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Outdoor Cinema Screenings
Outdoor screenings return to the NFSA courtyard in 2009 - come along and kick back in a deckchair under the stars as we present the best in outdoor cinema! Outdoor screenings take place every Saturday night throughout January and February.
Tickets on sale from 7pm, films start at sunset. See below for the full line-up of outdoor screenings:
SAT 3 JAN: SUNSET BLVD. (Billy Wilder, 1950, PG) Starring William Holden, Gloria Swanson and Erich von Stroheim.
SAT 10 JAN: MANHATTAN (Woody Allen, 1979, M)
With Woody Allen, Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep.
SAT 17 JAN: ON THE TOWN (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen,1949, G) Starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Vera-Ellen.
SAT 24 JAN: BARRY MCKENZIE HOLD HIS OWN (Bruce Beresford, 1974, M) The even more outrageous sequel - starring Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries and featuring a special appearance by Gough Whitlam.
SAT 31 JAN: BIG WEDNESDAY (John Milius, 1978, M) The epic surf-movie classic, starring Gary Busey, Jan-Michael Vincent and William Katt.
SAT 7 FEB: CHINATOWN (Roman Polanski, 1974, M) With Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway.
SAT 14 FEB: A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM (Richard Lester, 1966, PG) Larry Gelbart's satirical Roman musical, starring Michael Crawford, Phil Silvers and Buster Keaton in his last film role.
SAT 21 FEB: ROBOCOP (Paul Verhoeven, 1987, R) Brand new print!
SAT 28 FEB: PLAYTIME (Jacques Tati, 1967, PG) M. Hulot visits Paris in Tati's comic masterpiece.
photographer: Namiko Kitaura
KALKADOON PEOPLE:
The life-journey of Australia's leading concert didgeridoo player and his mother
William Barton, didgeridoo
Delmae Barton, singer
with Frank Madrid, DJ, and Mario Gordon, percussion
Where: Arc
When: 7:30pm, Friday 6th February 2009
Cost:$25, $15 concessions
From Mount Isa to Carnegie Hall (where he appears on Barack Obama's Inauguration Day), the story of William Barton has been sketched in wonderment and near-disbelief: how could this young man, barely 26 years old, have risen so far so quickly? Taking his didgeridoo to the concert stages of the world, William is equally at home in AC/DC tributes playing his Gibson SG electric guitar. Surrounded by computers and digital gadgetry, he moves effortlessly between the ancient sound-world of his forebears to the contemporary.
This performance will be the opening event of the National Multicultural Festival. Together with his singer-mother Delmae, William appears at the NFSA playing a gamut of music for solo didgeridoo to his own hip-hop creations. In between, William introduces "Kalkadoon Man", Brendan Fletcher's 2005 film about this singular life-journey.
CJ Taylor:
12 Canoes Photography Exhibition
Where:The Studio Café
When:9am - 5pm weekdays; 10am - 5pm weekends
Cost: Free
Shooting Stars:
Women from the Taussig Collection
Where: Foyer and South Gallery
When: From 3 July 2008
9am - 5pm weekdays; 10am - 5pm weekends
Cost: Free
Sights + Sounds of a Nation
100 years of Australian film, television, radio and recorded sound. Through
video compilations and touch screen programs, discover the “sights and
sounds” of our imagination and our daily lives.
Where: South Gallery
When: All year
Cost: Free
Ken G. Hall Award
Acknowledging an outstanding contribution to the art of moving image and its preservation
Longford Lyell lecture series
Celebrating the work of national and international screen personalities.
Thomas Rome lecture series
An annual lecture providing a platform for a leading figure in the Australian Sound Recording industry to generate ideas, debate and discussion about the state of the sound industries, relevant public policy issues and the role of sound in society.
