To-do: Week starting Thursday 24th June: Toy Story 3, I Am Love, Dawn of the Dead, Tim Burton, Marx Brothers, exploitation, Russian cinema
Click the links for trailers. The rest of the week and venue information after the jump.
THURSDAY 24th
The Tim Burton exhibition begins at ACMI. Experience first hand how an auteur’s singular aesthetic over decades became stale and commodified! Tim Burton is also giving a masterclass which is sold out. If you missed out on tickets, NO MATTER, there’s this great FACTUAL documentary on Tim Burton’s creative process at College Humor here.
Toy Story 3, the (almost) universally praised sequel from Pixar, opens.
Grown Ups opens. It’s about, I dunno, maybe it’s a sequel to that documentary about babies?
John Lasseter with Lotso Bear
Village Crown is screening Australia vs. Serbia, starring Oprah Winfrey. You get a red card! You get a red card! Everybody gets a red card!
I Am Love opens. Starring Tilda Swinton (!), it’s an Italian film about the fall of the haute bourgeoisie due to the forces of passion and unconditional love.
Marmaduke, a re-imagining of The OC with the main characters recast as dogs, opens.
If you missed Exit Through the Gift Shop at ACMI, it’s started another season at the Nova.
A Prophet at The Astor. Zora’s review is here.
A Night at the Opera
FRIDAY 25th
The Tim Burton film retrospective begins at ACMI with Pee-wee’s Big Adventure [SOLD OUT. Showing again in early July.]
SUNDAY 27th
A Marx Brothers double bill at the Astor: 1935’s A Night At the Opera and 1937’s A Day At the Races.
MONDAY 28th
A pair of exploitation flicks at the Astor: 1978’s Gas Pump Girls and 1975’s Black Vengeance.
TUESDAY 29th
Melbourne Filmoteca presents The Black Bull, a documentary about the life of a Mexican bullfighter at ACMI.
WEDNESDAY 30th
Melbourne Cinematheque begins a season of films, “Bittersweet Symphony: The Cinema of Perestroika“. Tonight is Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice (1986) followed by Rashid Nugmanov’s The Needle (1988).
The Melbourne Horror Film Society presents George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead (1978) at 1000 £ Bend.
