IF you’re tired of the usual Hollywood fare, there are some cinematic alternatives on offer in Warrnambool over the coming weeks from fundraising groups and film societies.
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LIVING IS EASY WITH EYES CLOSED (rated M)
Screening at Lighthouse Theatre on August 25 at 8pm as part of the Bethany Arthouse Film Festival.
Taking its title from the song Strawberry Fields Forever, this Spanish film is about one Beatles fan’s efforts to meet John Lennon.
The movie is rated 100 per cent fresh on critic aggregator Rotten Tomatoes and won six gongs at the 2013 Goya Awards (Spain’s top film award ceremony).
It is the final film of the Bethany Arthouse Film Festival, which has been raising money for health and welfare agency Bethany.
FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (rated PG)
Screening at Mozart Hall on August 26 at 7.30pm by F Project Cinema.
WHEN Dorothy Maier died in 2009, aged 83, few people realised the world had just lost a very talented photographer.
It was only in the months following the long-time nanny’s death that her photos detailing the people and places of Chicago started to go viral on the internet.
This documentary by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel details how Maloof stumbled across Maier’s hidden talent and examines who she was.
Finding Vivian Maier won numerous documentary prizes and was nominated for best doco at the 2014 Academy Awards.
It is rated 94 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes and is being screened as part of F Project Cinema’s monthly documentary series.
AMY (rated MA15+)
Screening at Capitol Cinema on September 1 at 6.30pm as a fundraiser for Maya’s Mission - Riding For Recovery.
DESPITE releasing just two studio albums in her lifetime, Amy Winehouse was a huge star.
Unfortunately, hers was a star that burnt out quickly – she died from alcohol poisoning in 2011, aged 27.
Her life, success and ultimate downfall is examined in this doco directed by Asif Kapadia, who was behind the award-winning Formula 1 biopic Senna.
Amy features interviews and archival footage featuring Winehouse’s friends and family, although her family later denounced the film because of the way they were portrayed.
The doco is screening as a part of Maya Raschel’s fundraising for mental health issues in the south-west.
