Festival with wow factor
With a line-up of established stars and talented upstarts, Ruth Mackenzie’s first Adelaide Festival program was off to a flying start.
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‘Awful #MeToo extremism worse than McCarthyism’
French film maverick Catherine Breillat refuses to judge a character who has sex with her teenage stepson. Oh, but what about if the sexes were reversed? Breillat has a bright response to that.
Critics go Wilde for ‘virtuoso’ Snook
Australia’s Succession star Sarah Snook earns five-star reviews for her ‘brilliant’ and ‘virtuoso’ solo turn in Dorian Gray in London’s West End.
The harrowing assassination attempt on Bob Marley
British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir learned to play guitar, talk and move like Bob Marley for an ambitious biopic that included a notorious episode in the reggae giant’s career.
Secrecy’s star role in Alliance Francaise festival highlight
The biggest program of French film outside France will this year feature Catherine Deneuve as Bernadette Chirac, and Johnny Depp as King Louis XV.
The gruelling shoot Anna Torv will never forget
Anna Torv is talking about one of 2024’s most anticipated films and the conversation soon turns to leeches. As in, hundreds of bloodsucking critters. ‘People had them on their eyeballs’.
Five stars for David: candid reflections of legendary film critic Stratton
Dealing with profound health challenges which make it ‘very painful just to sit at the computer’, David Stratton has decided to retire, ending a 33-year association with The Weekend Australian.
‘I stand by speech’: Macron critic tipped for Oscars glory
Justine Triet endured a furious backlash after tearing strips off the Macron government in a Cannes acceptance speech. Now, the French director’s film may be headed for even bigger prizes.
Visit to a volcano with side trip to democracy’s eruption
A holiday trip to Indonesia in 1998 was interrupted by widespread looting, burning and rioting that erupted in Jakarta and other cities after four student protesters were killed.
Call for justice for dead cousins
The NSW Coroner urged to reject the exoneration of a white, middle-aged man over the road deaths of two Aboriginal girls and the sexual molestation of the younger girl’s body.
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