To-do: Week starting Thursday 21st October: The Housemaid, La Danse, the Hola Mexico Film Festival, Ernst Lubitsch
Exciting new releases this week: The Housemaid is Im Sang-soo’s remake of the classic 1960 erotic thriller by Kim Ki-young (which was recently restored and viewable on the Internet for free here.) La Danse is a documentary on the Paris Opera Ballet by Frederick Wiseman, the legendary documentary filmmaker of Titticut Follies, High School and Primate which screened at this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival.
The Hola Mexico Film Festival (website here) kicks off on Friday at ACMI. The website is pretty irritating but there are some potentially interesting films on the program including horror film We Are What We Are, the omnibus film Revolucion and Michael Rowe’s Camera d’Or-winning Leap Year.
ACMI is also showing Topper (1937), Cary Grant’s first box office success from Friday to Sunday. Sunday, of course, means “Grain of the Voice”, the Jake Wilson-curated retrospective of works by Australian experimental filmmakers Corinne and Arthur Cantrill.
At the Astor: On Saturday, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Sunday morning, Casablanca. Sunday night, George Cukor’s Gaslight, a 1944 mystery-thrill starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten and an eighteen-year-old Angela Lansbury and Albert Lewin’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945).
On Tuesday, Melbourne Filmoteca presents Masangeles, a Uruguayan drama about a politician welcoming his illegitimate child into his family set against a backdrop of political unrest, at ACMI.
On Wednesday, Cinematheque begins a season focusing on the German-born Hollywood director Ernst Lubitsch: The Shoe Palace (1916), One Hour With You (1932) and Carmen (1918). Alternatively, you can get in the Halloween spirit with the Melbourne Horror Film Society’s screening of Halloween 1 and 2 at 1000 £ Bend.
Other new releases: Summer Coda (like whatever), Life As We Know It (probably not going to deliver satisfactorily on the Josh Duhamel walking around in his underwear factor that the poster promises) and Paranormal Activity 2 (maybe?).
