Tag: "Film director"

Woody Allen: A Documentary
0 Comments. 1,038 Views. Posted 7 May 2012 @ 12:40pm.
He’s one of the most highly regarded and renowned movie masters of our time and, in such fashion, must be celebrated.  As part of its Long Play program, ACMI will present the Australian premiere of Woody Allen: A Documentary, paying homage to the remarkable career of arguably America’s premier auteur, comedian and neurotic.   For 60 years, Woody Allen has been a prolific filmmaker... Read More
St Kilda Film Festival
0 Comments. 789 Views. Posted 7 May 2012 @ 12:40pm.
Every year it comes around, and every year we love it more and more. Now in its 29th year, there seems to be no slowing down for the mature (yet still young at heart) St Kilda Film Festival.  Think about it – six days of must-see short films and industry events. Can’t get much sweeter than that, right?   Renowned as the premiere short film festival in Australia, SKFF screens Australia’... Read More
Campfire Film Festival
0 Comments. 739 Views. Posted 7 May 2012 @ 12:40pm.
Our good friends at ACMI are helping put on this unique, short film festival to help high school students negotiate the complexities of modern life.  How they do this: by examining the often-neglected themes of philosophy, personal values and spirituality.   The Campfire Film Festival will bring together students, teachers, filmmakers and film critics in an event that is sure to... Read More
Castaway with Warwick Thornton
0 Comments. 832 Views. Posted 30 Mar 2012 @ 3:35pm.
This April, writer, director, cinematographer and artist, Warwick Thornton, will join the team at ACMI as he reveals his top five films of all time in ACMI’s popular Desert Island Flicks program.  Having developed an extensive body of work as a cinematographer and short film director, with titles such as Green Bush and Nana, Thornton made a splash with his debut feature, Samson &... Read More
Sofia Coppola On Film
0 Comments. 1,431 Views. Posted 21 Feb 2012 @ 3:34pm.
  “Something for everyone” is the best description of ACMI’s upcoming Sofia Coppola retrospective. It’s a chance to discover Coppola’s films if you’ve never seen them before, to revisit them if you haven’t seen them for years, or to immerse yourself in her cinematic world if you’re already a fan. The films feature personal stories and universal themes, compelling heroines and developed male... Read More
Q&A: The Sunday Reeds
0 Comments. 996 Views. Posted 16 Feb 2012 @ 9:06am.
  What’s your name then? Oh. And the name of your band… My name is Romana Ashton and the name of the band is The Sunday Reeds   And what do you do? I'm the front person and I'm a singer/songwriter.   When did you start doing that? I've been singing and playing music for as long as I can remember. I started writing songs when I was about 15. I am a founding member of The Sunday... Read More
Focus On Raj Kapoor
0 Comments. 1,368 Views. Posted 14 Feb 2012 @ 11:54am.
  For one reason or another, Bollywood remains a blind spot in the cinephilia of many Western film fans. Is it the butt-numbing run-times that deter audiences? Or the whiplash changes in tone, which see films shift from tragedy to slapstick, often within a matter of moments? Perhaps it’s the tradition of embroidering even the most harrowing narratives with show-stopping song-and-dance... Read More
Paranormal Activity 3
0 Comments. 1,559 Views. Posted 27 Oct 2011 @ 1:50pm.
Audiences can expect more of the same from this third instalment of the ultra low budget horror franchise that has kicked goals at the box office. Shot for a paltry $15,000, the first Paranormal Activity was released in 2007 and became a sleeper hit that grossed some $200 million at the box office. The second film was also very successful, but offered little that was fresh or original. ... Read More
Red State
0 Comments. 1,055 Views. Posted 13 Oct 2011 @ 8:27am.
When you interview actors, you get used to hearing a lot of platitudes - glibly-rehearsed lines about what a pleasure it was to work with this or that director, how much of an honour it was just to be nominated. Melissa Leo is no fan of platitudes. A working actress for three decades, she has starred in such acclaimed TV series as Homicide: Life On The Street and Treme , and... Read More
Abduction
0 Comments. 1,009 Views. Posted 30 Sep 2011 @ 5:42pm.
Abduction is a big budget attempt to present hunky Twilight star Taylor Lautner as an action hero, a sort of high school Jason Bourne. While his legion of fans will probably lap it up, the rest of us remain unconvinced. Lautner and his father Dan have produced the film through his Tailor Made Production company, but the film seems to have been rushed into production with a half finished script.... Read More
The Terrence Malick Collection
0 Comments. 982 Views. Posted 14 Sep 2011 @ 4:08pm.
A complete assemblage of motion pictures, The Terrence Malick Collection celebrates the works of visionary American director, Terrence Malick. With a career spanning four decades, yet with only five films under his belt, Malick is at once an enigma, an artist and a true cinema innovator. But classic films such as these can only be seen in the environment that they were intended for, a classic... Read More
Journey To Mecca
0 Comments. 1,646 Views. Posted 7 Sep 2011 @ 4:51am.
Based on the journal written by Ibn Battutah, a 14th century law student who made the epic but dangerous pilgrimage to the holy shrine at Mecca. He set out from Tangiers in 1325 and returned to Morocco almost 30 years later, having travelled 4500 miles, across some 40 countries, during his epic journey. Produced under the auspices of National Geographic, this 45-minute semi-documentary film... Read More
Vidal Sassoon
0 Comments. 1,965 Views. Posted 2 Sep 2011 @ 8:34am.
" I had done some work with the producer, Michael Gordon, in the past and I had met Vidal (Sassoon) in the past a few times doing some other projects and interviews with him. It was Michael's idea, he was a hairdresser and so it was his idea to make this a tribute to Vidal in lieu of his eightieth birthday. Because I had met Vidal a number of times in the past and just knew how influential... Read More
Chatting With Secondhand Heart
0 Comments. 946 Views. Posted 24 Aug 2011 @ 9:35am.
We're Jess and Lily from alternative pop rock group Secondhand Heart . We sing, play keys and guitar. We are 2 of 5. Jess writes songs and brings them to practice sessions we all try and throw around a few ideas to see what sticks, it's highly experimental and lots of fun!   We started out about 5 years ago members have changed but what makes Secondhand Heart has stayed the same. We... Read More
Bayside Film Festival
0 Comments. 1,543 Views. Posted 17 Aug 2011 @ 9:41am.
Amadeo Marquez-Perez is a very busy man. When he's not producing extraordinarily powerful films such as The Songs They Sang , he's selecting films as the artistic director of the Bayside Film Festival. "My role, is pretty much to watch as many movies as I can, and put my favourites into the program," Amadeo explains. He also admits, unable to hide his excitement for the festival, "It's... Read More
Margaret and David: 25 Years Talking Movies
0 Comments. 2,441 Views. Posted 11 Aug 2011 @ 8:41am.
If you're David Stratton, the co-host of At The Movies with Margaret Pomeranz, you can review anything. A well-loved yet contentious Australian figure, I find the temptation is too difficult to resist. I must ask: popcorn or choc-top? True to form, I receive a classic Stratton answer, one sure to ignite arguments all over the country. "You're going to think me a terrible snob, but I'm... Read More
Dark Rooms and Dreamscapes
0 Comments. 2,250 Views. Posted 27 Jul 2011 @ 11:18am.
Anyone who sticks their hands into the mix bag of goodies playing at this year's Melbourne International Film Festival will most definitely be in for a treat. For those of you who choose the rocky road experience over predictable vanilla, avant-garde film screening Dark Rooms and Dreamscapes: The Films of Peter Tscherkassky and Eve Heller will take you there. Peter Tscherkassky is the DJ... Read More
Melbourne International Film Festival 2011
0 Comments. 2,213 Views. Posted 27 Jul 2011 @ 6:59pm.
Celebrating its 60th anniversary, the Melbourne International Film Festival runs from July 21 until August 7, and screens at Greater Union, Kino, ACMI and Forum cinemas. With 329 films screening (115 shorts and 214 features), a plethora of special events and a program dedicated to looking back over the 60 year history of the Melbourne International Film Festival, MIFF 2011 will be a fantastic... Read More
2011 Bayside Film Festival
0 Comments. 1,713 Views. Posted 19 Jul 2011 @ 2:00pm.
The children are our future, right? So we should celebrate their efforts from the very beginning. Right.  Now in its eighth year, The Bayside Film Festival celebrates young and emerging filmmakers via a series of Australian premiere screenings, dynamic workshops, and international collaborations from as far afield as Kabul and Japan. Even if your film didn't get chosen, go along and support... Read More
Desert Island Flicks : Castaway With Kate Holden
0 Comments. 2,431 Views. Posted 19 Jul 2011 @ 1:39pm.
Talking to best-selling Melbourne writer Kate Holden turns out to be a two-fold treat. Her style of conversation darts between a running commentary on the inner workings of her mind, and eminently quotable one-liners that you're not likely to hear anywhere else. Case in point, the analogy she uses to describe writing a regular fortnightly column in The Age weekend supplement: "I live in this... Read More
Colourfest
0 Comments. 1,767 Views. Posted 14 Jul 2011 @ 10:46am.
Usually, the only colours associated with Footscray are the might red, white and blue (c'arn the scraggers).  But that's set to change with the arrival of Colourfest, an emerging national film festival focusing on the works of culturally diverse filmmakers in Australia. The festival showcases the best culturally diverse talent in films from around Australia. The festival reflects the... Read More
Mundane History
0 Comments. 2,378 Views. Posted 29 Jun 2011 @ 10:41am.
As part of ACMI's 'First Look' program - a monthly screening of striking films both new and old - Thai filmmaker Anocha Suwichakompong's Mundane History makes its way to the cinema with a beautiful sense of purpose - inviting viewers into the confides of an atypical household in Thailand and the lives of two strangers who must learn to live together despite their obvious differences.... Read More
The Music On Film Festival
0 Comments. 1,847 Views. Posted 28 Jun 2011 @ 2:28pm.
Though every music festival these days has managed to branch our far and beyond their respective initial niche market, we’re yet to see a disparity on the scale of something like having bonafide pop superstar P!nk performing on the same bill as revered darlings Sigur Rós. But those willing to indulge in such a wildly eclectic offering needn’t look any further than the maiden instalment of the... Read More
Sleeping Beauty
0 Comments. 2,175 Views. Posted 7 Jul 2011 @ 3:41pm.
 “I love films that I’m mesmerised by, that I can’t take my eyes off,” says Julia Leigh, Australian novelist turned filmmaker. “Personally I don’t like seeing a film on Thursday night and then forgetting it by Friday morning. My hope is that Sleeping Beauty is a memorable film.”   Her debut film, the erotic psychological drama Sleeping Beauty, is certainly a memorable film. It is a... Read More
Make A Film, Make A Difference: Chris Busuttil
0 Comments. 2,644 Views. Posted 14 Jun 2011 @ 2:08pm.
If you’re an aspiring young filmmaker aged 25 and under and you haven’t heard about MAFMAD then you’re missing out on a $25,000 opportunity and a chance to see your name on the silver screen. The Make A Film, Make A Difference project seeks young filmmakers with smart ideas for a two-minute film addressing the grim statistics of fatalities on Victorian roads. Since winning the comp in 2010, Chris... Read More
Civic Life On The Big Screen
0 Comments. 1,444 Views. Posted 12 May 2011 @ 2:31pm.
ACMI is bringing Civic Life, an exploration of communities and public space through the medium of 35mm film to the big screen as well as giving local artists and filmmakers a chance to attend a workshop with acclaimed UK director, Joe Lawlor. Civic Life is a series of films, made by Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor which aim to take viewers on a journey delving into the relationships between... Read More
The Angry Film Festival Is Taking Entries
0 Comments. 1,849 Views. Posted 23 Feb 2011 @ 12:18pm.
Are you a film maker who just wants to get their film screened for god's sake? Well there's no point getting angry about it, just enter the 9th Angry Film Festival and all will be well (hopefully).   But you'll have to hurry! The deadline to get your films in is on Monday February 28. That's this Monday!   Films need to be under 15 minutes in length and Australian and International... Read More
Mystery Muff
0 Comments. 1,411 Views. Posted 22 Feb 2011 @ 9:06am.
Director and film buff Richard Wolstencroft is an advocate of free speech. He's not likely to show Bruce LaBruce's LA Zombie again anytime soon, but the part-time activist is showing a documentary about the Canadian gay pornographer this weekend in hopes to educate and curb the cost of the hefty fine he acquired last year -- courtesy the Australian Film Classification Board.... Read More
The Hillside Film Festival
0 Comments. 1,552 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:23am.
Showcase your talent as a young filmaker...and score some sweet prizes! Fancy yourself as a bit of a film making extraordinaire?   The Hillside Film Festival is giving young people the chance to express themselves through film, and to showcase their artistic and creative talents in a competition that will captivate audiences state wide in 2011.   The festival encourages filmmakers... Read More
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