Archive for 'Sydney Film Festival 2011'
[Sydney Film Festival 2011: Review] The Turin Horse
The Turin Horse (HUNGARY) Dir. Béla Tarr Info/ Screenings Does Béla Tarr have a sense of humour? Yes, he does. There’s a point in The Turin Horse, about half way through, when he compacts more dialogue than the rest of the film combined into the space of about two minutes, in the form of a [...]
Posted: June 14th, 2011 under Arts, Film Reviews, Sydney Film Festival 2011, Uncategorized.
Tags: Bela Tarr, Dee Jefferson, Sydney Film Festival, The Turin Horse
[FILM: Interview] Matthew Bates on Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
When I tell director Matthew Bates that his Sundance-selected documentary, Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure, made me feel complicit, and uncomfortable, he’s chuffed. “You’ve said all the right things!” he laughs. Shut Up Little Man! explores a pop-cultural phenomenon: the Peter and Raymond audio tapes. An underground cult sensation in the late ‘80s [...]
Posted: June 13th, 2011 under Arts, Brag 416 (june 13), Brushstrokes, Sydney Film Festival 2011.
Tags: Dee Jefferson, Matthew Bates, Shut Up Little Man, The Brag
[FILM: Interview] Director Jeff Nichols on Take Shelter
Take Shelter Jeff Nichols highly-anticipated second feature makes its Oz debut. By Dee Jefferson Labelled by industry site Indiewire one of the most anticipated films of Sundance, and bought sight-unseen by Sony Pictures Classics before the festival even opened, Take Shelter comes to Sydney Film Festival on the tail of a definite buzz. The name [...]
Posted: June 13th, 2011 under Arts, Brag 416 (june 13), Interviews-arts, Sydney Film Festival 2011.
Tags: Dee Jefferson, Jeff Nichols, Sydney Film Festival, Take Shelter, The Brag
[Sydney Film Festival 2011: Review] Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids (USA) Dir. Miguel Arteta Screening: Wed Jun 15 Cedar Rapids is completely conventional, completely predictable and utterly charming. Feeling a trifle out of place among the challenging, non-English language films of the festival (mind you, Kung Fu Panda 2 premieres on Wednesday…), it’s still a pleasure of a quirky comedy that stars Ed [...]
Posted: June 12th, 2011 under Arts, Sydney Film Festival 2011.
Tags: Cedar Rapids, Joshua Blackman, Sydney Film Festival, The Brag
[Sydney Film Festival 2011: Review] The Beaver
The Beaver (USA) Dir. Jodie Foster Screening: Sat Jun 18 It’s inevitable that any review of Jodie Foster’s new film, The Beaver, will involve a discussion of its troubled star’s off screen antics. It’s actually almost impossible to consider the film without some consideration of the circumstances that informed it, given that it deals with [...]
Posted: June 12th, 2011 under Arts, Sydney Film Festival 2011.
Tags: Joshua Blackman, Sydney Film Festival, The Beaver, The Brag