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A DIFFERENT MAN, SHAUN OF THE DEAD – 20 BLOODY YEARS, PARIS, TEXAS (1984) 4K RESTORATION + LEE, MEMOIR OF A SNAIL & SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) – 4K RESTORATION

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Mick Pachollihttps://www.tagg.com.au
Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972.  Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry. Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.        
Happy Halloween!
Sebastian Stan gives another knockout performance in  A DIFFERENT MAN a film that spotlights beauty and spits out a moving, darkly funny fable. Three restored favourites hitting our screen – Wim Wenders’ quintessential American odyssey PARIS, TEXAS (1984), Edgar Wright’s game changing zombie-spoof SHAUN OF THE DEAD – 20 BLOODY YEARS celebrates with a Halloween screening (sold out tonight, extra show tomorrow) and Akira Kurosawa’s seminal epic SEVEN SAMURAI (1954); all in glorious 4K! Claymation delight MEMOIR OF A SNAIL and acclaimed war photographer drama LEE continues plus a rockstar KNEECAP encore.

BEATS WORKING ’24 – is a celebration of the year’s best music documentaries with a selection of paired live DJ sets from local legends including – DJ Jim Westlake & FeeB Squared. Tickets on sale now!
See you at the Picture House! 

THIS WEEK

‘Aaron Schimberg’s darkly funny body-horror fairy tale takes a satirical scalpel to the beastliness of beauty.’ – Stephen Dalton, The Film Verdict

Edward is an aspiring actor relying on niche roles that lean into his facial shape caused by neurofibromatosis. When Ingrid, an aspiring playwright, moves in next door, his infatuation with her leads him to seek radical medical intervention.

‘Lee is beautiful, daring, and elusive, as all great art should be.’ – Andy Howell Film Threat

Kate Winslet delivers a captivating performance alongside a stellar cast in this portrait of legendary WWII war photographer Lee Miller. In 1977, a young journalist (Josh O’Connor) sits down to interview Miller in her final years.

Our Halloween special screening! Two decades since Edgar Wright’s zombie comedy, with Simon Pegg co-writing & starring. See it in glorious, restored 4K at TPH on Halloween night! HALLOWEEN SOLD OUT! SESSION ADDED – 1ST NOV, 8:20PM!

‘Shaun of the Dead remains a joyfully silly showcase for director Edgar Wright’s hyperkinetic visual style. It’s also unsettlingly prescient.’ – Noah Berlatsky, Splice

From Academy Award winning animator Adam Elliot comes a story of  Grace Pudel – a hoarder of snails, romance novels, and guinea-pigs. MEMOIR OF A SNAIL opened this year’s MIFF and won the top prize at Annecy International Animation Film Festival & the British International Film Festival last week.

15 years after MARY & MAX, this bittersweet, local-set memoir will break your little heart and attempt to mend it all with a bunch of clay!

‘An epic primal myth that pulsates through cinema’ – Peter Bradshaw, Gaurdian

One of the most thrilling move epics of all time, SEVEN SAMURAI tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits. See it in gloriously restored 4K at TPH. Extra session added to Wednesday 6th Nov at 2pm!

‘Paris, Texas is a landmark work in every sense: understated, powerful, sublime.’ – F.X. Feeney, L.A. Weekly

Wim Wender’s quintessential American odyssey returns in a brand new 4k restoration to celebrate its 40th anniversary. A disheveled man who wanders out of the desert, Travis Henderson seems to have no idea who he is. Grab your tickets now! Session added!

NEXT WEEK & SOON

BEATS WORKING – A MUSIC DOC FESTIVAL.
TPH celebrates the year’s best music documentaries. All tickets available to purchase now, line-up links below –
Teaches of Peaches
Free Party: A Folk History
Devo
Pulp: a Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets
Hard-Ons: The Most Australian Band Ever
Dig! XX

‘A ravishing account of the birth of Australian surf culture.’ – Joshua Khoury Honi Soit

A poetic homage to Australia’s early surf-culture with unearthed footage set to an original soundtrack. YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HERE YESTERDAY combines hundreds of hours of lovingly restored 16mm footage with a salt-infused soundscape by Headland. Limited season at TPH, grab ya tix.

Ridley Scott returns to the Colosseum with a worthy match up pitting sharks and rhinos against Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington and Pedro Pascal in GLADIATOR II

After his home is conquered by the tyrannical emperors who now lead Rome, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum and must look to his past to find strength to return the glory of Rome to its people. Screening at TPH from November 14th, tickets for opening night on sale!

TPH X Velvet Curtain presents the 4K restoration and 70th anniversary screening of this landmark American classic.

Velvet Curtain is a dynamic local studio dedicated to the art of moving image. Specialising in capturing everything from films and music videos to events and commercial content. ON THE WATERFRONT (1954) screens on the 14th & 16th November. Tickets on sale!

‘The footage is out there, and it’s rarely been assembled into a more concise, powerful, and
damning array than it is here. Now it only has to be seen’ – David Ehrlich, Indiewire

For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight. Screening at TPH from November 28th.

Somewhere in Long Island, sometime in the early 2000’s: it is Christmas Eve, and four sprawling generations of the Italian-American Balsano family gather for what could be the last holiday in their ancestral home.

CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER’S POINT is like being invited to a family Christmas – cosy and warm and utter chaos! It has glimmers of a Robert Altman, a true gem of a holiday film.


COMING SOON
YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HERE YESTERDAY
GREEN BORDER
AQUARIUS
ANORA
NOSFERATU
PADDINGTON IN PERU
OLLIE OLSEN BENEFIT NIGHT

this week at tph: naidoc week continues with audrey napanangka, the new boy & the last daughter
listen to older voices: john michael (mick) pacholli – part 3
Mick Pacholli

Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972.  Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry. Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.        

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