Fado, Road to Instanbul, The World is Mine and Rosalie Blum: Espoo Film Festival part 2 – Finland 26-29 August, 2016
About a week has elapsed since this film festival, but I didn’t get the chance…
Browsing: Film
Winterbottom, Demon, the swing revival, B-Movie & The Bride – Espoo Film Festival, Finland 19-28 August 2016
This is my fourth summer in Finland, mainly based in and around Helsinki, and I’m…
Swiss Army Man (Madman)
Swiss Army Man is a difficult film to watch. Not for reasons pertaining to it’s…
Sydney Film Festival 2016: Herzog’s Geeks, Swedish Communes, Romanian Cinema’s and Ballard’s High Rise
The 63rd Sydney Film Festival, Nasheen Moodley’s 6th as curator, was its biggest yet, if…
Miles Davis vs Chet Baker: ‘Miles Ahead’ and ‘Born To Be Blue’ at the Sydney Film Festival
As both of these films are showing simultaneously in Sydney – Miles Ahead on general…
Sonita – Sydney Film Festival
Directed by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami Germany, Switzerland, Iranian 2015 A stand-out in the extensive documentary…
The Blue Room (Curious)
Julien (Mathieu Amalric) and Esther (Stéphanie Cléau) lay about in various stages of coitus, professing…
Cronenberg Collection (Viavision)
For better or worse Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg over time has seemed to make an…
The American Dreamer – ACMI
If you thought Dennis Hopper’s near legendary follow up to Easy Rider, the rarely seen…
Midnight Special (Roadshow)
We meet Alton Meyer (Jaeden Lieberher), a young boy, shrouded in a bed sheet reading…
Sleeping With Other People (Madman)
There’s this band of scrappy Canadian college rockers called The Mouthbreathers, who have this song…
City of Gold (Madman) – Screening at ACMI
You may have heard somewhere along the line that food is the new rock’n’roll. if…
Cemetery of Splendour (Madman)
A hospital houses a number of ex-servicemen afflicted by an unnamed condition, an extreme type…
Tehran Taxi (Madman)
A filmmaker banned from making films by an oppressive regime, decides to operate a taxi…
Decline of Western Civilization Collection (Via Vision)
The drive to belong is a uniquely human trait. Yet where do you go when…