THE WIZARD OF OZ (102 minutes) PG
Judy Garland sings Over the Rainbow, Bert Lahr works himself into a tizzy as the Cowardly Lion, and everyone is off to see the Wizard, striding down the Yellow Brick Road in glorious Technicolour. Screens as part of the Alice is Everywhere season. Digitally projected, accompanied by rare 16-millimetre presentation of the three-colour separation work Garden of Chromatic Disturbance (1998) by the great Australian experimental filmmakers Arthur and Corinne Cantrill. Introduction by critic John Flaus. ACMI, Sat 19 May, 4pm.
Wes Anderson experiments with stop-motion in Fantastic Mr Fox.
STEAMBOAT BILL, JR (71 minutes) G
Buster Keaton is near his best in this 1928 silent comedy, where he plays a young dandy home from college who gravely disappoints his irascible riverboat captain father (Ernest Torrence). Two sequences in particular stick in the mind – Buster shopping for a new hat, and the spectacular cyclone climax. Live accompaniment by the Sounds of Silent. Digitally projected. Thornbury Picture House, Sun 20 May, 2pm.
BPM is set during the AIDS crisis in the early 1990s.






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