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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...

Aniqa Mannan · June 6, 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 ...

HRAFF, Alias Ruby Blade

Claire Connors · May 27, 2013

This year's Human Rights Arts and Film Festival includes Australian documentary Alias Ruby Blade, about a Melbourne activist who played a pivotal role in...

Farewell, My Queen

Mel Campbell · May 22, 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...

UWA Film Society Winter Screenings

Alex Griffin · May 15, 2013

Anyone who’s seen The Room at the Luna or gone to a screening of the Rocky Horror Picture Show would know that there’s nothing quite like watching a classic ...

'Check It Out! With Steve Brule'

Hayley Morgan · May 15, 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 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...

Audi Festival of German Films

Theo Landon · May 2, 2013

From this Friday you can take your SBS-loving-cinema-ticket-buying-Network-Video-patroning (RIP) bottom down to Paradiso to plonk yourself down (with a glass...

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...

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 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...

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 20, 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...

Cleo Braithwaite · March 5, 2013

Girl Model follows the story of Nadya, a 13-year-old girl plucked from the bleak Siberian countryside to be sent to Japan with a modeling contract. Ashley i...

Mel Campbell · February 28, 2013

It’s a shame this dramatised documentary has attracted so many true-crime features in newspapers and magazines, because if you know the whole story, it dimin...

Mel Campbell · February 20, 2013

Previously I’ve shied from Michael Haneke’s films. On an intellectual level, I can admire his project to strip cinema of the comforting illusions it usually ...

Mel Campbell · February 14, 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...

West of Memphis

Mel Campbell · February 14, 2013

The symmetry was always too neat. In 1993, three eight-year-old boys were murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas; in 1994, three teenage boys were convicted. Jes...

Mel Campbell · February 7, 2013

Anne (Juliette Binoche) is an investigative journalist for Elle magazine. Polish writer/director Malgoska Szumowska follows her over a single day writing up ...

Zero Dark Thirty

Mel Campbell · January 31, 2013

It’s impossible to discuss director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal’s documentary-style drama about the hunt for Osama bin Laden without discussin...

Django Unchained

Mel Campbell · January 24, 2013

Django (Jamie Foxx) is a slave freed by German bounty hunter King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) two years before the American Civil War to help him identify thre...

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

Wilfred Brandt · January 16, 2013

Ai Weiwei shares many characteristics with other contemporary art superstars: an oeuvre of works with conceptual consistency but little in common aesthetical...

Safety Not Guaranteed

Mel Campbell · January 10, 2013

I once saw this classified ad in the street press and thought a local had made it up. Its allure comes from its mixture of nuttiness and everyday banality – ...

Mel Campbell · December 20, 2012

Yep, time for Hollywood to wheel out the blockbuster biopics. I really wasn’t expecting much from the latest entry in this rather turgid, respectful genre, b...

Mel Campbell · December 13, 2012

How does knowledge become wisdom? As Henry Handel Richardson knew, this is the trajectory of the bildungsroman as well as the ideal of a liberal arts educati...