To-do: Week starting Thursday 17th June: Gone With the Pope, Shrek Forever After, Get Him to the Greek, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Tod Browning
Click the links for trailers. The rest of the week and venue information after the jump.
THURSDAY 17th
Gone With the Pope, the recently restored grindhouse movie, gets its Australian premiere at the Nova.
Shrek Forever After, Get Him to the Greek, Mother and Child and Lou open.
Exit Through the Gift Shop finishes at ACMI this Monday (21st).
The Blues Brothers (1980) at the Astor.
FRIDAY 18th
The Wolf Man (1941) at ACMI.
SATURDAY 19th
World Cup Australia vs Ghana match is screening at 1000 £ Bend and Village Cinemas at Crown Casino, Jam Factory and Southland.
The 10 Conditions of Love, the Controversial documentary about the oppression of the Uyghur people, at ACMI.
Flight of the Red Balloon
SUNDAY 20th
The Karate Kid, the remake, at ACMI for free.
Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Flight of the Red Balloon screens with Coco and Igor at the Astor Sunday afternoon.
In the evening at the Astor, Garbo’s two greatest performances – in George Cukor’s Camille (1936) and Lubitsch’s Ninotchka (1939).
MONDAY 21st
Luc Besson’s The Professional, starring Jean Reno, at the Astor.
Freaks
TUESDAY 22nd
Castaway with Tim Burton at ACMI. Event is sold out so if you don’t have a ticket you’ve missed your opportunity to hear Burton wax lyrical about how the cinema of Georges Méliès really informed his acclaimed Planet of the Apes remake.
WEDNESDAY 23rd
Tod Browning Week at Cinematheque with 1932’s Freaks, 1928’s West of Zanzibar and 1927’s The Unknown. At ACMI.
Australian double bill at the Astor with 1971’s Wake in Fright and 2007’s Noise.
