KinoTopia

Film Criticism + Cinema Listings for all films playing on a screen in Naarm. In your inbox and on Substack at 5pm every Thursday.

[KinoTopia @Kinotopia_Oz]

@residualshanty Courbet 🎨

[david ehrlich @davidehrlich]

i loved Mickey 17, the best, sweetest, and most rewarding of Bong Joon Ho's English-language movies (even though it's *extremely* Snowpiercer + Okja).

my review: https://t.co/3DV3W8tAiB

[KinoTopia @Kinotopia_Oz]

KinoTopia will be heading to the Berlinale for film festival coverage. See you there 🎞️

[Will Sloan @WillSloanEsq]

Upcoming Criterion Channel Collections

[KinoTopia @Kinotopia_Oz]

@residualshanty #winning

[Sabzian @Sabzianbe]

Winchester ’73 (Anthony Mann, 1950)

[New Beverly Cinema @newbeverly]

Nicolas Roeg’s WALKABOUT (1971) screens in 35mm Friday - Sunday, January 17th - 19th, on a double bill with WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971).

[Frank Yan @FrankYan2]

Jia Zhangke’s CAUGHT BY THE TIDES will be released in Chinese theaters on November 22. A new poster is also unveiled and it’s absolutely on fire

[KinoTopia @Kinotopia_Oz]

Sure to be a treat!

[Melbourne Cinémathèque @MelbCteq]

This Wed 30 Oct at @ACMI we present 'Contested Histories: The Documentaries of Jeni Thornley', bringing together several landmarks in independent and feminist cinema, introduced by the filmmaker herself.

Supported by @wearevicscreen.

Memberships: https://t.co/dJviGBccsB

[ACMI @ACMI]

The Japanese Film Festival returns with a FREE Special Series on maverick filmmaker Shohei Inamura.

This expansive retrospective showcases three decades of Inamura’s illustrious career. Presented and made possible by @JPFSydney Tix: https://t.co/uT7OBpAeH9

[KinoTopia @Kinotopia_Oz]

@crawfordscat on Shohei Imamura's 1968 island fresco PROFOUND DESIRES OF THE GODS:
https://t.co/jO4E8514wq

[KinoTopia @Kinotopia_Oz]

🙌🎞

[vinni • 包沁燕 🇵🇸 @glyphclutter]

@mfcodeworks @HughGriffin2 try sign up to kinotopia, local email newsletter @Kinotopia_Oz with regular film critic reviews and aggregated weekly screening listings

[KinoTopia @Kinotopia_Oz]

@Diggers_rest1 delves into Joker II: https://t.co/t4FzFRSPis

[megan @angrymegan]

wrote about nymph()maniac vol. 1 this week for kinotopia 🤭🎣

https://t.co/PVdqkYvwxW

[KinoTopia @Kinotopia_Oz]

GET TIX TO THIS IMPORTANT SCREENING NOW!

[ACMI @ACMI]

Join us for the next ART+FILM GRAPE STEAK.

Created over five years, the film is a portrait of Sydney’s Queer community.

📍 The session will screen on Tue 25 June at 6:30pm
🔗 Get your tickets https://t.co/8zsgshVoim
📷 Grape Steak (2018–23) © Jen Atherton & André Shannon

[Primal Screen @primal_screen]

If you missed Monday's show, @flick_ford spoke with members from Dogmilk films. Listen back to the segment here: https://t.co/1sMcZYHprd.

Also not to miss: Dogmilk's showcase at @stkildafilmfest! Sunday June 16th, 5:30pm at Alex Theatre. Tix on sale now. 🤘

[Primal Screen @primal_screen]

Tonight, @flick_ford speaks with Dogmilk Films. 🐕🥛📽️

Local and independently run, Dogmilk is a collective who produce and promote alternative film and sound works that push the boundaries of form and exhibition.

Tune into @3rrrfm 102.7FM from 7pm tonight to listen!

[Le Cinéma Club @lecinemaclub]

Now showing: PACIFIC CLUB by rising Franco-Lebanese filmmaker VALENTIN NOUJAÏM. An archeological dig into the history of a basement nightclub that was also a refuge for Paris’s Arab youth throughout the ‘80s. 

For one week on https://t.co/ze1aiGmvQ5.

[KinoTopia @Kinotopia_Oz]

Digby Houghton (@Diggers_rest1) caught up with the elusive film collective BBBC to chat about the ethics of cinema, cultural insurgency and films you won't see anywhere else. Screening Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays throughout June and July: https://t.co/FJU5Lbx261

[Primal Screen @primal_screen]

It's been 25 years since the release of Jim Jarmusch's GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI!

Tomorrow night, @flick_ford & special guests Digby Houghton & Andrew Tabacco from @kinotopia_ discuss the longevity of Jarmusch's genre-bending classic.

Mondays @ 7pm on @3RRRFM 🤘