Author Digby Houghton

Wollongong is not the first city to encircle itself around an industry, and nor is it the last. Corio Bay to Melbourne’s west installed public housing to house all the workers during the Ford factories’ halcyon...

His name plagues me. Everywhere I go I can hear it. Whenever I ask somebody for information pertaining to the Melbourne Cinémathèque, it’s not long before his name pops up again. Although a dentist by trade, Mi...

It is July and Richmond are teetering on a spot in the top eight in the Australian Football League (AFL), a sport that is akin to a religion in Melbourne. It’s an average high of 13 degrees and the chilly south...

Tsai Ming-Liang’s Tian qiao bu jian le (The Skywalk is Gone, 2002; Skywalk from here on) is a short film bridging his previous and subsequent features, Ni na bian ji dian (What Time is it There?, 2001) and Tian...

Fritz Lang’s M (1931) is a cry for despair representing the dying moments of a free Germany before the reign of terror was concentrated under Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party. The film’s secondary title was “a c...