Watch - DVDs, Movies, TV Shows
WATCH is ThreeThousand's guide to movies in Melbourne. 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.
Brothers
"Sounds Biblical," was my initial summary of this domestic melodrama. Kinda - its characters are more like figures in a parable than individual human beings. But Jim Sheridan's powerful, intimate remake of the 2004 Danish original offers little salvation. Bleak, uncertain, Brothers is a fable that's lost its moral.
Noise in My Head presents 'Suspiria'
I haven't seen this film because if I had I would tell you NOT to watch it. It's just too damn scary. People say it has the most horrific murder scene ever and its soundtrack is by a band named Goblin. Seriously.
I don't care if it was voted as one of the top 100 films of all time, or that the feature song has been sampled by Ghostface Killah, or that it was voted by Rolling Stone as one of the best musical releases of ‘77-‘79.
Jean Paul Gaultier on Film
Now that he's over 50 can Jean Paul Gaultier still hold claim to his 'enfant terrible' title? It's been a few years since we saw him mooning anyone or send a tin can bracelet down a runway.
Perhaps the enfant terrible successor (if it's not Tavi) is in fact doco director and all round fashion geek Loic Prigent.
The Men Who Stare At Goats
This shaggy comedy is very loosely based on an incredible true story: the US Army's secret elite squad of Jedi-like psychic warriors. It's pretty much an excuse for Oscar-nominated actors to clown about like doofuses. Actually, I've always preferred George Clooney's wild-eyed slapstick (Burn After Reading, O Brother Where Art Thou?) to his suave or serious roles.
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 Gitanes himself.
The Narrows presents PHASE IV
Graphic design and film have been inextricably linked since the first opening credits rolled. Saul Bass was the man behind some of the most distinctive opening credits of all time, like Psycho, North By Northwest and The Man With The Golden Arm.
When Bass stepped to the director's chair, things got wonderfully weird.
This Filthy World, John Waters interview
American auteur John Waters' early films involved overweight drag queens eating fresh dog poop, and singing anuses. His recent works include Tony Award winning Broadway musicals and Hollywood A-list stars. In John's one-man show, 'This Filthy World', he explains his unbelievable career trajectory in his inimitable, frank, sardonic, style.
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