by GREG KING Writer, producer, actor and director, Raj Kapoor (1924-1988) has been described as the father of Indian cinema. He starred in some 67 films, and directed 10, but he remains largely unknown here in Australia. Two of his films were nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes. He introduced a lot of concepts [...]
by GREG KING. Any Questions For Ben? is the first feature film from the Working Dog team (The Castle, The Dish) in over a decade. As director Rob Sitch, who co-wrote the film with his usual collaborators Santo Cilauro and Tom Gleisner explains, other things just seemed to take priority. All of them have families [...]
by GREG KING. updated November 30. The inaugural Breath Of Fresh Air Film Festival screens in Launceston from November 23 through until November 27. Held over five days, the festival is screening is a mix of new films, documentaries, Australian features, and films that have done the festival circuit. There are also a number of [...]
by GREG KING. Ivan Sen is arguably our most important indigenous filmmaker. His short documentaries have explored the lives of famous aboriginals like the activist Charles Perkins and the actor Tom E Lewis. His feature films have explored the issues surrounding aboriginal people, the conflicts of the past, and the crisis facing many of the [...]
by GREG KING. “Growing up as a kid, surf movies were all we watched. Even now when I flick on the old surf DVDs it takes me back to the memories as a kid, fond memories, which is great and I love it.” Twenty-eight year old Sydney based filmmaker Marcario de Souza is well aware [...]
by GREG KING. “We thought Human Centipede 2 would be this kind of niche film, that only horror fans would go and see.” Human Centipede 2 is the highly anticipated sequel to Tom Six’s 2009 horror film Human Centipede, in which a sinister surgeon sewed several people together in a bizarre experiment. The film was [...]
by GREG KING. “There is something lush about the surface of a Bertolucci film. I think he is the perfect synthesis of style and content really,” enthuses ACMI curator Roberta Ciabarra. Ciabarra is overseeing the forthcoming special retrospective season on the noted Italian director, whose career has spanned fifty years. “He is remarkably vital and [...]
by GREG KING In John Carpenter’s 1982 cult classic The Thing a US scientific crew in the polar ice cap was threatened by a mysterious alien creature that was able to hide within human hosts. This claustrophobic horror film was itself a remake of Howard Hawks’ 1951 thriller that was heavily laden with cold war [...]
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