To-do: Week Starting 11/3
THURSDAY
The Green Zone, an Iraq war film starring Matt Damon and directed by Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, United 93) opens.
The new film from veteran auteur Claude Chabrol, Bellamy (starring Gérard Depardieu) screens at the Como at 9:15 as part of the French Film Festival.
The Day Before: Jean-Paul Gaultier, a documentary about the designer directed by Loic Prigent, screens at ACMI at 7:30.
FRIDAY
Tony Gatlif’s Korkoro screens as part of the French Film Festival at the Kino at 6:15.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro’s The City of Lost Children screens at ACMI at 7:00.
The Investigator, a comedic thriller from Hungary, screens at ACMI’s “Windows on Europe” festival at 9:00.
SATURDAY
A one-off screening of a rarely-seen Jacques Becker film, Falbalas, on a specially imported print from the Cinémathèque Française, at ACMI at 7:30.
Seamstresses, a dramatic look at the harsh lives of three young women in contemporary Bulgaria, screens at ACMI at 9:15.
Alain Resnais, fifty years after Hiroshima Mon Amour and thirty years after My American Uncle, is still going – his new film Wild Grass screens at the Palace Balwyn cinema at 9:00.
SUNDAY
Best day at the Astor in a long time: Fred & Ginger double bill in the afternoon (Swing Time and Top Hat), Hitchcock in the evening (Rear Window and Vertigo).
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s new film, Micmacs, at the Como at 6:45.
Chaturanga, Suran Mukhopadhyah’s adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s epic of colonial India, screens at the Nova as part of the Indian Film Festival at 12:40pm.
MONDAY
The greatest living filmmaker you’ve probably never heard of, Manoel de Oliveira, has a film screening at ACMI at 7:15 – Christopher Columbus, The Enigma (2007).
Final night of the mini-Coppola retrospective at the Astor, with Apocalypse Now Redux, at 7:30.
The Girl From Monaco, directed by Anne Fontaine (Nathalie, Coco avant Chanel) and starring the great Fabrice Luchini, at ACMI at 8:45.
TUESDAY
Dev D, a contemporary take on the classic story of Devdas (most recently made into a hit film in 2002), screens as part of the Indian Film Festival at the Nova, at 8:20.
WEDNESDAY
Final night of the Melbourne Cinematheque’s Fellini season, with screenings of Roma (1972) and Nights of Cabiria (1957).
Ang Lee’s Eat Drink Man Woman screens at Rooftop at 9:00.
