From Austin to Australia, there’s a wealth of film retrospectives playing all over the globe this week, featuring Criterion titles on the big screen. So depending on where you are, you may want to check one out—or pick up some home-viewing tips.
Currently ongoing in Taiwan (through November 28), as part of Taipei’s annual Golden Horse Film Festival, which showcases new and classic international films, is a special sidebar devoted to the imagery of cinematographer Mark Ping-bing Lee. This world-class DP has shot such films as Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Goodbye South Goodbye and Flight of the Red Balloon and Anh Hung Tran’s The Vertical Ray of the Sun but is perhaps best known for his work on Wong Kar-wai’s lush In the Mood for Love. Moving south, the Queensland Art Gallery in South Brisbane, Australia, is running a series called Living in the ’70s: Counter Culture Remixes French Cinema (November 18–29), which pays tribute to the nonconformist cinema of that decade: post–French New Wave, progressive, often independently produced films. They’re showing Chantal Akerman’s Les rendez-vous d’Anna and Eric Rohmer’s Love in the Afternoon, as well as works by Jacques Rivette, Alain Tanner, Marguerite Duras, and Jean-Luc Godard.
Here in the United States, things are a little more traditionally auteur-oriented, as the Austin Film Society turns its eye on that fantastically grim Finn Aki Kaurismäki with its series The Chilly Humorist of Finland, running from November 17 to December 15, and featuring all the films in his Proletariat Trilogy, plus some others, including his most recent film, Lights in the Dusk. And the up-and-running Los Angeles County Museum of Art film programmers are giving viewers a treat: a series of eight thrillers that Alfred Hitchcock made between 1930 and 1939, before he came to Hollywood, including, of course, the masterpieces The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes. Hitchcock: The British Thrillers runs from November 20 to November 28.
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