© Jane Freebury Curators had plenty to choose from when they decided what to showcase at the German Film Festival this year. They always do. Well over 200 films, around 75 percent fiction features, are produced in Germany each year, though few of these land on Australian screens. Every few years, we expect something wonderful… Continue reading German Film Festival 2015
Category: Film Features
Rolf de Heer: Dancing to His Song reveals man of vision
Dancing to His Song: the Singular Cinema of Rolf de Heer, launched on 11 March at Griffith Film School, Brisbane, is published as an advanced eBook, with film clips, by Currency Press. The first time I watched a Rolf de Heer film was in the late 1980s while writing a column for Australian Society, a… Continue reading Rolf de Heer: Dancing to His Song reveals man of vision
Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2015
© Jane Freebury Allons au cinéma, cinéphiles! There are 49 films to choose from at the French Film Festival this year. Even more options than last year. As the season unfolds during March-April in eight locations across the country, the easy part will be savouring the menu, the hard part will be making the choices.… Continue reading Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2015
British Film Festival 2014
© Jane Freebury No fledgling event this, even if it only began a year ago. The British Film Festival has come to town with an impressive line-up just when Canberra filmgoers thought the frenzied festival season was drawing to a close. The inaugural BFF breezed in around this time last year and held its own.… Continue reading British Film Festival 2014
Alliance Française French Film Festival 2014
© Jane Freebury It may be an accident of history that we’re not francophone. Had the French navigator La Perouse sailed in a few days earlier and pipped Captain Phillip and his mob at the post, had the revolution not been gathering pace back home, who knows where things may have ended up. Today, of… Continue reading Alliance Française French Film Festival 2014
Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2013
© Jane Freebury All you need to make a film, Jean-Luc Godard once said, is a gun and a girl. The French filmmaker, radical in practice while others were still thinking about it, had a way with words and he hasn’t been proven wrong. It’s hard to imagine a time when sex and violence won’t… Continue reading Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2013
Diverging Australian cinematic futures (1991)
© Jane Freebury Published in Australian Society magazine September 1991 The Sydney season of the 1991 Australian Film Festival opened with the striking juxtaposition of Jocelyn Moorehouse’s Proof and Rolf de Heer’s Dingo. Both nominated for best feature in the Australian Film Institute awards, they represent the wildly different directions filmmaking in this country is… Continue reading Diverging Australian cinematic futures (1991)