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Tim Burton Film Retrospective

• Pee Wee's Big Adventure
• The Fox and the Hound
• Edward Scissorhands
• Big Fish
• Ed Wood
• Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Planet of the Apes
• Batman Returns
• James and the Giant Peach
• Mars Attacks!
• Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
• Beetlejuice
• Sleepy Hollow
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Sweeney Todd
• Alice in Wonderland

Fridays, selected Thursdays, Sunday matinees and Kids' Flicks sessions until 10th October 2010. Please visit ACMI for screening times.

Tim Burton: The Exhibition

The exhibition follows the course of Burton’s career, with childhood ephemera, juvenilia, and amateur short films from his youth in Burbank, California; cartoons and drawings from his time at California Institute of the Arts; and examples of his first professional work at The Walt Disney Studios.

Burton’s artistic output includes shorts Vincent (1982) and Frankenweenie (1984); and 15 feature films including Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Batman Returns (1992), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Mars Attacks! (1996), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Planet of the Apes (2001), Big Fish (2003), The Corpse Bride (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Sweeney Todd (2007) and Alice in Wonderland (2010).

Free Sunday Talks at ACMI

Scoring a Story (Unclassified 15+)

In film, music often speaks in ways which its characters cannot. The composer’s role is to really ‘score’ the emotions of a story by creating the sounds and tone of a world. For many directors, like Tim Burton, this creative collaboration with a composer is crucial. Dale Cornelius has been writing music for Film and Television for the last 17 years to much acclaim. From Mary and Max to Till Human Voices Wake Us, Dale’s diverse and accomplished soundscapes have been described as ‘stunning’ and ‘hauntingly beautiful’. This talk provides a rare opportunity to hear about how sounds and music are created and produced to tell a story, to evoke a feeling, and to show us the presence or absence of beauty. Hosted by writer and broadcaster Richard Watts

Free Sunday Talks at ACMI

Creating The Grimstones (Unclassified 15+)

The Grimstones is the creation of Deaf Circus performer turned puppeteer Asphyxia. Since its Melbourne launch mid 2008 The Grimstones - Hatched has toured Australia constantly to rave reviews. In this magical Gothic fairytale about the Grimstone family, there is a girl who reads dreams, a baby boy with three legs, a mother who sews garments lined with warmth and joy, and a grandfather who heals people with his magical concoctions. Join Asphyxia, who will take us behind the scenes of this beautiful and dark production, and find out about how Tim Burton has influenced her own work. Hosted by writer and broadcaster Richard Watts.