News: A Conversation with Mark Hartley
Chris Smith recently had a chat with Australian filmmaker Mark Hartley, whose fictional feature debut Patrick, a remake of the 1978 Australian film, premieres at the 2013 Melbourne International Film Festival.
MIFF 2013: Patrick (2013)
A remake of Richard Franklin’s seminal ozploitation favourite, Patrick is a visually assured fictional feature debut for director Mark Hartley, who previously examined the ozploitation subgenre with his exceptional documentary, Not Quite Hollywood.
MIFF 2013: Outrage Beyond (2012)
The main flaw is that the film simply doesn’t bring anything really new to the proceedings, but fans of Kitano and his previous gangster films will no doubt find a lot to like here regardless.
MIFF 2013: Closed Curtain (2013)
Following the documentary This Is Not A Film, Closed Curtain marks director Jafar Panahi’s second movie (co-directed by Kambuzia Partovi) since a six year home imprisonment sentence and twenty year ban on film making was imposed on him by the Iranian government.
Film Review: The Wolverine (2013)
The film’s plot moves briskly enough from one forced cliché to the next that’s punctuated by some well-staged action sequences (including one atop a speeding bullet train). The pace is also advantageous in speeding past some of the fairly large plot-holes, especially considering the talent that collaborated on the screenplay
Film Review: To The Wonder (2012)
The highly anticipated new film from arguably the most artistically uncompromising, as well as celebrated, film maker currently working in North American cinema, To The Wonder continues Terrence Malick’s mediation on the very nature of love and life.
Russian Resurrection Film Festival: Gentlemen of Fortune (2012)
Written by Chris Smith Originally published 1 July 2013 Based on a remake of a Russian classic, Gentlemen Of Fortune is a mistaken identity…
Russian Resurrection Film Festival 2013: A Long And Happy Life (2013)
From the country that may have created the social-realism genre with Sergei Eisenstein’s silent masterpiece Strike, A Long And Happy Life could be seen as something of a modern day re-assessment of working men’s status, that’s well made and tells the plight of its protagonist with a gripping sense of realism.
Film Review: Satellite Boy (2012)
Written by Chris Smith Originally published 19 June 2013 “This country is a powerful thing… If you want to grow up, you better take…
Film Review: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet (2012)
Intelligent, warm, touching and above all original, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet is one of the richest experiences you could ever possibly hope to have in a movie theatre. Do not miss it.