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• EL TOPO AT THE ARCHIVES THIS WEEKEND

  29 Feb 2008

  Alejandro Jodorowsky's classic quasi-western El Topo is screening this weekend at the National Film and Sound Archives in Canberra. The Screening takes place this Saturday night at 7.30pm. Tickets are $9.50.

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• BOXING DAY TO PLAY NEW ZEALAND

  25 Feb 2008

  While on the topic of the New Zealand World Cinema Showcase, Kriv Stenders powerful and compelling film Boxing Day will also be playing the festival.

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• JODOROSKY TO ASTOUND, CONFUSE AND EXCITE NEW ZEALAND

  25 Feb 2008

  The seminal works of Alejandro Jodorowsky will be playing at New Zealand's World Cinema Showcase from March to May. Both El Topo and The Holy Mountain will be playing in the film festival which travels around the country in the lead-up to the New Zealand Film Festival in August.

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• SPEAKING OF BILLY

  19 Feb 2008

  There has been a seemingly endless stream of media coverage overseas for Jennifer Venditti's acclaimed documentary Billy the Kid. From Filmmaker Magazine's in-depth and exploratory interview, John Anderson's criticisms in Variety, to the endless buzz around the blogosphere, all the elements of Billy the Kid has been written about at length in print and online.

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• RED VS BLUE GOES GLOBAL

  18 Feb 2008

  We've already announced the impending release of the hilarious internet ‘machinima' Red vs Blue, now we bring you... the international trailer, Going Global.

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• WIN $100 WORTH OF DVDS EACH MONTH

  15 Feb 2008

  Become a Siren Visual member (it's free) and go into the running to win $100 worth of DVDs each month. All you have to do is click here and follow the steps.

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• PAUL ANDREW WILLIAMS ON LONDON TO BRIGHTON

  14 Feb 2008

  Filmmaker Magazine has a fantastic interview with London to Brighton director Paul Andrew Williams. In the expansive interview Williams discusses the difficulties in getting films off the ground, the burning need to just keep working, and his desire not to be pigeon-holed as a director.

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• PENN & TELLER TALK BULLSHIT

  08 Feb 2008

  For your viewing pleasure here are some YouTube clips of Penn & Teller talking about the genesis (pun intended) of Bullshit and what they are trying to achieve. The clips come from the Amaz!ng Meeting in 2003. The Amaz!ng Meeting is the brainchild of magician, escape artist, and rational thinker James Randi. The meetings take place every year to provide a forum for share learning, laughs and life with fellow skeptics and distinguished guest speakers.

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• TRIPLE J PONDERS JODOROWSKY

  05 Feb 2008

  The mysterious and wonderful world of Alejandro Jodorowsky is the subject of the latest Film Ed 101 series on Triple J. The Film Ed 101 series is a regular two-and-a-half minute repeated brief on various aspects of old and new cinema, television and new media with critic Marc Fennell.

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• TROUBLE EVERY DAY ON MOVIETIME

  04 Feb 2008

  Claire Denis' confronting 2001 film Trouble Every Day was featured on the Trash and Treasure segment of ABC Radio National's MovieTime. Katie O'Neil, a Victorian College of the Arts graduate, waded in to defend Denis' vampiric and cannibalistic tale with producer Jason Di Rosso.

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• STICKY CARPET AT THE OLD BAR

  01 Feb 2008

  Mark Butcher's doco on Melbourne's underground music scene, Sticky Carpet, is playing at The Old Bar in Fitzroy next Monday with The Super 8 Diaries. Sticky Carpet is A veritable roll call of live performance footage comes from the likes of The Dirty Three, The Stabs, Bored!, I Spit on your Gravy, The Sailors, Love of Diagrams, Pisschrist and many more.

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