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Enlarge textBaz Luhrmann's epic Australia is many things, but an enduring classic isn't one of them. Review by Fiona Williams.
Baz Luhrmann grew up in country NSW, and traversed this wide-brown land to research his new film, so it figures that he of all people, knows that we Australians a hard bunch to please. We lop our poppies off at the knees if we think they’re growing too tall.
topFilm Fix: A festival of films for Human Rights
The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF) is celebrating its second year with 65 films, of which 36 are Australian premieres. Kylie Boltin looks at the Australian premiere of Emmy Award winning producer/director, Lisa F. Jackson’s The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo (USA 2007, English/Swahili with English subtitles, 76 mins).
The Greatest Silence has screened across the world to wide acclaim and political attention, and it has won prizes at the Sundance Film Festival (2008 Special Jury Prize for Documentaries), the Amnesty International Film Festival (2007 Movies That Matter Distribution Award, where it screened as a work-in-progress), the Rome Independent Film Festival (2008 Best Documentary).
Giveaway: Win tickets to the Japanese Film Festival
The Japan Foundation and SBS are giving away free double passes to the Japanese Film Festival.
Into its 12th year, 2008's Japanese Film Festival brings audiences the usual array of mainstream offerings and independent gems.
Men's Group scores hat-trick at IF Awards
Michael Joy’s Men’s Group scored a trifecta at the 2008 IF Awards, taking out the Best Film Award for Joy and co-producer John L Simpson, the Best Actor Award for Grant Dodwell’s first leading role since the glory days of A Country Practice and the award for Best Script.
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Paris in Happiness? It could, like, work
Todd Solondz has cast sometime actor/full-time 'heirhead' Paris Hilton in his follow-up to Happiness.
We can only trust that there's method to this apparent madness so we'll wait to see the results before passing judgment (As much as we really, really might want to...).
Film Fix: The making of Men's Group
Kylie Boltin gets the inside story on the making of Men's Group, in an interview with the film's producer and co-writer, John L. Simpson.
The independently produced Men's Group is a tough film — a painfully real insight into six men’s lives; strangers who meet once a week to simply, talk.
Stanley Kubrick movies frustrate and fascinate in equal measure. His eccentricity and obsessive nature are legendary – much to his widow Christiane's dismay.
Kubrick's meticulous nature may have drawn out the film making process, affected his output, put a few actors offside, and broken up a celebrity marriage, but it also resulted in some of the most memorable screen moments of the century.
Hunger asks, What price principles?
The lines between victim and agressor are blurred in Steve McQueen's bold new film, Hunger. Review by Fiona Williams.
Director Steve McQueen’s debut feature Hunger is an exploration of what it is to die for a cause but when republican prisoner Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) succumbs to the inevitable, it’s in far from heroic circumstances.
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