Events | National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

May 2017

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Daily Program: May

01-31 May

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9:15am - 5:00pm (weekdays only)

Celebrating National Reconciliation Week 2017

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The Killing Fields + NFSA Restores: The Odd Angry Shot

24 May

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6:00pm & 8:30pm

Double feature celebrating the film career of Graham Kennedy.

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Graham Kennedy: The King’s other side

24-26 May

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Graham Kennedy was Australian television’s first superstar - The King.

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Don’s Party + The Club

26 May

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6:30pm & 8:30pm

Double feature celebrating the film career of Graham Kennedy.

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No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger

31 May

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7:00pm

Three black veterans of the Vietnam War discuss their militant opposition to the conflict.

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Jun 2017

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In Conversation: Christine Anu

2 Jun

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7:15pm (bar open from 6pm)

Enjoy a night of music, memories and conversation with Christine Anu.

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Looking for Richard & Chimes at Midnight

7 Jun

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6:30pm & 8:45pm (double feature)

Shakespeare was one of the primary influences on Akira Kurosawa

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Essential Kurosawa: Selected by David Stratton

14-30 June

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Retrospective of films for Akira Kurosawa selected by David Stratton.

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Ran

14 Jun

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6:45pm

Kurosawa’s last great epic is a re-working of King Lear with sons replacing the original’s daughters. The battle scenes are magnificently staged with impressive use of colour.

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Throne of Blood

16 Jun

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6:30pm

Macbeth is brilliantly re-invented with elements of Noh theatre incorporated into the drama. A great screen adaptation of Shakespeare, beautiful and ominous.

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Yojimbo

16 Jun

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8:30pm

Toshiro Mifune is the fastest sword in the East in an exciting and entertaining film that inspires Sergio Leone’s, 'A Fistful of Dollars'.

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Kagemusha

19 Jun

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2:00pm

At the time, the most expensive Japanese film ever made, this epic unfolds during a period of clan warfare and questions the very nature of power.

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Frozen Mash: Cinema Antarctic Style

21 Jun

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6:00PM

Enjoy the Australian Antarctic Division’s ‘midwinterers’ sci-fi cinema mash up

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Kagemusha

22 Jun

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6:45pm

At the time, the most expensive Japanese film ever made, this epic unfolds during a period of clan warfare and questions the very nature of power.

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Seven Samurai

23 Jun

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6:45pm

Farmers from a remote village, who are regularly attacked and robbed by bandits, seek help from seven warriors in this celebrated action epic.

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Rashomon (4K)

26 Jun

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2:00pm

An innovative murder mystery that explores the subjective nature of truth. Toshiro Mifune plays a bandit accused of murdering a samurai and raping his wife – but what actually happened?

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High and Low

28 Jun

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6:45pm

An Ed McBain thriller (King’s Ransom) is transformed into an epic moral tale in which a man is faced with a terrible dilemma when his son is kidnapped.

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Rashomon (4K)

30 Jun

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7:00pm

An innovative murder mystery that explores the subjective nature of truth. Toshiro Mifune plays a bandit accused of murdering a samurai and raping his wife – but what actually happened?

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