Film Review: 20,000 Days On Earth (2014)
by20,000 Days On Earth is effectively a staged documentary that purports to follow Australian born music legend Nick Cave on his titular anniversary. Throughout…
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Film Review: Predestination (2014)
byAfter tackling zombies in their crazy, anything goes debut Undead, and then vampires in their still much under-appreciated masterpiece Daybreakers, the local writing and…
MIFF 2014: Life of Riley (2014)
bySomething of a spiritual companion piece to his penultimate masterpiece You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, French master filmmaker Alain Resnais’s final film (he died…
MIFF 2014: Life Itself (2014)
byIt’s hard to imagine what the landscape of film criticism would be had there been no Roger Ebert. Forget for a moment that he…
MIFF 2014: Baal (1970)
byScreening as part of the Masters & Restorations program at this year’s MIFF is Baal, writer/director Volker Schlöndorff’s television adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s play…
MIFF 2014: (Impressions of…) Goodbye To Language 3D (2014)
byAfter abandoning (relatively) conventional narrative decades ago, French maverick Jean-Luc Godard’s latest feature is a philosophical exploration of three dimensional cinema – a concept…
Film Review: Lucy (2014)
byBased on the widespread misconception that humans only ever use 10% of their brain capacity, Lucy takes this very basic premise and asks what…
Film Review: Words and Pictures (2013)
byWords and Pictures, the latest film from acclaimed Australian director Fred Schepsi, has an intriguing and original premise at the core of its story….
Film Review: Charlie’s Country (2013)
byAfter winning in the Best Actor category at the Cannes Film Festival where it played in the Un Certain Regard section, it will come…
Film Review: The French Minister (2013)
byThe new film from main-stay of the French cinema, Bertrand Tavernier (In The Electric Mist, Round Midnight), The French Minister is a political satire…