3-7 May 2018 A Festival of Restored Classics and Archival Prints from Cinema’s Grand Heritage Presented in Partnership with the Australian Film Television and Radio School OPENING NIGHT experiences, trying to make a Treasure is his most acclaimed THU 3 MAY 6.30PM living in a range of menial jobs in work, frequently topping best Sri SANS LENDEMAIN 1960s Paris, infuse his first film, Lankan films of all time polls. “My Dir: Max OPHÜLS, France, 1939, Soleil Ô. “From the stylized and most controversial film… holds a 82 mins, b&w, sd., DCP (orig. surreal opening sequence to the strong social and political value 35mm), French with English episodic adventures of a particular in denouncing the system. The subtitles, UC/18+ man, the director presents a series character is trapped between two Sans lendemain was the of imaginative set pieces, linked cultures: the Western/British one penultimate picture cosmopolitan by voice-over narrative, that and his culture of origin…” (Lester director Max Ophüls made in investigate and dramatize a complex James Peries). pre-war France before leaving for of interrelated themes. A scathing Introduction by Adrienne Hollywood. Evelyn/Babs works attack on colonialism, the film is McKibbins. Restored in 2013 by the as one of four topless dancers also a shocking exposé of racism...” Film Foundation’s World Cinema at “La Sirene”. Babs has a fateful (Harvard Film Archives notes). Project at Cineteca di Bologna chance meeting with an old flame, Introduction by Peter Hourigan. /L'immagine ritrovata laboratory. In Georges, and fate throws up an Restoration Australian premiere. association with Lester James and opportunity she should not take, Restored by Cineteca di Bologna Sumitra Peries, the National Film but memory and desire compel her at L’immagine ritrovata laboratory Archive of India and the National forwards. in collaboration with Med Hondo. Film Corporation of Sri Lanka, Restoration funded by the George Australian premiere. Introduction Cinemas Ltd. Additional restoration by David Hare.4K restoration by Lucas Family Foundation and The elements provided by Degeto Films. Gaumont. REPEATED FRI 4 MAY Film Foundation’s World Cinema Restoration funding provided by 4.15PM Project. Doha Film Institute. FRI 4 MAY 10.00AM FRI 4 MAY 4.15PM SAT 5 MAY 1.00PM THE NUDE IN THE WINDOW SANS LENDEMAIN JAN MÜLLER IN Dir: Peter TAMMER, Australia, Dir: Max OPHÜLS, France, 1939, CONVERSATION 82 mins, b&w, sd., DCP (orig. 2015, 61 mins, ProRes, col., sd., Session approx. 50 mins. English, U/C18+ 35mm), French with English subtitles, UC/18+ The new CEO of the National Film Shortly before film director Paul and Sound Archive of Australia Cox died, he received a visit from FRI 4 MAY 6.30PM talks to producer Sue Milliken his friend Peter Tammer and they about his new agenda and the spent an afternoon discussing TOKYO TWILIGHT Dir: OZU Yasujirō, Japan, 1957, long-standing challenges for Cox’s life. A remarkable record of the National Film and Sound that day and a fitting final tribute 140 mins, col., sd., 4K DCP (orig. 35mm), Japanese with English Archive of Australia in preserving to Paul Cox’s life. subtitles, U/C18+ and restoring Australian cinema Sydney premiere. Introduced by For quite some time this film was heritage. the director, Peter Tammer. almost the missing masterpiece of Ozu’s career. More recently SAT 5 MAY 2.30PM FRI 4 MAY 11.45AM it has been released in the US BETWEEN WARS YACKETY YACK and UK and now had its full Dir: Michael THORNHILL, Dir: Dave JONES, Australia, 1974, flowering, with a 4K restoration 86 mins, ProRes, (orig. 16mm), Australia, 1974, 100 mins, 35mm, recently premiering at the 2018 b&w, sd., English, UC/18+ col., sd., English, M American Dave Jones came to Berlin film festival. It tells of two The collaboration between Australia in 1971. Yackety Yack sisters (Arima Ineko and Ozu’s filmmaker Mike Thornhill and writer was made in La Trobe University’s emblematic lead actress, Hara Frank Moorhouse was a rare, but film studio by Jones, students Setsuko), and follows their parallel also uniquely creative partnership and staff (including legendary paths as they reunite with a mother in Australian cinema. Their now film critic/actor John Flaus), with who abandoned them in childhood. neglected debut feature is also Jones himself in the lead role as Introduction by Jane Mills. one of the most unexpectedly Restoration Australian premiere, Maurice an aspiring, egomaniacal cerebral of the breakout films courtesy of Shockhiku International. film director. “the Hellzapoppin’ of from the Australian New Wave; poor cinema, a frequently hilarious a contrarian’s read of 1920s and spoof on the low budget film... a SAT 5 MAY 10.00AM '30s Australia, rich with paradoxical sheer delight.“ (David Stratton). THE TREASURE ideas, unexpected tableau and Introduction by Rod Bishop. Dir: Lester James PERIES, Sri tantalizing ellipses. Imports Corin Restoration by the Library of the Lanka, 1972, 110 mins, DCP (Orig. Redgrave and Gunter Meisner give University of Technology Sydney. 35mm) col., sd., Sinhalese with striking performances in a film Restoration supervised by Margot English subtitles, U/C18+ demanding revival, restoration and Nash. Sri Lankan cinema’s still living re-evaluation. Preceded by cinema legend, Lester James THE AMERICAN POET’S VISIT FRI 4 MAY 2.00PM Peries commenced making films (Dir: Michael THORNHILL, Aust., SOLEIL Ô in the 1950s, regularly premiered 1969, Digibeta, 20 mins, U/C18+) Dir: Med HONDO, France/ at the major European festivals Thornhill and Moorhouse’s first Mauritania, 1970, 98 mins, DCP and made the first Sri Lankan collaboration, satirizing the (orig. 35mm), b&w, sd., French film to get an Oscar nomination. Sydney Push and based on the with English subtitles, U/C18+ Winner of the Silver Lion at the writer’s short story. Mauritanian-born Med Hondo’s 1972 Venice film festival, The In the anticipated presence of near the end of his tragically short of those who have since died. Michael Thornhill and Frank career. Made as a reaction to the In anticipation of Ian Dunlop Moorhouse. Session hosted by suicide of the director’s former introducing the session. Mark Pierce. 35mm archival print lover, Armin Meier, it follows the last From the National Film and of Between Wars courtesy of the few days in the life of transgender Sound Archive of Australia’s Film British Film Institute National Erwin/Elvira, paying one last visit Australia Collection. Presented Archive. The American Poet's Visit to people and places with personal in collaboration with the National courtesy of the National Film and meaning. Probably the most Archives of Australia. With thanks Sound Archive of Australia. intensely personal film Fassbinder to NGMedia and traditional ever made, its brutal honesty has custodians Roma Butler and Colin SAT 5 MAY 5.30PM caused it to be described as a film Nelson. THE COLOR OF which makes Salo look like Mary POMEGRANATES Poppins. “Its only redeeming feature SUN 6 MAY 5.15PM Dir: Sergei PARAJANOV, USSR, is genius” (Vincent Canby, The New THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR 1969, 77 mins, DCP (orig. 35mm), York Times). LANGE col., sd., Armenian/Georgian/ Introduction by David Hare. Dir: Jean RENOIR, France, 1936, Russian with English subtitles, Restoration by the Rainer Werner 82 mins, DCP (orig. 35mm) b&w, U/C18+ Fassbinder Foundation. Courtesy sd., French with English subtitles, Sergei Parajanov was exiled to of StudioCanal. U/C18+ Armenia where he made The Color Renoir’s first out and out of Pomegranates. Confiscated SUN 6 MAY 12.45PM masterpiece, made under the and recut by Soviet censors, TWO FRIENDS aegis of the French Popular Front, it was not until 2015 that the Dir: Jane CAMPION, Australia, tells of the life of the residents director’s original vision finally 1986, 78 mins, DCP (orig. TV), of a working class courtyard and emerged. It depicts the life of col., sd., English, M their travails in the nearby printing revered 18th-century Armenian The course of an intense, but shop owned by the evil Batala. poet and musician Sayat-Nova. short-lived New-Best-Friend-ship The restoration now shows off “If The Colour of Pomegranates between two girls growing from Renoir’s most fluid film of that era, were a building, it would be a tweens into teens is plotted in with its dynamic editing and use of world heritage site.” (Tony Rayns). reverse - from its cooling to its depth of field. Introduction by John McDonald. first days when school friends Introduction by Geoff Gardner. Restored in 2014 by Cineteca di were certain that they’d be friends Australian premiere. Restoration Bologna/L’immagine ritrovata for life. Jane Campion’s first courtesy of StudioCanal. and The Film Foundation’s World (although made-for-ABC-TV) Cinema Project, in association feature drew on an original script SUN 6 MAY 7.15PM with the National Cinema Centre from writer Helen Garner, based WOMAN ON THE RUN of Armenia and Gosfilmofond Dir: Norman FOSTER, USA, 1950, of Russia. Restoration funding on her insights as a high school teacher. 82 mins, b&w, sd., DCP (orig. provided by the Material World 35mm), English, UC/18+ Charitable Foundation and The Introduced by Jan Chapman. Restored by the ABC, preserved by Produced by and starring Ann Film Foundation. the National Archives of Australia. Sheridan, this long unseen B-noir Courtesy of Jan Chapman and ABC from director Norman Foster SAT 5 MAY 7.30PM Content Sales. (best known as Orson Welles’ ONE FROM THE HEART assistant) is now getting praise Dir: Francis Ford COPPOLA, USA, SUN 6 MAY 2.30PM for cinematographer Hal Mohr’s 1982, 98 mins, 35mm, col., sd., luminous, black and white San English, M PEOPLE OF THE AUSTRALIAN WESTERN DESERT Francisco nocturnes, Foster’s One from the Heart was originally no-nonsense yet expressive envisioned as an intimate Dir: Ian DUNLOP, Australia 1966/1969, b&w, sd., DCP (orig.