Academy Cinemas

Now showing at Academy Cinemas!

He’s not alone anymore. Academy Award-winners Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga will set the world on fire, alongside an all-star cast including Brendan Gleeson, nominee Catherine Keener, and Zazie Beetz. Don’t miss JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX - screening NOW at Academy!

https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/movie/joker-folie--deux

🎃 The OCTOBER programme for our Retro Boutique Cinema is now live! 🎃

Every month we will have three themed retro film seasons - specially curated for your pleasure - plus encores of previous popular classics that have played at Academy! This week's themes:

🎬 80s Horror Selection
🎬 Ingmar Bergman Spotlight
🎬 Starring Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi

Discounted $10 tickets for all Academy Members.
🎟️ Tickets and full schedule right here on our website - limited seats available for each session!
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/retro-boutique-cinema

Francis Ford Coppola's MEGALOPOLIS
Now showing at Academy Cinemas!

From visionary director Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now) comes MEGALOPOLIS - a Roman Epic set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina, a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, who remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare. Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero, the mayor's daughter, whose love for Cesar has divided her loyalties, forcing her to discover what she truly believes humanity deserves.

🎟️ Don't miss seeing it on the big screen!
Get your tickets here:
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/movie/megalopolis

💋 It's $5 Wednesday time again, babes 💋

BLINK TWICE (2024)
👁️ 3:00pm

ALIEN ROMULUS (2024)
👽 5:30pm

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975)
💒 8:15pm

🎟️ Tickets are only $5 - get 'em quick:
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/5-wednesday

🎞️ THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985)
🎬 dir. John Hughes
⏰ Wednesday 2nd October, 6:00pm

What happens when five strangers end up together in Saturday detention? Badass posturing, gleeful misbehaviour, and a potent dose of angst. With this exuberant, disarmingly candid film, writer-director John Hughes established himself as the bard of American youth, vividly and empathetically capturing how teenagers hang out, act up, and goof off.

The next instalment in our retro $5 Wednesday series is this quotable 80s John Hughes cult favourite! With its highly quotable dialogue and star-making performances, this exploration of the trials of adolescence became an era-defining pop-culture phenomenon, one whose influence now spans generations.

🎟️ Tickets only $5 - get in quick!
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/movie/breakfast-club-1985

🎬 THE SUBSTANCE
⏰ Now showing

🎟️ Get a ticket, try The Substance:
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/movie/the-substance

💉 THE SUBSTANCE 💉
Now showing at Academy!

Starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid.

🤯 “It’ll change your life.”
🎟️ Try The Substance by getting tickets here:
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/movie/the-substance

💸 $5 Wednesday coming up fast! Get your tickets now! 💸

TRAP (2024)
1:00pm

GHOSTLIGHT (2024)
3:30pm

10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (1999)
6:00pm

BLINK TWICE (2024)
8:15pm

🎟️ Get your cheap tickets here:
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/5-wednesday

A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE (1974)
dir. John Cassavetes
Tuesday 17th September, 7:30pm

A special 50th anniversary screening to celebrate this groundbreaking Cassavetes classic, and a special tribute to "your favourite actress' favourite actress" Gena Rowlands in her iconic performance in the title role!

This uncompromising portrait of domestic turmoil details the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family’s struggle to save her from herself. Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk give unforgettably harrowing performances as a married couple deeply in love but unable to express their ardor in terms the other can understand. This landmark American film is perhaps the most beloved work from the extraordinary John Cassavetes.

🎟️ Get your tickets on our website:
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/movie/a-woman-under-the-influence-1974-50th-annivesary

🎞️ METROPOLIS (2001)
⏰ Saturday 14th September, 8:30pm
✏️ Cult Anime Night

Based on the classic comic created by revered manga artist and animator Osamu Tezuka (ASTROBOY), written by anime legend Katsuhiro Otomo (AKIRA) and directed by Rintaro (Galaxy EXPRESS 999), Metropolis is a spectacular film featuring stunning imagery and unforgettable characters.

In the industrial, tri-level world of Metropolis, Duke Red is a powerful leader with plans to unveil a highly advanced robot named Tima. But Duke Red's violent son Rock distrusts robots and intends to find and destroy Tima. Lost in the confusing labyrinth beneath Metropolis, Tima is beginning a friendship with the young nephew of a Japanese detective. But when Duke Red separates the two innocents, Tima's life and the fate of the universe is dangerously at stake.

🎟️ GET TICKETS NOW BEFORE THEY'RE GONE:
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/movie/cult-anime-night-osamu-tezukas-metropolis-2001

Our 16-seat boutique theatre has gone RETRO. Every month we have themed retro film seasons - specially curated for your pleasure! Today the focus is on RETRO DYSTOPIAS!

🎞️ LOGAN'S RUN (1976)
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/movie/logans-run-1976
In the Year of the City 2274, humans live in a vast, bubbled metropolis, where computerized servo-mechanisms provide all needs so everyone can pursue endless hedonism. Endless, that is, until Lastday, when anyone who's 30 must submit to Carrousel, a soaring, spinning trip to eternity and supposed rebirth.

🎞️ SLEEPER (1973)
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/movie/sleeper-1973
A humorous foray into the year 2173 when Woody Allen awakens to find the world quite different than when he was cyrogenically frozen. Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.

🎞️ FAHRENHEIT 451 (1966)
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/movie/fahrenheit-451-1966
Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden books, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly, he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between his rebellious mistress and his pleasure-seeking conformist wife, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.

🎞️ THE TRIAL (1962)
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/movie/the-trial-1962
A feverishly inspired take on Franz Kafka’s novel, Orson Welles’s THE TRIAL casts Anthony Perkins as the bewildered office drone Josef K., whose arrest for an unspecified crime plunges him into a menacing bureaucratic labyrinth of guilt, corruption, and paranoia. Exiled from Hollywood and creatively unchained, Welles poured his ire at the studio system, the blacklist, and all forms of totalitarian oppression into this cinematic statement—a bold, personal film that he himself considered one of his greatest.

🎟️ See the full Retro Boutique line-up right here on our website:
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/retro-boutique-cinema

🎞️ SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943)
🎬 dir. Alfred Hitchcock
⏰ Thursday 12th September, 6:15pm

Uncle Charlie - a killer just one step ahead of the law - travels to the sleepy town of Santa Rosa under the pretence of visiting his relatives. But his favourite niece and namesake - Young Charlie - soon begins to suspect that her uncle is the Merry Widow Murderer, setting in motion a deadly game of cat-and-mouse!

*Please note this screening has been rescheduled from its original date on Hitchcock's birthday due to cinema closure.

🎟️ Screening ONE NIGHT ONLY at Academy!
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/movie/happy-birthday-hitchcock-shadow-of-a-doubt-1943

⏰ Opening this Thursday! ⏰
🧛 HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON 🧛

Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she's too sensitive to kill. When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha's life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfill Paul's last wishes before day breaks.

🎟️ Session times and more info on our website:
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/movie/humanist-vampire-seeking-consenting-suicidal-perso

🎉 50th Anniversary Screenings 🎉

A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE (1974)
dir. John Cassavetes
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/movie/a-woman-under-the-influence-1974-50th-annivesary
This uncompromising portrait of domestic turmoil details the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family’s struggle to save her from herself. Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk give unforgettably harrowing performances as a married couple deeply in love but unable to express their ardor in terms the other can understand. Nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Actress and Best Director.

PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974)
dir. Brian De Palma
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/movie/phantom-of-the-paradise-1974-50th-anniversary
This inspired rock 'n' roll fusion of Faust and The Phantom of the Opera boasts an Oscar-nominated score by Paul Williams, who also stars as an evil record producer who not only steals the work of composer/performer Winslow Leach (William Finley) but gets him locked up in Sing Sing - and that's not the worst that happens to him along the way. Prodigiously inventive both musically and visually, this is one of De Palm's most entertaining romps, not least because it was so clearly a labour of love.

BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA (1974)
dir. Sam Peckinpah
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/movie/bring-me-the-head-of-alfredo-garcia-1974-50th-an
Warren Oates plays Bennie, a piano player in a Mexican bar who gets himself involved in the manhunt for Alfredo Garcia, a man with a million-dollar price-tag on his head having impregnated the daughter of crime boss El Jefe (Emilio Fernández). A love story that plays out in a brutal environment, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia may just be Bloody Sam's greatest work, as well as his most autobiographical.

🎟️ All three flicks are ONE NIGHT ONLY at Academy!
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/classic-screenings

🎞️ TEZUKA'S METROPOLIS (2001)
✏️ Cult Anime Night
⏰ Saturday 14th September, 8:30pm

Based on the classic comic created by revered manga artist and animator Osamu Tezuka (ASTROBOY), written by anime legend Katsuhiro Otomo (AKIRA) and directed by Rintaro (Galaxy EXPRESS 999).

In the industrial, tri-level world of Metropolis, Duke Red is a powerful leader with plans to unveil a highly advanced robot named Tima. But Duke Red's violent son Rock distrusts robots and intends to find and destroy Tima. Lost in the confusing labyrinth beneath Metropolis, Tima is beginning a friendship with the young nephew of a Japanese detective. But when Duke Red separates the two innocents, Tima's life and the fate of the universe is dangerously at stake.

🎟️ ONE NIGHT ONLY AT ACADEMY:
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/movie/cult-anime-night-osamu-tezukas-metropolis-2001

🎬 POWELL & PRESSBURGER SPOTLIGHT this weekend! 🎬

THE RED SHOES (1948)
Friday 6th September, 6:00pm

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (1943)
Saturday 7th September, 7:30pm

I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING! (1945)
Sunday 8th September, 6:00pm

Get your tickets at our website now:
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/

$5 Wednesday is here again...
The cheapest cinema tickets in Auckland, all day long!

LONGLEGS (2024)
1:00pm

TWISTERS (2024)
3:15pm

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)
6:00pm

SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
8:20pm

See your favourite movies large and loud for $5 every Wednesday:
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/5-wednesday

☀️ SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
🎞️ Shorts Tour 2024
⏰ Tuesday 3rd September, 6:30pm

The 2024 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a 98-minute theatrical program of six live-action and animated short films curated from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, including three Festival Award–winning titles!

Driven by innovation and experimentation, the Short Film Program seeks out filmmaking’s most original voices. This sampling of festival offerings is a testament to the unique storytelling potential that the format holds.

ALOK
dir. Alex Hedison

BUG DINER (Jury Animation Award)
dir. Phoebe Jane Hart

ESSEX GIRLS
dir. Yero Timi-Biu

PATHOLOGICAL
dir. Alison Rich

PISKO THE CRAB CHILD IS IN LOVE (Special Jury Prize for Directing)
dir. Makoto Nagahisa

THE MASTERPIECE (Grand Jury Prize)
dir. Àlex Lora Cercós

Don't miss seeing this eclectic bunch of shorts projected on the big screen!

🎟️Tickets here:
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/movie/2024-sundance-film-festival-short-film-tour

$5 WEDNESDAY TOMORROW!

MA # # (2024)
1:00pm

LONGLEGS (2024)
3:20pm

TWISTERS (2024)
5:45pm

SHOWGIRLS (1995)
8:30pm

Get your tickets before they're all gone!
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/5-wednesday

SHOWGIRLS (1995)
dir. Paul Verhoeven
Wednesday August 28th, 8:30pm

The next instalment in our retro $5 Wednesday series is the campy 90s fan fave from ROBOCOP & BASIC INSTINCT director Paul Verhoeven! Arguably Verhoeven’s most controversial film, and the rare studio film to be released with an NC-17 rating...

Small-town girl Nomi Malone is determined to make it as feature dancer in the bitch-eat-bitch, sex-soaked world of the Las Vegas showrooms. The reigning queen of Sin City, Cristal Connors, is not going to give up her crown – or man (Kyle MacLachlan) – without a fight.

Tickets only $5, perverts!
https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/movie/showgirls-1995

🎞️ IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (1992) dir. John Carpenter
🎉 30th Anniversary
⏱️ Friday 30th August, 8:30pm

This shocking story is, in the words of its acclaimed director, "horror beyond description"! Sutter Cane is the best-selling author whose newest novel is literally driving readers insane. When he inexplicably vanishes, his publisher (Charlton Heston, SOYLENT GREEN, PLANET OF THE APES) sends special investigator John Trent (Sam Neill, JURASSIC PARK, POSSESSION) to track him down. Drawn to a town that exists only in Cane’s books, Trent crosses the barrier between fact and fiction and enters a terrifying world from which there is no escape!

Brain-bending horror from the mind that created HALLOWEEN, THE FOG and THEY LIVE!

Don't miss out this Friday:
🎟️ https://www.academycinemas.co.nz/movie/in-the-mouth-of-madness-1994-30th-anniversary

Good news to our beloved Academy patrons! The boutique cinema will be back up and running from tomorrow!

That means that $5 Wednesday is still happening so get in quick before tickets sell out!

The schedule for tomorrow:

1.15pm My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
3.45pm Escape from New York (1981)
6pm Pride and Prejudice (2005) (SOLD OUT)
8.45pm Friday the 13th (1980)

We've issued refunds to all who have bought tickets to $5 Wednesday sessions In cinema 2 as this is still out of action for now. This should come through in the next few days! Further updates to come about cinema 2 as we are still undergoing some maintenance.

If you have any issues with your refund or any queries please email [email protected]