Alejandro Jodorowsky // Chauvel Cinema

How could you not at feel a little cinephallic excitement with the news that that the Chauvel Cinema are presenting one-off 35mm screenings of Jodorowsky’s quasi-Western head-trip El Topo and John Lennon/Yoko Ono funded surreal and sacrilegious Holy Mountain, which recently screened a sell-out session at the Melbourne International Film Festival.

To celebrate its 100th issue our sister publication Two Thousand and Siren Entertainment are also proud to present an exhibition running in conjunctioin with the screenings. Held at the Chauvel Gallery and showcasing A0 prints from Jorodowsky’s new book of production notes titled ‘Photo gallery and Original Script Excerpts’ it will add another layer to this already remarkably textured film experience.

El Topo – 9pm, Saturday, 25 August
The Holy Mountain – 9pm, Saturday, 1 September
Tickets available from the Chauvel box office or through Moshtix.

Isobel Knowles & Kris Moyes // In Conversation

Curated by MIFF’s Juliana Chin, ORBIT is designed to support and promote Australian and New Zealand film talent through a showcase of music-clips placed rightfully upon the big screen. Taking place tonight and on August 4 at ACMI, ORBIT will feature an eclectic range of filmic styles with a world premiere of the latest Angus & Julia Stone clip, a director’s cut of Kris Moyes’s latest clip for Architecture in Helsinki (’Heart it Races’), an amazing 3D animated clip for Bit By Bats, Mark Rodda’s space invaders ‘reinvented’ clip for Mum Smokes and Isobel Knowles’s neon bonanza with the Ground Components featuring Romy from Macromantics.

With Kris currently in LA and Isobel somewhere in Europe they still managed to find time to chat, covering everything from Romance Was Born costumes, secret dance routines, crime scene investigation and making Sia ugly…

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Mister Lonely // Harmony Korine

The words “One for Friday night’s session of Mister Lonely, please” may not have flowed easily but, when it comes to festival tickets, sometimes it’s everyman for himself. With the main character being a Michael Jackson impersonator making a living in Paris this film from American prodigy Harmony Korine (Kids, Ken Park, Gummo) definitely seems more humourous than controversial. Full review coming Monday. Watch a clip from the film here and for MIFF session times and tickets here.

Trailers Not Trash // MIFF

It’s the night before MIFFmas and if you haven’t been through the festival guide, or read the ThreeThousand special edition, you probably don’t even have a wishlist yet. For those that might need a little bit of audio/visual stimulation we have selected five trailers from the programme that you can watch and imagine that they were 1000 times bigger and at least 25 times as long. If that doesn’t get you excited then this quote from movie star Edison Chen about Dog Bite Dog just might. “This movie is a pop out movie, either pop out and make mad loot, or pop out and have mad cult cred, this is one of the proudest movies I have ever done”.

The Boss Of It All, Denmark, 2006
Dir. Lars Von Trier
MIFF Session Times

Dog Bite Dog, Hong Kong/China, 2006
Dir. Pou-Soi Cheang
MIFF Session Times

The Holy Mountain, Mexico, 1973
Dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
MIFF Session Times

Paprika, Japan, 2006 (animation)
Dir. Satoshi Kon
MIFF Session Times

The Signal, USA, 2006 (Full Moon Fever)
Dir. David Bruckner, Dan Bush, Jacob Gentry
MIFF Session Times

Mike Mills // Blonde Redhead

Born from the MTV generation, there is a group of creatively agile directors such as Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry who have continued to produce cult-films. Another example, Mike Mills, has also been prominent and established himself not just as a feature director but also as someone who is constantly prepared to shape-shift to accommodate his creative desires.

Take a look at these five music videos that Mills concocted for Blonde Redhead over at ANP Quarterly. They all possess the same brilliant ability to simply communicate complexity.