“Don’t run after poetry. It penetrates unaided through the joins.”
- Robert Bresson (1)
Throughout human history from Euripides to J. K. Rowling the...
Producers’ Note: Photography of the hunting scenes in this film took place during an actual kangaroo hunt conducted by licensed professional hunters. ...
In Rachel Perkins’ musical One Night the Moon the convention of the duet typical of the classical Hollywood musical is reconfigured. In the film, ther...
Way back in 2003, Nigel Buesst did a solitary excavation of Melbourne filmmaking during the 1950s and ’60s. Those years were characterised by what see...
The history of Australian cinema is littered with small-scale, unobtrusive and even intimate portraits of working and middle class life that are large...
“Friday night too tired; Saturday night too drunk; Sunday, too far away.”
– “The Shearer’s Wife’s Lament”
Sunday Too Far Away is a film that never q...
“If you like outrageous cinema, you live and breathe to wait for those weird moments that happen every once in a while in genre cinema, where it’s lik...
In a rundown school, a science-teacher, Mr Clarke (Ivar Kants), is at least able to keep trouble at bay in his class of bored, disengaged teenaged boy...
Almost as extraordinary as Justin Kurzel’s feature film debut, Snowtown, about the 1999 “Bodies in Barrels” murders, is the often-baulking reception w...
Where does one begin a piece on Russell Crowe, Oceania’s most precocious and visible film export after Nicole Kidman? Which scene or what image first ...
The opening frames of Peter Weir’s film contrast the natural permanence of Hanging Rock with the man-made elevation of Appleyard College. This has led...
