Adelaide Film Festival Review: Went Up the Hill
The contemporary antipodean Gothic is an underexplored and underutilised genre. Australian and New Zealand filmmakers make excellent horror films, wonderful outback noirs, blistering inner city dramas…
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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…
Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Shea Gallagher and Daniel Tune on Moviejuice
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. In the heart of Adelaide, a movement is changing the conversa…
Adelaide Film Festival Review: Emilia Pérez
“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…
Black Box Diaries: Shiori Itō’s Unyielding Fight for Justice, Empowering Survivors, and Exposing the Failures of the Japanese Legal System
Black Box Diaries screens at the Adelaide Film Festival on 26 & 30 October Shiori Itō’s story is not just one of resilience; it’s an unflinching act of courage that left me shaken, inspired, and…
Adelaide Film Festival: A New Kind of Wilderness is Suffused with Magic, Tragedy, and Gaining Wisdom
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 “……
Adelaide Film Festival Review: The Wolves Always Come at Night
Documentarian Gabrielle Brady immerses herself in the act of collaborative storytelling, working alongside her subjects to bring their truth to life in an act of radical hybrid filmmaking. In her late…
Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Actor Dacre Montgomery on Went Up the Hill
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Director Samuel Van Grinsven returns to our screens with his…
Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Director Kate Blackmore on Make It Look Real
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Kate Blackmore's feature length film debut, Make It Look…
Adelaide Film Festival Review: Anora
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…
Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Director Sally Aitken on Every Little Thing
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Regular readers of The Curb will know that I have a particula…
Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Director Silje Evensmo Jacobsen on A New Kind of Wilderness
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Director Silje Evensmo Jacobsen's documentary A New Kind…