It seems that the first two films I watched for this assignment have a common theme. Claudia Karvan. This is unsurprising, as it is no secret to anyone who knows me that I do indeed love Claudia Karvan. I named my second guitar Karvan and my ukulele Frankie (in honour of Karvan’s character of Love My Way.) Obsessions aside, Strange [...]

  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 [...]

So it seems that once again, for some strange and unknown reason, I am planning another project. An assignment if you will. However, unlike my MIFF Intentions project, I want to be proud of this project. Not that I see my MIFF Intentions project as having failed, but in comparison to the 60 films in 17 days project, it is [...]