2022 - How many move theatres will re-open to normal operation?
Cinema Links to keep you enthused! Updated erratically ...
Sign of our times ... Drive In Theatres are making a comeback ... at airports, steel mills ... anything closed and with a large car park ... https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/may/05/social-distance-cinema-drive-in-theatres-boom-coronavirus-in-pictures Trivia: In the steel mill story above - Many Trabant cars are watching the film 'Go Trabi Go' (1991) film ... about these cars. Films starts ... in a steel plant. Same one? Early popular film made after reunification. East germans visit west germany ... Poor copy with english subs at YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPn2HWBdinE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWEjxkkB8Xs patreon.com/everyframeapainting
Cannes Film Festival 2020 – cancelled
Melb Int Film Festival - cancelled (much of selection done at Cannes)
All Melbourne cinemas now closed.
ACMI – Film Studies of Art House films using SBS OnDemand. Jacques Demy example ... http://www.acmi.net.au/events/virtual-cinematheque-varda-demy/
SBS on Demand – free, but have to register.
Kanopy – via Darebin Libraries / Your Public Library. Doing a ‘Sirk’ search yields: Some interesting shorts inc: Vanity Tables in his films. Circle Closes – Use of props in Sirk films. Especially how they’re passed from person to person. ‘Scorsese’ search – Personal Journey though film. Very good, understanding of his growing up with film. Contemporary Reel Women – Part of Reel Herstory. Not Quite Hollywood - History of Ozploitation – may include parts of “Violence in Cinema – Part 1’ Early 70s Australian film exploring guess what. (Part 2 never made I don’t think.)
https://archive.org/details/Dms1934 The Internet and World Web Archives. Here is Dames (1934) from Warner Bros. All the justly famous (and much copied) Busby Berkeley musical numbers are in the last third of the film. Famous for kaleidoscopic numbers, blonde bombshell, regimented dancing and maneuvers. Synchronised swimming. Busby Berkeley reigned supreme from around 1932, Warner Bros back stage musicals, to Judy Garland & Mickey Rooney films, to mid 1950s with Esther Williams films. Think three numbers are by great tunesmiths - Warren & Dubin. Should be familiar as their work was endlessly used in WB Bugs Bunny cartoons. They wrote 42nd St, etc. Check ‘Educational Films’ for lots of tuff.
https://www.filmcomment.com Iconic publication in 1970s and 1980s and on. Published by Film Society at Lincoln Centre. Old mags avail online at US$4 / issue.
Vimeo – worth checking out of course.
https://filmforum.org/about/general-information Film Forum. Based in NY, interesting art house cinema available for hire for 30 days US$12. Not sure if available in Oz.
BFI - (NBG) -Player cannot be played in Oz.
Feb 2020 Film Noir described at filmsite.org here. Recent article on Problems in Australian Cinemahere. Review of McBride's book How Did Lubitsch Do It here.
Interesting essay on digitisation of cinema: http://sensesofcinema.com/2007/feature-articles/last-days-film/
BBC has released a poll of 100 greatest comedies - nil Danny Kaye films, though good selection of Charles Chaplin, Marx Bros & Buster Keaton: PDF link here.
Vittoria Storaro, cinematographer, describing his work on his 'first' digital film - Woody Allen's 'Cafe Society'. With wonderful pictures, of course. http://www.fdtimes.com/2016/12/30/vittorio-storaro/