The first still (left, click to enlarge) has surfaced from the set of director Wes Anderson’s stop-motion adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s novel Fantastic Mr. Fox. It depicts PJ-clad Mr and Mrs Fox (voice of George Clooney and Meryl Streep), a young child fox and Badger (voice of Bill Murray). While the image itself isn’t [...]
As its title suggests The Fox & the Child is a slight, quaint and syrupy sweet all-ages yarn about the relationship between a young ‘un and a wild fox. It’s Luc Jacquet’s semi-autobiographical follow-up to his 2005 surprise smash hit March of the Penguins, and like its predecessor this warmly shot and convincingly staged film [...]
In 2003 Aussie writing/directing/editing tag team Michael and Peter Spierig – aka The Spierig Brothers – unleashed one hell of a feature debut with Undead, a terrifically screwy Australian zombie movie about a fishing village overcome by grisly, slobbery, flesh-chewing post-life citizens. The film has one particularly memorable and entirely zingerific lines of dialogue: a [...]
Samson & Delilah, the Cannes-selected breakthrough feature of writer/director Warwick Thornton, follows the gradual partnership of two indigenous teenagers who live in a small impoverished rural community outside Alice Springs. It is a film of slow and menacing beauty, phlegmatically unravelled with painfully authentic performances delivered in front of vast and vacuous backdrops soaked up [...]
May will be a good month for Russell Crowe fans, with two new movies featuring the burly Aussie actor coming out in close succession: Tenderness, directed by Tropfest creator John Polson (opening April 30) and State of Play, from Touching the Void director Kevin Macdonald (opening May 28). Both are thrillers.
Crowe is currently in the U.K. getting [...]
Home grown star-on-the-rise Emily Browning turned heads in 2004 with her breakthrough performance in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. It was an especially impressive feat, given it’s never easy for anyone to turn heads when they’re starring alongside Jim Carrey. Browning can currently be seen on Australian screens – though not for much [...]
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
In Search of Beethoven
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Phil Grabsky - director of In Search of Beethoven
Jonathan auf der Heide - director of Van Diemen's Land
Ana Kokkinos - director of Blessed
Jeremy Saunders - key art designer
Robert Connolly - writer/director of Balibo
Les Chantery - star of Cedar Boys
Bert Deling - director of Pure Shit
Warwick Thornton - writer/director of Samson & Delilah
Sergei Dvortsevoy - writer/director of Tulpan
Adam Elliot - writer/director of Mary and Max
Mark Forstmann - writer/director of Monkey Puzzle
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