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PRESS RELEASE 37°South Market, a screen content development and financing event, is now welcoming applications from producers at reduced Early Bird pricing. Now in its 18th year, the four-day event w…
Martin Scorsese, like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, has never made a sequel to any of his films. Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger comes close, however, as it fits into a s…
They can’t hurt you if you don’t think about them. Jane Schoenbrun is interested in the power of screens. Their debut featureWe’re All Going to the World’s Fair is a coming-of-age narrative where iso…
Ant Timpson’s blooming lovely Bookworm converts the most cynical of hearts and makes them believe in magic. A rare film that speaks to kids and adults with sincerity and without condescension. Idiosy…
Directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw (The Truffle Hunters), Gaucho Gaucho concerns a specific type of “cowboy” from South America; skilled, brave, and unruly horsemen. Legends of local folklo…
Dory Previn: On My Way to Where, directed by Julia Greenberg and Dianna Dilworth, is exactly the kind of well-balanced documentary mixed of archival and modern interviews that successfully inducts you…
Twilight Time is directed by John Hughes (After Mabo, Senses of Cinema) and examines the role that Desmond Ball, Australian writer and activist, had in protesting direct American influence over Austra…
Philipp Fussenegger and Judy Landkammer’s documentary Teaches of Peaches is conventional to the point of being near antithetical to the artist at its centre. Merrill Nisker, known around the world as…
The 2024 Melbourne International Film Festival has finished this weekend, screening hundreds of films from all over the world, as well as local Australian productions. The 2024 MIFF Award winners wer…
The wounded male ego spins out of control over a too long weekend in Philippe Lesage’s Who By Fire, a claustrophobic and searing portrait of middle-aged male anomie brushing against the generation who…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. With 2021s phenomenal documentary River under his belt, filmm…
The earth echoes screams of fear taken in by a large parrot – Death (Arinzé Kene) embodied as an unfathomable feathered creature. Ineluctable and unswayed – the purpose is for the bird to silence the…