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Always Listening Screens on SBS on 28 October Offering A Rare Glimpse Behind The Phones Of Lifeline

Press Releases Oct 16, 2024 3 min read
Articles australian film documentary Genevieve Bailey

PRESS RELEASE Brand new documentary ALWAYS LISTENING takes us behind the scenes of one of the oldest organisations dedicated to saving lives in Australia. We all know the devastating statistics arou…

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Digging into Dance with Yeah the Boys Director Stefan Hunt and Choreographer Vanessa Marian in This Interview

Digging into Dance with Yeah the Boys Director Stefan Hunt and Choreographer Vanessa Marian in This Interview

Andrew F Peirce Oct 15, 2024 1 min read
Interviews Podcasts australian cinema australian film Interview Stefan Hunt Vanessa Marin Yeah the Boys

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Over the span of eleven minutes, the impressive short film Ye…

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A Different Man is an Absurdist Masterpiece

A Different Man is an Absurdist Masterpiece

Nadine Whitney Oct 14, 2024 10 min read
Films Reviews Drama Miles G. Jackson Review Sebastian Stan

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…

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Powerful New Documentary ‘Left Write Hook’ Arrives In Australian Cinemas 24 October

Press Releases Oct 14, 2024 1 min read
Articles australian film documentary left write hook

PRESS RELEASE LEFT WRITE HOOK arrives in Australian cinemas this month, following the World Premiere screening at the Melbourne International Film Festival in August where it won the coveted Audience…

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Parish Malfitano on Creating the Sensorially Invigorating Salt Along the Tongue

Parish Malfitano on Creating the Sensorially Invigorating Salt Along the Tongue

Andrew F Peirce Oct 14, 2024 3 min read
Interviews Podcasts australian cinema australian film Drama horror Interview Laneikka Denne Parish Malfitano

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. To call Parish Malfitano's sophomore feature, Salt Along…

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The Bikeriders: Americana Through the Eyes of Anthropological Director Jeff Nichols

The Bikeriders: Americana Through the Eyes of Anthropological Director Jeff Nichols

Andrew F Peirce Oct 11, 2024 6 min read
Films Reviews Drama Jeff Nichols Jodie Comer Review The Bikeriders tom hardy

‘What are you rebelling against?’ ‘Whaddya got?’ The Wild One With The Bikeriders, anthropological director Jeff Nichols makes his welcome return to feature filmmaking after years of languishing in…

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Ghostlight is a Brave, Tender, Exquisite, and Unforgettable Experience

Ghostlight is a Brave, Tender, Exquisite, and Unforgettable Experience

Nadine Whitney Oct 11, 2024 9 min read
Films Reviews Dolly De Leon Drama Ghostlight Keith Kupferer Review Tara Mallen Kelly O'Sullivan

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…

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WA's first disco musical, Sweet Rhythm, is dancing your way on digital this month!

Press Releases Oct 11, 2024 1 min read
Articles australian film Sweet Rhythm

PRESS RELEASE Directors Dylan Randall & Jules Burton present WA’s First Original Motion Picture Musical, Sweet Rhythm! Get ready to be rockin', disco groovin' and jazz swingin' as we…

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Embracing the Beautiful Chaos: A Journey of Self-Discovery Through Girls Will Be Girls

Embracing the Beautiful Chaos: A Journey of Self-Discovery Through Girls Will Be Girls

Cody Allen Oct 10, 2024 4 min read
Films Reviews Drama Girls Will Be Girls Review Shuchi Talati

There’s something undeniably captivating about the world of teenagers in film. These characters navigate the ups and downs of adolescence with a mix of sass and vulnerability, embodying the complexiti…

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NYFF: Luca Guadagnino's Queer Holds Mirror Up to Two Different Artists’ Careers

NYFF: Luca Guadagnino's Queer Holds Mirror Up to Two Different Artists’ Careers

Ron Meyer Oct 10, 2024 3 min read
Films Reviews Daniel Craig Drama Drew Starkey Lesley Manville queer Review

The term “unadaptable” gets thrown around whenever a piece of literary fiction is primed for film/television and has thus, however inaptly, been applied to William S. Burroughs’ Queer. Written, as one…

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Saara Lamberg on Creating a Filmography in a Community of Independent Filmmakers

Saara Lamberg on Creating a Filmography in a Community of Independent Filmmakers

Andrew F Peirce Oct 9, 2024 1 min read
Interviews Podcasts australian cinema Drama Interview Revelation Film Festival Saara Lamberg Sydney Underground Film Festival

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Finnish-Australian filmmaker Saara Lamberg has crafted a film…

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Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson on Finding Catharsis in Grief in Ghostlight

Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson on Finding Catharsis in Grief in Ghostlight

Nadine Whitney Oct 7, 2024 7 min read
Interviews Dolly De Leon Drama Ghostlight Interview Kelly O'Sullivan

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…

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