Keyword results: Documentary
Babylon screening and live show
What:
Babylon screening and live show
Where:
ACMI Cinemas, Fed Square, Melbourne
When:
Screening Sun Jan 24, 3.30pm. Free live show 6-7.30pm in the ACMI Lounge.
How much:
$10/$13 from here or the ACMI Box Office
Win:
Thanks to ACMI we have 2 x dbl passes to give away! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject 'DON'T TAKE DRUGS'
Description:
Cult flick Babylon is to the '70s Rasta movement what Quadrophenia is to Mod. And, with its Purple Rain -style underdog-against-the-rich-kids narrative arc, it moves beyond the cultural niche of just another music film while looking incredibly cool. Fiery, violent and political, it is - as William Miller would say - incendiary, as well as instantly quotable.
Event: Film
Stimulus: Gold sounds
Herb and Dorothy
Aged 88 and 75 respectively, Herb and Dorothy Vogel may look like New York hobbits who dote on their cat Archie, but Megumi Sasaki's intimate, funny documentary reveals the all-consuming passion that's made the Vogels among America's most important minimal and conceptual art collectors.
Hearteningly, adorably, the Vogels aren't snobs.
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.
Figures and Loops screening, DJs and rollerskating performance
What:
Figures and Loops screening, DJs and rollerskating performance
Where:
Speakeasy Cinema, upstairs at 361 Lt Lonsdale St, Melbourne
When:
Sun Nov 8, doors 5pm for a 6pm screening, followed by rollerskating performance and DJs
How much:
Film, burger and beverage $20, film only $15 from here
Win:
Thanks to Speakeasy, we have a dbl pass to give away! To enter email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject 'I never strangled your sparkle motion'
Description:
Figures and Loops is a debut documentary exploring the world of artistic roller-skating. Now if you can think of a better way to spend Sunday night then pick me up at 8. But otherwise, let us both experience Walter Matteson's journey from small-town California through to the highly competitive World fruity skating Championships in Germany.
Event: Film
Stimulus: Stack Hats & Lycra
'Heavy Metal in Baghdad' film and bands
What:
Heavy Metal in Baghdad film and bands
Where:
Beck's Rumpus Room at the Forum, 154 Flinders St, Melbourne
When:
Wed 14 Oct, doors 8pm
How much:
$15 from here
Win:
Thanks to MIAF, we have 5 dbls to give away! To enter email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject ‘This band seriously has an iPhone app?'
Description:
As part of the impressive Beck's Rumpus Room line-up, MIAF are showing off their metal credentials with a screening of the critically acclaimed 2007 hit Heavy Metal in Baghdad. For those who don't know - or don't read VICE - the film documents the lives of the members of Acrassicauda, Iraq's only metal band.
Event: Mixed bag
Stimulus: Chaos
Paper Heart
This pseudo-doco-rom-com claims to be both a heartwarming examination of how love can conquer cynicism and a sharp comment on the contrivances of documentary filmmaking. It doesn't really succeed at either. Instead, it feels contrived, dull and supremely cynical.
Ostensibly, LA musician-comedian Charlyne Yi and director Nicholas Jasenovec are investigating why Yi doesn't believe in love, and when professional alt-nebbish Michael Cera takes a fancy to Yi the documentary begins to follow the pair's courtship.
Valentino: The Last Emperor
I always thought Valentino was his surname, so clearly I had much to learn about Signor Garavani. Luckily, Matt Tyrnauer's very funny documentary paints an intimate portrait of this wizened Oompa-Loompa as he prepares to celebrate 45 years in haute couture. Valentino's lavish 2007 knees-up turns out to have been his swansong - he retired in 2008, leaving his eponymous label in corporate hands.
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