To-do: Week Starting Thursday August 12: Two in the Wave, Alain Delon, assorted post-MIFF action
So, we’ve made it through the film festival (even if Screen Machine’s own excavation of MIFF 2010 is still going, and will continue in the coming days), and it’s back to normal life. Those of us who’ve been waiting til post-MIFF to see new, widely released films like the inescapable Inception, Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer and Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg will now have our chance. The Astor offers further opportunities to encounter new and older films we may have missed, or wish to revisit, beginning with Friday’s screening of the Screen Machine-endorsed Exit Through the Gift Shop. Sunday evening at the Astor sees a curious double-bill of 1960s post-adolescence with Leslie Martinson’s For Those Who Think Young followed by Sidney Lumet’s The Group. There’ll also be a continuation of the Astor’s run of Monday night auteurist classics, with Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas.
The four-day run of Emmanuel Laurent’s Two in the Wave, about the early years of Cahiers du Cinéma and the French New Wave, focusing specifically on its two most famous participants, François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, begins at ACMI on Thursday. The film is narrated by Antoine de Baecque, one of Truffaut and Godard’s major inheritors in French film criticism, and the author of the most authoritative biographies of each of them.
The Melbourne Cinematheque returns, after a few weeks off for MIFF, with the first week of its Alain Delon season. The season begins on Wednesday with an interesting pair of films, René Clement’s Plein Soleil (aka Purple Noon) and the Jean-Claude Carrière-scripted The Swimming Pool (La Piscine), by Jacques Deray.
