Liza With a Z, Wake in Fright and Overlord
June 4th 2009 23:46
Screen classics revived at Sydney Film Festival
The Sydney Film Festival revealed that Liza Minnelli will participate in a question and answer session via satellite as part of the 2009 festival program (3-14 June). The legendary figure is the star of Liza with a Z, one of three screen classics that have been ‘revived’ for the festival program. Wake in Fright and Overlord complete the restoration category, with directors Ted Kotcheff and Stuart Cooper attending as guests of Sydney Film Festival.
“We are privileged and thrilled to be connecting Sydney with the talented creators behind three extraordinary projects from the 70s. Sydney Film Festival plays a vital role not only in bringing the best contemporary cinema to Sydney each June, but just as importantly, in reviving screen classics such as these for new audiences and movie lovers.” – Clare Stewart, Festival Director
No-one twirls a feather boa, flutters a fake eyelash or struts a suspender with the glittering pizzazz of “Liza with a Zee (not Lisa with an Ess)”. In 1972, the same year that she and director Bob Fosse won Oscars for Cabaret, they collaborated on Liza with a Z an exultant Broadway-style televised musical. Brilliantly choreographed and edited, shot with an 8-camera set up (a first for network TV), and featuring a stunning selection of ‘numbers’, it went on to win 4 Emmy Awards. Subsequently unseen for over 30 years, the project was lovingly restored by Michael Arick. It appears on the big screen for the first time in Australia with a live-cross to the Queen of cabaret herself.
Liza with a Z screens Monday 8 June (Queen’s Birthday) 9.15pm The State Theatre
Followed by Question and Answer session, via satellite, with Liza Minnelli
Chugg Entertainment and David M Hawkins present Liza Minnelli on tour in October 2009 www.lizaminnelli.com.au
Decades of dust has finally been blown off Wake in Fright, one of the greatest Australian films ever made. After years of searching for a negative and a painstaking restoration (a passion project for its editor Anthony Buckley), this cornerstone of the Australian 70s filmmaking renaissance is presented at SFF hot-off-the-heels of its Cannes Classics World Premiere (it first screened Cannes in 1971). Based on Kenneth Cook’s blistering novel, an outback school teacher (Gary Bond) rubs the wrong way against ‘Yabba’ locals resulting in a booze-fuelled gambling bender that rapidly descends into violence and despair. The last film of iconic Australian actor Chips Rafferty and the first of Jack Thompson was directed by Canadian Ted Kotcheff who returns to Australia for SFF’s premiere.
Wake in Fright screens Saturday 13 June 11.45am The State Theatre
Followed by Question and Answer session with SFF special guest, director Ted Kotcheff
Presented in association with Madman Entertainment, the ‘Wake in Fright’ Trust, National Film and Sound Archive and Atlab/Deluxe Australia
Stuart Cooper’s Overlord is a cinematic account of the D-Day landings and follows the story of a young man who leaves his life behind as he reports for military duty. With recreated sequences shot by cinematographer John Alcott, Stanley Kubrick’s frequent collaborator, Overlord was a prize-winning entry in the 1975 Berlin Film Festival. It is a unique war film that seamlessly blends fictional segments (vintage German lenses were used to render the contemporary footage) with archival material (director Stuart Cooper spent 3 years selecting footage from the archives of the Imperial War Museum). The result is utterly transporting.
Overlord screens on 65th Anniversary of D-Day Saturday 6 June 10.30am Art Gallery of New South Wales
Followed by Question and Answer session with SFF special guest, director Stuart Cooper
The 56th Sydney Film Festival runs from Wednesday 3 June – Sunday 14 June 2009.
For more information visit www.sff.org.au
FlexiPasses are on sale now, and single session tickets are available.
Source: SFF PR
The Sydney Film Festival revealed that Liza Minnelli will participate in a question and answer session via satellite as part of the 2009 festival program (3-14 June). The legendary figure is the star of Liza with a Z, one of three screen classics that have been ‘revived’ for the festival program. Wake in Fright and Overlord complete the restoration category, with directors Ted Kotcheff and Stuart Cooper attending as guests of Sydney Film Festival.
“We are privileged and thrilled to be connecting Sydney with the talented creators behind three extraordinary projects from the 70s. Sydney Film Festival plays a vital role not only in bringing the best contemporary cinema to Sydney each June, but just as importantly, in reviving screen classics such as these for new audiences and movie lovers.” – Clare Stewart, Festival Director
Liza with a Z screens Monday 8 June (Queen’s Birthday) 9.15pm The State Theatre
Followed by Question and Answer session, via satellite, with Liza Minnelli
Chugg Entertainment and David M Hawkins present Liza Minnelli on tour in October 2009 www.lizaminnelli.com.au
Wake in Fright screens Saturday 13 June 11.45am The State Theatre
Followed by Question and Answer session with SFF special guest, director Ted Kotcheff
Presented in association with Madman Entertainment, the ‘Wake in Fright’ Trust, National Film and Sound Archive and Atlab/Deluxe Australia
Overlord screens on 65th Anniversary of D-Day Saturday 6 June 10.30am Art Gallery of New South Wales
Followed by Question and Answer session with SFF special guest, director Stuart Cooper
The 56th Sydney Film Festival runs from Wednesday 3 June – Sunday 14 June 2009.
For more information visit www.sff.org.au
FlexiPasses are on sale now, and single session tickets are available.
Source: SFF PR
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