To-do: Week starting Thursday 2nd December: Enter the Void, Lebanon, Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, Narnia, Francois Ozon’s The Refuge, 14th Japanese Film Festival
Week starting Thursday 2nd December:
New releases this week: Enter the Void from French provocateur Gaspar Noé, which Conall called the worst movie of MIFF meaning it’s probably worth checking out if you didn’t already see it at MIFF. Lebanon, winner of the Golden Lion at Venice, is a film told entirely from the perspective of the inside of an Israeli tank during the 1982 Lebanon War. Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale also opens, a kitsch horror film from Finland whose main villain is Santa Claus.
ACMI is screening François Ozon’s 2009 film The Refuge from Thursday to Sunday this week and the next. It follows a young woman who wakes from a drug-induced coma to discover her lover is dead and herself pregnant. The 14th Japanese Film Festival opens this Thursday too at ACMI, running until Tuesday 7th. The full program is here.
Wednesday 8th is Cinematheque’s second week of films from Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi. This week’s films are Camouflage (1977), a comic rendering of the relationship between an idealistic teacher and an older, cynical professor at a summer linguistics camp, and Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease, about a middle-aged doctor who, upon learning he is terminally ill, goes to Paris to spend his last days with abandon.
On Sunday 5th, the Astor is screening Powell and Pressburger’s The Red Shoes at 1.45pm. On Monday, they are screening Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972). Parts two and three will screen on the following Mondays.
Also opening this week: Voyage of the Dawn Treader, about four English children who are kidnapped by Islamic Jihadists dressed as fanciful animals and broken down in a terrorist training camp and Devil, a horror film produced by M. Night Shyamalan about five people trapped in an elevator, one of whom is a big fan of The Happening.
