To-do: Week starting Thursday 4th November: Jackass 3D, Gainsbourg, Zhang Yimou, Bong Joon-ho, Ernst Lubitsch, This Is Not a Film Festival
Well there are three “of interest” new releases this week, of which the most exciting is obviously the Jackass 3 movie (in 3D!). Second is Gainsbourg, a biopic of Serge Gainsbourg, and third is Zhang Yimou’s A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, a slapstick period remake of the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple.
Bong Joon-Ho’s The Host screens at ACMI on Friday night. This week at ACMI also sees the beginning of a three-week run of the documentary American: The Bill Hicks Story, as well as the Berlin on Film series, which runs from Thursday until Monday. The Festival of Jewish Cinema also starts at ACMI, on Tuesday.
The Cinematheque’s excellent season of early Ernst Lubitsch films comes to a close on Wednesday, with two more Lubitsch films, Broken Lullaby (1932) and Kohlhiesel’s Daughters (1920), along with the 2006 documentary Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin, directed by Robert Fischer.
David Lean’s A Passage to India screens at the Astor on Sunday afternoon.
This Is Not a Film Festival, a night of independent short films and animations made by independent Melbourne film makers, is being held on Tuesday at 1000 £ Bend. Alternatively, Cinecult is presenting Lady Terminator – a cult Indonesian film about a young anthropology student who, possessed by the spirit of an ancient evil queen, goes on a rampage – at Bar 303.
The other new releases this week are Little Deaths (an Australian feature length version of that Taylor Swift videoclip where she communicates with her hot jock neighbour exclusively via cute placards) and The Loved Ones (a horror film that envisages a terrifying world where Australian film audiences are forced to watch shitty Australian horror films to the end).
