“Screen Worship”: The 2013 Adelaide Film Festival Kath Dooley December 2013 Festival Reports It’s all about creating doorways. This was the message of writer/director Scott Hicks, winner of the 2013 Don Dunstan Award for outstanding contribution to the Australian film industry, which was presented at t...
The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn From Contemporary French Actresses by Mick LaSalle Kath Dooley March 2013 Book Reviews In 2008 French actress Catherine Deneuve (then aged sixty-four) made her 100th screen appearance in Arnaud Desplechin’s Un Conte de Noel/A Christmas Tale. In the time that has followed she has made at least two...
The Intruder Kath Dooley June 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film In an interview following the Toronto Film Festival screening of L’intrus (The Intruder, 2004), Claire Denis remarked that her films are sometimes unbalanced: “They have a limp, or one arm shorter than the othe...
Eclectic and Open to the World: The 9th Annual Paris Cinema Festival Kath Dooley October 2011 Festival Reports With support from the city of Paris and presided over by actress Charlotte Rampling, the Paris Cinema Festival is touted as a democratic and offbeat annual event that combines the retrospective and the prospect...