Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Opening night film of the 10th Iranian Film Festival Australia is TITI, written, produced and directed by Ida Panahandeh.
Beginning with an image that reminds one of the classic Iranian film, The White Balloon, this small gem of a picture …
A film by Ainsley Gardiner & Briar Grace-Smith, adapted from the acclaimed novel by one of New Zealand’s most prominent and celebrated Māori authors Patricia Grace, COUSINS is an intimate account of colonial cruelty clashing with Maori custom.
Mata, Missy …
The new Philistines, the giant global corporations, are not so easy to fell since the days David daringly took sling to defend and defy Goliath.
In PERCY vs GOLIATH, a successful seed sower and farmer, Percy Schmeiser has to defend …
The title of Benjamin Myers’ coruscating collection of stories, MALE TEARS is a play on words.
The tales are certainly male, muscular and masculine, but is the second word of the title, tears, as in rips or tears as in …
MINAMATA sees Johnny Depp as famed photographer, W. Eugene Smith.
Smith was internationally renowned for his striking and intimate images especially from those captured on the front lines of World War II’s Pacific campaign during which he suffered major injuries.…
It’s a shoo-in. Or should that be “shoe-in”? The most compelling reason to see this production of Theresa Rebeck’s SPIKE HEELS is Jessica Saras’ portrayal of Georgie. Bruised, embattled, beseeching, bristling and bravura, it’s a boots and all performance, delivering …
Full up to dolly’s wax with drollery, THE GODMOTHER (LA DARONNE) launched this year’s French Film Festival. Such is its general charm and universal themes, it has rightly scored a wider release.
Isabelle Huppert plays Patience, a police interpreter assigned …
Presented by Palace, the German Film Festival’s full 2021 programme has been revealed, which boasts a spectacular selection of 30 films, the best and latest in German cinema, a number of which are screening for the first time outside Germany.…
Now that the glare and tumult of the Awards season has settled down, some unremarked yet totally remarkable screen gems are coming to the cinemas.
SON OF THE SOUTH is one such gem, a jewel that belongs on the same …
Arson and Olés.
EMA starts with the startling image of a burning traffic light and ends with an enigmatic shot of an eponymous character buying a can of petrol.
Fire and its fuelling is a constant image in EMA, perhaps …