DOUBLE FEATURE: BOTANY BAY AND WILLS & BURKE
BOTANY BAY (35mm)
SAT 2 MAR | 2.30PM | Arc Cinema
1952 | PG| 90 mins | 35mm |US | D: John Farrow
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WILLS AND BURKE (35mm)
SAT 2 MAR | 4.15PM | Arc Cinema
1985| PG | 97 mins | 35mm | AUS | D: Bob Weis
John Farrow’s technicolour feature Botany Bay explores a pivotal moment in the history of the Australian continent, dramatizing the transportation of convicts and the arrival of the First Fleet. Over 60 years on from its 1952 release, Botany Bay offers contemporary audiences a chance to reflect on one of Australia’s founding narratives as seen through the lens of Golden Age Hollywood.
Meanwhile, Bob Weis gives two of Australia’s most famous and unfortunate explorers a satirical treatment in Wills and Burke. Curiously released in the same year as Graeme Clifford’s historical drama Burke & Wills, Weis’ film makes use of parody and performance to unpack epic historical storytelling.
Both films presented on 35mm film prints from the NFSA collection.
SAT 2 MAR | 2.30PM | Arc Cinema
1952 | PG| 90 mins | 35mm |US | D: John Farrow
&
WILLS AND BURKE (35mm)
SAT 2 MAR | 4.15PM | Arc Cinema
1985| PG | 97 mins | 35mm | AUS | D: Bob Weis
John Farrow’s technicolour feature Botany Bay explores a pivotal moment in the history of the Australian continent, dramatizing the transportation of convicts and the arrival of the First Fleet. Over 60 years on from its 1952 release, Botany Bay offers contemporary audiences a chance to reflect on one of Australia’s founding narratives as seen through the lens of Golden Age Hollywood.
Meanwhile, Bob Weis gives two of Australia’s most famous and unfortunate explorers a satirical treatment in Wills and Burke. Curiously released in the same year as Graeme Clifford’s historical drama Burke & Wills, Weis’ film makes use of parody and performance to unpack epic historical storytelling.
Both films presented on 35mm film prints from the NFSA collection.
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