Posts Tagged ‘Melbourne International Film Festival’
Film: The White Ribbon
By Jana Perkovic • Aug 13th, 2009 • Section: Film
The White Ribbon
Melbourne International Film Festival
Tue 4 Aug, Sun 9 Aug
With his new film, Michael Haneke ploughs his customary fields of collective guilt, invididual crime, shrouds of secrecy and social dysfunction. Set in an Austrian village…
Film: The Loved Ones
By Amy Macpherson • Aug 11th, 2009 • Section: Film
The Loved Ones
Melbourne International Film Festival
Greater Union Cinema – 30 July & 7 August
In a packed cinema, this evening’s thrill-seeking audience is cautioned to “shut your eyes” or “block your…
Film: All Tomorrow’s Parties
By Leigh Maher • Aug 11th, 2009 • Section: Film
All Tomorrow’s Parties
Melbourne International Film Festival
Sat 25 July, Thu 6 August
As a music ‘tragic’, I can say with clear conscience and no regret that I make mix CDs (previously tapes…
Film: I NEED THAT RECORD!
By Leigh Maher • Aug 6th, 2009 • Section: Film
I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF THE INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE
Melbourne International Film Festival
Thu 30 July, Wed 5 August
I need to preface…
Film: An Education
By Amy Macpherson • Aug 6th, 2009 • Section: Film
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: Deathbowl to Downtown
By Leigh Maher • Aug 1st, 2009 • Section: Film
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
By Jana Perkovic • Aug 1st, 2009 • Section: Film
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
By Jana Perkovic • Jul 29th, 2009 • Section: Film
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: Acolytes
By Keith Harwood • Aug 7th, 2008 • Section: Film, Reviews
All comparisons aside, John Hewitt’s thriller Acolytes does exactly what you would hope a thriller would do – it frightens.
Film: Rock n Roll Nerd
By Chris Hawthorne • Aug 6th, 2008 • Section: Film, Reviews
His face is made-up. His voice primed. Eyes lined. Hair: wild and flailing. The shirt, unbuttoned. But unbuttoned perfectly. He is Tim Minchin, hero of Rhian Skirving’s feature documentary Rock n Roll Nerd.
