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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…
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…
This articles was published in the Canberra Times on 16 September 2016. Remembering hit Aussie film Malcolm © Jane Freebury A film about a shy,…
Published in the Canberra Times 30 July 2016 © by Jane Freebury When Geoffrey Rush was up for a best actor award at the Academy Awards in…
© by Jane Freebury Published in the Canberra Times 30 July 2016 Halal or haram? Legal or illegal? That’s the question at the heart of Halal Love,…
First published in the Canberra Times on 23 July 2016 © by Jane Freebury Two years ago, a bitter-sweet documentary about the backing singers behind stars like Jagger,…
First published in the Canberra Times on 18 July 2016 © by Jane Freebury In the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917, young Danila Vassilieff, a trained…
First published in the Canberra Times on 8 July 2016 © by Jane Freebury Arriving with the mid-winter chill, the Scandinavian Film Festival is back on…
© Jane Freebury When he notched up 18 years as director of the Sydney Film Festival, David Stratton became a founding father of movie culture in this country….
A version of this article was published in the Canberra Times on 10 June 2016 © Jane Freebury Ask anyone, who you don’t expect will know the answer,…
My detailed study of The Big Steal (1990), an Australian classic from director Nadia Tass and cinematographer, writer and producer David Parker, is published in the latest issue,…
Also published in the Canberra Times and Sydney Morning Herald (online) on 11 May 2016 Essential Independents: American Cinema, Now by © Jane Freebury …
Also published in the Canberra Times on 9 April 2016 at: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/whats-on-at-the-spanish-film-festival-2016-in-canberra-20160404-gnxrrr.html © Jane Freebury It wasn’t that long ago, well maybe it was 20 years, when for …
Published in the Canberra Times on 26 March 2016 at: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/canberra-filmmakers-the-tentmakers-of-cairo-shows-artisans-during-arab-spring-20160322-gnoebd.html © Jane Freebury Something tells me that the cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead would have enjoyed hearing that a…
Published in The Canberra Times on 27 February 2016, and in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald online. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/french-film-festival-2016-vive-la-difference-20160223-gmycel.html © Jane Freebury A snippet of film…
First published in Anne Summers Reports in August 2015 Are we all tabloid voyeurs? By © Jane Freebury The brilliant and eccentric German filmmaker Werner Herzog clearly thought…
© Jane Freebury The story of Orry-Kelly, a gifted designer who created costumes for the Hollywood stars over three decades, would be tantalising fantasy were it not anchored…
© Jane Freebury Bushranger movies did a brisk business early last century until the authorities put a stop to them. What influence were they having on an impressionable…
© Jane Freebury Boogie woogie and blues pianist Jan Preston often has a twinkle in her eye. When she accompanies the early Australian silent comedy classic, The Kid…
My introduction to Rolf de Heer’s The Tracker that screened as part of a special program at the National Film and Sound Archive during Reconciliation Week in Canberra,…