Share:  Viewing problems? View Cinemail online Exhibitions Programs & Events Cinema Members Shop Blog TV This month the ‘Fairytales and Fables’ program celebrates depictions of animals in folklore; with anthropomorphic animals and protagonists who’ve been physically transformed, voluntarily or not, into animal form through magical intervention. From the furry anarchic trickster in The Story of the Fox 1930, the faun of the labyrinth in Pan’s Labyrinth 2006 to the tortured prince bound in the body of a beast in the fairytale Beauty and the Beast 1946, these animal forms provide the plot device and moral lesson of the tales. The program also features a whimsical retelling of The Fabulous Baron Münchausen 1961, a live action and animated film which inspired Terry Gilliam’s 1988 version, and the restored Jacques Demy classic films Donkey Skin 1970 and The Pied Piper 1972. FILM SCREENINGS: 7–23 MARCH 2014 The Pied Piper 1972 Ages 18+ DIRECTOR:  Jacques Demy WHEN:  Fri 7 Mar 6.00pm and Wed 12 Mar 8.00pm (90 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA New digital restoration. ‘Demy’s darkly political interpretation of this legend is not intended as a children’s film. Pop singer Donovan plays the fourteenth-century piper hired to rid the town of Hamelin, beset by the Black Plague, of its rats.’ Harvard Film Archive Read more Donkey Skin 1970 Ages 18+ DIRECTOR: Jacques Demy WHEN:  Fri 7 Mar 8.00pm and Wed 12 Mar 6.00pm (100 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA New digital restoration. ‘'With its wondrous costumes and vivid play of colours, Donkey Skin has become a classic. The tale involves a beautiful Princess enlists the aid of the Lilac Fairy and together they devise a scheme of imaginative demands designed to thwart even the most ardent suitor.’ Pacific Film Archive Read more The Pied Piper of Hamelin 1985 Ages 18+ DIRECTOR: Jirí Barta WHEN:  Sat 8 Mar 1.00pm (53 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘An extraordinary combination of puppet animation, ornately designed oil-painted backdrops, and live action. A town is overrun with rats; when a piper leads the vermin away, the greedy townsfolk reward him not with praise but with disdain, and thus seal their doom.’ Jason Sanders, Pacific Film Archive Read more The Fabulous Baron Munchausen 1961 Ages 18+ DIRECTOR:  Karel Zeman WHEN:  Sat 8 Mar 2.00pm (83 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘The whimsical Baron Münchausen mistakes a modern-day astronaut for a lost moon man and leads him on a series of miraculous adventures, riding on seahorses, battling the sultan's armies, and romancing the beautiful Princess Bianca.’ Pacific Film Archive Read more The Story of the Fox 1930 Ages 18+ DIRECTOR: Irene Starewicz, Wladyslaw Starewicz WHEN:  Sun 9 Mar 1.00pm (65 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘The film follows the comic adventures of the fox Renard, an anarchic trickster using Starewicz's iconic visual style, fluid stop motion puppetry and strikingly naturalistic menagerie of anthropomorphic misfits.’ MoMA Read more Beauty and the Beast 1946 PG DIRECTOR: Jean Cocteau WHEN:  Sun 9 Mar 2.30pm (96 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA Restored 35mm print. ‘'Jean Cocteau’s classic remains one of the cinema’s most enchanting. It is the story of Belle, who, in order to save her father, agrees to live with the hideous Beast. Slowly, she grows to feel some emotion for him, and her love transforms him.’ Pacific Film Archive Read more Hard Candy 2005 R18+ DIRECTOR:  David Slade WHEN:  Fri 14 Mar 6.00pm (104 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘Unwittingly drawing on motifs found in Little Red Riding Hood, from the folkloric heroine to the predatory big bad wolf, ‘Hard Candy will have you both squirming in your seat and teetering on the edge of it.’ BBC Read more The Fall 2006 MA15+ DIRECTOR: Tarsem Singh WHEN:  Sat 15 Mar 1.00pm (117 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘A movie stuntman, lying despondent in a Los Angeles hospital in 1915, spins an exotic tale for the benefit of a five-year-old girl. In his story the dashing Bandit, assisted by a slave, a mystic, an anarchist battles the evil Governor Odious.’ Seattle PI Read more The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926 Ages 18+ DIRECTOR:  Lotte Reiniger WHEN:  Sun 16 Mar 11.00am (66 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA Live musical accompaniment by Oscar and Marigold (Kim Cunio and Heather Lee). Crafted in an exquisite silhouette animation style, the film follows Prince Achmed in a series of adventures taken from The Arabian Nights. Read more Kirikou and the Sorceress 1998 G DIRECTOR: Michel Ocelot WHEN:  Sun 16 Mar 3.30pm (74 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘Michel Ocelot’s splendid feature tells a sensual and beautiful story – a West African fable about the power of original innocence.’ The New Zealand Film Archive Read more The Brick House 2013 Ages 18+ DIRECTOR: Gustavo Cervantes WHEN:  Wed 19 Mar 6.00pm (93 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘Three estranged brother pigs are reunited by the inheritance of their Uncle's Midwestern homestead after his tragic passing in a house fire and quickly become the target of some local business tycoons; a ruthless pack of wolves.’ Pocket Full of Stars Read more Where the Wild Things Are 2009 PG DIRECTOR:  Spike Jonze WHEN:  Wed 19 Mar 7.45pm (101 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘Based on the classic children’s book, if follows young misunderstood Max as he boards a mysterious boat to a land of enormous monsters. Max does his best to govern the unruly creatures and learns a few lessons about cooperation and friendship before he is restored to his own world.’ UCLA Film and Television Archive Read more Cinderella 2006 Ages 18+ DIRECTOR: Bong Man-Dae WHEN:  Fri 21 Mar 6.00pm (94 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘Yoon-hee is a successful plastic surgeon who has built a lucrative career out of young women longing to have 'the perfect face'. One night a strange apparition appears, demanding that its old face be returned Yoon-hee’s daughter makes a surprising discovery about her mother's past.’ New York Times Read more Eyes Wide Shut 1999 R18+ DIRECTOR: Stanley Kubrick WHEN:  Fri 21 Mar 8.15pm (159 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA Influenced, in part, by The Twelve Dancing Princess fairytale, Eyes Wide Shut explores the private arena of sexuality through the shifting veil of dreams and reality, following the journey of a man who becomes obsessed with his wife’s confessed sexual fantasy. Read more Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971 G DIRECTORS:  Mel Stuart PROGRAM:  Fairytales and Fables WHEN:  Sat 22 Mar 1.00pm (100 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘Reclusive candymaker Willy Wonka holds a contest for five lucky people to win the chance to tour his mysterious factory – filled with chocolate waterfalls, never-ending jawbreakers, and, of course, hordes of green-haired Oompa-Loompas.’ Pacific Film Archive Read more Azur and Asmar: The Princes’ Quest 2006 Ages 18+ DIRECTOR: Michel Ocelot WHEN:  Sun 23 Mar 1.00pm (99 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘Set in a mythic Middle Eastern landscape, Asmar and Azur marvel at songs of the Djinn Fairy, a legendary creature locked away and guardian monsters. And so begins a quest for magic keys, spells of safety and a route to the mystic mountain where lies a spirit to be released and a friendship to be reconciled.’ New York Times Read more Cinderella Moon 2012 Ages 18+ DIRECTORS:  Richard Bowen PROGRAM:  Fairytales and Fables WHEN:  Sun 23 Mar 3.00pm (96 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘Based on the earliest known version of Cinderella from China, this is a gorgeous and enchanting fairytale, with exquisitely ornate costumes, dazzling scenery shot in Yunnan Province, and an underlying message that is as timely today as it was 13 centuries ago.’ American Cinémathèque Read more COMING SOON ORSON WELLES: A RETROSPECTIVE THE LAST OF ENGLAND: THATCHERISM AND BRITISH CINEMA 5 April – 28 May Tickets on sale now 4 April – 25 June Free, no bookings required Update my details Unsubscribe Privacy policy Contact Us Stanley Place, Cultural Precinct, South Bank, Brisbane Queensland 4101, Australia T:  +61 (0)7 3840 7303 F:  +61 (0)7 3844 8865 E:  gallery@qagoma.qld.gov.au Opening Hours 10.00am – 5.00pm Closed Christmas Day & Good Friday Open from 12 noon ANZAC Day (The Gallery has late opening hours when evening Australian Cinémathèque screenings are scheduled.)