Tag: 2010
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Sydney Film Festival 2011: Day 1
With the Opening Night a roaring success, today marked the first full day of screenings at the 58th Sydney Film Festival. In addition to the Australian debut of Official Competition entrant Attenberg, there were 15 new films on offer today!
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Angèle And Tony
REVIEW: Following in the impressive footsteps of a long line of French female auteurs, first-timer Alix Delaporte tells a story of strangers by the sea in the gentle, gorgeous gem of a film that is Angele And Tony.
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Born to Be Wild 3D
REVIEW: Narrated by the ubiquitous soothing voice of Morgan Freeman, Born to Be Wild 3D is one of the first feature documentaries to fully utilise state-of-the-art 4K digital 3D technology.
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Burke And Hare
REVIEW: Legendary filmmaker John Landis (An American Werewolf in London) gets back behind the camera for the first time since 1998, bringing Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis and almost every other British actor and comedian with him.
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Babies
Take a peek at the intimate moments that fill our first year of life, as French documentarian Thomas Balmès follows the formative period across the world.
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How I Ended This Summer
REVIEW: Silver Bear winner How I Ended This Summer has been a favourite on the festival circuit, and is part of a recent wave Russian arthouse films. Director Alexei Popogrebski explores isolation and madness in a most unforgiving landscape.
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Review: The Tempest
William Shakespeare’s 400-year-old play is given a new lease on life as Julie Taymor brings her considerable stage and screen experience to what is largely believed to be the Bard’s last play.
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Incendies
REVIEW: The last of the 2011 foreign film Oscar nominees to reach Australia adapts Wajdi Mouawad’s play “Scorched”. Winning 8 Genies, this beautiful film ponders actions and consequences across parallel stories of parents and offspring.
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Mega Piranha
REVIEW: (In)famous LA production house Asylum super-sizes another fishy creature as 1980s teen sensation Tiffany goes head-to-head with the mega piranha, a mutant strain of giant ferocious piranha from the Amazon and eating their way toward Florida.
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Of Gods and Men (Alliance Française French Film Festival 2011)
Winner of the Grand Prix and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, Xavier Beauvois explores the twin subjects of faith and humanity.
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