films and cinemas

HOT Alert: Week of 14 September

September 13, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Not so busy this week, which is good because I really need to catch up on some old posts…. Melbourne Twitter Underground Brigade (@MTUB) have their monthly meeting to bring together Melbourne’s Twitterers. Softbelly Bar on Friday 18 September; La Boheme showing as part of the World Opera and Ballet season at Kino Cinemas on [...]

HOT: Valentino: The Last Emperor, Kino Cinemas, 45 Collins St, Melb

September 9, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

In Valentino: The Last Emperor, legendary Italian haute couture fashion designer Valentino pronounces that he knows what women want – women want to be beautiful. After watching a documentary filled with Valentino’s jaw-droppingly glamourous dresses, I confess I think this short perma-tanned gay man might just be right. Stuff paid maternity leave and workplace equality [...]

HOT: Up, Cinema Nova, 380 Lygon St, Carlton

September 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

One of my favourite games as a kid was known as ‘travelling to new places’. Basically it involved me making a comfy hollow in my parent’s beanbag and getting in with a selection of my soft toys. I’d type my destination into an imaginary keypad, then sit back, relax and enjoy the ride. No actual driving or navigation [...]

HOT Alert: Week of 7 September 2009

September 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Over the years I’ve had numerous comments that there aren’t enough NOTs in the blog. My response always is that I choose where I go (unfortunately, I don’t get paid to write), so I’m naturally not going to choose to do something that I suspect will be dodgy. I liked Andre’s response; ‘well, that means [...]

HOT: Encounters at the End of the World, Cinema Nova, 380 Lygon St, Carlton

September 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

After Grizzly Man, I wasn’t sure what to expect from Werner Herzog’s new film about Antarctica, Encounters at the End of the World. Fortunately, it didn’t contain any gory man-eating scenes, yet nor was it a simpering penguins-on-ice movie. Yes, we got the awe-inspiring sweeping landscapes you’d typically see in a nature documentary but the [...]

HOT: Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton, ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne

September 1, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

For a thrilling moment I thought that the door prize for the screening of Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton was a Marc Jacobs handbag. That would have been a great way to dive into Melbourne Spring Fashion Week! The movie is part of a season of films curated by ACMI called Marc Jacobs on Film, [...]

HOT OR NOT? Valentino giveaway

August 31, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Here’s a great Melbourne Spring Fashion Week event for fashionistas – a film and fashion event at Lygon Court with fashion parades and a preview screening of the new fashion documentary Valentino The Last Emperor at Cinema Nova. I have 3 tickets to give away for this great event at 6:30pm on Wednesday 2 September. The ticket includes [...]

HOT: La fille mal gardee, Kino Cinemas, 45 Collins St, Melbourne

August 29, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

In my view there’s no better way to spend a rainy weekend that to immerse yourself in the beauty of ballet. The Royal Ballet production of Frederick Ashton’s La fille mal gardee (The Wayward Daughter) starred my favourite ballerina Marianela Nunez with Carlos Acosta, and it was a frothy comedy full of pretty colours and [...]

HOT: Israeli Film Festival, Palace Como, 299 Toorak Rd, South Yarra

August 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The Ma’aleh School of Television, Film and the Arts is a school based in Jerusalem which is dedicated to exploring the Jewish identity and Jewish heritage. Three award winning short films were screened in one program as part of the Israeli Film Festival (brought to you by the Australia Israel Cultural Exchange), all with a [...]

HOT: The September Issue, Kino Cinemas, 45 Collins St, Melbourne

August 26, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

A quick scan of the crowd of twittering girls and gay men, and it was pretty clear that I was in the right cinema. The September Issue was my second frock-fest of the week – this time, a fly-on-the-wall documentary about the hallowed temple of American Vogue and a portrait of its high priestess, the [...]