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The central question of cinema is the extent to which it is an authentic representation of reality. With a global pandemic, a war in Europe erupting and the disproportion between rich and poor becomin…
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Paul Verhoeven has a penchant for penetrative objects, such as the ice pick in his 1…
Aldo Gucci (Al Pacino), uncle of Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver), states early on in House of Gucci that, “quality is remembered long after price is forgotten” establishing the raison d’être of the Gucci…
Photography and filmmaking carry a mystical aura because they crystallise the past leaving subjects to remain alive and among us even when they have long deceased. This dualism between life and death…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Romanian auteur Radu Jude’s Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (BLB) explicitly highlights the terrifying growth of…
Lilias Fraser isn’t the household name you would think she would have earned after watching Jane Castle’s recent documentary, When the Camera Stopped Rolling, whose mother the film centres around. Lil…
Christopher Doyle is a pioneer of cinematography in Australia and the world, who continuously attempts to live outside the rigid norms that society deems fit as seen in Ted McDonnell’s latest document…
Before the colonisation of Australia had occurred, Europeans developed their own lexicon for what they believed existed on the other side of the earth, which they colloquially referred to as the antip…
World War Two caused masses of people to flee for their survival, forming the basis for Roberto Rossellini’s 1950 film Stromboli, playing at the upcoming Italian Film Festival as part of a retrospecti…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Phenomenology speculates on how and why humans feel the world in the way we do leading to a philosophical understan…
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, I finally got around to watching Lantana. Released in 2001, this is a tragi-romance which surrounds an ensemble of couples whose relationships are either withering or dead. The pandemic taught me not to desire touch or seek intimacy, as we were mandated by t…
All too often the public hears of tortured artists whose lives were cut too short and David McComb tragically fulfilled this prophecy. McComb, best known as the lead singer of Australian band The Trif…