Tuesday 7 August, 2007

Spicks and Specks Trivia Night - Extra tickets just released

Regular Spicks and Specks team captains, Myf Warhurst and Alan Brough will be joined by Lindsay McDougall (aka The Doctor on JJJ Breakfast Show), writer and star of the smash hit comedy Kenny, Shane Jacobson, comedian and FoxFM radio presenter, Adam Richard and iconic musicians Brian Mannix and Rebecca Barnard to host the MIFF Trivia Night. Also flying in to lend a hand today fresh from her acclaimed performance in the operatic version of Streetcar Named Desire, is Antoinette Halloran. Co-presented by Hopscotch.

Tickets are $12, and $2 from every ticket sold goes to MIFF charity partner Melbourne Citymission
Bleacher seating only. No food provided. Bar service only.

COME ALONG IN YOUR 'BED' ATTIRE, AND SUPPORT MELBOURNE CITYMISSION - YOUR SUPPORT WILL ALSO GET YOU SOME GREAT PRIZES!

Buy online , in person at Forum Theatre Box Office, or call 03 9662 3722

Don’t Forget our Weekday Sessions

Tomorrow during the day, some of the films include:

• A Euro debut that’s a British gangland thriller by way of Ken Loach, London to Brighton (5pm @ Regent)
• Kid-friendly viewing with U , an animated bedtime story about a princess who takes solace in the protection of a unicorn (1pm @ ACMI)
• An indescribable yet magical feature about a nomadic shepherd in Mongolia who appears destined to be a shaman, Khadak (3pm @ Forum)
• A provocative drama from Japanese master Shohei Imamura that teases out the delicate topic of rape, Intentions of Murder (12pm @ Forum)

London to Brighton

Highlights of today's screening schedule include:

• Eytan Fox’s drama about a microcosm of young, urban Tel Aviv that took out several awards at the Berlin Film Festival, The Bubble (9.10pm @ Regent)
• An unsettling tale of obsession, family secrets and multiple personalities from iconoclast Margarette von Trotta, I Am the Other Woman (9.15pm @ Forum)
• Short & Sinister , a programme of MIFF-selected mini masterworks that are sure to send a chill down your spine (7pm @ ACMI)
• A nefarious, Spanish thriller told through six interconnected parts from different character perspectives, The Night of the Sunflowers (9.15pm @ Greater Union)

The Bubble

best BigPond Miff shorts - tickets still available

Put a red circle around this Friday in your diary for the short film event to end all short film events, best MIFF shorts Screening and Awards Night. We’ll be proving that the short is just as mighty as the feature as we hand out the gongs to the best films from our impressive programme of 100 short films. Hosted by Adam Zwar, best MIFF shorts promises to be a night to be remembered, and it all happens in the glamorous surrounds of the Regent Theatre at 9.00pm.

Nokia N93i review crew - win a Nokia N93i

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Come to Cannes

We can’t promise the sun but we can promise a bit of glitz and glamour at the Regent and Forum theatres for MIFF’s inaugural Come to Cannes day, taking place all day this Sunday. Cannes-direct features – like You, The Living , Mister Lonely , Alexandra , Savage Grace, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and Man from London – have been packaged together in back-to-back sessions to give you a taste of the Croisette without leaving Melbourne. Many sessions are selling out already, so make sure you book now.

Q&A with Geoffrey Rush & Shekhar Kapur

Acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur and Academy Award winner and MIFF patron Geoffrey Rush will be guests of the Festival this coming Saturday. MIFF and X|Media|Lab will present an exclusive opportunity to hear the director of Elizabeth and The Golden Age, Shekhar Kapur, and actor Geoffrey Rush talk for the first time about their experiences over the past few years leading up to their ‘Golden Age’. Tom Ryan will be hosting the session.
It’s all happening this Saturday, 6pm at Coopers Festival Lounge (Forum Theatre).
Tickets $16 via the MIFF Box Office at Forum Theatre or phone 03 9662 3722.

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Filmmakers present…

Coming up this week, Leonard Retel Helmrich will introduce his documentary about a quest to meet three men convicted of the 2002 Bali bombings, Promised Paradise (tonight 7pm @ Greater Union); filmmakers Steve Thomas, Sue Brooks and Kim Anning will present their story of Amal, one of the seven survivors of an Indonesian people-smuggling boat that pitched 400 asylum seekers into the sea, in Hope (this Friday 9pm @ ACMI); and Accelerator alumnus Ben Hackworth joins us to introduce his enigmatic feature debut, Corroboree (this Saturday 3pm @ Greater Union).

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Coopers Festival Lounge @ Forum

It’s with a tear in our eye that we remind you the Coopers Festival Lounge will be packing up shop this coming Sunday. For anyone that has lazed in one of our beanbags, heard some fine tunes and scored a booth for the evening, you’ll know that this temporary space is the only place where MIFF-goers and friends should be seen outside of the cinema. Admission is free and it’s open every day of the Festival.

Lady Narcissus is Renee Willner, Dennis Zovko and Max Gilmour, and they’ll be harmonising their unique blend of acoustic folk rock pop and darker poetic themes from 6.30pm tonight. Following on at 8.30pm, The Surly Mermaids are an electronic alt-pop trip (they make small, warm songs). Then at 9.30pm, The Listening Lounge sees Ian Nightingale playing soundtrack vinyl from his collection.

Talking Pictures @ ACMI

Join industry specialists, Festival guests, filmmakers and actors as they discuss everything ‘film’. Get up close and personal, and come armed with your best questions. Admission is free.

This Thursday at 6.15pm, Experimental Futures – Worldwide Alive and Well brings together visiting female guests from Canada and Brazil, as well as local filmmakers, to flesh out the international landscape in experimental filmmaking. Stepping up for a vibrant discussion, and also screening their films, are Carole ‘Aubriand’ O’Brien (Time Away), Cristina Miranda (Silver Poem) and Bridget Walker (One Verse No Chorus), hosted by experimental filmmaker and Deakin University animation lecturer Dirk de Bruyn.

Sold Out and Selling Fast

Ticket sales are running hot at this year’s Festival and, with only six days to go, there’s no time to dilly dally… start booking right now.

The following sessions are sold out:

• Inland Empire – tonight 9pm @ ACMI & this Thursday 9.15pm @ Forum
• I Served the King of England – tomorrow 7pm @ Forum (tickets still available for this Thursday 7.15pm @ RMIT Capitol)
• Azur and Asmar – this Friday 1pm @ ACMI
• Once – this Friday 7pm @ ACMI
• Control – this Saturday 9.20pm @ Forum
• Savage Grace – this Sunday 3pm @ Forum
• Manufacturing Dissent: Michael Moore and the Media – this Sunday 7.30pm @ ACMI
• This is England (Closing Night feature) – this Sunday 7.30pm @ Regent

The following sessions are selling fast:

• Little Red Flowers – this Thursday 1pm @ ACMI
• Paprika – this Thursday 7.30pm @ Forum
• Hope – this Friday 9pm @ ACMI
• Scott Walker – 30 Century Man – this Sunday 7.30pm @ Greater Union

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