Hello Everyone
Some notes follow on the forthcoming Pasolini season beginning at the Randwick Ritz on Sunday 16 October at 4.00pm and every Sunday thereafter for another eight superb films by this master film-maker.
British critic Tony Rayns has sent through some thoughts on Pasolini which are shared here:
At one level, these films provide insights into Pasolini’s own life: his origins, his sexuality, his politics, his ability to recruit the likes of Maria Callas as an actor. More importantly, though, they are films which have hardly aged at all. They still engage the hearts and minds of everyone who cares about personal values, day-to-day politics and the ways we lead our lives. Pasolini’s body of work is matchless.
Jane Mills and Angelica Waite have put in some hard yards on this project and if you would like to contact them for more details or arrange any media they can be contacted at janemills01@bigpond.com or a.vidawaite@gmail.com
Book for all films in the season by clicking here
But wait there's more
6:00pm, Friday 4 November
The Sydney premiere of SENSES OF CINEMA (Tom Zubrycki & John Hughes, Australia, 2022)
Senses of Cinema, a documentary about the Filmmaker Co-operatives (1966-1986), will have its Sydney premiere on October 15th at the Chauvel Cinema as part of the Antenna Documentary Film Festival. The film is the product of a 12 year-long collaboration between filmmakers Tom Zubrycki and John Hughes.
The Co-ops nurtured Australia’s cinema renaissance and created new markets for strikingly innovate Australian content - experimental shorts, documentaries and dramas that gave voice to groups and issues that were denied expression in the mainstream media.
Here’s a link to the trailer: https://vimeo.com/730219863
Senses of Cinema will screen on October 15th at 3pm, and again on October 23 at 6.30pm
You can book via this link: https://tix.antennafestival.org/Events/Senses-of-Cinema/Sat-Oct-15-2022-15-00
[The film’s] generosity is exacting, thoughtful, a homage to those who shifted the limits of our screen culture…whose work provoked fundamental questions about Australian society, and the practice of filmmaking itself. There are trailblazers, ingenues, stalwarts, provocateurs here – an impressive cast, to be sure. Al Cossar, director of Melbourne International Film Festival
Made by two of Australia’s most important and, at times, maverick documentarians in the twilight of their careers, Senses of Cinema speaks, in every way, to the importance of collaboration and the necessary recognition and resurrection of often-forgotten parts of our film history and culture. Adrian Danks “The Conversation”
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In 2023 Cinema Reborn will present its fifth annual season of restored cinema classics selected from the libraries of the world's film archives and major production companies. Cinema Reborn is Sydney's only film festival devoted exclusively to screening the cinema's heritage. Next year's season will take place at the Randwick Ritz from 26-30 April.
Cinema Reborn is designed to attract both Sydney residents and visitors from other states and New Zealand. It forms part of a unique network of international events devoted to screening the cinema's past and has built relationships with film archives and long time production houses around the world. Each selection will be having its Sydney premiere in the unique surroundings of one of Sydney's few remaining art deco picture palaces.
The costs of assembling and presenting Cinema Reborn, notwithstanding the hundreds of hours freely donated by Committee Members, volunteers, writers and presenters, are such that box office revenue cannot cover the cost of acquisition of titles, freight and logistics, venue hire, additional professional support from projectionists and staff, and the production of supporting print and online material. Cinema Reborn has relied, since its inception, on the generosity of donors who support our aims and are committed to the annual project of bringing cinema classics back to a big screen in perfect new digital copies. Without such support the event could not be presented.
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