Blocking. It doesn’t get talked about much, but it’s very important – and Sara Colangelo knows what she’s doing. Increasingly obsessing over one of her students Jimmy (Parker Sevak), kindergarten teacher Lisa (Maggie Gyllenhaal) involves […]
Category: Festivals
THE PRINCE OF NOTHINGWOOD
Chomping scenery in each and every scene, the subject of The Prince of Nothingwood despite this feature film treatment remains strangely elusive. The chronicling of the current and historic exploits of prolific Afghani low-budget filmmaker-actor […]
SAMUI SONG
You probably saw that coming, but it won’t matter. Thai filmmaker Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s latest could laxly be described as Dial M for Murder railroaded by a comedy of errors, but that wouldn’t ascribe much to […]
FILMWORKER
A film about film obsessives for one in the same, Filmworker offers a portrait of the one and only Stanley Kubrick that is, as elusively as just about any of the master’s output, a portrait […]
AGA
Aga is first and foremost and in more than one respect a beautiful film. Set in some of the northernmost reaches of the globe, couple Nanook and Sedna, absent their daughter who long since left […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E24: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL
Where we fight about the many, many, many films we’ve seen at the Sydney Film Festival and what you should see with 2SER 107.3 Producer Stephen Hill – Wednesdays 7:30PM on 2SER and […]
PRODUCER/EDITOR VESELKA KIRYAKOVA AND DIRECTOR MILKO LAZAROV ON AGA
Producer/Editor Veselka Kiryakova and Director Milko Lazarov, who are out from Bulgaria for the Australian premiere of their new film, chat all things Aga which is screening tonight and throughout this week as […]
WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE
What Keeps You Alive almost had the confidence in it’s premise to pull it off. Married couple Jackie (Hannah Emily Anderson) and Jules (Brittany Allen – It Stains the Sands Red), venture out to Jackie’s […]
THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST
Part jarring, part funny, part derivative and at times a curious jumble of all three – The Miseducation of Cameron Post has a lot going for it. Following the co-habitation of several involuntary, and complicit […]
PIERCING
Putting us on a pile of rugs and ripping them all away, Piercing is having no go of the expected. Obsessed with, well, piercing, only the more fatal kind, husband and father Reed (Christopher Abbott), […]
YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE
All the pieces did well to come together for this one. Hired muscle, vigilante, however you want to look at him Joaquin Phoenix’s Joe is a figure to be reckoned with who’s all about the […]
BEIRUT
Not even trying to be too realistic, your thriller of the week has taken a trip to the Middle East. Flash US diplomat Mason Skiles (Jon Hamm), ten years following a tragic end to his […]
SEARCHING
Before anyone says anything – we’re already looking at screens all day. Taking place entirely on Skype, Messenger, Chat, Youtube, YouCast and anything that shows up on your laptop, a worried father (John Cho) searches […]
THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS
As curious as it is frequently infuriating, Three Identical Strangers takes its fascinating subject(s) to altogether captivating places. An incredulous true story that you could dismiss had it turned up in the fiction shelves, three […]
JIRGA
Defying stylistic convention as that which would typically be associated with parts of rural Afghanistan, Jirga is a tricky one. Returning to Afghanistan and the site of a fateful raid following a three-year absence, a […]
TOWER. A BRIGHT DAY
Sometimes, subtlety doesn’t actually help. A family reunion in a small Polish village isn’t your usual setting for the surreal or supernatural. When a long-since absent sister returns to her siblings and ailing mother, things […]
THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE
It took decades to get this film to theatres; the finished product, as much as Terry Gilliam’s perseverance, is as strong a reminder as any of why we watch movies, and always will. Ad-man and […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E23: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL
Where we fight about everything we’ve seen at the Sydney Film Festival and everything you should see with the Film in Revolt crew – Wednesdays 7:30PM on 2SER and Sundays 12-1PM during the […]
THE SEEN AND UNSEEN
Most stories are better without a sledgehammer to drive it’s point home, though subtlety doesn’t always help. Set in rural Bali, 10 year-old Tantri, contending with her gravely ill twin brother who is no longer […]
DON’T WORRY HE WON’T GET FAR ON FOOT
The presence of the ever-talented Joaquin Phoenix is enough to recommend a movie, even this one. Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far on Foot, Gus Van Sant’s biopic of Oregon cartoonist John Callahan who passed […]
