A Little Life: Joel Edgerton on Train Dreams
Train Dreams directed by Clint Bentley and adapted from Denis Johnson’s novella by Bentley and Greg Kwedar (Sing Sing) is an immense film about a small and unnoticed life. Robert Granier (Joel Edgerto…
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Mary Bronstein on falling down in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is Mary Bronstein’s portrait of a woman pushed beyond her ability to cope after a ceiling leak means that she and her daughter need to move out of their apartment. It’s tens…
Ronan Day-Lewis' cinematic composition isn't enough to save the tonally clumsy Anemone
There’s no doubting Ronan Day-Lewis has an eye for cinematic composition. His debut film Anemone starring his father Daniel Day-Lewis, with Sean Bean, Samantha Morton, and Sean Bottomley looks strikin…
Director Pauline Clague unpacks a circus family's hidden legacy with The Colleano Heart
A brilliant circus family’s hidden legacy unfolds as descendants reunite across continents, revealing their Australian Aboriginal ancestry, global stardom, and the extraordinary secrets they kep…
In this interview, Sophie Somerville invites you to become Fwends with her delightful feature film debut
Sophie Somerville is an Australian emerging filmmaker whose short films Linda 4 Eva and Peeps made waves at film festivals around the world. Now with her feature film debut Fwends, winner of the Berli…
Maggie Miles & Trisha Morton-Thomas on honouring the remarkable homecoming of a legend with Journey Home, David Gulpilil
In this podcast, Nadine Whitney speaks with documentarians Maggie Miles & Trisha Morton-Thomas about the extraordinary documentary Journey Home, David Gulpilil. Journey Home, David Gulpilil is a…
Inside A House of Dynamite: Kathryn Bigelow and her cast on the sobering reality of this explosive thriller
Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite tracks the response to an unattributed nuclear warhead that is destined to land on an American city. The film moves in three terrifying segments replaying the sam…
MonsterFest: Good Boy is Best in Show of Doggy Horror
Many of us have heard stories of domestic animals and their uncanny perceptions. The cat in a nursing home or hospice who sits on the bed of the next patient to pass away. The story of dogs knowing wh…
SUFF Interview: Glitter and Gore: Tina Romero on Queens of the Dead
Tina Romero didn’t think she’d follow in her father George A. Romero’s footsteps and make a film about zombies unless she had something to say that took the genre into a new territory. Along with writ…
SUFF Interview: Julie Pacino on her dark fairytale I Live Here Now
Julie Pacino’s dark fairytale I Live Here Now is a powerful and complex debut feature that places the audience in the space between dream and nightmare as Rose (Lucy Fry) finds herself in an impossibl…
Adrian Ortega’s Westgate is an immersively authentic gift of a film
In 1970 the under-construction Westgate Bridge in Melbourne collapsed, the biggest industrial accident to ever occur in Australia. 35 people died. It changed the way the industry approached safety aro…
Honey Don’t! is undone with a muddled self-defeating script and an ending that sucks out any goodwill it might have managed
Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s Drive-Away Dolls was messy but chaotically charming. Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan’s infectious (anti)chemistry held the shenanigans together even when every…