THORNBURY PICTURE HOUSE

In Melbourne we tend to exist either North or South of the Yarra, with very few Melbournians ever truly traversing both sides of this geographical divide. But why should we, when both sides of our city posses everything we could ever need; markets, bars, cafes- all of life’s modern conveniences? But on the north it…

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21/05/2018

CARGO

In 2013, the story behind a feature film called CARGO, began with it being selected as a Tropfest finalist, while it was then still only a short film. This success then lead to a series of amazing breakthroughs; describing the process, Ben Howling; one half of the creative team, says that “It felt like it took a long time…

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18/05/2018

THOSE STRINGS ARE FOR GIRLS

Laura Imbruglia is the producer and host of something called ‘Amateur Hour,’ an online variety special full of skits and local music. She is a musician, a DJ and she has a short film in this year’s St Kilda Film Festival called Gender Reversed Guitar Shopping. The Melbourne Critique caught up with her to find out why she has all these women in a…

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28/04/2018

LIZ DRIVES

Liz Drives is like a speeding car with white Australia as a passenger without a seat-belt on, where a white woman’s learned racism about black men leads to assumptions and serious trouble, or as the film’s tagline says: “some horrors you create yourself”. This short film has won awards aplenty, both here and overseas, showing…

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19/03/2018

QUEERAMA

“Your son’s not one of those, is he Hilda?”- Queerama is a cornucopia of film footage from the B.F.I archives.This British doco is an educational cinema experience that mashes up the surprisingly varied scenes of British cinema history from the last 100 years. These excerpts are sifted into the mix with report footage on the state of Homosexuality in Britain’s 50s and 60s, the hidden worlds edited…

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17/03/2018

SATURDAY CHURCH

“Let’s do some Princess Diary shit, now purse your lips….” orders Dijon (Indya Moore)to Ulysses (Luka Kain), a 14 year old Black kid searching for a place that is better than his home in Saturday Church. Dijon is applying the lipstick on Ulysses, the sex questioning young man whose father has died in an American conflict, his remains…

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14/03/2018

DESERT HEARTS

Desert Hearts is a film which changed the history of Queer film making. Made at a time when American independent films were still so few, helmed by a woman was also such a rarity let alone bringing a story about Lesbians to the big screen. Thirty-three years after it’s release, Desert Hearts is to be…

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13/03/2018

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ANDRE

Andre Leon Talley is as big as fashion itself, a true ‘Renaissance Man’, an out gay African American who conquered Vogue, Interview magazine and other trend setting publications with his unique fashion editorials, often decked-out with coinage Andre-isms like ‘Regency Bucks’ or ‘Oscar Wilde Cowboys’,‘Fashion Fungus‘ to ‘Pagoda Shoulders’describing the couture of the times. Kate Novacks doco has the approach of being the Fly on the Wall, witnessing a legend of high fashion society in action as he breaks…

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