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The Gallery’s Australian Cinémathèque, in partnership with the Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF), presents a complete retrospective of the films of Andrey Tarkovsky (1932–86), one of the most celebrated figures in the history of cinema. Tarkovsky's seven feature films are extraordinary meditations on human existence, beauty, truth, time and the natural world. The program will include Tarkovsky's early short films as well as a number of important documentaries.
This fortnight also features two rare screenings; Araya 1959, the first film from Venezuela to win a major award at Cannes and Shiraz 1928, an exquisite silent film presenting the legend behind the building of the Taj Mahal. Shiraz will be accompanied live by acclaimed musicians Dva (Tunji Beier and Linsey Pollak) with traditional Indian percussion and wind instruments of their own design. Free, no bookings required.
Don’t miss the final action-packed screenings of 'Action, Hong Kong Style' which concludes on tomorrow with Reign of Assassins 2010 and Wu Xia 2011. |
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Until 8 November 2013
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9–10 November 2013
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10 November 2013
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13–24 November 2013
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ACTION, HONG KONG STYLE |
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| DIRECTOR: |
Su Chao-pin |
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Fri 8 Nov 6.00pm (117 mins) |
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Cinema A, GOMA |
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| ‘The most deadly and ruthless assassin of the Dark Stone gang seeks to atone for her murderous ways and leave the gang forever. Undergoing a drastic procedure to alter her appearance, she starts a new life in the capital. However the gang will stop at nothing in their pursuit to control this power.’ Madman Entertainment. Read more |
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Peter Chan Ho-sun |
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Fri 8 Nov 8.30pm (114 mins) |
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Cinema A, GOMA |
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| ‘Forensically minded acupuncturist Takeshi Kaneshiro is dispatched to investigate after lowly paper-maker Donnie Yen kills a notorious criminal with an innocuous blow to the head. The character study . . . has clear DNA traces of Cronenberg's A History of Violence.’ Mike McCahill, The Guardian. Read more |
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BROUGHT TO LIGHT |
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| Araya 1959 All ages |
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Margot Benacerraf |
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Sat 9 Nov 2.00pm and Sun 10 Nov 11.00am (82 mins) |
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Cinema A, GOMA |
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| ‘Margot Benacerraf's starkly beautiful 1959 documentary records the rituals of workers in a Venezuelan salt marsh — men who lift salt chunks out of the ocean shallows, then tote the crystals in baskets to form giant pyramids. The movie has an undertow of poetic Marxism: it reveres this work, yet also silently protests its noble, gruelling sameness.’ Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly. Read more |
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LIVE MUSIC AND FILM |
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| Shiraz 1928 All ages |
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Franz Osten, Himansu Rai |
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Sun 10 Nov 2.00pm (112 mins) |
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Cinema A, GOMA |
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LIVE MUSIC ACCOMPANIMENT BY DVA.
'An exquisite silent, Shiraz 1928, set in Moghul times, explores the romantic legend behind the building of the Taj Mahal. The love of young Shiraz for Salima endures even after she has been abducted and married to the Emperor. On her death, the Emperor orders the construction of the most wondrous monument ever. The craftsman is Shiraz; the monument is the Taj Mahal.’ Pacific Film Archive. Read more |
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ANDREY TARKOVSKY: POET OF THE CINEMA |
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| The Killers 1956 + There Will be No Leave Today 1959 + One Day in the Life of Andrey Arsenevich 2000 Ages 18+ |
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Andrey Tarkovsky, Aleksandr Gordon, Marika Beiku / Andrey Tarkovsky, Aleksandr Gordon / Chris Marker |
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Brisbane International Film Festival |
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Thu 14 Nov 3.00pm (119 mins) |
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Cinema A, GOMA |
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| Co-directed with Aleksandr Gordon and Marika Beiku, fellow students at the State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, Tarkovsky’s earliest credited short film is an adaptation of Hemingway’s 1927 story ‘The Killers’, first brought to the screen in Robert Siodmak’s film noir of 1946. Tarkovsky appears in the film as a customer in the bar whistling ‘Lullaby of Birdland’. Screens with short films There Will be No Leave Today 1959 and One Day in the Life of Andrey Arsenevich 2000. Read more |
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| The Steamroller and the Violin 1960 G + Ivan’s Childhood 1962 M |
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Andrey Tarkovsky |
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Brisbane International Film Festival |
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Thu 14 Nov 6.00pm (141 mins) |
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Cinema A, GOMA |
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| Mosfilm invited Tarkovsky to direct an unfinished feature film project about a twelve-year-old orphan working as a spy behind German lines on the Ukrainian front during World War Two, loosely based on the short story ‘Ivan’ by Vladimir Bogomolov. Tarkovsky agreed on the proviso that he could marry the sober source material with lyrical dream interludes showing the childhood Ivan has been denied. Screens with The Steamroller and the Violin 1960. Read more |
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| Andrey Rublev 1966 PG |
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Andrey Tarkovsky |
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Brisbane International Film Festival |
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Fri 15 Nov 6.00pm (185 mins) |
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Cinema A, GOMA |
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| From its opening vertiginous balloon flight to scenes of pagan ritual and invading Tartar hordes, Andrey Rublev presents eight monumental chapters in the life and times of the celebrated icon painter and Orthodox monk who lived around 1360–1430. The film’s reflection on the struggle to make art in a difficult, repressive context has been interpreted as paralleling Tarkovsky’s experiences in Soviet Russia. Read more |
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| Solaris 1972 M |
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Andrey Tarkovsky |
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Brisbane International Film Festival |
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Sat 16 Nov 5.30pm (167 mins) |
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Cinema A, GOMA |
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| Based on themes drawn from Stanislaw Lem’s 1961 cult science-fiction novel, Solaris follows psychologist Kris Kelvin who travels to a space station orbiting the planet Solaris to investigate strange occurrences there. Kelvin comes to understand that the mysterious ocean covering the planet’s surface is causing the memories and fears of the cosmonauts on the space station to materialise. Kelvin himself encounters his dead wife and must face anew his loss and the emotions surrounding the circumstances of her death.Read more |
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| Mirror 1975 PG |
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Andrey Tarkovsky |
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Brisbane International Film Festival |
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Sun 17 Nov 4.15pm (108 mins) |
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Cinema A, GOMA |
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| Mirror is Tarkovsky’s deeply personal reflection on the associative processes of thought, memory and dreams, filtered through recollections of his mother and his childhood. Poetic visions of childhood are juxtaposed with stark newsreel images of war, military mobilisation and disaster. The director’s father, Arseny Tarkovsky, reads his own poems in the film, while his mother appears as the protagonist’s mother in old age. Read more |
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| Stalker 1979 PG |
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Andrey Tarkovsky |
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Brisbane International Film Festival |
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Sun 17 Nov 6.30pm (163 mins) |
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Cinema A, GOMA |
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| Revered as Tarkovsky’s most pared back and refined statement of his philosophical and spiritual approach to cinema, Stalker unfolds as an enigmatic odyssey. A writer and a professor set out into a mysterious area called the Zone in search of a rumoured room at its centre where one’s deepest desires may be fulfilled. They hire a special guide, a ‘stalker’ who has knowledge of the forbidden wasteland. Read more |
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| Moscow Elegy 1987 Ages 18+ |
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Aleksandr Sokurov |
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Brisbane International Film Festival |
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Mon 18 Nov 6.30pm (88 mins) |
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Cinema A, GOMA |
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| Sokurov’s film constructs an impressionistic portrait of his mentor and friend. It is made up of film excerpts, photographs, interviews, footage of Tarkovsky on the sets of Nostalghia and The Sacrifice, images of his Moscow apartments and schools, of the cemetery where his mother is buried and his own grave in Paris — and a resonant final image of a tree that he planted. Sokurov describes the film as a subjective response to Tarkovsky’s personality and destiny, a human approach to his memory. Read more |
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| Directed by Andrey Tarkovsky 1988 M |
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Michal Leszczylowski |
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Brisbane International Film Festival |
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Tue 19 Nov 6.30pm (101 mins) |
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Cinema A, GOMA |
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| Michal Lecszylowski, who worked with Tarkovsky on the editing of The Sacrifice, made this documentary on the set of the film. It shows the director at work alongside sequences from the completed film, and intertwines these with voice-over excerpts from his book Sculpting in Time, as well as interviews with Tarkovsky and his wife Larissa. Read more |
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