Film Review: Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible (2017)
by“There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. The cardinal sin is dullness” – Frank Capra Jill Bilcock has been editing films for over…
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Article: Living in the Material World? An Analysis of Personal Shopper
byOlivier Assayas’ psychological thriller Personal Shopper is many things – ‘easy to understand’ is not one of them. It’s a ghost story, a murder…
Film Review: A Man Called Ove (2015)
bySwedish cinema can lay claim to giving the cinematic world more than its fair share of great drama. Think of Ingmar Bergman giving us the…
Review: Oscar Nominated Animated and Live Action Shorts (2012)
byThis past weekend, Carlton’s beloved Cinema Nova held some special screenings of this year’s Academy Award nominated Animated and Live Action Shorts. Having been…
Film Review: The Help (2011)
byFifty-five years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus, and forty-five years after the Civil…
Film Review: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
byI have a dirty confession to make. I have never seen a Werner Herzog film. Not even Grizzly Man. I confess this lack of…
Film Review: Love Crime (2010)
byKristin Scott Thomas opens Love Crime with a bellowing laugh. It is a loud awakening, casting instant awareness and intrigue.
FAFA: Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst (2006)
byThe Favourite Australian Film Assignment continues with Gillian Armstrong’s documentary Unfolding Florence.
Film Review: Red Dog (2011)
byRed Dog surrounds the travels of a Kelpie named Red Dog. Set in the early 1970’s, Red Dog settled in the mining town of Dampier…
FAFA: Strange Planet (1999)
byIt seems that the first two films I watched for this assignment have a common theme. Claudia Karvan. This is unsurprising, as it is…