Sydney’s Golden Age Cinema and Bar will showcase the cult-classic work of Charlie Kaufman next week to celebrate the release of his stop-motion animated feature, Anomalisa.
Written and co-directed by Kaufman, Anomalisa, follows Michael Stone (voiced by David Thewlis) a motivational speaker on customer service techniques who sees everyone around him, including his wife and son, as having the same generic white male face. While in Cincinnati for a presentation, Michael meets Lisa (Jennifer Jason Leigh) a woman who looks and sounds unlike anyone he has ever met before… an anomaly.
Originally written by Kauffman as a stage play, Anomalisa in its cinematic incarnation is co-directed by animator Duke Johnson (who won an Emmy for his work on the stop-motion episode of NBC’s Community).
To coincide with the release of Anomalisa, Golden Age will screen a Saturday night double of Kaufman’s classics Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), the director’s iconic sci-fi romance staring Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey, and Adaptation (2002), Spike Jonze’s playful metafilm written by Kaufman and his brother.
May 1 2016 also marks 75 years since the premiere of Orson Welles’s debut film and masterwork, Citizen Kane. An undisputed staple of any film-lover’s diet, Citizen Kane depicts the rise ad fall of Newspaper Magnate Charles Foster Kane.
Anomalisa will open on Thursday 28 April with screenings of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Adaptation to follow on Saturday April 30.
Citizen Kane will screen in a special matinee session on Sunday May 1.
For more details or to book tickets visit the Golden Age website
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