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I've been getting down to a couple of the local repertory cinemas pretty regularly lately, and I thought it would be cool to have a thread for them - do you use them, why/why not, what's good or horrible or interesting that you've seen lately.
The NSW Gallery has an ongoing film series, divided into themed blocks, and at the moment they're running their Revolution program. There's been some pretty great stuff. Last week I got to see the legendary anarchist filmmaker Jean Vigo's 'Zero de Conduite', the inspiration for 'If', a hilarious comedy about childish rebellion in a French boarding school. Then this weekend just past, I got to see 'The Battle Of Algiers'. Both were fantastic, because I was a little afraid in both cases they would be "great" in a worthy sort of way, but both were phenomenally engaging.
Was also excited to see they have 'Aguirre: Wrath of God' coming up, because I've only ever seen that as a bad English dub.
I used to go pretty regularly to the more experimental-focused Cinematheque, but haven't for a while due to work. My favourite moment there was at a screening of Michael Snow's infamously punishing structuralist film, 'Wavelength'. (For 45 minutes, the camera moves slowly from one side of a room to the other.) The programmer noted in his opening comments that this session attracted a younger crowd than the previous one, and he hoped we'd be ok with it. The comment was obviously directed specifically at me and my buddy, the ony people there under 50, and I kind of wanted to yell, "Hey man, I've seen this before! Cinematic structuralism doesn't scare me." Still enjoyed the film. |
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