BIFF 2018 is all wrapped up, across 11 days of award-winning and first-look films alongside acclaimed titles by established and emerging directors from Australia and the world, the Brisbane International Film Festival shone a spotlight on 100 features, documentaries and shorts, with curated programs celebrating trends from Iran, Asia and Africa. We opened with the Queensland…
We highlight the Australian Cinémathèque’s much loved secret weapon — the Wurlitzer Style 260 Opus 2040 pipe organ. From 2018 to 2020, QAGOMA will present Queensland’s Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF). The Festival experience comes to life with a range of dynamic events including classic silent films with live scores, a high point the screening of Buster Keaton’s The Cameraman 1928 featuring a…
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More than a century after Sherlock Holmes first uttered the now iconic phrase ‘the game is afoot’ to his trusted companion Dr John Watson, detective films – and the brilliant characters the genre draws upon – continue to delight and surprise cinemagoers. Unique to GOMA The Gallery’s rare 1929 Wurlitzer style 260 organ, originally housed…
For one screening only, join organist David Bailey 11.00am on Sunday 11 February 2018 as he accompanies George Melford’s desert fantasy The Sheik 1921 on the Gallery’s 1929 Wurlitzer organ. This is a golden opportunity to view this silent film in 35mm on the big screen as it was intended, accompanied by our Wurlitzer Organ of similar…
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Two silent masterpieces are presented with live musical accompaniment at the Australian Cinémathèque, GOMA as part of ‘Film Noir’ (31 March – 21 May 2017). Watch Joseph von Sternberg’s thrilling Underworld 1927, a forceful prototype for the American gangster film genre and Friedrich W. Murnau’s beloved The Last Laugh 1924, an emotionally powerful treasure of Weimar…
Cynical and seductive, film noir was born in the ashes of the Great Depression and fuelled by disillusionment and the paranoia of the postwar era. In March-April, the Australian Cinémathèque presents a curated program exploring the classics as well as their modern counterparts. Film noir is one of the most visually seductive and enduring cinematic…