To-do: Week starting Thursday 17th March: MQFF, Urban(e) Visions, The Red Shoes, Polanski, Miyazaki, Last Train Home, Griff the Invisible
Week starting Thursday 17th March:
The 21st Melbourne Queer Film Festival is running March 17-27. Expect films that are a bit more mediocre than usual but with maybe one vaguely arousing sex scene. Expect cringe-inducing program titles like “Cock Tales” (Get it? Males have penises lol). Website is here if you have money to burn.
The Melbourne Cinematheque has programmed a demanding night of cinema under the title “Urban(e) Visions: John Smith, Steven Ball & Terence Davies”. Films include John Smith’s Hotel Diaries, Terence Davies’ Of Time and the City and a series of shorts by Steven Ball the curator, writer & moving image artist. At ACMI, March 23.
At the Astor:
The original 1955 version of The Ladykillers starring Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers screens together with Powell and Pressburger’s The Red Shoes (1948). Matinee at the Astor, March 20.
The Roman Polanski double bill of Repulsion (1965) and Cul de Sac (1966) screens at the Astor, March 20.
The Hayao Miyazaki classics Laputa: Castle in the Sky and Porco Rosso (rumoured to be spawning Miyazaki’s first sequel) are screening at the Astor, March 21.
Opening this Thursday:
Last Train Home is a documentary on the annual migration of workers in China to their home towns to celebrate New Years. Something will be learned in all this about China’s rapid modernism.
Griff the Invisible is some film in which Ryan Kwanten does not get naked. Yawn.
Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki, 1992)
