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 […]
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June
11
Final Cut Ladies and Gentlemen – György Pálfi and the film of 500 films. (Sydney FF Film Review)
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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
This Ain’t no Mouse Music – Chris Simon and Maureen Gosling remind us things need to be captured or they will be lost. (Sydney FF Film Review)
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This Ain’t no Mouse Music was shown at the Sydney Film Festival but has now completed its run there. There are those who consider the “capturing” of art to be a bourgeois form of colonization. Music, stories, art works and even to a lesser extent film and photography, are deeply personal creative responses that belong […]
June
08
The Act of Killing – Josh Oppenheimer brings the documentary to the forefront of film making. (Sydney FF Film Review)
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The Act of Killing is a part of the Sydney Film Festival. The Act of Killing is a history making film, a documentary that has the voltaism to genre-cross into all forms of film making and leave its mark. This is the film that Wener Herzog and Errol Morris – arguably two of the best documentary […]
June
08
Ginger and Rosa – Sally Potter and the problem with girl/women (Sydney Film Festival Film Review)
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Ginger and Rosa is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can buy tickets here. Please note, this review contains spoilers. “My dear Ginger. Can’t you be a girl for a moment or two longer? You’ll be a woman soon enough.” The casting of Elle Fanning, a twelve year old girl, as the sixteen […]
June
08
Captive Radio – Lauren Rosenfeld and the power of the human voice to reach accross the jungles of terror. (Sydney Film Festival short film review)
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Captive Radio screens on June 16 at the Sydney Film Festival. You can get tickets here. During four decades of civil conflict in Columbia, guerrillas, paramilitaries and criminal gangs have kidnapped more than 20,000 people. Most hostages are taken for ransom or political bargaining. Sometimes hostages are in captivity for many years. Remarkably, they are […]
June
07
I am Divine – Jeffrey Schwarz gives us a “What’s-not-to-love” look at the most beautiful woman in the world. (Sydney Film Festival Film Review)
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I am Divine is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can get your tickets here. “He took it to a different level. He took it to a level of anarchy.” John Waters As far as documentaries go – and I’ve seen some very well made documentaries at the Sydney Film Festival – I […]
June
06
Blackfish – Gabriela Cowperthwaite with a “just the facts” look at the dark side of SeaWolrd. (Sydney Film Festival Film Review)
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Blackfish is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can get tickets here. Gabriela Cowperthwaite is not a film maker activist. She was driven to make Blackfish after the death in 2010 of highly skilled trainer Dawn Brancheau who was killed by the orca Tilikum after one of the shows at Sea World. What […]
June
05
Dragon Girls – Inigo Westmeier and the Kung Fu girls of the Shao Lin. (Sydney Film Festival Film Review)
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Dragon Girls is showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can get tickets here. Just as the shores of India have always seemed to offer a kind of promise of transcendental new-age enlightenment to those of us who live in countries of excess, so too we have held a fetish of fascination for the rigors […]
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