A screening series of key contemporary films and moving images. Free to members, fortnightly on Tuesday evenings at The Elizabeth in the CBD.
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Image: Tomonari Nishikawa | Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke | 2023 A complex interplay between fireworks footage & sound shot during a Japanese summer festival
Confess, Fletch (Gregg Mottola) screens next week! QLD premiere, 7pm Tuesday 12 Dec at The Elizabeth The charming/troublesome Fletch (Jon Hamm) becomes the prime suspect in a murder case while searching for a stolen art. An addled noir comedy. Our summer xmas goodbye to 2023
Blackhat (Michael Mann) screens next!
Aus prem, 7pm Tues 6 Dec at The Elizabeth
Nick (Chris Hemsworth) is released from jail to investigate the destructive hacking of a nuclear plant & stock exchange. A film that traces the relationship between the digital & the physical world.
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Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles) is our next screening!
QLD prem, 7pm Tues 21 Nov at The Elizabeth
Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão or outback, notices their community has somehow vanished from the map. A band of mercenaries appear.
Not our screening, but one we want to highlight: @QAGOMA and its free presentation of The Films of Ute Aurand, Robert Beavers and Gregory J Markopoulos.
With Ute and Robert in attendance.
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Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt) is our next screening!
QLD prem, 7pm Tues 7 Nov at The Elizabeth
A comedy drama about the life & death stakes felt by a minor artist preparing for a minor exhibition. Acutely observed & with a typically apt performance from Michelle Williams.
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Pictures of Ghosts (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 93m) screens next Tuesday, following Aquarius.
QLD prem, 9:15pm Tues 24 Oct at The Elizabeth
KMF's latest (Cannes 2023) is a personal essay on his beloved city of Recife, whose development both disavows history & draws attention to it
Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 146m) is our next screening!
QLD prem, 7pm Tues 24 Oct at The Elizabeth
Clara (the great Sônia Braga) is the last resident of the historic seaside apartment complex Aquarius. Despite plans to demolish Aquarius, Clara wants to stay.
Aka some key Cannes titles, the continuation of our gradual Filho retrospective, and a few titles that it's mildly outrageous that we're presenting their Australian theatrical premiere. (As always, some overlap between the categories.)
21 November: Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles’ Bacurau
5 December: Michael Mann’s Blackhat
12 December: Greg Mottola’s Confess, Fletch
PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT:
(to close out our screenings for the rest of the year)
10 October: Sean Price William’s The Sweet East (with @StaticVisionAU )
24 October: @kmendoncafilho 's Aquarius + Pictures of Ghosts
7 November: Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up
The Sweet East (Sean Price Williams 104m) is our next screening!
QLD prem, 1 Screening, 7pm Tues 10 October at The Elizabeth
A picaresque journey undertaken by Lizzy, an unusual object of desire, who granted access and inflames the strange sects that proliferate in the US.
Dennis Lim on Eureka and in interview with Lisandro Alonso.
Playing at Container at The Elizabeth Picture Theatre this Tuesday. 7pm. Free to all members.
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