To-do: Week starting 21/1

by To Do List - published 20/01/10

In the Loop's Peter Capaldi

THURSDAY

Armando Iannucci’s foul-mouthed political comedy In The Loop opens. (The film made Screen Machine’s Best of 2009 List.)

Rob Marshall’s musical reimagining of 8 1/2 (*sigh*) Nine opens.

Clint Eastwood’s Invictus opens.

Toy Story 1 and 2 (presented in 3D) open.

Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (1964) at Rooftop.

FRIDAY

Lee Scratch Perry

Freaky Fridays presents Cory McAbee’s sci-fi musical western Stingray Sam at ACMI.

SATURDAY

Lee “Scratch” Perry documentary The Upsetter plays at ACMI as part of Yard!Dub and Reggae on Film.

Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are at the Astor. We wrote about it here and here.

Footloose (1984) at Rooftop.

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Red Shoes (1948) plays at ACMI until Monday.

Taxi Driver's Robert De Niro

SUNDAY

Bruce Beresford’s Puberty Blues (1981) at Rooftop.

MONDAY

Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets (1972) and Raging Bull (1980) at the Astor.

Grease (1978) at Moonlight.

TUESDAY

Crocodile Dundee (1986) at Rooftop.

WEDNESDAY

Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976) at Rooftop.

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

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