Below is a summary of the 2007 Cinémathèque calendar. Cinémathèque screenings at ACMI at Federation Square on Wednesday evenings, and typically start at 7pm with two feature length films. Sometimes there are short films as well. You can pick up a large colour copy of the calendar (including film details) from ACMI. I've also provided a permanent link to this post on the sidebar at the right.
Full annual membership of Cinémathèque is $90 or $75 concession. With 39 weeks of screenings this year (there are breaks over summer and during the Melbourne International Film Festival), if you catch one film each week, it works out at only $2.31 per film (or $1.92 concession). And for that price, you can see two films for the price - $1.15/0.96c per film! All this for rare screenings of films you may never get the chance to see on the big screen again.
If you want to 'test the water', you can also take out a four week membership for $20 full/$15 concession.
Personally, I'm keen to see the three week seasons of Krzysztof Kieslowski, Jacques Rivette, Russian and Czech cinema as well as a two week season of post-war German cinema and a week of Ingmar Bergman. But with my annual membership, I'll be trying to cram as many films in as I can, and hopefully pick up an appreciation of works by directors I've never seen before.
Though I am a committee member of Cinémathèque, I have no vested interest in anyone joining. If you're in Melbourne, I highly recommend taking advantage of this unique facility.
Melbourne Cinémathèque 2007 Calendar Summary
Feb 14 | Opening Night: Classic Horror |
7:00 | Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju) 1959 |
8:45 | The Innocents (Jack Clayton) 1961 |
Feb 21 | Nicholas Ray |
7:00 | Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) 1955 |
9:05 | Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray) 1957 France/USA 103 mins |
Feb 28 | Cinema’s Compassionate Gaze |
7:00 | Au Hasard, Balthazar (Robert Bresson) 1966 France 95 mins |
8:45 | The Gospel According to Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini) 1964 |
Mar 7-21 – The Moral Matrix of Krzysztof Kieslowski | |
Mar 7 | |
7:00 | Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 1993 France/Switzerland/Poland 100 mins M |
8:50 | .Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 1981/87 Poland 122 mins MA |
Mar 14 | |
7:00 | White (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 1994 France/Switzerland/Poland 91 mins M |
9:05 | .Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 1979 |
Mar 21 | |
7:00 | Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 1994 France/Switzerland/Poland 99 mins M |
9:05 | A Short Film About Love (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 1988 |
Mar 28 | Sam Fuller |
7:00 | The Naked Kiss (Sam Fuller) 1964 Preceded by two Kieslowski shorts: Refrain 1972 10 mins & Factory 1970 17 mins |
9:10 | Park Row (Sam Fuller) 1952 |
Apr 4 | Outer Limits |
7:00 | Wittgenstein Tractatus (Péter Forgács) 1992 35 mins Meanwhile Somewhere… 1940-43 (Péter Forgács) 1994 52 mins |
8:40 | Charlemagne 2: Piltzer (Pip Chodorov) 2002 22 mins Parallel Space: Inter-view (Peter Tscherkassky) 1992 18 mins |
9:45 | Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky) 1999 14 mins Interkosmos (Jim Finn) 2006 |
Apr 11 | Claire Denis |
7:00 | Beau Travail (Claire Denis) 1999 |
8:40 | Jacques Rivette, the Nightwatchman (Claire Denis & Serge Daney) 1990 |
Apr 18 - May 2 – It’s A Mann’s World: The Cinema of Michael Mann | |
Apr 18 | |
7:00 | Manhunter (Michael Mann) 1986 |
9:15 | The Insider (Michael Mann) 1999 153 mins M |
Apr 25 | |
7:00 | Crime Story: Top of the World (1987) |
8:00 | .Heat (Michael Mann) 1995 |
May 2 | |
7:00 | Thief (Michael Mann) 1981 |
9:15 | Collateral (Michael Mann) 2004 |
May 9 | Nagisa Oshima |
7:00 | Naked Youth (Nagisa Oshima) 1960 Japan 97 mins |
8:50 | Three Resurrected Drunkards (Nagisa Oshima) 1968 Japan 80 mins |
May 16 | Performing Lives |
7:00 | Opening Night (John Cassavetes) 1977 |
9:35 | Lumière (Jeanne Moreau) 1975 France 95 mins |
May 23 - Jun 6 – Jacques Rivette’s Fantastic Realism | |
May 23 | |
7:00 | |
9:30 | Duelle (Jacques Rivette) 1976 mins 121 mins |
May 30 | |
7:00 | Le Coup du Berger (Jacques Rivette) 1956 |
7:40 | Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette) 1974 |
Jun 6 | |
7:00 | La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette) 1991 |
Jun 13 | Johnnie To |
7:00 | Focus on Ryan Larkin: Syrinx (1965) 3 mins, Cityscape (1966) 2 mins, Walking (1968) 5 mins, Street Musique (1972) 8 mins, Ryan (2004) 14 mins |
7:40 | Exiled (Johnnie To) 2006 |
9:30 | Election (Johnnie To) 2005 |
Jun 20 | Of Rivers and Philosophy |
7:00 | The Ister (David Barison & Dan Ross) 2004 |
Jun 27 - Jul 11 – From the Tsars to the Stars: Russian Sci-Fi of the 20th Century | |
Jun 27 | |
7:00 | Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (Aleksandr Rou) 1961 |
8:35 | The Heavens Call (Mikhail Karyukov & Aleksandr Kozyr) 1959 |
Jul 4 | |
7:00 | To the Stars by |
9:10 | The Amphibian Man (Gennadi Kazansky & Vladimir Chebotaryov) 1962 USSR 95 mins |
Jul 11 | |
7:00 | Cosmic Voyage (Vasili Zhuravlyov) 1936 |
8:20 | Ruslan & Ludmilla (Aleksandr Ptushko) 1972 |
Jul 18 | Kings of Comedy |
7:00 | Sherlock Jr (Buster Keaton) 1924 Preceded by The Frozen North (Buster Keaton & Eddie Cline) 1922 15 mins |
8:10 | The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis) 1960 |
9:30 | Errand Boy (Jerry Lewis) 1961 |
BREAK – | |
Aug 22 | Gloria Swanson |
7:00 | Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder) 1950 |
9:00 | Queen Kelly (Eric von Stroheim) 1928 USA 96 mins |
Aug 29 | Raoul Walsh |
7:00 | The Strawberry Blonde (Raoul Walsh) 1941 |
8:55 | What Price Glory (Raoul Walsh) 1926 |
Sep 5 | Nouvelle Vague |
7:00 | Le Petit Soldat (Jean-Luc Godard) 1960/63 France 88 mins |
8:40 | Muriel ou le Temps d’un Retour (Alain Resnais) 1963 |
Sep 12-26 – East of | |
Sep 12 | |
7:00 | The Ear (Karel Kachyna) 1970 |
8:45 | The Cremator (Juraj Herz) 1968 |
Sep 19 | |
7:00 | Jan Svankmajer shorts: |
8:00 | Daisies (Vera Chytilová) 1966 |
9:30 | Valerie & Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jires) 1970 |
Sep 26 | |
7:00 | A Case for the Young Hangman (Pavel Juracek) 1969 |
8:55 | Late August at the Hotel Ozone (Jan Schmidt) 1967 |
Oct 3 | Russia’s Children At War |
7:00 | Ivan’s Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky) 1961 USSR 95 mins M |
8:45 | Come & See (Elem Klimov) 1985 |
Oct 10 | Val Lewton & His Legacy |
7:00 | I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur) 1943 |
8:10 | Cat People (Jacques Tourneur) 1942 |
9:35 | Blood (Pedro Costa) 1989 Portugal 95 mins |
Oct 17 | German Roots of Noir |
7:00 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene) 1919 |
8:15 | Spione (Fritz Lang) 1928 |
Oct 24 | Youths of |
7:00 | I Vitteloni (Federico Fellini) 1953 |
8:55 | In the Name of the Father (Marco Bellocchio) 1972 |
Oct 31 | Ingmar Bergman |
7:00 | Now About All These Women (Ingmar Bergman) 1964 |
8:30 | Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman) 1973 |
Nov 7 | Beds Are Burning |
7:00 | Bitter Springs (Ralph Smart) 1950 |
9:10 | Dead Heart (Nick Parsons) 1996 |
Nov 14-21 – From the War to the Wall: German Cinema 1945-1960 | |
Nov 14 | |
7:00 | The Lost Man (Peter Lorre) 1951 West Germany 98 mins Preceded by Brutality in Stone Alexander Kluge (1960) 12 mins |
9:00 | The Bridge (Bernhard Wicki) 1959 Preceded by Machorka-Muff Jean-Marie Straub/Danièle Huillet (1963) 18 mins |
Nov 21 | |
6:30 | Murderers are Amongst Us (Wolfgang Staudte) 1946 |
8:10 | Fanfares of Love (Kurt Hoffmann) 1951 |
9:50 | Roses Bloom on the Grave in the Meadow (Hans H. König) 1952 |
Nov 28 | Third Cinema |
6:30 | The Hour of the Furnaces (Fernando Solanas/Octavio Getino) 1968 |
Dec 5-19 – Wandering Star: The Films of Lee Marvin | |
Dec 5 | |
7:00 | The Professionals (Richard Brooks) 1966 123 mins PG |
9:15 | The Emperor of the North (Robert Aldrich) 1973 118 mins |
Dec 12 | |
7:00 | Point Blank (John Boorman) 1967 92 mins |
8:45 | The Man Who Shot |
Dec 19 | |
7:00 | The Wild One Laslo Benedek (1954) 79 mins |
8:30 | The Big Red One Samuel Fuller (1980) 158 mins |
6 comments:
Wow, that last week is a doozy. All of those Lee Marvin films are excellent, with "Point Blank" being one of my all time favorites. You're lucky to live near such a great theater, there's nothing within 400 miles of me like that.
Adam, Melbourne is well served by ACMI - we probably have the best available programming in Australia. But I think we're pretty limited with cinema releases. I was in New York three years ago and found a much broader range of arthouse cinema there, but you'd expect that.
I've not see Point Blank, nor any other in the Marvin season, but look forward to them.
Gee, you're from a pretty small place by Australian standards. David Lynch country! Our populations are largely confined to big cities (Melbourne is about 4M).
While there are popular films that most people have seen many times before (Rebel Without a Cause again!), there are some great highlights and must-sees (for me anyway):
Au Hasard Balthazar - a must on the big screen
Gospel According to St Matthew - I saw this at Melb uni about 15 years ago so a must now
Opening Night - any Cassavettes film on the big screen is a must especially a rare one like this film
Duelle & Celine and Julie Go Boating - I just ordered last week my DVD copy of Celine & Julie from Amazon (spewing!)
La Belle Noiseuse - masterpiece which is available on DVD here from Accent BUT why aren't they also showing his last film that is also available on DVD here from Accent called Story of Marie & Julien which is a bona fide masterpiece?
The Bellboy and Errand Boy - Jerry Lewis directed masterpieces!
Come & See - a graphically violent film that is banned in several countries!
Czech cinema season - rarely seen in the west so this could be interesting.
I am sure there are many other gems that I will discover but from first glance, the above are my faves.
Marty, I only discovered cinema in 1992, and rarely watch video/DVD. The only titles I've seen out of the whole calendar are the Three Colors trilogy and a couple of Mann's (which I have mixed opinions about). I've not even seen Rebel Without a Cause.
When you say you saw at Melb Uni, I take it they have their own screenings for students? Can others attend?
I used to attend the Cinematheque in my early twenties around 1991-1993 when it was held at the RMIT cinema. It then moved to the State Theatre. This is where I was first introduced to Pasolini, Bresson, Antonioni, Bergman, Val Lewton, Cassavettes, Rivette, Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh, John Ford, Tarkovsky, etc. Ah, the good ole days! In fact, it was probably the main reason why I decided to study for a Master of Arts in Cinema Studies at LaTrobe Uni which I did from 1994-1996. The Cinematheque greatly influenced me.
I am now 37 years old and I feel guilty not attending the Cinematheque for the past few years mainly because of my work and socialising with friends. I will make every effort this year to go. I want to rediscover the love of cinema I had and still have but most of it I watch on DVD now.
Yes, I saw the Pasolini film at the Melb Uni cinema back in 1991 where they also used to screen arthouse classics one night a week. Not sure if they still do this. Does anyone know? It was open to anyone and not just students as it was held at night.
Marty, I Googled Melb Uni for "Union House Theatre" and followed a few links. All I could find was the Union Calendar of Events, with events from last October ('Vampire Hunter' and 'Blood: The Last Vampire').
DVD seems to be big now, but I can't equate it with the big screen. There's nothing like it.
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