Dyana Gaye’s UNDER THE STARRY SKY is an intimately scaled but still powerful reminder that the forces of globalisation cannot produce a singularised migrant experience.
AGNSW Film Series – A Look Back and Forward
We take a look at the AGNSW’s current film series and their focus on Japanese classic cinema and the Pop movement.
Echo of the Mountain
Echo of the Mountain takes as its subject the Huichol artist Santos de la Torre, who lives and works in the western Sierra Madre in near-anonymity.
The Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia – An Interview with Artistic Director Cerise Howard
The Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia comes to Sydney for the first time between 4-7 September 2014. We caught up with the Artistic Director, Cerise Howard, to talk about the program, which features retrospectives of the iconic Czech New Wave, the inimitable surrealist Jan Švankmajer and some fascinating new films from the two nations.
Norte, the End of History
Lav Diaz’s novelistic ambitions and formal rigour don’t quite blend in Norte, but it is saved by the breadth of its scope and political rendering of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.
Li’l Quinquin
Playing with the tropes of the procedural crime series drama, Bruno Dumont’s newest film is an unexpectedly funny venture into comedy that still retains the thematic darkness of the director’s previous work.
La última película
Far from being purely an exercise in nostalgia or a fashionable technological anachronism, it displays a mastery of a format with its own aesthetic possibilities that simply can not be replaced.
Jauja
Lisandro Alonso’s Jauja, which tells the story of a military captain’s struggle through the Patagonian wilderness to find his daughter, is a fascinating new departure for the director.
What Now? Remind Me
Joaquim Pinto’s What Now? Remind Me displays a refreshing antidote to filmic solipsism; a personal documentary that reveals a willingness to join the personal with the historical, and life to cinema.
National Gallery
Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery is a delicate and quietly intelligent film from one of the Old Masters of documentary film.