To-do: Week starting Thursday 7th July: MUNDANE HISTORY, TAXI DRIVER restored, Nick Ray films, MOZART’S SISTER
Week starting Thursday 7th July
Special seasons:
MUNDANE HISTORY is the award-winning debut of Thai filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong. It’s a sparse family drama, focusing on the domestic rituals of a young paraplegic and his new carer and through that story a larger tale of contemporary Thai society is explored. At ACMI, July 7-10.
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 ends with REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955), Ray’s iconic inter-generational drama starring James Dean as a troubled youth; and PARTY GIRL (1958) about a crippled mouthpiece for the mob who meets a girl. At ACMI each Wednesday, June 29 – July 13.
Martin Scorsese’s TAXI DRIVER celebrates its 35th anniversary with a digital restoration showing at Cinema Nova. The Astor will be doing its own special season in August.
New releases opening this week:
MOZART’S SISTER is a film about Mozart’s sister. It is probably what Truffaut would have called with disdain, the “tradition of quality”.
James Dean and Sal Mineo in "Rebel Without a Cause" at ACMI
