National Film and Sound Archive - Whats On!
April 30th 2010 08:05
Its time for an update on whats happening at the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra over the next few months. While the pollies continue to try and steal every last cent in our wallets, the NFSA takes you back in time celebrating 50 years of Psycho as well as a look at the filmmakers who journeyed from overseas to set up shop in Australia.
Highlights in May include: new and classic films about fine music, screening as part of the 2010 Canberra International Music Festival; the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival comes to Arc cinema, plus a look at the filmmaking visitors who came to Australia from Hollywood and Pinewood in the late 1950s.
In June re-discover the originals of modern Chinese cinema though a look at its Third and Fourth Generation filmmakers, of the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
The film that launched Russell Crowe and Hugo Weaving to international stardom, Jocylen House's Proof (M) also returns in a limited season in late June, in a new print from the NFSA's Deluxe/Kodak Project.
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And to mark the 50th anniversary of Psycho (M) and the birth of new wave art cinema around the world, there will be new prints of Alfred Hitchcock's three early 60s classics Psycho (M), Marnie (PG) and The Birds (PG) plus the NFSA begins a survey of the masterpieces that 1960 brought to the screen, with milestones from both filmmaking's new young turks and the last great works of classic cinema's old masters.
WHITE MATERIAL
The new film by Claire Denis (Beau travail) returns to the African setting that has been so important to her cinema. Isabelle Huppert stars as a white plantationer clinging to her last outpost of empire, as a modern African state disintegrates into chaos and tragedy. 'Denis has never made such a thrilling film as White Material (u/c 18 ), one condensed down to the basics of movement, washed out colors, and sandy texture.' - Daniel Kasman.
Limited release season:
THU 6 MAY 7PM - SAT 8 MAY 7PM - SUN 23 MAY 4.30PM - THU 27 MAY 2PM - SUN 30
MAY 4.30PM
AUSTRALIAN CINEMA - ON LOCATION IN AUSTRALIA
It's 50 years since the peak of the cycle of US and UK features made on location in Australia through the 1950s; movies loathed in their day by Australian nationalist filmmakers and critics, but which were also often amongst the best of UK and US studio filmmaking of their era.
Through May and onward you can survey the good and bad of these movies, beginning with two made around the picaresque edges of late 1950s Sydney Harbour: Ernest Borgnine and John Mills star in the Sydney re-set adaption of Ray Lawler's Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (G) on 1 May, whilst Aldo Ray features in the Ealing's Australian noir The Siege of Pinchgut (u/c 18 ) on 8 May.
SOUND ON SIGHT - THE CANBERRA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
Sounds on Sight goes to Canberra's International Music Festival in May,
with two weeks of new and classic fine music films from around the world,
including many Canberra and Australian premieres.
Eccentric performing genius in the making is explored in the season's
opening film, the prize-winning Hong Kong documentary KJ: Music and Life (u/c 18 ) on 13 May.
Later in May, the program also two films on Glenn Gould: Michele Hozer and Peter Raymont's new The Genius Within: the Inner Life Of Glen Gould (G), as well as the classic biopic, 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (G).
There's also the Canberra premiere of the hit In Search of Beethoven (G), a rare look at Arvo Part in 24 Preludes for a Fugue (u/c 18 ) . Mahler (PG) gets the Ken Russell treatment and there'll also be 'from the archive' tributes to the film scores of the late Richard Meale and to the great works of indigenous Australian musical theatre.
The Canberra International Music Festival is presented by Pro Musica, with
the support of The Australia Council, The ACT Government and the Sidney
Myer Fund.
SCREENINGS AT A GLANCE
SAT 1 MAY 2PM
SUMMER OF THE SEVENTEENTH DOLL (1959, G)
SAT 1 MAY 4.30PM
RED RIDING: IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1974 (2009, MA15 )
SAT 1 MAY 7PM
THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (1968, PG)
SUN 2 MAY 2PM
RED RIDDING: IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1980 (2009, MA15 )
SUN 2 MAY 4.30PM
LOLA (1961, M)
THU 6 MAY 2PM
BEAUTIFUL KATE (2009, MA15 )
THU 6 MAY 7PM
WHITE MATERIAL (2009, classification tbc)
SAT 8 MAY 2PM
THE SIEGE OF PINCHGUT (1959, u/c 18 )
SAT 8 MAY 4.30PM
BAY OF ANGELS (1962, u/c 18 )
SAT 8 MAY 7PM
WHITE MATERIAL (2009, classification tbc)
SUN 9 MAY 2PM
RED RIDDING: THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1983 (2009, MA15 )
SUN 9 MAY 4.30PM
UNE CHAMBRE EN VILLE (1982, u/c 18 )
THU 13 MAY 2PM
MY YEAR WITHOUT SEX (2009, M)
THU 13 MAY 7PM
KJ: MUSIC AND LIFE (2009, u/c 18 )
Australian premiere.
www.nfsa.gov.au
In June re-discover the originals of modern Chinese cinema though a look at its Third and Fourth Generation filmmakers, of the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
The film that launched Russell Crowe and Hugo Weaving to international stardom, Jocylen House's Proof (M) also returns in a limited season in late June, in a new print from the NFSA's Deluxe/Kodak Project.
-
And to mark the 50th anniversary of Psycho (M) and the birth of new wave art cinema around the world, there will be new prints of Alfred Hitchcock's three early 60s classics Psycho (M), Marnie (PG) and The Birds (PG) plus the NFSA begins a survey of the masterpieces that 1960 brought to the screen, with milestones from both filmmaking's new young turks and the last great works of classic cinema's old masters.
The new film by Claire Denis (Beau travail) returns to the African setting that has been so important to her cinema. Isabelle Huppert stars as a white plantationer clinging to her last outpost of empire, as a modern African state disintegrates into chaos and tragedy. 'Denis has never made such a thrilling film as White Material (u/c 18 ), one condensed down to the basics of movement, washed out colors, and sandy texture.' - Daniel Kasman.
Limited release season:
THU 6 MAY 7PM - SAT 8 MAY 7PM - SUN 23 MAY 4.30PM - THU 27 MAY 2PM - SUN 30
MAY 4.30PM
AUSTRALIAN CINEMA - ON LOCATION IN AUSTRALIA
It's 50 years since the peak of the cycle of US and UK features made on location in Australia through the 1950s; movies loathed in their day by Australian nationalist filmmakers and critics, but which were also often amongst the best of UK and US studio filmmaking of their era.
Through May and onward you can survey the good and bad of these movies, beginning with two made around the picaresque edges of late 1950s Sydney Harbour: Ernest Borgnine and John Mills star in the Sydney re-set adaption of Ray Lawler's Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (G) on 1 May, whilst Aldo Ray features in the Ealing's Australian noir The Siege of Pinchgut (u/c 18 ) on 8 May.
SOUND ON SIGHT - THE CANBERRA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
Sounds on Sight goes to Canberra's International Music Festival in May,
with two weeks of new and classic fine music films from around the world,
including many Canberra and Australian premieres.
Eccentric performing genius in the making is explored in the season's
opening film, the prize-winning Hong Kong documentary KJ: Music and Life (u/c 18 ) on 13 May.
Later in May, the program also two films on Glenn Gould: Michele Hozer and Peter Raymont's new The Genius Within: the Inner Life Of Glen Gould (G), as well as the classic biopic, 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (G).
There's also the Canberra premiere of the hit In Search of Beethoven (G), a rare look at Arvo Part in 24 Preludes for a Fugue (u/c 18 ) . Mahler (PG) gets the Ken Russell treatment and there'll also be 'from the archive' tributes to the film scores of the late Richard Meale and to the great works of indigenous Australian musical theatre.
The Canberra International Music Festival is presented by Pro Musica, with
the support of The Australia Council, The ACT Government and the Sidney
Myer Fund.
SCREENINGS AT A GLANCE
SAT 1 MAY 2PM
SUMMER OF THE SEVENTEENTH DOLL (1959, G)
SAT 1 MAY 4.30PM
RED RIDING: IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1974 (2009, MA15 )
SAT 1 MAY 7PM
THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (1968, PG)
SUN 2 MAY 2PM
RED RIDDING: IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1980 (2009, MA15 )
SUN 2 MAY 4.30PM
LOLA (1961, M)
THU 6 MAY 2PM
BEAUTIFUL KATE (2009, MA15 )
THU 6 MAY 7PM
WHITE MATERIAL (2009, classification tbc)
SAT 8 MAY 2PM
THE SIEGE OF PINCHGUT (1959, u/c 18 )
SAT 8 MAY 4.30PM
BAY OF ANGELS (1962, u/c 18 )
SAT 8 MAY 7PM
WHITE MATERIAL (2009, classification tbc)
SUN 9 MAY 2PM
RED RIDDING: THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1983 (2009, MA15 )
SUN 9 MAY 4.30PM
UNE CHAMBRE EN VILLE (1982, u/c 18 )
THU 13 MAY 2PM
MY YEAR WITHOUT SEX (2009, M)
THU 13 MAY 7PM
KJ: MUSIC AND LIFE (2009, u/c 18 )
Australian premiere.
www.nfsa.gov.au
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