Adam Bowen's Talkie Talk #55 - New movies led by Lee Chang-dong's BURNING plus Oz classics, Hitchcock, John Schlesinger and Marilyn's first starring role on TV

NEW IN CINEMAS THIS WEEK

Burning/Beoning (2018) – South Korean mystery drama about a boy, a girl, a cat and a secret hobby. (The first major film of the year. The film that didn’t win a prize at Cannes last year and should have won many – Ed)

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Breaking Habits (2018) – doco about a community of Californian nuns, who run a cannabis farm – purely for medicinal purposes.

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The Trouble With You/En Liberté (2018) – French farce. The widow (Adèle Haenel) of a police chief, discovers her erstwhile husband was corrupt, and she tries to make amends. Also starring (sigh) Audrey Tautou.

The Curse of the Weeping Woman – horror yarn about a social worker, who, along with her children, is sucked into a supernatural nightmare. A disillusioned priest (!) may be their only hope.

Familia Blondina (2019) – Phillipino comedy. Cindy leaves the Phillipines, marries an American soldier, he dies, she returns home with three blonde children, and meets a widower, who also has blonde children. They all want to Vote Tony Out.

Kalank (2109) – Hindi drama, set during Partition.

Jersey (2019) – Arjun is a 30-something cricketer whose career hasn’t amounted to much. Should he continue or change? Telegu language.

The Spanish Film Festival begins on Tuesday Check out the Festival website here

ON THE TELLY

Wednesday Noon 9Gem The Getting Of Wisdom (1977) – entertaining Aussie movie, directed by Bruce Beresford. In 1897 Susannah Fowle, a girl from the bush, is sent to an exclusive Melbourne ladies’ college, where she wins a music scholarship. Featuring John Waters and Barry Humphries. Production Design by John Stoddart.

Watch the 1977 trailer

Tuesday 1015pm & Wednesday 1.35pm, Fox Classics: Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) Penelope Gilliat scripts a beautifully observed character study/love triangle between Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch and Murray Head. Directed by John Schlesinger, and photographed by Billy Williams.

Thursday 10.25pm SBS Viceland: Margin Call (2011) as the 2008 GFC hits, Demi Moore, Kevin Spacey and Paul Bettany, amongst others, scramble to save their skins. Jeremy Irons is outstanding as the CEO with almost no grasp of the most rudimentary economics. 

Watch the trailer here

Thursday 10.30pm & Friday 2.15pm Fox Classics: Set amongst the thundering falls favoured by honeymooners, Niagara (1952) is a lurid melodrama, in luscious Technicolor, photographed by Joe Macdonald and expertly directed by Henry Hathaway. It’s also Marilyn Monroe's first starring vehicle. She plays a sort of sexpot simpleton, married to a disturbed, hermetic Joseph Cotten. She plans to murder him, but... Also starring Jean Peters.

Friday Noon 9Gem:We of the Never Never (1982) – fascinating, beautiful, underrated Australian classic about Mrs Aeneas Gunn (the excellent Angela Punch-McGregor), a 19^thcentury white woman making her mark in the outback.

Watch the original trailer here

Sunday 8.30pm Fox Classics: North by Northwest (1959) – One of Alfred Hitchcock’s most playful and inventive adventure-thrillers. Advertising executive Cary Grant is mistaken for a spy (!) Car chases, plane chases, two excellent villains – James Mason and Martin Landau, plus Eve Marie Saint, Jesse Royce-Landis and a score by Bernard Herrmann. A bargain.

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