To-do: Week starting Thursday 26th August: The Killer Inside Me, Melbourne Writers Festival, Alain Delon, The Father of My Children
Hmm… So many films opening this week that YOU MUST WATCH! (Not really.) Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me is a Controversial Movie! MUST WATCH! Avatar Special Edition has a sexy Na’vi sex scene! MUST WATCH! Piranha 3D is an ironic meme-friendly B-movie pastiche! MUST WATCH! (By the way, Saige Walton called Piranha 3D the new Showgirls but it doesn’t look that good.)
On Friday 27th, the Melbourne Writers Festival begins, which has a number of film/televisiony events listed here. Not listed on that particular page but nonetheless exciting is the keynote address from Joss Whedon which is sold out. There’s also a doco on William Burroughs which looks a bit better than the godawful one that showed at MIFF ‘08.
Cinematheque continues its retrospective of films starring Zack Efron’s grandfather Alain Delon with Jean-Pierre Melville’s masterpiece Le Cercle Rouge and Delon’s 1981 directorial debut Pour la peau d’un flic (For a Cop’s Hide).
The Astor is showing Robocop on Sunday! It’s showing with the awfully(awesomely?) titled The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, also starring Peter Weller. On Monday they’re showing part 3 of the Cremaster Cycle.
Also opening this week: Boy, a “whimsical” and “quirky” “coming-of-age story” from “New Zealand” from the director of Eagle Vs. Shark; Vampires Suck, a parody of something or other; Chak Jawana, a film about the troubled youth of a Punjabi village with “a powerful message on family values, determination and hope”; and The Father of My Children, which looks like a remake of Olivier Assayas’ Late August, Early September (and funnily enough, the film’s director Mia Hansen-Løve acted in that film).
