My Nights are More Beautiful Than Your Days: My Times with The Melbourne Cinémathèque Michelle Carey November 2024 “A very open-ended canon”: The Many Histories of the Melbourne Cinémathèque The Melbourne Cinémathèque had existed in my imagination well before I ever attended. Like many, I wasn’t sure if it was an actual place (a little piece of Paris’ Bercy in downtown Melbourne) or a night. I ...
For Bérénice Michelle Carey November 2023 Obituary Some people leave a pronounced mark on you in life, and Bérénice is that person for me. During my 20 years at Senses of Cinema, I worked with her regularly and came to think of her as a friend. After hearing of...
The Living Theatre: An Interview with Paul Felten and Joe DeNardo about their film Slow Machine Michelle Carey October 2020 Interviews Slow Machine is at once elliptical and allusive. It opens up worlds of poetry, downtown theatre and music, yet holds within it a satisfyingly solid narrative. To a point. At a time when contemporary independent...
Looking up Occasionally to See Something Miraculous: An Interview with Ben Speth Michelle Carey May 2006 Australian Cinema Having relocated from New York to Melbourne, Ben Speth continues to make low budget cinema of an intimate, lyrical quality about quotidian people and places.
The Poetic and the Pop: The 43rd Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale) Michelle Carey May 2006 Festival Reports October 13–26, 2005 As a daring and cinephiliac event, the Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale) shares its programming philosophy with such kindred film festivals as Rotterdam, Indie Lisboa, Tor...
A Report on the 52nd Melbourne International Film Festival Michelle Carey October 2003 Festival Reports Unlike 52 years ago, when the Melbourne International Film Festival first began, the moving image today has become so decentralised and all pervasive that one really has to question what the role of a film ...
