MIFF 2014: Concrete Night (2013)
bySet in Helsinki’s murky urban suburbia is Concrete Night, directed by Pirjo Honkasalo. Based on a novel by Pirkko Saisio, and with a screenplay by…
Melbourne International Film Festival
Film Review: Boyhood (2014)
byBoyhood is writer/director Richard Linklater’s testament film. A masterpiece, destined to be remembered as one of the best films of the decade (if not…
Film Review – Locke (2014)
byConstructing a building. Dismantling a life. These are the dual organizing principles of Steven Knight’s absorbing film Locke. Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) is a…
MIFF 2014: Life of Riley (2014)
bySomething of a spiritual companion piece to his penultimate masterpiece You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, French master filmmaker Alain Resnais’s final film (he died…
MIFF 2014: Life Itself (2014)
byIt’s hard to imagine what the landscape of film criticism would be had there been no Roger Ebert. Forget for a moment that he…
MIFF 2014: Baal (1970)
byScreening as part of the Masters & Restorations program at this year’s MIFF is Baal, writer/director Volker Schlöndorff’s television adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s play…
MIFF 2014: (Impressions of…) Goodbye To Language 3D (2014)
byAfter abandoning (relatively) conventional narrative decades ago, French maverick Jean-Luc Godard’s latest feature is a philosophical exploration of three dimensional cinema – a concept…
MIFF 2014: Curtain Call (2014)
by“Regrets, I’ve have a few, but then again, too few to mention.” – lyrics from My Way (sung by Frank Sinatra and many others)….
Film Review: Mystery Road (2013)
byRich, moving and intricately layered, Mystery Road is just shy of the masterpiece it could have been, but a thrilling movie experience none the less.
Film Review: The Best Offer (2013)
byA superficial scrutiny of The Best Offer might assert it to be a slightly unpalatable story of love-across the-age-divide between Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush), successful antique art auctioneer with his own priceless collection of female portraits, and Claire Ibbetson (Sylvia Hoeks), twenty something agoraphobic orphan of life-long antique collectors.