To-do: Week starting Thursday 31st March: Brian Eno, Never Let Me Go, Eisenstein, Tati, King Kong, Some Like it Hot, The Party
Week starting Thursday 31st March
New releases this week are:
Brian Eno: Another Green World is a BBC documentary on the renowned musician/producer/many other things, who has worked with David Bowie, Talking Heads and U2. Screening exclusively at ACMI, April 1-4.
Le quattro volte is a film from Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino that explores the philosophical idea of transmigration - the passing of the soul from human, animal, plant and finally mineral. Screening at the Nova after a short run at ACMI.
Never Let Me Go is Mark Romanek’s follow-up to 2002’s One Hour Photo. It’s an adaptation of the Kazuo Ishiguro novel about three young people raised at an idyllic English boarding school for the purpose of being used as scientific specimens. Here’s an article at Huffington Post by Ishiguro himself on the film.
Second run:
The Melbourne Cinematheque continues its 3-week retrospective of revolutionary film director Sergei Eisenstein. This week’s films are Ivan the Terrible Parts 1 & 2. At ACMI, April 6.
Jour de fête and the masterpiece Playtime screen as part of a Jacques Tati double bill. Matinee at the Astor, April 3.
King Kong, the beloved 1933 adventure film, screens as part of a special night at the Astor, commemorating the cinema’s 75th birthday. April 3.
Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959), the cross-dressing comedy starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe, screens with The Party (1968), directed by the recently deceased Blake Edwards (see Adrian Martin’s tribute to the man here) and starring Peter Sellers as a bungling New Delhi actor innocently causing havoc when he arrives in Hollywood. At the Astor, April 4.
Also opening this week:
In a Better World is some probably terrible Haneke-esque film about a Swedish doctor who works in the third world whose neglected son becomes embroiled in a SAVAGE WORLD OF VIOLENCE back in the “civilised” (ha ha NOT) world.
Just Go With It continues Adam Sandler’s brilliantly meta media experiment in which he unironically recreates the terrible career of George Simmons, the has-been comedian that Adam Sandler plays in Funny People.
The Lincoln Lawyer stars Matthew McConaughey as a lawyer who travels back in time to prevent Abraham Lincoln’s assassination only to have to defend himself in court after gay-marrying the silver-tongued President.
Jacques Tati as Monsieur Hulot in Playtime (1967)
