To-do: Week starting Thursday 3rd June: Exit Through the Gift Shop, Animal Kingdom, 45365
Click the links for trailers. The rest of the week and venue information after the jump.
THURSDAY
Exit Through the Gift Shop, the debut film of infamous conceptual street artist Banksy, begins a two week season at ACMI. Zora’s review is here.
Animal Kingdom, the highly anticipated Australian crime film, opens. It won the jury prize for not-American films at Sundance. Maggie gave it a glowing review here.
45365, the indie documentary on the small town of Sidney, Ohio, plays tonight at ACMI through to Sunday. Eloise likened it to the work of Kelly Reichardt in her review here.
Legion, one of those fun “literal interpretation of the Bible” movies, opens.
Gossip Girl Here, a panel discussion about the TV show, featuring Saige Walton and Radha O’Meara of the University of Melbourne and Screen Machine’s #1 fan Mel Campbell, at ACMI at 7pm.
FRIDAY
Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, the 1968 Hammer Horror classic (starring Christopher Lee, of course), at ACMI at 9:30.
SATURDAY
Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo, one of our favourite films of 2009, screens at the Astor.
SUNDAY
Chromatic Mysteries, a program of films and music from “Australia’s most important experimental filmmakers” Arthur and Corinne Cantrell spanning their fifty-year career (to date), at ACMI at 5pm.
MONDAY
Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas at the Astor.
TUESDAY
First day of the symposium about Australian indigenous filmmaking, From U-Matic to Youtube, held at ACMI, starting at 10am.
WEDNESDAY
Second and final day of the From U-Matic to Youtube symposium.
Second week of the Melbourne Cinematheque’s Milos Forman season, with the classics One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and The Firemen’s Ball.
