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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 “……
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…
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…
“What kind of show is it?” Copper Hoffman’s NBC weekend producer asks Gabriel LaBelle’s Lorne Michaels of the television show that’s supposed to go live at 11.30pm on Saturday night, Oct 11, 1975. Lor…
Edward Berger’s adaptation of Robert Harris’ Holy See mystery/thriller Conclave is a mature film functioning as a character study of its accidental investigator and the character of the contemporary C…
Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winning Anora is a crowd-pleasing triumph which continues his impassioned exploration of people living on the margins of American society, drawn from elements of classic cinema…
A camera flashes to illuminate a skull dripping with putrid flesh. A young woman walks tentatively toward an unassuming but strangely malevolent house beneath a bright blue sky. A red wall adorned in…
Until now, Steve McQueen has never taken his audience for granted. With Blitz, however, he’s done just that, presuming the story of a mother and son searching for each other amidst the chaos of WWII t…
Aaron Schimberg’s debut feature Chained for Life is a film about a questionable ‘European Auteur’ making what is clearly a low budget exploitation movie flirting with ideas of eugenics, monstrosity, a…
‘What are you rebelling against?’ ‘Whaddya got?’ The Wild One With The Bikeriders, anthropological director Jeff Nichols makes his welcome return to feature filmmaking after years of languishing in…
A ghostlight in theatre tradition is the single light kept burning in the theatre after all others have been extinguished. It is one of the many rituals adopted by theatre folk such as never saying “G…
There’s something undeniably captivating about the world of teenagers in film. These characters navigate the ups and downs of adolescence with a mix of sass and vulnerability, embodying the complexiti…