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Lieven Bertels, Festival Director of Sydney Festival, is
Dendy Direct’s Guest Curator for January
Dendy Direct is excited to announce Lieven Bertels, Festival Director of Sydney Festival, as Dendy Direct’s Guest Curator for January 2016.
The Dendy Direct guest curator programme is people we love sharing the movies they love with an audience that love movies. Past Guest Curators include Lisa Genova (author of Still Alice), and Aussie acting icon Michael Caton. This month’s selection by Lieven Bertels includes 14 films and one TV show available to rent from 99c.
“Here are 14 movies, and one TV series, that I would immediately watch again. Of course there had to be some Belgian cinéma vérité, and the brilliant doco about my compatriot Raf Simons’ debut for fashion house Dior. Two films about the China of yesterday and today, and one about the home-grown terrorism we had in Europe in the 70s. The weirdest one out is probably A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, the first vampire film from Iran.” – Lieven Bertels
Lieven Bertels’ curatorial selection for January is:
52 Tuesdays
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
A Hard Day's Night
A Touch of Sin
Birdman
Café de Flore
Dior and I
Fargo Season 1
Last Cab to Darwin
That Sugar Film
The Baader Meinhof Complex
The Last Emperor
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Two Days, One Night
Venus in Fur
Originally from Belgium, Lieven Bertels has lectured at the National Film Academy in Brussels, been producer for the Belgian national broadcaster, is a board member of the International Society for the performing arts in New York and was made Knight in the Belgian Order of the Crown in April 2013. He has a keen interest in European cinema and in the 2015 Sydney Festival he presented his countrymen, Belgian prize-winning cinematographer Jaco Van Dormael with his festival hit Kiss and Cry.
Explore Lieven’s selection herewww.dendydirect.com.au
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