CLASSICS AT THE CHAUVEL
September 4th 2008 17:37
SUNDAYS @ 4PM - TICKETS $11.00 - Curated by Sam Fielder.
Sunday 7 September
COMMUNION HOWLING III
4.00PM
COMMUNION (M)
USA/1989/108mins/35mm/Print courtesy of NFSA
Offbeat OZ director Philipe Mora’s dramatization of Whitley Strieber’s non-fiction account of his own encounters with ‘non-human beings’. Christopher Walken stars as the ‘hallucinating’ writer.
plus 6.00PM
HOWLING III (M)AUS/1987/94mins/35mm/Print courtesy of NFSA
Prof. Harry Bechmayer (Barry Otto) goes searching for a rare breed of werewolf/marsupial, and then falls in love with one of the females of the species in Mora’s satirical 80’s horror comedy.
Sunday 14 September
BIG WEDNESDAY EXCALIBUR
4.00PM
BIG WEDNESDAY (M)
USA/1978/120mins/35mm
A stunningly filmed surf classic that touchingly captures the waning dreams of youth. Follows the lives of three young Californians (incl. Gary Busey) who live to surf, party & get into scrapes.
plus 6.10PM
EXCALIBUR (M)
USA,UK/1981/140mins/35mm
Directed by: John Boorman
Boorman’s captivating, gloriously savage take on the King Arthur legend is by turns gleaming & filthy. Nigel Terry is Arthur, in search of the grail. With Helen Mirren & Patrick Stewart.
Sunday 21 September
HEAVEN'S GATE
USA/1980/225mins/35mm (M)
Following his DEER HUNTER Oscar triumph, Cimano was handed a lucrative contract for this project – his own fictionalized screenplay on the historical Johnson County Wars in 1890’s Wyoming - an the coveted “final cut”. Visually remarkable, his anti-western sees Sheriff James Averill(Kris Kristofferson) attempt to protect immigrant farmers from wealthy cattle interests, and also clash with a hired gun (Christopher Walken) over a woman they both love (Isabelle Huppert).
Sunday 7 September
COMMUNION HOWLING III
4.00PM
COMMUNION (M)
USA/1989/108mins/35mm/Print courtesy of NFSA
Offbeat OZ director Philipe Mora’s dramatization of Whitley Strieber’s non-fiction account of his own encounters with ‘non-human beings’. Christopher Walken stars as the ‘hallucinating’ writer.
plus 6.00PM
HOWLING III (M)AUS/1987/94mins/35mm/Print courtesy of NFSA
Prof. Harry Bechmayer (Barry Otto) goes searching for a rare breed of werewolf/marsupial, and then falls in love with one of the females of the species in Mora’s satirical 80’s horror comedy.
Sunday 14 September
BIG WEDNESDAY EXCALIBUR
4.00PM
BIG WEDNESDAY (M)
USA/1978/120mins/35mm
A stunningly filmed surf classic that touchingly captures the waning dreams of youth. Follows the lives of three young Californians (incl. Gary Busey) who live to surf, party & get into scrapes.
plus 6.10PM
EXCALIBUR (M)
USA,UK/1981/140mins/35mm
Boorman’s captivating, gloriously savage take on the King Arthur legend is by turns gleaming & filthy. Nigel Terry is Arthur, in search of the grail. With Helen Mirren & Patrick Stewart.
Sunday 21 September
HEAVEN'S GATE
USA/1980/225mins/35mm (M)
Following his DEER HUNTER Oscar triumph, Cimano was handed a lucrative contract for this project – his own fictionalized screenplay on the historical Johnson County Wars in 1890’s Wyoming - an the coveted “final cut”. Visually remarkable, his anti-western sees Sheriff James Averill(Kris Kristofferson) attempt to protect immigrant farmers from wealthy cattle interests, and also clash with a hired gun (Christopher Walken) over a woman they both love (Isabelle Huppert).
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