The Update - October 10, 2017
Recent ABR Arts reviews
- Dion Kagan reviews Tom of Finland (Palace Films) ★★★1/2
- Fiona Gruber reviews American Song (Red Stitch Actors' Theatre) ★★★★
- Irena Zdanowicz reviews Fred Williams in the You Yangs (Geelong Gallery)
- Harry Windsor reviews Blade Runner 2049 (Sony Pictures) ★★★
- Francesca Sasnaitis reviews Song to Song (Roadshow Films) ★★★
- Barney Zwartz reviews Maria Callas Live: Remastered recordings 1949–1964 (Warner Classics) ★★★★1/2
British Film Festival
Palace Cinema's national film festivals bring us major new films prior to their release in Australia – long before in some cases (Terence Davies’ A Quiet Passion screened in the 2016 British Film Festival, a full year before its release here). The 2017 BFF – which runs from October 24 to November 15 in the ACT and all states except Tasmania – has many treats on offer. They include Andy Serkis’s Breathe, with the estimable Claire Foy; Dominic Cooke’s On Chesil Beach, based on Ian McEwan’s uncanny novel; Simon Curtis’s Goodbye Christopher Robin, which is about A.A. Milne and his son. Once again there is a series of retrospectives: lots of classic mysteries for Agatha Christie tragics, Basil Dearden’s interesting film about homosexuality, Victim (1961), and Michelangelo Antonioni’s hypnotic classic Blow-up (1966), a fiftieth-birthday restoration.
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