The Lunchbox is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival You can grab tickets here. “Sometimes the wrong train can take you to the right destination.” It is impossible to imagine some of our contemporary Hollywood screen “overaged loverboy’s” such as Mel Gibson in What Women Want, Jack Nicholson in Something’s gotta Give or Woody […]
Category Archives: Film Reviews
July
01
Tim’s Vermeer – Penn and Teller and a colourful hobby. (SFF Film review)
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Tim’s Vermeer is currently showing at the Sydney Film festival You can grab your tickets here Penn and Teller are a pair of rather unpleasant professional “skeptics” who have made careers out of, first being magicians and tricking everyone, and second making a television show that cites everyone who opposes their conservative, capitalist agenda as […]
June
24
20 Years Ago Today – The Lion King or Ferris Bueller takes over Kenya. (Film Review)
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In researching this post I watched The Lion King again, one of those films that has always seen me out of step with contemporary film culture because I just don’t get it, primarily due to its horrible xenophobia and its creepy Bambi meets Hamlet meets Moses meets Joseph with white impressions of “black” culture and […]
June
16
21 Jump Street – Phillip Lord and Christopher Miller on how to get guns into schools. (Film Review)
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What saved 21 Jump Street from being a total yawn fest, was the great one liners and the surprise appearance of Channing Tatum as something other than beefcake (comic beefcake) who has good timing. The first 21 Jump Street was loaded with the exaggerated praise reserved for this sort of fan-boy film worship of macho-ism […]
June
15
Concerning Violence – Göran Hugo Olsson and the trouble at our door. (SFF Film Review)
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Concerning Violence is now showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can grab your tickets here. “And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover […]
June
15
Fell – Kasimir Burgess lost in the woods. (SFF Film Review)
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Fell is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival You can grab your tickets here, on on line. The second Australian feature premiered at this festival to convey emotional narrative through image (and I have yet to see The Rover, which looks like more of the same), often stills, using minimal dialogue and relying on […]
June
14
Eastern Boys – Robin Campillo moves power around a room. (SFF Film Review)
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Eastern Boys is now showing at the Sydney Film Festival You can grab your tickets here. Robin Campillo can be relied upon to make statements about social class, integration and exploitation in each of his films, but what makes him so interesting is the indirect route his story telling will take, which gives the viewer […]
June
11
Abuse of Weakeness – Catherine Breillat and the solitary female creative. (SFF Film Review)
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Abuse of Weakness is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can grab your tickets here. Abuse of Weakness opens with pure, crisp white bed sheets, the movement of a body beneath them. the camera pans up on Isabelle Huppert as she is waking from her sleep. Her left arm reaches for her right, […]
June
10
Joe – David Gordon Green goes heavy on the symbolism. (SFF Film Review)
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Joe is now showing at the Sydney Film Festival You can grab your tickets here. There is something quite off about this film. Is it the contrived attempts by David Gordon Green to enlist “locals” to include “authenticity” only to line by line direct them out of any sort of naturalism? Is the pointless acts […]
June
09
Is the man who is tall happy – Michel Gondry animates Noam Chomsky. (SFF Film Review)
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Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy? is showing at the Sydney Film Festival You can grab your tickets here. Sycophantism seems to be at the base of Michel Gondry’s examination of Noam Chomsky, one of the most famous contemporary intellectuals of our current age in his film Is the Man who is Tall Happy? […]
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