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MURNAU (1924) (1921) ARTHUR ROBISON (1923) (1966) (1968) FRANK KRAMER (1969) VĚRA CHYTILOVÁ (1966) 90 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* 98 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* 85 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* 107 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* 105 MINS – M 107 MINS – PG CO-PRESENTED WITH THE 73 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* In early 1920, Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet This giant among German Death offers a young girl three chances Celebrated for its outrageous visual Although westerns had been made in A widely underrated masterpiece starring Brutal and pessimistic, this revisionist, In this first of a trilogy of films, Sabata The film most emblematic of the of Dr. Caligari was unleashed upon the classics, documenting the fall and to save her lover’s life. Lang’s dark, style and controversial lack of intertitles, Europe prior to ’s epochal Lee Van Cleef () topically allegorical western is commonly (Lee Van Cleef) is the lone man dressed freedoms afforded artists by the then world, initiating a revolution not just eventual “rise” of an ageing hotel mystical allegory was his first interna- Robison’s classic tale of psychological , the astonishing wave in his first leading role, this cat-and- deemed Corbucci’s masterpiece. A in black, a supreme marksman who CZECH AND SLOVAK FILM imminent Prague Spring, Chytilová’s in the understanding of what cinema doorman, was scripted by Carl Mayer, tional success and remains highly horror has long been considered a of films produced in its wake constitute mouse adventure follows bounty hunter bitter kiss-off to the genre, Corbucci comes to the rescue of a small Texas best-known film is a glorious Dadaist is capable of, but also in what cinema is. directed by Murnau, co-photographed impressive for its virtuosic cinematogra- landmark of German Expressionist what is affectionately known as the “Colorado” Corbett as he embarks on channelled his righteous fury at the town. This consciously absurdist entry FESTIVAL OF AUSTRALIA revolt against dominant narrative genres The German Expressionists showed us by Karl Freund, production designed phy, visual effects and expressionistic cinema. Passions overtake reason and spaghetti western. Cheap but rarely a score-settling manhunt for a Mexican assassinations of and in the spaghetti western genre features and modes of representation. Two that the camera could create reality, a by Edgar G. Ulmer and boasts an mood setting. Co-scripted by key reality is not what it appears to be when cheerful, from 1964 a plethora of brutal, criminal known as “The Knife” (Tomas , so much so that Darryl F. whip-crack dialogue, acrobatics, young women embark upon an anarchic subjective world expressing an artist’s outstandingly expressive lead perfor- collaborator and a mysterious traveller and illusionist iconoclastic and stylistically freewheel- Milian). Audaciously revisionist in outlook Zanuck declined to grant the film US outlandish weapons and energetic Dubbed “the first lady of Czech film”, rampage, joyously exploiting a string inner perspective on existence. Building mance by Emil Jannings. Eschewing co-shot by , and arrives to provide entertainment at an ing gun operas came out of an – and with Sollima’s iconic multilayered distribution. It contains one of Ennio gunslinging executed with supreme flair. the famously combative Věra Chytilová of hapless men; chaos and wanton on currents from other artistic fields such intertitles and featuring “unchained” featuring a stellar cast including Lil otherwise routine dinner party. Shadows, opportunistic pan-European studio imagery, a taut script by frequent Leone Morrricone’s most radical scores to Up against a violent assailant with an (1929–2014) will forever rank amongst destruction ensue. Preceded by A as painting, theatre, architecture and even camerawork of unprecedented agility, Dagover, Walter Janssen and Rudolf reflections and silhouettes dominate system at a torrential rate. At a time collaborator Sergio Donati, and an match the astonishing snowbound iconic banjo, Sabata, both the man and cinema’s most uncompromising and Bagful of Fleas Věra Chytilová (1962) dance, filmmakers such as Fritz Lang, F. this is one of the most lasting, influential Klein-Rogge (, The Testament each frame in the formidable camerawork when the Hollywood western was in explosive Ennio Morricone score – this cinematography of the Dolomite locations. the film, cherishes the unconquerable protean iconoclasts. A key figure in the 45 mins Unclassified 15 +* Shot in a W. Murnau, G. W. Pabst, Joe May, E. A. and dazzling of silent films and a key of Dr. Mabuse), it was an important early of Fritz Arno Wagner, a cinematographer bloated decline, the Italian-Spanish volatile and morally ambiguous film is Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus spirit of the old West. With William Czechoslovak New Wave, she enlisted as teenage girls boarding school attached Dupont and Paul Leni utilised lighting, work in the integration of expressionist influence on Luis Buñuel: “Something renowned for his work with Fritz Lang. version ripped up all moral niceties, considered by some to be the best of all Kinski and . Director and Berger and Linda Veras, and featuring the sole woman studying film production to a cotton mill, this quasi-vérité short framing, set design, performance, the techniques with more naturalistic forms about this film spoke to something deep “Its supreme value as an example of unity presenting extreme violence and radical spaghetti westerns. critic called it simply “one an energetic, flavoursome score by at Prague’s legendary film school, anticipates both Daisies and Miloš conception of plot and characters – the of cinema. in me; it clarified my life and my vision of purpose, of time, of place, of theme, politics via revenge narratives set against of the finest westerns ever”. Marcello Giombini. FAMU, where she was accepted despite Forman’s A Blonde in Love. entire arsenal of cinematic techniques, of the world”. cannot be over-estimated” (Paul Rotha). local desert backdrops. For directors informing her examiners that she found 35mm print courtesy of the Kinemathek Digital prints of both films courtesy of the National in fact – to realise an inner vision of such as the hugely conflicted Marxist their films boring. Collaborating with Le Bon Film, Basel. Film Archive in Prague. the world. That this vision would be so Sergio Corbucci and the prolific pulp fellow catalysing personalities of the determinedly nightmarish is unsurprising. maestro Sergio Sollima, the genre was New Wave – including her second The Weimar Republic, so chaotic, so often just another paid job, but their films husband, the brilliant cinematographer anarchic, liberated from the horrors have nonetheless accumulated a cult Jaroslav Kučera; writer and visual artist of war and the constraints of imperialism, reputation. Including international stars Ester Krumbachová; and editor Miroslav but also wracked by hyperinflation and beyond , they seemed Hájek – she made waves at home and a battleground of political extremists, more often than not to feature the abroad with films that privileged women’s was fertile ground for the darker reaches steely-eyed Lee Van Cleef (Angel Eyes in subjectivity, drew upon her lapsed of the German imagination. A sense of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), an actor Catholicism and played with cinematic an implacable destiny combined with who became almost exclusively identified form and aesthetics with a growing the trauma of the recent past and the with the genre. Equally frequently they adventurousness, reaching experimental anxiety of a national future being written feature magnificent scores by the great apotheoses (and garnering strident on the fly, ensuring the films of the Ennio Morricone, whose eclectic but official condemnation) with 1966’sDaisies movement tapped so unerringly into the instantly recognisable sound came to be and 1969’s Fruit of Paradise, central films 8:40PM 8:50PM 8:35PM 9:00PM 9:00PM 9:10PM cultural psyche that it could almost feel a definitive component of this recklessly in this season. Unlike many, Chytilová THE HANDS OF ORLAC VARIETY ASPHALT THE MERCENARY 8:55PM THE APPLE GAME as if the cinema produced Hitler rather entertaining, uncompromising genre. remained in Czechoslovakia after 1968’s ROBERT WIENE (1924) E. A. DUPONT (1925) JOE MAY (1929) SERGIO CORBUCCI (1968) DEATH RIDES A HORSE SERGIO CORBUCCI (1966) VĚRA CHYTILOVÁ (1976) than simply anticipated him. This season This rip-roaring season showcases Soviet crushing of the Prague Spring. 90 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* 95 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* 94 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* 110 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* GIULIO PETRONI (1967) 92 MINS – M 92 MINS – M combines several of the key works of the genre’s most ostentatiously An open letter to “Comrade President” 114 MINS – MA 1920s German Expressionism (Destiny, This atmospheric adaptation of Maurice Emil Jannings plays an ex-trapeze artist Made at UFA just before the full arrival audacious examples, featuring auteurs With an all-star cast featuring spaghetti The spaghetti western’s other great Gustáv Husák demanding she be allowed Chytilová’s belated return to filmmaking The Last Laugh, The Hands of Orlac) Renard’s novel stars Conrad Veidt as in this story of jealousy, betrayal and of sound, May’s extraordinarily dexterous (and Sergios!) to rival Leone. It brings western staples and Petroni’s emblematic revenge western Sergio (Corbucci) offers a tougher and to make films again elicited worldwide after the suppression of the Prague with films such as Warning Shadows, a renowned pianist who loses his murder in the circus world, full of cynical and strikingly visual silent “street film” together a number of the most acclaimed , Corbucci’s thrilling and stars as a young man more concentrated snapshot of frontier support in 1975; her filmmaking career, Spring is a remarkable feminist screwball Asphalt and Variety that help deepen our hands in a train accident and receives humour and ironic twists. Brilliant – shot by Günther Rittau ( and stylistically adventurous examples ultra-violent political fable is a key work setting out to avenge the murder and violence than his contemporaries, stalled since 1969 due to opprobrium comedy set around a maternity ward. understanding of the range and profound a murderer’s hands as replacement in cinematography (by Karl Freund and and The Blue Angel) – is an Expressionist- from Death Rides a Horse and The Big of the “Zapata” subgenre. Nero plays defilement of his family, which he favouring a suggestive atmosphere from above, soon resumed. As this season Forgoing the more experimental influence (on genres such as ) a radical transplant. Wiene belies his Carl Hoffmann), using pioneering inflected “love” story set amidst the Gundown to two of Corbucci’s most the titular mercenary who, in a typical witnessed as a boy. In this variation of accumulating malice. Joe seeks of imported prints will demonstrate, her approaches to film form and aesthetics of the form and style. common reputation as a cinematic techniques (including placing a camera teeming traffic of late 1920s modernist atmospheric, ambitious and exploratory Corbuccian (as well as Brechtian) on the “tutorship western”, he meets vengeance against the ruthless lesser-known subsequent films are no that characterised her late ’60s work, one-hit wonder, grounding Veidt’s on a trapeze), showcases the high-risk, Berlin. This important transitional work entries: The Mercenary and The flourish, stumbles upon his on-again-off- up with Ryan (Lee Van Cleef) who has scalp-hunters who murdered his wife less engaged with societal and women’s it nonetheless includes no shortage performative excess in a more realistic, dizzying trapeze sequences and frenzied presents a nimble hybrid of sensibilities Great Silence. again friend (Tony Musante), reigniting a just served a long stretch in prison and massacred their village’s inhabi- issues, nor are they any less provocative of startling imagery. Fellow New Wave but somehow more menacing, mise en nightlife of Weimar where that fuses noir, city film, urban comedy florid brothers-in-bloodshed partnership. after being framed for armed robbery tants. Played by the young and then than her celebrated films of the ’60s. director Jiří Menzel stars as a nerdy, scène than that of his famed The Cabinet characters exist in a world of superficial and social realism into a story of a Sometimes overlooked in favour of the by the same gang. Van Cleef once largely unknown , Joe philandering ob-gyn opposite a quixotic of Dr. Caligari. But the paranoia, the glamour, sleazy carnivals and decadent straight-laced traffic cop (played by director’s more sombre and deeply again emerges as perhaps the spaghetti becomes an ideal vessel: always waiting, young nurse played by Dagmar Bláhová prophetic Germanic terror of venal music halls. A major work of German ’ Gustav Fröhlich) undone by fatalistic The Great Silence, this is an western’s key actor; Petroni (Tepepa) thinking and then diving into action (Maria Ramsay in the original 1985 series powers making us commit vile acts, is Expressionism, it was also one of the a fun-loving femme fatale (the wonderful incisive and eminently entertaining provides characteristically tense for a few lethal beats. Aided by Ennio of Neighbours on Channel 7!). just as keenly felt as in his earlier work. most critically acclaimed films of its time. Betty Amann). addition to both the “spaghetti canon” and well-paced direction; and Ennio Morricone’s expressive score, repurposed 35mm print courtesy of the National Film Archive and the oeuvre of one of its most Morricone delivers one of his most years later for Tarantino’s Kill Bill, the in Prague. important proponents. audacious and bizarre scores. film would go on to inspire countless plots of merciless revenge.

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WEDNESDAY 19 SEPTEMBER WEDNESDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 3 OCTOBER WEDNESDAY 3 OCTOBER 10–31 OCTOBER WEDNESDAY 10 OCTOBER WEDNESDAY 17 OCTOBER WEDNESDAY 24 OCTOBER WEDNESDAY 31 OCTOBER CONTESTING HISTORY: ON DANGEROUS GROUND: BICENTENNIAL LEGACIES , TRAILBLAZER

7:00PM 7:00PM 6:30PM 7:00PM 7:00PM 7:00PM 7:00PM SOMETHING DIFFERENT FRUIT OF PARADISE AUSTRALIA DAZE THE HITCH-HIKER OUTRAGE THE SEA WOLF VĚRA CHYTILOVÁ (1963) VĚRA CHYTILOVÁ (1969) PAT FISKE (1988) IDA LUPINO (1953) IDA LUPINO (1950) MICHAEL CURTIZ (1941) (1942) 81 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* 96 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* 75 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* 71 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* 75 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* 100 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* 94 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* Concordant with the faraway burgeoning The most experimental film of the The Bicentennial celebrations marking Overall directed by Fiske, this panoramic Tough as nails as an actress, Ida Lupino This tale of masculinity under threat Made at a time when it was virtually Recently restored to its original length, This fascinating and highly atmospheric of second-wave feminism, Chytilová’s Czechoslovak New Wave had Chytilová the arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney Cove “tour de force” (Sylvia Lawson) covering (1918–1995) exudes a searing tenacity and from itself is one of the great late noirs impossible to even mention the word Curtiz’s highly atmospheric adaptation “missing link” between French poetic debut feature intertwines an ostensible again collaborating with her Daisies on January 26, 1788, and the subsequent the Bicentennial “celebrations” on an unmistakable sense of compassion. of the classic period. Against a stunning “rape” in a Hollywood movie, director of Jack ’s psychological adventure realism and American film noir features documentary on champion gymnast Eva cohort of cinematographer Jaroslav European occupation and invasion of January 26, 1988 brings together footage While she had a unique, luminous Californian desert backdrop, a serial and co-writer Lupino’s second feature novel is “a triumph of studio filmmaking” as a drunken dockworker Bosáková with veristic but dramatised Kučera, screenwriter and costume Australia, have long been contested shot by over 20 different crews (helmed presence on screen, Lupino enjoyed more killer traps two men (Edmond O’Brien turns this limitation into the film’s razor’s (J. Hoberman) focusing on a sadistic who fears he has committed murder and scenes from the life of a frustrated designer Ester Krumbachová, and editor in terms of what they can tell us about by filmmakers such as John Hughes and satisfaction while directing. After a and Frank Lovejoy) en route to a edge. As society denies the protagonist’s ship’s captain (Edward G. Robinson), hides out on a barge where he witnesses housewife. Both are strikingly shot Miroslav Hájek, in addition to the Studio national identity, the multicultural makeup Jeni Thornley) throughout Australia to terrific early career in England and the fishing trip. With exquisitely calibrated (Mala Powers) overwhelming distress, who runs his vessel like a concentration the attempted suicide of a young woman by Jan Čuřík; the jazzy soundtrack Ypsilon theatre troupe. In this gnomic of Australian society, inequality, the document diverse individual responses US, including key roles in such significant tension, Lupino’s masterly control of it instead tries to impress upon her the camp, up against a United Nations of (Lupino). Gabin and Lupino provide a is courtesy of the Semafor theatre’s and wildly psychedelic farewell to the sometimes jingoistic vision of history to the day’s events, protests and jingoistic films as High Sierra, The Sea Wolf, The a predominantly male cast prefigures need to return to normalcy and the “fellow” travellers – an accidental truly distinctive coupling in this strange, Jiří Šlitr. Preceded by Ceiling Věra Summer of Love-like ambience and peddled by various institutions, and ceremonies. Also drawing upon mass Hard Way and The Man I Love, she battled Kathryn Bigelow’s genre innovations comfort of the “white-picket-fence” passenger (Alexander Knox), a rebellious doom-laden and often-existential psy- Chytilová (1961) 41 mins Unclassified freedoms of the Prague Spring, Edenic the troubled legacy of these events media coverage, this deftly edited through restrictive barriers to form her by over three decades. Gorgeously shot promises of marriage. This searing seaman and a prison fugitive (a wonder- chological drama containing many fasci- 15 +* Chytilová’s celebrated FAMU mythology feeds into an absurdist, richly and actions for Indigenous Australians. “time-capsule” compilation finds its own production company, The Filmakers, by noir-VIP Nicholas Musuraca (Out of condemnation of patriarchal complicity, fully hardboiled Lupino) – trying to escape. nating associations: Fritz Lang directed graduation film is an Antonioniesque, symbolic, relationship-cum-serial-killer But the Bicentennial also provided an most pointed and critical moments and contributed to a string of important the Past), and co-written by Lupino and “victim blaming” and rape culture is a This moody anti-fascist parable features a number of its initial scenes; Salvador semi-documentary portrait of the drama, accompanied throughout by a opportunity for many different forms in the contrast between the decadent films during the 1950s before working ex-husband Collier Young, it contains a remarkably frank, tense and personal contributions by many key figures of the Dali worked on the subjective “drunk” boredom and objectification endured rapturous Zdeněk Liška score. of cultural expression as well as probing celebrations of the super-rich on Sydney extensively as a director in television. chilling performance by William Talman portrait of the psychological effects Hollywood Blacklist including writer sequences; John O’Hara wrote the script. by a fashion model. reflections on Australian history, society Harbour and the timely protests by Her influence as a trailblazer lasted long as the sadistic killer of the title. of institutionalised sexual violence. Robert Rossen and co-star John Garfield. With and . Digital print courtesy of the National Film Archive and culture. These included various various Aboriginal communities. “This afterwards. Often shooting in exterior Digital prints of both films courtesy of the National in Prague. 35mm print courtesy of The Library of Congress. 35mm print courtesy of the British Film Institute. initiatives that supported cultural work movie is a triumph” (Bill Collins). locations, Lupino showed considerable Film Archive in Prague. that both celebrated and questioned the skill in portraying American urban and Courtesy of the National Film and Sound Archive, legacy of the 200-year European presence rural landscapes as beautiful wastelands. Australia in Australia. This program reflecting Her films were often about women in on the 30th anniversary of these events, turmoil, but also spread the net wider features a selection of independent to consider social problems with an documentaries that explore this history understanding of societal structures and cultural moment in a wide variety that inhibit the behaviours of and paths of ways, ranging from the Pat Fiske- for women. While also an A-list actor, produced Australia Daze, which documents screenwriter (including for several of her the events, celebrations and protests own features and Don Siegel’s Private taking place on “Australia Day”, to Tom Hell 36, in which she also starred) and Zubrycki’s controversial Amongst Equals, musician, Lupino was notably only the a partisan but objective documentary second woman admitted into the originally commissioned by the ACTU Directors Guild of America, after Dorothy 9:15PM 8:45PM 8:00PM 9:45PM 8:25PM 9:55PM 8:25PM 9:50PM 8:50PM 8:45PM and funded by the Bicentennial Authority Arzner. Following the collapse of her PREFAB STORY TRAPS AMONGST EQUALS ALL THAT IS SOLID THE BIGAMIST THRILLER: “THE BRIDE WHO DIED TWICE” HARD, FAST AND BEAUTIFUL TWILIGHT ZONE: “THE MASKS” PRIVATE HELL 36 JUNIOR BONNER to provide an audio-visual history of production company, Lupino migrated to VĚRA CHYTILOVÁ (1979) VĚRA CHYTILOVÁ (1998) TOM ZUBRYCKI (1991) JOHN HUGHES (1988) IDA LUPINO (1953) IDA LUPINO (1962) IDA LUPINO (1951) IDA LUPINO (1964) DON SIEGEL (1954) (1972) the Australian trade-union movement. the small screen, where she maintained 96 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* 124 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 18 + † 93 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* 54 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* 80 MINS – PG 51 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* 78 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* 25 MINS – PG 81 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* 100 MINS – G This program presents a small selection her artistic success as an actor and, more This scathing and often very funny This under-seen, pitch-black farce ranks of work – including John Hughes’ Zubrycki’s controversial, still provocative Partly funded as a Bicentennial prominently, preserved her distinctive This noir-ish melodrama was Lupino’s By 1962, Lupino had amassed over 30 This key work in Lupino’s directorial This memorable episode of the iconic Lupino’s taut screenplay (with Collier Peckinpah’s modern-day cattle-punching rubbishing of life under Normalisation amongst the director’s most provocative speculative All That is Solid – that was and rarely screened documentary about commission through the University directorial sensibility. This season fifth feature and, in many ways, her credits directing various TV shows career, shot on a low budget over 30 days, TV series (scripted by the show’s creator Young) for Siegel’s bold and muscular western is a surprisingly gentle and (1969–1987) has had scant exposure and unforgettable films, as fiercely instigated or inspired by the Bicentennial, the Australian trade-union movement of Queensland Art Museum and the features selections from all of these signature work. Told in flashback, it tells – including two episodes of Alfred follows a young, talented tennis player Rod Serling and holding more than policier reveals her as an acute observer autumnal portrait of an ageing and abroad; the local authorities did their feminist as it is nonetheless ribald and focusing on the urgent work undertaken was originally commissioned by the ABC, Hughes’ speculative, essayistic artistic pursuits and mediums – with a the story of a man (Edmond O’Brien) Hitchcock Presents – and would go on (Sally Forrest) who is beaten down by a passing resemblance to Poe’s The of masculine codes of violence and a itinerant rodeo star (Steve McQueen) utmost to suppress it domestically for pessimistic. Burlesquing the rape-re- in independent documentary and revealing ACTU and funded by the Bicentennial documentary is an examination of particular focus on the groundbreaking who has been leading a double life torn to direct dozens more throughout the her domineering mother (Claire Trevor). Masque of the Red Death) sees Robert progenitor of the likes of Kathryn returning home to small-town Arizona many years, too. Working once more venge genre, it concerns a veterinarian the complex and conflicted responses Authority to provide an audio-visual the future of Australia in light of the features Lupino completed in the early between his infertile first wife (Joan 1960s before concluding her directorial Not the typical tale that ultimately vilifies Keith as a dying millionaire doling out Bigelow. Steve Cochran and Howard Duff to compete in its annual contest. This with Jaromír Šofr, her cameraman from and the fallout from the very particular to the contested events of 1988. This history stretching from the birth of the processes of post-industrialisation, 1950s (the four films fromOutrage to Fontaine) and the waitress he makes career. During this incredibly fertile an ambitious mother, Lupino shows justice to his grasping relatives during star as cops who find themselves first warmly astute and leisurely comedy- Ceiling and A Bagful of Fleas, Chytilová vengeance she obtains after being program is co-curated by John Hughes movement in the mid-1850s and the Walter Benjamin’s ruinous “angel of The Bigamist) – to offer a multifaceted pregnant (Lupino). A key instance of the period, Lupino managed to secure real understanding of a woman’s painful an ominous Mardi Gras in New Orleans. chasing, then fatalistically tempted by, drama was the director’s surprising presents a frantic, wide-angled, noisy sexually assaulted by a corrupt MP and and Adrian Danks. formation of the Australian Labor Party history” and Marx’s quixotic vision of portrait of one of the most important “social issue” movie, Lupino tackles a directing credits on nine episodes of path towards independence and success. In one of her more emotionally charged a $300,000 robbery haul before becoming follow-up to the incendiary Straw Dogs, mosaic of life at a monstrous, underdone, a slimy advertising executive. Chytilová’s to key events like the 1891 shearers’ strike modernity. Mixing together documentary figures in American film history. then taboo subject in a strikingly low-key, the relatively short-lived (1960–62) Boris The film resists saccharine resolution and TV assignments, Lupino’s characteristic entangled with Lupino’s tough-as-nails and features Lupino in the majestic role debris-ridden high-rise housing estate antepenultimate fiction film is a family and the 1988 Bicentenary. This pro-union and fiction, interviews and sketchy sombre manner. Although critical of male Karloff-hosted anthology series, Thriller. succeeds in expressing its sympathies focus on the human rather than the nightclub singer. Lupino depicts a of the family’s neglected matriarch who on Prague’s outskirts, cocking a vicious affair, with camerawork from son Štěpán but objective history, focusing on the Brechtian set pieces, this state-of-the- systems of power, and examining the This, the highly atmospheric penultimate to both male and female perspectives. macabre ironically renders the bizarre noir-inflected world where no one goes provides a bedrock for her affectless snook at its Potemkin village pretensions Kučera and costuming by daughter struggle between capital and labour, and nation mosaic draws on the forms hypocrisies of marriage and social Lupino-directed episode, is set in an Trevor’s experience in the role of a finale that much more affecting. unpunished and easy temptation only husband (Robert Preston) and progeny. to community building. Tereza Kučerová. With Dagmar Bláhová. featuring the candid testimony of many of contemporary TV as well as the standards in the 1950s, this haunting unnamed Latin-American country, and hardened, world-weary woman is central begets degradation and betrayal. With Exquisitely shot by Peckinpah’s frequent unionists, was refused sanction by the profoundly “historical” work of Kluge, suburban drama provides a sad portrait tells the story of a woman (Mala Powers) to the film’s emotional intensity. Dean Jagger and Dorothy Malone. collaborator, Lucien Ballard, it co-stars Digital print courtesy of the National Film Archive 35mm print courtesy of the National Film Archive ACTU and has long languished in Godard and Straub-Huillet to provide of quiet lives left bereft by circumstance. who fakes her death to avoid an arranged Ben Johnson and Joe Don Baker. in Prague. in Prague. 35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film and 35mm print courtesy of the British Film obscurity aside from some “illegal” a consciously parodic and bracingly marriage to a sadistic colonel. 35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Institute Archive. 35mm print courtesy of the British Film Institute. screenings in the early 1990s. fragmentary postmodernist vision. Television Archive. Courtesy of the National Film and Sound Archive, Australia.

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7:00PM 7:00PM 7:00PM AMIEL COURTIN-WILSON 7:00PM 7:00PM MAKAVEJEV 7:00PM 7:00PM A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY TAIPEI STORY YI YI HAIL RUIN INNOCENCE UNPROTECTED WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM EDWARD YANG (1991) EDWARD YANG (1985) EDWARD YANG (2000) AMIEL COURTIN-WILSON (2011) AMIEL COURTIN-WILSON DUŠAN MAKAVEJEV (1968) DUŠAN MAKAVEJEV (1971) 237 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* 119 MINS – PG 173 MINS – M 104 MINS – R AND MICHAEL CODY (2013) 75 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* 84 MINS – R 90 MINS – MA One of the wonders of late twentieth- Yang’s intimate and epic, specific and This bracing portrait of urban isolation Yang’s intimate epic is a bittersweet Over the past two decades, Melbourne- Courtin-Wilson’s visionary and deeply This meditative and elegiac tale of lovers Just as his native Yugoslavia was In 1941, Serbian gymnast Dragoljub Makavejev’s incendiary punk provocation, century world cinema was the school of sprawling, seemingly immemorial and and modern malaise in a rapidly changing celebration of culture and life that charts based filmmaker and visual artist Amiel immersive debut “fiction” feature burrows on the run pays tribute to the folkloric situated in the turbulent middle-ground Aleksić wrote, directed and starred a key work of the early 1970s European talented directors who emerged through urgent opus is now widely regarded as Taipei stars filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien the journey of a multi-generational family Courtin-Wilson (1979–) has carved out deep into the troubled psyche of its traditions of Cambodia. Phirun (Rous between the communist East and the in a naively narcissistic folktale about , premiered to great the wave of “New Taiwan Cinema” and a “masterpiece of modern cinema as and singer Tsai Chin (who would later over the course of one year, beginning a distinctive body of work unlike any central character exploring subjectivity, Mony) and Sovanna (Sang Malen) escape capitalist West, Dušan Makavejev (1932–) a virginal young girl enamoured of the controversy in and outside of Yugoslavia. its descendants during the 1980s and well as a defining work of the New Taiwan marry Yang) as the middle-class couple with a wedding and ending with a funeral. other in contemporary Australian film. environment and pained experience in an exploitative and violent world as they swayed from social realism to sexual virile prowess of a heroic Serbian Deftly blending documentary and fiction, early 1990s. Filmmakers such as Hou Cinema” (Godfrey Cheshire). Spanning whose relationship slowly disintegrates Each sprawling frame is imbued with a An unabashed expressionist deeply rooted an unflinchingly direct and profoundly become deeply entwined in each other. revolution in a lively and controversial strongman. Makavejev takes portions poststructuralist semiotics and sexual Hsiao-hsien, Chen Kun-Ho and Tsai a four-year period from 1959, this is an against the backdrop of a city caught compassionate clarity that explores every in both art history and collaborative, cinematic fashion. This truly sensory With breathtaking cinematography, directorial career that spanned the of that unreleased film and intercuts sociology, it begins as an investigation Ming-liang reinvigorated a national intimate study of a young schoolboy between its new globalised modernity character through a single, binding process-based moving-image practices, film established the director as one of the Courtin-Wilson and Cody’s film creates 1950s to the 1990s. Coming of age in them with footage of the Nazi Occupation, into the life and work of controversial cinema focusing on everyday life, the (Chang Chen) and his family life, as and traditional values. A key early work experience. This focus is the essence of Courtin-Wilson’s work is multi-hyphenate most significant and singular voices in memorable imagery of fire and sky, vast the charged atmosphere of post-war along with interviews with Aleksić and psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm conflict between the past and the present, well as a tale of alienated youth set of the New Taiwan Cinema, Yang’s second Yang’s expansive but minutely observed filmmaking in extremis. Between the Australian cinema. Daniel P. Jones and bodies of water, and various shades of , Makavejev was a strident fellow cast and crew to create a montage Reich, before exploding into a free-form historical trauma, identity and rapid against the political, social and cultural feature sharply focuses on sociological final masterpiece, now widely regarded cinema and the gallery, the sculpted and Leanne Letch, playing largely autobi- darkness. Winner of the Horizons Special Marxist whose formative experiences of attractions that slyly riffs on the several satirical narrative of sexual and aesthetic urbanisation. Edward Yang (1947–2007) privations of mid-century Taiwan. Both observations and is imbued with a sense as one of the great movies of the last 20 the found, the body and the spirit, his ographical characters, are extraordinary in Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. with death and decimation would inform possible readings of the film’s title. Roger liberation, as befitting a nation on the was also one of the leading figures in crime narrative and social drama, the film of loss and impending doom set amongst years, a film whose profound emotional work circles the outer bounds of human the lead roles. Preceded by Cicada Preceded by The Death of a King a lifetime of sharply focused satire. As Ebert called this truly unique compilation verge of socio-political – and psychosex- this movement at a time when Taiwan was turns on the discordance and confluence the neon lights and alienating urban and cultural resonance brings to mind experience, often portraying singular, Amiel Courtin-Wilson (2009) 9 mins Amiel Courtin-Wilson (2014) 7 mins a young teenager roaming the streets film “one of the most delightful movies ual – implosion. Makavejev’s seminal and shaking off the legacy of authoritarian of Taiwanese, Chinese and Western streetscapes of the modern city. the panoramic form of Altman’s Short marginal figures – actors, wild men and Unclassified 15 +* This intense Unclassified 15 +* Courtin-Wilson’s on the night the war in Europe was I’ve ever seen, and one of the hardest playful film remains a definitive portrait of rule and strict censorship. This marked cultures, as found in the title’s reference Cuts. It was named best film of the year women, lovers on the run – caught in the direct-to-camera testimony also features impressionistic and cathartic work declared over, Makavejev observed the to describe”. an entire generation’s aesthetic and Courtesy of the Cineteca di Bologna. the beginning of a new spirit of openness to Elvis Presley’s rendition of “Are You by many critics including Susan Sontag throes of ecstatic creation-destruction the words and galvanising presence of documents the mourning rituals for corpses of defeated German soldiers libidinal unshackling. 35mm print courtesy of the British Film in the arts. Yang’s special contribution Lonesome Tonight?” Largely unavailable and Yang received the Best Director cycles. The multi-disciplinary body of Daniel P. Jones. Cambodia’s deceased king. stacked along footpaths as throngs of Institute Archive 35mm print courtesy of the National Film and Sound was his obsessive focus on capturing the since the mid-1990s, Yang’s masterful award at Cannes. Kent Jones called it influence that feeds into and across joyous Yugoslavs danced victoriously Both films to be introduced by the filmmaker. Both films to be introduced by the filmmaker. Archive, Australia. feeling of sprawling contemporary city orchestration of plot, visual composition “the apotheosis of the new Taiwanese Courtin-Wilson’s films is remarkable; a in the streets. This bizarre and darkly life, primarily in Taipei, where he saw and experiential detail is seen here cinema”. lineage that extends from the prose of the absurdist juxtaposition would influence a society shaped by Confucian values restored to its original epic length and dark Romantics Bataille and Rimbaud to his own sensibilities as a director, 35mm print courtesy of the National Film and rushing at full speed into a hyper-capital- full audio-visual scope. their progeny in contemporary visual arts planting the seeds of an uncanny ability Sound Archive, Australia. ist future. But his piercing vision of urban from Australia’s James Clayden and Bill to find perverse humour in the deadly 35mm print courtesy of the Cineteca di Bologna. anomie, drift and desolation also proved Henson to France’s Philippe Grandrieux serious. Internationally celebrated for to have worldwide resonance. Yang was and Italy’s Pier Paolo Pasolini. Added films such as Innocence Unprotected, still a toddler when his family, like some to this is a level of collaborative practice WR: Mysteries of the Organism and two million other citizens, emigrated all but unheard of among Australia’s , two of which are included in from mainland China to Taiwan after the feature filmmakers, from his work with this season of imported prints, his hybrid, end of the Civil War. One of the richest performers (often playing versions of hypertextual style – combining 9:10PM 9:10PM 8:55PM 8:25PM 9:45PM 8.35PM themes in his films would become the themselves in films like Hail) to his documentary, fiction and archival footage THE TERRORIZERS THE SILENT EYE BASTARDY LOVE AFFAIR, OR THE CASE OF THE MANIFESTO search for identity – personal, cultural, collaborations with composers and sound to incisively critique contemporary EDWARD YANG (1986) AMIEL COURTIN-WILSON (2017) AMIEL COURTIN-WILSON (2008) MISSING SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR DUŠAN MAKAVEJEV (1965) DUŠAN MAKAVEJEV (1988) social and political – in the small island artists, often drawn from Melbourne’s society, Marxism, sex, violence and bodily 109 MINS – M 70 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15+* 83 MINS – MA DUŠAN MAKAVEJEV (1967) 81 MINS – UNCLASSIFIED 15 +* 95 MINS – R nation. But Yang’s work was equally thriving inner-city experimental music functions – earned him a place at the 70 MINS – M concerned with such universal subjects scene. Beginning with his celebrated head of the radical Yugoslav Black Wave, as missed opportunities and the age-old Yang’s third feature is his most docu-portrait of Indigenous theatre One of Courtin-Wilson’s most recent and Before he was “Uncle” Jack Charles, the and expulsion from his country of birth. This infinitely mind-bending exploration Makavejev’s groundbreaking first feature For this “deliciously bawdy fairy tale spun conflicts between parents and children. enigmatic, metaphysical and explicitly legend and man-of-the-streets Uncle striking projects – produced as an aside subject of Courtin-Wilson’s frank portrait Makavejev’s profoundly energetic and of love, freedom and shared political is a warts-and-all portrait of workers in in confectionery colours” (Sheila This season profiles the key films of dark film, weaving an elliptical tapestry of Jack Charles (Bastardy), Courtin-Wilson to ongoing documentary work with the was a homeless, heroin-addicted burglar libidinous films are ripe for rediscovery attitudes between a young telephonist a mining complex in a remote region of Benson), Makavejev returned to shoot his Yang’s career, including a pair of his cryptically interconnected urban stories. pares narrative down to its sparse, legendary free-jazz pianist Cecil Taylor and washed-up actor struggling to survive by modern audiences. and a middle-aged rodent exterminator Yugoslavia. Emerging from the “new film” first film in his native Yugoslavia since urgent and enigmatic portraits of the Shot through with an aura of subtle elemental basics, pulling his films – is a hypnotic portrait of an improvised on Melbourne’s inner-city streets. A child of is also a tragic romance set within the movement made possible by decentrali- W.R. – shortly before the nation’s chaotic clash of histories, sensibilities and menace, the film’s emphatic embrace of back-and-forth from shooting to editing collaboration between Taylor and the Stolen Generations, Charles began gleefully satirical confines of Makavejev’s sation and the democratisation of the dissolution. Loosely adapting Émile cultures in modern Taiwan – The modernist ambiguity, startling imagery, in order to more fluidly evoke the psyches renowned Japanese butoh dancer Min acting in Melbourne’s underground theatre freewheeling cinema. The film therefore film industry, Makavejev grasped the Zola’s novella Pour une nuit d'amour, the Terrorizers and Taipei Story – alongside fractured storytelling and black-as-pitch and fleeting emotional states of his films’ Tanaka. Filmed over three days in an as a teenager and eventually founded the has no choice but to quickly spiral into opportunity to express his idiosyncratic action is set in 1920 in a village in an the sprawling “memory works” that are comedy presents a bracing challenge to subjects. This season presents many of intense, expressive and impressionistic first Aboriginal theatre company, before an exercise in reflexivity that calls into vision of personal freedom. Following unnamed Central European country his defining and lasting legacy:Yi Yi and conventional viewer sensibilities. The Courtin-Wilson’s most adventurous and style, the film explores the outer limits drugs and crime took hold. Courtin- question the earnestness of both intimacy the contrasting exploits and sexual overripe with sexual and revolutionary the intimate but monumental A Brighter city of Taipei looms as an all-encompass- celebrated features alongside a range of of cinema and the difficulties of capturing Wilson’s intimate documentary portrait and socialist realism. Tongue-in-cheek relationships of an assembly expert intrigues. The eclectic cast includes Summer Day. ing presence shadowing and constraining documentaries and short works. a performance where the fundamental follows Charles for six years as he interviews with sexologists and and a violent smelting worker, the film Camilla Søeberg, Alfred Molina, Simon the characters. Yang subsequently essence lies in invention, impermanence, negotiates the road to redemption and criminologists further demonstrate aims to “show how people are permeated Callow (with whom the director had a admitted the film’s complex play with embodiment and animation. Preceded reclaim a truly remarkable life and career. the director’s dexterity in blending by ideologies, and how their conduct, celebrated falling out) and Chris the real and the fictional was even a by Adolescent Amiel Courtin-Wilson Preceded by Charles Amiel Courtin- genres along with his skill in fashioning gestures, opinions, thoughts, are Haywood, while the delightful animated mystery to himself. (2002) 5 mins Unclassified 15 +*This early Wilson (2016) 7 mins Unclassified 15 +* sophisticated humanistic melodrama. unconsciously influenced by ideological titles are by Dušan Petričić. impressionistic work by Courtin-Wilson Moody, intimate and deeply poetic portrayal hypnosis” (Makavejev). 35mm print courtesy of the Taipei Film Archive. 35mm print courtesy of the British Film provides a rhythmic, kaleidoscopic and of a homeless man on the outskirts of Institute Archive 35mm print courtesy of The British Film immersive vision of teenage ritual. Oklahoma City; winner of the National Institute Archive. Portrait Gallery’s Digital Portraiture Award.

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