‘Exhumed’ festival dusts off a stack of old (and one new) film tins to play cult and classic movies in their original format
You may not always notice it but many movies these days are shot on cheaper digital and not in the traditional film format.
As of 2017, 92% of films have been shot on digital, with only 24 major films released in 2018 photographed on 35mm. Goodness knows what that’s dwindled down to today. While digital makes filmmaking a faster process, the quality – that is the warmth and fuzziness of actual celluloid – is missing.
Hence I love it when a film that has been made on actual film and shown on actual 35mm or 16mm tape are dusted off and presented to a cine-loving crowd. Which is exactly the case with all the movies screening in this year’s Exhumed movie festival program.
Introduced last year as part of the Strange Festival in Perth, this year’s Exhumed Cinema will feature an expertly curated selection of 60+ cult and classic films, all showing at Perth’s first ‘talkie’ cinema, the Como Theatre. The program runs from June 14 to July 3, and features a wonderfully eclectic mix of genres.
My must-sees (and must-see-agains) in a jampacked program are Dr Strangelove (Sunday 16 June), Death Becomes Her (Tuesday 18 June, still top of story), and the more recently released Poor Things (Thursday 20 June).
Emma Stone in ‘Poor Things’, one of the rare modern gems (but set in who knows when, really) appearing in this year’s Exhumed film festival program.
Other highlights include the seriously intense Midnight Express (Wednesday 19 June), Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (Friday 21 June and Monday 1 July), the horror twin-set Ringu and Ringu 2 (Sunday 30 June) and scary sci-fi mess Night of the Creeps (Wednesday 3 July).
Join in and celebrate the art of vintage cinema at Exhumed and see moves the way they ought to be seen.
For the full Exhumed film program, click here.
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