Jane Austen Wrecked My Life | The Materialists
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Sydney Film Festival Interview: Christian Byers on bringing out the dead with Death of an Undertaker
One of the most ambitious titles at this year's Sydney Film Festival is unequivocally Death of an Undertaker. It is an experimental fusion of truth and invention. It centres on Sparrow, an underli…
St Kilda Film Festival Interview: Kat Dominis on building the award-winning short film Unspoken
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. I remember sitting in the Mercury at the Adelaide Film Festival and watching…
Sydney Film Festival Interview: Mistress Dispeller director Elizabeth Lo talks capturing a fight for fidelity
A person who promised forever elects to turn unfaithful, knowing full well the shame and hurt they will inflict on their spouse. It's not an uncommon situation, but variance springs from how the v…
Sydney Film Festival Interview: Amy Wang Talks Getting Under the Skin for Slanted
If you had the power to change your ethnicity, would you? That is the question filmmaker Amy Wang poses in her debut feature, Slanted. She introduces us to Joan Huang [Shirley Chen], a Chinese Ameri…
The Surfer is a slow burn that never quite hits the waves
The Surfer opens with a tense, slow buildup, but I couldn’t help but feel like I was watching a sloth move in slow motion rather than anything that kept me at the edge of my seat. The premise has pote…
Kelly Schilling on working with Marta Dusseldorp and building the emotional truth of With or Without You
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Kelly Schilling's feature debut film With or Without You is the powerful…
Cian Mungatj McCue and Sarah Price on their new First Nations screen industry initiative Damulgurra Stories
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. One of the more exciting news points in recent weeks has been the announcemen…
Joel Potrykus' Vulcanizadora is sad bastard music for the slacker generation
This review contains spoilers for Vulcanizadora and Buzzard. Vulcanizadora is a gnarly word, one that–out of context–suggests a fury of rage and violence at the centre of a chaos of noise, conjuring…
Bonjour Tristesse: Where the Sun Shines Softly on Sadness
It reminded me of a summer I once spent by the French seaside, lying on warm sand with a book in hand, the waves whispering nearby, the sun soft and golden overhead. There’s a similar stillness here,…
Gold Coast Film Festival: Jane Larkin on the lived-in perspective of her elite sports drama The Edge
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Before commencing her career as a filmmaker, Jane Larkin was an Australian re…
The Legend of Ochi is breathtaking with sparks of wonder
Isaiah Saxon said in an interview several years ago conducted from Trout Gulch the Santa Fe forest artist’s commune and studio for Encyclopedia Pictura that his north star heroes in filmmaking are Miy…