CINEMA REBORN - In a Sentence - Eleven critics, scholars and film-makers give succinct recommendations on the program + Our Trailer on YouTube

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One sentence quotes from eleven critics, scholars and film-makers about the Cinema Reborn 2021 program

 

DESTRY RIDES AGAIN (Thursday 29 April at 6.30 pm)

“…a convergence of high period Studio system talent, notably Pasternak as producer, Marshall as master director of multiple genres (including the musical numbers composed by Friedrich Hollaender for Dietrich in the picture) and the sheer tonal sophistication of the screenplay mark Destry as a both an innovator and a “classic” (David Hare)

 

LE AMICHE/THE GIRLFRIENDS (Friday 30 April at 6.30 pm)

Le amiche is, above all, impossible to stop watching.(Jane Mills)

 

AIMLESS BULLET (Saturday 1 May at 11.00 am)

Probably no other film ever screened in this festival more deserves the word “reborn” than Yu Hyunmok’s Aimless Bullet from 1961. (Tony Rayns)

 

THREE IN ONE (Saturday 1 May at 1.15 pm)

Although rarely screened, Three in One is one of the most singular, significant and impressive features made in Australian between World War II and the film revival of the 1970s.(Adrian Danks)

 

LE CORBEAU (Saturday 1 May at 3.30 pm)

Clouzot builds up a feeling of foreboding not entirely unlike that to be found now in Nordic noir. (Mark Thomas)

 

THE LEOPARD (Saturday 1 May at 5.45 pm) 

The concluding 45-minute ballroom scene is both rapturous and mesmerizing, one of the finest set pieces in the history of the cinema.(Rod Bishop)

 

THE JUNIPER TREE (Sunday 2 May at 11.00 am)

Beyond the pleasures of watching a young, "undiscovered" Bjork perform, the film has so much more to offer in the way of story, cinematography, and—my god—the sound! (Angeline Gragasin) +

 

SHADOW PANIC (Sunday 2 May at 11.00 am)

It pays homage to surrealism with every shot and director Margot Nash and cinematographer Sally Bongers deserve accolades for the startling beauty of the pictures (Gillian Leahy)

 

FILIBUS (Sunday 2 May at 2.00 pm

Watching Filibus now, being immersed in its astonishingly vibrant colours, can feel like viewing a cinematic singularity. (Susan Potter)

 

FOUR FILMS FROM CAAMA (Sunday 2 May at 4.00 pm)

I have often argued that these CAAMA titles represent the most exciting body of documentary filmmaking in Australia over the last few years.  (Andrew Pike)

 

CRISS CROSS (Sunday 2 May at 6.30 pm)

Stands with mainstream films noirs like Double Indemnity (1944), Detour (1945), Out of the Past (1947), Gun Crazy (1950), The Big Heat (1953), Kiss Me Deadly (1955), andTouch of Evil (1958), at the apex of the canon.(Bruce Hodsdon)

 

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ARE YOU COMING TO CINEMA REBORN FROM OUTSIDE SYDNEY?

If you are you may care to meet up with some fellow travellers and friends of Cinema Reborn over lunch on Friday 30 April. It starts at 12.30 and is at one of Sydney’s best kept secrets, RK San  at 462 Cleveland St Surry Hills. It offers contemporary Japanese cooking. The price is $50 pp all-inclusive. Website is https://rksan.com.au

RSVP to info@cinemareborn.org.au is essential by Wednesday 28 April.

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