It’s one thing to be knocked off your feet by a top horror flick, it’s another entirely to find out they shot it down the road from your childhood home. Set in a quiet suburban […]
Tag: australian cinema
THAT’S NOT ME
Sometimes all you need is a good lead and a good idea. Wannabee actress Polly Cuthbert (Alice Foulcher) has to deal with the newfound on-screen success of her identical twin sister (also, Alice Foulcher). Constantly […]
ELLIPSIS
It’s the Sydney Film Festival – you’d expect there to be at least one love-letter to the city. Conceived, rehearsed and shot in less than two weeks, anyone traipsing between Festival venues will recognise any […]
WE DON’T NEED A MAP
We Don’t Need A Map chronicles Thornton’s exploration, amongst other reflections on Australian society, on that most fairly contentious of symbols the Southern Cross. Himself a subject of controversy for previously positing the perspective, […]
JURASSIC PARK MEETS ET: DIRECTOR MATT DRUMMOND TALKS ‘MY PET DINOSAUR’
“It’s been likened to some of those films from the ’80s in terms of its look and appearance. That’s something that I set out to do in the sense of trying to capture some of […]
LION
This one’ll get ya – right in the feels. Titled Lion, though you won’t know why until the very end, Director Garth Davis’ latest is based on the true story of Saroo Brierley (played by […]
LA LA LAND LEADS OSCAR NOMINATIONS IN GROUNDBREAKING YEAR
And the nominations are in! Capping off an impressive awards season, La La Land leads the pack with 14 nods including Best Picture, equalling the record set by All About Eve (1950) and matched by […]
OSCARS BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM COMPETITION HEATS UP
Yes, it’s almost that time of year again. Now that Leonardo DiCaprio has finally won an Oscar it’s game-on for any previously shunned blockbuster-magnet turned art-house darling who’s keen to take home gold. With Loving, […]
INAUGURAL WINDA FILM FESTIVAL SCREENS IN SYDNEY
The inaugural Winda Film Festival, described as a ‘cinematic dreamtime from around the world… (giving) voice to a diverse global Indigenous film community” will open tonight in Sydney. Screening a series of features, documentaries and […]
A BREATH OF FRESH AIR – TASMANIAN FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR OWEN TILBURY ON WHAT MAKES BOFA SPECIAL
“It’s exciting being part of something that big that’s at the same time so immersive… Our mainland guests in particular and for that matter people outside Launceston love the fact that they come here, turn […]
‘SPIN OUT’ DIRECTOR TIM FERGUSON ON KEEPING IT SIMPLE
Doug Anthony All Stars veteran and now Director Tim Ferguson, fresh off the release of his first feature Spin Out explains the genesis of the new rural-set Aussie comedy, describing the rev-heavy production as a […]
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 […]
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 […]
“THE WORLD’S WORST FILMMAKER” HAS SHUT DOWN A SCREENING AT A SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL
Watching a movie about the “worst film ever made” sounds like a terrible idea… but is it so terrible that it’s actually good? Unfortunately, audiences at the Sydney Underground Film Festival won’t get the chance […]
EMO THE MUSICAL
Emo The Musical, as its title might suggest, likes to make fun of things. Emos. Public schools. Awkward teenagers. Religious groups. Really, really dark music. They all get a skewing in this quirky, original Australian […]
KILLING GROUND
Silence is golden for a good horror film. Killing Ground isn’t the first shocker to be filmed in the isolation of the Australian bush, and based on the success of the formula, deployed to no […]
PROOF
“It’s a beautiful film, it’s an absolutely beautiful film. I felt like I was almost watching another person that’s how long ago it was.” Proof star Hugo Weaving joined Margaret Pomeranz and the crew of […]
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL CLOSING NIGHT GALA AND AWARDS
The 63rd annual Sydney Film Festival concluded tonight, with the 2016 Sydney Film Prize going to Kleber Mendonca Filho for Brazilian drama ‘Aquarius,’ the Jury favourite out of the 12 entries in this year’s official […]
DESTINATION ARNOLD
Many films have chronicled the bodybuilding champs and tournaments, most famously in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ’77 hit Pumping Iron. Relocating the action to Redfern and Newtown, Destination Arnold centres on Tash and Kylene, two local Indigenous […]
KYLENE ANDERSON TALKS ‘DESTINATION ARNOLD’
“I started because I wanted to take it to the extreme and see how far I could go.” Competing in the Arnolds – an amateur bodybuilding competition recently held in Australia for the […]
GIRL ASLEEP
A film that will inevitably be compared to the collective works of Lewis Carroll and Wes Anderson, this accomplishedly charming and distinctly-styled Australian comedy recommends itself all on its own. Greta (Bethany Whitmore in a […]
DIRECTOR ROSEMARY MYERS AND PRODUCER JO DYER ON ‘GIRL ASLEEP’
Australian comedy ‘Girl Asleep’ has its Sydney premiere at the Sydney Film Festival today. It’s a small budget, locally produced film that has gone on to tour the world and screen at the Berlinale and […]
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