Film Festivals
Australia’s oldest film festival is broke. Can it survive?
The Melbourne International Film Festival faces its third consecutive loss, but its inaugural CEO insists it’s not about to collapse.
- by Karl Quinn
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Rebel Wilson’s latest film withdrawn as actor lashes producers
Wilson has accused the producers of her directorial debut film of “viciousness”.
- by Helen Pitt
‘Rules go out the window’: Why Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons can’t say no to Yorgos Lanthimos
The actors star in the ‘really weird’ Kinds of Kindness, which was made before the Oscar-winning Poor Things was even released.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
‘Bigger than Barbie’ Italian movie wins Sydney Film Festival competition
There’s Still Tomorrow has a surprising light touch for a film about a woman trapped in a toxic marriage.
- by Garry Maddox
Charmian Clift, ‘radicalising force’ for feminism, finally gets to shine
A new documentary shows the Australian writer as a glamorous rebel and unrecognised collaborator on George Johnston’s novel My Brother Jack.
- by Garry Maddox
Midnight Oil to a ‘jaw-dropping’ Demi Moore: 15 highlights of the Sydney Film Festival
From Cannes award winners to local documentaries and big-name stars, these are the festival’s top picks.
- by Garry Maddox
Still scarred: The Japanese comedian who unknowingly starred in a reality TV show
Twenty-five years ago Nasubi went through his own version of The Truman Show.
- by Garry Maddox
The biggest, weirdest and best Cannes films to keep an eye on this year
This year’s Cannes festival was largely defined by bold, daring and outright strange films. Here are six titles you should be across.
- by Nell Geraets
The Cannes red carpet always delivers drama. This year was no exception
From surprise appearances to Greta Gerwig in horse heels, here are six of the biggest moments from this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
- by Nell Geraets
New Donald Trump biopic includes controversial rape scene
The film, titled The Apprentice, charts the former president’s rise to wealth and power in the 1970s and 80s.
- by Craig Simpson
Gracie Otto began a film about her dad’s one-man show. A diagnosis changed the story
Gracie Otto has made a documentary about her beloved father, who no longer recognises himself in one of Australia’s biggest films.
- by Garry Maddox