MELBOURNE FEBRUARY 11–25 MARCH 4–18 MELBOURNE CINÉMATHÈQUE 2015 SCREENINGS MODERN LOVE: CHARISMATIC Wednesdays from 7pm at ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne* Presented by the Melbourne Cinémathèque and the Australian Centre for PASSION, LONGING AGITATORS AND FLAWED the Moving Image. Curated by the Melbourne Cinémathèque. Supported by AND THE FILMS GENIUSES: THE CINEMA Screen Australia and Film Victoria. OF MICHELANGELO OF PAUL THOMAS MINI MEMBERSHIP ANTONIONI ANDERSON Admission to 3 consecutive nights: MARCH 18 Full: $28 / Concession: $23 (GST inclusive) 7:00 FEBRUARY 11 MAGNOLIA ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP 2015 Paul Thomas Anderson (1999) Admission for 12 months from date of purchase: 7:00 Full: $150 / Concession: $130 (GST inclusive) 188 mins MA LA NOTTE FEBRUARY 18 FEBRUARY 25 Michelangelo Antonioni (1961) FRIENDS OF CINÉMATHÈQUE 7:00 7:00 MARCH 11 A renowned cast assembles in an Ever since L’avventura was booed at its 115 mins PG MARCH 4 IL GRIDO IDENTIFICATION interconnected story filled with damaged, Admission for 12 months From date of purchase: Cannes premiere in 1960, Michelangelo 7:00 7:00 desperate characters dealing with loss Full: $270 / Concession: $240 (GST inclusive) 24 hours in the breakdown of a marriage. Michelangelo Antonioni (1957) OF A WOMAN Antonioni (1912–2007) has been PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE and searching for redemption. Two men Following L’avventura, Antonioni further Michelangelo Antonioni (1982) Lauded by the American Film Institute as HARD EIGHT renowned as one of the most challenging 116 mins Paul Thomas Anderson (2002) dying of cancer, a former child quiz cham- Memberships available at ACMI Tickets and Information Desk explores the trials and tribulations of an “one of American film’s modern masters”, Paul Thomas Anderson (1996) and divisive auteurs in the history of 128 mins R pion, a misogynist motivational speaker, or online at www.acmi.net.au (booking fees apply for online transactions) alienated and unfaithful couple marooned Antonioni’s first international production Paul Thomas Anderson (1970–) staked his 101 mins MA 95 mins M European cinema. Emerging as a highly a trophy wife, a child prodigy, a bumbling ACMI: 03 8663 2583 in an unresponsive and indifferent inaugurated and fully cemented his Antonioni’s final incontestable master- claim amongst contemporary cinema’s regarded figure of the 1960s avant-garde, Screening in Un Certain Regard at After a brief foray into writing for Saturday policeman, and a compassionate nurse environment. The cold beauty of Milan’s mature, modern, elliptical style. A sugar piece recalls his epochal films of social most agitating and exciting auteurs with * Admission 18+ except where classification is indicated. Antonioni was one of the first postwar Cannes, Anderson’s beautifully controlled Night Live, Anderson paired up with – whether by coincidence or destiny modern architecture and the murky refinery worker (Steve Cochran) wanders alienation and infuses their themes with his Academy Award-nominated indie * For further conditions see the website. Italian filmmakers (alongside Federico debut feature, originally titled “Sydney”, Adam Sandler to create a surprising, their paths cross. Despite hyperbolic streets through which Jeanne Moreau’s with his young daughter through the a startlingly frank sexuality. In a daring drama, Boogie Nights. Raised a Roman Fellini) to challenge the formal limita- inaugurated a series of collaborations even gentle film. Sandler’s portrayal of flourishes and a biblical plague, Anderson melbournecinematheque.org character aimlessly wanders, provide wintry and desolate Po Valley landscape and risky move, the main character is a Catholic, Anderson’s body of work, tions of neo-realism. Like so many other that would come to shape his career. intense loneliness, framed by the weight concentrates on the minute details that Email: [email protected] the film’s pungently moody and gauzily where the filmmaker grew up. Taking a film director himself, and the story of comprised of disparate but fascinatingly directors of his period, Antonioni branched Grouping the prodigious talents of John C. of his fits of anger, reveals a far more make us human and the small actions Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all Cinémathèque info. lit background. The extended party characteristically “road” form, it is an elegy his ensuing affairs is a discomfortingly interconnecting characters and profoundly out into completely new territory, forging a Reilly, Philip Baker Hall, Gwyneth Paltrow, nuanced performance than the broad that can have far-reaching consequences. sequence that concludes the film is one to one man’s mental disintegration when ambiguous expose of masculine desire networked narratives, continues to Join our weekly reminder list: simply send a SUBSCRIBE email to our email uniquely personal, radical and profoundly Samuel L. Jackson and Philip Seymour comedy the actor is widely known for. Audaciously deploying Aimee Mann’s of the highpoints of Antonioni’s career isolated from those he loves. In many and creative obsession. With surprising examine the dysfunction of families and address listed above. Articles on many films in the program can be found in modernist approach to filmmaking, at Hoffman into a study of night crawling, An unusual romantic comedy, Anderson evocative “score”, it stars Julianne Moore, and characterises his concern with the ways a precursor to such later peripatetic comic moments and typically audacious relationships, isolation, regret, and the Cteq Annotations on Film, online at sensesofcinema.com once highly affected, deeply contemplative this expansion of the director’s short pits the quest for romance against a William H. Macy, Tom Cruise, Jason disconnections of contemporary life, the works as L’eclisse, Zabriskie Point and visual set pieces, the film is both a sum- role of destiny and chance. After initially and boldly expressive yet full of ambiguity, Cigarettes & Coffee (1993) tracks the constant threat of nervous breakdown, Robards, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and The new Friends of Cinémathèque membership is a way for you restless boredom of the bourgeoisie, The Passenger, this transitional opus, mation and development of Antonioni’s making movies on a Betamax video play and digression. Antonioni remains shifts of power and affection between a inverting generic expectations in favour the great Philip Baker Hall. Preceded to support the vitality of the Melbourne Cinémathèque, an independently the mystery of human relationships and combining the ambulatory landscapes of thoughts on modernity and the entropy camera at age 12, he had written and one of the most revered, evoked and mentor and his mentee across the Nevada of empathy over narrative gratification. by Mattress Man Commercial Paul organised, not-for-profit organisation. In addition to annual membership the discomfiting freedom wrought by neo-realism with a more modernist vision, in human relations. Brilliantly shot by directed his first film, a 32-minute mock- imitated figures of art cinema and one of casino circuit. Anderson’s audacious yet With Emily Watson, Luis Guzmán and Thomas Anderson (2003) 1 min, a parodic you will receive: modernity. With Marcello Mastroianni, is probably the director’s most underrated Carlo Di Palma. 35mm print courtesy umentary inspired by an article on porn the key influences – alongside Dreyer and assured direction dazzles in neon-noir. Philip Seymour Hoffman. escapade, and Blossoms and Blood Monica Vitti and Bernhard Wicki. 35mm film. With Alida Valli. 35mm print courtesy of Cinecittà Luce. star John Holmes, by the time he was 17. Tarkovsky – on what is now (not unprob- Paul Thomas Anderson (2003) 12 mins, • 1 complimentary ticket for an • 15% discount at Optic Kitchen + print courtesy of Cinecittà Luce. of Cinecittà Luce. The Dirk Diggler Story, which would later 8:45 lematically) termed “slow cinema” and the 9:20 8:50 a collection of alternate and deleted takes ACMI-programmed cinema session Bar and the ACMI Store serve as the inspiration and “blueprint” for style of great contemporary filmmakers 9:10 ZABRISKIE POINT BOOGIE NIGHTS THERE WILL BE BLOOD from Punch-Drunk Love. • 3 x single passes to bring a friend to • Exclusive invitations to cinema such as Tsai Ming-liang, Nuri Bilge Ceylan THE PASSENGER Michelangelo Antonioni (1970) Boogie Nights, came from his provocation Paul Thomas Anderson (1997) Paul Thomas Anderson (2007) a Cinémathèque screening any time events, previews and screenings that pornography “could” and “should” be and Pedro Costa. Antonioni’s cinema is Michelangelo Antonioni (1975) 110 mins M 155 mins R 158 mins M in the calendar year • Subscription to the ACMI Film most commonly noted as conveying a a genre of legitimate filmmaking. Walking • Discounted member prices for Member e-news 126 mins PG Comparable to Citizen Kane in that it palpable and psychological sense of time Antonioni’s most visionary work is a out on his formal film education, calling its Anderson’s breakthrough film is ACMI-programmed cinema • An ACMI Film Membership card depicts nothing less than the making and space, particularly through his use of Jack Nicholson stars as a disillusioned massively expensive, impressionistic view canonical curriculum boring, like “home- an episodic and often disarmingly sessions that can be used to scan into of America, Anderson’s profoundly the long take, and his exquisite, lingering journalist who makes the strange decision of late ’60s American materialism culmi- work or a chore”,