DVD Review: New Directors From Japan
Japan has a rich and colourful cinematic history and produced one of the greatest directors of all time: Yasujirō Ozu. They have an animator to outstrip anyone in the West…
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Incoming: Concerning Violence
Narrated by Ms Lauryn Hill, Concerning Violence is both an archive-driven documentary covering the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, as well as an…
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Film Review: Winter Sleep
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is one of the best directors working in cinema today. Ceylan seems to improve with almost every film and there’s no one who makes more visually arresting…
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DVD Review: Spione (Masters of Cinema)
Fritz Lang was the leading light of German expressionist cinema. His most successful period of film making was in Germany under the Weimar Republic. During this period he made such…
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Incoming: Mary is Happy, Mary is Happy
Social media and cinema merge in this adaptation of a Twitter stream consisting of 410 consecutive tweets. A beautifully crafted coming-of-age story following the often absurdly comic as well as…
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DVD Review: The Girl Who Knew Too Much
During the ’60s and ’70s a weird and wonderfully strange type of film began do dominate Italian cinema. Giallo films are epitomised by a certain strangeness and a mix of…
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Film Review: The Imitation Game
Some stories will always prove troublesome to translate to the big screen. Alan Turing’s tale is as strange as it is , and despite being one of the most important…
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Incoming: Diplomacy
On the night of 24 to 25 August 1944 The fate of Paris is in the hands of General Von Choltitz, Governor of Greater Paris, which is preparing on the…
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DVD Review: Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla
It has been a strong couple of years in Australian and New Zealand for horror films. The Antipodeans are currently leading the world in producing innovative and quality genre pictures.…
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Incoming: We are the Giant
In We are the Giant ordinary citizens face the same moral questions that have defined revolutionary leaders across the ages, from Jefferson to Che to Mandela. With remarkable access, the…
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