Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Many critics thought Julian Barnes much too good to win the Booker Prize, but then he did, a half dozen years ago, with The Sense of an Ending.
Many thought that the book, a very internalised view of memory, …
Pablo Larrain’s picture of the larrikin poet, NERUDA, is as ambitious, ambiguous and audacious as his anti biopic, Jackie.
Man and myth, icon and hedonist, a champagne Marxist with the heart of a poet and a predilection for pulp, Larrain’s …
A dream house becomes a nightmare dwelling in J P Delaney’s uber impressive debut novel, THE GIRL BEFORE.
Stick Girl in the title these days and you’re assured a bestseller it seems, but THE GIRL BEFORE is bound to sweep …
“Makes Buckingham Palace look like a bungalow”, Lady Mountbatten opines as she surveys her new digs in THE VICEROY’S HOUSE, the latest picture to depict Partition and the creation of Pakistan.
The dwelling was designed by Lutyens and took 17 …
Above : Jack Thompson plays the silkiest of silks, Bob Myers. Featured photo- Sara West plays the gutsy main character, Lyndel.
DON’T TELL is the kind of film that makes audiences “do tell” and strong word of mouth should launch …
Australia is certainly at the arts end of the world, put on the global creative cartography by Brett Whiteley, and James Bogle’s brilliant documentary is completely deserving of Brett’s talent. WHITELEY may well be the best Australian film of …
This May Palace Cinemas once again brings the best of American independent film to Australian screens with American Essentials.
Twenty films make their Australian premiere at the three-week festival, celebrating the latest indie treasures in narrative feature and documentary, …
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? meets The Stepford Wives in this creepy anthropological and psychological sleeper hit.
Like Sidney Poitier, Daniel Kaluuya’s Chris is invited by his white girlfriend to meet the folks. Like Spencer Tracey and Katherine Hepburn, …
The original title for Anne Fontaine’s THE INNOCENTS was Agnus Dei, or Lamb of God.The Holy Ovine who is supposed to take away the sins of the world, God’s gamboller who will grant peace and mitigate mercy.
The film is …
My Mum’s mantra about modern movies is “Why don’t they make films like they used to?”
Well, guess what, Mum? They still do.
At least Lone Scherfig’s latest film, THEIR FINEST, is about how they made films back in the …