Film and culture. Not content.
68 posts
Karla Sofía Gascón made Academy Award history as the first openly transgender person to be nominated for an acting award for her performance as the titular character in Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez.…
PRESS RELEASE Feature documentary Porcelain War was today announced amongst the five nominees for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards®. Produced by Australian production company…
Niki Caro’s delicately laced film of belief, bravery, and true leadership honours the importance of Rangatira (Chiefs) in Māori self-determination while negotiating the inherent limitations of patriar…
In The Teachers’ Lounge, director Ilker Çatak relocates the playground to the staffroom, where the slapping of lanyards and the click of heels on lino floors heralds the childishness of institutionali…
Italian director Matteo Garrone has cycled through many genres to tell Italian stories. Whether it be a version of Pinocchio, a bleak crime drama, Gomorra, or an anthology based on Italian folk and fa…
“The life we enjoy is very much worth the sacrifice.” – Rudolf Höss Hannah Arendt famously coined the term “The banality of evil” when ruminating on the trial of Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann, who had fam…
How storytellers and filmmakers address pernicious evil is widely varied. For some verisimilitude and realism documenting atrocities is key. For others, such as writer/director Ena Sendijarevic, a fun…
Beginning his final statement to the court in the trial of his mother Sandra Voyter (Sandra Hüller) for the murder of her husband and his father, twelve-year-old Daniel Maleski (Milo Machado Graner) s…
Two of my cinematic catnips are Shakespeare adaptations and the Academy Awards. I’ve written about both subjects, including here on The Curb—the former in this piece on Shakespeare adaptations of the…
At the end of Martin Scorsese’s epic western a radio show producer presents a live play about William ‘King’ Hale’s Reign of Terror over the Native American people in Osage county, Oklahoma announces…
The Curb is proudly part of the Auscast Network. Subscribe via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Oh hey, would you believe it, Aw…
Powered by JustWatch Divisive director Darren Aronofsky sometimes wants you to have a bad time at the cinema because of the subject matter: Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, and The Wrestler. Som…