Thu, 18 July
|Bellingen
Thursday Night Movie Club - Black Orpheus w/ Guest presenter Michael Rubbo
Our Thursday night Cinephiles Movie Club, a night for movie nerds to come together and chat film, Members get to choose a movie and present it if they wish, $10 Toasties, Tasty Snacks, Organic Popcorn, Booze Free Drinks (or BYO) , Coffee and Chai at the bar.
Time & Location
18 July 2024, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Bellingen, 87 Hyde St, Bellingen NSW 2454, Australia
Guests
About the event
Join local film legend Michael Rubbo as he introduces Black Orpheus (1959).
Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was an international cultural event, and it kicked off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning.
About this weeks guest presenter;
Born in Australia, Michael Rubbo received his M.A. in Communication Arts at Stanford University in 1965 and then joined the National Film Board of Canada. He spent over 25 years at the Film Board, making many prizewinning films, including Sad song of yellow Skin which won the Flaherty award in 1971 and Waiting For Fidel, his most famous documentary. In the eighties…