Screen Machine

Uncategorized: To do: Bad acting, Louis Malle, sodomy.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCj8sPCWfUw]

• Tonight (Mon 13th): Woody Allen’s HANNAH AND HER SISTERS plays with Ridley Scott’s THELMA AND LOUISE at Astor. [Astor]
• Tue 14th: Is Not Magazine is screening the comically awful THE ROOM (from this century’s answer to Ed Wood, Tommy Wiseau) at Loop Bar. You are tearing me apart Lisa! [ThreeThousand]
• Wed 15th: Cinematheque starts a season of French director Louis Malle’s films with LIFT TO THE SCAFFOLD (1957) and LACOMBE, LUCIEN (1974). [Cinematheque]
• Thu 16th: Tarantino and Rodriguez’s GRINDHOUSE at Astor. [Astor] Also, ACMI is starting a season of films focusing on actress Wendy Hughes. Yeah, I’ve never heard of her either but there are some good films in the program worth checking out. [ACMI]
• Fri 17th: Freaky Fridays at ACMI play DELIVERANCE. Squeal like a pig! [Freaky Fridays]
• Sat 18th: Director Sergei Dvortsevoy will be at Nova to discuss his film TULPAN after having won a bunch of prizes at Cannes. [Cinema Nova]
• Sun 19th: GONE WITH THE WIND matinee or a Peter Sellers double (THE PARTY and THE PINK PANTHER) at Astor. [Astor]

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.

→ more articles by Brad Nguyen