We wrap up our extensive coverage of the 2015 Melbourne International Film Festival with some awards and a handy indexed list of our interviews and reviews.
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.
You Have To See… W.R. Mysteries of the Organism (dir. Dušan Makavejev, 1971)
This week on You Have to See… we look at Dušan Makavejev’s W.R. Mysteries of the Organism, a defining piece of Eastern Europe’s Black Wave era of cinema.
Stroszeggs – Werner Herzog vs. The Chicken
Werner Herzog’s filmography is as eclectic as they come, yet one curious throughline through many of his interviews is his disdain for the lowly chicken. In this essay, Isobel Yeap attempts to find out why.