CINEMA REBORN MARCH NEWSLETTER #3 – The final four titles to complete the 2021 Program

Bjork, The Juniper Tree

Cinema Reborn has announced the final films in its 2021 program screening at the Ritz Cinemas Randwick from 29 April to 2 May.  

 

Full details of all ten programs for the 2021 season can be found  IF YOU CLICK HERE 

 

In the meantime we are proud to present three remarkable feature films and an additional award-winning Australian experimental film to complete our selection

Friday 30 April at 6.30 pm

LE AMICHE/THE GIRLFRIENDS (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, 1955, 105 minutes)

A DEVASTATING TAKE ON THE LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP OF FOUR MODERN WOMEN

 

 “what makes [Le amiche] so bracing -- so sad and, sometimes, so funny -- is that its heroines are fallible, flawed, vain and powerful, each in her own way. They often make one another miserable, but their company is always a pleasure.  (A. O. Scott, The New York Times)

Four women friends try to make sense of the suicide attempt by a fifth. Perhaps Michelangelo Antonioni’s greatest early work before he shook the world with the trilogy begun with L’Avventura.It bears the first signs of the director’s cinema-changing style.  As the friends try to make sense of their world, they find themselves examining their own troubled romantic lives. A brilliantly observed depiction of Italian modern bourgeois life. (Source Intrafilm)  

 

Introduced by Jane Mills

 

Screening supported by the Italian Cultural Institute, Sydney

 

CAST  Eleonaro Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi, Yvonne Furneaux, Valentina Cortese

 

Le amiche was restored by the Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata. Restoration funding provided by Gucci and The Film Foundation.

 

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Saturday 1 May at 3.30 pm

LE CORBEAU/ THE RAVEN (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France, 1943, 92 minutes)

 

THE MOST VIVID AND CORROSIVE PICTURE OF NAZI-CONTROLLED FRANCE

Pierre Fresnay, Le Corbeau

The Nazi German-controlled Continental Films sought to hire the best of the Occupied France film industry. Among those who accepted the offer was the young director, Henri-Georges Clouzot who went on to make the The Wages of Fear. Of the thirty films made by the company, Le Corbeau is regarded as the finest, and also as Clouzot’s first, very controversial masterpiece. The film gives full vent to the dark misanthropy  of the times as it studies the effect of betrayal, suspicion and guilt on a village community living under the German Occupation. Source: StudioCanal

Introduced by John McDonald

 

CAST  Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Pierre Larquey, Micheline Francey

 

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Sunday 2 May at 11.00 am

 

THE JUNIPER TREE (Nietzchka Keene, USA, 1990, 78 minutes)

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SHADOW PANIC (Margot Nash, Australia, 1989, 25 minutes)

 

BJORK’S FILM DEBUT IN A STARTLING REWRITE OF A BROTHERS GRIMM TALE plus A NEWLY RESTORED AWARD-WINNING AUSTRALIAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 

The Juniper Tree

A hit on its premiere at Sundance, Nietzchka Keene’s debut feature is also the first film for Icelandic singer Björk (billed here by her full name, Björk Guðmundsdóttir). Adapted from a tale by the Brothers Grimm — one of the gnarly unexpurgated ones, it’s a feminist retelling of the story of two sisters, Katla (Bryndis Petra Bragadóttir) and the younger Margit (Björk), find themselves homeless after their mother is burned as a witch…

 

Preceded by

 

SHADOW PANIC  

Margot Nash’s award-winning short experimental film about internal and external states of emergency, about personal and collective shadows, about resistance and spirit.

 

Kaarin Fairfax, Shadow Panic

CASTS:  (The Juniper Tree) Björk Guðmundsdóttir, Bryndis Petra Bragadóttir, Guðrún Gísladóttir Valdimar Örn Flygenring

(Shadow Panic) Robin Laurie, Rose Wanganeen, Kaarin Fairfax, Elizabeth and Sandra Cook 

 

The program will be introduced by Margot Nash

 

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