Cate Shortland’s remarkable Lore was a visual feast, for certain, but it also tells a story that has largely been untold. I imagine that most of us have never considered the plight of the Nazi indoctrinated children after the collapse of the Third Reich. Was it their fault that they believed in their “Fuhrer”?
Great German cinema from a great Aussie director!
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This week saw the long-considered screening of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. It was great to finally show this, as the MovieNight season, perhaps even MovieNight herself, nears the end. I worried that many of you wouldn’t be able to stick this one out: its slow pace can be underwhelming for the Twitter generation (indeed, there were a few faces illuminated by their phones during the screening… sometimes, I’d like to confiscate the fricking things, but hey… life’s too short). In the end, though, 2001 rekindled old appreciations, and made new friends. Not a bad thing.
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Awesome.
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David Calhoun’s Time Out London review (which we published to announce this feature) started with this: “Feel your eyes widen and widen”, and indeed that eye-widening was evident in the MovieNight “theater” this week. Errol Morris’s Tabloid was a tremendously entertaining piece of film-making, and our lovely crowd lapped it up like hungry kittens. And how about that Booger just hittin’ his big-button phone and dialing 911? Incredible.
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There’s something magical about The Cranes are Flying. So romantic, so tragic, so visually rich, and yes… so melodramatic. Some of our Russian friends (this time there were more) who came somewhat reluctantly, anticipating the pain of being reminded of the bad old days, were instead observed smiling warmly at the screen. The subtitled translation to English was apparently very good… we all laughed at the funny lines in sync.
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The “curation” process for MovieNight has never been easy (so many things to take into account… sometimes even the weather), and Cammell and Roeg’s Performance had been lurking near the top of our list for several years. It was great to finally see it on our lovely big screen, and probably fitting that we left it until our sound system had become as good as it is today. The cast was pretty wonderful… lots of gratuitous nudity, comedic turns from Jagger, and btw, Mick delivered a great musical Performance!
More Roeg coming soon. Get ready.
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