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Mel Campbell · June 13, 2013

Writer/director Jeff Nichols’s Take Shelter was an extraordinarily affecting film. His follow-up Mud is possibly even better: a beautifully told coming-of-ag...

Spanish Film Festival, 'Hold Up!

Sarah Werkmeister · June 13, 2013

Hold Up! tells the story of an attempt to recover the jewels of Argentinean post-war heroine Eva Perón from a jewellery store in Madrid. Set between 1950s ...

Speakeasy Cinema at Shebeen

Kane Daniel · June 11, 2013

Speakeasy Cinema, formerly itinerant, finds a home for a season. Down the stairs of the not-for-profit drinkery Shebeen. And what a season. Stability means a...

The Human Scale

Claire Connors · June 11, 2013

Go to the Eureka Tower Skydeck and look down. If you don't have a nervous breakdown and are cool with standing on thick glass and nothing else 88 floors ...

Aniqa Mannan · June 5, 2013

Ping Pong follows eight ping pong fanatics in the lead up to the World Over 80s Table Tennis Championships, held in Mongolia. They are competing in the Over ...

The We and the I

Sam West · June 4, 2013

The word 'real' is not something you usually associate with the notoriously stylised films of Michel Gondry. It's not like he's incapable of ...

Farewell, My Queen

Mel Campbell · May 27, 2013

Sidonie Laborde (Léa Seydoux) is a young servant of obscure background who’s wangled a relatively high-status position in the French court as reader to the c...

Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me

Dylan Rainforth · May 21, 2013

If The Ballad of El Goodo isn't one of the greatest of hand-chiselled pop songs - not to mention statements of purpose, “But guns they wait to be s...

'Check It Out! With Steve Brule'

Hayley Morgan · May 20, 2013

Dr Steven Brule is a complex beast. He is a Tim and Eric creation, played by “dramatic leading man” John C. Reilly. His 4.30am-slot television sh...

Mel Campbell · May 16, 2013

This black-and-white melodrama about colonialism and forbidden love left me bewildered. It’s loosely inspired by FW Murnau’s 1931 film of the same name. In a...

Gowns by Adrian: Dressing MGM’s Leading Ladies

Sarah Booth · May 16, 2013

Adrian. The name doesn't possess quite the same mystique as other single-barrelled monikers of showbiz but it does carry a certain weight in the spheres ...

HRAFF, Informant

Claire Connors · May 12, 2013

You know that creepy radical activist type at uni who just never lets up with the slogans and the posters and the weaseling of suckers into a conversation ab...

Mel Campbell · May 9, 2013

This contemporary British twist on To Kill A Mockingbird – adapted from Daniel Clay’s novel – replaces race with class, and a small Southern town with the re...

Valhalla Social Cinema

Kane Daniel · May 7, 2013

There are only two things Jose Maturana took from the Valhalla Cinema (now-defunct, much missed, given over to middlebrow blandness) to create his own Valhal...

HRAFF, Alias Ruby Blade

Claire Connors · May 7, 2013

The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival opens with Australian documentary Alias Ruby Blade, about a Melbourne activist who played a pivotal role in bringing ...

Mel Campbell · May 2, 2013

The Hunt strikes me as the kind of film Harrison Ford might have made in the ’90s. “I didn’t touch that little girl!” he’d say furiously to anyone who’d list...

Audi Festival of German Films, 'This Ain't California'

Max Olijnyk · May 2, 2013

I wasn’t sure where This Ain’t California was going to land on the scale of skate films, which I measure from incredibly bad (Deck Dogz) to very good (Kids),...

An interview with Harmony Korine

Wilfred Brandt · April 24, 2013

Spring Breakers is easily Harmony Korine’s most talked-about film since his debut as the 19-year-old screenwriter wunderkind behind Larry Clark’s Kids. In be...

The Company You Keep

Mel Campbell · April 18, 2013

We’ve all done regrettable things. But what if, as a student radical, you caused someone’s death… and you’ve been in hiding ever since? Robert Redford’s dram...

Mel Campbell · April 18, 2013

It’s a widespread belief that advertising is intrinsically evil, manipulating us into buying things we don’t want or need. But what if commercial imagery and...

Mel Campbell · April 11, 2013

GodDAMN I love a ballet doco. Every year, thousands of dancers aged 9-19 enter the Youth America Grand Prix. It’s not just a ballet competition; talent scout...

DADo Film Society at the Robin Boyd Foundation

Claire Connors · April 10, 2013

The covered outdoor courtyard at Robin Boyd's famous Walsh Street house is the home of the new DADo Film Society. They'll be screening documentaries,...

Sleepwalk with Me

Mel Campbell · April 4, 2013

This film feels very ‘Comedy Festival story show’. It’s based on an autobiographical stage show, which in turn was based on a memoir, by director/star Mike B...

About Face: Supermodels, Then and Now

Wilfred Brandt · March 28, 2013

I feel like Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' About Face does itself a disservice. The title and the trailer prepared me for a documentary all about the rampan...

Berberian Sound Studio

Wilfred Brandt · March 19, 2013

'Seeing is believing' is the fallacy that filmmaking trades on. Behind every film there's a gang of technicians carefully constructing that reali...

Mel Campbell · March 14, 2013

The title refers to the taste in your mouth when you’re punched in the face. Jacques Audiard (A Prophet) has made an evocative, intimate romantic drama satur...

Melbourne Queer Film Festival

Edwina McDuff · March 12, 2013

The Melbourne Queer Film Festival is on this March for its 23rd year. A quick browse through the film program reveals a diverse range of queer cinema with fe...

Mel Campbell · March 7, 2013

I’ve spent weeks calling this film Brahbrah, but nobody gets my Flight of the Conchords jokes, so let’s move on. Anyway, there’s nothing funny about Christia...