To-do: Week starting 8/4: Mother, Kick Ass, La Mirada, Vertov
THURSDAY
Mother, the excellent Hitchcockian crime film (and Screen Machine favourite of 2009) from Bong Joon-ho (Memories of Murder, The Host) opens at Nova. We reviewed it last year when it screened at MIFF.
Kick Ass, the film based on Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.’s comic book series, opens.
Date Night, starring Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Mark Wahlberg, Mark Ruffalo, James Franco, Common, Kristen Wiig, and Blair from Gossip Girl, opens.
Two of the most interesting films at this year’s La Mirada festival screen as part of Pedro Almodovar’s selection of classic Spanish cinema – Jose Salgot’s Mother Dearly Beloved (at 6:30) and Vicente Aranda’s Lovers (at 8:40). Both starring a young Victoria Abril. Both at ACMI.
FRIDAY
Good Hair, the documentary starring Chris Rock, continues its run at ACMI, screening at 6pm.
SATURDAY
A new print of the 1979 film Palm Beach, directed by Albie Thoms, a major figure in Australian underground cinema, has a one-off screening at ACMI at 4pm.
The La Mirada festival screens a secret film selected by Martin Scorsese, at 9. Apparently it will be “his favourite Hispanic film”.
SUNDAY
Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey screens at the Astor, at 2pm and 7pm.
The Swindlers, Pedro Lazaga’s 1959 classic selected by Almodovar, screens with La Mirada.
MONDAY
Monday sux
TUESDAY
Tuesday sux
WEDNESDAY
One of the best nights at the Melbourne Cinémathèque for the year, starting with a repeat screening of Agnès Varda’s Daguerréotypes at 5.45 (many viewers missed this screening two weeks ago because the session sold out due to a move to the small ACMI cinema – and we are very grateful for this re-screening!), followed by a bunch of 1920s Soviet films, including Vertov’s Man With a Movie Camera and Kino-Pravda, Pudovkin’s Chess Fever and Yakov Protazanov’s Aelita.
