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Adelaide celluloid
The multi-award winning Adelaide Film
Festival is calling for entries for it's 2009 event. The biennial fest
rolls around in June next year and is set to continue it's fine work
supporting Australian filmmakers. Adelaide Film Festival is looking for
documentaries, features and shorts completed after February 2007. They
must be submitted by October
A mark for AFL
Australian Rules football has always had a healthy superiority complex. It just got a little healthier because after a film about the native game has kicked goals at the Cannes Film Festival. Un-Australian, a 14-minute short from director Jon Lucas, is about the life a Aussie Rules fan who is allergic to beer. The film received tonnes of acclaim at its premiere this month. No doubt the AFL is now looking to expand the game into the South of France, perhaps it could relocate the doomed new Western Sydney franchise.
Classic Von Sternberg
Don't miss classic Joseph Von Sternberg at the Chauvel Cinema 12.00pm Saturday 31 May & 6.30pm Monday 2 June. In La Folie du Docteur Tube (1915) a mad physician invents a powder which distorts what people look like. Sounds eminently relevant to the botox generation, non? Sternberg's last film, The Saga of Anatahan was made in a Japanese studio, and sequences of dream-like abstraction and images of staggering beauty are recognisably the work of the man who created the image of Marlene Dietrich, but here they go way beyond Hollywood evasions and compromises. the plot is drawn from a factual incident: a dozen Japanese merchant seamen were shipwrecked on Anatahan in 1944, and found a man and woman living on the island; by the time they were persuaded that World War II was over, in 1951, five men had died in fights over the woman. When was the last time you felt stark naked after a movie?