Associate
Editor (Restorations and Revivals) Simon Taaffe has come across the following
screenings and other information. Click on the links for times, more detail etc
where indicated.
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| Ted Kotcheff |
At New York’s esteemed Film Forum a screening
of the greatest of ‘our’ movies Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright, followed by a Q&A with Kotcheff and sales and signings
of Kotcheff’s memoir Director’s Cut: My Life in Film (written with
Josh Young). Click on this link for more details Ted
Kotcheff
….and more from Bordwell on murder in the outback
Few Oz movies have made it into the commentaries posted by
the highly-esteemed David Bordwell and his magnificent blog Observations on Film Art but the
current lead item has a lengthy report
on the program of the Wisconsin Film Festival and includes an intriguing para
on a new Australian film Killing Ground,
directed by Damien Power and presumably made in the last year or so that was in the festival selection.
Kurosawa back at the SFF,
ACMI, NFSA
46 years to the day after the Sydney Film Festival
programmed a Kurosawa retrospective, he’s coming back again, again selected by
David Stratton, and this time also touring to ACMI and the NFSA’s Arc Cinema in
Canberra. Sydney details here
($19.50 walk up price) and Melbourne details here ($18.00 walk
up price).
TCM Film Festival
Just gone by is this very popular event in Hollywood, organized
on behalf of what used to be, until someone took it off, the only movie channel
on Foxtel worth worrying about. The home page tells us The 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival will cover a wide range of programming
themes, including our central theme Make ‘Em Laugh: Comedy In The Movies.
Working directly with the Hollywood studios, the world’s notable film archives,
and private collectors, our programs feature some of the most revered movies of
all time—many with new restorations—and long lost gems.
In
keeping with TCM tradition, all Festival screenings include special
introductions to provide context about each film. Specific details about this
unique fan experience will be announced in the weeks ahead, including guest
appearances by actors, actresses, directors, producers and other key figures.
One day folks, one day, we’ll have a festival like
this or Bologna devoted to old movies and a festival like New York’s New
Directors event devoted to the brightest of the new. One day…
Among the restorations and new digital copies on show at TCM are Cock of the
Air (Tom Buckingham, 1931) a scandalous Howard Hughes production, The Egg and I
(Chester Erskine, 1947), Danny Kaye’s greatest film and one of the two funniest
films of all time, The Court
Jester (Melvin Frank & Norman Panama, 1955), The
Underworld Story (Cy Endfield, 1950) and in 3D, Those
Redheads from Seattle (Lewis R Foster, 1953). "The pellet with the poison is in the vessel with the pestle" See why I say it.
Scandal
at the AGNSW
Coming in a little while when the excitement of the
Sydney Film Festival is over, a long season of once a week screenings under the
rubric Straight-laced
and Scandalous. Curated by Robert Herbert and with selection not yet finalized
all films will be screened on film, mostly 35mm. (The AGNSW doesn’t have any
digital equipment, so necessity is a virtue.)
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