Films & Performances & Exhibitions seen in 2014.

For when memory fails, this (slow) growing list is home to films (seen on the big screen at the cinema only), performances and exhibitions seen (in 2014).

DECEMBER
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Director: Peter Jackson)
Rembrandt: The Late Works, from the National Gallery London and Rijksmuseum, Exhibition on Screen (Director: Kat Mansoor)
De Anima, Brook Andrew, RMIT Design Hub
Ros Warby: Double Bill, Dancehouse
Recovery, Nat Cursio and Shannon Bott, The Substation
Verdi's Falstaff, Opera Australia, State Theatre
Artists Books I, MARS gallery

NOVEMBER
To the Left and Back Some publication launch, Blindside
The Dawn, Emily Floyd, NGV
RMIT School of Art Graduate Exhibitions, RMIT
Puccini's Tosca, Opera Australia, State Theatre
Kenneth MacMillan's Royal Ballet production of Manon, cinema relay
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gautier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, NGV International
The Bloke Show: The Print Imaging Practice Residency Exhibition 2014 curated by Jazmina Cininas, Project Space, RMIT
Transience, Dena Ashbolt, Isobel Clement, and Emmy Mavroidis, Montsalvat
Björk: Biophilia Live, ACMI
Black Swan White Swan: Monotypes & Paintings of The Australian Ballet, Debra Luccio, Steps Gallery

OCTOBER
The Hourglass Sanatorium (Director: Wojciech Has)
Hyper-Natural Scent from Design to Art, NGV International
DreamWorks Animation: The Exhibition, ACMI
Lane Charles, Charles O'Loughlin and Lane Cormick, Chapter House Lane

SEPTEMBER
POST PHASE: The Summit is Blue, Chloe Chignell and Timothy Walsh, Dancehouse, as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival
The Last Confession (starring David Suchet), The Comedy Theatre
Sir Peter Wright's The Nutcracker, The Australian Ballet, The State Theatre
The Flood, Brenda Walsh, Red Gallery
Warlayirti: The Art of Balgo and Garnkiny: Constellations of Meaning, RMIT Gallery
La Bayadère, The Australian Ballet, The State Theatre (seen not once, but twice)
Alice (Director: Jan Švankmajer), screening as part of the Czech and Sovak Film Festival, presented with Melbourne Cinémathèque
Militant Surrealism: Jan Švankmajer Shorts Part II, 1969-1992, featuring A Quiet Week in the House (1969), Leonardo’s Diary (1972), Virile Games (1988), Darkness Light Darkness (1990) and Food (1992)

AUGUST
La Bayadère, The Australian Ballet, The State Theatre (seen not once, but twice)
Faust (Director: Jan Švankmajer), screening as part of the Czech and Sovak Film Festival, presented with Melbourne Cinémathèque
Dialogue and Resistance: Jan Švankmajer Shorts Part I, 1958-2005, featuring Johanes Doktor Faust (1958), The Last Trick (1964), Dimensions of Dialogue (1982), The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (1983), The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1990) and Torchbearer (2005)
Italian Masterpieces from Spain's Royal Court, Museo del Prado, NGV
The Immigrant (Director: James Gray)*
Hard to Be a God (Trudno Byt Bogom) (Director: Alexei German)*
Black Coal, Thin Ice  (Bai Ri Yan Huo) (Director: Diao Yinan)*
Blind (Direcotr: Eskil Vogt)*
Virunga (Director: Orlando von Einsiedel)*
Mafioso (Director: Alberto Lattuada) *
Fish & Cat (Director: Shahram Mokri)*
Ne Me Quitte Pas (Directors: Sabine Lubbe Bakker, Niels van Koevorden)*
Queen & Country (Direcotr: John Boorman)*
Aunt Hilda! (Director: Jacques-Rémy Girerd, Benoît Chieux)*
Tomorrow We Disappear (Directors: Jimmy Goldblum, Adam Weber)*
Titli (Director: Kanu Behl)*
Our Sunhi (Uri Sunhi) (Director: Hong Sang-soo)*
Concrete Night (Betoniyö) (Director: Pirjo Honkasalo)*
Trespassing Bergman (Director: Hynek Pallas, Jane Magnusson)*
Jauja (Director: Lisandro Alonso)*
Fandry (Director: Nagraj Manjule)*
Hope (Director: Boris Lojkine) screening with the short film Stone Cars (Director: Reinaldo Marcus Green) *
Remote Control (Alsiin Udirdlaga) (Director: Byamba Sakhya) *
Casa Grande (Director: Fellipe Barbosa)*
Amour Fou (Director: Jessica Hausner)*
Rohmer in Paris (Director: Richard Misek)*
National Gallery (Director: Frederick Wiseman)*
Milksop, Eloise Kirk, Francesca Heinz, and Ben Terakes, Blindside
Half Finished Sentences, Brooke Ferguson, Blindside
Negative Gearing, Oscar Perry, Chapter House Lane
My Name is Salt (D. Farida Pacha)*
Joy of Man's Desiring (Que ta joie demeure) (D. Denis Côté)*
The Story of My Death (Historia de la meva mort) (D. Albert Serra)*
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey*
The Great Museum (Das Große Museum) (D. Johannes Holzhausen)*
Sepideh—Reaching for the Stars (D. Berit Madsen)*
Abuse of Weakness (Abus de Faiblesse) (D. Catherine Breillat)*
Mankamana (Directors: Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez)*
Honeymoon (Director: Jan Hřebejk)*
The Hope Factory (Director: Nataliya Meschaninova)*
Clara and the Secret of the Bears (Direcor: Tobias Ineichen)*
Goodbye to Language (in 3D) (Director: Jean-Luc Godard)*
When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (Director: Corneliu Porumboiu)*
Iranian (Director: Mehran Tamadon)*
I Hired a Contract Killer (Director: Aki Kaurismäki)*
Han Gong-Ju (Director: Lee Su Jin)*
Catch Me Daddy (Director: Daniel Wolfe)*
Masculin féminin (Director: Jean-Luc Godard)*
The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga (Director: Jessica Oreck)*
Fantasia (Director: Wang Chao)*
Antoine et Colette (Director: François Truffaut) and Father Christmas has Blue Eyes (Director: Jean Eustache)*
The Young and Prodigious TS Spivet (Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet)*
Blind Dates (Director: Levan Koguashvili)*
Epic of Everest (Director: Captain John Noel)*
Force Majeure (Director: Ruben Östlund)*
Two Days, One Night (Directors: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)*
Locke (Director: Steven Knight)*
The Salt of the Earth (Directors: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado)*
Irma Vep (Director: Olivier Assayas)*
Love is Strange (Director: Ira Sachs)*
One to Another, Emily Ferretti, Chapter House Lane
* MIFF related posts: In the theatre where films are shown for public entertainment; Picture house etiquette; MIFF's homeward dash; and Fifty-three films in seventeen days

JULY
George Balanchine's Le Palais de Cristal and Benjamin Millepied's Daphnis et Chloé, Opéra National de Paris
Keir Choreographic Award presented by Dancehouse, The Keir Foundation and Carriageworks, Program Two: Shaun Gladwell, Atlanta Eke, James Batchelor, Sarah Aiken, Dancehouse
Jila Men, Pijaju Peter Skipper and Ngarralja Tommy May, Australian Print Workshop
hesitation, Alex Achtem, Catherine Connolly, Stephen Palmer, Fiona Williams, Bus Projects
Create/Cancel, Sophie Westerman and Jamie Powell, Bus Projects
Sans Pellegrino, Brigit Ryan, Bus Projects
Keir Choreographic Award presented by Dancehouse, The Keir Foundation and Carriageworks, Program One: Matthew Day, Jane McKernan, Tim Darbyshire, Brooke Stamp, Dancehouse

JUNE
Bodytorque.DNA, The Australian Ballet, The State Theatre
Imperial Suite, The Australian Ballet, State Theatre (seen not once, but twice)
2014 Winter Night Screen Program, Brunswick Town Hall Window, Counihan Gallery
Strait Protean: The Art of Brian Robinson, Counihan Gallery
Touching Ground, Melissa Smith, Port Jackson Press Print Gallery
Chroma, The Australian Ballet, The State Theatre (seen not once, but twice)
Love Me Do: The Beatles in Australia, Arts Centre Melbourne
Spinous Process, Lee Harper, Blindside
The Power of Now, Heidi Holmes, Blindside
Continue: Three Brisbane Artists, Sarah Poulgrain, Archer Davies and Angelica Roache-Wilson, Chapter House Lane
Triggers: Craft Objects in Space and Time, Mark Edgoose, Project Space, RMIT
A Series of Small Wire Objects (many of them uninteresting), Stuart MacFarlance and Darrin Verhagen, Spare Room, RMIT

MAY
2014 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Found Exhibition, as part of Found Festival, Magdalen Laundries, Abbotsford Convent
Bizet's Carmen, Opera Australia, The State Theatre
Constellation, Inge King, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
Fashion Detective, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
Why not walk backward?, Fiona Abicare, Catherine or Kate, Tania Bruguera, Nina Beier and Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, 200 Gertrude Street
Raw Cuts, Kirpy, Port Jackson Press Print Gallery

APRIL
Verdi's Rigoletto, Opera Australia, The State Theatre
Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Opera Australia, The State Theatre
Marie Antoinette through the Notebook, Marion Manifold, Port Jackson Press Print Room
Look Deep Into Nature, Nina Magee, LWOO, Port Jackson Press Print Gallery
Displace, Andrew Tetzlaff, Counihan Gallery
Migratory Architecture, James Voller, Counihan Gallery
Frames, Riley Payne, Chapter House Lane
Kraft, Stuart Ringholt, MUMA
Walking the Merri: from Source to Confluence, Rebecca Mayo with Roseanne Bartley, Tony Birch (Writer), Caroline Henbest (Musician/ Composer), Anna Topalidou, and Ilka White, Project Space, RMIT
Fugitive Presence, Bruce Dickson, Spare Room, RMIT

MARCH
The Middle Room, Nat Cursio, as part of the Festival of Live Art 2014
Love is Blind, choreographed by Russell Dumas, Dancehouse
Manon, The Australian Ballet, The State Theatre
Ex libris — the book in contemporary art, Geelong Gallery
Chapter and verse, Geelong Gallery

FEBRUARY
Rome: Piranesi's Vision, State Library of Victoria
Melbourne Now, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
All That Glitters: Costumes from Arts Centre Melbourne's Performing Arts Collection, Arts Centre Melbourne
DEBUT X, Sarah Duyshart, Gabriella Foreman-Brown, Megan Hales, Aimee Howard, Giulia McGauran, Tom Parsons, Adam Stone, BLINDSIDE
Music, Melbourne & Me: 40 years of Mushroom and Melbourne’s Popular Music Culture, RMIT Gallery
Worm, Grant Nimmo, Chapter House Lane

JANUARY
FAB(ricated) LYF, Emma Collard, Cherie Peele and Natalie Turnbull, Blindside
Blue Jasmine (Director: Woody Allen)
The Book Thief (Director: Brian Percival)

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