This American Life - Live!
Weird as it may seem to put a radio show on the big screen, this works. This American Life – Live! was staged live at a theatre in New York City,... read more...
EAMES: The Architect & The Painter
EAMES: The Architect & The Painter does a good job portraying these two innovators like the right and left side of the same brain, and all the issues... read more...
Bobby Fischer Against The World
That old chestnut about genius being touched with madness is a dead horse that’s been beaten to a pulp. Yet it’s hard to watch this gripping... read more...
Under African Skies, HRAFF opening night
The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival’s opening night feature follows Paul Simon back to South Africa 25 years after Graceland was released. ... read more...
Human Rights Arts and Film Festival, Buffalo Girls
I’m fairly sure anyone with an adequately functioning moral compass would agree that paying eight year olds to beat the shit out of each other is... read more...
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
David Gelb’s documentary portrait is as elegant and precise as the morsels served at Jiro’s tiny, Michelin-triple-starred restaurant in Tokyo’s Sukibayashi... read more...
King of Devil’s Island
Marius Holst’s film tells the story of the 1915 rebellion at notoriously brutal (and supposedly escape-proof) Bastøy boys’ reformatory. read more...
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Using recently discovered footage by Swedish filmmakers, director Göran Hugo Olsson has created a musical archive of America’s Black Power movement... read more...
Wish You Were Here
Director Kieran Darcy-Smith conjures a powerful dread in comfortable harbourside Sydney, as if our protagonists have unleashed a malevolent alien force. ... read more...
Speakeasy Cinema presents 'Wholphin' No. 15
Wholphin collects some of the world’s most bizarre and yet impressive short films and bundles them together into what can only be described as a... read more...
Café de Flore
The striking imagery and faith in music’s transformative power that made Canadian writer/director Jean-Marc Vallée’s C.R.A.Z.Y. so memorable is back. ... read more...
The Heavy Mental presents Ralph Bakshi's 'Wizards' (1977)
The first screening in the Heavy Mental‘s new Ralph Bakshi series is Wizards (1977) – an animated post-apocalyptic science fantasy film... read more...
The Tents
The Tents examines the rise of New York Fashion Week, from small, poorly organised runway shows in dingy interiors around town – all aimed squarely... read more...
Rebellion
Mathieu Kassovitz’s Rebellion is based on the true story of a Kanak uprising in French-controlled New Caledonia during the May 1988 presidential... read more...
Format Perspective
Format Perspective focuses on six very different skate photographers from around Europe, including the very harsh reality of Belfast-based Stuart Robinson,... read more...
Life In Movement
Tanja Liedtke, a prodigious choreographer and the incoming director of Sydney Dance Company, was tragically killed in 2007. While the world lamented what... read more...
This Must Be The Place
In Paolo Sorrentino’s first English-language drama, retired goth-rocker Cheyenne (Sean Penn) leaves Ireland and his no-nonsense wife Jane (Frances McDormand)... read more...
Bombay Beach (Australian Premiere)
Flash forward a century and Bombay Beach is a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Dead fish litter the shore, the streets are lined with bullets urchin children... read more...
ACMI, Title Fight on Film
The ACMI Title Fight on Film series includes documentaries ‘Lipstick and Dynamite, Piss and Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling’ and ‘Fightville’. ... read more...
A Dangerous Method
Based on Christopher Hampton’s play and John Kerr’s book, A Dangerous Method is a rather dispassionate, dry affair. read more...
The Hunger Games
Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), a rural teenager in a dystopian future America who hunts game with her buddy Gale (Liam Hemsworth), volunteers... read more...
Louder Than A Bomb
Directors Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel focus on four Chicago high school teams in the lead up to the state final, and capture the passion and struggle of... read more...
The Raid
The Raid, one of the most nakedly videogame-like films I’ve seen, has the clarity of a rung bell. Every impulse, from humiliation to family loyalty,... read more...
The Rum Diary
The anarchic spirit of Bruce Robinson’s cult film Withnail and I echoes through Robinson’s adaptation of Hunter S Thompson’s autobiographical novel.... read more...