To-do: Week starting Thursday 15th July: The Runaways, Nosferatu, The Elephant Man, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Russ Meyers, classic Universal horror films
Click the links for trailers. The rest of the week and venue information after the jump.
THURSDAY 15th
The Runaways, the biopic of the rock group of the same name starring Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie and Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett, opens.
Knight and Day, an action comedy in which Tom Cruise recruits a beautiful woman (Cameron Diaz) as his beard while the world questions his mental stability, opens. The film tanked in the US which proves that Americans do not like documentaries.
Creation, some liberal propaganda film about Charles Darwin, opens.
Frankenstein, Universal’s iconic 1931 adaptation of the Mary Shelley classic novel. With Boris Karloff as the monster. At ACMI.
Edward Scissorhands at ACMI. Also playing Sunday.
FRIDAY 16th
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, F.W. Murnau’s 1922 adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel, at ACMI.
"Nosferatu"
Dracula, the 1931 Universal version directed by Tod Browning (Freaks), at ACMI. Also playing Sunday.
Ed Wood, Tim Burton’s only good best film, at ACMI. Also playing Sunday.
SATURDAY 17th
Forbidden Planet, the 1956 sci-fi reworking of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, 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.
SUNDAY 18th
Matinee screening of Kenneth Branagh’s 4-hour version of Hamlet at the Astor.
"The Postman Always Rings Twice"
David Lynch’s The Elephant Man (1985) at ACMI.
In the afternoon at the Astor, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946 film-noir with Lana Turner and John Garfield) screens with Mildred Pierce (from 1945 with Joan Crawford).
MONDAY 19th
Russ Meyers double-feature: 1971’s Up! and 1975’s SuperVixens at the Astor.
WEDNESDAY 21st
Catherine Deveny, a “comedian” and “social commentator”, talks about her 5 favourite films as part of ACMI’s Desert Island Flicks series of talks.
