by GREG KING At a lavish ceremony held at ACMI this evening, the Australian Film Critics Association presented their annual AFCA FILM AWARDS. The awards were voted for by members of the Australian Film Critics Association. Daniel P Jones (star of Hail), and Genevieve Bailey (director of the documentary I Am Eleven) were amongst many [...]
by GREG KING. “We’ve always wanted to do something that focuses around a particular person,” says ACMI film programmer Spiro Economopoulos as he explains the rationale behind this year’s Jazz On Film Festival. This year the small film festival, which runs as part of the Melbourne Jazz Festival, features Woody Allen and Terence Blanchard, a [...]
by GREG KING. Over the Easter long weekend ACMI are holding a smackdown of their own with a program of fight films and documentaries exploring the gamut of the sport, from boxing to wrestling to UFC. “Boxing is a powerful metaphor for a lot of cultural issues,” says Richard Sowada, head of programming at ACMI. [...]
by GREG KING. This year marks the 22nd Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and over time since its humble beginnings it has grown into one of the biggest and longest running queer film festivals in the world “That is correct,” acknowledges the festival’s artistic director Lisa Daniel, who is overseeing her fourteenth festival. “There are probably [...]
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 [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Julie Moggan. According to the opening titles of this documentary, every four seconds a Harlequin Mills & Boon romance novel is sold somewhere in the world. Sex obviously sells! They appeal mainly to a female demographic, who breathlessly soak up their romantic fantasies and impossibly passionate characters. But the [...]
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 Celebrating its 60th anniversary, the Melbourne International Film Festival runs from July 21 until August 7, and screens at Greater Union, Kino, ACMI and Forum cinemas. With 329 films screening (115 shorts and 214 features), a plethora of special events and a program dedicated to looking back over the 60 year history [...]
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