Film Screening 21st May, 1999

Poster for Persil: Dressed For The Part

Persil: Dressed For The Part 

8:00 PM, 21st May, 1999

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  • 3 mins
  • Unknown
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Men and women are shown on a sailing boat in Sydney harbour.

Their fashions, washed with Persil washing powder, are described as "gay, lovely, colourful as the harbour" and "nifty nautical number".

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Poster for Atlantis

Atlantis 

8:05 PM, 21st May, 1999

  • G
  • 74 mins
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  • Luc Besson
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Does Luc Besson love the sea? Oh yeah.

Following in the tradition of Baraka and Koyaanisqatsi, he has filmed the ocean, overlaid his images with a little music, mostly by Eric Serra [now there's a surprise] with one song by Maria Callas, and has still shown us his love of the majesty and beauty of the ocean. What more can I say? Words would just detract from this amazing piece.

Beautiful, spectacular, dangerous, quiet, uplifting, fulfilling, shocking, amusing, terrible [in the original sense, if you don't mind], relaxing. Any other adjectives you can imagine probably fits somewhere and somehow in this encompassing view of the big blue.

Matthew Last

Poster for Fast, Cheap and Out of Control

Fast, Cheap and Out of Control 

9:30 PM, 21st May, 1999

  • G
  • 83 mins
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  • Errol Morris
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  • Dave Hoover, George Mendonca, Ray Menendez, Rodney Brooks

Fast, Cheap and Out of Control is more like a documentary than a movie in the typical sense. It consists of interviews with an Australian robot scientist, a lion tamer, a naked mole rat specialist and a gardener who sculpts hedges in the shapes of animals. So what do that have in common? Apart from not being ordinary public servants, you might think very little - but over the course of the interviews you begin to see some similar philosophies towards life emerge.

I found this film entertaining and the ideas that came out of it intellectually stimulating. It is nice to be shown such interesting people. However some other members of the audience did not understand the film and found it boring (dunderheads). Come along and find out for yourself whether you love it or hate it. After all, you paid for it.

AJ Austin