FEBRUARY 6 FEBRUARY 13–27 MELBOURNE CINÉMATHÈQUE 2019 SCREENINGS OPENING NIGHT FIGURATIVE LANDSCAPES AND SOCRATIC CONVERSATIONS: FROM 6 FEBRUARY TO 22 MAY: THE VISIONARY CINEMA OF NURI BILGE CEYLAN WEDNESDAYS FROM 7PM AT ACMI, FEDERATION SQUARE, MELBOURNE. FROM 29 MAY TO 18 DECEMBER: WEDNESDAYS FROM 6:30PM (CHECK FOR EXCEPTIONS) AT RMIT CAPITOL THEATRE, 113 SWANSTON STREET, MELBOURNE. Presented by the Melbourne Cinémathèque and The Australian Centre WEDNESDAY 6 FEBRUARY WEDNESDAY 13 FEBRUARY WEDNESDAY 20 FEBRUARY WEDNESDAY 27 FEBRUARY for the Moving Image. The opening night of our 2019 program 7:00pm Nuri Bilge Ceylan (1959–) is one of 7:00pm 7:00pm 7:00pm Curated by the Melbourne Cinémathèque. features a recent restoration of one of ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA the most critically lauded directors in ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA THREE MONKEYS WINTER SLEEP the great “last works” of any director (EXTENDED VERSION) contemporary cinema and it’s easy to Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2011) 157 mins – M Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2008) 109 mins – M Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2014) 194 mins – M Supported by Film Victoria, the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program and in the history of cinema, Sergio Sergio Leone (1984) 251 mins see why: his style frequently and openly the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University. Leone’s (1929–1989) truly monumental, Unclassified 18+ † evokes the sensibilities of some of the With this expressively forensic and A businessman accidentally kills a Ceylan’s exquisite but divisive Palme d’Or deeply cinephilic and profoundly cinema’s most highly revered auteurs beautifully detailed police procedural, pedestrian when driving late at night and winner is a “huge, sombre and compelling ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP knowing final film, Once Upon a Time A crime saga truly unparalleled in like Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Ceylan fully emerged as one of the great bargains with his chauffeur to take the tragicomedy” (Peter Bradshaw) set Admission for 12 months from date of purchase: in America. Notoriously cut down to a scope, Leone’s audacious gangster epic Antonioni, Andrei Tarkovsky and contemporary filmmakers. Although blame so that he can continue to contest against the indifferent grandeur of Full $170 / Concession $150 (GST inclusive) length of 139 minutes for its botched traverses five decades in the lives of Abbas Kiarostami. Despite the gravity focusing on the search for a body in a forthcoming election. Ceylan’s boldly Turkey’s Anatolian steppe. Inspired US release, in the year the Melbourne David “Noodles” Aaronson (Robert De of these influences, Ceylan’s vision the vast and unforthcoming Anatolian novelistic tale of social inequality, family by a Chekhov short story, “The Wife”, MINI MEMBERSHIP Cinémathèque was launched, this Niro) and Max Bercovicz (James Woods), remains intensely personal and the landscape, the film touches profoundly conflict and the exchange of guilt is a the narrative centres on a conceited Admission to 3 consecutive nights from date of purchase: gangster epic is one of the great from their hardscrabble beginnings in the meditative, poetic and circuitous style on human nature, society, everyday life significant change of pace exploring and retired actor and the people he comes Full $32 / Concession $27 (GST inclusive) accounts of the hopes of migration, milieu of a Brooklyn Jewish ghetto to the he adapts from his forebears is entirely and the philosophical underpinnings of eulogising the spectres and possessive into contact with while running the the corruption of unfettered capitalism peak of their Prohibition-era bootlegging appropriate to his films’ explorations of existence. Its subtle and nuanced rhythm, labyrinths of Istanbul through a formally provincial hotel he has inherited. Isolated FRIENDS OF CINÉMATHÈQUE and the wasted opportunities empire. Leone is at his most daringly contemporary Turkish experience. Yet, taste for Socratic conversation, and experimental and expressionistic palette by snow, the claustrophobic location Admission for 12 months from date of purchase: and distorted perspectives of the experimental as he jumps freely through like his predecessors, his politics haunt exploration of landscape are reminiscent of manipulated images and sounds. allows Ceylan to mount a philosophical Full $295 / Concession $265 (GST inclusive) “American Century”. Drawing on time and space, deeply probing themes the films from off-screen. Ceylan’s of Kiarostami, but Ceylan forges a Winner of the Best Director award at disquisition on alienation and emotional many of the themes, ideas and motifs of greed, violence, betrayal and the primary focus remains unreservedly uniquely literary and cinematic sensibility Cannes, it is the first of his films to be co- disappointment. The director’s terrifically The Friends of Cinémathèque membership is a way for you to support found in Leone’s celebrated Spaghetti inexorable passage of time. The Italian direct and largely confined to to be further explored in Winter Sleep written by Ebru Ceylan. alert camerawork, brilliantly lensed by the vitality of the Melbourne Cinémathèque, an independently organised, not- Westerns, and tapping into the master’s final – and perhaps greatest – the quotidian, psychological and and The Wild Pear Tree. 35mm print Gökhan Tiryaki, and editing facilitate a for-profit organisation. In addition to annual membership you will receive: sensibility of the Italian crime films film presents an outsider’s perspective philosophical realms of experience. courtesy of the National Film and Sound deeply empathetic film that is both epic • 1 complimentary ticket for an ACMI programmed cinema session of the 1970s, this 2012 restoration is on the immigrant experience and the In this respect, Ceylan is indebted not Archive of Australia. Preceded by Cocoon and intimate in its scope. • 3 × single passes to bring a friend to a Cinémathèque screening any time in truly one of the defining post-classical grand illusion of the American Dream. only to cinema but photography and Nuri Bilge Ceylan (1995) 20 mins – the calendar year genre films, a movie whose vaunted Famously mutilated by an overly cautious literature – in particular, the plays and Unclassified 15+*. Ceylan’s first film • Discounted member prices for ACMI programmed cinema sessions reputation has continued to gather distributor for US release, this 2012 stories of Anton Chekhov. Emboldened presents a silent meditation on a family’s • 15% discount at ACMI Cafe & Bar and the ACMI Shop momentum over the last 35 years and restoration is the closest contemporary by the success of his first short film relationship to the elements. • Exclusive invitations to cinema events, previews and screenings that provides a perfect opening to our audiences are likely to come to Leone’s at Cannes, Ceylan embarked upon a • Subscription to the ACMI Film Member e-news 2019 calendar. original vision. Featuring one of Ennio series of low-budget features set in the • An ACMI Film Membership card that can be used to scan into Morricone’s greatest and most affecting countryside of his youth, with cast and Cinémathèque sessions. scores, and an extraordinary gallery of crew largely comprised of immediate supporting performances from Elizabeth friends and family. He worked with 9:00pm MEMBERSHIPS AVAILABLE AT: McGovern, Treat Williams, Tuesday Weld minimal crews, offsetting shortages CLIMATES • ACMI Tickets and Information Desk (03 8663 2583) and Joe Pesci. by working multiple key roles himself, Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2006) 101 mins • Online at www.acmi.net.au (booking fees apply for online transactions) including as cinematographer, Unclassified 15+* Please note, membership does not ensure admission: members will only be producer and editor. The third film in admitted to cinema capacity. this loose trilogy, Uzak, was awarded This chilly, poetic and deeply melancholy the Cannes Grand Jury Prize in 2003 portrait of the deteriorating relationship FILM CLASSIFICATIONS: and cemented Ceylan’s reputation as between an academic (Isa) and an art * Where a film is labelled “Unclassified 15+” viewers are required to be 15 a filmmaker of international renown. director (Bahar), played by the director years or older, unless accompanied by an adult. Each subsequent film – beautifully shot and his wife (Ebru Ceylan), is “the work † Where a film is labelled “Unclassified 18+” viewers are required to be 18 by Gökhan Tiryaki and often scripted of a film-maker who” had, by this point years or older. or co-scripted by his wife (and co- in his career, “established absolute star in Climates) Ebru Ceylan – has mastery over his cinematic idiom” (Peter Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for all Cinémathèque information. consistently built upon this success, Bradshaw). Journeying across various Articles on many films in the program can be found in CTEQ Annotations on leading to the creation of several of evocative and haunted landscapes from Film, online at www.sensesofcinema.com the greatest films of the past decade Istanbul to the snowy eastern provinces Website: melbournecinematheque.org including his enigmatic masterpiece, of Turkey, this forensic pursuit of the Email: [email protected] Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. end of a love affair is a typically family MELBOURNE CINÉMATHÈQUE concern with Isa’s parents played by Join our weekly reminder list: 2019 SCREENINGS those of the director. send a SUBSCRIBE email to our address listed above. MARCH 6–20 MARCH 27 – APRIL 10 APRIL 17 – MAY 1 OLD, WEIRD ALBION: “FILMS WITH A MESSAGE JUST MAKE