MIFF Review: Hara-Kiri: Death Of A Samurai (2011)
byThe prolific and brilliant Takashi Miike returns to MIFF (he has two other films showing; Ace Attorney and For Love’s Sake) with the stunning…
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Film Review: Beauty (2011)
byAn intense and challenging drama set in present day South Africa from writer/director Oliver Hermanus, centering on a middle-aged family man struggling to resolve…
Film Review: And If We All Lived Together (2011)
byIt is as if Jane Fonda had never been away from the silver screen and here she delights us in her return to the…
Film Review: Polisse (2011)
byWinner of the Jury Prize at last years Cannes Film Festival, it’s high time Polisse got distribution here on our fair shores, although I…
Film Review: A Royal Affair (2012)
byCaroline Mathilde is Queen of Denmark (Alicia Vikander), married to the eccentric King Cristian VII (Mikkel Boe Folsgaard). Depressed and bored with her husband,…
SFF Film Review: Faust (2011)
byDr. Heinrich Faust (Johannes Zeiler) is poor and hungry and philosophical physician, spending more time on performing autopsies than helping people in his impoverished…
SFF Film Review: Death Of A Japanese Salesman (2011)
byThere were some very audible sobs at the Dendy Opera Quays theatre yesterday in during the final scenes of Death Of A Japanese Salesman….
SFF Film Review: Caesar Must Die (2012)
byOn day 3 of SFF, Hugo Weaving and I saw two films together (together, in a very large, distant sense) and the first was…
SFF Film Review: Modest Reception (2012)
byOn day 2 of SFF I journeyed to Event Cinemas George Street for Paziraie sadeh or Modest Reception, the fourth film from Iranian director…
Film Review: Once Upon A Time In Anatolia (2011)
byCo-winner of the 2011 Grand Prize prize at last year’s Cannes film festival, the Turkish drama Once Upon A Time In Anatolia arrives in…