Nerve is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can grab your tickets here. Nerve was filmed in fourteen days, which is quite remarkable given it’s real problem is pacing and script. It’s a rather beautiful film, but the writing kills it which means it’s unlikely to find any sort of mainstream release. It’s […]
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June
15
Nerve – Sebastien Guy at the very start of something. (Sydney Film Festival Film Review)
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June
15
Upstream Color – Shane Carruth asks who are we when “it” takes over? (Sydney FF Film Review)
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Upstream Color is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can get your tickets here. I haven’t seen Shane Carruth’s Primer as yet, but its high on my must see list after watching Upstream Color. This is a film right up my alley – challenging, complex, obtuse and arty. Carruth is a fiercely intelligent […]
June
15
The Bling Ring – Sophia Coppola and the cult of celebrity. (SFF Film Review)
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“At her lawyer’s office, a week before her arraignment, Neiers denied any involvement in the burglaries. “I’m a firm believer in Karma,” she said, “and I think this situation was attracted into my life because it was supposed to be a huge learning lesson for me to grow and expand as a spiritual human being. […]
June
14
World War Z – Brad Pitt and Marc Forster show us it’s cool to be PC (Film Review)
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As far as end of the world genre pics, you could do a lot worse than World War Z which isn’t saying much for it, but remains true none the less. This is a fast paced scary thrill ride of a film that will probably make a lot of money despite its budget of two […]
June
13
Frances Ha – Noah Baumback grows a heart and cires “Look at my girlfriend!” (Sydney Film Festival Film Review)
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Frances Ha is now showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can get your tickets here. Frances Ha is a film that is loved, loved and then loved, most of all for Gerwig’s performance, which is spellbinding. This is probably the best film to show off her talents to date – and she did write […]
June
12
Oh Boy – Jan Ole Gerster tells us to say goodbye to a certain type of Berlin. (Sydney Film Festival Film Review)
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Oh Boy is showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can get your tickets here. There is an amazing combination – Tom Schillings face, Jan Ole Gerster‘s love of Berlin, the music of the Major Minors and the dotted cameos of famous German actors – that goes into making Oh Boy more than just another […]
June
11
Final Cut Ladies and Gentlemen – György Pálfi and the film of 500 films. (Sydney FF Film Review)
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Final Cut Ladies and Gentlemen is showing at the Sydney Film Festival. There is a new film nerd heaven. It is the product of three years in the editing room and the chopped up scenes of five hundred passionately loved films. It is the film that crowns György Pálfi as the ultimate film nerd, but […]
June
11
White Elephant – Pablo Trapero and the snapshot of the now. (Sydney FF Film Review)
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White Elephant is showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can get your tickets here. In our current global cultural discourse, it’s difficult to talk about priests without subtext. Yet not every priest can solve the problems of Catholicism, just as Priests have not been able to solve the problems of the world they engage with. The […]
June
10
The Search for Emak Bakia – Oskar Alegria and the search for the clown within. (SFF Film Review)
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The Search for Emak Bakir is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can get your tickets here. “This creation is offered by one individual to another, to you, who are here.” Man Ray “Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.” Man Ray You don’t have to see Man Ray’s surrealist existential masterpiece […]
June
09
Enron – Louise Fischer and the tragedy of the smartest guys in the room. (Theatre review)
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Louise Fischer has taken a rather interesting gamble in bringing the 2009 Lucy Prebble play Enron to Australian shores. Or rather, given our passion for British humour is as much a part of our genetic makeup as our suspicion for American humor is, she made what we might call a calculated risk – something the […]
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