Uncategorized: To do: BRUNO, STYLE WARS, ADVENTURELAND, OBSERVE AND REPORT and MAD MAX
- WEDNESDAY 8th: Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno opens wide. Following the mixture of mockumentary and real-life pranks of Borat but replacing the misogynist/antisemitic Kazakhstani reporter with an uber-camp fashion reporter from Austria, the film is bound to offend, I dunno, rednecks and gays without a sense of humour.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAGpmNb2xfQ]
- THURSDAY 9th: Style Wars, a doco on the birth of hip-hop culture plays at the ACMI until Sunday 12th. Shot in NYC in the early 1980s, Tony Silver’s groundbreaking film documented the new language of hip hop – graffiti, rap, breakdance. [ACMI]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ji3O5YgtRU]
- FRIDAY 10th: Two recently released comedies that didn’t get much notice but we gave very good reviews for, Adventureland and Observe and Report are showing as a double bill at Astor. [Astor]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ML0eb0uCFc]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNPSxqbPLPQ]
- SUNDAY 12th: Mad Max and Mad Max 2: The Roadwarrior are showing at the Astor. [Astor]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkriid1YxHY]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4TdPxOXuYw]
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 is currently based in Tokyo.
