Immersion: Diving full-bodied into the 72nd Melbourne International Film Festival Paul Jeffery November 2024 Festival Reports The 2024 edition of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) took steps to emerge from Covid-era regression, offering 210 features and 66 shorts across its, by international standards, generous 18-day w...
Between ‘Action’ and ‘Cut’: Budd Boetticher’s Performative Arena Paul Jeffery June 2017 Revisiting Budd Boetticher In the realm of Hollywood cinema, the phrase “actors' director” is a fairly common descriptor, thrown about casually in the popular press and used as shorthand by critics to characterise a filmmaker who priorit...
Hard Eight and the Isolated Actor Paul Jeffery February 2015 CTEQ Annotations on Film “When it's possible – in terms of the type of scene it is, where the camera is, how close the actors are to the lens and to the camera itself –Paul gets himself down in and under and around the camera. He curls...
