To-do: Week starting Thursday 1st July: Matthew Barney retrospective, Twilight: Eclipse, Go Go Mania (feat. The Beatles), Films of Perestroika at Cinematheque
Click the links for trailers. The rest of the week and venue information after the jump.
THURSDAY 1st
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, French provacteur Catherine Breillat’s confronting and explicit exploration of female desire, opens.
Matthew Barney: No Restraint is a doco following the creation of Matthew Barney and Björk’s mythical Japanese love story, Drawing Restraint 9. Only showing today and the next Thursday.
The Karate Kid opens. It’s a remake relocated to China and with some kid who isn’t Ralph Macchio. So whatevs. (Also stars fascist sympathiser Jackie Chan)
Farewell opens. A Cold War thriller from director Christian Carion (Joyeux Noel) about a disenchanted KGB colonel who begins secretly passing on important documents to the US from behind the Iron Curtain.
FRIDAY 2nd
Cremaster 1 and Cremaster 2, Matthew Barney’s eye-popping films (in a cycle of 5) exploring processes of creation, play at ACMI. Only playing one other time as part of the Cremaster Marathon on the 11th.
The cast of 'Twilight: Eclipse'
Komaneko: The Curious Cat, a Japanese stop-motion film about a cat who makes stop-motion films. So meta! Insanely cute and with minimal dialogue. Showing at ACMI with repeat screening on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday.
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Tim Burton’s feature debut, at ACMI. Also showing on Sunday (4th).
Cinema Fiasco presents 1961’s terrible monster movie Reptilicus at the Astor.
SATURDAY 3rd
Cremaster 3 at ACMI.
Food Inc. on a double bill with Screen Machine favourite Where the Wild Things Are at the Astor.
SUNDAY 4th
Cremaster 4 and Cremaster 5 at ACMI.
Gone With the Wind matinee at the Astor.
The Fox and the Hound, the old Disney animated classic, at ACMI.
In the evening Go Go Mania, a 1964 concert film featuring The Beatles, The Animals, Herman’s Hermits, Spencer Davis Group, George Harrison, screens with Ferry Cross the Mersey, a 1965 Hard Day’s Night-esque pop-music romp featuring then stars of the Liverpool music scene. At the Astor.
Bruce Willis in 'Die Hard'
MONDAY 5th
John McTiernan double feature at the Astor: 1987’s Predator (starring Arnold Schwarzeneggar) and 1988’s Die Hard (starring Bruce Willis), one of the great Christmas movies of all time.
WEDNESDAY 7th
Melbourne Cinematheque continues its Films of Perestroika season with Mongol director Sergei Bodrov’s Freedom is Paradise (1989) and Russian Ark director Alexandr Sokurov’s Days of Eclipse (1988), not related to Twilight in any way.
