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Only the best in 2022 By © Jane Freebury Back at the cinema sure helped, but the end of lockdown can’t explain the astonishing success of Top Gun:…
By © Jane Freebury The last time we saw Laure Calamy, she was chasing her married lover on a hiking holiday in rural France. Her character ends up…
HIGH GROUND and NITRAM dominate 2021 FCCA AWARDS* High Ground was last night announced as Best Film in the annual Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards for Australian Film, for producers David…
Interview by © Jane Freebury When is it a surprise to hear that Viggo Mortensen will appear in an intriguing role? Starring in The Lord of the Rings,…
By © Jane Freebury The Irish actor of stage and screen, Gabriel Byrne, is loquacious and charming. And he is forthright, a man inclined to speak his…
By © Jane Freebury Funny how a pandemic makes us look at everything differently Instead of sitting in the dark watching a film with strangers, we are getting…
French writer-director Caroline Vignal, herself a hiker, discusses her irresistible fish-out-of-water comedy, Antoinette dans les Cevennes By © Jane Freebury Comedy has hit refresh with a new fish-out-of-water…
Australian film, where to from here? Too much to lose if Australia’s film and television industries are allowed to slip into decline … again In this year of…
By © Jane Freebury New work by actor Ben Mendelsohn can be easy to miss. Not often the lead, he can pop up in unexpected places, like Buckingham…
By © Jane Freebury Odds are that someone somewhere has already come up with a phrase to nail the international health emergency that we are living through right…
Streaming on Stan. By © Jane Freebury Six Degrees of Separation, a film from 1993, had a catchy idea and title to match that has had the distinction…
Ned Kelly (Tony Richardson, 1970) Streaming on Stan. By © Jane Freebury Every now and then, our most popular folk hero is taken out of storage, dusted down…
By © Jane Freebury There is a trove of quality films to watch free-to-air on SBS OnDemand, 650 titles to revisit or catch up with. An astounding range…
By © Jane Freebury During the Academy Awards this year, when a foreign language film from South Korea carried off the top awards, it seemed a watershed moment…
By © Jane Freebury After winning the top prize at Cannes festival last year for his film, Shoplifters, the director Hirokazu Kore-ada went to work on a new…
The director’s director up against the comic book heroes By © Jane Freebury Every city has to have one. A film festival. Just about every region on earth…
A version of this feature article was also published in print and online (6-7 October 2017) in The Canberra Times By © Jane Freebury The new Australian documentary…
By Jane Freebury The Circle’s winter conversations for 2017 wound up with another filmmaker in the guest chair. Kim Beamish, director and producer at Non’D’Script Films, now Canberra-…
Published in print and online in the Canberra Times, 2 & 3 December: The Legend of Ben Hall: new film about outlaw Ben Hall shows Australia’s taste for…
Published in print and online in the Canberra Times on 19 November 2016 Preview © Jane Freebury What are we to make of Roman Polanski?…