MIFF Announce 2013 Next Gen Program

The Melbourne International Film Festival has announced a special program to educate our youngsters with the 2013 edition of MIFF Next Gen. This year's program will feature 13 carefully curated...
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Reykjavik Calling At ACMI Posted 16 May 2013 @ 1:46pm 95 views 0 comments This July, ACMI will present a Focus On season profiling two of Iceland's most distinctive filmmakers, Fridrik Thór Fridriksson and Baltasar Kormákur. The season is curated by Roberta Ciabarra and will feature ten films screened over two weeks. Fridriksson was nominated for an Oscar for his film Children OF Nature (1991), which helped to put Iceland on the cinematic map, he is memorable for...
ACMI Presents Gowns By Adrian Posted 8 May 2013 @ 4:52pm 130 views 0 comments ACMI will be hosting a collection of films in honour of Adrian entitled Gowns by Adrian: Dressing MGM's Leading Ladies. Adrian was a prestigious costume designer of the Golden Age of Hollywood (late 1920s – late 1950s) and produced some of the most iconic costumes remembered today, including MGM's The Wizard of Oz.   In tribute to his illustrious career, ACMI will be screening a selection...
St Kilda Film Festival Announce 30th Anniversary Program Posted 2 May 2013 @ 1:14pm 208 views 0 comments Australia's premier short film festival, St. Kilda Film Festival, returns for its 30th anniversary this year, and to celebrate, the festival has an action-packed program. Opening the festival will be the annual red carpet night, accompanied with a special screening of selected films from this year's top 100. Following this will be festival highlights including A Century of Lunacy: Memories of...
Reel Anime Announces Their Second Film Posted 29 Apr 2013 @ 9:25am 185 views 0 comments Reel Anime, a festival dedicated to anime films, have announced the second film featured in their lineup. Hosted by Madman Entertainment — those sassy bastards who bring you gems like Adventure Time — Reel Anime is dedicated to bringing you the most fascinating and sublime anime. Included in this year's line-up is Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, the newest installation to the Rebuild of...
The Human Rights Arts & Film Festival Announce 2013 Program Posted 3 Apr 2013 @ 2:35pm 370 views 0 comments The Human Rights Arts & Film Festival has released its full program for next month. Launching the festival will be Alias Ruby Blade, a documentary about the tumultuous birth of East Timor and Australian activist Kirsty Sword's relationship with Timorese resistant Kay Rala 'Xanana' Gusmão. Following this, the HRAFF will host a collection of films and exhibitions, including Tim Page's Requiem...
The NeverEnding Story Comes To The Astor Posted 2 Apr 2013 @ 4:13pm 357 views 0 comments This April the Astor Theatre will be hosting The NeverEnding Story. Considered a cult classic, The NeverEnding Story is Wolfgang Peterson’s tale about Young Bastian and his discovery of The NeverEnding Story in his attic. Through this, the boy is transported to the world of Fantasia where he encounters a Luck Dragon called Atreju and becomes an unlikely hero.   Akin to other cult...
Directed By Marco Bellochio At ACMI Posted 25 Mar 2013 @ 11:52am 150 views 0 comments The Australian Centre for the Moving Image has announced a six day program to celebrate the achievements of Director Marco Bellochio this April. Bellochio is a thrice-time nominee for the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion and has been nominated six times for a Palme d'Or. After almost five decades of film making he was awarded a Gold Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2011. The season will open...
Start.Options.Exit. Pozible Petition Posted 15 Mar 2013 @ 1:21pm 794 views 0 comments Following a hyped filming season, Start.Options.Exit. has garnered much attention. It’s difficult to avoid when the yet-to-released film includes Chopper Read, Ron Jeremy and Tottie Goldsmith. Currently in post-production, Start.Options Exit. is the brainchild of writer/director and Melburnian Chris Mitchell, Yoav Lester and co-writer Ari Neville. Start.Options.Exit. is a dark comedy...
The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne Announces 2013 Program Posted 15 Mar 2013 @ 10:59am 1 view 0 comments The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne returns this year to celebrate the centenary of Indian cinema. Kicking off the festival will be Raja Harishchandra, the first film of Indian cinema. Accompanying this landmark will be a program of 15 Indian classics including Pather Panchali,  ‘curry western’ Sholay, Achut Kanya, a film that delves into India’s caste system, and the comedy Garam Hawa....
ACMI Presents Directed by Asghar Farhadi Posted 5 Mar 2013 @ 9:06am 257 views 0 comments The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, ACMI, will be hosting a special season screening of Asghar Farhadi’s oeuvre. Entitled Directed by Asghar Farhadi, the season will showcase the five films that made the legendary Iranian director. The season will begin with Farhadi’s 2009 work About Elly, a film that delves into masculine honour and identity. The film was named the fourth greatest...
Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2013 Program Announced Posted 4 Mar 2013 @ 8:32am 412 views 0 comments The annual Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a film festival dedicated to the LBGT community, returns with a thunderous collection of films that will leave you questioning humanity. Exported from Uganda, Call me Kuchu is a documentary detailing local activists’ fight for the absolution of the death sentence for homosexuality. Peaches will take you through her gender-bender life in Peaches Does...
IMAX Presents Flight of the Butterflies Posted 4 Mar 2013 @ 8:30am 215 views 0 comments It is universally acknowledged that butterflies are beautiful, and this truth could not be more prevalent in IMAX’s newest film Flight of the Butterflies 3D. Based on the story of lepidopterologist Dr. Fred Urquhart, the documentary details the 40 year that Urquhart spent following the Monarch Butterfly around the Americas. Urquhart was fascinated with where the butterflies disappeared to during...
The Duct Tape Messiah at The Spotted Mallard Posted 20 Feb 2013 @ 2:55pm 200 views 0 comments The Duct Tape Messiah will make its Australian premiere with the help of special guests Christ Wilson and Donna Dean this Friday. Bona fide Texan legend Blaze Foley was born in a treehouse killed in a friend's living room and 86'd from his own funeral. The new film, featuring covers by Merle Haggard, Lyle Lovett, John Prine, Willie Nelson and Joe Nichols birngs his story to life on screen. The...
Filmmaker Profile : Alethea Jones Posted 7 Feb 2013 @ 11:52am 694 views 0 comments Alethea Jones has had a cracker 24 months, taking gongs at Tropfest, Flickerfest and the IF Awards for her comic shorts. Meanwhile, she’s been busy with production-attachments on Rush and Neighbours, directing and starring in five episodes of the cult comedy web series Cop Hard, directing an ABC-commissioned documentary, and working in development on two feature film projects and...
The Guilt Trip Posted 24 Jan 2013 @ 9:23am 853 views 0 comments Starring Seth Rogen without his usual co-star, the bong, and for some reason Barbra Streisand, The Guilt Trip is a vapid comedy that appeals to old Jewish mothers who enjoy being stereotyped and that’s about it. The premise is somewhat promising the first time you hear it: a son and his nosey mum take an eight-day road trip across America together. But after watching it, you realise...
ACMI Celebrates The British Posted 22 Jan 2013 @ 2:25pm 326 views 0 comments ACMI has announced its upcoming program as part of GREAT Britain Arts 13, a year long celebration of British arts and culture comprised of 13 major events across Melbourne and Sydney.   ACMI will make its contribution by celebrating the best of British film making, as it showcases classic restorations alongside innovative film making talents. The Australian premiere of Julien Temple's...
The Shadow Electric Presents Beg, Scream and Shout! Film Festival Posted 21 Jan 2013 @ 12:53pm 469 views 0 comments In conjunction with Sugar Mountain Festival, the Shadow Electric cinema will host a selection of films dedicated to local independent and experimental music. Film features include Mikey Leonard’s new film Tears in the Cock, and Ross Vaughan’s criticism of school in Fuck You, Art School. Becky Harkins-Cross will host a panel discussion with directors of the featured films to help create a how-to...
ACMI Focuses On Jeanne Moreau Posted 9 Jan 2013 @ 12:52pm 469 views 0 comments As part of their Focus on... series, ACMI will be hosting its first season of the year with a focus on French actress Jeanne Moreau. Jeanne Moreau is known for her involvement in avant-garde, French New Wave films that excite, titillate and invoke thought. In ACMI's fist Focus on... for 2013 the cinema will show a series of eight films that launched the star to stardom.   Kicking off the...
The Astor Presents Hitchcock Double Feature Posted 7 Jan 2013 @ 8:31am 334 views 0 comments This January, the Astor Theatre will be presenting an Alfred Hitchcock double feature of Psycho and The Birds. Upon release in 1960, Psycho shocked audiences ushering in a new level of acceptable violence and sexuality in film, with some theatres not permitting entry once the movie began so latecomers wouldn’t disturb the tense atmosphere, featuring the sheepishly handsome Anthony...
The Shadow Electric Presents Shut Up and Play the Hits Posted 19 Dec 2012 @ 10:32am 759 views 0 comments Last year LCD Soundsystem announced their retirement. In celebration, and as a tribute to their fans, they performed one last show at Madison Square Gardens in New York and filmed it. Shut Up and Play the Hits became this performance. Consisting of a concert film and documentary that explores the man behind the band, James Murphy, Shut Up and Play the Hits is a must see for any LCD Soundsystem...
Gasworks Backyard Cinema Returns For Another Year Posted 17 Dec 2012 @ 8:42am 413 views 0 comments Following the success of the past two years the Gasworks Backyard Cinema for its third season next year. Hosted at the Gasworks Arts Park near St. Kilda, the season will host a collection of family films, including Up, and other successful cinema releases. Gasworks Backyard Cinema is a dog-friendly, BYO event, therefore, get there early for a good spot.   Resident cafe Priscilla Jones will...
ACMI Presents Laurence Anyways Posted 4 Dec 2012 @ 10:12am 685 views 0 comments On his 30th birthday, a man turned to his partner and said that he was a woman trapped in a man's body. This is the pretense of Laurence Anyways, a new film by prodigy director Xavier Dolan. Screening at the ACMI theatre this summer, the film illustrates the precarious relationship between Laurence (Melvil Poupaud) and Fred (Suzanne Clément) after Laurence expresses his gender crisis. Enter...
God Bless America Posted 29 Nov 2012 @ 1:21pm 348 views 0 comments Frank Murdoch is a middle-aged insurance salesman in New York who is overwhelmed and frustrated at America’s social decay into a state of rudeness based on tawdry pop culture. He then decides to kill everybody involved. This is the entire premise of God Bless America, prompting middle-aged fathers around the world to high five each other in glee now that they can at least somewhat...
Speakeasy Cinema Presents Chronicles of The New Human Organism Posted 27 Nov 2012 @ 1:26pm 546 views 0 comments Do you have a penchant for cannibalism, the macabre and sex? If you have one of those two, Speakeasy Cinema’s latest addition, Chronicles of the New Human Organism, will be your cup of tea. It’s a collusion of new genitalia, experimental surgery (hopefully not Human Centipede style), and alienation that will make you wonder how sane Ian Haig actually. Kidding, Haig is perfectly fine, he just...
Made In Melbourne Film Festival Returns Posted 15 Nov 2012 @ 10:32am 692 views 0 comments Melbourne is ripe with talent and Made In Melbourne Film Festival simply showcases, and celebrates, this talent for all Australians to see.  Hosted over two nights, Made In Melbourne will open at The Astor Theatre. Veteran Melbourne actor Jeremy Kewley will open the festival with an undoubtedly rehearsed speech, all before the festival launches into a collection of Melbourne’s finest...
Paul Kelly: Stories of Me Posted 8 Nov 2012 @ 8:36am 580 views 0 comments There’s a moment in Paul Kelly: Stories Of Me where young singer-songwriter Megan Washington sums up a familiar experience with Paul Kelly. It’s that moment of recognition, that dawning realisation of just how many Paul Kelly songs you know and that you’ve always known subconsciously. More than any other Australian musician in modern history, his songs have permeated through the musical landscape...
ACMI Dives Into Feminism With Two Evocative Documentaries Posted 1 Nov 2012 @ 3:37pm 871 views 0 comments In an attempt to explore the presentation of women role models throughout history, ACMI will be presenting a Kristy Guevara-Flanagan's documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines, quickly followed by raunchy number Sexy Baby. Guevara-Flangan sets the scene with her documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines, an exploration of epic proportions...
The Astor Theatre Presents Bathing Franky Posted 1 Nov 2012 @ 9:05am 732 views 0 comments What happens you combine an ex-prisoner, a backyard magician and a crazy, lawn-mower-riding mother? You get award-winning Bathing Franky, a story of forgiveness, growing up and pure imagination. Showing at The Astor Theatre for one session only, the movie illustrates the story of Steve (Shaun Goss), a recent prison release and his disconnection from the world. Through his interactions in a '...
Melbourne International Film Festival Calls For Submissions Posted 1 Nov 2012 @ 8:56am 642 views 0 comments The date has been set. Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) will be running from Thursday July 25 – Sunday August 11 next year. Now with that known all the festival needs is submissions, and this is where you can help. Established in 1952, MIFF has been showcasing the best selection of national and international cinema in the world since its genesis. Current, eclectic, and dynamic, there...
2012 La Mirada Film Festival Posted 16 Oct 2012 @ 9:20am 1 view 0 comments The Australian Centre for the Moving Image and Cinema Nova will be screening a breathtaking selection of contemporary and classic Spanish films when La Mirada Film Festival returns to Melbourne this November. The ever charming Wes Anderson will be guest curating alongside acclaimed actor Gael García Bernal and The Hive's PelleAlmqvist. Festival director Rocio Garcia has secured a screening of...