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Margaret Fink AO, producer and originating member of the Sydney Push dining at Otto restaurant in Woolloomooloo, NSW. December 4, 2024. Photo: Kate Geraghty

Before Margaret Fink would do lunch with me, I had to audition

You need to bring your A-game when you dine with the Sydney movie producer whose extravagant dinner parties are legendary.

  • Michael Koziol

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The famous “that’s not a knife, that’s a knife” scene from Crocodile Dundee.

There’s a new release of Crocodile Dundee. Here’s what’s been edited out

The premiere of The Encore Cut has the first chance to see how the classic film has been updated, with “considered edits” included to give Paul Hogan’s Mick Dundee a modern makeover.

  • Garry Maddox
Dune star Josh Brolin, left, with Australian cinematographer Greig Fraser at the Exposures exhibition celebrating Dune: Part One and Part Two at London’s Frieze Gallery in November.

Terrifying fires put life into perspective for Australian Oscar winner

Cinematographer Greig Fraser says the devastation has shown what really matters.

  • Garry Maddox
Gary Sweet and Steve Bastoni are actors and mates, and a judge and the founder (respectively) of the Peninsula Film Festival.

In the ’90s these actors jumped head-first into everything, friendship included

Steve Bastoni and Gary Sweet met on their first day on the set of Police Rescue. More than 30 years, on they’re still cracking each other up on their latest venture together.

  • Karl Quinn
Nash Edgerton (left) has directed a short film called Candy Bar, starring Damon Herriman (right) and Nash’s daughter Zumi, that has its world premiere at Flickerfest that runs at Bondi Pavilion.

When Nash Edgerton’s daughter caught the acting bug, he decided to shoot a new film

The director of Mr Inbetween wanted to work with nine-year-old Zumi, who has “got a real bug” for acting.

  • Garry Maddox
Better Man Rock DJ sequence

Anatomy of a scene: Making Better Man’s showstopping Rock DJ sequence

It’s the key scene in Michael Gracey’s Robbie Williams biopic, but the man behind it says it very nearly didn’t happen.

  • Karl Quinn
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Crocodile Dundee

That’s not a cut! Why is Crocodile Dundee being re-edited?

Viewers were outraged to notice trims in the Australian film for a UK TV screening. A new version of the classic comedy with “considered edits” is now headed for cinemas.

  • Garry Maddox
Tim Chappel’s career hasn’t missed a beat since he won an Oscar for his designs in The Adventures Of Priscilla: Queen Of The Desert.

‘Oh my god, Oprah is so excited!’ The unexpected Oscars win that changed Tim’s life

Sydney designer Tim Chappel’s family was once disappointed with his career choice. Not any more.

  • Garry Maddox
Nigel Buesst, Australian filmmaking legend.

‘A legendary figure’: Nigel Buesst, filmmaker and educator, dead at 86

He may not be a household name, but the impact of Nigel Buesst as a maker, chronicler and educator in Australian filmmaking was profound.

  • Karl Quinn
Jonno Davies plays a monkey version of Robbie Williams in the biopic Better Man.

Robbie Williams as an ape? This biopic is more than monkey business

Better Man is far more unconventional than Bohemian Rhapsody, but it lacks the connective personal tissue that held Rocketman together.

  • Craig Mathieson

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