To-do: Week starting Thursday 11th August: GREEN LANTERN, JANE EYRE, Hitchcock, TAXI DRIVER, Masahiro Shinoda, Anna Kannava
Week starting Thursday 11th August:
Special seasons:
The Melbourne Cinematheque resumes programming post-MIFF with a three-week retrospective on the work of Masahiro Shinoda, one of the key figures of the Japanese New Wave. This season begins with THE ASSASSINATION (1964), a period film about a man sent by the government to combat rebel forces intent on restoring the rule of the Emperor, and YOUTH IN FURY (1960) about a young man bored with the drudgery of the student movement and daydreaming of terrorism. At ACMI, Wednesday nights, August 17-31.
A retrospective of films by the late Anna Kannava is taking place at the Nova on Thursday the 11th & Friday the 12th. Films screened will be Ten Years After, Ten Years Older, The Butler, Dreams For Life, Vanilla Essence, Kissing Paris, Tightrope Water and Kannava You Can’av’er.
Astor presents an exclusive 8-day season of Martin Scorsese’s TAXI DRIVER (1976) which has had a recent digital restoration. At the Astor, August 14-21.
Old films:
TWO-LANE BLACKTOP is Monte Hellman’s relatively famous counter-cultural road movie that celebrates its 40th birthday this year. At ACMI, August 12.
CLASH OF THE TITANS is a classic 1981 fantasy adventure film featuring stop motion animation from the legendary Ray Harryhausen. Midnight screening at the Westgarth, August 12.
TOP HAT is the classic 1935 musical starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. At ACMI, August 14.
REAR WINDOW is Alfred Hitchcock’s classic suspense film from 1954 about voyeurism set entirely in a New York apartment. Screens with another classic Hitchcock, 1958’s VERTIGO. At the Astor, August 13.
New releases opening this week:
THE GREEN LANTERN is a film about a comic book superhero called the Green Lantern.
GLEE! 3D is a concert movie featuring characters from the television series Glee.
Senna is a documentary about a racing driver called Ayrton Senna.
JANE EYRE is an adaptation of the Charlotte Brontë novel by Cary Fukunaga (director of 2009’s mediocre Sin Nombre).
THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD is a film about advertising by Morgan Spurlock. It’s probably dumb, smug and irritating and I would avoid watching it.
TUCKER AND DALE VS EVIL is a horror film pastiche. What genius figured out that we needed more horror film pastiches?
Masahiro Shinoda's "Youth in Fury" at the Melbourne Cinematheque
