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24/02/2019

MQFF / MMXIX

This year, Melbourne Queer Film Festival edges closer to its 30th anniversary; as ever, the festival program finds inspiration from each corner of the diverse community that the festival stands to represent through big screen adaption. With works having begun on the redevelopment of ACMI this year, the festival will not centre upon one locale,…
FILM INTERVIEWS
14/07/2018

THE DEATH OF WALT DISNEY

A Public Reading of An Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney – July 11 201 –MKA Theatre of New Writing had a bouncy castle custom-made for the show. It is snow-white and curved like the Buena Vista Pictures Distribution logo, a castle in the sky, offset against pitch black. The Manderson-Galvin family of…
FILM PERFORMANCE
08/06/2018

HEREDITARY

Avid horror fans, rejoice! For Hereditary, the new Art-House horror film of the hour, is now showing at cinemas across Australia. Proclaimed as the scariest film of the year and heralded as the modern-day equivalent to The Exorcist, Hereditary is like a nightmare which  lingers in your mind for days to come. It will leave…
FILM
05/06/2018

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…
FILM
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…
FILM
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…
FILM
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…
FILM
05/04/2018

CURIOUS AND CURIOUSER

First penned by Lewis Carroll in 1865, Alice In Wonderland became an instant and timeless classic, that allowed for the suspension of belief and for the entering into a slippery reality that still inspires and delights both the young and the young at heart alike. Since Alice made her silver screen debut in 1903, the…
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