To-do: Week starting Thursday 28th October: The Social Network, Grain of the Voice, Ernst Lubitsch
The only real noteworthy new release this week is The Social Network. BE PREPARED TO HAVE YOUR ERA DEFINED! Or something.
The Melbourne Cinematheque continues its wonderful season of early Lubitsch, with The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1928) and Madame Dubarry (1919), two more hard-to-see films from the great auteur’s earlier years.
If you’ve been meaning to get to “Grain of The Voice”, the retrospective of works by experimental filmmakers Corinne and Arthur Cantrill, then this Sunday at ACMI is your last chance to catch it. Also ending this Sunday at ACMI are the Hola Mexico Film Festival and a micro-season of Arsenic and Old Lace, a farcical comedy from Frank Capra starring Cary Grant.
Speaking of ACMI, there’s some real WTF-but-sure-why-not programming this week: My Own Private Idaho is screening as part of Freaky Fridays and Howard Hawk’s Bringing Up Baby is screening as part of Kids’ Flicks.
Halloween Screenings: Matinee double-bill at Astor is Diary of a Madman (1963) and Twice Told Tales, both starring Vincent Price. In the evening they are screening Re-Animator (1985) and Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist (1982).
Monday, there’s a Luc Besson double-bill at the Astor: La Femme Nikita (1990) and The Professional (1995).
The other new releases this week: Made in Dagenham (a “quirky” film about female workers going on strike in 1968), Saw VII (a documentary about the war in Afghanistan), Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones (a documentary about men with long hair), Red (a movie about a rapping grandma), and The Switch (a documentary about Jennifer Aniston’s biological clock).
