I thought I'd post about what I think might be worth catching up on at the cinemas over the next few weeks (other than what I've previously mentioned):
- Chevolution screens at ACMI until Sunday.
- Mad Max screens at ACMI this Saturday 4pm, with Mad Max 2 and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome screening over the following two Saturdays. I've never seen any of these so am hoping to catch up on a bit of local film history.
- Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas screens at the Astor on Monday 5 Jan.
- The Conformist screens at the Astor on Sunday 11 Jan.
- A new print of David Lean's Blithe Spirit is getting half a dozen screenings at ACMI between 17 and 26 Jan (Australia Day).
- ACMI is celebrating the Australia Day weekend with a tribute to indigenous actor David Gulpilil. The films are: Walkabout, Storm Boy, Gulpilil: One Red Blood, The Last Wave, Rabbit Proof Fence, Dark Age, The Tracker and Mad Dog Morgan. I've not seen any of these, but am keen to see at least five of them (if I can fit them in).
- Melbourne Filmoteca's screening of Bialet Massé, un siglo despues (Bialet Massé: A Century Later) at ACMI on Tuesday 27 Jan at 7.30pm.
If you don't know about Google Calendars, take a guided tour on the website. It's a great way to keep informed by subscribing to one or more special interest calendars, or creating one or more of your own. You can collaborate with others (as I did at MIFF last year) and so on. You can, for example, subscribe to a calendar that you find through a search according to your criteria, and whatever events interest you, choose to receive reminders as either popups or emails.
8 comments:
Try and catch Mad Dog Morgan. It's inclusion in Not Quite Hollywood may lead you to suspect it's not very good, but it really is. The sort of the movie none of the movies about Ned Kelly have ever been and Hopper is indeed a crazy piece of work in it.
Oh, and I may have to try and get to that screening of The Conformist. It's one of those movies that I really wouldn't want to watch (for the first time, at least) on DVD.
Glenn, from NQH I thought Mad Dog Morgan looked good though I've been told it's not. I want to see it and make up my own mind.
Another vote for Mad Dog Morgan from me. Don't expect the usual period film trappings -- it's an underground movie on a (relatively) mainstream budget. Hopper is incredible.
Paul - You'd never seen Mad Max!!!!!!! Wow. Hope you did indeed manage to catch up with them. The first and second are just astounding.
I've now seen MM 1 & 2 and will catch 3 tomorrow. I wouldn't call them astounding, but enjoyed them a lot.
By now you've already seen the third, so it's too late to lower your expectations. A lot of good things in that one, too, but too many uneven patches, too much of the messianic mythmaking garbage, and the confusing business of Bruce Spence sort-of-but-not-quite playing the same role again.
I just love the way Miller shot (past tense deliberate, since he doesn't really do this kind of thing any more) action. Sublime.
There are thoughts on mad Max on my website if you're interested.
Actually, Stephen, I missed it, but due to circumstances beyond my control. I spent the day in hospital having some tests, but more of that in another post. I'll check out what you've written about Mad Max when I can. I look forward to reading your thoughts.
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