Author Geoff Gardner

A long, long time ago English film magazines arrived in Melbourne after a journey by boat that often took several months. They could arrive in a rush, several issues at a time. The place where they were sold wa...

Way back in 2003, Nigel Buesst did a solitary excavation of Melbourne filmmaking during the 1950s and ’60s. Those years were characterised by what seemed like a rather large amount of naively optimistic filmmak...

“Then I weave a square, and little by little the basket rises.” - Solrun Hoaas, There’s Nothing that Doesn’t Take Time (1981) Solrun Hoaas slipped into filmmaking innocuously, initially making films about thi...

Todd McCarthy’s recent documentary on Rissient chronicles the remarkable life of an individual devoted to cinema. Gardner offers his own thoughts on the man in question.

22 February – 4 March 2007 Adelaide has a long tradition of putting money into its Arts events. It was the first Australian city to present a major international arts festival whose existence required co...

28 September–13 October 2006 So the big man in the pink shirt has stubbed out his last cigarette and marched down the aisle of the Pacific Cinémathèque for the last time. He made it his spiritual home, t...

1. Breaking the Bresson ice Accent Film Entertainment is the first Australian company to release the works of Robert Bresson on DVD. The three films are Pickpocket (1959), Procès de Jeanne d’Arc (incorrectly...

There is much to admire about the silent cinema artistry and poetic beauty of director Louis Feuillade and the man who remade one of his classic films, Georges Franju.

Reflecting on what film culture means to them, these writers raise important questions and reveal significant gaps in terms of the local film cultural landscape.

Another contemporary instalment to the genre of life as a series of sex acts.

A discussion of the various cuts suffered by Eve and the recent DVD version.

Vancouver does well in keeping up with this most prolific and subversive of directors.

Festival website, August 9 - 18, 2001 Of all the recent developments in film exhibition, one that causes much bemusement is the seemingly exponential growth in so-called 'festivals'. It seems that every...

A survey of what is available DVD-wise of Godard's oeuvre.

Gardner speaks with the producer of the film Mullet, a recent return to form for Australia cinema.

The return of silent cinema.

Gardner revels in the wonderful world of DVD.

Gardner interviews Hanif Kureishi, writer of such films as My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid.

The seasoned yakuza: Gardner examines Kikujiro.

A psychotic thriller to frighten you out of your wits.

This prize at the Vancouver Film Festival helps introduce Asian films to the world.

Geoff Gardner traces Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley character's screen incarnations through the films Plein Soleil (1959) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999).