Eddie Peng on Man and Beast in Black Dog
Guan Hu’s Black Dog is set in 2008 when China is set to host the Olympic Games. In an effort to appear progressive to Western eyes, the Chinese government is focussing its attention on Beijing and cre…
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Empathy Now and Forever: Agnieszka Holland on Green Border and Fighting for Humanity
Agnieszka Holland has always led a political life. She has witnessed the impact of multiple occupations and dictatorial regimes. She was present for the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague. She is consider…
Come Away with Me: Miguel Gomes and Grand Tours
Portuguese cineaste Miguel Gomes’ latest film Grand Tour is an odyssey through Asia using a constructed narrative about a couple in 1918 who chase and elude each other through multiple countries. Gome…
Grand Tour is a striking yet at times impenetrable docufiction made with love by a cineaste
Grand Tour poetically travels across space, time, and form to create a comedic melodrama of ethnographically sweeping proportions. Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes mixes the aesthetics of the early 2…
Quiet Reclamations: Payal Kapadia on Malleable Cities, Friendship and the Boy Next Door in Contemporary Indian Cinema
As I wait for my interview with filmmaker Payal Kapadia to commence, I hear the clouds cackle. And right on cue, on a warm summer evening in Sydney, it begins to rain. I smile, thinking that perhaps t…
Robert Connolly & Alison Lester Talk About Journeying Down to Magic Beach in This Interview
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. For this final chat in the series, Andrew catches up with pro…
Agnieszka Holland's Green Border is a Haunting Meditation on the Human Cost of Political Cruelty and the Refugee Crisis
In Green Border, director Agnieszka Holland turns a devastating lens on the European refugee crisis, crafting a grim and necessary experience that challenges not only our empathy but our understanding…
Discovering Trần Anh Hùng’s Zest for Life and Embodying Passion
Trần Anh Hùng’s glorious The Taste of Things starring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel is a beautiful belle epoque romance. An ode to happiness as an intricate recipe pared down to provide pleasure…
Perfect Days is a Late-Career Masterwork from Wim Wenders
Koji Yakusho plays Hirayama in Wim Wenders Perfect Days, a quiet man who lives a life in solitude, working with great pride as a public toilet cleaner. We meet him as he starts his daily routine where…
Copa 71 Reaffirms the History Books for a Monumental Moment in Femme Football
Copa 71 screens at Perth Festival from Monday 20 - Sunday 26 November 2023 James Erskine and Rachel Ramsay’s energetic documentary Copa 71 is a routine sports tale of the underdogs (women’s footballe…
The Taste of Things is Delicious Filmmaking About the Act of Sharing a Cultivated and Embodied Life
In a conversation with Eugénie (Juliette Binoche) gourmet Dodin Bouffant (Benoît Magimel) quotes Saint Augustin. “Happiness is desiring what you already have.” Trần Anh Hùng’s exquisite adaptation of…
It's Well Worth Showing Up for Perth Festival 2024's Lotterywest Films Under the Pines
PRESS RELEASE One of the world’s best outdoor cinemas – UWA Somerville right here in Perth – is the place to be for another dazzling international summer feast of Lotterywest Films at Perth Festival…