Following its acclaimed debut at Cannes earlier this year, Scott Day reviews legendary South Korean director Park Chan-wook’s detective romance thriller (currently showing at MIFF): Decision to Leave. To find out whether he thinks it lives up to the hype and if you should make the decision to see it ASAP or the decision to leave it, just click … More MIFF Review: Decision to Leave
From Lucy Beltrami comes a consideration and review of the body horror genre and chief architect of it David Cronenberg’s polarising, sci-fi return entry: Crimes of the Future (currently showing at MIFF). What follows is a very personal reflection. … More MIFF Review: Crimes of the Future
From Daniel Snowden comes a review of Aussie director George Miller’s latest fantastical ride: Three Thousand Years of Longing (currently showing at MIFF). His verdict? I love you 3000. But why then does he think not everyone may? You’ll have to open up this review to find out. … More MIFF Review: Three Thousand Years of Longing
From Lucy Beltrami comes a mini but in-depth review and recommendation of VCA graduate and writer-director Goran Stolevski’s queer coming-of-age story (currently showing at MIFF) set in our very own city of Melbourne: Of an Age. … More MIFF Review: Of an Age
The very cool celebration of cinema that is the Melbourne International Film Festival is back this August, running from the 4th until the 28th in cinemas and online. With the full program out and tickets on sale now, here’s a rundown of some general details and a few useful tips. … More MIFF 2022 Information
By Alexander Martin. It’s interesting, I think, that the posing of a question can often be infinitely more profound and thought-provoking than any answer could hope to be, and herein it is often apt for the question to remain solitary, the answers lingering around it with a kind of ethereal possibility. It is this purpose that enigma in film serves … More Unanswered Questions: A Brief Discussion Of Enigma In Film
By Daniel Snowden. In a 1997 television interview, prolific director Ang Lee remarked that his then most recently released film was on the one hand about trying to obey the social code, and on the other hand about trying to free from the restraints; good people who want to be bad, and bad people who want to be good. … More A Retrospective Review: The Ice Storm (1997)
By Alessandra Akerly. When Hayao Miyazaki was developing the film that would eventually become Kiki’s Delivery Service, he remarked how the concept of “coming of age” had changed in the modern world. … More “There’s always a voice inside me that says, ‘Things won’t go that smoothly’”: What Whisper of the Heart & Kiki’s Delivery Service Say About Coming Of Age & Creativity
Direct from its premiere at the Alliance Française French Film Festival, on in Melbourne until April 6th, Jessica Seychell reviews Adieu Monsieur Haffmann, where, in the Nazi-occupied Paris of 1941, the eponymous, Jewish jeweller finds himself trapped in more ways than one. Spoiler-free. … More Farewell, Mr. Haffmann Review
What’s full of bats and cats, and a penguin too? Matt Reeves’ The Batman (2022). Here’s Liem Jones’ review. With Illustrations by Elli Tsadila. Just for you. … More The Batman Review
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