Category: Film Festivals
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The Alliance Française French Film Festival 2011 – Highlights
The Alliance Française French Film Festival, now entering its 22nd year in Australia, launches next week in Sydney before touring nationally throughout March and April. Featuring almost 50 films, this year’s selection may be one of its best to date.
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Finding Nemo (Australian Film Festival 2011)
REVIEW: One of Pixar’s most enduring animated features, it gets local love for using Sydney as a backdrop and a shark named Bruce.
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Opening Night: The Wedding Party (Australian Film Festival 2011)
The Australian Film Festival launched in Sydney last night, with the New South Wales premiere of Amanda Jane’s romantic comedy, The Wedding Party. Bringing out the director and cast, including Steve Bisley, it kicks of 12 days of festival fun.
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Australian Film Festival 2011 – Highlights
The Australian Film Festival launches its second annual selection of unseen and retrospective Australian films at the Randwick Ritz in Sydney next week. Complete with Q & A sessions, workshops, guest appearances and short films, it is become a ritzier event every year.
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Japanese Film Festival 2010: Wrap Up
It has been half a week since the end of the Sydney leg of 14th Japanese Film Festival, and we’re slowly coming down off the dizzying heights of the best that Japanese cinema has to offer us. Is Post Festival Displacement (PFD) a treatable disorder, and if so, can we claim it on Medicare? With…
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A Lone Scalpel (Japanese Film Festival 2010)
The Closing Night of the 14th Japanese Film Festival in Sydney is an adaptation of Doctor Toshihiko Oogane’s bestselling novel. Drawing on the controversial topic of human organ transplant from brain-dead patients in Japan, where brain-death was not legally recognised for a number of years, it is the second film in the festival (after Dear Doctor)…
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Sword of Desperation (Japanese Film Festival 2010)
The history of Japanese cinema has long been defined into a number of key genres that reflect the history of Japan itself. Arguably the most famous of these is the jidai-geki, or period dramas, and consist of films largely set in the Edo Period of Japan (1603 – 1868), with samurai cinema such as Rashomon,…
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The Summit: A Chronicle of Stones (Japanese Film Festival)
Prior to the availability of handheld GPS, people used to rely on these things called maps and surveying to find their way around the world. It sounds like some kind of madness, but apparently they didn’t have the Internet in those days either. (It’s ok, we can say what we like about them here: they’ll…
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Box! (Japanese Film Festival 2010)
Sport films tend to follow a fairly standard pattern, and are always good for a bit heart-string pulling in the audience. We’ve already had one sports film this year at the Japanese Film Festival in Feel the Wind, two if you count the competition performance calligraphy of Shodo Girls, both of which featured the underdog…
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Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror (Japanese Film Festival 2010)
Production I.G. has always been a ground-breaker in the Japanese animation industry. Indeed, Production I.G. was the first company to film a series almost entirely in English with Japanese subtitles to reach a wider possible market, starting with the short feature Blood: The Last Vampire. With their latest feature, director Shinsuke Sato (Princess Blade) and animation director…
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