Uncategorized: To do: retro drugs, aging rock stars, love.
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- Wednesday: The Melbourne Cinematheque is back in business this week and showing 1950s classics BIGGER THAN LIFE (Nicholas Ray, 1955) and SOME CAME RUNNING (Vincent Minnelli, 1958). [Melb Cinematheque]
- Thursday: Astor plays a great doco double bill – the Oscar-nominated MAN ON WIRE about crazy French people conducting a crazy illegal stunt and also PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE [Astor]
- Friday: THE PARTY with Peter Sellers plays the Rooftop. [Rooftop]
- Saturday: Astor plays the yellow-face minstrel show BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S and ROMAN HOLIDAY as a Valentine’s Day special. [Astor]
- Sunday: Nineties hip hop “classic” HOUSE PARTY plays Rooftop. [Rooftop]
Brad Nguyen is a co-editor of Screen Machine. He studied Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne, was the film reviewer for Triple R Breakfasters and has written for Senses of Cinema.
