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| The Long Farewell |
MARGOT NASH DISCUSSES THE LONG FAREWELL ON ABC RADIO
This week's Screen Show and podcast by Jason Di Rosso on Radio National is already posted and you can listen to it IF YOU CLICK HERE
The show features a fascinating discussion between Jason and film-maker Margot Nash about Kira Muratova's The Long Farewell a highlight of Cinema Reborn 2023 and one of the first public screenings in Sydney of any film by this remarkable Ukrainian director who worked both before and after the Soviet era and made over twenty films.
Margot will be introducing the film, at what we think may be the film's first ever public screening in Australia, at the session at 10.45 am on Saturday 29 April. There is a second screening at 6.15 pm on Tuesday 2 May. If you want some further preparation, Adrian Martin Martin has written some brilliant program notes about Muratova and the film which are posted HERE ON THE CINEMA REBORN WEBSITE
CATALOGUE
This year's Cinema Reborn catalogue runs to 92 pages and contains extensive commentary on all nineteen of the films we are screening in 2023. A limited number of copies have been printed and will be on sale at the Cinema Reborn Information Desk in the Ritz foyer. Price is $5 cash only. If you wish to reserve a copy for collection and payment at the desk send an email to foleykaren11@gmail.com
One of the contributors to the catalogue is Cinema Reborn's friend Marshall Deutelbaum. Marshall is Professor Emeritus in English at Purdue University in Indiana. Marshall has contributed a superb short essay on our silent masterpiece Sunrise (F W Murnau, USA, 1927) recently voted eleventh greatest film of all time in the recent Sight & Sound poll. Marshall's response to the printed catalogue was succinct: "The printed program is fantastic! It's so substantial. What a rich gift for its readers! I love how you have illustrated familiar films with fresh, unfamiliar images. Their freshness underlines the care with which the entire program has been thought through and assembled. Congratulations."
We have already posted the entire catalogue online so if you want to get started on reading about each of our films or download it for ready reference for ever you can do so IF YOU CLICK HERE
BLACK GIRL AND AFRICAN CINEMA AT CINEMA REBORN
Cinema Reborn has had an interest in African cinema since our first year in 2018 when we showed two remarkable films by the Egyptian film-maker Shadi Abdelsalam. In 2022 we screened the first feature film made by a woman in Africa, Sarah Maldoror’s Sambizanga. This year our attention turns to Senegal and a program of three films made by the country’s two most renowned film-makers Ousmane Sembene and Djibril Diop Mambety. If you would like to read the superb program notes on the films on our website written by Hamish Ford, senior lecturer in Screen and Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle CLICK HERE.
In addition to Hamish’s notes those who attend the program will have the benefit of a video introduction by one of the world’s foremost authorities on Ousmane Sembene and Africa Cinema, Professor Samba Gadjigo of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. The introduction was set up and recorded by Cinema Reborn Organising Committee member Angelica Waite and has been edited by film-maker and serious cinephile Ben Cho. Thanks go to all for the effort that was needed to get this done
Samba is Helen Day Gould Professor of French at Mount Holyoke College. His research focuses on French-speaking Africa, particularly the work of filmmaker Ousmane Sembene. His 2015 documentary, Sembene!, co-directed by Jason Silverman, is a biopic focusing on Sembene’s life and work, exploring the themes developed in the biography through interviews and extensive footage from Senegal, Burkina Faso, and France.
In 2016, Samba received the Faculty Award for Scholarship in recognition of his ‘international, multi-disciplinary career – a career throughout which his own story-telling has merged with that of Sembene’s, interweaving African literature, film, history, politics, and indeed these with language and with life itself.’ His writing has appeared in African Cinema and Human Rights, Research in African Literatures, and Contributions in Black Studies.
All of the African films screened at Cinema Reborn have been supplied to us thanks to Cineteca di Bologna/ L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory which has undertaken an extensive program of African cinema restoration using funding provided by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, the Doha Film Institute and The Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. This work is part of the African Film Heritage Project, an initiative created by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers and UNESCO – in collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna – to help locate, restore, and disseminate African cinema.
TOP FIVE SELLERS AT CINEMA REBORN 2023 SO FAR
LA PISCINE (Jacques Deray, France, 1969)
THE TRIAL (Orson Welles, France, 1962)
THE LAST EMPEROR (Bernardo Bertolucci, UK/Italy, 1987)
BLIND SPOT + SERIOUS UNDERTAKINGS (Claudia von Alemann, West Germany, 1980 & Helen Grace, Australia, 1983)
THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache, France, 1973)
Click on the the film title to go to the Cinema Reborn website program notes, links for bookings, restoration details and more
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Cinema Reborn is an organisation devoted exclusively to exploring the Cinema's heritage. It is managed and organised by a group of dedicated film professionals here working solely on a voluntary basis to assemble an annual selection of cinema classics from around the world.
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