Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Sweeter than BARBIE, SUGAR AND STARS is a ragout to riches story.
Well, more a story about just desserts.
Blasting the cliché like Oppenheimer’s contraption that most males dream of being an astronaut or a fireman when they grow up, …
One of the delicacies in the smorgasbord of cinema that is the Saxo Scandinavian Film Festival is COPENHAGEN DOES NOT EXIST (København findes ikke), a complex psychological drama about the power of memories, in which a young man agrees …
‘twas Ava Gardener who famously, albeit apocryphally, stated that Melbourne was the ideal place to film the end of the world.
In 1959, it was something Barry Humphries might have said. Ironically, Barry appears in the marvellous documentary, THE …
How many mini masterpieces can Mia Hansen-Løve make? Following on from last year’s Bergman Island, she has made ONE FINE MORNING, one fine movie, indeed.
Fine writing, fine casting, fine film making all round, ONE FINE …
You don’t have to be Spanish to appreciate the feast of film at this year’s Spanish Film Festival. Indeed, not all the films are Spanish, although they are in variations of the language.
Consider the Argentinian true crime story, A …
Driving Miss Doozey is probably whizzing in the mind of Parisian cabbie, Charles when he accepts a fare from nonagenarian, Madeleine.
From the get go, Charles’ reluctance is palpable but he needs the do-re-me as primary breadwinner for his darling …
Pedestrian.
THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY, like its subject, is a rather pedestrian affair, plodding, padded and hardly fleet of foot.
Recently retired, Harold Fry is content to fade quietly into the background of life. Harold occupies a house …
Loan shark or benefactor?
Dave Fishwick has made a fortune furnishing vans in Burnley, formerly one of Northern England’s boom towns, now a boondocks backwater of Britain.
Dave, through a combination of hustle and hard work, has done well for …
Nerve wracking, nail biting, spine chilling, breath holding, heart pumping, pulse quickening – NOVEMBRE is a perfect anatomical model of a suspense film.
NOVEMBRE begins like a spy flick, then quickly morphs into a sensational police procedural.
From a Middle …
A relocated researcher becomes an accidental Miss Marple in Joan Sauers’ debut thriller, ECHO LAKE.
The Southern Highlands becomes a Midsommer like locale when recently divorced historian Rose McHugh moves down from Sydney, buys a cottage, engages in a bout …