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Film
Family drama delves deep
Francesco Munzi’s award-winning Black Souls deromanticises the mafia.
Festival to show new, old and yours
More than 180 films will screen across Adelaide from October 15-25 during the Adelaide Film Festival.
Talking the walk
What’s it like to be portrayed in a film by Robert Redford? ‘Very strange,’ according to bestselling writer Bill Bryson.
Ganging up for gangsta rap
NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton revisits the days when rap artists preferred to be part of a group.
Two films, one actress
French actress Marion Cotillard can be seen in two of her lesser known but more interesting films this week.
Malkovich’s disgraceful genius
Race, class, history and sex are all fuel to the fire in an adaptation of JM Coetzee’s Booker Prize-winning novel Disgrace.
Macy rudderless as director
Actor William H Macy’s first feature handles a campus shooting central to the plot very poorly indeed.
The Bard’s greatest cast
Laurence Olivier and Ian McKellen make the cut but a history of great Shakespearean actors has some weird omissions.
Battle of the sexists
The Fearsome Female is now a dominant cultural force. Great: but why are the men so hapless and despicable?
Blanchett to play 1950s icon
The lead role in a biopic about one of the most loved American TV stars in history has gone to… an Aussie.
Pushing case of the Afghan press
A ‘media revolution’ is unfolding across Afghanistan, one of the most dangerous countries to be a journalist.
Star Wars toy frenzy starts
Move over Elsa and Anna, the lightsabers have arrived. Star Wars is set to blow Frozen off the toy sales charts.
Little Death springs to life
A Spanish version of Josh Lawson’s film, The Little Death, is in production with French and Lithuanian remakes in the works.
Awkward teens shine on screen
Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s fears for his new film have been belied by festival awards.
A knack for vivid nightmares
Wes Craven made his name with the 1984 horror classic A Nightmare on Elm Street and the Scream franchise.
Fitzroy Crossing doco wins big
The feature-length documentary Putuparri and the Rainmakers upstaged a number of high profile local films to win the $100,000 CinéfestOZ Film Prize
Kruger creator Wes Craven dies
The horror film icon who created Freddie Kruger, and kept children awake at night across the globe, has passed away.
Roadshow focuses on ‘Australiana’
Australia’s leading film producer, Roadshow Films, has indicated it will narrow its focus to “Australiana” films.
Worth waiting up for
If you can keep your eyes open (or press the record button) there are some fine cinematic offerings on free to air this week.
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