Author Rhys Graham

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's Rosetta (1999) begins with a violent, visually fracturing scene that launches the viewer into a cinematic experience as raw and beautiful as it is brutal. In a frenzy of handh...

Outer Space (1999 Austria 14 mins) Source: CAC/NLA Prod Co: P.O.E.T. Picture Filmmaker: Peter Tscherkassky In half-light and fractured, staggering visuals, a young woman enters into a suburban house a...

Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier, 2000) opens with an overture - four minutes of darkened screen filled with grand orchestral sounds written by the film's central actor and composer, Björk. This operatic ...

Human Remains (1998 Denmark 30mins) Source: CAC Prod Co: Danish Film Institute Dir, Scr: Jay Rosenblatt Phot: Rosenblatt, John Turk Ed: Amy Hunter. "I see a camera as a sort of weapon for good and bad p...

Cinema History's Unsung hero here given poetic, loving due by Graham.

(Mike Figgis, 2000) Mike Figgis' new film deserves a certain degree of skepticism if only for its self proclaimed 'revolutionary' approach to cinema and for its radical posturing. In several statements c...

Rest assured - the American independent tradition lives on. Rhys Graham brings the prolific, talented, intelligent and idealistic Jem Cohen, whose film Benjamin Smoke recently screened in Melbourne, to the light.

L'Amoureuse (Women in Love, 1988, France, 98 mins) Source: French Embassy/CAC Prod Co: Sept Films, FR3-Cinéma 16, Nanterre Amadiers, Lola Films Dir: Jacques Doillon Scrt: Doillon, Jean-François Goyet Phot: Car...

Léaud's range was put to good use in Godard's Masculin/Féminin.