CINEMA REBORN - JULY NEWSLETTER - 2024 Dates, Giorgio Mangiamele's Day, Despatches from Il Cinema Ritrovato, Korean cinema at the AGNSW

Loretta Young, Spencer Tracy, Man's Castle
(Frank Borzage, USA, 1933)

Cinema Reborn - Dates for 2024

Cinema Reborn will be back in 2024 once again at Randwick’s magnificent art deco Ritz Cinemas in the heart of The Spot. Screenings will take place from Wednesday 1 May to Tuesday 7 May. We expect to present at least 15 programmes of newly restored classics. If you would like to be reminded of what was presented in 2023 you can click on this link to find our catalogue of notes, essays, restoration details and credits. If you would like to be on our mailing list send an email to filmalert101@gmail.com

Giorgio Mangiamele

Giorgio Mangiamele – A Day of Tribute to the pioneering Melbourne film-maker of the 60s

The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to present, in collaboration with Palace Cinemas and the N.F.S.A. (National Film and Sound Archive) an event dedicated to the Italian-Australian director, Giorgio Mangiamele's Day.

 The tribute will take place at the Chauvel Cinema in Paddington on 22 July 2023 commencing at 4.00pm. After a greeting by the director of the Institute, Paolo Barlera, there will be a screening of Ninety Nine percent (1963). This will be followed by a panel discussion focusing on the various aspects of Mangiamele's filmmaking, his contribution to the Australian film industry and the social issues of his films. The panel will include Gino Moliterno and  Geoff Gardner & Quentin Turnour from Cinema Reborn. 

For more details and a link to Bookings click here

Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Il Grido
(Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, 1957)

Despatches from Bologna’s Il Cinema Ritrovato

 Three members of Cinema Reborn’s Organising Committee were in Bologna recently for the 37^th edition of the city’s   Il Cinema Ritrovato. As per usual everyone who attends compiles their list of the what they thought of as the best on show from among the 400 or so movies, short and long, which were on display. There was even some Australian content, some snippets from the NFSA’s Corrick Collection gathered in a program devoted to films made in 1903.

 Here is Organising Committee Member James Vaughan’s  Top Ten 

• From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnemann, USA, 1951)
• Identification Marks: None (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland, 1965)
• Man's Castle (Frank Borzage, USA, 1933)
• Targets (Peter Bogdanovich, USA, 1968)
• Stella Dallas (Henry King, USA, 1925)
• Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, 1957)
• La Captive (Chantal Akerman, Belgium, 2001)
• Catherine the Last (Henry Koster, Austria, 1936)
• The Marriage Circle (Ernst Lubitsch, USA, 1923)
• Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, USA, 1959)

James also gave Honourable Mentions to the program of Man Ray shorts, Peckinpah's Cross of Iron, Castellani's Hell in the City, Schickele's Bushman and Bergman's Riten.

 For the lists of Organising Committee Members Geoff Gardner and Simon Taaffe click on their names to find them posted online

Io Island (Kim Ki-young, South Korea, 1977)

Korean Cinema at AGNSW – Free

The Art Gallery of New South Wales is presenting an extensive twenty film survey devoted to the history of South Korean cinema. The season will run weekly from 19 July to 22 October with each film screening twice on Wednesdays and once again on the following Sunday. Admission is free but online bookings are advisable

Details if you click here