Austen-lite – the author’s trademark disdain for polite society is on full display in Whit Stillman’s condensed, easily consumable ode to the Bath legend’s inestimable literary canon. Any fan of Austen or Wilde alike will […]
Tag: sydney film festival 2016
LIFE, ANIMATED
Do you like Disney? Of course you do. Not as much as this guy. Diagnosed with autism early in life, Owen Suskind’s parents weren’t sure when or how they would be able to communicate again. […]
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 […]
SING STREET
“That’s a bold move. Let’s do it.” A jukebox of 80s classics with its own original songs, Sing Street aims to be a crowd-pleaser, and please it does. Theorising that forming a band is the best […]
CAPTAIN FANTASTIC
“Should I make my way out of home into the woods… too hot for the band with a desperate desire for change.” The hark-back to lyrics from ‘Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy,’ the […]
THE RED TURTLE
Strong and silent in equal measure, Studio Ghibli/Wild Bunch’s co-production The Red Turtle, notably devoid of dialogue, masterfully fills its moments with movement and an eclectic mix of sound you wouldn’t normally hear, setting a […]
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 […]
MOM AND ME
A tale as old as time – filmmaker Ken Wardrop has put the relationships between mothers and sons on full display in this contemplative and touching documentary. Setting the film in all places in what […]
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 PADDY BREATHNACH TALKS ‘VIVA’
Filmmaker Paddy Breathnach is in town for the Australian premiere of his new film ‘Viva.’ An Irish production set amidst the drag scene in Cuba, Paddy sat down to talk about ‘Viva’ which is one […]
FERDIA WALSH-PEELO AND MARK MCKENNA TALK ‘SING STREET’
Director John Carney’s new feature has its Australian premiere at the Sydney Film Festival this weekend. Chronicling a band of Irish teenagers with their own eclectic take on the greatest hits of the […]
PERSONAL SHOPPER
Kristen Stewart’s come a long way since Twilight. It’s hard to command a thriller, let alone a psychological horror that rises and falls on its central performance, in this case that of personal shopper Maureen […]
THE DEVIL’S CANDY
Getting stuck in a haunted house has never sounded so good. Australian writer/director Sean Byrne’s (The Loved Ones) The Devil’s Candy is, for the most part, fairly recognisable horror fare. There’s a spooky house where […]
DIRECTOR SEAN BYRNE TALKS “THE DEVIL’S CANDY”
Australian filmmaker Sean Byrne and Director of ‘The Loved Ones’ is back in town with his new heavy metal horror hit ‘The Devil’s Candy.’ Set in a haunted house in Texas, the film […]
PATERSON
Adam Driver is Paterson; both his moniker and that of Paterson, New Jersey where the film is set. The point is not lost, nor thankfully overstated in Director Jim Jarmusch’s delightfully introspective comedy. Paterson is […]
THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER
A lot of folks will see this film for Robert Pattinson, but they should see it for the score. It’s rare to see such exceptional pieces of music put so deftly to use. Actor Brady […]
A FISH (MUL-GO-GI)
Neo-noir meets the great unknown in this South Korean dual drama/thriller delving into the forces of mysticism and death. Lee, Professor and husband (Lee Jang-Hoon), travels far to track down his missing wife, accompanied by […]
DEMOLITION
Jake Gyllenhaal has proven time and again his deserved status as one of Hollywood’s best leading men. Coming off a commanding turn in last year’s Southpaw, Demolition doesn’t stray too far from the boxing hit’s […]
THE BFG
It’s Steven Spielberg. Doing Roald Dahl. If you’re a fan of the book it’s exactly what you were hoping for. A tall order to adapt a story like The BFG, the project would be a […]
MAHANA
When I spoke with Mahana Director Lee Tamahori earlier this week he told me that westerns were a dead genre. Mahana may not be a western, but the genre’s spirit is alive and well in […]
I SAW THE LIGHT
A mess from start to finish, I Saw The Light tries to do way too much and tells us all too little. Tom Hiddleston’s Hank Williams biopic has one saving grace and that’s its lead. […]
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