Events

Over two nights The Capitol will be the spookiest place in Melbourne, as it hosts Screams on Screen, a curated program to feature live music, art, feature films, rarely seen experimental shorts, and artist and director talks. The program includes a 10-year anniversary screening of Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook, a selection of art/horror auteur David Lynch’s rarely screened earliest experimental shorts (1967-68) as well as new shorts from some of Australia’s finest emerging and established artists, a 4K restoration of...

The BLUSSH Romance Festival is Brisbane's newest festival celebrating films and literature through a romance lens. The festival boasts a diverse program that includes premieres, previews, retrospectives, iconic classics, and adaptations from book to film. Romance literature and its subgenres will be explored across three panels during the festival, featuring notable authors and industry experts. The pink carpet will be rolled out at the Angelika Film Centre, the home of BLUSSH in Woolloongabba, for the Opening Night Gala with the...

Now an established annual event, the Melbourne Science Fiction Film Festival returns to Cinema Nova in February with 10 sessions of sci-fi/fantasy films. This year’s Melbourne line-up will include 16 Australian premieres of features France, Canada, Macedonia, Sweden, The United States and The United Kingdom. The short-film roster of 12 titles includes works Chinese visual effects sector, Polish animation and three works from Australian directors. Opening Night honours go to French director Damien Faure’s Pyramiden, starring David D'Ingéo as the lone...

The Best Films You've Never Seen series returns to Melbourne's The Captiol in 2024, with Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989) and Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (1955), ranked #24 and #25 respectively in Sight and Sound Magazine's 100 Greatest Films of All Time list. 2:30 pm - Do the Right Thing (1989) Spike Lee writes, directs and stars in this story about racial conflict in the Brooklyn neighbourhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant. On a scorchingly hot summer day,...