To-do: The “to do” list

by To Do List - published 28/10/09

THURSDAY

Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, starring Heath Ledger, opens.

Richard Kelly’s The Box opens.

Music doco It Might Get Loud (with The Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White) opens.

Michael Jackson concert doco This Is It is playing for 2 weeks only.

East Germany’s first sci-fi The Silent Star (1960) screens as part of ACMI’s Focus on East German Cinema.

FRIDAY

[UPDATE! The new Speakeasy Cinema is having its opening party at 1000 £ Bend, showing the documentary Beautiful Losers (featuring artists such as Harmony Korine and Mike Mills).]

Freaky Fridays shows William Castle’s The Tingler (1959) featuring Vincent Price at ACMI.

There’s something depressingly inevitable about this Fox Searchlight double: (500) Days of Summer and Juno at Astor.

SATURDAY

Werner Herzog’s doco Wheel of Time (2003) screens as part of the Buddhist Film Festival.

SUNDAY

More Vincent Price: Twice Told Tales and Diary of a Madman (both from 1963) at Astor.

MONDAY

Kurbick double: The Shining (1980) and A Clockwork Orange (1971) at Astor.

WEDNESDAY

Cinematheque presents Chris Marker double: À bientôt j’espère (1968) and A Grin Without a Cat (1968).

<<VENUES>> ACMI // Cinema Nova // The Astor Theatre // Rooftop Cinema // Loop // Glitch Bar + Cinema // 1000 £ Bend // longplay // Rearview Gallery <<FILMGROUPS>> Melbourne Cinematheque // Splodge! (The Empress, North Fitzroy) // The Melbourne Horror Film Society // Melbourne Filmoteca // Speakeasy Cinema

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