CINEMA REBORN DATES FOR 2025
For your diary. Sydney at the Randwick Ritz from 30 April to 6 May.Melbourne at the Hawthorn Lido from 8 May to 13 May. Program announcements will start in the New Year and bookings will open in March. Pass this email on to friends who may be interested and suggest they contact cinemareborn2025@gmail.com to be placed on our mailing list for future newsletters.
IL CINEMA RITROVATO 2024, BOLOGNA
Cinema Reborn’s year begins with some of our team making their own way to Bologna for the annual Il Cinema Ritrovato season presented by the city’s renowned Cineteca. This year the event was presented during the day at six separate cinemas plus the Cineteca’s conference room for talks and interviews with film-makers, archivists, critics, distributors and others. In the evening the six cinemas re-open for a couple more sessions each and are augmented by screenings in Bologna’s Piazza Maggiore where seating for 5000 free entrants is available. Many more watch while standing around the edges.This year over 400 films were screened and there were over 5700 individual passes sold, a huge number of them international visitors who fill the city’s hotels and restaurants. A pass gets you admission to basically everything screening subject to the capacity of the theatre. The provincial government controls the prices that the festival’s preferred hotels can charge. For an excellent report on this year’s festivities you can read an excellent report by Nace Zavrl titled An Archival Bug:The 38th Il Cinema Ritrovato in the new issue of Senses of Cinema.
Ehsan Khoshbakht, one of the Il Cinema Ritrovato co-artistic directors, conducts an annual poll among critics programmers and enthusiasts as to what each person thought were the major discovery and their favourite film. You can read the results, with all the individual votes, at https://notesoncinematograph.blogspot.com/2024/07/il-cinema-ritrovato-2024-favourites.html
The absolute favourite proved to be The Sealed Soil (Khak-a Sar Bé Mohr, Marva Nabili, Iran, 1977 pictured above)
JOHN CASSAVETES – A COMPLETE RETROSPECTIVE
The Elsternwick Classic, Hawthorn Lido & Randwick Ritz Cinemas are exploring the career of American maverick and provocateur John Cassavetes (pictured below) with a complete retrospective of his directorial features, from his breakthrough Shadows through to his final film Big Trouble. This is the first time all of Cassavetes’ films have been exhibited together in Australia.
Cassavetes' films were hugely collaborative, emphasising the actor’s role in exploring difficult characters and “small feelings” often ignored by the studio system. Created outside of this system, his films ultimately defined the idea of the independent film and expanded the possibilities of the medium. Every Thursday at 7pm from August 29 to November14. Tickets are on sale now via each theatre’s website.
QUEER SCREEN FILM FESTIVAL
Get ready to feast your eyes on 35 new and a few favourite LGBTIQ+ films at the 11th edition of Queer Screen Film Fest thanks to @queerscreen. See all the films in cinemas from 28 Aug - 1 Sep and On Demand from 2-8 Sep. Book now!
https://queerscreen.org.au/whats-on/
From fabulously flirty and romantic films to an incredible documentary and films featuring appearances from well-known faces like Elliot Page, Evan Rachel Wood, Lukas Gage, and Australia’s own Keiynan Lonsdale. This is a fantastic festival, showcasing talent from around the world as well as two Australian films, one having its world premiere!
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