To-do: Week starting Thursday 8th July: Predators, Cremaster marathon, Larry Clark, Gaspar Noe, Drawing Restraint 9, Near Dark, Jason and the Argonauts
Click the links for trailers. The rest of the week and venue information after the jump.
THURSDAY 8th
The Hedgehog opens. About a precocious 11 year old who spouts philosophy who befriends a frumpy concierge who hides her immense knowledge of culture for fear of losing her job. Together they meet up with the wise-cracking child from (500) Days of Summer and the math genius janitor from Good Will Hunting and the world explodes.
Predators, a film about Hollywood’s weird need to cast Adrien Brody in action films, opens.
Matthew Barney: No Restraint is a doco following the creation of Matthew Barney and Björk’s mythical Japanese love story, Drawing Restraint 9. Last screening.
Rhada Mitchell and Joel Edgerton are attending a Q&A at Nova to pimp their new (probably awful) film The Waiting City. But if you’re a fan of movies about annoying Thai-fisherman-pants-wearing tourists who go to India to adopt a black baby, suffer a marital crisis and have wisdom extolled to them by a wise nun, then try to recreate the party scenes from Lost in Translation but with maybe Evermore in place of My Bloody Valentine on the soundtrack, this is probably a can’t-miss thing.
Jan Svankmajer's "Food"
This sounds intriguing. Rescore is an event being held at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces where local musicians provide new scores to seminal expirimental works including, for example, Magic Silver White rescoring Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon and Qua rescoring Jan Svankmajer’s Food.
Edward Scissorhands at ACMI. Also playing Sunday.
FRIDAY 9th
Destricted at ACMI. Explorations of eroticism, obscenity and voyeurism by such names as Matthew Barney, Larry Clark, Gasper Noé, Richard Prince, Marina Abramovic and Sam Taylor-Wood.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Astor.
"Destricted"
Tod Browning’s Freaks (1932) at ACMI. Screening with Tim Burton’s early short film Frankenweenie.
The Horseman opens. Proof that the argument that Australia “needs” more genre films is a bad one.
SATURDAY 10th
Jason and the Argonauts, the classic 1963 fantasy with effect by Ray Harryhausen, at ACMI.
Swastika, Philippe Mora’s impressionistic documentary of Nazi culture, banned in Germany in 1973. Notable for its use of rare propaganda video and home footage of the Fuhrer himself. At ACMI today and next Saturday.
Frankenstein, Universal’s iconic 1931 adaptation of the Mary Shelley classic novel. With Boris Karloff as the monster. At ACMI.
"Jason and the Argonauts"
Drawing Restraint 9, a collaboration between Bjork and Matthew Barney about two tourists celebrating their love aboard a Japanese whaling boat. At ACMI.
SUNDAY 11th
Cremaster marathon at ACMI.
MONDAY 12th
Near Dark, Oscar-winning director(!) Kathryn Bigelow’s vampire film, at the Astor.
TUESDAY 13th
CineCult present The Stabiliser, a camp 1986 action film from Indonesia at Bar303.
WEDNESDAY 14th
Melbourne Cinematheque presents Vasili Pichul’s Little Vera, made in 1988 during the freedom of Glasnost, and Aleksandr Proshkin’s Cold Summer of 1953, described by some as a Soviet Seven Samurai.
