Announcing a new publication by Cinema Reborn presenter Ivan Cerecina - ASSEMBLY LINES: MONTAGE IN POSTWAR FRENCH FILM

We are pleased to announce the publication of Assembly Lines: Montage in Postwar French Film, written by one of our Cinema Reborn presenters, Ivan Cerecina  of the University of Sydney)   Click here for Ivan's website

The book examines the re-emergence of montage as an aesthetic figure and historiographical principle post-1945, via a study of the early films of three important filmmakers of that postwar generation: Nicole Vedrès, Alain Resnais, and Chris Marker. It is published by the prestigious University of Minnesota Press. 

 

The book is available for pre-order in Australia until the end of February for the reduced price of $40 AUD, via The Nile Bookstore

  

Readers from outside Australia can purchase the book via the  University of Minnesota Press's website 

CINEMA REBORN 2022 - Young Australian film-makers and scholars Ivan Cerecina, Alena Lodkina and James Vaughan to present at Cinema Reborn.

One of Cinema Reborn’s features lies in the way it presents its program. At the main evening and weekend sessions each film will have an introduction by a person with some deep and abiding interest in the film. 

Among those presenting at Cinema Reborn 2022 are three young cinephiles who will bring fresh eyes to their subject.

 

Ivan Cerecina (above) who lectures in Film Studies at the University of Sydney will be introducing Ernst Lubitsch’s 1932 pre-Code comic masterpiece TROUBLE IN PARADISE at the session commencing at 6.00 pm on Thursday 28^thApril.

 

Alena Lodkina is a young Melbourne-based film director whose debut feature STRANGE COLOURS (2017) was described by Luke Buckmaster in The Guardian as ‘very fine, very memorable”. Luke went on to note that it belongs to a long line of films that contemplate remote Australian locations and the people who inhabit them – from The Back of Beyond to Wake in Fright and the Mystery Road series. 

 

The film emerged out of the Venice Film Festival’s  Cinema College (where the picture above was taken). Alena is now readying a second feature for production but is making the trip from Melbourne to Sydney especially to introduce Andrei Tarkovsky’s MIRROR at the 8.15 session on Friday 29 April at the Randwick Ritz.

 

James Vaughan, who joined the Cinema Reborn Organising Committee for the 2022 festival, has recently had quite a success with his debut feature FRIENDS AND STRANGERS. That film has screened at festivals throughout Australia and the world, including very prestigious events in New York and London, and was the only Australian film to be listed in Sight & Sound’s annual round up of the best fifty films of the year. A singular honour especially as the film was made on a miniscule budget but looks like it cost a million dollars.

 

James (pictured above) will be introducing Edmund Goulding’s 1947 noir classic NIGHTMARE ALLEY  starring Tyrone Power at its screening at 7.45 pm on Sunday 1 May.

 

Advance bookings for all films may be made if you got to this page on The Randwick Ritz website

 

If you would like to read more about both films then head for this page on  The Cinema Reborn website where you will find comprehensive notes by Rod Bishop on MIRROR, John Baxter on NIGHTMARE ALLEY and Geoff Gardner on TROUBLE IN PARADISE.

As  a matter of interest MIRROR is currently leading in the race for the Cinema Reborn Box Office champion for the year.