‘”It took a while to make, I wanted to work with the lead actress Kara Hui after I made At The End of Daybreak in 2009…. The film is tailor-made for her… she’s […]
Tag: sydfilmfest 2017
SPOOKERS DIRECTOR FLORIAN HABICHT ON THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE’S SCARIEST THEME PARK
“The people that work there, they come up with their own make-up, their own designs, their own creatures, they take real artistic ownership of it, apart from being really scary, you get chased […]
THE PARTY
The colourful personalities in The Party would make for better dinner guests than entertainment. Fusing the bottle society-comedies and Whitehall farces emblematic of Stoppard’s early output to which this effort doesn’t quite hold a candle, […]
UNA
Theatre, however powerful, often struggles to translate to film. Based on the play Blackbird, Una’s eponymous twenty-something (Rooney Mara) finally tracks down the man who abused her as a child (Ben Mendelsohn), too promising he […]
78/52
If someone asks you to name Alfred Hitchcock’s most enduring contribution to cinema, you’re probably going to say something about the shower scene in Psycho. Here’s a whole movie to tell you why. Iconic for […]
BRIGSBY BEAR
Imagine being stuck in a bunker for 25 years and your only point of pop culture reference was a bad TV show. A fish out of water in every sense, James (Saturday Night Live’s Kyle […]
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 […]
KING OF THE BELGIANS
Fusing the tried-and-trusted tropes of road movies and modern political satire, King of the Belgians offers just that bit more than the average mockumentary. Shocked by a sudden upheaval in his homeland and a declaration […]
MALIGLUTIT
You don’t need a dozen state of the art cameras to produce a good film, you just need a good place to point one. The equipment reportedly covered in sheepskin for the north-Canadian shoot […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 7: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL CLASHES
Where we fight about our Festival schedules, just which of the 295 films can’t be missed and the quickest route between Dendy Newtown and the State Theatre – join Glen Falkenstein, Chris Evans […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 6: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR NASHEN MOODLEY & WONDER WOMAN REVIEW
Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley joins us in the studio to talk this year’s premieres and line-up, and we review DC’s Wonder Woman, in cinemas now – catch the Sydney Film Festival […]
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