Monday's 6:30pm Chauvel C inematheque screening is of Kurosawa's whatdoesitalladdupto classic Ikiru; a perfect opportunity for you stragglers to discover it, and for me to post that above poster.
The Art Gallery of NSW's Intensely Dutch Films program goes out on a bang with one of my absolute favorite films ever; George Sluizer's 1988 cerebral suspense classic Spoorloos [The Vanishing] (not to be confused with the Bridges/Bullock remake that Sluizer made in '93). It's free, so if you haven't seen this most thoughtful and haunting of modern thrillers, then you owe it to yourself to check it out when it screens on Wednesday the 19th at 2pm and 7:15pm, and a repeat on Sunday the 23rd at 2:15pm.
Great DVD news: Madman's heroic Director's Suite label has released the first Ophuls film(s) to get a R4 release: Madame De... and Le Plaisir, as well as two lesser-known Godard's; 1964's Une Femme Mariée and 1968's Le Gai Savoir (The Joy of Learning). All come with Adrian Martin commentaries - ensuring that I'll be doing the unimaginable - watching an entry from Godard's post-1967 twice in a row.
On SBS, Tuesday night at 10pm - a great double bill of Forbidden Lie$ followed by Jun Ichikawa's adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Tony Takitani at midnite.
Oh hii. I like your blog!
ReplyDeleteThx Geri, gonna try and keep it on a two-updates-a-week minimum diet!
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