Hello. Thank you once again for joining us.
Tuesday’s Screening:
Showing Up, Kelly Reichardt, 2022. 108m
An artist (Lizzy, played by Michelle Williams in a typically apt performance) on the verge of an exhibition navigates family, friends and colleagues in the lead-up to her show and finds that the chaos of life becomes the inspiration for art.
A comedy drama about the life and death stakes felt by a minor artist preparing for a minor exhibition. Kelly Reichardt brings her clear-eyed sense of realism—helped by Kelly Reichardt also teaching at an arts school) to the alienating pressure of being an artist within the educational sector. We do believe her housemate, landlord and fellow artist Jo is deliberately undermining Lizzy, when she saves the pigeon.
“A master of her craft contemplating the myriad difficulties endemic to creating anything, and then making it look effortless.” The Ringer
Unrated 15+ and with thanks to Park Circus Facebook Event
Attendance:
As with all our Container screenings, admission is free to all members, and membership can be found at our website container.org.au or at the box office counter on the night. Membership ranges from $30 (six months concession) to $100 (annual regular).
Additional Reading (for those who have the time and curiosity):
Our favourite three pieces on The Sweet East are interviews with its director Kelly Reichardt in Cinema Scope here and The New York Times here, and The New Yorker here (with a sudden appreciation of Reichardt’s filmmaking by Richard Brody.)
Upcoming Screenings:
7 November: Kelly Reichhardt’s Showing Up
21 November: Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Bacurau
5 December: Michael Mann’s Black Hat
12 December: Greg Mottola’s Confess, Fletch (picture above, it’s our summer farewell to the year.)
Thank you. We look forward to catching you on Tuesda for our screening of Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up, and its careful study of sustaining an art practice. Then a fortnight later we conclude our slow retrospective of Kleber Mendonça Filho’s films with his Bacurau (a Brazilian blockbuster, his most genre work—see the above trailer—and in collaboration with Juliano Dornelles.) An unexpected rendering informed by the national epic of Brazil, Rebellion in the Backlands (Euclides da Cunha, 1902.)