Australia’s largest regional film festival, the Byron Bay International Film Festival, has announced its 225-film filled line-up.
Fifty Shades of Grey
Inexplicably, Sam Taylor-Wood’s adaptation of FIFTY SHADES OF GREY pales in comparison to the book itself, lacking sexual tension and featuring an atrocious performance from Jamie Dornan.
CITIZENFOUR
Laura Poitras’ entertaining and thrilling documentary CITIZENFOUR is less a character study of Edward Snowden than an act of questioning our own knowledge of surveillance.
Into The Woods
Rob Marshall’s star-studded Sondheim adaptation is a boring and gradually nonsensical traipse through familiar fairy tale narratives.
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.
My Man
Isobel Yeap reviews Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’s MY MAN, a disappointingly heavy-handed tale of a Lolita-esque relationship between a schoolgirl and her adopted father.
The Special Need
THE SPECIAL NEED is a touching and honest documentary about three friends – one of whom is autistic – taking a road trip, a compassionate investigation of autism and the stigmas around it.
Bad Sex – Female Sexuality in Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture
In this piece, Isobel Yeap takes an in-depth look at Lena Dunham’s 2010 feature film Tiny Furniture and its depiction of female sexuality.
In Bloom
Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross’ In Bloom is a tender film about two teenage girls trying to maintain their integrity while negotiating the complex moral universe generated when their country is afflicted by civil war.
Radiance – An Interview with Actress Rachael Maza
We spoke to actress Rachael Maza, an actress whose 1998 feature Radiance, directed by Rachel Perkins, plays this month at the Melbourne-based Girls on Film Festival.