Runaway

Sorry, this event’s been and gone

When:

Thu 21 May ’09, 7:00pm–8:00pm

Where: The Film Archive, 84 Taranaki St, Te Aro, Wellington Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

Ticket Information:

Adult: $8.00
Concession : $6.00
Booking fees may apply

Website:

www.filmarchive.org ... 9&itemid=1

Thursday Night is NZ Feature Night at the Film Archive

“’He was a young man in a hungry hurry – his blood on fire’, bluffed the ad campaign for New Zealand’s first road movie, John O’Shea’s Runaway, and that was where the resemblance to American moviemaking ended. The kiwi Angry Young Man of 1964 is actually a much cooler customer. David Manning...is a yachting, nightclubbing young blade about Auckland who gets caught ‘borrowing’ from his employer, and hits the road north. In the Hokianga he divides his time between the gentle courtship of a gauche and lovely young Kiri Te Kanawa, and toy boy duties with the bored and dangerous young Euro-trash wife of the local big noise...When this gets too much there’s only one direction left: south to his roots, via Wellington and Christchurch and into the icy clutches of the Alps. In a mountain hut waits the nemesis of any sensitive lad: Barry Crump.” — Bill Gosden, New Zealand Film Festivals, 2002

(NZ, 1964, PG, 102 mins)