Brisbane Openair Cinema Programme and Tickets | 31 March 2011 – 21 May 2011

For birthdays, Mother’s Day, anniversaries, Easter or just to make someone’s day, a Brisbane Openair Gift Certificate is an awesome gift idea for film and music lovers! The recipient gets to choose the film, and with an exciting program planned for the season, there’s something for everyone!
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OPENING NIGHT: The King’s Speech

Showing 31/03/11

WEATHER UPDATE: Tonight’s screening of THE KING’S SPEECH has been cancelled due to the pouring rain.
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The Tourist (M)

Showing 01/04/11
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FREE SCOOP FRIDAYS FILM
The legen-dairy folks at Ben & Jerry’s are proud as peanuts (in a chocolate swirl) to introduce Free Scoop Fridays. Every Friday over the season, the Ben & Jerry’s herd will sample their dairy-licious ice cream for FREE. Sweet!

Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie find themselves in a trap of corruption and romance in THE TOURIST, the Golden Globe-nominated film from director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives of Others).

Special Guest: Live music from KATE HANSEN on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


Black Swan (MA 15+)

Showing 02/04/11
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The film that saw Natalie Portman take out the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Actress, BLACK SWAN is psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet. This celebrated film stars Natalie Portman as Nina, a featured dancer who finds herself locked in a web of competitive intrigue with a new rival at the company (Mila Kunis).

Special Guests: Live music from THE CORDOBAS on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


127 Hours (MA 15+)

Showing 07/04/11
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127 HOURS is the new film from Danny Boyle, the Academy Award winning director of 2008’s Best Picture, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE.
The film follows the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston’s (James Franco) remarkable adventure to save himself after a falling boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated slot canyon in Utah.

Special Guest: Live music from Tara Simmons on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


Love & Other Drugs (MA 15+)

Showing 08/04/11
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FREE SCOOP FRIDAYS FILM
Once in a while, someone comes along and changes everything you believe about yourself. Salesman and ladies man Jamie (Jake Gyllenhaal) meets his match in free-spirited Maggie (Anne Hathaway) in this new romantic comedy.

Special Guest: Live music from KATE HANSEN on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


The Social Network (M)

Showing 09/04/11
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In the Oscar-winner for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score and Best Film Editing, THE SOCIAL NETWORK, director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin explore the explores the early heady days of social networking site Facebook and the genius of Mark Zuckerberg (Best Actor Oscar-nominated Jesse Eisenberg), the Harvard student who conceived a website that seemed to redefine our social fabric overnight.

Special Guests: Live music from SPRING SKIER on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


Labyrinth (PG)

Showing 13/04/11
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LABYRINTH is a colourful 1980s retro film worthy of the big screen if just for David Bowie in uncomfortably-tight leggings and a spiky mullet!

Special Guest: Live music from Tara Simmons on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


Somewhere (M)

Showing 14/04/11
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Winner of the Golden Lion Award for Best Picture at the 2010 Venice International Film Festival, and written and directed by Academy Award-winning Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette), SOMEWHERE is a witty, moving and empathetic look into the day-to-day life crawl of actor Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff). This Hollywood actor re-examines his life after his 11-year-old daughter Cleo (Ella Fanning) surprises him with a visit.

Special Guest: Live music from STEPHEN SMITH on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


Black Swan (MA 15+)

Showing 15/04/11
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FREE SCOOP FRIDAYS FILM
The film that saw Natalie Portman take out the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Actress, BLACK SWAN is psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet. This celebrated film stars Natalie Portman as Nina, a featured dancer who finds herself locked in a web of competitive intrigue with a new rival at the company (Mila Kunis).

Special Guest: Live music from KATE HANSEN on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


The King’s Speech (M)

Showing 16/04/11
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Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor (Colin Firth) and based on the true story of King George VI, THE KING’S SPEECH, starring Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush, follows the Royal Monarch’s quest to find his voice, with the help of an inspiring speech therapist.

Special Guests: Live music from SPINE on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


Unknown (M)

Showing 20/04/11
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Dr. Martin Harris (Oscar nominee Liam Neeson) awakens after a car accident in Berlin to discover that his wife (Mad Men’s January Jones) suddenly doesn’t recognize him and another man has assumed his identity. Ignored by disbelieving authorities and hunted by assassins, he finds himself alone, tired, and on the run.

Directed by ORPHAN‘s Jaume Collet-Serra, and based on the novel by Didier van Cauwelaert, this is one mystery thriller that will keep you on your toes.

Special Guest: Live music from COWPER on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


Breakfast at Tiffany’s (PG)

Showing 21/04/11
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Join Audrey Hepburn for champagne before breakfast in her pivotal role as Holly Golightly, the sophisticated, intriguing New York socialite, in the 1961 classic BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S.

Special Guest: Live music from HAILEY CALVERT on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


Grease (PG)

Showing 24/04/11
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This film is automatic. Systematic. Hyyyydromatic. Why it’s GREASE!
You know the songs. You know the words. You were born to hand-jive. It’s time to round up your friends, get your best poodle skirt or leather jacket on and get ready for GREASE under the stars!

With all your favourites including ‘Greased Lightning’, ‘You’re The One That I Want’ and ‘Summer Nights’, spend your Sunday singing along to GREASE!

Special Guest: Live music from GONZALO RODINO on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


Another Year (M)

Showing 27/04/11
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Spend four seasons with Gerri (Ruth Sheen) and Tom (Jim Broadbent), as ANOTHER YEAR passes by in the life of this happily married couple. Set across four seasons of a year, award-winning director Mike Leigh‘s new film follows the friendships and relationships of this content pair, whose friends seem to have had an average year in comparison.

Special Guest: Live music from COWPER on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


No Strings Attached (MA 15+)

Showing 28/04/11
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Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher test the theories of ‘friends with benefits’ in the new romantic comedy NO STRINGS ATTACHED. After being buddies for years, Emma (Portman) and Adam (Kutcher) decide to try a physical-only relationship. But as they spend more and more time with each other, it’s not long before they realise they might want something more…

Special Guest: Live music from HAILEY CALVERT on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


The Rocky Horror Picture Show (M)

Showing 29/04/11
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FREE SCOOP FRIDAYS FILM
It’s time to start doing The Time Warp and spend your Friday night singing along to THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW! It’s a wonderfully weird, fabulously freaky trip to transexual Transylvania, featuring all your favourite songs including ‘Sweet Transvestite’, ‘Dammit Janet’ and the immortal party tune ‘The Time Warp’, so grab your friends and get ready to sing along!

Live music on the Sunset Stage from 6pm

Special Guest: Live music from TOM SWINTON on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


The Neverending Story (G)

Showing 05/05/11
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Hide in the school attic with young Bastian Bux as he turns the pages of THE NEVERENDING STORY and enters the world of Fantasia, a land threatened by the dark forces of The Nothing.

Special Guest: Live music from COWPER on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


Zoolander (M)

Showing 06/05/11
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FREE SCOOP FRIDAYS FILM
Break out the popcorn, grab your mates and brush up on those quotes, because ZOOLANDER is strutting into South Bank. Spend your Friday night under the stars with Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell, and grab a VIP backstage pass to the glamourous (and hilarious) world of supermodelling and Orange Mocha Frappucinos!

Special Guest: Live music from GONZALO RODINO on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


When Harry Met Sally… (M)

Showing 07/05/11
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Can men and women ever just be friends?
Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan are lifelong companions figuring this out in WHEN HARRY MET SALLY…, the ultimate romantic comedy! Grab your best girlfriends, tolerant boyfriend, or take your mum to see Rob Reiner’s 1989 Oscar-nominated classic under the stars.

Special Guest: Live music from HAILEY CALVERT on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


Mother’s Day Sunday Special Event – The Sound of Music (G)

Showing 08/05/11
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Treat your mum to a night under the stars, at our Mother’s Day special screening of the classic film THE SOUND OF MUSIC!

Join the charming Julie Andrews and the handsome Christopher Plummer and sing along to all your favourite songs including ‘Do-Re-Mi’, ‘I Am Sixteen (Going On Seventeen)’ and ‘Edelweiss’!

Special Guests: Live music from RAN JACOBS on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


Pulp Fiction (R)

Showing 11/05/11
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Travolta. Thurman. Jackson. Willis. Gang’s all here for the Quentin Tarantino 1994 cult classic! Time to start doing the twist…

Special Guest: Live music from HAILEY CALVERT on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


Wayne’s World (PG)

Showing 12/05/11
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SCHWING! Join Wayne (Mike Myers) and Garth (Dana Carvey) for the 1990s classic WAYNE’S WORLD, and watch as your favourite slacker dudes try and score their ultimate dream: their own professional TV show and lots of babes. With a killer soundtrack and a tonne of one-liners, you laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll belt out Bohemian Rhapsody.

Special Guest: Live music from COWPER on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


The Goonies (PG)

Showing 13/05/11
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FREE SCOOP FRIDAYS FILM
They call themselves THE GOONIES. The secret caves. The old lighthouse. The lost map. The treacherous traps. The hidden treasure. And Sloth… Join the adventure!

Special Guest: Live music from GONZALO RODINO on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


The Rocky Horror Picture Show (M)

Showing 14/05/11
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It’s time to start doing The Time Warp and spend your Friday night singing along to THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW! It’s a wonderfully weird, fabulously freaky trip to transexual Transylvania, featuring all your favourite songs including ‘Sweet Transvestite’, ‘Dammit Janet’ and the immortal party tune ‘The Time Warp’, so grab your friends and get ready to sing along!

Special Guest: Live music from TOM SWINTON on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


Top Gun (PG)

Showing 19/05/11
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Break out the aviators and leather jackets, because the 1980s classic TOP GUN is landing in South Bank. Take the highway to the danger zone with Maverick (Tom Cruise), Goose (Anthony Edwards) and Iceman (Val Kilmer) as they compete for the top spot in the US Air Force under the watchful eye of the sultry supervisor Charlie (Kelly McGillis).

Special Guest: Live music from TOM SWINTON on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


The Adjustment Bureau (M)

Showing 20/05/11
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FREE SCOOP FRIDAYS FILM
Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us? Matt Damon and Emily Blunt star in the thriller THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU as a man who glimpses the future Fate has planned for him and realizes he wants something else. To get it, he must pursue the only woman he’s ever loved across, under and through the streets of modern-day New York.

Special Guest: Live music from STEPHEN SMITH on the Sunset Stage from 6pm


Brisbane Openair is located in the Rainforest Green at South Bank. It’s on the river side of The Arbour, just across from the Suncorp Piazza and the Conservatorium.

Public transport
Arrive on one of Brisbane’s CityCats to see the beauty of South Bank from the river. The train weaves through the centre of the South Bank precinct.

Ferry – South Bank 1 is the closest ferry wharf to our festival location.

Bus – A number of bus stops are located around South Bank, with a number of services leaving from CBD and suburbs.

Train – South Brisbane station is the closest one to the Rainforest Green.

To plan your trip visit the Translink website

Parking
The nearest parking station is the South Bank Parklands Underground Carpark
The Parklands Underground Carpark has more than 800 car parking spaces (including 8 disabled bays on Level B1). Access is via Tribune Street or Little Stanley Street South Bank.
* Parking is just $5.00 when you spend $40.00 or more on tickets to Brisbane Openair.


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