A big shout out to the Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art and Australian Cinematheque for programming FIVE George A Romero zombie films for this forthcoming Halloween weekend. Brisbane is zombie central, what with the Spierig brothers first film Undead, the Brisbane Zombie Walk in May, and the Thrill the World event just the other day.
I’ve been meaning to post about GoMA and the Cinematheque for a while – they are also screening a major program of German films called ‘Out of the Shadows: German Expressionism and Beyond’ which includes not only many rarely seen silent and early sound expressionist films, but also a series of films influenced by the movement or synchronous with it, from Weimar comedies and spectaculars, monster films, city films, mountain films, spy films and war films. This really is a remarkable program curated by Russell Merritt. The QAG/GoMA site contains valuable synopses of all of the films.
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