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18th St. George Bank Brisbane International
Film Festival – Movies
Over the coming weeks, we will be adding movies to this page which we think will be the highlights of the festival. Check back regularly to see the cream of the crop!
Looking for Eric
2009/35 mm/Colour/114 mins/English
Friday 31 July 2009 – The Regent 3 – 5:00 PM
Wednesday 5 August 2009 – The Regent 3 – 9:30 PM
Director Ken Loach fills the screen with laughter, romance, and suspense in his latest film, Looking for Eric. The story follows Eric Bishop, a middle-aged postal worker whose downward-spiralling lifestyle is given a sudden boost of inspiration with a fantasy-driven invocation of the legendary Manchester United footballer Eric Cantona (playing himself). Together, the two Erics begin to rebuild Bishop’s life, which includes rekindling an old flame with his divorced wife, Lily, and regaining control of his two delinquent stepsons.
Physical and situational humour endears the film to audiences on different levels; football fans will enjoy Cantona’s acting while cinephiles will appreciate Loach’s skill as a director. There is also a strong theme of solidarity among the characters, which gives a rare and beautifully designed glimpse of contemporary blue-collar life in Manchester.
www.lookingforericmovie.co.uk
Flowers of the Sky
2008/35 mm/Colour/90 mins/Sinhala
Monday 3 August 2009 – The Regent 1 – 4:50 PM
Wednesday 5 August 2009 – The Regent 1 – 6:40 PM
Prasanna Vithanage, whose previous films have been largely concerned with Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict, turns the camera on his own world, the film industry, with a project he has long wanted to realise with ‘the queen of Sri Lankan cinema’, Malini Fonseka. ‘She took the role and made it personal, intimate and autobiographical—colouring it with shades only she could bring’ (director’s statement) in her subtle portrayal of the complexities of fame and career choices, and the ensuing relationships with family.
www.akasakusum.com
Bathory
2008/35 mm/Colour/135 mins/English
Friday 7 August 2009 – The Regent 3 – 9:40 PM
Veteran Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko uses his iconic visual style to bring to life the legend of Erzsébet Báthory. Considered one of the most prolific murderesses in history, Báthory has been dubbed the ‘Blood Countess’ for her alleged preoccupation of bathing in virgins’ blood. Jakubisko endeavours to show the Hungarian noblewoman in a different light—the victim of political sabotage rather than the crazed, paganistic hedonist of her legend.
The film stars Anna Friel as Báthory and Karel Roden as her political opponent Juraj Thurzo, and a well-known cast of Czech and Slovak actors, including Deana Horváthová-Jakubisková and Bolek Polívka, play supporting roles. Jakubisko’s first English production is the most expensive movie made in Central Europe to date. Hailed as a commercial success in both the Czech Republic and Slovakia, this gothic tale is a rare treat for those interested in medieval costume dramas.
www.ceskatelevize.cz
Veteran Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko uses his iconic visual style to bring to life the legend of Erzsébet Báthory. Considered one of the most prolific murderesses in history, Báthory has been dubbed the ‘Blood Countess’ for her alleged preoccupation of bathing in virgins’ blood. Jakubisko endeavours to show the Hungarian noblewoman in a different light—the victim of political sabotage rather than the crazed, paganistic hedonist of her legend.
The film stars Anna Friel as Báthory and Karel Roden as her political opponent Juraj Thurzo, and a well-known cast of Czech and Slovak actors, including Deana Horváthová-Jakubisková and Bolek Polívka, play supporting roles. Jakubisko’s first English production is the most expensive movie made in Central Europe to date. Hailed as a commercial success in both the Czech Republic and Slovakia, this gothic tale is a rare treat for those interested in medieval costume dramas.
www.ceskatelevize.cz
Che: Parts one & Two
2008/35 mm/Colour and B&W/126 mins/English
Part 1: Friday 7 August 2009 – The Regent 1 – 12:00 pm
Part 2: Friday 7 August 2009 – The Regent 1 – 1:30 pm
Part 2: Friday 7 August 2009 – The Regent 1 – 1:30 pm
The historical Che has become like the historical Jesus, with many gospels. There is the Che of the t-shirt and poster; Che the brilliant tactician; the fatally flawed Che who began one of his epistles with ‘This is the history of failure’; the godless, beardless mystic in Salles’s Motorcycle Diaries; and the Comandante Superstar in Richard Fleisher’s Che!. Even Steven Soderbergh and star/producer Benicio Del Toro’s four-hour-plus-long diptych has time for only three. Part One, ‘The Argentine’, is a two-hander: Che the radically chic celebrity of the early 1960s, recorded in Maysles Brothers-like Direct cinema, adjoins Che the bearded Yul Brynner-type, the cigar-chomping leader of a revolutionary wild bunch (Soderbergh himself has called it ‘a John Sturges movie’) that survived the Sierra Maestra wilderness and the house-to-house shootout at Santa Clara. In comparison, Part Two, ‘The Guerrilla’, channels Ken Loach—but also Terrence Malick, whose project this was initially. Naturalistic and vernacular, yet also rhythmic and fatalistic (and shot in naturally lit yet film-like Red digital by Soderbergh in his Peter Andrews guise), this is Che the chess student, Che of the final diary—an almost third-person Marxist analysis of his own ethical and political failure of radical leadership, down to the final move to a campesino guard on 8 October 1967.
The ellipsed Ches are an issue. There are five years between the two parts; The Butcher of La Cabaña, the barking Dr. Strange-Che of the Missile Crisis, and the farcical intervention in the Congo are all absent. But although we may not get the mystic life or the life of power—truly omissions—and although these are, in essence, Westerns (Part One, Late-Hollywood Classic; Part Two, Revisionist), we do get Che’s essential rich and tireless personal politique, the moral life that governed his interaction with his comrades and followers. And Part Two has a sense of predestination: the last shot is almost the first, Che the seasick and pensive medical practitioner wondering what Raúl and Fidel (finely played by Rodrigo Santoro and Demián Bichir, normally only known to Western audiences as guest sexy Latins in US TV dramas like Weeds and Lost) have got him into. It proposes, as Soderbergh and Del Toro have, a third, featurette-length study of the Congo business, and an eternal movie.
www.che-movie.co.uk
Coraline
2009/35 mm/Colour/100 mins/English
Sunday 02 August – The Regent 4 – 1:15 pm
Coraline Jones (voiced by Dakota Fanning) is an energetic young girl who has just moved with her parents into an isolated country house. Prone to boredom and having an unruly imagination, she struggles to give her mother (voiced by Teri Hatcher) and father (voiced by John Hodgman) the peace needed to finish their garden catalogue. Left with few options to satisfy her entertainment needs, Coraline begins an intensive investigation of the house and discovers a secret door to an alternative reality. What ensues is a visual rollercoaster ride into a world where rodents perform amazing circus acts, cats talk, and Coraline is treated like a queen—or so she thinks. Soon her fantasy land becomes a nightmare that threatens her life. Based on the popular children’s story by Neil Gaiman and directed by Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas), this spellbinding animation will appeal to both young adults and graphic artists.
www.coraline.com
The September Issue
2009/35 mm/Colour/89 mins/English
Tuesday 4 August 2009 – The Regent 3 – 7:15 PM
Legendary Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is often called the devil or the fashion pope, and the magazine’s September issue is the veritable glam bible of the fashion world, created in the buzzy, consumerist heart of Manhattan, with brilliant shoots in Paris and Rome. In this engaging fly-on-the-wall documentary, we observe the extraordinary style guru editing the magazine, obsessing over tiny details, brooking no opposition, and, with moments to spare, triumphantly delivering the ‘biggest one in our history’: 840 pages of the headspinning fall-preview issue. As the mega-issue somehow takes shape amid the turmoil, Wintour’s fascinating sidekicks are witnessed toiling, arguing, and bitching—especially the spectacular André Leon Talley, editor-at-large, and Grace Coddington, genius creative director, who pulls off an inspired eleventh-hour masterstroke. We are also given more intimate glimpses of Anna’s softer side as a daughter, sister, and proud mother.
Little Soldier
2008/35 mm/Colour/100 mins/Danish
Tuesday 04 August – The Regent 3 – 9:15 pm
A Danish soldier returns home early from her tour in the Middle East to discover her assimilation into civilian life mired by combative forces similar to those she encountered abroad. Faced with issues of unemployment, Lotte (Trine Dyrholm) begins working as the driver/bodyguard for her father’s prostitution service. The uneasy father–daughter relationship grows increasingly more tenuous as Lotte discovers that her father has taken a Nigerian prostitute named Lily as his mistress. To further exacerbate the situation, Lotte begins to develop feelings for Lily, which seem only to strengthen her father’s resolve to treat her more like a male friend than his child. The final act delivers a chilling and sobering account of morality and provides an interesting point of discussion on topics such as posttraumatic stress disorder and the international sex trade.
www.lillesoldat.dk
It Might Get Loud
United States of America/2008/35mm/Colour/97 mins/English
Saturday 08 August – The Regent 3 – 9:30 pm
Director Davis Guggenheim leads the audience on a candid journey into the riff-filled world of three of rock's most iconic electric guitarists: Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), the Edge (U2), and Jack White (The White Stripes). The film is full of insight and humour, as each rocker reflects and physically returns to the roots of their musical careers. Equally as entertaining is an impromptu jam, in which each musician's unique sound manoeuvres around the others' like a gunfighter in a standoff. This display confirms the skill, playfulness, and respect evident among the different generations. A superb combination of cinematic and musical conventions makes the film accessible to both diehard rock fans and novice Guitar Heroes.
www.sonyclassics.com
Dead Snow
Norway/2008/35mm/Colour/91 mins/Norwegian
Saturday 8 August 2009 – The Regent 1 – 11:10 PM
Sometimes the dead won't die, and in the most recent film by Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola, frozen Nazi zombies are the latest demographic to suffer from this affliction. Wirkola weaves a humorous and at times raunchy narrative akin to those of action-packed, low-budget slapstick-horror films such as The Evil Dead. The story is set in the desolate, snow-covered mountains of northern Norway and chronicles the debauchery of eight medical students on Easter vacation-that is, until the zombies show up. Defending themselves with all manners of domestic weaponry-and the occasional heavy-arms machine gun-the medical students put up a respectable fight, slicing and dicing a battalion of undead. Superior numbers prevail, however, and the audience soon learns that frost is not the only thing that bites in the far north.
www.deadsnow.com
Brisbane International Film Festival 2010
Dates and Venues:
Brisbane 04–14/11/10 Palace Barracks Cinema, Palace Centro Cinemas and Tribal Theatre
Event ticket: See BIFF website for ticketing options
Official Site: www.stgeorgebiff.com.au
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