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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.
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.
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.
Focus On Hopper's America
I just can't get over how much Dennis Hopper looks - and sounds - like Owen Wilson. However, Owen doesn't have an ACMI exhibition dedicated to his creative life, nor a tie-in film program. One day, Butterscotch Stallion. One day.
This isn't a retrospective of Hopper's films, but a collection of features, shorts and rarities exploring the turbulent culture in which he thrived.
Hello Darkness Horror Film Festival
It's scary even writing this. I hate horror. Or that's what I tell myself right up to the moment when I'm there in the cinema subjecting myself to it, sweating nervously and wondering if any of this stuff being brutally embedded into my unconscious will one day manifest itself in a way that will get me locked up forever and then people will say, 'Gee.
The Feature
It's a big ask for an audience to sit still for three hours. I know because I have a real 'thing' about long films - call it the John Waters 90-minute-rule. To describe Michel Auder's The Feature as 'epic' is an understatement - even though it ends up being both an enjoyable (if surreal) feat of endurance.
Pure Shit
Do you know what some of the best Australian films have in common? They are usually made on no money and for that reason aren't trying to please anyone. Pure Shit is one of those films - a reviewer actually called it the most evil film he'd ever seen, if you're looking for a proper recommendation.
Marc Jacobs on Film
Marc Jacobs, I love you, let me countdown the ways!
I loved you first back in the Parsons days when you had long hair and wore it in pink furry pom-pom elastics - in fact this is when I loved you best! Your infamous '93 Perry Ellis 'grunge' collection comes a close second though - take notes people, that's how you turn a failure into a success.
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