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To-do: Week starting Thursday 20th May: Winnebago Man, Food Inc, Animal Kingdom and Tim Burton Q&As, Kurosawa

Click the links for trailers. The rest of the week and venue information after the jump.

THURSDAY 20th May

Goemon, the ninja-romance-fantasy-action-revenge epic from Japan, continues its extended season at ACMI, ending May 30th.

Harry Brown opens. It’s a thriller starring Michael Caine as an old ex-marine who beats the shit out of some no-good youngsters which is basically what Bruce Ruxton does every Friday night for kicks.

Food Inc., Robert Kenner’s expose of the American food industry, opens.

The Next Wave Festival presents the play Some Film Museums I Have Known at ACMI. A comically surreal journey into a woman’s cinematic obsessions, it plays at ACMI until Saturday.

A Nightmare on Elm Street opens.

The Back-Up Plan opens.

FRIDAY 21st May

Freak Fridays presents Winnebago Man at ACMI, a doco about the angry man whose expletive-ridden outtakes for a Winnebago promotional video became an internet phenomenon extending into 30 Rock parodies and (reportedly) Spike Jonze Christmas presents.

SATURDAY 22nd May

Saturday sux.

SUNDAY 23rd May

Animal Kingdom plays an early screening (opens wide June 3) at Nova followed by a Q&A with writer-director David Michôd and actors from the film. Winner of the World Cinema Jury Prize at Sundance.

TUESDAY 25th May

Tim Burton will speak at ACMI about his five favourite films that inspired him to make such masterpieces as Planet of the Apes and Alice in Wonderland 3D (which we reviewed here).

Filmoteca presents Taxi, An Encounter at ACMI about a petty thief who steals a taxi and ends up with an unexpected passenger: a teenager with a gunshot wound.

WEDNESDAY 26th May

Cinematheque continues its Kurosawa retrospective with 1963’s High and Low starring Toshirô Mifune as an honest, wealthy industrialist held to ransom over the kidnapping of his chauffeur’s child, and 1944’s The Most Beautiful, an early work looking at a group of women in a factory manufacturing lenses – “weapons of light” – for the war effort.