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Review – Luca Guadagnino’s “Io sono l’amore” (“I Am Love”)
05 September 2010 11:42 AM | No Comments -
Review – Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer”
15 August 2010 2:57 PM | No Comments -
Review – Sylvester Stallone’s “The Expendables”
13 August 2010 9:15 AM | No Comments -
Review – Christopher Nolan’s “Inception”
26 July 2010 4:21 PM | No Comments -
Women and the Silent Screen VI
02 July 2010 3:39 PM | No Comments -
Astor Theatre Film Festival Review – Preview of Luc Besson’s “The Professional”
21 June 2010 12:36 AM | No Comments -
Astor Theatre Film Festival Review – Preview of Martin Scorsese’s “GoodFellas”
03 June 2010 3:47 PM | No Comments -
Astor Theatre Film Festival Review – Preview of John Huston’s “The Misfits” and John Schlesinger’s “Midnight Cowboy”
21 May 2010 5:04 PM | No Comments
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Review – Fatih Akin’s “Soul Kitchen”
15 May 2010 10:12 AM | No Comments -
Review – Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland”
09 March 2010 11:47 AM | 1 Comment -
Review: “Crazy Heart”
09 March 2010 10:09 AM | No Comments -
Review – Martin Scorsese’s “Shutter Island”
22 February 2010 10:28 AM | No Comments -
Avatar: Ecodigital Wars
09 January 2010 5:16 PM | No Comments -
Review – Ruben Fleischer’s “Zombieland”
12 December 2009 10:42 AM | No Comments -
Review – Joel and Ethan Coen’s “A Serious Man”
04 December 2009 2:52 PM | No Comments -
Review – Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds”
22 August 2009 3:22 AM | No Comments
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Women and the Silent Screen VI
02 July 2010 3:39 PM | No Comments -
Human Right Arts & Film Festival, April – May 2010 – Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane
20 April 2010 10:00 AM | No Comments -
Cannes 2010 line-up
16 April 2010 10:59 AM | No Comments -
Figuring Landscapes: Moving Images from Australia and UK
01 April 2010 10:27 AM | No Comments -
Focus on Claudia Cardinale at ACMI
01 February 2010 3:47 PM | No Comments -
Silent cinema in Pordenone and Sydney
05 October 2009 1:23 AM | No Comments -
Venice Film Festival opens with Tornatore’s “Baaria”
03 September 2009 12:45 PM | No Comments -
The Paul Cox Conference
05 August 2009 1:49 PM | No Comments
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Cannes 2010 line-up
Yesterday the Cannes Film Festival announced the films in competition for the 2010 edition. It contains the usual, but interesting mix of well-known returning filmmakers, as well as some new entries, which are arriving to Cannes for the first time. Some known names in this year’s competition include films by Takeshi Kitano (Outrage), Mike Leigh [...] -
Views from the Left: Politics in Contemporary Italian Cinema
After World War II, a durable relationship developed and continued between far-left politics and Italian film making. If we rewind our minds back to prominent film figures such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luchino Visconti and Bernardo Bertolucci, or even fast forward to active film makers today such as Nanni Moretti, a trend emerges. -
Figuring Landscapes: Moving Images from Australia and UK
Figuring Landscapes is a multifaceted title. The phrase suggests the idea of forming landscape, as in ‘configure’; it suggests analysis and interpretation of landscape, as in ‘figuring out’ the subject; it could also imply peopling the landscape with figures. It thus compresses into a single phrase the making, reading, and inhabiting of landscape, which is [...] -
DVD: “The Last Days of Disco” (Criterion)
(2.5/5) This is a disco social comedy revolving around “The Club”, a New York disco space frequented by yuppies. The film is a late rework of John Hughes’ 1980′s teenager films, set in a Jay Macinerney’ s novel, with a female protagonist (Chloë Sevigny). Two college friends, Alice and Charlotte are working together in a [...] -
The Cinema of ‘God’s lonely man’: Understanding the Martin Scorsese-Robert De Niro partnership
I had the pleasure of seeing and reviewing ‘Shutter Island’ (2010) a few weeks ago at a local cinema. Whilst I was amazed at the film’s crisp cinematography and Martin Scorsese’s attempt at the psychological thriller, I was even more taken by Leonardo Di Caprio’s intense portrayal of Teddy Daniels. His performance was a throttling [...] -
DVD: 40th Anniversary Review – Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Il Conformista”
As an avid film fan, I am always thinking about films that capture me, motion pictures that have remained etched in my mind. Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1970 political-drama ‘Il Conformista’ (1970) captures, in rich cinematography, the alienation of Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant): a man who subscribes to Italy’s Fascist politics and culture by agreeing to kill [...] -
DVD: “State of Play” (Universal)
Film (3.5/5) DVD (3/5) “State of Play” is adapted by plot specialists Tony Gilroy and Matthew Michael Carnahan from the BBC 2003 television series of the same name. To directed the film has been called UK documentarist Kevin Macdonald (“Touching the Void”). The story starts with three murders, a political scandal and a journalistic rivalry [...] -
DVD: Bela Tarr’s “The Outsider” (Facets)
Film [Rating:3.5] DVD [Rating:3] “The Outsider” is the second feature film from Hungarian director Bela Tarr (“Werckmeister Harmonies”). The story is set in a small provincial town and it follows the tribulations of Andras Szabo, a young violin player and heavy drinker that has no control of his own life; he has been kicked out [...] -
DVD: Jean Renoir’s “Toni” (Eureka)
Film (4/5) DVD (4.5/5) I have recently seen the Master of Cinema critical edition of “Toni”, published by Eureka in a great DVD. The 1934 film is Renoir’s landmark entry into realist filmmaking and, through Luchino Visconti, assistant director on “Toni”, it holds its place as front-runner of Italian Neorealism. The challenge of the film was [...] -
Review – Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland”
Tim Burton’s most recent feature ‘Alice in Wonderland’ is maniacal and colourful, like the rest of his filmography. Stylistically, the film is multi-layered; it is gloomy and sinister in aesthetic. The mise en scene is unpredictable, unsettling and unhinged, much like the March Hare’s throwing antics. Whilst Burton’s Gothic, hyper-real visuals are eye-catching, the film, [...]