Tag: Australia
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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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Sanctum
REVIEW: If you are having trouble sleeping, try drowning yourself. If that fails, see Sanctum.
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Mad Bastards
While there have certainly been some big hits at the Australian box office over the last few years, it is difficult to translate the success of local produce to the international stage. It could be that the local focus of many Australian films may not appeal to international audiences, already inundated by the might of…
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Oz Film Blogathon: ‘What are we really watching?’
We all love seeing a good Aussie film. That’s what the anti-piracy lobby tells us at the start of every DVD, Blu-ray or cinema session we see. Yet since the start of 2010, only one Australian film – Tomorrow, When the War Began – has managed to reach the Number 1 spot in the box…
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Melbourne International Film Festival: Machete Maidens Unleashed!/Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
There a number of documentaries screening at this year’s MIFF that look at the filmmaking process. Here are two such films, each dealing with the exploitation end of the business, focusing on markedly different eras – to say nothing of countries – but with overlapping themes and participants. In Machete Maidens Unleashed!, Not Quite Hollywood director Mark…
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