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Lubitsch @ Melbourne Cinematheque

October 27 – November 10 The Love Parade: The Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) is one of the defining & most enduring figures of pre-WWII cinema. Starting as an actor in Max Reinhardt’s Deutsches Theatre, he quickly became a key figure of German cinema, moving dexturously between comedies of manners, exotic fantasias, & [...]
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Women and the Silent Screen VI

The sixth conference on “Women and the Silent Screen” was hosted in Bologna from June 24 to June 26 2010. Paper abstracts are available from the conference’s main website The conference has been held previously in: 2008 | Stockholm 2006 | Guadalajara 2004 | Montreal 2001 | Santa Cruz 1999 | Utrecht Bologna 2010 Program [...]
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Human Right Arts & Film Festival, April – May 2010 – Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane

The Human Rights Arts & Film Festival is adopting a wider media experience concerning human and social rights. It combines documentary, films, video, art exhibitions, music, poetry, forums and Q & A with authors and filmmakers. The intention is to show something different to what is usually served up in the average diet of local [...]
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Cannes 2010 line-up

Yesterday the Cannes Film Festival announced the films in competition for the 2010 edition. It contains the usual, but interesting mix of well-known returning filmmakers, as well as some new entries, which are arriving to Cannes for the first time. Some known names in this year’s competition include films by Takeshi Kitano (Outrage), Mike Leigh [...]
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Figuring Landscapes: Moving Images from Australia and UK

Figuring Landscapes is a multifaceted title. The phrase suggests the idea of forming landscape, as in ‘configure’; it suggests analysis and interpretation of landscape, as in ‘figuring out’ the subject; it could also imply peopling the landscape with figures. It thus compresses into a single phrase the making, reading, and inhabiting of landscape, which is [...]
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Focus on Claudia Cardinale at ACMI

Friday 19 February – Sunday 28 February 2010 A spotlight on the most glamorous screen star to emerge out of 1960s Italian cinema, graduating from ‘Italian Bardot’ to the undisputed darling of auteurs from Visconti and Fellini to Leone. Curated by Roberta Ciabarra “From beauty queen to international movie star in seven years is a modern [...]
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Silent cinema in Pordenone and Sydney

In Pordenone, Italy, David Robinson has opened the 29th edition of “Le giornate del cinema muto“, probably the oldest and most important silent film festival in the world. It is screening silent film from the 3rd to the 10th of October. This year, the festival is laden with classic old footage. Imagery dating back 100 [...]
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Venice Film Festival opens with Tornatore’s “Baaria”

The 66th Venice Film Festival, the world’s oldest, has opened with Giuseppe Tornatore’s “Baaria”, a cinematic homage to his Sicilian home town, Bagaria. It is the first time in 25 years that an Italian film has been requested to open the festival. It was, however, met with mixed reviews. “Baaria” tells the autobiographical story of [...]
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The Paul Cox Conference
The Paul Cox Conference

(Innocence, 2000 | directed by Paul Cox) PAUL COX: Miracle Maker: Free public conference Thursday 6 – Friday 7 August 9.30 am – 6.00pm both days Melbourne: Federation Hall, Grant Street, Faculty of the VCA and Music, Southbank
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