Top 5 films this weekend

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Top 5 films this weekend

By Jake Wilson

THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (97 minutes) G

Ernst Lubitsch made many great films – but this 1940 "workplace comedy", set in a small Budapest gift shop, is uniquely gentle and extremely touching. James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan lead the ensemble cast as colleagues who can't stand each other in person but carry on an unknowing flirtation by post. 35-millimetre print. Astor, today, 7.30pm. Double feature with It's A Wonderful Life.

Flashback: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Jerry O'Connell and Corey Feldman in Stand By Me.

Flashback: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Jerry O'Connell and Corey Feldman in Stand By Me.

AGE OF CONSENT (103 minutes) PG

This 1969 adaptation of a novel by Norman Lindsay was the last full-length feature from the British director Michael Powell, and amounts to a final testament – lyrical, comic and affirmative. James Mason is the burnt-out painter hero who goes to live on an island off the Great Barrier Reef, with Helen Mirren as his teenage muse. 35-millimetre print. ACMI, today, 4pm. Tickets $7 or less.

MR TURNER (140 minutes) M

Timothy Spall plays the great British painter as a grunting, snorting, mostly amiable monster in Mike Leigh's biopic. More concerned with light and landscape than usual for Leigh, it's one of his most complex and unusual films – and a very personal look at what it means to to be an artist in a world with other concerns. See review on Page 13. Selected.

STAND BY ME (89 minutes) M

In 1950s Oregon, four boys aged about 12 set out on a journey into the woods in search of a dead body. Rob Reiner's 1986 adaptation of a relatively restrained Stephen King novella makes the most of King's gift for vividly vulgar dialogue as it explores the uncanny valley between childhood and adolescence. Digitally projected. Rooftop Cinema (Curtin House), today, 9.30pm.

CAT-WOMEN OF THE MOON (61 minutes) PG

Z-grade science-fiction flicks don't come much campier than this 1954 item directed by the otherwise unknown Arthur Hilton, in which the moon turns out to be populated by a group of scheming sexpots in black leotards. From the giant spider attack to the interpretative dance number, it's pretty much a hoot. 35-millimetre print. Astor, tomorrow, 7pm. Double feature with The Brain Eaters.

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