Critiquing the Critics: A Love Letter to Adrian Martin
In his 2004 review of comic book adaptation Catwoman, The Age’s Adrian Martin gave the film four stars. Martin was adamant that the undertones of feminism, mixed with pleasing aesthetics had constructed a ‘fine film’. He was particularly impressed that the film had serious feminist ideals while still being a huge Hollywood blockbuster.
The film was [...]
The Vikings are Back
Danish cinema has never been at the forefront of international film-making, through no fault of its own. Those Danes make a good film, but nothing groundbreaking that warranted worldwide attention. That is until Thomas Vineberg’s came crashing onto the scene with Fasten in 1998, setting fire to the phenomena that became Dogme95.
Although it set out [...]
Royston Tan, the Singaporean Iconoclast
Singapore is for the fast and the furious. But as the rest of this country forges ahead in a rat race, local film-maker Royston Tan seeks his comfort in ‘the old days’. What you will not find in the squeaky-clean transit terminals and urbanised metropolis of Singapore, you will discover through Tan’s lens’an intimate look [...]
Melbourne, Australia: Long way from Asia
There was a time when I looked forward to the brown paper packages sent by kind relatives from Hong Kong. They contained the badly dubbed video cassettes that provided me with an alternative source of entertainment to the white dominated screen culture of the Australian mainstream. These fragments from beyond came in the form of [...]
Warning! Too Many Movies Will Rot Your Braiiiiiiiins!!!
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 [...]
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