To-do: Week starting Thursday 9th December: New film from Tsui Hark, Francois Ozon’s The Refuge, Krzysztof Zanussi retrospective and Christmas screenings
Week starting Thursday 9th December
Opening this week is a new film from legendary Hong Kong director Tsui Hark, Detective Dee and the Mystery of Phantom Flame.
At ACMI, François Ozon’s latest, The Refuge, is screening from Thursday through ’til Sunday. Conall described the film as “relatively modest”. As it is the silly season, they are screening The Muppet Christmas Carol for the kids on Sunday and Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special is screening with Komaneko Christmas – A Lost Present from Monday all the way to Christmas Eve.
On Wednesday, Cinémathèque finishes its retrospective of the films of Krzysztof Zanussi: The 1971 made-for-TV drama Behind the Wall is followed by Zanussi’s 1969 debut The Structure of Crystals and his second feature Family Life (1971).
At the Astor on Sunday, Calamity Jane (1953) screens with Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) starting from 2pm while in the evening, Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) screens on a bill with Stardust Memories (1980). On Monday is Part II of Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather Trilogy.
Also opening this week is Desert Flower, one of those awful-sounding liberal movies, this one about Waris Dirie’s fantastic journey from African nomad to international supermodel. Do yourself a favour and watch the trailer online just to see the amazing (terrible) sequence of a burqa-clad woman throwing off her clothes and cutting to the fabulously liberated Dirie on the catwalk. Megamind, an animated feature from Dreamworks, also opens.
