Director Tom Hooper credits his Australian mother for providing him with the ability to properly understand English culture. Born in the UK with dual citizenship and a regular visitor to Australia since the age of six, Hooper is back in the country with his new film The King’s Speech, a story that deals with the […]
Didn’t the French know how to make the most original romantic comedies before the Americans packaged them up as the “rom-com”, that formulaic and cute little product designed for light consumption, with gorgeous looking people just managing to end up in each others arms before one of them marries someone else? Heartbreaker feels very like […]
When Derek Cianfrance went to film school at the University of Colorado and studied under legendary experimental filmmakers Stan Brakhage and Phil Solomon he had no idea what he was getting himself into. Brakhage was an intense filmmaker and theorist, searching for new forms of expression on screen and wary of the mechanics of filmmaking. […]
Over the past ten years, screen stories about love have been dominated by the rom-com: the light, fluffy and often hilariously entertaining approach to exploring relationships. Blue Valentine is the counterweight to those films – a beautiful, difficult, intimate, and agonisingly realistic story that traces the arc of love between two people over a six-year […]
Adam Elliot looks like he’s dressed to go out. Smart black shirt, shiny polished shoes and a distinctly clean-cut, fresh-faced look. He’s in Canberra as part of a promotional tour for something a little different – a book rather a film. But he’s not dressed up for this interview – the makeover is for a […]
In the long established tradition of wuxia - Chinese tales of chivalrous swordsmen - this action adventure film has everything you’d expect from a genre that thrives on excess – a simple narrative with epic pretentions, exotic landscapes and richly-designed sets enhanced with wildly over-saturated colours, dramatically stilted performances and melodramatic lines, and of […]
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