Shim Sung-bo’s feature debut is a tense account of desperation and love that follows an underprepared crew embarking on a people smuggling operation.
Staff Picks – Sydney Film Festival 2015
This year’s Sydney Film Festival is packed with interesting films, both international hits and hidden gems. In this Staff Picks piece, our writing team goes through the festival program and picks out some of the films they are most excited to see this June.
Sydney Film Festival Announces 2015 Program
The 2015 SFF program was announced this morning, an eclectic array of international festival curios, world premieres and a compelling documentary line-up.
Anthology Series 001: Tokyo! (dir. Michel Gondry/Leos Carax/Bong Joon-ho, 2008)
Our new roundtable series on anthology films launches with a discussion of the strange and (mostly) delightful TOKYO!, from directors Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-ho.
The Supercut: A Video Tribute to Cinema in 2014
We kick off our end of year coverage with a video, compiling 70 films released theatrically in 2014 into one 4-minute supercut.
Grayscaled – Nebraska in Colour and Black & White Cinema Experiments
It was recently announced that EPIX, a US-cable channel, had acquired the rights to broadcast the ‘colour’ version of Alexander Payne’s Nebraska, against the director’s express wishes. In this piece we look at films that have made the leap either from or to black and white.
The Roundup – Bill Murray in Space, Bong Joon-ho Increases His DVD Collection and Richard Linklater talks Boyhood
This week on The Roundup we look at a once-lost Tom Schiller sci-fi starring Bill Murray, the redesign of Senses of Cinema and interviews with Linklater, Swanberg, Soderbergh and Albert Serra.
Snowpiercer
As a conceptual thriller, Snowpiercer is weak yet servicable. As the latest work from Bong Joon-ho, it struggles to be much more than a crushing disappointment.
Staff Picks: Sydney Film Festival
The 4:3 writing staff have a look at this year’s Sydney Film Festival line-up: 20 writers and 20 films. That should help you fill out your Flexipass.
SFF announces full line-up including a killer Official Competition
Festival director Nashen Moodley announced the official competition today and it’s as diverse as ever, with four Australian films screening out of the twleve in the running. Also screening are some great retrospectives and an engaging section on Chinese cinema.