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Few would have missed the chorus of lament sung mostly by the American and British press about this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Now a standard response from the corporate and grassroots press who file regular ...

“Oh, if only you knew how often I have been in love … with no one, with an ideal, with the one I dream of in my sleep.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights There’s a strange parallel between the climax of Rober...

The below is based on an account of the making of Hey Al Baby by David Minter published in Issue 2 of the Melbourne Film Bulletin, April 1968. In the 1960s, members of the Melbourne University Film Society (...

In the Shadow of the Sun is the title of two films, substantially identical but materially distinct. The first, a silent Super 8 film made between 1972 and 1974 incorporating footage shot in 1971, was screened ...

Chinese director Wang Bing’s latest filmography continues to push the boundaries of documentary filmmaking, transforming the humble interview from mere archival tool into an aesthetic force. This article presen...

With an acknowledgement of thanks to Fabrizio Fogliato On 25 September 1967, a Milan bank-heist went violently, tragically awry: as the escaping robbers exchanged gunfire with police in a high-speed car chas...

In his account of the Melbourne University Film Society’s (MUFS) activities in the 1960s, Adrian Danks highlights the organisation’s facilitation of feature-film production. Through the help of the dedicated “U...

I’ve never kept a viewing diary, as I know many cinephiles do. But to some extent the Melbourne Cinémathèque has kept one for me. Browsing through some of their old calendars recently, I found I was usually abl...

The only thing to discover at The Nitrate Picture Show is the past. With an entire slate of programming consisting of nothing besides rare nitrate prints, the festival is, by design, prohibited from showing any...

"We artists are irresponsible people." – Maxim Gorky to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, c. 1907-08 As a core member of El Pampero Cine, Alejo Moguillansky was initially known as the team’s editor who was sought-af...

Filmmakers have long been fascinated with photography’s ability to thematise the productive, typically resistant, interplay between the human and the nonhuman, where the ‘nonhuman’ can refer to both technology ...

There are two main sites of the New York Film Festival. On the northside of West 65th Street, in the Lincoln Square neighbourhood of Manhattan, is the 268-seat Walter Reade Theater, which sits above the street,...

It is customary in China’s film festival environment for there to be is almost no information on the upcoming edition of a festival until the last two, three weeks before the event is scheduled to start. The ne...

Written by Patricia Cornelius, one of Australia’s most celebrated playwrights and a Windham-Campbell prize winner, the micro-budget Melbourne feature Shit began life as a play (2015), with its powerhouse cast o...

At the end of the 19th century, the emerging field of psychology adopted the concept of dissociation to describe mental processes that run counter to the assumed endeavour of the subject and its ego to combine ...

would have us be concerned not with the psychology but with the physiology of existence. – André Bazin, “Le journal d’ un curé de campagne and the Stylistics of Robert Bresson” I wanted to be raw material...

After the zero-Covid policy lockdown pushed the previous edition of Pingyao International Film Festival to January 2023, Jia Zhangke and the festival team faced the challenge of organising two festivals in one ...

Often recognised for his catalogue of self-referential, comic-book-inspired films, director Kevin Smith is seldom acknowledged for his influence upon the body horror subgenre. Instead, this honour is oft attrib...

In the United States, regional filmmakers rarely get the same attention as their big-city counterparts, at least until they premiere in New York or L.A. This denial of certain geographic perspectives is bound u...

Across its 600-plus pages, Foster Hirsch’s ambitious account of Hollywood and the films made there during the 1950s covers the terrain with comprehensive purpose. As he puts it in his introduction, citing L.P. ...

From the opening moments of Romanian director Radu Jude’s Silver Bear-winning Aferim! (2015) we instantly recognize the cinematic terrain. In a low-contrast black-and-white palette against a cloud-strewn sky, t...

The stand-out film of the 2023 Nippon Connection – although the ‘Visions’ jury in Frankfurt didn’t agree with me – was Amiko, (Kochira Amiko, 2022), written and directed by Morii Yūsuke in his feature debut. No...

In a review of Club Zero, Jessica Hausner’s latest feature, which premiered in Competition at Cannes this year, Charles Bramesco calls the director “Austria’s most fearless button-pusher.” Given that her compat...

Before beginning, I offer the disclaimer that I am not an unbiased writer of this Great Actors profile. I have a tattoo of Barbara Stanwyck. It’s an image of her as Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity (Bill...

Coming almost 30 years after Ildikó Enyedi’s extraordinary breakthrough feature, Az én XX. századom (My Twentieth Century, 1989), and 18 years since her last, Simon mágus (Simon, the Magician), Teströl és lélek...

Pirated films found a place in the social and cultural sphere of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh during the 1980s. State controlling the access to and the viewing of films is nothing new. As Amos Vogel stat...

In early December, I received an unexpected email. After participating virtually in the IFFR Young Critics Program in 2019, I was invited to take part in a second round of workshops–this time in person, as the ...

“Quería ver luz” – these are the words director Tatiana Huezo used to describe to us the impetus behind El Eco (The Echo), her latest documentary, which premiered in February at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival. T...

“It was the greatest Carnival Attraction I’d ever seen… His Super Power was Music.” - Colonel Tom Parker An Australian Film Brand With just six films over thirty years (1992-2022), Baz Luhrmann and his crea...

Piaffe, Ann Oren's astonishing first feature film presented in competition at Locarno Film Festival 2022, bestows us with that same enchantment that early cinema viewers must have experienced going to the movie...

In his latest film, Unrest (2022), Swiss director Cyril Schäublin has created something new and unique. Together with his feature debut, Those Who Are Fine (2017), he has developed his own aesthetic style and n...

Since 2010, DOC NYC, the largest documentary festival in the United States, has put forth programs that showcase a wide range of works that rally under the banner of non-fiction. This year’s edition took place ...

What is the pertinence of past events for the present moment and how can one open up history’s trajectory into the future? – We were sitting in Orșova, a small town in Romania opposite Serbia, where the Cerna R...

Post-Yugoslav Documentary Films: Powered by Concerns At the time of a long, uneven, and still unfinished transition from socialism to capitalism in post-Yugoslav states, in the period of untreated post-war tra...

The fall of Yugoslavia was a historical event of huge importance for the Balkans, but also for the rest of Europe and the world. Different accounts and explanations of how and why the former Yugoslavia collapse...

b. 31 May, 1970, Naples, Campania, Italy The comparisons to Federico Fellini may be seen as both a blessing and a curse for Paolo Sorrentino. On one hand, the lofty likening to one of world cinema’s grand mast...