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Review © by Jane Freebury Would this film have attracted much attention without the name of Jim Jarmusch attached to it? About a loving and contented couple,…
Review © by Jane Freebury Nocturnal Animals is without question a transporting tale, stylish and clever, but it is also an onslaught of cruelty, yearning and pathos. A…
Review © Jane Freebury It is clear that Ken Loach, who turned 80 this year, will never retire. Making films about people who are disadvantaged and dispossessed has…
Review by Jane Freebury © This graphic and unsettling film from an arch provocateur known for Hollywood blockbusters is not without its director’s signature high-level sex and…
© Jane Freebury As stories go, the story of Joe Cinque is at the very least alarming. A young Canberra man who was guilty of…
© by Jane Freebury Of all the titles to choose for a film about a man facing his premature demise, Truman takes its name from a saggy, baggy…
© by Jane Freebury Against expectations, this journey set in the Amazonian wilderness is almost entirely told in black and white. The filmmaker, young Colombian Ciro Guerras,…
Review by © Jane Freebury In the space of the three years since we saw Mystery Road, detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) has buckled a bit under…
Review by © Jane Freebury It used to go without saying that brandishing a fist at the authorities was a staple of Australian film. It probably still is….
by © Jane Freebury It’s fine to belt out a song in the shower when you can’t hold a tune, the acoustics are good and no one is…
Review by © Jane Freebury The hint of self-deprecating humour in the title of writer-director Matthew Saville’s new film doesn’t cost him a thing. The expression…
© Jane Freebury It’s good to know that a hide like a rhinoceros isn’t a prerequisite for working in a cash converter business in multicultural Footscray. A…
© Jane Freebury Sipping daiquiris, feasting on seafood, skinny dipping in the pool, away from it all on a remote Sicilian island. Just perfetto. Director Luca Guadagnino…
Review by © Jane Freebury A forest of tall timbers. Valleys strewn with mist. How readily a Henrik Ibsen classic has been transposed to the wilds of Tasmania,…
Review © by Jane Freebury A cast bristling with terrific actors has to be any director’s dream. By all reports, the talent in Hail, Caesar! were…
Review by © Jane Freebury Only in Hollywood where life is performance art could a flamboyant screenwriter tell a government official to sod off in…
Review © Jane Freebury It was good to hear that the talented, youngish director Andrew Haigh had launched into new territory. He achieved exceptional naturalism in…
Review by © Jane Freebury In the three feature films that Sue Brooks has made so far, we have driven into the wide, open spaces of the…
The FCCA, the national professional body of film reviewers, critics and writers is pleased to announce the nominations for the Australian film of 2015. The Annual Awards will…
Review © Jane Freebury Just before 9/11, the Boston Globe was about to publish revelations of long-term and systematic child sexual abuse by rogue priests in…