Adelaide Film Festival Review: Maria
“Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore.” Maria the final film in Pablo Larraín’s trilogy of twentieth century iconic women proves one thing about the Chilean director: he knows how to cast a leading la…
Nadine Whitney is a Rotten Tomatoes accredited critic, the co-chair of the Australian Film Critics Association, a Golden Globes voter, a member of OFCS, GALECA, AWFJ, and an occasional festival judge. She often wishes she was a spoiled cat.
“Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore.” Maria the final film in Pablo Larraín’s trilogy of twentieth century iconic women proves one thing about the Chilean director: he knows how to cast a leading la…
Tender and beautifully observed Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light is part of a turning point in Indian cinema where the lives of women are given the spotlight. Like Shuchi Talati's 2024 Girl…
“If you listen. You accept.” Jacques Audiard’s genre mixing musical rises from the streets of Mexico with a blistering rage. Sinners, saints, and martyrs merge in a struggle for salvation – a moment…
A New Kind of Wilderness screens at the Adelaide Film Festival on 26 & 29 October 2024. “This place has everything” – Falk “Except pet whales.” – Ulv Maria Vatne wrote on her blog WILD + FREE “……
Ani (Mikey Madison) works at The Headquarters in Manhattan, a large adult club with exotic dancers, private rooms, and huge bar tabs. Sean Baker follows Ani around what appears to be an average night…
“What kind of show is it?” Copper Hoffman’s NBC weekend producer asks Gabriel LaBelle’s Lorne Michaels of the television show that’s supposed to go live at 11.30pm on Saturday night, Oct 11, 1975. Lor…
Edward Berger’s adaptation of Robert Harris’ Holy See mystery/thriller Conclave is a mature film functioning as a character study of its accidental investigator and the character of the contemporary C…
Aaron Schimberg’s debut feature Chained for Life is a film about a questionable ‘European Auteur’ making what is clearly a low budget exploitation movie flirting with ideas of eugenics, monstrosity, a…
A ghostlight in theatre tradition is the single light kept burning in the theatre after all others have been extinguished. It is one of the many rituals adopted by theatre folk such as never saying “G…
Kelly O’Sullivan and partner Alex Thompson have worked together before Ghostlight their magnificent meditation on grief, empathy, and the power of the theatre. Kelly wrote and starred in 2019’s Saint…
Filipina actor Dolly De Leon relates closely to her frustrated community theatre actor character, Rita in Ghostlight Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson’s tale of grief and healing. If not for Triangle…
Ali Abbasi opens The Apprentice with a moment that historically shook the faith of the American people in the integrity of the highest political office in the land, the downfall of Richard Nixon. Neve…