About fifty years ago, Twentieth Century-Fox came to the Australian outback to make a film called Kangaroo – a lavish epic in the Western tradition, and the first movie to be shot in Technicolour in Australia. It was an epic tale of an English adventurer, an evil plan to take control of a drought-stricken cattle […]
With Bond’s action to the left of you and Baz’s epic to the right, you might want to take a dip into this thoughtful and intimate portrait of a man slowly warming to the beauty of life as he shakes off the ghosts of a family lost in the Holocaust.
Based on an award-winning novel by […]
Chinese director Wong Kar-Wai is well known for his lush stylistics, and the opening sequence of My Blueberry Nights is an exercise in texture, with deeply layered, slow shutter cinematography shot through glass and fabric, all in a glow of reds and oranges and neon blues. Lost in the steam bath of colour and light […]
The back-to-basics reimagining of the James Bond franchise that producer Barbara Broccoli began with Casino Royale in 2006 continues to pay off with Quantum of Solace. Showbusiness industry newspaper Variety reports the film scored the biggest ever opening weekend for a Bond film, taking in US$70.4M, a whopping 74% up on predecessor Casino Royale’s 2006 […]
More than any other, the horror and supernatural thriller genres spawn movie franchises, with brands like Friday the 13th, Saw, and The Omen as difficult to kill off as the evil power that lurks at the heart of their stories. Much of the attraction for filmmakers is their immunity to poor reviews: despite what the […]
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 […]
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