CINEMA REBORN UPDATE - WHAT'S HOT, TRAILERS, BOOKINGS, KOREAN FOCUS ON THE FILMS OF IM KWON-TAEK, CHARITABLE DONATIONS

The Dupes (Tewfik Saleh, Syria, 1972)

WHAT'S HOT

Just to bring you up to date as we begin the countdown of four weeks to go before Cinema Reborn 2024 in Sydney and five weeks in Melbourne. As we anticipated when we programmed them into the key Saturday night times  there are already a lot of seats sold for DAYS OF HEAVEN and for LE SAMOURAI but we’ve delighted as well at the interest in the 1972 Syrian film about Palestinian refugees THE DUPES  a film which resonates right off the front pages of today’s news media.

 

TRAILERS

Thanks once again to James Vaughan who has done another superb trailer for this season which you can watch  IF YOU CLICK HERE. Thanks also to Ben Cho, a long time supporter who has badged up and cut together four wonderful trailers from among our film highlights (Actually they are all highlights) so you can get a sample of  DAYS OF HEAVEN, Tilda Swinton’s favourite film   I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING!, our tribute to Anna Magnani in THE GOLDEN COACH and to Alain Delon, making his fourth appearance at Cinema Reborn in LE SAMOURAI

 

KOREAN FOCUS

Thanks to generous support from the Australia-Korea Foundation, The Korean Film Archive in Seoul and the Korean Cultural Centre in Sydney there will be special emphasis on Korean Cinema at Cinema Reborn 2024. 

 

Korean director Im Kwon-taek (b. 1936) made over 100 features in a career made resonant with local box office hits, yet he still broke through local censorship taboos, gained break-out international film festival invitations and received western critical attention for Korean cinema, inspiring South Korea’s current generation of international arthouse film making superstars. 

Our 2024 festival screenings of Sopyonje in Sydney and Melbourne begin a short, follow-up season (in Sydney only) showcasing some of Im’s other key films, Jagko/Mismatched Nose (1980), Ticket (1986) and Festival (1996), as well as the dynamic cinema restoration program of the Korean national film archive KOFA (see Webinar below).   

Full details about Cinema Reborn’s Im Kwon-taek season, screening at Ritz Cinemas, Randwick throughout May coming soon.

IM KWON-TAEK AND KOREAN FILM RESTORATION: WEBINAR
Friday 3 May from 2:00 PM AET

Join with the Korean Cultural Centre Sydney for a webinar exploring Im Kwon-taek’s career and the Korean Film Archive (KOFA)’s acclaimed program to restore and give global access to Korean filmmaking heritage. Join us online via https://koreanculture.org.au/, with guests including film critic, academic and Korean cinema expert Russell Edwards, and from Seoul, critic and Oscar-winning Parasite subtitler Darcy Paquet. 

Webinar free, but bookings required. See www.cinemareborn.com.au For more details Webinar presented by the Korean Cultural Centre Sydney. 

 

BOOKINGS

For the Ritz bookings for the Sydney season from 1-7 May CLICK HERE

For the Lido for the Melbourne season from 9-15 May CLICK HERE

 

Charitable Donations

And as always… The Cinema Reborn 2024 page on the website of the Australian Cultural Fund enables our supporters to make a tax-deductible donation. All donations great and small are very welcome. The Australian Cultural Fund page can be found If You Click Here