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 2012).
DECEMBER
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Director: Peter Jackson)
Louise Bourgeois: Late Works, Heide Museum of Modern Art
Louise Bourgeois and Australian Artists, Heide Museum of Modern Art
Skyfall (Director: Sam Mendes)
Paris-Manhattan (Director: Sophie Lellouche)
Black Invisibility, Marian Crawford, Port Jackson Press Print Room
Stop, Repair, Prepare..., Allora & Calzadilla, State Library of Victoria
Gusto! A Culinary History of Victoria, State Library of Victoria
NOVEMBER
The 50th Anniversary Gala, The Australian Ballet, State Theatre (seen twice!)
Return to 1942 (Director: Feng Xiaogang)
Artists as Curator: The Printmaking Residency Exhibition 2012, RMIT Project Space/Spare Room
BA (Fine Art) and BA HONS (Fine Art) Expanded Studio Practice (Drawing, Media Arts and Painting), blg. 2 & 4, RMIT City Campus
OCTOBER
You Will Be My Son (Tu Seras Mon Fils) (Director: Gilles Legrand)
Antony: Paradise, Gallery 1, The Arts Centre
Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Melbourne Recital Centre
Jazmina Cininas: Past & Present, Port Jackson Press Print Room
SEPTEMBER
Swan Lake, The Australian Ballet, State Theatre
Dreams of a Life (Director: Carol Morley)
2012 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Tour de Force: In case of emergency break glass, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Midwinter Masters: Artist & Mentor, The Gallery at Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre
Move to Move: Nederlands Dans Theater captured live in HD (Director: Jeff Tudor)
Game Masters, ACMI
Icons, The Australian Ballet, State Theatre (a second time!)
AUGUST
Icons, The Australian Ballet, State Theatre
Wuthering Heights (Director: Andrea Arnold)*
While the City Sleeps (Director: Ingmar Bergman)*
La Pirogue (Director: Moussa Touré)*
The Lion of the Moguls (Director: Jean Epstein)*
Pola X (Director: Léos Carax)*
Farewell, My Queen (Director: Benoît Jacquot)*
Neighbouring Sounds (Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho)*
The Hunt (Director: Thomas Vinterberg)*
The Intouchables (Director: Olivier Nakache)*
In the Fog (Director: Sergei Loznitsa)*
Violeta Went to Heaven (Director: Andrés Wood)*
Barbara (Director: Christian Petzold)*
Beyond (Director: Pernilla August)*
Alois Nebel (Director: Tomáš Luňák)*
NO (Director: Pablo Larrain)*
Bestiaire (Director: Denis Côté)*
Le Tableau (Director: Jean-François Laguionie)*
First Position (Director: Bess Kargman)*
Facing Mirrors (Director: Negar Azarbayjani)*
Pure (Director: Lisa Langseth)*
(Screened with Girl (Director: Fijona Jonuzi)*)
Lovers on the Bridge (Director: Leos Carax)*
Amour (Director: Michael Haneke)*
Policeman (Director: Nadav Lapid)*
A Woman’s Face (Director: Gustaf Molander)*
The Minister (Director: Pierre Schoeller)*
Two Years at Sea (Director: Ben Rivers)*
Student (Director: Darezhan Omirbayev)*
A Respectable Family (Director: Massoud Bakhshi)*
Miss Bala (Director: Gerardo Naranjo)*
War Witch (Director: Kim Nguyen)*
11 Flowers (Director: Wang Xiaoshuai)*
Bad Blood (Director: Leos Carax)*
Beyond the Hills (Director: Cristian Mungiu)*
Faust (Director: Alexander Sokurov)*
Chicken with Plums (Co-directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud)*
Shadow Dancer (Director: James Marsh)*
Almayer's Folly (Director: Chantal Akerman)*
Monsieur Lazhar (Director: Philippe Falardeau)*
Easy Money (Director: Daniel Espinosa)*
A Simple Life (Director: Ann Hui)*
Just the Wind (Director: Bence Fliegauf)*
Tabu (Director: Miguel Gomes)*
Children of Sarajevo (Director: Aida Begić)*
Ernest & Célestine (Directors: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner)*
The Faithful Heart (Cœur Fidèle) (Director: Jean Epstein)*
(Screened with The Sea of Ravens (Director: Jean Epstein)*)
The Fall of the House of Usher (Director: Jean Epstein)*
(Screened with The Three-Sided Mirror (Director: Jean Epstein)*)
Sister (Director: Ursula Meier)*
Mercy (Director: Matthias Glasner)*
The Beauty From Nivernais (La Belle Nivernaise) (Director: Jean Epstein)*
The Delay (Director: Rodrigo Plà)*
(Screened with The Hosts (Director: Miguel Angel Moulet)*)
*MIFF related posts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
JULY
We are all flesh, Berlinde De Bruyckere, ACCA
Mozart's Requiem, Orchestra Victoria and the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir, Melbourne Recital Centre
JUNE
Onegin, The Australian Ballet, State Theatre
Elena (Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev)
It's time, Emily Floyd, Australian Print Workshop Gallery
Earthlings, Marian Crawford, Techno Park Studios
Napoleon: Revolution to Empire, NGV
Let's Dance, The Australian Ballet featuring Sydney Dance Company, Australian Dance Theatre, West Australian Ballet, Queensland Ballet, Dancenorth and Expressions Dance Company, Tasdance, State Theatre
Time in Motion: 50 Years of The Australian Ballet, Arts Centre Melbourne
Smoking Gun, Shane Cotton, Anna Schwartz Gallery
Crystalise Borders, Sam Martin, Arc One Gallery
MAY
William Kentridge: Five Themes, ACMI
The Barber of Seville, Opera Australia, State Theatre
Evoke, Kate Walsh and Mary Gray, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery
Woolgather, Pia Murphy, Chapter House Lane
Fred Williams: Infinite Horizons, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
APRIL
Cut with the kitchen knife, Counihan Gallery
Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond, State Library of Victoria (including The Arts of the Book and the Diffusion of Persian Culture talk given by Charles Melville at Storey Hall, RMIT)
All Afeather, Limited Editions at the Malthouse Theatre
MARCH
Adventure & Art: The Fine Press Book from 1450 to 2011, Baillieu Library, the University of Melbourne
Hany Armanious: The Golden Thread, MUMA
Self-conscious: Contempoarary Portraiture, MUMA
The Artist (Director: Michel Hazanavicius)
This Must Be the Place (Director: Paolo Sorrentino)
FEBRUARY
The Mad Square: Modernity in German Art 1910-37, NGV
Infinity, The Australian Ballet, State Theatre (seen twice)
Venice Secrets, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Melbourne Recital Centre
Time Machine: Sue Ford, Latrobe Regional Gallery
Melrose Art Pottery, Latrobe Regional Gallery
Objets de Désir, Jan Murray, Langford 120
Zaffiro, Wilma Tabacco, Langford 120
JANUARY
The Adventures of Tintin (Director: Steven Spielberg)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Director: Guy Ritchie)
Hugo (Director: Martin Scorsese)
Amiina, Melbourne Recital Centre
Midnight in Paris (Director: Woody Allen)
Zhongjian: Midway, Latrobe Regional Gallery
(2015)
(2014)
(2013)
(Earlier things seen can sometimes be found listed in RECENTLY SEEN & READ.)
{Detail from the artists' book This is where the dormouse lives, 2012.}
