CINEMA REBORN - MELBOURNE SCREENINGS START TODAY - HOW THE WEST WAS LOST

 

HIGHLIGHTS TO COME The Melbourne Cinema Reborn screenings get under way today at 2.30 with a screening of the French classic FORBIDDEN GAMES.  It will be followed by the first screening of McCABE & MRS MILLER  and the evening will conclude with Andrei Tarkovsky’s THE SACRIFICE. That session is already sold out but there is another screening on Monday and you can book for that via the Lido Cinemas website. We want to mention to you that the program screening at 5.30 pm on Friday 9 May is HOW THE WEST WAS LOST and BREAD AND DRIPPING. This program was screened to a hugely appreciative near sell out house on our closing night in Sydney. HOW THE WEST WAS LOST was introduced by film-maker David Noakes  and by Rose Murray a Nyangumarta woman and a descendant of the original strikers who feature in the film. Both David and Rose will also be in Melbourne for the screening tomorrow and will be conducting a post-film conversation. If you head for the Cinema Reborn website you can read extensive program noteson all our films and this includes some superb writing from David and Rose about HOW THE WEST WAS LOST.  In the run up to the Melbourne season we have some more local media to report. The screen discussion program on Melbourne’s 3RRR Primal Screen has a lively conversation between host Flic Ford and Cinema Reborn Organising Committee Members Digby Houghton and Grace Boschetti. And the terrific website Rough Cut has a report of a conversation with Organising Committee Members Angelica Waite and James Vaughan in which they talk about the Cinema Reborn’s ethics and origins, the magic of sharing new restorations of classic and underseen works of exceptional, world-spanning cinema, and what to expect from this year’s edition. Other shows on Friday include Carlos Saura’s CRIA CUERVOS (1.15pm), Julien Duvivier’s PEPE LE MOKO (3.30 pm introduced by Kevin Cassidy), TOUCH OF EVIL(7.10 pm introduced by Adrian Danks) and DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS  (9.30 pm introduced by Janice Loreck). Click on the film titles for links to bookings  for these sessions at the Lido Cinemas. Lido Movie Club concessions apply for all sessions and students tickets are $15.  CHARITABLE DONATIONS There is still time for our supporters to make tax-deductible donations to support our work. There are significant costs, most notably our screening fees, which have to be met each year and we are always grateful for the financial support we receive that defrays these costs and charges and enables us to keep our tickets at regular prices. If you would like to make a donation you may do so via the Australian Cultural Fund, a service which enables small unincorporated organisations like ours to access this taxation benefit. To make a tax deductible donation, small or large, any time between now and the end of Cinema Reborn 2025 click on this link to the Australian Cultural Fund