All Night Cine-Love In

Overview

For 12 days in June, the Sydney Film Festival wants you to watch as many movies as possible — as the massive event does every year. For more than nine hours on Saturday, June 8, it specifically wants you to stay in one cinema and catch flicks all night. Love films? Hate sleep? Then make a date with SFF's All Night Cine-Love In.

Movie marathons that take you from one day to the next are rarity on the fest's program, so this all-night affair is already something special. And then there are the four films that'll be keeping your eyelids open: David Lynch's sublime, surreal and stranger directorial debut Eraserhead; controversial Japanese erotic drama In The Realm of the Senses; O Lucky Man!, starring Malcolm McDowell and directed by Lindsay Anderson; and a whole heap of John Waters-helmed fun with Female Trouble.

Each of the above flicks was picked by SFF's Programs Manager Jenny Neighbour, with the Cine-Love In marking her 30th year at the festival. To celebrate the occasion, she has chosen movies that shaped and changed her perspective on cinema — and she's hoping they'll do the same to yours.

Break out the caffeine and order a whole heap of popcorn, because buying a ticket to this event — for $49 — means booking into all four films. The marathon kicks off at 10pm at Dendy Newtown, running through until 7.30am the next day.