Miss Violence is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival You can buy your tickets here You know when Leonard Cohen’s ‘Dance me to the end of Love’ is played at a young girls eleventh birthday party that it’s not a good sign. Miss Violence starts with a young girl at her own family party, […]
Category Archives: Film Reviews
June
08
Miss Violence – Alexander Avranas and the horror of family. (SFF Film Review)
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June
08
Touch – Christopher Houghton and the power of image. (SFF Film Review)
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Touch is now showing at the Sydney Film Festival You can grab your tickets here It is difficult to talk about Touch as a film because there is a terrific twist part way through that is genuinely difficult to see coming, so one is left sort of floundering in the first parts of the film, […]
June
07
The Possibilities are Endless – Edwyn Collins up from the deep. (SFF Film Review)
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The Possibilities are Endless is now showing at The Sydney Film Festival You cab grab your tickets here. As with his music, it is useless to expect something mainstream and inspirational in the documentary about Edwyn Collins’ journey from the depths of his immediate and shocking coma to the man back on stage today. This […]
June
06
Omar – Hany Abu-Assad and contemporary psychological warfare. (SFF Film Review)
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Omar is now showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can grab your tickets here. “As long as you don’t talk, they can’t sentence you. But listen closely, if you do confess, they will break your will, make you dependent, and turn you into a collaborator, so watch it. Never become a collaborator. There’s no […]
June
05
The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq – Guillaume Nicloux and the joy of the human. (SFF Film Review)
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The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can grab your tickets here. The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq is an odd film, difficult to categorise, very funny and very dark as it paints a picture of a very bleak vision of democracy, where kidnapping a celebrity and holding them […]
June
05
For Those Who Can Tell No Tales – Jasmila Žbanić gives a voice to the silenced. (SFF Film Review)
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For Those Who Can Tell No Tales is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can Purchase tickets here. I saw Kym Vercoe’s play, Seven Kilometers North East, and was so moved, I jumped at the opportunity to see the film inspired by that play, For Those Who Can Tell No Tales. The film […]
June
04
Fair Game – Doug Liman and left wing angst. (Film Review)
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I don’t think I can call Fair Game a particularly great film, probably more of a guilty pleasure because I share its very obvious point of view, but as far as those films made in the post 9/11 backlash against Bush go, it’s a huge improvement on genre contributors such as Home of the Brave, […]
June
04
Swingers – Doug Liman starts out strong. (Film Review)
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The Swing Revival was a relatively short period, really hitting its stride around 1995, but kind of petering out by the time the new century blew in. I was dating a guy at the time who kept wanting me to go with him to ceroc dancing lessons, and I confess, I thought he was mad. […]
June
03
Edge of Tomorrow – Doug Liman and what goes around comes around. (Film review)
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I have to confess, I’m enjoying seeing Doug Liman getting some love at the moment. I do like his films a lot, a position I can only defend by the wishy-washy statement that his films always entertain me and never offend me, which (I guess) does make him stand out in the crowd. By no […]
June
01
Only Lovers Left Alive – Jim Jarmusch and the dark Eden. (Film Review)
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Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive, a film that is so pathologically cool it practically argues for it as a brand of aestheticism, is the current manifestation of Jarmusch’s ongoing relationship between his artistic self (The Artist) and his heritage as an American, which he claims to be made up of a collection of […]
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