Philip Claudel’s debut feature film I’ve Loved You So Long had its Australian premiere at the Canberra International Film Festival last month and was ranked the second most popular film of the festival, no doubt thanks in part to the performance of Kristen Scott-Thomas as Juliette, its troubled central character. Now the movie is about […]
There have been cries, in this the 50th anniversary year of the Australian Film Institute (AFI), that it hasn’t been a very good year for the Australian film industry, and if box-office is the measure you use to judge success, then something is clearly amiss. The combined takings for the four Australian films nominated in […]
French film director Claude LeLouch definitely has a thing about cars. In his most celebrated feature film A Man And A Woman - released in 1966 - much of the story takes place in moving vehicles, and the ‘man’ of the story (played by Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a racing car driver. After the film won […]
Gary Sweet’s first film role – in a John Lamond slasher film called Nightmares is not one that “has a big asterisk next to it on my resume” says Sweet with a huge laugh. “I was diabolical.” The role came just before a stint on The Sullivans which Sweet says was more of a dare […]
If you’ve ever seen Dane Cook in full flight as a stand up comedian – perhaps on YouTube, his website, or on television - you’ll be surprised to know that he’s more than a tad reserved. “As a kid I would have loved to have been just shy”, says Cook. “I was way beyond that. […]
If you’re Australian and watched Australian movies of the 1970’s and 1980’s, chances are you’ll remember Picnic At Hanging Rock, Breaker Morant, and My Brilliant Career. They’re all classy period pieces, finely crafted films that won awards and acclaim at home and across the world. But the chances are that you won’t remember a whole […]
It took Tom McCarthy a while to figure out what he wanted to do in life. After starting a business studies degree, he switched to philosophy. But that wasn’t quite right either - although it inspired him to start writing. Then in his mid-twenties McCarthy discovered acting. After working for a few years in sketch […]
If you run your eyes down the list of films that Anand Tucker has directed, you’d be forgiven for thinking he made a very deliberate effort to become a specialist in adaptations of personal memoirs. After years of making television documentaries about people in the sports and arts worlds, Tucker made his first feature about […]
Willam McInnes reckons that the best performance in his latest film Unfinished Sky comes from Milo, a blue-heeler. “I was watching the rushes and I realised that Milo was just being,” says McInnes in his distinctive Aussie drawl. “The hardest thing to do as an actor is just to be, just to exist. There’s a […]
Werner Herzog has always been attracted to driven characters: men (for there are few women in his films) on the edge of a madness for life, pushing boundaries, pushing other people, pushing themselves. In two of his most well known films - Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo - the men grappling with the […]
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