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Thursday 11 March - Wednesday 17 March 2010
The gall of Gaultier
The Day Before: Jean Paul Gaultier
Explore the creative genius of French fashion's enfant terrible
Remember Milla Jovovich's skimpy white 'costume' in The Fifth Element that looked as if she'd escaped from the set of The Mummy before they'd had time to finish the bandaging? Or Victoria Abril's wacky outfits in Pedro Almodóvar's Kika? Or Madonna's cones? Who else but the bad boy of French haute couture - Jean Paul Gaultier - could have pulled these designs off? Presented as part of the L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival's Cultural Program, Jean Paul Gaultier on Film is a boutique season exploring Gaultier's influence on - and by - cinema. It was Jacques Becker's 1944 film Falbalas, set in a Parisian fashion house with costumes designed by couturier Marcel Rochas, that inspired Gaultier to become a designer; he remembers that when he first watched the film, "it was like a magic world had opened before me". Falbalas screens alongside Les Falbalas de Jean Paul Gaultier, a documentary retracing the designer's private and professional development directed by Tonie Marshall (who just happens to be the daughter of Micheline Presle, the leading starlet in Falbalas). Also screening is Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's The City of Lost Children for which Gaultier designed all the costumes. Which seems fitting, really, considering Caro and Jeunet's own unique aesthetics (as Caro once said, "The biggest talent of Jean-Paul Gaultier was how he was able to integrate his personal vision within the universe of the film. We both believe in the extremes of beauty"). And finally, get a fly-on-the-wall glimpse at the method behind Gaultier's madness with Loïc Prigent's The Day Before: Jean Paul Gaultier. After trailing Karl Lagerfeld and Marc Jacobs with his candid camera, Prigent captures the chaos - and the creativity - behind Gaultier's 2010 Autumn/Winter haute couture collection. "I want to understand what the process is about," Prigent explains. "It's a circus, but it's an interesting circus". And Gaultier is its unconventional ringmaster.
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More than any other fashion designer today, Jean Paul Gaultier continues to draw inspiration from the world of movies. more
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Go behind-the-scenes of the marvellous miniature world of Adam Elliot's Mary and Max. more
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Presented for the first time in Melbourne, this annual festival brings together a collection of films drawing on the diverse and rich cultures of Europe. more
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David Stratton, one of Australia's most loved film critics, shares his favourite films of all time. more
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Twelve days of the best in queer cinema from around the world. more
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Tracey Ullman, Johnny Knoxville and Selma Blair star in John Waters' hilarious non-stop raunchfest. more
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An icon of American counter-culture. The art and film that defined a generation. more
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Fashion critics gave the Pope's Oscar outfit 6/10
Roma
Wed 17 Mar 7pm
This charming and visually breathtaking film is a cinematic valentine to the "history" of Rome. more
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A showcase of the best classic and contemporary Spanish-language cinema. more
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To win 1 of 5 double passes to Tonie Marshall's Les Falbalas de Jean Paul Gaultier screening on Mon 15 Mar at 7.30pm as part of Jean Paul Gaultier on Film, email giveaways and tell us the name of Gaultier's first fragrance for men. |
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Cinema's always been a great inspiration for fashion.
Top Five Film Picks
1. The Big Lebowski 2. Pretty in Pink 3. Annie Hall 4. The Royal Tenenbaums 5. Breakfast at Tiffany's
Check out these films at the Australian Mediatheque. It's open every day, and it's free.
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"I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food" - W.C. Fields. Raise a glass to good times at the ACMI Lounge - every main meal purchased comes with a free glass of house wine. Bottoms up!
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Who else could bring Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Julia Roberts, Ute Lemper, Tracey Ullman, Danny Aiello and Jean Paul Gaultier together in the one film? Robert Altman, bien sûr! Pick up your copy of his delectable Prêt-à-Porter on DVD for an unfashionably affordable price of only $12.95.
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In preparation for our upcoming Melbourne Winter Masterpiece Tim Burton: The Exhibition, make sure you catch Burton's twist on Lewis Carroll's classic novel Alice in Wonderland. But you can't just see it in any cinema (well, you can, but where's the fun in that?). Alice in Wonderland: An IMAX 3D Experience is now showing at IMAX Melbourne Museum. They've got the world's 3rd largest screen and a mega-watt digital sound system all wrapped up in a purpose-built 3D cinema. So when the Red Queen screams "Off with their heads", you'd better duck! For more information and to book tickets click here.
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