Top picks for Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2018
byIt’s only a few days from the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, and this year offers some very interesting picks. Here are some we’re looking…
Documentary
Film Review: Midnight Oil: 1984 (2018)
byMidnight Oil: 1984, focuses on the year 1984, a time fans could tell you that the iconic album (no. 5) Red Sails in the…
Film Review: For the Love of God (2018)
byFor the Love of God, or to use its full title: For the Love of God: How the Church is Better and Worse Than…
Film Review: Hit the Road: Cambodia (2018)
byImagine an episode of The Amazing Race, but the directors have edited out all the photo finishes, scrapped the tense music, and lost interest…
Film Review: The Song Keepers (2017)
byThe Song Keepers tells the story of The Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir and their journey to Germany to ‘return’ Lutheran hymns to the…
Film Review: Gurrumul (2017)
byGurrumul is an Australian documentary celebrating the life of musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, who started out on the keyboards, guitars and percussion with Yothu…
Film Review: Mansfield 66/67 (2017)
by“Born Vera Jayne Palmer. Becomes a Broadway Star. Moves to Hollywood, with a 40-G Cup bra. Refused Miss Rowuefort Cheese, accepts Miss Photo Flash….
Film Review: Kangaroo (2017)
byThink of Australia and you think of the kangaroo. A creature that was on this country 250,000 years before Indigenous Australians, an animal with…
Film Review: Marina Abramović in Brazil: The Space In Between (2016)
byMarina Abramović came to the attention of many in The Artist is Present, the 2012 documentary that chronicled her retrospective exhibition at MoMA in…
Film Review: Geek Girls (2017)
byWriter and director Gina Hara has created an interesting and very specific subculture exploration. Documentary Geek Girls looks at women who take ownership of their…