September Newsletter
Dates for 2025
In case you need to make a diary entry, Cinema Reborn 2025 takes place at the Randwick Ritz from 30 April to 6 May and the Hawthorn Lido from 8 to 13 May. Programme announcements from early in the New Year and full programme published in mid-March.
Cinema Reborn Organising Committee Membership
Following our very successful 2024 season, which included our first presentation in Melbourne, Cinema Reborn’s Organising Committee has undergone some changes. Foundation members Rod Bishop and Quentin Turnour have now stepped down. Rod and Quentin devoted an extraordinary amount of time to our project and whatever success we may have had over the years owes much to the contribution each made. Our grateful thanks go to both and we look forward to seeing them at our 2025 screenings.
Moving along the Cinema Reborn Organising Committee has now been joined by two young cinephiles from Melbourne, Grace Boschetti and Digby Houghton.
Grace is a Naarm/Melbourne based writer on film. Her work has appeared in a number of publications including Metro, Senses of Cinema and Rough Cut
Digby is a film critic, screenwriter and programmer from Melbourne. He is interested in the intersection between history and film and completed his Honours thesis on late1970s Australian cinema in 2022. He is also the co- creator and co-editor of the website and weekly newsletter Kinotopia. You can subscribe to his newsletter if you click on https://kinotopia.com.au/
Grace and Digby (both pictured below) are our first Melbourne-based Committee Members and they bring serious enthusiasm and substantial film knowledge to our work. We welcome them and look forward to their contributions.
Akira Kurosawa Retrospective at the Ritz, Lido and Classic Cinemas
The cinema management is calling Kurosawa “the most influential film-maker of the cinema’s first century”which might be a stretch in a century which produced Chaplin, Welles, Ford,Renoir, Ophuls, Bergman, Lang, Bunuel and Rossellini but OK …a season featuring SEVEN SAMURAI, IKIRU, YOJIMBO, SANJURO, RED BEARD, THRONE OF BLOOD, THE HIDDEN FORTRESS, RASHOMON and HIGH AND LOW makes a strong case… Starts in October and runs weekly through to December. Check the various cinemas’ websites for session times and bookings.
Venice Classics
Last year’s Venice Classics selection rediscovered Terrence Malick’s majestic DAYS OF HEAVEN, our leading crowd puller for Cinema Reborn’s 2024 season. Here’s what is on the agenda for this year’s event which is taking place right now. https://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2024/venice-classics
Noir November in Brisbane
Stalwart Cinema Reborn supporter Joel Archer has announced details of his annual season of classic film noir. It’s on from 15-17 November at Brisbane’s Palace Cinemas in James Street and the Newstead Brewery in Milton. Ten films in all, opening with Jules Dassin’s classic BRUTE FORCE from 1947. Titles, tickets and session times https://www.stickytickets.com.au/4aq5d/noir_november_class_of_47_brisbanes_3rd_annual_film_noir_festival.aspx
At the Japan Foundation in Sydney
Explore the history of movie theatres in the city of Yamaguchi, Japan, with The Japan Foundation, Sydney’s upcoming exhibition Afternote: In the Shade of Cinema Together with records and materials related to the city's cinemas, the display includes the latest work by contemporary Japanese artist Nobuhiro Shimura, a 79-minute documentary also titled Afternote which was commissioned by YCAM, the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media. By unearthing the memories of local residents and what the cinema meant to them, Afternote reminisces on the days when movie theatres were considered the cultural centre, a part of daily life and the cityscape.
'Afternote: In the Shade of Cinema' will be on display in the Japan Foundation Gallery at Level 4, Central Park, Broadway, from September 13, 2024 to March 1, 2025. Find out more: https://sydney.jpf.go.jp/afternote/
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