D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation plays at the Chauvel Cinematheque next Monday, 6:30pm. Maybe I'll finally get around to it this time. Maybe...
A festival so cool that it has an NSFW program, the annual Sydney Undergound Film Festival kicks off on Thursday night and ends Sunday night with a party and awards ceremony and all sorts of cool shit. I already wrote about the excellent It Came From Kuchar below, but there's a few other highlights, including a revival screening of John Waters' Pink Flamingos, complete with the scratch'n'sniff odorama cards for the full sensory experience as Waters intended, Sundance hit Anywhere USA, as well as a cavalcade of shorts and more oddball goodies. Site here
For history buffs and fans of sepia-toned Russian langour alike, the Scorsese-presented and largely unseen Genhis Khan saga The Fall of Otrar plays as part of the Art Gallery of NSW's Silk Ikats Road program on Wednesday the 16th at 2pm and 7:15pm, as well as on the 20th at 2pm. Much good ink has been spilt about this behemoth of a film, but the most striking endorsement I could find came from a metacritic comments section of all places, courtesy of a one 'Yoon Min C.':
"Even hailing this epic masterpiece as one of the greastest historical films doesn't do it justice. The film is like an archaeological find in central asia coming to life, as though cracked and crumbling artifacts, exposed again to sweepng wind and lit by the sun, are unleashing the spirits of the past. It's beyond authentic, it's near documentary in depicting a bygone era and lost civilization. Gritty, ferocious, awesome, and booming as spectacle; and complex and fascinating in its re-creation and speculations about medieval diplomacy and politics. A movie that drags us thru the mud of battle and defeat to the high heavens of almighty power of the Khan, there's nothing else like it. Try to imagine Andrei Rublev crossed with 13th Warrior and you might get an inkling, but only an inkling."
More details about the program, which runs until October 11th, here.
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