An Education
Melbourne International Film Festival
Forum Theatre – August 1, 2
Set in the 1960s, London, An Education is charming and socially aware in its capturing of the wide-eyed, boundless idealism of youth through a…
Film: An Education
Film: Deathbowl to Downtown
Deathbowl to Downtown
Melbourne International Film Festival
Screening Friday August 7th
Pop-Culture documentaries are always a risky proposition at a film festival. The last thing you want is 80-minutes of ‘talking-heads’, droning on about how good they…
Film: Treeless Mountain
Treeless Mountain
Melbourne International Film Festival
Sun 26 July, Thu 30 July
Yet another gorgeous film on children, Treeless Mountain looks at two teeny tiny girls, whose mother drops them off to an aunt in the South Korean…
Film: Still Walking
Still Walking
Melbourne International Film Festival
Screening Wednesday July 29 at 12.15pm
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s films – a retrospective of which Melbourne International Film Festival presented in 2007 – all share a preoccupation with death and loss. His cinematic…
Film: Melbourne INK
Low-budget documentary Melbourne INK is an easily accessible, briskly edited short full of artists that have played their part in constructing Melbourne's celebrated street art culture.
Film: Acolytes
All comparisons aside, John Hewitt's thriller Acolytes does exactly what you would hope a thriller would do - it frightens.
