Aug 7, 2006
It���s a shame George Romero isn���t in town for the Festival, because Melbourne has become a city of zombies.
In a way, it���s heartening that Melburnians throw themselves into cinema spectatorship with such gusto. No casual ���How about a fillum tonight, dear?��� for us. Oh no. We have MIFF schedules, and we plot them with the steely resolve of battle-hardened army generals.
But some people take it too far. When ...
Aug 6, 2006
Like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates, short films can be delicate and discomforting in equal measure—and that’s just what we got.
The atmospheric The Dance follows a teenager’s flirtation with suicide and immersion in music. Its use of light is hauntingly beautiful, but the wobbly camera does little to dispel the stereotype of short films as training grounds for inexperienced directors.
Despite its heroic focus pulling, I felt similarly ambivalent ...
May 25, 2006
You know that moment of excitement when you first find out this year's Comedy Festival line-up, and there's one act that you really, really can't wait to see? Well, I'm sad to say that for me, that moment came when I read two words: Pauly Shore.
Of course, nobody I know seemed to share my excitement. I was all, 'Come on! Don't wee-eeze the jui-uice!' and, 'Buuuuuuddy!' and, 'He ...
