Screen Machine

To-do: Week starting Thursday 14th October: Chloe, Let Me In, The Town, Cyrus, The City of Your Final Destination, Gainsbourg and Birkin, Corinne and Arthur Cantrill, Raymond Depardon

Some potentially interesting new releases opening this week – The erotic thriller Chloe from director Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter); Let Me In -  an American remake of the Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In from director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield), the drama The City of Your Final Destination about a graduate student who travels to Uruguay to seek permission to write a biography on an obscure writer from director James Ivory (The White Countess), the crime film The Town – Ben Affleck’s follow-up to Gone Baby Gone, mumblecore posterboys Jay and Mark Duplass’ first foray into mainstream filmmaking Cyrus (pic above); and Resident Evil: Afterlife from the always reliable Paul W.S. Anderson.

This is the last week of ACMI’s program “Je t’aime: The Filmic Lives of Gainsbourg and Birkin”. Catch the recent biopic Gainsbourg; the doomed love affair between a waitress and a gay trucker in Je t’aime… moi non plus (1975); the documentary Gainsbourg and His Girls; the Brigitte Bardot-starring Come Dance With Me (1959); Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist starring Serge’s daughter Charlotte; the first pairing of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin in Slogan (1969); the crazy, violent B-movie horror film Seven Deaths in the Cat’s Eye (1973); the romantic drama I Love You All (1980) with a score from Gainsbourg; and the Agnes Varda-directed double feature – Kung Fu Master (1987) and Jane B. par Agnes V. (1985). Full program here.

On Sunday, ACMI continues its retrospective of the works of Australian experimental filmmakers Corinne and Arthur Cantrill. The full program, curated by Jake Wilson (who we interviewed recently), is here. The retrospective is running until October 31.

The Melbourne Cinematheque concludes its retrospective of French documentarian Raymond Depardon on Wednesday 20th with The Declic Years (an autobiographical essay from 1984) and Rural Profiles: Le quotidien (a documentary from 2005 about the vicissitudes of farm life).

At the Astor: The Blues Brothers on Friday; The Wizard of Oz and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) on Saturday; and Easy Rider (1969) and Taxi Driver (1976) on Monday.

Also this Thursday: Preview screening of Im Sang-soo’s erotic thriller The Maid, a remake of the classic 1960 film by Kim Ki-young (recently restored and viewable on the Internet for free here.)

On Tuesday, CineCult screen the 1977 Japanese horror film House at Bar 303.