AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
OPERA
FILM
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Anton
Corbijn
Inside Out
ABOUT FACE
FILM
(USA)
Dir. Timothy
Greenfield‑Sanders
(Netherlands)
Dir. Klaartje Quirijns
Few people have had as much impact on the visuals of popular
music as visionary photographer and filmmaker Anton Corbijn.
Supermodels come and go. They change the world, and then age
from view. But what’s left behind when the cameras stop flashing?
Over a 30-year career spanning portraiture, album design and
music videos, Corbijn has shaped the image of bands as diverse as
U2, Metallica, Nirvana, Arcade Fire and Nick Cave. When he turned
his hand to feature filmmaking in 2007, with the Ian Curtis biopic
Control, the evocative visuals and assured style won him plaudits and
awards throughout the film world.
In About Face, filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders revisits the
supermodels of the 50s, 60s and 70s, the women working at the
dawn of modern advertising, to see where their lives have taken
them since their time in the spotlight.
Four years in the making, filmmaker Klaartje Quirijns’s Anton
Corbijn: Inside Out pries deep into the psyche of this intensely private
man. With unprecedented access to family, film archives and Corbijn
himself, Quirijns crafts a piercing profile of an artist more driven,
more fragile and more human than anyone could have imagined.
Featuring interviews with Isabella Rossellini, Jerry Hall, Christie
Brinkley, Carmen Dell’Orefice (still modelling at 80 years old) and
many more, About Face is a knowing, warm and frank exploration of
fashion, sex, philosophy and the agelessness of true beauty.
72min, 2012, 18+
ACMI – Fri 12 Oct at 7.45pm
Greater Union – Sun 21 Oct at 3.30pm
90min, 2012, 18+
ACMI – Fri 12 Oct at 9.30pm
Greater Union – Sun 21 Oct at 6.30pm
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Wagner’s
Dream (USA)
FILM
The Love
Of Books:
A Sarajevo Story (UK)
Dir. Susan Froemke
Dir. Sam Hobkinson
The quest to produce a perfect staging of Wagner’s Ring remains
opera’s greatest challenge.
While a city burns around them, a dedicated group of men and
women risk everything to protect their cultural identity.
With its 16-hour run time and sweeping, celestial plot, staging
a complete, faithful version of Wagner’s Ring Cycle has long been
considered a theatrical impossibility. But when the New York Met
hired Robert Lepage to create a 21st century vision of Wagner’s opus,
he saw an opportunity to finally do the composer’s vision justice.
In 1992, with the newly independent Bosnia wracked by war, and its
capital Sarajevo besieged and burning, a band of brave citizens risked
death to protect 10,067 handwritten Islamic manuscripts.
In Wagner’s Dream, documentarian Susan Froemke tracks the tense,
arduous process of creating Lepage’s Ring: a grandiose dream built
around opera’s finest talents and theatre’s foremost designers. With
Opera Australia bringing its own grand staging of the Ring Cycle to
Melbourne in 2013, Wagner’s Dream presents a tantalising chance to
draw back the curtain on a truly epic production.
English and French with English subtitles
112min, 2012, 15+
ACMI – Sat 13 Oct at 2pm
56
Braving snipers, artillery shells and rockets to transport the books
to safety from their home in the 500-year-old Gazi Husrav-Beg
Library, these individuals put themselves in mortal danger to save an
irreplaceable historical legacy.
Sam Hobkinson’s documentary tells a gripping real-life story of
bravery and determination – an unconventional tale of a very
different breed of war hero.
Bosnian with English subtitles
59min, 2011, 15+
Greater Union – Sat 20 Oct at 3pm
Greater Union – Sun 21 Oct at 2pm
FILM