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WATCH is TwoThousand's guide to movies in Sydney. While we focus on art-house and independent releases, we never shun our secret pop-culture pleasures. WATCH also has its fingers on the pulse of film-festivals and specially programmed events and we give tickets away every week. We have also been known to organise special preview screenings, which we always chicken out of introducing on the microphone before the previews start playing.
French Film Festival
Ah the French Film Festival. Automatically there's a high bar right? After all France is considered the birthplace of cinema, not just of stripy shirts and carbs.
This year's festival pulls out the big guns as well, including one of the most anticipated biopics of the year: Gainsbourg - all about ol' Mr Fistful of Gitaines himself.
Cremaster Cycle and Drawing Restraint 9
Only a Yale graduate, ex-jock could make a movie loosely based around the positioning of the sexual organs during embryonic differentiation. The quintet of films dubbed the Cremaster Cycle by artist Matthew Barney is an audacious piece of cinema that has a tribe of avid fans along with a horde of ardent haters.
Heavy Metal Gangs of Wadeye
Heavy metal has been around for quite a while now and its fan base has never wavered. While trends in music can come and go - and their accolades with them - heavy metal fans are about as pig headedly loyal as they come.
Heavy metal has also apparently reached beyond stadiums and suburban living rooms, where you head-bang along to Guitar Hero, all the way up to Wadeye, NT.
Gimme Shelter
It's only Rock n roll (but I like it)...
Strut your stuff Jagger-style at the AGNSW's screening of Gimme Shelter. A documentary directed by David Maysles, Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, it's been called "the greatest rock film of the greatest rock and roll band". And we have to agree.
Inglourious Basterds
When a film's opening titles feature several different typefaces, someone's drunk on pastiche. And Quentin Tarantino is the most self-referential inebriate of all. Inglourious Basterds mangles several individually awesome ideas, adding lashings of Tarantino's trademark tedious dialogue.
There's a war-movie homage of both the British ‘derring-do' flavour and the American ‘military western' variety.
Public Enemies
Will Christian Bale ever escape the Second Banana Curse? In Public Enemies, his character Melvin Purvis is the ostensible hero - the FBI agent who used dedication and modern policing to trap notorious bank robber John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) in 1934, despite his interfering boss J Edgar Hoover (Billy Crudup, putting on his best ‘old-school newsreel' voice).
Red Cliff
Nobody intuitively grasps the poetics of action like John Woo. And this stunning Chinese historical epic shows the veteran director at the top of his game, blending military tactics and feats of battlefield athleticism with lyrical moments of music, poetry and tea ceremony. The most expensive Asian-financed movie ever, Red Cliff was originally released in two parts.
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