Author Bill Mousoulis

Can a “feel-good” mainstream film ever be considered a great film? I think it can, but I don’t think Blinded by the Light (Gurinder Chadha, 2019) quite gets there in the end, despite its specialness. The film i...

The “Greek Weird Wave” just got weirder. Alexandros Avranas’ Miss Violence (first unveiled at Venice) had its premiere screening on home soil at this year’s Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) and p...

One film stood (no, it veritably flew) over all others for me in this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF): Kosmos (Reha Erdem, 2010). It was the highlight film of the Tribute to Reha Erd...

In any good film festival, one’s life flashes before one’s eyes. And the history of cinema. Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) is a good film festival. It is big enough to encompass a variety o...

It’s not easy being Greek. As an outsider, I can see it in their faces, faces etched with struggle, pain, desire, hope. Of course, this is a cinematic panoply in itself, a drama “behind the scenes” playing out ...

My first visit to this festival, I found the spa town setting most uninspiring: it was like a summer carnival – a river, food stalls, a rock stage, a techno tent, kids with balloons, teenage girls in shorts. I’...

Late 1960, Northern Greece: the Thessaloniki Film Festival is launched, and my father, aged 27, emigrates to Australia. Late 2009: the Thessaloniki festival celebrates its 50th edition, and I re-locate from Aus...

9–25 June, 2006 Whether the glass is half-empty or half-full, let us be thankful that we can still drink. But let us also prod the barkeep to serve it up better next time. As a Melbournite, I cannot help...

July 20–August 7, 2005 Question: Why did the film festival cross the road? Answer: Because it didn't know how to go either left or right. In her report on the 52nd Melbourne International Film Festival t...

What ails thee? A perennial question asked of Australian cinema. Independent filmmaker Bill Mousoulis submits his diagnosis.

This interview was conducted on June 18, 2002. One of the two outstanding hallmark programs of this year's Sydney Film Festival was, besides the extraordinary unforgettable Jean Eustache films, “Unseen C...

June 7-21, 2002 For a list of the Festival's award winners, click here. Curiously, the Sydney Film Festival has not spliced the word 'International' into its official designation, as have other Austra...

An illuminating overview of Guédiguian's last five films followed by an interview.

In one way or another, most teen stories are about what cultural theorists call the liminal experience: that intense, suspended moment between yesterday and tomorrow, between childhood and adulthood, between ...

Some thoughts on one of the world's great film visionaries.

(Robert Guédiguian, 1998) This unassuming film has reservoirs of riches that have transfixed me three times now. I saw it initially at last year's Melbourne International Film Festival, and was immediate...

Filmspeak The Films - Alan Clarke Retrospective The Films - Main Programme This year's 2000 (as opposed to "47th", according to most flyers, programmes, etc.) Sydney Film Festival took place between Ju...

Following on from the French Film Festival held at the same venue (Como Cinema, Melbourne) a couple of months back, this Chinese Film Festival was presented. It seems to now be a growing trend, having these fes...

A discussion of these two Bresson films.

June 9 - 23, 2000 As I write this, the Sydney Film Festival is a few days away from beginning. I have managed to catch one of the films to play at it, and here are my quick impressions of it: Away With W...

A tribute to the many glorious Japanese films that have been made over the years.

What happens when a film's end credits roll?

This gritty British film is surprisingly light and enchanting.

This festival was held recently in Melbourne, and featured a dozen new features from Greece. Two reports filed here.

Rohmer's editor of the past 10 or so years talks about the director's unique working methods.

Quick impressions of all 11 French films that played recently at Melbourne's Como Cinema.

An appreciation of a moving and realistic Japanese anime, set in World War 2.

A look at the controversial film from 1975, a brilliant but horrible exposé of fascism and sadism. It is currently banned in Australia.

Mark Spratt, of Potential Films, distributor of Romance, talks about taking the film to the OFLC.

Asian cinema recently has been quite extraordinary - this is a quick report on this program that toured Australia recently.

A personal look at some of the more striking films of the previous decade, Iranian and French films highlighted.

Bresson's cinema has been caricatured as "flat" - this author suggests that Bresson's films explode with emotion.

An overview and discussion of the work of Greek-Australian film-makers, and whether the voice they speak with is inherently, deeply Hellenic.