“Our Festival is perfectly positioned soon after the Toronto and London film festivals so we’re able to really get the latest in British films and the best that are available.” British Film Festival Curator Kim Petalas […]
Author: Glen Falkenstein
Glen produces film, theatre and television news, reviews and commentary for a number of outlets, covering Festivals, interviews and events.
Glen lives in Sydney where he enjoys making short films.
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THE ACCOUNTANT – THIS YEAR’S MOST ORIGINAL SUPERHERO MOVIE
It’s crazy to think that in the year of Ben Affleck’s highly-anticipated and equally disappointing Batman v Superman that a film called The Accountant would be his best superhero flick. Make no mistake – The […]
TOM FORD JOINS LIVE SYDNEY Q&A FOR NOCTURNAL ANIMALS PREVIEW
“The most important thing about film for me is substance, I don’t believe in style without substance – I think style is important to serve the characters and serve the story, but that being said […]
PASIFIKA FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR NIGEL VAGANA ON FINDING NEW WAYS TO TELL STORIES
“It’s actually the only one of its kind in the country and we searched around the world and its actually the only one of its kind.” Pasifika Film Festival Director and Rugby League legend Nigel […]
JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL CELEBRATES ITS 20TH YEAR
‘’The Festival offers all the latest films out of Japan, films that aren’t more than 18 months old, films that will have their release in Japan right before the Festival starts; in terms of being […]
INFERNO
“Oh highest virtue, you who lead me through these circles of transgression, at your will, do speak to me, and satisfy my longings.” The above exchange is from the 10th Canto of the first part […]
CAFE SOCIETY
Yes, you’ve seen it all before. Jesse Eisenberg, in a role Director Woody Allen would no doubt have played himself were he 40 years younger, moves to Hollywood in the guise of New York-native Bobby […]
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN
I’m writing this review on a train. I looked up as the carriage sped between Kings Cross and Martin Place and saw a row of houses, in this case devoid of people. Imagine if there was […]
THE FUTURE OF THE SCIFI FILM FESTIVAL
“I saw in the marketplace so many sci-fi films barely getting a release in Australia so I thought let’s switch it up.” New Festival Director and also FilmInk publisher Dov Kornits sat down to discuss […]
A NIGHT OF HORROR/FANTASTIC PLANET FESTIVAL DIRECTOR ON FINDING NEW CLASSICS
“One of my great joys is finding a film that is very new on the genre circuit or is only literally just starting the genre circuit and presenting it to an audience long ahead of […]
ANTENNA FESTIVAL DIRECTOR RICH WELCH ON THE CHANGING FACE OF DOCUMENTARIES
“For me a great film’s a great film whether its 2D or 3D or virtual reality, that doesn’t change, but the way filmmakers are telling the story does change.” Antenna Documentary Film Festival Director Rich […]
SYDNEY INDIE FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR ON NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR EMERGING FILMMAKERS
“When you come you will see films with all sorts of budgets, there are some films with about a half-a-million-dollar budget and there are some that are very independent that are made with nothing; its […]
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
The Magnificent Seven. More like, Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt. and five other guys. There’s nothing here you haven’t seen before. Except Denzel on a horse. He looks great on a horse. And Pratt. As if […]
IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO MAKE A FILM – “VIXEN VELVET’S ZOMBIE MASSACRE”
“It was kind of this communal snowball in a weird way where I was pulling all these voices together.” Following the screening of Vixen Velvet’s Zombie Massacre at this year’s Sydney Underground Film Festival, Festival […]
AAAAAAAAH!
Did a disease wipe out our collective consciousness and set us back eons on the evolutionary scale? Did we ever really develop as a species beyond a simian mentality? Are a group of people in […]
WIENER-DOG
It’s OK to laugh. Such advice proves prudent with Wiener-Dog, Todd Solondz’s sickly dark comedy about an adorable canine who flits between a motley crew of eccentric homes and owners. Unassuming and always attentive, Wiener-Dog, […]
THE MIND’S EYE
The Mind’s Eye starts out like a lot of other films. It is not like other films. Zack vagrantly wanders through the wilderness until he is set upon by two cops. Pretty standard, until he […]
DIRECTOR THORSTEN SCHUTTE ON NEW FRANK ZAPPA BIOPIC
“If you have a close look at all this material and really see him evolve over the years, a whole different Zappa emerges from the one the general public seems to know.” Filmmaker Thorsten Schutte […]
DIRECTOR BEN FERRIS ON ’57 LAWSON’
“About three years ago now, I started to have this niggling feeling that these buildings wouldn’t be around forever.” Sydney Film School Artistic Director Ben Ferris sat down to chat about his new film 57 Lawson […]
SNOWDEN
Oliver Stone just can’t help himself. Edward Snowden, the subject of Stone’s new biopic, is easily one of the most contentious figures in recent political memory. The centre of a very current debate, his fate […]
DIRECTOR ANDRES WAISSBLUTH ON ‘ELEPHANT: THE HORSE’/’UN CABALLO LLAMADO ELEFANTE’
“I decided to make a film for children and I started thinking about my childhood, my images, my fantasies, how was my childhood different – that imagery, it’s the imagery of my generation.” Chilean filmmaker […]
DIRECTOR FRANCISCO VARONE TALKS ‘ROAD TO LA PAZ’/’CAMINO A LA PAZ’
“I love comedies, I love to be able to do really funny films, making the audiences laugh is something very interesting and very difficult, but at the same time I wanted to have a serious […]
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