4.00PM METROPOLIS (M) GER/1927/126mins/35mm Directed by: Fritz Lang Lang’s visionary and elaborate spectacle – an epic projection of a futuristic city divided into a working and an elite class – still has the power to dazzle 80 years on! The most influential sci-fi ever made. Plus 6.15PM CONTEMPT (M) FRA/11963/03min/35mm Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard Godard’s cynical look at the art of filmmaking follows a screenwriter in his attempts to recount Homer’s The Odyssey. Stars Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance & Fritz Lang.
4.00PM
METROPOLIS (M)
GER/1927/126mins/35mm
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Lang’s visionary and elaborate spectacle – an epic projection of a futuristic city divided into a working and an elite class – still has the power to dazzle 80 years on! The most influential sci-fi ever made.
Plus 6.15PM
CONTEMPT (M)
FRA/11963/03min/35mm
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Godard’s cynical look at the art of filmmaking follows a screenwriter in his attempts to recount Homer’s The Odyssey. Stars Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance & Fritz Lang.
4.00PM COMMUNION (M) USA/1989/108mins/35mm/Print courtesy of NFSA Offbeat OZ director Philipe Mora’s dramatization of Whitley Strieber’s non-fiction account of his own encounters with ‘non-human beings’. Christopher Walken stars as the ‘hallucinating’ writer. plus 6.00PM HOWLING III (M) AUS/1987/94mins/35mm/Print courtesy of NFSA Prof. Harry Bechmayer (Barry Otto) goes searching for a rare breed of werewolf/marsupial, and then falls in love with one of the females of the species in Mora’s satirical 80’s horror comedy.
COMMUNION (M)
USA/1989/108mins/35mm/Print courtesy of NFSA
Offbeat OZ director Philipe Mora’s dramatization of Whitley Strieber’s non-fiction account of his own encounters with ‘non-human beings’. Christopher Walken stars as the ‘hallucinating’ writer.
plus 6.00PM
HOWLING III (M)
AUS/1987/94mins/35mm/Print courtesy of NFSA
Prof. Harry Bechmayer (Barry Otto) goes searching for a rare breed of werewolf/marsupial, and then falls in love with one of the females of the species in Mora’s satirical 80’s horror comedy.
4.00PM BIG WEDNESDAY (M) USA/1978/120mins/35mm A stunningly filmed surf classic that touchingly captures the waning dreams of youth. Follows the lives of three young Californians (incl. Gary Busey) who live to surf, party & get into scrapes. plus 6.10PM EXCALIBUR (M) USA,UK/1981/140mins/35mm Directed by: John Boorman Boorman’s captivating, gloriously savage take on the King Arthur legend is by turns gleaming & filthy. Nigel Terry is Arthur, in search of the grail. With Helen Mirren & Patrick Stewart.
BIG WEDNESDAY (M)
USA/1978/120mins/35mm
A stunningly filmed surf classic that touchingly captures the waning dreams of youth. Follows the lives of three young Californians (incl. Gary Busey) who live to surf, party & get into scrapes.
plus 6.10PM
EXCALIBUR (M)
USA,UK/1981/140mins/35mm
Directed by: John Boorman
Boorman’s captivating, gloriously savage take on the King Arthur legend is by turns gleaming & filthy. Nigel Terry is Arthur, in search of the grail. With Helen Mirren & Patrick Stewart.
USA/1980/225mins/35mm (M) Following his DEER HUNTER Oscar triumph, Cimano was handed a lucrative contract for this project – his own fictionalized screenplay on the historical Johnson County Wars in 1890’s Wyoming - an the coveted “final cut”. Visually remarkable, his anti-western sees Sheriff James Averill(Kris Kristofferson) attempt to protect immigrant farmers from wealthy cattle interests, and also clash with a hired gun (Christopher Walken) over a woman they both love (Isabelle Huppert).
USA/1980/225mins/35mm (M)
Following his DEER HUNTER Oscar triumph, Cimano was handed a lucrative contract for this project – his own fictionalized screenplay on the historical Johnson County Wars in 1890’s Wyoming - an the coveted “final cut”. Visually remarkable, his anti-western sees Sheriff James Averill(Kris Kristofferson) attempt to protect immigrant farmers from wealthy cattle interests, and also clash with a hired gun (Christopher Walken) over a woman they both love (Isabelle Huppert).