What's On at ACMI: Wednesday 3rd to Tuesday 9th August 2016

Sandy Powell HeroACMI and MIFF present Sandy Powell: Masterclass in Costume Design
Thursday 4 August, 6pm
A highlight of the SCORSESE Film and Public Programs, ACMI and MIFF present multi-Academy Award® and BAFTA winning costume designer, Sandy Powell OBE, in a special night of conversation hosted by Associate Professor Jessica Bugg of the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT. The long-time Scorsese collaborator has designed for six Scorsese-directed films, notably taking home the 2005 Oscar® for Best Achievement in Costume Design for the acclaimed Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator. ACMI's SCORSESE exhibition features costumes loaned by Powell exclusively for the exhibition's Melbourne season, including dresses worn by Cate Blanchett and Gwen Stefani in The Aviator; Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York; and three costumes from Hugo.
Tickets: $25

 

ACMI Fundraising Event Sandy Powell OBE In Conversation with Rachel Griffiths
Friday 5 August, 12pm
ACMI holds an exclusive fundraising lunch with Academy Award-winning Costume Designer Sandy Powell OBE, hosted by Australian actress and director Rachel Griffiths who joined the ACMI Board in 2016. Delivered by ACMI at the Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, guests will enjoy cocktails, lunch, a fundraising auction, VR experiences and designer gift bags. Winner of three Academy Awards®, including one for The Aviator, Powell has worked on six of Martin Scorsese's films and will discuss working with the auteur as well as her recent work in films such as Cinderella and Carol. All funds raised support ACMI's commissioning of artists.
Fundraiser tickets: $330, Table of 10 $2,970

 

Free ACMI exhibition Del Kathryn Barton: The Nightingale and the Rose continues
Until Sunday 11 September
Already drawing 20,000 visitors since opening on 21 June, this free ACMI exhibition celebrates the extraordinary collaboration between two-time Archibald Prize winning artist Del Kathryn Barton and acclaimed filmmaker Brendan Fletcher, tracing the remarkable adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 19th century classic into a hauntingly beautiful animated film. The multi-award winning film plays on loop inside the exhibition space – a landmark in contemporary moving image voiced by some of Australia's most celebrated actors, including Mia Wasikowska, David Wenham and Geoffrey Rush, with a music score by Sarah Blasko. In addition to the film, the exhibition features a selection of Barton's evocative paintings, stunning never-before-seen handmade props, and material from the production archives which reveal the extraordinary workings behind this captivating animated picture.
Tickets: FREE

 

Seniors' Cinema presents Mr Holmes
Saturday 6 to Monday 15 August
Mr Holmes sees Sir Ian McKellen play one of British literature's most revered characters, Sherlock Holmes. Based on the novel by Mitch Cullin, A Slight Trick Of The Mind, a long-retired Sherlock Holmes lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse tending to his bees, with just a housekeeper Mrs Munro (Laura Linney) and her amateur-sleuthing son, Roger (Milo Parker) for company. Far from living out his twilight years in peaceful retirement, Holmes is haunted by an unsolved case from several decades earlier. With his legendary powers of deduction on the wane, and without his old sidekick Watson, Holmes comes to rely on the quick-witted and endlessly curious Roger.
Tickets: Seniors $7, Members $6, Non-seniors $13

 

Melbourne International Film Festival

Selected dates from Thursday 28 July to Sunday 14 August
ACMI hosts sessions as part of the 65th Melbourne International Film Festival on selected dates between 28 July and 14 August. Festival Highlights screening at ACMI include: Radio Dreams a chaotic day in the life of a Farsi-language San Francisco radio station waiting on a visit from Metallica; Ella a descendant of the Wiradjuri people makes history in 2013 by becoming the Australian Ballet's first Indigenous dancer; No Home Movie Chantal Akerman's last film is also her most intimate and personal work; and Banana a warm-hearted Italian comedy of innocence and experience with a wisdom that belies its youth.
Tickets from $13.50