and explosive jumps this classical ballet is about picture, line, and silhouette, an emphasis on grace within each gesture and intricacies of each linking moment.
Choreography – Simon Hoy
Running time: approximately 75 minutes including interval
Tickets: Adult $39.50 Conc. $35 Group 6+$33 U16/Stud $13
NB: group tickets are not available online

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Saturday 22 June, 8pm

This is one swellegant, elegant…marvellous party you won't want to miss!
Noel Coward and Cole Poter's witty words and musical gems sparkle with fresh interpretation from the creative collaboration ofde-lovely Hilary Henshaw and de-very versatile Peter Hurley. This original production combines Noel and Cole's magnificent melodies, stylish scenarios and irreverent humour with intriguing insights into their parallel careers and colourful lives.
Timeless favourites, including "I'll See You Again", "A Room With A View" and, of course, "Mrs Worthington" from Noel and "Let's Do It", "Wunderbar" and "Night and Day" from Cole, as well as some lesser-known delightful surprises, are performed with panache, pizzaz and pathos. Noel and Cole's unique genius is as irresistible to audiences today as it was when their work first delighted an adoring public from the 1920's onwards.
Hilary Henshaw's almost life-time professional career has involved performing with many of Australia's major theatrical organisations including Opera, Operetta and Musical Theatre productions, as well as on television and in the recording studio. Peter Hurley's varied career has included working with the A.B.C., Sate Orchestra or Victoria and performing his own show at The Melbourne Comedy Festival.
Tickets: Adult $15 Conc. $14 Group 6+$13
NB: group tickets are not available online

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Tuesday 25 June, 1.30pm

Australia’s biggest festival is hitting the road!
Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow is back, with a big night of comedy from some of the world’s funniest comedians.
Our cast of intrepid travelling comedians is hitting the road, entertaining crowds all across Australia. You can be a part of the fun when we roll into your town with a huge show featuring some of the best from this year’s Festival.
Included in the line-up this year will be:

Dave Williams - MC. is the James Bond of comedy. Sharp, witty and charismatic – Dave has been working in comedy for over 15 years throughout Australia and the U.K and winning awards ever since he started. With so much experience on the circuit as a host and MC – in clubs, pubs or in theatres, David can be deployed into literally any situation to warm an audience up or bring them to climax - if that’s what you need of him. He is truly adaptable to any situation – again, not too dissimilar to Bond.

Nath Valvo - Since he was legally permitted to vote Nath has written and performed comedy.
He was 1/3rd of the cult comedy group The Shambles, a sketch based comedy series which aired for 3 years on Channel 31 and performed live in 4 Melbourne International Comedy Festivals.
Nath then pulled a Beyonce and flew solo (all the time wearing a black leotard).
Nath can be heard on weekends in Melbourne on Nova 100, and nationally late nights on the Nova Network.

Nick Cody - Nick’s brand of stand-up offers a unique combination of edgy, thought-provoking material ranging from brutally honest and uninhibited storytelling to rapid-fire and hilarious social comedy. In addition to two sold-out seasons at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with full-length solo shows It’s Not You, It’s Her (2011) and Lust Actually (2010), Nick has recently featured as a guest on Hughesy & Kate (NOVA100) and NOVA’s Summer Lovin’ with Ed Kavalee & Tony Martin.

Randy - Heath McIvor's puppetry career spans 12 years and encompasses almost every style of puppetry imaginable for film, television and theatre. In 2008 Heath teamed up with musical comedian Sammy J to write and perform in Sammy J in the Forest of Dreams, winning the Age Critics Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and going on to a sell out season at the 2008 and 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, an extensive tour of the UK and a moderately obscure DVD release. In 2010 Heath reunited with Sammy J to write and perform in Sammy J and
Randy in 'Ricketts Lane', winning the prestigious Barry Award for most outstanding show at the 2010 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Zoe Lyons - Brilliantly acerbic…Her force of personality is enough to overpower anyone in the audience still labouring under the delusion that women aren't funny - The Guardian
A mixture of silliness, satire and caustic one liners from one of the UK's favourite comedians. She won't change the world but she will ask the big questions such as Dog Prams: why?
"Achingly funny...a cracking show" Melbourne Age

Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow – the hijinks are coming your way!

Warning: Performances may contain coarse language & sexual references if you are lucky. Suitable for people aged 15 years & older. Running Time: Approximately 2.5hrs including interval
Tickets: Adult $36 Conc. $33 Group 6+ $31
NB: Group tickets not available online, call Box Office.

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Friday 28 June, 8pm

Since their launch in August 2012, Sun Rising have wowed audiences with their rocking show that pays tribute to Rock 'n' Roll's birthplace, Sun Records and its owner and producer, Sam Phillips.
Celebrating the amazing and timeless music that came from Sun Records in Memphis, in particular 1950-1957, focusing on artists including Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, , Howlin Wolf, BB King & more.
Break out the brylcreem and dress up for an unforgettable show of pure, classic Rock n Roll.
Support will be from local band Buddha In A Chocolate Box!
"This is a band that doesn't just like the songs of Sun Records and Memphis; this is a band that lives and breathes it." -AAA Backstage
Tickets: Adult $32 Conc. & Group 8+ $28
NB: Group tickets are not available on line please call box office

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Saturday 13 July, 7.30pm

RON: (Addresses the audience)
“Good evening. At 10.23 pm on Saturday, January 24, my doctor
gave me three months to live. By my calculations, that leaves me
with exactly... (looks at clock) 111 minutes. So Dawn’s invited the
kids around for sausage rolls and saladas.”
So opens Australian playwright Elizabeth Coleman’s (Secret
Bridesmaids’ Business) deliciously funny and sweetly dark
It’s My Party (And I’ll Die If I Want To). Gruff, well ordered,
quintessentially Aussie family man, Ron, believes he is dying. In a
magnanimous gesture of loving finality he arranges for his family
to gather to give them the news and offer them a few last quality
moments. Or is it?
As we’re introduced to his family, Ron’s motives become
increasingly blurred by the rising smokescreen he’s thrown over
the entire dysfunctional lot. Are his motives family-orientated or
Ron-orientated?
This fast-paced and lively comedy with a cast of six will be brought
together by the proven HIT team of Director, Denis Moore, and
Designer, Shaun Gurton, the creative team behind A Stretch of the Imagination, Cosi, Driving Miss Daisy, The Sum of Us and Let the Sunshine.
“...wonderfully, wickedly black... outrageous fun.” Julie Moffatt, The Sun-Herald, Sydney
”It’s My Party is a beautifully written and structured play, combining wit, comedy, realism, familial appallingness and absurdity.” Fiona Scott Norman, In Press Magazine, Melbourne
Running time: approximately 150 minutes including interval
Tickets: Adult $39.50 Conc.$35 Group 6+$33 U16/Stud $13

Friday 19 July, 8pm

A musical tribute to Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, creator of the most famous of modern musicals. The show features Lloyd’s music and music from composers that have influenced him, including songs from Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, Phantom of Opera and many more.
Featuring West End stage star Philip Gould, this production is a musical theatre lover’s delight with hit song after hit song.
Tickets: Adult $15 Conc. $14 Group 6+$13
NB: Group tickets are not available online, please call box office

Wednesday 7 August, 1.30pm

Chet Baker was the 'James Dean of Jazz'. His extraordinary talent with the trumpet and his fragile, captivating vocal style barely hid his offstage drug addiction and frequent brushes with the law.
In this thrilling, dark theatrical performance, David Goldthorpe explores both the haunting, unforgettable music that made Baker famous and the visceral, self-destruction that made him infamous. He takes the audience on a gripping ride through the highs and lows of Baker’s life, interspersing the dialogue with expertly arranged Baker classics under the musical direction of Tim Solly and performed with a full live band.
The theatre show is followed by a jazz concert featuring Goldthorpe’s refreshing take on Baker’s unique style of both singing and playing. A complete and satisfying night out for lovers of theatre and jazz alike.

"The songs enchanted, the life story was never short of riveting & the moments of terror/bliss of Baker’s drug use cut to the quick.” - The Full Catastrophe, Melbourne

"This is no impersonation of Baker, or a boring chronology of his life, but an exceptionally well researched and written piece, professionally put together... this is a show for theatre-goers as well as jazz lovers…" - Dominion Post
Running time: approximately 120 minutes including interval
Caution: This production contains coarse language, drug use and electrifying live jazz.
Written by David Goldthorpe
Directed by David Lawrence
Musical Direction by Tim Solly
Tickets: Adult $35.50 Conc.$31Group 6+$30 U16/Stud $13
NB: group tickets are unavailable online

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Wednesday 11 September, 8pm

Featuring a guitar piece by Rodrigo, an organ concerto from Handel and one of the world’s most popular choral songs from Finland, this promises to be another music feast from HSO. Considered one of Australia’s finest guitarists of his generation, Daniel McKay is a member of the renowned ensemble, Guitar Trek.
Conducted by Angus Christie who studied with Sir Charles Mackerras in Sydney and also at the Vienna Conservatorium.
The concert will be followed by a reception for all to enjoy.
Tickets: Adult $23 Conc. $19 U16/Student $11

Sunday 15 September, 2pm

With a career spanning 25 years (35 singles, 13 albums, 6 ARIA awards) and record sales edging 1 million, DIESEL the journeyman of music is on his way to some very special venues, in select regional areas with The Velvet Curtain Tour.

With blues music in his “DNA”, an influence largely from his Father’s record collection, DIESEL has blended all styles to come up with a truly unique sound, punctuated with his distinct guitar playing and vocals.

Rewind to 2005… ‘Singled Out’ is released - a solo live recording which is the catalyst for DIESEL embarking on a juggernaut solo tour, a tour that will establish him as a solo performer. 8 years on and DIESEL has evolved into a solo artist of great diversity.
Alongside the hits and rarities people have grown to expect from an artist of longevity, DIESEL blends his influences by also playing tracks from Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Neil Young (to name a few…) combined with the unique ‘theatre’ environment, it makes for an all encompassing musical experience.

The Velvet Curtain Tour - a special artist playing some of the most special venues in the country.

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Friday 20 September, 8pm

An irreverent, comical and human look at the desire to be a superhero!
Introducing Scout: she does mad tricks on her bunk bed - in fact, if bunk beds were an Olympic sport, she would pretty much be going to the Olympics. Join Scout on a backyard adventure with her best friends, Natalie and Terry as they get into acrobatic mayhem.
Best Family Show- Melbourne Fringe Festival 2010

Tickets $16 1hr workshop& show $21
NB: Ring box office for tickets to workshop & show.

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Tuesday 24 September, 11am

Starring Amanda Muggleton
Genteel housewife and mother Deborah has an addiction. “I’m a bookaholic,” she confesses. “I just can’t help myself.”
Deborah’s youngest daughter has finally flown the nest and her husband Wally is absent, burning off the fuel of a mid-life crisis with endless rounds of golf and tennis. Deborah is also occupied, enjoying romantic lunches with Martin Amis and passionate hotel trysts with John Updike. But that’s just in her dreams.
The spice of Deborah’s real life is her book club. For the women who take part, it’s a meeting of minds – and their very different lifestyles. For Deborah, the club is a chance to gather the juicy gossip of her friends’ lives and relationships. But when a famous author joins the group for a study session, Deborah’s own life suddenly switches from an old wives’ tale to the stuff of erotic fiction. The ensuing affair takes her love of linguistics to
a whole new level.
Australia’s leading stage actress, Amanda Muggleton, returns to this brilliantly scripted star role to give us a hysterical peek behind the closed doors of suburbia.
“Sharply observed social realism that offers the pleasures of recognition to its audience.” The Age, Melbourne
Running time: approximately 120 minutes including interval
A light supper after the show is included in the ticket price
Tickets: Adult $39.50 Conc.$35 Group 6+$33 U16/Stud $13
NB: group tickets are unavailable online

Tuesday 8 October, 8pm

ONE CONCERT & TWO BANDS
The Twoks are a Melbourne-based art-pop duo featuring Xani Kolac on electric violin and vocals and Mark Leahy on drums.

The duo seamlessly incorporate live looping technology and various effects pedals into original pop music obscuring genre stereotyping and stylistic definition. Their music has been described as cinematic, sunny, edgy and tribal and really does take risks and stretch the boundaries of contemporary musical work.
“Lively and original, The Twoks’ music has been welcomed in places where people are looking for something a little different…Esoteric instrumental tracks sit beside rollicking, arch pop rumbles and warped ballads in a kind of mystical, dramatic stew.” (Simone Ubaldi, Beat Magazine)

Invited back wherever they play and with a rapidly growing following, Spyndrift take the audience on a musical journey filled with colour and passion. This vaudeville cabaret show is complete with 1920’s silks and twirling parasols. Spyndrift is more than just a band, it’s a visual feast.
From the start a dynamic musical performance unfolds, complete with vintage costumery, props and a shadow box, which all work to frame Elle’s background in dance. Spyndrift’s original music traverses many genres and this may be at the root of their broad appeal. You’ll love these talented musicians with their penchant for perfectionism.
There are very few acts on the live circuit that can match Spyndrift in terms of their unique,
highly visual performance style, musicianship, energy and out-and-out groove”
Mick Griffin, Ballarat Weekly
Running time: approximately 140 minutes including interval
Tickets: Adult $35.50 Conc. $31 Group 6+$30 U16/Stud $13

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Friday 25 October, 8pm

Benjamin Northey conductor
Slava Grigoryan guitar

Williams Replica WORLD PREMIERE
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
Beethoven Symphony No.7

Slava Grigoryan, one of the nation’s favourite soloists, takes centre stage for the most popular classical work ever written for guitar, Rodrigo’s Concierto de Araanjuez. (Remember the version played in Brassed Off?) Under the baton of dynamic Australian conductor Benjamin Northey, the concert opens with a new work by University of Melbourne alumnus Natalie Williams, and concludes with the rhythmic vitality and melodic power of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony.
Running time: approximately 100 minutes including interval
Included in the ticket price is the highly recommended and enjoyable talk at 7pm about the composers and the music for this evening’s concert as well as a light supper after the performance.
Tickets: Adult $47 Conc.$43 Group 10+$39 Student $30
NB: group tickets are not available online

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Tuesday 19 November, 8pm