Our top 5 music cinema films
After month on month of watching 100s of music themed films, curator Peter McKay selected 28 documentaries and dramas to feature in Get What You Want: Music Cinema. This is his personal top five films...
View ArticleYou can(’t) always get what you want
Making reference to the Rolling Stones classic ‘You can’t always get what you want’, from the 1969 album Let It Bleed, our Get What You Want film program now showing at the Australian Cinémathèque,...
View ArticleSmells like music cinema
Last Friday Peter McKay was guest DJ on 4ZZZ’s Friday Neon to play some classic songs that inspired Get What You Want: Music Cinema – the current film program at QAGOMA. Check out his ten songs and...
View ArticleFor one time only ‘Ruin–Live’ reinterpretes the impressionistic fable
Production still from Ruin 2013 / Directors: Amiel Courtin-Wilson and Michael Cody / Image courtesy: The artists Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s films are portraits of trauma and survival. Straddling a space...
View ArticleThis Land is Mine | This Land is Me
For GOMA Turns 10, the Gallery’s Australian Cinémathèque presents an international program of films that explore how we see, feel about and use the natural world. Cinematically spectacular and...
View ArticleLost Cinema
The Australian Cinémathèque’s program of once-lost films begins Sunday 5 February 2017 with the launch of our free ‘Lost Cinema: Queensland Discoveries’. Join film treasure hunter Joel Archer for a...
View ArticleThrough a Glass, Darkly: The Films of Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman is one of the true luminaries of post-war European cinema. In a career lasting more than half a century, he crafted films with a passion and potency matched by few other directors. His...
View ArticleFilm Noir rises from the ashes
Cynical and seductive, film noir was born in the ashes of the Great Depression and fuelled by disillusionment and the paranoia of the postwar era. In March-April, the Australian Cinémathèque presents a...
View ArticleSilent masterpieces brought to life
Two silent masterpieces are presented with live musical accompaniment at the Australian Cinémathèque, GOMA as part of ‘Film Noir’ (31 March – 21 May 2017). Watch Joseph von Sternberg’s thrilling...
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