Films & Performances & Exhibitions seen 2013.

For when memory fails, this growing list is home to films (seen on the big screen at the cinema only), performances and exhibitions seen (in 2013).

DECEMBER
Philomena (Director: Stephen Frears)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Director: Peter Jackson)
The Girlie Werewolf Hall of Fame: Historical and contemporary figurations of the female lycanthrope, Jazmina Cininas, as part of Monster Fest, Cinema Nova

NOVEMBER
Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria
Rabbit Poetry Journal #10, Collected Works Bookstore
School of Art graduate exhibitions, RMIT city campus
Qualia 21, Lucinda Andrewartha, Duncan Freedman, Skye Kelly, Susie Lachal, RMIT School of Art Gallery

OCTOBER
Wonder Room, Paul Compton, Filomena Coppola, Rona Green, Deborah Klein, and Heather Shimmen, Maroondah Art Gallery
Decisions: The Print Imaging Practice Residency Exhibition 2013, Dani Hakim, Fiona Macdonald, Nikos Pantazopoulos, Nick Selenitsch, Hanna Tai, RMIT Project Space / Spare Room
Grounded, Sarah Edwards, Jennifer Lade, and Fleur Summer, Counihan Gallery
Co-variance, Helga Groves, Annabel Nowlan, Mia Salsjo, and Bill Sampson, Counihan Gallery

SEPTEMBER
Cinderella, The Australian Ballet, The State Theatre (seen not once but twice)
No cure for life, Rona Green, Australia Galleries
Works from the studio 1940s - 2013, Inge King, Australia Galleries
Pleat of Mind, Mary Gray and Alicja Kuzmycz, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery
La Sylphide, The Australian Ballet, The State Theatre (seen twice, a dress rehearsal in August too)

AUGUST
Painted porcelain — decorated British ceramics 1750–1850, Geelong Gallery
Impressions of Geelong — a portrait of the city and its region, Geelong Gallery
Vavara beyond memory — Magda Matwiejew, Geelong Gallery
Hand in Hand (Director: Valérie Donzelli)*
The Past (Director: Asghar Farhadi)*
Camille Claudel 1915 (Director: Bruno Dumont)*
Ain't Misbehavin (Director: Marcel Ophüls)*
When I Saw You (Director: Annemarie Jacir)*
La Pointe Courte (Director: Agnès Varda)
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The Major (Director: Yuri Bykov)*
Rhino Season (Director: Bahman Ghobadi)*
The Selfish Giant (Director: Clio Barnard)*
Shirley — Visions of Reality (Director: Gustav Deutsch)*
A Hijacking (Director: Tobias Lindholm)*
The Day of the Crows (Director: Jean-Christophe Dessaint)*
Blackfish (Director:Gabriela Cowperthwaite)*
Vic+Flo Saw a Bear (Director:Denis Côté)*
My Sweet Pepper Land (Director: Hiner Saleem)*
Gebo and the Shadow (Director: Manoel de Oliveira)*
The Villiage at the End of the World (Directors: Sarah Gavron/David Katznelson) (Screening with Pablo's Villa (Director: Matthew Salleh))*
Child’s Pose (Director: Calin Peter Netzer)*
Workers (Director: José Luis Valle)*
Becoming Traviata (Director: Philippe Béziat)*
Tip Top (Director: Serge Bozon)*
These Birds Walk (Directors: Omar Mullick, Bassam Tariq) (Screening with Freia and the Wannabe Indians (Director: Carl Javér))*
Moon Man (Director: Stephan Schesch)*
Bastards (Director: Claire Denis)*
Jimmy P. (Director: Arnaud Desplechin)*
What Maisie Knew (Directors: Scott McGehee, David Siegel)*
The Best Offer (Director: Giuseppe Tornatore), with Q&A wth Giuseppe Tornatore and Geoffrey Rush*
Viola (Director: Matías Piñeiro)*
Blancanieves (Director: Pablo Berger)*
Coming Forth by Day (Director: Hala Lotfy)*
Tower (Director: Kazik Radwanski)*
Wadja (Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour)*
Le Joli Mai (Director: Chris Marker)*
*MIFF related posts: Pepe and the finely dressed felines of Paris; Tragedy and delight in equal measure; And lo! the MIFF 2013 homeward dash; Fables and poems; and In 17 days, we've seen 6,030 minutes of footage

JULY
Jîn (Director: Reha Erdem)*
Cutie and the Boxer (Director: Zachary Heinzerling)*
The Attack (Director: Ziad Doueiri)*
differently, Molussia (Director: Nicolas Rey)*
Tenderness (Director: Marion Hänsel)*
Closed Curtain (Director: Jafar Panahi)*
Museum Hours (Director: Jem Cohen)*
For Those in Peril (Director: Paul Wright)*
Closed Curtain (Director:Jafar Panahi)*
Museum Hours (Director: Jem Cohen)*
For Those in Peril (Director: Paul Wright)*
Like Father, Like Son (Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda)*
Final Cut — Ladies and Gentlemen (Director: György Pálfi)*
The Spirit of '45 (Director: Ken Loach)*
Michael H Profession: Director (Director: Yves Montmayeur)*
Omar (Director: Hany Abu-Assad)*
The Daughter (Director: Thanos Anastopoulos)*
The Patience Stone (Director: Atiq Rahimi)*
Grisgris (Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)*
Mood Indigo (Director: Michel Gondry)*
Passion (Director: Brian de Palma)*
Bends (Director: Flora Lau)*
Tokyo Family (Director: Yôji Yamada)*
Libri: six centuries of Italian books from the Baillieu Library's Speacial Collections, Leigh Scott Gallery, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne
The Great Gatsby (Director: Baz Luhrmann)
A Parliament of Lines: Aspects of Scottish Contemporary Drawing, RMIT Gallery
A Room Without A View: Gosia Wlodarczak, RMIT Gallery
A Head In A Hive of Bees: Selected Drawings by Peter Ellis, RMIT Gallery
*MIFF related posts: Quickly now, we're twelve films in already and And so we are at twenty in the quiet of it all

JUNE
Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake, The Australian Ballet, State Theatre
Vanguard, The Australian Ballet, The State Theatre (seen twice)
You ain't seen nothin' yet (Director: Alain Renais)

MAY
The Royal Ballet's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (on film)
Fiona Hall: Big Game Hunting, Heide III
Siri Hayes: Back to Nature Scene, Heide III
Albert Tucker and non-Western Art, Heide III
Collage: The Heide Collection, Heide II
Partenope, Opera Australia, The State Theatre

APRIL
Aida, Opera Australia, The State Theatre
The Other Son (Director: Lorraine Lévy)
Hudson on Hyde (Director: Roger Michell)
Skypetrait: Transcontinental Faces, RMIT Project Space/Spare Room

MARCH
Monster Body, Atlanta Eke, Dancehouse
[Gu:t] 굿, Soo Yeun You, The Malthouse
Don Quixote, The Australian Ballet, The State Theatre (seen twice)
247 Days, Chunky Move, Malthouse
Dance for the time being — Southern Exposure, Russell Dumas, Dancehouse
Radiance: Neo-Impressionists, NGV
Life Support, Ashley Dyer, Dancehouse
Dual, Stephanie Lake, Arts House, Meat Market
Corporeal — a print exchange folio, Geelong Gallery
Nick Mount — the fabric of work, Geelong Gallery

FEBRUARY
North by Northwest (Director: Alfred Hitchcock)
Michel Blazy's Bouquet final 2, as part of White Night Melbourne 2013, NGV International
Ballet & Fashion, NGV International
Rally: Contemporary Indonesian Art, Jompet Kuswidananto & Eko Nugroho, NGV International
The Art of Science: Remarkable natural history illustrations from Museum Victoria, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Vision Splendid: Landscapes of Phillip Island and Western Port, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Robert Wade: The Call of the Coast, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery

JANUARY
Rituals of Seduction: Birds of Paradise, Melbourne Museum
Containment: 2012 Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV
Thrown: Studio Ceramics from the Kenneth Hood Bequest, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV
Negotiating this world: Contemporary Australian Art, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV
Phil Elverum, Six Real Ghosts, Chapter House Lane
Hitchcock (Director: Sacha Gervasi)
Quartet (Director: Dustin Hoffman)

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{Detail from the artists' book All that's bewitching by the water (Capri), 2012.}