It’s a big moment for a whole host of people who have been working to get the 2022 edition of Cinema Reborn up and running.
Cinema Reborn is devoted to carefully selected restorations of great films from cinema history. This year’s program comes from 10 countries - Italy, Iran, Japan, China, France, Australia, Angola, the Philippines, USSR and USA.
At the main evening and weekend sessions there will be a 10-minute introduction from an expert in the field and the new, pristine restorations - either 2K or 4K - will be presented in the Randwick Ritz’s newly renovated and re-seated state-of-the-art cinemas. But this year there will be repeat weekday morning and afternoon screenings including on Monday 2 May and Tuesday 3 May to maximise your chances of seeing some very special moments in cinema history.
Join us for one of the most unique events on the film calendar.
Join us for Cinema Reborn 2022.
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Cinema Reborn will start with an Opening Screening on Wednesday 27 April and close on Sunday 1 May….
BOOKINGS CAN NOW BE MADE FOR THE THREE FILMS ANNOUNCED BELOW VIA LINKS THROUGH TO THE RITZ WEBSITE.
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| Beau Travail (Claire Denis, France, 1999) |
Our Opener
BEAU TRAVAIL (1999)
“ALLEGORICAL TALE OF REVENGE AND JEALOUSY SET WITHIN A FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION OUTPOST IN AFRICA” – SLANT MAGAZINE
Veteran French director Claire Denis riffs off Herman Melville’s Billy Budd in this enthralling, lyrical drama about an officer, Galoup, recalling how his idyllic army days in Djibouti were destabilized by the arrival of a handsome young recruit who attracts the attention of Galoup’s commandant.
Claire Denis brings a female director’s eye to toxic male ego and unrequited homoeroticism.
An unforgettable film with an even more unforgettable end-titles sequence. Luminously photographed by Agnès Godard.
“Subtle brilliance that’s still relevant over twenty years later”
- Fresh Fiction
Introduced by Angelica Waite, Film Programmer and Member of the Cinema Reborn Organising Committee
RATING MA15+, 92 MINS, France, 1999, French, English subtitles WITH: Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin
To read internationally renowned critic and scholar Adrian Martin’s superb Program Notes on Claire Denis and what is regarded as her finest film click through to the Cinema Reborn website HERE
Our Saturday Night Special
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968)
“QUITE SIMPLY A MASTERPIECE, LEONE’S REVISIONIST WESTERN IS A MYTHIC SPECTACLE OF A FILM AND A LANDMARK IN CINEMA HISTORY” – FILM4 STAFF
In hindsight, Sergio Leone’s earlier Westerns were mere warm-ups for this sprawling, operatic, epic about a mysterious stranger (Charles Bronson) and an ageing gunfighter (Jason Robards) joining forces to protect a widow (Claudia Cardinale) and her land from a gun-for-hire (Henry Fonda) and his gang of assassins who work for the railroad as it expands across the West.
It’s got everything – achingly beautiful music from the maestro Ennio Morricone; widescreen cinematography from Tonino Delli Colli; scriptwriters Bernardo Bertolucci, Dario Argento and Leone; perhaps the best pre-titles sequence ever made; Henry Fonda playing against type as a ruthless, vicious killer; and a story with all the frontier justice, frontier love, simmering revenge and lawless power you could wish for. A sumptuous, elegiac closing of an era.
The new 4K restoration includes scenes that were deleted for its first release.
“Long live Leone’s timeless monument to the death of the West itself…Critical tools needed are eyes and ears. This is Cinema.”
- Paul Taylor, Time Out Film Guide
Introduced by Jane Mills, Film-maker, critic, Hon. Associate Professor, School of the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales
WATCH A TRAILER CLICK HERE
RATING M, 166 MINS, Italy, English, CAST: Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards
PRESENTED WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE ITALIAN INSTITUTE OF CULTURE, SYDNEY
Screens on the big screen in the Ritz Cinema One on Saturday 30 April at 7.45 pm (with introduction) and Tuesday 3 May at 1.00pm
TO MAKE A BOOKING CLICK HERE
To read the fine program notes on Sergio Leone, Italian Westerns and this great epic movie written by RMIT University scholar and Co-curator of the Melbourne Cinematheque Adrian Danks CLICK HERE
Our Closer
“THIS RAW, BITTER DRAMA OF THE TOUGHER SIDE OF TRAVELLING CARNIVAL LIFE MAKES FEW CONCESSIONS” – DAILY TELEGRAPH
Usually cast as a romantic lead, Tyrone Power goes well against type as a carnival worker who uses the codes of a fake mind reader to become a dinner-suited, blindfolded ‘mentalist’ in a reputable Chicago night club.
Recently remade with a cast including Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. Here’s a chance to see the original on the big screen.
“The characterizations in Nightmare Alley are studies in film noir. People are shown as venal, gullible, and obsessed with success at any price.”
- Joan Cohen
“One of those films mentioned in lowered voices, a guilty secret, to be screened at midnight behind closed doors…”
- John Baxter
Introduced by James Vaughan, film-maker, director of FRIENDS AND STRANGERS, Member of the Cinema Reborn Organising Committee
WATCH A TRAILER CLICK HERE
RATING M, 110 mins, USA, English, CAST: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Grey, Helen Walker, DIRECTOR Edmund Goulding
Screens on Sunday 1 May at 7.45 pm (with introduction) and Tuesday 3 May at 10.45 am
TO MAKE A BOOKING CLICK HERE
To read author, critic and film-maker John Baxter’s insightful Program Notes on Edmund Goulding and the film's place in the film noir canon click through to the Cinema Reborn website CLICK HERE
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