It is with great sadness that we mark the passing this past weekend of the maverick director, writer and co-star of the 1969 counterculture film classic Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper, whose career as a filmmaker and artist was honoured in a major exhibition here at ACMI, Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood.
Archive | May, 2010
Cannes wrap up
Well Cannes has wrapped for another year and as usual it was an incredibly demanding, tiring, insightful and rewarding experience – an explosion of noise, colour, cigarette smoke and accents from the four corners.
Adam Elliot’s Desert Island Flicks
Back in February we kicked off a new program called Desert Island Flicks, in which we stranded (metaphorically, of course) celebrities on a desert island and gave them only five films for company.
Support for Oz filmmakers at Cannes
I understand there’s a robust discussion going on in Australia about the representation Screen Australia provides to filmmakers on the ground here in Cannes, sparked by David Gould’s piece in Encore online.
Enter a Burton Wonderland
Last week, we put out a call for submissions for our Burton Wonderland Gallery – an online gallery of the weirdest and most wonderful original Burton-inspired artwork. The top ten works will be shortlisted by Tim Burton himself, and then we’ll throw it open to you to vote for the top pick.
Dispatch from Cannes
Cannes, Sunday. Been standing in a line for over an hour in the blazing sun hoping to get into one of the Director’s Fortnight films - which had now better be mighty good.
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