To-do: Week starting Thursday 10th June: The A-Team, Exit Through the Gift Shop, The Sentimental Engine Slayer, Uh Oh Siobhan, Milos Forman
Click the links for trailers. The rest of the week and venue information after the jump.
THURSDAY 10th June
The A-Team, Stan Brakhage’s 20-minute schizophrenic montage of various close-up shots of Bradley Cooper’s abdominal muscles, opens wide.
Exit Through the Gift Shop, the debut of infamous conceptual street artist Banksy, continues its extended season at ACMI, finshing up on June 21. Zora’s review is here.
The Sentimental Engine Slayer, debut of Omar Rodriguez Lopez (of Mars Volta and At The Drive In no less), plays ACMI until this Sunday. The film involves a twenty-something, the suburbs of El Paso and much weirdness.
Mademoiselle Chambon, a tasteful French film about a guy hooking up with his son’s teacher, opens.
A Loveable-Poor-People-With-Charming-Fantasies double bill at Astor: Precious and Ken Loach’s Looking for Eric.
FRIDAY 11th June
The Wolf Man
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the acclaimed Swedish thriller (now being Americanized by David Fincher), at Astor.
The Wolf Man, Universal’s original 1941 horror classic, at ACMI.
SATURDAY 12th June
A Loving Friend, a Controversial Documentary about artist Donald Friend and his penchant for very young boys, at ACMI. Lauren called it “distinctly retrograde”, “tacky” and “sensationalist” here.
Uh, Oh, Siobhan
SUNDAY 13th June
A screening of short film Oh, Uh, Siobhan from Melbourne directors Mary Minas and Sean T. Barnes at 1000 £ Bend at 8pm. Proof that Melbourne can do hipster chic as well as anyone.
David Lean’s 1984 epic, A Passage to India, at Astor in the afternoon.
In the evening, the conclusion of Astor’s Humphrey Bogart retrospective with 1944’s To Have and Have Not (based on Hemingway’s novel) and 1946’s The Big Sleep (directed by Howard Hawks and based on Raymond Chandler’s novel).
MONDAY 14th June
Monday sux.
TUESDAY 15th June
Tuesday sux
Konkurs
WEDNESDAY 16th June
Final week of Cinematheque’s Milos Forman season, with Black Peter (1964), Konkurs (1964) and A Well Paid Walk (co-directed with Ján Rohác, from 1966)
The Thin Red Line, Terrence Malick’s vivid 1999 war film, at Astor.
