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.
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.
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.
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.