A Sydney Film Festival sampler
June 8, 2015
At the Sydney Film Festival 2015: Hong Sang-soo’s latest, Hill of Freedom, plus documentaries Breaking a Monster, The Russian Woodpecker, and Ulrich Seidl’s In the Basement.
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Live in Sydney
June 7, 2015
At the Sydney Film Festival 2015: Sebastian Silva’s Nasty Baby; plus, Vivid LIVE curator Ben Marshall on bringing Sufjan Stevens and others to the iconic Sydney Opera House.
Documentary Edge Festival 2015: Something Better to Come, Druglawed
June 1, 2015
At the Documentary Edge Festival: fringe communities and marijuana decriminalisation.
Documentary Edge Festival 2015: (T)ERROR, Heaven Adores You, Sweet Micky for President
May 22, 2015
At the Documentary Edge Festival: counter-terrorism through the eyes of an informant; the life and times of Elliot Smith; and an unlikely Haitian presidential campaign.
Documentary Edge Festival 2015: The Desk, Tales of the Grim Sleeper, Actress
May 22, 2015
At the Documentary Edge Festival: an uneasy blend of personal ambition and failure, a thoughtful true crime community portrait, and a poetic essay of a woman’s conflicting identity of mother versus performer.
The Rituals of Reporoa:
The Ground We Won
May 1, 2015
A conversation about tackling rugby, male identity, and rural stoicism with filmmakers Christopher Pryor and Miriam Smith.
Making That Sugar Film
April 19, 2015
At this year’s Autumn Events, Damon Gameau puts his body to the sugar test.
2001: A Signifying Odyssey
April 13, 2015
Reading Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, one mystery at a time.
Electric Dreams: Eden
April 7, 2015
Mia Hansen-Løve’s new film charts the flight and fall of a struggling musician across two decades of the French electronic scene.
“The war zone over women’s bodies is something that rages and I’m sure will continue to rage”
December 20, 2014
An encounter with Keira Knightley at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The long, friendly shadow of My Neighbor Totoro
November 4, 2014
On the lineage and legacy of Hayao Miyazaki’s most enduring film. Plus, Isao Takahata and a new Studio Ghibli showcase.
“That you can’t beat out of them with a tire iron”
October 20, 2014
Gone Girl’s Tyler Perry. Plus, a New York Film Festival Top Five.
“The Heat”
October 10, 2014
A few stray questions with Jemaine Clement. Plus, a Toronto International Film Festival top five.
German Film Festival 2014:
Amma & Appa, Finsterworld
September 20, 2014
Further dispatches from the Goethe-Institut’s annual celebration of German cinema.
NZIFF 2014 Endnotes
September 16, 2014
Our New Zealand International Film Festival correspondents select their personal highlights for 2014.
Post-Festival Report 2014:
Cold in July
September 16, 2014
Last words on the New Zealand International Film Festival for 2014.
German Film Festival 2014:
Two Lives, Love Steaks
September 12, 2014
Dispatches from the Goethe-Institut’s annual celebration of contemporary German cinema.
Flaws and All: Championing The Stranger and The Lady from Shanghai
September 1, 2014
In praise of two compromised Orson Welles films, still vital and almost joyful in their imposed messiness.
Post-Festival Report 2014:
A Curious Quintet
August 25, 2014
Reflections on five films at the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Post-Festival Report 2014:
The Point of It
August 21, 2014
Closing notes on evil, activism, resistance, and the films that deserve a second chance at the New Zealand International Film Festival.