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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
8 1/2…
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…
