MIFF2017 is here! The Melbourne International Film Festival is kicking off with a month of great films. Are you catching any? Here’s some synopses of the films that peeps in Starship are planning on catching:
Blade of the Immortal (Review via the Guardian):
For those who are fascinated by Wolverine’s healing factor, boy is Blade of the Immortal a treat. Adapted from Hiroaki Samura’s manga of the same name, it follows Manji (Takuya Kimura), a samurai during the Shogunate era who can not die.
Loving Vincent: the world’s first feature-length fully painted film:
Over 62,000 oil paintings and a cast including Chris O’Dowd and Saoirse Ronan bring the story of Vincent Van Gogh’s life and death to the screen in the world’s first feature-length painted animation.
It sounds mad: inspired by a letter Vincent Van Gogh penned in the week before he died, in which he noted that “we cannot speak other than by our paintings”, Oscar-winning filmmaker Hugh Welchman (Peter and the Wolf) and Polish painter Dorota Kobiela decided to make a movie doing exactly that. Hiring an army of painters from across Europe, each trained in the Dutch master’s style, they set out to tell his story the way he himself would.
The Lost City of Z (Review via NYTimes):
In “The Lost City of Z,” a lush, melancholic story of discovery and mystery, a mesmerizing Charlie Hunnam plays a British adventurer in the Amazon who is consumed by “all the glories of exploration,” as Joseph Conrad once wrote of a different journey.