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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…
Written and directed by Michel Franco, Memory stars Jessica Chastain as Sylvia, a social worker, mother, and recovering addict who encounters Saul (Peter Sarsgaard) randomly and disturbingly when he f…
Pamela Adlon’s Babes begins with one of the most unconcerned “she’s in labour” scenes in recent memory. Eden (Ilana Glazer, also one of the screenwriters) and the heavily pregnant Dawn (Michelle Butea…
It doesn't end or begin. Just changes form. Water. Hands. Dirt. Fingers. Raindrops. An embrace. Tears. Letting go. Returning to that which made you are core aspects of All Dirt Roads Taste of Sal…
There is likely to be a lot of reportage coming from the 2024 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) with Nadine Whitney on the ground. Luckily, Nadine has had a chance to see some films in the…
PRESS RELEASE Beloved cultural event, the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), has tonight shared its sprawling 2024 program of over 250 features, shorts and XR experiences landing across Me…
PRESS RELEASE The highly anticipated new feature from Melbourne-born Oscar-winning filmmaker Adam Elliot will officially open the 2024 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) when the beloved cu…
Press Release Screen content development and financing event, 37°South Market, is welcoming applications with reduced Early Bird pricing currently available. The annual event will take place 8-11 Aug…