Canberra International Film Festival 2016, bound to be different © Jane Freebury Movie goers who hanker for films difficult to find anywhere else and for experiences they would not otherwise have, can look forward to Canberra’s flagship film festival’s 11-day program beginning at the end of October. From its current home at the National Film… Continue reading Canberra International Film Festival 2016
Month: October 2016
Joe Cinque’s Consolation
© Jane Freebury As stories go, the story of Joe Cinque is at the very least alarming. A young Canberra man who was guilty of nothing more than an excess of loving tolerance towards his live-in girlfriend, and it cost him his life. The end of their affair is a cautionary tale,… Continue reading Joe Cinque’s Consolation
Joe Cinque’s Consolation, film director interview
Published in the Canberra Times on 23 September 2016 Joe Cinque’s Consolation highlights ambiguities © Jane Freebury It is now nearly two decades since a young civil engineer died in a flat in Canberra’s inner north after his live-in girlfriend injected him with heroin. The case has been dealt with in the courts but… Continue reading Joe Cinque’s Consolation, film director interview
Malcolm – ‘harmless, innocent, shy, gentle, a genius…and wanted’
This articles was published in the Canberra Times on 16 September 2016. Remembering hit Aussie film Malcolm © Jane Freebury A film about a shy, retiring type whose love of all things mechanical inadvertently draws him into holding up banks was one of the surprise hits of the 1980s. Yes, Malcolm, who… Continue reading Malcolm – ‘harmless, innocent, shy, gentle, a genius…and wanted’