The Annual Four-Eyed Frenzy

The film festival total stands at a respectable (but not excessive) seventeen this year:

Friday, July 11

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6:15PM

Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer

Sunday, July 13

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1:15PM

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Tuesday, July 15

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8:00PM

Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story

Wednesday, July 16

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6:15PM

Blockade

Preceded by: Amateur Photographer

8:45PM

Taipei Story

Thursday, July 17

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4:00PM

Be Kind Rewind

Friday, July 18

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2:00PM

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr Hunter S. Thompson

4:15PM

Planet B-Boy

Saturday, July 19

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12:15PM

The Order of Myths

Sunday, July 20

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6:15PM

The Kid Brother

Monday, July 21

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4:30PM

Crazy Love

Wednesday, July 23

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6:30PM

I Think We're Alone Now

Friday, July 25

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6:30PM

The Cool School

Saturday, July 26

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5:00PM

Revue

Sunday, July 27

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1:15PM

The Red Balloon

Followed by: White Mane

6:15PM

Not Quite Hollywood

8:30PM

Anvil! The Story of Anvil

We are, as usual, heavy on 'documentaries about weird shit' (Tiffany's stalker! Obsessive abusive relationships! Propaganda films from behind the Iron Curtain! Ozploitation movies! The real Spinal Tap!) and 'vintage things you will never otherwise see on the big screen' (The Red Balloon, Errol Flynn's Robin Hood, Harold Lloyd's The Kid Brother). The Lloyd film also has the dubious honour of being Brent's media studies class field trip, which means I am the other supervisory adult trucking in from Otara on a bus with over 20 teenagers to watch a silent movie with an orchestra in a 1929-opulent orientalist movie palace. (By the way, follow that link. The panorama will blow your mind.) B assures me this whole trip is going to be totally fine. Naturally, I'm picturing that scene in The Wire season four, when Bunny takes his teen charges to the fancy restaurant and they all turn sour in an instant. (Yeah, I know, I tend to predict doom too much.)