Category: Film
All things film.
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Tamara Drewe
The literary works of Thomas Hardy have been adapted many times over the years, most notably as plays, television mini-series and feature films. Although often occupied with the social constraints placed on the lives of people living within the 19th century class structure, the themes of fate (and fatalism for that matter) inherent in the…
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Blue Valentine
There is no easy way to start talking about Blue Valentine, no more than there is an easy way to explain why people fall in love. Yet this is the playground of Derek Cianfrance’s (Brother Tied) film, a story that is as much about breaking up as it is getting together. Yet it is undeniably…
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Back to the Future: Charity Screening
PHOTOS: A charity screening of Back to the Future saw the biggest star of them all, the DeLorean, in town.
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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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Villon’s Wife (Japanese Film Festival 2010)
Based on the semi-autobiographical Osamu Dazai novel Villon no Tsuma.
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