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PREVIEW: 2018 SCIFI FILM FESTIVAL
Tickets available from the Event Cinemas George Street box office and online here. Australia’s leading celebration of science-fiction cinema, the SciFi Film Festival, has a wondrous line-up of...
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R.I.P. BURT REYNOLDS
At the peak of his box office dominance, Burt Reynolds embodied true Hollywood movie stardom. His appeal was what the modern industry calls ‘four-quadrant’; men, women, young and old found him...
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★: THE JOHANN LURF INTERVIEW
Johann Lurf stands alongside such auteurs as Guy Maddin, György Pálfi and Christian Marclay as one the world’s great cinematic ‘constructuralists’; filmmakers that build monumental montage movies,...
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PROSPECT TRIO SET TO SOAR IN WAKE OF SCI-FI SAGA
Variety described Prospect as the film that, “the stand alone ‘Star Wars’ films should feel like.” A vast and thrilling vision of a distant world, populated by rich, fully realized characters, the...
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PROSPECT, REFLECTIONS IN THE DUST EARN TOP SCIFI FILM FEST HONOURS.
The SciFi Film Festival has named Prospect the 2018 Best Film winner at an informal ceremony on the Closing Night of the 4-day event in Sydney. Set for a November 2 launch in the U.S. but still...
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PREVIEW: 2018 VETERANS FILM FESTIVAL
Since its 2015 launch as a short film screening series on the hallowed grounds of the Australian War Memorial, the Veterans Film Festival has grown into a feature-film event with strong ties across the...
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STAR WARS IDENTITIES: THE LAELA FRENCH INTERVIEW
One of the defining thematic elements of the Star Wars films is ‘identity’. Our hero, Luke Skywalker, seeks the truth about his heritage; before him, his father Annakin is torn between destinies forged...
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WHY PINOY BOY FROM OZ MATTHEW VICTOR PASTOR IS LOCAL INDIE SECTOR'S M.V.P.
Matthew Victor Pastor has been at Melbourne’s Cinema Nova complex since mid-morning, exhibiting levels of nervous energy entirely reasonable for a young director on the day he launches his latest...
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PREVIEW: 2019 SCREENWAVE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
The strengthening of Coffs Harbour as a thriving film culture hub continues on January 10 when the 2019 Screenwave International Film Festival (SWIFF) rolls out the sandy red carpet. One of New South...
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PENNY MARSHALL AND THE BEAUTY OF BIG
Post-2000, the typical Hollywood slate – comic book pics, YA franchise gambles, teen vampire romances, PG horror – has not suited the storytelling skills of Penny Marshall. The director, who passed...
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SISTERS FOR SALE: THE BEN RANDALL INTERVIEW
In 2018, the U.S. Department of State Trafficking in Persons Report stated that, “The Government of Vietnam does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.” It has only...
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PIERCING: THE MIA WASIKOWSKA INTERVIEW
Mia Wasikowska has spent the last decade establishing herself as one of the most daring and in-demand actresses working in film today. With only a handful of local credits to her name (including Greg...
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THE PRODUCER WHO SEDUCED THE PRESS AND WON HIS WIFE A GOLDEN GLOBE
Will the passing of a 95 year-old businessman in Ichilov Medical Center in Tel Aviv finally provide closure to a scandal that has plagued the Golden Globes for 38 years? Israeli businessman Meshulam...
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FORM, BEAUTY, AMBITION CELEBRATED IN MELBOURNE DESIGN WEEK FILM FESTIVAL
The third annual Melbourne Design Week will this year examine how cinema and design co-exist as art forms with a screening program of films celebrating vision, invention and ambition. The unique...
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5 REASONS WHY A STAR IS BORN WILL WIN BEST PICTURE
When A Star is Born premiered at the 2018 Venice Film Festival, it took a lightning strike literally hitting the theatre to slow the momentum of Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut. The projector blew...
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PREVIEW: GOLD COAST FILM FESTIVAL 2019
Any notions that the Gold Coast Film Festival (GCFF) is still the ‘little festival that could’ on Australia’s film event calendar are well and truly dispelled with the announcement on Friday of the...
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5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MATI DIOP*
*APART FROM BEING THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN DIRECTOR IN THE HISTORY OF THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL TO HAVE A FILM SELECTED IN COMPETITION FOR THE PALME D’OR. The announcement this week that Atlantique, the...
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ME & MY LEFT BRAIN: THE ALEX LYKOS INTERVIEW
Alex Lykos burst on the Australian film scene with his debut script, the 2015 adaptation of his play Alex & Eve. Directed by Peter Andrikidis, the film proved a sleeper hit, but was a frustratingly...
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TEN ‘FIRST GLANCE MUST-SEE’ FILMS FROM THE SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAM LAUNCH
With 307 films from 55 countries rostered to unfold from June 5, it would be madness to try to tackle all of the Sydney Film Festival’s program the day it goes go public. Even Festival Director Nashen...
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THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS: THE SANDY K. BOONE INTERVIEW
2019 MELBOURNE DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL: Conjure, if you can, a faux-theological underground movement, borne of the maddening heat and finest marijuana that 1970s Texas can offer, whose purpose is to...
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