Although best known as an actor, Tom McCarthy makes a third outing as writer/director with Win Win, continuing his exploration of ordinary people and everyday problems. And, as with his previous films The Station Agent and The Visitor, he proves a superb and witty observer of humanity’s small frailties and extracts finely tuned performances from […]
When Julie Shanahan left Australia 25 years ago to join a dance company in Germany, she thought she’d be back within a year. “I never imagined I could be even 10 years in one dance company,” she says “but I’ve now been there 25 years! And I am still only beginning to understand so much. […]
Let’s face it, Morgan Spurlock made a name for himself doing strange things for thirty days at a time and documenting the results on film. Back in 2004, in his breakout documentary Super Size Me, he ate only McDonald’s food. Three times a day for thirty days. He gained eleven kilos and ended up with […]
An intimate and subdued tale of suppressed talent and filial loyalty, Rene Feret’s film about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s older sister Maria-Anna (who was known as Nannerl) builds an engaging fiction around some of the facts of her life, and creates an informal and everyday view of an era when a young woman had little chance […]
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