This week on Rialto Channel catch skateboarding documentary All This Mayhem, as well as the Irish black comedy Calvary staring Brendan Gleeson. 

This week on Rialto Channel catch skateboarding documentary All This Mayhem, as well as the Irish black comedy Calvary staring Brendan Gleeson.

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Screening: Thursday 18^th June, 8.30pm 

Director Paul Crowder takes us on a journey through the history of Formula 1 car racing, and it’s evolution over the years in his 2013 documentary 1. It’s a thrilling and tragic story told with honesty by the men who made it so; Jackie Stewart, Emerson Fittipaldi, Mario Andretti, Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill, Niki Lauda and others. Not only does it feature an impressive cast of former and current Formula 1 drivers, it also features an excellent collection of archival footage and images. Some, including the crashes that killed Jochen Rindt and Roger Williamson are hard to watch, while others explain why these men risk their lives in order to be the fastest man on earth. Die-hard fans will be familiar with many of these stories, but they’re engagingly told and still worth reliving.

All This Mayhem
Screening: Friday 19^th June, 8.30pm 

Leading Australian filmmaker Eddie Martin’s latest documentary, All This Mayhem is a gut wrenching rollercoaster ride that follows the tight knit Pappas brothers from the North Western suburbs of Melbourne to America, where they fulfilled their ambition to “smash Tony Hawk” and become the number one and two skateboarders in the world. Tas and his younger brother Ben made a name for themselves on and off the skate ramp with their wild, full throttle approach to life, but the more successful they became, the more life began to unravel. Fuelled by a furious drug addiction and undiagnosed mental illness Tas’s life descended into a spiral of drugs, crime and violence that ultimately ended in jail. A brutally honest and revealing documentary, All This Mayhem is not your average skate flick, it’s an unbelievable, tragic family drama.

Calvary
Screening: Saturday 20^th June, 8.30pm 

This is the second collaboration from indie Irish filmmaker John Michael McDonagh and actor Brendan Gleeson. After working together on crime flick The Guard, Calvary is the second film in their “suicide trilogy” they’re working on, and once again it’s a bitingly funny black comedy set in rural Ireland. The film immediately grabs your attention kicking off in a catholic confessional where a mysterious person informs Father James (Gleeson) that in a week’s time he is going to kill him in retribution for the horrible sexual abuse he suffered as a boy at the hands of a now deceased priest. Needless to day, it makes for a pretty tough week for Father James. Calvary is a clever film that encompasses weighty moral issues, black humour and a western like showdown. John Michael McDonagh summed it up nicely by saying, “The film is dark and heavy, but I think it’s also entertaining - in the same way that Nick Cave is entertaining with his murder ballads.”