To-do: Week starting Thursday 30th June: The Tree of Life, The Trip, Henry Darger doco, films by Nicholas Ray, Charlie Chaplin
Week starting Thursday 30th June
New releases opening this week:
THE TREE OF LIFE is Terrence Malick’s Palme d-Or-winning opus, a non-linear rumination on the meaning of life and a reminiscence of childhood.
THE TRIP is Michael Winterbottom’s follow-up to Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing versions of themselves taking a restaurant tour of northern England and talking about stuff. The poor man’s My Dinner with Andre?
Special seasons:
IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL: THE MYSTERY OF HENRY DARGER is a documentary on the famous outsider artist responsible for his 15,000-page manuscript The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, accompanied by hundreds of illustrations by the author. Darger’s influence can be felt today in comic books, Animal Collective album album covers and several songs by artists like Sufjan Stevens and Fucked Up.
The Melbourne Cinematheque presents YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN: THE BALLAD OF NICHOLAS RAY, a three-week retrospective of the great director, held in high regard by the famous French New Wave directors. Jean-Luc Godard once extravagantly announced, “There was theatre (Griffith), poetry (Murnau), painting (Rossellini), dance (Eisenstein), music (Renoir). Henceforth there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray”. The season continues with THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1949), Ray’s debut about a young couple on the run from the law starring Farley Granger and Cathy O’Donnell; and JOHNNY GUITAR (1954) a western centred on a strong-willed saloon-keeper played by Joan Crawford. At ACMI each Wednesday, June 29 – July 13.
Old films:
The Astor is showing a Charlie Chaplin double-bill: THE GOLD RUSH (1925) and MODERN TIMES (1936).
Chaplin in "Modern Times" at the Astor
