Whether you're the kind of person who picks apart film adaptations of graphic novels/comics and bangs on about the lack of depth/truth of the protagonist, or the kind who's wiling to just watch Spiderman and enjoy it for the babefest, GoMA's Drawn To Screen film program have the film for you.
Drawn To Screen features films from genres spanning almost a century's worth of film adaptions. From conventional Marvel-ish genres and everyone's favourite superheros (Batman, Spiderman etc), to autobiographical comic-cum-animation Persepolis which explores Marjane Satrapi's experience of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
They've got the golden oldies like Blondie and Footrot Flats. They're showing Australian content like The Kid Stakes - an Australian silent from from 1921 Sydney Nicholls' comic which deals with the foibles of a kid and his pet goat. They've got Daniel Clowes, Kevin Smith and Harvey Pekar. The Studio Ghibli's, Japanese cult horror, biopics like Gainsbourg and the just plain strange (cue Barbarella). And if you want to know more about the life of the comic book artist, they're even showing documentaries on legends like Robert Crumb, Alan Moore and (not the bad seed) Warren Ellis. Whatever you're genre, it's hard to pick apart this comprehensive retrospective. See you in the cool dark cinema,
WHERE
GoMA Cinematheque, Stanley Place, South Brisbane
WHEN
Program starts Fri Jan 6 and runs til Sun Mar 4
WIN
Thanks to GoMA, we have 3 5-film passes to give away! To enter, email
brisbane.win@thethousands.com.au with the subject line 'Super Ray is real!'
