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Author Nicholas Godfrey

Nicholas Godfrey

Nicholas Godfrey is a lecturer in the Department of Screen and Media at Flinders University in South Australia, where he completed his PhD. He is a participant in the emerging curator program at the Adelaide Film Festival.

Hong Kong

High Anxiety: The 41st Hong Kong International Film Festival

Nicholas Godfrey
June 2017
Festival Reports
The 41st Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) was launched amidst political turmoil and much soul searching about the state of the local film industry. While tales of the declining fortunes of Hong Kon...
new hollywood

Pop Provocation: A tour of the outer limits of the New Hollywood

Nicholas Godfrey
July 2016
Feature Articles
“It’s a movie for kids, they’re not going to dig it, man!” Peter Tork, Head The story is, by now, familiar. Amidst dwindling cinema attendance and the migration of the mass audience to television, Hollywood’s...

In the Shadow of the Giant: the 37th Hong Kong International Film Festival

Nicholas Godfrey
June 2013
Festival Reports
One of the last big film festivals, running at 17 days, the Hong Kong International Film Festival offers the hardy filmgoer plenty of opportunities to race back and forth across the fragrant harbour by ferry, s...

The Long Game: Conversations with Independent Iconoclasts Roger Corman, George A. Romero, and Charles Burnett

Nicholas Godfrey
November 2012
Book Reviews
   The ongoing University of Mississippi Press Conversations with Filmmakers series compiles carefully curated, career-spanning interviews with notable directors. These three recent installments, on Roger Corm...

Textures of Memory, Images in Flux: The 2012 Melbourne International Film Festival

Nicholas Godfrey
September 2012
Festival Reports
At first blush, it seems difficult to pin-down what this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) was trying to be: with an international programme borrowing heavily from Cannes and Venice, a good po...

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