To-do: Week starting Thursday 7th October: Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, Gainsbourg and Birkin, Bill Viola, Francis Ford Coppola, Antonioni, John McTiernen, Raymond Depardon
This Sunday, ACMI starts a retrospective of the work of Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, spanning 50 years of the experimental filmmakers’ shorts and features. The retrospective has been curated by Jake Wilson. (Read Screen Machine’s interview with Jake here.) The retrospective runs until the end of the month. Program here.
ACMI also starts its program The Filmic Lives of Gainsbourg and Birkin this Thursday, ending October 19. Program here.
While you’re at ACMI, why not check out Bill Viola’s video installation The Raft, which has just been unveiled and will be on exhibition at ACMI for free until February next year. On Friday, Viola will also be at ACMI for an In Conversation event [now sold out].
The Astor is showing The Dunwich Horror (a 1970 film based on the H.P. Lovecraft short story and starring Sandra Dee) presented by Cinema Fiasco on Friday. Sunday’s matinee is Gone With the Wind. Sunday evening is the excellent double feature: Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation and Antonioni’s The Passenger. There’s also an equally excellent double on Monday: Predator and the original Die Hard, both directed by John McTiernan (only this week sentenced to one year in jail for wiretapping).
On Wednesday, Cinematheque continues its retrospective of documentarian Raymond Depardon. This week is The 10th District Court: Moments of Trials and Délits frangrants. Alternatively, the Astor is screening Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Public Enemy No. 1, a pair of films about the notorious French gangster.
Couch Fest, a special selection of short films from Seattle’s 2009 festival, is on now at Nova until Sunday. The Seattle festival was presented right in people’s living rooms, as conceived by filmmaker Craig Downing whose goal was to share the love of film in an unpretentious environment. (He probably hasn’t been to Nova!) Program here.
New releases this week are Eat Pray Love, Sagan (at Nova only), Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glen Gould (also at Nova only) and Buried.
