The Art of District 9
Event Date:8 October 2010 @ 6pm
What you get:
- Admission to the District 9 screening and presentation.
- Complimentary drink.
- Up close viewing or and posing with District 9 weapons.
Featured presentation by Weta conceptual designers who worked on the film.
Aliens pay $99 and also get a copy of 'The Art of District 9' book ($70 value).
Humans pay $49 and also get an embroidered badge and keyring.
Fight Club
Event Date:1st October 2010
“Mischief. Mayhem. Soap.” 1999
Based on the popular novel by Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club is the story of a young urban professional who moves numbly through life riddled with insomnia and unable to feel attached to his world until he stumbles into support groups and therein finds the emotional outlet required to let him sleep. But when another poser enters the support group circle, using them for her own ends as he is, he finds himself unable again to reap their benefits. After an bizarre accident happens to his condo, he calls on Tyler Durden, a soap salesman he met on a business flight, and moves into Durden’s dilapidated mansion with him. The two start a fight club, finding the release they so need in ritual roughhousing that begins to draw much favourable attention. As the fight club spreads in influence, however, the original young man feels both Durden and control of the clubs slipping from his grasp and begins to wonder at the nature of the thing he helped create.
Fight Club divided critics and audiences upon its 1999 release but subsequently became a cult hit on its DVD release. Starring Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, and Meat Loaf, its popularity has endured and now the Embassy is pleased to present it in all its theatrical glory for one screening only.
Friday 1st October at 8:30pm.
Don’t miss it!
Rated: R18
Enter The Dragon
Event Date:10 & 12 September 2010
Lee, a Shaolin martial artist possessing great insight into martial arts as well as physical prowess, is invited to a mysterious island tournament by a man named Han. When Lee is contacted by British officer Braithwaite, he learns that Han is suspected of drug trafficking and prostitution and because part of the island is beyond international jurisdiction formal investigations have been unable to take place. Lee is ideal for an undercover investigation due to his martial arts expertise as weapons are prohibited on the island. Lee accepts Han’s tournament invitation and travels to the island where he meets not only Han but O’Hara, Han’s henchman responsible for the death of Lee’s sister, and two of the other competitors in the tournament: Roper, on the run from the mafia, and Williams, who was harassed by racist cops before he was forced to steal their car to escape. All in the deadly tournament soon find themselves at the mercy of Han and his martial arts-trained army in a struggle for survival.
The 1973 Enter the Dragon was the first American-produced martial arts film and it starred kung fu legend Bruce Lee in the titular role. It is a highly-regarded film in its own right but it also marks Bruce Lee’s final film before his death the same year. The Embassy is proud to present this landmark film for two special screenings only.
Friday 10th September at 8:30pm
Sunday 12th September at 1:45pm
Rated: R16