The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
Nostalghia
When
Wed 15 Feb 2023
“Not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours” (J. Hoberman), Andrei Tarkovsky’s penultimate film is a hermetic, spiritual and truly visionary work mixing monochrome and desaturated images to provide a melancholy and physically inclement portrait of the netherworlds of exile and homesickness. Intense, concentrated and stylistically rigorous, Tonino Guerra and Tarkovsky’s Italy-shot collaboration also contains several of the most remarkable images and extended moments in the director’s oeuvre. With Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano and Erland Josephson.
Courtesy of, and restored by, CSC Cineteca Nazionale.
Also screening on Wed 15 February
Program
“The Art is Very Jealous”: Tonino Guerra, Writing Images
Amarcord (1973) – Wed 8 Feb, 7pm
Blow Up (1966) – Wed 8 Feb, 9.20pm
Nostalghia (1983) – Wed 15 Feb, 7pm
The Mattei Affair (1972) – Wed 15 Feb, 9.20pm
The Assassin (1961) – Wed 22 Feb, 7pm
The Beekeeper (1986) – Wed 22 Feb, 8.50pm
Program notes
Screenwriting professor Howard Rodman described Tonino Guerra’s work as “the brave and moral thread that runs through the fabric of modernist cinema” but Guerra’s preferred categorisation of his contribution was simply to claim he “added some structure”...
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