End of Suburbia Friday 3rd July @ 7.30pm
Hunt Angels Saturday 4th July @ 7.30pm
Elizabeth: The Golden Age Tuesday 7th July @ 12noon
All films at Reardon Theatre Bank Street Port Fairy. These are non-Film Society screenings, separate ticketing applies.
Cinema buffs in Port Fairy are spoilt for choice this week with three movies screening over five days. From the challenge of climate change to a little known story of two Aussie filmmaking larrikins to the virgin queen herself, there is a range of delights on offer at Reardon Theatre in Bank Street.
The History and Heritage Winter Weekends kicks off on Friday night with the documentary 'The End of Suburbia' (7.30pm), which charts modern society's obsession with the car and the havoc this has wreaked on notions of the good life. It's a gripping doco, with incisive figures such as Howard Kunstler cutting through the jargon and highlighting the folly of suburban dreaming as the ultimate dead-end. You'll never look at Caroline Springs the same way again.
'The End of Suburbia' has ignited communities around the world to confront their role in the perpetuation of the consumption culture which is damaging the soil, the society and the soul. A panel discussion after the film featuring some of Port Fairy's most passionate identities will look back nostalgically on a community we once had, identifying what we have misplaced and need to find again to live sustainably. The discussion will try to bring hope in finding solutions to counter the fear surrounding climate change. The film and discussion is an event of the newly formed Transition Towns Port Fairy group.
'Hunt Angels' (Saturday, 7.30pm) chronicles the life of Rupert Kathner, Australia's challenger to Ed Wood as the world's worst ever filmmaker. Starring Ben Mendelsohn as the hapless Kathner and Victoria Wood as his loyal, seductive co-creator, the film uses an interesting mix of interviews and archival footage into which the stars are digitally incorporated.
'Hunt Angels' looks great, recreating 1940s Sydney, Ballarat and Benalla beautifully, and it's a terrific yarn. Kathner was a true visionary, prepared to take on the big studios, the police state and the war propaganda machine. He also happened to be a liar, adulterer and crook with absolutely no aptitude for filmmaking whatsoever. Mendelsohn is wonderful in a role clearly made for his lovable roguish charisma.
The annual Red Cross fundraising film and luncheon on Tuesday (12 noon) has been advertised as a screening of 'The Duchess'. However, due to unforeseen circumstance the film 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age' will be shown instead. Starring Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush, who reprise their roles of the 1997 classic 'Elizabeth', this sequel showcases two of our finest acting exports.
'Elizabeth: the Golden Age' received only a lukewarm response from critics, and it is clearly a lesser film than its predecessor. However, it is still very enjoyable, and Blanchett is as luminous and powerful as ever. She inhabits the queen totally, and looks divine from one bejewelled frock to the next.
Elizabeth I's reign was a tumultuous one and made her reputation as a fierce leader. Where the film explores the tenderness of a woman carrying a burden of history, it also counters with her ruthlessness. Mary Queen of Scots, her nobility intact, could not survive such a force. A great way to spend a winter's lunch.
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