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Orson Welles: A Retrospective
Production still from Citizen Kane 1941 / Director: Orson Welles / Image courtesy: British Film Institute Opening this weekend, the Gallery’s Australian Cinématheque hosts a major film program of works...
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Derek Jarman’s Cinema Of Small Gestures
Portrait of Derek Jarman / Photograph: Steve Pyke / Image courtesy: British Film Institute Opening this week is the landmark film program ‘The Last of England: Thatcherism and British Cinema’. The free...
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The Lady from Shanghai: Welles is Speaking Sense
Production still from The Lady from Shanghai 1947 / Director: Orson Welles / Image courtesy: Park Circus ‘Orson Welles: A Retrospective‘ showcases one of the most influential and charismatic figures in...
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Dante, early cinema and the creation of national identity in Italy
Production stills from Inferno 1911 / Director: Giuseppe De Liguoro, Adolfo Padovan, Francesco Bertolini / Images courtesy: Cineteca di Bologna It’s Italy’s National Day on Monday June 2, and you can...
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A Place At The Table: Food On Film
Production still from Babette’s Feast 1987 / Director: Gabriel Axel / Image courtesy: Astrablu Media, Inc, British Film Institute In conjunction with the exhibition ‘Harvest’, the Gallery’s major...
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Forbidden Hollywood: The Wild Days of Pre-Code Cinema
Production still from Blonde Venus 1932 / Director: Josef von Sternberg / Image courtesy: Universal Pictures, British Film Institute This spring, the Gallery’s Australian Cinematheque at GOMA presents...
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Matisse film program
Production still from ‘Henri Matisse’ 1946 In the opening film of the Henri Matisse film program Matisse is asked what was the most enjoyable period in his life. He answers: “The messy times! When I...
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Contemporary Australia: Women in Film
Production still from Animal Kingdom 2010 | Director: David Michôd | Image courtesy: Madman Entertainment For the ‘Contemporary Australia: Women in Film’ program, we’ve been working with Margaret...
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Storytelling and film myths in modern life
Production still from Princess Mononoke 1997 / Director: Hayao Miyazaki / Image courtesy: Madman Entertainment ‘Myths and Legends’ celebrates the world of heroic deeds, epic journeys and sacred...
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Sounds of Silents
David Bailey accompanying silent film The Golem, How He Came into the World 1920 Is it just me or is there some uncertainty about silent films with live accompaniment? I say this based on a...
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GOMA presents ‘Cult Japan’ film program
Japanese film will make a long-awaited return to the Australian Cinémathèque at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) when ‘Cult Japan’ opens next month. Tickets are now on sale for the eight-week film...
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The Wild West comes to GOMA
Production still from ‘Django Unchained’ 2012 / Director: Quentin Tarantino / Image courtesy: Sony Pictures Releasing The popularity of the Western film is the focus of a new program showing at GOMA’s...
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The Western
Production still of The Proposition 2005 / Director: John Hillcoat /Image courtesy: Sony Pictures From its enduring classics to its modern-day interpretations, the continuing social relevance and...
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Pop Islam cinema project at APT8
Production still from Persepolis 2007 / Director: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud / Image courtesy: Roadshow Entertainment The post-9/11 rise of Islamophobia and subsequent polarisation of many...
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Blade Runner: The future is here
Production stills from Blade Runner 1982 / Director: Ridley Scott / Images courtesy: Roadshow Entertainment Just a few weeks ago on January 8th 2016 it was replicant Roy Batty’s birthday. The future,...
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Filipino Indie during APT8
Production still from Taklub (Trap) (detail) 2015 / Director: Brillante Mendoza / Image courtesy: Films Distribution Anne Démy-Geroe provides an insight into our APT8 Cinema program ‘Filipino Indie’,...
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The haunting cinematography of Theo Angelopoulos comes to GOMA
Production still from The Weeping Meadow 2004 / Director: Theo Angelopoulos / Image courtesy: Tamasa Distribution Widely considered the greatest Greek filmmaker, Theo Angelopoulos (1935–2012) crafted...
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Curator’s Pick: Theo Angelopoulos ‘Reconstruction’
Anaparastasi (Reconstruction) is Theo Angelopoulos’s first feature about the murder of a guest worker by his wife and her lover. Shot on location with a cast of villagers in northern Greece, it has an...
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Arabian Nights
Arabian Nights Volume 3: The Enchanted One 2015 Loosely inspired by the stories featured in One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of folktales from the Middle Eastern and South Asia first published...
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Shakespeare on Screen
Production still from All Night Long 1962 / Director: Basil Dearden / Image courtesy: Park Circus ‘Shakespeare on Screen’ is a celebration of the timeless power of the works of William Shakespeare....
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