The winners were announced 11 December, 2012. AFI MOVIES OF THE YEAR Argo Beasts of the Southern Wild The Dark Knight Rises Django Unchained Les Miserables Life of Pi Lincoln Moonrise Kingdom Silver Linings Playbook Zero Dark Thirty AFI TELEVISION PROGRAMS OF THE YEAR American Horror Story: Asylum Breaking Bad Game Change Game of [...]

Winning three AFI awards in the year of its release (including Best Film), Flirting continues the teenage adventures and misadventures of Danny Embling (Noah Taylor), the central character in writer/director John Duigan’s previous Australian classic The Year My Voice Broke.

“I’m an alcoholic because George Lucas ruined my life…and I mean that in the nicest possible way,” quips Carrie Fisher during a Lifetime Achievement Award tribute at the American Film Institute.

  About a week ago, I announced another crazy assignment, posed for myself out of sheer madness. Whether it was a procrastinating delusion or an actual insight into what is missing from film criticism, I made up a new segment of Film Blerg which I call FAFA (a.k.a the Favourite Australian Film Assignment.) Without having imposed any time restrictions or [...]