Once again the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is upon us, and frankly it’s my favourite thing about living in Melbourne. Here are the films I’m going to see over the two and a half weeks. Time and apathy and procrastination permitting, I’ll review them here too.
Breadcrumb Trail
Slint documentary. There's a billion band documentaries doing the rounds these days. Will this be interesting enough?
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of Cannon Films
Documentary on Cannon films by the people that made Not Quite Hollywood. Looks like it could be excellent.
Starred Up
UK prison movie, starring the ubiquitous Ben Mendelsohn, who in fairness, is ALWAYS good value.
We Are The Best
Lucas Moodysson's 80s set movie about three girls in Stockholm forming a punk band. Looks like this may be a return to form. I like Lucas Moodysson one hell of a lot when he is making movies that make you feel good instead of pictures that depress the living crap out of you.
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
Rinko Kikuchi (from Pacific Rim) travels to Minnesota, convinced the buried money from the Coen Bothers movie Fargo, is real. This looks like it could be amazing!
Jodorowsky’s Dune
Documentary about the failed, unmade Alejandro Jodorowsky Dune movie. The book was a total game changer for me and I am still utterly obsessed with the work of total genius that is Dune. I cannot wait to see this.
Life After Beth
Potentially interesting horror comedy about a man who's girlfriend returns from the grave, conveniently forgetting she had just broken up with him.
It Follows
Intriguingly premised French horror flick that sounds like it's taking some inspiration from Carpenter's The Thing amongst others, as well as the established teenagers-have-sex-and-get-killed horror trope. Let's see if this lives up to it's interesting reviews, or descends into generic territory.
Creep
Horror film about a photographer who answers a Craigslist advert, and then things take a turn for the worse. Most of the write ups for this have been brief due to the avoidance of spoilers, so I'm picking this solely on the reliability of Mark Duplass, who is great.
Phase IV
1974 sci-fi flick directed by Saul Bass, about hyper-intelligent ants waging war on humanity. With original 'psychedelic' ending!
