A triumph of American independent filmmaking. Sometimes at a film festival, your biggest takeaway from a screening is, ‘I need to see that again.’ This was mine after seeing Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s The Endless, a film the duo…
The Wound is the directorial debut from filmmaker John Trengove that has been receiving some hot debate about its controversial look at the clash of tradition and modernity in South Africa. On a chilly Melbourne evening we made our way…
Homoerotic, kinky bondage, and Catholic parables do not usually fit within the same sentence, that’s why we were so intrigued to see one of this year’s most unconventional films at MIFF – The Ornithologist. This Portuguese film from 2016 stars…
An essential documentary that rewrites history to show the truth. For many Australian audiences (myself included), the name ‘James Baldwin’ won’t have the same ring to it that Martin Luther King’s does, or Malcolm X’s But hopefully, after seeing Raoul…
The Indian Film Festival will once again be held in Melbourne from 10 August to 22 August. As a country with one of the biggest film industries in the world, churning out over 1500 movies annually, the cinematic experience is…
There’s very little music in God’s Own Country. There’s hardly even any talking. Francis Lee’s debut feature is one defined by incidental sounds: the sound of rain lashing against the walls of a flimsy caravan, of goats bleating as they’re…
You hear a lot about the ‘death of cinema’ these days. It only takes a quick google to bring up countless articles proclaiming that cinema as we know it is dead, nobody goes to the movies anymore, filmmakers aren’t making…
One of cinema’s greatest joys is that it allows viewers to visit faraway places, often with filmmakers whose intimate knowledge of their homelands can offer more than a real visit would. Melbourne is lucky enough to host film festivals all…
Blue, directed by Karina Holden is a challenging feature documentary that delves into the ongoing perils of our oceans’ ecology. Two years in the making, Blue serves as part of the Good Pitch Australia documentary program to boost global awareness of plastic’s…
When I first saw director Mike Mills’ Beginners (2010), an autobiographical story of a young man whose elderly father admits he’s gay, it had a profound effect on me. Mills’ tender approach to his subject, his nonlinear filmmaking, and the…