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Week starting Thursday 22nd September
New movies opening this week:
TABLOID is Errol Morris’ latest documentary, utilising his method of direct-to-camera interviews, he explores the bizarre story of a former beauty queen who pursued her Mormon lover to Britain leading to the famous “sex in chains” story that dominated tabloid newspapers.
CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (3D) is Werner Herzog’s documentary about the Chauvet Cave which features the earliest known cave paintings. Somewhere in the film there are mutant albino alligators.
Special events:
WORLD CINEMA NOW…
Week starting Thursday 15th September
Special seasons:
FIRE IN BABYLON is a documentary about the West Indian cricket team in the 1970s and 80s and their journey to becoming one of the greatest sporting teams in history. At ACMI, September 15-October 5.
The Melbourne Cinematheque presents ‘Tropical Maladies: The Cinema of Lucrecia Martel’, a retrospective of the Argentinian filmmaker who has directed only three features. This week’s films are THE HOLY GIRL (2004) about an adolescent girl who undergoes a sexual awakening and…
Week starting Thursday 8th September
New films opening this week:
13 ASSASSINS is Takashi Miike’s colourfully violent samurai film about a band of assassins sent to kill the murderous Shinzaemon who threatens to plunge the country into violent darkness. The extended fight scene that closes the film is particularly amazing.
SUBMARINE is a remake of Harold and Maude or maybe of Rushmore. In any case, it’s a coming of age story about a precocious teenager with whimsical affectations who falls in love with…
Week starting Thursday 25th August
Old films:
DEVIL’S ANGELS is a Roger Corman-produced exploitation film starring John Cassavetes as the leader of a biker gang who get in trouble with the law after an incident with a beauty pageant contestant. At ACMI, August 26.
APOCALYPSE NOW: REDUX is Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film about the madness of the Vietnam War. This version includes 49 minutes of scenes cut from the original film. At the Astor, August 25.
LORD OF THE FLIES, a 1963 adaptation…
Week starting Thursday 18th August
New films opening this week:
PINA marks another renowned auteur’s foray into 3D. This time, WIm Wenders has made a film inspired by the choreographer Pina Bausch who died in 2009.
COWBOYS AND ALIENS sounds like a movie that would get made if the characters of Pineapple Express became Hollywood executives. But this is a real movie directed by Jon Favreau and starring Daniel Craig. Could potentially be quite fun.
THE WOMAN is an excellently-titled horror film. That is…
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…
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…
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…
Week starting Thursday 23rd June
New releases opening this week:
SLEEPING BEAUTY is a “controversial” work about “female sexuality” released in unfortunate proximity to Catherine Breillat’s film of the same name.
MEEK’S CUTOFF is the latest film from Kelly Reichardt, the distinctive American independent director. The first period piece for Reichardt, this film follows a group of American settlers and their strained dependence on a Native American as they search for water in the Oregonian desert. Showing at Nova after its exclusive run…
Week starting Thursday 16th June
Film festivals:
The Melbourne International Animation Festival features 30 programs of animation over 8 days including new and old films. Highlights include a focus on contemporary Polish animators and a retrospective of UPA studios responsible for characters such as Mr. Magoo and Gerald McBoing Boing. At ACMI, June 19-26. (site here)
Special seasons:
The Melbourne Cinematheque presents Totally, Tenderly, Tragically: The Films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a retrospective of the iconoclastic German director. The 3-week season finishes up with The…
Week starting Thursday 8th June
Special seasons:
The Melbourne Cinematheque presents Totally, Tenderly, Tragically: The Films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a retrospective of the iconoclastic German director. The 3-week season continues with The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978), the first of his BRD Trilogy dealing with the malaise of wartime defeat and post-war reconstruction, and Veronika Voss (1982) a film loosely based around the life of German actress Sybille Schmitz and the last installment of Fassbinder’s BRD trilogy. At ACMI each Wednesday, June 8-22.
Meek’s Cutoff…
Week starting Thursday 2nd June
New releases opening this week:
Meek’s Cutoff is the latest film from Kelly Reichardt, the distinctive American director of Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy. The first period piece for Reichardt, this film follows a group of American settlers and their strained dependence on a Native American as they search for water in the Oregonian desert. Showing exclusively at ACMI until June 19. Check out Brad Nguyen’s review here.
Julia’s Eyes is a Spanish horror film about a woman…
Week starting Thursday 26th May
New releases opening this week:
Get Low is a comedy set in old timey America about a hermit (Robert Duvall) who demands that a funeral director (Bill Murray) hold his funeral party while he is still alive.
Of Gods and Men won the Grand Prix at Cannes last year. It’s about a group of Trappist monks caught in a bind between Islamic militants and government authorities during the Algerian civil war.
A Beautiful Life, directed by Andrew Lau (Infernal…
Week starting Thursday 19th May
New releases opening this week:
Angèle and Tony is a French romance of some sort with a working class setting and lots of hand held cameras and passionate love-making. Could be good.
La Princesse de Montpensier is a historical epic directed by Betrand Tavernier which, according to Roger Ebert, has “awesome battle scenes”.
Snowtown is yet another gritty Australian crime film about violent working class yobs suffering with some sort of “masculinity crisis”. Yawn.
Main Street is a film about…
Week starting Thursday 12th May
New releases this week:
Your Highness is the probably very stupid and hopefully very funny fantasy film directed by David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, George Washington) and written by Danny McBride and Ben Best (Eastbound and Down). The film is about two warriors on a quest to save a beautiful virgin from an evil sorceror who wishes to impregnate her with a dragon.
A Chinese Ghost Story (a.k.a. A Chinese Fairy Tale) is a wu xia film inspired…
Week starting Thursday 5th May
Short seasons
The Melbourne Cinematheque finishes its 3-week retrospective season on legendary French filmmaker Alain Resnais. This week’s films are Last Year in Marienbad (1961) about a man trying to convince a woman that they had an affair the year before; and Muriel, or The Time of Return (1963) about a woman who invites her lover from 20 years earlier to stay with her and her stepson. At ACMI, May 11.
Speakeasy Cinema presents Flooding With Love for the Kid, a…
Week starting Thursday 28th April
New releases this week:
Carlos is a film from Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours, Irma Vep) about the notorious terrorist that was voted as best film of 2010 in Film Comment’s annual critics’ poll. Originally a 3-part miniseries made for television, the version released in Australian cinemas is a much condensed one.
Force of Nature: David Suzuki is a documentary about the revered environmentalist that combines footage of his “last lecture” with his life story.
Mrs. Carey’s Concert is a…
Week starting Thursday 21st April
New releases this week:
Incendies is a Canadian film from director Denis Villeneuve about two siblings who search for the father they thought to be dead and the brother they knew not to exist following the death of their mother.
Potiche is a camp farce from Francois Ozon set in 1977 and depicting a submissive wife (Catherine Deneuve) who runs her husband’s umbrella factory after the workers revolt against their boss. Ozon said of his film, “I wanted…
Week starting Thursday 14th April
New releases this week:
Paul is the latest film from “Screen Machine’s favourite director” Greg Mottola, the guy who directed the “Best Film of 2009″ Adventureland, Superbad and the rarely-seen The Daytrippers (1996) which, according to Screen Machine Co-Editor Conall, is “good”. What’s this one about? It’s about an alien hanging around with those British guys from Shaun of the Dead.
Murundak: Songs of Freedom is a documentary about Aboriginal protest singers. Apparently Missy Higgins likes this movie.
Brighton Rock…
Week starting Thursday 7th April
New releases this week:
I Love You Phillip Morris is a comedy about a conman who falls in love during a stint in prison from directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa best known as the writers of Bad Santa. We gave it a positive review when it played at MIFF last year. Exclusively at Nova.
How I Ended This Summer is a thriller about the rocky relationship between two men living together in isolation for several years at a…
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…
Week starting Thursday 24th March:
New releases this week are:
Kaboom, a science fiction film from Gregg Araki (Mysterious Skin, The Doom Generation) about a sexually promiscuous film student whose dreams become manifest in his waking life.
Biutiful is a sure to be dour film about “the state of the world” from Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel, Amores Perros). The Village Voice’s J Hoberman remarked that “this blatantly artistic movie isn’t just awful but confidently so”.
Barney’s Version is a comedy-drama starring Paul Giamatti. Based…
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…
Week starting Thursday 10th March:
Opening this week:
Howl is the James Franco-starring film exploring both the Six Gallery debut and the 1957 obscenity trial of American poet Allen Ginsberg’s noted poem Howl. Matt Connolly of Reverse Shot summed it up as “leav[ing] one feeling informed but not enlightened, cognizant of artistic gambles but only recalling well-intentioned pieties: I’m Not There as directed by Stanley Kramer.”.
Rango is an animated film about a chameleon stranded in the desert from Gore Verbinski, that some-kind-of-genius who gave us…
Week starting Thursday 3rd March:
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s masterful Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is a cinematic poem concerning a man who in his last days finds himself surrounded by his loved ones including his dead wife and his lost son who has taken the form of a ghost monkey. The film was listed in our round up of 2010 at number 3. At ACMI until March 14.
The Water Magician is Japanese master filmmaker Kenji Mizoguchi’s silent film about a female…
Week starting Thursday 24rd February
Opening Thursday:
The Way Back, Peter Weir’s follow-up to 2003’s Master and Commander, chronicles the escape of a group of prisoners from a Siberian gulag in 1940, and their epic journey to freedom. Stars Ed Harris and Colin Farrell. According to Ebert Presents At The Movies‘ Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Colin Farrell’s Russian pronunciation of the word for “sweater” is hilarious.
Conviction is about a working class woman, played by – who else? – Hilary Swank, who goes through 18 years…
Week starting Thursday 17th February
Opening this week: Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy. Kiarostami’s first film made outside Iran, the film concerns two people (Juliette Binoche and William Shimell) spending a day together in Tuscany. While love has brought them together the exact nature of their relationship becomes more and more difficult to concern. The film has generated some disagreement between us at Screen Machine. In his review, Conall cited Kiarostami’s problematic move towards a cinema of precision and directorial control while…
Week starting Thursday 10th February
Opening this week: Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours. The film stars James Franco as real-life mountain climber Aron Ralston who cut off his own arm after being trapped under a boulder for more than five days.
Also opening is Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter. Scripted by Peter Morgan (The Queen), the film is a fantasy drama about three people living parallel lives who are affected by death in various ways.
Finally Ivan Reitman’s No Strings Attached. The film is about two…
Week starting Thursday 3rd February
Apocalypse Now: Redux, Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam war epic, is screening on Thursday at the Astor.
ACMI is screening Bluebeard from French director Catherine Breillat on Sunday. Though well known for such sexual provocations as 1999’s Romance, this film is for the most part a traditional telling of the traditional fairytale. Breillat’s authorial interventions (the deliberately artificial aesthetic, the film’s framing device) are subtle and take a little work to make sense of. Conall called…
Week starting Thursday 9th December
Opening this week is a new film from legendary Hong Kong director Tsui Hark, Detective Dee and the Mystery of Phantom Flame.
At ACMI, François Ozon’s latest, The Refuge, is screening from Thursday through ’til Sunday. Conall described the film as “relatively modest”. As it is the silly season, they are screening The Muppet Christmas Carol for the kids on Sunday and Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special is screening with Komaneko Christmas – A Lost Present from Monday…
Week starting Thursday 2nd December:
New releases this week: Enter the Void from French provocateur Gaspar Noé, which Conall called the worst movie of MIFF meaning it’s probably worth checking out if you didn’t already see it at MIFF. Lebanon, winner of the Golden Lion at Venice, is a film told entirely from the perspective of the inside of an Israeli tank during the 1982 Lebanon War. Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale also opens, a kitsch horror film from Finland whose…
Opening this week: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 1), the second last in the fantasy series; Agora, a probably annoying historical drama from director Alejandro Amenábar (The Sea Inside) that pits the forces of religion against the forces of science and reason; and Gasland, a documentary about the devastating effects of hydraulic oil drilling on a small American community.
At Cinematheque on Wednesday at ACMI, Scandinavian Silent Cinema: The Phantom Carriage by Victor Sjöström (paid homage to by Ingmar…
New releases this week: The Messenger, a film whose synopsis – about the soldiers who have to deliver news of killed soldiers to their next of kin – is not so interesting but whose director is notable for being one of the co-writers of Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There. Winter’s Bone, the Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning film about how surprisingly tough it is to be 17 and live in an impoverished family with an incapacitated mother and a fugitive meth-making…
Well there are three “of interest” new releases this week, of which the most exciting is obviously the Jackass 3 movie (in 3D!). Second is Gainsbourg, a biopic of Serge Gainsbourg, and third is Zhang Yimou’s A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, a slapstick period remake of the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple.
Bong Joon-Ho’s The Host screens at ACMI on Friday night. This week at ACMI also sees the beginning of a three-week run of the documentary American: The…
The only real noteworthy new release this week is The Social Network. BE PREPARED TO HAVE YOUR ERA DEFINED! Or something.
The Melbourne Cinematheque continues its wonderful season of early Lubitsch, with The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1928) and Madame Dubarry (1919), two more hard-to-see films from the great auteur’s earlier years.
If you’ve been meaning to get to “Grain of The Voice”, the retrospective of works by experimental filmmakers Corinne and Arthur Cantrill, then this Sunday at ACMI is your…
Exciting new releases this week: The Housemaid is Im Sang-soo’s remake of the classic 1960 erotic thriller by Kim Ki-young (which was recently restored and viewable on the Internet for free here.) La Danse is a documentary on the Paris Opera Ballet by Frederick Wiseman, the legendary documentary filmmaker of Titticut Follies, High School and Primate which screened at this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival.
The Hola Mexico Film Festival (website here) kicks off on Friday at ACMI. The website is…
Some potentially interesting new releases opening this week – The erotic thriller Chloe from director Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter); Let Me In - an American remake of the Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In from director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield), the drama The City of Your Final Destination about a graduate student who travels to Uruguay to seek permission to write a biography on an obscure writer from director James Ivory (The White Countess), the crime film The…
This Sunday, ACMI starts a retrospective of the work of Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, spanning 50 years of the experimental filmmakers’ shorts and features. The retrospective has been curated by Jake Wilson. (Read Screen Machine’s interview with Jake here.) The retrospective runs until the end of the month. Program here.
ACMI also starts its program The Filmic Lives of Gainsbourg and Birkin this Thursday, ending October 19. Program here.
While you’re at ACMI, why not check out Bill Viola’s video installation The…
The Australian Malaysian Film Festival begins Saturday and finishes on Wednesday 6th October. Link here. Definitely sounds like it’s worth going to. Can’t say the same for ACMI’s Seniors Film Festival (but it’s worth checking out the weird schizophrenic program. Apparently old people just love Nanny McPhee and The Wolfman!)
On Thursday ACMI is screening Mathieu Kassovitz’s pretty great La Haine with a twist: the film will be soundtracked live by DJ Dexter of The Avalanches fame. Sounds intriguing. On the…
This week sees the release of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, as well as the second film in the sequence of Stieg Larsson adaptations, The Girl Who Played With Fire.
On Wednesday, Melbourne Filmoteca will screen the 2000 Spanish film Pellet, by Achero Mañas. The Melbourne Cinematheque concludes its Maggie Cheung season with Wong Kar-wai’s recently restored 90s wuxia classic, Ashes of Time, along with Ann Hui’s Song of the Exile. Meanwhile the Astor continues its run of the…
The Melbourne Cinematheque continues its focus on Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung with Wong Kar-wai’s seductive rendering of 1960s Hong Kong In the Mood for Love and Clara Law’s Farewell China, a New York-set drama about a man who follows his wife’s journey to America. Both films also co-star Tony Leung.
New releases opening in cinemas this Thursday include the anime Summer Wars (our review from MIFF here), Casey Affleck’s (faux?)documentary about the downward spiral of Joaquin Phoenix I’m Still Here…
New releases opening Thursday include The Disappearance of Alice Creed, Despicable Me and Please Give. Other films to check out this week include Sunday night’s double-bill at the Astor of screwball classics, George Cukor’s Holiday and Howard Hawks’ His Girl Friday. On Monday the Astor will also be screening Michael Mann’s Heat.
Some micro-festivals to sink your teeth into this week: Madman’s Reel Anime festival (including Summer Wars – which we reviewed here - and the first 2 Evangelion films) begins Thursday while the Singapore Film Festival runs from Saturday 4th to Wednesday 8th.
The doco William S. Burroughs: A Man Within screens at ACMI Thursday through Sunday. Features interviews with Allen Ginsberg, John Waters, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Gus Van Sant, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Sonic Youth, Laurie Anderson, Amiri Baraka, Jello Biafra,…
Hmm… So many films opening this week that YOU MUST WATCH! (Not really.) Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me is a Controversial Movie! MUST WATCH! Avatar Special Edition has a sexy Na’vi sex scene! MUST WATCH! Piranha 3D is an ironic meme-friendly B-movie pastiche! MUST WATCH! (By the way, Saige Walton called Piranha 3D the new Showgirls but it doesn’t look that good.)
On Friday 27th, the Melbourne Writers Festival begins, which has a number of film/televisiony events listed here. Not…
Only a couple of weeks after the end of MIFF, and another barrage of potentially-somewhat-interesting film events is upon us.
So, we’ve made it through the film festival (even if Screen Machine’s own excavation of MIFF 2010 is still going, and will continue in the coming days), and it’s back to normal life. Those of us who’ve been waiting til post-MIFF to see new, widely released films like the inescapable Inception, Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer and Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg will now have our chance.
Yeah so this film festival is still happening at the moment. You might have heard about it? Also, there’s a film called Still Walking by this pretty happening guy called Hirokazu Koreeda which is showing at ACMI this Saturday/Sunday/Monday.
If you want some light entertainment outside of MIFF, The Special Relationship opens this week. Michael Sheen plays Tony Blair like he did in The Queen except this time he finds out Darth Vader is his father. If you want something meatier,…
We were thinking this column would be unnecessary this week because, y’know, we’re BANG IN THE MIDDLE OF MIFF RIGHT NOW, but this weekend ACMI is screening Still Walking by Hirokazu Koreeda, whose Air Doll [our review here] is showing at the film festival right now. We listed Still Walking among our top films of last year here. Matinee screenings on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Now if you’re wondering what to check out at the festival, well you have the benefit…
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THURSDAY 22nd
Opening night of the 59th Melbourne International Film Festival.
Inception, the highly anticipated film from Christopher Nolan (Memento, The Dark Knight), opens.
Greenberg, Noah Baumbach’s (The Squid and the Whale) tale of mid-life crisis starring Ben Stiller, opens. Features a soundtrack by LCD Soundsystem.
Skin opens. Set during apartheid in South Africa, this film tells the…
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THURSDAY 15th
The Runaways, the biopic of the rock group of the same name starring Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie and Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett, opens.
Knight and Day, an action comedy in which Tom Cruise recruits a beautiful woman (Cameron Diaz) as his beard while the world questions his mental stability, opens. The film tanked…
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THURSDAY 8th
The Hedgehog opens. About a precocious 11 year old who spouts philosophy who befriends a frumpy concierge who hides her immense knowledge of culture for fear of losing her job. Together they meet up with the wise-cracking child from (500) Days of Summer and the math genius janitor from Good Will Hunting and the world…
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THURSDAY 1st
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, French provacteur Catherine Breillat’s confronting and explicit exploration of female desire, opens.
Matthew Barney: No Restraint is a doco following the creation of Matthew Barney and Björk’s mythical Japanese love story, Drawing Restraint 9. Only showing today and the next Thursday.
The Karate Kid opens. It’s a remake relocated to China and with some…
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THURSDAY 24th
The Tim Burton exhibition begins at ACMI. Experience first hand how an auteur’s singular aesthetic over decades became stale and commodified! Tim Burton is also giving a masterclass which is sold out. If you missed out on tickets, NO MATTER, there’s this great FACTUAL documentary on Tim Burton’s creative process at College Humor here.
Toy Story 3, the (almost)…
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THURSDAY 17th
Gone With the Pope, the recently restored grindhouse movie, gets its Australian premiere at the Nova.
Shrek Forever After, Get Him to the Greek, Mother and Child and Lou open.
Exit Through the Gift Shop finishes at ACMI this Monday (21st).
The Blues Brothers (1980) at the Astor.
FRIDAY 18th
The Wolf Man (1941) at ACMI.
SATURDAY 19th
World Cup Australia vs Ghana match is screening…
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THURSDAY 10th June
The A-Team, Stan Brakhage’s 20-minute schizophrenic montage of various close-up shots of Bradley Cooper’s abdominal muscles, opens wide.
Exit Through the Gift Shop, the debut of infamous conceptual street artist Banksy, continues its extended season at ACMI, finshing up on June 21. Zora’s review is here.
The Sentimental Engine Slayer, debut of Omar Rodriguez Lopez (of Mars Volta and At…
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THURSDAY
Exit Through the Gift Shop, the debut film of infamous conceptual street artist Banksy, begins a two week season at ACMI. Zora’s review is here.
Animal Kingdom, the highly anticipated Australian crime film, opens. It won the jury prize for not-American films at Sundance. Maggie gave it a glowing review here.
45365, the indie documentary on the small town of Sidney, Ohio, plays…
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THURSDAY 27th May
StreetDance, a 3D film about street dancing featuring noted MILF Charlotte Rampling (?), opens.
Prince of Persia: The Sands Of Time, celebrated filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard’s gripping documentary about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s race to win the annual Iranian Bodybuilding Championship, opens.
Fish Tank, the Cannes prize-winning film from Andrea Arnold about a troubled teenager living in a British council estate, opens.
The Secret in Their Eyes,…
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THURSDAY 20th May
Goemon, the ninja-romance-fantasy-action-revenge epic from Japan, continues its extended season at ACMI, ending May 30th.
Harry Brown opens. It’s a thriller starring Michael Caine as an old ex-marine who beats the shit out of some no-good youngsters which is basically what Bruce Ruxton does every Friday night for kicks.
Food Inc., Robert Kenner’s expose of the American food industry, opens.
The Next…
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THURSDAY 13th
New York, I Love You, from the producers of Paris je t’aime, opens. It’s the same concept except with a different city and crappier directors. Seriously- Brett Ratner?
Love, Lust and Lies, a documentary from Gillian Armstrong in the same vein as Michael Apted’s Seven Up! series, opens. We reviewed it here.
Robin Hood, re-envisioned by Ridley Scott with Russell Crowe in the lead and Cate…
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THURSDAY 6th
The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke’s provocative tale of a series of mysterious violent occurences in a village just prior to World War I, opens.
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench plays at ACMI as part of their Jazz on Film programme. A contemporary combination of mumblecore and MGM musicals, the film recalls such filmmakers as Cassavetes, Godard and Demy.…
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THURSDAY 29th
Iron Man 2, the superhero popcorn flick from Jon Favreau starring Robert Downey Jr., opens.
Blind Company, a drama about family disfunction or something from Australian auteur Alkinos Tsilimidos, opens. Prominently features dreary weather and violence.
Amos Oz, a documentary on the Israeli writer, opens.
The Concert, a comedy about Andrei Filipov, the once celebrated conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, since relegated to janitorial duties…
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THURSDAY
The Bunny and the Bull, a comedic road movie from Paul King (director of The Mighty Boosh), opens exclusively at Nova. Actually set entirely inside the characters’ flat, the film is more a surreal recreation of a past roadtrip resulting in some amazing Gondry-esque visuals.
Hot Tub Time Machine, starring John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke and Crispin Glover (!!!) is about a…
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THURSDAY 15th
Coco and Igor, detailing the relationship between Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky following the landmark performance of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”, opens. Will this film shock the audience’s bourgeois sensibilities and cause a riot like Stravinsky’s work did? (Hint: It’s a rhetorical question.)
The Book of Eli, a post-apocalyptic action film The Hughes Brothers (From Hell) and starring Denzel Washington, Mila Kunis and Gary…
THURSDAY
Mother, the excellent Hitchcockian crime film (and Screen Machine favourite of 2009) from Bong Joon-ho (Memories of Murder, The Host) opens at Nova. We reviewed it last year when it screened at MIFF.
Kick Ass, the film based on Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.’s comic book series, opens.
Date Night, starring Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Mark Wahlberg, Mark Ruffalo, James Franco, Common, Kristen Wiig, and Blair from Gossip Girl, opens.
Two of the most interesting films at this year’s La Mirada festival…
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THURSDAY 1st
Micmacs, a fantastical satire on the world arms trade from Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie, A Very Long Engagement) opens.
Welcome, the story of a Kurdish refugee in Europe from Philippe Lioret which won Berlin’s Ecumenical Jury Prize, opens.
The Last Station, the Tolstoy biopic from Michael Hoffman (One Fine Day) starring Christopher Plummer, James McAvoy and Hellen Mirren, opens.
La Mirada Film Festival, co-programmed by Pedro Almodovar with guest curators Martin Scorsese and Stephen…
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THURSDAY 25th
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the Swedish thriller based on the best-selling novel, opens.
The Melbourne Queer Film Festival finishes up this Sunday.
The Red Shoes, the 1948 dance drama from Powell and Pressburger (Black Narcissus), continues its extended season at Astor.
Labyrinth, the classic 1986 Jim Henson fantasy starring David Bowie, at Rooftop.
In the Zone, Blaine Cooper’s two channel video work and installation finishes its run at Rearview Gallery this Saturday
SATURDAY…
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THURSDAY
Brothers, the war drama from Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father, Get Rich or Die Tryin’) starring Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman.
Cop Out, the buddy comedy from Kevin Smith (Clerks, Zack and Miri Make a Porno) starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan.
The 20th Melbourne Queer Film Festival begins.
The City of Lost Children, the dystopian fantasy from Caro and Jeunet (Delicatessen) at ACMI.
The Darjeeling Limited, the India roadtrip dramedy from Wes Anderson, at…
THURSDAY
The Green Zone, an Iraq war film starring Matt Damon and directed by Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, United 93) opens.
The new film from veteran auteur Claude Chabrol, Bellamy (starring Gérard Depardieu) screens at the Como at 9:15 as part of the French Film Festival.
The Day Before: Jean-Paul Gaultier, a documentary about the designer directed by Loic Prigent, screens at ACMI at 7:30.
FRIDAY
Tony Gatlif’s Korkoro screens as part of the French Film Festival at the Kino at 6:15.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet and…
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THURSDAY
Alice in Wonderland (3D), Tim Burton’s re-imagining of Lewis Carroll’s world, opens.
The Men Who Stare at Goats, Grant Heslov’s film about the US military’s “psychic spies” (starring George Clooney) opens.
Dear John, the latest Nicholas Sparks adaptation (starring Channing Tatum SQUEAL!), directed by Lasse Halstrom, opens.
Hadewijch, Bruno Dumont’s divisive film about a young woman grappling with faith, mysticism and religious fundamentalism, opens at ACMI and plays until Sunday.
Ricky, the baby horror film from Francois Ozon, plays…
THURSDAY
A Single Man, the debut film of designer Tom Ford, opens.
Ricky, François Ozon’s baby horror film (described as Cronenberg meets the Dardenne Brothers) opens at ACMI exclusively and plays until March 10.
Triple R presents Sympathy for the Devil (Jean-luc Godard, 1968) at Rooftop.
The Blind Side, the Oscar-nominated(wtf!) film starring Sandra Bullock, opens.
The Leopard (1963), Visconti’s epic period drama, plays at ACMI tonight and Sunday.
Grindhouse (Tarantino and Rodriguez, 2007) at Astor.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975) at Moonlight.
FRIDAY
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THURSDAY
Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (a Best Picture Oscar nominee and Screen Machine favourite of 2009) opens.
Martin Scorsese’s thriller Shutter Island (with Leonardo DiCaprio) opens.
Celine: Through the Eyes of the World opens.
Scott Cooper’s Crazy Heart (with Oscar-nominated performances from Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal) opens.
FRIDAY
ACMI begins a season focusing on actress Claudia Cardinale, star of 1960s Italian cinema, with Visconti’s Sandra (1965) and Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo (1982).
Freaky Fridays presents last year’s blacksploitation kitsch Black Dynamite at ACMI.
SATURDAY
Mike Nichols’ The Graduate…
THURSDAY
Cannes Grand Jury Prize-winner and Oscar nominee this year for best foreign film, Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet opens.
From director Joe Johnston (Jumanji), The Wolfman starring Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins opens.
Marco Ferreri’s controversial take on late sixties alienation, Dillinger is Dead (1969) plays at ACMI until Sunday.
Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill (Vols. 1 & 2) at the Astor or Pulp Fiction at Moonlight.
FRIDAY
Twilight and Twilight: New Moon at the Astor. We wrote about New Moon here.
Freaky Fridays presents…
THURSDAY
Lee Daniels’ Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning Precious (with Mo’Nique and Mariah Carey) opens.
Elia Suleiman’s semi-autobiographical The Time That Remains plays at ACMI until Sunday.
The Spierig Brothers’ vampire movie Daybreakers opens.
Alan Parker’s blue collar soul movie The Committments (1991) at Moonlight.
Ridley Scott’s dystopian sci-fi noir Bladerunner (1982) at Rooftop.
FRIDAY
Sidney Lumet’s 1978 Motown-styled Wizard of Oz remake The Wiz (starring Michael Jackson and Diana Ross) at ACMI today and Sunday.
Cinema Fiasco present Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) starring Vincent…
THURSDAY
John Hillcoat’s The Road (based on the Cormac McCarthy novel) opens.
Warwick Thornton’s Samson and Delilah (listed on our Top 20 of 2009) at the Astor.
Stephen Soderbergh’s The Informant at Moonlight Cinema.
Richard Lowenstein’s doco on Melbourne post-punk scene in the 1970s We’re Living on Dog Food at Rooftop.
FRIDAY
Katsuhiro Otomo’s cyberpunk dystopian anime classic Akira (1988) at the Astor.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) at Moonlight Cinema.
Freaky Fridays presents cult sci-fi western The American Astronaut (Cory McAbee, 2001) at ACMI.
SATURDAY
Olivier Assayas’ Summer Hours…
THURSDAY
Armando Iannucci’s foul-mouthed political comedy In The Loop opens. (The film made Screen Machine’s Best of 2009 List.)
Rob Marshall’s musical reimagining of 8 1/2 (*sigh*) Nine opens.
Clint Eastwood’s Invictus opens.
Toy Story 1 and 2 (presented in 3D) open.
Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (1964) at Rooftop.
FRIDAY
Freaky Fridays presents Cory McAbee’s sci-fi musical western Stingray Sam at ACMI.
SATURDAY
Lee “Scratch” Perry documentary The Upsetter plays at ACMI as part of Yard!Dub and Reggae on Film.
Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are at the…
THURSDAY
Rachel Perkins’ Bran Nue Dae opens.
Jason Reitman’s Up In the Air opens.
Anvil! The story of Anvil at Rooftop.
FRIDAY
Cult musical space western Stingray Sam (2009) plays at ACMI with a post-screening Q & A with director Cory McAbee.
SATURDAY
Screen Machine 2009 list-maker (!) A Serious Man from the Coen Brothers at Astor. (We wrote about it here.)
Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca (1942) at Rooftop.
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Red Shoes 1948 at ACMI today until Monday.
SUNDAY
Tape Projects presents Occult Uses for Video,…
THURSDAY
Duncan Jones’ Moon, a Screen Machine favourite of 2009, is screening at the Astor.
Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider (1969) is screening at ACMI until Sunday 10th January.
Michael Lehmann’s Heathers (1988) at Rooftop.
SATURDAY
Wes Anderson’s Rushmore (1998) at Rooftop.
SUNDAY
Kathryn Bigelow’s Point Break (1991) at Rooftop.
MONDAY
Ron Fricke’s Koyaanisquatsi (1983) and Powaqqatsi (1988) at the Astor.
TUESDAY
Ben Stiller’s Zoolander (2001) at Rooftop.
THURSDAY (I.E. TODAY)
James Cameron’s Avatar opens.
Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces opens.
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) is playing at ACMI at 1pm every day until Christmas Eve.
FRIDAY
Freaky Fridays presents Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain (1973) at ACMI.
Miyazaki’s Ponyo at Moonlight. (We wrote about it here.)
SATURDAY
Arnaud Desplechin’s A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noel) is showing at ACMI until December 28. Featuring Mathieu Amalric and Catherine Deneuve.
John Hughes’ Weird Science (1985) at Rooftop.
Special advance screening of Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox at Moonlight.
SUNDAY
The…
THURSDAY
Sam Mendes’ Away We Go (written by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida opens).
Bill Maher’s atheist doco Religulous (directed by Larry Charles) opens.
Shane Acker’s animated post-apocalypse tale 9 opens.
The Pang brothers’ wuxia epic The Storm Warriors opens.
Tarantino and Rodriguez’s Grindhouse (2007) at Astor.
Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In (2008) at Rooftop.
Vincente Minnelli’s Meet Me in St Louis (1944) plays at ACMI until Wednesday.
ACMI’s Focus on Hopper’s America is running until Sunday.
FRIDAY
Freaky Fridays presents Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo (1971) at ACMI.
Cinema…
THURSDAY
Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are opens.
Steven Soderbergh’s comedy The Informant (starring Matt Damon) opens.
Paranormal Activity opens.
Zombieland (starring Jesse Eisenberg) opens.
Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time In the West (1968) is playing at the Astor until Saturday.
Japanese Film Festival is running until Tuesday.
ACMI presents a Focus on Hopper’s America which runs until December 13.
Richard Donner’s The Goonies (1985) at Rooftop.
FRIDAY
Freaky Fridays presents Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo (1971) at ACMI.
SATURDAY
Stanley Kramer’s On the Beach (from 1959 and starring Gregory Peck,…
THURSDAY
Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist opens. We wrote about it here.
Abbas Kiarostami’s Shirin is playing at ACMI until Sunday.
Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson’s The Invention of Lying opens.
Astor is still running a mini-season of Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).
James Clavell’s To Sir, With Love (from 1967 and starring Sidney Poitier) at Rooftop.
Digital postcard exhibition Canvas Found at Loop.
FRIDAY
Freaky Fridays presents Cory McAbee’s The American Astronaut (2001)
SATURDAY
Electrundra 2009 Audio-Visual Festival at Loop.
Ivan Reitman’s Ghostbusters (1984) at Rooftop.
SUNDAY
Stanley…
THURSDAY
The Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man opens.
Twilight Saga: New Moon opens.
Erick Zonca’s Julia featuring Tilda Swinton premieres at ACMI and plays until Sunday.
Feedback Loop Media present The Mackenzie Portfolio at Loop.
FRIDAY
Freaky Fridays presents Gus Van Sant’s Drugstore Cowboy (1989) at ACMI.
SATURDAY
Miyazaki double: Ponyo on the Cliff By the Sea (which we wrote about here) and Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) at Astor.
Electrundra 2009 Audio-Visual Festival at Loop.
SUNDAY
Astor begins a mini-season of Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the…
THURSDAY
Rian Johnson’s The Brothers Bloom opens.
Roland Emmerich’s 2012 opens.
Palestinian Film Festival opens today and runs until Sunday 15th November.
Hilariously, Festival of Jewish Cinema opens the same day and runs until Sunday 29th November.
FRIDAY
Freaky Fridays presents noted horror film, Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho (1991) at ACMI.
SUNDAY
Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) at Astor.
MONDAY
Kenneth Branagh’s four-hour version of Hamlet (1997) at Astor.
TUESDAY
Catacomb Carousel Cinematheque at Glitch.
WEDNESDAY
Cinematheque presents Frank Borzage’s Lazy Bones (1925)
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THURSDAY
Michael Winterbottom’s Genova (starring Colin Firth and Catherine Keener) opens.
Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story opens.
Robert Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carol (starring Jim Carrey in 3D) opens.
The Time Traveller’s Wife (based on the novel) opens.
Scott Hicks is at Nova to discuss his forthcoming The Boys Are Back.
David Caesar and Ben Mendelsohn are at Nova to discuss the forthcoming Prime Mover.
FRIDAY
Freaky Fridays presents William Castle’s The Tingler (from 1959 and starring Vincent Price) at ACMI.
Beautiful Losers (a doco on the DIY subculture…
THURSDAY
Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, starring Heath Ledger, opens.
Richard Kelly’s The Box opens.
Music doco It Might Get Loud (with The Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White) opens.
Michael Jackson concert doco This Is It is playing for 2 weeks only.
East Germany’s first sci-fi The Silent Star (1960) screens as part of ACMI’s Focus on East German Cinema.
FRIDAY
[UPDATE! The new Speakeasy Cinema is having its opening party at 1000 £ Bend, showing the documentary Beautiful Losers (featuring artists such as…
THURSDAY
Femlink presents a collage of short videos on the theme “Male” at Loop.
FRIDAY
Freaky Fridays features William Castle’s Strait-Jacket (1964) featuring Joan Crawford
SUNDAY
Gone With the Wind (1939) and Paul Verhoeven’s Robocop (1988) at Astor.
MONDAY
As part of the Hello Darkness Horror Film Festival, Paranormal Activity at ACMI.
WEDNESDAY
Cinematheque presents Chris Marker’s If I Had Four Camels (CANCELLED. Replaced with Remembrance of Things to Come) and Letter From Siberia (1958) at ACMI.
THURSDAY
Woody Allen’s Whatever Works starring Larry David opens.
Yojiro Takita’s Oscar-winning Departures opens.
Lone Scherfig’s An Education opens.
The Final Destination 3D opens.
“Kimchi western” The Good, The Bad, The Weird is playing at ACMI is playing until 20th October.
Agnes Varda’s Lions Love (1969) plays at ACMI today and Sunday.
FRIDAY
John Landis’ The Blues Brothers (1980) at Astor.
Freaky Fridays presents William Castle’s Strait-Jacket (1964) starring Joan Crawford.
SATURDAY
Miyazaki double feature at Astor: Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea and Nausicaa of the Valley of the…
THURSDAY
Duncan Jones’ Moon opens.
Nora Ephron’s Julia & Julia opens.
Gustave de Kervern & Benoit Delepine’s Louise-Michel (winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance) opens.
Peter Billingsley’s Couples Retreat opens.
Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut Whip It opens.
Seniors’ Film Festival has a retrospective of Terence Davies’ films.
South Korean homage to the spaghetti western The Good, The Bad and The Weird is at ACMI until October 20.
FRIDAY
Freaky Fridays presents Michael Crichton’s Westworld (1973) at ACMI.
SUNDAY
Alan Crosland’s The Jazz Singer (1927) at Astor (preceded by an…
THURSDAY
Marc Webb’s (500) Days of Summer opens.
Tatia Rosenthal’s $9.99 opens.
Matt Tyrnauer’s Valentino: The Last Emperor opens.
FRIDAY
Todd Phillips’ The Hangover and Greg Mottola’s Adventureland play as a double bill at Astor.
Bert Deling’s Pure Shit (1975) at ACMI.
SATURDAY
Warwick Thornton’s Samson and Delilah and Sam Mendes’ Revolutionary Road at Astor.
SUNDAY
James Bond double bill: You Only Live Twice (1967) and Diamonds Are Forever (1971) at Astor.
Vincente Minnelli’s An American in Paris (1951) at ACMI.
Alex Proyas’ Dark City (1998) at ACMI.
MONDAY
Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon…
THURSDAY
Judd Apatow’s Funny People opens.
Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World opens.
Ana Kokkinos’ Blessed opens.
Sacha Gervasi’s Anvil! The Story of Anvil opens.
Vittorio De Sica’s The Bicycle Thief (1948) is playing until Tuesday at ACMI.
FRIDAY
Freaky Fridays presents Brian Trenchard-Smith’s Turkey Shoot (1982) at ACMI.
SUNDAY
Great Italian double bill at Astor: Vittorio De Sica’s The Garden of the Finzi Continis (1970) and Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist (1970).
MONDAY
Eighties nostalgia double bill at Astor: Richard Donner’s The Goonies (1985) and Frank Oz’s Little…
THURSDAY
Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience opens.
Pete Docter and Bob Peterson’s Up opens.
FRIDAY
Scorsese’s Mean Streets (1973) at ACMI.
Cinema Fiasco presents Jeremy Jameson’s The Bat People (1974) at the Astor.
MONDAY
Michael Mann’s Heat (1995) at the Astor.
WEDNESDAY
Marguerite Duras double feature: India Song (1975) and Les Enfants (1984). At the Cinematheque.
THURSDAY
Miyazaki’s Ponyo opens.
Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock opens.
Tony Scott’s Taking of Pelham 123 opens.
Anna May Wong retrospective at ACMI starts and plays until Sunday.
FRIDAY
Tarantino and Rodriguez’s Grindhouse at Astor.
Cory McAbee’s The American Astronaut at Freaky Fridays.
SATURDAY
Meet the stars and makers of Anvil! The story of Anvil! (Rob Robb Reiner, Steve “Lips” Kudlow, Sacha Gervasi) at Nova.
A season of films focusing on designer Marc Jacobs starts at ACMI and plays until Sunday 6 September.
SUNDAY
Ana Kokkinos Q&A for her film Blessed at Nova.
John…
THURSDAY
Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds opens.
Aspberger’s romantic comedy Adam opens.
Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker opens for 1 week only.
FRIDAY
The Duplass Brothers’ “Mumblecore” horror film Baghead at Freaky Fridays.
SATURDAY
Author of The Reader, Bernhard Schlink, presents the film at the Melbourne Writer’s Festival.
SUNDAY
Paul Verhoeven’s Robocop at the Astor.
MONDAY
Ron Fricke’s Baraka at the Astor.
TUESDAY
Visconti’s The Leopard at the Melbourne Writer’s Festival.
Antonioni’s Blow-Up at Melbourne Filmoteca.
WEDNESDAY
Rossellini’s Voyage to Italy and Paisà at the Cinematheque.
TONIGHT: Woody Allen double at the Astor: 1973’s Sleeper (about a man who is frozen after an ulcer operation and wakes up in the future 200 years later) screens with Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex from 1972. [Astor]
WEDNESDAY 1st: Cinematheque opens its retrospective of the work of Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski. This weeks double is Four Nights With Anna (2008), a stylised film on obsessive love and Deep End (1971) a black comedy about an adolescent boy’s…
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Tonight (Mon 4th): Seminal precursors to Baraka, the first two of Godfrey Reggio’s Quatsi Trilogy, Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance and Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation screen at Astor. Must be seen on the big screen. Baraka will screen next Monday. [Astor]
Wed 6th: A double feature of silent Danish films at Cinematheque. Benjamin Christensen’s trippy film Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages and The Master of the House by Carl Dreyer about the breakdown of a marriage. [Cinematheque] Meanwhile Melbourne Spiritual Cinema…
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Tonight (Mon 27th): The Who double at Astor: Documentary The Kids Are Alright followed by the Who-scored drama Quadrophenia featuring the movie debut of Sting. [Astor]
Tue 28th: The Chet Baker documentary Let’s Get Lost plays as part of ACMI’s ‘Jazz on Film’ series (Sunday 26th April-Saturday 2nd May). Other films featured during the festival include Jazz on a Summer’s Day, Charlie Haden Rambling Boy, Sun Ra: Space is the Place and Touch of Evil [Jazz on Film] Nova is also…
