We have just added two titles that expand the offering into hitherto unexplored areas
CINEMA REBORN’S FIRST EVER SILENT CLASSIC
FILIBUS (Mario Roncoroni, ITALY, 1915, 76”)
SCREENS AT 2.00 PM ON SUNDAY 2 MAY.
“No other crime thriller compares to Filibus!” exclaimed a Corona Films ad in the April 1915 edition of the Italian film magazine La Vita Cinematografica — and for once the ballyhoo was correct! Directed by Mario Roncoroni and scripted by future science fiction author Giovanni Bertinetti, Filibus is the most exciting, witty, feminist, steampunk, cross-dressing aviatrix thriller you will ever see! Previously seen in a badly subtitled, imperfect version, Filibus was recently remastered by the Eye Filmmuseum, restoring the film’s marvelous range of Desmet tinting and toning in the original nitrate material. To bring the film back to its flavor of the period — when the characters Fantomas and Arsène Lupin were worldwide sensations — US distributor Milestone hired young poet Austin Renna to write new intertitles based on an improved translation by Eye’s archivist Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi. To go with this fantastical film, is a new stunning orchestral score!
Flying high above the clouds her dirigible, Filibus, the mysterious sky pirate, is a master of disguise and the scourge of millionaires, banks, and the police. Lowered in a gondola by her henchmen, Filibus steals from the rich and then mysteriously vanishes into the clouds….
CAST Valeria Creti; Cristina Ruspoli, Giovanni Spano, Mario Mariani
WATCH THE TRAILER IF YOU CLICK HERE
To read Susan Potter’s program notes and find a link to purchase tickets head for https://cinemareborn.org.au/Filibus
The screening of FILIBUS has been generously supported by Cinema Reborn supporters David and Leith Bruce-Steer.
KOREAN CINEMA’S CASABLANCA
AIMLESS BULLET (Yu Hyun-mok, SOUTH KOREA, 1961, 107”)
SCREENS AT 11.00 AM ON SATURDAY 2 MAY.
Cinema Reborn’s first film from Korea has long been regarded as one of the key works of modern Asian cinema. Aimless Bullet is a realist work, a film which captures the collective anxiety of post-war Korea through clerk Cheol-ho and his family — his mentally ill mother, his sex-worker sister and bank- robber brother. It epitomised the feeling of self-hatred and hopelessness that was central to Korean society after the Japanese occupation instituted a culture of domination and exploitation. Banned shortly after its first screenings by the then military government, Aimless Bullet has now been painstakingly restored by the Korean Film Archive. Cinema Reborn’s screening will be the first for the restoration in Australia.
CAST Choi Moo-ryong, Kim Jin-kyu, Moon Jeong-suk
WATCH THE TRAILER IF YOU CLICK HERE
To read Russell Edwards’ program notes and find a link to purchase tickets head for https://cinemareborn.org.au/Aimless-Bullet
BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE…..
The notes on the Cinema Reborn website now include David Hare and Adrian Danks on our Opening Film DESTRY RIDES AGAIN, Rod Bishop on our likely to sell out Saturday Night Special THE LEOPARD/IL GATTOPARDO and Bruce Hodsdon on our closing night CRISS CROSS. If you want to start on our front page featuring the image of the radiant Claudia Cardinale in Luchino Visconti’s 1963 masterpiece JUST CLICK HERE Each of the films has a link to bookings on the Ritz website.
…and just a reminder folks if you are minded to support the entirely voluntary work that goes into the presentation of each Cinema Reborn season you can donate through the Australian Cultural Fund and receive a tax deduction for the amount you give. CLICK ON THIS LINK
THERE ARE FIVE MORE TITLES TO COME FOR 2021.
STAY TUNED
MEANWHILE….
SEVEN BEAUTIES: LINA WERTMULLER AT THE RITZ
The Randwick Ritz in association with the Italian Institute for Culture and Cinema Reborn will be presenting seven films by Italy’s foremost female director in season commencing on Sunday 28 March.
Scholar and critic Jane Mills will introduce the first film in the series, THE LIZARDS/I BASILISCHI (Italy, 1963) and says “Irreverent, rule-breaking and impossible to define, Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller was the first woman to be nominated for the Best Director Oscar in 1977. Feminist (although often contested!) and reliably non-conformist, her films take the absurdities of society and turn them on their heads. The results are sometimes witty, sometimes shocking, always political.” For more details and bookings CLICK HERE
JEAN-LUC GODARD’S BREATHLESS/A BOUT DE SOUFFLE AT THE ALLIANCE FRANCAISE FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
If you’ve never seen Breathless, now is the time. If you have, then you’ve never seen it like this: newly restored in 4K and projected on the big screen in all its ground-breaking brilliance. Sensual, thrilling and effortlessly cool, Breathless changed cinema forever.
After shooting a policeman, petty criminal Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) attempts to lay low with his American girlfriend, aspiring journalist Patricia (Jean Seberg), who is unaware of what he’s done.
Written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard from a treatment by François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol, Breathless is one of the most iconic films from the revolutionary French New Wave period of the late 1950s and 1960s. Inspired by American crime dramas, but completely rejecting the Hollywood approach to film style and storytelling, Breathless bursts with infectious and defiant energy that is just as subversive and joyful today as it was in 1960.
Not just a masterpiece of French cinema and not just a classic from the French New Wave, Breathless is simply one of the greatest and most influential films ever made, appearing at number 13 on the 2012 Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll.
Breathless is showing multiple times. Check out details here https://www.affrenchfilmfestival.org/film/breathless/sydney
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