We had a flying start to our season last night when a near capacity crowd marvelled at George Cukor’s remarkable HOLIDAY. Superb intro by Jane Mills and much chat in the Ritz Bar well into the night. It’s having a second and final Sydney screening today at 2.30pm. Tickets still available at the door.
The conversation about Cinema Reborn’s 2025 has gone international with a wonderful preview by David Hudson on the Criterion Collection website. CLICK HERE
Meanwhile thanks to Joy Media in Melbourne you can listen to a terrific report on DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS on the station’s Out Takes program. It opens with a discussion of the film between host Conrad and Demetra Giannakopoulos and is followed by a great conversation between Demetra and Janice Loreck who is introducing the film at its screening at the Lido Cinemas on Friday 9 May. It goes on at the start of the program. YOU CAN LISTEN HERE
And across the nation everyone can tune into the ABC Radio National Screen Show today (Thursday) at 10.00 am and repeated Friday at 9.00 pm) when Jason Di Rosso will be talking to David Noakes about
HOW THE WEST WAS LOST, David’s remarkable film about the years long strike by Aboriginal pastoral workers in the Pilbara that started in 1946 and never really finished.
Meanwhile just letting you know that our hottest Friday ticket, no surprise, is Orson Welles’ TOUCH OF EVIL. Here are the opening two paras of Rod Bishop’s excellent program notes: “Orson Welles returned to Hollywood in 1958 after a ten year absence and set about transforming a minor American novel – described by Francois Truffaut as a ‘woefully poor little detective story’ – into an operatic film noir.
”Crowded, festering main streets and desolate, scary back alleys are the backdrop to Welles’ fictional Mexican border town of Los Robles. There are bars, strip clubs, cheap motels and destitute hotels. His cast are strippers, soldiers, youth gangs, sexual psychopaths, gringos, Chicanos, and good and bad cops. Below the surface, it’s a boiling cauldron of race, oil, sex, drugs, implied rape and murder.”
To read Rod’s notes, which are also in our printed catalogue, session times and links to bookings CLICK ON THIS LINK Tickets also on sale at the Ritz Box Office. Regular Ritz prices. Students $15 and Ritz Movie Club concessions available.
Other shows on Friday include MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (12.45 pm), McCABE & MRS MILLER (2.45 pm) FORBIDDEN GAMES (5.15 pm) and DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS (9.30 pm).
For full program details, all session times, comprehensive program notes, and links to bookings CLICK HERE
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