Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea: exuberant science fiction time-travel comedy with a subversive message about lost opportunities and possibilities
Jindrich Polak, “Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea / Zitra vstanu a
Latin American Films (non-Spanish / non-Portuguese)
Modulations, Cinema for the Ear: boring and direction-less survey of electronic dance music genres from 1970s to 1990s
Iara Lee, “Modulations, Cinema for the Ear” (1998) Billed as a history of electronic music
Australian and New Zealand Films
What the Future Sounded Like: modest little documentary on a pioneering electronic music company in Britain
Matthew Bate, “What the Future Sounded Like” (2006) Here be a good little documentary about the
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: potentially great movie struggling under weak sub-text and sketchy plot
Tomas Alfredsson, “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” (2011) I’m too young to know the 1979 BBC TV
The Fall of the House of Usher / The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope (dir. Jan Svankmajer): two film shorts of fear, terror and oppression
Jan Svankmajer, “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1981), “The Pit, the Pendulum and
An exceedingly demeaning portrait of a significant feminist / anarchist figure in “Emma Goldman – An exceedingly dangerous woman”
Mel Bucklin, “Emma Goldman – An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman” (2003) This portrait of Emma Goldman,
A is for Atom (dir. Carl Urbano): educational propaganda film presents a mildly benevolent view of nuclear energy
Carl Urbano, “A is for Atom” (1952) Created and produced by John Sutherland and sponsored
Australian and New Zealand Films | Multi-media Presentations
Xerox Missive 1977 / 2011: investigation of alternative, intersecting views of reality from historical archives
Ms&Mr, “Xerox Missive 1977 / 2011”, multi-channel video installation (2011) Technically not a film but a
Arrietty: disheartening social conservatism and narrow prospects for a plucky heroine mar a charming film
Hiromasa Yonebayashi, “Arrietty / Karu-gurashi no Arrietti” (2010) A charming offering from Studio Ghibli, based
Primer: a hit-and-miss film about causality, consequences and a road of good intentions leading to hell
Shane Carruth, “Primer” (2004) A low-budget film (it cost about US$7,000 to make) about four